chang. house minority leader kevin mccarthy. we hope you will joins. we'll see you then. and for tonight, good night from new cheryl: it is 5:00 a a.m. here are your top stories at this hour. president trump hitting back at democrats after nancy pelosi announced articles of impeachment and a usmca deal within an hour of each other, why her holdup of the trade deal in particular may push passage of it even further out. lauren: the faa taking a new measure to make your next flight safer as a former boeing employee will testify today that he warned the company about safety issues before two deadly crashes of the 737 max. cheryl: the irishman making a play for a gold statue, the new numbers net flex just released -- netflix just released. it is wednesday, december 11th

and "fbn: a.m." starts right now. ♪ ♪ i'm just say it's fine by he me. ♪ if you never leave. ♪ and we can live like this forever. ♪ it's fine by me. ♪ in the past i would try, try hard to commit to a girl. lauren: beautiful shot of the christmas lights in new york city. welcome to "fbn: a.m.." i'm lauren simonetti. cheryl: the fox red, white and blue tree is on fox square. i'm cheryl casone. lauren: dow is down 25, nasdaq is unchanged. cheryl: let's take a look at asian markets. the pushback of the tariffs on $165 billion in chai chinese gos which is supposed to hit sunday, may give investors something to

cheer about. lauren: the ftse is down 25 points, the tax i dax -- dax isp 12. cheryl: president trump rallied thousands of supporters in pennsylvania last night, touting the usmca deal, while ripping into democrats over the articles of impeachment announced earlier in the day. lauren: griff jenkins is in washington with more. griff, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, lauren and cheryl. what a truly remarkable day in washington. on the same day democrat leaders come up with impeachment articles, they hand the president one of his biggest legislative wins of his administration, approving the usmca trade deal with mexico and canada, the president noting it last night. >> the silver lining of impeachment and this witch hunt, that's the reason they approved usmca, so that's okay with me,

because they you approve -- they approved it and they're very happy to have it. >> reporter: speaker pelosi and democratic leaders announced two articles of impeachment, abuse of power and obstruction of congress. >> the first order of business for members of congress is the solemn act to take an oath to protect and defend the constitution of the united states. >> he endangers our democrats and endangers our national security. >> reporter: the president wasn't done there in hershey, reserving choice words for the man who led the impeachment inquiry, ad dam schiff. >> here are the facts on shifty, schiff, dishonest guy, makes up my sentence, he says the be president of ukraine repeatedly declared there was no pressure but he didn't say that. i said say it, say it you crooked bastard, say it.

>> reporter: tonight the judiciary committee begins marking up articles of impeachment, setting up a vote next week. speaker pelosi appears confident she has the votes. a group of 10 democrats are pushing the president be censured instead. she needs at least 14 of 31 to vote for impeachment to get there. if it passes, it's off to the senate for a trial early next year where lindsey graham says this needs to end as soon as possible. lauren: so many moving parts, all happening kind of at once. griff jenkins, thank you for the summary. cheryl: a major step forward for usmca. house democrats have reached an agreement with the trump administration on the deal that would of course replace nafta. mitch mcconnell says the impeachment trial what has to come first. >> we will not be doing usmca in the senate between now and

the end of next week. that will have to come up in all likelihood right after the trial is finished in the senate. lauren: we get the latest on usmca from edward lawrence, he's in washington with the latest. edward, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. house speaker nancy pelosi said she got a deal on her desk in usmca that was a nonstarter. she said the changes she made made it a infinitely better trade agreement. the usmca will come up for a vote in the house next week. they say there are no more roadblocks for that. i asked the house speaker why it took so long to get the deal done, if she got the usmca more than a year ago. this was her answer. listen. >> it takes a while, especially when you're starting with something that is a nonstarter. and that's what the trump administration gave us. a nonstarter. if you want to talk about the

