mcdonald's, pepsi, mastercard will add to your wealth. [closing bell rings] liz: s&p and nasdaq appear to snap a two-day losing streak. that will do it for "the claman countdown." melissa: trying to get a comeback in the final moments of trading. investors cautious ahead of fed chair jerome powell's congressional testimony tomorrow. the dow fighting for green but not getting there. look at that. down about 19 point at the close. looks like the s&p 500 will close positive territory. nasdaq, snapping a two-day losing streak. i'm melissa francis in new york. this is "after the bell." connell: connell mcshane live today at progressive field at this year's baseball all-star game. the mlb is on center stage tonight after one of the wildest home run derbies that we ever

seen last night. one of the biggest names in the game is making major headlines before taking the field. we've have more from cleveland on that. first, here is what is new at this hour. melissa: health benefit for millions of americans at risk. a federal appeals court hearing argument on obamacare and the requirement that everybody buys insurance. the case most likely heading to the supreme court. what the outcome could mean for you, your wallet and your family. plus rebooting the "green new deal." how senator bernie sanders and congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez are gearing up for their next battle on capitol hill. a new frontier in the fight against robocalls. you hate them, right? we all do. a major carrier promisings to automatically block those annoying calls. the latest on that crackdown. connell: all right. we have fox business team coverage of all the day's top

stories with gerri willis at the new york stock exchange and blake burman live for us at the white house. blake, let's start it off with you. reporter: hi, there, connell. some of america's largest companies especially in the aerospace field getting the backdrop at the white house as the white house and the president announced new deals with qatar. the president and treasury secretary steve mnuchin presiding over contracts that were executed by qatar airways with boeing, gulf stream and ge. total price tag? not revealed today though the white house says it will include the purchase of five boeing 777 freighters. >> they're investing very heavily in our country. they're creating a lot of jobs. they're buying tremendous apartments of military equipment including planes. it's a transaction that will be purchasing a lot of boeing jets and a lot of money spent in our country. that means a lot of jobs. reporter: president trump earlier today, speaking of the president at least for the

moment he is standing behind alex acosta. the president says, he feels, quote, very badly for the labor secretary but he will be looking at acosta's handling of the jeffreyen steen non-prosecution agreement that acosta presided over 10 years ago give or take when he was the u.s. district attorney looking over, or at least handling the miami area. many democrats, connell, melissa, are calling on acosta's resignation. that included house speaker nancy pelosi and senate minority leader chuck schumer who took to the senate floor today calling on acosta to resign. the labor department says as of now, that is not happening. melissa: just the beginning, blake, thank you. stocks closing in negative territory today over renewed concerns that the federal reserve will be lessing a agressive about lowering interest rates as the economy remains strong. on top of all of that, the cbo is issuing a warning saying raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2025 will end up

costing 1.23 million jobs. here is liz peek, columnist for foxnews.com. gary kaltbaum from kaltbaum capital management. they're both fox news contributors. liz, what do you make of the analysis from the non-partisan cbo? >> it kind of segues into the conversation about raising the minimum wage as a arbitrary determinant of raising the cost of labor. when you raise the price of labor you will get less of it. the cbo basically said not only could you lose 1.3 million jobs, the number was, it could be as much as 3.7 billion for admittedly a modest boost to low income worker pay. so it's a real tradeoff. my problem, melissa is with the whole thing, when you raise the price of labor you will encourage automation. yes, you will lose jobs. those jobs will never come back. the more companies weigh the

opportunity to automate that is a decision they will never reverse. melissa: gary, it was never a coincidence, we saw amazon saying they would raise their minimum wage to $15 an hour. it wasn't very apart from the announcement we read about more robots, more automation. that is how this works, no? >> when you mandate more expenses to any business owners, big or small without any productivity gains there is going to be an equal and opposite reaction. it is going to be kiosks or a lot of people losing their jobs or not getting jobs. just remember business owners look at talent. if they see somebody making $10 an hour, all of sudden they have to pay them 15, they may not keep them. there will be a lot of repercussions. of course people coming out with this mandate know nothing about economics. know nothing about risk capital but are willing to tell all of business what they must and have to do. it will not look good when all said and done.

