lauren: breaking news this morning. connect the dots. close ally of the clinton he gave nearly half a million dollars to the campaign of an fbi offial who oversaw hillary clinton's e-mail investigation. whether he tell you all about this one. good morning to you, i'm lauren simonetti. nicole: good morning, i'm nicole petallides. after announcing 85 million-dollar blockbuster media deal time warner drawing fire from everyone to bernie sanders. lauren: deal talk pushes big moves, the overall market ended lower on friday. dow down 16 points. let's check in monday morning,

few ahead of hoping bell. nasdaq futures 28. nicole: in japan, stocks higher. shanghai composite up 2.1%. lauren: right now oil prices 50.90 a barrel. up slightly. nicole: 15 days until election days. donald trump is pushing hard for votes on the battleground state of florida while hillary clinton is with elizabeth warren. nicole: good morning, 5:01 in new york. we welcome you to fbn:am. what to expect from the day ahead. lauren: a long time ally of hillary clinton gave nearly

$5,000 to the campaign of fbi official who later oversaw hillary's investigation. the political action committee of terry donated the 2015 senate campaign of dr. jill, he's married to current deputy director of the fbi who oversaw the investigation into hillary clinton's e-mails. well, his wife lost that election and a spokesperson for the governor, any insinuation that his support was tide over than desire to elect candidates that will help pass agenda is ridiculous, end quote. nicole: just 15 days left and hillary clinton will be in the swing state of new hampshire today where she will campaign with senator elizabeth warren. appearance comes after wikileaks revealed that the clinton camp was worried about potential primary challenge from warren in november 2014 and how it tried to broker a meeting between clinton and warren in boston.

clinton attacked donald trump yesterday after he refused he would expect the results of the election during debate. >> it is not a joke and, look, some people are sore losers and we have to keep going. nicole: early voting in massachusetts begins today. lauren: donald trump is pushing hard for votes in the swing state of florida, trump speaking at a rally yesterday in names, one of several rallies he plans to attend in battleground where early voting starts today. poll suggest that is one of handful of swing state that is remain competitive. trump criticizing hillary clinton for not taking on the issue of government corruption. >> i put forward a plan to stop it. my opponent has no plan to end governmentorruption because she is the embodiment of

corruption. lauren: race is tied in florida and nevada. that paper owned by billionaire and trump donor sheldon. nicole: donald trump weighing on time warner deal. >> at&t is buying time warner, a deal we would not approve because it's too much concentration of power to the few. nicole: the senator said it needs to be reviewed. >> specially in the media, this has just been announced and i haven't had a chance to dig into the details but these are the kinds of questions that we need

to be asking. nicole: bernie sanders says, quote, the administration should kill the merger, this deal would mean higher prices and fewer choices for the american people. lauren: will it? let's talk about the future of massive media deal. let's ask president as well as fox news contributor who is joining us right now on the telephone. good morning. >> good morning. lauren: do you think this deal would likely get done? >> no, i don't particularly if hillary clinton gets elected. it just sounds like to me when you read through with the exception of donald trump there's almost a knee-jerk reaction on the part of the left to any kind of merger of this size and i think it's quite honestly ludicrous, but, no, i don't think it's going to go through. nicole: tell us why you think it's ludicrous, it's a good tie-up to counter bernie sanders that there would be fewer

choices and higher prices for americans, why would it be that? >> i don't think it's a great deal to be honest with you for at&t. they have 100 million in debt, they're going to add 85-90. they're pushing the limits. it's not like they're adding another wireless provider to take, you know, any economies of scales. they're going to run time warner at least that's what they said, renew of 15% and the part of higher prices, so what? that's what happens. even if there was higher prices and less choice, what does that do, it provide opportunities for the amazons and the netflix and all the others to come in with

their own lower prices and more con tint. that's what i see. lauren: if this deal is approved controls not just the content, for a, competitors and b consumers? >> let's trace this as at&t is becoming the wireless version of comcast. we have choices of comcast which by the way is going to roll out at least they say own wireless. you have two huge providers. you have so many providers. a few years ago we at no time even think we could get original programming on netflix, what's to say if the prices don't go up, there's going to be another five or ten netflix competitors like years ago probably before you ladies were born. there was only cbs, nbc and now

you have 500 channels to choose from. if i was on any kind of congressional committee, i would let the deal go through or thrive or die like that silly when time warner bought aol. lauren: shares 15-year high back on friday in reaction to all of this. gary b. smith. thank you. nicole: thanks, gary. iraqi and kurdish forces pushing in mosul. six mileses from the outskirts of city. >> we know that isil will take other sides of iraq and we are all planning to be helping the

