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everyone. thank you for joining us this morning. i am maria bartiromo. tuesday april 23. your top stories. 6:00 a.m. on the east coast. today the senate takes up the foreign aid bill as house speaker mike johnson still faces backlash from some from putting the boat to the floor, will get into it this morning. markets are higher fractional gains across-the-board, take a look and features again at the start of trading with they're down duster of 20, the nasdaq of 26 and the s&p 500 higher by four points ahead of another big day of earnings. ups, general motors, jetblue, lockheed martin all out before the opening bell ahead of tesla earnings tonight after the close. we have the preview, more big tech coming up, meta, google, microsoft all out with quarterly numbers this week investors watching the inflation story the first read of gdp is out on thursday and the march pc index is out on friday, likely market movers coming up later in the

week. european markets are higher as well, fractional gains across-the-board. s&p 126, cac 4029 and dax index higher by 22. in asia a mixed story, take a look the best performer was hong kong, hang seng up almost 2%. the university protest and growing across the country students occupying the top institutions turning campus and a detent cities and encampment lawns. columbia university president facing calls to resign for members on capitol hill, the very latest coming up. day two of president trump's hush money trial george washington professor jonathan turley calling in embarrassment for the manhattan da in america is a former president has a victory in the tisha james fraud case with a 175 billion-dollar bond being upheld. joy to the conversation all morning long strategic wealth partner mark tepper, gop strategist krysia lenzo,

"mornings with maria" is live right now. ♪. maria: time for the hot topic of hour, anti-israel protest sweeping across you elite universities across the country. why you joining harbor, columbia, yale, princeton, stanford and other top ranking universities across the country to protest at least 21 of the top 50 universities have had an active anti-israel protest in the past week. while marking earth day in virginia, president biden was asked by a reporter if he condemns a protest, here's his response. watch this. >> to condemn the anti-semitic

protest on college campuses. >> i condemn anti-semitic protest that's what i've said i'm not going to deal with that and i also condemn votes and to understand what's going on with the palestinians. >> should the columbia university resident resign, should she resign? maria: your reaction. >> is consistent with everything that we seen from joe biden this far with his rhetoric with respect to israel and supporting jewish students but she desperately needs to do at this point, joe biden's policies follow his poll numbers and he truly believes in a two state solution meaning that he needs michigan minnesota and that's what he'll be pandering to, the radicals who believe these protest are protest because absolutely not they are inciting violence the first amendment does not protect his hate speech, these actions which are awkward needed we have to follow

the money and see that these students i believe are being funded in many ways. to come to these campuses like this and to agitate and threaten this is so outrageous. on such a day like passover, holy day to be doing this to the jewish community is an absolute disgrace and it's more of a disgrace that joe biden cannot condemn these actions. maria: is absolutely a disgrace, my beloved nyu as part of this. i went to nyu and i been on the board of nyu, the chairman sent a letter to the board say the university did not want to see any members of its community arrested or discipline. many refused to leave we cannot continence their continuing violence of the rules and refusal to leave, we therefore engage the nypd to restore order to the plaza. now new england patriots owner bob kraft as a stopping all

donations to the alma mater. columbia university over anti-semitism on the campus pretty join sean hannity. he said is no longer an institution he recognizes. watch this. >> arnett to see what's going on with american what's happening right now and it really pains me to see it. we cannot have this intimidation that is filtering through all these colleges and they hate continue to grow and multiply the way that it is. maria: mark, your reaction. >> is incredibly sad what's happening at the elite universities. it used to be the cream of the crop, the best schools anyone could get into and now you have activist wannabe hero protest underway where you literally have students, rather than going to class there sitting there perpetuating hate. this is so uncool. what robert kraft is doing he is one of many mega donors who are

resending their universities, pulling back their donations in the power of the purse has quite a bit influence in if we expect to see any change at all is going to start with the mega donors flexing their muscles little bit and saying i can't tolerate the hatred rolling across the university and i'm not going to stand by the university anymore and i'm certainly not going to donate any more money. maria: alexandria ocasio-cortez praise the anti-israel protesters as she introduced president biden at an earth day event yesterday. watch this. >> is especially important that we remember the power of young people shaping this country today of all days as we once again witness the leadership of the peaceful student led protests on campus like columbia, yale, berkeley and many others.

>> i learned a long time ago listen to that lady. >> peaceful, she's lying to the american public spaces, we all see the protest happening before our eyes, again not protest this is agitation, threats to jewish communities in aoc stands by her squad member ilhan omar whose daughter was arrested. it's really, really sad. the president of columbia needs to resign given the fact that two months after 9/11 she said that protest, terrorism was a typo protest. it's not surprising she continues to support this. maria: were just getting started we are going to keep a spotlight on it. more companies reporting today. we are recapping the heavy hitters previewing tesla's earnings "after the bell". president biden hitting pennsylvania convenient store chain with a lawsuit one day after making a campaign stop in the keystone state.

