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wednesday october 25. your top stories, 6:00 a.m. on the east coast. battles abroad and here at home, u.s. troops stationed in the middle east seen an increase in attacks on their bases as tensions escalate between israel and hamas. a warning to iran from the secretary of state anthony blinken saying the u.s. will defend itself should enter the conflict, what you need to know on a live report coming up. markets this morning are flat after double beats and technology space, were talking microsoft and google better-than-expected quarter and were previewing data and amazon also out this week. european markets are mixed. we have some gains this morning in london but weakness in the rest of the eurozone. the fraction of a move to report. in asia overnight markets mostly higher, fractional move across the board, and asian markets. back in washington, the house chooses the speaker designate in louisiana congressman mike johnson after late-night boat as

investigations continue into the biden family influence peddling. the house oversight getting to a bottom of a $200,000 check written directly to joe biden from his brother jim as jim was getting paid by the chinese. house oversight committee chairman james comer is here live at 8:30 a.m. eastern, joining the conversation already longbows bullseye manager adam johnson, base politics cofounder hannah cox and columnist for the messenger and fox news contributor joe concha. "mornings with maria" is live right now. speak what it is time for the hot topic of the our american enclosed were meetings house republicans choose louisiana congressman mike johnson as the parties fourth nominee for house speaker, the speaker designee johnson giving brief remarks last night following the boat. watch. >> democracy is messy sometimes but it is our system.

this conference and house republican majority is united i am honored to have the support of our colleagues and what they understand about this, the subservient leadership, we are going to serve the people of this country and restore their faith in this congress, this institution of government. we will restore your trust and what we do here. maria: johnson's nomination coming after majority whip tom emmer abruptly dropped out after receiving his nomination. one reason could be former president donald trump blasted immersing voting for a global list rino like tom emmer would be a tragic mistake. president trump wayne in, your reaction. >> the republican party needs to get their act together, would they don't have a plan whatsoever this is a circus and it showing that we need more parties is where i come down on we cannot get the people in this caucus to agree there's not enough consensus between them we need to break it up.

maria: more parties what you mean. >> i do think we have enough representation i think the two parties are doing an adequate job of supporting and representing the views of the american people and you continuously say that they cannot cooperate on the left and the right, there somebody fractions that are breaking off in an agreement, very different views under the ultimately they cannot cooperate at the end of the day. maria: we will see how they can cooperate and what they need to get done. >> just to piggyback on what hannah said, harvard harris had a pullout showing donald trump of 41% and joe biden 34%. robert f kennedy junior, 22, cornell west 23, there seems to be an appetite for something else and obviously good news for trump is up seven points. overall mike johnson feels like this is the last bullet in the chamber as far as the gop is concerned. they seemed very unified last night i did not see any interviews for many folks saying i oppose this person like we did

with scalise and jim jordan and obviously mccarthy. perhaps they could get over the finish line which which is 17 votes but they cannot lose more than four and that's a tricky proposition to this point, i just checked truth social to see if donald trump is weighed in on this yet because he likes to do truths early in the morning, no endorsement yet for mike johnson it is still early if trump says johnson is the guy that i think he gets over the finish line. that is an important point, johnson no relation to this particular guy, nobody would be foolish to become the speaker. i think you're absolutely right, the real message here that is loud and clear even if it's not on the front page, donald trump is behind the scenes pulling the strings making this happen. from what we can understand mike johnson is donald trump sky which clearly suggests that donald trump is the republican party's guy. i know that we know that but now it looks like it's engraved. maria: i thought byron donalds was donald trump sky.

>> not more. maria: he's endorsing both of them. >> mike johnson seems to be the person that mr. trump wants to have in. i think that's an important message for all of us to appreciate. thus there was any doubt of whose could be the republican nominee. maria: i guess he early said i'm not doing another debate, the next debate in miami. chaos interrupted on capitol hill last night, the war in the middle east intensifying, israeli forces conducted two separate airstrikes, one west bank in another in syria as the war interstate 19. we are awaiting a possible ground invasion. also worth noting is these attacks that we have seen on our own troops and our bases in syria and iraq. that caused anthony blinken to send a warning to iran. >> as he should. maria: i was impressed that he actually gave that warning. it was obviously what to do.

