in the back of the nose is the most uncomfortable. thanks for bringing that. hope it comes out soon. thanks for joining us on "the daily briefing." i'm john roberts. see you tonight on "special report." dana perino will be back monday. right now it's hemmer time. can't touch this. >> bill: i've been there with that, john. i can't recommend it. thanks. see you at 6:00 later. meantime, here's the big hour. waiting for mike pence. he's arrived in georgia. can he rally the voters as president trump continues to challenge the results of november. good afternoon on a friday. i'm bill hemmer. welcome to our coverage. we'll bring you the vice president when that begins. the president himself heading south tomorrow. he says turning out supporters is critical for the republican chances of holding the senate. the high stakes run-off are a month from tomorrow. at the same time, a ruling that could potentially overturn the election results expected any

moment. jeff paul is live in carson city. we'll get reaction with matt schlepp. we begin this hour with griff jenkins in georgia where all the action is. live in atlanta. griff, good afternoon. >> hey, bill. good afternoon. yeah, seems like the epicenter of the election is in georgia. the march for trump bus tour going through 13 states was just here. we're outside the governor's mansion. the rain is coming down. while here, they're chanting "stop the steal" which they believe is voter fraud and chanting where is kemp? a reference to governor kemp. they want him more involved. they started the day at the capitol where the president's legal team was yesterday making the case to the state legislature to overturn the results. now that all as vice president

pence any moment should be on the ground in savannah. he was in the atlanta area here where i am earlier at the cdc holding a roundtable that included senators purdue and loeffler. now, governor kemp was going to meet kemp -- governor kempwas going to meet vice president pence on the ground. but the communications director just tweeting in the last few minutes due to a family emergency, governor kemp will not be able to greet the vice president in savannah as planned. now, part of vice president pence's mission is to galvanize trumpsupporters and some of the march for trump folks that we talked to in the last hour, well, it's not entirely sure that they will be supporting purdue and loeffler. here's what they said. listen. >> we don't care about january 5. january 5 will take care of itself. right now we have this election we have to fight for here. now november 3 that just happened several weeks ago, we've got to get a resolution

there first. we're not focused on january 5. >> greg, you're supporting purdue and loeffler? >> at this point in time, i'm not sure. >> very interesting, bill. one thing for sure. vice president pence here very soon in savannah. tomorrow in valdosta, georgia, the president will be urging supporters to support purdue and loeffler 32 days from now. the combined spending of all four candidates, campaigns and outside groups, more than $300 million. >> and going higher. thanks, griff. outside the governor's mansion. keep an eye on the trump campaign. they're asking a judge to overturn the election results for delay certifying that state's electors. they claim to have proof of fraud. jeff paul has more in carson city, nevada. >> bill, we're standing by, waiting for some sort of decision to possibly come down

today from the judge here in carson city just outside the courthouse. sort of downtown area. obviously both sides, dems and republicans on both sides anxious to hear what that judge decides. so are trump supporters. they were out here in full force yesterday carrying signs, flags, chanting, honking their horns and republicans and democrats squared off inside the courtroom. the judge listened to both sides to make their case with the testimony lasting for about 2 1/2 hours. the judge really not making any comments that would lead anyone to see which side he's leaning towards. the trump team wants the nevada election results thrown out on the basis of voter fraud. dems say this is a desperate claim that will go against the will of the people. >> the evidence that we have submitted is compelling. it shows that election officials planned and implemented an

election system that would be susceptible to fraud, that it would ignore the best practices developed over the years and skew meaningful observations. >> evidence of examination is built on nothing more than speculation, conspiracy theories and a fundamental misunderstanding of the electoral process in nevada. none of this comes close to satisfying the burden of proof. none of this is sufficient to overturn the results of the election. >> bill, however it turns out, you can bet the house that with almost 100% certainty that whoever comes out on the losing side, maybe a trump supporters will probably appeal this to the supreme court down the street. bill? >> bill: jeff paul hanging in there. this is matt schlepp, chris hahn, former aid to chuck

