we have charlie gasparino, our resident s.e.c. and elon musk/tesla whisperer at the scene and all the action outside the courthouse. charlie? reporter: yeah. i was in there and as you said, liz, the festivities are still ongoing. the judge just put the s.e.c. through a pretty rigorous examination as to what they think is a material tweet. remember, the tweet that he put out was about production numbers. this is the one that got him in trouble now, not the 420 one, the one that got him in trouble now. they said that was material and wrong, the s.e.c. said that. the judge is trying to get what is the materiality standard. it seems like the judge is somewhat skeptical of the s.e.c. here, saying that maybe, you know, you don't have a clear definition of what's material and that even though he might have misstated something in his tweet and not approved it by his attorneys, according to your settlement, it might not have fit in that materiality aspect that needs to be reached in order for them to -- in order for her to hold him in cont

charlie gasparino. >> yeah. i'm part of the nightmare.. >> jason, donald trump, all wrapped up into one. liz: jason? >> i'm only kidding. i'm going to get so many nasty tweets, here's what we know. the end game is near on this. i know we have been saying this a lot but we are talking final innings. what we understand is sinclair doesn't have the deal, it's not totally finalized so until the deal is finalized, you never know. a last minute bidder could come in. we understand sinclair has a handshake agreement with disney. it's a mainly cash deal, about $10 billion. here's what they're doing. they got to sign the papers, obviously, before they sign the papers someone could come in. as they are signing those papers, before that, they are looking for equity partners. who are the equity partners they're looking for? the names that i'm hearing is apollo management, leon black, famous investor. blackstone group, steve schwartzman. those are some of the names being bandied about as coming in as partners with sinclair. other sort of dark horse par

charlie gasparino is here. charlie? >> i like david a lot. i have known him for years.s the but. >> these are all the guys that are short the stock. i'm just going to tell you what the company is telling bankers. bankers are now, when you see sort of controversy like this, people questioning the numbers of tesla, whether it's selling enough cars, particularly their cash position, bankers, that's the signal for bankers to go and pitch financing deals to tesla and they are doing it actively as we speak. or as of a couple days ago or yesterday, probably today, too. what the company is saying is much different than what einhorn is saying. i'm not saying you believe the company. this is just all about the marketplace of ideas and what the market will sort it out. the company doesn't believe there's a need for financing in the near term. what do you describe as near term, three, maybe six months. they don't think their cash position is eroding as fast as the street and mr. einhorn and other people think it's eroding. they believe in the near term that their finances are fine.

let's bring in fox business senior correspondent charlie gasparino. ess.com criticizing him. charlie you say this is an odd guy to be calling balls and strikes on capitalism why is that? charlie: well i just thought it was like here is a guy that made a lot of money in capitalism. here is a guy that mostly has a stock market speculateor, here is a guy who wrote a couple of books about how to make the world a better place, i guess his prescription is to follow through with the plan you start that's one of his principles by the way. he runs the oddest investment company in the world. they tape everybody, it's almost like a cult over there. he is successful. he gets a lot of money, people he's convinced a lot of people that his 12% returns is real good. he's got 12% returns in his flagship funds since 1991. i think the s&p 500 if you invest dividends is up about 12% so i can do the same thing by going to vanguard, and this guy thinks that it's, and plus he just gave $100 million to the state of connecticut one of the most wasteful states in the country, a

charlie gasparino is right there at the milken conference with breaking exclusive news. charlie? bob is here, he declined an interview with fox business. i kind of know why, because let's face it, they are involved with details, deliberations between cbs and viacom for a merger of the two. from what we understand, if that does happen, if there's a choice between the cbs chief right now and bob bakish, chief of viacom, both under the guise of national amusements run by the controlling redstone family, looks like bob bakish becomes ceo of that combined entity. we understand those talks are continuing. what's fascinating about this, liz, is that we are hearing here that lot of people are talking about this, this thing might happen, not at this conference, but it will happen for the conference in june. that's a huge media conference that goes on in june, all the top ceos are there, our boss rupert murdoch is there, you name it. if you are a media tech, you are there, except one person might not -- probably won't be there. from what we understand, allen and company continues to snub b

