gary: charlie gasparino and megyn mcdowell. charlie, this is good. they know how to get tax cuts through, and this is good news. charlie: i think one of the best things about president-elect trump is a pro growth agenda. i always said if he got elected he would be greet potentially for the markets because he wants to cut taxes, cut regulations and bring free markets back. the real issue with trump and i think the markets because they are now factoring in the less regulation and tax cuts. he's rationalizing the spending he wants to do on infrastructure which dagen pointed out as bonds spike. rationalize that and his anti-trade record. if he goes and rear negotiates nafta those are things that are not good for the markets. gary: thinking about long-term investors and investing. is this a good thing or bad thing? >> it's a good thing if these guys, mnuchin and wilbur ross execute in the way the markets are factoring in right now. the markets are factoring in a broad-based tax reform. take the corporate tax rate down. you get money back into this country

>> charlie too, i think, are you doing something different? >> i've been beating up on trump for the entire campaign. >> i agree. me too. however, i think this is actually maybe this is what we need, you know torks go up against these business titans in such a public forum to show everyone else, hey, listen, i'm really about making this work out. i'm really about economy is first. and we're going to go out and do it. >> presidents -- this is the first president-elect i know, ben stein, but presidents have often used the bully pulpit to get what they want, whether it's teddy roosevelt, john kenna used it to go after the steel industry price hikes, ronald reagan used it in another sense to go after air traffic control and striking when they said they couldn't. so make these powerful statements to make a big statement. is this -- >> my concern is this. i'm not really concerned with him getting the price of these things down. obviously we want the price to be reasonable and there's an enormous layer of bureaucracy that fights, fights, fights withi

charlie, what do you know? >> i can tell you what republican lobbyists, friends of rudy giuliani, and people close to the transition have been telling us for weeks now because, let's be real clear here, rudy giuliani, there was no more loyal surrogate for donald trump than rudy giuliani. melissa: and effective. >> when everybody else, i will disclose full admiration for the former mayor. i know him a long time, i like him. take it for what that is worth. he was a guy, everybody was running for the hills when the bully bush tape ran out, rudy giuliani took to the mics to try to explain it in a way people can understand it and maybe get beyond and they did. but here was the problem with rudy, he wanted to be secretary of state. he could have been, people within the administration wanted him for other jobs, they thought maybe wasn't most diplomatic person, but the main problem with any, any cabinet position for him from what i understood was his business. he worked at two places, post being new york city mayor. on

they are essentially subsidies. >> whoa, whoa, whoa, you said charlie's right. >> charlie, we're touching hands. >> stop, stop. look at the bottom of the screen. fox news alert. >> yeah. >> california has such a prohibitive environment, the factory in california very difficult, a lot easier to go to places like texas because they have not just -- >> have you ever contemplated going to mexico? >> yeah, they actually did and they decided to stay in america. you know, have a little bit more of a diy marketing plan. >> make america great again. >> this was broadly criticized. a lot of democrats said be careful what you wish for because you are, you know, picking and choosing your winners. now, of course they -- that is this administration, has been blamed for doing that with friendly energy, clean energy. >> right. >> so can you have it both ways? >> well, we obviously can't. we lost. so that's not working out too well for us at this moment. i think, you know, at base we should all be excited that more americans have jobs, especially going into the holiday season. >> why don't you look excite

. >>> and another charlie, charlie gasparino hitting the street with the civil war over the goldman sachs future is brewing. exclusive details only on "countdown". gaspo is next. . connell: so for one company's second quarter, a tough egg to break, posting a 54% drop in sales. 54%. this is the quarterly net loss and problem was an oversupply of eggs. weak export demand there still. not an egg producer walking on eggshells with investors today. you get all the puns? shares of the company jumping 6%. that was the stock we wanted to update you on. now to gasparino. goldman sachs seen a stock rise by 33%. one of the reasons, the dow is close to 20,000. the president-elect also recruiting a number of current or former goldman executives to join his cabinet. however, now we're hearing the firm could be divided on how to handle future. that's why we're bringing charlie in. mr. gasparino has gone to midtown manhattan, he's at columbus circle looking for a few extra cannolis, you are here to talk about goldman? >> high-end people come to time warner circle, this is dangerous work doing it from her

tom: charlie sheen is losing his relevance. maybe that's what this is about. >> i don't understand the impulse. when someone famous dies people responds to the tragedy and say let me name some politicians i hate and hope they die next. i strongly dislike our current president. but this man is a far it and husband. i want him out of office, i don't want him off the face of the earth. what's wrong with these people? there is something in your soul that needs fixing. tom: it's way deeper than what i have. if i don't like someone, it doesn't mean i want them dead. >> the entire sheen family has been unhinged about the trump presidency. >> and it hasn't started yet. hillary clinton alone -- this a photo going around that shows hillary sitting in a restaurant. do we have that photo? there she is. sitting there reading her emails -- how appropriately, on a cell phone. i don't know which cell phone, but one of her cell phones. is she going away? this was someplace out in the boonies? >> i have state children. i saw that photo and i tho

