shame on corporate america. hese people who are running these corporations without any regard for principle or honesty or decency. >> yeah. and, of course, the corporations know who's going to be buttering the bread over the next four years, and they're acting in way to get on the good side of the biden administration. and it used to be the media would point that out for us. instead you have the media inserting editorial comments baselessly accusing the president of incitement when there is no evidence he incited anyone to do anything like what happened up on capitol hill. lou: let's be -- to be clear, he did the opposite. tom, it's important that we point this out. this left-wing narrative that has taken hold and seized the psyches of the left and corporate america in particular, silicon valley and social media, he did the exact opposite. he called for peaceful demonstration and protest. and, by the way, that's a right of every single person who was there. what happened, what happened is the responsibility of th

the biggest corporations in america, many of them are successful corporations of america. hundreds of american corporations, almost all of whom pride themselves on their greenness, they lobby us through a group called tech the, the pitch sheet. bulleted pages of priorities they wanted congress to achieve. and not one mention, not one mention of climate change, not one. not even a mention of renewables from a trade association that has trade renewable companies in its membership until now. until now. i was just notified that tek nek has noticed this omission in its documents and that it intends to rectify the error. good. change has every come to the biggest and most obstructive lobby group of them all, the u.s. chamber of commerce. i spent a lot of time chasing them with #chamberofcarbon. i stood out in front of their headquarters and put up a sign that sated said carbon clocking commerce, and their name said u.s. academy ber of -- u.s. chamber of carbon. hostile to climate actions in the judiciary, in cases that were being brought about climate. they were the beast. well,

it is not about americans first, it's about corporate america first.d a lot inlo this country, president trump. he changed the dynamics, changed the agenda. he did not change the culture of washington. and my sense today is that'll get changed as time goes on, and as we look to the future, we have to track young people, we have to track more women voters. but the reality is we shouldn't be sitting here saying the game is over, because the game's not over. and if you want to -- lou: i've never said the game is over. ed, i didn't say the game is over. i said that the fight ought to begin right now andn be had. and let the devil take the -- because this is ridiculous. >> the only argument, the only argument i'll make, the only argument i'll make withon you, u can fight inside behind closed doors, buted publicly you've got to be taking the democrats on. you can't't let them roll this agenda. lou: yeah. >> they will undo by executive orders everything he did. fight behind closed doors, go have primaries, do whatever you want to do and keep your mouth shut a

, many of them the most successful corporation of america, hundreds of american corporations, almost all of whom pride themselves on their greenness, they lobby us through group called tech net. three pages of boleted priorities they wanted congress to achieve and not one mention -- not one mention of climate change, not one. not even a mention of renewables from a trade association that has renewables companies in its membership. until now -- until now. i was just notified that tech net has noticed this omission in its document and that it intends to rectify the error. good. change has even come to the biggest and most obstructive lobby group of them all -- the u.s. chamber of commerce. i spent a lot of time chasing them with #chamberofcarbon. i stood outside of their headquarters where their own building said u.s. chamber of carbon. they were my nemesis, hostile to climate action in the legislative branch, hostile to climate action in the executive branch and regulatory agencies, hostile to climate action in the judiciary in cases that were being brought about climate. they

as it relates to politics as well. >> reporter: corporate america is facing pressure when itent trump's current and former spokes people. white ere secretaries go on tig

the role of corporate america, wall street in trying to influence the direction of this country is a are republicans, that this party sold out to corporate america and wall street long ago and that they have far too much influence with republicans -- and, by the way, the republican party leadership, and i'm talking about mcconnell, i'm talking about mccarthy and paul ryan, they sold out working men and women in this country just like the democrats have. and president trump changed all of it, and you have been a terrific defender of the president, the america first policies and advocate for those policies. not enough of your colleagues in the house have done so. we're at a pivotal moment in history. i really believe the patriot party is about to become a reality not as a possibility. it's a real likelihood, i think, right now when you see mitch mcconnell behave as he did. why in the world would any republicans stay in the party? >> well, you have to ask yourself if the republican party won't fight to defend the legacy and the policies of donald trump, if the republican party won't uni

as it relates to politics as well. >> reporter: corporate america is facing pressure when it comes to hiring president trump's current and former spokes people. white ere secretaries go on the high profile jobs in the em hisazil assume that everything that your firm or company talks about is a lie. >> there's no way that we can look at our readers and say, these are people that we can giveatfautpg private sector to pga championship at the trump course in next year. air bnb and best buy and coca-cola are reconsidering their political giving and cbs is checked with the corporate parent and they have no immediate comment on their political giving lplans. >> now to the coronavirus, state and federal officials are under increasing pressure to ramp up vaccine distribution. the cdc said nearly 9 million americans have received the first vaccine doses. that son-in-law about a third of theor mon doses sent to the states. there are calls for the government to open mass vaccination centers like those in great britain where the virus claimed the lives of 30,000 people in the past month.

