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leaving a new report, we have 12 million unfilled jobs in our economy. we'll talk about that throughout the show. meatpackers, beware, the biden administration is taking aim at companies in an attempt to tamp down surging prices. his solution? more regulation and more government spending. we'll separate fact from myth about the impact of spending on inflation. but first, to our top story, president biden getting a briefing from members of the covid response team as the u.s. reports more than a million cases in just a day. edward lawrence is at the white house with the details on all of this. edward? reporter: david, yeah one of those briefings he will get, he will hear about testing going on. that will happen in two hours from now. the president is pushing folks to get testing but feeling the pressure of angry americans waiting in long lines to get that testing. plus at-home testing is nonexistent. hard to find for those

americans. meanwhile the administration is pushing people to get thes its, increasing the demand even though the plan to get the new tests is not completed yet. the president announced before christmas he is ordering 500 million at-home tests for americans. i have not seen any confirmation that the administration signed a contract to get those tests. i asked this morning about this, the president also saying that he is deploying pop up testing sites which have not yet relieved long lines. for example, in new york city, republicans saying that this should not have been a surprise three years into a pandemic. >> worst of all, go to the rapid test, the bottom line is, we don't have enough of them. they have all this time to make sure they knew this was coming up but it is still a failed policy, again even if they have them tomorrow, people waiting in long lines. reporter: white house officials telling me the president will hear about the latest resources and personnel being sent to states. he will also hear about the

latest data on omicron variant including while cases continue to increase, fully vaccinated and boosted americans that get infected are not likely to have severe symptoms. still the pott is urging people still to wear masks. he is also pushing those vaccine mandates. he is going to hear an update related to that also. we'll see that event here live. as you know, david, the omicron variant, through all of this is still exploding in the u.s. david: indeed it is. thank you very much, edward. i appreciate that. the chicago teachers union is eyeing a vote on whether or not teachers feel safe returning to the classroom, this after a surge in covid cases just as public schools are making the return from the holiday break. couldn't come at a worse time. fox news correspondent garrett tenney in chicago with the latest on this story. hi, garrett. reporter: david, the chicago teachers union has a long list of safety demands and if the demands are not meant they are threatening to essentially go on strike. the union wants chicago schools,

all 340,000 students to go completely remote the next two weeks to limit the spread of, possible exposure to covid after the holiday break. they want more testing for schools to provide better masks, for a clear plan when schools will be closed in the case of an outbreak. so far the city is not giving in to those demands. health officials say it is safe for schools to return and the state spent more than $100 million to put mitigation in place. mayor lori lightfoot summed up her position, what we learned during the pandemic schools are the safest place for students to believe. we must follow the data and science. some parents have concerns about sending kids back to school with the option of remote learning, but many like ryan griffin says it is frustrating the teachers union is only one not following

the science and playing politics with his kids. >> never good enough for chicago teachers union. they will never pass up an opportunity to expert leverage and get power plays. unfortunately our kids here in chicago are the ones paying the consequences. reporter: teachers around students are in the classrooms today but if the union votes to not show up for the next two weeks and go remote, the city said they would essentially view that as a strike and school canceled until a deal is reached. david: what a mess. garrett 10 any. thank you very much. there are renewed concerns covid will take over hospitals, not because of the severity of the omicron variant, because of staffing shortages. they have become a key issue now that needs to be addressed. fox business correspondent jeff flock live in philadelphia with that story. hi, jeff. reporter: no question, david, it is tough at the nation's hospitals right now with too

many folks coming in and not enough folks there to work. a lot of people blame the vaccine mandates for health care workers. they are upset about statistics like the ones that come out of new york state, data obtained by fox news which indicates more than, almost 32,000 health care workers statewide have either been fired, furloughed or forced to resign because they refuse towed get a covid vaccine. fair and balanced here in philadelphia where i am, at the penn medicine system they have pretty good luck getting people vaccinated. 38,000 employees here. 760 got religious or medical exemption from the vaccine. only 380 were discharged. that is .1 of 1%. at the same time if you talk to health care workers, most of them, the vast majority will say it is good to have a mandate. they want colleagues to be vaccinated. one e.r. doctor explained to us

why, listen? >> in terms of severity, we're seeing that the sickest people are the people that are unvaccinated. those are the people we're admitting to the icus. we are seeing a lot more cases. reporter: here is one final note, david. this one comes from rhode island. you know, when you run out of people to work, what do you do? well if you're in a crisis mode the cdc has now authorized it and rhode island has adopted it, if you have a positive covid test and you're a healthcare worker and you've been vaccinated you can actually come to work at the hospital. it says there will be no restrictions with prioritization considerations for being asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic. so you have a situation where these folks may be able to come back to work even though they are covid positive if they have been vaccinated whereas they fired the folks not vaccinated but were covid negative. i guess you could argue with the

wisdom of that but they say they are medical reasons for it. david: i could argue with the wisdom of that, jeff, thank you very much. i appreciate it. severe staffing shortages across the nation as jeff just mentioned forcing some hospitals to allow covid-infected employees to help fill the void. st. joseph's institute for autoimmune disease director dr. bob lahita, who came out with a new book called, "immunity strong." doctor, we'll talk about your terrific new book in just a second but first of all this idea that it is better to have infected employees in the hospital than ones that feel that they have natural immunity and don't need a vaccine, i don't get it, do you? >> i don't get it either but i would say this, that we are so shorthanded and so packed in intensive care units, mostly unvaccinated people by the way, if you're asymptomatic, even though you test positive, this is the cdc saying you can work,

provided you wear ppe, profession, personal protective equipment like a big mask, probably double mask and wear governors and a tyveks suit you're okay. david: let me stop you there for a second, doctor. you say the cdc says so. a lot of the things the cdc has said turned out to be wrong. people are very skeptical, i think with good reason as to what the cdc says is right and what they say is wrong. don't you have qualms about their edicts as well? >> yes. they have been somewhat confusing as has the fda in the past and this has been a concern of everyone's because we're getting mixed messages but the official message right now is that if you're infected and you have no symptoms, you test positive, with ppe, you can work. the reason for that is we will have a shortage of doctors and nurses unless we do that. i agree. i think everybody in the hospital should be immunized.

david: but doctor, we have 30,000 health care workers in one state alone, the state of new york who have either quit or been fired as a result of not getting a vaccine. most of them feel since they had previous infections, that they have natural immunity. it isn't time to get rid of the vaccine mandate as a start and bring, try to bring some those people back? i mean these are highly qualified workers. you can't train somebody overnight to be a worker in a hospital. >> i agree with you. i don't understand why they are against vaccination but you're absolutely right. if there is a shortage and you have a trained intensivist, or trained intensive care nurse i would rather see them back with appropriate ppe, even though unvaccinated working in our icu and our emergency rooms. david: doctor, again with this omicron variant, we'll get into specifics in a second, but the fact is there are some break through cases.

