john carey is demanding a move away from coal power, which will result in people becoming... burn woodn china, they will starve, they will not have enough food, there will be riots in the streets. what seems most remarkable to me now is that the elites simply openly directly express hatred of humanity, especially hatred of working people, of poor people, both in the united states, in the american outback, which they hate so much, and in places like india, china, in africa, where people want to live better, coal provides just such an opportunity. what's interesting is that the obvious alternative to coal is natural gas, if they really cared about changing climate, if they cared about... climate, they would just start producing more natural gas, because it produces half as much carbon dioxide as coal. the us cut carbon dioxide emissions by 22% between 2005 and 2020, and 61% of that reduction came from switching from coal to natural gas alone, but john carey and other climate activists are against natural gas and are holding back production of clean american natural gas. , the purest in t

he's an assistant professor at johns hopkins carey business school with a phd in economics from carnegie mellon university .'s research focuses on real estate, economics, and housing affordability. ej antonius a research fellow at the heritage foundation grover m herman center for the federal budget. marie's stuckey is the douglas place distinguished professor of law at the university of tennessee college of law where his teaching and research focuses on competition and antitrust law and policy. he recently served as a senior advisor to the ftc and has spent years litigating antitrust matters with the department of justice. with that, i will swear in the witnesses. here we go. please rise. do you swear that the testimony will give before the subcommittee shall be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth so help you god? >> i do. >> thank you. you can be seated. now we will begin. you can get started. >> thank you, thank you for the opportunity to testify today. across the nation the lowest income renters face a severe shortage of affordable and available homes and a signific

i don't care if she is beyoncÉ, john jackson, mariah carey, whitney houston, tsai day, aretha franklinwhat accolades they are experiencing, what riches or fame they are experiencing, it is not what they're do. for the amount of work ingenious that they have going on in their creative lives. so why? maybe we can just look at the history of american pop culture for those reasons. black women, black people, when we do, it it's considered to be, i don't, know just normal. something we were born. with something we're able to do. something that is not that difficult for us to achieve. we're supposed to be the singing and the dancing of the -- am i right? and i think that's one of the things that so important about her film, renaissance. it is a demonstration of the work that is put in, the physical and mental, and creative labor that goes into a project like renaissance. she says in the film, it took four years to put this show together. and she is at the head of all of that creatively, behind the scenes, and then still has to get in 70 million, trillion different costumes over the course of

john: well, we can't talk about year after yeawithout talking about mariah carey's "all i want for christmas want a lot for christmas ♪ john: this is a song that was written almost three decades ago, and it's number one on the billboard top 100. what explains its staying power? nate: well, i think there's a few things with mariah carey 's song. i think one thing is you have to credit her as a songwriter and as a performer. her vocals are incredible. she's able to reach these stratospheric notes that few other singers can. >> ♪ for christmas is you ♪ nate: also, the song was used in really popular film, "love actually," that was released in 2003. so people watch that film and that reinforces the popularity of the song. and i think, third, the song has so many hallmarks of classic christmas music in terms of its instrumentation, in terms of its harmonies. so it really fits comfortably alongside frank sinatra and bing crosby and all these other chrimas greats. john: you're a musicologist, and i think we've talked about it a little in bits and pieces here, but pull it all together. what makes a

i have to ask you, what if mariah carey covered john lennon? >> she might get a pass.treasure. i just went to see her, the christmas concert at the hollywood ball. it was one of my wife's lifelong dreams. spectacular. she's one of those people who can do anything. but if you maroon five, adam levine, no, don't. if you're not frank sinatra, stop it. >> rich: that's absolutely perfect. we'll leave it there. thanks so much for joining us on our absolutely fantastic tour around our worst favorite christmas songs. thanks for watching. america's latest news, fox news at night, i'm rich from washington. hi, i'll have the avocado toast... minus the avocado. so, toast? yeah. everything is so expensive these days. hey, chevy gets it. that's why they're keeping prices down to earth. like on the most affordable ev in america. ♪ a super strong and capable chevy truck. ♪ and a high-tech chevy suv. ♪ why is chevy making affordable vehicles, connected by onstar? so together we can do more. liberty mutual customized my car insurance and i saved hundreds. with the money i saved, i start

interestingly enough mariah carey tried to trade mark the title queen of christmas last year, but she failed. however, johnt for us and for many of us she'll continue to be the queen of christmas because how could she not be with that song. >> and i think the $100 million will ease the sting of that defeat, and she'll probably make even more next december. cnbc's joumanna bercetche live from london, great stuff this morning. thank you for joining us. still ahead here, nbc news medical contributor dr. vin gupta will be our guest. we'll talk to him about covid and flu cases as we move through the holiday season. we'll be right back with that. h the holiday season we'll be right back with that. t, feels better together. (carolers) ♪ iphone 15 pro, your husband deserves it! ♪ (mom) carolers? to tell me you want a new iphone? a better plan is verizon. (vo) it's your last chance to turn any iphone in any condition into a new iphone 15 pro with titanium and ipad and apple watch se - all on us. only on verizon. bladder leak underwear has one job. i just want to feel protected! especially for those sudden gush mome

john lennon "merry christmas war is over". next up will be "let it snow". >> the final will be announced on friday and a lot of us in the newsroom are wondering where mariah carey's for christmas is you" is not in the competition. >> does the queen have some serious licensing -- i'm not playing that. >> they say she makes $2 million a year off of that song. >> it's risky because you make a holiday song, sometimes they're cheesy and people are, like, oh, gosh. >> she wrote it herself. >> she did? >> yeah. >> i didn't know that. >> there's your musical lesson for the day. >> that's why she gets all the money, because she wrote it. >> that makes me like it even more. >>> it might be the day to stay inside if you can, if you're off for the holidays, and listen to that music. we're going to get some heavy rain throughout the morning. let's get a check of the microclimate forecast. you might be noticing it's not as cold. this is a little bit of a warmer system, we're starting off with mid-50s and low 60s in san jose. as we go throughout the day, our highs will be in the 50s and 60s, mostly through the interior, reaching those low 60s for today. but we could see some of