Prepare to work through the weekend, work through the night. Carry it in to next week. Good golly they expect twin packages. One to keep the government lights on and the other to keep the covid relief coming. Welcome, everybody. Happy friday. Im neil cavuto, this is your world. The world of questions about whether we are going to get that relief. Everyone seems to say its no longer a matter of if but when. Waiting for the when has been the hard part here. All of this at a time when a new vaccine is being hotly debated at the food and drug administration. That approval could come later today. Thats bringing in the good news. The backdrop is yet another promising vaccine that could make it to the American People in 24 hours. Right now, i can not say the same about this covid19 relief. Lets get the latest right now from chad pergram. Hey, chad. Good afternoon. Theyre hurdling towards a government shut down unless they approve a stop gap measure soon. The hope was to attach the covid plan
Back to you, gillian. gillian: all right, griff. thank you. just a moment ago, fox news managed to catch up with house minority leader hakeem jefferys. democratic lawmakers as it turns out are largely down playing sometimes outright dismissing claims from whistle-blowers that president biden may have been involved in his son s foreign business deals. listen. should he acknowledge his grandchildren and b, do you think that these issues are striking down his campaign? you have no idea what you re talking about in terms of the second part of your question. he s going to have a phenomenal story to tell. the american people understand when folks are trying to distract the public. today we re voting on chickens and bats? that s the center piece of your agenda? gillian: all right. let s bring in the congress
Clashed with the official government proclamations. martha: doesn t sound like the united states or the democracy that this country was founded on, does it? it s really crazy. part of the reason that they did it is this is clear in the papers. we have discovery documents. the b.b.c. organized it. in truth, the real competitors are the thousands of new news organizations that have sprouted up like mushrooms on the internet that are destroying our business model. martha: it s a loss of control. right. we need to choke them off. the way to do that is by deplatforming any of these organizations that doesn t follow our story. we re suing them on the sherman antitrust act. you saw hakeem jefferys there. he came after you forcefully. they re suggesting that you are
We re not in the negotiations. i can hasten to add that hakeem jefferys thought it would be a good thought to entertain tax increases. there you have about 20 minutes later, kevin mccarthy saying tax increases are not something that we re looking to do no bridge over that dyke. let s get the read again on all of this back with franchesca chambers, lee carter. that s one area where the two are far apart. even when it comes to hakeem jefferys putting his weight behind some spending freeze. we don t know how long, how much. he s open to it. that is earning the wrath of some conservatives. the pound of flesh and something
We pay our bills, whether we left the debt ceiling, suspend it. we can t default. what the problem solvers have said, we have to deal with our debt and deficit issues and be responsible. this can t be looking at tomorrow. it has to be looking down the road. neil: thanks, gentlemen. we re tight for time here. democrats now are speaking on this. hakeem jefferys, the house minority leader made some ways with progressives that he was open to a spending freeze. let s listen in. that is fiscal responsibility? but yet three times house democrats worked with the trump administration without gamesmanship, partisanship, brinksmanship to make sure that america did not default and that we paid our bills. so why are things different right now? why are house republicans being so unreasonable and so extreme?