it's charlie here. charlie always gets a gift. pets are big, pets the stock up 30% in 2017. >> all right. from one charlie to another, what's your prediction? >> people with two dogs never heard of that company. i will tell you i can't think of better promotion for jetblue than ivanka trump being on a jetblue flight. i was like, what, she's on a jetblue flight? that's our princess diana right there. i say jetblue up 20% in a year. >> two charlie dogs today, thanks guys for joining us, the cost of freedom number one business block on television continues with neil cavuto now. >>> president-elect donald trump putting corporate america on notice from boeing to lockheed mart into carrier. >> it's a dance, you know, it's a little bit of a dance. but we're going to get the costs down and we're going to get it done beautifully. >> conversation with boeing produce positive results? >> i think so. we had the chairman of boeing, ceo, and i think we're looking to cut a tremendous amount of money. and i said to some of the folks, i said compa

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charlie has it right. when you have basically over the last eight years all the market has was back during quantitative easing, and everything, that was the economy. it was pumped up by fake money. neil: where do you think we would have been without rally without the federal reserve keeping rates so low? >> it now, i think we would be -- that's a hard question as it depends on the fiscal side of it. if we didn't go to quantitative easing back in 2009, we would have been a deflationary situation forever. neil: you're going to argue we needed it then. anything that refers to buy treasury notes and bonds to keep rates fairly low. to charlie's point that is keeping the price going and the money flowing. jonathan, if there is now a rally that is a sound fundamentals more than just a printing press, is that a good development for the longer term? >> clearly it is. people have been too dependent on increasing capital into our economy and if the main street investor wheels like the market is able to stand on it no

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we have charles payne, charlie gasparino, along with holmes and gary. dagen just did usual great job sub hosting on bulls and bears, ben stein at a rally, who knows. what do you think of this push and how it's changing things and may be hurting donald trump in the process? >> well, look, it's post election stress disorder, the best way i can describe it. it started with the jill stein and this recount that lasted three minutes. but for me if you just go back to wikileaks, this is the m.o. of the party. they use the media and they isolate something, which is russia, and basically what they're doing is they're going after donald trump. and it doesn't start here. it's going to start when he starts his presidency 1,460 days of driving to the hoop on the guy. and there's nothing you can do about it. day in, day out. >> all right. but they have to sway 37 electors, essentially. can they do that? >> no. i had the misfortune of interviewing miss pelosi as well. and i can tell you amazing. >> not a fan of yours either. >> no, she's not. here's the thing, neil, o

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charlie, let me begin with you, president obama raising sanctions against russia. what do you think is his motivation? >> i think the comments where he said he wanted to do everything he could and make it, he's doing everything he can to undermine the president, to set up a new situation to basically set up obstacle so that donald trump has to deal with all of this stu stuff. the good thing for donald trump, heal probably deal with all of it very easily and because so much of it is being done by fiat on the part of donald trump, he can remove it by fiat. >> it seems that he's building consensus in the way in which he's communicating. he's made it very clear. the national left wing media are a bunch of liars, thieves, goat ropers. i don't know what you call them. and the dim democrats are getting dimmer by the moment. >> yeah, that's right. it's so interesting with both the liberal folks in the media and the democrats on the hill. they just keep rolling with their same old strategy, with their same old leaders. they haven't listened to one thing the americans are sa

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and to the point, charlie. you don't see u.s. senators, you don't see congressmen in their districts able to draw a crowd. when we look back on this campaign, donald trump pulled up in trump force one to a hangar filled to overflowing and gave his speech and moved on to another hangar. he can walk into hershey, pennsylvania and in this cold within it feels like zero, and they will stand in line for hours for a thank you tour that no one would have even considered conducting until he invented the process. >> at a time when politicians have never been held in lower regard, here is a guy -- the thing that he's done is he transcends politics. and he transcends politics in the same way president obama did 8 years ago. he was able to talk directly to people with this level of enthusiasm. but donald trump is kind weaponizing that enthusiasm at this point and doing it very smartly. the other big difference, when president obama won 8 years ago everybody lamented because the politics never seemed to end it was the endless campaign. the en

liz: justine as charlie and i were looking was born in 1995. that hurts, hurts to see that. >>> you were 50 in '95. i was two. liz: 15. why charlie is here. thanks. justine, thanks, justine. >> so low rent at nyse. why couldn't they get rihanna? sprecher is so cheap. in duncan or grasso they would -- liz: billy joel. >> beyonce. this girl seems nice but -- liz: she is up-and-coming. >> i think sprecher is cheap. this is new york, jeff. liz: donald trump's choice for treasury secretary, steve mnuchin making bold promises. here is one of them. >> we got to get fannie and freddie out of government ownership. it makes no sense these are owned by the government and been controlled i about the government for as long as they have, in many cases this displaces private lending in the mortgage markets and we need these entities that will be safe. liz: but as you know from physics for every action there is equal and opposite reaction. what could be the reaction to steve mnuchin's idea to privatize fannie and freddie, charlie? >> what was the reaction, the