time, just understand the change that was necessary in that. >> reporter: thed a medicine strayings pushing back on democrats taking credit for usmca. senior white house officials saying this is basically the same deal the trump administration negotiated with mexico and canada with a few changes that the democrats wanted, specifically an enforcement labor inspection and prescription drug exclusivity that was removed. the president tweeting that this looks like a he very good democratic support for usmca. there was a signing ceremony that happened in mexico with u.s. trade representative rob he earth lighthizer as well as the deputy prime minister of canada to get this done. they're on their way now back to the u.s. back to you. lauren: edward lawrence, thank you. to another potential trade deal, the u.s. stands ready to slap china with another round of tariffs on sunday as they work to reach a phase one trade deal. the wall street journal reports negligencnegotiators plan to dee

tariffs. peter navarro says donald trumpt trump is going to make the final call on the additional tariffs. >> it's the president's decision. lauren: if the tariffs do take effect this sunday, virtually every product exported from china to the united states would be affected, u.s. consumers paying higher prices. cheryl: the world's biggest ipo has hit the market. shares of aud saudi aramco soarg in the first day of trading. the gain values the company at $1.9 trillion. this makes it more valuable than apple and microsoft. the ipo expected to raise more than $25 billion. aramco's debut coming as chevron in this country has taken a major hit, the company taking a charge of at least $10 billion

due to lower prices for oil and natural gas because of the glut of oil and gas in particular that we have in this country. lauren: british prime minister boris johnson is out campaigning pretty hard ahead of tomorrow's election there. cheryl: ashley webster is live in london with the latest. ash, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, cheryl and lauren. political campaigns, election campaigns last years in the united states. in the u.k. they last just five weeks and today is the last day of campaigning. british prime minister boris johnson up in the north of this country, getting up early, delivering milk of all things. the analogy he used was, well, i can deliver milk, i can also deliver brexit. yesterday, mr. johnson jumped on top of a bulldozer and ran through a fake wall, the message there was i can break the gridlock of brexit. the theme is all about brexit for the conservatives and boris

johnson. labor leader jeremy corbin out on the campaign trail in scotland this morning, trying to persuade marginal seats that he is the one that can deliver what he calls a future of hope. so the question is, what do the polls say as we are in the last day of campaigning. well, they show the conservatives, if you take all the most recent polls and average them out, conservatives with 43% of the vote, labor with 33%. that's a little narrower but still gives the conservatives approximately an advantage of 28 seats in parliament. there are 650, you need 326 to have a majority. if that is the case, then boris johnson will be able to ram through his brexit deal with a conservative majority in parliament and finally as he says move on. it's interesting because theresa may in 2017 exactly the same thing and it backfired and she in fact lost seats. the worst case scenario for boris johnson is that the polls are wrong, we end up with

another hung parliament and we go back to square one. the polls open tom he row morning at -- tomorrow morning at 7:00 a.m. they go through 10:00 p.m. in the evening. i'm was checking the forecast for tomorrow, it's december, it's the u.k., absolutely awful. heavy rain, hail, snow in the north, but i don't think it will matter. pretty good turnout expected but it won't be until early friday morning, cheryl and lauren, that we think we'll be starting to get those results. so it's going to be very interesting. back to you. cheryl: and you're going to be reporting live for fox business throughout the day on all of this, the rest of the week. ashley weash webster, thank you. tragedy in new jersey. there was a deadly shootout that really captured new yorkers' attention in the afternoon. lauren: so many families with a disappointing holiday right now. tracee carrasco with the details. tracee: good morning. six people dead including one police officer and those two suspects after the two gunmen led police on a shooting spree in jersey city.

the gunmen dressed in black and carrying high powered rifles shot a police detective in a cemetery before leaving to a supermarket several blocks away, where the shootout continued, leaving three bystanders dead. the mayor says the initial investigation revealed the shooters targeted the grocery store. well, iran is building and undergrown tunnel he'll to store missiles and large scale weapons according to intel johns intelle officials after seeing photos out of syria seeing the tunnel forming. the new york times reported iran is moving hundreds of short rain missiles to iraq. well, a federal judge blocking president trump's plan to use billions of dollars in defense department funding to build the border wall. the injunction block the administration from using $3.6 billion previously

