i know it is working well for the country. we'll be right back. the book is let trump be trump. and on sale and on line book stores everywhere. thanks for being with us tonight. good night from new york. >> i did not know them. i had no encounter with them. i never must did anyone get >> so many accusations come as so many cuts come as no many cuts, so major, drip, drip. >> always on alabama as the special election is just hours away. gop candidate for more than sexual harassment allegations in a new interview as his opponent launches brand-new attacks. hotly anticipated segment features of prices surging 21% first-day trading. look at the future of the crypto current v. turn to quite the story today.

it better than expected jobs report. right now features again pointing to a higher open. >> stocks open higher on wall street gains and rising stock than they should. a look at the ftse higher by one half of 1%. drink to jumping overnight in japan, in japan, the nikkei up five by 6%. the shanghai composite appointment 8%. spin that apple buys the music recognition positions in cortisone. "fbn:am" starts right now. true 25:01 a.m. in new york at monday december 11. i'm cheryl casone. lea: i am mnuchin and four lauren simonetti this morning. train to allow going on. voters watching this morning

peter public morning peter publican weimar to nine multiple claims of misconduct speaking on alabama radio shows to the attacks against him are politically motivated. >> this is part of everything. they are attacking me in that area appeared also part of the scheme of political parties today in political candidates of both parties quite frankly to degrade your opponent, to take him down so you appear to go out. that is just a simple political type date. cheryl: president trump maneuverable cultivators asking him to go for more. >> i'm going to make america safer and stronger and better than ever before. but we need that seat. we need to glory voting for us. lea: richard shelby says he is not supporting more. >> i'd rather see the republican win, but i hope the republican

would be a right in. i couldn't vote for more and more. i didn't go for weimar, but a road named a distinguished republican name. lea: being challenged by dow jones has come under power for campaign fire that compares more to george wallace who backed segregation. cheryl: welcome in washington, mccarthy says lawmakers are great country making great progress in cracking attacks upon the president's desk in time for christmas laying out a timeline for an maria bartiromo "sunday morning futures" paid >> the house and senate have two different goes through structurally pretty similar. they will work out differences come hopefully they can get that done this week. cheryl: republican senator susan collins help us to perform both that she still undecided when it comes to the final tax proposal.

>> carelessly into the final version of final version of the bill is brought before us before we make a final decision whether or not to support it. there are major differences between the house and senate bill and i don't know where the bill is going to come out. lea: she does not want to see medicare payments cut. she also wants legislation to reduce health care premiums for "the wall street journal" reported in the tax rate jump 100% for some americans. lea: another major shakeup in health care. two hospitals looking at a merger. this month cbs announced it was quiet at night. tracee carrasco on what matt. transfer "the wall street journal" reporting that ascension health in providence st. joseph to catholic nonprofit rhodian talk documentary that would create 191 hospitals in 27

states and annual revenue of 40 for $20 billion surpassing the current largest hospital operator hca health care come a for-profit health company. the two have been in talks for months but have not reached an agreement. cheryl: certainly going to shake up the industry. in technology apple looking at another acquisition. >> apple is reportedly very close to a deal to buy shazam, the music recognition that with more than 100 million monthly users making most of its revenue from paid honor for us to apple's itunes store. by acquiring shazam, output cut out the middleman and save money on commission. the deal would also help apple music service gained ground on spot if i've been making it easier. lea: i want to talk about bitcoin, making his futures

debut in medicine at the crypto class and did not disappoint. tracee it's been a wild week, two weeks. it may have caused an early out into the chicago-based cbo global markets and it is debuted. futures jumped more than 20%. backers hoping this will finally encourage wider use and legitimacy even if many critics are concerned this could be above all born about a price collapse of more than 1400% so far this year and missing huge gains in the past month. the future is yesterday high was more than 18,000. lots of volatility in lots of naysayers. we will see what happens. cheryl: you can now place your bet. futures trading on a major u.s. exchange for the first time in the crypto fun us this morning. good morning.

