from pittsburgh. [closing bell rings] 5% correction he would see that as buying opportunity, if the december 15th tariffs go into play. dow and nasdaq on pace for the first big win in december. melissa: back in the green. all three sectors in positive territory despite dismal job growth. the dow ending up 151 point, there you go, boosted by industrial and financial stocks. i'm melissa francis. connell: conn nell mcshane on "after the bell." s&p 500 and nasdaq ended the day in positive territory, fighting too cover losses yesterday. we'll talk about big market movers of the day. first, here is what is new at this hour. president trump on his way back to washington, the president cutting his nato trip a little bit short. abruptly canceling a scheduled

news conference. this after video emerged showed world leaders gossipping about the president. melissa: "mean girls." connell: latest response from the white house on that and more. impeachment hearings back today on capitol hill. witnesses taking the stand. not everybody believing that democrats have a case. we'll talk about that. plus, a new message from north korea as kim jong-un once again ride as white horse off the peak of a sacred mountain. melissa: typical day. connell: what the staged photo-op means for the united states. melissa: i didn't mean to step on your joke. that was better one. fox business team coverage. blake burman live in london. gerri willis on floor of the new york stock exchange. edward lawrence at white house, grady trimble in chicago. blake, let's kick it off with you? >> melissa, connell, forthright meeting yesterday between president trump and emmanuel macron is warm up for back and forth we saw between president trump and justin trudeau.

there was a hot mic moment last night of all places here in london, at buckingham palace involving trudeau, macron and boris johnson. you will remember yesterday the president had what seemed like rolling press conferences with, during his meetings with world leaders. those three were then seen talking about all of that, with trudeau saying that he was late because of the press conference, that the president eventually had alongside him? well, today trudeau had to answer questions about the video that went viral. so too did president trump. the president at one point was critical of trudeau. kind of softened his stance a little bit. he also says he thinks trudeau didn't like being called out on canada's defense spending yesterday by the president. trudeau was then forced to respond about it all. watch here. >> he is two-faced. reporter: do you think that germany is -- >> trudeau is a nice guy. i find him to be a very nice

guy. the truth is, i called him out on fact he is not paying 2%. i guess he is not very happy about it. >> last night i made a reference to the fact that there was an unscheduled press conference before my meeting with president trump. and i was happy to take part of it. reporter: that consumed some of the day here in london. speaking of london, what is going on back in washington, the president said, as it relates to the house judiciary committee, the first hearings happening in that committee, that he doesn't think the american people are going to be watching. as he believes it. he says those hearings are boring but the president was very critical today, connell and melissa, the democrats holding that hearing in washington as he was overseas conducting serious foreign policy with the nato meetings. the president aboard air force one, about to land later in washington later today. back to you. melissa: blake, thank you. connell: we're looking on the

bright side. major averages certainly in the green today. renewed trade hopes with investors eyeing that december 15th date where the tariffs are to be put in place on chinese imports. let's go to edward lawrence, live at the white house with the latest at we're learning it about trade. what are we hearing edward? >> exactly, connell. they are getting ready for the president to land, come back home here to the white house. the administration juggling a lot of balls in the air today. usmca negotiations going on today. phase one trade negotiations and. show you a tweet from white house press secretary stephanie grisham, that tweet saying basically the administration is going forward, the people are not getting from congress exactly what they had offered from congress. they're focused on impeachment here. the work the white house has done, first and foremost is ratify usmca. the talks as u.s. trade

representatives office going on right now. mexico's top trade negotiator is there he says there are two or three issues that have to be overcome. he says those things hopes can be resolved in the next coming days. phase one trade deal with china, another issue. u.s. trade sources tell me, that the last time the two heads of the trade teams talked was about eight days ago, on deputy level they're talking about daily. head of trade teams make the decisions. those sources say the administration going forward with additional tariffs on december 15th. the caveat though, phase one deal gets on paper before that date, if there is significant progress the president made decide to hold off on that. two sources telling me there is internal debate going on here. some folks want the president to sign, a skinny trade deal, before the elections next year. others are saying, stand firm and get that enforcement deal going forward. but again, all sides on that front are still talking, back to you. connell: edward lawrence, on the

