They are missing the point. Microsoft has just confirmed that American Technology rules. The big five have the ideas, the profit and the growth. And, you know, that might be a problem for one of the big five, amazon. There are report that is the government is checking their prices. Are they really discounting . Thats a small scale investigation, but it may be the start of a pushback to the extraordinary power that amazon has acquired. In a moment, the full story on tech and the presidency on brink of a big win or a big fail. The friday edition of Varney Company can is about to begin. Stuart oh, look at the futures. Were down 50 points at the opening bell, 28 and a half minutes from now. Well check that market when it opens. Oh, dear. I told you a moment ago that microsoft reported stellar profits, and so they did. But the stock price is slipping a little after a big runup when the results were first announced. Profit doubled the, the Cloud Business took off, and were going to try to figure out the stock price conundrum. Please remember, i do own some of it. We really want to know about this. [laughter] the amazon story, the federal trade commission looking into allegations that amazon misleads customers about its pricing discounts. Whats it all about . It was a complaint from consumer watchdog groups saying they looked at a thousand products on amazon in the month of june, and what theyre talking about is the Reference Price, the price that people are told, oh, this normally retails for blah, blah, blah, but we can give it to you for 20 off. They say the original listing price is inaccurate, and it makes consumers believe theyre getting a Better Bargain when, in fact, theyre actually paying about the same price. Amazon says the study is deeply flawed, its flatout wrong. But this group is accusing amazon of deceiving people by telling them theyre getting a better deal hand they really are. Look, this is justs a complaint, the ftc is looking into it. But amazon is most definitely under the microscope because of its size and complaints that its steam rolling everyone in its way. Stuart the complaints are mounting up. They are. Stuart you liked this. They are, indeed, refreshing words from utah republican mia love on our show. Roll that tape. I cannot tell you how frustrating it is to me when we were in the house working on a Health Care Bill trying to do everything we can to address, debate the issues, and we have people from the senate coming over doing a press conference telling us what to do, how to do it. I think its important for us to make sure that we allow their voice to be heard on the floor of congress. Look whos here, congresswoman Claudia Tenney from new york. Are you pounding the table like mia love . I love mia love, shes my softball teammate. Everything she says is right. We were hammeredded by the senate over and over, but guess who passed their Health Care Bill . Stuart youre talking about a Republican Party split. In this case its the senate versus the house republicans. Its going to be republicans on the right. I mean, conservatives versus moderate republicans. Youre split. But let me understand something. Remember, we came out with our Health Care Bill, the first one, we couldnt get it passed. Everyone blamed the Freedom Caucus and the keys stuart yes. We had the mcarthur amendment, some other issues. Guess who vote for the Health Care Act . Guess who voted with the republicans . They held their nose and voted, the conservatives. It was the moderates that left us out. So who is in the senate now . Its a mixture of moderates and conservatives, and i say put it on the floor. All these people have voted how many times to repeal obamacare . Make them take the walk. Stuart i think its a Pivotal Moment for the Trump Presidency and for the future of the Republican Party. Right. Stuart you could supply a huge win on health care and taxeses. You could supply a huge loss by failure of both. Youre telling me youre going to guarantee success on both . Well, i told you i would promise success stuart thats a politicians promise. We had an opportunity to meet with Mitch Mcconnell, and hes frustrated too. Lets get this done. We have promised the American People we will do that, and we immediate to start telling our story. What is wrong with obamacare . Were hurting small businesses. The big job creators in our community stuart youre being demagogued to death. All i see is headlines, 32 Million People will lose their coverage if you republicans get hold of obamacare. Thats all i see. A because thats all the news medias reporting. Id love to see the news media stand up and talk about the republicans and what every accomplished. So many things havec gotten doe through the house, all these bills we passed the choice act which rolls back regulations. We passed the Flood Insurance bill out of our committee, financial services. We have rolled back, like, 14 different cras, regulations of 6 billion in savings to our Business Community and others. Weve done a lott in the house. We need to talk about it. Youre right about that. Stuart youve got to get out there. We need to make the case stuart youve got to do that. Pound it, thats my take. [laughter] we need to honestly, tax reform is just as important or maybe even more important, but we have to get all that done, especially for our district. Stuart 20 seconds. Tell me, handicap it for me