Transcripts For FBC Sunday Morning Futures With Maria Bartiromo 20240713

Of Congress Just Gretchen Whitmer midnight friday night without a single Committee Committee hearing and doug collins is here telling us why the 3 trillion stimulus will be dead on arrival in the senate and how they intend to hold china accountable for getting us here and also here this morning mayor bill deblasio on what it takes to reopen new york city and his response to the president s comments on stimulus. Plus, nascar is back today, live , fox nascar analyst and fourtime nascar cup champion jeff gordon on what it means for the economy and the country all that and a lot more right here right now as we look ahead on sunday morning futures. Maria and first this morning breaking news out of the Intelligence Community this morning, acting dni Richard Grinell a u. S. Naval nothing friday his office will strip the fbi of its duties briefing the 2020 president ial candidate that follows accusations of foley bias in the 2016 election, former fbi director james comey infamously briefed president elect donald trump on january 6, 2017. Just one day after he met with president obama and other top officials in the oval office, and i sat down with President Trump himself to discuss what happened in the weeks leading up to his inauguration. President trump it was the greatest political crime in the history of our country. If i were a democrat instead of a republican, i think everybody would have been in jail a long time ago, and im talking with 50 year sentences. It is a disgrace whats happened this is the greatest political scam, hoax in the history of our country. And people should be going to jail for this stuff and hopefully, a lot of people are going to have to pay. No other president should have to go through and ill tell you, general flynn and others are heros, heros, because whats happened to them, they went after general flynn. They wanted him to lie about me, make up a story, and with few exceptions, nobody did that. There were many people, i watch k. T. Mcfarland the other day and i watched where she was knockknock the fbi. Okay . This was all obama. This was all biden. These people were corrupt the whole thing was corrupt, and we caught them. We caught them. And the charges now . I watched biden yesterday could barely speak he was on good morning america, right . And he said he didnt know anything about it and now, it just gets released right after he said that it gets released he was one of the unmaskers meaning he knew everything about it, so he lied to your friend george stephanopoulos. Maria explain to our audience what this means because this is a serious thing. They are tracking phone calls, they were tracking the phone calls of i guess kysliak. President trump ill tell you what it means very simple so even before i got elected you remember the famous the two lovers, peter strzok and page, the insurance policy. Shes going to win but just in case she doesnt we have an insurance policy. That means that if i won, they are going to try and take me out thats all it means very simple. Its an insurance policy so shes going to win. Isnt she darling . Isnt she going to win . And you remember, that was a real, getting that whole thing maria recovered it. President trump you have been unbelievable but most shows havent. Maria the fbi said they started the crossfire hurricane in july of 2016 but we know there were inform informants running into your Campaign Associates as early as januaryfebruary of 2016. They will Stephan Halper alexander downer, joseph misfid. Who organizes that . Would that come out of the cia . I know know know Stefan Halper made 1 million. President trump they got paid a fortune. Government money. They were interviewed. I dont know know know mr. Leynaud pi think he was on a committee but i never met him, but they went after these people , viciously. Its all because they wanted to hurt the president of the United States, and they figure, that will either hurt him or take him out that be the ideal. Comey is a corrupt person, and but let me tell you, theyre all bad, everyone, clapper is, you know, not a smart guy but here is the thing. It was impossible for it to happen for the man that sits right in that chair in the oval office he knew everything. Maria do you believe president obama directed the u. S. Intelligence agencies to spy on you . President trump yes he probably directed them but if he didnt direct them he knew everything. Youll see that. Excuse me youre going to see that. Remember the lisa page text to her lover saying podus wants to see everything. Were not talking about me. I wasnt president. Theyre talking about podus. Maria there was a meeting on january 5 in the oval office, president obama was there, Vice President biden was there, clap per, brennan, and thats when the logan act came up, so should we believe that they were looking for collusion evidence, they couldnt find the collusion evidence, there was none, so they said lets just use the logan act. President trump first of all they snuck around White House Council and went to see a very unsuspecting general flynn. Hes a general, not a lawyer. They said you dont need a lawyer and they started asking him questions and they probably brought up the logan act, and they probably scared the hell out of him but let me tell you a little