Questions about that variant of the virus in britain. Conflicting reports on that. Well get to that. Suffice it to say the stimulus checks and the relief that washington cobbled together is a lastminute hail mary pass. People are not satisfied with the process, but very happy that it will mean checks in americans hands. We should point out that part of the process also includes unemployment checks that could start very, very soon. Probably in january though at the earliest. Go on for ten weeks at 300 a week. That would be in addition to state aid that americans are getting. Most of those things that americans that started getting this pandemic relief, a lot of their state benefits have run out so happy to get something from washington to compensate for that. To Jackie Deangelis on how this could look for the economy and for shoppers that are still busy. Jackie . Good afternoon to you, neil. The 600 checks cant come fast enough for the shoppers out on the streets. That 600 is half what it was last time. The 1,200 check that people saw. If people got them last time, they may not be eligible to get them this time again. For married couples, were talking about 1,200. 600 times two and 600 for child as well. The full amount maxes out at 75,000 adjusted gross income and households that make 120,000 and married couples under 150,000. The 900 billion package is a lot less than the numbers being tossed around before the election. At that time it a appeared that the democrats didnt want to give President Trump a win with stimulus before the election. Now here in new york city, sure, people are shopping on the streets. Its not anything like it usually is at this time. In fact, most of the Holiday Shopping is being conducted online. Holiday shoppers spent a record 10. 8 billion on cyber monday. It was up to 15 from a year ago. That is from adobe. Theyre forecasting for the whole Holiday Season that number will be 184 billion, which represents a 30 increase from last year. Now, i did warn you about shipping last time that we talked. Fed ex and ups setting limits on things that theyll pick up, packages, to make sure that they can deliver them on time and neil, i hope you took my advice and ordered the processed meats because if you dont do it or didnt to it then, youre not going to get them this week. Neil that was very wellphrased. You mocked me but did it in a nice way that im still going to say Merry Christmas to you. All right. Jackie deangelis, great job as always. Rich edson is smart, too. He was been following the former Vice President , president elect joe biden who hinted today in remarks in delaware that whatever were looking at with this stimulus, it is just a down payment on a bigger relief package that could happen once he takes over. Rich, what is he talking about . Thats right, neil. The president elect, joe biden, says that this is just to get us through the holidays. What congress has just passed. He says early next year, he wants to put 0 it a proposal that he wants congress to enact again. So hes looking for congress in his administration to replicate what it just did. Im going to tell it to you straight. Im going to tell you the truth. Heres the simple truth. Our darkest days in the battle against covid are ahead of us, not behind us. So need to prepare ourselves to steel our spine. Unemployment extended for another ten weeks. Its going to take longer than that. Congress did its job this week. I can and i must ask them to do it again. Biden says that means all the money to get every american a Covid Vaccine next year. More stimulus, another unemployment extension. Suspension of eviction and foreclosure and money for infrastructure. Democrats are calling for aid to local governments. Biden acknowledges this latest 900 billion bill just took six months to get through congress and hes not expecting anything from congress, but he still wants to work with democrats and republicans to try to get this through again. Mcconnell says the Senate Majority leader, Mitch Mcconnell, says that this latest bill is appropriate and it is targeted and if Congress Needs to revisit it again, they will. Back to you, neil. Neil all right, rich. Thanks very much. Rich edson in wilmington on that. I want to go to steve moore, a former trump confidant, very influential economist. So youd think that that would not prompt him to sort of bash this rescue package for covid19. But that is just what he did do. And essentially warning this is setting a slippery slope. Im paraphrasing his fine comments. Borrow and spend stimulus bill is a fiscal monstrosity, a teaser of things to come from art lapper and today the hill. Steve, your argument this is not a cure. This might be worse than the disease. Well, it sure is. By the way, santa cause americans love free stuff. Free money, nobody will object to that. Wouldnt it be a Wonderful World if all it took to recover an economy from a recession is just pack money into helicopters and drop 100 bills on cities and get the Printing Presses up. The 300 increase in Unemployment Benefits on top of the benefits that people already get is for half of the, workers to get unemployed, they will stay unemployed. This bill is 5,900 pages. How many members youre remember