it is clear that the vaccine doesn't really protect many people from getting, yes it lowers see verity of the disease if you get it but it's a pretty mild variant the one that is now taking over and omicron looks like it is really displacing all of the more virulent, all the more virulent varieties, does it not? >> you're right. delta variant is the culprit for people on respirators, ventilators and dying. it is not the omicron variant. it is infecting everybody. it is not a question of whether, but a question of when. the problem you're right you should be vaccinated. but omicron may provide us herd immunity going forward and maybe the end of the pandemic, david. david: i want to press you on this point, isn't it time to get rid of the vaccine mandates? >> i think it may be time to get

rid of vaccine mandates in hospitals and certainly in schools perhaps. i'm worried about teachers, not so much kids. and maybe with the police and fire who are really putting up quite a fight. so you may be right. this is, this may be the time, with this new variant to not rely on the mandate for staffing. david: now the good news, we have, i don't want to get into too much detail here but we have several different sources of immunity in our bodies. one is the vaccine. another is people who have natural immunity. both of those things tend to protect us from this severity of omicron, right any mean as i understand it omicron can get through the first line of defense the antibodies but the second line of defense, the t-cells it is really, it really falls apart when it is faced with those t-cells created by vaccines or by natural immunity? >> right. i've been talking about this for months. it is the cellular immunity,

better known as the adaptive immune response, that is really important. we have specific cells in our body that attack viruses. once those cells are aware of covid they are going to be very protective for everybody and that is what i talk about in my book, david. david: let's talk about that. how do we build up our own immunity system? >> well we have an inate response and that goes on 24/7 every single moment of the day within our bodies. when we're exposed to a foreign antigen like covid our bodies automatically kick in and they recognize covid going forward. we have a second wave called the adaptive response which is where the antibodies are made by lymphocytes in your blood. this cellular immunity is really, really important. most of us have robust protection because of, 24/7, around the clock. david: i put up your book,

immunity strong. you talk about vitamin-d being important. we don't get enough of that boosting our immunity system. what can you tell us about that, quickly? >> vitamin-d is critical. vitamin-c is critical. zinc is critical, if you take adequate amounts of that on a daily basis you will be healthy as you can expect to be and the omicron infection will not knock you out. david: dr. lahita, thank you very much. >> thank you, david. david: maskless in miami. congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez going against what her party preaches around what she herself has been preaching when we come back. and the governor of florida is not letting it slide. listen. >> had a dollar for every lockdown politician who decided to escape to florida over the last two years, i would be a pretty doggone wealthy man. ♪.

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♪. david: well more censorship of conservatives. facebook reversing course after telling a conservative childrens book publisher, heroes of liberty that their account was disabled. kelly o'grady live in los angeles with more on this.

hi, kelly. reporter: david, facebook is under scrutiny for censorship begin. they, when the company appealed the decision facebook doubled down and banned the business permanently. facebook that heroes of liberty violated the rules against lowe quality or public content, even though 95% of the advertisements ranked them facebook's quality core. after number of congress members, including ours highlighted the membership, the social meet yaw company is backtracking, a meta spokesperson that the account was disabled in error and has been restored. this lack of transparency can be damaging to small businesses that rely on the large database. on company of that the company's editor that the facebook's initial actions were anti-american. >> they said, here is our, here is all of our guidelines. you've been in error and we're

cutting off your accounts. it is probably because the users are triggered by seeing conservative content float up on their ads. so they report it. and there are, there are woke people behind the screen at facebook, they get these complaints and they see, oh it is books about ronald reagan and thomas sowell, and amy coney barrett. let turn that oaf. that is offensive. reporter: you can hear the frustration. when social media platforms are the modern day, this lack of transparency spurred a call nor regulating big tech. it begs the question, david, when this pushback will result in real consequences. david: kelly, exactly. thank you very much. appreciate it. another story getting tons of outrage reaction all over the country, congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez a strong advocate of masks and vaccine mandates, taking time off in what a lot of people are calling the free state of florida where such mandates are

prohibited. reaction from republican florida congressman byron donalds. good to see you again, congressman. thanks for being here. i would like to first look at her, i'm not a direct con stitt went of hers but i live in new york city which is an area that she covers. she covers part of it anyway. isn't she saying to her constituents, that she deserves freedom but they don't? >> that is exactly what she is saying but what is even worse than that is that she is doing what frankly every other american is doing, is that when cameras are on, somebody taking pictures everybody is genuflecting with the masks socially conscious. when people are out snapping pictures, hanging out, get back to regular life. the biggest issue with people like alexandria ocasio-cortez, if you do it privately, advocate for it publicly we don't have a problem.

don't try to enjoy yourself in miami, which is a great place to be, don't enjoy yourself back there and lock people at home in a district you represent. david: wasn't for a short period of time. the entire time answering that question, was the length of time she spent hugging people very closely in that. this is, this is going beyond just taking off your mask briefly this, is total demasking, at a party, meeting strangers. hugging them, for long period of time. she is doing exactly what she prohibits being done among her own constituents. seems more than hypocritical. it is almost marie antoinetteish. >> that is exactly right. look at the end of the day people just want to live free and want to live their lives. they don't want to be told what to do. they don't want hypocrites to tell them what to do by basically telling them one thing about masking up, doing all this stuff, but when you catch them on somebody else's camera phone

they're out living life and you're being told that you can't. that is what is wrong in our politics today. this is what the democrats have gotten wrong with the pandemic the entire time. instead of helping people live their lives, they have gone to this reflexive long-down policy, time after time after time. doesn't matter if it is her or nancy pelosi getting herr hair done when they closes all salons in the state of california. they have a own sit of rules for themselves as long as the plebes follow their rules. david: you may not see it now, may be something that appears much later they're not as prepared as they should be to joining the working environment of our economy, but you now have schools again in chicago, in new york, in new jersey, who are going to remote learning or going completely off-line. i mean, how much more of this can our kids take? i mean we're losing a generation of educated children? >> first of all, for the children in these cities i feel

so sorry for you and for the parents as well because you're going to fall further behind while the teachers unions basically is going to get their way because democratic elected officials can't get elected without the teachers union. this is outrageous. ron desantis has done in florida, making kids are back in the classroom, stopping remote learning has been the best thing for our kids. the data is clear. but these teachers unions don't care about the children because the children, by the way, they hardly transmit covid. that is what the data says. they barely get sick from covid. that is what the data says. they don't care about that. they would rather be protected, stay at home, make it easy for them to continue to get their salaries as opposed to doing jobs they were hired to do, being in the classroom every day and educating our children. it is outrageous. david: you make a lot of sense. you mentioned governor desantis. i have to mention the monoclonal antibodies dispute. he was very good at stockpiling them, one reason even though you have a larger infection rate of

the state of new york, same size population, your death rate is lowers you had the antibody treatment until the government, the federal government cut it off. what is the latest on that? is there any chance you can make direct deals with companies that provide that life-saving treatment? >> well, i don't want to speak for the governor. i know this is something we've been trying to do in our states. it is very, very difficult when the federal government has contracts and massive amounts of purchasing power. unfortunately the federal government is led by somebody in joe biden who does not have a plan, does not want to have a plan. when we were using monoclonal antibodies the regeneron treatment in florida, he scoffed at ron desantis but when it worked then he tried to hold back our stockpiles in florida. so you have a president who has not thought this through. there is no plan coming out of the by house. the monoclonal antibodies treatments work. it will be helpful to all americans. instead of him planning for that, he was worried about

