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cheryl: good morning, i'm cheryl casone, in for maria bartiromo. who is on assignment. it is monday, may 6. your top stories at 6:00 a.m. eastern time. today the first full trading day in the week of may begins, futures in the green as we look ahead to a big week of earnings, disney and warner brothers are out. we'll take a look ahead. european markets as you can see they are in the green. thes ftse, the cac and dax are all higher. in asia we've got a mixed story, the shanghai composite up better than 1%. the kospi and nikkei are in the red. then president biden reportedly putting a hold on u.s. shipments of ammunition to israel after antony blinken sent a clear warning to benjamin netanyahu about moving on rafah and more protests on college campus bees over the weekend. we're breaking down the cost to taxpayers as the anti-israel demonstrations continue today. plus, president trump's new york hush money trial back in session today and with six months left

to go before the election a new poll shows the former president outpacing president biden on one key issue. joining the conversation all morning long, columnist and fox news contributor, liz peek and aquinas we wealth management president, chris mcmann. "mornings with maria" is live right now. the ongoing chaos on college campuses, anti-israel protesters hoisting a large palestinian flag above the encampment at george wa washington university. the statue remains defaced as the president calls it increasingly unsafe and violation of school rules. they haven't called for the protest to be disma dismantelle. maria bartiromo spoke with elise stefanik on sunday morning

futures on how democrats are looking the other way during the protests. >> i want to get your take on what you want to see happen in terms of federal funding of college universities. >> th this is the radicalizedr left democratic party. it's about lawlessness, anarchy, hurling anti-semetic slurs against jewish students, physical harassment, physical you assault against you jewish students. there's a great deal we're doing in congress with our oversight and legislative solutions will consist of pulling back federal funding, addressing foreign dollars flowing into the institutions and holding schools accountable. cheryl: months of training, planning and encouragement by long time activists and wing groups according to the jury than. they say the national students for justice in palestine were one of the factors and the protests the, they started working on this months ago. they say some of the group are

former black panthers. the group has been in place for decades. they're behind what we're seeing. >> we've seen before a genuine concern about something morph into basically anti-americanism. i think that's what we're seeing today. these groups, why were they funding these organizations to mount these protests months ago? us because they saw this as as an opening to basically attack america. i think as these protests have shown, when there are mass arrests at college campuses, it isn't that they're arresting college students. they're arresting some college students who have gotten mixed up into this and they're arresting an agitators, anti-americans, who knows what the goal is? they want to go out there and deface george washington's statue. it's an expression of anti-americanism it's horrific. it should inform how we push back against the protests.

this isn't again about genuine concerns about students. this is very much targeted at american values and the american government. cheryl: to break down the fabric on the country. >> that's right. cheryl: and to her point, look, i mean, they had teach-ins with some of the former black panthers. they said you want to handle internal disputes, here's how you handle management of your camps, here's how you get food and the biggest thing, here's how you get money to make sure you have the support. they were very well prepared. the country may have been shocked by what they sawer resu--saw erupt at columbia universities. this was in place for the months. >> they were so prepared. it seems like some of the fraternity guys are pushing back a little bit. they're disorganized but they have passion. they're pushing back against the anti-american niche that liz was talking about. -- anti-americanism that liz was talking about. cheryl: we've got a lot of news happening this morning overseas.

the biden administration reportedly has be put a hold on a shipment of u.s. made ammunition to israel. this apparently happened last week you according to axios. anti-israel groups are accusing chicago and the democratic national convention of pro t protecting president biden from potential protests, they don't want a repeat of 1968. there's a report that president biden decided to speak out about it because he saw what happened on tv networks when ucla erupted overnight. >> and he saw his polling yet again decline. everyeveryone views his reactio, trying have a foot in both camps. what they're doing in halting shipments to israel, they're forcing israel to agree to hamas' demand, including ending the war overnight, letting the remaining hamas warriors,

terrorists, whatever you want to call them, remain in place. this is the same hamas that in the last two days that have been using apparently hostages as shields for the head of hamas, deep underground. this is a a horrible terrorist organization what we should give no breath to. i was listening to the radio this morning. hamas saying that basi bas basit netanyahu is to blame for the skas fire talks collapsing. that's not true. hamas rejected every offer by the israeli government. cheryl: i want to pick up on what you're saying. the journal writes that perhaps the weapons delay was intended as a message to hamas that the u.s. is willing to arm twist israel to stop the rafah campaign. they go on to say that's the logic that kept the war going since october 7.

