trump junior and nfl football great, herschel walker joining us this morning. it's a big show. you don't want to miss it. election interference allegation affecting futures this morning. we're expecting a lower opening for the broader averagings this morning. the s&p down 11 points right now. a big day for earnings, three dow components reporting this morning, coca-cola, dow and at&t. we're awaiting american airlines and southwest, all those numbers as soon as they hit the tape this morning. and bag it up early, more americans are getting holiday shopping done now and it's making a buzz this morning. "mornings with maria" is live right now. ♪ maria: european markets look like this as the final phase of brexit talks between the eu and the u.k. is on today. markets were mostly lower yesterday, overnight in asia, rather, take a look at asian markets with the worst performer the japanese market, the nikkei average down three quarters of 1%. the international monetary fund, the imf is predicting that the economy will shrink. it is lower than its june forecast of 1.6%. we'll get more on that coming up this morning. first, some of the top stories we are watching this morning. iran and russia trying to meddle in the 2020 election, less than two weeks before voters head to the polls. that's according to fbi director, christopher wray and the director of national intelligence, john ratcliffe. last night, both confirmed that iran was behind threats and threatening e-mails to voters in four battleground states, posing as members of the proud boys who would come after people who did not vote for president trump. russia obtaining voter information again as it was done in 2016, though vladimir putin is denying any involvement as he did four years ago. working toward a deal, treasury secretary steven mnuchin and house speaker nancy pelosi will continue talks today on a coronavirus relief package. they're running out of time to strike a deal before election day. it is unlikely we will see a deal. senate republicans yesterday failed to pass a skinny $500 billion deal. president trump is blasting democrats for blocking the measure, tweeting this. just don't see any way nancy pelosi and crying chuck schumer will be willing to do what is right for our great american workers or of our wonderful usa itself on stimulus. their primary focus is bailing out poorly run and high crime democrat cities and states, writes the president. the senate judiciary committee is planning to advance judge amy coney barrett's supreme court nomination today, despite democrat threats to boycott the vote entirely. committee chairman lindsey graham brushed off concerns after chuck schumer said no democrats will show up. the move will not stop today's vote from happening. a final vote with the full senate is expected on monday. new developments in the hunter biden bombshell meanwhile. the fbi subpoena of the laptop and hard drive connected to a money laundering probe, according to documents obtained by fox news and verified by law enforcement and a government officials, the ni fbi lists a ce id number on one document used by the bureau to classify money laundering, a government officials saying there's a high likelihood that the laptop and hard drive contain fruits of criminal activity. it's unclear if the probe is ongoing but one e-mail aledgedly shows joe biden involvement in a deal with chinese energy executive. a former partner confirms he did witness the former vice president discussing deals with his son. the biden campaign has pushed back on these claims, but they are not denying that these e-mails are authentic. purdue pharma, the maker of objection ecooxycontin agreed ty to the criminal charges. the company will pay the government $225 million out of the $8 billion settlement. most of the he remaining money goes to states, counties and tribes. the sakler will pay $225 million to resolve civil claims. dow is out with quarterly earnings. cheryl casone with the numbers right now. cheryl: the company beating and this is a dow component, the estimate, 33-cents, they came in at 50-cents. that was the earnings per share number. revenue, 9.53 billion was the estimate, they came in at 9.71 billion. they're talking right now as the headlines are still crossing that basically the recover hi has been uneven, market to market. they're also saying they did see a nice rebound in the third quarter, that obviously is reflected in the shares. year-to-date, we're looking at the chart, the stock is down about 11% year-to-date. we'll see if it can help out the dow jones industrials today. we're going to be hearing from cokcoca-cola later on in the sh, another dow component. a big day for earnings, maria. back to you. maria: markets this morning are lower. we have underway a dow industrials down 100 points as we're in the midst of another busy day for earnings, certainly. and dow components coca-cola, dow, as you just heard, at&t reporting before the bell. intel reporting after the bell tonight. the airline industry giving us a window into the coronavirus hit with american and southwest airlines expected to report losses once again later this morning. joining me right now is chief investment officer jim lowell. also joining the conversation all morning, ubs financial services private wealth advisor,ally mccartney and reason.com editor at large, matt welch. thank you for being here. let's talk earnings first. so far, jim, your reaction to what we've seen and how much is priced into the market, what are you expecting in terms of growth later on in the year? >> excellent question, maria. what we've seen so far is a continuation of the theme that technology consumer discretionary names benefiting from covid-19 lockdown trends, it's likely to continue as we wind our way through year-end. we also think that building in the background is the possibility for a real wave of opportunity on the value side of the markets ledger with specific regard to the probability for a vaccine and another major stimulus package, sometime in early 2021. one of the things that we always say is that earnings drive the markets. however, this has been a very tricky time to focus on whether or not earnings are going to continue to help us see clearly where we're driving. there are simply too many covid-19 related clouds hanging over too many companies for us to be completely confident in saying we have a clear view going forward. maria: yeah. i mean, we don't even have a clear idea on the stimulus. the negotiations are once again in a stalemate. house speaker nancy pelosi and treasury secretary steven mnuchin apparently talking about a deal but skepticism in the republican controlled senate coupled with the upcoming election leaving many lawmakers weary of passing a bill. it is unlikely in my view as a top official said yesterday that more spending is needed to help the economy. what's your take in what we're hearing out of the fed. i don't think the fed can do anything more with the rates at these levels. >> the fed is trying to do its best to jaw bone the political parties to get together to provide fiscal stimulus to complement the federal engagement in what will be a long, drawn out battle. the reason the fed is talking about the need for more stimulus, they understand we're not out of harm's way, not by a long shot. there are segments that are not benefiting as well as others. it's an uneven recovery. the fed is right to suggest that now is the time for more, not less stimulus. we spent our way into where we are today. another trillion dollars or two isn't going to cu curtail our ability to recover. it may even speed it up. our overall take is we will remain in slow recovery, not no recovery mode. maria: let me bring in allie mccartney. where are you seeing the flow right now? >> the flow right now is going where it has gone, which is the mega cap technology stocks. and what we're saying, and it sounds like it's similar to jim's position, that in order to see a sustained recovery you need to see a broadening of the market. you touched on this. is there one event? is there something that you're waiting for to get that broadening, to get the cyclicals and value back? there's been a little of that but it seems sort of t to drive- what are you hoping for, what takes the next leg up? >> what i'm really hoping for is the one thing that we have not seen, despite the fact it's been talked about since 2016. and that's a massive infrastructure spending bill that doesn't just throw money at a problem, but creates lasting jobs and also creates taxable revenue for states and simultaneously broadens out what we mean by infrastructure spending. so it's not just roads, bridges, sewers, systems like that but also the technology, super highway. we understand that in this democracy to create and maintain opportunity for all we need to do a much better job at getting equal access to the technology that all of us, including on this show, are relying on today for our of business. maria: jim, it's great to have you this morning. thanks so much. jim lowell joining us this morning. we'll see you soon, jim. your morning mover, tesla, check the stock out, charging ahead in the premarket after announcing its fifth consecutive quarter of profits, elon musk calling it the company's best quarter in history, saying that the sales target of 500,000 vehicles this year is still attainable. it's looking ahead to significant production growth next year. the stock is up 4 and a three quarters percent right now. we are just getting started this morning. stay with us. coming up, right after this break, we'll talk about president trump and former vice president joe biden set to square off tonight in the final presidential debate. we look ahead with the hill editor in chief, baw bob cusak, next. and in the next hour, white house communications director is here ahead of the debate tonight and the 8:00 a.m. hour don't miss texas senator ted cruz, he's here on the 2020 contest and you how lawmakers are combating foreign interference. i'll be speaking with the trump organization executive vice president donald trump junior as well on all things 2020 as his father gets ready to take the stage tonight. also with us, former nfl star herschel walker with the debate predictions and the black vote. don't miss a moment of it. you're watching "mornings with maria" live on fox business. ♪ believe it, believe it. ♪ now is the time for a new bath from bath fitter. every bath fitter bath is installed quickly, safely, and beautifully, with a lifetime warranty. go from old to new. from worn to wow. the beautiful bath you've always wanted, done right, installed by one expert technician, all in one day. we've been creating moments like these for 35 years, and we're here to help you get started. book your free virtual or in-home design consultation today. keeping your oysters growing while keeping your business growing has you swamped. 