"build back better" which is a absolute dumpster fire of a bill anyway. it is sad for our country you about ron desantis was doing the right thing leading our state. it has helped floridians. david: he was doing absolutely the right thing standing by his wife when she was getting cancer treatment, even those political opportunists including alexandria ocasio-cortez saying where was desantis? he was by his wife's side getting cancer treatments that was one of the most outrageous real low blow politically as low as the bar is politically. last thought? >> my only thought that democrats don't care. they will reach as low as need be to win a political argument. ron desantis and your wife casey i hope you recover 100% he is the best governor in america. that is why aoc is coming here to enjoy her holiday. david: he is a good husband as well, standing by in her time of need.

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>> continue to hijack the rules of the chamber to prevent action on something critical as protecting our democracy, then the senate will debate and consider changes to the rules on or before january 17th, martin luther king, jr. day. reporter: some of this is an appeal to the democratic base. it is an effort to portray republicans as obstructionists. but the problem is democrats need all the members on board and they're not there yet. the gop knows this. >> votes on either one of them, the filibuster issue, think about this, describe the word hypocrisy, that would be our democrat friends. four years ago 28 democrats signed a letter they were against ending the filibuster. the biggest difference between then and now republicans controlled all three branches of the government. now they control it, so they want to get rid of the filibuster. reporter: however the gop says caveat emptor. it is typical for the majority

to hope to ditch the filibuster when facing a blockade by the minority. democrat joe manchin worries about a carveout for voting rights backfiring on democrats. >> i want to talk to everybody. i want to engage everybody. i'm just not doing it for one side. for us to go it alone, no matter what side does, it ends up back at you pretty hard. reporter: a carveout for filibuster, causes trouble. if you do that you need the whole turkey. david: some people calling the voting right bill a turkey. chad pergram, the hits keep on coming. chad, appreciate it. switching gears, president biden is looking to combat high meat prices by using federal spending and increased regulations. let's bring in freedom works economic contributor steve moore. steve, increasing regulations usually increases costs for producers. how will increasing producer

costs lower inflation? >> yeah. david, i just want to like pull my hair out when i see this latest development by the white house. you know, you and i are old enough to remember back in the late 1970's when jimmy carter of all presidents deregulated key industries on prices. that included trucking. that included airlines, electric power production and so on and the brookings institute of all places found that that had significant effects in reducing prices. so in other words, deregulation, getting the government out of the way reduces price. all of these new measures will make, end up reducing supply and increasing the prices. this is not the solution. we have too much money in the economy and too much debt in the economy and biden doesn't want to address those issues. david: it is like one plus one equals two. if you increase prices for

producers through regulation they are going to pass it on to the consumers. seems so logical. another thing that seems logical, if you pay people to stay at home you will have more people staying at home. we got the new figures out. "the wall street journal" produced, not official government figures. it comes from indeed. i'm sure you've seen their ads. >> yes. david: they help people, businesses find workers. 12 million unfilled jobs now. in short order from nine to 10, to 11, now to 12 million unfilled jobs. seems another direct result of policy. >> it sure is. that is a double-edged sword, right? because it's a good thing there are a lot of jobs out there. by the way anybody with useful skill, whether an accountant, bookkeeper, carpenter, lech electrician, factory worker you can find a job. that is good news. for businesses having a really tough time getting those 12 million people off of the

rolls and into these jobs. why is it happening? one big factor according to "the wall street journal" just yesterday is all of these government benefits that are paying people not to work. so there are you know, hundreds of thousands of trucking jobs open. there are factory jobs open. manufacturing. by the way, david, these are not minimum wage jobs. we're talking about jobs that pay 18, 25, $30 an hour. truckers can make 80,000, $100,000 a year. people are not going back for the jobs because uncle sam is paying them not to work. david: finally in order to pay for all the government programs, eventually you run out of deficit spending as inflation goes up and they are going to increase taxes. there is a new poll, aoc last week was talking about this poll, showing americans support higher taxes but a new poll from "investor's business daily" shows 60% of americans are opposed to paying more taxes to fund more government spending programs. if you put it that way, very

often polls depend how you ask the question. say would you be willing to have taxes go up in order to pay for government spending, 60% of americans say no. >> look, i feel strongly about this data because i helped trump on his you know, incredible tax cut that really had a very positive effect. it is also about competitiveness. how do we make america competitive against china, russia, germany, france, spain, italy, mexico? we reduced those rates and you know these statistics. i heard you talk about them. we actually brought in more revenue, especially from wealthy americans as the economy expanded. so i'm worried, i have to say this, david, i'm a little bit worried that joe manchin may agree to some of these higher taxes. i think that would be a huge mistake on top of an economy that already has high inflation. david: not to be too political here but senator sinema on the other hand says she is against raising taxes. so that would still strand the democrats with less than a

majority, right? >> right. so, senator sinema, hold that thought. you are exactly right. they can't afford to lose one but these politicians love to cut deals. this is not. david: that's true. >> i've been devoting last four months of my life killing, as larry kudlow says, save the nation, killing the bill. we still have to do that. david: we'll probably see you sometime this week on "kudlow" itself. steve moore, good to see you, my friend. appreciate it. happy new year. >> thanks, david. happy new year. david: drivers stranded for hours after the mid-atlantic is blasted with snow. we'll take you to the scary scene that unfolded on one of the nation's busiest highways coming up next. ♪. [sfx: radio being tuned] welcome to allstate. ♪ [band plays] ♪

