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HILLARY CLINTON (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I'm going to take a moment, later tonight and the days ahead, to fully absorb the history we have made here.
DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: We're only getting started and its going to be beautiful. Tonight we close one chapter in history and we begin another.
SEN. BERNIE SANDERS (I-VT), DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: We are going to fight hard to win the primary and Washington D.C.
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MARIA BARTIROMO, CNN ANCHOR: (HEADLINES) (MARKET HEADLINES) Joining me this morning, FOX Business Network's Dagen McDowell; Republican Strategist Lisa Boothe; and "National Review" Reporter Katherine Timpf. Good to see you, Girls.
LISA BOOTHE, REPUBLICAN STRATEGIST: Good morning.
BARTIROMO: Good morning.
DAGEN MCDOWELL, FBN CORRESPONDENT: Did you get any sleep?
BARTIROMO: Not enough.
[Laughter]
BARTIROMO: Watching all those primaries, not enough; and we are still waiting on the outcome of California.
We've got a can't-miss lineup this morning: former Masschusetts Senator and Donald Trump supporter, Scott Brown; former Presidential Candidate Mike Huckabee; former Chrysler and Home Depot CEO Bob Nardelli with us; and, former Hillary Clinton Chief Strategist, Mark Penn joining us. Plus, former Presidential Candidate himself, Dr. Ben Carson will weigh ini. You don't want to miss a moment of it, so stay with us; right here.
Turning back to politics right now, Hillary Clinton made history as the first woman to win the presidential nomination with a major political party last night. Clinton clinches the Democratic nomination, after winning the state primaries of New Jersey, New Mexico, and South Dakota; while rival Bernie Sanders takes North Dakota and Montana last night. California has yet to decide a winner, declare a winner; we are waitingn on that. The latest poll shows Clinton is very much in the lead.
Now the loss puts new pressure on Bernie Sanders to drop out of the race, but the Vermont Senator says he's refusing to step aside. Clinton spent last night celebrating her victory at a rally in Brookly, New York.
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CLINTON: -- a time in our nation's history that a woman will be a major party nomination.
[Cheers and Applause]
CLINTON: I know it never feels good to put your heart into a cause or a candidate you believe and to come up short. I know that feeling well.
SANDERS: I am pretty good at arithmetic and I know that the fight in front of us is a very, very steep fight, but we will continue to fight for every vote and every delegate we can get.
TRUMP: To all of those Bernie Sanders voters have been left out in the cold by a rigged system of superdelegates, we welcome you with open arms.
[Cheers and Applause]
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BARTIROMO: Joining me right now is Democratic Strategist Richard Goodstein and FOX News Contributor, Mercedes Schlapp. Good to see you both; thank you so much for joining us.
MERCEDES SCHLAPP, FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR, via satellite: Good morning.
RICHARD GOODSTEIN, DEMOCRATIC STRATEGIST, via satellite: Good morning, Maria.
BARTIROMO: A big night last night for Hillary Clinton. Richard, let's get your take first off on this. We're still waiting on California, but its not as close as a lot of people thought at this point.
GOODSTEIN: Right. Right. So, look, she finished strong. I think Bernie Sanders and his people, -- it takes a while. Believe me, eight years ago, I remember what it felt like, as a Hillary Clinton supporter, to kind of come to terms with the loss. the fact that he's got this meeting with President Obama set up for tomorrow, it looks like there's kind of a process underway for the Democrats to kind of come together.
I will say this, when one party's leadership is debating how racist their standard bearer will be and the other one says things like even if you didn't vote for me, I'll have your back, between those two, I think I would rather be with the one who's not bigoted, racist and misogynist. Look, and the other thing I would say is there's all this talk about how Hillary was going to get so rattled --
BARTIROMO: Yes.
GOODSTEIN: -- by Donald Trump. She didn't look rattled last night. She did not rattled in a foreign policy speech. I think she's good.
