petroleum are john's best picks. [closing bell rings] that will do it for the "countdown" today. we have a mixed picture. can the dow punch up? right now it is flat. leave it until "after the bell" to see what happens. have a great day. melissa: doesn't look good. stocks dip ahead of g20 as wall street looks for direction on u.s.-china trade dow losing steam. s&p 500 also fighting for gains at the close but i don't think they bottom it. you can see the s&p down about 3 points. the nasdaq up 25 point. snapping a three-day losing streak. i'm melissa francis in new york. this is "after the bell." connell mcshane is live in miami ahead of tonight's democratic debate. connell? connell: we're ready to go, melissa, here in miami focusing on economic issues that matter most to voters in the battle ground state of florida and

across the nation heading into 2020 election. first up, here is what is new at this hour. melissa: mark zuckerberg is set to take the stage this hour in aspen must be nice following president trump's comments saying the social media company and others should be sued over bias allegations. we'll bring you his comment the moment the event begins. that is mark zuckerberg. we'll have much more from miami as 10 democrat candidates take the stage to kick off night one. we'll speak with the dnc communications director as well as the miami mayor, what we can expect to hear. tensions continue rising in iran. the commander-in-chief telling fox business, quote, i hope we don't have a war with iran. we'll tell you where we stand now. we have fox business team coverage keeping track of today's stories. edward lawrence is live in japan

ahead of the g20. jackie deangelis is standing by at the new york stock exchange and phil flynn watching oil and gold from the cme. let's kick it off with edward. reporter: melissa, right now president trump is on his way here to osaka, japan. the city is on lockdown. officially the f 20 starts here in japan tomorrow however president donald trump when he arrives later on today, thursday in japan, will meet with the prime minister of australia. the president joked about the importance of this trip before he left. listen. >> i'm going to japan right after this. so i will be meeting with some nice fellows. [laughter]. other nations, competitive nations and competitors and that's okay, we're doing great. we're doing better than any of them. reporter: that has been his mantra the u.s. is standing up for itself using tariffs to

bring countries to the trade table with us. a source familiar with the talks, with two trade delegations between china and the united states will meet on friday, one day before the highly anticipated meeting with president xi xinping and president donald trump. this week will go a long way to see if china talks can be restarted or not. a spokesman for the chinese foreign ministry criticized the united states without actually mentioning the u.s. saying the instability and uncertainty in the world economy are mainly attributed to trade tensions, which are largely caused by up laterallism, protectionism and bullying acts. he went on to say china is a victim of economic bullying. china will spend time at g20 summit trying to get other world leaders to put pressure on the united states, to drop the tariffs, not add more tariffs. president donald trump not backing down. >> i'm meeting with russia. i'm meeting with china. i'm meeting with many countries. we're meeting with many countries. we have many things -- we've

been ripped off by everybody over the years. they are not ripping us off anymore. reporter: the president going forward with more tariffs on china if the talks don't go well here at the g20 summit. the president indicating the next round of $300 billion in chinese imports might not be at 25%. it could possibly be at 10%. waiting to see what happens. melissa. melissa: interesting. edward, thank you. connell? connell: following up on all that, global tensions no doubt are rising as we head into the first debate of the 2020 cycle tonight here in miami ahead of that g20 meeting edward reporting on japan. go our panel. paul dietrich from fairfax ceo and jonathan hoenig, capitalist pig hedge fund founder. we talk about trade every single day of the week here and it is interesting, if you look at it from the chinese point of view, i was just there you know last week reporting from china, would they, you think they look at it,

they would be better off waiting out president trump, trying to get past the 2020 election, would they be better with somebody on the debate stage for the democrats tonight or tomorrow night, what do you think? >> no. that is the simple answer. the largest financiers of the democratic party are the trade unions. they don't want anything to do with a trade agreement with china. they have been the major opposition, they know their members are opposed to it. >> that is -- connell: paul may be right, jonathan. if you look at it conventional wisdom had been dealing with someone like joe biden, that's a name comes up with china you would be better off, to paul's point, we don't know where they stand or they might agree with the president on issues. >> that is what is interesting, connell, democrats history were pig advocates of tariffs, biden, bernie sanders, the democratic party, generally been the more