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david: take a look at this, that winter storm that blasted our nation's capital left hundreds completely stranded on internate 95 in virginia and elsewhere. fox senior national correspondent rich edson in washington with the latest on this. hi, rich. reporter: david, you have heavy wet snow, freezing temperatures and a number of roadways still around here that still haven't seen a plow. now you have this mess on i-95. this is a regional thing but specifically i-95 has been a disaster with hundreds and hundreds of drivers there, who say they were stuck overnight along the highway. many spent the night in their cars. drivers have been tweeted some are running out of gas. some had no food or water. some have pets and kids in the car. there were reports of local emergency workers running blankets and supplies to the frozen highway. temperatures have been in the low 20s around the region. >> well, been stuck now here in

fredricksburg since 11 yesterday morning. if you don't have to come out, please don't come out. >> not much movement as far as cars. we are able to get out and you can see the cold off of my breath. it is really cold out here. so you know, there are just folks everywhere just stranded and not much movement on our end reporter: virginia's department of transportation says it closed 95 in both directions for a 50-mile stretch around fredricksburg. crews are working to clear trucks frozen along the highway. one stuck driver, senator tim kaine of virginia. he tweeted a photo of his view surrounded by parked tractor-trailers. started my normal two hour drive to dc at 1:00 p.m. 19 hours later i'm still not near the capitol. we're in touch with the virginia department of department of transportation to

help other beginnians. please stay safe, everyone. cars are slowly starting to move of the stretch as they are trying to get through all of this. a very slow-going process. remember you shut down i-95, even if the roads around it are clear, they will be impacted as well. that is what we see. david: if you're between exits, you're stuck man. it is just that simple. rich, thanks very much. opec plus, that is what they're called, opec plus, russia and some other companies producing oil, agree to produce more oil as experts say oil could hit 100 bucks a barrel, as u.s. energy independence dwindles if not gone for good. we have the western states petroleum association. that is the frustrating point to so many americans. we had energy independence. we were producing 13 million barrels a day before the pandemic. of course the pandemic itself

cut it down a lot but so did the regulations that came in with the biden administration. we could still have energy independence, could we not? >> oh, we certainly could. i think what you're raising today, really points to a lot of policies, especially those out west that don't make sense. for example, you mentioned president biden asking opec plus to increase production. now they have done it. while here in california, the wets, we have governors, policymakers trying to stop and limit production via policy, not issuing permits. just a number of actions that actually decreased our energy independence, raise costs for folks and makes our energy unreliable. david: it could actually get worse. you heard president biden a couple of weeks ago talking about price gouging in the oil business when clearly a lot of his actions against production of oil didn't have to do with price gouging. it had to do they're not able to produce as much. are you concerned? i mean the ultimate whammy would be if the oil producers here got

hit with price controls. if that happened what would happen to production? >> well, we're concerned about a number of policies including issues like that. what you're seeing out west and coming across the country are administrative actions, not issuing permits, implementing policies to ban production in our states. really, not only reduce our ability to have energy independence, keep costs down, have reliable energy but also put hundreds of thousands of people out of work, at a time when our economy is trying to come back. you have to look at it from another perspective. if we're not getting energy from here, it is imported from other parts of the world that don't have protections, health and safety regulations that we have here in the united states. so all of this together puts us on a path that really decreases our energy independence and really means more costs for our families. david: it makes the air dirtier

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♪. david: united van lines 45th annual national movers study revealing that people moved out of blue states for smaller mid-sized cities in 2021. this as crime rates soared in many big cities like chicago where it ended the year with the highest murder count in 26 years. joining me former detroit police chief, james craig. thanks for being here. i think of three big items that are causing this exodus. one is security. people not feeling safe where they are. another the cost of doing business, taxes being regulations. the third is freedom. the freedom that has been jeopardized by the pandemic, some of which for legitimate

reasons but somewhere governors and mayors went far too far in terms of these mandates and lockdowns. let's talk about security first. there is a pushback against the defund the police kind of movement. is it coming in time to stop this exodus? >> well, david, let me first say happy new year. david: happy new year. >> let me say core responsibility much any governor, any mayor, is public safety. we have seen it. i feel like a broken record now. americans are fed up. they don't feel safe. i know your station reported earlier about what is going on in beverly hills. i spent 28 years in southern california. southern californians are leaving. they're leaving to go to places like texas, arizona, not so much florida. but they want to go place where there are freedoms. but when you talk about safety and these rogue d.a.s, these bail reform judges, there are no

consequences to those committing violent crime. look what we saw happen out in chicago. business owner, owns an exotic automobile dealership, smash-and-grab in middle of the day. only thing that the mayor responded in saying, maybe he should get security. that is not how this works. i think we're going to see more and more people leaving these large urban centers. it is a shame. where is the responsibility? david: well you know, the job is not just the mayor or the governor. it just as you suggest go down lower than that to the district attorneys, to the judges, et cetera. how, even if you're a well-intentioned, we have a new mayor in new york a former cop, he glads a lot of problems that cause the rise in violence on the streets, even if he is, even if he follows through with his talk and tries to get the city back into a law and order situation, how does he about up against the d.a.s and renegade

prosecutors? >> he will have to use his bully pulpit number one. i'm aware he is many coulding into -- coming into a situation where there is a new d.a., very progressive. he has some on his city council, progressive. he will have to overcome that. the other thing that doesn't often get talked about, what damage, the damage is still there, even though many moderate, so-called moderates are backing off defund the police movement, the damage has been done. and so how do you retain, how do you recruit police officers? you know, the department of justice -- david: if you don't mind, can you answer the question? how do you do it? how do you reach out to people that are good candidates? >> when you say good candidates, you talking about police chiefs? i mean, i'm trying to follow you on this. david: i'm just talking about getting enough cops on the street because you have so many people, so many cops retiring because so frustrated.

how do you get people back in just as candidates just to be street cops? >> you have got to support the men and women doing the job. if they don't feel supported they are going to continue to leave. it is one thing to throw money at it now but where is the support? the defund movement is still alive and well. many of the far left progressives are pushing that narrative out. many who call themselves moderates are complicit. they say and do nothing. so what message is that sent to the men and women? we'll talk about the antipolice rhetoric that still exists, it has had a negative impact and many officers, we've seen more officers unfortunately gunned down because of this -- david: horrible. horrible. >> that is challenged it. mayors face even though they're trying to do the right thing they got to overcome it. david: we got to leave it at that. chief craig, happy new year to you. coming up job openings hitting new highs as omicron surge showing no signs of stopping. more on that to come.