BARTIROMO: Mercedes, what about that; and, how important do you think, Mercedes, will President Obama's endorsement be? You know, Bernie Sanders has a meeting with the President this week, likely going to say you should step aside. Perhaps that's what that phone call was earlier this week as well. How important will that be for the Clinton campaign?
SCHLAPP: Well, I think, it will provide Hillary Clinton a sense of relief. She's already started talking about unifying the Democratic Party and realizes Bernie Sanders has been a thorn in her side. So I think for Hillary Clinton, she's already pivoted to the general election messaging. I think she's had, obviously, two very strong speeches and Trump needs to realize that this is a well oiled, aggressive campaign machinery that Clinton is going to push forward.
BARTIROMO: Right.
SCHLAPP: He's got to be prepared and ready. It's not going to be enough to just say "Crooked Hillary". We have to remember, she gave this historic speech last night, but look who the messenger is. This is a messenger who has been involved in scandal after scandal after scandal and I just don't think the American people are necessarily goign to say, wait a second here. Great speech, but do we trust her? That's been one of the biggest issues that Hillary Clinton is experiencing.
BARTIROMO: And, Dagen McDowell, that's what Mitch McConnell told us yesterday. Trump needs to get on message because this is going to be a tough fight.
MCDOWELL: Right, and in terms of Hillary Clinton, that's the message from "The New York Times" editorial page, to Hillary Clinton today, which I thought was very telling. They don't call her -- they don't go after her and say she's a liar obviously, but they say that she needs to show she will run an open White House. She needs greater openness and directness. Here's what they suggester to her, and good luck with this "New York Times": "releasing the transcripts of her paid speeches to Wall Street would signal her commitment to reversing these perceptions and then admitting that using the private email server for official business was not allowed or encouraged by the State Department."
KATHERINE TIMPF, REPORTER, "THE NATIONAL REVIEW": She's not going to do that.
MCDOWELL: Those were two of the ideas and I thought, you know, they're kind of going out on a limb here to suggest that, but doubtful it will happen.
TIMPF: And also she doesn't seem rattled in prepared remarks, like that foreign policy speech or last night, but imagine her debating Trump. I think she's going to be very rattled, especially in foreign policy, I mean, having to defend her record. Trump is just going to be able -- he will just be able to say, like, Benghazi, what about Benghazi and people are going ot cheer. I really think that's how its going to go down.
BARTIROMO: You think so?
TIMPF: Yes.
BOOTHE: And Hillary Clinton is goign to face the very difficult task of trying to unite the Democratic Party. I mean, you look at the issues that Bernie Sanders voters care about: Wall Street; you look at trade and those are issues that are in direct contradiction to the views and beliefs that Hillary Clinton has long held. So that's going to be a very difficult task that she's going to face in trying to unite the Democratic Party.
BARTIROMO: Isn't that right, Richard? I mean, let's face it; she was in favor of the TPP, for example, and now she's against it?
GOODSTEIN: Look, the polls of Sanders voters showed that 90-percent, are unfavorable to Donald Trump; 75-percent are strongly unfavorable; and 80- percent of them are strongly favorable to Barack Obama. And, if you look at climate change, if you look at income inequality and if you look kind of down the list of issues that motivate Bernie Sanders voters, there's a chasm of difference, putting aside Barack Obama and Elizabeth Warren and Joe Biden are going to be encouraging them, and I think ultimately, and sooner than you think, Bernie Sanders could get behind Hillary. I think this is delusional on Trump's part, just like he said last night "I'm ahead in the polls"; no he's not.
But, honestly, as a opponent, I love it when the other guy is living in a dream world. So I actually feel pretty good this morning, relative to all the other possible alternatives that we could have been facing.
BARTIROMO: What are your thoughts on that, Mercedes?
SCHLAPP: You know, it is an uphill battle for Donald Trump when you look at the electoral map. Obviously he's going to turn his focus to the Rust Belt states and try to see if he can win Ohio, for example, that in 2012 Obama just won by three percentage points.
