maria: thanks so much. come diagram thank you, maria. maria: have a great day.r morning mover, tesla, check out the car maker up in the premarket following strong sales in china. stock down 2 and 3 quarters percent, 21,604, china made model 4 cars, yesterday's tesla market value reached $608 billion for the first time. it enters the s&p 500 on december 211th, as -- 211th, as you can see it has again straight up. fight for free and fair election, trump attorney jenna ellis with update on lawsuit. joe biden laying out administration, retired four-star general jack keane is here on new pick for defense secretary as well as the notion of getting back in the iran deal. next hour we are looking at how to allocate capital as investors get ready for the end of the year with word of job street plus jobs in america with labor secretary eugene scalia, and then where are the jobs? don't miss a moment of it. you're watching mornings with maria live on fox business. ♪ ♪ of lights. (betsy) quarter mile of tinsel. (harold) and real snow all the way from switzerland. (betsy) hmm

maria: let me -- >> maria, hear is the thing. let me connect the dots here because we know that we've done a deep investigation over the last 4 years of china and its bad behavior and one of the ways that their strategy works is to put, quote, unquote lobbyists for china in important positions. that's why they groomed eric swawell to become a member of congress and eventually get on intel committee. that's why they were paying the chairman of the chemistry department at harvard, to send data back to the ccp. that's why they had instituted spies within the houston embassy. all of these things have come to light because china is hoping to take over the world literally, wanting to become the number 1 super power economically, militarily and technologically. they have bribed important influential people. that is why we keep covering this and putting a spotlight on these relationships that hunter biden had in china. now, the left and hunter biden supporters keep saying this is disinformation. we know that's not true. here is john ratc

maria: welcome back.commerce secretary wilbur ross discussing the develop going threat from china with espionage and intellectual property theft. this week he told me the department will add 80 companies to its blacklist, the entity list for national security reasons. of course, those companies are chinese, and they are dued to the chinese military -- tied to the chinese military and the communist party. joining me now is the founder of the atlas organization, he's the author of "china's vision of victory," jonathan ward joining us brought now. jonathan, great to have you, thanks very much for joining us. let me can you about the commerce department adding these companies to the blacklist and the implications of this. we know that president trump has already put an executive order in place banning investors from investing in companies that are tied to the chinese communist party. as a result, the msci index, the ft100 has dropped those chinese companies from those indexes. >> right. it's a very important

maria: yeah.t's interesting becae when you put the china impact on one side and then you put the democrat impact on the other side, it's pretty extraordinary. because when nancy most su first won the majority in 2019, her h.r. 1, her number one issue -- she talked a lot about health care, she talked a lot about income inequality, a lot about a utlot of things, but actually hr priority, number one, h.r. 1, was election reform. and that included wanting mail-in ballots, wanting voting early, all of these things that actually took place. i just, i just throw that out. i know that's not why you're here to talk this morning. >> but the, but the pandemic created the opportunity to do those types of things. and what you saw was lawmakers kein states across the country adjusting to the pandemic saying we have toan vote differently in this country because of the pandemic. and we saw that, and as a result, it's little wonder when you have procedures adopted as little as 90 days before the election that ther

maria: ken starr?> hi, maria, and hi, alan. >> hi. >> the prediction of jimmy carter and james baker in 2000 and their commission has come true and it is a bit of a nightmare. they warned, after taking a very careful study, this bipartisan commission warned, that absentee voting, mail-in voting, is a huge potential for fraud, and that's what we've heard from rudy, so what do we now do about it? i think, to be honest, we're running out of time, because the electoral college meets on december 14, so it's going to take an extraordinary action by legislatures and so forth and rudy has rightly pointed to the legislatures because therein lie s the ultimate ability of the supreme court of the united states to have an effect on the just-concluded election. maria: stay with us i want to ask you about wisconsin and georgia. these are the two that they think they have real success, we'll take a break and come back with ken starr and alan dershowitz. back in a moment. ♪ ♪ i got it all from you ♪ i'm always pushing

