thanks, maria. to get your take on what's going on with the chinese communist party and whey it seems to have no fear whatsoever is of joe biden and the biden family. does the ccp is are something on the biden family? -- have something on the biden family? >> yeah, i think absolutely, they do. you have these financial connections as you've talked about and i've talked about with more than $30 million from china going to the biden family. as i point out in the new book, maria, it also now includes an element of chinese organized crime, and i think it's the reason that joe biden is not talking about fentanyl in the context of china's involvement. specifically, there's a chinese gang called ubg that's widely credited with setting up the sin sin sin low -- sinaloa cartel in mexico and making them the kings of fentanyl. the leader of that gang goes by the name white wolf. it was white wolf's business with partner who wired a $5 million if interest-free, forgivable loan to the biden family. and it was spe

maria: yeah.en in your own party are attacking you saying we do not need more division. i mean, after all, congressman, look how many people have left. ken buck stepping down, mike gallagher, stepping down. and mike gallagher is leaving at a time that even makes things tougher for the republicans, right? if he's leaving early, isn't he? >> you're right, maria. and those e people stepping down early and leaving are the ones that are leaving it, us at risk of the democrats controlling the majority, not me. i file this motion to vacate, but i haven't called it to the floor. this is like issuing a pink slip and giving our conference a notice saying that we have got to find a new speaker. this may take weeks, it may take months, it may not if even -- [audio difficulty] happen until next congress. but speaker johnson cannot remain as speaker of the house. speaker johnson has also failed our majority because he is allowing mike gallagher to leave congress after the deadline date where his district cannot

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maria: welcome back. agents arresting an illegal migrant from lebanon near el paso texas last week. the new york post is reporting the man admitted to being a member of the hezbollah terrorist group. he told border agents he was hoping to make a bomb and head for new york city. foreign drone incursions are surging at the u.s., mexico border. these are coming from foreign countries, their drones near our border. here's what texas attorney general ken paxton told me yesterday on sunday morning futures about that. >> i'm not surprised that this is going on now that they're sending drones across, it's no surprise and it's no surprise that joe biden's not going to do anything about it. he has lots of authority. he isn't using it. he's aiding and abetting the cartels to get more people here for his political purposes. maria: joining me to talk about all of this is texas congresswoman beth had van dine, the chair woman of the oversights investigations and regulations committee and member of small business and ho

maria: welcome back. good wednesday p morning, everybody. thanks very much pour for mones joining isthis morning. president biden launching his biden harris campaign program in phoenix yesterday, attempting to court hispanic voters wooed by trump. watch. >> this election is not a referendum on me, it's an election between me and a guy named trump. the way he talks about the latino community is, well, 2016 he called latinos criminal drug dealers and rapists when he came down the escalator. now he says immigrants are poisoning the blood of our country. what the hell is he talking about. i need you. i need you badly. kamala and i gu desperately need your help. there are toss-up states. this is one of them. maria: that was the president this week. rebecca, he foregot to mention when jill biden called the hispanic community tacos. >> yes. i did see that as well. maria: she did. >> maria, you know, i think actions over words obviously under trump's economic policies we had the lowest latino unemployment rates h

maria: yeah.7 he led the greatest tax cuts in the history of our nation. over $2.3 trillion going back to americans and in their pockets. maria: yeah. >> so we had the lowest unemployment, we had low inflation, but we had high enthusiasm, high optimism. success, maria with, breeds more success. and that's a why african-americans, hispanics and women voters are coming back to the gop, because we have a leader. maria: yeah. >> we have a leader at the temperature of the mountain thae mountain that a theys we can all do better. maria: do you believe the black community will come out for trump this november? >> i have never if seen the type of enthusiasm for republican presidential candidate than i'm seeing right now for president donald trump. 40% of african-american men willing to vote for president trump. why? because they had more money in their pocket, we had more law and order in the streets s and we had a greater future for our kids. listen, president trump is a president that says every child i

