and this was an attempted coup. >> it was, it did not work, lauren: here are your market movers at 5:00 a.m. crazy day on capitol hill. bill barr makes a jaw-dropping claim that the trump campaign was spied on. the new fight over the bomb shell comments brewing this morning. more fireworks on the hill as the heads of the nation's biggest banks face off with congress for the first time since the financial crisis. and tech giants get grilled over alleged political buysas on their platforms. we'll have some of the contentious hearing coming you up. disney is expecting to reveal the big plans for their streaming service. can they compete with netflix? the age-old debate, dogs or cats. which household pet claims the title as man's best friend. it is thursday, april 11th.

"fbn: a.m." starts right now. cheryl: here is how your money is moving at 5:00 a.m. after learning the fed is in no hurry to raise interest rates this year, investors turning to earnings. it's a slightly lower open this morning. s&p is down three quarters of a point, nasdaq down 6. big news on brexit, the e.u. giving britain until october 31st to work things out. stocks in china leading the declines, as you can see, the hang seng, shanghai and kospi unchanged, the nikkei gaining a quarter of a percent. lauren: welcome to "fbn: a.m." this thursday morning. good morning. i'm lauren simonetti. cheryl: good morning, i'm cheryl casone. lauren: if you blinked you

missed the news yesterday. attorney general william barr says he believes spying on president trump's campaign did occur. during his testimony before a senate panel, the justice department chief also said he plans to review how it all started. cheryl: katherine herridge is on capitol hill with details. >> i think spying on a political campaign is a big deal. it's a big deal. >> reporter: during his second day of testimony, attorney general william barr stunned lawmakers, says he's personally reviewing the origins of the fbi's russia probe. >> you're not suggesting that spying occur? >> i think spying did occur, yes, i think spying did occur. >> reporter: barr said the issue is whether evidence drove the decision or whether bias among a small group of senior officials was the driver. >> i believe there is a basis for my concern but i'm not going to discuss the basis. >> reporter: during the 2016 campaign, the fbi opened a

counter intelligence investigation and secured a surveillance warrant for a trump campaign aide. the trump team did not receive a defensive briefing, warning about russian contact. >> so would it be odd that the candidate was never really briefed by the department of justice that your campaign may be targeted by a foreign entity? >> that is one of the questions i have, is i feel normally the campaign would have been advised of this. >> reporter: during what would otherwise be a routine budget hearing, democrats pressed barr on the four categories that will be redacted in the mueller report. arguing there is a precedent for sharing grand jury information. >> attempts to hide the report from public scrutiny along the way will only fuel suspicion that the justice department is playing the role of president trump's defense team. >> reporter: barr clarified that public office holders will not be shielded. >> does that mean you will redact information to protect the reputational interests of

the president? >> no. i'm talking about people in private life. >> okay. >> not public office holders. >> reporter: democrats were visibly displeased barr would not in their words say if the white house was briefed on the mueller findings. >> given the vee i think it raie questions. >> reporter: the attorney general was given the opportunity to dial back the spying language but barr testified that he wants to be clear, there was, quote, no unauthorized surveillance of the trump campaign. on the timing of the release of the mueller report, barr told lawmakers next week. lauren and cheryl, back to you. cheryl: thank you. less also on capitol hill, sparks flew when ceos of some of the biggest u.s. banks faced off against house democrats. lauren: let's get the details on this from deirdre bolton.

>> reporter: ceos took questions from the financialal services commit. traceecommittee today about they and structural soundness of the institutions post credit crisis. here is chair woman maxine waters asking that very question. >> i'm concerned that several of these institutions are simply too big to manage their own operations, too big to serve our communities and too big to care about the harm they have caused. >> reporter: various topics were covered throughout the day, the afternoon, very heavy on the consumer angle and to what extent banks are profiting from overdraft protection fees and to what extent consumers are being punished. the somewhat fiery exchange from sylvia garcia on that he very subject. >> what percent of your revenues is fees? >> our consumer business is tiny in the scope of -- >> what about cus custodial fee?

