liz: blake burman is at the white house.many things to discuss here, blake, but at 2:00 when the federal reserve came out and said we're leaving rates the same, we were down 109 points. now the dow is down only under 70 points. it doesn't seem to be spooking the markets on this level. >> reporter: well, and as it relates to trade, liz, here's what we can tell you as you just got into it off the top there. this $200 billion batch of potential tariffs that are coming out, the initial goalpost that the administration had set was that batch. if it ends up getting to that, it would be at 10%. now we are hearing that not only are some of the president's trade advisers urging him to go all the way to 25%, but the president had floated that very number himself. we are expecting the white house press secretary, sarah sanders, said earlier today the white house would be rolling out new information at some point later this afternoon. we do not know exactly when that would be, this hour, next or some point in this evening, but we do exp

i want to go to the sound from sarah huckabee sanders talking to blake burman at the press conferencewhite house. >> thank you, sarah. you said a couple minutes ago the increased tariff levels with turkey were out of the national security interests, but when the president announced it on twitter last week or, earlier this month, he said, quote, at the time he said, our relations with turkey are not good at this time. the suggestion there being that this has to do with the pastor that is being held in turkey. simply put, if pastor brunson is allowed to leave turkey, do those tariff levels go away? is that kind of the deal that could be in place or on the table? >> no. the tariffs that are in place on steel would not be removed with the release of pastor brunson. the tariffs are specific to national security. the sanctions however, that have been placed on turkey are specific to pastor brunson and others that we feel are being held unfairly. and we would consider that at that point. >> what in the interest of national security -- trish: that was again our blake burman talking with sarah

still 90 plus days to go until the first tuesday in november, trish. >> blake burman.much. look, i have been telling you over and over again, that this was a ploy by vladmir putin to drive a wedge in between us and our government and our media allowed it to happen. that is dangerous. he is taking what is our greatest strength which is the openness of our society, our ability to voice our differences and he is using it against us you heard what the security team there said. you heard that they in russia are using bots, they are using twitter, they are using actors, using whatever they can to actually try to create controversy maybe where there was none. we need to be smart. we need to be united. this is a threat against us and our systems. the fact that you have half the country that doesn't believe that donald trump should be the president of the united states, despite the fact that he won the election? that tells you putin is succeeding. we can't allow it. meanwhile, the mueller investigation, still on going. is that something that is playing straight into putin's han

i'm asking former arkansas governor blake burman.e have blake -- arkansas governor mike huckabee and we have blake burman at the white house. reporter: we'll hear from the president at fort drum in half an hour to sign the defense authorization act. $717 billion going to the military for the fiscal year, starting on october 1st. this, the ndaa is also attached to senator john mccain. the bill is named after hip. there has been some pretty public disputes between the president and senator from arizona. some will watch what if anything the president has to say about that. in any event, defense spending has been a big priority for president trump. he also says this is very good for the economy. >> our military will soon be stronger than it has ever been by far. that in itself will produce thousands and thousands of jobs. nobody makes equipment like we do, nobody. whether it is planes or missiles or any form of military equipment. reporter: the white house continues to monitor a different kind of issue involving money, that being the tur

jeff flock is live at a wal-mart in chicago, blake burman will recap the president's cabinet meeting. right now though, the dow is up, and it is in a rally mode check this out, the dow up 421 points up a percent and a half it is the biggest gain since april. just off session high as we hit 444 points higher earlier in the session, we're pretty close to that now. the three major averages all on pace for their second up day in three also on track for closing out the week in positive territory, not bad, ha? boeing, wal-mart, goldman sachs apple and caterpillar accounting for half of the dow's gains, we'll have more on wal-mart by the way in just a few minutes. there are a few laggards though shares of jc penney, been a tough day for jc penney down 24% that's actually $0.60 because it's $1.80 stock the retailer reported disappointing quarterly results after recently closing more than 100 stores the company also reporting a bigger than expected loss per share while also cutting full year guidance pretty rotten report, shares as you can see down 24% today, 42% year-to-date. and look out myl

