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board as you can see here very much flat session in the asian markets, president trump's new york city trial resuming today after the long weekend with closing arguments beginning today president biden says he will address the nation after we get a verdict on the trump situation. joining the conversation poster in the present of danskin partners lee carter, wealth management resident rebecca walser and fox business cheryl casone, "mornings with maria" is live right now. ♪ and. maria: it's time for the hot topic of the hour and the final stretch of former president trump so-called hush money trial, the trial started six weeks ago, judge juan mershon says he expects closing arguments to last all day and

possibly going into tomorrow, the defense will deliver their closing arguments first followed by the prosecution this is the reverse order of opening statement to the former president says this is unfair saying why is a corrupt government allowed to make the final argument in the case against me, why can't the defense go last, big advantage very unfair, after closing arguments judge merchan will instruct the jury on the law before sending them to the livery, cheryl casone what you expecting. >> those jury instructions will be the most telling so where the case may go at the end of the day because the judge has been a repeal criticized for being partisan, i made this point that at the end of the day this case was weak, two main stars of your case are stormy daniels and a convicted felon may enter named michael cohen in my opinion did not prove that president trump had actually committed any

crimes, 34 indictments, that can't be proven under the law what alvin bragg is hoping and hoping he's guaranteed is because as new york city, new york state, new york jury, blue city, liberal city, he is betting that is how he's going to get his conviction but the judge's instructions are going to also play into a verdict that were going to get, maybe this week we will see. maria: we don't know about the jury i spoke with someone who told me that she saw the jury selection sheets and the questions they were asked and this jury is so negative against donald trump i think is a crook and all these things were in the jury selection, i did not see the jury selection but she believes that they put together a jury that wants him behind bars, it is all up to the jury. >> it's all up to the jury and i think there will be no way with

somebody with a strong opinion and as donald trump especially in new york. even if you have half of the jury who has a strong opinion against him, it's going to be tough. i don't think this verdict is going to have much of an impact as some people think. people have already decided if you supporting donald trump, your supporting them no matter what, people who support him say it's our time to fight for him he's fought for us and only 8% of trump supporters say they're likely to change their vote i don't see this having a huge impact except to those people who have strong feelings one way or another if he is indicted and if it is charged and comes down that way i think the democrats want a field day but i don't think it's going to change the support for the president. maria: is a great point that's what john ratcliffe told me, former director of national intelligence said even if he is convicted so what, everyone

knows this is a sham but we will give the democrats an extra talking point saying he's a convicted felon, now politico is reporting that president biden is going to break his silence on the trump trial after verdict is reached after making an address from the white house he says is going to make it from the white house what does it look political it's from the president is not political biden steam plated on a wave of attacks against trump if he is acquitted or a hung jury that's with their messaging out right now. >> i understand that, if it's from the white house it does have the imprimatur of this is an official communication about the person that you are in a race against currently, that is political and i don't knows appropriate to say anything he's in a race with this gentleman and obviously he's going to talk about apart from the white house that bothers me and i'm bothered by the judge, alan dershowitz was in the courtroom last

weekend indies rolling his eyes saying this is the most progressive leaning and bias judge so i would think the jury instructions, i understood he's weighing if he should use the word willfully like knowingly willfully did these acts which this is a felony we have to have legal speak in a mental mindset the says this was intentional and he might not even put that in his instructions in this judge is going to be reviewed on the appeal if it goes one way if it's not a hung jury and i don't know if he cares but there's judicial error if he doesn't give them correct jury instructions. >> it's pretty incredible that the judge says the prosecution is going to go last, the prosecution usually makes the closing arguments first and the defense attorney is allowed to respond to what the prosecution says it is the opposite.

