got slaughtered and lot the host. so a lot of democrats are aware hitching yourself to a president with an approval rating under 50% won t save you when the president is trying to move you so far to the left. thanks very much, brian. you have a way with woods. i want to go to melissa. i want you to take a peek at the lower right portion looking at the dow soaring today. that surprised a lot of people. it has little to do with the drama in the capitol action much as people try to link that. had everything to do with promising news on vaccines, virus cases going down. a pill that could be added by merck to treat the vaccine. but right now it s not a worry for the markets. even if they come up, you know, zero. what do you think? well, the market has been worried, neil. we felt all week until today and
we re tight for time. i want to go on something here. a popular argument i hear among democrats pushing for a vote on the infrastructure package itself, the core one, is that if we don t, it will be another tarp deal that congress surprised people by not approving on the first run and led to an 800-point fall-off. and you know, they were that panicked them. they got back, regrouped. they got another package together, passed that one. the irony being as time wept on, thursdays more points fell in the dow. so it did little to alleviate that. that is what will happen. i don t think so. neil: if this fails. i don t think it s a proper analogy. what do you think? it s not. the banking system was about to collapse. that was a problem. if the banking system collapsed, you can t literally you cannot use your credit card to buy stuff. the economy collapse.
tonight. feels like a long time ago. the transition only beginning last night, officially, but tonight, you re learning the biden team already speaking with all federal agencies and they ve been in touch with dr. fauci, as well? reporter: yeah, that s right, david. president-elect joe biden saying as soon as those federal agencies were given the green light, the outreach was immediate and sincere. his team now in touch with dr. anthony fauci and operation warp speed about plans to distribute a coronavirus vaccine and this of course does open the door for joe biden to start getting those critical and classified national security briefings. david? rachel scott live in wilmington for us. rachel, thank you. as i mentioned, the president suddenly holding a briefing today at the white house. it lasted just 64 seconds and came amid a rise on wall street. the dow soaring today, topping 30,000 for the first time in history. the president came before the cameras to celebrate the dow after
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story, the stormy daniels interview, the new actions against the russian diplomat. i ll speak with a journalist that says the president s real red line on russia is vladimir putin himself. that s coming up from the fox news deck. we re watching the dow soaring today. the dow is up 602 points on the session, about 2.5%. the tech sector, financials and consumers leading the charge except for facebook which is down another 2% today. the morning walk was so peaceful.