we provide money to provide for the ability of people not to be thrown out of their apartments during this pandemic because they can't afford their rent. to make the case i think, we think the priorities are, i apologize, within this legislation. and i don't expect we'll know whether we have an agreement, to what extent the entire package we'll be able to pass or not pass until we get right down to the very end of this process, which will be probably in a couple weeks, but the point is, this is just a process beginning >> [inaudible]. reporter: thank you, mr. president. annie linski with the "washington post." >> annie. reporter: i want to ask about the major themes of your campaign and how you measure to

enact it. the idea of unity. can you talk to your idea unity being it, some people define it being bipartisan saying what most of people in the country define by some type of poll believe or perhaps 50 plus one or 50 plus two or 75%. given it is a key part of your message, and your promise and reflect a little bit more about what is unity when you see it, as you define it? >> i think it makes several of the issues, points you made. one is unity requires you to take away, eliminate the vitriol, make anything that you disagree with about the other person's personality or their lack of integrity or they're not decent legislators and the like. so we have to get rid of that. i think that is already beginning to change but god

knows where things go, number one. unity also is trying to reflect what the majority of the american people, democrat, republican, independent, think is within the fulcrum of what needs to be done to make their lives and lives of americans better. for example, if you look at the data and i'm not claiming the polling data to be exact but if you look at the data, you have, i think it is, i hope i'm saying, you may correct me if i get the number wrong, 57, 58% of the american people, including republicans, democrats independents think that we have to do something about the covid-19 vaccine, we have to do something about making sure people hurting badly, can't eat, don't have food, are in a position to be thrown out of their apartments et cetera, being able to have the opportunity to get a job, they all think we should be acting, we should be doing more.

unity also is trying to get at a minimum, if you pass a piece of legislation, that breaks down on party lines but it gets passed it doesn't mean there wasn't unity. it means it wasn't bipartisan. i would prefer these things to be bipartisan because i'm trying to generate some consensus and take sort of the, how can i say it, the vitriol out of all of this because i'm confident, i'm confident from my discussions there are a number of republicans who know we have to do something about food insecurity for people in this pandemic. i'm confident that they know we have to do something about figuring out how to get children back in school and there is easy ways to deal with this. one if you're anti-union, you can say it is all because of teachers. if you want to make a case though it is complicated, you say, what do you have to do to make it safe to get in those schools? we'll have arguments, for example, you know, i proposed

that we, because it was bipartisan, i thought it would increase the prospects of passage, the additional $1400 in direct cash payment to folks. well there is legitimate reason people are saying, do you have the lines drawn in the exact right way? should it go to anybody making over x number of dollars or y? i'm open to negotiate those things. that's all. i picked it because i thought it was rational, reasonable and it had overwhelming bipartisan support in the house when it passed but this is all a bit after moving target in terms of the precision with which this goes. you're asking about unity, 51 votes, bipartisan, et cetera. the other piece of this is the one thing that gives me hope that we're not only going to sort of stay away from the ad homonym attacks on one another is that there is an overwhelming

consensus among the major economists at home and in the world that the way to avoid a deeper, deeper, deeper recession moving in the direction of losing our competitive capacity is to spend money now, to, from across the board, every major institution has said if we don't invest now we're going to lose so much altitude in terms of our employment base and our economic growth that it is going to be harder to re-establish it. we can afford to do it now. as a matter of fact, i think the response has been, we can't afford not to invest now. we can't afford to fail to invest now. i think there is a growing realization of that on the part of all but some very, very hard-edged partisans maybe on both sides but i think there is a growing consensus. whether we get it all done exactly the way i want it

remains to be seen. but i'm confident we can work our way through, we have to work our way through because as of said a hundred times, there is no ability in the democracy for it to function without the ability to reach consensus. otherwise you just becomes executive fiat or battleground issues that get us virtually nowhere. i don't want to hold, my colleague may know, the vice president, but you know, i think there were very few debates on the senate floor of the whole last year, on almost any issue. well, that benefits no one. doesn't inform anybody. doesn't allow the public to make judgments about who they think is right or wrong. so i am, i am optimistic that it may take some time but over the year if we treat each other with respect, we'll argue like hell, i'm confident of that, believe me, i know that i've been there, but i think we can do it in a way that we can get things done