protectionist political elements in this country specifically because of labor unions. however is advocating this trade war you cannot argue, connell, it is affecting stocks. look at internals of the market today. 125 new 52-week lows, only 37 new 52-week highs. 25 billion in tariffs paid by americans, world bank is estimating, could be half a percent of world gdp the president is talking about potentially tariffs on vietnam and other countries this is continuing to rock world trade. that is one of the reasons you saw the market down today. melissa: fighting for its reputation, shares of boeing after ceo dennis muilenburg says the company is in talks to reimburse airlines in the wake of the 737 max grounding. let's go to jackie deangelis at new york stock exchange with the latest. reporter: good afternoon to you, melissa. boeing making headlines today. as you said the ceo is having

conversations with its customers possibly reimbursing them following grounding of the 737 max. this is according to the "axios" ideas at aspen. they are maybe delaying delivery times and even possibly more training. the company said some employees were terminated because of max fleet crashes. the company wouldn't change the name of the plane when it gets back into the air. some suggested it should rebrand. that would be a smart business decision. one additional headline coming out from reuters, the faa recently found a potential risk boeing must mitigate on the 737 max before it can return to service. meantime i want to switch gears and go to retail, talk a little bit about target and ebay. they came out swinging against amazon. amazon said prime day would be two days. target rolling out deals day for the same 48 hour period. delivery options, same day,

regular delivery and in-store. analysts say bricks and mortar component may give target an edge. ebay offering deals starting early july but this crash sale as it calls it. amazon's site it crashed last year. ebay saying if it does it fenn, the discounts will be deeper, melissa. melissa: jackie, thank you for that. paul and jonathan are back to react to that one. i mean that is interesting because prime day has been one of these dominant things, everybody is positioning themselves how to deal with it. what is your take? >> ain't america grand? invent a holiday, melissa about shopping. people love it, come out for it, inspires competition. this is truly the free market at work. companies falling over themselves to offer consumers better and better deals. wouldn't you wish this was offered in education and health care with so much government dominance. if you had to choose ebay and amazon, ebay is much stronger

stock now. it was valued 2300 times earnings in two thousand. it is trading 14 times earnings today, a relative value given the strength of the thought. melissa: paul, jonathan getting me into the 4th of july spirit. i'm weeping everything he just said. it is very patriotic, what do you think? >> we created in the middle of july a black friday. melissa: right. >> this is great. it is food for retailing. look at retail stocks right now. amazon is up 25%. target is up 30%. and ebay is up 39%. this is really good. it shows that the tariffs are not stopping people from buying. it is hard to believe that amazon has been around for just 20 years. this is their 20th anniversary. i saw an interesting statistic. 82% of every person who make as salary over $110 a year is a

prime member. they have the high-end of that retail group. melissa: yeah. >> even they can't rest on their laurels, that is what we alluded to here. all the companies are competing with amazon, even throwing some shade. ebay essentially saying if amazon's site crashes we'll give you better december. that is the mutual beneficial competition that helps everyone involved in the market. melissa: amen. >> that is capitalism. melissa: capitalism at its finest we have to go. thanks, guys, good stuff. oil settling up nearly 3%. let's go to phil flynn on the floor of cme. a lot of action. >> there sure was. oil and gasoline prices are getting in the 4th of july spirit as well as prices starting to soar once again. we saw major, major oil draw down according to the energy information administration. over 12.788 million barrels. to put that into perspective that is the fifth biggest

drawdown in history. philadelphia energy solutions shutdown, causing everything to go up. gold was down and still above $1400 an ounce. melissa: look at that oil up 11% this month, phil, thank you for that. taking on silicon valley, president trump slamming tech giants like facebook and google over alleged bias against conservative voices as we await facebook ceo mark zuckerberg to speak in aspen any minute. with privacy concerns and on the agenda. we'll bring you the breaking comment as soon as they happen. plus our coverage from miami continues. connell. connell: report card from the voters. democrat candidates setting to make first campaign style pitch in the battleground state of florida. what about the key issues? we'll talk to bret baier what that democratic strategy might be, what we can expect in miami tonight. bret baier.

