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FBC Sunday Morning Futures With Maria Bartiromo June 21, 2024

Terror group. Then three more candidates entering the race for the white house as comments from Hillary Clinton about Voting Rights get the gop field fired up. Our panel will begin right there as we look ahead on sunday morning futures. Well federal employees hit by a massive cyber attack personal information for at least 4 million employees exposed over the course of three decades. Hackers in china appear to be the culprit, targeting the office of Personnel Management which manages employee records for every federal agency. Now, the white house is blaming congress, saying it has not kept the Computer System safe and up to date. Joining me now, republican congressman Steve Scalise of louisiana, who is House Majority whip. Congressman, great to have you on the program. Great to be with you. So what can we be doing right now to ensure we dont get these kinds of hacks . Is the president right . Well no. In fact this is the president s administration. Typical example of the president having something happen right under his nose. The white house was hacked not too long ago, trying to blame somebody else. This is the Second Attack at opm. This is a federal agency that the president has authority over not congress. Obviously were going to look into this at the congressional level, but with 4 million more federal employees having their personal data Social Security number and other information at risk the president ought to be working with us to do more to go after china and these other countries that are trying to steal data, not just at the federal level, but in the private sector as well. It certainly identifies a vulnerability. So can you talk to us about the vulnerability that we face right now as a country . How safe are our computers . Government computers. I mean the fact you have had multiple data breaches not just two at opm, but even at the white house. The white house has been hacked themselves. It shows you that these state sponsors isnt just some kids sitting in a basement. These are countries actively trying to steal data not just of federal agencies, but of individuals in major corporations. Its a major problem. Its been a problem for a long time. We need to do more. Weve passed two bills out of the house, by the way, to increase protections of individual citizens and federal agencies. The president sat on the sidelines for those legislations. Maybe he wants to get in the game roll of his sleeves and work with us to get those bills signed into law. Its interesting because there is a balance to walk in terms of protecting our data but also protecting our privacy. So lets talk about the disagreements and how you walk that balance. I guess Mitch Mcconnell and john boehner sort of went at each other and had a conflict over the use of protecting data and the patriot act. Absolutely. When we went through this in the house, it was a real delicate balance that we worked out to make sure that our intelligence agencies can gather the data they need to go after terrorists all around the world who we know want to do us harm while also protecting the privacy of individual citizens. Its a delicate balance i thought we worked really well to achieve. It was a bipartisan agreement we got. We sent it to the senate. They maybe wanted to go in a different direction for a while and realized to get to 60 votes, its hard to strike that balance. We did a good job in the house. Ultimately they took the bill we passed and sent that to the president. He just signed it a few days ago. So i think this is going to continue to give our Intelligence Agency the tools we need but we also added new protections for individual privacy of american citizens. People want to know we want to talk more about this congressman. A lot more with congressman scalise this morning. First, lets look at the president s controversial Transpacific Partnership. Want to get your thoughts on the tpp, congressman. Hes trying to persuade lawmakers to give him the power to compete and then finish the new treaty with 11 other pacific rim countries. The president says its good for the middle class. But even members of his own party are skeptical. So what would this bill really mean for jobs and wages for American Workers . Fox news Senior Correspondent eric shawn on that angle. Good morning to you. Good morning, maria and congressman, and good morning, everyone. Weve been here before. The white house promoting an International Trade agreement that supporters say will open up foreign markets and help our economy. The critics call it a boondoggle giveaway that will cost u. S. Jobs. We have the most Productive Work force. When you get down to where the folks do the work guess who is still number one in the world . This country is remember that giant sound . Ross perot in 1992 warning about the north American Free trade agreement that unions now blame for costing upwards of 700,000 u. S. Jobs. Well those echoes are being heard now yet again. This time the debate is about the Transpacific Partnership agreement, which would lift barriers between the u. S. And 11 pacific nations. Yes, that includes mexico yet again. The agreement would pump billions into the u. S. Market from those foreign markets, but theres a warning about the result. President afl cio laid out its concerns in this video. When the United States is forced to compete with countries with exploitive labor practices, wages for americas workers will go down. The tpp would allow trading partners to manipulate their currency and would ship even more u. S. Jobs overseas. And despite the opposition from some in his own base