secret. They were ask k. T. Mcfarcommand the way they knocked on the door the whole Mueller Investigation is a fraud it was all part of the same deal but what they did to general flynn and others, you know, we know about general flynn, youll find out about others too what they did to these people is an international disgrace, and all over the world they talk about it, because this is not america and hopefully, the people involved are going to pay a big price, because it should never be allowed to happen again. Maria trey gowdy on my show this weekend said that leaking classified information is a 10 year felony. We know that some of those people did that. President trump well comey did maria how involved was john brennan . President trump totally involved. He was one of the architects in my opinion, you look at brennan, clapper, look at them all but ultimately the president knew everything. The president knew everything. President obama and Vice President biden, they knew everything. Again maria what can we do about it . President trump let me just tell you if i were in that position, it be a whole different thing. If this happened to obama, instead of to a republican president , that popular 96 in the republican party, but its a whole different thing. If this happened to obama, instead of to me, do you know what everybody be in jail for years already, for years. Its a disgraceful thing, but we caught them in the act, maria. Its a beautiful thing and every day, were seeing more and more information come out. We caught them, and their guys are gone. They were guarding the fort, comey and all these guys were guarding the fort and once they left, it got easier and easier and now its like an avalanche of really bad call it treason, call it whatever you want, but they tried to take down a duly elected president of the United States. Maria they didnt care that 53 Million People voted for you and wanted you in the office. President trump more than 63 million just so you understand that they got caught in the act. They never thought that was going to happen. And they got sloppy. Well lisa page would text and send messages through service. You no one of the other things that is missing . The dnc server where is it . Why is it that the fbi didnt take it . They arrested all these people but they didnt arrest, they went into see the people of dnc, they go into see you know her Wonderful Campaign manager, you know all about that, right . They went into see those people whose supposed to, by the way, be arrested and the brother never got arrested. Why didnt maria the same investigation into the Trump Campaign they were also working on the investigation to Hillary Clintons emails. President trump yeah oh, yeah except a slightly different level of intensity okay . Maria that was by the middle of the year they called it the mid year review. President trump how about they walk into see Hillary Clintons people, five people i think and they said you all have immunity. You all have immunity. And with our people, they wanted to try and put them in jail and in some cases they did and those people are going to go down as heros. Maria i think carter page is going to sue. President trump i hope he sues. General flynn is going to have a heck of a case but hes got a judge that i guess doesnt like him very much, but maybe the judge doesnt like me very much, okay . Maybe the judge doesnt like me very much. Ill tell you what ive read legal scholars they cant even believe what the judge is doing to. Maria weve got a lot more to come. Stay with us for more of my sit down with President Trump also ahead live this morning senator john kennedy congressman doug collins and new york city mayor bill so i listen to audible almost any time that i can. Its my own thing that i can do for me. 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Two weeks ago senator tom cotton told us that the ccp was trying in many ways to steal medical data from the United States to come up with a vaccine for covid19 before the United States. My setdown with President Trump included this. We discussed ip theft and the pandemics impact of his relationship with china and xijinping. Secretary pompeo said he had strong evidence it did come from the lab. Weve been reporting this every sunday by the way from early on. You also said that you saw evidence. Can you tell us anything about the intelligence . President trump no but we have a lot of information, and its not good, but you know the worst of all whether it came from the lab or came from the bats, it all came from china, and they should have stopped it. They could have stopped it at that source. I call it the source. Right there. Maria but his decision to allow it to escape its borders . President trump i dont know if they made the decision but it got out of control. I think more likely it got out of control. Maria senator cotton said they didnt want the chinese economy to contract 20 and the rest of the world to contract 2 . President trump so we were beating them very badly before this. We were beating them between the tariffs and other things we were doing, and we were going up and they were having a very bad year. They were having the worst year theyve had in 56 years. Maria and they had protesters on the streets. President trump beyond that we were doing well, here is what i know for