trump tried to do, lower regulations to make things move through the fda faster, he was quite successful. have a great weekend, great to be with you today, sending you wishes for a beautiful thanksgiving. here is "varney and company," good morning to david asman. ashley: here is the big story. pfizer and biotech applied for emergency use authorization of their virus vaccine meaning we could see millions of doses as early as next month, final trial results show the vaccine is 95% effective. doctor siegal is here in moments to comment on this with doctor anthony fauci taking shots at the new york governor after the governor tried to so doubt about operation warp speed's unprecedented vaccine progress.

we will tell you what he is saying. the cdc says school closings are a terrible way to fight rising covid cases was we have a doctor who agrees with him coming up, sounding off later in this hour. let's look where stock prices are right now. we see the dow jones industrial down 91 points, the s&p down 9.25 and the nasdaq down a tick as well. we will follow the progress on the market says they are due to open in 29 minutes and you will see the president today for the first time since saturday, he will be delivering remarks on lowering drug prices for all americans it to:30 p.m. eastern time. you can watch that on foxbusiness. joe biden is set to meet with nancy pelosi and chuck schumer today and we can't leave this out, alexandria ocasio cortez is in order to get the virus under control we should close businesses and pay people to stay home.

forget about businesses going bankrupt, the government can take care of all your needs. isn't that pure socialism and don't we all know how that story ends? we are taking her on later in this hour. "varney and company" about to begin. ♪ ♪ lady ♪ why don't you meet me in the middle ♪ dave: nice day in new york city. let's get to it, doctor anthony fauci taking a swipe at andrew cuomo's downplaying of operation warp speed's progress on vaccines. >> i hear a lot, two mondays ago about some reticence of people, did you rush this?

was it too fast? is it safe and efficacious? the process of the speed did not compromise at all safety, nor did a compromise scientific integrity. it was a reflection of the extraordinary scientific advances of these types of vaccines which allowed us to do things in months that actually took years before. i want to settle that concern people have about that. dave: we will have more on that in a few moments but let's get the latest news on the vaccines. a lot of news. >> reporter: pfizer and biotech filing for fda emergency use approval for their two does vaccines. here is alex azar. >> assuming there are no hitches in the process, we could be look at authorization of this vaccine in weeks.

we will have shipments within 24 hours of millions of doses of this vaccine to the american people. >> reporter: of approved, this is the likely rollout order. healthcare workers and the elderly, essential workers, then teachers, finally it would go to children, the fda is looking to schedule a meeting, a review meeting for early december, the secretary is praising pfizer and moderna's vaccines, they have tested 80,000 people to gather and they can get 40 million americans inoculated this year. dave: this year. 40 million americans. thank you very much. joining me is medical contributor and author of covid, the politics of fear and the politics of science doctor

mark siegel will. 40 million doses of this year alone, that goes far beyond medical workers, doesn't it? >> this is the power of science and the public-private partnership unprecedented that is operation warp speed. i interviewed several of the scientists involved, this is the anti-nanny state. pfizer working with the german company that came up with this vaccine, working with the military in terms of dispersing a vaccine and getting it ready. and the general getting it out with a software program that will monitor it. and the deep-freeze freezing dry ice to send it around the country and it can be refrigerated in freezers for 24 hour before it is used. the safety pattern 8000 people that were studied and it was deemed to be save over a 2-month period, we have 95%

effective vaccine, 8000 completely safe with minor symptoms. now it is ready for fda approval, emergency use authorization, then healthcare workers like me, people in the front lines in the elderly, to nursing homes. this will be an unprecedented situation and it deserves tremendous applies, not criticism, not anybody on the state level like governor cuomo saying slow this down. that is a disgrace. we need vaccine compliance. dave: the pooh-poohing by cuomo and others who said warp speed had nothing to do with it, this is companies the would have done this regardless of warp speed, what do you make of that? >> moderna is in the heart of operation warp speed under the auspices of the nih. that, anthony fauci was looking

over moderna. why do you think pfizer and bio intech came up with this so fast, they didn't compromise the science. they knew that $2 billion was coming from hhs and the federal government for 100 million doses. that was bought up front. if you know you already have an audit -- an audience that will buy your vaccine, you have a built-in distribution plan you get the science done. we never had the manufacturing in place to partner with the science, never done that way before. dave: the d regulations played a big part in that following along with the trump policy on deregulation. great to see you, exciting stuff. there are new restrictions, new covid restrictions. >> so many out there.

california governor gavin newsom says he is sounding the alarm and offering a temporary curfew through most of the state. the order that goes into effect saturday, stops gathering, nonessential work between 10:00 pm and 5 am. that scenario is under the toughest restrictions, he won't be going to a fancy fresh restaurant. 41 out of 50 counties, exit 94% of the state's population and in new york city bill diblasio, very close to deciding whether to shutdown indoor dining again and across the country we are seeing more of these orders kick in. some have curfews, some have almost stay-at-home orders and we will do this throughout the show. we should mention that the cdc

is warning against traveling to visit relatives and friends this thanksgiving and the holiday season and urging anyone with possible coronavirus symptoms to stay-at-home. as we head toward thanksgiving and christmas holiday so timing couldn't be worse. dave: the contrast between the amazing progress on vaccines and therapeutics and these increasing cases in the lockdowns. let's bring in peter morici to talk about this. i don't think it is coincidence we are seeing lockdowns in blue states, the red states are trying to keep the virus at bay but also keep the economy humming. >> where you keep the economy humming people don't lose jobs and we don't have ancillary effects of depression, drug abuse and so forth. we have to remember there are extreme costs in terms of

people's health and economic well-being from locking down. dave: we had bad news on the job front, the dallas fed president is worried about a double-dip recession, the possibility of one going into 2021. are you worried about that? >> it is a concern. my feeling is the fourth quarter will be a slow quarter in terms of growth considering where we came from. we need to stop the bickering between the treasury and the federal reserve about continuing the loan programs to businesses and municipalities and so forth. this is not the time to pull those back. comments like governor cuomo's serve to stir panic in new york, so many people hesitant about vaccines. his kinds of comments will cause people not to take the

vaccine when it is available and create more problems and more deaths. these comments lead to higher fatality rates. dave: we have to worry about the possibility, the new administration coming in with new taxes. one of the worst things you can do coming out of a recession like we are beginning to do is raise taxes. we saw how that did not work in the slowest economy in history during the obama biden administration. >> they stumble over one another trying to see who can be more left-wing and socialist. jason rose an article in the wall street journal saying higher taxes would increase growth. i have a spence of education in economics, maybe not from harvard but nowhere have i written any books or seen anyplace that raising taxes by itself will create growth.

it is unfortunate they just got clobbered at every level except the president of election. right on down to state legislatures, people rejecting these kind of socialist ideas, people rejected tax increases in illinois and california, they rejected affirmative action in california. they are getting messages the common sense of the general population says they don't get it. dave: the bottom line is, the tax increases in 2009-2010 led to the slowest recovery in history at least in recent history or the twentieth century, and we have to move on. great to see you. let's get a check on the future, the dow jones industrial average trading down, it hasn't yet gone below 100. it bears out in the next 15 minutes as we get closer to the

opening of the bill. the nasdaq is positive. joe biden and kamala harris have yet to say whether they will meet with black lives matter after the group demands their agenda be prioritized. we know it is a marxist agenda and that is not all. they are putting pressure on biden to act on their far left agenda. roll tape. >> to make sure the biden administration keeps its promise. we know that we don't just make that demand and walk away, we have to organize for it, bring the heat for it. dave: that was aoc behind the mask. what does lawrence jones think of all this? he joins me next.