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let me get to charlie gasparino, whose live in beverly hills where he just spoke one on one to the man with the power to make or break this deal charlie what did he say? charlie: yeah, well it's interesting. he said a lot more on a few other subjects than on this deal remember this is a quiet period, they are still deliberating on it and he did say he's looking at it and he hasn't made up his mind so i pivoted and said what else is on the radar screen of the doj and i-trust, and aside from broadcasting in telecom which he spent a lot of time and he said big tech is clearly on his radar screen. google, facebook, amazon. listen to what he had to say. >> you spend a rot of time on broadcast. will there be an anti-trust pivot into tech whether amazon is too big, whether facebook has too much power, whether apple controls its universe in too big of a way. >> so i think that's a great question and something that's been the subject of debate of technology companies. i think too big and those anti- trust have a role? as i've said before a company just because they've been successful and have g

in fact that is such a big story that charlie gasparino hightailed it downtown to the courthouse to cover has been all over tesla. what do we expect today, charlie? >> you know, listen, let's back up a little bit, this is a court case over that tweet he put out that he didn't get, remember when he cut the consent decree with the sec over the funding secured tweet, that was wrong, remember that? they said if you want to do other tweets involving the company they have to be truthful and go through some sort of compliance process. he did a tweet about production numbers, something along those lines. the sec deemed it wasn't truthful and didn't go through the compliance process. it went to the court. the judge today will have to figure out what type of, you know, remedy or or violation and what he should do with elon musk. theoretically the judge today in federal court could stop him from being a director or ceo of the company. literally could bounce him out of the company. he owns 20%. you can't make him sell the shares. she could rule that he shouldn't be an owner or director of the company

neil: charlie gasparino is here right now.n't over but quite literally, there are lot of other investigations going on. >> i thought we would get a tip of the hat, i read through pieces of it, what is going on with the southern district of new york. neil: that is the big one, right? >> that involves business business with involves michael cohen his fixer. they gave it to them while they focused on this. i wonder if any of that is redacted, what he jettisoned. this will come out in days and weeks ahead how serious that probe is. because that probe is more about his business dealings. deutsche bank lent money came from different places. where did the money come from? did it come from russia? did it get funneled through deutsche bank through the trump organization for real estate. neil: can they go after that level a sitting president? >> yes. that doesn't mean they could indict him. we're learning a lot -- neil: a lot stuff happened before -- if it happened. >> some may be tied up in statute of limitations. what i find fascinate

charlie gasparino set the stage last week. >> right. let's be real clear.onth contract extension. doesn't sound very appealing. sources are telling us he's not happy with this, because here's what it says, and it basically confirms what we reported last week. there are ongoing merger discussions inside cbs. we have reconfirmed that today. those merger discussions largely involve the viacom putting together the two properties that are controlled by the sumner redstone family, putting them together. that's what the cbs board is talking about right now. there may be other potential mergers in the wings but here's the problem. if you are going to do a deal and it looks like they are moving forward with this, that doesn't mean it will do it. i'm just saying that they are talking seriously. you could not get a ceo in there permanently. you really have a problem either recruiting someone from the outside or even asking someone from the inside to stay longer, because they may not be ceos in six months. so hence joe ianniello has a six-month extension from the june

charlie gasparino, what will the president do?randum basically directing hud and i think it was treasury essentially to do a massive reform of fannie and freddie, the big mortgage giants. it was very broad, very vague. it just said do something. let's get them out of government control as they have been since the financial crisis. let's protect homeowners, make sure homeowners still have access to mortgages, which fannie and freddie allows them to do. i did a lot of reporting and basically asking sources inside the white house what does president trump want, what is on his mind. i can't do this hit in a minute, dude. just letting you know, i can't. liz: go. go. >> just telling you, i cannot do this hit in a minute. what is on his mind? what sources are telling the fox business network is that he is actually talking about a massive privatization of fannie and freddie, not just recap them, release them to the public which a lot of wall street guys want. he's talking to advisers about a potential sale of fannie and freddie, selling i