schumer. hello, gentlemen. good day to all of you. matt, you were in nevada yesterday. can you win that case? you just heard that gentleman say breathtaking relief requires breathtaking evidence. >> yeah. that's what the legal team and the other team on the ground in nevada, really a great team, volunteers and lawyers, that's what they came up with. bill, i've been in politics my entire adult life. when i hit the ground, i never thought i would see this level of provable illegal ballots in the count. please understand, everybody needs to understand this, the judge has spreadsheets with real names and real addresses of people, over 40,000 people that voted in two states. over 20,000 people that voted without being a legal resident of nevada. with people that voted who are green card holders, every category that you can imagine, the judge has in his hands. look, i assume he's a

fair-minded judge. i sat through the proceedings. you can never predict as robert knows what a judge will do. i do think that anybody even my political opponents in the democratic party, we should all agree, if you're not legally allowed to vote, you shouldn't be in the count. that needs to be remedied or what you're doing is reducing the civil rights of everybody that voted legally. it's a very simple concept. we must stand by it. >> bill: before i get to chris hahn, robert, address that case that matt is laying out in nevada. >> it's a fair point that he's making. but you know, recognize that it's a very heavy burden and the question is what is the remedy. are you going to be able toin other words pin the tale on the donkey to say here's our evidence of fraud and these particular ballots should be excluded. in other words, if you can prove fraud and obviously there's a lot of bad things that appear to have gone on, the question is, you know, how are -- how is a

judge going to sort out whether ballots can be invalue dated and can you identify those ballots and invalidate them and can you do this in an appeal and to so before december 8, which is tuesday. that's the certification date with regard to state electors. i don't know if that can be done on time. >> bill: let's bring in chris hahn here. it's about 30,000 votes in nevada. how are you measuring this now? >> i measure this as biden won nevada and matt, i bet you the entire budget of cpac that biden won nevada. no matter what happens, biden won nevada. he will be president january 20th. it's time for the president and the supporters to stop grifting people that are believing this lie that there's some sort of widespread fraud across this country. it does not exist and quite

frankly i feel bad for republicans in georgia who are trying to campaign on january 5. the president will go down there tomorrow and he's going to complain about the election results and make it harder for them to get people out to vote in that run-off election january 5. quite frankly, that's the best thing that could happen to democrats. >> bill: let's -- one moment. we'll see how mike pence makes that argument in a moment in savannah. matt, address that. whether it's georgia or nevada and the marker i lay down in 33,000 -- i think it's 33,500. >> you're right. you're right. you always get the numbers right. first of all, it's nevada. nobody is winning nevada. in nevada, what we had is an election. i agree with robert. there's a very interesting question about standard to remedy illegal ballots. what everybody needs to understand, talk about the facts. we have never in our history had reckless unsolicited mail-in

ballots in all of these states run by blue governors to the point that in the state of nevada -- i'll give you an example. 93,000 ballots were made that the election commissioner knew if they were voted on that they were not legal votes. he sent them anyway. thousands of those ballots were returned. i agree. when we say what we're going to do to remedy this, my question back to robert and to the lawyers that bring the question of legal standards is, what you're essentially arguing or what people that oppose it argue is that fraud is going to happen, the more you have mail-in voting, the higher amounts of fraud you have. >> bill: i got a minute left. >> here's the problem, matt -- >> bill: hang on a second, chris. robert, your name was invoked. go ahead from the legal standpoint. >> that's my point. it doesn't require -- very close election and this one was in

certain states and this particular state being one of them, it doesn't require a showing of widespread fraud. it just required enough of a showing of fraud to pin a batch of doubt on ballots sufficiently large that it would change the outcome. that's the test here. i don't disagree with the test. we're all in agreement on that. the question is can we get resolution before tuesday. >> bill: 15 seconds, chris. >> yes. so right. has to be a conspiracy to commit fraud widely, which there's no evidence of that at all. quite frankly, what republicans really don't want are people voting in large numbers because it's proven now that they really can't win when they do. >> bill: there will be a postmortem on the mails in. got to run. thanks, matt. nice to see you again, ray. thanks for coming back. >> nice to be with you.

>> bill: in a moment, small businesses the backbone of america. now many are struggling to stay open in the ongoing pandemic. watch. >> enough is enough. we can't keep taking this sitting down. there's too many lives at stake here. >> there's frustration because, you know, it's really hard to keep a business going when good things are happening constantly. >> bill: in a moment, steve and austin take up the issue on a friday. in california, governor newsome announcing the strictest restrictions since the spring. is there hope 0 on the horizon? operation warp speed making a lot of headlines as many americans may start getting vaccinated this month. how is that going to work? details coming up. >> i'm feeling pressure from the urgency of the situation and the thought that we have a significant pandemic in this country. the american people do depend on us to do this job right and that is our promise. we will do this right. we'll get it right from the american people.

