brian morgenstern, thank you so much.t, lucky to have him come a professor of health policy and management at johns hopkins school of public health, fox news contributor and author of the price we pay. pretty exciting day, 1.8 million doses administered already worldwide, 556,208 doses administered in the u.s. going into today's action and we get no dharna a coming online now and tomorrow, the hhs secretary will give it publicly, tell us how optimistic you feel, doctor. >> good evening. it's a lot of really great news but there is a false construct out there, a recommendation that we need to get every american immunized in order to get a handle on the pandemic. the reality is that about 25 to 50% of americans have already had the infection and have some natural immunity. we don't know if that's a little better, a little worse, or the same as vaccinated immunity but we know we are not seeing re-infections in that group and the rare times it occurs, they are very mild so we may only need to get an additional 20% of the popu

that's the problem right there, brian. >> brian: chad, i thought you would have an early night, it's not the case with this administration. it chad pergram, thanks much, and i appreciate it. i look forward to the next chapter., >> hotel california. you can check in but you can never leave. thank you, sir. chad, thank you. meanwhile, senator marsha blackburn who voted no on this bill along with five other senators. are you surprised the president blew this up tonight? >> not surprised. s we have worked for months on targeted relief that would meet the needs of the american people, and i talked to tennessee owens, and they want relief for small businesses, more in unemployment, money for schools, they want to get back to work,pr they want children bk to school, they need liability protection, which is not in a spell. i think the president looked at what finally got put together and said, wait a minute, you've got all of this money that is going to give money to illegal aliens in the country, it's going to give them money retroactively.of you are spending money with pakistan, egypt, ren

brian takes that to heart. he constantly reminds those around them that only senators are senators, even at sometimes people would have it be otherwise. i have been fortunate enough to be on the energy and natural resources committee since i came to the senate 18 years ago, best committee out there. i have been privileged now to chair this committee for six years and prior to that i was privileged to be the ranking member on that committee for six years. everybody, everybody on that committee works their tails off. they are hard workers and extraordinary team but i think that that work ethict is set by our staff directors and i've been so blessed to have staff directors that show and model that work ethic and brian has done that over the years. whether on a late night or early morning call on pending legislation, trips to check up on our volcano monetary systems, brian has been there at my side as an indispensable aid and an inspiration, i think, to all of his colleagues. he really is one of those extraordinary

democrats would have to win both of them, brian. brian: so true.steve schwarzman $15 million to the senate leadership committees. >ceo ofsomething important. he put a lot of money. in republicans, with karl rove at the helm, even though he sells it's hard they are going to outraise democrats unlike what happened in the general election a couple of things. the democratic candidates aren't exactly west virginia senator joe manchin. these are way out there. you talk about a red state that might be purple in georgia that shocked everybody because it didn't go for the president as of now until other things could be proven, perhaps, some fraud, but these are left wing candidates. i mean, this raphael warnock says basically you can't worship god and the military. he is anti-gun. he also is for the green new deal. that's usually how you spell georgia heavy into the military. ossoff is somebody who perdue beat handily last time. laura incorporate 2k3wr578 did a great job last night. turn into sunday for special coverage of the debate. david perdue is not in

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brian: absolutely. thanks, brian. appreciate it. let's go out to janice dean to find out what is coming up next around the country at least around the northeast. janice? janice: we got some pretty blockbuster snow totals. so even though the new york city area under performed a little bit because of that rain, sleet, freezing rain mixture, cutting back some of those totals, look at pennsylvania. 40 inches of snow. and it's still, it's still snowing in many so of these regions. parts of upstate new york as well. bing hamton 33 inches. we are definitely surpassing 3 feet of snow in parts of central pennsylvania and upstate new york. the storm is going to be with us so around the new york city area we are getting snow reports right now for the next several hours. snow and blustery winds along the coast. 400, 50 miles per hour. ing blowing snow traveling dangerous if not impossible in some of these areas. we will keep you up to date. big snow day for a lot of kids. back to you, ainsley, steve and brian. ainsley: huge snow day kid out of

