Usmca and the future of european trade from the inside, we are going to talk all about the trade policy with Robert Lighthizer coming up this morning, dont miss this exclusive interview coming up, mornings with maria begins right now. Maria big show this morning, Divine Capital ceo and founder danielle hughes, fox news Dagen Mcdowell and nfl player jack brewerrer. Dagen great to see you, get to it, we have so much to talk about. Maria this has implications beyond boeing, suspending production after two deadly crashes involving that jet, aircraft has been grounded globally since march, the company saying this in a statement, we believe its least disruptive and supply chain health, we will continue to assess our proprogress to return to Service Milestones and make determinations about resuming production and deliveries accordingly, boeing has said that the announcement will not affect employees and will not see any layoffs happening; thats the good news, they wanted to have this plane back up in the air by the end of this year. Dagen this is a basic supply and demand issue because they have been manufacturing, assembling 40 planes per month since the max was grounded using 11,000 workers at Assembly Plant in washington, issue of getting it back in the skies and working off some of the inventory, its not a disaster given that boeing made it clear they are not laying workers off. They are our biggest exporter, boeing is massive part of the economy, they represent 11 of the dow on a waited basis and i think we are going to see this reburberate. So thats right, chinas global air face has about 20 of the planes, so they are grounding all of those, they are not ordering anymore. They have a lot of them shuttered and you will see planes flying the planes will be ground. Dagen theyve been grounded, thats my point, they have been on the ground all year for the most part. I think the longterm effect to the brain is what you think about money amount, thats a big backlog and i think for the future of boeing, if youre going in and making a decision boeing and air bus i think longterm that could play into effect. Maria yeah the market share creeps, when you start going to other jet makers, these are longterm contracts. Thats right. Maria china has been trying to take out market that boeing has, they are not where boeing but they will create their own jets and have substantial business at some point. Thats right, i think we will see that Going Forward and china is going to take a much larger bite out of this market. Maria stock is down 1 and a half percent this morning, rest of the market has been up. Even though we are seeing a pullback this morning, the dow tenth thousand point since President Trump election victory 3 years ago, dow industrials in alltime high of 28,235 with gain of 100 points. Nasdaq was up 79 points yesterday, pullback today but you have to call this incredible year in terms of investing. Its been a massive year, i think when you look at the segments of the markets, the ones that theyre all pretty much up, energy is down, energy has not been doing as well but its been a tremendous meltup. I think people are calling for a healthup now. Maria bank of america are expecting a meltup and they put a number on it, a gain of more than 5 by march third. Dagen we also saw a new record high, the first for the stock, europe 600 in more than 40 years, it wasnt just the United States, but also europe, the top story in the wall street journal this morning, Global Economy show signs of regain footing, not just the United States but you had numbers out of china yesterday morning from industrial output and retail sales and then there was ihs market purchasing managers index, more optimistic purchasing managers are about Economic Activity that was the highest level in 5 months, theres again, thats what we are looking for in terms of trade disputes, getting resolved; purchasing managers, are companies more optimistic and will stay start spending and pick up where the consumer has really lead to the United States. Maria even more, they came out with the report that pmis were bottoming out, we would see upswing and seems that they are right in terms of what we should expect in 2020, President Trump needs a Strong Economy this Election Year thats for sure. This is unbelievable, sometimes you have to think a step back that you were going against china in trade war and we have gained 10,000 points, i mean, its really unbelievable and i think its a credit to President Trump. I think his positivity in the way that he talks about our economy despite all the criticism that he gets, he keeps the investors having confidence and our consumer helping the Global Economy and thats really a credit. Maria theres a reason that the democrats do not want to even talk about unemployment, 50year low, economy thats doing well and trying to take the oxygen out of the room with impeachment. She held a heated town hall in michigan district, look what happened. How can you overturn the will of 53 million voters in do in 2016 . The facts came out that the president was reaching out and seeking to influence that very election that i was counting on to have a democratic process in. Maria i thought for sure it was going to be a no but not so, shes been on the show talking positively about jobs and the what President Trump is doing, we have been talking about those 31 democrats up for reelection in the districts that President Trump won and vote for impeachment could have a major sway, dagen, Impeachment Vote is expected tomorrow night in washington. Dagen at least 17 of those 31 democrats have come out in favor of impeachment. They will support the articles of impeachment against President Trump, this is according to this was by yesterday afternoon according to the wall street journal, but youre already seeing whats happening, you see well, number one, the real clear politics average on whether you favor impeachment or not, average of polls is now under water as of yesterday, that, yes, on support of impeachment at 46 and a half percent, 47. 4 is a no on it, so it is moving against the democrats and Chuck Schumer came out yesterday and is demanding you will hear from four witnesses including Mick Mulvaney and john bolton and the senate trial, of course, Chuck Schumer calling witnesses political theater during impeachment of president clinton in 1999, voted against witness testimony, but this to me says nancy pelosi and adam schiff and jerry nadler have not done their job, they are rushing this through, if you need to hear from the witnesses, why didnt nancy pelosi wait and called them and go to court in the fashion that would suggest it was a fair process in the house, itll be very interesting to see how this goes because, again, if you potentially, you could have to vote on the Senate Whether witnesses are called and you would have to have a majority vote, this could be a disaster for the democrats. Maria im waiting for result against the democrats, by the people because this has been literally 3 and a half years of nonstop resist, we started off with this crazy ridiculous collusion narrative for 2 and a half years where people like adam schiff were saying, collusion is in plain sight, then you move onto Brett Kavanaugh and the pushback that hes gotten and all of the judge where is the federal level and Supreme Court and then ukraine, now impeachment, i mean, this you know, and be the way, all the while hes coming out with policies on Foreign Policy on Economic Policy and actually moving the needle in a positive way for americans, so as this impeachment heats up, look at this polling from usa today, President Trumps support remains strong in head to head matchup the president beats former Vice President by 3 points and Elizabeth Warren and Michael Bloomberg by 9 points and this goes back to the president s policy. Policy over personality. Dagen you have to give me credit for saying that because im the one that i coined the phrase. You know what you did coin the phrasing you told me 16 times. Theres more people that want President Trump not to be impeached than actually like him, if you poll some people they will not tell you that theyre voting for President Trump, so those poll numbers are off, im telling you he will win by landslide if he continues this. Maria i think youre right. Dagen if you look at the number on just republican that is support impeachment its below, i checked it this morning, 8. 6 of republicans support impeachment and, of course, but this is a narrative thats been pushed by the democrats even before the trump was got the republican nomination. Maria yeah. Dagen headlines in newspapers in early 2016 about how are we going to impeach this guy simply because they dont like him. Yeah, yeah. The media has been right there as arm of the Democratic Party, good oped, obamas fbi and the press, joining me at 8 30 this morning, u. S. Trade representative Robert Lighthizer and the phase 1 deal with china, dont miss that, we will go through the details of usmca and why it has gotten the the support that it has. So join us for that interview coming up at 8 30, deadly Winter Weather on the way, tornadoes on the south pushing heavy snowstorm oh up the east, full forecast after the break, changes in instagram makes it harder to post rude comments in use of ai. Back in a minute. You dont use this old thing, do you . No or how bout this dinosaur right here . Nope then why are you still using a laser printer . Its got expensive toner cartridges. But this. Is the Epson Ecotank color printer. No more expensive cartridges big ink tanks. Lots of ink. If you dont think this printers right for you, just pick up your phone. chuckling . And give me a call. The Epson Ecotank. 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Maria welcome back, good morning to extreme weather turning deadly in the south, dozens of tornadoes tearing through louisiana leaving at least 3 people dead, bricks ripped from the side of local church, it was quite extraordinary, First Responders working through the night to remove fallen trees as well, then over in mississippi, heavy winds, damaged homes, overturned cars, National Weather service touring the area today. Northeast is bracing for snow, rain and ice for morning commute. Lets get right to details, janice dean in the Weather Center tracking it all. Janice good morning, its going to be a tough ride, commute for millions of hope across the eastern sea board, colder air filtering in from canada bringing some of the coldest air in the season as we head in next couple of days, tornado outbreak, over two dozen reports of tornadoes over parts of gulf coast and southeast, we did have a tornadowarned storm, it has been lifted, thats the good news, we have threat as we go through the next several hours, the wintery side of this, accumulating ice over parts of hudson valley, up state new york, pennsylvania, new england, theres the radar, you can see light rain in new york but we are right on the freezing rain. We have freezing rain in hartford, connecticut, snow in boston, will cause travel delays, crippling travel across the roadways, we have the ice, accumulating ice over areas and the north of that thats where we have the snow, behind it, again, very cold air being filtered in on thursday and friday for parts of northeast and the ohio valley into the midwest, so bottom line is, maria, listen to your local officials, theres going to be School Cancellations and certainly travel delays and cancellations as well across portions to have northeast and prayers of on those affected by the tornadoes. Maria conservative views shut down on the view, watch this. Girl, please stop talking, please top stalking talking right now. I wont walk in the show. Maria Whoopi Goldberg and megan mccains blow outgoes viral. Details coming up. Beyond the routine checkups. Beyond the notsoroutine cases. Comcast business is helping doctors provide care in whole new ways. All working with a new generation of technologies powered by our gigspeed network. Because beyond technology. There is human ingenuity. Every day, comcast business is helping businesses go beyond the expected. To do the extraordinary. Take your business beyond. Maria welcome back markets hitting record territory again yesterday, optimism over trade boosting all major averages with dow industrials gaining the 10,000th point since President Trump east election victory 3 years ago, the president weighed in on the markets yesterday. Weve had a very big day in the stock market today as you know, 133 days where we set a new record and thats fantastic, our jobs numbers have come in fantastically well, really well. Maria market milestones are amazing comes on the heels of u. S. China trade agreement reached last week and usmca deal as well coming to the floor for a vote tomorrow in washington. Joining us right now chief executive strategist, when you see a market like this, 1,000 point since President Trump was elected, do you want to buy into it or do you get worried about valuations . The market has been inflated on the valuation side largely because of the federal reserve, if you go back and look at the chart, it really took off when mr. Powell pivoted back in october and injected more Balance Sheet into the economy, and the same thing happened back in quarter of 2016, chair yellen pivoted and this is really the fed and some relief on the trade front, of course. Maria you have alternative, right, when you have higher rates theres somewhere else to go and when you have robo tom rock bottom rates, you have companies that will pay a dividend. In fact, earnings had been big driver and, of course, now that you have very easy Monetary Policy price to ratios going up dramatically. Inversed yield pretty recently and then we uninversed, do you see that happening again and why do you think that happened, was is it that theres impending recession or do you see other reasons . If you look at big western countries excluding the u. S. , their shortterm rate is zero and the fed took rates to 2. 