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maria: good friday morning everyone. thank you for joining us this morning. i am maria bartiromo, friday march 29, 6:00 a.m. on the east coast markets are closed in observance of the good friday holiday today ahead of the easter holiday on sunday. the first quarter wrapped up as it began with momentum in stocks, take a look at the first quarter as we close the books this morning, the dow industrial five and two thirds% for the last three months nasdaq better than 9% for the first quarter and s&p 500 better than 10% in the first three months of the year, the first quarter of the year end the books for wall street, despite the holiday were waiting on important data as we get the preferred read on inflation at 8:30 a.m. eastern. the february pce index out into a half hours time. personal income and spending coming out at that time as well.

european markets are also closed but in asia overnight green across the board take a look at the major emphases with hong kong's market closed as well but the best performer overnight, china a better than 1%, back in the u.s. one city, two different pictures, president biden had a star-studded night at a fundraiser in new york city while president trump was in the area attended the funeral of a fallen nypd officer, congress has oversight chairman james comer since an april 16 date for president biden to potentially testify on his family's influence peddling schemes, no word from the white house on whether the president will agree to that, the senate set

pd officer jonathan diller's weight he comforted his family, karine jean-pierre dodge the questions on why biden missed the wake and blame the killing on gun violence. >> i visited with a beautiful wife that doesn't have her

husband and has a brand-new beautiful baby sitting there in his as can be and doesn't know how his life has been changed we have to get back to law and order and do a lot of things differently this is not working. >> are hearts go out to this officer who lost his life in the line of duty. president biden is grateful for the sacrifices to keep the community safe the shooting is another painful reminder of the total of gun violence. maria: gun violence, cheryl casone, your thoughts. >> president biden landed 6 miles away at jfk from where the funeral and wake was being held yesterday. how difficult would it have been to have gone and paid his respects were five minutes, you can go into an ice cream shop, you can go to the wake of a slain nypd officer. hearts are broken and the city

has he made a public comment, no not at all. did former president trump go, yes he did. that is the stark contrast between the two candidates and that's a decision that the american people are facing in november. what type of leadership do you want to see from your president. maria: i would not blame officer diller's death on gun violence is much as i would blame it on no consequences for committing crimes. that is a democrat policy unfortunately. >> 21 priors, 21 prior arrest, gun charges out and far rockaway just waiting to kill a cop and that's what he did. maria: organizers of the one night sold out fundraiser charged a minimum of two to $50 a seat to attend and then it was up to $500,000 for more intimate

reception if you paid up. $100,000, guess got a photo of all three presidents taken by famed photographer andy leavell bits the trio sat back and enjoyed performances like queen latifah, lizzo and more that was before the panel chat with stephen colbert, john lonski a couple of interesting quotes, clinton claimed obama improve the economy but trump to credit saying the day after he elected saying how great it was. obama and missing it is normal for americans to be frustrated with president biden because joe volunteered for the job, what does that mean, i don't even understand that. >> i guess he didn't want to do it apparently he was forced into it. i think this is tale of two americans. this is a completely detached clause aristocracy if you will that is so detached from reality

of everyday lives and they don't care that nypd police officer has been shoved on the street, this amount of money is insane to people thousands, hundreds of thousands of dollars in the drawing it to listen to these guys you could not pay me to be there first, there's different types of people. maria: the wake of an nypd hero, your reaction. >> an example the republicans of the party of the common man and a party of the people on the other hand the democrats have become the party of the elite rich celebrities there has been quite a split and this will manifest itself come this november. maria: cheryl, final word. >> watching everything that happened yesterday in the city, somebody thoughts as a new

yorker my heart breaks for the family of an officer he leaves a wife, when do 1-year-old and i was very proud of my fellow new yorkers coming out to support the family in our nypd it is not okay to shoot and kill new york police officers and it's not okay to go in randomly attack people in the city. none of this is okay. an office enough. maria: were keeping spotlight on it for sure but it was a drastic difference in the two scenes that were talking about. we're just getting started this friday morning, markets are closed for good friday observances morning. economic data is pressing on, what you need to know ahead of the pce index into a half hours time, then we have our power panel, the power our command, former state department morgan nomorgan ortagus and kevin o'leary. 8:00 a.m. eastern, don't miss that. you're watching "mornings with

