I am Maria Bartiromo it is wednesday august 16, your top stories, 6 00 a. M. On the east coast. Retail setting the tone with target in t. J. Maxx reporting that earnings ahead of the opening bell, we will have all the numbers and preview of the big walmart quarter as the august selloff deepened this morning. Take a look futures are flat after fitch warns of a possible cut to big banks including j. P. Morgan all of this as we preview housing data and the Federal Reserve minutes coming out today, 2 00 p. M. Eastern from the july meeting, european markets are mixed, take a look at the eurozone where we look at a mixed s p 100 is negative and the cat crown is higher, and asia red acrosstheboard, the chinese want falling to the lowest level since 2007. All the men enter major embassies in asia overnight lower. Back in washington, President Biden touting bidenomics at the white house marking the oneyear anniversary of the inflation inductor react as the president tries to save face on his lack of action on the molly wildfires, now that we to visit at some point. Meanwhile President Trump is fighting back is an unprecedented for indictments, he will hold a press conference on monday and reveal Election Fraud in georgia which he promises will totally exonerate him. He is vowing to appoint a special counsel to investigate the biden family. Joining the conversation Bullseye American Ingenuity Fund manager adam johnson, sw retail advisor stacy with that, and foxs contributor joe concha. Mornings with maria is live right now. Meanwhile former President Trump has nine days to turn himself into a Georgia Court to face and arraignment on 13 charges brought on by Fulton CountyDistrict Attorney fani willis. The former president calling for all four of his criminal trials to happen after the 2024 president ial election. Trump making the first on camera statement going after the first family saying i believe that we have a compromise president. He was bribed and now he is being blackmailed he is a manchurian candidate as soon as im elected i will appoint a real special counsel. Joining me to talk about that and more ohio congressman brad wenstrup, the house intelligence and house ways and means committee. Its great to see you this morning, thank you so much for being here. Thank you. Maria so much to talk about from covid censorship and whats happening when you come back in september with the potential of a continuing resolution or government shutdown. Lets start with the indictments against trump, how do you see things . First of all im not a lawyer but this is disturbing and i think it should be to the average citizen of the United States. To see we are deviated away from truth and justice in america. All of these indictments coming forward, the accusation of racketeering they all appear political and they appear to be tremendous political overreach. Today i think throughout america what we are seeing is a tremendous staying on the traditional virtues of america in our traditional virtues of our justice system. I think what were seen today is authority for the sake of politics and personal gain taking actions, bringing forth indictments that i dont think otherwise we would normally see and we probably would not see if it was a president ial candidate from the party of which are not affiliated. Recently in the last week a bit in wyoming, utah, minnesota, ohio and all the headlines are about trumps indictments which are seemingly what democrats want to see but what were not seeing other things in congress that were working on such as the potential crimes of hunter biden with his taxes on ways and means and the whistleblowers came to us from the irs. Were not talking about the irs in action the way we should or d. O. J. Inaction or the plea deal that the d. O. J. Was offering hunter biden for example that fortunately the judge struck down with all this information we now have about hunter biden in the actions taken, how about the millions of dollars that are going to the bidens. The bidens after the United States of america into their own personal yard sale. Theres so many things that really cannot sitting on the Intelligence Committee and we want to get to the root of all the types of things that took place within the fisa court, who did that and why did the fbi called the shooting at the baseball field which was a clear insurrection, why did they call that suicide by cop. Maria is all quite disturbing right here and as we watch censorship underway from the government in a number of agencies working with social media to try to suppress truth and amplify lies all at the same time of the two system of justice as you mentioned, what can you do about it as an elected official. As an elected official in congress we could do the things that were doing and that is trying to subpoena evidence and that goes in the face of the narrative then. Maria do you think its going to be harder for you to get information now that you have the special counsel with regard to the hunter biden investigation, the House Oversight committee, the ways and means as well as judiciary happen working together to try to get as much information out to the public so we can understand what is taking place in terms of all of the money taken from the biden family. Will that slow down as a result of david weiss being the special counsel in the hunter biden investigation. First of all hes not a special counsel because he does not fit the description of the special counsel. Mr. Weiss as part of the congressional investigation of what i see time and time again agencies try to say