tomorrow for dean heller in las vegas. good night from new york. >> we have not hit a high. it's not even christmas. i think we will continue higher. cheryl: possibly higher today the dow and s&p shrug off trade worries. lauren: s&p 50 gaining 22 yesterday. cheryl: here we look, another strong kick tiewf market, the dow up 64, nasdaq up 16 and a half. lauren: three quarters of percent gain across the board in london, fa ris and frankfurt.

women accusing supreme court judge kavanaugh of sexual assault, laying out terms for her testimony, but are senators going to go for them? cheryl: amazon not stopping with food or shopping, the company is ready to take care entire home. fbn:am starts right now. ♪ ♪ lauren: good morning, it is 5:01 a.m. in new york. lauren simonetti. cheryl: good morning, cheryl casone, what is alexa going to do? lauren: christine blasey ford claims supreme court brett kavanaugh sexual assaulted her decades ago, laying specific demands for senate judiciary

committee hearing next week. cheryl: meanwhile president trump telling sean hannity that the delay has lasted long enough. >> let her have her say and see how it all works out. i don't think you can delay it any longer. >> you very accommodating. >> i have been accommodating. let her say what she has to say but they've delayed it a week and they have to get on with it. cheryl: edward lawrence in washington with more. >> good morning, lauren and cheryl, will testify before committee senate committee next week, ford wants no questions from lawyers only committee members and kavanaugh cannot be in a room. in a letter from attorney debra, ford wishes to testify provided

that we can agree on terms that are fair and ensure her safety, hearing on monday is not possible and the committee's insistence that it occur then is arbitrary in any event, dr. ford has asked me to let her know that she appreciates options, strong preference to allow full investigation prior to testimony, the full investigation is also what democrats want. >> she's asking for that kind of review who is telling the truth. someone who is lying does not ask the fbi to investigate their claim. >> chuck grassley says they have been investigating. all statemented collected under

penalty of perjury. he denies the allegations that he sexual assaulted ford when they were in high school. lauren: two major companies are warning that president trump is affecting business, wal-mart may have to raise prices on food and personal care products, the company sent warning in letter to u.s. trade representative lighthizer, wal-mart shares did rise by half of 1%. cheryl: they assembled chips in china, tariffs could hurt for a year, tumbled more than 7%. lauren: tail of two different stocks there. wells fargo announced major job cuts. cheryl: tracee carrasco has that story and other news making

headlines this morning. tracee: wells fargo plans to cut 5% of the workforce, 26,500 jobs, ceo said the job cuts would streamline the banks and become consumer focus as the bank tries to recover from a number of scandals over the past two years and has been facing increase scrutiny. cheryl: another stumble for these guys, let's talk about google, were they taking sides on controversial political issue? >> seems like they might have been. according to travel ban took effect in january 2017 some google employees talked about ideas to adjust the company's search-related functions to show users how to contribute proimmigration, contact law lawmakers and government agencies, google said none of the plans were never

implemented. lauren: bias in social media, they will get interesting after latest report. amazon is cooking something up literally when it comes to alexa. tracee: that's right, amazon will soon sell a countertop microwave that hooks up by echo and controlled by alexa, alexa making a bag of popcorn and alexa take the guest work out of cooking. amazon unveiled wall clock and and allows you to do the alexa command, directions, so they are really taking over every aspect. cheryl: i still have to put the popcorn bag myself, when is that going to happen? tracee: you do, maybe next year. cheryl: tracee, thank you very

much. new highs on wall street, the dow industrials setting 100th record close since election day yesterday, the s&p 500 also closing in record territory, michael lee, hey, good morning. >> good morning. cheryl: what a day? the dow up 7.8%, s&p 9.6%, normally when we get into the fall even with the political situation with the midterms, seems to me that markets will continue to head higher. >> yeah, i tend to agree, all the economic data that comes out continues to get better and better, at will nota fed is tracking at 4.4gdp for fourth quarter on top and you see new indicators in the manufacturing index above 60. above 50 is expanding and below 60 is contracting, we have been above 60, longest run since the 70's, jobless claims at lowest

