healthy, and a help/resolution that, in this next year, that i can hug all my friends and family that i miss so much. >> kat: absolutely. thanks, everyone. we wish everyone a happy and healthy new year. ♪ >> we begin with the battle for the senate. with just four days to go before the all important runoff elections in georgia, republican senator david perdue is now in quarantine. after coming into close contact with someone who tested positive for covid-19. hello, everyone, and happy new years day. welcome to "america's news headquarters." i'm julie banderas. great to see you, anita! >> great to see you, julie. happy new year to you and i love you paid campaign officials say perdue end of his potential exposure thursday morning, decided to set out the final days of the campaign in accordance with cdc guidelines. he and fellow republican kelly loeffler are trying to stop democrats from taking

control of the upper chamber of congress. we will speak with senator perdue in just a few minutes. first, we go live to peter doocy. he is in lagrange georgia. peter, happy new year to you. >> happy new year, anita. we tried to get raphael warnock's attention as he left the stage and headed to his campaign bus here in lagrange this morning, but the campaign warned us that he was running behind schedule and he did not have time for a question. so we didn't get anything from him today. it was also raining heavily enough in georgia to wash out a scheduled jon ossoff event. although we did hear from him late last night. >> i know it has been a very difficult year. i know that so many are hurting. god, i got bills piling up, hard to afford child care, hard to afford the rent, the house payment, hard to take care of the family. through no fault of anybody's

own, just because of the times we are living in. >> kelly loeffler is not his direct opponent since he is head-to-head with perdue and he has had to head with warnock. but he had keys left lack of campaigning with the claims in this week. that is something loeffler is denying and clarifying. >> to his specific claim that you aren't out here campaigning with a klansman, that originates from a former member of the klan here for a photo lineup? that i have that story right? >> yes, and we kicked him out immediately. that was absolutely what we had to do. i had no idea who he was. he is gone. i denounce that, i do not believe in it, and it has no place around our campaign. >> and as far as you know that was just a one-time event? >> absolutely. we won't stand for that. >> so, kind of bad weather for the long weekend before a campaign to try to get out the

vote, but the big events are coming on election eve. president trump for loeffler and perdue, and joe biden for ossoff and warnock, also here on monday, election eve. anita? >> anita: thank you, peter. julie? >> julie: here now with more is senator david perdue. senator, thank you very much. i understand you are under quarantine after coming in close contact with somebody he did test positive for covid-19. how are you, and what exactly happened? i guess this was announced 30 minutes before you redo to speak at an event in gainesville alongside lindsey graham. how are you doing? >> hi, julie. my wife and i are doing just fine paid leave tested negative, belief in testing our team regularly here. we had our 100 stop road to her last night in hiawassee georgia. we've had great response around the state, though we had someone test positive yesterday morning, and according to cdc guidelines and doctor recommendations, with

an abundance of caution, we have decided to go into quarantine these last few days. it's terrible timing, but we are not going to miss a step. we're going to participate in all these events as if i were there. >> julie: re-wearing masks with whoever it was he came into contact with? >> absolutely. we washed our hands, watched our distance, and we've been wearing masks, following all the protocols. this is just part of the year we've been in. i want to go back to what i heard that my opponent just said, he defined the problem but he has never offered a solution for this covid crisis. as a matter of fact, when he was pushed on the in a debate, by himself, he said, "i don't want to get bogged into the details." as a matter fact, we were in the details providing money for our state which seemed a million and a half jobs, he posted at the same time his father took a half million dollar loan to save his business. the democrats don't want to talk about the issues. they are really all about hiding the agenda they are trying to perpetrate, and distracting voters from the real issues

here. >> julie: how do you feel this $2,000 stimulus check is going to possibly affect your campaign? i know that you and kelly loeffler are both supportive of the president, but unfortunately mitch mcconnell made other plans. he wants to lump this bill into multiple other issues, and they would love this to be a stand-alone bill so they can get those checks out to the american people. what would you like to say to the people of georgia who are counting on that money? >> first of all, this should have been done back in september. those of us who fought for those and put those bills up knew that we needed help back then, when the first round ran out. some $15 billion in the ppp program came to georgia, and as i said, saved 1.5 million jobs here. we knew that in the fall we would need more help, and the democrats blocked it several times going into the presidential election. they didn't want to give president trump a win. now we've been pushing in the last two months, we finally got

a compromise. certainly we need more help than the $600. the $2,000, is fully support. the president is right, this is a big tech. i also support his request to get some sort of federal review over what happened in the november elections. >> julie: right, i'm just not sure they'll be able to do all that it wants. if you are to pull the stimulus relief checks and make that a separate issue, maybe perhaps they would be a fast track to getting the checks in the mail. but because they are lumped in with those two other issues, it may be a while, and the american people really don't deserve to have to wait another minute for this. i want to talk about some newly released polls, this one from dancy analytics and polling, which found that warnock and ossoff are leading over you and senator loeffler as early votes are cast. we have a look at the georgia u.s. senate runoffs, early voting, as of december 31st. the mail-in ballots were almost 900,000 total in-person early

voting, almost 2 million. a total of 2.8 million. first of all, the whole mail-in voting thing was a nightmare during the election, which is why the president has been contesting a lot of those votes. there have been poll watchers, as you know, double the normal amount. they've got some 8,00 8,000 phylacteries in the state of georgia. do you believe this will be a fair election? >> certainly is going to be a tight election. as an outsider, i've never believed in these poll prayerless. they had me down eight to ten points, we won by two. as a matter fact, 52.5% voted against the democratic agenda and jon ossoff in my race. if we get our vote out on monday, i am convinced i was 8,000 poll watchers and cameras on all the drop boxes, we are going to have as fair and election as we can. but we have to make changes in

the state of georgia. you have to have a photo i.d. but with an absentee ballot mail then, there are a lot of ways to get around that. quite frankly there are some questions that have not been answered. some talk about voter suppression in georgia. this idea that we have a double standard where it is signature verification, and they have been the vagaries around that, julie, suppresses the vote of people trying to do that the right way. in terms of january, i am convinced that we have plugs a lot of the holes that might've been there. >> julie: a lot of big names coming out in your support, headed to georgia. the president came back from mar-a-lago yesterday, he plans on going to georgia on monday. edit event. but you've got the president, lindsey graham, donald trump jr., is anke trump, texas g.o.p. chairman, allen west, and congressman dan crenshaw siding for the republicans. on the democratic side,

joe biden, president-elect, kamala harris, and stacey abrams will be headed to georgia. this is a huge rally. if you look, first of all, at the side of the republicans, a huge rally to get you into that seat so that republicans can control the senate. are you concerned at all that you will not physically be on the campaign trail, unfortunately, because of your forced quarantine? how confident are you that they will pull that out on tuesday? >> we are winning right now. the best example of that, the best evidence, is the november race itself. we made 100 stops around this state, we talked to the people, taking our message to the people, and we talked about issues. the importance of getting the vote out. we are going to get our foot out tuesday and when this thing, because people in georgia know that this is the last line of defense against this radical socialist agenda that the democrats are trying to perpetrate. they are trying to hide it from the georgia people right now, but that's not going to work.

what we have done in the last six weeks is make sure that people knew it was at stake, we have to protect what we've done in the last four years, make sure the democrats don't come and put us back into the dark days that we see during the obama-biden administration when they give us eight years of the lowest economic output in u.s. history. really, destroyed a lot of the foreign policy things that had been built up over 30 years abroad. i am confident we will get our vote out and do just fine on monday. or tuesday. to. >> julie: good for you, and we will look forward to watching. i want to turn to jon ossoff, your democratic opponent's comments when he pushed back yesterday, as you probably saw an interview with peter doocy on fox. he called your attacks on his ties to china and hong kong companies payment upper coat utter nonsense." i will have you watch this clip and react. >> a concern that through a payment to well-known young democrat, somebody linked to china or the chinese through another company, could be trying

to influence you? >> come on, man. you are a serious reporter. >> julie: that's right, that's why he's asking the question. your response? >> he is a serious reporter, that's why the question needs to be asked. but it's not asked by any of the liberal media out there. it's amazing to me that you can have the eric swalwell crisis, the hunter biden crisis, and ignore the jon ossoff crisis. this is clearly a pattern of activity from the chinese communist party. they've identified jon ossoff after his 2017 attempt to run for the u.s. house and lost. they identified him as an ambitious young politician on the democratic side that they probably could get influence. so they hired him and he worked for two years for this propaganda company, the chinese communist party, julie, and he hid it from the people of georgia during his primary. he might not have won had he fully disclose that. he lied about it and let about it again, and he still didn't answer peter's question. if you notice that, he never has

an answer that question. asked him that at the debate, he didn't answer. peter asked me that yesterday, he did not answer it. he has not answered it yet. >> julie: senator david perdue, good luck to you and your wife, and i wish you all the health in 2021. good luck on tuesday. thanks for talking to us. >> thank you. >> julie: anita? >> anita: florida confirming its first case of the new and highly contagious coronavirus strain recently discovered in the u.k. health officials are also investigating cases in colorado and california, where an increase in infections has simply overwhelmed hospitals. let's bring in dr. janette nesheiwat, fox news medical contributor. it is great to see you on this new year's day. thanks so much for making some time for us. >> hi, anita. >> anita: let's talk about this new variant strain of the virus in the u.k. it's called be 117. it's in the third state, as

we've mentioned. have bullet points shy audience. it's now in florida. it was in colorado and also here in california. do you expect this now to spread across the country? >> you know, it's important to note, anita, that the people who have this variant did not have any history of travel. they did not go to the u.k. they did not travel to south africa. that tells us that it's probably already widespread in our country, and that is important to understand, because that means it spreads easier from person-to-person, which means a number of cases goes up and the number of hospitalizations goes up, and that compounds the already what our hospitals are facing right now. if you don't have enough hospital beds, he might have to be transferred out to another state to get care that you need. you might not be able to get that elective surgery you need, you might have to postpone a stress test or a gallbladder removal or a biopsy, because of the hospitals being full because of covid patients. for the good thing is it is not more deadly, it is not more

