guest: the biden administration so far, their public messaging is definitely discouraging people. they want to change the asylum process that the trump administration in collaboration with the mexican government established. they want to change the system but that will take a long time. they are trying to figure out how to dissuade people from coming. they are obviously going to the harsh conditions of traveling through central america, through mexico and they won't be able to come in or there is not a humane, fair, however you want to describe it. there's not a system in place at this moment to handle that capacity. they won't be coming into the united states. just the reality of the policy currently in place. to your point on the issue of safety and we are in a pandemic. one thing biden has not established yet, it called title 42. this order that was issued by the cdc that allows border patrol officials -- a migrant that is crossing the border, even if they are an asylum seeker, children, they could immediately get booted out of the country. that right now is still in place. tech

buttigieg nona navy to be transportation secretary discusses the transportation goals of the biden administration during the u.s. committee meeting. live coverage begins noon eastern online at c-span.org or you can listen live on the free c-span radio app. >> biden nominees gina raimondo and dennis will be on capitol hill next week for their confirmation hearings. tuesday at 10:00 eastern, rhode island governor gina raimondo, commerce secretary nominee testifies before the secretary commerce committee and weans day -- wednesday at 3:00 eastern, denis mcdonough nominated for secretary of veterans affairs testifies before the senate veterans affairs committee. watch the confirmation hearings live on c-span, on at c-span.org or listen on the c-span radio app. >> the topic now immigration and the biden administration, our guest is sabrina rodriguez of politico. >> thank for having me. >> here is a headline to one of your recent pieces, biden's plan to outdo obama, undo trump's immigration legacy has begun. the president has started putting out some executive orders, we know there is legislation, give

so i think the policies, the policy expertise and people the biden administration has appointed so faras been extremely impressive, the post diverse cabinet in any administration, and of course our first female vice president of the united states, which is an extraordinary achievement, finally, of the biden administration is fulfilling his promise of far to make the government look like america, but bringing expertise, serious technical knowledge into the government, and once we have a fully functioning u.s. government, that will give them a big opportunity to address these issues. he is also adding a lot of weight to the white house with extra policy offices that will address climate, coronavirus, in additional to domestic economic issues. that kind of focus within white house to drive policy will be very influential going forward. rishaad: we are expecting vice president harris to speak shortly. we are expecting a multilateral approach with regards to foreign affairs. is that also something that will translate into bipartisanship, which he will need to get his agenda pushed through?

host: this evening, we will be about 100 hours into the biden administration. den signed one piece of congressional legislation so far, granting his defense secretary a waiver excepting him from a law requiring that the head of the pentagon had been out of uniform for at least seven years. why do we have that law? did you support that waiver for general lloyd austin? guest: this is a sticky issue for a lot of people. first, why do we have that law? we have that law because we are a country in which the military is subordinate to our civilian political leadership. the president of the united states is the commander-in-chief and was put in that place by the voters not by virtue having risen through the ranks and wearing a uniform. the view of the pentagon has always been that you want someone at the top not who wears a uniform but who understands the importance of the civil military separation in america. here is the challenge. when donald trump nominated jim mattis, who had also not been out of the military for seven years, he was given a waiver. general mattis w

homeless. >> reporter: the eviction crisis is just one of the economic disasters facing the biden administrationand a growing hunger crisis. last week, president biden signed an executive order extending a ban on evictions through march. but that doesn't help bennett whose lawyer says her landlord is using a loophole that's becoming more common during the pandemic. >> already started packing. >> reporter: biden's $1.9 trillion stimulus plan proposes about $30 billion in rental assistance. for months, bennett has tried applying to stay in her home, with no luck. >> when you call it's like no money. you know, or call back next month, you know, maybe there will be money then. and then you call back the next monday. it's still, oh, we're out of money. >> reporter: gabby riley is also out of a job. weekly unemployment claims are back hovering around a million. and last month the economy shed jobs for the first time since april. every single one of those 140,000 jobs lost was held by a woman. riley is one of them. >> it's maddening. it's frustrating. it's defeating. >> reporter: riley worked in sales

