those sitting wonderful example. we thank you for being with us tonight. >> i commend mark esper for being so frank. cheryl: 5:00 a.m. and here are your top story. breaking overnight hundreds of americans have arrived back on us soil after the state department evacuated them from a quarantined cruise ship with more than a dozen other folks testing positive for the deadly coronavirus. lauren: michael bloomberg unveiling his plans for new money, but would everyone is wondering is will hillary clinton end up back on the democratic presidential ticket cracks the nominee-- cheryl: barbells over bank account, a new study says you should choose exercise are money if you want to be happy. it's monday,

february 17, "fbn:am" starts right now. ♪ lauren: a lot of you have the day off and maybe it will be the best day off of your life, welcome to "fbn:am". we are here. cheryl: it is the best date. good morning. not that we are jealous of our friends. lauren: not at all. we are actually looking at live pictures. cheryl: this is in texas, the

second aircraft that's just landed at locklin air force base in san antonio, texas. it has all these americans on board. there were two flights that left japan after the state department evacuated us americans that have been quarantined, basically trapped on the japanese cruiser ship and as the state department was testing them, initially they took them off the cruiser shipping and looked like they were clear, but as they boarded the aircraft they realize more than a dozen of the passengers had tested positive for the coronavirus so this is live pictures now. lauren: either way because they were under quarantined for over a week on that ship they will be under quarantined at these are poor basis with two of them, for an additional two weeks. after watching the play, let's look at the effects of the coronavirus in asia. the chinese market closed higher by more than 2% today, the japanese market lower,

china news stimulus cutting interest rates and japan the nikkei down .7% overnight because they put out their gdp numbers on an annualized basis: down 6.3%. cheryl: interest rate cut as well. europe, we have been monitoring european investigators have been monitoring what's going on with the coronavirus. in the green. back to the live pictures at the air force base in texas, where the second plane has landed on the tarmac carrying evacuated americans just out of japan they were quarantined on the cruiser ship, again the aircraft just landed. lauren: to remind you some of the passengers had tested positive for coronavirus. we have more. reporter: good morning. this rescue flights did not go exactly as planned. we now 14 americans, at

least 14 americans that have tested positive for the coronavirus and unfortunately once this-- was not discovered until they were already on their way to the airport along with everyone else. the first plane we know landed at travis air force base in california early this morning with the second following shortly after. we don't know which plane or perhaps both have been newly infected patients. all of 300 passengers will be under quarantined for the next 14 days and as for the newly infected passengers the state department explains that these individuals were moved in the most expeditious and safe manner to a specialized containment area on the evacuation aircraft. this is exactly why some americans did not want to leave the cruise liner in the first place about 400 of them have been quarantined on the diamond to princess cruises ship off the coast of japan since february 5, 46 americans

were already infected on the day of the rescue one couple's said why they feel they had to check-- stay in japan. >> understand getting off the ship, but under this circumstance of the offer is we are going to put you on buses with other people who have not completed their quarantined and have not been tested for the virus. we will then put you on a plane with all these people and to take you back to the united states. reporter: pressure is mounting on china as a sum of their own the scientists believe the deadly virus may have originated from a wuhan research lab and by the way there are about 71000 confirmed cases worldwide and more than 1700 people have unfortunately died from the deadly virus. back to you. lauren: the hunt is now on for the former passengers of a cruiser ship in cambodia after

one of its patients tested positive for the coronavirus after passengers embarked thursday. they disembarked with assurances the ship-- the clash that passenger in question was an american and stopped in malaysia after showing symptoms of the coronavirus with more than a thousand passengers dispersing and efforts are underway to track them down. cheryl: in china the people's bank of china announced it will begin destroying cash money collected by hospitals, and markets hit hard by the coronavirus and officials will disinfect bills and quarantine those 14 days up with a recirculate the bills. of there are reports that chinese officials may have known about the outbreak severity at least two weeks before they announced the information publicly today 20 some countries have confirmed cases and the us has 15 cases in several different states. lauren: top clinton ally reportedly dirty my bloomberg