economy will recover what's happening with all the vix scenes for instance if you look at corporate america and the business world some so they really are looking for a calmer involved environment than what we've seen in the past couple of months and also when it comes to international trade so there's also the hope that the whole retore actually will get a bit better especially when it comes to the european union and the united states and if you look at wall street overall we touched new record highs here was the s. and p. 500 was not stuck. in the business world and also wall street at least for now looking forward to the new administration. thank you. we want to talk a little bit more about that stimulus plan my colleague has been looking into the details there's a lot of elements to this plan what sticks out for mates the sheer cost because joe biden says the economy cannot get back on track on less the virus is brought under control and to do that he is spending an awful lot of money his $1.00 trillion dollar stimulus package in clude 1400 dollars in direct payments to most american ho

corporate america pulls political donations as president trump faces a second impeachment. running out of puff, the world is facing a shortage of medical oxygen due to the pandemic. and, the day of the robots we visit the virtual ces. more now on our top story, the us house of representatives is set to impeach president trump for the second time. that's never happened to any us president before. but following an assault on the us capitol by a mob of his supporters, he's accused of threatening the integrity of the democratic system and interfering with the peaceful transition of power. big businesses are also halting or reviewing political donations with the likes of amazon, at&t, ge the latest to join the list. investors are nervous. joining me now is craig erlam, senior market analyst, oanda. good to see you. we saw a little bit of a sell—off on wall street, january 20 it seems a bit of a long way away for some? absolutely. it has been quite the start of the year, even in our worst nightmare they don't think we anticipated the events that we we re anticipated the events th

your chums that sit on the boards of corporate america. yes the same companies that the left vilifies promise to starve republicans from receiving their pac donations. i bet the ground well for president trump will not go away. the movement he started is based

at the same time, it's pretty clear corporate america's made a decision.re not going to give any money to rewill palins period, i believe. -- republicans period, i believe. that's where we are. and i believe somebody's going to have to make a decision about where corporate america should be in our elections. and i would hope that your think tank would consider whether or not corporate america should be involved in our elections. who, you know, who's made this decision, and how much are we going to put up with it? because the president is a populist. and he may have at various points been a reluctant the populist, but he is a populist. and to square it up with your money raising, fundraising is wonderful. but the fact is corporate america, big tech, wall street, the chamber, the business round table the -- by the time you get through with the u.s. multi-nationals, the swamp and the oligarchs, of course, of wall street and silicon valley, they swamp every breast in the country -- every interest in the country. how do you balance that, how do you create a cou

. >>> well, president trump is continuing to face backlash from corporate america. stripes says it will no longer process campaign donations for him while twitter and facebook stripped him of his social media profiles. cnn's brian stelter has the latest. >> reporter: corporate america is taking dramatic action against president trump in his campaign. many technology platforms basically disassociating themselves from trump over the weekend. we have seen an avalanche of these announcements, friday, saturday into sunday. and the end result of all of it is that the president is increasingly isolated. his platforms are shrinking, shrinking, shrinking to the point where he has very few megaphones, very few ways to communicate or at this point even raise money. we have seen no emails from the trump campaign since wednesday. up until wednesday the campaign was emailing supporters many times a day. one of the reasons why the emails may have stopped is because the campaign is having a very hard time accepting donations. on sunday night we learned that stripe, which is a payme

. >>> some of america's biggest corporations are distancing themselves from u.s. lawmakers in the wake of last week's capital riots. ed o'keefe report more than a dozen fortune 500 companies have suspended political donations. >> on monday, hallmark cards company ask for a refund from republican senators josh holly and roger marshall who received a combined $12,000. the company says the senator's decision to reject state certified electoral colleges votes do not reflect their company values and american express told employees monday they are withholding donations from lawmakers devoted to subvert the presidential results and the peaceful transition of power. : sats, facebook, google and microsoft are going farther. saying they will withhold all political contributions from members of both parties. chemical giant dial doing so for at least the next two years. >> it is sending a ripple effect amongst all these campaigns because donald trump is radioactive. >> leslie sanchez is a republican so in political analyst and said the corporate giving ban it hurt many gop ca

