Maria welcome back. Good friday morning, everybody. Im Maria Bartiromo thanks for being here. It is friday, august 18. 7 00 a. M. On the east coast. Time for the hot topic of the hour. House judiciary chairman jim jordan subpoenaed the Justice Department and fbi for documents showing conversations between the agencys private companies and other third party groups, allege showing big tech collusion. In a letter to ag merrick garland, jordan writes this, numerous documents that have been made publicly available reflect the weaponization of the federal governments power to censor speech online, directly and by proxy. It is necessary for congress to gauge the extent to which doj officials have coerced, pressured, worked with or relied upon social media and other Tech Companies to censor speech. Jordan demanding the agencies turn over response documents next month. Daniel, we know what happened here because of the release of the twitter files. We were told 1,000 people in government were wo
Spending after a big week of inflation data. We are going to be getting july retail sales, those come out tomorrow, and the minutes from the july fed meeting, those come out wednesday. European markets as you can see are mixed right now, the ftses in the red, the cac and dax are in the green. In asia, red across the board. Weve also got this this morning, the department of justice deciding to appoint a special council to the hunter biden investigation as the doj drops his case in delaware and his lawyers insist the plea deal which fell apart was negotiated fairly. Hear what senator ted cruz told maria. All of this on the heels of a possible fourth indictment of former President Trump, this time in georgia, which could come as soon as this week. Joining the conversation all morning long, speech First Executive director charise trump and Strategic Wealth partners ceo, mark tepper. Mornings with maria is live right now. Cheryl a nice warm morning here in new york city. Well, it is time fo
Unveiling articles of impeachment against President Biden. Steube laying out four articles of impeachment, abuse of power, obstruction of justice, fraud and financial involvement in drugs and prostitution. He joined maria on this program last week to talk about it. Watch. I personally intend on filing our own impeachment resolution just based on the corruption and bribery information thats been brought forward to the house. Ultimately its up to Speaker Mccarthy who has now opened up, he has said openly that he is looking to that which is certainly more language from him than ive seen previously but i can tell you, there is way more evidence of high crimes and missmisdemeanors we have beforee American People the house has been able to uncover because we have the majority and doing the investigations. It is long past time to start the impeachment process. Cheryl editor in chief John Sullivan joined maria on sunday morning futures saying there is more evidence about the biden familys infl
Apple disappointed on some metrics last night, even with a double beat on earnings. Driven by a 6 move in services. But the decline in sales for the Third Straight quarter is what investors are reacting to this morning, the stock is down about 2 , still the largest market value of any company. 3 trillion. Angela, your reaction to the apple numbers . Yeah, i think the only way apple is going to move higher today if you had a perfect type of quarter. You didnt necessarily get that. The numbers overall were solid in our view. Most importantly you highlighted what the Services Growth of 8 year over year after three sequential quarters of declines, you finally kind of saw a reacceleration there. Its going to continue to accelerate into the september quarter. So that is proving the health of apples ecosystem and the installed base growth, the market share gains, despite the declines were seeing in the smartphone market. Essentially at decade lows, its really kind of allowing apple to navigat
attorney responded. ashley: why vana whites lawyering up. my stars. watching fox and friends first, i m carley shimkus. todd: i m todd piro. president biden heading to chicago to tout his record on the economy and what he s calling bidenommics. carley: doug luzader has more. douglas: the administration really leaning into an area that has been a weak spot, the economy. we will hear this term again and again, biden-omics. what is it? the white house released this statement moments ago. bi biden-omics, our economy has added 800,000 manufacturing jobs and unleashed manufacturing and clean energy boom. we are just seeing the first impact of all the historic legislation that he was able to achieve in the first couple of years. now is the time with all those accomplishments, the president can take this message to the american people and say this is what biden-omics is. douglas: voters are not optimistic. 83% have a negative view of the economy, just 18% positive. repu