sessions' inability to lead crippled the department of justice and allowed to mueller witch hunt continue to run wild? cast your vote on >> obviously hurricane lane is a very dangerous incroching on the state of hawaii. a lot of uncertainty with the forecast. what is concerned that hawaii will be impacted by hurricane lane, the question is how bad. lauren: really bad. the impact could include heavy flooding, hawaii expecting 30-inches of rain as hurricane lane slams the island. live report from honolulu moments away. cheryl: stocks are falling on thursday. trade talks with u.s. and china ending with no signs of progress, the dow losing 76. lauren: today all eyes on fed chair jarome powell. ahead of that futures are higher

across the board. dow up 52. cheryl: in europe stocks higher on u.s.-china trade talks, right now all indices in the green. lauren: nikkei in japan gaining about 1% and shanghai in china up fractionally. cheryl: more bad news for elon musk. fbn:am begins right now. ♪ ♪ lauren: good friday morning, 5:01 a.m., i'm lauren simonetti. cheryl: good morning, i'm cheryl casone. lauren: hurricane lane burying down on hawaii on what would be the biggest storm the state has seen in two decades. cheryl: ray in honolulu with the latest, ray, good morning.

>> hey, cheryl, lauren, calm thursday in honolulu, we saw one of the most gorgeous sunsets people have ever seen but in an hour and hour and a half the wind start today pick up. many people in hawaii are feeling the storm's effects, for instance, right now a flash flood warning is in effect for parts of hawaii's big island after more than 20-inches of rain fell there in less than 24 hours, streets were flooded and this all while lane spins 200 miles southwest of hilo and now hitting island of mawi. causing more than 250 evacuees and shelters, the storm has been downgraded from category 5 but

still very dangerous. >> lane was downgraded, it's wide and very moist and it's going to hang around for a while because it's moving slowly and that's why we are taking so much precaution here. >> so for that reason parts of hawaii are still under hurricane warning and literally any minute now we are expecting to get another update on the storm from the central pacific hurricane center. cheryl, lauren. cheryl: we will have much more on the show later on, fox meteorologist adam chots will join us later in the hour. lauren: trade talks with u.s. china with no ending, concerns about u.s. trade deficit as well as china's policies of transferring technology. there was reportedly in discussion of follow-up talks. cheryl: méxico's trade officials

say talks will continue to weekend and through next week. méxico's economy minister is pushing for quick deal for u.s. officials in this renegotiation. lauren: federal reserve chair jarome powell, investors looking closely whether he offers any clues about the timeline for raising interest rates. the kansas city fed president esther supports gradual raising rates. >> you have to remember how dramatic and in some ways orthodox. i think we want to do it in the manner and communicated and i support moving in gradual fashion so we can monitor how the economy is doing and keep moving forward. lauren: jay powell to speak at

10:00 a.m. eastern time. cheryl: attorney general jeff sessions hitting back at president trump's latest criticism of leadership at the justice department. hillary vaughn has details. >> some senate republicans think that attorney general jeff sessions' days at the doj are numbered. senator lindsey graham said yesterday he doesn't think the president has confidence in sessions and maybe time for a new face at the department of justice after the midterms. but that didn't stop attorney general jeff sessions from showing his face at the white house in the middle of public feud with the president because trump said this. >> the dems are strong in the justice department, i took an attorney general that never took control over of the justice department, never took control of the justice department and it's incredible thing. >> sessions shot right back with a bold statement directed at the president's comments saying, quote, i took control of the department of justice the day i

was sworn in while i am attorney general, the actions of the department of justice will not be improperly influenced by political considerations. the doj tells fox news that they intentionally released this statement right before sessions arrived tat white house because it was look weird for sessions to stay silent. the president saying attorney general should have never rescued himself from the russian collusion investigation and says that sessions was a witness there was no collusion during the campaign. the president saying in a round table meeting with lawmaker that china's trade abuses should be getting more attention. >> i think not not focus has been put on china and that's been for a long time and we want to have big focus is on russia, not enough focus on china, we put a 50 billion-dollar number out there and the total number 250 billion. of that 250 billion is technology and high-tech and 25%

