. >> police dialed a phone number they found for ed.told them he lived 5 00 miles in eastern tennessee and agreed to make the drive to germantown to be interviewed. detectives wondered whether he made the trip once already that week to take heather away. more importantly, could he tell them where she was now. >> just because you have somebody live 5g00 miles away does not mean that they didn't have anything to do with this disappearance. >> police recorded ed roller son's interview during questioning ed made a potentially important admission. >> i love her to death. i would do anything for her, you know, one of the detectives asked me who would she call if she wanted to disappear. i said me. i'd be here in however many hours it took me to get here today. >> but he insisted heather never made that call. and there was more. ed told detectives he was surprised by the first question he was asked when initially contacted by the police. >> detective kemp called me. he said, is your girlfriend there. and i said, yeah, she's in the backyard. he

ed: indeed. this is not just a bunch of young kids doing this. this is like a broad sweep of people. the argument is many of them are new to the market and don't know what they are doing. but they have no momentum. the stocks are going higher. i commend them for coming on tv as a short because doing anything that puts you above the parapet is brave because you could be the next target. vonnie: also what makes me look a second time is many people are using this to give us -- anthony scaramucci said this was bullish for bitcoin. ed: indeed. people will find reasons to put their money into other things and drive up their own things. you've seen a lot of people pile into it. both have come out and supported this movement and said it is a moment in time and an interesting trend. there is money to be made. the stocks continue to run up. the question is when does it change, when does it go down, and how severely does it go down? vonnie: we will be here that was ed hammond. the push to address climate ch

. >> a new york times op-ed criticize joe biden's use of executive orders. todd: carley shimkus is here with the back and forth. carley: can you believe it? the new york times issued criticism of president biden, although late criticism, the editorial board wrote an op-ed title these up on the executive action, they write by design such actions are more limited in what they can achieve them legislation and presidents to overreach invite intervention by courts. white house communications director feels slim at times in a suite, during the primary they encouraged voters to consider what a president can accomplish through executive action so my question is which action the president took to reverse donald trump's executive orders with a have liked to see him not to sue. this is notable because it is the first time president biden

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let's bring in our panel, fox news distributers ed rollins -- contributors ed rollins and jessica jessicaike: ed, what's your reaction to twitter going after president trump and, in effect, shutting down parler? >> i think to a certain extent this is a very unique situation. this week was a week, the destruction of the capitol and basically those vehicles were used as -- [audio difficulty] and i think to a certain expenalty you have a right and an obligation to be careful with that. i don't like any kind of censorship, and i certainly think the rules should be opened up, but i think clearly there's been a lot of spreading and misspreading of bad and dangerous information, and it's an organizational tool to create destruction against the government. mike: jessica -- i'm sorry. >> go ahead. mike: jessica, your reaction, and it's been a big issue of debate on capitol hill about how to handle these giant social media platforms. >> absolutely. and i think that conversation can continue. these are absolutely extenuating circumstances. the president of the united states of america used his twitt

ed, great to have you with us.gning against congresswoman liz cheney because she voted to impeach the president of the united states. we haven't seen this kind of activism from the republican party in ath very long time. your reaction. >> sounds like he's going to run for governor, move out of florida and run for governor of wyoming which is an interesting state. you know, the bottom line is i think this whole impeachment and the diminishing of the republican party's been overstated. democrats wanted this president since the get go, president trump. i had to laugh as they watched the love affair going on for biden, and it'll continue by the mainstream media. if you really analyze this election, how close it was, 43,000 votes was the difference in three states, georgia, and wisconsin. if that would have been shifted, then you would have had 269-269, thehe president would have been reelected. the president won 25 states, biden won 25 states and the district of columbia. trump's margin -- he lost which most democrats,

do you remember when tom cotton had an op-ed in "the new york times" talking about using the national guard to deal with domestic terrorism? the media said it was the worst thing. in fact a guy at "the new york times" lost his job because he was the opinion editor and he allowed the cotton op-ed. now you actually have the national guard helping to prevent against domestic terrorism. the last thing i want to say and i know we've got to go. so many people today call for unity but they would do something like this. the country really needs to unify and you need to change. the only way that any of this is going to solve us of both sides are using to -- willing to use some introspection and goal a bit more than halfway. that's the only way we're going to get some unity. >> jesse: halfway. it's not calling that president bin laden and calling everybody a white supremacist. next, president trump impeached a second time. another massive tech company

