streams liz peek, sitting there, talking about the case. by the way, no gag order has been issued on michael cohen, all right, and he's over there doing these tiktoks. >> i mean, look, the defense has already raised a stink about this and rightly so. the gag order on donald trump is unconsable in my view and probably unconstitutional. to your point, michael cohen has been perfectly free, night after night, day after a day, to come out and say whatever he wants about donald trump and yet donald trump is not allowed to respond. it's absurd. maria: unbelievable. >> we get to the point where michael cohen actually has to prove that the payments that donald trump made to him in return for the payments to stormy daniels actually constituted election fraud. in other words, that he gave michael cohen the money with the express intent of subverting the 2020 election. this is a ridiculous case.

it's an impossible thing to prove. and i don't think that michael cohen who is a known perjurier, is going to be able satisfy wht the jury needs to here. the juries is biased. they may not care about the details. they just want to get donald trump the way alvin bragg does. it's a ridiculous case which will without a doubt be overturned in appeal. maria: he takes the stand no credibility because he was already convicted partly for lying to congress. i spoke to matthew whitaker and greg jarett yesterday on sunday morning futures. they're warning the prosecution's star witness is simply not credible. >> michael cohen is going to come to the stand with more baggage than will fit up there with him. he'll have a hard time telling a story that's not completely

impeachable, asking the fundamental question are you lying now, were you lying them. >> he's incapable of telling the truth. that is precisely what alvin bragg is counting on, by putting on an add hitted liar on the stand, no credibility, the da is supporting perjury. knows cohen will lie. cross-examination is the engine of truth. maria: you know, mark, it's not going to matter to the prosecution because they just really want him up there to to continue to muddy up trump. what was the point of stormy daniels? did any of that and her fantasies, whatever, have anything to do with business records? no. had they just want to muddy up donald trump's name. >> it had nothing to do with what this case is actually about according to the prosecution. yes, so -- and look, to the point about the gag order, gag orders are there to protect a criminal defendant. that's their constitutional right. not to tie the defendant's hands behind his back while you let other people run their mouth.

when you look at the credibility of stormy daniels and michael cohen, it doesn't exist and if you felt dirty listening to stormy daniels, wait until you hear michael cohen, that's going to be filthy. but i also want to bring up evidentiary integrity, whether it's the jack smith case where he mishandled classified documents and lied about it or alvin bragg's office admitting on friday to deleting phone calls between michael cohen and a stormy daniels' attorney, they're tampering with evidence and that's a felony. and these cases are all shams but what's happening here is you've got a guy who likely didn't do anything wrong at least nothing more than a misdemeanor bookkeeping error. he's being secured. -- skewered. while you have people who are supposed to be above the law, who are supposed to be upholding

the law, they're committing crimes. maria: jack smith to admit, yes, we tampered with evidence when it comes to the classified documents case, liz. >> look, this is so offensive, maria. maria: i know. >> and we can't start normalizing this. none of this is acceptable or normal. because the president, the former president is running to beat joe biden. joe biden h has had his hands on this case and other cases from day one. this is the white house basically pushing all these people to bring cases which should never have been brought. again, we cannot start normalizing this. this is so offensive and to mark's point i actually think a lot of this stuff is criminal. maria: you know, we had somebody on from the weaponization subcommittee, right, they had the weaponization of federal government subcommittee last week. where are they in terms of, you know, investigating whether or not there was serious coordination here. we had john ratcliffe on the show, former director of

national intelligence, said my michaelco-angelo is working with the doj. you've had white house counsel meeting with fani willis, meeting with fish james. -- tish james. is this a conspiracy? is this coordinated? should that be investigated. >> it's an extremely good question and one i hope they will get to because i don't think america -- actually, i've got to say when you take a step back, if this is all they can bring against donald trump, you know, good for donald trump. because honestly, i don't think in any of these cases does he really look guilty of any kind of reasonable crime. and when i say reasonable crime, making payments to a porn star who by the way appears to have made up her story because bill maher of all people has come out with a clip that shows she wasn't raped, she wasn't assaulted. this was a consensual act that