iraqi security forces to consolidate their control over all of iraqi territory. nicole: u.s.-led coalition is provided air strikes and also ground support with more than 100 soldiers embedded and we have one american dead sadly. lauren: a tour bus slamming into a back of big rigged truck killing 14 people and injuring 30 others. the bus was going much faster than the truck was. >> the speed of the bus was so significant that when it hit the back of the big rig, the trailer, the trailer itself entered about 15 feet into the bus. so you can see that it was a substantial impact. lauren: was returning to los angeles from a trip to a casino. nicole: shanghai composite index in china soared.

you had the currency near lows. nikkei also that is higher one quarter of one percent. lauren: let's check out european stocks, better than expected manufacturing numbers. the ftse is up 11 points in london. cac if paris 32 and dax in germany up 36. nicole: this morning we have all up arrows and that was better and may bring optimism here at home. you know all the deals can bring optimism that we have been talking about. dow futures up 80 and s&p futures up 10. lauren: you have 12.67-ounce. nicole: this deal values at $62

a share in cash and stock. 23% premium to friday's close and the acquisition is expected to be completed by next spring also reporting 14% increase and the company appears to be betting big that airplanes will be get smarter. it's going to translate into the interiors of aircraft. lauren: maybe the seats will get bigger. news comes on friday with third quarter domestic product. after growth in u.s. gdp averaged 1% of the fist half of this year. analysts are forecasting two and a half percent rate. it would affect the federal reserve's decision on whether to raise interest rates perhaps in december. nicole: coming up early voting begins today in florida and a legal victory for the gop may help to stop voter fraud there.

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senator elizabeth warren. it is official at&t has announced a 85 billion-dollar takeover of time warner, however, massive media deal is drawing political opposition from donald trump, bernie sanders and some members of congress as well. let's take a look at u.s. stock market futures. by the way, we are seeing time warner to the upside this morning. right now s&p futures up 10. lauren, that's what's happening now. lauren: thank you, nicole. the fatal mistake that doomed samsung's note 7 to challenge iphone 7, the south korean company made a rush decision to recall phones based on incomplete evidence of the battery test, that would force it to kill off the model. this one, security experts say

the computerized attack that left more than 1200 websites unreachable stem from years earlier by players to online game to frustrate opponents. investors go to venezuela if they dare. the year's big performing bonds are from venezuela, racked by hunger, inflation, others are staying away seeing default as inevitable. the republicans have something to cheer about in florida after a crucial ruling by florida judge just ahead of early voting in the sunshine state, adam shapiro has details. adam: good morning, nicole, good morning, lauren, early voting begins today in florida and the stakes, well, i don't need to tell you, this is a key state for both hillary clinton and donald trump and republicans are saying now that votgs under way, they have avoided a potential problem, recently a

judge ruled against democrats who opened door to roughly 60,000 voters who have not yet been verified. the democrats asked the judge to bypass process and declare them eligible to vote. within some of those voters may have been fraudulent people. >> you could come in from china and said you're eligible to vote and ballot could have been counted. our eyes are opens and we are watching. i guess the message is we are watching. adam: understand nobody in florida has ever turned away from casting a ballot. they have a process called a provisional ballot, you can show up and cast ballot and the canvassing board in your county verifies whether you're eligible to vote or not. in most cases, roughly 40% actually, those ballots are thrown out because the people are not eligible to vote. the democrats were trying to bypass that process.

back to you. lauren: adam shapiro, thank you. nicole: coming up in sports, the philadelphia eagles hand the minnesota vikings first lost of the season. and in the box office. >> i want to be sure she doesn't try to sneak out. >> these children today -- >> you have to drop the hammer on them. nicole: drop the hammer on the kids. tyler perry madea halloween scares tat box office. we will tell you about the weekend winners. you know we have plenty of up arrows this morning. s&p futures up 10, nasdaq futures up 28. you're watching fbn:am, first look at morning markets and breaking news.