basically the way the biden administration has worked you at the negotiationses is backfiring. >> you play both sides, you get nowhere. they're stuck in the mud. people forget that the hamas called for the annihilation of the jewish people. it couldn't be any clearer. cheryl: river to the sea. we're just getting started. coming up, we're looking ahead to a big week of first quarter earnings, disney and lyft out tomorrow, uber is out on wednesday. david tal is here with his expectations. he is next. don't miss a moment of it. you're watching "mornings with maria" live on fox business. ♪

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cheryl: taking a look at futures this morning, looks like we're kicking off a strong start on this monday. and again, this is even the first full trading week for the month of may that we're going to get. dow up 91, nasdaq up 46, s&p up 14 and-a-half. markets are up year-to-date but investors are worried about weak profit outlooks and that could threaten the rally. i want to bring in pro chain capital president david t a al. good morning to you. your reaction. as we start to wind down this reporting season, companies are telling us that the margins are getting a little squeezed. >> no doubt. we're seeing the consumer under considerable amount of pressure. credit card delinquencies are considerably higher. we're seeing companies -- i'd say they're in the middle market of discretionary spending starting to go ahead and show considerable weakness.

we're seeing liquidations of stores like route 21, sam ash, the 100-year-old musical instrument retailers closing doors, 99-cent only stores are going out of business. we're seeing rescue financing at children's place, joanne fabrics, express, and i expect that to go ahead and start to wide n. we'll start to see bigger names with more stores around the country start to show some hurt and as you said, the likes of starbucks have been disappointing and i think that we're going to see continued -- we haven't seen all the retail earnings yet. we're going to see continued weakened guidance coming out of retail. cheryl: i think it's interesting you're saying that because we're going to get march consumer credit and sentiment out this week and the journal has a fascinating piece about consumers saying they're fed up with high food costs but they're ditching big brands as a result of this. here's what they write. they say restaurant chains and

some food manufacturers are reporting sliding sales are slowing growth that attribute to consumer's inability to pay the prices. they say cough pur purchase phi drinkers are -- coffee drinkers are leaving starbucks, people are complaining they're paying too much for mcdonald's and they will eat at home. >> another name i forgot to mention is red lobster is going through restructuring as well. wwe'll see how that turns out. i don't think this will be limited. some of the companies have been weak for a long time, the ones i mentioned. but i think that it is a wider problem and as long as we don't see a relief rally in credit where there is a real conviction that rates are going lower, substantially lower any time soon, then we're going to go ahead and see these companies get pressed by their lenders for

restructurings and so therefore the ebbing which you the at this of these companies is -- equity of these companies is going to underperform. cheryl: chris, you mentioned this before the store got going this morning, when looking at a earnings reports what you're very concerned about what you're seeing. >> whe we see companies with e beats and stock's going down. netflix, that happened to as they talked about a negative outlook. it's making people nervous. i think we'll see downward pressure in the third quarter this year, regard alless of earnings. cheryl: that's a question of what do we do with our money. what do we do with our portfolios right now? the year's been off to a great start. the idea we're going to get multiple rate cuts has fallen off the table, maybe two is a possibility, maybe one. how do you maneuver this? >> so my belief has been for a while and continues to be that we will get one token rate cut towards the end of the year and that's for two reasons, because

jay powell needs to make good on his word that we will get a rate cut this year which he mentioned at a point in time in the past, the second thing is it's necessary for joe biden to get elected. joe biden is in the business of doing anything he needs to in order to go ahead and buy votes, make the consumer feel good about the economy as best he can and so, therefore, we will get a rate cut to go ahead and have some sort of manufactured rally in equities going into the end of the year and going into election season. but that being said in terms of what my strategy is, look, i think you're right that we're not in a good place vis-a-vis rates coming down. yes, we saw hiring slowing. that was the best set of bad news, right. we're in a world right now that bad is good. right? so hiring is slowing. so that means the economy should slow and therefore that should give the fed enough ammo to cut

