same under the president and congress needs to take action privilege they would have been spared michael barnesl starr hawkins, thank you for coming out today. cheryl: well, president trump turning up the heat on china as he threatens the terrorists on beijing. are we in the brink of a trade war? as you can see, features and selloff mode. down 359 the premarket, s&p down three quarters. nasdaq down 80. you are watching "fbn:am." ♪ i'm a small business, but i have... big dreams... and big plans. so how do i make the efforts of 8 employees... feel like 50? how can i share new plans virtually? how can i download an e-file? virtual tours? zip-file? really big files? in seconds, not minutes... just like that. like everything... the answer is simple. i'll do what i've always done... dream more, dream faster, and above all... now, i'll dream gig. now more businesses, in more places, can afford to dream gig. comcast, building america's largest gig-speed network. ♪music ♪yea, you can be the greatest ♪you can be the best ♪you can be the king kong ♪bangin on your chest ♪you can beat the world you can beat

let's bring in michael barnes, policy adviser to georgia w.kins, democratic strategists. obviously this is going to -- this is going to be a big story for democrats, do they plan to use the supreme court nomination process in the midterms against the republicans? >> absolutely. i mean, when you look at what's on the agenda at the top of the list is roe versus wade and every woman has the right to choose, democrats need to make sure that every american has the right on the ballot. cheryl: all right, michael barnes, let's look at some of the nominees being discussed. we have a pretty short list which is interesting, some of the names, some controversial, some are not. you have thomas hardman, raymond from and mike lee from utah. the president thinks he will be the easiest one to get confirmed. the easiest name. >> it does certain make sense politically and i think the president has been smart politically up to this point in getting gorsuch confirmed an working with federalist society and i also seen list that has brother of lee. the list that th

starbucks, i would say whole talk of death of rural america is a little bit premature, to discuss, michael barnesa law and managing partner, and lee carter and tammy bruce with us. here is my thing, i read these articles, the death of rural america, to me, they are saying, that rural america should have lesser role in policymaking and a lesser role in ethos of america, i think they are making a mistake about they are. it is clear, rural america is at a point it has not gotten attention it needs, trump administration is rightly focusing much of its recovery effort on rural america. the economy overall is doing better, that is helping rur app rural america. trade policy and likely benefits from administration's approach to focusing on agricultural, and manufacturing it making a difference, people are confident. charles: here is the set up, this morning i come in see dollar general looking for 7 thousand manager jobs in 44 states. i take a deeper dive, starbucks, ultimate proxy for hip urban environment, closing 150 stores. then i look at top state could texas, florida, virginia, ohio, alabama, tenn

michael flynn has given testimony. it's sort of like, you know, you're closing the barn door long after the michael flynn horse is out frolickingdon or no pardon. >> so, the fact that dinesh d'souza was pardoned this week, was that some sort of a test, a signal, of how the president would use his power. pardon and how that would go on? >> it sure does seem like the president is sending a signal. and unfortunately he is either pardoning or considering pardoning the wealthy, the influential, the connected. when there are so many people who are not wealthy, who are not connected and who are not influential who have their cases at this very moment sitting in the office of the pardon attorney at the department of justice, going through the process which is a long rigorous process, as well it should be. and yet, the president leapfrogs the d'souzas of the world over the top of all of those potentially worthier candidates. and it does seem like the president is potentially sending messages. and i see this as sort of the jv team taking the team and playing before the varsity team is called on to the field. this seems like a trial and t

former reagan budget director david stockman, new york post columnist michael goodwin and the weekly standard executive editor fred barnes is with us as well. david: you don't have to watch a show for the rest of the day. we've got it here. the markets ending in the red for the seventh day in a row. who cares about the dow, it's all about the rally at the nasdaq with tech making a record high. nicole petallides at the new york stock exchange, what a day for tech, nicole? reporter: intel and microsoft were the two best performers on the dow jones industrial average in terms of percentage. break down the major indices, the tech-heavy nasdaq, new high there. the russell at a new high as well. the dow jones industrial average didn't pull it out. down 42 points, but had it been up 19, we would be positive for 2018. a little more to go and yesterday we lost 287 points. bouncing back in many, many areas ashgsz we get to tech, take a look. amazon, google, facebook, netflix hit record highs and see amazon right now at $1750 and at $1184 google is not a closing high but a record for the day. general electric, $18.9 -- 1896, the ve

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barn burner of a lawsuit? >> just because it makes some really strong allegations. as you said, it's got the note and i think it's packaged fairly aggressively. >> michael, i want you to remember that january 2016 fund-raiser that was for the veterans that trump held instead of attending the gop debate. remember that? this lawsuit says the foundation raised more than $2.8 million that night, but it was really a trump campaign event. and you can't do that with a charitable foundation, right? >> it quite obviously was a campaign event. even at the time that it occurred, this was opposite a debate that the president, then-candidate trump decided to skip. so he was broadcast almost in tandem with the debate. news programs were cutting back and forth. the fact that this was a foundation engaged in politics is quite evident to everybody who is observing this, especially the attorney general of the state of new york. >> excuse me. >> i feel for you, don. >> i think as walter was talking, one of the things that came to mind for me was this quote from corey lewandowski's e-mail, where he's asking can this donation, this series of donations to $500,000 total to five differen

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