republican say yes. jillian: his big-city adventure is over. next chapter for new york. griff: "fox and friends first" continues right now. ♪ good morning. you are watching "fox and friends first" on wednesday morning. you are in new york, i am in dc. jillian: the owl just wanted to see the big apple. he is gone. >> i can't believe it is the day before thanksgiving. we have a lot of news to get to. jillian: millions of americans traveling for the holidays the cdc's is a much-anticipated vaccine rollout could come the

second week of december. >> it is not too late. >> donald trump giving the vaccine rollout could happen by mid-december. >> during this thanksgiving, eternal gratitude to doctors, nurses, healthcare workers and scientists who waged the battle against the china virus and give thanks for vaccine this that would end the pandemic. >> reporter: joe biden sharing plans for vaccine distribution. >> setting up a rollout how it would occur. and the leading governors, 5 republicans and democrats. the need to cooperate and get the vaccine in places you get

vaccinated and these things should go first. >> reporter: the cdc director says the rollout will go to those who need it most. >> by the end of the second week of december. >> in a hierarchical way or nursing home residents, and individuals at high risk. >> doctor manny out there is a join in on the news. >> it is a positive one. getting the vaccine, pfizer started the mechanics to see how it works. >> reporter: even with the potential vaccine around the corner, lockdown measures continue, in new york, according

reminding residents not too late to cancel thanksgiving plans. the covid-19, all the docs you see on this map, 7000 flights, 6 million people taking to the skies with 40 million expected to travel by car or train. >> donald trump touting a milestone as the dow hits the 30,000 market. >> they are laying out plans for the first 100 days. >> reporter: this thanksgiving week, the white house a leading an economic milestone, the dow hit 30,000, donald trump who largely stayed away from the

press, talked about the win. >> reporter: have never been broken, the ninth time since the beginning of 2020, the 40 eighth time we've broken records in the trump administration. >> reporter: is the trump administration focuses on economic gains president-elect biden give a glimpse to what his first actions in office will be come next year. >> the first hundred days i will send an immigration bill to the united states senate with a pathway for citizenship for 11 million undocumented, moving to do away with some of the i think very damaging executive orders, that significantly impacted on making climate worse. >> the president-elect introduce

topics for top foreign policy and national security post, well known in the dc beltway including tony lincoln for secretary of state and john kerry to lead the white house on climate change. not all are happy with the choices, the team has too many obama era vaccines -- names, some republicans agreed is obama 3.oh, it is not senator tom cotton, one thing is for certain, joe biden's democratic dream team has a lot of family titles, they worked in washington a long time but they are not the same thing as achievements. we need walk-on tryouts immediately. biden and his team are full steam ahead on the transition meeting with different federal agencies. donald trump has not bothered a formal concession in his legal team continues their fight in court.

griff: thanks. jillian: members of the media caught on a hot mike after donald trump's brief statement on the dow. >> thank you very much. jillian: jim r costa retweeted multiple account recapping the moment but did not say whether he made the comment. fox news contributor says after 4 years of hostile treatment towards donald trump and softballs for joe biden the media needs to do its job and ask tough questions respectfully. >> the office of the presidency deserve respect all the time but deserves scrutiny and challenges because that is what we deserve. we have to have that insight and transparency. without it, without a 180 degree pendulum swing for the four

years we just concluded from the vitriol in texas city, the opposite is just as unhealthy. i hope we can look forward to the end of those softball or no questions and actual insights into our presidential office. jillian: president-elect biden will be in front of cameras today to deliver a thanksgiving address. griff: hunter biden has ties to tony lincoln, the pick for secretary of state. hunter scheduled meetings with him when he was on the burisma board. the two mess up in 2015 but did not discuss the role. this as we learn the computer repairman at the center of hunter's laptop scandal closed up shop and skipped town, reportedly fled after receiving death threats amid the hunter controversy.

overnight donald trump planning to pardon michael flynn, sources telling fox news the former national security adviser might be part of several pardons between now and when the president leaves office. flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the fbi in the russia probe in 2017 and thought to withdraw but lost. he was questioned over communication with a russian ambassador during donald trump's transition, supporters say the fbi set him up and forced him to give these statements. jillian: a big-city adventure comes to a end. the owl flying off when he was found in the rockefeller christmas tree earlier this month, he was released in upstate new york where the tree was cut down. wildlife officials believe the little guy now dubbed rockefeller was inside the tree during the entire 200 mile journey. griff: had enough in new york. time now, 10 minutes after the hour. possible tornado tearing through

at texas committee, major distraction. jillian: facebook suggested to change its algorithm to favor left-leaning news outlets. is another case of big tech censorship? giano caldwell reacts next. - [narrator] welcome to intelligent, indoor grilling with the ninja foodi smart xl grill. eliminate the guesswork with the smart cook system. just pick your protein, select your doneness and let the grill monitor your food so you don't have to. and because it's a ninja foodi,

