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maria: welcome back. good thursday morning. i am maria bartiroma. is thursday february 20 ninth, 7 a.m. on the button on the east coast. time for the hot topic of the dueling border tripped happening today, president biden and donald trump planning to visit the southern border, biden will travel to brownsville, texas while trump will deliver remarks there hundred miles away in eagle pass. u.s. customs and border protection data shows eagle pass had over 2000 apprehensions while brownsville had just 46 over the last 5 days. on monday eagle pass had 500 apprehensions while brownsville had 0. jackie heinrich pressed the white house about the president's border visit. why? brownsville. >> this administration has often criticized republicans when they go to the border and hold similar press conferences saying they are doing publicity stunts and photo up so how is this different?

>> turning this into a political stunt by listening to donald trump and saying they need to kill it. this is what they have been doing and making it political. maria: everything is political with this administration, we know exactly what biden and company have been doing at the border, nothing for three years and a dead woman, a nursing student who had her whole life ahead of her. >> the sad tragic death was completely avoidable. we've got a semi-porous border. k jp, the white house, they think the american public is stupid enough to believe this narrative they've settled on, there pushback now is the problem has occurred because for the past month and 1/2 republicans have been stonewalling a border bill push forward by schumer and rather than three years of a semi-and open border, that has been allowing millions of people to

cross over and vetted. if you are the federal government your job is the protection of your citizens, security and safety of your citizens, he's failed, border security is national security and public security, you can't have national security, can't have public security without a tight border. maria: i mentioned president biden had no mention of the tragic murder of georgia student laken riley riley, riley was killed by an illegal migrant while she was out for a run last week and we understand that he came into this country in september of 2,022 through el paso, texas. karen jean-pierre refused to say whether biden has spoken to her family. listen to this. >> don't have anything regarding the president speaking to the family but it is heartbreaking. i can't even imagine what the family is going through.

maria: none of us can. this is a horrible situation. >> 100% and the fact that the white house press secretary has the audacity to say donald trump going there is a political stunt, the political stunt is purposely choosing a town with one of the least number of border crossings in a state of texas, that's the political stunt. maria: brownsville, 46 apprehensions. we know how many apprehensions are happening, it's a disaster. >> i think biden's last border visit which is probably a year ago, took a picture right in front of trump's wall, but with regards to the political stunt thing and what republicans are really trying to do at the border, hr 2 is a fantastic bill that makes a lot of common sense, get back to building a wall, increase the number of

full-time border agents to at least 22,000, only consider asylum if someone actually goes through unofficial port of entry, whole family at attention, don't separate parents from their kids and remain in mexico until your court date, what is wrong with that, democrats want to increase the number of processors so they can get as many people in as quickly and efficiently as possible, that's the big difference but the democrats won't tell it to you that way, they will say that republicans are fighting -- we don't want more processors, we want and forces. maria: so disingenuous to say republicans don't want to secure border because they didn't want to do the senate bill. i said before and i will say again republicans did not want congress to come up with a huge immigration policy in the middle of an election year. you have a lot going on, you're about to see another government shutdown potentially, fentanyl, climate change, so much

happening you don't need to jam in another policy but what the republicans did want was a secure border. >> the bill normalized 5,000 crossings a day before they would take significant measures. there's again so many things happen in washington that are just obvious and nobody says them out loud. it is obvious that biden is now visiting the border because of the poll numbers, because of the realization and i keep going back to the same thing, they keep hammering at the republican saying it's your fault because the past month and a half you've been arguing about this bill as opposed to the past three years we've allowed this to happen, a self-inflicted wound on the part of the democrats and sometimes you ask what was the agenda, what is the reason. maria: see if your the border, we are looking at illegal migrants doing that, they are stealing things, pick operating people, murdering cops, secure

the border. why do you need strings attached? only do this if you send money to ukraine. >> president biden knows that exec of action is effective. that's why he reversed everything the previous administration had done. he knows what's possible, so disingenuous to say i've done everything i can, give me the power to do it. maria: i don't understand how k jp gets away with this without the follow-up of what are you saying? how do you justify biden caring about this when he walked into the oval office and reversed trump's security policy. we got to jump. we will keep talking about this. markets on the move this morning, final trading day of the month and more earnings, the chicago pmi is out, the word on wall street, don't miss that. you are watching "mornings with maria" live on fox business.