the president is strongly pushing for the plan. The fact is there are many areas where we disagree but the president and some democrats in the house of representatives agree with the vast majority of republicans that the trade Promotion Authority is in the best interest of the u. S. Economy. And hopefully democrats and republicans will be able to Work Together to pass it. That vote in the house could come this week. But the fallout from any agreement may not be known for years. Just like a legacy of that nafta debate and ross perots warnings two decades ago. Maria . All right, eric. Thanks very much. Eric shawn with the latest there. More now with Steve Scalise. Lets talk about tpp for a second. First of all china not involved in this program. Were trying to do a trade deal with other countries within the pacific rim. Whats the strategy there . The strategy is right now in asia we really dont have access to a lot of markets. So if youre making products in america, anybody can come in and bring their products into our country. We have a very open economy. Were for free trade in general. What american trade is about, what this agreement is about, is getting access to asian markets and european markets for american products. Frankly, right now we need to give American Workers a competitive advantage so that they can go in and compete in those other countries. Where we compete, we win. Right now china has been writing the rules of the game in asia. What this agreement is about, getting the ability, number one, to put constraints on the president. We literally put over 150 different clauses that limit the president s ability. He cant put things like Global Warming in this agreement. It also gives Congress Full Veto Authority on the deal. If its a bad deal we can literally veto it before it moves forward. If you had this with the iran negotiations i think many people across the country would say thats a great deal. This is something that gives us the ability to give American Workers a competitive advantage so that we can go compete in places we dont have trade agreements where chinas been writing the rules. How about if we write the rules for a change . Really important here. Thats where the population growth in the world is. Youre seeing countries like indonesia. Thats where youre seeing growth in economies, so america has to get their products in there. Right. And there are so many products. Whether its Agricultural Products in america, manufactured products in america where we cant get those products to a lot of these countries. Well beat them on competition. But right now the rules of the game are written against us. We need to flip that around. And theres strong accountability in this bill that ensures that our products are going to have open access to places where they cant go right now. Lets create more jobs in america, open up markets for us to compete and win. What are the potential downers in terms of not getting those constraints on the president . Go through some of the things that youve insisted on putting this in bill to limit the president and how hes dealing with some of the countries overseas. Well things like protections of proprietary information. You see countries like china stealing our data stealing our information. So companies that have great ideas come up with great new technologies in america. Countries like china try to steal that all the time. We have real protections here that they have to comply with the protections that we have of information. But the other thing is were actually going to be opening up those markets where right now they have high tariffs. For example, if youre trying to build a foreign car company, ive talked to governors who said they can get Foreign Car Companies to build plants in america where we make those cars. The problem is they wont build them here right now because the tariffs are too high. You knock those barriers down youll see more development in america. Youll see more investment in america in the ability for us to go compete in those countries where right now they have barriers against us. So you dont think the unions understand that . Well i think some of these unions are just misguided in terms of what it takes to compete across the world. If you think that the United States can just sit around and compete against itself this is a global economy. In fact most of the trade, most of the Economic Activity goes on in other countries. We can make most of those products but right now they have rules that block us from selling to them. Lets knock those barriers down. American workers will compete and win when we get that opportunity. We just need to knock the barriers down so they can go and have access to these other growing markets. Understood. Congressman, good to have you on the show today. Good to be here. We appreciate your time representative Steve Scalise, majority tyity whip in the house. Coming up next isis on the agenda. With the president set to meet with the iraqi Prime Minister at the g7 summit this weekend after the iraqi leader blasted the u. S. For not doing enough in the fight against isis. What the u. S. Should and should not be doing, well talk with a former Delta Force Commander weighing in. Hope youll follow us on twitter mariabartiromo sunday morningfutures. Let us know what youd like to here. Back in a minute. My school reunion. I dont know. Who wants to play in idaho . Gotta get milwaukee up to speed. We win in flint, we take the lead. Well close the deal if we just show. When its go, go to the new choicehotels. Com. The site with the right room, rewards and savings up to 20 when you book direct. Choicehotels. Com welcome back. President obama expected to