we dont do anything because we have it investigation guess what were congress and were happy to investigation. You know what i see when we had trouble getting information and weve been able to do this in a bipartisan fashion that is to fence the funding of the agencies until we get the information that we want maybe we have to take the steps as well. Maria i know youre about to get in the appropriation bills, d11 laughs that are not finished when you get back in september. Congressman you are sending a letter to the fbi in the department of health, you want answers under the alleged chinese covid lab that was operating in fresno california, this genetically engineering on mice and experimenting with hiv, herpes and malaria, what if you learned, what could you tell us . We hope to learn more we have set a letter to the cdc, the fda and the fbi we will all the documents and communication, prestige biotech is supposedly chinese owned and when it comes to the genetically modified mice they are modified to be humanized and therefore they will react as a human being when exposed to certain viruses similar to what was going on in wuhan with the coronavirus research. Were hearing 20 or so Infectious Diseases while a spokesperson for the lab said that they dont have any Infectious Diseases, bacteria or viruses in the lab but were hearing covid19, hiv, malaria, chlamydia, if the select subcommittee double on the pandemic and with Intelligence Committee, my concerns how do we keep america safe, this is a clear biological threat, locally, nationally and internationally. We want the documents and wanted taken to whats going on because its a National Security and National Health security. Maria was there any recourse for communist china for allowing the virus to get unleashed out of a wuhan lab and affect the world. We talked everyday about the soft approach that joe biden has on china as bible then, police station, massive cyber activity and not to mention a lab leak that was covered up. You have seen what weve revealed through the subcommittee on the pandemic is internal documents from the people that are saying this came from nature, nothing to see in china necessarily. Internally they were saying it couldve likely come from the lab, even dr. Fauci said we know theyre doing this research in wuhan. When you have an organization like the World Health Organization that is not strong that is a problem they should exist for all humankind and be part of the narrative to say you have a problem in china and we have great evidence to say this came from the lab and you need to atone for that and didnt get to and come forward with all the data that they seem to eliminate. Maria we will leave it there but on house ways and means, are you expecting continuing revolution when you get back, whats going to happen with the 11 appropriation bills that need to get finished . Sometimes we dont get where we want to go that ends up happening, i know Speaker Mccarthy has talked about the possibility of a shortterm cr but hopefully we can get these done because weve been working hard on getting these done. Maria good to see you. Thank you, sir. Brad went strip. Well be right back. What if buildings could tell you how they could be more efficient . Im listening. Well, with ibm, you can use software to help you connect and analyze data from hvacs to elevators to lights. What if we use aidriven insights to pinpoint inefficiency . Yep. And act on it. Saving energy, money. And emissions. Yup. Thats a big one. Now youve built Something Better for everyone. Thats the sustainability solution ibm and a Global Real Estate company created. What will you create . Ibm. 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Lets define bidenomics that we can all understand restrict drilling on federal land so the price of gasoline goes up and try to offset with handouts in money we dont have to spend by taking out more debt that we can afford to finance, that is bidenomics. Maria because of all the spending, to be dollars chasing too few goods, we know what inflation is and we know that happen ticket is up to 40 year highs. The fact that mr. Biden tried to claim hes reducing the deficit and spending, that is twisted, bidenomics is twisted. Maria hes believing his own talking points, we have a new survey that finds half of voters take a loss for President Biden would help improve the economy, among the democrats 38 they believe his defeat would be good for their wallets, your thoughts . Four and ten of the president s own party said if this guy lost we would be a better position, this is classic teen biden taking credit for all of us as far as inflation is concerned were bringing inflation down from 9 . Alltime highs as a result of all of the spending to the Inflation Reduction Act enter covid relief, inflation is not increasing it was 1. 