presidential campaign. new york post says capri shut marshall, a senior person hillary clinton's inner circle will give bloomberg inside connections with the democrats. also worked on hillary's reelection campaign. cheryl: bloomberg under attack from republicans following reports he wants hillary to be his running mate. reporter: v neck bloomberg realizes cannot win the nomination with-- without cheating so he will bring in hillary and because hillary cheated very last time when the nomination. the chair of the party resigned the night before the convention because they were caught in my bloomberg starting to reveal policy including his parent to strengthen social security including minimum valid defense-- benefits. also creating a public option retirement savings plan for people working his campaign seen it would include automatic contributions

for all in the match for all workers and also automatically invest savings in low risk fonds. cheryl: trump administration considering a plan to make it easier for americans to invest in the stock market tax-free. the administration plans to introduce another middle-class tax cut before november 11 give a larger tax breaks to some retirement savings and simplify tax breaks . meetings between the administration house ways and means kevin brady are ongoing. cheryl: two different plans the great american race did not disappoint because president trump kicked off the daytona 500 leading drivers with a lap around the track.

he revved up the crowd to. lauren: he was widely welcomed by fans ricky spoke to them and he joins us live from daytona international speedway where the race is scheduled for this afternoon. rick, good morning. you are looking good. reporter: it was so exciting and then so horrible for the fans. first they got to see the president right here. they sought air force one flyover with a spectacular moment for all the nascar fans in over hundred thousand people in the crowd. the president greeted the crowd and then the start your engines and before going around the track a couple times and then all the cars behind him with that said a rain delay happen right away and then they eventually got about 20 laps and before read called the day off and you can see out here a lot of rain is still on the grass or a lot of water still on the grass. the crowd was so excited

we talked to a lot of fans about what they experienced seeing the president right here at daytona international speedway and here's to say. >> it was exhilarating to have him so close, i mean, i loved trompe. he's like my hero so it's incredible to have trompe so close. >> i think it's great he's out here for my quirky jew told that the energy in the crowd. >> phenomenal and it started when air force one flew by. just started it with the crowd energy. >> i got chills. reporter: what did you think about having the president here? >> it was awesome. >> magnificent. great ending awesome. everyone stood up and we all cheered. >> huge, huge, i've never seen a president come to nascar and all the years we have been watching. reporter: something of excitement for the fans and then

the sadness of the rain that delayed the race. the race does happen today at 4:00 p.m. on fox. back to you. lauren: the track looks a bit drier this morning. rick, thank you and you can catch the daytona 500 on fox today at 4:00 p.m. eastern. cheryl: i think a lot of six calls will be happening in the florida area stomach 2020 democrats say everyday americans don't care what the stock market is doing, but president trump is considering a way to change their mind. investment incentive plan might work for everyone's bottom line. lauren: the plan may add more fuel to the president's booming economy, but democrats still pouring water on the do that comes economy-- trump's economy. >> they all go to rich people. >> they're not all wealthy. >> you are standing up for mr. trump's version of the economy. >> on standing up for national policy to the

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lauren: touching tribute to fallen star. cheryl: we had that story that was emotional. reporter: collide leonard was named as the first recipient of the kobe by-- kobe bryant mvp award after the all-star game. the nba honoring the late basketball star with an 82nd moment of silent and musical tributes by jennifer hudson and chance the rapper. the award was renamed forebrain saturday. speaking of the nba commissioner adam silver say the nba has launched hundreds of millions of dollars in chinese revenue since the houston rockets general manager tweeted out his support for hong kong protesters prompting sponsors to pull out of deals and state television channels, silver said the losses were probably less than $400 million stomach spread of the