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z . >> bill: breaking news today affects the balance of the power in the house. the a.p. calling a new york race for andrew garbarino. it's not a flip but adds to the head count. republicans plus 9 including republican that leads by 12 votes in another race in the state of new york.

from iowa, a democrat there is appealing her loss to the u.s. house. so stay tuned. meantime, the v.p. >> through faith, traditions and hearts of the american people, especially our children. to be as we are, maybe, bob, 1 1/2 weeks away from what will be the likely approval of the first coronavirus vaccine for the american people. it's inspiring the people of this country. >> bill: a major headline. vice president pence say america could be 10 days away from a vaccine. doc, good day to you. ten days? is it real? going to happen? >> it's real. it's going to happen. there's 50 million doses rather than 100 million for us here in the u.s. the u.k. will get another 50 million. we have to go through a very lengthy process for our safety through the fda, which will have

its advisory board meeting next week. i'm very excited about that. that is for the pfizer. moderna will be the following week. a very excellent committee, bill. that will make sure that we're all safe. >> bill: let me make a point very clear. pfizer says they can produce about a billion doses in the year 2021. but late yesterday they cut the dosage in december in half. so you have this issue of the supply chain here. can we solve that or is this something that we're going to have to deal with in the new year as well, doctor? >> well, they're going to solve it. like everything else in life, the first few doses, the first if i supply chain issues, the distribution, the acquisition of freezers to keep the vaccine cold. getting nurses and doctors to administer it, getting a big enough place to have it administered, all of those things are issues that have to be covered by people in local areas in order to administer this vaccine. we're going to be seeing

airplane hangers, convention centers, large field hospitals, everybody to develop this. this is like a wartime effort. >> bill: no doubt. you're right about that. steve hahn, head of the fda says it's realistic that 20 million americans could be immunized by new year's day. how about that? >> that's amazing. i'm be very interesting to see how he pulls that off. i'd think more like april 1 would be realistic. >> bill: really? >> yeah. >> bill: quite a different. that is three, four-month lag, doc. >> for the general public. remember, we have to immunize thousands of healthcare workers, elderly, people that are challenged that are firemen, police officers, all of these essential personnel first. so the general public more likely going to be march or april. so we're going to --

>> bill: i get it. let's see if that happens. here's the vice president, former vice president joe biden yesterday talking about a mask order that he will try to initiate. roll this here now. >> the first day i'm inaugurated to say i'm going to ask the public for 100 days to mask. just 100 days to mask. not forever. 100 days. i think we'll see a significant reduction. >> bill: so that's the third week of january. that takes you to february, march and april. does that make a difference? >> yeah, that's going to make somewhat of a difference. but i challenge the public to wear a mask by mandate. everybody is totally fatigued. the people that i see in the hospital and on the street are not wearing masks. we do have a mandate here in the hospital that you must not only wear a mask but also eye covering. that is most hospitals in the metropolitan area of new york. now, the problem is when you say to the general public you must

all wear a mask, does that mean wearing masks outdoors while walking in the street? not being socially distant and keep your hands washed? it's a challenge, bill. it's not even. >> bill: thanks, doc. we're watching two events right now waiting on the vice president, mike pence in georgia. the former vice president, joe biden now speaking in wilmington, delaware about the jobs report and more. drop in here. >> start to build back a better future. there's no time to lose. millions of people have lost their jobs or had their hours slashed, lost health insurance or in danger of losing health insurance. one in every six renters is behind in rent. one in four small businesses can't keep their doors open. there's a growing gap in black and latino unemployment and the gap remains much too large. it's deeply troubling that last

month's drop in unemployment was driven by people dropping out of the job market. not because of more people. they lost hope of finding a job and taking full time care giving responsibilities as child centers remain closed and children learn remotely. over the past three months, 2.3 million more people are long-term unemployed. meaning 23 weeks or more. by far the largest increase on record. this is a dire jobs report. a snapshot, i might remind you, up to mid november. before the surge in covid cases we predicted, many predicted and the deaths rise that we've seen in december as we head into a very dark winter ahead. for example, since october

