rino mitch mcconnell and paul ryan really are. thanks for being with us. that's it for us. we thank you for being us. congressman jim jordan fan ron >> you should see strong demand from consumers, businesses investing. i would expect the next two years on a current path to be good years for the economy. lauren: breaking news this morning. the new fed chair, jerome powell, raising the fear of higher interest rates needed to cool the growth in those comments sent stocks thinking yesterday. >> to doubt his slump at the end down nearly 300 points breaking what was a strain of three n. a row. lauren: futures this morning has been lower overnight. gallup 76. connell: not that. you have higher interest rates

in the u.s. plane on their markets a bit, but not much. declines in london, paris and frankfurt about two tenths of 1%. >> japan's nikkei down almost 1.5% and china's shanghai composite down 1% on a very weak manufactured report. trying to know if you are worried about someone stealing your amazon package up your doorstep, amazon has a solution for you. they just bought the video doorbell company called rain. that and more coming up. "fbn:am" starts right now. lauren: good morning. 501 am in new york and lauren simonetti. connell: and connell mcshane filling in for cheryl casone. i'm off to her tenure it here

for the rest of the week. lauren: i did hear that. connell: we have a lot to get through but this first story is kind of scary. lauren: developing overnight. 11 people were sickened after suspicious letter was opened at marine corps headquarters in the pentagon. three people taken to the hospital listed in stable condition. the above contained an unknown substance. meyer henderson and virginia appear to spend sent to the fbi's lab in quantico for testing. the building was evacuated are not clear at this point he sent the letter. connell: obviously will stay on top of that. closing sharply lower as we talked about the new concerns. the fed except maybe the pace of interest rate hikes. lauren: all of this after jay powell expressed confidence in u.s. economy in his first public comment as leader of the central bank. adam shapiro in washington with those details. >> good morning. the federal reserve chairman

jerome powell, jay powell, when he addressed congress, everyone wanted to find out what will the fed do next when it comes to interest rate. expecting interest rates will go up, expect at least three increases this year. people are trying to interpret if the chair believes there should be maybe more than three. first it about the economy and the economy is strong and growing. here's what he said. >> my personal outlook for the economy has strengthened since december. again, each member of the fomc is running down a new set of projections of monetary policy as we go into the march meeting, which begins three weeks from today. and so, i wouldn't want it pre-judge that. >> as i said something some people might consider somewhat hawkish. the fed chair believed although wages are not growing at a pace they would like, they will accelerate, but now there are risks on both sides. inflation in the economy

overheating. >> we've reached the point where the risks are too cited and we need to keep that into account. if we do get behind in the market -- the economy does overheat, we don't see that now. if that happens we have to raise rates faster and that raises the chances of a recession and recession tend to have vulnerable populations than most. >> one member of the committee trying to pin him down to raise interest rates more than three times. the fed chair wouldn't go there but he did allude to three increases this year in the new analysis will be released right after the march meeting in a couple weeks. at that point to find out if the fed still believes we are on target for three interest rate increases are even more. >> john layfield joins us now. global ambassador. also fox news contributor up with us this morning.

as adam says, but he supposedly yesterday was from jay powell to maybe get for rather than three interest rate hikes. what did she read into it? >> the fed has been transparent about projecting interest rate hike so doesn't shop the market. 33% probability of a fourth rate hike. whoever is president, fed chief will be in a rising rate environment known for some time. it's coming because of good things happening. growth happening giving the fed the ability to raise the fourth rate. it's a little bit of a surprise to the market but mr. powell did a good job telecasting potential moves. train to that growth coming good things he talked about and does it lead to inflation powell was asked about that yesterday. here's what he said yesterday.

waiting. if we don't have that -- here we go. >> we've been getting up to 2% but generally speaking inflation has been low and stable for 15 or 20 years now. train to the point that it's been stable getting up to 2%. what's your view on that? there are differing views among the economists and people on wall street that maybe we can handle a little bit more than that. >> i think we can. the last inflation number was to .1%. so is significantly below the target of 2%. companies reporting from whirlpool to tyson foods to cisco to ford. so many companies are porting they are hurting their bottom line because of the quantity inflation. oil prices are up 50% in the past year. inflation has been there. i don't think it's anything new

