on facebook and follow him on instagram. i don't have any of those things. i occasionally will tweet something out but my daughters have to help me. lauren: president trump ramping up threats to close the southern border unless mexico steps in to stop what border agents are calling the mother of all caravans. the latest and what it means for the economy. top democrats are expected to call on the trump administration to keep oping. keep obamacare. the fight between u.s. regulators and ethiopian officials over the boeing crash is intensifying as ethiopia reportedly deletes all the black box information. what this means for the investigation. one beach resort is fed up what they call, quote, free-loading

millennials who never worked a day in their lives. how they're taking a stand against so-called snow flakes. "fbn: a.m." starts right now. cheryl: this is how your money is moving at 5:00 a.m. after the dow and s&p kicked off the second quarter, hitting highs for the year on strength in u.s. and ca chinese manufactg data, right now futures are lower, s&p by 3, nasdaq by 6. taking a look at oil, several banks have upgraded their forecast for both brent and west texas intermediate oil. it's higher by almost half a percent, 61, 85. in europe, house of commons failing to pass any of the four versions of potential road maps for their divorce from the e.u. affecting the french and german markets but not the ftse which

is slightly in th green right n. asia following modestly, asia as you can see, except for japan's nikkei, higher markets there overnight. lauren: it was a strong day in the u.s. yesterday. welcome to "fbn: a.m.." good morning to you at home. i'm lauren simonetti. cheryl: good morning, everybody. i'm cheryl casone. lauren: the president is set to go to the border to tour a portion of the newly constructed border fence in california this friday, after he threatened to close the southern border if mexico did not halt illegal immigration immediately. while the president's senior advisor and son-in-law, jared kushner explainekushner explain. >> the president doesn't let people hide from problems. he makes people confront the problems ands he's creative about ways to find the solution. cheryl: blake berman at the white house with the latest. >> reporter: the white house says president trump is serious

about potentially shutting down the southern border, they say the president is not bluffing. still, there are many questions about when this could happen and if this would be a complete or partial closing. either way, it could potentially have a major impact on the economy. according to the ustr in 2017 the u.s. ex r ported some $243 billion in goods to mexico, the second largest market for the u.s., only hind china and accounts for roughly 15% of all u.s. exports, it includes $19 billion in ag products. the u.s. imported $314 billion in goods from mexico in 2017, the second biggest player in the us, accounting for 13% of all u.s. imports. there were $84 billion in vehicles imported, along with $25 billion in ag products. the while house's top economist, kevin hassett, didn't have many answers when asked what closing down the border could mean for

the economy. >> there's a lot of stuff that moves and exactly how customs and border patrol would deal with that would something we would have to condition officer, should we get to that. there would be potentially stuff sourced in the us for a while. but it's something a that we would have to talk to customs and border pa patrol about. >> reporter: customs and border protection will accelerate, sending 750 personnel to southern border with the possibility that number could increase to 2,000 or maybe even higher than that. back to you in new york. cheryl: , well, former obama administration homeland security secretary, jay johnson, was on making money, saying that 100,000 apprehensions in a month is a crisis. >> the crisis in central america where the poverty and violence is occurring that cause these people to flee in the first place, it's a crisis in that it

over weloverwhelms our border sy personnel and a crisis in the communities on the border that absorb populations. cheryl: he's a democrat saying that. mexico's president also commenting yesterday, the root causes behind the problem must be tack h tackled. lauren: as the battle over immigration intensifies, president trump is planning to wait until after the 2020 elections to tackle healthcare. the president tweeting last night the republicans are developing a great healthcare plan with far lower premiums, costs, and deductibles than obamacare. in other words, it will be far less expensive and much more usable than obamacare. vote will be taken right after the elections when republicans n hold the senate and win back the house. the justice department did endorse a federal court ruling last week to eliminate obamacare in its entirety but people on both sides of the aisle are saying show us your plan if you're going to get rid of obamacare, what are you going to

do? cheryl: attorney general william barr is expected to miss today's deadline set by democrats for the release of robert mueller's full russia report. progressive groups are plan plag nationwide protests calling for the release. the house judiciary committee will prepare subpoenas this week. the attorney general said a redacted version would be released by mid-april. lauren: a second woman coming forward claiming that joe biden touched her inappropriately during a fundraiser back in 2009. amy lapos said the former vice president quote, put his hand around my neck and pulled me in to rub noses with me. she said she thought he was going to kiss her on her mouth. another woman accused him of inappropriate contact in 2014. these are two allegations now.