i think it is an opening bid from the biden administration.n terms of opening bids, it is a high one. they planned to go over $1 trillion for the economy and their recovery. throughout the last several months, i guess we are almost at a year, there has not really been the reluctance to go over $1 trillion 50 package at the end of the year. i will say that passing the $1 trillion markets notable and kind of meaningful for the biden administration to come in and say, we are not going to stick to those numbers. biden himself has said, now is not the time to worry about the deficit and hold back. janet yellen said in her confirmation hearing, now is really the time to spend. interest rates are low. i think it is an opening bid. i think there are things in the bill that senators or house leaders would prefer they go bigger on. i think the two-step approach in tandem will be more expensive than $1.9 trillion. i will note that we have a very detailed plan from the president, but his administration will have to work with the senate to come up with bil

i think it's clearly a priority of the biden administration. hoped way back in 2017 that we might actually get a bipartisan infrastructure bill done at the beginning of the trump administration because i do think there's broad agreement that investment in some of the programs you just outlined, investment in our infrastructure, grows our economy. the data is just crystal clear and so i think there is bipartisan support for all of the programs you mentioned and obviously that makes tech a good investment as well >> well, we'll see if lawmakers want to be caught agreeing even after january 20th we can hope so for the sake of things getting done. carly fiorina, thank you >> thank you >>> watch paypal today upgraded to buy. price target 300 they say that some of the initiatives in crypto are starting to gain some traction you see the shares up better than 1%. a lot more "squawk alley" still ahead. stay with us businesses are always making choices. here's a choice you don't have to make: the largest 5g network... award-winning customer satisfaction..

if the biden administration protects that, good for them. >> maria: peter, do you expect the biden administration -- we talked about hunter biden's ties to chinese companies and partnerships with beijing. do you think that's going to get in the way of being tough on china? >> i think it's not about an expectation anymore, if you look at the way they started out with jen psaki today, this whole going back to the future of the first obama-bite and it administration with strategic patience, that didn't work in the middle ages and it won't work with china. as radcliffe said before me, they intelligence report says that the time for action was yesterday and we really have to be very aggressive. my fear, maria, is they are putting in place kind of the globalist old guard and they think that they can somehow negotiate with the chinese beast. as far as i'm concerned at this point after four years, china and these people are pathological liars and sociopaths who have killed over 300,000 americans with the virus that they imported into the united states and in a 60 day period, we need to hold them responsi

mean you just heard what eamon talked about with regard to the economic aspirations for the biden administrationexactly will this administration look like and how different or similar will it be to the first hundred days in office for president trump >> well, thanks for having me on this morning, dom. you know, honestly, probably this is going to look not all that much like the first hundred days for trump the sort of mandate he's come in with is very different trump was in his first hundred days trying to turn u.s. policy away from the obama years, but he was starting at a place where we had a relatively healthy economy, some small things, you know, sort of disregarded there, but we didn't face the sort of national overarching crisis that eamon talked about biden's first hundred days are going to be entirely determined by a response to the crisis unlike anything we have seen in the u.s. in generations if not a century. just for that reason, it will look quite different. >> now, there's been a case knead that president trump did get elected because of his appeal to many parts of the center polit

i want to hear more about what the biden administration will go -- do to address those challenges? i think people are encouraged by the appointment of dr. smith to head up this task force as part of the administration's response. i think that signals their focus on this issue of the vaccine really hitting people in different ways, right? there's this grief gap that you talked about, particularly in communities of color who are hard hit in terms of their race, and population, their death rates, unfortunately. by stand -- setting up if task force, which was put forward by the vice president-elect, we hope that is not going to just signal but ensure a central focus on those communities moving forward with regards to vaccines or treatments or otherwise. because there are a range of things that need to be talked about and we've talked about vaccine hesitancy as an example and really meet people where they were and address those concerns. let's talk about why those concerns come to be? because these communities have a good reason not to trust our health officials and some of our governme

as we enter this new era for the biden administration and the u.s. on the global stage. >> it's a return to normal. when i first started covering the secretary of state back in 1994 with warren christopher and then madeleine albright and all the others, republicans and democrats. mike pompeo and his predecessor, to be fair, rex tillerson, who will owed out the state department. diplomats were told, especially during impeachment, there were whistle-blowers and diplomats were forced out. there are 1,000 fewer career diplomats than there had been four years ago when tony blinken was deputy secretary of state and left. this is valuing relations with allies, not dictators, and the first evidence of that, of course, is going to be the putin phone call, the putin relationship. but then going forward on iran, yemen, with the saudis, on the middle east. >> let's talk about that putin phone call. keir, this morning, we're hearing the first reaction from putin himself on the world stage at the world economic forum. >> yeah. >> fill us in. >> reporter: yeah, tha