3 when this president took office is now three times as high as that when you ask people what theyre feeling on the ground, seven and ten disapprove of the handling of the economy thats with the American People think, he could spend the salty wants thats what were at as far as overall perception of this president. Maria stacey, we very scene and pack to higher Interest Rates on the interestrate sensitive groups, interestrate tactical higher because of the very issue. I think for the average consumer what theyre looking at you just put up 20 food inflation over a twoyear basis, the average family is having a hard time feeding the family because it is decelerating, youre also looking at labor costs permanently higher. The cost structure is not changing for the average consumer advocate slightly better. Maria how would you characterize retail in the consumer, were getting retail setting the tone. Were waiting target and tjx numbers but what is your 30000 feet assessment of the consumer. What we were talking about as rates go higher, debt is coming up, Credit Card Debt is coming up, People Savings have gone down to 4 versus 8 this time last year. Its a huge drop at a big ticket items are the ones that are getting hurt, home depot talked about that the last two quarters and target will hear from today, discretionary last quarter was terrible and its all about spending on health, wellness and food and thats where the wall is going and theres not a a lot left over. Maria we have a vacuum for the fed jackson hole meeting coming up next week and the next one is in september. At the end of the month. Maria do you think will still get a hike in rates . I dont. In a month or possibly two months because of the way the data falls more data on inflation, unemployment, et cetera. The trend has been for inflation to decline. Headline last week we saw the largest backtoback decrease in cpi in two years, that is the headline, give it a little more time to play out. Maria regular take a short break, retail setting the tone were awaiting target and tjx earnings. Before the opening bell will talk to stacey once the numbers are hitting the tape. Janet yellen recaptured trip to china enter trip with psychedelic mushrooms she dined on while she was there. Its making a buzz this morning. We will hear her reaction to what her chinese host fed her back in a minute. Its not just designed to look good. Its built to command attention. Its not just a comfortable interior. Its a quiet refuge. Theyre not just headlights. They light the way forward. The new fully electric audi q8 etron models. This isnt just freight. These arent just shipments. Theyre promises. Promises of all shapes and sizes. Each, with a time and a place theyve been promised to be. 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I think the consumer has challenges and the walls are strapped in this earnings season particular with tj and walmart and target is going to be stretched. I think were going to see a cutback in spending, weve been talking about with home depot all week and big ticket items, hold back on the wallet and very concerned by what i see. Maria lets talk about what we can focus on in this upcoming quarter, i know were expected at dollar 39 and earnings of revenue 25. 16 billion, what are you focusing on. Were looking at the comps expected to be gone for preset, this time last year was when they cleared the dacs, the consumer change the habits and stop spending on discretionary so margins were obliterated last year. The key is targets traffic has been up the last 12 quarters. If that changes this quarter, that is a see change, you also think about a controversy around target and they did lose a portion of the Consumer Base that is boycotting them. I think the discretionary with the mistakes that they made making some statements puts the potential for traffic to turn negative and thats what the difference will be this quarter. Maria keith were wondering what happens with the consumer because there is a debate over the markets reaction to Economic Data in the actual data, we have nvidia stock up better than 200 year to date, the stock is up 200 year to date analysts are expecting a significant be ahead of the chipmaker earnings next wednesday but if you look at the macro story slowing in the stock market up 15 year to date on the s p 500 because of things like nvidia and you wonder if there is a mismatch here. I think there is, dont forget you could be an economic bear and a marketable particularly with a rush to a. I. , nvidia, the wall Street Community by surprise because they did not yet coming from big chip items like the generated a. I. , 100 chip, those of 40000 a pop and you have saudi arabia buying thousands of these at a time. I think we will see strong numbers, as long as nvidia can hold the 435, 440 if they can come back on earnings im beginning to think in the high five hundreds is impossible its a stretch. Maria what a move, adam johnson you own the stock, what you want to do going into the Earnings Release next wednesday. You and i talked about nvidia a number of times i wrote it up for my subscribers and 175 less than a year ago, my target was for 75 imprudence says you always sell a portion of your position when it hits the ta target, i just bought it back. I agree with keith, 600 is my next stop with nvidia. Maria is that all a. I. Driving this . Effectively. They also make the fastest chips, 30 trillion calculations per second which enables the a. I. , know what the chips are that fast the ten times faster than the next competitor, thats the appeal. Maria the Federal Reserve expected to release the minutes from the july meeting, that is happening today at 2 00 p. M. Eastern as minneapolis Federal Reserve says its too high in the fed is not ready to declare the central bank thats finished raising Interest Rates, what does that tell you in terms of rate hikes through yearend . It is hard for me to remain with any decree of decorum i think theyre still out to lunch and i think theyre still playing with broken models. I look at the feds comments very cautiously with a grain of salt and i think it would be putin to give it a pause because they caused this mess and played a significant role so im watching the commentary with nothing more figuring out what traders are going to think