duncan and griffin foster.morning thank you for joining us >> hey, guys thanks for having us >> hi. great to be here >> griffin, let me come to you first. everyone is talking about beeple, that $69 million price tag, i think, exceeded everyone's expectation we'll ask beeple if it exceeded his later. was this a mainstream moment for the nft market how big do you think it's going to grow to by, say, the end of the year >> yeah, that's a great question i think it just shows nfts are here to stay a few weeks ago on a podcast i predicted soon artwork would pass any physical artwork in terms of record sales price, and i think that will happen by the end of the year. it's just a matter of time before we see maybe a billion. they're here to stay >> if i could add on -- >> i remember you did say that go ahead, duncan, please did it exceed your expectations? >> it absolutely ex receipted my expectations i think a great compare ton 10 make is uber where when uber first started they were looking at the potential size of th

griffin wore his black singlet inside out, in protest.is only the second-national champion in the 104-year history of the program. that's a look at sports. more news, after the break. yeah, i mean the thing is, people like geico because it's just easy. bundling for example. you've got car insurance here. and home insurance here. why not... schuuuuzp.. put them together. save even more. some things are just better together, aren't they? like tea and crumpets. but you wouldn't bundle just anything. like, say... a porcupine in a balloon factory. no. that'd be a mess. i mean for starters, porcupines are famously no good in a team setting. geico. save even more when bundle home and car insurance. >>> finally, tonight. usually, players walk or drive to practice but one brother is getting there in a more unique way. >> take a look at this. kayaking clay thompson. that's his new name. posting this video on instagram, this morning, kayaking to practice. he is in the video. he was in the east bay in san francisco. so it cross over. and in the video

martha griffin follows up on behalf of the amendment and she says if there was any need to prove that we need this amendment, the laughing and the applause her to meet arriving here, had false. allen eventually that amendment was included in the civil rights act. another key legislative action by martha. >> this is a campaign poster for the first african american women in congress. i love this but it says on bought and an bossed. it's not for her congressional campaign. it's for something else entirely. >> it's for a presidential campaign that she waged in 1972. she went to the democratic convention and actually rounded out about 10% of the votes. she's a first african american women to run for president. she did it on a shoestring budget, and had a very admirable showing. but she had a reputation, a national reputation well before 1972. she was elected to congress in 1968 from a district that encompasses much of brooklyn. and she becomes very prominent in that campaign. her opponent in the general election and on a republican liberal ticket was james farmer. one of the great civil ri

jennifer griffin fox news, the white house is inviting major world leaders to a summit on climate change. president biden has invited the leaders of 40 countries to the climate talks, including russian president vladimir putin and chinese president president xi jingping. the virtual summit is scheduled for april. 22nd and 23rd. it will be the first major global climate discussions from a u. s president and more than four years. president biden is also expected to announce a more ambitious goal for cutting carbon emissions from coal, natural gas and oil. people living in the south are cleaning up after severe storms and tornadoes tore through that region this week. fox's charles wants it has the latest from pelham, alabama. cleanup efforts are underway across parts of the southern us utility crews, air clearing roadways and restoring power after severe storms ripped through the region. the storm system spawned tornadoes in georgia, alabama and mississippi, causing multiple deaths. covid ashworth was driving home when the storm hit cedar town, georgia, it was like a loud train. that's what

while in this same group, england's ian poulter beat australia's cameron smith 1 up and now plays griffinay france in their delayed six nations clash later on friday. this match was due to be played at the end of february, but was rescheduled after a covid outbreak in the french squad. the hosts can win the championship with a bonus point win, plus securing victory by at least 21 points. you can get all the latest on our website — that's bbc.com/sport — but from me, tulsen tollett, and the rest of the team — that's your sports news for now. scientists in brazil have published new research suggesting octopuses might dream. it's believed the aquatic creatures experience different types of sleep — one of them similar to the rem sleep that humans undergo when they dream. the bbc�*s tim allman reports. eight legs, three hearts, one impossible dream. marshmallow the octopus, quietly snoozing away in her tank. but look at this — she is suddenly changing colour, her muscles twitching, her suckers contracting. researchers believe marshmallow may be dreaming. # dream... a team of scientists at a un