north lawn. melissa: stocks snapping a three-day losing streak. gerri willis with details on that. gerri? >> the markets undoing some of yesterday's damage. the dow ending up 146 points after the dow was down 280 yesterday. and leading the dow higher today, we have jpmorgan chase, goldman sachs, j&j. banking stocks overall higher on rising treasury yields. the whole sector doing better. j&j had good news, saying yet again, its talcum powder contains no be a asbestos in it. fda still says it does. look at that number. 67,000. what does this mean for november jobs out friday. consensus 140,000. traders day that it may be difficult, i'm sorry, 180,000. traders say it may be difficult to reach that number. oil higher today.

saw inventories coming in lower than expected. the first u.s. crude weekly supply decline in six weeks. that where we saw good news there. google cofounders, big headline for the company. sergey brin, larry page, stepping down. they have been ceo and president. the two will remain on the board. they control a majority of the voting power of the company. the company's 21 years old. so big news for google. shares higher there. back to you. melissa: gerri, thank you. connell: a possible game-changer. the new york yankees teaming up with amazon to become the first major league baseball team to stream games directly to viewers without a cable subscription. from a "new york post" report. could it put amazon ahead in the streaming wars? jonathan hoenig joins us, capitalist pig hedge fund founding member, fox news contributor. big afternoon for baseball news, business news. multiple reports that the big hedge fund manager steve cohen is in talks buying majority of stake of the new york mets.

we'll talk about later in the hour. on this story involving the yankees, this could be a big one, we talk all the time, jonathan about cord-cutting. yankees had terrific season on the field. television ratings on yes network were down 17%. part of that had to be cord-cutting. is this part of a model, of cord-cutting cutting a deal with amazon? >> connell the television landscape writ large is changing. cord-cutting is big part of it. looking for younger audiences, mlb in particular. the yankees as you said, despite doing very well are losing viewers. we're seeing here, synergy. interestingly amazon is now an investor in the yankees yes network. that is the cable network. there is a bit of synergy here. it comes down to content. all the big tech players, twitter signed a deal with the nba to stream some of their games. amazon, facebook, yahoo!. they're all looking for content. premier content like the yankees will demand a premier price.

connell: very interesting. there you go. melissa: putting a string on it. airpod accessory, carrying strap is hitting the market designed to secure your wireless airpods but 60-dollar strap makes them look a whole lot like, normal headphones. jonathan, see i actually considered this myself because i lost one. at times, you really need a strap on these things. wait, that would make them normal ear pods. >> you're not alone. about 17% of people who bought the airpods lost one or the other. apple is making a lot of money on replacement. 7% of airpod purchases are actually replacement purchases. comes down to it's accessory, stupid. buy the phone. buy the airpod cozy and airpod strap. i haven't made switch. i'm old school wired version, but pretty good insurance considering airpods can cost 150

bucks. for couple extra dollars you will not lose them this christmas. melissa: my kids can accessorize anything. we had cousins, they had a case for the ear pod case. a case for the case. perfect. what everyone needs. makes sense, you want cord for wireless ear buds. jonathan, thank you. i will not buy it. connell: opposite of cutting cord. put it back on. general motors lays off 800 workers at a detroit plant. all this coming before the holidays. trim trillion on the story. with. >> 800 workers is essentially every assembly line worker at the detroit plant. a few months ago general motors wanted to close that plant entirely, stop making cars there. then the uaw strike happened. general motors agreed to keep it open with a new product line. right now the plant makes chevy impala, and cadillac ct 6. sedans are not popular right

now. people want big trucks and suvs. general motors wants to phase those out. instead make an electric truck there. to do that, gm needs a little bit of time to retool the plant. which is why it is laying off the employees. general motors says we expect opportunities in michigan and ohio for all laid off workers. we expect to begin making job offers to the employees beginning in january 2020. connell. connell: grady trimble in chicago for us. melissa: legal experts speaking out. house judiciary committee holding first hearing on impeachment for president trump. the committee chair is on fire for flip-flopping his stance? gnaw. we're on the capitol hill with the insanity, robocalls are on the rise. millions of americans are at risk. how can you protect your hard-earned cash? melissa: a shift behind the wheel in one industry is targeting a new group of