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with a streaming service, paramount plus top 67 million subscribers, stock is up 2.4%, salesforce forecast later full year revenue growth, that stock is down almost one%. amc entertainment's big mover plummeting 10% topping wall street estimates on revenue but the largest quarterly loss of $182 million, we are waiting on best buy reporting a double beach but same-store sales down 4.8%, stocks up 3%. assess the earnings period for us. how do you see things? >> better-than-expected. we came to this quarter expecting year-over-year loss in earnings-per-share and we've seen an increase in earnings on a weighted basis. paramount right now missed on revenue but earnings posting a profit of $0.04 a share versus expected loss of one cent. paramount plus streaming service which added 4 million

subscribers and increase revenue 67% year over year. i question paramount's long-term direction. they continue to explore selling part or all of their business, 50% over the last two years, salesforce, not much to dislike, peter earnings, beat revenues, and announced $0.40 a share but they did cite concerns about measured purchasing environment, that's corporate speak for slowing economy accompanied by less spending. maria: trying to be part of this ai -- >> they are trying. >> we got some weak spots for sure like paramount, warner, discovery which is also down. don't know if that will be the buyer of paramount but they had talks but overall, risk on environment, look at the stock market year to date, look at the stock market last year and let's take a look at bitcoin.

bitcoin is rallying again, $64,000 yesterday, first time since november 2021, coin base's apps suffered a glitch that left users seeing 0 balance in their accounts, bitcoin's price dropped 4% following that glitch but what should we think about bitcoin. >> bitcoin haters are eating corrode. it's been on fire. bitcoin to your point about risk, the ultimate risk on asset right now hello went from 50 one thousand to 64,000 in three days. most assets do not do that but when you look at the rollout of the etf it is very clear that demand is widening. when you think about it in the second quarter of last year there was $20 trillion in 401(k)s and iras, today is probably 23 trillion. it has gone up since then. prior to those etfs being rolled out you couldn't invest any of those dollars into

crypto. you couldn't buy bitcoin through coin base. all of a sudden you have access to $23 trillion of wealth. i think bitcoin whether you believe in the fundamentals are not the technicals are strong and bullish but the coin base thing does not inspire a lot of confidence especially when one of the main use cases for crypto is it is a hedge against government confiscation of assets and when you see your account go to 0 a lot of the biggest bitcoin bulls out there are all for decentralizing bitcoin and then it takes out the risk on exchange like coin base. maria: would you buy it here? >> i am buying a little bit every week, i don't own a ton but for me, i am 43 years old, i have 20 years until i retire. i would feel comfortable with 10% of my liquid net worth going in, i'm not at that level

but if i lost it all i've got 90% still working for me and 20 years to make it up. if i'm 63 years old i don't know. maybe it's 2% to 3%. to 3%. when it comes to an asset class like that. maria: practical advice. anheuser-busch reported a revenue decline, the decline is better than 17%. the beermaker and teamsters union reached a tentative deal for new labor contract avoiding a potential strike. this deal includes job security for 5,000 members, average wage increases of 23%, increased pension contributions, employs critical of the company spending on advertising rather than on wages highlighting the company's employees, watch this. >> we grow the barley that makes the beer. >> i make the speed. no steam, no beer. maria: trying to cut back from the big debacle of last year. >> if you are not growing, you

are dying. companies have to spend money on advertising and marketing, otherwise good luck getting wage gains in the future so that is an issue. if the teamsters and employee specific issue is i disagree with the additional amount of marketing and advertising you are pumping out to try to resuscitate the brand from the dylan mulvaney fiasco i can sympathize but unless these employees growing the grain or whatever they are talking about are also engaged in sales process you have to spend more on marketing and advertising. maria: what about this 23% raise, it's all inflationary as well. >> when it rains, it pours at anheuser-busch and not necessarily in a good way, still trying to recover from that bud light fiasco, sales down 30% year-over-year, to raise what they pay their