He does draw the white working-class voters, many of them who would have voted for like a Reagan in 1980. The question for Donald Trump is, will he be able to broaden his base? He has to close the gap with women. He's going to have to do better with minorities.
It's not just about bringing in the blue-collar workers; yes, bringing in those types of individuals to vote for Trump, but its also keeping his Republican base, many feel discouraged, who haven't come along too trusting Trump. Trump is really going to need to earn their support and earn their trust in the long run.
BARTIROMO: New reports out this morning say that Bernie Sanders is planning to cut nearly half of his campaign staff following this news of Hillary Clinton clinching the Democratic nomination. Now he's also planning to meet with President Obama tomorrow, as we said, refusing to back out of this convention, obviously, in July. Is Sanders hurting the Party? First to you Kat, what do you think; is he hurting the Party by staying in this race?
TIMPF: He absolutely is, but at the same time, regardless of whether or not Sanders voters have an unfavorable view of Donald Trump, that doesn't mean his support is going to go to Hillary. They might not vote at all. Or, I think its going to be interesting to see, Gary Johnson is actually pulling support from the liberal side as well as conservative side because actually him and Bernie Sanders agree on a lot of things other than the economy. But if you look at drug legalization; and he's antiestablishment. He's an outsider from a whole different party. I think that he could gain some of their support, too. So just because its not going to Trump doesn't mean its going to Hillary.
BARTIROMO: Good point.
MCDOWELL: The Party panel -- he was on Bret Baier's show --
TIMPF: Yes. Yes.
MCDOWELL: -- earlier this week, and the Party panel that they -- when they interviewed him was like one of the most fascinating interviews I've ever seen --
TIMPF: Yes.
MCDOWELL: -- because they were like, well, you are running this marijuana business. How recently have you smoked marijuana, is what they asked him.
[Laughter]
BOOTHE: I think he had mentioned that he would defer to the states on polygamy. So I think there's some uphill battle with him on a variety of issues --
TIMPF: I'm fine with that.
BOOTHE: -- with Republican voters.
[Laughter]
BARTIROMO: That is funny. When you look at the negatives, as high as they are for Donald Trump, and the negatives, as high as they are for Hillary Clinton, doesn't that make the VP pick that much more important? You know, typically Americans don't really vote for a VP, but this time, Mercedes, it may be very different.
SCHLAPP: You know, I do -- it could be, but I think -- I think people look at this top leader of the party. I think for Donald Trump it does make more of a difference because of the fact that you put, let's say, John Kasich is on the ticket, John Kasich draws from a different pool of voters. I think he attracts more of the independent women's suburban types, as well as those moderate Republicans that might be trying to figure out do we want to support Trump or not support Trump. So I think that for Trump it makes more of a difference because then it says, well, you know, what, he's got a VP with political experience, who understands Congress, who understands the functioning of an executive branch, for example. So I think it helps Trump.
I think for Hillary Clinton its a little different because there's so much political experience. So its not going to impact her greatly.
BARTIROMO: Yes, that makes sense. So it would be more important then for Trump, in terms --
SCHLAPP: Right.
BARTIROMO: -- of the vice presidential --
SCHLAPP: That's right.
BARTIROMO: The overall ticket. Mercedes, Richard, good to see you both. Thanks so much.
SCHLAPP: Thank you.
GOODSTEIN: Thank you, Maria.
BARTIROMO: See you soon; thank you. A programming note: Hillary Clinton will be on "Special Report" with Bret Baier today at 6:00 p.m. Eastern on the FOX News Channel. Do not miss it; one-on-one with Hillary Clinton and Bret.
Still to come, lay-offs in the nations capitol to report; why D.C.'s new minimum wage increase is sparking outrage. We've got the details, next. Then, athleisure wear giant LuluLemon reports earnings this morning. The company's founder says the retailer has lost its way. Keep it right here on "Mornings with Maris"; back in a moment.