she had, if it -- maria: i was going to to say that. i'm glad you brought that up. i saw the bill maher piece. she said i wasn't a victim, we were together, blah, blah, blah, and all of a sudden her story is changing. he got in front of me. i couldn't move. i was scared. >> that's what she said on air that she is not a me too victim, this had nothing to do with that. it was consensual encounter. so okay, i mean, every aspect of this case is just blown up so easily. maria: yeah. we are just getting started this hour. we're looking ahead of a major week of earnings and economic data the cpi is what wall street is talking about. we have the april ppi tomorrow and cpi on wednesday. the word on wall street panel is here with expectations next. don't miss that. you're watching "mornings with maria" live on fox business. stay with us. ♪

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maria: welcome back. it is time for the word on wall street, top investors watching your money. joining me is capital management ceo, shana sisel. also with me is mark tepper. great to see you. thank you for joining the conversation this morning. >> thank you for having me. maria: mark, want to kick things off with you with really what's been a rough second quarter so far. take a look at marketses this ms quarter, for the second quarter which started april 1. the dow industrials are down three quarters of a percent, nasdaq down a quarter of a percent, the s&p lower by two thirds of a percent. it was much worse so we've had a little bit of a rally here. for the career, stocks are in the green, s&p 500 holding strong, north america's largest companies on track to post the best quarterly earnings in two years despite lingering recession fears, the dow is up 5% this year, s&p up almost 10%

in 2024. and the nasdaq up almost 9% this year. i want to point out this morning that copper is at a two year high, another economic indicator. you've got a big week of first quarter earnings on deck, home depot will be out tomorrow. cisco systems out after the bell on wednesday. wal-mart and deere on thursday. these are some real good market movers, right, walmart, cisco, home depot, what are you expecting, mark? >> look, obviously home depot and walmart, you're you're going to have consumer, housing front and center and i think you'll see more of what you saw last quarter which is both of these companies are talking about how inflation is hurting the lower income consumer specifically, middle income consumers but also the tradedown effect they've been seeing happen where people are buying less expensive items, right. so i think you're going to see more of that. as it relates to copper, normally that is an economic indicator that would imply that maybe the economies is booming

right now. however, i think this specific instance, maria, this is really more about an increase in demand specifically related to evs and ouv andalternative energy an energy policy is causing things like that, like copper to go up. copper is up 22% this year. earnings season overall has been pretty good. earnings are up around 7% year over year. certainly there's some upside that we hope to see throughout the rest of this year. but investors seem to be pretty happy with it. i know the quarter hasn't really started off great but we are again now within striking distance of all-time highs in the stock market once again. maria: well, i'll be interested in hearing what home depot says and wal-mart. that will give us a good indicator into the consumer, right, mark? i mean, oil prices are edging higher, that's been a major issue for inflation. so we'll see if that comes

through with this quarterly number. i should point out that senate majority leader chuck schumer is urging the federal trade commission to, quote, pump the brakes on chevron's proposed $53 billion acquisition of hess, saying it would, quote, give big oil fuel to raise gasoline prices. of course we spoke the with chairman and ceo of chevron at the milken institute last week. here's what he said on the deal. >> this is a good deal for shareholders of both companies, a good deal for the industry, good deal for the country of guyana and we're confident the deal will close. we're working our way through the ftc process which we expect to be concluded by the end of the quarter, shareholder vote at the end of this month and then we've got a contract issue with one of the other partners that will be resolved through arbitration and that will take a little longer. maria: exxon is also trying to stop it because they want in on the deal for hess and the guyana project, mark, but now wee hear from chuck schumer who doesn't want this deal to go forward.

>> yeah. and he wants them to pulp the brakes on it, the ftc to get involved to pump the brakes on it and this is -- look, gas prices when president trump was in office before the 2020 election gas prices were $2.10. they're $3.62 right now according to triple a. so of course the democrats want to blame this on greedy oil companies, that's not what this is about. this is about bad energy policy coming out of this administration and honestly, chuck schumer, he should be focusing on things that are driving people out of new york and he should be trying to solve those problems to keep people living in new york. maybe start with inflation, crime, all of those things. but trying to blame high gas prices on greedy oil companies, americans are smarter than that. maria: maria: shana, how do you see all of this?

