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for the delivery companies and retailers. be that means you could come out a winner. >> dana: happened to us here with a weight bench. it was too heavy and missing two pieces. they said don't bother sending it back. we donated it to a friend. that works. thanks for joining us. i'm dana perino. see you on "the five." hi, hemmer. >> bill: how are you, parino. seeing you more soon. seeing you at 5:00. >> dana: looking forward to it. >> bill: it's 3:00 east concern time. i'm bill hemmer. a lot on our radar this hour from the fall-out of big tech's reaction to push on impeachment of the president. the social network particler suing amazon. president trumpbanned from some sites. text execs blamed on concerns about violence. critics say it's a violation of free speech. and house democrats introducing
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an impeachment resolution. nearly a year to the day since the impeachment trial began. all of this setting history from the final days of the trump presidency. hogan gidley reacts. our monday panel mo and mark are standing by. we have a lot of breaking news. a lot to cover on the backlash on big tech. let's start there, gillian. >> the first big breaking news item, the loss, parler is now officially suing amazon. looks like the decision from amazon, apple and google to yank parler is having the effect of killing that social media app. take a listen. >> we're doing to try hour best to get back online as quickly as possible. we're having trouble because every vendor we talk to says they won't work with us because if apple doesn't approve and google doesn't approve, they
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won't. >> parler is known for popularity among president trump supporters, but the tech giants say the site is lawless. they say it allows users to promote and organize violence totally unchecked. republican lawmakers are calling foul claiming big tech is censoring conservatives because of their political viewpoint. listen. >> the effect of this is, there's no longer a free and open social media company or site for any american to get on any longer. >> members of president trump's cabinet including secretary state agree. he writes "silencing speech is dangerous. it's un-american. sadly this is not a new tactic of the left. they worked to silence opposing voices for years. since president trump personally got deplatformed, his supporters are pointing out that twitner particular still allows dictators around the world free reign. his own former head of cyber security says not so fast. listen to chris krebs.
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>> that's government impeding speech and the ability to hear. that's not what is happening here. these are companies that have their own ability to enforce their standard and their policies. >> now, president trump says no problem. he's considering standing up to his own social media platform of his own. the rub is that it would require a billion dollars in investment. they don't know of anybody that is willing to step up to the plate now the big five are turning against the president. >> bill: thanks, gillian. more on the impeachment front. house democrats introducing the resolution today. mike emanuel reporting on that in d.c. now. mike? >> bill, good afternoon. this new impeachment resolution says president trump gravely endangered the security of the united states and the institutions of government. he threatened the integrity of
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the democratic system, interfered with the peaceful transition of power and imperilled a co-equal branch of government. it's likely house lawmakers will vote open impeachment and democrats expect to have enough support. that's one week before joe biden's inauguration. i asked a lawmaker leading the charge on impeachment if doing it this late with president trump leaving office is a waste of time. >> i don't think it a waste of time. i think it's not a waste of time for everyone in this country and around the world to see us stand up and defend against an effort to overthrow a duly elected president and to engage in a coup, which is what these terrorists did on wednesday. >> a key senate republican suggests this could do major damage to the biden agenda. >> i mean, joe biden is not doing to get anything done if he continues down this path. neither will the democrats.