tax on that coming in. i think that economically also helps us. >> chinese delegation meeting with officials from the treasury department, senior administration officials say that we shouldn't expect a tale until china addresses some of the concerns that have been raised because if they don't then it wouldn't be a good deal for the u.s. lauren and cheryl. lauren: both countries drawing hard lines here, today president trump will head to ohio with round table for supporters and also republican party state dinner. cheryl: well, the trump administration unveiling new rules aimed at preventing residents in high-taxed states from avoiding a new cap on state and local tax deduction, the treasure department target rules states like new york, new jersey and california where residents could see substantial increases in federal tax bills come next spring because of a 10,000-dollar cap on state and local deduction, this is part of the president's tax reform package. the new rules would also hit

tax-credit programs that benefit private schools in georgia, arizona and severallor states largely preventing taxpayers to getting more money back in tax breaks and may actually contribute in donations. lauren: average salt in new york was $22,000 so people are going to feel this. cheryl: one of the biggest arguments. states will have to get fiscal help somewhere else. lauren: tesla things bad to worse for elon musk, some company employees are speaking out about work conditions that they endure. cheryl: tracee carrasco has that story and a budge of other news, good morning. >> good morning, tell the new york post that the company is a mess right now especially with s ec investigating following elon

musk tweet, employers tell explosive, look at those pictures. he tweeted, quote, no injuries or damage to the factory, hopefully that will not slow things down there. cheryl: not when you have model 3 production under the gun and he's been sleeping under his desk, he says. >> first facebook and now google, scrubbed dozens of youtube channels, google plus accounts found to be spreading misinformation in the name of iran state broadcasting media arm, cybersecurity experts tell the wall street journal they believe iran is focusing on pushing foreign policy interest and the country's efforts have expanded as the toll of international sanctions against

the country rose and tensions with washington have increased. tracee: staying with google, tracee, they want us to be happy testing google assistant that asked users to give them daily dose of good news, people helping comient, users can access skills and smart displays, google says it's from a variety of items around the world. lauren: i love it. cheryl: cute kid, appreciate it. we have a lot more coming up. hurricane lane hitting hawaii with 30-inches of rain, we will bring in fox meteorologist adam klotz with the latest on the storm, vintage plane crashes, you are not going to believe

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cheryl: welcome back, let's get you caught up on what's happening now. take a look at futures, down yesterday, well, the trump organization could face criminal charges related to the hush money michael cohen paid to stormy daniels, new york times reporting that the manhattan district attorney's office is investigating thousand company accounted for reimbursement for $130,000 he gave to daniels. meanwhile reports say that david pecker, publisher of national inquire was granted immunity in the cohen case, have said to given details of the president's knowledge of those payments made by cohen. turns out reported hack attack in database was false alarm, dnc officials was unauthorized cybersecurity test by the security firm that's looking --

they didn't tell dnc. all clear. finally this, pilot of vintage war plane is lucky to be alive today. plane crashed as it was approaching minnesota airport north of minneapolis, this is in blare, minnesota, the plane burst into flaimción but somehow pilot survived. taken to hospital and severe burns, he is, though, incredibly, lauren, xp today recover. lauren: lucky, lucky gentleman. coming up president trump has warning from investors if he's ever removed from office. >> i will tell you what, if i ever got impeached, i think the market will crash. lauren: how bad would the crash be and projector&gamble has interesting new way that it's trying to attract min elian ills, the plan that will make you lol. you can see dow futures are up 50 points and guess what if we hold gains today could be higher