melissa: taking a shot at facebook, apple cofounder steve wozniak is warning about the loss of privacy on the popular social media site caught on tape by "tmz." listen to this. >> there are many different kinds of people. some the benefit of facebook are worth the loss of privacy, to many like myself, my recommendation is to most people, you should figure out a way to get off facebook. melissa: liz, what is your take on this? i'm part of the delete facebook movement as you well know. >> i think a lot of people are doing that. i don't think we need him to tell us. by gosh he is a pretty expert person in technology to tell us privacy absolutely does not exist in social media period. if you actually value keeping your own personal information private, don't do it because everything is at, that is out there is known to pretty much anybody who wants it. i think people will confront this liz. they will have to really weigh what are their objectives and why are they on facebook?

aren't there other apps that might come along that offer a different kind of scenario. melissa: gary, not only that, when i talk to data scientists recently they say that all that information, it is out there. anybody who wants to buy information for marketing purposes where you are, what you are doing, what a parking lot looks like, how full it is, who went where after they went to this other place, what facebook hasn't even that valuable anymore because everyone has it. >> well facebook thinks it is valuable. look my biggest issue was we went from a community to what i call the data collecting monsters. melissa: yeah. >> it just never ends. they keep telling us it is all disclosed. i have news for you, superman's vision can't see some of the scribble on some of the privacy disclosures out there. you can't even find half of them. they have gone overboard, too far. they're paying a price. i read every day about millenials getting rid of facebook.

in england, a lot of people are shutting it down. i only have a page. i took it off the phone. i don't want them following me anymore. enough is enough. melissa: liz, gary, thank you. say good-bye to some of your favorite tv shows on netflix. warner media is getting ready to launch its own streaming service. gerri willis has details on this. gerri, this is a trend. >> this is unbelievable. let me tell you what is going on, tell you about reaction of social media. "friends." 25-year-old comedy series leaving netflix. they are going to hbo max. that is warner media's streaming service. we don't know what the price tag on that will be. netflix on social media saying this, we're sorry to see "friends" go to warner services 2020. thanks for the memory es gang. a lot of stuff posted in response. i can't say it on our network. people are upset out there.

why? "friends" is one of netflix's top shows reason though it is 25 years old. ten seasons that of show. talk about virgin galactic. richard branson wants to take his space unit public so it can compete better with blue origin and spacex. these are two space companies. one launched by elon musk. the other by jeff bezos. already this company has 600 people that plunged down $80 million to go to space. presumably going public. it will help them raise much more money than that. so two interesting stories in the very public space of space and tv. maybe not so far apart. melissa, back to you. >> good stuff, gerri. thank you. let's go to connell in cleveland. another awesome assignment. connell? connell: that's right, i'm raking it in melissa. baseball is getting set to showcase tonight its biggest stars in cleveland as it does at

the all-star game every year. in some ways the game has never been healthier from a financial perspective. revenues are up for 16 consecutive years driven by huge tv contract. attendance has been falling in many cities. we've been talking here in cleveland to well-known figures in the game about those trends. super agent scott scott boris, clayton kershaw, superstar pitcher is talking about how competitive the individual teams are. >> the boston red win the world championship. they have a great team. attendance drops from prior year. why? because teams they're facing, the fans no are non-competitive. >> what do you tell the fan base? we'll turn it around like the astros and the cubs? you might not. that is tough way to sell to the fan base. connell: plus on top of that, a bit of controversy brewing off the field here the last couple days as well. justin verlander, the american league starting pitcher in the

all-star game he called visually baseball a joke, accused the league of juicing the baseball to increase offense. baseball commissioner rob manfred, denied the game or the league is juicing the ball to lead to more home runs. later on john smoltz, hall of fame pitcher will join us ahead of his call on the fox broadcast network. we'll talk about that. good stuff from john smoltz coming up. melissa: i can't wait. meantime senator bernie sanders and congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez teaming up to declare a climate change emergency. so will this resolution have more luck than the failed green new deal? james freeman from the "wall street journal" responds after the break. health care benefits are on the line. the courts could decide the fate of the affordable care act and whether or not the system can be saved. what you need to know next. ♪