to the market. >> of his thoughts on how you're handling this. talking about more later on in the hour about how investors sent stocks handle a rising rate environment. what kind of adjustment is he making? >> i've been surprised how easy they are taking the collection. the market has had such a great run up for so long that people are looking for any reason to pull back and they use this number and put a little more weight on it than what would normally be put on it because it's one of the data points they wanted to use. 3% for the year, s&p and dow respectively. this market is at this year even though with all of our volatility. the key right now is to find stocks if you can find stocks at a cheaper point to get in on cheaper stocks. train to buy on those tips. good to see you john layfield. >> some people are worried that someone will sell your package

of her doorstep. guess who has a solution. train to tell us amazon? benelux and the kind of runs out after people come to life on the doorstep. lauren: armed and ready. >> good morning. amazon has acquired rain, the maker of video doorbells in a deal valued at more than $1 billion giving him a dollars giving in is on a bigger foothold than in the internet business of home security by acquiring rate. amazon buys technology that allows homeowners to see come here and speak to anyone at the door through the door to their smartphones, tablets or pc. rain makes security cameras in certain doorbells pajamas are to connect with the likes that. a boost to control the devices that power smart homes in an area that is becoming a major player. this ring was a reject from the show sharp tank.

in 2013 it went under the name door bought. now look at it. connell: that is interesting. speaking of technologies, always talking about whether we will be driving around driverless autonomous cars. the stories about pizzas delivered that way? lauren: for domino's jumping on the self driving bandwagon from these robotic cars in miami. ford is partnering with the delivery service. customers will order through and then the self driving car will go to the domino's location and put the pizza in the corridor will drive to the delivery address of the customer has to go outside to get the pizza. this is still a few years off, for now ford is trying out the system with human drivers and delivery vehicles will be made to look like self driving cars with the graphics.

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security clearance to white house senior adviser adviser presidential son-in-law jared kushner a big story is it's reportedly been downgraded that reduces access to classified information. kushner and white house officials have been operating on interim clearances for a long, long time. the fbi still conducting his background check at this point. still not finished, but the clearance gets downgraded to get access to this information. that's it's happening. a warrant. lauren: president trump but this tech genius to latest 2020 presidential bid that he will not run again. but he might have some competition as republican john kasich and jeff flake may throw their hats in the ring and of course bernie sanders sounding more and more every day like to make another go for the white house. it white house. away in his contributor to the hill and author christine tate

and democratic strategist and former dnc press secretary, joée wisdom window. it is getting exciting. it's official. the secret sauce, the magic wand to the success drum pad in 2016. brad pascale is now going to lead to 2020 reelection. would he make of that? >> look, it's a smart move on trends campaign. it's a little bit early in my view. i will tell you that on the democratic side react to be doing digital and big data. connell: what is your message on the democratic side? >> was going to play with the same sort of weapons of folks like and we need to use the same sort of digital strategy and

folks like joe biden, bernie sanders were certainly probably ran. but the democratic party needs is leanne castro were invalid of the younger. those folks can hopefully reenergized the democratic party. >> we're looking at a list of potential candidates for the party in 2020. i'll let you way into that. >> the democratic party problem is that it's fractured. it has the moderate ring at the blue-collar democrats and the more strangling, which is of course where the bernie sanders of workers live. it's going to be hard to satisfy both of these factions. there's also an hunger on the left for an outsider like to write in 2016 so we can see a candidate like opera gives him a run for his money. if they want to beat trump in 2020 they need to embrace the

anti-d.c. sentiment instead of trying to use salted out like he did in 26 games. trump has a pretty good pat to her in 2020 and you shouldn't underestimate it. lauren: do you think they will support tramping his reelection bid typically they step aside and support you. do you think that's the case or do you think maybe it potential run by john kasich can spoil that? >> the fact it is even even potentially primate is a bad sign for the president. there's no question his approval ratings are very low, under 40% and the russian investigation is still on his back. republicans are going to probably distance themselves from tron. they are doing it now for 2018. i don't think it's going to be what people think. connell: what republicans are distancing themselves from donald trump?

