dobbs. see you tomorrow had. good night from new york cheryl: here are your market movers at 5:00 a.m. a golden apple, the stock soaring in premarket trading this morning. right now at 211, 20, up five and a quarter percent. this follows a second quarter double beat. well, horrific scenes and violent clashes capturing the world's attention as people of venezuela rise up against the maduro regime. the socialist government on the brink of collapse. in the u.s., one of 2020 presidential candidate is not saying about the socialist country. well, a new fight over attorney general barr's interpretation of the mueller report as the a.g. is set to testify on capitol

hill. how democrats are responding this morning. samsung turning the tv market on its head. literally. check it out. its new tv it is hoping will grab millennials' attention and their wallets. it is wednesday, may 1st. "fbn: a.m." starts right now. lauren: here is how your money is moving at 5:00 a.m. u.s. stock market futures are rallying on this first day of may. the dow up 93, the nasdaq up 57 this morning. all three major averages showing their best start to a year since 1999. we are now more than halfway through earnings season, big picture, no earnings recession. investors paying close attention to the nasdaq today on the optimistic forecast from apple. oil prices are down by 45-cents,

$63.46 a barrel many traders weighing a build in inventories with an intensifying crisis in venezuela. europe, france, germany, they are closed for a l holiday. london is open. it is trading to the upside by 2/10 of 1%. asian markets closed for a l holiday. investors optimistic for a trade deal and of course we await a federal reserve decision. one day after president trump called for a rate cut and more stimulus. cheryl: we've got a lot going on. welcome to "fbn: a.m.." good morning, i'm cheryl casone. lauren: we do have a lot going on. good morning, cheryl. good morning, everybody. i'm lauren simonetti. cheryl: well, investors taking a shine to apple's latest earnings report after the bell yesterday. the stock is rallying this morning, ahead of the opening bell. it's up 5 sand 5 and a quarter. >> reporter: there was a better than expected first three months of this year and guidance for the next three months as well.

iphone sales did fall in the first three months, down some 17%, so owing to weakness in china. but they say, apple says that march was the best month out of the three for the entire business, not just china, which they expect to carry through to the june quarter as well. now, we did see services recording all-time best in revenues, wearables, that's the air pods and the watch, gaining some 50% in the three months and also when it comes to ipad sales, ipads are back apparently, best sales growth in six years thanks to positive response they say for the ipad he pro. cash return is a big factor in the l rally in after hours, also a boost in dividend by 5% which is the seventh increase in less than seven years and apple still has a lot of cash on the balance sheet. $113 billion at the end of march which they say they will return back to shareholders. so yes, they have to get back down to zero. what about the qualcomm settlements? they will release 5g phones in

the future with qualcomm chips and they say that settlement is fully accounted for for the next three months in the better than expected guidance. cheryl and lauren, back to you. lauren: susan, thank you very much. we have breaking news this morning out of venezuela. the country's head of the secret police breaking with nicolas maduro after opposition leader juan guaido launched a bold effort to spark a military uprising. cheryl: we've got phil keating in miami with the latest. >> reporter: cheryl and lauren, the operation now enters the second day. today is may 1st, may day, a historic day of communist and socialist demonstrations around the world and massive marches are expected in the streets of caracas, calling for nicolas maduro to leave office. yesterday saw thousands of opponents engaging with loyalist security forces.

more than 60 people were reportedly injured throughout the day. maduro appeared on state television last night, being defiant, saying the skirmishes had been defeated and saying we reject the aggression. last night, mike pompeond pomped this stunner, that maduro was prepared to leave for cuba yesterday but russia told him to stay. >> we talked to hundreds of people on the ground today and over the past several months. it's very clear that maduro intended to leave, he had the plane ready and the russians made clear that he ought not part at this time. >> reporter: despite guaido's call for the military to defect to his side, it failed to appear en masse as the hours went on. john bolton and president trump's national security advisor warned the venezuelan people that a transfer of power is necessary now. >> what we're saying is the

