they're out the door. susan li on what is happening now at one company, just the latest company to say get the shot or get out. >> that's right, neil. get vaccinated by next week or you will be fired by the end of this month. citi group is the first major bank to implement a strict covid-19 mandate. this applies to all of the 70,000 staff, regardless where they live. so that means that those that live in florida, texas, missouri and kentucky where they don't have a vaccine man tate for big businesses, they will also have to get the job. if you don't live in new york, you have to comply. citi group's vaccine mandate goes a step further than others than goldman sachs, j.p. morgan and bank of america requiring vaccines but only if you go in the office. not all employees are happy about this. many complaining about the huge overreachthat many have felt where there's a federal mandate for workers to get vaccinated. mayo clinic fired 700 staff who had to get their shotspy this monday. others have had a no jab no, job policy. the airlines, united and delta along with tyson foods and google. many companies including boeing have reversed their vaccine mandates and requirements pending the outcome of the supreme court hearing which started today, neil. >> martha: thanks, susan. susan li on that. so companies can enforce such mandates. can the united states government? that's what the supreme court said today, weighing mandates out of the administration. shannon bream has more. hi, shannon. >> hi, neil. great to see you. happy friday. the two mandates, the two arguments, cases are done, they rest in the hands of the justices as we stand by. so about that first one. that is the osha requirement. it's the employer that has 100 or more employees. you got to request -- you got to have a mandate for a vaccine or you can request masking and testing if you're unvaccinated. it was clear all of the liberal justices saw there wasn't even a question of the mandate and not to put a stay on it. here's justin kagan. >> more and more people are dying every day, more and more people are getting sick every day. i don't mean to be dramatic here. i'm stating facts. this is the policy that is most geared to stopping all of this. there's nothing else that will perform that function better than incentivizing people strongly to vaccinate themselves. >> justice kagan said getting people vaccinated is the best way to stop the virus from spreading. justice breyer was incredulous that anybody should argue that the mandate should get stayed. many say it's not a mandate at all. justice alito said that he believes in the safety of the vaccines. we know all the justices are vaxed and boosted but he said there's cases of adverse reactions and asked whether or not osha, which is about ensuring worker safety has taken that part of the equation into account. here's what he said. >> has osha ever imposed safety regulation that imposes some extra risk, some different risk on the employee so that if you have to wear a hard halt on the job, wearing a hard hat has some adverse health consequences. can you think of anything else like this? >> that's for the second case, this mandates vaccinations for people that work at a facility that gets medicare or medicaid funding. seems like the justices were more for holding that mandate. we're reading the tea leaves here, this is super fast-tracked. i expect a decision within days, the most a couple weeks. we're standing by. >> wow. incredible. so they have a fast timeline here. there were some thoughts originally going into this that a conservative court largely might sort of repel the notion of any forced mandates. that might not be a given though, right? >> yeah, i think that's true in both cases. the osha mandate is in more danger meaning it's more likely the justices would stay that one. the one with healthcare workers has a stronger path to victory being upheld. the reality is setting in. eight attended in person. justice sotomayor elected to do it from her office. a couple of the attorneys could not appear today. they had to do arguments by phone. one of them because they tested positive. so they're aware this is very real world. there's always kinds of implications for all of us in this case and beyond when it comes to however far their power reaches. >> neil: wow. wild stuff. shannon bream, i know what will be a dominant part of your show tonight. shannon bream, our chief supreme court columnist. john? >> this hearing went three hours, twice as long as it was scheduled. sounds like the osha regulation, the vaccine mandate in all workplaces, sounds like no conservative justice thought that was constitutional. the three liberal justices saying what could disagree with a great policy? the conservatives said it's up to the states, not the federal government. as you led the show off, companies themselves can impose a mandate as they choose. the other question today about whether the government can require when it spends money on healthcare at hospitals to require healthcare staff to get vaccinated, that sounds like it's on better footing. i expect the court to uphold that one. >> do they make carveouts or exceptions for let's say an international in this case health crisis? justice kagan was intimating that vaccinations were the only way to get this under control and therein lies the reason and the rationale for this push. >> a great question. you raise a good point. suppose this case came up two years ago. suppose president trump said we need to take certain emergency measures. the