maria: yeah. well, you know, we knew or we had a sense that this was happening at twitter, but you're right. i mean, what about google? what about facebook? we already know that the -- because of sworn testimony, we know that the fbi was having weekly meetings with social media companies to try to stop them from reporting the truth about influence peddling happening in the biden family? >> think about the timeline of when this was right before the election, just a couple weeks. and remember how close this election was. 95% of all searches go through google. twitter withholding a newspaper article saying you can't -- then an intel community coming out and saying it's a lie. adam schiff, the chairman of the intel, saying it's not true to wolf blitzer. they used every arm not only of the government, but they have taken over businesses to lie to the american public. this is just the gunning, and -- beginning, and this is why we've got to be ready to go on january 3rd. all this will be held up. maria:

maria: yeah. absolutely. we have more on this tiktok ban. governors across the banning the device, banning the app rather on government he devices. much more ahead. when we come back, the fed's favorite read on inflation is out today, the november pce index out in less than 90 minutes. we have our all star panel weighing in. a monster storm is making its way across the country. how it stands to affect your travel plans. we have a live report coming up. don't miss it. you're watching "mornings with maria" live on fox business. ♪ oh, the weather outside is frightful. ♪ but the fires is so he delightful. ♪ and since we have no no place to go. ♪ let it snow, let it snow, let it snow. ♪ it doesn't show signs of stopping. ♪ and i brought some corn for popping. ♪ the lights are turned way down low. ♪ let it snow, let it snow get refunds.com powered by innovation refunds can help your business get a payroll tax refund, even if you got ppp and it only takes eight minutes to qualify. i went

maria: yeah. dagen: this story that -- from lee fang, this was a psych ops from the federal government, from the military, that's not really surprising. i would describe that as kind of the frosting on the excrement cake that's been revealed by these twitter file dumps. elon musk -- there's a long thread going on about how much tesla's stock is down and elon was trying to make excuses about it, because interest rates are up and a people are putting money in savings accounts but there's a real problem over at tesla and elon musk has to worry about that company because what he's done at twitter has raised serious questions about his management capability over at tesla. there was a headline from one publication that twitter implemented -- excuse me, tesla implemented a hiring freeze and is planning additional layoffs so there are problems there. he's got multiple companies to worry about, not just twitter. maria: barry, how do you see it? >> yeah, i see it within the lens, the broader lens of a decad

maria: yeah. well, you took his deposition, right in i mean, you took his deposition while in congress. and, you know, you say that the dni was not suppressing information, but the rest of the apparatus in the government was. the fbi, the doj meeting with social media to say all this is likely a part of the dump from russia. so what happens now? how, how do you, you know, undo this abuse of power? >> well, there's no question, maria. so this was, as i said, this was a domestic disinformation campaign. it involved democrats like adam schiff on the, you know, house intelligence committee, it involved members of the media, it involved, you know, according to fbi whistleblowers fbi agents and it, of course, involved twitter. and all of these working in concert, putting their not just thumb on the scale, but entire hand on the scale to mislead the american people in the weeks and months preceding a presidential election. and, you know, to this point, you know, one of the questions i have is, you know,

thank you, maria. maria: quick break an and theno as i say, not as i do, how l members betters of the biden administration are using taxpayer money to fly private while pushing to curb carbon emissions. yes, it is the hot topic buzz and a we've got details after a this. ♪ if your business kept on employees through the pandemic, getrefunds.com can see if it may qualify for a payroll tax refund of up to $26,000 per employee. all it takes is eight minutes to get started. then work with professionals to assist your business with its forms and submit the application. go to getrefunds.com to learn more. maria: welcome back. time for the hot topic buzz. the biden white house keeps pushing for green energy but it is not practicing what they preach. documents assessed by fox news digital show that transportation secretary pete buttigieg traveled by private jet 18 times since taking office, all on your taxpayer dime. he went to places like florida, ohio, new hampshire, even out of the country. the private jet'