let's head to ed davey. mr speaker. as of— findings. let's head to ed davey.ed davey. mr speaker, as of 6:30pm yesterday i findings. let's head to ed davey. mrl speaker, as of 6:30pm yesterday the uk has the worst recorded death rate by head of population in the world. this is a grave moment for our country. i'm sure all our hearts go out to the families who have lost loved ones. last week the prime minister told me he was still not prepared to launch the enquiry into the covid crisis that he promised six months ago. so instead, today, will he at least tell the country that he will launch this enquiry sometime this year so we can find out why our country has seen the worst death rates from covid in the world, learn the lessons, and give bereaved families the answers and the justice he owes them? {lime the justice he owes them? once again...- _ the justice he owes them? once again,... madame _ the justice he owes them? once again,... madame deputy - the justice he owes them? once again,... madame deputy speaker, once again the right honourable gentleman has the

ed ludlow, thank you so much for that update. as ed mentioned, president trump saying he is at zero risk of being removed from office after encouraging supporters who went on to attack the u.s. capitol last week. but, he suggested president-elect joe biden could be. trump did not elaborate on how this might be used against biden. but let's discuss. we are joined now by a professor of political science at iona college. thank you so much for joining us. we are getting reporting from the "new york times" that republican leader mitch mcconnell has actually said he is pleased that the democrats are moving to impeach the president, and that he believes the president committed impeachable offenses. what do you make of this report? >> fascinating report out of the "new york times" just moments ago that mitch mcconnell has privately told people that he believes the president committed an impeachable offense. and of course we saw his wife resign her cabinet position a few days ago. in response to what happened. and of course mitch mcconnel

. >> o'donnell: let's bring in ed o'keefe who's at the white house. ed, this makes how many executive orders or actions from the white house since he's been president in his third day? >> let's listen as he takes a question. >> i do think that having some time to get our administration up and running, i want to thank the senator passing now, our secretary of defense, looks like our secretary of treasury and secretary of state is in place, so the more time we have to get up and running to meet these crisis, the better. >> o'donnell: ed. norah, to answer your question, 29 executive orders in about 50 hours. he was asked about cabinet secretaries. his defense pick lloyd austin is at the pentagon. tony blinken to lead the state department later today. you heard him speak about his legislative package, the american reese c rescue plan, $1.5 trillion pushed into the economy. d.p.s. and republicans meeting to talk about it this week. a lot of skepticism about the price tag and whether it's needed. >> o'donnell: and for the 8 million americans who never got t

thank you, nancy lazar and ed yardeni. >>> coming up, u.s. trade representative robert lighthizer is here. he is urging joe biden not to remove tariffs on china when he takes office. he's here to talk about china and why he wants to keep those tariffs in place. and then i'm asking former new york yankees' great and businessman alex rodriguez where he's looking to invest his money right now. stay with us. ♪ ♪ ♪ write your next adventure. handwriting recognition and the audi q3. lease or purchase a new audi suv and have your first month's payment covered. ♪ ♪ maria: welcome back. keeping china in check, u.s. trade representative robert lighthizer urging incoming president joe biden not to remove the tariffs that president trump has put in place. he joins me right now to talk more about that. robert, it's great to see you this weekend. thank you so much for being here. your overall strategy as it relates to china was probably among the most aggressive of and tough as we've seen in many yearsment overall, the trade -- years. overall, the trade po

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ed, good to have you with us. happy new year. >> happy new year to you.e fact we're eight -- thank you, sur. we're eight weeks from the election, and we still don't have verifiable, tangible support for the crimes that everyone knows were committed; that is, defrauding other citizens who voted with fraudulent votes. we know that's the case in nevada, we know it's the case in pennsylvania and a number of other states, but we have had a devil of a time finding actual proof. why? >> well, we haven't been able to get it before the courts. unless you can make your case before the courts, there's fro reprieve here -- there's no are peeve here. i wish my friends in the house and senate on wednesday, but the truth of the matter is they're going to get rolled over. on january 20th, biden is going to be inaugust a rated as the president. it may be trump's party, but it's not trump's party in washington, d.c. today. at the end of the day, maybe we with need another party. they're not going to get in, and no one's going to take this case up. you have all the affidavi

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that speaks, though, directly to the idea ed about what michael farr is talking about here, that it's really difficult to get overly negative when the fed is still filling up the punch bowl, right? yes. and it's the old -- i hate using it myself because i -- i somewhat ridicule it when others do, too. it's this dance while the music is playing sort of thing and it does play into that idea >> don't use that by using that analogy. i like the punch bowl a gee. the central banks keep filling up the punch bowl. that's what's going on here. the punch bowl analogy was made many, many years ago by another chair that said the fed's job is to be a chaperone and to pull it away when everybody's getting too partied up the past fed chairs including this one, that goal has been to keep that punch bowl afloat and it's been hard not to party. >> michael, that's essentially your point, right? they keep filling the punch bowl up so you're convincing people to stay longer and longer and longer even if we continue to get more drunk and more drunk and more drunk off these gains and valuations get more ele