people of venezuela, this has been building for a long time, that if this effort fails, they will sink into a dictatorship from which there are very few possible alternatives. >> reporter: there may be a fracturing happening in the maduro regime. the head of venezuela's secret police last night admonished maduro, saying it's time to rebuild the country. for now, maduro remains president and in control and in power as the military has remained loyal to him, at least until now. back to you, cheryl and lauren. cheryl: phil, thank you. well, democrats and the president may have finally found common ground in the form of a $2 trillion infrastructure plan but how to pay for it is another story. lauren: it's always a question. blake berman is at the white house, hopefully with answers. hey, blake. >> reporter: the last time nancy pelosi and chuck schumer met with president trump at the white house, it was january in the throes of the government shutdown. that meeting ended within minutes with president trump walking out and later saying it

was a big waste of time. the feeling's a whole lot different on tuesday after pelosi and schumer along with 10 other democrats came to the white house to talk infrastructure. afterwards, pelosi and schumer said there was an agreement on a top line number of $2 trillion. there weren't any specifics on how that would be paid for. >> well, the meeting next about how it's paid for and that will engage of course the secretary of the treasury, among others, and our leadership in terms of the ways and means and the finance committee. some of it will also spring from the committee of jurisdiction, for example, the transportation infrastructure committee. >> reporter: a senior administration official telling me the $2 trillion figure would likely be spread out over 10 years. the press secretary saying in a statement, quote, the united states has not come close to properly investing in infrastructure for many years, foolishly prioritizing the

interest of other countries over our own. we have to invest in the country's future and bring our infrastructure to a level better than i has ever been before. while speaking to maria bartiromo leading up to the meeting, mick mulvaney down played the prospects of an infrastructure package. >> do i think there's nor interest on the democrat's part to make a show for trying to get a deal? yeah. i hope the conversations go well today but if they don't, it would not surprise me. i think it's a much better chance of getting usmca passed than there is getting an infrastructure deal passed. >> reporter: they will meet in three weeks to discuss the crucial question of how the funding would work. back to you in new york. lauren: thank you. facebook ceo mark zuckerberg continuing his apoll gu apology. cheryl: robert gray has all the dea tails. >> reporter: the company's privacy concerns even

overshadowing a redesigned facebook website and mobile app that began rolling out tuesday afternoon and mark zuckerberg didn't waste any time in his key note, getting straight to addressing the checkered past with privacy concerns. >> i know that we don't exactly have the strongest reputation on privacy right now torques put it lightly. but i'm committed to doing this well and to starting a new chapter for our products. >> reporter: zuckerberg went on to talk about his and the company's privacy focused vision, users moving toward personal private experiences, the encryption of texts and messages that disappear and the ability to communicate across instagram and what's app, all the facebook properties, as well as storage. zuckerberg was long on ideas, short on details of implementing them. the redesigns were geared toward more private groups.

one casualty, the blue facebook banner. zuckerberg is focusing on commerce and instagram, and two new virtual rea a reality headsd the untethered headset, the oculus quest. the dating ache wa app was expao more countries. there's a feature where users can list nine friends or friends of friends if there's a mutual interest. only time will tell if lawmakers and investors are satisfied. back to you. lauren: here are other headlines making news this morning. police identified the suspect at the shooting of the university of north carolina. 22-year-old tristan terrel opened fire in a classroom, killing two people, injuring four others. it was the last day of classes and students were giving presentations when the shooting occurred. a motive has not been revealed.

the end of an era at google is near. long-time ceo eric schmidt announcing he's leaving the company's board. he was appointed ceo back in 2001 when google was privately traded and three years old. he resigned as executive chairman in 2017 and remained on the board of alphabet. the board term expires in june. demand is building for uber's ipo after two days of the road show. demand for shares outstripping supply. we call that oversubscribed. you'd better iuberis looking ton in the offering next week. the fda is toughening the warning about the dangers of sleep aids. they wan want certain insomnia s to carry a warning. 4% of americans take prescription slee sleep aides.