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whatever happened to doctor king gaps adage that you judge people by character and not by the color of their skin? >> it is convenient. sometimes they want to apply it and sometimes they don't but this is a monster of the democrats own making. when you give people, often they take a mile. they are going to have to abide by these demands. they have a pulse of the movement, the marxist trained, they have power to them before and many of us, i am a libertarian, i believe black lives do matter, i believe they have the power to speak up but that is not what the organization stands for. they have all types of bullet points that have nothing to do

with black lives better but when it comes to gavin do some they have to do what they say because he has capitulated to what they stand for. dave: they say it is nonnegotiable. what does that mean? that if you don't to do what we say we will send people out in the streets? we have to remember, a lot of those demonstrations were peaceful but we have 570 demonstrations, is that what they are threatening? >> or using their political power, the aoc wing is part of the progressive caucus. they have a lot of power and are willing to leverage it. one part of me admires them putting politicians to the fire. i disagree with their philosophy and where they stand on politics and rioting in the street but they are making it

very known you can't just stand with us from a pr standpoint, you got to do what we say. dave: we have a soundbite, friends in congress will be pushing the new administration into their corner. let's play that soundbite and get your reaction. >> that is what the next move is to make sure the biden administration keeps its promise. we have to organize for it, brings the heat for it. with president-elect biden i said i may not be your favorite member of congress because my timeline is different. >> black and brown communities organize across the country to make sure joe biden, and he did that. it is time for payback. >> lawrence, what is that payback, specifically, what policies are they going to

demand that biden is going to cave to? >> i am popping my popcorn. i disagree with these people from an ideology standpoint but holding politics to the fire they promised the green new deal, promised they were going to get medicaid for all, promised they were going to be social security -- dave: forgive me but we saw what happened in the election. a lot of moderate democrats are saying those kind of promises led to us getting defeated. >> they don't care. think about this like the tea party. i remember because i covered it. they didn't care about the conservative moderates, we are going to get hammered if we don't believe in this. either you give us a balanced budget amendment, get this debt under control, civil liberties back or we will get primary. that is the status of this democratic party.

if you don't get in line, moderates, those progressives will challenge you in the primary and they will win. dave: we should remember that kamala harris would take the blm position on things like michael floyd in ferguson, missouri over the position of obama's justice department that said he was not murdered after an extensive investigation. >> m brown in ferguson which i was underreporting to the shooting was justified and race didn't play a part. the doj said they were policing for-profits but i don't understand how they disagree. dave: thank you very much. markets open flat and "the opening bell" in a moment.

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digest great news on vaccines and therapeutics with regard to covid. the bad news about more lockdowns from the west coast to the mid-sections of the state all the way to new york city. what to bring in david, the virus and lockdowns are not a major concern for markets, make your case. >> i have been trying to point out that all summer long we had this resurgence in arizona, texas, the market went up 3000 points, didn't move markets. we have another surge of new cases, the market is up another 3000 points since october 30th. in both cases the markets know what many of us know, that apparently the governors of california and new york, that we can live with this virus, take precautions necessary to

protect the vulnerable and don't have to destroy the economy and especially the most vulnerable people in the economy in order to do what we have to do. dave: i agree with you 100% that that is the correct analysis but they are locking down anyway. in new york a lot of people talking to restaurants or is who are concerned they have to live by the rules that they dictate. >> i am not suggesting they are not people are economic actors suffering from poor policy decisions. talking about the market or the broader market ramifications it is clear it is damaging the larger market forces but on the microlevel it is very much hurting restaurants, small businesses, more targeted areas, there is a distinction between the macroeconomic impact and the micro impact,

the micro impact is hurting very vulnerable people. dave: a lot of people worry about big tech but you think the fact big tech is losing some of its glimmer is good news. >> it is overpriced and a misallocation of capital and you need to see a wider market participation like you are getting right now, more areas in the market rallied. dave: the market is not rallying today but not down a lot. the dow is down 80 points. a little green on the screen but mostly red. nasdaq is a different story, it is negative but just a fraction negative right now and the s&p following in line with what the dow is doing. we see a little green on the screen but the s&p down 0.13%. pfizer and biotech files for emergency use operation for their virus vaccine. when is that going to be available?

>> likely next month. this has to happen first, you need to have an fda advisory committee meeting where regulators discuss the data and decide to approve it. the rumor is the date set for next month, maybe more like the middle of next month, people are saying why not tomorrow? the drugmakers have been hard at work but the rumor is they will consider pfizer and moderna's vaccine at the same time. once they approve it they ship it the next day so we are talking 40 million doses ready and delivered by year's end. dave: that is so much more than people suggested, saying it will go to a fraction, 40 million is a lot better, but not just the vaccine but also treatments, therapeutics being given emergency use. >> that 40 million doses, 20 million people.

dave: 20 million and nothing. >> i hear you. the fda has approved emergency use, eli lilly arthritis drug, if they use it with kayleigh mcenany 3 to treat the coronavirus, if patients were in the hospital and on oxygen they found they recovered on average one day faster if they had the combo, not the best news but if you're really sick it can help you get faster. dave: a lot of therapeutics available right now. tesla hit a high, an all-time high but is down a touch. the cars are popular but the question is whether they are reliable. ashley: yes, according to consumer reports, not really. they put tesla in 20 fifth place out of 26 total brands when it comes to reliability.

cr says tesla's model-plaps sedan, model why crossover suv are no longer recommended because of a number of reliability concerns. the model why was only given a score of 5 out of 100 and that is a big reason why tesla received an overall score of 29. the only tesla to receive a recommendation from consumer reports was the model 3 sedan but it was a rough report. dave: speaking of electric vehicles gm is making a big bet on them, right? ashley: they certainly are. the nation's biggest automaker by sales says it will spend 20 this billion dollars through 2025 to develop electric and driverless vehicle and that number is up $7 billion from gm's original announcement in march. as it stands electric vehicles only account for 2% of global

sales for gm but chief executive mary bara says the company can overtake tesla as the leader in electric sales in north america. all the major automakers are investing heavily in evs but investors have enjoyed pure play electric vehicle companies, that don't have unions and other added expenses. dave: it reminds me what was happening in the obama biden administration. even though you only have to% of cars electric focusing on them they are looking for a return to those tax benefits for electric vehicles we saw under obama. the ceos of major airlines urging congress to provide more aid to them. what are they asking for? >> another round of payroll assistance and let me tell you why. they say before the pandemic they directly employed 750,000 americans responsible for 5% of

overall gdp. they are burning through $180 million cash a day, a quarter of their claims grounded and since the cdc warning yesterday not to travel for thanksgiving they are starting to see americans cancel thanksgiving flights and for the airlines thanksgiving was the big time of the year, people would finally be traveling again and they need the money for another reason. who is going to ship or transport them? they need to make sure they have the workers, not grounded, ready to go. to deliver these shots. dave: one analyst has a bullish outlook, how bullish? >> rob sanderson at loop capital markets, says it could achieve a $500 billion

valuation in 5 years if the company can create the same kind of modernization. he does say snap is created undeniably strong revenue momentum currently worth $60 billion in north american user base is around $90 billion, $90 million and 115 around the globe. based on these numbers the company could indeed see revenue grow from $2.5 billion today, to $19 billion in 27 years. there are a lot of ifs in it. dave: i am getting tired of not being able to go to the movies but how is regal going to come out of this? >> reporter: the next story is pretty depressing. they are negotiating with lenders for a lifeline. how do you stay of when 500

regal cinemas are closed in the us? look at their revenue for the first 6 months of the year, a third of 2019, debt over $4 billion. a blockbuster is coming out. it will be warner bros. wonder woman sql. they are releasing that simultaneously christmas day in theaters and streaming hbo max. disney is considering tokyo, peter pan, which is not been filmed yet, releasing them exclusively on disney plus. >> what i miss more than anything is a silly little thing, the smell of popcorn in a movie theater. i dream of that sometimes but it is going to be a wild. with 40 million doses of vaccine available for the end of the year we will see it in springtime.