courts would be much more differential. look at the eviction moratorium. congress didn't give them any power to stop evictions and the court struck it dunn. will the vaccine mandate survive? probably not. it's been two years. congress could have passed allow in the last two years to require this vaccine mandate but they chose not to. they chose to let the states and companies handle it. >> martha: we'll watch it closely. john, a pleasure. john yoo, law professor at the university of california berkeley. as shannon bream reported, a decision could come within a matter of days. i want to let you know, we added 199,000 jobs to the economy. that is about half what most were looking at here. the reality is that there's 11 or 12 million jobs that still go begging. a lot of americans that turned down jobs, quit their jobs. say the hell with it. so where are the workers? after this. thanks for coming. now when it comes to a financial plan this broker is your man. let's open your binders to page 188... uh carl, are there different planning options in here? options? plans we can build on our own, or with help from a financial consultant? like schwab does. uhhh... could we adjust our plan... ...yeah, like if we buy a new house? 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that's what he was asking. he joins us now, a economic adviser to donald trump, best selling author. and welcome to you. steve on that point, i think you raised the point of the day, the month, the year. where are they? where are those workers? 12 million jobs. >> that's right. i call it the disappearing american worker. it's going on now well over a year. we have 12 million job openings. if you have a useful skill, a carpenter, electrician, construction worker, the jobs are out there. we have tens of thousands of trucking jobs open. the workers can make $100,000 a year with overtime. so we're not talking about minimum wage jobs. right now there's a couple of factors at play. the number 1 factor is that we have gotten away from this idea that to get all of these welfare benefits, you have to be looking for work or, you know, in a job. that has kept millions of americans out of the work force. the increase in food stamps, the child payments, all of these things are making it difficult for small businesses to compete. the second factor, there's a lot of americans that are just afraid to go back to work because of covid. now we have the new wave and keeping people out as well. my main thing, let's have policies in washington that encourage people to work. maybe we should cut the payroll taxes to get people back to work. what we're doing is the opposite. we're paying people not to work. >> neil: rebecca, many people shored up their finances during the pandemic. prioritizing and looking at alternative pastures. what you think is going on? >> yeah, it's a really interesting dichotomy. we saw people save a lot when they had the federal unemployment benefits. that ended in september. people had to go through their savings drastically. the normal holiday surge of employment came in less than expected. we missed numbers in november, october, december. it's more than half. where are these people going? it's like -- the only thing that i can see that changed is the federal unemployment benefits ended in september, the afp plan that biden's administration put in. it pays people for children based on how much they earn as a married couple or a single person. that is the only thing that i can think that has changed other than the mandates, other people people being afraid of the different variants to make them not go back to work. we have so many job openings. this is one of the most difficult job markets to hire in. it's impossible. >> neil: the job openings are generous jobs being offered period. top dollar, a lot of $20 or more an hour jobs. people are scoffing at it. it's prompted many businesses to throw in college credits and help with college education. a host of other benefits that are being ignored. i'm wondering if there's something more significant going on here? what do you think? >> there's this wealth effect. people say hey, i don't have to work anymore. look at my nest egg. you may have more money that you made in the stock market. but guess what? inflation will erode the amount of money that you made. i want another point here that is not economic. every study shows that people that work, neil are happier than people that don't work. families stay together longer. it's good for the families and everybody that people are working. so this idea that people can watch netflix all day and somehow that is their road to happiness, it's not. it's bad for america, bad for businesses and bad for -- we need to get the incentives aligned so that people are getting paid for working, not working. people say i'm getting all of these benefits. why should i go back to work? these are tough jobs, a lot of them. >> by the way, netflix is not the only option. they can go to fox business. but i get your point. how long do you think this lasts, rebecca? >> it will last until we get this straightened. we agree to accept that we'll have -- we're going to get to some level of normalcy. i don't know what it looks like. when we do, we have to get the job market back to normal. >> neil: it is weird. you got that right. steve, rebecca, have a great weekend. happy new year to you best. >> happy new year. >> thanks, neil. >> neil: there was another little wrinkle in this employment record that got my attention. got the market's attention. wage growth is going up at a 4% annual clip. the reason why that is significant, the federal reserve has a number in their head that is closer to never letting it get over 2%. it's been steadily well above the 2%. 