Transcripts For FBC Mornings With Maria Bartiromo 20170608 :

Fbi your james comey will testify before the Senate Intelligence committee this morning. Comey will tell lawmakers about the complicated relationship with President Trump, prepared remarks claiming he told comey loyalty, expect loyalty. He wrote the president is not under investigation. Ive been a prosecutor, defense attorney military judge. That means in the minds of special counsel mueller there is no obstruction of justice case to be made because if he felt like he had a case he wouldnt make comey is cheap and only witness going public and cant be bad. Maria fox business bringing you live coverage of the comey testimony. The drama unfolding. The president pushing forward with his agenda. President trump will be with governors and mayors as part of his plans to revamp our countrys infrastructure. More on the agenda coming out. Yesterday we did see the beginnings of the markets impacted by all the noise in d. C. Looking at a rally. Dow industrials up 30 points. Nasdaq s p 500 in the grade. In addition to the British Election we await the ecb can the European Central Bank Decision will happen this morning. Headlines as soon as they had the tape. Watching for any additional stimulus out of mario brexit co. A 5 decline yesterday. A new report this morning from the wall street journal says u. S. Oil exports at 1 Million Barrels a day this year. Breaking news out of ts. The device exploded outside of the u. S. Embassy. No injuries have been reported. Cocacola dropping the sugar. The soda maker at the sugarfree option in some markets. Will consumers straight up or will it fall flat . The biggest stars took to the stage at the cmt awards, Country Music awards. The big winners last night this morning. Jamie to talk talk about it, Fox Business Networks Dagen Mcdowell. The fra strategist length about an editorial page investor at the wall street journal james greenback as it does. Dagen good morning. Lets watch the comey clock. Under four hours away. I want to know after reading that hbo movie script that he wrote to play him, most people in hollywood are like 54, 55. Im sure he has a short list in an hbo movie sure to come to this. Trade to a movie script. Good one. Trade. He just said vince on. That is an excellent suggestion. Trade two really good because he is that all is well. Why did james comey releases testimony a day early, what do you think . Dagen you. Typically when you appear before a committee, you didnt get them to prepared testimony ahead of time so it will come out before the hearing anyway. He obviously did not give lawmakers ofoth partiethe information they asked for. Well see how to ey get about that. The bottom line looks like no case here. Maria do you think the question of did the read allege ask jim comey to lay off the investigation during the election. Will that come up . That is a good question. We are obviously getting the playbyplay of interactions with President Trump. We havent heard the back story that caused him to break protocol last year. He doesnt seem to believe he ought to have a boss. He obviously doesnt think the president should be his boss. Maria he is a real operator worried about his reputation. There are a lot of traveling games in there about jim comey and not President Trump. I dont think weve learned anything about the way she manages people or his personality from the prepared testimony. Maria weve got a lot to cover pictured in the conversation, former whitewater independent counsel robert ray is here. The senator from north dakota john hilton is joining us. Washington congresswoman Cathy Mcmorris rogers also weighed in on the president s agenda in the regulation rollback. We will bring you all of that coming up. British voters headed to the polls today for the third time in over two years in a snap election called by Prime Minister Teresa Knight to shore up our mandate to the negotiation the conservative party and her main rival the Labor Party Led by Jeremy Corbett with the Financial Times poll of polls put Theresa Mays Conservative Party just ahead. That is down more than 20 back in april. The election after to terrorist attacks in the span of three weeks. See what kind of voters had to say about whether security will affect their votes. I think they are more important this election. I think security is an important thing, but not only important thing. I think its a really important aspect. The selection to me was very much a brexit though. Is only one issue among several. I wouldnt necessarily say at the top. By end of this type drug im more interested in things that pensions and so forth. Trade your joining us now from westminster with the latest, Business Editor of the independent josie cox. Thank you for weighed in this morning. Hi, maria. Trade to do you think the terrorist attacks will affect your vote . For what we were hearing as well, of course its on the minds of people. It was a relatively sizable attack. It took the lives of people. People are still talking about it. Definitely on the top of our conscious. On top of that as well, it is a brexit vote. We are a couple weeks away from starting britains exit from the European Union which is an unprecedented step that is still something that divides the nation at the moment. That is also one of the key electoral issues today. James springer with the wall street journal. Wondering if you could tell us about economics here. Unlike previous conservatives, theresa may has not been pushing grow economics, less taxes. Is this a problem in termof the identity of her party . I think especially this feeds into the brexit debate. So much uncertainty about what it will economically beyond the u. K. There have been projections that it will seriously hurt gdp growth. Weve already seen inflation reached 2. 7 which is the highest in a number of years. The pounds are significantly lower than the dollar down 10 since last june so. These things are feeding into concerns of the think tanks of the populace as well. There has definitely been a lot of criticism that theresa may has not addressed those concerns as well as she might have. Dagen josie, let say Jeremy Corbett does end up the leader of britain. You dont make spec that he would put another referendum in front of the british people to then decide whether they stay in the European Union are not. He did not campaign for state in the union actively, correct . That is right. Thats absolutely right. We are so far entrenched in the process that even though official negotiations havent yet started, theres obviously talkbrexit o. Would n almost a yr now. It would be hard to reverse that. Not least because of the willingness of our counterpart to cooperate and be willing to tolerate a backpedaling. What would be the real probability of Jeremy Corbyn winning. Weve seen a titan. What would be the possibility of said three losing because that would be a risk. Theres obviously a still a probability of a Hung Parliament coming out of the election tonight. Overall, it does look like from the polls that Theresa Mays Conservative Party will secure a majority. The possibility of Jeremy Corbyn winning and becoming the next Prime Minister is