charles: that was in the stock. i was upset every day they dissed it. thank you very much. neil cavuto, giving you 200-point rally. what will you do with it? neil: brought us into positive territory. what is the level to get to a trillion, 195? wow that is pretty close. charles: happen in next two hours? neil: pollen i didn't appreciate. look what is going on at the corner of wall and broad because with this gain we're technically positive territory on the year. it has been a topsy-turvy year here, if you think of that, we're essentially unchanged, been up four months into the year. now anything can happen, probably will. right now the markets seem to be directing favorably to the date and time and place to this upcoming meeting with between president trump and north korea's leader and june 12th in singapore. if you have ever been there an immaculate place, do not, not, throw any gum on the sidewalk.

i will leave it at that. they're very fussy about that. but it is also a great place to go just to keep very tight security for both leaders. you can imagine that is very much called for here but all the forces are aligned for stocks to move up on this. oil just turned positive again, good enough to get up to four-year highs right now. that will affect when you fill up your tank. that could be anywhere two, three weeks, already being felt, make a liar out of me, up two cents before i got up here. these levels represent multiyear highs. a lot of folks are worried if the whole iranian thing starts unraveling, we've seen signs, once the president walked away from the deal, iranians promised would sew seeds, attacking israeli positions in syria. syria saw irisraelis respond attacking syrian positions, back and forth, that agitated traders.

that agitation is going around. but i'm looking at dow 30 board, folks, 28 of 30 components up. cisco to the downside. this is sort of a sector and multisector wide party going on. nine of the 11 s&p 500 sectors all up on the day. we'll get into this. with more detail, interest rates, sliding back under three% on the 10-year note. these are the crosscurrents and backdrop what is of fa exing traders and what they see happening in the days and weeks ahead. defense side of all this, defense priorities senior fellow lieutenant colonel daniel davis. colonel, good to have you. >> always great to be here, neil. neil: thank you. neil: you look at blessed look at bigger more important things than making money. i'm not so brave. i find traders parking their money in oil are convinced right now it will go still higher.

they're convinced things will continue to agitate in the middle east and they're betting some money on it. so they see the world a little bit differently than do those who might look favorably at an upcoming peace accord with the north koreans or things calming down with iran. how do you see it? >> certainly the middle east, that is almost like the status quo of destabilization and things always changing. that is actually why i was a big supporter when president trump would take the u.s. troops out of syria because there is no good thing can come from that. as you see, no matter whether we're there, we're not there, there will be instability. we need to make sure it doesn't affect american interests. neil: what i'm wondering whether iranians, if you buy what the israelis are saying will use this as an excuse to get ever more aggressive in the region. which could explain why not a single country in that region signed on to barack obama's

original iranian deal. they were leery of it. the question what does iran do? if they already started launching attacks on israeli positions in syria and israel responds, what's next? >> i don't see it that way. iran last thing they want to do is being seen passive and victim of trump withdrawing from this, i think they stirred up the pot, made a little bit of noise here. i don't think they will go too far. they have their own national interests, if they push israel too far, israel doesn't play around. if they will feel their security is threatened they will hit and hit hard. you will see over time iran will back down a little bit and go a little bit quiet. neil: as you know, colonel, there has been no indication that those who had originally signed on to the iranian agreement, england, russia, china, france, germany, they're not predisposed to hop on with president trump on this. will they eventually be?

because if it is just us that could make getting iran to change its behavior a little tough, right? >> that's correct. i got to say for all the accolades i've been giving president trump especially on this north korea, his performance so far i really wish he had not pulled out of that agreement because there is almost no upside for us. because whatever flaws the agreement had it still was an intrusive situation. we did still have external eyes anders inside the country that potentially could leave. if that is not a good deal, how will this make us have a better deal? now there is less constraints on them. i can understand why europe will not want to get rid of that, they worked hard to get those constraints in there. they're concerned they may actually lose that they will do what they can to keep it inplace. neil: you need company whether you like the agreement or not. right now it is us. whether we might exert pressure to your point, colonel. if you could stay in there, i

want to bring in american-islamic forum founder zuhdi jasser. i like to raise the notion with the colonel if we are alone, and other five countries that signed on to this don't bend, want to stick with this and you're iran, you are got all the money already, what would incentivize for anything to change here, in other words for the president to get his way? >> neil, i think we've been painting the wrong picture based on the picture that the obama administration forced us to paint, weakness, leading from iran, letting iranians be as belligerent as they want and fueling terror into syria. neil: wasn't that built into the whole deal? i can remember when barack obama cobbled this together, secretary of state kerry worked on this, they were bell ledge rent and to your face and sticking it to "death to america" throughout the whole process, we signed a deal, still got a deal.

so what changed? >> belligerence of iran is not just militarily. not just about their nuclear belligerence, it is about what they have done in syria. positions of missiles. advancement of iranian revolutionary guard. what they have done to us in iraq. neil: you're very knowledgeable, far more than by the region, when i hear the iae a and independent entities there is no regeneration of nuclear activity that they restarted efforts, although israelis the country lying to begin with, once a liar, always a liar, having said that how are we going to rally support globally for this if all the independent entities that we signed on to are quibbling with our rationale for ripping it up? >> we'll rally support by proving that it works. proving ultimately not just about the nuclear belligerence, but about their military

advancement. economic sanctions in the bush era led to the 09 revolution in iran. that went on pause. now we have a revolution in iran happening again. they're starting to cheer the fact economic fuel to their regime will go away as we start imposing sanctions. sanctions regime will start even weakening the iranian economy more. they are crippled right now because of what the revolution has been doing to banks, et cetera. now with the increased sanctions, i think it will cause them to blink. also the missiles they launched yesterday, they are testing the red line of the trump administration. this administration is not weak like obama. and we're going to stand behind our allies. i think our allies like israel are emboldened, the revolution is emboldened. neil, finally we are on the offense of emboldening our allies and iran is on the defense. neil: that might be so, but colonel, to the original point that you raised we're told as defense secretary, even though he doesn't shout it, our allies

are the ones that signed on to this, your european allies, our major ones, saudi is quite right to say those in the middle east did not, but if they don't bend, if they're questioning the rationale behind this, all things are equal, iran heats things up with these attacks, whatever you want to call it, drives oil prices still higher, maybe that is their strategy for sticking it to us, all of sudden, you america, are looking at higher gas prices this summer, congratulations? >> i think that, you could imagine iran will do what they can from their position of weakness because they're not just going to sit passively by and literally let us do anything we want but i have a bit of a different view than many. i believe weakness iran exposed what they try to do. it is relatively small scale. israel does not hesitate to hit back. our power so much greater than anything iran is doing, if they

