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ashley: such an iconic shock of the empire state building on a beautiful morning, that blue sky. some david bowie. good morning, every one. 10:00 eastern. i'm ashley webster in for stuart varney. the markets, the dow down one hundred 55 points, the s&p slightly negative, the nasdaq slightly positive. all this despite the fact the house did pass the test bill legislation that now goes to the senate, 10 year treasury yield down 3.57%. let's look at oil if we can. oil has been around $68 a barrel, nice and low, essentially flat right now.

let's look at bitcoin down 225 points, 26,928. we just got the latest read on manufacturing. the number please? lauren: economic activity contractor for the seventh month in a row falling to 46.9, bigger than expected. prices fell to 44. 2. we were expecting 52, all the way down to 42. that is a pretty sharp drop. i don't see any impact. ashley: everything under 50 is contraction. seven months, thank you. now this. florida governor ron desantis says he's going to continue to respond to donald trump's

ongoing attacks but his main focus will beyond president biden. >> if i'm going to respond to attacks, if someone is saying that, i will counterpunch, i will fight back, i will focus my fire on biden and i think he should do the same. he gives biden a for a pass. i'm focusing on biden. ashley: byron york joins us. is that the right strategy? if you get down in the mud with donald trump chances are you are going to lose. >> reporter: most politicians believe it's not a good idea to let just one attack go after another go unanswered. what governor desantis is doing is a 2-part strategy. if you listen to his stump speech he doesn't talk about donald trump, doesn't answer trump's specific charges. he says things that are clearly about trump like leadership is not about entertainment but they don't mention trump. afterward to talk to reporters,

they ask about trump because that's what they do and he talks about it, doesn't shy away from talking about it. that's the strategy. if you are trying to appeal to republican primary and caucus voters most of them approve of donald trump, they certainly approve of the things trump did as president, you can't just come out and bash trump all the time. ashley: you have this new op-ed, pregame is over for trump versus desantis, the gloves are off, to follow-up on what we have been talking about. >> absolutely. we have a real campaign now. last couple days it has turned into a real campaign, desantis was in iowa for a couple days. he's in new hampshire this morning, going to south carolina. everybody other than trump is going to iowa for senator joni

ernst's big event in des moines and the campaign is underway. before desantis got on the race on may 24th, tim scott did the same, we were looking at polls measuring people who weren't even announced candidates yet. in the weeks to come, not quite yet but the weeks to come we will have become a real apples to apples candidate to candidate view of how they are standing among republican voters. ashley: the job for desantis and the other candidates is how do you go after donald trump's supporters, his base, without upsetting them because they are very loyal to him. it's a difficult tightrope to walk, isn't it? >> it may be impossible. very difficult. donald trump was a great president, he did great things, i want to see those continue in the white house and it is time

to move on. varied difficult thing to do. what you will see most of them do is focus their fire, you saw what governor desantis said, focus their fire on president biden, the real target of republican voters and see what happens with donald trump. ashley: as someone who loves politics i can't wait for it to unfold. i'm sure you are the same. thank you for joining us today. a comeback in here. what is this about trump throwing a massive 250th birthday to america celebration? ashley: a birthday bash to celebrate 250 years of independence. it starts or would start memorial day 2,025 and go through july 4, 2026, and donald trump says he wants all 50 states to participate for one big state fair and he will

commission a task force to be the party winners. i mean it could be quite fun. ashley: go big or go home, that is certainly big. thank you very much. let's get back to these markets if we can. we are meandering a little bit. great to see gary kaltbaum. what are you buying right now, what do you like? >> the only thing i've bought the last 2 or 3 months is big tech and i'm making some pretty good - the - the biggest mistai sold some things and they continued higher but it looks like nothing is ever here to stay in the market but so far so good. i think things got a little too crazy on tuesday when they gap things up like mad so things are settling down but we've got higher prices in semiconductors and some of these big checks which are overvalued but i'm a

big believer in watching where the big money is flowing and that is where it's continuing to go. ashley: that's a narrow lane to take. as far as the broader look. it's not as bullish, would you say? >> my job has been pretty easy. every night, scan 250,000 names of 200 sectors every night finding 65% to 70% of them are in what we call the two steps down one step up formation and that means downtrends, bearish phases of which some areas actually crushing, talking about regional banks getting buried but a lot of retail stocks have been absolutely destroyed, multi your lows, dollar general snapped again today. we are sticking with what is sticking out. it's narrow but is working. until it stops, as wayne gretzky once said, i wouldn't