rates but the truth of the matter is that's just a masking that's going on. i think credit remains expensive and so, therefore, highly levered companies such as those in rus russell 2000 that are not necessarily ebitda positive, that's where i'm short. i will continue to be heavily short commercial real estate through the -- yes. on the upside, to the extent we have a rally, i thinking the is the -- i thinking the is the best place to be with. some tech is better than others. i took the opportunity apple rallied, while berkshire hathaway pulled back on the apple stake and a sold a bunch of apple stock, i took an opportunity to sell out of our apple position. i don't believe there's much great things on the horizon. the only thing we've got coming forward is really some tablet or ipad announcement that's coming out but at the end of the

day, the phone cycle is not as robust as apple had desired. i'm more into things like microsoft, amazon, i think those stocks are under-valued especially if we get a rally. cheryl: before you go, really quick, i understand your daughter is going to penn, your son is serving in the idf. first off,er we're thinking about your children and all the kids that are out there in particular on college campuses. how is your daughter doing right now ? >> sheas a resilient -- she's a resilient one, i must say. she's an incredibly hard worker and she's making it through finals. i think as the majority of students are. but it's incredibly disruptive environment. to say the least. it is -- at times it's scary, at times very alienating and it's certainly not what i as a parent signed up for, i must say. and unfortunately there is no way i could prepare my daughter

for the environment she is learning in. she is essentially learning in an environment where she is under the constant threat or constant worry when she walks outside the classroom, sometimes inside the classroom. it's an awful, awful thing. it went from day to night at a lot of these university campuses and it's just -- it's a terrible thing to see in the united states. this is not an environment that any of us thought would ever come to pass. cheryl: well, our thoughts are with her, obviously. and hopefully she stays safe and makes it through finals. thank you so much for being here. we appreciate it. >> thank you, cheryl. cheryl: coming up, we're going to stay on the breaking news out of the middle east. idf is warning palestinians of an imminent invasion, they're encouraging them to evacuate parts of rafah. we've got indiana congresswoman

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cheryl: israel's military ordering nearly 100,000 civil wraps to evacuate parts of eastern rafah and leave for humanitarian zones. israel's now preparing to send

ground troops into rafah. the idf did drop leaflets from military aircraft. the biden administration put a hold on u.s. ammunition to israel last week. a spokesperson telling fox news digital the united states has searched billions of dollars in security y assistance since the october 7 attacks and will continue to do what is in necessary to make sure israel can defend itself from the threat it spaces. want to bring in congresswoman victoria spartz, the commissioner to the u.s. commission on security cooperation in europe. congresswoman, good morning. >> good morning. cheryl: there is a lengthy piece, editorial in the journal about the biden administration's handling of the peace -- the cease fire negotiations which have been a complete failure between the the israelis and ha. now this weapons shipment is on hold according to axios. can you comment? >> it's unfortunate.

it's another mishandling of foreign policy, blunder that this administration has because they have been weak on -- with our adversaries. you've seen what happened in afghanistan, our failed withdrawal and it's really abandoning lives. and you've seen this happening with weaknesses in ukraine and now the administration again shows weaknesses in abandoning our important ally in the middle east. what is it going to do? it's going to embolden adversaries and emboldener embon terrorists that want to destroy the state of israel, also they want to destroy the united states of america. we cannot be stupid. i think thus policy is weak and stupid and politically driven because we have people in the white house that are very, very weak and political and they don't care what's happening and they don't understand this weakness invites more wars and a more aggression. cheryl: you've been very vocal

about your feelings about not just ammunition shipment and a aid in particular with ukraine. i want to bring in liz peek. >> good morning. there's been talk about speaker johnson inviting netanyahu to come and speak to congress. do you think that might happen and could that be a change or provoke some change in this at attitude of the house and the country overall towards this war? >> well, i think, you know, unfortunately this is a very small group in our country that has been very radical but has been very important for president biden for political reasons. you know, we've seen what happened in our college campuses, we see what's happening with anti-semitism in our country because we have a very, very radical small group of people but very vocal and very aggressive try to intimidate the rest of the country and unfortunately the biden administration's, president biden's been very weak and afraid and he has political reasons to do that, not any