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maria: exactly.nders set it up this way so that one populous state would not have the dominant position of picking our president so that everybody in the union actually got a voice. that's why they put together the electoral college as a compromise. jon, some state republican parties are still contesting the results with some asking congress to consider alternative slates of electors, some voted trump yesterday. what do you think -- how does this play out? >> it looks like the election is settled. we're still going to see issues and disputes like this. we're still going to see republicans i think and president trump contesting the outcome. but it really looks at this point like joe biden is going to be the next president. i think we're probably at a point where people really need to start focusing on the georgia election where the senate is really up for grabs. and one of the things that i'm wondering is, after all of this disagreement and dispute about the fairness of the presidential election, how

maria: yeah.uch the reason that i left twitter, you know. i'm there but i'm not -- i'm posting most of my scoops on parlor because i can't accept censorship. this was a real story during the election. now the blockbuster lawsuit in texas. let's talk about that. 18 states have sided with texas in this lawsuit against four swing states that they are saying changes to the state voting systems were unconstitutional, the supreme court telling pennsylvania, wisconsin, georgia and michigan to respond to texas lawsuit by this afternoon. in the 8:00 a.m. hour i will be speaking with texas attorney general ken paxton about the lawsuit. your reaction on where we are with this and whether or not we will see the supreme court take up this case where basically it says because of the pandemic it may have been well intentioned and all, but several states changed the way we vote unconstitutionally? >> well, 70 plus million americans have a question right now. it's the gold standard around the globe. our election s

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maria: yeah. i mean, you've been talking about this 20-year secular bull market for a long time, brian. you've been wright, and you're with expecting a broadening out of performance in 2021. walk us through that because so far we've seen really technology, health care among the groups that are the leadership groups on wall street. we had this ipo bonanza this week with doordash as well as airbnb doing very well. how do you see the market broadening out in 2021? >> we see it broadening out just due to fundamentals, maria. but we do think that investors should be very balanced. although we do favor financials, consumer discretionary and industrials for the year, our secular favorites in terms of sectors have to be communication services, technology and discretion flower. heading into 2021, especially communication services and tech, maria with, are 40% of the s&p. we've seen a lot of concentration there, and we we do think investors should maintain those positions but trade around them. if you have

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maria: absolutely.is all about who wins the senate and what policies will be able to get through. jon it is great to see you this morning thanks so much. >> great to see you thank you maria. maria: we'll see you soon. >> ceo we're just getting started this morning we have a big show this morning jobs friday. coming up, the fight for free and fair election deepening attorney janet ellis will join me to walk us through where she stands in her legal fight and what evidence they have to present. and next hour we're looking to how to invest as year wiengdz down. plus how a stimulus package could impact markets with the word on wall street coming up and it is jobs day we've gots you covered with full coverage of the november report beginning at 8 a.m. eastern. don't miss a moment of it. you're watching "mornings with maria" live with fox business. this is decision tech. find a stock based on your interests or what's trending. get real-time insights in your customized view of the market. it's smarter trading t

maria: yeah.en talking about this for a long time and it's all in my new book, the cost, the chinese communist party has been able to infiltrate some of the most important industries an institutions and able to steal data and information from america from the inside and that is why we saw the indictment of the head of the chemistry department at harvard, he was being paid by the ccp, that is why we saw the houston embassy get shut down, that was a spy center. there is a strength of indictments this year, lee carter, of insiders who have been working with the ccp as the ccp has been able to get inside of our most important institutions to steal information, steal data and also try to get laws passed that are favorable to china. the question becomes should congressman swawell with removed from intel committee with such access to important information that's just being briefed by -- to a handful of people. here he is potentially sharing information with a threat so important, they've made their goals