president trump makes a good point saying that unfair we heard from a cnn reporter over the weekend on an acquittal for donald trump could mean for the democrats, watch this. >> i tickets very likely this is only child were going to get before election day in this case is not a slamdunk, donald trump may very well not be convicted, acquitted is the worst case scenario for democrats is only child that you have in donald trump gets to go out the insane joe biden prosecutors which are not true came after me the department of justice came after me and they still did not convict me i'm still innocent. >> the worst possible scenario for democrats would be an acquittal, this from a democrat. >> i think that they brought the wrong case cheryl and lee have said this is a new york jury and this is probably a very biased jury so it's possible to get an actual conviction but it acquittal not unfortunately but i believe appropriate legal

response in this case. >> i think it's a fascinating thing that that's what they're hanging their head on the worst possible thing could be this. this should not be political in the bottom line when they're bringing all these cases forward this is probably the weakest case and in some ways they should've looked at bringing the cases atlases more there's too much going on. maria: were just getting started we have about coming up the final trading week of the month of may industrial focus on key economic data dropping this w week, the bahnsen group founder david bahnsen is here with expectation on the fed in the april pce, younger generations getting ready for the summer but for work and not play were talking about it, don't miss it "mornings with maria" live on fox business. we'll be right back. ♪ ♪

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twomac walk back take a look at futures, the beginning of the last trading week of may after markets were closed yesterday for memorial day holloway jen holliday, a fractional gain at the start of trading that one duster of nine, the nasdaq of 84, markets are mixed for the second quarter, so far it's been a rough one for markets, dow industrial down about 2%, the nasdaq is up 3% and s&p upon percent, the markets have been able to recover a bit in the second quarter since the early days of the quarter, the bahnsen group managing partner and the author of full-time work in the meeting of life, david bahnsen is with me, great to see you, you see evaluations are the number one challenge for market, tell me about that give us your outlook for the year.

>> let's take the different scenarios that could be difficult for markets, tough economy, the fed tightening more than people think, even a recession and the worst case scenario further out. all of those things may not happen, you may not get any of the bad news, earnings growth may come and were projected in it may come in a tiny bit above, the problem is all of that is already placed in, and the recession pricing, earnings growth priced in, fed not only hiking rates but beginning the cut rates later in the year priced in. if anything a tiny bit worse than expected, the market is very vulnerable and if it doesn't get worse than expected, when you're starting off at 22 times earnings, there is a very good chance of the markets having to reprice to a reasonable valuation. maria: is the no rate cut scenario already priced in.

i think there's a debate on that, some people think there is a shot for a rate cut tissue. >> the market itself, the futures market is saying 50% chance of a rate cut in september but we started off the year with six rate cuts priced in beginning in march, we are down to maybe one or two by the end of the year in the s&p is up 10% on the year, the market doesn't care about the fed st story. the market knows only thing it needs to know the fed is done raising rates and whether september, december, january and some short-term point they will begin cutting the markets know that and when they begin i met the mindset that they won't end up cutting until november. maria: i think you're right i don't think they want to get in front of the election let's take a look at where the tenuous, as you can see were waiting on the next meeting in july look at the tenure this morning it is up

half a basis point is in duster's expect they will likely not cut rates the futures market 49% chance for the fed's first rate cut in september. we have big inflation data on deck that will certainly inform and the second read of for screw gdp out on thursday economist expecting the economy to grow one point to percent last quarter and will get the pce out on friday, look at the gdp number in the first quarter we've gone from 4.9% in the third quarter of last year all the way down to 1.6% now were expecting it to go to 1.3%, things are slowing down quite considerably as i could hit margins and earnings? >> i don't think so, the gdp was about inventory last quarter in the 4.9 in q3 of last year was quite an outlier around transitory things, the biggest

issue we need more fixed investment on the corporate side of the economy businesses have to invest and productivity and we see some of it and it's an industrial activity that is healthy but it's a longer-term story we are so far off of trendline growth going back to the financial crisis we are nowhere near averaging 3% real gdp growth and that's what we need to get back to to have a healthy u.s. economy. maria: it makes sense, jumping. maria: i wanted to ask about the economy because earnings season is wrapping up we have costco this week, it's been a rough week for a lot of these names, when you people like mcdonald's and other retailers that are saying they are in trouble, that really shows you that the consumer has pulled back so exponentially and disbanded in the gdp growth that you're