biden is weighing a run for the president. he is the frontrunner in many polls. he says he doesn't think he ever acted inappropriately toward women. we have to see if the allegations make him change his mind about jumping in. cheryl: president trump slamming senate democrats for blocking a republican measure to helped puerto rico recover from devastating hurricanes in 2017. the president tweeting, quote, the democrats today killed a bill that would have provided great relief farmers and more money to puerto rico, despite the fact that puerto rico has been scheduled to receive more hurricane relief funding than any place in history. p democrats want to add nearly $700 million in disaster aid for puerto rico, to more than $13 billion senate bill. so more. lauren: let's go overseas. the brexit uncertainty is deepening. theresa may is going to hold a marathon cabinet meeting today to try to find a you way forward for great by taken to leave the

european union, this is after lawmakers defeated four alternatives to the government's plan which has been rejected three times already. may is under pressure to pro vent a hard brexit, basically leaving the e.u. without a deal, or it can call an election. may could also put her deal once again before parliament. that would be for a fourth time and she could do that this week. but it's april 2nd and they are set to crash out by april 12th. 10 days away. cheryl: well, lyft shares, get this, tumbling nearly 12% yesterday, falling below its ipo price of $72 a share on its second day of trading. does this mean more bumps down the road for lyft investors. lauren: and to other companies looking for an ipo. jonas star joins us. what does this mean for other ipos? >os?it's>> it's not a great sig. a lot of them were on deck, hoping the market would recover.

they're all trying to get the unicorns out before the market tanks again. the one investor most excited about this is uber, because uber kind of needs lyft to make money. i don't know what the plan is there. if they're going to merge somehow, like sirius xm and be just one company. at the end of the day, facebook was below its ipo price at one point. that was a small thing. this is a little offering, relative to the amount of shares. it's a little suspicious. for a giant unicorn, it's not that suspicious. it could go in a direction where it goes down. it could be the next blue apron which is an i be po tha ipo tha. there's a dozen companies doing that, all losing money. cheryl: guggenheim put a neutral rating on it, saying the path to profitability is a question mark.

there's a lot of ipos coming out. i want to switch to markets with you. we kicked off the first quarter very strong yesterday, a lot of this on manufacturing activity and data in the u.s. and china. so it seems like the markets are making a big turn here. are you feeling a little more positive about what you're seeing? >> it's only as strong as it was weakened of last year. if last quarter didn't exist, it was a straight line, it's like where we were last summer. most of this is because it looked like we were going into a global recession which the fed was not on-board with. they were raising rates and become hawkish going into it. now they're going to be lowering rates. it's not going to cause the next boom either. it's not going to drive us to a 20 to 30% high. the market overdid the fall last year. at this point we have to see the global economy picking up steam. that's why the last few days were looking good. you need to drive earnings growth into double digits from

these levels to make the stock market a gooden tri point at this point. lauren: we're seeing oil prices move higher and banks increasing forecasts for the price of oil. is that a good sign for global growth? >> it's the same with the stocks. the oil is back where it was last summer before it tanked. oil was down because global demand wasn't going to be there was the perception. oil is a good indicator of what people are betting on, the demand will be global. our economy was never so weak that we were like demand is dropping radically. other countries were. they're big players also in the market. russia was taking supply off. there were other issues. most of it is an improving economic story right now. lauren: jonas, thank you very much. cheryl: here are other headlines making news thissing morning. black technologies headed for the new york stock exchange. we were talking about ipos. they're going to be trading for a direct listing. this is following the foot steps of spotify.