ainsley, steve, brian? ainsley: thank you, griff. brian? brian: well, where do you go from here?ow about going back to the "new york post"? because they talked about this story. how about going back to tucker carlson's show when he sat down with tony bobulinski over the course of two days where close to 10 million people watched every night. so he is the guy with impeccable credentials and credibility. brought in to run the biden business because of his background. he talked about sitting down with the then former vice president of the united states now according to some the president-elect. so what do we know yesterday? we know that since the spring, that there was an investigation beyond going about hunter. where was the investigation going on? one in delaware, one in manhattan. one in -- the one in delaware was focused on his financial dealings locally, domestically in manhattan looking at some of his international deals. he was implicated but not targeted. so he has come up and he is playing defense now. they also brought up this 2.8 karat diamond given by hunter biden since

brian: this is awesome. ainsley: employee of the month. brian. brian: it's great. the ceo speaking out. >> what sh when she boycotted ur sales increased 1,000%. we gave her an honorary. we never were able to hand it to her. employee to the month for bringing attentioning to goya and our adobe bow. brian: she has no idea about business even though she has an economics agree. think about new york, which is flat on its back. they have need an economic rests pier rarity and think about what it would have done right here through the tunnel revitalized everything and brought tens of thousands of jobs. she feels great because they would have gotten a tax break. she forced them out. congratulations. steve: she was calling for a boycott and it ended up being a buy cot. congratulations to her. i bet if she had a car they would give her a parking place. employee of the month parking place outside of the fact trip. let's see if she collects on it. 6:16 in no. carley is joining us today once again with the headlines. carley: we will start right here with this. a funeral set for

brian: dr. you have to keep saying that over and over again because people think they are saving us by keeping us at home out of school and out of business and out of work. and there is damage to be done there. there is a price to pay. that's a generation of kids for a year that have not seen friends, have not seen teachers, have not grown and they are only going to be kids once. dr. siegel, thank you so much. >> only going to be kids once, brian, absolutely. have a great day. brian: all right. look forward to seeing your video from today. meanwhile, still ahead. outrage growing from house g.o.p. lawmakers who say they were left in the dark over the swalwell chinese spy controversy. congresswoman elise stephan neck says the california democrat needs to step down from the intel committee right await a minute plus more from my interview with president trump talk more about the vaccine and election challenges and what happens at noon today. you will hear from the president right after this. ♪ ♪ oh

brian? brian: yeah.ople educated need the education at the same time as you need to see what the price people will pay if we don't all go out and get it. make your land in the sand little kid got measles, polio, mumps all this stuff to get to school for the most part. now it's an interesting time to say i'm a little skeptical. but do your research. five minutes now after the hour. let's talk about the number one issue that should be facing our country holistically and that is china every way shape and form. the president of the united states saw that. marco rubio has been talking about that. here is what he said yesterday. he said if senator aruba is named chairman of the senate select committee on intelligence as expected, he plans to hold a public hearing on fang fang or christine fang and chinese espionage as soon as possible in the new year. we hear the reports of them going through every etch of our government. seeing them go into wall street. meeting with wall street executives before the president

>> brian needed assistance. brian needed compassion. brian needed to be heard. but none of that happened. >> maybe what brian needed most was for bomb techs to defuse the bomb around his neck. the erie bomb squad didn't get that chance. coming from another part of town they arrived just two minutes after the explosion. the commander suited up into his bomb gear. >> what did you make of it? >> the collar still remained on his neck. so you could see that, and we couldn't tell whether there was any explosive devices inside, what remained of that collar. >> had you ever seen anything like it? >> like that? no. really, nobody in the united states had seen anything like that. >> that included jerry clark, with 20 years of law enforcement experience under his belt. he was joined at the scene by his fbi supervisor. >> after both of us initially said, oh, my god, i can't believe what we saw. i got -- i said, i gotta have this case. " and he said it's yours, let's go. >> from the first moments, every move agent clark made would be under intense scrutiny. >> it was a media

brian, over to you. brian: thanks, pete.united states of america. and the heimlich america everyone thinks that's good enough only works half the time. a chance our next guest a father did not want to take. he took things into his own hand and invented this thing life back which has been credited with saving almost 100 people around the globe. in 500 schools. inventor and good friend of mine life vac joins us. what happened 9 years ago that got you out of retirement? >> brian, i was in the hospital just visiting a friend. his mom was having something done and he pointed across the room at a gunny. one of those steel cold gurneys and he said last time he was there there was a 7-year-old on that gurney and choked to death on a grape. and my daughter was 7. my best friend died in my arms. all that pain and the thought of the parents losing their child. i said i can't let that happen to my little girl. and i started researching and findings out, you know, it's not a freak accident. one child every five days. leading cause of dea

