dna joseph maguire. president trump deserves far better from all of us. thanks for being with us. we say good night cheryl: it is 5:00 a.m. here are your top stories at this hour. the acting director of national intelligence testifies for more than three hours. how president trump's phone call with ukraine, the race now on to find the whistleblower's source as we're learning the whistleblower himself may be an officer with the cia. lauren: wall street's warning on elizabeth warren. democratic donors say they won't back her because her policies don't necessarily back them. cheryl: peloton hitting a speed bump. the makers of the exercise bikes and treadmills watched its shares end at 11% on the first day of trading. what mes message does that send.

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game. futures are up 46 right now. cheryl: weak economic data out of china, the u.s. political scene keeping asia in check overnight. the shanghai eeging out a slight gain. lauren: let's look at europe. the ftse is near a two month high after a central bank investor said investors may get more rate cuts even if a hard brexit is averting. cheryl: the top story is in washington this morning. top republicans are demanding to know who made that complaint about president trump's phone call with ukraine. after a tense hearing on capitol hill with the acting director of national intelligence. lauren: three and-a-half hours long. griff jenkins is in washington, as we learn that the whistleblower could allegedly be a cia officer. >> reporter: good morning. the new york times reports the whistleblower is a cia employee, detailed at some point on assignment to the white house. sources telling fox news that served on the staff of the national security council.

this as the acting dni, joseph mcgwire, testified for more than three hours that we've never seen anything like this. >> this is unprecedented. this is a unique situation. i believe the whistleblower and the inspector general have acted in good faith throughout. i have every reason to believe that they've done everything by the book and followed the law. >> reporter: the chairman, adam schiff, pressed mcgwire to explain his handling of it. >> you went to the subject of the complaint for advice first about whether you should provide the complaint to congress. >> it did appear that it has executive privilege. it was not stonewalling, i didn't receive direction from anybody. i was trying to work through the process and the law the way it is written. >> reporter: republicans seized on the acknowledgement that this is based on secondhand information. >> much like the steele dossier, the allegations in the whistleblower's complaints are based on thirdhand mainstream

media sources rather than firsthand information. >> reporter: but speaker pelosi was not satisfied, cautiously pressing ahead in the march to impeachment. >> this is a coverup. this is a coverup. i think what the dni di was broke the law. the law is very clear. this is nothing that we take lightly. >> reporter: the president reacted, blasting it, after returning from the u.n. >> it's a disgrace to our country, it's another witch hunt. they can't do any work. they're frozen, the democrats, they're going to lose the election. >> reporter: lauren and cheryl, if you can believe it, mcgwire was not done after all that. he also testified behind closed doors in front of the senate intelligence committee as well. lauren: griff, thank you very much. president trump's re-election campaign and the gop have raised $13 million since nancy pelosi announced a formal impeachment inquiry on tuesday. so all that money just a few days. the campaign and rnc say they raised a combined $5 million from online donors in the 24

hours after that announcement p. cheryl: growing worries that congress may not approve usmca this year. house democrats are intensifying the impeachment battle against the president. lauren: edward lawrence is in washington with the latest. >> reporter: mixed opinions now on if usmca will come up for a ratification vote in the house this year, now that the impeachment process has started. later today, u.s. trade representative robert lighthizer meets p again with democrats to address their concerns about enforcement in the agreement. the house speaker saying the process is moving but gives no dates. >> we're moving ahead on the u.s., mexico, canada agreement. we're again hoping to be on a path -- a continuing path to yes. >> reporter: a member of her caucus says there's a lot of business to cover before the end of the year and the house may not get to usmca. >> well, this year's the next two and-a-half, three months, i think that's unlikely. we have the appropriations bill

to do we have a government shut dhiewshutdown that could occur. >> reporter: lighthizer says it could be a catastrophe for the u.s. economy if the usmca doesn't pass. the republican leadership warning the house speaker to get her priorities straight. >> millions of americans are waiting for speaker pelosi to remember that serving the public interest includes more than picking fights with the president. it entails addressing the people's business. >> reporter: the white house pushing for a he vote sooner rather than later to end the uncertainty for business. >> we are thinking sometime this autumn speaker pelosi will give us a vote and we have a very good chance of getting this. >> reporter: larry kudlow says the trade deal with china is still moving forward, wrapped into all a of this could be huawei. u.s. companies are selling to huawei under a temporary general license. those waivers end november 17th. administration sources tell me it's just too far out to see if the waivers will be renewed.