charlie gasparino. it's 29 minutes before the closing bell rings.dow is up four points. when we come back, i am going to take you live to arizona, where tomorrow, i will be headed for a once in a lifetime opportunity to take you guys along. there it is, this is a live picture of crew from fox business, we've got satellite guys there, we've got camera crews, we've got our producer, we have a test driver. that's a waymo self-driving vehicle. tomorrow, i'm going to be live with john krafcik, the ceo, for the first ride-along since the company hit 10 million chetest miles in chandler, arizona. we'll be right back. termites. we're on the move. hey rick, all good? oh yeah, we're good. we're good. terminix. defenders of home. liz: okay. do we have it? gang, i believe we need to break in here and take you live, we've got the cameras up, to chandler, arizona. yes, this is where our fox business camera and production teams are testing out what i will unveil for you at this time tomorrow. we've got fixed cameras over the test driver's shoulders, her hand is on

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charlie gasparino joining us now.ntra-day picture as you report this. >> yeah. listen, company's not saying much on this. i know that bankers will be approaching them, you know, this is an ongoing discussion between wall street and tesla. the overwhelming consensus that i'm getting from investors is that they will have to raise money this year. and they can raise money. so for all the negatives, for all the talk out there, there's a huge subculture of investors on twitter known as tesla-q. apparently when the stock symbol goes tslaq that means it's in bankruptcy. liz: which it's not. >> it's had a rough couple of weeks and months, maybe even year, you could say given all the stuff that's gone on, both with regulation and from a production standpoint but the general consensus is they will raise money. i'm not sure how they are going to do it. like i said, the bankers are going to be pitching them stuff, everything from debt to stock to whatever. and the general consensus is they have the money. i will say this, though.

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charlie gasparino has been pulling the curtain back on cbs's c-suite drama. what do you have?es would womanize. i'm going to stop there. that's kind of true, right? liz: i didn't even hear what you said. i started tuning out when he said where shall. >> okay. so this thing was supposed to be done by now. there was no official timetable inside the company, no one said you know, you got six months, you got to get it done. but by now, every indication coming from the company was that les moonves, when he resigned, it was, you know, either joe iannello would have the job or it would be somebody else. still, that has not -- it has not happened. they passed their official deadline which i think was six months. it's now been eight months. i think the official deadline was six months. then they were saying the end of march, you know. january, february, march, so the end of the first quarter. now we are done with that. liz: why not iannello? if he's good enough to do it for eight months. >> it's a great question. i'm trying to get some -- here's what i know. some of this, you can extra

joining us to shed light on why tabloid, charlie gasparino, charlie, they may not known that it's rune fund, why is the inquirer right now on the verge -- >> the hedge fund guy is embarrassed and think of what happened here, the inquirer got into a death match with one of the richest people in the world, essentially, maybe not totally illegal but looks really sleazy, they tried to export jeff bezos. >> let me jump in and say that the inquirer's version of that is with us not extortion but part of settlement talks and they. >> going back and forth. >> right. >> i want to get that on the record. >> yeah, of course, a very fine line between extortion and a contract, i get that, legally but looks really bad and the guy sat back and said, listen, the national inquirer accounts 5% of revenues here. >> plus losing money. >> and 100% of our problems, i've done freelance work for ami, this was his baby, he likes running the national enquirer. he essentially convinced to get rid of this, this is something he really liked, gave him some degree of power obviously. yeah, i mean, that's essentially

"wsj at large" host gerry baker, fox business's charlie gasparino at democrats slamming big banks. gerri, i thought all the regulations, god frank and rest stop too big to fail. >> it was a show trial if you like. first time all the big bank ceos testified before congress since tween. we were in the financial crisis. that was routine, we had sort of routine show trials back then where democrats would bash them and they would have to defend them selfs. haven't had that in 10 years. max wean waters, has half a point. banks are bigger. they are bigger than 10 years ago. they haven't got smaller. there is difference between size and safety. they are much more secure, much more capital. they are, they have addressed many of the issues of too big to fail in the sense that many of these banks now can be wound up if they get themselves into trouble. they're much safer in terms of much of their activities. morgan stanley completely reformed itself. the other banks are slimmed down, most of what they do in terms of their operations. much less risky. this is largely a political exercise which