ever crossed the red line which i define anything that affects american interests, there is no question we'll hit back because we always will. if it is not something that affects american interests i think some extent we let them deal to try to do to make a little bit of noise that doesn't affect anything over there because we will never hesitate to defend our interests no matter what. neil: zuhdi, that could be the fear, right? >> absolutely but i think we're living in a fantasyland if we think iran wasn't doing what it could to advance near the israeli border, make syria into a client state, take over gains we made in iraq. we finally have to begin to push back. everything at the altar of the nuclear deal, mid-range, short, missiles, we sort of let them expand into the region and border of israel, that has to change because we are living in a new era i think where not only are we on the offense, now there is going to be soil for the

revolution to begin to grow as the regime will be weakened economically and they bill find themselves up against american wall, israeli wall militarily that is now emboldened. neil: thank you, gentleman, i don't know what either of you said, but you're helping markets, calming them down or at least reinforcing buyers. the dow up 222 points. led by energy related issues. if that sounds familiar to you, that was course of events yesterday. energy disproportionately weighted in the dow and s&p 500. only one issue in the dow is down, that is nike. i always told you being healthy and run something dangerous for you. now that is proving it. meantime other good earnings news to report. stable inflation number that is out. if you're wore remembered about the federal reserve willy-nilly hiking interest rates again and again, we have a piece of data saying for the time-being, calm down, calm down. they don't think it is going to

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omnipotent one on all thinks numbers, the guy is scary smart. he heard us talking, more to the point my prior colleagues i'm not taking a bullet to this, apple would have to get up to $195 a share to cross the trillion dollar mark. suzie you're telling me now it is what? that gone away. now 203.45. 193 or 203? exactly like i said. i didn't even say that. so, they were wrong. and they're coming back to me, neil, you have to correct that. and i always feel that people who made the mistake come on the air and retract it. and it shouldn't be me but i guess it is. all right. so there you go. that is what it would take. we're getting very, very close to that. a trillion dollar company. i'm old enough, folks to, remember it was a big deal when you had a 100 million-dollar market cap.

you kids today. speaking of companies, if you're at&t or novartis or south korean concern and you're getting money to michael cohen, the president's lawyer, why are you doing that? are you trying to buy influence? you're trying to maybe get the future president's attention when he was just a candidate running for president? what? people ask questions. they want to know. might not even be anything sinister, this idea it could be pay-to-play, has some cynics wondering what else from other companies or other favors back and forth we don't know about? "washington examiner" commentary writer, emily jashinsky and patrice. when the revelations came first about at&t. that is one thing. novartis came, there might be others, i don't know. this shouldn't be startling. i understand how this process works. but they're looking at how it

ties into the campaign and favors granted those during the campaign if any. what do you make of this? how damaging could it be? >> i mean if it is damaging only for those companies but it really isn't. neil: but did the companies do anything wrong? i don't think they technically did anything wrong? >> i don't think they did. remember, a lot of these companies did not expect candidate trump to win the election. so they were scrambling. they already lined up their cadre of lawyers and lobbyists well plugged into potential clinton administration. neil: right. >> they were going to turn to whomever, who would have access to the inner circle of president trump. remember, he was about draining the swamp. so he wasn't going to be connected to a lot of d.c. lobbyists that these companies had access to. neil: emily, the back and forth whether any russian entity company was giving, funneling money, whatever the term would be to michael cohen. might be a different cohen. we don't quite know the story.

the inference would be foreign entities were trying to he can tracks favors -- extract favors. that leads to a slippery criminal issue. leaving that aside because we don't know. is this more about the michael cohen or the way business is done in this country, a wink and a nod, buy influence with a seat at table, might be the case of at&t trying to extract favor on a deal with time warner, would not be the first time something like this would be done. would not be illegal if this were done were you your sense? >> that is exactly right. this is very much about the way things are done in this country which is kind of a sad commentary on way things are done in this country. to your earlier question to patrice did they do anything wrong, legally doesn't seem any legal boundaries crossed. about did anything wrong, if you think pay-to-play, the swamp full of lobbyists is wrong, and voted for donald trump, this is

the importation of the swamp into washington. you don't have to import it actually, it is already here. but for a president who promised not to do that promised to drain the swamp, his orbit trafficking in these type of deals is very much conventional. depends what you think is wrong ethically. i think a lot of people in the president's base would certainly upset about this if they saw the clinton administration doing it. neil: patrice, it is confusing when a a lot of payments were made or overtures, for example, novartis, big drug biotech and were made. a lot has to do with timing. very few thought donald trump would win the election. once he did, or well on is way, all of sudden run to get a seat at the table, but it does have a swampish feel to it. >> it does. what is interesting, when they sat down with them meeting with cohen for the first time they realized he didn't have the access or couldn't give them what they were looking for. however he was smart enough to

lock in a deal where he would get 100,000-dollar payments every month despite not providing them any other service beyond that first meeting. i give cohen credit for being an entrepreneur in this situation. neil: well, yeah, i don't know -- >> that is one way to put it. neil: emily, real quick, do you think this has lasting residual effect? the russian thing which might not be true at all, might be a different cohen, no way of judging, that i could see could. this other stuff domestically, sad as it is, i'm saying sad, i know how the business world works. it might not be a there there. it might shock people, the old casablanca thing, gambling? i'm shocked. i don't know it will have any effect. >> this is conventional. this will be disappointing coming in orbit after president who promised to drain the swamp and adamant about that. there is nothing really lasting.

unless things turn out to be connected to russia and russian billionaire backing one of the companies that was alleged to have hired cohen, that is where things could be interesting. this is business as usual here in washington, d.c. neil: you're both too young to be so jaded. what is it? leave it to me to do the jaded thing. ladies, thank you both, very, very much. if i had to make an offer to you, i will force you to add something to your house will cost you $40 a month, but it is going to save you $80 a month, would you sign on? that is the argument they're making in california, it could be soon the law, that every new house must be built with solar panels. but that would be on you, but, but, you make money on it. do you buy that? after this ♪ whoooo.

