Afternoon. Fox reported at least some of the investigation of Hunter Bidens business and tax activities dates back to 2018, in other words, the entire time that his father was a president ial candidate. The wall street journal reports attorney general bill barr knew about the numerous investigations looking into Hunter Bidens business and financial dealings since at least this spring and worked to keep the probes out of public view during the election. A spokeswoman for the attorney general declined to comment to fox today. Barr signaled in may he wanted to keep the criminal Justice System out of the president ial election. As long as im attorney general, the criminal Justice System will not be used for partisan political campaigns. This is especially true for the Upcoming Elections in november. Reporter but a key ally of President Trump says that was unfair to the president. You know what you did . You influenced the election by supressing very important investigations that were going on that youve been doing for a long time. How long did the fbi have that laptop from hunter biden . About a year. Why did they supress it . Why did we not know any of this . Reporter it certainly put attorney general barr in an awkward spot with the president , who was pretty vocal leading up to the election. Weve got to get the attorney general to act. Hes got to act. Hes got to act fast. Hes got to appoint somebody. This is major corruption. This has to be known about before the election. This has to be done early. So the attorney general has to act. Reporter there are those on the other side who said barr did the right thing, by trying to keep the Justice Department out of partisan politics. Dana . Dana mike emanuel, thank you very much. Lets bring in our contributors. I have got a little bit of time extra with you, so thats great. I want to play for you, ari, some sound, remember bobulinsky and more people in the biden world knew about this. Listen to what he had to say. I remember looking at jim biden saying, how are you guys getting away with this . Arent you concerned . He looked at me and laughed a little bit and said, plausible deniability. He said that out loud . Yes, he said it directly to me one on one in a cabana after about a hour, two hour meeting. Dana now that we know this probe is actually wider than just hunters tax issues, how does that sit with you . Well, hes also gotten away with it because thats what you can do when you have the press on your side. One of the things that made America America has always allowed us to deal with issues and if there was wrong doing it was exposed. They used to call it without fear or favor. Now they have both fear and favor. They favor the democrats and they fear doing anything that would benefit donald trump. All these charges that came up in the campaign when the New York Post first reported about this topic, the press supressed it. I have never seen such a decision by the media to ignore the facts. Any Investigative Reporter would have smelled the story, but they were told to stop, there was no digging. You can get away with it if youre a democrat. Dana now, someone that did report on it is on our show right now. This is kim strassel. I saw the New York Post cover called the hunter coverup. Then theres the wall street journal editorial talking about this today. One of the things i thought about when i found you were on the show today, did you wake up and wonder where do you go to get your apology . Well, you know, there are a number of people who did a good job. You mentioned the New York Post. The journal wrote about this. We got criticized, suggesting that we were promoting russian disinformation when, in fact, everyone had done their reporting jobs and verified this information and was indeed absolutely correct. One thing that i would add to what ari just said very correctly is that it wasnt just the bobulinski interview. We had all kinds of evidence that this was a story that need reporting going well back before last summer. Whether it was all of the information that came out during the impeachment proceedings, about hunter biden, whether it was the Grassley Johnson report that came out this fall that talked about suspicious Financial Transactions that had been flagged. That is an alarm bell for any journalist that there probably is a federal investigation. Thats before you get to bobulinski. The blind eye that was closed to this is astonishing. I agree with ari, its just a horrible press failure that denied the American Public really crucial information. Dana ari fleisher, the biden team had joe biden up there for their weekly briefing. Not a single reporter asked about this. Im just being told about that in my ear. Thats breaking here. I did want to ask you this, ari. President elect biden has been dismissive of any of these notions for a long time, for about six months. Hes just blown it off, said theres nothing there. Is that sustainable . If theyre not even going to ask the incoming press secretary, i guess so. I wonder how quickly this might be as he tries to get his administration out of the gate. You just put your finger on it. It is entirely sustainable if the press doesnt dig. You and i, i think, are cut from a similar cloth. Were both old fashion enough to respect the press. To think the press will do their job, theyll cover a scandal and wont worry fits a d and r. The trump years have made it hard for people who want to trust the main stream media because they keep showing thats no longer the case. With joe biden, perhaps there will be additional scrutiny of who he appoints for attorney general. Perhaps theyll make him take a promise and the attorney general take a promise not to interfere in the probe of the president elects son. But then i think they go quiet. As we all know, the power of the press is the relentlessness, the tpaoezing frenzy, the checking into every lead. Now