handicap it stuart is it a 60 40 shot at getting this bill through the senate . On health care . I would say i cant give you a statistic on that. Stuart all right, tax reform . Id say 95 . Stuart 95 by of the end of the year. We we have to repeal obamacar. Even if you replace it with something, it has to be done. Stuart are you with me, i Say Something is better than nothing on obamacare . Absolutely. It has to be repeal. Even if we do the clean repeal, work on replacement, it has to get done. Stuart claudia, thank you very much. Pound the table anytime you like on this program. [laughter] thank you so much. Appreciate it. Stuart now this. According to the latest fox news poll, 56 of registered voters disapprove of President Trumps handling of the russia issue. Byron yorks with us, Washington Examiner chief Political Correspondent and a fox news contributor. Of byron, is this going to stay with us forever, throughout the first term of the Trump Presidency, and is it going to hurt his legislative agenda . Yes and yes. Stuart oh. Well, i look, theres no doubt. Look at the socalled cia leak investigation in the george w. Bush second term. It stayed for three years. I mean, it lasted long enough to last the rest of Donald Trumps term. Theres no doubt about that. And it does, i think, contribute to the president s job Approval Rating staying low. And thats something that members of Congress Look at. They look at the president s job Approval Rating. If its really high, they do what he says. If its really low, they dont. Stuart now, youre on the inside of all of this, you know . You live there in washington d. C. Why dont you handy can cap the Health Care Vote handicap the Health Care Vote next week. There will be a vote, and i want to know what you think of the likelihood of it passing. First of all, its really striking that Mitch Mcconnell came out of the white house and said we are going to vote on this, because he knows that some of his members voted for it in december 2015. Dean heller voted for it, Shelley Moore capito voted for it, Lisa Murkowski voted for it; that is, to repeal obamacare in december 2015. And now theyre famously hesitating right now. And Mitch Mcconnell who, you know, usually leaders do not want to put their members in tough positions like this. He says were going to to have a vote. My guess is that they try to find some third way around this so they dont have to revote on something they already voted for 18 months ago. Stuart are you with me, in political terms something is better than nothing . Yeah. Definitely. What weve seen here in the senate and in the house before is when the bill appeared to fail, when it hits a big snag and people are saying, oh, its totally dead, republicans sit back and say, you know, weve promised this for seven years. Stuart right. We made it our top policy priority. And we cant hit a snag and say, oh, thats it. Sorry, we pry tried. We tried. They have to come back and really do have to pass something. Stuart yes, they do. Byron york, im with you. [laughter] thank you so much. Thank you, stuart. Stuart very serious story for you now. Deadly earthquake in the aegean sea near the greek islands. Powerful 6. 7 magnitude, struck at about i 1 30 in the morning local time. It killed two men, one from turkey, one from sweden, when a building collapsed on the island of kos. More than 550 people injured, there was desperation and panic. People ranch they were jumping off of balconies. So it was a night of chaos. Again, south of the turkish city of boeing rom. Stuart thanks, liz. I know it well. Lets have a look at the market and how its shaping up for the opening of trading this friday morning. Of were going to be down 50, 60 points. All of them across the board modest losses for the dow, the s p and for the nasdaq. Check this out. New technology that will alert police and parents if they leave a child in a hot car. Could save lives. Get this, its inventer is an 11yearold boy. Were talking to him. That young man, in our next hour. Chaos in venezuela, another antigovernment protest turns violent. Three killed at least. Hundreds arrested. This is a fullblown collapse of socialism and, of course, were on it. The chair of the Washington StateRepublican Party wants to use the tactics of the left to fight seattles plan to raise taxes on the wealthy, calling for civil disto bead yeps, asking disobedience, asking her constituents to rise up against liberal lawmakers. Were talking to her. Gun sales and applications for concealedcarry permits are soaring, and according to a new study, the fastestc group of gn owners, women and minorities. More varney after this. This is the new new york. We are building new airports all across the state. New roads and bridges. New mass transit. New business friendly environment. New lower taxes. And new University Partnerships to grow the businesses of tomorrow today. Learn more at esd. Ny. Gov this looks to me like its developing a major story. General electric, one of the old line Conglomerate Companies and one of the greats of america in sharp decline. Profit down 59 and the incoming ceo has delayed his outlook for next year until later this year. Look at that stock. Thats General Electric, ladies and gentlemen, down 4 premarket. A downbeat forecast from ebay, lets see that premarket, down over 3 1 2 . So a couple of big names really taking it on the chin this morning. To