the law. have own communication. mariae. >> releasing things on friday afternoons like the bad guys do and, you know, all this other stuff made no sense. smart guy, lacking in common sense, it just wasn't built to be the fbi director. maria: takes us back, what happened to the fbi that made it politicized over the years. a lot of people talk about the >> i talked about that but a lot of people don't want to hear this. bob mauhller. a front group in my view of the muslim brotherhood and there's a lot of connections of the muslim brotherhood. maria: they infiltrated. >> the fbi really took away from the training materials of the fbi, the whole history of radical fundamentalism. we are not going to know anything their habits or why they do things. i mean, it's just nonsense. maria: you weren't allowed to study the background of islam? >> how can agents investigate radical fundamentalist without knowing the whole history, where they are coming from, what their mindset, basically infiltrate the united states and take the countr

but it's a very, very valuable part of the ecosystem. maria: on the listings part of the business, what are you doing to attract more companies. i was speak to analyst hospital said they didn't get the snap deal. that was a disappoint. are you reaching out to uber and the companies you expect to go public? >> we do a lot of outreach at every company potentially look at going public at some point. one of the areas we have been focused on is the fact that the companies are staying private longer. we have developed a nazdaq private market that allows them toy given vestors and employees to have liquidity for the ipo to manage their cap tables as they are moving themselves towards an ipo. and it allows us to develop a relationship witcoanies earlier on. maria: when we come back we'll talk about public versus private companies and the trump policies and what they mean. >> announcer: break up the banks. president trump says he's considering that idea. adena friedman reacts. >> through tax regulation and trade we think we can get 3% sustained growth

the day fixodent. strong more like natural teeth. mariawelcome back, the trump administration unveiling a sweeping plan and collapses seven track brackets to three and the white house also say that is millions of families would see some much needed relief. i spoke with white house national economic council director gary cohn about the plan. >> maria, we almost look at it as four brackets. we have seven brackets in the tax code right now that makes it difficult. we also want to simplify the tax code as well. i will talk about that as well. going to the 10% bracket, 25% bracket and 35 bracket makes it simpler and easier for people to do their own taxes, we took the standard deduction and you doubled it. if youake a median-income family, 55 and $56,000, we are giving them a standard deduction of $24,000, meaning they will have taxable income about $32,000. they will have an effective tax rate in the mid-single digits f they get a tax child credit they could have effective tax rate about zero. we think that's very important for low and middle-

the best or nothing. mariaok at some of the big market events coming up in the week ahead that could impact your wallet. purchasing managers index coming out. new home sales, manufacturing, purchasing managers. existing home sales. consumer sentiments. all key indiana kateors to watch for. earnings starting to slow down. hewlett-packard, l sorks we's, lion's gate. james comey will be testifying as well. the president is traveling alot. he will meet with the palestinians and he will go to the vatican where he will meet with the pope. the president will head to brussels to meet with our mean council president. he will meet with the newly elected french president. and he wraps up the trip in sicily at g-7 summit. james comey testifying wednesday. coming up next week. larry summers my special guest. i'll see you sunday morning 10:00 a.m. eastern. we'll speak with former ci sarks director james woolsey, my special guest. >> i'm bob massi. for 35 years, i've been practicing law and living in las vegas, ground zero fo

the economy. i think market will react well. mariaany idea or thinking that la pen would win, people were worried markets would sell-off. taking about taking them out the euro. maria: >> it was a far shot. >> maria: carlos ghosn . >> thank you. >> former fbi director jim kallstrom is with me next live as you are here with me right now on "sunday morning futures." to folks everywhere whose diabetic... ...nerve pain shoots and burns its way into your day... ...i hear you. when that pain makes simple errands simply unbearable... ...i hear you. i hear you because my dad struggled with this pain. make sure your doctor hears you too. so folks, don't wait. step on up. and talk to your doctor. because you have places to go... ...and people who can't wait for you to get there. if you have diabetes and burning, shooting pain in your feet or hands... step on up and talk to your doctor today. fixodent plus adhesives. there's a denture adhesive that holds strong until evening. just one application gives you superior hold even at the end of the day