earmarked for other military construction projects, limiting them to only $1.375 billion approved by congress. the justice department announced that it will appeal the ruling. and the new york yankees making a record-breaking splash in free agency by signing the top available pitcher garrett cole to a nine year, $320 million contract, topping steven straussberg. the contract averages to $36 million a year. and that is what's happening now. some happy yankees fans. cheryl: you're choking because that's an insane amount of money for the yankees to pay tp. tracee:.tracee:.tracee: exactl. cheryl: let's take a look at how your money is doing this morning. it is fed day, we're going to get the decision from the fed this afternoon. little press conference. we'll see how the markets react to that. the dow is down 17, s&p down half a point, nasdaq up 3

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he could take a hard line. sounds like the president is ready to take a hard line on it. lauren: he wants what he wants in terms of a deal with teeth with china. another trade deal would be the usmca. this is clearly a political win for the trump administration, for donald trump as he approaches re-election. nancy pelosi might not see it that way. what do investors see it as. >> i think it's a good deal on the margins. we have good relations with canada and mexico, but it improves upon nafta. it's aggravating it took this lontolong todo. the democrats left it on the table for a long time. lauren.lauren: do you see thisg the stock market. >> it does. i don't think it moves the stock market much at all. it's day-to-day on trade with china is the big issue. lauren: a china deal would move the needle when it comes to trade. >> absolutely. lauren: the federal reserve undid this year what they did

last year, they cut rates in july, september and october. we got the jobs report on friday. is the economy really slowing down that the fed cuts rates today. >> we have a bifurcated economy. the consumer is great. i think this christmas will be the best ever. businesses, the spending is down. we see this issue where the economy is good, it's not great, it's good. it's sound. the fed is undone -- has undone what it did last year by raising rates too quickly and they're probably on hold until next year. lauren: so the fed on hold until 2020. we have to talk about peloton. they got a praise of $5 a share, it's a huge haircut. the commentary, coming after that bad so-called sexist commercial, the commentary from the analyst was that peloton's ceo, john foley, his hubris is worse than that commercial. what's your take on pell non- >>peloton?>> the peloton in my t that my wife got earlier this

year is gathering dust. it's certainly the growth expectations are quite high. i think they're correct in that it will be difficult to meet the targets they're trying to hit. lauren: $5. >> $5 i'm not sure about but i would avoid the stock at this time because it's clearly over-l valued. lauren: did your wife ask you to buy the peloton? >> no, she bought it on her own. lauren: thank you for clarifying. cheryl, she bought it on her own. cheryl: somebody needs buy me one. i keep saying that. pete buttigieg responding to calls for transparency by releasing a list of his past consulting clients while he worked for mckenzie and company. he revealed he worked with companies like best buy and blue cross blue shield in michigan. he also worked with the department of defense, the epa and some other government agencies. buttigieg named his clients after his former employer released him from nda. coming up, attorney general william barr slamming the bases for the russia probe against

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obviously, both parties see something in this report that they won and they want to publicize. in the same sense, i don't know why michael horowitz is testifying in front of congress. we have a wonderful report. it lays out stuff that both sides can rely on and now you we're going to see him use as a human piñata today by both sides. i don't think it's necessary. cheryl: barr told jerry baker the whole thing was possibly a big old sham which i find very interesting. we'll see what michael horowitz says today, fair enough. lisa page, who got involved in all of this, former fbi official, she is suing now the fbi and the doj for funding when it comes to therapy. she talks about being attacked by the president publicly, which is true. but what do you make of the lawsuit that she's filed against her former employer? >> i think it's frivolous. i mean, i think she's upset that some very personal details about her have been released to the press and to the public. but guess what? when you are carrying on an affair and you're sending those

sorts of messages on an fbi related phone, that's fair game. that can come out. i think this lawsuit is going to be dismissed. i think it's relatively frivolous and i think she's embarrassed that these salacious details about her personal life have come out. cheryl: and the fact that text messages became public between her and a man she was intimately involved with at the time, showed they had a lot of bias against the president. that's going to drudge it up, the suit. articles of impeachment, the debate starts today. the two articles announced yesterday, abuse of power, obstruction of congress against the president. your legal perspective on that? >> this is going to be an interesting part, the most interesting trial since 1999 trial of bill clinton. it's just-it's unfortunate that an important constitutional protection has been weaponized and it's being used by one party in effect as a ku djul against a be president they don't like.