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coast" i'm david asman in for neil cavuto. severe weather now, and the ongoing labor shortage causing chaos at the airports, more of it, lydia hu is at newark international airport, in new jersey with all of the latest. lidia? reporter: hi there, david. until last night, the real concern was that a bad travel situation was just going to get worse with the rollout of the 5g network, but a late night agreement broker between the telecom giants verizon and at&t as well as government officials and the airlines has now delayed that 5g rollout by two weeks. the concern is that the 5g network could interfere with pilot instruments that help them with takeoff and landing, leading to more delays and diverted flights but with this postponement, passengers that are trying to catch a flight today can focus on the travel challenges that lie ahead that are caused by the winter storm and the

staffing shortages, watch. what's going through your mind when you're seeing that news? >> please don't cancel our flight. >> we know it's going to be a problem. actually our trip was canceled from aruba. we canceled it because we couldn't access testing in the allotted time. reporter: now, it's a bit early in the day to really be decisive about how today compares to yesterday, but my early assessment, david, is that it seems like there are fewer delay s and cancellations that are mounting today as compared to around the same time yesterday. although there remains to be a lot of travel anxiety among passengers. right now we see around 1,365 flights canceled, delays at close to 2,300 and we compare that to yesterday, we saw for the entire day, more than 3,200 cancellations, delays, more than 8,600. now i wanted to get a better idea of whether these are really driven by the weather, like

airlines are saying, and how much covid is impacting staffing shortages so i asked the airlines how much are shortages playing into this , and frankly, david, i didn't get a clear answer, but when we look at tsa employee data, take a look at this. we saw yesterday, over 2,800 tsa employees out sick with active covid cases up more than 1,000 from just sunday, when we saw 1,700 employees up, so there's no doubt that covid is playing a role in all of this. david: yeah it's going to happen. we knew this , that omicron was going to act like this , a lot of people are going to be out. lidia, thank you very much appreciate that report. meanwhile, major hospital systems, coast to coast battling ongoing worker shortages amid vaccine mandates, and of course, as the surge in omicron cases continues although it does seem to be peaking. fox news correspondent jonathan serri is in atlanta with the details. reporter: hi there, david more

than a million people in the u.s. were diagnosed with covid-19 on monday alone. this is nearly doubling the records set last week of about 590,000 americans, the highly infectious omicron variant is driving much of this , although most cases are relatively mild. the shear number of cases has driven up covid hospitalizations , 31% last week with rates sharply increasing in florida, georgia, louisiana and maryland and in new york city, hospitalizations are surpassing peak numbers set last winter and with staffing shortages, there is concern some u.s. hospitals will be overrun. americans continue to face long lines at covid test sites. federal health officials say the cdc is likely to issue further guidance on testing as part of its shortened five- day isolation and quarantine periods. the problem is pcr tests can show a positive result for weeks longer than the rapid tests. former surgeon general jerome

adams says they are preferable for determining whether someone is highly infectious. >> get a rapid test if you can. the problem is that the administration has not yet delivered the rapid tests so they didn't want to put out a policy telling you to do something which then reflected blame back on them. reporter: families waited in long testing lines for their return to school. officials say more than 1,000 teachers and staff were out today. the teachers union president telling the boston globe, most of the absences appear to be covid-related and david, here in atlanta, the marta rapid transit system announcing that several of its train rides may have to be canceled due to covid -related staffing shortages back to you. david: jonathan, thank you very much. well, all this , of course is tied to labor shortages, as a record 4.53 million workers quit their jobs in november. former mcdonald's usa ceo ed ren sy joins us now and ed, i've got another figure to throw out there and it's not a good

one. the number of unfilled jobs according to the website "indeed " the career website, has gone from 11 million to 12 million. 12 million unfilled jobs now, and that is just killing small businesses. when is it going to start going in the right direction? >> i have no idea if this continues the way it is, it's going to be nothing but a greater and greater catastrophe. one of the things i think we're overlooking a little bit is that the baby boomers were born from 1946 to 64. the oldest is 76 and the youngest is 58, but the first child of the baby boomers is starting to reach 56 years of age, so the retirement numbers are going to start to accelerate and it's going to be a lot of upward mobility because they're leaving the workforce which is going to leave a shortage at the bottom end and boy we're feeling it big time in restaurants, barber shops, daycare centers, it's a nightmare and the other problem we got, the pandemic, this new

strain of virus, is causing people to stay home because they're ill and applying for unemployment and the unemployment benefits are very rich and there's no reason to go back to work, so you got a confluence of events here that are really starting to pile on top of one another. now we're coming into the season of the summer when we need part time workers in restaurants and other places because of seasonality. we're never going to find them and we're starting to substitute automation and digital for people, and we're also reset ting the business in restaurants particularly, reset ting the menus, resetting the operating hours, cutting back on the days we're open. it's going to be a major major change in what's happening in the restaurant industry and other small businesses because of this shortage. david: well and then you have the pandemic regulations, and chief among them, i would say, contributing to labor shortage are these vaccine mandates because a lot of people just don't want to do it, and i happen to live in the city that

has the most stringent in the nation, new york city, but you get some of it all over the place. in chicago, in la, and elsewhere , this has got to be adding to the problem. >> there's no question about it i want you to know i'm an advocate for vaccination, i've had two shots plus boosters , i've had zero problem with this , but the state of florida has handled this much differently than the state of new york or illinois has handled and the reality of it is , you know, 15 years ago when we had spanish flu people went to work sick, never thought about it. today, if they get a sniffle they don't go to work. now i don't know what's the best public health policy, but the reality of it is we need to be careful, we need to wear mask s, we need to wash our hands , we need to keep our hands off our face but we gotta get realistic about what's going on. this last strain of virus, while it makes you sick, isn't anywhere near as vicious as the first strain and we gotta come to grips with this. david: ed the other thing is the vaccine mandate has done

nothing to prevent the spread of omicron in new york. nothing. new york has a spread of omicron that's just as bad as florida does, in fact, florida's death rate is a little lower than new york, probably because of the antibody treatment that the governor stockpiled but bottom line is the vaccine mandates don't work. one, it hasn't really increased the vaccination number but two, and probably more importantly, it hasn't stopped omicron. >> well i've talked to a lot of friends of mine in the african americans community and they frankly don't trust the government. when biden came out and said i'll never take a vaccine of donald trump, you know, that resonated with a lot of people and we're climbing out of that. david: forgive me for interrupting, i think that was kamala harris who said it, not biden but go ahead. >> well, it was the administration however it came about, the reality of it is when you say things like that, it resonates with people and i talk to a lot of my african american friends, they really

are uncomfortable with a lot of this. who knows where it's going to go but i can tell you this. when you got a small business with hourly employees and you say i've got 100 of them you've gotta get vaccinated and they say no, goodbye, they leave. they don't care. david: right. >> it's a problem. david: very quickly, the president claims the supply chain issues are getting better. is that what you're hearing? >> not at all. not even a little bit. the ports are cleaning out because they pushed the boats 100 miles offshore pretend like you're cleaning them up but there's still a huge shortage of truck drivers. we abuse our truck drivers every day. look at that mess oni-95 right now. all those goods and services are just sitting there waiting for government to do something, so no, i don't agree with biden at all and a big problem like he talks about meat. i've been in those meat processing plants. they're extremely labor- intensive, and they're paying $22 to $26 an hour and can't get people?

