lauren is in for stuart this morning. lauren: good to see you. a good morning. stuart varney is not off today. he will be back a moment. the pandemic retreat continues. the trend is encouraging with the positive news extended across the country. a look at. new cases of coronavirus down 43%, 64000 reported yesterday. death down 29% over a 14 day period. 55 million people have received at least one vaccine shot and with numbers like this, surely the pressures on to ease restrictions and get the economy moving. but, the country has to deal with the continuing deep freeze your texas suffering with the human story, one of great suffering for those without power as some people are dying in the financial story is the escalating cost of energy. some wind turbines and refineries are frozen shut soap utilities are scrambling to buy electric power wherever they can find it at whatever price. oil and natural gas prices rising and gasoline is on the rise. worse yet, the deep freeze is moving slowly east and north. get ready. to the markets, not much of change, but the dow jo

lauren: i do. don't think you will see children in the us back to full-time in classroom learning this academic year. i don't think will happen until at least the end of the year. what you say? lauren: i'm going to mid next year. i think the highbred system could start to go in the middle of next year i think it will be a couple more months, i mean, my kids are in private school so they go fortunately, but the public schools yeah, not-- and parents are getting frustrated. i know some parents that kept their kids home and are now starting to put them back because they are pulling their hair out. stuart: let's talk about going back to the office because i read in the "wall street journal" this morning some numbers that's addressed in the big cities, at least, people are not going back to the office. we are showing you live now sixth avenue, the very center of the office buildings of new york city and its empty. what you have on this going back to work to the office? lauren: downtowns are ghost towns

tell me more, lauren. lauren: exactly.hese stocks doubled, tripled, that's the case. amc was up 200% last week. the gains continue but not as much as earlier. i want to show you microsoft, stuart. this is the top performer on the dow jones industrial average. it is only up, only up 2.25% but it is adding 30 points to the dow's gain today. stuart: it recouped almost all of friday's loss. nice bounce for microsoft. yes, i do earn a thin sliver of. >>> let's get to the weather, specifically the snowstorm absolutely ishing the northeast. let's go to asia hasnnie. reporter: big pieces of now coming down non-top. this is times square. the times square alliance workers doing their job, god bless them. they're trying to get the place keened up as possible. make it as sound as possible. new york city is under a state of emergency. nobody should be out only essential workers right now. we're bracing for 18 to 24-inches of snow when all of this is said and done. last time we had a storm this big back in 2016. i want to update you on

big deal, lauren. lauren: yep, a permanent change because of the pandemic.ver and what they are doing is looking to cut back on the real estate costs. they have 54000 employees and they are packing a major punch for what the office of the future looks like. they might have some spaced out cafÉ style seating. there is a blue couch right there and some private places to go and also some outdoor space. it's enough for 65% of salesforce employees that expect to come to the office just want to make three days a week in the future, so two thirds of people coming in for half the week or less. i have been thinking about this. i'm a creature of habit. i wake up at this time and i do this at that time and if you schedule your week where you commute one day and not another and if they change i think it would be out of whack. stuart: i agree 100%. we are creatures of habit i think almost all of us. to break that habit, one or two days a week, it's like going back to school one day a week. are you kidding me? i mean, you break the habit and you break the routine. lauren:

what is going on, lauren? lauren: brent hit 60.p almost 2%. this is the highest level since last january. it is up six days in a row. why? there is hope travel comes back especially this summer. you're seeing market, producers tighten supply. it is working. it is also working at the gas pump unfortunately. let's take a look at the national average today. it is 2.$46. that is actually more than it was time last year. experts say, don't worry, we're not expecting a national average of $3. we'll see. these gains have been a wouldn't fall for oil stocks this year. look at exxon, it is up over 20%. the energy sector is up 12%. really energy coming in strong in 2021. stuart: yes indeed. lauren, we have the dow up close to 200 points first thing this monday morning. now this. >>> president biden is all in with the climate crowd. it is not going down with old line leftists especially his decision to kill the keystone lifeline. here is journalists richard swan questioning the afl-cio richard trumka. >> do you think biden realizes that was a

