Maria welcome back. Good thursday morning, everybody. Thanks very much for joining us this morning. Im maria bartiromo, and i hope youre having a good thursday morning, april 25th. 8 a. M. On button on the east coast. President biden will be in syracuse, new york, today to tout the science and chips act after making conflicting statements about the future of taxes if he sees a reelection. Fox News White House or correspondent peter doocy live in d. C. With the latest. Good morning, peter. Reporter and this is the second time in a row President Biden is running on this promise not to raise taxes on anybody making less than 400,000 perrer year, but the problem is t its not true because according to the tax foundation, if President Biden follows through the on to his promise to get rid of the tax cuts and jobs about at the end of next year, minute making 75,000 a year is going to pay about 1700 every year in taxes. That had previously expire expired or been reduced, that is despite President Bidens assertions that the trump tax cuts only ever benefited the wealthy. We all have have people like trump who look down on us, dont we . We all know smfnlt well, folks, where i come from, it matters. When i look at the economy, i dont see is it through the eyes of maralago, i see it through the eyes of january,ton and working people like all of you. Reporter President Biden is off to upstate new york in a couple hours to talk about the 6. 1 billion taxpayer dollars that he wants to commit to micron to build semiconductors in clay, new york, and boise e, coo, at idaho at new factories there. Syracuse, one of the Biggest College towns in america. Hes then going to go on to new york city for some Campaign Events and interviews. But we expect him to fully bypass if any and all talk about this campus craziness over the last couple days. Maria . Martha well, peter maria peter, youve got President Biden doing all the campaigning in the swing states and the split screen of President Trump in a new york courtroom. Trump used the opportunity this morning before he has to be there at 9 00 to actually turn the street into a Little Campaign rally, and he got a lot of applause prosecute people there. They were chanting four more years and we want trump. Reporter yes. And and weve never seen anybody have to campaign, basically, from a courtroom. Weve also never seen anybody at this point many a Campaign Cycle having an event at 6 20 in the morning on a weekday at all. [laughter] but hes got to go find crowds where he can, and who else is up at 6 20 . If they did a savvy thing the by finding a big group of people that could meet with him and that he could be with and take photos like it was anywhere else, like he were in scranton at a factory somewhere. Maria yeah, exactly. Reporter theyre having to pick their spots, and it might be a couple things happening super early. Maria well, so maybe the other side wasnt expecting that, right . Peter doocy, thank you so much, at the white house this morning. Well be watching your work, obviously, peter. Thank you. You know, they tried to keep him in a courtroom,. Shut him up while joe biden was on the campaign trail, and can hes finding ways to speak to the people, lee. He really is. And i think theres some really Interesting Data out there. 85 a of Trump Supporters believe that hes fighting for the working class, and joe bidens supporters, only about 68 saying the same thing. As much as joe bidens saying im scranton joe, i have this, people arent necessarily seeing it that way. He is review he is viewed as part of the elite. And its really interesting to see how donald trump is using every moment that hes got to demonstrate that to the American People. And its carrying through. Maria uhhuh. They were all, you know, giving him their hats, and hes signing, make America Great hats. Jonathan. Yeah, exactly. And it is funny, joe biden, you know, watching that speech, it doesnt seem authentic in the least. Hes reading whatever staff provided for him. But joe bidens policies have been, you know, hes talked about tax cuts. Joe bidens inflation has cost the American People so much money, so thats a tax on everyone. And especially hard on the working class. And the other part of it is, you know, talking about who did better, you know, the working class are better off under, were better off under trump than under biden. If you look at this illegal immigration can, thats also a tax on the American People because these are tremendous resources. These are reduced wages and reduced access to opportunities for people that are american citizens. So all of these things that a they enacted, policies, hurt the working class. And they Pay Lip Service to the working class, but the Democratic Party abandoned the working class years ago. Hes doing absolutely nothing to grow the economy from the bottom with up and the middle out which is thats what he claims to be doing. Lower income and middle class people are struggling. Obviously, inflation has just eaten away at hair paychecks. Their all most of them, maybe not all, but a lot of them are working multiple jobs just so they can make ends meet. So the economy is in a much, much worse place today than it was while President Trump was in office. And i think voters, assuming they are concerned about the economy