ainsley: good luck, brian. brian: network television pays well.ve: good luck to you ryan see crist. did you notice today is tuesday, december 1st. that's right, we are in december, finally. and that's why we are looking at the all-american christmas tree out front. and, notice, it's snowing in here. ainsley: i know, december 1st y'all. christmas is around the corner. let's focus on that because it's been a tough year for everyone. all americans want the vaccine or most americans i should say we could get one, all of us by the summer. that's the message from operation warp speed. >> what is your expectations come june? >> 100% of americans that want the vaccine will have the vaccine at that point in time. ainsley: today the cdc panel is going to meet to discuss who is going to get the vaccine first. brian: my deltoid's ready this as hospitalizations reach a record high in new york governor andrew cuomo who is a bestselling author says house of representatives are overwhelmed and they could lead to another lockdown if this continues. >> real hospita

brian? brian: thanks, jillian. get.planning to sign a city budget next year that cuts police funding by 18%. this comes as the city marks 15 homicides this year. the highest number in over a decade. how about that surprising combination. and local businesses are still plagued by vandalism the few that are open. what impacted will this budget cut have on the city and law enforcement? let's pretend to be curious and go to jason rantz. jason, this is like seeing a raging fire and pouring gasoline on it. how could they possibly rationalize cutting the police budget? >> they rationalize it because in seattle the counsel and mayor's office driven by. so radical activists in the community. right now they have the ear of the black lives matter movement and various antifa organizations or antifa activists who have been rioting or excuse me peacefully protesting for the last several months. so they have been putting on the pressure. they have been leaning on this counsel. they got the council to agree to 50% glass half full they

brian: thank you.: can you break something with a nerf gun but we have a happy ending to that story. plus, we will figure out exactly who it was that got the letter from the neighbor complaining about the christmas lights. so we got a busy three hours that starts right now. brian: right. just for the record if you watch fred claus there are bad noe bad kids. nobody naughty on christmas. we begin with griff jenkins as nevada supreme court throws out a trump campaign appeal to overturn state election results overnight. griff, it's about 50 cases for the president's team and no victories yet. griff: that's right, brain, ainsley and steve. good morning to you. overnight a set back for the president in nevada. the clock is ticking toward the electoral college next tuesday. look out, here comes the lone star state. pennsylvania, georgia, michigan and wisconsin. asking the u.s. supreme court to declare their state certification is in violation of the elector's clause and 14th amendment thus their electoral co

brian?speakership of the house in just over a month we think. but one of her most outspoken democratic colleagues says it's time for someone new to grab the gavel. >> i do think that we need new leadership in the democratic party. i'm not ready, ha ha. it can't be me. i know that i couldn't account do that job. >> are you ready to say pelosi and schumer need to go. >> i mean, i, i think. so we need to shift power. we need to make sure we have a transition of power in the leadership of the democratic party. steve: all right, here with reaction former florida congressman and chairman of the texas g.o.p. retired army lieutenant colonel allen west. colonel, good morning to you. >> good morning, how are you doing? steve: we are doing okay. thank you very much. what do you make of aoc talking about it's time for some new broad? >> well, i think that once again you see this mo towards the progressive socialist left in the democratic party and that's what they are looking for. the same thing they ta

brian: now.ng but if he is found guilty of tax evasion, i don't know how bad that hurts joe biden. it's not helpful to the family but nonetheless, it be terrible. brian: but if joe biden got $10 million and didn't declare it, it's a problem. ainsley: maybe that's what this is all about. we don't know. steve: but joe biden said before the election, he never took one penny of foreign money. that's what he said. brian: is it a problem if he does? ainsley: if he takes it from his son, does he consider that foreign money? brian: see? steve: maybe it's all connected. ainsley: the big guy. steve: there's a lot we don't know. we're just trying to show people what is known now. what we do know now is that apparently, back in 2015 a suspected chinese spy, that woman right there, christine fan g, targeted up and coming political leaders at the local level including eric wall well back in the day and in 2014 she actually helped him bundle money and there's no evidence of any illegal contributions and it show

brian: yeah.id let's do it before the game. we were going to go indoors, and he said i'd rather do it outdoors, so we went outdoors, and here's a look at a little bit of the 12 minutes we had together. so, mr. president, the first sitting president to attend the army--and-a-half game, teddy roosevelt in 1901. there's only been two other presidents that have shown up for the army-navy game, truman and bush. you're the thursday. why are you here? >> well, i love football, but i love these two teams, and they're special and they've been to the white house and we've given them awards because it's always the commander in chief award. one of them's going to get it, and i've had a lot of fun, expect coaches are terrific people. brian: of everything you accomplished, you took over a military that was cut by 25%. >> yeah. brian: we we only had three brigades ready to fight, out of bullets. what have you done in the four years to change that? >> entirely rebuilt the military like never before, new missiles

