Melissa im melissa francis. This is after the bell. First, here is what is new at this hour. President trump on his way to North Carolina. The commanderinchief will tour damage from Hurricane Dorian ahead after Major Campaign rally later tonight. Were live at the white house with breaking headlines and what the president told reporters before taking off. It was a lot by the way. Boris johnson is expected to formally suspend parliament as a controversial resignation throws more uncertainty into the mix. The next step for brexit, the consequences for the new Prime Minister. And just days before she is due in court, Felicity Huffman is explaining her role in the College Admissions scandal. The latest on the actresss defense and how much time prosecutors want to serve behind bars. Connell fox Business Team coverage. Christina part on floor of new york stock exchange. Blake burman at the white house. Edward lawrence on capitol hill. Hillary vaughn, we mentioned tech is outside of the Supreme Court where 50 attorneys general formally are launching an investigation into googles alleged antitrust practices. So hillary, lets start with you. Reporter connell, 48 state attorneys general and two territories launching their investigation officially on the steps of the Supreme Court this afternoon into google, trying to figure out if they crossed the line in their effort to crush their competition. The probe is start with a review on google as ad practices how consumer data feeds into their ad prominence. Texas attorney general ken paxton leading the team says the faxes will lead where the facts will lead. That is what our investigation intends to uncover and reveal. Whether google has played by the rules and act the fairly. There is a fine line sometimes betweening a agressive Business Practices and illegal ones. Usually the line is very clear. Again our investigation will determine whether google has crossed that line. Reporter this is not the first antitrust probe google has faced but it is the biggest. 50 strong Bipartisan Team of state watchdogs is a show of force for google. Missouri attorney general ken schmidt telling me there is strength in numbers. Ultimately that is the force and power of all attorneys general banding together to get answers. Maybe sure everybody is held accountable. Even biggest of Big Tech Companies are held accountable. When 50 attorneys general come together, 50 attorney generals send a strong message to google. Im not going to quote joe biden but i will tell you its a big deal. Reporter the attorneys general would not rule out google would be the only company at their focus for the probe of antitrust violations of big tech firms. Other companies could be next in line. Connell. Connell Hillary Vaughn live at the Supreme Court. Thanks, hillary. Melissa lets bring in todays panel. Adam lashinsky, fortune editor, as he said many times is a google spouse. Katherine rooney vera. Thank you to both of you for joining us. How do you figure the whole thing for google, what does it mean for them and the other companies watching saying are we next . If you had to choose between scrutiny or not having scrutiny you would choose not to have scrutiny if you were one of these companies. I thought the comment by one of those attorneys general was very interesting he said we are just going to be driven by the facts. I believe him but that is not the whole story. What theyre also going to find out are we going to change our approach to antitrust in the United States . Because thats what it will take to prosecute google and these other companies. Were going to have to say, are we willing to expand our thinking beyond merely how does this affect consumers . Melissa that is the salient point is, is the really we think of monopoly and breakup being that theres a harm to consumers based on what is going on. Do you see the harm to consumers . Well its a slippery slope, lets face it. If we start to bring back the breakup of no monopolies of banks, for conservatives you get fear factor of Bernie Sanders and glasssteagall. It is certainly a doubleedged sword. In the case of unfair practices that is aligned with breaking up monopolies i think it does get into a slippery slope we have to watch out for. Connell lets get back to the market with the dow higher, the fourth straight up day weve seen for the dow. Kristina partsinevelos following it all on the floor of the new york stock exchange. Hey, kristina. Reporter youre right it is the fourth straight day. A lot of people talking football throughout the day. I wanted to mention, speaking with traders about the google probe. It is not a big deal. Many companies will have cash in their wallets. They will be prepared for any type of probes or payouts that they need. You dont see the tech sector sell off that much. I want to focus on one particular stock, at t. Why . Because elliot management says they increased their stake to 3. 2 billion into the company. There are a few things this activist investor is pushing for. They want to see more value out of at t. They are asking at t to start selling off assets and returns have been disappointing. That is what elliot management said. They have questioned the deal with time warner. We know that at t bought time warner to 85 billion. Theyre still trying to understand the value behind that. However the company is still optimistic that at ts share price can increase to 60 bucks a share. Right now, 36. 79. Still definitely well off. Yeartodate though, at t is up about over 25 . Still a little bit lower than its alltime high back in the late 90s. I want to end on this, the company is still highly, highly levered. Why elliot management put a focus on selling off, we dont know which one, focusing on certain assets to find value in the company. Back to you that. Is one to watch the at t story. Thanks, kristina. Melissa President Trump speaking with reporters moments ago cancel meeting with taliban leaders at camp david. Blake burman at it white house with more on that. Blake . Reporter President Trump on air force one heading to North Carolina with special election. The state hit by Hurricane Dorian but the headlines out of the white house involve afghanistan. As the president says talks with taliban leaders for a potential peace deal with the taliban are quote, as he put it, dead. The president also revealed over the weekend that there was the potential for talks with taliban leaders at camp david on sunday but the president said he decided to scrap those talks after that attack in kabul on thursday in which a u. S. Service member was killed. The president has received some bipartisan criticism for entertaining the idea of bringing taliban leaders to the United States and to camp david in the days leading up to 9 11, to potentially sit down and talk facetoface. Just a little while ago when leaving the white house the president was asked about that. He defended that possibility this way. Listen. There have been plenty of socalled bad people brought up to camp david for meetings and the alternative was the white house. You wouldnt have been happy with that either. So camp david would have been a good place but i dont want to meet under circumstances