and charlie gasparino right where he belongs. >> full disclosure, they did not pay me to be here.ennedy: not yet, maybe one of us lost a belt. and robby suavey is back. >> danielle are you an american resident. >> i am a permanent. kennedy: can you vote. >> you should not beholding if you are a green card holder, hear me now. >> she is hear legally, trump is watching this. >> we'll not lock you up. kennedy: at least half of the people in this plexiglass. >> i heard there is a cage back there. >> for the. kennedy: this is my napping cage. >> nancy pelosi has a tough job to do. raising money, and winning elections. >> and let's be honest, people in center win elections, people on far left and far right flanks of political parties don't tend to win elections, they win primary races. she is holding the center together, doing what she can to minimize the left flank. aoc is you know like bait -- fly fish. she is a tie for a fly fisherman. kennedy: it is people went her own party as well, moderates are not happy with amount of oxygen she takes in the room, and how she monopolized th the

joining us now, charlie gasparino. ch going unplugged last night, right? >> yeah. that wasn't him with the arm in the cast. that was another time. he was in pretty good shape, pretty good spirits. listen, last night was the reason why a lot of people talk about jamie dimon as a potential presidential candidate. he covered a wide range of issues at the council of foreign relations, took a lot of questions, didn't back off of one question. couple of the interesting highlights i think is as follows. i guess the news is that -- some of the news involves herman cain, donald trump's pick for herman cain and steve moore on the federal reserve board. dimon said that's not a good deal. i guess he wants more experienced people. that was pretty much a shot across the bow at president trump. he also mentioned he was thinking, clearly thinking about running for president. that's something we have covered and you know, every time i run that by jpmorgan's p.r. people in the past they would say don't take it too seriously but last nigh

charlie gasparino reporting sources close to him are telling him it's a 50/50 odd here. hile it looked like almost a slam-dunk, then it wasn't. now a lot of people are telling charlie that it could go either way. if it doesn't go the way these guys want, then what happens? we will keep on top of it, both issues under pressure right now. >>> meanwhile, there could be a shakeup at the treasury. i'm not talking at the secretary level, talking about some of the people that report to him. blake burman has the very latest from the white house. hey, blake. reporter: hi, neil. you know monica crowley, once a contributor here at fox, she will be essentially the incoming spokesperson for the treasury department and treasury secretary steve mnuchin. that is expected to take place, i am told, most likely at the end of may. crowley in the early days of the administration dating back to the first days of the administration, almost joined as a strategic communications role for the national security council. that never happened, as accusations of possible plagiarism followed her, but in

charlie gasparino with a look how wall street is looking at all this. new reporting on doubts of one of these democratic candidates. >> i thought when biden began to implode i would thought you would see a wall street shift to cory booker. i'll tell you why. he is well-known to the democratic wall street community. big supporter of israel and school choice. wall street democrats are big in the school choice movement. they're very interesting, liberal on most social issues. they deviate on class warfare to an extent. although they believe in the progressive tax system, don't get me wrong. they also, to the man and woman i believe are in favor of school choice. they just think that the education establishment is really hurt minority students. so they're big into that. connell: if not all, more than the average democrat yes. >> that's right. that is where they bridge with a lot of republicans. i would see wall street democrats hanging out with jeb bush who is big supporter of school choice. connell: what is going on with booker then? >> two things happened.

charlie gasparino has more. >> charles, i'm going to say this as of yesterday.ill happen a week from now. as of yesterday, this is what we know from joe biden's associates. these are guys on wall street, people that he spent a long time cultivating. he's telling them that he's definitely running. the word is, as of yesterday, again, 100% in. he's committed to run. what is interesting about this, they're telling me some of these attacks -- i know he put out the statement today where he showed some contrition, but behind the scenes, he's seething. he believes these are coordinated attacks from the sanders campaign, bernie sanders. he believes it's coming from them. they say it's stiffened his resolve to reason. why is that? he looks at the polls. he thinks he's ahead of the pack. he thinks that he's in the best position to run against donald trump among the field. again, i tell you this as of yesterday. the reason why again, supposed five more of these things came out. if you can see how people might retaliate. >> charles: yes. >> but they're saying he's telling t