which they should be, i think that hopefully will show. Up in november. Maria all right. We are just Getting Started this hour. When we come back, fox news contributor, secretary mike pompeo is here. Hell talk about annie blinkens trip to Antony Blinken trees trip to china and more. Youre watching mornings with maria live on fox business. Ooh a, baby, do you know what thats worth . Ooh, heaven is a place on earth. They say in heaven love comes first well make heaven a place on earth even if you live in a bubble, you cant stop workplace accidents. So talk to your agent about workerss comp insurance from pie, or visit pieinsurance. Com. Safety first, then pie insurance. Maria welcome back. Secretary of state Antony Blinken calling on china to provide a level Playing Field for american business. He met with the communist e Party Secretary of shanghai earlier this morning. He now travels to beijing are where he will meet with senior officials including chinas foreign minister tomorrow. Not clear if hell be meeting with xi jinping, but he is expected to bring up the fentanyl crisis e to officials. Joining me right now is the 70th secretary of state of america and fox news contributor, secretary mike pompeo. Mr. Secretary, thanks so much for being here this morning. Maria, its great to be with you this morning as well. Maria well, here we are, another trip of cabinet members to china. What are they getting out of all of these meetings . It feels like the u. S. Is begging china for some communication. What is your assessment of what blinken is sayen on saying on the ground if china . This is talk for the sake of talk, and frankly, i think the Biden Administrations is hoping they can get through the handle of months without something exploding in asia. I think secretary blinkens going there today to, i mean, if he talks about fentanyl or fair business treatment, three and a half years of Biden Administration, nothing has been done to actually achieve that. Theres been no action that has imposed costs on the Chinese Communist e party to give even a remote chance to lip service achieving anything on behalf of the American People. I think this is talk for the sake of talk. I think hes really sending a message, hey, happening on. Were going to have an election in no, and then well come back at this, and well have four more years of the Chinese CommunistParty Running largely unchecked throughout the pacific and throughout asia. Maria totally unchecked on his watch, that s for sure. Surveillance balloon, a covid coverup, intellectual property theft, fentanyl flowing into america. Even the tiktok stance from the administration is not believe, because the bidenharris Reelection Campaign says they will stay on tiktok even after joe biden signed legislation yesterday to force Chinese Parent Company bytedance to sell the social media app or face a u. S. Ban. Tiktok is vowing to challenge the law in court, the legislation part of the 95 billion foreign aid package that did include 8 billion for the indo pacific region. Your thoughts on the tiktok dilemma here, secretary, as this administration claims its being tough the on china. T t staying on tiktok and doing videos ahead of the election. Its really quite something, maria, that you say that theres a tool of chinese prop if began da being foisted on the propaganda being foisted on the american children, and then you go on the social media account and try to draw people to that very chinese prop if began da machine. Its hypocritical. If President Biden actually believes this is a risk to the United States of america, it makes absolutely no sense but, frankly, its consistent with the biden Administrations National security policy. S it is the very little bark and zero bite. Maria yeah. And thats the kind of thing i think our add very cares are see adversaries can see, and thats the reason will be were so examed challenged today. We shouldnt forget we have Chinese Communist members infiltrating our southern border, and we have no idea who and where they are. And this is truly dangerous. Some day, maria, we will all look on these four years of the Biden Administrations border policy, and we will regret it more than we can even imagine today. Maria yeah, i can imagine because, you know, Christopher Wray keeps telling us host worried about a terrorist attack on u. S. Soil because of some of the people who we have no idea what their intentions are. The chinese nationals, it feels like xi jinping is creating a little mini if army with 25,000 just since october on top of another 25,000 the year earlier. I want to get back to this 95 billion foreign aid package. I know that you were supportive of sending aid to ukraine, supportive of sending aid to israel. But part of that package, can 9 billion 9 billion, to gaza, is being criticized by some. Here is my interview, a portion of it, with senators mike lee and rick scott. Watch thisment this. We know if money goes into gaza, its going to hamas. Theyre Still Holding american hostages and american bodies, hamas is. So im going to look at the bill, im going to see if we can separate pit, im going to see if i can get my amendment on the bill. Under no circumstances could i, would i vote for the bill as a passed by the house of representatives yesterday. This is a really good deal for