go before the puck is headed. ashley: he was indeed the great one. we get more reaction from the markets after the debt deal got through the house but apparently not. is this selling the news a bit. >> we are hearing our market will skyrocket. i have a motto. crisis is not the debt ceiling, crisis is the debt. they've doomed us to $50 trillion debt going forward. i'm not sure that is good for the economy. gargantuan head went brought by both parties and where she stops i don't know. when the debt bomb hits i don't know but they are taunting us and they are taunting the economy and they are taunting markets with a major government takeover of our lives and let's -- the amount of money they spend as they take over our

lives is unfortunate. i see i see a couple heroes on the republican party like chip roy but they are drowned out by the massesve definitely -- bri the heat today but thanks as always for sharing it with us. come back in here, you are looking at some of the movers. let's begin with the security guys. that was my phone. >> this is how you prove your identity, down 20 one%. earnings disappointed. the ceo says companies, clients reevaluating how much money they are spending based on the macroenvironment, higher interest rates but also after the fallout of silicon valley bank, the clientele about their spending. match.com. one of the biggest gainers on

the s&p today, 4.6% gain. they are introducing archer dating apps for gay men just in time for pride month and victoria's secret, hits keep coming, 10%, women are buying less expensive lingerie. they cut their full year sales numbers and warning those for your numbers could actually turn negative. ashley: thank you very much. now this. is your doorbell watching you? a federal lawsuit against amazon claims thousands of users were spied on through their ringgit cameras. that story coming up. secondary estate antony blinken says the us is working with european allies to develop a code of conduct about official intelligence, details on that. a chinese fighter jet over international airspace, now we are hearing suspected chinese spies tried to infiltrate us

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end of the year, the lender, the largest to collapse since the 2008 financial crisis was seized by regulators in may and sold to jpmorgan, they are closing down some of those branches. now this. the debt deal past the house last night 314-117 but conservatives not very happy. aishah hasnie on capitol hill and it raises the question is mccarthy's speakership in jeopardy? >> reporter: a great question and one that we have been asking as well. this week the speaker has not been concerned about these folks that have been bringing this issue up. right now he's incredibly happy. he has been celebrating this huge when in which he was able to pull the president to the negotiating table, strike a deal and get the majority this conference to sign off on this

bipartisan bill. >> this is fabless, one of the best nights i've ever been here. i thought it would be hard. i thought it would be almost impossible just to get to 218, now it's a whole new day here. >> reporter: it has left a terrible taste in the mouths of several republicans who voted no last night, 71 in total. all these folks had some kind of a problem with this deal but a few of these people are fed up with the speaker himself. representatives dan bishop floating the idea of filing a motion to vacate the chair and that would set up the process to take the gavel away from the speaker. >> people outside the beltway are saying $4 trillion is too much, you need a new speaker. we have a discussion next week. >> reporter: the vast majority of the conference sticking with mccarthy. if there were to be a motion we

are hearing from one democrat that is party should consider the possibility of voting to say of maccarthy. the deadline is across the finish line cooking up in the senate and if everything goes as leadership would like, we can see a vote as early as this evening. ashley: we shall see. let's bring in congress and mike walt's from florida. congressman, good morning. you voted no on the debt ceiling bill. why don't you support it? >> i give speaker mccarthy a lot of credit in the sense that we started a few months ago with biden and schumer saying clean debt ceiling lift or nothing and telling us to eat it. they got a lot of good policy. it it's a step in the right direction in terms of getting out of control spending under

control but at the end of the day, the number one job of the federal government is to keep the country safe. to accept biden's defense budget, which is a cut when you incorporate inflation, cut to defense just as china is on the march, managing like a freight train, war in europe, iran racing towards a nuke and with his finger on the nuclear button, at the end of the day i couldn't support that going forward. stuart: glad you brought up china. china says the us should stop its, quote, dangerous acts of provocation after chinese fighter jet cut off an american spy plane over the south china sea. it comes as us officials say suspected chinese spies posing as tourists tried to infiltrate us military facilities in alaska. it seems to me tensions are rising. do you agree?

