a reminder to follow me on twitter @loudobbs, like me on facebook and follow me on instagram @loudobbstonight. see you here tomorrow. good night from washington. cheryl: it is 5:00 a.m. here are your top stories at this hour. time to sign, markets and american companies waiting and here we go, first phase of the u.s.-china trade deal going of to be signed today. we're live in our nation's capitol where in a few hours americans are able to see what is in the deal. lauren: it is a tale of two countries, depending on what you watched last night. president trump touting a strong economy at his rally in wisconsin and six democrats facing off in iowa in their final debate before the primaries. cheryl: carlos ghosn's late night escape from japan now inspiring copy cats.

it's wednesday, january 15th and "fbn: a.m." starts right now. ♪ ♪ keep on turning. ♪ proud mary keep on burning. ♪ rolling, we're rolling, we're rolling on the river. ♪ i tell you we're rolling, rolling, rolling on the river. cheryl lauren: we are rolling this morning. he'll welcome to "fbn: a.m.." i'm lauren simonetti. cheryl: rolling into wednesday. good morning. i'm cheryl casone. lauren: the dow is up 32 points yesterday, small declines this morning ahead of earnings from bank of america and goldman sachs. dow down 49 points. the chinese delegation in washington to sign the trade deal. cheryl: asian markets, there has been optimism so far this week until today for asian markets. some other issues going on.

the nikkei down half a percent. hang seng and kospi in the red. lauren: as we're waiting for ink to paper for the phase one, the ftse is up a quarter of 1% in london. cheryl: breaking this morning, it is our top story, the u.s. and china set to declare a trade truce today. the two countries going to sign the first phase of the trade deal following a two-year standoff. lauren: unbelievable. edward lawrence has been following this story very closely. he joins us live from washington right now. good morning. what do we know now? as they say, the he devil's in the details and we don't have all of them, edward. >> reporter: no one has actually read publicly the full agreement. we do know that there will be some structural changes in china's -- china's already started to make some of those. that signing will happen today. this could be the single most important signing of this presidency so far. we'll have to see exactly what's in this deal. but last night i could tell you that the chinese vice premier

met robert lighthizer and later on the delegation in washington, d.c. they went to dinner last night. that meeting lasting several hours there. this is the only american video of this meeting. you can see liu he going inside the deal here. rn white was able to get this handshake greeting there on the eve of the signing. it will be posted the moment that the agreement is signed. sources say the chinese will be at the white house about 11:00 a.m. this morning. there will be a meeting with the president and then a signing ceremony. it's expected to speak at at the signing ceremony, u.s. treasury secretary steven ne mnuchin and trade representative robert lighthizer and we will hear from liu he about this. following the ceremony a lunch will take place. the u.s. chamber of commerce has been briefed and included, bounced off with ideas by the u.s. trade representative's office. the senior vice president of

asia, charles freeman, says from what he has read in the agreement, there are enough structural changes and enforcement to change the trade relationship with the u.s. listen. >> we're in the business of giving the chinese and the administration the benefit of the doubt and, frankly speaking, it's been a really rough couple years for our consumers, for our businesses, because of the tariff challenges and so we're really pleased to see a cessation of that and we're looking forward to a strong and successful implementation of this phase before we get onto the next phase. >> reporter: freeman is cautiously optimistic about this. he sayses he's going to watch the implementation of this very closely as is the u.s. trade delegation here. freeman met with the chinese trade delegation yesterday. i spoke with him after that. he said the chinese affirmed to him in a strong manner that they will follow through with this agreement. in fact, the chinese met with dozens of u.s. businesses, they had the same message that give

them time to implement but they will follow through with this trade agreement. it was standing room only in their hotel for those meetings. freeman said he was the whole 25 member chinese delegation on one side of the table, he was on the other. they were trying to show him that they will honor this. we'll have to see. the devil's in the details. back to you. cheryl: any idea if thish hugh of -- issue of huawei is specifically addressed in the agreement. >> reporter: the short answer, no, it is not going to be specifically addressed in the agreement. we're hearing we're going to see regulations related to huawei and other chinese companies coming out of the commerce department. that is expected to happen fairly soon about that within this agreement it covers currency, covers intellectual property, also covers agriculture, the buy is $50 billion worth of u.s. specifically with agriculture, $200 billion over the next two years, the chinese are going to buy in all goods and services from the united states. but it does not include