4 which is ridiculous and it was too tight and the short and by inverting the curve they had taken the short rate too much, theres always demand for u. S. Paper and theyve had to uninvert it but we look at the curve on a smooth basis, 50day moving average, the 20th of june, 10 and a half month, plus for months, so the fed really took it to the limit, they backed off, the markets rallied since and right when they did that we rotated being from being defensive and so onto cyclical,. Dagen would you stay in the sectors . Yeah, i think they are good. They typically are a seasonal trade as well, october to april. Thats sort of the timeline of when we think we are in the clear in the economy so having been one year prior to october in the defensive space we are going to be at least 6 to 7 months in the cyclical. Dagen u. S. Treasuries have not done that well. Thats right. Maria how about european markets, they are hitting alltime highs as well, investors optimism after clarity of brexit issue and still the growth story is a challenge, right, in europe although markets are up, look at the ftse been up since the election. The british have saw Materials Companies around the world, when you put europe altogether its a value play because they overweight financials in nontechnology, nongrowth industries so emerging markets in europe look like they would perform well in this kind of value trade particularly if the dollar has come back and we have been focused heavily on currency. Maria are you expecting the expansion to continue, longest economic expansion on record, 10 years plus with no inflation, record low Interest Rates, what are your expectations for 2020 . You could argue that q116 was the closest we got to recession, janet yellen had overtightened first 2 and a half years in office, she overtightened, and essentially what happened is production went to minus 4 year over year, thats a huge drop. If you had deindustrialized the United States, only 11 of the economy, industrial production, theres less volatility to the economy but i would argue that q116 was as close as you would get to a recession. This could go on for a while. Maria you think it continues and you want to be owning stocks . You want to own more cyclical stocks now, later they will overtighten at some point but we dont see that in the next year. Maria barry, great to have you, be sure to tune in for my exclusive interview with Robert Lighthizer in 2 hours time, we will talk about usmca and china trade and whats next in terms of the trade policy coming out of this administration, join us for Robert Lighthizer coming up. First changes in instagram, shutting down rude comments, making harder to be mean with the use of ai, cocacola, new Subscription Service, we will be right back. Collect your sample, then ship it to the lab. Theres no excuse for waiting. Get screened. Ask your doctor if cologuard is right for you. Covered by medicare and most major insurers. Maria welcome back, good tuesday morning, everybody, thank you so much for joining us, it is tuesday december 17th, top stories right now 6 30 a. M. On the east coast, record run on wall street takes a breather this morning, lower opening for the broader averages, dow industrials down 50 points, s p is down 3 and nasdaq lower by 2 points, on tom of another record day for the markets yesterday, the dow, the nasdaq and s p 500 all closed at alltime highs, unchartered territory, the dow up over 10,000 points since President Trumps election in 2016. The dow at 28,235, Global Market this is morning are mixed, take a look at the activity in europe, the ftse 100 is up 161 points, the rally continues there on the heels to have Boris Johnson election, uk Prime Minister johnson setting a deadline of december 31st, 2020 to exit the European Union with or without a deal. Trade optimism leaders agreeing across the board in asia overnight, take a look at there, we have the change shy composite shanghai composite and representative lighthizer will join me this morning on where things stand on u. S. China trade deal and usmca when the ambassador joins me coming up in about 2 hours, records are not just being smashed on wall street, all the highlights coming up. Disney looks to cross the billion dollar mark yet again with this film. All the stories coming up this tuesday morning, top story this half an hour, pulling troops out of afghanistan, President Trump may reportedly announce a drawdown of 4,000 troops leaving up to 9,000 in the region, South Carolina senator Lindsey Graham was in kabul yesterday, he said a decision could be plead within weeks stressing its important to uphold presence in the country. It needs to be clear that our presence in afghanistan will continue and our goal is to withdraw our forces based on conditions that would warrant withdrawal, the taliban cannot be trusted to allowable counterterrorism force. It would be insane for america to rely on the taliban to ensure that alqaeda and isis doesnt come back in a way to represent a threat to our allies and the american homeland. Maria joining me right now fox news senior strategic analyst general jack keane, general, always a pleasure to see you, thank you so much for being here. Yeah, good see you, maria. Maria your reaction, what are you expecting from troops in afghanistan, i feel like we keep going back and forth in terms of the troop numbers in afghanistan on the ground. Yeah, well, this troop reduction was initiated by general Scotty Miller miller wha commander of our forces in afghanistan and began analyzing this about a year ago, so hes arrived at a number about 8,600 is the minimum force that he needs to be able to prevent the alqaeda from ever conducting an attack on our homeland again which is why we are there. The actual fighting every single day against the taliban is being done by 300,000 and we have a smaller Counter Terrorism force that punches very heavy against taliban leadership and the alqaeda. Maria so are you comfortable with that, are you comfortable with fewer troops on the ground there when all is said and done because in the past youve said we cannot we cannot alienate this region . Leaving all of our troops out, that would be a mistake and i think theres a growing consensus in the administration that we have to have a true presence there at least for the foreseeable future and, listen, if we can get a peace deal in afghanistan, certainly everybody wants that, while we are beginning negotiations with the taliban again, the real negotiations have got to be between the taliban and the Afghan Government and we are not going to get a real peace deal until that takes place and pakistan plays a big role here and they can influence the taliban quite a bit because theyve been supporting them and they tried to pull back from supporting the sanctuaries that the taliban have in pakistan, its hard to foresee a piece in afghanistan as long as the sanctuaries are there in pakistan. Maria we are expecting a vote on the budget tonight in washington, congress poised to green light roughly 20 billion in defense spending increase, 738 billiondollar boom as part of fiscal year 2020 Budget Proposal later today, what do you think about the numbers, do you feel that the military and the defense money is finally coming back from from the sequestration and its impact . Yeah, less than what the Trump Administration wanted, they wanted 750 billion, so 12 billion less but this is a step in the right direction, weve got to dig ourselves out of a deep hole that we have been in, we have been talking about it for some time, maria, this is going to help doing that, this is the Trump Defense buildup, its similar to what reagan had to do coming out of the vietnam war and as the 9 11 wars are turning down, we have to dig ourselves out of a defense hole that we have been in for a number of years particularly with resurgence of russia and the rise of china as big power competition for the United States and our allies, so big step in the right direction. Maria and yet it seems that we continue to live from continuing resolution to continuing resolution. Well, continuing resolutions are an absolute disaster, our audience understands, when you have a continuing resolution, what that means is that no new starts can take place, you can only do what you did the next year and that hamstrings the entire Defense Industry in terms of productivity, so we dont want that, we want an authorization, we want a bill signed by the president and looks like we will get that, thats a big step. We will keep watching this once its signed, sealed and delivered. The u. S. Envoy to north korea called on counterparts in pyongyang to resume nuclear negotiations, u. S. Representative said, quote, its time for us to do our jobs, lets get this job, we are here and you know how to reach us, russia and china calling on, n to on un to drop sanctions against north korea. The North Koreans wanted removal of all sanctions, they werent giving us anything, no weapons, no Nuclear Weapons in the deal, the president did the right thing, weve had some negotiations since october and weve had good faith on our part in terms of trying to put a pathway forward and do some steps and make some concessions, but no progress at all with the North Koreans, they really want major sanction relief and they are trying to leverage us to do that, they are using russia and china with the un, Security Council and also obviously kim jong un is threatening some sort of a Christmas Gift to us which means possibly returning to longrange missile testing or Nuclear Testing which i doubt, but thats the leverage hes trying to do, why is he doing that . He wants sanction relief, the sanctions are obviously taking a toll on north korea. Maria so what should the u. S. Do . Is there a response required here . Well, i think the u. S. Keeps its head down and just keeps the sanctions on and i believe weve got to put pressure on russia and china because they have never supported the un resolutions which they voted for, theres a back door taking place here where china is providing economic assistance to north korea and so is russia and we should really clamp down on that and if it means sanctions on them to do that, we should do it, we have to stay stuff on this if we will truly bring north korea to negotiating table in a serious way. Maria good point, general, good to see you as always, thanks so much. Supreme court will not hear arguments on whether cities can ban the homeless from sleeping on the streets, Cheryl Casone with headlines, cheryl. Cheryl good morning, this case was brought by boise, idaho, protected Homeless People rights to sleep in public spaces. Instagram is rolling out a new feature in hopes of combating bullying, artificial will warn you, comments considered offensive before posted, early testing has found that some people changed once they saw the warning but users will post without making any changes. The technology only being tested in certain markets right now, cyberspace in general a big problem. And this is it a new Subscription Service from cosco cocacola, fans getting to test sample, coke energy, aja, sparkling water, 10 a month, over 50 bucks you do for 6 months, the offer has sold out, im trying to figure out what coke energy is, it already has caffeine. [laughter] maria cheryl, thank you. Big week in washington; we are headed there tomorrow and thursday, mornings with maria will be live from our nations capitol as the house gears up for vote on impeachment and usmca after todays vote on spending, white house trade adviser Peter Navarro, Steve Scalise and david perdue and ted cruz joining us as well, big show in washington, Impeachment Vote tomorrow tonight and usmca vote on thursday, we will be there. Measles warning, 3 children were hospitalized, what travelers need to know coming up. Banner day for drew brees, smashing career records, we will tell you all about it after this break the Epson Ecotank. No more buying cartridges. Look at all this ink it comes with. Big ink tanks. Lots of ink. No more cartridges. Incredible amount of ink. The Epson Ecotank. Just fill and chill. Nationwide hso you can plan for your futfor retirement and save for college. Oh, that explains this. The nationwide dome. Stateoftheart venue. 80yard screen. Fantasy sports lounge. 