brian be brian that's what that whole climate push is about.o climate research and transitioning off fossil fuels. i also wonder when it comes to this package what about landlords. they are not terrible people. they took out big loans in order to buy building and rent to other people. recall rent people out of money because of these politicians. are the banks going to let the landlords off the hook? do people understand how this works? i would like to see that this did not happen from leadership, mr. speaker. this happened because manchin got together with chris coons and marchkowski and collins and then romney this started from the middle up. does that matter? it matters some. problem man shin is going to find he is in a very left wing caucus and that caucus wants to do things that frankly west virginians don't want. and so it will be interesting to watch and see how that plays out deeper point is once the presidential election was over, that was always going to get easy to get done. they could have done this six weeks ago. they could have sav

brian, ainsley, steve? brian: all right. thanks so much, griff.ould be to get a republican senate and that would be in his hands because there is two open seats. that's griff jenkins the latest there meanwhile, let's bring in governor mike huckabee, fox news tributer, former g.o.p. presidential canada. author of the three cs that made america great christianity, capitalism and the constitution. a lot of people come forward and a lot of affidavits signed. it doesn't seem to be the number that would overturn the election according to the department of justice. today it all shifts to nevada where joe biden won the six electoral college delegates before certification. how is this whole process going because, governor, when it comes to wins and losses, the president seems to be getting a lot of losses. >> well, he does. but in many cases, brian, it's because, you know, i keep hearing people say there is notified. yet, they have hundreds and hundreds of affidavits of people sworn to tell the truth under penalty of perjury which means if they're proven t

brian, steve, ainsley.will indicate up in another mess. ossoff has 32 million. so i hope he knows what he's doing for his sake. warnock and loeffler, warnock raised 27 million, loeffler 28 million. she has her own money too. money will be pouring into the area. ainsley: all over the country. brian: all over the country. think at what is at stake, they expect the president to drag them across the finish line but the president has not done fighting for his election but chuck schumer i think helped republicans in a way that could never pay for, better than 30-second ad. remember this. >> now we take georgia and then we take the world. now we take georgia and we change america. brian: changing america by getting the majority of the senate. steve: that's why kelly loeffler and reverend warnock debated that a number of times last night. if you missed it, here is some of it. >> someone who has attacked police from the pulpit, someone has attacked our military and agreed to raise taxes on hard-working georgians as

though not to extent it deserves. >> harris: brian? >> brian: couple of things. i love the way that joe scarborough mocked somebody because they are small business owner, computer repair store. they didn't do it be lucrative. they did it because they like to do it. it was that computer store owner's problem that hunter dropped it off to be fixed and did not go to the apple store. it's not his fault he left it there and didn't return the calls. it's not his point that hunter had meth addiction and put it on camera on pictures. but he did the right thing and he called the f.b.i. instead he shutters the shop and has to go out of business. he is called an russian agent. he is called a russian agent who is a right wing nut job. instead he said let me explain to you my family serving in the military since before world war ii. he said he is not a hacker. all he did is click and drop on to a usb drive to save the hard drive. he saw what was on it, he did the right thing. don't mock nobody because they didn't get to msnbc show. maybe it just so happens that the people in

>> brian? >> sure. well, i'll give it a moment and then janna will explain why everything if said was wrong or take it in a different direction. people have been struggling with that question in one way or another for a very long time. it's no mistake or coincidence that some of the most revered theological texts begin with some statement about how things began. we like to anchor our understanding, an core our understanding of ourselves and the world, with some sense of origin. we are wedded to origin stories. and science does have its owner in-story, which has d origin story which makes predictions about the world that we can measure if the story most scientist are folk kentuckyed on today and the last 30 years is inflationary cosmology which says in the very beginning things, space, time, matter, and energy all crushed together in a very small size, and the conditions were just right to yield something completely unfamiliar to any of us from everyday life, it yields repulsive gravity. the repulsive gr