look at detroit and you can stay with me, charlie. we'll take a shot what is going on at general motors headquarters. let's listen in to mary barra, guess what, not china but a new vehicle. >> what powers vehicles and the way we get from point a to b. today the convergence of connectivity, electrification, autonomous driving and sharing mobility gives us opportunity and the responsibility to create a new model of personal transportation that really changes the way society thinks about the the automobile. that is why following governor snyder's signing last week of save act legislation to support autonomous vehicle testing and deployment in michigan we are very pleased today to make two announcements regarding gm's work in autonomous vehicles. first, gm will immediately begin autonomous vehicle testing on public roads in michigan. in june, gm began autonomous chevrolet bolt evs on public roads in san francisco and shortly followed in scottsdale, arizona. today we have more than 40 vehicles testing in these two cities. we are also curre

again it is an implicit, not explicit guaranty as you mentioned, charlie. number two, what fannie mae and freddie mac would become more conduits in order to move mortgages into the secondary market with some sort of insurance guarranty. they don't have to borrow money to do that. mortgage the they're guarantying. >> who would provide the insurance? >> oh, i think that, if you will, originators of the mortgage would have to pay a commitment fee to fannie or freddie just as they do today in order to get the guaranties in place. >> so the bank pays, would pay the commitment is ambac, who guaranties the mortgage, i guess is the question? >> the banks are paying commitment fee now, right? >> fee to federal government. i'm trying to think what makes the business model work minus the federal government. people think this thing is making a ton of money now essentially borrowing at very cheap rates. has backup of federal government. has very little financing costs because of that. if you take out the government, and some sort of a conduit business is there a busines

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and to the point, charlie. you don't see u.s. senators, you don't see congressmen in their districts able to draw a crowd. when we look back on this campaign, donald trump pulled up in trump force one to a hangar filled to overflowing and gave his speech and moved on to another hangar. he can walk into hershey, pennsylvania and in this cold within it feels like zero, and they will stand in line for hours for a thank you tour that no one would have even considered conducting until he invented the process. >> at a time when politicians have never been held in lower regard, here is a guy -- the thing that he's done is he transcends politics. and he transcends politics in the same way president obama did 8 years ago. he was able to talk directly to people with this level of enthusiasm. but donald trump is kind weaponizing that enthusiasm at this point and doing it very smartly. the other big difference, when president obama won 8 years ago everybody lamented because the politics never seemed to end it was the endless campaign. the en

what are we up, 8.5% if i remember charlie brady's note correctly? 8.5% on the i dow since donald trump was elected president. just as the fed begins its big two-day interest policy meeting. investors anticipating that the fed is going to raise interest rates this week, but many on wall street still wonder what the central bank is planning for 2017. in other words, do they continue on with these interest rate hikes, and how fast do they do it? ashley webster's here along with jeff flock who's joining us and "countdown to the closing bell" host liz claman who's there at the nyse for part of this party. liz, it could still happen! hey, we've got a few minutes left on the clock before you take it, it could still happen in the two, it could happen in the three o'clock hour, but the expectation is at least it's going to happen before the end of the year? >> one more big headline, boom, this thing's going up. 80, we're about 84 points away, 83 points away from, of course, the big moment of dow 20,000. and i can't say the traders are vibrating here at the m

charlie gasparino has the story. he must have gone in the backdoor. >> he is meeting with scaramucci. looking to sell his hedge fund business, skybridge capital, join the trump administration in some economic post. liz: right. >> hank greenberg, formerly of aig, long time chief executive of aig, runs something called the star companies. he is heavily involved in the insurance business in china. from what we understand his meeting with donald trump discussed trump's china policy. we should point out businessmen, american businessmen are really scared. people that run major companies, do significant business with china, that trump will start some sort of trade war or be at odds with chinese economic policy. hess embrace of taiwan which, sort of nullified or at least walked back a little bit the one china policy where we officially recognized main mainland china as opposed to taiwan and the chinese government has american businessmen scared. there is no businessman in america today that knows more about china, been doin

joining us now, charlie gasparino to discuss, charlie? >> you know, there is a sort of inverse reaction to this too. the reason why the stock market is going down, liz, is because the bond market is going down, because higher interest rates and what higher interest rates usually mean? is that people are going to start buying bonds in the future as opposed to stocks, to capture that yield, because, of inflation. because inflation will be dealt with and economy will slow. it will slow down. that is what the bond market is pricing in. that is why the stock market is off. this is an interesting trade going on here. i thought, for sure, liz, when she would say three rate increases, not such a great economy, i don't know how much full employment, how much more we'll get toward full employment, that would be a net positive for the market. doesn't mean she will go hog-wild with rate increases. market took sitting else, uncertainty as a negative. bonds started trading off, people think there could be inflation and higher deficits in the future whi

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