workers to help offset these labor strikes. i wonder how long term sustainable is to increase prices to offset declines. maria: is that a continuation that they are getting these double digit raises. how long does that continue. >> in response to those labor costs. 12,000 of their 80,000 managers in response to cost because of their union dues. maria: we will leave it there. thanks for joining the conversation but you are with us all morning. quick break and for fbi assistant director is here to discuss the latest on donald trump's immunity case and illinois's decision to remove the president from the state ballot. you are watching morning's with maria live on fox business.

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he will hear the arguments the week of april 22nd. a new york judge is rigid objecting trump's requested delay enforcement of a $454 million penalty in his civil fraud case while he appeals that but the judge's sons can continue running their business during the appeals process, joining me is the assistant director christopher schwager. your reaction to all this? >> what this does is kicks the can down the road a little bit too late april for an argument and possibly june or july for a decision. now we are in the lead up to the election and doj has a well-established policy that you don't prosecute, you don't indict political candidates in the lead up to an election so it's going to be interesting to see if they enforce that policy which means trump gets through the election. i have my doubts about that. this is a very political department of justice.

the indictment is political so no reason to believe they won't hold off on their indictment. just moving forward with the trial. maria: what do you think, how far out could be delayed? if they're going to hear arguments april 22nd, what does that mean for trump and the election? >> that means the decision comes one or 2 months later. could come as late as october. we talked about the first monday in october for supreme court decisions to come out. in my opinion in my experience that is the lead up to an election. it fits into the doj policy of holding back on any trials or common investigative activities until the election is over, they don't -- the policy is there to not influence political elections but this indictment was set up to influence an election. the right thing to do is to hold off and wait until after the election, let the people

speak, i'm not so sure this justice department will do that. maria: that's incredible. if they would actually have that kind of a departure from an you would expect in normal protocol, to have that kind of departure, to actually jam it through that would be obvious interference in the election. >> absolutely. that's a long-standing policy in the department of justice. tyrannical division, we start to that policy even when it hurts, not saying this is that case but when you know you have a slamdunk case. you don't do it. it's a well-founded policy. maria: you have been talking about the fbi with such expertise having worked there for so long. i want your take, on chairman comber who joined me in studio to discuss the impeachment

inquiry and the hunter biden testimony. he had little confidence in the fbi. >> successfully used its informant to prosecute criminals in the past and he had been with the bureau for a decade. more data coming out about the role he played for the fbi. the fbi paid him to be a spy in russia. they indicted him because he was communicating with russia. that's what they paid him to do. i don't know anything about smirnov but his indictment and rearrest and the changing of the original indictment is concerning because everything i have had to do with the fbi has been suspicious throughout this investigation. the trust i have any fbi 0. maria: that was an incredible

statement. with your reaction? >> first time in the history of the world that an fbi informant has been indicted. it doesn't happen very often. in my experience, 24 years in the bureau i don't remember an informant getting indicted for lying. he was an informant for 10 years, they have strict criteria for informants. every six months they have to be vetted. when you pay them you have to make sure their information is corroborated from several different directions. they ran a guy for 10 years, 10 years and paid him regularly and it turns out he was a liar. that calls into question all the information. any criminal prosecutions would call into question his credibility in those, prosecutions and you have to look at it so this is an

intelligent source so maybe no, prosecutions but certainly calls into question what the fbi was doing for 10 years with this source and how they vetted him. maria: are you questioning that he was lying or are you questioning the way the fbi handled this? are you suspicious of the fbi, the way comber just said? >> i'm suspicious of the justice department. they are the ones that make decisions whether to prosecute. i think the fbi fell down on the vetting process over the course of 10 years but this prosecution is a political prosecution. in my 24 years in the bureau i never sign informant indicted for lying, they lie a lot. you have to stay on top of them. the way bulger case in new england. there are many examples of informants going off the rails but that is the job of the agents and the fbi to stay on top of that but back me up on