[laughter] maria: alex, good to have you. >> thank you, maria. maria: alex sanchez. the next hour of mornings with maria begins right now. well, the vaccine mandate for u.s. military has, indeed, been lifted, something that you heard here first on this program this week. the house to repeal pentagon's mandate. gop leader kevin mccarthy joined me on sunday morning futures to tell me how he negotiated that in the new congress, watch. >> i had a meeting with the president and laid out clearly with new republican majority. we will secure lifting that vaccine mandate on our military because what we are finding they are kicking out men and women that have been serving, people -- they are not meeting their recruitment, come next week you will see that we have been able to. that's the first victory of having a republican majority. maria: joining the conversation all morning long dagen mcdowell, james freeman and rob asterino. lloyd austin was against this. the defense secretary wanted the vaccine mandate in place. how many people have lost their jobs or resigned from the mil

maria: welcome back. the senate approved a temporary government funding bill to avert a weekend shutdown lawmakers now have until december 23 to craft a full year omnibus deal nancy pelosi also planning to include senator josh's bill to ban tiktok on government devices in that omnibus bill joining me now at senate ranking bank can go committee member bill hagerty, senator it is great to see you this morning, good morning to you can you tell us about the -- the approval here, on this senate bill it? is obviously funding the deposit just through the weekend. >> maria a short term bridge but something i am not supportive of, we need to move this, into the next calendar year into a point where republicans have an advantage i am businessperson negotiated entire year negotiate from position of advantage, we don't have advantage should not peclosing this at this point in time we should wait until republicans have control house of representatives, that is where we find ourselves right now at least i am flood josh

maria: good morning, thanks very much for joining us. i'm maria bartiromo. it is thursday, december 1. your top stories, 6:00 a.m. on the east coast. jay powell gives markets what they want, suggesting the pace of rate hikes is about to slow. >> time for moderating the pace of rate increases may come as soon as the december meeting. given our progress in tightening policy, the timing of that moderation is far less significant than the questions of how much further we will need to raise rates to control inflation and the p length of time it will be necessary to hold policy at a restrictive level. maria: with that, stocks ripped higher this morning, futures indicating a decline, a pullback from yesterday's big move. this morning on the first trading day of a new month, the final month of 2022. take a look at futures, dow industrials down 72, s&p down 5, nasdaq lower by 38 as we look ahead to personal income and spending this morning out at 8:30 a.m. eastern. we'll get you you the numbers as soon as they hit the tape. yesterday's fireworks were strong, the dow

maria: good thursday morning thanks very much for joining is in morning i am maria bartiromo. it is thursday, december 1, top stories right now 8:00 a.m. on the east coast,jay powell to gives markets what they want sugg

maria: exactly. real quick before you do, the senate minority leader mitch mcconnell says they are close to reaching a deal on the omnibus spending package. others told us that there would be a continuing resolution until the new congress takes over, the 118th next year. congressman where are you on this? are we going to see more spending stoking inflation? >> yeah, i'm absolutely a no vote. if you look at the agreement, they said the agreement was between senate republicans, senate democrats and house democrats. house republicans are not being included in this. just basic econ 101, if it cranes federal spending it's going to increase inflation. the fed will fight that with higher interest rates and that just means the working man is getting screwed once again by what's being done in washington, d.c. maria, if they do send it over, i tell you, if they send it over without a way to pay for it, they should be prepared to withhold or to hold back some of their federal appropriations because we in the ho

i'm maria bartiromo. today, collusion and corruption at the highest levels as big tech works with government to deceive the people. critical decisions by social media companies and apple, among others, putting america in danger. first, manipulating an election. elon musk exposes the collusion between with twitter and joe biden's campaign right before the 2020 election and says twitter interfered in that election amidst reports of weekly meetings between the fbi and social media to shut down news of hunter biden's crimes. that from under-oath testimony of an fbi agent. today we connect the dots to the impact on martial security. coming up, oversight ranking member james colmar on what he'll -- james comer on what he'll do with subpoena power. senator ron johnson on a political doj and censorship at the farthest reaching media in america. coming up, what is the new gop congress going to do about it? if as ken mccarthy locks up -- kevin mccarthy locks up the house speaker job. he is here. then, the national