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lauren: here's your morning cheat sheet, the top headlines to get through the day. house democrats reached an agreement with the trump administration on usmca but mitch mcconnell says the impeachment trial in the senate will have to come before a vote on the trade deal. michael horowitz will testify before congress today, he will be questioned about his report on the fbi investigation into the 2016 election. the report shows no evidence of political bias but it did find serious errors into the surveillance of a former trump campaign aide. and a former boeing employee will testify before congress today that he warned his managers of safety issues with the boeing 737 max jet before

two fatal crashes. cheryl: that's edward peerson. faa today just announced they're going to create a safety branch in light of the two deadly 737 max crashes. but the agency says the move it not directly related to the jet. let's bring in aviation analyst jay ratliff. the language of the faa was very bureaucratic. they don't talk about the 737 max, obviously this is in response to the crash. crashes. >> it is. and to me it's called managing the perception of safety. instead of managing safety itself. we will make it aa peer as though -- appear as though we're going to be doing another job by creating another department. i thought that's what federal aviation was for, a safety branch but here we are creating another department within a department and to me it doesn't make sense. i would prefer having the people that are in charge to do the job that they're tasked with, if

they need more people, let's hire more people. but the idea of creating another branch within an agency to me just seems like we're trying to send the message that we're trying to do something versus tackling the real problem at hand. cheryl: it's just adding another layer of bureaucracy at the faa and that was the ding on them initially when it came to light they weren't necessarily signing off on these jets and boeing was doing its own certification of the jets which still seems ludicrous to me. the other thing that's happening at boeing which is interesting is they're going on this basic charm offensive, they're trying to get customers back on-board. some worldwide customers seem to be comfortable with boeing and buying new max jets but overall it seems like maybe that jet just needs to go. is that possible? >> now it's not because it's boeing's best selling jet ever. they put basically all their chips in one basket with the boeing aircraft and they're

having a difficult time selling it. we're seeing airlines go to airbus as far as the european manufacturer, buying air a plains from them at a record pace right now. boeing is being left in the dust because right now there's a trust issue. i mean, you're talking about a company that provided an airplane, the max aircraft, without telling pilots that they had this aggressive anti-stall system on there. maria: the m-cast. >> or line they're not trustid i don't trot boein trust boeing. maria: do you trust -- cheryl: do you trust the m-cast system? >> it's unbelievable for me to understand how boeing, the great company they are, could provide an aircraft to an airline, to put into service without telling the airline or the pilots that we've introduced an aggressive anti-stall system that could trigger and violently take control of the aircraft away from the pilots.

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lauren: a new poll could spell trouble for elizabeth warren in the latest poll, warren has slipped 6 points from just last month, dropping as you see here to third place, behind bernie sanders and the man to beat, joe biden. daily caller video reporter anders is here. why the drop for senator warren? is it because michael bloomberg is in? >> i think it's the idea that she has taken a lot of her opinions on the economy, on healthcare, from bernie sanders and bernie sanders has been very forthcoming that with his plans come raising taxes. he has been very forthcoming about that, whether you like it or not, whereas she has not been willing to say tha to say that.