specifically huawei. lauren: edward lawrence, live in our nation's capital on this historic day. thank you. meanwhile, we have six democratic presidential hopefuls taking the stage last night for the final debate before the iowa caucuses and moments got pretty tense p. cheryl: hillary vaughn was therthere for all of the action. she joins us with the highlights. >> reporter: senator bernie sanders and else l else got into -- elizabeth warren got into a disagreement last night on stage. it wasn't over policy. it was personal, after senator warren retold her claim that behind closed doors bernie sanders told her in december of last year she did not think a woman could win in 2020 but last night sanders flatly denied that and denied warren's retelling of that private moment, saying he didn't say it. later, the two got into an awkward disagreement about who defeated a republican in the past and who would be the best candidate to do it again in

november. >> and the only person on this stage who has beaten an incumbent republican, any time in the past 30 years, is me. >> just to set the record straight, i di feeted an incouple -- defeated an incumbent republican. >> when? >> 1990. >> i said i was the only one who has beaten an incumbent republican in 30 years. >> 30 years is 1990, as a matter of fact. >> reporter: they also had this tense exchange, after the debate was over, where warren refused to shake sanders' hand and instead hashed off some things off to the side before leaving the stage. candidates also talked about their foreign policy stance. biden admitted supporting the iraq war was a mistake but he says he has the foreign policy experience to make sure a war with iran doesn't happen and they don't get a nuclear

weapons. all democrats on stage took turns fighting over trade deals negotiated by trump. sanders said he would not support the usmca because it did not have the words "climate change" in the deal. >> we have forced american workers to compete against people in mexico, in china, elsewhere, who earn starvation wages. every major environmental organization has said no to this new trade agreement. because it does not even have the phrase "climate change" in it. >> we have farmers here in iowa who are hurting. they are hurting because of donald trump's initiated trade wars. >> i don't know that there's any trade agreement that the senator would ever think made any sense. >> joe and i have a fundamental disagreement here. in case you haven't noticed. >> reporter: all candidates on stage picks themselves as the best person to take on trump in november, by attacking them on the economy.

they have a lot of work to do to prove that voters' lives are not better off a today than they were four years ago. cheryl: a packe pack house for president trump's rally in the battleground state of wisconsin last night. thousands cheered on the president as he touted the new u.s.-china trade deal that's being signed in a few hours. lauren: we have more on the trade deal. >> reporter: the president mixing in some of his greatest hits with some new one-liners, the fresh barbs concerning the killing of the iranian general. >> great percentages of people don't have legs right now and arms because of this son of a [bleep]. he should have been killed 20 years ago. >> reporter: amid increasing frustratiousfrustration over thi attack. president trump doubling down that he was planning attacks on u.s. interests. >> the democrats are doing everything possible to disparage

what we did with the hit on this monster. bernie and the rad l call left t cannot protect your family and they cannot protect our country, nor do they want to. >> reporter: with the rally being held in milwaukee, the president took the opportunity to discuss china in the context of manufacturing and farming. >> tomorrow we'll also be signing our phase one trade deal with china, massively boosting exports of products made and produced right here in the great state of wisconsin. >> reporter: no rally would be complete without an an attack on impeachment, with the trial in the senate looming, the president reiterating that impeachment is simply meant to distract the american public from the administration's accomplishments. >> our opponents say we're not going to win, let's impeach president trump, with the greatest economy in our history, our military has been totally

rebuilt. let's impeach him. but we've created 7 million jobs since the election. >> reporter: hours before the rally, house speaker nancy pelosi announcing a vote today on sending articles of impeachment to the senate. as you might imagine, the president responding, firing back that pl pelosi should, quote, focus on fixing the filthy, dirty district she represents. lauren: what the president said in mil milwaukee and what we hed from the democrats on the debate stage, it was like living in two totally different countries. cheryl: yeah, yeah. lauren: unbelievable. cheryl: obviously that was a reference to the city of san francisco that todd's talking about. a senate vote could happen this week for the usmca trade deal. lauren: here it is. tracee carrasco joining us now with those details. good morning, tracee. tracee: good morning. mitch mcconnell making those comments yesterday, saying the vote would had happen after the impeachment trial which is expected to begin next week. five senate committees expected to join the senate finance committee in approving the