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foreign policy debate. matt, what's your reaction to the items on screen, when you look at polls 74% of americans will say that the economy is their number one issue. it's not even on the list. matt: i think the economy is basically the coronavirus is the economy or of it should be a huge part of that discussion since that is the elephant in the room of all of our of lives right now. so i would hope that it doesn't just become a debate over of mask wearing and dr. fauci and it actually talks about what should happen with opening schools and what's the federal government's response in getting testing ramped up and how are you going to you affect the economy when people are hurting, we don't know if people are getting back into the economy at all. what i'm concerned about is how we haven't talked about foreign policy. if they're going to limit foreign policy in the debate when america is the super power and we spend as much as seven companies combined on military spending and we're not talking about foreign policy, that's amazing to me. i hope if the moderator isn't going to talk about it, that the president and joe biden volunteer some information about that because i think that there's potentially some real differences between the two candidates on a fundamentally important issue. maria: yeah, let me bring in bob kusik, the editor in chief of the hill. foreign policy is not on the list, the economy is not on this list. it's absolutely a head-scratcher where they came up with these topics that are not really resonating with the broad public, climate change, i don't really know what american families need. maybe that means the economy. there's an op-ed in the journal this morning, a debate downgrade for foreign policy and in it the journal writes president trump has a reasonable case that his administration has achieved a major breakthrough between gulf arab nations and israel, brought about by rejecting the foreign policy establishment's consensus opinions. we know that recently the united arab emirates as well as bahrain announced they're normalizing relations with israel, the beginning perhaps of middle eastern peace that we haven't seen in decades and it's not on the list. >> those peace deals are a big deal and -- but i also think, first of all, it's been a tough year for the presidential debate commission. there's been no doubt about it. but president trump, he needs a big night tonight. i think kind of complaining about the commission is a waste of time. he's got to talk about issues. he's got to talk about policies. we've been talking, republican senators, they're like don't pho focus on personalities. focus on poll civil you know, i think -- policy. you know, i think the president's going to have to bring something that's unexpected tonight. speaking of foreign policy, robert gates who served under president obama as defense secretary basically said in his book that biden has been wrong on every foreign policy decision over the last 40 years. there's going to have to be a surprise attack from the president in order to land punches. maria: of course there's the cashing in on his father's position, hunter biden, that also probably would fall under the category of foreign policy since there's all these foreign deals that they were cashing in on. but again, not on the list. the director of national intelligence, john ras ratcliffd fbi director christopher wray did a news conference speaking out on foreign interference in the 2020 election. take a listen. >> we would like to alert the public that we have identified that two foreign actors, iran and russia, have taken specific actions to influence public opinion relating to our elections. >> we are not going to tolerate foreign interference in our elections or any criminal activity that threatens the sanctity of your vote or undermines public confidence in the outcome of the election. maria: the fbi is confirming that iran is behind intimidating e-mails sent to voters, russia is obtaining voter information as it did in 2016. bob, your reaction? >> well, this is not surprising on one level. but this is significant news. i mean, the fact that they have acquired e-mails and they're scaring voters and we're two weeks out, i mean, this is significant. and people do have to be very skeptical of what they get in their in box, not be gullible, not have that change their vote. so i also think honestly, i think those federal officials last night, christopher wray and ratcliffe, they should have taken a few questions because so many questions. i know they can't answer everything because a lot of it's classified. i think they needed to tell the public a little bit more, maria. maria: all right, we'll watch this. another highlight for the debate potentially tonight. be sure to -- we'll see you soon, thanks very much for joining us. be sure to tune in bright and early tomorrow, we'll start an hour earlier, beginning at 5:00 a.m. eastern tomorrow morning to break 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money laundering investigation. this verified by law enforcement and government officials. one document shows an fbi case id number which is used by the bureau to classify money laundering. it is currently unclear if the investigation is still ongoing or is directly related to hunter biden. matt welch is with us this morning from reason. matt, what do you make of this? first we have apparent money changing hands between hunter biden and joe biden and companies in ukraine, companies in china. there was speculation about kazhakstan. and now we see it is linked to a money laundering investigation. matt: i think some of the key words in your wind-up there is linked to and speculation. that's the problem when you're doing reporting. it's important reporting of investigations. it's very much blind man and elephant territory. it's hard to know who the target of the investigation is. what is the import of the investigation? and it's hard to completely trust everybody's motivations in leaking and talking about this, when it's two weeks before a hotly contested presidential election. so we don't really know, i don't think. we're finding more about all of this, but we don't know especially the one key detail which is assuming -- and i do -- that hunter biden doesn't get these jobs if his last name isn't biden and that people are paying money with expectation that good things are going to happen to them that maybe we don't want to he see happen, did that change joe biden's behavior and the carrying out of his duties as vice. until we see that, i'm not sure that's going to resonate in any key significant way with voters or anybody else because we've got a lot of other stuff going on in this country right now. maria: yeah. well, let's look at this first e-mail that we've been looking at all week and this is from hunter biden to an executive of a chinese company. he says my understanding is that the original agreement with the director of the company was for consulting fees based on introductions alone at a rate of $10 million a year for three year goo guarantee, that's 30 of million dollars. the chairman changed the deal after we met in miami to a much more lasting and lucrative alangment to create a holding company, 50% owned by me and 50% owned by him. consulting fees is one piece of the instream. the reason this was more interesting to me and my family is we would be partners in the equity and profits of the joint vein sure's investment -- venture's investments. later on it goes through who gets what in the deal. it says 2 20% for h, presumably hunter, another 20% for others as you see, one of those is supposed to be his brother, another biden, tb, and then 10 held by h for the big guy. and we assume the big guy is joe biden. now, james freeman from the wall street journal is of out with a new op-ed this morning and here's what james freeman writes in the new op o op-ed. he writes, quote, if the e-mails seemed explosive enough to warrant extreme reactions, even censorship, can anyone pretend they're not significant. allie, your thoughts on all of this and its impact on markets? allie: wow. it's a lot. and it's disturbing. and i think that it's actually very interesting, all of this, and its effect on markets, whether you talk about the debate, whether you talk about -- a couple weeks ago, we had a market that was prepared for a democratic sweep and incouple went to be president and -- incumbent to be president, a split down the middle and a long and contested election. the long and contested election, the largest unknown was what was given the market and its participants the most issues. i would argue that we still have a very high likelihood that we have a surprise or a contested election. the most recent numbers i've seen are that 40% of the voting pop of layings has already voted dark -- population has already voted, either early voting or mail-in ballots and in the six highly contested states it's less than half. so i think at this moment i think the market is under-pricing a long and drawn out election. but seem to be fine with any of the other scenarios. it keeps on coming. it will be interesting to see what comes out in the debate, to your point tonight. maria: i know that a lot of people are setting up models, portfolios for both candidates. should biden win there's one group of stocks that you want to own, for donald trump there may be another. we'll go through that this morning. i want to get your take on how analysts are looking at this election and what they're telling clients, should either side win. we'll get to that later on. coming up, former president obama is out on the -- stumping for joe biden and he slammed president trump on the campaign trail yesterday. florida congressman michael walsh is here. he'll weigh in. and voters are already headed to the polls with just 12 days to go before the big day and their coming out and coming out in a big way. we'll take a look. stay with us. this is decision 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24 months on all smart beds. only for a limited time. maria: welcome back. good thursday morning, everybody. thanks so much for joining us. i'm maria bartiromo. it is thursday, october 22nd. let's take a look at markets this morning, 6:32 a.m. on the east coast. we've got pressure underway, the dow industrials are down 50 of, nasdaq down 15, s&p lower by 5 and-a-half. the markets are off a of the lows of the morning after dow and at&t reported quarterly earnings earlier this morning. we're looking at once again the markets react to third quarter reports and most have been better than expected. yesterday we also had a choppy session, markets finished in the red, hinged on stimulus uncertainty. the dow industrials were down 97, nasdaq lower by 31 and s&p weaker by 7 and-a-half. european stock market this morning, lower, fractional moves. the fq100 is down 10, cac is down 4, dax lower by 24 as the final phase of britain's exit from the european union and those talks between the eu and u.k. resume today. in asia overnight, there too pressure on stocks, mostly lower. the imf is predicting asia's economy will shrink by 2.2%, lower than the june forecast which called for a contraction of 1.6%. best performer was hong kong overnight, hang seng index up just a fraction. one brand-new streaming service already calling it quits. cheryl casone with the details now. cheryl. cheryl: that's right, maria. quibbe is shutting down six months after its launch. it attracted some of the biggest names in hollywood but has been hit with problems after going live in april at the height of the pandemic. the founder jeffrey katzenberg said the demise was not for a lack of trying. pope francis has become the first pontiff to support civil unions for same sex couples. in a new documentary the pope said, quote, homosexuals have a right to be part of the family, they're children of god and have a right to a family. pope francis ow opposed same sex marriage while he was archbishop in argentina. boeing is setting its sights on the future, gauging interest in a new commercial aircraft. this as boeing tries to compete with airbus and make a comeback from the 737 max crisis. the journal says that boeing has had conversations with customers including airplane leasing companies and suppliers. they have not launched a new commercial plane since the dreamliner back in 2004. boeing in the premarket, dow component, up about 0.2%. finally, tesla's streak keeps on going. the car maker extended its profitability in the third quarter. after the bell last night they posted a net profit of $331 million, the fifth consecutive quarter of profits, keeping it on track for 2020, the first calendar year of profitability after you remember they had years of losses, tesla also promising global production increases. they've been breaking delivery records left and right. the stock is up 5% right now, one of the biggest performers of the year stock-wise, back to you. maria: thank you so much. let's move on -- tesla big move this morning. protecting american elections is the topic of the day. john ratcliffe and christopher wray yesterday hosted a news conference on efforts from iran and russia to interfere in the upcoming 2020 election. >> we have confirmed that some voter registration information has been obtained by iran and separately by russia. this data can be used by foreign actors to you attempt to communicate false information to registered voters that they hope will cause confusion, sow chaos and undermine your confidence in american democracy. >> you should be confident that your vote counts. early, unverified claims to the contrary should be viewed with a healthy dose of skepticism. maria: joining me right now is florida congressman, national guard colonel and former green beret commander, michael walsh. thanks you for being here. you are working on a bill that would alert voters when their information has been accessed or compromised, right? tell me about that. >> well, it's called the alerts bill, maria. and kudos to the administration for two things. one, building the infrastructure in the fbi, the dhs, the intelligence community to detect this interference and then kudos to the next piece, which is for telling the public at the end of the day what china, iran, russia