>> without iran there is no hezbollah or hamas they are fully funded by iran in the state sponsor of terror. i do find it interesting and noteworthy that the israelis have not gotten with the ground invasion into gaza given obviously the high casualties and what that means. i wonder if israel in the u.s. see this as it is an escalation of this war that the really taking their time in making sure that they have everything in place before they undo this because once they do you could see iran get involved. maria: look at this top story come up anthony blinken warns iran as militia back to tax. are we going to war with iran. >> think about it the biden approval is 36% as low as it can possibly get, you cannot necessarily go into ukraine or do anything about taiwan but what can you do defend israel, you look tough that helps your

approval rating. it's an honorable way to get involved. maria: we are just getting started, lock coming up, tensions remain high in the middle east, israel waiting on the ground invasion in gaza as president biden says the israelis are making their own decisions. he is not admitting to the reports that he tried to slow down the ground invasion. the biden family influence peddling investigation going to do links after the president tonton congress and asked the words money. we've got it, don't miss it we're talking with james comer the chairman of the oversight committee coming up. "mornings with maria" is live we are coming right back. ♪' ♪ ♪

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maria: welcome back, the war in israel entering day 19. efforts in gaza are running out as israel ramps up its

airstrikes. fox news correspondent trey yingst is live in southern israel with more. >> good morning the israelis continue the airstrikes against hamas and islamic jihad targets on the gaza strip. we watched as the sky was lighting up. massive explosion along the border, the dental inside of gaza is rapidly rising, save the children says more than 2000 children have been killed, children under 18 senses were erected, 19 days ago. to give you a sense of what it was like on the border last night we listen to small arms fire, explosions and flares by the israelis. we understand you can see in the video and infiltration in the mediterranean sea, hamas militants trying to cross into israel and ultimately both of them were killed, two of them by the israeli navy and both along the border at the beach area, gives you a sense of the ground war that continues here in the southern part of the country with the rocket fire.

today a few moments ago sirens were sounding in the northern part of israel near the city of haifa the third largest city. a long-range rocket from gaza was fired or fire from southern lebanon. we should talk about the northern border, israelis continue their strikes against hezbollah positions. another antitank guided missile was fired into israeli territory earlier today. a lebanese militant group hezbollah looking to put as much pressure on israel is the were in the south develops. maria: yesterday we heard a harrowing discussion about the treatment that the hostages got from the grandmother, what can you tell us about the hostages. how many are left, what do we know about their location? >> we don't know much about their location but i want to read you a statement that was released today by israel's national security advisor. i think he gives new detail about what is taking place behind the scenes. a short statement that

illustrates what is going on right now from the national security advisor saying i'm pleased to say that qatar is becoming an essential part in stakeholder and humanitarian solutions, qatar's diplomatic efforts are crucial at this time, the working behind-the-scenes to get more of the hostages out. maria: there are questions about how complicit or how much we can trust the qatari's given that they have supported hamas in the past. >> in this war, they are acting as only mediator that's been able to get anything done between israel and hamas. the egyptians have tried and failed so far. it does appear according to the statement by israel's national security advisor that the ties are changing and they hope to get more civilians out. maria: trey yingst on the ground reporting in southern israel. hezbollah's leader meeting with top officials from hamas and the palestinian islamic jihad