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Seahawks wide receiver suspended indefinitely by the nfl for substance abuse, gordon has been suspended before for abuse of enhancing performance drugs. Jack brewer. I hate to see that, hes a good guy and continues every year to play good football and gets in trouble so much, you hate to see that. Drew brees, class of 2002, my nfl draft class, man to see what he has done in his career, texas boy to texas boy, congrats, man. Maria throwing kisses to everybody. [laughter] maria that was really cute. Dagen who is going to the super bowl, who winds up there . Interesting playoff but if i had to pick a team im going with baltimore ravens, they have the most dynamic player i have seen in the nfl since since probably michael vic. Michael vic. Dagen ravens beat versus who, who do they play . Man, if i had to pick a team right now [laughter] dagen we have 2 seconds. 49ers. I hope the 49ers make it. Maria we will watch that. 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The record this morning new jersey legislators okay licenses for undocumented ill greats and sent bill to murphy, murphy will sign legislation, create twos licenses, one allows people access to federal buildings and board planes and the other for identification and for driving. Headlines outside of new york this morning, coming up conservative views shut down on the view, check this out. Girl, please stop talking, please stop talking right now because you know thank you, thank you. I wont talk during this show. Maria wow, Whoopi Goldberg and megan mccains spat goes viral. Ruffling feathers, wait till you hear this, stay with us, back in a minute [ indistinct chatter ] [ electrical buzzing ] [ dramatic music playing ] [ squeaking ] [ screaming ] elliott . [ gasps ] elliott. You came back my son. My, my family. Lots changed since you were here. Its called the internet. Whoa whoa holiday movies. Im dreaming of a White Christmas family. Home. Woo [ gasps ] woohoo woo ill be right here. Maria megan mccain shut down during Fiery Exchange over impeachment yesterday, watch this. My job is to analyze the politics of it and im telling you [inaudible conversations] girl, please stop talking, please stop talking right now because you know what no problem. Thank you. I wont talk during the rest of the show. Im okay with that. Maria wow. Mccain fired back on twitter, she wrote this, dems and republicans alike need to confront the ugly truth, both parties are failing to be impartial jurors, i wont be quiet even ftse the reality reflects poorly on the political establishment, i have a responsibility to speak for the 50 media does not represent them. She points out things that are true as part of my job even if it angers people and politically inconvenient. This went viral, jack. Whoopi went out of line, stop acting like the angry black woman, thats ridiculous, this culture is seeping into our government now, the same perspective that youre seeing on capitol hill and thats why they are trying to impeach the president because they dont like him, it has nothing to do with anything else in this cancer culture is seeping through our associate and liberals have to stop. Maria hard to go to work every day, do you think the women hate each other, how do you work in an environment where youre constantly slapped down by your colleagues . Also you have to sit in front of an audience every day, people who cheer anything thats left wing, cheer anything thats liberal and that are never in your corner, thats incredible by difficult thing to do. Maria i like megan mccain. Dagen passionate and fierce and loyal and she is top drawer and shes the reason that the ratings are good on that show, the ratings were back up to where they were when Barbara Walters left, so, again, always remember why people are watching. Its because of megan. Maria yeah, whoopi needs to know that. Dagen i think they all do. When they go up for contract renegotiations. Maria speaking of ruffling weather, the chicken wars got personal. Looking for chicken sandwich professionals to work sundays only, the ads appear to be knock at rival chickfila which is closed on sundays; daniel. Dagen. [laughter] shame on popeyes, chickfila is closed because they observe sunday, because thats when people dont work and they go to church and they worship, so i wont be at popeyes. How do you take the stand in america, this is a country we have religious freedom, we can believe in god, theres a lot of people that respect sabbath day. Maria they are allowed to open dont make it into a war against chickfila just because they dagen popeyes is throwing shade because they are closed on sunday. Lets remind people on popeys and maybe they should get to close too . Amen, amen. Maria doesnt bother me that they are doing interviews for people on a sunday. It doesnt bother me but i get your point. Dont bother me either, i think its the wrong point to make. Maria starstudded night for star wars, final chapter in star wars saga, watch this. This looks good, hundreds of people camped out in full force for a glimpse of the film stars and the automaker unveiling a star wars spaceship at the premiered, teamed up with lucas film, rise of skywalker hits theaters this weekend. Excited to see the film . Oh, my gosh, we are huge star wars fans in my family, we get our tickets way in advance, we get dressed, we are watching every single movie in order, tonight is jedi which is not my favorite but we feel like we need to feel the whole story Going Forward and going maria take a long time to watch them all. [laughter] dagen im trying to get my brother wait to see this until im home for christmas, i dont think that will happen. Maria match my interview with u. S. Trade representative coming up in about 90 minutes from now, we will be talking usmca and china trade with the ambassador and find out what else is in the dock in terms of trade deals, coming up. Spacex launch takes off with one minor hiccup, we are taking a look right here. But by going out in the field, and meeting management, suppliers, competitors. In the end, its these unique companies with Creative Business models that will generate value for our investors. Thats why i go beyond the numbers. 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Maria welcome back. Good tuesday morning, everybody. Thanks so much for joining us. Im maria bartiromo. It is tuesday, december 17th. Your top stories right now. The 737 max cries sis is escalate crisis is escalating. Boeing is suspending production of its 737 aircraft. What it means for boeing and the broader economy this morning. The record run takes a breather for stocks, were looking at a lower opening. Dow futures down 40 points, s p down 1, nasdaq futures lower by 1 point as well. It was another record day for the broader markets yesterday, the dow, nasdaq and s p 500 closed at fresh alltime highs. The dow up over 10,000 points since President Trumps election. Global markets this morning look like this, european indices are mixed. New uncertainty over britains exit from the European Union, although the fq100 is up 15 150 points. Trade optimism leading to green across the board in asia overnight. One and a quarter percent rallies in china, hong kong and korea. Investors across the world are focused on trade. Robert lighthizer is my special guest this morning at 8 30 a. M. Eastern. Find out just where things stand on phase one of the china trade deal, usmca, and the future of european trade, whats next on the president s docket. Robert bite. Hillary Robert Lighthizer my. Joining me to break it down, danny hughes, Dagen Mcdowell and former investment banker, jack brewer many. Great to see you this morning. Big week in washington, weve got a spending vote tonight, Impeachment Vote tomorrow and usmca vote on thursday. Dagen, congressman John Ratcliffe is tweeting something you said earlier last week and yesterday, acting as both judge and prosecutor, democrats tell america they dont need more evidence or testimony before impeaching the president , so its fair to impeach him on that evidence and testimony but its not enough evidence and testimony for a senate trial . Great strategy writes John Ratcliffe. Chuck schumer wants to call four witnesses. Hes trying to act like hes got the moral high ground here. What senator schumer is saying they havent done their jobs and this has been a rush to judgment, that they should have tried to call hes these witnesses in the house, pushed forward in congress, rather than using that against the president , trying to defend his executive branch power, they turned it into obstruction of congress. So i dont think that i have a prediction. I dont think that there are any witnesses that get called. Senator ted cruz said several weeks ago, it could go to a vote in the Senate Whether these witnesses get called on the right or the left, say hunter biden or Mick Mulvaney or john bolton yo. Senator ted cruz said several weeks ago that there are not enough votes on either side to call the most controversial witnesses from the republicans or the democrats. As Lindsey Graham has been predicting, maybe theres no witnesses and its very quick. Maria which is what senator graham wants to do, get it over with as soon as possible. He knows it will probably be unanimous on the republican side in the t senate to acquit and no impeachment. Thats our top story this hour, the impeachment battle. This is a week after approving two articles of impeachment. This as Alyssa Slotkin announced her support for impeachment. Watch what happened to her. How can you overturn the will of 63 million voters in 2016 and let voters make a decision for themselves. I was not a supporter of impeachment in many, many months because i thought the election in 2020 should take care of it. Then the facts came out that the be president was seeking to influence the election that i was counting on to have a democratic process in. Maria she won a seat in a district that President Trump won in 2016. Weve been talking about the 31 democrats up for reelection in 2020 in the same districts that President Trump won and a vote for impeachment could have a major sway on those peoples reelections. Joining me right now is florida congressman, matt gates. Its always a pleasure to see you. Thanks for being here. Thanks for having me and to elise slotkin, i would say rent, dont buy in washington, d. C. , afteafter talking down to voter. Maria she said i was against impeachment for a long time and i changed my mind. What specifically happened to change her mind . There wasnt new evidence that came out. Maybe she got the call from nancy pelosi to say, hey, shut down. When you see members of congress suddenly change their mind, when the leadership is whipping votes, you can tell the that pressure is being exerted. The evidenc best evidence is tha mission from nancy pelosi that shes been planning this for two years. And you see jerry nadler, he ran on the fact that he would be the best person to execute on an impeachment strategy. I predicted in january that impeachment would be a an an inevery would inevidencetable. Maria youve got to give Jeff Van Drew a lot of credit, democrat from new jersey, couldnt the take it anymore, decided to switch parties and change his Party Affiliation from democrat to republican. He told me weeks ago he was a no on impeachment. Im sure he got slammed for it. He did. The sad part about this is democrats failed to meet the standard they set for themselves. Youll recall back when they voted for the impeachment inquiry and they lost two fellow democrats, they said it would be the hearings, the witnesses that would animate the new found bipartisan a support to impeach the president. That didnt happen because the evidence wasnt there. Impeachment is losing steam in the polls and the Democratic Caucus is losing members as they swim away from the sinking ship that is the nancy pelosi strategy. Maria its really sad to see these democrats and leaders in the Democratic Party refusing to focus on the real wrongdoing and that is what took place in 2016 with they that kabal of people at the top of the fbi and cia. James comey said he was wrong about the bureaus use of fisa applications in the russia application this weekend. His comments came after the damning ig report. Let me get your take on that. Theres an op ed in the journal this morning from james freeman, a regular here on this program, says obamas fbi and the press and how sad it is that the establishment media refuses to actually admit the facts. Michael horowitz will be back on capitol hill tomorrow. Tell me your reaction to the ig report and what happens now . Well, two things happen that are pretty troubling. Where there was evidence that proved that President Trumps Campaign Members were innocent, the fbi hid it. And where the evidence was insufficient they either took it from lying foreigners oral a tedder it and created it all together. Either they just did this because President Trumps campaign was the target which would prove bias, or they do this as a matter of course in more cases than just this one and if thats true, god help us. I think we need a more thorough review to see how frequently people at the fbi were willing to hide evidence and Doctor Evidence to meet their investigative goals. Maria the fbi continues to tell us that the Counter Intelligence investigation started in july of 2016 when we know