join me with melissa francis on "after the bell," every day at 4:00 p.m. eastern time. thanks for joining us. >> you've never seen people come over from china to work on trade deal. would that be successful, i tend to doubt it. can he recall cheryl breaking news this morning, deal or no deal. china reportedly offering $200 billion to cut the u.s. trade deficit but beijing officials are now denying those reports overnight. we have the latest. gerri: complicated. concerns of the uncertainty of trade, just not to get rewarded. cheryl: optimism fut futures higher overnight. right now we have a green start, s&p up 3 and a half.

gerri: in europe closing strong, right now stocks down 19, dax down 19. cheryl: take a look at asia. hopes for positive outcome in u.s.-chinese trade talks did lift stocks there. in hang seng in hong kong up a third of 1%, though, we will see. gerri: watch out, there's a royal wedding quiz popping up on facebook, could be identity trap. fbn:am starts right now. cheryl: 5:01 a.m. in new york, friday may 18th, day t day before the wed, good morning, i'm cheryl casone. gerri: good morning, i'm ger rewill his. cheryl: americans getting up nice and early.

gerri: in our household, we will be watching. chinese foreign min city denying reports that trade delegation offered the trump administration a 200 billion-dollar reduction in china's annual surplus by increasing import of american products, this comes as negotiations continue between chinese delegation led by the country's vice premier and top u.s. officials in washington. cheryl: president trump giving his team clear marching orders. >> nobody has seen anybody from our country negotiate, trade with china and other countries. i'm not just blaming china, it's the biggest, it's a total one-way streak. cheryl: the president met with the chinese white premier. beijing announcing dropping antidumping probe into import of u.s. sorgum.

gerri: complicated. nafta countries are nowhere near close to deal. labor and energy. cheryl: all of this coming as canadian prime minister trudeau strikes a positive note in an interview with susan lee at the economic club of new york yesterday. >> it's right down to sort of the last conversations and we know that those last conversations in any deal are extremely important so i'm feeling positive about this, but it won't be done until it's done and people are working very hard on it right now. cheryl: house speaker paul ryan said the republican-controlled copying would need to see a new nafta deal by yesterday to give lawmakers a chance to approve it this year. gerri: great susan lee interview. cheryl: really was.

protection offering protections to kim jong un if the north korean leader agrees to give up nuclear weapons this comes after kim threaten to cancel summit. >> president trump says he thinks kim jong un wants to strike a deal but potential threats of now backing out of the summit could be due to chinese influence. the president says, though, there's still communications going on with the north koreans about proceeding forward. >> north korea is talking to us about times and everything else as though nothing happened. will it happen, will we be going on that very special date and can some great things happen, you know, we will be looking at it very soon. >> north korea rejected comments by bolton, libya was a model to follow for denuclearization, on thursday, though, the president said he's willing to offer security protections to the

north. >> we are willing to do a lot. he's willing to i think do a lot also and we will have a good relationship assuming we have the meeting and assuming something comes of it, he will get protection that is will be very strong. sir yeah never -- syria never had protections. you look at libya, they didn't have protection, they had the exact opposite. that was absolute decimation. >> president trump would not say if he's willing to reduce troop levels in the korean peninsula. gerri: the president set to meet with secretary general antonio gutiérrez, discuss north korea and reform.

cheryl: judge lifting restraining order against redstone's company national amusement. redstone could force a merger by cbs and mediacom. gerri: cbs' vote is trying to strip over company, cbs is postponing until settlement in court. no intention of forcing a merger that's not supported by both cb and viacom. cheryl: well, that continues. amid efforts to clean up act, wells fargo has been hit with more allegations and misconduct. gerri: any line of business not hit here? tracee carrasco joins with that and more headlines. >> employees in wells fargo and wholesale unit allegedly adjusted corporate customers' information like birthdays, social security numbers on documents, according to the unit

was up against regulartory -- regulatory deadline. the incident involved internal documents used for internal purposes and no customers were negatively impacted. not sure that means it's okay. gerri: why were they doing it. that's not clear. big story on paypal shelling out big bucks to buy start-up company. tracee: it's buying $2.2 billion deal, gives paypal access to 500 small businesses around the world that use technology to process customer technologies involving credit cards. it also puts paypal in direct competition with square, a similarly-operated financial services and mobile payment company founded by twitter ceo swrak -- jack dorsey.