earlier today as it is really air force says it conducted airstrikes of the west bank and syria overnight, joining the center for american security cochairmen fox news contributor and former national security advisor to mike pence, the author of war by other means, general in the trump white house lieutenant general keith kellogg back with us. lieutenant general, good to see you, give us your reaction to trey's report. >> good morning and thank you for having me. i think he is right on the spot, what he is talking about looking at hamas in the gaza strip right now. i think what the israelis are doing which is smart there preparing a battlefield for invasion into gaza by ground troops which will be really hard and they're probably trading up for, there's a huge training facility in the southern desert in israel. it is about a 600 billion facility, they call it many gaza, that's probably where the training to go when and using munitions like artillery there to soften up the battlefield. there also looking at the same time trying to figure a way with

qatar and other nations how to get the hostages out. it's still about 200 to 12 americans that we believe are held hostage in there trying to get them released or moved to a more secure location before they go when, the israelis are going to go when there's no doubt about it there preparing the battlefield correctly to do it. when trey made the comment which is correct about hezbollah to the north, we, the united states with air pressure on iran is trying to keep hezbollah out of this fight as well. we have influence on iran through force if necessary. what we don't want hezbollah to do is open up a second front on israel, let the israelis fight the fight with hamas in the south, hold onto the north and then we will see where it goes. maria: that is up to iran, the latest morning from anthony blinken is quite stunning, the pentagon confirmed that u.s. troops in the middle east have been attacked 14 times, they are

attacked by drones, rockets in the last week, 24 people have been injured as a result, troops in iraq being a targeted and 11 separate attacks while u.s. forces in syria have also been attacked three times. pentagon official said the attacks have iran's fingerprints all over them and then we hear from secretary of state anthony blinken, he issued a warning to iran about this that the un security council yesterday, let's take a listen. >> the united states does not seek conflict with iran. we do not want this war to widen but if iran or its proxies attack u.s. personnel anywhere, make no mistake we will defend our people, we will defend their security swiftie and decisively. maria: general, your reaction? >> here's a mistake, the mistake that should've been issued by the president of the united states. i remember quite clearly when

the president was at the state of the union, at the state of the union he said quite clearly, if you attack, not kill, if you attack an american you forfeit your life, that came from the president. the president needs to make those comments, he is the commander-in-chief in the one who will release military forces if needed and iran, everybody should understand and make it very clear to iran we know that they have their hands on hezbollah and hamas as well and they need to understand if hezbollah enters this fight you are culpable and we will come after you but anthony blinken's comments were very good but the wrong person issue the comments, those need to come from the white house, those need to come from the president of the united states. maria: that is spot on. do you think we could go to war with iran. >> i don't think -- the answer is yes, we should be able to do and they should believe that. they should fear us and respect

us not just say we don't believe you're going to do it. we have enough combat capability in the mediterranean to do something. iran and the supreme leader needs to understand if you come after us we will come after you. 30 americans have been killed. maria: there have been a lot of attacks on u.s. troops in the u.s. is planning to send the iron dome missile offenses as f-16 fighter it just arrived in the region. your thoughts about this? >> epic is a good idea but the most important thing very candidly that on board the carrier task groups with the ships associated with them are tomahawk missiles that can reach out to tehran, there was 60-mile range that carry 1000-pound warhead on each of them and we need to remind if you really want to push us working on 600 missiles in your backyard and make them believe that, the iron dome was good but is defensive, the f-16 is good but an area or

system we need provocative air missile attacks if necessary and the iranians need to believe that creed we need to put the fear of god into them that you already killed americans, you hurt americans, you attacked her installations in syria and iraq and we know the iranian proxies, you're on the mark right now. maria: is a good point we don't know if they believe that just yet. good to see you. thank you very much. keith kellogg with us this morning once again. a quick break, markets are digesting quarterly earnings from big tech, microsoft and google reported a double beat last night. with a check of the stocks and preview what you need to know about meta and amazon earnings out next. stay with us. the chase ink business premier card is made for people like sam, who make- everyday products, designed smarter. like a smart coffee grinder, that orders fresh beans for you. oh, genius! for more breakthroughs like that- i need a breakthrough card.