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neil: all right. i think the last time we saw oil prices at these levels kristina partsinevelos was in high school. now she's on the upper west side of manhattan outside after gas station ironically with a shocking development. what is going on. reporter: neil, i think you're a little bit wrong but we won't talk about my age on air. investors were prepping for president trump to pull out of the iran nuclear deal. they prepped for that, pushed up price of oil with thoughts supply would be hurt in the future. i have to preface why am i out at a gas station right now? this is gas station? the 3-dollar club. it is about 3.09 a gallon. the national average of fast across the country at $2.84, up

50 cents compared to last year. expectations it is going to climb higher into the summer. we're seeing 10 states across the country with gas above three bucks, highest essex, california, at $5.24 a peril. let's get back to oil. over the past five years oil has been climbing steadily. today a little bit of a rally. now a selloff. investors are profiting off the rally but that is still pushing up the energy sector. seeing certain energy companies, exxonmobil as an example, rallying up 2%. the reason this company has been a laggard for quite some time. they're investing quite a bit in their discoveries. they have "deepwater horizon" projects coming up, five big ones. they have increase of supply. chevron up 2% today. bp only one a little bit down. they had a great month in april, up 10%. other ones conocophillips and

hess climbing higher because of a possible decrease in supply. of course gas prices higher for all americans across the country this summer. back to you. neil: all right, thank you, very, very much, christina. we are trying to keep inflation even. if you counted this in $2017. this is constant, all-time high is early '70s, 1973 to be exact, in $2017 was $141.32 a barrel. so in other words double where we are right now. that is inflation adjusted. but again gives you the idea that they have been much, much higher. having said that people are looking at this no doubt saying there must be a way to save money on this when it comes to energy related things. california legislature has an idea on this maybe, maybe if we can all agree and finally get through the last hurdle we can demand every new home built in

california come with solar panels and maybe ease some of this energy pressure going forward. some people think this will do the job and maybe save a lot of people money. there are numbers out there that it could add close to $10,000 to a typical home in california, already the pricey evident in the country. the republican party chairman, jim, you're not a fan of this i know, but some of your counterparts are saying buyers will be a fan longer term if the money they pay extra results in a lot of savings. in other words, they pay for this within just a couple of years of owning that home. what do you say? >> well, let me just say i think this is a good idea that is taken to an illogical extreme. let me just also say i have a house with a solar roof. the first speech i gave on the floor of the assembly in 1991 was for a solar tax credit. when i was in the legislature i

wrote the state's solar and wind tax credit law. but look, we've got excess capacity of solar electricity in california. southern california utilities and northern california utilities are required by state regulators to buy so much solar electricity that during certain months of the year we have excess capacity. so the utility that provides electricity to me had to off-load their excess solar because you can't overcapacity the grid. they had to go to arizona. they said arizona, hey, we have excess solar. why don't you buy it from us. the arizona utility said, no. why don't we give it to you. the arizona utility said no. the arizona utility said, but we'll buy it from you. so as a ratepayer in southern california i'm forced to buy solar electricity that my utility is required to buy. i get to pay arizona to take it off our hands.

i'm subsidizing rate-payers in arizona. beyond that, we had a recent survey, 60% of calfornians are concerned about the high price of housing and are thinking of moving. fully 1/3 of them are thinking about moving out of the state. when you take and require builders to add what could be $10,000 to the cost of a home, that the medium price after home in california is already over half a million dollars, you're really hurting the poor and working class. neil: well the flip side of that -- >> this is nonsensical. neil: not a fan. but the flip side of that is, that if it is going to cost you a extra $40 a month for this, let's say you return in savings 80 a month, these are data put out by the solar industry, so obviously a little bit of caution. companies like sun power and first solar, are all behind this. i know where they're coming from. but, whether they're off a little bit or not, you don't buy

the argument this pays for itself, and maybes the homes more appealing for resale down the road? people say oh, that one has solar panels i will buy it? >> california builders in california already offer this as an option to new homebuyers. if you're building in a new development you have the option of this already. neil: how many take advantage, do we know? are there a lot of people? >> in the new developments in my neighborhood, i would say two out of every five. neil: okay. >> if you really believe solar is the way to go, utility-scaled solar is much more efficient. the fact of the matter is california has more electricity during the day when the sun is up. the problem is when the sun goes down. that is where we need excess

capacity. i believe in renewable energy but this is renewable energy on steroids and it is cost inefficient. neil: okay. >> the cost aspect because utilities have to buy excess solar from people like me who have solar roofs the people that ultimately that pay for that are the poor and working class who can't afford solar roofs. neil: it is not a done deal. it has to go through one hurdle yet. who knows. meantime it depends how they look too. a lot of people go by looks. i like to get people annoyed putting wind tunnels outside of your house see what your neighbors think of that. we have the dividing line for both parties right after this.

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sheldon adelson is shelling out serious change, 30 million to republicans to keep house of representatives. charlie gasparino has details. charlie? >> neil, we understand staying out of the race and staying out of the fund-raising race for two years, largely out, sheldon adelson, according to "politico," we have been able to confirm he has been giving money. i can't confirm the exact amount "politico" says, $30 million, but he made a verbal equivalent to the republican house leadership, fund races or fund a pac that can donate to various races this was a huge concern among congressional republicans. sheldon adelson gave basically a few bucks through his own pac the last two years. that was a story we did on fox business a month ago. there was a full-court press by none other than paul ryan apparently to get the casino magnate, billionaire, long-time republican contributor to cough

up some money. what we understand there is an agreement to cough up money. "politico" says it is 30 million. i do not have this confirmed. it is to the congressional leadership fund, a house pac to fund races. up shot, if the money materializes, we will know when it shows up in the official figures, should point out adelson's spokeswoman had no comment, the up shot if adelson is now giving money, that the republican leadership went to him, listen, your money could put us over the top. we might have a chance of saving the house, if we can raise some money and be competitive in certain races. and he threw the money in there. it looks like a positive for the house, if you believe, for republicans if you believe they could possibly hold on to the house. adelson does not throw good money at bad. it this is big chunk of money apparently. multimillions. 30 million if you believe "politico." that is essentially what we got.

you're the guy that keeps saying republican keep the house. neil: i think they do. what do i know. >> this is proof in that direction. neil: thank you, my friend. charlie gasparino breaking news left and rye, the best in the business. west virginia senator joe manchin may be considered one of the more vulnerable in the united states senate. he would be on board voting for phase two of those tax cuts. take a look. they have another tax measure, second phase of it where they talked about making individual rates permanent, would you back that? >> i am definitely, i'm going to be there to fix things. i have watched on both sides, both parties -- neil: senator, i want to be clear, they have a phase two where they want to make permanent tax cuts for individual, you would back that? >> i absolutely would. neil: reason why i kept pounding that with the good senator, he voted against as did every other democrat the tax cuts in the first incarnation.

