To the region but his defense secretary mattis has not committed them to the region yet without getting a sense of fuller policy on what were going to do there, even in the pacific, both which will be outlined by his commanderinchief tonight. Our coverage, 8 00 p. M. Eastern time. President s address 9 00 p. M. , reaction, markets and otherwise to all of that. Off just a couple of days and theyre putting me to work all day. That is okay. Im here for you, america. I did want to leave you with that image of Stuart Varney on clothingoptional beach. Because that is how i roll. Stuart is missing, is missing this big eclipse of the sun. He remembers the one in 1979. The last big one he covered was in 1898. That up with incorporate ad lot more people. We should say, people in the new york area will only get what they call a partial eclipse, but it is still significant, right . 3 4 of the sun will be blocked out that will be like dusk to a lot of people. Imagine if you had no idea this was happening. All of sudden like animals go nuts. They have no idea what is going on. That is why we humans are on top of the food chain. Different how this rolls out, how different species react, how we react. A lot of different traffic jams. Disappointment along the course, a lot of people are getting a lot of rain. Can you imagine you traveled that far to get within this 14state stripe that will affect and get the total eclipse and get rained out . Is that not like the old monty python, great day for an eclipse and you hear the thunder . You and i can imagine that we have washington examiner, sarah westwood, former bush 43 deputy assistant, Brad Blakeman and doug wead, a historian. Doug, i was thinking last time we saw Something Like this in the United States, an eclipse of this magnitude, 1979, the eclipse we saw that earlier that year tend to portend an awful year for the markets for jimmy carter, for the economy, for everything. Doesnt always work out that way but it does make you think what it can lead to, doesnt it . It sure does. I want to know this, neil, would i need dark glasses or would i go blind looking at Stuart Varney . Neil i had the same reaction. He had glasses on the beach just in case. Yeah. A president ial address doesnt guarranty success. Richard nixon gave 37 president ial addresses televised from the white house, not all from the oval office leading up to the final one he gave before he left office. So there is no guarranties that a president ial address will turn things around. Neil on this, we talk about the eclipse, i mean, it is always dicey predict fallout from astronomical event or in this case a political one. The president is doing something were told, sarah westwood, he has been dragging kicking and screaming, because he was not a fan of our involvement early on in afghanistan saying it dragged on too long. He is inheriting a mess and criticized republican and democratic predecessors as a result but seems to be that he like barack obama before him, is grudgingly going to have to or will be inclined to support more troops there. What do you make of that . Some people could see this as a contradiction of what he laid out during the campaign which was a withdrawal from areas of the world where u. S. Involvement has dragged on for a long time and produced very few results. Steve bannon was said to have been very opposed to this internally. It was one of many sources of conflict between bannon and National Security advisor h. R. Mcmaster who was said to be very in favor of some kind of a troop surge in afghanistan. But we do know President Trump delegated a lot of authority to the pentagon and specifically to defense secretary jim mattis making this decision. Something that the Obama White House did not do. They tried to control military decisions pretty tightly. So a lot of this is coming from President Trumps own pentagon advising him this is one of the only ways to keep the situation from worsening. Neil you know, as far as i understand, brad, the goal here is to avoid isis or terroristlike groups getting a base and just using that as their sort of Central Office to launch attacks elsewhere. Even though were mixing our terrorist groups. This was early on about getting rid of the taliban. Now of course theyre concerned about a growing isis influence there. But it seems like we come to these conclusions later rather than sooner, despite generals like mattis who had said, this isnt going away. Terrorist threat is not going away. He was told to the president look at the region by totality, not country by country. What does that mean . We have to make sure we have a policy meets the Current Situation and the future. We had many president s over 16 years dealing with afghanistan of the good News Donald Trump is listening to his military advisors. He learned from history what barack obama did in iraq, a precipitous withdrawal. Huge swaths we were able to capture in iraq were taken over by isis. We have to not only contain them but kill them and kill them in regions where they are and not let them proliferate, not only afghanistan but beyond the borders, certainly not harm our interests or allies interest. Donald trump is taking advice of his commanders, hopefully tonight he will lay out a plan why were there and why we need stepped up presence in afghanistan. Neil these are often nowin situations for president s, doug, as reminded me in the past, on popular wars, even though afghanistan isnt comparable to vietnam, when we talk about building up commitment or new offensive or anything like