lauren: major league baseball and mondays and giants nationals gamend charlie gasparino reporting. cheryl: of this happening ahead of their opening bell. the s&p holding on the site came in a few other economic pieces of news. good morning, everybody. it is almost june believe it or not. welcome to "fbn:am," your first look at morning markets and breaking news. cheryl: a lot of new developments overnight. first, former white house national security adviser michael flynn has agreed to hand over business records to the senate intelligence committee. every path to national committee invoking the fifth amendment. meanwhile, preliminary discussions with robert mueller about his intention to testify before the senate committee about his conversations with the president. lauren: for fabrics and the presidents on my top feature at kushner at the attempt to back channel with russia. >> mr. kushner's attorney has said he will do the same with these contact with any other inquiry. lauren: boris epstein has received a request from the house intelligence committee. michael: we check if the requ

the message isn't resonating with charlie gasparino. after this. >> mixed reports on the economy fueling call to pass tax cuts. would it work? democrats letting fbi director comey over hillary clinton's neil: debbie says but out of it, the democratic national committee chairwoman debbie wasserman schultz saying it is no one's business how much barack obama is making on the speaking circuit. that $400,000 speech, headed to the fall, that had a lot of eyebrows, he railed against. the point was who cares? >> what made this a good story was not that he gave a speech or got paid for it, a wall street firm, the center of evil, if you were a big journey. this according to president obama for eight years to donate to charity. >> a cynical move. neil: shouldn't have taken money from wall street. >> if he is so horrible to them why they would want to pay him. >> they are using him, lobbying him to make money. >> railed against fatcats. >> for the sake of argument, the principal position, speaking his mind. >> here is the thing, people think this

charlie gasparino reporting marc is not for his attack dog education style.presented trump whether it's real estate transaction commit divorce proceedings and allegations of fraud at trump university. nicole: former cia director brennan told lawmakers he sought information linking moscow to people involved with the president campaigned. >> i encountered and i'm aware of information and intelligence that revealed contacts in interactions between russian officials and u.s. persons involved in the trunk campaign. i was concerned about because of known russian efforts to such individuals. lauren: donald trump has denied any claim of collusion with russia. fox news has learned james el-sisi -- james comey by robert mueller. the source says comey is prepared to testify before congress. lauren: budget director mikko veining treasury secretary stephen mnuchin headed to capitol hill to testify the $4 trillion spending plan has been criticized by democrats and republicans were in realistic eyes to social and domestic brokers. house speaker paul ryan with mike to mcalle

the message isn't resonating with charlie gasparino. after this. >> mixed reports on the economy fueling call to pass tax cuts. would it work? democrats letting fbi director democrats letting fbi director comey over hillary clinton's when heartburn hits, democrats letting fbi director comey over hillary clinton's fight back fast with tums smoothies. it starts dissolving the instant it touches your tongue. and neutralizes stomach acid at the source. ♪ tum -tum -tum -tum smoothies! only from tums the bathroom. when things go wrong here, you remember. quilted northern is designed to work so well, you can forget your bathroom trips. but sir froggy can never forget. "i used to be a prince. but no princess would kiss me now." neil: debbie says but out of it, the democratic national committee chairwoman debbie wasserman schultz saying it is no one's business how much barack obama is making on the speaking circuit. that $400,000 speech, headed to the fall, that had a lot of eyebrows, he railed against. the point was who cares? >> what made this

the message isn't resonating with charlie gasparino.fter this. >> mixed reports on the economy fueling call to pass tax cuts. would it work? democrats letting fbi director comey over hillary clinton's loss, blame yourself for ignoring working-class americans. who is right and who is wrong? we will debate it at the top of the hour. dad likare you going to weeks be using my car? until my insurance claim goes through this is our car. mr. parker, my parents have allstate. they have this claim satisfaction guarantee. really? their claim experience is fast, fair, and hassle-free or they get their, like, money back. saraaah!!! come to prom with me!! no. -hey mr. parker. claim satisfaction guarantee, only from allstate. it's good to be in good hands. z282uz zwtz y282uy ywty >> the ousted dnc chair sticking up for barack obama this week, neil: debbie says but out of it, the democratic national committee chairwoman debbie wasserman schultz saying it is no one's business how much barack obama is making on the speaking circuit. that $400,000 speech