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cheryl: federal reserve chairman jarome powell speaks today at gathering what would be unspoken and on president trump's mind criticism and could damage american surge, let's bring in david nicklaus. we keep talking about comments from the president and reuters interview but so unheard of for a sitting president to criticize fed chief like this, what do you

make of this? do you think mr. powell will address that at jackson hall. >> yeah, the fed chairmans rarely make ways at the meeting, i don't think you will hear anything from the fed chairman directed at the president. do i think he will make the case as to why the economy is at a point that can support raising rates -- cheryl: you think he will make the argument. >> yeah. cheryl: some thing he will be dovish today so that's interesting. >> i don't think you'll see anything. the market is looking for anything that say that is the fed may delay a rate rise but the frustration for the president, look, the feds have raised rates 5 times since the president entered office, but i think that's a little bit misguyeded due to the fact that the economy is fantastically, it can support interest rate rises and we need rates to rise from here. cheryl: you don't want to see

run away inflation, when you have a strong economy, you have unprecedented borrowing right now. federal deficit is something that powell has to look at, committee has to look at when assessing interest rates but if you don't start hiking interest rates -- but that seems to be traditional think if you're a fed chairman. >> you know, it's a great point because, if you relate the federal debt to federal deficit and to our trade wars, the reason that we are seeing a trade deficit in my opinion is because of the federal deficit that we are running, there's no reason that we as a nation should be running 800 billion to trillion dollar deficit at a time when economies are doing so well, i think the fed is concerned about the stimulus that we received from tax cuts and deficit spending so we don't want the economy to overheat, i think you will see the feds maintain policy that says, look,

we want to maintain growth but we don't want to see economy that's unsustainable. cheryl: the president did an interview with "fox & friends" yesterday and he made comments that basically that the bull market would crash, people would become very poor if he were to be impeached, what did you make of the comments? >> you know, i -- i don't agree with the premise there and i will tell you why, if you look at the market's reaction this week, this hasn't been good week for the president but the market overall slugged off the political turmoil. gosh forbid there's a change in the white house and there's a president pence we will see the same progrowth policies and same the type of growth that we have seen in the market but we may see progrowth policies without the trade war escalating and so i think, you know, as much as the president -- he's not -- he doesn't like to prospect of impeachment, the market is telling us it doesn't really

matter, they seem to slug it off and i don't think anything changes going forward. cheryl: david nicholas, we appreciate. >> thangts for having me. lauren: we have inside look how major american car makers could be impacted by the move. you don't want the responsibility of caring for a real pet, there might be a robotic solution for you but at what price. cheryl: no. lauren: they are looking expensive this morning. nasdaq up 5, stay close.

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>> of course hurricane slean a very dangerous storm encroaching on the state of hawaii, what is for sure hawaii will be impacted by hurricane lane, the question is how bad. cheryl: really bad based on this video, this impact includes heavy rain and mud slides. we will have the latest from fox meteorologist adam klotz. lauren: stock market is looking pretty good today even after trade talks with u.s. and china ended with no sign of progress, the dow did fall however 76 points yesterday. cheryl: today focused on fed chair jay powell who will be giving key speech in just a few hours ahead of futures pointing to higher open, comments could change that though, dow at 44 right now, s&p up and 4 and three quarters. >> investors keeping eye on trade talks and jay powell

speech. cheryl: stocks in asia ending mostly higher, china shanghai up slightly. lauren: how is the trade fight going to hit major automakers, jeff flock has the answers, fbn:am continues right now. ♪ lauren: 5:30 in the morning, good morning, i'm lauren simonetti. cheryl: good morning, everybody, i'm cheryl casone, we didn't get to little friday, we just hit friday and hit the ground running. lauren: we have a storm, storm in washington, d.c. cheryl: top story this morning. hurricane lane is bearing down on hawaii on what could be the biggest storm the state has seen in decades. lauren: fox news meteorologist adam klotz here with the latest. what do you have? >> it's a big storm.

120 miles an hour, only moving north at 6 miles an hour, any areas that have been getting rain will continue because it's moving so slow. that's been the the case in hawaii's island. some spots have seen as much as 2 feet of rain, could eventually could see 3 feet. they are still going to be big showers for a lot of folks here in 18 hours or so. currently category 3. will move towards the island and make sharp turn to sea, slowly weakening a bit. category 3 to category 1 storm, does make difference how close it hits rainfall. i want to leave you with forecast models.