that, americans wonder like why . And is it worth it . What does the president have to spell out presuming that he is going to go that route to make this palatable . Yeah. Well i think north korea will factor in there, neil. We havent talked about that. Americans understand that. There is a gut reaction to that. Neil we should stress, doug, you know this as well, north korea will be a part of the discussion by the president tonight. Thats right. This is a crisis that cant be avoided. In 1958 we had the sighs enhower crisis, 1962 cuban missile crisis this is equal. This is potential threat for the world so i think americans will understand. Kirk guard said you can only gnat life looking backwards but must be lived forward. You can understand backwards why they wanted to move steve bannon before the speech and not after and understand a little better moves white house is making. Neil i see what youre making about timing being everything, speaking of steve bannon, sarah, i want to raise this with you, already taking shots at the president , saying he has most divided administration in history. What do you make of that. There were things bannon was unhappy in terms of the administration, north korea, syria, gop legislative agenda. A lot of those disputes were taking place behind closed doors. Now that steve bannon sun shackled from restrictions coming with working in government, we can expect him to see him do bat well trump over what he sees as departure from the Trump Campaign platform. There were obviously a lot of internal clashes with bannon. Weve been reading about them and hearing about them for months with ivanka trump, with reince priebus, in the initial days of the administration, with Jared Kushner and h. R. Mcmaster at the end. Bannon has always tried to keep President Trump close to literal interpretation of his Campaign Promises as possible. When President Trump strays from those i think you will see bannon go after trump. Neil Brad Blakeman, when you hear what is at stake for the president tonight, many say way beyond Foreign Policy that he has to get some gravitas back. Last time he speak in public venue, his address to congress in january. This is a chance for him to reestablish the commanderinchief and set priorities, maybe make people forget about some of the things that turned over the last week that resulted in one of the worst market weeks weve seen, certainly going back to may. What do you make of what is at stake here . Way beyond what he is talking about when it comes to afghanistan and north korea. This is a big night for donald trump. He needs to be reassuring but also has to be commanding. He has to lay out clear, concise language why were doing this in afghanistan. Why north korea needs to be dealt with in the way that they need to be dealt with, peace through strength and not cowering to a dictator. And president has to be reassuring to the American People at the same time. Anytime the president commits troops in harms way, the president is the one, and only one who can do that but he has to explain to the American People why he is doing it. And donald trump has played it very close to the vest, which i think is a great idea, not telegraphing to our enemy what is were actually doing which is something i think now, tomorrow, our commanders and generals need to step up and echo the president s remarks tonight. Neil do you have any doubts, doug wead, that the president can deliver the goods here . Normally a Foreign Policy speech or talking about committing our troops, you know, tends to make people, you know, boost what youre talking about or support what youre boosting. Do you think that this will have that effect on this president . Yes. I think he should get a bump from this. You know, he gives a great speech in saudi arabia, backtoback in israel, and the speech you mentioned to the joint session. He knows how to give a good speech. The question is, will he dilute it with a tweet . If he can give that speech, i would like him to be a bit reaganesque. I hate to give advice because i see all the idiots on tv giving trump advice and they couldnt get elected dog catcher, but i would like to see him give a great speech as he does, and not dilute it with a tweet. Let it sit for a day or two. Because they have been powerful speeches. Neil guys, thank you all very, very much. Well keep following that. Well also be looking at the stars here or our favorite star, the sun, which is going to get blocked by our moon across much of the United States. First time people have seen Something Like this in full throttle, full eclipse view in better part of four decades, close to four decades this is already happening now in oregon where they will see a total eclipse and will continue on down for next couple hours, at least the next four hours, if you include the northeast, that will see partial eclipse, that will affect better than 70 million americans. Well see it in one way, shape or form. There they have just removed the sun entirely in oregon. They can do that there. That is the way they roll. The Solar Eclipse sunday way. Were looking at this versus 1979. That was a very volatile year for markets and economy. Jimmy carter in charge back then. The markets went into this free fall briefly in a year when we had the Second Energy crisis. Remember long lines waiting for cars, carried off into 1980, got Ronald Reagan elected and jimmy carter beaten in landslide defeat. There was a point Dow Jones Industrials peaked at 898 on the 5th of october, 1979. Fell to 808, or 10 correction in just next 2 1 2 weeks. Later things stablized. We ended up with a minor gain on the year but volatility was to come might have been presaged in a eclipse started at beginning of the year, we would have no energy crisis. Jimmy carter looked like he would be easily elected. The economy would be just okay, more than okay. Ronald reagan his chance of becoming president , according to articles at the time, next to zero. Zero for three. More after this. Dont let dust and allergens get between you and lifes beautiful moments. Switch to flonase allergy relief. Flonase outperforms the 1 nondrowsy allergy pill. When we breathe in allergens, our bodies react by overproducing 6 key inflammatory substances that cause our symptoms. Flonase helps block 6. Most allergy pills only block one and 6 is greater than 1. 