levels since 1960's. cheryl: 49-year low for jobless claims. a lot of the companies, michael, are benefiting from the tax overall. we have seen this kick in especially the second quarter as we look, though, to the third quarter, are we still going to get positive momentum when earnings start to report? >> absolutely, tax cut was only signed into law on december 22nd, things like this takes 2, 18, 24 months for the full effect to be felt in the economy and i think that was more tax reform than a tax cut that you get less of a pop right away and more of a sustained economy growth and you add that to all the offshore cash and deregulation, we are setting for one of the longest economic pull runs in history. cheryl: one of the concerns was deregulation, do you need to break up a google, is facebook

too large, et cetera, seems to me yesterday that investors went back into technology, is that worry in the rear-view mirror for those stocks? >> you know, it's something that will continue to -- they'll be headline risks with some of those single-name stocks that have gotten so big so fast that have taken over industries, there's always a concern when you get a single player that that's power. that's not a barometer of market. cheryl: i want to ask you about trade, one of the arguments that i've heard because corporate tax rate companies are more shielded more so than they would have been in the past, and even if the trade spat with chinese and even with canada continues that americans aren't going to feel the ill effect effects on that. >> i'm sure you're seeing companies feel it in spots.

>> all of the trade spats have been tremendous opportunity to get in and buy we have been saying all year. if there's any headlines to trade i'd be a buyer. cheryl: unless there's a global event, things look pretty good right now and looking good again this friday. appreciate it. >> thanks for having me. lauren: bernie sanders fight against amazon got interested, new report finding the money if tech companies are politically motivated. big night for the cleveland browns. >> he picked it up at 43-yard line, is this how it feels to win? [laughter] lauren: brown fans finally have a reason to celebrate, why the beer is flowing in cleveland today. let's show you the market, major rally yesterday, the day before and the day before continues this friday morning, you the dow

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yesterday. we will see more records today. former trump lawyer michael cohen has had multiple meetings with investigators concerning president trump's meetings with russia, provided critical information about the extension of russian interference in 2016 election. well, facebook says it will no longer give direct support to candidates during political campaign, the company played a big role in president trump's presidential campaign by sending employees to give advice on advertising strategy, well, during midterm elections facebook will only be available to provide basic training on how to use its site and then there's this, the new report suggesting that amazon might be politically skewed to the left, 90% of political contributions made by amazon employees have gone to democratic candidates for the last 14 years but here is the irony, also found that 275

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talking about the cooperation with the administration as well. take a listen. >> hundreds upon hundreds of rescues have occurred. i'm grateful to the men and women who do this, amazing how we were able to pull together as americans to get this job done. i spoke with and met with the president a couple of hours, fema is giving us what we need at this moment, they have promised help in the long haul, we will hold them to it. >> now big part of the whole story was that the soldiers of fort bragg left into action answered call when it came when flood waters rose. we went yesterday and spoke with command chris mohan and he talked to me a little bit about what his team did, listen. >> i think we have 16 separate teams and those teams are out and we still have ways to go because as you know the flood

waters that might be rekeying here in fayetteville, all the water is being pushed down the coast. griff: yes, the water down in wilmington to south carolina, you have not only the army but the same fire rescue guys you saw with the governor there, well, they've packed up and headed south. lauren, cheryl. cheryl: griff jenkins live in north carolina, thank you, sir. lauren: he has done a good job down there, more problems for tesla as exodus continues, despite controversy one piece of good news for elon musk, firefighters play a dangerous game of tug of war with fire nato, we will have more of insane video, you have to see it coming up in just a bit, you to see this, dow futures building another 66 points, nasdaq up 16, you're watching fbn:am.