revamped $1.2 trillion deal. treasury secretary steven mnuchin said it will add at least half of 1% to the u.s. gdp. well, former national security advisor michael flynn looking to withdraw his guilty plea. the motion filed yesterday by his legal team cites the reason as, quote, bad faith by the government. it follows the decision by the justice department last week, recommending flynn only serve six months in prison. the former national security advisor pled guilty in 2017 to lying to the fbi during the russia investigation. flynn is expected to be sentenced on january 28th. and more fallout from the mlb sign stealing scandal. red sox manager alex cor kora it of a job. the league claims he developed the system to steal pitching signs when he worked with the houston ahowhouston astros.

the findings show the astros were helped to develop the system to steal the signs. no sign of cheating, last night ken jennings was crowned champion of the jeopardy greatest of all time contest. besides the title, he took home $1 million. he was up against two other of the show's grates. thegreat --greats. they each won $250,000. the competition took on a special meaning as host alex trebek at battles stage four pancreatic cancer. cheryl: of course we're wishing him well. thank you so much. lauren: coming up, phase one of the china trade deal set to be signed today. why are democrats criticizing it. cheryl: if you're trying to cut down on meat but you're aching for a little bacon, we've got good news coming your way. you're watching "fbn: a.m." ♪ gone like a '59 cadillac.

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dobbs last flight about the u.s.-china trade deal and how it's going to be enforced, keeping tariffs on china something our edward lawrence has been reporting on for a while. is all of this pressure on beijing to address u.s. concerns, including the forced transfer of technology, is any of this going to come up in phase two. let's bring in dean chang. are the chinese going to live up to their end of the bargain? >> that's the hundreds of billions of dollars question, isn't it? on the one hand, if they want these tariffs, all of them removed they're going to have to. but i would caution that we have seen in the south china sea a chinese promise to president obama that they would not militaryize the south china sea. they did. when we asked about it, they said putting missiles on things on the islands doesn't count as

militaryization. the devil will be in the details of the agreement. cheryl: we'll have to read the agreement today. i want to bring in dominic tavello. we're not going to get the actual text of the agreement until it's signed. that's about midday. market reaction r, what are you expecting? >> we saw it yesterday. i think the market was expecting a lot more. this should not have surprised anybody. this administration decided from day one they're going to hold china's feet to the fire, hold them accountable. part of this is targeted tariffs, as you meet certain goals, we'll get rid of the tariffs. none of this should be a surprise. cheryl: of course this is going political. it hasn't been signed yet. you've got senator chuck schumer, dnc issuing a statement they're frustrated and disappointed by phase one. what do you think of the democrats' reaction in all this. >> this is an election year. i would expect the democrats to be critical of anything, short

of china becoming a market of free trade. cheryl: the reaction from analysts around the world, i mean, the economies of the u.s. we've already reported wasn't necessarily that hit by the tariffs but the tariffs are staying in place. even though the chinese are committing to buying agriculture. certain sectors are being pointed to now, energy, services, agriculture, and manufacturing as u.s. industries that will benefit from this. do you agree with that? >> i do. we've actually seen those industries hurt the most, especially agricultural area. look, these are needs that the chinese economy has to have. we talked about pork, soybeans and certainly energy's a big need for the chinese economy. this is kind of a win for them. it solves some of their problems. it's a win for the trump administration. they don't want to go into an election year, the election nine months away, potentially putting our economy in danger. cheryl: and also not working on

phase two. real quick, dean, huawei, we called it a national security threat, the secretary of state called it a national security threat. edward lawrence says as far as he knows it's not going to be addressed in the agreement specifically. your final reaction? >> i think even if huawei specifically isn't in the agreement, how with intellectual property and hacking, which is really the underlying problem with huawei and zte is hopefully going to be addressed. cheryl: it's going to be a big day for the markets and of course a historic day as this deal is signed. dean, thank you very much for being here, dominic, of course, thank you to you guys. lauren: we have stunning footage from a security camera showing two missiles hitting the ukrainian international airlines plane last week amid a report that the person responsible from the footage was arrested on iranian authorities on charges related to national security. the shooting down of the jet killed all 176 people on board. the u.s. is preparing to cut military aid to iraq if the u.s.

