The women owners are defying owners. Chicago, teachers and parents once again at odds of reopening plans that even parents say are major league screwed up. California, wildfires that are raging out of control right now with no end in sight. Talk about impeccable timing . Were on top of all of that. Were focusing on developments in washington where the president is meeting with a number of tech leaders and workers. Blake burman at the white house with more. Hey, blake. Reporter hi, there, neil, and President Trump is set to be signing an executive order in washington momentarily. Im told what this will involve to try to insure when federal contracts are given out, they are given out to u. S. Citizens and not potentially h1b visa holders. Trying to insure the contracts are given to american citizens. We should be hearing from the president shortly. We will wait to see, neil if the president will be taking any questions and if he does i have to imagine he would be asked about this tweet he sent out earlier this morning. The president writing the following, quote, so crazy nancy pelosi said horrible things about dr. Deborah birx going after her because she was too positive on the very good job we were doing combating the china virus including vaccines and therapeutics n order to counter nancy, deborah took the bait and hit us, pathetic. The president seemingly criticizing, dr. February bore raw birx one of deborah birx, the top doctors on the coronavirus. Nancy pelosi said she did not have confidence in dr. Birx. After she said that several top advisors neil were to come forward and say we should not be criticizing dr. Birx, then fast forward to this day, seems as if the president , potentially is doing just that in that very tweet. Over the weekend the doctor said that we are entering a quote, new phase when it comes to covid19 saying it is widespread at this point, not just in urban areas but rural areas as well. It is unclear, neil, if that is exactly what the president was hinting at in that tweet. In any event as dr. Birx makes the warning within the last 24 hours there are negotiations continuing up on capitol hill as it relates to a potential next relief measure. What i can tell you is, i weighs told there was some progress made over the weekend although the two sides are very far apart. Im also hearing, neil, the white house could be looking to unilateral measures, meaning measures the president could potentially take should there not be a deal up on the hill. Neil . Neil well, among those unilateral measures is cutting the payroll tax that steve moore was advocating for, i believe for those 75,000 and under. He could issue them by executive order. Can he do Something Like that . Reporter not entirely sure because its, the law and tax code. As you know the tax code originates in the house of representatives and the house ways and means committee. Neil right. Reporter democrats still control the house. So there is a process. I will tell you when i was making some calls this morning to try to figure out what exactly are the fine details in this none were specifically shared to me. The Washington Post this morning is reporting i believe that the payroll tax cut is one of them but, when you talk about tax policy, it runs through the house and everything in the house runs through nancy pelosi. Neil yeah. Not through the president of the United States. Blake burman, thank you very much. Just curious about that, because it seems to be getting a new wave of currency here. Well follow it very closely. Also following white house view whether it will or will not support microsofts planned interest in tiktok, the big chinese social media concern. If it were up to peter navarro, his answer would be a big fat no. Microsoft, yahoo , cisco, other American Companies in the techland helped china build its great firewall which is used basically in the limit to imprison chinese citizens. So i guess the question is, given chinas what they call Civil Military infusion which requires any Foreign Company operating on china soil to give them their data can we trust any company that operates in china . Neil all right. I want to go to the guy who broke this story, started this International Back and forth on this, our own Charlie Gasparino. Now i know that the ceo of microsoft talked last night, i believe it was last night with President Trump about this and the signals seemed to be that microsoft is still going ahead with this. So that at least seems to indicate that president nodded off on it. What are you hearing . Neil, just as i said there was a civil war over the payroll tax cut versus extending Unemployment Benefits between mnuchin and the supplysiders in the white house led by larry kudlow which obviously is still going on, and it is bleeding over to the pages of the wall street journal as steve moore is an acolyte of larry kudlow, that civil war is going on. This civil war is going on between hardliners like peter navarro, stephen miller, theyre all trying to vie for the president s ear to issue a total ban on tiktok. Theyre being opposed by not quite unhardliners in mike pompeo who is for a deal. Steve mnuchin, the treasury secretary who is for a deal, meaning lets have President Trump issue an executive order that essentially forces a divestiture. Forget it will sound a little different than that, but this is essentially what they want. A divestiture of tiktoks u. S. Operations from its parent and then allow 45 days for a company to come in to prove to the committee on for rin investments