lethal, that it's highly more contagious. we know so far that the vaccine we have by moderna and pfizer are still effective. what we need to do in the meantime is continuing to cover our faces, wear masks, practice social distancing, avoid crowds, avoid parties, social gathering, and we need to vaccinate. vaccinate with high velocity. we really need to get that going. that's what's going to help us kick this pandemic and try to end it sooner than later. >> anita: for sure. i want to get to the vaccine in just a moment, but going back to this new variant strain, it was just detected in california here earlier this week. as you mentioned, we have seen an explosion of cases here in the golden state, and hospitals are just inundated with patients, no it up at them. is it possible that this strain has been here for quite some time, and that is what is causing this explosion of cases? >> i think that definitely contributes paid what happened in the u.k., the way they

discovered this strain come everyone is on lockdown. they cut down on social gatherings and parties, and dining, and they thought, "what's going on? where we still having this outbreak despite the lockdown, despite cracking down?" it's because of this variant, it is more transmissible come up to 70%. i do believe it has been in the u.s. for probably seven months. we were just unaware of it. the u.k. was able to identify the strain not too long ago, it was probably existing for two or three months and we are just now identifying it. there's going to be more strains that we are going to see, more mutations we are going to say. that's a natural phenomenon. we expect viruses to mutate. we need to be prepared for it, we need to be one step ahead, and be able to predict our needs, the able to predict the needs of increased number of cases, increase number of beds that are going to be needed, and potentially having to adjust and modify the vaccines in the future come in the next two years. >> speaking of vaccines, the new

year brings good news of vaccines help fight the virus, but so far only 25% of the covid-19 vaccines that have been distributed have been administered. your front-line worker, so i knw we have some pictures of you receiving a vaccine very recently, a few days ago. you got the moderna vaccine. how did that go? how are you feeling, and what are your thoughts on this rollout? it's a little slower than we had hoped. >> sure. it went very well, i'm very blessed and excited and happy i was able to receive my vaccine, being a physician who takes care of covid patients almost on a daily basis. i didn't have any side effects other than a sore arm. didn't have any headache or dizziness or blurry vision or anything like that. this is really truly a massive undertaking to get the entire nation, the entire world vaccinated. we have to keep that in mind. technically we are still about six months ahead. if you remember, dr. fauci said it's going to be about 12-18

months until he had a vaccine out. if you're trying to look at it from a positive standpoint, there still six months ahead. it requires a lot of planning, communication, funding, resources. we need dedicated personnel to be able to administer the vaccine. you need supplies come into the vaccine itself, to make sure you have the proper storage temperatures, otherwise it will go to waste. we did start off a bit on the slow side, but i think we are slowly picking up momentum. we already have immunized, vaccinated about almost 3 million americans, but we need to pick up the pace and tried to get everyone vaccinated as soon as possible before the virus mutates even further to the point that the vaccine may become ineffective. right now it is still considered ineffective by scientists, but we need to just still continue to vaccinate as quickly and efficiently as possible. >> anita: absolutely. it's a great new year's present for the nation. dr. janette nesheiwat, thank you

so much for joining us today. happy new year. >> thank you, anita. happy new year. >> julie: fireworks last night in portland, but it wasn't to mark the new year. how this scene devolved into a full-blown riot. plus, progressives pressuring nancy pelosi to bring a controversial issue to the house floor as she looks to hold onto her speaker position. will she gives into their demands? next. ♪ we made usaa insurance for veterans like martin. when a hailstorm hit, he needed his insurance to get it done right, right away. usaa. what you're made of, we're made for. usaa ...little things... ...can become your big moment. that's why there's otezla. otezla is not a cream. it's a pill that treats plaque psoriasis differently. with otezla, 75% clearer skin is achievable. don't use if you're allergic to otezla.

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he's a good musical >> julie: a 15-year-old boy says he is innocent after police arrested him in connection to a bike attack on two cars in new york city earlier this week. the teen now facing charges of criminal mischief and rioting in the attack which took place in manhattan in broad daylight, in the middle of the day. he says he was at the mall buying a birthday gift for his mother when it happened, and that he didn't even own a bike. he claimed he showed police his receipt, but that they didn't believe him because of a people said he was at the crime scene. >> anita: well, that was the scene last night in portland,

oregon, where a crowd attacked officers with rocks and molotov cocktails, prompting police to declare a riot. senior correspondent claudia cowan has the story from our west coast newsroom. hi, claudia. >> hi, anita. when the residents hoping to start the year off on a peaceful note look up disappointed. protesters vandalize storefronts and shot off fireworks, some also set fires. one garbage can melted down to the pavement. video shows police in riot gear facing off against a crowd that grew to almost 100 people. when the protests turn violent, police ordered everyone to leave the area or faced arrest and possible use of force, that she heeded the warning and early this morning police tweeted, "a gathering in downtown portland has devolved into a riot. participants have found multiple firebombs at officers and launched commercial grade fireworks at the federal courthouse and justice center."

police say rioters tossed at least two molotov cocktails-style firebombs and launched commercial grade aerial fireworks of the federal courthouse and a center. they have been flash points or protests that have been the attacked police with rocks, bricks, frozen water bottles, and even paint buildings that police they may have contained some kind of acid that burned their skin. no officers were seriously hurt, though. police responded with flash bangs and smoke bombs and got help from federal officers with the department of homeland security, his deployment during past riots have caused a lot of controversy. some downtown business owners will spend their new year's day cleaning up debris from this latest round of violence. unclear just how many people were arrested or what charges they might face. anita? >> anita: claudia, just when you thought things were starting to quiet down up there. thank you so much for that report.

>> not yet. you, too. >> anita: julie connects you and progressives are pressuring congress on alexandria ocasio-cortez and other members of the so-called "squad" to force nancy pelosi's hand on medicare for all. they are demanding the speaker being able to the floor if she wants them to back her attempt to hold onto her leadership position. some incoming progressives like congresswoman-elect cori bush remaining tight-lipped on whether they would support pelosi's bid. >> would you vote for nancy pelosi as speaker? >> [laughs] what i'm going to do is make sure the voices of the people of st. louis are heard, and that we have what we need. you will find out then. >> julie: let's bring in emily larson, political reporter for the "washington examiner." i'm wondering what he's referring to. "you're going to find out then?" what's going to happen between then and then? it's not like they have any other real contenders in the lineup as potential speakers. so, isn't this pretty much a

surefire bet that she is going to end reelection? >> sure. yes, i think nancy pelosi is expecting to end reelection to another term as house speaker. but it's a lot closer margin for her this time around than it was in the last session. the last real challenge to his speakership, 15 democrats defected and voted for somebody else. if that happened this time around, she would be because of that, a lot of these democrats are under a lot more pressure to make sure that they do stay in line as a bloc, though together, and look for her as speaker. even the democrats like alexandria ocasio-cortez and cori bush, lik why they likely t to pressure nancy pelosi to take of these issues like medicare for all and make sure that she backs a lot of their things like the climate agenda, they don't. they are not going to get what they want if so many democrats

defected and pelosi and the democrats didn't retain that majority power. while there is a possibility that they do some kind of symbolic vote, and showed a flecks of power, is still likely that nancy pelosi will be reelected on sunday. >> julie: typically during the first vote by the new house, the speaker's election members traditionally vote vertically in alphabetical order, but becausef covid-19 concerns, they'll be voting by proxy. many of them from their homes and groups in a roll call that is expected to last 3-4 hours. how much of this has any bearing on the outcome, or will it? >> one of the concerns was that, because this is a new session, the old rules about proxy voting in the last session would have expired. there was a concern that perhaps there was a big outbreak of coronavirus among some members that could prevent enough

democrats from being present and actually voting. what a lot of these lawmakers, they are elderly, they aren't at risk population and have health issues, as well. we just had a representative elect die of coronavirus. so there is very real concern. because of all these measures, it looks like everybody -- there's going to be enough people. nancy pelosi is projecting confidence and is going to be in an hour-long process which is very different from the past. >> julie: you know, she's 80 years old, and there's nothing wrong with that, that she has remained a source of frustration for the younger democrats, if you will. there are obviously extremely eager, champing at the bid to climb the leadership ladder, and have shown their discontent. which has divided the party. it is hurt them. in fact it resulted in 12 democrats looking to make losing house seats in more than a dozen democrats back in 2019 who didn't back speaker pelosi. how might this prompt calls for fresh leadership? >> one of the compromises from

the last issue last time, some legitimate challenge to her speakership was that she had agreed to term limits. under that agreement, she was reelected, it is to be her while they might not be as challenging this time or setting themselves up in two years for what leadership is going to look li like. >> julie: we will look forward to that, interesting stuff. emily larson, political reporter for the "washington examiner," thank you very much. happy new year. >> thank you, happy new year. >> julie: small businesses barely hanging on, trying to survive some of the toughest times i have ever seen. so how are they coping with the new lockdowns? plus, perhaps the biggest challenge overseas, awaiting president-elect biden. up next, how he will take on china, and a look at his top priorities here at home. he's a good musical