consultation, something they have not done in protest and more than 20 years, bret. >> bret: jennifer griffin at the pentagon, the white house press secretary actually uses the word crisis talking about the immigration surge at the border. first here is what some of the fox affiliates around the country are covering tonight, fox 4 in mississippi the storm system marches through the south spawning tornadoes in some places leaving thousands without power, at least two people were hurt when a tornado struck a house in south western alabama. no reports of fatalities they are. and this is a live look at los angeles from the affiliate fox 11. one of the big stories they are, and sea theaters saying 98% of the facilities will be open friday. many are reopening this weekend in california following the pandemic shutdown. that is tonight's live look outside the beltway from special report. we will be right back. ♪ ♪ our retirement plan with voya, keeps us moving forward. hey, kevin! hey, guys! they have customized solutions to help our family's special needs... hey, graduation selfie! well done! and vo

national security correspondent jennifer griffin has the details live from the pentagon tonight. hi, jennifer. >> good evening. speaker pelosi led a task force on how to secure the writ you mike u.s. capitol. my colleague obtained a 33 draft copy of the report while learning the capitol police have asked the u.s. guard to stan additional two months. fox news exclusively obtained a copy of the security recommendations made by retired lieutenant general russell honore and his task force. among the recommendations established a full-time quick reaction force manned 24/7 3625 days a year. at the u.s. capitol, a cost of $140 million a year. using existing federal law enforcement or mobilizing the national guard for three or six month rotation, or create a permanent active-duty d.c. national guard military police battalion. the issue without the national guard is one that could be made by the capitol police and the police force and the rest. but i'm not in a position to respond to that. we should have them here as long as they are needed. >> about pelosi in the senate majority leader o

mr griffin told me how they're from did it. they make parts for british cars. made a trip all through america to get the necessary contract. they say the lord helps those who help themselves. the marshall plan seems to be like the lord in that respect. there is no doubt in my mind how much martial plan funds have helped. but some facts are worrying. it is hard to see how europe can fully recover, as long as trade with eastern europe remains at the present low levels. i had my ideas pretty well sorted out by the time that i went to visit our airmen at their base. europe has recovered. the 1938 level but that's not enough. in europe with a greater population and more social justice must have a far higher production level. above all, there must be greater integration. our men knew this. you can go ahead and ask questions. >> mrs. roosevelt, did you see a definite improvement in these countries visited? receiving martial aid. >> yes, i have taken particular trouble to see our people everywhere, and to actually ask. nations have done different things in different co

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griffin finally had her first batch of covid vaccines >> we tried weeks and weeks, thankfully we got them i lost two cousins to covid, it is frustrating to get people to realize how important it is. >> reporter: the clinic is reaching out, just 100 doses available. picking patients up and bring them to the clinic, trying to eliminate obstacles. >> i was negative about it but i thought i needed to protect myself >> reporter: the same disparity across the country two-thirds of americans who received one dose are whites, while minorities remain in the single digit >> we hear so much of equity, why is this so tough to accomplish >> what we are trying to overcome are centuries of ingrained structural equity >> reporter: the biden administration says they'll invest $250 million to support covid education and vaccine efforts in under served communities. local activists demanding more vaccination sites in neighborhoods hit hard by covid gibbs' neighborhood says she can't get an appointment until may. >> we see mostly white people coming here to get vaccinated >> reporter: from the nation's b

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at the pentagon, jennifer griffin, fox news. >> bret: thank you.merica's adversaries teaming up. china and russia are affirming the reliance tonight and that has many in the west extremely concerned. senior foreign affairs correspondent greg palkot reports from london. >> payback time in china. foreign ministers of russia and china meeting and speaking out in a southern chinese city this week. this after president biden essentially calling russian president putin no killer in an interview and secretary of state and had tough words for his chinese counterparts at a meeting in anchorage. follow that up with allied sanctions for its treatment of muslims. today our global flows fired back. >> is unacceptable to handle matters in the world with ultimatums and sanctions compelling other countries to assert behavior. >> our statement demonstrates the firm will of china and russia to jointly safeguard international equality and justice. >> russia has faced its own series of sanctions for various foreign policy actions. today, there was talk of fast develop