brian --g us live is brian chesky, the ceo and founder of airbnb. this is a huge day for you, we are still waiting for the few -- the first trait. you told me you had been hit by a torpedo, that the company was of losing it all. what does it feel like to take your company to a depth to what is essentially a $40 billion valuation -- $40 million valuation. brian: if i didn't appreciate it before this year having stared into what felt like an abyss for travel and then to rally together thousands of people and rebuild the company, something that i think is stronger than it ever was, i feel incredible fortunate and i feel thankful not just for our employees, but our community, our guests and hosts. this is a humbling time for me. emily: you say this company may be stronger now than ever. why go public now in the middle of the pandemic? why not wait until there is a vaccine or more clarity? brian: we were prepared to go public this year. when the pandemic broke out, we put the f one on hold and i could not imagine us going public this year when it was apr

but i want to turn to brian now for a moment. in your book until the end of time, mind, matter in their search for meaning in an evolving universe. so a couple of things i want to ask you about then , we've got a main character. andrew b is a bit of a protagonist that comes through in the book. we see entropy come in from time to time but i also want to ask you about as you reflect on everythingthat you put in that book and all the research that goes into it , is intelligent awful life and inevitable in the universe? does the laws of physics dictate that the universe will generate thoughtful and intelligentlife at some point along the way ? >> i don't know. >> i could leave it atthat . >> you got to go a little bit further. even when we lookout at the cosmos there are certain things that are inevitable . via the laws of physics as they outplayed out one of those as you mentioned is the increase in disorder over time. the increase in entropy. so there are qualities of the world that we've been able to deduce as inevitable, ineluct

>> it's exactly right, brian. and there's more that the president could have been doing that he's not been doing. he's not been issuing clear guidance from the president -- from the presidential bully pulpit to the american people about what to do in this crisis right now. the coronavirus is exploding in communities all across this country. the holidays are coming. people are getting mixed messages. on the one hand they're hearing public health officials and medical professionals saying wear masks, don't gather in small groups, keep to your household, be very, very careful about interacting with others. and on the other hand you have a president who is defending his decision to hold holiday parties at the white house where not everybody is wearing a mask, where large numbers of people are gathering almost every night in that residence as if it were the before times. and so there is a really -- there is a real dichotomy here between the guidance from health officials and what trump is doing. and meanwhile he wants

brian chesky is a little stunned. i'm going to talk to a board member and managing partner, jeff jordan, who was surprised as well. that is next. this is bloomberg. ♪ when you switch to xfinity mobile, you're choosing to get connected to the most reliable network nationwide, now with 5g included. discover how to save up to $400 a year with shared data starting at $15 a month, or get the lowest price for one line of unlimited. come into your local xfinity store to make the most of your mobile experience. you can shop the latest phones, bring your own device, or trade in for extra savings. stop in or book an appointment to shop safely with peace of mind at your local xfinity store. airbnb closed the market today it well over double its opening price. i spoke with an early investor in the company, jeff jordan, also a board member for nine years. i asked if he was surprised by the new $100 billion valuation. jeff: it did not surprise me, given where we placed it. it blew out our expectations. that said, it is a special co

brian: it certainly has been. investors for a lot of years have been looking for the more valued parts of the market to begin to outperform, and they never really got it outside the united states because it needed a catalyst. we kept disrupting it from a policy perspective in the united states, whether it was the taper tantrum in 2013 or the fed rate hike in 2015, or the trade war in 2018. , the covidas created outbreak and the massive stimulus in the united states, this idea that we are not going to tighten policy for years to come, has weakened the dollar and created that catalyst to enable capital to flow to other parts of the world and enable value to flow there. we have seen stronger momentum stocks and yields that creepy little higher, but nothing that significant when we look at treasuries. yet, there's a lot of uncertainty, whether it is the georgia election, another round of fiscal support, the exact trajectory of the pandemic. what are you backing on for your base case for the consensus called to be righ

bob, welcome >> hello, brian. good to see you. 3-1 advancing to declining stocks brian's right. market keeps just rolling on low volatility, though only about a 10-point trading range in the s&p that's to be expected along with the low volume on a day like today. a little bit of cracks, though don't like faang much today. but who could blame them when you're dealing with apple, up 80% on the year, and amazon's up 80% amazon's up 40%. i guess you're entitled to a down day or so but overall, this is bucking the trend for the market here. i'll tell you something that worries me, is the valuation levels that we're seeing up there. so caterpillar got a big upgrade today from bear. they thought the global markets would be improving in 2021, that should lift demand that's nice. but folks, we know that. the stock price is reflecting that information it's up 22% this year. it's been straight up since march. it's the sixth best performer in the dow jones industrial average. the reason it's the sixth best performer is we're anticipating the markets are going to be a lot better in 2021 so t