cfius, that is develops the technology, knows the algorithms, protect user data that is not shared with the Chinese Communist government. Which is why this whole investigation started a year ago, when cfius, the committee on u. S. Foreign investments launched an investigation is whether tiktok is an arm of the Chinese Government. Whether it is using its data from u. S. Users which has grown very popular for these short videos, gone beyond even like, initially started out with very young adults, my 12yearold niece loved it, but it has gone into the inflew owners. A comedian, sarah carter, pokes fun at donald trump, does it on tiktok, does it very effectively. That is where this is going. It has a loyal base of support. Should point out lindsey graham, not a china appeasement person and marco rubio, not a china appeasement person, they want this deal to happen. The reason why is because, yeah, first off, if you ban it, there is probably ways to get it. If you ban it, youre going to annoy a lot of people. And microsoft does probably have the technology. We say problemly, im not a tech expert. But they probably have technology to insure that the chinese are out of it, they have no role in it. Their algorithm is safe and actually help as u. S. Company get a foothold in this business and could provide jobs. It sounds like the logical way at it. You know, what you do, though have right now, neil, is again as you had civil war between mnuchin and kudlow which they denied, stands to be true as of now, you can see it boiling over. There is a civil war over this. This is a white house, part of it, it doesnt speak with one voice. Some of that is good. There is obviously a debate flows over into the media, people like me find out about these disagreements tax policy and some leads into confusion. Were in that period right now. Microsoft we should point out wants to do the deal. Tiktok is quietly saying it has more than one suitor out there. I would just say this. I think the Trump Administration and cfius which is essentially an arm of the treasury department, so it reports to steve mnuchin, they feel comfortable with microsoft. If tiktok is out there trying to be cute they have other suitors, they may just blow this whole thing up. That is where we are right now. It all comes down to what the president orders. Does he do the cfius order . Does he do a complete ban . There is lot of ways at this. Does he do something in the middle . Well just have to see. It is not done until i see that order. I played this pretty carefully that this is all up to the Trump Administration and there is a Battle Royale going on in there for trumps ear on this issue. So stay tuned, something is probably going to happen today, neil. Back to you. Neil all right, my friend, thank you very much. Charlie gasparino on that. Wee have Jonathan Hoenig with us and Rebecca Walser in you. I end with but i want to begin with you on something secretary of state mike pompeo was raising about tiktok and its ties to china and maybe taking orders from china and that that is the source of all of this friction. This is from the secretary of state. Chinese Software Companies doing business in the United States, whether its tiktok or wechat a National Security aprat does could be their facial recognition patterns t could be information about the residents, their phone numbers, their friends, who they are connected to, those are the issues that President Trump made clear were going to take care of. These are true National Security issues. Neil true National Security issues but not enough that at least from what we can tell, rebecca, for the president to refuse or slap down microsofts interest in the company. Because obviously it is still being generated today. What do you make of it all . I think that you know, obviously neil, the president knows there is a lot of users that love tiktok in the United States of america and it will not be a very popular move but just like secretary pompeo is saying, when you have data aggragation of individuals addresses, faces, location tracking, all these things like facebook does we take for granted we opt out, privacy policies things that changed last year with facebook scandal those hinges could be happening tiktok instead of not going for marketing purposes to advertisers but to the Chinese Communist parity. That is the issue. There is a u. S. Security problem. So he wants to stop that but yet preserve an app that a lot of america loves and so how can you do that . Bring in a u. S. Partner, seg segregate the business from the chinese ownership, transfer chinese and we can maybe salve the app. Neil but you know, guarranty, jonathan sounds like one of my diet plunges. I guarranty i will eat nothing but vegetables and forgo all the Italian Sausage grinders. Good luck with. That how would we be able to secure Something Like that . There is no way to secure it, neil. It is important to emphasize the fact that tiktok is a private company t has 1000 american employees. The servers are located here in america. There is a lot of speculation there could be sharing of info there ask scant evidence that theyre sharing info. If tiktok was violating users rights, why would apple allow it on its platform . They ban ad lot of apps that done. That why would the justice department, for example, file a lawsuit, apple file a lawsuit, for that matter . This is much like antichina rhetoric and feeling in the country. This seems like a political ploy for the president. Charlie gasparino alluded to that. It is beingagepped