maria: yeah.ean, later on after the trump legal team pushed back, the doj came out statement and that the department would continue to receive and vigorously pursue allegations of fraud saying that some media outlets have incorrectly reported that the department has concluded its investigation of election fraud. on the other side of this, hugo, you have joe biden putting together a cabinet and one of nominees is facing backlash, neera tanden, she's facing criticism over her deleting more than 1,000 tweets many of which are her slamming republican senators including mitch mcconnell and susan collins. hugo, how could this affect confirmation chances, she needs those senators to confirm her to be in the biden administration? hugo: there's a lot of dramatic stuff. as you say she's deleted a thousand tweets and critical of people like mitch mcconnell, susan collins, whose votes, she will need one or two of those votes but also being at drawn with bernie sanders. criticism with each other over a sustain

maria. maria: all right.ching georgia once again. we are just two weeks away until georgians head to the polls. kelly loeffler and david perdue are looking to keep their seats. yesterday, ivanka trump and kamala harris campaigned separately in the peach state. take a watch. >> with your help, your voice, and critically, your votes, georgia, georgia, georgia will save america. >> everything that was at stake in november is at stake and it is within our power to change the course of the history of this country. maria: joining me right now is former house speaker and fox news contributor, newt gingrich. you represented georgia in the house. how do you see things? do you see republicans keeping the senate seat? >> look, i actually think kamala harris by her candor further helped the republican cause. because she echoed what chuck schumer had said. first we take georgia, then we change america. so i think what we're going to find is that there's not a majority in georgia for radically changing america and certainl

maria: good wednesday morning. welcome, everyone. i'm maria bartiromo. it is wednesday, december 9th. your top stories right now, 6:0. the battle for a free and fair election deepening and here comes texas. the supreme court putting a lawsuit from the state of texas, texas attorney general ken paxton on the docket. this suit challenges election results in four key swing states, saying changing the voting rules was unconstitutional. we're following this all morning long. hear from john boross of o, marsha blackburn and katherine harris coming up. stimulus talks stalled again. speaking nancy pelosi rejecting the $916 billion proposal from the white house, calling it unacceptable, without unemployment benefits. we'll discuss how americans can get the help they need this morning in the face of of politics. futures this morning look higher, take a look at the markets. we're expecting a gain at the start of trading for the dow industrials, up 86 on the dow, the nasdaq is down 2 and a quarter, the s&p 500 looking at another record high, up 7 and-a-half points t

maria: sure.ry, alex azar told us that 2 20 million vaccines will be given out this year and by the middle of next year, everybody should have an opportunity to get vaccinated. we're talking this morning with vaccine education center director, dr. paul ofett. are you with us now? dr. ofett, are you with us? [laughter] okay. dr. ofett, are you with us right now? okay. do you hear me yet? no. i guess he doesn't hear. we apologize for that, everybody obviously there's technical difficulties from time to time. steve, are you expecting to get the vaccine, steve forbes? steve: the answer is yes. i'll wait my turn. i think it's good to start with the elderly and then move down. so eventually i will get it. and but i think this whole thing, talking about kids, there's the research shows kids are more likely to suffer from the flu than they are from covid-19. and the lockdown of schools has done great damage to the kids and to their families. european schools are open. japanese schools are open, australian

maria:.ar, 'tis the season for ugly christmas sweaters, and people are ready to party this year. ugly christmas sweater.com projecting over $5 million in sales this 2020 holiday season. joining me right now is ugly christmas sweat orer.com and mass market.com cofounders mark and fred hajar. gentlemen, it is great to see you again. merry christmas. thank you for my ugly christmas sweater. by the way, i don't think it's very ugly, i love it! [laughter] business has been pretty strong and people love these ugly sweaters. how's business with going this year? what are your best selling sweaters? >> good morning. yes, business is going great, thankfully, and merry christmas to you. our best selling sweaters this year would be we came out with a baby yoda sweater, and we do a lot of exclusive brand sweaters with different companies like popeye's chicken, i believe we were talking about that, and also we work with different companies and create sweaters for the companies like moth. >> yeah. -- like m