its one and done. They did dutifully report the story of hunter biden. You cant fault the press for not covering it. They did cover it. 30 seconds on abc. 90 seconds on cbs. 90 seconds on nbc. Now its one and done. They havent come back to it. Dana yep. Kim, maybe a last question to you. Do you think the attorney general, from what you know, did the right thing in not allowing this to come to light while it was still an covert investigation . Yeah, absolutely. Bill barr acted absolutely responsibly here. Because of sort of what ari and i have been discussing, you do not announce on going investigations because the power to ruin someones reputation forever exists simply by saying that theyre being investigated even if there is no evidence to the contrary. As somebody who wrote about the fbi and dojs failings, that was a big part of it, jim comeys press conference on hillary clinton. That was the weaponization of the department of justice in a political president ial campaign against the president. So bill barr did the right thing here. The failing is the media. There were all kinds of flags. Thats their job to get that information out. And they didnt do it. Dana good point. When i worked at doj i learned 101 ways to say no comment. It was very useful at the time. Ari fleisher, kim strassel, thank you very much. Have a good weekend. You, too. Dana Governor Cuomo announcing major changes in new york city. Next meet the Restaurant Owner who said he just destroyed her life. 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The fda informed pfizer that they do intend to proceed towards an authorization for their vaccine, and so we could be seeing people getting vaccinated monday, tuesday of next week. Dana health and Human Services alex azar saying some americans who get coronavirus shots starting monday, with the fda stating it will realize pfizers request for special authorization soon. How soon . Hey, dana, that is the big question. President trump though today made it clear he thinks the fda needs to move faster. He called them a big old slow turtle and the Washington Post is just now reporting the white house chief of staff threatened the fda director with his job saying, get it approved today or move on. Were waiting to see whether or not that is going to change the fdas timeline for approving pfizers vaccine. Theyve made it clear, they are working fast and do plan to approve it fairly soon. The fda putting out a statement earlier today writing the fda informed the sponsor that it will rapidly work toward finalization and issuance of an emergency use authorization. The agency also notified the cd krrbg and operation warped speed so they can execute their timely distribution. In other words, get ready. Canada and the uk already gave their approval. And pfizer has already produced millions of doses so it can be distributed within hours of the approval. There is, of course, good news with this vaccine because it appears to have a 95 efficacy rate, but it will require two dose. Its not just get one shot and be done. 50 million doses expected to be manufactured this year. Officials hope by having more than one vaccine, it will allow them to speed things up. The big question again is the timeline. Steven hawn also said they were putting the paperwork together. They wanted to make sure people had the right guidelines so they can know what to do next. Dana . Dana mark, thanks. Well stay in touch. New York City Restaurants struggling to stay alive during covid restrictions have now been hit with a new blow. Governor andrew cuomo announcing all Indoor Dining will be banned starting monday. One of the many restaurants dealing with this is ibako in queens. The owner said this move could ruin her life. The owner and manager of obaka in queens, thank you. Tina, im sorry youre going through this. Tell me all the things you have done to try to prevent this from happening, to make sure your restaurant was as safe as it could possibly be. I speak for myself and all restaurants. Weve taken all necessary precautions. We have temperature checks. We have log ins. We have cleaning logs. We have dealt with constant popping of the fla members to make sure everything is okay. We have hand sanitizing stations. We have six feet apart. We wear masks. We do everything possible. At this point it is not fair that we cant continue to operate our businesses. Dana have you been made aware of any restaurant that has been the scene of an outbreak, or the source of an outbreak of covid . No, i have not. It is very interesting. You take a virus that has a 97 to 99 chance of survival rate. The vaccine is just about to come out. I have not personally heard of any outbreaks in any of the restaurants that i know, i have heard of and here we are once again closing. Were hearing now the vaccine may start taking place monday, tuesday. Now we have to shut down right before the holidays. Dana you said this could actually ruin your life, destroy your business. Can you describe that for our viewers . Absolutely. This is detrimental to our economy. Its detrimental to our industry. Its detrimental to our employees, myself, my family. Above all, i truly feel its detrimental to the Mental Health of new yorkers. The holidays are tough for everybody, even when things are great. After a year of 2020 to hit the end and they cant even go out to their favorite restaurant or enjoy a dinner with their spouse, its becoming to the point where its hurting people. You take the five boroughs. Theres 25,000 restaurants in the five boroughs. They employ close to 300,000 people. Look what its doing to them, when they need the money most. Dana im hoping if theyre going to take this action, they can get you some financial relief. You certainly deserve it. I know things are tough. We do wish you the very best. Lets stay in touch. Merry christmas. Thank you very much. Thank you. Dana thanks, tina. Up next, president elect joe biden admits that defund the police badly hurt democrats. The explosive sounds after the break. [ thunder rumbles ] [ engine rumbling ] [ beeping ] [ engine revs ] uh, you know theres a 30minute limit, right . Tell that to the rain. [ beeping ] for those who were born to ride, theres progressive. If you ntry gain flings. 