cheryl: facebook quizzes are actually putting people at risk. tracee: there's a royal wedding quiz popping up on facebook that cheryl said could put your identity at risk. so you might be lady jane fido of river. post your royal name, these are all very common security questions and information you probably shouldn't be posting publicly. so these are the answers. gerri: i was thinking we should come up with own british nicknames. prince williams is wills. come up with our own.

cheryl: says no. gerri: how about princess? [laughter] cheryl: coming up, some serious news to talk about this government. deadly antigovernment protest rock iran for a second day. we will have an update on the situation on the ground there. just assignstists predicted, explosive volcano in hawaii has sent pluming ash. more explosions could happen any moment. we are monitoring that. take a look at u.s. stock market futures. green arrows, i don't know, up 28, nasdaq is up 13 and three quarters, you're watching fbn:am .

gerri: welcome back let's get you caught up on what's happening right now. checking u.s. futures, trading higher, dow up 27, the nasdaq up 14. new jersey town in mourning today following the death of a student and teacher in a school

bus accident. the bus was taking children on the field trip when it collided with a dump truck, the front-end completely off. interstate 80 and mount olive. cause of the crash is being investigated. a second day of violent protests in southern iran, iran media reports at least one person was killed when protestors set fire to a police station in the city of kazaran, violently clash with protestors angry over government's decision to split the city into two townships. hawaii's kilauea volcano has erupted, 6 miles into the sky, residents are being warn today take shelt frer the ash, officials are handing out masks to residents close to the

volcano. geologists say the eruption was small but warned it could be the first in a series of explosions. that's what's happening now, cheryl. cheryl: poor people. well, back here on the mainland a lot of breaking news and it's coming from china, so china's foreign ministry overnight denying reports that it's trade delegation is offering to cut its annual trade sur plus the u.s. by $200 billion, let's bring in david nelson, good morning. >> good morning. cheryl: we had report that china had offered trump $200 billion a cut in the u.s. trade deficit in order to get discussions moving, kind of bring zte back into the fold, now we are getting denial from the chinese foreign minister, is this just tough talk, is this dealing, what is this? >> it's all part of the dance. we are witnessing it in realtime. 200 billion would be a big number. i would be surprised.

it would take us a while to deliver on such an offer. but it doesn't address the real concern here and that's the theft of intellectual property and a lot of what china is offering right now doesn't address that and clearly at this point china is an adversary, adversary in almost every level, every sense of the word, geopolitical, trade, i think the president needs to take tough talk here, i get the attraction of trying to get deal, something you can take to homeland, especially in election year, i hope we go for the big stuff. cheryl: even though the chinese are denying this, it's worth bringing up what "the new york times" are reporting and are quoting source that is have been briefed on the negotiations. white house i don't know, but anyway, basically what they say at "the new york times" is that they want china is asking the u.s. to set aside tariffs and investment reintrikses that threaten against companies, this is about zte, that would mean

lifting sanctions on zte and relaxes expert controls that u.s. companies can't sell technology to china, the chinese in all of this still want our intellectual property, they still want our technology. >> zte is an important issue here, it's one thing to overloom the aggressions with regard to sanctions on iran but it's another when you're talking about the equipment and military experts believe some of the infrastructure equipment is a national security threat. i would need to see assurances here. i'm not inside the room, cheryl, i would hope that somehow those concerns would be addressed. >> some analysts have said that reduction in the trade deficit at tend of the day is somewhat meaningless. >> it's not meaningless. we certainly go a long way and respond to that, we are hoping for that, look, this is just the beginning of a long fight here, this is the second round, we started off in china, now we have the talks in washington, we

have our team in place, they have their team in place. i don't expect a resolution in weeks here, if we get that it's likely not a great deal. cheryl: president trump was in the oval office meeting with secretary general and talking about the trade -- there's a lot of tough talk, compared before from the president, we heard it again yesterday, we will have to see where it goes, thank you for joining us. i guess the negotiation and art of the deal continues. >> okay, thank you. cheryl: david. gerri: on and on it goes that's right. coming up the royal wedding is almost here, excitement building around windsor castle aspirins harry and meghan markle say i do. new information coming, we are going across the pond with the latest details. checking u.s. stock market futures, we are seeing the markets move higher this morning, the dow up 36, the s&p 4, the nasdaq up 18. you're watching fbn:am