maria: yeah.if we understood that closing churches was important as, you know, letting protests go ramped in the streets and riots, then maybe people would believe what media says that the elections were secured and they don't and it kind of makes sense because the media threw away their credibility. maria: let's talk about the georgia debate, voters saw last night the only debate between incumbent kelly loeffler and raphael warnock, take a listen. >> my opponent, radical liberal raphael warnock has called police officers, gangsters, thugs, bullies and a threat to our children. when i gave him the chance to apologize in first debate, he declined. >> when you receive the private briefing regarding the coronavirus pandemic, you dumped millions of dollars of stock in order to protect your own investments. >> i've been completely exonerated. those are lies perpetrated by the left-wing media and democrats to distract from their radical agenda. maria: meanwhile democrat challenger jon ossoff left to deb

maria: yeah.ly suing a rival paper for liable after this summer. they claim you planned to jump bail in court cases including those related to prodemocracy advocacy, tell us about that. >> i never sued anybody for liabled me. i don't care. if i'm doing the right thing i don't care what people said about me. this time i sued which is the ccp because, you know, they can use it as a crime or as an offense to persecute me. i have to be very careful under the law because they can use any material as evidence to prosecute me. that's why i have to do that. maria: jimmy, we have talked so much on the program about the chinese communist party and efforts to stomp on any individual freedom whatsoever in hong kong and break its promise in terms of the handoff of hong kong. tell me about what you see in hong kong, a friend, a source has said to me, look, hong kong is special because it shows us what china could be, what china could be in terms of the vibrancy, the economy, the internationalism, the freedom of

maria: yeah.is professor that you quote, unquote, ran into, told you that russia had damaging emails on hillary clinton in hopes that you were going to repeat, just a couple of weeks later when you had another meeting. you think all of these people were spies? were they all trying to entrap you, george? >> yeah, look i think the situation that i found myself in was a very shady situation. just last week there were declassified text messages that congressman devin nunes was referring to in which phone calls between myself and the vice president, the former vice president of fox news were being recorded without warrants. we know based on declassified information that the president has eliseed to the public that pimas kerr raising as professors were actually spies recording conversations. there were honey pots involved here. i mean this was a very dirty operation. this was not run by the kgb. this was run by the u.s. government under the obama administration and after almost three years we still don'

i'm maria bartiromo. coming up a few moments bobby van's steakhouse owner joseph smith giving his take on the stimulus package. will it be enough to keep the struggling restaurant industry afloat? my one-on-one with donald trump campaign advisor george papadopoulus fresh off his presidential pardon. we'll look at big moment this is week on top newsmakers with "mornings with maria" on this edition of the week's talkers. watch tell me about purchasing the blue dosages, now the new information on the covid dosages? >> it is important vaccines and vaccinations are not new to cvs. this we've been building for the last 15 years. we have infrastructure to handle covid vacs seeps as they roll out -- vaccines. maria: you released a report what you deem as irregular find frogs election 2020. >> basically what i found, maria, after sifting through thousands of documents, there is basically a coordinated democratic party strategy to stuff the ballot box with mail-in and absentee ballots. >> represented gorge today in

maria: welcome back the u.s.reme court delivered a blow to president trump's challenge rejecting a texas lawsuit sought to over overturned the 2020 results in georgia, pennsylvania, wisconsin. they spearheaded the legal effort and he joins me now, ag paxton, good to see you. what happens? >> this was her only chance unlike other cases when you sue another case in this state we ended up with seven states doing for, our only place to go is the u.s. supreme court to be heard. normally we would be able to go to a district court and had our case heard, in this case we asked the supreme court to hear a case and we never got the opportunity. maria: i wonder what your analysis is on this because the supreme court said you have no standing, what do you read into texas having no standing to make this case? >> i do not know, if my people are harmed which i view them of having been harmed by the fact that other states did not follow their election laws and the constitution, how do i address the fact that my voters are affect