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500 higher by 10.1% in the first three months of the year, what does that mean for the rest of the year, capital president david tawil, great to see you, thank you for being here, what you make of the first quarter performance and what does that tell you in terms of the rest of the year. >> clearly it was incredible, very strong and didn't gain the retail investor, however, for the average retail investor that gained handsomely, please be on guard for the rest of the year, if you were to tell me as an asset manager that you ended your year with the 10% or 15% gain i would be thrilled and give done on the first three months of the year is great, therefore as an investor i would guard my profits, certainly i

believe on a fundamental basis was continued gain to the presidential election and will have a great environment and a responsive environment in the current presidential administration wants to get reelected and will do everything that they can to boost the economy and buy votes and there won't be any resistance to that. after the election all bets are off i don't know what happens when we have a new or insane president power but election no longer on the table. maria: the election is fitting into your expectation in terms of performance, what are the catalyst in the upcoming second quarter that we need to focus on after the munch of march ends on sunday yet the first-quarter earnings to begin in the coming couple of weeks, what else are you looking at in terms of the second quarter as far as an impact to stocks. >> i think all eyes are on the

fed and not only domestically but internationally as well, whether the fed or are inflation numbers continue to come in line, unemployment continues to come into where expectations are and most importantly whether were going to get any change which i don't expect but whether we will get any change from the fact that were probably going to see one great cut this year although the market is pricing and three rate cuts as we know. maria: the market could be wildly disappointed if we don't get the three were waiting on important data this morning and will get the federal reserve preferred read on inflation the february pce on two hours 18 minutes and economist back core pce to be up 2.8% year-over-year but look at what's occurred in the last couple of days in couple months with regard to hostility in the red sea, oil

prices elevated you expected and predicted that were talking about $81 a barrel and many of the disaster baltimore and the collapse of the bridge and is expected to sign commodities hired is outplaying for inflation longer-term what he expected from the pce and what are your thoughts about inflation given outside events that have occurred. >> coincidentally i think will come right in line with predictions and we've done that consistently and what the expectations are month over month in the year-over-year numbers will come right in line and .1, point to percent in either direction i don't think the market is going to go ahead and react violently regardless with respect to recent events regarding shipping and trade channels. i don't believe that it leads to

a big change in prices here in the united states for baltimore there may be localized issues regarding shortage of goods but i don't believe there isn't going to be a decent workaround. respect to the red sea that the longer problem but it does not affect us as much as it affects western europe and asia have. i think i'll see a knock on effect either. maria: oil at $82 a barrel i want to get your take on crypto sam baker and friede was sentenced yesterday to 25 years in prison after crypto fraud stealing billions of customers, your reaction i know you're predicting that bitcoin can hit $100,000. >> yes. bitcoin 100,000 before the end of the year in ethereum 5000

before the end of the year are my targets. in terms of sam bankman-fried it's so great to see someone criminally prosecuted and sentenced. in terms of the tenor of the sentence it won't be long enough we did not have near enough connection to fts thankfully but i will say it's good that were closing the chapter on essentially a lot of fraudulent and criminal activity i thinking crypto. i wish that the regulators would get their act together with legislatures and make this industry much more credible. it's their fault frankly i think they've done a slow roll on both ends but nevertheless the industry is mature so much so

obviously bitcoin etf's have been reported widely in the past week we've seen blackrock launch a money market fund that's focused on ethereum were seeing real world cases tokenized in the gold fund. we'll see a lot of financial products tokenized because it's faster, cheaper and more secure, those things are undeniable with respect to the block chain and what crypto does for real-world assets and all his people to great conversation. david tawil. we'll be right back. ♪

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business schemes. invitations for next month and a letter to the president, commerce is impeachment investigators have accounted for $24 million from foreign sources that was sent to joe biden, his family or their both untrue business associate adding the committee has identified no legitimate services to lucrative payments, house speaker mike johnson telling senate majority leader chuck schumer that the house will send impeachment articles against alejandro mayorkas, those articles going to the senate on april 10, schumer's office responded saying senators will be sworn in as jurors on the following day, joy to be virginia congressman the vice chairman of the house armed services in china select committee, thank you for being here this morning, first the letter from james comer do you know if the oversight committee has gotten a response and the expect joe biden to testify in this impeachment inquiry.

