and it turns out that the atlantic the outlet which reported this is owned by none other than lauren powell jobs that steve jobs that his widow who is an avowed democrat so that's why it's so obscure all you can conclude presumably is that they're saying that donald trump's own son was willing to turncoat on his father's campaign while wiki leaks was so influential that they were able to achieve that president's family i think prove that they did torn between south korean phone many fractures and north korean phone when in fact it may offer a better solution and a new life for such a conspiracy theorist but you might be right there but a big thank you. well this week a nato nation mainstream media has again raised the specter of state attempting to influence not only last year's us elections but the brics it vote here in the u.k. but while perceived state adversaries like russia and china get the blame in a west rattled by economic crisis what about now arguably bigger threat to enlightenment values than cold war bogeyman what about multi billion dollar tech giants joining me now is your co

thanks for being with lauren: breaking news this morning. we have a winner. jerome powell the most powerful banker in the world. who exactly is the new fed chief? cheryl: we ever plan on paper. house republicans to release the tax plan later this morning. still power infighting. lauren: president trump same in new york terror suspect deserves the death penalty. the report debt sayfullo saipov felt good that he murdered eight innocent people. cheryl: facebook and tesla both fallen after today. trying to the base of england stands ready to hike interest rates for the first time in over a decade. stocks pared down across the board. cheryl: still in rally mode. stocks in china falling amid concerns about interest rates. lauren: houston, we have a winner. two months after hurricane rv, the astros win their first world series ever. "fbn:am" starts right now. cheryl: 5:01 a.m. in new york. thursday, november 2nd. m. cheryl casone. lauren: november 2nd already. cheryl: attacks the incumbent fed chair and world series winner. lauren: a day of answers. we begin with this. the winner

lauren: senate confirmation for chairman sharon powell scheduled to begin this morning in prepared testimony if he is confirmed he expects the central bank to continue raising interest rates gradually. he also says they would consider appropriate ways to ease regulatory burdens on banks. powell expected to sail through the confirmation hearing of two recent nomination votes for nearly all democrats and about half of republicans. cheryl: white house budget director mick mulvaney taking charge of the nations top consumer watchdog at least for now. lauren: the drama continues. blake burman with the story. reporter: the white house department of justice believes mick mulvaney has the right to be the cfpb director however it they believe leander english. now there is a lawsuit to sort it all out. regardless, mulvaney showed up for his first nhl eventually after fired off this e-mail warning to employees. please disregard in the instructions you received from his english and her% capacity as acting. if you receive communications in her reform related to the function of our actual or perceived duti

thanks for being with lauren: breaking news this morning. we have a winner. jerome powell the most powerful banker in the world. who exactly is the new fed chief? cheryl: we ever plan on paper. house republicans to release the tax plan later this morning. still power infighting. lauren: president trump same in new york terror suspect deserves the death penalty. the report debt sayfullo saipov felt good that he murdered eight innocent people. cheryl: facebook and tesla both fallen after today.

lauren: she does have a point. poor record on wall street. a tax reform bill cleared another hurdle in the senate of recovery sure the senate recovery assurance, through the fed chair nominee jerome powelld greg burk, chair of the business finance at the king's college in manhattan and our camera, senior analyst, good morning. >> good to be here. good morning. >> it seems like investors were more reassured over what happened with taxes than a spending bill yesterday. his tax reform victim to the market? >> i think so. obviously investors are sort of only pricing in good news these days. a lot of good news out there. corporate profits doing just fine. gdp under rainier may have three straight quarters to 3% plus. a revision due for the most recent quarter this morning. i think it's absolutely baked in. i think there's a lot of strength yet to come. trade for we are 160 points the way people 60 points away. will he get there on friday in what happens if we do get by the end of the year at a real bill reform? >> i'm not one to predict on a day-to-day basis much less on a week to week. i don't think there's anything in the near term that needs to interrupt the valley, but this market has co