reason that leaders are supposed to have so his lack of leadership causes whats he's happening right now and i think it would be good if he would come and talk to congress and the american people. 6 mi6 million jews were killed t even 100 years ago. what's happening under hitler, nazis in europe. and we cannot forget that people, they have to survive and i think netanyahu has to defend his own country. he has no choice. those people want to destroy the state of israel, they want to destroy jewish people and he will have to be able to stand against this brutal, brutal terrorist but also america needs to stand with our allies. we cannot abandon our allies. what happened causes a lot of adversaries in a lot of other countries that are thinking should we stand with america or maybe we should stand with china and russia because you stand

with them, they'll give you cheap weapons and money and americans can abandon you. it's terrible. cheryl: i want to go back to something you said, you mentioned what's happening in this country. you've got la police just cleared this ant anti-israel prt encamment at usc. that happened yesterday. no one arrested. the president said we're not going to be tolerating the encampments. other congresses are. elise stefanik was with maria yesterday on sunday morning futures. listen to what she told her. maria: who is funding this? i was told that a lot of the groups were getting direction from social media. >> this is a well organized n the at this at this of far left radical groups. there's a foreign funding piece that it's very important that we get to the bottom of. any individuals who are part of the pro-hamas riots or pro-hamas encampments that are on student visas, those visas need to be

revoked and the individuals need to be deported immediately. in the case of columbia we found from nypd that over 40% of the rioters were unaffiliated with columbia university, neither students, professors or faculty members. cheryl: should we be deporting international students that are on campus or what should be done with those that are not students on the campuses. >> we should not allow lawlessness in the country and intimidation. today, jewish students, tomorrow, christian students, day after tomorrow, all of us. we cannot have radical movements with agenda to coerce and inat the intimidate and people to be afraid. there's a limit to free speech, if it comes violence and intimidation. everyone is free to say your

opinion. you're not free to coerce and intimidate the rest of the people and i think we need to be clear. a lot of the foundations get a lot of foreign money? presidents of the universities and boards are not enforcing law and order. this is a question that congress should be asking and why they bring students from foreign countries that incite this violence and financed by foreign governments. this is a very legitimate question. we need to understand that we have a lot of adversaries and enemies around the world who want to destabilize us internally but this goes back to leadership by our leaders, by presidents of universities and really lack of leadership and strength by this administration. cheryl: before you go, i want to ask about marjorie taylor greene. she's is expected to bring had her motion to oust speaker johnson this week. do you support marjorie taylor greene's moves to get rid of mike johnson as speaker? >> listen, i understand marjorie's frustration. i share it very much.

republicans pick some hills to die non and we took none. we passed omnibus, we passed fisa without a warrant and we passed foreign aid without border security. i understand her frustration. i don't know if it's time to change the speaker. it's probably a conversation for the next congress. we have a divided house. i'm disapointed we're not able to deliver for the american people. cheryl: you would be a no vote? >> i would probably not vacate the speaker. i would think what to do. the motion could go to the floor but very likely it will not because democrats love our leadership in the house, they're able to pass anything they want so it rob bring wouldn't matter -- probably wouldn't matter anyway. cheryl: i was looking at a report that this congress has been one of the least productive congresses in centuries. centuries. congresswoman victoria spartz,

thanks for being here. >> thank you for having me. cheryl: china is ramping up aggression towards taiwan. xi jinping is the in europe. gatestone institute senior fellow gordon chang is here with more. you're watching "mornings with maria" live on fox business. ♪

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cheryl: millions of americans in the path of severe weather this morning. lauren simonetti has all the details. lauren, good morning. >> good morning, cheryl. a storm system in the midwest bringing potentially life threatening weather conditions across the great plains. thunderstorms beginning in oklahoma a, kansas and nebraska set to move eastward as the week goes on. in texas, deadly weekend flooding, authorities in

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far behind fierceness. is that who you bet on. cheryl: that's who i thought would win. >> he was 15th place. cheryl: fierceness, everyone thought it was going to be fierceness. >> that's why you never go with what everyone thinks. i usually pick a nice name, something that brings a nice memory. the greatest two minutes in sports. cheryl: it was though, cryings. chris. did you know? >> 18 to one would have been a great day. cheryl: that's so rare. >> aren't you shocked it happens to infrequently. >> especially with the photo finish with the three horses that close. cheryl: it was a good race. >> it was a -- cinco de mayo and kentucky derby all in one. cheryl: do you think people will come to work this morning? >> may be late.