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all these vendettas in the past. makes no sense. this should be a time of unity, a time of hope for the future. that's not what the democrats are doing. >> a split among leading house democrats about when to send over the articles of impeachment to the senate. jim clyburn said waiting until after his first 100 days to get his cabinet in place first. steny hoyer favors sending it over right away. joe biden is asking about a split senate where they would do hatch day impeachment trial, half day nominations. he's waiting to hear back from the senate parliamentian. >> bill: hogan gidley is here with us. welcome back. good afternoon to you. >> thanks so much. >> bill: spoke to the president over the weekend. give us a sense of that conversation. >> look, i think the president is frustrated what's going on with these censorship tactics. he's upset with the democrats. i was running point in the white house for our press operations
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related to the first impeachment. what democrats are saying here is so wrong. what they're saying, bill, if you don't agree with him, he should be removed understood the 25th amendment. if you don't agree with him that he should be impeached, again, then you agree with the lawless thugs that attacked our capitol building. this line of argument, this conflation is so disingenuous on its face. absolutely a disgusting political tactic. it is dangerous for the future of our american democracy. for these arguments to be made, time and time again, we have been demagogued for decades, that we're somehow subhuman because we don't agree with democrats. they always had hollywood to help them out, the mainstream media and college campuses and now they have big tech willing to censor 75 million americans under the lie umbrella of unity,
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their definition is unity is you agree with us in totality or you have no place in this country. i'm telling you, that is so insidious. you can censor the american people but you can never silence the american people. >> bill: listen, thanks for coming on today. come back to the question. what did you talk about? did he mention the big tech censorship? did you ask him about impea impeachme impeachment? did you get to resignation? how did that go? >> i'm not going to get into the specifics of my conversation with the president of the united states. it clear he's angry. democrats came after him with a purely political impeachment not too long ago. now they're threatening to do it again. so we're clear of the timeline, the president and i talked about this. they attacked him before he even got in office. now they're promising to attack him after he's leaves office? it clearly an effort to silence not just this president, but to come after us as american
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citizens as well. they have done it for the last four years and it appears via their buddies in big tech that they will do it the next four as well. >> so you have nine days. is there any chance he leaves washington early? >> had no conversation about that. obviously the president will travel to texas to talk about one of his greatest achievements, building the wall on the southern border to protect our american families. this is what the president of the united states is supposed to do and he's done it and he's going to talk about it. >> 25th amendment. did that come up? >> it didn't really come up. such a joke right now to even entertain some people like nancy pelosi and their -- >> bill: not just pelosi. parentally he hasn't spoken with his vice president in days. >> that has nothing to do with nancy pelosi and her decisions to move forward with more political gains to further
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divide this country. this isn't unifying by any stretch of the imagination. we know what the democrats want you to do. you have to agree with them and everything on everything in every way or for some reason you don't deserve to be in this country. you don't deserve to be heard. they've talked about this for so long. now they have big tech in irthat back pocket, they're moving in that effort. that include trying to remove this president understood a 25th amendment and moving for a ridiculous sham hoax of an impeachment yet again. >> bill: tuesday, the message is what at the border? >> not getting ahead of what he's going to do but one of the greatest achievements he's had is making our country a safer place. he did that with a border wall. nobody said it could be done. he did it. the border towns. i've been to the border with him multiple times at this point. the border towns thank him so much because they said the
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lawlessness was out of control. they couldn't stop what was occurring in their neighborhoods with the drugs pouring across and the people pouring across. making massive economic problems -- >> bill: there's a policy -- that will be debated for some time. see how he headlines that tomorrow. after tuesday, what happens, hogan? >> i mean, again, the president has several days left in office. you know, what he's going to do as it relates to big tech remains to be seen. the fact is, looks as though right now the democrats are going to control the house, going to control the senate and obviously the presidency. the president talked about a peaceful transition. he's going to leave office and that's what he's going to do. >> with a social media crackdown, does he feel emasculated? >> i wouldn't say emasculated. the most masculine person to hold the white house is the president of the united states. what he does see is a systematic attack against not just him but
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against 75 million americans that disagree with the socialist vision that democrats have for this country. that is unfair. if twitter and facebook are private businesses and you can't do anything about it, then i think every pizza shop owner, every gym owner and every restaurant says if you allow facebook and twitter to act the way they're acting, we're going to open up as well. you can't smut us down anymore. the american people are sick and tired of the government overreach and you'll see the ramifications of that i'd imagine soon. >> how does he then communicate post office? >> that remains to be seen. you can censor us. you can't silence us. we'll see how the president ebb -- reacts. we'll see if he makes his own entity. we'll see if he communicates