>> hello, good morning. thanks for having me. steve knight thank you for coming on to talk about something with a lot of skeptics despite the fact that now legitimized. they're still costing the average investor that this could be a could be a bubble. would you say? >> you know, so interesting because they first heard the word bitcoin and/or bubble five years ago. they reached a high of $3.50 and everyone was saying this was a bubble. maybe a few thousand people on the internet for him. i think within the economics phenomenon, it's very difficult to predict the future. i do think even though price correction is possible, and the amount of real-life commercial use is not a level now where they in general cannot be a

speculative bubble per se than with tussaud. bitcoin is just one crypto currency. what if they start to emerge because someone says okay bitcoin overvalued, and they jumped the next thing. that's a fair concern. we've heard ec meant overnight and at one point i said to 10,460, it's a very volatile contract. is that fair? >> it is fair and volatility is what a lot of commentators agree on is one of the thickest deterrence to be more widely used commercially, you've been able to buy their favorite yogurt to the grocery store for

bitcoin birkett imparted the dealership with extremely high volatility. cheryl: wouldn't do think it all begins? at the same time, what do you think you will be weaved into the average consumers? >> i think crypto currencies won't be. 10 years ago and look at our mobile wall will be another crypto currency that doesn't exist today, but i think it will be more traditionally used one or more retail users as opposed to speculators and that is actually economically one of the faqs devil without volatility, when there is a broader base of users, used commercially unless.

train to the trading in luxembourg for the last year, reporter had mentioned from the 1400 in 2017, they maybe shouldn't expect that paper return mr. looking at bitcoin now. >> i mean, i think it's an interesting question because this is part of the reason why we don't only invest in bitcoin or crypto currencies, we invested bought chain technologies as a whole. i think that the returns will start to smooth out his volatility goes down. part of the reasons the returns are so high is because the high volatility. >> would've been nice to the person who dies with a $2 million. julian, it's a fascinating turn of events. thank you.

>> thank you so much. lea: southern california's largest wildfires is inside forcing evacuations. we will have the latest on that. in rome, a tightrope walker inches its way across saber river -- paper river. we will have the story. you were watching "fbn:am." the

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cheryl: welcome back to southern california's largest and most disturbed weather is spreading rapidly forcing more people to run for their lives. but thomas fired in ventura and santa barbara county from more than 200,000 acres and is only 15% contained. officials ordered a evacuations effect in 5000 residents are thousands of homes and businesses in the county are now without power this morning. israeli security guard in critical condition after a city from the west bank stabbed him in central bus station. they continue to break out during another tense day of protests and president trump recognize jerusalem as israel's capital. despite the unrest from u.s. ambassador to united nations nikki haley said decisions will advance to peace process.

>> israel should be no different. we didn't set any parameters. we didn't say this was the final status. we said we would do if we do in every other country and put it in its capital and continue and are going to continue the fact where is committed to the peace process as we've ever been before and we will keep going until we get it. >> over the weekend, mock vote abbas canceled plans to meet in the west bank this month. i find a walker inches its way across the river in rome. andrea when he was suspended among the santangelo bridge when he says he felt the urge to stop at one point. no thank you. >> i wonder how hard the fall with d. doesn't look good. the people of alabama will go to the polls to select a new senator. republican candidate roy moore accused of misconduct.

his campaign saying a vote for him but the above for president trump's agenda. >> the people of alabama vote for this liberal democrat, doug jones voted against the president at the highest level. it's important for donald trump is ground zero for president donald trump if they can beat him, they can beat his agenda because judge moore stands at donald trump and his agenda. >> republican strategists, nice to see it this morning. >> thanks for having me. appreciate it. >> is this so for president trump's agenda? richard shelby has already cast his ballot and he is in no for someone. would you make of republicans making this decision? >> senator shelby is not supporting worry more however he did say he is doing a write-in for candidate -- a republican

candidates who certainly support the agenda and believes it's important to keep her public agenda alive and moving. that is what this is about as i and many other individuals as well are doing writing candidates. there have not been a substantial writing campaign unfortunately. >> one of the things people are watching is turnout by republicans. president trump in pensacola and we know people in alabama will be getting the bobo call. how much of an impact do you think president trump can have indicated they see every more? >> president trump had a substantial impact. his kind of robust agenda has an impact across the nation. that is that this is about is keeping the republicans say. there's more things they can be discussed after he is actually seated. there's more about keeping their public and see.

