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maria: good wednesday morning everyone. thank you so much for joining us this morning. i am maria bartiromo, wednesday may 15, your top stories, 6:00 a.m. on the east coast. the big test that markets have been waiting for the april consumer price index revealed at 8:30 a.m. eastern, features searching for direction ahead of the much-anticipated inflation reading after three straight months of hot showings of elevated inflation. we are all over it, all hands on deck with the best analysis and smartest conversation coming up with impact on the fed rates and prices we will all be paying coming up retail sales this morning as red lobster seafood restaurant declares bankruptcy and start liquidating stores commodities on fire, take a look at copper at record highs this week and trading higher once again up another 3% right now european markets are mixed and fractional moves across the board in the eurozone, same

story overnight in asia, fractional story there mix moves across the board. president biden announcing tariffs on chinese imports maintaining he wants competition with china, back in new york republican supporting president trump on trial a string of lawmakers showing up in the courtroom during the former president has many trial on tuesday former presidential candidate vivek ramaswamy, florida congressman byron donalds all in the courtroom and the proceedings with the speaker of the house mike johnson. >> are doing this intentionally to keep him here and keep them off of the campaign trail and i think everybody in the country can see that for what it is. >> the republican nominee for president leading and i have a gag order i think it still knew constitutionally. maria: michael cohen will be back on the stand tomorrow and who the prosecution says is the final witness before turning it over to the defense, joining the conversation gop strategist joe

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allies join forces outside of the trial yesterday. watch. >> ladies and gentlemen, of america this trial is a joke it is a farce, where is the crime, there is no crime the only crime happening here is a democrat judge in the democrat party in prosecuting the political rival in the middle of a presidential election. >> is one of the most depressing places i've been in my life. the main strategy appears to be to bore the jurors into submission. >> the judge's own daughter is making millions of dollars doing online fundraising for democrats there using this as a hook it's so corrupt and everybody knows it. >> president trump is leading over the country and the conclusion you could draw from that is the american people have already acquitted donald trump. >> on the campaign trail vice president hopefuls are dueling for dollars, jd vance will team up with trump for a fundraising

event in cincinnati enjoying the former president lassa in new york city south carolina senator tim scott north dakota governor doug burgum, kristi noem, former presidential candidate vivek ramaswamy all with trump last night, joe pinion, your reaction and i want to go back to what we just heard in terms of the judge and the daughter making money on this fundraising, is this possible. >> we used to live in a country where we would try to avoid the appearance of propriety in the appearance of bias but it appears from one trump case to the next they have no interest in trying to maintain fairness. i think what you see is a pilgrimage to new york because the decision has been made that if democrats are going to continue and disregard all of our judicial norms that we must engage in a different kind of political warfare if are going to impress upon the american people and just how out of bounces entire process has been.

a reminder the man in question given the testimony is a felon, he lost his law license because it is beneath the dignity of the bar he acknowledged he lied about everything to everyone except in this one particular instance where were supposed to believe he's telling the truth about his clients even though he effectively tried to frame his client with the evidence given to the prosecution in the actual recording in hand that shows that no point in time did he ever say by the way mr. president what you're asking me to do is against the law. maria: it is extraordinary every part of this thing is extraordinary, president trump keep saying this is election interference in the biden campaign doesn't want to admit that, joe biden doesn't want to admit that but a funny thing happened when karine jean-pierre was pressed on this the white house press secretary dodging questions on mike johnson appearance at the trump trial. instead mentioning it's about 2024 in the election.

