we thank you for being with us tonight. good night from new york. ♪ ♪ nicole: breaking news this morning, president trump playing offense pressuring gop conservatives to get behind his agenda, we will have the latest on the story, good friday morning, i'm nicole petallides. lauren: good friday morning, i'm lauren simonetti. on capitol hill the senate hold a hearing on russia's meddling in the u.s. election while michael flynn offers to it have in exchange to immunity to avoid a, quote, witch hunt. nicole: investors tally gains, dow almost up 5% and s&p up nearly 6% and the nasdaq up nearly 10% as we head go the final trading day of this quarter.

lauren: a record for the nasdaq, u.s. stock market futures are looking down this morning, dow down 43, s&p down 6. nicole: mcdonalds tries a fresh new approach for quarter pounder, but will it bring customers in we have that story. lauren: historic relaunch and successful landing of the falcon rocket, dramatically lower the cost of space travel. nicole: march madness comes to ahead, we will run down the unusual final four match-ups and why did these baseball players had to hit the deck in we are going to explain that one for you. lauren: 5:01 a.m. in new york. welcome to fbn:am, first look at morning markets, breaking news and what to expect for the day ahead. nicole: former national security adviser mike flynn is in discussion with intelligence committee as well as the fbi on receiving immunity from prosecution in exchange for questioning.

flynn is part of ongoing informations on possible context between trump's presidential campaign and russia. flynn issuing a statement, no reasonable person who has the benefit of advise from counsel would submit to questioning in such a highly politicized witch hunt without assurances against unfair prosecution. >> karl rove on the first one hundred days. >> i thought it was an unusual gesture on his part. it was okay for him to step forward i will it have, i will be happy to meet with him but the request for immunity i thought was really troubling. lauren: all this comes after a day after senate intelligence committee held hearing on russia's meddling with election. >> fake news, hacking, propaganda even dead russians, senate intelligence committee on russian interference with the u.s. election on hot charges yesterday.

open hearing on russia experts and esm u.s. intelligence officials testify so no firm findings from any active u.s. intelligence agencies yesterday but the committee is digging with the help from the private sector. >> while many organizations are actively trying to counter these attacks there's such an asymmetry with offense and defense in cyberspace that's it's really hard for any organization to modernize and prevent these intrusions from occurring when you have a state sponsored attacker. >> the top democrat said is seek to go determine if there was actually fire, his words in russian interference in the election because so far for him there's a great deal of smoke. russian president putin going yesterday saying russia never interfered in the u.s. election in any way reputing previous charges by u.s. intelligence agencies, back to you in new york. lauren: thank you, peter barnes. nicole: joining us political analyst.

thank you so much for being with us this morning. there's no evidence from collusion between trump campaign and russia. >> fbi director comey came out and said in hearings, democrats on the hill continue to make a big story because they feel they are pushing by the liberal groups to resist anything and everything. they are trying to look so hard that the trump campaign and administration -- lauren: is it something? tbin told if you're given immunity you probably committed a crime. >> right. lauren: karl rove called it unusual. what is he hiding, what story does he have to tell? >> to what truth we don't know about the white house aides, possibly participating with devin nunes and giving him this information. he was on the inside and they were saying that possibly people from the national security counsel.

if he has information there, specially bone to pick with a former employee of the white house and that's the information where says i have information that might help. whatever he's doing he feel that he can defend president trump. nicole: how should the white house be dealing with this investigation and how much of a distraction is it to the trump agenda? >> you hit the nail on the head. it is a complete distraction, right, democrats want to keep this going and take it all the way to the bank. the white house, however, because of the difficulty and how does devin nunes get the documents right. they need to make sure they are clean from this because whatever find dogs come out and whatever happens, there's no findings of collusion, whatever happens with russia and hacking, anything with election results, for the benefit of the people and his agenda, they have a budget showdown coming up. they need make sure that their hands are completely clean and maybe stay off twitter when it comes to commenting on the situation.