amazon is preparing to launch a spanish speaking version of the echo device this year, looking to cash in on the nearly 50 million people who speak spanish in th the u.s. cheryl: let's take a look at futures. take a look at what's happening, folks, green on your screen, thank you, apple. the dow is up 91 points right now, apple set to add about 70 points to the dow industrials average today. s&p is up 10 and three quarters, nasdaq up 58 and a quarter. we're going to have more on ample coming up -- apple coming up. they're heading back to becoming a trillion dollar company, the stock quite the boost in the premarket. could the iphone's lagging sales trip the tech giant up? and congratulations, now you can get your very own participation award just for being an adult. we've got the details. lauren: can't wait. you're awesome. cheryl: time to grow up, everybody. lauren: here's your sticker. cheryl: we have details on the

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under promise and over deliver. michael lee is here. look, of course you lower your expectations and you meet the bar or beat it. we've seen that on the street before. a lot of positive news coming out of apple. i mean, there was a miss on the iphone and miss on the mac but they beat on the ipad and the services pretty well. they beat on wearables. there was a lot of good news in the report, i thought. >> the big story is now that the iphone upgrade cycle is slowing, they're able to transition their business to the other units, the wearables and the services. which are high margin businesses for them. and so they're faster growing and they've got apple tv plus and apple card coming out later this year and there's a massive capital return story. cheryl: there's an accelerated decline with the iphone. the china story wasn't so bad. there's been a lot of competition from the cheaper china smartphones but seems that tim cook was pretty positive about that. >> seems like the chinese economy is turning around a

little bit. there's a lot of stimulus going on there to reinvigorate it. that's more of a macro story. tim cookie cook is more positn china which is good for apple. cheryl: jp morgan raised the target price. the stock is up 27% year-to-date. we're looking at a good market open. we also have the fed decision today and the president has again come out and vocally criticized the fed, making comments and tweeting they should be cutting rates. is this a lot of hig hyperbole d noise? >> what i think is going on with the fed right now, they are in a sense helping with the trade war. so i think rates should be much higher. i think when you keep rates this low for this long, you take away from future growth. we're trying to remake the economy into more of a manufacturing economy. lower rates makes it easier, makes the dollar weaker,

allowing us to export things versus having to import everything. cheryl: that's true. the negotiations we've got headlines from mnuchin this morning that they've concluded the talks in beijing. they're going to meet in washington next. at the same time, the ft reporting that the issue of cyber theft, the administration, the president has taken that off the table because they want the deal done by may or june. it's a big ft article that they're reporting the administration is backing down. what do you make of that? a watered down trade deal, if you will. >> i think this i.p. theft regardless of how strong the language is, this would be a problem in terms of enforcement going furled. i think this is a multiyear story, particularly that part of it. these trade negotiation ifs a deal gets done now i wouldn't be surprised to see this readdressed a year or two from now. cheryl: that would be interesting, maybe not a great market story if it was two years away. mike, thank you very much. we want to let you know that "mornings with maria" is going to have all the breaking

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lauren: juan guaido is calling for venezuela's military to help oust nicolas maduro. there are no major signs of defection from military leadership. let's bring in james karavano. thanks for joining us, james.

>> good to be with you. lauren: the national security advisor, john bolton, says he hopes the three key military leaders defect but they haven't yet. and if guaido really wants to arrest power from maduro he'll need defections in large numbers. how does this play out? >> we know more about what happened yesterday but less about what's going to happen today. yesterday we learned pretty clearly that maduro was actually on the verge of leaving. the russians twisted his arm to stay. he decided to take the step of going forward and arresting guaido. guaido found out and that really kind of preempted him to make this move, even though he doesn't know if the military is going to flip or not. both sides reached a crisis point, not intentionally and not knowing where we go from here. so we know this really goes back to moscow. vladimir putin created this crisis. and that's where we are today. and we don't he know what's going to happen this morning

when everybody gets up and goes to the streets. lauren: and cuba is supporting the crisis. our response, u.s. is threatening cuba with the highest level sanctions. senator rick scott of florida where there is a huge venezuelan population is tweeting this. the u.s. military must be ready to supply human take humanitari. i'm calling for potus to preposition assets. do you think that's where we go? that is an option on the table, that is where we're headed? >> i think both the national security advisor and the secretary of state are absolutely right, saying all options are on the table. that puts maximum pressure. but a military intervention by the united states makes no sense. look, putin did this to put a thumb in our eye. he would be equally happy if the united states jumped into a