cheryl: thank you very much. chinese president xi jinping is now on a three country trip to europe. for the first time in five years, his first stop our ally, france. he's in paris right now. he already met with french president emmanuel macron and he will meet with european president. macron said it's in our are interest to get china to weigh in on the stability of the international order. we must work with china to build peace and xi saying china and france are a model for the international community of he's peaceful existence. he is going to serbia and hungary. i want to bring in gordon chang. gordon, good morning. >> good morning, cheryl. cheryl: what do you think xi jinping's real goal is here in europe? >> first of all, to divide the atlantic alliance. i think he also wants to repair

relations with a proud but angry continent and of course he wants to buck up his despicable allies in the eastern europe. so those are going to be the three things he's going to want to do and when he's in serbia he's going to highlight the accidental bombing of the embassy in belgrade by the united states and that's going to be a very big portion of his trip. c.cheryl: sew division and turn our allies against us. they appear to be ramping up aggressions against taiwan and the inauguration of the president-elect is may 20th. taiwan's defense ministry say jets and ships were detected near the island. ises this a further escalation of what we've been fearing all along or is this posturing by the chinese? >> this is more of the same. it can be an inauguration, can be an election, can be a flower

festival, the chinese are going to ramp up refresh your. the chinese -- pressure. the chinese military is in disyou array. it is in no shape to invade you taiwan. i think xi jinping understands this would be extremely unpopular. xi jinping made the decision to risk war with the united states and we can see this in a number of ways but especially in his especially belligerent moves in the south china sea against the philippines where he's ignoring warning after warning from president biden and the state department. so we are one incident away from history's most destructive war. cheryl: liz peek was saying that a few moments ago about china. liz, jump in here. >> gordon, you must feel like the lone ranger. no one else is talking about the threat from china. it seems to me as importantly as you are. but i want to go back to xi jinping and europe. it seems to me also he is there on a very critical m mission to

allow china to continue to flood europe with cheap goods. we're trying to resist that. europe is certainly trying to. how important is that market to china and to their rebounding economy? because their economy is not in good shape. >> no. their economy is not growing at the 5.3% pace that they claim for q1. it's growing maybe half percent, maybe 1% at most. the problem is, they've got to rescue their economy with exports. united states has made it brett t at this clear had -- pretty clear that we're increasing tariffs so that makes europe more important, also makes the global south more important but we've got to also recall in european ports they're storing tens of thousands of chinese evs on their lots and that means that the europeans are worried that the chinese will decimate the european car

industry. we should be worried about the same thing. elon musk said the chinese will take over the global car industry unless we start to erect barriers to it and we absolutely have to do that because china's car policies are predatory. cheryl: gordon, i'm so glad you brought that up about especially the electric vehicle market in europe and chris, i want to get your thoughts on that because this is the point. knows that he's got a hand to play when it comes to the ev market in europe and i think that's a big piece of of why hes there. >> all the manufacturing in mexico, there's real issues. i worry so much about i i think blinken and yellen were there a few weeks bag and back and theye harm than good. theythey toothless, had no vict. how long will it take to he reverse this if we see a change in november? >> a change in november could reverse this very quickly. president trump has said to

maria, for instance, that he is going to impose tariffs on china at least 60%, could be higher. and that -- the chinese are very worried about that. president trump is pretty good at doing what he says he'll do and clearly the united states needs to look at chinese trade policies because they're not only predatory but they're also criminal. china is stealing a half trillion dollars worth of u.s. intellectual property every year according to the director of national intelligence, john ratcliffe in december 2020 and a his successor talks about the same thing so obviously we cannot allow this to continue but we have allowed it to continue and a we can't anymore. cheryl: gordon chang, always great have you on the show. thank you. >> thank you, cheryl. cheryl: all right. well, we've got a lot more coming up this morning. gw's president seeking help after 11 days of unrest, asking local law forcement to handle the illegal campus protest.