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but i want to bring in our very own charlie gasparino he's joining us i believe by phone. lie, you've got some exclusive reporting that president trump is hiring a private lawyer for the counsel inquiry and russia's interference into the election. what have you learned, charlie? >> the lawyer's name is mark. it shouldn't come as a total surprise since he's a long time attorney for donald trump handling his private matters for i would say at least the last ten years, maybe 20 years. considered one of the toughest lawyers that i've ever met on white-collar matters, security, fraud, you name it. he does it all. he's very close to trump and what we understand, he has been retained by the president for this independent counsel probe. we shouldn't assume anything is wrong by this. i know other -- the other news outlets will. this is what people do when, you know, independent counsel gets called, something you might -- something you've done might come under this, you hire a lawyer and donald trump has hired one of the better ones. here's the interesting sort of nugget here as well

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charlie gasparino at that conference out west. you make of the latest talk that donald trump, the president, is interested in maybe through this bloomberg interview we're hearing breaking up the banks. what do you think of that? >> listen, he's talked about that during the campaign. he also talked about in that bloomberg interview a gas tax. and that's kind of interesting for what i hear out of here. we should point out that secretary mnuchin was up earlier talking about how they're going to get rid of all of these deductions, including the carried interest, which is a benefit to private equities and the whole private equity business, basically gives them a tax break. also getting rid of state and local deductions. here are two take aways from what i'm hearing from people here. mind you, this place is loaded with private equity executives and they're telling fox business that the private equity industry is going to go to the mattresses to save that thing. and, by the way, they've been giving money to a lot of republicans over the

joining us now charlie gasparino, live from the salt conference in vegas. se in vegas. who the heck came up with that? you have be been talking to a lot of money managers. i'm assuming that is true. seems like events of this week, charlie, even smart money you say is getting a bit confused now? >> listen, have a lot of fun in vegas, but the a this conference what is great about it, top money managers on both bonds and stocks, everything is covered at this conference. here what we have anxiety you see in wall street is reflected among the top players. they don't know how to get their hands mainly around political risk. political risk is something that affects markets. how will something in washington impact policy and impact markets. hoare is thing we're wore heried about, dysfunction in washington, particularly in the republican party, you know, there are people here saying, listen a third of republicans themselves don't likes donald trump, would like to see him fail. i mean that is the number that has been bouncing around here from their sources. this hire

thanks, charlie gasparino. every other news channel is focused on this. they say it's the end of the world here. for now, these guys are saming to a man and woman, we're not worried that could change. markets are not infallible here. that is the read right now, this is going to take care of itself. is that true? let's go to kevin corke at the white house and what he's hearing with a very aggressive offensive on the part of the white house to defend everything it is doing. kevin? >> i have to tell you, neil, they're frustrated. even when a story comes out following an illegal leak, the white house is frustrated because they means they have to go to damage control mode. that obviously keeps the president from advancing his agenda. that, i should think, it's fair to point out, is precisely what his opponents in the meadian and his political opponents want. the latest controversy, feeding the trump russian narrative forcing the president again to knock it down himself. >> very, very successful meeting with the minister of russian. our fighters against isis as

we have charles payne, charlie gasparino. adays off today. but i want to go back to this whole thing. that history is repeating itself in a watergate way. what do you say? >> i don't think it will be repeating itself in a watergate way. the republicans had an he normous disadvantage in congress. than was no fox news then. i don't get paid by fox news so i'm not saying that to a.k. the people at fox news. there was a sensitive person in the white house named richard m. nixon who would foimed if you if yelled at him too much and trump is a different kinds of guy. the market did go down, but it was an extremely good buying opportunities. after the serious correction wednesday the market corrected back up again. it's always a good time to buy stocks when people are worried, and now is no exception. neil: they get shaken a little bit, but then they start buying. >> long term i don't have an immediate concern. we are in the longest bull market since for decades and that makes a big difference in terms of investor confidence. neil: the temperament o