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lauren: tug of war with a tornado, that's what this team of firefighters had to do to battle wild fire out in canada. check it out, smoke and flames combined with high winds creating a fire nato which rose a 100 feet in the air and you can see the crew playing tug of war with it right there but the hose melts, the fire nato through burning logs for 45 minutes. cheryl: that's incredible. the hose melting. finally we have dry conditions for the carolinas to tell you about but not so much for midwest today. lauren: we say good morning to

janice dean, she has the weekend forecast for us as well. happy friday, janice. janice: first day of fall arrives on saturday. it will get a little bit cooler in the east coast in the next couple of days, the threat for severe storms, we had tornado reports yesterday in minnesota as well as a lot of wind damage, this is a major cold front that's moving through, that's what happens this time of year, we get the potent cold front that is bring potential for severe storms and this one will move east ward, across great lakes, we could see hail, damaging winds and isolated tornadoes, the tail-end of the front will bring quite a bit of rain to oklahoma, texas, watch for flood warnings in effect, the good news is for friends in carolinas, although the rivers are still rising in some areas, especially in south carolina, we are going to see a period of drying out and warmer temperatures, so that's the good news, no rain in the forecast until next week, here is your

forecast for today looking at the potential for heavy rain across the southern u.s., that tail-end of the cold front as well as the potential for severe storms over the interior northeast and first day of fall, the equinox arrives on saturday. lauren: have a beautiful weekend. cheryl: still ahead this morning the kavanaugh chaos continues. >> it was like a he said-she said scenario, you know what happens in those scenarios, the men are typically believed, you see the issues through your own lens. cheryl: accuser releases list of demands before he's willing to testify but will republicanslet her call the shots and are you a pizza lover? lauren: yes. >> a lovely cheese pizza just for me. cheryl: well, now a way to stuff your face and your wallet at the

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street record, the ftse, the dax all in the green. lauren: check out shanghai composite in china jumping 2 and a half percent. cheryl: lawyers for the woman accusing brett kavanaugh of sexual assault lay out terms for her to testify but will senators go for them? lauren: why the skies might be getting friendlier for those who don't like paying sky high fees to change their flight, fbn:am continues right now. ♪ lauren: coming up at 5:30 in new york, friday september 21st, good morning to your, i'm lauren simonetti. cheryl: good morning, everybody, i'm cheryl casone, well, the showdown between supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh and the woman accusing him of sexual assault could still happen next week, attorneys for christine blasey ford say she is willing to testify about the incident

only if a number of terms have met, they have ruled out monday but they show would testify even if the fbi does not investigate her accusations as she first insisted. president trump continues to support kavanaugh but says that ford should be heard. >> why didn't someone call the fbi 36 years ago? i mean, you could also say when did this all happen, what's going on, to take a man like this and with that being said, let her have her say and let's see how it all works out but i don't think you can delay it any longer, they've delayed it a week already. cheryl: let's bring in attorney and gop strategists ned ryan, guys, good morning. >> good morning. >> good to be with you. cheryl: one of her terms is that she wants -- she wants no lawyers to question her, he cannot be in the room and that she wants kavanaugh to be

questioned first. my question to you, how can he be questioned before she gives her testimony to the committee? >> i agree, she shouldn't be questioned, that shouldn't happened, she's the accuser. cheryl: she should go first? >> absolutely. people argue that this is not a criminal matter but it is, she's accusing him of a crime and under our constitution an accuser has -- someone accused has the right to face accuser and the accuser has to lay out the terms, so that this shouldn't be a partisan agree. democrats shouldn't be pushing this. she's making the accusation, it's her accusation that has to be vetted. i mean, he's the one, look, he has passed various fbi checks, he'll had 6 of them throughout his career working in government, being a judge, he's passed them all. cheryl: interesting too, ned,

you could make the argument that maybe the fbi and judge napolitano made this argument on fox business yesterday that the fbi should investigate, in fact, look at the cover of time magazine and shows you the political fire storm that we are in right now. if you look at the new cover of time magazine, there's clarence thomas, basically we are going back with anita hill days, what happened with anita she was investigated by the fbi, she gave a statement and when she gave public testimony she contradicted her statement. this is different times. >> but this is getting to the theater of the absurd, cheryl, i mean, i've been through an fbi background check, thighed get top secret security clearance, these are deeply thorough investigations, they are literally sending fbi agents 5 hours one way, they have having conversations with all kinds of