. >> m merry christmas to you, maria. maria: mike brown joining us. the next hour of "mornings with maria" begins right now. good thursday morning. thanks for joining us this morning. i'm maria bartiromo. it is thursday, december 15, 7:00 a.m. on the east coast. a texas judge is warning of a wave of illegal migrants coming, flooding across the southern border once title 42 ends next week. he s says apprehensions could climb as high as 4500 a day in he'll l pa -- he'll el paso. henry cuellar is calling on fiewn visit the border and -- president biden to visit the border and take a look for himself. >> i don't know why they a avoid the border and say there's other things more important than visiting the border. go there's a crisis, show up. just showing up at the border would send a strong signal to the communities that he's there, he cares about the border communities. just show up. it doesn't take much to just show up at the border. maria: no, it doesn't. we were there five times, this program originated from the border live several times. joining the

maria: right. because as we see interest rates going higher, the cost of carrying that debt becomes that much more expensive and yet, maya, the president is falsely claiming that his policies have actually lowered the national debt. watch what he said this week. look. >> we've done all of this while lowering the federal deficit in the two years we've been in office $1.7 trillion. let me say that again. $1.7 trillion we've lowered the federal debt. no administrations has ever cut that, the deficit that much. maria: so what is he saying, the national debt was 27.7 trillion in january 2021, when he took office. now that debt is 31.4 trillion. during his first 23 months in office the debt grew by nearly $3.7 trillion. thats was misleading. >> yeah. maria, i have to say that this repeated, repeated claim from the administration is one of the most frustrating things i have heard because it is completely misleading. what happened is that our an wall deficit came down of course because so much of the money

maria: that's right. >> it's good to see that finally stood up to twitter's tyranny and it was great that it was ro khana from the left. we heard ever from the course, ever we have seen the twitter files and the left -- leftist media has been really talking about, you know, multiple variations of free speech is not absolute. we heard a lot of that over the course of the last few days which is complete rubbish but going back to kjp saying that this is old news, for two years they're been telling us this is -- maybe, yeah, little over two years they've been telling us this is fake news. if it is old news it had to be real. the hunter biden laptop story is not the real news to come from the expose. yes, that's important but the real news is how the employees of twitter suppressed the story. the policy violation clause that they using, the hacking clause which was bogus and tried covering it up knowing that it was bogus. it proves, you have evidence that a leading social media company had been working for the

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maria: welcome back. stocks are mixed this tuesday morning after yesterday's retreat the dow industrials right now down a fractionly 24 points s&p down 10 nasdaq lower by 62 yesterday down at worst better than 300 closed down about 162 stocks closed at lowest level since n november 9 joining me right now crossmark chief market strategists victoria fernandez great to o see you thanks so much for being here what are you expecting into 2023? how are you positioned. >> yes, i think going to being from year you have the but also and baers that can make an argument here as to what they think is going to happen, when talking day clients really setting them up for slower growth mentality into 2023. we think earnings is going to be key now that we've got past some fed meetings don't have another fed meeting until a couple months into the year you were talking maria about productivity earlier, when you've got companies having to lower prices, pay more on wages, because of the labor shortage we have you were discuss

maria: yeah. and, you know, if there are terrorists out there who want to breach america, well, they know now is the time because it's wide open. that's why we focus so much on the 100 people that were apprehended who were actually on terrorist watch lists right now, leo. the new york posted tore y'all board this morning -- editorial board writes the end of title 42 will increase soaring fentanyl deaths. they write the border insanity is not just killing migrants and the u.s. law enforcement next it's also killing kids and destroying families via the massive inflow of drugs the white house invited and we talked about this over and over again. we've seen the situation up close and personal, given the fact we've taken the show there five times to the southern border. >> my dad had a saying when i was a kid, he said when you find yourself in a hole, stop digging. and that's what we're dealing with here. we're throwing gasoline on a fire by ending title 42. it's obvious and it's logical that not just