>> tiny. >> what is tiny? tiny for you may be millions. that's not tiny for the average consumer. >> i believe less than 1% of our revenue. >> less than 1%. >> total fees, something like two-thirds of our total revenues. we don't have a consumer business. >> chairwoman maxine waters wrapped the day thanking the ceos for their presence and participation in the hearing. she also called them captains of industry and she said, quote, have you a lot of power, have you a lot of influence and she raised a kind of call to arms, asking them to help the next generation with creative solutions. she issued an invitation for next year. back to you in the studio. cheryl lauren: the fireworks didn't stop there. facebook and twitter, they were grilled by a senate panel overal lee gas station gasoverallegatie

bias. cheryl: we have details on that. >> reporter: it was a day of reckoning for big tech on capitol hill as the senate judiciary committee took turns turning up the heat on facebook's director of public policy, neil pots, and twitter's director of public policy, ca carlos monehay, asking about censorship and political bias. ted cruz warned of a possible breakup of big tech. >> the giant tech companies today are larger and more powerful than standard oil was when it was broken up and if we have tech companies using the powers of monopoly to censor political speech, i think that raises real anti-trust issues. >> reporter: cruz questioned the immunity social media sites like twitter and facebook get from a law that stops them from being held liable from what users post on their site, a privilege that

is afforded to the companies because they promise they are not politically biased. when senator cruz asked if they were a neutral platform, they would not answer in a yes or no. >> recently, the ceo of twitter, jack dorsey, said, quote, i don't believe that we can afford to take a neutral stance anymore. i don't believe that we should optimize for neutrality. this represents the policy of twitter? >> i have not seen that quote, sir. >> do you a agree with it? >> that is not how he is building the platform. >> reporter: there was an empty chair at the hearing today for google, who didn't show up, but they were on the guest list. google got into a squabble with the committee over what witness they would send to the hearing. senator cruz said they will have a special hearing in front of the committee at a later time. back to you. lauren: we're learning about

uber's ipo, they're aiming for a valuation up to $100 billion, that would be b below the $120 billion amount floated last year by the lead underwriters. they say they plan to price the shares between 48 and $55 each. we're getting this information after shares of uber's rye l val, lyft, -- rival, lyft, those shares fell more than 15% from their offering point after their ipo. uber is expected to make the filing of the public offering g today. cheryl: across the pond, more breathing room for brexit, e.u. leaders giving theresa may until october 31st to win parliament support for her plan for the u.k. to leave the trading block. they were due to leave the e.u. tomorrow without an agreement. may says if lawmakers back her

deal, the u.k. could still leave before june 30th, which is the deadline she had requested initially from the e.u. this new october deadline avoids a hard brexit that could really cause economic and political chaos. that was the fear. lauren: treasury secretary steven mnuchin says his department won't meet the deadline for giving president trump's tax return to house democrats. the deadline was yesterday. they say the department continues to review the request, adding it races issues about whether the committee has a legitimate purpose. one candidate is releasing their taxes, that's elizabeth warren. the senator and her husband showing over a million dollars in income after pitching a wealth tax. during a campaign stop, the democrat doubled down on calls for a 2% tax on the country's 75

biggest fortunes, claiming it could fund universal child care and pre-k. cheryl: here are other headlines making news this morning. a scary night for passengers on board an american airlines flight. this was flight 300. the plane was bound from new york to los angeles. it made an emergency landing at jfk shortly after takeoff. workers discovered damage to the left wing, possibly that was caused by striking a runway sign, maybe an airport light on debar churr. luckily, nobody was hurt. today, president trump will meet with south korea's president at the white house. they are expected to discuss reviving denuclearization talks with north korea and sanctions against the rogue regime. vice president pence delivering harsh words to venezuela's ambassador to the united nations yesterday. pence urged the u.n. security council to revoke the

ambassador's credentials. >> with all due respect, mr. ambassador, you shouldn't be here. you should return to venezuela and tell nicolas maduro that his time is up. it's time for him to go. cheryl: the council meeting coincided with the release of a u.n. report showing that 94% ovens way lain -- of venezuelans are living in poverty. the national enquirer is for sale. the owner is hoping to find a buyer in the next few days. the supermarket tabloid has been at the center of yo center of po women who allege they had a affairs of president trump. the first ever photo of a black hole has been released. >> we have seen what we thought was unseeable. we have seen and taken a picture of a black hole. cheryl: scientists using a global network of telescopes to capture this breakthrough image. they say it matches albert