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connell: launching a new phase in the proceedings. house judiciary committee today questioning four legal experts

on the case for peachment. first public hearing in that committee. hillary vaughn covering on capitol hill with the latest as the hearing continues. hillary. reporter: four law professors gave their opinion about chairman adam schiff intelligence report from his investigation. the three law professors, democrats invited here today, they thought evidence in the report shows schiff's findings do meet standards for high crimes and misdemeanor for impeachment, particularly with concerns of bribery and also obstruction of justice. but republican witness here today, isn't convinced the report meets the standard for obstruction of justice or bribery. >> well, this is an improvizational -- close enough is not good enough. if you're going to accuse a president of prescribery, you need to make it stick. you said an incredibly short period, demand a huge amount of information. and when the president goes to court, you then impeach him.

>> democrats trail of witnesses flatly disagreed with turley's take. one of them got personal bringing up the president's son barron, talking about the limits of the president's power as outlined in article ii of the constitution. >> so while the president can name his son barron he can't make him a baron. >> white house quickly responding to her comments. secretary griffin, classless move by a democratic witness. professor carl lan use as teenage boy who has nothing to do with a joke of hearing as a punch line. it is met by laughter in the hearing room, what is being done to this country is no laughing matter. one of criticisms from the republican side, how fast this impeachment proceed something moving, connell. connell: hillary vaughn, covering it all on capitol hill. melissa. melissa: taking a bit of a different tune, listen to jerry nadler leading the house judiciary impeachment charge had

to say about the very topic back in 1998. >> the effect of impeachment is to overturn the popular will of the voters. we must not overturn an election and remove president from office except to defend our system of government and cox constitutional liberties against a dire threat. we must not do so without overwhelmingly consensus of american people. there must never be a narrowly vote voted impeachment or impeachment support the by one major political parties and opposed by by the. melissa: bill mcgurn, of "wall street journal" check, check on last two things he mentioned there narrowly voted. supported by one side. has to be supported by majority of american people. he is saying those very things. today leading the exact opposite. >> he said them a few months ago. say this for today's hearings. i don't think they're anymore ridiculous than the hearings we had so far. the outcome was foreordained.

reason for process, we have a bad process. that the democrats put adam schiff in charge. probably the least-trusted man across the, from across the aisle. is because the process dictates this outcome that they want. so i think, look the real question this leads to, not whether they will impeach. you saw they are going to impeach. will they get any republicans, probably not. and will any democrats defect. remember the vote to proceed with the inquiry, the vote against it, was more bipartisan, had two democrats than the vote for it. melissa: here's the critical math. so half of test in congress, democrats in congress in districts president trump won have to vote impeachment. they have to vote to unseat the president their constituents voted for. they have to take away the will of the very people in their district who they are supposed to represent. that sounds like walking the plank if you're a democrat. are they going to do that,

really commit their own political suicide? you would think. right? i mean wouldn't it -- >> some of the districts are close. like in my district in new jersey where mike sherrill won, the democrat, it was i think it went for trump by a sliver. so i'm not sure all of them would lose their seat but they're in a difficult position. look, i think, you know, people talked about a censure. that is out of the question. the aoc crowd, they're not in the mood for censure, right? they want full removal. they want impeachment. if they gone the censure route they might have have gotten a few republicans but they didn't get it. polling among democrats, democrats want impeachment. that is mrs. pelosi's problem. she has taken them up to the river's edge. she can't turn around say, well not really at this point t would be chaos. melissa: will be chaos either way. >> there are a lot of recriminations in today's democratic party if president