charlie gasparino has more. what do you have? >> talking with people at the fbi, they're telling me a couple things. most i talked to, pretty shocked, devastated by the news. they didn't see it coming even though we add fox news did as of last week. we reported that he was kind of on thin ice over there. they're shocked. be that as it may, they are inside -- inside the fbi there's a short list being assembled and it includes people like chris christie and the former u.s. attorney from the southern district, major crime fightner the 80s on wall street corruption and new york city corruption, tray goudey from south carolina. also, former prosecutor, ray kelly who might be the best bipartisan choice if you talk to people. ray kelly is a republican. i don't know what party he is. but he served as police commissioner on under david dinken, served under michael bloomberg. mike bloomberg was a republican and independent. those are the names -- the headline names on the short list. obviously could be someone that we're not talking about

neil: charlie gasparino is at this milken conference going on in los angeles. arlie, i'm sure that is an issue coming up among investors there, whatever the rationale behind accepting what seemed to be big domestic spending initiatives championed by the democrats it looked like republicans caved. i know that is a little bit simplistic but that is how it looks. what you do you think? >> yeah, listen, this place, i would say, neil, myopically focused what they do. and what their myopically focused on business conditions and cutting business and corporate taxes. that is one thing they're also -- that is one thing they're focused on of the other thing they're focused on is the carried interest tax which is a tax on pivate equity when they buy something, keep it for a long time. that is what private equity does. take stuff private and sell later. they allegedly fix it up and sell it, that they get a tasks benefit. those are two things they look at. carried interest deduction is one of the things for trump administration to pay for tax cuts and other issues. the spend

charlie gasparino. again, all financials were down today. they were the biggest part of this fall-off here. a lot of it has to do with the fact that something had been baked in the cake and dissuaded investors even when other things hit the fan. the prospect that donald trump and republicans will have trouble getting their agenda done. forget about in year. maybe if it's pushed to the next year at all. gerri willis taking the pulse of all of that in new york. >> that's right, neil. that's right. you look at the dow and the drags on the dow here. tells story that you've been telling since the beginning of the show. yes, people are worried about the trump agenda, financial stacks getting hit hard here. goldman sachs representing 79 points that the dow lost. the stocks down 5.4%. jp morgan down 4%. big moves for these stocks. investors worried that the agenda won't come through, we won't get tax reform, regulatory reform. apple down. 3.4%. big moves for stocks that normally wouldn't see this kind of action. dupont down 3.2%. american express do

charlie gasparino. what are you finding out?finding out here in naples italy, mark kasowitz, long-time lawyer for donald trump, has done a lot of business with him over the years. donald -- president trump turned to him because this guy is a legal version of donald trump. he's a fighter. it's going to be a simple defense from what i understand, neil. it's this. the president has the absolute right to fire the fbi director. that's his call, that's the constitution. the president said nothing that -- this is what kasowitz role as a lawyer -- nothing that moves this case towards an obstruction where he was looking to -- showed intent to upend an investigation. when he had his private meeting with james comey before he fired him, the president said i would like you not to charge flynn, the national security adviser who was, as you know, fired after he did not reveal details about his business engag and tus a hope. all this may seem politically dead and it may be, but that's where this gets into a whole other realm with congress and,

charlie gasparino in l.a.wn of beverly hills that should have been me, okay? the milken conference. [laughter] >> by the way, this is a great conference if you want the confluence of wall street and washington and how it affects the markets. liz: sure. >> that is all they have been talking about today. let me say this. steve mnuchin, the treasury secretary spoke today about the need for tax reform and need to keep zeroing out certain deductions that will help pay for it. let's hear what he had to say. >> for most americans they will be able to fill out their taxes on a large postcard and will use the standard deductions. the special deductions, and all these things are really for rich people and we're going to cut a lot of that back. as it relates to the states. we don't think that the federal government should be in the business of subsidizing the states. the states should be able to decide what they want to charge in income taxes. >> obviously he is talking about the state and local tax he deduction that is