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maria: unbelievable.think of the two big ironies, we've gotten to where we want in terms of energy independence which is tied to our national security and yet now we're going to say we're going to take it back and just from a consumer perspective, so we're going to say everybody buys a car but what about the infrastructure? what about the charging infrastructure? we don't hear about those kind of investments. i mean, that he totally turns the whole consumerism concept on its head, right, mike? >> this is why consumers are rejecting these vehicles, they worry they'll be stranded somewhere without access to power. we need to make sure that we continue to use the internal combustion engine, we need diversity of choices. evs, a lot of consumers want an ev and we should allow consumers to have that choice but consumers should also be able to have the choice of a car that makes sense for their lifestyle. if you live in an urban environment, if you're only commuting 30 miles a day, it might make sense for you to

maria: is incredible what has taken place here lt. academy more violent crime across the country, linked to illegal migrants just wait venezuelan national delete suspect in the murder of george nursing student, el salvador migrant arrested in connection to the murder of a toddler three more illegals from honduras what about that as medicament arrested for three separate incidents of assault provider medicals reaction finally goodbye to his attention to what else is now asking for sanctuary cities to cooperate with ice and turnover criminal illegal migrants for deportation. but is that enough. christopher: that's a question right there in thing that i want to ask between the two yes former present pension during his press conference laken riley ending talked about that tragedy and of course many more of those same going forward now many of us have a hard in the last three years the lines that meant taken on attended the hands of the illegal and was a violent criminal happens in the country now mission of the country is that a loss live

maria: okay. former ag under barack obama, apparently reportedly is lobbying on behalf of dji, the chinese drone company. the chinese drone company accordiaccording reuters is on t of department of justice's list of mill he tri companies in china. she's lobbying they take the company off the list. why? why would we buy drones used for the military from china? >> that's a heck of a lot more of a security threat than tiktok trying to work the minds of our children. that should be banned in the united states and why all of a sudden is the department of justice under biden so focused on tiktok when as we explained earlier we have a complete invasion at our southern border. that's affecting the safety and security of the american people. that should be the focus of congress, rein reining in the complete destruction of our border. you're right, the things going on in washington don't make sense. maria: i think the american people are so sick and tired of politics getting involved in our national securit

maria: maybe. not necessarily looking at the slowdown and wanting to continue subsidizing. they're throwing down more laws. look what happened in hong kong, the new security law allows for closed door trials, gives the police rights to detain subjecs for up to 16 days without penalties. here's a group from 81 lawmakers and public figures from across the world, the new national security legislation going to double down the repression of freedoms in hong kong with extended sentences and broadened definition of national security, luke. we talked about china being uninvestable. but it may get worse, actually. >> probably will. that's why you have to look at japan, mexico. we're going to unplug from them. we made them rich by adding them to the wto in 2000. there's two super powers. there's only room for one super power. we'll look at other countries. maria: any place to hide if we see a selloff on the expectations of rate cuts that may not come? >> well, yeah. i mean, you are going to probably see more

maria: wow. different threat to the united states than any other big tech company, commissioner. it's different than a facebook. it's different than an instagram, is that right? >> independent studies looked at it and showed that the source code for tiktok h harvest an unprecedented amount of data. they found a lot of code or severity warnings more than two times as bad as other social media. some people said we need privacy laws and stop data flows in general. there's nothing wrong with that in principle. it doesn't work with tiktok. they already tried to do that. as long as they're beholden to the ccps there's no way, even if they're well intentioned to stop those bad actors from getting access to u.s. user data that's why the bill is so important because it breaks tiktok from its ccp ties and people that love tiktok get to continue to use it but just in a way that doesn't present a security threat. maria: all right. so break down the bill for us. what do you like most about it and do you belie

maria: welcome back. good thursday morning, everybody. thanks very much for joining us this morning. i'm maria bartiromo. i'm hope you're having a good morning. it's thursday, march 7. time for the hot topic of the hour. the focus is on president biden tonight when he takes the podium for the state of the union address at 9:00 p.m. eastern. many will be watching for what the president says and doesn't say about the wide open border and increase in migrant crime across the country as immigration remains a top issue for voters. meanwhile, chinese snake head gangs are working with the mexican cartels to bring migrants into the country, senator roger marshall broke the news with me, saying the snake heads are helping the ccp transport people and drugs into america. >> the chinese have become an expert at money laundering. we'll see organized crime grow and grow. they're smuggling people from china to turkey. there's something called the snake heads, like coyotes. they hand them over to the cartel. the cartel