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candidates are talking most about the economy on the twitter accounts more so than the next five domestic issues than health care, immigration, and the rest combined. bret baier host of "special report" on the fox news channel. good to see you. >> this is cozy here. connell: we're in very close quarters. >> our set a little smaller than the msnbc set. just a little bit. connell: i wonder how that was set up, right? it is interesting, those "axios" numbers, i don't know how much that tells us. candidates talk about the economy, "axios" talks about you talk about jobs and wages, economy mean as lost things. i wonder whether healthcare and other issues are bigger than economy for democrats what do you think? >> i think immigration will be very big with the new photo of the dad and the daughter. obviously very emotional, but the situation on the border is big and with what is happening on capitol hill it will be big.

these moderators have big jobs. i moderated seven. three last time. four before. it is really a challenge to be fair to all the candidate but get it around. connell: to get equal time. nbc is not focused on equal time to be fair. what is the biggest challenge, because you have done a lot of these? >> the base challenge is monitoring time. make sure, if not so disproportionate to the big players and to the other ones. tonight i think is elizabeth warren's potential night. she is the biggest name on the stage. she is there pretty much by herself in the top tier. connell: bernie sanders and joe biden tomorrow night. kamala harris as well, mayor pete. this has been interesting surge? interesting few weeks for elizabeth warren, a lot of people wrote her off not that long ago and what has been the key to that? >> i think it is her policy prescriptions. she is very detail, and goes to

the town hall and in south carolina, do you have a plan for this, yes i do. goes right down the row. connell: yeah. >> i think she has taken some of the juice from bernie sanders. you've seen this competition who will out-student loan debt relief other one. connell: how do you pay for that? >> yes. you will see more of that battle as we go on. connell: "the wall street journal," one of their, lead editorial, one of the main editorials in the paper, the title, the democratic opportunity. they were talking about the type of candidate that might emerge from this field. basically barring a recession or foreign crisis want to return to presidential normalcy, not a transformation of the economy. was almost an endorsement but it was almost a reckoning of why joe biden is leading this field, the idea democratic voters want change based on behavior of the president. they don't want the economy to shift so far to the left but a lot of these candidates, talk about elizabeth warren, they do

want a big change in the way country is put together. >> transformational shift. bernie sanders said it was revolution he was leading in 2016. now it is same. the battle is inside of the democratic party. the question for joe biden, can holed the ball, be on policy brief, to convince people that want change that he is the guy. connell: real quick, will they go after him or spend their time going after the president? >> most of the time on trump. they have to distinguish with biden because he has such a lead. connell: he does. have a great show tonight. bret baier live from miami on "special report." melissa. melissa: more trouble out of the dominican republic. a 15-year-old girl from argentina reportedly fallen into a coma during the last day of her vacation. this coming after at least 12 americans have died in the popular tourist destination and new data is revealing flight bookings from the u.s. to the dominican decreased nearly 74%

compared to this time last year. bracing for a border fight, the senate voting down the house's version of the border security bill. both chambers passing their own bill but they are remaining out of sync with each other. so where do we go now? not backing down president trump suggesting action against iran -- this is not off the table, it is regime takes aim at the u.s. why experts feel, fear a snowball effect is looming. that is coming later this hour. ♪

melissa: bill blockage. the senate in this hour passing their border aid package, 84-8, but failing to get 60 votes on the house's version. the two bills will have to be reconciled. president trump telling fox

business's maria bartiromo today that he is not happy with the house version the take a listen. >> i went to the border. took a whole show there. we saw children and position children were put in was disgusting. what is your reaction to the 4 1/2 billion dollar aid bill? >> i'm not happy with it. there is no money for protection. like we're running hospitals over there now. melissa: bring in brad blakeman, former advisor to president george w. bush. you know the situation, it is amazing that lawmakers kind of having a hard time coming together to find a solution. you have two houses of government there, each passing their own bill, they're both spending money. they're disagreeing how to spend it. where do you think we go from here? >> one of two things are going to happen, either the senate bill will be passed in the house. they will have to vote on that. or a conference committee between the two bills but representative escobar, democrat of texas said, the reason these poison pills were put in the house bill, those poison pills,