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gerri: we are one day away from the royal wedding, all getting excited here. the eyes of the world are fixed on windsor castle. cheryl: we have breaking news too just in the last few minutes and we finally know who will be walking meghan markle down the aisle. who is the lucky guy? >> we are going to hold off for just a second. we are in windsor, we are just right next to the castle inside

of medieval walls is the queen right now. the wedding form, yes, the breaking news. let's back up a little bit. prince harry and megyn markle come in for rehearsal. that's where they will be holding ceremony along with capes and others, meghan's mother is in town, she will be having tea this afternoon. due to alleged health problems, maybe some other problems, the father of meghan markle had been a no-show, the question is who would walk her down the aisle, in the past 20 minutes, confirmed it will be prince charles walking meghan down the aisle. the connection with the story period of royal history, well, that continues, we also saw rehearsal for the reception which will be happening after the ceremony on saturday.

the prince harry and meghan will be in open carriage right through the town of windsor. security concerns for sure, security has the message shoot it to kill if there's any problems as we are seeing the super royal fans descending on this place, it could be a hundred thousand within this very small village proper. listen to one who is very excited about it all. >> i want them to come through those gates and then i want them to look at me and wave and smile and that would make it all worthwhile. >> make it all worthwhile. the pride and groom entourages will be staying at two different swank hotels within 15-mile radius of this place tonight and then all on tomorrow, the ceremony starts at noon eastern, 7:00 a.m. eastern, we all will be here before and after, back

to you. cheryl: gerri was saying that she was at windsor a year ago. gerri: what i can't imagine how do you get a hundred thousand people in that town. i don't see it, it's gorgeous and the structure is fabulous, historic but i don't really see how you accommodate that many folks. >> that's a big question, yeah, there's the proper sort of main street, the high street of the village and thing called the long walk, that's where the reception will be going out to half a mile and then come back to windsor castle. that's a big park area that's associated with windsor and that is where you will see tens and tens of thousand of people, we will have cameras down here and covered through everything. the weather low 70's. cheryl: of course, of course. crumby here where we are. can -- we look forward seeing

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gerri: breaking news this morning, president trump offering protections to kim jong un if north korean leader agrees to give up nuclear weapons. cheryl: concerns of fate of u.s.-china trade deal sending stockses down. >> optimism of trade deal pushing stocks overnight. dow jones up 58. s&p up 5, nasdaq up 21. cheryl: taking a look at european stocks, mixed open, everything is down now. the ftse and cac 40 all slightly in the red. gerri: after such a good week, too. in asia hope of positive outcome lifted stocks there, the shanghai composite up over 1%. cheryl: smartphones are about to get a lot more interesting, i guess, we should say, a new

device with holographic display. i know. fbn:am continues right now. ♪ ♪ gerri: it's exactly 5:30, we hit it in new york friday may 18th, good morning, i'm gerri willis. gerri: good morning, i'm cheryl casone, i'm trying to picture a holographic phone. i'm frighten on what the phone will be doing. >> i can't really picture it. a month from now we will be saying, i have a holographic phone. cheryl: i will trade my iphone 10 for that one. a lot of breaking news, the big summit, president trump is now offering kim jong un protection in exchange for nuclear deal.

former obama >> good morning. cheryl: let's start with the politics of this, robin, china is playing into all of this with the north koreans. listen to what the president said yesterday of why he thinks maybe the north koreans are changing their tune, listen. >> the president of china, president xi could be influencing kim jong un. all of a sudden out of nowhere kim jong un went to china to say hello again a second time to president xi. cheryl: that was on may eighth, what do you make of the fact that china has gotten into discussion with north korea? >> i don't think it's any coincidence at all. beijing wants to kind of have the upper hand here and they don't want to give away all their playing power. i don't think there's any surprise that, that surprise

meeting, the fact that this came right after ward, you read the tea leaves and see where we are at right now. cheryl: agreed to give up nuclear weapons and years later he was murdered. and out of power. is kim jong un -- do you think that the president is making a mistake here by saying, we will protect you, kim jong un, if you come to the table? >> i think it's the only option you have right now so give assurances for him to denuclearize, kim jong un sees his nuclear weapons as life insurance policy essentially, he's looked at all the dictators that have been overthrown such as gadhafi, he saw in 2003, when he agree today get rid of weapons of has destruction, years later, un-backed rebel forces overthrew him and murdered him essentially he lost all of his power and control and

