believe one this about protection well he was the body that workers will college of business and other c.e.o.'s as pandemic profiteers who have made billions while putting workers and their families friends and neighbors at risk do you think you could have beat to making 75000000000 a year but you can just ask your own musk he might have been broken 2008 but he'll raked in 123000000000 in 2020 and when the cash is flowing you know wanted to stop. all of them. forcibly imprisoning people in their homes. but might. break the people's freedoms and where the. people. into america or the country. bridges and bridge so instead of forcibly imprisoning people in their homes musk courage people to get back to walk all face starvation and get affected on no pay what set lethal virus off to roll you know you're talking about saving humanity but these are humans that die in the process everybody dies 2020 the a one man could afford to just blow up his rocket while hundreds of millions are left picking up the pieces of that lives. this is the way new year new directions people in china rethinking t

let's bring in jay ritter, scholar chair at the washington college of business at the university of florida us why all these wannabe mac attacks -- mega techs are rushing when they've had several years to do this if they wanted to. jay: the timing is good for them. stockmarkets are at an all-time high. that theyave decided wanted to wait until after the election but before year-end. we are getting a whole slew of corns if you deca will coming to the market in the next few weeks. vonnie: given their valuations, many people are interested to see the prospectuses before this happens. have you managed to have a look at any of the public declarations yet? airbnb is a lot longer than doordash. jay: from a number of companies, most of them, just like other companies, the covid situation had a big impact on them. it resulted case, in a collapse of revenue in the spring. they have bounced back surprisingly well. a lot of people wanted to rent a place with an easy drive of where they live. revenue has recovered rapidly. it turns out there are some advantages to being a business with a large amount of

i have a degree in business from the tennessee college of business and even working in college of business did not teach me how to run a business for 18 months with no money. to answer your question and the biggest point here, the industry not almost out of money, we've been out of money. 30% of our industry is gone now. if nothing is done by february, 60% of our industry will be gone , 60% of the people will be unemployed or doing something else. we simply have no alternative. if the federal government does not step up with restart style relief, small business in general, for the live event space in particular, we simply have no alternative, and companies will be shuttered. sen. blackburn: mr. hartke? adam: we won't last six months. we won't be here for recovery. it is as simple as that. with a relief bill, we can get back to work and hire staff back and start planning for reopening , but without it, we won't be here. sen. blackburn: thank you. thank you senator blackburn for your leadership on this matter. senator blumenthal. sen. blumenthal: i really appreciate your being here. the tran

of pennsylvania's 59th electoral college, i will come you to the historic forum auditorium. the forum was built nearly a century ago in the style of a greek amphitheater, where democracy conducted its business. i am honored to convene the electoral college in such a beautiful and apt setting to conduct one of the most important items of business in our modern democracy, selection of the president and vice president of the united states based on the results of the november 3 general election. pennsylvania is the birthplace of the united states constitution, and the electoral college, where the framers of the constitution created the electoral college is a compromise. a compromise between those who advocated for direct election of the president by the people, and those who advocated for congress to appoint the president. as a compromise, the decision was made that the people of the united states vote for electors, who in turn vote for president and vice president. on the last day of the constitutional convention in philadelphia benjamin franklin,, one of eight pennsylvania delegates, noted that the framers had overcome prejudices, passions, local interests, and errors of opinion to produce a

as chairman of the electoral college, the next order of business will be the election of the secretary of the meeting for the presidential electors. the floor is now open for nominations for secretary of the meeting. do i hear any nominations? >> chairman stringer, i am sean o'brien. naomi narvaiz be nominated as secretary of the meeting. chair stringer: is there a second? please come down to the podium. >> chairman stringer, i moved to second the nomination of naomi narvaiz to seat 35 as secretary. chair stringer: the name of naomi narvaiz has been seconded. are there any other nominations for the position of secretary? hearing none, is there a motion to close nominations for position of secretary of this meeting? >> marcia daughtrey. i move we close the nominations for secretary of the emitting -- the meeting. chair stringer: do i hear a second to close the nominations for secretary? tex hall, cd21, the reddest district in the state. i second that we close the nominations. chair stringer: is there any objection from the body to declare the position of secretary of the electoral colle