thats just not true. We know there were informants running at people like sam klovis, carter page, george papadopoulos, as early as march and may of 2016, even in the ig report kim extras sel,it said cs hired in may of 16 to look for collusion between trump and russia. Absolutely right. I think thats one reason, when i asked that very direct question to Rod Rosenstein about the start of the investigation, he simply wouldnt answer it under oath because he didnt want to perjury himself and he didnt want to share thed a mission that this was an effort to destabilize donald trump well before july and i think it was the insurance policy. We know what this is. They wanted an insurance policy and once he was elected they were willing to put their thumb on the scale and cheat to try to make it look like he did something that he never did. Here we are with the country next door and a vote tomorrow in ukraine when the president had no conditionality and when he delivered aid that president obama did not. It is crazy that were going to to vote on impeachment with these facts. Maria its quite extraordinary. I wonder when this stops. This just has not stopped since the president they said it wont. Maria John Ratcliffe from texas said to me on sunday, on sunday morning futures, crimes have been committed, crimes against carter page and against the sitting president. Can you believe that the first fisa application and warrant was in october of a 16 and it went all the way until the following october of a 17, well into the president s term. So they were actually investigating the president while he was in office in 2017. And they were investigating him when they knew that the entire predicate was bogus, when they knew it was full of lies delivered by a liar and so i think that will ultimately be the legacy these democrats face. Maria yeah, proud of this program, weve been on it since the beginning and told viewers really what was the truth and we seek the truth. Rudy giuliani is speaking out again, congressman. What do you think about this. The president s personal Attorney Says he played a he key role in forcing the former ukraine ambassador, marie yow voout ofher post. Of waif this. I forced her out because shes corrupt. I came out with a document that will show she committed perjury when she said she turned down the visa for mr. Shokin because of corruption. The fact is on the r record if the state departments own records, the reason given is because he had an operation and hadnt recovered yet. The operation was two years before. Its documentary evidence she committed per hav perjury. Maria he has the facts but is this helping or hurting the president . I dont think it matters at all. I dont particularly care. I dont think most of the American People do either. I think what the American People care about is that the president never had any conditionality on aid. Whether or not there are elements of our government that were at war with other elements of our government, that natural tension can occur in the diplomatic core. I dont find it relevant to the anal sis. There was no conditionality. The aid was delivered. This is the democrats desire to have counter programming in their lack of candor in dealing with the president s activities in relationship to crush sha. Maria it may be theyre continuing to try to muddy up the waters so people dont focus on the wrongdoing in the ig report. Whats going to happen with john durhams criminal investigation . Do you think people will be prosecute touchdown in. I do. The reason is the durham investigation didnt start a criminal investigation. There was a ca an event that tud it into a criminal investigation. That seems to prove to me there was desire to engage in criminal behavior. I think you saw durham and barr react negatively to the Inspector General saying ive seen the evidence, i know there was wrongdoing, rules were violated, but it may not be a crime. I think the more complete picture comes from durham and barr. Maria lay out whats going to happen happen the next couple weeks. The Impeachment Vote is tomorrow. Lets assume hypothetically the house impeaches President Trump, that she has enough votes to do it. Then it moves to the senate. How does it play out . I a agree with Lindsey Graham, we need to dismiss this and get on with our lives as soon as possible. Subsequent to that dismissal, its entirely appropriate for the Judiciary Committee to call witnesses, bring them in and better understand whether or not there was corruption that was impacting our government and if you had the Vice President of the United States having his son moonlighting for cash for a foreign corporation, we should probably know more about that so we can legislate around it so it never happens again. All these democrats running for president , i havent heard one of them defend this process where the family members of your administration go work for Foreign Companies and sell access to our governments Decision Making process. Maria s because it wasnt just ukraine. Hunter biden took a trip with then Vice President joe biden on air force 2 when he visited china on official business. And then you saw the chinese talking about how they were giving all these expensive gifts to hunter biden, diamonds, scotch, other things. I dont think that was a consequence of his excellent advice or counsel. I think they were trying to buy favor with the u. S. Politicians and they believed that buying off family members would be an effective way to do that. Lets all agree, that makes our country look bad and we should stop. Maria i didnt know about the scotch and diamonds. Read the new yorker profile. Maria thats incredible. Read the new yorker profile on hunter biden. Its quite a read. Maria good to see you this morning, thanks very much. Tune in for interview with Robert Lighthizer, that happens in about an hour at 8 30 a. M. Eastern. Ill ask him about usmca, china trade, and what next trade bill is on the horizon for the administration. Well talk about it. 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The company stepping up to help the environment, becoming the first big u. S. Bank to announce its going to not loan money to drill in the arctic. Goldman also ruling out loans for thermal coal mines and power plants worldwide. Bank has promised to invest 750 billion over the next 10 years on Climate Change projects. And out of this world, early this morning elon musks spacex launched the 13t 13th successful rocket for the year, carrying a communications sat intlightinto orbit for boeing. There was one hiccup, the attempt to catch the nose cone was not a success. The Company Called it a narrow miss. The good newses is, boeings satellite is now up in orbit. Well leave it there. Some good news for boeing. Im trying. Dagen im glad Goldman Sachs is now getting religion, if you will, over what theyre going to basically finance when they were involved in the 1mdb scandal which stole billions of dollars from the malaysian people. 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The new measure would require Dollar Stores and convenience shops to dedicate at least 500 square feet to fresh meat and produce. The last Grocery Store closed for good in Oklahoma Citys poorest neighborhood. Joining us now is counselor that vanessa hall harper. Characterize the situation. Most people dont realize how hard it is for certain areas of the country to get Fresh Produce. Absolutely. Absolutely. And theyre called food deserts. And so that is a growing problem and a growing trend throughout the country, particularly in black, brown and poor communities. Maria and why is that . I know tulsa recently passed a similar zoning law about blocking Discount Stores in close proximity to others. You championed this law for over a year. How have you seen improvements in your district and why is it that people are so far from any store to have Fresh Produce and meat . Well, actually we will be breaking ground on a new Grocery Store. These were efforts that i was working on simultaneously to work on getting a food operator to come in as well as limiting the proliferation of these discount Dollar Stores and i just want to go on record, saying im not against Dollar Stores. Im only against their proliferation because when they are able or a allowed to proliferation, they cause food deserts. So never said we dont want any but they should not be allowed to proliferate. I have over 10, 11 in my district alone. I dont think thats by accident. Again, i believe they target black, brown and poor communities and the result of that is food deserts. Vanessa, this is jack brewer. Hats off to your work. Thank you. You make some great points. I think being a black man, growing up in the south, i also had the same issues. My family didnt eat fresh food, fresh pro you dues growing up. How produce growing up. How do we educate people . I applaud your efforts. I think the education piece is so so important. A lot of families, even if you give them freshed food, wouldnt ieat it. Wouldnt eat it. How do we break the code . Absolutely. And so thats where education is a huge piece. But we cant even begin to educate until we get people access. You cant talk about something, well, this is what you need to eat, if you never see it in your neighborhood. We have to address the access issue and then secondly, the educational issue. You work with your local school districts, you work with your local Health Departments and so forth to raise that awareness of what Healthy Foods are. We have several initiatives in our community where schools are taking some of their property and theyre farming. So theyre teaching children how to farm, how to harvest food, and then theyre so excited, that hey, i planted this, i watched this grow and so ive harvested and i can take it home and theyre more apt to eat it because theres ownership there, they participated in the process of bringing the food to their tables. So again, education, yes, youre absolutely right, its huge and you do that through Community Partnerships but you have to address the policy side of it to stop the proliferation of these stores. Im not against the Dollar Stores but when theres a problem, when the proliferation causes a problem, in this case food deserts, not only do we as elected officials have the authority to do it, we have a responsibility. And thats how i saw this effort. I was trying to make a change for my community, to improve quality of life. Dagen vanessa, its Dagen Mcdowell. Were showing a graphic about there are some Dollar Stores in nationwide locations that are making changes. In your communications with the Dollar Stores in your area, what have they told you about the possibility, again, of working with the community to make sure that there is fresh fruit and vegetables there . I have not had personal communications with them. When i first brought this to them, before we started protesting, before i went down the pathway of limiting through policy, i reached out to particularly Dollar General and i just was not met with a very welcoming possibility of communication. So we protested. We literally got out in front of the store, one store in particular that we were trying to stop that building, and we protested. And so as a result of those protests, they did bring some Healthy Options into that store. But not the other six stores that are in my community. I took that as that sign as we just want you all off of our sidewalks, we want you to get away from our store, physician y protesting. I think because more and more cities throughout the country and ive even had people contact me outside of the country, now that we are doing that, now i think theyre saying we need to probably do something about this. Initially when i first made those attempts to address this issue, bureaucratically and diplomatically, the door was shut in my face. Maria vanessa, youre making a difference. Thank you very much for joining us to tell us about it. Thank you. Maria coming up, boeing under pressure this morning, the jet maker suspending production of the 737 max as one airline extends grounding the plane. One analyst will weigh in on that situation coming up. Then amazons shipping change, the company hit Third Party Sellers at the height of the Holiday Shipping season. Well tell you what it means for you when we come back. Stay with us. Whos waking up to drive you home when youre drunk and all alone. Whos going to walk you through the dark side of the morning. My blood sugar and a1c. Because i can still make my own insulin. And trulicity activates my body to release it like its supposed to. Trulicity is for people with type 2 diabetes. Its not insulin. I take it once a week. 