in laurens, south carolina, adriana diaz has the story. >> reporter: quiet laurens, south carolina, has harbored an open secret for decades. this, once a segregated cinema, the echo theater was long a meeting place for white supremacists. inside, redn cfederate flags, n propaganda, and ku klux klan apparel. local reverend david kennedy had been fighting to close the shop for years. >> it has always represented racism and humiliation for the black community. >> reporter: humiliation and terror. kennedy knows the oral history of his own great-great grand uncle's lynching. >> as i listened to the story and connected with the picture, i felt like it was me hanging from the rope. >> white power! >> reporter: the theater was a symbol of that hate. this meeting in 2006 included members of the kkk, the aryan nation, and the nazi party. the theater's destiny took an almost cinematic turn. the building was owned by a reformed klansman who sold it to a black pastor who helped him through tough times. that pastor was reverend kennedy. >> we knew if we owned it, it would never be a ku klux klan shop

michael rect and while you're all very welcome lauren can we kick off with you today facebook's move a pretty dramatic escalation of us the speed with the government wasn't it but essentially does it not boil down to the fact it's a private company their site their rules. you're right it absolutely is a private company and for the record i do not support the australian government's policy in this regard at all however if there is one thing that should all show us is the amount of control that facebook currently has who are our public discourse and actually i know some people were furious and that it wasn't just news agencies that are originally blocked by facebook but there was actually a time when some government sites or government resources were blocked as well facebook may be a private company but we cannot deny that in 2020 or 2021 rather it is part of the public square you know whether that means that facebook should have to bend the knee and pony up money for the new sites that it does offer a link for i'm not sure but i think that countries all over the world should be paying

why, lauren? lauren: this is a great story.riots, but president trump resigned before they could actually make their final decision. and in a letter, trump cited sag's dismal record doing little for its members besides collecting dues. i'm of laughing because sag's response was two words, it was thank you. and this is so emblematic to me of the trump presidency. they attack his values, he attacks their foil failures -- policy failures. and it was on display with the sag, i guess he resigned, resignation. stuart: he's gone. [laughter] lauren: he's out. he doesn't care. stuart: i want to bring the audience up to speed on gamestop real fast, or please. it was halted -- it had traded at 83, it was halted at 79, it's now down to $63 a share. still very much a news story. and then we have the new leaders of parler. they are heavily critical of the former ceo, john matze. tell me more, susan. susan: according to parler investors and, yes, that does include dan bongino, firing the ceo, he's the one making this all public. he says he wa

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lauren: it's a mix of both.people who their day-to-day job prior to covid-19 were looking at data, looking for that next pandemic, there are so many people whose jobs have reverted to just focusing on covid-19. we were worried about that during flu season and many natural disasters seasons globally that we wouldn't have the public health workforce to identify these -- the next pandemic or the global threat. building that workforce back up will be hugely important. making sure that we are doing the work of looking at the specimens we are collecting. really improving data sharing which has been a huge problem globally in the pandemic. those of the next steps. i think it is just a matter of maintaining that even when we are working so hard to fight this pandemic that is at our doorstep. francine: thank you so much. be sure to check out vrusgo for the latest information. for an inside look at battling covid-19. coming up next week talk financials with the former credit suisse chief executive. this is bloomberg. ♪ fr

coming more, lauren. lauren: there is such a frenzy out there for digital currency.hit 1800 and it's all about credibility right now so you have elon musk a story, of course, but also cmd once futures contract for either and we lead up to indicia-- investors pour money in, 195 million and it seems anything just related to bitcoin has rallied. look at these stocks. this is the premarket activity. yesterday these stocks were up as much as 42%, so they hold about 3 billion and bitcoin, 29% yesterday, up 8% right now in the premarket. you have the minors, look at this, tremendous and even a bank has crypto deposits and they are rising again today, so this trade has likes. stuart: crypts-- crypto and all of that companies on the upside in a frenzy now this, reddit has doubled its evaluation following the gamestop frenzy. they are the center of the frenzy. susan: i think they are doing the smart thing racing crash-- cash when there's high interest in the company. shows just how influential reddit has become. doubling its evaluation to $6 billion, what a difference a year m