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dave: the ceo of macy's pleading with states not to shut them down again. ashley has the details. ashley: whether those pleas will be heard we will wait and see but macy's and other department store chains opening -- hoping states and cities don't close their stores during this critical holiday. despite rising covid cases. executive say the company demonstrated it can operate its stores safely which are large and can accommodate social distancing safely during the pandemic but macy limit store capacity, requires shoppers to wear masks and stored plexiglas at cash registers, customers must use hand sanitizer before trying on fine jewelry and

watches and a limited number of fitting rooms open at any given time that are sanitized frequently. a lot of steps they are taking, the national retail federation lobbying state governors telling them all about the safety measures and pleading for them to get these stores open but we shall see. dave: governors and mayors are not listening. career politicians don't care about business because they don't know how businesses operate. all they know is politics and it is a disaster. look at the markets, they are trading down but only mildly. let's bring in market watcher greg smith. we are entering a buyer is higher period. >> the jury is out, the news is here, the vaccine is in the

rearview mirror but doesn't negate that most americans are scared. we are sitting around shipwrecked on a deserted island, we know help is 30 days away but we have 10 days of food left. we are waiting to get to a better place. ultimately the markets will continue to trade higher. as i talk about before there is no better place to have your capital given were bond yields are but i think the market is consolidating, it has been a little bit choppy and we enter appear go soon that things will trade higher. i would rather pay 120, 121 for apple rather than pick a bottom at 117-18. once the momentum comes back -- dave: i do not think most americans are afraid. politicians are afraid or addicted to this tendency to use authoritarian power to get

people to bend to their will and that is more of a threat, most americans look at the vaccine progress, look at the therapeutic process and the dangers of lockdowns and want to keep economies open. >> i would agree with you but they can be scary. sitting in new york city, when you see schools close and the threat of further lockdowns. the headlines are scary and politicians are making draconian moves. we all believe things will get better. dave: we are coming up to black friday. the amazon trade on black friday, are we going to see anything like that. >> the black friday trade, a great strong rally into black friday. it has been pulled forward.

just two weeks ago around november 11th or so, not sure the trade is out but from a long-term perspective, and the trade is here that year. dave: if a guest looks tired i wouldn't mention it but in this case i will mention it because last night you slipped on a piece of cardboard, your intention was to bring the issue of homelessness to more americans, an organization you supported dealing with the homeless. explain. >> i would say was the hardest year of my life. my two college roommates and my slept in a sleeping bag and a piece of cardboard outside all night, piece of sidewalk across from the javits center on the west side highway in an effort to raise awareness and show

solidarity for the homeless youth in this country. there are 2000 kids every night that sleep in 31 facilities across the country. i don't have to throw a statistic to you and tell you how many homeless kids there are in this country. they do great work, $25 from the covenant house will feed one kid. it has been providing 3 meals a day for a week. sleeping outside, it was a soft morning for me. dave: it was a cold night. thank you very much, appreciate you coming in. alexandria ocasio cortez has an idea to solve the ongoing pandemic. she wants to pay people to stay home in order to get the virus under control, who cares what happens to the businesses they were working at. i am calling that for what it is, pure socialism and we know it doesn't work. the cdc telling people not to travel for thanksgiving. new york medical professor

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dave: thanksgiving less than a week away.

the cdc urging people not to travel for the holidays. let's bring in doctor bob, thanks for being here. is the cdc overreacting? >> the cdc is on target. here is what the issue is. if you have relatives coming from other states or from other countries and these are spike areas where there is lots of infection you run the risk of having them in fact all of you at thanksgiving dinner. the best thing the cdc is saying is usually have immediate family you know are healthy. should you have guests you should take her temperature and make sure they are a symptomatic when they come in but remember not having

symptoms doesn't mean you're incapable of transmitting an infection in the first 5 to 10 days of your infections so that is pretty dicey for these holidays where everybody will be in close space. dave: the cdc is also saying closing schools during the pandemic is an emotional response. we have seen all kinds of evidence there is not a transmission, very low transmission rate in schools all around the studies that have been done. children seem to be able to whether this covid storm better than bold people. are the lockdowns in schools really necessary? >> totally unnecessary, totally. and it has a major effect on our economy and other things. children up to the age of senior in high school are very unlikely to be adversely affected by this virus. the survival rate for children in that age group is 99.998% so the chances of them having a bad time with this virus are very small. number 2 is they can transmit the virus if they are infected

but if if they wear masks and keep socially distant which is a good thing they can not transmit the infection readily. dave: you heard the mayor of new york city say he is going to lockdown the city or lockdown the schools in the city. what would you tell him? he is operating on the basis of science, you are a doctor, you're in a sense a scientist. what would you tell him? >> i tell him to open the schools. those parents who can't afford a nanny, who can't go to work, are going to be strapped, they can't make a living and most of them are poor people. open the schools. the governor says there is a law that if there's 3% or greater infection everything has to close down. it is time for them to look at that law again. dave: listen to the scientists, the scientist is saying

something different. i got to ask about the world health organization telling doctors not to use covid kayleigh mcenany 3 in light a china misstatement. >> who is wrong on that. everybody at the cdc and fda agree it has a major role to play in treating this infection. dave: donald trump would agree with that, he credited as part of the reason he recovered so quickly. great to see you, appreciate it. we have a big show still waiting for you. we have tammy groups and john ridge, second hour of "varney and company" just moments away.

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country music star john rich has a good line up yet to come. the big news of the day, pfizer and biotech applying for emergency, and listen to what alex azar said earlier. >> of the data is as clear as it appears and there are no other hitches in the process we could literally be looking at authorization of this vaccine, and we will have shipments within 24 hours of millions of doses of this vaccine to the american people. dave: you say markets will keep moving higher no matter what. even if democrats win the senate, markets will move higher. >> the vaccine front and

center, and and 80% of stocks in their 200 day and 250 day moving averages. a couple of new lows. it is overbought here. we are seeing a rotation, talked about the big stocks, apple, amazon and the like. small leading the way, the russell 2000 at an all-time high. we are seeing rotation in the more value-oriented name. that is bullish to the market with politics in the big picture. dave: no matter what happens in the senate even if republicans win just one of those two senate races and if they win just one they can hold the majority in the senate but you have new regulations coming out of the biden white house if in fact if it becomes the biden white house, you have

regulations that can change the whole construction of the way business is done. imagine bernie sanders as labor secretary, he would totally try to replace our capitalist society with more worker oriented corporate structure. this could really change america. >> more regulated the industry the more inefficient it is but someone like bernie sanders, the stream hard left got their way everything america would be run by the post office god for bid. we are not moving in that direction but take a look at an area like high tech, big tech will be under attack from republicans and democrats in the next administration. microsoft, did money for ten years, you want to ignore it as an investor but you can't. government lockdown caused the

market to crash and from the top town mentality, it will trade down hard. dave: the lockdown, the new lockdown in new york city, i am afraid it is happening in too many cities, they just don't learn. appreciate it. individual stock starting with footlocker. they had a surprise increase in same-store sales. it more than doubled to 265 million on the news and that is what is happening today, 2.5%, ross stores posting $2.75 billion for the last quarter, attributing that to a later back-to-school season and they were up to and one third person. williams-sonoma's revenue reaching $1.76 billion thanks to a huge, 49% jump in digital

sales, stock is surging this morning, back-to-back scenes, pfizer and biotech applying for emergency approval. who will get the vaccine first? >> the ones that needed the most, and essential workers, pfizer is first to go through the regulatory process and i love this tweet by their ceo, 248 long days and nights, it was grueling for them. what we know is the fda will hold cases and regulatory review. it is likely they will use those days to review the moderna vaccine. this is what critics are saying. if you have the data why are you waiting so long because once this is approved it can be shipped in 24 hours. >> renewed restrictions, talking to jonathan about that

in several states and cities, what is the latest on the lockdowns. >> a temporary curfew through most of the state goes into effect saturday, stocks gathering nonessential work from 10:00 pm and 5:00 am in areas under the state's restrictions which means more than 90% of that state's population. in rhode island, a 2-week participant called from november 30th to december 13th. that will close some businesses leaving others open. in person colleges, universities, bars, recreational areas and indoor sporting arenas and jim's will be closed while crowding restrictions will reduce capacity, indoor dining areas and retail stores, doing their utmost to keep those places open as they can. and there's a statewide mask