our very own charlie gasparino.fact, just last week, he said on air right here on fox business that comey's job just wasn't safe. watch this. >> if you talk to fbi agents, which i do on occasion about the politics of the place, they would concede that they believe that james comey, the director is -- he has a very tenuous hold on the job. they live from day to day fearing that donald trump's going to change his mind and ask for his resignation. trish: well, there you have it. charlie joins me now with more scoop. >> i'm still shocked when i saw it yesterday, even though i was obviously mentally prepared for it. trish: yeah, you were hearing this. >> yeah. trish: but still, i think everybody was shocked. i imagine folks within the fbi right now are still a bit from this. >> listen, republicans don't like james comey because they believe he should have endited hillary clinton the first time. that he came up with a tortured louisa hodge not to indict her, that the intent that she did not show was prevalent basically in

our own charlie gasparino still allegedly been on assignment in las vegas. press office will do the trick or add discipline to the press message, what do you think? >> there have been rumblings about a potential shake up past several weeks t has gotten a little more louder in the last couple days, particularly looking at sean spicer whether or not he will continue at podium. the big question, even if there is a staff shake-up, it is principal is not going to have a more disciplined, meaning if president trump will not be more disciplined, it doesn't really matter necessarily if it is a shifting ofç the deck chairs. neil: what do you think of that, charlie? all seemed well and good with the muller appointment. they released a statement that was tame enough. then the president follows up i with a tweet this mning. single greatest witch-hunt of a politician in american history. what do you think? >> hard to put that genie back in the bottle this is completely undisciplined president, unmoored. he basically, listen, i will tell you this, someone who covered whi

charlie gasparino with the latest give-and-take on this.i guess they want a vote tomorrow, they want everyone on record. the president is keen on that. handicap this for me. >> you know, my sources say it is still too close to call. it looks good. the markets, why do the markets care about this. markets care foremost about tax cuts. here is the rub here, if you get the health care thing passed, get savings that a health care bill repealed and sort of replace of obamacare with something else, there is savings in there. if you get those savings, then that avoids a bruising battle over what deductions will be in or out of tax cuts. and that is key. because there is going to be certain constituencies that want the state and local tax deduction to remain in the tax cut bill, right? i mean, there are republicans in california, in new jersey, in new york, almost 30 of them, that would want that bill. they would want that deduction in there. wall street will put a lot of pressure on the president, i should say the private equity industry, who is he

our mutual friend, charlie gasparino is here.omes up here, i can't see how it doesn't delay. >> one thing i tell you, mark sanford, congressman from south carolina. neil: very critical quite often. >> brought up in one of the shows he was on the house that drove the health care bill, not the white house, the house. so maybe there is an independent sort of committee there that paul ryan can assemble that can drive the tax vote. neil: we do know enough in the house ways and means where they're cooking this up, kevin brady the chairman has had a plan outlined for almost a year now. >> more than even health care. neil: absolutely. >> they have been focused on taxes. i don't put it past them they can drive the bus on this. one thing we know most republicans agree on is some need -- neil: they tell you they delay this, connell, you and i chatted before, they delay this, health care things has to roll out you push this into next year i don't think it is happening. >> in an election year you don't put good odds. we are talking today abou

speaking of famous, getting a jump on all action in vegas is fbn's, charlie gasparino. are you going to the pool? can i come? >> i will go to the pool. i love robin leach. i can't wait for that. liz: me too. >> when are you getting into town, trish? [laughter] liz: i know, ralph peters, the colonel, this happens to all of us by the way. people call her liz and melissa gets called. once okay, a second time i thought viewers would say, why aren't you correcting him? >> i get called vito all the time for some reason. liz: stop. what is the mood at salt? let's get to that. >> to be honest with you, the agenda looks impressive. i was at the milken conference earlier, two weeks ago. liz: yeah. >> they had five or six trump administration officials there. treasury secretary steve mnuchin was there. there is not one, at least, unless donald trump does a surprise visit to this, there is not one single trump administration official here. liz: mnuchin came here. >> anthony scaramucci obvious connections to both this conference. remember he is spinning this off as he moves on to the