coronavirus outbreak in china prompting the cancellation of the chinese premier of the latest james bond movie which was scheduled to take place in beijing in april with more than 70000 theaters closed across china due to the outbreak. china is the world's second-largest box office after united states. speaking of movies sonic the hedgehog off to a running start claiming the top spot in the box office after taking in $57 million in the debut. it faces an uphill battle after it was delayed to redesign sonic the title character due to outrage on the internet. korean film parasite seen a bump with this biggest weekend since its release. lauren: that is on my list. cheryl: president trump is pinning his reelection bid on the strength of you us economy but tom stier says not every

american is benefiting. actually-- nevermind. we are monitoring of course the aircraft that has landed out laughlin narrow force base with americans coming from japan. wanted to talk about that another issues with mike lee. first let's go to tom stier. >> 70% of voters describe the nation's economy as excellent or good, so how do you convince them that it changes? >> he says the economy is growing and i can show in fact the money is going to rich people. >> they are not all wealthy people. >> you are standing up for mr. trump's version of the economy. >> i'm not standing up for anyone. i'm telling you about a national poll. cheryl: mike lee is with me and they are saying, mike, the democrats are that president trump picked up on what president obama put in place and

if you look at the markets from the time he took office till now it's a difficult argument to make. >> there's me on. if you look at things like consumer confidence, or the small business optimism index all these things jump to new highs and they are out around the time november 2016, and they're still at elevated levels. what tom stier is missing is how much people on the bottom are benefiting. wages for people with less than high school education are close to 22% where they had been flat or down over the previous decade so it's not just the top benefiting, it's people across all the spectrum and wages in fact for the bottom 10% are three times as fast ban the top%. cheryl: the white house said they want to see this by september that there will be a tax cut 2.0 package hopefully in place were announced by

september. .-dot seems to me it would really kick the market into high gear with another boost. >> i think anything that can help people save for their retirement and accumulate wealth outside the government is a fantastic idea. i think the government should also consider a payroll tax cut with people making less than $50000 a year. cheryl: obviously we had this new report coming out that more than 6 million people are off of the food stamps since 2017, by the way when president trump took office until now. >> when you reduce the size of government and lower taxes its people with the least that benefit the most and we saw the opposite of that in the previous eight years. the expansion of government was unprecedented and that generally tends to keep people with the least down the most. cheryl: markets are still watching the coronavirus in the contagion or whether it will spread and not and we have been

waiting for this aircraft in texas with all the americans that were trapped on the japanese cruiseship. they are finally home, 14 though tested positive for the coronavirus. how worried should investors be about the coronavirus in general because markets can't let it go? >> in the us we are in a good situation now however, i would be looking at things abroad terrifying gdp number from japan overnight and that was pre-coronavirus , so will you will see what happens going forward. we should keep a close eye on it, but nothing to be concerned about now. cheryl: mike lee, thank you very much, sir. lauren: mike bloomberg dropped another big hint about a possible bloomberg clinton ticket. what are the chances we see hillary back on the campaign trail? cheryl: in nevada, coming up next the state believes

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>> now they have a moderate republican mayor oligarch of new york combining with a global list multi time failure presidential candidate to do a combination and i think it shows the desperation of the democratic party and the personal vendetta the clintons and michael bloomberg have against president trump. it's not about taking the country forward or to the next level or helping working-class people, it's a personal vendetta and democrats and i come from a family of democrats, the

democratic party should be ashamed it in the situation. lauren: that was steve bannon on reports mike bloomberg is considering hillary clinton as his running mate now his campaign has hired capri shema show. thank you for joining us this morning. kevin, you first, why hillary? >> i think it's too early for mike bloomberg to think about who his vp would be. he has to at least on the ballot in some early states. it wouldn't make much sense for clinton to be the vice presidential pick. she's polarizing and not don't even think she would have an interest, so for me at site think it's a low chance she would be the nominee, but i think him adding capri shema shot makes sense because she has connection to the establishments to help him reach out to the voters like african-american voters, hispanic voters and people who would be key to his success, but i think it's too early to even be ticket--