. >> thank you maria. maria: california congressman ro khanna joining us this morning and dangerous game of influence peddling with the chinese communist party. as joe biden keeps up a soft on china agenda, xi jinping now says he wants to buy saudi oil and gas with the chinese juan instead of u.s. dollar in another effort to weaken the u.s. grip on global trade plus the u.s. leaves another marine behind. in enemy hands. all of that next with four star general jack keane. stay with us. it was her first christmas. it was our first christmas being parents. i didn't know a lot about brain tumors, and what i had heard wasn't good. i certainly never dreamed that i would be fighting for her life. narrator: families never receive a bill from st. jude for treatment, travel, housing, or food, so they can focus on helping their child live. you can make a difference. please become a st jude partner in hope right now. subject 1: my dreams are to watch her grow up. subject 2: you going to do that one all by yourself? go

maria: yeah. i mean, you make a good point about the early voting. that's what kevin mccarthy said to me yesterday, republicans need to find a way to trust the mail-in ballots and mail-in voting so that it can start before game day if you will. we're going to keep a spotlight on that. of course, the big day is tomorrow, the runoff senate race. we'll take a closer look. when we come back we're looking at markets can moving ahead of the november producer price index out friday and the final meeting of the federal reserve next week, the word on wall street panel is is breaking it l down when we come back. you're wa watching "mornings wih maria" live on fox business. ♪ you're left in the dust. ♪ unless i stuck by you. ♪ you're a sunflower. ♪ i think you love me too much. ♪ or you'll be left in the dust. ♪ unless i stuck by ya. ♪ you're the sunflower. ♪ you're the sunflower novation s could qualify it for a payroll tax refund of up to $26,000 per employee. all it takes is eight minutes

maria: [laughter] maria: she wants to be very clear. joining the conversation all morning long this morning is fox business' dagen mcdowell and strategic wealth partners ceo mark tepper. i mean, this is just extraordinary, dagen. the way she sits there and continues to mislead the american people. and saying to actually go to the extent of saying if you believe the border is not secure, then you're doing the work of he these drug cartels. dagen: it's the exact opposite. the biden administration and a everyone working in it has laid the foundation for these human traffickers and drug traffickers, human smugglers and drug smugglers to profit from human suffering and misery, from the very moment that they took control of the white house and the executive branch. this is on them. the death, the misery, the rape, you name it. and they know it and this is all that they have left. jen psaki stood up there in march of 2021 and said it's not chaos, it's a challenge at the border. so we see these images. again, remember the faa tried the to stop

maria: welcome back. futures indicating a decline at the start of trading this morning. take a look, this after stocks had their best day since november 30 yesterday. the dow is down 62, nasdaq is down 16. right now. joining he me right now is mahoney asset management ceo, ken mahoney. thank you for being here. what are we expecting as we head into 2023 for markets and the macro story? >> when you turn the page of the new calendar year, we want to celebrate, want to start low carb diets, get back on the treadmill, peloton and so forth. it will be the same type of economy. last tuesday, investors mike myself we had visions of sugar plums dancing in our heads, seeing inflation coming back. the next day, we get the angry elf. jerome powell once again. he's been angry elf since jackson hole, quite frankly. if you listen to the fed, it's ominous. he said basically that while we will get inflation to come down, unemployment rate will go higher, gdp will come down. the definition of stagflation is just that. low

maria: welcome back. futures indicating a triple degenerative it decline this morning after a better than expected jobs report on friday. we've got the fed meeting in a week and-a-half. dow industrials down 121, s&p down 15, nasdaq down 28. what did that stronger than expected jobs number mean for the fed? that's the reaction we're seeing this morning, joining me now is ox bo advisors managing partner, ted oakley. thank you so much for being here. we've had a pretty year end rally if you look at october and november. does it have legs or do you think markets are focused on an aggressive fed? >> well, you know, maria, it's about the third one this year that we've had and i think it's too early to say that that's something that's going to continue because we've never had a bear market low when the fed was raising rates into an inverted curve. so we have our doubts about that i'd have to say. maria: do you think we are going to continue to see inflation elevated and a markets react? we've got the november p

. >> thank you maria. maria: california congressman ro khanna joining us this morning and dangerous game of influence peddling with the chinese communist party. as joe biden keeps up a soft on china agenda, xi jinping now says he wants to buy saudi oil and gas with the chinese juan instead of u.s. dollar in another effort to weaken the u.s. grip on global trade plus the u.s. leaves another marine behind. in enemy hands. all of that next with four star general jack keane. ♪ i got into debt in college and, no matter how much i paid, it followed me everywhere. so i consolidated it into a low-rate personal loan from sofi. get a personal loan with no fees, low fixed rates, and borrow up to $100k. sofi. get your money right. ♪3, 4♪ ♪ ♪hey♪ ♪ ♪are you ready for me♪ ♪are you ready♪ ♪are you ready♪ thanks to avalara we can calculate sales tax on almost anything, anywhere, automatically. avalarahhhhh. what if tax rates change? ahhhhhh. filing sales tax returns? ahhhhhh. managing exemption c