quagmire and got bogged down in venezuela. doing this because we have to show putin we're going to enforce the monroe doctrine, that's just nuts. for the united states to parachute into the middle of that, that would be like iraq redux. it's not a good idea. lauren: this could end badly for guaido. how do we ensure that that doesn't happen? >> i think we take a deep breath. so we could wake up today and the military could flip and maduro could leave the country. on the other hand, they could viciously crack down on legitimate government and the people of venezuela and create misery. what would happen is guaido and his people would leave the country. they would widely be recognized by the international community as the legitimate government and the struggle would continue.

lauren: james, thank you very much. >> thank you. cheryl: all right. we've got a great market story for you this morning. take a look at wall street. you've got a lot of green arrows, thank you, apple. the stock set to add about 70 points to the dow jones industrials today. we are up 85 points in the premarket right now. also, s&p up 10 and a quarter, nasdaq up 57 and a quarter. still ahead, attorney general william barr heading to capitol hill today to be grilled by democrats on the mueller report. we're getting a first glimpse at how he plans to fight back. and we've got a great new way for you to celebrate cinco de mayo. how one company is combining two guilty pleasures from south of the border. you're watching "fbn: a.m.." ♪ i finally found. ♪ i findly found.

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lauren: happy may. let's get you caught up on global market action. we have dow futures up 85 points, s&p tacking on 10, looking for the fourth record high in a row. the nasdaq gaining about 57 this morning. apple shares are up about 5% here in the premarket. we're also taking a look at oil prices as we watch this unfolding political crisis in venezuela. they're down half of 1%. at $63.54 a barrel. in europe, stocks there are open for business in london and are moving just slightly to the upside, a gain of a tenth of 1% for the ftse. cheryl: attorney general william barr heading to capitol hill today to testify about the russia probe as new reports say that robert mueller complained about barr's interpretation of the report. lauren: yes, he did. leland vittert is in washington, d.c. with how democrats are responding. >> reporter: good morning. this is the first big leak since the mueller report was released

and it is now just hours before the attorney general testifies on capitol hill. the washington post and new york times reporting within minutes of each other than the special counsel sent attorney general bill barr last month complaining about the four page summary barr sent a few weeks before the full mueller report was released. here is the letter. that the summary did not fully capture the context, nature and substance of his work. there is now public confusion about critical aspects of the results of our investigation. this threatens to undermine the central purpose for which the department appointed the special counsel, to assure full public confidence in the outcome of the investigations. here's republican senator josh holly. >> what i want to know is what led to the president of the united states, the duly elected leader of the country, having a counter intelligence investigation opened against him by the fbi, treated like a spy by the fbi.

we've had a time in this country when the f trie the fbi tried te country. i don't want to go back to that time in our history. >> reporter: jerry nadler, chairman of the house judiciary committee tweeted this i note with interest a.g. barr's senate testimony, writing, question, did bob mueller support your conclusion? answer from barr, i don't know whether bob mueller supported by conclusion. now it appears that mueller objected in 3/27 letter. hearing gets underway in just a couple hours here in d.c. and one can imagine this letter is going to come up. lauren and cheryl. lauren: thank you, leland, very much. we can absolutely imagine that that that will happen. let's get to this news. we're getting a glimpse of barr's prepared testimony. this is his opening statement, released overnight. the special counsel completed this investigation as he saw fit. as i informed congress on march 22nd, 2019, at no point did i or anyone at the

department of justice overrule the special counsel on any proposed action. cheryl. cheryl: now to the crisis in venezuela. the country suffering from that socialist government which is still in power as of today. back at home, democrats are floating a multi trillion dollar medicare for all bill and they want to pass the bill straight to you. socialism, trying to take a firm grip in the us, striking at the heart of capitalism, a story we've been following for a while. let's bring in ted harvey and democratic strategist musdemocr. m usta fa. we know socialism has had a rise in the democratic party with afudc afudc anwithwithalexandrid bernie sanders.