>> is it appropriate for speaker johnson to show up at the trial. >> i can't speak, i don't want to, obviously this is related to 2024 elections and i cannot speak to the speaker's schedule. maria: there you go it is related to the 2024 election. it's election interference. >> i've never heard she can speak as always i can't i can't, that's exactly where it is it is becoming obvious everyone's talking about the american people are pretty obvious that this is a disaster in its own faith. but i'm thinking what is the world thinking the world leaders are not willing to say this but this is embarrassing for america this is political interference and usually what america condemns an enemy is abroad is not a position for the u.s. to be in. maria: how do you condemn something what is happening in your own country. >> thank you for pointing out the fact that the world is

watching us. part of what distinguishes the united states from other countries is a stable legal and accounting system that gives entrepreneurs and business people confidence to go out and be creative or bring new ideas to market and know they'll be protected and what's happening is the first to undermine the integrity of our system. maria: it feels like everyone knows that. i'm wondering how will impact the supreme court in the decision for immunity. do we want to see charades over and over because the president doesn't have immunity. i'm wondering how closely the supreme court is watching this. were just getting started. we'll take a short break, federal reserve chairman jay powell maintaining rates as we await the april cpi this morning at 8:30 a.m. eastern and major market mover, stay with us, wolfgang coaster is here with the market outlook coming up, mayor adams has an odd suggestion on how to fix what we are looking at as the cities

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posture on inflation, watch. >> we did not expect this to be a smooth road but these were higher than anybody expected, what the house told us we will need to be patient and let restrictor policy do its work i don't think that it's likely based on the data that we have that the next move that we make would be a rate hike i think is more likely will be at a place where we hold the policy rate where it is and looks like people take longer to become confident that a sunday 2% over time. maria: joining me now sapphire vice chairman wolfgang koester thank you for being here. where are you on the beat de debate. >> it really depends on what were thinking about from an inflation point of view obviously were getting cpi's coming out and i think your holding back too much i think they should jump ahead there waiting for another number and i don't actually expect them to cut anything they will be increasing and i think there will be cutting more closer to the election times. maria: your expecting a cut in

rates but not right now but you agree in terms of watching inflation but you think they should not wait. >> they should cut sooner and get confidence moving in their. >> that certainly will get confidence on the path of rates but what would that do for the economy. >> cover growth investor i love to see low rates that's good for my growth companies that need capital but it's fascinating you are the first one i've heard to make the argument that they should get ahead of us because they typically wait too long, you're saying cut now. >> i would absolutely cut now because we want to show the confidence that were ready to go in inflation is under control and get cheaper capital back in the. >> is not under control. >> that's always a question but shouldn't we think it's going in that direction. >> i know you been focused on artificial intelligence let's

take a look at google the company rolled out new features to the gemini a.i. program at the developers conference yesterday the new program can have conversations and can caption images, videos, summarize large documents, this unveiling coming one day after the microsoft backed rival openai announced the newest model gpt 40, what is your take on what google is doing. >> is all about a.i. for google it's been interesting if you look at the two-hour presentation it was just a.i. typically they have different topics but it was all about what were doing on photos and all the stuff, competition, game on let's go for. >> is you look at a.i. we spent a lot of time about the technology and application but we never talk about the implementation, what you looking at as it relates to the energy sources for a.i. is good required a great deal of power and we seen rollback of nuclear

energy in an administration adverse to natural gas. as we cai doing more and more and inquiring more and more you take that into consideration as you allocate capital. maria: same question around data centers, data centers need more energy and were basically scaling back on all the things that we know that provide the robust energy, do you see that as beta potential problem as people begin to consider which a.i. they will double down on. >> i don't see it as much of an issue because you have nvidia to continue to look at empowering them with us, the calculation of computing in the money's been going to what is going to enable all of this and is focused on the chips than the energy itself. otherwise you would make that point with the big coins. >> as we see the moratoriums on mining at home we see china preventing the u.s. chips abroad

does not play in here. >> it certainly does but is not where the investments are going to go much more about the application et cetera what are you going to do with it not just b2c but b2b. >> joe was talking about the underlying energy needs and that's one of the most important points that people make about the climate change agenda that in america were seeing a movement to shut down fossil fuels but in reality with a.i. and all the other sources that were looking for growth is going to need more energy and more electrifying but specifically on a.i. give us your take given your broad sense of a.i. and all the boards that you were on what is most important for us to understand a.i. being a game changer for the economy. >> that's a great question at the end of the day it enables us to do more in parallel, for example when you think about an event coming up to the sec today settlement going to one-day settlement of equities how to