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>> that's the largest education budget in the history of the commonwealth. we're going to invest in teacher s, new facilities, special education. we're going to introduce choice within our public school system. >> [applause] >> how about that, choice within the public school system. david: yeah, how about that? education, of course a major factor in glenn youngkin's victory gubernatorial race and arizona republicans are looking to capitalize on that same education momentum, connell mc shane in scottsdale, arizona with more. hi, connell.

connell:, hey there, david, yeah , we do all remember loudoun county, virginia especially from last year, you had these parents who were upset about lockdowns and curriculum issues and they got involved politically they had quite an impact to your point and with that in mind i want to introduce you to amanda ray, here in the scottsdale area she's leading another group of parents upset about similar issues and possessing similar goals. >> i think that there's a huge ground swell for , i think, so many of us were asleep, until covid and now are paying attention and we're realizing that there needs to be more oversite and so we'll support those political leaders that will help us out. connell: amanda tells me her support will be going to republicans much like what we saw in virginia whether it's in the governor's race here or the all-important senate race. senator mark kelly, the democrat won a special election in 2020 so his seats up again this year, and it's one of the key races we're watching to

see which party ends up controlling the senate. the state attorney general, mark bernavich among the leading republicans, he says you can multiply what happened in virginia by two or three times because arizona is more conservative leaning to begin with but in the end for his party he makes the case that picking the right nominee will be the deciding factor. >> and the candidate matters, and when we, here in arizona, when we have this tradition of electing sometimes democrats, sometimes elebanoning really conservative people but it ultimately comes down to the person, it's the person and what do they really believe in. connell: he does have some competition in the primary in the likes of blake masters who has support from the tech industry and people like peter k eel, but the bottom line in arizona, watch the state closely this year, thanks in large part to education. no matter who emerges as senator kelly's opponent and kelly, by the way, did not respond, david, to our interview requests. back to you. david: connell mcshane good to see you, thanks for being here.

well meanwhile preparing for the post-pelosi era inside the beltway as speaker nancy pelosi is expected to step down from leadership next year, democrats now reportedly eying new york congressman hakeem jefferies for the job, when she leaves although congresswoman might have something to say about that let's bring in republican strategist alex vogel, and democrat strategist laura fink. so laura, i know nancy pelosi doesn't make a move without calling you up asking your opinion about whether she's doing the right thing. what happened? is she going to retire before the mid-term elections and if so , who replaces her? >> well, nancy pelosi is a woman of her word, and you can be sure that when she forms the votes that elected her as the current speaker there was a provision that she would step down before the next term, but you can also count that a woman who has decades of leadership arguably the most successful

speaker in generations, has a plan for succession. we will see and all will be revealed in the weeks and months to come, but you can better believe that she has hand picked whomever succeeds her. david: well forgive me, alex, but you beg the question, laura, do you know who it is? you're suggesting that she actually has somebody in mind. >> no doubt. i mean, and she knows how to whip votes for that person, and i would say it's probably an open secret, among a lot of her caucus; however she's also a believer in small democracy so while she has her horse, she's going to let people weigh in and have their say. david: that's why i suggested during the intro, congresswoman jayapaul might have something to say about mr. jefferies but alex, if the gop takes over the house, who becomes the speaker of the house after the determines mid-terms? >> i liked our conversation about whether speaker pelosi will be able to hand pick her successor, but i'll play here as

well. look, i think leader mccarthy has done a tremendous job navigating what a speaker pelosi now understands as well, is a difficult political environment with a relatively narrow majority and if republicans find themselves as i think they will in the position to take over the house, i think that's a compelling argument that the speaker can make, that leader mccarthy can make to be speaker. do i think there are others who will holdup their hands and ask to be -- david: let me throw one out there, congressman scalise. >> again, there may very well be people inside or outside of the existing leadership team who throw their hats in there. i actually think that is going to be much less dramatic and interesting than how the democrats navigate a post- speaker pelosi world. david: well laura, let's just

talk about the post-speaker pelosi world if, in fact, the number of democrats retiring continues. you have 24 democrats who are retiring. some of them going to other jobs or other races trying to become governor but most of the overwhelming majority just leaving politics entirely. why is that? why so many? >> well, i think it's just depends, a lot of times people move on because they have other prospects or they move on because they've served for a very long time, and they're moving on to other things, and no doubt, it is going to be a tough election. i can't look into this , look you in the eye david and say it won't be for democrats not only because of the environmental but because republicans control the boundaries which will affect the mass, so democrats have a hard climb and so there's a lot of different factors that go into that. we see some of those same factor s playing out with senate retirements on the republican side, so i don't know, john, i think there's a lot of drama happening in the republican party, and primaries moving into

2022. david: well, alex, you have 12 retirements among democrats versus, among republicans, versus 24 among democrats, so there is something happening with the house. what's your explanation? >> there is, and look, we've lived through this and the republican side as well. anytime that you are in the majority and in particular, if you are someone who is holding a gavel over a committee and you know, with relative certainty, that you're going to lose that position, it always drives a wave of retirement, and the reality is, democrats have enjoyed being in the majority in the house and all of those people looking at retiring , it's not just that yes , this is going to be a tough election for their side. it is they're pretty confident they're going to lose what power they have and they'd rather just go out in the majority and not pursue it. i very much think that's what's driving this. david: laura and alex, it's going to be very interesting

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david: well, tesla potentially looking at a stock split. fox business' charlie gasparino joining us now with details on this , hi, charlie. charlie: david i want to get into that and this is more informed trader speculation on the stock split than anything else but we do have some breaking news. blackrock, the world's largest money management firm, david, $9 trillion under management, has just announced to its employees, that it is extending work-from-home hours for them, so essentially, blackrock is saying listen if you want to work-from-home go for it, you can do it through the end of january, january 28 i believe is the day they're giving. now we should point out most big

banks are doing this. it's a little different every place else, goldman sachs i believe is january 18, but here 's the bottom line. most of the banks based on their internal calculations and data believe omicron, the current variant, which is highly transmissible, much more than anything else, and a lot of people are getting it, i got over it, and you know, it's out there, that this thing will likely burn through the population by the end of january, so january is going to be a really rough month here in new york city, and on wall street, because you know, this place, is basically, the workers are not going to be, many workers, not all, there are essential workers like people who run computers and don't have to deal with clients or be at a trading desk they will be in the office but it'll be a very thin wall street staff going forward at least until the end of the month. on tesla and this is fascinating , because this is something that traders, that trade tesla have been following forever, when tesla starts reaching, is that a one day?

