Pizzas. Your reaction. Hes obviously a bringing bt marketer. We have six more weeks of the trial. I think hell do Everything Possible to make sure he draws attention to the craziness of the trial. Hes raising a Million Dollars a day online because many people in the country you views hes the victim in the case. Maria they do. Given the incredible stance that he finds himself in. Hes unail to Even Campaign six months before the election. Hes in court all day. Trumps Attorney Says the gag order of bars him are from defending himself. Heres heres the former presid. We this judge has been undn on c const constitutional gag o. Im not allowed as a president ial candidate, the leading candidate, the Republican Party nominee and the one who is leading biden by a lot. Maria cheryl, your reaction . Everything does point to election interference with him locked up in they that courtroom all day long. Theres so many issues with this trial. I mean, weve spoken about this before. Nobody wanted this case to come forward and alvin bragg campaigned on the fact he was going to go after trump. This is what hes doing. Other jurisdictions rejected the trial. Financial crimes are difficult to prove in court. I think the other interesting thing thats come you out of ou, we see a buy bipartisan opinioe opinion is the same, no one seems to like Michael Cohen very much. He is if you think p bought it the star witness for alvin bragg. As far as the gag order, i have to say it seems like such a reason to threaten the former president with jail seems like an overreach by the judge but theyve made it very clear their position and their feelings about donald trump. Maria yeah. Well, i mean, as the former president is facing this gag order, we had an opportunity to speak with of others in his world. Yesterday, latlara trump joined. Heres what she said. This is by design. No one is disillusioned by any of this. We know exactly what this is. The goal is to keep donald trump trapped in a courtroom in manhattan, unable to get out on the campaign trail. He made two campaign stops, wisconsin and michigan. Thats how hes going to have to do idos this. Hes going to have to stop at places like joe biden would never do, like the bodega of visit in harlem where the democrats never assumed a guy like donald trump would go. Many were cheering for him. Were raising a Million Dollars a day. Were capitalizing on the days hes out of court. Were looking at states that the democrats never thought we could dream of. Maria like new york and new jersey, she said, john lonski. Alvin bragg is doing donald trump a great favor. My goodness, hes going up in the polls as gets more and more sympathy from the average american. They realize this is a political trial. This is unheard of in the United States to have a trial where youre searching for a crime thats being motivated by political factors. Maria its true. A lot of independent voices out there, ashley, whether jonathan toturly or Alan Dershowitz who y the way is a democrat are struggling to find the crime. What is the crime here . Absolutely. When you look at the amount of money that the u. S. Taxpayers are putting out on the trail, its insane. I think this is why you see some of the africanamerican vote are starting to go towards the former president because theyre looking and watching him be treated as unfair in the judicial system as many of them feel they have been as well. Maria thats absolutely right. And the fact that he is unable to go and campaign during a presipresident ial election, youe joe biden going to swing states, attacking maga republicans, people see you through it. Retail politics at the end of the day its about shaking hands and making you appearance, hes still doing that, giving pizza to the fdny, going to the Funeral Services of a fallen new York City Police officer who was shot. Thats a story about crime. Hes honoring our heroes. In a way, the gag order i think john lonski made this point as well might actually be helping him more than its hurting him right now. Maria well keep following that. Were just Getting Started this hour. The april jobs report is out this morning, its jobs friday, 8 30 m a eastern, weve got all hands on deck to bring you the numbers as they cross. Weve got a huge railly underway. Dow industrials up 282 right now. Weve got the word on wall street panel here with expectations when we come right back. Dont miss that. Youre watching mornings with maria live on fox business. Stay with us. I have type 2 diabetes, but i manage it well jardiance its a little pill with a big story to tell i take oncedaily jardiance at each days start as time went on it was easy to see im lowering my a1c jardiance works twentyfour seven in your body to flush out some sugar. 