lauren lauren yep.ight? 13% gain. stuart: lauren, good stuff. i like the yellow. check the markets again, we're down but not that much. susan: let's look at paypal, and they say they will double the number of active accounts to 750 million by the year 2025, also allowing venmo users to send bitcoin from person to person, also in the u.k. but they're not using their cash pile to buy any bitcoin like tesla did. virgin galactic delaying their test flightagain, it was supposed to happen this weekend. scrubbed in december, behind schedule here as they were supposed to fly branson onboard in the first quarter, not likely at this point. let's check out the pot stocks, aurora cannabis still losing money and gm advisers says you should sell the stock. and sun dial, he says he's not a pump and dump operation, according according to him. pump and dumpers will tell you when they sell out of it. stuart: well, i think there's some pump and dump operations going on out there, not necessarily involving him. i think it'

let's bring back lauren fox. the other big thing, still, waiting to happen on the hill today is a power-sharing deal among republicans and democrats. listen, it's 50-50 but with the vp breaking the tie, democrats are the majority. what's holding up a rules-setting deal here so they can get on to other business? >> it has been weeks, jim, that we have been waiting for an agreement that would officially shift over who controls the committee's gavels. that's obviously very important because those committees are setting the agenda for when biden's nominees can move through. and there are different relationships on these committees. some committee chairs have allowed the nominations to advance even though democrats don't technically control the committees anymore. but this is becoming a major problem in the judiciary committee where we are still waiting on that confirmation hearing for biden's nominee for attorney general merrick garland. you heard lindsey graham, the current chairman of that committee, saying that he

lauren fox, julie hirs hirschfeld-davis. seven in the senate voted to convict, but others like leader mitch mcconnell vote to acquit, but then they come out and savagely attack the former president, saying he is responsible for what happened in the capitol. how do they handle that straddstraddle that, if they're not willing to acquit him? >> they are not willing to acquit him, and the senate leader wanted to make sure he was breaking clear and repudiating the president, but yet he also voted to acquit him. you saw those seven republicans who were really willing to vote their conscience, is the way they described it. if you look at the common thread among them, it's really that for whatever their reasons, and they had slightly different reasons, they don't fear the retribution from donald trump that the rest of the party does. so you have a critical mass of republicans that are in a real dilemma. they don't want to be seen as tied to the president, but they also know they can't completely divorce themselves from him, and give

lauren, what's the number? lauren, can you hear me? all right.bring in gary kaltbaum. let me stay if i can with rates. i want to deal with the 10-year rates. can you put the 10-year up there. we're up once again which in a lot of peoples minds are confirming fear we are finally going to see a raise in inflation. i say finally, not because anybody wants it. because we heard about it for the past dozen years or so we would have inflation with all the government spending what the fed is doing. it never happened. is it finally going to rear its ugly head again? >> i can tell you with all the money printing, spending i'm surprised inflation is in teens. beats the heck out of me. i will tell you this, lumber, copper, you name it, multiyear highs. that will get passed through as we move forward. prices to build homes, you name it. so yeah there is some, whether or not or not it will be the harsh inflation that really, really hurt, i'm not so sure. and with yields i think 1.3 on the 10-year, that is still very, very low. if we start to see a lot higher,

wait to get your take, lauren _ tomorrow. wait to get your take, lauren wright, - tomorrow.tomorrow. wait to get your - take, lauren wright, thank you. thanks. —— great. she russia, the opposition leader alexei navalny has been in court to face allegations he defamed a second world war veteran. he denies that. he has already been sentenced to more than 2.5 years in prison in a separate case it is widely seen as politically motivated. steve rosenberg reports. what do you find at the end of russia, where the pacific turns to ice? at first, russia here feels frozen in time, no hint of spring. but in vladivostok, there are signs that something is changing. last month, thousands here risked arrest to protest in support ofjailed opposition leader alexei navalny. there were rallies across russia. but there is no political thaw. the kremlin calls the protests illegal, and it's cracking down. vlogger gennady shulga had live—streamed one of the protests. a few days ago, police raided his flat and pinned him to the floor. the police video shows gennady�*s head over the dog bowl. transl