can we share a one week? is that an intraday? david: that's intraday. there's a week. charlie: that's more appropriate when you start seeing a big run- up like this in tesla, the traders that follow this stock tell me that's when they do splits so they are saying this thing could split, based on that type of run-up, every time it had one of those , apparently, i don't follow tesla everyday, there's a stock split, they are predicting that tesla as a stock split could be coming soon so just watch tesla shares whether it's good or bad for the stock, i don't know. usually any news on tesla is good news, someone figures out a reason to buy it even though it by traditional metrics it's not a stock they should be trading where it's trading. the other one you look at is amazon and this is something that we've been reporting, my producer and i and myself have been talking to traders a lot about amazon. again that's an intraday. show more long term, show like a one year or something, you know that's why amazon they need to split, and again, the stock is,

where is it trading at? you really want to shell out, it's hard to attract retail interest, and retail interest does boost stocks these days given how many people are in the market when your stock is trading at $3,333, much less $ 333, it's very hard to get retail interest that's why people, again, traders predicting a stock split for amazon in 2022, david, back to you. david: great breaking news on blackrock another month staying at home for a lot of people there. charlie, thank you very much appreciate it. well it's a big moment for apple , becoming the first u.s. company to briefly touch $3 trillion in market value. here now to discuss is capitalis t hedge fund manager jonathan hoenig and michelle schneider, good to see you both. thanks for being here. jonathan, first of all let's talk about the iphone. it is the cash cow of apple, as

everybody knows. when you have increased inflation, and people have to cut back on things basic things like meat and milk, stuff like that, they maybe less prone to trade up for a new version of the iphone. doesn't that hurt apple? >> potentially david. look a lot has hurt and impacted apple over the last what, 20-30 years, since keep in mind this company was left up for bankruptcy in 1997, it was almost bankrupt, so what they did, david, they innovated, whether it was the iphone or the whole itunes platform, apple is the world's first or america's first $3 trillion company exactly because of that innovation and you gotta take your hat off david whether you're bullish or bearish on apple here is a company worth more than the entire gdp of britain, of russia, canada, france, this is a major achievement not just for apple shareholders but for the american way of life only in america do you see this type of wealth created. david: absolutely and michelle you never want to bet against apple, it's like betting against

the u.s. economy. it is a cash cow the whole company is, but the past 20 years as jonathan has been talking about for apple is a period when we haven't had a lot of inflation. this is something new. it's a new twist to our economic environment and i'm wondering if apple's particularly vulnerable to that new twist. >> well, up to this point, considering that we really started to see inflation become a narrative in 2021, apple sort of skirted through that. they didn't really get affected as much by the chip shortages, or the labor problems, but that could certainly, if inflation continues, which we believe it will, affect them in 2022, and we have to remember that the last earnings report actually fell short, because of chip shortages and we've got earnings coming up now at the end of january, they haven't announced an official date, but the expectation is 30 times the 2022 fiscal year earnings estimates. that's a lot.

that's lofty so if the inflation is going to be a factor here we could see a disappointment. would that be bearish? well it might actually just give investors a better buy opportunity at cheaper prices. david: so 10 seconds to both of you. jonathan would you be buying in 2022 apple? >> i think the fear, david, i would not be and the reason is, david, apple is so ubiquitous in everyone's portfolio. keep in mind it's 5% of the s&p, it's 10% of the nasdaq, so chances are even if you don't own apple you probably have it somewhere else in your portfolio for that reason alone, i think caution is warranted. david: michelle are you buying this here, quickly. >> again i would have to see a decent size dip with a better risk getting in at these lofty levels. david: great to see you happy new year, thank you very much. well, bay area business owners blasting leadership over mask mandates, making a comeback. we will talk to one of those out spoken business owners when we come back.

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and a seven day average of over 97,000, the good here, reported deaths are flat, they are not growing. now, the test developed by two private companies here, roche and siemens has been okay by an expedited test program run by the national institute of health and it's called rapid acceleration of diagnostics initiatives, and it evaluates the test based on the ability to rapidly scale up production. now the roche test is a 20 minute at-home test produced by roche and its distribution partner while the zeman's test is an otc antigen screening kit which uses a nasal swab and can be performed by anybody over 14 years of age. now i'm going to tell up, zemans told us today they could have millions of these shipped each and every month starting this month. in a statement the fda's center director is saying this , the program is incredibly beneficial to increasing access to rapid tests by quickly and

consistently gathering the critical data companies need to request emergency use authorization and i should say that both of these tests have that critical eua, and as you know, the republicans have been complaining about how there are no tests and all of the problems with pills, et cetera, our colleague janney heinrich is saying the white house is buying 10 million additional pfizer pills moving up their delivery from september to june, so at this point, they're under the gun and they know it at the white house, trying to make some changes. david? david: yeah, they should have been spending this money earlier , it's clear with omicron they may, we maybe at the peak right now of omicron infections, we'll see , gerri thank you very much. gerri: fingers crossed. david: california indoor mask mandates making a comeback in some parts of that state, fueling growing frustration among business owners who say the rules are just getting ridiculous. impossible to follow. reaction now from one of those fed up business owners,

adam covax, the founder and ceo of sonoma fit. i understand you have about three clubs in the north bay area. how are these newman dates going to affect your businesses? >> well, first of all thank you for having me, david. yeah, we're very affected, impacted by this as you probably can imagine because ultimately, it does come down to this. the fitness industry, gyms, are the only ones who really are dealing with all the repercussions of this never- ending mask mandate, that clearly also doesn't work, but we're the only ones dealing with the repercussions. it's very frustrating. david: and of course it's not the only frustration you've had. there have been a lot of frustrations over the past couple of years. i would put foremost, among them , the lockdowns themselves. for how many months during this pandemic did you have to actually lock your doors? >> i mean, you will probably

not believe this but we were permanently closed for 10 months david: whoa. >> for 10 months i was not allowed to operate and even after those 10 months we weren't allowed to open with severe restriction masks and capacity limits and had to be outdoors. i mean it's 22 months in, we're heading, you know, our two-year anniversary of we're operating crippled, and, you know, then here in california, the fitness industry has also received no help. our operating costs annually are about $2.7 million. the only grant that i have received, that we have received, is $25,000. david: so your overhead is in the millions and the only, the money that you've received to help you out is just a pittan ce in comparison. do the politicians making these

judgments, what seem to be kind of, you know, back of the heel judgments, snap judgments about mandates, do they understand what you've been going through? have you tried to speak to them and say look, guys, you've gotta be more sympathetic to our conditions? >> absolutely. i mean, david, let me tell you. i have fought like every day, literally, i was trying to make as much noise as i could, because, you know, it's all about passive protection, masks, shots, like vaccine one, two, booster, again more masks, more masks, nobody is talking about like educating the public about playing an active role in actually maintaining good health let's remind ourselves that 80% of all those lives that have been lost due to covid are essentially caused by obesity and by very bad health that is self-inflicted.