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the bell" followed by amazon tomorrow, join me now wealth chief investment officer john lynch. good to see you, give us your reaction to the earning so far and then will get your take on what we should expect from meta and amazon tomorrow. >> good morning maria, nice to see you again. i think the stock is obviously priced in for success and i think investors should look at a couple of things probably on the magnificent seven with their needs and add revenue is important that's an indicator of not how businesses feeling that consumers are feeling. i would view that as a state of the current economy in the spending on the cloud, the success i have this far certainly at microsoft and their exposure into the partnership with open a.i. is really important. google or alphabet has a little bit more work to do on the cloud and that's reflected in the stock price this morning. adam johnson is with me this morning, this'll be a week of

the a.i., microsoft with its big investment in a.i., chat gtp producer, your thoughts on what you saw. >> the partnership with nvidia, nvidia and arm to build new cp chips for microsoft machines, as far as last night it is a silly game that we play every 12 or 13 weeks trying to gain the earnings. to think that google cloud earnings were up only 22% and microsoft was up 24, therefore microsoft deserves to be up 6% in google down 6%, it is a silly game and i read a couple of notes on google upgrading saying this is absurd. maria: you like the stock? >> yes wargaming around the edges and i think this is computers playing those games. it is not smart people sitting around saying should we sell this. it is computers seeing a headline. maria: i would get your take on rates, the ten year treasury up

top 5% this week, take a look at the tenure at 4.867% up almost four basis points. the journal is writing that 16 year highs and yields congealed the hot u.s. economy. your thoughts on the impact on the spike in rates? >> i think it's important i think investors for the better part of 15 months have ignored the fed and now they're 5%, 5.5% on the short end of the curve in jerome powell the most recent presentation last week reiterated his thoughts on where policy is going and i think investors need to appreciate sense cpi trough and july there up 100 basis points for the ten year. clearly something is going on beyond the fed and i think it has to do treasury issuance once janet yellen announced in august the 30% increase, global investors are staying a downgraded government credit, they see increased issuance and

you will not have the purchasing power from the fed, the chinese, japanese and certainly the banks will not by to what it was purchased. technically it looks like we will go to 20 on the tenure but with geopolitical developments it looks like 5% could be the near-term top. i do expect the tenure to remain elevated in this 480 - 5% range for the next several months. maria: received an impact in the interest-rate sensitive groups we get the september new home sales at 10:00 a.m. eastern economist are expecting new-home sales of new single-family homes to be up 10% 680,000 homes, were looking ahead at tomorrow's first read of third-quarter gdp followed by the september pce index out on friday, how slow do you expect this economy to get as a result of the spike in rates and particularly in the mortgage market? >> i think it was interesting the big banks warned a couple of

weeks ago the markets of past that already will get a good. on gdp tomorrow, i'm not going to spend too much attention to the deflator tomorrow i think the core pce will be the big thing on friday that's the one that the fed looks like if you're in the 3.5 or 3.7% range anything is consistent with higher for longer and that can play into the fed strategy for next year. if you have a gradual decline in core inflation this fed stays elevated on the short end of the curve and the rising real interest-rate scenario where that can be a surreptitious monetary tightening during election year for the fed. maria: what the market in the fed has been messaging the market doing the work for the fed. ro quick do you want to buy stocks here? >> at 4200, not yet. were bouncing around the 42, 4250. i think there is a lot more to

go, investors are overly hopeful about third-quarter earnings and the more important issue whether or not earnings are up three tents are down three times. are we going to get 8% of fourth quarter i have not seen any message yet on that front. i think 4,004,050 on the s&p 500 would be the next buying opportunity. maria: good to see you, thank you so much. john lynch joining us, a quick break in the ongoing fight to lock in the house speaker. mike johnson becoming the fourth nominee in a late-night vote, is visit ohio congressman maureen davis is here why the gop should rally behind a plan not a person. stay with us. ♪ maria: this week at "mornings with maria", tomorrow the best paid on television takes us to the water cooler for the stories crating the biggest morning