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lauren: number one spot at the box office over the weekend $26 million, making the third largest debut for the madea franchise behind the comedy. madea goes to jail or family reunion. origin of evil comes in third place followed by accountant with 14 million and universal girl on the train $7.3 million. nicole: don't try the quiji at home. missed short field goals in closing moments. are you kidding me? 24-yard field goal bounced up and then 21-yard field goal with

just seven seconds left. philadelphia eagles giving vikings first loss. bradford was sacked six times and forced three turnovers of the season. he was traded to the vikings just before started season. tom brady completing 19 of 23 passes. new england remains perfect since brady returned. cleveland indians and chicago cubs are gearing up for game one tomorrow night of the world series. cubs with first world series in 71 years. lauren: it is going to cost you as excitement continues to build so do prices, the average asking price for first two games

scheduled for cleveland $3,900. as for game 3, 4 and 5 in chicago they're much more expensive. average asking price, $7,200 a seat and that's actually much higher than we see for the super bowl. the last four super bowls average $4,500. that's crazy. nicole: yeah, coming up. at&t and time warner announced 85 billion-dollar deal and, of course, drawing opposition to that deal. >> it's too much concentration of power in the hands of too few. nicole: we are going to take a look whether or not the deal has a likelihood of getting done. let's check u.s. stock market futures. s&p futures right now are up 10 and we are watching the nasdaq futures up 27 as oil pulls back two pennies

nicole: breaking news this morning, connect the dots, close ally of the clintons gave nearly half a million dollars to the campaign of the wife of an fbi official who oversaw hillary clinton's e-mail investigation. we are going to tell you all about it. good morning, i'm nicole petallides. lauren: good morning, i'm lauren simonetti. just one day after announcing an 85 billion-dollar blockbuster media deal at&t and time warner are already drawing fire for their marriage from everyone from donald trump to bernie sanders. we are going to take a look at the chances of this deal making to the attar and how stocks are trading. nicole: overall market ended

slightly lower on friday, but the dow down 16 points on friday and today slightly higher. lauren: overin asia nikkei up .3% and in china 1.2%. nicole: crude oil posting gain. right now two pennies. lauren: guess what? 15 days until election day while hillary clinton plans to campaign with senator elizabeth warren. nicole: in sports the tied game between seahawks and cardinals, we have all the highlights for you. lauren: we sure will. it is monday october 24th. october is flying by. welcome to fbn:am, first look at morning markets, breaking news and what to expect for the day

ahead. nicole: breaking news this morning, a long time ally of hillary clinton and bill clinton gave nearly $500,000 to the campaign of the wife of the fbi official who later oversaw hillary's investigation. according to finance records the political action committee of virginia governor terry donated this money to the 2015 state senate campaign of dr. jill, he is is current deputy director of the fbi who oversaw the investigation into hillary clinton's e-mails. his wife lost the election. any insinnation that his support was tied to anything other than desire to elect candidates that would help pass agenda is ridiculous. lauren: hillary clinton will be in the swing state of new hampshire today where she will campaign with senator elizabeth warren. the appearance comes after wikileaks reveal that had the clinton camp was worried about a potential primary challenge from warren in november of 2014 and

how it tried to broker a meeting between clinton and warren in boston. meanwhile clinton attacked donald trump yesterday afters he would respect results of election during final debate. >> it is not a joke and, look, some people are sore losers. we just have to keep going. [cheers and applause] lauren: early voting begins today in massachusetts. nicole: donald trump pushing hard in florida. donald trump speaking speaking . florida one of the handful of swing state that is remain competitive. trump criticizing hillary clinton for not taking on the issue of government corruption. >> i put forward a plan to stop it, my opponent has no plan to

end government corruption because she is the embodiment of government corruption. the embodiment. nicole: race is also tied in nevada where the las vegas review journal has become first major newspaper to endorse donald trump. lauren: well, donald trump is also weighing in on the at&t deal to buy time warner cable for $85 billion, trump coming out against the transaction. >> at&t is buying time warner and thus cnn a deal we will not approve in my administration because it's too much concentration of power in the hands of two few. lauren: senator tim kaine says the deal needs to be examined. >> generally procompetition and less concentration is generally helpful specially in the media. this has just been announced and

i haven't had a chance to dig into the details but those are the kinds of questions to be asking. lauren: sanders the administration should kill the personaller, this deal will mean higher prices and fewer choices for the american people. nicole: time warner shares slightly higher and at&t share lower this morning. we will take a look at the massive media deal possible look. joining us gary b. smith, fox news contributor, so the obvious question is do you think it gets done, but i also want to talk about the market overall and optimism that this and so many other deals in the last week or talk of deals, what kind of optimism this brings to the market? >> well, you know, i'm looking at the rket and i'm optimistic. not so much of this deal because i'm looking at the kind of