you used to have the speed reader. Remember that . You need the speed reader. I dont think there was a Single Member of congress that knows anything about this is in this bill. Im sure that nobody read it because how could they . They only had a few hours to read it. Neil we didnt find out some things in there that did surprise a little bit. For example, you know, this idea of we get the unemployment and all. 82 billion for schools and colleges without specifying how it would be allocated. I talked to republicans and democrats on that. Theyre still not so sure. And some of the things about getting this out in aid to the museums. You find the christmas nature with bills that come before congress in a rush to get something passed. I talked to a new of key republicans that told me that they would have been open to the unemployment relief and maybe the stimulus checks and tried to leave it at that. They did want liability protection. They didnt get that. Might try again in january. But there was a bipartisan move it seems to me to get something. We can pick it apart and a lot of things to pick apart. Something is better than nothing. That was a consensus view i heard from democrats and republicans. Youre saying nothing is better than this something. Well, its a trillion dollars of borrowing. Weve now this year borrowed 2. 5 trillion. Joe biden is talking about another one to two trillion next year. Think about the absurdity of this. With that amount of money, we could eliminate the payroll tax for every single american, every single American Business and we can eliminate the income tax for a year. Think about which would create nor jobs . If you told every business you dont have to pay payroll tax and income tax, we would have massive jobs. Its a waste of money. And i know its not your fault for the spending weve seen. Youve been action this. Youre a republican and all that, closely with the president. Anyone that says anything these days, to criticize spending under this administration and the Prior Administration seems a bit rich, do you you think . It is. But let me be very clear about this. I knew milton freedman, the greatest economist that ever lived other than adam smith. He talked about the fact that government doesnt stimulate anything. Government spending stimulates more government. My point is with a onepage bill, we could have done what donald trump wanted to do in july, which is suspend the payroll tax for every worker and business. Its a way of putting this in perspective. What worries me, neil neil if youre suspending a payroll tax for somebody that doesnt have a job, it does dont much good. No, no. What you want to do, you have to get people jobs. Theres nothing in this bill that this bill discourages people from working. Neil i understand what youre saying. I get that. But once the pandemic took hold and people were losing jobs, well cut the payroll tax and encourage businesses to hire people, that would be a crap shoot. No. You know how many jobs openings there are . The wall street journal reported on this. A lot of people in the Construction Industry neil in the middle of the pandemic, you think a lot of companies would hired and people out of work would have benefitted from what youre talking about . I dont have a big problem with providing short term relief to people to get them through this crisis. Its not a stimulus. Heres the point. Heres the fight that is coming, neil. Why are democrats angry about this bill . The one thing that i think republicans and Mitch Mcconnel mcconnelldeserves a lot of credit, they didnt get the blue state bailout. Thats the fight in january. Theres no reason why people in texas, tennessee, georgia, nebraska should have to pay more taxes for irresponsible states like new york and california and illinois that have completely shut down their economy. Somebody has to explain to me, neil, why it is that businesses are opened up in florida but theyre completely shut down in blue states like california and illinois and new york. By the way, florida doesnt have a worse problem with the pandemic than these states that are completely shut down. Neil real quickly. Ive touched on this before. January 6, the Electoral College meets before congress. There had been talk that the president has support from republican congressmen or trying to get support from them to not participate in the process it or protest it. Hard to validate this. What do you think of that . Do you think once its settled with a joint session of congress, this ends, the president accepts joe biden is the next president and we move on . My view is there was a lot of fraud in this election and i think we have to get to the bottom of it. Joe biden will be the president. My feeling is donald trump was an amazing respect what he did for our economy. What happened with operation warp speed neil no doubt. But after that, when the Electoral College has a joint session, he has to honor that, know that and say that and be done. Well, thats for him to decide. Im a big believer in the Electoral College. We have one of the best systems in the world for electing a president. You cant neil why are so many republicans afraid of saying it, steve . Some people just wont say it. You