Maria good friday morning, everyone. Thanks so much for joining us this morning. Tgif. Im maria bartiromo. It is friday, march 1, your top stories right now, 6 00 a. M. On the east coast. One southern border, two very different visits. President biden arriving in brownsville, texas yesterday to speak with agents making a pitch to congress to pass the Senate Border bill which allows 5,000 foreigners in every day before anything can be done to shut it down. Bipartisan Border Security deal is a win for the american people, the speaker of the house needs to put this bill on the floor. Heres what i would say to mr. Trump. Ill join you in telling the congress to pass this bipartisan Border Security bill. Maria meanwhile, President Trump speaking in eagle pass, texas, highlighting the dangers of the open border policy. This is a joe biden invasion. This is a biden invasion over the past three years, its allowing thousands and thousands of people to come in from china, iran, yemen, the congo, syria, and a lot of other nations. Maria the fallout coming up, but first, markets this morning trading lower on this, the first trading day of the new month of march. Dow industrials down 69, nasdaq down 16, s p 500 lower by 7 and three quarters. The nasdaq has been on a tear hitting its first record close since 2021 as investors find confidence in the power and promise of a. I. As you can see, market higher across the board yesterday at 4 00 on wall street. Plus, the house passing the deal to avoid a partial government shutdown. What you need to know about washingtons Economic Impact and the next funding deadline now, three weeks away. European markets trading higher, take a look at the eurozone with the ft 100 higher by 35, dax higher by 60, cac quarante is a weak spot in paris, its down 13 points. In asia overnight markets finished mostly higher there as well. Take a look at the asian indices with the one weak spot, korea, down a fraction, best performer was japan up almost 2 . Back at home, the House Oversight and judiciary committees releasing the transcript of the hunter biden deposition where he admits he did put his father on speaker phone and invited him to meetings with his Business Partners, but hunter denied joe biden had any involvement in his business. Were on it this morning. Joining the conversation all morning long this morning, michael lee strategy founder, michael lee and former new york state Homeland Security advisor Michael Balboni. Mornings with maria is live right now. Maria time for the hot topic of the hour. President biden and former President Trump making dueling trips to the southern border yesterday, biden traveling to brownsville, texas while trump was 300 miles away in eagle pass, texas. Heres President Trump speaking with fox news sean hannity after the trip last night from the border. Watch. You come to texas, this is now a war zone. And they view it as a war zone and mexicos doing nothing to help us, they have 28,000 from china, all fighting age. You dont see women and you dont see men much older than that, its from 18 to 25, 26 years old. And theres something going on and theyre coming from yemen that were bombing, coming from the congo, prisons in the congo. The only good thing, it makes our prisoners look like very nice people. Maria trump also said he spoke with the parents of 22yearold Georgia Student laken riley who was alleged killed by an illegal venezuelan migrant. He slammed the president for her death. That migrant came into america in 2022 through the el paso border, biden walked away from any questions about laken riley yesterday. Watch this. What he is doing is just unbelievable. Joe biden will never say laken rileys name. But we will say it and we will remember her. Were not going to forget her. Do you bear any responsibility for laken rileys death . Maria laken riley will be laid to rest this afternoon at a church outside of atlanta. Michael, this is such a heart wrenching story, its so sad. Her memory will last a lifetime and they are celebrating her life today. Such a horrible thing for the parents, obviously, for the nation to watch this. Its so hard to put a face on this whole issue. But yet this is one of the things that people take a look at saying wait a minute, this is happening in our communities. The irony, you reported so many times before, texas has been suffering this invasion for years and years and years and now suddenly as a campaign begins, this is now the focus for this administration. And yet when you take a look at what happened in 21, 22, 23 and you see the increase from 1. 3 million then going all the way up to 2, i mean, its amazing whats happening here. Were on pace this year for 3. 