ultimately want is to sow chaos and discord and doubt, in the heart of our democracy. in this case this is iran and russia up to their own tricks, iran desperately wants president trump out due to the maximum pressure campaign and they know biden will go back to appeasement. we have to stay strong, continue to communicate to the public. but i think at the end of the day, maria, this isn't going to stop until we re-established deterrents when it comes to our infrastructure. so the old addage of maybe we need to flick the lights on the ayatollah's palace and demonstrate a will and capability to do this as well. what they ultimately care about is staying in power on their end. if we demonstrate we can affect that, perhaps we'll get iran, russia, china and these other bad actors to back off. maria: you make a good point. because i think joe biden, the last few weeks, said that one of the first things he's going to do is return the u.s. to the iran deal. and also the paris climate deal. so those two things, two things that biden has talked about. so you're right, iran probably wants that. more on the state of the 2020 election, because we saw president obama out campaigning yesterday and the new reuters poll shows a tight race in your state of florida. joe biden is leading president trump according to this poll by 4 points as former president barack obama hit the campaign trail for joe biden yesterday in philadelphia. he slammed president trump. listen to this. i want to get your reaction. >> i never thought donald trump would embrace my vision or continue my policies, but i did hope for the sake of the country that he might show some interest in taking the job seriously. but it hasn't happened. he hasn't shown any interest in doing the work or helping anybody but himself and his friends. maria: your reaction? >> well, let's just quickly walk down what is a long list of what president trump actually got done. the results that obama/biden didn't, from justice reform to tax reform to the abraham accords to truly standing up to china and leveling the playing field, veterans reform between accountability and choice. i mean, maria, the list is long. the ad yaage is absolutely true that he's gotten more done in 47 months than biden has in 47 years. in florida, i'm paying attention to raw vote totals. we've seen the democrats with a surge in vote by mail. but i believe that's cannibalizing and taking from their election day while we're seeing an absolute surge and a red wave in early voting from republicans. we have an increase in registration. we have an increase in what we're going to see on election day. and i think at the end of the day we're seeing 400,000 at least high propensity voters that are sitting out there for the republicans, so i'm optimistic. maria: what does the president need to do tonight in this debate, real quick, in terms of the faceoff with joe biden tonight. any thoughts on what we'll see? >> just compare the records. right. what he has done versus what biden will do when controlled by the left and what he hasn't been able to do in 47 years. go down that list of accomplishments, like the rnc convention did, that have affected everyday americans' lives. he had a tweet yesterday that i loved, that your 401-k will tank under biden and 180 million americans will lose your healthcare. that's what americans care about, thought kitchen table issues -- those kitchen table issues. maria: i agree. before covid showed up we were talking about the lowest unemployment rate we've seen in some cases ever. you also saw income inequality beginning to narrow for the first time in decades and you mentioned it earlier, foreign policy, how about the beginning of middle eastern peace where you've got the united arab emirates and bahrain normalizing relationships with israel. so it's hard to believe that he's not taking the job seriously. i know it's all politics, but still. congressman, good to see you this morning. thank you so much. >> what he's doing -- thank you. and what he's doing on china is just -- that is the story for the rest of this century when it comes to foreign policy and a it is night and day different. maria: i agree with you. that is exactly what my focus is on my new book, i hope you'll preorder my new book, called the cost, trump, china and american revival. you can repurchas preorder it r, thecostbook.com. coming up, president trump and joe biden will take the debate stage in nashville tonight. we are previewing what the polls show us. we have new polls to take a look at. you're watching "mornings with maria," live on fox business. ♪ ♪ introducing the all-new 2021 gla 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the voters, especially in the battleground states, that the president has a significant advantage over joe biden when it comes to rebuilding the economy after the coronavirus. they remember the president's success. when he got the unemployment rates down to record levels, and that's going to be really important and hopefully we get some real discussion tonight at the debate about that. maria: well, i don't know about that because that's not on the list, jim. okay. we took a look at the list of topics that will be the focus tonight. and even though the economy is the most important issue for voters, that's not on the list. it says american families, maybe you can argue that's partly economy. it says covid. maybe you could argue that's partly economy. but nothing true and true about the economy, maybe because it is where voters trust the president. also, no comment on foreign policy, which is really a head-scratcher. these are two of the most important things to viewers, certainly, and to voters. >> it's pretty amazing. and in a lot of ways, it just goes to show you how out of touch the mainstream media is, the debate commission is, on what really matters to the american voters right now. and that's the beauty of president trump. what we see president trump going out there and doing every day, he's talking to the voters. that's how he knows what's on their mind every day. he knows what they react. to he understands their problems. one of the main reasons they don't want to talk about that is because they don't want to talk about the president's successes, not to mention the extreme radical policies that joe biden has adopted when it comes to these issues. the last thing, especially when it comes to the economy, the american people want right now is a $4 trillion tax increase and that recent study by stanford and hoover institute talked about how for the next 10 years, that will take $6,500 out of the pockets of the american family right now. and we just can't afford that, trying to rebuild after the pandemic. maria: well, i just think it's so absurd and just so extraordinary. i mean, think of where we are right now. they are fighting in washington for a stimulus package because people out there are hurting. imagine that voter out there, i have to pay my mortgage, oh, i don't have a job, oh, we have climate. let me hear about climate change. what a sad state of affairs. let me ask you your thoughts on the polls. we've been looking at joe biden leading in these polls for several months. are you buying these polls? who are they talking to in terms of these polls? one guest a couple weeks ago said, look, they're polling all democrats. what do you say in terms of the samples that they're using to come up with these numbers? >> there's a lot of truth to that. and look back four years ago, there was an ap study that was done. there were 104 polls that were done after august in the supposed blue wall of wisconsin, pennsylvania, and ohio. and of those polls, they had -- it was 101 of those 104 polls had donald trump losing. only one of them actually had him ahead in those polls. the other state was michigan. and when you think back to that, they're doing the same thing again. like when we're looking at the numbers in florida, just what michael waltz was saying, you're looking at the early in-person numbers, you're seeing a surge in republicans turning out the vote, early in-person. so when you look at the analytics, you look at the modeling, we feel really, really good about where we are right now and actually you can make a great case that we're in better shape now than we were four years ago when we beat hillary clinton and joe biden hiding in the basement, it's not helping. maria: right. all right, jim. good to see you this morning, thanks very much. jim mcloughlin. stay with us. we'll be right back. are you frustrated with your weight and health? it's time for aerotrainer, a more effective total body fitness solution. 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"mornings with maria" is live right now. european markets this morning are also under selling pressure but as you see, the fq100 has turned positive, up 2 points. the cac is up 9. the dax index lower by 2 points, fractional moves across the board this morning. in europe, as the final phase of the talks between the eu and u.k. resume today, for britain's exit of the european union. in asia overnight, markets were mostly lower. the international monetary fund predicts asia's economy will shrink by 2.2% this year. the numbers were fractional overnight as well, that is lower than the june forecast of 1.6%. coca-cola and american airlines out with quarterly earnings. you saw them on the screen. cheryl casone with numbers right now. cheryl: big news coming out of coca-cola's earnings, the company is going to be instituting more layoffs at the company. remember, they had that big batch of layoffs in august. they're not giving us a number yet. they're going to do more layoffs at the company. the stock is up almost 2%. it was a loss on earnings per share of -- the estimate was 46-cents. they came in at 40. the revenue beat, the estimate, 8.36 billion, they came in at 8.7 billion. global case volumes are down 4%. they're going to introduce new drinks but they are again talking about that they let go of tab and ziko coconut water, last quarter the biggest revenue decline for coca-cola in three decades. we care about coca-cola. that's 5 points on the dow. let's go over to american airlines. that is still crossing. but i want to give you the headline numbers here. the earnings per share, it was a slight miss. stock is down more than 1%. the estimate, 591, they came in at 554. and the revenue side, they actually came in a little bit better than expected, 2.76 billion was the revenue estimate. they came in at 3.2 billion. southwest actually coming out with rough numbers, double beat but a big loss for southwest. as far as the stock goes right now, this is a stock that's down 55% year-to-date. they are saying they're seeing a little bit of a pick-up in air travel. they're seeing a little bit in this quarter of more passengers. they're also saying that long haul international capacity is still down about 75% year over year. that goes to what e ed bastian s saying yesterday from delta about the fact that the international issue is a problem for tear lines and the lack of business -- for the airlines and the lack of business travelers. airline sector again in focus today. back to you. maria: that's what ed bastian told us yesterday, the ceo of delta air lines on with us. you see the loss for american airlines for the quarter, losing $5.54 a share in a three-month period. you get a sense of how significant this hit has been for the airline industry, traffic down 80%. cheryl, thank you so much. we'll keep watching that, american airlines shares down three-quarters of a percent time for the word on wall street. here now is er shares founder and chief investment officer, joel shulman, michael lee, and mark tepper. great to see you guys this morning. thanks for being here. first up, let's talk earnings, they keep on rolling in for the third quarter, coca-cola you just heard cheryl talking about a double beat, intel also reporting this morning, after the bell tonight on intel but going into the numbers, the stock is up a fraction. what's your take so far, the airlines showing signs of recovery, what's your take on earnings so far, michael? mark, i'm sorry, let me kick it off with you. >> yeah, no problem. i heard some people saying that it's been a good earnings season because you've got over 80% of companies beating on the bottom line. but they're beating very low hurdles. earnings are still down double digits year over year so i would say it's not a very good earnings season. next week is a huge week. you've bought 36% of the s&p 500 reporting. you've got 4 trillion-dollar companies reporting next