for the american people. >> [inaudible]. >> don't trust you with the mic? reporter: fine, i wouldn't either. appreciate it, mr. president, for taking question. you mentioned you might know couple weeks is it more important to get something passed in a short time frame like that, would you be willing to wait longer to get more bipartisan support? might i also ask one of the pillars is the vaccine funding, when do you think any american who wants to get the shot will be able to get the shot? >> well, i will try to answer three parts of your question as i heard them. one, time is of the essence. time is of the essence and i must tell you i'm reluctant to cherry-pick and take out one or two items here and then have to go through it again because these are all kind of, they, go

sort of hand-in-glove, each of these issues. number one. number two, we are optimistic that we will have enough vaccine and in very short order, as you know we came in office without knowledge of how much vaccine was being held in abeyance or available. now that we're here, we've been around a week or so, we now have that and we've gotten commitments from some of the producer that they will in fact produce more vaccine in a relatively short period of time and then continue that down the road. so i'm quite confident that we will be in a position within the next three weeks or so to be vaccinating people at the range of, of a million a day or, in excess of that. that is my, i promised that we would get at least a, a 100 million vaccinations. that is not people, because sometimes you need more than one shot, the vaccination but

100,000, 100 million shots in peoples arms of the vaccine. i think with the grace of god and goodwill of the nabe, creek not rising as old saying goes, i think we may get that to 150, 1.5 million a day rather than one million a day but we have to meet that goal of a million a day. and everything points that we're going to have, a, the, enough vaccine, b, enough syringes and all the paraphernalia needed to store, keep, and inject, move into your arm the vaccine. three, a number of vaccinate tores, administering the vaccine, that is not an easy task with nursing homes, hospitals they have the ability to do it but they don't have the ability to do everyone.

we have, we're leaning hard in areas where we produce more vaccinatetores. we feel confident we can do that. thirdly, it is important we have the flora, the place, the facility, circumstance, people can show up stand in line without standing in line for eight hours. being able to pick up the phone, call the pharmacy, get your name on the list et cetera. all those mechanical things are really, they sound simple but they're all consequential when you're trying to get out a minimum of 100 million vaccinations in 100 days. and moving in the direction we are well beyond that, in the next 100 days so we get to the point where we reach herd immunity a country of 300 million people. does that answer your question? reporter: my question, when do you think anyone wants to be able to get in the summer, fall? >> no, i think it will be this spring. i think we'll be able to do that

this spring but it will be logistical challenge that exceeds everything we've ever tried in this country but i think we can do that. i feel confident that, by summer going well on our way to get herd immunity and access for people who are not on the list, all the way going down to children and how we deal with that. but i feel good about where we're going and i think we can get it done. >> thank you, guys. [reporters shouting questions] >> wait, wait. i know he always asks me tough questions. and he always has an edge to them but i like him anyway. go again ask the question. reporter: thank you, mr. president. so you just think within three weeks or so we'll be at the point where there are a million vaccines per day but it seems like -- >> i think we'll get there before that. i misspoke.

i hope we'll be able to increase as we go along until we get the million five a day. that is my hope. reporter: then my follow-up to that, no that you're president you're saying there is nothing we can do to change the trajectory of the pandemic in the next several months, what happened to two months ago when you were talking, declaratively i'm going to shut down the virus? >> i'm going to shut down the virus but i never said i would do it in two months. i said it took a long time to get here. it will take a long time to beat it. we have millions of people out there who are, who have the virus. we're just, for the first day i think correct me if i'm wrong, i've been doing other things this morning, speaking with foreign leaders but one of the things, this is one of the first days the number actually come down the number of deaths and on a daily basis and number of hospitalizations et cetera. it is going to take time. it is going to take a heck of a lot of time and we still have, as dr. fauci constantly points out, it is one thing when we

have masks, how can i say it, politely mask disregard of the warnings about not wearing masks and wearing masks and social distancing and failure to social distance and people getting together on holidays in ways that weren't recommended, et cetera. we see first thing happens is, we see the, the number of infections to up. then you see the hospitalizations go up and then you see the deaths go up. so we're in this for a while. what are we now 410,000 deaths? there is going to be more. the prediction as i said from the very beginning getting here after being sworn in, was the predictions were we're going to see somewhere between a total of 600,000 and 660,000 deaths before we begin to turn the corner in a major way. so, and again, remember, the vaccine, most of the people taking the vaccine are,

