when they come at january 17th i'm lauren simonetti. cheryl: good morning. i'm lauren simonetti. maybe we'll have a close 26,000. lauren: is looking good right now. the market wants to rally. the breaking news we're starting to show as the clock ticks down for potential government shutdown which is friday, two days from now. drama continued on capitol hill. the conservative freedom caucus morning they had the vote to block the stopgap bill to keep the lights on. >> obviously, we didn't have enough people tonight to take an official position but the general consensus was that there is no support for the current leadership plan as proposed. lauren: lawmakers trying to reach a deal on daca which would protect hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought to the u.s. illegally as children to protect them from being deported. cheryl: president trying to move forward after the controversial comment during a meeting on immigration. that part of the story for monthly burning. >> president trump tried to soften the blow back from last thursday's meeting responding to a reporter's question b

thank you for joining us from lauren simonetti. cheryl: and cheryl casone. s point we should all wear sensors and 24/7. lauren: they know what you do online and now they know what you do at the store. cheryl: that story coming up later on in the show. big news is is president trump is firing back at senator dick k durbin blasting them for mithras presented what he said during the infamous oval office meeting at daca last week. the shutdown living with no deal for the dreamers. lauren: griff jenkins covering it all live in washington d.c. with the very latest. hi, great spirit reporter: good morning. what a difference a week makes. remember watching the president negotiating in real time for nearly an hour last week? the president says democrats don't want to make a deal at senator dick durbin and the president are calling a war of words over what the president did or did not say in the oval office meeting now we have a new nickname. of course drilling in the building here. i'll get to that later. senator dick durbin totally misrepresented what was said at the

i'm cheryl casone appeared lauren: and lauren simonetti. thank you for joining us. cheryl: an entire meeting on the white house and television. i don't think we've ever seen that before. lauren: that is her breaking news overnight. temporarily halting president trump's decision to an daca, trying to give a lifeline to dreamers when the state of california and other plaintiffs asked the judge to block the trump administration from rolling back the odometer program other lawsuits play out in court from the justice department did issue a statement saying today's router doesn't change the department of justice position on the facts. daca was implemented unilaterally after congress declined to extend these benefits to the same group of illegal aliens. cheryl: that was the topic at the white house hours after the president did something. he held a bipartisan meeting on immigration law cameras rolled. republican senator lindsey graham treating the most fascinating meeting had been involved with in 20 plus years in politics. lauren: plate or at the white house with the detai

lauren: im lauren simonetti. still haven't watched "stranger things." stranger of a person whose needling you to get to watching these. lauren: i am still watching narco season two. the government shutdown is over. resident transcending the stopgap bill into law after democrats and republicans agreed on temporary funding for the government. the president tweeted by snake on the big win for republicans as democrats cave unshed towns. now we wanted date when, but especially great military and border security should be able to get their. see you at the negotiating table. cheryl: adam shapiro in washington with more. >> good morning. crisis averted for now. the shutdown sign a continuing resolution. part of the deal that mcconnell struck with chuck schumer from the democrats was to bring to the floor of the senate a bill regarding daca cumin dusted and spread to the country illegally and immigration reform. they will be open amendments, but even if that has to defend at some point, faces opposition in the house because the houses they built to do with immigr

i'm lauren simonetti. cheryl: will be talking about the golden globes. did you get a chance to watch? lauren: i got a recap. cheryl: that was the theme of the night. lauren: a black cloud over the red carpet. lauren: steve van in no no expressing will call it require following his comments criticizing president trump and his eldest son in the controversial new book "fire & fury." everybody's talking about this. benin called the meeting between donald trump junior and the russians at trump tower in 2015. campaign manager corey lewandowski defending the president as well as his family. >> if that's as steve said kami is donald trump, donald trump junior commensurate christian and entire trump family an apology if that's what he said. shame on steve bannon because that is so out of bounds to accuse someone of treason. so out of line. lauren: president trump positive work of fiction and he was never interviewed by the author. cheryl: president trump heading to nashville discussing his administration plan before the american farm bureau convention following a

i'm lauren simonetti. cheryl: i am sure a spicy kick sony with you this morning.ood story hitting the tape this morning. storming 711's doors on a single employer since president trump took office. 20 people arrested. lauren: all this is top lawmakers from both parties are seeking a deal on immigration. president trump insisted an immigration deal must include a border wall. mary ann lafferty lives in los angeles with more. >> good morning, lord and cheryl. hammering out a bipartisan deal to determine the features as the obama era daca program including in the next two days. after historic televised negotiations between two dozen lawmakers for democrats tried to cut the wall out of the deal. president trump don't not backing down. >> it's got to include the wall. we need the wall for security, for safety in stopping the drugs from pouring in. >> the house echoing that colin dale and the bill that includes a $30 billion budget for the border wall and security priorities. >> this bill funds the border wall and ports of entry along the southern border. it also increa

