Well dig into how joe biden will handle did increasingly authoritarian china after the director of National Intelligence warned the biden team against, quote, politicizing intelligence and urged them to acknowledge that china is the greatest National Security threat facing the United States. Plus general Michael Flynn, President Trumps former National Security advisor, speaks with our own lou dobbs after receiving a full president ial pardon. Im Jackie Deangelis. In for Elizabeth Macdonald tonight. The evening edit starts right now. Jackie President Trump has yet to concede the election. Appears he is setting his sights on 2024. Four more years. Otherwise i will see you. [applause] some key republicans are backing the idea. Joining me house judiciary ranking member, jim jordan of ohio. Great to see you. Good to be with you, jackie. Jackie talk about President Trump. Lindsey graham, josh hawley, rick scott, all told politico they would get mind him in he ran in 2024. Your thoughts. I wo
Does he have the ability to do this, do you agree with the decision . Sen. Schumer i agree with the decision and i know that he will check things out legally. Thank you, everybody. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] a we take you live to discussion on fiscal policy in the Incoming Biden Administration and congress, hosted by the brookings institution. Size i think is ambiguous and policy occur through a political process. I would rather see something that is a little bit smaller but that could pass this week or next week, rather than wait for something that is a little bit until, but will not pass february. If you look at the output gap, i think a trillion dollars is a reasonable figure for the next round of stimulus. I think democrats should be willing to take a couple hundred billion dollars less than that. Republicans should be willing to take a couple hundred billion dollars more
With the cares act in march and prevented the covid pandemic from doing even more harm to the economy and welfare of americans than it did. The cares act is essentially been spent, many people are about to lose benefits. Unless Congress Acts. And unless Congress Acts fiscal policy soon will be a drag on growth. They are still more than 11 Million People still unemployed by the official count. Most economists and certainly those gathered here today agree more fiscal support is necessary. Following that discussion, we turn to an issue predating the pandemic him one that persists. How to think about the federal debt and very low Interest Rates. Its growing and unsustainable rate. There is sentiment among comp economists for doing anything about that right now. When is a debate about how and how best to address that Going Forward. Had to balance the risk and cost. And too little Public Investment. We look at that issue with the paper posted on our website. By two veterans of economic polic
Statewide restrictions on thanksgiving celebrations. We will show you the exchange. Chaos in the city in the state. Do as i say, not as i do we have been hearing a lot of that and rightly so because there are so many examples of democrats especially very rich democrats breaking the rules they impose on everyone else. Now, we find california Governor Newsom dined with Health Officials and lobbyists, no mask, inches from each other breaking his own rules. Theres the mayor of philadelphia squeezing in Indoor Dining hours before he banned it. Thanksgiving is one week away. How will america handle the lockdown when our leaders do what they please . Thats the same throughout the show. Not that Much Movement in stock prices of this morning with two days of decline taking the dow jones well below the 30000 level. Not Much Movement at this point. There is vaccine news. Phase two of the astrazeneca vaccine trial shows a strong immune response in older people, good news. It uses Different Technol
Yeah, look, we have to be careful because there are Many Companies that benefit, but we have been piling into stocks that were meant to be as if there were no vaccine until some time maybe some time late 2021 where then there will be 2022. So, you have the nasdaq futures up way too much. You have the s p, i think, and dow up the correct amount given what is in those stocks because youve got the bank stocks suddenly maybe they get a real break. Travel and leisure are just incredible how bad theyve bipartisan and then youve got, what do you do with a service here now honestly, what do you do with a company like a zoom or a peleton. Thoseniquely price for a belief that covid will be with us for a long time. David, you know a lot of stocks are trading not as if theyre going to be households and everythingen wi en with everyone is going to have them and trading as catastrophic growth in a number of cases. While there still could be for a number of months, element that says, you know what, i