>> some how republican strategist and politicians have poll tested the word socialism and somehow it taints democrats. all americans are concerned with what's happening in veins way l anvenezuelaand wanting healthcal access, doesn't make you a socialist. that's absurd. cheryl: it's a socialist idea. and both of them we should say publicly have embraced different socialist ideas. at the same time, it's the cost to the taxpayer that is worrisome for some, when you talk about medicare for all, simply because things like the programs where you try to take care of everybody, the government can't take care of everybody. that's why we have a capitalist country and a democracy. >> that's exactly right. your guest just says we're for affordable healthcare. everybody's for affordable healthcare. the socialist program they're bringing forward is government paid for and provided for healthcare which is socialism.

they want free tuition for people to go to college. it's a failed system. >> you think medicare is socialist? do you think people that have medicare should stop taking advantage of the government? cheryl: let ted respond. >> i think free medicaid for everybody is a socialist healthcare system that failed all across the world, wherever it's tried. look what's happening in venezuela right now. venezuela is crashing because of socialist policies. do we want that here in the united states? i don't think the american people want that. you can run on that i encourage you to do so. cheryl: let's talk about what's happening within the democratic party. i think we can all agree. this is the story between joe biden and bernie sanders. that could create a divide for the democrats and split the party, even though the polls show that biden has a strong lead. we're a long way out. what do you make of the current ticket? >> it's basically the democratic

primary, prior to every general election you have a primary, you have a number of people run. this time we have a record number of people running because president trump is so unpopular. in states like texas where i'm from, it should be a republican stronghold. president trump i trailing behid joe biden and other democrats. cheryl: this is the bernie sanders joe biden story, really. >> i mean, it's a democratic primary, just like you had 17 people running in the republican side, fight back and forth to win the republican primary. you're going to have democrats that are going to have a competitive primary. this is a democrat sigh after all. -- democracy after all. we compete on ideas. and just because people want affordable healthcare doesn't make them a socialist. cheryl: i want to move on to something else though with you, ted. that is the issue -- he mentioned president trump, obviously, whoever the democratic nominee is going to be will be going up against the

president of the united states. and right now the economy's good. joe biden's saying the middle class is going to be the north star. ted, the middle class is doing pretty well right now, we've got record low unemployment in the country and a stock market that's booming. >> that's exactly right. is biden going to run around saying ask yourself are you better off today than you were four years ago? the answer is yes. gdp as you saw was over 3%. unemployment is at the lowest place it's been in over 50 years. the stock market is breaking records left and right. wages are up. manufacturing is at a 20 year high. these are the principles that people are going to be voting on. it is the economy, stupid. biden has nothing to run on. cheryl: actually, i have to disagree with you on that. i'm going to give you the last word on this. you mentioned healthcare, you mentioned obviously the issue of student debt. those are real issues. what if the democrats switch to those issues and kind of backed off of the economy? wouldn't that be a better strategy? >> well, look, the democrats are

going to talk about all the things that face the american people and try to solve the problems where president trump hasn't. he talks about a great economy. he inherited 71 months of job growth from president obama and he built on that. i give him that. but -- cheryl: no. that wasn't my question. >> that's not the case. cheryl: that wasn't my question. >> that is the case. you've got to use facts not alternative facts. cheryl: we're using facts this morning. >> you can't rewrite history. cheryl: we'll have you both back. thanks for being here. appreciate it. >> god bless. have a great day. >> thank you. lauren: here are headlines making news this morning. ray dalio is on top of the hedge fudge food chain, despite comments that wealth inequal at this is a national emergency. the bridgewater associates founder made $2 billion last year, more than any other hedge fund manager. well, a federal judge has signed off on the deal between tesla's ceo elon musk and the ftc.