>> they are rising and this come the chinese communist party aggression, the plane they buzz very dangerously, our plane was flying in international waters at this is just another example of their dangerous aggressive behavior. when the whole world recognizes, international water, international airspace the chinese coming is party says it is hours and we are either going to ram you, disrupt you, see use your ships, build islands, reefs in international waters, we will take by force if we have to, that's a taste of the world order to come if xi gets his way which is to replace the united states is a global leader, another reason i could not swallow a defense cut right now. the spying is the tip of the iceberg of what is going on. it pales in comparison to what we saw with the soviet union to

what's going on right now. ashley: i want to mention the space force *command coming to florida's space coast and with it comes hundreds of jobs. >> that is right. several hundred high tech jobs. this is a command that stimulates any type of war in space, first shots are always fired in cyberspace because the economy and military is dependent on what is up there. we are excited to get into the florida space coast. it's the right place for it and the right bit for florida. ashley: the space coast area is exploding with all the private companies getting involved in, space x, port canaveral is booming, it's a remarkably booming economy.

>> our people have 50, 60 years of space expertise. our universities, academia, institutions, we are ready to launch. we are excited. ashley: in every sense of the word. thank you for joining us, appreciate it. i want a space force t-shirt. the us is looking to create a code of conduct for artificial intelligence. what would this actually -- lauren: set guardrails for the technology that has dazzled and scared us. secretary of state antony blinken is meeting with his european counterparts in sweden, they want to work together on a voluntary ai code of conduct. europe is leading the way. they will vote soon, this year, on their ai actor that would classify these new technologies by the agree of risk and the eu

is leading with consumer protections but if i tell you the pace they are moving at it is scary. the guardrails would take effect in 2 or 3 years but think how fast the technology is moving. basically in two years when you finally have a code of conduct the technology will be way ahead of us. ashley: not surprised that. all those bureaucrats in brussels trying to decide what their next move is and they do nothing. by the way this is interesting. san francisco spent $6 million on an ad campaign to lure tourists back to the city but critics say it doesn't show the real san francisco. we've gotten that story in our next our. real estate guru wants a bloodbath coming to the commercial real estate market, rampant crime and remote work is leaving many office buildings in major cities empty. kelly o'grady will tell us what

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ashley: let's look at the markets, mixed picture, down slightly on the dow, nasdaq, essentially just on the upside for the s&p. little bit of going over on the first day of june. we are looking at some movers. let's begin with meta. lauren: they unveiled the mix reality headset. it will be released this fall and this is days before apple releases its own headset, that could cost $3000 so 6 times more than meta. domino's pizza and jpmorgan finally turned bullish. they had been worried about of the livery business with difficulty getting drivers to deliver your pizza. not anymore.

domino's is going to 360 a share. nordstrom is a winner today, surprise profit, better inventory control, better demand from wealthier shoppers but they also did particularly well with nordstrom rack which is the price of the discounted line. nordstrom is only up a little, about 7%. ashley: i want to move on to a new poll that shows how voters feel about how covid changed the country. what are they saying? ashley: no longer concerned about covid, one third of us, 57% of us say covid is changed how we live permanently. i guess that makes sense, we said this when it first hit, you have to learn to live with covid and i guess we have. it's the new reality forever, people will wear masks and you might have to test forever but

you move on and live your regular life. ashley: yes you do, thank you very much. now this. the commercial real estate market could be headed for trouble in major cities. kelly o'grady joined me now and you are just outside los angeles. how bad is it? >> it is extremely tough where i am. this office district building i met today that used to be bustling, but now la is experiencing soaring vacancy rates. a lot of companies are saying i'm not going to renew my lease right now i want to give you some numbers for context. if you zoom out to the nationwide level, vacancy reached a 30 year high of 17.8% of the beginning of this year, downtown los angeles surging past that at 26.2% up 10% versus last year and a driver of that is remote work. the pandemic made it popular to work from home, move to less expensive areas and attractive

for some companies to save on that office-based money but morgan stanley released a report and they are saying the impact of those vacancy rates will come to you soon. are some numbers, $1 trillion in debt repayments by 2,025 and the retail property valuations could drop 40%, that has major players morning this means serious trouble. barbara corcoran said owners are laid on mortgage payments. >> our best office buildings are 50% occupied at most major cities, secondary cities, 200% vacancy rate. a lot of different things have come out and that's not a good sign. i don't see that turning around. it will be a bloodbath before it gets better. >> reporter: that problem could be exacerbated by the chaos in the regional banking sector. many banks have large

