@loudobbs, like me on facebook and twitter @loudobbs tonighthtt lauren: it's 5:00 a.m. here are your top stories at this hour. a high stakes meeting at the white house over tariffs on china. reuters reporting that president trump plans to meet with his top trade adviser to discuss tariffs set to go into effect sunday. cheryl: a big day in the u.k. it is election day. brexit is front and center. polling stations are open as boris johnson squares off with jeremy corbin in a but he'll of capitalism versus socialism. lauren: we all have that movie that gets us in the holiday spirit. we have the country's favorite christmas movie. it is thursday, december 12t 12. "fbn: a.m." starts right now.

♪ ♪ sweet caroline. ♪ good times never seemed so good. ♪ i've been inclined. ♪ to believe they never would. cheryl: welcome to "fbn: a.m.." and good morning. i'm cheryl casone. lauren: good morning. and cheryl, thank you for telling me that it's not tuesday. it's thursday. cheryl: it's been a long week. we're celebrating the fact that it's thursday. let's take a look at how your money is moving on this thursday morning. after the fed's decision to leave interest rates unchanged, right now, the dow is up 50 points, s&p up 6 and-a-half, nasdaq up by 21. lauren: let's take a look at how stocks closed this thursday session in asia, mostly higher. the shanghai composite losing about a third of 1%.

cheryl: we're monitoring the eu's conference happening right now. there's a lot of discussion of will the eu out put in place retaliatory tariffs against the united states, a lot of this as the fight between the united states and france, the digital tax, our proposed tariffs against them, we're looking for headlines right now. so r far, no decision from the eu on retaliatory tariffs but you do have green arrows across the board, even in london, where the voting is underway. lauren: and an ecb meeting, a lot going on. let's get to a fox business alert, a very high stakes meeting set for today at the white house over tariffs on china. reuters is reporting that president trump plans to meet with his top trade advisors to discuss these tariffs that are set to go into effect on sunday. they would impact $160 billion worth of chinese goods, basically everything coming from china would be under tariff. a decision to push forward could put a wrinkle in these trade talks. we've been trying to end this trade war, going on 17 months now. cheryl: all the major players

expected at the white house today, mnuchin, lighthizer, navarro, we get more on the latest on that sunday deadline from edward lawrence. edward, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, lauren and cheryl. the focus now on friday for the next round of tariffs against chinese imports coming into this country. the trump administration has until friday to file the paperwork in order to potion poe or cancel the impending tariffs. senator chuck grassley taking a more optimistic view. >> the conversation i had monday that i won't say who it was with, but i don't -- didn't deal with tariffs, but it would tell me that tariffs will not be imposed on december 15th and that we're -- we could possibly be close to an agreement with china. >> reporter: he would not say who he talked to. we know on monday he had a conversation with u.s. trade representative robert lighthizer. white house economic advisor peter navarro tells lou dobbs he

doesn't see any movement for the president to can l sel cancel oe the tariffs. ultimately, it's up t the president. we'll know something in the next 48 hours. lauren: voters in the united kingdom go to the polls today in an election that will have a major impact on the future of their country and the rest of the world. cheryl: ashley webster is live in london with all a of the action. how is it looking at the polling stations this morning? >> reporter: well, the initial photographs and video that we've seen, cheryl, and lauren, is that it's been very, very busy. long lines around corners, 50 to 75 people waiting to cast their ballot. this is the first general election in december by the way in the u.k. since 1923. the polls opened a little over three hours ago. they will close at 10:00 in the evening local time. so about straight after that we're expecting exit polls to be released and we'll be paying a

lot of attention to those because in years past they actually have been very accurate and then an hour t after that, about 11:00 p.m. local time, the results will start coming in. the voters are not voting directly for boris johnson or jeremy corbin, they're voting for the individual party representatives. there's 650 seats in parliament. each individual seat will be counted and put to the total of how many is needed for that majority. bottom line, you need 326 seats in order to have a majority. the polls going today's elections suggest the conservatives are going to get maybe a 26 et seat majority which would be plenty for bore just johnson. but you never know. back in 2017, theresa may did exactly the same thing, tried to get a majority in parliament and it blew up in her face and she actually lost 13 seats and we