where they go around to try to make themselves a little bit more important by killing a soldier. Reporter talks with the taliban are off but talks with north korea potentially could be back on as north korea said today, an official there saying that they are willing to sit down and once again talk about the Nuclear Program, its Nuclear Program at some point later this month. When the president was asked about that as he left the south lawn, melissa, he talked about the relationship, Good Relationship he has, as he sees it with kim jongun. He said having meetings is always a good idea but the president also ended that by giving one of his trademark comment in which he said, quote, well see what happens. Melissa. Melissa exactly. I never heard that before. Blake, thank you. Connell meantime trading places, n. O. W. Chatter today about the next round of trade talks between top u. S. And chinese officials. Two u. S. Senators are now revealing details to fox business about their recent trip over to china. Edward lawrence live on capitol hill now with the latest. Edward. Reporter connell, one of the things that Steve Mnuchin, the treasury secretary said they agreed on sort of layered dispute mechanism that mechanism is layered. They will have month any meetings at the staff level to work on disputes and quarterly meetings, and semiannual meetings again if it cant be resolved. With that tariffs would be on the issue. U. S. Trade sources are saying there is no indication the chinese will put back in a trade deal all of the concessions they had removed according to u. S. Trade representative Robert Lighthizer but there is Still Movement forward on some key issues. Chinese sources telling us among those discussions will be laying out an aggressive plan to reduce the number of joint ventures in in some cases forces the transfer of technology. Increases of foreign wholly owned enterprises. Treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin says there is progress this month. Theyre coming here. I take that as a sign of good faith that they want to continue to negotiate and were prepared to negotiate, if we can get a good deal, a deal good for us, well sign it. If not, the president is perfectly fine with continuing the tariffs which are raising significant amounts of money for the u. S. Treasury. Reporter the chinese offering more stimulus for their economy. Their central bank announced they will reduce reserves that other banks in china need to hold to sort of spark their lending there. China is not the only trade ball in the air. Usmca, another big one for this administration, trying to push the House Speaker into ratification this month. Hopefully to get to the point where they are comfortable bringing this to the floor because i think if they do bring it to the floor i think it has the votes to pass. Reporter the u. S. Administration would like the usmca to come up again this month but congress has one other deadline they have to deal with by october 1st. If they dont pass a series of spending bills, then again, connell, i will say it there could be a government shutdown. Connell speaking of, well see what happens. Here we go again. Edward, thank you, sir. Back now to china for a moment. Thousands of protesters hit the streets once again in hong kong. Now theyre asking President Trump to quote, liberate the city from chinese rule. Hong kong firing back warning the United States should stay out of its affairs. Adam, katherine are back on this. Adam, back to china for obvious reasons, with trade talks going on, hong kong, that situation has to be seen through that prism. Should we expect anything more from this administration what it says what it does, with regard to hong kong, given the president trying to manage the china trade discussion at the same time . Well, the protesters are being clever in baiting both beijing and washington. No administration is going to support a statement of liberating hong kong from china but every administration should support democracy. President trump has been playing this one pretty well so far saying he will not get involved in their internal affairs while once or twice saying helpful things about democracy. Connell seems, katherine, what the protesters want him to do now, to used a dams term, they are baiting both sides. What theyre calling for would be sanctions to be imposed on people in either hong kong or china, who are, not promoting democracy for lack of a better way of saying it. Any chance we would see Something Like that . I go back to how that would affect again the trade talks with china . That is definitely not going to happen, but what i will say from the chinese perspective this is big incentive for the chinese to get to some deal with trump. I always contended this. They are aligned on both sides. For President Trump they are aligned. He needs a win before next years election. It is very good for him improving fair trade. Connell all right. On the chinese front, hey you have china decelerating in a massive way. This only exacerbates that. The last thing they want to see is hong kong tensions spill over into mainland china. Connell katherine, adam, thanks to you both. Appreciate it. Thank you. The dmv isnt just stealing your time. 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So come ask, shop, discover at your xfinity store today. Melissa breaking news right now. Lynn swann is out at Athletic Director at the university of southern california. This according to multiple reports right now. Swan submitting his resignation by an email sent out by usc president carol pulls. No word what inspired the rhett ignition. He has been under fire concerning the College Admissions scandal. Connell a great player in his day. Boris johnson telling the irish Prime Minister that a deal can be done. Most recently the British Parliament passing a law to rule out a no deal brexit. The house of commons speaker, the core lull, john berkow, announce he is stepping down from the job after a decade as the speaker. Here he is. Order order order it is order. Order. Order order order it is evident from the smile on the face of the honourable gentleman that he is very pleased with the point that he has made. [laughter]. Connell should be. Now as of the 31st of october there will really be no order. Dan henninger from the wall street journal. I for one will miss mr. Bercow i will miss him. How do we even handicap this now . Boris johnson had a spring of losses. Any odds he actually gets a deal before the 31st with europe . Well, i wouldnt rule it out europe has some interest in this as well. It isnt nothing if britain pulls away completely. Continental europe has Enormous Economic interest doing Business Trading with the uk. So i think its a possibility but it is becoming extraordinarily remote and the question now is, whether or, when the brits are going to hold another election . I honestly, connell, think that is the ace in the hole that Boris Johnson is holding on this because remember what were talking about brexit that was a referendum back in 2016. Now what we have ahead of us is a possibility of a real election for Prime Minister built around the sole issue of brexit. And i think the poss