commercial real estate holdings and some exceeding 100% of their total capital so externally detrimental if those loans were to default but it makes it difficult for the office building owners to get capital if they are crunched so you have those soaring vacancy rates and it fuels the doom loop where you have crime and homelessness popping up in these places. back to you. ashley: totally understand. thank you very much, great stuff. it is a vicious cycle. the f aha is proposing a plan to help homeowners struggling with rising interest rates, they want to essentially pay part of the homeowners monthly bill using its insurance fund, then restrict the payment as a second loan do after the first is paid off. good idea or not? mitch rishel joins me. what do you say? good idea or maybe not? >> bad idea. what we are doing is kicking

the can down the road. it's reminiscent of the student loan nonsense that's going on, the difference is there's collateral for those loans so when incentive does a borrower have to continue to make payments on the loan knowing that if they don't make the payments, the nonpaid portion will get tacked onto the principal, earning more interest. once they have negative equity in their home, remember what happened 12 years ago, then people are just going -- we are going to have more and more defaults. i think, let the chips fall where they may, 3 years after covid, people can't make payments, let them default and let's deal with it today and not tomorrow. stuart: we hear you. now this. the bigger city starting to

thrive again not just their office buildings, covid and remote work have done little to dent the appeal of cities like new york, chicago and los angeles but do you think we will ever see these big cities back to where they were? >> looking at los angeles i would say no but if you look at new york, apartment rents are at an all-time high and barbara corcoran said the buildings are half full, the problem is they are half full with people, not half full with tenants. people want to live where they work and if they are remotely working they don't want to be too far from the office so you're going to see selective cities do well. miami for example is doing really well from a downtown people living and working so i think it is selective, california city suffering.

ashley: what are the overall prices doing? have things kind of settled down? are we back to proper pricing? >> i still think the supply and demand imbalance will continue to put upward pressure. we are forming more households, people moving out of their parents house, creating upward pressure on pricing and if you are a first-time homebuyer you want a house you can afford, good luck. there are bidding wars. ashley: you are down in florida. is that the story in florida still? >> i'm in new york today but that is very much the story but even in the new york suburbs aware i am today if you're looking for a home that is less

than a million dollars, sounds like a lot of money to a lot of people but there are bidding wars for starter homes. i really feel for first-time homebuyers. ashley: difficult environment. the world travel mitch rishel, thanks for being with us today. appreciate it. amazon just settled two lawsuit with the ftc. come in here and give us details on this. lauren: a total fine of $30 million. $25 million for alexa illegally keeping children's voices and location data for years so it could train their systems, $5.8 million for their doorbell business, alleged be spying on customers so the ftc says amazon employees and third-party contractors had unrestricted access to customer videos including intimate areas like bedrooms.

amazon had a lacks attitude toward privacy and security, amazon denies these claims and say they just want to put these matters behind them, coughed up $38 million. ashley: just recently i was thinking about i don't have one but maybe i should but then you had stories like this and maybe not. >> it is useful but you are giving up a lot of privacy. the kabbalah devices around your house. ashley: no kidding and all the people out there like to hack into them. thank you very much. interesting story this. in new zealand, now asking passengers to weigh themselves before boarding international flights. you have to go on a diet to take a flight. we will claim why the airline is doing this. the senate could vote to repeal president biden's student loan bailout as soon as today is the country weight on the supreme

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ashley: let's look at these markets. an hour into the session nasdaq is up, the dow essentially flat but turning things around. the senate could vote as soon as today on president biden's student loan handouts.

grady trimble following it on capitol hill. is there democrat support to repeal her forgiveness plan? >> just enough democrats support the this will likely pass. everyone is paying attention to the debt ceiling vote. the senate could vote as early as today to undo president biden's student loan cancellation plan. the resolution passed the house. it would scrap president biden's proposal to forgive $20,000 of student loan debt and it would require borrowers to start making payments again. those payments have been positive since the start of the pandemic. >> the party behind a long list of egregious and pandering giveaways, student loan socialism just might take the cake. >> we should be in the business of helping americans saddled with student loan debt, not making the problem worse. >> despite the opposition from most democrats, senators john

manchin and jon tester they cleared a procedural hurdle along with independent senator kirsten sinema. manchin says this forces hard-working taxpayers who already paid off their loans or didn't go to college at all to shoulder the cost for those who did. the white house says if the ends upon president biden's desk he plans to veto it but republicans are again clearly sending the message that they do not agree with president biden's policies. in this case, student loan forgiveness. ashley: exactly. thank you very much. good stuff. the state of virginia is ending its college degree requirements for most state jobs. why they doing that? >> a college degree doesn't trump relevant experience so 20,000 jobs a year, nearly all of them will no longer require a college degree, they are not