they're bypassing the traditional ipo route. they responsibility expectethe e of f-35 jets to turkey, the decision a protest of turkey's pursuit of a russian anti-aircraft system over u.s. objections. sales to turkey are worth potentially $8 billion. the u.s. fears the anti-aircraft technology could compromise the security of the f-35. president trump is keeping up with his criminal justice reform promises. he is designating as first step act month, celebrating legislation that reduces prison sentences, giving judges more discretion when sentencing drug offenders. he said the act will focus on reentry and finding jobs for americans with past criminal records. attorney michael avenatti says

he's confident he will be cleared of all fraud charges. the lawyer made famous for representing stormy daniels appeared in federal court in california. he's accused of filing fake tax returns to get millions in loans and em be embezzling money froma client. that's what's happening now in the world of mike avenatti. lauren: still ahead, president trump ramping up threats to close the border any day now. will the pressure work and what does this mean for the 2020 race? congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez is demanding for dough, literally, how she's using cro croissants to push for higher minimum wages. you're watching "fbn: a.m." ♪ we're not going to take it. ♪ no, we're not going to take it. ♪ we're not going to take it anymore.

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administration is planning to pull many inspectors from border crossings to handle a surge of families arriving at the mexico border. it could create delays for border crossing. the president considering adding an immigration cz a ar to handle all this. let's bring in gabby orr to discuss everything going on as we gear up for 2020. i'm curious, gabby, what you make of the border closing and if you think it's going to happen by the time the president is there on friday. >> i don't think that the president is in any rush to close down the border. he's obviously said multiple times now that it's something he's considering doing, but that first he wants to both give his administration and congress a chance to act to reform some of the asylum law that's are contributeing to what this administration has called a humanitarian crisis at the border and to work with the northern triangle countries and

also mexico to stem the flow of illegal immigrants across the border. but it is something that this president is seriously considering and democrats and republicans have both said it could have significant ramifications, not just for trade and our domestic economy but also politically. i mean, this could be a big issue heading into 2020 if the president does decide to close down the border. lauren: you think it's a threat right now. he's willing to act on it but no plans to do so by friday. there's a new policy in mexico and essentially it says if you don't have papers and you're making your way through mexico to get to the united states, you're going to get sent back to your home country. do you think mexico will actually enforce now that policy as they see president trump really flexing his muscles here? >> you know, the president has actually had a pretty warm rapport with the new mexican president. they've talked multiple times about what they can do to end the crisis at the border.

it seems as though mexico is acting in good faith here. but we don't know quite yet whether or not they're actually going to implement this policy as planned. what i do think is interesting here is if you look at the threat that the president is making at closing down the border, that could potentially have an impact on the relations between the u.s. and the new mexican administration. they did, as you mentioned, enact this remain in mexico policy which requires that asylum seekers stay in the country until their cases can be heard by u.s. immigration judges. that has been evidenc effectivey implemented. i think there is efforts by the mexican government to help the u.s. out in dealing with this crisis. to what extent those efforts are taking place it remains to be seen. lauren: only have about 30 seconds here. i want to ask you a question about healthcare. the president was tweeting about it last night. he said they're working on a plan, you'll see it after the election. what do you think the president and the gop's best winning

strategy is for 2020 when it comes to healthcare? >> look, they want to having they can put up against all of the proposals that we're hearing from 2020 democrats, something that makes sense, something that is affordable for americans, not this catchy medicare for all ending private health insurance, those types of proposals might sound good to a lot of voters but republicans and especially this president want to head into 2020 with an actual plan and i don't think they were able to do that the last time around and they're learning from their mistakes. lauren: attack medicare for all and the $32 trillion price tag that comes with it, right? gabby orr, thank you very much. cheryl: we've got a lot more coming up next. amazon is trying to shed he'll whole foods' whole paycheck nickname in the latest attempt to win over p shoppers in the grocery store wars. plus, disgraced pharma bro, martin shkrelli is in hot water