the ceo says they refuse to pay ransom. maria: some investors are wondering if the economy will be strong enough for the federal reserve to raise interest rates two more times this year. joining me is the former federal reserve chairman and the author of "courage to act." there is an expectation the federal reserve will continue raising interest rates. but what's your sense of the economy. a lot of people are wondering and questioning whether this is strong enough to see a spring of interest rate hikes, and will the fed stomp out the growth just as it's gaining traction? been report recovery has been been are been: the recovery has been pretty consistent. maria: how would you characterize the economy. i feel like the auto industry polling over in the first quarter. what are you have seeing? ben: what the fed is looking at is the fundamentals for consumption. housing is up, unemployment down, consumer confidence is good. all those things indicate the consumer will be okay. that's a big part of the story about why the fed thinks th

and other things where we'll even gang with the industry to make them happen. maria: your recommendations d idea are important for the u.s. market and the global markets. in terms of the tax plan coming out of the trump administration. a 50% rate for a business seems like a big deal to me. these companies were paying 39.6%. even at 15% or 20% corporate tax rate down from 35%. do you think this will and catalyst for these companies to use that money to create jobs and invest in their businesses? >> i wholeheartedly agree with that. if you think of where job creation has come from, it's been small to medium-size companies that have grown and created jobs for people all over the country. they are the underpinning of our economy. that's why we have been so successful because we create such a good ecosystem. but if you tax them heavily, you are draining cash out of their coffers for them to invest in their business. maria: what secretary mnuchin was talking about was the potential for a 10% rate for repatriation. if you are talking about a company bringing trillions of do

the 10k. this is a printed version of what we have done so far. maria: an annual report of what the government is doing. >> then we did a simplified version. maria: i read the summary. i have got the cliff notes. tell us what this page says in terms of government revenue and explain to our viewers why this is so important. steve require starts with the total steer *. steve: it starts with the total revenue collect. we show total tax revenue, and non-tax revenue. there is a lot of non-tax revenue, interest on pension funds, et cetera. individual income tax, property tax, payroll tax. maria: not a lot of money comes from corporate taxes. steve: that was surprising to me given the level of discussion. it doesn't tell you whether corporate taxes should be lower or higher. maria: but that's not where the money is. steve: i was surprised how large payroll tax was as a percentage. we break that down further, social security, medicare, disability and the like. maria: in the conversation who paves what and will people see their taxes go down. it's important to r

the economy. i think market will react well. mariang that la pen would win, people were worried markets would sell-off. taking about taking them out the euro. maria: >> it was a far shot. >> maria: carlos ghosn . >> thank you. >> former fbi director jim kallstrom is with me next live as you are here with me right now on "sunday morning futures." maria: welcome back, fbi director james comey standing by his decision in handling of hillary clinton e-mail investigation. he handed congress new evidence just days before the presidential elect, and hillary clinton continues to say that is what caused her to lose the election. joining us now, james kallstrom. >> nice to be with you. maria: were you surprised at comey's testimony yesterday in. >> no, right from the beginning when criminal referral came, a long time ago. for the fbi to look into this had it had to be b obvious to director at that point, there would not be a serious investigation, because the attorney yet again rallattorneye a grand jury. i feel for jim comey for him to go with

the economy. i think market will react well. mariaany idea or thinking that la pen would win, people were worried markets would sell-off. taking about taking them out the euro. maria: >> it was a far shot. >> maria: carlos ghosn . >> thank you. >> former fbi director jim kallstrom is with me next live as you are here with me right now on "sunday morning futures." i am totally blind. i lost my sight in afghanistan. if you're totally blind, you may also be struggling with non-24. calling 844-844-2424. or visit my24info.com. usaa gives me the and the security just like the marines did. the process through usaa is so effortless, that you feel like you're a part of the family. i love that i can pass the membership to my children. we're the williams family, and we're usaa members for life. maria: welcome back, fbi director james comey standing by his decision in handling of hillary clinton e-mail investigation. he handed congress new evidence just days before the presidential elect, and hillary clinton continues to say that is what caused h