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♪ >> julie: chinese president xi jinping celebrating his country's economic boom, despite the pandemic. it is a reminder, however, of how china has profited while at the economies have suffered. benjamin hall has marveled from london. benjamin? >> julie, china has made it very

clear they seek dominance in 2021. they know that this pandemic has brought much of the road to a standstill. as such, they see this as a real opportunity for them moving forward. while much of the world celebrating new year's eve at home, thousands celebrated on the streets of wuhan, the very city in which coronavirus originated. to further rub salt in the moon, president xi praised china's pandemic boom as a reminder that china profited while others suffered. she says china was the first major economy in the world to achieve positive growth after the pandemic, and also touted china space explosion in deep-sea exploration, and that construction boom that put them on a path to supremacy. as the new year starts, if you disagree that china is now america's greatest foreign policy threat. already, they're worrying signs, fears are going that they plan a military incursion against taiwan after repeated provocations last year. chinese state media said this week at that, unless the u.s. starts a cold war with them,

they will soon replace the u.s. as the world's largest economy. we must also not forget that this year china made land grabs into india, cracked down on freedoms in hong kong, and china continues to keep over a million uighur muslims and enforce detention camps. they plan to classifying intel which suggests china paid for bounties on american heads in afghanistan, likely sought by russia. if that were true, that would be another major escalation as we headed to a year which is clearly going to see an increase in tensions between the countries. >> julie: benjamin hall, thank you. anita? >> anita: let's bring in our guests now, boyd matheson and laura think, to talk more about this. boyd matheson is a former chief of staff to senator mike lee and the opinion editor of the desert news, and laura fink, founder and ceo of rebel communications. thank you for joining us today. happy new year. >> thank you, good to be here. happy new year. >> anita: first to you, there

is no question the president-elect will have to start dealing with this growing threat from china. and he has been accused of being a bit too cozy with china, and told everyone a little while ago they are not the enemy. do we expect the same tone from biden once he gets into the oval office? especially with the pandemic in mind? >> i think it's going to be a real challenge for the incoming administration to deal with china. but it's also one that we really need to get used to. the leadership quality for the 21st century's allies and alliances. while we do need to go head-to-head with china on a host of things, we also need, along with russia, to deal with places like north korea. it will be fascinating to see if the biden administration can strike the right balance in terms of where we need to call the chinese government out, where we need to take them on, and where we need to work with them to create security and other places around the world. >> anita: no doubt, all good points. laura, we have heard in

benjamin hall's report that china could be planning some kind of an incursion against taiwan. how would we expect a biden administration to deal with something like that? >> i think you have to be tough and you also have to have friends. expanding our multilateral approach, which is in direct contrast to the current administration, rebuilding alliances with europe and other countries, rebuilding on the that alliances around asia. we need to confront something as tough as china, right now we are dependent on their economy. the buy goods from us, they keep the health of our economy alive. they are a huge country and we need economic access. at the same time we can't tolerate them attacking democracies like taiwan. we can't tolerate military aggression and we can't tolerate some other kind of spy craft and other violations that they've managed to pursue. that balance, i givest my colleagues, it's a bounds of being tough, sanctions, and it's a balance of figuring out where

we can keep them close along with these relationships we will build. because those are central. but those have been cast aside, and that's a challenge. you got to get europe back on board and get the asian countries back on board. we can't go it alone, nobody can beat china alone. >> anita: right. aside from china, joe biden told reporters in his first 100 days he's going to concentrate on three areas. immigration reform, the environment, and economic relief to the states to help with lessons from the pandemic. it really sounds like he's not going to waste any time overturning the trump agenda. but i want to play clip for you from president-elect biden from just a few days ago, taking a swipe at president trump. let's listen. speak of the trump administration plan is falling far behind. as i long feared and warned, the effort to distribute and administer the vaccine is not progressing as it should. the pace of the vaccination program is moving now, and if it

continues to move as it is now, it's going to take years, not months, to vaccinate the american people. >> anita: like i said, not wasting any time, taking a swipe at trent. quick answer for both of you. how quickly will this administration work to overturn the trump legacy? >> i think we have to be careful of the spiking of the ball and going right to executive orders, which both the obama and administration in trump administration went. there agreements, they can get a lot of things done in that space, and show that there is a better way to govern. but again they have to resist that urge to do everything by executive order, because they won. instead there are a lot of people in congress who will say, "we can get things done, the entry have an exit system, we get a lot of things done without a 6000-page bill or an executive order." but it got to do it different. >> anita: law, final thoughts? 's because it's going to be

pandemic, pandemic, the pandemic. we need to get 100 million viruses -- excuse me, 100 million vaccines -- out in the first 100 days. reopening k-8 schools, and get state and local governments to make sure we get the vaccine at the end of the health care workers have what they need, and the first responders have it they need as this crisis escalates. >> anita: a lot to do in this new year, no doubt. thank you to both of you. boyd matheson and laura fink, happy new year. >> happy new year. >> julie: new york governor andrew, facing criticism after lansing thousands of fans can attend a football game, while keeping tight restrictions on restaurants. i'm talking over 6,000 people allowed into the stadium. that's okay but you have to close indoor dining? how the governor is justifying what some business owners say is a double standard. next. ♪

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the senate is voting to override the president's veto of the national defense bill. this could take a while, but look at congress, hard at work on new year's day. it would be the first override of any trump veto these past four years. we would monitor this and keep you posted. julie? ♪ >> i'm down about 65, maybe 70%. i'm down to three days a week, i'm down to one employee from ten. i feel that everything that is going on right now in the restaurant industry is totally unfair. people do not go out to dinner when they are sick. they stay home. >> julie: small business owners are fighting for their livelihoods, literally, as coronavirus restrictions are keeping customers at home. here to talk about it is gene marks, small business consultant and cpa of the marks group. great to see you. first i want to talk about how small business owners are coping

with lockdowns. it is quite frankly america. any small business still open and not out of business after being closed for, what, over ten months now. and "new york post" op-ed titled "king cuomo's covid rules meet the constitution," and it reads, "the states problem, it has no scientific basis for its rules. contact tracing survey shows just 1.43% of covid-19 cases were linked to bars and restaurants. religious activities were traced to just 0.69% of cases, and the overwhelming majority, 73.84%, were tied to where? private household gatherings, and that is where the governor has told everyone to shatter during the holidays." and look what happened after halloween, look what happened after thanksgiving. we don't have the christmas numbers yet, but sure enough, it's going to happen again. >> julie, let me give you even some more numbers. i just wrote about in the u.k.,

the national health service. the national health service, the government agency for the health care system, they reported that out of the people who have died of coronavirus as the outbreak broke out, 388 people, julie, 388, either were under the age of 6 60 or had no pre-existing conditions. which means 99.99% of the people in the u.k., based on their numbers, that had died of coronavirus, as sad as that is, were older and had some type of pay existing conditions. we don't have the granularity of that data here in the u.s., because we don't have a national health service, but if you are to extrapolate it, as i wrote about in th "the hill," it woule a few thousand deaths. that sounds awful and i'm not advocating killing people, but to shut down small businesses in california, new york,

pennsylvania, julie, there is a restaurant in the downstairs of my building. i live in center city, philadelphia. these guys have not been able to operate since before thanksgiving. you are basing it off of numbers by the actual people dying of this who were not a risk factor were so small, it is infuriating to thousands of small businesses all over the country. what is even more infuriating as many of the governors are making these decisions for political reasons. in california you have out to restaurants not allowed to serve food, that meanwhile production facilities can't do that. because they are unionized. it's very frustrating. >> julie: we have run out of time but i have to have your reaction to governor cuomo basically allowing bill's fans, 6,000 of them come into stadium. he says it's different because it's outdoors, but yet just miles away their indoor restaurants that aren't able to look a >> my reaction is it's absolutely ridiculous and inconsistent. you have to have a consistent

policy. it is fine for the owners of the sports teams doing that, and the businesses that support them, but come on, julie. look into new york city, all the restaurants and coffee shops that can operate at all. the rules are very unfair, just tens of thousands of small businesses. >> julie: all right. unfortunately that's all the time we have. one small story have to share. new year's eve, i called ninth avenue liquors in new york city. businesses around the corner from me, it's an open forever. they got shut down on decembe december 30th come because they sold liquor past the 10:00 p.m. curfew. i guess they were confused about that 10:00 curfew. their liquor license was taken away. you can't even sell liquor in the city passed 10:00 p.m., for somebody to come and pick it up. where is the danger they are? this is just crushing small business owners and it makes me sick. give ninth avenue liquors their liquor license back. they don't deserve it. none of these business owners do. dean marx, thank you. stick a thank you, julie. take care. >> julie: it's new year, and with that, new laws are in place

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>> julie: welcome back. the new year means new laws.

we have more. hello, laura. >> hi. the big news of 2020 has really helped to shape some of the new laws that we are seeing go into effect today. they largely revolve around two of the main stories we saw last year, the death of george floyd and of course the coronavirus pandemic. we have covered of course george floyd for so long. he died at the hands of a minneapolis police officer while in custody in may. sparked widespread protests and demonstrations. calling for police reform. and states including california, delaware, iowa, new york, oregon and utah passed bans on police choke holds because of it. in georgia, two new antivirus laws are now in effect, one imposing more penalties for hate crimes while the other protects police from bias motivated acts of violence. some of the coronavirus related laws going into effect today include those offering to help

essential workers and bolstering unemployment benefits in requiring time off for sick employees. the state of alabama passed a resolution to encourage fist bumps over handshakes to help stop the spread. >> the business community's number one priority is to do whatever it takes to get the pandemic under control, to get people vaccinated and get the economy going again. >> meanwhile, voters in arizona, montana, new jersey and south dakota approving measures to legalize recreational marijuana. many hope this will bring some much-needed revenue to a state economy reeling from covid. that's from coast-to-coast. lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are planning to work on legislation in 2021 saying that they will be focusing on the pandemic response. back to you. >> julie: we'll be right back. thank you.