maria: that's right. dagen: and i said that from the day of his inauguration that what he's doing to our energy dominance in our energy sector is going to emboldened, empower and enrich our enemies namely russia and give them money to basically go to war against nations that are our allies and, well, lo and behold it happened but i think merry kissell makes a better case than joe biden and anybody in his administration would. >> we need to remember why we are sending aid to ukraine in the first place. it's because putin got aggressive and because joe biden was being weak. whether we are talking about russia and china, our adversaries started flexing on us as soon as we botched the afghanistan withdrawal. blunder after blunder after blunder. that's why we are in the situation right now. if none of that had ever happened, i don't know for sure but my guess is that putin may not have invaded ukraine and you know that in trump in office, he was feared and respected, there's no way that this would be happening

maria: pat. dagen: patrick growing up in virginia it was a story that the national media was happy to cover the opioid epidemic if west virginia pharmaceutical opioids, oh, poor west virginia to come into state cover that way to be able to blame big you pharmaceuticals companies horrific as it was now it goes unrecords ignored because it is a problem that is coming from china across our border. >> look. i don't think immediate wants to acknowledge that is going on because if you have to point fingers at china, the mexican drug cartels all of a sudden, hey what is secretary of state blinken doing not nearly much mayorkas should be impeached or fired what is about merrick garland doing not increasing number of fentanyl prosecutions, this has been unmitigated disaster the only agency i think that is trying some degree is dea they need a lot of help that is whyive called for fentanyl to be listed as wp of mass destruction just tip of the iceberg what we need to do. dagen: i was not looking down on we

maria: unbelievable. dagen: but broadly speaking, i just want to point out, this is just simply a con and a con wita new pitch and a new angle for the 21st century so it is very important that this was all about crypto and the digital beanie baby mania and that they suck people in. not just -- you know, this was unregulated. this was -- that was the allure of crypto assets and all of this. and i do want to emphasize that when there are cons, there are ropers, these are people in on the scheme who are pulling unsuspecting individuals in, the dupes if you will, and then there are also gullible morons looking for an easy payout and there is a lawsuit that is moving ahead, a class action lawsuit and you know who is behind it, david boise, the famous attorney. so they are going after tom brady, naomi asaka, larry david, the national basketball team, the golden state warriors, that's moving ahead. it is now in front of u.s. district court judge michael moore in the southern district of florida so this is all mo

maria: welcome back. time for the word on wall street, top investors watching your money. joining me right now is laffer tangler investment ceo and chief investment officer, nancy tengler, and dana dioria. great to see you. thank you for being here. nancy, wells fargo is cutting hundreds of jobs in the mortgage business across the country as rates weigh on the housing market. a lot of people say the housing market is pretty much in recession right now and of course we are seeing rates come off a of highs which went all the way up to 7 and a quarter percent. the 30 year rate right now at 6.49%. you're looking at stocks like public storage due to the state of the housing market. tell me how you're investing around this situation in housing. >> well, thanks for having me, maria. you know, it's interesting. we've been through these cycles before. i'm sure you saw the story where freddy and fannie they're going to raise the limit of mortgages that are backed by freddy and fannie to over a million with a 3% dow

maria: well, look. we will see, maybe that is what they are this could dagen that is what market has been speculating we are up big since september 30th, in stocks, because investors are you know, suggesting and betting that this tiny phase is coming to end how many people have we spoken with that think the fed is going to start cutting rates the end of next year. >> i think the those a lot of those people are still -- they haven't seen let go of that euphoria. and mania that took hold during the loose money days during the pandemic. that is very hard to shake. but to the congressman's point, that we are that short-term reports by the time 4 1/2% on wednesday that is highest in 15 years. and they've gone up fastest in 40 years to repeat what the congressman was saying. that is a shock. to the financial system. and the people who are getting shocked the most and hardest working men and women the burden at first was inflation juiced by the federal reserve, and the reckless spending coming out of the biden