>> i agree with mark in a lot of ways. interesting fact here. whether it's oil or copper, when we start talking about commodities, there's been a noticeable shift in allocation al lowcommodities by wealth mans globally in a way we haven't seen before which is also driving the prices of commodities in general. can't be good for inflation, let's keep that in mind. we can have all the discussions we want about the inflation numbers being ex-energy but how it affects the consumer doesn't matter whether or not you take energy out or not, how consumer behavior is driven by commodity prices matters and i think that's something we need to be concerned about. maria: i mean, i'm just wondering if p copper is at a two-year high because people are holding more hard assets. you know. when you're afraid of a market that is vulnerable to what the fed is going to do, you want to go and hold hard assets.

gold is up. other commodities are up. so is that one of the reasons that you're seeing copper at two-year highs? i agree with mark. i don't believe that this is indicative of a stronger economy right here. i think it's the opposite. >> i completely agree with what you're saying. gold is a perfect example and while it's not technically a commodity we're seeing similarly things with bitcoin. so all of these things are notable. it's a shift away from equities and fixed income that i think we should be paying attention to. it's happening for a reason. i think there is some real desire to move away from the type of exposure as people are concerned about what the fed will do and what the economy is doing and we've seen economic numbers be a little bit concerning as of late and so we've got to think about what's going on with the economy and slowing economy, a weaker consumer, not great for recession outlook and i think maybe that victory lap about the soft landing was a little premature. maria: so shana, one of the

stocks you're looking at this week is nvidia, the company reports earnings next week. obviously this has been the face of a.i. and has lifted markets and many boats across the board. do you think this rally has legs after the earnings? >> i do. and anyone who knows me, i know mark knows me pretty well, knows that i've been an nvidia for a long time. i think we're very early innings of a.i. nvidia is obviously the biggest player in that space and as nvidia goes, as does tech in a lot of ways, as does the semis in a lot of and as does the market if you think about it. there's no reason to not expect nvidia earnings will continue to be great. the biggest concern with nvidia right now, they beat earnings but not to the same extent that they have been so the momentum of their earnings beat starts to

slow down which if you're a long-term goal for nvidia could provide you with an interesting entry point into the stock. it's gone up so much in the last year or two. so just things to keep in mind. i think long term, the tail wind remains but if there's any weakness on this earnings report i would be a buyer. maria: so they report on the 22nd. we'll be all over that one. shana, good to see you. thanks very much. mark, you're with us all morning. we're happy about that. when we come back, the biden administration is still threatening to withhold military aid to israel in the middle of israel's fight for survival against hamas terrorists. my next guest is filing impeachment articles against joe biden on his israel policy. congressman cory mills is here next. ice cube is back. he will join me to discuss trump's blowout rally in new jersey over the weekend and $10 million big three basketball deal, don't miss that, 8:45 this morning, live. you're waifing "mornings with wh

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filing articles of impeachment against president biden on friday over potentially withholding weapons to israel. if prime minister benjamin netanyahu launches a major offensive in rafah, mills accusing the president of abuse of power but, quote, soliciting a quid pro quo with israel while leveraging vital military aid for policy changes. the new york times is reporting the president made the same threat on a february phone p cal wnetanyahu which was kept under wraps. joining me now is florida congressman cory mills. congressman, good to see you. thanks very much for being here. give us your sense of this story and tell us more about these articles. >> well, maria, to be honest with you, this is very clear. it's an obvious this for that, a quid pro quo or of what shoulde called a quid pro he joe. we've seen in michigan during the democrat primary, 13.2%

