eunice was a conservative. she was a traditionalist, and she had a younger brother named alpheus who had degrees from harvard where he was badly treated. and nyu. he was a tennyson scholar. wrote a wonderful dissertation about tennyson. he was a communist. i don't mean he was accused of being a communist. he was a member of the communist party. he did favors for soviet intelligence. he was a serious, committed communist. two them took these very different paths. you have one conservative traditional and you have a communist who has no faith in american institutions. obviously, they had disagreements, but once their mother died in the 1940's, they grew apart. eunice among other things, not only did she think her brother was wrong, but she thought her brother was hurting her career. what she wanted most of all was to be a judge, and people from that office went on to all sorts of different distinguished careers. whoexample, william rogers was both secretary of state and attorney general was one of the 20 against

let's put eunice aside for one minute. eunice had a younger brother. and their parents were big black activists who believed in education and its importance. eunice became a very prominent republican. the republican party of civil rights in the 40's and the democratic party quite emphatically wasn't. you have to get the players straight. and she was heavily involved with political campaigns and someone. so when do we ran for president, he cited eunice as evidence that he was not prejudiced because he worked with this woman, she had done all these great things. but eunice was a conservative, a traditionaluist. she had a younger brother who had degrees from harvard where he was very badly treated. he wrote a wonderful insertation about socialism the literary circle. he wasmultilingual, but a communist. and i don't mean he was accused of being a communist, i mean he was a member of the communist party. he was a high-ranking member, he did favors for intelligence. he was a serious, committed communist. ,he fbi filed over 700 pages something like twice as l

she was eunice, that's what she was. and she decided that she was interested in hand radio, so she went to her brother's farm, because he did have electricity, and she taught herself more's code. only have more time i will tell you more. her when she got a job at that manufacturing company that made radio receivers. they looked at her like, what do you know about this. she was like, i have been doing morse code for years. as ans able to get a job address meant. being ahead of her time she did not want to be a draft to men, she wanted to be called a draft lady, so she was. she did technical drawing. put ahe war ended she radio station. it was 1920 and commercial radio was lots of things. i just got done giving talks was notie in pittsburgh the first radio station. that is a mess. worked at one of the first radio stations. she was by all accounts the first radio announcer, the first woman radio announcer in the east. she may have been one of the first in the entire united states. 1919.es on the air around contrary to the m

you are a cheerful soul, eunice.rsement could make all the difference to holding the two senate seats subject to run—off elections in a month's time. victory then will sweeten the loss of the white house because it will make joe biden‘s task of governing that much harder. before you are isolating, because he have to coming back into the uk from the states, you were on the campaign trail. is there anything you recall from that experience that brings home some of the real, raw tension that is in american daily life as a result of this election? this is my seventh us presidential election i have covered, '96, bill clinton against bob dole was the first. i have been going back to america and live there in that intervening period. this is the first... this was a shock to me, the first time i came across that deep melding and the intertwining of fact and fiction in news. i had never seen this on this scale anywhere in the world. and it has to be said, it is a by—product much more prevalent as a result of the last 3.5 years

eunice yoon. we'll turn our attention back to capitol hill we have a few pots boiling one, of course, is the president's veto of the defense authorization act. hasn't been vetoed in 59 years covid relief in question the government funding bill. leslie, you have 12 million americans whose ui benefits will expire in two days so this is going to be quite a showdown as both the democrats and the gop show unanimous consent. >> reporter: that's right. there's plateauing we saw a nice return and recovery in the spring and summer that's slowing down especially as you look at personal income which fell in november as well as consumer spending declining for the first time since april so that adds additional pressure to koccongress to really look at what is the state for americans right now especially going into the holiday season as you mentioned, some of the benefits are set to expire in just a week's time, john >> yeah. leslie, we look at the markets and the futures. it's not as if investors are taking th

eunice yoon in beijing for us.e another exciting day with the ipo tomorrow. >>> paining of america's new survey show consumers working at home plan to spend less in every category but one the details and the stock impact. >>> plus, doordash open for trading and what an open it is it's up 82% and priced at 102, trading at 186 and change. we'll talk about what that will mean for airbnb. watch us live on the go using the cnbc anypp a time. we're back in a couple >>> welcome back bank of america is out with its latest home work survey revealing insights on holiday spending, movie trends and whether or not holiday fatigue is starting to sent in liz, good to have you here. >> thank for having me. >> and the headline will be familiar to our audience, it's that people say their spending is going down on everything but on their pets. is the that right? >> that's right, yeah. really the family pet is the winner this holiday season our survey showed that consumers plan to spend less on most categories over the holidays, excep