maria: yeah.l, it certainly feels like if you're hawkish on china, you don't want bob iger being the ambassador given his presence in china. they have a disney park in shanghai, a disney park in hong kong. certainly feels like this would be a soft pick, if you will, in dealing with the chinese. yeah. >> it's a soft pick but it's also perhaps one of the most conflicted picks we would ever have in american politics. maria: all right, we will leave it there. david, great to see you this morning. david bahnsen, market mover is fedex, jump due to surge in holiday deliveries but the stock is down 3% this morning after not providing earnings forecast for 2021. companies talking about uncertainty, higher expenses all caused, of course, by the pandemic. fedex shares down 2.9%. we are just getting started this morning. coming up the trump administration cracking down on chinese companies, hear the latest in my exclusive interview with commerce secretary wilbur ross, how tough is the administration getting a

maria: good sunday morning welcome to "sunday morning futures" i'm maria bartiromo. a supreme court knockout as the high court rejects texas' lawsuit on election fraud. what happened and what's next for president trump's election legal challenge. texas attorney general ken paxton takes us behind the curtain of what went down, coming up. plus, compromise by china. >> look at threat streams and one of the things i look at is what's called gates information and procedures and it's intelligence that we have wherefore en actors in states are targeting members of congress to influence them through blackmail, on derogatory information or through bribery for overt and covert influence and as i looked at it, it was so overwhelming related to china that i had to look at the number s and what we've learned is that china engages in that activity at a level six times greater than russia, 12 times greater than iran. it's a massive influence campaign, and really, what its intended to do, maria, its influenced members of congress to make sure they're passing laws that are favorable

maria: yeah.-- coming to the rescue may be the drug companies with vaccines. maria: yeah. i mean, it did weigh on the economy once again, the fact that we're talking about lockdowns and such. and, you know, what people hear and businesses hear, thed requested that, well, maybe we are going into the darkest period for this coronavirus or maybe we are going to see more lockdowns, they sit on cash. we don't know what's around the corner, i don't know what's on the horizon, i'm not going to go out and spend money, and then there's this cycle. is so the one area that lost jobs in the month of november was retail, down 34,000 jobs, even though you saw so many others leading in jobs, it sounds to me i it doesn't bother you that you're seeing a slowing growth story in jobs because you have growth elsewhere in this economy. like, for example, business spending is expected to puck up in 2021. >> look, there's the economist in me looking at the macro economy, and the macro economy looks quite good. but, you

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maria: yeah.mportant point and it leads me to my next question, krishna, and that is about global growth. we're hearing more about synchronized global growth happening right now. we had corner stone macro's nancy lazar on this week, she highlighted factors contributing to a decrease in global uncertainty. however, she said there is a global recovery happening right now. you've got the china recovery, vaccine hopes, u.s. presidential election potentially soon to be behind us. what's your take on synchronized global growth and allocating capital that way? >> so if you look across the globe, even including developed markets and the u.s. itself, 2021 is probably going to be the growth north o 6%, which in 201, early 2020, we were talking about three and change percent. so from that perspective, the outlook for global growth for 2021 is quite spectacular. so markets are going to react to that. however, i think once we get beyond 2021, the growth in developed markets is probably going to slow and it may

maria: welcome back.oe biden goa' son revealed an investigation into his tax affairs earlier this morning. records reveal ag bill barr didn't want to reveal the probe during the presidential election. senator ron johnson has been investigating hunter's ties to international companies and the money he was paid for them for over a year. senator ron johnson and peter schweizer, author of secret empires, walk us through their findings. >> i take no joy in uncovering and revealing the truth about the bidens. i'm sure peter doesn't either. those of us who are investigating this, we're doing it for a serious purpose. this is a mess. it's a huge mess. and it's a mess that's not going away, particularly if vice president biden becomes president. it's one of the reasons i've been saying for quite some time that i never felt that vice president biden should ever run for president. i think it's probably one of the reasons that president obama did not encourage the vice president to run. this is a huge mess. here's fu