lauren: how long can that go on for? >> this can go until the summer. the unmasking, people not rightfully unmasked, that is going to be huge and that will continue on into the summer so we are going to have to continue to watch this as we go -- nicole: anything we are missing? >> generally cybersecurity is a huge, huge issue. in the course of-few days senator marco rubio was hacked by ip addresses from russia, so this is, you know, we really need to step you are cyber warfare game when it comes not to only russia but any other country that's trying to not only hack in the election but peddle information. co: political analyst, thank you so much for breaking that down. >> thanks. lauren: present trump firing the first to the conservative wing of the republican party. freedom caucus will hurt the entire republican agenda if they don't get on the team and fast. we must fight them and democrats

in 2018. well, freedom caucus member justin mash accusing the president of being a bully. >> is it actual negotiating tactics by the president or do you think it's a constructive way to do it? >> i mean, it's constructive in fifth grade. lauren: white house secretary sean spicer said the strategy boiled down to simple math game. >> it's a math strategy to move agenda forward. lauren: freedom caucus has about three dozen members in the house. nicole: president trump is to sign executive orders in trade today and aimed at identify antidumping rules and endorsement. this comes as the president prepares for his first face to face meeting with chinese president xi and also next week

-- that'll be next week in florida where trade issues could be a major source of tension. now, china was the biggest contributor to the 734 billion-dollar trade deficit last year and for more on this, white house trade adviser peter navarro will be on mornings with maria, 7:00 o'clock eastern time this morning. lauren: breaking this morning, overpass on i-85 in at will nota collapsing following a mass i have hour broke out during rush hour yesterday, thick clouds of black smoke, the cause is not known yesterday, the fire did burn through piles of plastic wiring under the overpass. transportation officials say they don't now how long it will take to repair the damage and reopen to traffic. >> essentially the cork has been put in the bottle. think about one of the major arteries that comes in and out of this city where folks move

north and south through our state, a chunk of it has just been taken out of play. lauren: as you can imagine the fire causing a traffic nightmare for drivers. >> i've been driving for like an hour and a half now, i'm just trying to go home. lauren: good news is that no injuries have been reported. nicole: lets get you caught up on the global market action overnight. we begin in asia, nikkei down more than three quarters of 1% as is the hong kong hang seng and korea kospi down a quarter of 1%. the only gainer is shanghai composite in china up one-third of 1%. lauren: in europe stocks are trading mixed down at the moment. ftse in london is down 41 points, half of 1%. cac if pa race down 20 and the dax in germany down 15. nicole: it's been a great first quarter and today, though, it is looking to the downside, dow futures down 44 points, s&p futures down 6 right now. lauren: winning week, winning

quarter for u.s. investors, the month mixed, the dow showing weakness, could be the first down month in five months. gold down 3 bucks. nicole: mcdonalds is feeling fresh adding fresh beef starting next year. mcdonalds has announced it will use fresh beef instead of frozen patties by the middle of next year, after the change burgers for quarter pounders will be set right to grill. so it isn't known how the fresh burger will affect the pricing, patties and big macs will be prepared ahead of time. lauren: i wonder if it changes the taste. >> five, four, three, two, one.

liftoff. lauren: for the first time ever a used rocket booster was sent back to place, launch bid elon musk spacex, multiple flights of the same rockets to take humans around the moon within a few years and eventually to put settlers on mars. the rocket booster returned to earth and landed on a drone ship in the atlantic to be used again. >> a difference between if you have airplanes where you threw away versus you can reuse them multiple times. thest been 15 years to get to this point. lauren: musk called it a great day for spacex and for the space industry. nicole: coming up donald trump pressures conservative ts to help push his agenda or else.

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smart move. because buzzed driving is drunk driving. lauren: happy friday, 5:15 in new york. former national security adviser michael flynn asking for immunity from the fbi and congressional intelligence committees in exchange he's offering to answer questions about his ties to russia. flynn was fired from his job as president trump's first national security adviser after discloses that had he misled the vice president about a conversation he had had with the russian embassador to the u.s. during the transition. well, later today president trump will sign an executive order aimed at cracking down on trade abuses, it comes a week before his meeting with chinese president xi in mar-a-lago

estate. spacex taking a giant leap in tting thcost of travels to space for the first time ever yesterday successfully launched and land a recycled rocket. the falcon 9 blasted off from florida's kennedy space center carrying a broadcasting satellite. spacex plans to launch up to 10 reused boosters this year. it's a big day. we should have a lot of volatility, it's the end of the the week, end of the month and end of first quarter and on the final day dow futures down 39. nicole: thanks, lauren. a fierce fight against the freedom caucus in the wake of the obamacare repeal failure even calling out republican lawmakers by name, will the strategy work and can the president regain control of his agenda? we go right to jay right now former adviser to governor john kasich, managing director, good morning to you. >> good morning.

