blake burman live on the north lawn of the white house.for joining us, and we'll see you tomorrow. ♪ lou: good evening, everybody. after four years of the greatest single term in american history, president trump today left the white house, and he spoke to the american people one last time as president of the united states. >> what we've done has been amazing by any standard. we rebuilt the united states military -- [cheers and applause] we created a new force called space force. that in itself would be a major achievement for a regular administrationment we were not a regular administration.

thank you, blake burman in washington.e've been talking about battles brewing all over the place this week but this particular one seems like it is building for about a decade or so in techland. facebook's mark zuckerberg is accusing apple of abusing its market power as it is now speeding up plans to help users stop apps from tracking people's data across the web. as carol and scott come back on this, carol, you first on this issue. apple will update their operating system. i guess the point of that is they're going to require you to opt in for this ad tracking as opposed to already be in and then have to opt out. mark zuckerberg is not happy. does he have a legit beef, do you think? >> first of all for full disclosure i own facebook stock but also very much on the side of privacy and i think we should have control over what we're opting into and what we're opting out of. we've been completely abused from a privacy standpoint. i think his bigger issue is that apple may not be doing the same things for their own, you know s

all right, blake burman at the white house, blake thank you very much. as the biden administration looks to ramp up covid-19 vaccine production, the impact of the virus on the economy of course continues to grow. over 410,000 americans have now lost their lives with positive cases rising to well over 24 million closing in on 25 million, and now, retail giants amazon and walmart are stepping up. walmart expanding its vaccination rollout into seven more states as well as chicago and puerto rico. amazon is set to open a vaccine pop-up site at the company's seattle headquarters this sunday now, joining us first off former utah governor and secretary of health and human services under george w. bush, michael levitt. mike, so much, well governor mike, i guess i should call you. governor, thank you so much for joining us. do you think, and i recognize your face from all the way back then, do you think the president 's goal, president biden's goal of 100 million doses in 100 days is realistic? >> it is, but we need to have all hands-on deck. the expansion of the

blake, blake burman live on the white house north lawn.et's bring in steve moore in, freedomworks economist, robert wolf, the former economic advisor to former president obama. two good economic minds here, friends of our show. nice to have you on together. left and right. we can agree on a thing or two, i don't know. robert, you go first. steve will follow on the same thought. you know we're a couple days here obviously we all saw what happened in washington. the stock market continues to set these new highs. what is the message. what are you taking away from that? robert first, then steve. go ahead. >> first, connell i have to agree with blake, too little too late. this is understatement transition from the president has been a disaster. we have a pandemic, we have a slow recovery. this transition should be happening every day like every normal transition when there is a passage of power. this should have been handled and this failed experiment for four years can't get out of here soon enough. january 20th can't come soon enough. listen

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to the white house and blake burman on what, blake, is arguably one of the most important issues for voters in every election cycle. >> reporter: yeah, liz, and it was two orders the president just signed within the last hour, the first one calls on health and human services to expand the open enrollment period for the affordable care act, expand it to february 15th to may 15th, so that's an additional three potential months there. we heard from the president a little while ago saying he also want an expansion of medicaid as well, and he said it's a pretty simple idea, pretty simple reason behind his actions today. >> basically, the best way to describe it is to undo the damage trump has done. there's nothing you can do that we're doing here other than restoring the affordable care act and restoring the medicaid to the way it was before trump became president. >> reporter: the president also rescinded the mexico city policy today which has limited federal money going to nongovernmental organizations that provide abortions. the top republican in washington, mitch mcconnell, voiced his

let's take it to the white house live, where blake burman has more on the fallout from wednesday's capitol hill riots, where five people died. blake, these bank developments speak to the difficulty donald trump may really have in running his company once he leaves office. reporter: and we really have seen a widespread pullback in corporate america as a reaction to the president and his behavior last week in what ended up unfolding here in washington, d.c. on wednesday. the president right now is in alamo, texas trying to highlight some of the accomplishments as he sees it along the southern border during the four years of his presidency, but before the president left for texas this morning, and that is a live picture of the president in texas, president trump essentially said this morning that he didn't do anything wrong, that he believes that his speech last week actually hit the right tone. this was the president earlier today as he left the white house. listen. >> it's been analyzed and people thought that what i said was totally appropriate, but they've analyzed my speech and my words