♪ >> a live look at the senate floor where they have enough votes to override a presidential veto on the national defense authorization act. more on that just a moment. first, hello, everyone and welcome back to "america's news headquarters." i'm anita vogel. >> i'm julie banderas. we are days away from voters in georgia deciding the balance of power in the u.s. senate and the candidates are making their cases all across the state. republican senator david perdue is forced into quarantine after

coming in contact with someone who tested positive for coronavirus. i spoke with senator perdue in the last hour. listen. >> it's terrible timing but we are not going to lose a step. we are going to participate in all these events as if i were there. >> julie: meantime in washington, lawmakers are deadlocked over $2,000 stimulus checks. we have fox team coverage beginning with rich edson reporting from washington. and charles watson, also reporting on this. rich, to you. happy new year. >> happy new year and good afternoon. the president is back here at the white house after cutting his trip to mar-a-lago in florida short. the president on twitter during his time there had been badgering republicans in congress to prioritize a number of items that he wanted congress to take action on over the remainder of the session here, but it appears as though the u.s. senate right now, as its building to give the president

his first veto override of his presidency. the senate is voting on that override of the ndaa, the $740 billion national defense authorization act. it enables spending on overseas military operations, weapons, pay raises and more. the vote is still open but there is enough support here. this will be the first veto override for president trump unless a number of senators change their votes, which is probably not going to happen. the president vetoed the defense bill because it removes confederate officers names from u.s. military ounce deletions and limits his ability to withdraw certain trips from overseas. the president wants congress to change an unrelated law that gives tech companies liability protection. the president is also pushing to increase the $600 covid relief checks. more than tripled them to $2,000. it has divided republicans. a number of republicans back the president on this.

however, majority trickle majority here including those in congressional leadership say that the cost of increasing those checks is too expensive. >> a huge chunk would essentially be socialism for rich people. money flowing to households earning well into six figures who did not lose any jobs or income last year. the house democrats bill is just simply not the right approach. >> for once, we have progressive democrats, conservative republicans, the president himself and not to mention of course the majority, the vast majority of the american people singing from the same songbook. in support of these checks. >> the house passed a bill earlier this week to raise the checks to $2,000. it appears as though this congress, the senate is simply going to run out of time. on january 3rd, the current congress expires. not to say these $2,000 checks are dead forever, but it's going to have to be something that the next congress, congress which

takes place after january 3rd, would have to consider in order to become law. back to you. >> julie: a lot to take up. rich edson, happy new year. thank you so much. now to georgia where we are just days away from the crucial runoff to determine which party will control the senate. charles watson i is live in atlanta. >> we start with senator david perdue. he and his wife have tested negative for the virus but they are following cdc guidelines and quarantining out of an abundance of caution. as you well know, this race moves forward. the purdue campaign on the attack against democrat jon ossoff who is facing scrutiny over an amended financial disclosure that includes payments from a company that has ties to the chinese communist party. take a listen to ossoff's exchange with fox's peter doocy. >> chinese intelligence operations in the united states are a grave threat to our

national security. senator david perdue bragged under oath about how he spent most of his career outsourcing american jobs to china. >> the purdue campaign firing back in a statement saying "instead of giving georgians the answers they deserve, jon ossoff decided to be flippant and dismissive about concerns that the chinese communist party may be targeting him. meanwhile, democrat raphael warnock returning to a very wet campaign trail following allegations of domestic dispute, domestic abuse in a dispute with his wife. warnock has denied the allegations and kept the focus on his republican opponent, senator kelly loeffler. >> i am sick and tired of having a senator ribs at me -- represent me. $3 million worth of stock stopped. >> at an event with senator lindsey graham in gainesville, georgia, loeffler said this race will come down to

protecting president trump and his legacy from chuck schumer and the democrats. >> chuck schumer said it. we are going to take georgia and change america. he wants to defund the police. he wants to lock us down. we are not going to let that happen. >> republicans and democrats will have big names campaigning in georgia in the coming days. president trump and vice president pence will campaign in the state as well as vice president elect harris and president-elect biden. something tells me this race is very important. >> charles watson, thank you so much. happy new year. anita. >> thanks, julie. let's bring in the political panel for more. matt gorman, former communications director for the national republican congressional committee and chris hahn, host of the aggressive progressive podcast on former to senator chuck schumer. thanks for joining us. appreciate your time.

>> great to be here. so many things to talk about with you. i want to go back to what's happening on the senate floor. there is action today on this new year's day. the senate is in action, and they have enough votes right now to override the president's veto of the defense authorization act. the vote is still open but they have the votes to do it right now. i want to know what is the fallout from this, especially within the republican party. matt, let me start with you. >> if you had told me a year ago that republicans would be overwriting a bill of this magnitude, a veto by president trump, where thought you were crazy. in many respects, whether it's to pay for troops or strengthening military acts against china. this is too important of a bill to not get passed. i think you are seeing some of the coalition to form of a post trump republican party.

where they are looking towards a biden presidency. i think they are less afraid of some of the retribution that would come by overwriting the veto. >> yeah. chris, i imagine this only emboldens democrats as they are watching this unfold on capitol hill today, right? >> yeah. this was an irresponsible veto by the president for his purely selfish reasons. trying to tie something really that isn't even related to the bill which had overwhelming support in the house and the senate, bipartisan support. this president likes to brag about how he rebuilt the military because he increased the budget by 3%. then he vetoes this bill. look, that's who he is. trump is all about who he is which is himself. and republicans in the senate better start running away from him the minute he leaves office. they are starting to do that today by overwriting this veto. >> okay, you say that but we have seen some strange things in 2020. right at the end of the year, we

saw something quite bizarre. we saw nancy pelosi and chuck schumer agreeing with president trump on the idea of those $2,000 stimulus checks. mitch mcconnell on the other side. chris, you say democrats should be running away. republicans should be running away but here we see some agreement on this. what are your thoughts on that? >> well, you know what they say. politics makes strange bedfellows. if donald trump wants to give it $2,000 check to people who need it and help rebuild this economy, than the democrats are all for it. nancy pelosi and chuck schumer supported that back in april and mitch mcconnell who is trying to win two seats in the senate to hold on to power opposed it. if you're worried about rebuilding the country in the post-covert era and you want to keep mitch mcconnell in power, go ahead and do that but don't expect the federal government to be involved in stimulating this economy going forward because that man will block anything. president trump wants it, sees the need for it.

mcconnell blocked it. that's quite frankly probably why trump lost georgia to begin with. this to millis mitch mcconnell didn't let come to the floor left too many people in pain in that state and it could backfire come to stay in that runoff election. >> okay, but there's another side of this. how about the idea that there really isn't too much control over who will get the checks. yes, there are salaried brackets in place but if congress passes it, are we going to be sending large checks to people who may not really need it? i know we heard mitch mcconnell talk about it a few minutes ago. >> i think the three of us here, we are okay without the $2,000 but there's a lot of people struggling. they are out of unemployment. let's strengthen those. i will take chris's advice. we will run away from president trump on this issue. i think you're seeing mitch mcconnell, again, assert himself a little bit as the leader of a post trump g.o.p. i think it's also broader than that. i think you're also seeing the start of negotiations out of i think what will be a biden covid

relief bill. the $2,000 checks will come up along with some of the issues like white democrats, state and local funding and republicans liability. on the previous covid bill. remember also nancy pelosi held this up for months. she admitted when she said that she knew that biden would win the election so she held back her support of the covid bill. we could have had it done in august. >> she passed the covid bill in may and they never brought it back up. they passed it and the senate didn't act. >> gentlemen. let's quickly move on to one more topic before we run out of time. georgia runoff. david perdue off the campaign trail. he's quarantining. the race is so close. there are heavy hitters coming in to help them out this week. president trump, his son don jr., vice president mike pence, a host of others. does it underscore how the term presidency is is on the line there in georgia, the legacy rather? matt, to you first.

>> yes it does. it's going to be a battle of the bases. it's a random january after georgia voters have had over a year of ads and excellent took out the election. the absentee ballots in early voting which ended yesterday. you've got to get your people out. it's cliche when it comes time to turn out but it's true. i think you're going to have trump there and i think he's going to bring out a lot of the base that will need to take us over the finish line. >> okay, chris, final thoughts on that. >> yeah, 3 million people voted early. it's comparable to what happened in the general election. matt is right. it's a random day in january and turn out and party operation is important. i think trac tracy stacey abrama good job getting voters to turn out. we'll see what happens. it's going to be razor-thin. having to redo off the trail, the only one resource you can't

replenish is that candidates time. it's a big problem for them right now. it's going to be very tight and is going to be very interesting to watch. it's going to come down to turn out. i think everybody understands that. >> for sure. leading up to the special election. gentlemen, thank you both so much for joining us today. matt gorman and chris hahn. happy new year to you both. we are continuing to watch the senate floor where the senate is looking to override the president's veto on the national defense authorization act. we are going to keep you up-to-date on that. in the meantime, the tense relationship between the u.s. and china is heating up on several fronts. how will the incoming biden administration handle it? that's coming up next. libertymum to customizes your car insurance so you only pay for what you need? really? i didn't-- aah! ok. i'm on vibrate. aaah!