for the latest, blake burman at the white house. reporter: trish, the administration has been considering leveling another tranche of tariffs against the chinese for $200 billion. the first percentage was 10%. now we can tell you some members within the president's trade team, the president floated the idea himself of increasing that percentage 2 1/2 fold up to 25%. the pest -- press secretary sarah sanders was asked about this during the press briefing a little while ago. she would not get into details because the administration will roll out specifics in the next hour or so she was asked if the president feels that the u.s. has more bullets remaining against the chinese in what many see as a trade war? >> the president firmly believes that the united states certainly does, will have an update later today. the bottom line is the president is going to continue to hold china responsible for their unfair trade practices. this has gone on for long enough and he is going to do something about it. reporter: speaking of going on long enou

we're waiting on blake burman he was inside of course the white house briefing room. he is getting ready right now but we do want to show you what's happening with your markets. major averages recovering from a multi-dalessing streak on the heels of turkey's currency slide , the dow climbing 151 points we did have session highs at one point all 11 s&p 500 sectors are in the green today but we got 200 companies reporting earnings this week folks so there is a lot of earnings still on tap affecting our markets. as far as today got the dow up 141 s&p up 20 and the nasdac is up 57. there's another type of currency besides the turkish lira i want to tell you about. bitcoin, bitcoin dropped below 6,000 an early trade today for the first time since june. this is that cryptocurrency that was once 20,000 remember that? it went as low as $5,900 today, the total currency market cap has dropped that $19 billion in the last 24 hours since the big slide for bitcoin, remember you've got whether it's goldman sachs or jamie dimon talking about bitcoin and how that kind of played this

unspeakable crimes the attacks were planned premeditated and coordinated the perpetrator was the burmans military and security forces the whole world is watching what we will do next and if we will as the one point of agreement that the security council must act in a united manner part of the issue the problem of china it is perceived as being against immediate action based on the un report earlier the chinese foreign ministry issued a statement saying that myanmar does not cope well with pressure for mamma jump june joins us live now from cox's bazaar so what's been the reaction there to the issues being discussed outside the camps borders moment. well there and there are hindu activists that we've been speaking with there are certainly glad that calls especially within the e.u. when to you know demand that the real hinge of community be protected and they are glad that these calls are growing louder but at the same time they are also sadly quite accustomed to inaction when it comes to their plight. look in the last few days there was a huge demonstration that took place in which to pro

. >> blake burman is at the white house with the story. >> google is the latest company being criticized by president trump. the president tweeting out tuesday morning that he feels that search resultings on google about him are negative. the president writing, quote, google search results for trump news showing viewing reporting of peak news media in other words they have it rigged for me and others so that almost all stories and news is bad. the president then wrote in a follow-up tweet, quote, they are controlling what we can and cannot see. this is a very serious situation. will beed responding to questions in oval office president helicoptered to size a search engine along with two of the biggest social media plat formals. ening i think google is really taking advantage of a lot of people and i think that's a very serious thing and it is a very serious charge. so i think that -- google and twitter and facebook -- they're really treading on very, very trouble territory, and they have to be careful it's not fair to lodge portions of the population. >> the president top economic adviso

the fox business network blake burman with the news live at the white house. blake? against pharmaceutical companies the makers of opioid drugs all across the country. in fact, just this week new york state sued the manufacturer behind the popular drug oxycontin. in some cases the federal government, the department of justice has thrown its weight behind those lawsuits. but, today, during a cabinet meeting, president trump said he wants to go a step further than that. these were the instructions from president trump to his attorney general jeff sessions. >> i would like us to look at some of the litigations already started with companies rather than just joining them. i would like to bring a federal lawsuit against those companies. >> sobering numbers this week for the centers for disease control. the cdc reported this week that roughly 72,000 people in the u.s.s. died of a drug overdose last year. the majority of those 49,000 from opioids. synthetic fentanyl alone killing 29,000 people. during that exchanges there with the attorney general, the president also expres