maria: yeah. no, that's exactly right. basically, thomas, that sounded like a threat. he said i'll stop it but you need to send us billions every year. >> very much so. and what a different move from the trump era where it was they're going to build a wall and mexico is going to pay for it. we had such a different situation now and it's now been kicked back and it shows what happens when you have strong leaders abroad, mexico is standing up because they know that joe biden is not a strong leader, doesn't have the guts to stand up to them and push back on this but i also find his comments very offensive. you know, the only people in this country that are doing the hard working jobs are immigrants. it's not true. if this happened in alabama or many other states, those people would have been americans, they would have been citizens and they would be from people that had been in the country. they're saying the only people fixes the roads or working these jobs are immigrants. it's not true. a lot of am

maria: good monday morning, everybody. thanks very much for joining us this morning. i'm maria bartiromo. i'm is monday, march 4th. i top stories right now, 6:00 a.m. on the east coast. today stocks are indicated lower, take a look at futures, on the downside, dow industrials down 88, nasdaq down 12, s&p 500 lower by 6 and-a-half ahead of the first full trading week of march. nasdaq on a tear this year, thanks to the power and promise of a.i. take a look. the nasdaq up 8 and-a-half percent year-to-date. but now one senator says it's time to break up tech giants like google. hear what jd vance told me about that coming up. more retail earnings on tap ahead of friday's jobs report and the february adp report ons wednesday. the labor department's job report coming out on friday, we have the preview on jobs coming up. european markets are mixed. the ft 100 in london is lower by 28, the dax index is lower by 9 in germany but the cac quarante in paris yo is up a fraction. take a look at the asian indices.

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maria: welcome back. a mixed opening with the dow industrials down right now 33 but the s&p and nasdaq higher. the s&p and nasdaq were lower yesterday but this morning the nasdaq is up 75 and s&p is up 10 and-a-half. yesterday we had weakness for a second straight session on the s&p and nays nasdaq, pulling bk from record highs. oracle can, the stock is soarint had better than expected earnings last night, reporting a 27% increase in net income, income coming in at $2.4 billion for the quarter with a 12% increase in sales for the company's cloud services, license support segment. the stock right now at 129, 20, that is up 13%. we've got the last bit of retail earnings this week, we'll hear from kohl's, followed by dollar tree tomorrow and dollar general on thursday. a good look at the consumer. joining me now is senior equity strategist, linda dissel. what is your thoughts on the earnings season which is pretty much wrapping up soon? >> good morning, maria. thanks so much for having me. the earnings seaso

maria: welcome back. good wednesday morning, everybody. thanks thanks very much for joining us this morning. i'm maria bartiromo. it is wednesday, march 6. time twe have breaking news, nii haley will be exiting the race this morning, she will deliver remarks today at 10:00 a.m. eastern. the political focus is shifting to the state of the ununion. hillary vaughn is live on capitol hill with all the details. we're waiting for the announcement from nikki haley and then we'll focus on what joe biden has to say tomorrow night. >> reporter: good morning, maria. well, we are expecting this morning after super tuesday's contest that nikki haley is going to announce that the what she is suspending her campaign, she is dropping out of the race. we're expecting her to give remarks in charleston at 10:00 a 10:00 a.m. this morning. last night, nikki haley won her first state, vermont. the biden campaign used haley's vermont win to attack trump and republican as divided and battered. it seems that haley will try to uni

maria: yeah., after offering to testify publicly for months, now hunter biden said he's not going to appear before the house oversight committee public hearing next week. his partners will, tony bobulinski said he will. he's agreed to testify publicly. but hunter biden has said he's not showing up next week. your reaction? >> well, listen, that's not very surprising because ultimately he had showed during his testimony and when we did his deposition he was totally reluctant to answer questions and had stories that didn't make suns but the matter is, -- make sense, but the matter is, you can see what's happening right now. the biden family, being in the government, you know, you have vice president of the united states telling ukraine you need to fight corruption but his son is making millions from one of the most corrupt russian oligarchs. this is disgraceful and makes him look really stupid. it's embarrassing for the united states to have situations like that. you've seen him say what he did with