maria: that's right. >> controls away from twitter employees. maria: we've been hearing about internal communications in 2020 but we need to see what went on in 2021 with a sitting government. i mean, the house republicans will soon gain the power to launch the congressional investigations, host committee hearings, many lawmakers say that big tech will be held accountable and jim jordan, ohio congressman tweeted this. what's worst, former twitter executive lying about shadow banning or promoting lies. texas congressman pat fallon echoed, tech will be accountable for flagrant bias. what can happen in terms of new rules, could they lose section 230, what do you think comes out of these hearings? >> you know, you mentioned representative jim jordan and he -- representative comer and mcrogers also have legislation that can help begin to help the stem the styed of government coerce in social media forms. they have a bill that would make it illegal for the federal government to engage in political pressuring. w

maria: welcome back. well the fallen the presidentx cofounder sam bankman-fried agreed to extradition from bahamas to the united states,where he will face fraud and conspiracy charges expected to appear in court today, the department of justice charging sbf defrauding investors out of 1.8 billion dollars leo reaction. leo: unfortunately this happens in a bubble this is catastrophe on steroids, crypto along the way while may have a utility in the economy going forward. we reached just insane pricing, when we get to a point asset is being priced, based on its prior price, you are starting to subject yourself to this outcome. now this one happens to be an example of a perfect storm, highly speculative investors throwing money at asset hoping to get the rich quick unregulated industry a media that fell in love with this young superstar they thought going to be the next, a sad soe for swrefrz who loss had the money i think just scratching the surface about how bad this actually was. maria: a news flash dagen t

maria mariju--maria: walk us thl greko. >> he's an artist before his time. he's trying to paint the soul of people and the body is just inside there. last painting. he actually painted it and attarration of the shepherds. jesus the lamb of god appears first to the shepherds. you can see the light in the painting, shining, lighting everybody else up and it's a kind of image to contemplate the coming of christ on christmas eve. maria: i love it. lighting the darkness, really so fascinating. thank you for that. i recommend this tour to everybody. it was incredible, so illuminating, steven, i can't thank you enough. thanks very much for being here this morning. congrats on the book. >> thank you, maria. maria: we will see you soon. steven disjoining us. the next hour of mornings with maria begins right now. good tuesday morning, everybody. thank you very much for joining us this morning. i'm maria bartiromo and it is tuesday december 20th, it is 7:01 on the east coast. elon musk exposes corruption at the fbi and the doj with the new twitter files round 7. they s

maria: wow. >> that's not good. maria: that's such a great point. that's why i was interested in this op-ed in the journal this morning which is titled the irs is going after your side hustle. i mean, it's incredible to me that they're digging around to discover that extra $600 that you may have made selling grandma's heirlooms is the way the journal writes it. this is serious stuff. joe biden wants $80 billion to go to the irs to hire 87,000 new irs agents. we'll see if the republicans can stop it. >> how long before that's politicized. maria: it's politicized now. >> and then that's really the concern for most americans. it's pretty clear, the data is starting to roll out, it's catching up at this point. but you're looking at next year. even if somehow by a miracle we didn't get an economic recession, we're in a profits recession for sure at best. you're looking at maybe flat growth for a lot of these companies. and that means that you're going to have to get back to valuation and even if rates stay where they are, they get to 4 and-a-half and don

maria: dagen. dagen: i want to get back, congressman, to what can the republicans learn about what happened in georgia and fix those mistakes? give me one thing. >> well, one thing is to realize that we did it four weeks ago. everybody in the state won except this race of herschel walker and raphael warnock. part of it has to go back to the campaign and the candidates and the negative messages. i don't buy the line that georgia is a purple state and it's going to flip all the time. we won other races in georgia by multiple points. >>> we need to turn the voters out, have a consistent message and realize the basics still matter. turnout, money and message that resonates are important and unfortunately the walker campaign was not able to do that but in this race, i think the one other thing is too we've got to play with everything on the field. if it's early votings that's allowed, you've got to get out and vote. if you've got a state in which you have issues with elections, then fix it. right now, g