filed as uncommitted, 101,457 votes. sees the pro-hamas sympathizers who are protesting on university campus as well as blocking streets, sees the recent polls which shows president trump up in all the swing states, 1.2% on average increase in michigan, this is a clear understanding. he knew what the israeli supplemental aid package would include. he knew what once it was congressionally appropriated aid funding it was supposed to move forward and instead he pulled the wool over the eyes of the american people by sending the first shipment which was taken by hamas, utilized by their fighters and sold off to help with the counter offensive, while withholding weapons shipments to the idf and to israel in exchange for political gain in the elections so as far as i'm concerned i use 98% of representative jerry mad letter's own -- nadler's own

language that he used to impeach president trump. but this is something that has taken place by biden and the administration. maria: it's incredible the language we're hearing from the administration as relates to israel. antony blinken delivered one of the strongest rebukes ofs israel amid the war with hamas the new york post is reporting this this morning. during a pair of interviews, blinken said to this, the united states wants israeli forces, quote, to get out of gaza. unbelievable. that's what blinken says. and then the washington post reporting this outrageous story as well. that the administration is, quote, offering israel valuable assistance in an effort to persuade it to hold back on a full scale rafah i'm vacation r- rafah invasion, that includes sensitive intelligence to help the israeli military to find the

group's leaders and hidden tunnels. this suggests the administration has information about where the hamas terrorists are in these hidden tunnels and they haven't shared it yet. really? i spoke with utah senator mike leon of this yesterday on sunday morning futures. watch. the u.s. knows where the terrorists are, they're not going to share the information with israel unless israel doesn't go into rafah, this story is outrageous in the washington post. >> the story's outrageous. the facts underlying it are tragic. look, this is a extortion. we're saying we can help you locate your victims who have been kept under just horrible, horrific conditions, the worst anyone can imagine. we will share that information with you if and only if you choose not to defend yourselves. we are revictimizing the victim nation here, this is terrible. maria: i mean, can this get any worse, congressman? >> well, it can get worse because one of the things that

my great colleague senator mike lee left out is this intelligence that can be supplied to israel would also help with recovering american hostages. this is one of the first priorities that he is supposed to actually be doing is protecting the american people. look, maria, there is a plethora of impeachable offenses. we could have looked at the failure and the violation of the take care clause to enforce federal laws on the border, the separation of power abuse where he is trying to utilize money to buy votes for the college bailout, superseding what scotus ruling has done. mine is clear. he is playing politics and withholding information that could save people's lives. he's withholding defense articles that he had already approved so he could pander to the radical left, the rashida tlaib of the world, the ilhan omar of the world, the people who are taking over the democratic party. he is withholding these items. he's congressionally appropriated aid items in an effort to buy an election,

that's a clear quid pro quo. maria: i mean, why? why would he walk away from our number one ally in the middle east to get votes? i mean, i think based on the people i've spoken with about this story, this has been a red line for jewish voters. he's lost a lot of independents with this decision. >> well, the bottom line, maria, think about the 2020 elections, think about what he's done, weaponizing das and ags against president trump pfor election interference. think about where he has to pander to the radical left, trying to get to a pro-hamas sympathizer type of ideologies. he will do anything to win to stay in the white house. knows that when you look at the recent gallup poll, 41% of the people are concerned about inflation and economy. bidenomics is failing miserably. and pres president trump is knoo be able to handle, build job and increase the economy. knows he must do what it is to win that small percentage which is why he wants to try to continue to do replacement

theory, bring in illegals but again this is quid pro quo. i'm tired of hearings. i'm tired of the idea of one more piece of evidence, there's more than enough out there. the american people want results and accountability. i move forward, i filed my articles of impeachment and i ask my colleagues to join me in this. maria: you have what mike johnson leading the save act, senator lee also talked about the save act but you are co-sponsoring a bill that passed the house last week that would add a citizenship question to the census and block illegal migrants from impacting redistricting and electoral college appointment processes. congressman, tell us about this. because there's a lot of people who feel that's one of the reasons that this administration has the border wide open because you've got the census, this is counting more illegals and it's getting better congressional districting for the democrats. >> well, you said it right there, maria and i'm proud to have co-sponsored this piece of legislation which passed the house that would stop illegals