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maria: the media is not reporting that. >> no. ut the russian investigation. >> and that's trumped up. dagen: wait, we talk about tweets and we talk about russia because the president of the united states himself is tweeting about russia. maria: right. dagen: this morning. that's why we talk about it. we would not talk -- we are going to talk about what the president says and what the president tweets but he's part of the problem, robert. >> i have to agree with you. he's a good friend of mine and i respect him. everybody says why doesn't he stop tweeting, then people won't have nothing to talk about. maria: he would still have connectivity with audience, but he should focus on the agenda during tweets. tell me where tax reform is, tell me where the health care bill stands. kevin: he's making his own issues here. when he's attacking the intelligence community and we are surprised there's leaks and he attacks the mainstream media and then he says he doesn't get the coverage, well, it's because you did that to yourself. you're attack

maybe that's the path they. maria: they won't do that against state lines so that is the face to the top of the that they have to wait and do that at some later date. but think again the republicans so far have lost the argument because the then republican senator susan collins is talking about preexisting conditions. that is such a small slice of the insurance market. it brings people's hearts, but again, with the people who signed up for the initial obamacare coverage of preexisting conditions before the full rollout, it was a little more than 100,000 people. you are talking about ripping out the entire insurance industry, covering 200 million people for 100,000 people. i know it's important, but this dominates the discussion when we need to be talking about everybody and making everybody's care affordable. >> nancy pelosi started with her five talking points on monday morning. number two, this is going to be unfair to the older folks. but that's a dominating conversation and republicans are just react. the subtle t

the report was really rough. mariait is a competitive field that i don't know how you keep up with the likes of facebook and others in terms of user growth. snapchat doesn't have the exposure and reach. >> old disclosure i'm sure of it and have been for a while. an agassi a senate investigation. had he been snapped chatting with the russians? looking on a millennial point and is it worth $25 billion? i don't think this is a quarter problem. i think the fundamental issue in you head on the watches every time they come up with an innovation cannot facebook will use that. stories has more users now been snapchat. >> good stuff. >> yesterday that people with money are older people. they are not people each teenager. maria: they haven't made any money yet. maria: it's great we have this young audience but it's to facebook's advantage of its user base is much more diverse and broad in more recent years because again it then monetize all of that so much more easily. maria: the advertisers have money to spend. >> they have to

maria: troubling times in the sky. idents putting major airlines turbulence, what is going on maria: more turbulence for the airline to report. unbelievable seen at ft. lauderdale. fights broke out after spirit canceled flight. patrick, good to see you, sir, thank you so much for joining us. >> good morning, maria. maria: is this just another disaster? has something change that had we have seen so much violence and upset? >> you know, the pr problems, the policy issues they have are just symptoms of the deeper problem and so many companies in the airline industry, they are fundamentally broken. they lack what i call organizational health, they are so dysfunctional. they can change all the policies about overbooking and they can negotiate with the union, but until the executive team gets better at leading, none of this is going to change. united has been in the news a lot, for 25 years this has been going on, these are just interesting symptoms. the fundamental problem exists at the leadership team and you contrast that

the senate. but this is a big move. maria: the moment it happened yesterday with the final two yes votes and they flipped it there was a sigh of relief. because it's been so long in terms of this negotiating process. >> dakin is right. this is like grass growing. they massaged and then it goes back to the house. but at least it's a good step forward. >> you know at the bottom line is, people still don't know what's in the bill. dagen: we are here to tell you. i can go through what's in the bill about the changes. maria: this is something that has been changing so much. we want to get the details. dagen on that coming up this morning. the author of the operator firing the shots that killed osama bin laden and my years as a seal team warrior could rob of you with us this morning. james woolsey is here and ceo and founder of upside is also the founder of priceline.com. finance group leader jaywalkers here with us this morning to texas congressman is at best and ceo jason-also winning in this morning. you don't want to miss him o