4.7% is the latest. and that record in general rejiggered the whole prediction game that the federal reserve is going to go ahead and raise interest rates as soon as march and this report provided the proof. thomas honig joins us. is it your sense from this report and the wage growth of 5% year over year that that cinches it, the federal reserve will height rakes and as soon as march? >> it would add to the likely hid that they will. they should. look at the economy of 2021, the strong economy, retail sales of record. we saw credit increases are double digit. so you have this tremendous demand. on the other side, you have the supply factors that i heard you talking about that are very important. the issues with logistics, that will slowly take care of itself. you have fundamental trade issues that are putting supply constraints that raise prices. those are things that they have to worry about. finally, their own policy. they've been in a very accommodative policy for more than two years, before the pandemic. they're continuing that now. so that is going to add to that demand earnings are up 4.7%. that's significant. inflation is up 6.8%. that's 2 basis points difference and labor is losing ground. i expect you see more increases. depending on what the fed does and people become confident that inflation will come down and at this point they're not, the labor will demand and i think going to get given theed unemployment numbers -- >> neil: to your point, everything goes up, the more people get paid, the more the cost of the goods that they pay for themselves. it's a self-feeding beast. where do you see it going? the only way to address it is to raise rates. the federal reserve announced that they will slow down to stop their purchasing of mortgage securities and the rest. the rate hikes themselves seem to now have changed from being a few to more than a official and could be substantial. what are you looking at? >> yeah. think about it. you have basically inflation of 6.8%. you have interest rates near zero. a negative interest rate of nearly 6%. that suggests that you have a very large increase in rates ahead of you. so the fed's challenge is to raise the rates to slow this economy but not kill it. that is a very fine line to run. they have to raise rates. how they do it matters a great deal. not only because of scaring the markets, yes, getting people very uncertain. i'd say they will have to start sooner than later. announce their move of what they're going to do. they need to get moving. >> neil: that's what everybody is scare for but expecting. thomas hoenig from the kansas city federal reserve bank. have a wonderful new year. even with that forecast. covid is in the news again. omicron has one million cases per day. the last four days running. so it's going up and up is. covid here to stay? 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>> it's possible that covid is here to stay. it looks like that is possible. i'd say when people are answering the question, should we accept it as the normal? what we're experiencing as omicron is not something to accept as the new normal. we have incredibly high rates of disease, with many people being hospital iced and young children being hospitalized. it's not something that we want to live with we have to optimize interventions and optimize transmission and disease. >> neil: with omicron, one of the things i find startling about, this we have four million cases in the past week versus four million cases in the first six months of the pandemic. we're told the overwhelming majority of these cases are relatively mild by comparison. do you agree with that? >> yeah. that's what they're telling us right now. incredibly high surge of diseases, people getting sick. compare the number of cases to those being hospitalized and those dying, the numbers don't compare. it's clear people are not getting as sick or hospitalized like they did in prior ways of the pandemic. that's not to say it's not serious. the total numbers are so high of people getting sick. our hospital systems are stressed and we have to take this seriously. >> neil: you know, the new variant, should we be worried about that? >> throughout this pandemic, what we've seen is the emergence of various variants. it's important to keep an eye on them. we have to know if it causes serious disease. the other question is how effective are treatments and prevention measures in preventing transmission of the variants. so keep a close eye on what is happening and emering and answer the questions to know how best to respond. >> neil: doctor, moderna's ceo said that there may be a need for a fourth covid shot. this comes at the same time that israel instituted an additional booster. four shots in all to deal with i guess everything from the original covid, delta and the rest, the omicron. but where does it end? how many shots? how many boosters? >> neil, this goes back to the question that you asked me. is covid here to stay? we don't know the answer to that question. if the virus circulates and we have new variants that are emerging, vaccination may be part of our annual routine like flu vaccine. it's too early to say that at this point. when moderna's ceo is talking about a fourth dose, we could be talking about additional boosters and could be a different form of the vaccine