handcuffing president's ability to enforce american law, this is what democrats are doing, they're trying to prevent the president from giving aid to people until their status is determined based on, also handcuffing the president's ability to carry out and enforce the laws, something that he is charged to do. seems only time government will do anything, if there is a crisis. the main goal of government is to prevent crisis, not merely respond to it. melissa: originally when this started, democrats and you know a lot of media comes from the left said this was a manufactured crisis. then we started seeing more and more pictures what was going on. in the past 24 hours we've seen horrible pictures, you know, both of kids at the detention center but also of people dying at the border and, i wonder is this the inflection point, is this moment when there is so much pressure on lawmakers to

sit down and actually work something out that they do it? we know that nancy pelosi made a call to the white house and they were on the phone for 15 minutes. do you think this is the moment that they finally are forced to come together because people in america are so discutted about so many different things? >> if it is passed unfortunately it is very expensive bandaid. it doesn't solve the problem. that is why the president is so upset. it doesn't further discourage people from coming across the border. what it does, it deals with the immediate crisis, basically an invasion. 100,000 people a month are coming across our border. it is having a devastating effect on our resources, our infrastructure, our state and local governments. certainly our federal government. democrats are tying the hands of the pentagon. trying to restrict troops being sent there for humanitarian efforts. democrats on one hand claim they're trying to help people

but on the other hand they're preventing president from getting help to those people. in the meantime the problem, the root problem is not being solved. melissa: no but we have gotten to the point where things are so bad, the problem has gotten so huge, there isn't any one or two or even three solutions will solve it. it will take a whole bunch of different things. >> correct. melissa: both sides will have to give, no matter what. brad, thank you. sorry, wish we had more time. a lot of breaking news. employees on online furniture store wayfair waging a walk out at the company's headquarters protesting a furniture order for the migrant detention facilities at the border. fox news's molly line in boston with the latest. reporter: melissa, this threatened wayfair walkout of wayfair employees coming into copley square materializedized n very loud fashion today, supporters creating crowds of hundreds of people of the company selling beds to a contractor outfitting a migrant

detention center in texas. variety of signs were displayed. vowing no profit for prison camps. 500 plus wayfair employees signed on to letter to company leaders expressing concern and anger at atrocities committed at southern border, arguing wayfair should not have any part in supporting the practice. here is one wayfair employee. >> our job to make it hard as possible to operate the cams. what we're doing, throwing a wrench into what they're attempting to do. we don't think camps shut run at all. don't think they should exist. this is our way of telling them that. reporter: offended or was $200,000 worth of bedroom facilities that could potentially detain hundreds of migrant children. the contractor put in the order responded, quote, we believe youth should sleep in beds with mattresses. wayfair walkout twitter response

from wayfair executives explained as business leaders, we believe in importance of respecting diversity of thought within our organization across the customer base, writing as retailer it is standard practice to fulfill orders for all customers. we believe it is our business to sell to any customer acting within the laws of the countries within which we operate. participating employees also said that the company should cease all buying and selling business with these contractors and other contractors like them. they also called for the profits that have already been made to be donated to a non-profit that deals with helping migrants in a legal manner. wayfair apparently according to employees decided to make a donation but to the red cross. that is not exactly what employees had in mind. melissa? melissa: molly, thank you for that. we have breaking news right now. president trump just tweeting on all of this moments ago saying quote, the democrat would save many lives if they would change our broken and very dangerous immigration laws. it can be done instantly. we're going to continue to

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melissa: mark zuckerberg is set to take the stage in aspen at any moment. we're going to bring you his comment here on "after the bell," just as soon as they happen. meantime, connell, back to you. connell: we'll look at that, with the first democratic debate kicking off in battleground state of florida, as the coverage continues from miami. candidates will take the stage in just a few hours. a recent poll reveals health care, immigration, the economy are top issues that voters want to hear about tonight. president trump ranks 8th on the list, which is 4% of the voters say they want to hear