stay griffin reports. >> they look like a popular music group. these guys are medical students taught how to treat bodies and save lives. when the pandemic started they looked outside their books for way to use medicine and music to provide hope and healing. wanted to say thank you because we feel frustrated and we saw a lot of people that we look up to. >> just, you know, connected and in the thick of things. and we just wanted to be able extend our gratitude at the time a moroccan and tyler beauchamp were completing their first year at the medical college of georgia. >> as students. they couldn't physically help people during the pandemic. but musically they struck a chord thought about going away, which. what kind of calls out people in their past behavior is something we thought the kind of cool that can turn on a positive phase and call out the people that have been doing so much to help out with the help of fellow students. andy, when that this is the setup and his passion for production. the trio created a prescription for love and healing

our senior investigative correspondent drew griffin has been working this story for us. this race last november was for a key florida state senate seat, and the incumbent lost by less than three dozen votes. tell us what happened. >> yeah. this really does appear to be an election that was stolen. it happened at a state senate seat in miami where a ghost candidate got more than 6,000 votes. today, that ghost candidate and the republican operative behind him have both been arrested. >> today, we are alleging that november's florida senate district 37 election involved crimes. >> reporter: miami-dade's state attorney says disgraced lawmaker master minded a plot to help a republican win a key florida state senate seat. >> he knew then, and we are alleging that he knows now that he was blatantly thumbing his nose at the law. >> last november, incumbent democrat jose javier rodriguez lost his senate seat by 32 votes, a race that he would have won. >> this had an impact on a race that was ultimately decided by 32 votes out of nearly a quarter million cast. >> jose javier rodri

jennifer griffin tells us where things now stand. >> it's a war most longtime washington observer say the pentagon knows how to win. it's budget season on capitol hill and the pentagon is rolling out its biggest guns to justify a 708 billion dollar budget request for next year as they outline how the threats against the nation continue to grow at the confirmation hearing for the admiral who will oversee the u.s. military in the pacific. the pentagon had a warning. we've seen. >> the largest military buildup. by china. that does bring with it. certain vulnerabilities republicans say in practical terms, a status quo budget is a cut. >> unfortunately reports suggested by administration may plan may. defense spending. of course, that means a reduction after inflation. >> democrat mark pocan of wisconsin tweeted if we literally cut our defense budget in half. we'd still spend 100 billion dollars more on defense than china. 300 billion dollars more on defense than russia. please don't let the gop scare you into anymore. bottomless defense budgets. according to a 16 page document of quote, h

jennifer griffin the latest on that. all right. andrew cuomo. the pile-on continues. before there was that, there was one person. she works here. her job was to cover the weather. but she encountered the storm and now she's unleashed it and now she has a book out and now she's here. janice dean after this. ♪ excuse me ma'am, did you know that liberty mutual customizes your car insurance so you only pay for what you need? thank you! hey, hey, no, no, no leap, no leap! only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ you wanna win out there today? then get a tuna footlong from subway®. it's 100% wild caught, on freshly baked bread. let's show 'em what you're made of. you're made of tuna! go get those footlongs! now at subway®, buy one footlong in the app, and get one 50% off. subway®. eat fresh. and get one 50% off. i made a business out of my passion. i mean, who doesn't love obsessing over network security? all our techs are pros. they know exactly which parking lots have the strongest signal. i just don't have t

. >> reporter: regulars like kenny griffin have been waiting for the official words to come inside. >> i am over sitting outside? >> i am too. sometimes you suck it up and do it because you figure you have places you like to go eat. >> reporter: much of places like denny's have gotten the vaccine but he still plans to play it safe for now. >> i am concerned, still. once the red tear opens and things start to open up like they did before, i do concern myself with things regressing the other direction, and now we are locked down again, where we can't go inside and sit and eat. it could harm a lot of other businesses within the community. >> reporter: in fremont, kiet do, kpix 5. >>> new at noon, thousands of furloughed disneyland workers will be recalled to be trained on their new safety standards with a plan to reopen in anaheim by late april. the company's ceo just made that announcement. the state recently announced theme parks could open at a limited capacity on april 1st for counties in the red tear. l.a. county is currently in the purple tear. looking live out to san jose right no

who looks like he'll have plenty to work on ahead of his next group match against american lanto griffinshioka. the 25—year—old was five games to one down in the deciding third set against the japanese world number 66, but fought back to win six games in a row to take the set 7—5 and set up a meeting against ninth seeded bulgarian grigor dimitrov. just a few days until the start of the new formula one season, and a former champion returns, perhaps with a point to prove. fernando alonso believes he's better than many of the young drivers on the grid, as he returns to the sport with alpeen this season. alonso knows that world champion lewis hamilton will take some stopping, and reckons the british driver is up there with the likes of michael schumacher and ayrton senna. he has been driving better than anyone else, and when you win so many championships it's because you deserve it, as well. so, yeah, lewis was so dominating in the sport for many years and is the best in the history, or one of the best in history with michael and ayrton. mark selby eased into the tour championship semi—final