maria: your thoughts? >> cory mills has it in the bags it's an honor to serve with to put our money where our mouth is and we have to backup our statement with action. cory's going afghanistan, israel and saving hundreds of people he went to haiti to bring back a precious michigan son but we still have a lot of people who are still over there and the fact that the state department has no clue how many americans are in harm's way we seen this in sedan and israel and ukraine and all over the world. this administration has lost control and i thought part of the business plan was essentially putting somebody with a steady hand on the wheel and somebody would restore trust and civility all over the world and we have a border crisis and inflation above 20% in the world on fire years ago before the penn democrats and the donald trump had this nation heading in the right direction we need to make sure the were doing everything that we can't address the root causes of why in our own hemisphere we have this chaos th

maria: welcome back.for the word on wall street, top investors watching your money. joining me right now is kings view asset management partner a, mario veneroso, also with me is mark tepper this morning. mario, thank you for joining the conversation. futures are lower, fractional moves down. dow industrials down 1 point on this the final trading day of the first quarter. the nasdaq down about 5 points. markets are green across the board so far this year. we've had a great quarter. 500 set for the best start to the year since 2019 with the s&p up 10% in the first quarter, dow industrials up 5 and-a-half percent. the 10 year treasury yield right now is up 3 basis points at a level of 4.22% ahead of the final read of fourth quarter gdp out in about an hour's time, the expectations call for annualized growth of 3 and a quarter percent. also get the february pce number out tomorrow. it's all about rate cuts according to this market, right. >> absolutely. maria: what are you expecting? >> the market's been res

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maria: welcome back. good wednesday morning, everybody. thanks very much for joining us this morning. i'm maria bartiromo. it is wednesday, march 13, i'm time for the hot top ebbing of the hour. house lawmakers grilling r former special counsel robert hur on his investigation into president biden's mishandling of classified documents. hur faced questions from democrats on his decision to include statements on biden's memory in the report. republicans pressed him on biden's ghost writer and his motivation to keep those classified documents. watch. >> the evidence and the president himself put his memory squarely at issue. we interviewed the president and asked him about his recorded statement, quote, i just found all the classified stuff downstairs, end quote. he told us that he didn't remember saying that to his ghost writer. he also said he didn't remember finding classified material in his home after his vice presidency and he didn't remember anything about how classified documents about afghanistan mad

maria: yeah.eases that the president is planning. i mean, if you're going to insert 5 and-a-half trillion dollars in new taxes on an economy that is already questionable, what does that do to the macro story? and obviously he's not going to be able to raise taxes this year. you and your colleagues will stop it. he's giving us an indication of the next four years, right, should he win re-election. >> if you looked at the budget that he just rolled out, you would add in excess of $50 trillion for a total that we're all very concerned about right now and he just continues to spend which is going to add to the inflationary issues. maria: white house press secretary karine jean-pierre shutting down reporters from former special counsel robert had hur's testimony, the whole conversation she wants shut down on biden's handling of classified documents yesterday. watch this. >> it's a case closed. you heard from my colleague yesterday. ian sames. sam s, the spokespersonfor th. i don't have anything else to

maria: yeah.at laken riley's family was outraged because president biden got her name wrong and then apologized for calling her murderer illegal. he signed how many executive orders to overturn what a trump has done, and why is he so focused on, you know, leaving this border open? >> well, 94 executive orders to allow illegal immigrants easier access to the united states. he's surrendered the border. and a lot of it has to do with the fact of the census. remember, i believe that only u.s. citizens should be counted in the census, but joe biden and the democrats want all the illegal immigrants counted in the census, maria. and here's why. the census is use today calculate out -- used to calculate out congressional seats, how many seats each state gets as well as the members of the electoral college, how many electoral college votes each state gets. so when you have these sanctuary cities and you have people moving to san francisco and chicago and new york city, they get counted for their number if