cities are down 21,000 educators. just as schools need more help in fighting against the pandemic. couple days ago i spoke with school crossing guard, a server, a restaurant owner and a stage hand. good people. honorable people. decent hard-working americans across the country. reminding me of my dad who lost a job in scranton and moved our family to delaware outside of wilmington. used to say, you heard me say it before, joey, i don't expect the government to solve my problems, but i expect them to understand my problems. the folks i'm talking about, the folks out there are not looking for a handout. they just need help. they're in trouble through no fault of their own. nothing they did caused them to have hours cut or lose their job

or drop out of the market. they need us to understand we're in a crisis. need to come together as a nation. need the congress to act and act now. if congress and president trump fail to act by the end of december, 12 million americans will lose unemployment benefits that they rely on. merry christmas. unemployment benefits allowing them to keep food on the table, keep the lights on and heat on. pay their bills. emergency paid leave will end. moratorium on evictions will expire. states will lose the vital tools that they need to pay for covid testing and public health. put yourself in that position anybody listening. laying awake at night wondering what will happen tomorrow. it's going to be harder for states to keep children and educators safe in schools. try to provide assistance to

keep small businesses alive. states and cities are facing large, large budget shortfalls this year. again through no fault of their own. they laid off more than a million workers. even more teachers, firefighters, cops will lose their jobs unless the federal government steps up now. all of this weakens our ability to control the virus if we don't step up now. emergency paid leave reduces the spread of covid. because it allows people to stay home when they're sick. states and cities need funding to direct their covid response, which is the only way we're going to end the economic crisis as well. only way we're going to get people back to work. i'm not alone in saying this situation is urgent. if we don't act now, the future will be very bleak.

americans need help and they need it now. they need more to come early next year. i must tell you, i'm encouraged by the bipartisan efforts in the senate around $900 billion package for relief. it's a bipartisan effort. congress -- with congress as they work out the details of the relief package, have to focus on resources for direct public health responses to covid-19. we need meaningful funding for vaccines now. so don't lose time. leave people waiting for additional months. we need serious funding for testing now. we need to ramp up testing, allow schools and businesses to operate safely. the sooner we pass the funding, the sooner we can turn the corner on covid-19. you know, in the weeks since the election ended, there were questions about whether democrats and republicans could

work together. i know many of you are skeptical about my view that they will and can. right now we're showing their can. congress and president trump have to get this deal done for the american people. any package passed in the lame duck session is not going to be enough overall. it's critical, but it's just a start. congress is going to need to act again in january. earlier in the day i consulted with a number of my economic team, most of which have been announced by now. vice president harris and i announced that team last week. as we inherit the public and health crisis, we're working on a plan to put forward for the next congress to move fast, to control the pandemic, to revive the economy and build back better than before. we hope to see the same kind of spirit of bipartisan cooperation

as we're seeing today. our plan is based on the input from a broad range of people. vice president-elect and i have been meeting with labor leaders, the leading ceos in the country. mayors and governors of both party. parents, educators, workers, small business owners, a consensus as we battle covid-19, we have to make sure that businesses, workers have the tools, the resources and the guidance in health and safety standards to keep businesses and schools open safely. it can be done. here's the deal. the feig against covid won't be won in january alone. truly end this crisis, congress is going to need to fund more testing as well as more equitable and free distribution of the vaccine. we're going to need more economic relief to bridge

through 2021 until this pandemic and economic crisis are over. then we need to build back better. i said it before. an independent analysis by moody's, well-respected wall street firm projects my build back better plan would create 18.6 million good paying jobs. based on a simple premise. reward work in america, not wealth. we're going to invest in structure, clean energy and manufacturing and so much more. we'll create millions of good paying jobs and get the job market back on the past to full employment. this will raise income, reduce drug prices, advance racial equity across the economy and restore the backbone of this country, the middle class. look, the bottom line, it's essential we provide immediate relief for working families and

businesses now. not just helping get to the other side of this painful crisis. but to reward a broader economic cost due to long-term unemployment and businesses failing. by acting now, even with deficit financing, we can add to growth in the near future. economic research shows that with conditions like the crisis today, especially with low interest rates, not taking action, the action i'm proposing will hurt the economy, scar the work force and reduce growth and add to the national debt. look, i know times are tough. the challenges are daunting. i know we can do this. we can create a economic recovery for all, for everybody. we can move from crisis to recovery and to resurgence. for lord's sake, this is the united states of america. we've done it before. we'll do it again.