it will be a key element to measure the joe biden administration access or failure. e more a distances itself and returns to dialogue, the more likely it will save nuclear deal. americans now this. the trump administration's maximum pressure campaign failed. now there is a golden opportunity to save this nuclear deal now. >> this is exactly what the iranian president has been saying and what the young foreign minister has been saying. you think he task joe biden say, it is just -- >> i think it could incredibly easy, as iran's foreign minister has said. it could take five minutes to go back to the place when they cut them off from the deal. they were issuing waivers. sanctions were not lifted. we were issuing waivers. that is something that joe biden can five to 10 minutes. the question is whether he wants to. between the joe biden ministration and senate, he valued at a real partner. the two most powerful people who would have are the new senate majority leader and new head of the senate one nation chairman menendez. they voted against iran nuclear deal. they have ne

host: what is next for big proposals from the biden administration? we heard about a major infrastructure bill coming through, something that would likely move through your committee and other committees as well. what do we know about that infrastructure bill? how big it would be, what it would target? caller: this is mostly at the executive level, so i will focus on the legislative side. what is next for the biden administration is that ambitions , the plan for 100 million vaccinations in 100 days -- that would change our society in the way we are functioning today. it would be certainly a real blessing to get that through. a lot of that can be done at the executive level. in terms of legislatively, i have been talking on your program for six years now, and some of my colleagues for longer than that, about the need for a major, robust, multitrillion dollar investmenti offered to wp administration, the first tv interview i did after donald trump one more than four years ago was extending an olive branch to work with the new administration on infrastru

is whether he wants to and whether his staff wants him to there's real division within the biden administration already and between the biden ministration and the senate the u.s. senate is a body that president biden spent nearly 30 years of his life in and he valued it as a real partner in terms of u.s. policy in the senate the 2 most powerful people who would have influence over the iran issue or the new senate majority leader chuck schumer and then you head of the senate foreign relations committee committee chairman melendez those 2 both voted against the iran nuclear deal back in 2015 they have never been supporters of the iran nuclear deal so bided knows that he does not have the senate behind him if he were to quickly go back into the nuclear deal and then within the by an administration itself there are some real divisions we saw the new secretary of state tony blinken yesterday really poor poor water and the iranians attempts to to say that there's a there's a limited window of opportunity to rejoin the j.c. and the united states needs to act fast lincoln said no we're not going to act

biden agenda. do you expect durham to come out with indictments even in the face of a new administration and the bidennda unfolding? >> everything that i see in the activity of the investigation, everything i hear from defense lawyers and other ofs that are familiar with what's going on is that if he is building a small number of indictments trying to get the evidence to get there, there have been some delays. there's fights over evidence behind closed doors, grand jury fights but all the evidence is pointing him trying to bring criminal charges probably in the first quarter of this year. there's a new sheriff in time, when merck garland gets -- merrick garland gets confirmed as attorney general as we expect he will, he'll have a say. maybe he'll put the case and set it aside. right now, john durham looks to be building a small number of indictments focused on the top of the fbi. that's very important. the very top of the leadership of the fbi. that's where he's looking. maria: also in these documents that were declassified, we learned about christopher steele and a confession a year after he was fear

every time you see someone from the biden administration, they are masked.photo ops, signings, briefings. what about on capitol? there has been some division around there before. are lawmakers taking precautions? garrett: the vast majority of them are except on congress it's moving the opposite direction, in part because so many members phave gotten vaccination named. now members of staff are getting vaccinated. while it was controversial, particularly for younger members of congress to be some of the first in the country to get their shots, more and more are getting even their second doses and starting to move away from universal masking although it's the law of the land on capitol hill and will more likely be over time as more and more people start to come to the complex. amna: the more contagious strains have made their way to the u.s. how has that complicated or changed the u.s. pandemic response? >> i think it just heightens the importance of getting those shots in arms as quickly as possible. you're setting up a race between the variants and the vaccin

