to do that and that we could really create a new coalition what about josh ali i hate josh ali i mean i think i could say ok but i got nothing they don't matter don't actually manage it i think josh only is a very prominent prospect for the republican party because i think he's willing to look reshuffle the deck and look at things afresh i'm just putting that out there because i actually have a lot of bad for josh ali and bernie sanders the 2 senators and then the 98 hour cowards they just didn't want to do anything and i think it is absolutely shameful and i appreciate what just if they have bernie sanders ok but to be honest with you arthur what is what do you think about that because when you think logic would kind of dictate you know when you look at the blue states that's where the working class are clobbered the most but they vote lou i mean isn't this an opportunity to kind of you know go into that lane that no one is in and just say and i mean if i would have been trump during the campaign because i thought he ran an awful campaign awful and so did the biden people that the am

republican senator josh ali has been working with bernie sanders on a deal in the senate.don't agree on much but they do agree on this. >> the most important thing congress can do is give working people, working families relief before christmas and that is why we got to vote in the senate on a bill that would give $1,200 to every individual, $2,400 to couples, working families, $500 to kids who needed. this is what we did in march. every senator, this ought to be the centerpiece of any relief effort. working people are desperate for help. we are not talking wealthy people but working people which they got to be the center of this bill. todd: they introduced their amendment. todd: five minutes after the hour accepting coronavirus vaccine could be on the way. the fda announcing modern's vaccine is safe and effective. jillian: marion rafferty in los angeles with when the vaccine could get the official go ahead. >> reporter: the fda will meet tomorrow to decide on emergency approval for modern's vaccine. which vaccine is better? there are a few notable differences. pfizer's va

josh, thank you very much for joining us and happy holidays. >> you too >>> and when we come back, china openingen a an antitrust investigation into ali baba.e'll head to beijing to find out what it means for the company and jack ma. but first check out some of the biggest movers we are in the s&p 500 looking at d.r. horton, flir systems, and micron as well >>> a live look at times square in new york city getting ready for a very different kind of christmas and socially distanced celebration this year. welcome back to "worldwide exchange." our top corespondeporate story n opening up an anti trust advice into ali baba. eunice yoon is joining us with the details. he probably has to be the most high profile business person in all of china and certainly one of the big esz in tgest in the . what is going on with the campaign against jack ma >> well, china is investigating ali baba's alleged no ma november police tick practices including what is called pick one of two, which is forcing merchants on your site only work with one players a opposed to its separately ant group was also summoneded so this whole idea has been quite common in the market

josh. now the late e. st on the biden transition. and the mounting pressure on the president-elect to choose minorities for his cabinet positions. ali vitali is joining me from wilmington be, delaware. what are you hearing? >> reporter: we're hearing a shifting in tone on the top he can of diversity. in the early days as the transition started rolling out its picks, there was a lot of positive attention paid about to the diversity both in terms of gender, race and lived experience. of the first few slates of candidates that the transition team has put forward for key cabinet roles. now as they are less than halfway through the picks, we're starting to see mounting pressure yes from preliminary democrats saying that they would like to see more progressives represented in this slate of cabinet picks, but also on the racial and gender diversity, specifically as it relates to those big four positions that you were just talking about. you put up on the screen, we know that the treasury secretary nominee janet yellen, a white woman, tony blinken, a white man, but questions now about who will lead the department of defense as well as who w