week. microsoft, amazon, google, apple. and they make up around 20% of the cap weighting of the s&p 500. i think most investors right now are kind of just throwing 2020 out the window because of covid, because of the unknown. there's very minimal guidance. all eyes right now seem to be on 2021. where the street believe it or not is actually expecting record earnings for next year, i think that may be a bit optimistic but we'll see what happens. maria: all right. well, it's interesting that you would say that. do you think the earnings are -- i know you said it's not a great earnings period but was that priced in, mark? do you think that the market was expecting better? >> it's definitely priced in. because i mean, every 80% of companies are beating on the bottom line so without a doubt it's already priced in. like i said, the street, investors have pretty much thrown 2020 out the window. nobody's expecting a lot. i mean, you take a company like coca-cola, coca-cola should be a recession-proof stock but when you look at coca-cola it's incredibly expensive for a company with a lode lot of headwinds. they're a huge player in the restaurant industry. they're the go to soft drink provider in the restaurant industry. restaurant dining while it has recovered is down 50% from february. now you're hearing about covid flare-ups. so safe companies like co-coulda aren't really that safe right now. maria: stimulus discussions are at a stalemate. skepticism abounds. we're not expecting a deal. is this a major negative for these markets, michael? >> maria, i'm not expecting any stimulus before the election. but that's only 11 days you you away. what i'd have to say is -- i think the market thinks stimulus is coming. i don't think we know what it looks like. i think we're going to get something shortly after the election. i think both parties have done a good job kind of kicking the can here. remember, it's been nancy pelosi all along that has pushed and pushed on every round of coronavirus stimulus and she's doing it again now. i'd say the chances of us getting something before the election are close to zero. i'd say the chances of us getting another round, something substantial, with more than a trillion dollars is in the high 90%. we're probably not going to know what that looks like until post election. maria: the food and drug administration is holding a crucial meeting with regard to a coronavirus vaccine, michael. the vaccine's related biological products advisory committee convening to discuss the development and authorization of a covid-19 vaccine. we know that a lot of these companies are waiting on the emergency use authorization. is this going to be a factor? >> oh, yeah, absolutely. i think because we are in this political season, a lot of people have chimed in that they're not going to trust a vaccine from trump as if he's the one running the trials and aproving it. the commission is 15 people from vair ivarying science backgrout will only sign off on things that work. what's the likely scenario, we're not going to end up with one vaccine, we're going to end up with a series of them, the first may be from pfizer and bionex which is expected to file for emergency use designation by the end of november. we have moderna on the same timeline. this is really exciting. the chances of multiple vaccines coming by early next year, that's going to make a huge change on not only people's lives and the world economy, it's good news for investors. i think operation warp speed to pump money in the testing is going to turn around to be remarkable way of addressing this. maria: joel, what do you think, what's most important to investors right now, joel? >> i think the stimulus is certainly going to be good news. because it's putting infusion into the markets which is always considered to be a good thing. however, we're starting to see the early effects of inflation and the interest rates have been rising the last couple months. the fed is holding off on trying to contain it and this inflation is going to cause bond interest rates to go up and bond prices to go down. so we've seen 40 o 40 years of d prices going up and interest rates going down. that's going to change. that's going to cause infusion of cash going from fixed income to stock and other areas. inflation is generally a bad thing for the markets. money moving from bond to stocks is generally a good thing. we think with the dollar also sliding, this is a good time for investors to be looking offshore. we've seen the markets rising in the last month or so. our non-u.s. small caps are up almost 10 to 11%, month to date the markets are up 1 to 2% and we're seeing 25 billion moving from the u.s. to non-u.s. equity etfs. so we see a number of back tosser going on. the stimulus is good news, bad news. overall, it's good news for non-u.s. equity etfs at this point. maria: well, joel, what's the non-u.s. that you're referring to? are you talking about europe where the lockdowns have just picked up and there are more lockdowns in place because of the spikes? are you talking about china where we see better signs in terms of an economy growing or beginning to recover and the emerging markets? where non-u.s. are you referring to, joel? >> so we're seeing some real benefits with non-u.s. entrepreneurial companies. these companies exist in tech companies and for example israel and sweden. we see medical science companies in denmark. we're seeing around the world, netherlands we're seeing fin tech companies. in asia we have rubber glove manufacturers in malaysia. we see some fin tech in china. throughout that region, hong kong. japan's been he very strong the last month or so. so we're seeing entrepreneurs globally, particularly small cap doing well because valuations are about a third of what they are here for u.s. small caps. maria: all right. we will leave it there. gentlemen, thank you so much. joel, michael and mark, great to talk with you gentlemen this morning. have a great day. much more 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either candidate from talking while their micr are off and the other candidate is able to hear them. there's still possibility for disruption. there's so much frustration after the first debate over the failure to let anybody finish a sentence, especially i think vice president biden was frustrated by that. this is an attempt to have a little bit more of a product ducproductiveconversation. maria: what do you think is the most important question to be asked of each candidate. are you expecting the hunter biden bombshell e-mails to come up during the debate. >> president trump has indicated he will bring up the question of hunter biden's e-mail and his business practices in china and ukraine. i'm not sure that's an issue that moves persuadeable voters. i know that's an issue that resonates with president trump's base supporters. if you're looking at trying to win a swing state, the issues we see really moving voters are the coronavirus, the economic impact of the coronavirus, and what he response to the coronavirus tells us about presidential leadership. if you ask me what i think the most important issue you would be, it's the same issue for both candidates, it would be what are you going to do moving forward to try to get control of this pandemic which is spreading and spiking in states across the country. maria: and how do you balance that with getting back to business, because you're seeing livelihoods die and you're seeing the economy shut down still, even though you've got industries opening at 25 capacity, et cetera. so that i agree, in terms of the economy. but the economy as a subject is not on the list, susan, as you know. but maybe that is american families, maybe that is coronavirus, right? >> that's right. believe me, i think president trump will raise the issue of the economy, whether or not he's asked about it. because of course that is his greatest strength. we see the one area in which he continues to poll even or better than biden is on handling of the economy. when you look at other issues like handling of the coronavirus, you see a big advantage for joe biden at this point. maria: let me bring in the panel. matt welch, jump in here. matt: i think one problem with president trump and the economy is simply that he's got to run on his record through february of this year. and that's not where we're living. we're living in october in this year so it makes it a difficult thing. one thing i would like both candidates to talk about and i don't think that we're going to hear it -- maria, you mentioned joe biden potentially raising taxes by $4 trillion. that's an interesting number. that's the deficit this year which is larger than the entire federal budget was not that long ago. that's going to have real world effects on the economy going forward. when you run deficits that high, it's got to get paid off, it's going to affect interest rates, it's going to be a drag i think on the economy and it's going to hasten the moment in which social security's going to have to give haircuts to recipients. it's going to run out of money and the trust fund. i would love to hear them talk about that. maria: and susan, that's what the conversation is surrounding in washington right now, about the stimulus package. there's a handful of republicans that say we don't want to agree to any more money. we've got hundreds of billions of dollars left from the former cares package. it's just going to add to the debt and deficits. >> the deficit numbers are quite stunning that matt says and you hear almost no discussion about that on the campaign trail. this is a looming problem. we're going to be dealing with it after the election, but we have not much talk about it before it. maria: and i guess allie, one reason is where interest rates are right now. rock bottom interest rates have people say, well, yes, the debt is about the size of the economy at $22 trillion. but rates are at levels where it's affordable to carry that debt. at some point, though, markets will react to these debt and deficits, no? allie: you have to hope so, right? right now we are -- this concept of tina that people have been talking about, there's no alternative to investing in equity because basically the financial repression or of giving somebody a dollar and getting 98-cents back is where we are in the fixed income market because we've been printing and printing and printing cash. we've been able to survive it because we've been doing it relatively less than europe but this to me, and this is sort of the circles that i travel in, is one of the biggest clouds or one of the biggest sort of headwinds that are really out there in terms of any sort of growth. >> yeah. of course, this has traditionally been a republican concern. we haven't heard it from this republican white house. maybe we will after the election, especially if joe biden wins. maria: susan, what are you going to be looking at tonight in terms of the most important element? i mean, it also could be the body language. watching these two gentlemen together up on that stage, something we haven't seen in a while. >> yes. and you know, maria, i think that's one of the big assets, one of the big reasons to have these debates to see these two candidates for the second time in the campaign side-by-side, interacting with each other of. that's an important thing i think for the small number of persuadeable voters who are still around. maria: you're right. i ayou agree with you. good to he see you this morning of. thanks very much. we'll talk soon. susan page. stay with us. we'll be right back. ted cruz coming up, other side of this break. so you're a small business, or a big one. you were thriving, but then... oh. ah. okay. plan, pivot. how do you bounce back? you don't, you bounce forward, with serious and reliable internet. powered by the largest gig speed network in america. but is it secure? sure it's secure. and even if the power goes down, your connection doesn't. so 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today. the cac is up 12, dax up 12 and a quarter. in asia overnight, markets were mostly lower, the international monetary fund predicting the economy in asia will contract by 2.2%, lower than the june forecast of 1.6%. meanwhile, this. the stimulus battle is continuing with high level talks once again today. cheryl casone with the latest. cheryl. cheryl: markets are going to be watching, treasury secretary steven mnuchin and house speaker nancy pelosi will continue their talks today on a coronavirus relief package. but they're running out of time to strike a deal before election