charlie gasparino broke that story monday, and as far as i could search, cbs news was the only one onlinebill maher took until thursday. they don't want to give fox business credit, that's okay, but call it like you see it. howie: jeff zucker firing back at his old friend donald trump howie: jeff zucker said journalists are threatened at top of our own government. is the white house threat being journalism. >> i heard this, the first amendment is under attack. here is what i will say to that. press briefings with sean spicer are more democratic than they have been. president trump has done an enormous amount of interviews. this week alone he has done interviews wit "washington post" washington examiner.news. "wall street journal," fox news. does that sounds like the first amendment is under attack. just because you are criticizing reporters doesn't mean you are attacking the first amendment. howie: the obama administration dragged reporters into the leak investigations and that was threatening journalism. >> james rosen. actions, not word are more important. that's more of a threat to the

charles: breaking news, charlie gasparino reporting that trump hired his private attorney to deal withndent counsel. it delivers a gentle mist experience to help block six key inflammatory substances. most allergy pills only block one. new flonase sensimist changes everything. charles: there are two dynamics at work up with side bias that runs into a wall of resistance. big problem is catalyst, we need an uptick in volume, despite the market resolve it appears individual investors have begun to throw in the towel. bullish sentiment hit 2017 low, may 18. the day after the drubbing for dow industrials, individual bullishness hit a recent high, a couple of weeks after election. investors are more bearish, will real deal it is uncertainty, that is reflected in spike of what investors call neutral, they are not even long. this number is no doubt a proxy for some questions to whether or not trump economic agenda will happen, right now it seems to be in limbo. also appears that many people have sold in may and maybe gone away as investor dumpeds there are 7 billion in equity mutual funds and

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coming right back we have charlie gasparino. ♪ liz: 13 minutes before the closing bell ring.some of president trump's supporters on wall street and connecticut, which by the way is the hedge fund capital of the world are speaking out against his firing of fbi director james comey. usually very quiet billionaire ray dowdy of bridgewater, supporting president trump comparing him to margaret thatcher and ronald reagan is singing a different tune. in a rare tweet, he said of comey is a man of high principles operating in a low principles environment. heros typically get crucified and martyred in the end. he did. alio went on to say that comey he deserves thanks instead of scorn. >> full disclosure. comey used to be the general counsel for bridgewater. liz: we knew that. >> right. liz: the fact that ray dalioo was sported president trump would raise the animal spirits. >> they are friends. i agree to that with certain extent. the tell whether he loses his money backing will be, will be carl icahn. if you see carl in any way distance himself and all sorts of rumors that he is now,

charlie gasparino broke the story last night.obert mueller is leading the probe into obstruction of justice. the lawyer who has defended trump in real estate and fraud cases. but this new case is more high profile than anything he has done before. what does it say to you about his choice of lawyers? that loyalty is great than some sort of knowledge? >> he has to have trust and the ability to have somebody who can speak back to him and have an honest discussion. kasowitz is the first in a team of people who defend the president. some of these investigations go back to private citizen donald trump before he got elected. ken were including in trump tower where there were two russian banks that were the subject of fisa memos. john brennan, a person i don't necessarily trust. we talk about the politicization of the deep state and various intelligence organizations. you can point to him first and foremost. but what does his testimony say to you? what do you think brennan's feelings about the ties between russia and the trump campaign.

meanwhile our charlie gasparino are reporting that utah senator mike lee made former pitch that the administrationoint judge merrick garland to replace jim comey. nicole: democrats continue to push per a special prrtor to investigation allegations between trump campaign but the acting director of the fbi says there's no need for independent prosecutor. >> it is my opinion and belief that the fbi will continue to pursue this investigation vigorously and completely. >> do you need somebody to take this away from you and somebody else to do it? >> no, sir. nicole: joining us now former u.s. army intelligence officer andrew peek, good morning. >> good morning. nicole: will democrats get a special prosecutor? >> they won't unless they take back congress and start to subpoena enough documents to make life unpleasant for the trump administration. i mean, no, a special prosecutor would take what is a legitimate investigation and blow it up into a political circus. what saves law enforcement agencies is a whole al gsmia of procedures, precedents, organizations like the justice department and the fbi have o

