The most important issue. The blur of information we are getting, the effect on the markets, the effect on the nations politics, it doesnt matter. The pandemic statistics, the cases, the hospitalizations, and yes, rising death rates are front and center. Jonathan couldnt agree more. The conversation is so familiar to everyone sitting in london, in europe watching this play out. You start at 10 00 p. M. Curfew you start to limit dining. Then what . That is the concern for a lot of people this morning. Tom im going to use the hands up. That has proven so effective on radio worldwide. Think of it like three hockey bucks of death in europe. Inis only one hockey puck the United States. Europe is way out front of this, and i am frightened by the idea we will begin to see the deaths expand. The other thing i am frightened by, lisa takes a day off, and rumor has it she left day bear, and i think shes returned a bull. [laughter] jonathan lets see how long this one last. I reckon we can get to a
Another 8 today. Facebook, twitter ceos appearing on capitol hill. Mark zuckerberg and jack dorsey were on the hot seat over censorship concerns. Well have the highlights from their testimony in just a few moments. Im connell mcshane. Welcome, everybody, to after the bell. It us great to have you with us. Time now for the news happening at this hour. Fox Business Team coverage. We have blake burman today in washington, susan li and Jackie Deangelis both in new york an gerri willis coming up. She is watching the retail numbers. Blake, lets start with you, any update from washington on the stimulus talks with virus numbers continuing to spike . Potentially, connell, when you look especially down the road, december 11th. Why . Lawmakers need to come together to pass a spending bill so there is not a government shutdown. That is significant in its own right. Why is that also important . Because there is now starting to be some talk in washington about whether or not lawmakers could also ad
First lets go to our chief white house correspondent, jim acosta. Jim, the president s North Carolina rally begins very soon. So what more are you learning . Another very important day. Reporter thats right, wolf. President trump is claiming hes done a, quote, good job, great job on the coronavirus, he says, as the number of dead in the u. S. From covid19 has reached approximately 190,000 people. The president s wishes for a vaccine by election, though, just got a dose of reality as dr. Anthony fauci just said, that is unlikely. The president is also doing damage control after revelations that he used crude language to describe fallen u. S. Service members. As it turns out, there is video from 2016 that appears to show mr. Trump describing military commanders as, quote, losers. In the meantime, Trump Supporters you were just showing this picture a few moments ago. Theyre gaths ring in North Carolina right now for a campaign speech. We can show you that video if we have it available to
This broadcast, warned us for months that we would see exactly this as the Colder Weather set in, and they were right. Another oneday record for new cases has been shattered. Over 144,000 of them just today. According to nbc news. We lost over 1,500 people in just these last 24 hours. The spread is uncontrolled in virtually every state. Thats according to data from the covid exit strategy. And now indeed the president is surrounded by it. Two more people at that white house Election Night party have tested positive. One of them trumps political director. President elect joe biden has already taken steps to focus on containing and mitigating the virus and tonight announced his senior hire will be ron klain as chief of staff. Klain is a longtime biden aide who also worked with the former Vice President in the Obama Administration on ebola and other epidemics. Today trump and biden both took part in separate veterans day events. While trump continues to hold up the transition and bidens a
By his allies to overturn the election. And the Trump Campaign keeps up its efforts to contest the results in wisconsin this morning announcing theyll pay for a partial recount. Not sure what welcome to wednesday. It is meet the press daily and im chuck todd. As the pandemic rages out of control, the last 24 hours in american politics have been a stark reminder that President Trump and his lies are trying to reverse the Election Results of the contest he lost. Theyre trying to reverse the contest that he lost. Think about that. That effort, however clumsy, likely wont actually overturn the results. But President Trumps actions could crack the foundation of our democracy perhaps permanently. The president has fired his administrations head of elections cybersecurity, chris remembe krebs, for accurately debunking his conspiracy dheeries. In a tweet announcing the firing the president repeated as many false and inaccurate claims that the elections with ragd against him. Those claims have