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ed: i heard you talking about gamestop.he commonality with the z test with these ev spacs is the retail trader it's going all in. they are getting involved with these spacs before murders are completed. nicola is a cautionary tale for many. the nicola of today is different than when i first started writing about it last year. a lot of plans that it had are now gone. it is completely scaled-back. the ftc is looking into nikolai now. that has been a cautionary tale. that is the next area to look to. we have not done much reporting around that but the concern is the run-up in a lot of these stocks is that it is being driven by retail investors and they are trying to play the market often before a transaction has been completed. joe: i know you say there is a finite number of companies in this category, but for the time being, can we expect plenty more out there? ed: there are different types of quality companies. we have done a lot of reporting. lucid mortars -- motors has established itself as a technology leader in the ev sp

thank you. >> president mccarthy: thank you, ed. any other commissioners, or anybody else that would like to say a few words? >> i was stepping in to say that this is also a certificate from the building department, on behalf of the commissioners. thank you. >> president mccarthy: thank you, thank you, ed. i would like to open it up to anybody else to say a few words if there is. >> congratulations on retirement, ed. >> yeah, congratulations. get some rest. >> congratulations indeed. you will be missed and enjoy your time relaxing. >> indeed, congratulations, and thanks for welcoming the new commissioners to the team. >> congratulations. >> president mccarthy: i think that is it, ed. thank you so much. and keep the phone on, we're going to still need some advice, okay? >> clerk: okay, thank you, guys. >> president mccarthy: we'll talk soon, okay. bye. >> clerk: great, thank you, everyone. congratulations, again, to ed. and we are on to our next item, item 5. update regarding d.b.i.'s initiatives to accelerate permit processing durin

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thank you. >> president mccarthy: thank you, ed. any other commissioners, or anybody else that would like to say a few words? >> i was stepping in to say that this is also a certificate from the building department, on behalf of the commissioners. thank you. >> president mccarthy: thank you, thank you, ed. i would like to open it up to anybody else to say a few words if there is. >> congratulations on retirement, ed. >> yeah, congratulations. get some rest. >> congratulations indeed. you will be missed and enjoy your time relaxing. >> indeed, congratulations, and thanks for welcoming the new commissioners to the team. >> congratulations. >> president mccarthy: i think that is it, ed. thank you so much. and keep the phone on, we're going to still need some advice, okay? >> clerk: okay, thank you, guys. >> president mccarthy: we'll talk soon, okay. bye. >> clerk: great, thank you, everyone. congratulations, again, to ed. and we are on to our next item, item 5. update regarding d.b.i.'s initiatives to accelerate permit processing durin

thank you, ed, for joining us today.ers in the fourth quarter not pretty for delta and they won't be for any airlines, but it's the focus where they are right now and whether or not they can get back to break even by the end of the second quarter guys, back to you. >> phil, thank you obviously so much of it riding on how the vaccine rollout continues. hopefully things step up from this point hopefully we can work out some of the kinks we've seen, but i think so many businesses are kind of counting on that great to see you thank you for bringing us that interview with ed bastian. >>> when we come back, the ipo parade rolls on as importantmark and petco become the latest companies to exceed expectations we'll tell you what investors need to know. >>> check out shares of affirm the stock initially opening at just under $91 a share after the ipo priced at $41 a piece. now it's up 5.5% at 102102.51 "squawk box" will be right back. . >>> affirm surging in its wall street debut the stock just about doubling during yesterday's s

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ed lawrence has that story on what president biden has planned. ed? >> reporter: yeah, lou.resident joe biden adding more and proposing more regulations in the name of climate change. in the first six days of his presidency than any other in history. now, banning the drilling and fracking on federal lands and federal waterways, that is both republicans and democrats upset. listen to this. >> this is a president who wants to spend a lot of money taking revenue away from the federal government certainly is manifest in stopping drilling on federal lands. those are federal resources. those resources generate revenue that will otherwise have to be filled east by borrowing or either tax increases. >> reporter: now, oil industry sources tell me that they have been told a ban on new leases for the drilling and fracking on federal lands and waters will be extended for that one year. but a white house source now familiar with the regulations tells me that this is still a draft and could change in the next 24 hours because of the input, the backlash that they're hearing. one of those v