people from all walks of life, everybody that you've interacted for years and years and to have gone through 6 different fbi background checks and not once did anyone mention any of this. i'm highly questioning an unsubstantiated, uncorroborated vague allegation from over 35 years ago but -- let's really talk about what this is all about, the left is trying to delay what is inevitable and they are terrified that originalist like kavanaugh is going the take the court away from them, favorite tool for expanding administrative state. cheryl: they are doing due diligence and they have been talking to witnesses, not only did they talk to judge kavanaugh, on monday they interviewed judge kavanaugh under penalty of felony, democrats were invited and didn't appear.

they contacted a third person allegedly at the party described by dr. ford and got a statement under penaltily of felony, how does that play into all of this from a legal perspective from kavanaugh? >> well, they are either going to help him or hurt him. look, as far as whether it's political or not, sure, there's an aspect of it, that's not why i'm here, speaking as a criminal defense lawyer and former prosecutor, there's a process that has to be respected and in this teenage court system is designed to challenge an accuser, right, the constitution has put in the right to confront your accuser and what's here is that if i were judge kavanaugh, actually he's making statements, the reality is for him he's in a precarious position because how do you disprove a negative, disprove something from 35 years

ago. >> a new wall street journal at nbc poll that came out and you should take a look, those who support kavanaugh 34%, those who oppose 38%, the difference between women and men is pretty clear what the numbers, ned, this is having an effect. >> of course, it's having an effect but again, we have to go back to this actually valid excuse, i think the thing that's frightening about all of this in a bigger sense, cheryl, first of all, a lot of people are turning on heads, the entire basis of legal system that someone is presumed innocent until proven guilty, now we are just saying somebody is guilty and try to prove yourself innocence. now that we have decided, we will see if there's corroborating witnesses that come forward, so far that there aren't any, we decided that we will use anything possible, democrats will, any lesson of decency -- cheryl: he may have good reason

to be. we are out of time, thank you both for being here, we will be talking about this next week as well, thanks, guys. lauren: dow industrials and s&p 500 closing in record territory despite trade dispute with china and despite rising interest rates, we bring in jonah ferris, good morning. >> good morning. lauren: come monday, half of chinese import to this count iry will be under tariffs but investors don't seem to care. >> not only don't seem to care they are excited about it, it's like a stimulus program which actually in a weird way it sort of is because it's possible interest rates although rising the federal reserve is not raising as fast as it could. that's what the economists like to think because they have been told that in economic textbooks from harley days but the reality is we never had a trade war

during strong economy, we don't know what's going to happen, investors are starting to realize, wait, the chinese stocks turned around, they were doing badly because country was going to do stimulus, we have potentially low rates, trump readied some stuff, it doesn't mean it's not going to get worse or spread to china, all the initial hysteria a theory that's so far proving wrong. lauren: initial hysteria, you know, all these companies have the big corporate tax cut that they are still benefiting from, the tariffs are still sort of low, there's a lot of exceptions, we don't really know what's going on and the economy is strong so everything is okay? >> yeah, corporations got a tax cut in excess and could hurt much harder with tariffs. charging 10% isn't as much as the stimulus we are under now with the increased government spending and tax cuts, so plus hot economy in general, so no

one knows what's going to happen is the bottom line and right now people realize it was a little overreacting to begin -- lauren: here is the thing, after we get to october, jonas, which a lot of bad stuff happens in october, you know that, we have the santa claus rally. stocks typically go higher toward the end of the year, how much higher will we go and do you see big analysts and big banks changing year-end price targets. >> it's getting self-fulfilling, at the end of the day the market is hot right now and that makes people not worry about stuff and things must be getting better, the market is hot, that doesn't always end well as you saw in last boom hikes, right now people are getting more optimistic, it's a circular feedback. lauren: yeah. >> bonds are going down. lauren: the dollar is steady, the dollar is actually steady right now, it's amazing, something we are not seeing, whatever the something is, we don't know because we are not seeing it but something has to