right now we have republican seats and obviously a very close margin between 46 democrats are really cannot afford to lose this particular seat and not that this is actually bad is maintaining their public agenda which is why senator shelby has specified he still votes for republicans. >> senator ted scott of south carolina says he would immediately face the investigation. will that happen? >> i do believe that will happen. the thing about the ethics investigation is right now we don't know who did what appeared to think about the ethics investigation as everyone will speak under oath. we will get the facts and that's what needs to happen. a full-fledged investigation to talk under up to discuss what actually happened. >> is it just for show? >> no, i don't think it's just for show.

he'll talk under oath about what happened in the senate can decide that two thirds vote margin to decide to expel him. this is about keeping the republican agenda alive and that's if the election is about. at this point his name cannot be taken off the ballot. cheryl: will be watching and waiting to see what happening. thank you very much. quite a week. have you looked at your calendar? it is that time of the year. you need to know the deadlines for shipping all of your holiday gifts. we will give you the rundown. the northeast getting hit with the first snow for the year. keep your shovel handy. it is not over. foxing immunologist janice dean has the forecast. you are watching "fbn:am."

lea: online shopping a bit part of christmas these days. keeping up with the demand to get you sent on time. lea: these deadlines are coming up en masse. help us out. trading for you both need to pay attention because workers at the u.s. postal service will be busy ugliness into cells the next few weeks. if you want to make sure your packages and holiday cards get to your loved ones on time, with a list of deadlines and you may want to check it twice because the first deadline is today if you plan to use military priority in first-class mail thursday the 14th is the deadline for retail ground shipping. there is a 16 for military

priority express printers and 18 for first-class mail and greeting cards. next wednesday the 20th priority mail and if you really want to push it in the 22nd is the last day for priority mail express for the week of the 18 through the 24th is expected to be the busiest mailing shipping and delivery reprint the postal service delivers packages on sundays in most major cities and anticipates more than 6 million packages on sunday this december. christmas falls on a monday this year which means you may need to budget a bit more time for packages and cards to arrive in dover get to check the deadlines for ups and fedex because they will likely be different. train to end up spending more money than they did sometimes tried to get them there in time so we are going to avoid that. cheryl: some of us need to go out and buy a christmas present. thank you very much. lea: santa anna winds fueled massive wildfires in california.

train to more snow in the midwest. janice dean is live in the fox weather center with all the details. >> good morning, happy monday. we have elevated fire danger again today with freezing conditions, very low relative humidity and warm temperatures. the relative humidity is exceptional today. 10% relative humidity, so dry not get anything for the next seven to 10 days. north of california but we are not getting any of that lecturing to california and parts of the southwest very dry conditions, low relative humidity of breezy conditions will leave to fire danger once again. past 24 hours the storm system brought snow to the northeast as well as the deep south come even north florida. the clipper system diving across the great lakes. potential for more snow in the northeast. future radar the next 12 to 24 hours. might be a little warm for snow in the new york area, but west

of new york and new england another taste of snow this week and into friday we are in two of these clipper systems perhaps bringing more snow to the northeast for the next 10 to 15 days for christmas may be. cheryl: pretty fun over the weekend. coming up, "star wars," the last jedi waiting in the wings. cocoa remains on top of the box office. >> the only family in mexico who hate music and my family is finally back. each i am not like the rest of my family. train for in their first day of training, bitcoin features surge over 20%. you are watching "fbn:am." ♪

