Maria good wednesday morning. Thank you for joining us. I am maria bartiromo. It is wednesday september 27. Your top stories. 6 00 a. M. On the east coast. Tonight the second gop president ial debate right here on fox business. Seven candidates will cut into President Trumps lead with their take on the economy, porter, inflation and a lot more. Dont miss a moment. Lawmakers raising torta package to fund the government with three working days left for lawmakers to come up with a continuing resolution that members will vote for face a Government Shutdown which is likely next week. Kevin mccarthy tried to get the boats for continuing revolution by this friday while the senate is moving to advance its own shortterm bills. The novo money slated to ukraine while the u. S. Border remains wide open. Investors are keeping the ion Interest Rates as well as stocks tumbled yesterday. The ten year yield hitting the highest level in 20 years. The focus on inflation with gdp and pce tomorrow and friday. European markets look like this on the heels of a mixed story. Overnight european is mixed, as the p100 is down but the cat crown is up a fraction. In asia overnight green across the board fractional moves across asia, wall street higher across the board right now, then this new resolution from the House Oversight committee about the biden family bribery investigation hunter biden received a quarter of a Million Dollars from beijing with a beneficiary address listed as joe bidens home. More evidence for the house impeachment inquiry hearing tomorrow. Joining to the conversation all morning long poles i ingenuity adam johnson. Political science Lauren Wright and speech First Executive director cherise trump. Mornings with maria is live right now. Maria seven candidates squaring off in the second gop president ial debate. Madison alworth is live from the reagan president ial library in simi valley california. Good morning it is debate day here in simi valley, the Ronald Reagan president ial library has been transformed into a primetime debate stage. Those seven candidates are prepared to take the stage. The be slightly smaller from the debate of month ago. One candidate Asa Hutchinson did not qualify for the state. The hope for the seven that data could be an opportunity for them to break through in the eyes of the voters. Lets talk about some of the candidates. Former South Carolina governor nikki haley has been surging sensor performance in the president ial debate. You can expect to get have a target on her back as other candidates look to steal her spotlight. Florida Governor Ron Desantis seeking to regain the momentum in his campaign here tonight. You should expect him to make a splash. Vivek ramaswamy saying on fox news just this weekend that his campaign was entering a new phase. One thing is for certain all these candidates are here to show their proposed policies contrast with President Joe Biden he was on the defensive amid declining poll numbers. It is important that were getting our message out with all the president and Vice President have accomplished in the two and half years that they have been in office. Continue to draw contrast between what was he on the debate stage tomorrow night. It is all about the issues here. You could expect these candidates will be vying for the voters at a critical night on a national primetime stage that they will be making their call to america to explain why they should be the gop nominee. Maria absolutely anything can happen. Madison alworth, time for the hot topic of the hour. Lauren, your thoughts. I am so excited about this i dont know for no make a big difference because trump is so ahead of the pack. The harshest way to assess this who is running for his Vice President ial pick essentially and i dont think itll be any of the three people that works for him in a think the jobs between him and desantis have been too sharp so far. I think for tim scott this is particularly important in Vivek Ramaswamy it is very important to. Maria what are those people could be a candidate member as well. It doesnt have to be the vp. Nikki haley had a great debate last time. We will see about that. I really hope to see desantis be more authentic this time last time around he was trying really hard to be somebody else and is been doing this entire campaign where hes mimicking trump or trying to smile a lot more. He is a serious person. He needs to show hes a serious candidate and its okay to keep a straight face and be critical of your opponents. I think Vivek Ramaswamy is going to have to bring it about a faxon evidence that he does have the experience to be in a cabinet position or vp or president because obviously nikki haley accused him of being inexperienced especially like foreign policy. If he comes in with four numbers and knows what hes talking about that could be a game changer. Maria mike pence is going after all of them particularly Vivek Ramaswamy. Mike pence is dead in the water. I like mike pence. You might like him but hes dead in the water. Maria in terms of a president ial candidate. In terms of ever becoming the president. Its ironic he was the second charge, closest to it but theres 0 charisma that comes out of mike pence. Polar opposite with Vivek Ramaswamy who is all charisma and he needs to previous substance and chops. I thought nikki haley was incredibly strong and also tough which we needed to hear. Maria she was tough on china to. She was tough on china and the other candidates. In terms of desantis i want to make it nicer, warmer and friendlier. Maria his wife can do that but shes not with him all the time. She is fantastic i wish they could always be together. Remember bill and hilary, they were a team, they make a great team because she does humanize him. Does any of the matter given the fact that trump is so far ahead. Of course it matters it is a process. Maria it is amazing the y new york judge rules against trump on the very day we get the blockbuster story on hunter biden in the quarter of a Million Dollars he took out. Some would argue theres very few coincidence of going after trump. Maria i totally agree. I dont know if this will come up tonight, the last time it came up nikki haley said donald trump is a friend of mine but who knows where this is going and i dont think anybody knows how this is going to play out. I think the timing is really telling on this. Every single time there is a new story coming out against the Biden Administration or the biden family. All of a sudden youre getting your subdued about trump and see new evidence,. That is discussing. It is and its election interference. Were just getting started, coming up the stalemate on capitol hill, lawmakers struggling to keep the doors open by the deadline of september 30. What you need to know all morning long, biden family foreign influence peddling coming to light. Bribery are the charges coming from republicans as a payment to china to hunter biden is revealed all ahead of the impeachment inquiry hearing happening tomorrow. Tomorrow the second gop debate hosted on fox business. Seven candidates taking the stage. A host of issues, dont miss that. Watching mornings with maria, live on fox business. Its not just designed to look good. Its built to command attention. Its not just a comfortable interior. Its a quiet refuge. Theyre not just headlights. 