charlie gasparino has been following this very, very closely. charlie, what do you think?ings. initially i started covering biden, he is making a rollout last two years, slowly but surely. including at the salt conference two years ago, where he had a major fight with a democratic, wall street democratic, bill ackman, hedge fund manager. neil: that was scaramucci. >> that is coming back in a few weeks. it is the two-year anniversary. he basically said i'm a better candidate than hillary was, and i could have won. he is slowly rolling this out. i initially thought, i know a lot of wall street dems, he would have the money, no problem to make this run. i'm getting now from the same people, this could be an issue. he waited a long time to get in. he, a lot of those major democratic bundlers in the financial business at, at hedge funds gone to different places. i read a report a big time hedge fund executive, used to work at blackstone, various places. he went to beto o'rourke. so that's a big loss. he was one of obama's initial wall street people. and, on top of that, i'm als

charlie gasparino, thank you so much. we are three points away from session highs at this point.ngs in just around nine minutes' time. up next, no joke on this april fool's day. elon musk, his tribute to a dead gorilla. can you rap like this? have you heard this? >> i'm old enough to remember the big doof ramp. a rap of john wayne. . . this is where i trade and manage my portfolio. since i added futures, i have access to the oil markets and gold markets. okay. i'm plugged into equities - trade confirmed - and i have global access 24/7. meaning i can do what i need to do, then i can focus on what i want to do. visit learnfuturestoday.com to see what adding futures can do for you. susan: four 1/2 minutes left. food giant kellogg is cutting down on the cookie count, selling off two major brands, deirdre. i love keeblers. reporter: a lot of people do. kellogg is selling off the keebler brands. famous amos is another. another beloved kind of cookie. so that part of the business, three of those activities are going to an italian company, ferraro, $1.3 billion. kellogg's ceo, says they

let's go to charlie gasparino on this. >> remind me of the rice case, the king of the class action lawsuits was always controversial. like he found clients out of nowhere that bought maybe one share of stock and basically he would sue the companies and they would pay the client. >> and he got his -- >> and he got his and went to jail a few years. he's now deceased. what is fascinating about this case as opposed to the nike case, i thought the nike case is difficult to prove. they said he went to nike and said if you hire me as a consultant and pay off my client, i won't bring it up. it's like a contract. >> neil: they're claiming it's extortion. >> what is the difference between that and amazon -- >> neil: but he's in deep legal trouble here. >> the point is, with david pecker, national inquirer did with bezos is not much different. this cut and dry if it's true. it's literally taking money that should have went to a client and pocketed it. >> all of the money or -- >> 30%. parentsly it's more than that. i will say this in avenatti -- i've been reading his tweets. that's how he's defending

charlie gasparino is with me now.e over now, sounds like someone running for president, no doubt about that. what did you make of all this? >> two days ago we reported on claman's show and on neil's show and it got some interesting pickup. two things. he was mad as hell that these things came out. he really believes it's a bernie sanders plant to upend his run. number two, he's been telling people as of two days ago he's definitely in. connell: said his lawyers won't let him -- >> once you say that, you change your classification. he wants to get a lot of this stuff out of the way. it's interesting. he's running. i mean, you know, listen, he may wake up three days from now and say don't want to do it but he's running. how do we know this. he's staking out a moderate ground in the democratic party. you saw, he denied being a progressive. says no, i'm a liberal. then talks about that a far left person has never won. then he talked about the demographic of the democratic party. he says it's mostly liberal to moderate lib

so it'll be a lot of fun, and i'm super excited to have both charlie gasparino and liz claman representing, one of our panelists, robert wolf there. >> yeah, he's a great guy. robert and i are teamed up in a research project, so we had steve me -- steve moore on our faculty for a while. david: every year there seems to be one thing people are talking about. last year, i think it was robotics. what do you think it's going to be this year? >> i think the human longevity project, i think that panel discussion will be very enlightening. there are simple things you can do today to lengthen your telemeres -- telemeres? >> people like me can't afford anything short, you realize that -- david: so you're going to live to be over 100? >> i'm shooting, just to defy all my haters. expecting to have my hair the entire time. david: may 7th is when it begins, you don't want to miss (announcer) the following is a paid presentation for prostagenix, brought to you by prostatereport.com. (upbeat music) ♪ hi, this is larry king. over 30 million men in america have prostrate problems. i know, i was one of them