ended up with a hung parliament which is what we do not need to happen this time around, because the political gridlock will go on. of course, the newspapers always play a big role in britain r, this is a huge newspaper reading country. they all came out with their endorsements today. the guardian is the left-leaning newspaper, just says corbin urges voters to deliver shock to the establishment. meanwhile, the daily mail firmly conservative saying your vote has never been more vital. you must brave the deluge to cast your ba ballot. the forecast for today you is cold, windy and damp. no big surprise. cheryl: its is london, after after all. i guess you kind of expect. >> reporter: yes. lauren: the house judiciary committee will begin voting today on articles of impeachment following another fiery hearing

on capitol hill. however, if you take a look at the latest polls, they show that pushing ahead with impeachment could actually hurt vulnerable democrats. cheryl: sounds like the clinton impeachment years. just saying. griff jenkins is in washington to explain. griff, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, lauren and cheryl. well, we're seeing how the sausage is made. they'll return at 9:00 for a second day of a mark-up session. all 41 members getting a chance to debate the proposed issues in the article. they will likely vote and pass the two articles. chairman jerry nadler began the session asking members to consider the evidence and what the consequences of failing to act would be. >> we cannot rely on an election to solve our problems where the president threatens the he very integ. >> gritty of thatelection -- int election. with a heavy heart, i support

these articles of impeachment. i urge my colleagues to support them as well. >> reporter: republicans don't support them, blasting the march towards impeachment, accusing democrats of being moa motivatey the president and a dislike for the president. >> not just that they don't like the president, they don't like us. they don't like the 63 million people that voted for the president. a few years ago it was the irs. more recently it was the fbi. and now it's the impeachment power of congress. >> reporter: while we expect today's committee vote to fall down mostly party lines, the math on the house floor is something to watch. 233 members are democrats. speaker pelosi needs 216 votes to pass. there are 31 democrats from districts trump won. she can only afford to lose 17 of them. if the latest poll is any indication, showing 50% of americans oppose impeaching and removing the president, it may be a tough decision for some lawmakers next week.

lauren, cheryl. cheryl: inspector general michael horowitz grilled on capitol hill for more than five hours yesterday, painting a troubling picture of the fbi's russia probe. lauren: we have the hearing's biggest moments. anna, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, lauren and cheryl. good morning to all of you at home. all eyes were on michael horowitz as he shared his findings from the inspector general's fisa report. south carolina senator lindsey graham saying the code name for it, crossfire hurricane, was very fitting. >> that's what we wound up with, a crossfire and a hurricane. there's been a lot of media reports about your report before it was issued. and i remember reading all these headlines, lawful investigation with a few irregularities. >> reporter: although the probe found no evidence of political bias, it did uncover 17 inaccuracies and omissions in

the process of securing a fisa warrant for carter page. >> there's so many basic and fundamental errors, made by three separate hand picked investigative teams on one of the most sensitive fbi investigations after the matter had been briefed to the highest levels within the fbi. >> reporter: lawmakers grilling horowitz on whether former fbi director james comey was to blame for the missteps. >> does your report vindicate mr. comey. >> it doesn't vindicate anyone at the fbi who touched this, including the leadership. >> reporter: this goes against what comey said earlier this week. listen. >> it was all nonsense and the fbi finally has its day with the american people and i hope they pay attention to it. >> reporter: horowitz sounded off on the fisa warrants being renewed he three times during the two year probe. >> your review of those warrants would indicate that they were producing useful information, correct? >> not sure that's entirely correct.

>> reporter: and the hearings aren't over for horowitz. he'll be testifying for a second time on the hill next wednesday. lauren and cheryl, back to you. lauren: so it continues. thank you. cheryl: the valuation of saudi aramco taking a huge jump today, hitting the saudi crown prince's coveted $2 trillion target during early trading on the company's exchange. share rises to $10.30, this makes it a huge jump from the $1.7 trillion valuation during the initial public offering last week. again, big money trading for the saudi aramco ipo. we're learning more about the suspects in that deadly jersey city shoot. lauren: tracee carrasco has the he details for us. tracee: a handwritten note from one of the t shooters targeted the kosher grocery store in jersey city, it was found in a stolen u-haul van. the letter said, quote, i do this because my creator makes me do this and i hate who he hates. david anderson and his girlfriend, francine graham,

were involved in a shootout that left six people dead. jersey city's mayor calls the attack a hate crime against jewish people. fiat chrysler employees approved a new four year contract, the last of three negotiated by the united auto workers union this year. agreements had been made with gm and ford. nestly is getting out of the ice cream business, it's selling ice cream business to fronari for $4 billion. it includes haagen dazs, bre breyersnd drum stick brands. they will be focusing on health, nutrition and wellsness. one fan seems hopelessly devoted to olivia newton john and a good cause. the leather jacket worn by the star in grease has been returned to her.