venezuela where millions are in a general strike called by opposition to president mow durro. The latest report is three dead. Liz now, we have overall 96 people have died in the unrest over four months. What happened was, a nationwide strike, 85 of the population, according to the opposition, participated in this nationwide strike. Basically not going to work. You see there, the Police Shooting tear gas and protests continued throughout the country. Comes just four days after 7 1 2 million venezuelans rejected maduros push, the leadership of the government to rewrite the constitution to seize power. There are cracks in his government. This is breaking of the the top diplomate for venezuela resigned out of the united nations, said its hypocrisy whats going on in venezuela. Hes joining the opposition, hes saying that its a joke that venezuela is on the Human Rights Panel at the u. N. Youre seeing cracks in the government. Stuart thats news. Liz that is news. Stuart varney regular dana loesch is the face of this. They use awards shows to repeat their narrative over and over again and use their expresident to restore the resistance, scream racism and sexism and zeno phobia, to flash windows, burn cars, shut down airports, and bully and terrorize the law abiding. Thats strong stuff and now research that more minorities and women are getting concealed carry permits. Joining us, the author of the study, john lott with the Crime Prevention center. Give me numbers, men versus women when it comes to conceal carry permits. Weve seen permits explode generally. There are over 16. 3 million americans with conceal carry permits up from 4. 6 million in 2007, just a decade ago. Thats almost a fourfold increase. As you say its particularly grown among women and minorities. Women, if you look at the last four years, their permit rate went up by 93 compared to men, it went up by 22 . Blacks went up about 30 percentage point faster in terms of growth of permits than for whites. Stuart did your study encourage any explanation for this . Why this increase among minorities and women for concealed carry and ownership of guns in general . Right, i think it kind of parallels some polling that weve seen. The polls are regularly asked on things like, do you feel safer owning a gun in your home or more likely to cause danger . And over the last decade, weve seen kind of a sea change in womens and blacks views on those issues. You now have a majority of women who think that owning a gun in the home actually makes them safer as opposed to creating dangers and a similar, though not quite as large change for blacks. Stuart do you take sides . Are you a gun control supporter or my views have changed over time. 20 years ago i probably would have been in the middle of the debate, but after looking at the numbers on these things, i think on net, things like coon sealed carry makes people safer. Police are important sorry to interrupt you. If youve got an opinion, do you have an opinion on guns in schools . Guns in the workplace . Guns on College Campuses . Good or bad . Well, i think thats another place where my views have changed. Look, i understand we want people think you can make places safer by banning guns in certain areas, but the problem is that the people who obey those laws are the good law abiding citizens and not the attackers. Attackers take advantage of that. Since 1950 over 98 of mass public shootings have taken place in areas where general citizens arent allowed to have guns. I can give you case after case where these killers explicitly pick targets where they dont believe the victims are able to go and defend themselves because they know theyll harm more people if theres nobody there quickly to arrive with a gun to protect others. Stuart john, i think that Public Opinion has shifted significantly over the past decade. Thanks for being with us with your study. We appreciate it. Thank you. Stuart okay. You know him, bill nye the science guy. He says that Climate Change deniers are dingbats and says Something Else about the climate skeptics. Wait until you hear what he has to say. Well tell you next. Oh, bill nye, the science guy, wants climate deniers to just die already. Quote, Climate Change die deniers are older, and well have to wait for them to age out. Age out is a euphemism for die. I think thats a little nasty. You think . All i can say hes not that far from aging out either. So it works both sides. Ridiculous. And he also wanted to make those who deny man made change criminal and recommended penalizing people for having extra kids. Stuart thats a go at me. [laughter] doesnt that show to bill nye, science is a religion and if youre an heritic you should be killed. Stuart and i have a lot of children and grandchildren, i plan to populate the earth with living and breathing Carbon Dioxide emitting move on, they tell me. And a runup to the market opening, i dont have the exact number for you, but im sure that a lot of those down points are accounted for by General Electric, which is down 4 premarket and ge is, last time i checked, was a dow stock. So take that into account when you see the dow futures looking with a loss of 50, 60 points. Were opening the market four minutes from now. We hope youll join us. Nah. Not gonna happen. Thats it. Im calling kohler about their walkin bath. My name is ken. 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