sure. They didnt allow this whole thing, they didnt allow people to go into china, but they did allow them to go out to the world including the United States. Thats why europe is a mess. Thats why look at these countries. Russia is having a hard time. Everybody is having a hard time. Maria will it get worse for those countries do you think President Trump for some of them. Some have just started the process. Were getting toward the end of the process. Maria so they downplayed the disease and the virus, at the same time, theyre allowing international travel, 5 Million People leaving wuhan going to italy and the United States, and then they start cornering the market on protective equipment even though china is already being the largest producer of this. President trump thats not the big thing. Look the big thing is they should have never let this happen so make a great trade deal and now i say, it just doesnt feel the same to me the ink was barely dry and the plague came over and it doesnt feel the same to me. Maria are they going to buy the 250 billion are they . President trump they will buy 250, 250 billion, they said somewhere i see theyd like to renegotiate the deal. Were not going to renegotiate. Look, im not happy about anything having to do with that particular subject right now. Maria have you spoken to xijinping . President trump i have a very Good Relationship but i just right now i dont want to speak to him. Maria because senator cotton was saying maybe we should be limiting the amount of visas that we give to students who want to study things Like Computers and ai. President trump there are many things we could do. We could cutoff the whole relationship. Now if you did, what would happen . Youd save 500 billion. If you cutoff the whole relationship, look, at what point does it and i said this for years i said it with other countries also. You know, chinas not the only country ripping us off. At nato, where we defend europe by the way, for essentially nothing i was able to get them to pay hundreds of billions of dollars more. You know my biggest fan of the world . Secretary stoltenberg. Hes been there a long time and said nobody has ever gotten, you know we were paying more and you have to see the chart of what they pay. So we are defending europe and then theyre taking advantage of us on trade. Its all one way and it was all turning and it is all turning around. Maria and you pulled back the money. President trump but proven to be right. Yeah, i pulled back the money. Maria they wanted to put 10 of the thrift fund into Science Companies 50 billion. Will you go one step further and force the Chinese Companies have to follow accounting rules if they want to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange . President trump were looking at that very strongly but on the thrift fund you know its run by the obama appointments right . And we said you got to do this and were going to find out whether or not they do it very soon and if they arent were going to replace them very quickly. We are looking at your second part of your question, were looking at that. Maria because Chinese Companies theyre listed on the New York Stock Exchange they dont have to report their earnings the way an American Company does . President trump Pretty Amazing but here is the problem with that. Look i hate to say it, but lets say we do that right . So what are they going to do . They will move their listing to london or some place else, do you see . Lets say you want to get tough and you are going to, you know, Everyone Wants to be a tough guy look im the toughest guy but what happens is so we say youre going to do this and youre going to follow the rules of the New York Stock Exchange or nasdac. What do they do . They say okay well move to london or go to hong kong. Maria but london doesnt have the same liquidity as the United States well talk more about that then, House Democrats passing the biggest stimulus bill in congressional history in a latenight vote, now it goes to the senate where my next guest says it is dead on arrival , louisiana senator john kennedy will join me as we look ahead on sunday morning futures. My thanks to President Trump for that special interview you can watch the rest of that on foxbusiness. Com. Stay with us back in a moment. Staying connected your way is easier than ever. 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Its 3 trillion for one thing. Every penny of which we would have to borrow. Thats 30 trillion. Its not going to pass the senate nor should it. My fellow republicans in the senate have tried to see things from the speakers point of view, but we cant get our heads that far up our rear ends, and i think any fair minded american would agree , once they read the bill. Maria there are things in this bill that have nothing to do with coronavirus senator and you have to wonder. Maybe theyre saying lets not waste a crisis opportunity, but money so that Marijuana Companies can do banking, money for illegals coming into the country and having services, i mean, the list goes on. Tell us what you see as the most damaging here in this bill. That is not helping anybody related to coronavirus. Well its not a coronavirus bill as much as it is an effort by the speaker and her colleague s to rewrite the rules for americal society. This bill, her bill would rewrite