>> likely, unlikely, i think we should deal with facts as they occur. we'll make an announcement when we make the decision. >> reporter: it's business as usual for huawei right now. back to you. cheryl: thank you. another unicorn has stumbled on its first day of trading. shares of peloton, the maker of the stationary bikes where you stream live classes, that tumbled 11% yesterday after the company's debut on the nasdaq failed to impress. the stock opening at $27 a share, that was $2 below the ipo price. the worry, they are not making a profit. but peloton's ceo spoke with our own gerri willis and he sounds pretty confident. >> we have doubled the company every year since we've been in existence. the triple digit growth, the law of large numbers would say you can't continue that forever, but this is a higher growth company and we plan to be one of the special growth stories of the next decade. cheryl: we shall see how pton opens up today. endeavor group wants to avoid

what happened to peloton. the entertainment company pulling its ipo which was due to make its trading debut actually today. all of this after another ipo story we've been covering and that's wework, they canceled their ipo earlier this month. government and ceo issues happening at wework we should add. lauren: investors giving them the cold shoulder many. we have a lot of headlines to get to on wework, the office rental company under fire, reportedly planning to push out 20 friends and family members of former ceo adam newman. wework is expected to cut thousands of job to prep a slimmed-down company for an ipo likely next year. reuters is reporting that adam newman cast his vote against himself when wework's directors voted this week to oust him. the financial times says softbank is now planning to pump an extra billion dollars, maybe more, into the company, maybe because wework is doing things

to appease them. cheryl: the national transportation safety board reportedly is saying boeing needs to use average pilots to test its planes out. this is the 737 max. that conclusion part of the safety recommendation, following those two deadly crashes of that jet. we are also of course watching that stock today. lauren: so is dan springer, fox news' reporter out in seattle. he has the latest. good morning, dan. >> reporter: cheryl and lauren, the national transportation safety board is critical of boeing's assumptions on how pilots would he react to an emergency when flying the 737 max. they tested pilots by giving them a single alert that the plane's anti-stall system was medicamalfunctioning and pushine nose of the plane down. the company assumed they would flip a couple he'l switches enve the plane crash they had several

warnings going on at the same time. >> they had multiple alerts in the cockpits. the more alerts you get as a pilot, the more likely it is you might handle something incorrectly. we felt like the assumptions did not account for multiple a alerts. >> reporter: so yesterday the ntsb issued a number of recommendations to the faa consider before allowing the 737 max back in the air. the two main points, better understand how pilots react to emergencies, especially when there are multiple alerts. and come up with a tool that prioritizes those alerts, to cut down on confusion in the cockpit. now it's up to the faa, which has been working with boeing to recertify the 737 max and end this very costly grounding. boeing officials say they have been focused on easy pilot workload, so it might have a partial solution. meantime, the company's reached its first settlement with victims of the two crashes. boeing agreed to pay 11 families of victims in streamlin the lio,