that, doj doesn't indict informants for lying. this is a political prosecution, no doubt about that. maria: that is unbelievable. there are vast numbers of fbi agents who are honest and do excellent job. i have a friend who is one of them but the questions around the leadership at the fbi are real and the first person to raise these issues, chairman a oversight committee, let me get your take on the illinois decision, the illinois judge removed trump's name from the republican present a primary ballot citing the fourteenth amendment's insurrection clause. three states ticked trump up their ballot, nine have pending cases, the illinois primary election is on march 19th but there are plenty of other states on supertuesday we are going to be watching on whether or not this takes. what's your reaction to illinois yesterday? >> i think it is third world. this happens in countries, in

south america, and developed countries, countries that don't have rule of law and their systems are not well developed and you have dictators, make sure there's no opposition, that's what putin does. we are in a really strange point in this country where the justice system, the courts are being used as weapons. it started in 2016-15 with the clinton investigation, the fbi and doj taking a dive on that one. removing people from ballots is draconian. that is just rubbing out the political opposition anyway you can and they do it because they hate donald trump. regardless of how you feel about donald trump, they feel like the ends justify the means, that he's a bad person and they are going to do what they can to ruin him and get him off the ballots or prosecute him or get rid of

him, that is not how the system works. that's not the american system. maria: we saw that in plain sight during the russian collusion where nobody was held accountable at all. we are lucky enough to have former cia official here, mike baker, what are your thoughts on this? mike:i want to pivot a little bit can't curious to get your assessment of the hunter biden deposition from yesterday. >> it was what i expected and a lot of people expected. he was coming outcome on the offense, punching back, he was well coached. i really think the committee, the republicans need to act almost like a prosecutor in this case and give him yes or no questions. was your dad sitting next to you when you told the chinese energy company there would be consequences if he didn't get paid right away, what about were you on the board of burisma when the prosecutor was

fired by your dad. these are questions a prosecutor would ask him you don't let him ramble on and don't sit there and make political statements and blow hot air. that's what is going to happen today in the open session, there's going to be a lot of blowing hot air and not acting like a real prosecutor where you give him yes or no questions. maria: we still don't know what the business was. why did you accept money for a porsche from kazakhstan and two diamonds, why did you accept millions of dollars and distribute it in 20 different shell companies. >> that the fbi's job to dig that up. maria: great to see you. we welcome your knowledge. we will be right back.

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maria: devastation in texas and oklahoma as deadly wildfires ripped through the panhandle region. lauren simonetti has the details. >> reporter: one person confirmed dead in these fast moving fires burning over a million acres through texas and oklahoma. authorities saying 83-year-old woman was killed and fear of more deaths will be reported. ranchers forced to flee their homes and businesses. >> went back to try to get the remaining families, maybe a few belongings inside the house was the sky turned black, the smoke was so thick. when we made it out we went 30 miles of what i can only describe as a lunar landscape, absolute, barren, dead. >> i called 911 when i saw the house burning.

they sent firetrucks, the deputies came out and forced us to leave. i last two dogs and two cats. still emotional. this is our life. we've been here for 50 years and it's pretty tough. >> reporter: dozens of cattle reportedly killed as the flames tore through farms. texas governor greg abbott has declared a disaster for 60 counties. take a look here, you can see where these wildfires are currently burning. it is a sad story. and this, the wife of a former dea agent killed in a cartel shootout relocated to mexico because she said crime in los angeles is too bad. carl pearman, that her husband, 44 years old, she said nico split her time between beverly hills and cancún entered been doing so over the last 5 years. call recalled a time his wife was chased by a man with a

knife while walking her dogs near ucla. the couple says they felt safer living in mexico. it was on february 9th that she was shot, caught in the crossfire of illegal cartel drug activity. this is a head scratcher. panera bread in california is exempt from paying its workers $20 an hour. that's the new minimum wage set to take effect in california in april for fast food companies. the reason panera gets a free pass is it is a bakery. is part of an unusual clause in the state law that says chains that bake bread and salad as a stand-alone item do not have to pay their employees the higher wage. it is also convenient that a major franchise owner of panera went to high school with governor gavin newsom and is one of his campaign donors.