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>> de inauguration less than three weeks from now and the whole world is preparing for howie bryden presidency might change things -- how a biden present he mighpresidency. >> under a president-elect biden

some things will change and some things will stay the same. president trump's policy of america first will be over under his and administration. biden in a new year's eve address said he's ready to get to work in 2021. >> i am more optimistic about america's chances than i've ever been and i have been around for a while. i find that we are in a situation where we once again have to step up and leave the world and lead the nation. >> biden is in a hurry to undo a lot of president trump domestic policy, he's not in a rush to undo some of his foreign policy right away. in china, biden has said he would hold them accountable as well for trade abuses, human rights violations, and cyber attacks and is not going to take away trump's tariffs right away. hunter biden, relations with russia could go from or friendly to foe. biden says his main priority is

to hold them accountable for a massive solar wind tax. underneath the surface, many president trump's policy will continue under biden towards russia including sanctions and while president trump embraced and in person approach to north korea's kim jong un to encourage cooperation with denuclearization, biden has said he would keep him at arm's length and negotiate with his regime but not kim himself until an interim deal is reached. one big difference between president trump and president-elect biden's foreign policy will be climate change at the center of it. some worry that having a former secretary of state, john kerry, meeting with world leaders to talk climate might conflict with the current secretary of state incoming tony blinken's diplomacy. a senior fellow at brookings writes the incoming secretary of state national security advisor a defense secretaries effectively along with other administration pencils might find themselves making doctrinal statements on china policies

that are then contradictory by what is happening in john kerry's press compasses in beijing. i talked to people familiar with the transition today and they tell me that there isn't going to be any conflict between john john kerry separates and tony blinken efforts and he's not going to be restricted to just climate. they work together. >> a lot of big changes on the foreign policy front. hillary vaughn, thank you so much. >> is the world prepares for a biden administration, questions or may on how the u.s. will handle rising tensions with china under the new leadership. joining us now it's fox news good to return former ca chief dan hoffman, great to see you. happy new year. >> happy new year. >> president trump was tough on many foreign leaders. north korea, iran, china, though, was one country he went head-to-head on before he was even elected when he campaigned and he really did hit china hard as promised.

here is joe biden talking china this week and then i wanted to ask you something. >> it includes modernizing our defense priorities to better deter aggression in the future. rather than continuing to overinvest in legacy systems designed to address threats of the past. we have to be able to innovate, to reimagine our defenses against growing threats in new realms like cyberspace. >> do you think biden will handle china differently? the aggression that the president showed toward china certainly sent a message. how will biden handle it? >> i think it's one of the legacies of a trump administration that we built this strong bipartisan consensus on the need to deter and contain and defend ourselves from china's multifarious threats. i think there is question, as president-elect biden noted that we need to build out our defense

industrial base. i think some of the practices and policies we've implemented, i think those are pretty well set on china. we under siege from china's full throttle espionage attacks against us and there's a lot more that we need to be doing. >> tensions between the united states and china have been rising in the south china sea are the past two months. both countries or increase their military operations in the contested waters. there's also a risk of military confrontation between the u.s. and china. president-elect biden is going to have his hands full when he takes office. how confident are you that the president-elect will prevent a clash or take steps to de-escalate it if one should occur. >> china is the one militarizing the south china sea. they are being asked are nearly. concern among our allies. china has threatened taiwan of military action. i think taiwan is really going to be a flash point for the

biden administration. we transferred our recognition in 1979 from taiwan to beijing. scrapped our mutual defense treaty. i would look for their biden moved administration to be doing that zero based review on china and include in it what changes we might need to make tort taiwan policy in order to shore up taiwan's defenses. they are absolutely under grave threat right now from china. >> president trump could be accredited to the fact that to date conflict has largely been avoided because china has used primarily economic and diplomatic measures to expand its control of the south china sea. the question is, will joe biden continue to extend the sanctions put in place by president trump until china stops with their war games? >> right, again, i think president-elect biden has made it clear that he's not going to take anything off the table and i think that's a prudent thing to do.

he's got some steady hands in his incoming and administration including a dimension secretary, incoming secretary of state blinken that i would highlight the concern about the priorities within the administration. if the administer ration wants climate change to be front and center, china will try to exact a great price for that. and that might be a concern as far as some of the other things that we are trying to hold them accountable for including their human rights violations and their aggression, military, economic and other policies all over the world. >> dan hoffman, thank you. happy new year. >> happy new year. >> anita. >> florida confirming another case of a highly contagious coronavirus strain from the u.k. as the world continues to watch for those vaccinations, a company has developed a brand-new technology to help detect the virus. details on that coming up next. for so long.

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>> florida becoming the third u.s. state to announce a case of the highly contagious coronavirus strain first reported in the u.k. cases have also been confirmed in california and colorado. gillian turner is live in washington with more on this. hi, jillian. >> happy new year to you. as far as we know right now this new strain of the coronavirus appeared in florida late last night just in time for the new year and it comes as public health officials were already tracking this new variant of the virus. it did appear in colorado and california earlier this week after jumping across the atlantic from britain. the florida department of public health tweeted at 8:15 last night florida has evidence of the first identified case of the u.k. covid-19. in martin county. the individual is a male in his 20s with no history of travel. the department is working with the cdc on this investigation and we encourage all to continue

practicing covid-19 mitigation. yesterday dr. fauci told nbc news the u.s. is not considering altering vaccine dosing regimens in response to this new variant. it's called b117 and it's believed to be far more contagious than the original strain of covid-19. take a listen. >> right now are not doing that. but in discussions that we have had about what the options are certainly that has not been completely rejected. it's not going to happen right now. you have to be -- remember that. when you're doing things like administering vaccinations, you want to do it based on the science. >> colorado's governor told fox news yesterday before and news of this new florida strain had been released that thing so far were relatively under control in his home state. take a listen to jared polis. >> look, we have the second case which has not been definitively identified. the markers for the variance.

someone in the same chain of exposure. another guardsman. >> the florida health apartment says that as of now they anticipate little to no impact on the effectiveness of the covid-19 vaccine. in layman's terms, that means this is going to be, the vaccines out there already are going to be just as effective training this new strain as they are as the old strain. >> that's very good news. once people get the vaccine, that is. gillian turner, thank you so much. happy new year to you. they need out. >> israel is moving ahead with its vaccination campaign at full speed. more than 1 million people there have already been vaccinated. putting the nation in the lead in vaccination doses per 100 people. trey yingst is live in the jerusalem bureau with more. >> hi. >> anita, good afternoon. in less than two weeks, israel has vaccinated over a million people. that's more than 10% of the country's population. the jewish state is currently leading the world in total

number of people vaccinated per 100 residents. so far, only the american-made pfizer vaccine is being administered. a shipment of moderna doses scheduled to arrive in days. israel does claim to be the first country in the world to repackage vaccinations in specialized refrigerators. this allows for distribution across the country very quickly without losing any of the doses. the israeli health ministry is pushing back against reports that say the country will run out of vaccines. in an interview with fox news, the health minister said the globally recognized numbers coming out of israel can be trusted. >> there is no political motivation whatsoever. no one is playing with the numbers. it's impossible to play with the numbers because of the logistics. it's pretty complicated. religious, nonreligious, all over the country. they are all together as a team to save us from the coronavirus. >> as israelis line up to get their first doses of the

vaccine, the big question now is what about the palestinians, many of whom rely on international aid in order to get any sort of medical support. the palestinian authority and the west bank and hamas inside because i may be looking to israel for help as they start their own vaccine rollouts. >> it's incredible, the speed at which they're moving. you mentioned people are getting the pfizer vaccine. what about the other vaccine that's available here in the u.s., the moderna vaccine. any word on whether people there will have availability for that? >> there's a lot of rumors going around right now in israel that the moderna vaccine will arrive in a few days. the big number put out in local reports was 1 million doses. it would allow the country to actually extend the rapid vaccination campaign that they started at the end of last year. we don't know if those reports are accurate. the health ministry has pushed back against him saying that they will let the public know when more vaccines arrive.

anita. >> all right, thank you so much for that update and happy new year to you. >> covid of course dominating much of 2020. now in addition to vaccines, companies are stepping up efforts to get people back to some kind of normal, whatever normal, the new normal is. one of those companies has developed an armband to help detect coronavirus. alicia acuna spoke with a doctor, the chief medical offer for -- officer. >> is a front-line worker for over 40 years in hospitals, i've never seen anything like it. this originally, as everyone knows, was thought to be of pulmonary problem. but it in fact is an inflammatory problem. tiger tech solutions a biotech company which develops monitoring equipment to monitor

the patient's vitals. we have discovered, when covid hit in march of last year, we had discovered that it was really an inflammatory process. not a pulmonary process. so what we did is we started to look at the covid patients and their specific biomarkers which are very, very specific to covid alone. we have managed to make a device which is noninvasive. it's rapid testing, four to 5 minutes and it's reasonable. this is a game changer because we have found that from day 0 to day 6 as you know, the pcr test is very inaccurate. this device is 95% to 100% accurate at day 0. >> 95%, that's amazing. 95% to 100%, you said. is it in use right now? is it being used right now is a diagnostic tool? >> we are not using it as a

diagnostic tool. we are still doing it in the hospital where you have an internal review board approval to do monitoring there. but we do have it in some schools, universities. there is a school in las vegas that wants to buy 100 units because it's kept them open. we just can't sell it because we are waiting for fda approval. >> any kind of help. this kind of help would be amazing. i do want to turn to another topic, given that you are so close in treating people and observing people with this condition and this disease. how concerned are you about the u.k. variant that is now in the united states? >> as most of the general public is aware, the virus does mutate. probably is often as once or twice a month, every 30 days. many variants are out there.

the thing that makes this variant a little bit different, it's a little more aggressive. but it's more contagious. but they don't -- and it's too early to really tell whether it's the mortality, whether it's worse. they don't think it's more deadly. they just think it's more contagious. it's one of the reasons why we need more testing and we need better testing. everyone is touting the vaccine at this point. that may be a solution but it's not the only solution. with happening is, people are not wearing masks. they are going out in public. they are not social distancing, they are not washing their han hands. that's why we created this device. it gets the asymptomatics. we feel there are large portions of the population that's a symptomatic. this device will tell you. >> doctor, thank you so much for your time today. appreciate it.

