What weve learned about the two suspects. A suspected mob hit at mcdonalds. An alleged murder for hire involving father and son. And from this painful blooper in the big leagues to the bear that went on the attack after scratching an itch to the fishermen who got up close and personal with a great white. Oh all the best video to jumpstart your wednesday. Good wednesday morning, everyone. Thanks for joining us. We begin with President Trump kicking off his Reelection Campaign by turning to his old playbook. The president bragged about the economy and his other accomplishments during his rally in orlando last night, but he spent much of the time rehashing a long list of grievances taking aim at familiar targets including the media, the Mueller Report and hillary clinton. Abcs Mona Kosar Abdi has the highlights including what the first lady had to say. Mona, good morning. Reporter good morning to you both. President trump spent the night positioning himself once again as the underdog rath
A packed arena in orlando, florida, touting the strength of the u. S. Economy. Our economy is the envy of the world, perhaps the greatest economy weve had in the history of our country. Maria more from his big rally last night, weve got a lot coming up on that, stay with us on that, cvs and viacomm, look t what the deal can mean. Instagram post thats causing a lot of buzz in sports today, mornings with maria begins right now. Maria would you make a knew before you knew the Federal Reserves intention, thats what the investment is doing this morning, waiting and watching, key Interest Rate decision at 2 00 p. M. Eastern today, yesterday President Trump commented on head of central bank jay powell indicating a potential demotion. Watch this. Lets see what he does. I can tell you that droghi is the eu, they have a much different stance that our folks do. As you know, he did something today that was very dramatic and frankly helped that part of the world, we will see what happens, they will
Still hopeful that the house will ratify the agreement calling on house peeker nancy pelosi to do the right thing. An wall street, a record day. The s p 500 closing at an alltime record high, the dow closing at its third highest level in history, only 75 points tonight from its record high. All of this despite heightened tensions in the middle east after iran shot down that american drone over International Air space. President trump today slammed the roi rogue nations mistake s iran made a big mistake. This drone was in international waters. Clearly we have it all documented. Its documented scientifically, not just words. And they made a very bad mistake. Lou a big mistake, a sad mistake and for more on the iranian attack, Fox National Security Correspondent Jennifer Griffin with the latest from the pentagon. Lou, pentagon officials deny the u. S. Drone was shot down over iran. The air force released this video of the actual moment of impact of the u. S. Navys Global Hawk Drone being
Chief economist for jpmorgan chase, michael faroli. Good to see you, michael. My pleasure. Maria let me get your take in terms of the broad economy, how do you see things . Right. So right now theres a lot of crosscurrents. We do think Second Quarter growth is a little softer than First Quarter growth. The hard data looks okay, right . That alone wouldnt call for a rate cut, but there are some worrying clouds on the horizon. We have seen particularly business surveys that have softened some, so there is some concern that the trade tensions may be contributing to a little bit of caution on the part of businesses particularly with respect to capital spending. Maria mike, do you think were going to see a china deal . I doubt it. [laughter] i mean, look, i think were all guessing here, of course. None of us can read the minds of either leaders of the country, but right now the headlines dont sound particularly encouraging. Some of the issues seem rather intractable particularly as they rel
Unified message to the president. An arrest in the murder of a student, the suspects dramatic takedown. What investigators say they found inside his home and new this morning, a contractor making disturbing claims. Making it soundproof, hooks on the walls, just weird stuff. The suspects home renovation and the requests this contractor says he turned down. New arrest. A major break in the shooting of baseball star david ortiz. Two suspects including one man allegedly at the scene and another being called one of the masterminds behind bars this morning. And kicking it. Goal, u. S. The u. S. Women clinching a spot in the world cup semifinals with their victory over team france. Megan rapinoes super showing and what she says about the challenges ahead. All right, good morning. Happy weekend. Lets get right to our top story. President trump touching down in south korea just a short while ago after having extended an apparently impromptu highstakes twitter invitation to the leader of north k