biden is trying to walk a fine line on this issue. the obama administration really praised fracking in the early 2010s because it was leading to this placement of -- displacement of cold. that is an important point. today it is very different. biden went out of his way to say that he does not oppose fracking. he did early in the campaign say it was going to stop. he has been a little inarticulate. maybe he was just inarticulate or flip-flopping. he did say some things that were conflicting. he went out of his way to say he did not oppose fracking. that is because there is an important constituency in place in ohio, pennsylvania, battleground states. he went out of his way to say he doesn't oppose fracking. he also didn't say he really likes fracking or natural gas. that a lot of progressives and democrats to be like why are you saying this? fracking is bad for the environment and climate change. i will be watching to see how he handles natural gas now that he is governing. he will probably be more critical of natural gas domestically. i actually anticipate hi

biden is trying to walk a fine line on this issue. the obama administrationeally praised fracking in the early 2010s because it was leading to this placement of -- displacement of cold. that is an important point. today it is very different. biden went out of his way to say that he does not oppose fracking. he did early in the campaign say it was going to stop. he has been a little inarticulate. maybe he was just inarticulate or flip-flopping. he did say some things that were conflicting. he went out of his way to say he did not oppose fracking. that is because there is an important constituency in place in ohio, pennsylvania, battleground states. he went out of his way to say he doesn't oppose fracking. he also didn't say he really likes fracking or natural gas. that a lot of progressives and democrats to be like why are you saying this? fracking is bad for the environment and climate change. i will be watching to see how he handles natural gas now that he is governing. he will probably be more critical of natural gas domestically. i actually anticipate him

and the biden administration, operation warp speed was amazing. if donald trump didn't put that in place joe biden on day one wouldn't have any vaccine. they distributed 30 million vaccines and are on a trajectory if they just do what donald trump put in place we will exceed the 1 million doses per day so don't blow it, don't be trying to blame excuses and come up with this fiction and say there was no game plan and nothing was there and there was no -- that is not true. people are getting them. i wanted to see it accelerated but if not for donald trump joe biden wouldn't be in such a good position to help america solve this problem. shannon: what about that? so much trashing of what the trump administration did but operation warp speed regardless of your partisan politics is something we have never seen before. >> they came from the laboratory all the way to the marketplace in nine months which never happened in human history before number one, number 2, 35 to 40 million doses have been distributed already, the biggest problem is on the state leve

some democrats have hint adding more justices under the biden administration. ot -- president biden himself has not not -- janet yellen is one step closer to becoming the first woman as treasury secretary. her nomination sailing through the senate finance committee yesterday with unanimous approval. the full senate will vote on yellen's nomination monday. ♪ ♪ eric: well, we are remembering baseball icon and hall-of-famer hank aaron. he passed away in atlanta yesterday. hank aaron was 86 years old. his life and career in baseball made history. the legendary viewing -- slugger faced down heated racism. charles watson live in atlanta with more on this giant american. hey, charles. >> reporter: hi, eric. baseball legend aaron -- hank aaron was born in segregated mobile if, alabama, in 1934. i don't think most people at the time could have imagined the market he would have on major league baseball and the nation as a whole. that is on full display today, certainly behind us as dobzs of mourners -- dozens of mourners show up to this memorial dropping flowers and ballo

those are the seven pillars for the incoming biden administration. they can do today? today is the day when president biden will be laser focused on covid-19. >> the over arching theme of that document is we're the federal government of the united states of america, we're going to own this. we're going to solve this problem and not dump it on to others. that's a very important message for the american people to hear, and that alone i think will help build trust. in there there's a communication plan that we've never had before so that's really critically important and then a national vaccination strategy. i mean, the problem right now is everyone is scared or frightened or angry because they're calling around to walmart and sam's club and the pharmacy chains and, you know, cvs and rite aid trying to desperately get the vaccine for their mother, father, brother, sister and no one is answering or they're saying we don't have vaccine either. try this pharmacy, that pharmacy. this is not a recipe for success, this is a recipe for disaster. what we have t