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>> fox news alert. live look at the senate floor where senators have just overridden president trump's veto of the national defense authorization act. the final vote tally 81-13. it's the first time congress has ever overridden one of president trump's vetoes. we'll keep an eye on this to see if the president responds. julie. >> wisconsin police have arrested a hospital pharmacist accused of deliberately ruining hundreds of doses of mod moderns

coronavirus vaccine. he admitted to taking the vials out of a refrigerator and then letting them sit out over two nights. speeds vaccine is viable for 12 hours. once it's out of the refrigerator, it's done. no word on a motive. the hospital did announce that it fired the worker. police declaring a riot in portland, oregon, last night right on new year's eve. look alook at that. protesters smashing windows, vandalizing buildings, shooting fireworks and setting fires. police were able to break up the riot around 2:00 in the morning making several arrests and of course this caps a year of unrest in the city since the death of george floyd at the hands of police. think of the district attorney in los angeles is defending himself after his own prosecutor sued him, saying that new lenient sentencing policies violate state laws. lucas tomlinson here with more. >> family members impacted by

violence held a candlelight vigil to protest the policies, sending a message to their new district attorney. >> it's new year's eve. we are going to fight. >> mr. gascon, please wake up. please answer our emails that we sent to you. we are the victims. we serve life sentences for the rest of our lives. figure because of the new policies, we won't have the minimum comfort of knowing that we won't run into these people in a couple of years. >> the new order prosecutor's order not to prescribed legally prescribed mandatory sentences allowing at least 20,000 inmates eligible for resentencing. one directive requires prosecutors to drop some charges against repeat felons, violating the states three strikes law. there was a lawsuit over what

they call injustice. >> our bosses telling us, here are my directives, here's what i want you to do. what he wants to do is in violation of state law and is in violation of the state constitution. >> gascon defended the decision saying "people must be held accountable. we often put people imprisoned in extra years, increasing recidivism, crating more victims. this is unsafe, unjust and wastes taxpayer dollars." two district attorney's spoke out against the policies. the move has some support from black lives matter, the "l.a. times" and governor newsom. a hearing for the lawsuit will be held in early february. >> thank you very much. happy new year. anita. >> the annual new year's parade looks just a little bit different this year if you tuned in. up next, we are joined by the parades ceo who tells us what went into this year's planning.

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♪ >> talk about a turnabout. the chinese city once considered the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak ringing in the new year with large crowds and little social distancing. people taking to the streets of wuhan to celebrate 2021. police told some people without masks they had to wear one. this comes after a year after the world health organization reported it first received an alert about a cluster of pneumonia cases in this city. those cases would later become the world's first novel coronavirus outbreak. health experts are expected to

meet in china this month to investigate the origin of the virus. >> college football front and center today. playoff games are coming up, including the rose bowl. because of covid, the annual rose parade looked a little different today. joining me now, the ceo of the tournament of roses parade and my good friend, david. nice to see you. happy new year. >> hello, good morning. happy new year to you as well. >> good morning. i know that you're a busy man today. a bittersweet day because i know you looked so forward to this event. it did unfold on people television sets across the nation but in a different fashion. tell us how it's different this year because of covid. >> because of covid in july, we had to make the tough decision to cancel this year's rose parade. mass gatherings are just not allowed under the current ordinances. we decided to reinvent ourselves, pivot, as people have done across the country.

we envisioned a new celebration. tens of millions of people invited us into their homes every new year's day morning to celebrate the new year, and we did this this year with the rose parade's new year's celebration resented by honda. a television special there really was in the spirit of past parades. >> i was doing a little bit of reading about the rose parade. i'm only -- i understand it's only been canceled three times in the history of it. going all the way back to 1891. canceled because of world wars. a different kind of war going on in our nation today so what about the thousands of volunteers and people who work on this event every year. did they get a chance to still participate and have some fun with it? >> we tried to include our volunteers as much as possible in our celebration television special. you will see highlights of our

935 volunteers that usually worked throughout the year in producing the rose parade. obviously we are starting work on next years. already. the work never ends but it just looks a little different this year. >> we have still gotten to see the floats. there were musical performances. there was some virtual performances by marching bands and the floats. at least people who tuned in to feel that tradition, they still felt a little bit of that right? >> absolutely. we were able to showcase some behind-the-scenes work that goes into producing the parade, how floats are built, how the flowers and other cereals are placed on floats. typically in a rose. broadcast you don't get to see a lot of that and then we also had an opportunity to reach out to our global market and invite people to send their wishes of the new year and so that was a really poignant moment when you saw people's hopes for the new year. >> may be some traditions that

you can incorporate into next year. you never know. without fans on the ground and so many people passin turning oo pasadena. i would imagine businesses are struggling for the loss of business. i think we have a clip of sound from -- we have a clip of sound. let's play it. >> millions of dollars, rose bowl stadium alone. just that one day it's close to $5 million. >> that was the city spokesperson for pasadena. that's a tremendous loss of income for the business owners in the city of pasadena. how do you make it up? can you make it up? >> when businesses are hurting, especially small businesses, the rose parade and the rose bowl game contribute more than $200 million in economic impact. it's not just pasadena but the seven california region. so now more than ever it would have been nice for us to be able to contribute financially into our communities.

we have tried to do, again, working throughout the year, we have partnered with the l.a. regional food bank and donated $100,000 for food scarcity here in the pasadena area. our volunteers delivered more than 50,000 meals to families for summer. with students not being in school, and not being able to access the programs. we are trying to do what we can to help people here in pasadena, the san gabriel valley region. during this very dark time of the pandemic. >> that's wonderful. thank you so much and of course the rose bowl game does continue today in texas. people can look forward to that. the ceo of the tournament of roses parade, thank you so much and happy new year. >> thank you. happy new year to year. >> coming up the political world ramping up as we kick off 2021. the senate voting to override moments ago one of president trump's vetoes for the

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>> hello. i'm julie banderas. welcome to a brand new hour of america's news headquarters. great to have you in this hour. >> thanks, julie. i'm anita vogel. topping the news at this hour, a new and more contagious coronavirus strain discovered in another state. dr. fauci warns it is going to spread. >> georgia senator david purdue is off the campaign trail and in quarantine just days before the critical run-off races. control of the senate is on the line. >> a much bigger stimulus check for most americans is hanging in the balance. let's begin now with a live look

at the senate floor. the senate has just voted to override president trump's veto of the national defense authorization act. it's the first time congress has ever overriden a veto from president trump. so let's begin with rich edson reporting live from the white house with more on this. rich? >> good afternoon, anita. president trump is back here at the white house. he returned early from his holiday trip to florida. he spent much time badgering republicans to pass a number of priorities in congress. instead, he gets this. his first veto override of his administration. that's the national defense authorization act. 81-13 in the senate. they needed 2/3s. more than enough there. the president had vetoes that $740 billion national defense authorization act. it enables spending on overseas military operations, pay raises and more. the president vetoed the bill because it removes confederate officers names from u.s.

military installations and limits his ability to withdraw certain troops in overseas. the president wants congress to change and unrelated law that gives tech companies liability protection. in this override, congress did none of that. the president is demanding that congress increase the $600 payments to $2,000. the republicans and congressional leadership say the nearly $500 billion cost is too expensive. >> every fine point of the proposal signed in to law to provide targeted fiscally responsible assistance to the people of this country that need it the most. this proposal is a shotgun approach. >> socialism for the rich is not in the midst of this terrible pandemic putting a $2,000 check in to the hands of working

families. >> now, without consensus, these $2,000 payments appear to be running out of time in this congress. this congress ends sunday. they would have to repass the bill in the house and the senate. something that could happen but doesn't appear likely to happen this weekend. anita, back to you. >> rich, we're still waiting to hear word from the white house on this. i know you'll keep us updated on that. thanks, rich. georgia senator david purdue slamming his opponent, jon ossoff days ahead of the state senate run-off elections. watch. >> i want to go back to what i heard my opponent just say. he's never offered a solution for this covid crisis. the democrats don't want to talk about the issues. they're about hiding the agenda and distracting voters. >> the republican senator

quarantining after coming in close contact for someone with coronavirus. he told me he did have a mask on. he was protected but he's following the rules. this means he's unable to hit the campaign trail in the final days before those run-offs that will set the nation's agenda. peter doocy is live in conyers, georgia just outside atlanta with more following this one for us, peter. it's been very exciting, i might add. >> we tried to get raphael warnock's attention today as he left the stage and headed for his campaign bus at his first event in days. the campaign warned us they were running behind schedule and it was not likely we would get a question in. they were right. we didn't. it was also raining heavily enough in georgia today to wash out a scheduled jon ossoff event. we did hear from him late last

night. >> i know it haas been a very difficult year. i know that so many are hurting. got bills piling up. hard to afford child care, hard to afford the rent, the house payment. hard to take care of the family. through no fault of anybody's own because of the times that we're living in. >> kelly loeffler is ossoff's direct opponent. and purdue is head-to-head with warnock. ossoff accused loeffler for campaigning with a klansman. something that she's denying. >> a specific allegation that you're campaigning with a klansman. that is the former member of the klan that was here for a photo open? >> yes. we kicked him out immediately. that is what we had to do. i had no idea who he was. he's gone. i denounced that.

i do not believe in that and has no place around our campaign. >> as far as you know, that was a one-time event? >> absolutely. we won't stand for that. >> so as candidates are spanning outs, trying to get out the vote, the georgia secretary of state's office has announced that more than three million people voted early. that is a record here in georgia now that the early voting period is over. julie? >> peter doocy, great job out there. happy new year to you. let's bring in our political panel now to talk more about this. al motter, a former hillary clinton for american national finance member and ted harvey, former state colorado senator. thanks for sharing your new year's day with us. we appreciate it. >> thank you. happy new year. >> happy new year. >> happy new year. it's quite a busy day, busy few days leading up to the run-off.

so many big names coming in for last-minute campaigning and appearances the next few days. david purdue off the trail right now as he's quarantining as someone near him was exposed to covid. this is a neck and neck race right now. more face time with voters is probably what he needs. >> certainly every vote counts in the last couple days. i believe with three million voters already voting, most people have already made up their minds. the last people that haven't, grabbing face time with each one of them is important. it's not something that will be good for the campaign. i think everybody understands the situation. >> right. he does have president trump, his son, don jr., the vice president coming in. so these are good surrogates for him, right? >> you can't get any better than that. having the president of the

united states rally his supporters in the last couple days is very important. >> yeah. al, more face time now for the two democrats on the trail. they've had big names and big celebrities campaigning as well. last check of the polling shows a neck and neck race here. so what do you think sways people in the 11th hour? >> well, as ted said, a lot of people have made up their mind already. i do think that this election is about the president. while his campaigning is certainly useful to some degree, he's also speaking both sides of his mouth. he's told these same voters their votes don't matter. he has said the republican governor of georgia should resign because the november election was rigged and stolen. so to some degree, you have to expect there's a dampening turnout on the republican side. if i'm loeffler around purchase die, i have to scratch my head.