eunice yoon is joining us with the details.e probably has to be the most high profile business person in all of china and certainly one of the big esz in tgest in the . what is going on with the campaign against jack ma >> well, china is investigating ali baba's alleged no ma november police tick practices including what is called pick one of two, which is forcing merchants on your site only work with one players a opposed to its separately ant group was also summoneded so this whole idea has been quite common in the market for years. and not only by ali baba, so there has been a lot of questions today as to why it is that we're seeing this investigation. of course a lot of this has to do, at least the speculation is, with jack ma's recently fiery speech where he was highly critical of beijing's regulators and also at a time when president xi jinping has been looking to exert more control over private industry. he said that he planned to prioritize anti-monday no november police tick efforts in 2021 so investors are trying to f

what's changed and what hasn't cnbc's eunice to all the businesses that helped us make it through 2020... thank you for going the extra mile... and for the extra pump of caramel. thank you for the good food... and the good karma. thank you for all the deliveries... especially this one. you've reminded us that no matter what, we can always find a way to bounce forward. so thank you, to our customers and to businesses everywhere, from all of us at comcast business. >>> sports some of us took it for granted before covid, and some of us were pleasantly surprised to get our husbands back, right in the middle of the nba and nhl season we started watching netflix because there was nomadness in march. honey do lists got done because of the summer games being postponed. who would have thought our favorite athletes would play in empty stadiums and arenas. it brought us together our favorite teams and athletes took a knee and spoke up against social injustice they had a major impact in 2020. what can we expect next year from the world of sports eric chemi joins us with a preview of 2021. hello, e

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eunice, thank you very much. to see you we will talk to you soon >>> up next, stocks rebounding, but the futures off the highs of the morning, still in positive territory. you're talking about the dow up by 70 points we're going to talk rng moin strategy right after this quick break. >>> futures now are pointing to a higher open this morning you're talking about the dow futures indicated up by 71 points s&p futures up by 12 the nasdaq up by 6 with two trading days left in 2020, there is lots to talk about concerning the road ahead for the markets. joining us now is krishna namani for lafayette endowment and eugene profit, soviet awe are la the end of the year with stocks sitting at new highs just off new highs i guess the market is focusing on what 2021 is going to look like, not what this year looked like and the biggest question from that is what comes next? can these gains continue krishna, what do you think >> i think for the equity markets everything is falling in place. you have a vaccine that is getting al

. >> eunice, es maestra de primaria en san mateo, teme por su salud si llegaran a reabrir las escuelas a los maestros, sin los maestros no se puede enseÑar. >> 1 de marzo para abrir las escuelas. >> reconoce que se necesitarÁ mÁs medidas de seguridad antes de que los maestros y estudiantes puedan regresar a las aulas. >> por tantos estudiantes en una escuela vamos a necesitar mÁs que equipos de protecciÓn personal, acceso a pruebas de diagnÓstico rÁpido de covid y las vacunas para que cuando estÉn todos tan cerca en un lugar es mÁs posible que pueda transmitir el covid. >> nos comentÓ que ya se encuentra preparado para iniciar las clases en persona para el prÓximo aÑo, aunque aÚn no llegan a un acuerdo con los maestros sobre la fecha exacta. >> estamos esperando de nuevo permiso desde el condado de alameda que todo estÉ seguro para abrir de nuevo, hubo una pequeÑa ventana hace varios meses que nos habÍan dado el permiso, en este momento en octubre, no estuvimos listos, pero esperamos que para enero estemos listos. >> aseguraron que no serÁ impedimento para reabrir las escuelas. >> no e