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It has begun on the west coast, oregon first, and this stripe, if you will, continues down across the country for the next few hours. Weve got Fox Business NetworkConnell Mcshane in new york. Jeff flock in the path of totality as they call it from illinois i dont know where to begin. Were going first with connell and the glasses. We havent broached it with connell but these are normal sunglasses and will not protect him from the dangerous rays that will come from the suns corona. Go ahead. Connell what are you doing first of all. Reporter very good question, neil. Another thing we paid a lot of money the sunglasses, eclipse glass glass. Someone told me theyre 30 cents to make and seven bucks a pop to get. They are legit glasses. I cant see two feet in front of me. I have no idea whether the camera is two feet in front of me or up here or here. When i look up i have a beautiful shot of the sun. You talk about the eclipse beginning out west. Well start to see the moon move in front of the sun. That is at 1 23 p. M. Eastern. That is little over an hour from now. By 2. 44, not like jeff in the path of totality, well be 70 eclipped here. It will get a bit darker in manhattan. I would think, neil, capital of cynicism is there is no interest in this. But the opposite is true. At museum of Natural History there is a line at the hayden planetarium. They will have a huge viewing party. Im sure, somebody ran numbers at challenger gray, a lot of these people are supposed to be at work. They said the country is losing like 700 million in productivity. Some of that has to be here in new york. People are pretty excited about this. I throw it back to you. Youre over there somewhere. Neil i wonder what the glassstegall, do they put construction paper on them . Nothing there. Thank you, buddy, very, very much. We will be going back to him. Jeff flock in the path of totality, from illinois reporter if you were out here, neil, you would pass out. It is about 90 degrees. Bright sunshine which is actually good news. By the way, my glasses rainbow symphony, inc. , california, American Made eclipse glasses, as connell points out, if you put them on, you see burning sun which is wonderful. Were 30 minutes away from the start of the eclipse beginning here. Tell you the stadium is beginning to fill up. We have 14,000 people will be in here. These folks came from, where did you come from . Buffalo, new york. Reporter why the heck are you here . We were here to see branson. We knew this was the number one place to be so here we are. Reporter once you seen branson the eclipse is nothing . No, no the eclipse is better. Reporter very good. Well get two minutes and 35 seconds of totality. Were clearly blocking the sun, i dont know if laurie can look up, not into the sun but the sky, you can see, neil, pretty blue. Very few high clouds up there. And, that is just almost perfect eclipse viewing weather. And they get presentation going on here it is a carnival atmosphere. Everybody is excited to be here. Are you excited to be here, young man . Im excited to be here. This is once in a lifetime opportunity. Reporter everybody is excited. I wish it was cooler. You know, Global Cooling will occur in about hour 1 2 in carbondale, illinois. Neil thank you, my friend, very, very much. In the path of totality, which by the way refers to the regions of the country, there will be a total eclipse. In other words the sun entirely blocked out for a number of minutes. This covers 70 miles, passes through 14 states. By comparison in the first total eclipse on american soil, that was in 1991, that was visible pretty much on the big island of hawaii. That was it. Then in 79, the one prior to that, largely in a few northwestern states. This one is a big one. In oregon theyre getting ready for totality of it all, the fact of the matter this cover as much wider area. Neil the widest in recent american recorded history. Other swaths of the planet have affecting far more people have been felt but in the u. S. Of a, which makes it so consequential, if this were happening say in south luxembourg we wouldnt be paying attention, but it is not, is it . It is happening here. Take pride in it. This sureour eclipse. Not really, it is in a lot of other country as well but it is big here. All of this occurring at same time we get Senate LeaderMitch Mcconnell and treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin addressing tax reform. Theyre going to be taking some questions pretty soon. Mnuchin has had to defend the president s remarks deemed against jews. He says that he is proud jewishamerican. Took no offense from anything the president said. Gary cohn, president S National Economic advisor has been largely silent on t