trump were not impeached. the outcome was foreordained i think. melissa: look at video. this is video of nato leaders mocking president trump. it has been seen around the world. when i saw it, i at first thought maybe it was fake. everyone is trying to figure out who the woman on the side is. what was your take on this in the aftermath today? >> another little thing. it is about drama surrounding nato. bigger questions, facing nato are, again who's the enemy? what are they going to do? what is the role of turkey and so forth. no one looks good in this, in this kind of thing. melissa: it's interesting because, so the two things kind of have the same theme where it's the president really upsetting the establishment. and the way that things have been done. the order of things. and, you know, that is a lot of conversation about impeachment today, especially when, you know, when robert turley said for republican side, i didn't

vote for president trump. but if this is going to be, if you use subjective terms in order to impeach a president, and suppositions that you haven't proven, do you realize you know where this is heading? and how are you going to feel when the wind changes direction. what are your thoughts? jonathan turley. >> you mentioned, you mentioned jerry nadler, that is what he used to say. he used to be quite frank. this is the death penalty for presidents. political office. you're overturning result of an election. and i thought, mr. turley's statement was excellent t was very sober. he said it as a person, he said who did not vote for donald trump. very serious. an indication of how unseriousness this is. no one really pressed him and so forth. let's punch the clock. get through the day, so get articles of impeachment out the door. melissa: bill, thank you. >> thank you, melissa. connell: now a "fox business alert." back to edward lawrence at the white house.

new report, edward reveals vulnerabilities in the economy? tell us about it. reporter: exactly. this is the financial stability oversight committee report here. it is embargoed for another hour. i can't tell you a read from the report but i can tell you what the treasury official said about the report. i will pick out two elements, global slowdown, that is one of the vulnerabilities looking at in the annual report. the report states basically a modest global slowdown will not affect the u.s. economy at all. basically a severe global slow down will drag the u.s. economy down with it. that is something then, that they are watching over at the treasury department, and this committee. the federal financial oversight committee by dodd-frank. that the treasury official says a slowdown in the european union and china is having a modest effect on the u.s. economy at this moment. the treasury official says that rising trade tensions has increased uncertainty for firms. that is a downside risk to the economy. one more thing i will point out,

cybersecurity, in this report, according to treasury official, it says basically firms need to pay more attention to the cybersecurity. that is because technology has become more pervasive throughout this entire economy, not just folks using it for trade. also information coming in and vulnerability and recommendations, in this report, according to treasury official is that firms spend more money to protect the technology that they use and rely on. back to you. connell: interesting. a little bit more on this in the next hour. edward lawrence, at the white house. melissa: "no malarkey" joe. former vice president announcing a tax proposal targeting the biggest names in silicon valley. connell: plus a new report revealing potential shake up for the new york mets. this guy's involved. we're breaking down implications. ken rosenthal broke the story from fox sports. he will joins us on steve cohen and the mets coming up. cologuard: colon cancer screening for people 50

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connell: "fox business alert." fox sports baseball reporter ken rosenthal who writes for the athletic, reports sterling partners, steve cohen the hedge fund manager are negotiating a deal that will increase mr. cohen's investment in the new york mets. ken joins us by telephone. this is interesting sports story. a big business story, ken, because it involves steve cohen. as i understand it, from looking at tweet, following other reporting followed yours, this is a five-year deal where cohen would take control of the mets? that sounds strange, the current owners, the wilpon family be lame ducks? how will it work? >> i don't know yet. that is something we're trying find out now. there is phase-in sometime. whether cohen will take majority enter ship in the team. he is increasing the investment. that is what the negotiations

are about. they don't know how much, how long it will take to increase the investments. that fred wilpon will not be the control person after five years. jeff i'll upon will not be coo after five years. they will be in lesser capacity after five years. whether the team operates differently, in a shorter time frame, that remains to be seen. connell: anything about price or how, deal might be structured? >> no. nothing about that yet. what i know is what i have reported. and they're being pretty tight-lipped about this. understandably so i guess with negotiations still in progress. but to me, the key question is, when does steve cohen actually become majority owner, the person who can say, okay, we're spending more money? that is what fans want to know about the mets. their fans have been very frustrated over the year, that the team does not spend in accordance with its market size, the new york market. this sport does not have a salary cap.