significant number require two shots and there are average of three weeks apart and it takes time for it to be sure that you're you get to that 95% assurance rate. and so it is beginning to move but i'm confident that we will beat this. we will beat this. but we're still going to be talking about this in the summer. we're still going to be dealing with this issue, in early fall. and last point i will make, i know you're tired of hearing me saying it, particularly you may be tired of hearing me say it, and that is, if we wear masks between now and the end of april, the experts tell us we can save 50,000 lives, 50,000 lives, people otherwise would die. thank you so very much. [reporters shouting questions] connell: all right, president biden taking questions from reporters there at the

white house. the first extended question and answer session he has had with white house reporters. even pushing off his aides there at the end to make sure he took a question from our friend peter doocy of fox news. some interesting answers there at the end. we'll get into all this in detail as we continue here on "after the bell." i'm connell mcshane. it is good to be with you today. i thought last two questions one asked by the reporter before peter's question, going timing we'll get through this, on coronavirus headlines noteworthy from the president. the president talked about the fact when he was asked when will anybody wants to get a shot get a shot? he said we can get there by this spring. he talked about being well on the way to herd immunity by the summer. that to me sounded somewhat optimistic what we heard from dr. fauci. that was noteworthy as well. it all started with the executive order, the president's buy american executive order, while he was speaking the stock market closed for the day in a mixed fashion with the dow down 37.

we'll talk about gerri willis about that in just a moment. blake burman starts us off this hour covering the white house, standing by for us with a recap what we all witnessed. blake? reporter: connell, two of certainly the biggest headlines on president biden we saw, what you hit on the vaccine process. the biden administration talking first days in the white house, weeks long on the campaign trail getting 100 million doses into the arms of americans in the first 100 days of president biden occupying that building behind me. we heard today though just moments ago from the president of him upping that number substantially. now saying saying that the goala million 1/2 shots a day or 150 million doses administered over the first 100 days. there had been some questions being posed to the president in recent days because we are getting close to that number of about a million shots a day on a rolling average over the last week or so so the question had been posed to president, well are you settling?

should you raise that bar higher? and what we just heard from the president was indeed raising that bar higher, saying well, maybe we could do 150 million in the upcoming 100 days. headline number one. number two, connell, i thought it as absolutely fascinating to hear the president talk about the negotiations of stimulus bill. there were discussions between white house and handful of, there was a phone call with president and bipartisan group of senators. the president said, quote this is all a moving target, acknowledging something that he has put out there in the $1.9 trillion plan, might eventually be in it if they can strike a deal with republicans or eventually not be in it. he mentioned the income threshold on direct payments for individuals. when the president asked when might you go the route of reconciliation, essentially saying no negotiations with

republicans democrats do what they want to do, the president said he will know within a couple weeks, couple weeks if that is the move they have to make. connell? connell: all right, blake, thank you. that was very interesting. let's bring it to dan heninger "wall street journal and fox news contributor. on the stimulus what did you read in terms of president versus what he might hold out for or maybe what he might give in the next few weeks? >> well i thought the, in that respect, connell the most relevant thing that the president said was, he said that all economists, when he claims most economists and most serious people quote we should quote, spend money now. and that i think is kind of the bedrock economic principle behind the biden stimulus plans which is to spend a lot of money. it's a pretty much forward, straightforward keynesian argument, spend a lot of federal

money, stimulate demand, which in turn stimulates production. and that is why they're shooting for this $1.9 trillion figure. the republicans keep talking about how they're in favor of targeted spending, targeted at people most in need because of the covid pandemic. but i think with the democrats are talking about is a figure. they want trillions of dollars spent targeted, or not, to stimulate the economy. and we've already you know, spent $5 trillion in this past year and republicans are beginning to push back against the idea of open-ended spending. you know we can talk about this with some of the other things he said today, the buy america first proposals and so forth. some of the things i think joe biden is proposing are going to have suppressive effects on growth but i believe that joe biden and his economists believe they can compensate for that with open-ended spending. the question is how long can you

do that without eventually bearing down on economic growth? connell: that's right. an interesting way of looking at it because some of the keystone pipeline, for example, which we got into last week, obviously in the short term is going to cost jobs, already has. you're right, they're probably hoping to overwhelm economic watchers, investors, markets saying listen we got your back on stimulus, we'll pump tons of dough into the economy t was noteworthy mitch mcconnell had his own news conference this afternoon before president biden. he said the relief plan from the president misses the mark. that is the term he used. it misses the mark. it should be targeted and smarter from the republican point of view. it looks like they will push back the republicans this time, maybe on 15-dollar minimum wage. what issues do you think they will be able to hold out of this? >> i think they're going to push back hardest at the $1400, total