mandate, and preventing hospitals from overwhelmed. it is replaced, the mandate follows others in close by governors in iowa, north dakota and utah but these things are changing by the hour. dave: things that keep us healthy like going to the gym, they are stopping that. the sort of thing we need to stay healthy against the virus. president-elect biden, did you see him yesterday? he was stumbling over a lot of his words in his press conference. take a look. >> i am happy to take a few questions. my boss is going to tell me that his. >> what you say to americans, immigrant americans who came to the united states looking for political stability and seeing all the things the president was doing. >> what the president is doing

now, is really, is really, is going to be another incident where he will go down in history. it is going to be certified. we are going to end up making clear, they are making clear that we won. dave: come in, tammy bruce. is this a man who is strong enough to stand up to the quad, to the progressive and radical mob outside of congress and inside congress. >> not only up to stand against them. that is one of our concerns. and also capable of not standing up, to gustave f. perna -- xi, in china. one of the biggest fraud is perpetrated, it is clear, i

don't think the american people believe that this man is going to be capable of managing the dynamic of the free world and that should be a concern, we have to find out how this nation would run if he ascends to the white house but regardless of who does, this has been a shocking dynamic, a major political party put through a man who clearly has some issues not only in regular life but to manage, look at what donald trump is done, this remarkable pushed through, unheard of in human history when it comes to the development of something important like a vaccine, take leadership, connection, focus and determination from that singular leader. it is unfortunate but we will see a lot of that in years to come. dave: who do you think if we do have a biden administration

will be driving, would it be kamala harris, could it be more moderate in the party, who really is going to be the driving force behind this administration? >> the bureaucracy, the deep state. it is not going to be, kamala harris certainly does not have what it takes to be the president. you hear word about susan rice coming in, all very familiar faces piling into the white house, but also piling back into the agencies. it was that entity, that monster that was so angry at trump for disrupting, and the endless wars, the nature of spending, slowing everything down. and detail attached dynamic, that looks at the american --

and the bureaucracy return, >> >> with organizations like isis will return as well. it is that kind of deep state authority, and andrew cuomo expressed more skepticism about vaccine timelines. >> and we authorize the drug for emergency use. before biden gets into office, that is why i am pushing so hard. and we have a process in place to check what the fda says, getting the vaccine in new york.

>> doctor anthony fauci who even liberal think of the wonderful prognosticator, people like wilma were dead wrong, this was not the speed to which this vaccine has arrived has nothing to do with its safety, safety concerns were embedded in the process, what do you make of this. >> cuomo is a disgusting repugnant man. blaming the ability to streamline and speed up, the got nothing done, that his standard is a system that took forever to get anything done if it ever did and suddenly the ability to deliver a vaccine because of a pandemic that is clearly dangerous around the world upset him because it got here too soon.

so biden would have the glory. that is how that man things, the same man who still scoffs at taking any responsibility for the thousands of people he spent in nursing homes who died from covid and now he is upset because the vaccine is here too fast. what kind of a human being thinks that way and then questioning that system of checks and balances, everybody watching it, that the fda is somehow involved in a conspiracy? this is outrageous. dave: it is putting his own personal political future above not only science but the health and the life and death issues americans have to face as a result of this pandemic. we have to leave it at that. here's a flashback, president obama saying tax hike during a recession are bad. roll tape. >> the last thing you want to do is raise taxes in the middle of a recession because that

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remote. the cdc is advised against closing schools. >> director robert redfield says keep them open. >> i'm here to say the data strongly supports the k-12 schools as well as institutes of higher learning really are not where we are having our challenges and it would be counterproductive from a public point of view containing the epidemic if there was an emotional response, to say let's close the schools. >> reporter: he says it is an emotional response because the science shows based on tests they have done that the infections in schools were not acquired in schools, they were acquired largely in other places. there is no link between the rise in cases in the reopening of schools.

and the fear is a lost generation. students will lose not only academic skills but social skills and starting to hear words like lost generation. dave: their parents lose time at work. a desperate situation trying to hold onto the jobs, it is a terrible situation and wish they would follow the science on this. staying on the shutdowns, a new york times editorial calling for the government to shutdown restaurants and bars. let's bring in the man who owns quite a few restaurants, speaking to one restaurant tour saying it is like climbing, when you have these shutdowns, like climbing a pole that has been greased, you got to make a

little progress if you are paid off by the government but then you slide down and are eventually out of business. >> your friend is making it sound easy. it is tougher than that. we haven't had the shutdown situation happen in new york yet but shutting down and starting out, i know you know a bit about the industry, start with we have perishables, you shutdown, throw away 20, 30, 40,$000 worth of food, it is no good, it is bad. no one is reimbursing that. starting and stopping, shutting down what they say about schools, restaurants are more than a place to eat food as you well know, but a place to celebrate, to communicate, it is communal, the core of what we are as a country. forget food for a moment.

what the cultural aspects are, shutting us down is not the solution by any means but start with wearing masks, shutting us down is not the answer. dave: let's talk about reality here. as you once told me you can't plan on hope, you have to plan on reality. the reality is a lot of restaurants have already gone out of business and the result of the new lockdowns, more restaurants go out of business. what happens to the future of restaurant in cities like new york where they have new lockdowns. >> this is a crisis of epic proportions and i don't want to be reduced to hyperbole. we know each other a long time, you know i don't talk in that vein of hyperbole. this is a crisis of epic proportions. we hear anywhere from 60%

higher than that, restaurants never opening again. we will lose and already have shuttered 30% of our entire portfolio of restaurants. they will never reopen which will amount to another thousand jobs we were employing just because of what has happened to date. every day is a new day, and in terms of expectation. dave: i know you will survive because you are a successful businessperson but all those hundreds, as you say, thousands working for you, we wish them the best because of the idiocy of some of these politicians who have no idea how business works particularly the restaurant business. thank you very much.

jim's nationwide brace for another round of shutdowns, another industry politicians don't care or know anything about, companies that are gearing up for a holiday boom. come on in, christina. i don't see how jim's will survive another lockdown. >> it is already relatively across the board, a lot of jim's in major metropolitan cities and in new york the mayor warning it could be a matter of time, maybe next week when jim's would shutdown as well as indoor dining and so the loss in business has been really cruel to the industry. a gym that went bankrupt in may was bought by another company for $100 million this summer and 24 hour fitness declared bankruptcy and this summer they closed 100 locations. a lot of that has to do with covid.

public fitness reported a decline of 37%. they are feeling the crunch in manhattan. it is a national chain. signature's ceo, what it means for his business. >> it hurts our business to shutdown again, for theing employees, credit members their dues, a big challenge for us. we started with 3000 employees, 1300 employed right now. maria: not only the shutdowns but the likes of telethon, all competition so business owners across the board don't want to be singled out to hurt their industry or people may never come back. dave: nashville is banning gatherings of more than eight people, country star john rich owns a bar in nashville and is on the show to talk about this in our next hour but first

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dave: let's look at the market, down triple digits close to half of one%, 24 points, nasdaq up a little bit. gold, people concerned enough about these new lockdown getting into the safety of gold, trading up $16.70 an ounce, still below $19,001,878 an ounce and big coin, those folks who aren't looking up to gold are looking to bid coin, it had a run up recently to 18,$745, a $650 rise this day alone, up 3.5%. look at this tweet from alexandria ocasio cortez suggesting we pay people to stay home, to get the virus under control we need to pay people to stay home. come in, will kane, fox and

friends weekend cohost. this shows this woman has absolutely 0 understanding of what makes businesses work. we learned a lot of these shutdowns hurt the expenses, things you don't think about like the food that has to be thrown away if you shutdown a restaurant, you still have to pay your rent. these are considerations that lockdowns or those who advocate it like ocasio cortez have no consideration for whatsoever. >> alexandria ocasio cortez has no concept of how an economy works. i don't dismiss anything out of hand, not anymore. i understand people are hurting not because of a normal economic downturn but because of government mandates that their businesses shutdown and alexandria ocasio cortez is offering something to give people some sense of help but i can't separate that from her larger goal of restructuring

