Maria good wednesday morning, everyone. Thanks so much for joining us this morning. Im maria bartiromo. It is wednesday, april 3, your top stories right now, you 6 00 a. M. On the east coast. Today Inflation Fears gripping investors in a rough start to the Second Quarter with markets extending a two day selloff this morning as worries over spiking inflation and Higher Oil Prices set the tone. The dow industrials right now lower again, extending a selloff yesterday. The dow falling nearly 400 points yesterday on new worries had take the Federal Reserve cannot cut rates amidst persistent imflation. Opec plus is set to meet this morning after an earlier agreement to extend output cuts. Take a look at the 10 year and two year Interest Rates which are up this morning about 2 basis points apiece ahead of the weeks jobs data this week, the marmarch adp number out this morning. The jobs report on friday. Take a look at the euro zone. The ft 100 is negative, the others fractionally higher. Asia overnight, red across the board, take a look. President biden holding a phone call with xi jinping in the first connection since november as janet yellen heads back to beijing with so far little progress in taming americas number one adversary. Back at home, campaign blitz, President Trump is beating President Biden in six of seven swing states according to new wall street journal polls this morning as the 45th president hammers bidens failed border policies in michigan and wisconsin. Plus, the houses investigation of the biden family influence peddling, Oversight Committee chairman james comer will join me with his next steps when Congress Returns to wash a ton next week. Joining the conversation all morning long, Bullseye American Ingenuity Fund manager, adam johnson is here, cyber expert krysia lenzo is here and mahesh coo cook is here. Mornings with maria is live right now. When i saw her face, im a believer. Not a doubt in my mind. Im in love. Im a believer. I couldnt leave her if i tried. Maria and its time for the hot topic of the hour. Former President Trump hitting the campaign trail yesterday holding rallies in br battlegrod states of michigan and a wisconsin, highlighting the Violent Crime sweeping the country as a result of President Bidens open border policies, calling it, quote, bidens border blood bath. Watch. I stand before you today to declare that joe bidens bore blood bath, thats what it is. Its destroying our country. Its a very bad thing happening. Its going to end on the day i take office which will be january 20th. It will end. With your vote i will seal the border, i will stop the invasion. I will end the carnage, bloodshed and killing and we will crush the human traffickers. Maria and new this morning, the wall street journal poll shows trump leading biden in six of the seven swing states, thats arizona, georgia, michigan, north carolina, nevada and pennsylvania. And in wisconsin, biden and trump are tied in a head to head matchup. Krysia, your reaction . Well, with respect to the blood bath, donald trump is correct in doubling down on this term because its tragically true. We have seen what has happened at our border, innocent lives being lost at the hands of Illegal Migrants, not to mention sex trafficking, drug trafficking, Human Trafficking in general. So at every level, this is a blood bath and the fact that joe biden also used the term and it was said oh, no, just trump is the one trying to incite violence which doesnt make sense. We know the term initially when he used it in context was used with respect to the electric vehicles that would eliminate jobs but here again, hes right in using it. This is exactly what were seeing at all aspects of our border. Maria they got into it over the word blood bath had yesterday. Peter doocy grilling the administration on bidens use of the word blood bath as democrats slammed trump for using it. When donald trump is talking about a blood bath it is violent rhetoric. What was it when joe biden said in 2020 what we cant let happen is let this primary become a negative blood bath. You should read what he said in its context. Im reading the direct quote from joe biden. He was talking about a group of people. What the president was talking about during the primary was not to allow it to be the words in the primarynd that election to become negative. Two different things. Theyre not the same. [laughter] maria your reaction . Im not shocked at this point. Everything is so indicative of what joe biden is today which is a hypocrite, a liar, and were going to continue to see it were seeing a blood bath in america today, not only the economy, but the border. Were seeing fentanyl, Human Trafficking crisis across the country. 13. 