. >> thank you, maria. maria: thank you, sir. we'll be right back. ♪ my name is joshua florence, and one thing i learned being a firefighter is plan ahead. you don't know what you're getting into, but at the end of the day, you know you have a team behind you that can help you. not having to worry about the future makes it possible to make the present as best as it can be for everybody. >> you have them as election day talking points, you're not going to break through the funding disparity, the media bias, you're not going to break through to independent voters. maria: welcome back. that was former white house adviser stephen miller on this program weeks ago on republican talking points and why he says they cost the gop big, a bigger majority. ronna mcdaniel is seeking another term next we month as chair of the republican national committee. she has the endorsement of 107 of the 168 members of the rnc in which a simple majority is needed to win re-election. the support comes despite the lack of an expected red wave in november'

maria: right. and explain the ramifications here, because what we're doing -- and it's not just pension plans, you've got the msi intex, the msci ingex -- index, you've got the thrift fund, okay? the 401(k) for government employees having a wide open window to invest in these companies. explain the ramifications, because if the ccp is controlling these companies, they could at any time turn around and go against america, go invade taiwan, whatever it is. and u.s. investors are funding this? >> well, i think there's really two things at stake, one -- and we discovered this because ant three years ago the trump administration discovered that the tsb funds, military retirement funds, were being invested in chinese defense companies. you have the retirement money for military service members being invested in chinese companies that are building weapons designed to kill americans in the future war. so that is one risk, right, that we subsidize their rise and their attempt to displace us as the world lea

maria: liz. go ahead. >> by the way, what president trump was cited for is talking about great patriots and the fact that their voices will be listened to, the 75 million people who voted for him so it's a little bit different than calling for the destruction of israel, i think. maria: but liz, there's another part to this. i mean, we haven't heard a peep about this story on any of the mainstream media networks. i'm talking nbc news, cbs, abc news, cnn. they're largely ignoring the twitter files on the air, liz. how is it possible that what we're learning about the agenda of twitter should not be front page news and where is it? >> look, the suppression of conservative voices and conservative stories and stories that show democrats and particularly joe biden in a bad light are continually -- is going on and the entire media establishment with two or three exceptions are party to it. it's the old tree falling in a forest, maria. if it doesn't make any noise, did it really happen? they are hoping t

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maria: yeah. yoi mean, there wasmoney back an alameda and ftx. you're talking about $2 billion of investor money missing. >> i think it's more than that, maria. look, i think this is a huge black eye for our regulatory system, once again they completely missed the ball on this enormous scandal which i think some people are putting the losses at as much as $8 billion. i think it's an incredible embarrassment obviously for crypto enthusiasts and frankly the industry is extremely happy to see this arrest happen because they want to clear the air. this is obviously driven down the price of a lot of cryptocurrencies and it's time to get this-it's an incredible embarrassment to the democratic party to whom sam bankman-fried gave millions and millions of dollars. i think this is -- and the end of the day, maria, this is also a human tragedy. when you read stories about people, particularly in europe, who took all of their parents' savings and invested because they thought it was safe because it was an am

maria: julian? >> i'm sorry i'm not sure it is i think we have is very unusual situation in the u.s. were companies face huge cost increases but able to pass it on because you have a robust consumer stimulus that we got. i think when i look at savings rates that have dropped to his store close as people have spent what they had in the piggy bank, the second advocate the tightening of credit and to get the game going, i think is beginning to full. in the pmi she started to get a sense that some of the price cuts that were seen is because companies are starting to see weakness in demand. >> i'm not sure we can see those bonds that have been taken to that level. maria: typically you would expect to see that in the oil market as well lower prices as a result of expectation of weaker demand so will be watching that. good to see you, thank you very much for weighing in on that. thank you, sir, have a good weekend. a quick break and the disgraced ftx founder same bankman-fried revealing more information ab

maria: welcome back. futures indicating a gain at the start of trading this morning ahead of a big week of economic ddata, largely housing data and gdp. dow industrials are up 91, s&p up 13, nasdaq higher by 50 points right now. we've got the final read on third quarter gdp out this thursday and the personal consumption expenditures report, that index coming out on friday along with all of the housing data. joining me now, the head of portfolio management, zach hill. thank you for being here. how would you assess what we're about to see, whether it's economic growth for the third quarter or the upcoming housing data, what are you expecting? >> good morning, thanks for having me. i think we're getting into the period at the the end of the year where there's more noise than signal. as you mentioned, we do get a lot of housing data today. that's the forefront of the fed policy taking a bite on the economy and so that's something that we're watching a good bit in the short-term but in the more medium term i t