hold a oneonone meeting with the Prime Minister of iraq. This after the iraqi leader criticized the United States coalition for not doing enough to defeat isis. It also happens as we get word that iraqi forces backed by shiite militias just recaptured key parts of a northern refinery town from the terrorism group. The troops reportedly still advancing in the area that fell to isis a year ago. Joining me right now is retired Lieutenant General jerry boykin. Hes former Delta Force Commander and executive Vice President of the Family Research council. General, good to have you on the program. Thanks so much for joining us. Thank you, maria. Good to be with you. Lets first talk about the upcoming g7 meeting in germany. The president is going to be meeting one on one with the iraq Prime Minister. What are you expecting out of that meeting . Well what im expecting is more rhetoric that will come out of the meeting. I think that its laughable that the Prime Minister would criticize america for not doing enough but i think that what were going to wind up doing is more of the same which is providing more weapons and equipment to an army that has a history of throwing them down fleeing, and turning them over to isis. Well i mean thats the issue. So what are we supposed to do after weve seen time and time again were sending equipment, sending, you know, support, and isis is actually rolling over the iraqi forces . Well ask yourself who are the real fighters . Other than isis, who are the real fighters in that region . The answer is its the kurds. The kurds, the peshmerga, have a long history of being willing to take on these forces down in the baghdad region these forces that are surrogates for iran. They have a long history of being willing to fight. Weve seen that. We saw that, you know for the last year. So the people that we should be arming and equipping are the kurds. And we shouldnt do it through baghdad. We should do it into erbil. Fly airplanes into erbil, offload weapons and material. Everyone agrees that is one of the answers. How come its not happening . Well because this government in baghdad is corrupt and because everything that the United States sends to the kurds goes into baghdad for distribution to the kurds, but it never gets to the kurds. We havent provided the kurds with anything and its time that we bypass baghdad, bypass this surrogate government for iran and we start supplying the kurds directly. These people will fight, and they can make a difference in this fight against isis. I see. Meanwhile, youve got iraqi officials saying that isis fighters have cut off water to the towns, loyalist towns, in and around ramadi. Theyve taken down ramadi obviously. The pentagon has confirmed that 10,000 isis fighters have been killed in battle but theyre still controlling and sort of dominating the region. Look we did this body count assessment in vietnam. It doesnt work. When you kill 10,000 and recruit 20,000 in the same period of time it seems like the odds are not in your favor. What we need to understand is that with our special Operations Forces and our air power, particularly our air force air power, if we turned our special Operations Forces loose and let them accompany the kurdish fighters the peshmerga, to direct air strikes, to call air strikes, to use lasertarget designators to designate specific targets, we could have a huge impact not just on killing isis which i believe is a good thing, but also in destroying their command centers, destroying some of their key nodes, which is all part of being able to defeat them ultimately. Meanwhile, how does iran fit into all of this sir . Because we are continuing these talks with iran over a Nuclear Agreement and the deadline is at the end of the month, june 30th which very few people believe will actually yield anything. And the president of iran rouhani, is vowing to back syrias proassad forces. He says quote, until the end of the road. Yeah, you know if you were sitting in baghdad and you were lets say, a fighter for the iraqi army and you saw what the United States was doing with iran you saw that the United States was foolishly acting like we were going to come up with some kind of serious treaty with iran, would you be willing to go out and fight isis knowing that the United States is not going to do anything to help you, the United States is all sold out to iran. This is foolishness. Everybody knows this is foolishness. The only strategy that i see by this administration is to send josh earnest out to try and convince america that no matter whats going on on the ground no matter whats going on behind closed doors in this treaty josh earnest has convinced us that everything is good and were going to come out of this in very good shape. Thats not true. Well thats i guess theres a perception out there, i think, that you are articulating. Sir, good to have you on the program. Thanks so much general. Thank you. Glad to be with you. Well see you soon. We appreciate it. Why are so Many American families not benefitting from the improving economy . Meanwhile back at home what would raising Interest Rates do . Business mogul sam zel is with us today as we look ahead on that day when the fed does start raising rates on sunday morning futures. Attention. Did you or anyone in your household work around asbestoscontaining gaskets and packing . The garlock bankruptcy may affect your rights even if you do not presently have an asbestosrelated disease. Garlocks products were used in industrial and maritime settings, where steam, hot liquid or acid moved in pipes. Certain personal injury claims must be filed by october 6, 2015. You may hav

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