that is what the kim's know. their power is based upon having supreme power and overtaking south korea. i don't think he sees a win in this in any way, shape or form right now. cheryl: robin, i want you to listen to the president himself and his tone when talking about the libya an until all of this, listen. >> the libyan model isn't a model that we have at all when we are thinking of north korea n libya we decimated that country. that country was decimated. there was no deal to keep gaddafi. cheryl: he will make a deal with kim jong un. >> right, this administration has done thing very well which is to pull successful playbooks from prior administrations and one thing we know about donald trump is that he does not like to reveal his cards, so i really don't think that he wanted bolton to say that to the media even if that was their intent

all along to use that play book, i don't think donald trump would ever dare want that out. cheryl: i want to reference, jesse, what robin is talking about the fact that president trump seem today contradict john bolton, john bolton is the one that had tougher rhetoric can the north koreans thanked seems possibly to be one of the reason that is kim jong un and the north koreans are starting to pull back a little bit. >> well, the kim regime which is three generations has constitution that they will overcome south korea reunite the peninsula, if they sacrifice nuclear weapons which is again the life insurance policy for his regime, they lose power. if he does decide to denuclearize and build a stronger economy, what are his people going to do, overthrow him. he doesn't have a lot of assurances right now without being dictator. cheryl: jess, robin, complicated. a lot of voices involved.

thank you for being here, appreciate it. >> thank you. gerri: fascinating stuff. top uber exec is leading the company. cheryl: tracee. >> has credited with helping to develop uber pool, flying tax idea and controversial corporate values said he's leaving, he was hired during travis kalanick area four years ago, he worked at groupon and am done, no word yet on where he is going next. cheryl: kroger to boost online delivery? >> help it compete with amazon and wal-mart. exclusive deal with uk online super market to use its technology here in the united states. known for fast deliveries and high-quality customer service, because of logistic systems and warehouses run by robots, the company said it will set up similar systems for kroger,

shares shot up by more than 50% to a record high that was after the deal was announced. >> margins in that business so narrow you cannot make a mistake. all right, we have been talking all morning about the holographic phone. give us the details. the red hydrogen smartphone, it's being called the world's holographic media machine that fits in your pocket with no glasses required. it will be available through at&t and verizon as early as this summer. 5.7-inch screen capable of displaying 4 view holographic content even though there may not be many apps available to support that. the price of this phone about $1,300 and it's made by red, they are company that makes cameras and things like that, so very high-tech. cheryl: hologram is something projected. >> you'll be able to see without

glasses. gerri: on your phone screen. >> i don't know if it projects up, i'm assuming. i was trying to watch the video. cheryl: we are going into star trek, star wars. gerri: beat me up, scott. cheryl: thank you, tracee. gerri: u.s. senate confirming the first cia director, the details just ahead and a court rejecting cbs' bid to desolve redstone, what's next for the battle between cbs and redstone, we will take a look at those u.s. stock market futures, the dow up 63, the s&p up 6, the nasdaq up 22. you're watching fbn:am. prepare for your demise, mr. billingsley! do your worst, doctor. i will. but first, a little presentation.

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cheryl: welcome back, let's get you caught up on what's happening now. taking a look at u.s. stock market futures on friday, we are actually starting to kind of build up here in the premarket, the dow is now up 60 in the premarket, s&p up 5, nasdaq up 21. well, gina haspel has been confirmed as the first male to lead the cia. several republicans opposed haspel's nomination citing interrogation. haspel is only the second first named cia director after spending almost her entire

career under cover. well, president trump is going to be meeting with the united nations secretary general antonio gutiérrez today, the un and the trump administration have been at odds over member nations contributing their fair share to the organization. gutiérrez has made it one of his missions to reform the un and more importantly its budget. president trump's attorney rudy giuliani is now saying that he's had hopeful talks with robert mueller's team with possible interview with the president. >> our job is to make sure that he gets a fair hearing from mueller. we are not convinced that he will, but we had the first hopeful communication with them last night. it was a good-faith attempt to really narrow the focus quite dramatically. cheryl: and the mueller probe to investigate whether the trump campaign colluded with russia during 2016 election has been underway for just now over a year. gerri, we are now in year two of the mueller probe.

