>> will be talking about the shiny objects again, which is the yield at 3% for the 10 year period if we reach back, that is something that can have some ripple effect. lauren: breaking news this morning to the federal reserve state to raise interest rates this week. will that set me up in the 10 year treasury over 3%? cheryl: will be watching that appeared of course the dow losing 1.5% on trade worries, concerns about reshuffling at the white house. lauren: how is this all plays out in the future is? dow futures over overnight to the tune of 153 points to the downside. nasdaq futures are down 96 points at 1.4%.

train to your folklore. cac in the dax in the red by 1%. lauren: some green in asia. not with japan. but in china up a quarter of 1% in a fractionally in hong kong. cheryl: in washington come in the future of television could be at stake as at&t and time warner corp. against the justice department to get the deal done. lauren: at the box office, black panther took on newcomer to greater. "fbn:am" starts right now. cheryl: 5:01 a.m. in new york. monday, march 19th. i'm cheryl casone. lauren: happy monday, good to see you. and lauren simonetti. cheryl: we should let our

viewers know that if we are in facebook we are doing facebook lies. like it on your facebook head lauren: you could learn some random stuff believe it or not. big news over the weekend with the white house shooting down speculation that president trump is going to fire robert mueller despite the president over the weekend stepping up his attacks and a big way on the special counsel. this is what the president treated at the mueller pro should never have been started and there was no collusion and there was no crying. on sunday he mentions mueller again asking why does the mueller team has 13 heart and democrats praise and a "crooked hillary" supporters and zero republicans. does anyone think this is fair? these comments sparking warnings from republicans against removing the special counsel. train to the white house attorney and chekhov issued a statement last night. the white house yet again

confirms that the president is not considering or discussing the fire in a counsel robert mueller. all of this happiness the debate over jeff sessions fire that injured mccabe played out over the weekend. bob goodlatte weighing in on "sunday morning futures." >> i think the attorney general did the right thing. it was the appropriate decision giving the reports of this leaked internal information to the media and giving false information about the misleading information to those investigating the matter. cheryl: meanwhile, the white house continues to say it is cooperating with mohler's investigation. lauren: far from over. he outlines his plan to tackle the opioid crisis. the white house will call for stiffer penalties including the death penalty were appropriate. transplanting a look at ways to reduce the flow of illegal

drugs, prevention and education in the expansion of treatment options. new hampshire has been hit hard by the apparent epidemic. nationwide the centers for disease control says opioids killed more than 42,000 people in this country in 2015. dow was up 30% from 2015. fox business will carry the remarks live today at 12:40 p.m. eastern time. tree into a school trade groups are pushing back against president trump back against precedent trumps tariffs on china. lauren: this gives us the opportunity to say good morning to hillary vaughn filling in for tracey carrasco. it is the middle of the night in los angeles. thank you for being with us. how are you? >> of course. anytime great to be with you guys. great to see you. lauren: tell us about the trade groups and what they are warning the white house when it comes to

tariffs. >> supported by different groups are petitioning the white house to stop plans to roll out the steel and aluminum terrace targeting china, asking president trump to work with other nations rather than single out china over trade deficit. the terrace would actually trigger a chain and make it an economic consequences for the u.s. economy. the white house are currently in negotiations with several countries who do want carve out that the tariffs are slated to go into effect later this week. trying to at&t and time warner go up against justice department today. >> at&t is trying to buy time warner and they're heading to court after president trump pushed back on the deal. the largest telecom company says the 85 billion-dollar deal is a win for consumers if it goes through the purchase could change our viewers watched the dedicated tv shows and movies and how they pay for it and open the floodgates for more

entertainment deals. the white house for its consumers will lose in all of this coming mean they could raise prices for them. we will see what happens. cheryl: tomb raider could not measure up against the behemoth of all movies it seems, "black panther." >> black panthers still reigns. the rundown of the top five movies over the weekend. br tomb raider, raking in $27 million over the weekend following number two with 23.5 million. i can only imagine it 17 million a wrinkle in time and rounded up the pac bringing in 15,000,011.5 million each. ladies back to you. lauren: hillary, thank you. see you in just a day. cheryl: heller was talking about the court filed today against the federal government and at&t. the justice department suing to block the $85 billion merger with time warner.