talking about is it going to come to for which and i'm wondering when that is going to change because inflation data is not going to the right direction keeps going in the wrong direction. >> i disagree with both statements to be honest i think the inflation has done nothing but go down other than the shelter figure and outliers like the auto insurance and so forth but the fact of the matter is that despite the administration efforts where they made the labor shortage worse and knock on the productivity and i don't think this is much about the fed either i think your price inflation rent that held overall number above three in the pce is around two and half but if you look at the real numbers, rent realtor that number is way lower, i think the consumer is the last thing any of us need to worry about because americans love to spend money we are on

the supply side and we need to produce more. maria: you've made this point for a while the supply-side and i'm glad you are raising it but we will get a window into the consumer this week when we get earnings from dick's sporting goods, dollar general, best buy, kohl's coming out this week costco, nordstrom on thursday you have that as well, your thoughts on the macro story. >> i have to disagree with david, inflation is coming down but each year over year it is down from 9% peak in 21 but year-over-year still up and it's about the fed's target, lending tree produces study visits 70% of the survey said fast-food is luxury to them so this is a problem burger king is saying we have 70 problems in taco bell saying there's lots of problems when you fast-food feeling in america yet massive massive underlying fundamental problems.

maria: i don't know that the jobs pictures are strong as it looks a lot of part-time growth in jobs. >> there is part-time growth but mostly voluntary it is difficult to argue with any number in the high three in the point that i'd made is the weekly jobless claims the one data point that cannot lie you simply have a low amount of americans applying for an appointment. i think on the inflation side, mcdonald's is down from the high and that is up so dramatically there's a lot of idiosyncratic stories that a lot of us need to appreciate and what i mean by that the consumer is not reflected in one company's numbers it's not like walmart can do real well and calls can do poorly because of the consumer doing poorly there are some companies that are outperforming other companies but it's very true inflation is up year-over-year it's always up it's never down ever. maria: it's up about 19% on joe biden's watch in the last three

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maria: customer border patrol sources telling fox that 120 chinese nationals illegally crossing the san diego border on saturday alone this weekend, 120 of the nearly 50000 chinese nationals that enter the u.s. since october of last year more than 30000 of those crossings have happened in california, 9000 migrants from india and 8000 turkeys migrants have crossed the san diego border so far this year, house republicans are demanding more from answers after two jordanian nationals who were in the u.s. illegally attempted to breach the quantico military base, house judiciary jim jordan said in a letter to the department of homeland security alejandro mayorkas asking about immigration status and processing history, joined with for the congressman carlos gimenez homeland security and select committee on china, what is going on. >> 30000 chinese nationals in

the country, 50000 since october, 120 coming since saturday alone. you people touring trying to get into quantico military base from jordan, where is the security in the country. >> there is none and those numbers that you have are the ones that were apprehended and released into the country with a really low vetting process but how about the 2 million people that got away we don't even know who they are or where they came from or why they're here that's why christopher wray is so concerned about the national security and he points right at the southern border as the cause of the concern. maria: i don't understand why nothing is being done, you sent letters and your colleagues are talking every day about the got a ways in the wide-open border and yet it keeps happening, there is absolutely no

accountability whatsoever of the department hobo homeland security and people are demanding more from answers, i want to know why. >> so do we but the problem is the president of the united states is supposed to hold his department accountable and will the president accountable also in the supreme court says our only recourse is impeachment and we've impeached alejandro mayorkas and it got to the senate and nothing came of it and when that happens the administrative state knows that a lot of them can ignore congress the will of congress in the american people, we need a new president and that's why this. as soon as donald trump because the president of the united states. maria: wanted a edible bomb and the vulnerable position that this administration has left america in is devastating, now we have the story members of the cuban communist party, cuba was given a five hour tour of the secure area of the miami international airport last week,