it was purchased for just over $243,000. a video shows the fan surprising the grease star with a wrapped gift that turns out to be the iconic leather jacket. the owner of the jacket, who wants to remain anonymous, said it needed to be returned to its rightful owner and asked that it be put on display at her cancer center which she excitedly said yes. that's what's happening right now. cheryl: that's an a aa macing gift. i thought it would have gone for more than 200 grand. i watched grease about 10 times when i was a child. lauren: i would have thought it would are have fetched more too. yesterday, the fed he predicted rates unchanged through next year. the market was up. up right now, 55 points for the dow, 7 for the s&p, as president trump reportedly will meet with his top trade a trade advisors e white house today. will the tariffs be taken off the table and a phase one deal

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and the line we're getting across the wires, they are evaluating retaliatory tariffs on the united states. that's something the president's going to have to address today. he will be meeting with top advisors at the white house on the china tariff situation, those expected to take effect sunday. here to break it all down, tori whiting from the heritage foundation and it's now tori smith. i think it's congratulations in order, tor. >> thank you so much. cheryl: i'll have to switch my brain and go from whiting to switch. the news out of europe, this started with the french digital tax against u.s. technology companies, and the u.s. said we'll do 100% tax on everything coming out of france. your champagne, your he cheese. now the french are pushing the eu to add a blanket tariff against the united states. is this escalating and a is it going real well for mr. trump right now?

>> well, the real story is that the treasury department said that this french digital tax was affecting americans and really it's affecting american businesses in france but the real burden of the tax is being put on the french people, not the american people. the retaliation would hurt us, and not hurt them. what we should be doing is looking at the way that france and other countries are talking about changing our tax structure within the oecd and fighting that, and not fighting with tariffs. cheryl: but tariffs still are the big story. i want you to listen to eric trump, son of the president. he has done a sit-down with stuart varney, the full interview airs later this morning. listen to what he said about the issue of his father's decision on china. >> so the president would not do a short-term deal just to keep the economy going next year? >> first of all, i think the economy's going to keep going regardless of china. i don't think china's going to change anything.

omy father the has exerted tremendous pressure, essex earthed so much pressure on -- exerted so much pressure on them, people have become desensitized to the whole china thing. you talk about tariffs on china and you might see little blip but people are desensitized to the china economic problem, much more so than they were a year ago. cheryl: you know, tori, his comments actually kind of echo what we heard this week on fox business, whether it's peter novnavarro, wilbur ross, they sy it's the president's decision on these chinese tariffs. he may put the gauntlet down. >> it really is the president's decision. we don't know what the white house is thinking. we could be inches from a phase one deal or we could be miles apart. the real story, cheryl, is that it's clea completely out of touo say that americans are becoming desensitized to the china

tariff issue. the next round of over $100 billion in goods that could be taxed are consumer goods, ranging from apple products to the basic necessities you need for your babies and children. so this is a direct tax on the american people that will be felt much heavier than previous iterations. cheryl: many people do say that tariffs is a tax on the american public. we said that many times here as well. >> it's absolutely correct. cheryl: thank you very much. >> thank you. lauren: coming up, theft is on the rise at home depots across the country and there is major backlash brewing this morning over what they're blaming for that theft. plus, google revealing the most searched terms of 2019. you will never guess what the number one searched item is. cheryl: fox business. i don't know. lauren: keep it here on "fbn: a.m.." cheryl: i'm just kidding. lauren: maybe. ♪ stop and stare. ♪ i think i'm moving but i go

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cheryl: the home depot is blaming part of its theft problem at its stores on the opioid crisis. lauren: joining us now to discuss because the story is getting backlash on social media is brett larson. what's their case? >> they said they have seen an increase in thefts in a lot of their stores and they say they think it's due to an increase in opioid use which resulted in a bit of backlash online which is a lot of people saying oh, just another thing to blame on opioids, blaming everything on the opioid crisis is what this claudia williams, a doctor said, home depot better check themselves. what's interesting, there's some backlash to people's backlash to the tweets, the people saying

this is ridiculous for home depot s to say this. some people are saying have you ever seen these communities affected by an opioid crisis. cheryl: or when someone is drugged out on opioids and they're out of their minds. it's an illness, an addiction. i can see where they're looking to buy more drugs, they're going to go into a home depot -- >> and they're going to steal stuff. lauren: wouldn't that be the same for every retailer? >> it would be. when you at look at home depot, they're open late into the night, giant warehouses with big entrances, so it's probably easy to get in and out. they say they're working on smart technology, artificial intelligence to prevent power tools if they were stolen, prevent them from working once you got them out of the store without purchasing them legally. a lot of people steal the stuff and take them back and get gift cards and sell those for cash.