it has luxury tax threshold which you have to get penalized for if you exceed it, but you can spend as much as you want to a certain degree. the mets have not done that. connell: the wilpon family as most people went through issues with bernie madoff. that may be one of the reasons they haven't been able to spend to the fan's satisfaction. two part question, on that, do you know what the motivation was to sell? the wilpons, jeff wilpon fred's son held off selling team. has something changed in their mind set? if you can address steve cohen, i don't know if you know it at all, his background, will that come up in terms whether a sale is approved? he pled guilty to insider trading charges a number of years ago and paid a large fine? >> he is already minority owner of the mets. from that perspective i think he already in baseball's good graces he would be approved if he were majority owner. the other question i can only

speculate upon. that is the question why the wilpons are doing this now. obviously fred wilpon is an older man. they have to get a succession plan in place. estate taxes sometimes come into play with these things. family dynamics come into play. you never know what might be a driving force here. i can't say i know the answer to that. connell: great reporting on all of this. really fascinating especially five-year time frame. we'll keep following it, kenny rosenthal from fox and the athletic. thanks for coming on. >> thank you. melissa: not just you. new report revealing robocalls jumped 20% this year. a crackdown might be coming up. that's next. connell: truck driver shortage in the country expected to double in the next decade. companies are hoping to lure in another percentage of the workforce. melissa: if you shopped at trader joe's, recently, might want to check the fridge. the grocery chain pulling several refrigerated prepackaged

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melissa: they call you with only one mission in mind, to get money out of your wallet. you know that. 43 million americans were scammed last year, and lost about $10.5 billion according to true caller. fox business's jeff flock is live in chicago with details. jeff. >> almost pay them not to call me. find, give them some money. feel like you're getting more of them? you are. true caller put out a report. take a look at numbers, melissa, mind-boggling. 26 billion through october of this year, up in the u.s. more than anywhere else, up 35% in the u.s. worldwide, this is a worldwide problem, up 18% worldwide. if you look, you think it's bad in the u.s. though, there are other places where it is even worse. if you look, brazil is the all-time, most spam called place. average resident in brazil gets 45 a month. peru, about 30 a month.

u.s. is only 8th on the list. average caller gets 18 a month. i think i get more than that i will report this though, today in the congress, in the house, republicans and democrats voting together, oh, my god, seen out of "ghostbusters" movie, 417-3 on a bill which would attempt to put end to some of these. or at least reduce them. it would force the phone companies to find out where calls are coming from. allow to you block them for free. 417-3. that is a pretty good, boy, bringing country together. robocalls. melissa: jeff, the moral of the story it could be worse? it could be worse for us? there are other countries where they have it worse, i got it. bright side, love it. thank you, jeff. great. connell: get a tax hike, or take a hike? 2020 presidential hopeful joe biden will reportedly fund his multitrillion dollar policy proposals by taxing ultrarich in

silicon valley giants like amazon and netflix. talk to anneke green, "real clear politics" writer, former speechwriter under president george w. bush about all of this. one part of this is going after tech companies for, abusing various tax breaks not to pay various federal income taxes but the big picture, almost every story about joe biden this, is moderate candidate. this is $3 trillion in new spending, to be quote, unquote paid for by a moderate? pair it to elizabeth warren, that really moderate? >> comparison is the name of the game. compared to other people in the field, including elizabeth warren, whose plan is way, way more. biden's plans are less ambitious in terms of proposals on health care, raising tax, what he is accompanying those plans with, is a commitment to paying for them. that is how he is trying to distinguish himself from the pack. he hit elizabeth warren really