lauren simonetti. cheryl: good morning. i'm cheryl casone. uys are asleep, so we are here for you. lauren: president trump to end the stalemate over daca saying it's ready to sign a bipartisan bill as long as it includes his water bill. cheryl: griff jenkins has the latest on that story. reporter: good morning, lauren and cheryl. the president is hiring back that he's racist in the expletive uttered in the office that he's the least racist person they've ever interviewed. >> i'm not a racist. on the least racist person you've ever interviewed. reporter: this is the deadline for daca deal tied to the spending bill is fast approaching the president blaming democrats for failing to deliver trading yesterday daca is probably dead because democrats don't really want it. they just want to talk and take this really needed away from our military. one proposal put together by south appointed group of six senators voted just did last week you may recall by the white house but did it fail to address the four pillars increasing border security, ending cha

i'm lauren simonetti. cheryl: it is the day after. lauren: it's cold outside too.ryl: we will talk about show later on in the show, it is freezing in the east coast. first, that's not stopping crowds in dc from i think to this. the book is out. white house tell-all on store shelves, came out four days early. they lined up overnight to get hands on fire and fury as the white house is striking back saying it's full of lies. lauren: griff jenkins with the very latest. griff, have you seen the book yet? >> good morning, lauren and cheryl. [laughter] >> this is the book the white house doesn't want you to read and it went on sale at midnight despite the president's lawyers trying to stop release with cease and desist letter. sanders blasting nothing more than fantasy. >> numerous mistakes but i'm not going waste my time and the country's time going page by page talking about a book that's complete fantasy and full of tabloid gossip because it's sad, pathetic. >> in the fallout between president and chief strategists, respond today a question about bannon remarks against

lauren: i'm lauren simonetti. welcome to a snow day. trenches was here in new york city closing, businesses cannot run impacting for what could be in historic storm. lauren: let's talk about it. nasty winter weather wreaking havoc in the northeast. we are use to it, but this out barely met the east coast seen snow, ice and wind set of hurricane forces. tracee carrasco joins us at the details of what we can expect that the day. good morning. >> four days into 2018 and we are being hit with the first major snowstorm this winter. here is times square right now. you can see flurries are starting but we are expecting anywhere between five to eight inches of snow over the next 12 hours so bundle up new yorkers. meanwhile, 13 states from south carolina are under winter storm warning as to whether prepares to wreak havoc on the northeast. looking at pictures in south carolina where snow is extremely rare. georgia is currently under a state of emergency and residents of tallahassee, florida saw snow for the first time in 28 years. >> never seen s

i'm lauren simonetti. first of the -- for show of the year for fox business network. thanks for joining us here. for those nervous fires out here, more of a chance from dying from a the thing in a plane crash. cheryl: i know, but just the fear and everything else that goes with flying. at about this report we will tell you about will make any passengers feel any better. first come the breaking news overnight. south and north korea and a day after kim jong un said he is willing to send a delegation to the winter olympics in south korea next month. south korea will focus on cooperation but also try to discuss restoring strange relations with north korea. cheryl: kim jong un says the nuclear button is always on his desk. former chair of the joint chiefs of staff mike mullen says they face a greater threat of nuclear conflict in on the korean peninsula than ever before. >> we're actually closer in my view then and it legal war with north korea and in that region than we've ever been in a just to be the opportunities to solve this diplomatically at this particular point. l

lauren simonetti. cheryl: and cheryl casone. about yesterday. lauren: more records.othing stops them. we would get to in a few moments. major new developments in the russian investigation. officials say jeff sessions spent several hours being grilled by the special counsel office last week or this is the first time investigators are learned to have interviewed a cabinet member. president trump was asked yesterday if he's worried about what sessions may have said. [inaudible conversations] >> no, i'm not at all, kristen. no come i didn't. but i'm not at all concerned. cheryl: for more on what this means, we turn to prosecutor david bruno. good morning. pretty big deal here. how helpful can sessions be to mueller and also, does this set up a potential interview of president trump, which lawyers were told currently negotiating over. >> will come to should be no surprise. he's testified twice before congress about the ambassador case of acne and the other photo above that was taken where he sat the table. but, should this mean anything? the thing that jumps out at me as

i'm lauren simonetti. cheryl: i'm cheryl casone. ng up in looking back to what a night we had last night. lauren: mixed reactions after the president laid out his ambitious agenda in the state of the union address. michael barnes is a former george w. bush administration policy adviser as well as managing partner of the cba policy and eddie scary at the "washtington examiner" reporter. gentlemen, good morning. it's been a good morning. >> good morning, lord. lauren: let's go to "the new york times" "new york times," first. [inaudible conversations] improvements on the economy but not installed in trump tries to move past tumbled instead of the union speech. here is the "washington post." trump tries to strike conciliatory note after combative first-tier and how a tribe alters tone to suit the occasion. these are terrible headlines coming from the left are they, michael? >> the "washington post" is a summary of what i believe the president did last night. the first journal delivered a lot of hard lessons for the president that he impl