gerri: here it goes, on and on. big story today, cbs after suffering first loss against sherry redstone. the court rejecting to dissolve, cbs trying to stop redstone to reunite viacom and cbs, stocks falling after the close. we will be watching closely. viacom shares ended lower. cbs changed meeting. let's bring in melissa armo of the stock solution, great to have you here, always a pleasure. >> good morning. gerri: good morning, let's star --t, he's challenging the owner to have company, he doesn't like a lot of brands, mtv, paramount. lots of luster there, does he

have nothing to lose here? >> i have to be honest with you, he's done a great job running cbs. he's been there forever. he's done a great job, i don't think this is necessarily in cbs' interest to hook up with viacom. viacom in the last few years a lot of channels have in the done so great. mtv is going downhill, nickelodeon probably the most viable. the stock reflected the lack of interest really in those channels where cbs has tons and tons of hits. look at survivor, everybody knows survivor, the big bank theory at cbs. so i think, you know, it's very interesting. this is not over yet, it's not over by a long shot. cbs stock looks a lot better than viacom, up trend than down trend. it's a big battle. i think it's going to cost a lot of money going through all the legal battles. gerri: should we invest that he

has 200 million-dollar gold parachute, if it doesn't work out, he has to leave, it's not so bad, is it? >> that's not necessarily great for cbs, for cbs shareholders, he's done a great job with the company. gerri: good point. >> contract up to 2021. i don't know anything about the gold parachute that you're talking about. gerri: the stock reflects that, right, the stock has been on fire while others in categories have not. i think the big question here is that can it actually stop sherry, two folks fighting each other, can cbs stop her from forcing her to combine with viacom? >> they will try, this is what i'm saying, it's not over by a long shot. gerri: it's already ugly, my friend. so let's talk more broadly about the media landscape because there's so many deals going on right now, disney and the deal to buy parts of 21st century

fox, the parent of this network, at&t and time warner in front of a judge right tbhow the deal. lots going on and, you know, will we see major changes in the media landscape, what will happen next? >> there are changes, the merger is very positive, positive for disney, stock price has rallied since then, fox is in up friend. that's positive. that's expected to go through in summer of 2019. that's pretty much a done deal. the justice department, however, is involved with at&t merger, antitrust issues because they are thinking it's going to be back for consumers to have someone that owns a tv distribution company and also who is creating and selling the content so that's the problem with that and i don't think the judge is supposed to come out with ruling on that until june, the tv landscaping is changing mainly because people are not watching as much programming on tv, they are watching things on the internet. gerri: don't tell people that.

we want them to watch this network. >> hopefully they are. [laughter] gerri: great to see you, appreciate it. cheryl: good point that you just made about the entire industry just in a huge shake-up right now. gerri: yeah, anything could happen, our company, lots of companies, disney, viacom, all big players, that's influx. cheryl: great interview, we are still talking about this, the big question is it laurel, yanny. gerri: yanny. cheryl: i give up. americans' latest internet debate is now hitting the white house is it's not just laurel and yanny. philadelphia eagles are heading to the white house. jared max has the sports story and some of the highlights coming up. we are taking a look at your futures right now after we look at time warner and at&t, there we go. dow futures 62 premarket. 19 and a quarter on nasdaq, we will be right back.

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gerri: well, the debate that's divided the internet this week has made its way to the white house, so it yanny, laurel, what is it? >> it's laurel but i could divert to yanny. >> how do you respond? >> clearly you're getting the information from cnn because it's fake news, all i here is yawny. >> i here cofefe. [laughter]

gerri: you may remember trump last year that ended in the word qofefe that went viral before it was deleted. cheryl: he could have played along. gerri: you think he would want to run the world's biggest economy, we are weighing in on yanny and laurel. cheryl: you were weighing in. jared: if you can't weigh in on yanny and laurel, what's all the fighting for. [laughter] cheryl: the white house has visitors today. jared: not today but they'll be coming. two and a half weeks away but we finally know the news, the philadelphia eagles will be joining to the white house, mr. foles go to washington, led title in february and majority

of teammates will visit with president trump june 5th, but this is the plan, malcolm jenkins, chris long, they've said that they would not attend for political reasons. with all the incidents of domestic vilence from nfl players in recent years, you are probably in minority if you question the guilt of 49ers linebacker ruben foster when we learned heinous details from february. turns out, foster's ex-girlfriend alyssa ennis said she made it up after foster ended the relationship. she stole a couple of ro lesm watches from him and money an pinned a violent felony because she said i was full of rage, i wanted to end im, i wanted to ruin his career, told the court, i'm sorry, i am, i apologize to everyone and ennis told police that foster hit her and threw her dog across the room.