the headline "after capital riot, gop faces a reckoning with corporate america. the corporate -- the republican party has already seen its corporate packages shrink. what does that mean for 2022, 2024? guest: corporate packs are contributions that employees of companies make. they pool them together and then make a decision on what members of congress they want to support. typically, those past donations from corporate entities -- and they are not from a company, but from people who work at the company. they typically go to republicans because republicans have more business friendly policies. democrats want more regulation and higher taxes and want to make a business environment more difficult and republicans have typically been the beneficiary because they have a more pro-business philosophy. now, what you are seeing is a lot of people who contribute to those corporate packs are telling their companies, i will stop doing that if you give money to those people who participated in the events of january 6. that could potentially have a lot of influence. i hate to sa

corporate america has never been more political than they were in 2020. most corporations took positions on the black lives matters protests which clearly had a political agenda behind it with a political platform behind it. this is corporate america taking a position, as private companies are allowed to do. we've never seen a period in time when private companies have been more open about politics. this is a media show. i know you're covering this. i hope we hear the drum beat of threats to free speech going on in the country right now. you would have to be hard of hearing not to hear it. with aoc saying she wants to rein in the free press, we should be listening. we don't just see corporations, we see media and journalists cheering on the idea of limiting speech. i hope we hear the foot steps, the drum beat, the marching is headed our way. howie: i've reported on aoc saying democrats are considering a commission that could look at reining in media coverage, i don't think there's any role for government in that whatsoever. leslie, let's pick up the point

whether right or wrong, they are moving at speed in corporate america.th of those riots at the us capitol condemning the violence. now we are seeing them put some money behind the action. we know that businesses have, for a long time, seen donations to individual politicians oi’ donations to individual politicians or parties are something to expand their sphere of influence, part of their sphere of influence, part of the cost of doing business. but now they are reevaluating that. the events of last week have caused them to rethink how they approach this. so you are seeing different approaches by some of the biggest names in corporate america. you singled out american express, marriott ‘s, the well‘s largest hotel chain, and a similar action, saying it would not donate money to republicans who essentially didn't support biden‘s win and refused to certify the election results. some are going much further. google, facebook, jpmorgan are among those who have said that they, through their political action committees, are planning to pause all donations to bot

is having a rethink and possibly a step back, not just corporate america that is suffering ties of america pga polling 2022 championship from bedminster new jersey, the second time in five year, they pulled the golf event from a trombone golf course and the recognition after last week's event that actions taken in a board room speaks values and volume. neil: thank you very much, following all of that, any concern these companies are going to have a fallout of their own dealing with conservatives or conservative users of their brand who might be ticked off? >> i think you're seeing that as well in silicon valley with the big tech giants again, we can argue it's california that may be more liberal and left wingi winging, you hear that on social media and from consumers and users at facebook and the like, those forces are being loud and clear. neil: thank you very much, susan li, the texas gop chairman, the former texas congressman retired army lieutenant colonel, as tough as they get, how are you feeling these days? >> it's good to be with you, happy new year and i'm recovering ve

lou: and contemporaneously, corporate america is refusing to now donate money to the republican partyause of the fiction ginned up by moses and schumer -- pelosi and schumer, and to a degree, the president-elect that is president incited a mob and was responsible for the violence. kevin mccarthy, the leader of the republicans in the house, mitch mcconnell, the leader of the republicans in the senate participating in this, in this outrage against the president of the united states while every one of these plots, every one of these malign actors over the course of four years is escaping media attention and consequence either at the polls because no one, not enough people even know what they've done, or because they are being blocked by big tech, social media. it's an outrage and a dark, dark day in american history. >> yeah. millions of people share your sentimentses, lou, and it's because it's based in fact. these things have happened, and there needs to be accountability. but i also think that, you know, one of the things about the capitol riot, as tragic and awful as it is, is that t

a message to corporate america as we have a national reset, we need to value facts.you're sitting there and so many press secretaries go to big jobs. ari fleischer has a firm representing ibm, pfizer, lock harte, and amazon, a tradition. how do we take facebook or amazon seriously if kayleigh mcenany comes in, write about them, treat them fairly. but the issues we have to scrutinize because they're making a statement we're ak we people paid by the people and yet would tell lies. and they did. >> they have major credibility problems that most press secretaries do not have coming out of the white house. do you feel there is a warm reception to this concept? because i wonder just when it comes to corporate america, we're already seeing them pull advertise -- pulling, you know, political contributions, for example, when it comes to, at this point, the republican party. i mean, is this something you feel is sort of going with where they're going? >> you know it was -- really was just a statement that this country, constitutional democracy, stack stats are at tt of it. we