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boy. that's a lot. a climate change emergency. that is what senator bernie sanders and democratic darling congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez are calling the current state of our environment as they introduce a sweeping resolution today unveiling their plan to curtail the problem, after the failure of the original "green new deal." what makes democrats think that this second time around will be the magical time? here to discuss james freeman from "the wall street journal." he is also a fox news contributor. i want to read you a few terrifying words from this. demands economic mobilization of resources on a massive scale. oh. that, that sounds really scary. they want to mobilize federal resources immediately in response. that sounds like my money. lots of it. more than joe biden has, more

than everybody. >> yeah, but maybe the effort now is to avoid putting a specific price tag on it. so we saw in march when when members of the senate were asked to vote on the "green new deal." you ran the estimates on this program. estimates ran tens of trillions of dollars over time. not a single senator was saying yes to bring it to the floor. they're going back, step one, we get everybody to agree that it is a crisis. without talking how much we'll spend to fix it. you look at abc news, "washington post" poll. climate does not rate among most important issues for voters. yes they're concerned, it false behind economy, health care, immigration, taxes, pretty much major issues, gun control, things you can name in terms of priority.

melissa: when you look at abc poll how the people felt the way president is handling climate change. 29% approve. 62% disapprove. he said he doesn't, he doesn't believe in human impact or in how dramatic their plans are, that sort of thing. 62% don't like the way he approached it. >> i think what the white house sees here voters are concerned. they agree this is a problem worth considering or monitoring. maybe they're skeptical about these projections given the horrible track record of predicting the past, not just the future with these computer models but they don't necessarily want to spend big dollars. you see that in polls, once people asking, $100, $200, how much are you willing to spend? it is nowhere close to the enormous sums of the "green new deal". this is the white house opportunity and challenge. we understand your concern. here are practical things we're

doing. they rolled out yesterday some stats, look, believe it or not, you may not realize this, a lot of air pollutants have come down over the last 50 years. and co2 emissions are roughly flat in the united states, up a little in 2018, probably going to decline over the next two years. melissa: once again it's a middle ground. if you look up, for example i grew up in l.a. the air quality has improved dramatically. >> right. melissa: you see the benefits of that just in your daily life, how you live. on the other end of the spectrum, they say they want to restore the climate. that is part of the language in this new fluorescent green new deal. restore the climate? >> to what? melissa: what is normal? >> of course they can't even, there is constant scientific debate what the temperature used to be. these estimates of the past are constantly being revised. so i think for a lot of voters, concerned about it, want to watch it. that is trump's challenge here,

is to say he is concerned too but he doesn't want to wreck the economy on that based on that concern. melissa: okay. james. thank you so much. >> thanks, melissa. melissa: want to bring you some clarity on the breaking news so that joe biden, $11 million in 2017. that was according to his tax returns. okay? i don't know how that was different from what we told you before. we'll sort it out. obamacare back in court this afternoon. a federal appeals court in new orleans is hearing arguments about the legality of the affordable care act which could impact the health care coverage of 20 million americans. let's go to fox news's casey stegall live in dallas with the latest. casey. reporter: melissa, as you know this now has been debated in court for years and years and the main focus of the legal challenge has been surrounding the individual mandate component of the affordable care act. critics called it, basically another tax because americans

were financially penalized for not carrying health insurance. the u.s. supreme court upheld the law in 2012 but did call that mandate portion unconstitutional. so congress dropped the tax pennsylvania in the to zero in 2017 arguing that fixed it. a federal judge in texas agreed. he said the law could not be saved on that one provision despite testimony from the law's supporters like this man. >> there is hundreds of thousands of people like me, here in this state, in this country, and it is not fair. it is not fair to anybody. you know, we're way to wealthy of a country to put veterans like me on the deathbed. reporter: supporters took their case to the fifth circuit court of appeals saying that the law provided 20 million americans with access to affordable health insurance. that it required insurance companies not deny people with

preexisting conditions, and by taking everything away, millions of people would suffer. though the plaintiffs lead counsel suggesting the law hurts more than it helps. >> this isn't about partisanship. this isn't about red versus blue states. this is really about the people that have to deal with the affordable care act, about how it is increasing premiums by double digits. about how people are losing their doctors, losing their health insurance plans. reporter: arguments are underway now. they're at the courts in new orleans. a three-judge panel hearing all of the evidence. a ruling is not expected to come until sometime in december. this is just appearance portion of the case. then a ruling to come in december. if that then doesn't go their way, it is likely the u.s. supreme court could take up the case. then in the following fall, melissa, that would put us in the middle of the 2020 election cycle. melissa: it sure would.

that is exactly the math i was thinking, casey stegall, thank you very much. working with congress to provide a permanent solution to those constant, pesky robocalls. how one company is getting revenge on the callers. much more in cleveland. connell. connell: we have a lot more coming up here from the site of the all-star game. he was a hall of fame pitcher, john smoltz, went to eight all-star games himself. john will talk to us about how the game of baseball is evolving. good stuff on the business of baseball. you don't want to miss it live from cleveland next. ♪ limu. a civilian buying a new car. let's go. limu's right. liberty mutual can save you money by customizing your car insurance, so you only pay for what you need. oh... yeah, i've been a customer for years. huh...