day. senate republicans yesterday failed to pass a skinny $500 billion bill. president trump blasted democrats for blocking the measure, tweeting just don't see any way nancy pelosi and crying chuck schumer will be able to do what's right for our workers on stimulus. they're looking to prop up democrat cities and states. ant group is getting closer to the overseas market do buy, the company backed by alley bay alia getting approval for a dual listing. shares could be priced as early as next week. it could be the world's largest initial public offering, it would surpass the record set by saudi aramco. finally, the cmt music awards crowning this year's winners with one artist taking well deserved top honors. >> and the winner is carrie underwood. >> this one is really all about you guys. especially because we, again, haven't been together but i just -- i feel so loved this evening. so thank you guys so much. cheryl: carrie underwood winning video of the year and female video of the year with drinking ayou loan. she is now the most awarded artist in the fan voted show's history. chris young walked away with performance of the year and blake shelton and gwen stefani accepted the collaborative video of the year award for nobody but you. jennifer nettles won the equal play award for her work to boost women in country music, maria. those are your headlines. back to you you. maria: cheryl, thank you so much. meanwhile, we're looking at a market that is under pressure, you ahead of the big presidential showdown tonight. president trump and joe biden are gearing up for their final faceoff on th the debate stage tonight in nashville, with election day 12 days ago. today's topics include the coronavirus, national security and climate change. the commission on presidential debates announced the candidates will be muted at the start of each segment. joining me now is the assistant to the president and white house communications director, alyssa farah. it's good to see you this morning. thank you so much for being here. >> thanks for having me, maria. maria: let's talk about tonight. what should we expect? what is your take on these topics that have been released from the moderator? >> so, the president's eager to get out there tonight and make his case to the american people. it's important to show the contrast between he and joe biden. so the topics themselves i'd say, he's going to answer those topics. he's also going to frankly answer the questions he wants to. if we don't get to china, he's prepared to bring up china and joe biden's disastrous record on it. he's looking forward to talking about his economic recovery plans, contrasted with joe biden's tax plan that's talking about tax rates of 60% for some americans. so the president's ready to get out there. we're optimistic this is going to be a huge win for him. maria: yeah. i mean, look, new battleground poll ofs are out this morning, i want to get your take on how you view these polls. the latest polls show president trump holding onto a lead in ohio but joe biden is leading in pennsylvania, wisconsin and michigan. when it comes to the economy, swing state voters trust the president including majority of voters in ohio, wisconsin and pennsylvania. your view on what we're seeing in the polls which have been pretty consistent overall with joe biden leading. >> so in many ways, the polls mo omodel about where we were in 2016 and we all know how that ended. we're very confident on the numerous pat paths that we haveo victory. the president's spent a ton of time on the road. there are a lot of different ways this can go. last night we were in north carolina. the night before we were in pennsylvania. he'll do two to three a day rallies while joe biden took four days down in the final stretch of the campaign which is unheard of really. so we're confident in the multiple paths that we have ahead. we're also not going to take anything for granted. this president knows he needs to earn the votes of the american people. not just hide and hope that they go in his favor. and we're really going to make the economic case, that's sort of his closing argument. the president that brought us the hottest economy in modern history is the president that needs to be here overseeing this recovery. maria: yeah. stimulus stalemate alyssa, do you think this is just -- is this just window dressing or is there something real here? house speaker pelosi and treasury secretary mnuchin meeting once again today after they said they inched towards a roughly $2 trillion deal. what's holding this up if in fact this is honest negotiations? >> so this is really the most optimistic we felt about getting a deal. there's still obviously some concerns which you laid out. the concerns over state and local essentially bailouts for poorly run democratic cities and states. that's not something that the white house thinks we should be addressing in this package. but we are seeing -- i think the speaker's really hearing from her caw cues and -- caucus and from her constituents, getting pressure that she needs to put something on the table. president trump is committed to getting a deal. we're pretty optimistic that we could get something, whether it's a skinny package like you had heard talked about in the senate or if it's something bigger and president trump has said i'm willing to go bigger. so we're willing to look at a larger number for ppp, for businesses. we're willing to look at a larger direct payment to americans, to american families. but what we're not going to do is get into unrelated non-jermainnon-germane topics lu addressing poorly run states and cities. maria: is this going to come up tonight? what will the president say about the economy if the topic of creating jobs, his performance in terms of the economy doesn't come up? are you expecting that he will push the subject through? and what a about the hunter biden scandal, is that going to come up? the debate was supposed to be about foreign policy and now clearly it's been changed. >> i learned not to predict what the moderators will ask and whether they'll focus on the really important issues. i've spoken with kristen welkr. i think it would be wise to raise those topics. we need to have a real discussion on china. traditionally the third debait is a foreign policy debate. the president will go in ready to make his case on the issues see as most important, the economy, holding china accountable, the economic recovery. and i do think we are going to, whether it's after he has the opportunity to bring it up, he will get into the issue of hunter biden. the american people need to know if the biden family in any way is beholden to china. this is our biggest geopolitical adversary. the fact that most of the mainstream media is refusing to cover this story is gravely concerning but the president's willing to bring it up himself if necessary. maria: all right. we'll be watching. it's going to be important. alyssa, thanks very much. good to see you. alyssa farah joining us there. be sure to order my new book, comes out next week, myself and james freeman, preorder the book, thecostbook.com. coming up next hour, donald trump junior is here, he'll weigh in on all things 2020 as his father gets ready to take the stage told. we'll find out how the president has been preparing. first, jobs in america, we're talking -- we're taking a look at where the jobs are in big business, ramping up fourth quarter hiring. fox business is presenting an american votes together virtual town hall, that's hosted by charles payne, that's next tuesday at 2:00 p.m. send your video questions to invested in you at fox businessdot-com. you're watching "mornings with maria" live on fox business. ♪ don't turn around. ♪ you're going to see my heart breaking. ♪ don't turn around. ♪ i don't want you seeing me cry. ♪ just walk away. maria: welcome back. jobs in america, the economy recovering from major losses earlier this year. as big business ramps up fourth quarter hiring. the wall street journal is reporting this morning employers have added back more than 11 million jobs since the start of may. joining me right now is the cmo of monster, elliott seaborn. thanks very much for being here. where are you seeing these hiring booms? tell us where the jobs are. >> yeah, i mean, overall the good news is -- thanks for having me on. we're seeing jobs rebounding in month over month in every sector, except for government right now. as you said, we gained back 11 million jobs. most sectors are down. but now they are definitely coming back in a big way across the board. the biggest area to really talk about, the one that's most obvious this holiday season is retail, the retail seasonal hiring area. jobs coming online in big ways. monster.com, for instance, we're seeing stock clerk jobs being posted and being up double digits. week after week. retail salespeople roles, tripled in recent weeks. we're seeing the effects of holiday hiring on other sectors, seeing increases in jobs for retail like packaging roles, transportation and trade and just as an added note, we poll candidates, people looking for jobs since pre-covid and we're seeing an interesting trend in that the monster candidates we're polling, almost 90% of them are saying i will look for a seasonal job this year. that's up 60% from last year. maria: so seasonal jobs are just from thanksgiving to january or how long do the seasonal jobs last? is it a six month gig? >> no, it's really -- i mean, it really ramps up in september and goes through the end of december and -- but really start looking for the ramp period starting in july and august and we've seen those jobs steadily increase and as a matter of fact retail jobs have come back almost fully since we lost 2.4 million post-pandemic. maria: elliott, let me ask you about postings for jobs that offer remote work. you've got so many people at home right now. are you seeing postings for jobs that offer remote work, due to the pandemic? >> we are. as a matter of fact, it's really necessary as the number one search that candidates, we call them candidates, people looking for job is remote work on our site. so now we're seeing our customers put into their job descriptions open and flexible to remote work and we're seeing that as one of the biggest trends that's occurring right now. maria: jump in here, matt. matt: the thing that interests me the most right now as someone who lives in new york city is the where of the jobs, building on that remote thing, you know, new york and san francisco and some other urban centers are seeing -- and seattle are seeing a big flight from these cities right now. how is that going to reshape the economy going forward? which sectors are going to be asending because of that and which ones will be down? i assume tourism and anything events related and as well as the market for business real estate is just going to be a kind of collapsing in urban centers around the country. >> yeah, business real estate is one that is collapsing right now and it's going to go through a lot of transformation moving forward. the interesting sectors that are happening, things that are happening right now, retail is really an interesting one because it's transformed so much over the last five months and the big box retailers have actually gone in and they've moved their businesses from brick and a mortar, online and that, 5 trillion-dollar sector, has affected everything from technology, so that's ux designers, security experts, system design, network design, transportation because you have to h get these goods to people's homes, manufacturing, warehouse positions are on the rise. you look at the rise in tech, that is all remote in nature. so you see that geography and location are becoming a lot less important than the ability to be able to work remote and a sector like tech is going the to see a huge boom and has already seen a huge boom in telework. maria: it's really nice to see such a boom. we need it right now. allie, the markets i guess have been perceiving that we're looking at a better situation as markets have been trading quite well. despite fractional losses today, we're still not too far from record highs, allie. allie: it's amazing, right. we're at 21 times forward earnings on the s&p in terms of the mega tech that we talked about, we're at 25 which is a little above average. the thing that i find really interesting, and i think your take would be fascinating on this, is that one of the things you mentioned was the acceleration in a lot of the trends that we're seeing. so instead of thinkerring a couple months -- thinking a couple months