about the president right now. that is interesting. frances suarez joins us. he is the mayor of miami. get ready for this, the mayor of miami is a republican. how about that, he is here at the democratic debates. hi, mr. mayor. >> it is great anytime. connell: how did you win in miami as republican. >> 86%. connell: what is the key? >> key is focus on solutions. not to be overtly partisan. we have issues here. we gentrification issues, things that big cities have, traffic, resiliency, sea level rise, flooding. and those are issues that really don't require partisan solutions. they require intelligent solutions. connell: i don't know whether that applies tonight, whether you give any democratic candidates any advice. will they go after each other, joe biden or attacking president. whatever you think of elizabeth warren, she always has a answer when asked. she always has a policy

solution, you may disagree with it. i don't know. >> mayors take that approach. they take the approach of solving problems. they don't get overly partisan. people are tired of the partisan bickering, back and forth, blaming, as a mayor you don't have that luxury. you have to balance your budget, a shocker. you have to make sure that the quality of life for your residents is of the utmost importance. so deal with a problem, come up with a solution, then you implement the solution. you don't worry about who is to blame for it, certainly not what party. connell: two mayors in this race. mayor pete tomorrow night. mayor de blasio tonight. i'm not sure if there is any traction there or not. >> yeah. again it will be interesting to see if the mayoral approach is one that gets any traction. connell: is there anything about this city, florida obviously always a key state, is there anything that changed in the last few years they'll will be different about the 2020 election, maybe than we saw in 2016? always so close in florida. a republican can win in minimum

my. >> resiliency is come to the forefront. hurricane irma, we had tremendously significant water event. six to eight foot of storm surge, part of financial district underwater. we're investing in $200 in voter approved bond, that miami is the most resistant city on the planet. connell: i don't know how you feel, as a republican in democratic city, how do people feel about the president? he won the state, next time around is it tougher or just too early to tell. >> south florida is generally sort of blue part of the state. connell: right. >> so i think for a republican to win the state of florida they have to do better than most republicans do. you had governor desantis won by 14,000 votes in that same election, the agriculture commissioner is a democrat, nicky freid won by 4,000 votes. exact same election, 20,000 vote differential. it depends on the candidate, message. president spent a lot of time in florida. he spent a lot of time in miamis

as vice president, dealing with issues like venezuela and cuba, issues important to some of our residents as well. connell: good to see you. the mayor of miami. melissa. melissa: taking on big tech, president trump telling fox business that social media companies like facebook is biased against conservatives. mark zuckerberg is expected to speak at the "axios" ideas festival in aspen. we'll take you there live when it begins. lance ulanoff is here, chief editor. what do you think today? will he address criticism? what will he do? >> they partially sponsor this event. i don't expect major revelations. the guy isn't even a journalist. he will talk about privacy. he will talk about regulation because that is what people care about as far as facebook goes right now. they want to understand how will he make facebook more private. how will he avoid the government or the justice department or

somebody breaking up facebook, because that is something even his cofounder called for. obviously that is not something that facebook wants to do. think believe there is strength in numbers. being at the scale they are, they compete with countries like china, competing services. all of those things will be danced around. i would be shocked if he made news. melissa: what, do you think they will survive or being able to resist being broken up by the government? there is so much jumpon the bandwagon at this time, if they don't break them up are they facing massive regulation and scrutiny one thing after another? >> everybody knows regulation is coming. the problem with breaking up companies like facebook, antitrust laws wouldn't consider them true monopolies because there is real competition for facebook out there in the u.s. and elsewhere. i think that, if they did try to

break them up, they would have to change some of those rules. they would start to apply to other companies. i'm not sure that's really where everyone wants to go and i don't think that's where we'll end up being but regulation because, this is unchecked power. that is what everybody talks about, they talk about facebook and mark zuckerberg they are concerned about the power, power even facebook didn't realize it had for years until the election, until they started to see what people were doing with their data. there is a reckoning coming and it is probably going to be regulation. melissa: yeah. we're looking at common on the screen. he is an entertainer in case you're wondering who that is as we're talking. you said they didn't realize the they had the power before but they certainly realize they have it now. they monetized in the past. they have been less than honest about things they never sell your data with a wink and a nod, they traded your information and data away for other things of value so they bartered it. they didn't take money for it.