charts, if you will, i am going to be bold here, i think in the next four years you're going to see dow at 25,000. that's how bullish i am right now just because of the market action. i think it's pretty terrific at this point. nicole: wow, 25,000. >> yeah. lauren: you know, gary, you don't care if this deal means higher prices for consumers, but will it really mean higher prices for consumers? >> i -- i don't know. i mean, i think right now we are seeing such a rapid evolvement in technology. we've seen just in the past few years companies like netflix, amazon grow leaps and bounds, uber, lyft that came out of no where and people in legislature think that they extrapolate from what's currently going on and

think think, my gosh, nothing is going to change. if we have seen anything in technology, companies that you thought were going to dominate like netescape are gone now. so here we are a case where people are thinking, oh, my gosh, we are not going to have any fewer choices. that's assuming we see no advances in technology or offerings and i think that it's just the opposite. nicole: i want to ask you about this, first of all, timing, 15 days before a huge election and everybody is coming out against it. maybe they should have waited. you mentioned at&t might be interested in time warner, at&t moved in and bought satellite direct tv last year for 48 and a half billion dollars. at&t is changing what they're about, don't you think? >> absolutely. i think this is a defensive move. it's not in at&t's core business, comcast buying nbc universal wasn't in their core

business. i think it's protecting their franchise, making sure people wants to use the pipes of at&t more. from their perspective maybe it works out if we don't include the big debt. lauren: get if content of time warner, warner brothers, cnn and sports as well. >> absolutely. nicole: thanks for your insight this morning. thanks, gary. lauren: thanks, gary. iraqi and kurdish forces pushing into mosul. 6 miles from t outskirts of iraq's second biggest city. this as defense secretary ash carter makes up announced visit to iraq. >> we know that isil will will take to other locations in iraq, we are all planning to be helping the iraqi security forces to consolidate their

control over all of iraqi territory. lauren: u.s.-led coalition is providing air strikes and ground support with more than 100 american soldiers embedded with the iraqi units. nicole: deadly bus crash in southern california, a tour bus slamming into the back of a semitruck killing 13 people and injuring 30 others on board. the police say the bus was going much faster. >> i will tell you the speed was significant when it hit the back of the rig trailer, the trailer itself entered about 15 feet into the bus. so you can see that it was a substantial impact. nicole: bus was returning to los angeles from a casino. lauren: let's get you caught up on global market action overnight, in asia stocks mostly higher, shanghai composite in chna up 1.2%. we have a number from september exports there. they fell almost 7%, believe it

or not, better than expected. hang seng up 1% and kospi up three quarters of 1%. nicole: in europe optimism after better than expected numbers. the german dax is up 3 quarters of 1%, the london ftse is up just one tenth of 1%. lauren: do i want to point out that the euro zone october fastest expansion this year and that's helping futures ear in the u.s. dow futures up 73 points, nasdaq up 27 and s&p futures tacking on nine. nicole: we have companies reporting this week. busy week for earnings. oil down ten cents. barrel at 50.75 and gold losing 77 cents. lauren: lots of deals to talk about. be air space price tag $62 a

share, deal is expected to be completed next spring. rockwell also reporting. betting big with this deal that airplanes an jets will get smarter, the rockwell ceo says nicole: high-tech. would acquire by banking operation. 3700 employees about 500 branches across the united states. takeover could be announced as early as this morning. lauren: coming up ely voting begins today in florida and in a legal victory for the gop may help stop voter fraud there.

>> our eyes are open, our ears are open, we are not going to allow the democrats to engage in any voter fraud in this election cycle. lauren: starting the week the right way. green on your screen. nasdaq futures up 28. you're watching fbn:am, first look at morning markets and breaking news.

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lauren: 5:45 a.m. in new york. good morning to you. a long-time ally of hillary and bill clinton gave nearly $500,000 to the campaign of an fbi official who later oversaw investigation. virginia governor donated the money to the 2015 state senate campaign of dr. jill, she is married to andrew mccave. current deputy director of the fbi. just 15 days until election day. donald trump pushing hard for votes in the battleground state of florida while hillary clinton plans to campaign with senator elizabeth warren.