lauren: google is out with the list of the most searched items of the year. >> 'tis the season for all the lists of 2019. top of the list for 2019 is disney plus, which is pretty amazing. cheryl: that makes sense. >> nipsy hustle, hurricane dorian, a much searched term. they have all this stuff on their site this morning. it's fun to poke through and see the different things. a lot of times you see stuff and you think oh, i forgot that happened this year. the notre dame cathedral, that was a story we watched unfold in real-time. the area 51 raid, one of the most searched terms. most searched people -- cheryl: jus jussie jussie .

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cheryl: here is your morning cheat sheet, the top headlines to get you through the day. a high stakes meeting set for today at the white house over

tariffs china. reuters is reporting the president does plan to meet with top trade advisors to discuss tariffs set to go into effect this sunday. the tariffs would impact $160 billion worth of chinese goods. a decision to push forward with them could put a wrinkle in talks to end the 17-month long trade war with china. we're monitoring developments you out of europe. there's a european conference happening right now. the major headline we've gotten, they're evaluating retaliatory tariffs on the united states. all of this stems from that initial fight that we have had with the french. and voters in the united kingdom going to the polls today and brexit is going to be top of mind. this election will have a major impact on the future of their country and the rest of the world. brexit, again, front and center in the battle between boris johnson and jeremy corbin. lauren mlauren: as the countdoe 2020 election ticks, joe biden

may have signaled he may only want one term in the oval office. let's discuss, republican strategist and attorney sari kim is here. good morning. >> good morning. lauren: yesterday the ig ripped the entire fbi chain of command in that testimony. what's your take-away from what he said from his report and what every american who could become targets of an unaccountable government and unaccountable government power be concerned today? >> yes. so i had two key take-aways, lauren. and i think your word, unaccountable, is very important. first, both parties, both party senators basically came to the same conclusion, that inspector general horowitz did, which is the fbi did this surveillance in a silo. they did not notify the national security lawyers. they did not notify the department of justice leadership and they absolutely should have. that is something that both parties need to fix as it

relates to oversight. and then the second take-away that i took is that an fbi lawyer did in fact doctor the evidence that was used in the fisa court to begin the surveillance of the trump campaign. so if i was that particular fbi attorney, i would be concerned about the fact that district attorney durham is probably going to send them to jail. lauren: those are powerful words and we have republican lawmakers now looking at all of this and proposing a bill to make changes to the fisa warrant application process. let's move on. 2020 is close. so is the election. and former vice president joe biden, there's a lot of chatter, even though his campaign denies this, that he might just be a one-term president. he would be 82 at the time of a second term. but you got five democrats -- five candidates running for the be presidency right now who are all in their 70s. is this still an issue?

>> it's absolutely an issue. but i think it's an issue because vice president biden himself said it was a gameic. i have no idea why he's running for president of the united states if he doesn't wants to do it once. lauren: the campaign denies he is running with that intention. >> right. so this is where the biden campaign seems to be a carnival of errors. first, vice president biden says in april that it's a gimmick. p then his campaign walks it back because as recently as yesterday vice president biden said he might just do it for one term. why? because he's too old. if he's too old now, then he'll be too old in six months when the democrats pick their no, nominee, too old after that. i think vice president biden needs to tell the american people why he wants to be president of the united states. everything else should be tertiary to those reasons. lauren: every candidate in their 70s maybe needs to

really consider who number two on the ticket is, should anything happen or grooming number two to eventually be the nominee had that runs at the top of the ticket in the next election. in the backdrop of the ig report, the horowitz report, you have the house judiciary committee basically writing the articles of impeachment to remove president trump from office. the full house set to vote on that next week. a majority of voters are not into impeachment. and it's becoming a major issue, particularly for centrist democrats. watch this. >> i answered just moments ago, she's ready to vote for the articles of impeachment, she said she's not there yet but she's hearing a lot from both sides of her district. >> the phones are ringing off the hook. we can't pick up the phone fast enough. it's people on both sides. lauren.lauren: michelle flock d her vote from pro-impeachment to undecided. there's a lot of moderates in this position. >> right.