she says somehow it's going to cut costs, generally but she's impressed again and again -- she's been pressed by reporters, by politicians, by her opponents and she will not say she must raise taxes. that raises the question, how will you pay for it. lauren: the poll shows joe biden on top but certainly not pulling away from the pack. how come we're not seeing a clear winner at this point? >> i think what's keeping joe biden back from being the clear winner is he has a series of gaffes that never stop coming. the effect of those gaffes has been somewhat over-exaggerated. some thought that would end his campaign. that's not the case. one of the major advantages, he is the only democratic candidate that black voters want anything to do with right now and that's really bolstering his campaign. lauren: got it. then there is talk of

impeachment. a poll shows a majority of voters, that majority is 51%, they oppose impeaching president trump as well as removing him from office. taking that into consideration, how do you think moderate democrats or democrats that won donald trump red states, how do you think that they respond with that information? >> we're seeing they're already a little worried. nancy pelosnancynancy pelosi anf came out with articles of impeachment yesterday. within hours of that, democrats in trump won states, they were saying they're backing away from impeachment, saying maybe we should censure the president instead of impeach. regardless of whether or not that happens, it's very important that within six hours, within 12 hours of this impeachment, democrats are already fraying on this issue. it does not look good going into the senate at all. lauren: and that's why about an hour later they you announced

approval of usmca to maybe show, hey, we can actually get stuff done at the same time as bringing these articles of impeachment. thanks for joining us this morning. so much to talk about, as usual. >> thanks for having me. cheryl: netflix breaking from the normal policy as it tries to win awards this season. the company released the streaming numbers for the irishman. netflix says the movie has been viewed by 26.4 million households and is expected to reach 40 million in the first 28 days. while it's gotten critical acclaim and already has golden globe nominations to it, the movie is falling short of another big netflix hit, bird box, which stars sandra bullock. it drew in 45 million viewers last year. maybe it's something to do with the fact that the irishman is three and-a-half hours long. lauren: i'm halfway through. cheryl: facebook and other technology companies battling on

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lauren: let's talk some of our favorite things, coffee and cars and an unlikely partnership between mcdonald's and ford. chemical engineers are using scraps from coffee cups to put in car parts from every ford vehicle. this is this week's hired and

inspired. one man's trash is another man's treasure. when you see garbage, what do you think of? >> i think that we have a lot of value that ends up in landfills and so as we experiment more and more, at ford research, we find these materials are actually better than a lot of the traditional materials we've used in the past. lauren.lauren: some of these ms coming from mcdonald's, an unlikely partner for ford, you're using coffee bean scraps to make what. >> we're using the skin that comes off of the bean during the roasting process. we compound that into a plastic material to reinforce it. we make plastic parts for our cars using mcdonald's coffee chaf. lauren: this is the chaf right here. >> that's it. it's lighter weight and better for the planet and the materials perform better. lauren: a as a woman, you go o the boardroom, you preach your thoughts, your research. what have they said to you?

have they said you're crazy or you're on to something. >> the beginning of the program, i was thrown out of every conference room, people did laugh a lot. but as we've implemented, we have over 12 materials in our vehicles currently that are better for the planet and perform better. people are believing and really ford had has a long history of using plant-based materials. lauren: if you're in your ford f-150, for instance, what percentage of that is actually made from a renewable material or something that you source? >> we're getting better and better. every single vehicle ford builds has soy-based seats. many of our cars have wheat straw reinforcing the storage bins and now we'll have coffee chaf reinforcing head lamp housings. lauren: how does this make you feel that you were dismissed, kicked out of boardrooms and now my ford has a soy-based seat cushion. >> i feel super great about it.

what i really feel good about is we're helping the planet. we're conserving the waste. we're starting to use it. we're developing a circular economy where we work with other companies. great companies like mcdonald's are also trying to reduce their environmental impact and here we are, able to use things that we burned or threw away. lauren: is there a cost savings for the company by going green? >> at this point it's cost neutral. it's going onto small programs. as it expands, we expect these will be very cost competitive with traditional plastic materials. lauren: debbie, thank you for bringing us your story and for paving the way for your daughter and my daughters and other daughters out there. thank you. lauren: more on that on the podcast. cheryl: well, folks, get ready. winter storm is bearing down on the northeast. it's happening right now. lauren: here we go again. senior meteorologist janice dean is live in the studio, tracking the latest winter storm. i'm just not ready, janice. janice: this one will be a

