management and possibly somebody that someone to look at to add to bigger companies to add as you know. we're a small-cap growth manager at emerald. 2,000 companies. [closing bell rings] liz: joe, the small caps have done absolutely brilliantly. joe, thank you very much. red on the screen. time for "after the bell." connell: tech stocks are under pressure today certainly dragging the market down from record highs. we have rising virus cases. recovery concerns continue to weigh in on investors. a fair amount of political risk out there as well which we'll be talking about. look at the dow, the s&p 500 and the nasdaq all kicking off the second week of the year in the red. dow down 89. it was down 265 at the low. it came off the lows. tesla here at the close it finally snaps what was a record 11-session winning streak. last week alone tesla was up by 25%. today down by 8%. remember we talked about it at

$880? now $811. so those are some numbers we're looking at. i'm connell mcshane on "after the bell" a lot going on. let's get straight to the news happening at this hour. ♪. our top story, you know, shares of twitter dropping today by as much as 10% ending the day down by more than 6% after its move to permanently block president trump's account following the violent protests that took place last week on capitol hill. now parler, which is a social media app favored by many conservatives is suing amazon. it was pulled from amazon's platform. here to talk about some of the developments, susan li, covers number of technology companies. and we're joined by dion rabouin from "axios." good to see you. susan, we start with you. what is the latest? reporter: as you mentioned parler is suing amazon for antitrust and breach of contract

violations after being booted off amazon's cloud platform. they were forced to go off-line. parler might be down longer than expected. other vendors won't work with them. amazon, google, apple kicked parler off the platform. amazon said they are not provide services that customer that cannot identifying or encourages violence to other es. amazon giving similar reasons. twitter permanently shut down president trump's account on friday evening, concerned president trump might use the platform to incite a second violent event. it is not just president trump being barred from the platform. of course numerous complaints, mostly conservative users they are losing a ton of followers themselves. twitter telling us that changes in follower counts can be caused by a wide range of different factors. maybe due to unfollowing or because accounts were to be in violation of the twitter rules but if you asked twitter they say we welcome the left and the

right to be on our platform. connell: let's talk about that a little bit, dion. if you look at think about what susan is saying, take twitter as an example, we can talk a lot about some of these other companies there is business calculation what essentially is a political decision. twitter knew it was losing users with the decisions it made over the last few days. what calculation do you think jack dorsey is making and how do you think it will work out, dion? >> remember twitter is not jack dorsey's main sort of income. this is his side hustle. what he does with square, that is the big moneymaker. jack dorsey and step out to take these kind of gambles banning the president of the united states from a platform things like that and he doesn't have to worry about it hitting his pocketbooks too much. if you're an investor in twitter, you don't own square, this should be more concerning for you. keep that in mind. secondly there is widespread outrage on twitter about the

president's tweets. people calling for the banning of the president years and years. i assume part of the calculus has to be if we keep these folks happy over here we can upset these folks over here and still keep our numbers coming up and we're going to see if twitter's earnings as they come up the earnings season how well they have done. a lot of wall street actually had some pretty high expectations for twitter but let's keep in mind the stock has been on a down since december 18th. this just added to it. connell: you're right about one point which is interesting i think that conservatives are angry today and or talking about being censored on many platforms a discussion we had many times on this show and others liberals are angry, social media companies, facebook, twitter, should have acted earlier on their violation of terms of service and did not. so you have a lot of pressure being put on. the other story is susan is interesting. with the amazon, parler back and

forth you start to realize you think about it how much power amazon has no matter what position you have on this particular story, you know? reporter: it is interesting to see who actually controls the pipes and how important the pipes are in terms of whether you're a right-leaning or conservative-leaning or more liberal-leaning outlet like twitter or amazon. amazon controls whether the lights stay on. that is interesting to know. apple and google they said same reasons why they're kicking off parler which is concerns over violent content. especially screen shots we saw wildly shared showed a lot of d.c. protests and some violence was actually planned on parler. they would argue, look after a few, a few of these os updates, eventually, parler you may not be kicked off now but eventually you will be wiped out from all the other software updates eventually. connell: as final point, deion, to wrap up the discussion do you think others will go back on