lauren: good morning, everybody, i'm lauren simonetti. colonel sanders looks good. , we will reveal later with tracee tracee carrasco. president trump set to deliver a major speech at world economic forum in davos switzerland. lauren: one of the speeches america is open for business. >> good morning, lauren and cheryl, right now president is meeting with elaine, wrapped up a meeting with rwanda's president but the main event is the closing address at the world economic forum where president trump will talk about creating business and free nations working on shared goals as he arrived in davos, he spoke to reporters, here is what he said. >> the united states is doing fantasticically well, better than we've done in decades, stock markets are incredible. businesses are coming in to the united states, i think it's going to be a great message that people are going to like to hear it. >> the president with unapologetic message that america first and america is open for business and despite skepticism from european leaders he's gotten outpouring praise from europe's powerf

i'm lauren simonetti.s intelligence committee voting to release a controversial memo marked classified. it alleges that the fbi used foreign intelligence surveillance act for pfizer to target the trunk campaign. some republican lawmakers described in the memo as shocking and troubling. michael conaway come house intelligence committee member saying this is one of the reasons why the memo needs to be released. >> in order for us to do the work of the judiciary committee to propose legislation as necessary in the reason the legislation needs to be moving our embassy is the problem that we felt. >> house democratic leader nancy pelosi issued the statement saying chairman in this memo contains significant inaccuracies and omissions that mr.% the underlying intelligence and jeopardize the effectiveness of the law enforcement community. lastly come the justice department urged not to release the memo that would harm many ongoing investigations they have president trump has five days to object to the release of t

in new york, friday the 12th of january, i'm lauren simonetti, thank you for joining. m cheryl casone, i like going to hooters bought right afterwards i go straight to the gym. lauren: waitresses are your remind tore get on the treadmill? i actually think it was pretty good. we begin this, though, good news for the economy and workers out there because of growing number of american companies announcing benefits, announcing bonuses for workers following the new tax law. cheryl: todd pirro with details. >> happy friday to you and happy numbers. let's get right into them, 82 companies passing tax relief to workers, wal-mart announcing they are increasing startling wage to 11 bucks an hour and employees will get bonus of up to a thousand dollars, the dow rose to another all-time high yesterday like you mentioned, jumping 205 points to close above 25,500 and a recent quinnipiac poll shows that 66% of american voters say the nation's economy is excellent or good. that is the highest positive rating since the poll first gauged this topic back in 2001. all this leading to the f

lauren: i am lauren simonetti. cheryl: welcome to day three of the government shutdown. we heard senator schumer saying that this was the trump shutdown. i think most people are calling this the schumer shut down. lauren: the blame game is the name of the game as we are in day three. first day of the workweek and with the government shut down on her hands. lauren: where cigarette break down this morning, a lot changing overnight. the federal government has been shut down for 53 hours as they've extended into the first day of the workweek is soren mentioned. mitch mcconnell has scheduled a procedural vote for noon eastern time today picked the vote needs 60 days to filibuster on the build that with on the build that with the least on the government to fit. and they need democrats. >> so let's step back from the brain from the brink. let's stop victimizing the american people and get back to work on their behalf. >> we've had several conversations. talks will continue but we have yet to reach an agreement on a path forward acceptable for both sides. lauren: all of this as r

lauren simonetti wall street economics editor jon hilsenrath and fox news senior strategic analyst general jack keane. we are the ones who are delighted to have you here every time you are here for incredible insight. u.s. plans new nuclear weapons is also an editorial about the readiness of our military because of the sequestration caps on spending so we will dig into all about with you. >> look forward to it. first, the dow up 226,000. united health group reported earnings. earnings per share $2.59 a share revenue coming and by more than 52 billion on the bottom line, and eps and the topline. of course her bank of america to american airlines, fiat chrysler, so many american companies announced the perks. wage hikes, $15 minimum wage including bonuses, thousand dollar bonuses, $2000 bonuses to workers here in the united states. all of this as a result of passing tax reform. it's more than 2 million americans will get a bonus from this. the ceo of fiat chrysler and toyota had to say about the impact of the tax overhaul at the detroit auto show. >> the tax reform that was done in december