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area. cheryl: let's bring in brett larson. never thought i would say jet fuel and children in the same sentence. >> this is really troubling. we started hearing reports about this yesterday, right after it happened. it was a delta flight to china that had a mechanical issue and needed to dump fuel so it wasn't too heavy so it could return back to the airport. you can see what's happening. normally, when you dump fuel from an aircraft according to the faa is you do it over unpopulated areas or you do it higher up so that the fuel by the time it reaches the ground is dispersed and it's not bad of. in this instance, it came down over two schools, an elementary school and a high school, and several children and teenagers were sent to the hospital because they were -- i mean, you can see, that is not normal. delta released a statement saying this is not what we planned on doing,ist was a mistake. you can see they're explaining they had an issue. cheryl: so they're apologizing.

a new warning from the united nations about north korea. >> north korea is going to have a cryptocurrency conference. right? and you want to -- lauren: your face, brett. >> you read this and you think they can't be serious. north korea is involved in so much crime. they are allegedly producing methamphetamines, known counterfeiters, they make amazing counterfeits of 100-dollar bills. the united nations is saying they're going to have a cryptocurrency conference, they want people to learn about their cryptocurrency which of course is not a good idea. a, you would have to go to north korea, b, north korea is involved in stealing people's cryptocurrencies and hacking, so -- cheryl: it's funny you bring that up. i've seen reports that the chinese were funneling money to kim jong un using bitcoin. >> using bitcoin because bitcoin is basically cash, electronically cash. lauren: people trust bitcoin and trust north korea, said no one ever. >> high on my list of countries

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hours before a house vote today to finally send articles over to the senate. republicans planning their trial strategy and warning that both sides could call witnesses. cheryl: jackie obanez has details. >> reporter: president trump came out swinging at his packed rally in milwaukee. the president slamming democrats on the eve of impeachment proceedings. >> they want to impeach. impeach the president of the united states over a perfect phone call. it's the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on our country. >> reporter: today, house democrats are expected to vote to send articles of impeachment to the senate after weeks of delays, impeachment managers will also be selected to act as prosecutors in the trial. house speaker nancy pelosi releasing a statement reading in part, the american people deserve the truth and the constitution demands a trial. the president and the senators

will be held accountable. house democrats will also hand over new evidence to the senate today provided by a close associate of president trump's personalal attorney, rudy giuliani. republicans argue he has a history of credibility issues. among the documents are handwritten notes, including a message. giuliani ad mitted to travel to- admitted to traveling to ukraine to investigate joe biden. the t white house denies withholding military aid to get that information. sources confirm to fox news that mitch mcconnell met with republican senators to discuss strategy including the possibility of calling hunter biden to testify. the trial will likely start next tuesday. lauren, cheryl. lauren: jackie, thank you very much. the impeachment proceedings were major focus of last night's debate but all eyes were also on

bernie sanders and elizabeth warren after sanders was accused of saying a woman couldn't win the presidency. why are the two friends taking jabs now? we ask chairman of the committee to defend the president, ted harvey and democratic association director, wendy wallace p thankin. thank you for joining us. who do you think won the debate last night and why is elizabeth warren all of a sudden taking jabs at her friend bernie? >> well, she's taking jabs because bernie is leading in the polls and he crushed it in the debate last night. he is the only one that's proudly and unapologetically up there he' espousing the left socialist agenda. everyone else is trying to play catch-up and it's not selling to the leftist voters who make up the primary voters in the democrat election. so everybody is now going to be going after bernie. that's why his good friend elizabeth warren is going after him. lauren: would you agree, wendy? >> i would not agree with that