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BARTIROMO: Welcome back; new information in EgyptAir flight traveling from Cairo to Beijing grounded after a bomb threat. Cheryl Casone with the details there and the headlines this morning; Cheryl, good morning to you.
CHERYL CASONE, FBN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Maria; and, you know, they've actually had several of the last few days; but officials at EgyptAir received a call claiming that a bomb was onboard flight MS955, en route to Beijing from Cairo. (HEADLINES)
And finally this, Maria: Washington D.C. the latest city to raise its minimum wage to $15 per hour following a unanimous vote yesterday by the city council. Nearly half of the city's employers, guys, have had to lay off their employees or reduce hours to adapt to the minimum wage hikes back since 2014, this is according to a report from the Employment Policies Institute; that is the effect, Maria. Minimum wage with $10.50. It was scheduled to rise $11.50 on July 1st and then it will increase to $15 per hour, and that's going to happened by 2020 under the agreement. But a lot of those businesses in D.C., Maria, have been cutting employees and hours in advance of this.
BARTIROMO: It's a big story, Cheryl; you know, and Girls, I don't know how you see it, but guest after guest, small business owners that we've had on, say the same thing: that if they are forced to raise their wages to $15, they will cut jobs. Do you think this is going to be a big economic issue ahead of the election, Lisa?
BOOTHE: Absolutely, and I think it should because you look at something, even like the Congressional Budget Office, and they said raising the minimum wage to $10.10 could be a loss of 500,000 to 1 million jobs. Look, when cash goes in one pocket, it comes out of another. So you're forcing employers to either have to lay people off or to raise costs on consumers.
TIMPF: Right.
BOOTHE: So, of course its going to lead to job loss. It's just commonsense.
TIMPF: You're not going to be able to hire the same amount of people if you have to pay them more; that's just math.
BOOTHE: Exactly; simple math.
TIMPF: It's crazy.
MCDOWELL: And you've heard employers, and its something that I know you've touched on, that when you -- about half of people who earn the minimum wage are ages, what, 18 to 24?
TIMPF: Yes.
BARTIROMO: Good point.
MCDOWELL: That you won't -- employer after employer says I'm not going to take a chance on somebody who's a teenager with no experience if I have to pay $15 an hour.
BARTIROMO: Right.
MCDOWELL: I'm just not goign to hire that person.
BARTIROMO: It's a really important point. Like, how much of these employees are college kids.
BOOTHE: The majority.
BARTIROMO: The majority?
BOOTHE: Peer research.
BARTIROMO: That's a big deal. All right, we'll take a short break. Coming up, LuluLemon out with its latest earnings, just moments ago. The stock is down in the premarket. We're looking at a sinking situation there. We've got the details next. Then later, consumers giving Keurig the cold shoulder. The company discontinuing one of its marquee products, laying off dozens of employees. We will bring it to you, next; three minutes time. Back in a moment.
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BARTIROMO: Welcome back. Yoga apparel maker LuluLemon Athletica, earnings out moments ago. The quarterly profit was down by 5-percent. The stock is down in the premarket, as retail has been hit hard this earnings season despite the growth in athleisure wear. LuluLemon founder Chip Wilson has said that athleisure is over and that streetnick is in. So what is streetnick? Victoria's Secret is ditching swimwear to focus on the athleisure segment. Is this a sign of just how popular athleisure is? We are going to talk about LuluLemon right now.
First of all, fans on the show.
MCDOWELL: Yes.
BOOTHE: Huge fan.
TIMPF: Yes.
BARTIROMO: Athleisure, is everybody into athleisure?
BOOTHE: I wish it was more socially acceptable just to wear it everywhere. I just do.
BARTIROMO: You put your yoga stuff on and then you wear it all day?
TIMPF: Yes, I just do.
BARTIROMO: And its fine?
TIMPF: Fine; its been fine. What's streetnick? I don't know what that --
BARTIROMO: That's what he's talking about, streetnick.