the trump administration argued the treaty disadvantaged the u.s. president biden that stance, and moscow welcomed the shift. >> ( translated ): we had to act under heavy time pressure. the previous administration connected the extension to the conditions which were unacceptable for us. with biden the situation was adjusted. and we need to give proper respect to the new white house team and its pragmatic approach. >> woodruff: the extension runs five years. the biden administration has halted a major arms sale to the united arab emirates, for now, pending a review. the deal was announced by the trump administration in november. it let the u.a.e. buy 50 f-35 stealth fighter jets, worth $23 billion. until now, only israel was allowed to buy the high-tech planes. the u.s. federal reserve confirms that the latest covid surge has done more economic damage. as a result, the central bank pledged again today to keep interest rates near zero. fed chair jerome powell said it's unclear how long the pandemic's effects will linger, partly because of vaccination problems. >> one

will the biden administration change that?esident the other day talking about his willingness to deal with whatever folks bring to him given the urgency of getting this package across the legislative goal line. as you would expect, i've looked very carefully at the distributional impact of the checks, and they have a better impact than some of the discussion would suggest. by better i mean more targeted. single filers phase out at 75,000, that might sound like a middle amount of money but people in the middle class are facing rental and mortgage issues, many are losing hours and jobs and wages still this late in the game. so we believe that this -- these direct payments are not only urgent and necessary, but if you look at the numbers, they've disproportionally helped those at the middle and the bottom. >> you said get it across the legislative goal line. that is really different than pushing it through reconciliation. which seems to be where it is headed, is it not? do you guys think that you're going to get this through on a

we will with the biden administration. er to your question is that we have a lot of align with the incoming administration and its objectives around raising the minimum wage, which is woefully low. we british are minimum wage to $15 per hour if you years ago -- we branched our minimum wage to $15 per hour a couple of years ago and we have seen other companies follow suit. we do think that congress needs to act on this. we have already offered our help in whatever way that we can provide on covid relief. we have a lot of express, as you know, because of our front-line workers out there in the fulfillment centers, the actions that we have taken to keep them safe. with created our own lab facilities and testing facilities, and we have a lot of experience to go. forre looking sustainability wet. administration, we are going to take the challenge of climate change seriously in the next administration, and we think we can help with that. we will not agree on everything, and we never have in the past. throat havingam worked with j

the biden administration is going to be more methodical. administration -- you have less impulsive moves from the biden administration. they will press a lot of the same agenda items that have been inherited from trump. there needs to be a revival of the sanctions approach and that is not the kind of strategy these new cabinet officials are going to be pursuing. francine: when you look at asset classes, where do you see the most returns? john: the sectors that are incredibly leveraged and are a little more desensitize to the rise in interest rates. there are other markets that tend to go up when rates go up. because the starting yield is near an all-time low, you can have this odd element where spreads tighten and the total returns on asset classes is negative or barely above zero. that would be unusual. for clients looking for cyclical assets, it would be to focus on things that are more detached from the rate market damage. the return is going to be mostly digits. tom: thank you so much. really important comments in this great debate of in

, a harris biden administration or previewing a new republican administration?you this, i'm going to work very hard and i know my fellow conservatives are as well to make sure we are gnawing rating a good america first conservative whoever that may be, that's where our focus is going to be. i have a feeling we're going to do it. this movement is growing stronger by the day. remember who we are and our principles and values and let's go get it. jillian: if you could predict the future i would want you to buy my lottery ticket. tomi lahren, thank you. we appreciate it. "fox & friends" starts right now. will. todd: bye. >> as i prepare to hand power over to a new administration, i want you to know that the movement we started is only just beginning. >> in his final hours president trump issuing the 1 pardons and commutations. among them some notable names. >> in hours joe biden will become the 46th president of the united states. >> he is going to be a president of all americans, including the 75 million americans that voted for president trump. step up as a leader

katty: that is something the biden administration will have to deal with. look at other news from around the world. the health minister from results is a nationwide covid vaccination program has started two days earlier than planned after state governors complained about the delay. all available doses of the chinese made vaccination have been distributed to results 27 states. more than 200,000 people in brazil have died of covid-19. ugandan authorities have began to restore internet services six days after they were cut off ahead of last week's elections. the move was criticized by human rights organizations while opposition parties accused the government of using the blackout to hide election fraud. security forces continue to surround the home of the opposition leader. another major fire has ripped through the rohingya refugee camps in southern bangladesh. this comes just days after ablaze destroyed the homes of thousands. the fire is burning a school building at cox's bazaar, the world's largest refugee settlement. after daybreak, residents were seen sif