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with his followers and the american people. >> bill: thanks, hogan. the fbi warning of plans for armed protests in all 50 state capitols ahead of the inauguration. we're getting new information about the response to the hill ride and when police were warned about the threat of violence days in advance. american banks and business business singles out republicans. ari fleischer joins us for that in a moment. plus, the house speaker, nancy pelosi, clapping back at aoc's comment about leadership. mo and mark have more in just a minute. ur payment and save you $3000 a year. that's me. the va streamline refi is a benefit you earned with your service. and at newday, there's no income verification,
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so we only pay for what we need! and what did you get, mike? i got a bike. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ >> bill: news is moving. the trump administration putting cuba back on the list of countries consider state sponsored of terrorism. hitting it with new sanctions. the state department accusing the castro regime of providing support for acts of international terrorism and granting safe harbor to terrorists. the obama administration had removed that designation from the country of cuba. >> why does aoc complain that you have not been grooming younger people for leaders? >> i don't know. you'll have to ask her. because we are. >> it was sharp. dismissing her. >> i'm not dismissing her. i respect her. i think she's very effective as are many other members in our
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caucus that the press doesn't pay attention to. they're there and they're building support for what is next. >> bill: how is this going to go? want to bring in marc thiessen and mo alivey. did not seem like she welcomed that question. that would be my impression as i was watching. what was yours? >> no, i had the same impression. very clear that nancy pelosi has shall we say a minimum of high regard for aoc. but the truth is, she wouldn't be speaker without her. she barely was able to get re-elected speaker. she had -- she won by a handful of votes and had to get people to vote present for her. so that means that aoc and the progressive wing of the house are really in the driver's seat when it comes to policy. they're will z in the driver's seat in the senate. chuck schumer is terrified that
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aoc will primary him and challenge him for a primary. he won't put a break on the progressive wing of the party. if anything, he will be trying to show his progressive championship he is in the senate. this means that the progressives are in charge. >> bill: mo, you've been watching this carefully. a lot of people have been observer this relationship. what is the status, do you think? >> i think it's a working relationship. look, reality is, aoc would like to pull them closer to the left. the speaker is a centrist or pragmatist. but they need to work together and continue to work together. one of the challenges here, people are trying to build this rift between the two when both are right. nancy pelosi has been elevating more people and giving a bigger
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voice to newer members on the hill and aoc is right that even more of them should be elevated. at the end of the day, they will continue to push each other a little bit. they're working well together. >> bill: my impression from the answer is that there were other members in her caucus that are doing a lot more. that was just a way i heard her comment. now we get to the whole idea about a stimulus talk and eight months of delays. this is how that went with lesley stahl. >> what about the covid relief package now that was held up for eight months? that was their obstruction. you held out for eight months. >> no, we held it up because there was no respect for our heros. >> there's a member of your caucus that said specifically we look like obstructionists and it was a mistake. >> i don't remember anybody saying that. a they may have. but it wasn't a mistake.
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>> bill: regardless, marc, the heros did not get their money for eight months. >> yeah, no, lesley stahl is right. she's not the only one. three weeks before election day, pelosi did an interview with wolf blitzer on cnn. they wanted to know why she turned down and off of $1.8 trillion in covid aid? he said people can't pay their rent. children can't feed their kid. why are you turning this down? she said you're an apologist for donald trump. wolf blitzer, an apologist for donald trump. the reality is, she held up the aid for months. she turned down 1.1 trillion in july that the republicans offered, which had almost everything that was in the bill that passed. turned down 1.6 trillion in december. 1.8 trillion in october. the reshe did it is because she knew it would boost the commit before the election and she didn't want to do anything to help trump win. >> bill: mo, i'm -- was she
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honest in the way she answered that question though? >> i think so. i think she held out because there were people that were left out of the original legislation and she was fighting to make sure that they would be included in it. republicans at the end, when the president tried to -- the president called for more stimulus funding and more direct payments. it was republicans in the senate that said no. so i think nancy pelosi is -- has been -- she's out there pushing for this. now she's got a democratic president add a democratic senate to get things going. >> bill: you said you think. so we'll leave it there. thanks, mo. >> thanks. >> bill: we're not inside of her head. thank you both. new york's governor says more people will baby allowed to get the covid vaccine.