the financial institutions back to half of the settlement times you need data that is very unstructured to begin structured overnight and they take a document and i can dump it in like you would experience on a google and you dump it in and it takes all the account information from everybody and has a dentist fingertips without any mistakes whatsoever 100% precise and improves the settlements, working ago to t plus 0 where it will be instant settlement and we've been trying to talk about this for years, you're going to see that in equities in the central banks are behind because you've international equity settlements and you don't have it on the currency parts of today settlement you have equities at the end of the month going to one-day settlement. maria: do i hear you say you want to allocate capital toward fintech financial companies in terms of the impact from a.i. is

that the growth story that you're talking about. >> fintech and biotech and the people that will leverage it a lot of the fintech and biotech or private so how do i get involved in that and there's a race between the g7 trying to get into these deals but at the end of the day the investment has to be the publicly traded companies whose leveraging the most in in this case j.p. morgan, bank of america that are working with the blackrock of the world to get this thing, what you going to see some of the larger financial institutions or get a jump ahead with a smaller institution cannot afford that. maria: it is good to see you. wolfgang koester jointed us, near community bank higher in the premarket, take a look at the stock is been crushed issue the bank agreed to sell $5 billion of mortgage warehouse loans to j.p. morgan it entered a commitment letter expected to close by the end of the third

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maria: welcome back democrats are dismissing the subcommittee hearing on the unprecedented surge of the illegal chinese immigration and claiming the hearing is fear mongering innovation rhetoric despite real national security concerns custom and border protection official say 1200 illegal chinese nationals were encountered at the southern border in the first eight days of may, 1200 that averages 150 a day joining the tennessee congressman and house homeland security chairman mark green it's always a pleasure to see you, thank you very much. we have talked about the chinese nationals a lot and i want to get your take of what's going on. ever since we discussed the fact

that the chinese people are coming from all the way from the southern border which doesn't make a lot of sense they are getting encountered what is going on and assess the situation today. >> thank you. the real concern is incredible spike in the past 18 months last year we had 20000 chinese nationals coming in this year so far and six months with 24000 that's more than 13 years prior to president trump or president biden being in office it is a massive increase in we have the reports of over 100 intrusions per military installation with chinese nationals posing as tourist taking pictures things that got it's very concerning to the fact that democrats don't seem to care, their talking points are out of the ccp.

maria: do believe that the tens of thousands of people coming from china are being directed and is that their job to do surveillance at america's military installations. >> i'm not suggesting that there directed. i'm suggesting it's very concerning and we need to look at it. they decrease the vetting from 40 questions to five to speed people into the country and they're overwhelmed because they created a migration crisis and now we have an enemy, china who is clearly doing everything that they can to upset the current world order and take over the world they are sending live tens of thousands of people coming is something we should consider as a national security risk and the democrats don't seem interested. maria: that's what i'm saying you can pick up and leave china move to america you have to have approval, authorities have to okay something like that.

again are they being directed is this a needed situation where xi jinping is creating a mini army in america. >> we don't have any evidence but we have evidence that are certain numbers and in fact the majority of them are single males, but not all of them there are many families and we have known i have a source that has told me several of them are connected over 1000 connected to the ccp with prior participation to the peepers liberation army there being released into our country, this is unacceptable and we need to dig into it. maria: what do you think is going on i hear you say two things on the one hand you say you have no evidence and the other one i have sources that tell me there connected to the ccp, which is it.