in court she confessed she made it all up. how fed up is baltimore orioles, watch this. 3-run home run. wow. jared: hockey in dc, pretty back-hand pass in second, gets the capitals all tied up. third period would go in front and beat the capitals 4 to 2. gerri: i love hockey. so much fun, so much fun when you're there live. jared: especially the temperature, no expert better in person than hockey comparison.

cheryl: jared max, fox news headlines 24/7, siriusxm 115. gerri: coming up crude hitting 08, yes, 8-$0 a barrel. will the gains continue, reaction from london when fbn:am continue we know the value of trust. we were built on it. back when the country went west for gold, we were the ones who carried it back east. by steam. by horse. by iron horse. over the years, we built on that trust. we always found the way. until... we lost it. but that isn't where the story ends... it's where it starts again. with a complete recommitment to you. fixing what went wrong. making things right. and ending product sales goals for branch bankers.

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gerri: crude trading $80 a barrel in london for the first time since 2014. scott shellady. great to see you. what's the impact on investors from this move? >> there's a silver lining somewhere. when you see bret trade up, the economy is picking up in europe and obviously in the states. here is the big deal, we will wrestle with the 3, 3% tenure and 3-gallons of gas in states too, the battle of the 3's, we want to normalize and get back to central banks out of the picture, we will have to recalibrate first, we are in recalibration stage of moving onto normalization while the market gets used to and starts to court and once that's over with, we can think about what's going on, right now we are getting used to each other. cheryl: the story will continue today for markets.

the big story isn't the royal wedding tomorrow, we have to congratulate you on your wedding, you sent us this photo. we want to share it with our viewers. it's a gorgeous photo of you and your bride. this is amazing. congratulations. i want to her about the wedding, you have to give prince henry and meghan markle advice about the big day. >> number one, that's a normal-sized door, i'm a very small person. number two, yeah, the royal wedding really was last week and if you ask me, this weekend the downside of that, but the whole place here is going crazy, you can't get around town anymore, not even london, the traffic is horrendous, i was glad to get mine over with and now we can relax and watch somebody else make a mistake. gerri: it's kind of fun. aren't people excited especially americans who might be doing there hanging out doing summer vacation? >> it's crazy and the place is on fire. weather will be

fantastic, sunny and 75. cheryl: i would think you will be on the honeymoon but you're back at work, you're very dedicated. >> somebody has to pay for the wedding, right, i had to get back in the saddle. cheryl: scott shellady, congratulations, next week you have to come back and give us update and let us know how london was faired over the weekend with the royal wedding? >> i will be royal reporter. cheryl: all right, thank you. gerri: great to see you and now it's time for mornings with maria, we will toss it right on over to maria bartiromo. >> hey, there ladies, happy friday to you, good morning, everybody, thanks for joining us, i'm maria bartiromo, happy friday, friday may 18th, 6:00 a.m. on the east coast. markets looking to end the week on high note. futures to start at trading day at 76 points higher on the down, 20 points on nasdaq, s&p 50 oh also up quarter percent right now. this after decline yesterday the major indices edged lower as

trade worries weighed on investors once again. dow industrials gave up 55 points, quarter percent lower as well as the nasdaq down quarter of a percent. global market this is morning, check out europe, mixed story, ftse 100 pulling back, cac request rant is up 15 and dax in germany up fractionally as well. in asia overnight, gain as cross the board, take a look, best performer was china, tough talk on trade, china is denying reports that it has agreed to $20 billion in concessions. that's part of yesterday's negotiations with the white house. president trump calling out china, saying that the country has been spoiled by its relationship with the united states. >> calling people animals is not a good thing. >> when ms-13 and other gang members, i refer today them as animals and guess what, i always will. maria: take a look on where things stand on that, nafta,