>> again chairman, has done an excellent job in seeking out the truth getting to all the different places where we need to get information of president biden's activities that could rise to the level of an impeachable offense. the high standard. it's high crimes and misdemeanors, trees and bribery i think that takes two diligence from the house and i think chairman comer has done that. i will make sure the president has opportunity to come in and provide information to the congress and the american people of these allegations they're very serious and we deserve to get to the truth. maria: this letter says that all this is an incredible letter that james comer has sent president biden, the committee's investigation has proceeded in phases and began with a review of suspicious activities in the department of treasury and providing the committee sufficient information to determine which bank accounts are targeting and issuing

subpoenas, the next phase was opinion third-party accounts and they subpoenaed members of your family, the entities receiving the foreign funds he goes on and on it goes through china and goes to ukraine and russia and all the loans and president says where there's no evidence of any loans and it was checks one way, do you believe this president will respond in answer these questions. >> i think he has to these are serious allegations and we know we have to hold the president to the standard that everybody else is held to any has to be able to function beyond question and i think these questions are very troubling and we have to get to the truth and i think chairman comer is doing exactly that and that's what the president needs to come in in answer to the serious allegations. maria: meanwhile we see the

election polls that continue to find people are looking at president trump. a new fox news poll finds 15% of american side with israel while 28% side with the palestinians in october. in october only 18% recited with the palestinians, look at how the numbers have increased, separate fox news poll find more americans trust president trump to do a better job on foreign policy the president biden, trump is up 11 points even in the face of all of these indictments from the d.o.j., your reaction? >> i think what we see is a result of failed leadership by the biden administration and the provocative speeches that are anti-israel by senator schumer on the senate floor, you see by the american opinion is eroding because you see the anti-israel rhetoric coming from the budget administration and democrats

israel is our strongest ally, we need to be supporting israel, not going after israel not weakening israel but that the effort of the biden administration and that's why people are showing a lack of confidence in the biden administration in their foreign policy. maria: they put israel on the spot in terms of answering to the calls for a cease-fire even though we do not hear any promises from hamas that they will release any hostages. maria: what is interesting about chuck schumer it shows the overall concern that not to schumer but the biden administration has about the rhetoric against israel and the fact that you have chuck schumer making these comments was frankly surprising considering the demographic of his own constituency. the pressure on benjamin netanyahu is not effective and is not been effective at all even the young palestinian protest happening all across the

country. is there any sense of where benjamin netanyahu's line will be and if he is willing to go back and talk to hamas despite the fact that they said nothing about releasing hostages. >> i think benjamin netanyahu is focused in his resolve is strong to say there's likely to be any talk of any sort of truth until the hostages are released he has to do that you could not negotiate for a position of weakness and prime minister benjamin netanyahu knows this is been through the situations where you have the forces of evil in the middle east and he stood up and he understands only way to counter evil is to stand up and be forceful and be direct in saying this is what we expected will do, anything else signifies weakness and believe

me the forces of evil will exploit that. maria: is unbelievable but that the administration and democrats are attacking benjamin netanyahu in the middle of the fight of his life in the fight of israel's life right now that is just stunning. i want to get your take on the china select committee and the d.o.j. is accusing seven chinese nationals with ties as popular group of running a hacking scheme targeting u.s. businesses, political officials, candidates and campaign staff this indictments charging the nationals promoted the chinese government economic objectives and able to successfully compromise e-mail accounts and phone records. do we know how the chinese nationals got into the country when did they come to the open border and what are they doing what are you doing to push back on the china propaganda and behavior.