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50070 and three quarters, ups and pepsi reporting earnings ups be on earnings per share but missed on revenue. it expects to return to volume and revenue growth pepsi reported to double beat, look at the stock ups up 1%, pepsico down three quarters of 1% in general motors, jetblue, lockheed martin coming out this morning ahead of the opening bell and we will have all of those mornings, then tesla the big kahuna we will preview tesla which is reporting earnings after the close, more big tech coming on meta, google, microsoft out this week that will likely set the tone for attack and the broader market. joining me lp financial chief strategist quincy krosby, great to see you. what are your expectation for first-quarter earnings. >> the expectation that should be solid, the question where will the growth come from. if we see any deterioration in the guidance from big tech that's going to be difficult

because they represent a big portion of the s&p 500 needless to say and nasdaq. however, if they tend to get poor guidance as we saw with previous reports the question will be what takes the leadership in if the market pulls back new leadership can come back and replace it the question will that happen. a lot is riding on what we here this week and what we want to hear from the companies in particular how are they utilizing a.i. is it being monetized so they're actually making money on the products in the software that they are creating. the market has been fairly discerning about this in waiting to hear quarter after quarter you spending a lot of money, what are you doing and what do you see this will be extremely important for the overall market in the direction of the market

looking ahead. maria: what you expect in terms of the macro story there is a debate in terms of whether or not we need to see any rate cuts and then there's the feeling that we have actually seen the impact of the 11 rate hikes, that should probably be part of the guidance that were expecting for many of these managers when they do the conference call after reporting earnings, right? >> absolutely. there has been a suggestion as long as gdp growth is solid and the expectation that it will be solid that can underpin the market and also stronger earnings and guidance can help get the market through if we don't see any rate cuts at all. right now the expectation is one for september that's basically a long time from now given the market data day 24/7 focus on rate cuts and inflation. friday's number, the pce personal consumption expenditure

index is going to be increasingly important for this market to see if perhaps we see a little bit of a pullback in inflation and perhaps they could look at something earlier than september. maria: i want to bring in mark chapter we've been talking about the unlikelihood of the rate cuts for a while, look at the ten year treasury this morning. as you jump in this is the first reader first-quarter gdp coming out on thursday, the yield at 4.61%. >> if inflation continues to re-accelerate and there's no rate cuts i would expect that to inflict pain on the stock market but quincy i have to ask a question just a most challenging question i've had any clients asked me recently which is about forward looking returns. we always want to make sure were properly managing client expectation when they asked me that question how much do you think the market will earn every year for the next five or ten years you look back and you go

back to january 2009 in the market averaged an annualized return of 14% from january 2009 through today but that's on the back of growing the national debt from 10 trillion to 34 trillion and off of the back of having 0 interest rate policy. at some point the chicken has to come home to roost you have to pay the piper we can spend 3 trillion every more than were taking it. when you get a question like that like forward-looking returns what is your expectation over the next five plus years. >> the expectation, if we don't do something about cutting back on our deficit we just have to do it. at some point it doesn't matter until it matters and when it does matter it's going to be pretty nasty for markets but the fact is this is stockpicking, rotation and sectors and also remember what happens with this

you have to go to the market and find buyers for the debt and if they're coming in at higher yields what also happens the fed can't cut rates in the dollar also climbs higher, what does that do, 40% of earnings of the s&p 500 come from overseas it's not just separate from the market and separate from our economy it is integral to our economy. we have to be more cautious, more careful in more deliberate in creating the portfolios for clients. maria: how do you want to allocate capital having said all of that? >> right now were the canada reflation trade war looking at commodities were looking at energy, we have it abandoned technology because this week is that important for the market but the fact of the matter is, you are starting to see utilities gain and we've seen consumer staples gain. what's really important on the

days when we have a rally to see which sectors are leading, what happens with a pullback and then you get the rallies is new leadership can pop up. sometimes it's a one-off maybe utilities as a one-off although the fact that a.i. needs a tremendous amount of electricity in the also could be helping utilities. if we start seeing consumer staples take over this is telling you the market wants to become more defensive. maria: we will be watching that, thank you very much, great insight. quincy krosby, a quick break president biden uses earth day to double down on the climate change agenda scolding americans about the use of fossil fuels, buddy carter is here on the administration new climate action. stay with us. ♪