nicole: will the freedom caucus get on board? will the president as he said, look, you're not going to work with me, i will go right to the democrats to get support? what do you think of that? >> this is a really hard sell and here is why, last night on facebook here in ohio i saw lake a message posted by a lot of the leaders of the freedom -- the backers of freedom parties, coalition that really came together held noses and voted for donald trump because they believed he was the right guy. respectful e-mail but i have seen this movie before and this is how it starts. he's got to be real careful to not an -- lauren: jay, reminding that the freedom caucus was on his side. on the tweet we stood with you, remember who your real friends are. >> right. this is a challenge of the house, this is the challenge of getting legislation through. look, in my opinion, the

president really has to start plowing the field, making the case for some of the big agenda items are important and what the american people are going to get out of it. they didn't do it with healthcare reform. they didn't do it why this plan was the right plan so now all of a sudden the pressure is not exerted on the freedom caucus or moderates, whoever you're looking at. they have to start doing that. tax reform is not quagmire, they need to make sure they start doing that before they go to big legislative fights. it's going to take time and effort and it's really important to do. nicole: there's a lot of criticism of paul ryan throat all of this. if you were giving the president some advise on the agenda, what would it be? >> well, i think he needs to get legislative wins. he has done a lot of stuff with executive actions and the gorsuch pick is a fantastic pick. the trade issue might get him back on track because they feel they are getting a raw deal. he has to get legislative wins, what i would say is go to infrastructure.

tax reform right now, that's a quagmire, you pick winners and losers. so it's really hard to get true tax reform. it's really important to do but hard to get done. go to something that you can win. go to the trade issue and then also go to infrastructure bills. i think those are places you can start winning and building momentum. lauren: he's tackling trade today, maybe infrastructure, yes, wouldn't this increase the budget, the cbo with a report saying the national debt to double in the nucleares decade. quickly. >> yeah,ic we need to look at that too. policy wise that we could have that debate. i'm talking about trying to get political momentum. lauren: got it. >> he's for hire and been clear on that before building a wall. that's going to cost a lot of money but those are places you go and get wins and he needs to do that if he's -- lauren: got it.

>> if he's going to get the agenda installed. nicole: thank you for joining us this morning. lauren: thank, jay. march madness comes and why did the baseball players had to hit the deck? here is a look at the national radar. you're watching fbn:am, first look at morning markets and breaking news.

nicole: time now for sports. after two week of busting bract

et basketball, the tournament down to the final four. teams have arrived in phoenix for tomorrow's game, plenty of fresh faces this time around. gonzaga and south carolina making appearance ever in final four. oregon since 1939. gonzaga and south carolina will square off in the first game. that will be followed by the tar heel and the ducks. here in new york it was the nit championship. tcu and georgia tech. williams drives baseline, gets the jam and the foul, tcu up 11 at the break. second half, williams misses but he's there to jam it home. tcu wins it easily and the championships. going right to the nba, second quarter against the bulls, lebron james beat the buzzer with the nice jumper, he had 19

points in the half but it was not enough. third quarter, bottom to triple, goes up 5 and in the fourth jimmy butler with the jumper and the bulls win it 99 to 93. lebron shrugged his shoulders. turn around look at the video. invasion during the spring training game in arizona yesterday. the ninth inning, they were everywhere with the players and the umpires, hey, hit the ground, hit the deck. such a bizarre scene. looks like yoga session on the field. the game resumed opening day is this sunday. i have learned something new. lauren: i was always going like this everywhere. there are serious bets. ask progolfer, it was revealed that he shelled out 5% of 48 million-dollar salary on

gambling debt in 2012. he paid close to $2 million to professional gambler, walter on trial for allegedly trading on stock that he got from a friend. walter allegedly passed on tips to help him pay off his gambling debts. nicole: coming up, president trump goes on the offensive to push his agenda including calling out freedom caucus members to get on board. >> it's a math strategy which is to get to 216 and pass an effort and continue to move the agenda forward. >> and mcdonalds tries a fresh new approach for quarter pounders, will the customers go for it? we will have the story for you. checking out u.s. stock market futures in the last trading dade of the quarter. look at this, right now dow futures looking to the downside. you're watching fbn:am, first look at morning markets and breaking news.