$2000 checks being sent out to people. there is a lot of unease about doing that without you know, targeting it a little bit more closely. but you know, i want to bring up the point of the press conference, the announcement, the executive order, buy american plan. he is actually going to set up something inside of the administration. if you listen closely to it, connell it, was pretty clear what he was talking about was buying american and doing these things to create union jobs. and i think that the biden administration is under a lot of pressure from the unions. the proof will be in the pudding going forward as we watch his labor department, run by marty walsh, the national labor relations board, where they forced out the general counsel to get in their own general counsel, whether they will start putting in rules to favor unions as they wish and disadvantage non-union labor. there is the issue, for instance, of, you know, right-to-work laws in the united

states. it is one thing to say buy american but is the issue going to be buy union-made which ultimately will raise prices for people in the united states across a whole range of consumerrables and i think that is something to keep an eye on, whether it's good paying jobs for all americans, including non-union factories or just basically union based manufacturers. elizabeth: yeah. really, we've talked about this in the past, niece supply chains with the government going out and purchasing these items can be quite complicated that may have held up the previous administration with its buy america push. we'll see how this one goes. you're right to point out the unions. thank you, dan. we'll get into the vaccine news in a minute as we continue here. i want to go back to the stock market closed while the president was speaking and when it did so the nasdaq at another record high. the fourth day in a row the nasdaq has been in a record. the s&p also in record territory as we close out on a monday. go to gerri willis for recap of

all of that. gerri? reporter: that's right, connell, volatile, choppy, two adjectives you can use to describe the trading. the good news the nasdaq closing at all-time high, fourth straight record close. the dow was down as we said 37 points dragged down by financials today. big winners in the market. i want to mention this, apple, tesla, microsoft. they will all be reporting earnings this week. keep an eye on them but they had a good day today. losers here include cyclicals. this change of sentiment from last week, possibly because they bipartisan group of senators is pushing back against that 1.9 trillion stimulus plan which you just discussed. meanwhile other news in the market, merck end the slightly higher after ending its covid-19 vaccine program citing interior responses. it will focus instead on treatments. cvs ending lower after completing its first round of covid-19 vaccinations at 8,000

nursing homes that were part of a federal program. second doses are expected to be completed within four weeks. connell, back to you. connell: gerry, thank you. i want to bring in adam lashinsky here for a moment from business insider, fox business contributor as well with apologies up front. we took the president's news conference live. this will be short today, adam, and ask you a big picture question on one of the big questions surrounding market. the big tech stocks hearing so many earnings this week. there is some question now, maybe it's a really big one about whether leadership in the market can continue from these companies. seems like nothing holds them down but at some point, maybe something will? >> well it is, there are many things that might in the future, connell, in particular these antitrust actions against them. the fact that they're so expensive an already have had such a great run. the thing that keeps them up is that there is very little to keep their businesses down. they have done so well throughout the pandemic.

so they're great markets to begin with. there is every reason to believe that macroeconomicly they will follow positive trends as well. so, as the vaccine kicks in, as stimulus kicks in, as consumers and businesses buy things, these companies just benefit immediately. i would say their biggest risks are long term. they're biggest short term risks are just as you say, how well they have done already. connell: you're right. because an improving economy obviously should help big companies like apple and others s there anything to the notion that once more of us go back to work in person that the stay at home play is over? that some of these stocks might start to sell off at high valuations anyway because they're not as, as popular with the stay at home crowd because we won't be at home at some point? >> the thing is, is that the stay at home benefited them but, so did the, all the extra investments that companies made to provision their workers from

staying at home. those trends are just going to continue. in other words, these companies in a positive sense have got it coming and going. i think more concern is for company just laser focused on stay at home. it will conversely companies that just couldn't operate with the stay at home doing better once people go back to work. but these companies serve people at home, in their offices and everywhere in between. connell: all right, adam, we'll talk to you again soon, adam lashinsky on the tech world for us. a lot of coverage from earnings from techland. many areas meantime are still struggling with vaccine shortages. so we will get to that. new york city, as an example, officials postponing the opening of 24/7 megavaccine sites at citi field until they can get a supply of 200,000 doses a week. officials say that is nearly double what is expected to come in this week. because our way works great for us!

