neil: all right. the president is still pushing his big spending package. you always hear from some republicans that they re open to the infrastructure only package that roughly $1 trillion package. but not all republicans when it comes to south carolina s nancy mace. she s not a fan of either, taking the time to join us now on this adele debut song day. she s very excited about that. congressman very good to see you. i ll go past the adel drama and get to the washington drama and whether you could be aaswaged t vote for the infrastructure only place. i can say hello, neil. is that the theme for today? neil: touche. yeah. the infrastructure package right
Jumping into a separate sort of a pool here. the presidential pool. and it s a crowded pool at that. fox news reporter gillian turner in washington d.c. with more. hey, gillian. hey, neil, why aren t you wearing green. neil: you re the latest one, by the way. how is this looking? it s looking good, sources close to joe biden tell that he s gearing up to announce his presidential candidacy and he s second now, but the former vice-president is still playing it coy. i d like you all i appreciate the energy you showed when i got up here. save it a little longer, i might need it in a few weeks. biden says he s tired of cutthroat politics and wants to turn to a time when both sides of the aisle could be friends. and he apologized for referral to the current vice-president as
Career in politics. the big risk that biden has now, those working against him. there will be increasing pressure on big donors, consultants and political operatives to sign on with other candidates. the resources here in washington d.c., as you know, neil, are finite. neil: you know what is finite, the ability to find green, gillian. your a criticizing me and i don t see any green here. what s going on? i m not anchoring today. i don t have the same obligation that you have. neil: touche , touche . making her final report on this show, gillian turner. [laughter] seriously, gillian, thank you very much. and as pointed out, joe biden would be a big fish and an instant front runner and the consensus is it s his nomination to lose even in a crowded field, but history does point out that consensus can be very, very wrong. back with me now is chris wilson.
the facebook set to bring in a lot of dough and the social networking giant filing paper work looking to raise up to 5 billion dollars. that would bring the company to 100 billion. some argue with that, and facebook trends and going still, the number of companies surging in the past couple of years and gary, you think this is a good sign for the economy? sure, neil, when companies come public and getting capital, growing their business and home depot came public and started with one store, and created hundreds of thousands of jobs, and just recently, with facebook, you ve had zynga and a few others and increases confidence and every big winner over the last 30 years in the market started as an ipo and created wealth left and right to jobs and investors making tons of money and only good news. adam, now the geeky crowd
Better than i ever will and written a fantastic book as a result. i m curious, do they debut. when google became public, that wasn t ideal. microsoft not a great environment. does it make a difference? or is it the compelling product or the underlying business that makes a difference? it s the latter. and these microsoft and oracle and sun came public in a horrible environment. these companies are the exception, neil. it moves, however, that sarbanes oxley didn t kill the ipo market if they want to go public. neil: touche to you. that s what makes adam and ideals of history makes a point. this is good news and i want to see 5 million dollar ipo s, we don t get those anymore, sarbanes oxley, and did kill it and that s why a lot of companies are going public in hong kong and and adam included the winds