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democrats are calling for congress to take action against representative tlaib, listen to congressman jared moscowitz outnumbered. >> once we get a house number i think that will come to florida think it's everything someone could should consider. this is about use intelligence and information and not willing to trust biden administration in u.s. intelligence. by continuing to pretend like the ministry of health out of gaza is nothing other than a terrorist organization. maria: not the first time she has made anti-israel statements, she's asking for an independent investigation into the bombing. today students across the country will be staging anti-israel walkouts as part of a movement organized by the groups students for justice in palestine the campaign is supported by several groups calling for the white house to stop supporting israel and its impending ground invasion gaza, the walkouts are scheduled to happen to 100 colleges including columbia, princeton in the

university of california. we are expecting quite a day in new york city as far as the protests go. finally, new details about an alaskan airlines pilot who attempted to cut the fuel to the engines on board to washington to san francisco on sunday. joseph emerson, the 44-year-old off-duty alaska airlines pilot admitted he took in magic mushrooms before the flight, this before he had to be restrained by crew members or after even while he was restrained he tried to open the emergency doors on the plane. this is after they pulled him out of the cockpit, pilots frantically landed the plane and do an emergency landing in portland, oregon. in an interview he admitted he had a nervous breakdown after not sleeping for 40 hours and taking the mushrooms. safe to say, his career is over. 83 counts of murder charges against, attempted murder charges against him. i've seen a lot of things

happened in the air. a flight attendant, i've seen plenty of things as a flight attendant but never seen something like this. maria: unbelievable. >> they are lucky to get out of there. >> it is amazing. i'll make this fast. the cockpit is a very small area in the jump seat right behind the captain, you are right on top of the pilots. he was in that type of proximity on magic mushrooms and tried to cut fuel to the engines. i cannot imagine what the cockpit scene was like but the air traffic control calls are being released and they are also frantic, you can hear the commotion happening in the cockpit of the plane. maria: magic restrooms, unbelievable. >> no air marshall on the plane, that's why he was able to recap it even after they got them out of the cockpit. >> company air marshals on the planes anymore. maria: thank you cheryl. louisiana congressman mike johnson has been elected the new gop speaker nominee, the house

expected to vote at noon to determine whether johnson will be the next speaker of the house. johnson woody 129 votes during last night's final tally. former speaker kevin mccarthy receiving 43 votes and byron donalds gained 29 votes. republican lawmakers sounded optimistic about johnson's chances going forward. watch. >> the question is mike johnson the right guy at the right time i think he is. he's a good friend, good man. he has his poles on where the american people are. there was a lot of unity in that room. >> i'm just grateful i think we got a speaker nominee that my voters can get behind and be proud of and will be honest with us. >> we had votes for mike johnson across the board and from some of the most conservative members of our conference to some of the front liners. there was enthusiastic support for the transformation. maria: joining the ohio congressman maureen davidson who has a op-ed for foxnews.com

titled house speaker fight republicans this type to unite around a plan not a person. good to see you, thank you for being here. what would be the plan. >> good morning i think the court breakdown are we committed to an appropriation process, and congress the bills are broken into 12 individual bills it covers things like defense, homeland security, labor, health and human services, you name it. instead of one giant omnibus, when kevin mccarthy lost the momentum in the motion to vacate was filed, a lot of it was because we came back and they asked for a 45 day cr continuing resolution and the plan was to take the first 15 and not be in session. people believe the commitment was sincere or that it was not on a path to succeed, ultimately that breakdown facilitated people not being able to unite behind steve scalise and how it all broke down. it's been heavily about how are we going to get after our

appropriation process. maria: do you think you can do it with the time that you have remaining and will mike johnson get to to 17? >> various factions have changed one side or the other at this point. hopefully mike johnson has been the guy that everybody likes him he's a pretty good guy and he laid out a plan that has a chance to succeed. it is been 27 years since we got a real appropriation process and we have a plan provides a 1% cut after january 1. if we do not get done by november 17 which most people think will be hard, at least we get into next year where we are still working i think we can succeed. maria: most people think it's good to be hard that the government will shut down november 17. >> now, meaning we will find a consensus to go there but what's been done in the past is a short-term christmas which sets the stage for an omnibus bill