thinking about a vp at this point. lauren: may be putting it out there to see how the representative-- public reacts. we heard this in the steve bannon by, this personal vendetta against president trump and i'm curious this hate, doesn't get someone to the polls or is it more positive enthusiasm that get someone to vote? >> i think it's very hate driven and i say that because i find someone like hillary clinton and bloomberg it is personal. we see a lot of what they post on social media and he goes back to what happened and 2016, america is divided and hillary clinton wants to be in office so i think it's very personal and i think it's going to continue until president trump wins again in 2020. lauren: let's go back to nevada, the next caucus. if you look at the latest polls there is

that many coming out of nevada but you have bernie sanders on top beating number two joe biden by seven percentage points, but what we see is no big down for any of these candidates, why not? >> part of the reason is there's been a dispute over who really want. we know i was at disaster in new hampshire bernie sanders had a close victory, but not many delegates were at stake so even with the nevada it's not that big of a state and won't make or break anyone's chances, but i think bernie sanders is in good shape and he probably will win. lost in 2016 but he's been consistent with his polling. watch out for someone like tom steyer who is pulling very well ahead of amy klobuchar and pete buttigieg to your point has not gotten a dump you would think he would get or that she would get based on their performance in the first to state so i think bernie sanders probably should win it would be expected to win based on how he's been doing.

lauren: the thing with nevada is that it's the third latino, which means it's the first time we hear from a minority population. how do you think that helps or hurts joe biden because he's the one who is supposed to do well in nevada and more specifically in south carolina, his firewall on the southern states. >> i don't think biden will do well in nevada because if we look at what bernie sanders has been doing he's been top in the hispanic on a platform with members of congress come out to really target the hispanic demographic and that's important. i don't think biden has that connection bernie has with the hispanic demographic and i think a lot of people affiliate body with obama, but with how he's been working i don't think you will do well. lauren: thank you for joining us this presidents' day. cheryl: after the iowa debacle nevada is ditching plans to use

the same app for this saturday's caucus. lauren: one state is embracing apps in elections. let's bring in brett larson. are you a little nervous >> they seem to have everything under control secretary of state-- cheryl: they are not using the out they did in iowa. >> is very smart decision. west virginia is allowing mobile voting participants who have a problem getting to the polls. >> think of someone who doesn't have use of their arms or hands was disabled to the point they can't get to a precinct to vote or even maybe the mailbox to pick up mail and those people have just as much right to participate. >> that secretary of state west virginia, a former army lieutenant colonel and he sees the technology as the answer for soldiers abroad. >> problem is only about 13% of active duty military get their votes counted and is due to a

number of hurdles placed in either not knowing about the election, forgetting or being deployed. >> he says there are multiple levels of security to protect the integrity of the election. >> you have to have a sophisticated type of either iphone or android device that is most modern and then the top itself and that's a whole other set of security measures that take place with the top to make sure it's secure and try to penetrate both of those is rather problematic. >> making clear the app is not a solution for everyone in the state is expanding the system's usage in this year's election with the hope to increase numbers from the military and they hope other states will follow its lead. i was done when he said so few of our men and women overseas were able to vote and just sort of the process they have to go through.

in a some instances it's not intentional, but they are in places where there isn't a mailbox and they don't have a way to get a ballot or participate in the knock-- democracy they are defending. cheryl: thank you. you can catch a brett sirius xm channel. cheryl: after a failed impeachment inquiry democrats are plowing ahead with further prose into the present with their latest attack in going against attorney general bill bar with the endless investigations continuing. lauren: career criminal arrested more than 130 times back on the streets again. is a message, bail reform is lit. will democrats keep defending this controversial law cracks -- "fbn:am" [sfx: doorbell] hello, i saw you move in, and i wanted to welcome you to the neighborhood with some homemade biscuits!