7 million Illegal Immigrants are battling illegal immigration today. Were at a crisis today. The press secretary continues to lie to the American People. We know theyre lying. And its a two tiered system of justice. Democracy and Everything Else in our country. Maria had they try to play word games, adam. Yes, they do. Maria lets look at the facts. People are dying and getting murdered as a result of this wide open border. When a new York City Police officer named Jonathan Diller can be slain while hes on duty by someone who was arrested 21 times, thats a blood bath. When a beautiful Nursing Student named laken riley can be killed in georgia by an illegal venezuelan, thats a blood bath. When thousands of americans die from fentanyl coming over from china courtesy of an open border, thats a blood bath. I dont know what part of blood bath kjp and the rest of the democratic apparatus dont understand. Maria they try to use the word to use it as a sledgehammer against trump. Yes. Maria because he first used it referring to the ev vehicle situation. More of the same word games but not getting to the actual issues that are affecting the American People. Yes. And donald trump again is correct in hammering this point home because his terminology is right. And hes focusing on the policies and this is exactly what the democrats are not doing. They refuse to acknowledge what is occurring at the border and the policies because they basically have no record to run on. Donald trump has a proven record. He will affect border change day one which joe biden totally undid with his executive orders, 94 in 100 days, he undid trumps policies and were completely unsafe as a result, at the hands of the democrats were facing this blood bath had. Maria i think it was more than 90 executive orders, 91 executive orders or 94 that joe biden came into the oval office, put in place to overturn trumps security at the border. He says he Needs Congress to fix the border, right . Isnt that amazing. Maria this is an extraordinary situation. 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Put your Business Online in minutes with the power of ai. Maria welcome back. Take a look at futures this morning, more nervousness for investorsers dow industrials down 32 after stocks fell for a second straight day yesterday. Inflation fears gripping investors right now as oil prices and Interest Rates move higher, yesterday the dow industrials were down 396 points, s p 500 down 38 and nasdaq lower by 156. Take a look at Interest Rates this morning which are rising, now at the highest level since november. The 10 year up 2 basis points at a level of 4. 36 . Federal reserve officials mary daily and l Loretta Mester callg for three more rate cuts in 2024 saying its a reasonable a expectation. We will hear if jay powell this afternoon about the Economic Outlook that could be a catalyst for the market in either direction. Joining us now is Wealth Consulting Group ceo, jimmy lee. Thank you for being here. Seems like a whole new worry has entered investors portfolio as a result of that hotter than exacted cpi last month and the rise in oil prices and Interest Rates. Your reaction . Good morning, maria. Great to see you. Well, i think the Market Selling off the last two days is a little bit of profit taking off of a very robust First Quarter of a 10 for the s p 500 and incredible rally weve had since the low in october of 2022 which a lot of investors have actually missed. Im not concerned about necessarily exactly when the first cut comes, but i do think if we can get a cut in june, that will be very bullish for the market. I think companies can then plan for being a little more aggressive for the second half of the year with their Capital Investments possibly so i hope we get a cut in june but i dont think the market will fall apart if we dont. I think investors are comfortable now in the economy, getting comfortable with higher Interest Rates, maybe staying for a little longer. Maria is this a pivotal moment, adam johnson or a buy the dip moment. Oil prices this morning, oiling is rising again, the highest level since october. Opec plus set to hold a policy meeting today after an earlier agreement to extend output cuts. This is part of the worry, adam, youve got crude oil at 85, 31. Should the fed cut rates when youve got elevated inflationary signs. Yes. Ill tell you why. Inflation has come down significantly. Cpi was 9. 1 . Its now about 3. 4 . By the way, there are four measures of inflation. Cpi is above 3. Pce is above 3. But youve got ppi and gdp price index that are actually below 2 . The feds target is 2. Two of the two measures are below 2 . I think were fixating on consumer prices. Some of the pressures are coming off. I dont think we need to be as fixated on inflation and quite frankly fed policy as we are especially with the economy thats growing, with an economy thats nearly at full employment and with an economy thats generating earnings growth. Maria jimmy, how do you see it . Im reading thomas lees note this morning, says five reasons were buying inflation fear two day dip. Do you aagree . I agree. The last time adam and i were together we talked about new highs being good for the market, potentially