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griff: facebook struggling to balance ability and growth according to the new york times. jillian: mark zuckerberg signed off on an algorithm make certain applications more visible and web searches and others. giano caldwell joins us to react. let's pull a proportion of this new york times article reading, quote, resulted in a spike in visibility for mainstream publishers like cnn, the new york times and npr, highly engaged tiber partisan pages like breitbart and occupy democrats became less visible. what is your reaction?

>> i don't find it surprising at all. all understood there is a bias against conservatives. i wrote about it on a foxnews.com our bed which i encourage you to look at and talk to alan dershowitz about giano caldwell but this has happened to me. facebook has censored my pages, twitter has censored me. it is a problem. facts matter and fairness matters. that is why it is important for conservatives and democrats, section 230 of the decency act, democrats and republicans moving toward, something we need to get done. this unfairness will continue. griff: a statement from facebook, they say there are many variables at a, all aimed at creating the best experience

for people. the assertion is based on sources, no decision-making authority and advancing their own narrow impression of how our process works. let me put you in the drivers seat, what should facebook do? how should they change? >> what they believe in most fares limit conservative voices, they want an echo chamber out of left-leaning content and we continue to see that with mark levin, i am on parlor if anyone wants to follow me there at giano caldwell. it is important to continue to push facebook and social media giants like twitter and others to act fairly. the only way to do it is reform section 230. the ability to do what they want

to do, acting as a publisher is not what they are supposed to do. they are supposed to be a website that you can post and so on. that is not what is going on. they are censoring and editing. this is a problem. conservatives must speak out. this needs reform immediately. jillian: in philadelphia, after shutting down can carry permit process over covid-19 concerns. rewind a few days, friday the policy collision filed face in federal court against the city of philadelphia claiming the city infringed the second amendment right after closing the permit process for three weeks. the philadelphia police department gun permit unit sensible shutdown due to several positive covid-19 cases and the need to quarantine. the gun permit unit has closed temporarily due to several police employees testing positive for covid-19 is the court noted 29 plaintiffs emergency injunction motion the closure was necessary to protect the health of others in the union or individuals visiting the office. this any plans to open a gun permit office in the future.

the question, if you have a certain number of covid-19 cases, don't have enough staff to work properly what else are you supposed to do? >> that i would understand if that was the case but let's be clear, people have a lot of reasons to be crackle of decisions being made. in terms of businesses i was in chicago having dinner at a restaurant and when i asked for my check the server said thank you for your business, a few folks that came in, what we are doing now is illegal but we must survive. a lot of businesses being impacted by covid-19 regulations, there is not enough people able to work because of covid-19 cases. there's a lot of tyranny going on with government, liberal politicians across the country putting people out of business, creating a negative situation around the holidays. people need to take precautions.

griff: thank you for joining us and happy thanksgiving. >> reporter: happy thanksgiving. help me on parlor. griff: what is your handle on social media? >> giano caldwell. the podcast, listen to that too. jillian: it is 17 after the hour. the pandemic has tested us all this year but there is still a lot to be thankful for. >> it is important to give thanks for the good in our lives, pastor robert jeffress's thanksgiving message next. ♪ (groans) hmph... (food grunting menacingly) when the food you love doesn't love you back, stay smooth and fight heartburn fast with tums smoothies.

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griff: we are back with extreme weather. suspected tornado touching down in texas overnight, sirens blaring a severe storm sweeps through the dallas area leaving a trail of destruction. this roof collapsing on several vehicles and no injuries reported. janice dean is tracking the storm. >> janice: no reports from the national weather service of tornadoes in the dallas area, not saying it didn't happen but there is the last 24 hours of storm reports, we had hail and damaging wind. the national weather service will be out in that area investigating to see if there was a tornado. we had isolated severe weather that will push across portions of the mississippi river valley, not a severe weather outbreak

but keep an eye on the sky and adhere to your local weather forecast. current temperatures, a front moving through helping bring about showers, thunderstorms, isolated severe weather. the travel delays if you are on the roads or in the air across the eastern third of the country as the friends continues to move in. the northwest is unsettled today. as we get into thursday much quieter. much of the country, 2 thirds of the country dry with no major problems. on the east coast we will see showers as the friends continues to exit. there is your thanksgiving day forecast. the good news is mild for much of the country with 60s in 70s on the map, 84 in tampa, florida, 62 in phoenix, pretty good-looking forecast. it is going to be a light precipitation for thanksgiving. as we get into the weekend we will see things ramp up on the

