i am gillian turner gillian turner and four dana perino. it's great to be with all of you. this is a special edition of "the daily briefing." ♪ republicans are blocking a vote on $2,000 stimulus checks for millions of americans, this despite president trump's demands after congress settled on $600. nancy pelosi is promising to continue the fight. we've got fox team coverage. first up, ari fleischer with analysis, the latest from lawmakers. let's begin with mark meredith who was reporting from west palm beach. merry christmas. >> good afternoon. right now congress is trying to figure out how serious the president is with his demand to increase the money that would be going on stimulus checks. earlier today, house democrats had a chance to meet and decide whether or not this would be pushed through, but republicans made it clear they were not going to support this effort, 600 and then from 2,000. they want congress to re-examine money that's tied to a bill that's attached to stimulus. right now it's unclear if they could improve this package or not. the president got here to

gillian turner, if you could live anywhere in these united states, where would it be? e? like, anywhere anyway? carmel. if i could afford it. >> kennedy: isn't it lovely there? it sort of goes against the point of people leaving california pay [laughter] gillian turner is going to go get a great deal on a house. >> gillian: i'll call all of you, you can come visit. >> david: buy in west virginia. the land is cheap, it's a beautiful place to live, it's affordable. >> kennedy: see? look at that. so many places in these great united states. we will find the house of your dreams, a viral tweet causing a lot of commission on social media showing a mansion in massachusetts selling for the exact same price as a tiny house in los angeles. what does the sticker shock say about the golden state? more next. ♪ the holidays are a time for giving. to your friends... your family... to your teachers. in that spirit of giving, chevy's proud to give our employee discount to everyone. the chevy price you pay, ...is what we pay. not a cent more. because giving, ...and giving back, is what

ray suarez, ben domenech, gillian turner. thanks for joining us.p next, what was it like to cover the hunter biden allegations when much of the media world was calling it a far-fetched tale? when i was diagnosed with dupuytren's contracture, i waited to get treated. thought surgery was my only option. but then i found out about nonsurgical treatments. it was a total game changer. learn more about the condition at factsonhand.com howie: the hunter biden allegations are somewhat belatedly big news, a lot bigger news than during the campaign. joining us from wilmington is jackie heinrich, a fox news correspondent who covered the story during the election. what was it like attempting to cover this subject, the allegations during the campaign when the majority of news outlets i would say were either dismissing it or downplaying it? >> reporter: well, it was interesting. i think you had to remember, let's look back to the very first report that came out of this. it was that new york post smoking gun story. they made the allegation that this e-mail that s

>> harris: gillian turner, good to see you, thank you.mer white house press secretary and fox news contributor now, ari fleischer joins me. there are a lot of moving parts here, i'm glad you are with me today. first of all, when you look at how an incoming white house would have to deal with this, what should joe biden's transition team be doing right now? >> in normal times this would be a number one headache, threatening to dominate all early action from the administration but normal is defined by the press corps so if the press corps goes easy then they don't have to have this usual feeding frenzy reaction most white houses go through so we will have to see what the rest of the media does with the story. right now they have muted it, they really haven't run with it the way others have. but harris, let me step back. i think there are three major themes here. number one, the threat of china. china remains a major threat, a major adversary and america needs to wake up, the incumbent biden administration needs to wake up and be tough with

i am gillian turner gillian turner and four dana perino. it's great to be with all of you. of "the daily briefing." ♪ republicans are blocking a vote on $2,000 stimulus checks for millions of americans, this despite president trump's demands after congress settled

leland: from now on, we will put gillian, gillian turner, sometimes it has your title, gillian turnernthusiasts. gillian: i would do that. leland: continue watching for panda updates as well as the news because the lines of trump supporters are continuing to grow down in georgia, we have griff jenkins on the ground there. you can see live pictures there. camping out since 7:00 o'clock this morning. so they've got a full 12 hours. it looks a little chilly down there. it's not that warm. ♪ ♪ arthel: all eyes on georgia ahead of crucial runoff to determine which party controls the senate. president trump heads there today for a rally with the state's two republican senators, it'll take place just hours from now. the president looking to rev up the gop base as both parties pump money into resources there in georgia. hello, everyone, welcome to america's news headquarters, i'm arthel neville. hi, eric. eric: hi, arthel, hello, everyone, thank you for joining us, i'm eric sean. the president's trip to georgia comets as he continues to push forward with legal challenges in several ke