ukraine and zelenskyy. Its a really good deal for hamas if which stands to receive up to 9 billion of this 95 billion aid a package. Maria now, are yesterday i spoke with jerusalem jack keane. He said, no, no, no, were not going to see the money go to hamas, but were not sure. Will hamas get in the way of that money thats supposed to go to gaza a . Well, maria, sign me up for being skeptical of the Biden Administrations capacity to deny hamas resources or, for that matter, the Iranian Regime resources. Weve seen them give billions and billions of dollars to the iranians, and we got october 7th as a result of that absolute refusal to impose costs on tehran and the Islamic Republic of iran. So im worried about that too. Net, i think this was important. I think its absolutely critical that we win in europe. Its important that we and the israelis win in the middle east, and your point about the money that went to the the asian region as part of that bill as well, i think thats good. Sign me up in support of that, but its not enough. Of last thought, maria. The funds that will go to support the european if war effort, to push back against putins aa depression have to be used on tools that will actually perm them to win. It cannot be the case that two months, six months, a year if from now weve said you can have these weapon, but you cant use them to actually impose costs on russia . Thats a losers game, and we should never play that in america. Maria were also wondering about joe bidens socalled ironclad support for israel. Just a couple of weeks after he basically condemned benjamin net ab ya hue in public sight trying to get him to do a ceasefire even though we havent heard a peep out of the other side about these hostages that we pray are still alive, i know you were recently in israel, secretary. S israel try Prime Minister netanyahu is slamming the antiisrael protests happening across the up country on College Campuses. Watch this. Whats happening on Americas College campuses is horrific. Antisemitic mobs have taken over leading universities. The response of several University President s was shakeful can shameful. Now fortunately, state, local, federal officials, many of them have responded differently, but there has to be more. More has to be done. It has to be done not only because they attack israel, thats bad enough. Its also when you listen to them, its also because they say not only death to israel, death to the jews, but death to america. Maria and what has the Biden Administration done about this . Nothing. I mean, theyre saying that, you know, we support israel and in the same sentence theyre making it clear that they dont support netanyahu and israeli minister also said this, quote the u. S. Is not projecting strength under bidens leadership and is harming israel and other countries. If i were an american citizen with the right to vote, i would vote for trump and republicans. Secretary, your thoughts. Maria, you laid out a pretty strong case. You began by describing President Biden as anything but ironclad support of israel. There could be no truer sentiment. Yesterday his assistant the secretary, barbara lee, assistant secretary for the middle east, gave some remarks about the middle east and mentioned neither hamas nor the hostage, nor the fact that american lives were lost there. They have grabbed the wrong end of the stick in the middle east. Contrast three and a half years ago a where we built up the abraham accords, had a Movement Towards more stability and peace, and today the middle east is aflame. We should not forget for one moment hezbollah still rules in lebanon, hamas is still deeply in control in gaza until we permit the israelis to conduct the attacks they need to conduct. The houthis are continuing to threaten shipping and International Transit through the red sea which impacts america an awful lot. No, the Iranian Regime still is on its front foot, and the Biden Administration refuses to acknowledge that or do anything to help israel to prevent that from continuing. Maria why not . I dont understand this. The College Campuses and this antisemitism raging across america is incredibly serious, and theyre not comment on it. President biden is placating the furthest left, furtherrest progressive, most prohamas element are of the Democrat Party in an effort to win votes in november. I can see, literally, i hate to be that cynical, maria, but i see no other explanation for it. Whats happening on these campuses, i saw speaker johnson up in new york yesterday. His remarks were with pitch perfect. These are mobs, these are thugs. They are threatening minority if students there, jewish students on those campuses. Its time for President Biden to deny them federal funding, not to relieve Student Loans for any of these people. If theyre here on student visa ises, we should kick them out. These are simple tasks including providing security that the federal government has the capacity to provide, and it should have done it weeks ago. Maria wow. Secretary, its great to have you this morning. Thanks are very much. Maria, have a great day. Maria and to you. Quick break, and then the first read of First Quarter gdps out, we will have the numbers live as they cross and check markets reaction. 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