that protects against different variants. at this point it's speculation and too early. >> neil: thanks, dr. morita and answering these questions. i just wanted to know. you had answers for all of them. much appreciated. thank you. >> my pleasure. thanks, neil. >> neil: thanks, dr. morita on that. to be joe manchin these days. wooed and vilified right now. it's a full court press to get him to open up his ways from oprah winfrey to now a fellow democratic who is quite close with him. after this. ♪ feel stuck with credit card debt? ♪ move your high-interest debt to a sofi personal loan. earn $10 just for viewing your rate — and get your money right. ♪ >> neil: oh, to be joe manchin. you have bill clinton, you have barack obama, oprah, all trying to woo him over to who knows, build back better or more openness on busting the filibuster. you name it. a who's who of democratic luminaries trying to get the west virginia senator closer to their way of thinking. kaylee mcghee white joins us. talk about pressure. what do you make of that? >> i can't imagine oprah win free convincing joe manchin of anything. he and kyrsten sinema don't want to abolish the filibuster to pass democrat's proposed voting rights bill. i don't think they'll budge on that. >> neil: a lot of this is borne of the reaction the senator got in the white house when he couldn't be won over to build back better and the party turned on him. i wonder if this is a fence building effort here on the part of the party to try to win him back down the road for other things. what do you think? >> yeah, could be that. even the white house is trying to get back on manchin's good side. he did call out the white house staff for spreading rumors about him, for creating bad blood. this is a really tense relationship right now. biden knows that if he wants to get anything done, he does need joe manchin. so if he wants to pass this voting rights bill especially now that build back better has failed, he needs joe manchin. but i don't know about bringing in celebrities in to help. maybe a political compromise. we'll see. >> martha: mark warner has been mentioned to manchin, a more moderate influence and they could craft a deal or some sort of understanding on the filibuster. something like that could be cobbled together. what do you think? >> sure. but again, what this all depends on is whether manchin is willing to abolish the filibuster or change the rules for that for this voting rights bill. for him to do that would be a step against everything that he's said thus far. but who knows. most of the democrats advocating for abolishing filibuster were defending it a couple months ago. manchin could back out on his word. who knows. >> neil: speaking of joe manchin and where he goes right now within the party, obviously there's a lot of frayed nerved and all that. talk that he might become an independent, caucus with the democrats and leave it and switch sides all together and becoming a republican. i don't see that happening what do you think? >> i think there's a chance that he breaks with the party and chooses to be an independent and still caucuses with the democrats like how bernie sanders does. i think it's so difficult for him to maintain a good relationship with progressives specifically. they're on him all the time, going after him. i don't see how he can maintain a good relationship with the party as a whole as they're willing to entertain those kind of actions from the left. >> martha: got it. thanks, kaylee mcghee. we'll see how joe manchin is affected by all of this rose and petals approach to be nice, trying to be nice stuff. how he responds to that. meantime, more flight delays to tell you about. 2,600 today in case you're counting. close to 30,000 flights in the last two weeks since been christmas and on and on it goes. the winter storm getting much of the blame this time. but what next after this. food ”" so when she moved in with us, a new kitchen became part of our financial plan. ♪ i want to make the most of every meal we have together. ♪ at northwestern mutual, our version of financial planning helps you live your dreams today. find a northwestern mutual advisor at nm.com hello, for the last few years, i've been a little obsessed with chasing the big li idaho potato truck.. but it's not like that's my only interest. i also love cooking with heart-healthy, idaho potatoes. always look for the grown in idaho seal. pain hits fast. so get relief fast. only tylenol rapid release gels have laser drilled holes. they release medicine fast for fast pain relief. and now get relief without a pill with tylenol dissolve packs. relief without the water. >> neil: all right. this go-round blame the weather for better than 2,600 flight cancellations. they seem to be going on and on day in and day out. this time the winter storm that gripped the east coast getting the blame. we have will from fox weather. what are we looking at now, will? >> i'll tell you what, this system, neil, that brought so much trouble to the mid-south, the northeast now moving out. we're dealing with the remnantses of it here tonight in plymouth. leaving impressive snow totals. south of boston, 10 inches of snow. 11, 12 inches in some parts. our snow total is being calculated here. we still have snowfall. massachusetts state police are saying at least one death has been attributed to an accident. there's one injury, fatal accident to report there. meanwhile, we're ready for the cold throughout the day. they've been spending the day clearing the roads. lot of