>> republicans in general in 2018. >> to their republicans in d.c. you are completely out of touch with voters are the ones distancing themselves from donald trump. the media and the establishment in d.c. completely completely underestimated trumpeting vacuous this joke candidate who would win. now leading up to 2020, same elites and media and the d.c. beltway bubble assume that he's going to be the first one term president since george w. bush. they are in for another rude awakening. connell: do you think hasek would run as independents? >> they can try, but it's a waste of their time. they are both wildly unpopular comes initially trump voters. flake was the most unpopular senator in the country. these people are completely out of touch and clueless when it comes to working americans come in the same people who showed up in droves to go trump in office.

i saw a poll yesterday that showed trump's approval rating at 50% right now, better than obama was at this time during his term. lauren: we could talk forever but we have to unfortunately wrap this up. thanks for your time. be back thank you. connell: plenty of time to get to it. lauren: 980 days. connell: in the meantime, starbucks wants to take on high-end coffee stores like intelligentsia. lauren: that place is good. connell: this fancy new reserve for starbucks. >> we are creating an experiential environment for customers that plus transactional, more community driven and bigger and brighter. connell: cheryl casone will go behind the scenes of that coming up. the northeast faces a nor'easter possibility that janice dean is

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connell: here's a news alert for you. three astronauts back on earth after five and a half months on space. a russian cosmonaut from the international space station landing safely in kazakhstan. they closed out their 168 day mission, replacement crew including a former teacher the 21st of march in melbourne space station back to a full crew, which is six. lauren: it looks so warm there.

lauren: also back on earth, not the best situation to live in the south. the fighting does continue and if you live here in the northeast, brace yourself for a nor'easter. here we go. connell: come on, janice. >> you know march sometimes comes in like a lion and. connell: it's so annoying this weather this time of year. you never know. >> it's so wonderful to see you every morning. calm alumni love each other. we ride the long island rail road with each other. take a look at the radar. we do have potential for rain under saturated ground. flood warnings in place for in place for the mississippi, ohio river valley. not only do we have the flood threat, but a severe threat as we head into the afternoon hours. isolated tornadoes. flood warnings in effect for all of these areas where they've are d.c. and in some cases more rain than they've seen in decades on

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[music] [music] >> you should see strong demand from consumers, businesses investing in i would expect the next two years on a curved path to be good years for the economy. lauren: breaking news this morning. stock sinking as new fed chair jerome powell raises fears of interest rate hikes going forward. a look at how to invest in a rising rate environment. strangely wavered throughout much of the day yesterday. the dow did in that on thing at

the end down nearly 300 points. lauren: futures were down much of the overnight session, but it did turn positive and you can see stocks across the board, all three major averages gaining about 1% each. connell: we are down slightly 1% and both paris and frankfurt this morning. lauren: stops in japan down 1% and china paid shanghai composite down 1%. very weak manufacturing report aired. lauren: starbucks opening is still high and reserve grocery. we will take you to this first of 1000 planned starbucks reserve stores in the u.s. you will see it for yourself in just a second. "fbn:am" continues right now. lauren: 5:31 a.m.

wednesday, the last of february 28. on lauren simonetti. train to establish that just moments ago. and once again for cheryl casone. how can investors put their money to work? that is where we ago breaking this morning. reality share ceo joins us now. eric, good to see you after the jay powell testimony yesterday. everybody's got to adjust. windows coming comments here. had here. have you just a rising rate environment? you said dividend growth. expand on that for us. >> anytime we see rising rate environment is typically challenging. and you don't want to be in companies who can't grow their earnings, camper dividends. just think about it if you're in a stock that doesn't have any dividend growth potential, you're essentially in the bond. when interest rates prize they typically fall. same thing with equities. find companies that grow dividends over time and you'll

end up performing even better than the market because those are the marks that had the healthiest balance sheets. connell: big time. it's interesting to have this discussion because i was talking about this a few weeks ago that we haven't had to have this discussion very much recently but the people making second to second, minute to minute decisions. a lot of them don't have this type of environment going higher. >> rising rate on the whole may not be that cautious or that cautionary tale. the rates as we get into the flattening yield curve, that is almost a death knell for the stock market, especially after eight years of old markets. people really need to be careful here and just watch themselves be ready to take the foot off the gas if that's the case. connell: what you look for in

particular? >> with a short-term interest rates rise above the longer-term interest rates, signaling the market itself doesn't feel like the economy is growing, but yet the fed keeps stepping on the brakes and eventually get the market correction. connell: right, the timing of that is very, very difficult to figure out. look in the jay powell in his testimony yesterday does seem to be what kind of spooked the market with all this talk that we make a four rather than three interest rate hikes. before that you go, let me ask you about a somewhat different subject in that technology. technology companies in the market has not been doing great, we talked about amazon a few minutes ago. that said, you've made this point a few times coming under more and more scrutiny whether it political, everything out there with the election. how do look as we look at the nasdaq at some of these