the fox business networks's blake burman is live at the white house. blake? >> hi, trace. away we go. the idea of a military parade has long intrigued president trump dating back to when he went to france in the middle of last year nor bastille day. since then, there's been questions whether or not a parade here similar to that of what happened in france is necessary and if so, what exactly is the price tag. there was a report out yesterday saying that the price could be somewhere in the area of $92 million. at the time when asked about it, the defense secretary jim mattis pushed back saying whoever said that is probably smoking something. hours after that, the pentagon put out a statement saying a parade that the president would want would not happen at any point this year. the president took to twitter saying instead, he would go to a parade at joint base andrews. in november of this year, go to france to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the ending of world war i. this was part of his response earlier today on twitter. the president writing "the local politicians tha

blake burman live at the white house. he was talking about google. this is of course alphabet, the parent company of google, that stock dmouown more than half a percent. i want to pull into this twitter and facebook, two other companies who have been included in this attack on social media, if you will. in particular, twitter, who has already been accused and jack dorsey addressed this in earlier interviews about a week ago, is twitter suppressing conservative voices. today, president trump as blake just said is taking aim at google, saying google is trying to suppress conservative voices. facebook, though, included in that as well. just one of the places where the president started his fake news accusations, at facebook during the election in 2016, you may remember. >>> as the markets push higher towards another record today, take a look at this. consumer confidence hit its highest level in almost 18 years in august, as u.s. households enjoyed benefits of a strong labor market and of course, the tax cuts that finally kicked in. will this continue to

he composed a min collect the burmans as he's free. is it possible that adam a lot of injure was fired simply for asking about the money that was going to stefan help or in these contracts these allegations are being raised there's a lot of talk about when is it proper to strip someone of their security clearance and when is it not it indicates that there seems to be quite a bit of disagreement within the halls of power in the united states as we head up to the midterm congressional elections we spent two and a mash on this format my five intelligence officer who says whistleblowers in the u.s. and not receiving fat treatment. i think we have to await the outcome of his trial of his case just to see what the actual facts might be however it does raise some interesting concerns one of course the over reliance of the u.s. intelligence agencies on contracting out their work and the huge amounts of money that are there by paid to contractors usually friends of whatever administration is in power secondly of course we have to think about wh

blake burman at the white house with maybe what we expect to hear, blake. reporter: hi, ashley. helping out 401(k)s is what this order is trying to do. there are two different parts to it. on one side, there will look into possibility the executive order will allow for it, small businesses essentially ban together so the small businesses can all join up and help their employees set aside retirement savings through 401(k)s. you remember the administration endorsed this idea as it relates to health insurance and small businesses. now they're essentially jumping behind that idea as well with 401(k)s or at least studying the issue. here with part of the reason why the white house says why they want the department of labor, the department of treasury to look into the idea. >> talking about 1/3 of american workers have no act to retirement plans? that is very difficult for some americans. and so this is going to be able to provide them what they need to insure that they have that safety net, they grow into their golden years. reporter: that is the first part. the second part will inst

trish: blake burman, thank you very much.ou see how we're using this economic power to our advantage. why haven't we done this before? it's working because china is coming to the table. we're looking at a market rally of 427. that is the gain right now on the dow. let's go to the nyse. our own nicole petallides is standing by. hey, nicole. >> trish, one of the traders started reprinting the 26,000 hats with his little icon on the back because there is optimism on wall street. while we had the worries about the turkish lira i've been telling you ultimately the big picture here are long-term bullish. we've seen that now, we've seen evidence in many retailers. as you noted 429 points to the upside for thedown. 1.7% gain. that is the biggest gain in four months, april 10th when we gained about 1.79%. we saw walmart, goldman sachs, apple hit a new high, those account for more than half the gains we saw today. thank you to our senior editor charlie brady for the detail. only one dow component is actually in the red. that is what we