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do it through regulation. that's what this president doesn't understand. it needs to be through innovation. when the government picks winners and losers, consumers lose. he needs to be market driven and we need to encourage innovation we've done that in the state of georgia. when you see the success that we have had in bringing businesses and attracting businesses to our state it's because we build the regulatory environment that is conducive to businesses coming into a state that's why we've been the number one state to do business for the last 11 years. he needs to be through innovation not regulation. last year i went to houston, texas three times every time i went there it was the same message regulation, permitting. maria: he was talking about the money that came from his several spending packages, the inflation reduction act that did not induce inflation at all.

on president biden's watch that is $7 trillion in spending but i could say the same thing for house republicans also on your watch this unexpected deposit 95 billion other foreign aid package today that will provide money for ukraine, israel, gaza, taiwan and you passed in the house, the senate considered the tiktok cracked on t this week tiktok is attacking not accusing the house of foreign aid to jam through a bill that would trample the free speech of 170 million americans. >> what are your thoughts of another spending package, net enter nancy pelosi's budget, no security at the border in the bill heads to the senate today. >> you're absolutely correct, i cannot deny that we as republicans are bad as spending as democrats are and we have to get our fiscal house in order in washington, d.c. i serve on the budget committee and were making efforts to do just that but it's going to be hard choices we have to make in order to do this. we sent the senate a bill to send aid to israel months ago

that they should have passed then it still sitting there. this weekend we passed another bill to aid israel and we need to do that, i stand with israel and we need to make sure that we are protecting israel in their right to exist. we have to make sure that putin is not successful in ukraine we all understand that but we have to be fiscal and responsible. i want to thank former president trump for suggesting i think that helped us to get this past. maria: what do you think about the senate in terms of passing this. this is one gigantic bill whereas in the house it was for separate bills that you all voted on. >> we merge them together when we sent them over there and i certainly hope the senate will do this. we understand were the looters of democracy in the world and we have to make sure that putin is not successful as i say.

we also have to make sure that were fiscal responsible. the 21st century security through protection through security act that had good things doing away with tiktok which we need to do, when the bill came out of the energy and commerce committee after we heard from cia, the fbi and the department of justice it was unanimous that tiktok needs to be done away with. the repo whack to give the frozen russian assets that will be good to. maria: that's one way to get the tiktok bill through the senate jam it in with the other three bills. otherwise it would've died in the senate on the tiktok bill. >> we have senate members who are in favor of it. i'm glad to see that. they are brainwashing our children. maria: have to move on to the anti-israel protest erected on college campuses across the country.

it's absolutely disgusting new york city columbia university stopping his professor from entering the campus to lead a pro-israel rally he was trying to counterbalance, they claim it's because the school could not ensure his safety. then you have donors saying i'm done patriots owner robert kraft stopped all donations to his all non- water columbia with anti-semitism on campus what can you as an elected official do about this, this is disgusting. >> it is disgusting, we need to send a strong message to the colleges and universities that they must protect our jewish students and protector students and we cannot and will not tolerate anti-semitism on our college campuses. you may get funding from the federal government as you well know and if you want to continue to get that you sure as better make sure you're protecting our students, all students whether jewish or whatever we stand with israel in the united states and house republicans stand with our jewish students as well. maria: what a complete shame to look at the pictures in america.

who would've thought we would've been dealing with this again in america after 1942. thank you so much we appreciate your time will be watching your work. buddy carter joining us this morning. israel reporting closer to invading rafah as iran's proxy groups go after u.s. forces in iraq and syria. four-star general jack keane is here weighing in on all of that, primary game pennsylvania. everything you need to know about the closely watched senate race happening back in a minute. ♪ maria: this week on "mornings

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maria: jetblue and general motors earnings at this morning. gerri willis was some numbers. >> solid numbers, jetblue beating expectations of a loss of 52 cents a share showing a loss of 43 cents a share still negative revenue committed at two-point to 1 billion right on

the money, shares down this morning pretty substantially. 8% in premarket trading. gm a double beat on the bottom and top line we see eps senate 262 that the actual number of sharon eps expectation of 215. a handy beat, revenue higher at 43.01 billion compared to 41.92 billion. that stock up 5%. another news primary day in pennsylvania, voters in the keystone state will cast their ballot in the last battleground state ahead of the november election, presumptive nominee donald trump will appear on the gop ballot with 67 delegates at stake while president biden democrat ticket has 159 delegates at stake. another race to watch the u.s. senate between incumbent democrat bob casey and republican david mccormick who are both under both running this