put up a good fight, mr. President. You did a lot of remarkable things but its over, mr. President. Why dont they do that . I cant speak for them. As i said before, i think the mailin balloting was a lot of fraudulent votes and neil youre a good numbers guy. In numbers, that would have changed the results i dont know about that. Neil the attorney general we dont know for sure. Neil yes, there was chicanery but numbers that couldnt have changed the outcome. Do you a gee . The election was decided by less than 100,000 votes of 150 million cast. This is like. 001 . Razor tight. I think the president is right to say weve got to figure out what happened so it cant happen again. This cant happen in georgia. This is really important in georgia, my friend. Neil understood. All right. Steve moore, very good. Hope you have a very Merry Christmas. Same to you. Neil steve moore, one of the most influential economists in this country. We have more coming up. 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Great to be with you, neil. Neil so if you had to wage your bets right now, could both seats go democrat . Yes, they could both go democrat. I hope they both go democratic. Its all going to depend on be turnout. This is one of those races that i wouldnt believe the polls. Weve seen the polls be off in normal elections on normal election days. This is a special election, january 5. This is all about turnout at the polls. Right now, you know, weve seen a lot of energy and excitement for the Democratic Candidates and joe biden, of course, was successful at winning in georgia including winning over a lot of the independentminded voters. So well see. This is neck and neck right down to the wire. Neil there is one big difference between the Election Results in georgia, certainly a little more than a month ago and what has happened since. That is operation warp speed has brought us two vaccines for which voters in georgia might rally around republicans as a reflection of the president. What did you think of that . Well, look, operation warp speed was the result of a great scientific enterprise in the united states. Im glad we got the vaccines. We got them on the schedule that dr. Fauci predicted in march of last year. He said the first vaccines might be available by the end of 2020 and were talking about, you know, spring for the remainder. So its pretty much on target as to what the neil senator, do you give the president any credit for that . Neil, heres the problem. At the same time the president asked the Scientific Community to launch a vaccine, he undercut all of the health experts, all of the scientists, undercut the folks at the cdc, centers for disease control, and as a result of mixed messages, theres a lot of people that didnt take this seriously soon enough. The president himself said that he down played the virus. As a result, neil neil to be fair, i know what youre saying, but to be fair, a lot of those same doctors and experts say would be impossible and unlikely to get a vaccine out in the early days as soon as the president wanted. Low and hold we got one but two. Im not here to dig at political bows for either. Im saying everything from the way the president handled this, did he get the remedy right, the vaccine, the fix right, the operation warp speed that allowed for this to happen so quickly . Did he get that right . Well, neil, look, if you go back to february, march and you rewind the tape, you listen to dr. Fauci, he said if you could accelerate these efforts, which we did, and this was a bipartisan effort. Sure, the president was pushing hard. No doubt about it. So were all of the members of congress to get this done. The problem is you want to take about beating the vaccine, the problem is at the same time the president was essentially down playing the severity of the virus and as a result it spread faster and as a result more people have died neil all right. I dont want to go back and forth on this. Early in the day, dr. Fauci had some doubt about the timing. You want to see the two democrats win this georgia twin race here and youd have control of the senate, is it your thinking that as democrats that if ney dont have control of the senate, remains in republican hands that joe biden will be limited on those tax increases, he might be limited on what he can do about providing more covid19 relief . Theres no doubt that if Mitch Mcconnell, Senate Mcconnell continuing to control the senate, it will limit the scope of President Bidens legislative agenda. Theres a lot that President Biden can do starting day one using his authorities as president , but in terms, for example, of a major bill to modernize our national infrastructure, which is badly needed and as you remember, donald trump is a candidate back in 2016 talked about it over and over again. He never proposed a plan that was supported by republicans. I hope that that is something that we can all get behind. Theres no doubt that when it comes to nominations or when it comes to the legislative agenda, you know, senator mcconnell obviously can limit some of the priorities of a President Biden. I know President Biden wants to reach out, bring people together. I hope that is possible. Neil real