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♪ cheryl: that song bids. builds. amazon is hoping to change whole foods' image of whole paycheck. tracee: we know it's expensive to shop at whole foods. amazon expected to slash prices on more than 500 products, starting this week, starting tomorrow. this is according to the wall street journal. so you'll expect to see an average of 20% decrease on things like meat and produce, a lot of the staples.

this comes after last year, the last price drop that they had, they dropped prices for amazon prime members by 10% for certain items. still not enough, especially when trying to compete with the other grocers who have tried to compete with amazon. and lower their prices. so they're having to do something with whole foods. so hopefully this works. according to the journal, the price is expected to last throughout the year. lauren: disgraced pharma bro martin shkreli is no longer running a business behind bars, which is hard to imagine he was running a business behind bars. what's up. tracee: we talked about this when the wall street journal report came out in early march. martin shkreli he was using a contraband cell phone as he's locked up in the federal correctional institute in fort dix, new jersey, running one of his businesses, trying to make things happen behind bars.

now he's reportedly in solitary confinement after that report. in that journal report, they stated he had lots of friends, he was running his business, he was trying to do a lot of work in jail so he could come out much stronger after, while he's serving that seven year sentence. cheryl: the word contraband cell phone, how deget one. lauren: can he still get one in solitary? tracee: i don't think so. lauren: maybe the war den can put it in with his meal. cheryl: i think that trainees off the tracks. tracee, thank you very much. still ahead, another brexit bust after british lawmakers reject all proposals once again on the table. we ask what's next for the u.k.'s exit from the european union. plus, which airlines did travelers vote as the best in the world? we've got the lace the list, ig up on "fbn: a.m.." ♪ london calling through the far away town. ♪ war is declared.

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lauren: good tuesday morning to you. let's get you caught up on global market action. dow's three day winning streak is in jeopardy. u.s. stock market futures lower marginally. a positive sign for the strength of the global economy, higher oil prices, take a look at this. oil's up 48-cents, $62.07 a barrel. the ftse is higher by 30 points, half of 1%. the brexit situation, however, in the u.k. remains a mess, just 10 days before the nation is due to leave the e.u. we'll see if a plan is in place. in say sharks we'r asia we're ss in china, hong kong and south he korea. cheryl: the global story with china continues. first, let's talk about what's happening here at home. president trump is going to be meeting with the secretary general of the north american trade organization today.

yes, nato. the meeting at the white house, part of the celebration in dc by nato this week of its 70th anniversary. joining me for a preview of the festivities, senior economist, a eric glen. i don't know about festivities. we heard from jenn solteenberg. he said europe is committed to nato, look at the money we're spending for military storage in poland. president trump said most of the countries in nato are not spending 2% of gdp. they're breaking their promises. this is going to be a tough meeting. >> sure. the president's actions on nato had some beneficial results. the amount of money that european countries are spending on defense has been going up recently. so he is having an impact there. in terms of the president's willingness to actually follow through with some of his threats and withdraw from the organization, about 7 a 5 75% of

americans support nato involvement. while the president may say some things in terms of the u.s. potentially leaving or pushing back, the fact of the matter is, is that most of the u.s. public actually supports u.s. involvement in the organization. cheryl: at the same time, the president does have a financial point and i think that this is worth noting here, that only six countries out of the 29, that agreement was back in 2014, only six countries of 29 are living up to their promises. so that's going to be an interesting argument. let's move to china. because -- this has been a big market story, this new data was released showing that manufacturing growth in china and the u.s. has been strong. but europe is the lagging story here. obviously, trade talks between the u.s. and china kicking off this week in dc. what do you think is going on? >> well, these trade talks have been going on for a number of months now, really since december. we've been hearing notes from both the chinese and the u.s. side, saying that progress is

being made. last week there were discussions in beijing, cyber security, cloud computing, things like that were discussed and concessions were made to the u.s. this week i think what the u.s. side is still trying to push is an enforcement sort of mechanism within the treaty. so that's a bit of a sticking point. we'll see what happens when leo hood comes to washington. if they can be moved forward, i think we're going to have a better chance of striking a deal over the coming weeks. cheryl: there seems to be concern about chinese enforcement. they did give us a prairi tempoy stay on the suspension of tariffs on automobiles. there are concerns that if they're willing to buy u.s. goods, farm products, and that could be billions of dollars, if they do that, still the chinese government would dictate which products are going to be bought and exported over to china and some say that gives the chinese still too much power. >> well, i mean, that's really a