maria: to social media. dagen: right in tech companies astonishing the number of people working within these companies again case it is the same mind-set same group thing. >> he obama white house staffers went to social media right as soon as they stepped down. >> an outside firm or firms to come in do forensic audits poke around anyone within i wouldn't trust. >> want to algorithms, what did they do in terms of algorithms, to quiet conservatives, we take a break when we would come back we have business citizens financial group is here to weigh in on strength of the consumer final trading month of 2022 we want to get an update of 2023. we will do that next. . researchers believe the first person to live to 150 has already been born. it could be you! wow. really? of course, you'll have to eat your greens, watch your stress, wear sunscreen... but to live to 150, we're developing solutions that help doctors listen to your heartbeat while they're miles away, or ai that knows what your body will do before you do.

maria: good thursday morning everyone thank you for joining us i am maria bartiromo. is thursday december 15, the top stories right now 6:00 a.m. on the east coast. interest rates higher for longer that's what federal reserve jay powell told this is the fed raise rates by another 50 basis points yesterday saying a cut in rates is not happening in until at least 2024 to the do the tight labor market. >> the worst pain would come from a failure to raise rates high enough and from us allowing inflation to become entrenched in the economy so that the ultimate cost to getting out of the economy would be very high in terms of employment. maria: as the fed raises rates, short-term interest rates have been falling this morning. investors are worried higher rates will slow the economy the ten year treasury right now sitting at 3.49% that is up one another basis points, all of this is a fox news poll shows americans are losing confidence in the strike and the economy over 80% of the people saying it's import shape and half of those think it will get worse. today features are in

maria: good friday morning everyone thank you for joining us. i am maria bartiromo. it is friday december 16 your top stories right now. 6:00 a.m. on the east coast. today recession peers stocks are selling off again futures indicated another big decline with the selloff yesterday. the dow industrial at the lowest of the boarding 410 wanted a quarter% s&p 500 and 50 and the nasdaq lower by 109. the dow plunged better than 700-point yesterday following the weaker than expected retail sales for the month of november and the federal reserve rate hikes. at the close the dallas on 7642 and a quarter percent. the nasdaq was 360 that was three and a quarter percent. the dowel lost vegas in september. s&p 500 and 99, 2.5%. global stocks headed for weekly losses after the federal banks warning that rates will stay higher for longer to combat inflation. european markets this morning are lower as we watch the price of oil trade down as a b10100 the cat conduct 95 in the dax index lower by 98. the federal reserve rates 50 basis point yesterday along with the ecb in the boe bank

maria, back to you. maria: thank you so much. white house national security council spokesperson john kirby touting ties between the u.s. and china, following president biden's meeting with xi jinping last month. watch this. >> coming out of the g-20, we believe that we are encouraged that i di diplomatic channels of communication will not only stay open but potentially expand. maria: the secret service is confirming chinese hackers have stolen $20 million of u.s. covid relief benefits 2020. joining me now is former cia chief of russia analysis, former special advisor to vice president cheney on russia, george beebe. great to have you this morning. thanks very much. this administration continues looking for ways to open up communications with the ccp and the chinese leadership and yet every turn shows more bad behavior on the part of the ccp. do you think this administration needs to get tougher on china? >> well, this is a very difficult problem. when you talk about cyber intrusions, cyber intelligence hacking, this is an issue

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>> thanks, maria. yes, i think a lot of the inflation expectations so far coming towards the end of the year have been priced into the market. we're expecting about a 10% decline from last month in ppi or the producer price index and next week we're expecting headline cpi to come down to about low 7s, around 7.3 versus previously we were around 7.7 and this is all dictated by the fact that we are seeing across different parts of the economy a slowing economic environment, primarily due to the fact that we know that the fed continues to pump the brakes on economic expansion by increasing interest rates and we do expect the fed to increase interest rates by another half a percent on december 14th and next year probably still increase interest rates but stepping down those rate increases to a series of about 0.25% or 25 basis point increases and again it's because we're still hovering at inflation levels that are well above their 2% target for next year in yeah. so we all want to know what this means for