categorization. i think all of the frontrunners had good nights last night. i wish that senator klobuchar had been able to a little more forcefully give her shoutout to governor laura kelly in kansas. but i don't think that the party is as far to the left as portrayed here and so i think we are seeing some of that come through as well. democrats are really focused on the kitchen table issues that the american voters care about and we're going to see that. only 43% of iowa caucus-goers are fully committed at this point. so it's really still a jump ball. lauren: i want to talk about the kitchen table issues. one of them is certainly the economy and, ted, we're going to play a sound, split screen. you hear president trump at his rally last night talking up the economy and the democrats saying what they're going to do about it at the debate. let's watch. >> the greatest economy in our

history, we've created 7 million jobs since the election including more than 1 million manufacturing and construction jobs. nobody thought that was possible. >> with regard to the economy, i can hardly wait to have the debate with him. >> i can beat trump on the economy. >> i'm ready to take on this president on the economy. lauren: ted? >> well, trump is right, this is the best economy in my lifetime and every democrat up there throughout those plat tied -- threw out thos out those platit. trump got elected and you see what's happened. the democrats have nothing to bring to the american people when it comes to the economy. that's why all they're doing is offering free stuff, free healthcare, free college, free day-care. they have nothing else to offer to the american voters other than free stuff. lauren: you have the more moderates in the pack, pete buttigieg, amy klobuchar saying

hold up, we realize the far left of the party is promising all this for free but it doesn't work like that. >> i mean, nothing is free and we all know that. i think what they are focused on is showing the american people examples of how we have gotten it done. there's some great gubernatorial examples in the states. a lot of our amazing moderate governors who have won in trump states really infusing jobs into the economy and these democratic candidates will be able to point to that and they'll be able to utilize those playbook as they go up against president trump. lauren: with you fewer democrats on the stage, we were hoping we could see more differences in their policy and i'm not sure we got a lot of differences. ted, i want to ask you, where does mayor mike bloomberg fit into all of this. on twitter last night his campaign put out i guess you can

call it an advertisement, a spot that says now that i have your attention, spot mayor bloomberg among these meat balls. it's so odd. i don't understand what's going on. do you? >> no. it was a very odd ad, whatever you want to call it. but bloomberg will be the disrupter in this election. i think there will be no frontrunner coming out of the first four primary states and then it goes to super tuesday and bloomberg is literally spending a fortune in these super tuesday states and he will have such a head start on the other candidates that i think that he could be the frontrunner by the end of super tuesday and that will totally change the outlook of the democrat primary moving forward. lauren: it sure will. ted, wendy, thank you so much for the time. >> thank you. cheryl: since you brought it up, let's talk about meat balls, seriously. >> lauren: i can't figure this out. cheryl: this is the weirdest thing. michael bloomberg not on the debate stage but he was on

twitter or at least his people were. here's the meat ball thing. this is strange tweets from bloomberg's accounts. there's a photo shopped picture of bloomberg on a meat ball. his campaign called this the fun content. that's one thing. some other interesting tweets. quote, mike has eaten clams casino for breakfast, lunch and dinner every day for 30 years. here's another one. mike owns a small weekend place on the moon. hashtag bloomberg facts. this is so strange. another one, mike can tel telepathically communicate with doldolphins. who thinks this was a good idea? lauren: do you think he just wants to be talked about, with the democrats not including him on the debate stage. cheryl: i've got nothing. lauren: let's move on. we have small declines on deal

day, right, the president is expected to sign phase one of the china trade deal today with the chinese president. dow down 38, s&p down 3, nasdaq down about 7. coming up how veterans looking for a hand up, not a handout, are finding a new resource to get them hired. cheryl: one royal family is looking to lend a hand to prince harry with a explain it coming up on "fbn: a.m." ♪ you know you're going to wake up in his bed in the morning. ♪ your cash is automatically invested at a great rate. that's why fidelity leads the industry in value while our competition continues to talk. ♪ talk, talk while our competition continues to talk. i am not for ignoring the first sign of a cold. i am for shortening my cold, with zicam! zicam is completely different. unlike most other cold medicines, zicam is clinically proven to shorten colds. i am a zifan for zicam!