at&t will build a help consumers and allow them to compete with amazon and netflix. the government says at&t will have too much control over distribution and higher fees leading to higher cable bills. there's a lot more at stake in this case. unlike upon the outcome of good morning. it's been a good morning. cheryl: let's talk about the doj's challenge to the deal. they say this with say this to be anticompetitive, would raise prices on consumers. it would consolidate the entertainment market in general. do you agree with that assertion from the tmj? >> at&t makes a lot of good arguments against it. number one, they argue this is a digital merger. because they don't own tv content businesses attract and the competitor from the marketplace, said they argue it passes regulatory muster and they also argue that the flaw in the doj argument is that it's

hard economic base. they say would be an economically viable business model to blackout tv channels. that would drive up prices. instead they argue we raise competition. at&t keeps saying a real competition is facebook, amazon, netflix and google. they're merging with time warner it enables us to be more competitive. two main reasons for merging aside from the competitive edge with verizon. number one, to develop the online video factory to become more competitive, which david allen. secondly, mary and the consumer data with time warner's content and that would enable them to make profit by targeted advertising. cheryl: that's interesting. on the other side of at&t has

made several arguments as to why this would not affect the consumer. you have to get a little credence to the doj argument because their point is if at&t controls not only devices commit bandwidth coming number x, whether 5g or less, that they've got the power to slow down your phone, slowdown phone, slowdown or service from his load on your internet comes loaded on your device and if you want to watch netflix or a time warner programmer cable channel on your phone, they've got the power to basically make you pay more for that type of service. which side is the industry we are in right now. do you think the doj will hang themselves on that argument? i don't mean hang themselves, the focus on that argument or will they go another route, maybe with the fact cnn has been critical of time warner. does that come up? >> right, that will come up slightly. they will emphasize your prior point they are.

the at&t response and bringing in the economics to prove in court that the defendant's trial is that it's almost a good-faith argument in that they built-in tradition. at&t will argue what we have here in this deal built-in that we won't blackout this other channel that for seven years we will take certain steps so you can rest assured we aren't in this to raise prices in now way. we are given as to deliberately the consumer. what is interesting is that this deal doesn't go through, at&t is on the hook for $500 million reverse breakup fee and normally that is 3% to 6% of the deal value. here it is 3.6 commending both sides are confident pass regulatory muster before signing the deal. cheryl: i don't know, i think this will go on for months and months, maybe a year. i see this been a long story but it all kicks off today in thank

you for your perspective as we jump right in. emily compagno, thank you. the >> thank you. lauren: now testing a new monthly subscription service for the right healing company are willing to pay $200 per month can receive as many as 30 rides. that breaks down to just over six bucks a ride. other writers are being offered seven rights in exchange for an upfront payment of 50 bags. right now the service is by invitation only. subscription fees for heavy users. cheryl: the rideshare business is changing. while, we have been following some breaking news overnight out of austin, texas. the deadly bomb right there has struck again. the latest attack in details on that. facebook facing a firestorm of

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cheryl: welcome back. let's get you caught up on what's happening now. the city of austin, texas on edge after a forced explosion went off last night he dreamed

to more people. two hours after one person urged the bomber to turn himself in. they are urging residents to stay indoors until they can dig search for bombs. three separate bombings that left two people dead and a third seriously wounded. new documents reveal that florida school officials have recommended the accused park grand guy named nikolas cruz be forcibly committed for mental evaluation in 2016. nobody at.net. under the law, that would've made it more difficult or impossible for him to obtain a gun legally. a david and goliath battle taking place in the aerospace industry this morning. cnc international has been a $7 billion bid to buy the sra. the deal pits against general dynamics against general dynamics, which rd has a deal to buy csra. general dynamics 11 times the

size of caci. the deals are watching over you. lauren: facing a crisis according to the federal reserve. home construction stuck near a 60 year lows since they started keeping track of this on record. industry joining tighter regulations from the shortage of construction workers and not enough land in parts of the country. managing director of cornell capital joins us now. good morning. >> good morning. lauren: i've lost my communication, just so you guys know i'm not able to hear her. maybe we can put her on hold and go to the next segment probably patch this up. >> hey guys come to kenya here me? lauren: coming up a shocking upset in march madness means free pizza for everybody.