good morning, lauren simonetti. train to good morning, sheryl simonetti to sony. -- cheryl casone. lauren: do we really need another celebrity president. a lot of women say yes we do. train to have that story later on in the show. the breaking news overnight. the alabama crimson tide are national champions this morning in their battle with georgia certainly lives up to the hype after finding back. alabama with a chance to win in overtime. the field goals went wide left, but they got another chance with their true freshman quarterback who took over in the second half. he launched it 41 yards. alabama wanted 2018 national champions 26-23. >> second win in three years. the president attended the game. so cited mercedes-benz stadium, thousands of fans stranded in the rain and cold because of the extra security. foods inside the stadium seemed friendlier as he walked onto the field to a booming chorus of cheers with military members by aside, president trump stood near the 40-yard line with his hand on his heart as the national anthem played before the game got underway. jared max with a

lauren simonetti. cheryl: hello, everybody. i'm sure up to sony. i did not make millions last night. the mega millions rolled over last night. lauren: man has been rained out last night and got more. train to withdraw more we want to get to. north korea reopening along border crossline. the move was made after so offered high-level talks in january made to find ways to cooperate in the winter olympics, which is next month. >> president trump tweeted last night one of seven teen tweets yesterday see north korean leader kim jong un insane the nuclear button was on his desk at all times. some uninformed and i have a nuclear button but it's much bigger and much more powerful and my button works. sarah huckabee sanders said the u.s. policy in north korea has not changed. >> the united states is committed and will still continue to put maximum pressure on north korea to change and make sure it the nuclear ice is dependent. articles at the same and we share that with south korea butter policy and process has not changed. lauren: u.n. ambassador nikki haley

if first of all, i'd like to thank trish regan and lauren simonetti for filling in while i was away. we'll have more from the winter blast in just a moment. but first, what is going on with it? adam klotz in the fox weather center on whether there is any let-up in sight. what do you hear? >> this continues to march on and on. these are the current windchill temperatures right now. a lot of spots in the negatives. all spots just below freezing. a huge area when you're talking about freezing at 32. it's not getting any warmer. here's the forecasted highs. forecasted highs wednesday still looking at a bunch of areas in the teens, running down into the 30s. we're talking about a system that will be forming off the coast of florida tonight and early tomorrow. that will have a big impact because the temperatures across the whole country are already so cold. that system will run up the coast and unfortunately with it bring winter storm watches and warns already in northern florida, coastal georgia and up the cost, all of these areas could see some snow. here's the future radar, this is begi

i'm lauren simonetti. cheryl: good morning. i'm cheryl casone.davos on everyone's mind today as the president makes what is an interesting appearance at the world economic forum. turn through the first u.s. president to visit since 2000. cheryl: 18 years since these arrived in davos. raking is here once again. this has happened moments ago. president arrived in zÜrich and he is on his way right now aboard marine one, and root to davos. the president expected to urge political and business leaders to invest in the united states. how are they at least going to receive this message when the pacific rim trade deal and of course the push for higher tariffs on foreign goods. he said to meet with british prime minister theresa may and benjamin netanyahu ahead of the major speech tomorrow. fox business will carry the address and doubtless 5:00 a.m. eastern time tomorrow morning. lauren: meanwhile the u.s. dollar falling to its lowest level in three years. all of this after the treasury secretary stephen mnuchin says they prepare weaker dollar because it'

i'm lauren simonetti. cheryl: just a thought that politics are in the career award shows, the grammys have been. lauren: i had no hope that graham is the dramatic politics, but more than we thought. president trump is set to lay out his 2018 agenda. his first state of the union address tomorrow night. tax cuts come immigration from the trade agreements, national security as well as infrastructure plans. >> the president to make an appeal to democrats to say we need to rebuild our country and make an appeal that to do infrastructure redo it in a bipartisan way. where we are in congress is the can't pass the spending bill that funds our military because democrats continue to hold the military hostage and he will ask that it's time to rebuild our military to keep america strong. cheryl: the white house plans to release details on its immigration plan today. many democrats and republicans oppose the framework the president is planning to release. a lot of details lasteek. presidt trump treed over the weekend on

. ♪ ♪ lauren: 5:01 a.m., welcome, everybody, i'm lauren simonetti. : i'm cheryl casone, people are thinking i want half pound burger to celebrate. lauren: i had one actually. >> senator shuim internal -- sco not shut down federal government, do not jeopardize funding national security, i ask the american people to understand this, the only people standing in the way of keeping g the government open are senate democrats. whether there is a government shutdown or not is now entirely up to them. >> it all hinges on the democrats on whether the government stays open or not n. the senate it takes 60 votes, in the house, the republicans did their job. they made sure government stayed open. >> this is like giving you a bowl of doggy doo and putting a cherry on top and calling it chocolate sundae. this is nothing. lauren: republicans only have 51 seats. cheryl: minority leader chuck schumer saying democrats will support short-term, four or five, six days not the house bill to avoid a shutdown. >> the only person who has ever rooted for a shutdown frankly is o