they should be in that position. i have absolutely no idea how these two alleged articles of impeachment rise to high crimes and misse misdemeanors. obstruction of congress is not a high crime. obstruction of justice is. and that's what they alleged three months ago. three months ago it was quid pro quo. now it's abuse of power. the democratic party cannot ascertain what they want to impeach trump for and as a result of them changing their minds every week, every day, every second, the voter doesn't understand. and that's why democrats who are running in the 31 districts that president trump won in 2016 don't want to vote for it because they can't explain it to the people that elected them to power. lauren: out of those 31 democrats in trump districts, if 17 of them vote against impeachment, do you think that 17 is likely? then nancy pelosi doesn't have the votes. >> i do think it's likely.

and if she did have the votes, they wouldn't wait another seven days. they would put it on the floor today. lauren: thank you very much for joining us. >> thanks. cheryl: we have got a lot going on this morning. let's talk about elizabeth warren because her wealth tax is starting to will under scrutiny, according to a new study. the tax plan at the center of her candidacy would race $2.7 trillion, short of her projected 3.75 trillion. this study calls into question whether warren's assertion that increasing taxes on the wealthy is going to be enough to cover her plans for universal healthcare, erasing student debt and college tuition. let's take a look at your money this morning, green arrows across the board. we're dealing with the day after the fed's decision to leave interest rates alone and no hints about future rate hikes from the fed. you have the dow up 13, s&p up 3 and a quarter, nasdaq up 11.

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the epicenter of texas wine country. we have 5 50 wine and tasting rooms. cheryl: the local economy is very dependent on tourists because fredericksburg has those german roots. you're not just growing grapes but you're also growing a culture based on german history. >>s absolutely. well, our whole economy is really based on agriculture many it was and still is primary an agricultural community. so most of our acreage is used for ranching and farming and peach production and grape growing. everything really does tie back to our german roots. you'll see that in our architecture, in our events, and just our entire town and our culinary, everything. cheryl: the food is great. as our viewers h know, i'm from texas and i've been there. stonewall, this area of texas, it was called the texas white

house because of lbj at the time. that's another place where people can go and tour and get a part of that history from the lbj perspective. talk about that. >> yes. it's just such a neat experience to go. it's really the entire life legacy of the president there and his family. so everything from his birth place to his final resting place is there in stonewall, 15 minutes from downtown fredericksburg. it's a beautiful drive. the state and national parks are both there. you can have a full experience and see all the beautiful grounds. cheryl: also, the national museum of the pacific war, which correct me if i'm wrong, is the only true museum dedicated to the pacific side of world war ii. >> yes, the entire pacific theater. admiral nemitz is a hometown hero from fredericksburg. it's dedicated to all those who

served in the pacific. it's a smithsonian quality museum, fantastic in down fredericksburg. tickets are good for 48 hours. you can experience some, walk over and have lunch at one of the great restaurants downtown, do some shopping at all the boutiques and then go back for more. cheryl: its is a really great place to visit. i'm very r partial to fredericksburg. i hope our viewers check it out. thank you for he getting up so early, texas timein time, and tg us about fredericksburg. >> thank you so much. cheryl: if anyone wants to be a part of your town on fox business, you can e-mail us, tweet lauren or i. we love to hear about these small towns. lauren: let's take a look at how your money is moving this morning. dows is up 9 points, s&p up 2, nasdaq up 8. the fed kept rates where they are. we have a big meeting at the white house, negotiating the

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cheryl: it was a bad day for boeing yesterday as the whistleblower for the company actually testified on capitol hill and the faa. the stock recovered, lauren, but it was rough during the hearing. lauren: up by the end of the afternoon. hillary vaughn following all of the action from washington for us. good morning. >> reporter: lawmakers on cap l tolcapitol hill asking tough

questions about the faa's possible role in two deadly crashes involving the boeing 737 max. it was revealed regulators allowed the plane to keep flying after its own investigation concluded there would be high risks without major design changes. >> was a mistake made? >> obviously the result is not satisfactory. >> well, you can't bring yourself to say that we made a mistake and you weren't even there at the time. >> reporter: the hearing comes after two fatal crashes forced the global grounding of 737 max planes. democrats on the house transportation committee are accusing the faa of downplaying the threat and allowing boeing to ignore obvious safety flaws. some republicans are urging the committee not to over-react with new regulation. >> we have to fix the system. i do think we have to be very cautious moving forward and not have knee-jerk reactions. >> reporter: the faa has an ongoing investigation into production issues with the 737