reaction from former ronald reagan campaign manager, fox news contributor, brilliant mind, ed rollins. what do you think he is saying there? when i talked with mitch mcconnell couple weeks ago he was going slow with the second vote because it would give guys like him, manchin an opportunity to vote for something that could improve his prospects in november? >> there are four or five democrats are in real trouble. he would be at the top of the list. he will do everything he can to be a republican between now and november. neil: almost did. >> truth of the matter he should have switch adlong time ago. the state shifted on him. this is a big state for trump. my sense he is a tough competitor. he will be very competitive and i think, i don't think we'll have another tax bill. one of the dangers of this, we had a tax bill. we advocated. the biggest tax bill in history. created a lot of deficits long term -- neil: it was the biggest in history by a long shot. apparently the fear that

mitch mcconnell had was that if you open this up to second vote to make individual rates permanent, they really, you know, start unwinding in 2024, 25, you're just inviting guys like these democrats who voted against it in these vulnerable states to vote for it and help their chances. he doesn't want to do that. >> i don't blame him for that. equally as important, i don't think they can get 60 votes to pass another tax bill athis point in time. let's go through the election. obviously down the road aways we can change it if we hold majority. that is the key thing, one of the ways to hold the majority is beat guys like him. neil: i was mentioning, charlie gasparino was too, this notion, 23 seats have to flip in the house to make it go democrat, i'm wondering given the prospects that republicans had in the senate where they could conceivably pick up seats, do you think it is a foregone conclusion that the house is lost? >> i do not. i ran the congressional

committee many years ago. obviously a lot of things happened the last month. the biggest problem we have a lot of incumbents retiring. there are open seats. we have good challengers going to the seats. obviously better to have an incumbent. $30 million if adelson gives it to us it will be helpful. money is not the issue. can you take untested candidates to make sure they drive the right message? committees are working hard to drive that message. what happens, either way, if democrats take back three or or five votes. if we hold on, it will be five or 10 votes. it will be a donnybrook and we need to hold the senate. neil: very quickly, thinking of you, having been to the reagan library, looking how ronald reagan got really the world nuts when he was talking about this space initiative, "star wars," at same time, no one, russians included knew how to read him. i was thinking about this

president and his approach, "rocket man," apples and oranges, huge differences, but when people don't know how to read you they sit down hurriedly talk to you, what do you make of that? >> both are unpredictable. reagan had consistent record. he rebuilt defenses country. you unfortunately star was not built. we wouldn't have to worry about some of this. neil: he walked away from reykjavik. that was thrown in there. >> the bottom line, they pretty much come to the conclusion on both sides dearming but at the end of the day the russians threw this out, he said no, i'm not going to do that. i feel too strongly about it. neil: this guy literally -- something this president would do in north korea. i didn't realize the degree. that's it. >> thank you very much. two or three years we got a better deal. it took three years. he knew what he wanted. was core belief. it was not question of making a deal but making the right deal for us.

neil: ed rollins, thank you for taking the time my friend, former reagan campaign manager. both sides like him. makes me very suspicious. >> makes me very suspicious. neil: right. if these markets are worried about the iran deal that was torn up they have a funny way of showing it. oil is a big reason for that. energy is big reason for that. confidence, that you know this will not lead to hyperinflation, very big reason for that. i will explain it all, with 29 of the dow 30 components all up. only nike, only nike is down. i warned you about trying to get in shape. you didn't listen, did you? more after this. ♪ mr. elliot, what's your wifi password?

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neil: i think it is the best-selling vehicle on the planet or darn close to it, but the ford f-150, they will have a production halt here. could go on a while. if you want to get your hands on one, you might have to wait a while, maybe a long while. jeff flock at a ford dealership with more on that. hey, jeff, what is going on here? reporter: may or may not. a fire at a supplier for ford's f-150, in fact the whole f-series, a fire shut down production of a key component. it is actually the mount, that mounts the radiator on to the engine. they don't have that.

they can't make trucks. in fact they shut two ford plants that make the f-series down. how important is the f-series? well, tell you this, you said it has been the best-seller. it has been the best-selling vehicle in the u.s. for more than 40 years, longer than we've been alive. maybe not that long, but over 40 years. look at the best-sellers last year alone. f-series sold almost 900,000 vehicles, second, chevy silverado, almost 600,000, ram truck and after rav4. by far the leader is the f-series truck. you know, you need a lot of these mounts because they make a lot of these vehicles. take a look at this vehicle by the numbers. in april of this year, that is last month alone, they made 61,000 of these. the average selling price for the f-series truck was 46,000 bucks. they sold a new truck every 29 seconds. that is two a minute, 24 hours a

day, seven days a week. it is a tremendously impressive vehicle. here is what i'm being told, here is the latest news, maybe i buried the lead, but i am told by a source workers at the dearborn truck plant which has been idled they could go back to work as early as monday. that means the shutdown would last shorter than anybody thought, if that is true. strikes me that is awful early to get this production line back in gear going again, but if that is true, that is what it would be. i have not been able to confirm that would workers at that plant but that is what they have been told. it is hugely important vehicle, neil, even more so ford said we don't care so much about the sedans and cars. we care more about trucks and suvs. neil? neil: treasured americana to your point. jeff, great job. maybe as you jeff pointed out maybe they solve a lot of this

before it gets out of control. meantime there is a push on the part of the white house to reassess the fake news media. the read of the fake news media, any stories damaging to the president, they read it, whether that is fair or not. the talked a administration had it with this sort of thing and constant pounding show that 91% of major news outlets are just doing negative stuff on the president, enough is enough to the point maybe we should take their credentials away. media research center rich noye, turning point usa founder charlie kirk. charlie, a lot is in the eye of the beholder. fake news to this administration is negative news. this would not be the first president didn't like hearing bad things about himself but the point he was making, that the administration is making it's over the top negative and there is a reassessment in order here. is there? >> without a doubt. look no president is above criticism. in fact the press plays a necessary and healthy role to keep the public informed and really put pressure on the