$1.2 million each. there are nearly 100 lawsuits that have been filed. the company has a victim fund set up of $50 million and it will compensate the airlines that bought the max planes and can't fly them $5 billion. in the second quarter alone of this year, the company lost a record $2.9 billion. boeing is still optimistic that it can get the planes recertified and flying again early in the fourth quarter which is just a couple of weeks away. cheryl, lauren. lauren: dan, thank you very much. remember that british oil tanker seize's by iran, it's now on the move. cheryl: tracee carrasco has the details on this. good morning, tracee. tracee: good morning. iranian authorities confirm the vessel left the port where it's been held for months. it is now heading towards dubai. iran's captured the ship in july for failing to observe international maritime law. it came two weeks after the british navy seized an iranian tanker. general motors and the uaw

reportedly are closing in on a deal. negotiations are said to be focusing on big picture issues such as wages, benefits, and the use of temporary workers. the top uaw of sent and update to union officials saying they're looking to finalize a new contract. facebook may give the thumbs down to the thumbs up. they will test hiding the number of likes, reactions and views that posts get. this move is aimed at improving users' well-being ands is backed by anti-bullying and mental health groups. instead, the likes will only be visible to the poster. the united states is number one in mul multimillionaires. the u.s. has more than 81,000 people worth at least $30 million. the most in the world. more than china, japan, and germany, canada and france combined. new york is home to 9,000 of the

ultra wealthy, ousting hong kong from the top spot. and that's what's happening now. lauren: hold onto your money because someone might take it from you in 2020. right? cheryl: we're going to be talk about that in a little bit. let's take a look at your money and how it's moving this morning. dow is up by 40 points right now, s&p up by 5. as the democrats ramp up the impeachment inquiry about president trump, they may not have considered how it will affect everyday workers. we're going to explain that. and he has done it again, how one ceo is giving back to his employees in a big way, for the second time. and as we head to break, here's a look at today's national average gas prices, $2.65 for a regular gallon of gas. we are down five days in a row on that. keep it here on "fbn: a.m." ♪ stop and stare. ♪ i think i'm moving but i go nowhere.

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what i think is really disgraceful is that anonymous whistleblowers are given total credibility. why should they have any credibility? they should come forward. this guy was not even on the phone call so he is at best reporting gossip and hearsay. what kind of a basis is that for taking a very serious action? lauren: that's commerce

secretary wilbur ross, speaking with jerry baker. he is raising a question about the identity, who is this whistleblower. we bring in attorney missy maris to discuss. does it matter who the whistleblower is? does that affect the whistleblower's credibility. >> certainly it does affect the whistleblower's credibility. the fact that this is not first p hanfirsthandhandknowledge is . the protocols require firsthand knowledge. that doesn't mean there should be a negative repercussion against this person. lauren: what if this whistleblower was a worker at the cia and does it matter who the source was who gave him that -- we believe it's a him, who gave him that information. >> certainly, because this whole issue is about credibility. so the sources going to matter. that's why you see all of these demands for the source. did that person have firsthand

information? are they going to say, yes, that's how it happened. the problem with secondhand information is that it tends to get lost in translation. so someone tells you this and maybe it gets -- it's actually given to -- put in this complaint in a different way, it's not factually accurate. lauren: what do you make of acting director of national intelligence mcgwire, he didn't give this whistleblower complaint to congress, instead it went to the doj, went to the white house counsel and the question is -- the problem is, that could be a coverup by the president and his team and the coverup could be worse than the crime. >> the coverup's always worse than the crime. that's certainly true, lauren. it is a complicated situation. that's what we saw mcgwire say yesterday in his testimony. he said, look, it involves the president. i handed it over to the doj and the doj gave me guidance. and i had to follow that guidance. he was a bit stuck between a rock and a hard place because there's a mechanism that says it those go to the intelligence committee but yet the doj is

giving guidance to hang back until they have the opportunity to conduct an investigation. so, look, i do not think it has the air of wrongdoing in the way it's being spun in the media. lauren: it is being spun by both sides. this is something we'll continue to talk about. i quickly wanted to get your thoughts as we follow the college add a missions scandal. we've -- admissions scandal. we've had three sentencings so r far of the parents, the latest is a four month sentence by one father. should lowr lori loughlin who pd guilty, should she be worried? >> absolutely. i think a lot of parents who pled not guilty will be working with prosecutors to see if there's plea deals still on the table. you're talking about the parents who took responsibility early, that's the perfect way approach the case and they're still getting jail time. lori loughlin needs to think about her decision in this case.