we will. i promise you. i thank the bipartisan group trying to put something together right now. we're going to need more bipartisanship as we move on. god bless you guys and women doing this. god bless our country and may god protect our troops. i'll stop there. be happy to take some questions. >> mr. president-elect, one of the biggest tasks that you'll have when you interoffice is distributing a vaccine. your team has started to meet with the trump administration to learn of their plans as you are set to inherit this task. are you satisfied with the current plans that are underway for distributing that vaccine? do you feel that the federal government is doing enough at this point and what steps do you think need to be taken between now and when those first

vaccines go out? >> well, there's a lot more that has to be done. they've clued us in our than planning on how they plan to distribute the vaccine. there's no detailed plan that we've seen as to ho you get the vaccine out of a container in to an injection syringe in to somebody's arm. it very difficult for that to be done. very expensive proposition. for example, you know, we agree with their priorities that they've laid out so far. i do at least. my team is looking at it. dealing with first responders and those in nursing homes and home care. the first people on the list. but we also have to realize that we're in a situation where there has to be some equity in the way this is distributed. that requires, for example,

right now we're in a situation where you have, you know, a leading cause of death for all americans this week is covid-19. blacks and latinos are three times as likely to die if they get covid-19. so the communities of color, it's a mass casualty event. so we have to figure out how we make sure we get the vaccine to those communities. delivering large amounts of the vaccine to the walmarts and the other major drug chains does not get you in to a lot of these neighborhoods. doesn't guarantee that it gets around. so we have a lot of work to do. there has to be the equity side of this has to be an important part of distribution. in addition to that, the cost of actually getting the serum in to an injection, into a needle in somebody's arm cost a lot of money. takes a lot of people.

takes a lot of folks to be able to get that done. we have to have a much better way than we've seen thus far as to how it's distributed. in some states, like the governor of utah said, he said i can take care of it in our conversation. that could be true. in large states like california, texas, illinois, florida, et cetera, it's not that easy. there has to be overall plan. that's what we're working on right now. that's why i ask dr. fauci to stay on and to be my chief adviser on this issue and also to be part of the covid team. >> on your cabinet, you're facing a lot of pressure to add more diversity to your administration. you have civil rights groups and lawmakers pushing you to do this. to make sure that you make good on your promise. you look at your cabinet announcements so far and they have included diverse figures. i want to hone in on the big

four. so far when it comes to secretary state and treasury, you have nominated a white man and a white woman. so looking at attorney general and the department of defense, would you commit to nominating a person of color to those positions? >> look, it's each one of these jobs to push, push the leaders to make sure there's greater diversity. i can promise you, when this is all side and done, you can see every one that i announced and many in the several weeks, we'll have it out there, you'll see significant diversitdiversity. i'm not telling you exactly now what i'm doing. it's the single most diverse cabinet based on race, color, based on gender that's ever existed in the united states. >> but no commitment on those spots? >> the commitment of what i said, the most diverse cabinet and the main spots as the white house and the cabinet positions. >> thank you.

>> thank you, mr. president-elect. you just said a couple minutes ago that there's no time to waste when it comes to economic stimulus. but democrats and republicans have been in the stalemate for several months as they have been negotiating and trying to talk about what kind of stimulus to put together. you're elected by more than 80 million people to try to break that log jam. can you talk about specifically what you have done over these past several weeks to actually work with democrats and republicans speaking to congressional leaders to get them to agree on a stimulus package and what do you say to people like senator sanders on the left flank of your party who have come out against the stimulus program already? they said the $900 billion deal is not good enough. >> well, it would be stupid of me to tell you what i did, right? hard to do it again. i told you all that i was

confident in getting a bipartisan agreement on this stuff. i think we will not just on this package but i think beyond. the last thing i'm going to do is tell you strategically how i go about this. i remember i used to get asked the same thing when i put together significant deals between democrats and republicans when i was a senator, vice president. it's just not a very smart thing. it's like me asking you, tell me how you get your sources and how did you get the sources in order to get that story? that would be ridiculous for you to tell me or your colleagues how you did it. all i can say is i'm confident there's sufficient number of democrats and republicans in the united states senate along with significant votes coming out of the house of representatives to put together a serious package that will keep us from going off the edge here, provide the independent can of resources needed immediately. it's not going to satisfy everybody.