administration to stay honest but this is completely and totally above the pale. the accomplish manes of administration, look what is happening in korea. despite this network, seems like the only network giving kudos where it is due. some of the networks are talking about the nonsensical story where history is being made truly in front of our eyes. i think it is having adverse effect. you see 91% of the coverage is negative. what happens the american people start it tune out, i get it already. things are actually pretty good. unemployment is going down. my taxes is going down. the economy is looking up. denuclearization is on the horizon. so i think it is having an adverse effect. why you see the president's approval rating starting to go up. make no mistake the media is political propaganda tool of the left to destablize this president. neil: you could flip it around, rich, the president adds to the behavior by tweets or uncare is i can remarksduncharacteristic

remarks, but be that as it mays, taking away credentials, if he is really hinting that, that could be a problem, what do you think? >> well i don't think he really means it. if he did it would be a tool used by democratic presidents, would be much more harmful to conservative media outlets than anything that might happen in this case. i think he is trying to troll the press. trying to draw attention we're finding 90% of the coverage is negative. most people know it has been a very fierce media environment for this president. he just wants to draw the distinction, this is not, you know, a case where the press would have it that trump attacks the press and a war against the media. the media had a war against trump this whole time too. as the last guest said, steps on his achievements. they're talking about the soap opera. the public already has tuned out because it is impossible to

imagine why the public approval of trump could be going up if at same time you have this fiercely negative coverage. it means the public doesn't care what the president is saying -- press is saying rights now. the credential, who cares? neil: drawing attention to it, you might be giving the enemy you think you have more play. we'll see what happens. i can't imagine the president was even remotely serious about that. it is out there. the media is concerned about it. fake news in the eye of the beholder. i looked at history of this, some really popular, never liked coverage, john kennedy he felt, he felt he was really targeted by the press. man, oh, man. more after this.

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neil: all right, with the gains we've got now, 226 points. the fears that were out there, i remember reading a publication not too long ago about the president's decision on iran that it retained the markets of her come to pass because no one in their right mind would care this. moving the president to walk away from it, it has not changed the market. positive for the year. apple getting close to being a trillion dollars concerning many of the white house saying. lake thurmond affair with with the latest on everything. i'm partial, but i think he asks address questions at this press

conferences. i'm wondering if the administration would be tempted to come back and say if we have to go it alone, we will go it alone. we accept the risk that the other countries that signed onto this are part of the center. then what? >> you know, i asked in this irreverent here yesterday. and thank you, neil appeared i asked press secretary sarah sanders how much president trump feels as if he can negotiate with iran. he basically said yesterday he doesn't think it relates to the iranians that he can negotiate with them and sanders told me luck, they are hopeful and moving forward, but there's a couple different issues here negotiating with iran and then negotiating with allies who are still in the jcpoa, the iran nuclear deal and trying to get them on the u.s. side to sort of set up a new iran nuclear deal

or at the very least, try to stop iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. the host of issues going forward clearly and there's not necessarily a pathway here. there is a 90 day and a 180 day clock in which the sanctions will be phased in. it's a good question exactly what the other nations will do, what the u.s. will do, what iran will do is have they not we will watch at the least in the coming six months or so. another world issue that we have been watching especially in the early morning hours here, 3:00 in the morning to be specifically, with the release of the detainees for north korea. they arrived back earlier today. kim jong chilcott kim hock scott and tony kim arrived at china-based anders. they recruited by president trump, the vice president, the first lady and afterwards and i got back to the white house and presumably took a little nap and

he sent out a treat in which he announced the following are missing the highly anticipated meeting between kim jong un and myself take place in singapore in june 12. we will make it a very special moment for world peace. earlier this morning, the president appeared somewhat hopeful that his talks with kim jong un will lead to something on the line. listen. >> everly thinks he wants to do something. he did this because i really think he wants to do something and bring the country into the real world. i really believe that and i think that we are going to have a success. i think this'll be a very big success. >> now we know where the meeting will take place. about a month from now it was notable when i asked president trump at the white house a couple weeks ago if he had spoken with kim jong un, he did not want to comment on the matter. he was asked about that again and get the same response he does not want to comment. when you talk about the lead up

of this, how the president spoke with the north korean tater, we do not know. we move past north korea into iran, what those look like with iranians and our allies here that remains to be seen. the ambassador for the national security adviser john bolton saying yesterday as it debates to iran that he's already doing work, speaking with his counterparts overseas. neil: blake, thank you very, very much my friend. let's go to 2020 advisory board member for tim trump, mark lowder. this issue about the iran thing going forward between data north korea, oil prices are up at multiyear highs. gas prices expect it to fall. a lot of this -- i don't want opinion oil or not. but how is the president going to address that? should he address that? you might be facing higher

prices at the pump, but this is for our collective good that we take this position with iran even if the volatile market to go to the gas station, pay a little bit more. it will be well worth it longer-term. how does he position that? >> first off come or go to realize oil prices can be the determining factor in terms of confronting iran's destabilizing a pivot is, their pursuit of nuclear weapons, they're launching attacks against israel last night and then multiple times so far this year. we've got to confront out for long-term security, long-term stability and in the meantime i would hope the administration would go to some of our allies in the middle east and opec and work with them to try to pick up production, to lower or offset any impacts of the ayn rand sanction that it would result in. i also think the american people to a certain extent have a strong understanding that this might be a short-term bump in

prices, though we are talking about long-term stability, making sure that iran never has a nuclear weapon in the missile technology to deliver to israel, the united states and other allies. neil: switching gears if you'll indulge me. president pens in his interview has had a similar probe, time to wrap it up. not the first time anyone in this administration come including the president has said that. do you think they are close to wrapping it up? and if not, does that worry you going into the midterms? >> the american people see through it in terms of midterms. some of the noise coming out of washington d.c. but if the vice president said on those interviews this morning, the administration has cooperated fully. they produced a million documents. thousands of hours of testimony from key people of interest to the special counsel appeared and get to this day, we have no evidence of any collusion between the trump campaign and

russia and that is because there wasn't any. many people in america come including folks in the administration would like to see this wrapped up in its due course, but quickly so we can altogether move forward and confront the other issues we have facing our country. >> i've no idea where the investigation is going. it has feared mightily from its original, you know, intent. it would be the first such want to go that route. increasingly we are looking at business deals, relationships with companies that might have taken to get exposure or play an audience with the president, whatever. is there a fear here that whatever the president says about the swamp and everything else, that this investigation could reveal from his own people swamp fish behavior? >> i think the president has been very clear from the very beginning that if anyone connected to the organization or the administration doing