grocery store worker emily griffin was there. she saw an elderly man shot multiple times. >> this guy with this huge gun, huge like assault gun, came up behind him and shot him like three more times in the back while he was down. [ bleep ] >> reporter: the suspect entered the store with an assault rifle to continue his deadly rampage nearly an hour after the shooting began, the suspect, shot in the leg, surrendered to the s.w.a.t. team after removing most of his clothes. he is has been identified as ahmad al aliwi alissa, 21 years old, known to have a history of violent behavior including pleading guilty to a 2017 assault charge. he didn't answer questions to the police at the scene. he asked to speak to his mother according to the affidavi his sister-in-law says she saw the suspect playing with a machine gun about two days ago. >> what this person did was awful. but, like, what's left behind is awful, too and how do we -- and we just -- how do we just go on like normal i don't know how to go to work and see the spot where my fri

griffin wore his black singlet inside out in protest.e's only the second ncaa national champion in the 104-year history of the program. that's a look at your morning sports. i'm anthony flores. have a great sunday. >>> we usually have our segment with nbc bay area political analyst larry gerston but unfortunately we're having some technical difficulties. another work-from-home issue, so we'll hopefully have him back here next sunday. >>> while we're still very much battling this pandemic, experts already are worried about new diseases. despite major advances in technology, a senior investigator shows us what may end up delaying future vaccines. >> we ship to distributors, we ship to end users. 57 countries, i'd say. all of the states in the country we ship to. >> reporter: these roughly 200 machines and 300 employees are working together to end the pandemic that's already killed about 540,000 americans and counting. >> how many medical supplies do you make here every day? >> we make between 5 and 6 million a day. >> per day? >> per day.

. >> reporter: the episode featured richard griffin, "professor griff," kicked out of public enemy in-semitic comments. he and nick retread anti-semitic conspiracy theorys and question the birthright of the jewish people. >> the semitic people are black people. >> right. >> you can't be anti-semitic when the semitic -- when we are the semitic people, when we are the same people that you -- who they want to be. >> uh-huh. >> that's our birthright. >> that's our birthright. >> reporter: the reaction was swift and widespread. an buy an ra ham cooper condemned the commentary saying, anyone seeking a ph.d. in jew hatred should watch this interview. explanations and subsequent apologies fell short. nick lost his deal with viacom cbs and stepped away from a daily radio show, an upcoming talk show put on ice. there are reports that you were pressured to apologize in order to keep your job. any truth to that? >> i can answer this wholeheartedly. who pressured me? ultimately i've always said that apologies are empty. >> reporter: for nick his road back meant more than apologies. he sought atone

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. >> we go on to six-time all- star blake griffin. he can change out of the detroit pistons' swag.xpected to sign with the brooklyn nets for the remainder of the season. this, right after the pistons released him. >>> going to baseball and a look at giants' starter anthonyal and fa knee at the reds and ooh boy he gets out. two innings and one run and one strikeout. fast forward to the top of the 2nd and the giants swung the lever. 21-year-old outfielder elliot ramos. one of the cluck's top prospects got the two run blast and then in the 7th inning, he was back again! another home run. giants' lead was 8-3. top of the 8th. joey bart. and when he gets them, it's no cheapie. giants hit five home runs today. they beat the reds, final of 9- 4. >>> and when he holds the bat like that, a's fans you know it's matt olsen. a's hosted the indians in mesa. and a lot of balls left the yard. olsen's third of the spring. one batter later the other matt. matt chapman and that one, no doubt, 1st inning back-to-back jacks. four home runs in the game. won by the a's. final of 9-4. >>> auto racing a f

market makers and unlike last month's hearing where robin had sounded like a tenant and citadels griffin got hosed this time the witness list is mainly composed of academics so their testimony will be drawing comparisons to security bubbles that we've seen in the past and basically expressing the dangers of those conditions and trying to draw some sort of parallel rather than actually focusing on the matter at hand which has completely different nuances than what we've seen previously and it is interesting to see how robin hood is the focus here because of all of the media coverage surrounding everything with game stop but there really is a lot at stake here whenever it comes to similar apps and some where companies now ben here in washington almost everything is seen as a 0 sum game so who is seen as being the victim here and of course who is painted as the villain. i think when we look at what is happening right now in the way that the gain stop situation is being portrayed it's as if there was this rogue group of traders right the wall street bets guys who are the villains here that's