lauren: cheryl, over to you. cheryl: the impeachment process could be a major headache for companies. a report warns that businesses need to brace for higher turnover amounts in the heated political climate. worker turnover is happening because of toxic office cultures. it's already cost companies $223 billion over the past five years they say and they report the turnover costs could climb if companies don't start to address worker disagreements. maybe don't talk politics at the office. just a thought everybody. it was four years ago that the ceo of the credit card processing company gravity payments cut his own salary in order to give his employees a raise. dan price is doing it again. he just told his employees all of them are going to receive a minimum salary of $70,000 by 2024. employees already earning that much bumped up by $10,000, right

away. the last time this guy did this, he cut his own salary by $1 million. all right. well, still ahead, another unicorn ipo down the tubes as investors are hitting the brakes on peloton's debut. the stock lost more than 11% on day one. is this proof that wall street unicorns are really just fairytales? and he netflix paid a pretty penny for the right to stream the show about nothing. how jerry seinfeld has gotten a lot of something out of the deal. we'll explain. you're watching "fbn: a.m." ♪ yeah, we're laughing all the way to the bank. ♪ because it all just seems to funny. ♪ but for guys like us -- here, it all starts with a simple...

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let's bring in francis newton stacy. ipo had a rough start yesterday. looks like the main concern for wall street is they're not profitable right now and they're not telling us when they're going to be profitable. >> that's right. that's the new standard for an ipo, right? cheryl: it's not working. it's not working. >> you know, for me, what i think is super interesting is that these ipos are all kind of coming out and it's super late cycle and it looks a little bit like 1999, 2000, you had tons of ipos before the business cycle rolled over. maybe it's just me. maybe i'm too old. but that's kind of what this environment is reminding me of. cheryl: you and i both remember pets.com. we're seeing that again, the dot-com bubble and the subsequent bust, pets.com, take your pick of those companies that went out of business. this seems like we're kind of in that -- it's not the same thing but it's very similar, right? >> it does look similar.

and just the economic data sort of indicating a late cycle type situation. the comps sort of peaking in the third quarter of of last year and also wework and endeavor, these guys pulling things in the last minute and changing their valuations. it just looks a little bit sketchy. as far as peloton goes, i think the founder said it best yesterday and i'm ad libbing, i don'idon't recall exactly what e said, something to the effect that people either see the vision or don't see the vision. i can say owning the bike has a big price tag but only a bike myself, i can't imagine living without it. it's so convenient. cheryl: they're offering digital memberships, $20 a month now, if you don't want to spend the 2,000 plus for each bike. they are really expensive, as are the treadmills. so that's your point. i love them too. we'll see what happens. i want to ask about the u.s. and china. we're learning -- there's a new report that these will kick off in washington october 10th and

11th and leo ha will be on the ground in washington. how do you feel about the china situation? >> the last time he came into the picture, there were questions whether or not that meant they were serious about doing a deal because it wasn't xi himself. i think at the end of the deal china has to get a deal and i think trump really has to get a deal. he came out and said i won't accept a halfway deal. now that he's under the impeachment inquiry, i think he's more pressured than ever to get a deal. i think the deal is mostly priced into the markets. i do think that china and the u.s. are going to kind of stop the tit-for-tat and now kind of come to business and get a deal done. cheryl: we shall see. that's the hope anyway. well, we'll talk about it soon. thanks for being here. it's great to have you. enjoy your bike ride this weekend. >> thank you. bye ladies, happy friday. lauren: happy friday indeed.