but the option is if you insist on everything, we're likely to get nothing on both sides. so i think they're on their way to being able to come up with a package that meets the basic and immediate needs that we have. but i made it real clear that it's just a down payment. this is not the end of the deal. so i have been relatively good at negotiating over my career because i never, number 1, reveal something somebody doesn't want me to in the deal and number 2, because i always keep my word. >> there's a number of progressives including senator sanders that have criticized this deal because it doesn't include $1,200 checks that were in the last deal. what do you say about that? they say the american people that are hurting, maybe not the small businesses but the everyday families, they don't have anything. they're not getting any of the stimulus in the $900 billion

packa package. >> i understand, that may still be in play. i'm not going to comment on the specific details. the whole purpose of this is, we got to make sure people are not thrown out of their apartments, lose their homes, able to have unemployment insurance that they can continue the feed their families on as we grow back the economy. be in a position where we provide for health to localities so they're not continuing to lay off school teachers and firefighters et cetera, first responders and to make sure we're in a position that we're able to generate the kind of growth that as a consequence of this by allowing -- it cost a lot of money to keep schools and businesses open on the covid side of the equation. there's more. if i were -- i think the proposal that quite frankly the hero's act that the house passed, that's what i would support. this is a democracy. there are -- you've got to find

a sweet spot where you have enough people willing to move in a direction that gets us a long way down the road, but isn't the whole answer. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you, mr. president-elect. you're describing this compromise bill as a down payment, that you'll push congress to do more once you're in office. this bill is already more than republican leaders want to spend. what if this isn't a down payment? what if this bill is it? what are your options then to get americans additional relief? >> i never start off thinking that way. i always start off thinking we'll get it done. >> it's more than six months this fight is going on. mitch mcconnell has not signed off on this compromise bill. what makes you so confident that you can get republicans to go big once you're in office? >> because the country will be in dire, dire straits if they don't. >> have you reached out to

leader mcconnell? have you spoken yet? >> we'll be in dire trouble if we don't get cooperation. i believe we will. >> thank you. >> thank you, mr. president-elect. you noted today that one in six renters are behind in their rent. millions of americans remain unemployed. you say the situation is urgent. when you come in to office, you expect to pass executive orders dealing with those specific issues and also do you at all plan to pass trillions of aid. is that what you have in mind when you say we need to go big or looking at billions of dollars? >> we're looking at hundreds of billions of dollars. look, again, i've learned after hanging around in this business for a while, the last thing you do before you begin a

negotiation is lay down a drop-dead marker. if it's not this, i'm not going to talk to you. i think there's a lot that we can get done. i think people are going to see the overwhelming necessity, which will start to happen. a lot of folks that represent republican districts that will find the republican neighbors are in real trouble as things get worse. they're going to find that there's an overwhelming need as these numbers sky rocket. you remember my saying that i believe the experts we had, at least another 250 dead before the end of the year. oh, no. guess what? look what is happening. it's going to get much worse. it's going to get much worse. so i believe that there's enough republicans who will join enough democrats in the united states senate to get a majority along with the house to get it done. we'll see. we'll see. this is a step at a time. >> and on executive orders? >> executive orders are totally

within the purview of an executive. but one of the things i don't like -- i don't like people saying that i can by executive order do the following things which there's no basis in the constitution to suggest it can be done. there's certain things i can do. i can issue executive orders on pulling back some of the executive orders that trump put forward. i can't issue an executive order saying we're going to spend x billion dollars on this issue without getting -- congress appropriates and is responsible for distributing that money. >> quickly on the coronavirus vaccine. you talked about getting it in to african american and vulnerable populations. you said yourself that you're willing to get the vaccine publicly to get people to feel safe. there's people already telling me, president-elect biden has good healthcare. there's complications. he might have better healthcare than me, african americans around the country. what more can you do to convince people that the vaccine is safe for them and does that mean

you'll lean on any existing members of the coronavirus task force? i know you committed to keeping dr. fauci, dr. birx. is there anyone else you might be leaning on to convince people? >> a lot of people i'm looking to convince on the task force. the task force will continue to be expanded with fine people. look, i think actions of the presidents matter. i'm going to say something that i think the african american community, latino community have known. i have never misrepresented anything to them. if you keep pointing out, i'm the oldest president ever elected. although i'm actually 47. all kidding aside, i think that my taking the vaccine and people see me take that vaccine is going to give some confidence. you know, i said early on, you