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into the genesis of the probe into the trump 2016 campaign's possible ties to russia. a probe that barr says when pressed as you heard from the senator there, conducted unauthorized surveillance. well, that p didn't go over well with some democrats with the mainstream media. joining me now is attorney jenna ellis. why the outrage, jenna? >> well, lauren, a justice should always be blind to democrats or republicans. so this is about americans being able to rely on free and ferrell exes -- fair elections so it's entirely appropriate for attorney general barr to look into the whole of the matter that stemmed from the 2016 election and focusing on then citizen president trump, his affiliates and exactly what was going on at the fbi. for democrats to be outraged with this characterization of

unauthorized surveillance that barr termebarr termed spying, ts everyday language that americans understand. it's just a matter of looking into the whole of what happened and i think americans deserve that. lauren: they want to know who, what, when, all of those questions. that's what they want to get to the bottom of. i have another question for you, a question that's been raised. why want the trump campaign asa target of espionage, briefed that this could be happening, beware of this. why didn't that happen? >> that's exactly a question that we deserve answers to. i think there are so many questions about exactly what was going on with then obama administration deep state sort of agents and people like peter strzok and lisa page, what exactly they were doing that may have been illegal and so we don't have the answers to those questions. we don't know exactly why president trump's campaign was

targeted, why they at that point -- why all of this was happening. i think that for attorney general barr to say we're not just going to be satisfied with mueller targeting president trump, just because he's a republican, we're going to look at the whole of the matter. that's entirely appropriate and democrats should actually be happy because we have a rule of law that makes sure there's equal justice under the law, regardless whether democrat or republican. lauren: the tables have certainly turned and that is behind some of this outrage that we're seeing, fallout from the special counsel investigation hitting democrats, particularly the former barack obama administration counsel, a basically a power broker, greg craig. he expects to be indicted soon on charges stemming from his actions in ukraine back in 2012. is this what we're getting from the paul manafort cooperation in the mueller probe? >> there have been reports, lauren, of some ties to that and i want to be clear that, again, justice should not matter to whether you're registered as a democrat or a republican. and so for conservatives who

have been very outraged of the treatment of manafort and how this whole probe has operated, i think we need to be careful to not just say okay, this is a democrat who is looked at being indicted. this was unrelated to the 2016 election. we need to look at this and let due process happen. lauren: jenna ellis, thank you. >> thank you. cheryl: still ahead, socialist bernie sanders unveiling his grand plan to fix healthcare. who is going to fill the bill for medicare for all? next time you talk to alexa, you might want to think twice. there's a shocking new report on who is listening, all coming up on "fbn: a.m.." ♪ i always feel like somebody's watching me. ♪ and i have no privacy. ♪ i always feel like -- drivers just wont put their phones down.

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home? tracee: well, some workers, yes, according to a report from bloomburg, thousands of workers worldwide are listening to some conversations that we are having with alexa but reportedly it's all in the name of improving alexa's ability to understand human speech. so they're getting samplings of what we are asking alexa, maybe it's conversations we're having with alex alexa. there is a chat room for moderators to help each other out, to share some interesting stories of what they hear on these -- during this conversations, but amazon is saying to bloomburg, they're saying this is not identifying information for anyone who has an account. they do a very small sampling of these human interactions with alexa, so i don't know if that gives you any comfort that alexa's not really listening but -- lauren: the comfort is she might be able to understand me better in the end. tracee carrasco, thank you very much. cheryl: the heads of the

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lauren: let's get to global market action. minutes from the fed confirm it's in a holding pattern and so are stocks this morning. dow unchanged, s&p up not even point. in europe, this is how stocks are reacting at this hour. the ftse in london down 8 points, the cac in france up 23 and your close in asia looked like this, a big decline for the shanghai composite in china, down 1.5%. cheryl: the heads of seven u.s.