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biden's cam many reportedly considering a tax on wall street. biden has been slipping in the polls lately and is the only candidate among the democratic front runners who has not backed some form of large scale wealth tax on america's richest as well as taxes on corporations. the washington post says the plan would tax financial transactions like stock sales. cheryl: recent polls in iowa and new hampshire has shown elizabeth warren as the new frontrunner, edging out joe biden. but will her policies to tax major corporations send wall street voting for president trump if she wins the democratic nomination. we've got a long way to go. let's bring in brad polumbo in this. brad, good morning. brad, can you hear me? good morning. >> good morning. cheryl: so let's talk about this. there's a lot of talk now among wall street and reports and even source quotes without names on them that are saying, look, if it's elizabeth warren, even if these are democratic wall street

hedge fund managers, the same group is saying there's no way they can vote for elizabeth warren. it would just decembe desimate r businesses. >> if i was a wall street executive, elizabeth warren as be president would be my worst nightmare. she pushed enormous wealth tax that arguably unconstitutional and also pushed something called the accountable capitalism act which would make the federal government the ceo of any business that makes over $1 billion in revenue. it would give them ultimately they would need permission from the government to conduct business and they would be subject to extensive regulation. so of course these wall street democrats, even if they don't like president trump or they don't like the things he tweets or says or whatever you may have, they're going to still view elizabeth warren as a much more of a nightmare scenario. cheryl: the message that president trump is pushing amid all the controversy and i'm peerment inquiry and --

impeachment inquiry and he responded to maria bartiromo's tweet, this is what he said -- she said stocks hit session lows after pelosi had a an impeachment inquiry. he said if they did this, the markets would crash. stocks have been on a tear since the election. >> he does have a good point. there's lots of things you can fault president trump for but the economy is just not one of them. you've got good jobs numbers consistently, good growth numbers. the economy has been good under president trump and if you're in the business industry like some of these wall street democrats, maybe you just don't want to mess that up. cheryl: it all comes down to the electoral college. president trump i scheduled a rally in minneapolis next month. he will be in ilhan omar's district. he was close but not quite in 2016 with regard to minnesota. do you think this time he can flip that state? >> it is a blue state. he only lost by i believe about 50 or 60,000 votes in 2016 so he

could flip the state. it's mor important to realize tt omar is a bit of an outlier, is more radical and far left than a lot of voters in the state. if he can paint himself as foil to ilhan omar, maybe he has a shot. cheryl: brad, thank you for getting up early. lauren: tom homan back in the hot seat on capitol hill, taking on democrats over the crisis at the border. a washington congresswoman scad him about the trump administration's use of additional funds for border beds. >> you have failed to work with this president to close the three loopholes we've asked for two years to closed. you let other people go beyond their time. not to tom homan. he can't go beyond his time. >> mr. homan -- >> you work for me. i'm a taxpayer. i'm a taxpayer many you wor.

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lauren: do you get your food delivered from door dash? major data breach slamming the company. hackers stole the data of 5 million users' information including names, addresses and last four digits of debit or credit cards. the data was assessed by hackers back in may.

they began contacting people affected by the breach. users who joined after april 5th of 2018 not affect. cheryl: staggering new figures about veighing. the center for disease control says the number of confirmed or probable illnesses linked to vaping has risen to 805 across the country, 52% increase from last week. hours after the numbers were released yesterday, mississippi and oregon each announcing another death from vaping related illnesses. this raises the total to 13. lauren. lauren: voters may be worried about the economy but that's not their wallets are saying. the university of michigan's consumer sentiment index will be out this morning. why are we paying attention? it's expected to rise to 92 from the seven-year low it was at just back in august. let's bring in strategic resource group managing director burt flickin ger to discuss.