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Boeing accounted for almost all of the losses on the dow after suspending production of the 737 max. That is the issue for markets this morning. The dow, nasdaq, s p 500 all closed at fresh alltime highs. The dow up over 10,000 points since President Trumps election. Yesterday up another 100. Nasdaq up 8 80. Global markets are mixed. The l l rally continues in london, post the election last week. Fq100 up 158 points. Cac is down 17, in germany the dax is down 90. Pretty good moves in asia, up 1 and a quarter percent on most of the averages, although japan was up just a fraction, half a percent higher. Investors are focused on trade. Robert lighthizer will join me in the next hour. Find out just where things stand on phase one of a china trade deal and usmca. Robert lighthizer my special guest coming up if one hours time. Amazon telling Third Party Merchants they cant use fed ex for prime shipments at the height of the Holiday Season. Jackie deangeles with that story. Good morning. Good to see you. This is all about, what, weve got seven shipping days before christmas. Amazon is saying to Third Party Merchants that use prime, if you use fed ex ground, we are worried that the packages are not going to get there for christmas and were ensuring customers they will. We dont want you to use this as a shipment method and fed ex is saying, look, its a small number of shippers but theyre saying its going to limit the options for those Small Businesses on some of the highest demand shipping days. Amazon said it will offer other buy options. Theres shipping options available, the merchandise wont come via fed ex ground. A small number of shippers, Third Party Merchants, theyre slightly more than half of amazons overall merchandise, so it sounds like a larger group than it may seem. The other thing ill say, remember, its all coming as fed ex said its going to cut ground shipping off with amazon, the contract, because amazon wants to be a shipper. Its got the kentuckys facility, its going to open in 2021, 1. 5 billion and jeff bezos is looking at the big picture, saying i want to give the merchants i want to sell the merchandise and deliver it to you as well. I dont necessarily think i need fed ex. Its interesting. As i said, seven days, people are counting and if youre a last minute shopper this could have an impact. Maria you wonder if telling them now with just seven days that was the reason they did it. Right, exactly. Its a huge boost for the Logistics Companies a that are backing a amazon. Jackie, do you know how the shipping now breaks down and what amazon does with he respect to how they ship out, what percentage is ups, what percentage are Third Party Providers . I dont have those percentages. I dont want to give you talk about information that i dont necessarily have. I have talked off the record with a lot of folks, lot of consumers, lot of people i know shopping for the holidays who said using ground including dagen in the green room, that ground is not a reliable method even when its not holiday crunch time but other shippers are having problems too. Usps, with the post office right now, a lot of delays. Ups tends to be the more reliable one. So something to think about. Dagen i once almost had a throwdown with fed ex ground and the local office where i was maria what happened . Dagen it was something that that i needed to get delivered and they would show up at the house and not leave it and then it was just days and days and days. Its a stressful time. Dagen it wasnt even around the holidays. The issue is people using ground are shipping things and it wont get there and ultimately that hurts amazon if customers are not fulfilled. People dont think about it as the shipper, they think about amazon so amazon is looking out for number one. Maria seven days left. Jackie, thank you. Big story of the morning this morning, the 737 max jet, the crisis continues because boeing is announcing that it is suspending production of the 737 max aircraft after two deadly crashes. This as Southwest Airlines this morning announced it is proactively removing the 737 max flights from the schedule through april 13th, 2020. Boeing released a statement on suspending production saying this, we believe this decision is the least disruptive to maintaining longterm sis l testimony and supply chain tell system and supply chain health. We will make determinations about resuming production and deliveries. The company doesnt see any layoffs happening as a result of this. Boeing set to cut 32 points from the dow this morning. Joining me right now on the telephone is Global Aerospace and defense analyst, carter copeland. Your reaction to boeings move . What is the im a pact . Look, at a certain point the delays get long enough and costs mount up high enough that boeings forced to evaluate several options. I think this is just one of those options. But i think its the one that had they hope will be the least disruptive to the workforce. If you go down in production rate yet again, youve got to go back up at some point. You lose that labor force in a tight labor market, you may not get it back. Productivity in an airplane factories is everything. The hope is they temporarily halt here, they left it openended. By not laying off or furloughing workers, you can see the intent is not for this to be too long. But i think there are a lot of elements in this process that have not been too predictable for them. Theyve got to take action. Maria what are the risks within this next 60day period . Do you worry that market share will be lost given the fact that china wants to Start Building its own leading jets the way boeing does . Youve got airbus waiting to get a piece of that action. What is the risk for the company and the economy . The risks are more endogenous to boeing than anything else. Youve got a situation in the Global Markets for airplanes where youre capacity consistent trained. You can only go to airbus and airbus is struggling to meet their own production goals. So boeing has the aircrafts sold. They have customers that i think are very supportive. They dont get to say a lot but these are customers that have been with boeing for a long time. I dont think theyre going to go away. I think at the margin, there are carriers that will look in years ahead to switch but i think boeings core Customer Base is going to remain loyal despite this. I think, you know, when you look at whats an uncertainty here, it really comes down to the open items relating to regulatory approval. Theres some uncertainty around training. And theres really just the process where there should be relatively black and white technical evaluations of what it takes to get the plane back into service and those have been slowed down by the kind of bureaucracy that accompanied the process and the longer that goes on, the more delay you put in the process. Those are the principle uncertainties. This is danny hughes from divine. Im wondering what you think about how this impacts u. S. Manufacturing which has not been a shining star in our economy. What do you think the impact is overall, say, for the next couple of years with whats happening with boeing . Well, look, theres no doubt that these are highly skilled manufacturing jobs. But the longer this process goes on, the boeing 737 max program will employ tens of thousands of people around the country. So the longer this delay goes on, to the extent there was planned to be growth in that labor force, you will instead stretch it out and flatten it out. Boeing will have a measurable impact on macro data. You can see it in for example u. S. Inventory data today. A lot of that buildup is caused by the max crisis. So boeing is big enough to move the needle and in part i think this decision to halt production is built on putting pressure on the bureaucracy saying, look, if we slow this down or halt production, it will have an impact on the u. S. Economy. I think thats meant to get attention as well. Maria carter, thank you. Would you buy this stock right here . I would. I think at the end of the day, boeing knows how to build airplanes and when you look out a couple years from now, the process will return to nor l mall signormalcy. This will be a buying opportunity. Maria its down one and a third percent. Youre a buyer. Carter, good to talk with you. Coming up, netflix analytics, how the company is monitoring growth abroad. And maverick is back, we check out the latest trailer for the top gun sequel, all right here, after this. 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Its been a really good year for roku, the stock is up more than 350 . Thats a good year. And then netflix is looking to sway wall street, divulging new he metrics that show the platform is growing overseas. The disclosure shows subscriber and ref knew exploded revenue exploded in the europe ear ya, the middle east section of the world and africa with subscriptions more than doubling. Latin america and asia also seeing growth. Netflix has 158 million Members Around the world. Every time we reveal the Earnings Call with netflix, you want to see that international growth. Theyre finally delivering it. Its just now. Maria theyre going to need that, cheryl, right, with the competition out there. Theyre going to need more customers, given the fact theyve got all this content theyre paying up for, 15 billion is what reed hayes hastings said. Youve got africa, you say a big boost in the african subscriptions. Thats because in that continent in particular, the middle class is erupting in a lot of places. Maria thats a great point. Thats a great point. Well take a break. When we come back, women running the world. President obamas comments on who should be in charge. Wait until you hear what he said. Stay with us. Would run the world . Girls. Who run the world. Girls. Who run the world pagas lo que necesitas. Only pay for what you need. Only pay for what you need. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. You are oneofakind. You are my diamond. For the diamond in your life, get 30 off everything including these one of a kind deals. Its the you are my diamond event. Exclusively at zales, the Diamond Store. Its the you are my diamond event. 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I dont need to hang my stocking above the fireplace. Maria seven days away from christmas, that song making history, 25 years after its release, the 1994 hit, all i want for christmas is you, sits on top of the charts for the first time. Its the 19th time she has hit number one. The chipmunks sat at number one for four weeks. This is a pop r later song in your popular song in your home. Totally popular. My daughter loves this song, she sings you it all the time. This is a great song. I love this song. It really gets you in the mood and gets you festive. Maria i love Christmas Music in den. Dagen general. Dagen it makes o the carlton many you know what im talking about. [ laughter ] dagen i dont mean that as a compliment. It makes everyone happy. Maria you have to give it to maria, to be number one after all these years. Former president obama says women make better leaders. He went on to say he is confident that if every nation were run by a woman for two years there, would be a significant improvement across the board. What do you say about that, jack . Im on a panel with all women. This is not why im saying this. I actually agree with president obama here. I know a woman runs my house. I know my mom ran my house. Houses that are run by women, theyre ran well. America could use a woman running our house too. Maria i run my house and i think my husband likes it that way. Dagen growing up in the south, women ran everything. Everything. Dagen mama was in charge. Hes a husband and he is a father of two girls. So i wonder what he did wrong that hes saying this. You know, hes like going to the super bowl and michelles going to have to, the first lady, the former first lady is going to have to do something. This smells like a man who is a little bit in trouble and hes trying to make nice at home. Maria is he giving a nod to his wife to enter the president ial race. I dont think so. I dont think she has it in here. I dont think its her nature. Dagen did you watch the video of her from the inauguration, she was shooting side eye at everyone, republican or democrat. She was like i cant wait to get away from these people. Her bags were packed. Maria look at the leadership across the world, Christine Lagarde running the ecb, a woman running the eu, youve got a woman running the International Story has a lot of women running things, Angela Merkel in germany, theresa may, former Prime Minister of the u. K. In the United States, women are running the economy. The consumer has been supporting and really running this engine in america and 85 of the decisions are made by women. Maria i always say the woman is the ceo of the household. How about this, tom cruise feels the need for speed again. Your kind is headed for extinction. Maybe so, sir. But not today. Maria not today. Yes, cruise is back at maverick along with val kilmer. The you new trailer dropped yesterday. It already has been viewed more than 5. 