ed mills, maya mcginnis, great to have you weigh in on this. of course, fox business will have special coverage of the georgia senate runoff as poll results roll out tonight. it begins at 7:00 p.m. eastern. neil cavuto will have all the play by play in these two crucial races for control of the senate and perhaps the economic future of the nation. >>> an about-face by the new york stock exchange lighting up chinese stocks, but breaking this hour, sources close to the new york stock exchange are telling us, giving us some insight here at "the claman countdown" that this story is not over. the new information you've got to hear before diving back into chinese equities. >>> closing bell ringing in 47 minutes. we've got green on the screen. "the claman countdown" is coming right back. research shows people remember commercials with nostalgia. so to help you remember that liberty mutual customizes your home insurance, here's one that'll really take you back. wow! what'd you get, ryan? it's customized home insurance from liberty mutual! what does it

ed bastian is getting in the seat for us. we will ask him if he's hoping president-elect biden gives airlines a lift tonight. plus, will delta soon require negative covid tests on domestic flights? it's a can't-miss interview. >>> should government regulate the algorithms that propel news to your in-box every day? jeff flock's in the outspoken ceo of twillio, the silicon valley company that has a unique communication superhighway. he's here on why he thinks a crackdown is needed to lord over social media algorithms that dictate the news you read and consume. more on that in just a second. >>> first, this fox business alert. the cdc issuing a forecast that shows 90,000 americans could die of covid in just the next three weeks. in the first two weeks of 2021, the virus killed more than 38,000 people here in the u.s. as the vaccination rollout completes about 11 million shots in the arm so far, businesses are now trying to make this move more quickly, offering to lend a hand to speed up the process. in fact, today the hotel indu

good evening, ed >> reporter: good evening, norah. aides to the president-elect say they know he's facing multiple crises-- political divisions that caused that violence at the u.s. capitol, a struggling economy, and, of course, the pandemic. tonight, his first stop here in washington was at the memorial to the pain and suffering endured by so many americans. ♪ hallelujah hallelujah ♪ >> reporter: the lincoln memorial aglow tonight with 400 eight-foot-tall lights surrounding the reflecting pool, the president-elect honoring the more than 400,000 dead since the start of the pandemic, part of a nationwide tribute to the fallen. >> to heal, we must remember. it's hard sometimes to remember, but that's how we heal. it's important to do that as a nation. that's why we're here today. >> reporter: mr. biden is preparing for an inauguration day upended by covid-19 and security concerns, with washington locked down like never before. be no public spectators in attendance, and a the stlywi empty national maerl, protected by 25,000 national guar

facebook our pal scott hannan a legacy local talker in the vibrant fargo radio market that produced ed schultz captions a graphic of trump as george washington proclaiming on inauguration day today the enhanced role for the 45th begins a freedom fighter for forgotten americans armed with only knowledge of just how criminal and deceitful the swamp is his work is not complete michael many of the radio and t.v. talkers are as dug in as the disappointed trump supporters do you think this magazine narrative has legs does that have staying power. but what we are witnessing is the daily dance of affirmation and that is targeting audiences and telling them what they want to hear this is not just in talk radio this is all across the news media almost every newspaper or magazine television network or television news show in america today to one degree or another tries to determine through research that market studies what does the audience want and then they just serve it up to them so they're not disappointed and this is a an issue that we really do have to think about in terms of media theory

lou: ed, thank you very much. edward lawrence from washington. as you listened to the treasury secretary who has just been confirmed today, janet yellen, that's one of the reasons i have been a fan of the new treasury secretary for years. she is reasonable, she is prague mat you can and smart. pragmatic and smart. the national left-wing media's fundamental transformation from vicious attackers of president trump to fawning embracers of president biden has actually become too much for some within the ranks of those fawning left-wing media types. politico running a headline, quote: how about a little sobriety, please, end quote. to which politico's senior media writer jack schafer wrote, quote: washington's public works department should have built an emergency system of drainage ditches, culverts and tunnels to divert into the potomac river the torrents of praise, approval, adoration the press poured down on president joe biden on inauguration day. and remember, lauren wolfe, "the new york times" editor who described the chills she had watching pr

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ed. >> reporter: hey, lou.h, what we're seeing is this app at the center of the war, the battle between wall street and main street here. robinhood bills itself as a free trading app. it's been used by thousands of small investors or to bid up the stock price on stocks that wall street shorts. now, by doing this, the small investor has caused billions of dollars in losses this week for those hedge funds. now yesterday, as you said, the app halted trading on stocks like gamestop. the robinhood said that it needed to do that to raise money for collateral to handle the volume of trades, and they did, in fact, raise a with dollars. now -- a billion dollars. the texas attorney general's opened an investigation, lawmakers on capitol hill are also looking into this as well as regulators. the sec says they're watching this closely in a rare statement. they did say, in addition, we will act to protect retail investors when the facts demonstrate abusive or manipulative trading activity that is hinted -- prohibited by the