may remember, i think you may have asked me the question. i may be mistaken. said -- >> bill: so from wilmington, delaware. we're going to move from this. a number of questions about the jobs report and the vaccine. i thought the interesting answers is there is no detailed plan that he has seen on behalf of the federal government to distribute the vaccine once it is approved. hang on to that answer. mike pence is speaking in savannah, georgia. this is the epicenter of the political world. it's all about georgia and january 5. drop on in. here we go with the vice president. >> we were all just informed that a young man on senator kelly loeffler's staff lost his life in a fatal car accident this afternoon. senator loeffler is on her way back to atlanta to support that young man's family and her staff in this difficult hour. she goes with our prayers. our deepest sympathies for his family, her staff and all of

those impacted by today's tragic loss of a truly wonderful young man. god bless them all. it's great to be with so many friends in georgia. speaking of friends of mine allow me to bring greeting to another friend of mine. [cheers & applause] a man who has been fighting every day to keep the promises that he made to the people of georgia. i bring greetings from the 45th president of the united states of america, president donald trump. i'm here because i stand with president donald trump.

[cheers & applause] and i'm here because we stand with senator david purdue and senator kelly loeffler. [cheers & applause] i told the president this morning that i was headed to georgia. he told me, i'm going to be there tomorrow. we're here to stand with two extraordinairy leaders. we're here also to express our gratitude to the support of the people of georgia over the past four years and over the past four weeks. it's amazing to think about it. with your support, president trump received more than 74 million votes across america, more than 10 million than 2016. we received the greatest share of minority votes of any republican in the last 60 years and we added more than a dozen

seats to the united states congress. as our election contest continue here in georgia and in courts across the country, i'll make you a promise. we're going to keep fighting until every legal vote is counted. [cheers & applause] we're going to keep fighting until every illegal vote is thrown out. we will never stop fighting to make america great again. [cheers & applause] that's why president trump and i needed david purdue and kelly loeffler back in the republican majority in the united states senate. for all we've done, for all we

have yet to do we need the peach state to defend the majority. because the road to the senate, republican majority, runs right through the state of georgia. are you with me? [cheers & applause] you know, there's never a dull moment at a trump rally, is there? [chanting].

[chanting]. men and women of the peach state, i'm here on the president's behalf because we need georgia to send two great senators back to republican majority in washington. we need to send them back because of who they are. we need to send them back because the republican senate majority could be the last line of defense preserving all that we have done to defend this nation, revive our economy and preserve the god-given liberties we hold dear. i'm here because of who they

are. david purdue is a son of macon. worked his way to the top of the business world. he answered the call to public service. after spending 40 years as one of the most successful business leaders in america, he decided to serve georgia. i can tell you first hand, he's a principled conservative, a man hoff deep conviction and faith and senator david purdue has been one of the greatest allies of ours administration in washington d.c. [cheers & applause] another incredible leader, kelly loeffler, fourth generation on her family's grain farm. she built her own company up from the ground. she broke barriers in business and sports to become one of georgia's most successful business woman. i can tell you again, in a very short period of time, she's emerged as one of the most

important conservative voices on capitol hill. we need senator kelly loeffler back in washington d.c. so we support your senators because of who they are and also because of everything that we've done with their support. think about it. four years ago, we inherited a military that had been hollowed out by devastating budget cuts. an economy that was struggling to break out of the slowest recovery since the great depression. terrorism was on the rise around the world. we witness add steady assault on our most cherished values. with your two senators and under president donald trump, we rebuilt our military. we revived our economy. we secured our border, stood with law enforcement and fought for life and liberty and the constitution of the united states of america.

everything starts with our national defense. i'm your vice president. the highest title i'll ever hold is d-a-d. i'm the proud father of a united states marine. [cheers & applause] the father-in-law of a navy pilot. and i couldn't be more proud too serve alongside a president that cares so deeply about the men and women of our armed forces. president trump has signed the largest investments in our national defense since the days of ronald reagan. the truth is, we're finally giving our soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines the coast guard the support that they need to defend this nation. senator david purdue from his

seat on the senate arms services committee has been there every step of the way. thank you, senator. [cheers & applause] so its been about standing with those that serve. also standing with all of you that did serve in the uniform of the united states. you know, the last administration saw years of scandal at the v.a. that shocked the conscious of the nation. you remember? we literally had veterans in this country passing away waiting for care at v.a. hospitals in this country. when president trump came in to office with the help of your two senators, those days are over. president trump signed the most sweeping reforms of the v.a. in 50 years. we fired 10,000 v.a. employees that weren't giving our veterans the care that they earned and veterans choice is now available for every veteran in america.