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>> i did not know them. i've no encounter with them. i never molested anyone. >> so many accusations, so many cut commit so many trip, drip, drip that i can vote for roy moore. drink your allies on alabama is the special election is hours away. gop candidate remark denying allegations in a new attribute. his opponent launching during the attacks. train 30 prices surging 21% on the first day of trading. jumping to 117 points on the job report. futures pointing to a higher open on monday. >> stocks open higher by wall street gains and rising stocks in asia. a look at the ftse higher by six

tenths of 1%. cac higher fractionally. train to end up in of more than half a percent. china's shanghai composite up almost 1%. once again, wearing an ugly christmas letter. skin score you some free food. "fbn:am" begins right now. here in new york, monday december 11th. and cheryl casone. lea: and lea gabrielle -- lea gabrielle and for lauren simonetti. the special election one day away as republican roy moore denies multiple claims of misconduct. speaking on alabama radio program said the attacks against him are politically motivated. >> it's part of everything. they are attacking me in that

area. i understand that, but it's also part of the scheme for political parties today, political candidates in both parties quite frankly to degrade your opponent, she take him down so appear to go up, that's the simple political tack it. >> president chomp asking them to vote for more. >> i'm going to make america safer and stronger and better than ever before, but we need that fee. >> alabama republican senator richard shelby says he's not supporting remark. >> i'd rather see the republican win but i hope that with the uprising. i couldn't vote for roy moore. i didn't vote, but i wrote a republican name. >> being challenged under fire for a campaign for george

wallace who backed segregation. two hospital systems and talks about the merger. st. joseph health are talking about combining. that would create the largest u.s. owner revenue of $45. johannes now, that's on managing partner kurt lavelle. nice to see you. thanks for having me. >> this deal with 190 hospitals, what's the main reason behind the move? >> it's fascinating to watch this because what was he in health hospital systems like this are medical device producers, and when they can control my hospital and physicians, or caregivers, they can become more efficient and that helps him negotiating for pricing and deliver hopefully

better care to patients and track things more closely. it's really interesting to watch. >> 60% of hospitals are private or nonprofit. this of course, things like tax breaks. what is this going to mean with patients? >> the main concern folks have if there are fewer providers out there they will have fewer choices. in the long run what we hope to see if these consolidations can lead to better pricing overall. i deal with a lot of companies developing products to therapeutics and diagnostics in the developing world in the developed world and something that is more and more important all the time as having a cost-benefit story and a lot of these providers consolidate company try to become more efficient negotiating pricing on the products they purchase in some of those advantages can be passed on to patients so they can offer the most innovative

products at the best prices. >> was seen so much consolidation in the health care industry. this would dethrone the largest hospital provider. how will this affect health care firms? >> it would come under similar pressure. there will be some more competition out there in some of these giants for me in the industry will put a little pressure on the stocks you see out there. >> health care stocks in tax reform. how do you think the current republican tax plans will benefit health care companies? >> very fascinating to watch. i'm investing in companies developing innovative therapies. these are therapeutics such as diagnostics in the tax burden on these companies has been pretty hefty in the past. decreasing is exciting in a lot

of ways because these companies whether it to large companies will have more access to capital for acquisitions for the smaller companies that put more resources into innovation will lead to more products being developed because there would be more cash available within these companies. >> also looking at biotech stocks when it comes to taxes because they live the key r&d tax credit up to me on that. kurt lavelle, thank you. >> my pleasure. cheryl: "star wars" last jedi is not in theaters yet, but another disney movie is on top. >> tracee carrasco joins us more that another headlines. >> for third weekend in a row, disney pixar's animated film cocoa came in at the top of the box office with $18.3 million could just as big just as a goodnight by 6 million in its fourth weekend at the box office. he put a 5 million.

a faster million. a faster artist and thoroughbred in iraq rounding out the top five. the last jedi in an estimated $200 million in opening weekend, so i don't think coco will be on top much longer. delta airlines bringing some changes to pricing on some trips. what's going on? >> flights after april 9th. a lot of the airlines will allow you to bring every checked bag, so we will see if others will change their policy, but unfortunately those basic economy passengers are just losing all of their amenities.