technology companies and how they deal with the extra scrutiny. >> the key is innovation. the companies innovating, and truly innovating in new areas, they are the ones that have the healthiest position, but some of the other companies are stagnating on the innovation front like the facebook and twitter and they really only offer this one thing and now on top of that you had in the fakeness aspect of it. it really is challenging for those stocks to grow anything beyond. connell: roosting up with facebook in particular. good to see you. appreciate it. lauren: starbucks opening the doors on its new seattle reserves store where customers can enjoy everything from coffee to cocktails. cheryl casone behind the scenes at the starbucks executive chairman, howard shows. reporter: i have to start with the question when he became executive chairman, this is your

baby. this is your project. why did this become so important to you? >> we open in seattle, shanghai with the extraordinary bakery work for five years to get an. icc, the same extraordinary culinary variants. reporter: given a little tour of the reserve. you'll be opening a thousand of these worldwide for the next several years. talk about what you envision is to be for consumers across the country and other parts of the world. >> we have three different parts, food for breakfast, lunch and dinner. for the first time in starbucks existence we are getting into the spirits business. there will be an evening daypart. the seattle grocery people are responding to that. what we are doing here is creating an opportunity for customers to enjoy not only coffee from espresso machine,

but multiple different methods of ways in which they can enjoy coffee. so basically, we are creating an experiential environment for customers is less transactional, more community driven, bigger and brighter and creates an opportunity unlike any other coffee store in the world. reporter: it's a gamble when others are shutting down because of the amazon affects coming to make in the opposite that when it comes to risk day. this is a large space. >> this speaks to the macro environment and less customers because of e-commerce because they are here to stay. we are going to take advantage of that and aggressively open new stores. reporter: you think the chinese consumer, american consumers going to pay more because they looked at the menu and the prices are higher than the

regular starbucks. >> the prices are higher and we find people want an experience if we could deliver not only coffee the service and obviously the architectural design. we are bullish on the opportunity we have to really elevate the experience insider stories and create this new format. training before they let you go, i want to ask you about this print is siphoning of the coffee. was this your idea? >> it was not my idea, but the idea of the rock and tree retail store today, you want to be swept away. you theater and romance in a sensory experience in a dream but the restroom reserves store was to take our customers on a magic carpet ride and nasa will accomplish. reporter: weyers looking forward to seeing where this all goes in new york as well later this year. >> in your rooster will open in october in the corner of ninth to 15th. i'll see you there. reporter: howard schultz, thank you. thank you for the tour. how great to have a reserve to

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join its in the day. lauren: also thought maybe it was the reaction the spoiled milk. he's not alone because he's fighting heart disease. 23 americans have this every day. that's an average of one death every 38 seconds. but it is preventable. we want to look at how you can stay healthy by recognizing the signs that you might have a heart problem and to talk about this agreement dr. kelly powers. good to see you. >> great to be here, lauren. >> heart disease is a big deal. all of the fence and pregnant make me have to find a pregnancy, but can be a sign of heart disease. they make absolutely. it is february. it's important to note the subtle signs that we don't often think of. we all know the chest pain, radiated pain down there but we often overlook simple things like swollen feet.

really not differential diagnosis and other things. one guerrilla pregnancy were a lot varicose veins, things like that. what is left? a heart related problem. heart valve dysfunction. they can be congenital, but also acquired. coronary artery disease playable or not as well. so does like pain. if you are walking around with leg pain, neck of a peripheral, vasco disease. the vascular surgeon can detect these things. pain in the legs. it absolutely can't be because i was reading this morning 50% of people who have blockages more arteries in the lower extremity also have blockages in the heart as well. lauren: unbelievable. for women, many people associate heart disease being a male problem. this is the number one killer of women. lauren: it's important to look

at subtle signs. think about being tired, extreme fatigue. i set my own for 3:00 a.m. i'm here at 4:00 something. we are not talking about the lack of sleep. we are talking about extreme exhaustion. when the heart is functioning, a valve problem or a heart attack, but is not circulating through the body. blood creates oxygen or lack of oxygen really tired. lauren: these are the signs. what can you do to prevent it? >> most important thing is just following up with your primary care, going to your.air, make sure you go to those yearly exams. stress exams. if you do feel you are suffering from a heart attack, which is a myocardial infarction, go to the er. donovan asked around. five minutes mean life or death. connell: important stuff no doubt. we will shift to sports for a few minutes. the lebron james, getting a lot