tomorrow, maybe the first day of spring. fox senior meteorologist janice dean is tracking a storm that could develop into the next nor'easter budgets tomorrow i think. cheryl: now, it's not. i don't believe that. look at the dow down 136 on the free market. a lot for the fed to look at what may have their big meeting of the big press conference which i'm not excited about. lauren: it is going to be ugly today, folks. we'll be right back. ♪

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last day of winter believe it or not, but that is not stopping this not stopping to smell. another winter storm in the northeast this week. trendlines smiling but i'm really not inside. fox meteorologist janice dean is here with another storm warning. good morning. reporter: good morning, ladies. i wish i had better news. it doesn't feel extreme times -- spring time tomorrow. to winter storms. you can see where it is warmer than average across the southeast and colder and in between we have our boundary and the potential for these areas of low pressure. in the last 24 hours not only do we have the threat of snow for the mid-atlantic and the northeast, but severe storms. really the worst potential for severe weather we've had all year for parts of the mid-south and southeast including large hail, damaging winds and large tornadoes. areas that you see here shaded in the orange, that is the highest risk for a large,

potentially destructive tornadoes in parts of tennessee as well as parts of alabama into georgia, but we can't rule out an isolated tornado here in the yellow and green. that is their big threat throughout the day today, this afternoon and evening. it could potentially bring snow to the mid-atlantic and the northeast not only tuesday in and around the d.c. area up towards philly and new york anywhere from six inches to 10 inches of snow. forecast for this is very tricky. potential for lesser amounts in the new york city area. we have to watch this very carefully picked out to be prepared for more wintry weather not only tuesday, but wednesday. train to janice dean, we love getting the forecast from you. lauren: coming up, congress returns with five days left to get a spending bill done.

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>> will be talking about the shiny object again which is the other 3% for the 10 year period i think i can be something that cannot set ripple effects. cheryl: disorders are set to raise interest rates again this week to assess the other on the ten-year treasury over the crucial 3% mark.

transfer the dow losing 125% on concerns about reshuffling at the white house and now they have the fed to deal with. cheryl: dow futures have been lower overnight. that outlook in lowered by 142. s&p down by 14, nasdaq down by one and a quarter of a percent. lauren: europe at the moment has a 1% decline in london and injured knee. cheryl: in japan the nikkei lost almost 1%. china's shanghai composite edging higher. lauren: facebook facing a fire of criticism after one firm that exploited personal data of up to 50 million users. cheryl: what is apple working on a secret manufacturing facility in california. "fbn:am" continues right now.

lauren: good morning. 5:30 in the morning monday, march 19th. on lauren simonetti. cheryl: good morning. i am cheryl casone. lauren: robert mueller, coming days after the firing of fbi director andrew mccabe. cheryl: kris jenkins in washington with all the latest developments. reporter: good morning, lauren and cheryl. a fire storm of speculation that the firing was imminent, naming him for the first time in a tweet on sunday saying why does the mueller team has 13 heart and democrats come a day "crooked hillary" zero republicans? another added does anyone think this is fair and yet there is no collusion. while the president was sent in clear frustration with the investigation, white house lawyer ty cobb shouted down in a statement saying in response to media speculation and related

questions being posed to the administration, the white house confirms the president is not considering are discussing the firing of the special counsel robert mueller. republicans like trey gowdy of the house oversight committee warned against any notion of a firing. >> russia attacked our country. but special counsel molar figure that out. if you believe as we found no evidence of collusion and coming you should want special counsel molar to take all the time and have all the independence he needs. >> the debate over attorney general jeff sessions played out over the weekend. house judiciary committee chairman bob goodlatte wayne n. >> the attorney general did the right thing. it was the appropriate decision given the reports have been having leaked information to the media and then giving false information about that misleading information to those investigating the matter. reporter: mckay defended himself against allegations calling it personal attacks as

news service the former deputy there may have kept personal memos detailing the meetings with the president. president trump pushback on twitter saying he didn't spend that much time with them and never took notes. it looks like there is march of this story. moran, cheryl. >> thank you, great. congress is returning to work today with five days to approve the spending bill to avoid a government shutdown on friday night. can they do it? conservative commentator jim alice and state senator john lydon. good morning, guys. >> at last are with you on the issue of here we go with another massive spending bill. the price tag on this, let's get the $1.3 trillion shock out of the way. it will only take us through october. is there any pushback in congress to make some more long-term planning for the government's budget?