society and defines of economic understanding. i can't separate it from the mantra of build back better or the great reset. at some point we have to set up, look around, wake up and realize what happened not just to our economy but our society in the last 10 months. our children aren't in school in defiance of science. businesses are shutdown, fifties%, 60%, 70%, perhaps never to come back, curfews in state after state after state to go home at 10:00 pm. in new york i can't go to a bar and order a beer without ordering not chosen if i don't order the food item i somehow don't believe in the pandemic, i don't believe the coronavirus is real. that is what they tell me. i guess i will have the not shows if it helps fight the coronavirus. we have totally lost not just with our economy but society, slipping away, the truth is we

can take this seriously, we can empower individuals lose, we can allow businesses to survive, we can open up and still fight this pandemic. we don't have to send people home. dave: we are going back to the era when people who know nothing about the way the world works are defining, off arising, demanding, ordering us to do it their way. it is projection because they were complaining donald trump wasn't following the science. they are not following the science on school closures, they are not following the business people on how they run a business. they are doing it in their own mind from ivory tower visions of the way the world works. >> for four years we are donald trump is a wannabe authoritarian, potential tyrants. weaver that over and over, over the last 10 months we have seen the biggest authoritarian grab by government figures in the past half-century from mayors to governors, we have seen

people commandeer power to the extent of defining what we can order at our dinner table to telling us when we can leave our homes and donald trump by the way grab none of that power. he could have. many were asking him be more strict, come down more authoritarian. he chose to commandeer none of that power. bill diblasio, cuomo, newsom, happily did so. dave: 74 million people in america at least voted for the more laissez-faire, liberty oriented approach to governance which is what america was founded on and they might lose out. it is getting very close to an ordered society, one that i personally don't want. see you on the weekend. people fleeing for the suburbs, they are renting homes. grady trimble, they have fallen significantly in cities but not where you are.

>> surprise surprise, we are in the chicago suburb, not just people buying homes but renting them. in front of an invitation home, four bedrooms, 3 and a half baths, $2,500 a month. i want to show you the numbers, this is a trend happening across the country, single-family home rent prices are up 3.8% year-over-year and if you compare that to apartment in a city like chicago, rent prices are down 23.3%. big-city exodus we talked about, and the context of people buying homes but renting them. invitation homes recently did a survey of their renters and found one of the main reasons people are leaving cities is for more space in the suburbs and they also found 37% of their renters say the covid

pandemic was a big catalysts, a big reason they chose to get out when they did. it is a trend we are seeing an invitation homes, american homes for rent, they are seeing the same thing. this is from people who don't want to make a big purchase yet or can't, but give them the flexibility to try it out in the suburbs. dave: you have housing prices, housing way up. and lumber prices way up as well. that seems to make sense. ashley: it is not a coincidence. normally lumber prices stop to drop. this year is anything but normal. thanks to build -- it is mild out there. it is a big year for home construction. lumber futures shot up 24%, it

is 90% average this time of year. part of the reason is would inventories are thin through the lumber supply chain while demand from builders and home remodelers remain strong and housing data showing how strong the demand is blue single-family housing starts which is a measure of home construction climbed in october 2nd it highest level in 13 years so when you have lack of a product everybody wants prices go up. dave: absolutely, thank you very much. joe biden's treasury pick said he revealed around thanksgiving time, could we see secretary elizabeth warren as part of the treasury? i will ask that question next. moore on "varney and company" right after this. ♪ ♪ a fiddle made of gold ♪ the devil gets your soul ♪ ♪

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>> i want to say this. georgia is being looked at by the entire nation. all i can say is there is too many regularities dealing with election fraud as opposed to voter fraud. that is more individual but we look at election fraud you are talking machines, software, did people voting, people who didn't vote, there is a dark cloud over that. that being said i don't think georgians are ready for john s ossofff or warknock with socialist ideas that are penetrating through their left supporters and i don't believe georgia is ready for that, no blue wave came through georgia, they had a few squirts, look at the legislature, did not change, just barely changed it anything, too many questions but georgians are upset about this, they want fair and transparent elections and that is what you are going to see and i believe without a doubt looking at the way the current

situation is in the senate these two senators are badly needed to stop any type of -- dave: let me ask you, the democrat candidates are trying to muffle the radicalism, we have the videotape, what they said in the past. radically to the left. they are trying to muffle the radicalism. is it working with georgian voters? >> know, it is not. they are trying to muffle that. the liberal media is trying to muffle that too. john ossoff said he will be republicans so bad they can't show their faces. he sounds like antifa, like black lives matter with that violent tone. georgians know better. we are smart enough to know and understand what is at stake. i'm a lifelong democrat but there are democrats who don't want to see these two candidates from the far left

being our us senator, they are not in touch with georgian views, they are in touch with hollywood views but not georgians. dave: great to see you, we wish georgia the best in an important senate race, hope it is all right for all georgians and all-americans. everybody should be concerned about this. staying in the georgia race, big bucks board into tbs resort absent runoff, florida come into this, how much money specifically is being spent? >> i will quote karl rove, georgia is the last line of defense for conservatives. since election day, $135 million on television ads for the twin runoffs and more could be coming in. you have to remember senator kelly leffler is a millionaire. she can continue to pour her own money. the reason the airwaves are being inundated and there is so

much enthusiasm is georgia is going to determine how left joe biden can go with his policies and cabinet ticks. if both seats go blue the senate would be a 50/50 tied giving democrats control because kamala harris as vice president would be the tiebreaker. dave: both of those races have to go democrat and we heard from vernon jones a lot of things georgians don't like about at least one of them. facebook removed hundreds of thousands of voter interference posts during the election. how many were pulled? dave: ashley: a lot. how about 265,000 pieces of content removed for violating policies on voter interference leading up to the election, facebook said it displayed warning labels on more than 180

million pieces related to voter interference in the company says by the way the 95% of people didn't click through articles in which those warning labels appeared but conservatives argue a disproportionate amount of censorship was aimed at their particular viewpoint. facebook said it rejected more than 3 million plus missions for political and issue ads that it says failed to meet the authorization process. they say they did a better job than in 2016. dave: by better it means more editorializing on their part which according to section 230 is not supposed to be done. thank you very much, see you in a second. still to come, house republican whip steve scalise is with us. grover norquist on how any new taxes under a biden administration would slow our economic recovery even more so. more "varney and company" right after this.

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dow jones industrial average, but the nasdaq is going against the red on the screen from dow jones and the s&p trading up from a tent and a 12:45%. it is a modest day of gains and losses. turning to taxes under a biden administration let's bring in grover norquist, americans for tax reform. slow the economic recovery after the great recession, slowest recovery we ever had in my lifetime, same with the biden tax increases. >> you wants to repeal all of the trump tax cuts. we saw the growth that flowed from taking the corporate rate from 35% which is 10 points higher than communist china at 25%.

you saw investment back in the united states, investment in the united states increased, and one year we saw the median family income jumped by 6.8% which is more than 8 years, the text that first kicked in. we know how powerful corporate rates are and business investment. taking those away is moving in the opposite direction which is towards lower growth. we've been there during the obamarecovery, 7 and a half years of recovery, weakest recovery since world war ii. dave: every recession i have lived through and looked at as a journalist, you want to increase incentives for business. we need more jobs, more business.

the last thing you want is to have the incentives go the other way in the other direction and that is what tax increases do. they slow growth and slow job creation. >> is biden trying to grow the economy which is trump and the republicans are trying to do or is he trying to grow government, the campaign he ran said $11 trillion more than already planned. over the next decade. dave: there is another tax called regulation, a tax businesses have to pay, that does not require congress. he can do a lot with regard to read regulated all the stuff donald trump got rid of the smooth the skin that about the tremendous growth we had before covid. does that scare you as well? >> it does. that is the major threat, if the republicans hold one or both senate seats they can stop

any tax increase, no tax increase, no $11 trillion in spending, no $99 trillion for green new deal or whatever part of it he would like to -- dave: regulation -- >> the regulation is on his own. they can be slowed down with court challenges. it takes some time. he has four years to run riot with new regulations. dave: grover norquist, good to see you, thank you. coming up, an all-star lineup, pete hegseth, house republican whip steve scalise and leo terrel with us. country music star john rich is here speaking out against shutdowns in his hometown of nashville, stay right there, the third hour of "varney and company" just moments away. ♪ me and you ♪ it takes two ♪ baby ♪ it takes two ♪ baby ♪ it is a dream come true ♪

