fair bit. >> so there is less risk >> ken, the last thing i want to do is get in a debate with ken langonet, i'm trying to catch up to you. >> i doubt that. but, ken, he's a very perceptive person who knows the markets very well. i'm not a market technology person my view based on what i see is deals are getting done prices are slightly lower than they were. but on the other hand, buyout terms add a lot more value than they used to it used to be leveraging companies and hope the mark bails them out now we have a lot of people that add value. it's not just the market the way it used to be. >> you mentioned china as a risk factors or turning points in this sort of whole where things head what do you think will happen there? >> nobody knows until after xi jinping is elected to his third term when that happens in november, i this i the policies will be clearer. right now the covid policies are not as clear to the west as they like the chinese partners build up two top technology companies i think they are easing up that will be better for people like us to invest there. >> do you want to be bu

plus, more housing hurdles, we'll talk with home depot co-founder ken langone on how he's investing infor housing. joining the conversation all morning long, dagen mcdowell and a liz peek. we'll get back to this fantastic panel when we come right back. you're watching "mornings with maria" live on fox business. maria: well, a lackluster job as border czar, vice president harris has a new role, heading the white house's task force to address online harassment, it's already drawing comparisons to the i'm famous white house disinformation board which was scrapped over fears of government censorship and attacks on the censorship. the new task force that the administration is announcing includes attorney general merrick garland, dhs secretary alejandro mayorkas and anthony bling e is this another disinformation board with another name. dagen: in comes the vice president. i laugh. what they're trying to do is not funny. number one, it's probably a violation of the first amendment and secondly, i'm sure that conservatives and republicans will not be the target of the harassment that they're t

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i heard ken langone talking about be in recession and jeremy siegel saying we think we're in a recession aren't we? joining us now is former treasury secretary jack lew. secretary lew, thanks for being with me today. first defining terms i know there are these textbook definitions of a recession, but what's the definition that really matters right now and how likely are we to be in one by the end of the year? >> it's good to be with you, jon. i think the technical definitions of recession are less the issue than where is the economy going to be going. when you have high inflation and the fed raises rates, you know that the goal is to slow economic growth and to slow the economy down the question is, can you hit a soft landing i think what we should expect is it's going to be a bumpy ride. whether that becomes a technical recession or not is a separate question from is the fed making its policy trying to control inflation while trying to avoid a deep economic slowdown i give them a lot of credit for having been patient, waiting until the data was clear that we had strong growth coming out

ken langone was on fox business earlier today and said the fed was behind the curve on all of this. he can take a lot of blame as well but the spending is not outside of reach of this debate. >> dana: people in his own party like larry summers said exactly that. to them it was not bizarre. also this now, a new fox news poll finds a majority of americans oppose protests happening outside of homes of supreme court justices including most independents. protests following the leak of a draft opinion to overturn roe v. wade. as we await the ruling the f.b.i. now says it is investigating a series of attacks and threats targeting pregnancy centers and faith-based organization across the country. lucas tomlinson with this. >> two days after the house passed the bill president biden signed it into law adding security for the families of supreme court justices around the clock days after that arrest of a california man charged with the attempted murder of justice kavanaugh. there was no reference to the attempted of the attack. >> by passing this bill we're sending a clear message to the left

see you in a couple of minutes ssnday on "squawk box" don't mi our live interview with ken langone. >ose. guys, excuse me. i didn't quite get that. i'm hard of hearing. ♪♪ oh hey, don't forget about the tense music too. would you say tense? i'd say suspenseful. aren't they the same thing? can we move on guys, please? alexa, turn on the subtitles. and dim the lights. ok, dimming the lights. hybrid work is here. it's there. it's everywhere. but for someone to be able to work from here, there has to be someone here making sure everything is safe. secure. consistent. so log in from here. or here. assured that someone is here ready to fix anything. anytime. anywhere. even here. that's because nobody... and i mean nobody... makes hybrid work, work better. >>> final quick thoughts ahead of friday morning's opening bell i want to bring in jim paulson we're all wondering, are these green arrows here to stay, is this a head fake into the fall, will it be better, worse what do you think? >> if you think about where the fed gets its direction, andrew, i think that's what's positive here i think i

yourself i want to know what you're telling clients in terms of protecting themselves, i spoke with ken langoneosed to dividend-paying companies but things are going to get tough what do you say when somebody says okay a recession could be here right now what are we going to do about it. >> i would be i think cash is definitely not cash in this environment i think you really want to get -- stand back, and keep your powder dry because there will be opportunities once the market if finally does flush out we have a lot of downsideing to i donate touch anything in equity market wouldn't put money to work i have been in gold, treasurys thing getting complicated because of the balance sheet the front end of the curving is interesting i don't think there is any way the fed is going to be able to tighten the amount you currently priced into front end of the market that might be aner a to really determine, he to be active right here but i would be in gold, and commodity -- sorry gold and energy, and resource producing economies they will get hit less than all the other stuff right now. but it is tough o

maria: that is what businesses are saying i spoke with ken langone saidtime to admit this one is on met spews out falsities james freeman out with op-ed basically saying that he is telling us he is doing everything that he can to get gasoline prices lower does the opposite. >> more and more expensive to use fossil fuels, consume fossil fuels produce them, michael, i do have a question, and your column is a must read but if, as you said, he is not had a policy turn. isn't it good that he spends more time at the beach? i ideally until stop -- trying to get some portion of "build back better" compacted don't we want him at delaware house all the time, a european style vacation for him 6, 8 weeks? >> on the theory he can do no more harm, look. that may be the best we can hope for, but he is president he still has an awesome amount of power at his disposal to make things different, and i don't know how frankly james, you know any president seeing this kind of impact on people's lives, inflation is causing families the baby formula shortage, et cetera, where he doesn't stay up nights, where