MCDOWELL: I think, the best I can understand it -- and my own personal opinion about LuluLemon, I'll withhold.
BARTIROMO: Okay.
MCDOWELL: It's leading with -- because he's looking -- the form -- the founder, which by the way doesn't help the company. I don't know why any founder would come out and criticize the company.
BARTIROMO: It's really bad form.
MCDOWELL: It seems weird, but he's talking about in the last three years that LuluLemon has underperformed Under Armour and Nike. Now its done much better in the more recent history. It's near -- the stock starts today near a 52 week high.
But streetnick is when you lead with the technicals of the athletic wear rather than leading with the fashion. He is saying that you need to lead with kind of the cutting edge technical types of fabrics, sweat wicking, if you --
[Laughter]
MCDOWELL: -- sweat wicking technology. I think that's what is talking about.
TIMPF: Okay, that would make sense.
BARTIROMO: But why would the stock be trading down so much if this is still such a hot category; perhaps because the valuation is being questioned on LuluLemon? You say it starts at a 52 week high, and also because there is a ton of competition in this segment.
MCDOWELL: And the comparison year-over-year are tough for LuluLemon. Go ahead (inaudible).
BOOTHE: Well, and its expensive, too. So I'm sure that's a -- especially, as you mentioned, there's so much competition out there. So you've got something, a like-minded brand, and they've reduce prices by $15. That makes a huge difference when you determine which clothing line you want to use to go workout in.
TIMPF: Yes, but I still like them the best.
BARTIROMO: I do, too. I do, too; but I guess there was that issue that it was see-through, the pants were see-through.
MCDOWELL: Oh, yes; that hurt them.
BARTIROMO: There is a recall a while back.
MCDOWELL: I just found it comical because men love women in yoga pants.
[Laughter]
MCDOWELL: When they are see-through they love them that much more; in terms of LuluLemon, I think you do have all these other entrants into the business and they can separate themselves if they stick to their athletic roots, if they stick to clothing that people will actually wear, both in the street and -- again, if you lead with the kind of technical underpinnings of these clothes you'll do well.
BARTIROMO: Isn't this a broader issue though about retail? I mean, we saw Ralph Lauren; right? They had their analyst meeting yesterday, cutting jobs; really a tough story there, in terms of the demand part of the story. You've talked a lot on the show, in the past, about online taking marketshare.
MCDOWELL: My favorite online story, this is kind of digressing today, but there is a survey that shows that for the first time, its an annual survey of 5000 online shoppers, that they made more than half of their purchases on the internet rather than in stores.
BARTIROMO: Bingo.
MCDOWELL: 51-percent of their purchase on the web compared with 48-percent in 2015. So if you don't have a great -- LuluLemon does well with that. I think --
BARTIROMO: They have a big only presence.
MCDOWELL: And you know where they're real growth opportunities is, is with men and young men because me, if you get them in a pair of LuluLemon shorts, they are never going back.
[Laughter]
BARTIROMO: There's some comfortable stuff. Let's take a short break. Straight ahead Southwest brings back at 72-hour sale, pricing dozens of flights below $100 a ticket. There is a catch though; we'll tell you about it. Then, talk about a poetry slam. Outrage after students at one Ivy League University says the curriculum features too many white, male english poets. Those stories coming out.
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BARTIROMO: Good Wednesday morning, everybody. Welcome back; I'm Maria Bartiromo. It is Wednesday June 8th. Your top stories right now, 6:30 a.m. on the East Coast:
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Turning back to politics, the AP this morning is reporting Hillary Clinton has won the California primary. Sixty eight percent of the vote has been counted thus far. She's making history certainly becoming the first woman to secure the nomination of a major political party.
David Lee Miller is in Jersey City right now with the latest. David, good morning to you.
DAVID LEE MILLER, FOX NEWS: Good morning, Maria. It is the day after here in Jersey City, New Jersey and this community like the rest of the country now preparing for a general election that will pit Hillary Clinton against Donald Trump.