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you know that you already have an audience it's going to buy your vaccine and a built-in distribution plan, get the science done. >> markets know what many of us know, we can live with the virus, do not have to destroy the economy. >> we are seeing rotation and the more value oriented names and that is bullish for the market. >> we need additional stimulus and we need to stop the bickering between the treasury and the federal reserve. this is not the time to pull those back. >> we will enter. soon when things will trade higher. once things return and momentum comes back, we will see the market trade-off. ♪ everybody is working ♪ for the weekend ♪ everybody is working ♪. david: a big first two hours and were just getting started, 11:0i am david asman in for stuart varney. we have a big hour lined up.

a house minority steve scalise, kenny went over the moderate democrats in the house and civil rights attorney leo terrell will tell us where we stand with the racial divide in this country and country music star john rich. let's get a check with the markets, they are trading generally down on the dow jones industrial average and the s&p, no more than about a half a percentage point on the dow, it seems to be on the trading range, 150 as low as is been going in recent trades, nasdaq is still up just a tenth of 8%. let's take a look at pfizer and biotech, they are going to file for emergency use authorization for their two dose vaccine. listen to what alex azar said about it all on "mornings with maria". >> assuming the data is as clean as it appears and assuming there are any other hitches in the process, we could be looking at authorization of the vaccine within weeks and as general from

the defense department and operation warp speed has said we will have shipments within 24 hours, millions of doses of this vaccine out to the american people. david: 40 million doses to be precise. that's a huge number, that vaccine has shown a 95% efficacy rate in clinical trials. let's go to edward lawrence live at thermal official fishers mang in north carolina, what an lord's name does this have to do advisors vaccine. reporter: this is where the doses will be stored, the cold storage unit where the vaccine will be stored and they have been ramping this up, it's a critical part of the supply chain distribution. you can see this whole story being tested negative 79 degrees celsius, that is important because the pfizer vaccine that must be at negative 70 degrees celsius so they have to keep that uniform in the distribution

process, now they have big units like this, were told hundreds of thousands of doses of the vaccine, smaller units like this which you can use in the process so each part of the supply chain can be covered when you get down to cvs and a smaller unit. it is critical that these units get built and the demand is outstanding, their record capacity in the factory for making these. they knew this was coming in april, march and april they started to get contacted by the vaccine makers saying they will make these vaccines in the company extrapolated out and figured out what the demand would be which is the reason their 700 employees, a record for this facility in asheville north carolina and are turning out a record capacity of these machines. david: it's incredible they're getting a mop that quickly. this is not only vaccine, moderna has one that does not require as cold of a storage. reporter: exactly, moderna and

vaccine needs to be negative 4 degrees fahrenheit which is a lot less. kind of like your freezer at home. however, i was told we want something cold in your freezer, you put in the back of the freezer because the temperatures are not uniform and these freezers are uniformed and specialty for that so they can go from negative 4 degrees, negative 94 degrees, whatever is needed for a vaccine in that range in lb guaranteed to be uniform so the products will be good when it goes into somebody's arm. david: when the private sector is in power -- everyman's me of respirators, we were able to get them out in advert a crisis at least as far as the respirators went. it looks like while the same progress in terms of the refrigeration units. great to see you. let's look at tyson, suspending managers at an iowa neat plant for making inappropriate bets. what were they betting on?

reporterashley: how many employl catch covid, tyson foods says on thursday it is suspended the employees without pay and by the way hired former u.s. attorney eric holder to conduct an investigation, it comes from a wrongful death lawsuit, the claims manager at an iowa pork plant took on how many employees we catch covid-19, the son of a worker at a tyson facility in waterloo iowa who died of complications on the virus filed a lawsuit and said they misled workers about covid-19 in the loud sick employees to continue working in the suit goes on to claim that the managers that i will plant organized the winner take all betting pool for supervisors and managers to wager on how many employees would test positive for covid-19 pre-tyson says it has suspended those employees and also launch the independent investigation

through eric holder. quite a story. david: not a pleasant one either. let's move on the space force getting close to picking a location for the headquarters. where are they looking? ashley: the space force or space commerce is called in the military, it was formed in august last year end overseen the space-based infrastructure and operations the efforts to find a new headquarters has taken longer than expected but is been whittled down to six possible locations to answer your question in new mexico, nebraska, florida, texas, colorado and alabama. the space force hq will have a workforce of 1400 military and civilian personnel but these are the criteria. the new base must be in within 25 miles of an existing military base and within one of the top 150 most populous metro areas in the country. now they look at these six

potential sites. the final decision expected by early next year but we should point out it could take years to get the facility actually built but i want a t-shirt that says space force. david: . exciting stuff. senator bernie sanders is making the case to become joe biden's labor secretary. let's go to hillary vaughn live in wilmington, delaware, what we know about biden's cabinet so far. reporter: we know progresses are making a push to be more represented honorable in the cabinet but administration. bernie sanders told the associated press today that it would be insulting if things are not adequately represented in the cabinet but we are learning that president-elect joe biden has made his choice for treasury secretary and yesterday he assured people it is someone who can do what some people think would be impossible, please

progresses without making moderates mad. >> you will soon hear my choice for treasury and you will find it is someone who i think will be accepted by all elements of the democratic party. progressive to the moderate coalitions. reporter: biden says he will make the announcement around thanksgiving, the president-elect has a chance to make history with his pick. the treasury secretary has only been held by white men and its 231 year history and biden's short list suggest that he will make history because on it is brainard of federal reserve governor, a former fed governor and business executive and janet yellin the former fed chair, one big-name missing is senator elizabeth warren who is picked by progressives, but it would mean democrats would give up another seat in the senate and it tells me they are betting on

janet yellen, if they were to picker it would be a victory for progressives. president-elect joe biden will meet with senate minority leader chuck schumer and house speaker nancy pelosi, this is the first time the three will meet in person since the election, we are expecting one of the topics to be discussed getting the stimulus to congress, biden said he does not want them to wait until he is in the white house, he wants them to act now. it is biden's birthday today, maybe there will be cake involved. david: 78 years old. the democrats have control of the next congress but can moderates push through conservative ideas. come in louisiana congressman steve scalise the gop house. the blue wave was in the minds of the media and democrats and it turned out to be a red wave in many cases, you did not take over control of the house but you picked up a lot of seats. a lot of the moderate democrats are complaining about the

leftward movement of congress and the democratic side. do you think you can actually work with the moderate democrats against the will of the democratic side? >> thank you and good morning, if you look at where the matter under moderates are, as liberals versus the socialist on the democrat side and the liberals were voting for the socialist agenda the last two years everything from the green new deal, medicare from all to defunding the police in raising taxes, they voted for, the voters rejected them another yelling about it, if they just voted with us and worked with us on a lot of things they would not have had those problems but regardless of that we will fight for the conservative and we have at least a dozen more members coming in then we had before to join us in the fight, we have a great new class of republican freshman and a lot of energy they're bringing to fight socialism, if they're going to move a socialist agenda we will

fight it to the nail and it'll be rejected at and will bring it back. david: have you looked at the moderate democrats, those who have complained about the leftward movement whether the black lives matters movement or economic issues, have you been pinpointing them in thinking of ways to get them on your side and particular votes that you're concerned about? >> we've given them opportunities the last two years and they rejected it, every one of them voted over 90% of the time with pelosi and aoc is hard to call yourself a moderate when you're voting with socialist 90% of the time we will give them opportunities and see where they go. ultimately they will have to make the decision but they're having a big internal fight because aoc will not let up and she's pushing pelosi to be far socialist left and that's where america is.