snowplows. the snowfall started for boston at 4:00 a.m. big snowflakes. it's tapered off now. we expect to see what is here trailing off. the big story is the cold. where we're starting tonight will dip down to 19 degrees. everything on the ground will stay and create more problems overnight for the northeast. we're going to continue to track the freezing temperatures and the impacts for you all night on the free fox weather app. meantime, we're enjoying the norman rockwell scene. it's a beautiful sight here today. >> neil: a good disposition to have. you've been working nonstop. thanks, will. following the beautiful images after the fact. if you're driving through it, you don't feel the same way. and men in this country might be going through a tough period. they assess how they look in the mirror and it's quite low. what is going on, guys? 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[laughter] looking at this, i was startled to see men being dishonest about themselves, and being this conservative about their looks. jimmy? 9.9? >> what men are doing is the opposite of women, trying to, which is to manage expectations. as you know, women are famous for the exact opposite. a 50-year-old women will put a profile picture from her junior prom on there, and you wind up meeting her. you feel a little misled. it's like when you are buying a used car. >> oh, boy. [laughter] >> i'm just saying. this is all i want to say: men are not smart. the reason why men are doing this, men are being smart, because veteran men know that women aren't attracted to looks, they are attracted to energy, to that "something about him" quality. we have all been at a bar -- [laughter] -- and see someone leave behind a 10 to go home with a 6. i only know that because i've been the 6. [laughter] >> apparently, when they are asked a little bit more, how they look in the mirror, they are being realistic they feel. do you feel that way? >> jimmy giving himself a 5.9 is very generous in this poll. i am happy they asked jimmy about this and he said he is a 5.9 out of 10. congratulations. before we came on -- >> 10 on personality. >> of course. >> 10 on personality. >> to counts for a lot. [laughter] >> somebody tweeted us before we came on, saying that jimmy was hopeless. that's what we've got going for us. in all honesty -- just being confident with yourself, just being happy about one's abilities. you might not be great on looks, but you got the personality, and you can always -- it's 2022. >> "neil, such a nice guy, such a nice personality." still no dates. [laughter] let me switch gears. this might be inflating the problem for these guys. they would jump at an offer like this. taco bell has offered a new subscription service: $10 a month, a taco every day. pays for itself. there are reports that upfront demand is going to be strong. what do you think? >> the last thing we need under joe biden's more people making a run for the border. [laughter] if we are being honest -- [laughter] -- it's a dead-end for me, but i think it will work with their clientele. most of their clientele already have a marijuana subscription service. why not a taco bell subscription as well? [laughter] >> there you go. >> taco bell are our advertisers. [laughter] >> what do you make of this? >> i will take them up on this. >> absolutely. when my group chats discusses the subscription service. it's all over the place. i have got the taco bell cantina, which sells alcohol. my friends and i have had a taco bell party's out there. my niece -- i have a 6-year-old niece. my brother talked to me about the subscription service. my niece had a taco bell party rather than hepizza party. all about taco bell -- i got friends there. let's go. taco bell all day! >> i think this is going to be the future of fast food. it's easy money for the big fast food giants. they have a dedicated crowd. i think this is going to be a trend. does that worry you, jimmy customer >> no, it doesn't. it doesn't worry me. [laughter] i think this is the future. what i mean is the phone has eaten people longer than they could eat their tacos. everybody is so addicted to doing things in and out of there found that this is just playing into that future. i think this is where it is headed. i have made peace with that. no one does anything without their phone. you get in the car on thanksgiving, and your family gps's the address even going to for the past 35 years. ever but he has gotten so used to using the phone. i know this is the future. to circle back for a minute, calling me a 5.9 -- if he was a stripper, the cover charge would be 25 to get in and 100 to get out. relax. [laughter] >> bottom line, this view that men have of themselves, fueled by coupons on food that might make the situation even worse. [laughter] it's a sad story, isn't it? [laughter] >> it's a tragedy. they have broken men down so far in this day and age that we are thankful for a taco bell subscription. look what they did to guns. >> there's nothing wrong with that. thank you very much. there is hope for men. not these men, but there's hope, i am convinced. here comes "the five." ♪ ♪ >> jesse: hello, and jesse watters along with greg gutfeld, dagen mcdowell, geraldo rivera, and martha maccallum. 5:00 in new york city, and this is "the five." ♪ ♪ president biden proving once again that he has got no clue when it comes to the pandemic. some of his top former medical advisors are trying to get his attention, saying that the president's covid strategy needs a major overhaul. want biden to tell americans