max, prompted by a whistleblower who also testified before the committee, describing a dangerous corp. h corporate cult boeing where he said profits came before safety. >> the factory was in chaos. every factory health metric was getting record low marks. each one was trending in the wrong direction. >> reporter: the faa says it's re-evaluating procedures used to certify that the 737 max was safe to fly. hillary vaughn, fox business. cheryl: hillary, thank you. lauren: harvey weinstein reaching a development in his sexual misconduct scandal. cheryl: a lot of folks not happy about this. tracee carrasco has more details. tracee, good morning. tracee: the deal between weinstein, his former associate, insurers and his accusers will be worth $47 million, worth about $25 million of that going to his accusers. per the settlement, weinstein and his former associates will not have to admit any

wrong-doing. about $6 million will go to those who filed lawsuits again weinstein and a fund of $18.6 million will be created for additional victims who may come forward. the rest of the money will go to creditors a an cover legal fees of his former associates. bankruptcy judge still has to approve the deal. well, the families of former nfl players left out of the league's $2 billion concussion settlement are on the verge of a payday. a federal judge overseeing the case appointed a mediator to resolve claims by about 70 families who were left out of the settlement because the players died before 2006. since agreeing to the settlement, the leagues has awarded more than 1,000 former players and their families awards of more than $700 million. well, ihop looking to expand past its traditional sit-down restaurants by creating new restaurants focused on the fast casual experience. the new restaurants called flip'd by ihop will still offer

pancakes but with an emphasis on to-go orders. you'll be able to order coffee, breakfast sandwiches, burritos and salads all to go. one ugly sweater is becoming a hit despite the backlash. this ugly christmas sweater shows santa with lines of cocaine, reportedly sold and taken down from walmart's website. they issued an apology to customers. as soon as the story went viral, sales of the sweater skyrocketed on amazon, making it a top seller. that's what a'what's happening . cheryl: even the columbians were mad about this. lauren: the ugly christmas sweater trend, have you to be a little controversial because people will wear the sweater. as a company you have to be careful. tracee: people want it for their parties. cheryl: it's a story with so many twists and turns, you can't even make it up and believe it

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on. lauren: side by side it wasle -- was believable. >> we are talking home alone, disney plus is going to reboot the classic movie, one of my favorites of all time, any day of the year i can watch this movie and announced the cast for it, the person that will be playing the kid is archie yates that plays the rabbit. tweets have been coming in from all the world, of all things that you have to mess with, you have to mess with home alone,

we've already had the first and second one. home alone reboot, yeah, most pointless remake to date. lauren: it's just for streaming. >> nobody cares but now we will see what happens to disney plus. cheryl: america has voted on the most popular movie. >> multiple surveys coming yesterday saying that america's story, what would you your favorite? >> my favorite movie is love actually. i've seen it multiple times and i will watch it again probably this weekend. lauren: this is the question of the day and i'm getting a lot of

answers of what their favorite movies. i do watch the grinch. >> animated? lauren: several of them because that's what my kids like. >> i like all the tv shows, reindeer, frosty the snowman. >> i would say home alone, charlie brown christmas, that's a pretty good one. cheryl: what's your favorite movie if you were to go back to theaters? >> home alone. cheryl: home alone. >> pretty good too, they got the last there. there you go. cheryl: this year has been interesting year, most americans are craving christmas this year, they want time with family and take abreak from the news, they want wholesome entertainment and maybe just happier times, i

don't know. >> if it makes people happy, that's good, we need people to enjoy. lauren: the whole thing with the hallmark channel. makes you feel good. thank you for joining us on fbn:am, let's say good morning to mornings with maria. maria: happy thursday, everybody, i'm maria bartiromo, thanks for joining us, it is thursday december 12th, top stories at 6:00 a.m. on the east coast, china trade focus at the white house this morning, president trump to meet with top trade advisers to talk about tariffs on $160 billion of chinese goods to take effect this sunday, this as chinese officials say are in close contact with u.s. counter parts as both sides work to phase 1 deal, anything can happen in the next few days ahead of sunday deadline, futures pointing to fractional higher opening, take allow, s&p futures up 2 and nasdaq futures higher by 10 points, it is decision day in the uk this belonger, people