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government forces in the oil rich cities forced more than a 1000000 people from their homes and martin griffin says famine is now adding to the crisis the u.s. trying to raise any $4000000000.00 to feed millions of people as out diplomatic editor james base reports this was a very grim assessment of the situation in yemen the u.n. special envoy telling the security council that it seems the war is back in full force this is how martin griffiths began his speech. to the council. report deterioration. this time. i was rather. produce a very. limited 1000000. displaced persons. fighting forces on both sides suffered heavy losses there's a certain. allies to shockey report as our. troop increases. the priority of the future he says he's particularly concerned by the who thiis ongoing offensive on marriage by the cross border air attacks the who the drone and missile strikes on saudi arabia and the saudi air raids on sanaa and by the fact the war is spreading again to places like who data and ties of course one of the effects of this is humanitarian disaster the u.n. is warning of famine in yemen t

i went to bring in aaron froug the ceo of griffin , that is the name of the app., say lululemon and i buy a pair of yoga pants and i get a stock purchase and lululemon along with my purchase of the pants in the money comes from my bank account. is that how your app works? >> yeah, that's the idea behind the app. we wanted to make it simple and human and to give people an opportunity to own the brand around their life so the way it specifically works is when you purchase at the company, you actually invest once per week so we wanted to make sure to protect people to not overdraft so let's say you make 10 purchases in a week and $10 from your account and invested. you make the purchase that lululemon and then he put 1 dollar in lululemon stock. stuart: okay. i got it. what you are doing this -- terrific idea. seems to me you're making it much easier for the retail investor, the little guy for want of a better word, to invest directly in easily in the stock market. that's what you are doing. >> yeah, that's the hope. we actually just woke up this morning to a tweet f

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jennifer griffin with more. >> reporter: hi, neil.nese communist party. one year after the w.h.o. finally declared covid-19 a pandemic, u.s. officials still do not have a clear picture of how the virus originated. so i reached out to the state department's former lead investigator into the virus origins, david asher. he told me he believes the virus could have come from research being done on a bioweapon from the lab in wuhan. >> at first wuhan institute of virology is operating a secret or classified program, in my view -- and i'm just one person -- can my view a biological weapons program. >> reporter: asher has spent a career leading investigations that uncovered secret nuclear weapons programs in pakistan and north korea. at first they said it originated in the seafood market, but the first case had no connection to the market. last fall the u.s. obtained intelligence that indicates there was an outbreak among several wuhan lab scientists with flu-like symptoms that left them hospitalized in 2019, before china reported its first c

this story broken by erik schatzker and griffin. the s&p 500 gaining .3%. green on the screen all day. it has risen until now. we see the nasdaq of 1.8%. it is the comeback of big tech that is boosting the broader markets. the 10 year yield holding steady at a relatively high level of 1.71%. gold is starting to rise after we get the 2.2 $5 trillion announcement about joe biden's infrastructure plan, trading at $1712 -- $1712, although gold has been under pressure of late. another stock moving on my dashboard today is shares of online payments company paysafe after merging with a company founded by veteran investor bill foley. you can see paysafe trading at $101. he joins us to discuss what is going on in the space. bill, let me ask you about the spac explosion we have seen and the big drops over the past few weeks. it was an incredibly popular issue and now seems to have lost institutional and retail support. bill: the typical story on wall street or in business that when something is too good to be true, it usually is, and we just had a lot of input, an in

here's cnn's senior investigative correspondent drew griffin. >> today we are alleging that november'srida senate district 37 election involved crimes. >> reporter: miami-dade state attorney says -- masterminded a plot to help a republican win a key florida state senate seat. >> he knew then and we are alleging he knows now that he was blatantly thumbing his nose at the law. >> reporter: last november, incumbent democrat jose javier rodriguez lost his senate seat by just 32 votes, a race that he tells cnn he would have won. >> there's no question that this had an impact on a race that was ultimately decided by 32 votes out of nearly a quarter million cast. >> reporter: but jose javier rodriguez lost. there was a third candidate, a sham candidate in this race, with the same last name as his, who siphoned away democrat votes, alex rodriguez, who is also charged in the plan. >> we've been looking for alex. is he around? >> no. he'll be back tomorrow, though. >> reporter: that's actually alex rodriguez behind the door, lying to a reporter from cnn affiliate wplg about his own identity last