charlie gasparino texted us from the outset of the oral argument that musk lawyers said to the courted a new relationship. we need to renegotiate the agreement by which he agreed to get preapproval before tweeting. and she said all right, negotiate that on your own. but look, contempt is very, very serious. you either find it or you don't find it. i think it is wrong to leave it hanging over someone's head during the negotiation. you should be free to negotiate without that sword of dam mow close hagging over your head. if it was material and serious she should have ruled on it. that could have after an effect. connell: you could argue this was, this tweet by mr. musk, talking about 500,000 vehicles, i was reading something an analyst put out at jpmorgan talking about whether it was material or not. basically even what we heard from tesla on the actual deliveries why the stock got hit today, kind of undermines the argument that maybe it was material? >> this all started not with a tweet about 500,000 vehicles in 2019, this started that he tweeted after he finished a session for joe r

that's charlie gasparino's name for him, which always cracks me up. step further. he says he's aiming to cut red meat supply in municipally-run facility, we're talking hospitals, schools. he wants no more red meat or at least a reduction by 50%. what's your thought on that one? >> well, again, going back to out of touch, bill de blasio is showing how out of touch he is here and really how elitist he is. he does not understand that there are kids who are on school lunches in new york city that are going to come home, and they may not get another nutritious meal after leaving school. and the wealthy kids that go to public schools in new york, they're not going to be hit by that, the middle class kids that always have a meal on the table for dinner, they're not going to be hit. this is going to affect the most vulnerable. and the fact that he doesn't understand that shows how out of touch -- trish: he would say, they don't need to eat meat. you're luck key we don't have peta on heren tonight, they want to get rid of milk, for goodness sakes. [laughter] t

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box fizz senior correspondent charlie gasparino here with details. >> this is an apparent home run.ankers always do, they work the deal. they're looking for a higher bid. this auction has been going on since, i guess, november. it's part of the regula regulaty process. disney buys the entertainment aspects. had to sel21 are left. there are 21 that are being sold. the final bids came in this week. the process has come to an end today. what we understand is that sinclair broadcasting with, the same sinclair shut of out of the tribune deal appears to have emerged as the winner. the leading candidate. we know this. bankers are continuing to work the deal. they're clearly going back to the other potential bidders, liberty media teamed up with major league baseball, ice cube's 3g basketball league is in it as well. these are the three bidders. they're prodding the bidders. clearly what we know our long national nightmare known as the bidding of the auction of the fox regional sports networks is coming to an end. i'll tell you this, at first thithere was a lot of hope that they would get $

charlie gasparino has more. >> yeah, charles, a tesla-related tweet that violated an earlier settlementupposed to tweet out stuff that was wrong. the sec found the tweet to be inaccurate and wrong and violating securities laws. he went to court today. the judge said a, work it out. if you don't work it out, i'm going to rule. i'll say this, charles. i've covered a lot of these cases. what is interesting about this, elon musk keeps thumbing his nose at the sec, at the government. he's still coming out ahead. let's back up a minute. he may be held in contempt of court when the judge eventually rules. but the sec has asked for these types of penalties, not to get rid of him as ceo as the obama sec would do. but they asked for some sort of escalating fines and maybe more regulation and procedures. it's pretty weak tea. so if you -- i just looked before. maybe a change. tesla's stock after a lousy day where they missed performance numbers, tesla's stock is up. it's because he came out of here and i'll tell you, his smile was ear to ear. he felt good. because the worse that could happen to a

joining us, charlie gasparino. what's the latest?the shot clock, meaning the deal, amount of time the regulators have to decide on this deal, i think is like 50 days now. the shot clock began on thursday of last week so this is rubber meets the road time. i'm trying to get a handle on exactly what t-mobile and sprint are pitching to regulators, how it's being received. here's some stuff that i'm getting. obviously, price is a big issue, right. liz: they are promising they won't raise price. >> not only that, the antitrust implications are pretty big. you're going from four major wireless carriers to three. that on its face, theoretically could be a problem. with sprint and t-mobile, they are saying not so fast. if we can merge, sprint and t-mobile together, we are going to expand broadband capacity, we are basically going to be able to put ourselves in a better position to compete with at & t and verizon. prices will likely go down if we can do that because we will compete with them on cost. we will be able to say listen, we want you