the room. it didn't happen. maria: despite the response given the mainstream media has taken the story and they're running with it. what are your thoughts here? the mainstream media cannot stand donald trump then you have to question. i don't know what to believe. dagen: the media goes into into full not done a good number of russia is in any way, shape or form involved in the goings-on in the white house or by the white house. i will .1 thing out can we mentioned last week there was no official midday with kizlyak. the white house needs to get its hands around -- this is the day after -- they've really got to work on getting their house in order in terms that if they hate the media so much, then do a little bit better job at communicating. >> and of course the comey fire was about to rush investigation in the next day to have the russian ambassador in there. maria: said he didn't care about the optics. >> running a business, which i do every day and with the president did come the unique decisions. there are all kind

the surprisingly affordable john deere e series tractors. mariaback, presidential adviser jared kushner left key information off of disclosure form. cheryl casone with all the details there. cheryl: good morning, maria, the wall street journal found the lack of disclosure after reviewing the documents and speaking to sources, the journal found that kushner fail toddies closed ownership of a real estate star-up linked to goldman sachs and george soros making three current business partners. president son-in-law also didn't mention that he's partner of real estate finance from cater and fail today report a billion in loans for more than 20 different lenders as well as properties and companies that he partly owns as of now. a lawyer for kushner telling the journal, revised documents have been submitted. well, the controversial netflix show about suicide once again in the spotlight. >> don't believe everything you hear. >> whatever hana thought she saw, she lied about it on the tapes because she's a crazy drama queen that killed herself for attention.

the second will be marked by dave. maria: president upon the strips around the world when he first started as president are still being called an apology to her. >> i think they have different titles. we were coming off of the iraqi word, the sentiment in that country at the time was antiwar. he was going around the nation trying to rebuild their relationships internationally. everybody has their role in time. president are about the time in their country. you mentioned donald trump resetting his presidency. the dynamic of being president is there every day, every hour. once you get into the swing of things, generally they move on, focus on their agenda and have men and women put them out. maria: seb is able to live the fighters behind in the situation. this has to go well in terms of the pushback on his domestic agenda. >> is no question this has to go extremely, extremely well. i would say this almost has to be flawless. when he was leaving we were completely off focus. no focus on health care, completely focused on russia

i can guarantee you the pope has a/c in the vatican. maria he gave pope francis a collection of writings in return pope francis gave a matter which symbolized peace and books and family as well. what do you make of the exchange of guess? >> i don't think there's a whole lot there. martin luther king is the hero i'm sure the pope accepted that. again, the media were not there. that's just it. you look at the photo off and go back to these controversies and things of that nature. so far this trip has been a success and that's bad news for the media. >> you mention all the social issues on which president trump and pope francis would agree. president trump doesn't talk about them as much as people on the left talk about social issues, whether it is the issue of gay marriage and abortion. you know why, for a political leader that's importing united states because it's a separation of church and state. literally rather than going on about it, leaving it up to somebody's religion and religious leaders. it's a personal decision for those individuals

the table. rebalance. mariasecurity breach. luckily it hasn't caused much harm. what a wakeup call. next time it could go to your infrastructure, to banks and i think people around the world need to wake up, not just companies, but individuals realize you're responsible for yourself and your company. maria: it's true. i would think there's more impact from the global cyber attack. >> i'm shocked. maria: we haven't seen it. >> primarily because it happened mostly overseas. maria: they said it will get worse today. we will see if it does. have a great show. see you tomorrow same time, same place. seize the day. "varney & company," and here is charles payne. >> i'm charles payne, stuart will be back on thursday. we begin with the massive worldwide cyber attack. the word unprecedented is being used to describe this attack that hit hundreds of thousands of people and organizations and 150 and continues to spread this morning. it really is, even though the damage has been mitigated, it has been significant enough that