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lauren: top headlines to get you through the day with president state. us markets and bond markets are closed but fox business is open for business. caring americans off the crew ship in japan with the second plane landed in texas where they will live for the next two weeks, 14 passengers testing positive for the coronavirus. 99 more cases confirmed on the ship bringing the total to make 454 and the great american race will get a great american restart. daytona 500 will resume this afternoon on fox after a rain delay. president trump receiving a standing ovation and cheers as the race is grand marshall. cheryl: democrats ramping up a call for new investigation into attorney general bill bar is the 2020 election gets closer with more than a thousand doj alumni and media analyst sign a petition condemning how the roger stone case was handled.

lauren: they are speaking out and we are live from washington with reaction from lawmakers. reporter: calls are going for the attorney general to step down from his role just after about a year overtaking at the justice department and over the weekend more than 1100 former doj employees, some television analysts on other networks signed a petition calling for bar to step aside followed his public interjection into the roger stone case. stone a call that a president trump was convicted in november of witness tampering and lying to congress. us attorney's office last week recommended a seven to nine-year sentence. president trump publicly complained about the sentence via twitter and the next day william barr's team at the justice department pulled back the sentence arguing it was too tough for career prosecutors quit the case and doj officials say the president's tweet had nothing to do with bars decision. >> glad if he resigned.

i just don't think it's realistic. reporter: the stone controversy brings to light the president's twitter habit and william barr himself broke with the president last week and that is making his job more difficult and asked president trump to stop tweeting about the department of justice and the next day the president did just that. >> just because-- the president have a right to tweet about a case? of course, just because you can sing doesn't mean you should sing. reporter: roger stone is set to be sentenced at thursday and that could be delayed. the judge in the case that a conference call to both sides for tomorrow to sort out the resignation and a stone's most recent petition for a new trial. back to you. lauren: thank you. cheryl: let's check up on this, joining me now criminal defense attorney david bruno and obviously i want your. the should the president be tweeting about bill bar, the decision by

bill bar to recommend a lesser sentence for roger stone, what you make of this? >> i don't think he should tweet about it but there's nothing illegal and in fact attorney general bar came out in interviews saying there was no communication whatsoever , so i welcome the congressional testimony. i think it will be less flat again because ag barr will get up there and say the president had nothing to do with it and he's the top of the executive branch with every right to make those decisions. cheryl: amy klobuchar is saying bill bar should resign when he actually pushed back against the president comments on twitter basically defending the doj and then you have these 1100 alumni that said he should resign, that he did something wrong, i mean, i don't understand. >> again, it's all before congressional testimony and if they think it is such a big deal put them under oath in front of congress and

let's get to the root of the dog. cheryl: what did you make for the reduction of the recommendation on the roger stone case? >> it's so rare to have that. cheryl: when it is own prosecutor. >> it was floppy and brings out the fact that now, we have problems with it, but nothing illegal. cheryl: we will see ultimately what happens in the stone case. harvey weinstein case in new york tomorrow will go to a jury with a lot of secular schnell prosecutors did not have a strong enough case and that weinstein won't be convicted in new york. cheryl: this is a court of law are not public opinion and in a court of law the defendant has the presumption of innocence and the prosecutor has to prove their case beyond a reasonable doubt and we have historic allegations here, 2006 allegation 2013 allegation, no physical evidence, no tone of reporting in the accusers continued to communicate with harvey weinstein after the alleged assault, so there are

problems, but is the watershed moment for #metoo and they did bring other accusers with tremendous about pressure on the jury. cheryl: new york city man at a register 1306 times, released over and over. has new york made a bad decision and not putting these people in jail? >> they need to adjust their process because new jersey, the state i practicing, we have been on this for a couple of years now and it needs to be tweaked because you have to be able to keep people in for violent, but on this, this is turn style really. 139 turnstile violations and in the past year before the bill was formed they were not setting bail they are either so it's about example of the problem. cheryl: thank you very much. >> always a pleasure. lauren: president trump is