from actually being part of our census surveys, that would stop the redistricting lines, that would change how the demographics work with regards to congressional state and federal elected races, that would include national races and so even though they may or may not in certain states be allowed to actually participate in the elections, it still modifies district lines. that's why they're flying them out to rural areas, that's why every state is a border state with 9 plus million people coming across in the biden administration, that's why they don't want to secure the brother deer or impose executive -- border or impose the section that would allow him to secure it. they want him to modify elections. it goes back to my impeachment articles or all the others. joe biden will do anything, weaponizing the government, weaponizing lawfare, keeping borders open, he will do anything to stay in office and this is a gross abuse of power by the biden administration. maria: liz peek. >> good morning, congressman. i could not agree more, that

this idea of including illegals in the citizenship census is incredibly important and the supreme court kind of basically delayed the opportunity of the commerce department back during the 2020 census from including this question about citizenship. i hope your bill is something that the republicans will stay focused on because there is no accountability for democrat leaders of blue states like new york and california which are losing enormous numbers of citizens because they can just replace those numbers by inviting in illegals via becoming sanctuary states so i don't think voters actually understand the importance of this particularly but i hope in the next congress, if there is a republican led senate, that this will also track with that group and you will be able to push this forward. i think it's unbelievably

important. >> yes, it's not only unbelievably important and would modify elections, but this is a first step in many we need to take to include representative brian steele's bill which is called the ace act. that would help ensure more election intell integrity. the most important thing in our lives is our voice, our vote. we must preserve election integrity to ensure our voice is being heard. this is the first step in doing so. >> do you think there's any p appetite in the senate amongst t republicans for carrying that snorforward? are they inned the citizenship census issue. >> absolutely. i think majority of republican there's the senate would support such a thing. they understand how this would modify the presidential race as well as for their own and so this is a big problem when you talk about numbers that are crossing our borders per year. maria: congressman, we appreciate your work. we're going to be watching your

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maria: welcome back. president biden spending mother's day at his delaware beach house after attending a fundraiser at a former microsoft executive's home. president trump was campaigning in wildwood, new jersey over the weekend, spoke to a crowd said to be upwards of 100,000. trump vowed to turn the garden state red in november and flip over blue states as well. watch. >> we're expanding the electoral map because we are going to officially play in the state of new jersey, we're going to win the state of new you newr

new jersey.we're looking great e of minnesota, which hasn't been won since 1952. we're leading in the polls. and the state of virginia and actually many other states. could be all of them. this guy is so damn bad it could be all of them. all across america, millions of people so-called blue states are joining our movement based on love, intelligence, and a thing called common sense. maria: joining me now is democrat consultant and former house judiciary committee chief council julian epstein and attorney josh hammer julian, let me get your take on the rally trump had on saturday night. what does it tell you? >> it tells me he's trolling joe biden the way george bush 41 trolled michael dukakis in 1988 when he campaigned in the boston

harbor which is actually where i'm sitting right now and what he's saying is i think he's comfortable in the lead in the battleground states and he can go into blue categories and it's a taunt towards joe biden whose approval numbers have been in the dumps for a very long time, for two and-a-half, three years at this point. i don't know about his ability to turn around a blue state like new jersey to a -- in his corner. if you look at what happened in 2021 in the gubernatorial race, voters clearly said they don't like extreme left policies and i think a lot of the polling is showing that one of the reasons that biden is so far behind trun the battleground and elsewhere, they don't like policies on the economy, i think israel is going to be a huge loser because he's catering to to the far left right now, i think that's very, very unwise and i think voters don't like things like immigration so if there's an opportunity to move numbers in

new jersey, i think trump has it. maria: i think you're absolutely right about the israel policy. i found over the weekend talking to lots of independents that this was a red line for them, josh. that they felt that this is it, that if he is going to stop shipments of weapons to israel now in the middle of israel's fight for its survival, i can't align with president biden. >> yeah. you know, maria, look, i'm not going to put the cart in front of the house. i'm a jewish conservative who has been frustrated by my own people's i inability to vote for the political party that is better for their interest. if there's ever going to be a crossing of the r rubicon, for jewish american voters to get off the democratic party plantation, you would think this would be the time with the u.s. president who is literally as your previous guest cory mills