so the scope to get more growth by generating more demand. mariayou are talking about the jobs number versus the growth number. >> in order to produce more gdp you are likely to need more people working, and we are kinds of there, most way there in terms of employment. 3% seems like a kinds of normal number. the thing is that for many years, we had a population of adults that was growing at 1% plus a year, and we had a big trend towards more women working. that's over. both of those things are over. the women are work already. the adult populations are growing very, very slowly. even if we went back to good productivity performance, we wouldn't have 3% growth over the long term. but you asked about the incentive effects of corporate tax cuts. on balance we should find a variety of reforms with respect to repatriation. but here are some things your viewers should think about. cost of capital are now close to zero. interest rates have never been lower. corporations are sitting with huge quantities of cash in treasury bills paying nothing. if they had

the pledge. embrace ambition. will you? mariareform. his administration is pushing for a lower tax rate and simpler tax code for individual. larry summers is putting aside delays this plan may have. the tax plan the president put on the table differs slightly from what's on the table in the house. he put a budget. it's one page long. that's not a plan. the internal revenue code is 74,000 pages long it's an extraordinary thing. the first 100 dare -- days are . never in history has the treasury secretary announced. maria: obama never balanced the budget. the president is trying to balance the budget. >> he's not trying to balance the budget. he's making up numbers that do not respect the laws of arithmetic to show a balanced budget. he's not telling you what his policies are. a budget that does not include tax policies is like a business plan that does not include capital spending. maria: he's got infrastructure investments, expand veterans choice programs. new parental leave program. border security. then we have got the key spend

the ceo says they refuse to pay ransom. maria: some investors are wondering if the economy will be strong enough for the federal reserve to raise interest rates two more times this year. joining me is the former federal reserve chairman and the author of "courage to act." there is an expectation the federal reserve will continue raising interest rates. but what's your sense of the economy. a lot of people are wondering and questioning whether this is strong enough to see a spring of interest rate hikes, and will the fed stomp out the growth just as it's gaining traction? been report recovery has been been are been: the recovery has been pretty consistent. maria: how would you characterize the economy. i feel like the auto industry polling over in the first quarter. what are you have seeing? ben: what the fed is looking at is the fundamentals for consumption. housing is up, unemployment down, consumer confidence is good. all those things indicate the consumer will be okay. that's a big part of the story about why the fed thinks th

the recovery has not been dependent on energy. maria: you have to look for special situations in areas we can find the biggest opportunity. were you finding that? >> i think the energy sector is the most interesting one and does not participate in this rally. it's still a negative return since the election since 2017 began and has the potential benefit of the deregulation not requiring congress. all of this talk about oil prices coming down is a huge boost to the mainstream energy sector. volume has gone through the roof. there's more and more production the whole cabinet and team he has put together tamir behind us. maria: i want to ask some of these large industrial global companies because we had news thursday if you look at the trump administration a significant trade deal with china when it will list exports and increase access to the gigantic chinese economy of 1.3 billion people for beef producers and natural gas exporters. the white house is working with china to clamp down on the north korean threat. i spoke about this with for

but it's a very, very valuable part of the ecosystem. maria: on the listings part of the business, what are you doing to attract more companies. i was speak to analyst hospital said they didn't get the snap deal. that was a disappoint. are you reaching out to uber and the companies you expect to go public? >> we do a lot of outreach at every company potentially look at going public at some point. one of the areas we have been focused on is the fact that the companies are staying private longer. we have developed a nazdaq private market that allows them toy given vestors and employees to have liquidity for the ipo to manage their cap tables as they are moving themselves towards an ipo. and it allows us to develop a relationship with companies earlier on. maria: when we come back we'll talk about public versus private companies and the trump policies and what they mean. >> announcer: break up the banks. president trump says he's considering that idea. adena friedman reacts. ♪and i ♪i will always love you, i ♪i will always love you ♪i hope life t

the very latest. good morning to you. reporter: hi there, maria. president tribe top advisers have come and gone from e.u. headquarters in brussels has been met with e.u. leaders for about an hour or so. the meeting have a dynamic set up for something pretty interesting. after all, president trump has said it was nothing more than a vehicle for germany. on the other end, one of the top e.u. commissioners had threatened to campaign for the state of ohio to gain its independence should assert trump not as the e.u. allowed. we have not yet received a readout of the meeting. however issues like trade, climate change and security expected on the top of the agenda. now the president is gearing up for a lunch meeting with the newly elected french president, said they. that will be a one-on-one meeting in an hour's time from now. later this evening will shift over to nato as the president will meet for meters and nato member nations. the president has been critical for quite some time, especially calling for nato nations to increase their defense spending.