Hillary Clinton now the first woman to head up a national ticket in a general election. And here in the garden state there were few surprises during the primary, Donald Trump captured 81 percent of the vote.
This despite the fact that former Governor Christine Todd Whitman (ph) called for Republicans to reject Trump and there was a small protest vote still on the ballot, John Kasich, he got 13 percent. Ted Cruz got 6 percent from voters.
And among those voting for Donald Trump, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, one of the first high-profile Republicans to endorse Trump.
He also paid a visit to the presumptive Republican nominee at Trump Tower yesterday and Chris Christie also spoke with reporters defending Trump's remarks about a federal judge that some critics have labelled racist. Listen.
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GOVERNOR CHRIS CHRISTIE (R), NEW JERSEY: I know Donald Trump, I've known him for 14 years and Donald Trump is not a racist. So, you know, the allegations that he is are absolutely contrary to every experience I've had with him over the last 14 years.
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MILLER: And on the Democratic side, New Jersey was very good to Hillary Clinton. She was expected to beat Bernie Sanders and she did. Clinton getting 63 percent of the vote, Sanders 37 percent.
Hillary Clinton by the way, campaigned recently as last week here in New Jersey. She was joined by Senator Corey Booker. He is a possible vice president on the Democratic ticket and also endorsing Hillary Clinton, the senior senator from New Jersey Senator Robert Menendez.
And lastly, Maria, worth noting here, the latest poll show that in the general election between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton would receive in New Jersey, this is in New Jersey 38 percent of the vote, Donald Trump 34 percent.
But when you factor in the margin of error, it is essentially a statistical dead heat. The last time New Jersey voted Republican in a presidential election back in 1988 -- Maria.
BARTIROMO: Which is why it's so extraordinary that it's such a dead heat even today. David Lee Miller, thank you very much. Donald Trump shifting his tone following last night's five states sweep. Meanwhile, making comment using a teleprompter looking ahead to the general election. Watch.
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TRUMP: I understand the responsibility of carrying the medal and I will never ever let you down, too much work, too many people, blood, sweat and tears. I will make you proud of your party and our movement. That's what it is as a movement.
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BARTIROMO: So is this the new Donald Trump? Joining us right now former Massachusetts senator and Donald Trump supporter, Scott Brown. Senator Brown, good to see you.
FORMER SENATOR SCOTT BROWN (R), MASSACHUSETTS: Good morning, good morning.
BARTIROMO: It feels like this most recent flub maybe had impact. Is he changing his tune? Using a teleprompter, saying that he's going to make everybody proud, what do you think?
BROWN: Well he's used teleprompter before. I think moving forward you'll see a combination approach of teleprompter and then going off the cuff like he does. You know, we are moving into a different phase as you have been speaking about all morning where we really have to zero in.
I anticipate putting out policy speeches, really drawing those distinctions between Hillary Clinton and obviously himself.
BARTIROMO: Guys, what do you think he needs to do? What about policy does he needs to get into and be more specific in order for this to resonate?
LISA BOOTHE, REPUBLICAN STRATEGIST: I think he needs to focus on the economy. Look at the latest Pew research about the shrinking middle class, manufacturing nationwide is down 29 percent. People are hurting.
There are a large majority of individuals in this country who feel left behind by the current economy. That's his wheel house as a business guy. This is what he should be talking about.
He should be reaching out to each of those disaffected voters. You have a lot of minority and unemployment is extremely high. Reaching out to people who feel left behind.
And to be more specific too like when he released the Supreme Court justice nominees. People are like, there is a specific thing. I know a lot of people that weren't supporting him looked at that and they felt better.
DAGEN MCDOWELL, FOX BUSINESS: Scott Brown, good to see you. In terms of going after Hillary Clinton, I think that he needs to hit her hard and often. He has actually a speech coming up next week potentially where he has frame her candidacy. He needs to remind the American people that this is a Democratic nominee who is under investigation by the FBI.