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. >> bill: headlines right now. a source telling fox news, the fbi is warning of planned protests in all 50 state capitols at president-elect's inauguration january 20th. 10,000 national guard troops will be in dc next week. they'll focus on security, logistics and communications. the washington monument has had credible threats. for more on this and more, download the fox news app. you can use the q code and head
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to foxnews.com. the fbi visited some extremists before the hill ride and urged them not to visit washington january 6. that's according to a source with fox news. more video of the disturbing attack would lead to more arrests. aishah hasnie has more from new york. >> hi, bill. more than 90 people have been arrested so far. the fire department and the police department here in new york city start to investigate or look into allegations of perhaps even some of their own were part of this capitol siege. here's the mayor this morning. >> any part of the city government who participated in an attack on our democrat institutions who participating in an insurrection at the capitol will be terminated, period. >> also, new details today about who knew what and went. a source tells foxnews.com an
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fbi visited extremists prior to the rally urging them not to travel to d.c. the fbi even warned capitol police about the violent. the outgoing chief said he tried to request the d.c. national guard to be put on stand by. his calls were squashed by senate and house security officials. now mariel bowser is asking for added security. listen. >> the district of columbia is requesting that the department extend that national special security event, period, from monday january 11th to sunday january 24th. >> bill: apologies for the microphone dropping out there.
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aishah hasnie reporting in midtown, new york. mean time, parler is suing amazon. this is brand new news, andy. just happened about an hour ago. what do you make of it? they allege it as a monopoly. you can't stifle them. what do you think? do they have a case? >> i think, bill, that this is an unusually brazen amount of what looks like collusive activity between the big tech companies in connection with this one target, parler. when you martial it, it doesn't take a rocket scientists to put it together and saying they're trying to do a knockout punch on this business, which is a potential competitor of theirs in certain context, particularly twitter. so i think it's surprising. because you don't usually get this kind of really brazen evidence of these companies working together against this one company. >> bill: can you prove they're
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working together or is it just suggested, do you think? >> well, you always need an investigation like this, bill, to get a look at what the internal communications are and the e-mails and all that stuff. but to see something rat-tat-tat happen like this, what we usually tell juries, you don't check your common sense at the door. when things fit together the way they do, it's the rationale influence. >> you have companies like american express saying that they will suspend contributions to lawmakers that oppose the certification of biden last wednesday. i guess in a broad sense, andy, where does this end? >> i think, bill, it has to end in probably two things. one is it's going to provoke a lot of anger on people because it's clearly idealogical
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political content discrimination and punitive actions based on political attitudes. they're trying to do it under the guise saying this is dangerous, this is this and that. if you look, for example, on getter, there are a number of things that they allow to go forward and they don't crack down on and they don't censor, but when they seem to come out of the political right, they're quick to sensor. if they're going engage in content discrimination in a political basis, they can be an interactive computer service. they have to be like every other left wing media. they're allowed to be left wing media. they have to open themselves up to be sued like everybody else. >> bill: thanks, andy. breaks news on that. and the growing number of big business pulling the contributions in some kays only
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>> bill: the city has given it more than 200,000 doses of the vaccine. health officials say thousands of doses are being unused. bryan llenas has more. what you got, bryan? what did you find out? >> the brooklyn army terminal is one of the two sites that opened yesterday. the vaccinations will be given at these sites 24/7. eventually there will be five. one in every borough. the vaccinations are being administered as new york expands its vaccine distribution plan. it will include hundreds of pharmacies that will now give vaccines by the end of the week. they're also expanding the vaccine eligibility. now people starting today age 75
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and older, first responders, transit workers, grocery store workers and teachers can make appointments online to get their shots. 59% of new york's vaccine's supply is sitting in freezers. nationally that is 25% of the vaccines that have been distributed. they're unused. these efforts slowed down by bureaucracy. hospitals are being vaccinating too slowly. for days, bill de blasio and andrew cuomo are arguing over who should be vaccinated. some clinics have had to throw away expired vaccine doses because they argue governor cuomo's strict state guidelines putting them to healthcare workers pull them in a tough spot. the american healthcare association says 40 to 60% of staff at nursing home and
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assists listing facilities are deciding not to get the shot. >> i think what we're noticing is theres a lot of misinformation on social media. when that starts to spread in a facility, we can see the vaccination rates drown. we're hearing information that makes them concerned. >> some of that misinformation online, bill, is that these vaccinations cause women to be infer tile. that is completely untrial. according to the data and to the vaccine manufacturers, once this distribution ramps up, the next big problem will be supply. at this rate, it will take 14 weeks for new york's essential workers to get their shots, which means the general public under the age of 64 by summer. bill? >> a ways to go then. thanks, bryan llenas here in new york. a moment ago, here's mike pompeo. >> censorship and political correctness points in one direction. authoritarianism.