let's go to the white house, where blake burman is standing by. here is the $2 trillion number come from? i was hearing one and a half, one. reporter: important to note, the biden team itself has yet to put out its official proposal and all the details within it but you can look at what's happened here in washington over the last few weeks or so. remember, the last deal that was signed, $900 billion, negotiated between democrats and republicans, but democrats wanted $2.5 trillion more than that, so it stand to reason that when democrats get control, full control of washington, in just six days' time, there could be a multi-trillion dollar package put forth up on the hill, and having the backing of the 46th president at that time. in fact, when we heard from president-elect biden last week, teasing the announcement that he will make later this evening, he didn't shy away from talking about trillions of dollars in economic stimulus. listen. >> consensus among leading economists, left, right and center, is that in order to keep the economy from collap

liz: blake burman live from the white house. thank you so much. this could roil or rally stocks, such as the houseboat on impeachment this hour. tomorrow jerome powell may indicate the trajectory of bond purchases the fed has used two stimulate the economy during the pandemic and president-elect joe biden tomorrow unveils his stimulus plan, we know those types of numbers move the market. then you throw when earnings season which kicks off friday with the big banks releasing results and potential stock storm. here to tell investors what to tune out and what to focus on as j.p. morgan chief strategist david kelli, we are literally checking second by second it's unclear whether the vote will take place before the closing bell but let's start with that, what you expect market reaction could be like even as it's been well telegraphed. >> that is the key, it has been well telegraphed, i don't expect a market reaction i think the markets have looked through this, they're making assumption that there is in the end and orderly transition on the 25th of jan

our fox business team coverage blake burman in washington, kristina partsinevelos in a gamestop location in york with a good story. edward lawrence on capitol hill in lauren simonetti standing by. but we start with you lauren. >> you said it it's been a crazy volatile week and we continue to witness a tug-of-war between retail traders in wall street with everyone paying attention a lot of people are worried, you have sec, congress, janet yellen, the treasury secretary in the new york attorney general as well as texas the texas attorney general say they will look into the massive stock in trade restrictions on trading platforms. robinhood announced they would restrict trades of heavily shorted stocks this is gamestop, amsi, et cetera today robinhood as well has set new limits on trading heavily shorted stocks so there is a few restrictions out there just as robinhood does seek a line of credit they say they have enough liquidity but a? around that. but nonetheless users are furious. >> too intentionally crater a stock at the expense of all your customers, that is criminal in my mind they

blake burman is keeping track with all of this. join us from washington with the details. blake?atest numbers from the cdc this afternoon and continues to show a struggle to get americans vaccinated across the country. the latest numbers, 17 million doses have been shipped out this point but only 4.8 million doses have been administered. that is 28%. the american hospital association plays a role giving out the doses says it needs help from the federal government. complex problem but add the following in a statement, quote, we expect these issues to be worked out and the pace of vaccinations will increase dramatically over the next couple weeks but the federal role must go beyond just handing off the vaccines to the states. the states received 340 million-dollars from the federal government in 2020 but a look across the map doesn't necessarily show a correlation between money and being able to get people vaccinated. i want to give you one example, for example, washington state and arizona, they received just about the same amount of money, $8 million, or so. they received just ab

blake, thank you very much, blake burman. so let's look to the markets here. they are picking up right where they left off when the chaos on capitol hill unfolded yesterday, and that is a surge to all-time highs. let me just put this out here. any gain for the dow or russell, any move at the close will be a record. final certification of the biden presidency is not the only driver here. the democratic sweep, as we mentioned, spurring goldman sachs to hike its growth forecast for this year from 5.9% economic expansion to 6.4%. add to that this: the ism non-manufacturing pmi, this is the services part of this up dex, expanded at a much quicker pace than expected last month, and then weekly initial and continuing jobless claims while still historically high look better than expected. as we watch this record run, let's take you to the floor show and our traders, john and case capital advisers kenny. be till my heart. -- be still my heart. it's been too long since we've had you on the show. the cup's been through the wringer the last 48 hours, but the markets conti

