4 00 oclock on wall street, nasdaq up 300 and s p higher by 67. Wild fires raging up the west coast this morning, several people now dead, homes destroyed and evacuations underway. Many areas bathe in orange glow of fire. Almost open for business, new York City Restaurants can allow Indoor Dining at the end of the month but there are strict rules to follow. In the next hour a Restaurant Owner and lady gagas father joe is here to talk about the state of the Restaurant Industry and whether his daughter will take a seat inside. Sky high technology, we are introducing you today to what some are calling the smartest and best drone yet, Android IndustriesPalmer Luckey is here 8 30 eastern with exclusive announcement and back to grid iron this morning. Fox sports is back and bringing nfl along with it. We have a preview of games to expect. Mornings with maria is live right now. European markets trading mix, the dax index is higher by 43, we are waiting the European Central banks decision out at 7 45 a. M. Eastern this morning and expected that the ecb will leave Interest Rates unchanged. Mixed story overnight in asia, markets mix. Best performer there was japan, nikkei average up almost 1 overnight. The others fractionally moving. Somesome of the top stories thae are watching this morning. President trump defending, down playing the coronavirus earlier in the pandemic after recordings in interviews with journalists bob woodward are released. I think bob really i want you to be. I wanted to i wanted to always play it down. I still like playing it down. Yes. Because i dont want to create a panic. Maria the president telling fox news that he put a brace face on publicly for the countrys sake. Democratic joe biden calling it betrayal of the American People. Hes flat lying, thats wrong. Totally irresponsible. Totally irresponsible. [inaudible] take him out of office this time. Maria President Trump is headed to michigan later today. His first trip to battleground state this year. We will cover for you that live. Massive west coast wild fires believing death and destruction. In california 3 deaths being blamed on bear fire. At least 12 people are now missing, more than 2 dozen fires are now burning throughout the state. In oregon meanwhile 3 people are dead, hundreds of homes are destroyed and the governor says this could be the worst loss of life and property ever in that state and in Washington State a 1yearold boy is dead, his parents severely injured as family tries to escape the flames. And then this eerie site in San Francisco, clouds of smoke quickly turning day into night as a thick orange glow blanket the city, extraordinary pictures this morning. Still battling covid19, deaths approaching 190,000. 6. 3 million case, midwest hot spot after motorcycle rally after surgess, south dakota and colleges opens, 15 of the tests last week coming back positive according to r everything teuters reporting and that fatalities can double as cold weather returning. Marking eighth straight night of demonstration over death of daniel prude in police custody. Prude died back in march officer found him naked in the streets and put spit hood and allegedly held him for 2 minutes. Attorney general william barr cheddarring operation legend and more than 500 somebody made and markets this morning are lower, take a look, futures indicating a decline. Nasdaq bouncing after drop we saw last week, nasdaq is up 6, s p 500 is down 5. Yesterday markets rebounded following the weeks Major Technology stock. Major tech companies, apple, microsoft all topping 3 and that had the nasdaq 300 points, dow industrials 439. Joining me right now chief Investment Officer jim and Dagen Mcdowell and Strategic Wealth president mark tepper. Jim, let me kick it off with you, what do you think is driving investors . I think right now whats driving investors is momentum, whether its positive or negative. The tech trend likely holds so long as the covid19 issues that basically correlate in technology center, we think they do. We think volatility would be constant and increase as we make our way to vitriol of november election and we think the some cautious optimism is that the Economic Data that we are seeing, current data that we are just seeing not just domestically and globally, they were in slow recovery and not no recovery mode. We think this is perfect time to be both disciplined in terms of your diversification across sectors but also make sure that your Asset Allocation is well diversified and we will see what we saw lest last week. Maria do you see growth continueing through 2021 . We will see a spectacular rebound for quarter. I wouldnt suggest that we are off to the races. I think the economy is clearly supported by fed, fiscal and what we call furlough stimulus, all of those are beginning to look like shaky leg, that said, as we enter 2021, hopefully knowing who our new leader is, we suspect we will see a massive infrastructure spend no matter who wins the election, also technology, super highway, we think theres reason to be optimistic if the economic numbers begin to show slowness or weakness as we enter into 2021. Maria all right, lets turn to tiktok and china. Tiktoks parent bite dance in talks, this follows Chinese Government steps to put new restrictions on exporting ai complicating the talks, Companies Like microsoft, oracle, walmart, all considered potential buyers, jim, your reaction of whats going on which seems like an economic soft war between United States and china. It feels like its not going to get any softer any time soon. We think that something has happened in the last 10, 15 years and that is that the Global Economy between u. S. China both economically and politically to ultimately play nice when it comes to trade but getting there will not be pretty. This is yet another example in which countries can manipulate individual companies to their negotiating, assumed associating benefit. We think dont think this kind of plot will dissipate soon, we will see more of it. Net, net, we see both countries are looking for a win both for selfinterest reasons and for their ability to grow their economies. They can do that with each other growing in the same direction. Maria all right, you mentioned the broader outlook. We are getting jobless claims out, 8 30 a. M. Eastern. Estimates call for 846,000 unemployment claims last week. Certainly good news to have it under a million. Open job post negotiation the u. S. Leveling off and sign of easing momentum in labor market, what are your expectations for jobless numbers and how does this play in terms of Investment Outlook . We will think we will continue to see and consumer is the driver of our economy and employee consumer is absolutely key. We think that there are downward pressures both on hiring and rehiring that have yet to sort themselves out so thats an absolute cautionary flag for us. All that said and done we continue to have not watch consumer setting but what they are actually doing and we continue to spend at reasonable levels and spectacular levels on the biggest investments they have ever made, mainly homes and cars. Maria and thats, of course, enabled by rockbottom Interest Rates. We