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maria: we'll see.is there money already allocated is a question because a lot of your colleagues are pushing for more spending. and paying for this entire collapse. politico is reporting that federal investigators in florida are looking into transactions linked to president biden's brother now, james biden, as part of the criminal investigation of the failed healthcare company americor. the feds are looking at a deal to land middle eastern investments. he promised to raise money for them in the middle east. james comer says he was able to do so because of the biden name. doj officials are seeking information about james biden, investigating the medicare fraud case, also linked to americor. biden's lawyer says that the president's brother is not under investigation in either state, congressman. what can you tell us about your ongoing investigation of the judiciary committee? >> we've been looking into this and we're going to continue to do it. let's everybody understand what this is about. the $600,000

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maria: wow.e armies of military aged men crossing into america, president biden's wide open of border enabling this. he talked about that campaigning in richmond over the weekend. hundreds of mourners attended the georgia nursing student laken riley's funeral on friday, it happened at a church outside of atlanta on friday. riley was murdered by allegedly by an illegal migrant last month. laken's mother adding the slogan, hashtag say her name. president biden has still not said laken's name at all. phillips is also posting about her daughter's murder, calling it, quote, sen senseless, an avoidable tragedy. joining us now is senator joni ernst, the ranking member of the senate small business committee the. this is disgusting the way you look at this. anybody looking at this knows that this person who murdered laken riley came into this country in september of 2022 through el paso, he would not have been able to do that without this wide open border. >> absolutely, maria. you are spot-on. let's say

maria: it sure is.to deal with now because these kids that are coming into the schools, had the don't speak english and many of them in fact most of them are unvaccinated. so there are so many issues. i'm talking about measles, mumth mumps, the basic childhood vaccines, not covid, folks. we're talking about blue cities. it's also happening ins a as and a california which she mentioned as well. it's disrupting the education of these children and look, these parents are fed up. and i always say this. you get what you vote for. and we've got an election coming up in november. something to remember. maria: yeah. rebecca? >> you know, maria, besides the bombshell that this administration opened up the cbp1 app to y allow people in other countries to apply for asylum while in the other country and have the humanitarian aid you aranged and 320,000 were flown into the country, besides that bombshell which i can't get over this morning, what the american public understands, it's now taking their resources, they'

i'm maria bartiromo. it i hope you're having a good tuesday morning, it's tuesday, march 19, 7:00 a.m. on the button, almost, on the a east coast. time for the hot topic of the hour. a media research sensor study finds google interfered with u.s. elections 41 times of the last 16 years. mrc free speech america vice president writes this, in every case google harmed the candidates regardless of party who threatened their left wing candidate of choice. mrc finding that from 2008 to february 2024 google, quote, utilized its power to help push to electoral victory the most liberal candidate while targeting their opponents for censorship. google pushing back, saying it has business incentive to keep both sides happy and safe guardeds ensure non-biased and accurate search results. non-biased and accurate search results, joe. your reaction? >> you really have to be in a hole or a cave to think that social media companies, tech platforms aren't biased towards the left. we saw this happen in real time. you can see

maria: look. over you like to apply stocks on pullback, if we're going to see one cut two, cuts as opposed to the three or six the market was expecting, down the that create disruption doubt that create a sell-off did the market kiss expecting all cuts you don't think we're getting telling them with you ratings for that sell-off to come in and buy stocks. >> i am waiting if we get a sell-off i am waiting to buy stocks but a bull market buying pullbacks not selling rally ironically our idea of the sticky inflation, slow, that should be helping the market. the people that have been thinking six cuts been forecasting recession. that would have been bad for earnings bad for the economy, that is why you are going to get six cuts, if you are getting, less cuts because economy is going well, the better news what is happening with earnings earnings going to 250 this year 275 next year a little ahead of consensus not tons ahead, we are seeing, importantly, beyond the magnificient 7 back half of the year wh

maria: yeah. and in step with all of the things that go into a campaign speech, he he addressed abortioe addressed guns, calling for a federal ban on assault weapons. watch this. >> i'm demanding a ban on assault weapons and high compass capacity magazines, universal background checks. none of this violates the second amenamendment or vilify's responsible gun owners. maria: president trump writes this, if i am not elected, your guns are gone, doug. your reaction. >> you have to -- honestly, maria. i'm looking at the panel. you have to laugh at the audacity of this. number one, i would give president biden a free breakfast so he could define what an assault rifle is. he can't. anything they're proposing, simply taking guns, universal a background checks is let's register all the firearms so we can take them which was put into a bill a couple years ago that the house republicans and democrats passed that he signed that is now being put into action by the atf to begin the process of private sale regi