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cheryl: anti-israel protests on college campuses leading to well over 2,000 arrests over the past few weeks. a palestinian flag flying in place of the american flag at george washington university. police had cut it down before students replaced it again. the campus statue of george washington, our founding father, remains defaced this morning. university president ellen grandberg calling on d.c. police for help after 11 days. grandberg issuing a statement, quote, when protests overrun barriers, vandalizing cha chew and flag, surround and intimidate students with anti-semetic images and hateful rhetoric, chase people out of a public yard based on perceived beliefs, gw police officers and maintenance staff, the protests need to be peaceful and

productive. joining us now, law school student, tamina. let's talk about this. the 11 days, it sounds like the university president is finally saying she wants police to help. is it too late? >> well, first of all, president grandberg has been very outspoken against these protests from day one. however, all a of these sound like just words on paper when there is actually no actions behind them. first of all, the gw police officers have been doing their best being at the scene, protecting gw students from harassment and intimidation. i personally have been followed and harassed by a lot of these protesters, i was being recorded while i was trying to enter the law school building and some of these protesters continue to record me as i was letting the police know they are actually following me you w without any .

it's very unfortunate that many of us have to did through this as we're trying to get through our law school exams which begs the question why gw has to rely on d.c. police officers in the first place. and second, why d.c. police is not enforcing the laws. that is the reason why last week several members of the house oversight committee visited the encampment and i spoke to them and they told many of our gw students that there will be a congressional hearing into this. cheryl: that's right. james comer and a byron donalds, is that correct, you gave them a tour of the area? >> yes, that is correct. cheryl: how did that go? what was their reaction? >> first of all, they were very concerned to see the number of people that were very obviously not gw students just camping outside of our classrooms and they saw the amount of disruption, they saw the defaced statue of george washington and

also many of them started cussing and yelling at them and which represents what students have to put through every day and a this is not a safe environment especially for jewish students and their allies, those of us that support our jewish friends are facing all of this ever day and i'm very glad that members of congress are finally taking a stand against what is going on. this is no longer just a protest. this is a serious national security issue. we don't know who is funding these groups right now. they could be connected to foreign terrorist org. of any sayses -- organizations. there is some traces and evidence of that. i'm glad congress is looking into this. cheryl: i want to ask you about this because there's as piece in the wall street journal about activist groups trained stiewndz trained studentsfor months befo. they say they provided guidance and support before the rise of the pro palestinian encampments. fox news digital found 52 page

document from u-penn, showed teachers how to escalate demonstrations, barricade doors, break into buildings, create weapons. what do you think of this level of coordination and training? is it anything that you've ever heard of before? >> cheryl, i've been on the ground and tried to speak of some of the participants and learn like what is going on and you're absolutely right. this is highly organized. the level of synchronization of the protests with logistics that are seamlessly arranged with food, medical aid and sleeping quarters,less a well oiled machine behind this. they got training from veteran left wing activists, all of their methods are like classical textbook activist things and this is not a regular student demonstration. this is done by veterans that have been around the block for a verylong time. cheryl: one of the things i

found so surprising was a lot of this activist group, there's a name, the national students for justice of palestine, a lot of these guys are -- and maybe gals, are former black panthers. i mean, they -- this group's been around for decades and they said here's how to raise money, here's how to manage the encampment, here's how to manage the people in your encampment to keep law and order within your encampment. are they that organized from what you've seen within the encampment? >> yes. i have seen a lot of serious organization. there are some leaders in the gw encampment that are not actually gw students and they are telling the members what to do. several times i watched them yelling at some of the members of the encampment for speaking to the media. one of the rules is you're not allowed to speak to the media. i k know they're organized to three separate groups. one of the groups is designated to get arrested if there's interaction as with the police,

another is supposed to run away. these are old school activist methods that the groups are using. even the rhetoric it itself is y close to what the left wing organizations chant normally. the message is not just anti-israel but we hear a lot of anti-american rhetoric. so i think this is a very concerning trend that is going on. cheryl: thank you so much for joining us this morning and good luck to you on campus. >> thank you so much for having me. cheryl: we're going to take a quick break. you're watching "mornings with maria" live on fox business. we're talking about cashbacking. we're talking about... we're not talking about practice? no... cashbacking. word. we're talking about cashbacking. cashbacking. cashbacking. cashback like a pro with chase freedom unlimited. how do you cashback? (♪) at enterprise mobility, we never stop looking for new mobility solutions. because sometimes the best road forward, is the one you didn't expect.

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