fox business network blake burman live at the pentagon. >> hi, shepard.ice president coming over to the pentagon earlier today he saying when it comes to space we need to be bold and creative. we cannot afford inaction. to that end, the vice president outlined detailed some of the administration's plan to create eventually a sixth branch of the united states military which, indeed, would be called the space force. now, when you boil this all down, essentially what this comes down to is trying to protect our crucially important satellites, way out there in outer space. north korea, iran, but most especially russia and china were described today as the possible adversary. >> as their actions make clear, our adversaries have transformed space into a war-fighting domain already. and the united states will not shrink from this challenge. >> it is becoming a contested war fighting domain and we have got to adapt to that reality. it's on par with the air, land, sea and cyberspace domains. >> still a ways to go here because adding a sixth branch to the united sta

we have blake burman. reporter: this time on wednesday the white house announced president would revoke security clearance for former cia director john brennan. for the first time we her president trump in part explain his thinking. a couple different headlines from the president as we heard from him on the south lawn of the white house earlier today. first off bruce ohr, the demoted the department of justice official, the president suggesting ohr could be the next one to have his security clearance rye vocked. secondly the president defending his decision in general as you talked about. there are senior intelligence officials from the past who worked for both democrats and republicans who have joined the chorus of criticisms that are simply put, the critics feel the president is trying to silence those who do not agree with him. here is the president though defending his decision. >> security clearances are very important to me, very, very important. and i've had a tremendous response for having done that

blake burman is live at the white house with the details the pros and cons on that one plus elon musk says this is the worst year of his career, understatement. charlie gasparino is here to pour gas on the fire and tell us why he may not have hit bottom just yet and gave up a promising career on wall street and now he's selling out concerts to fans who are paying in bitcoin. we are joined exclusively to share his unique story and also his latest business venture you don't want to miss this especially if you're a big fan of blockchain so we're less than an hour to the closing bell i'm adam shapiro in for liz claman. let's start the countdown. all right, we can't avoid the breaking news, the jury deliberating the paul manafort case has sent a note to the court saying they would like to end deliberations and go home at 5 p.m. today. that jury has been deliberating for more than 12 hours over the past two days. we will bring you more details as that becomes necessary, and they emerge from the courtroom. as the markets hit fresh highs in the final hour of trading the dow, s&p 500 and nasda

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he composed them and then collect the burmans as he's free as a. so adam love injure he raised the fact complaints about the mysterious amounts of money and it was in it got exactly clear what this money was being used for he was then fired he raised a whistleblower retaliation complaint and so people are looking into the fact the possibility what was he indeed fired for raising the question about stefan halper that question is now being raised and as we hear all this talk of people losing and being stripped of their security clearances he lost his security clearance adam lot of injured people are are raising the question as to what is really going on it seems to indicate that there seem to be some disagreements within the american deep state in the lead up to the midterm elections ok thanks a lot more pain there for us in new york we have contacted the department of defense for comment on this story we'll bring you a reprise soon as we get it. fresh protests have erupted in the gaza strip demanding a return to what they call their own and in israe

he'd composed them and then collect the burmans as he's. is it possible that adam a lot of injure was fired simply for asking about the money that was going to step on help or in these contracts these allegations are being raised there's a lot of talk about when is it proper to strip someone of their security clearance and when is it not it indicates that there seems to be quite a bit of disagreement within the halls of power in the united states as we head up to the midterm congressional elections. respect to any form and my five intelligence officer who says whistle but i was in the u.s. and not receiving fact treatment. i think we have to await the outcome of his trial of his case just to see what the actual facts might be however it does raise some interesting concerns one of course the over reliance of the u.s. intelligence agencies on contracting out their work and the huge amounts of money that are there by paid to contractors usually friends of whatever administration is in power secondly of course we have to think about what actual