charlie gasparino right now to talk about another guy carries the torch. charlie, you have the latest on a lot of this comey replacement news. you are declining the job but apparently you know others that might be considering it. what is the latest? >> forebothering italians that is what -- forever bothering italians that is what fbi stands for in my family. merrick garland, appeals court judge was slated to replace anthony scalia by president obama, did not get appointment, that the administration should appoint him to replace james comey at, as fbi chief now. thanks to my producer brian shorts, fbn has inside story on that. we understand mike lee made a formal pitch to have merrick garland as comey replacement at the white house yesterday, at a private meeting with vice president pence, with the senior counsel of the white house and other white house officials. here is the interesting thing that schwartz came up with. both pence and mcbegan weresome what in support of what lee said. they saw merit in the appointment of mayor rick far land as replacement f

charlie gasparino is in las vegas at this salt conference. lie, we were sort of texting each other on the notion how doable all there is if you have a president under fire even from his own party some concern he could be damaged goods. we might be overstating that but would that hurt that agenda and push it back? i think anything pushed back to next year ain't happening? >> listen there is half glass empty and glass half filled here. republicans control congress. there is unanimity on need for tax cuts. you do tax cuts, some serious regulatory reform. if you can get that through, republican majority, house and senate, you know markets will come back. the economy will be okay. neil: is that harder? in this environment is that harder? i don't know. here is what we don't know about the political situation in washington. how many republicans are throwing in the towel on him right now? you see people waiver. you see john mccain out there talking about this latest -- neil: scope of watergate. >> watergate-like. i don't know. it is very hard to tell.

charlie gasparino reporting adding some into the current administration. but almost a harsh critic when president. his come under fire for accepting a $400,000 speaking fee for the gate. the white house not commenting and saying whether it is considering asking a trump representative to speak. we will see when we have that. nicole: caught up in the global market action. the a 17 month high to the upside. that is certainly one area to watch. >> this is how european markets are trading at the hour. you have a one-point decline in england with the ftse 100 in the cac in paris in dx and germany three-point. nicole: today's super thursday at if you are. their economic outlook the rate college is likely to be nothing today. take a look at dow futures now done 19 and the s&p 500 record yesterday. we also saw the nasdaq closed at a record yesterday. yet another record. lauren: oil prices surged 10% yesterday. the administration said we mnuchin declined to supply oil. without oil has gone up about 50 cents. gold at $2 to 12.21 amounts. nicole: shares this map are p

with the insight scoop charlie gasparino, live from beverly hills. still wearing a tie. they're so casual out there, charlie. >> i know. i usually wear my wife-beater when i go to the conferences. >> they don't like that. >> this is l.a. they don't like it out there. this is a conference that is filled with private equity executives. so president trump's tax plan is front and center and basically all the meetings, both publicly and there is a lot of business meetings privately going on right now. , and one of the issues they're talking about private equity carried interest loophole that president trump wants to, at least for you now the private equity executives are taking it seriously. from what we understand, major private equity firms, blackstone, kkr, carlisle, all representatives are here. david rubenstein from carlyle is here. they're planning to got their deals done, the deals that are in the pipeline done in the next couple of months before this private, before tax reform, if it does hit. so what they're doing right now, they're rushing to get

charlie gasparino joining us from stanford, connecticut on how doable.sive time stable but they're sticking to it. what do you think, bud? >> oddly the president's troubles will -- they could really help this tax plan get through. republicans are worried about losing the house. they know they need some wins here. one big win would be getting the corporate tax cuts build into the market. that's why the markets are going on. you can see the market rally more. it will stay here forever. they go up and down for reasons. but they could rally from here. think about the republicans get a decent corporate tax cut, close to 15, 20%. they cut individual rates. this gets through. think about that when the market hits 22,000, 21,000. that's pricing in economic growth than what we have now. that's pricing in 3, maybe more. what i'm saying is, they know they have to do it. the devil is in the details. my sources say there's a lot of disagreement over the border adjustment takes. that will be hard to get through with a tax like that. republicans hate raises taxes, this