>> no, brian. he does not seem to be any closer to the acceptance phase, and that was clear at the operation warp speed vaccine summit he held at the white house this afternoon. this was an event aimed at trying to instill public confidence in the distribution of the vaccine, but trump got fixated on the election results, on protesting them, on claiming that he won swing states that he actually, actually laulost. and i'm saying he wasn't sure whether the biden administration would be the incoming administration, that it might be the incoming trump administration. we don't know what's really going on inside the president's head, but if what he said publicly this afternoon and what he's been saying on social media now for several weeks straight hour after hour after hour, if that's a reflection of his mind set and his psyche, then he's nowhere near accepting the results of this election. and the reality that he's going to be out of office come january 20th. >> hey, kim, it was in arizona and barry go

on, but i want to turn to brian now for a moment. in your book, until the end of time mind matter and the search for meaning in the evolving universe. so a couple of things i want to ask you about that. one, you've got a main character. it's a benefit protagonist that comes through and we see him come in from time to time. but i also want to ask you about, as you reflect on everything you've put into that book, and other research that goes into it, is intelligent thoughtful life inevitable in the universe? the laws of physics, just dictate that the universe is going to generate thoughtful and intelligent life at some.along the way. >> i don't know. i could leave it at that, but i have to go little bit further. look, even if, when we looked out at the cosmos there are certain things that are inevitable via the laws of physics as they have played out. one of those like you mentioned, is the increase disorder over time. the increase over entropy. so the qualities of the world that we have been able to deduce as inevitable, and lockable

>> i think so, brian. i think the new administration is going to be boxed to a degree based on these recent actions and still not knowing the depth of it. there's a chance they won't entirely understand the scope of this hack. at the same point, i do worry about the incoming administration, which is they have put diplomacy first, and that is something we tried in the last two administrations, the obama administration, the bush administration before that. tried to negotiate, tried to reset with russia, and both times was met with more hostility and more aggression. i tend to see more sanctions will be rolled out, but we also know that's not really a deterrent. the russians have been sanctioned routinely. they have been pushed on the financial front and it has not slowed them down at all. if you talk to an oligarch about sanctions sure they'll be upset, but they'll say well there's bitcoin, too, and alternatives now which leaves what are other solutions? is it military, countering disinformation, countering

brian chesky said that's a huge issue.have a number of policies but have not been able to crack down on it. regulation has not been as much of an issue during the pandemic but as things go back to normal, we will certainly see governments around the world taking a closer look at airbnb. competition, there are companies like bookings.com that are trying to compete with airbnb in the long-term and bookings is a more complicated company. the airbnb brand is very strong so that's something huge that they have going for them going forward. there were many ways that airbnb could have gone about this. emily: brian chesky said they were considering a direct listing and they were considering going public, planning it before the pandemic even hit. into thisreally process. the argument could be made that airbnb could have gone public much sooner and potentially left money on the table by waiting this long. brian chesky believes in the future of this company and due to the changes and going back to their roots that the company is actu

brian, joe, and nate have been amazing.were struggling, it was so clear how strong they were, how much humility they had, how much fortitude and perseverance they had. it is not surprising they got here today >> ron, i know that you have been close with the founders since the very, very early days, as well. you said something recently that i thought was interesting. you said that chesky was a founder, where it wasn't his dream to go public but that he did recognize the process. how do you think that he will grow now into a public company ceo? >> i think he'll transition very nicely he's very, very ambitious. the fact that airbnb has three founders evangelizing the mission and culture of the company, i think they will transition very smoothly as a public company >> right we've certainly seen them lay the groundwork to this point michael, when you look ahead, what do you think are some of the biggest challenges on the horizon for the company? >> well, i think that there are two big opportunities for them the first is airbnb i

i mean, just think about it, brian. all the threats that we face as i don't know yet whether or not the delay itself makes us more vulnerable, but this cyber hack from russia is a deadly serious event. i mean, just think about it, brian. all the threats that we face as a country are technological in nature, the major ones at least. this biological threat from the pandemic, china's effort to dominate artificial intelligence in the global internet, and russia's brazen cyber attack in the 2016 election and now their attack on our government in 2020. we have to elevate science, evidence, facts, truth over ideology and politics. i think one of the greatest shortcomings of the trump era will be they elevated political ideology. they were big time deniers of the virus, big time deniers of the facts of the election results. america's never been, you know, a country of political ideology. we've left that to the mous and we are the country of technological innovation, and we're going to need that technology and practical realism