he keeps throwing wrenches into their operation. >> yes, but he did just sign the covid relief bill in the 11th hour and now pushing the $2,000 stimulus checks. that's playing well with people in georgia, right? >> a great point. because he's pushing it and the democrats are for it, including jon ossoff and reverend warnock. who is not for it? mitch mcconnell. that gives ossoff and warnock a great message saying if you like us, we'll have a democratic majority in the senate and you're going to get those checks. if you don't, mitch mcconnell is in charge and the checks are not coming your way. >> i believe the two republican candidates there are also for those $2,000 stimulus checks. so there's quite a back and forth there on the campaign trail. >> true. >> ted, it's hard to overstate the stakes in this election. it means continuation of trump policies or a total 360 change

with immigration, possible a green new deal, medicare for all. the sky is the limit if the democrats take the senate. is it hard to believe that this race is so close, once a red stalwart state? >> it had been a red stalwart state the last 20 years but a lot of migration in there from high tech industries and things like that. so you're seeing -- big cities like atlanta going blue and you're seeing that across the country. but this is going to be an important race. going through the list. the green new deal. joe biden ran with that. it was on his campaign website. he's pushing that. all of his supporters are pushing that. he's said that he's going to relax the immigration policies that president trump was so successful pushing through. i believe the democrats will stack the court with more judges on the supreme court to be able to push through their radical

agenda. right now the conservatives control it. they can't get agenda through that way. there's a great deal at stake. the voters need to understand that they're the last line to protecting all of values our country represents. if they want to protect the president's agenda, his legacy, they need to get out and vote. >> all right. alan, want to let you respond to that. what are the things at the top of the agenda for the democrats if these two candidates win and the democrats do take control of the senate? >> none of the things that ted just mentioned. we want to make sure that we get ample relief out to folks that have been devastated by this pandemic. i might add, they have been devastated by the government. the government's inefficient response to the vaccine and the inability to get money in the pockets of every day americans. number 2, it's likely a infrastructure package, which is

a very bipartisan concept that mitch mcconnell has said that he would be happy to work with president-elect joe biden on. as for the green new deal and packing the court, those things aren't going to happen even if there's a 50/50 senate. you have moderate democrats from mountain states like montana, west virginia, arizona with kirsten cinema that will never vote for those policies. it's a scare tactic to say that a 50/50 senate means socialism. the truth of the matter is it doesn't. >> we'll see. the suspend is building in georgia. gentlemen, thanks so much for joining us today and happy new year to you. >> you too. >> you as well. >> just days after confirming the new covid strain in colorado, it's been found in at least two other states. dr. fauci says life may not be normal until this fall. what we're learning about that highly contagious strain. we'll tell you coming up. and the britts approving the

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>> health officials in florida say it's the third state to have a patient infected with a new and more contagious coronavirus strain. our jilligillian turner is repo live from washington with more. hi, gillian. >> the new contagious virus variant was detected last night in the state of florida. this comes as health officials are closely tracking the virus, the spread in colorado and california this week after crossing the pond from britain. florida public health officials tweeted at 8:15 saying florida has evidence of the first identified case of the u.k. covid-19 variant in martin county. the individual is a male in his 20s with no history of travel. the department is working with the cdc on this investigation. we encourage all to continue practicing covid-19 mitigation. now yesterday dr. fauci told nbc news that the u.s. isn't

considering any vaccine regiments in response to this new variant. it's called b 117 and believed to be more contagious than the original covid-19. take a listen. >> right now we're not doing that. but in discussions that we've had about what the options have been, it's not completely rejected. it won't happen right now. you have to remember that when you're doing things like administering vaccinations, you want to do it based on the science. >> colorado's governor told fox news yesterday before news of this strain in florida had been released, things so far were relatively under control in his home state. take a listen to jared polis. >> we have the second case, which has not been definitively identified. you have two that were potential to each other. >> florida public health

officials are also saying as of now that they believe there's little to no impact on the efficacy of the existing vaccines. that means this new strain will be treated just as well by the existing vaccines as the original virus vaccine. they're saying all floridians should get the vaccine as soon as possible. >> little piece of good news on that. gillian turner in washington, thanks so much. >> thanks. bring on the good news. let's bring in dr. marty mccary. marty, thanks very much for talking to us. we've been talking about florida becoming the third u.s. state to identify the coronavirus variant. i want you to explain to us about this new strain and how it's said to be far more contagious than the original covid-19. >> it's basically more sticky. it's been a mathematical certainty. we don't sequence or identify the mutations as they do in

europe. there they sequence about 15%. here we do less than 1%. we know its circulated here. the concern is while we say it's not more lethal, more people will get it so that way it is. i caution saying that this will not have a higher fatality rate. >> will the vaccinations protect people from this new strain as well? >> we don't know. the consensus among all the experts is yes. the mutation is not that different. so we think yes. it does suggest that given the current rate of mutation, people may need to come back every three to five years and get a revised version of the vaccine. >> i want to talk about vaccine distribution. you blasted the fda saying the turtle fda is what you call it, is a broke federal bureaucracy of 17,000 people are just too slows for not approving the

astra zeneca vaccine. why the lag on astra zeneca? >> among the career staff at the fda, safety is the eternal excuse of a stymied bureaucracy. the u.k. has been approving the vaccines faster. they use a rolling review. they look at the trial data as it a crews and comes in. the usfda has chosen not to do that. the u.k. is vaccinating 5% of their population. we're just under 1%. they're giving to it high risk individuals. we just had the cdc vote november 20th. they're way too slows. the cdc career staff is the same. we're giving to it hospital administrators inappropriately, spouses of doctors, board members, cosmetic surgeons. it should go to the highest risk individuals after it goes to

nursing home and front line health workers, not all healthcare workers. i've taken a pledge not to take the vaccine until every high risk american has had an opportunity to have it first. >> are you suggesting people are cutting in line? >> there's a lot of cutting in line. after all the conversation about black lives matters, here we are with people inserting themselves, people with access, people with wealth, people with connections to the local facilities. they're basically saying their life matters more. it's entirely inappropriate. >> why is the u.s. lagging on distribution? the vaccine has been here for a while. a small percentage of people have received it. >> there's a couple of reasons. one is the late guidance from the fda left states and hospitals scrambling on what should get it. also, there was a decision by the government to hold back 50% of the vaccines supplied so people could be sure to get a second dose who got the first dose.

that was a mistake in my opinion. there's reasonable partial immunity after the first does at high as 62% immunity after two weeks. so the strategy should have been give it out to as many people as possible. they kept another 5% back, so called a safety supply. so they've only given out 45% of the vaccine's supply. >> today marks the first day that u.s. hospitals are required to post real prices. i think this is really interesting to patients watching at home. this is all thanks to president trump's executive order. you worked with the white house on this one, this is historic. can you tell us about it? >> sure. americans are frustrated with flying blind into a hospital and getting gouged with predatory billing and price gouging. people want real prices like they go to a restaurant and hospitals can do it.

i'm privileged to work with the white house on this. it was upheld by two legal challenges by the hospital association. today it took effect and now hospitals are disclosing their prices for 300 common shopable elective services. it's a milestone that will revolutionize our market. the primary problem is we have noncompetitive markets. you can set rules and guidance around those markets but what you need to do is transform them to having some competition to address price gauging. it's a good day for americans. >> i have to move on. i'm going to ask you, at what point do you think in 2021 will all of us be vaccinated and when do the children get vaccinated so we don't have to worry about kids spreading it? >> i think april will be the month of mass vaccination. we'll see it because of natural immunity. >> you're talking about herd? >> natural immunity from previous infections. that is effective for at least a year. >> what about kids?

>> it's unclear if kids are affected with transmission. the studies have not started on kids. moderna just started their trial. >> that probably won't be till next year. dr. marty makary, great to have you on and kudos for you to getting the ball rolling. thanks very much. happy new year. >> you too. >> anita? >> up next, the latest on the violent new years eve protests in portland. and dozens of bike riders terrorize a family at a busy intersection in broad daylight marking the end of a violent year in big u.s. cities. a couple of states soothe to loosen laws on marijuana starting today. are you ok? it's just a cold. if you have high blood pressure, a cold is not just a cold. most cold medicines may raise blood pressure. choose coricidin hbp. the brand with a heart. for powerful cold relief without raising your blood pressure.