the next order of business is the election of the president of the electoral college. the chair recognize the honorable josh shapiro of montgomery county for the purpose of offering a resolution. >> madam secretary, resolution one resolves that the honorable nancy mills of allegheny county be chosen president of this electoral college. >> thank you, mr. shapiro. are there any other nominations? hearing none, nominations are closed. those in favor of the resolution will give their assent by saying aye. any opposed? and the have it resolution is adopted. the honorable -- [applause] nancy mills of allegheny county is the unanimous choice for president of this college. the chair request the sergeant at arms to please escort the president to the podium. the chair has the honor to present your president, the honorable nancy mills of allegheny county. [applause] thank you. good afternoon, guests and fellow electors. this is a great day for democracy, a great day for liberty, and a great day for pennsylvania. we are gathered here to participate in a historic event like no othe

in this case, one of the points by edna, she was talking about how it is not these people's fault. in some cases, we are asking universities and colleges, and businesses, to close their doors and turn away business because it is a public other emergency. that is part of the reason government is in gauging it -- in gauging in it. it's not necessarily the fault of these individuals, colleges, universities, or businesses. that put government into tier four, to provide assistance. host: the color brings up the pay-as-you-go philosophy. what is that, when it comes to congress, and does that apply to either this omnibus spending bill or the coronavirus relief package? , or pay-as-you-go, was basically where it's meant the funding had to be offset by other cuts. basically, you are trying to make sure everything was paid for as you went forward. that paygo, went by the -- paygo went by the wayside around 2010, but there is paygo that deals with mandatory spending. i mentioned funding for all of government is $1.4 trillion. that is just the discretionary side of the ledger. that is just a side congress decides how much the state department or department a vega

of us all. so drove through our business recreation officer prisoners like a networking college for criminals of the month or any of the guys in prison are there trying to learn how to do crime better and this is just kind of a school for criminals to learn more criminals and that's not an exaggeration 2011 study from ohio university showed that after spending time in prison continuing to engage in crime scene their criminal earns increase on an average by a $1000.00 a year jodie lewin is the executive director of the prison in. diversity project there are thousands and thousands of people in the system all they want is the opportunity to get a good education and to be hired by somebody where they can have a job where they have a meaningful work and a livable wage in the late eighty's early ninety's there were python 315 programs in the prison system nationwide took my dad's advice been saying for a long time look for some computer training is there any computer training in there because he knows you know i finally when i got to san quentin i said do you have any any computer training so it was

more than we have colleges and universities in many parts of america are simply this out there are more people who are living in prisons college campuses and they molds i dollar business has occurred. brace yourself this is going to sound too barbaric to be real like medieval times a science fiction horror film or a french historical use of the 13th amendment of the constitution outlawed slavery but it still allows for forced labor if you are and president today there are roughly $1000000.00 american prisoners working for corporations and government industries there is no minimum wage so you could make as little as a few cents an hour bruce worked in the kitchen for years then in clerical jobs making a maximum of $0.32 an hour. it sounds like another time work on brothers movie but it's happening right now there are no benefits no organizing and no strikes this is big business for state and for profit prisons to sell inmate labor to fortune 500 like chevron bank of america 18 n.t. and the u.s. military nearly half the population in prison make military uniforms body armor helmets and provide labor as subcontractors for fortune $500.00. they make office furniture man c