we are joined by brian gardner.he legislative text has not been released, but presumably the lawmakers know what is in it? andn: this has been debated drafted over months, so the actual text is not out, but people have a good idea of what is in there. vonnie: it will be something like of the order of 3000 pages of text, but we know the broad outlines, as you say. given it is not even what republicans were willing to offer in the early stages, what do you think the chances are there will be more relief down the line, perhaps after joe biden takes office? brian: i think this is the last bite of the apple for six months. it is a long time to get to hear. and i think we will -- here. and i think we will go through the early part of the year, as long as the economy does not underperform, and there are no hiccups with the vaccinations and we see the economy starting to heal, i think this is it for some time. circumstances will dictate whether there is another wave or phase of covid relief, but for the next six months is i

>> i can't imagine that in a million years, brian.gine him going there and speaking at all without attacking governor brian kemp and the secretary of state brad rchbs perg raffensperger to trump-supporting loyal republicans who had the temerity to honestly count the votes in georgia. votes ended up favoring joe biden. and so they've counted them twice now. trump has asked for yet another recount. they're recounting them again. they are once again going to show that joe biden won. and they've already certified the election results and the 16 electoral votes go to joe biden. and that sticks in donald trump's craw, so there's absolutely no way he's going to go to the state on saturday and just make a sort of clean enthusiastic appeal to vote for perdue and loeffler, the republican senator. he's going to air his grievances. and you know what? a lot of the republican base is going to be with him. and that's a real problem for the republican party going forward. >> both of these gentlemen have assured us they have no other plans and are goi

a very, very good defense contractor 25 sticking with it brian in maryland. brian. >> booya, jim.? >> excellent day i did my show from home. what is not to like? how are you? >> i want to tell you i am a 20-year army veteran and i want to thank you for what you do for service members and their family >> we thank you again for everything, again and again and again. >> you talked about it in the past -- >> they are the linchpin of getting us the vaccine i like the stock i think that stock's time has come michael in my home state of pennsylvania michael. >> hey i tripled my investment on 30,000 shares. is it time to pull out >> is it time to pull out of the airlines no no i think when you get the vaccine people will travel again i do like some more than others. my favorite is southwest and then united when we start to go overseas. jason in texas jason. >> hey, jim. i am looking at office furniture company that is kbal it has been fairly flat since the march lows ranging between $10 to $12 it was trading at 20 before the epidemic >> i have to tell you, herman miller was a big disappoi

may we all do that next year brian seal you next time thank you for joining us today brian sullivan andpower lunch." we hand it off to "closing bell" right now. >> thank you kelly and brian welcome, everyone to "closing bell," i'm sara eisen. with wilfred frost as always stocks losing steam throughout the day. dow, nasdaq, s&p and russel all lower, slipping away from those all-time highs we are at session lows what is driving the action a debate over the size of fiscal stimulus as congress takes up $2,000 checks. the future of that i

so why is brian baumgartner the most successful on the app? >> it's his persona.a lot of pride in his craftsmanship of the videos. i think quality of cameo is something that is really important to people and the content is really funny. >> it's that comedy that plays to audiences. even the soup nazi from seinfeld is making six figures a year on the app. >> no soup for you! >> i am going to be a very rich dude. >> you already are, kevin. so several of brian's office cast mates are on cameo as well including oscar, stanley and meredith. but somehow toby is the most expensive one there charging 500 bucks per video. but, by the way, you guys with here, which celebrities would you love a cameo shout-out from? >> it wouldn't be toby because nobody likes toby. we all know bey -- i don't even need to finish it. >> you can't put a price tag on perfection. >> good answer. >> all my cameo appearances happen right here on abc news. it's whatever they're paying me. >> i may or may not have looked into one from one of the 90-day fiance people. >> that's money well spent. >> tha