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action recaptures the fans. we're in an instant technology, instant gratification. if the game isn't going the way it is people are typically on the phones. never has talent been freighter, from a young standpoint, wanting to play the game, wanting to hit home runs. connell: we saw some of that last night with two rookies, vladmir guerrero, jr. and pete alonzo in the home run final. ha is what people are talking about, are there too many home runs in major league baseball? justin verlander starting the game for the american league made some headlines yesterday that the ball is juiced, was critical of major league basal. what do you make of his argument? >> you can't argue the statistics. record breaking scenarios. i look at it twofold, nba has more 3 pointers. philosophy is shooting more. shooting is not better but philosophy, statistics analytics

tell you the way to get more points is the three-pointer. that shift happened in baseball. you have defenses trying to get guys out. they have all the analytics telling them. i think the game will culturally shift again. it will self-correct. it is taking a while in my opinion. i think the way the game is being produced and reward system for the game, hey, hit a ball over the fence. hit a home run. connell: is the ball part of it? >> i think the ball is part of it? i will trust the pitcher 100%. if you blindfold me, give me seven different baseballs. i trust the pitchers know the ball is different. i trust the producer that the shot is better than what i think because he done it more. those are the things that indirectly have affected the game. it may not be something that, it may be an indirect consequence of how the game and the baseball is being manufactured. connell: i think one of the questions becomes, is that, commissioner talked about the fact there is less drag on the

ball. so there will be more home runs s that a good biggs decision from major baseball, take off your hat an look at it analystky, is that a good decision by major league baseball to incentivize the long ball like they're doing? >> anytime you inject something in the game it goes too far, you may have to self-correct, adjust the rules and the way the game is manufactured. there is point of no return, there might be a little bit too many home runs of the ball may carry in places one-handed swings you wouldn't see. guys are bigger, stronger, more prepared to hit a homer. from looking back at the game i would like to see more action. more fans would like to see the athleticism defensively we showcase every once in a while. you hear this all the time today, three threw outcomes, walk, strikeout homer.

that takes 50% of what happens in the fame. as the business standpoint sitting on the other side as the commissioner, guys that can affect the game, that is what you're looking at long term if it doesn't internally self-correct. connell: interesting to watch. all the watching with john buck. john smoltz, great stuff. melissa: good stuff. breaking, netflix records, more than 40 million households have watched the third season of stranger things since it hit, since the hit premiered on july 4th. that is higher than any other film or series over its first four days of release. this is according to the netflix. more than 18 million households have already finished the entire eight episode season. i haven't watched it at all. apparently i'm the only one. siding with drugmakers a judge is ruling against a proposal by the trump administration to help make drug prices more transparent.

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more than likely it is not going to end here. the government will continue to fight this issue with the department of justice. trump advisor kellyanne conway said the president is not a quitter. he is very fond of the rule that would koppel drug manufacturers to list their prices on tv. again what are they hiding? we want transparency. a lily spokesperson says the company is happy with the judge's ruling, not a huge surprise there. pharmaceutical companies spend big ad dollars to increase chances of potential patients asking their doctors for brand name drugs. the trump administration had proposed a rule that would have mandated these drugmakers feature their prices when they run their tv ads. now 88% of voters say they favor a government initiative mandating that an surers, hospitals, doctors, other providers disclose the cost of their services and discounted or negotiated rates. this is according to a survey by the center of american political studies at harvard done in

conjunction with a "harris poll.." congress seemed to agree on the need to reduce drug prices but lawmakers have not passed major legislation to do so. according to our proprietary research ahead of the midterm elections, we know health care is the number one most important voter issue, completely bipartisan. following this, president trump is suggesting tying u.s. drug prices to what other countries pay. that plan has not been finalized as of yet. we'll hear more and more about this in the runup to 2020, melissa. melissa: one of the big problems the price is not the price. one price for medicare. one price for other people. >> exactly right. >> is confusing. >> no transparency. melissa: hard to solve. deirdre, thank you. connell, over to you. connell: let's shift gears, melissa to the trade fight which of course is hitting some american businesses and companies are looking at this point for exemptions on the additional round of 300 approximately dollars worth of

