the market cap on tesla, deidre, now above -- you see it up 7.5%.arket cap is now above $800 billion valued higher than facebook i just want to remind everybody, elon musk tweeted that the price was too high back on may 1 when the it it was trading at a split adjusted 140 a share, one-sixth of where it trades this morning, deidre >> yes, some of those themes we saw from last year continuing on early in 2021. we do see tech outperforming tesla in just a field of its own as you said, jon a few other names, big tech names going in between gains and losses, there is an mkm note, carl, best 21 -- 2021 idea, the first one is facebook followed by google and, you know, it comes after we spent so much time yesterday talking about the pressure that's being heaped on these companies in the wake of the turmoil in d.c on wednesday you have to wonder if wall street is either, you know, taking regulations seriously or whether it thinks congress and these agencies may not get anything done, any action done which has proven to be difficult >> that's certainly the ta

[applause] welcome lieutenant governor-elect deidre henderson and david henderson. [applause] >> and governor-elect spencer cox. [applause] >> governor elect cox, governor elect to henderson, governor herbert, elected officials, residents of utah, on behalf of the inauguration committee and the utah national guard it is my pleasure to welcome you to the 2021 state of utah inauguration ceremony. i am major general michael turley, adjunct general for utah and privilege to serve as your master of ceremonies. today the honorable spencer j cox will take the oath of office and become the 18th governor of the great state of utah. in addition deidre henderson will be sworn in as lieutenant governor and the other constitutional officers will re- swear their oath's as they continue in their positions of public service. [applause] to begin today ceremony the colors will be posted by a joint color guard of the utah national guard followed by a video presentation of the national anthem i combined banned from the governor elect three utah all matters and utah state university, sn

, thank you deidre bosa. i think most americans want technology to take these steps to prevent any further civil unrest at the same time this begs the question has tech really become too powerful if it is able to incite and be the source, so to speak, of this unrest in the first place. tim seymour. that's what i was getting at in terms of the criticism, particularly that's coming from europe, about free speech and how it's problematic for free speech maybe in the u.s. it's not raising eyebrows but in europe it is. europe has been very, very out front in terms of regulating big tech >> yeah. be careful what you wish for now. on some level this censorship is something maybe a lot of people agree with but now they're almost underlying, underlining, highlighting the power that these companies have to dictate the conversation and that's something that as antitrust, antimonopoly dynamics are also coming down on these companies, it should only highlight the power that these companies have to dictate the course of th

off ipo market and it is time for rapid fire and here to break down the headlines is jon fortt and deidrend dominic chu, and the first top. the ipo lineup is going to have a tough act to follow after today. a firm hitting the market and a lot of people hitting the bid and the prices are soaring with the first bid and blew past the ipo price opening at 90.90, and look at that, the shares of the firm, jon fortt up 100%, and my math says a double, and surprised by the strong demand. >> very good, brian. and the founder and ceo interesting 19 years ago he's like one of the fathers of pen tech, the and he took pen pal public and now a firm that has the deals with shoppify and challenging the credit card model. a rumor it was coming later in the year last year, and it is coming right now, and i talked to him on the phone last night, and again this morning, and it is interesting, you know, because he's prepared for this. clearly, having been in the seat for a long time and chairman of yelp, and so it is going to be interesting for the economy to see how well a structure like this does. >> yeah.

abc's deidre bolton is here and on the story. morning, dan. so this suit is one of the biggest legal threats that the gun rights group has ever faced since its founding in new york in 1871. the new york a.g. is seeking to dissolve the nra for alleged corruption, misappropriation of funds, in fact, in the past letitia james has called the nra a, quote, terrorist organization. on the nra website wayne lapierre has his say he cites, a, quote, corrupt political regulatory government in new york and says, quote, we're dumping new york and pursuing plans to reincorporate in texas. in the past they have been credited or criticized with great sway in d.c., beating back repeated attempts for stricter laws in the wake of mass shootings such as the 2012 sandy hook school massacre in connecticut. at the heart of this new york state suit, money. the new york a.g. accuses wayne lapierre and three other leaders of fleecing the organization by diverting millions of the group's money for personal use. so the state says there are $64 million in lo

dan. >> it's a wild story, deidre. thank you. >>> let's go back to the weather and rob who, as we mentioned earlier, is monitoring that big storm marching across the country. robert, good morning once again. >> good morning, dan. this is wild amounts of snow. i mean, this is enough to bury you two types over. nine feet of snow in mammoth lakes, and this is a time lapse of somebody having to dig their car out and maybe get to work. i'm not sure exactly how long it took this person but they got their work in, that's for sure. we won't see this amount of snow but the energy from this storm is heading to the east, and let's spend time over what we expect to see. 6 to 9 inches in chicago. indianapolis as well. we'll see some icing getting into parts of virginia, but d.c. will see significant snow before it switches over to more of a mix. the jackpot looks to be eastern pennsylvania, philadelphia, maybe new jersey and these spots, i think we could see over a foot of snow but new york up through boston, certainly some plowabl