take the market down at some point. >> people it's always -- you don't really know what's going to take it down. in 1929 things looked really good until they stopped really quickly. you don't -- it's unpredictable and right now everything looks very good. lauren: jonas, have a beautiful weekend, thank you for getting up with us. cheryl: you're making me nervous about october, lauren. >> well, you know. cheryl: another executive is leaving tesla. lauren: tracee carrasco join us with that story and other headlines, who is leaving now, tracee? >> vice president of global management has resigned from the company, it's unclear exactly why he is leaving but this marks the fifth senior executive to leave tesla in recent weeks, meanwhile some good news for tesla, the national highway traffic safety administration has given the model 35-star rate negotiation every category, both

tesla model sm and s received good rating as well. lauren: you may need to change with itinerary. tracee: passengers pay nearly $3 billion in fees annually to change flight recertify vagueses, now house and senate lawmakers are working on some legislation that could limit those fees passengers must pay. u.s. airlines are fighting against those efforts calling this type of legislation a threat to its business, passengers and lawmakers say airlines have set change fees too high and too inflexible which i agree with. cheryl: they made them a threat to our business because we are making $3 billion annually on change fee. that's astounding number. anyways, okay, pizza, let's talk about pizza, dream job if you love it. tracee: yes, this is a great gig, you can make up to a thousand dollars a day being a pizza taste-tester, a company

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>> welcome back, let's get you caught up on what's happening after new records for the dow and s&p yesterday, we may do it again on the friday, right now dow up 48 and the nasdaq up 10 in the premarket. well, california has become the first state to ban plastic straws in restaurants. governor jerry brown signing a law yesterday that prevents full service restaurants from giving single use plastic straws to customers, the law goes into effect next year but will not apply to fast-food restaurants. new data shows that the number of teen who is smoke e-cigarettes has soared in the last year in fact, the number of high school students who use e-cigarettes in the last 30 days has gone up 75% since 2017. many usda officials say --

>> we will put the evidence very soon, the number of teens using e-cigarettes, we will look at flavors which is making appealing. cheryl: expect lines around the block at local apple store, today the n iphone 10s, 10s max and the apple watch four are hitting store this is morning. lauren, we are going to have, of course, camera crews all over on fox business over to you. lauren: economy might be firing in all cylinders, sales of existing homes stalled last month seasonally adjusted 5.34 million down 1 and a half percent in the past year, we bring in pwc partner leader mitch roschelle to talk about the apparent disconnect with between the economy and the housing market, mitchell, that sounded so formal, good to see you. >> that's very formal.

lauren: mitchell, why the disconnect between the booming economy and the slugging housing markets? >> well, you know, let's go back to last recover we had, lauren and what happened was most of the economic growth in the 2001 and 2008 period was coming from housing, if you look at it today mostly the growth and the economy is not, is good news is the economy is stronger and recovery probably more robust than longer than it was last time. the fact of the matter is housing is not very affordable right now, prices are going up because of low supply and that's what's stalling sales. lauren: paychecks are going up, consumer confidence all-time and why aren't we confident to build -- sale our home? >> we have to look at starting homes number and we are not adding levels in any past cycle,

because we do not have supply ad there's demand. lauren: hey, are materials -- you know, lumber costs more money and labor costs more money too and labor actually -- i don't know if there's a shortage of construction workers, maybe you can categorize and there's not as many work nester the industry. >> yeah, if you look at where we were before the financial crisis, we had roughly a million e fact that lenders aren't lending money the way they used to, the

fact that local regulations excuse me are putting out in market, those 5l's are keeping home builders and driving up prices. lauren: finally, what about in high-taxed states in new jersey, and california and new york and connecticut, the limit of how much you can cap prices at $10,000, that's got to be affecting things in states and there's a push to make that permanent. >> yeah, no question if you look at where we live, you look at california, we living in the new york metropolitan area, you will see less and less entrance in the housing market as first-time buyers because when they look at the value proposition of the loss of the state and local deduction, they will say to themselves, heck, i might as well rent. lauren: that's what they are doing. >> that's what they are doing. only my mother calls me mitchell, by the way. lauren: we will downgrade to mitch. cheryl: mitchell is a smart guy.