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Thank you very much for joining the conversation. Of course. Maria weve got a nice rally underway. Dow industrials in triple digits, gain of almost 300 points, nasdaq up almost 100, on the heels of strong earnings from apple. It wasnt as strong as a lot of people wanted, revenue was down but apple reported earnings after the bell last night. Iphone sales falling last quarter, revenue falling last quarter as competition out of china is spiking with huawei and its new phone. The stock nonetheless is up better than 6 on a stock buyback plan. The Company Announced it is going to buy back 110 billion of its stock. That is the largest buyback in u. S. History. What do you make of that, shelby . You know, i think the way to sort of lead off is apple is a great company. I think theyve displayed that year over year, decade over decade. Thats one of the reasons its a top holding in our etf. We see that in the fact theyve sort of infiltrated if you will most consumer settings and so i think part of the reward that were seeing is the simple fact that theyre really at that maturity sort of status where were seeing revenues come down in arrested wears and durable hardwares and durable goods across the landscape in different geographies. In many ways its not a huge surprise. Theyve got excess capital to return to shareholders and ramp up in a. I. And deliver on hardwares, i think thats a positive signal to send to the market when a lot of Companies Might be flailing on how to service debt, deliver cash and deliver on commitments and projects they promised to investors previously. Maria the companies is saying it will see the company is saying it will see an increase and revenue will stop falling in the Current Quarter so youre saying that given what you know about their a. I. Development, their growth potential, you want to keep buying this stock or hold onto it . Its come down, way down are from the high as you know. Were looking at this chart here. And the pivot i think was when china said no more iphones in chinese government. Well, thats one of the reasons why that sort of beat in the Services Department for apple was really important. Because if youre going to have to take a hit in a key market when it comes to products and its nots inly easy to go a not necessarily easy to go ahappened a pick up the share in u. S. And europe, you want to rely on services. When we look at it as a team we say its a little bit rich. Well see how the market treats it today. But its certainly a hold. Now, would we be excite todd go ahead and add from from a pure valuation perspective . We might wait longer but were definitely happy to own what we own. Maria sure. Warren buffets Berkshire Hathaway has a 5. 9 stake in apple, worth 157 billion. The journal writes about this today. Warren buffet has his big weekend of the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting this weekend, so youll see probably lots of conversation about that theyre sitting on 120 of billion dollars in paper gains on apple alone, john. Take a look at Interest Rates this morning, the 10 year treasury pulling back fractionally and it is sitting a 4. 57 . We get the april jobs report out in an hour an 15 minutes, economists are expecting growth in jobs, 243,000 nonfarm payrolls exacted to have expected to have been added in the month of april with the Unemployment Rate steady at 3. 8 . Whats the most important thing at your standpoint m . Ill take a look at the jobs growth for april. In march we found that the categories that come under the headings of leisure and hospitality, healthcare and government created 66 of the new jobs, though those three categories account for only 39 of all outstanding jobs. Weve got low consumer confidence. Biden has low ratings on the economy because people are unhappy with the performance of the u. S. Economy, despite a historically low Unemployment Rate and of hours inflation rems a major issue you with the avere american and many Small Businesses. Maria how did you read jay powell this week, john . Basically, he wants to cut Interest Rates, you know that. But he cant. You had three straight months of elevated inflation. P he tried to take the idea of an Interest Rate hike off the table but i dont know. Just the fact that he brought into the conversation the potential of a hike got some people nervous. Listen, the only way you are going to get an Interest Rate cut in 2024 is by way of a notable deceleration by domestic spending. That may be unfolding right now. Shelby made a very good point on apples iphone and that is that Consumer Spending on tangible goods in the United States has slowed considerably. The only strength we really see in terms of Consumer Spending is related to services. Like healthcare, aging he economy, youre going to spend more on healthcare so we could be having the economy enter a slowdown, a softening of the labor market, a rising Unemployment Rate that will open the way for an Interest Rate cut perhaps in the second half of this year. Maria well, that is exactly what nancy lazar is saying, shelby, as well. Look, lets face it. Third quarter of 2023 saw gdp growth of 4. 9 . Okay. Fast forward two quarters, First Quarter of this year, 1. 6 . We are in the be middle of a slowdown and nancy lazar at Piper Sandler is calling it a bifurcated economy and she says shes of the base case we will see a recession in the second half of the year where the Unemployment Rate will move from 3. 