quick-mover. but this morning's commute is not going to be great. so just keep that in mind, especially along the i-95 corridor. you can see where the cold air hamoved across the deep south. we had snow in huntsville, alabama, with temperatures below zero across the northern plains, the great lakes. we are getting reports of light snow around new york city and long island, up into connecticut and boston. and then by this afternoon, this will be all out to sea which is great news but again, it's coming as people are trying to get into work. so just be aware. your delay or your commute could be delayed and a we've got a big temperaturtestimony drop from t- temperature drop from this time yesterday, with temperatures dropping 23 degrees in new york city, 28 in atlanta. that cold front is going to move through and then the precipitation is going to move offshore. our next storm system moves into the west coast, that's the next

weather maker, that's going to move across the country or parts of that energy across the country and looking at the temperatures today, 60 in houston, 45 in kansas city, 39 here in new york. it was in the 60s this time yesterday, ladies. so a big temperature drop and a messy commute but things will improve as we get home this afternoon. cheryl: it's wild to think how fast it happened, in 24 hours, the temp drop. janice: it was like springtime yesterday, now it's january. cheryl: thank you very much. lauren: tech companies are defending their encryption policies. cheryl: tracee carrasco has that story. tracee: representatives from facebook and apple defending encryption policies to lawmakers and responding to calls to degree ate create a work-around. apple and facebook say it's impossible to create a system that protects against unwanted attacks, and allows law enforcement access.

the force is with coca-cola's new star wars promotion in honor of the upcoming release of the rise of skywalker. how about a coke bottle with images of light sabers that really light up. there are only 8,000 available and you can only get them in singapore. coke is going to announce clues where and when they can be purchased. and one company truly in the holiday spirit, saint john properties, a real estate company in maryland, announcing that it will split a $10 million bonus among its 200 employees, that's about $50,000 per employee, based on years of service. the company making the announcement at its yearly holiday party to a very happy crowd. and that is what's happening now. lauren: they're going to get a lot of resumes and a lot of talent applying. cheryl: did you see those people crying? the emotion in that room, unbelievable. tracee: life changing for a lot of people. cheryl: companies can do good.

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lauren: it's not peanut and cracker jacks, what's the skill? >> currently right now all gm's in winter meetings, yankees contracted 9 years, $224 million which is wild. wall street journal just came out with a new article saying that teams aren't looking for a manager to so much manage the game anymore as long as they are looking them to be press communicators, they have to

represent the team, so much so that nearly a third of managers right now have tv experience including alex from boston red sox, aaron from the yankees and joe gerardi and taking role of presenting the argument to the fan rather than the x's and o's when it comes to the actual baseball game. cheryl: this next story is kind of crazy. you may not have to get out of your couch, literally you don't have to get out. >> marketing to e-gamers and those who get games for christmas 3 in one meal that comes in tin can, cost less than $3, that looks rough. cheryl: horrible. >> one of them has turkey,

broccoli, potato, stuffing all in one. they are happy because right now they have a vegetarian and vegan option in a tin can. lauren: even better. >> it actually sold out online. of course, i don't know. not my taste right there. lauren: i'm with you. cheryl: mike, thank you very much, we will send it over to maria bartiromo. maria: i'm maria bartiromo, wednesday december 11th, top stories right now before 6:00 a.m. on the east coast, trade deal on the books, reaching a deal in usmca, president trump calling it a silver lining after articles of impeachment, senate might not take up the deal until after impeachment trial, though, i will go through details this morning, plus still no deal with china but there could be tariff truce as clocks ticks away,

december 15th tariff hikes, lots of speculation, we will cut right to the motion, putting a spotlight of the russia probe once again, inspector general michael horowitz testifying before senate judiciary committee, republicans say it was abuse of power by law enforcement officials, we will tell you what bill barr says about it that morning. markets look like this, futures indicating a decline at the start of trading, dow futures down 28 points, s&p futures down a fraction, nasdaq is up, nasdaq futures up 2 points. investors keeping close eye on trade for sure this morning, federal reserve rate decision, end of 2-day meeting today what fed chair jay powell has to say. another costly lost for california, oracle moving big open world conference from san francisco to las vegas. the millions the golden state