forward, if we think six, 12, 18 months and we factor into the jobs picture the long-term concept of the fourth industrial revolution and a.i., where do we go? where can we invest right now? what are the opportunities around that transition? >> sorry, where do you think the jobs will go to? allie: yes. maria: in a.i., related to a.i. >> related to a.i. yeah, i mean, i think that we're seeing that -- i think we're seeing -- with regard to a.i., i think that it's pervasive in every single category but where it's really -- i'm going to come back to retail again. i know i'm hyper focused on this. it is as we see these physical locations, we can no longer talk to human beings in those locations, we're seeing customer service, we need to think about customer service differently. it's not just about talking to someone on the phone who is wearing a headset anymore. we're moving businesses to completely into the cloud, completely online and allowing people to access those and what you have to see is now a.i. allows us to replicate natural language and allow us to service people, customer service standpoint online and that's where we're going to see it. we're going to see it wrapped into the biggest sectors in the industries. maria: yeah. oh, sure it's embedded in all industries, elliott. good to see you this morning. thank you so much, elliott seaborn from monster. coming up, cbs released a clip from president trump's interview on 60 minutes, the one that the president walked out on. we'll get that clip on the air. you're watching "mornings with maria," live on fox business. are you frustrated with your weight and health? it's time for aerotrainer, a more 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thursday, october 22, top stories right now just before 8:00 a.m. on the east coast, we are on countdown mode until election day 12 days away october, november decision the big vote tonight trump, joe biden will face off in nashville for the final debate of the 2020 election cycle, one new addition a mute button as director of national intelligence scomraun ratcliffe announces russia and iran are taking significant action, in an attempt to influence our election to react to all of this texas senator ted cruz is coming up in a few moments, trump organization executive vice president donald trump, jr., is here, and nfl football great herschel walker we will talk about support african american community for president trump don't miss it a big show check out markets because dow industrials are down this morning 30 points, the nasdaq down 6 s&p 500 down 4 points, as we are looking at whole host of earnings out this morning for the third quarter markets yesterday in red after a choppy session as investors talked about, stimulus, and whether or not we see one it has not materialized, likely will not materialize before the election dow industrials down 97, nasdaq down 31 s&p lower 7 1/2, a big day for earnings dow are incorporated at&t southwest american airlines coca-cola, all reporting largely better-than-expected quarterly earnings this morning. and destination unknown this airline will book a mystery location making a buzz this morning, "mornings with maria" is live right now. maria: european markets this morning also as you see fractionally moving ft 100 up 11 points cac quarante up 14, dax higher by 16 and two-thirds as final phase of brexit takes between, the eu and uk resume today in asia overnight markets mostly lower international monetary fund predicting asia's economy will contracting 2.2% this year as you see worse than the june forecast, of a contraction 1.6%, 2020 election meddling director of national intelligence john rot cliff fbi director christopher wray confirming yesterday iran russia attempting to influence the election ratcliffe wray confirmed both nations based on u.s. voter registration data iran using information to send fake threatening e-mails to voters. >> we are not going to the tolerate foreign interference in our elections, or any criminal activity, that threatens the sanctity of your vote or undermines public confidence. >> know that our election systems are resilient you can be confident, your votes are secure. >> joining me right now texas senator ♪ foreign reelings judiciary committee member author of the new book, one vote away, ted cruz is here great to see you this morning. thanks so much for being here. >> thanks, maria great to be with you. maria: so before we get to the vote on amy coney barrett, let me get your take on what we are hearing from director ratcliffe, and director wray, in terms of this foreign influence or interference they say on election what should we focus on what should americans be worried about this? >> well, unfortunately, we should not be surprised. russia is our enemy iran is our enemy, they have tried to interfere in elections before. the they will try to interfere in election likely try to interfere in elections in the future. we need to be aware of it we need to be working to maintain the integrity of our election interesting there are a couple ways that a hostile player can interfere with an election, one way to do it is what ub ub russia iran apparently are doing here which is creating falls fraudulent content blasting to voters having them believe it i real that is serious we need to be on our guard. another way to interfere is what twooirt and facebook are doing right now blocking legitimate news, censoring, the news feeds so that they prevent voters from hearing information they don't want them to hear. last week, twitter and facebook crossed a really important thresh, we have had four several years, a growing problem, with big tech censorship censoring individual americans conservative views they didn't want but last week was major escalation the first time of which i am aware big tech censored major media outlook namely "new york post" "new york post" had two blockbuster stories last week alleging corruption concerning joe biden one ukraine the other concerning you communist china both decided voters were not allowed to see this story if you or i i tried to tweet stories post stories you were blocked get a warning message that this story contains harmful material. now it wasn't malware material harmful to joe biden went further "new york post" itself on its social media when it tried to send out their story, twitter and facebook blocked them said now can't send out your cistory it is chilling to see big tech oligarchs telling media companies "new york post" will have ad post fifth alarms circulation any newspaper in america 200 years old foundationaled bid alexander hamilton, are a handful of silicon valley brilliantly i know airz telling what stories they can write and americans can see chilling wrong >> you are so write, shamefule mainstream media is conducting some of this they to a not mention blockbuster bombshell story senate judiciarik voting today on spdz that would force test from jack dorsey and mark zuckerberg roergd platforms censorship of the post hunter biden stories both social media giants limited to sharing bomb he shell reports as you say what do you want to see? what he do you want to hear? rough going to vote to subpoena guys to explain themselves? . >> yeah, i am not just a "yes" on this i am a hell yes. i think what big tech is doing, is outrageous, i think the greatest threat to free speech to our democracy we have in our country. last week, last thursday, was when they blocked the second-story the story on joe biden being offered millions of dollars, from communist china it is important to note the story is not just about hunter biden. joe biden's son. these stories allege serious corruption by joe biden himself. i tried to tweet out both stories i was actually sitting ate at judge amy coney barrett confirmation hearing tried to tweet it out. it blocked me right there i went over to judiciary committee chairmen lindsey graham, and -- and was -- very dismayed to see big tech nakedly censoring media so lindsey and i talked to the tv cameras right there we announced then that the judiciary committee was going to be voting this week, to subpoena jack dorsey, and mark zuckerberg the ceos of twitter and facebook to explain what in the hell they are doing, because i -- i think big tech ceos are drunk on power right now. and it is not acceptable. maria: well, you know, these companies have become more powerful than anybody expected. they have got that protection, the liability protection section 230 doj filing were antitrust against google for that say they are preserving monopoly on internet searches you have to believe it since goo google has 90% market share in search ebb we haven't seen hunter biden story on googlet one of the e-mails, in question, about this hunter biden story, and this is an e-mail from hunter biden, to the executive, at one of those chinese companies, that you rephrased to writes my understanding is that the original agreement with the director, was for sculpting consulting fees based on introduction rate 10 million dollars a year three goofrpt 30 million dollars changed to lasting lucrative arrangement he said to create 50% owned by me and 50% owned by him, the consulting fees one piece of income stream, but the reason-this proposal by chairman was so much more interesting to me and my family is that we would be partners in the equity and profits of the joint ventures investment, this is serious stuff, then the end of the e-mail goes through, who is going to get what in terms of a stake here it says, 10% of the equity will be held by h, meaning hunter for the big guy for the big guy assuming that is joe biden. we haven't heard joe biden say anything about this, does it come up tonight? i mean do you think american people understand that hunter biden is doing deals getting payouts from foreign companies while his father is the vice president of the united states? have potentially doing -- policy arrangements with government of those countries? >> well you think we've seen a complete media dereliction of duty because they're not asking questions to joe biden isn't answering it, the democratic talking points that has been pushed out on this, it is that this isrun disinformation, okay if you had evidence of that put out evidence if e-mails are fake everyone wants to know if this isn't real that is very important to know, understand. but, you know, sherlock holmes famously wrote about the dog that didn't bark what is interesting revealing here is what joe biden his campaign isn't saying. the biden campaign has not alleged this sknt hunter biden's computer they haven't disputed hunter's computer has not alleged mediums aren't real will have not said that at all. they have also not the alleged to joe biden didn't personally meet with ukraine oligarch paying hunter biden even though joe biden had repeatedly insisted publicly he did not, also the biden campaign has not denied what you just read there, that the chinese communists suffered a joe biden personally millions of dollars for his bankat if it isn't true, let them condition -- deny it but problem they are counting on docile media not to question it simply say move on the night china story brought joe biden did a town hall meeting hosted by abc didn't bother to ask him, tonight, i wager 20 bucks nbmoderator is not going to ask about it trump might not from moderator. and it is amazing to see -- to see how willing the media is to let big tech assert power to censor them if they censor "new york post" they can censor in orange county times if politico can censor fox business a dangerous thresh to say these -- american oligarchs to silicon valley now have monopoly power over ever what news is allowed to be reported what you are allowed to hear. as you know, in my book, one vote away i talk about the threat to free speech the left is pushing want to go takeaway your rights, and my right to speak about politics, that is critically on the ballot november 3rd. maria: a really important issue, and a really important book because i know you go through each of the very important rights, human rights constitutional rights that we have, and what is being threatened right now, so "60 minutes" interviewed joe biden and president trump they released a clip of the president's interview we ran that earlier i want to show you, a clip of lesley stahl with joe biden get your reaction here it is. >> if elected being what i will do i will put together a national commission of bipartisan commission of scholars constitution scholars dems republicans liberal conservative, and i will -- ask them to over -- 180 days come back do me with recommendations as