1 million but the president the former president said something thats very important. The nature of the people coming across the border, the fact that there are many military age men, a lot of them are Chinese Nationals, coming across the border. What is that about . That is something that needs more focus in our nation. Maria ive been to the el paso border and when i went to the el paso border that a was one of the first border areas that i visited. The river was completely dry, michael lee, and it was so easy to walk right across from mexico and this is how that illegal got in, just walking right across, youre into the area in texas. You are then into the population. Thats what happened here. Maria, this is an insuited invasion by the biden invited invasion by the biden administration. There arent enough actual americans to vote for them. They want as many illegal as they can get into big cities, give them amnesty so they get more Electoral College votes, more congressional seats, more federal funding so they can rule by fiat. A new y chicago of people coming into the country every single year. Its just unbelievably disgusting. And its no surprise that its politically unpopular. If you remember, it was nine years ago trump came down the escalator and this was his number one issue and i dont and they can call all americans that dont like ilLegal Immigration racist all they want but we are a nation of rule followers, a nation of law followers. People hate to see other people breaking the law. No one is talking about Legal Immigration and the people that pay thousands of dollars and wait three, five, 10 years to get into the country legally when they can walk over the border and get a big, fat 10,000 debit card, free hotel room, cell phone, healthcare, all those things. If this isnt anything other than an invited invasion by this administration, i dont know what it is. Maria when trump first came on the scene and started saying were going to ban this group and shut down this border and do this and not you allow venezuelans to unload their prisons and send them into america, he was mocked, he was attacked, he doesnt know what he was talking about. In fact, he knew what he was talking about. The Biden Campaign released this statement foll trumps border t, donald trump is weak on Border Security and crime, thats why he directed maga republicans to kill the toughest reforms in decades and tried to defund the Police Every Year he that was office. Are they serious . The truth is, donald trump does not want to secure the border, they go on, he prefers chaos and cruelty because hes betting it helps him politically. This is absolutely outrageous to say that trump wanted to defund the police. This was democrats, particularly the progressives that wanted to he defund the police. What were they expecting to happen . Did they expect crime was not going to spike the way it is now and now we are ill the victims. Next thing theyre going to accuse trump of shooting bam bas mother in the disney movie. Its unbelievable the things they make up. Its intentional destruction of western civilization youre seeing play out in front of your face. Maria the transcript of the hunter biden deposition has been released. He confirms what knew that his father, joe biden, is in fact the big guy. New york congressman Nick Langworthy was in the room. Hell tell us what else he took away from that testimony. Dont miss it. Youre watching mornings with maria live on fox business. J. P. Morgan Wealth Management knows its easy to get lost in investment research. Get help with j. P morgan personal advisors. Hey, david ready to get started . 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The House Oversight and judiciary committees releasing the transcript of the hunter biden deposition which took place this week. Hunter admitted he did in fact put his father on speaker phone and he did in fact invite him to meetings with his Business Partners but still he denied that joe biden had any involvement in his business. Hunter confirmed that joe biden was in fact the big guy but he said he didnt know why his partner troaferred him that way and a referred to him that way and a chinese official once gifted him a diamond. Hunter giving the excuse he was out of his mind when he messaged a Chinese Business partner that he was sitting next to his father. Joining us now, congressman Nick Langworthy. You were there, this is your committee. What can you tell us in terms of what you took away, what was most important for the testimony yesterday . Well, i think my biggest take away is how someone can sit therend lie with a straight face for hours and hours and hours. In one vein hes this brilliant business strategist, hes someone that we should all be impressed with and his resume, and other times hes a sad and broken down figure thats caught in addiction. Theres no explanation as to why the biden family members are receiving these funds from foreign entities. They dont make any legitimate argument as to what expertise they bring to the table. The only thing they bring to the table is the name and selling the brand. Its laughable the discussions about how his father wandered into these dinners. Dad, come have dinner with my oligarch friends im sitting here with. The father clearly knows nothing about his business along the way. I mean, i think what hes really done here is confirmed what most americans are thinking and what the evidence that we put forward with the banking records has shown. Maria well, it looks like hes trying to blame ja jamesgilyardr getting his father involved. He admits pretty much indirectly that his father is the big guy, talking about the infamous 10 equity held by h for the big guy email. Hunter said the person sent it was out of his mind for suggesting his father be involved. There you go, hes admitting the big guy is his father. You said he lied with a straight face. What else did ellie about . I think any discussion about the Chinese National business