be getting new highs which has happened. Three quarters of the companies in the s p 500 above the moving 200. We know the russell did000 small cap stocks are moving on what happens with inflation data and investors think will happen with Interest Rates but i think investors will or should be positioned now or getting positioned now for a lower rate environment which means theres certain sectors that could do really well from here that are interest sensitive such as real estate, even utilities are having a rally, small cap stocks and longer dated bonds. I think this year will end up actually being a good year for stock and bond investors. Maria its hard to believe that chairman powell is going to turn hawkish when he okays tn hawkish he when he speaks today at 12 noon. Job openings in february rising to 8. 75 a million, above expectations. Were awaiting the march adp number this morning. Weve got the followup of the march jobs report out on friday. Economists are expecting growth, 200,000 jobs added to the economy with the Unemployment Rate 408ding steady at 3. 9 . So see youve got two catalysts, jay powell speaking today. Well see what he says. Weve got the next cpi number out next wednesday on the tenth. What are your expectations for the two catalysts, what do we hear today from powell . Lets start there. I think powell is going to say the same as what hes been saying. To me, hes very transparent. I like listening to what he has to say. I think hell talk about being data dependent but inflation is going in the right direction and so i wouldnt be too surprised even though the futures market has come down on a chance for a cut that we do get one in june. The best Case Scenario is that we get inflation data prior to that to allow the fed to cut. Not that i dont think the econn sustain the rates for longer but i think companies can plan to be more aggressive in the second half of the year if thats the case which will spur on investment and spur on the economy here in the United States. Weve got a recovery in china thats helping out a bit. I know youre talking about that a lot. But weve got from an economic standpoint i think china is proving to help out the global trade situation and the Worldwide Growth story that we potentially could get today or of this year and so i think powell in the statements will be similar to what hes been which is i think we can expect three cuts this year is what he may signal. Maria today well watch what jay powell says. Jimmy, good to see you. Thank you, sir. Your morning mover is intel, stock down better than 5 , shares of the Semiconductor Company slipping after revealing 7 billion in operating losses last year. Thats for its chip making unit. This is the first time intel disclosed revenue totals for what they commonly called the foundry business. This comes from the own operations. The stock this morning is down but its still up 35 in the last year. Quick break and then tennessee senator bill ha haggerty is her, talking about President Bidens call with xi jinping. 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And we could all unexperience this whole session. Okay, thats uncalled for. Maria President Biden speaking with chinese president xi jinping yesterday over the phone, this is the first connection since the two met in november. The two leaders discussing military to military communications, Artificial Intelligence risks and fighting climate change. The white house says biden pushed xi on tiktok. Watch this. The president reiterated our concerns about the ownership of tiktok. He made it clear to president xi this was not about a ban of the application but rather our interest in divestiture so that the National Security interests and the Data Security of the American People can be protected. Maria an Advocacy Group backed by mike pence purchase purchasing a 2 million ad a buy buy,to push the ban to a vote. Joining me now, senator bill haggerty. Thank you for being here. Do you think the tiktok bill comes to the floor in the senate. Its hard to say, its up to chuck shy y schumer whether it r not. Maria why would he not bring it. Theres tremendous pressure for him to deal with this. When you look at where we wound up with the appropriation bills, almost to a government shutdown. Its difficult for me to imagine how prioritizes anything. Maria what are his motivations . Why wont he do what the people want . Seems that politics are the only motivation in this regard and power. The appropriation process has been bypassed for years, Chuck Schumer seems to want to control everything. He maintains control over what goes on the floor. Well see how the bill prioritizes itself. I think it will be basically politics at the end of the day. Maria thats really disaappointing. Let me get your take on the call between xi jinping and joe biden. What do you know when on . Are you it feels like the u. S. Is constantly begging china for some kind of a rapport and constructive relationship, china