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cheryl: finding a job can be a real struggle for our nation's heroes, our veterans. but it can be harder for those men and women who end up with a criminal record after a their service to our country. one man wants to change that. let's bring in the founder of veteran recruiting, kevin o'brien. good morning. >> thank you for having me. cheryl: this is a brand-new initiative you're taking on. why did you choose to reach out to this specific class of rest e runs anveterans and why are they struggling. >> after a year, about 50% still report being unemployed. the same is going to ring true for veterans that find themselves caught up in the criminal justice system. a lot of the crimes they committed are related to ptsd,

mental health issues, anxiety, depression, doesn't necessarily mean these can't be successful contributing members of society. so we think employers would be well served looking at this talent pool when trying to fill jobs remaining in the country today. cheryl: in general, more than 50% of people that serve time find themselves unemployed a year after they're released. 9% of our nation's veterans do have some type of record. is that a high number or is that number actually improved? >> well, i think it's right in line with the average -- the national average for people just in general that have criminal records. it's reported that 70 million americans have some sort of criminal history in their background. so i think the number coincides pretty well with the national average. cheryl: we're looking at companies that you're working with that are looking to hire these veterans, to reach out to them, and we always say this. it is not a handout.

it's a hand-up of. you've got jp morgan chase, coca-cola, walmart and starbucks. talk about your relationships that you've built with these companies. >> well, a lot of the companies there we work with in our day-to-day business at veteran recruiting and a lot of them already had programs in place to consider applicants that have some criminal history and with the first step act and the fair chance act being passed last year by the president and congress, that stops companies from asking applicants if they have a criminal record on the application, these same group of companies stepped up and said we would absolutely give those same privileges to veterans and we'll definitely look at them for positions that they have available. cheryl: the unemployment rate for our nation's heros is 2.8%, is that right, kevin? >> you hear different numbers, hovering right around 3%. it's consistently lower than the national average which surprises many but it's right around the 3% range. cheryl: it's because of people

like you, companies like the ones we mentioned that are willing to reach out and work with this group of americans who deserve a second chance, to your point. kevin, thank you for being here as always. thank you for your work as well. >> thanks for having me. cheryl: markets -- lauren: that's a good story. cheryl: we've got red arrows. lauren: dow down 40 points, s&p down 3, nasdaq down 7 this morning. coming up, the latest netflix documentary tackling a touchy subject. >> there's a history of concussion related injuries. >> he became angry and violent. he had everything and threw it all away. lauren: the aaron hernandez story that is captivating america. cheryl: also captivating america, baby yoda capturing the hearts of millions. the latest merchandise deal that has fans rushing to stores to get them a little baby yoda. you're watching "fbn: a.m." ♪ that fireball whiskey

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lauren: impossible foods thinks customers will be aching for some bacon. cheryl: tracee carrasco's got the bacon details. tracee: impossible foods announcing it is testing a bacon substitute to take on the breakfast staple. david lee told fox business it has set a goal of making the first ever kosher bacon cheeseburger. last week the company debuted the impossible pork to rave reviews at the consumer electronics show. the plant based products industry has been accused of mixed messages in the past over the health of their products but lee defended the claim. well, the mandalorian season may be over but baby he yoda madness is here to stay. billed a bear announcing the

debut of a stuffed baby yoda within the next few months. fans of creature have been waiting for months to get their hands on merchandise inspired by the figure. and how about prince harry and meghan markle joining a new royal family. burger king offering to give the duke and duchess a job at one of its restaurants, sail sayin say, they have a new crown for the royal couple. social media loving the idea, comparing it to eddie murphy's coming to america when he gets a job in a fast food restaurant. lauren: stay tuned for a new movie maybe. cheryl: killer inside, the mind of aaron hernandez is going to be debuting on netflix today. a lot of buzz about the three-part documentary which offers a new look into the life of the ex-nfl star turned convicted killer. lauren: joining us now to discuss this is former nfl