musk agreed to submit public statements about tesla's finances and other topics to vetting by his legal counsel. the judge approved the settlement despite objections. do not expect t expect to see jt on empire next season. the network says it has no plans for smollett's character to return but it did extend his contract for another month. chicago police accused jussie smollett of staging a racist attack in january. samsung has a new television particularly for millennials it is a 43-inch tv, it can rotate into a vertical orientation so the tv also connects to mobile devices, that allows instagram pictures, youtube videos which are created vert l calli vertice viewed on the big screen. just in time for cinco de mayo

this weekend, guacamole cheese is here. starting today, the dutch cheese company daily dairy will offer the green cheese for the first time in the u.s. you can get it at the fresh market. it costs $25 a pound. it sounds good but i think there's something with green cheese that might turn some people off. cheryl: you're thinking about spoiled cheese. lauren: mold. cheryl: yeah. but i bet it tastes. lauren: i would try. cheryl: coming up, democrats proposing expanding housing assistance to middle income earners to solve the housing crisis. but one company has another solution. avocado toast. will either of those ideas work? and get this. a teenager is giving olympic runner you' usane bolt a run fos money. why he's being called the boogie man. look at this. we'll have more on this in sports coming up. ♪ keep on running. ♪ keep on running.

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>> i know, right. i'm trying to put it off a little bit. cheryl: that's got to be affecting the new york and new jersey, connecticut market. >> you know what? i wish i could tell you that we have these bunches of people that are fleeing. i got to tell you, i've got my normal sort of -- i'm at the end, the kids are out of school, we're thinking of florida because no income tax, we're looking at texas. and you always get those. i really thought my pipeline this winter would be chock full of people with an exit, with a ticket to florida. cheryl: it's not? >> it's less than i thought. my brokers that are in florida -- because we're all over. we're where the money is, compass goes. so they're calling me all the time, wanting more people. there's that hedge against the income tax for the state and then -- and not having it is a good thing. i thought there would be more. lauren: talk to me about prices, prices nationally, are they coming down enough where

we'll have more people buying homes? i know mortgage rates have come down. affordability is a you major mar problem. democrats especially in boston and washington, d.c., they're coming out with programs that they want assistance, housing assistance to middle class families making as much as $140,000. >> i think where that really stemmed -- if you look at a market like the silicon valley market, like san francisco, it's so inflated. we think new york is expensive. that's expensive. they've come down a bit. the people that support the real wealth there that is inflating the numbers, they can't afford to live there. cheryl: prices are coming down in san francisco. we haven't seen that in seven or eight years. >> it's been up, up, up. it's been frothy as we say. lauren: what about washington, d.c.? >> they have a cyclical market. it's a bit softer. i think what i'm seeing is the market, like water, finds its

level. i think the fundamentals of the economy are good. interest rates spiked a bit but they're still historically low. there's still great opportunity. and life happens. life happens while markets are happening. babies are born. people get married. and you can't wait it. cherylout.cheryl: what about tr generation? a lot of the industry is trying to court the millennials. you have a story of a condo development. >> avocado toast. cheryl: 10% down. you would think that would bring the millennial in. it almost seems desperate that they're trying to find buyers. >> it's not unusual for anyone trying to target a certain group to have bait for that group. lauren: avocado toast. >> that might be the millennial bait. it's more about free breakfast. i lived in a building in new york, i was sort of, you know, 10 years ago, i bought right into that. i wanted the amenities, i wanted the social vibe. i wanted the wi-fi and they had free breakfast and i bought and then i rented that out. but that was my little entree

into real estate. it was very social. it worked. so whatever it as to get the buyers in. cheryl: i like the idea of flipping. >> i love the idea of flipping. cheryl: brian, thank you for being here. >> thank you for having me. lauren: let's check in on the markets. we have up arrows across the board, more earnings on tap today. we're more than halfway through earnings season and guess what, earnings are up, dow gaining 80 points this morning. fans teed off at alexi thompson for a recent round of golf she played. what she did to land in rough territory with her fans, that's coming up. and the new facebook feature that could bring you closer to your secret crush or land you a restraining order. cheryl: okay. lauren: what? cheryl: psychos. ♪ it started with a whisper. ♪ and that was when i kissed her. ♪ and then she made my lips hurt. ♪ run with us.

