democrats more worried about abortion than having affordability or gas in somebody's tank drained reserves, you know strategic oil reserves down by 1/2 at least. totally unnecessary. and now, people don't want to have to drive around for half hour to find gas or diesel, and pay twice what they did last year. and we don't want to become haiti, nothing against haitians this is united states of america a standard of living rapidly declining why in 8 days going to get a major, major smackdown the democrats. dagen: maria i ---ed from andy lipow note abs of policy to get more oil natural gas out of the ground from biden administration. maria: what has been policy depleting our strategic petroleum reserve, dagen rob stay right there next hour of

"mornings with maria" begins right now. . . >> good monday morning thanks very much for joining us this morning i am maria bartiromo. it is monday, october 31 top stories right now 8:00 a.m. on the east coast. it is halloween the last trading day of october has been a big october, but stocks are capping a positive month with declines this morning, dow industrials down 123, as we look to more earnings data this morning, we've got which i pmi's out after 9:45 this morning stocks are lower across the board, nasdaq down 66, s&p down 16 1/2 good week last week strong month of october, take a look at week that was, with the dow industrials up 5% on the week, nasdaq up one and a half percent s&p 500 higher 3 1/2%

similar month dow, s&p big performers nasdaq, very nice moves, dow industrials up almost 14 administrators in month of october, nasdaq, up you 4% for the month s&p 500 higher by 8.1%, for october, interest rates are on the rise, one day before federal reserve november meeting take a look at 10-year treasury, off 2.7 basis points right now a level 4.043% looking to tomorrow's meeting, they kick off, the november fed meeting tomorrow, we will learn on wednesday how big of a hike we are getting he go from the federal reserve. it is largely expected to be 75 basis points, announced on wednesday afternoon. the midterm elections 8 days away momentum building for republicans polls show over half voters list inflation and economy as top factors how they will cast ballot gop leader kevin mccarthy joined me yesterday on "sunday morning futures" along with

texas senator ted cruz. >> i feel very good about accounts i think one of the best recruited class we have seen number one issue out there right now is cost-of-living. >> i think we are going to take majority a big swroirt in the house, 30, 40, 50 seats. in the senate i think between 53 and 54 seats. >> more on midterms all morning long, then a whirlwind pictures week at twitter under elon musk expended to cut more jobs, after cutting company leadership ceo cfo apparently before the vesting of their stock grants a revamp, debtor ceo, o former trump adviser jason miller will weigh in later on moves at twitter oil this morning, oil prices right now, are moving fractionally, lower, the price of brent 94.66 down 1% crude oil was 86.0 down almost 2% this morning, european markets this

morning look like he this eurozone shows you, gains in london 12 points on ft 100 cac quarante however down 15 in paris, dax is higher by 25. in germany. in asia overnight markets mixed, japan was big winner, but in china, the national bureau of statistics reports china's factor activity twel if in october over covid outbreaks nikkei average up 1.7% shanghai composite, hang seng down, "mornings with maria" is live right now. . . >> now this on paul pelosi accused of attacking husband of house speaker he to be arained 42-year-old david depapi facing charns intig attempted murder had a liz 6 other potential targets police say went to pelosi's home with bag full of zip tyings duct

tape details still coming out democrats white house politicizing this here is what they said. >> he was yelling out things that we heard during january 6 which is is where is nancy, and i know, again, we need to end this type of rhetoric it needs to stop. maria: joining capital gains all morning is dagen mcdowell, rob astorino, did not take long for white house to try to pin this on donald trump and supporters. >> mega maga joe biden started it i believe on friday. miranda devine writes about this in "new york post" barack obama former president did same in michigan, and a rally for gretchen whitmer, kamala harris demanding people speak out against hate, then, of course, rob reiner the holiday director tweeted that donald trump is one hundred percent responsible for this, and