function of the way the chinese economy is run. it's not a market economy in the same way that we have here in the u.s. the fact that state-owned enterprises play such a large role in the economy gives the central government there the ability to basically dictate to them who they should be buying from and how much they should be buying. so the chinese negotiators agreeing to make more purchases from the u.s. can happen via this pathway but if something were to happen, the chinese government could then go ahead and tell these same s.o.e.s to stop buying from the. cheryl: certainly it's all going to be in the agreement that we hope to see president xi-jinping and president trump sign at the end of the day, whenever that's going to be. eric, thank you for getting up early. lauren: let's switch over to great britain. they continue to look for a way to leave the european union, after lawmakers rejected four alternative plans yesterday, the prime minister holding a marathon cabinet meeting this

morning to try to reach a divorce deal. michael houston joins us now. oh, gosh, michael, is there one option that you think could win here or is there a compromise option? where do we stand? >> i think this i is what has gt markets scratching their heads. we're back again with what m.p.s don't like. what wag telling about last night's indicative vote was they were split along party lines. the conservative parties were against all available options. the labor party were for all the available options. there is some optimism that we may get to some form of compromise. the customs union vote, actually only lost by around three votes, 273-276. what they don't tell us, lauren, and i think this is the big problem at the moment, is what the abstainers or the didn't

voters will actually do when push comes to shove. the prime minister's deal still has the most votes, 285 votes, more than all of the other votes that were held last night. but i think what was telling was that the most popular option, which was a new referendum, was also the most unpopular option with 292 votes, voting generals. so we're really no further forward than we were 24 hours ago or a week ago. and the clock is ticking with 10 days to go. lauren: we're running out of time. we're running out of patience. the european union is having an emergency summit to deal with all of this, april 10th, two days before the deadline for them to exit. do you think we'll have a plan in place that can be presented on april tenth and do you think the e.u. is really going to give great britain more time here they. >> well, i think this is a big question. because ultimately i think that's what the u.k. needs. it needs more time. they need to be staring down --

lauren: they've had three years. >> there's a potential no-deal outcome. the e.u. is nowhere near prepared for no deal either. look at the economic data out of germany, france and italy. they're on the cusp of a potential manufacturing recession. so for all the posturing about the fact that no deal is a quite probable outcome, it doesn't actually change the actual calculus towards the risks of doing that. lauren: yet investors across europe today are saying okay, no big deal, stocks marginally higher. michael, thank you so much for laying all of that out for us. cheryl: well, here are some other headlines making news this morning. another day, another streaming service. discovery and the bbc are teaming up for yet another new offer. 10 year content deal focused on natural history, discovery will have the exclusive rights to hundreds of hours of existing bbc programs like blue planet,

planet earth and light. set to launch in 2020. chick-fil-a a has been banned from another airport. buffalo, new york. now, the second city after san antonio, texas blocked the national chain's plans to open locations in a airport food courts. this is in protest over the company's reported anti-lgbtq stance. the company says the coverage of its stances, well, misleading. singapore airlines is named the best airline in the world, according to the traveler's choice awards. southwest airlines is the big winner domestically, sixth on the list and top in the united states for second year running. congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez has been traveling and she's using her shock over a pricey croy p can croissant to a fair medicin minimum wage. she said croissants at

laguardia for $7 apiece. some think that fair labor at $15 is too expensive. ted cruz tweeted back, oh, the humanity. here's the answer. government mandated free croissants for all and we'll force the bakers to give all their time for free. that's what's happening now. lauren: croissant sounds good, even if it costs $7. still ahead, new concerns into the investigation over the latest boeing crash. why the ethiopian officials asked for the black box information to be deleted. what this means for the investigation. and in the final four, it's set in the ncaa women's basketball with two old enemies meeting once again, all that coming up, "fbn: a.m." ♪ basketball is my favorite sport. ♪ i like the way they dribble up and down the court. ♪ i keep it so fresh on the microphone. ♪ i like no interruptions when the game is on. to inspire confidence through style. ♪