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gillian turner looking at that and more new allegations tonight. good evening, jillian. >> good evening shannon. 12 days to go until electoral votes are certified nationwide, they are fanning out across the nation and going all in on their claims that the results are fraudulent, rigs," were stolen from the president. >> the president doesn't intend to give up. at the present have seen enough evidence that this was a massive fraud across the country. >> they presented witnesses with allegations of fraud appeared to. >> incentive discarding, they were just rescanning, rescanning, rescanning. it counting ballots nine to ten times counting votes nine to ten times. >> to your knowledge, where they all instructed to exactly like you were? through falsified documents? >> yes. sick of the legal >> there shouldn't be a runoff on dominion machines. you should make it known that you will not vote at all until your vote is secured. >> in pennsylvania, a double down on illegal vote dumping claims. >> 130,000 completed ballots for the 2020 general election were

gillian turner has the reporting in washington now. facing a mounting storm of criticism from republican colleagues over fbi concerns that he was snared be a chinese spy. republicans are is a iing that the democrats are naive to the real threat of klichina. >> you have the chinese being very comfortable and cozy with some of these democrat leaders and continuing to try to find n inroads to the democratic party and our government. >> nancy pelosi did drop a bomb shell yesterday when she was told fox news that dem and republican leadership were talked to in the past about this threat. >> i think it's unfortunate that mr. mccarthy is trying to make an issue of this. we all found out at the same time. >> we still don't know who briefed congressional leadership back then. at the time, james comey was the fbi director. a former senior staffer on house intelligence tells fox news that a comey briefing would have been standard operating procedure. eric swalwell says this is all made up for revenge. >> the same time this story was leaked out is

>> shannon: gillian turner, thanks for digging in. president trump tonight calling into a turning point usa conference, bowing to keep fighting for an election victory, suggesting he is not the only one as congress had stored that january 6th date of finalizing the electoral college vote. >> president trump: we have some great congressmen and women who are doing it and we have others, some great fighters. we won this in a landslide, they know it and we need backing from like the justice department and other people have to finally step up. >> shannon: we will dig into the merits of that in just a bit. meanwhile a significant difference of appearance between the president and his outgoing attorney general. over the weekend the president saying it could be china if not russia beyond the massive cyber attack to the u.s. government systems. bill barr is that it appears to be the russians. >> it certainly appears to be the russians but i'm not going to discuss it beyond that. >> outgoing attorney general bill barr joined to secretary of sta

gillian turner live in d.c. thank you. >> sandra: a politically correct mall santa is causing a bit of controversy when he denies a little boy's request for a nerf gun. it happened at the harlem irving plaza mall in illinois. video showing the 4-year-old michael sobbing after santa says no to that gun. the mall step in to surprise that child with a very special delivery. >> we're so sorry about that. i heard about this up at the north pole and i -- >> sandra: he got the nerf gun he wanted. his mother blasted the first santa on "fox & friends." >> what did you call the mall santa? >> bad santa. >> even if he doesn't agree with nerf guns or guns that's fine. it is not his job to tell my son no. >> sandra: trace, if i can say anything about this we just love the spirit of santa claus, let's keep that alive for kids as long as they're happy to show up and see him. >> trace: i talked to a former mall santa this week who said bottom line here is at mall santas our job is to do one thing. you sit there and you nod your

a couple new fronts today in the battle to hold big tech companies accountable, correspondent gillian turneracebook and google. >> it has been a brutal day for big tech, the justice department announced its suing facebook for prioritizing hiring immigrants over american workers, also today the national labor relations board and lodging a formal complaint against google for spying on its employees and firing them for trying to unionize. in a 17 page complaint filed today, doj complained facebook engaged in intentional violations on the law by setting aside positions for temporary visa holders instead of considering qualified u.s. workers, american companies advertising jobs are requiring by law to prove they tried but were unable to find qualified american workers before hiring foreigners. if something doj it says facebook could do from 2600 open positions from 2018 to mech 2019, facebook said they received zero u.s. worker applicants, doj says they find this hard to believe and are sticking up for u.s. jobs. our message to workers is clear, if companies deny employment opportunities by illeg

