Nancy pelosi is promising to continue the fight. Weve got fox team coverage. First up, Ari Fleischer with analysis, the latest from lawmakers. Lets begin with Mark Meredith who was reporting from west palm beach. Merry christmas. Good afternoon. Right now congress is trying to figure out how serious the president is with his demand to increase the money that would be going on stimulus checks. Earlier today, House Democrats had a chance to meet and decide whether or not this would be pushed through, but republicans made it clear they were not going to support this effort, 600 and then from 2,000. They Want Congress to reexamine money thats tied to a bill thats attached to stimulus. Right now its unclear if they could improve this package or not. The president got here to florida last night. He surprised so many people when he voiced his displeasure because it was hammered out by congress and the treasury secretary, someone thats talking to the president often. No one thought he wouldnt
Meaning, buying influence. The question is how much access did they get . What intel do they have on joe and hunter . What did joe know and when did he know it . Harris a big dustup at a Senate Hearing yesterday over tech giant suppressing the hunter biden controversy ahead of the election. Of course we saw some of that live. Republican senator tom cotton is with me today with reaction to all of it. First, im going to start with chief Congressional Correspondent mike emanuel live with the news in washington, d. C. Mike . Mike good afternoon. Many republicans are concerned about the calendar when it comes to the hunter biden investigation. Recognizing january 20 is about a month away. Traditionally when a new president comes in, they fire all the u. S. Attorneys. If he wants to show that this is going to be a right, upstanding Biden Administration, and that they are going to actually let the cards lie where the cards lie on hunter biden he needs to leave the u. S. Attorney in place. Mik
Todd the Country Christmas music is awesome. Did say santa would be coming to town, rudolph allegedly, we are trying to confirm that. We are going to get into the bill. Watch, dont sleep on the bill. Sports center is going to end, you are watching the big show on friday morning. Jillian lets talk about this. President elect joe biden labeling republican accusations against his son hunter. Foul play. Todd hunters former associates tried to get the former vp involved in business dealings. Reporter president elect joe biden defending his son hunter amid the federal investigation into his tax affairs pointing fingers at republicans calling the question foul play in an interview with stephen colbert. We have great confidence in our son. Im not concerned about accusations against him. It is used to get to me. I think it is kind of foul play but it is what it is. He is a grown man, the smartest man i know in pure intellectual capacity. As long as he is good we are good. Reporter bidens commen
[ theme ] stephanie oh im sorry. Are we on . Glug glug, glug. Stephanie good morning Jacki Schechner. Is she there . Hold on. I just had to sip some water. Stephanie were you also drinking . Totally parched. Stephanie wow. Dry as a desert in here. [ laughter ] sean hannity said that was the best response to a state of the union hes ever seen. Stephanie awkward he was going along fairly well. Compared to jindal and some of the others in the past. He looked like he was running for a fraternity president. Stephanie he didnt get the Chris Matthews oh, god until that point. Always look so young too dont they . I dont know if it is the background or the setting. Stephanie nervous much . I think im pretty sure boehner was drinking bourbon. Well talk about that in a bit. In the meantime, Jacki Schechner in the current news center. Good morning, everybody. President obama heads to asheville, North Carolina, today, where he takes his state of the Union Proposals directly to the people hes going
Is the freedom to connect like freedom of speech or like the freedom to murder . Today, we remember the pioneering Computer Programmer, social justice activist aaron swartz. At the age of 14, he helped develop rss, revolutionizing how people use the internet. By the time is 19, he co owned reddit, now one of the worlds most popular sites. He is now dead at the age of 26. On friday, he comes out just weeks before the start of a controversial trial. He was facing up to 35 years in prison for downloading millions of academic articles at mit. His parents the decisions made by prosecutors at mit contributed to his death. Today, we will hear aaron swartz in his own words. If we lost the ability to communicate with each other over the internet, it would be a change of the bill of rights, freedoms our country has been built on would suddenly be deleted. New technology instead of bringing us greater freedom would have snuffed out fundamental rights we had always taken for granted. We will play