gulf coast and the northwest which remains unsettled with rain and mountain snow. not too batter forecasts, keep an eye on the potential tornado. griff: if we get that mild weather i will where flip-flops. who knows? >> happy thanksgiving to you and your family. two nypd officer shot in the line of duty for helping a woman at her home in queens after she reported her husband for assault. police said he walked in and opened fire shooting one officer in the side. the other in both hands. the officers returned fire killing guffey. both officers are in stable condition. firefighters recovering from

burns after running into a burning home, the team attempting to make a rescue after a neighbor thought someone was inside. no one was found. the quality of gear issued prevented more serious injuries. this looks like a normal photo. grandparents in texas carving more than just turkey this thanksgiving. missy and mary buchanan sending cardboard cutouts of themselves to their grandchildren in california and texas was the pandemic forcing them to find a creative way to spend the holidays with the family. the kids say they could not stop laughing. >> everyone should send cardboard pictures of themselves. the few remaining days we have left.

churches across california fighting back, the new supreme court challenge to governor newsom's covid-19 restrictions coming up. jillian: the markets, tied to vaccine hopes and divided government. the economics professor joins us live next. ♪

jillian: foxbusiness alert, historic day on wall street as the dow passes the 30,000 mark. griff: a major milestone. >> reporter: historic day, investors taking a short breather, the markets taking

off, s&p down a point, nasdaq looking green. there is the big number from yesterday, close above 30,000 for the first time in history on the heels of 8 month rebound for the markets, the dow gained 454 points, news that janet yellen would be appointed treasury secretary under a biden administration and continued optimism around vaccines, donald trump celebrated the record yesterday. >> never been broken. it is a sacred number, the ninth time since the beginning of 2020, the 40 eighth time we have broken records. >> the dow is on track to have its best month since 1987. the s&p with a new record yesterday. it was a good day for markets.

griff: joining me with more on the stock market milestone, professor of business and economics at king's college brian brimmer, good morning to you. this is very significant news, the dow to date chart, you look back january 5th, '29,000 for the first time, march 20 third) 19,000 with a bear market low, closes 30,000 for the first time, gives you a visual how significant this is. >> i get seasick looking at that chart, can't believe the wild ride we had this year, glad we are above 30,000. there is a lot of optimism about the economy and where we go into thousand 21, people feel good about the vaccine, investors feel good about the prospect of divided government, that is still an open question so i don't think anyone can put that to bed yet but markets are banking on divided government in

2021 and stimulus as well. congress coming together not at the end of this year, maybe next year and putting together a stimulus bill. the headline to watch will be the georgia senate race. if that continues to look like it had in the republican direction markets will continue to stay lofty. if it looks like it skews democrat then divided government goes away, investors get nervous at that point. griff: we saw stocks rise to the 30,000 mark, not just their traditional big stocks the we depended on throughout the year. >> reporter: no, it is a rotation back to stocks that have been hammered during the coronavirus crisis. stocks came back a little bit, you saw stocks that make sense when people get out and live their lives again. we are still in sort of a lockdown mode but as investors

look to 2021 they see companies coming back, the market is changing, people are thinking about an economy that is reopened. you don't by zoom as much or netflix because people are going back out and living their lives. griff: we have $1.7 trillion of student loan debt, new studies show can selling that would be an effect at boosting the economy, 90 billion, what say you? >> being effective is the key rule, student loans is not a good stimulus for the economy but even if you forgive that $1.5 trillion in student debt you don't get it all at once blowing through the economy number one but the other big issue is a lot of that money will go to people who don't need it, 40% of student debt is held

by people with graduate degrees, presumably that was an investment they made to pay off during the long-term with job opportunities and make 0 sense to be giving forgiveness on that debt to those folks with graduate degrees so if you want to help people who are hurting most, forgiving student debt is one of the least likely ways to do that. griff: we have been talking about president-elect biden's pics for new cabinet, folks in your industry looking at the pic of janet yellen for treasury secretary. what do you make of it? >> reporter: we've seen that movie before, she is familiar to market watchers, she was head of the fed for many years leading to 2018. her profile is known. we know what she's interested in. a good pic from the biden perspective because she likes government spending, she got the problem with the obama recovery was not enough government spending, she think that the problem right now. i don't agree with that personally but from a biden

perspective they are happy to have someone like that. she's more moderate than senator warren who markets like but she's going to be likely to go with the progressive agenda. don't expect her to stand up to that agenda. if we see a big spending higher tax biden administration. griff: thanks for joining us. jillian: it is 34 after the hour. speaking of president-elect joe biden's cabinet pick, the wall street journal has pics next. ♪

jillian: a california church asking the supreme court to block gavin newsom's covid-19 restrictions, gatherings are abandoned houses of worship for