reduced on all of the posters ive been talking to. That is very marginal at the moment. As we all know from the last couple of years, nothing should be taken for granted that we should brace for any kind of surprise. Maria now we know that. Thank you so much. Josie cox in the u. K. Former fbi director james comey to take center stage today as he is widely anticipated to say a number of things. He released his testimony already. The prepared testimony making huge waves. Kevin couric is that the white house right now. Good morning to you. Reporter good morning, maria. Always on washington and demand that President Trump testified james comey is set to testify capitol hill. And a preview ofis opening statement, saying very clearly once again mr. Comey did say exactly what weve been saying along that the president is not under investigation meddling into the 2016 campaign. Let me share a part of statement. It says in part the president is pleased that mr. Comey is finally publicly confirmed his report that the president was not under investigation in any russian probe. He goes on to add the president feels completely and totally vindicated, eager to move forward with his agenda. If they were only that simple. Obviously not because mr. Comey will still answer a number of probate in an very leading questions about conversations with the president included the socalled request for his loyalty about which the president told fox news base. No, i did it, but i dont think it would be a bad question to ask. Loyal to the country, loyalty to the United States is important. It depends on how you define loyalty. Number one. Number two, i dont know how that got there because i didnt ask that question. Reporter added mass that question. Maybe he was asking it in a different way. Either way the testimony set to begin at 10 00 a. M. We are very excited in washington and i will be here for you but the coverage. Maria a comeback as news develops. Keep your right here on the fox Business Network. We will take live to James Comey Testimony today kicking off at 10 00 a. M. Eastern. We will take it live right here. Cocacola cut the sugar. While the product fall flat with customers . 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A Spokesman Says the new drink is made with aspartame, the closest is ever tasted to the classic coke. 200,000 free drinks will be handed out as part of the kick off. In a memorable night for Country Music fans for the cmt music awards in nashville last night. Reporter Carrie Underwood continued her winning streak is the most awarded artist and cmt history bringing her total to 17 wins. Last night she won female video of the year for her son church bells in her collaboration on the fire with keith urban who is undoubtedly the biggest winner of the night. And the winner is keith urba there is his wife nicole kidman. Awards including video of the year for his smash hit blue paint your color. A little british accent. Im trying to do it, but i cant. Dagen hes australian. He doesnt have a southern accent. He fakes them and the lame song he sings. Trade to President Trump pushiness infrastructure song. Who will get on it today. The truck for north korea. 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Train to President Trump dedicating this week to the crumbling infrastructure. We will do governors and mayors listening session later today in an effort to ensure the administrations policy alliance at this day. After he pushes 1 trillion to restructure plan is in the matter yesterday. Watch. The American People deserve the best infrastructure anywhere in the world. We are a nation that created the panama canal, the Transcontinental Railroad and you think about this, the great highway system, the interstate highway system. We dont do that anymore. We really dont. Trying to join nfls policy director for mitt romney and Research Fellow at the hoover institution, lonnie chad. What do you make of the president s focus on infrastructure. With everything going on in terms of jim comey investigations. The infrastructure pieces critical because it did for Economic Growth. The better infrastructure the president talked about waterways, air Traffic Control system. These are crucial things if we get our economy moving. In the long run, this is a big investment we can make. This is going to be absolutely crucial. Its unfortunate we havent seen or support because this is an issue we thought would be able to get cooperation on. Maria we havent seen any cooperation on the agenda. Do you think is a little push this through . Does he get some relief on permitting . Every big effort is five or 10 years and bureaucratic hurdles. Can we see that . I dont expect that to be a democratic priority but could that end up in the bill . Is absolutely critical. The rollback in ranks. Has been undercover to really renovate the administrative state. We have so much stuff over the last eight years with barack obama they could have harder and harder for businesses to grow and invest. With respect to infrastructure, impacts have been huge and unfortunate. But in a different direction regulation absolutely critical. If we are going to get anything done. Any private money in the process and get the 1 trillion target, you have to convince them again and again and again that it will be an easier permitting process. The wall street journal reported that their blackstone is behind this effort to lay cables to bring electricity from canada into the new york city area. The permitting process is 10 years log in that effort. There is skepticism on the republican side as well. The journal reported today the effort to privatize air Traffic Control is facing resistance from republicans who are worried about rural areas and less populous areas. Anytime youve got an entrenched system there would be people defending the entrenched system. Theres no doubt if you look at air traffic and drove, this is something democrats and republicans have agreed on. For administrators coming out saying the system and crucial if we are going to move the system forward. They know how much the disaster this could bbecause of airspace design in the 1960s and 70s. It all begins of health care. You are at capitol hill yesterday. Lawmakers on capitol hill working towards replacing obamacare. Kevin mccarthy was at this yesterday and he explained why obamacare is failing right now. No bill has passed the change obamacare. 18 of the 23 coops have collapsed. Premiums have doubled. They want to increase next year. The Insurance Companies have pulled out without a bill passing before we got here. Its a lot of smoke and mirrors. To me its almost laughable democrats would even bring that forward. Twin to my question about them saying it is failing now to the gop because of uncertainty around it. Republican and now really incumbent upon the senate to take action. Mitch mcconnell has said he wants to get a bill out by the fourth of july. But if the tax reform and other issues. On health care bears an opportunity for republicans to get better. The medicaid entitlement reform peace in the house bill is critical. So to Fix Health Care the right way. 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