biden agenda. do you expect durham to come out with indictments even in the face of a new administration and the bidennda unfolding? >> everything that i see in the activity of the investigation, everything i hear from defense lawyers and other ofs that are familiar with what's going on is that if he is building a small number of indictments trying to get the evidence to get there, there have been some delays. there's fights over evidence behind closed doors, grand jury fights but all the evidence is pointing him trying to bring criminal charges probably in the first quarter of this year. there's a new sheriff in time, when merck garland gets -- merrick garland gets confirmed as attorney general as we expect he will, he'll have a say. maybe he'll put the case and set it aside. right now, john durham looks to be building a small number of indictments focused on the top of the fbi. that's very important. the very top of the leadership of the fbi. that's where he's looking. maria: also in these documents that were declassified, we learned about christopher steele and a confession a year after he was fear

how will the biden administration deal with vladimir putin? >>> plus the president's decision to block the keystone xl pipeline is not sitting well with our neighbors to the north. we'll hear from the premier of alberta, canada and from an activist fighting to protect tribal lands. >>> before we get to that, the headlines. >> good evening to you, joshua. stories we're watching this hour mexico's president tested positive for the coronavirus. he tweeted he has mild symptoms and is receiving medical treatment. he plans to continue working through that illness. at least one person was hospitalized after a police officer drove through a crowd in tacoma, washington. the police department says a group crowded that vehicle and hit its body and windows. independent investigators are looking into the incident. >>> finally tonight former white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders is expected to announce a run for governor of arkansas tomorrow. sororities two people familiar with her plans. sanders toyed with this campaign since leaving her post

they see that the biden administration wants to deal with it multilaterally through consultations that the trump administration's confrontational and what they claim is war-like approach to china. china can't wait. the pressure will be off. their economy will soar because they're cheating in international trade. they're all ready to take advantage of what they see as an extremely weak and naive u.s. president. lou: is it just geo political theater that the theodore roosevelt strike force is in the south china sea, and at the same time the chinese are launching overflights of dozens of aircraft over taiwan? is that -- are xi and biden just playing on the world stage here? to make it look better for biden? >> i don't think xi is worried about biden at all, and i think these flights of chinese air force planes over taiwan is very serious. it sends a message to to the world, to taiwan and to the united states that china does plan to take over taiwan, that that invasion is coming. and i've got to tell you, we cannot show weakness to china right now because that day could be moved up substan

are you confident joe biden and his administration can provide the help you need? epends which joe biden we get the will he rule from the middle from the left? i think the economic policy is not really out there. in my industry, particularly hard-hit, we played political badminton, clubs in oregon and california still close, everywhere else in north america is open, i wish covid-19 and politics could get out of small business. we just want a path forward. give us a path, we work our butts off, don't keep changing the rules, don't play political football. let us serve our customers. talk about a $15 an hour minimum wage, i find it curious because there's one group in america that can work for less than $15 an hour all day long and that is a small business owner. neil: let's look at biden's american rescue plan, a $15 federal minimum wage at 725, $400 unemployment, the stimulus checks and other items. what will those first two items due to your business? the minimum wage and extended unemployment? >> i agree with what joe said to begin with. this year has been a tomat

to be a big shift in america's relationship with china from the trump administration to the biden administration this is the billion dollar question. i don't pretend to know because it has been a difficult issue for any u.s. administration to tackle with. trump certainly has put out many hardline policies towards china. at the end of the day, he signed the trade deal. he put a pause to the trade war with china because many countries, including the u.s., economic ties with chi have, cur compromised. this is a difficult task for the biden administration to inherit from trump. katty: ok. thank you very much for joining us. a quick look at other news now. the italian prime minister has narrowly won a vote of confidence in the upper house of parliament, aided by the support of some opposition senators. the margin of victory was tighter an his allies had hoped and short of an absolute majority. he won a similar vote in the lower house of parliament nday and can continue to govern with minority government. 12 miners trapped underground after an explosion in a chinese gold might have alerted authorities