alone, virginia, maryland also dumping college degree requirements, new jersey is considering and i can imagine many kids graduating high school saying don't you want to save your money? i don't need college, i can work the state and have a reliable decent paying job. that's good and bad. it's bad for the colleges, could be bad for some of the kids -- ashley: it could be a trend. other states take that up as well. in many cases when you get saddled with so much student loans it is a daunting thing to take on and more and more businesses saying college degree is not that vital if you have enough work experience, that's good enough but it is a trend. ashley: it is consensus that college is changing with a price tag of college is not changing unless it is free, when you take out student loans.

it spells bad news for colleges, bad news for higher education's relevancy but good for companies. ashley: i guess. we follow that trend. former fbi director james comey insists federal agents are not targeting republicans. >> donald trump and those around him have seen the fbi is a threat so they've taken a blow torch to try to tear down that threat. it's really unfortunate, the notion the fbi's some is some sort of leftist cabal out to get the republicans is so crazy. ashley: but what about when the fbi went after parents they term domestic terrorists. we are on the story. fbi director christopher ray may face a contempt of congress vote over the informant filed allegedly links president biden to a major bribery scheme. brian kilmeade will be taking that on next. ♪

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coast, that means brian kilmeade time. good morning to you. house oversight chair james comeer may hold fbi director christopher ray in contempt of congress, all about a subpoena for documents that allegedly connect then vice president biden to a primary scheme, the fbi says no but you can look at yourself for the agency. the republicans say that's not good enough. is this the right move by republicans? brian: to investigate president biden and his family's international business, to find out who exactly was doing the trading and what they were getting in return and then you have an fbi agent who says i can't take it anymore, i'm going to the fbi and want you to take this down, this is my complaint and nothing happens, they go over to the house and comeer, it's not going anywhere. he says can you show me his complaint that's written down

and taken and sworn to? don't know what you are talking about but going to give it to you anyway. finally they admit they have a form and he says you can see it and we will reject it first. it's unclassified it unclassified. i understand you want names to be redacted, comeer says i will do that too but he doesn't want substance so he says you got a subpoena. why does he not comply. ashley: very good question was i want to move on to talk about former fbi director james comey, blaming donald trump for opinions about the fbi. >> donald trump and those around him see the fbi as a threat so they've taken a blow torch to try to tear down that threat. it seemed really unfortunate, the notion the fbi is some leftist cabal out to get the republicans it is so crazy it shows you how crazy our times are.

ashley: because of how they behave. let's be honest, their actions are responsible for those opinions. ashley: he knew hillary clinton was causing this fake uproar about russia, he knew it was hillary clinton's plan to do it and he knew john brennan briefed president obama about this and vice president biden was there but he went forward with it, never said i don't know if the dossier is true. don't know if the dossier is true? $1 million to verify everything in it and the source wasn't even inside russia that fed christopher steele this. we find this out years later, why was he not able to find out in real time? you don't want people to trust the fbi, don't look at peter struck's text messages when he talks about a plan to stop donald trump and the negative things to say about that with lisa page.

andrew mccabe, this is fbi upper brass that have been disclosed and been disclosed and exposed and james comey, did he ever deserve to be fired. stuart: no doubt. while i have you here i want to talk about the gop presidential primaries, always promised to be interesting but getting really interesting, mike pence jumping in next week, maybe chris christie. the first the bait coming in in august on fox. fascinating stuff and than the democrats, not going to have any debates. brian: a president that does not want to campaign. he is not out there raising money. he's not having rallies are telling people how bad the republicans are and how donald trump, doesn't even matter. the rose garden strategy for an aging president who will use surrogates to get the word out and let the republicans tear each other's eyes out and i

think that will be his plan. i don't know if it will fly. he's not going to get much done and look like an effective president in the biden government, don't know how he gets past that. i don't know if you are a democrat, but aspirations, think you're going to be president, why you are not running. didn't stop ted kennedy or others. didn't stop pat buchanan or george hw bush. ashley: great stuff as always, thanks for joining us, have a great day. thank you. quick check of the market. we now turn things positive, we were generally negative up slightly on the dow but the nasdaq up same story, on the s&p 500. still ahead, texas congressman pat fallon, jason chaffetz, jimmy fallon and jason rantz the 11 am hour of "varney and company" is next.

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