january 6th, this is as miranda devine writes this is in defiance of the drug addicted hippy lifestyle of this assailant member of green party black lives matter, lgbtq, signs around this is sometime residence, then we have his former partner saying he is mentally ill has beenmentsly ill for a long time. i think once again, this is -- again, people trying to use this for this attack for political gain. but, this is a mentally ill person as we see all over new york, everyday, who laches on to some internet conspiracies, and they happen to be political, ultimately leads to violence, but it is not the

political conspiracies. it is illnesses people choose to ignore paranoid delusional. >> we all hope paul pelosi is okay recovering nicely we will try o get more information on that a terrible story new gallup poll is focused on the economy, 56% adults say there is more crime in this local community than a year ago. 28% say less in new york a man listed emotionally disturbed after road rage goes on crime spree when let out sprung from police custody "new york post" reporting he threatened to kill every cop in new york in a manifesto. >> house of dragons o whoever has drabbing ons wins republicans have all dragons all issues with republicans this year that means going to be a big win you can't walk down the street not be looking

left and right you can't take the sib away or train in this country not look around you, feeling what is going to happen to me, you can't walk down street smell pot, you know. that is exactly degradation of cities in america, that is why parents you know heidi was talk about a mad mom mad moms coming out to protect kids and families now not just economics. it is crime too. maria: that is right don't get in front of a mama bear we continue to have this misinformation from the white house, karine jean-pierre was on sunday shows this weekend, totally misleading american people about the economy, before joe biden walked into the oval office watch this. >>? when president walked into this administration, the economy was in ruins absolute ruins we saw unemployment 6.4% now because of this president's policies, unemployment is 3.5%, historical low in 50 we haven't seen that in 50 years.

maria: wow, dagenen that was rich, ruins? economy in ruins no pushback whatsoever what talking about 4% growing number before covid arrived talking about the lowest earners seeing their paycheck go up the most? out of all earners? dagen: right, the only thing that they talk about is unemployment rate. unemployment rate was at that level because we were coming out of a pandemic, the economy was growing close to 4% the end of 2020, in addition 1.4% biden administration took it to 40-year high gasoline .39 a gallon, they've gone to war, with the -- energy, fossil fuel industry in this country, not only completely destroyed the prosperity of our energy economy, and our you overall

economy, on purpose but they ceded power to nations that hate is driving up the cost of oil. and other fuels. it is astonishing that -- again american people know better. voters are saying voters are saying you destroyed my purchasing power. you've destroyed our standard of living we watched it now trying to tell us that you need to spend more money to bring down inflation? the american people are not stupid that is the biggest problem, of biden and company examine that from moment one, when things were happening they would say that is not happening. don't believe your eyes are lying to you. >> right, that was funny economy in ruins, much more ahead coming up futures indicating a decline start of trading this morning on final trading day of october we are looking ahead to federal

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>>. >> . maria: welcome back. today is the final trading day of october, futures indicating a decline start of trading but we had a big month october, we are being looking ahead to november federal reserve meeting kicking off tomorrow, and continues on wednesday. want goldman sachs is expecting fed to raise interest rates and continue raising until they peak at 5% in march joining me right now wells fargo investment institute head of global market strategy paul

christopher its great to have you thanks for being here what are you expecting from fed tomorrow what about december meeting what do you expect rates to start peaking out. >> good morning, good to be back, so we are expecting, another 75 basis points, tomorrow this is pretty strong consequence the real question what guidance that gives us we think 50 bypass more december maybe another quarter point first quarter next year. so, you know, maybe a peak a terminal rate in site. >> aggressive hikes the clearly slowed things down impacted economy the macrostory housing you've got mortgage rates close to 7% right now creating demand destruction in housing paul, where do you see the biggest impact on higher rates, being so far? in the economy? >> you hit nail on the headed maria i add anothernail as well not just housing impact on purchases negative now a

number of months, also look at real incomes people talk ub about how wages have increased, nominal terms he yeah true but inflation has been higher than gain in nominal bainlz you are losing ground even if a raise here those are two big hits, to the economy yet to further develop. maria: so have you heard anything out of earnings season about how 2023 is playing out what are you expecting for year ahead obviously, got a growth number gdp, but there is wide expectations, that things are slowing down, to recession levels in the year ahead. >> you are right about that, investors want to definitely pay less attention to things like gdp number, that is in the past. pay less attention to earnings numbers from the last quarter again that is unless the past. pay more attention what is going on in future, the guidance we see from companies, is mostly guiding lower the targets this quarter