quickly, senator, im curious your take on this mutation of the virus in britain and whether we as a country should not allow british travelers in to this country. How do you feel about that . Well, again, i would leave this to the recommendations of the healthcare experts. Obviously other countries in europe have done that. That seems to be a step that certainly should be considered. We want to do everything we can to slow the spread. As i understand, this mutation of the virus, it accelerates the spread to the best of the knowledge ive heard, it is not more potent or deadly but obviously we want to slow the spread through all means necessary. Neil understood. Thanks, senator. Thank you, neil. Neil all right. Have a Merry Christmas. Just want to update you on what airlines are doing in light of what is happening in britain. British airways and virgin and delta are among the major ones testing on their flights so that when the they arrive in any other country coming from great britain, those on the flight dont have the virus. That is how worried folks are it getting. Those are the guarantees that folks around the world are demanding. If they dont have them, we dont want them. Stay with us. For what you need . Really . I didnt aah ok. Im on vibrate. 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The president elect taking a jab at our peter doocy talking about the hunter biden that he claims is a onehorse pony story. But in fact, others are beginning to ask about it and want to know where this goes and potential a Biden Attorney general pick and how that person will handle this. Where do you think this goes, jim . A lot of the attention will be on who the president elect selects as his attorney general. That person would handle this or not. What do you think . Well, theres still a window before that person would become the attorney general. That is what im concerned about. It was the Biden Transition Team that announced there was this tax issue for hunter in terms of the federal statutes that might be in play here. You can guarantee, you know his attorneys are talking to the delaware u. S. Attorneys office all the time. So my concern is as we have this vacuum of bar leaving, jeff rosen who is wellliked but never been a prosecutor becoming the acting attorney general a lot of time for a nice biden cant present of hunter biden getting a tax plea and effectively shutting down all of the rest of the investigation. That would obviously have a real political benefit to joe biden in terms of getting rid of the case lightly and not saddling an incoming attorney general with a difficult problem. Neil what if a counsel were appointed to look into it or is that a little too dicey in the waning weeks of the Trump Administration . No, its an option. The basic bottom line for having any sort of special counsel is the concern that the prosecutor is answerable to superiors that are affected by the potential case. So very soon at least looks like youll have a president whose son is in the mix. Im not in love with using special counsels every day of the week. I have to say that. But another middle ground. Biden could announce that he would keep the u. S. Attorney for delaware in play until this investigation is concluded. I think rand paul called for that. Theres precedent in doj for that sort of maneuvers. Weve had Rod Rosenstein that stayed over because of that sensitive thing. Neil well see what happens. Thanks, jim. Have a Merry Christmas. Meantime, you know the este lauder empire. There was a time that the family was penniless in the midst of the depression. Now meet the chairman emeritus and has not forgotten that even though he and the family are billionaires many times over. N o 60 off amazing hotels. And when you get a big deal. You feel like a big deal. Priceline. Every trip is a big deal. If ththen im not a real potato reciidaho potato farmer. Shes, genuine idaho potatoes not just a side dish anymore. Always look for the grown in idaho seal. Neil you know, this isnt a record year for public offerings. A lot of young people that became instant billionaires in the process, i had a chance to catch up with leonard lauder. Hes out with a book, the company i keep my life and beauty. What worries him when i caught up with him, this notion that people get rich quick, and forget who they are. Take a look. Leonard lauder. You know, im bewildered by all of that. If you had made millions or even billions and havent had a rough time in your life, you havent had any challenges, youre missing something and may not be able to deal with it. Ive had enough tough times to appreciate the good times and i take care of everything so that nothing goes wrong and the other thing is this. Im protecting my family, my larger family, people that work for me and work for este lauder. Theyre the ones that i worry about. Theyre any number 1 worry right now as we go on. Neil you know, one of the things i was thinking about you, leonard, the touches that you brought to your career, very few thought of or did. How you wrote personal notes to sales people, to customers. You continue to throughout your career. For all i know, youre continuing it to this day. Why was that important to you in this day of emails and texts