Um yes, desperately. Also i want to call the police but maybe youre the police. Yeah. Just incredible. Thank you, my friend. Well done. Well done. And thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. Tonight we are going to be joined live this hour by the person who is fast becoming one of the most familiar faces and voices of the new administration, jen psaki, white house spokesperson is going to be our guest tonight. Even though were only one week into the administration, i can show you this many pictures of her conducting different White House Press briefings because we have daily White House Press briefings again. She does these every day. Under the Trump Administration, they started out bad until they disappeared entirely. They seemed not to be able to handle talking to the press every day and bring questions. But immediately day one, President Biden brought back the briefings and jen psaki is the spokesperson. They started reversing things that were broken by the previous presiden
Every day and bring questions. But immediately day one, President Biden brought back the briefings and jen psaki is the spokesperson. They started reversing things that were broken by the previous president as they set to restore some of the basic things that had gone by the wayside over the years like daily briefings. As they set taught pass ambitious policies and programs that biden campaigned on, that democrats in congress campaigned on, it is sort of awkward but i think unavoidable to realize that one crucial thing that going to make the lifeordeath difference as to whether or not the new administration and new congress are actually able to get stuff done is a thing that we only have because of Richard Nixon being such a terrible president. And specifically because of something that Richard Nixon did right before he resigned. And it seemed like nothing much at the time. It got not that much attention at the time, but it very well may now determine if the biden presidency and the De
Increase you dont have to sell your stocks to beat some kind of Capital Gains rate that is quo going to be punitive for rich people im not saying it is solely business as usual. But i am saying that if you own tech stocks, which a lot of people do, there is nothing to keep the stocks from going higher remarkable night, pollsters seem to think there would be this blue wave that got avoided if anything, there is, i think, a recognition that whatever the heck we had before election day seems to be the same after so, david, you know, i feel kind of business as usual for us. Well, it is, carl, not business as usual this morning as you say as the votes continue to be counted in important battleground states. Three you mentioned. Want to add georgia in there, potentially North Carolina, still those early votes, carl, being counted and tabulated and were paying close attention we are, guys. In fact, front and center this hour, the president ial election remains unsettled as voting continues as
To below freezing conditions right now doubling youre sitting right at freezing at 32 degrees livermore 35 conquered at 39, but up in the north bay, some below freezing temperatures santa rosa and fairfield now each in the 20s with each city at 29 degrees. Napa and lean at 31 nevado in san anselmo each at 32 degrees right now so it is a cold start to this morning. As we mentioned you bundle up before you get out there robin great advice. Thank you john checking in on the traffic and we have a little bit of a line here squeezing into San Francisco were taking a live look at the bay bridge toll plaza where the backup stretches beyond the over crossing so pretty sluggish year coming in. Its completely normal so no crashes no stalls in the mix were doing fine at 11 minutes off to fremont street. But that number is going to go up down in the south bay traveling through san jose this morning keep in mind that a Police Investigation is underway. Mckee and capital a heavy Police Presence lanes
The midst of the pandemic. U. S. Stocks rising today despite no new stimulus. Yet, even shares of google. Alphabet shaken off the threats of antitrust scrutiny. Joining us, abigail doolittle. Why would google shares rise on a day that the Justice Department is filing a suit that could threaten to break google up . Abigail not the response you would expect from Investors Committee u. S. Suing alphabet usingcusing it of monopolylike powers. This is not exactly new. Theres been many shots across the bow. We have had executives from many of these Big Tech Companies testifying before congress for a couple of years now. The fact that google is underperforming on the day. At one point, it did dip briefly lower. You could make the case that it is really priced in. The stock price over the time period when we have seen some of the congressional testimony, it has underperformed some of the other Tech Companies, telling you that there could be some idea that investors are not surprised by this. W