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similar to whatter with seeing on twitter and facebook and apple and tomorrow campuses these days. >> bill: mike pompeo speaking out about censorship as big tech moves to ban president trump but to cut off the way his supporters communication. amazon has forced parler off line. today's post cover from the "new york post," capitol siege spurs big tech's one sided ban of free speech left out. ari fleischer, nice to see you. i like the fire behind you. looks warm and looks like january. pompeo said that i read some voa, voice of america employees, didn't want me to speak today. they didn't want the voice of american diplomacy to speak. what do you think of this?
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>> yeah, it's cold out there, isn't it, bill? this is a slippery slope that leads all of us into a worse place. censorship never works. censorship doesn't get rid of the ideas. creates a dangerous underground. that's what we're seeing. it won't end well. >> bill: here's rush limbaugh. >> we are being censored out of existence. we're being silenced out of existence. we're being pummeled, we're being threatened, we're being intimidated out of existence. >> i asked andy mccarthy where it ends. do you have an idea on that yet? >> this ends in a terrible place. this ends in even more anger and
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recrimination. if you have one side that this is being done to, if you realize the only way you can communicate is to lash out, you will lash out. if you realize the way you communicate is to speak your mind, be heard, maybe your ideas are so bad that they filter into the either and nobody pays attention, that is so much better. america's always been a noisy country. when we start to squelch debate, when the private sector wants to squelch debate, they're not making anything better. it's getting worse. there's days that i think wouldn't we all -- all of us be better off if twitter didn't exist? not for the left or right but for nobody. this is how bad things have become when one side demands to squelch the other side. they use their opportunities and free speech to do it. what do you think the other side is going to feel? >> bill: two more points here. the events of last wednesday not withstanding, the ultimate
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cancel culture would you not agree is when you can cancel a sitting u.s. president, ari. >> well, look, the fact that twitter suspended the president's account has been a pocket boiling for a long time. the president has put himself in this position. but still twitter errair -- err. this is what kamala harris called for when she ran for the presidency, isn't it? she urges twitter to ban the president. now the biden harris administration is coming in, twitter acts in accordance with their wishes. this doesn't look good and it ends worse. >> bill: here is on screen the big tech and media owners and employees, pack donations to the biden campaign versus the trump campaign. that is -- that is a rather decided column on the left-hand
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side. i don't know if you can see your monitor or not between google and microsoft, amazon, apple, facebook. that's 4 million to 100,000. that is one line, ari. that is decided. >> yeah, i don't -- i don't need to see it to get it. it's their money. they have the right to do with it what they see fit. what is happening to america, the growing college campusization of our country. what started 20 years with campuses really ruling out free speech. conservative don't get commencement addresses. they get hounded off of campuses. this has spread throughout the working world to 20-year-olds and 40-year-olds. silicon valley is infected with it. it's the only way of thinking. don't beat the other guy. destroy the other guy's ability to communicate. i'm telling you, bill, they will
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never beat the other guy. they will radicalize the other guy. >> bill: you can't give money to a campaign if you're a company. but your point is well-taken. thanks, ari. look forward to speaking with you, soon. >> bill: president-elect biden getting his second dose of the covid-19 vaccine. he says he plans to release all available joseph. dr. ajaz is here. "vogue" magazine getting backlash of how they portrayed vice president-elect kamala harris next. if your dry eye symptoms keep coming back,
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university school of health. how are you doing and good afternoon to you. >> bill, thanks for having me on. >> bill: you bet. last friday we had about seven million vaccinated. you had 22 million vaccinations distributed what is the issue in can we figure it out? >> this is a problem. now we've got about 25 million doses out there and nine million in people's arms. we're moving too slows. there was not much in the way of planning for how the vaccines would get out. now states are struggling with resources, with very complex rules about who can get what when. we have to make this simpler and getting vaccines into people's arms. >> bill: can you give us an idea how we can do this? do a, b and c and we'll get it done? >> bill: the federal government has to do a better job forecasting the doses.