independent women's forum stephan is here and david more ray and our own charlie gasparino. your sense of how she was framing that that? complimentary of the congresswoman? look, you know, there are some districts where the democrats win and those left out here among the 40 who did come in and take over the house what do you think? >> that's right. most of those districts were moderate suburban districts. 31 of them were districts that donald trump won in 2016. so nancy pelosi definitely has her eye on those districts for 2020 that being said the fact that she has to reference aoc and 68 democrats that vote with her 95% of the time constantly the way she does says a lot about where the heart and soul of the democratic party is going. she knows she is down. she doesn't want to communicate that exact message to those 31 districts who voted for donald trump in 2016 that she has has to hold to hold the house. >> neil: that is a perilous position for a democratic leader to be in, david, period. i'm wondering how your sense the leadership, that is the democratic leadership chuck s

liz: charlie gasparino, thank you very much. dow down 19. we are coming right back.. liz: breaking news. president trump has just landed at ellington field, joint reserve base, in houston, texas. will head to the international union of operating engineers educational training center in crosby, texas. he will deliver remarks, sign the executive order we told you about on energy and infrastructure. specifically crude and natural gas pipelines. fox business will carry it live. his plane did land on the far side here. we are awaiting his deplaning. >>> with the markets moving up, down, all around kind of hard to fill your pockets right? but our next guest says there is a way to profit by finding pockets of undervalued stocks. patrick decays sar, brandywine global. how do i do that? everyone wants know the answer to that question? >> what do you do with a market pretty fairly well valued. market goes back to fair value. looks like people came here pretty complacent. one of the areas we're interested in right now, been interested in for a while is energy. a lot of investor

charlie gasparino has been covering this like none other. is out west, appearing from the state of california out at the milken conference with more. hey, charlie. >> there is a lot of teslas out here, connell, a lot of bankers out here, believe it or not they are talking about tesla and whether tesla needs financing for the future given its soured finances here is where i'm getting, these are bankers plugged in with both morgan stanley and goldman sachs who are the traditional bankers for tesla, what they're telling me is this, they're very concerned over tesla's souring finances both the banking community and banks are and growing competition. they're getting competition from regular car companies in the electric vehicle space. put that together, the fact that you have soured financing, maybe a need for cash on tesla, bankers are saying number one they have to do a deal. number two, they will have to pay up to do the deal if they can get it through. this is very interesting, connell. this is a company that is in deep trouble right now. when

what he does now, what he telegraphs now, who better to follow charlie gasparinos is on top of this longy people jumped on it. what is going on here. >> wall street thinks they need to raise a lot of cash. neil: burning. >> a lot of cash. he has been resistant, bankers approached elon and tessa, he made a statement, now might be the time to do it but what we're getting from the company, when bankers are actually pitching -- neil: now might be the time to raise money. >> stock offering. they have a shelf registration. it is good until at least may. that bankers are saying they're getting like mixed signals out of the company, that they really don't want to go that route. there's a lot of reasons for this. we should point out that musk himself highly leveraged, he basically borrowed against his own shares to fund other projects like spacex. that borrowing, there's a margin call if the stock hits $235 or something like that, he has to sell some of his stock to basically pay that margin. that could send a ripple through the shares. you could see a massive selloff in shares. neil: kind of wha

charlie gasparino at milken institute conference out in california. charlie, what are you hearing?> i guess you could say this is semipositive for the deal, not necessarily sprint. i ran into the doj antitrust chief, mach kim dellrahim a new issue emerged that could push it into a positive light. here is what he had to say. big concern, antitrust 30,000 feet, going from four major wireless carriers to three. that the combined sprint and t-mobile eliminates obviously a carrier and competition. let me ask you this i've been reading up on sprint's financials lately. you might just get just three carrierses any way if they don't merge? are you concerned that sprint might not be healthy enough to survive, therefore that is a factor in this merger? >> well of course. number of carriers and competition that you know, of any potential merger will lead to is a factor that we consider. whether or not a company is failing or will go out of business is a factor. there is laws about that. called a failing firm defense in antitrust. and there is, energy solutions was a recently litigated case wh