the perpetrator was the burmans military and security forces the whole world is watching what we willdo next and if we will but one point of agreement that the security council must act in a united part of the issue the problem of china it is perceived as being against a muted action based on the un report earlier the chinese foreign ministry issued a statement saying that myanmar does not cope well with pressure. now millions of children around the world are beginning a new school here but the united nations refugee agency or u.n.h.c.r. is worried about the growing number of refugees who won't get anywhere near a classroom and they say the problem is getting a lot worse when last year four million refugees children didn't attend school that's half a million more than in twenty sixteen compared to ninety two percent globally only sixty one percent of refugee children attended primary school and as they get older the gap is growing with the two out of three children in primary never making it to secondary school with schools and eleven cater for hundreds of thousands of refugees and so

blake burman at the pentagon. talk about space we always talk about private companies taking the lead in developing space in one way, shape or form, whether elon musk, or somebody else that is the way the conversation is going. today is the focus on u.s. governments role as blake was reporting getting ahead of the likes of china and russia in space. we have former astronaut clay ton anderson with us. changes for coming on. we appreciate it. for someone that knows a lot about the space, what do you think of the militarization of space that is being talked about? >> hard for me to comment until i hear all the details with respect to what the definition of space force is, but if you go back in the '80s, when we brought air force personnel on to the johnson space center to help them learn how to actually launch and control space shuttle missions they had designed to fly out of vandenberg air force base there is a precedent for that sort of thing as you already mentioned. until i know the implementation details its dif

the burmans as he's free. is it possible that adam a lot of injure was fired simply for asking about the money that was going to step on help or in these contracts these allegations are being raised there's a lot of talk about when is it proper to strip someone of their security clearance and when is it not it indicates that there seems to be quite a bit of disagreement within the halls of power in the united states as we head up to the midterm congressional elections any mashona form and my five intelligence offices says that whistle blows in the u.s. not receiving treatment. i think we have to await the outcome of his trial of his case just to see what the actual facts might be however it does raise some interesting concerns one of course the over reliance of the u.s. intelligence agencies on contracting out their work and the huge amounts of money that are there by paid to contractors usually friends of whatever administration is in power secondly of course we have to think about what actually happens to wh

did out a good chunk of it so that i could mix he composed them all and then collect the burmans as he's free. is it possible that adam a lot of injure was fired simply for asking about the money that was going to stefan help or in these contracts these allegations are being raised there's a lot of talk about when is it proper to strip someone of their security clearance and when is it not it indicates that there seems to be quite a bit of disagreement within the halls of power in the united states as we head up to the midterm congressional elections. ok let's get that he's now former and i five intelligence officer shown good evening to you and me what you make of this story then i don't know if it was stripped of his security clearance to questioning how his contract. do you think that was the reason though does that sound plausible to you. but it sounds plausible but i think we have to await the outcome of his trial of his case just to see what the actual facts might be however it does raise some interesting concerns one of course the over reliance of the u.s. intelligence agencies on

he composed them all and then collect the burmans as he's free . is it possible that adam a lot of injure was fired simply for asking about the money that was going to stefan help or in these contracts these allegations are being raised there's a lot of talk about when is it proper to strip someone of their security clearance and when is it not it indicates that there seems to be quite a bit of disagreement within the halls of power in the united states as we head up to the midterm congressional elections. we regret to inform you that russia is at it again that's the claim in a new article in the u.s. magazine the atlantic it goes on to say the kremlin has set its sights firmly on the upcoming midterm elections the russian government has one overriding objective with regards to the united states to weaken america so that it loses its will and ability to counter russian objectives the article goes on to explain russia's three step plan to break american democracy first take russian hackers and get them to interfere second by corrupt us politicians a