5 million times on youtube. The film is set to hit theaters in june. Are you excited about this one . Dagen im assuming theres going to be a shirtless, sweaty volleyball scene on the beach . Because thats the only reason that most people watch it. Its not for the jets. Its for the chest. That may be why the women are watching it. Im not watching it for that. Maria what are you watching it for . I want to see the jets, man. Dagen ive been up with the thunderbirds and its really rough. Like it was really rough. I took a big nap on it makes you really, really sick. Maria a nap . Dagen it makes you sick for a long time because of the inner ear problems. Want nothing to do with it. Dagen i needed a nap on the tarmac in front of all those beautiful men and women who fly for the thunderbirds. I laid down on the tarmac after that after the flight. Maria thats how exhausted you were. Dagen i was sick. Maria coming up, my interview with u. S. Trade representative Robert Lighthizer, in 3 of minutes. Well talk about usmca, china trade and whats next in terms of trade with this administration. Thats next hour, right here on you mornings with maria. Back if a minute. Music is my airplane. Its my airplane. loud fan noise children playing Music Building experience the power of sanctuary at the lincoln wish list sales event. Sign and drive off in a new lincoln with zero down, zero due at signing, and a complimentary first months payment. You dont use this old tno g, do you . Or how bout this dinosaur right here . Nope then why are you still using a laser printer . Its got expensive toner cartridges. But this. Is the Epson Ecotank color printer. No more expensive cartridges big ink tanks. Lots of ink. If you dont think this printers right for you, just pick up your phone. chuckling . And give me a call. The Epson Ecotank. 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Fractional moves here, boeing is really the reason we are seeing losses this morning after the dow component suspended production of 737 max, the stock is down one and a half percent and it is going to take momentum out of the dow this morning, we are still in record territory, the dow, the nasdaq, and s p 500 all closed out at fresh highs yesterday. Markets were higher across the board, dow up 100 points, s p up 22 and nasdaq up 79 yesterday, Global Market this is morning are mixed, in europe new uncertainty over british exit weighing on investors. Deal or no deal, he says, ftse 100 up 156 points right now, better than 2 . Trade optimism leading to green across the board in asia meanwhile, major indices up across the board. Investors to focus on trade, lighthizer will join me later this hour, find out where things stand on phase 1 of usmca and the future of deal, coming up. Danielle hughes and Dagen Mcdowell, jack brewer, great show so far, you guys. Really fun, maria. Maria quite the extraordinary moment in time, isnt it . It is. So much drama. Maria spending vote tonight and Impeachment Vote tomorrow and Impeachment Vote on thursday. The economy with the lowest Unemployment Rate in my time with wages for your rankingfile workers growing faster than overall average, rising tide thats liftings all lifting all boats. Maria avoiding federal Government Shutdown as Congress Votes today on two spending packages allocating 1. 4 trillion to fund the federal government through september 2020; bipartisan deal includes 1. 8 billion for border security, millions for Election Security and gun violence research, a 3. 1 federal employee pay raise and repealing several health taxes, congress to raise minimum age for tobacco to 21. Michael burgess, thank you very much for joining us. Thanks for having me on, maria, appreciate it. Well, the important points on the spending vote are number 1 it does spend more money than than what was intended, however, the president did issue a decision on the last omnibus bill and we have done it a favor and done in two parts, the defense part and basically the domestic part of the omnibus bill, huge bill and requires a lot of scrutiny but at the same time we dont have we dont have a great deal of runway left in order to get this one lifted off so thats whats going to be the challenge tonight. Maria are you expecting the votes there, do you expect this to head to the president s desk this week . I do. I dont think theres a person here on the hill remembering what was going on last year with an appropriations lapse and socalled Government Shutdown, thats not a good place for any of us to be and so the pressure is onto get this done. How are you doing, jack brewer, fellow texan. Lets look out to 2020 and say we get a trade deal with usmca, get a trade deal done with china, would that then give the president enough runway to able to start cutting deficit, we just got to stop spending so much money and at some point we have to put our foot down, when will that happen . You know, thats a great question. The good news from my perspective is just what your leadin this hour, the economy has done well, has done well this last year, many people were predicting at the start of the year and now youre talk about the 109th high, thats extra mendous news and information wages at the lower end of income scale increasing more rapidly than all other levels, thats all good news, 2 years ago we tried to cut 800 billion from the entitlement program, revamping of the healthcare law with slowing down, slowing down the growth of medicaid expansion, slowing it down, it was 800 billion of bitelement reform that passed in the house and unfortunately the senate walked away from it. Thats thats really where if we are going to achieve any sort of sanity in federal spending has to be in spending, those dollars that we didnt even touch, they are on auto pilot, we have to figure out a way to bring those back into our world and realistically we will have to vote yes or no, itll be tough and tough decisions that have to be made but we will have to do that. Dagen congressman, its Dagen Mcdowell, are your constituents asking you about the debt but the 1 trilliondollar annual deficit that we are running right now thats turned into a democratic talking point, but, again, are your constituents concerned about it . Well, they are and i do hear about that obviously right now, the thing thats on top of everyones mind, why are we impreaching a president with this economy, however the debt, deficit register with everyday people, they are concerned about it, but the difficulty if we are not willing to take on the mandatory part of the budget, that part of the budget thats on auto pilot, we can only cut Discretionary Spending so much, thats the spending thats under our control, we will have to get, we will have to get larger part twothirds of the federal Budget Congress never even touches and thats wrong. Congressman, this is danny hughes from divine asset, good morning. Good morning. Im wondering how you feel about whats going to happen as you talk through the funding on the border, do you think thats going to get the biggest pushback by the democrats . What do you think will be the biggest bonus contention with respect to this . They signaled capitulation to the president , no, he doesnt get every dollar that he asked for 2 years ago but the funding is remains consistent and to the extent that it can be spent by the department of homeland with with increasing border security, yeah, thats thats the one part of this that im actually okay with, i think thats proceeding at the proper level. If it was vastly increased i dont know that the agency could spend dollars any faster, the president has talked about providing increased security in the southern border, many trips ive made to Rio Grande Valley sector in texas, those dollars were desperately needed but i think they are being delivered now, so there wont be the fight this year that there was last year over the border funding, sure, democrats making noise they will try to continue to restrict things but on this one the president won. Maria well, theyve been withholding the money for so long, pushing back against the border and then theres usmca finally coming to the floor; congress poised to pass that vote on it on thursday after overcoming potential snag with mexico yesterday, the u. S. And mexico resolving the thatsminute dispute over labor inspections, congress what can you tell us and can you expect this to pass and head to the president s desk before year end . To answer the last part of your question first, probably cant be before years end, the impeachment proceedings will take oxygen for a while. The senate will take it on early next year after they finish the trial if the Congress Votes on articles of impeachment which we shouldnt and i will stipulate that but right now doesnt seem to be a way to slow the particular train down, usmca, we had plenty of time to work on that during the year, it was almost as if the democrats did not want to give the president a win this year, it looks like hes going get that win and thats a goodwin for the American People, probably 1 added to gdp because of the trade deal, probably between 175,000 and 500,000 new jobs to be created as a result of that deal. Those are pretty good numbers and they will accrued to the president s benefit, i guess, thats why theyve been slow to bring that to the floor, im still looking at parts dealing with intellectual property and how thats handled, some aspects of how, you know, the newer medicines developed this country, the innovation, the biologic compounds developed in this country, i want to make sure that those businesses, those industries are treated fairly but realistically usmca just has to get done. We will talk about that this morning with Bob Lighthizer. How many dems do you think will vote no on impeachment, do you think the colleagues on the left are all united or do you think will get some nos . I think you will get some nos, i think the leadin into this, in the impeachment inquiry there were democratic nos, all republicans were united against it. I think those are going to be a similar numbers that youll see on this, ive been surprised honestly at some of the democrats who have come now and said they will vote for impeachment, clearly very unpopular in their districts and its going to be a difficult platform on which to run a year from now, so god bless them if thats the way they think this country wants to go, thats not the impression that i get, i think people want to see us Pay Attention to the economy, people want to see us Pay Attention to mexico and now china on the trade deals, they dont want to see us spending all of our time doing this, quite honestly we have got so much information to swift through and unconscionable the number of pages of stuff that weve got to look at because we have done nothing else all year. Maria especially since we know how this is ending in the senate. I think youre right. Maria congressman, good to see you, michael burgess, stay tune i will be speaking with Robert Lighthizer since trade deal with china. Bob lighthizer today in 20 minutes time. Mimics the threat of driving hung over, yeah, we are taking you into ford headquarters for a special test drive on that one, not just drinking thats distracting drivers, see the dangers of shopping behind the wheel, who would do this . Back in a minute. Maria welcome back, massive protests raging in france, we are take august live look at paris, this is happening right now where thousands are taking to the streets angry over president macrons plan, 13th day of strikes and protests which have paralyzed the country, the job action affecting air traffic controllers, rail workers and teachers as you can see from the live pictures this morning coming out of france. And billionaire investor peter thiel at the center of internal divisions at facebook over politics, thiel does not think that facebook could cave on calls to change political ad policy which is not factchecking ads, executives and Board Directors disagree, twitter we know is stopping taking all political ads, steer clear fresh concerns about distracted driving, a new survey finds that 2 out of every 5 americans admit to shopping on their phones behind the wheel, 39 of drivers, its not just shopping other drivers should be concerned, ford show casing a new suit that simulating being hung over, its a warning to driving with a hang over could be just a dangerous as driving drunk. Grady with more on this. Im use today wearing a suit to work, not this time, this is fords hangover suit, ive got nolan with me and i have a course that i will try to work through and if i do that nolan, walk me through what all ive got going on here . Absolutely, grady, youre in our hangover suit, this suit is designed to simulate what its like to be hung over, youll see theres different lights on, the i think i just hit a cone. Youre hitting cones left and right. Really the messaging behind the whole entire suit not to drive impaired, some people might party the night before and think the next day they slept it off, it really shows theres effects out there. Im definitely feeling it, maria, i have 45 pounds worth of weight on my chest, on my arms, oh, and im trying to park right now and its not going well and then on top of that, these goggles give me Double Division and the light mimics the feeling of light sensitivity you get when youre hung over and as you can see, it certainly makes it hard to drive, one other thing i want to do, maria, is go through this over here, i could barely right through the straight our so this is going to be interesting and especially during the holidays this is an important time to remind people that driving hung over can be, you know, just as bad just as dangerous, yes. Onethird of fatalities car crashes are due to drunk driving, the Holiday Season, christmas, new years, people are driving, we want to make sure you make the right decision before you drive. If you saw the cones i hit, maria, i think you would get the message loud and clear. Maria yeah, why does the suit mean is it because you have weights on you, thats why the suit is supposed to, you know, be equal to being hungover, explain how this suit yeah, so its a lot of different factors, ive got the weights on me that makes everything a little heavier, this is pulsing kind of like the bloodpumping feel to go simulate a headache and then the glasses on top of that add the Double Division plus the light sensitivity here. Maria i see. Different factors that you might experience with a hangover. Maria all right. Dagen we know what it feels like when doing morning tv when you get up at 2 00 oclock tv the hangover without the party the night before because you are always kind of dehydrated because you maybe you get 3 hours of sleep the night before maria once we get on stage we are energized. Dagen im not saying we are not energized and love being but its like woo, when you get out of bed in the morning. Maria coming up, u. S. 