10,000 stores have closed since 2018, tariffs, foreign tourism is down, movie attendance is down. yet we're expecting to spend a lot of money in the economy. >> more employment, higher wages and shopper loyalty through sustainability. the best retailers who are winning, amazon, apple, target, walmart and costco, bj's wholesale club, ikea, the common denominator is they're using solar power to cut their energy cost in half so they're increasing wages through the savings, lowering shopper prices and through the sunrise movement, shopers want sustainability. going back to thomas edison who said solar is an inexhaust form of energy and everyone should use it. lauren: talk about the health of the consumer, do we expect those low prices, are we willing to pay higher prices? how fragile is the consumer

right now? >> consumer's not fragile but the consumer's smarter than ever, regardless of education r regardless of income. there's price discovery through am a son and through online -- amazon and through online retail. smart shoppers want a bargain, need a bargain and they'll get a bargain because they're outsmarting the stores. lauren: is there one retailer, one brand out there who has the ability to just charge whatever they want because customers want what they have so badly? >> in our earlier discussions, lauren, we thought it was luxury. but even with luxury, luxury's declining because tourism's down because of the high value of the dollar. so the flagship luxury stores, whether it's niemann marcus, saks, bloomingdales, in the gateway cities they're seeing comparison sales down. there's no one with real pricing power, tiffany's, some of the

brands, yes, but generally, a lot less. lauren: are you concerned that if the economy should slow down more here in the united states, that we lose the consumer, the smart consumer as we've been discussing and if you lose the consumer, you lose economic power. >> we won't lose the consumer but the consumer will shop less. so shoppers especially millennials, gen-z to gen-y, they're thrifting. they're buying at the thrift stores. they're buying repurposed vintage products. so as people have more stuff, they may spend less. also, what we're seeing in the auto industry, post gm's strike settlement, is shoppers are getting less cars because there's less steel going in. the cars are reaching the highest prices ever. so people may spend less on auto, big part of retail, but they will spend more on buying homes, renovating, remodeling homes and apartments and with the birth rate going up,

marriage rate going up, and the home market starting to improve, that should really offset everything else. lauren: it's amazing how the landscape out there has changed, how we consume. good to see you. >> always good to team up. thank you. cheryl: coming up, travel can be so much fun, from the airport lines to boarding one of those long flights. it can be daunting, okay. well, wait until you hear how one passenger decided to deal with the need for a little fresh air. and ucla is doing what no other university has done, it's not about being smart. it's about being kind. you're watch "fbn: a.m." ♪ i want to thank you. ♪ my respect for you. ♪ i want to thank you. ♪ i want thank you ork. where an american icon uses the latest hr tools to stay true to the family recipe.

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lauren: boston dynamics' robot dog might be getting new tricks. there are talks for the dog to be used in live shows. the robots can walk, climb stairs, but can they do acrobatt batics -- acrobatics. cheryl: tesla is updating their software to include a karaoke feature. they're rolling out a self-driving feature. thed a-on will cost $5,000. shares of tesla spiked yesterday after elon musk said they had a shot of delivering 100,000 vehicles for this quarter. lauren: european markets are not flat. they are significantly higher this morning. on hopes that the u.s. and china reach a trade deal when talks resume next month. but investors continue to follow brexit developments. we have a bank of england policy

maker just saying that a rate cut could be possible even if the u.k. reaches a deal with the eu. some people would call that a miracle. jane foley senior currency analyst joins us. good morning. is that all it took to push the ftse to a near two-month high this morning? a rate cut? >> you've got to remember that the official line from the bank of england has still left the threat of an interest rate hike in there. that's quite different as we know to most other major central banks. most central banks have been cutting interest rates this year. the bank of england has left the threat that they could hike. what they're thinking, if there's a soft brexit there could be an unleashing of demand, that could push up prices and then they would hike. what we have fro from sanders ty is the warning that the head winds are too strong. we have a slowdown in the global economy and the bank of england is more likely to cut. lauren: we are almost exactly

one month away from the deadline. do you see an extension as inevitable here. if you do or if you don't, what is an tension -- what does an extension actually get you? >> i think an extension would kick the can down the road a little more and we would be back wondering if we can get no deal brexit again on january 31st. an extension is likely. the prime minister is saying he still won't do that. europe does have to agree to a delay. perhaps they'll only agree if they think something will change in the time frame. that's just not certain. lauren: speaking of the prime minister, boris johnson, what he is saying, the language he is useing, some officials are -- in government are getting death threats and the death threats are using some of johnson's language. that's concerning. >> well, this is -- it is very concerning.