what they have done? sheryl sandberg of facebook said there was no plans to do that? >> i can't imagine it. once you draw the line in the sand you go back on it, that will upset shareholders even more. one thing we know markets don't like is uncertainty. if you say you ban him you have to ban him take the good and bad with that. if you let him on and do that. twitter, facebook, others, are down today. if we learned anything about this market rally over the past however long it has been at this point there is always folks out there willing to buy the dip. connell: yes there are. there have been no doubt. thank you. susan as well. now to a possible second impeachment for president trump. new developments today in the house of representatives. fox's mike emanuel is live with us and he has the latest. reporter: connell, good afternoon. this new impeachment resolution says president trump gravely endangered the united states and institutions of government.

he threatened integrity of the democratic system. he interfered with the peaceful transition of power and imperiled a coequal branch government. he betrayed his trust as president to the manifest injury of the people of united states. likely house lawmakers will vote wednesday on impeachment. democrats are expected to have enough support for their effort. that is exactly one week before joe biden's inauguration. i asked one of the lawmakers leading the charge on impeachment if doing it this late with president trump leaving office soon is a waste of time? >> well i don't think it's a waste of time. i think it is not a evident with of time for everyone in this country and around the world to see us stand you and defend against an effort to overthrow a duly-elected president and engage in a coup d'etat which is what these terrorists did on wednesday. reporter: part of this is trying to make sure president trump cannot mount a political

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connell: pushing if you're the democrats to disqualify the president from ever running for office again. what a lot of people are talking about. mike emanuel, live in washington. more throughout the week on that. to the president-elect. joe biden received his second and final dose of the covid-19 vaccine earlier today. peter doocy is live in wilmington well wear with the latest on biden transition and vaccine rollout. peter? reporter: connell, very interesting the president-elect is trying to figure out how to advance his agenda with a senate that might be soon all consumed by a senate impeachment trial. so here is one idea for time management. >> go half day on dealing with the impeachment. and half day getting my people nominated and confirmed in the senate. as well as moving on the package. so that is my hope.

reporter: well the president-elect says he is not sure that is possible. he is waiting for an answer from the senate's parliamentarian. while he waits biden got his second dose of the covid-19 vaccine in public. a political report is expressing frustration with transition officials on lack of progress his promise to vaccine 50 million people by april. 100 million shots in 100 million days. to make sure there was no adverse effect from the latest dose he gave his guys vote vote of confidence? >> do you still have confidence in your covid team they will be able to vaccinate 50 million americans in 100 stays? >> i do. let me make a couple statements. my number one priority is getting vaccine in people's arms like we just did today as rapidly as we can. reporter: the big question mark remains, how much money does

joe biden covid-19 relief plan cost. he has not told us yet. he assures us he will on thursday. connell? connell: peter doocy live in wilmington, delaware. to the virus itself we have more than 375,000 americans dead as a result of covid-19 hospitalizations now surpassing 100,000 for 40 days in a row. states are looking for new ways to speed up the pace of vaccinations and fox's matt finn picks up our reporting on that from atlanta. matt? reporter: connell it is estimated 22 million vaccine doses have been shipped but only seven million people have gotten that shot. that means roughly 70% of the vaccines are sitting in freezers. there are lots of reports with states with distribution issues. states are trying to ramp up the process and others expand the list for people eligible for the vaccine. some people in the first tier who qualify simply don't want

it. fox news medical analyst dr. marc siegel report regulations are getting in the way in some cases. vaccines are discarded after not being used after being unfrozen. workers like custodians, food preparerses high-risk individuals would line up to get the shot if given the opportunity n arizona a 24 hour vac naics site opens today. in portland, oregon, drive-through vaccination sites are being opened over the weekend. there was a good response. >> e email on 7:30 wednesday night and had 1000 slots filled by 9:00 a.m. thursday morning. >> it was easy not being around other people and possibly getting exposed. reporter: medical experts say it is less after gamble to get the vaccine. the vaccine is considered safer than the virus that can leave you with life-lasting severe health effects. connell? connell: matt finn live for us