something outside of the guidelines of the law, they should be held accountable for that. you know survey pollution standpoint that the campaign did not do that. one of the things i think we really have to look at here and we seem to have beard is kind of flipping the justice system on its head. normally there is a crime and investigators go find the person who perpetrated the crime. in this case it seems like they are going after people and looking for crimes. and that is not the way our justice system works. we have to be very careful with that. that's why you have so many people questioning the scope, including federal judges, with the scope of this investigation and how it's being dead. >> the former defense press secretary. very instrumental player per team term. in the meantime, israel is striking back after iran was striking at israel and back and

forth we go. the secretary of defense andrew smith. very good to have you. so many things i wanted to bring up with you with danger close. this idea that we might be going it alone on this iran thing. you know, your old dos, the defense secretary apparently is quiet on this, that he has supported that iran agreement. support isn't the word may be as much as concerned about advocating it. what do you make of that and the fact that at least it was something and now we start from scratch, we anger come agitator allies. you've heard all this, would he think of that? >> even this morning, secretary mattis said that he thinks the united states leaving the iran nuclear deal open the door for better negotiations. so a better deal. i think what we've seen in the

recent days is that present trends decision to leave the jcpoa has really emboldened the rest of the middle east to stand up to iran. under the obama administration, we saw that iran was involved in not only to amp up their military infrastructure and equipment, but also their geopolitical influence inside the middle east. >> in the secretary say as far as he knew there was no indication the iranians were cheating on them, that the i.e. eight nea -- iaea and others, that there is nothing to indicate that they were cheating on us. so, obviously you support the view. but he is one of the few i can think of who isn't saying much on it. >> well, secretary mattis has largely stayed out of the spotlight since day one of this

administration. it is just his style. he is not interested in being a spokesperson in the media. he has the largest government agency to run inside the u.s. government. as you know, there are hotspots all over the world. the united states military is involved in multiple continents across the globe. he has one of the hardest jobs inside the administration and that is what is focusing his efforts on and quite well since day one. neil: with the israeli response, the iranian response in syria, is this you think a preview coming attractions? >> i think it is a dramatic shift in what we are seeing with foreign policy, especially inside the middle east. i think that even just in recent days since the president has made a decision to remove the united states for the iran nuclear deal, you are seeing nations inside israel -- i'm

sorry, inside the middle east being emboldened to speak out against iran. we saw barber in the sporting speak out publicly in support of israel's right to defend itself against iran, which is absolutely fantastic that they are able to speak out publicly and feel that they are able to do that and will likely have support of other middle eastern nations behind them because regardless of how they feel about israel, they all share a common enemy and that is iran and they have seen how they have tempted to spread their influence inside the middle east to become a dominant power inside the region and most of the nations are fed up with that. when they have seen israel respond to the way they did after they were attacked directly, this is the first time israel had been attacked directly. not for a proxy from iran. i think everyone is rightfully pleased that israel's response to the attack. dream to you and i chatted in the past. i mean, keep in mind no one in the middle east, no one in that

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>> it's been about a year since this investigation began. our administration has provided over a million documents, fully cooperated in it. in the interest of the country, i think it is time to wrap it up and i would very respectfully encourage the special counsel and its team to bring their work to completion. neil: that is just ahead of the year of investigation. mike pence talking about robert

mueller and his team to speed this thing out. let's move onto more important issues for the judicial analyst judge andrew napolitano. i'm not in your league here, but that is not smart to do. >> i say this with great respect and affection. he and i were friends before he was the governor of indiana. he is a lawyer and you should understand how long and complex these things are. people are impatient. they want evidence. it's like a jigsaw puzzle. but mohler crew doesn't have all the pieces they need under the law. they can't release sections of it until they have a complete picture in the vice president knows that. but when he's dispatched to do that, it often has the opposite effect on the people he is challenging to end her investigation. neil: you are bob mueller steam and hearing what the president says about you everyday maybe

justifiably so because they are getting exasperated. does that change your behavior or voting in slower? >> look at this case involving paul manafort and the judges. that's what the law allows. your opinion and prosecute them. the local federal prosecute them. >> none of that matters. >> arrived. >> it's interesting, politically dynamic but illegally relevant. >> did you insert -- this may be a different matter obviously. how important is it for you to insert your own views? >> when the judge does that is called that data. an unsolicited, irrelevant, personal observation of the court. not integral to the judges decision.

basically who cares, your honor. just make the rule. we don't care what you think of as. a federal judge but that's basically what they're thinking. they have an obligation to prosecute crimes and you can get them in conviction. neil: vargas, at&t and all that. i was raising this was some journalists a little bit earlier than this notion that is the longest in my career. companies pay to play or get an influence, seems a little tricky here is not included any russian figures trying to get foreign influence here. that might become a different beast. what are the laws on this? >> it is far more complex that it's a foreign government. first of all, the person receiving the money from and representing the foreign government. we know there's 500,000 in

mr. cohan's account on this domestic version of a foreign, russian company. neil: some have disputed it. also involving different -- >> is true, it would require michael cohen to register with a foreign agent. >> regardless of the ties? e. alone. >> he is representing the interest of the people to put the 500,000 in its bank account. neil: understood that the reason they get a distinction here is it doesn't matter your tie to anyone else but what you are doing with the foreign entity or individual. neil: novartis is this a dozen on the political suspicion that the russian company does. but you take money from a foreign company or do some work for them in the united states with the government. you have to register as a foreign agent. lobby the government to physically produce the government of the united states

in the room. these people will produce suit to donald trump. you have to register for it. >> you have to tell the president in this case these guys think it's a good idea not tell him? >> very good question. the government suspects he did not tell the president. that means that might've been fraud. he might've been making a material misrepresentation which he couldn't deliver. the president is off the hook on this. but michael cohen is not is a material misrepresentation, they tried to get money back. he wouldn't give them their money back. that is fraud. >> the speed of this money that was coming in pretty much. >> the speed with which the money was coming in generated with the treasury doj called suspicious activity reports. you have a commercial bank account but never has more than 25,000 in.

suddenly 500,000 is funneling through. deposited taken out. that's enough for them to look at scene where is this happening. and if any of the deposit were calculated to avoid federal scrutiny, that will cause even more federal scrutiny. that is what the fed todd on mr. cohen. they went to a federal judge in lower manhattan and said we need more. that's what resulted in the search warrants being executed at 5:30 in the morning last month. neil: they have all those toxins of stuff. >> correct. why does the attorney-client privilege apply because it's either a crime or fraud involved. those are exceptions to the protection of the attorney-client privilege. the attorney michael cohen to the client was one of these entities pay him all this money or the president. neil: we've been still thinking as the president it is just as bad in the eye of the law of these companies.