including merv griffin and -- cabot who were otherwise pretty successful on television, but not when they went up against johnny carson. now johnny carson was always one to say that you analyze a joke. and you kill it? and so he always thought that it was a wasted exercise. to analyze shows if it gets a laugh, it's funny. that's the vision that carson had. now when we talk about political humor in american culture, we have to appreciate two things. first of all, america is a very iconic classic place. our political system was built by revolutionaries and even down to the present day. we do not like people who have too much putting on heirs of themselves mocking authorities is a part of the american national pastime and nobody did it better than johnny carson. but it wasn't just an american dynamic even though we can look to will rogers. and and mark twain before carson, it's also a global reality. you can look back to the ancient egyptians and the romans and they too mocked the authorities of the day. it is a key way of perhaps lifting the burdens of daily life. like the jesters are

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jennifer griffin has more. >> john, one year after the who finally declared covid-19 a pandemic, u.s.till do not have a clear picture of how the virus originated. at first china said it originated in the wuhan seafood market. the only problem, the first case had no connection to the market. former secretary state mike pompeo has been the lead voice suggesting the virus most likely came from the wuhan institution of virology. a research lab where chinese scientists were experimenting on that virus using u.s. taxpayer money. >> there were certain facts that make it strongly indicative that this came out of that laboratory, a accidental leak. the chinese party won't let anybody in there to see what happened. they made people disappear. that cover-up is a crime. >> two new pieces of intelligence were declassified by the trump administration january 15. several researchers from the lab had covid-like symptoms in the fall of 2019. new evidence that the chinese military was using the wuhan lab for secret research. concern about gain of function manipulation of that viruses about mice also al

that data document we got thanks to jennifer griffin. is a draft. these are proposals. covid relief hoar is what chris murphy said about you guys voting against helping the american people. >> republicans did not have a problem spends 1.9 trillion to give tack breaks to wealthy friends i don't know why they have a problem butting money the heard working americans suffering through the worse health care crisis this country has seen in a century. >> so how much of the near low 2 trillion billed help american who is need it and why are you voting no, if you are? >> i will be a, no, vote on this. the reason you are seeing so many people tell be a party line vote because 9 percent of the 2 trillion bill actual low goes to covid related items. 1% of bill is spent on vehicle eens. and there is already one trillion dollars in the pipe line this has not been spent. the appropriate thing is to repurpose this money to get timely targeted relief to individual who is desperate low mead it because of lsz of live lihood making certain people are getting vehicleinations. when you talk

shane griffin won the ncaa championship. the tutting comes months was told that this would be one sport that would be discontinued after the city. an alumni and parent grou. he wore or sweatshirt saying keep stanford wrestling. >> congratulations to him. sad to see those programs shutting down. >> a lot of programs, and they have the money to raise and they have raised it, but stanford has still not reversed course. >> very controversial. >> let's talk about the book, sunny all week and will warm up even more by the end, right? >> yeah. yeah. we're looking at temperatures near 80 degrees on the seven-day forecast. got a little speed bump with some wind to deal with. i'll go over the wind forecast and get you all ready for tomorrow and we'll check on the pollen because the allergies are definitely bothering you. i'm back in just a few minutes. >> you could save a bundle on car insurance with just one phone call, and you don't necessarily have to switch companies. i'm consumer investigator chris chmura. we'll show you how next

johnson & johnson ceo alex gorsky this morning telling our colleague riley griffin that johnson & johnsonfor partners to help manufacture its vaccine, and of course, that would speed up production and help them deliver on these goals that they have set. this will market expansion of the supply. already we are seeing pfizer and moderna vaccine being shipped across the united states, so this will be a large increase. we will hear more from johnson & johnson and the administration today on how exactly these shots will get into arms, and what this means for the u.s. and the forward. al thank you very much, bloomberg's angelica lavito. for more on the j&j vaccine, we want to dig into the science with chief scientific officer dr. paul stoffels. the conversation is the efficacy. what is the right way for someone like me to understand the efficacy between johnson & johnson, moderna, and pfizer? dr. stoffels: important is to know about what it does on what really matters is in the pandemic here, and it is protection against hospitalization and severe disease. the protection against severe diseases