deidre bolton has the details of what this could mean for the president. >> reporter: in the aftermathcapitol hill attack private companies are taking action against president trump, with twitter permanently suspending his account. >> these are corporations. currently there really aren't any laws that require them to manage presidential tweets. and it's essentially up to them. >> reporter: it's the highest profile punishment the company has ever imposed. the president aims to get the last word in through his government account, at potus. but the company shut that down too. other companies are making similar decisions, facebook has suspended the president and reddit banned a pro-trump forum for inciting violence and now apple is ordering right wing social media app parlor to wipe out objectionable content within the next 24 hours or be booted from the app store. google play has already suspended the app. >> companies like apple and google will make statements to apps like parlor like that when they believe that the app and the community, the speech in there is becoming violent and dange

in addition deidre henderson will be sworn in as lieutenant governor and the other constitutional officers will re- swear their oath's as they continue in their positions of public service. [applause] to begin today ceremony the colors will be posted by a joint color guard of the utah national guard followed by a video presentation of the national anthem i combined banned from the governor elect three utah all matters and utah state university, snow college in north sanpete high school. the pledge of allegiance will then be led by mr. gregory [inaudible] and following the national anthem and pledge of allegiance the most reverend oscar so lease of the catholic diocese will offer an invocation. >> please prepare for the presentation of the colors. >> present arms. [instrumental music] [instrumental music] [instrumental music "star spangled banner"] [instrumental music "star spang] [instrumental music "star spang] [instrumental music "star spang] ... >> i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible

deidre. >> well, brian, it started with facebook and twitter and then a dozen tech companies faced restrictionsor down right baring the platforms or the servers, and it including switch, and it is one thing to switch users, but it is another to block, and that is what has happened on parler and consecutive now. we chew out off the clouds, and computer power. the crowd is upset and they are going to move to parler, and apple, and google refuse to take parler on their responability for their cares. they will not sell merchandise, and the site cut off the preside president's campaigning source, and that is what you could argue is one of the biggest moves. over the last few days, this coordinated movement, and this to purge misleading content, and as the move is arbitrary and monanopolis tick. >> we will follow up on this story, and it is a big one. deirdre. and in regard to social media, and maybe we should call them media these days, and jeffreys is not scared of any potential regulation on the hill, and one of its big companies is facebook. and facebook replaces amazon as the best idea of the ye

doesn't capture the gay audience which makes up a large part of the dating ecosystem >> great point, deidreoking for females and that's a swath of the market that bumble will capture and men looking for men. look at grinder who got 600 million last year and i asked match about this yesterday and they told me that tinder in the u.s. alone of just the male users more than 6% fit in the gay or bisexual bracket. so that's a lot of users that bumble is literally never going to be able to access >> laura, thank you for bringing us this column and bringing us some good debate john, by the way, to your point i just looked in the ask one and what's interesting here is the bumble app is twice of that of the badoo app, and i guess that means that perhaps women users are more valuable customers. >> on the other hand. >> great roll the graphic. >> there you go. >> that was a good discussion, guys keep an eye on expedia and they say there is an opportunity for vrbo based on what it's been able to do we'd be positive on the dow, if not for ibm and intel. don't go away. t-mobile knows the new year brings b

else is intel going to do we have to be that much better than the companies that are trying to do, deidreof things at once. >> i love how he just called apple a lifestyle company when they've made some major, major moves in the chip space. he certainly has his work cut out for him and you ran through the ceo, and it's been a massive week for ipos and we keep seeing these big issues getting, you know, enormous valuations and just moving higher and higher on first-day debuts and take a look at petco and poshmark. sometimes the first huge jumps on the first days, poshmark down 14% today and petco down nearly 5% that's nothing compared to how much they were up yesterday and it does kind of tell you that those big pops can lead to volatility >> finally, exxon now saying that this sec whistle-blower claims are demonstrably false as the sec launches an investigation regarding the valuations have a good, long weekend. we'll see you tuesday. let's get to the half. >> carl, thank you welcome to "the halftime report." i'm scott wapner front and center, october raising big questions about where your

you heard from jason earlier, deidre, about still believing in the company and its mission.his week, forgive them, but i've got to think it's not everybody, probably on robinhoodthat was caught in this, and if they raised a billion there y can afd to give away the $40 gift cards. >> it's the narrative they've made over the last few years empowering small investors and as people are finding out on the show that they're just as much in bed with wall street as many others, carl >> yeah. have a good weekend, everybody we'll see you on monday. let's get to the judge >>> carl, thanks welcome to "the halftime report." i'm scott wapner the state of stocks after this wild week ask what lies ahead for it >> joining me for the hour jim lebenthal, pete najarian and kate firestone, and we'll take you to the wall to see where stocks are currently trading s&p is off 1.25%, you and the russell 2000 flat and the worst week in about three months and i like to set the state of play. we have the month end for the markets and the s&p is fla

the market cap on tesla, deidre, now above -- you see it up 7.5%.bove $800 billion valued higher than facebook i just want to remind everybody, elon musk tweeted that the