to how to reform the court system, because it is gettings out of whack. many the way -- it is handled it is not about court packing there is a number of other things that are constitutional scholars debated i looked to see what recommendation they might make. >> you are going to study this issue about whether to pack the court >> there is a number of alternatives that go well beyond packing >> there is a live ball. >> it is a live ball we are going to have to do that, you are going to find there is a lot of conservative you constitution scholars saying as well the last thing we need to do is turn the supreme court into just a political football whoever has most o votes gets whatever they want, presidents come and go, supreme court justices stay for generations. >> so senator, there he was, talking about his plans to redo the supreme court. the senate judiciary committee set to approve judge amy coney barrett's nomination to the supreme court later today, and now you've got senate democrats saying they are a are going to boycott the vote altogether while joe biden is telling us, that is one of his priorities, senator, to change the supreme court. he is backing away from you know, necessarily packing it with liberals but just said that this is a priority of his >> that video was a chilling. joe biden said that his objective is to go quote well beyond packing. packing the supreme court fdr tried to do abuse of power, it would destroy the independence of the judiciary, the democratic party 1937 rejengd fdr's attempt to do it that is what joe biden wants to do abusing the court we need to preserve independency of the court send our constitutional rights. >> actually i am stunned that he said that, to 60 minutes watched for first time the way you did always a pleasure to talk with you thank you, sir. >> thank you, maria >> senator ted cruz. we'll be right back. non-valvular afib can mean a lifetime of blood thinners. and if 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include, the coronavirus, national stutter climate change, commission of presidential debates announced last week the candidates will be mutsdz at start of each segment for two minutes' time talk about tonight with texas congressman henry cuellar, mark walker great to see you both so i appreciate your time congressman i want to kick off with you what should we expect from joe biden tonight? >> well, i think joe biden is going to talk about how we can bring stability to our country. stability for our businesses, make sure that we address the health care issues covid-19 especially small business we lost one out of five small businesses due to this i have been a small business owner, i have never done it under a this pandemic but i can tell you a hard job running small business we got to provide, that type of stability. maria: congressman cuellar you know having been a small business owner yourself a small businessperson, the risks that you have to take, in your business, the courage that it requires and the impact of policy. so what do you want to see out of government in terms of of policy to assist those small a businesses out there, that want to get back to thriving the way they were perhaps last year? >> well, you know, keep in mind like you said, there is you know you want to make sure that the small businesses have a low tax base, making sure that we hold down on those regulations making sure that they all have an opportunity to hire folks and like i said, look, to have overhead to deal with regulations to deal with personnel to deal with that is hard but dealing with the pandemic right now just makes it so hard, so we got to address this -- this particular situation, that we have right now, with the covid-19 get making sure that they get assistance especially the -- the citizens to small businesses that we hope we can get a relief bill sometime in congress, sometime soon. maria: congressman i mention such important point regulation, the regulatory backdrop congressman walker tell me from your standpoint, what can we hear from president trump tonight, and also touch on the regulatory environment because there are some people who believe, while joe biden says he is not against fracking anymore going to kill fracking with a host of new regulations that is so key, to business prospering. >> good morning to you maria to my good friend henry, but with with all due respect i am not sure stability joe biden belong in same sentence so we look forward to hearing the president go after these things talk about joe biden's record donald trump's record as far as the best economy in the first three years of his presidential -- >> okay. the economy, is clearly one of the issues issue that the president is going to think a about tonight, given his record and the performance, i want to talk about what else may come up and also get back to that regulatory question. congressman i want to ask your thoughts what biden may do to the energy business put in a short break talking with congressman and congressman walker the issues new fox news it is polls after this short break stay with us. what you need. wow. that will save me lots of money. this game's boring. only pay for what you need. liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. maria: welcome back back with me congressman cuellar, congressman walker president trump holding lead in ohio vice president biden in pennsylvania wisconsin michigan when it comes to economy swing-state voters trust the president more majorities of voters in ohio wisconsin and pennsylvania, congressman walker your reaction to these polls, and interesting to note that the economy, is the number one issue for 74% of voerlths and yet not on the list tonight in terms of topics for the debate. >> i've got a feeling that president trump will pivot back to economy some point, i do think the momentum is on behalf of the president. we are seeing here again north carolina as well. one of the questions that i hope that the presidential candidate joe biden will answer is were you to 10% big guy 10% in hunter biden story i believe he has to answer that question, and did he receive millions of dollars, interesting enough the biden family the corruption is making the clinton family look like i can washington general rallies total amateurs this is a problem with fbi director, information the same time president zelensky of ukraine was the basis of the presidential impeachment process, there is a lot of questions that i think the american people are starting to take a second look exactly, who joe biden is. maria: we've been making that point the fact fbi sat on this for a year. even as the senate was there was with a trial in senate impeach president trump over ukraine phone call with ukrainian leader nice that hunter biden is getting payouts from ukrainian companies feels like cover-up by leadership of the fbi and media congressman cuellar let me ask you you about that what do you think joe biden will say if issue comes up tonight about hunter biden and joe biden getting paid off, as sitting vice president >> my good friend mark, look i think the american people want to talk about issues that you talked about whether the economy protecting preexisting i think a tax on family members children should stay off we can talk about that but if you look at the polls, original question was polls, polls overall have been steady with joe biden ahead. if you look at the different polls this those six swing states, are you have joe biden ahead. and again it is not going to be over till you know the last votes are counted but i feel very confident, that joe biden is going to win this particular election, that we are going to have this stability, that i keep talking about i don't care if democrat republican whatever political associations we are all americans, you know i am a texan mark somebody from north carolina, i think you know after joe biden wins this election we got to make sure that we govern not as a democrat as a republican, but as americans that is the type of i want to see in joe biden ask govern as american not party affiliation. maria: in that vein congressman cuellar let me get your take on some policies that joe biden has talked about, because he wants to raise taxes, by 4.3 trillion dollars, you being a businessman former businessman, you probably are sensitive to the tax issue. and joe biden wants to take the corporate tax rate from 21% to 28%, even more chilling in my view, is the fact that he is going to take capital gains capital gains taxes from where they are right now 23.8%, to 43.4%. the you are talking about close to 44% capital gains taxes, 43 1/2% on taxes on dividends. what do you think the -- impact of that tax policy will be? >> yeah, you know, are again, i have always voted for lower taxes, because i feel the making sure that you know we pay what we need to pay but at not over pay, we want to make sure that we have a fair tax system but keep in mind that we have to look at what congress has to say, i mean joe biden has to particular perspective, whether it is on energy, being we can talk energy i have a different perspective from energy, so there will be discussion keep in mind he that joe biden is always been bipartisan developing consensus so we will try to make sure we work out a consensus trying to develop a fair tax system. >> what i think i hear you saying is even if he tries to push through 4.3 trillion dollars in tax increases it may not go through. the congress, are will vote down -- >> i am not saying that i am just saying there will be a debate on it both by house and senate because remember it is not the way president trump has been doing what he diverts money from one agency to the agency, if it is you know we got to deal with u.s. congress not sure -- sure a discussion, even among democrats certainly with our republican colleagues. maria: actually i believe it was president obama who used money from fannie mae and freddie mac and used it for the he obamacare one issue our viewers are very upset about. in terms of -- >> we are worried about millions of dollars we are worried about the billions of dollars i sit on appropriations he took billions of dollars from the liryli,live o o t- -- - nfo centueryentuolryenioolnutio wrke y w t rct ro atth initi ini jle clelassslaimn scenscen 787,780,7,7,wer,lo t atstimat860,00,000 cry cl totoeneionctioioan pleteewe a aha whaha you you y st hea fro y y cle cagolue tordto twa wl wall all the>> ihere ioupl chihi ,er tnkos americansrins ilemecamenonoithono dot don dd d p wd it hisisis sinessmanen bnenkgroned is i etterbeorerbehebeonom onene hg i i do dantt sa my m od frien f henry cenertainlyin wasn atckgheamy i askinskboutut j bid b he the big man that gotten the% millions of dollars a fair question a simple question one that needs to be answered. maria: yeah, i suspect it will come up tonight, but we will see the congressman cuellar, are, and congressman walker good to see you both thank you so much breaking news initial jobless claims out better-than-expected report backdrop. cheryl: especially with continuing number we actually down more than a million on the continuing number, which is nice to see, but let's get to the initial number worries estimate 860 though, we came in, at 78 7,000, so that is much better than expected, for the first time since march we are below 800,000 on initial claims that is nice to see. continuing is a big story here, the estimate was 9.5 million, we came in 8.373 million, so again more than a million better-than-expected that is folks coming off continuing we had employment -- job postings down 15% year-over-year we have announcements from manner united coca-cola at that time at that time about lay-offs decent numbers the dow came back a little bit down 49 right now back to you. maria: cheryl, thank you so much we are going to take a break, in the next 30 minutes we will talk with herschel waker don't miss that. next right after this short break trump organization executive vice president donald trump, jr., here to talk all things 2020 as father is prepping for taking the stage tonight he is going to take us behind, that is next stay with us. . maria: welcome back, all eyes on tonight's debate president trump and joe biden are gearing up for their final face-off in nashville tonight tonight topics include coronavirus, natural security climate change, something new each candidate will be muted two minutes start of each segment while opponents speak joining me trump organization executive vice president, he is son of president donald trump, of course, donald trump, jr., is here great to have you this morning thanks