>> we know that some of the individuals are former members of the pla, do we have evidence or proof that xi jinping sent a note that go to america is degrees of information concerning is not evidence of some kind of a plot but you have to be suspicious based on who the individuals turn out to be. maria: joe pinion jump in here. obviously nothing occurs in a vacuum and we know for a fact that we have the chinese by balloon flying all across the nation while senator schumer and joe biden pretended that we were getting more from them than they were getting from us, we know that we have the chinese police stations all across the country run by the ccp and you put all that in context, is there political will within congress and democrats that might come to the table and if you see spikes in immigration the previous 13 years that perhaps we should actually have increased vetting

for what's happening in the interest of pushing back against the chinese, and his party that's trying to infiltrate the homeland. >> i do think the democrats wanted to any increased vetting at all they want more people in the country as many as can get here and they will withstand drug cartels bring infected all in and killing americans and withstand tens of thousands of chinese nationals coming in to get their agenda and that is massive immigration, i don't think there's any will on part of the democrats and that's why us digging into this issue and republicans want to do it, democrats don't. maria: why not? >> to have an agenda for an open border in everything that they can do is to get people into the country in there are conspiracy theories about why that in some of those are probably true, they have no interest in securing the border. maria: there is a new report on

the free press to find several nonprofits running migrant shelters and border states, texas, arizona, california they are getting rich off a huge government grants three of the most prominent nongovernmental organizations have seen it go from 579 million in 2019 to 2 billion in 2022 the free press reporting this, some of the services they provide are eyebrow raising, endeavors uses taxpayer monies to offer grant migrant children pet therapy or horticulture therapy or music carefully in a music therapist $533,000, what are we paying for in terms of this illegal immigration now we are paying for music lessons, music therapy? >> it's pretty crazy, that's why the bill that we passed in the house and we stripped all of the money out of the budget and chuck schumer has no interest on

the senate side but the ngo, this is a big, big problem for hundred dollars a night for hotel room that is insane in some of the contracts in particular and noncompetitive bid and went to individuals who previously worked at homeland, we are digging into this we've done transcribed interviews and part of her oversight is ongoing so i don't what to get into the two much but it's very concerning we are digging into it and that's where that report came from. maria: are there anything that you could do as a homeland security committee and a couple of time democrats have no interest in you don't have a willing partner on the other side, is there anything else you can do or should we wait for a change in congress. >> we try to change it impeach the man who has put all of this into place in the senate first time in the history of the country refused to hear the arguments for the impeachment

this is a sitting cabinet secretary that was impeached in the first term of the history of the country and they would not let us present the arguments for why he was impeached. i don't see the democrats interested in all and will keep doing it oversight and digging into it and passing bills but the senate has got to step up to the plate. maria: we will be watching your work, thank you so much. chairman mark green, president trump on trial in new york city giddiness while gop support in and out of the courtroom, trump 2024 karoline leavitt is here she will talk to us about what she seen during the proceedings trumps rise and poll numbers, watching worries of maria live and fox business. ♪ moving forward with node-positive breast cancer. my fear of recurrence could've held me back.

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>> do you plan to testify mr. trump. >> as you know i'm under a gag order, it's very simple question that you're asking i'm under a gag order nobody seen anything like it but we talk about subjects that were allowed to talk about and would love to not be on a gag order only republican nominee for president and i'm leading every poll and i have a gag order, i think it's totally unconstitutional. maria: that was former president trump slamming the gag order following day 17 of a middle child new york city and new york appeals rejecting the bid to have the gag order lifted saying the order does not violate trumps first amendment rights the court also writing judge mershon properly determined his statements pose a significant threat to the integrity of the testimony of witnesses and

potential witnesses of the case, joining us trump 2024 national press secretary karoline leavitt, good to see you thank you for being here how has the trial been what about the gag order it affects you as well. >> it's a travesty of duck justice we've been in the courtroom for 17 days and no crime has been proven because president trump never committed a crime the judge knows that this case is being led by democrats who hate president trump that struggled with unconstitutional gag order on him it's a complete violation of his first amendment rights and the judge purposely wrote it so the language is broadly vague not only does it restrict president trump's ability to defend himself from the attacks for many people involved in this case it also prohibits our campaign ability to defend president trump we are in the middle of an election as president trump spokeswomen and as his team we cannot go out and defend our boss from people involved in this case you are