major banks squared off against house democrats in their first appearance before congress since the financial crisis. here to weigh in, jonathan hoenig. what do you think the fallout's going to be and what do you think the ceos are most worried about after yesterday's hearing? >> they're worried about regulation. that's their number one risk, for good reason. those questioners yesterday, those congressmen and women weren't just disgruntled customers at the banks. these are the most important regulators, they're the ones literally deciding and determining the future of this industry, already highly regulated. when you consider maxine waters' line of questioning, many of the lines of questioning were laughable but maxine waters who in the past threatened to naughtnationalize the oil induso hear her question the ceos on student lending, seemingly not knowing that in fact government nationalized student lending almost a decade ago, has to give one pause. it's one of the reasons i think

that banks have underperformed in the broader market this year. cheryl: let's talk about maxine waters. because we're starting to wonder what her point is and if it's political. listen to what he she did with steven mnuchin earlier this week and how her tone with him. >> i just don't believe we're sitting here negotiating when i come back. >> this is a new way and it's a new day and it's a new chair and i have the gavel at this point. if you wish to leave, you may. >> can you clarify that for me? >> yes. clarify -- if you wish to leave, you may. >> so we're dismissed, is that correct? >> if you wish to leave, you may leave. >> when the republicans, they did not treat the secretary of the treasury this way. cheryl: he has a point there, jonathan. >> it's really distressing. it's disheartening i think to see any public servant, certainly heads of banks, of internet companies treated i

think disrespectfully by elected officials. what's more frustrating is how maxine waters, for example, doesn't see the disservice, the harm that a lot of her policies and democrats' policies have done, particularly when it comes to student loans. she mentioned the student loan crisis, that's a bubble caused by government. more regulation will cause more bubbles and more disruption in the economy at large. cheryl: we had facebook, goo l gel, twitter exec -- google, twitter executives on capitol hill. they're accused of suppressing conservative bias. do you think social media companies need to be worried with the democrats in charge of the house. >> he yes, indeed. traditionally big tech has been largely unregulated. that's one of the reasons that it's prospered so much. now with members on both sides of the aisle targeting, we heard senator cruz targeting some executives from twitter, talking about how perhaps it's not exactly a neutral platform, that becomes a major risk to these companies moving forward. we've seen the effects in

europe. we'll see them here at home. i think it spells real worrisome sign, a bad sign for a lot of these stocks as well. cheryl: worries how much taxpayer money is spent on these hearings. jonathan, thank you very much. good to have you, sir. >> be well. lauren: verizon is turning on 5g ser toda service today in chd minneapolis. it's not as easy as it seems. cheryl: we have brett larson here. >> 5g starts today. you've got your non-exi nonexisg phones ready to access it? it's an exciting buildup. it will be great when it gets here. there will be bumps o bump bums. a 5g is a totally different type

of technology. it's a different frequent you sigh. frequency. it requires different hardware, different infrastructure. it requires a huge investment on the parts of all of the cell phone companies and they're all kind of fighting with each other over who is going to be first to switch on 5g. at&t got in a little bit of a blowback on social media when they put the 5g logo on everyone's phone during ces in las vegas earlier this week. which is great, it's funny, ha ha, but it wasn't 5g ser vicks it's a little faster 4g. now it actually exists. verizon has it, it goes on today in chicago and minneapolis. that doesn't mean the whole city. they're up to 19 cities. it's parts of chicago, parts of minneapolis. as of now, there is one cell phone that can access -- lauren: which phone? >> the motorola 3g phone, it requires an additional attachment to it. for the next couple weeks, they're discounting it to $50. it's not too expensive of a

barrier to entry. the important point that needs to be made, it's not necessarily about speeding up the data service to our cell phones. we have really pretty decent cell service. we have fast enough data service for the things we all want to do. the goal of 5g really seems to be about getting broad band into more places, places that are underserved. even here in new york city, where you would think you should be able to get the fastest internet service that's available, you still have to run a wire to the building, you still have to connect to some level of infrastructure and when that infrastructure is wireless, you can put a box in your window and it has a wi-fi connection and you now have high speed internet. that's kind of what at&t's been doing with their test markets in texas. so we'll see how this rollout goes, if consumers really like having the ability to stream an entire harry potter movie, you can counsel load it in a -- download it in a minute and-a-half on 5g. we'll see if the popularity