>> correct. particularly the russian company because of a connection to your russian entity that mueller's grand jury indicted. neil: this always endears you to a group of trump loyalists. >> i think i need gasparino to get out. neil: they have different views on where the other. 320 vargas challenges. we accentuate one set of stories over another. the good, the bad, everything in retreating including the judge who helps us recall of it on this network. thank you, neil. a little more after this. from capital one. with it, i earn unlimited 2% cash back on everything i buy. everything.

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route for the people gains you seen in about a month. the cynical view is that it doesn't take very long for gas prices once prices are rising takes forever once prices are lower. there's actually no truth to that. having said that, eventually you are going to see higher gas prices at the pump because there's still able effect anywhere from two to three weeks will be felt soon. just as you're getting into memorial day in summer driving season. we will see how that pans out. the offset for that is we have a good economy. what are you complaining about? california is pushing solar panels right now. one step away from becoming a reality. one final hurdle to clear would require that every new home includes housing to add about $10,000 to the cost of those homes. hillary von joins us now. hey, hillary. >> take him in neil, if you want to buy a home here and a half from now it will offer more

because that is the builder sink is going to cost to put these new solar panels on new homes. democrats say -- conservative critics of the plan say this is just a way democrats are praising people out of their homes in california. >> californians can't afford to live in this state anymore. the cost of renting housing keeps going up and every time these democrats want to help people, they end up increasing the cost of an already out of sight housing stock in the state. i think people are sick and tired of it. >> some builders say the $10,000 estimate is too low. it will cost homeowners. paying that cost up front in the plan is for them to make it back every month by cutting their energy bill. california is mandating these homeowners cut their energy costs by 50%. even solar energy advocates say this is a very expensive bad

idea. it is way more expensive than solar power plants. one economic professor says he thinks the new mandate is counterproductive to the cause thing by demonstrated very expensive way to reduce greenhouse gases, i think this could very likely be used in other states and countries as an argument against moving towards renewable energy. sunny days in california, solar plants have too much energy to process, which drive the cost of energy into negative territory. anyone who is subsidizing those tremendous savings are people who don't have solar in their homes already. neil: hillary, thank you very much. meanwhile, the white house is hosed and an artificial intelligence summit. i hear this from everybody. google, amazon, facebook, microsoft, a lot of these high-tech firms attending this. what are they doing here?

>> deal, they are hoping to come up with the future so to speak in regulations also. 38 of the leading companies are here represented here. we are talking about google, facebook, amazon, forward. the white house is trying to come up with regulations for artificial intelligence that will allow health care, agriculture and transportation to utilize the technology. the mastercard president of operations said that this could save consumers money in the future, but we have to tread carefully. >> with any new technology come you have to look at the implications of what the technology can do. but what we shouldn't allow it to do is prevented from taking advantage of the real benefits it can bring today. >> the white house has acknowledged there could be some long-term job losses related to days. the head of the white house office of science and technology told the group this morning that artificial intelligence holds a promise of great benefits for the american workers with the

potential to improve save you, increase productivity and create new industries we can't yet imagine. however, job displacement is inevitable. president trump will never forget the american worker. in response to that reality, the industry has asked drug administration for more money to train workers for the new technology. already the trump administration put forth $200 million a year for them in computer science grant to help train and go forward it also, the industry match that with another 300 million. with all the privacy concerns for the white house, job losses in the non-tech sector seemed to be the most important. neil: thank you very much my friend. we talked earlier in california they might make it that your house has solar panels on it. the violin or homecoming day might include something you would like if you're not keen on that idea. alexei built into all their homes. adam shapiro has more on that. adam, what is going on? >> it is home automation.

every house that lenore builds, roughly 35,000 homes so constructed the next 52 weeks will come with wi-fi technology, and smart locks, smart doorbells, thermostats and likes. all about control by amazon alexa. they will include two enabled smart speakers and alexei or the amazon .co.. this'll be in every home. if you buy one of these homes had to turn all of this on to your internet provider. but when you think about this, what you see there is the., but the echo show allows you to change everything. entertainment companies that can do video calls, listen to spot of five, a smart device you can give audio commands do throughout the house and it doesn't add too much to the cost of the home. in so show us $229 .co.is

roughly 50 bucks and that is when they're not even on sale. all of this included in the new homes that lenore built. it has been mostly positive all day long. amazon is positive, down just a bit not too long ago but back into positive territory. they are the first of the major homebuilders to announce this kind of smart technology and home automation and all of their construction, roughly 18% of the country right now has some kind of smart weaker device like alexa, only room for growth. i thought were big when my dad came home with a card that said lights are on. neil: there are a number of units throughout the home, is that the idea? >> it is mars acres in the 20? the units. everything is controlled at the echo show, the amazon echo show. i don't know if your member homes in the 60s and 70s. they have the intercom system. when in the kitchen where your mom would yell at you in your room. the control center is the show, but then you have the ability to

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more u.s. goods. not enough necessarily to completely wipe out $375 trade gap between the two countries are even reach a goal of 200 over the next few years. but to start something, what does it mean? fox business network susan leigh and just back from beijing, connell mcshane. suzanne, what are they talking about here? >> well, i think it's optics basically because you can spend a lot of time. they have over $3 trillion in foreign exchange reserve. spending a few billion dollars just to band-aid over this big trade surplus that they enjoyed. that buys them time because what they need to do or structural changes. they need to stop subsidizing. their industries need to stop forcing people into joint ventures in order to operate in china and they need to stop stealing some of the technology. >> i don't think there's a ton of progress made on those issues. but there were two big runs from

china's point of view. they are going to run a program called made in china 2025 were essentially they are trying to make their country and to a tech powerhouse. the u.s. point of view is getting around some world trade organization rules to do it. doesn't seem like they moved on that, but the trade deficit is interesting because that is the president's big issue. every single time he talks about this company puts it in terms of what our deficit is an icon of 200 billion upper 300 some odd deficit by 2020. the chinese were taken back by that number. the arguments for and the u.s. point of view and maybe take it a little progress is that it's kind of in their interest to cut some of it off to buy more u.s. goods. they are trying to go to a more consumer led economy. so they do have an interest in bringing more u.s. goods in. if they do, maybe both sides when a little bit. neil: like you said, it might

buy them time. but i would assume to impress the president and enough goods to bring that gap down. >> in just the way the economy in china structured is like turning a titanic on a dime because it's mostly stayed on. so the government owns most of the industry. that is not going to change for a long, long time. they still subsidize a lot of the companies that operate in china in the control and dictate what companies like alibaba still do. >> they don't like us telling what their government can or cannot support. >> no. another thing i picked up last week as their whole outlook. we thought it was a green screen. >> trust me, i was there. like an hour later we saw you in the studio. connell: like that time you went to doorposts. you were great over there.