reportedly getting a chance to see a security checkpoint a baggage screen area, tsa official claims the tour was about promoting civil aviation security, what the heck does that mean i know you in a group affordable maker sent a letter to the department of homeland security alejandro mayorkas about this pointing out the administration about cuban delegations to tour a coast guard headquarters last year, the mayor of miami-dade county writing this on x department of public security tsa and the state department apologized for the incident and committed to changing the protocols, congressman what the heck is going on here. >> they did not promise not to do it again, that is a problem. i don't believe what tsa has reported i think they went into a sensitive area because we have information from inside and that's exactly what happened. cuba is on a list of the

state-sponsored terrorism so here you are young officials from a state sponsor of terrorism given access to the more secure areas that protect us from terrorism and are going to have access to it. cuba is well known for selling the secrets and being an agent of another terrorist groups, there an ally of iran, russia, china, north korea, you don't think you're telling them, are security procedures and are security equipment. it was unbelievable and explanation from tsa does not make any sense and it's inexcusable. maria: who authorized and why are we hearing anything from democrats, why did democrats turn a blind eye when it has to do with alejandro mayorkas or anybody in the biden cabinet. >> they are partisan and they

will do everything to cover up the incompetency of this administration. this administration is compromised. if your name enemy of the united states is a administration will treat you well if your friend of the united states they will treat you horribly and that's par for the course of the biden of administration in joe biden in particular for the last 50 years. maria: to be clear we should not expect accountability here, they keep rolling over and allowing people, enemies of america to come in and look at our secure areas, and no accountability, you try to impeach mayorkas, it failed we should just accept it? >> do not accept it, you need a new president you need to elect donald trump as the president of the united states. when that happens all of this will change because is going to be in charge of the ministry of state, right now biden is in

charge of the administrative state and they do what he wants them to do and there's very little we can do in congress to stop it. again i keep saying it is about the presidency is about electing a new president and donald trump will stop all of this on day one. maria: we should point out the former president has endorsed you for reelection writing untrue social as a career firefighter, carlos but his life putting out the flames of dangerous fires in the flames of the dangerous biden administration, congratulations, what you want to say about trump's endorsement. >> we are proud of the president endorsement and i was one of the first to endorse him for president but i'm really proud the president trump endorse me in a very grateful for his endorsement, america needs to go

out and we need to change president said the direction of this country and we need to get back on the right tracking put america first elect donald j trump as the next president of the united states. >> is extraordinary, it really is, were getting keep a spotlight as you know, it's good to see you, congressman carlos gimenez is in florida, divided a administration deteriorating allies from confronting iran over the nuclear program, they say do not confront iran over the nuclear program. retired four-star general jack keane is here with the middle east intentions and it's a week of travel coming with skyhigh scares around up of the memorial day weekend plane problems, wait until you see what happened next. stay with us. ♪

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the tragic 45 civilians and they may grow, to understand who was targeting to hamas leaders who lead activities in the west bank, interesting enough and obviously this is a hideout for them and they targeted those two leaders and right next to the target were displaced civilians living in temporary shelters or tents and we've seen photos of what that's like they're living on top of one another and as a result of fire broke out and is spread very rapidly through the temporary tent city. i don't think benjamin netanyahu and is a administration needs any warnings from the united states, they believe this is a tragic incident and they've admitted that in trying to get to the bottom of why this took place who authorized and how much information do they know about the temporary city right next to the target and how do

they prevent something like this from happening again this is what democracy does who is operating with strong values to protect its own people and civilians on the battlefield as much as possible and admit a mistake has been made into figure out how to prevent it from happening again and that is what is going on. maria: i'm glad you said that that was my instinct immediately when i read the story the fog of war is ugly but it is a reality into here the white house say something like they're allowed to go into rafah but they have to do everything that they can to protect civilians, no kidding dear president biden know that when he did his botched withdrawal from afghanistan where we lost 13 servicemen and all of a sudden about israel making these mistakes, the wall street journal is reported that the biden administration is pressing european allies to back off plans to rebuke iran because of the advances it is made in its nuclear program even as it