you got the story, lauren, what happened? lauren: let's breathe a sigh of relief.he chiefs players. he got the results of a rapid test mid haircut of another player. that player on the reserve list. patrick mahomes, star quarterback, he was in line for the haircut. everyone had masks on. he is allowed to play on sunday. it is interesting, so many questions. is the big game going to happen if there is a covid outbreak? it looks like the union says, yeah, even if both quarterbacks, mahomes or tom brady have coronavirus or quarantines, they're still playing on sunday. the teams. so the super bowl will happen sunday, no matter what. stuart: imagine what the bookies would do if the things were changed? my goodness. fail to think. i have can't imagine. all right, lauren. >>> scientists are testing, is this true? testing out a new covid jab strategy. mix and match, mixing different first around second doses. will that work? we'll tell you all about it. doc siegel is with us. he says life may return to normal this summer. what would normal look like? i have no idea but i w

lauren: i think it is definitely tangible.e rolling out to health care workers and elderly and vulnerable populations right now. i think around .1 of -- .1% of the population has been vaccinated so far, but we are already seeing hesitancy from these vulnerable, marginalized populations within our health care cohorts and more broadly as we start hi vaccine education campaigns and access campaigns. -- start to roll out vaccine education campaigns and axing campaigns. there are so many people willing to get it right now because they one life to go back to normal and are not scared of the vaccine or are not hesitant to get it. as soon as we get to the point where there is a significant amount of supply increase and we have gone through our front line health care workers in through the elderly populations that have been able to get it through like -- through things like long-term care facilities. a lot of us will see this clip, a drop of a people willing to get it. and we will be sitting on supply. lisa: it strikes me this process

be why i log yeah a lot of pick some of what you're saying through the course of the conversation lauren with donald trump facing impeachment again where does that leave him and indeed the republican party they're already out of the white house they're the minority in congress. well i think it's important to understand exactly why democrats are still going through with this impeachment a lot of people might see that the president trump is no longer in office and think that it's pointless but i think they're being very calculated here don't forget that if democrats successfully impeach donald trump he will be ineligible to run in 2024 and i think that's what this is all about so people might be talking about donald trump being over in politics but the democrats i think clearly do not think that and we also need to remember that a majority of republicans still think that the election results in 2020 were fraudulent you know donald trump being on the ticket in elections has made a huge difference for difference for republicans and we just look and see what happened in the georgia runoff whe

what have we got, lauren? lauren: 2.73%. moved down 2.19%. bottom line, freddie mac says the real estate market remains solid even if yields move up a little bit. expectations are we'll see at the end of the year, 3 to 3.3%, 30-year fixed-rate. these low rates in general make homes affordable for many people. not all people but many people. stuart: you got that right, lauren. 2.73%. the dow moved to the upside, a small gain now for just 7 points on the dow industrials. now this. >>> it is easy to come out of the gates with a flury of executive orders. it is much more difficult to make them stick. when a new policy is revealed, debate begins so does the pushback. on big issues president biden is already bogged down. immigration. 78,000 border apprehensions in january, highest in a decade, double the number from last year. the deputy chief of border patrol said on youtube, because of quote, a perceived shift in immigration and security policy. translation, biden's campaign promises, executive orders encouraged illegal migratio

what you have, lauren. bottom line is these low rates are lighting a fire under homebuilders with applications for the week up one point%. there up 16% from last year. refinancing popular, up 11% last week, 59% from a year ago. while prices are high, supply is low enough so frustrating to many, they are still drawn in by low rates and that desire for space and to live somewhere else. stuart: i understand it all. thank you. quickly to the futures, see how we will open, a tiny drop for the dow jones, but a big game for the nasdaq and big tech. moron that-- more on that after this. ♪♪ you're clearly someone who takes care of yourself. so why wait to screen for colon cancer? because when caught in early stages, it's more treatable. i'm cologuard. i'm noninvasive and detect altered dna in your stool to find 92% of colon cancers even in early stages. tell me more. it's for people 45 plus at average risk for colon cancer, not high risk. false positive and negative results may occur. ask your prescriber or an onlin