this is an area it seems lining there has been a slow creep of corporate america into the political fray and here we are for some of them i imagine they were asked by their employees, asked by their constituents to make such moves. steve grasso, is this wise >> no, i never think it's wise for a corporation to play politics, because you know, this is something where, i mean, michael jordan said it best. he said republicans buy sneakers, too. you never want to offend somebody on the other side you had 73, 74 million people in this country vote for president trump, so you're alienating almost that country immediately. so does everyone care about it no but i think that playing politics in corporate america is a very dicey game and it's very -- it's a tough game at most points because everything is running extremely hot right now, but i think the furr further away we get, president trump is basically out of office now. i think the further away we get from this, we wants to have cooler heads prevail i don't think the senate gets to that two-thirds majority, so let's leave corporate america out

speaking of corporate america prop 22 which recently passed in california thanks to corporate cash is already destroying workers' lives just as it was intended to do california stores vons and pavilions have already announced they will fire essential workers and replace their drivers with independent contractors meaning at base to give workers who have no protections but bought by hoover and lives told us that prob 20 do would help or hurt us they told us it would be a golden age of slaving away at jobs we hate they would never lie to us they would never lie just like when they tell us our driver will be there in 3 minutes and then 3 minutes go by and they tell us they meant 3 minutes more and then 3 minutes more go by and they tell us they meant 5 minutes and then 5 minutes go by the little car animation looks like the car is inside a building somehow and then the driver cancels and you get charged a cancellation fee honesty is their top priority just by taking their money and exploiting their workers but but honesty is still still pretty high on the list. however there may b

just like you know to come up with a program bit later corporate america appears to be playing its part in splitting up the country to some of the biggest companies pulling financial support from just about any law making president trump a covering that. shortly. this next though health officials in norway are adjusting the vaccination advice after the deaths of 13 elderly people possibly from side effects of been given a dose of the fires of all those who died because home residents aged over 80 it seems that some of these patients get such severe side effects in the form of fever and malays that it can make a very serious illness even more serious which may lead to death. norway launched its covert immunization program with a pfizer vaccine in late december and on friday rolled out the mcgurn of vaccine to nursing home residents are on the priority list since then 29 people have reported to have been suffering side effects after getting the pfizer jab but the national medicines regulator insists it's not alarmed by the numbers adding the risks are low except among the most frail of pa

new york was still ahead corporate america appears to be playing its passing dividing the country some of the biggest companies are pulling financial support from lawmakers who backed president trump take a closer look on this a bit later on in the program. now india has planning to inoculate 300000000 people as it starts phase one of the world's biggest covert vaccination program to begin with centers like this one in new delhi will only handle a 100 people a day health care workers are among the 1st in line and asher zeneca and india's coke vaccine are the 2 shots that have received emergency approval the country suffering heavily from the virus with more than 10000000 reported cases. meanwhile thousands turned out for an down rally in the austrian capital on saturday afternoon it coincided with health officials there suggesting that restrictions may need to be extended later this month austria has been under strict lockdown measures since the end of december in which all non-essential businesses remain shut people are only allowed to leave work sorry leave home for work medical visi

looks next to corporate america's efforts then to fit in with the incoming democratic administration. don't trump free fall from american president to enemy number one is always complete but it turns out guilty by association too if you voted for trump you voted for the person who claimed supported you voted for the person who nazis support you voted for the person who the all right supports vets the crowd that you were in apart from being heckled is that nazi having a trump sign a new yard might cost you your twitter account but for lawmakers on the hill loyalty to the president has come at a much higher price over we're not yet making contributions to this point in the election cycle nike's political action committee will not support any member of congress who ignores these principles of democracy including those who voted to decide if ideal actual college results for some it was news that mike even donated to the red tape and they did $150000.00 in 2020 while the democrats got handed over a 1000000 so besides being a monster crossan jumping on the gun nike's move was also a monster

artsy new york city had few this out corporate america appears to be playing its part in dividing the country to some of the biggest companies are pulling financial support from lawmakers who backed president trump will take a closer look at this a bit later on in the process. i. now india is planning to inoculate 300000000 people as it starts phase one of the world's biggest vaccination program to begin with sensors like this one here in new delhi will only handle 100 people a day health care workers are among the 1st in line astra zeneca and india's cove vaccine are the 2 shots that have received emergency approval country suffering haven't from the water more than 10000000 reported cases. international going to take a quick break we'll be back to. you know this is a theme that i was always fascinated me how markets can attract investors who are investing in destruction of their own country or their own communities it's like similar to the business model of the mafia you know when they burn down a restaurant right then they collect on the insurance etc. the world is driven by shaped