number of different tracks, some sooner and other later. that will make a huge difference, but whether this hits or not people will be hit with heavy rain as they are. lauren: the 300,000 tourists that are there. cheryl: back here on mainland the trump administration is likely pushing back its tame table for imposing tariffs on auto import, the companies that build cars in the u.s. and sell to china remain concerned. lauren: jeff flock in details in chicago, jeff: you know they made 13,000 ford explorers that they sold in china last year and sound like a lot but dwarfs the number of german automakers that make cars here in the u.s. and ship them to china, take a look at numbers, bmw and mercedes, biggest sellers in china of cars made in the u.s., bmw x5 and x3,

80,000 plus of those sold in china last year, 40,000 mercedes gle's sold over there. so if you look at the numbers overall, by far the biggest hit is on the german who is have elected to build plants here in the u.s. now employing about 12,000 workers between them bmw selling over 100,000 cars in china, mercedes benz about 72,000, ford was number 3 with just 45,000. gm we should point out although it now sells more cars in china than it does in the u.s., they tend to make most all of them in china for that market, only 2,000 plus gm cars were made here in the u.s. and shipped over to china, they are the only ones subject to tariff, all the other german vehicles subject to that tariff, 40% tariff by the way when it comes down to, and it was 25% tariff before it all started, they reduced it, chinese did to 15% and

concession to president trump and then when he upped the ante they upped too another 25%, do the math, 40%, by the way, biggest seller among u.s. auto make nester china, well, lincoln mkz made here in the u.s., sold in china, they sold 17,000 of them last year in china. those were the only ones subject to tariff going forward, cheryl, lauren. complicated story, tariffs, we try to break it down. lauren: we do try to break it down. as u.s. and china negotiations seem to be going nowhere, american consumers caught in cross hairs, one company using artificial intelligence to compete with low-cost chinese manufacturing, ceo of software wear automation, we are talking clothes, robotic sewing

machines. tell me what your company does? lauren: creates robot, manufacturing of apparel and sewing projects. how hard would be it be to bring back to the u.s.? >> pretty significant effort in bringing it back but in the past not feasible because labor costs were so high, you couldn't compete on the sewing automation was the last piece and with technology we solved that and now essentially it's capital invest noant start migrating the supply chain back to u.s. we have fundamentals reasons for that, right? lauren: speed and cost?

>> yeah, absolutely. by the way, we buy 3.5 billion t-shirts a year in the country and 98% is imported. lauren: wow. >> there's a lot of economic reasons to come back and automate it. we are bringing robotic operatos and high-tech jobs to create local supply chain and that really serves the consumer better and it's a lot of multiple benefits for doing that. lauren: how fast can you make a t-shirt, for instance and how much would it cost at production? >> so we can have a t-shirt from our system, could be one every 25 seconds. so our robots, t-shirt work

line, t-shirts every 25 seconds and same cost of importing from china from a blank t-shirt. retail cost is the same but the supply chain on blank shirts it's usually 4 to $5 in the u.s. and we can produce it for less than that. lauren: do the machines are dixterity of human beings? >> we can make t-shirts, we can make home goods, pillows, pillow covers, towels, other simpler pieces in the future we will have jeans and other products but right now focus, to make 3 and a half billion, you know, t-shirts, we want to bring with automation, we want to bring back manufacturing of billion t-shirts back into the u.s. in

the next 5 to 7 years. lauren: a decade ago i didn't think anybody would be talking about bringing supply chains to the u.s., we have to leave it there but thank you so much for joining us today. >> thank you, lauren. cheryl: all right, microsoft is facing some serious charges for sales mate country. lauren: tracee can headlines making news, hey, tracee. tracee: microsoft is being investigated related to software sales, the sec are reportedly looking into how microsoft sold software to middle-man firms in hungary that sold to government agencies in 2014, investigation follows numbers of similar investigations into microsoft business partners that serviced back in 2013 in five other

countries. lauren: the kid want a dog but mom and dad know they will have to take care of the dog, is there a solution to make kids happy? tracee: there is, one coming to the united states, previously just in japan but sony will soon start selling ibo, artificial intelligence robot dog, there it is on the screen, size of adult chihuahua made out of plastic and panels and touch censors that let you petit. learning tricks and will develop a personality as you spend time wit, ibo is pricey, almost $3,000 but will never make mess on your home or chew up favorite pair of shoes or get sick. cheryl: projector&gamble with millennial speak. tracee: i'm not sure about this one, trying to maybe be cool, the company has reportedly applied to trademark internet and text including lol, wtf, fml