they have been cute in the past. >> they have certainly taken, they took a casual approach to the data. that is how they had situations like cambridge analytica, basically started doing whatever they wanted with the data there. they had so-called trusted partners that weren't that trustworthy. they were way too casual about it. they didn't understand power they have. obviously all of those change. meantime -- melissa: do you feel like they have changed? do you feel like they have taken that to heart? >> i do. i actually do. i think that, so one of the things you're seeing facebook is preparing for a future where they don't have access to your data to sell advertising, right? what they're trying to do is spin everything into commerce. when we look back at the big developers conference. they talked so much about privacy. the other big threat was commerce, commerce, commerce in everything, every part of facebook service because basically if they actually get you to buy things through the services, they take a cut of all that, they have less reliance on all mobile advertising which by the way is the largest part of

their revenue. melissa: depend on people spending more time there because they feel safe. we'll see if that works out for not. lance, thank you. >> my pleasure. melissa: escalating tensions between president trump not backing down on potential military action as the u.s. and iran remain locked in a standoff over tehran's nuclear program. and american sanctions. how iran's supreme leader is responding now. plus we're live in miami. connell? connell: the economy, melissa in focus for us ahead of the debate. what voters are saying in terms of make-or-break items to garner support in the battleground state of florida. we have the t dnc communications director for you. something to sell. fisher calls regularly so you stay informed. and while some advisors are happy to earn commissions whether you do well or not. fisher investments fees

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>> have a war with iran, mr. president? >> i hope we don't but we're in a very strong position if something should happen. i'm not talking boots on the ground. i'm not talking we're going to send a million soldiers. i'm just saying if something would happen, wouldn't last very long. melissa: so that was president trump speaking with our own maria bartiromo this morning as iran vows it will not back down from the u.s. joining us now, david sears, retired navy seal. thanks very much for joining us. look at amount of pressure on

iran now. 80% of the economy under sanctions. the predictions are their economy will contract by 6% this year but i feel like the number will be bigger than that. what do you think happens from here? >> i think you're right. i think number will be a lot bigger than that i think iran will try to wait out the clock personally. they will probably do more provocations throughout. i think if the administration, is smart how they respond and don't give more wind to the sales of iran, kind of ignore them to some extent. as long as they're not hitting u.s. personnel or our interests then just take the wind out of iran's sails. they will try to wait out president trump have if their economy continues to contract though, do you think that things changes within the country? >> certainly i think they do. iran, had 2012, 2017, 2018, they had student uprisings, they are good controlling them usually

through violent means and threats like that. but there is so much you can do to control the masses. if your $100 two years ago is worth $20 today, they are not happy about it. the people don't have jobs. they're paying more for food, milk, gas. it is reaching a boiling point. melissa: it has been building a while though. they have been able to maintain power. the difference between what goes on iran and north korea, within north korea it is one person. within iran there are a lot of competing factions. they're all pretty extreme but there is a lot of different groups competing inside. is there a chance that this whole approach backfires and that a more extreme group, even more extreme ends up in control? >> i don't know how much more extreme you get than chanting "death to america," death to israel. so they're pretty extreme as it is. you could get who are

hard-liners there. soleimani, head of irgc quds force. he is certainly hard-line guy. they could pursue a nuclear weapon. we have to play with what we have now. look toward that but not be afraid of it. melissa: what you did i about the rest of world for the united states approach now? everyone said president support was greater when i didn't strike iran. then he went ahead obliteration if they hit american at all. where do you think we stand with our allies? >> everybody is playing a watch and see game. they're just waiting to see what happens. they're hoping, all sides, i think russia, china, the eu, all of them want things to tamp down and cool down. chaos and a war is not in anybody's interest. they're watching, trying not to add fuel to the fire basically. melissa: david sears, thank you.