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cheryl: as regulators and officials strive to make sure it is safe for passengers to fly, a report from the wall street journal is alleging that while boeing has been working on fixes for its planes since november, the company has also been blaming foreign pilots and arguing with regulators. let's bring in aviation analyst and former faa safety team representative, kyle bailey. i want to add to something else i thought was telling in the journal piece. it says the plane maker, the faa, u.s. airlines and u.s.

pilots closed ranks to reassure the public the model was safe to fly. what do you make of that statement or this reporting from the journal this morning? >> well, you know, it's taking quite a long time for -- this fix has been in the works for some time and it's taken some time for this of to be implemented. there are obviously -- they are obviously still working on it. they announced it will be possibly a few more weeks before this is fully complete. but, you know, prior to this the u.s. training was pretty much just a computer training, no really in-flight training. the u.s. pilots did feel the airplane was safe to fly. cheryl: look, people died in ethiopia and indonesia. is it correct to point the blame at foreign pilots, some of whom did not even have simulator training on the 737 max? i think that's raising eyebrows

this morning. boeing should be focused on fixing the aircraft, not blaming foreign pilots who by the way are working for airlines that spent millions of dollars on these planes. >> that is correct. and a lot of these -- not the u.s. or europe or the major developed countries, a lot of the under-developed countries you'll typically see a scenario where you have a pilot or a captain who has between 5 and 10,000 hours and a very low time first officer who might only have 200, 300 hours. cheryl: like in ethiopia. >> that's very common in under-developed countries. boeing's job is to make and build a safe airplane and to build a very user-friendly plane that's not overly complex for pilots to use. and i think they do a very good job of that. so they really shouldn't involve themselves in regulating pilots. cheryl: except for when the plane is unusable to foreign pilots. you know, again, we have to kind of talk about the fact that we

have a high death toll here. i want to move on to the investigation. we're expecting an interim report, a preliminary report on the ethiopia crash this week. the story has taken a weird turn. ethiopian authorities are asking french investigators to permanently delete the data on the black boxes. is that unusual? >> yes, that is very unusual. usually, the data is available. but in this instance, we have the ethiopian government really who doesn't have that much vast experience in these type of investigations. and the faa is pretty much the gold standard for ntsb as well in these investigations and i think there definitely is some friction between both governments and there also has been reports out there that boeing is actually putting pressure on the ethiopian government to get these black box findings released. cheryl: sure. because again, the information

-- all of this information is going to be used for training of future pilots. this is something that training pilots for decades and flight crew does as well. kyle, thank you very much for being here. >> thank you, cheryl. lauren: well, coming up, a rear move in college basketball as one coach is offered a lifetime contract and then some to fight off the competition. and cheryl, would you eat a sandwich only filled with pickles? cheryl: god, no. lauren: apparently a lot of people would and they're peeved at mcdo mcdonald's for teasing m with one. we'll have details on their outrage. ♪ the heat is on. ♪ the heat is on. ♪ the heat is on. ♪ oh, it's on the street. ♪ john deere gator xuv835, and be prepared to go the extra mile. because when others take rain checks, we take the wheel. with three-wide seating,