lauren: breaking news this morning president trump playing offense pressuring gop conservatives to get behind his agenda. happy friday, i'm lauren simonetti. nicole: good morning, i'm nicole petallides. the senate hold a hearing on russia's meddling in the u.s. election while former national security adviser michael flynn offers to testify in exchange for immunity to avoid a, quote, witch hunt. lauren: in the markets investors tally up the gains for the first quarter. check it out. dow almost up 5% and s&p jumping 6% and the nasdaq up about 10% this quarter as we head into the final day of it. nicole: after a 59 point gain for the dow, u.s. stock markets futures right now to the

downside, dow futures down 35, s&p futures down 5. lauren: mcdonalds is trying fresh new approach for quarter pounders, get it, fresh. nicole: elon musk spacex in successful launch. the rollts could dramatically lower the cost of space travel. lauren: march madness runs to a head, why did these players lay on the floor like they were doing yoga? we are going to explain. nicole: 5:31 a.m. in new york, friday march 31st, we welcome you to fbn:am, first look at what's moving in today's markets and the latest breaking news. lauren: i could use yoga right now. mike flynn in discussions with the congressional intelligence committees as well as the fbi on receiving immunity from prosecution in exchange for questioning.of ongoing investigations into possible contacts between the trump

presidential campaign and russia, flynn's attorney issuing a statement saying in part, no reasonable person who has the benefit of advice from counsel would submit without assurances against unfair prosecution. nicole: karl rove, former senior adviser to president bush. >> i thought it was unusual gesture on his part. it was okay for him to step forward and say i will testify, be happy to meet with him but the request for immunity i thought was troubling. nicole: this comes after the senate intelligence committee held the hearing on russia's meddling in the u.s. election yesterday, no firm findings from u.s. intelligence agencies but the committee is digging with the help from the private sector. >> while many organizations are actively trying to counter these attacks, there's such an asymmetry between offense and defense in cyberspace that's

it's hard for any organization to modernize and prevent these intrusions from occurring when you have a state-sponsored attacker. nicole: russian president vladimir putin saying his country never interfered in the u.s. election in any way. lauren: president trump lashing out against the conservative freedom caucus, we go to blake berman at the white house with the details. blake: the blame game is now well underway in washington, d.c. following last week's canceled health care vote with president trump firing the first vote toward conservative wing of the republican party. the president tweeted out the following, the quote, the freedom caucus will hurt the entire republican agenda if they don't get on the team and fast. we must fight them and dems in 2018, freedom caucus member justin amash fired back, he then accused president trump of being a bully.

>> actual negotiating tactic by the president or do you think this is a constructive way to do it? >> i mean, it's constructive in fifth grade. blake: prez secretary sean spicer saying the president was not trying to bully freedom caucus members and that the president's strategy boiled down to a simple number's game. >> it's a math strategy to get to 216 and pass an effort and continue to move the agenda forward. blake: going forward president trump will have to get members on his side, roughly 3 dozen members of that group. back to you in new york. nicole: blake berman, thank you. lauren: political analysts, thank you for joining us again, get the eedom caucus members onis side wh he's calling them out in tweets? >> it's a negotiating tactics. that's what he does. of course, we remember that after the bill was pulled that he spoke in a way towards these

people, you know that fundamentally he recognizes he needs to get them on his side, really, paul ryan also did this over the weekend. you know, he came out and said, trump might go to the democrats, also another threat. hey, we can block this stuff, you better listen to us. nicole: i think donald trump is forthright and can be very tough and knows how to make a deal. this is his way of doing it and now he's focusing on getting the democratic support whether it's for tax cuts or whatever, what do you think? >> the freedom caucus is in a good spot here because they are in safe districts, they are not in swing districts. president trump can say that he's going to work with the democrats all he wants, the democrats are not going to work with president trump, there's just no way that they are going to do that. it's totally against their mo. at tend of the day, one of the freedom caucus members made a

great point, they said, the way to pass good sleción not to name call but to get good legislation, get a good bill, right, a lot of people feel like the process was rushed oh going into health care and they need to deliver for the american people. that's the results that, i think, everyone can unify behind. lauren: donald trump needs to plow the field, lay out his cards. >> yes. lauren: tell us what the policies are and why they are right. what does the freedom caucus want? >> they are a purist, they are sticking to a conservative agenda and president trump needs to remember that he -- a lot of conservatives were not on his side going into the nomination, so he's got to make sure that he's listening to those folks, but at the end of the day, the republican party has got to unify and govern well. right, they have to show after being an opposition party for eight years, they have to show they can govern well because 2818 mid-terms are going to come before you know it. lauren: like you said they are

in safe -- >> freedom caucus are in safe districts, right, but the republicans could lose a lot of other seats, but the other thing is they realize that they didn't have the ground gain in place when they were trying to pass the healthcare legislation so you have katie walsh, the deputy chief of staff who just left the white house, she's going to outside group to get mailers out there and tv ads and start to persuade people that these are good policies, call senators and house members an let's get the bills through. lauren: all right, kirsten for your perspective. nicole: thanks, kirsten. president trump is set to sign executive orders, aimed after identifying factors that are causing massive u.s. trade deficits. the orders are also seek to go strengthen antidumping rules and enforcement. this comes as the president prepares for the first face to face meeting with chinese president xi jinping in florida where trade issues could be a major source of tension.