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number for our viewers. 1-800-call fbi. 225-5324. this is a number that people can call with any tips related to any potential violence that may have happened or may happen in the coming days or any tips related to that insurrection, that dangerous violence we saw in and outside of the capitol on january 6th this is an fbi memo we're hearing about today, an internal fbi memo warning there could be not just protests, connell, but armed protests in all 50 states, specifically in the capital cities of all 50 states. california governor gavin newsom just about an hour ago at a news conference said they're beefing up security in sacramento. many other governors are also doing the same. here in washington, d.c., the washington monument is closed until january 24th, out of potential, any type of potential safety issues. this according to the national

parks service but again the number that police are looking for, the number police want you to know on a federal level, 1- 1-8--call-fbi. connell: how long have they been tracking threats, do we know? >> i'm told for weeks. there is lot of confusion what capitol police knew, what the federal authorities knew on january 6th, but i'm told this specific instance, january 20th, the inauguration, we could be seeing protests before the inauguration, on inauguration day and after inauguration, they have been tracking them for weeks. they say they are going to be prepared but looking for any tips not just related to last week at the capitol. they're also looking for any potential violence that may be out there to try to stop it in advance. connell? connell: all right. david, david spunt live for us at the justice department this

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they have been located but buried under tons of wreckage making it difficult for them to recover. the boeing 737-500 jet disappeared after taking off from jakarta in indonesia's capital yesterday. it had been en route to borneo. a dozen helicopters, 53 navy ships and 100 rescue personnel have been searching sunday. they so far found landing gear, wheels and a jet engine. a midair breakup or explosion has been ruled out. the debris in is one area suggesting that the plane hit the water intact. 1body bags of human remains are recovered, so far identified. police are collecting dna samples from relatives. of 67 people on board, 12 were children and steph were crew. indonesia has been plagued by accidents because of poor

infrastructure and. there have been three plane air crashes in the last 25 years. it was in indonesia where the boeing 737 max went down in 2018. that led to the recall of the 737 max this is 737-500 boeing. it is not clear what brought the plane down. they think the investigation could take up to a month. back to you. connell: benjamin hall reporting from london for us. we want to shift for the moment to the future of government spending. progressives are hoping to push big plans through once the biden administration takes over. edward lawrence is in washington. he will dig into the details all week long, as a matter of fact. you're focused, today it is on education, right, edward? >> that plan, we're looking on education. we have a series of them all week. parts of the final plan were taken from senator bernie sanders as well as his supporters. what did not make it inside of the final plan was restrictions on for-profit charter schools, banning them from federal funds. what did say in there was free

college for low-income families. a study by georgetown university found that would cost $49.6 billion in the first year. when biden campaign posted his education plan last october it list ad price tag of $750 billion. that price tag has since been removed in the final version of the plan. vice president-elect kamala harris says in her debate the tax increases can be shifted so the money can help low income families get college. listen. >> joe biden will use that money to invest in education. so, for example, norfolks who want to go to a two-year community college it will be free, if you come from a family that makes less than $125,000, you will go to a public university for free and across the board we'll make sure that if you have student loan debt it is cut by $10,000. reporter: taxpayer money would pay for that last friday. biden's tax, biden's pick to lead a national economic council

says that the first education item likely to pass will not be from his education plan but because of the coronavirus. >> he also supports congress immediately canceling $10,000 of federal student loan debt per person as a response to the covid crisis. reporter: that would be in a covid relief package that will cost $370 billion. more than the direct payments to americans in the cares act. it has moderate democrat support because it would be within the covid relief package. the greater education plan will likely face more difficult time because of the cost and it would come after a would-be multitrillion dollar stimulus package could be passed. back to you. connell: you mentioned moderate democrat support, edward. to that point there are different factions in the democratic party from far left, center-left. can we engage how much support these programs might have throughout the party?

reporter: connell the focus son the senate a 50-50 split. eyes are on more moderate democrats in senate like joe manchin. senator krysten sinema, jon tester. they will likely wield a lot of power for at least the next two years. connell: really seems especially joe manchin. we were talking about that last week. he will be a powerful man in washington over the next couple years. edward lawrence with us. after the riot on capitol hill some of america's biggest companies are is spending political donations. we heard from number of them a few are taking a targeted approach. we'll talk about that coming up. florida is a number of states expanding the vaccine eligibility. new data reveal percentage of doses being used is behind 30 other states. the chief medical officer for orlando health will weigh in on that rollout later in the hour. covid problems, they're multiplying being, for the nba. the league postponing the 4th game of the new season.