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. >> neil: you are the best, charlie gasparino. these specialists will see you now. the doctors are in the house. here they are. >> kat: hello, everybody. i am kat timpf along with eric bolling and eboni k. williams. 5:00 will never be the same. we are "the fox news specialists" ." president trump is going on the offense after firing fbi director james comey. the president sitting down for an interview with lester holt of nbc news, detailing how he made his decision. >> monday you met with the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. did you ask for a recommendation? >> what i did is i was going to fire comey, my decision. >> you had made the decision. >> i was going to fire comey. there is no good time to do it. >> in your letter, you accepted their recommendation. >> i was going to fire him anyway. he made a recommendation. regardless of recommendation, i was going to fire comey. see five president trump excellent his statement that comey told him three times that he was not under investigation. >> i actually asked him, yes. i said, if it's possible, with the let me

liz: well, charlie gasparino pushes me aside a lot, so maybe i'll tell him what you said. when the president be returns here to the united states, he is going to see more deeply that his son-in-law, jared kushner, is now one of the focuses of this russia investigation. what does that do? >> well, first of all, it has to get cleared up very quickly, and jared's the only one who can clear it up. he can talk in terms of who he met with and why he met with them, and once people know that and there's no involvement of any illicitness, then you move on. someone that's important to the president and his daughter who both play key roles in that white house, you don't want them distracted by this. the bottom line here is these investigations are going to go on for a long time, but you can't have someone in the significanrole that they're in in the white house bat the center of it, and i don't think at the end of the day i don't think they've done anything at this point in time, and they need to get it behind them real quick. liz: great to have two heavyweights in the political worl

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charlie gasparino brought that up yesterday. maybe. and then this. superstar katy perry is now responding to the ariana grande terror attack saying we all just need to coexist. we're going to play you that sound. yes. former trump spokesperson, by the way, katrina pearson, there she is. she's going to be joining me to react. that's coming up next y symptoms. tell your doctor about your medicines, and ask if your heart is healthy enough for sex. do not take cialis if you take nitrates for chest pain, or adempas® for pulmonary hypertension, as this may cause an unsafe drop in blood pressure. do not drink alcohol in excess. to avoid long-term injury, get medical help right away for an erection lasting more than four hours. if you have a sudden decrease or loss of hearing or vision, or an allergic reaction, stop taking cialis and get medical help right away. ask your doctor about cialis. cheryl: welcome back. here's a look at music company stocks. you've got sony, sirius xm and pandora all higher on the close today. s&p, of course they're nice. speaking

neil: my buddy charlie gasparino back with us right now.rl icahn and aig, the big insurer. what is going on? >> carl icahn lately best known to be a trump economic visor. but what he is in real life, where he made his $20 billion fortune -- neil: is it that much? more than you? >> more than me. he affords better restaurants. he is activist investor. he has activist stake in aig, the troubled insurer that blew up during the financial crisis. it has been bailed out. it has been depressed. the stock has been depressed. carl icahn took 4% stake. wanted management changes. he got one. here is interesting thing, there is lot of press he doesn't like the new ceo coming in. carl icahn is telling people, telling -- we've broken the story today, au contrare. i like the new guy, brian dubrow, new ceo. he recommended him to be the new ceo of aig. he believes he will get the insurer back on track. neil: what does he want duperrepaul to do? >> cut, sell give back to the shareholders. neil: wasn't he doing that during the benmosche days? >> i think he is

which brings us to charlie gasparino. w, i'm getting my exercise today just flinging this to the left -- >> no, you look, you're actually breaking a sweat for change. neil: matt, of anyone, he's a supremely fit individual. i certainly wouldn't be picking up this magazine on my own. i have a lot to to get into with you, but what do you make of this? the media's already preordained, i look at "time" as representative of that view there's got to be some there, there. what do you make of that? >> well, i read -- you know, listen, this is classic pile on donald trump week. listen, some of it he asked for, some of it is more -- he didn't. i read a whole story about jared kushner dealing with the saudis today in the be new york times. this whole story about how he dealt with them, how he got lockheed martin to cut the price of some arms that were going to the saudis, and then i'm looking for the paragraph where it should say this is bad because. and it's not there. it sounded bad through the context, but the guy did nothing wrong