past quarter balance very low looking ahead we do expecting regulation next year expect to hit earnings but think probably will ease the recession that is, by middle next year we look for fed to start cutting rates sometime around smesh not as soon as they hit the terminal rate first quarter about it maybe later in the year that is going to keep us cautious i think on the markets going forward. maria: are interesting to see the laggards being technology, right? this year o you've got nasdaq down 29%, and in month of october, nasdaq was up but only 4%, relative to the dow industrials saw a gain 14% for the overall month paul. you said your cautious on this market. does that mean avoiding stocks overall? or are you picking and choosing places to hide here? >> [laughter] we can call it hiding we are really trying to take advantage of opportunities and you hit it,

the technology we think a good bet for the future, really good earnings problem spekts solid balance sheet strong headwind dollar strength overseas earnings translated back into dollars you see a lot of smaller tech companies hit hard we think there is value out there, among the bigger ones yes, we do like tech here, we would be picking an choosing, and doing this sort of dollar cost average base incrementally a little bit now more in winter a little bit more in spring you will get good prices we think be happy year or two from now when we get back to recovery i also add if i may we like healthcare here, and energy both of those also equality sectors rather than hunkeing down looking for quality stick with market on smore selective basis. >> good to see you this morning paul christopher from

wells fargo thank you, sir. quick break calling out big tech censorship especially when it comes to hunter biden's influence peddling, house oversight committee ranking committee member james comer here with the latest on his planned investigation, how come, calling on elon musk to show records of censorship of00100s laptop study. don't miss that is. after the break. . ♪ don't believe it just watch ♪ . don't believe it just watch ♪ . .

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. >> the fact that biden doj is saying this is all a drug matter, don't pay attention to "the big guy" don't pay attention to the corruption just make it one poor person struggling with addiction highly concerning? the third reason this is very troubling i think all of this is a prelude to doing what joe biden merrick garland want to do indict donald trump want to be able to say look how evenhanded we are he indicted hunter biden donald trump we indict everybody that is politics, not law enforcement. . >> now texas senator ted cruz joining me yesterday on

"sunday morning futures" drying what doj is focused on when it comes to hunter biden influence peddling the man who will have gavel should gop win majority in 8 days kentucky congressman ranking member house oversight committee james comer here congressman good to see you thanks very much for being here you heard ted cruz talking about the fbi and doj there i know you've been working on investigation specifically on hunter biden i want to get your take what took place at fbi why fbi he sentencered senser cred kren ord, be on a alert for misinformation they knew was not misinformation they had hunter biden laptop. >> in fact maria the week after election when we go to washington for the lame-duck session jim jordan and i

having a press conference going to talk about that there is to must have evidence on hunter biden hasn't done anything this far may be a drug charge lying on application when all evidence in the public's view, of wrongdoing, influence peddling securities violations money laundering want to talk about minor charges i agree with ted cruz we want to know why department of justice hasn't don anything people came forward with credible evidence 51 former intelligence officials who signed that letter before election saying laptop was about russia disinformation all things we want answers to all of those people who signed the letter coming in front of house oversight committee house judiciary committee explaining

to us exactly what led them to sign that letter we want to know more about whole pre where department of justice -- i supted cruz doing to be exactly right in this theory. maria: i am glad you brought up 51 spies "new york post" had a cover spies who lied signed this lettered before the election, calling the hunter biden story disinformation, i mean do you think that they are unclear as far as about what is going on? serious issues the fact this family was taking money from chinese officials tied to the ccp, just as ccp has a stated goal of overtakeing the united states as number one superpower we've been talking all morning about their behavior a police station in new york a ccp police station, how is it possible that chinese chinese have police in this country yesterday these guys are playing with politics.