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dakota all approved measures to legalize recreational marijuana. cannabis activists say they hope this will bring much-needed money to state economies hit hard by covid. meanwhile, 24 states, minimum wage is getting a boost. the federal wage is $7.25. one of the biggest stories of 2020, the death of george floyd at the hands of police prompting major police reform. six states are banning police choke holds. police say violent protests rocked downtown portland before midnight on new year's eve. rioters set off commercial great fireworks and molotov cocktails. claudia cowan has more.

a scary night in portland? >> that's right. a new year is picking up where 2020 left off. for the second night in a row, protesters took to the downtown streets and caused a lot of trouble. take a look at the pictures. they vandalized store fronts and shot off fireworks. some set fires. one garbage can melted down to the pavement there. police in riot gear faced off against a crowd that grow to almost 100 people. some with bull horns and signs that said "eat the rich." when the crowd turned violent, everybody was ordered to leave the area or possible use of force. few heeded the warning. early this morning police tweeted "a gathering in downtown portland has devolved into a riot. participants threw fire bombs after officers and launched commercial grade fireworks." the government buildings have been flash points for protests that became widespread in portland following the death of

george floyd in may. protesters hurled paint balloons and frozen water bottles that could have a substance to burn skin. police responded with smoke bombs and made three arrests. they got help from federal officers with the department of homeland security whose deployment during past riots has caused a lot of controversy. a rough start for many business owners in downtown portland that are spending the day cleaning up after another day of violence, a knee that? >> anita: a tough year for portland. thanks. >> julie: covid-19 and violent arrests and protests causing a surge in crimes in major american cities nationwide. here in new york city, according to the nypd shootings are up nearly 100%. murders are up more than 40%. i want to bring in former

justice department prosecutor jim trusty. talking about these grim numbers. what do you point to as the cause of the violent crimes sky rocketing nationwide? >> if it was simple to say there was one factor we would have figured out it. there's problems going on with the political leadership in these cities. portland, new york, chicago, st. louis. some of the numbers are astronomical. not just new york. chicago had nearly 800 murders. up 55% from the year before. louisville up 96 or 99%. it's all over the place. i think you've got a reverse broken windows problem here. you know, the broken windows approach is if somebody breaks a window, fix it quickly. charge somebody. doesn't mean lock everybody up. address these quality of life crimes quickly so they don't escalate.

what we're seeing is escalation. there's curfews unenforced and vandalism and now it's gravitated to molotov cocktails and acid-filled paint balloons. point are getting hurt, businesses are destroyed and government institutions are being attacked. the political leadership has sided with rioters and lawlessness over their own police departments. >> julie: if you take a look at the rise in murder alongside anti-police demonstrations, nine cities with some of america's largest murder rate increases in this country actually hosted black lives matter and defund the police protests in 2020, which it's further evidence that anti-police protests and rioting lead to, of course, less pro active policing and therefore the absence of police presence leads to a spike in violent crime. you don't need to be a mathematician to figure this out. when will our leaders figure this out and back the cops so that they can protect us without getting killed?

>> right. backing the cops means support rule of law. the police are not always right. >> julie: of course not. those that are not doing their job should be stripped of their badge. i'm talking about the thousands of cops under fire and under attack due to the failure of local leadership. >> catch this conversation, you know, all over the place where people say boy, i wouldn't want my son or my daughter to become a cop. that's where we are as a country. people are reluctant to go to law enforcement because the guns are turned on them and the political lack of support is stunning and feels universal. there's a lot of high profile cities where the politicians philosophically or politically decide i'm going against the police. that's my path to popularity and it's a miscarriage of justice. >> julie: i'm a huge supporter of the nypd. i know people that have taken

early retirement because they figure, i'd rather retire with my life. in new york city this week a gang of teenage bikers is a blatant reminder of the lack of deterrent there is. they attempted to try to bash in the windows of this bmw here. a man was in there with his 70-year-old mom. police have made two arrests. still seeking suspects. the most glaring problem right here. these thugs did this midday, broad daylight. no concern of police bust them due to cops having no backing by our mayor. without a deterrent, you'll see a spike in crime. >> yeah, look, the mayor of new york is on the highest plateau here in terms of maybe with the district attorney for philadelphia for being essentially against his own police department. the bottom line is, the bad guys out there hear it loud and clear. they realize these police are not going to be sucked into a message arrest of a bunch of

guys attacking a car right now. they're going to be the ones that are put on trial in the court of public opinion. look, what you'll see is a brain drain. you'll see experienced officers with the option to move on, saying why would i stick around and subject myself to this lack of support and this literal danger that they face under these circumstances. >> julie: i literally watched a hit-and-run in times square. the police officers are so overwhelmed that they can't even address a hit and run. somebody hit a guy and just took off. the guy who got hit got out of his car and ended up chasing the driver with his cell phone to capture a picture. that's what we're basically leading it to for civilians to protect themselves. how is this going to affect legal reform moving for toward in the year 2021? >> hard to know. still obviously a lot of political figures that want to the left as hard as they can at the expense of public safety.

bail reform is an example of that people say bail, this institutional bias about poor people is quite the contrary. it's to protect our jails from being filled up. judge can consider whether or not a person has an ability to pay. $5 million for jeffery epstein would be $500 for a guy without that wherewithal. there's a lot to be looked at. bail elimination is one. >> that's a start. jim, thanks very much. happy new year to you. >> you too. >> julie: anita? >> anita: we're 19 days away from president-elect biden's inauguration. president trump still not backing down. the president will still be in the spotlight in the new year. >> we're going to protect

president trump's legacy. it ain't done yet. keep fighting, mr. president.

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>> julie: the presidential inauguration less than three weeks away. world leaders are preparing for how a biden presidency might shake up the global stage. hillary vaughn is live from delaware with more. hi, hillary. >> hi, julie. normal in the beginning of a new administration, there would be a deluge of world leaders on the white house ready to hold summits and meet with the new elected president face to face. i talked with people familiar with the transition that tell me that that is not going to be happening in the first early days of the biden administration. because the number 1 priority for them is getting the pandemic under control. so the critical face-to-face

summits that we normally see in the oval office are on hold until the pandemic is under control. when it comes to president-elect biden's position on foreign policy, some things will stay the same and certainly not changing right away from what the policies were under president trump. biden in a new year's eve address last night said he is ready to get to work. >> i'm more optimistic about america's chances than i have ever been. i've been around this for a while. we're in a situation where we once again have to step up and lead the world and lead the nation. >> biden is in a hurry to undo a lot of the president's domestic policy, he's not in a rush to undue his foreign policy. biden said he would hold china a accountable and not take away the president's 25% tariffs on chinese exports right away.

when it comes to russia, biden's relations are going from fendlier to more foe. he said a number 1 priority is holding them accountable for the recent massive solar wind hack that targeted u.s. agencies and private companies. underneath the surface, many of president trump's policies will continue under biden including tough sanctions against russia for their aggressive action in ukraine. while president trump embraced an in-person approach with kim jong-un, biden has said he would keep kim at arm's length and negotiate with regime. president trump has driven iran's economy to a near recession with his sanctions and promised retaliation against them for recent aggression. biden wants to rejoin the iran

stead. julie? >> thanks, hillary. anita? >> a new year and a new political landscape. america gets ready to swear in a new congress. as president-elect biden gets ready to move in to the white house. let's bring in washington examiner editor in chief, hugo gurden. thanks for sharing your day with us on this new year's day. >> thanks for having me. >> you bet. >> anita: it's hard to imagine a more different agenda than a biden administration than what we've had the last four years, right? from immigration to healthcare. but nearly half the country was plenty happy with president trump at the helm. what are the big changes on the domestic friend that we expect to see right away? >> you know, there's going to be a number of changes. but the area where the biden administration will be most radical is on climate change. the nominations that biden has

made for energy, for epa suggest this is the area where he's going to be the most key, the most willing to appease his left wing. one of the things we'll watch the next four years is the battle that the left wing of the democratic party is going to be having trying to pull biden as far as they can to the left. the one area that he's signals he's going to go with them is in the area of energy, his war against fossil fuels and fracking. so there's other areas where the left has been very critical of biden's nomination. he's not been inaugurated and it could fall apart. so there's some areas that he will go with them. we're going to watch very closely in all of those areas. >> anita: yeah, no doubt.

interesting about climate change on the domestic front. everyone is watching is how the relationship with china will unfold. what about that friendship with kim jong-un? we heard in hillary vaughn's report that we don't expect to see any photo ops with president-elect biden and kim jong-un, probably not even without masks. a lot of people were predicting nuclear war there and president trump would be starting wars but it turned out that president trump turned out to be an anti war president. he was pulling troops out of regions that had democrats complaining. what about that? >> yeah, you know, i'm sure that joe biden will do various thing, which are designed almost entirely to look different from president trump. sure, he's not going to meet kim jong-un as you say, but he's -- one of the things he wants to do is tell the world that america is now different. going to be returning to the obama era go-alone, get along

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>> julie: what's in store for your wallet this year? brings bring in mitch rochelle to give us positive predictions. thanks for coming on. happy new year to you. despite the huge economic losses during the pandemic, stocks hit record highs leaving some promise for 2021.

the s&p 500 gained more than 16% in 2020. with that said, how is the u.s. economy going to rebound in the year ahead? >> the u.s. economy rebounded well despite the regard performance of a growth in the economy in the third quarter, we have 3% whole meaning huge it shank in the second quarter. the fourth quarter estimates is up another 10%. that will fill that hole. if you look at how strong the holiday shopping has been, it drives 70% of our economy is pretty there. people were shopping till they dropped for the holidays. i think we're going to see 2021 getting off to a good start economically speaking. >> julie: wall street's resurgence last been fueled by the largest federal government stimulus ever and the historical support from the federal reserve. there's optimism for the year ahead. how quickly will the economy

bounce back next year as coronavirus vaccines are widely distributed hopefully by april, i'm told. >> i think the vaccine is a magic potion for opening the economy. before i spoke about the consumer, which is the demand side of the economy. the side of the economy holding us back is the simply side. going to simple like dinner and a movie, going on vacation again. it will take the vaccine for that to happen. if it continues to roll out and the efficacy is there, there's more and more confidence but lawmakers to open things up and that will be the thing that catapults the economy going forward. >> mitch rochelle, thanks nor that optimism. happy new year to you. >> same to you, julie. >> julie: anita, happy new year to you as well. we were just talking about our greatest christmas gifts. i like yours. tell us the gift you got.

>> anita: yes, my husband got me special bottle of wine or several special bottles of wine. we both got slipper. >> julie: yeah, it's a staple every year. the wine is a must. keep that coming the next 365 days. you tonight have to wait for christmas to get me wine. >> anita: absolutely. wonderful to be with you, julie, today. a special shout out to my daughter at home. see you later. >> julie: happy new year to you. happy new year to your children and happy new year to everyone at home. thanks for watching. stay safe. looking forward to a positive, healthy and hopeful new year. we want to wish everyone a happy new year and now a special edition of "your world" with sandra smith. before you begin an aspirin regimen.

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