our immigration laws, her bill would federalize elections, our elections have always been run by states and local governments. Her bill would begin the process of federalizing the elections. It would allow federal prisoners to go free. It mentions dope more than it talks about jobs. I think it references cannabis like 68 times. It would expand obamacare and let me end as i began. It would cost 3 trillion. Thats 3,000 billion. We just spent 3 trillion, we need to see how that works first maria how is it working . We are seeing almost half of the country open here in terms of the reopening. How is that money being used and do you think that were going to be able to get out of this fairly soon and start see ing growth in the economy again, senator . We cant appropriate enough money, maria to buy the american economy. By we, i mean congress, nor can the federal reserve. The only thing thats going to get us out of this is the American People and the American Private sector. Were going to have to open up the economy. Now that doesnt mean that we wont do it safely. Its no longer a debate between safe or assumed. Its now same and soon. Weve got to do everything we possibly can to keep people safe and weve got to do everything we possibly can to get this economy open safely, and unlike some of my colleagues , i think the American People can do it. Maria senator let me switch gears and ask you about your legislation in terms of your bill to kick Chinese Companies off of u. S. Exchanges if they keep hiding audits from u. S. Inspectors. The president just referred to this and i asked him is he going to go one step further and make sure to hold these Chinese Companies that are listed on our exchange accountable to just follow the rules that everybody else does. Tell us about your bill. God created the world, but Everything Else is made in china how did that happen . We let it. We allowed china to be admitted to the World Trade Organization on december 11, 2001. China started cheating december 12, and President Trump has been the first president to really stand up to them. Let me give you an example. If you list your stock on an american exchange, you have to have audits, periodically and the sec gets to review those audits. China has many of its companies, some stateowned, listed on our exchanges that they refuse to let the sec look at their audits, and i have a bill to kick them off. Ive known about this forever and do you know what the congress has done about it . Nothing zero, nada, zilch. And if my bill and senator van h ylens bill comes to the floor of the United States senate it will pass. Maria there is also a letter going out this morning to jay clayton the chairman of the securities and Exchange Commission pushing him to make this change but you heard what the president just said when i asked him about this , that they will then take their listings and go to london and go to hong kong, but i think whats really important to point out is that these companies will not get the liquidity they get in the United States anywhere else in the world. Forget london and hong kong. The United States has the most liquidity and thats going to be a huge blow to them and the administration also did a big blow to Huawei Telecom as you know on friday by making it more difficult for huawei to sell to global chipmakers. Well if Chinese Stateowned companies are going to cheat american investors, why do we want them on our exchanges . China cant go to hong kong. They do have some of their listings on the Hong Kong Exchange but china is slowly destroying Hong Kong Economic ally and politically. You made a very good point theres less liquidity in london everybody wants to list in america. Maria real quick, before you go , senator given that your role in the judiciary committee, what is going to happen with this unmasking . We know crimes were broken will our audience see accountability here for the people who actually did this and tried to take donald trump down despite the American People voting for him . Unmasking is just a form of spying, 39 members of the Obama Administration spied on the general. Whats Congress Going to do about it so far nothing. Its been five months since Inspector General horowitz pointed out that the steele dossier was rubbish. Only bill barr has done anything so far but congress has done absolutely nothing and unfortunately maria well what are you going to do . Its your committee. Youre on the judiciary committee. Im not the chairman. Were going to start the hear ings in june, and im not saying, im not trying to telllindsey how to run his committee. I would issue subpoenas and line them up and work night and day but unfortunately the constitution does not require congress to be productive. Maria senator its good to have you on the program this morning thanks so much. Well be watching the developments senator john kennedy my next guest says that with that historically huge stimulus bill democrats are exploiting this crisis for political advantage and hes introduced his own legislation to hold china accountable that is congressman doug collins live , next. Stay with us. There are times when our need to connect really matters. To keep customers and employees in the know. To keep business moving. Comcast business is prepared for times like these. Powered by the nations largest gigspeed network. To help give you the speed, reliability, and security you need. 