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lauren: the highest paid coach in college basketball strikes gold forever. cheryl: sounds nice. jared max is here with that story. jared: john calipari, it's like winning a cash floor life lottery essentially. john calipari, the nation's highest paid college basketball coach, $9.2 million this year, calcall par eavecalipari will sn that will allow him to coach the wild cats until he chooses to retire and then he will become an ambassador for the university. he just finished his tenth season with the kentucky wild cats. the final four is set in the women's ncaa bracket. baylor had an 85-53 blow-out win over iowa. baylor will face oregon on friday. defending champion notre dame

moves on, like baylor, the fighting irish a top seed. jackie young, 25 points along with 10 rebounds and notre dame ran away from stanford in the third quarter, piled on in the fourth for an 84-68 win. next up for notre dame will be the yukon huskies, coming up on friday as we look at the women's final four. good script today in major league baseball. mr. harper goes to washington, bryce harper returns to the ballpark where he spent his first seven mayor league seasons where the -- major league seasons. bryce signed a $330 million contract with the phillies who play the nationals today. is bryce a trader? washingtowashington, d.c.'s mayd this image, bryce as benedict arnold, later deleted it. baby bryce, that's bryce harper

and his wife announcing they are expecting baby harper in august of 2019. congratulation toss the harpers. tom brady retiring? that's an april fool's day joke. but not a joke, tom brady did join twitter and he tweets i'm retiring. in my spare time, i'll be tweeting and then a hashtag which i understand is inappropriate to read on the air. an hour later, he wrote, was this a bad joke? well, it was a joke and we're glad that tom brady's on there. lauren: he should stick to instagram, maybe. jared: basically it's saying let's go. lauren: the hashtag, got it. jared max, thank you very much for explain that to us. catch jared's sports reports on fox news headlines, 24/7, sirius xm channel 115. cheryl: coming up, a luxury resort has a bone to pick with what it calls free loading millennials. how it is basically taunting them to stay away. and a pizza delivery puppy?

mcdonald's mcpickle? we've got the best april fool's pranks but not everybody's laughing about it. that's all next on "fbn: a.m." lauren: not tom brady. ♪ you've got no time for the messenger. ♪ got no regard for the thing that you don't understand. ♪ you've got no fear of the underdog. ♪ that's why you will not move out. ♪

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of all the moments you share with your best friend, the greatest could be the moment you save her life. every second counts in cardiac arrest. learn hands-only cpr and be the difference for someone you love. a lesson about truly earning vacation time. lauren: come on in, tracee carrasco, what's going on? tracee: get free things in exchange for posting something on instagram, well, now there is

luxury resort on the philippine island, they have fed up with requests from the self-proclaimed influencers asking for free things in exchange for their social media post. so the hotel put out a post on facebook, they said, quote, kindly would like to announce that white banana, the name of the beach club is not interested to collaborate with self-proclaimed influencers and we would like to suggest to try another way to eat, drink or sleep for free or try to actually work, so telling these influencers they are not going play the game, it even came up with a cocktail called the snowflake. they say that this is for, quote, sweet snowflakes that probably never worked a day in their life. lauren: i love it. cheryl: great story because honestly the influencers, come on? lauren: million followers.

tracee: give us a little credit and the resort goes, nope, not at all. lauren: really raised a lot of hyperamong customers. lauren: were people were excited that they would be adding the mcpickup sandwich in australia, they tweeted out video, you can see pickles, stacked with bread, ketchup, people, of course, they want pickles, it's not going to happen, mcdonalds saying no, it was just a joke, so many others, starbucks tweeted that they

would be opening starbucks coffee for pups, just for dogs. pupbucks. pizza hut put out another ad that instead of pizza hut they would be called pizza mutt, pizza delivered with a puppy. lauren: good for vegetarians. we have a flat market today. cheryl: we really could adopt the second quarter with bang -- the dow and the s&p and nearly highs, flat market as you are mentioning, the dow went completely unchanged. yeah, we have to watch oil today because -- all the big banks, a

lot of big banks excuse me are coming out and raising contract and wti is over 62 bucks, 32% gain so far in 2019. lauren: mixed messages to the fed, what should they do. that's it for us, thank you, tracee carrasco. cheryl: mornings with maria begins now. maria: happy tuesday, thanks for joining us, i'm maria bartiromo, tuesday april 2nd, top stories right now 6:00 a.m. on the button on the east coast, battle at the border, trump administration looks to expand its plan to asylum seekers to méxico to wait for their cases to be decided. then a plane -- train crash, caribbean cruise ship in bahamas. amazon will cut prices.