[laughter] cheryl: mitch, all right, well, two words cleveland fans thought they would never hear again, browns win. ♪ cheryl: basically fans celebrating like they won the super bowl. the beer is flowing, at least last night. lauren: we are the champions. cheryl: s&p 2 and a half, nasdaq up 11 and a quarter, investors will be champions again. we may have good records. lauren: good friday. cheryl: yeah, looks great

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cheryl: welcome back, the cleveland browns have won their

first game in 635 days, rooky quarterback baker mayfield came to the game with browns, 14-0rbgs receiving end of tricky 2-point converse, that tied the game, the game would be decided. >> step, step, fires and picked off. [cheers and applause] >> he picked it up at 43-yard line. is this how it feels, is this how it feels to win? cheryl: the browns come away with first victory since christmas eve 2016 and the bud light coolers that we talked about they were to remain locked until browns remained winless, finally locks opened across bars in cleveland last night. lauren: the celebration did not stay on the field.

just like in cleveland the booze flowed freely, that's not beer, that's champagne. the stars popped boot until the locker room. that's my favorite part. cheryl: cleveland had to tweet out, oh, oh, we are in trouble. lauren: we have beer and champagne. cheryl: yeah, coming up we also have this, pressure building on british prime minister theresa may after eu leaders reject plan for britain's withdrawal from the european union. overseas reaction from london next. the smart cities of the future. when i started at verizon, i knew i was joining a team

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lauren: comcast and 21st century fox will take battle for sky, british regulators have used process many times but never before large company, sky has market value $36 billion, the auction will end 21-month sale process, pinning media giants against one on another. cheryl: we will get decision for that. craig, let's talk about what's happening with the eu leaders, they've rejected british prime minister's theresa may plan withdrawing from the european union, how bad is this for her? >> i think it's personally very bad for her because she went to meeting that it was effectively the deal or no deal, they rejected it. we will see if she was bluffing

or not and we will see the party conference next week whether how firm her position is because numerous people who are ready to reposition themselves as future leaders of the party who stand so gain quite a lot from this and also have a much different view on what brexit should look like. lauren: all right, thank you very much for your perspective today. it's interesting that the london market not really being affected by this today. that market is up. cheryl: ongoing process obviously with the british exit from the eu but you know what, we may have another record day for wall street dagen mcdowell, look at the numbers in the future's market right now. dagen: we cheer prosperity, we like positive news. jobless claims yesterday at nearly a 49-year low, markets at all-time high, that's why we are cheering this morning, good morning, everybody, i'm dagen mcdowell in for maria bartiromo, it's friday september 21st, your last day of summer and your top

stories right here at 6:00 a.m. eastern. celebrating a record run, president trump touting the strong economy during last night's rally in las vegas. >> we have the best economy in our history. jobless claims just hit a 50-year low. 50. 5-0, and the stock market today just hit another all-time high. dagen: 50-year low, the president is rounding up a little. and the 43 gain on futures, we have gains across the board, the dow, s&p 500 and nasdaq all futures up to the upside, the nasdaq closing higher, it is about yesterday as well not at the record high that the dow and s&p hit, it's about 1% from its record high. in europe we have markets moving to the plus side in england,

france and germany gain galor and same story in asia overnight, gains across the board. the shanghai up 2 and a half percent. another big gainer hang seng in hong kong. opening the door brett kavanaugh's accuser now saying next week is on the table for her to testify but there are conditions. we have the latest on the supreme court showdown. a text gets political, shocking report says google employees to tweak search results because of travel bans to influence what people thought and saw, the backlash ahead. hitting store shelves, two of apple's new phones in stores today we will see whether people are lining up for the pricier iphone and a moment 635 days in the making. >> steps, steps, step, fires and picked