for thousand page boat that comes out and we voted on by lunch, were not going to do that. mike johnson made a sufficient case that he's not going along with a plan to do that but he will put a bill on the floor that will get us a path if were not done with our appropriation bills, we will have continuity into the first quarter and that starts to apply cuts which puts pressure to get work done. maria: i would joe concha. >> the gop can only afford to lose five votes, five votes or this is another speaker nominee that will be sunk once again. i'm sure you hear from different people within the house, i've not seen a public statement, tweet or anything that says there is major opposition to johnson, at least more than five, what do you hear on that front is their final unity behind this candidate? >> people seem unified in the room. they were people that were not there late as this came together

and i heard from at least or heard about one person who is going to have a hard time getting there. i hope that everyone can. the contrast is stark between an alternative of a coalition government with democrats. the reality both parties are a coalition government we have a lot of fractions that make up the politically and fit them together within the gop. were bradley united behind the platform and we have a plan to execute it. maria: i would ask about whatever top stories, and they deeply controlled the united nations that the u.s. is not seeking war with iran, however, the u.s. will defend itself of attacks on the troops in the middle east continue, this happening while a sponsor draft of revolution on the hamas war leaves out any mention of iran. a spokesperson for the mission to the un blaming russia for iran's mission. i know you were part of the classified briefing on iran, what can you tell us?

>> iran is destabilizing force in the middle east, they fund the proxies that hamas, hezbollah and other proxy malaysians and they all go back to iberian, the cash that goes there has not just the $6 billion that has or has not been able to contribute to this. tens of billions of dollars have slowed to iran via the oil program. under trump at a maximum pressure program, far less cash to operate the country and fund terror. under biden one of the first things he did was free that up and allow them to have more cash in their economy. you see how they have used it. maria: is the u.s. going to go to war with iran. >> i certainly hope not. we should be clear the united states has not been attacked. there are people say if you attack israel you're attacking the united states. maria: what about the u.s. troops. >> that is a challenge. if you attack our troops, we will defend our troops.

we have to retaliate if you attack our troops, with to be smart how they're positioned but a long time we had troops in northeastern syria in the area trying to keep peace. if you remember donald trump said i'm not going to get into a fight with turkey over our troops we will get our guys out of the way and let that go there. there's a small presence but it is still lingering from isis and other affiliated terror groups that they're focused on. do not focus on reaching change in syria or elsewhere despite some of the folks i would like that they have been focused on stopping terrorism. maria: a new study from the media research center from october 7 to october 22. abc, cbs and t ignored your colleagues, the squad attacks on israel despite spending nine hours covering israel hamas war. there are reports that they are basically hiding what is going on within the congress with your

colleagues, the squad alexandria ocasio-cortez and her friends, basically blaming israel for all of this. >> i guarantee that the colleagues have not missed it, republicans have been united in standing with israel. it's very much divided my friends were democrats, some of my friends who are jewish whether republicans or democrats especially a pouring and in our own country people defending the 9/11 attacks. shamefully there were some but not the immediate aftermath, the country was united in the idea that you have an outpouring all of her campuses in many of our major cities. at least it's being represented by the squad up to leave and omar but it is not welcome and we will see the body come together. i'm encouraged by ronny jackson not just the resolution but ronny jackson is pushing a measure if you're pushing for hamas you no longer allowed to our classified briefings.

maria: a good point. we will be watching all of that. warren davidson in d.c. stay with us, we'll be right back. ♪ l crafting) ♪ the biggest ideas inspire new ones. 30 years ago, state street created an etf that inspired the world to invest differently. it still does. what can you do with spy? ♪ only the sleep number climate360 smart bed lets you both sleep up to 13 degrees cooler or warmer on either side, and at your ideal level of comfort. your sleep number setting. and now save up to $500 on our new sleep number smart beds. sleep next level. shop for a limited time only at sleep number.