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i'm lauren simonetti. others who don't want to be on. yl: we don't want we don't wonder beyond not, but he announced it will be be on it later on in the show. lauren: deal or no deal. lawmakers are under mounting pressure to deliver a deal for dreamers. cheryl: kerry can you live in d.c. with the last-ditch efforts. they are really cutting it close. >> show them aren't coming to the deadlines prefers to avoid a government shutdown in that deadline is tomorrow. the other is daca from which congress have until march the two find a permanent solution. the problem is leading democrats have said they will support any bill if it doesn't address the dreamers. at this point, the white house believes it is highly unlikely lawmakers will reach a deal to do that before tonight that kind come in many republicans will be on their own to avoid a government shutdown and that is why the gop is now accusing democrats of playing politics with keeping our military funded. >> real deadlines occur this friday in the real deadlines that occur this friday our m

you can catch me every day with my colleague lauren simonetti. that is it for me, i'll see you tomorrow. liz claman, over to you. liz: cheryl, you know what we're hearing? we're hearing millions of commuters are using this hour, right now, 3:00 p.m. eastern straight up to try to make it home earlier than normal 5:00 p.m. eastern. don't hit the roads until you see this. dow 25,000 thunder stolen by storm. on your screen, these are multiple live pictures of the so-called bomb cyclone exploding over the northeast and the midwest, with millions in its path. this is the dow cracks the 25 k line for the first time. it will close there? right now it is at 25,086. commuters are braving the near blizzard conditions at this hour. salt trucks battling the snow, sleet and ice on major highways as no fewer than eight states along the eastern seaboard declare various states above emergency. air travelers, it's a mess, they're feeling the brunt of this bomb cyclone. on the screen is a picture of o'hare, chicago. fight aware is reporting 3800 cancellations have

liz: a record day on wall street as we inch closer to the dow 26,000, lauren simonetti on the floor of the new york stock exchange with the latest. lauren? >> hi, liz fantastic week fantastic day on wall street the dow up 228 points today, 197 points and 26,000 and the s & p 500 as well as nasdac each gaining more than half of 1% today and facebook shares down, and off 4% making changes to their news feed, prioritizing what your friends and family post at the expense of publications & companies. other tech stocks that did do well, apple first high of 2018 and also amazon, alphabet, microsoft, and netflix up sharply today. liz? liz: great to see you lauren thanks so much. coming up former fbi director jim comey's memos could soon be released to the public? these are the memos detailing his conversation with president trump in the oval office about the michael flynn investigation about the president saying advising him to stop that investigation, the federal judge saying you, fbi, you've got to turn over those documents by next week. we're bringing in the watchdog group here to reabout t

. >> dana: lauren simonetti, thank you so much could have a great weekend.up we, tgif friday means we send out my weekends folder, some topics. a political piece on how democrats in alaska are turning a red state purple. "usa today" has a report on the jfk files including why the cia once played matchmaker for the king of jordan. and the new yorker has an article about how we are all improving ourselves to death. for my full list of articles follow "the daily briefing" on facebook and instagram. and check out our instagram story. read along and let me know what you think anywhere. if twitter, facebook, instagram. i will take it all. connecticut state police released in their final report into the sandy hook school shooting. we will tell you what it says about the response that day. plus... southern california dealing with another natural disaster. a massive mudslide killing 17 people. more on the search and rescue efforts at finding those still missing. plus... president trump calling the daca deal by a group of senators a big step backwards. more on how the

go straight to lauren simonetti on floor of the new york stock exchange. we are less than 200, 196 points a way from dow 26,000. the last time we went up 1000 points, took 23 days. that is record. this time might be another record. >> unbelievable. early next week we could see dow 26,000. the dow is up 2% this week. s&p is up 2% this week. nasdaq certainly higher. let me show you what is leading the dow, boeing. caterpillar, chevron, all of these stocks rallying. in fact boeing and caterpillar are responsible, you were talking about that 1000 point milestone, responsible for half of the dow's rally since dow 25-k. also chevron, look at this gain today, and for the week. you have to remember oil prices up four weeks in a row as well. not just dow components. tech stocks as well. first time all year, apple, which is a member of the dow hit an all-time high. google, microsoft, netflix, amazon. left out of the mix is facebook. those shares down pretty sharply, basically overhauling the news feed which is good if you want to feel warm and fuzzy, get updates fro