tariffs on china. that includes items like model train sets. wisconsin it turns out is a top producer of this classic toy. there is only one man for the job on a story like this, jeff flock at walters, a milwaukee based manufacturer, distributor of model railroad supplies and tools. jeff, what are we looking at here? reporter: what you're looking at main street right there, connell. i wish i could ride these trains, i could control this world and the folks at walters look like they can control the world. great to have a camera on the train as you can see. this is an elaborate layout. people across america love model training this is one of the companies. we're talking about shoe companies. the second potential round of tariffs would hit. we're talk 25%. i have got the fourth generation walter. this is stacy walter napa, president of the company.

you're smiling because these tariffs have been put off right now but in the event that he goes through with it we you would like to be exempt. >> we would like to be exempt? >> why is that fair for you to be exempt. >> we think there is disproportionate negative impact like small businesses like ours and ones we serve. reporter: by the way, tell you wish you were here, connell, look at towns and things get created here. these are in basements all across america. it's a small business but a lot of pieces some of these things get made in china, right? >> they do. we work with very experienced contract manufacturers who know how to make this very, very fine detailed -- reporter: can't you make it here? >> i would love to figure that out. right now it is not practical. the market-based pricing being what it was, is, what our customers expect, it is really, really difficult to imagine now.

not to say we couldn't investigate it. we need the core business to be successful now so we fuel that investigation or investment. reporter: want to leave with you a quote from friends at trek, they make bikes here, some in china as well. the quote is this. the unanticipated cost would by us no other option to raise prices. you would have to do the same? >> we really believe we could have to. we sell to independent retail. we sell to end-users, to many of them on fixed incomes. so we can't see -- reporter: jack the price up. >> our customers can't absorb that. reporter: i hear that. the president says, we're making millions on the tariffs, billions maybe, but american companies paying it as well. i leave you perhaps with the end car on that train. pretty interesting. china shipping says that car. we're not shipping as much to china and they're not shipping as much to us. folks?

connell: you always find jeff, always find the most unique angles on these stories. jeff flock in milwaukee. reporter: we try. connell: here in cleveland where i am, batting practice for the all-star game is just beginning. i only alert you, toss back to you. in case you see a baseball hit me in the back of the head, that is what it was. i will miss you dearly. melissa: be careful there, connell. get down there you could do a little bat being practice yourself. i would like to see that. the women's world cup is over, but the women's team is just getting started, being the equal pay agenda back to capitol hill. will america's long national nightmare of robocalls coming to an end? federal communications commission is working on it. so is the private sector. we have one company on the front line joining us to explain after this. ♪ fact is, every insurance company hopes you drive safely.

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who knew they could do that? and text messages. here now is ethan garr, founder of robo killer. they find a new way to get through the maze, get to people, no matter what the fcc tries to do, so they can stay ahead. what do you think of these latest measures? >> certainly you're right. the scammers are very crafty. the measures are an important step. right now if you look at it, we've got 4.7 billion robocalls being made a month. melissa: wow. >> certainly enforcement and legislation are helping to stave the problem. products like ours, robo killer will stop calls ringing on the phone is important part of the legislation. legislation takes time. robokiller works today. melissa: how did you develop it, and how do you make money off of it? >> interesting i the fcc got us into this. they put on a contest, robocalls

and humanity strikes back. that got us into the fight. how we make money, it is subscription product. we have seven-day free trial. see how they experience the product, make real impact in their lives, make a difference, solve the problem, they can choose subscription, monthly or yearly, what is best for them. melissa: why did the government have the contest? were they going to adopt your technology? >> i think the government, legislators, congress, senate, i think they realized this is a very big nuanced problem. it is a very complex phone network. they realize they will not be able to solve it alone. legislation and enforcement can't do everything. two guys in a back room in malaysia making phony irs phone calls they're not afraid of enforcement. they realized it would be technology that would solve the problem. they looked to us. we used innovative tools like audio fingerprinting, machine learning, feedback to build an gore gore to actually stop these calls.