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♪. connell: to the concerns now about the new variants of the coronavirus. moderna says its current vaccine does indeed protect against the two variants eye merged so far from britain and south africa. the company is testing adding a separate booster, making a total of three shots might help to fight against the virus. we have a doctor from the nashville coronavirus task force, chairman there. thank you for coming back on with us. your thoughts on these variants, whether another booster shot might be either necessary and or practical here moving forward? >> well i think the variants obviously cause some concern but not surprising if you know much about viruses. and so, my hope is that, as pfizer and moderna both said their vaccines are protective, if enough people get vaccinated, we do the precautions we had for the past months, it hopefully

won't be as impactful. it's a more virulent or more easily spread variant, especially the south african version which is slightly concerning. if another shot is what is needed, that's great but i'm still stuck on the fact that we still have a vaccinate more americans. only 5.6% of our colleagues here in america have been vaccinated. so let's get the first two shots in before we start talking about a third one is my opinion. connell: that is exactly what i was thinking. i asked but the possibility of a third shot. it is tough enough for to get an appointment for people to get number one and two. the president said a moment ago, that everybody want as shot should get one by the spring and we will be, in his words, well on our way to herd immunity by the summer. what do you make of that? does that sound right to you or a little off what do you think? >> well you know, i hope so, right? i tell people i think honestly by the end of, end the summer

where i was thinking but now here's the thing, hopefully the end of this week, next week, we will have, we will have johnson & johnson's data in and johnson & johnson will get eua. johnson & johnson is a one-shot vaccine, easier to store and they have already signed a contract with the government to bring out 12 million doses by the end of february, maybe 100 million end of june. even if that is delayed a month or two which i heard, it is still pretty impactful. hopefully the president is right and we can get shots in arms but realistically, local nashville area, state of tennessee, i estimated end of summer before we're able to have that much freedom. connell: what is holding you up the most there where you're operating at the local level in nashville. what is the biggest issue? >> it is frankly vaccine supply. we put about 7,000 shots in arms a week in nashville, we do it

with minimal wait time, minimal delays. we have a long waiting list between the city and at the hospital systems do but i'm really proud of what we did, just this weekend, 3,000 people over 75 in nashville got shots in arms. so but i, right now, when i'm averaging operation that comprises 5000 shots in arms a week we need to get up to 20,000 to still have the same efficiency. if you give me more shots we'll put them in arms. it is really supply for us. connell: hopefully they're on their way. keep following up with us. we'll try to stay in touch with all the local task forces around the country. doctor alex, thank you out of nash industrial. >> thanks. connell: going to california, the big news there lifting the stay at home orders across the state. there is a catch. we'll talk to a business owner part of a coalition suing the governor over the restrictions about whether the move is maybe too little too late. plus one of the super bowl's biggest advertisers dropping out of the game this year.

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♪ connell: "after the bell" headlines, twitter unveiling what they call bird watch a new community driven program with the foal of combating misleading information own the site. the feature will allow users to add content posted by news outlets, reporters, elected officials and add notes,

notations to tweets some may believe are misleading or false. the senate expected to vote in about an hour on president biden's treasury secretary nominee janet yellen. she would be the first woman to take on this role. california's governor, gavin newsom making announcement earlier today. >> all regions effective immediately are no longer in the stay at home order. connell: doing enacting the order in early december to combat rising coronavirus cases across his state. now removing the restriction allows counties to go back to the color-coded tiers which indicate activities and businesses, which activities or businesses are allowed to open up depending on local case rates and the test positivity percentages coming in. speaking of california, restaurants and wineries celebrating a win with all of this today with the regional stay at home order being lifted. groups like the wine and country coalition can move forward. this is a group that was set to sue the governor over what they claim was a lack of scientific

evidence that outdoor dining is more dangerous than other permitted activities. so carl dean joins us right no, spokesperson for the wine country coalition and owner of sam's general store. good to have you, carl. from your perspective you probably think the pressure sure worked, right? >> i absolutely feel that the pressure worked. we're super excited for this win today, to get our employees back to work and serve our community again. we're definitely not going to take our foot off the gas too quickly. we'll consult with our attorneys these days to see what steps we want to take. there has been a lot of damage done, done to our businesses. we want to understand the price moving forward, and make certain this won't happy again. connell: talk about that a little bit, at least in the present, what are you most worried about in terms of what you might look at? we look at pictures of sam's general store. note like you're wide open for business, right?