hearing that this is being speculated this morning after analyst at citigroup talked about it lauren simonettirybody citi says 48% chance that because of new tax law, about -- netflix 40% chance disn challenge to netflix may be considering a little bit more citi specifically talking about repatriation rate apple has 252 billion dollars overseas, in cash. if they bring that money home, at a lower rate, let's say they have 220 billion dollars to spend, what do you do with 220 billion dollars? clearly buy netflix two times over because their valued at 83 billion dollars, we have no idea how much they want, et cetera, for the company even open the selling it but netflix spending 8 billion dollars this year on content, apple spending at least a billion dollars on content, everything else going on in this ever changing language escape could make sense. >> i know we speculated about it had dagen you were first to bring it up obviously a company that is where everybody wants right now this is a content. dagen: right, absolutely, but i one of the things that has gotten in the way all along i would argu

you can catch me every day with my colleague lauren simonetti. that is it for me, i'll see you tomorrow. liz claman, over to you. liz: cheryl, you know what we're hearing? we're hearing millions of commuters are using this hour, right now, 3:00 p.m. eastern straight up to try to make it home earlier than normal 5:00 p.m. eastern. don't hit the roads until you see this. dow 25,000 thunder stolen by storm. on your screen, these are multiple live pictures of the so-called bomb cyclone exploding over the northeast and the midwest, with millions in its path. this is the dow cracks the 25 k line for the first time. it will close there? right now it is at 25,086. commuters are braving the near blizzard conditions at this hour. salt trucks battling the snow, sleet and ice

stocks are also getting impacted if we see bigger government we will take a break thank you lauren simonettise now" one artist imagines what it would look like if they face the same fate as some retailers "mornings with maria" right here stay with us. . maria: welcome back thanks so much for joining us i am maria bartiromo wednesday, january 17 top stories right now 8:00 a.m. on the east coast, shut down showdown lawmakers have three days to reach an agreement, to keep the government funded, one major hurdle the battle over immigration reform. >> we certainly don't want government to shut down, but we still like to see a budget deal that is a two-year budget deal clean budget deal democrats will not hold our deposit whos taming will not stop allowing our country and our nation to be about protected. >> we do our work there is no need for a government shutdown the republicans are in control of the house and senate white house their decision whether this moves forward. >> looming threat as stocks sit here in record territory dow jones industrial average cracked another all-time high of 26,000,

lauren simonetti with the details. maria: the busiest week for earnings.ech giants including facebook, microsoft, google parent company alphabetic, apple and amazon. it's unbelievable. investors listening to see how the tax code affects their bottom line. the corporate rate down to 21% from 35%. here's the thing. many of these tech companies already pay a lower effective tax rates. for instance, alphabet tax rate has an average over the last 10 years under 20% and companies like hewlett-packard is 12.6%. so, you have to keep that in days. it may talk about how tax changes will affect them. the other thing we watch his repatriation. i was told the face of book, we will pay $38 billion in taxes on her foreign profit bringing them back home. microsoft according to "the wall street journal" analysis are expected to pay 1,127,000,000,000 enough about five to 4 billion. the bottom line here is we are talking about $2.5 trillion overseas and many of these tech companies pay the one-time tax, which could show up if they bring the money back home. the question is h

lauren simonetti. are you surprised? is the boom really over?ll check it out at krispy kreme: nonexperts for its newest flavor. ask impious to vote for the year's festival treat. what is your favorite? back in a moment. .. . . maria: welcome back, good thursday morning, thank you so much for joining us. i'm maria bartiromo, it is thursday january 18th, top stories right now 6:30 a.m. on the east coast. breaking news this morning, president trump breaking this. the wall is the wall and has never changed or evolved from the first day i conceived of it. parts will be of necessity, see-through and never intended to be built in areas where there is natural protection such as mountains, wastelands or tough rivers or water, the wall will be paid for directly or indirectly or through long-term reimbursement from mÉxico which has ridiculous surplus with the united states. the 21 billion-dollar is is peanuts compared to what mÉxico makes from the u.s. nafta is a bad joke. why former fbi director chose not to recommend charges even before doing interview.

i will have lauren simonetti explain. what is going on, lauren?oh, boy, taylor swift, is actually hitting the road for the first time in two years. neil, this is a very big deal. her reputation tour kicks off in arizona in may 8th. the "new york post" is reporting it might be a disaster to swift's reputation. tickets went on sale a month ago. tons of seats are available. nothing is sold out. if you remember, back in 2015 that tour sold out in minutes. still, this time, prices are high. what is going on? well the "new york post" found this twitter users, swiftie love, i paid 150 bucks for my ticket with amazing seats for the 1989 tour. for the same seats i have to pay about 500. my way on now, tweets, with is taylor swift's reputation worth? not the jacked up prices she is charging for her concert tickets self says, taylor swift would need to pick me up to drive me to the concert at that price. neil, haters are going to hate. the fans hate the way she sold her tickets. tickets master used verified fan program, and a new feature they call boost. for