charlie gasparino following that. what do you think? >> two things.om people close to biden so take it for what it's worth. they like the fact that he attacks him with name calling, okay. they think that plays into his hands. one of the things that -- nldz t. neil: the biden people like it? >> what they are going to stress, and i'm not saying they are going to pull it off, because the democrat party has its own looney-tune, socialism, you name it. elizabeth warren, bernie sanders. did i leave anybody out. what they are going to stress is normalcy. we are bringing the country back to normalcy. every time he calls him a name and stuff, he's going to say listen, this is where we have gone. we went from a guy who is elected to uphold the constitution to some idiot calling me names. i think that's going to be their mantra. i can tell you that again, from inside the democratic party, they believe they have the best coalition. yes, wall street establishment dems, robert ruben types, hedge fund managers, will be part of that coalition, no doubt. they will rai

charlie gasparino is here. and gop fund-raisers noelle nikpour. you, that it doesn't mean he won't necessarily not run but might have trouble raising money. what are you hearing? >> his supporters. i know a lot of his supporters on wall street were pretty quiet over the weekend. some of the comments i got back, raising some doubt he might go through with it. connell: he might actually not run? >> this is different party than the republican party. you're guilty before you're innocent on this stuff. but i will say this about joe biden, okay, people that know him, he loves his wife. he is not, never really heard rumors about him running around washington doing inappropriate stuff but there always been this talk about him being overly touchy. he has done it, does it with women. i believe he does it with men. then on top of that, extra layer is there is whole social media thing that goes on with, with trump, people that troll in favor of donald trump where they essentially send around photos that are manipulated about him doing extremely disgusting thi

should say, pleural, for the fed rejecting criticism that he is politicizing the central bank , charlie gasparino gentlemen, steve moore more personally and i think they're both really qualified for the job and here is why. they both know a thing or two about economics. they come to the job with real-world experience. i mean, her main cane ran companies, was a businessman. david: and they've had people like that in the fed before. charlie: steve moore worked on the wall street editorial page, i mean, he understands he's got an economics degree as well, he worked for a think tank he's been around the block in the policy arena, and i'm going to tell you this and i'll have a lot of friends of mine who are in c suites right now throwing stuff at the tv when i say this. the sort of nexus between wall street, washington, this sort of public policy nexus presents such group think that it led us to the 2008 financial crisis. i am telling you that. i could tell you, i covered that thing. david: written books on it. charlie: but it was a slow burn. it was 2007, you could see the writing on the wall, and th

we bring in charlie gasparino on this, and maybe other new developments. >> e-cigarettes, 35 cases.'s right. >> this is not like, how many people use it? connell: a lot much. that was my point. kristina pointed that out. they didn't establish the link yet. >> i would like the number of people that use it divide, very low. connell: they don't even know the two are linked. jay powell, that sounds like one of cavuto's quote after your appearance. >> of course. he regrets that. connell: that is some quote. i guess i'm stuck with. >> you that is what you said to me as soon as i sat down. here is what i would say, there is more to the story. it is involving stephen moore's nomination to the fed board. connell: that has become controversial. >> let me unpack this. last night reading on my bar stool, of course, "the times" piece about steve moore, having these issues with his ex-wife. you can go back and read it. steve is a friend of mine. i'm not saying, i'm not drawing conclusions. connell: about alimony payments, correct? >> but i started making calls to conservatives, conservative activ

. >>> whatever you think of bernie sanders's plan, charlie gasparino has been on the horn with a lotf powerful people including ceo larry fink who are betting on bernie. >> he didn't not specifically speak with me. i've been tweeting reporting out last couple days, he really thinks, who is larry fink? he runs biggest money management firm, blackrock. 6 trillion. >> successful investor. >> he is establishment democrat. his name is always bandied about to be treasury secretary. if joe biden wins i think it is a good chance larry fink becomes treasury secretary if he becomes president. what i hear about blackrock, fincke is saying, following politics, this guy is obsessed with it. he really wants to be treasury secretary and he is a democrat. he is talking about how he believes bernie sanders is, has really has, not just a shot but as of now the best shot at winning. now if you look -- neil: even if joe biden runs? >> yes. let me back up a minute and say, look at "the times" today. they ran a story, if, "the times" is plugged into the democratic party establishment. they are seconding t