as i said to go back to the color-coded system, still restrictions in the state. what will you look at even though the stay at home restrictions have been lifted? >> so we at least have people sit outside now on our patio. so that is good. we're going into the rain an winter months here. it does get pretty cold out hire. we would like to see the 25% indoors at some point. we're happy. we'll take what we can get. we'll happy with being able to sit outside. connell: what's your sense of demand? you know i've been traveling a decent amount around the country and i don't know if this is right or wrong but i sense in some rural areas which tend to be red politically, there seems to be a lot of demand. yeah, i want to go out, go out eat with my family, whatever the case may be. when i'm in cities, recently in atlanta, we went to a bar or restaurant, the guy said, doesn't matter what the restrictions are, they're afraid of the virus, they have a different attitude bit. they're not coming back.

so what is your sense from where you are how business will be even if they left the you know, the restriction. >> you know i think that is true for some of the bigger cities. we have downtown los angeles we see that exact mentality happen down there. up here in napa, in wine country, people really safe. we have to space people out if it is safe. the wind is blowing, much better condition than bigger cities. what we see people from the bigger cities are getting in their cars traveling up here. we were operating safely all summer. everybody was really comfortable. connell: right. people are willing to come back. that is the key. you have to have the people willing to come back. you have to get the restrictions lifted, two kind of have to go together. you're talking about -- not taking your foot off the gas about that, what about other government help? thinking of stimulus? did you take advantage of it the first time? would it be welcome or necessary

this time if there were more of that? >> i think it would be nice for a actual package typically for restaurants. a lot around the country all the restaurants are hurting but we were the only ones that were -- [inaudible]. so there wasn't a lot of attention on us until we filed this lawsuit but it would be really nice to see some type of package for us. some sort of a bailout that is not more debt, not another disaster loan i'm paying when i'm 80 years old. something a little bit better would go a long way. connell: heard that some times from restaurant owners. as we know some of the loans, depending what you use them for can be forgiven. but that kind of thing as we heard can be so complicated. you want the grants, if you have the grants we can move forward. where are you on employment? are you able to keep people on staff? what is the plan there, what have you done so far? >> our sales were reduced by 80% when outdoors closed. we're hoping to pick that back up again and we'll be able to

bring our employees back for full-time work before. they were limited hours. splitting hours for everybody. trying to keep them on board, yeah. connell: carl, thank you. good luck with everything. a victory on the legal side today. we'll continue to follow it out in california. going to go overseas now to a country facing an uncertain political future, italy. the prime minister of italy is set to resign tomorrow to attempt to form a new governing coalition. so this came from a government spokesperson earlier in the day after losing his majority in the senate earlier this month. so the move adds further instability there in italy. the country already struggling to fight the pandemic that left more than 80,000 italians dead and still struggling to revive its economy. prime minister conte in italy set to resign. we'll see what happens. we'll be right back. when you're through with powering through,

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classroom on wednesday to get ready for students next week. the teachers may not show up though. on sunday the chicago teachers union said 71% of teachers voted to continue remote instruction to wait until vaccines are more readily available to return to their classrooms. if the school district tries to force them before then, the union says its members will go on strike. after the vote ctu president jesse sharkky said our collective power is our greatest strength. this vote cements the intention to stand together in a agreement that protects educators, students, cps families. the refusal of the union stands in con tracks to advice of local, state, health officials that schools can be safe with appropriate. they argue that remote learning is not working for many families. that grades, attendance, enrollment have dropped significantly for students the many past months.

many parents and students agree. >> they have all fs, that is not typical with my children. i'm seeing increase in depression in my children. >> the strike is traumatize to these children and will impact education and mental health. >> i need a break from my mom. i just need to go back to school. reporter: heard a number of parents who feel the same way about their own kids. as of now, students in k-8 who decide to return to in-person learning are supposed to be able to do so next monday. however, if the district and the teachers union can't reach an agreement, that likely will be hard to see happen. connell? connell: all right, huge story from garrett tenney out there in chicago. that cute kid, needs a break from his mom. the president was asked about that issue in chicago there about an hour ago. he didn't seem to take a direct position saying he believes we should make classrooms safe, work on ventilation, work on coronavirus testing. we'll follow it with chicago and

elsewhere. breaking nearly 40-year-old tradition. we'll talk about why one major brand says it will not be running a super bowl comb merges this year. that's next -- commercial this year. that's next.