unspeakable crimes the attacks were planned premeditated and coordinated the perpetrator was the burmans military and security forces. the whole world is watching what we will do next and if we will at the one point of agreement that the security council must act in a united manner part of the issue the problem of china it is perceived as being against immediate action based on the un report earlier the chinese foreign ministry issued a statement saying that myanmar does not cope well with pressure. momma john jr has more now from cox as bizarre in bangladesh. the range of activities that we've been speaking with are certainly glad to hear that calls within the united nations action must be taken to protect the ranger community are getting louder but they're also telling me that that's not nearly enough in the last few days to mark the first year anniversary of the brutal crackdown that took place in rock kind state in myanmar last august there were these huge demonstrations that happened here includes a prolonged camp which is home to the largest refugee settlement in the world in those

unspeakable crimes the attacks were planned premeditated and coordinated the perpetrator was the burmans military and security forces the whole world is watching what we will do next and if we will as the one point of agreement that the security council must act in a united manner part of the issue the problem of china it is perceived as being against immediate action based on the un report earlier the chinese foreign ministry issued a statement saying that myanmar does not cope well with pressure. colombia and peru have agreed to sort of a joint database of venezuelan migrants the united front was made after a two day meeting both countries are struggling to manage the rapidly growing number of venezuelans crossing their borders the migrants are fleeing a deepening political and economic crisis at home according to the u.n. more than two million have fled venezuela since twenty fourteen i was underdone p.n.t. has the latest from the colombian capital bachata colombia better word to two countries that have so far received the highest number of business well in migrants and are now agreei

unspeakable crimes the attacks were planned premeditated and coordinated the perpetrator was the burmans military and security forces the whole world is watching what we will do next and if we will. so is there any indication of what kind of action they were going to do next to what was going to happen to their end just who are nearly a million of them in bangladesh. well it is a matter that does have to be decided by the security council that is the body that will decide whether to refer the matter to the international criminal court or whether to set up its own tribunals to investigate the whole crisis on the basis of that u.n. report however there may be some divisions within the security council it's known that china is reluctant to take any strong action against myanmar at this particular point we heard from the chinese foreign ministry earlier in the day saying that it is counterproductive to apply pressure on myanmar but this is something that will be discussed in the security council in the days and weeks ahead members are will aware of the strength of that u.n. report rememberin

mow, blake burman, come on in, please.e for us here. they're congratulating each other, the two prime ministers, right -- the two presidents, right? >> reporter: fair to say that. the outgoing president of mexico, he'll be on the post there for a few more months. december 1st is when they change over to manuel lopez obrador who is the president-elect there. but it is pain that nieto right now who is in charge of that country at least politically speaking, and president trump has spoken with him within just the last few minutes. we are getting some headlines coming out of this. it is a taped playback. in this has to do with canada, stuart, because as you know, canada now needs to be brought into this for it to, essentially, be a new nafta deal. the president said that they could do a separate deal potentially with canada or maybe even bring them into the fold. it appears as if there might have been a little bit of a threat as well toward canada as well as the president, we believe, said that he would threaten tariffs on car

tree into more from blake burman. >> resident trend moving forward with renewed tensions against a win. in may, the president removed united states from the iran nuclear deal but does not back sanctions attached at the decision hit for the first time at midnight at the sanctions target buying and selling iranian currency along with iranian sovereign debt. by her supplying metals like steel, aluminum and call on the honda motor sector is the focus as well. the administration says this is all about keeping up the pressure on iran. >> our policy is not regime change, but we want to put unprecedented pressure on the government of iran to change its behavior and so far they show no indication they're prepared to do that. >> as we continue applying maximum economic pressure on the iranian regime, i remain open to reaching a comprehensive deal that addresses the full range of the regime's malign activities including its ballistic missile program and support for terrorism. i reinflate her some five downplays the possibility. iran has always believed in diplomacy that the u.s. cannot be contest