and the like that that sort of like a bygone notion . Well, its not a bygone notion. People live recognition and people love thanks. You know who is a master of this . George bush. 41. He wrote personal notes to everyone even though he was president of the united states. They treasure them. I have everywhere i am, im sitting here, at my desk, i keep a little blue note pad with me. And i write things out. I write a thank you to someone. May only be dear so and so and thank you and good luck a and a sign my name to it. Whatever it is, people save those. People love recognition. You dont recognize people, they wont recognize you. Neil a very good point. You also talk about when you are the boss and you admit you should screw something up. I was thinking of john kennedy after the bay of pigs that could have blamed it on his predecessor but didnt. He said never afraid that youre making a mistake and shows youre human and people will respect you more. In corporate america, companies have swat teams of lawyers that say that is the last thing you should do. You never want to leave yourself open to culpability. What do you say . You say im sorry. Ive been to grand equity situations. I have two or threehour sessions each time. Its called Leonard Lauders chamber of horrors. These are all mistakes ive made. How many how much can you learn from success versus how much can you learn from a failure, a mistake that you made . I would think the latter. If you made a mistake and recognize it, boy have you learned something. Neil what if you havent . I always wonder, a lot of bosses are afraid to get correction. You said dont be threatened by team that are smarter than you. You should be encouraged by it. Embrace them. Thats the last thing that a lot of corporate honchos want to do, even president s when theyre assembling their cabinet for a fear that somebody will outshine them. What is the benefit of surrounding yourself with people that, you know, might take i dont remember job . First, im going to credit them. What i do feel is this that you are only as good as the people who surround you. So youre known by the people who support you and who you would indeed return support. Think about this. The guy that is my hero is Ronald Reagan. Look at his cabinet. Look at the people he had. Every one of them has gone on the great things in the future. Jim baker neil is that right. Including a certain relative of yours. Of course. My brother ronald. He surrounded himself with great people. They help cover you in glory. Neil you mentioned Ronald Reagan. Youre very fair and balanced in quoting and looking at president s. John f. Kennedy came to mind. You mentioned he set a goal for this country about landing a man on the most. It seemed preposterous when he said that. The end of the decade we would have a man on the moon. Big goals are important. How do you instill that in workers who might not share your big dreams . How do you pound that home to them . Main thing is this share your vision with people. Dont assume that they know what youre talking about. Very often ill have a meeting with people. There will be five or six around a table. At the end, i say lets review the bidding. I ask each one, the five or six,what they learned and what our decision was. Believe it or not, 99 times out of 100 none of them get all the decisions right because they heard what they want to hear, not what i was said. So that the main thing is this you have a vision. If you have a vision and explain it to the people around you, again and again, they will buy into that vision and they will make you and your company great. Share it. Neil no, i think theres something to what you say. When you talk about the key to leadership, obviously its inspiring but its key to listen. You mentioned Ronald Reagan and john kennedy. Looking at both men, they were very good listeners. We learned later listening to the tapes of the kennedy cabinet meeting, he was speaking the least in the room. Ronald reagan as well. My father said good gave you two ears and one mouth and he said i was vaccinated with a phonograph needle because i talked to much. What do you think of that, leonard . You have to learn to listen. I have two new phrases, which is the key to success. Number 1, be kind. Number 2, listen. If you can be kind and listen and deal with your people with respect, you cannot believe how much you can accomplish and how much youll be remembered and followed and celebrated. Neil theres no substitute for hard work. No matter what youre doing, theres no substitute for it. Obviously you have amassed over 12 billion. Im sure you dont keep track of it. I suspect your children or grandchildren do. How do you instill that work ethic . How do you for people that are a part of your family and are among the worlds richest to still have that sweat equity since of purpose . I must say, my father always beat me to work. He was always there earlier, before me. At the end of the day, he came home. He was always there first. A bit of advice that i give to young people. Never come in late. Be the first there and if you can, be the last to leave. First there and last to leave. Always gets it. So that in the navy, i had one of my Senior Officers said, if