the ceo says they refuse to pay ransom. maria: some investors are wondering if the economy will be strong enough for the federal reserve to raise interest rates two more times this year. joining me is the former federal reserve chairman and the author of "courage to act." there is an expectation the federal reserve will continue raising interest rates. but what's your sense of the economy. a lot of people are wondering and questioning whether this is strong enough to see a spring of interest rate hikes, and will the fed stomp out the growth just as it's gaining traction? been report recovery has been been are been: the recovery has been pretty consistent. mari how would you characterize the economy. i feel like the auto industry polling over in the first quarter. what are you have seeing? ben: what the fed is looking at is the fundamentals for consumption. housing is up, unemployment down, consumer confidence is good. all those things indicate the consumer will be okay. that's a big p the story about why the fed thinks the recove

the label. alright maria. you are into yoga but while you're in las vegas you may want to take yoga and you could take this yoga. it looks fun to me. the tallest farewell --dash mike ferris wheel. it offers yogurt classes and it was a trend of them moving out of studio. perhaps las vegas is most luxurious experience and to take that there. check out this one. the helicopter to this particular yoga class which i would love is $3,500 it doesn't come with champagne after. it looks beautiful when you are doing yoga you always had to have your eye on one a spot how will you have your eye on one spot when you have this incredible view. i have my hands behind my back. i will need it repaired. this is a trend with one other place. they're giving yoga classes on paddle boards. out in the hudson river. this is beautiful. who has is time to take that helicopter. we laugh you literally work six days a week. cheryl, thanks for that. we are taking a look at the trump administration. they were targeted after backing donald t

the senate will make changes before it passes. maria: 94 out of 95 counties in iowa are without health care. aetna just walked away from virginia. you've got really the obamacare legislation collapsing right in front of our eyes. dagen: one-third of the counties across the nation only have one insurer. maria: no choices. dagen: which started at the beginning of this year. maria: how this bill is different post the couple of weeks where they have been negotiating, we will get into that this morning. congressional republicans one step close the other repealing and replacing obamacare this morning after and a half rowly approving a bill by vote of 217-213, 20 republicans voted against the bill along with house democrats, the measure moves to senate where it faces political challenges. president is confidence that they can come together and get this done. >> i think we will get it through. the republicans are very united like before. you see that today. the republicans came together all of a sudden two days ago, it was like magic, very, ver

i am optimistic about it, for the first time in a long time. maria: the speech is expected to try to rid the region and the world of terrorism. bringing it u muslim countries o execute that. who is important in that? >> this is a conflict between saudi and sunnis, over simplifies it. and iran and shia on the other side. not all shia have signed on to helping iran. but iran is the core of the sponsor ship of terrorism. the major terrorist state in the world. i think that we have a chance now of seeing some change back to the world before 1979 that we had in saudi arabia. where we got along really quite well with them. the seizure of the great mosque in mecca in '79 and the over throw of the shaw, created a situation where the saudis and other sunnis were worried about a shiite domination and power. that is starting to look like we might be able to begin to work back from it. it would be wonderful to have this counterterrorism center for example, co-chaired by the saudis and us in riyadh. maria: the nations of the region have a vital interest in confro

keep going on one after the other. >> maria: this has been going on. we know where health care stands. now it's in the senate. senate said they'll tear up their own bill. we know the tax reform is supposed to be getting done this year. is this a distraction. >> one of the things that are driving the american people crazy. they want tax reform because they have people individually have problems that they want to see an economy that is growing and booming creating opportunities. they want congress to act on that. then you've got all the foreign policy threats that we face, whether it's isis or north korea. they want these problems addressed. if the story coming out of washington for the next six or nine months are all these political games between the different parties attacking each other and they don't get these things done. it's not republicans that will get hurt in 2018. it's incumbents in washington, whether they are an r or a d. >> maria: right. then there's the cost of it. how much does this investigation cost generally speaking if you're going on