about what the feds, means. Maria is all about economic activity. Now were waiting on target this morning then you have walmart tomorrow and that will be the big kahuna of retail, what does walmart tell us. July retail was strong. We do have data points at the fed can say look over here but i think tomorrow from walmart 60 , they are getting the wealthier customer trading down that is where the majority of the growth is but as inflation comes down so do their Comp Store Sales and weedeater rebound in discretionary and we gotta listen for that. But walmart has the power to pass on prices and food hands down so they will continue to gain share. Maria even though the cheapest or not the cheapest. They are the cheapest and they will continue to take the opportunity when everybody else is edging up prices to give some back and gain the share and loyalty for the longterm. To stacys point dont forget walmart has tremendous ecommerce capability and it can be to be built around their products not only are they moving groceries but the doing things digitally i think that will give them straight when other retailers falter. Maria it is interesting when you talk about it economy that is slowly but surely looking better from an inflation standpoint, growth is still weakening in the president doesnt appear worried about the spending hes trying to get the student loan bailout, that is more stimulus. That is symbolic he knows the Supreme Court shot this down, hes doing it again so he can show younger voters. At least i tried, the Supreme Court are politicized they shot this data trying to hurt you, 50 of the loans go to those who have graduate degrees were advanced degrees, those of doctors and lawyers, the type of people that can pay their loans back. From a construction worker, where is my bailout where is my loan forgiveness, politically its one of the stupider things weve seen from this administration. Maria we knew it was unconstitutional to forget the billions in debt have at the people to pay down their debt. I had Student Loans and it took me many, many, many months and many years, it was 112. 84 massachusetts into my 30s to pay down the loans, im not saying i should get a refund because i paid them but thats the way it works you sign a contract and if you take out a mortgage you agree to pay it back you dont forgive all of us. Maria breaking news the target earnings crossing the tape that looks like a big win on earnings but a miss on revenue earningspershare a dollar 80 a share better than the dollar 39 the estimates were out there for wall street and economist but look at the revenue coming in at 24. 77 billion that is below the 25. 16 billion that the street was looking for, were digging into the numbers because we want to look at Comp Store Sales you mentioned earlier this morning as something key to look at, the stock right now is appointed , your thoughts. First of all i think about the expectation that went into the quarter we saw five downgrades into the quarter and up against one of the easiest comparables from last year, we want to see the traffic numbers number one but im not surprised that revenue is disappointing again this stock has been hampered by the sell side and this is good to be disappointing, short of disastrous. Maria stock is due to big rally better than 3 despite a revenue miss and the company lowering its full year earningspershare, the guidance does not look good there missing revenue expectation with 24. 7 billion, there lowering the fullyear earnings outlook, the stock of course had been her over the last couple of months in this morning, look at whats going on are you surprised the move is up better than 4 . Im not because expectations they were going to take a huge haircut to the guidance and that discretionary is under pressure and they were going to lose share from some of the public pr mistakes that they made with the product mix so they had innately aided some of the consumers. The bottom line is discretionary and still under pressure, target has a private label, when that comes back in the discretionary comes back thats when you get the margin uplifts so people are looking to six months from now when the consumer turns and brings back the margin product. Maria you mentioned the stakes that they made they had a pride section pride merchandise where they got criticized. Your thoughts, look at the stock it is right now moving, it was up 5 in the top five and a third target in the premarket. We showed you the chart from yesterday. This kind of move makes me want to short it. I dont think this is sustainable so ill go along walmart and costco which i own and go short with this because i dont think this sustains is the technical relief rally thats about it. Maria you are selling into a move on target which is up 5. 5 . Thats my temptation. The comps rms down 5. 4 thats a bit of a relief. But the big thing, you have to look at the inventory is down 17 . Thats what the investors are looking at. That is good for them they had too much in the sales to inventory is evening out which implies margins are getting continue to be a margins were up nicely, that is the real key. Maria inventory is down, comp stores down, the stock is up 6 . Keith fitzgerald, well be right back. upbeat music constant contacts advanced automation lets you send the right message at the right time, every time. constant contact. Helping the small stand tall. west rose next big thing ready . 