>> i would be a great move. let's talk about some other free stuff. chipotle list are rewarded for their customers. but free food are they giving a space at the holidays. tracee good-natured big ugly holiday sweater. >> camera you will get free case with purchase of an entrée. they treated about this last week. get your cheesiest sweater. they launched this case so. an effort to lure customers incoming get them excited. >> sure apparently has her ugly christmas letter. cheryl: as you know, friday is national ugly christmas letter day. we are planning it now. thanks, tracee. we've got a lot more coming up. after three years of bloody fighting, iraq has declared that

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the train through the war has displaced more than 3 million iraqis creating a refugee crisis. celebrities are rallying around a tennessee middle-school boy who made a tearful video about being bullied. his name is keeping jones and his mother had to pick up her son from school friday because he was too afraid to go to lunch. she posted this video in bespoke. take a look. >> what's the point? find a way to be mean to them. not okay. transfer the video segment in

22 million views after chris evans who played captain america and the avengers series is one of the many celebrities offering support. as advised the family and hardly to be his guest at the avengers premiere next summer. a woman in cincinnati accidentally started a fire while trying to kill bad bugs with rubbing alcohol between 10 people homeless. officials say the friday night fire heavily damaged the unit building and sent three people to the hospital. two weeks ago a 13-year-old boy sets fire to an apartment building when he was trying to kill bad drugs with alcohol as well. that is what is happening now. cheryl. cheryl: will tell you look at the federal reserve meeting this week to consider interest rate. chair janet yellen telling congress central bank expects to gradually increase rate of honest labor market stays strong. can the jobs report change the focus to inflation? in very come in managing director of cornell capital. good morning. cheryl: when they gave up their

projections for 2018, maybe three, four interest rate hikes in 2018 before the tax reform bill came out. does that change of the fed will assess the economy this week? >> the question is what are they going to do this wednesday in what the rest of the year is going to look like. very much expecting to see 25 basis point hike in december be indicated by the fed in the past at the moment particularly given a particularly given the strength of economic data doesn't see any reason to expect a change in the action this week. cheryl: what about the issue of inflation? that is something if you get this economic growth, this robust growth in 2018, inflation seems to be now the worry. what if that means for rate hikes next year? >> a couple different type is at work. on one hand, inflation pressure would be good to calm to the economy. on the other hand, you look at to wage inflation this year

definitely cracked up given unemployment is as low as it is a four-point 1% from the lowest in 17 years. wage inflation has been surprisingly light. the question is can we see one trend looking ahead to next year there is a tax reform. there is an announcement that the trillion dollars infrastructure spending as well. you are going see if focusing on the pressure been surprisingly lacking to accelerate next. >> interesting to see how jerome pallister's to run the fed did you expect any big change when it comes to his policies or how he kind of evaluates things? do you see the key differences between powell and janet yellen? >> jerome powell testified before the senate in november, he has indicated he'd be sticking with janet yellen so far a steady interest rate increases over the next two years continuing to quantitative

easing we've seen since the financial crisis. all indications will continue. the question really is, will the other forces at work and the expected tax in its extra push lead him to take to change materially the buddies anticipated so far. [inaudible conversations] mention of the top of the segment the jobs report, the economy looking strong, do you think that type of job creation continues into next year? >> i certainly hope so and hope they start coming up with them. cheryl: thank you very much. we appreciate it. lea: coming up in sports. pittsburgh quarterback ben roethlisberger helps the steelers clinched the afc north. it's being called 2017 bills with the bizarre victory over the indianapolis colts. you are watching "fbn:am."