david: charlie gasparino knows a few things, he broke the news and i hear his phone working right nowmpt to reach out to democrats and put the controversy to bed. >> i don't think anything will put it to bed. democrats on the capital have no interest in compromise right now. >> they say it right now. one of the more unfortunate things about the way comey was dismissed as fbi director is it is going to stall a good, fiscally conservative and progrowth economic agenda by the president. this is not a topic. we are not talking about a 15% corporate jobs rate, good paying jobs, wages, you have low employment with lousy wages. we need to get the economy on track, that is a very appealing part of the trump presidency. david: for president is saying the media likes to focus on the comey firing but behind the scenes we are working hard not only on the white house, but economic advisor is committed to tax reform and the house and senate work and it is true despite the fact the media is focusing on coming makers work being done on taxes. >> if he was here right now i would tell him stop tweeting

in the meantime, charlie gasparino is in las vegas has breaking news on what the senate is looking for now i'm the sole russian thing. what are you hearing, buddy? >> if you hear the trump agenda be installed, here's another reason to worry the sources are telling my producer is that the sign that intelligence committee will be looking at this whole matter of what trump said to the russian diplomats. again, these hearings are nothing to be sneezed at. they get into the weeds. the classified information that the senate intelligence committee run by senator warner and byrd who are and democrat, but these are pretty straight shooters. the fact they get into the weeds on this thing will tell you the senate is going to be preoccupied by trump, russia and classified information or a long time. yet is it hypocritical democrat on the confidentiality and wide in an e-mail server for so long to receive confidential or classified information to make a great case on that pitch is not president right now. >> it is a little ironic that who is leaking stuff is a big deal to them then. but having said

join president obama as headline speaker in health care conference here in new york, very own charlie gasparinol street firm was looking to restore political balance to the event by adding someone from the current administration. of course, the critic of wall street when he was president has come under fire for accepting 400,000 speaking fee for this gig, the white house isn't commenting, cantor would not say, we would like to thank our own liz claman for breaking the news. maria: the $400,000 that president obama received got criticized but that's what they pay him. peter: he seems to be on the mission to top hillary clinton, maybe he will. dagen: howard -- how hard can that be? he won. peter: i find the whole thing incredibly offensive for a former person, the top person in the land to kind of cash in on that with 400-dollar paydays, that should be give it away to charity, doesn't feel right to me. maria: that's not capitalist. dagen: he has every right to go out to make money. more money he makes, the more money he will give to charity. maria: you have to believe that anybody can make whatev

fox business charlie gasparino reports jeb bush and derek jeter will not be pieing the florida marlins to be part of the group to get the marlins, they were said to be the preferred bidder but they pulled out. jeter may jump to another investor group. maybe not all said and done for jeter but yes for former governor -- maria: why did bush pull out, do we know? maria: maybe something between the two lead guys which is governor bush and derek jeter, maybe it wasn't going to way they wanted to but time will tell. maria: how about trouble in yankee stadium. they lost $166 million in revenue after opening new stadium in the bronze in 2009. jared: we have seen it since 2009, you see regularly the empty seat that is are the most expensive seats and what they call the area between expensive seats an the regular like myself will sit or any of us, the yankees because people have so many other options than going and spending all the money that it cost to go to a baseball bank, parking, concessions and everything and then tickets, they are down incredibly. in fact, this is up by last tuesday, yank

charlie gasparino, fbn's own guy, he broke this story. what else have we got? t obama's getting paid $400,000 by cantor fitzgerald. charlie's saying they could be eyeing a trump administration official to offset what president obama says, defending his obamacare reform bill. so would a trump administration like tom price and not get paid to offset what obama says at this september 25th conference coming up. stuart: yeah. a trump speaker could not be paid. >> right. stuart: he's a member of the administration, he can't get paid -- >> yeah, but they are getting political goodwill because the administration would oversee their operations in some form of fashion. stuart: yes. and they would answer president obama who presumably does not like what's going on with obamacare. >> and charlie's story let off a firestorm because elizabeth warren and senator sanders criticized obama's speaking fee. stuart: next case, uber is raising prices in some states to pay for drivers' injury insurance. explain. >> look, uber drivers are independent contractors. they don't get what we