and mbd, hard surface cleaners and air fresheners, the company has not explained exactly why and how it will use the terms. cheryl: one of them is profanity. besides that -- tracee: idk, i don't know. lauren: i don't know an acronym for that. cheryl: ty, tracee. coming up, we are going the talk about what's happening in washington. u.s. attorney general jeff sessions hitting back at criticism from the president, what could happen next? and he thought it was a good idea to go head to head with the bison, now he's in some buffalo-size trouble. taking a look at futures. no trouble here, folks, all good, we will look at green numbers on the screen, dow 44, nasdaq up 15 and a quarter,

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nasdaq up 14. australian lawmakers shifting to the right, country's sixth prime minister in less than 10 years, he's quitting politics after own liberal party forced him out of office. back at home california congressman duncan hunter and wife pled not guilty after converting $250,000 in campaign money to personal expenses. duncan spoke with more that he mccallum slamming the charges. >> i paid that back before my le. this is pure politics and the prosecutors can make an indictment like the scandalist novel if they want to.

lauren: congressman says his wife handled most expenses. a man in yellowstone national park sentenced to jail after filmed provoking large bison. charged toward him before finally running away, i think the car is saying, what's going to happen here, he eventually pled guilty. cheryl: the guy deserves it. lauren: why would you do that? cheryl: well, the why questions this morning, jeff sessions job as attorney general now in doubt and fox news interview president trump was very critical of sessions for stepping aside from the russia investigation. >> jeff sessions rescued himself which he shouldn't have done or should have told me. he took the job and then recuse myself, i said what kind of a man is this. and by the way, he was on the

campaign, you know, the only reason i gave him the job because i felt loyalty, he was an original supporter, but -- cheryl: but sessions was firing back, we have unprecedented success, while i'm attorney general the actions of the department of justice would not be improperly influenced by political considerations, for more to all of this brad blakeman, the why here, why did sessions put that statement out before he went to the white house yesterday before he went to meet with the president on separate issue. >> i think he we wanted to clear the air and get side out. the problem is and i happen to agree with lindsey graham. he doesn't have the confidence of the president, the only question is when does he go, it's not convenient for him to go to midterms, trying to have that issue for democrats would be gift but i happened to believe that sooner rather than later at midterms it's probably

a good move for both men to move on and get a new attorney general. cheryl: you mentioned lindsey graham. let's let viewers listen to exactly what he had to say about the whole thing. >> the president is entitled to attorney general he has faith in and somebody qualified for the job and they'll come a time sooner rather than later where it will be time to have a new face and fresh voice at the department of justice, clearly, attorney general sessions doesn't have the confidence of the president. cheryl: but, you know, in sessions'', we want to keep the department of justice separate and nonbias, many, of course, are arguing that that's the last thing that's happening at the justice department because of the mueller investigation we still have no collusion, we are looking for it and still don't have it. >> it's hard for somebody to do their job when their boss clearly trashes him routinely, so you need to be -- you need people around you in the cabinet, in the white house that

you have ultimate confidence and faith in. so i think it makes good sense for sessions to move on, the timing is everything in politics and i believe the best time would be as we head into the new year. cheryl: well, what about -- brad, what about after the mueller probe is concluded? seems to me that's -- seems to me he's been advised, the president has, don't fire sessions in the middle of mueller probe because it's going to look like you're trying to obstruct the process? >> i don't think that's the case here. it's clear the men have differences. typically a cabinet member serves about 2 years, that's about the tenure we are reaching with sessions, the mueller probe can go on. there doesn't seem to be end in sight. that's another problem, the fact that the longer this goes, the worse it gets. cheryl: real quick before i let you go, i've been told that you know the ford executive that

will take over role, pompeo making trip, you know him? >> i know steve very well, he worked at nsc when i was there with 43, i traveled the world with him. i know him to be a competent patriot, this guy is the perfect to have pushing our interest with our north koreans, a guy who will stand his ground and not only make up ground that was lost between the president's meeting and today, he's not going to let kim get away with anything without being responsible. cheryl: brad blakeman, thanks as always for waking up early. >> pleasure. lauren: we have sports coming up, chicago shortstop javier monster home run out of wrigley field and more. we will show you the most expensive car it is world has