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Good morning maria, so much heartbreak on the island as the death toll continues to climb higher and mobile morgue has been brought in and of the 106 confirmed dead only five at this time have been identified. Police say is going to be a long and painstaking process of identifying the victims of this fire. Meanwhile people are being urged to submit dna samples to identify loved ones as search crews continue to comb through the rubble and lahaina. More than 2200 buildings have been damaged or destroyed by the fire, the majority of them homes, meanwhile reports of developers contacting fire victims to buy their burnett properties. The governor considering a moratorium on land sales in the aftermath of the fire. Some people took out of context, i made about purchasing land that is to protect it, to protect it for our local people so it is not stolen by people on the mainland. This is not ever about the government getting land this is the peoples land and the people will decide to do it lahaina. Resources and volunteers continue to pour on the island, the Biden Administration announcing onetime payments of 700 of families impacted by the fires. A president ial visit to maui is now in the works. Were going to travel as soon as we can, i dont want to get in the way of a talk to the governor, i bit into many disaster areas but i want to make sure we got everything that they need. I want to be sure that we dont disrupt ongoing recovery eff efforts. Meanwhile the road behind me has opened up for residents a small sign of normalcy recovered to the island that is endured so much heartbreak. Maria our prayers to the people of hawaii. Thank you max gorden fox is partnering with the red cross to help those affected with the wildfires, text hawaii 1090999 to make it 10 donation or scan the qr code on your screen to partner with fox and the red cross. Secretary of state and the duplicate is claiming President Bidens agreement with iran to release five jailed iranians in exchange for 6 billion in assets in prison iranians is not linked to an attempt to return to a nuclear deal. Watch this. Nothing about her overall approach to iran has changed, there is no agreement between us on nuclear matters, the agreement that we are pursuing to bring home those were wrongfully detained in iran is an entirely separate matter that we want to bring to a successful conclusion. Maria last week the New York Times reported the prisoner deal could smooth the effort to contain Irans Nuclear program and iran and the United States appear to be observing an informal agreement under which iran has evident its Nuclear Program to avoid harsh american reprisals, joining me strategic analyst chairman of the study of war general jack keane. Always a pleasure thank you for being with us this morning. Delighted to be here. How would you assess this partnership or deal with iran between iran and america . It may not be linked to giving up 6 billion to the iranians because of either administration ever since he came into power has been trying to return to the nuclear deal. Thats been a major policy proclamation of the administration and we know that they tried time and time again to get a deal and we havent gotten one in the reality iranians are at 60 enrichment in thats pretty close to weaponization. People believe 90 is weaponization and you can get there in a matter of a few weeks. What is happened in the region. Iran is going to get a win for a 6 billion in the administration is claiming they believe they can control that money so it goes directly to the people. I think we have to be skeptical. Iran controls everything that goes on inside of iran and with the people. I believe if they want access to the money which i think they will, they will get access to it. The second thing when we look at a deal like this, draw back and say is iran receiving this money even if theyre supposed to go to the people not to the government. Is this an incentive for them to take more american citizens and i say absolutely it is because its a sheer scale of this. When the Obama Administration got into ransom for hostages. It was 400 million followed by 1. 5 billion that was u. S. Taxpayers money for sure in this is considerably more money is not u. S. Taxpayers money it is money as a result of a deal with south korea for oil but nonetheless you know, i know interviewers know iran will take this money and use it aggressively move towards their strategic to dominant and control the region an attempt to control the flow of mideast oil out of the persian gulf and we see that happening in the last few weeks. Maria we know iran is the biggest sponsor of terrorism. Im scratching my head saying what is this administration unleash 6 billion of the could take the money and do what they have been doing. Did iran do anything to make america thank there was a change in colors, same thing with ch china. Why the soft approach. We have don bacon posting on x or twitter, that the fbi told him chinese hackers breached his personal and Campaign Email accounts previous of the ccp had access from basic enter 15th to june 16 of this year. This is the same time the hackers breached the imo commerce secretary gina romano. You remember this, and the duplicate was getting ready to go on a trip to help the communication between the two countries in the meantime the ccp is hacking the state department and his emails. There was no recourse. The Cyber Espionage campaign that they are conducting inside of the United States is the most comprehensive penetration in the American Society in our history what the russians are doing and iranians and north korea absolutely pales by comparison. Theres not thousands