lauren: for more we go to blake burman in washington. >> president trump using the backdrop of fort drum to celebrate more military spending. the commander-in-chief saying that john mccain national authorization act until which boost spending for 29 tenet to $717 billion. the president saying it will lead to more trips and other military equipment. >> we will replace aging tax committee aging planes and ships with the most advanced and lethal technology ever developed and hopefully we will be so strong will never have used it. but if we ever did, nobody has a chance. >> president pitching a plan to add a sixth branch of the military come in the space force to combat aggressive actions in outer space. the administration hopes congress gets on board and provide funding starting in 2020. >> they are giving a rundown spirit i've seen things you don't even want to see what they're doing and how advanced they are. we will be catching them very shortly. they want to jam transmission which threaten our battlefield operations in so many other things. we will be so far ahead of them in a very shor

thank you very much, blake burman at the white house. this is the second major figure in the white house or close confidante of the president taping him when he didn't know it. you remember the president's personal lawyer, michael cohen was taping him left and right of. why does that happen? what does it portend. former romney campaign policy advisor lanhee chen and gop fund-raiser, noelle nikpour. what do think of this, i don't want to call it a trend, but the second prominent time we've seen proof the president is recorded unbeknownst to him. in the past we heard presidents like richard nixon and lynn done johnson and john kennedy, regarding unbeknownst to those who were visiting them, but this is a whole switcheroo on that. >> this is very strange. it's a very strange deal, donald trump has people very close to the vest, his own personal attorney that is supposed to be on his side taping the conversation. on the flip side you have omarosa who knew him back in "the apprentice" days, trump gave her start, her claim to fame. she turns ar

neil: thank you very much, my friend, blake burman. a real quick look at the markets, the dow is still down about 106 points. technology, by and large, is getting, you know, buffetted a little bit here. not so, amazon. up about $20 right now. now at 2,018 a share, a little bit north of that right now. it's lifting all technology issues. your looking at -- you're look at apple as well, i believe an all-time high. apple is indicating it's going to be the unveiling its new iphones, several of them, including a better than $1,000 model that will have a much bigger screen, a 6.4-inch screen, on september 12th. we're keeping an eye on that, also keeping an eye on what is happening right now in phoenix, arizona. the body of john mccain has now left the state capitol there in arizona. it's going to be going to the north phoenix baptist church where what is expected to be a two hour service that will feature comments by the vice president, joe biden, the former vice president, and a good buddy of his, tommy espinosa, a democrat, who often had f

neil: blake burman, thank you very much.all apparently don't lean left. nearly 100 facebook employees are challenging the company's left-leaning culture. to campus reform editor lawrence jones. what are they saying, lawrence? what is the latest? >> well, neil, they are saying that there is bias at the company which we all knew so this internal fight, a lot of people signed up for the social media giant were there for the cause. they wanted to build something great for people to interact with and now that the platform has gone away from its values, wants to essentially censor conservatives it has become a problem for a lot of employees. i will say this, neil, a lot of people on my side of the aisle are calling for regulation of a private company. that is not something that i support. at the end of the day if a business wants to crash because they're going to limit viewership and deceive their audience, then they will have to pay the piper then. but i don't think there is a government, you know, job and responsibility to go in

blake burman standing by. what is in this executive order? what's it mean? separate issues. first off if you have a 401(k), 70 1/2 years old or older than that the government, at least rules they read say you have to start withdrawing from money from that 401(k). what the executive order, what the first part will do instruct the department of treasury to look at that regulation, look at that rule, say, wait a minute, is that exactly how things should be going forward? part of the argument is, thankfully we're living longer lives. they want to look into whether or not you should scrap that all together. maybe delay the age of which you have to start taking money from your 401(k). that is part one. the second part is for those who do not have a 401(k). many small businesses don't have that program set up. many large corporations do. but many small businesses don't. and what this executive order will do, will instruct the department of labor and department of treasury to look into whether or not smaller businesses should be able to ban together so they can come