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lauren: check this out, car collectors lining up for the chance to bid of 1962 ferrari gto, most valuable car put up for auction and is expected to sell for more than $45 million in california, only 32 of those

ferraris produced and it's considered the holy grail among car collectors. cheryl: $45 million. wow, it's gorgeous. lauren: where do you house that? cheryl: glass enclosure. let's move onto sports news for you, few rule changes in the nba next season, nba board of governors will change shot clock for offensive rebounds, instead of resetting to 24 seconds the shot will set to 14, the league hopes it will generate more shot attempts clarification to foul and hostile rules expected to be passed. quarterback richard sherman is entering the daily fantasy sports business while other players have endorsed similar players, sherman first to have stake infancy app, some argue that it's not different than gambling, nfl is not commented at sherman's stake in the

company but you never know, the daily number will be available in 23 states when it launches. lauren: let's show you plays, braves, one of the hottest hitters in baseball denied to hit lead-off home run. faced miami marlins last night and made it count, he launched this monster home run. later on, though, he get hit yet again by marlins, benches did not clear this time but clearly he wasn't happy. >> no. lauren: home run last night, he hit this 481 feet out of writingly field, tied for second longest home run hit this season all right, coming up, everybody, not much trouble for turkey this week because the markets were actually closed.

cheryl: they reopen monday, crisis everted or crisis just beginning, live in london to get the reaction, we will be right back.

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have been closed there for religious holiday, they reopen on monday, we ask was the break enough to calm investors and help the lira, we bring in jane foley, senior market analyst, currency analyst, what do you think, jane? >> well, i think a lot of the problems that were there a week ago are still there, really three problems with issue with the u.s., will turkey release pastor and if they do would help investors to have a bit more confidence in turkey but, of course, investors still want fiscal policy to be tighten and looking for the central bank meeting in the middle of september, lots to be done from turkey's point of view. cheryl: they probably need to start raising interest rates to deal with economic issues, speaking of interest rates, we were talking and fed chairman jarome powell speech today, what do you expect to hear from him today? what do you think he's going to say?

>> the market has priced for september interest rate hike, likely that he will carry rhetoric to suggest that is right and markets wondering whether or not he will say anything about merging markets, for instance, higher cost of funding in u.s. dollars has affected markets and lots of pressure in markets, that's one thing that's interesting and also the issue of central bank independence, will he reiterate how independent the central bank is. a couple of issues to watch from him. lauren: thank you, jane, i will add to that one and that would be trade. the independence of the fed. cheryl: jane foley, thank you very much, jane, real quick, take a look at futures that we can before we send it over to maria, we have some green numbers to show you this morning, there you go, there are futures, maria bartiromo looking good this morning. maria: it sure is. good morning, ladies, tgif,

thanks for joining us, i'm maria bartiromo, top stories right now before 6 on the east coast. we have what to expect and recent criticism from president trump ahead of hall meetings. no sign of progress just yet, china and the united states wrapping up trade talks as tariffs go into effect overnight. >> other nations seek to steal, copy or control american intellectual property and we have very, very little safeguards up and now we have probably the best in the world, we will protect america's ground jewel of intellectual property and advance technologies from harmful foreign investments. maria: very latest coming up. take a look at market futures indicating higher opening, s&p 500 is up 5, nasdaq currently

showing gain of 16 and a half, quarter a percent higher on the nasdaq. this after down day yesterday on wall street. take a look at averages, dow industrials, s&p down a fraction as nasdaq composite. in europe markets are higher, cac quarante up half percent and dax up quarter a percent, 30 points higher in germany. in asia most markets higher with the exception of hong kong. and now this, hurricane lane taking aim at hawaii this morning terrains, we are tracking the storm's path right now. catching a criminal, facial recognition finding imposter trying to enter the united states, happened just 3 days after actually installed. it's working. behind bar it is man who taunted a bison at yellowstone not only put life at risk and now