lauren simonetti has the latest from the stock exchange. >> what a day, what a year.e start with what happened before bank earnings, news out of germany, politicians achieving a breakthrough in talks for a coalition government, that move at a 3-year high, the ftse in london at an all-time high in the british pound is strongest. that is what happened overseas, didn't lift our futures this morning and got bank earnings, how the tax overhaul was affecting them, let's start with jpmorgan chase, the news wasn't all good. they did take a 1-time tax hit because of the tax overhaul bashears managed to hit an all-time high. we moved to wells fargo, stocks dead flat. news out of wells fargo, they saw a gain from the tax overhaul but that was offset because of legal costs stemming from the fake news crisis and everything else. you are looking at pnc financial. the ceos is tax law gives us increased flexibility as we invest in our company and finally black rock, check this out, putting more money in clients pockets because they are saving money on taxes, a record $6 trillion in a

first lauren simonetti and also ellison barber on a president sizzling on a good pr bonanza. we begin with lauren. >> so many companies neil first ones you mentioned at&t, bank of america and others giving out the tax cut savings to their workers, but then not only did that list get bigger but so did the companies. it surprised even the administration as the office of management and budget. told you, neil. >> we didn't even expect the christmas bonuses that went out. we didn't expect the minimum wage increases from large employers across the country that was even more than we expected. we think that we've under promised on the tax reform and the impacts that we can have in the economy. >> well just this week, home depot giving thousands of its hourly workers up to $1000 bonuses and we're going to talk to bernie marcus the co-founder of the company in just a few minutes but let's get back to that growing list now. fedex spending $3.2 billion on wage hikes, bonuses as well as pension funding. starbucks investing $250 million in itself offering 150,000 workers more money, better

lauren simonetti with what is going on. >> there is major flaw in intel chips found in devices basicallysed by every human being that serves the web. it leaves your computer to vulnerable to hacker. meltdown affects only intel chips. specter affects everyone. they exploit the technology that makes your computer faster essentially letting hackers get in. they can steal your password. see your history. get a glimpse what you're doing on the internet. if you think that is bad, consider this. intel was informed of these security issues six months ago. and while there is a patch now pushed out by partners which include apple and might be soft and google and amazon, there is concern those fixes will slow down computers. there is also concern that intel might have to lower the price of its chips to keep its customers because of all of this. you're looking at a chart of intel now. it is up today. it was down earlier. just reversed course. but it is down for the month almost 3%. we could get information about all of this later tonight. intel ceo bryan krzanich, kicking off ces, the big consumer g

there may be a hidden issue that many couples are not aware of so we have assigned this story to lauren simonettioins us now with the details. good morning, lauren. lauren: i have been investigating them in the break. first of all, credit cards.com out with survey, 15 million of us are holding back financial information whether it's a credit card account or a bank account that our spouse or live-in romantic partner does not know about. that's a lot of people that are basically lying. why are we embarrassed about 40-dollar spin class or 6-dollar latte or maybe we are using that bank account to fund something that we shouldn't be doing? >> sounds like a personal example -- [laughter] lauren: how do we feel about being lied to? this is a key question. >> yes. lauren: 31% of respondents say financial infidelity is worst than being cheated on physically. >> really? >> come on. >> that's probably exactly right. lee: half of the people do cheat. >> the other side that 70% don't. that's probably right. those are the people who are doing the wrong thing. lauren: jon, you are being really quiet here. [laug

final run for amazon's second headquarters out of more than 20 city that is submitted proposals, lauren simonetti on it right now. lauren: short list, 20 out of 238 cities. these are the finalists, i'm calling this the beauty pageant. what can you offer us, we will set up shop in the city. all u.s. cities with the exception of toronto, canada. on the west near the seattle headquarters hq1, there's los angeles, denver and on the east coast you have boston, new york city, philly, in the midwest, indianapolis, so you see the 20 cities trying to continue to woo amazon, why do they want amazon to set up hq2 in the city, $5 billion invested, $50,000 that pay at least $100,000 each, but they are doing some crazy things, chicago still in the running, they're actually saying, hey, amazon, you can keep the $1.3 billion in taxes that workers pay, just keep it, that's how desperate we are for investment. i raise this question, 50,000 workers, that's not enough for amazon, the rate that they are growing, by the end of next year, renew near $30 billion, this is a rise of over 50% from where they are now. heada

lauren simonetti with all the latest. lot happening. >> orrin hatch is 83 or so it use the utah senator and the longest-serving republican senator. >> when the president visited utah last month he said there was a fighter. i've always been a fighter. for me, that time is soon approaching. >> who's going to replace him? a lot of chatter that it will be met romney. the former massachusetts governor from 03-07. also the republican presidential nominee back in 2012. instrumental in getting the 2002 olympics, salt lake city got them. take a look at that poll. if the 2018th senate race between background and the democrats with 72% said they vote for mitt and if you flip it over, and between orrin hatch in the democrat, only 50% said they would go for orrin hatch. president trump very fond, especially after the tax bill success. congratulations on an absolutely incredible career. a tremendous supporter and i've never forget the statements he's made. he will be greatly missed in the u.s. senate. this is not all that is going on i