box business blake burman is at the white house, edward lawrence in washington and we begin edward with you of the jobs report. >> we are starting to hear the delay in getting relief to people slowing the economy the employment rate stayed at 6.7% the overall we lost 140,000 jobs in december that the single largest loss of jobs in one month since april 2020. disappointing news for the vice chairman of the federal reserve. >> clearly a setback in december with the sluggish decline of payroll. right now not something i would expect to continue into the new year. >> he thanks the relief package will help boost employment by the summer assuming we can continue vaccinations and open the economy, one part of the relief package is restarting the payroll protection program it is been re-upped with $284 billion with forgivable loans, the first two rounds of the program was credited with supporting or the 51 million jobs and this is what the market is wayne stimulus versus economic growth. the jobs report if you take out one critical sector it was not that bad, the job gains in retail of 121,000

liz: blake burman standing by the white house once a president arrives, you can see on the screen he's at arlington cemetery he is laying a wreath at the tomb of the unknown soldier in the former president clinton, former president obama and former president bush are apparently there with him. president biden is going to inherit an emotionally wounded and scarred economy, it is really blended by the pandemic. he also takes the reins of a stock market that performed remarkably strongly under donald trump. through the decades overall market have on average performed better under democratic presidents on me show you the most recent comparison we can make that are close to apples and apples. the first four years of the obama biden presidency versus president trump's one turn if you look at the dow under president trump the blue-chip gain 56% versus a gain of 71% under the obama administration. for that over to the s&p which saw gains of 67-point to percent under trump, 84.5% under obama in both number strong, look at the nasdaq under obama and biden is skyrocketed 115% but during trump's f

blake burman has a seat in the briefing room today with the way the seating goes there with the covidhe is in the briefing. so we'll bring you headlines in a few minutes of what he is actually saying. dr. garza, we appreciate you coming on, as we stay on top of the story. >> sure. connell: there is a "fox business alert" right now on corporate earnings. something strange happened with intel here in the last few minutes, jackie deangelis happened in the newsroom. stock market was closing. i saw headlines, intel's report was out "after the bell." headlines before "after the bell." almost like got released early. reporter: looks like they jumped the gun a little bit. numbers look good, connell. stock is trading down in of after-hours. earnings per shea $1.52. that was also better than expected. 1.10 was the estimate there. intel issued guidance and that is what investors tend to look at. i'm wonder if there is not a issue there. revenue for the first quarter, 16.06 billion and earnings per share 93 cents first quarter tends to be a little bit slower. we're seeing a slow down because of p

blake burman on the north lawn, let's go to steve forbes and i want to go back to what blake was originally reporting on it. we saw from the president today was basically, at least, to start things off, an attempt at economic recovery through executive order, so what do you make of this approach early in the biden administration? >> well, the executive orders are, i think, really not that bad at all in terms of trying to make people get food stamps and the like, who need them and what they call snap now, so those things are things that most people would approve. the big things are coming up in terms of this massive spending bill that the president wants to put through. also on minimum wage, which will hurt small businesses around the country. one study would find or found that 3.7 million jobs be caused if you enacted a $15 national minimum wage instead of leaving it to the states and other regulations coming along could cost another 6 million jobs including some of the pieces of this $1.9 trillion stimulus package that the president wants to get through, so in terms of what he did today an

our fox business team coverage, blake burman on the white house north lawn, hillary vaughn in capitol hill, and edward lawrence also in washington and cheryl casone reporting on the netflix earnings. she is back in our new york newsroom. let's ginsengsly right behind behind me with blake. the president-elect made comments on his way to washington this afternoon. reporter: come to washington 300 yards over your right hand shoulder. we're expecting president-elect biden soon to be the 46th president of the united states landing here shortly. he took off from the home state of delaware half an hour ago t was a short, but very emotional farewell speech for the president-elect as left his home state giving a speech at a naval station or a revive station named after his late son beau. listen. >> well, excuse the emotion but when i die, delaware will be written on my heart. i am proud, proud, proud, proud to be a son of delaware and i am even more proud to be standing here doing this from the major beau biden facility. ladies and gentlemen, i only have one regret, he is not here. reporter: c

neil: blake burman at the white house, thank you very much.nope. we use 11. eleven. why do an expense report from your phone when you can do it from a machine that jams? i just emailed my wife's social security number to the entire company instead of hr, so... please come back. how hard is your business software working for you? with paycom, employees enter and manage their own hr data in one easy-to-use software. visit paycom.com for a free demo. hon? first off, we love each other... this is decision tech. find a stock based on your interests or what's trending. get real-time insights in your customized view of the market. it's smarter trading technology for smarter trading decisions. fidelity. neil: blake burman already told us no roadshow to get the $1.9 trillion stimulus plan and the white house is not interested in breaking it up into two plans with a contentious age to government and states in a separate package, it is all or nothing. so far all or nothing. let's go to charles payne who is certainly not nothing. charles: thank you very m