94% of the state. the harvest rock church for arguing it violates the first amendment has another california pastor temporarily turned his chapel into a strip club defined orders to shutdown. >> we held communion even though the governor said we were not essential, liquor stores, cannabis distributors, this is insane and now you have to strip to remain open as a church. jillian: his moves motivated after a judge in san diego county allowed strip clubs to reopen pending a full hearing. griff: a cnbc poll shows only 3% of voters accept biden's victory, 73% say the president is a legitimate winner, 24% are not sure. charlie hurt so donald trump shook up the republican party and they still have things to learn from them.

>> one of the biggest obstacles for donald trump was republicans. the single greatest lesson, the most important lesson, is exactly that. they are here to represent the people, and when you look around to that, wall street is thrilled with what is going on in washington, the international community whatever that is our thrilled with what they are seeing out of washington. that is not the american people. griff: governor cuomo -- the democrat is standing up for the media for how they treat donald trump, what he said coming up. 't have to be. we can create a kinder, more inclusive world for the millions of people on the autism spectrum. go to autismspeaks.org.

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>> thanksgiving eve, get your zoom call ready. coming up on our show joe biden tapping not so fresh faces for his administration and sitting down for his first interview since election six feet apart, we will talk to lera trump and whether she wants to run for senate. joe consciousa will talk about how governor cuomo empathized with the president, without hitting 30,000, pretty president, charles payne will be here to answer the question. senator tom cotton here to talk about this so-called a team of joe biden and an untold story of thanksgiving and as donald trump commemorates the 4 hundredth anniversary, we look at our thanksgiving special, byron york breaks down the formula behind the house republicans winning strategy. jim is taking another hit from coast-to-coast. what does that do for stopping

this virus and small business, helping america stay in shape and a warning to those in charge. please gradually get dressed. now this précis animation. >> john delaney says we should pay americans to take the coronavirus vaccine. jillian: carley shimkus here with the mixed reaction. carley: step when creating the mixing, stub 2 distribute it but what about folks who don't want to get vaccinated? john delaney says pay people to take it. he says pay everyone $1,500 to get a vaccine. it is a stimulus check, a vaccine incentive rolled into one, more people get vaccine and save lives, both $400 billion pay for itself with economic

boost for ending the pandemic, you said it mixed reaction, i would pay that to get the vaccine now but this twitter user says still not taking a vaccine even if it was $5,000 to. thinking outside the box but a pricey suggestion. >> reporter: white house reporters, brief statement from the president on the stock market, the reaction a little unusual. >> reporter: donald trump gave a new meaning to the word right house briefing room when he made that one minute statement about the stock market and hot mike caught reporters responding this way. take a listen. jillian: you can hear one

reporter say that was weird as bleep, another said that was strange. the shortest statement donald trump has ever made yesterday. governor cuomo standing up for the president on media bias. carley: andrew cuomo yesterday defendant the president saying the media treatment of him has been unfair. take a listen. >> the way they question donald trump, i have never heard. there are reporters who are unprofessional, don't know the facts, ask really biased questions. carley: cuomo says if you don't like the president as a politician you should respect the institution. according to the media research center donald trump's negative

coverage has been 92.4% whereas biden's 34%. governor cuomo got into that scuffle with a reporter that went viral. he may be feeling more sympathetic towards the president in terms of media coverage these days. still ahead marsha blackburn joins us live. you empty as little as once a month. and unlike standard robots that bounce around it cleans row by row. if it's not a shark, it's just a robot.

>> big tech took a cheap shot on the american people particularly the working-class. we need to have new tech power centers, big tech has awoken a sleeping giant, the sleeping giant is much bigger than big tech. >> big tech take over, facebook reportedly changing its own rhythm to promote certain media outlets and drop visibility to what they call hyper-partisan pages. griff: do americans want silicon valley to choose what they read? joining us from the internet subcommittee senator marsha blackburn, thanks for joining us. >> the american people want that power themselves. they do not want big tech to filter what they are able to see or hear or read and then have

big tech pressure on what they think or how they vote which is what happened in 2020 and this is why we are working diligently to section 230. my legislation is moving forward in the judiciary committee. our online privacy bill is moving forward with bipartisan support in the commerce committee. jillian: feel like we have been spinning in this circle for years with this conversation of censorship and nothing is changing and a lot of americans are getting frustrated by it. what is your biggest frustration and concern? >> it was in 2012 i started on the issue of online privacy, trying to make the online consumer of virtual use. it was three years ago i was still in the house i started saying we have to reform section 230.