they can make doll in lauren simonetti in new york this morning. good to see you. happy monday. dagen: good morning, maria. maria: what's cooking. what are you most looking forward to? dagen: i'm looking for insight into cancer drugs quite frankly. you've seen what they've been able to do with the drugs. and i'll be talking to the ceo there. this is something i don't think it's enough coverage, they cancer patients understand these incredible lifesaving development. we so often vilify corporations. these are companies putting money into saving peoples lives and this is one of the great kind of future highways for american companies, since they need u.s. companies do better than any other. maria: you are absolutely right. so much progress on some cancer, but then there are those persistent cancers like a long, pancreatic, though i've not seen like other cancers. train to braden, glioblastoma, they are extremely deadly than we have in seeing those steps forward on. maria: there is an oncology at merck. we'll talk to ken frazier tomorrow. almost more consolidation in this area. for

lauren simonetti has more detail on that. >> i sure do. you speak of the record pace of sales.17 million vehicles. if you want to come in detroit is banking on two things. number one, bigger is better and back to the future and bring them together. let's talk about the ford ranger. they took this off the market eight years ago. it's actually the number two small pickup in europe right now looking to bring it back to the united states, plus pain can this cut into ford f1 50 sales? we don't know, but expected to be very popular. dagen: i've driven one. i got my drivers license and then at 150. i've driven the ranger. it's not as beefy and media. a different market. >> it has the steel bumper in the steel frame stays, so it's not all aluminum. >> the ford bronco. o.j. simpson. >> it's been 24 years since the bronco has been on the road. it's coming back reportedly in 2020. a lot of people are excited. dagen: that's an older one. the one o.j. drove was wide. i drove that exact same bronco for years and years and it's on a truck body. i drove that car lot. dagen: the bronco is a dif

. >> laps when lights go out at biggest consumer electronics show on the planet, lauren simonetti withw, pr move. >> ces becomes c-e--- mess. >> everyone turns on cell phones to try to see what is going on. >> power gadgets powered down two hours, in the main hall of the las vegas convention center yesterday blackout trending on twitter let me show you favorite picture in this tweet there it is, that is what we have to look forward to a black stream. ironic, this is what officials say quote a preliminary assessment indicates that condensation from heavy rainfall caused a flash over on one facility trans former drupdz product demos, meetings could have led to losses for businesses it had you got creepy confusing up not joking you can thank netflix for this, they set up this exhibition booth so cased bodies in plastic people thought the company was a fake company that created, and this exhibition was real all that was a stunt, to promote the new tv series altered carbon by netflix premiers february about 2, 300 years into the future dweflz into digitizing of konsious so humans can surviv

lauren simonetti right now. >> used to ditch her dog food and paper towels and all about but now theyt it delivered to us in 30 minutes or less. if you are a company, how do you do that? you can't ship things as frequently via trained if it takes too long. companies are going to the skies. if you're amazon trying to buy as many planes as possible to increase your own ability to ship by year or negotiating to do that with you. the price to ship has gone up year-over-year as of last month. that is a pretty sharp rise. air traffic is up as well. the traffic up 9%. rates are up 17%. the report this morning says for all of last year, he has grown almost 9% with the best year because of this demand. it's amazing how fast we want all sorts of things and how they are so far able to get it to us. amazon has several implicate not only for space that are available. it becomes problematic in the sense that can be expensive to repair the planes and make sure they're up to to par. the commute added cost for amazon. >> record year last year. even in the manufacturing area that this whole phenomenon

maria: welcome back facebook shares falling after company chaerngs news feed lauren simonetti on flooris morning, good morning. >> hey maria facebook getting warm and fuzzy again going to prioritize what your plans and family have to say at the expense of what companies and publications have to post, that could mean a loss of advertising dollars why stock is down almost 5%, as i speak. also take a look at gen general motors no hands they are filed a petition, about with department of transportation, for a self-driving car with no steering wheel and no pedals, coming to you in 2019. gentleman that is incredible i mean like not a car it is just -- a machine. >> doing it as a way to prevent car crashes, forever so they think the technology is so good we will be safe on roads have a lot more time to go on facebook i supposed to. >> cool stuff lauren thank you looking at pretty good open on wall street many u.s. companies stepping up to the plate, in the wake of the tax cuts, passing benefits along to employees, and form of bonuses wage increases house minority leader nancy pelosi had to sa