. >> great to be with you, i'll gillian turner. fox news special debate coverage.stern

we begin with gillian turner with the detailed critique of the covid package. >> breaking tonight, but the president trump is asking to make 11th hour changes to the coronavirus package after months of stalled out negotiation with us. the presidents of beef with the 5,000 plus page bill, he says americans need more money on offer. he also wants all the wasteful spending tossed out. >> president trump: $505 million to belize, guatemala, honduras, nicaragua and, the additional $150 million for the national gallery of art. >> he says it doesn't cut the mustard. >> president trump: he provides hardworking taxpayers with only $600 each and release payment. >> he says $2,000 is more in line with what most americans actually needed. the changes he is asking for are actually for two bills. there is the coronavirus stimulus and the government spending bill. $600 is nowhere near enough. >> 600 bucks. i will tell you in hawaii, that in most cases will not even cover 25%. every single american in this country was struggling because of this, this covid pain >> while some republicans say 600 is two

i'm gillian turner. it's great to be with everybody at home, leland, nice to be with you. leland: nice to be with you as well. the first person in the u.k. vaccinated this week. and president trump called it a medical miracle, saying the first doses in america could be administered within the next 24 hours, mark meredith at the white house as the president is ready to leave for the army-navy football game. >> the president called on the f.d.a. to approve the vaccine and last last night, approved for the emergency operation. and a hope that in 2021 things would be back to the way they were. and the president released this by video from the white house. >> the first vaccine will be administered in less than 24 hours. the governors decide where the vaccines go in their state and who will get them first. we want our senior citizens, health care workers and first responders to be first in line. this will quickly and dramatically reduce deaths and hospitalizations. >> the president went on to call operation wa

gillian turner on how big that problem is and where it's going. gillian?big tech to come in years. one filed today by the ftc. the other comes from 48 different u.s. states. sources are telling us, neil, that ultimately what could happen here is we could see the court forcing facebook to break up. the first u.s. company to do so forcibly in many decades. new york is leading the charge here. take a listen to what their attorney general said in a press conference a few minutes ago. >> for nearly a decade facebook has used its dominance and monopoly power to crush smaller rivals and snuff out competition all at the expense of everyday users. today we're sending -- >> the charges that facebook has become too big, too powerful and is a major violator of antitrust laws. take a look at the complaint. >> now, the specific charges in these suits revolve around pups of media apps like instagram and what's app. big tech is facing a reckoning, one that has been building for months. the difference today is rather than being led by congress, they've been threatening to

gillian turner live in washington good morning to you. what are republicans saying about all of this? >> first off, trace, this is really becoming a tale of two tales. we have swalwell insisting he did nothing improper and says the f.b.i. actually ended up thanking him for his role helping with their investigation. take a listen. >> this is a country where people who criticize the president are going to have law enforcement information weaponized against them. >> axios broke the story that fang fang targeted swalwell when he was a city councilman back in california and interacted with him directly for several years at events. raised money for his 2014 reelection and helped place at least one intern in his office. how republican leader kevin mccarthy tweeted for years he peddled russia disinformation and now we find out he -- he is a national security liability. other republicans are using this episode as an opportunity to make their case that democrats are naive about the danger that china poses to the united states. >> time and time agai

welcome to america he's news headquarters, i'm gillian turner. leland: nice to be with you.father said the next good piece of news is we have a vaccine. there we go. dad, you were right. i'm leland vittert. first round will be delivered to 150 locations throughout the united states and pfizer is already preparing to send out a second shipment, what that looks like, we get from mike tobin in manufacturing plant in michigan, hi, mike. mike: first round of shipping for the day has now been completed by 8:30 a.m. local time the first of the trucks pulled out of the docks in most ambitious immunization underway. 189 boxes in the first shipment, each box holds 575 viles, each vile is 5 doses of the virus. what we saw 920,000 doses, they're headed to all 50 states with priority of first shots being healthcare workers and people in nursing homes. tomorrow 400 boxes are scheduled. 1.9 million doses. warp speed says vaccine can reach 70% of the population by may and achieve immunity but the problem is the politics, misinformation and fear. it becomes a problem if people refuse to get