biden administration. talk about the importance of the first week larry gerston. >> everything, terry. this administration is different from the previous trump administration. i think we can see differences real early in terms of the key appointments. you will notice that the biden administration is known, people who have been involved before and many of them in the obama administration, experts if you will. unlike the trump's administration business community people who did not know a whole lot about the area they are going into. and press conference rolling out and we don't see the kind of contentiousness. look at the vice president, he got a lot more power than vice president pence. the president wants to be a partnership and he wants the vice president to be the last person in the room on an important decision. i think we'll see a major difference there in terms of the way they get together. >> president biden calling for unity and dealing the covid-19 crisis, you think that would be something that the

speaking to the press yesterday in the biden administration, compared to the trump administration, he talked at the podium yesterday in the white house about what it felt like to be restrained and the lack of facts in some ways during the trump administration. and i asked him about what the impact of that might have been. so, listen. >> did the lack of candor, did the lack of facts in some cases over the last year cost lives? >> you know, it very likely did. particularly when you're in the situation of almost being in a crisis with the number of cases and hospitalizations and deaths that we had. when you start talking about things that make no sense medically and no sense scientifically, that clearly is not helpful. >> we also said he didn't want that to be a sound bite, to be fair to dr. fauci, but when dr. anthony fauci says that he thinks that the lack of candor cost lives over the past year, it's pretty significant, sanjay. >> it really is. and i think there's -- first of all, if he's saying it, because he's -- you know, he's measured in how he responds to these things. if he's sa

. >> how will the incoming biden administration change the nation's education policy? american university hosted this panel of education experts on president-elect biden's positions on k-12 education. and what he was signaling with his nomination of miguel cardona to be as education secretary. >> good morning, and welcome your i am lisa stark and assistant vice president for communication and media at american university. thank you so much for joining us this going to hear about come to hear from experts here at american university on education policy over the nextt four years might look like and about the new selection of the nominee for the secretary of education. in fact, president-elect joe biden is officially introducing his choice for the job doctor cardona to the nation this morning, so this is very timely and we will take a look at what that means for the country and unless the school kids throughout the nation. first i'd like to introduce the experts in american universityr joining us this morning to have this discussion. doctor dennis is a lecture and school o

how do you think the biden administration should deal with these things going forward? ok at how the biden campaign handled this when there was the summer of rage that caused billions in damage to businesses across the country, destroyed homes. this is not the first attack on a federal courthouse, this is one of many the last ninth months. took many months for joe biden or kamala harris to even give a slightly negative comment about this damage that was being wrought all over the country. so -- just as ari said, there's no media pressure for consistsy. it's a low bar for the republicans, but they condemned the political violence on left and right. everyone assumed that the democrats would be unable to say that violence at the capitol is wrong, but all of this violence destroying cities nationwide and it's okay. we were told inauguration day there was a worry about right wing violence. that didn't happen. it's left wing violence and we're not hearing anything from our political leadership. it's not surprising. kamala harris helped bail out the dangerous rioters in minneap

of course, the biden administration or the incoming administration has talked about free community college, free four-year education for families making under a certain amount, forgiving student debts. do any of you want to weigh in on where you think we will see some movement on higher education? >> i will just weigh in on that briefly, lisa. i think a populist approach, an approach that takes into account the needs of the working class really puts a focus on community college, and because dr. jill biden has worked her career at community colleges, including right here in northern virginia, to support that movement that biden has for unity college, that is a huge stepping stone for opportunity. however, there is huge political on student loans, and biden upon this proposal i think is for $10,000 instead of the proposal made by warren and sanders before, forgiving whole amount or up to $30,000, $50,000, so his proposal is about $300 billion. the other proposals were ranging trillion, and5 really, last year's revenue for the government was $3.5 trillion. student loan forgiveness, wiping out

you saw the biden administration try to strike it. and the trump administration saying that the paris climate accord was going to wreck american jobs. how do you take that talking point away? if you read what the biden administration is doing, they're taking the focus to actually create jobs in the marketplace. the other thing which i think is very important, at least from their perspective. is the equity issue. laura barron-lopez mentioned it. 40% of funds are going to disadvantaged communities, that matters as well. but if you're talking about slim majority, you've got numbers in pennsylvania or texas or numbers like joe manchin in west virginia, it is a very difficult issue on capitol hill to be able to push forward in a sweeping manner to the degree like alexandria ocasio-cortez's sunrise movement that those folks want them to push. >> so, katherine, one of the reasons i love your work, you're out in conservative work in texas. you're an evangelical, as you say, your husband is a pastor in a christian church. you talk about the mis