havent spoken about that on day we are waiting on the ecb. Theres not a lot of alternatives when you rates at zero. Thats absolutely right. This is a recovery built on fed and fiscal stimulus, you take those crutches away and we would be in absolutely dire straits. We are going to support from our fed and from our government and ultimately from panes to rehire, all that said and done its not an economy standing on two legs, not by a long shot. Maria we will leave it there. Jim, thank you so much, sir. Jim joining us there. Check out Fitness Company stock flexing muscle this morning. Record high, out at the close tonight. Stock getting pop earlier in the week after the company lowered the price of original exercise bike and introduced new bike along with treadmill, Goldman Sachs raising target price, the shares are up right now 2 and a half percent. We are just Getting Started this morning, stay with us. Michigan congresswoman Debbi Dingell, she met with joe biden yesterday. We will get reaction to President Trumps controversial comments as well. Georgia senator perdue will join us on stimulus vote. 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It was life a bathe betrayal of life and death betrayal of the American People. Maria he told woodward he wanted to play down covid19 back in march, joining me right now michigan congresswoman Debbi Dingell, congresswoman, thanks so much for being here. You met with the former Vice President after his speech last night, tell us about it. It was good to see him but he was very focused on two things, one, covid disrupted all of our lives and no one feeling it more than he because hes being and i think he was feeling very intense and good and passionate and everything joe biden is about a day in michigan with all the conflicting feelings. Maria now, i want to get your take on how michigan feels about joe biden but with all due respect, lets get reality into this, when the president decided to stop flights from china on january 31st, joe biden called him a xenophobe and around the same time nancy pelosi went to chinatown and said we are having a great job in chinatown because everybody is on top of each other, come down and join us, but to say that, you know, joe biden and nancy pelosi and the rest thought that the coronavirus was so serious is a little much. Congresswoman maria, i will take that on. Im the person who wrote the letter. You remember in midjanuary because the auto industry, i represent them, its located in wuhan. If you remember the administration was checking people at some airports. We had direct International Flights and i asked questions then, why do we have flights, people coming from wuhan and arent we checking and what they both were doing and what nancy pelosi was most physically doing was ensuring that we not have a backlash against anybody who was chinese the way i worry about when something happens and the community i live with is attacked and something very different. We need to focus on what the problem is and not then have reverse retaliation against anybody who is asian decent which has happened in the country and keep that from happening. Maria joe biden introducing his plan he says will save american jobs, he used the opportunity to bash the president s policies as well but its the same policy, lets take a listen. One, trump has hasnt stopped companies from closing plants and sending overseas and two, rewarded companies to cut jobs and failed to invest at home with billions of dollars of tax breaks and 3 hes awarding more and more federal contracts to foreign companies. President trump has broken just about every promise hes made to the American Worker. Maria so congresswoman, do you think this is going to fly given the fact that Everybody Knows joe biden has been in government 47 years and he approved and pushed things like nafta which sent all of those jobs to mexico . Congresswoman i think that the workers know that joe biden cares about them and that nafta was evolved a long time and i wont be afraid to say, well, you know how we feel about trade deals. We have discussions about those. The billionaires tax cuts, incentivized people to go overseas. I think the pandemic has people understand what a supply chain. You and i understand it and a lot of other people dont. They suddenly realized how dependent we are on other countries for basic needs like ppe, gloves, masks and medicine. Maria but debbie, you approved this stuff, youre a congress woman. You cant you cant have an arms length distance and say, oh, yeah, this is what happened. You were there and so was joe biden. Trump is an outsider and he didnt agree to any of this stuff. Congresswoman didnt agree, he helped craft bill and just for my own district he said he would keep jobs here, i have a steel plant that layed off 1500 jobs just at the beginning of the year and another plant in hometown that eliminated 350 jobs about 2 months ago. We are still seeing that shift to jobs overseas for a variety of reasons. Maria i understand, congresswoman, did you vote for nafta . Congresswoman no, i didnt. I thought it was a terrible bill but i maria but thats what im saying, joe biden. 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Can we go and play . roaring of engines i needed to try needed to fall i needed your love im burning away i need never get old maria welcome back, recordings from bob woodward interview with President Trump, revealed that President Trump down played the coronavirus early on. Take a look at what he said back in february. You know, its a tricky situation. Its indeed, it is. It goes through air, bob, its tougher than the touch. The touch you dont have to touch things, but the air you breathe the air. Thats how its past and its passed, its tricky, its more deadly than strenuous flus. Maria the president saying in march. I always we wanted to play it down. I still like playing it down because i dont want to create a panic. Maria President Trump defending his words at the white house yesterday, watch this. Im a cheerleader for this country and i love our country and i dont want people to be frightened. I dont want to create panic as you say and certainly im not going to drive this country or the world into a frenzy. Our numbers compared to other countries of the parts of the world, its been an amazing job that weve done. Maria Dagen Mcdowell, let me get your take on this. I interviewed President Trump in january of this year in davos and it is true that he wasnt necessarily appearing to be believing that it was this dangerous, significant event, coronavirus. I think at the time we didnt know all enough about it but lets not forget a week later he did stop all travel from china. Dagen which was roundly criticized by many people on the left. As you pointed out, joe biden called it, he talked about trump hysterical xenophobia and fearmongering and had the gull after talking about the travel ban and later disease has no borders. I just want to say this, the reaction that youve seen from liberals and the leftwing media is hysterical dishonesty in regard to these interviews that President Trump did or dishonest hysteria only triggered obviously by anything that