very much joining us what are you expecting tonight give your take where we are going into the debate with this new element, to mute the microphones, and a change in the content from foreign policy to now things like coronavirus, and climate change american families. >> i am shocked to hear they take foreign policy out of there the second joe biden is shown to be compromised by foreign agencies, and son taking millions from holding millions for him so shocked, that the impartial totally bipartisan debate commission when i say a blaifrn with them i mean democrats never trumpers they are version bipartisan you saw what happened with steve scully sending to never transpireers lying about it a moderator obama type, it never ends so i am not expecting fairness, i certainly am not doing that when they cut off micli.s totally does not surprise me at all should not surprise anyone watching they would take out foreign policy, and try to shift anything away from the flagrant damage that could joe biden could do to america, in that he is compromised, by some major corrupt regimes across the globe, it is absolutely disgusting what is going on, and social media is in, censoring it mainstream media censoring only person not denying it biden campaign if it wasn't true you think would say e-mails are not real they haven't done that they know they can hide in basement let media do cover-up for them >> look, i know there is a a little bit of sarcasm with that the truth is these are serious issues that you raise. i mean, you have a censoring of serious information going on, the american people may not know that hunter biden was trying to drum up business and take in and get payouts, by doing business with companies, that were tied to the government that his father was negotiating u.s. policy with what are you going to do about it? what is the president going to do about all this rinse from day one, but only getting worse, the fbi sitting on laptop for a year c, the media refusing to cover it? >> >> yeah, imagine that was me, maria think sit on it for a year wouldn't sit on it two seconds before leaked, and i said before senate and house, again, all things they hoped dreamed donald trump, jr., was doing when they accused of heinous crimes bidens are literally doing. actually still doing. i mean this now, and imagine how much more there is marajah think about it imagine how much more there is if you had actually mainstream media would stop being left wing activities and start doing journalism for a change thousands of people looking into us found nothing after four years didn't stop from running with it but found nothing. there was nothing there. imagine those people dedicated that time and energy to look further into joe biden. and into hunter biden, imagine what they would find. i mean the fact that the democrats are okay with this, that social media would try to prevent this, rather okay with a guy could be compromised by corrupt foreign agencies and regimes and would allow him to be president. over donald trump built strongest economy america has ever seen the, is really ridiculous at this point, people better wake up not just second amendment on table now it is joe biden, and big tech, it is the first amendment, the first amendment is own the table this election at this point maria i wouldn't have said that couple days ago, but what i have seen the last five days with this kind of cover-up fragrant corruption highest levels of government to try to get this guy to become president now? this is mind-blowing on line if they wind donate break up big techs democrats don't having won't on same team it is over sfrooem your freedoms liberties we hold so dear in this country are gone. >> i mean, look innocent until proven guilty was gone as news your father was you inaugurated the values that we deem so important, seem to be thrown aside when it comes to the media, just put their hatred for president trump, above anything else. you know, joe biden was not a popular candidate a few ago and now they are neck and neck in some polls are you buying the polls? >> show the i am not, you know joe biden is basically the camouflage to bring in radical left where democrats immediate want him not because competent or table you see that they can try to sell as moderate joe he is not moderate with kamala harris vice president, not moderate utilizing bernie sanders platform the "green new deal" those are not moderate positions but immediate is goinging into every household run around moderate joe from scranton left when nine years old d.c. swamp creature for half a century elected senator when in 20s, not moderate joe from scranton but in separation to sell that because they figure that is only way they can beat donald trump theory going to do that they are going to compromise, their integrity, that you are values their stated profession and no one trusts the mainstream media anymore each, every day they give us another reason they give us another example, of how corrupted, broken they are. maria: are an extraordinary moment in time, i have to agree with you. do you think your father is going to be able to get in there his accomplishments getting either the unemployment rate to 3 1/2% before covid showed up beginning to actually see neck income inequality narrowing first time, bahrain normalizeing raelgs with ill do you think getting in accomplishments tonight as well as, force joe biden to answer, whether or not he was in fact fact the big guy in that e-mail. >> well, i really hope so i imagine they al do everything they can to avoid letting joe biden have to talk about those issues they are going to talk about climate change because average temperature in america according to nassau changed $1.4 degree since 1860 the big issue not corruption not being compromised not bought and paid for joe biden lying about it, they are never going to talk about that maria, that is what we are up glenz what americans have to wake up to. >> all right. we will see, increasingly people are figuring this out i think, but it has been it has been slow going, are donald trump, jr., great to see you please come back soon thank you, sir. we will of course be tuning in covering did big debate tonight donald trump, jr., coming up former nfl great herschel walker is here getting his take, on the votes from the african american community, how has president trump performed are? there? you are watching "mornings with maria" live on fox business. . maria: welcome back president trump and joe biden are gearing up for their final face-off tonight on dooeb stage nashville election now 12 days away. tonight's topics include coronavirus, national security climate changing commission on debates announced candidates will be muted start of each segment joining is former nfl player great trump supporterer herschel walker great to see you again thank you so much for being here. >> hey thank you for having me back. maria: look, i want to ask you what you think about president trump's support from the black community, you've talked about your support for this president but zero in exactly what this president has done, and how he has impacted the african american community do you think this community will come out for donald trump this election? >> well, i will guarantee you going to come out more than came out in 2016, i can promise you that i get a lot of african americans today starting to educate themselves see what this guy -- through jobs, the historical black colleges prison reform different things he has done policies one thing i think makes a big difference, it is strange because there are some african americans that, you know, don't get an opportunity to see the things that he has done, i hope tonight in if a debate, he will talk about some of that talk about his policies because that is going to resonate on some of those undecided voters, and i love the people to see how charismatic this guy really is you may not like it once you see the trip of guy you will see that he is a good man. maria: that is what you've been saying for sometime. now, and you just mentioned some of the things that he has prioritized like opportunity zones, among other things, tell me what with a level of support you see, the last time we spoke, we talked about nine percent tshlg for black community to come out last time around what do you think the number will be this time around herschel >> well, i can tell you right now the numbers upper 20s may be more i think people are starting to really, really look into the policies right now. i think the democratic party still in selling african community short it is sad they continue to sell african americans short do same thing with latino america as well african american love laud we like law and order to we want jobs that is one thing thank african american communities realize now is you know president trump, his three years in office, he -- helped start a million jobs compared to 140,000 from obama, in easier i think people are starting to see that. >> i think you make an important point i think "new york times" reported that last time around it was like 12% support, so being in 20s above 20%, from african american community would be huge deal you know the former president obama is on campaign trail appeared at event for form running mate using opportunity to take credit away from president trump, for the recent economic boom what did you hear took president obama sometime to endorse joe biden once kamala on ticket he endorsed quickly your thoughts >> something very unusual, is took a while to endorse former vice president biden maybe a reason why, you know not just asking what could be the reason, it may be what happened with biden's son he may have known about it he may have known about it wasn't right and who knows? i think sometimes you got to watch who you are endorsing, because you know, go to senator harris campaign trail yesterday called president trump a racist yesterday, remember she also called former vice president biden a racist, later on on radio show said i was just debating it was a debate, well you know what i mean to lying joking to the american people that is how serious you take this job? i take it very seriously this is for america one of the most powerful positions in the world she joked wrog on regular show i smoked marijuana listening to this, not even around then you got to get serious with this i think she has to get serious quit joking. >> yeah, well there is that then this policy, 4.3 trillion dollars in tax increases, 50 cent yesterday said i don't want to go to 20 cents, because this is going to be real coastal under biden tax policy, herschel great to see you this morning come back soon love having you herschel walker, we'll be right back. >> welcome back the presidential race not the only vote americans have this fall we are with also watching several races in congress launders in pennsylvania with that angle pittsburgh district 17 pennsylvania one republicans believe they can win in this represented by connor, a democrat won special election 2018 went for president donald trump 2016 cornell is army veteran ranger to about served time in have the afghanistan i believe could unseat connor here ran as moderate now saying he may have been moderate last year this year moving more towards left as democratic party is, if you look at votes kind of split, you've got voted against the heroes act but voted to impeach president donald trump, this could be a bellwether for how the presidential election goes here in pennsylvania, should it go republican or democrat, maria, back to you maria: ed important races we are happy you are there following closely thank you more "mornings with maria" live on fox business right after this. maria: i went to think matt welch and ellie mccartney. thank you for being here i'm sorry we didn't get to the election portfolio. alley, we will talk more next time. thanks for joining us. allowed and seize the day and be here tonight for the debate. we will be here early tomorrow morning, 5:00 a.m. this start. stuart: maria, are you going to stay up and watch the whole thing? maria: i might pull an all nighter tonight. stuart: well, i will still be bright and cheery when i say good morning to you tomorrow morning and that's a fact. good morning, maria. maria: i'm counting on it. stuart: good morning. as we speak, drama on capitol hill. the senate judiciary committee set to vote on the nomination of judge amy coney barrett and the democrats have threatened to boycott to interfere with the vote. senator kennedy told fox earlier tha

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