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nfl teams. a mutual decision reportedly stemming from founder john shatner's suggesting that declining sales were due in part to the nfl's mismanagement at the players. let's take a look at shares of papa john's because this is an ugly chart. headed south big-time in after-hours trading following this amount meant down 7%. >> lebron certainly didn't mince words yesterday when he thinks the governor and body of polished workdays croquet district naxal tell you. he's here with all the sports. >> i don't think lebron james is alone in his thoughts about the ncaa. i've been awake since one of the largest scandals in college basketball history came to light that implication the nations top programs, players, coaches, to be sounding off on the rule of sports. >> i love watching march madness. it's incredible.

ncaa -- [inaudible] >> it is making headlines. the problem it straight from high school in the nba come is simply not allowed anymore. the nba needs to have a farm system in place like in baseball were younger teenagers can learn the basketball trade essentially will not be handcuffed by and be doubly rules. lebron did know me make a statement for a game he also did so against the brooklyn nets. 31 points, 11 assists. as lebron becomes the first player in nba history to reach 30,000 points, 8000 rebounds and 8000 assists. he also averaged a triple-double per game for the month of february. he's also the the oldest player ever to do that in nba history. congratulations to lebron james. meanwhile, lebron's former

teammate had a big night as well. he's dedicating his season to the memory of watching oliver who was killed that marjory stoneman douglas high school. buried wearing a jersey, wearing sneakers with oliver's name on them. he thinks the game-winning shot. a big night all around in south florida sports. university of miami against ninth-ranked north carolina. watch my indigo. chuck wandered in from 30 feet away. the tar heels. couple of quick notes from baseball. two-time winner tim wants to come, the freak, he's back. you so quick to streaming. he works out a deal with the texas rangers and also the new york mets injury woes continue. starting pitcher jacob to ground could start the season. not on time. what else is new? connell: we are not going to panic just yet, jerry.

>> let's go for an mri in the morning. connell: it's because he cut his hair. thank you. >> the long hair and now he has stiffness in the lower back. connell: how is your back? have to make a hair joke while he was here. lauren: i'm breaking it out. fox news headlines 24/7. sirius xm channel 115. connell: jared taylor to the fed. we will be back to talk about it. ♪

lauren: blog, the market rate hikes by the federal reserve, but our next guest that it might be too early to reach that conclusion. michael b. smith joins us now. michael, a lot of people are saying the economy is strong. we can handle rate hikes. you say not the best. >> hold your horses a little bit of a judging by the recent data out of the u.s. economy, mr. powell was very upbeat yesterday and he suggested the economy has strengthened since

december. i'm not so sure. but the retail sales for january, durable goods from a new home sales won't come in at the low end of expectations. even globally we've seen the weaker data as well. weaker chinese pm i am weaker inflation in europe. the big question all be asking is can the u.s. economy absorb another 1% rise in rate in to me it's too early to make that conclusion. connell: reflash the dollar broke regarding currencies, michael, even though it seems to back a bit. a fresh three-week high. where do you see the dollar going after these comments yesterday? >> i think there's a big barrier at 91 on the index and still in the range basically and will depend on how the data plays out over the next week or so. wage as government data, that could be a big determinant where we have next. connell: jobs report next week, not this week.

lauren: thank you for joining us on "fbn:am." morning said murray starts now. >> happy wednesday. i maria bartiromo and it's wednesday, figure 28. top stories right now 6:00 a.m. on the east coast. the dow with a three-day wing yesterday with a big decline. nearly 300-point. investors were spooked after federal reserve chairman jay powell saying the strong economy will lead to more interest rate hikes. >> the december median, dignity and discipline for increases in 28 games. since then, what we've seen is incoming data that suggested strengthening the economy with the data that will in my case had some confidence to my view that inflation is moving the target. maria: features on the nasdaq and s&p 500 higher by a

fraction. today we await the second reading on fourth-quarter gdp. economists are wrecking economic growth of 2.5% for the quarter. we'll bring you those numbers for market reaction. yet this morning, markets taking a cue from yesterday's performance on wall street and that is lower. cac in paris down one half of 1% in the dax and germany down a third of a percent. in asia overnight tirade across the board take a look at her worst performer there japan. nikkei average down 1.5%. the battle over gun control as the students in parkland florida return to school today. there was a bipartisan meeting with lawmakers to end gun violence. i'll speak with one of the students are marjory stoneman douglas high school about his return to school this hour. a major impact on the business world as well. the latest of several states including new york, ohio forced delta air lines following georgia lawmakers try to end any text benefits