brian: that is the first time i've heard that number.n april, we raised money with the debt financing. that price would have priced us around $30. so i'd don't know what else to say. that -- i'm very humbled by it. we know we are on a very long journey and we are going to be very, very focused -- today is a special day for everyone, but the higher the stock price, the higher expectation, the harder we will be working. emily: there are lockdowns, reopenings and lockdowns happening around the world. how is the fourth quarter shaping up for you? what are you preparing for as the covid outbreak surges? brian: the most important thing is health and safety. we have had to make difficult decisions. in april, we decided to give refunds to more than a billion dollars worth of customer deposits when people told us they could not travel. this was difficult for our hosts. even though we are burning a lot of money, we took $250 million on our balance sheet when we didn't think we could raise money back then and give it to our hosts. we are going to m

brian kelly, at one point was tesla ever one of those stocks that you put in a drawer and you leave? >> in fact, what a phenomenal memory you have. in fact, it was one of those, and it's my view on this, and the reason why you put it in the top drawer of you buy the stock and you put the certificates in the top drawer or at least the top draw of your digital -- your digital side table, nonetheless, the point being i think tesla is more than a car company. i think the investors in it are thinking of it as more than a car company. i think this is a play on the decarbonization of the electric grid, the tesla automobile and their automotive department is just kind of the proof of concept, so if you think of this much more as a venture capital deal where all these capital raises are similar -- you know, are like a series "a," "b" and "c" then you can see how much more upside there is to tesla, and i think that's what the investors in tesla are betting in. >> let's bring in gene who is watching the balance at the very close. the popcorn in hand is what you tweeted, gene. what do you make o

i don't know brian deese personally.think it deserves looking at blackrock submission, the kind of power they're trying to amass any governments both here and the european union, which we can talk about, and also brian deese's on record. he works more on climate issues for blackrock now than he ever did. the obama administration. was by all accounts a very thewart defender -- in obama administration. we see nothing to suggest he has changed. he doesn't support all of the above. what he did in the obama administration, going back to arctic drilling, praising the fact will production had been expended under obama's tenure. there's not enough evidence out there to think brian deese's ok after can overcome the danger of putting one of the largest companies in the world in charge of the year, very important economic -- in the u.s. juan: specifically to that point, the one of the largest financial companies of the world, most people are not familiar with blackrock. they certainly are familiar with citigroup or goldman shs or c

brian: go get them.and: brian kilmeade and the president, joining us now since interview leaving the white house, alyssa farah, 4 years we were going through a transition and accusations surrounding the president-elect's son and family business dealings, if you apply the same standard that was applied to the trumps in 2016 standard, 2016 transition to the bidens in 2020, what would things look like? >> it's just night and day. my friends jared kushner and ivanka trump had to put up with in the media accusing them when they were legitimate business owners and leaders it's completely than hunter biden. for those on the campaign trail with the president with the media to cover the corruption of hunter biden during the final stretch of the campaign, it's very frustrating that it's out in the public view and that we didn't have that information covered on a wide scale before the election and frankly that's the media's complicity in one sense and i do give credit to fox, john roberts covered and colleagues but

>> there is, brian. and what we recommend is in anything that is a potential immediate risk to life, so breathing abnormalities, some of your chest pains, some someone who's not acting normal, someone who loses consciousness, severe bleeding, those are the conditions where the public can call 911. and remember one of the nice things about the u.s. 911 system is if you have concerns that something may be life threatening from the communications specialists to the first responders to the ems component, all of those folks are trained to identify, recognize the emergency. and if it's not an emergency be able to help with that disposition as well. >> by the way, also to our viewers if you want to hear absolute professionalism go on any police or fire scanner app and listen to the dispatchers on duty 24/7. it is -- it's something to hear. it'll reaffirm your faith in talent, skill and humankind. dr. ed racht, thank you so much for coming on and giving you time to state your case when all of us dial 911. >>> co

brian: i know the president has not conceded. it looks like mitch mcconnell did yesterday. we saw him on the floor. he acknowledged that joe biden in his mind won the election. he called kevin mccarthy, kevin mccarthy did not want to acknowledge it. i asked tom cotton where he stood. listen. >> the electoral college voted on monday and they voted but the president has also legal challenges and it should be decided based on the law and evidence. he hasn't sticked to the department of justice and the fbi on joe biden's campaign the way barack obama and joe biden did. he hasn't fabricated evidence to get wire taps on joe biden's campaign staff. he hasn't started calling for the impeachment before joe biden even might take the oath of office. that's what the democrats did after 2016, so you can spare me the crocodile tears from all these democrats about breaking norms. they're the ones breaking norms four years ago. brian: right, so what was the president's reaction when mitch mcconnell called him and does he believe the fights over? >> yeah, i couldn't have said that better my