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Congressman good to see you thanks for joining us lets get right to it. Your bill basically sanctions and freezes assets of the chinese leadership. Tell us about it. Exactly, china decides they want to be a World Economic they also have been a responsible World Economic power they cant treat the world like their citizen which is is to keep them under oppression and make them believe they have a communist doctrine and what well do is say if you want to be a part of the world you need to be out there and give us full International Accounting of what you d d not do it has become very apparent they were much more willing to control it internally but yet spread it across the world. China has a problem and the problem is they cant be honest with themselves and honest with the International Community so were going to put it to give the president a way to sanction and not tie his hands but give him every tool in the tool box to get them to compete in a way that is fair in the International Market and if they dont then fine they will suffer the consequences for it. Maria do you worry that there will be consequences to that they are going to pushback. You already have Chinese State media threatening congressmen. You werent on the list but josh holly was on the list, tom cotton was on the list they are watching each of your districts to try to get back at you for coming up with legislation against china and the communist party. I hope the communist party is watching my name is doug, and im going to stand with america and im tired of them trying to steal pharmaceuticals and tired of letting them their own country be locked down and then lie to it to the world. The communist party must realize they are trying to keep their own people but that regime is destined to fail. We need to make sure if youll have an economic partner in the world they have to be able to compete like everybody else does and tell the truth. It seems like they cant do that even to their own people so why would we expect it from the rest of the world. Maria let me switch gears congressman ask you about the unmasking. You heard the president response to what has taken place where we see a level of Obama Administration officials moving to tell the world expose what was supposed to be a private call between an incoming nsa director and the ambassador to russia. Well its amazing what we seen. Maria weve been talking about this for so long and now it feels like what weve been talking about and the corrupt with peter strzok and mccabe and comey and now yates but now find something different. We find it in the oval office. Not the oval office of President Trump but the oval office of president obama who was asking about flynn who would add his own chief of staff unmask him the day there was a meeting and oh, by the way joe biden were you asleep in this meeting as well when you actually were there and you told just this past week that you knew nothing about cuppertino and you actually made a request for unmasking . This is the problem were seeing is people are waking up to the real fact there was an attempt to take out a candidate and then a president before he could get going, and the American People should be demanding why every news outlet is not cover ing this the way you have for the last three years and many of us have been screaming at the top of our lungs there was basically a coo attempt at the highest level and now we are right into the oval office. Maria and you still dont see it on any of the news media, they actually used the media to leak things, classify documents in fact, trey gowdy said that leaking classified documents is a 10 year felony. I know were waiting on john durham but do you see crimes being committed in plain sight here . How could it not be . I agree with trey. How did that information had to get out from one of these that unmasked or someone they gave it to. Its amazing, to look at how the Mainstream Media treats this president. They treat him as if he was different. They believe anything if he was accused of collusion or accused of doing anything else with the russians but yet when it comes to the ones they think are the greatest in the world, the super heros that they thought really nothing but a corrupt bunch of, you know, thug s going around it looks like now because they believe everything they say but this goes back, you know, way past this , from the clinton e mall scandal into the discussion of russia and so what i want to see happen is hold employee accountable. Somehow this information got out we now know who unmasked, lets start having the investigation and durham is doing that but there needs to be accountability because how can that not happen to you and me . Maria throughout this , lets not forget they missed the real bad actor and thats china. While yourself and some colleagues were investigating chinas moves like devon nunes over the last several years weve reported that congressman good to see you thank you, sir. Well be watching your developments in terms of that legislation, doug collins. New york meanwhile the epicenter of the pandemic and the United States says it needs billions of dollars in federal aid now. President trump says hes not about to bail out states trying to use the crisis to make up years of mismanagement. Well hear from the president and new york city mayor bill deblasio, to react, live right here, next. Wthe Natural Light is amazing. Hardwood floors. There is a bit of a clogging problem. clog dancing at least geico makes it easy to bundle our renters and car insurance. Yeah, helping us save us even more. For bundling made easy, go to geico. Com tums ver bell rings la stick when heartburn hits fight back fast. With tums chewy bites. Beat heartburn fast tums chewy bites maria we had mayor deblasio on the other day and he said he needs 7. 