david: what about issues regard to the cabinet, biden cabinet, we talk to hillary about the fact that bernie sanders may be the labor secretary, a lot of people say what is the labor secretary do, he can do a lot in terms of corporate governance issues, he put out a paper when he was running for president, corporate accountability and democracy paper in which essentially workers would place management and shareholders in decision-making and profits of corporation and it would get the government to interfere in many different ways in the way corporations work, it is a socialist ideal with regard to replacing the capitalist element in the way corporations work. >> bernie sanders socialist approach was rejected in the democrat primary, i know joe biden tried to adopt a lot of it anyway but then he tried to run away in the end because he knew it was very unpopular with the public. this is where the senate is very important, the two seats in georgia are very important when chuck schumer in new york tells

people we can change georgia, we can change america i don't think the par people of georgia want o give the two senate votes to chuck schumer to implement new york values in georgia, that's what's at stake in georgia and ultimately if we hold the senate the ability to move socialism in the senate or socialist cabinet picks through the senate would be very uphill. the american people rejected socialism in a lot of ways, look at miami we flipped to democrat house seats in miami, to republican because a lot of the cuban population that is led socialism, they don't want to see socialism brought to ameri america. david: have to ask you one question but we only have five seconds, will we have another covid relief bill before the inauguration. >> there is not an agreement but i would like to see another ppp loans, there is wide agreement on that, pelosi needs to stop holding them hostage for bailing out states like new york and california. david: steve scalise, great to see you.

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david: states from "coast to coast" or putting new restrictions in place right before thanksgiving, cumin pete hegseth, "fox & friends" we can cohost and dad of seven. under the new jersey restrictions, you can only have one guest for thanksgiving, how do they enforce that. >> they don't, it is insane and people will ignore and not make their own choices for their own lives based on their own threshold and the loved ones that they know and love and who they want to protect. it might be a smaller gathering reflectively less people are traveling but if your family gets together and you want to be with them, you will be doing on thanksgiving, it is a condescension on people who want to control our lives that people ultimately reject, people are smart enough to know we can make a call and we don't need to have a mask on to either turkey in between bites. david: you bring out the essential point. a lot of people who are elected

officials have an authoritarian pole, this covid thing exposes the authoritarian underbelly of a lot of the ideas that these politicians have about how to govern. >> you're totally right, and new jersey governor murphy said early on with tucker when asked about all the restrictions, the bill of rights is above his pay grade, and they're not even thinking about freedoms in churches being open and livelihoods be destroyed. there obsessed with the control and they want to ram it down as far as they can and use every level of government possible. the first go around is novelty, everyone needs to be all in, now we know more about the virus and were seen them do it again and they could have thanksgiving and get their hair cut and meet with her friends anyway, they're hoping and praying their schools

are open, i'm not saying that's a good thing that's what happened. >> politicians don't learn from the past but americans do and americans figure out how to get things done. we have therapeutics, we have the great news on the vaccines, we know how to social distance and do all that stuff, there is an outbreak of more covid cases around the country but we know now how to survive it and how to live with it, do you think americans -- how long can americans continue to defy what the politicians are ordering them to do. >> as long as they're willing to show courage. they've remained open, 70000 people come through the gym and not a single covid-19 case. they're getting fined 15 grand today for having the doors open. david: hold on, i think we have sound from the gym owners, let's play the sound and get pete to react. >> her greatest concern moving forward is not that were going to stay open, we will be open no matter what, no government mandate will change that, were

just worried other businesses won't stand and play with us, we have power in numbers. david: the bottom line is, they believe in what they're doing, they know a hell of a lot more how to run a gym and how to stay healthy of going to a gym that the politicians were ordering them, they will continue to do with her going to do. >> of course because they respect their customers and follow the protocol and ultimately their customers would not show up if they didn't feel like they were being respective. 70000 people have gone to the doors and not a single case of covid, this is a gym with a clean everything in between and they're not rejecting protocols, they are simply saying we will do them and people can go about their lives just like liquor stores, grocery stores, costco and walmart but you can't go to church and have nachos with your beer at the bar because you can't have a bar open and everything has to close at ten because the virus is more

ferocious at 10:01 a.m. then 9:09 p.m., schools is another one, 99.999% survival rate for every kid, we know they're not super spreader location. david: that is not hyperbole, though statistics are real. >> that is a fact, parents are losing their mind over the fact that yet again we are looking at a lockdown in teachers can wear a mask, be socially distant from the kids and choose not to commit if they want to, a lot of schools have done that, this is where the psychology becomes overwhelming, my kids can't go to school my business cannot be open, i cannot go to work, you and i can do our stuff virtually it does not affect the people who can do it virtually and most people who work with their hands and work hard don't have the opportunity, every business and every livelihood is essential in that's me teaching the kids at the headset when all this started but i gotta keep doing

that my wife has a job and i am a job. david: the homeschooling is great, i have a lot of friends who have homeschooled in their kids go on to college and have successful but not everybody has that freedom, not everybody have jobs to go to where husband-and-wife, this interferes with all of that, authoritarian is a is not just exhibited by politicians, social media companies have it as well, we see a lot of that with censorship, you moved over to parler and you have not missed anything from twitter. >> it is unbelievable i spent nine years on twitter got to 300,000 followers, and nine days in parler i'm over my twitter number, it is very simple it's because they're not throttling back who can see my parlays versus my tweets, i would watch my followers go down until i tweeted again and then they would go up a little bit but there was a cap on how many people could like it or retweet it, that is not free speech. david: i'm doing both parler and

twitter i am not broken entirely. >> i'm doing a little bit to. >> i think i'm too go wholesale in the parler. david: your hosting the fox nation patriot award tonight it will be streamed on fox nation at 8:00 p.m., what can you tell us quickly about that. >> and award show for real heroes, this is not actors giving awards to other actors, these are real heroes, we will celebrate america, this great country. you will be inspired, don't miss it 8:00 p.m. tonight. david: we will repeat on fox business on sunday. >> sunday at 11:00 o'clock. david: enjoy the homeschooling you won't have much longer for that. business owners getting fed up with lockdowns and restrictions and restaurant owners are taking the fight to court. a live report on the lawsuits and what is at stake coming up but georgia democrats have raised $90 million for the senate runoff and it's just the beginning where the race is tightening, should republicans be concerned about a blue wave

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david: checking the markets, moderate gains, moderate losses, about the same the last time we looked at it, a mild downward trend at the s&p and the dow jones industrial average but a moderate gain on the nasdaq, you win some, you lose some. we were told by democrats under joe biden racial tensions would decrease but that remains to be seen, one of the black lives matters cofounders say they will hold the administration accountable and work with them to dismantle a system that for too long has not worked for the black community, come in leo terrell, civil rights attorney. racial tensions, will they get better or worse under joe biden. >> they're going to get worse, basically what you saw your trump supporters out in washington, d.c. campaigning, young black lives matter and antifa out there injuring people, if your trump supporter you get injured by black lives

matter and antifa, black lives matter made a demand upon joe biden seven interview and a meeting with him, i don't want black lives matter and antifa in the oval office, i do not support black lives because they don't care about all black lives, black police officers, black on black crime, i think it's a mistake. david: i'm just wondering during the obama administration we had rubber now sharpton make 90 visits to the white house, he has some influence on policies, will we see the same things for black lives, will blm become the biden administration version of visits by al sharpton. >> yes that's a mistake, black lives matters was created during the biden obama administration, the problem is black lives matter is like making a deal with the devil and it joe biden in the whole democratic party embraced black lives matter it

is going to worsen racial relations, that's why the democratic party and voted republican for the first time, i am a trump republican. david: it is amazing, the last time i talk to you was a few years back and you are far into the left side of the democratic party. what happen, did you change or did the democratic party change. >> the democratic party is so far left and with joe biden makes the comment if you don't vote democrat, you ain't black, that is the intelligence of every american, i recall our conversation and i have gone from democrat to republican because of one person, donald j trump, he had programs for all americans and you look at what is happened, lower unemployment, historically black funded colleges in the first step act, there is no other choice than donald trump. david: you don't think joe biden can stand up to a moderate of the leftward forces from his party.