big tech is coalescing all of this power and we have to remove their ability to shadow ban and censor and block. so now people, there is the tipping point saying let's get this done. griff: let me show you facebook's statement, many miracles at play in every decision we make aimed at creating the best experience for people. the assertions in this report are based on no decision-making authority and advancing their own narrow impression of how our process works. do you believe your legislation takes into consideration facebook's attempts to solve their own problems? >> facebook has proven us of

other social media giants that they are not able to separate it, this is one of -- they need to step in, exercise the federal preemption and say no, this is how you do, you're not going to hide behind the field and when you prioritize which -- or when you decide you are going to censor based on community standards you act like big boys, not new start companies, and tell people you are doing that. what we have learned through the years is big tech companies will push the envelope as far as they can to have a way until we slap their hands and content moderators who decide they don't like something it doesn't fit

their narrative such as the issue with the new york post hunter biden story, they are going to not let people see that. they are not the gods of silicon valley and it is time congress put appropriate restrictions on them. jillian: let's talk about the outcome of the election, only 3% of trump voters believe joe biden won the election. these are trump voters. a lot of people question at this point what does this mean for our country, for our election when you have a big chunk of the united states not feeling confident in how the process works and the outcome of the election. what does that mean going forward? >> what it means is the state legislatures who have the responsibility for voting laws have to put some requirements in place and do a little

legislating around how the counties see all of this hand told, but that is a good thing. they have to clean up these voter rolls. if you don't have the right data you are not going to get the right data out. and mailing ballots to people who have been dead for years or moved out of the state a decade ago this is something that shows you and i think it came into view this year when people were going to the polls, found out they had already voted by mail in ballot, or they open their mailbox and had three or four ballots for prior residents of their home and this brought it to their kitchen table and they started saying wait a minute, if this is happening to me who else is this happening to and they

are demanding these voter rolls be cleaned up. we want to be sure they are cleaned up in georgia before the january 5th election. griff: that is what i wanted to get before we ran out of time, control of the senate, what is at stake in your mind? >> chuck schumer said it all, if we take georgia, not win georgia, if we take georgia, we change america. that is a dangerous thing because they would pack the supreme court with additional justices so we cannot let them take georgia because we will stay focused on freedom. we do not want to tilt to

socialism and socialistic change is what chuck schumer is all about. >> what is your message to voters in georgia? we hear these stories constantly about celebrities saying they bw much how important is this for everyone to get out there and vote? >> it is imperative that everybody votes. if you like the trump tax cuts that you got in 2017, if you want to keep your own health insurance, your own doctor, if you do not want to see the green new deal implemented, if you do not want d.c. to have statehood, or puerto rico to have statehood, or felons to have the right to vote, you need to go to the polls and vote if you are in georgia. your choice is freedom or socialism. these two candidates in georgia ossoff, who is a trust fund socialist and warnock who is a

radical jeremiah wright mentee, they are the two most radical senate nominees in history. it is up to georgia to keep the g.o.p. in control of the u.s. senate. griff: senator marsha blackburn from tennessee. happy thanksgiving. we hope you have a wonderful one and thank you for taking time for joining us. >> thank you. jillian: happy thanksgiving. >> bye-bye. griff: hurt. well, president trump pardoning very lucky turkey during a white house thanksgiving tradition. watch. >> on behalf of the entire trump family, i want to wish every american a healthy and very happy thanksgiving. today it's my honor to present to you this year's lucky bird. corn and just in case we needed him, cob. steve: corn getting the presidential harr bon at the

white house over cob. raised by the national turkey federation. both turkeys will return to iowa. jillian: what beautiful turkeys they are. griff griff indeed. thank you very much. it's time for bubleing time to get that turkey ready. here comes "fox & friends." go. ♪ >> the vaccine is going to begin to be rolled out by the end of the second week in december. >> potential vaccine around the corner, lockdown measures continue. griff: l.a. county's ban on in person dining starts today. >> this is as i said crippling, that's a light word for this. [bell] bret: stock market soared the dow eclipsed the 30,000 mark. that's a sacred number 30,000. i want to congratulate all the people in the administration that worked so hard. >> for the terrorist time ever the united states will have a full time climate meter one of my closest friends john kerry. >> the international community, whatever the hell that is, they are