i know a big chunk of it goes through military and college then there are small business over. there people are taking advantage of it i think there's really just meters that really care about poor people. around grapples with the worst crisis in the middle east around lashes out awarded bronze in you made the u.s. sanctions that it says are discovering its efforts to access a vaccine. hi there i know lots of places you could be right now so glad you've joined us here on r.t. . the pandemic script is tightening on germany where hospitals are warning they are severely overstretched the number of patients in intensive care is up 40 percent compared with the spring well every single german state is now deemed to be officially at risk it's all of reports. german hopes for a loosening of code restrictions over the christmas period look in doubt as cases of the virus remain high across the country on sunday the state. became the final region to be categorized as an at risk area meaning the whole country is now in the highest risk level according to the scale used by germany's public h

of the. world heritage 360. business d w news live from berlin the u.s. electoral college formally confirms joe biden as winner of november's election the president elect tells americans it is time to turn the page on the trump era and that the will of the people has prevailed. also coming up the u.s. begins the most ambitious vaccination campaign in its history dr nurses and other vulnerable groups are 1st in line to receive doses of the biotech finds are back seat. and a new investigation shows russian agents trained in chemical weapons followed kremlin critic alexina valmy for years leading up to his poisoning with a nerve agent this summer. i'm sumi so much god that's good to have you with us the u.s. electoral college has officially confirmed joe biden as the winner of last month's presidential election the formal vote by the electoral college paves the way for congress to accept the outcome of the election when it comes together on january 6th outgoing president donald trump has yet to recognize biden's victory. it was the state of california at the tip the scales of

of a mini city animal -- inside arabia and they're looking into you know helping younger creative and people just graduated from college subsidize some of the run. shops just get them there small businesses up and running as well . at one point i couldn't believe any that were we were going to pull this off. the whole design week thing. exactly regards as it really can happen any. i was in the m. like. maybe something's going to happen in meaning in the consulate i think it's going to happen. you can see. the hall of an event but with the nobody shows up. to the hard work you needing. to have much to say people learn it already for next year so that for me is a song. for me personally it's a huge jump. it was an amazing experience because it has opened. i would love to be part of next year so the design week. already have ideas. save them thought of we house ai>úogfvfvfvfvfvfvfvfvfvfvfv÷" 

getting traffic flowing again is critical the route particularly the college crossing is incredibly important to businesses in all kinds of sectors particularly those who are exporting perishable goods things like vegetables sea fish kind of thing is really right solutions now reopened this is going to that we could traffic moving as quickly as possible. the cause of the current shortages is likely due to panic buying some grocers are once again putting purchasing limits on some items but distributors say shelves could stay empty longer as the effect of the border closure makes its way down the supply chain. let's head to the united states now where president donald trump is threatening to veto a $900000000000.00 coronavirus really fail to mounting changes to key provisions that deal and out addressing the economic hardship calls by the pandemic took congress months to negotiate but there are several points the president objects to here's what he hopes they. it's called the covert relief bill but it has almost nothing to do with go of this bill contains $85500000000.00 for assistance to cambodia $134000000.00 to burma 1.3

getting traffic flowing again is critical the route particularly college crossing is incredibly important to businesses in all kinds of sectors particularly those who are exporting perishable goods things like vegetables sea fish kind of thing that has really brought solutions now reopened this is going to that we get traffic moving as quickly as possible. the cause of the current shortages is likely due to panic buying. some grocers are once again putting purchasing limits on some items but distributors say shelves could stay empty longer as the effect of the border closure makes its way down the supply chain. time now for a quick look at some of the other business stories making news germany says it has used cargo planes to fly 80 tons of fruit and vegetables to britain after other links were cost over the new very virus variants in the u.k. the carrier says fresh produce usually goes in passenger planes or trucks but it's much too cargo planes to keep the populace from rushing in it's where. the british pound has risen on hopes that of brecht's a trade deal between the u.k. and the e.u. is imminent the 2 sides have

i am a small business owner, i started right out of college and then opened a small business with oneart-time employee. i deeply recognize people's pain and suffering in this moment. their dreams being shattered because of the pandemic. you asked me how i feel, it devastates me to know because i intimately understand what it means when you put everything on the line, you leverage everything. through no fault of your own, then a blow global pandemic hits and create constructs that are devastating to your life and prospects for the future. we need the federal government to recognize and they are not doing their job to provide additional support at the scale required in this moment but extending the ppp program small business loans and grants to help support folks in this time of need. what california is doing is not unique in the nation, quite the contrary but it is unique as we will be proactive, we tend to believe in many respects and i recognize the consequence and struggle all i am asking folks this is the third wave. we don't vaccines are on the w way. the pacific vaccines to be di