8 currently to above 4 , shelby. Yeah. Its difficult to watch, right . Because we want to see that productivity. We want to see those gains that sort of waterfall down and have everyone benefit from the productivity in the u. S. Economy but its difficult and we start to enter that dreaded sort of stagflation space that i think a lot of investors we dont want to have to say it out loud but theres really just one way to sort of get out and its either control inflation or sort of squeeze employment and both of those are really difficult for us to try and swallow because they dont seem to really benefit the consumer really up front in the short term. So it is unfortunately still reasonable to say that we could get some sort of slowdown especially if we continue to see squeezes in employment in sort of more of the higher paying white collar space as opposed to some of the middle of the Ladder Service sort of environments. Maria yeah. Great points all around. Shelby, great to have you this morning. Thank you. Thank you. Maria john, youre with us all morning. We appreciate that. Thank you so much. When we come back, gop senators are calling joe bidens grand plan a National Security threat as the president is vowing to bring palestinians from gaza to the United States as refugee as. Ohio congressman Warren Davidson is here with more on that. Youre watching mornings with maria live on fox business. Well be right back. traffic noises the road to opportunity. Is often the road overlooked. At enterprise mobility, we guide companies to unique solutions, from our team of mobility experts. Because we believe the more ways we all have to move forward. The further well all go. And theyre all coming . Those who are still with us, yes. Grandpa whats this . Your wings. Light em up gentlemen, its a beautiful. Day to fly. I dont have any announcement to make on refugees. Were always looking at every option. I mentioned there were 1800 american citizens, palestinian americans that we try to certainly get home or come to the states after october 7 and we tried to make sure we got that done. As relates to vetting and making sure that we are vetting folks who are coming to do that, that is something that we take very, very seriously. Mather. Maria there you go, anr muddled and weak message from White House Press secretary Karine Jeanpierre discussing a potential plan to bring Palestinian Refugees to america. A group demanded they end the plan to bring in gazan refugee, instead bring back the hostages held by hamas. They write we are not confident your administration can adequately vet the high risk population for vair terrorist ts and sympathizers before a admitting them to the United States. Joining us now, congressman Warren Davidson. Thank you for being here this morning. Always an honor. Thank you, maria what do you think . Is this a real plan . It feels like if he were to bring gazans, palestinians from gaza to america now, isnt that suggesting hes responding in a positive way to these antiisrael protesters . I think absolutely. Look, you can feel empathy for the fact that surely theres some peace loving people in gaza that would love to be he free from hamas but it does the exact wrong thing. You want those people to be protected in gaza so that gaza has a future and you want to extract the evil hamas leadership that is crushing the people of gaza and frankly has massacred the people of israel. So thats exactly what israel is trying to do, is extract the lethal danger to the people of israel but also the people that are harmful to the peace loving people of gaza to the extent we can find those, i think the senators letter is exactly correct. How could you possibly vet these people in a time when you say surely we would love to have humanitarian y assistance and gt folks away, look at the folly of the port that the Biden Administration wants to put in gaza. Hamas is shooting at americans, trying to draw america into the war, exposing people to more harm. Maria the president is getting slammed this morning for the weak message yesterday after going 10 days without an on camera statement on the antiisrael riots and antisemitism raging. President biden finally addressed the chaos that had some jewish students afraid to show up for class. Watch this. Moments like this are always those who rush in to score political points. This isnt a moment for politics. There should be no place on if any campus, no place in america for antisemitism or threats of violence against jewish students whether its antisemitism, is islamphobia, destroying property is not a peaceful protest. Maria there has been no islam phobia lets be clear. The prthey say theres been zerm phobia at the protests. Similar condemnation from the wall street journal. Kim strassel writes biden fails the campus protest test, the fear of taking on the crazy left poses a threat to reelection chances. Your reaction . I think its important not to become a reactionary here. This things arent protected. Republicans have been consistent on that. Hopefully democrats become consistent and this doesnt turn into another summer of love with the mostly peaceful protests. The response at columbia in particular was terrible. Ohio state we had protests, they were disrupted once they were violated campus policies. Speech, protected but occupation, taking over buildings, violence, vandalism, not protected. Its important that the country really stay unified behind that. Maria my unofficial look at allall of this it felt like floa was the best. They will not take any of it and said you know the rules, you broke the rules, now you face the consequences. Period. Thats the kind of pushback we need to see for any of this anti any group, antiseemsemi, any group. House republicans who backed that motion to oust former House SpeakerKevin Mccarthy are now distancing themselves from georgia congresswoman Marjorie Taylor greene and her motion to oust Speaker Mike Johnson. 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