lying and talking and slandering on cable news and tiktok every single day it is outrageous and a violation of the first amendment and it shows this is true election interference. maria: i think this is extreme a with never seen anything like this. >> the campaign doing such a good job handling this unprecedented situation is really quite embarrassing for america in florida i look at things from outside in the world is looking on in their shock this is how the president is being treated. congratulations you're handling it very well i love the bodega. maria: he's trying to jam and campaigning whenever he can go into construction workers at 6:30 a.m. and the campaign has been able to raise a lot of money he had a big fundraiser last night, how much did you raise and where are you in terms of the week. >> we raise $10 million last night, president trump schedule last entered yesterday to television interviews from trump tower battleground state before

we left for court then he meets with allies who volunteer to come to court with him governor program, vivek ramaswamy, cory mills were all in the courthouse with him yesterday then he goes to court for eight hours and since there through the witch-hunt which you can't talk about because of the gag order he holds two press conferences in the courthouse makes more news than joe biden a week and one day and then he has dinner with the former prime minister of australia scott morrison and then he raises $10 million last night all in one day and this is what the man does every single day you think joe biden could do that not a chance in heck president trump is fighting so hard to make the country great again. maria: you can have a 25 million-dollar week. >> were expected to raise more than $25 million this week and on the off day were heading to ohio and kentucky to raise more money today. maria: as all of this is

happening do polls find president biden trailing trump five battleground states but there is a report from axios this is biden and his advisors do not believe is bad poll numbers here is karine jean-pierre on the administration concerned that voters are unhappy with their policies and unhappy with two-tier justice system. >> a lot of the policies of president are pushing forward are incredibly popular they are student debt fighting big pharma that is popular with americans making sure that we lower cost on healthcare that is popular with americans. we have to figure out what she's talking about in terms of what's popular but here's biden's response to the recent polls when he was on cnn. >> since he took office economic growth far short of expectation, consumer confidence no surprise is near a two-year low with less than six months ago to election day are you worried that you're running out of time to turn that around. >> we already turned it around if you look at the michigan survey for 65% of the american people think they're in good shape economically in the

nations not in good shape but there personally in good shape, the polling data has been wrong all along. maria: the polling data wrong all along? >> right now he's a polling denier it looks like he's becoming an election denier. to that point president trump is in the battleground states month after month and at some point we know polling is not exact science when they say the same thing it's time to believe them and as we know democrats are going to try to make everything about abortion or the cases were generally six how can we encourage republicans up and down the ballot to stay on message, its economy stupider boarded the government and under attack in the world in disarray from gaza to the south china s sea. >> because of the issues that american care about is inflation, immigration it doesn't matter michigan, miami or midtown manhattan voters are

hurting and i hope they deny the polls because of denying the reality that americans are living in every single day people are hurting and president trump recognizes that that's what he's ready to rebuild our economy and unleash our energy industry and make gasoline cheap secures of the border demand law and order, common sense that's what we need in this country and that's what president trump stands for and that's what he's leading in the polls. >> election denier, anti-vax, a polling denier, the president trump and the manhattan fundraiser last night as caroline was telling us this is trump 47 tickets cost $100,000 in some pain nearly $900,000 in vip seats, potential running mates were at the event in south carolina senator tim scott, governor doug burgum and kristi noem inc. candidate vivek ramaswamy, obviously the support for child is only increase in

the middle of all of us. >> as you mentioned earlier it's going to be a 25 million other week for mr. trump in raising the campaign the one thing you would need to know you're in the courtroom every day, can you take us inside the courtroom there is all the support outside and we have republicans coming and offer support inside what about the jury how do they seem with you and the court. >> i wish i could answer that, the jury is covered by the gag order. what i tell you the courtroom itself is dirty and disgusting and i wouldn't want my worst enemy to be prosecuted to nevermind the former president of the united states it is despicable to watch, it is infuriating and i wish there were cameras so all americans could see what's happening to our justice system, this is led by democrats who want to confide president trump into the place for eight hours a day it is sickening and he never committed a crime. maria: were trying to figure out

what the crime is. >> the prosecution is to they have the trial. >> that's the whole point that's why it's gone on so long they keep looking themselves. maria: do you think this will be over soon because we understand this is the prosecution last witness. >> that's what they said were in cross-examination now we expect that to go forward for a few days and then we will see what happens after that. maria: thank you very much, karoline leavitt a strange lifeline new york city mayor eric adams making a baffling suggestion to solve the lifeguard shortage, you are watching "mornings with maria" live on fox business. stay with us. ♪