. >> mike: gillian turner live on the north one, jillian, thanks a lot. >> you bet. >> mike: becauset's 2020, celebrations are looking on like they ever before. live from exhibit a times square. good evening, aisha. >> good evening, like. that's right. in just a matter of hours, an iconic crystal ball will drive here in times square. only this time, it's going to look very different. pretty much empty, an eerie start to 2021. >> do not come. do not come to the area. >> this year, times square will shut down and move the virtual celebration due to the coronavirus. a million spectators. just 40 invited to watch and person. >> saying thank you for the work in new york over the last year. >> there will be 80% fewer cops in the crossroads of the world. but security is still tight with the national bombing top of mind. already put up concrete barriers and deployed a bomb squad. >> there is no active credible or specific threat against the celebration. >> in chicago, the windy city canceled its firework show. it has been closed since september. down under, sydney rang in the new year with a

i'm gillian turner. here's rick leventhal. >> i'm rick leventhal in for bill hemmer. president trump spending christmas eve in south florida as the status of the next round of covid relief is uncertain. while santa is on the way, stimulus checks for millions in need are not. at least not yet. house republicans voting against the president's demand to increase direct payments to most americans from $600 to $2,000. since the covid package is tied to the spending bill to fund the government, a veto could trigger a shut down. mark meredith reporting live from south florida. mark? >> rick, good afternoon. right now it's unclear whether or not the president is going to sign or simply veto this spending bill that is also tied to the economic stimulus package that they have been working out. it's unclear what the president will do after lawmakers pass these proposals only a few days ago. the drama today is focused on the house floor with democrats trying to put forth a unanimous consent measure to increase the $600 stimulus amount to $2,000. that's something that the presiden

correspondent gillian turner is here to tell us what this all means.. >> good evening, bret. so, to call lawsuits were filed. they could ultimately lead to the court breaking up facebook. the first time for a major u.s. company like this in decades. now, one of those was filed by the ftc by 48 state attorney general's both alleging major violations of antitrust laws. facebook maintains monopoly power by deploying a bible or by strategy that harms both users and advertisers. now, the lawsuits from the states focuses on what they view as facebook's go to move, which is identifying small but potentially rival social media apps and buying them out. take a look at th the new york attorney general. >> an effort to get them to sell. the two most glaring examples of this unlawful scheme are instagram and whatsapp. >> they sometimes threatened potential rivals in order to get them to buy out. >> don't step on facebook's tu turf. or as one industry executive put it, you will face the wrath of mark. >> he shot down allegations just two weeks ago. >> i don't think

here today, gillian turner, mollie hemingway, leslie marshall, syndicated radio's and fox news contributor, and joining us today, brad blakeman, my old buddy from years past. lisa do a show or take all the time. former deputy assistant to president george w. bush an advisor to the bush cheney campaign. great to see all on this holiday week. i'm going to start with you, mollie. first of all, a lot of contention, he says the senate will start the process. remember, new years as a couple days away, of considering president trump's push to increase the stimulus checks to $2,000. he has made no assurances. the president took to twitter, not so happy about that, warning republicans they should support the increased checks unless they have a political "death wish." is he referring to georgia? >> mollie: i think the race in georgia does kind of come down to whether the people of georgia think the democratic party should control the presidency, the house, and the senate, or whether there should be some small check on unilateral democratic power. that is why it's very important for senate republican