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cheryl: use the native simone weill is taking a break from her training to become a texas cheerleader for the gold medalist was a cheerleader yesterday for the game against the 49ers will also receiving a texans read this from her fellow cheerleaders. [applause] okay, she's not become miniature litter full time. back to the olympics for the 2020 games in tokyo.

printer that does look like some fun. talented girls. garrett maxes here with the highlights. first, some baseball. >> pretty cool. shout cool. shot two detroit tigers teammate elected to the baseball hall of fame committee. modern-day warrior ben roethlisberger last night as the steelers dedicate their big break remaining hospitalized mental spinal stabilization surgery wednesday. steelers game had that game ball as ben roethlisberger first to throw over 500 euros in three career games. pittsburgh was on the chris boswell with the lebanon to came back from lebanon to be the ravens 39-38. philadelphia eagles appears to have suffered a possible season ending knee injury. widespread reports say likely a torn left acl. he kept playing a few later

fourth of the day the eagles won 43-35. now turn to nichols as their starting quarterback. carolina quarterback cam newton helped the panthers snapped the viking taking went straight to 24 for a fourth-quarter for 62 yards third touchdown of the day to panthers went 31-24 at 914. cheryl casone got to see her favorite -- we will get the exact moment. yesterday -- cowboys yesterday. fun time at bat by stadium. cheryl:.fourth-quarter was on believable. of course i'm not cowboys fan. the most fun of the entire day. the game in buffalo at this point of the season that nothing for the standard but the most thrilling game to watch command

blizzard for the colts yesterday. became snowblowers declare with piles and pops right into the field. only two touchdowns. calvin benjamin catches it. not a lot of yardage in the game. the colts players clearing away who kicks the most exciting extra point in nfl history, but then he missed this one to try to get the victory for the colts so they go to overtime and lashawn lacroix each scores a touchdown. he thought carmine was fun on saturday in the snow. snow angels in buffalo went this one. >> is just about to say thank you for not bringing up army navy. you had to bring it out. >> there is always next year.

cheryl: there is the producer conspiracy happening in the control room right now. >> that could be the case and i'm glad they didn't have. >> is going to say the quarterback is what they say. what a cool feeling to be on the field day. >> it was so amazing. nobody's really having a great season on either side, but it was a great game. >> of july had fun. the good news is i was in the navy and they still have to be in the army after this is all over. thanks, jerry. catch the sports reports on fox news headlines 24/7 sirius xm channel 115. coming up, u.k. and e.u. have reached acl.

the details from "the wall street journal" monday and coming up on "fbn:am."

such lea: london's finance industry for the father the u.k. and european union take a big step forward in their divorce talks. >> we riva gold from "the wall

street journal." >> good morning. bancshares definitely volatile as we move into the new phase of brexit talks hopefully later this week. essentially what banks are looking at is how they are treated both as a kind of potential transition. after the u.k. leads the european union a more long-term going forward what they will be like for financial services between the u.k. and the e.u. this is really important as a lot of banks have signaled that they don't get clarity on what the transition will look like by the first quarter of next year, some of them will have to enact a certain contingency plans in the a lot of bakers out of the city because they can't afford to take the risk of the uncertainty. >> let's talk about this. bitcoin features in a major u.s. exchange. the generic contract 13% right

now at $17,500. >> definitely volatile start. much like the underlying asset. the markets have been all over the place this morning. broadly higher, but training had up for about two minutes, just to do overwhelming interest in volatility in the price is. the premium spot prices, which means people are basically batting in a months time this will be worth quite a bit more. maria: it's interesting because bitcoin has been trading for the last year. if that contract has been up incredibly for 27 income and became there. i'm wondering if u.s. investors can expect the same return on bitcoin. still a lot of a lot of confusion for the semester about what it is and if it's worth putting their money in two.

>> that it's really hard to say. for now it's towards the mainstream, but a lot of risks involved glitches, hacks her small nose creating a really big effect. trying to predict from here is really tricky. lea: thank you for joining us here on "fbn:am." bury apart a realm of right now. maria: thank you very much. happy monday morning. i am maria bartiromo. monday, december 11th. top stories right now, 6:00 a.m. on the east coast. the cbo last night. prices surge better than 5% on the first day with the website reporting outages due to high demand as you just heard. on the very latest milestone coming up this morning. markets the site features indicate another rally at the start of trading. dow industrial safety points. nasdaq s&p 500 also in the