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♪ ♪ connell: all right. the game is set. kansas city chiefs, tampa bay buccaneers are headed to the 55th super bowl, but this year's event -- like so many things we're dealing with in this world right now -- will be quite different. and i'm joined by jared macks right now, fox news headlines 24 /7. one of the best backgrounds of all of our guests, jared joins us from -- that is quite a home studio. distracts me, it's so good. good to see you, my friend. one of the questions that i have, will this feel like the super bowl? do you know what i mean? fewer fans, i know it'll be a little different.

tom brady will be there, albeit in a different uniform. watching at home, do do you feel like this is going to be a regular super bowl? >> great question. simple question, but i haven't really thought about that. i think for those watching, yes, it's just a football game, and we're focused on the field. and there will be fans there, 22,000. so, yes, it will feel like that. but leading up to it already it doesn't feel like it, because for starters, there won't be a media day. the super bowl, while technically taking place, it's going to be a virtual event. reporters are not going to have the type of access that they normally would have to players and probably, i think, the biggest difference here is that the kansas city chiefs are not flying into the tampa area until just a couple days before the game. the buccaneers will be doing the same, but the players already live in that region. nurse time ever that a team playing -- first time ever that a team playing in the super bowl is going to be playing at its home stadium.

connell: right. that is really a great storyline. brady is a terrific story, of course, but having the home field advantage, so to speak, but then the one year you get it, you only have the 22,000 fans. i'm sure they'll make a lot of noise. >> yeah. honestly, connell, i think the amazing story here, it really is storybook, when we put everything into perspective and realize that they've gotten through this unbelievable season that was so difficult at times to believe they would get through it, and here's tom brady. the guy won six super bowls with the patriots, then decides he's going to leave and at age 43 goes to the buccaneers. what we've learned about tom brady, aside from being the greatest of all time, he's the difference maker. people have asked was it bill belichick as a coach or was it tom brady. the patriots didn't make the playoffs. the buccaneers for the first time in 18 years. tom brady is one of 11 people on offense. if lebron james goes to a new team, he's one of five.

look what tom brady was able to do to get this team to the super bowl. connell: right. that's no knock on lebron james, by the way. >> no. connell: we're obsessed with money around here, so the game rotates between networks. this year happens to be a cbs game. you know, it's funny, there's not going to be a coke ad, a pepsi ad, there's not going to be a budweiser commercial, it was just announced, so what do you make of some of these announcements from these companies ahead of what's always the biggest ratings event in television? >> i think some of our largest corporations recognize these are different times. so, yes, the first time in 37 years that we're not going to see an ad for budweiser during the super bowl. but it doesn't mean that anheuser-busch is not going to be advertising. we'll see ads for bud light seltzer lemonade, but they're also donating a good portion of the money today ad council and also to the covid-19 collaborative. so there's going to be a lot of focus on here's what we've done. there's a bud with wiser ad

that's already streaming -- budweiser, it's called the bigger picture, and at the end they say we'll be back next year. pepsi is still the sponsor of the halftime show, so there is a tie-in there, but yes, this is a scaled-back super bowl. thankfully, connell, this matchup between the best old quarterback and the best young quarterback, patrick mahomes and the chiefs, really should be one for the ages. these guys met in week 12, mahomes almost threw for 500 yards. i think this may be decided by a field goal or less. connell: brady gets all the attention, for good reason, but if anybody could match what brady's done, it's possible, he's so young, mahomes could. in the 20 seconds we have left, i'm sure you want to make a prediction. what is it, jared? who's going to win? >> wow. can i have some time on this, connell? because i want to be right. [laughter] right now if i had to pick one, how do you go -- i can't go

against brady. i went against him yesterday, and i was wrong. connell: all right. we're not going to take your actual money, jared. it's okay. tom brady it is. thanks for watching, everybody. thank you, jared. we'll see you back here same time tomorrow. ♪ ♪ lou: good evening, everybody. most rinos in washington are cowardly and run scared most of the time. for some, they'd rather quit altogether than actually fight for truth, justice and the american way of life. these rinos who are fleeing the fight are simply afraid to stand up against the radical dems, the national left-wing media, the deep state, the chamber of commerce, of course, and wall street and big tech. rino senator rob portman says he's not going to run for re-election next year because, in his words, quote: it has gotten harder and harder to break through the