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cheryl: vermont senator bernie san unveilinsanders unveiling he medicare for all plan. lauren: griff jenkins is live in washington with all the details. good morning, griff. >> reporter: good morning, lauren and cheryl. flanked by one of his opponents, sanders relaunched the centerpiece of his progressive platform, medicare for all. >> we are going to end the international embarrassment of the united states of america, our great country, being the only major nation on earth not to guarantee healthcare to all as a right. >> reporter: gillibrand isn't the only 2020 hopeful backing sanders. there are many co-upo co-sponso,

replacing private health insurance, nobody pays a premium or deductible. estimates put the cost at $32 trillion over 10 years. don't expect howard schultz to sign on. here he is speaking to trish regan. >> this guy has been running for president for now four years. he has not demonstrated in my view any level of discipline with regard to how he's going to pay for any of the things that he's suggesting, let alone medicare for all. there's a better solution to fix the healthcare problem. >> reporter: as for congressional leadership support, house speaker nancy pelosi steering clear, voicing skepticism and urging caution to fellow democrats and mitch mcconnell had this to say. >> it ought to be called medicare for none, 180 million americans would lose private health insurance. they want to turn america into a socialist country.

>> reporter: sanders issued a statement, saying he's ready to invoke the so-called nuclear option in the senate if necessary to pass medicare for all. what an odd image. we see one of the 2020 hopefuls standing next to his fellow -- or her fellow opponent, it's a strange time indeed in this 2020 election. cheryl: there's going to be more names added to the list eventually. griff, thank you very much. lauren: as you were saying, the 2020 democratic playing field keeps getting bigger and we can add another name to the list. wayne messum has thrown his hat into the ring. his main campaign issue is erasing student debt. >> $1.5 trillion of outstanding student loan debt, the second largest consumer debt, second to housing, more than credit card debt. it is st stifling some economic

productivity, is inhibiting many debt holders and their ability to invest in themselves, to buy property, to even perhaps invest in a business. lauren: what that seems wonderful. it could also seem as a political ploy to get young people to vote for you, i'm going to erase your student debt. how do you plan to pay for that? how is it possible? >> it's not a ploy. our data shows that by doing this, it would add over $80 billion to $100 billion to the gdp in the first year, in the first couple years it will add 1 million to 1.5 million jobs, it will add $450 per month in debt coverage. how we would pay for that is repeal the trump tax cut, which is estimated $2 trillion that went to corporations and the richest of americans. lauren: let's pivot to another issue, your twitter handle says, mayor, you are a climate change business owner.

what exactly does that mean? >> my wife and i started a construction business during the great recession. i spent the best part of this decade building a construction management company. yes, i love to make money. i have to be profitable to be able to take care of my workers so they can take care of their families and for our country to grow and most of our projects are sustainable projects. they receive leed certification. we do a lot of renovations to make energy systems and building systems more energy efficient. lauren: president trump is considering, according to reports, auctioning off floridas' rich coastal waters for oil drilling. your thoughts? >> well, i think that's a travesty. our natural resource and our beaches in florida are a big part of our economy. in fact, right now, as a mayor in the city of miramar, we're on the front line trying to stop a company just outside of our city's border and they filed to the state of florida for an oil

drilling permit, to explore the prospects of oil on their property. and when you think about oil drilling in our precious and fragile everglades which actually is a source to our drinking water, to over 8 million south floridians, it's something that we will continue to fight. lauren: he might have some republican support there. florida governor de santis and senator scott are opposed. the price of oil is now at a five month high. that's something the trump administration is working to reduce. cheryl: breaking news out of the u.k. julianne assange has been arrested in london. he had to leave the ecuadorian embassy after several years of being there and living there for several years. he had been wanted by u.k. authorities, european authorities, u.s. authorities for his role in several things over the last several years. jewel januarjulianneassange hasn

london. we'll have details later on. congresswoman ilhan omar making shocking comments about the september 11th attacks. >> her fear was founded after 91 because they recognized some people did something and that all of us were starting to lose access to our civil liberties. cheryl: those comments prompting backlash. omar says the outrage is creating a situation for her and leaders from both parties should condemn it. she says my love and commitment for my country and that of my colleagues should never be in question. we are all americans. the new york post has this cover, showing twin towers on september 11th with the headline, quote, here's your something. lauren: pretty powerful. coming up, a blizzard blanketing areas from colorado to minnesota with heavy snow. janice dean will be live from the fox weather center to update us on the conditions. and it's the trick shot to end