could very well decide the control of the upper chamber, voters choosing the house candidates in district seven and eight and polls will open in less than an hour. maria: thank you so much, meanwhile the story of the day israel moving closer to the invasion of rafah more than a million palestinians are taking shelter and were told the hamas leadership is in rafah iranian proxy forces are taking a once again at u.s. troops in the region attacking the u.s. bases in iraq yesterday and on syria on sunday, these are the first attacks on u.s. troops in the region since february 4, yesterday marked the 172nd attack since october 17, joining me to assess it on fox news your teaching analyst chairman of the institute for the study of war general jack keane. thank you for being here this morning. >> what are we doing see the resumption of these attacks on

our u.s. troops, general assess the situation for us and where we are in terms of israel needing to go into rafah and the pushback from the administration and now hamas or its proxies re-upping the intimidation of u.s. forces. >> certainly i think it's likely a reaction to the prime minister of morocco here speaking to president biden in the white house and many of the militants were hoping would be the correct word that a president, prime minister agrees to u.s. troop withdrawal, that's not why the prime minister was here he was here to establish closer ties to the united states not separate with the united states. this is an expression of that frustration. if this continues to be a systematic program like they had before the new united states has to go after this as we finally

did and shut it down. we already know the way to shut these things down as you have to overmatched them and overpower them. that's a reality. it remains to be seen what the next step is. when it comes to hamas and rafah and the israelis there making the right call. the war aim is to reduce the military effectiveness of hamas and remove as a political entity governing gaza those two are what this is about and by doing not putting pressure on hamas, the idf and prime minister believe that that will lead to negotiation seriously about hostage release that is what this is about and remarkably the idf is doing something we've never seen before in my experience in the going to attempt to move a million people out of the way to another part

of gaza so they can be away from the conflict and set up temporary shelters for the mayor food, water and medical assistance that will likely take some time and that will unfold in front of our eyes. it'll probably be a couple of weeks we don't know for sure but that the sizable population to move. maria: will be watching that. but general i just feel like i would like to see a tougher stance from this the administration to support israel because all of the anti-israel sentiment going on on the colleges across the country, are they empowered when they see anthony blinken talking about sanctions on idf unit or president biden getting tacitly get a phone call that he had with benjamin netanyahu where he told him don't go into rafah or chuck schumer on the floor of the senate saying benjamin

netanyahu has to go in we need new elections redone the anti-israel demonstrations get empowered when you see the white house attacking israel and public site and in the middle of all of this. sheer survival in the fight for existence. >> there is no doubt about it. the iranians are running a major information campaign on behalf of hamas, hezbollah in the proxies in the region and for their own national interest. many of the talking points being used there are showing up on the streets at the universities as part of the protest movement and obviously the iranians and hamas and hezbollah given the concessions that the administration is making under pressure they put on benjamin netanyahu after all, a week prior to the iranian attack on

israel, this administration walked away and separated itself from the war aims i describe the israel has when it comes to rafah. that is a major victory from the people on the streets waving these horrific anti-somatic signs and other things that they are saying because they believe the getting concessions out of the administration, what is the result of that, more demonstrations, more demonstrations because they believe it is working and certainly this administration has changed its viewpoint quite remarkably from where was at the beginning to where it is now dealing with the situation. i think it's pretty shameful to walk away from what the idf and the prime minister were cabinet is trying to achieve. after all were talking about existential threat to the state of israel, that is what is on the line and you have to see it for what it really is.

maria: in the middle we hear anthony blinken talking about putting sanctions on the idf. where are the sanctions on china for all the bad behavior. it is stunning, the senate expected to take up a passive $95 billion or in a package as early as today that includes aid for ukraine, israel, gaza, the indo pacific region you wrote a letter to house speaker mike johnson was former secretary of state mike pompeo the letter last week urged the need for ukraine funding. tell us more about this. i spoke with the president of poland on sunday who made the same case saying we have to stop russian imperialism is. >> it was straightforward, just the facts on the table about what is actually happening and russia's ambition and why it matters to stop russia in ukraine and the fact that it can be done and we don't have to put any of our troops in harm's way to accomplish that.

it was very straightforward and it's something the leadership in the house wanted for its members to read and hopefully it had impact. i give a lot of credit to speaker johnson and how we step forward and put his job on the line in the parliamentarian skill sets with the hospital individually and merge that into one bill and send it to the senate. that was masterful and it was able to get the bill passed and i think you to be passed in the senate sometime today as well. it makes sense this is about the united states national security is not just about ukraine security or israel security and is not just about security in the pacific region. this impacts the united states national security and the economic well-being as well. maria: i don't think a tiktok bill would've passed on its own in the senate.