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Thanks for having me. Maria this is such incredible successful business that youre in and resinates with young and old people, tell us, characterize the business, how are you doing right now going into the holidays . This is the entertainment business, the most rapidly growing part of entertainment business, hundreds of millions of people play video games, it has becomes americas past time, the extraordinary growth of the sector we have a lot of tailwinds, all that said, we have security and how we do that, our goal to make highestquality entertainment of any kind as we try to do, its a challenging opportunity but its an opportunity and so far its going really well for us. Probably one of the most important gifts that people are giving this Holiday Season, now, video games sales actually sell this year 20 in 2018 that didnt keep the gaming from another record setting year, call of duty, earning more than 600 million during its opening weekend, thats incredible, actually. The new launch of the new hardware like the x box series x and Police Station station 5 also drive the market, what can you tell us about the Holiday Season so far. Its looking really good for us. Redemption, mba, 2k 2020. We have a new hit called the outer worlds from newer division, private division, we have our mobile games from social point, our company, we guided twice this year, we expect to have another record for m2k. Maria one issue is content creation Going Forward, youll be able to come up with new content, its all organic . 12 years ago i think our net revenue around 700 million, this year we are guiding about 2. 8 billion, we only did one relatively acquisition of our mobile company, social point, it is organically driven growth and we create most of our product internally, we do work with external studios, and some other external studios but primarily of our 5300 employees or so most of them are creative people who actually make the games and, yes, we dont its wonderful to talk about our success, we have to get up every morning and do it again, its the ongoing challenge of the entertainment business whereas my fatherinlaw used to say, yesterdays success is yesterdays headlines, get up and do it the next day. Maria let me ask you about the future, do you need to diversify revenue overall given the fact theres reliance coming up with organic new content . Thats new part of our story, we became innovator and now a leader in consumer spending, everything except full game sales, so it would be endgame payments or sales of Virtual Currency and what Current Customer spending reflects is ongoing engagement by consumers, has now turned a business, put up big title and people stay engaged or in case grand theft auto 6 years and we are still having extraordinary year. Maria more consoles moving away from hard half copy game, googles newest and allow to go stream games from virtually anywhere in the world, how does that stack up and does that ramp up the competition, what are you doing in terms of streaming . Well, actually weve made 3 titles available, border lands mba2k, off to slow start frankly, every time you broaden distribution that builds a business, we are where the consumer is, we support virtually every platform worldwide and we are excited about what streaming will bring to content to consumers and you have certain type of technology, you can play on any device worldwide, thats the concept, its still early, thats great for our business, but we still have to execute and make hits. Maria huge responsibility in terms of the attention that kids give to video games, right . Absolutely. Maria you feel the responsibility. Unquestionably. Maria what do you do about that . We have to stand with everything we do, one of the things is we are comfortable with everything that we put out and we are not just focused on business and focused on creating art. Thats really important to us. And we make it clear that video games like Everything Else should be consumed in moderation. Maria before we go, real quick, whats the hottest game this season that people are buying for christmas . Well, our hot games continue to be everything from grand theft auto online, red dot online, mba2k, borderline 3 and redemption 2 available everywhere. Maria incredible, strauss great to have you, take two interactive, u. S. Representative lighthizer is here in first cable interview since announcement of phase 1 trade deal with china, i will ask him about longterm truce, Bob Lighthizer coming up thats why fidelity leads the industry in value while our competition continues to talk. Talk, talk you are oneofakind. You are my diamond. For the diamond in your life, get 30 off everything including these one of a kind deals. Its the you are my diamond event. Exclusively at zales, the Diamond Store. Its the you are my diamond event. Apps except work. Rywhere. Why is that . Is it because people love filling out forms . 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Trade representative Robert Lighthizer, wonderful to see you this morning, thank you so much for being here. Congratulations to you and your team, you have been working on this for a long time, you finally got it across the finish line in terms of getting the agreement that is you needed, how tough was it in the last couple of weeks and what about this most recent snag with mexico, can you tell us what happened and how you ironed it out . Well, first of all, its been a real slow for more than 2 years, the president ran in nafta being unbalanced agreement for the United States and turned out to be one plus it was in desperate need to be updated and we had to focus on we focused on over the course of 2 years, we finally got the negotiation done and the last year we spent, trying to find a way to get through congress, i think we have the first trade agreement in a long, long time that has support of almost every business group, almost every agriculture group, labor groups, democrats and republicans, we are excited about where we are. This lastminute snag was more of a misunderstanding, we are putting some labor in embassy down there and not just labor but as you know, a defense, the whole variety, dozen agencies and so i think there was a misunderstanding down there of what their function was but that was easily taken care of. This is a really good agreement for the United States, for manufacturers and workers and farmers and the like, and so it should pass with a big number. Maria yes, tell me about that, farmers get to see more of a market in terms of their dairy, youve got manufacturers also seeing more work and, of course, the auto workers part of the deal in terms of having the production to have vehicle in north america, tell us the most important point of usmca . Well, for me the first thing is its going to bring back manufacturing jobs to the United States. Before the president directed me to start this process, 8 of the previous 11 auto manufacturing facilities manufactured are created built in north america were built in mexico, there was a huge flow down towards of our auto mobile industry. We have now turned that around, at the same time good for canada and mexico, not just good for the United States, so i think we are going to bring back, we think, somewhere bring back or create around 80,000 jobs directly and indirectly in the auto industry, create some 25 or 30 billion of new investment. In the agriculture area theres new Market Opportunity as you say the dairy problem particularly in canada was a huge problem, remember those stories about Dairy Farmers going out of business, we turned that around and we have new access in wheat, in poultry and eggs, and so, you know, theres an awful lot in there for a lot of people and then we have the whole new economy, the absolute Gold Standard on digital trade and financial services, stuff thats never been done before. So this will be the template, i think, for new trade agreements Going Forward and hopefully theyll be more balanced. We have a big trade deficit problem. We were losing our jobs for years to a variety of places including china and the president the president ran on this, he ran on trying to bring the jobs back. Maria ambassador, im sure you saw the wall street journal oped, north american damage control and in it they write the shame that in many respects this new deal is worse than nafta especially its vow to politically manage trade and tries to steer auto investment with new rules of origin that 75 of the cars content must be made in north america making north america products making worldwide. Mr. Trump vow today pelosi democrats to demand the 10year protection for data exclusive to biologics, what do you say . I would say first of all clearly getting rid to have Biologic Division was a step wards, there are consequences and the democrats controlled the house and that was necessary and im sorry about that, with respect to Everything Else in that negotiation, i think it made the bill better, in terms of the wall street journal, look, theres two approaches to trade, one is that the objective of trade is purely market efficiency and protecting investors and thats thats one view and thats the wall street journals view. The president s view, in addition to that, think on the effect of manufacturing workers and the people involved in the process and our real objective is more wealth and and better lives for workingclass people and farmers, thats what the president s view is. He believes in market efficiency but he also believes we have a broader responsibility and i understand the people that believe in in just protecting investors and and pure market efficiency, they are not going to be happy because we are making it more expensive to operate in some other areas less expensive in the United States. The president s objective is to help manufacturing workers in this country, to help farmers in this country, global efficiency is a nice objective but he always says he got elected president of the United States not president of the world, so he has a different philosophy and and hopefully the wall street journal understand that, they seem to acknowledge that a number of the things in this bill or even by their standard is good, for example, the digital trade and these sorts of things. Look, theres a little different philosophy, the president is taking care of American Workers and farmers and thats what his objective is and thats what he told me to do. Maria but it also doesnt change the u. S. Law which is 12 years of protection but mexico allows only 5 and canada 8. They write the new deal can loot american Property Rights. To question of biologics, youre right, it does not change u. S. Law at all, my objective was to have mexico and canada have a higher standard than they have right now. I think theres some general trend towards Higher Standards in this protection and hopefully we will see that. Its important that we protect intellectual Property Rights in the United States, one of our great, great competitive advantages is innovation, we are a country of innovators and farm area is great example of that. I always tell the people that criticize these companies what happens when your child gets sick, youre going to want to have the medicine available. So theres a balance there. This is a spectacular deal for the american economy. Literally itll raise the gdp somewhere between a third and a full percent, somewhere 175 or 180,000 new jobs, more towards the high end and its going to set the template trajectory for how trade should be dealt with in the future. Maria thats a huge boost in the gdp, will we feel the strength in gdp . So i think youll see a real growth and all that larry kudlow and Peter Navarro and other economists talk about win, when fully implemented itll create 1. 