>> you would think so. this is the third time since january that congress is contemplated shutting the government down in the reality is they will have to come up with some sort of compromise to have a spending bill in place because congress knows the government can't stay shutdown. we've seen them come to the compromise in regarding immigration, the issue is something the democrats are crying wolf. because they have had since january to approach the table in good faith. they haven't done that and if they were honest, they would recognize that really what they are asking for is to legalize millions and millions of votes to keep the republican party in the minority permanently and that is something the gop isn't willing to do. regarding immigration, they have to approach the table in good faith and come up with something with a spending bill that would get us into long-term planning. cheryl: i want to go through for

viewers and for us, the things that issue underneath this do you need a scorecard here. gateway telephone into your city tunnel. gun violence, security funding for elections, harassment on online sales tax and abortion restrictions and affordable care act. all of that is in here. the most polarizing piece of this will be daca. i want you to listen to what senator durbin said on "fox news sunday" about the particular part of the spending bill. >> we are not going to have a shutdown. i'm urging the leaders to come together and understand there is an emergency at hand here. 780,000 young people have their lives hanging in the balance because president trump killed the daca program. we have to move on a bipartisan basis to put it back in business. cheryl: daca not going away?

>> not going away. a judge is taking some of the pressure off on the issue. i don't think that's going to be a problem in this round of debates. the problem is we continue to see republicans won't allow a shutdown because they are to democrats on board. durbin pretty much set up pretty much said it. they got the deal they wanted the last time around and though cobbled through the additional spending they want to satisfy democrats to disenfranchise in the way a fiscal conservative republicans and find all the votes they need to pass the bill. it is frustrating, but that's what's going to happen. >> they've given them a six-month window for the dreamers and congress failed to act. the other thing that could happen, especially in the senate, there is opportunity for some of the senators, like rand

paul for instance who are very against the high spending levels with the budget, deficit spending, whatever you want to call it, to delay proceedings to purchase up to the deadline. did you see that happen? >> there may be. this is car sharing on both sides understand this happened three times since january, but they come out to the very last minute and have to push something through that as a stopgap rather than genuinely looking forward saying what extents of the spending bill. also congressman massey as well from kentucky says that the government shouldn't be spending this much money and figure out what makes sense. if congress would you recommend they can truly have a bipartisan. cheryl: 2011 spending were republicans that wanted this at the time. thank you so much for your time this morning. thanks for chiming in this morning. >> thank you, cheryl.

>> thank you. lauren: the housing crisis according to the side, home construction stuck near 60 year low as part of the records go back. industry records are blaming tighter regulations, shortage of construction workers and not enough land in many parts of the country. cornell capital is back with us now. good morning. loud and clear i can hear you. this is puzzling to me that there is demand for housing and the economy is getting better, but where is the home? >> the cost of construction in the last decade has doubled. amazing demand-side and unemployment trending towards the lowest level since the korean war and the supply-side constraints facing have been the impediment to town squares. with interest rates balancing out as well.

>> wake of reports this week. would you expect another one? >> definitely some expectation that objects are most with 593,000 stocks for february. >> comes clearly not affordable for so many people. if the fed goes through the first interest rate increase of of 2018 this week. how does that affect the mortgage market? >> definitely what's expected in a couple different ways. a trillion dollars of credit card debt. all-time highs in the united states. vc interest payments and disposable income go down to the mortgages. low mortgage under his tight in the parameters by which they'll be able to issue parameters. >> the level of debt is $1 trillion counting.