>> i think two things maria, i think that number one, we are hatred for donald trump clouded their judgment, number two, i believe, that they thought at first glance wrongdoing were so bad, there is no way joe biden would have allowed his son to receive million of dollars from russia and china for nothing, for influence peddling. when you look at the evidence it is hard to believe but whether it is true. nobody has ever done anything like this when you you took about politicians corruption history will view biden family at the top of the list the amount of money ep this family received from adversaries for a nothing hunter biden doesn't manufacture anything hunter biden doesn't sell anything he is not lie krensed to do anything the fact nothing done to him leaders in the intelligent community and at department of justice turned

blind eye this is not ending well in a republican majority we're excited about the opportunity that we believe going to have in january to try to get answers, and hold people accountable. >> i mean just extraordinary, congressman, and i want to ask you, about the media role and fbi's role because last wednesday you wrote to fbi director christopher wray asking or information on hunter biden business assistant jackie bower thank you heard back from wray-this ccthep used honeypots through fang fang on swalwell a relationship, jackie at hunter biden appears they had more than just a worker relationship, have you heard back? >> yes, several associates come forward saying that their relationship evolved beyond normal working relationship if you know what i mean, the fact

that this young lady was he he educated in university in china known for breeding ground for spy development university all major cyber haks are trained from there to work for chinese communist party several years has all the characteristics of potential spy somehow ended up with hunter biden in business relationship then more formal relationship, this makes all the makings of the strategy that china used with eric swalwell tried to find, family members, prominent people who are compromised, or he aren't very smart like swalwell tried to develop relationship with him and get information, and this is something that we want to know what does fbi have on this young lady? because again, if this were anyone else in united states,

the fbi would have already rolled in on this because we have powerpoints, young lady put together where clearly not only trying to buy natural gas, from united states they were trying to get foot in the door, with the drillers for natural gas that was ultimate goal cefc try to get hunter biden to purchase ownership in drillers natural gas like hunter biden helped chinese purchase rare earth mineral mine in congo, as you said, they want ownership over every major industry in the united states that affects our national security. >> how dumb are we pushing this climate change agenda while china is looking at obvious fossil fuel development wanting to get in on drillers, congressman mike pompeo former secretary of state told me many times, that at this point the ccp is inside the gates, inside the

gates of america, can you do anything to slow them down in terms of their pursuit of overtaking u.s. as number one superpower? >> i think we are going to have to look at every major industry healthcare energy, obviously, national defense, and see exactly what ownership china has in the manufacturers, suppliers, we've got to, you know, hold them to a standard where they can't purchase ownership in united states we've got to bring manufacturing back to united states, these are issues republicans talked about last congress unfortunately democrats want to focus on the green new deal, and their equality, and social justice agenda some issues that matt most to national security. maria: a disgrace biden family is aiding aby the time theing ccp knowingly or not congressman quick before you go positive is this treason?

>> well, you know, they did know when you said, you look at emails, text messages from hunter biden talks about original found theer was ringleader for china hunter admits this yet doing business with him fbi doj had to know this yet done nothing i believe, hunter biden, between election and january when i get gavel just to protect hunter biden, they will indict him on minor drug charge when got done influence peddling involved in china yet nothing is going to happen we are going to put something in front of american people american people can decide we are going to issue a report, and hopefully able to hold people accountable, at the very least the stop this directline from cline to biden administration. >> dirty tricks political tricks in face of serious situations for america thank

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maria: welcome back, a ring doorbell captures moment a good samaritan saves children from house fire parents were not home. cheryl: this story the man said he made wrong turn noticed a fire starting pounding on windows of the home siblings woke thumb as smoke arms failed kids running for lives making it out of house last second three children and 22-year-old brother thankfully all doing well, sadly their dogs did pass away in this fire case of the fire under investigation. this morning. two shares look at this down

almost 20% company has announced it fired ceo, this comes after reports that self-driving truck company is facing a series of federal probes linked to ties with china hydron some in 2021 working on matters with hydron cannot say whether before or after nondisclosure agreement was made. >> bills past packers 27 to 17 loss greene bay's fourth straight, meanwhile, my dallas cowboys powering past bears three touchdowns, chicago 29,