shannon: the data document we got thanks to jennifer griffin and lucas tomlinson is a draft, these are proposals. here is what your democratic colleague senator chris murphy had to say about you guys voting against helping the american people. that's the way he put it. >> republicans didn't have a problem spending $1.9 trillion to give tax breaks to there will be friends. don't know why they suddenly have a problem putting money into the pockets of hard-working americans who are suffering through the worst healthcare crisis this country has seen in a century. shannon: how much of this $2 trillion bill would help americans who desperately needed and why are you voting know if you are? shannon: i will be a no vote and the reason you are seeing so many people -- it will probably be a partyline vote because only 9% of this $2 trillion bill actually goes to covid-19 related items. you have one% of this bill that is being spent on vaccines and there is already $1 trillion in the pipeline that hasn't been spent. the appropriate thing is to repurpose that money to get timely, targeted, tempora

is not in war. >> sandra: jennifer griffin live at the pentagon on. >> john: joey jones the host of foxen time military action like this, we typically hear about it, call to irani and war powers in congress ultimately has the say whether we use military action. typically you hear that from democrats against a republican president, but this time democrats against the democratic although it is bipartisan. >> no, absolutely not just democrats. the american people looking at this thing 20 years in war and congress to get it made. the big distinguish between my case my went to iraq and afghanistan with tens of thousands of troops surged that was planned and executed over more than a year. that is a little bit different than what i would call the trump doctrine of certain and immediate retaliation when things happen, which i think president biden was kind of invoking with the latest attack. even though those two things are different beyond time for congress to step in and do its job. if they want the president to have the power and have that certain type of retaliation from immediate retaliat

one day he added a rupert murdoch, and jack dorsey and all in one day, but theday, he lost a ken griffinion and so today, he is around a michael bloomberg around 23rd on the world's rich list. michael cohen, on the gamestop activist, he has seen the stake go from 76 million dlrdz from when he bought it back over a year and a half ago to over $3 billion in january back down to $400 million and then in the ice cream tweet back over $400 million, and that is a $1 billion ice cream cone. and now, continue iing to sell on top of the 13 million that he had sold back in january, brian. so, you know, the idea with reddit was to democratize finance, but they have made the billionaires a lot of money in the short term. >> but there is people like we highlighted in the show that threw in $500 and jacked it up to $200,000. so i guess as long as on every trade there is a seller, too, right, robert? >> there is somebody on the other side of every trade, right? >> yeah, and it depends when they got in and when they get out, and what is interesting about the gilbert, and the cost family or the cohen, so

variables in the mix a lot of steps left to go before those general elections a september michelle griffin thanks for joining us. time now to take a look at some other stories making news around the world in the united kingdom anger is growing over the breaking up of a vigil in honor of murder victim sarah ever on saturday protesting police conduct an everyday violence against women a crowd gathered in london despite a ban on those gatherings a local police officer has been accused of killing the 33 year old ever ride. a british iranian woman detained in tehran has appeared in court to face new charges of propaganda against the regime doesn't mean they're garri radcliffe's family and supporters say the charges are politically motivated she was released from jail last week after completing a 5 year sentence for plotting to overthrow the regime. police in the netherlands have used water cannon and baton to disperse a large crowd of anti lock down protesters more than 2000 people had massed in the hague on the eve of dutch parliament elections months of tough restrictions have fueled a growin

drew griffin reported there was an anti-vaxx rally at the same time. like miles apart from the rallies on january 6th, the big lie. it's almost as if the former president was currying favor with the anti-vaxxers for political reasons by not going public. he said in the speech to cpac, doctor, two days ago, he said go get a shot, sort of passed it by very quickly. he could be out there every day now saying go get a shot. this doesn't have to be about politics. it would help. it would really help if the former president did that from mar-a-lago every day. >> it would help all americans. certainly help our country reach herd immunity, but particularly helpful to his supporters. it would protect them, it would save their lives. the people who are most ardent supporters of president trump. so he should do it for country but he should certainly at least do it for his own supporters. i'd love to see him doing that. i've been disappointed he hasn't made this a bigger deal. since he loves to take credit and deserves some credit for how quickly the vaccines got

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