of people involved in this penetration from china, theres hundreds of thousands and millions of millions of penetration being made every day and every once in a while we get Public Awareness of something that is happening what is going on constantly, the flipside do we do this to china, yes, do we gather intelligence, were not stealing the intellectual property, here is the other shoe that will drop. If conflict operations happen with china, lets say over taiwan, they will try to defeat the United States at home by conducting cyber offensive operations against our electric grid to shut it down rita finance and banking systems. Oil and gas distribution just to name a few of the critical infrastructure, that is the way of war in the future and that is the reality. We have exquisite offensive capabilities to go back after chinese in the event that Something Like this happens. You gotta believe all the penetration that theyre making in peacetime will also serve them well in making much more aggressive penetration in wartime. Maria look at whats going on. Yet the ccp investing and focusing on their military they have a larger navy than we do and as you pointed out on team times in the last several years you have a surveillance balloon from china coming in and traveling america and you have police stations, you have all of the cyber activity you are referring to and yet were about to talk about a situation where janet yellen went to dinner in beijing enter chinese host did the ordering and psychedelic mushrooms for her. It is beyond the pale the fact that this administration has absolutely no response whatsoever to all of these provocations from china. Dont you think they are mocking us with the psychedelic mushrooms and with the constant surveillance even as the u. S. Sends people there to try to have a conversation. The pettiness of that is outrageous and you would expect from an adversary that are dignitaries and officials would be treated with respect and the host country like that. But to your point, something is happening with the Administration Since the spy balloon. I was giving them credit and pulling allies and partners together, been very critical not doing enough military to a better capability in the region but nonetheless it looks like weve been reaching out diplomatically and offering consolatory remarks towards them to avoid provoking the chinese. Ever since the spy balloon incident our path with china in her tone with china has changed. I dont get involved in politics. But my gut feeling has something to do with the upcoming election in the United States to make certain we are not on pins and needles with china and the situation is calm down. Its chinas aggression thats driving the tension in the relationship, not the United States and were discussing it today. Cyber espionage against our government officials. As every single day and you see was going on in the region every single day with military intimidation and coercion of taiwan and those of her allies. It is china that is causing the aggression and tension in this relationship. Maria is always a pleasure to talk with you, thank you very much. I dont think theres any question that china is driving the relationship and thats a sad situation when you have so much provocation. General jack keane will see you soon. Well be right back. The biggest ideas inspire new ones. 30 years ago, state street created an etf that inspired the world to invest differently. It still does. What can you do with spy . 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This is the United States treasury secretary. She goes to dinner and her chinese hosts order the mushroom. She comes back and jokes about it. They are mocking us in a huge way. What is your reaction. Then she runs to cnn and has a good laugh about it. Maria and the host is laughing as if its no big deal. Do you have any idea what youre doing . What if she had an adverse reaction to it. If you having in your body you dont know you took, she could have got in front of reporters and started speaking jibberish, like what is wrong with our treasury secretary. At least the Biden Economic policy makes more sense. Joking aside. Shes could have got on cnn and condemned the chinese, saying dont ever try that with me again. Maria how is it possible that the United States allows the treasury secretary to go out and have somebody else do the ordering . Well, you know, i guess, maria, we just assume assume that theyre going to act in good faith. In the same way that we would act in good faith of. If you took somebody out from china you wouldnt insult that person, you would act in good faith. Maria i think its bigger than that. Youre talking about the treasury secretary. They have a stated goal to replace our dollar with the chinese currency, a stated goal to overtake the United States as the number one super power. You dont send the treasury secretary out and hope it goes well, hope your hosts are being nice. Actually, that raises a more important and larger point which you have raised. Why is she going to china . Why Antony Blinken going to china. Why are they going to china, as if to kiss the ring of china, they should be coming to the u. S. Maria theyre breaching our state department, our commerce department, sending spy la balloons, how long is the list. You would want to control the narrative the, not draw attention, have a good laugh about it. She was proud of it. Maria or she had to, the ccp released it, it was clear and she had to respond. It could be that too. 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