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♪. connell: we're back with "after the bell" headlines. the national park service temporarily is suspending tours of the washington monument that starts today. it will be in effect until

january 24th in response to what they are saying are credible threats against visitors and park resources after the riots at the capitol. we're told closure could last longer if the conditions persist. companies responding to the violence in washington with their wallets. a number of companies today cutting off political spending, especially for those who voted against the certification of the election. those we heard from include not limited to dow, american express, microsoft, apple, facebook and hilton. nancy pelosi warning vice president pence to act on the 25th amendment within the next 24 hours to remove president trump. if not the house will indeed proceed on impeaching the president for a second time. the vote could come as early as wednesday on the article that was introduced earlier today. analysis of those headlines from dan henninger from "the wall street journal" and fox news contributor as well. on that last point potentially removing the president from office. four options are on the table.

25th amendment would be one of them. impeachment, resignation, or simply running out the clock with the new president takes over at noon on january 20th. given everything that happened what do you think is the best course right now? >> well, let me quickly suggest a fifth option which would be for president-elect joe biden to come forth say it is time to put an end to this because we are heading towards a enormous political train wreck for the country. i think if joe biden were to speak up, he already suggested that perhaps he is not on board for impeachment but the time has come to shut this down. that is what we need right now. i mean emotion, political emotions are at a white heat across the board and if nancy pelosi, there is no chance that vice president pence is going to invoke the 25th amendment. if she proceeds with this impeachment it is going to collide with the beginning of joe biden's presidency and

anything he wants to achieve. i agree with representative jim clyburn over the weekend to the extent he said the last thunk biden need is a trial in the senate right now after an impeachment vote. that should be put off for at least 100 days. i should be put off for 100 years myself but nonetheless this does seem to be some sense out there what nancy pelosi is pushing is a tremendous political explosion which we do not need right now. connell: now i know at the journal's editorial board you guys did write, got a lot of attention last week that president's best approach what would be resignation before his term will end. that looks like it will not happen. clyburn suggestion, that does get to accountability to some extent what some of this is about. the president is accused of incite an insurrection last week. if he is held accountable for

that he could be disqualified from holding future office, running for president again say for example, in 2024 even if he were to be convicted in the senate after impeachment in the house after those 100 days. what is wrong with that plan, do you think? >> well, i think it is impractical because the conviction in the senate suggests that you're going to be able to get 17 republicans to vote for conviction. i think that's a stretch under these circumstances. i don't think that they want to go that far. i think indeed the fourth option we were talking about earlier of the president going away after january 20th and moving on is the one they would prefer. it is not because of any lack of accountability. i think president trump has suffered a tremendous blow. i do think quite honestly connell, he is heading into political exile, whatever he may think his future holds.

the viliification for what happened last wednesday has been extraordinary. i just don't think the conviction and removal from office or running again option is really going to garner 17 votes, republican votes in the senate. connell: what about that other story we talked about in our headlines and how it might affect republicans in the house especially and then and some republican insists in the senate. many american companies pulled back donations. many broadly said they would not donate for sir, months. they may resume normally after that. companies like mayor i don't have and others talked about these members of congress who voted against the certification of the election. they said we're not giving any money to those people at all. how do you think it plays out for those members who were involved? >> i would, oh for members involved i think they may suffer some political donations shortages no matter what but you

know the idea that these political action committees are going to pull back on their donations it would be one thing if some of these corporate ceos and leaders were stepping forward and simultaneously saying it is time to calm emotions on both sides. i mean quite honestly connell getting extremely intense out there. last wednesday proved that. the shutting down of the washington monument were credible threats against it means this has not quite gone away. if some of these ceo's think the idea is that they are going to withhold contributions now to republicans, you know it is kind of like last summer we had defund the police. now we'll have defund the republicans. that is only going to inflame passions further. if these ceo's think their companies are somehow going to escape that by high-mindedly withdrawing money from republicans i think that is very shortsighted. that what the country needs from them right now is a much higher