the white house? >> you mean within government? >> marianment. >> all you have to do is look at the pace with which we've been able to confirm the president's nominees. i mean, at the rate we're going, and it's frankly the fault of my friends, the democrats, on the other side of the aisle. the rate we're going we'll have all of mr. trump's confirmed about the day he runs for re-election. >> maria: do you think there will be anyone who takes the fall or anyone who is on the hook result of all of the obstructionism that we have seen since the president took office? >> well, there ought to be. every president is entitled to appoint his own people. if they're an ax murderer, that's one thing. but if they're qualified, just because you don't like their politics, doesn't mean you don't vote to confirm them. by this time most of president obama's major appointments had been confirmed. we just -- our process has been very slow because the democrats have used every procedural road block they are. >> maria: that's right. >> that's their right. they'r

maria: they had the discount part of the deal. >> they do. a: that didn't work obviously. >> the discount assortment compare today t.j. maxx is lacking. >> we see wal-mart trying to raise online game. do you see any of the traditional bricks and mortar retailers who are crashing it online or are they still trying to figure it out. >> i think wal-mart since you mentioned would be the most successful of any of them and they've improved the online experience since they took it over. we have seen that. so that's exciting, plus they are doing some other things outside of the norm in order to improve business and expand their business. maria: any retail stocks that you like? >> i like coach still and -- kevin: coach purchasing kate spade. >> it sends a message to the future. they will own the business, price points and capitalize on that and really be a brand again as opposed to being a brand and a department store and discounters. i think that they've done the right thing. maria: would you buy amazon here? >> oh, yes, absolutely. the stock keeps ri

we expect we will be coming out in the next few minutes. >> maria: we'll circle back when that occurs. right now the senate intel committee is meeting about what its docket lists as quote intelligence matters. this after a morning of testimony from nsa director michael rodgers. the first we've heard from him since the unmasking of names caught up in foreign surveillance aled of the election last year. katherine herridge joins us live from washington. good to see you. has there been any change in russian behavior since the election? >> reporter: the nsa director testified this morning, because there hadn't been a strong 3ub lick rebuke by the united states against russia, hasn't really cost the russians anything financially. they had taken the lessons they learned through the interference last fall in the election here in the united states and they're now applying those lessons to other democracies. >> we've seen another russian attempt to affect the outcome of the election in france. do you see any slackening reduction in russian/chinese efforts to commit cyber attacks and even affect

the recovery has not been dependent on energy. maria: you have to look for special situations in areas we can find the biggest opportunity. were you finding that? >> i think the energy sector is the most interesting one and does not participate in this rally. it's still a negative return since the election since 2017 began and has the potential benefit of the deregulation not requiring congress. all of this talk about oil prices coming down is a huge boost to the mainstream energy sector. volume has gone through the roof. there's more and more production the whole cabinet and team he has put together tamir behind us. maria: i want to ask some of these large industrial global companies because we had news thursday if you look at the trump administration a significant trade deal with china when it will list exports and increase access to the gigantic chinese economy of 1.3 billion people for beef producers and natural gas exporters. the white house is working with china to clamp down on the north korean threat. i spoke about this with for

we asked the women's d.a., maria mercedes bustello, to explain. if women really believed they could get justice here, wouldn't there be a line out the door? she admits that filing a complaint can take weeks. police lack basic resources. and there are places so dangerous the cops can't even go in without military backup. >> what's crazy is here's a woman whose department is supposed to protect women. but she says, listen, if your boyfriend is beating you and he's a member of a gang? you're signing your own death warrant to go to police. then we get a chance to see ourselves what happens when the police do take action. okay, we're riding with the police to deliver the restraining order. his wife is accusing him of punching her in the face and in the ribs. the plan is to deliver the order at the factory where he works. but it takes us two hours to even find the place. the charges are serious. but the mood? surprisingly friendly. once they return, they tell us the man who signed the order wasn't the one they were looking for. they were satisfied giving