doesnt respond. Janet yellen is going to go back again. Antony blinken is going to go back again. Whats happening. China is a predator on so many fronts, economic preed r p, certainly military predators and from an economic standpoint as well. When i hear the white house talking, i understand some of the conversation between president xi and President Biden was constructive. What they talked about with regard to tiktok i think President Biden made clear what hes looking for is not a ban. Hes looking for a divestiture. I think thats the path that Chuck Schumer will have to figure out as he brings the bill to the floor. Theyre talking about production china is undertaking of Green Energy Products and flooding the market with it. Theyre taking a champion industry, subsidizing it and flooding the market with it. What i would have loved to hear more about is how President Biden is Holding China accountable. I wish he would hold them accountable for purchasing energy from russia and iran. Maria why doesnt he hold xi jinping accountable . Your point about flooding the market with subsidized products, i said it many times, John Ratcliffe told me chinas strategy is very simple, rob, replicate, replace, thats what theyre doing in the ev area, isnt it. You talked about intellectual property theft and replicate, they copy what we have, try to make it better and replace with deeply subsidized products. Maria tell me whats going on with tesla. Theres a china ev car maker thats putting out a car that looks like a porsche. Its competing against tesla. Tesla dropped 8 on the markets. Maria thats why tesla stock plummeted. Thats the strategy, rob, replicate, replace. Come up with something thats an American Made company that has the intellectual property that they can steal, replicate it and then ultimately replace it. Theres a deeper concern about the chinese evs as well. And that is that these evs have a tremendous amount of information gathering equipment and i think theres concern here in america that information can be gathered and in turn sent back to china. I think thats one of our gravest concerns, the National Security law in china which says information gathered anywhere in the world as long as its in the possession of a Chinese Company is subject to ccp surveillance. Maria i didnt see any readouts in terms of surveillance coming up in this conversation with joe biden and xi jinping. Fox news peter doocy asked the white house National SecurityCommunications Advisor john kirby whether President Biden is concerned about the open southern border, chinese nationals coming in and whether or not the wide open border and the fact we dont know who is coming in could ultimately lead to a terrorist attack inside of america. Watch this. If we dont know who is coming into our country and we dont know what their intent is, that is a threat. Does President Biden agree . We do have significant National Security concerns that have to be met. Its not anything more from the president. As the person in charge of presenting preventing a terrorist attack in the homeland, does pong po pong some border President Biden think some of the Border Crossers could be plotting an attack. Throughout the intell jens community, were doing everything we can to be as voyagevigilant as we can to sece safety and security of the American People at home. Maria are we doing everything we can to be vigilant . I met with a rancher at the border, he encountered syrian males, they presented themselves at the point of entry for asylum. They came across his ranch in a place they cant be detected. Theyre a got away. What are they doing here . We dont know. You think about the number of people that have actually been apprehended that are on the terrorist watch list, a number have been released into the country. If you arrive from venezuela, because they dont have an information sharing agreement with us, the presumption is its okay to turn you loose in america m. Meanwhile, venezuelan crime rates are coming down, jails are emptied in venezuela this is deeply concerning. Maria why is joe biden not recognizing this . Iswhy is he putting america in a vulnerable position. It goes back to something i put forward legislation three weeks ago suggesting we not be allowed to count Illegal Migrants in the census. Right now, the Illegal Migrants are used to apportion congressional seats and electoral votes. You look at the people flooding into the country under joe biden, that would account for 13 congressional seats. 