up by hardliners within the Trump Administration because of all this antagonism what tiktok might do. All it has done so far make a lot of americans very happy and which is why they continue to use it every day. Neil what i dont understand about this, guys, rebecca, i kick this off with you, the notion that microsofts stock is up on this. If it were to succeed in getting tiktok, it would not come cheap. Tens of billions of dollars. I heard one figure, i dont know how accurate it is, 100 billion. Yet the stock is up believing it instantly become as social media player. I get that, ial but i dont get the fact that the stock is up that much on the promise of that . Yeah, to jonathans point and your point, neil, i understand ticktock hasnt done anything that is necessarily provable yet, the fact of having a chinese app, basically, if you understand the laws of the Chinese Communist party and you understand private ownership there is a lot of backdoors that relay information to the Chinese Communist party, the ccp. So microsoft being up to date, neil, is the u. S. , eager investor hoping that this deal actually works because the, it is a very popular app. It is definitely as charlie referenced in his piece, used to be tweens and earlier people. Now people of all ages, grandfathers, grandmothers, everyone goes on the app. It is funny. If you dont post a dance, you watch a lot of people it is really comic relief. Neil, a lot of people love this. Microsoft is going up they are thinking if it works out microsoft gets this, 2 will be a boon for their social Media Presence which they dont have. Obviously facebook with the instagram is coming out with a tiktok dance kind of thing. That is launching real soon. Theyre hoping that this is something microsoft can get to save this app. Even though it is not proven, a lot of things like chinese espionage is hard to prove in court and that is why the government is taking this dance. Neil i could see what rebecca is talking about, jonathan. My teenage sons who are bored to tears with anything Business News related, im sorry i failed as a father, they say, why is the president even thinking about doing anything . We love this site. Leave it alone. Im wondering the draw it last particularly with young people, what are we take to make of that . Neil, it is something new. This as charlie mentioned, this comedian sara cooper, i imagine she make as living to lampoon the president. Now it was tiktok, six or seven years ago it was website vine, had similar short form videos. As rebecked mentioned, microsoft has got to get into this game. They bought linkedin that hasnt really exploded their social Media Presence as it would. What youre seeing is the market trying to work it out. All those who said on capitol hill last week said facebook has a monopoly. What youre seeing here the market trying to topple that monopoly, whether tiktok or the next hot thing your young sons would love, they are in this case happens to be a chinese innovator usurping the established pros like twitter and facebook. Neil maybe this is microsofts way of reclaiming being cool. Well see. Guys, thank you very much. Youre far more hip than i will ever be, both of you. Thank you for helping me out in this segment. Microsoft as we were indicating today up smartly today. Technology is up smartly today. Nasdaq, rich in Technology Stocks is in record territory today. Were going to continue following this and monitor this. Well follow the political storm over this but the very real storm that is still churning up the east coast. The hurricane that wont quit even though its a Tropical Storm that has a lot of rain and a lot of wind and that is bad enough after this. I like liberty mutual. 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Neil, you kind of nailed it there. Winds of 730 miles an hour as we sit off the coast of the carolinas. Moving forward, 75 miles an hour would make it a hurricane. It either makes landfall as a strong stops, weak hurricane, category 1, will not make a huge difference. Were still talking about strong winds which were seeing along coastal communities. Widespread 30 to 40 mileanhour gusts. Once this moves inland suddenly, well talk about what is a major rain event across the very large portion of the eastern half of the country. Here is the move were seeing overnight, likely around myrtle beach, up to wilmington, perhaps a landfall midnight give or take a little bit. Then the storm works its way inland and moves up the coast. Talking about the i95 corridor, from philadelphia, d. C. , new york, boston will see a some of this. A lot of rain will fall the next 48 hours or so. So no surprise are pretty big area with watches and warnings, Tropical Storm winds across the entire east coast. Bringing all of that moisture also. Flood watches and warnings from the carolinas all the way up into eventually going to be new england before all said and done. The heaviest rain will be when it initially makes the landfall. Some much those narrow bands, anywhere, six, eight, 10 inches of rain. Its a narrow line. Currently looking at a line could be as much as six inches of rain getting up into d. C. , moving through philadelphia, baltimore. Currently looking like it just misses new york city. Maybe just an inch of rain but very small movements either direction, neil this will be a big rainmaker. So it has been one stuck around with us all this weekend. I think were just getting into this. Likely not seeing it exit the u. S. Until early wednesday morning. So it will be the story