hard. how are you paying for this? here my proposals are not as ambitious. connell: what do they do to growth? we're showing in detail what biden wants to do? he wants to take top personal rate, back up to 39 six. corporate, 21 to 28. foreign profits tax up to 21. to cap deductions for wealthy and tax capital gains as income. if you do all of that, considering the tax environment we're in now, if this was the new environment, what would impact be on the economy? >> stock market would definitely cease to grow. it would take a huge dip, not as much if someone more radical becomes president, if they defeat president trump. just the last one you mentioned, increasing capital gains tax from i think about 15% now to treating it as income, which would be variable percentage rate, that hits anybody with any portfolio. includes growth of 401(k)s, anybody saving for retirement that way.

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connell: back with another "fox business alert." it has just become official that viacom and cbs announced the completion of the merger between the two companies, class a and class b shares. they will begin nasdaq trading tomorrow. symbols viaca. write that down and viac. there you go. it is official. melissa: confusing. well, changing the course of action. of the. melissa: two week long protests over hikes in gas prices has become the bloody evident since the 1979 revolution with at least 100 deaths and thousands arrested. here is peter brookes, from the heritage foundation. what do we know what is going on inside iran right now?

what do you think of the response after they slaughtered so many of their people? >> melissa, they're trying to look conciliatory, right? they don't want this to spin out of control. it caused tremendous tensions internally. maybe 200 people have died. thousands have been arrested. who knows what real numbers are. they're trying to look appropriate towards external forces such as in europe. as you know, the europeans are trying to work around american sanctions using this system that would allow iranians to barter for selling oil. so this, there is a lot of audiences that the supreme leader is trying to appeal to, once again trying to get calm within the country. it could spin out of control. melissa: let me stop you there. next pictures of things bursting into flames, people being beaten. the idea they're trying to keep it spinning out of control, it looks very much out of control? >> i agree with you. instead of getting it worse, making the situation worse, they're trying to say, don't

protest, don't, don't to to the streets. we'll let people go. i think they're trying to look conciliatory. whether they are effective at it is whole another story. they're trying to calm the situation. certainly could get worse. the thing that the iranian leadership worries about a counterrevolution to what they did in 1979. melissa: yeah, absolutely. that is what really sanctions are meant to provoke, to make the people rise up against these dictators. so it is working in a sense, but wow. a lot of bloodshed. >> i would disagree a little bit. maximum pressure campaign gets iranians to come to the table about the nuclear program, ballistic missile program. about bad international behavior. that is what it is about. the effect having in iran, that is part of the internal tensions we're seeing. melissa: i guess. to follow that logic you would have to believe that if they came to the table, they're doing it as honest actors. they're saying no, we're not going to fund terror. we'll not continue, we changed

our ways. >> right. melissa: they're ultimate goal always will be to kill all of us. so you know, that i don't know. i don't know that they have anything but regime change, whatever change, what is that country's outlook and behavior in the long run, but that is for another time. let me ask you real quick. holiday greeting card from north korea. kim jong-un is back on the white house. warnses washington to prepare for a christmas gift. the content of the so-called gift will depend on the outcome of stalled nuclear talks. do you think he ever road a horse? >> i see the pictures. photoshop works. the cult of personality. these were taken at the spiritual home of the korean people, north and south korea. there is very important place. there is mythology about his grandfather fought the japanese there. all sorts of things. this is symbolic. also to inspire revolutionary zeal. things like that. thinks are very tough in north korea. the christmas gift, they could do a nuclear test.