yo eunice yoon is joining us from beijing. where does the outbreak stand today?reporter: well, you know, things here look normal. for example, at this restaurant, they are preparing for their new year's eve celebrations after months of struggling i was speaking with the restaurant owner who said that in january, you could practically throw a baseball through this restaurant because it was so empty. he said today they are expecting 50% seating capacity so relatively much, much better. it was also exactly a year ago today that an ophthalmologist in wuhan had warned his fellow doctors of a new virus that had emerged at his hospital. that doctor ways sis silenced b police and he eventually caught the virus and died and what was that virus? it became worldwide known as covid-19 economically speaking, businesses have been coming back in fact the economy here is on track for growth of 8% in 2021 but life is definitely not fully back to normal and i can give you an example. my new year's eve party plans have been canceled and that is because here in beijing, we are start

we'll see, eunice, thank you so much that's eunice yoon joining us in beijing.reak, want to spark a debate at the holiday table, well, you know the topic, just bring up bitcoin, and we will bring you that heated conversation ahead of the conversation of your own this morning kevin o'leary is going to join us along with anthony popliano, bitcoin this morning, take a look at the price tag, 23$23,00, a lot of folk out there are saying did i miss it we'll have that discussion here on "squawk box." >>> the treasury department proposing new regulations surrounding cryptocurrency last week, but with bitcoin sitting well over 20,000, could it still be a big play for your portfolio. joining us now is anthony pompliano, the founder and partner at morgan creek digital assets, and kevin o'leary, the chairman at o shares etf, shark tank cohost and a cnbc contributor. nice to see you both kevin, it sounds to me like you have come around on bitcoin from not a real currency to actually buying some and maybe buying more >> let me be clear, scott, i have been a cryptonian for yea

this christmas carol is at least 200 years old eunice kaufman performs it in the silent night chapel in old window washer and here salzburg austria the german star tenor is presenting his 1st christmas album here he is fulfilling a longstanding wish for himself and his family escaped once initiated shouldn't find there's an incredible number of beautiful christmas carols and in our culture there's a huge spectrum there on the overpass of carols and ones from all over the world which my father play for us all the time. present but we see. here is going to. join us call fun selected 40 christmas songs for his album including his personal favorite plus alpine tracks and christmas hits for hard on the right to. the busy tenor enjoys the quiet of the christmas holiday. he's a target and christmas is a sacred time for the state during this time of year i just want to be with my family and especially my children as much as possible i've always blocked the time in red in my counter just before christmas. no more work and it's. usually the opera star schedule is full on has been performing on

the ski mask mostly in sawgrass gardens didas now it's not a man to thing granger feet to the elf eunice no no elf the overall message is clear the less room left to nature the more environmental problems including new diddley's new scenes there will be but early in his focus is not just on the plant and animal life that is being destroyed her point is there are communities of people who can have a net positive effect on the world and even those people are at risk from an economic ideology of relentless growth and the destruction associated with it is still. those disc is aboard escape by outer discipline asked the focus. for blow the other bills also strides up twice blogs in jesus' domain builds processors and mice it boosts needle anus if. my chief vangelis a western on catalyst a florist and not a real a nice thing. a law system which examine he says preston will cut. elegy straw just release. better. the human economy is a subsystem of the natural eco secure and the only thing that enables it to grow is its continuous capacity to extract resources and energy from the rest of the sph

adam and that is why is eunice's hostile to iraq the united states was hostile to iran from day one the problem was. the overthrow of the shop the problem was that iran pursued an independent foreign policy if the united states had behaved in a reasonable and rational way towards iran instead of helping saddam hussein give them chemical weapons and then afterwards of course sanctions and so on the relationship between iran and the united states today could have been a reasonable relationship you know it's got you know when it it's very likely that we'll have divided government in january that will mean that a potential biden ministration the limitations on what kind of legislative agenda agenda that he'll be able to pursue and that leaves one area where the president is very. more and more. moving without any kind of constraint and that is foreign policy here and i'm i really worry considering the people that he's surrounding himself with i mean these people have a track record of just unbelievable failure and i have to even say quite honestly very limited intelligence they have nice re

just enough to cover 9 percent well mohammed yunus is a nobel peace prize winner and chairman of the eunice center one of the groups spearheading the people's vaccine alliance he says companies producing covert vaccines are actually breaking with precedent. the precedent is like value of x. it quits on a stock the inventor of the many who 'd picks it he declared this is it people's taxes this is this is like a sunshine nobody can proceed under sunshine so this should be belong to all people so this is that there is a tradition that it's $88.00 dixon they became free goods to the bacon free goods to so this is a tradition of their violating the tradition and then the rich countries buying up several times more than they need it 5 times more they don't support as many population you have in the meantime the poor countries don't have any access to anything and in what i'm afraid of this will create a boston market for fake vixens now that the back since i'm not i'm not available to large number of people 90 percent of the people still not connected with the banks. or we mentioned lebanon which

