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Maria Bartiromo’s latest Sunday broadcast was her highest-rated show ever — a milestone the Fox News anchor said reflects audience trust and a show team strategy of staying on top of a story. Bartiromo’s Sunday Morning Futures on Fox News reached 3.4 million viewers during her March 1 broadcast, a day after the United States and Israel launched joint missile strikes in Iran. Bartiromo said the show resonated with audiences because they were interested in the war. “I think one thing that this team does really well is that we follow the story. We don’t just do one story one week, and then we’re on to the next story the next week,” Bartiromo told the Washington Examiner. “We’re actually following it and building it and bringing in more voices on that same subject.”  Sunday Morning Futures debuted on March 30, 2014, and since then, Bartiromo has brought decades of experience covering the economy and politics to viewers every week.  Bartiromo said one of the reasons for the show’s success is that the audience trusts her, which differentiates her from other cable competitors. “The audience trusts me, and they trust this program. Why? Because they know they’ve seen me in the past,” she said. “They know that when I’m reporting something and I have conviction on something, it means I’ve done the homework.” A year prior to “Operation Epic Fury,” President Donald Trump exclusively told Bartiromo during an interview that he sent a letter to Iranian Ayatollah Ali Khamenei about wanting to negotiate. Bartiromo said her team continued to follow the story in future interviews with the president and experts.  “I think that’s something that the audience knows about me, that I follow up, and I’m not going to just do a one-off, and I think that is certainly something that we’re known for,” she said.  Bartiromo, who started her career at CNN as a production assistant, cited her early years as the foundation for her ability to cover breaking news. The first story she covered was the Iraq War.  “I learned how to cover a story as it was actually happening,” she said. “This is before Fox News, because Fox News came later. CNN was doing something that nobody was doing, and that was reporting on stories as they were happening.” After CNN, Bartiromo went to CNBC, where she became the first journalist to report live from the New York Stock Exchange. She was able to cover the Stock Exchange in real time as trading was happening because of her experience covering the Iraq War.  “I learned very quickly about how to cover a story as it was developing, how to show the audience,” she told the Washington Examiner. “Take the audience behind the situation, show them what was happening as it was happening, so that they felt that they were there.” Bartiromo applies those lessons in her weekly reporting, helping viewers make sense of the constant flow of information they encounter each day. She said the basis of all reporting is to make it “about the viewer.” “It’s not about me. It’s not about the producers. It’s about the viewer,” Bartiromo said. “What’s most important to the viewer? How are viewers impacted by this story?” While the team may be small with only four people, Bartiromo said they’re certainly “lean.”  THE US CONFLICT IN IRAN BY THE NUMBERS “I love my team. They’re doing a great job,” she said. “We’re all fixated on getting out the best show possible and ensuring that our viewers are happy.” On future shows, Bartiromo said she wants to continue to explore artificial intelligence, national security, job opportunities, and, of course, the economy.

Washington Examiner senior columnist Guy Benson said Senate Democrats are putting on a “show” as the Department of Homeland Security is in the midst of a funding lapse. Congressional Democrats are facing pressure to approve government funding as the DHS has been operating without it since Feb. 14. The partial government shutdown is negatively affecting national security measures, with “hourslong security lines” at airports, according to the White House. Benson noted the DHS’s funding lapse is happening as the United States is engaged in a conflict with Iran, a country he referred to as “widely considered to be the No. 1 exporter of terrorism.” Benson noted that since the start of this conflict, New York City police arrested suspects accused of attempting to deploy two makeshift bombs at a protest, and that happened about a week after an apparent “Jihadist attack” in Austin, Texas. “And in the middle of that threat matrix, our homeland security agency is in a government shutdown because Senate Democrats oppose the enforcement of federal immigration laws,” Benson said on Fox Business’s Varney & Co. “They can’t stop it, they can’t defund [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] because they’re funded for three more years under another bill, another law, so this is a show to signal to their base how angry they are about ICE and the enforcement of federal laws and they have our homeland security agency in a shutdown right now because of it.” The DHS funding lapse comes as House Republicans lost another member of their conference, Rep. Kevin Kiley (I-CA), who left the GOP to run as an independent. Benson said House Republicans will “have to try” to pass legislation as it deals with its incredibly thin majority and added that Kiley “might lean to the right” on several policies. AIRPORT CHAOS ESCALATES PRESSURE TO RESOLVE DHS GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN Benson added that Republicans will also need to fill former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s House seat in Georgia, after which House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) will try to “work his magic.” He said Johnson has “pulled rabbits out of hats” while dealing with this small majority and ruled against dismissing the possibility of Republicans getting nothing done. Georgia’s special election to fill Greene’s seat is on Tuesday, with 17 candidates vying for victory. If none of these candidates get 50% of the votes, a special runoff election will be held on April 7.

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