49ers running back mccaffrey in san francisco stunning win the first player in 15 years to throw for a touchdown catch one, run for one, beat rams, you know superchampion rams 31 to 14, new york giants flat against seahawks, seattle 27, g-men 13 eagles beat stealers aj brown three touchdowns, not to butcher anything on sports read this morning happy monday back to you. maria: and to you cheryl elon musk, members of his inner circle remaining twitter executives reported drafting plans to lay off 25% jofr, announcing plans to restrictive user verification process to pay 20 dollars a

month to twitter blue to keep the blue checkmark says you are verified joining is is ceo gettr, jason miller welcome. . >> morning. maria: your thoughts on elon musk's move so far. >> certainly not going to be grunl elon musk for trying to better monetize twitter not same week gettr launching our monetization the issue twitter failed to innovate don't have short video pharmacists tiktok or instagram, or we leached with vision they've fallen behind user experience poor an elephant in the room i would bring up here, that is the fact that after 2020 as you discussed in previous segment, the damage to the twitter brand has really been done, with political discrimination even over last six months the way musk has been criticizing

twitter in his own right up until last night criticizing twitter on his platform hard to say to convince people to come back pay 20 dollars a month now. maria: well -- i mean look, he fired the ceo, and cfo. and head of legal, as one of his first big moves, some say he did so now so that he could get rid of them now without having to pay out all of these stock grants, vest on november 1 what do you think. >> well they've come back walked back a mitt said that is not the case i am sure it probably is part of the cost saving measures i don't know if 30% reductions even do it i think that to try to restore any aspect of trust or confidence in twitter, they probably have to remove everybody, start all over, every coder, engineer, every single person in moderation department the brand is about

free speech for left not for everybody. maria: i want to get your take on what california cam darrell issa told me yesterday on "sunday morning futures." he joined me, and we discussed, the twitter takeover watch this. >> twitter is now letting both sides including those who denounced twitter, musk, have a forum to talk what it was supposed to be i am looking forward to a lively debate on both sides on twitter, what is going to stop on twitter not take calls from white house to shut down information, just because somebody wants to call it misinformation, you know, if you want to call it misinformation get up, and call it misinformation but both sides need to be heard. maria: a yeah, obviously, jason democrats are upset they don't have their pr company anymore, now that elon musk wants to balance things out.

the do you agree what you heard what is impact on gettr. >> i think congressman issa is exactly right this anyone show make it open for everybody balanced fair approach to moderation i don't think you can repair that overnight not charging 20 dollars a month if anything i think that exacerbates divide between blue check mafia and regular people our numbers are way up many people made up minds about thoughts big tech, social media looking for other platforms to give competition and, again, if twitter hadn't been so far to the left, there wouldn't be the opening for alternative platforms like gettr to emerge we are 6 1/2 million users half u.s. half internationally expanding with news innovations all the time as i said going to start monetizing this week real excited about it. maria: that is terrific

congratulations rolling stone reporting on unique visitors to conservative social media platforms gettr increase in year-over-year parler seeing increase, 48% decline in september. compared to same time in 2021. we are waiting on data for truth social unavailable jason you have an industry of conservative social media now between gettr parer, truth, interesting not zero soum most multiple social media apps on phones maybe in past twitter, facebook, instagram, now who is to see you going forward might not be gettr, rumble say truth social or other platforms my be merging what i think dying are with older traditional platform twitter and facebook. maria: a rumble is doing so well thanks for being