>> we know based on recent hearings that we have with the director of the national cybersecurity center and the director of cybercrime and the director of fbi the extent to which chinese are going to infiltrate our data systems here in operation systems in the united states is very concerned with the malware that can be activated at a moments notice that would be an instance of an effort to take taiwan by force. maria: we know these efforts are nefarious and relentless in the scale should concern everyone. that's what concerns me. if i get the classified briefs and understand what the chinese are doing, the extent of what they're going through to do this and then you see in the last year 20000 chinese nationals have come across the border that is more that's come across on apprehended, the scale at which china is pursuing these actions

against the united states is absolutely sobering. let's call this for what it is china will do everything and anything to defeat the united states. their non- competitor and their adversary they will lie cheat and steal to accomplish their ends plain and simple we have to stand up against that. if not they will prevail. maria: we have to jump do you know they came to the border the nationals that came to your joke or the natural letter in the country. >> we don't but i think that we need to find out exactly how they got here. maria: i would like to know, will keep watching them. thank you so. rob wittman. >> thinking. we'll be right back. at ameriprise financial our advice

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him. he would not reveal a lot but we still know it's taking a toll. >> after put on the blinders when i think about my son there are a lot of upsetting events but i have one goal at the moment. >> convicted evan gershkovich can spend 20 years in the russian colony. those are the headlines. maria: we are praying for evan gershkovich's return. house speaker mike johnson setting senate majority leader chuck schumer a letter informing him that house impeachment managers will send articles of impeachment against homeland security alejandro mayorkas to the senate on april 10, johnson urging schumer to hold a trial expeditiously is a massive caravan that released 2000 migrants expected to arrive in el paso, texas in the coming days, joining us national border patrol council vice president art del cueto, thank you very much for being here today, we so

appreciate it. another caravan on the way, how has the border changed since we spoke and lost. >> and continues to be chaotic, when you see the caravan coming up to the border is not necessarily going to be the entire caravan of the one area in the drug cartels for quite some time they control where the groups are going to cross the drug cartels will strategically split this caravan apart and the good determine where they'll be strategically so they can bring drugs into the country that's the way it's been done and it needs to be done and to stop it. >> the drug cartels organize these people and they decide who goes where in terms of the

entries whether texas or even different areas of texas or even of the arizona's. >> that's exactly how it works the human smuggling make the deals with the drug cartels in the drug cartel leadership will determine whether they're going to cross it depended on what the drugs are and what the drugs they need to cross in the majority of the agency to be distracted and have one area and other gaps open and that's why you're getting close to 2 million got a ways and it's what they believe that they have in the extra step to getting apprehended. maria: that is unbelievable and they're making billions in the process in the new york post interview brandon judd warns that the biden administration is flying migrants into the u.s.

and if the border doesn't look at his control as it actually is he said he's expecting the amnesty program in the future to accommodate the millions of people who already come into the country said the since the president took office in januarn that eerie how often d.c. flights coming that the biden administration is flying migrants in you agree that they're doing so so the border doesn't look overwhelmed. >> it's a way to play with the number in the way the people look at it and say the numbers are down and that's why they continue to do this it's the same as talking about the got a ways they don't know how many got a ways, that's with the majority of the agents will be ended other areas but also got a ways there is nobody there to counter got a ways. even if that number, this administration can make uppity number that they want and to show how many they are, this

administration we end the campaign on the back better. right now we need to put everything back where it came from. maria: unbelievable, the comments from the mexican president open door are stunning he said the collapse of the francis scott key bridge shows that migrants go out and do risky jobs at midnight and they do not deserve to be treated as they are by certain insensitive irresponsible politicians of the united states. ophe made these after two bodies were recovered as a 35-year-old construction worker from mexico and the others presumed dead are from guatemala, el salvador and honduras, yesterday president president biden tom perez was asked whether the white house offers them the humanitarian parole to come to the united states for morning, here's what