>> let me think about that, no, joe biden is an empty suit. you saw aoc in the squad, they are out there right now, they are going to try to take over the white house and that is why i am maybe jumping the gun, that is why i'm going to georgia. david: let's talk about you going to georgia specifically as we all know democrats have to win both of the runoff races, the two senate races in georgia, that the beginning of january, what are you going to do down there, we know $90 million has been raised by democrats for the runoffs, what do you plan to do their. >> i've tremendous amount of credibility by a former democrat, the $90 million is not quite be money it's going to be issues, you might recall jamie harrison had a boatload of money in south carolina, i saw your previous segment, there was no blue wave. the democrats lost the seats in the house, all we need to do and i am a strong supporter of senator kelly loeffler and david

perdue, all we have to do is expose the record, raffaella werraphaelwarnock he said you ce god as a military and he told people to repent for the whiteness, this man's record tells me that we cannot allow him or allsop to become senators. we do not want a socialist government, the key here is this, the senate is our last check and balance on democratic socialism. david: leo terrell, we've got to leave it there, it is amazing the changes that you went through and some of that wasn't necessarily with you, it was with the democratic party itself. >> i feel really good, see how happy i am i'm smiling because i'm a republican. david: you didn't smile much before, it feels better doesn't it.

>> i am happy. >> i wish you luck in georgia. david: disney, according to a report the mouse house is considering debuting more films on disney+ including films that have not begun to film like pinocchio, peter pan, a well, the stock is flat today and the owner regal cinema talks for a rescue package as shutdowns have slammed the movie industry, will it survive? susan: that's a very good question, cineworld is worried about that another negotiated with lenders for a lifeline 500 plus regal cinemas which they own in the u.s. are closed and the debt keeps piling up topping $4 billion and there was hope especially with the holidays upon us, blockbuster movies like wonder woman sequel that they would also be, people would go to the theater to see them but now that movie is going to streaming in warner bros. and her brothers is not doing that. disney putting peter pan,

cruella, which they have not filmed and putting them on disney+ exclusively. the theaters are struggling and if they lose the content, they will struggle even more. david: we will see what happens, thank you very much, not a sinclair broadcasting, they are getting into sports betting and rebranding themselves. tell us about it. ashley: sinclair broadcasting teaming up with valleys to use the regional sports networks and also integrate gambling content to fill the air time during and between games as more states legalize gambling, sinclair and balleys estimates it will be a 50 billion-dollar market within five years, do not forget disney recently reached a deal with draftkings in caesar's sports wagering legal and 25 states plus d.c., balleys by the way is pain sinclair $88 million over

ten years for the naming rights in addition to advertising spending which of course will help sinclair upset the impact of cord cutting, these partnerships make a lot of financial sense. david: thank you. first easter cancel, now thanksgiving. in the future could groundhog day be at stake, we will tell you how they are preparing for a long winter ahead shadow or no shadow. that is next. ♪

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david: this is important, children everywhere are asking can santa catch covid. fear not little ones listen to what dr. fauci says about all this. santa is exempt from all of this

because santa of all the good qualities has a lot of good and the immunity. santa is not going to be spreading any infections to anybody. thank you for clearing that up dr. fauci. anthony fauci has some good news for the holidays. he said santa is immune but groundhog day is different, we may actually be in trouble because they are going to limit the crowd at the next visitation of punxsutawney phil, they will show it streamlined on the internet so you will be able to see whether or not there is a shadow for your punxsutawney phil but you will not be able to go there live in person, so there is that. meanwhile, next holiday on deck is thanksgiving, the cdc has warned against traveling to visit relatives and friends but the question is are people listening? lauren: it seems so, yesterday

the cdc warn warns against cdc l and passengers are calling off their trips. >> people are canceling their flights that they had made a while ago or within the last week or so. we will know more over the next couple of days but as they say in the business demand is softening significantly. lauren: that was the ceo of airlines for america. united says bookings have slowed, cancellations have risen and that echoes what were hearing from americans, southwest, alaska air, it is been a dismal year for travel, volume is down 65% but thanksgiving was supposed to be the busiest time for the airline since march and it might be but it's not going to be as big as it was after this warning from the cdc. david: that's an absolute shame. if you want to visit hawaii, now

is the time, hotels are offering a free night at their resorts but the whole thing is not free, and will not be cheap right? ashley: there is always a catch, the headline drowsy when but anyway this is the story hawaii offering free hotel stays if visitors volunteer, an extra night for free at a number of hotels, nice ones, were talking about the four season and ritz-carlton but that does not mean an extra day on the beach, yup to volunteer from treeplanting to beach cleanups, ocean reef preservation and even making hawaiian quilts for the elderly, i would not want to look at my quilt effort. it encourages visitors to take a trip but give back. that is that the theme alaska airlines pitching and planting one tree for each flight the carrier makes to hawaii through

the end of the year. let's be honest the coronavirus has hit tourism in hawaii down 90% sense march, they're doing everything that they can, they have eased the restrictions of little bit recently but it's been a tough go for all the hotels just like anywhere else. david: thank you very much, arise in lockdowns and other restrictions all over the u.s. coinciding with the rise of covid cases but people are pushing back. a lot of our viewers are, let's go to mike tobin live in chicago. people are not happy about another lockdown are they? >> no, nobody is happy but were also not happy because the coronavirus cases are spiking, illinois is going into tier three restrictions and essentially what that mean if you have a business operating it is going to be subject to further restrictions, further decrease capacity even at home gatherings are supposed to be limited, you talk about the potential limits for thanksgiving, all across the nation businesses are struggling, no more in michigan were rotte gretchen whitmer puta

three shut down. the suit seeks an injunction that will allow restaurants to indoor services. it argues there arbitrary, business like tattoo parlors and barbers are allowed to operate indoors while the restaurants are not. so you got everything from burger joints to bowling alleys just trained to survive while the legal process moves forward. >> if she goes longer than three weeks, i'm probably done, unless congress steps up again but it doesn't look like it. >> were a small business, and we need some kind of guidance and assistance, you can't just shut us down and leave us to fend for ourselves. >> we were devastated, everyone is shocked, we are surprised that it's happening again because the momentum just started coming back. >> across the nation we are seeing restaurants in jim's

bonding together in suing, san diego county, philadelphia, groups make an argument that the data doesn't show that restaurants in jim's or contribute into the spread and the shutdowns are violated the constitutional right in montana, a group of bars and restaurants got together after violating covid safety protocols and claimed they were targeted or selectively targeted. david: thank you very much. country star john rich is sitting down with his celebrity friends telling their stories about the american dream. >> anybody in america that goes after their dream, they all have a story but if it never gets hard on you to do it, you're probably not in the right path, to be the greatest at any particular subject or field no matter what it is you have to be the best of the best. david: how do you pursue the american dream with all of these lockdowns, john rich joining us to tell us how right after this.

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you own a very popular bar called the redneck riviera, how will you deal with this? >> we have been following the rules since last march, as capacities drop in a moving target, it is difficult to run a business if you ask anybody in this country, right now with the moving targets, another thing, i have said this recently, hypocrisy, they breathe distressed, when we see our leaders within certain regulations to our businesses but we see them breaking their own rules, they're just role breakers for some of the things that they say are not totally true, regardless of all of that we still take all the precautions and make sure they are safe. david: america is the place where the rule of law predominates or used to anyway

as we see lawmakers breaking from their own rules and changing the rules so often that business people like themselves can't plan for the future and that leads to the breakdown of the rule of law. >> of course it does, anybody u.s. kids, you cannot tell your kids, don't cuss in my house and they get on the phone call and cuss somebody out. think about it, then i respect your opinion and know you're not serious about your own rules, the same thing applies, that is just a human thing if you're gonna set rules, abide by your own rules. david: you are in touch with the heartland of the united states, you deal with a lot of folks that didn't necessarily expected the election to turn out but they are digesting the word lockdowns, neither one of these things leads to good digesting for a lot of the people, how are they taking it, how do you think americans will continue on into

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