bloomberg news discovered greg flynn donated to newsom's campaign several times. network topped $1 million. there are many panera breads in the golden state. maria: unbelievable he doesn't have to pay minimum wage and we learn of this relationship with the governor. lauren: it pays to have friends in high places. they were talking for several years and when it went into effect a lot of people protested but that is what panera was able to do. companies that can't do it say we are probably going to raise menu prices because they will pay workers so much money. maria: how many workers will go work for panera now that this has been exposed the? may be not as many. a big change for the republican party, mitch mcconnell said he's going to step down this november. here's part of his announcement

yesterday. >> i'm the young man in the back, hoping colleagues would remember my name. time for the next generation of leadership. maria: the senate minority leader, joining me is tommy tuberville with the labor and pension committees. great to see you, thanks very much. your reaction to mitch mcconnell stepping down? >> a little bit of surprise but he knew when it was time. leaders lead and they know when it is time to step out to the side. this is a tough time for the country. we are in bad trouble. we are declining every day. i've been here three years. i've never seen such decline from this administration, they fall in line, vote not for their state but their party, than spend a couple hundred million dollars to get reelected, that's not what this country is about.

a country is about voting for your states. leader mcconnell has done a good job but i'm not for a lame-duck leader to be honest with you. we need leadership in the republican party. we need leadership in the senate. i am in the next month for us picking somebody else out that's going to lead us, let them pick their own team. we have to somebody that's behind the senate, behind the american people went behind donald trump, somebody who can stand on the podium with donald trump in the next 6, 7, 8 months and get the job done. we are not going to have another chance. leader mcconnell can be a leader emeritus, stand on the side, consult. 's had a tough time since his fall last year. we can't stop, got to continue to grow. our country needs leadership, in the senate, we have to take the senate and donald trump has to win. if that doesn't happen our kids and grandkids are in huge

trouble. maria: tell me about that huge trouble and the declines you mentioned for the country, where do you see the most significant declines? >> look at, no one thing is dead, $34 trillion in debt, even republicans here, 10 or 15 of our republican colleagues voted to spend all this money over the years, we should be cutting money. i'm for helping people but the federal government is not here to take care of every person in this country. we have to take care of the mentally unhealthy, we have to take care of our elderly, our veterans, everybody else needs to get a job, get off the couch, paying so many people, we've turned into so much of a socialist country, headed to communism, no free speech, taking our rights away, we had the secretary in an egg meeting in front of the committee yesterday and i asked him about farmers, i don't think he understands our farmers are in trouble, they are in huge

trouble going to go bankrupt and what are we going to do? let walmart grow our food? people think that's where it comes from. we have no common sense here. getting back to leadership we need somebody in the next few weeks to take over that's going to work with our senators, raise money and help donald trump got elected because that should be our number one goal. leader mcconnell can help, he can consult, he can do everything he needs to do but we need strong energetic leadership in the senate now, not 8 months from now. maria: i know mitch mcconnell really hates donald trump. that has been obvious for a long time that you do not get along. the was this part of it? he's reading the writing on the wall, trump is coming in and he can't support him? >> i would think that. i hate senator mcconnell, and donald trump got into it. they are two strong personalities but at the end of the day i figured out quick being here for three years if you don't have the white house you have no power.

don't care if you're in the senate, you got the leadership in the house you have to have the white house so hopefully we get a new one along with the help of leader mcconnell being on the side, consulting, that person is going to go out as much as possible, stand next to donald trump and help him get elected because this country cannot stand another four years of this nonsense. maria: who do you want to see their? >> about ten people, they have all called me. last night i said i have ten questions. i will pick out the best person i think that's going to represent the state of alabama and all citizens across the country but not just republicans but democrats. we don't have a republican and democratic party anymore. we've got an american party and an anti-american and these people on the democratic side obviously don't like this country the way it is, transitioning, obama said he was going to do it, on the way to doing that, we got to stop