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Maria welcome back House OversightCommittee Chairman james comer revealing he obtained financial records of hunter biden that hunter biden received a total of 260,000 from chinese nationals on wires that listed joe bidens delaware home as a beneficiary address. These payments from beijing happening months after joe biden launched his 2020 president ial campaign, joining the kansas congressman jake later on the House Oversight appropriations committee. Thank you for being here. I would like to get your take on this what do we need to understand about the wires. Its good to be with you, what you need to understand or two things. Number won this is a big deal joe biden told the American People that his family received no money from china. Jonathan lee the person that paid over 250,000 to hunter biden is a member of the Chinese Communist party and wellknown for buying land in the United States and yet a personal relationship with then vice President Joe Biden where joe biden was writing letters of recommendation for his son and hunter biden while living in california used his fathers address and delaware to receive the Wire Transfer and the second reason why it matters the House Oversight is continually uncovering more information. Maria what specifically were they being paid for. Jonathan lee had sent hunter biden to enter 50000 for what . That is the question. A word that is overused, miss used is gas lighting these days. But it actually applies here and thats what the president is doing to the American People. We all see the evidence we know that we would not trust hunter biden to clean out a birdcage and yet he received millions of dollars from companies in china, ukraine, romania and the rest. We know we would not trust them to do anything, he received this money and we know why because his dad was a Vice President of the United States of america. We are not going to stop until we get to the bottom of this. Uncover the details in the House Oversight committee. Its incredibly important that we do that for the American People. Maria do you believe joe biden change policy to favor china as a result of getting all this money from the communist Party Members . What we have seen so far the president changed his story, he told us his family received no money from china, we heard him say he did not discuss the business dealings with his son then he said there was a wall in between his son and him when it comes to business and we have proven the House Oversight has proven that is wrong time and time and time again. The president was absolutely on the phone talking about business and the president withheld a billion dollars from ukraine until they fired a prosecutor investigating his son hunter biden. The connections are clear and importantly we received testimony from irs whistleblowers who said they saw a connection between the corruption, the shell company, the money in the president but they were not allowed to pursue it because the Justice Department shut them down. The American People deserve answers and we are going to make sure that they get them. Maria its unbelievable that youre talking about the evidence that you are and the democrats will not acknowledge it. You have the House OversightCommittee First impeachment inquiry hearing happening tomorrow. What do you hope to accomplish, tell us how that plays out. Is an important hearing were going to set the baseline for the American People and talk about the information that we uncovered sense january that there are 20 Shell Companies over 20 million to nine biden family members. The most recent information about the irs whistleblower and 250,000 paid to joe bidens address from the member of the communist party. We will talk about all the information that weve gathered so far and make the case to the American People that why its important that this investigation continues. Maria this is incredible. It is stunning, thank you for uncovering and exposing this. At the same time you are battling a Government Shutdown which very well may happen next week. Does that mean this investigation stops . No. We need to walk and chew gum at the same time. Its important that we keep the government open. All House Republicans are saying we want to keep the government open but this administration has to start caring about our southern border crisis. We have people dying every single day from fentanyl overdoses. We have people on the terrorist watch list crossing our southern border, this is a major issue in the administration has turned a blind eye. It is unacceptable for joe biden to care more about ukraine then he does about her own southern border. Were going to insist that is part of the conversation in keeping the government open. I think its a fight worth having. Hopefully joe biden cares more about keeping the government open and securing the southern border then he does about being right about ukraine or whatever the case may be. We can do this. Maria are you referring to the continuing resolution that has an 8 cut in spending which was worked on by Byron Donaldson and scott perry and others where the border is the central piece. I know a lot of your members have already said i am a no because theres no money to ukraine. Youve advance for spending bills, Speaker Mccarthy says he expects to advance a continuing resolution on friday but the senate may be into the punch devoting their own shortterm spending bill to avoid a Government Shutdown. Tell me where you are in terms of the four bills are you focused on Homeland Security or the defense bill, what does it look like what kind of success are you expecting. As your question alluded to there a lot of moving parts to this right now. I think republicans are the strongest when we stick together we are working every day one day at a time to make sure that we stick together on a plan. Thats how were going to get something done with the democrat led senate and the democrat led white house. Its incredibly important that we get something done on our border and the American People understand this is a crisis in the understand the president auto care more about our border than he does ukraine and sadly that has not been the case. We have to use the power of the purse to force this issue and were going to do that and im confident at the end of the day there are a lot of different bills but im confident at the end of the day republicans will stick together and get this done and keep the government open and do the right thing on the southern border. Maria it sounds like you do not have the votes. I was talking about the individual bills should you have any clarity or visibility of the individual bills, defense, Homeland Security or are you focused on the continuing resolution and if you are and there is ukraine money that means you do not have the votes. There are two Different Things going on, never what the government shuts down 12 01 a. M. Sunday morning in the other we need to pass all or appropriation bills about the appropriations committee. We are cutting spending, spending less money next year that we do for the first time in a decade the most open and transparent process without a very long time. We need more time to pass the appropriation bills. Scr of some kind does make sense, one day at a time. Working to figure this out but is the process, we will get there. Maria i understand one day at a time but is september 30 and you knew the day was coming how come these bills were not ready in time. Maria at the end of the day our job is to get the work for the American People done and were going to do that. I agree, the process needs to move quicker, the American People expect that out of us. It is hard to corral 218 votes but were going to do it at the end of the day. Maria i totally understand. Thank you, we will be watching your important work, jacob turner. Thank you, sir. Well be right back. Wi hi, im jason and ive lost 202 pounds on golo. So the first time i ever seen a golo advertisement, i said, yeah, whatever. Theres no way this works like this. And threw it to the side. A couple weeks later, i seen it again after getting not so pleasant news from my physician. 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