aptly explained is undermining the mission in impeachable offense worthy fashion. there are american hostages being held by a u.s. state department recognized foreign terrorist organization in hamas' subterrainan tunnels in gaza, this since day one was the worst american hostage crisis taken on its own terms since tehran in 1979. what joe biden is doing to israel is disgusting and disgraceful. if this is how america treats its own purported allies, what is the incentive for second tier powers like saudi arabia to get close with america? they're going to go off to china at this point. if this is how america treats its allies, what is the point of allying with america. the foreign policy in the middle east has been totally backwards, iran is emboldened, allies are subdued. we need president trump back when it comes to the middle

east. maria: the story is outrageous, the fact that the administration is leaking the story to the washington post that they would share sensitive information about the hidden p tunnels that believe hamas a terrorists are in only if they don't go into rafah. if you have that kind of sensitive information, the administration, about where the hamas hair wrists are in these tunnels and you haven't given it to israel yet. wow. trump discussed this at his rally on saturday night, slamming biden over the israel policies. watch this. >> this week he announced he will withhold shipping weapons to israel as they fight to eradicate hamas terrorists in gaza. that was shocking to hear it. even while there is still american hostages being held by hamas and they're saying oh, october 7th never happened. you know n they say that and biden's fallen for it.

crooked joe's actions is one of the worst detrails of an american ally. i support israel's right to win the war on terror. is that okay. maria: is this really just about votes? could it be this administration has this policy, they want to appease the pro-palestinian vote? >> well, it is wrong, maria, on just so many levels. and to josh's point, i think you're not only going to see jews leaving the democratic party, i've been saying this for a very long time, i think you're going to see centrists independents move over to trump i think it's terrible from a political point of view. it's also immoral. israel is fighting a fan fightil terrorist regime. they're killing every jew they can find and bent on destroying the west. i don't understand the lack of moral clarity on the left and

with the democratic party a. furthermore, the pact that they are withholding more precision weaponry is going to make civilian casualties much, much more likely in rafah and the idea that because the weapons they're holding, they're going to have to use less precise weapons and probably will mean they have to use far, far less precise weapons but what you're also doing here is you're encouraging terrorists, you're encouraging the extremist protesters, you know, students for justice in palestine actually supported hamas' raid on october 7. and what you're doing is you're saying to them, if you use -- if you commit terrorist acts and you use civilian as your shield, that is a good strategy because that can pressure the west and it can pressure the united states not to respond. so you'reen encouraging the use of terrorisms, p encouraging the use of civilian human shields and i think this is ultimately going to make joe biden look

very, very weak. he looked weak in the case of afghanistan. he looked weak in the case of saudis where he went after the saudis and had to go in on bended knee. he will look week on i'll gracious when he has -- weak on immigration. donald trump looks like -- whether you like him or dislike him, he looks like a strong candidate. joe biden here looks like he is cowering to an extreme left wing which represents a very, very narrow slice of the electorate and foresaking not just the jewish community, i think foresaking a lot of votes in the center here and i think it's really, really silly politics. i think his staff his misserving him mere. maria: it could be a massive mistake. president trump is reportedly trailing biden in fund raising. biden at the dnc had $192 million on hand, trump and the rnc had $93 million on hand. trump spending a lot of campaign name a new york courtroom. he'll be back there this

morning. michael cohen is going to be taking the stand, a convicted liar. we'll see how that plays out. josh, your thoughts on this court as well as this gap in fund raising. i don't know if trump's going to be able to get all those nikki haley donors. what do you think? >> look, donald trump could use nothing more right now than for nikki haley to come around. nikki haley has access to a lot of financiers and wall street donors and billionaires in general. donald trump needs cash. that's a fairly open secret at this point. he's not just trailing in fund raising but he has legal bills due to shenanigans like what we're seeing later today with michael cohen in new york city. a closely related point i want to emphasize here, maria, this rally we are talking about in new jersey, i mean, these clips are just a reminder of how amazing donald trump is at riling up a crowd and getting adoring fans to flock to him and we can't i think divorce these