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there are billions of dollars for small business loans that can be forgiven. colleges and schools, money in there to purchase vaccines to help distribute them to help the u.s. get out of the pandemic and people paying rent or mortgage garages, the eviction moratorium continues this is what the leaders had to say once the deal was done. >> this package must be viewed only as a down payment most of us can hardly wait to begin the new year with a new hope. >> it doesn't go all the way, but it takes us down the path, a first step. >> a big majority recognize the amount of good it can do. >> reporter: because a bill of this nature can't go to straight to the president like others, people say you can start to see the stimulus checks arriving by direct depossible fit they have your banking information next week back to you. >> thank you, and not a moment too soon. >>> coronavirus throws another curveball as mutations has the world on edge. europe has closed its borders to the uk as the world faces a new stras. it looks like new york is also taking precautions. >> reporter: go

back on the show it is professor of business and economics of the king's college in manhattan, fox news contributor brian brenberg with his brianomics. so good to see appeared to not pay kennedy. >> supports not going to be merry christmas or some people it's too little too late. he pointed out too much, too little, too late and wrong. what is most wrong with all thi this? >> what he did about this bill , i think about the standpoint of the people need it most ran back in my home state minnesota, one of my favorite restaurants in town was going out of business. i'm think about that restaurant and the money coming in. even if that restaurant was still open right now, but would they be getting from this? i don't know it's a husband and wife running the place for the going to get $1200 and a check from the government. maybe a shot at the ppp program. that you rightly pointed out not enough people point this out, it was easy for big companies to access that. they're used to doing with the bureaucracy of the federal government. but for small businesses that never do that except for when they

business owner. i started right out of college, put pen to paper, opened a small business with one part-time employeehe cause of my life. i deeply recognize people's pain and suffering this moment, their dreams being shattered because of this pandemic. so you asked me how i feel. it devastates me to know because i intimately understand what it means when you put everything on the line, you leverage everything, your family, your dreams are on the line and through no fault of your own, something global, a pandemic hits and creates all of these constraints and all these constructs that are devastating to your life and your prospects for the future. and so we need the federal government to recognize that and to reconcile the fact they are not doing their job to provide additional supports at the scale that's required of this moment by extending the ppp program, by extending small business loans and grants to help support folks in this time of need. what california is doing is not unique in the nation. quite the contrary. what is unique is we tend to be proactive, we tend to lead in many respects, and i r

association as a restaurantture myself and someone literally started right out of college, opened a small retail businessand a restaurant, i deeply empathize and deep appreciation for the stress and the struggles our restaurants have had and i want to just acknowledge the board of directors and team and i know how difficult and challenging this is and i want to thank them for their ensight and for their recognition this current moment the state is in. we are all nonessential travel is as well temporarily restricted. statewide. here's what we want to emphasize. none of us are naive. i certainly am not of the mental stress that all of us are under. not just the financial distress, that many are under and more still with the stay at home order burks we , but we want to encourage activities not in congregant activities or with are there he a tremendous a activity indoors we encourage you to take your dog for walk and we want you to exercise. and go on a run with a partner within your household. go sledding, the outdoor activities in the winter, to the extent a walk on the beach or out in the state parks or l