>> look, my mother-in-law, eunice kennedy shriver, told me a long time ago never turn down a president. it doesn't matter the party. i already made it clear to the biden administration that i'm not looking for a job or anything like this, but that i am more than happy to help in any way i can. >> would you be willing to help by running for senate in 2022? senator harris is going to be vice president harris. they're going to have a special election in 2022. what about arnold for senate? >> i'll tell you one thing, in this coming year i have already signed an agreement to do a tv series, which is kind of like a "true lies" tv series about being a superspy with comedy and action and all that stuff, which i'm really looking forward to. i'm not looking for another political job or anything like that. what i'm looking for, basically, is just to be helpful. that's why we created the schwarzenegger institute and to have symposiums there and to have, you know, kind of at gatherings where the brightest minds come together and talk about these very important issues. if it is pollution, if it is h

as well as writing for portuguese publications, eunice goes is an academic in london, exploring the importanceon, bbc presenter and foreign correspondent, clive myrie. good to have you back, clive. "we're a much better country than every single one of them". the cabinet minister gavin williamson's tiggerish patriotism was on display in a radio interview about vaccine approval. naked nationalism was on display across the channel. clement beaune, france's europe minister was blunt. "i want to tell our fishermen, our producers, the citizens, we will not accept a deal with bad terms". if the talks fail, getting those vaccine—filled trucks over

>> look, my mother-in-law, eunice kennedy shriver, told me a long time ago never turn down of like a "true lies" tv series about being a spy, a superspy with some comedy and action and all that stuff, which i'm really looking forward to. so i'm not looking for another political job or anything like that. what i'm looking for, basically, is just to be helpful. that's why we created the schwarzenegger institute and to have symposiums there and to have, you know, kind of at gatherings where the brightest minds come together and talk about these very important issues. if it is pollution, if it is health care, universal health care, or if it is political reform, if it is immigration reform. any of those kind of issues we discuss, or equality in america, which is another important issue that i think needs to be addressed. these are the kinds of things i'm interested in. and i just really want to be -- use my celebrity power to further those kinds of issues rather than really furthering anything that has to do with politics. but it's issues, it's policies. sometimes politics gets in the way

eunice an loni was a londoner. she met her husband during word war ii, he was an american soldier. she eventually came back to america to raise a fay. she died two days later. constant told her daughter, i don't want to live anymore. i have tried. i'm done. 48 hours later, alice ford died, louise johnson passed away the next day, as did harry nash, a local bookshop owner, spend spending time usually winning chess matches. 48 hours later five people dude includes russell, a magician who was still performing balloon animal shows twice a would you. patricia lewandowski, that was one horrific month at one nursing home. 32 died. 32 of the 273,000 americans who have died from this pandemic. they worked in conjunction to bring this story to lied. they interview -- and i should say the reporters also reviewed hundreds of e-mails. lee nora, this report that you all did was amazing that didn't mention there the very first death in that nursing home. that's thomas minicello. can you share his story and house his coronavirus infection was handled? >> thomas arrived and he -- he ended up after

pushed him a disc but also new company and eunice yoon in all false acumen just could have found her body. false just made the call to her it coming. but in the 1960 s. france continued to cut down in the overseas territories. in march $967.00 in djibouti the crowd called for independence but the army moved in and several demonstrators were killed and. 3 months later construction workers in guadalupe demanded a pay rise. a riot broke out and the police fired into the crowd killing several demonstrators. recession nothing changes as the saying goes. for the. good of. you could official says it could it is all to yes it was all set what catalysts that sift through me to school b.c. secret said that feel that this chill they do it can touch so i fast because he left us i took pity. on a 967 still haunts the people of guadalupe. a mural finally put up to commemorate what's widely considered to be the last french colonial act of violence. who says he last visit me p.z. . we are going to sell you know us from the park. by skip pre-taped. don't go in for. a shitty shows. ted could see the c