blake burman at a very busy white house. blake. reporter: charles, we knew related to china there was the potential on the table for a fresh batch of tariffs, $200 billion at 10%. we're hearing the 10% number could jump up potentially to 2 1/2 fold, all the way up to 25%. sources are selling us not only some of the president's trop trade advisors pushing for, endorse idea of 25% tariff on $200 billion worth of goods at some point down the line but the president himself floated this idea. as spokesperson for the chinese responding with some tough talk in their own right. here was a spokesperson for the chinese foreign ministry saying, quote, u.s. pressure and blackmail won't have an effect. if the united states takes further escalation steps, china will inevitably take countermeasures and will resolutely protect our legitimate rights. china aimed retaliatory measures against the ag community in the u.s. the president last night in his campaign-style speech suggested that the farmers are okay with his long-term trade battle. >> i wan

thank you very much, blake burman at the white house. charlie gasparino on this.e had a busy week of breaking news. i wanted to pick your brain a little bit on this. you can make the argument we're very short-term oriented in thinking, way we invest and companies plan because of that. it is worth studying but what are you hearing? >> or you could make the case that because we report quarterly companies feet are held to the fire. neil: that is very good point. >> they have to perform, not for them, i wish the president would talk to ininvestors and ask the average investor would you like to hear from the company once a year, twice a year or as much as possible? and i think one of the problems is that companies are, you know, they don't give us enough information. sometimes they give us bad information. neil: right. >> i will tell the president, if he ever asks me, if you're going to lay out all the problems that you know the securities markets face right now, quarterly reporting, you know, and short-termism through the quarterly reporting does not make the top 10 l

slightly shell-shocked blake burman is standing by at the with the very latest. hi, blake.ter: shell-shocked we didn't see it coming. but not shell-shocked because we're used to that around here, right, david? you have to always be on your toes. this came from sarah sanders started press briefing which the president announced he decided to revoke the security clearance for the former director of the cia. hejohn brennan ran the spy agency in the second term of the obama administration. he has been one of staunchest critics. president trump says it is about protecting the nation's classified information. it is reviewing security clearances of several high-ranking officials during the obama years. adding three more names to the list, peter strzok, lisa page, bruce ohr. critics say this is nothing more than an attempt for those that do not like the president. the white house contending this is not politically motivate the. >> seen going after his political opponents were this? >> no, if there were others deemed necessarily we'll take a look and review those as well. reporter: t

let's go to blake burman to give us the highlights. blake, wow.orter: omarosa manigault newman had said that she has more tapes in the pipeline. this morning the day started with omarosa releasing yet another tape, this time on cbs news, this one tape involves staffers of the president's campaign in 2016 discussing the possibility of if the president had used the "n-word," how that could potentially be spun as one staffer at the time put it. katrina pierson, who was a spokesperson for the trump campaign said the president had indeed sad it. he was embarrassed by it. but afterwards, pierson put out a statement saying this was a rumor started by omarosa herself. pierson added in the statement, quote, omarosa fabricated the story by conflating numerous discussions. within minutes of that tape being released, coincidental or not the president took to twitter and posted the following saying, quote, when you give a crazed, crying, low-life a break and give her a job at the white house, i guess it just didn't work out. good work by general kelly for quic

. >> neil: great job, my friend, blake burman. everything that drives this economy. it is psychological, too. you don't commit money if you are frightened, or go out and spend a lot in stores if you're anxious on how things look for you, your family, or your kids. at that is not the case, than a lot of this willy-nilly spending and consumer sectors is picking up. what is this for tenant for this market? the naysayers in washington had better take note. emily, your take on this is wha what? a lot of people look at economic data as a calming and goes and changing on the day. this is a telling piece of data, because it is about us. >> you are right. that is the difference here. when there is that telling data that has kitchen table applications, applications for people talking about. walmart and some of those other chains, huge employers as well. that means a lot to their employees. the success means a lot to the employees. it affects people at the kitchen table. when you poll republicans and poll democrats, what is most on their mind is jobs in the economy, and for dem