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cheryl: continuing to follow the aircraft that just landed in texas and a passengers deplaning , right now the passengers coming off the japanese crew ship after they were evacuated by the state department. deplaning in texas, 14 us citizens have been confirmed to have the coronavirus. we will keep you posted. lauren: trump administration weighing a plant up the middle class with possible tax break to encourage more americans to invest in the stock market. good morning, jeanne. >> hey, lauren, how are you? lauren: what do you really want to hear? what would help middle-class americans? >> when anyone proposes a tax cut that was a terrible idea. we want to pay more money to the government; right? coming tax cuts are already appreciated and with the president is doing is obviously political, i mean, they plan to write now have a tax cut proposal planned for september, so conveniently before the next election and it will focus on the middle

class are: rain tax rates to as low as 15% and right now lot of middle-class people pay about 24% of their income. in addition there will be incentives to take money and put it away for retirement for example also put it away in the stock market, so certain incentives to put money away and have it grow tax-free and that way as long as it's used for certain things like investing in stocks of money for your health care and you retirement so all good stuff and i am waiting to hear more details but i don't think we will see the details until september and when they come out, any tax proposal even if the president is reelected, he needs congress behind them for it to become law so we are ways away before we see this in reality. lauren: mike bloomberg starting to unveil policy. we see your ads, mike bloomberg, but what about your policy and he's unveiled a social security plan and retirement savings plan,

but with his social security plan is paid for by tax hikes. >> yeah, it is. of bloomberg's plan is a little bit less what's the word for it, onerous than some of the other democratic opponents, i mean, both senator warren and sanders what taxes on the wealthy and ceos of companies. bloomberg wants to avoid some of those, but also offer incentives for people to again save money and put money away for social security, but some may come in the form of payroll taxes and others with other costs to bolster the system, so those again his plans aren't specific. lauren: a lot of people can get behind his cost-of-living adjustment. you want to change the way that's calculated so arguably you get more when you do receive your social security to-- check. >> yeah, any emplacement adjustment type of

proposals like that. it avoids having those debates years later as to when hikes should be made in those kinds of things make sense. lauren: jean marx, thank you. september is a long way away. cheryl: yet so close. get this, a cheerful elton john helped off the chase stage after he had to cut his concert short the emotional video coming up. lauren: arby's has the meat and now they are diving into new tort-- territory with a new surf and her poor heating up against mcdonald's coming up on "fbn:am" there's a company that's talked to even more real people

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♪ ♪ ♪ cheryl: could going to the gym be better for your mood than making money? lauren: mike gunzelman, i don't know, i hate going to the gym, actually. [laughter] >> researchers at yale and oxford found that those that regular i will go to the gym actually have fewer bad mental

health days, that's going to equal about 18 days per year, now they are saying you don't have to overdo it, 3 to 5 days a week, besides the physical benefits of going to the gym, mentally they are trying to to do for mental depression. cheryl: exercise creates endorphins and endorphins make you happy. [laughter] cheryl: i tried. lauren: there's a guy, certain guy at a certain gym has become an internet sensation. >> shout-out to a 90-year-old, works out in overalls, this guy

is an absolute gem. he began going last year when routine became more difficult, he's adorable and wonderful cheryl: dagen mcdowell, good morning. dagen: good morning, everybody, i'm dagen mcdowell in for somebody, president's day, top stories at 6:00 a.m. eastern. two flights with americans stranded on the cruise ship landing overnight, more than a dozen diagnosed with coronavirus, hillary clinton reportedly eyeing return to democratic race, one report say might bloomberg is considering her as running mate, vice president, historic flooding slamming the south and the worst may be yet to come, broader markets closed today for the holiday but we are looking at gains in the futures this

morning. the dow, nasdaq and s&p futures are all up, warning for emails, apps are scraping your messages and selling your information, president trump reeving up the crowd at daytona 500, highlights from his appearance at the race which got delayed for rain that was the highlight of the day, start at 4:00 p.m. this afternoon, meantime exercise or money, a new study says one makes you happier than the other and the answer may surprise you, mornings with maria is live right now. ♪ ♪ dagen: coronavirus till marching across the globe,