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lauren: this is scary injury, it happened in the nba playoffs last night. it happened to one of the game's biggest stars. cheryl: jared max is here with details. jared: after the rockets lost game two to the warriors last night, james harden said he could barely see. early in the game, harden on the receiving end of a poke to the eye. harden suffered a laceration on his left eyelid. both of his eyes badly bloodshot. yet he would return to the floor in the second quarter, went on to score 29 points, not enough. the warriors won, 115-109, up two, nothing. his eyes were in bad shape. bad news for major league baseball, attendance numbers are down this year. so far, 12 teams have seen lower

attendances than a yearin year . toronto blue jays, one-third fewer fans showing up to the games. the american teams not doing so great either. the phillies are up 44%. that's because bryce harper is in town. alexi thompson taking a leave from social media. thanks to being attacked by her fans for playing golf with president trump and rush limbaugh. she wrote that she is going to focus on playing golf and that it just hurt reading what she read and she's not going to deal with it. so she says no thanks. lauren: good for her. jared: check out 18-year-old matthew boiling. he's from the college prep in houston and he goes 100 meters in 9.98 seconds on saturday, australia yahoo says the fastest time ever for any american under the age of 20. he doesn't get the national record they say because he had a tail wind of four plus miles per hour. now we're judging tail wind.

speaking of wind beneath one's wings, a 14-year-old named jared was at a new york giants draft party with the make of wish foundation when he was asked his wish. watch this. >> tell me your wish. >> say it to the crowd. >> meet jaquan barkley. jared: with that, saquon barkley who he wanted to meet goes there and says we're going to spend the day together. he wanted to go to great adventures, six flags. whatever you want. lauren: you can catch jared's sports reports on fox news headlines, 24/7, sirius xm channel 115. cheryl: mark zuckerberg wants to help you find love. lauren: no thank you. cheryl: we're going to tell you about his crazy new idea for facebook to help bring you and your secret crush together, if you want that, or if you want somebody to go to jail. and nothing makes you feel more like an adult than getting a

sticker, right, people? how one company wants to make you feel better about being a grown-up. lauren: sounds so millennial. ♪ wish we could turn back time. ♪ to the good old days. ♪ when the mama sang us to sleep. ♪ now we're stressed out. . .

>> now you can get rewarded just for being an adult. lauren: todd piro joins us. >> i like to come with a song to introduce me, not this one today. i'm so angry. i wrote that in prompter. congrats for completing ordinary life tasks, you get a sticker, allows you to rewarded yourself for stickers for such activities as i cooked for myself, my parents don't pay my rent. participation trophy for being, an adult. users called encouraging. in a related story we gave my 2-year-old stickers for not

taking diaper in living room. lauren: and? >> when music comes on clothes come off, i told my brother he needs to work on that. this is not a joke, this is seriously. lauren: okay. yesterday annual facebook conference but brought more news about dating strategy? >> yeah, this is weird. happy way, another way to be creepy on facebook. choose up to 9 friends, like, like. i knew you were going to like that. you will get a notification that some friend has a crush on him if they add you as secret crush, sparks begin to fly as opposed when we were growing up. lauren: flower on valentine's

day. >> sticker. why are we overcomplicating life? cheryl: todd piro, we love you, thank you very much. mornings with maria. [laughter] maria: hey there, ladies, good morning to you, happy wednesday, everybody, good morning, i'm maria bartiromo, wednesday may first, 6:00 a.m. on the east coast, apple this morning, premarket, check it out, up 5 and two-thirds percent. optimistic outlook on earnings and growth, looking for pickup in revenue, 75 billion-dollar stock buyback. elon musk cutting a deal with ceo of tesla settles securities and exchange commission over use of twitter, receiving criticism and the crisis in venezuela, the head of venezuela's secret breaking with disputed president

maduro. guiado, battle to oust leader mick mulvaney spoke about it yesterday. >> important that we not consider a coup because we recognize that guiado is legitimate president of the country and we are watching along with everybody else. the only message is is we want to let the russians know they are not supposed to get involved. maria: secretary of state mike pompeo, russia and cuba are playing a role. he joins me later this morning coming up. mueller report coming up. william barr testifying before the senate, expressed concerned to william barr that he initially released over the president. certainly preview what we are expecting. futures this morning are higher take a look. expecting a firmer tone at the start of trading, dow industrials up