the one conversation i had with someone over there that put the point of view into perspective as i was told of this the way china looks at us as they say the united states sees china as a threat and passing it over the long term in being kind of a big player out there. the more powerful country, more powerful economy number one on the world stage in all of this talking for months is to slow the process down. maybe they are trying to buy time, but they can play this out over the long term. this long-standing power that's threatened by this. neil: switching gears a little bit. all the economists by 2020 will have a recession. that's not a huge leap that things will settle down. i don't know how bold a prediction that is. 2020, what do you think?

>> things going, things go down. bill gates also said that a financial crisis will happen at some point. not a bold prediction because of false liquid gold. things happen over time. but this is the longest economic expansion that we've seen. that was a 10 year expansion. we're in that tent dear. neil: it's been such a weak expansion. but that would have a longer shelf life because of that. >> it might be true. timing will be everything. kind of goes back to the argument about when recessions and then begin and how that affects presidential races. so when this recession, while never comes on does come on his right in the middle of an election year coming right at the end of a campaign. a lot of months can make a big difference. neil: and of course george bush senior coming out of that in the final year-to-year point.

>> the markets lead the economy anyway. these the direction of it. >> the crazy conversation because some incompletely interesting will happen. neil: that's the future. connell: do you want to come to china with me next time? >> did you at least have some duck when you are there? connell: i love the food. that's why went really. neil: thank you both seriously very, very much. in the meantime from the president updating the attacks. something tells me this was all about charlie gasparino. i'll explain after this.

neil: alright, the president continued with attacks on the media, even considering their credentials could maybe we reassess them. among the first to look at, apparently charlie gasparino. he is here to look at that. the president fighting fire with fire. charlie: we should point out that we work out a subsidiary for treason for 21st century fox. lots of deal activity. we have proposed it.

comcast says it was first reported. charlie: the entertainment assets. as we were first a report last week, comcast ceo brian roberts is considering to try and come to a hostile bid to one of video that disney has tentatively cut with us. just waiting for the at&t rolling when time warner gets a little complicated. if that ruling goes in favor and they can keep the merger together, roberts thinks he's god the legal precedent to go after rest. i reported yesterday not so fast. a lot of people in the justice department are very wary of comcast and i think there's two levels of concern. the antitrust concern, this staff antitrust lawyers hate the fact that comcast is continually getting bigger. they continued to get bigger if they bought their entertainment assets, that would be like the

current company on steroids and they believe that because the company is so big, providing nbc you with the critical distribution that does squeeze consumers. comcast denies that, but that's what the governor believes through the second thing about the whole thing as it appears comcast has replaced cnn is public media enemy number one as far as trump is concerned. neil: msnbc? charlie: trump has referred to them as public enemy number one. they told me pretty recently. we know he hates fake news cnn. we know he despises just men. they used to be friends. but not anymore. it is more personal with the and cnn. this is much more theoretical. he knows that comcast is this big media conglomerate which attacks them culturally through stuff like the today show and "saturday night live" through what is known as straight news,

nbc news and tour opinion on msnbc. they were a much bigger threat he believes two trumpets and then cnn. if you put those two things together, even if at&t wins the suit, when i'm talking to people, both on a political standpoint, which is the political guys don't like comcast and assorted nuts and bolts people that do antitrust. neil: that's a personal bias then. charlie: there is too peered neil: but that wouldn't weigh in into whether ultimately this would be winnable in a court. charlie: they may try to attack it anyway. comcast are talking about a number of things. do they offend their consent decree that is set to and i think in september, which is, you know, all these rules and agreements they have agreed to to purchase nbc you. do they try to break up the

company? people are talking about this. then adding us on that raises even more eyebrows. maybe the justice department backs off because at&t gets a firm victory. i'm telling you, that is what is going on. neil: you mentioned at&t and no correction the payments made to michael cohen. what is going on here? what is at&t saying? transfer they needed them political insight to the trump administration. i think it was late last year. neil: he is president already. he's pairing with time warner have any -- charlie: yeah, the real quick on at&t. they have a lot of obvious come up of mostly traditional republican lobbyists. we don't know how my gold cohen. i like michael, good guy. but i don't know, was he filed

as a lobbyist? >> if you are then paid to play here and then it gets a little slippery. >> and lobbying activity. there is a whole list of people that is screwed up on the lobbying act entities. it is interesting that randall is a big-time republican, but because the republican establishment was caught so offguard by trump, they had to find somebody somewhere that they knew had ties to them. so they went to a guy like michael cohen, who in many ways, i like the guy, french character for a long time. taxi medallions. neil: that's kind of the kiss of death when you say you like a guy. charlie: that's the truth. i'm not saying i'm trying to attack the guy appeared that he make it clear. he was the guy involved assertive french businesses around trump and the fixer.

a major company like at&t goes to him. neil: and now that is what seems to be the focus that explains the rate of his office. >> we don't know how you disclose, characterize. neil: thank you, my friend. good seeing you as always. we played it safe here. we have more after this. r sell? with fidelity's real-time analytics, you'll get clear, actionable alerts about potential investment opportunities in real time. fidelity. open an account today. . .

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♪ neil: okay. we're looking at this right now. the markets are chewing on what the chinese are going to offer concessionwise to buy more stuff from us to avoid a trade war in the middle of expectations ahead of these talks a few weeks from now on north korea. so much going on. trish regan to take you through that in the next hour. hey be trish. trish: hey, neil. breaking right now. we have a little rally going on. president trump's america first foreign policies, after the president announces he will meet with kim jong-un in singapore. i will keep seaing it we're on front lines of history. i'm trish regan. welcome to "the intelligence report." ♪ trish: all right. also breaking today, every one, president trump welcoming home three freed americans from north korea as the president appears optimistic we're on the right path to a