is that something that can happen within three days of a biden administration? danielle: no, and it is a good question. this is clearly an order that went out during the trump administration. but my guess is that the biden administration will find little to disagree with. the united states, even though we like to think of ourselves as a huge military power, do not have the carrier battle groups needed to actually keep peace in all the places where we would like to signal that countries should not misbehave. if you want to be in the mediterranean and send a message to the islamic republic of iran, it is not compatible with a true show of force in the south china sea. we can do it when we are just signaling a little bit, but when we actually want to get a clear message across that there will be consequences, we are in a difficult place. john: danielle pletka, our guest this morning, senior fellow at the american enterprise institute joining us until 8:45 eastern this morning. if you have questions on the foreign policy front, give us a call now. phone lines as usua

learned because of you and because of your administration that doctors, scientists were getting sick in october and november of 2019, shouldn't president biden acknowledge china's role in the coronavirus? have you heard him say anything about the communist party's role in the coronavirus and should the administration say something about the sanctions, should they come out and say you will not sanction a former secretary of state? >> i hope they will. i hope they will take sanctions against former officials as we took actions that other governments try to take against ours, i remember when he was attacked by the russians, came out and defended him, it's the right thing to do. more importantly with respect to the virus, this virus has now destroyed thousands and thousands of lives. the economic toll that is unequaled in an awfully long time and it began in a place of wuhan, china, and the chinese communist party did everything it could to give itself the time to respond to it on its own terms and didn't do what it was supposed to do, duty to the world to let us know that this had human to human transmission and that it has begun. that was enor

host: first of all, let's get into with the biden administration faces. on screen are going to see the biden political appointee tracker, which is done by our public service, that biden has picked 51 nominees to fill key roles so far. only 2 have been confirmed by the senate. max, what does president biden face when it comes to filling his key cabinet rules? guest: it is a big task and as you say the biden team is ahead of the curve in the historical term. they have got over 50 nominations they have made in the next highest administration in terms of having the outside the gate was the obama administration at 42. that is just nomination, not confirmation. there are over 1200 positions that the incoming administration has to fill that are senate confirmed. 4000 total appointees of those 1250 that require senate confirmation. president biden currently only has 2 people actually confirmed, the director for national intelligence and the secretary of defense. they have a long way to go while the biden team has nominated more. they are still in a position where

dani: part if it is the commentary from the biden administration.ll be interesting if they mention this rule. probably not likely. they will have to process it before speaking about it. but they want to know what sort of commentary they will say about biden's stimulus plan, whether that is something that will help banks. the other big thing will be trading. for is from the banks -- for the banks to keep all the good things like trading and lose all the bad things. francine: thank you very much with a thorough look at the banking concerns. coming up, the trump administration takes aim at xiaomi in the final attempt to ramp up pressure on beijing. it's incredible in the last five to six days until biden gets inauguration, the narrative is on what trump admitted ashe what the trump administration -- what the trump administration is doing. this is bloomberg. ♪ on is doing. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ francine: good morning, everyone, from london. happy friday. it's been an intense two weeks. i'm francine lacqua. this is daybreak london. >> deep human sufferi

the biden administration is pushing for a big covid relief package. and there are thoughts that depending on where that goes, or how that goes, the green energy push will be in a future stimulus, perhaps an infrastructure bill. host: who else is on the committee worth noting and watching today? guest: i think what is really interesting, if you watch the committee, the department of energy has a 17 national laboratories, so he will probably hear her promise to visit at least 17 states, because everybody has an interest. we did not mention the one big program at the department of energy, it's the nuclear waste pickup. or nuclear waste cleanup. the department is responsible for the cold war legacy of nuclear war weapons. that's a huge issue. the nevada senators will be interested in that, hearing what she has to say about how do we store nuclear waste. i can assure you every senator will have some energy interests and maybe even a facility in their state they will want her to see and talk about. host: greg in pittsburgh, a democratic caller. caller: good