expands the weapon grade material to a record level, i don't understand what is going on here, u.s. official denied this claim telling the wall street journal that washington is tightly coordinated with europe ahead of the eye ae board meeting and any speculation about decisions is premature but why are we hearing this anyway that the u.s. would stop european allies from confronting iran on what it's doing in the nuclear program. >> what is happening after the massive airstrike against israel which obviously we recorded very well in the us-led coalition that helped israel to stop the strike from being successful the g7 european like-minded democracies have come together and they want to impose sanctions on iran and as a result of the strike which in

their minds is unprovoked and that the step of the right direction. we know the full well that they're selling this to china and has to flush with money to despite enormous inflation and currency value problems that they have inside of their country, there is a possibility that we could get ibm back on his heels where it was in the previous of initiation and biden should change the strategy as appeasing the iranians and make the nuclear deal is staggers me that almost four years into this a administration were trying to make a diplomatic effort with the iranians and obviously they have term diplomacy aside and there one finger one thing only that is aggression, judge the united states out of the region destroy the state of israel that

operationalized all their proxies to do it, wake up and see it for what it really is here, there is no diplomacy effort that they should exceed with iranians, now you're the europeans into this reality themselves and they want to press forward and something we believe they should've done a long time ago now they're here in the biden administration is trying to tamp that down in the hope that some possibility and opening would take place there have been meetings with iranians by members of the administration that a been going on a few weeks ago i don't if you're continuing to this day but that sends a huge signal to what is really happening here, here you have iran seeking domination of control of the middle east and it's obviously the proxies to put as much pressure on israel and that's annexes central threat in the attempt to destroy the state of israel and reduce the israelis willingness to live in a country that is so volatile and security situation, that is

what this is all about and see it for what it is. maria: over and over again it feels like this administration protects the bad guys, let's just say what it is that we see, iran has been threatening the united states and threatening our service members on the ground, obviously behind all of the attacks on israel and yet europe is not allowed to get involved and say something about the nuclear program to try to pull them back in, why are we constantly protected the bad guys whether iran, china, russia or anybody else? >> what is happening, the biden administration strategically has made up his mind when it took over from trump all things trump were bad despite the fact that i read was back at his heels because of the sanctions and despite progress had been made in the abraham accord as opposed to rotting on the heels of that and making sure all the sanctions were enforced because

you have to watch sanctions every month and every week and every day because it's always slippage taking place button them down to make sugar walk into working properly should've been the policy and strengthen abraham accord, wipe this clean, started over and open negotiations and now the middle east is on fire, just like europe is on fire because russia saw weakness in the united states particularly after afghanistan, they are inside ukraine and iran saw weakness in the united states and appeasement strategy that's what we did before and the obama biden administration to the past we got the number we understand this were to take advantage of this opportunity to hear, vulnerability on a part of the united states and were getting it more aggressive, that is exactly what we are saying. even now after the middle east is on fire, divided

administration cannot still see the reality of what's taken place by iran. it's stunning to me that they won't take the policy. maria: it is donated everybody else sees it very clearly of what's happening with our wide-open border we still don't know why thousands and tens of thousands of chinese nationals are coming into the country via the open border, 30000 since october in california alone, then there is taiwan a bipartisan delegation meeting with taiwan's president just days after china launched military drills around taiwan in protest of his inauguration. the delegation led by house foreign affairs committee michael mccaul vowing to support taiwan promising the u.s. was moving forward with weapon deliveries for taiwan, your reaction to this? >> i spoke to chairman a call just before he left he told me his purpose in leading the bipartisan delegation was to make certain the new administration under president

lai who intends to continue most of the policies of the previous administration, president xi where he was a vice president and chairman mccaul wants president lai to understand fully that the house of representatives and the committee that he leads an bipartisan support is behind is a administration and is going to do two things for them, see that they can get them the ammunition that they need and also encourage the department of defense to increase their training of the taiwan military and they want them to know that they have their support and that's why he's there so early in this administration just a matter of a week old, that's a great mood by chairman mccaul in a sense of large signal, there is two entities in our government and the deal with foreign policy and national security, one is a leader in the executive branch of the other of congress of the united states and they're doing their duty. maria: we will leave it there, good to see you thank you, sir.