5 billion right now, yesterday. He said he needs to be made whole. What are you thinking in terms of aid to the states, the cities how are you going to decide who gets what . President trump youve had a lot of states and cities that have been very badly run for a long time. A lot of them are trying to use the covid problem, you know that , for making up whats happened over 25 years of bad management, like your governor of illinois. He wants money. He wants money, i know the family. He wants money because you know, lets make up for 25 years and some very bad current years. Maria and joining me right now to react to the president and that comment is the man who leads the city where President Trump was born and raised and came to fame, which is taking the biggest hit in the United States today, from the coronavirus pandemic. New york city mayor bill deblasio. Mr. Mayor good to see you thanks so much for join us. Thank you, maria. Maria you heard the president are you using this covid19 pandemic as an excuse to cover up for years of mismanagement, sir . Maria, youve seen whats happened in the city. Youre a new yorker. Youve seen what has happened in the city in recent years. Right before this pandemic, the highest level of employment in our history booming economy, lowest crimes since the 1950s, more and more kids graduating on time in our Public Schools than ever in our history you name it this city was moving forward and as an american, maria, were all in this together, so when new york city does well, when new york state does well, it helps the whole country, when california does well, one of the other great engines of the national economy, it helps everyone. I dont think we should be talking about red states and blue states we should be talking about american states and american cities, how to put america back on its feet and when i told you about that 7. 5 billion thats revenue thats gone, that pays for cops, firefighters, teachers, sanitation workers its gone, and theres no way im going to get it back. In fact maria im probably going to see more and more revenue gone because our economy wont come back without a stimulus. So im saying to get us back on our feet maria right but you cant blame the covid19 for everything. Even before the coronavirus you had streams of people, individuals and business, fleeing the city because of the taxes. Fleeing the city because of the homelessness, and fleeing the city because of the inmates that you are letting out. New york city shootings spiked nearly 200 this week, compared to the same time a year ago. Crime is up all the bad stats are up. You know that. So im talking about your sanctuary city policies bottom line are you willing to sacrifice sanctuary city policies in order to be eligible for this money . Maria bottom line first because i had a lot of respect for you but you mischaracterized the reality. Crime has been going own overall in the city now for seven years. We have times when things go up and the nypd fights back and every single time theres even the smallest spike in crime fights it back. In terms of the city some people left and a lot of people came including weve built more homegrown millionaires in recent years and more millionaires have moved here than any who left, so no, in fact, highest employment in our history, maria, before this pandemic. This cities been booming, and i want to be clear. Maria but the whole country was experiencing record low unemployment because of the president s tax cut and deregulation plan. That was the president s policies, not new york policies. But the problem with mayor deblasio listen. Maria one issue is that is talked about around you is people say the problem with mayor deblasio is that he hates wealth. He drives rich people out of the city, with the amount of regulation and the tax increases that youre driving businesses and individuals out. Lets not even go into the issue of the bail reform law, where you had to let all of these inmates out and crime did spike and we see that continuing so much that you had to get them back and put them back in jail because as soon as you let them out they went and they critted more crimes. Again, maria, its the safest as its been since the 1950s. Maria shootings are up 200 just this week, mr. Mayor. And guess what the nypd will fight it back because i added 2,000 more officers on patrol and for six years in a row, now seven, weve reduced crime and we will continue to, and again maria is there any way you could pullback on your sanctuary city laws and follow the rule of the law when it comes to immigration . The trump adminitration will want to work with you. We follow the rule of the law in this city and we respect the fact theres a half Million People here who happen to