maria: so revise it.president trump and president biden officially clinching the nominations. they won enough delegates to clinch their respective primary nominations. trump writing this it's my great honor to represent the republican party as a presidential nominee. our r party is united and strong and fully understands we're running against the most corrupt and disruptive the not the united states. biden said this in a statement. i'm honored that the broad coalition of voters representing the rich diversity of the democrat party across the country put their faith in me once again to lead our party and country in the moment that the threat trumps poses is greater than ever. your thoughts, adam? >> my hope is that mr. trump shows us the presidential version of himself which was in full display after the iowa caucus. he was gentlemanly. he was thoughtful to his opponents. he was calm, cool, collected, in command. that's the president that i want to see. joe biden meanwhile seems to get angrier and angrier

maria: wow.'s mother is slamming president biden for fumbling her daughter's name during the state of the union, calling him pathetic for that slip. former president trump met with laken riley's family at a rally in georgia on s saturday where he slammed biden for his comments. watch. >> biden has implemented a formal policy that illegal aliens who intrude into the united states are granted immunity from deportation, thus when this monster showed up at our border, he was set free immediately under the program, i call it free to kill. he got laken's name wrong. calling his lincoln. joe biden went on television and apologized for calling laken's murderer an illegal. he didn't want to call him illegal. he says he should have called him a an undocumented, not an p illegal. they want to call him neighbor. did you hear the other one, a newcomer. a newcomer to our country. are we going crazy or what? is this country going crazy? maria: jonathan, your reaction? >> it really is stunning, the callusness of

maria: welcome back. good yogood friday morning. thank you for joining us this morning. i'm maria bartiromo. its is friday, march 22nd. time for the hot topic of the hour. former president trump is leading payne in the two states of georgia and north carolina. news polls have trump up 4% on biden in georgia and 3 points up in north carolina. but biden is slamming the media, claiming they're not reporting on five polls that show him beating trump. the biden harris campaign attacking trump for his campaign schedule. claiming he's hiding in his country club. this is really funny, joe. everything they do, they say the other guy does and we have it again. they claim trump is hiding, every day we're talking about trump and seeing trump. who is do the hiding here? >> i don't know if we're living through the weekends at bernie's presidency or if it's groundhog day and we're about to go off the side of the cliff with punxsutawney phil. here's the facts. the facts are that there is no way you can argue for a second

maria. great to be with you. maria: your book is out, and i want to get to that in a moment. but first, give us your assessment of the fed. do you believe we actually will see three rate cuts this year? >> years ago when i worked at a major bank in the city of new york, i won't mention any name, but i was in meetings, and they said the fed is never, ever political. and i really laughed. and if you look at what's happening and you look to 2000 and 2008, both republican and democratic presidents over the years always, always tend to overcook the goose into a big election. and this time you've got the fiscal side is, which is close to $2 trillion of accommodation can, and inflation is actually reviving for a whole bunch of reasons, bouncing higher, and the fed is staying on course for those three rate cuts. it's a dangerous cocktail, but it also opens up tremendous opportunities. maria: so tell me about the opportunities. in the book you write about the decline of the dollar, you write about th

maria: it is unbelievable.is the motivation here, why would he be okay, with venezuela emptying their prisons and sending these people here. i don't understand why this would be okay, and this gang in new york, they have these specific tattoos showing they are part of the gang, this is incredibly dangerous. >> it's dangerous, the american people are paying for it because this administration puts the american people last, we had millions of people coming up through latin america, mexico, coming from across the entire globe. the problem with the venezuelans is maduro, the president is releasing these individuals, prisoners infiltrating these caravans on the way up but there's no way for us to check who they are and maduro has made very clear he doesn't want them back so if you are brought into this country from venezuela and you are arrested in this country like mister abara, that murderous thug, we can't send him back, we can't send him back because maduro says i don't want them. so we've got a problem here. mar