>> great talking, thank you. maria: stay with us, we'll be right back. ♪

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maria: welcome back, deadly storm systems rip across the south and the holiday weekend, cheryl casone you with all the details. >> texas is bracing for more

severe weather this morning days after deadly tornadoes tore through the region, cities across the state from san antonio to dallas are at risk for large hail and damaging winds, this comes days after several tornadoes ripped through the heartland destroying communities along the way, 23 people across five states are now dead including four chi children, bad weather leading to a full ground stop at jfk monday afternoon as travelers are returning for the memorial weekend holiday, that leading to mass delays and cancellations, and chicago united airlines catching fire just before taking off at o'hare, smoke coming from the wing of the plane the seattle bound flight was forced to stop during takeoff, telling fox digital where passengers and thankfully nobody was hurt. the 12 passengers and crew on a qatar airways was entered into argument when the boeing jet hit severe turbulence, the 787

dreamliner left ohio when it hit one passenger at the worst 15 seconds of his life, eight injured were sent to hospital. tributes are pouring in for nba hall of famer bill walton after the former trailblazers star and two-time champion died following a battle with cancer, adam silver saying what i will remember most about him was his zest for life, the regular president at league events, smiling ear to ear looking to share his wisdom and worth, i treasured our friendship and energy and admire the time that he took with any person he encountered, the trailblazers were paying tribute is upbeat and personality will forever be remembered and cherished he will be missed by an organization, rest in peace and obviously to those who experienced him he was 71 years old and so funny on the court if you were lucky enough to watch them. finally this a surprising age group is going back to work, gen

z the according to the labor department this generation were 12 - 26 years old were making up a larger set entered share of the workforce versus previous generations when they were teenagers, in the 80s two out of three teams were working or looking for a job but those numbers have been steadily falling sense, especially the millennial generation, now teens are getting part-time jobs, here is the thing a lot of the times it's to help their families cover daily costs as inflation is squeezing american families, the reason is different but i want to add all of us here are gen x, all of us worked when we were teenagers, all of us are very proud of them. maria: i think work gives you a lot not just your salary, the confidence and strength to

progress and move forward, your reaction. >> is a great thing for young people to work, i started working a w-2 job but i was 14 years old and it taught me the value of money in a work ethic and how to work with all different kinds of people to be so grateful for all that i had in ethic it's really important in young people to stand what the receiving and what they're working for. i'm all for it and i'm glad to see young people doing it again. >> you can move back home in your parents basement and it's not rent-free to contribute because economy is so expensive because they can't afford fast-food it's a luxury, the younger you work, the more you learn about work ethic, time management in academic requirements with educational requirements and this is a great thing and i'm glad that gen z, this is a caudal generation from things that inhabited our society and this is going to be good for them even though i'm

not happy the reason making them go to work as inflation but it's good for them. maria: the reasons are very serious, i was watching "fox & friends" first earlier on fox news and they had a panel of mom panel and one of them said she just pay $13 for a loaf of bread. i almost dropped i thought when you bring it down to that level, $13 for a loaf of bread, this is bankrupting people, no kidding the young people have to go to work, everybody has to go to work. >> the crushing inflation that were seen everywhere you have wealthy people going to walmart and $10 mcdonald's hamburgers right now, none of this is okay and good for the economy as we spoke about earlier in the show and also you always talk about working in your dad's restaurant and even though the reasons are importunate. i will say it's a good thing

because it teaches the kids skills that they will use when they are adults, you need to learn the skills that you going to be later in life, learn them now and i'm glad for that part of this. maria: it is important, we will take a short break, as it trumps hush money trial resumes this morning, closing arguments are beginning today in the reversed, the defense will go first, the prosecution will end it, trump is completed about that but usually not the way things go in the closing argument. it's a hot topic of hour cominge up next, you're watching "mornings with maria" live on "mornings with maria" live on y, ? ♪ at the wall, but get closer. daughter: (gasps) what the?! daughter: alright. dad: side to side. when you work with someone who knows a lot and cares even more... you can do this. ...you're unstoppable. (♪) wow... are you kidding me? you can do this. at truist, we believe the same is true for banking.