Plus reverberations are being felt after the doublewhammy from attorney general bill barr who said, no, the Justice Department has not found any widespread evidence of voter fraud, yes, he did appoint a special ounce sell to probe the origins of the trump russia investigation. Critics calling out nasdaq to force companies to include women and minorities on their boards. They say it is another example focus on identity politics taking precedent over efficient capitalism. President obama, remember him, attacks the party about defunding police. They need more than snappy slogans. That is drawing sharp criticism from his fellow democrats. Im gerry baker in for elizabeth mccdonald. The evening edit starts right now. Gerry we begin tonight on capitol hill where there is potential progress on delivering a covid relief package. Fox news Congressional Correspondent chad pergram has the details. Chad . Reporter good evening, gerry. The Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell is pushing socalled s
Joining us cat zakrzewski the Washington Post john hendel of politico and ilhan omar of axios. Mr. Dalewood would start with you what you think is going to be one of the major issues that the incoming byte Administration May face . Guest one thing that the byte Administration Early on is going to have to figure out what to do is they are inheriting a google transit from the doj and there is speculation about how politically motivated it may have been but never asked about the text of this thing. Its fairly narrow in fairly focused on issues that democrats have raised as well about the market power of google so they have to decide okay almost certainly they will continue to litigate this but do we want to expand this, do we want to try and look at some as state attorneys general who are also investigating google. It has the support of a group of bayji is that there are republicans and democrats looking at the stuff to sell how expansive do we want to go on antitrust . Host do you think
Nasdaq. Now, here are the negative for stocks today. Dr. Fauci suggesting a lockdown christmas. Why . With all the traveling and celebrating we did over thanksgiving, its expected to produce a new round of infections that will in turn require a new round of restrictions. Well have more on this throughout the show. I get the impression were being treated like children, punished for celebrating our national holiday, but dont get me started. One more item. The biden team takes shape, very similar to the Obama Biden Team that left Washington Four years ago. Neera tanden could go to the budget office, Jared Bernstein expected to become a president ial adviser, he was Vice President bidens chief economist, and back to the future . Sure looks like it, doesnt it . On the show today, the priceline ceo offering deals to get people back to travel. The waffle house ceo, hes pounding the table, keep dining rooms open, hes pleading. And mrs. Fields cookies, their ceo somehow has to replace the reven
Flying into space theres always risk. I never knew another crisis. In their own words. Life on the front lines. Meet the icu nurses volunteering to fight covid19 far from home. People are running out of unemployment checks. And the biden team talks. The plan to fight the pandemic and bring our economy back. Announcer live from cnbc global headgaurs, the news with Shepard Smith the pandemic is spiringal out of control forcing cities and states to issue new initiatives to slow the spread the United States topped more than 11 million cases. Johns hopkins reports the latest million added in the past six days alone for context, mexico reported about a million cases since the pandemic began that means weve added mexicos total caseload in less than a week and the cases arent just surging. Theyre getting more severe. At least 26 states hit alltime highs for hospitalizations last week all the ones in red here thats from the covid tracking project. More than 1,100 americans die on average each d
Flying into space theres always risk. I never knew another crisis. In their own words. Life on the front lines. Meet the icu nurses volunteering to fight covid19 far from home. People are running out of unemployment checks. And the biden team talks. The plan to fight the pandemic and bring our economy back. Announcer live from cnbc global headgaurs, the news with Shepard Smith the pandemic is spiringal out of control forcing cities and states to issue new initiatives to slow the spread the United States topped more than 11 million cases. Johns hopkins reports the latest million added in the past six days alone for context, mexico reported about a million cases since the pandemic began that means weve added mexicos total caseload in less than a week and the cases arent just surging. Theyre getting more severe. At least 26 states hit alltime highs for hospitalizations last week all the ones in red here thats from the covid tracking project. More than 1,100 americans die on average each d