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>> hour thanks to eunice eun. >>> 2020 has meanwhile been an historic year for the oil market crude isn 21% since january. beginning the year at $60 a barrel and sitting today at 48, so what made the year so historic well, let's take you back to april. an april 20th crude, already hammered by the pandemic, began the day at $17 a barrel. minutes before the close crude prices plunged and even went negative, something that had never happened before. it got worse and worse and worse until oil eventually settled at negative $37.63, essentially means i'm paying you to take my oil contract it did rebound the following day to around $10 a barrel but the wild moves sent investors fleeing from energy with the sector the worst performer in the s&p down 36% this year that said, in the past three months, it's outperforming every other sector it's now up about 26% in that time frame, and according to our cnbc quarterly stock report exxon is the top choice among investors when asked when the best performing investment will be in 2021 beating out bitcoin, tesla and apple. is this optimism warranted he

bangladesh can cover just ny and la video this is a nobel peace prize winner and chairman of the eunice center which is one of the groups spearheading the people's vaccine alliance he says the companies producing the covert vaccines are actually breaking with precedent. the precedence is like value of x. it quits on a stock the inventor of the many makes it he declared this is it people's backs and this is this is like a sunshine nobody can proceed under sunshine so this should be belong to all people so this is that there is a tradition that it's 88 dixon they became free goods to the peasantry goes to so this is a condition of their violating the tradition yet coming back as it was a fight between how much they can extract with just like the debt and in danger of this and human being or good reason and dangerous places because of the global warming now you're endangering it for any of that direction and how come much communicate this is this is the time to reflect where that life is something to be exchanged for money or not this is some occasion where you don't go for the profit maki

eunice yoon has more >> thank you so much after that doctor posted that mess and, he was silenced by the police, caught the virus and then died from it. still very much seen as a hero here in china. since then, life has relatively come back to normal. at this sports bar restaurant, it is pretty full considering the concerns of the pandemic because of the lockdowns of the year and travel restrictions the pandemic has actually, largely subsided businesses have been coming back the economy is back to post 8% growth life isn't entirely the way it used to be in beijing, there are several minio minioutbreaks. 1.2 million people have been tested on a personal note, my new year's receive plans have been canceled that shows businesses here are still losing money despite the efforts here to control the pandemic >> we wish you a happy new year nonetheless. major averages are still higher. we have another hour of "sqwawk on the street" coming up new projects means new project managers. you need to hire. i need indeed. indeed you do. the moment you sponsor a job on indeed you get a short list of

eunice yoon, thank you very much >>> now to washington, d.c., the trumped up stimulus fight rages on with nothing getting done today. let's find out where we stand and where we are going >> i wish i knew the answer. it's a mess here in washington, d.c. the president blew up the deal that had been agreed to by his team democrats and republicans up on capitol hill now they are struggling to put together the pieces. the president said one of the reasons he didn't like the bill was because the stimulus checks to individual americans were only $600. he said after all the negotiation was over, what i wanted was $2,000. nancy pelosi called him on that this morning, put a request measure on the floor of the house of representatives saying, fine, if you want to raise it to $2,000, we will do that. republicans blocked that move by nancy pelosi seeing a political opportunity to divide republicans against the president. she put out this statement a short time ago saying, today, on christmas eve morning, house republicans cruelly deprived the american people of the $2,000 that the president agree

pushed him a disc but also neck on the middle and eunice yoon in the all false acumen just could havefound her body. false little that she's made the call to her you got a new. one. but in the 1960 s. france continued to cut down in the overseas territories. in march $967.00 in djibouti the crowd called for independence but the army moved in and several demonstrators were killed and. 3 months later construction workers in guadalupe demanded a pay rise. a riot broke out and the police fired into the crowd killing several demonstrators. recession nothing changes as the saying goes. for the. good of. you could have he said to sit do could it is all to yes it was on set what catalyst said sift through me to school b.c. secret said that feel that this chill they do it can touch so of has just left us i took pity. on a 967 still haunts the people of guadalupe. and murell finally put up to commemorate what's widely considered to be the last french colonial finance. to sophie last visit me p.z. . york. we are going to win you know us from the park. by skip pre-taped. don't go in for. a shitty