13 congressional seats and that many electoral votes. Maria the open border gives them more people to put in areas that have representation that is democrat, that will get them more seats in terms of congressional districts. Exactly. Maria will those people ultimately vote . Do they want them to vote in the president ial election . The democrats win regardless. They still retain congressional power. Look at the states losing population, new york, illinois, california, where are the sanctuary cities located, new york, chicago, illinois San Francisco. The congressional representative from brooklyn, the same district of James Madison high school where they turned kids out so they could put Illegal Migrants in for housing, she said i need the illegal my gra migrants fore purpose of redistricting. Maria not one democrat would agree to that impeachment. No, they would not. Maria some of the republican colleagues would not agree to the impeachment. The point is amendment. The point is theyre taking the conspiracy and confirming its a consistent spir at this e votes of the people in the blue district. We dont have that many Illegal Migrants in states like mine. If you have twice as many Illegal Migrants your voters get twice as many votes. Maria to put america in a vulnerable position to get more congressional districts is stung. Youre headed to the n New York Stock Exchange today. Are you going to raise the fact there are Chinese Companies listed on the exchange that dont follow the same accounting rules that every other Public Company does. The United States has the most competitive, most effective Capital Markets in the world. You true source of competitive advantage for the nation. Why do we allow Chinese Companies to come here, access Capital Markets, yet not play by the same set of rules that American Companies have to play by. Maria the Obama Administration when joe biden was Vice President signed a memorandum of understanding allowing this and were wondering if he got paid for it from china. Well talk with james comer coming up and ill put that question to him. Senator, thank you. Well see you later and please report back on your meetings at the New York Stock Exchange. Senator bill haggerty. Stay with us. 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According to local authorities, 131 people are currently trapped including 50 employees of a hotel. Taiwan recorded 76 aftershocks in less than five hours and they expect these aftershocks to continue for the next three to four days. Were going to update you on this developing story throughout the morning. Well, the owners of the cargo ship that crashed into the Francis Scott key last week, killing six, are denying fault as the lawsuit landscape begins to take shape in the aftermath of the tragedy. Grace ocean private, the owner and Synergy Marine filing a petition in federal court denying fault and neglect, theyre asking for limitation of liability. This means they would not be financially held liable for amounts larger than the new value of the damaged vessel or 43. 6 million. The ship had reportedly lost power ahead of the crash. That investigation continues. Then there is this, brandnew footage is giving us an inside look at the raid on sean combs Los Angeles Home last week as part of the federal sex trafficking investigation into the rap mogul. The video released by the moi or of his two sons, it shows armored vehicles, officers in Tactical Gear aliving and arrivd entering the compound. They detained individuals, two of whom are identified as a hilton and combs two sons. This looks at what was happening behind the walls of the rappers mansion. Shes questioning why an aassault rifle and laser beams and a firearms were aimed at her sons. Theyre now represented by jeffrey lichtman, he represented john gotti, junior and el chapo. Hes now representing those two sons. Weve seen video of combs in miami. Just a video. We dont know allegations against him. Im assuming hes he denying def it. Maria he hasnt been charged with anything. This is the investigation phase. Im thinking charges are coming. Maria thank you, cheryl. You. Maria President Biden and chinese president xi jinping speaking on the phone yesterday discussing taiwan, trade, a. I. Technology and chinas support for the russian military. The white house down playing the call as a, quote, check in. Janet yellen will head to china today for bilateral t meetings and Antony Blinken is set to visit in the coming weeks. Joining me now is former state Department Senior advisor, the center for National Interest senior fellow, christian whiton. Thank you for being here. Your reaction to this constant outreach to communist china . It looks like a repeat of the summer of love which was last summer after a series of cabinet leaders and the Federal Reserve chairman went to beijing in this nonstop pageant of outreach culminating the in the president meeting with xi jinping outside of San Francisco at which nothing was significantly you a agreed on. While talking to xi jinping about a. I. , do you think china is going to help us with a. I. . Do we think china will do anything with a. I. Except use it to make a more perfect tyranny and make weapons that are better at targeting our ships and aircraft. Its just part of this Biden Administration china policy of not really having a china policy and yellen will talk about trade. What really that means is that any changes to u. S. Raid