he had to say. watch this. >> i presume that the families of these men in mexico and honduras and guatemala would like to come here for a short period of time to be in the grieving process, there's something helping on that front. >> i asked yesterday of the families what we can do in a number asked about whether the relatives could come in and there is a parole process humanitarian parole where people are able to come in for a limited period of time and for reasons exactly like this and were continuing to work with those families and were trying to address all of their needs and we will continue to do this. >> there is a horrific tragedy and it's shameful that president

obrador uses this so they can use as political power for himself. let's be honest there minimum minimum and in law enforcement other first responders and other jobs also work up until lives on the line throughout 24/7 and nights as well, this is a tragedy but politicians will uses for their own political agenda. maria: we will keep watching all of that. it's good to talk to you. thank you very much. i was going ask cheryl about some of the comments that obrador made the demands. disgraced sam bankman-fried and learn to stay after fraud conviction. kelly o'grady with a live update. >> sam bankman-fried, one of the largest financial frauds in history he was sentenced yesterday, coming up onto you how many years he faces behind bars and where he might survive

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maria: welcome back. disgraced sam bankman-fried officially sentenced to 25 years behind bars that for orchestrating one of the financial frauds in history, kelly o'grady with the details. >> 25 years behind bars for the crypto king's legal team is going to appeal the sentence as well as the original convicted, it is far less than the maxon's of 110 years but it sends a strong message to the crypto community. there was a last ditch effort by the defense and they tried to paint sbf as a math nerd there was no harm because the victims are receiving all of their money back in bankruptcy but judge kaplan rejected that completely he's also requiring sbf to pay $11 billion in damages to the government it's a formality because he is broke and he

recommended to spend the 25 year sentence in a medium security prison the judge explained why his association with vast wealth and is present in actual financial resources in his autism and social awkwardness are likely to make you more than usually vulnerable to misconduct by other inmates in the environment of the maximum-security facility the judge recommend the prison be in san francisco so his family can visit and narrows it down to a handful of facility should they approve the request. these are not the country club prisons of the traditional white-collar criminals, sam bankman-fried will be looking at a shared small cell, steel bunkbeds and none of those on the mapper without controversy yet dead prisoners and escaped convicts to ep violations, he will likely have the option to stay vegan, there's that at least. maria: thank you very much. kelly o'grady. john your reaction. >> this is a sad story.

a young man highly intelligent who chose a life of crime and a waste of talent and a waste of a life and what are the most amazing facts about this how he got to hobnob with the famous politicians, famous celebrities, athletes and whatnot, it wasn't that long ago when ftx was advertising on the super bowl , then look what happened. maria: he was one of the leading donors, political donor donors to democratic candidates. maria: he gave away millions of dollars to politicians up and down from the top down in d.c. to advance his own image into advances on power in his own status. i don't feel sorry whatsoever and i'm not to feel the word sad, good riddance he deserves to be in jail and i hope he

serves all 25 years. what he did was put his stain on was a very incredibly exciting emerging world and that's a crypto currency market but when you have the face of it being being sam bankman-fried, that tarnishes a lot of good things about the block chain that a been ignored and tarnished by him. the agreed justness in his attitude, i cannot believe it. maria: thomas, your thoughts. >> that's exactly right and we have to remember we may not be in this position that were in and the amount of money $40 million to democrats imagine how many candidates he supported that cause problems it made the country worse we would not be in the situation if you •-ellipsis taking money from the working class people giving and out to these people it is outrageous. maria: some of them gave the money back. >> some but i don't think many. maria: let's take a short break,

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maria: welcome back. good friday morning, everybody. thanks very much for joining us, i'm maria bartiromo i hope you're having a good friday. it's friday, march 29, good friday hole day. time for the hot topic of the hour. mike johnson telling chuck schumer the house will send impeachment articles against alejandro mayorkas to the senate on april 10. this as a massive caravan is on the way of at least 2,000 migrants expected to you arrive in el paso in the next few days. thomas, your reaction as another caravan makes its way to texas. >> well, i'm telling all my friends in europe to go and join the care b van. -- caravan.they're not only goit them in, they're going to give