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states can't plan. states need help open stuff. i talked to a health secretary. if the federal government could send me a bunch of vaccinators, i would set up the site where we could get people to vaccinate. they need help on personnel, they need help on logistics. states can't do this by themselves. they need a federal partner. >> bill: meantime, the vice president says he will release all the doses when he takes office. is that a good idea, doctor? >> yeah, i think it is. here's the reason why, bill. we've got 25 million doses to states. another 25 million in freezers out in out there yet. we have 50 million doses that they need to get out. what president-elect biden is saying is people need two doses. let's get the first one out there and he's betting on the manufacturing to keep up and make sure that there's enough doses by the time it comes around to getting your second shot. i think that is the right call.
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we want the vaccines out. >> bill: if there's a problem at the state level to begin with, aren't you gumming up the works? >> you can't just do this. you have to simplify the process. no reason that we can't have mass vaccination sites set up. no reason why we can't simplify the rules. you have to fix both ends of this problem. >> bill: can we solve that? >> i think we can. but we're a pretty creative country. we have a lot of resources, smart people. we know how to do logistics and simply chain. i see nothing about our nation that makes me feel like we can't do it. >> bill: seems like we put in a great 11 months in the final two weeks and just went -- >> yeah, this is so frustrating. i have to tell you, i got this wrong. i thought operation warp speed was about getting vaccines into people's arms. what i've come to learn, operation warp speed was getting it to the state house and saying
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our job is done. we didn't plan out the last mile. you know, we're at the ten yard line, five yard line. we can get this ball across the finish line. we have not planned for it. >> bill: thanks, doctor, brown university. thank you. san diego zoo reporting two gorillas have tested positive for covid. they have congestion and coughing but doing well and workers continue to monitor them. they believe a staff member that department have symptoms spread the virus to the animals. whoa! "vogue" magazine facing complaints about a cover photo of vice president-elect kamala harris. we'll tell you about that and what vogue is telling fox 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
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during mass and distribute holy communion. that is from the vatican. vice president-elect kamala harris appearing on the cover of "vogue" magazine's february issue. the team sid they were blindsided by the informal image. she you that in a moment. jacqui heinrich picks up the coverage. what are they saying? >> good afternoon. a source told the a.p. that they never thought that this laid back image would be the debut cover image of the first female vice president on vogue's magazine. harris is standing on a silky pink sheet representing her sorority chuck taylors. the other photo debuts online is what the vp-elect thought vogue would print but she thought it was switched at the photos leaked online. vogue said they wanted to capture harris as she was most comfortable. she dressed in style herself for
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both looks. the team loved the image and felt the less formal image caught her time. the role she has to play leading the country forward, we're celebrating both images digitally. typically bound decisions are the sole decision of the media company. twitter went off. one user wrote kamala harris is about as light skinned as she comes. but they stepped up her lighting. another said what a mess-up. she must not have black friends and colleagues. harris' team did not comment on this. it is her second cover image for the incoming v.p. now, the outgoing president trump made no secret his fury
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that the outgoing first lady never had a fashion cover image, however the former first lady michelle obama had at least three vogue covers. the current vice president mike pence was also never on the cover of vogue, bill. >> bill: there's that. thank you, jacqui. nice to see you. jacqui heinrich. a few breaking stories this past hour. parler will sue amazon alleging collusion and shutting it down and creating a monopoly with twitter. andy mccarthy talked to us on that. in addition, the company is piling up again. we mentioned marriott, blue cross, amex and now visa this hour. all of those companies will suspend donations to u.s. lawmakers that voted against the joe biden certification. bear in mind that many of the lawmakers were making a case ant doing an audit on the american election system. that was true for many in the house. it was true in the senate.
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we'll see whether or not those stories have legs to stand on. meantime, an interesting monday. hope your weekend was well with family and close friends. meantime, see you tomorrow. have some changes on the horizon. we'll fill you on that in time. here's martha for neil. >> thank you, bill. the tweet storm is on twitter. facebook and other big tech company facing growing backlash for silencing conservative views in the wake hoff the capitol siege. all of this as amazon pulls parler off and now parler is suing amazon. amazon's shares down. the conservative revolt against big tech is very, very real. welcome, everybody. i'm martha maccallum in for neil cavuto today. this is "your world." first we go to jackie deangelis keeping track of thinks big moving developments today. hi, jackie. >> good afternoon,
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