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cheryl: a historic spring snowstorm has intensified. lauren: senior meteorologist janice dean is live in the fox weather center with the very latest. good morning, janice. janice: sometimes we get a blizzard across the plains states in p april. we have the potential for over a foot of snow and very strong winds, blizzard conditions, blizzard warnings in effect for the areas you see shaded in red, from colorado through minnesota. we could see the potential for ice as well and the power lines and the roads, so that's going to be very difficult, if not impossible for travel. here's a look at what we're going to be dealing with throughout the day today and

into tonight. finally moving in towards canada, look at the cold air behind this system. the snow will stay in place probably through the weekend. wind gusts in excess of 35 miles an hour, that's part of the criteria we need for blizzard conditions. there's the snowfall forecast on top of what we've seen so far. we could see the potential for ice as well, also the threat of severe weather as we go through the day today. back to you, ladies. cheryl: janice dean, janice, thank you very much. lauren: let's do some sports. it was the final night of the nba regular season. cheryl: jared max has all the highlights this morning. jared: the final playoff spot goes to the detroit pistons, they hand the knicks the 56th loss. dwayne wade suited up for his hs last game in brooklyn. dwayne wade got his fifth career triple double and his banana boat pals came to watch.

carmello got wade's jersey after the game. last night, dirk kno nowitzki sd 20 points the last game of his 21 year career. up 15% from last year in value, the new york yankees were $4.6 billion -- worth $4.6 billion, baseball's richest team. the dodgers are second, followed by the red sox, the cubs, the giants and then the mets. the least valuable, the miami marlins at $1 billion, a tad more than the tampa bay rays. the stanley cup playoffs underway last night. check this out. the san jose sharks game, joe pavelski loses a couple teeth. they beat the golden knights. check out sister mary joe. she has her own 2019. hillary2019 topsbaseball card.

she is throwing the first pitch before the game today in chicago against the cardinals. $1,000 is what she got for the card. it gets donated to where she teaches speaking of throwing first pitches, 101 years old, 101 years old, the mom of the astros pitcher, threw the first pitch. that's a golf ball walking on water, jordan spieth skipped it across the pond yesterday. first tee time yesterday, 8:30 eastern at augusta national. lauren: amazing. jared: what a shot. cheryl: jared max, thank you. you can catch jared's sports reports on fox news headlines, 24/7, sirius xm channel 115 sl don't go anywhere. generation zer's that are entering the job market, you aren't going to believe the incredible demands they're making just for showing up to work. a stunning survey looking to

answer once and for all whether cats or dogs are really your best friend. tracee carrasco's dog, duke, making a play for dogs here. ♪ i wish nothing but the best for you [do . ..

cheryl: more and more gen, 18 to 23, entering workforce, 75% of them believe they should be promoted within one year of being on the jobs. gen zers feel they deserve them, mr. employers are seeing this. even coaches at inside out did survey, they are noticing this trend and then gen zers said, hey, we know our work.

lauren: you will get the promotion. tracee: different generation. lauren: time for great next debate. dag owners are happier than cat owners. i think so, cheryl. tracee: 36% of dog owners were happy while only 18% of cat owners came back with -- lauren: look at the picture again. cheryl: that is my cat and that's tracee's dog.

[inaudible] lauren: in the middle onset i actually think who is cuter but i will never say. cheryl: she's playing in the middle. cats can be temperamental, for those of us who love them -- tracee: dog owners say according to survey they do see dogs as part of the family more so than cat owners. i don't know that they interviewed you as part of the survey. i know that you see milo as part of your family. maria: every day i am joined by maria bartiromo and dagen mcdowell who love their dogs. lauren: mornings with maria starts right now. maria: thank you so much for joining us, i'm maria bartiromo, happy thursday, thursday april 11th, top stories right now just before 6:00 a.m. on the

east coast, breaking news right now julian assange arrested this morning, uk police said asylum has been withdrawn. we will have the very latest this morning on this developing story. red flag for uber's upcoming ipo, valuation is eye-popping number. fallout from the mueller and the fbi investigation into donald trump. kfc's colonel goes visiterrual, now instagram influencer, there's the catch, mornings with maria begins right now. ♪ ♪