could do long-range missile test. things they put on the backburner while talks are going on. melissa: peter, thank you. >> thanks for having me. connell: hole-in-one almost every time he plays golf. melissa: that's true. connell: the end of an era, as google cofounders, larry page and sergey brin are stepping down as we talked about 24 hours ago. they stepped down from the parent company alphabet. today, 200 presidential candidate elizabeth warren has a warning for the two. she tweeted the following. congrat on the move, larry page. quick reminder, we expect you to testify before congress. changing your title, staying on the board, changing effective control of it, will not exempt you from accountability. an attorney mark arglash is our guest. arguably is something to be held accountable for would stepping down relief you of that accountability? >> similarly if you leave the

company and assume some other identity or other position, that they can't use their subpoena power to drag you in front of congress. connell: larry page had an interesting moment last year, right? they asked him to come up to testify. he said no. that became like a clint eastwood empty chair type deal, there was no larry page. you're right the power of subpoena is there, investigations are going on by almost all attorneys general on, on google and other tech companies. and they would still be the ones, you think would have to speak for the company, the founders? >> well depends who they subpoena. the subpoena power is not unlimited, right? you can always challenge it. the supreme court has long-standing desire to allow congress to s&p who they want, as long as they're advancing a legitimate legislative purpose. the line is drawn, if it can be determined or shown that it is for political gain. you're simply seeking to advance

your political career. you're seeking information to advance yourself. and that is something that would be subject to dispute. connell: that is something we rarely see in washington of course. we'll see how that debate goes. good to see you, mark. thanks for coming on. >> thank you. melissa: falling out of love. new york city is no longer one of the world's top 10 destinations as fewer tourists visiting the united states this year. according to euro monitor's top 100 city report. so good news or bad news? who better to ask, than our own traveler, romantic david asman. >> thank you, thank you. new york resident as you are. both you and i are always complaining how things are going down. i guess travelers are beginning to become aware, we're still by the way, new york is still number one destination for visitors coming into the united states. miami is way down there at 39 or something like that. so we're number one in america but we're not in the top 10 international list. hong kong leads that list by the

way, which is interesting considering what happened there. bottom line spending more money, which is what our progressive mayor de blasio has been doing last five years. spending 30% more than his predecessor doesn't necessarily mean a cleaner city. melissa: nope. >> a better run city. melissa: nope. >> a more effective city, more prosperous city. in fact it had the opposite effect. i'm not saying you can't do better if you spend more money depend how you spend the money and he is spending it all in the wrong way and wrong places. melissa: he spent more and worse here. >> giuliani, when he was mayor, he is having trouble, he turned around times square and other things in new york and step less mon city. melissa: you should run for mayor. you can turn the whole then about. >> i will think about it. melissa: what is coming up on your program? member of judiciary committee, ken buck, will talk about today's hearings. you don't want to miss that.

melissa: david. see you at top of the hour. connell: how one industry fighting back fence worker shortage. maybe unexpected drivers you see behind the wheel, next. (vo) the flock blindly falls into formation.

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melissa: the industry setting sights on attracting a different percentage of the work first women, tracy is at the truck driving school of york, pennsylvania, are you ready to hit the road, can you drive the big rig? >> not quite, i am with liz myers, she has been a truck driver for more than 10 years, and. she is part of the 6% of women who worry truck driver -- women who are truck drivers, it is a life style. what are companies doing to recruit more women, you

mentioned the shortage. >> i think that a lot of things that implementing now in trucking companies, family passes, can take your husband, child or pet pass. reporter: women are safe drivers according to research, women outscore men when it comes to importance key safety aspects, they are 20% less likely to be involved in a crash, what does it take to be a truck driver. >> a lot of training, a 4 week program, with assimilate or we used that helping them learn what they will expect on the road without the dangers, one week in classroom, 3 weeks in the truck they learn the ins and outs. reporter: you use that advance system training technology, any woman watching might be contemplating a career in truck driving, what do you say? >> i think it is a great opportunity, i think it is just for the family, monetarily

speaking, take care of your family. and the benefits, i think there is a lot of opportunity that open up for women in the trucking industry. reporter: back to you, we've been behind the wheel with his all day, she is a fantastic driver. melissa: thank you. i love that. a lot of the best uber drivers in my opinion are women. connell: you do have the data to back it up. >> anyway. connell: alleviating traffic, new york city is fakin fake takg steps to ease up on conie on on. with pedal assisted bikes. melissa: no, we don't need more bikes, bikes are a giant part of

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