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lauren fox is on capitol hill. kate bennett reports that the former president's stated goal is to run for president in 2024. how is that going to land with republicans today? >> reporter: we'll get a lot better sense of it as cpac begins today. this is underscoring the deep divisions within the republican party. president trump or former president trump is expected to speak over the weekend at that event. what the reception will be to that speech, well that's still an open question and all of this comes as joe biden is facing his own struggles with the u.s. senate democrats. on capitol hill, house republican leaders openly clashing over former president donald trump's role in their party, as the conservative political action conference begins today. >> do you believe president trump should be speaking or former president trump should be speaking at cpac this weekend? >> yes, he should. >> congresswoman cheney? >> that's up to cpac. i've been clear on my views about president trump. i don't believe that he should be

thank you, lauren. edward lawrence now in wash torn. democrats seem toby looking take advantage of the stock market, edward. reporter: robinhood limiting traders from buying and selling certain stocks democrats in washington are seeing green, not red. we started to hear again about calls for more regulation, adding a tax now to every stock trade. now as winston churchill famously said, never let a good crisis go to waste. we're not at a crisis yet but it could be coming. representative ilhan omar tweeting last week she want as .1% tax on each stock transaction. she argues it would slow down making wall street rich and tax money could be used to cancel student debt. there are holes with that logic. first the cbo says a tax like that would raise $777 billion over 10 years. the st. louis federal reserve the cost of canceling student debt is $1.7 trillion. so there is a gap there. free trading apps made stock trading available to everyone, not just the wealthy. now the idea of a tax on traders is now come up at least once in 2019, 2020. and

a lot of men wanted to be him. >> reporter: lauren fell for him. he was separated from his wife, chandy, but that didn't stop chandy from calling lauren. >> she texted and called me and was very belligerent and rude. >> reporter: angry perhaps that her husband, then 39, was dating a high school girl. in fact, sheer coincidence, lauren went to high school with gavin smith's sons. so she knew when he disappeared in may 2012, but made no connection between that and something she noticed about her boyfriend, john creech. >> i discovered he had scrapes on his hands and on his arms. >> she didn't think he had anything to do with the disappearance. >> reporter: but when detective o'brien heard about creech's scrapes, he immediately thought of gavin smith's wounds. he needed to talk to john creech again. and he found him in jail, serving eight years on a cocaine charge. his second conviction for dealing drugs. not exactly an upstanding citizen. but could they prove he murdered gavin smith? >> we went to him. didn't ask him questions, just put a picture dow

>> very. >> miriam's daughter, lauren. one day, her mother's strange inheritance will pass to her. feel a responsibility to continue her work? >> i feel a huge responsibility. i just hope that everybody from the next century on will not forget what happened. >> behind me are bleak reminders of kristallnacht, "the night of broken glass," the awful night in november 1938 that convinced david friedman he had to flee berlin. but here's what happened 70 years later, in november 2008 -- the berlin philharmonic commemorated kristallnacht with a concert, accompanied by an exhibit of david friedman's artwork. the 30 portraits featured jewish composers, musicians, and conductors, many of whom were part of the berlin orchestra before the nazis took it over, an historical treasure from an era the nazis tried to erase and a testament to the enduring power of david friedman's artistry. i'm jamie colby. thanks for watching "strange inheritance." >> two proud texans with a passion for old west guns, guts, and glory. >> i do see bullet holes. >> two strange inheritances -- one a lone star mystery..

lauren, thank you very much. recover, only recover with a big stimulus package. let's bring in art laffer. art, spending nearly $2 trillion, that's on top of the $4 trillion that's already been spent, and they haven't even complete ared spending the last pile of money. do you really think that it's necessary to spend another $1.9 trillion now? >> i think it's very dangerous to spend $1.9 trillion now, i really do. i mean, in the first place, they have -- i think it's almost a trillion left over from the previous $4.5 trillion or something like that. so they've got that there. what janet yellen does, quite correctly, is she points to all the people with hardships and suffering and all that. that's very, very true. covid-19 has done a lot of damage to the economy, a lot of damage to people's lives, shutdowns and all of it. that's all very true. but this money doesn't come from the tooth fairy, david. it comes from workers, producers and taxpayers, and it'll have to be repaid or at least burdensome on the system and

lauren, thank you for laying that out for us. me bring in elie honig from the southern district of new york. you've had a chance to speed through the pages as well. what is your reaction to this pretrial brief? >> kate, so the first thing that jumped out at me was the tone of this brief. it is very defensive and accusatory. they're trying to put the people that impeached donald trump on trial. in that respect, the brief itself is very trumpian. one example, right on the very first page trump's lawyers accuse the people who have impeached him of having trump derangement syndrome. they use that in phrase in a serious legal filing. i think that undercuts the credibility throughout. i'll give you another example of the hypocrisy here. they argue in one breath that trump was impeached too quickly and they didn't give him a fair chance and in the next breath they say it is also too late because he's gone now. you can't contradict yourself and remain credible when making a legal argument. >> they might possibly try. what kind of what la