china was the biggest contributor to trade deficit last year. for more on this white house trade adviser peter navarro will be on mornings with maria at 7:00 a.m. eastern time this morning. lauren: let's get you caught up on global market action overnight. nikkei in japan down .8% as the hang seng in hong kong. the shanghai composite in china. nicole: taking a look at european stocks right now. jobless numbers, the stocks are down in germany and the dax. ftse in london down a half of 1% and the cac quarante down a quarter of 1%. lauren: we are seeing weakness for the dow, could be the first losing month since october. futures this morning down 36, s&p has been up for three days in a row, down this morning 6 points, nasdaq futures down 10.

nicole: let's check out key commodities right now, oil is down 8 cents. gold is down 4 bucks. lauren: people want to eat healthier so mcdonalds is going fresh. they have announced that it's going to use the fresh beef instead of frozen batties in quarter pounders in most of the restaurants in the middle of 2018. prices are usually set by the individual franchise owners so still not known if the fresh beef burgers are going to cost more money. mcdonalds did say that beef patties and big macs will continue to be frozen and prepared ahead of time at least for now. nicole: starting tomorrow amazon will expand sales tax to all state that is charge sales tax. state that is want third-party sellers which account for growing sellers to pay their fair too. most of the sellers are difficult to find giving them a

10% price advantage in some cases over brick and mortar stores and products directly soldly amazon, states like new york and wyoming now taking action to recoup billions of dollars in revenues. shares of amazon rallying nearly 17% so far this year. lauren: record high after record high. blackberry one of the stocks we are watching this morning. software developer and former smartphone maker expected to report flat earnings before the opening bell. revenue expecting to be sharply lower from a year ago. investors listening for any update on blackberry efforts to portion itself as a major player in mobile security software. they are rallying 8% in extended trading. after the biotech company said the food and drug administration with fast track status on one of the drugs for rare bloodies order. nicole: shell drillers find new ways to profit new cheap era.

texas producer eog has led the industry in finding ways toics tract oil faster. the sector could become a lasting force that challenging opec's ability to control oil prices. apple fictions 9/11 flaw in update among changes in software update apple released this week. fix aimed at predicting 9/11 attacks. the bulk of annual musical sales, the musical industry recovered last year and subscription services helped sales to rise more than 11% in the united states and executives help there's more room to growth. lauren: coming up a big week for president trump next week with chinese president xi jinping set to visit him in mar-a-lago. plus neil gorsuch, will he get

through in we will ask and what we can expect. the month and the first quarter, dow futures down 34, nasdaq down 9. you're watching fbn:am, first look at morning markets and breaking news. see you soon

nicole: good friday morning, 5:45 a.m. in new york. former national security adviser michael flynn is asking for immunity from the fbi and congressional intelligence committees for exchange answering questions from ties to russia after he misled about conversation with russian embassador during the transition. later today president donald trump will sign executive order aimed at racing down on trade abuses. it comes a week before his meeting meeting with chinese president xi jinping at mar-a-lago estate. china is the largest source of

the u.s. trade deficit and spacex taking a giant leap in cutting the costs of traveling to space. for the first time ever yesterday it successfully launched and landed a recycled rocket. the falcon 9 blasted off from florida's kennedy space center carrying broadcaster satellite, plans to launch up to six reused boosters this year. let's check out u.s. stock market futures after record for the nasdaq yesterday. dow futures down 29. s&p futures down 5, nasdaq futures down 7. lauren, that's what's happening now. lauren: they are doing a little bit better after the show goes on. a senate vote on supreme court nominee neil gorsuch is also expected next weekment joining us again former adviser to john kasich and managing director at public affairs firm mercury, good to see you. >> morning, again. lauren: day 70 of president trump's first 100 days. what can we expect from chinese

president? >> we are coming on the heels of angela merkel handshake meeting, people are going to be looking at the tone of what the president takes specially after he signs tough executive orders from china. we should be tougher against them. politically there's a lot of value to this. he is going to get push back from the business community, the ones that deal with china in terms of trade and actually do business in china. how is he going to manage that, the chamber of commerce crowd, that's going to be an interesting thing too. the macro thing that i'm going to be looking at is there are those foreign policy experts that say you can't have antagonist relationship with russia and china at the same time. we may be having a shift. nicole: he's trying the best to

