barry diller, thank you so much for joining us for this wide-ranging conversation.ally appreciate your insight on all of these different topics and hope you'll come and join us again soon. >> thank you been a pleasure. >> and as we head to break alibaba popping, a new list of chinese companies banned by the u.s. does not include alibaba or ten cent that had fallen on reports the u.s. was considering targeting the company, of course, it's been under pressure for a few months now because of pressure in china as well we will be right back so do stay with us. ♪ ♪ digital transformation has failed to take off. because it hasn't removed the endless mundane work we all hate. ♪ ♪ automation can solve that by taking on repetitive tasks for us. unleash your potential. uipath. reboot work. >>> getting breaking news out of the fed vice chair responding to the chaos on capitol hill this week, what it means for the economic outlook in a conversation with our steve liesman at the council on foreign relations a few moments ago, take a listen >> steve, thank you. i think it's fair t

. >> all right bob, you too >>> still to come this morning, an exclusive interview with barry dillerc later this morning on "squawk alley." look at how treasuries are faring this morning. the weaker than expected jobs number taking center stage, down 140k yield on the ten-year, initially spiked in reaction to the drop in payrolls as you see from the chart, now above 1.1 we'll finish with a look at the dollar index, obviously had its own travails more "squawk on the street" in a minute don't go away. hey frank, our worker's comp insurance is expiring, should we just renew it? yeah, sure. hey there, small business owner. pie insurance here with some sweet advice to stop you from overpaying on worker's comp. try pie instead and save up to 30%. thirty percent? really? get a quote in 3 minutes at easyaspie.com. wow, that is easy. so, need another reminder? no, no no, i'm good. uh, yes please. oh. ho ho ho, yeah! need worker's comp insurance? get a quote in 3 minutes at easyaspie.com. >>> what >>> what happened yesterday is a disgrace, and what happened as an american is

we begin with maria's one-on-one with vice president mike pence and media mogul barry diller.: they say the big withst issue right now -- biggest issue right now is the president having failed in his response to covid-19. can you speak to that? what's your response to that? >> i couldn't be more proud of president trump's leadership of the coronavirus response from day one. and you speak about china. joe biden never talked about china in his speech, but the coronavirus came from china. and when president donald trump, before the end of january, suspended all travel from china, joe biden said it was xenophobic. and for months and months, he criticized the president's steps in suspending all travel. no president in american history had ever done it before. china is the second largest economy in the world, but president donald trump said we're going to put the health of america first. if we had done what joe biden wanted to do, we would not have had the time to stand up and martial the extraordinary national response that i believe has saved hundreds of thousands of american live

and barry diller and secretary pritzer and so many others.o tell you about joe biden will be inaugurated as the 46th president of the united states the ceremony will take place under heavy security after that january 6th capitol attack >>> dow point united health group is reporting better than expected sales and profit for the fourth quarter however, its earnings did fall 38% from a year ago, that, of course, due to pandemic-related costs. and take a look at shares of alibaba this morning higher this morning, coming after gentjack ma, founder of t company had made an appearance, questions raised about his whereabouts after his criticism of the chinese government. there were headlines, everywhere, where is jack? well, we now know, jack at a minimum is okay. video has played joe. >> yes he needed to hold up like a newspaper with the date on it. >> proof of life >> i've seen too many movies where they do that, you know >>> procter & gamble without with its second quarter results moments ago. p&g reporting profit of $1.64 a share beating estimate

it was the summer when they stepped in barry diller, of course, behind that, as well.this deal that is fascinating. iac to say, hey, you want cash we'll give you cash for your shares and then they would become a larger holder of mgm which they seem happy to do. wow, quite a year overall itself >> look, it's been unbelievable. the issue here how do you get traditional tv to even think about gam blbling whn they mentioned the line. >> 5g is going to bring this stuff to life on so many people's phones in so many ways and you have this cohort these younger people who are more familiar with this than they are any tv anyway who are betting. who are betting on games betting on all sorts of stuff. betting on whether the eagles would take out jalen hurtz for some reason. >> if you're unwilling to uctaabouctatalk about the line and fantasy they're hopeless i hope you're listening to me. you have to say, wow, gamblers are going to be bummed out something that recognizes that people are gambling and the fake world is not talking about it. i mean, give me a break. when you look at

his site it is really - >> and sports betting and gaming, well beyond this, look no further than barry dillert he has done and mgm's move on that u.k. company, this seems to be the growth area for so many of these company, and as opposed to gaming, sports betting is seen as something that will pass in most state legislatures >> well, david, that's between robin hood and david portnoy, the merry men will go with david when it comes to the super bowl. they will be betting on green bay. >> so you've already made a prediction. >> yes absolutely >> i like green bay. its price to sale is good. it is undervalued. versus snowflake >> carl? >> busy between the game and hosting jeopardy, guys jim, we mentioned petco before the break. 48 million shares at 18. above the rage of 14 to 17 we know how you feel about stocks and pets and the pet food business woof >> i think that this is going to be 14 to 15 times overdescribed, and should open up guy grantcally and why not you have a ceo that did great things at hp, they loved him and before that, did great things at pepsico. and ron is one of those guys who

lee cooperman, penny pritzker and barry diller you can watch us live on the go on the cnbc app.diabetic dry skin* #1 for psoriasis symptom relief* and #1 for eczema symptom relief* gold bond champion your skin >>> couple of stocks to watch this morning bank of america reporting quarterly profits of 59 cents a share. 4 cents above estimate the banks bottom line helped by strengthening its trading business goldman sachs earned $12.08 for the fourth quarter compared to a consensus estimate of $7.47. the firm saw extremely strong results in its bond trading and underwriting businesses. up almost 2% office depot rebuffing a takeover offer from staples but suggesting that it's open to an alternative deal the wall street journal citing a letter from staples. staples has tried to acquire office depot three times, three times with the most recent bid $40 a share. >> okay. >>> coming up when we return, the latest on the vaccine distribution process and the confusion over the nation's stockpile. is there enough vaccine to meet the president-elect's goal of inoculating 100 million people in