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Reporter this follows Vice PresidentMike Pence Visit to augusta yesterday. Republicans are trying to encourage the president s loyal base to vote in georgias two Senate Runoffs and taking tactics straight from the democrats democratic play book they are now encouraging early and absentee voting. President elect joe biden plans to return to atlanta on tuesday to campaign for Democratic Senate candidates. Today democrats launched another get out the vote tour beginning with a labor union rally in atlanta. The people of georgia have spoken and georgia is blue come january 6th, the whole world is going to know that georgia is blue. Reporter nearly 1. 2 million georgians have already requested absentee ballots. As for early in person voting, that begins on monday. Dana. Dana thank you, jonathan. President elect joe biden a newly leaked audio saying democrats must be careful talking about Police Reform ahead of those georgia runoffs. Thats the defund the Police Movement, saying it hurt the democratic races in november. Theyve already labeled us as being defund the police. Anything we put forward in terms of the organizational structure to change policing, which i promise you will occur, promise you. Just think to yourself and give me advice whether we should do that before january 5th. Thats how they beat the living hell out of us across the country, saying that were talking about defunding the police. Were not. Were talking about holding them accountable. Dana lets bring in the host of fox news sunday, chris wallace. I thought two things when i heard that. One, the democrats and biden coming to the realization, even if they dont want to say it on the record, that the defund the Police Movement really did hurt democrats across the country in those races. But also, if you were in the room listening to biden there, you might think he was asking you, the activist, to kick the can down the road for a little bit longer. What do you think . Absolutely. I think he was saying to civil rights leaders, to people in the left wing of the democratic party, hold off here, guys, because the most important thing we can do is try to switch the senate, switch control of the senate by winning both of those races, having a 50 50 tie and then Vice PresidentKamala Harris breaks the tie and gives democrats control of the senate and chuck shumer is the Senate Majority leader, so be with me. Its also a recognition. Youve heard this from moderates in the house. You heard it from barack obama in one of the zoom calls saying, what could be a less attractive slogan than defund the police. To a lot of middle of the road voters particularly in a red state like georgia, the overwhelming majority of voters, defund the police sounds very radical, very dangerous. So he says, bear with me because im not going to be talking about that between now and the special election runoffs january 5th. Dana theres another something happening in georgia that i wanted to ask you about. Because it has been a red state for many times, many republicans would distance themselves. Bernie sanders endorsed the democrats down there and they are embracing that. Does that show georgia maybe really is changing, in terms of demographics and the way it could go in the future as possibly a swing state . Yeah. I dont know that its very receptive to Bernie Sanders at this point. Clearly you want to get out people in the left wing of the water. I dont know how many of those are among georgia voters. Look, this is the first time in what was six, seven election cycles that georgia went for a democrat for president. So obviously it has changed somewhat. And theyre not running away from national democrats. I think the feeling whether its in fundraising, whether its in mobilization or energy, they do want to tie themselves to the support and enthusiasm of joe biden and the ticket. I suppose, look. Republicans are arguing, you got to give us these two senate seats or else the democrats are going to take control of the senate. I suppose the argument that youve got democrats making in georgia is, let us win these two races and then joe biden has control of the senate and can get his nominations through, whether its to his cabinet or to the Supreme Court. Look, if you were going to bet and go to las vegas, youd bet republicans are going to win one if not both of these races. Clearly, georgia is changing and theres a path for a democratic candidate for the senate. Dana what do we have to look forward to on your show on sunday . I gotta say, this is a great show on sunday. Weve kind of stumbled into it. Well have the head of operation warped speed. We hope by sunday that the fda will have approved the Pfizer Vaccine and it may be on its way to a shoulder near you. Well be talking to him. Well be talking to a member of the bipartisan gang of eight bill trying to get a covid relief package to congress, although there have been a lot of problems. Republican house whip Steve Scalice will talk about the biden investigation. Will talk about eric swawell and will talk about whether the Supreme Court has decided, he has joined that texas lawsuit trying to overturn the results of the Election Results for joe biden. Dana i got my plans. I know where ill be on sunday morning. Thank you, chris. See you sunday. Thank you. Good to be with you, dana. Dana next, a look at chinas influence over some big name democrats. Why the United States is facing a threat that makes the soviet union look like junior varsity. Were still having fun, and youre still the one applebees 2 for 20. Now thats eating good in the neighborhood. Little things. 