sign executive orders and fix the trade deals. they are the reason for having large u.s. deficit. there's a hard line that we are trying to draw. what do you think he needs to do then? >> this might be the right place to go. there's going to be a lot of challenges going forward. the other thing we have to look at what is the north korea situation going to be. is he going to have executive orders signed today and is he going the back off in trade with north korea. north korea is a huge threat to america. they may be having a nuclear missile that could hit our west coast in the near future. he's got to make sure that china continues to take a hard or tougher stance against north korea and this is a way to leverage the opportunity too. lauren: let's move onto neil gorsuch. i think there are six votes high now that two senate democrats have said that they will vote for him. so is he going to be our next supreme court justice? >> he is absolutely going to be the next supreme court justice. this has been the biggest win of the trump administration in the

first 70 days. democrats are completely insaip to threaten filibuster. there are so many places that they should be fighting. gorsuch is going to be the next supreme court justice and great justice. nicole: what is chuck schumer thinking when he's so adamant on the other side in. >> a base strategy, someone that's conservative and true conservative, gorsuch has proven through the hearings to be very adept. i was listening to left-wing podcast, boy, this guy is really smooth. this is a mistake, political mistake, they should find -- threaten the filibuster and move off quickly and focus on other things. that's what i would do if i was a democratic strategists. nicole: march madness come to to a head and we will run through the four massachusetts-ups. why did these players have to hit the deck? we will explain.

rainy start or maybe snow too. check out u.s. stock market futures right now. dow futures down 30, s&p futures down 5. nasdaq after a record yesterday down 6 and a half, keep it right here, fbn:am

lauren: time now for sports,

after two weeks of bracket busting basketball the ncaaa men's tournament is down to the final dour. teams have arrive today phoenix for tomorrow's games. gonzaga and south carolina are making first appearance ever in final four. congratulations. oregon has not been to one since 1939 and as for north carolina it is their 20th visit. well, gonzaga and south carolina will square off in first game and that will be followed by the tar heel and the ducks. there you see it. in new york it was the nit championship tcu and georgia tech. wasn't much of a contest though. up 11 at the break. williams misses but he's there to jam it home. tcu wins it easily 88 to 56 and they are an it champions. to the nba, the struggle continues for the cavaliers, second quarter against the bulls, lebron james beat it is

buzzer with the jumper. he had 19 points in the half but it wasn't enough. third quarter, bottoms the triple, bulls are up 5, butler drains the jumper, bulls win 99 to 93. lebron shrugs his shoulders as the calves lose three in a row. there was a bee invasion, look at that during the padres-rockies spring training. the players and the umpire layed down on the ground, bellies and shoulders on the ground. totally bizarre, it looks like they were doing some kind of yoga on the field. game resumed by the way opening day is this sunday. i love baseball. nicole: me too. there are friendly bets and then some serious bets and you can ask progolfer during federal trial in manhattan, it was

revealed that shelled out 5% of his 48 million-dollar salary on gambling debts in 2012, also in 2012 nicholson paid close to $2 million to billy walletters, walletters is on trial for allegedly trading on stock tips that he got from a friend, walletters allegedly passed on some of those to pay off his gambling debt. lauren: coming up crayola decides to send one of the crayon into retirement. it's national crayon day because it's actually one of those. fbn:am, we will be right back.

nicole: tell your friends it's national crayon day, big announcement, the crayon drew a line for under the life of dark yellow crayon. decide today announce early retirement. set to announce which color will be replacing in famous pack of 24crayons, you can watch this live, i'm all for a fresh pack of crayons. lauren: that happens during the show that dagen will be anchoring this morning.

thank you for joining us this week fbn:am. nicole: fbn:am begin right now. dagen: good morning to everybody. i'm dagen mcdowell in for maria bartiromo. it is friday march 31st, end of the quarter, your top stories at 6:00 a.m. eastern time. president trump tackling trade, he will sign two executive orders that aim to curve unfair practice that is have hurt the u.s. economy. we have details straight ahead. new developments in the russia investigation. general michael flynn who was fired as national security adviser offering to testify if he gets impluinty. his lawyer says flynn has, quote, a story to tell. massive fire causing bridge collapse in atlanta, traffic jammed for hours and declaring state of emergency. >> repair to interstate is top priority as we will be doing anything in our power to make sure that this interstate can be opened safely to traveling