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maria: welcome back primary results flowing in from nebraska, west virginia, maryland, cheryl casone with the details. >> results are in for the heisting primaries in the three states, maryland, nebraska, west virginia president biden and former president trump taking of their respective nominations in all three states cemented to 2020 rematch, former maryland governor with the gop nomination for that state senate race he's given face democrat angela

brooks, west virginia governor jim justice cementing his spot in the race for joe manchin seat who will not be running for reelection his democratic challenger is glenn elliott, nebraska choosing the valid entered republican deb fischer would see a third term if she is reelected she faces independent contender osborne. republican don bacon surviving his primary he is going to face democratic challenger tony vargas. hunter biden's gun charge trial will go on as planned next month the delaware as a judge denies the request to delay until september, hunter has pleaded not guilty to three felony charges and accused of lying about his drug use while filling out a form to buy a gun in 2018 which he kept for 11 days and admitted to struggling with addiction at the time and his attorney said he did not break

the law, hunter biden's other criminal case, that is the california tax fraud case will move forward in june. independent presidential robert f kennedy junior suing data for allegedly censoring his biographical film who is bobby kennedy. the lawsuit claims first amendment violations of election interference issues, candidly says viewers shared it's video on tape facebook, and instagram unable to upload and amanda spokesperson saying it was mistakenly blocked and quickly restored, once the issue was discovered, candidly wrote this, how can voters make an informed choice if there denied basic information about a candidates life. finally this new york city mayor eric adams raising eyebrows with a very strange, about the city's migrants, here's what he said when asked about the city lifeguard shortage. >> if we had a migrant and asylum-seekers plan that states

those jobs that were in high demand we could expedite, how do we have a large body of people in our city that are excellent swimmers and at the same time we need lifeguards. the only obstacle is we don't give them the right to become a lifeguard, that does not make sense. >> adam suggesting expedited work visas to fill other positions like food service workers and nurses. they are great swimmers i guess he's referring to them crossing the rio grande for example. i don't know. i'm just guessing. >> it is shocking. >> there's a certain skill set to be a lifeguard in certain training that is required. >> for him to imply that they were able to wade across the river and that makes a good swimmer that is so belittling

and it shocking that someone would say that. >> here in new york we have a governor who doesn't believe that black children know what computers are and we have a mayor that's gone from saying that the brown people pick the avocados to let the brown people who are really good swimmers because they swam here in meanwhile public safety has fallen off a cliff, god help them if the mayor was as concerned about fixing the police shortage with the lifeguard shortage and perhaps we would allow our loved ones to walk him freely again. maria: the other thing that got me whether the migrants in the new york city times square attack released without bail, charges dropped. friday night he went to macy's in herald square and did a little shoplifting and then he was back the next day because alvin bragg won't prosecute any shoplifting under $750, it's mind-boggling just let them do it.

>> it's more maddening to know that he will not prosecute any of that in donald trump is in a room all day long every day. you have a city to clean up, i saw a woman punched by an unstable individual on sunday. maria: right in front of you? >> happened as i was walking up i saw the aftermath in the nypd you are amazing in its police appreciation week and we need them and new york city. >> a big shadow to the nypd. thank you, kevin at president trump's trial on pause with the prosecution vital witness michael cohen we will be back on the stand tomorrow, the hot topic of hour. watching "mornings with maria" live on fox business. we'll be right back. ♪

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good wednesday morning everyone. thanks very much for joining us this morning. i'm maria bartiromo, i'm is wednesday, may 15, 7:00 a.m. on the button, right now on the east coast. hope you're having a good wednesday morning. it is time for the hot topic of the hour. former president trump's legal team grilling ex lawyer michael cohen during yesterday's cross examination. he