of $600 to americans making less than 75,000 a year. and $300 a week in unemployment insurance. rental assistance, billions for small business, college and school. and extension of the federal eviction moratorium until january. president-elect called it an important down payment. i spoke with kamala harris and asked her about all of that and about making history. >> vice president-elect harris, it is so great to talk with you. thank you so much for being here. >> it's so wonderful to be with you. and be back with you. having a conversation. >> i have to ask you to start off. have you had the opportunity to everyone take it in the history that you have now made that you will be making as the first woman, first black woman, first asian american woman to be vice president of the united states? have you taken it in. >> i have to some extent. probably the day that we get sworn in will be -- it will really hit me. since the day we found out we have been just moving. trying to pull together a cabinet. and get the transition going as smoothly as possible. i'll keep you posted. yeah. >> you have been moving. you have been busy including you c

you know, getting the business ready for the christmas rush, which is not easy not knowing if there's going to be customers or not. >> south bay college students are helping many of those small business create websites and boost their presence on social media. >> that's a good idea. >> that's smart. >> mm-hmm. >> i like seeing that. trying to decide where we're going to get our food this afternoon and this evening. takeout. the choices unfortunately are getting smaller and smaller as more business go under. i'm sad to see that. we'll do what we can. let's look at what's going on from our roof camera. good news for you if you're about to head out. we have dry conditions out there. you can see reggie wearing the jacket this morning. that's smart. it's cold out there. even inside it feels cooler. coming in from that cold 30s and 40s out there, it will take a while to shake off that chill when you get inside. let's talk about what's going on with our accuweather highlights. grab the sunglasses, put the umbrella way back in the closet or the trunk. you won't need it for about a week because we have a dry pattern with colder than average lows leading to milder than ave

of town? here to discuss fox news contributor business of economics at the king's college in manhattan it is brian brenberg. so brian brenberg i don't have a problem with $900 billion the way i have a problem with two-point to trillion dollars. the issue with this is something that you have raised. this is an appetizer to continued stimulus legislation, at least for the democrats in this bipartisan group. explain that. >> yeah, the problem is nobody once a stop at 900 billion. early snow went on the left once a stop at mark warner's part of the group that put together this new 900 billion-dollar proposal. but he said is is an interim step. an interim step, almost a trillion dollar interim step to what? obviously something much bigger the beginning of the year. so the issue isn't necessarily is a 900 billion-dollar plan totally bad, it is got its problems. it's better in some ways that what nancy blows he and chuck schumer has proposed. but the big issue is, would be going to get in january? what are we going to get in february? how big is that going to be and how much is a squint at up to? what mi

of this pandemic. i recognize it is not even close to enough. i recognize this as a small business owner in the restaurant and hotel businesses. i started in retail out of college, a part-time employee. my passion for entrepreneurialism and also my empathy for the stress and travails of small businesses and what you are facing in the next few months as we work our way through now this sprint to the vaccine. more on that in a moment. as we work through this difficult time, more restrictions placed on you, more businesses being more vulnerable to being out of business permanently. we want to make sure we are taking advantage of these federal programs, and that is why this ppp program was so important, and it is critical still that we get more support from the federal government, and i will talk about that in a second, as well. we are going to need more support from the state. we recognize we are going to need to do more work with the legislature to retain jobs, expand jobs. we are going to talk more about employment insurance, not just unemployment insurance. in january, we are going to talk about waiving more fees for businesses more proportionally -- businesses

of our top business story this hour the u.k. government says it will begin immunizing. thousands of people against college next week after it became the 1st country to approve a vaccine by germany's biotech and u.s. part of pfizer those are expected to reach british distribution centers by the weekend. for me in the business team here and to check out our website www dot com slash business for me by taking. the fight against the career. virus pandemic. has the rate of infection been developing. what measures are being taken. what does the latest research say. information and context. the coronavirus of the coded special monday to friday on w. m not nothing at. all because sometimes them place them nothing with them and don't think deep into the general culture of . new jersey who take this grandma. it's all that they know i'm right so join me for me to get down to the fullest. every day counts for us and for our planet. the ideas is on its way to bring you more conservation. to make see the screen. how can we protect habitats. we can go to france on the line to the environment to see recent movie 3000 on