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Reporter china problems being forced on president elect joe biden whether he wants it or not. He long denied he talked about chinese dealings with his son. The announcement that brian deep will head Bidens NationalEconomic Council causing some more focus after he worked in the Obama Administration he became the head of usa stainability for Blackrock Holding a lot of client money Chinese Companies representing 40 of the managed shares emerging market. Thats a fund that trades stocks in a group exchange. Now, this comes at a time chinas cracking down on Companies Operating within its border, the Chinese Communist party consolidating power, releasing new guidelines for companies, reminding them to serve the state, in some case starving companies of investment money unless they install more government officials. Chinese sources telling me the Chinese Communist party consolidating power coincides with more influence in china that theyre trying to gain here in the United States. Be it with politicians or universities, to throw money at professors, trying to get them to turn over research or steal it. Well see if a Biden Administration will be softer on china or if this onion of influence peeled back makes a difference in our stance with china. Dana thank you very much. Chinas influence over democrats also highlighted by the hunter biden and eric swawell scandal. Lets bring in a member of the House RepublicanChina Task Force. My first question is a big picture one congressman. How pervasive do you think this is . How much effort the china putting into trying to infiltrate even at local Council Level . Yeah, exactly, dana. Thanks for asking that. This is the tip of the iceberg at this point. The United States, over the last decade, is awash with Chinese Communist party money. Its in sports programs, with the nba, its in hollywood, look at the disney mulin scandal, its in wall street as a reporter mentioned. Its in private equity, spying on key technology, like robotics, jet engines and others. And its across our political spectrum. Its no coincidence, in addition to swawell and hunter biden which was overseeing 1. 5 billion in chinese money, j investing in some Critical Technologies to help the Chinese Military build up, you also have another politician, a progressive from california thats on the Armed Services committee with swawell on the Intel Committee. Hes repeatedly pushed for withdrawing troops. Even standing down key portions of our nuclear arsenal. Im telling you, i spent a year on the China Task Force and it is in our universities, students, research institutions. We really need to get a handle on this. If you look at some of the key things the Trump Administration did, like stopping investments into Chinese Military, getting a handle on the trade deficit, those need to continue if theres a Biden Administration. Im really concerned that they have this old thinking, if we just be nice to them, theyll be nice to us. Not the case. Dana you know, i kind of have Georgia Senate races on the brain. I just want to talk about john osoff who is one of the candidates. Eric ericson, a journalist in georgia has written a piece how john osoff has been pushed by purdue to disclose monies that he has received from a Chinese CommunistMedia Company that was going into his documentary firm. He finally did that. I mean, this is a young up and coming politician. Is that the kind of person they would target . Thats right. This is how they do this. Swawelsh when that relationship first developed and we needed to know more of what that relationship was, was a local city councilman. This is how they start influencing. Its very subtle. Very soft. But if you start looking at how they view the world, it is basically influencing whether senators remember the rise to china is. Thats what Vice President biden said on the campaign trail just this year. Thats the narrative theyre pushing. Ill be in georgia, thats right. Ill be in georgia. Its near and dear to my heart and should be for the countrys. It is the fire wall against a lot of these progressive policies and taking a tough stance. What the soviet union could never do was flood the zone with money across american society. Thats what the Chinese Communist party is doing. Dana do you think congressman swawell should resign or at least step down from the Intel Committee . I think he should. He should step aside until this is fully investigated and understood. I think we should all take a tough look at his, representative kona and others voting records, whether it has to do with hong kong, our military, Financial Investments and others going forward. Dana just to be clear, are you saying representative kona also has possible ties to china . My understanding is that he also received monies from the same chinese operative, christina fang, that was running around progressive circles in california and spotting up and comers. If you look at the media firm, theyre the ones who have been antihong kong, antidemocracy. I would call on all americans to denounce and deplore that kind of talk on both sides of the aisle. Dana all right. Lets stay in touch with you mike waltz. Thank you very much. Thanks, dana. Dana support is growing for a texas lawsuit, asking the Supreme Court to overturn joe bidens victory. What that case means next. We made usaa insurance for veterans like martin. When a hailstorm hit, he needed his insurance to get it done right, right away. Usaa. What youre made of, were made for. Usaa dana half a dozen more states have joined texas in its legal bid to get the Supreme Court to overturn Election Results in georgia, michigan, pennsylvania and wisconsin. All battleground states that joe biden won. More than 100 republicans, members of