statement of point about what they are doing to try to tamp down emotions. connell: verizon while we're speaking the latest company to suspend contributions to members voted for against certification of electoral college. following a number of others earlier today. other things in our head line, closing of the monument and other places in washington past the 24th and inauguration. don't want to make too much of it because it was one internal memo. david spunt our fox reporter brought us this hour, there is concern from the bureau about all 50 state capitals through the inauguration of president-elect biden. that is obviously a lot of ground to cover for the authorities over the next week 1/2. >> probably more ground than they can cover. i mean it is very difficult to track all of this but you know, connell, let's not make, let's

not pretend those extremists were the only people out there that are operating at this level of white heat. virtually most of the conversations many of us have today, email, text exchanges with friends makes it pretty clear this country is in a very bad place right now. how it got there is something we're going to have to sort out in the future but at the moment the primary goal is step back from what is going on, step back from the credible threats of civil disorder all over the country and for people in positions of responsibility to try to tamp things down. nancy pelosi seems to have no interest whatsoever in doing that. swim clyburn sounds like he might. people like clyburn and countier parts in in the senate and the private sector have the responsibility to prevent us from getting to a point we do not want to go here in the next

couple weeks. connell: agreed obviously on tamp things down. i would add tell the truth if you're in a position of any authority in the country. dan, thank you as always. dan henninger from "the wall street journal." we have one sign of normalcy we can fit in today, disney world of all places revealed the winter operating schedule will see reopening of at least one of its winter parks, blizzard beach opening up in early march almost a whole year after they originally closed it down. who at the time would have thought it would be that long. more to come [laugh]

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those people that you just mentioned. teachers, police officers, first-responders, transit workers, even grocery store workers as well. 59% of new york's vaccine supply is just sitting in freezers. nationally, 65% of the 25 million vaccines distributed remain unused. the distribution efforts slowed down by bureaucracy. nationwide hospitals are being accused vaccinating too slowly or ineligible workers for days. new york city's mayor bill de blasio and new york's governor andrew cuomo have been in a feud. the mayor asking the governor to open up vaccination eligibility. this as the american health care association tells fox news 40 to 60% of nursing home and assisted living staffs are choosing not to get the shot, partly because of misinformation on social media but also partly because they don't trust the government. >> when you're doing everything

you can to insure the health and well-being of residents and you feel that it's not recognized you feel that you're not respected by the government, the natural reaction is going to be to distrust that government. reporter: some clinics have reportedly thrown out vaccines that have expired because of the strict state guidelines issued by the governor here in new york. unbelievable. connell. connell: it really is. it really is. bryan, thank you. bryan llenas. brooklyn, new york. let's get to what seems to be more successful roll out. working its own staff, senior citizens, first-responders, vaccinated now expanding eligibility for the shot. dr. george walls orlando health chief medical officer. thank you for coming on. we start so many interviews, asking what is wrong. what is going on. i want to start the opposite way

with you, work our way forward. what is going right? maybe other people can learn from it in terms of your own personal rollout? >> what is going right people have want to get the vaccine. the initial numbers didn't look terribly promising. we saw rates somewhere around 50% in some groups. higher we got into the physician, nurse practitioner level. when the vaccine got here we had tremendous interest in it. we had at love people show up. all the vaccine we were allocated initially for our team members was used up completely, used up in for days. that is what is going right, that people want it. we have been able to get it to them in a way that was convenient and worked really, really well. it has allowed us to stay consistent with governor desantis' executive order who gets it. that is what is going right.