. >> great to be with you, i'll gillian turner. fox news special debate coverage. starts at 6:45 p.m. eastern . reporter: democrat jon ossoff says he too will take the debate stage, field questions, dehis opponent republican senator david perdue to refuse to agree to single debate in the senate runoff elections. perdue's campaign says they will take the message at stake what the democrats control to the people. that is exact when weigh call from him and senator loeffler. the president did most of the heavy lifting so to speak, calling ossoff and warnock pawns of senator minority leader chuck schumer. >> as off and warnock are the two most extreme liberal candidates in our lifetime. if you don't vote the communists win. georgia patriots must show up and vote for these two incredible people. reporter: warn november and ossoff are expected to paint the republican rivals has senators who are corrupt, only looking to enrich themselves instead of helping the people of georgia. >> this isn't even bp democrats versus republicans. this is about the people versus crooks who

foxy's correspondent, gillian turner. joining us in the center seat on the virtual couch, fox's political analyst and fox nation host, lawrence jones. you are cowboys won this week so i know automatically you're happy. >> lawrence: [laughs] >> harris: you got the size of the bill, almost 6,000 pages, and rand paul's way of working at it, you got the size of the bill, that price tag. >> lawrence: mm-hmm. well, lindsey graham was on site mike fox & friends this morning and he said this is how the sausage is made. this isn't sausage, this is baloney. it's a lot of gunk, everything from all the parts of the animal you don't like, you put it together and you get a slab. that's this bill. it's supposed to be so good. no one read this bill. the portions that i don't like, the fact that they continue to put all these backdoor deals, funding of the smithsonian, see dan got some money, they want to build a library for roosevelt, and none of this, if you look at the core of the bill, it's going to help americans. my problem with the

fox news correspondent, gillian turner. joining us today, media and politics columnist for "the hill," fox news contribut contributor, joe concha. i first want to bring in dr. nicole saphier. dr. saphier, your smile, so bright. our hearts uplifted today, and we know he we have lost so many people. now what we want to do is stop the loss. stop the spread. the vaccine is not a cure, but how much closer are we to getting to a point where we can at least start to exhale? >> harris, today really is a critical milestone in our fight against covid-19. listening to some of the fact-checking. "it will require a miracle to get a vaccine by the end of 2020." we have done if you're not only with one vaccine, pfizer being administered today in the united states, but moderna is up next on thursday. they are hopefully going to have it by the end of the week as well. about 20 million americans potentially starting their vaccines by the hand of 2020. it really is incredible, but here is, as we have noted, you require two doses of this vacci

first, we go to gillian turner. she's reporting at the white house hahn this. >> happy new year's eve to you. the president and first lady are back here at the white house. they left mar-a-largo two days earlier than they originally planned. the reality here at the white house is that no one other than them seems to know the real reason why they decided to cut their trip short. we're now learning from new reports and one source direct to fox news telling us that unfortunately today the president is not in a very celebratory meet going into the new year. one thing that is 100% clear is that the president is not letting 2020 ride out with a whimper. he's forging full steam ahead to contest the election. last night he filed a new appeal with the supreme court related to the lawsuit alleging voter fraud in the state of wisconsin. he's doubling down on his argument that democrat officials illegally altered procedures the run up to november making thousands of votes ineligible to be counted. in a statement he said guardra

welcome to america he's news headquarters, i'm gillian turner. leland: nice to be with you.next good piece of news is we have a vaccine. there we go. dad, you were right. i'm leland vittert. first round will be delivered to 150 locations throughout the united states and pfizer is

fox news correspondent, gillian turner. host of "no interruption" on fox nation, tomi lahren. and joining us today, syndicated radio host and former cia analyst, buck sexton is here. great to see everybody, happy monday. so, buck, you heard from jen psaki. you heard what john kennedy of louisiana said about her. what do you think? >> buck: i think it's troubling to see that the continuation of the suppression of the hunter biden story is the strategy here. not just the story, mind you now, the investigation. this is taking a turn where it isn't just about with a social media companies will allow people to talk about it right before an election, which we know they did not, but it goes beyond that now to a question of what happens on the legal end of this. there has been a confirmation of a federal -- at least a probe, i should say. it'll be the earlier stages of looking at tax issues, money laundering, et cetera. this is why a special counsel -- look, i am general i am a supporter of what bill barr has done as attorney general. i think he has been exceptional in the role and a