neil: that is a very thorough wrapup, thank you very much, great job as always, blake burman on a lotwsmaking developments, before we go back to th that. for in the middle of the constitutional of president republican leaders at odds over the wisdom of the account of the electoral vote count i have a funny way of showing it, this despite the possibility that republicans could be losing control of the senate if david produce eat goes down right now he is still trailing in the race and kelli law flirting lost her race, if you think of the environment will start to truly be down but what is giving them hope the fact that they are making lemonade out of what otherwise would be market lemons anticipating there will be stimulus in the reserve will do all of it can to help this in all of this disruption washington notwithstanding with people being arrested and reports of senate and house buildings being evacuated and the better part of safety as thousands to send on the capital the troops are called out but again an opportunity right now to keep going, i want to draw your attention to what i

blake burman at the white house with more on today's orders. blake? today. you're right, focusing on healthcare. one of them asks hhs health and human services to look into extending a new affordable care act enrollment period. that being from february 15 to may 15. talking give or take three months there. the president saying it's simple as to why he wants this to happen. watch? >> basically the best way to describe it, to undo the damage trump has done. there's nothing new that we're doing here other than restoring the affordable care act and restoring the medicaid to the way it was before trump became president. >> so you mentioned that number 40. 40 executive actions that biden has taken in the first nine days of his administration. the president as you know campaigned on unity. at the press briefing this afternoon, jen psaki was asked to defend all of the executive actions to date. this is her response. >> he also ran with a commitment to take steps immediately to address the pain and suffering that the american people were feeling that includes

neil: blake burman thank you very much happy new year, blake and washington, d.c. phil keating in florida that state is busy trying to get vaccines out and try to get them to the right people mainly older folks the key constituent group in that state, the sooner and the faster the better, i believe you're in broward county right now. >> the town of gave me florida, as you mentioned earlier, distribution and delivery were big challenges not only important but nationwide the state of florida continuing the weeklong surge of coronavirus cases, yesterday alone had nearly 11300 new cases bringing the state total so far to 1.4 million along with 22000 deaths, here at the senior 65 in upper lined up in their cars to get their first of two vaccine shots, the line has been here since 6:00 a.m. for the 600 vaccine shots available, further up the state here is a line of seniors in daytona beach which has seen long lines of the past couple of days, such high demand for the shot, the city let 1000 or so cars comes inside the stadium starting last night where people basically sl

blake burman with more on that. how that is sorting out. blake? reporter: neil, remember, not one, two, but three different cabinet secretaries resigned from the trump administration within the last handful of days because of the president's actions last wednesday. as we heard from president trump when he left the white house to head out to texas to try to tout his accomplishments during his administration along the southern border the president contended his speech was leak was completely appropriate. >> it has been analyzed. people thought what i said was totally appropriate but they have analyzed my speech and my words and my final paragraph, my final sentence, everybody to a t thought it was totally appropriate. reporter: the biggest technology companies by and large frozen the president from the social media accounts because they fear he could use those platforms to incite further violence. the president described that decision from those companies as catastrophic. >> i think big tech has made a terrible mistake and very, very bad for our cou

i lost track, but blake burman has not. joined us from the white house with more. hi, there, blake.eil, i have. certainly a lot of them from president biden in the first eight or nine days of the administration here. now the executive actions as we turn to health care in the upcoming hour. two main points to note from the biden white house as the president is about to sign these eos. first off the president asking the health and human services department to have a new open enrollment period for the affordable care act. that period, at least asking hhs to consider it, would be from february 15th. until may 15th. talking about three months time. the biden administration believes the trump administration did not highlight the enrollment periods. they feel uninsured americans suffered as a result. official from the biden white house saying quote, we're really looking to reach people who had been eligible all along but may not have been aware ever the opportunity to sign up for coverage. that is one aspect. the president will also scrap the mexico city policy. this is an executive order