>> thanks, melissa. melissa: we'll have much more ahead from miami. the debate, big debate tonight after the break. connell? connell: we're focused, melissa on the biggest issues for 2020, that voters here in miami could have as make-or-break for a democratic candidate. in fact i will speak coming up with the communications director for the dnc ahead of the debate. that and more live from miami coming up next. ♪ td ameritrade's trade desk. they can help gut check your strategies and answer all your toughest questions. sounds perfect. see, your stress level was here and i got you down to here, i've done my job. call for a strategy gut check with td ameritrade. ♪

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melissa: breaking news right now, shares of pier one sinking after hours after weak first quarter results. the retailer announcing a loss of more than $19 a share. wow. they were b only expected to lose $11.50 a share. same-store sales are down 13.5%. very rough day there. connell? connell: wow. very rough. all right. we're just hours away from the debate in miami tonight for the democrats. a lot of candidates for the voters to pay attention to and the voters are paying attention

to a number of issues. in fact the polling says healthcare and the economy are the top issues for the democrats. to help cut through all of this, let's welcome in the communications director at the democratic national committee. good to see you. thank you for coming in. >> thank you for having me. connell: spending a few minutes with us. we were kind of getting into this earlier. everybody has their theory about the question of the night or in this case nights because it is a two-night debate, do you kind of go at your opponent, try to get attention that way? we will see if that happens tonight. or you spend a lot of time as a democrat going after the current president. what would you expect? >> i think if you are looking at this field and you are a candidate going into tonight, the way that you stand out is by having a solution for the american people. if you look at previous debates, you see those standout moments that really resonate that help those poll numbers. when somebody actually has a solution. now, do i think there will be some back and forth? absolutely there will be back and forth, but what it will be on is their specific policy

proposals and records. and i think that's fair game. you won't see name calling. connell: let me ask you about immigration. to your point about having a solution to a problem, just a few minutes ago, as a matter of fact, the president had a tweet on that saying the democrats would save many lives if they would change our broken and very dangerous, all caps, immigration laws that can be don't instantly. -- that can be done instantly. one of the questions becomes, do you as a democrat tonight go after the president some of the images coming out of the border, or you brought it up, do you have a solution of your own to put forward? >> i think it is both. i think there are terrible stories around the country, especially when you see the photo of children being detained and families that are in detention centers. it is heart breaking. for anybody who is a parent, it is heart breaking to see what this president is doing to the american people. i think you will see those candidates and the democrats in general believe we need to pass comprehensive immigration reform. connell: the pressure is on the democrats on that side i know

that's more on the congress than on those running but there should be at least, right, some pressure on democrats to have ideas as opposed to just say what's happening there is horrible. >> absolutely. every single one of those candidates will never do what donald trump has done to separate families. you will hear about their solutions tonight. you will hear about their compassion towards these families. you will hear they won't be donald trump. i think the american people are really hungry for leadership right now because they see how donald trump is tearing apart families everywhere. connell: one other issue, we have a minute left or so before the top of the hour. i think it is important to our viewers, that's wall street. warren has surged in the polls. a lot of people wrote her off, but she's surged the last few weeks. she really goes after wall street as a way to pay from some of her proposals, financial transaction tax and the like, a lot of wall street bashing the next few days, do you think? is that what we will hear? >> i don't know if you will hear wall street bashing but what you will hear is donald trump has

had proposals that help the ultra wealthy and not the average person, not someone like my family, not someone like families across the country. what you will hear from them is how they will help those families. connell: we're looking at the polls. joe biden had a comfortable lead in the average at 32. sanders, warren, harris, mayor pete and o'rourke, only warren and o'rourke tonight. is it fair -- you wouldn't say tomorrow night is the main event? >> both have strong candidates. also have senator booker tonight. off lot of senators on both -- you have a lot of senators on both nights and elected officials and governors. i think that positive message, if i were a voter tonight, i would look like how will that person help you? >> a chance for one of those candidates to break through. thank you very much for joining us >> thank you for having me. connell: the first of many, bret and i were talking earlier, getting a really early start in this particular cycle. not even july yet and here we go with the debates. melissa: no doubt. very early start.

a lot of enthusiasm. a lot of major issues out there. connell, thank you very much for that. that wraps it up from miami, also from here in new york. bulls & bears gets ready to kick off right now. >> happening right now, president trump on route to japan for the highly anticipated g 20 summit meeting with china's president. the stakes are high as the president threatens to impose a possible second phase of new u.s. tariffs on chinese goods if no deal is reached. this is bulls and bears. i'm susan lee in for david asman. joining me is the panel today. but let's get straight to japan and edward lawrence has all the latest developments. >> i appreciate that, susan. president donald trump arrives here in osaka later on tonight, ja