2 percentage gdp and over 550,000 jobs thats fully implemented. Its going to have a impact right away. Maria this is your first cable news of announcement of phase 1 trade deal with china, white house economic adviser larry kudlow says the u. S. Exports to china will double under this agreement which could be signed next month, what im concerned about is the intellectual property issues here as well, china as you know just came out with the new rules, i feel like they are coming at us at all ends with new rules to change the dominance and continue dominance, i mean, gordon chang writes after all cybersecurity rules in place no Foreign Company may encrypt data and cannot be read by communist government and party, what does the phase 1 really do to protect intellectual property in the u. S. . So let me take a step back again here, maria, we have we have two different systems, we have a freemarket system, they have a staterun socialist system, we have to find a way for these two systems to Work Together and thats what we are starting to do, the relationship has been really unbalanced for a long period of time to the United States, we we have huge trade deficits and we have other other problems. The president 2 and a half years ago said we are going to take this on, weve had a plan that we followed consistently. We put out a report for 8 months that took 8 months to write, we put in place a variety of tariffs over a period of time, weve tried to negotiate, theresen theres been ups and theres been downs, you followed very closely, this is a very important issue for the United States, not only now but in the years and years ahead. Weve now gotten to the point where we have a very good phase 1 agreement and we are going to find out whether or not it works, is this agreement going to solve all the problems between the United States and and china, no, for sure it will not but it has real, real structural change, its not just about purchases, its really important that people understand that. This has real protection on ip, real protection against tech transfer, financial services, currency provisions, agricultural barrier eliminations and then there are these purchases and and, yes, we expect this to just about double overall exports to china which is really important and and particularly for some of our constituents that have had problems in the agricultural area between 40 and 50, we think 50 billion worth of sales in, you know, in china, so this is a really, really important bill, is it going to solve all the problems, no . Will it work, its totally enforceable, so we are hoping that it works but ultimately thats going to depend on what happens in china. Maria yeah. If the hardliners are in china and doesnt changes, thats one case, if you see reformers that want to see china adopt some of the normal principles of of trade, then i think youll see a different outcome. We are hopeful, we are hopeful. Maria yeah, i think what i like most about this phase 1 deal is the u. S. Didnt give up too much, you didnt put the tariffs on on sunday which were expecting to increase tariffs but you cut tariffs from 15 to 7 and a half percent, so you didnt really give up too much, in terms of the agricultural buys, walk us through this because for a long time we were expecting that the chinese would agree that up to 50 billion in agricultural purchases was on the table but they wouldnt admit it, so can you walk us through exactly how these details are emerging on how china will increase import to the u. S. , buy as much as 250 billion in the next two years, what are they going to be buying and what is the commitment . All right, first of all, i will be happy to do that, let me say before you are right, we still have tariffs on 380 approximately billion dollars worth of chinese goods, theres plenty of leverage on both sides to make sure this agreement works, the president kept in place, the United States made i think a really, really good deal. On the purchases theres an agreement over the next 2 years to purchase 200 billion worth of products, theyre in four categories, manufacturing and agricultural and services, in the agricultural area let me tell you how we get to 50 billion, all right, 24 billion is the base from 2017, thats what we had before all this at the highwatermark before this recent change. In addition to that, china has agreed to buy 32 billion worth of products over the next 2 years, so that would be 68, would get you to 40, they are they are striving to take an additional 5 billion and then there are other products that and this will be written out that get you to 50 that are in areas that that are agricultural but sometimes classified as other manufacturing, let me give you an example of that, hardwood, lumber, a variety of issues that get you to 50 billion, we are very excited about it. Thats thats just about doubling our agricultural sales and its going to be good for farmers across the board and by the way, its going to be good for china, the United States has the best agricultural products. We have we have the best prices and so we are really excited about that part of it but i want to emphasize this is not just about purchasing, this is about structural change, this is about taking the first big step to determine whether or not two different systems can Work Together in the future to their Mutual Benefit and thats what the president has asked us to do and then we will move forward. We will see how this goes. We will see how its implemented and move forward and hopefully we will find a way that we can both get rich. Maria you have completely different approaches to governing, the u. S. And china, so the whole conversation about the human rights abuses, the uyghurs in china in concentration camps, is this a side conversation . Look, for me it is, maria, im not trying to solve all the problems in the world, the president asked me to work on work on trade, trade is really important to workers, farmers, has a real effect on americans and other people working on other things and if you try to get it all balled together you will literally accomplish nothing. One last thing i should say on this point. Lets remember, it took a long time to get to where we are, no other president did anything on this, they all talked about it, they all complained, no president did anything on it. Maria match youre right. The president has taken on a very, very difficult task, hes done it with a plan, hes done it over 2 and a half years, now he has a very, very significant step forward, we will see how it works out. Maria whats next in terms of priorities, British Trade negotiations obviously have been talked about, Prime Minister johnson adding provision that would rule out extending period beyond 2020 raising risk of nodeal brexit, sending the pound down, british pound, Great Britain expect today leave the European Union of january 31st of 2020, is that the next priority or the eu in terms of big trade deal . Its funny, the president tells me what my priorities are. I dont tell him and he has a lot of priorities, so for sure the uk is a priority. As soon as they get their objectives agreed to we will start talking, itll take a while before it all comes into effect because of their circumstance, itll be a really big deal, we are looking forward to that negotiation, we have issues with the wto, we have issues with with europe as you suggest and then there are a lot of other countries with whom we are talking, theres a lot on the plate. As you know, this is something the president cares about, thinks about it every day, he wants manufacturing jobs back here, he wants Services Workers to make more money and farmers to reverse trend in income and theres a lot, a lot to do and hes focused on it and trust me, i dont go a day without him, you know, keeping the pressure on me. Maria im sure, but theres a lot at stake certainly with europe in terms of tariffs potentially increasing on cars, vehicles coming out of europe, talk to us about the chicken tax, the president calls himself a tariff man and yet a lot of worry around what he may do with regard to europe, where are the worries there . Well, i mean, look the wto decided in favor of the United States after many years of of litigation on this boeing air bus case and we put in place tariffs on 7. 5 billion worth of productses. Looking at that, wema we may increase that, we have a unbalanced relationship with europe, its 150, maybe this year 180 billion in the negative, that cant continue, there are a lot of barriers to trade there and there are a lot of other problems that we have to address, so dealing with europe is something thats very important. The president has focused on and we are beginning to take steps and we will continue to focus on, its something the president cares about. You cant get the global trade deficit down without getting the trade deficit down with europe so significantly, thats a really important focus for us. On the other hand, we have a very Good Relationship with europe, i dont want to make it look all negative. Theres a lot of trade between the two bodies thats very positive. Maria but would fixing the trade imbalance with europe hurt the u. S. Economy because of higher prices paid for vehicles here . Well, im not im not prejudging what we are going to put tariffs on and im not saying that cars will be more expensive. Ii dont want to get into that. We have a basic trade problem with europe. We have to figure out a way to sell more in europe and and i think we are going to undertake that, but on the other hand, there are hundreds of billions of dollars in twoway trade with europe and i dont want to overstate the problem. Maria let me ask you about the changes that usmca post pushback from nancy pelosi and the democrats because according to nancy pelosi the bill she first got was a nonstarter from President Trump, shes taking shes trying to take a lot to have credit for the success. I know youve been working incredible by hard in terms of getting this done to where you wanted it, is it much different . Well, let me say this, from the very beginning we worked with the democrats, this is not like the democrats came in at the end. We worked from the very beginning. Working men an women supported the president very strongly. These are his constituents too h. In terms of negotiations should the speaker get credit, of course, she should get credit and neal and chairman grassley and kevin brady and the leadership on republican and democrat, the thing about this bill is, it has business agricultural, republicans, democrats and labor unions, it is the way forward and in terms of this this this business that we increased labor enforcement, of course, we did. But thats not against republican principles, thats concise consistent with them. Maria Bob Lighthizer, youre a true diplomat, thank you, sir exclusively at zales, the Diamond Store. What are you doing back there, junior . Since were obviously lost, im rescheduling my Xfinity Customer Service appointment. Ah, relax. I got this. Which gps are you using anyway . A Little Something called instinct. Been using it for years. Yeah, thats what im afraid of. He knows exactly where were going. My whole body is a compass. Oh boy. The my account app makes todays Xfinity Customer Service simple, easy, awesome. Not my thing. Its our most dangerous addiction. And to get the whole world clean . That takes a lot more than an alternative. So we took our worst vice, and turned it into the dna for a better system. Materials made from recycled plastic woven and molded into all the things we consume. We created bionic and put the word out with godaddy. What will you change . Make the world you want. Maria welcome back, he talked about china and where we are there in terms of phase 1 deal, he thinks its completely enforceable in terms of snapback tariffs should the chinese break any promises. Very exciting, i was impressed to see that there were so many grits in the deal, seems like we were able to hold china accountable, big things ahead for the economy. Maria Robert Lighthizer really is terrific and hes been focused on not being political throughout all of this and making sure that its really just trade and revenue to the United States, here is a bit of that. I think we are going to bring back, we think, somewhere, bring back or create 80,000 jobs in the auto industry, 35 billion of new investment. Maria having said that, he also said, dagen, that you cant improve the imbalance with the world until you also look at europe, so we will see what happens with tariffs in europe. Dagen and President Trump stayed focus in this, but this is one of the keys to reelection in 2020, again bluecollar work workers. 200,000 jobs expected in the next couple of years, final thoughts from the allstar panel when we come right back. Maria that will do it for us. Great show, you guys. Have a great day. Varney Company Begins right now. Stu, take it away. Stuart good morning, maria. Good morning, everyone. The bulls are still running. Add one more big name Investment Company that sees a Strong Economy, and a strong market next year. Piper jaffrey now joined jpmorgan, Goldman Sachs, bank of america and others with a bullish view of 2020. Even the economists who worried about a recession in the summer, they have changed their tune. Heres one more bullish item. President trump and Boris Johnson have talked, they both want a big trade deal next year. Add that to the china deal and the reworked nafta and youve got progress on trade all round. Now, all of the major
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