americans collect delay, that is what we owe. you can certainly won't pay that off and go back towards financial crisis once again. >> one was the actual consumer data. the trillion dollars is not multi, but the other piece about was the quality of the land income equality of borrowing. one of the post-financial crisis changes as things really tightening, making it harder for people to borrow so you do changes in regulations as well will have kicked in. >> you think the economy can higher churn handle higher rates? as long as inflation is in check and the economy is growing, it's no big deal. or is it a big deal? >> the question or a inflation a key one. wages have not come up in the way you would expect in the fundamentals seem to be strong not just here in the u.s., but

globally. the interest rate balance with low inflation and the economy, there's still a lot of uncertainty out there in the question as blending of that come into play? >> when you speak of wages come always on retail sales fall for three months in a row. whatever people are making, they are not spending that time at least not recently. >> it's not translating into dollars and the question is we don't see that one by $5 trillion tax cut landing and they turn in on the retail front. lauren: nine in 10 workers seen high wages or bonuses et cetera from the tax plan. we will see. ann, so good to see you. thank you so much. cheryl: we've got a lot more coming up. facebook is facing a firestorm of criticism over one firm that exploited access to 50 million personal facebook profiles.

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lauren: welcome back. happy monday. russian president vladimir putin

won the reelection by a wide margin on sunday receiving 75% of the vote after 18 years in power appeared to go start a new six-year term. biggest critic was barred from running in this election. as north korea's foreign minister concluded south korea announcing that a north korean official will meet with a delegation from the u.s. american officials say the meeting is finland isn't part of the process between president donald trump. republican members of the house judiciary committee are pressuring the fbi to turn over more than 1 million missing documents related to farmers at the tri-state hillary clinton's use of a private e-mail server. judiciary chair bob goodlatte says the fbi has been slow turning over documents that may subpoena the fbi to have them released. that is what is happening now. cheryl: a lot happening on the issue of facebook.

they are facing a major backlash over one firm that exploited access to facebook personal profiles. lauren: hillary bond filling in for tracee carrasco. she joins us i'm not. >> good morning, ladies. 50 million people's personal information on facebook is apparently exploited by the data analytics firm that worked on president trump's campaign and now facebook is in a lot of hot water over this. they deny any wrongdoing saying this firm exploited one of the features to get access to the data. facebook in response has suspended the firm, but lawmakers in congress from senator marco rubio to senator jeff flake have all spoken out against the issue saying that this may call for a little bit more oversight over the tech company. lauren: can face the police itself? it's no secret apple is working on something secret cared what

is the latest that we think we know? >> they are apparently building their own displays for some of their devices. of course this is happening at a super secret facility. the micro led screen are being built and used just for testing purposes right now. apple is making a big investment in the next generation screens are future of tech. they are smaller, use less power and so they are a bit more brighter for devices. cheryl: they are always coming up with something. little caesars is celebrating march madness and i want to know if there's food involved. >> this historic win by two retrievers is a win for pizza lovers. they promised customers free lunch if the team beat the number one team in the tournament. they pulled off the upset over the weekend, knocking out number

one virginia and now the chain is handing out free 5-dollar lunchboxes on april 2nd from 11:30 to 1:00 p.m. local time. go and check out to see what locations are participating. free pizza. >> so many in that area they better pick a lock. hillary, thank you so much. trade do coming up, it is one of those last-minute buzzer moments you can't get enough of watching. a cinderella story of a small college team that is number one seed out. we will have all of the bracket busters from the weekend. the u.s. treasury secretaries even mnuchin about to get an earful from global finance ministers. taking a look at stock index futures as they go to break at a lot of pressure. dow futures lower by 138 pull back a little bit, but triple digit losses so far. the nasdaq one and a quarter%

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lauren: well, only one way to explain what happened in college basketball over the weekend. >> jared max here with all the ncaa bracket busters and there were some big ones. >> 17.3 million bracket. you know how many correctly picked off 16 schools in the street 16? zero out of 17.3 million. florida state seminoles versus

top seed xavier seminoles are the musketeers rather in a second comeback win in front with just a minute and change to go. florida state shocks the musketeers 75 to 70. under 11 minutes to play against cincinnati and the wolfpack completed its second straight comeback win. josh pollack vents against a guy would be the ultimate highlight. nevada sweeps off into the sweet 16. lula, chicago, michigan and texas a&m also a seven game for the first time they're up first time there at two number nines in the sweet 16. kentucky gets kansas state in the seminoles herzog appeared syracuse orange. still alive in the final 16. they upset michigan state 55 bump