connell: a little different than what we've seen in other states. we talked about new york moving on to the second group with 75 and older among those people eligible. florida we showed on our screens it is 65 and older. i mentioned earlier there was a percentage of overall in florida of doses being used was behind a number of other states. there were almost 30 states ahead of florida. you talked about what you guys are doing. are there other hiccups in the state that you've seen that can be corrected here? >> you know i don't know if i blame it on the state per se. there are a lot of logistical challenges to getting this vaccine out. you're hearing some of them. scheduling is one of them. that doesn't really penetrate the most vulnerable groups, 75 and older group. the older group less likely you have your phone in your hand looking for a text or opportunity to schedule. logistics handling vaccine has been a challenge as well. probably for us the most challenging thing is the uncertain supply. it is hard to schedule 20 or

30,000 doses of vaccine in a week if you don't know you will have it in your hand the day you start to show up. those are some things we're faced with are probably the same problems you face across the country. connell: that brings up a larger point what we should do next. because we're changing administrations and approaches on the national level. there is suggestion from incoming biden administration, we should essentially whatever we have, get it out there whereas the fda under the trump administration have been recommending holding back the second dose of the vaccines with both of these vaccines that are out you need two doses. if you go with the second biden approach you put pressure on companies on the manufacturing side. do you think they can live up to it? there is opinions on both sides. which do you think is best? >> my sense is they could deliver on that. they could ramp up and scale up as that, that -- was there. you're putting pressure on sites that are vaccinating to make sure that they know what type of

inventory controls they have to have to have that second dose available that would be one of the biggest concerns we would have after giving out 40,000 vaccines is that we didn't have that second dose when the time came. so do you think that does spread accountability? i don't think that is a bad thing. and honestly i think if we got handed our 40,000 second doses or if we got handed 40,000 doses we would know what to do with them. connell: yeah. because you have, as you talked about you have the demand. >> question. connell: hopefully that would be the case in other parts of the country as well. dr. ralls thank you. dr. george ralls with orlando health. as we move on here after suffering a two billion dollar loss, we have one industry plotting its way back. the tease unfortunately will give it away. grady trimble, what have you got? port board we're back on the slopes at deer valley and open

for business here. there are changes at this resort and others across the country. we'll tell you about it coming up. ♪

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this you're actively skiing like we are now. and they're trying to enforce social distancing in lines as best they can which really isn't all that complicated, 3 feet in front of your ski and 3 feet on the back of your ski, so it's easy to keep your space. one of the biggest changes though is that they're trying to keep the number of people on the mountain at any given time to a certain number. they're limiting how many people can come on the mountain. so here at deer valley if you've got a season pass, you can ski every day that you want to, but they're limiting those single-day ticket sales and walk-up lift tickets no longer allowed. park city, which is not too far from here, they're requiring reservations if you want to ski every single time. so a little bit of changes there. another popular thing is everybody wants to have a nice drink after skiing, you've got to make reservations for those now. they've changed things up with on-mountain dining as well. they've got grab and go meals

which is really not a bad option because you can eat outside and hit the slopes once again. it's not even that cold out today, it's a beautiful day here. they've also got, of course, indoor options if you'd prefer to warm up with a hot toddy maybe, connell. you can make reservations -- [laughter] for those as well. but by and large, this is a sport that you can do while social distancing. you can ski, snowboard and social distance safely all at the same time. connell: you know, i'm interested in a couple of different things. number one, you're right, you can totally social distance and there are, obviously, not a ton of people on the slopes, it's safe, you're outdoors and wearing a mask. first of all, you look very comfortable on skis, i've got to say. who's your photographer today? is someone holding a camera and shooting this live report at the same time? >> reporter: yes. that is keith. and he has been doing an amazing job on the hope is ares out here with us. -- slopes out here with us. to be able to ski and film at the same time, he deserves props, and we have been giving

them to him all day longful i'm born and raised in florida, but i learned to ski when i was a kid, so i'm pretty lucky to have known how to do this for a very long time. connell: thank you, grady. i thought you were a florida guy. grady trimble. thanks for joining us today, see you back here tomorrow. ♪ lou: good evening, everybody. lawmakers across the country this evening are on high alert. the fbi is warning of plans for armed protests in all 50 state capitals according to an internal fbi memorandum. those demonstrations and protests are scheduled to take place before, on and after the inauguration of president-elect joe biden. those protests would follow last week's demonstration in washington that began at the ellipse of the national mall and then moved on to the u.s. capitol building where