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. maria: welcome back. more worries about u.s. supply chain for the year ahead according to new sap survey 52% say the supply chain needs improvement, 49% expect the current supply chain issues to last through the end of this year. joining me right now o is alba wills international founder president salvatore what is your assessment of the supply chain? you have seen 20% decline in ocean freight orders what does that tell knew tells me that

importerers, have seen this coming about first quarter rates plummeted since all-time high average container rate to los angeles 2500 dollars, remember back in the day, 20,000 dollars, so, although there was i consider it a false increasings consumer spending in september up i though i was unhealthy spending credit card debt has increased, taken longer for consumers to pay debt, i think a lot of spending was due to retailers given special sale items on excessive inventory from previous months i went into major rarely to get a feel of the products, in there, i am seeing some summer goods should be fall winter goods for children i think that -- going in especially 2003 going to be very dismal. >> i this is what you mentioned speaks to the inventory over hang that we

have because, after all supply chain issues earlier this year last year, companies ordered too much now have to get rid of it going to have to cut prices to get the product out, because of all of that inventory, but sal what i am roird about is potential for a rail strike, we know that at least two unions rejected this detail joe biden said he helped negotiate are you expecting rail strike if we were to see unions for rail companies go on strike what does that do to supply chain and economy in your view to year-end. >> if we go back september he everyone kind of -- was -- i was concentrating on a tentative strike. it was a tentative negotiation, that was resolved, tentative is very vague i tell people i don't know how you get 12 major unions 100,000 plus members to come to an agreement with

relatively short he period of time, hey on friday night i have number problems getting kids to decide what to have for dinner. >> call it a tentative deal. >> we never believed that it was tentative, we know that joe biden basically told unions to put a pin in it until after the election, but what i am asking is what would be impact we've got slowdown also potentially impacting this year whose holiday shopping according to same sap survey 65% plan to decrease holiday spending, 54% expecting inflation to impact how they shop another 39% expecting increase in in shopping online, layer on the that potential rail strike. what do you think? >> rail strike first of all a lot of people, rail carries a third of all freight into u.s. half bulk commodities other half consumer goods you have to put things proportion one rail car equivalent 4 to 5

truck looedz can you knowledge a strike with perishable goods probably not insured a lot of business would be crushed stratosphere pricing, food, i think a major issue the other thing i want to say, maria, i think longshoremen on west coast are very carefully watching what happens with rail strike because they are still in negotiations, on west coast, and so, could you imagine now if rails get a great deal longshoremen don't get as good a detail? what are they going to do. maria: s exactly right i have made that point if you are going to see 24% increase in this paying benefits for rail workers watch out below there will be a lot of other unions taking to the picket lines, to year-end into next year, we will keep a spotlight on it watching it thank you, sir.

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on almost anything, anywhere, automatically. avalarahhhhh. what if tax rates change? ahhhhhh. filing sales tax returns? ahhhhhh. managing exemption certificates? ahhhhhh. business license guidance? ahhhhhh. does it connect with accounting? ahhhhhh. item classification? ahhhhhh. cross-border sales? ahhhhhh. what about? ahhhhhh. ahhhhhh. do you have those budget markups? thank you. mmhm. [bubbles] maria: that is the big buzz of the morning in the spirit of halloween, a new meme has taken

over twitter by storm. the meme involves adding an image and a text to a blank template of a prepackaged spirit costume and no one is safe from the halloween costume meme. take a look. dagen. >> i can't see mine, but i think it involves -- oh, there's yours. i love that bike helmet, dog treat, wood fire pizza oven, yes. that's matt laughing in the background. here's mine. i will speak to your dog before speaking to you. diesel enthusiast, probably smell like gasoline. there you go. and rob. >> i love new york t-shirt, italian flag. i like that. maria: well, it is a great day today. halloween, dagen, any costumes

planned? >> no. are you dressing dusty up, that's all i want to know? >> i haven't, but i'm thinking about getting her some new sweaters since the temperatures are changing. i was just thinking about that yesterday. >> i'm going as joe biden and will just start walking into walls all day. too much? maria: oh, boy, we're going to watch what the president does in the final week before the midterm elections and we have a market under pressure and we have the fed meeting tomorrow and wednesday, we'll likely get a 75 basis point hike and markets are down and don't forget to tune into fox business for the chicago pmi out in about 45 minutes and stuart will have that. dagen and rob, great to be with you. have a great day, everybody. "varney & co." is up next. stu, take it away. stu: i doubt i'm all over the number coming out at 9:45 but i may be reported. good morning, maria, and goo