blake burman at the white house on all of that.o to don peebles, of course the democratic fund-raiser extraordinaire, donor and, don, we were talking about the markets and how they were digesting all this craziness, in two words, very well. what do you make of that? if you think about it now with certain live democrats have the run ever the table, the white house, the senate and the house, they could get through as close as it will be in the senate these tax increases, you know, market related tax increases and they don't seem to care? what do you make of that? >> well i think, one, that the, you know, the election in georgia was a little bit after surprise but people saw it coming, markets coming. we have already built into the concept that there would be some form of tax reform, heavily driven by the pandemic. the country will need more resources to help dig us out and help the country come recover from covid. neil: so play it out for me. you're a savvy businessman, good read of economy, good read of a lot of things. you're a sma

to blake burman live at the white house, blake, the biden vaccine plan coincides with this letter that a group of governors has just sent to current health and human services secretary alex azar begging for the same thing, release the vaccines. any word on the response? >> reporter: here's the letter right here, liz. it was sent by governors of eight different states, the governors of michigan, kansas, minnesota if, washington, california, illinois, new york and the state of wisconsin. and it says to get the vaccine -- essentially not hold them back, get them all out there. quote, we demand that the federal government given distributing these reserve doses to states immediately. it's part of what president-elect biden says will be a part of his plan. liz, as we've also been reporting here over the last week or so, it's not so much that the states don't have enough doses at this point, it's that they can't get them into the arms of people fast enough. right now the national average, for example, is somewhere at around 30%. we also heard, as you're taking a live look at the president-ele

back at the white house president joe biden focusing on coronavirus stimulus to blake burman, we heard from chuck schumer, now the senate leader that people may have to wait till mid march, what is going on. >> we had some news from chuck schumer, i think it was pretty big news and that is because the democrats on the hill, senate republicans are negotiating on the $1.9 trillion package, however, chuck schumer this afternoon has said democrats are willing to roll out a budget as early as next week, why is that important, a budget is the vehicle by which democrats could end up using reconciliation which is a process that democrats can used to go out all of this alone to coalesce all democratic support and move forward with the $1.9 trillion package as they wish. schumer a little while ago laid down a marker for senate republicans during this negotiation. listen to the senate majority leader on the hill this afternoon. >> we want to work with our republican colleagues who advances legislation in a bipartisan way but the work must move forward. preferably with our republican colleagues bu

to the white house live blake burman is there he is more on the president's plan to bring the deadly pandemic under control. liz: i'm going to show you those live pictures as president biden is inside the white house for the last ten or 15 minutes and started to outline the executive orders that he will sign momentarily were told from the white house the president will sign ten of them today as it relates to covid-19 and trying to tackle the pandemic the president unveiling his administration strategy to deal with it all, let me kicked through the executive orders that the president will sign momentarily. invoking the defense act for manufacturing and delivery of undersupplied ppe he will set up a covid-19 pandemic testing board, he will implore the health and human services and the department of education to issue new guidance on school re-openings and ask osha to issue guidance for workers and businesses, how to keep workers safe the president will sign an executive order on mask wearing making it mandatory in airports and when you're on public transportation, airplanes, trains, po

blake burman live on the north lawn of the white house. thanks for joining us, and we'll see you tomorrow. ♪ lou: good evening, everybody. after four years of the greatest single term in american history, president trump today left the white house, and he spoke to the american people one last time as president of the united states. >> what we've done has been amazing by any standard. we rebuilt the united states military -- [cheers and applause] we created a new force called space force. that in itself would be a major achievement for a regular administrationment we were not a regular administration. i'm looking at, i'm looking at elements of our economy that are set to be a rocket ship up. it's a rocket ship up. we have the greatest country in the world. we have the greatest economy in the world. and in a month when we're sitting at florida, we're not going to be looking at each other and saying, you know, if we only worked harder. you can't work harder. i wish the new administration great luck and great success. i think they'll have grea

. >> martha: let's -- we're doing blake burman and talk about the economic impact of all of this.t harold is saying, you know, when you look at the executive orders, may have been ground more palatable for both sides as susan eisenhowers talked about priorities when faced with something like covid-19. blake burman, let's talk about the prospect of the end to the xl keystone pipeline, a change in the paris climate agreement. all of these things that will have an impact on the bottom line for a lot of companies, for a lot of workers. >> big business decisions for folks across the country. you mentioned a couple of them. whether or not you're working on the pipeline which runs down the middle of the country, othermer sures that we're expected to hear from the biden team and the president in the oval office. you mentioned the paris climate accord, something the president got out of because he's felt it was too harmful for businesses. other actions we're expecting to see from the president, cancelling the construction of the border wall, a mask mandate on federal property. what is inte