it's official, at&t has announced 85 billion-dollar takeover of time warner cable bringing together giants with the owner of cnn and hbo. at&t shares, they're trading lower right now by about two and a half percent. the massive deal is drawing political opposition from the likes of donald trump, bernie sanders as well as some members of congress. let's check in right now on overall stock market activity, stock market futures up 78 points from the dow and 28 and a half points for the nasdaq, nicole, that's a look at what's happening now. nicole: lauren, thanks. here is a look at the headlines of the wall street journal. on the verge of challenging apple global dominance, the company made rush decision to recall the phones based on incomplete evidence from battery test that would force it to kill

model. the security experts say left 12 users by players to online games to frustrate and slow opponents. experts go to venezuela if they dare. nation racked by hunger and inflation, some investors are doubling down, others are certainly staying away seeing default as inevitable. republicans have something to cheer about in florida just ahead of early voting in the sunshine state. adam shapiro has the details. adam: good morning, nicole, good morning, lauren, early voting begins today in florida and the stakes, well, i don't need to tell you, this is a key state for both hillary clinton and donald trump. and republicans are saying now that vote asking underway, they

have reverted a potential law. democrats asked judge to bypass verification but one some of those voters may have been fraudulent people. >> you could have come in from china and said you're eligible to vote and your ballot would have been counted. >> our eyes are open and ears. i guess the message is we are watching. adam: understand nobody in florida is ever turned away from casting a ballot. they have a process call prod visional ballot, you can show up even if you're not verified, cast a ballot and canvassing board in your country verifies if you're eligible to vote or not. roughly 40% the ballots are thrown out. democrats would try

to by preponderance pass that process. back to you. nicole: ateam shapiro, thank you very much. lauren: in sports a bizarre tied game between seattle seahawks and cardinals. we will have the highlights. at the box office. >> i'm glad you could help me with her. i want to be sure she doesn't try to sneak out. >> it's going to be so wild. >> the children today. >> you have to drop the hammer on them. lauren: hammer scared me. we will tell you about the winners from the weekend. right now you're watching fbn:am, first look at morning markets and breaking news. ,l

>> we are having a halloween party tonight so why don't you come on by. >> tiffany what's going on? >> no, i can't come over. it's halloween night. >> i will pay you. >> i'm on my way, i will be there now. nicole: that looks funny. a madea halloween to be the number one spot. the film earned $27.6 million in first three days and making the third largest debut for the madea franchise behind madea goes to jail and family ruin. coming in second $23 million is paramount never go back and

quija origin of evil with 14 million. lauren: let's take a look at the latest in sports. nfl has first tied game since 2014 after seattle and arizona missed short field goals and closing moments of dead lock. 24-yard field goal bounced off the left up right and 27 yards field goal was wide left with just 7 seconds left. philadelphia eagles giving vikings first lost. bradford was sacked six times and forced three turnovers of the season. tom brady completed 19 of 26 passes for 222 yards and two

touchdowns and the patriots win at pittsburgh, new england patriots remain perfect since brady returned from his four-game deflate game suspension and in baseball the cleveland indians and chicago cubs gearing up for tomorrow night's big game. cubs booked first trip in 71 years. 8:00 p.m. eastern time. nicole: it's going to be big and as the excitement continues to build, world series tickets, those prices are soring, the average asking price forwo first games for cleveland about 3900 bucks, that's according to ticket resailer iq, game three, 4, 5 in chicago, $7,000. that's higher than even the super bowl.

lauren: before you head out the door this morning we have to get u a check at monday forecast. janice: good morning, we had some snow? new england. still very warm across the south as well as the desert southwest and 63 in la. we had a system move across and potential for showers and some thunderstorms in the mix here as well rain and mountain snow as well as windy conditions. this is the time of year that they see the potential for storm after storm from the pacific and that is certainly the case as we head into wednesday and thursday. in some cases 2-6-inches of rainfall and the higher elevations will receive snow. back to you. [laughter] nicole: coming up we are going to hand it over to mornings with

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maria: hi, there ladies, happy monday, good morning, i'm maria bartiromo and it is monday october 24th top stories right now 6:00 a.m. on the east coast. reshaping the med island escape, at&t looking to acquire time warner in $85.4 billion deal, the companies agreed. it's facing political backlash, however, the market reaction and involve the fbiins coming up. investigation into hillary clinton's private e-mail server, the shocking new report of how virginia governor and clinton ally is involved. coming up. this cutting as hillary clinton and donald trump hit the campaign trail this morning in the final push toward election day with the campaign' focus on turnout. >> the fact is that this race is not over. many in the media want to say it's over. you're not really bringing in people who haven't voted in a long time. there are many people like that and we are not giving up. >> so progress does not stop