be undocumented and the u. S. Supreme court said in 2012 that the federal government does not have in a federal system that respects states does not have the ability because of its own policy preferences, to penalize cities that are trying to provide security and safety. You know the funding that President Trump originally threatened for the city it was for the nypd for our Anti Terrorism efts that makes no sense at all so well stick to our policies which the constitution protects and were going to serve our people and create a place thats safe for everyone. Do you know what the nypd does not ask documentation status because decades ago mayor bloomberg and guiliani knew this to keep a city safe that happens to have hundreds of thousands of undocumented folks we want to fix immigration in this country lets have a comprehensive immigration with a path to citizenship for all those who are here now, 12 Million People lets stop ignoring maria and denying it and actually dealing with it as a country thats something the democrats and republicans might get together on because if we dont everyone is going to suffer our economy is going to suffer lets deal with the reality. Maria what do you want to say to those people who are horrified by the nursing home situation where Governor Cuomo allowed coronavirus patients to go into Nursing Homes now were seeing a dreadful number of people having died at Nursing Homes. How is this happening on your watch . We all have to do better theres no question. Were working with the state with Governor Cuomo, weve been supplying protective equipment to those Nursing Homes well do everything we can. This is a horrible human crisis i think about these families, maria. We all have to, the state actually has the regulatory role in terms of regulating Nursing Homes. We dont but were all going to Work Together to fix this problem because we owe it to the people in those Nursing Homes and their families. Maria all right real quick before you go we know the beaches will be open for memorial day. Not in new york city. Were not going to do that in new york city maria. Maria why not . You grew up not far from coney island you know that our beaches are very crowded very quickly. Were not going to allow it so i said today that were not opening on memorial day as we normally do. For folks in local communities who walk on the beach, walk on the boardwalk they can still do that but no swimming, no lifeguards, no congregating, nypd will be out there, Parks Department will be out there. If people are smart about it and listen to the rules, great. If not, we actually might have to put up fencing to keep people off the beach. I dont want to do it but if i have to i will. We are so far from being out of the woods in new york city were still the epicenter until were safe no beaches open. Maria wow, we all want to get through this together. Mr. Mayor good to see you i hope youll join me soon on mornings with maria. Well see you soon thank you, sir. Mayor deblasio. My agerelated Macular Degeneration could lead to vision loss. So today i made a plan with my doctor, which includes preservision. Because he said a multi vitamin alone may not be enough. And its my vision, my morning walk, my sunday drive, my grandsons beautiful face. 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Eastern dont miss it joining me right now for a preview is nascar legend jeff gordon he is fox car analyst and four time cup series champion great to see you jeff, thanks for joining us. Tell us what its going to be like for these drivers who havent been behind the wheel in 10 weeks. Yeah, these drivers when they start off in daytona in february theyre looking at a 38 week grind its a long season since these guys have been away from this for now what 10 weeks, i think its been a reminder to them to all the competitors and to everybody that loves racing and the passion about it just how much it means to them and maybe they took that for granted because of the repetitiveness and just how long this season is , but not any more. Today that passion is back, the excitement is there, and everybody is just thrilled that were going to get to see the first major sport to be able to happen and i applaud nascar and the track and the teams and fox for being able to find a way to make this happen. Were a unique sport and our uniqueness is whats allowing us to get there to the racetrack today and do this in a safe manner. Maria and youre going to be calling race from charlotte right because of safety protocols everybody is in different places. Yeah thats right. Were all making adjustments. Obviously the teams are limited on a number of people that are going to be there. Nascar, theres definitely going to, its going to feel and look different at the racetrack, but for those race car drivers they are going to strap in and start the engine and get that green flag and then its going to be business as usual. For us at fox, yeah, weve got a different setup. Were going to be doing this re modely from charlotte and weve got an amazing setup. Weve actually got cameras in the actual booth, so i think were going to be pull this off were going to be pull this off its a very exciting there are times when our need to connect really matters. To keep customers and employees in the know. 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