but first, blake burman with a different kind of inauguration. i remember in 1869, blake, covering -- [laughter] president johnson not wanting to go to his successor's inauguration, and i thought, boy, i won't see this again for more than a century. now here we are. >> reporter: i was covering the one in 1969. i was wondering about the one in 1869. i'm just kidding. [laughter] but, yes, you're right, it is certainly interesting. let's actually start there, neil, as president trump saying today that he will not be going to the inauguration of joe biden here 12 days from now. it'll be 12 days at this very point that joe biden will be sworn in as the 46th president of the united states. it's interesting, neil, because as you mentioned, it's been, what, 1360 year -- 160 years sincing something like this has happened, but we have some recent examples. just look back to the last inauguration. hillary clinton lost the election, was there front and center as a former first lady, of course. and then 20 years ago, al gore when he lost to george w. bush, the

fox business team coverage, blake burman in washington. gerri willis, mentioned microsoft, she is standing by waiting for those figures to come in and phil flynn has new developments, big ones in fact for the oil industry. we'll get to everybody on those stories. blake, we'll start with you. chuck schumer threatening to put the budget on the floor next week. that could be important, right, starting the process of passing these stimulus, or stimulus proposal through rec skill ages we talked about. reporter: exactly. big headline from the senate majority leader chuck schumer. where things stand now, $1.9 trillion plan president biden put forward, there are negotiations taking place between the white house, democrats up on hill, republican senators as well. chuck schumer threatened to go forward with the budget process starting next week. what does all that mean? well the budget process essentially is the vehicle by which democrats could use reconciliation. reconciliation is the means by which democrats could say, well if the negotiations wit

we begin with blake burman at the white house reporting on the new guidelines for vaccine distribution. blake. reporter: connell, clearly a shift in strategy from the trump administration today on this front. we heard from top officials from "operation warp speed" say they are no longer, the federal government will no longer be holding back covid-19 doses. they are also recommending to the states at this point they vaccinate people within their states who are either older than 65 years or under 65 but have comorbidities. listen. >> to really emphasize, to make it very clear how vitally important it is to prioritize and focus on those who are most vulnerable for whom the vaccine will have the biggest effect and those are those age 65 and over and those 64 and below with comorbidities. reporter: here are the latest numbers. yesterday morning 25 1/2 million doses had been shipped across the country but roughly 35% of those, just shy of nine million have actually made it into the arms of americans. "operation warp speed" officials think there could be a lag in reporting but they also say t

to blame berman who's live at the -- blake burman who's live at the white house.hat content threshold, he gave a nod to the trump administration on that, but said there were too many sort of loopholes that people were using when it came to waivers. so what he's trying to do, correct me if i'm wrong, is spur demand by making -- or spur manufacturers by making demand go up on behalf of the federal government. >> reporter: you might be watching this and say, well, wait a minute, i thought there was already a made in america policy at the federal level. i thought the trump administration did that. are. liz: right. >> reporter: you're right, they did. this was a key thing from the prior administration, and the current administration was asked about that, liz, last night when we were on a conference call with them. and the biden administration is saying, look, they are putting this into play now because they feel, essentially, it was a lot of talk and no action on this front from the trump administration. for example, a biden official telling us on this matter that it w

blake burman live from the white house. many components in the $1.9 trillion package is the president's call on congress to increase the federal minimum wage twofold, from $7.25 lars to at least $15 an hour. there were many calls the last several days between the white house, legislators, stakeholders, for example. the white house says some of its top representatives were speaking with a bipartisan group of lawmakers, bipartisan group of senators last weekend as well. that call was described from the white house as constructive and productive. a little while ago we heard from press secretary jen psaki signaled the white house would like a resolution on this front of $1.9 trillion plan by march. as this idea of a minimum wage being included in it is getting criticized by many republicans here in washington, the press secretary was asked whether or not the president would tailor his plan? this was her response. >> i'm not going to negotiate from here. not that you're expecting me necessarily to do that but again the president