policy are now going to have to wait until after she goes, after blinken goes and the administration seems less likely to make significant moves that really ought to be made before the election. Maria look, the last time we saw this, quote, unquote, checkin was in november when President Biden was trying to get xi jinping to push the militaries of each country to have better communication. So that the militaries were talking with each other. We have not seen evidence that in fact they are talking regularly to one another. Why not . And what do you think that kind of threat represents . Its a significant threat, the outgoing commander of u. S. Indopacific command basically in had his swan song before Congress March 20th warned were not building up our forces in the pacific adequately enough to deter china. Theres been some good moves. Weve been selling some arms to taiwan. A lot of those have gotten diverted to ukraine. Japan is doubling its defense budget. But not really the plusup that you would like to see and frankly a lot of aggression not just over taiwan. Theres a low intensity conflict going on in the South China Sea with the chinese coast guard and Fishing Vessels what are really chinese maly sha basically confronting taiwan over claims, claims that territories that the philippines has traditionally controlled, you could have world war iii, the flash point being the South China Sea, instead of Taiwan Strait and but again, youre not seeing that sort of shift in our military from a force designed for Counter Insurgency in the 2010s as what we need today focused on china and to a lesser extent iran. Maria not to mention chinas support for russia and its efforts to crush ukraine and chinas support for iran. Irans president is now vowing revenge against israel after the deadly idf air strike on the iranian consistent sewel cul c. The u. S. Is diss distancing itf from the strike. You mentioned the United States reached out to the iranians. What is the rational in doing so . To be clear that the u. S. Had nothing to with the strikes. Maria christian, your thoughts . This is like the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff calling up the chinese in the closing days of the Trump Administration to sort of make nice with our adversaries for no reason. We should be grateful for what israel did. Its very similar to what the Trump Administration did in orchestrating the killing of solemani. Is a guy whose job it is to kill israelis and americans. These are the ones in charge of exporting revolution, undermining any sort of Accountable Government in the middle east and replacing it with the type of islamist tyranny you see in iran and doing so through warfare so what israel did was good. Its similar like to the old days when they would go bomb saddams nuclear program. We should be happy that they did this and not be condemning them. Maria israel of course taking responsibility for the air strike that killed seven world central kitchen aid workers in gaza on monday. Saying the strikes were an accident. Israels Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu writes this on x, israel deeply regrets the tragic incident that claimed the lives of aid workers. We will make our findings public. Your thoughts . I would contrast this to what happened with joe biden when he got 13 u. S. Service men killed in afghanistan amid the humiliating withdrawal there. The white house, dod somewhat panicked in order to strike against someone that killed seven children, 10 people overall, they said they would take responsibility. They didnt. No one got held responsible for that. Contrast that to israel who is going to take responsibility for this. Joe biden called up the celebrity boss of this Food Distribution organization, has he called the families of americans who are held hostage by hamas . Has he called any israeli families of Young Children who are murdered by these Hamas Terrorists . The priorities and emphasis are all wrong when it comes to our public diplomacy. Maria really discouraging. Christian, thank you very much. Well keep watching all of that. Christian whiton joining us this morning on those threats. Quick break and then San Franciscos public trans for station hoping to combat ongoing harassment with a card. Well explain the card in the morning buzz coming up. Youre watching mornings with maria live on fox business. Stay with us. 