david: it's a good point. >> and the politicians, they just do politics. they don't understand business. david: adam, do you have any trust at all left for the politicians that represent you? >> none. david: do you think it's true for other businesses in the state as well, or is your industry unique? >> unfortunately, our industry, which is in business to keep the public healthy, lets be very clear, is the only business that is really impacted by this , because i mean, i was just at a 49er game last weekend, 75,000 spectators, you know, screaming, yelling, at every third down. i mean come on, and they're not impacted. all of those mega events are going, bars, restaurants, they aren't impacted by walking in with masks and then you drop your mask while you're sitting there drinking with your buddies for hours. nobody is impacted but this industry. david: we have to run but it

just makes you wonder when they claim they're making all the decisions based on science and you mention those discrepancies which are as clear as can possibly be. it's really ridiculous. best of luck to you, adam. we really appreciate you coming in. we hope your business survives. you've got the right spirit for survival, thank you very much, appreciate it. happy new year. >> thank you very much. david: coming up, iran is threatening revenger against the u.s. for the killing against iranian general soulemani, two years ago. the details and reaction from congressman mark green when we continue. at vanguard, you're more than just an investor, you're an owner with access to financial advice, tools and a personalized plan that helps you build a future for those you love. vanguard. become an owner. new projects means new project managers. you need to hire. i need indeed. indeed you do. when you sponsor a job, you immediately get your shortlist of quality candidates,

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david: tensions are flaring in the middle east as a second drone attack against u.s. forces in iraq is foiled in just the past 24 hours. fox news foreign correspondent trey yingst is live in jerusalem with the details. reporter: david, good afternoon. earlier this morning explosives drones targeted a military base in western iraq that does house u.s. coalition members. we do know according to afp that no injuries were reported and the attack is considered to be unsuccessful since drones were shot down by iraq's air defense system. no group claimed responsibility the vent was likely carried out by an iran it-backed iraqi

malitia that carried out similar attack. another attempted drone attack happened yesterday in the iraqi capitol of baghdad. in the city, supporters of general soulemani marched by the site where he was killed two years ago and they stepped on american and israeli flags as they viewed the mangled car he was riding in. in iran a memorial was held where officials demanded accountability for the killing, spectators chanted "death to america" as iran's president threatened president trump. while this all took place two years ago the regional tension with iran continues to increase, partially due to the back drop of ongoing nuclear conversations about that 2015 deal, and also, in part due to continued proxy action. david? david: very much. so, meanwhile, the president of iran is now vowing revenge against the united states, if former president donald trump does not stand trial for the killing of iranian general soulemani two years ago. we should mention by the way,

soulemani was in iraq when he was killed and he was allegedly planning a terror attack, which would have killed many many more tennessee republican congressman house foreign affairs committee member mark green joins me now. so congressman, jack keane, four star general jack keane, says that nothing has shocked the iranian leaders more that killing of soulemani. that really hit them hard, which in my eyes is a good thing. you want your enemies to be afraid of you, don't you? >> yeah, absolutely, david. i thought that was one of the , you know, highlights of the trump adminitration was taking out a guy, who killed 700 -plus american service members while they were serving in iraq with the improved explosive devices that he helped develop. this guy was a terrorist and a general, he was in uniform. it was completely in keeping with the geneva convention. any suggestion otherwise is just

hyperbole from what we would expect from the iranians. david: now as you know well this administration is looking to reignite their treaty or their, it wasn't a treaty but their deal with the iranians on the development of nuclear weapons. do you fear that they might be willing to cut some sort of a deal with the iranians that would put us in a weaker position than we were at the end of the trump adminitration? >> oh, absolutely. you know it was barack obama who gave billions of dollars to the iranian terrorists, you know, as a part of his initial jcpoa. biden of course was fully supportive of that, fought for it, and what happened, billions of dollars funded the iranian malitias that disrupted the country basically destroyed syria. now, this guy, biden, is doubling down on this same sort of negotiation strategy and you don't cut deals with the devil. these guys hate americans.

it's in their constitution to export islamic jihaddism to the world and basically take over the world. it's in the iranian constitution it's who they are. you can't cut a deal with these people but that's what biden wants to do. david: now not only do they plan to get more money from los ing some of the sanctions that we had on iran and their ability to sell oil, but oil prices themselves have pretty much doubled from where they were under the trump adminitration, largely many people say, because of the policies of the biden administration to discourage production here in the united states, so we had them on their heels, essentially, when trump left office. are they standing firmly on the ground now and is there anything that will shake their determination to continue to do the bad things they were up to at the beginning of the trump adminitration? >> well it sounds like from the most recent negotiations that happened in vienna in december, the iranians don't trust us either, you know, they

don't trust the biden administration. they know he's only a one-term president, so even if sanctions are lifted, businesses aren't going to go flocking back to doing deals with iran because they know biden's only going to be there for three more years at -most, so i think the iranians and the business community aren't really worried about sanctions. they aren't thinking about that right now. david: congressman you mentioned syria. i remember an event that affect ed russia in syria when the trump adminitration essentially killed, i think it was a couple hundred russian mercenaries who were operating in syria. the fear that we send into the heart of the iranians for the killing of soulemani was duplicated in what we told putin or showed putin, what we were willing to do in order to protect our assets in syria, so do they now feel like they have a free reign, now that the trump adminitration is no longer with us? >> yeah, i think the iranians, really the afghan withdrawal that was such a debacle has

empowered, it has motivated, it has made tyrants all over the world think now is our chance, and whether that's vladimir putin lining up 100,000 troops on the you rain yankees border or whether that's xi-jinping sending more aircraft into taiwanese air space, or the iranians launching drones against american troops. its happened because we have one of the weakest presidents in american history sitting in the oval office. it's a tragedy, and now, it has to be confronted. what we need, we need honestly a better president and a better secretary of state. david: congressman, we thank you for being here, happy new year to you. congressman green. >> you too, david. appreciate it. david: well take a lack at markets before we go the dow is on pace for a second day of records after hitting all-time highs earlier today. got nor cavuto "coast to coast" when we continue.

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david: look at all the indexes.

the dow, this is the best santa claus rally the dow had in 13 years right now. but, nasdaq is having a tough time. look at that, 10% drop in nasdaq. usually the nasdaq goes down like that when interest rate are up. indeed interest rates are up right now. another thing that are up, are oil prices. higher for second day in a row. they are not on pace for a six week high. maybe they're up because omicron may not be that bad. look who is here to guide you through the next hour. good to see you, charles. charles payne is with us. good to see you, my friend. charles: good afternoon, i'm charles payne, this is "making money." two roads have diverged in the woods. investors decided to one less traveled. talking about the results of big time now, see growth stocks getting hammered. david just pointed it out as we see aggressive buying in cyclical names. the spark is coming from a surge in buying yields renewed focus on value this, is