blake burman starts us off this hour covering the white house, standing by for us with a recap what we all witnessed. blake? reporter: connell, two of certainly the biggest headlines on president biden we saw, what you hit on the vaccine process. the biden administration talking first days in the white house, weeks long on the campaign trail getting 100 million doses into the arms of americans in the first 100 days of president biden occupying that building behind me. we heard today though just moments ago from the president of him upping that number substantially. now saying saying that the goala million 1/2 shots a day or 150 million doses administered over the first 100 days. there had been some questions being posed to the president in recent days because we are getting close to that number of about a million shots a day on a rolling average over the last week or so so the question had been posed to president, well are you settling? should you raise that bar higher? and what we just heard from the president was indeed raising that bar higher, saying well, maybe we could do 150 mill

blake burman from the white house joins us with more. i heard it.ience, admit the president does encourage protesters or support es to go home. i see him on our screen, guys? are we ready to play that. he encourages his supporters to go home but also talks on and on about how the election is fraudulent and that type of thing. give us a minute here. we'll get it racked up. blake, your thoughts? reporter: i listened to it too. it literally dropped on twitter moments ago. one minute two seconds. president on four or five different occasions tells his supporters that have stormed the u.s. capitol building at least in some instances to go home. the president, it had taken several hours up until this point for president trump to tell those supporters to leave the u.s. capitol but he has done just that. there had been some criticism from those very close to the president, for example, his former chief of staff mick mulvaney saying the president's initial comments were not enough. the president's former communications director had him -- >> it is a very tou

let's get to our top story, blake burman joined us from washington. the president-elect is speaking again right now and this is a big one for the economy and for our health talking about the vaccination plan. what is he been saying? >> the goal for president-elect biden is to have 100 million covid-19 vaccine doses the ministered in the first hundred days of his presidency. he has been speaking about the last five or ten minutes outlining how he wants to go through that, the biden team has released a plan and then be kicked or what the president-elect says his or administration will be doing in the early weeks and months to get the doses are ministered. he wants to create federally supported vaccination centers he wants to launch mobile vaccination clinics so they can go into areas where people are getting vaccinated in a high enough rate, reimburse state to end up deploying the national guard to help out with vaccinations. he's talking about hiring 100,000 public health workers and he wants to launch a public education campaign. a million doses admin

time for the news happening at this hour fox business team coverage blake burman at the white house, jeff flock at chicago's o'hare airport, jackie deangelis and susan li both in our new york newsroom and ashley webster reporting from florida. blake ahead of the big speech by the president-elect, many investors are looking to stimulus. we saw jobless claims surging this morning maybe adding more to it. let's kick it off with you. what is the latest there? reporter: remember connell, when democrats and republicans negotiated the last deal at the end of last year, democrats came down two trillion dollars from the initial ask. part of the belief the president-elect when democrats will have full control of washington six days from now will ask for roughly 2 trillion-dollar economic relief package. when we heard from the president-elect, he had this announcement. he will speak a few hours from now. he didn't shy away from the possibility of asking for a multitrillion dollar stimulus package. listen. >> we'll be in the trillions of dollars, the entire package. the basic story is simple, if

blake burman at the white house with more. blake, it has been a long time since it has been raised. a doubling a quite a jump for a lot of people. reporter: david, as we've seen from president trump, this is focus of him and his administration. the president pushed potential raising of minimum wage calling on congress to do so in his $1.9 trillion stimulus poe proposal. the white house has said that there have been conversations for many days now, outreach conversations with lawmakers and stakeholders about that perspective proposal. we do know there was a call over the week ofened with a group of bipartisan senator about this $1.9 trillion plan. here is what a biden administration said about the call over the weekend, quote, it was a productive, constructive discussion an opportunity to go into more details around the provision of president's american rescue plan. to help reinforce urgency of action, decisive action. any attempt to include the minimum wage will not fly with senate republicans in potential relief plan. >> the bigger issue whether or not we'll be specific on covid re

border, blake burman is with us from the white house. vice president elect kamala harris said the first major legislative proposal of the incoming biden administration is going to be on immigration and they say it's going to be dated back to january 1, here's what we can expect the policy or some of it to be an eight-year process for those who want to become u.s. citizens, however, those in the u.s. under temporary protected status or dreamers people brought to the u.s. by their parents when they were children can apply immediately, the biden administration wants to expand the refugee admissions program, increase work and family visas and up the amount of technology at the southern border which would replace the focus of the trump administration in the wall, here is the vice president elect speaking to univision. >> were going to reduce the time from what has currently been 15 years to eight years, we are going to expand protections for dreamers and daca recipients, these are some of the things we will do in our immigration bill and we b