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They can distribute cards informing and requesting assistance from bystanders. Krysia, lets thing it out. Youre getting attacked on the train, you go in the pocket, grab some cards, give them out to bystanders, your thoughts. This has to be one of the stupidist, most dangerous ideas ive heard from woke policy makers. Really, someone like aoc would come up with this, shes an expert in everything, because its so aloof, out of touch, you have to be out of touch to think pulling out a card will protect you as opposed to having a Police Officer protect you from Violent Crimes which are seen on our subways, in our Transportation Systems every day. I mean, San Francisco, there was a survey that said over 50 of people who are in the the transportation, have been on transportation experienced an attack. The same thing in new york. Attacks are increasing every single day and these r cards will do absolutely nothing. Maria the cards state someone is harassing me right now. And then it lists options for helping, can you stand with me while this is happening . If i ask, would you text bart police. Use the bart watch app or contat the train operator for me. Why do i need a card to tell the guy next to me to help me if im getting attacked . What am i going to do, give me all your money, i have to get my card to give them out. We have have lacked common sense today. I mean, at this point this is so juvenile, maria. This is whats happening in the woke liberal cities. Instead of attacking the problem head on and saying we need more law enforcement, we need to enforce the law, we need to lock up criminals, by the way, Good Samaritans dont want to help people today. Theyre terrified. You had a man in new york who fired a warning shot to help a woman who was being mugged. The mugger wa wasnt arrested ad arraigned. It was the individual that fired the warning shot. We are unsafe. Nobody will help with a card or a warning cry, like please help me. Maria this is so naive to think while youre getting atacked on the subway system youll have the time to go in your pocket, get cards, hand them out to people. I mean, i dont even know what to say. When i first maria its so when i read about this, i thought it was a story from the onion, thats trying to make a joke. Maria yeah. Its just shockingly naive of a government, right . I mean, the city of San Francisco. To think that this actually has any meaning or any bearing whatsoever. Maria and why does a card need to tell a b bystander to help. Youre a bystander, you see someone getting attacked, youre going to go get help. Or youll intervene yourself. For crying out loud, you need a card to tell you what youre witnessing with your own eyes right in front of you . Maria i would like to know how much the program is costing these geniuses. Its mind boggling. Its such a waste of taxpayer dollar. This is what liberal cities do. They continue to defend this outrageous behavior, defund our police and put the burden on good bystanders and theyre opting out. Nobody wants to help each other. Theyre going to be locked up. Good people are locked up today. Maria i wonder what das have to say about this, the same d as who are processing people and letting them out on the streets. They probably think theyre doing the good lords work. Thea alvin braggs out there thik theyre doing the right thing by standing up, quote, u unquote, r the little guy or the underserved member of our society, dot, dot, dot, illegal aliens glt be the underserved maria im told its 35,000. So its a paltry sum that this is costing but still it seems wildly ineffective. From an ideological perspective, the fact that this is out there is costing us because this is resulting in bystanders stepping down because they feel like they have to read some sort of card on how to act. And this is why we have wonderful people who step up like daniel penny in new york, the marine, who theyre getting punished as a result of all of this propaganda. I would say this is propaganda, if anything. Maria all right. Lets take a short break and come right back. When we come back President Biden speaks with xi jinping for the First Time Since november, putting the focus on the two countries communications technology, tiktok as well, a live report is next for or hot topic of the hour. Youre watching mornings with maria live on fox business. Billys not just running a small goat grazing business hes also the chief marketing officer. And when he needs to round up some new customers Constant Contact makes it easy. Helping him craft the perfect message like a marketing genius so his email stands out. Constant contact delivers all the tools you need to help your business grow. If billy can do it so can you. Get started today at constantcontact. Com. Helping the small stand tall. You founded your Kayak Company because you love the ocean not spreadsheets. You need to hire. I need indeed. Indeed you do. Indeed instant match instantly delivers quality candidates matching your job description. Visit indeed. Com hire maria welcome back. Thanks for joining us. I am Maria Bartiroma on wednesday, april 3rd, just before 7 00 on the east coast, top topic of the hour, President Biden and xi jinping speaking for the First Time Since november the white house saying biden pushed xi on tiktok. Hillary vaughan has more on the call. Reporter President Biden and xi jinping had a phone call catch up. The foreign minister spokesman said biden requested the call and he had two big tech items he wanted to address