melissa: before we do this how does at&t announced they stop it. i have at&t, mine are largely gone away. how is your product different? is it the same kind of thing but a different gore algorithm is different. if you use caller i.d. to block calls it will be very limited. i don't think those solutions have long term shelf life to protect against these calls. robo killer, we're listening to audio of these calls, we're looking eight data around the calls, saying which calls are humans, which calls are robots, all happening in the background on a server. it is a good way to protect. >> we got to go. ethan, thank you so much for coming on, robokiller. we love it. thank you, connell. connell: melissa, we talk a lot of sports on the show today with me here in cleveland but now it is on to a different sport. that would be soccer as they are passing the political ball,

women's world cup team continues to celebrate after winning it all over in france but things have turned political for the team back here in the united states as the senate minority leader chuck schumer is using the team's win to try to bring light in his view to the issue of equal pay. he urged senate majority leader mitch mcconnell to consider the equal pay amendment, something that has already passed through the house of representatives. for more on this, washington now, hillary vaughn is on capitol hill with the latest for us. hillary? reporter: connell, the u.s. women's soccer team saying no to the white house but yes to capitol hill. senate minority leader chuck schumer on the senate floor extending invitation to the u.s. women's soccer team, getting political points out of it, saying that irvisit here underscores the need for the senate and senate majority leader mitch mcconnell to take up the amendment that the house passed, that relates to equal

pay. >> wouldn't it be great if we could pass that bill while women's national team was visiting the chamber? wouldn't that send a powerful message of our commitment to rooting out discrimination everywhere? reporter: democrats on capitol hill trying to push republican colleagues into a corner over equal pay, using the u.s. women's soccer team win as leverage but not every republican is divided on this issue. i talked to several republican lawmakers on capitol hill today saying they are not opposed to taking a closer look at the issue. even the president himself said he would like to see the women's team pay just as much as the men's team but they have to look at numbers. >> it's a business. i think everybody should be treated equally in terms of pay, if you do the same work, you get the same pay. but soccer is a business. i just don't know the arguments pro and con. reporter: senator joe manchin has a bill introduced in the senate that would address the

issue. connell? connell: hillary, thank you. hillary vaughn on capitol hill. back here in cleveland we have three hours to go before the all stair game gets underway. the fans are starting to make their way in. american league stars are taking their swings. i believe alex breadth man in there. abby hornacek covering the game joins us, she tells us what she is observing who may stand out in the game. back live from cleveland. in a moment. ♪ but perhaps this year, a more exhilarating endeavor awaits.

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everything here. i was talking earlier at vaccination, with abby horn a check of what can we expect with the game tonight. what we learned a little bit about what the home run derby champ, alonzo and what he plans to do with his $1 million in prize money. take a look. >> i have been having the time of my life. cleveland is beautiful. it's a little windy for the derby yesterday, but it's been a blast. >> you are in there at the media day which they had yesterday to get set for the game tonight. what stood out talking to the players? >> you know, the biggest thing to me is the generational change in baseball. you have a lot of bettering guys, mike trout, justin berliner, clayton kershaw, people have been here before. then you look at the rookies, rod junior, pete alonzo who would be to rookies who made it to the end of the home run derby. i think we talked about all the big performances in the derby in the past. eric judge in 2017, now you have these two rookies battling it

out, rod junior broke the mlb home run record in a single round with 29 home runs. >> that was crazy. luckily it was sitting mostly to left field. >> they were catching the ball. >> the ball would be coming to us. that alonzo the one who wanted it, great season. that's a he makes a little over 550,000, a lot of money to just about everybody but not a professional athlete. it basically doubled his salary. >> right, this is the first time a mlb history that they're offering a prize of $1 million. i talked him before hand and said what are you going to do with the money if you win? >> he said he'll donated to wounded warriors. he has a lot of family in the military and got sentimental about what these guys and girls do for our country. i think that a super special. things go be a baseball. to see that reward is going to something good is really wonderful to see. >> that's a good story and also a good game tonight. thanks for joining us. >> thank you for having me. >> alright, you can see the whole thing, the all-star game

on fox broadcast network. you can get coverage at 7:30 p.m. eastern time. with a pregame show. so, i'm going to head out and then i will see you back here. >> get a hot dog for me. all right, we love it. thank you so much. >> trade talks relaunch, white house official tally fox this u.s. and chinese officials have spoken over the phone today in an effort to relaunch talks and resolve outstanding trade disputes. chief white house economic adviser, larry cut lows here on what came out of that phone call today. welcome everybody, this is bulls and bears. thank you for joining us. joining me on the panel today carol ross, jonathan and john lico. first let's go one-on-one with white house counsel director. the president treatedhi