and from her seat on the veteran's affairs committee, senator kelly loeffler was there every step of the way. with our renewed american strength, last four years we've stood up to our enemies and stood with our allies. at the direction of the commander-in-chief, our armed forces took down the last inch of territory under the black flag of isis, eliminated their leader and al salmani is gone. >> bill: mike pence saying we'll keep fighting to make sure every legal vote counts. talking about the republican majority in congress running through georgia. the president will be there tomorrow. valdosta. the vice president, the former vice president, the president-elect now joe biden

also speaking moment ago in wilmington, delaware talking about inauguration being different. really talking about more covid relief in the new year. i want to bring in our friday money team. they've been waiting. steve moore with me, austan goolsbee. good day to you. they passed weed in the house today, steve. no covid relief. you can see joe biden now planting the seeds to try to push for more of this once we get to the new year. let's begin there. >> i wasn't too impressed with those comments by the vice president. sounds to me, bill, like it's this massive new -- more and more government. not only did he say he supported the $3 trillion spending billion that donald trump wisely turned down -- by the way, we have a pretty darn good economy with respect to unemployment rate is down to 6%. something that trump did in five months. took obama five years to do that. the other point is and i asked

this to my friend, austin, the solution to every problem bigger government? then he said he wants another massive spending plan when he gets into office. we need less government spending, not more. >> bill: austin, let me bring you in. if you listen to his comments, he was talking down this economy. trying to find a bright spot here. we've been through a tough year. does it benefit him to talk the way he did in the past hour? >> i don't think he was talking down the economy. he was recognizing the virus is raging out of control and the white house is not doing anything to stop it. the vaccine is the best development that we have. what the president-elect said that lets just get the money the tied us over until we can get out from under the yoke of this thing is appropriate. this is relief money. this is not permanent government spending, this is so millions are not thrown out of their

homes. it's crazy that we have hundreds of thousands of people and millions of businesses -- >> bill: did speaker pelosi screw that up now? did you hear the question? >> i did not. >> did speaker pelosi screw this up? she was looking for $2.2 trillion. that won't happen. >> the president of the united states screwed this up. the president of the united states. he's playing down the virus. down in georgia claiming millions of votes that he believes were fraudulently cast. why don't you do your job and prevent these businesses from going under. >> bill: go ahead, steve. >> austin, screwed up what? this is the fastest recovery from a recession in an american history. we had a 13% unemployment rate in may. now we have -- from 13% to 6.7% in six months and did it without $3 trillion. it was people like you that said

we would have unemployment at 12%. we have 6%. we created 12.5 million jobs. good numbers. the federal system -- >> after losing 21 million jobs. >> bill: austin, you can -- >> it's a disaster of an economy. >> bill: austin, you can find a lot of silver linings in this. think about where we were and where we are now. >> the vaccine is coming. >> and trump gave it to us thanks to operation warp speed. joe biden would have -- >> and i have applauded that. i applauded operation warp speed. the best things the president has done. >> i agree. >> bill: austan goolsbee and steve moore. more to be debated. thanks. i mentioned mike pence in savannah, georgia. the president will be there tomorrow. we're watching for his address. it will be critical for these two senate races. so what the balance of power will be come january 5. we're watching that tomorrow night. 7:00 eastern here on the fox

news channel. year going into the weekend, dow 30,000 plus. impressive. set your dvr. enjoy the weekend with family and close friends. see you monday. here's neil. >> neil: thanks very much, bill. the corner of wall and broad, optimism that not only is one vaccine on the way but doses in the millions. by the end of next year, over one billion are on the i what as well. it won't be just one company participating. possibly a few. good enough for the corner of wall and broad to see record after record. i'm neil cavuto, this is "your world." that's what you were peeking at with the dow is the highest it's ever been. the s&p 500, the highest it's ever been. the nasdaq, the highest it's ever been. all by optimism that a potentially bumpy start, the