this, we got to stop at it has got to be stopped now. maria: a lot of your colleagues criticize mitch mcconnell, the other day he is pushing the aid to ukraine even though there has been no change at the border. are you going to get somebody in there that puts america first and not ukraine first? >> if you voted in kentucky, do you want to give $60 billion to ukraine, i promise they wouldn't vote to send it to ukraine the people of kentucky. we've got to speak out for the american people, we don't speak for ourselves, we have people to do that. maria: the congressional leaders reached a bipartisan deal to keep the government funded past this friday's deadline. you agreed to the six appropriation bills with a new deadline by march 8th, the deadline for the remaining appropriation bills moves to march 22nd, sticking to the fiscal response ability act, discretionary spending limit so

you are working on nancy pelosi's budget and the wide-open border, jason owens revealed since october there have been 890,000 migrant apprehensions since october, one hundred 28,000 known got aways, democrats pushing to dismiss the senate impeachment trial of alejandra mayorkas. even joe mansion is calling this trial ridiculous. >> it is dysfunctional, this place is dysfunctional. there is no leadership. nobody will stand up and say we can't continue to do this in a country of 248 years, not going to make it, the border is out of control. this is an embarrassment, mayorkas should go on trial, they don't want to go on trial but all the evidence brought up. we finished the budget last june.

and the omnibus bill, chuck schumer, says i'm not bringing it to the floor, he wants and omnibus and wants to spend billions on sanctuary cities, to get reelected. it is embarrassing how this place is run. if we don't change, this election cycle, it is over. the america you and i grew up in is over. maria: disturbing to hear her sitting senator say this. the conversations i have, my friends are like we are losing the country because of the open border among other things. it is like how are you going to fix things? a socialist country headed toward communism, are you referring to the communist party of china and the governing policies, what do you mean headed toward, unit is

him? >> giving the president too much power, the supreme court says you cannot take away the loans of students. we lost our institutions at the high level, look what these states are doing taking a presidential candidate off the ballot. red states will say okay you do that, we will take the democrat selection off the ballot. this is getting out of control. just work for the american people. we are a constitutional republic that has a constitution. we are a communist country, socialist country headed south in this election cycle. maria: good to see you this morning. we will be right back.

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test every day. maria: just look at him. white house press secretary karen jean-pierre says president biden did not get a cognitive test because he doesn't need it. the white house facing questions why the doctors not available to the press given his cognitive ability. >> the president is the oldest person to serve as president, you said he takes a cognitive test every day. why is the president or your office not willing to make doctor o'connor available to us? >> we did not believe he needed a cognitive test. as relates to your question there is not a precedent for bringing the doctor to the podium, to the briefing room. he doesn't want to make this about politics. he wants to make this about the work. maria: i don't think that's true. i seem to remember doctor jackson talking about trump

during the trump years. there was a precedent. >> and he got grilled. this is again, back to the comment i made earlier which is so many things in washington dc are obvious. it is obvious president biden, we are all getting older, it's not the age, it's the mental acuity, if his cognitive abilities are fine, let's get him out here for a monthly press conference, agreed to host two or three debates with the republican nominee. they are not going to do that because it is obvious he's got some issues. maria: looking at the pictures, turning around, not knowing where to go, shaking people's hand to are not there. >> the gas lighting is incredible. the things the american people are seeing every day that are the red flags are the evidence

the press secretary is citing, they told us to watch him. we've watched him and found him wanting. maria: that's the mo of the white house, say the opposite, say it enough times. and they are. >> 64% of voters polled in a quinnipiac poll thinks president biden is not mentally fit. there you go. maria: where is the follow-up from reporters? >> doesn't he want to disprove that? >> reporter: illinois pushing to remove donald trump from the state ballot, it's going to be a highlight and what it means for the 2,024 election is the hot topic of the morning, next. (inner monologue) seriously, i'm on the green and all i can think about is all the green i'm spending on 3 kids in college. with empower, i get all of my financial questions answered. so i don't have to worry. empower. what's next. ♪(song in french)♪

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