person, this was not meant to be payment, it was a rare token of appreciation, presenting that is reality, it just defies logic. Here somebody hands you a diamond and then he gives it to his uncle because he doesnt know what to do with it. I mean, come on. Thats not something that anyone does in business transactions when things are on the up and up. It shows this is a criminal Business Enterprise these people were run. Maria well never know where the diamond is. Right . I know he actually accepted the tech vent of money the equivalent of money for a porsche are from kazhakstan. He got a porsche from kazhakstan and got two diamonds from china and were supposed to believe that he gave it to james biden and james just threw it out. Is that what he said, he threw the diamond down. We know diamonds are an easy way to hide wealth. You can hide it or give it to the next generation, dont put it on the will with or taxes. Is that what was going on here . That is where you certainly go when you have an item like that thats not trackable or traceable of. One of the other items that he said was all the Wire Transfers because he was cheap and he didnt want to pay for all of the Wire Transfer fees. These are things that just dont pass the smell test in any way, shape or form and i think hunter confirmed a lot of our suspicions in the hours that he sat there in the deposition. Maria im with Michael Balboni today. Jump in here. Congressman, good to see you again from the days of tom reynolds. The fbi has a very aggressive Counter Intelligence program. Where were they on this . The son of the Vice President getting involved in these types of discussions and receiving gifts from the chinese, wheres the fbi in this . Maria great question. Its an incredible question and clearly asleep at the switch or intentionally asleep at the switch. You cant really get your head around this. I mean, when we had a former new york governor go down for his transgressions with an International Prostitution ring, they were right there but we have kazhakstany billionaires and oligarchs sitting there with the Vice President of the United States and his son, business deals, theyre nowhere to be found. Doesnt pass the smell test to me. Maria let me get your take on the other order of business in the congress today. We know the senate and house passed the bipartisan government funding bill yesterday. The bill moves the funding deadlines for a total of 12 appropriation bills to march 8 and march 22 rather than today. And march 8th which was agreed upon in the last continuing resolution, the deal has a 1. 6 trillion top line number, 866 billion for defense funding. Some lawmakers suggest suggesting to do another continuing resolution for the rest of the year and move onto next years budget. What are you going to do, keep doing crs . Is that the plan. We needed one more week and next week from what the speaker said and the play he called and we support it, we have six appropriation bills ready to go agreed to by the four corners of our government of. This is life in divided government. They have to bring republicans to the table to get the spending bills done and we have to get through this, 1 across the board spending cut is going to cripple our military. This is a time we cant afford to cut our military and put us into a he sequester. Theres far too much uncertainty around the world for us to put intense spending measures on our military forces. Maria one of the biggest uncertainties is the wide open border. Border patrol in the houlton sector of maine revealed they arrested three Chinese Nationals trying to cross into america through the border in the dead of night. The sectors facebook account revealing the driver was a Chinese National from new york. He was arrested nearby. What is going on with thousands and thousands of Chinese Nationals coming over the border, what are they planning . Do you have any idea . What are you doing about it . Were reading more and more about this. The border is on the ballot in the 2024. Unfortunately, the president goes down for a photo op in the southern border, the second time hes been down there. I think its fairly embarrassing photo op for him. We have an increasing amount of Chinese Nationals coming across the southern border and the northern b border on a daily basis. China is the greatest threat to our country, domestically and internationally and weve got an ilLegal Immigration crisis coming from china. Not only are they importing their goods, theyre now importing their people and doing so now at the northern border where theres less detection. We have a northern Border Security caucus we created in the house republicans, elise stefanik, myself, mike telly and ryan zinc p, we have to get serious about the northern border. Maria the northern border is weak. Congressman, thank you. Well be watching all of that, Nick Langworthy joining us this morning. Well be right back. After last months massive solar flare added a 25th hour to the day, businesses are wondering what should we do with it . Im thinking company wide power nap. [ employees snoring ] anything can change the world of work. From hr to payroll, adp designs for the next anything. Why choose a sleep number smart bed . Can it keep me warm when im cold . Wait, no, im always hot. 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