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we are looking at interest rates look at the ten year end two year yields. the two-year up eight tenths of a basis point sitting right below 5.1% at 5.96 on the two-year period the tenure up for the quarter basis points at the level of 4.871%, higher interest rates impacting the market head of the federal reserve meeting next week, let's talk about it with bankers association president and ceo alex sanchez back with us. 11 rate hikes, two pauses, what is the impact of the macro story. >> we will not have a takata be next year, the housing market, i know who home sales are slightly up later on when they report the numbers. the housing market is depressed at the lewis point since 2011. the high rates are shutting out a lot of people from the american dream of homeownership. maria: what do we have on the 30 year almost 8%. >> exactly shutting a lot of people out of the market. a lot of banks exiting lending

programs because the cost of funding is high because obviously we have to give higher cd rates and with the lower demand on loans because people cannot pay the higher rates, that's why you see some of the banks exiting certain lending programs that are not viable in the marketplace. maria: are you expecting the recession. >> i don't have the jobs numbers have been where they have been every month, that's what saves us. we are concerned that consumer debt is at all-time high. as soon as people start losing jobs, that's were the problems common with the record debt. it is really surprising the job numbers every month. maria: we will in next week we get the jobs numbers next week. chairman patrick mchenry is pushing for legislation to regulate the stable coin industry at a state level. i want to get your take, stable coin, regulation.

>> he might as well say he doesn't want regulation of the stable coin of former crypto at all. putting the at the state level, what he's really saying there will not be any, the states don't have the resources or the intel. has he been to a state legislative session in any of the 50 states recently, states are competing to build roads, books for children, taking care of our seniors, taking care of our veterans and they will give money to regulators that's usually the last priority in any state legislature. maria: he doesn't want to see too much regulation unstable coins besides for the state level but we see a whole host of regulation proposals coming out of this administration, the sec regulators will begin grading banks on which communities in j agar fees that they service online lending with tougher modernizing fair lending. we also have the climate roles coming out of the fcc, what your thoughts of the regulatory

environment for the banks. >> it is been a tough three years with this administration. you have to unleash the banks they are the ones that provide the capital and make the takata be go in. by having the regulations you are increasing the cost of operation and i want banks to hire more lenders not more lawyers, that is the problem that's what we've been doing the last three years. maria: how tight has the credit environment become. >> it's getting tighter and tighter. maria: people cannot get loans. >> banks are withdrawing back because of the high rates, the high cost of funding. banks use your deposits and mind to lend those in the community. with a high interest rate which banks are paying, if there is no demand for certain loan products there withdrawing from the products. maria: i wonder if that's what the reasons the bank stocks were trading down big time going into the earnings release. even if some were a little

better than expected, the bank stocks are coming into the quarter with declines. >> i take warren buffett school of investing. when they're low and fast now. you know they will come back. the play a vital role in our economy. there still the major provider of capital, both for business and personal. they will come back and this is a good time to buy. maria: good to see you. alex sanchez in studio, president biden's popularity reaching an all-time low, as cabinet members that he's doing an a+ job, the hot topic coming up next. ♪ ♪ explore endless design possibilities. to find your personal style. endless hardie® siding colors. textures and styles.

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maria: welcome back. good wgood wednesday morning. i'm maria bartiromo. it is wednesday, october 25, 7:00 a.m. on the button on the east coast. time for the hot topic of the hour. president biden's poll numbers are under water in new york as his popularity reaches an all time low. a new sienna college poll finding 52% of new york voteers have an unfavorable opinion of the president, 45% have a favorable opinion. 52% of democrat new york voters say they want to party to nominate a different candidate for president in 2024. national security council spokesperson john kirby graded the president's job performance yesterday, he handles multiple global and domestic cries sees. here's what he said. >> well, he's balancing it well.