>> 53. the tar heels are done defending national chance with the ncaa tournament seven state aggies destroyed carolina. 86 to 65. sweet 16 schedule against one of two top seats left. the other will meet west virginia. 11 these syracuse duke and purdue will play texas tech on thursday. baltimore county at the 16th see that virginia has some gifts for south korea for sunday's game against kansas state. sending under armour shoes as well as other swag is congratulations for being the first-ever number one seed to knock out number one. unfortunately it did not help. they lost to kansas state by seven. 5243 and unable to do it.

tiger woods scored a second straight finish. final round of the arnold palmer notation. finished at 10 under par for the four rounds. and out of bounds shot on 16 really sold the chance tiger had a catching the leaders. tiger word, burberry one. lori mcelroy who hadn't won a debate hadn't won in debates and said the arnold palmer died september 2016 when the arnold palmer invitational. he finished 18 under par for the victory. he birdied five of his final six holes to win yesterday. just wonderful stuff. his wife also shares a birthday with arnold palmer, so it's great that he came back. cheryl: where's tiger now as far as the masters predictions? >> he said two top-five finishes for the first time in a long time. tiger was made the favorite to win the masters. it touches our hearts a little

bit better by and took a good business people want to pay off on tiger. cheryl: is he still favored to win? >> still a few weeks ago. he's right up there. thank you, very much. you can catch the sports reports on fox news headline 20 for seven and a sirius xm channel 115. >> stephen mnuchin on the dbmss expect it to defend the trade planned at the g20 this week. we will go live to london to talk about that in just a bit. the ♪

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lauren: treasury secretary stephen mnuchin to be forced to defend the g20 finance ministers this week in argentina. the global equities economist at commerzbank entrances now. peter, what do you think mnuchin needs to do in these two say it is meaning at the g20?

>> in a sense commend the u.s. administration has made it very clear. do you want to move on this or not? it's an comment really upon the rest of the world as to how they respond, whether mnuchin is defending the position. the e.u., for example has higher tariffs than the united state and many products and it would be for both sides to sit down around the table with an arrangement whereby the e.u. would refuse without the u.s. raising its own. in a sense, that would be a win-win situation. i think the u.s. is in a pretty strong place. he doesn't necessarily have to be on the defensive. cheryl: the federal reserve this week, widely expected to hike interest rates. this is the meeting we will get the press conference with jay powell. first off, would you expect from the fed and number two, what you

want to hear from jerome powell, his first time at the microphone? >> well come in terms of what to expect, everybody expects rate hikes and that's the idea from a market perspective. i think what we are looking for is clarity to what the fed does now because a sense regulation would make it three rate hikes. some make it four. they indicate that we will be getting for rate hikes this year in which occurred this week. one of course from here on out. cheryl: pieter dixon, thank you. we appreciate it. lauren: thank you for watching us on transeven. we hope you have a great monday. >> good monday morning. happy monday, everyone. i maria bartiromo and it's monday, march 19th. 6:00 a.m. on the east coast. negative consequences. a group of 50 trade groups

warning president trump against implementing a tariffs against china. by some of the largest countries are saying it could trigger a trade reaction. we have that coming out. stocks closed and agreed on friday but not enough to reverse course has all the industries reported a second weekly decline in three weeks, even with a 72-point gain on friday for the dow. futures this morning are down. the dow industrial done 130 points, one half of 1%. nasdaq down 83 points, better than 1% as well. we are watching the federal reserve meeting to raise interest rates after a two-day meeting tuesday and wednesday. wednesday will be jay powell's first press conference. down 1% of the 70 points lower. down two thirds of a percent in the dax and germany down 100 points at almost 1%. fixed performances that china and hong kong higher even if just fractionally.

denis k. average down 1%. a fourth explosion in less than three weeks injuring two people. the details on the blast that came just hours after police made a televised appeal to the bomber. a serial bomber is what we are looking for there. at&t said to face off over the company's $85 billion proposed merger. the high-profile antitrust challenge coming up. the white house has president trump is not considered moving the robert mueller despite a series of treats over the weekend to criticize the investigation. one person on the job of andrew mccabe. jeff sessions fired the deputy director friday over his contact with the news media regarding the bureau's investigation of hillary clinton's e-mails. house judiciary chairman bob goodlatte praising theio