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OUCH! Remind me to never get on the bad side of Maria Bartiromo. After watching Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber wither during her incisive interview Tuesday on Fox News' Mornings With Maria one could almost feel sorry for the guy. Almost.What riled up Bartiromo was Gruber's smug assertion of no job losses due to Obamacare despite Bartiromo citing business executives telling her the opposite. After Gruber brushed her off for supposedly relying on anecdotes rather than hard data, the fireworks began as we shall see.

The Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner is normally a genteel gathering of the New York elite; political adversaries roast each other in good humor to raise money for a Catholic children’s charity. This year however they got Trumped. There was a time when I would have been appalled by the boorish behavior of both presidential candidates on display last night. Butt that was a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away. In other words, BO: Before Obama.Being a real glutton for punishment I followed the Wednesday night Rumble in the Jungle – can I say that now...

Former Senator Al D’Amato (R-NY) dropped a bomb on Sunday Morning Futures this AM. D’Amato told Maria Bartiromo that Hillary allowed Russia to take ownership of US uranium so they could sell it to Iran. Hillary made it possible for the Russians to take control of one of our huge uranium producers and allow them to own the company, export the uranium and who do they sell the uranium to? Iran! Now if people knew that and that the foundation as a result of that got $135 million. I think people would start saying, “What?” Former Senator Al D’Amato (R-NY)...

Fairfax Global Markets CEO Paul Dietrich on the potential market implications of a British exit from the European Union, the state of the U.S. economy and the 2016 presidential race.

Starts at 55:10 near end of show. Remarkable, dead nuts accurate analysis of the terrorist attack in Tampa, FL today on Foxnews Bartiromo show We are at war.

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As the bad news out of Brussels continues to unfold today, we are reminded of some of the coverage that the city has received in the past. As I listened to the expert analysis of precisely what went so wrong there, the name of on particular segment of the city kept coming up repeatedly. The neighborhood of Molenbeek has long been known as a breeding ground for terrorists and a virtual “no go” sector for the cops, no matter what other European leaders say. CNN terrorism analysts this morning were bemoaning the fact that previous efforts to locate suspects in...

LONDON — He incensed Paris and London by saying that some of their neighborhoods were so overrun with radicals that the police were too scared to enter. He raised Scottish tempers by threatening to pull the plug on his investments there, including his luxury golf courses, if British politicians barred him from entering Britain. Now Donald J. Trump has upset the already beleaguered people of Belgium, calling its capital, Brussels, “a hellhole.” Asked by the Fox Business Network anchor Maria Bartiromo about the feasibility of his proposal to bar foreign Muslims from entering the United States, Mr. Trump argued that...

At the risk of being crass, we've said on several occasions that the Paris attacks, the San Bernardino massacre, and the wave of sexual assaults that have swept Western Europe are the best things that ever happened to Donald Trump's presidential campaign. It seems exceedingly likely that Trump had very little conception of what was going on in the Balkans when he stormed onto the political scene last summer with inflammatory comments about Mexican immigrants. As luck would have it, just two months later, Europe's migrant crisis reached a critical tipping point when Hungarian PM Viktor Orban built a 100-mile...

Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump on Tuesday weighed in on the Brussels terror attacks on Twitter, commenting on how "safe" and "beautiful" the Belgian city used to be. "Do you all remember how beautiful and safe a place Brussels [was]," he tweeted. "Not anymore, it is from a different world! U.S. must be vigilant and smart!" "I've been talking about this for a long time," Trump said during a Tuesday-morning appearance on "Fox & Friends."

Deadly terror attacks rocked Brussels’ biggest airport and a subway in the city center, killing at least 28 and injuring many more. In the immediate aftermath of the blasts as panic spread across Europe, ISIS loyalists took to social media to celebrate and threaten more violence, Vocativ discovered. “With the permission of God, the lions came to take revenge for the killing of Muslims in Syria and Iraq,” one supporter of the terror group posted on Twitter.

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Explosion at Brussels metro station close to EU institutions: Belgian broadcaster RTBF.

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THERE ARE REPORTS this morning that two loud explosions have been heard at Brussels airport. The sounds were heard just before 8am local time. Sky News reports a number of people have been injured.

A conversation about Donald Trump on Mornings with Maria Monday nearly went off the rails as Trump supporter and reality TV star Omarosa Manigault offered a retort to Fox contributor Tamara Holder by invoking her “big boobs.” The panel discussion, led by host Maria Bartiromo, turned on Trump’s criticism of George W. Bush‘s handling of the 9/11 attacks and the Iraq War. It all began when one panelist accused Trump of mentioning 9/11 a lot with the aim of politicizing it. Rather than give due consideration to this absolutely unheard-of tactic, the former Apprentice star brought a heavy dose of...

In one of his few early openings during Thursday's Republican presidential debate, Ben Carson said marital infidelity by a candidate's spouse - Bill Clinton - was indeed a legitimate question on the campaign trail. Asked about front-runner Donald Trump's recent claim that Clinton's checkered sexual past was 'fair game' for discussion as long as he campaigns on her behalf, Carson said he agreed. Carson was also asked by Fox Business News debate moderator Maria Bartiromo whether Hillary Clinton was an 'enabler' for her husband's misconduct, which brought a roar from the Republican audience. 'There's no question that we should be...

Fox Business Network anchor Maria Bartiromo said Tuesday that Donald Trump would likely continue his all-Donald-all-the-time strategy with the news media if he were to win the White House.*snip*A Trump presidency 'is obviously going to be more transparent' than what Americans have seen in the Obama years, Bartiromo said in a phone interview, 'because frankly I think he likes it. There's a reason you see him on TV so much: He's obviously enjoying it!' 'You probably have to assume that if he were to gain the highest office, he's going to be out there regularly,' she explained. 'The American people...

This week on “Sunday Morning Futures” on the Fox News Channel, host Maria Bartiromo discussed comments by Dr. Ben Carson, which he said he does not think a Muslim should be president with NBA Hall-of-Famer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.