congress, are backing the lawsuit. Griff jenkins live in washington with more. Hi, griff. Reporter good afternoon, dana. We just learned House Minority leader Kevin Mccarthy has signed on to the texas lawsuit. That brings the total number of House Republicans to 126 out of a total of 196 supporting the 17 states supporting texas who just filed a few hours ago their final brief, leaving things in the Supreme Courts hands, waiting to see if this is a big if the high court will get involved in a lawsuit, which ultimately seeks to invalidate the Election Results in those four states that you mentioned. Texas attorney general ken paxton had this to say in the last hour. Listen. Were not necessarily saying we know how they should handle the election. Were saying the constitution requires the state legislature to set the rules and laws as it relates to federal elections. Their responsibility. We did that in texas. Most other states didnt. The states that we are suing failed to do it. They didnt follow their own state law and, therefore, they didnt follow the u. S. Constitution. That matters and it affects my voters and voters across the country. Reporter in paxtons final brief, he writes this. Texas asked this court to recognize the obvious facts that states mal administration of the 2020 election makes it impossible to know which candidate garnered the majority of lawful votes, this after those four defendant states filed their response. The Pennsylvania Attorney general writing the state of texas now added its voice in bogus claims. They go on to say not only is the Supreme Court trying to anoint candidates for the president they cannot defend that. We want to find out, dana. We just dont know what theyre going to do. Dana all right, griff jenkins, thank you very much. The fda is expected to authorize pfizers covid19 vaccine soon, possibly within hours and the first shots could be given as early as monday or tuesday. Lets bring in richard director. Doctor, do you think the fda has taken the appropriate amount of time . The president complained today like they were slow like a turtle. Do you think they are checking all the boxes they need to check . Dana, never in the history of Public Health has a vaccine been developed so quickly. Its been less than a year since this virus was identified. The idea that by next week people are going to get a vaccine is terrific. What gives me real hope though is the process that the fda used for approval is their standard process. They reviewed the data. They did their independence analysis. Their Advisory Committee looked at the data. They asked tough questions yesterday. The committee voted overwhelmingly for this vaccine to be afp approved. I expect the fda will come out today or, if not, by tomorrow, to say yes it should be approved. Theyll ask for on going studies, which is important given how quickly this went forward. Thats important in terms of trust. Dana okay. We they get the approval, in your mind, whats the next more difficult step . Is it the logistics of getting the vaccine to where it needs to be or persuading people that it is safe to take . I think there are three things that are extremely difficult. One is the logistics. This vaccine requires ultracold temperatures. I think theyre doing a good job at handling that. One of the challenges states are going to have, once you get out to more rural communities, how do you maintain that cold chain . How do you make sure every community is getting vaccines . Thats one piece. The second piece, as youre saying, there are a lot of people who want to wait a little bit. As this vaccine rolls out, it will be important that information is released regarding side effects, regarding how thats going. As more people know friends and family who have been vaccinated, i think demand will increase. Third piece thats critical is that people have to recognize that this vaccine is not going to change what happens this winter. Those people who get it will have protection. For the community as a whole, we have to double down on wearing masks, washing our hands, social distancing and congress has to support people and Small Businesses so that this can all take place. Dana dr. Richard besser, you narrowed it to those three things. Well stay in touch with you. Thank you very much for your expertise. It related to covid19, Record Number of americans lining up at food banks as they struggle to feed their family during the pandemic. The head of the ymca and how theyre helping to fight americas hunger crisis. The holidays are a time for giving. To your friends. Your family. To your teachers. In that spirit of giving, chevys proud to give our employee discount to everyone. The chevy price you pay,. Is what we pay. Not a cent more. Because giving,. 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I know, kevin, im sorry, we have to wrap it up here. Kevin washington, we thank you for your amazing work. Thanks very much. All right. Thanks, kevin. Thanks for joining us, everyone. Great week. Im dana perino. See you on the five. All sorts of shenanigans. We have facebook friday. Always a blast. Hey, hemmer. How you doing . Bill doing well. I fired a few questions for facebook friday. Good. Well figure out which are yours. Bill i want to learn about your life. Have a great weekend. We have news popping right now. Good afternoon. Its friday on this made in america. Im bill hemmer. Numerous reports at the white house is cranking up the pressure on the fda with the vaccine. The fda chief pushing back on that. The suggestion is that the white house chief of staff mark meadows ordered dr. Hahn to authorize the vaccine today or resign. Whatever the case, we know this, as of this hour, the first doses may start as early as monday. This week, however, we mark the milestone in america, the daily number of deaths earlier this week hit more than 3,000 in one day. Health and human