youre on time, youre already late. Think about that. Neil you know, my dad used to have meetings. He was a stickler for time. He was not a billionaire, i should point out. You had a meeting at 8 00. At 8 01 he had this door locked. It was a glass cubical so everybody could see you were late. His old line was, once it happened once, it wouldnt happen again. What do you any of that . Boy was he smart. Listen, you inherited all of his wit. Youre the luckiest guy in the world. I dont know how many children you have, but let them understand that they have a father with good genes. My fathers and mothers are different things, but both bought in to the public person. I thank them. I cant thank my serve as much as i thank them. Neil hes a remarkable guy. Unfortunately, you dont know my three kids. Theyre not on time for anything. Didnt really spill over. But what i like about him and why i love this job, i get a chance to talk to people like him. Not only does he work hard but i want to leave you with this thought. He was born poor. I always tell people, you can take the baby out of the Great Depression but you cant take the Great Depression out of the baby. He never forgot where he came from, he never forgot who he was, he never forgot to tip his hat to the elevator guy, the doorman. 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Early voting in georgia is already in its second week but a group called truth about has submitted elect or challenges would require more than 364,000 voters are filed out of state or even instate changes of address with the post office to prove their eligibility before casting ballots in the country where they are registered. But already several georgia counties, including some of the most populous counties in Metro Atlanta have rejected those challenges. Back to you. Neil jonathan serrie, thank you very much. Two weeks away from the day, from today. All right, christmas just a few days away so if you are starting and hoping to send packages out and get them in time for christmas, get this. Perfect gift up until the last minute. Lets end the year nailing it. Research shows people remember so to help you remember that Liberty Mutual customizes your Home Insurance, heres one thatll really take you back. Its customized Home Insurance from Liberty Mutual only pay for what you need. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. But with walmarts low prices, you still know how to do it up. And keep costs down. Lets end the year enjoying more. You are all i need baby baby to get by neil all right, christmas still three days away. If you want to mail out a package, the Postal Service will say, dont count on it getting there in time. Retail me not dropping, is that true . Is it really going to be an uphill battle to get your present in on time . Heres the thing, yes. You might have missed that shipping deadline or the shipping cut off and you want to be a little bit careful about ordering anything, even though you still have the two day overnight option. I read this morning, three and half million packages have already been ordered are locked up in a queue and not going to be delivered by the 25th. There are other options. Neil such as . So yes, theres other options to get your gift on time. Dont rule out pick up curbside or instore. Lots of retailers are offering incentives and deals to take advantage of those. For example, bed bath beyond, the container store, even walgreens all offering between 15 and 20 off your entire purchase if you take advantage of buy online from a pickup in store. Retail me not has an entire list of all of these incentives. Neil how do you think the whole season is looking . Weve heard with a pandemic, people werent going to shop. It appears they are. I know you can get different reads from different types of stores and all, but what do you think . So i think the Online Shopping season is of course, its pretty obvious, it looks entirely different than it has before. The fact of the matter is that people are still shopping. 66 of people wanted to spend the same amount of money as last year. So they can create a sense of normalcy. While they might not be shopping in the stores, although today you might see lines outside of the stores, they are still shopping online. People are still sending money, they are just spending it a little bit differently. Neil the hottest item for christmas this year has been what . I would say any of the gaming systems. Nintendo switch, the new playstation 5, those are all really hot, flying off the shelves. Neil yeah, for some reason, the president ial biography is just not selling as well as i thought it might but you probably are right. Sara, thank you very, very much, hope you have a very, very Merry Christmas, happy holiday, and i hope all of you do as we well. We had a down day but man, old man, we are still putting an impressive year, arent we . Here comes the five. Dana hello, everyone, i am dana perino alongside jesse watters, geraldo rivera, and katie pavlich. Its 5 00 in new york city and this is the five. Danal help is finally on the wings for millions of americans are struggling to make ends meet during the coronavirus pandemic. 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