gop strategist, karl rove, fox news correspondent, gillian turner, a former member of the national securityouncil, under both presidents bush 43 and obama, and charles lane, from the washington post. karl, as we noted, the electoral college votes tomorrow and then on january 6th the congress actually counts the votes and formally declares a winner. do you expect president trump to continue to contest the election past tomorrow, maybe even past january 6th? and do you think he's either helping or hurting both him himf and the country? >> well, i believe that he will. i wouldn't be surprised to see tomorrow that there are maybe attempts to disrupt some of the voting in the six contested states. i wouldn't be surprised to see expressions of public support for the president's position from trump electors in states that he carried. i wouldn't be surprised to on january 6th, i fully expect that one senator and one representative at minimum, that's what's required, can file a statement contesting the electoral college results but i don't see that it's going to be overturned tomorrow and i don't se

correspondent gillian turner has to make the update. >> democrat eric swalwell facing a growing storm of criticism from his republican colleagues in congress over an fbi probe into an alleged chinese spy he had ties to several years ago. >> this man should not be on the intel committee. he is jeopardizing national security. >> until he comes forward and has a thorough and complete explanation for what happened, than he should not sit on the house intelligence committee and have access to classified information. >> house speaker nancy pelosi waved off the matter today, saying both democrat and republican leaders were briefed in the past, simultaneously, about this threat. >> i don't have any concern about mr. swalwell. i do think that it's unfortunate that mr. mccarthy is trying to make an issue of this when his -- we all found out at the same time. >> we still don't know who briefed congressional leadership. at the time, james comey was the director of the fbi, and a former senior staffer on the house intel committee tells fox news comey briefing would have been "standard operating pr

correspondent gillian turner has tonight's update. good evening, gillian. >> good evening, bret.ocrat eric swalwell under fire tonight for allegations that he may have been compromised by a person who is suspected of being a chinese spy. someone who is known to target politicians and may have been hone trap planted by chinese officials. this incident is highlighting just how ubiquitous chinese spying operations in the u.s. have become in recent years there are potentially thousands -- thousands of operations current little underway. take a listen to former cia station chief dan hoffman. >> think about chinese intelligence officers. they are operating in washington, d.c. and at the consulates in san francisco and new york and chicago and lang. los angeles. we close china's consulate in houston. they are ruthlessly focused on conducting espionage in this country. >> g.o.p. jim sensenbrenner filed a complaint with the house ethics committee urging the panel to immediately open an investigation into the swalwell matter. the threat from china is one that lawmakers say is real and grow

welcome back, i'm jon scott. >> i'm gillian turner. killed one person, and now they found human remains to anthony quinn warner, officially a suspect. investigators say the 63-year-old i.t. specialist acted a loan. we are learning that moments before the announcement warned a bomb was going to detonate. the blast was massive and cause damage to downtown. here is the tennessee on our show earlier. >> the damage is enormous. indescribable blast. it has destroyed a business is all up and down that downtown block. we worked really hard to keep businesses open and to keep them able to operate and now there is a whole group of them who will not be able to operate. we have requested emergency declaration, i spoke with the president myself. it appears that will be coming shortly. >> david' david is live at the department, where does the investigation go from here? >> it's all about the motive, why did he do this. that is part of the investigation, it is far from over. just a few hours after this explosion on christmas day, authorities had 500

welcome to america's news headquarters from washington d.c., i'm gillian turner.t to be with everybody at home, leland, nice to be with you. leland: nice to be with you as well. the first person in the u.k. vaccinated this week. and

gillian turner live on that. what are republicans saying about all of this now? growing storm of criticism from republican colleagues over f.b.i. concerned he was ensnared by the spy and the opportunity to make the case that democrats are naive about the broader threat from china to the united states. take a listen to senator marsha blackburn. >> you have the chinese being very comfortable and cozy with some of these democrat leaders and continuing to try to find inroads into the democratic party. >> house speaker nancy pelosi did drop a bit of a bombshell yesterday telling fox news during her presser that both democrats and republicans were briefed in the past at the same time about this threat from this alleged china spy. >> i do think that it's unfortunate that mr. mccarthy is trying the make an issue of this when his -- we all found out at the same time. >> we still don't know who briefed congressional leadership at the time. james comey was the f.b.i. director and former senior staffer on the house intelligence committee tells fox news at a comey briefing ba

. >> great to be with you and everybody at home, i'm gillian turner, sandra smith is off.o urge people to back away and then exploded.