they were extremely angry in houses of parliament because of that, some of the opposition mps want the prime minister to tame his language. for instance, he is using the word surrender, the surrender bill, that's what he's calling the new legislation, that is trying to force him to ask for an extension. so the language is -- if there's a general election which could happen in the next few months, it's likely the language will be very divisive. lauren: jane, thank you very much. cheryl: well, it is a growing trend. hard seltzer. there's more good news out there for fans. lauren: bring it to us, tracee carrasco. tracee: brew bound reported the maker of the seltzer will invest 25 # of million dollars to meet the demand that led to a shortage. the money will be used to build news facilities. white claw is working around the clock to increase production of the popular drink. a travel nightmare to tell you about.

a passenger waiting for her flight to take off opened the emergency exit because the cabin was, quote, too stuffy. the woman was traveling on chinese airline z-man. she ignored warning signs and opened the door anyway in order to let in fresh air. the flight was delayed by one hour and the woman was taken away by police afterwards. and one of the nation's most prominent universities is pouring in a ton of cash into kindness. ucla getting a $20 million grant to launch a kindness institute. the school says the goal is to empower citizens and inspire more humane society suggested it's needed in the current world of politics, violence and strife. cheryl: this is what ucla is doing, kindness, really? lauren: ucla berkley has a class in adulting. that's what they're doing in california. cheryl: no wonder why students

are so loaded down with student debt because of stuff like this. i have no words about the woman on the chinese plane. that's hysterical. coming up, it's week four of 17 in the nfl regular season but the league and pepsico announced a half time show. get your dancing shoes on, everybody. we've got the names. and it's some folks' worst travel nightmare having to sit next to a screaming baby. lauren: it's the parents' worst nightmare. cheryl: it's my worst nightmare. ♪ d about my parents' retirement. oh, don't worry. voya helps them to and through retirement... ...dealing with today's expenses... ...like college... ...while helping plan, invest and protect for the future. so they'll be okay... without me? um... and when we knock out this wall imagine the closet space?

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my quarterback will not be playing. jennifer lopez and shakira will be this year's half-time performers. cheryl: last year it was almost the end of the year and the ladies signed up right away. >> maroon5 and kevin scott. jennifer lopez, j.lo, shakria not too bad. i think billy joel needs to do it. lauren: he's performing. we are pivoting here, we are talking about you're flying and crying baby, what do you do? >> japan airlines doing standard now hopefully as if you go to book a flight and go to seating chart, baby icon to show if anybody -- if you'll be sitting near a baby, 8 months to 2

year's old, that's also -- that way you can inflight and not deal with crying baby. >> thank you very much. lauren: i kind of agree, it's more stressful for the parents with a crying baby, mornings with maria start right now. maria: hey, there ladies, good morning, everyone, i'm maria bartiromo, happy friday, friday september 27th, top stories before 6:00 a.m. on the east coast, demanding details, top republicans want to know who made the complaint about president trump and the ukraine president, the impact on markets as democrats call for impeachment, that continues this morning, markets pointing to heir opening, take a look at futures, gains and nasdaq up 16 following declines yesterday, trade in focus, house speaker nancy pelosi now says a deal between u.s.-méxico and canada will move forward, still no word on when an actual vote will take place and when she will bring that to the floor, ipo troubles,

peleton falling, entertainment company endeavor pulling ipo, expect today start trading today, taking a look why it's been sufficient a rough road on what could be ipo, mornings with maria begins right now. ♪ ♪ maria: big show this morning, joining the conversation fox business dagen mcdowell and john, and pollster and president of maslansky + partners lee carter is here, great to see everybody this morning. dagen: we were talking about opening friday morning with alman brothers. original top gear.