two story lines. this is part of the reason that alvin bragg, all the way up to merrick garland and jack smith, the entire democrat lawfare complex, they're keeping him in a courtroom to prevent him from going to rallies like on the screr sigh shore to rile up mamasses against this dotering dot. maria: do you think the american people see it that way? >> i think trump has a fund raising problem. he also had a fund raising problem in 2016 when he was behind hillary clinton. and look, i mean, democrats say this is good news for them. i think they're whistling past the graveyard. i would rather be behind on fund raising than down 20 or 30 of points on inflation, the economy, on crime. i think his numbers will go down on israel. fundamentally, he's going to look like easy weak and cowering to an extreme left.

i would take donald trump's he position right now which is behind on fund raising but ahead of the issues. maria: we've got to jump p but do you think people see this trial in new york be an effort to just keep him locked up and not able to campaign? >> i do. i think this is a horrendous and embarrassing trial that's going on in new york. it's still a trial in search of a crime. maria: gentlemen, thank you. great conversation as always. with we so prior q appreciate y. have a great monday. we'll be right back.

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maria: welcome back. a group of california residents successfully getting short-term airbnb rentals banned in their neighborhood. cheryl casone with the reasons why. >> it's roomily interesting, maria. the group of residents in long beach, california were fed up with around the clock drug filled parties in rented homes. one person was shot at one of these parties while a group formed a coalition, they successfully had airbnbs banned in their neighborhood. one resident said image buying a dream home and a neighbor turns it into an airbnb. it wasn't just parties, film shoots, strangers out of the airbnbs that got the city council to act. taking a look at the stock of

airbnb, it is slightly higher. they faced similar regulations in new york city. the weekend box office showing signs of life after kingdom of the planet of the apes brought in over 56 and-a-half million dollars in the opening debut, the 20th century studios disney reboot of the trilogy had the third highest opening of the year. analysts are predicting year over year the box offers a is not going to live up to last year's ba barbenheimer success. mcdonald's considering 5 a dollars meal deal to compensate to the recent drop. they are asking franchisees in the u.s. that would consider the deal. all for $5. global sales growth has slowed in the latest quarter for mcdonald's. the stock is slightly down. but the stock actually

year-to-date, maria, is down over 7%. it was in the last quarterly report that they really talked about the fact that food inflation is hitting those consumers. and that's what we talk about in cpi, we talk about food away from home and food at home. there's your story. maria: there used to be a dollar meal. now it's $5. >> or it's 10. maria: that's a sign of the times, right, mark? >> i'll tell you, this $5 meal, this is a killer deal. because i think right now in new york city the it's currently $18.26 for that same exact meal. in san francisco, $16.15. maria: wow. >> you get a mcdouble or a mcchicken, four piece nugget, a fry, soft drink, i'm hungry thinking about it. but not only are fast food restaurants getting beaten up by inflation, it's also affecting fast casual restaurants like red lobsters is having issues, tgi fridays is having issues. so we're seeing this across the board. maria: everybody feels it, liz. >> no ye no question about it.

mcdonald's has been on the firing line. when the happy meal which is not so happy anymore, went to $18, everybody read about it on the front page. so look, i think the company has to do something and this is what they're doing to bring customers back. we'll see if it works. maria: yeah. we'll see. all right, let's take a short break a. we've got a major big hour coming up. you're watching "mornings with maria" live on fox business. and we'll be right back. ♪ (alarm sound) ♪ amelia, turn off alarm. amelia, weather. 70 degrees and sunny today. amelia, unlock the door. i'm afraid i can't do that, jen. ♪ (suspenseful music) ♪ why not? did you forget something? ♪ (suspenseful music) ♪ my protein shake. the future isn't scary. not investing in it is. you're so dramatic amelia. bye jen. nasdaq-100 innovators. one etf. before investing, carefully read and consider fund investment objectives, risks, charges, expenses and more in prospectus at invesco.com.

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