player, jack yo brewer, and jac, part of this documentary has phone calls that aaron hernandez made, saying the pain killers that the nfl was giving me really messed me up and i know you are passionate about what these drugs and what injuries do to players. to their brains. >> yeah, this is real. the brain is something that we still don't fully understand. you know, we made a lot of advancements over the last decade but it's really the final piece of the purchase you zell when -- puzzle when it comes to the body. scientists can go back and forth, have different theories but if you ask people close to aaron hernandez, there was a change in him. you can't deny the realities of cte. i know cheryl has done a lot of research on this as well and we've discussed these topics. i think this documentary will be very revealing to people and hopefully real. this is such a tragic story and you've just got to keep in mind

that cte is still causing problems, not just with aaron hernandez, but you see some players right now who are probably going through the same things. cheryl: i was going to ask you, we talked about this every year and a there still is concussions in the nfl. there's a health and safety department at the nfl. do you think the league is doing enough right now to deal with r current concussions on the field? >> you know, currently there's just not a lot you can do. s there's been so much technology as you know put into the helmets and at the end of the day, the sport is a collision sport. they've done a lot to change the rules and i applaud them for that. but i think the realities of it for the young players and the players coming up, i think those have been suppressed a little bit because the effects of concussion are really real. i mean, i don't like bringing up this but you look at players like antonio brown right now and what he's going through and you've got to question if a lot of this is due to some of his head injuries.

and i'm just praying that people around him and his family kind of get this and get him some help because what you're seeing in his behavior is not good. cheryl: real quick, are you going to watch the documentary on hernandez? >> yes, i am. i'm going to watch it. i don't watch a lot of movies, i don't watch a lot of tv. this one i'm going to watch. i would like to learn and understand what was going on in his mind a little bit and hopefully i can help some of the guys i mentor around the nfl. lauren: jack brewer, thank you so much. important topic. we appreciate your voice and a your perspective on it. thank you. >> thank you. lauren: coming up in just a bit, the latest trend gripping social media, ripped straight from the news headlines, maybe the headlines on this show. cheryl: one man using something straight out of game of thrones to settle his divorce. the wild request he made to the judge, that's next on "fbn: a.m." ♪ i've forgotten what i started fighting for.

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cheryl: speaking of little box boxes, yamaha telling people to climb on boxes. >> i have a couple of stories, real geniuses, quote, unquote, yamaha has to send out a tweet

not to participate in goshn challenge, nissan executive that escaped japan, ended up in lebanon, now, there's photos of people putting themselves and hiding themselves in in bags boxes an called the goshn challenge, yamaha send out a tweet, you might not want to do, it may end up as an unfortunate accident. cheryl: only 5'7, he could fit. >> don't try that at home, kids. cheryl: another thing to try at home, kansas man asking for a old-fashion type of trial with regards to divorce. >> yeah. asked if he could have a trial

by his ex-wife, it's not explicitly ban or restricted in the united states of america, he's asking the judge for 12 weeks to find sword so he can have a sword fight, the judge, however, has not made a decision yet citing irregularities. the prosecutor asked for school exam -- psychological of this guy. cheryl: mornings with maria start right now. maria: goshn challenge is hilarious, good morning, everyone, live from the jpmorgan healthcare conference here in san francisco, i'm maria bartiromo, the most

well-attended conference attracting investors, ceo's, leaders, the day of the china signing, top stories right now 6:00 a.m. on the east coast, making it official, president trump said to sign phase one of china trade deal this morning, what you need to know about the deal and what it means for you, battleground iowa, democrats facing off on the debate stage days from the caucus, president trump rally meanwhile away from there, he railed against the competition rally last night, we have all the highlights coming up. markets this morning are lower, take a look at future, modest declines, dow futures down 24 points, nasdaq futures down 7, bank earnings continue to flow, bank of america and goldman sachs after strong numbers yesterday, impeachment fight heads to the senate, the house

to vote today with the trial set to start next week, we will hear who the manager's are, coming up, mornings with maria begins right now. ♪ maria: sun is rising in california, fox business dagen mcdowell, pwc partner mitch roschelle, good morning. dagen: good morning. maria: the day has arrived. the top story phase 1 china trade deal expected to be signed today in washington, they're having a big signing ceremony in washington, edward lawrence joining us right now, good morning to you. >> good morning, maria, no one publicly read what's in the deal yet, treasury secretary