i don't think aid to israel would've passed on its own in the senate. maybe ukraine would have but putting it all in one is jamming altogether forcing a vote there. we will see and how long do you think that takes once it passes in the senate will the actual work began to send the eight over there, does that happen immediately. >> yes immediately. we have things packaged in new york, poland and were ready to move. the other things in the united states packaged and ready to go. once the president signs it things will start to move. obviously it always take some time but it's about as ready to go as it can possibly be. maria: no amendments, 26 billion for israel, 60 billion for ukraine, 8 billion for taiwan, tiktok et cetera for the rest. i was with utah senator mike lee on "sunday morning futures" and he said the 9 billion going to

gaza and humanitarian efforts, he thinks it's going right to hamas. >> that's nonsense it's not going to hamas. he said hamas is not going to allow them to get to gaza. >> i'm just telling you he's dead wrong. he is not going anywhere near hamas. the only thing that's going near hamas is bullets, that's what they get in there deserve it. maria: anthony blinken is writing about this human rights abuses committed by the chinese communist party and happy to see him point this out. he wrote this in the state department human rights report the report he released before days to make a three day trip to shanghai and beijing to meet with chinese officials, media chinese officials and were not getting anything out of it, anthony blinken writes this, the prc continues to carry out genocide crimes against humanity, forced labor and other human rights violations against predominantly muslim uighurs.

your reaction to see the state department human rights report days before anthony blinken heads to china again? >> this is a once a year report that i think the chinese are rolling our eyes about it. they may mentioned to him, they may not but we played two nights of the chinese in the president's policy is to win competition and were managing the competition. what we gotta do is win the competition. one thing that china reacts to his criticism and there's ample criticism on this issue. what about china's penetration of american civil society in a way that no other country has ever done in the history of the united states is comprehensive and far-reaching. lay all of that out there and continue to lay that. it is okay to be in competition

with china and have tension with china and have a little bit of friction in the relationship. after all our values are completely different and so are our goals, they have to clash at time, do we want to avoid conflict and confrontation in terms of work, absolutely. but we also have to win the competition. part of that showing china to the world to who they really a are. they absolutely get infuriated by that when we do it. we should keep doing it. at the same time do anthony play ken is doing sit down and talk to the input on the line what is really happening, what you doing inside of the united states, what you doing in the region and what you do throughout the world you are in aggression in chaos, not peace and stability those are phony words. what you really promoted his aggression chaos and. maria: and disruption in

america. thank you so much. >> great talking. general jack keane. we'll be right back.

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convenience store sheets accusing the company of violating civil rights law with hiring practices and discriminated against minority. in a statement says it does not tolerate discrimination of any kind. interestingly on the same day the chain was hit with a lawsuit from the president president biden made a campaign stop at one of his locations. your reaction. >> he needs to let all the customers know that the price is now going to go up because a lawsuit is the inflationary. it's going to pass on additional cost to sheets. there is no racial discrimination this is strictly people who do not pass background checks they committed crimes and did not pass background checks the government has no business getting involved in the hiring practice of the private sector if they don't want to hire criminals they don't have to hire criminals but when you look at the breakdown of the percentages of people denied employment for failing background checks by race,

blocks, 14.5% were denied employment because they feel background checks, multiracial 30 to half. native american 13%, white, 8%. all denied employment because they broke a law, they were criminals. the solution is pretty clear regardless of your skin color, don't commit crimes. >> taking a look at the politics of all of this and seeing that joe biden chose a place to have his campaign stop. he then goes around and slaps it with a lawsuit that is poor planning. who d whoever joe biden is nexti will prepare for a lawsuit because it's a stark contrast between trump's visit at the bodega, being authentic and honest with the people about injustice in new york and alvin bragg versus joe biden achieved a blue-collar american citizen interning around talking about wokeism and stopping up with a

lawsuit. i would be reticent to allow joe biden to stop at my story if he is coming next is the campaign trail. maria: do you think he maybe didn't know this is the very company that his administration is suing when he went into the store, do you think you didn't notice back that's possible he doesn't know a lot of what's going on. it's very much in line with what we've been seen with joe biden. maria: amtrak joe, president trump back in court this morning as the legal team scores a win against letitia james. that's a hot topic of the hour. you're watching "mornings with maria" live on fox business. we'll be right back. ♪

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maria: welcome back. good tuesday morning, everybody. thanks very much for joining us this morningism maria bartiromo. i hope you're having a good tuesday morning. it is tuesday, april 23, just before *u7 a.m. on the east coast. former president trump is back in court today, prosecutors will argue whether or not he violated his gag order. trump's attorneys fired back during their opening arguments, saying he's innocent and had nothing to do with the a alleged hu