lauren: you will. connell: thank you, lauren. if you look at bitcoin, boy it is some story. elon musk announced that tesla invested $1.5 billion in bitcoin last month. they plan to accept the cryptocurrency as payment soon. the news helping to drive bitcoin's price up up. it was up 40%, six thousand dollars. elon musk and bitcoin, go, what do you say? >> i love it, connell. this is really fascinating example of a really influential person putting his thumb on the scale, right? so the knock on bitcoin has been that it doesn't have any real value. nobody accepts it, so you can't use it for anything. well elon musk can basically wave his magic wand. in a real credible way, say, oh, yes it does. because first of all we invested dollars in it. second of all we're going to accept it as payment. he has, you know, in a day transformed the whole way of thinking about this virtual currency or this cryptocurrency. connell: that waving of the wand, virtually for the most part on twitter, from elon musk, doesn't raise any red flags? the idea we now know he was buying bitcoin while doing

lauren, let's start on capitol hill. let's focus first on the big picture. we'll get to the anger of the minimum wage ruling, especially for progressives. for people watching at home who are unemployed or trying to stretch through this pandemic a small business environment, $400 per person. increasing the monthly unemployment programs to $400. increase federal minimum wage to $15. extend two unemployment programs through august 29. it does not extend pandemic or sick leave, though. what is going to affect tonight's vote? >> reporter: there is no room for error, john. remember, house speaker nancy pelosi has her tenure as speaker, but this is a popular bill. the provisions you just listed, things like giving people direct checks if they make less than $75,000 a year, that is a popular provision. so democrats, despite the fact they might have individual grumblings about this provision or that provision, the way things were structured in this bill, they feel confident, they feel good going into this vote tonight that they'll have the support they need in part b

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." >> cnn's lauren fox is on capitol hill. lauren, what should we expect to see this morning and this afternoon? >> reporter: well, kicking off this morning around 10:00 a.m., victor, you're going to begin to see a potential debate on witnesses although senators could skip that if the house managers don't want to see any witnesses which the expectation right now that is where we are headed. they're going to skip that debate altogether. then you could see potentially two hours of debate over whether or not they should admit new evidence. again, we expect that can also be skipped over. that gets into the final four hours of these arguments in closing, that senators are going to be hearing from both the house managers and trump's defense team. and really the job here is just do no harm for trump's defense team. look, it doesn't look as if there are going to be 17 republican senators willing to convict trump. in fact, we're looking at between five or six senators who might even be thinking about it. those are the senators who deci

if i could send a letter to little lauren, i'd tell myself to embrace being the only girl in a boy'sld is something that takes strength, courage and individuality, and those are things that we should all be proud of. i would tell myself that everything you fear and assume people will think or perceive you as will always quietly surprise you, when the people who matter don't mind and the people who mind don't matter. i would tell myself to follow your heart, be strong in your character and know that you are never defined by a comment, opinion, outcome, performance, perception or label, now or ever. you are special, unique and stronger than you know. finally on sportsday, as we've been hearing, the pandemic has presented unique challenges to many sports in the last 12 months, but one young british rower has been embracing a new way of racing in her sport — one which doesn't even involve going on the water. on the left of the screen here is britain's immy bantick at the world indoor rowing championships. she was racing on a rowing machine in her kitchen, keeping track of her competitors

what's the latest, lauren?well, alisyn, not even halfway through biden's first 100 days, the house of representatives is on track today to pass his $1.9 trillion covid relief bill. this legislation includes direct checks, $1,400 checks to americans making $75,000 or less. it also includes money to get kids back to school, more money for small businesses still dealing with the effects of this pandemic. and of course, direct aid to state and local governments, with an impact and emphasis on those governments that have experienced higher unemployment. now, looking forward, this bill is expected to have overwhelming democratic support. republicans have been whipping their members against it. this version today will include a $15 minimum wage increase. however, last night, senate democrats learned that their version of the bill will not be allowed to include that increase. that's significant. the parliamentarian ruled that they did not comply with the strict standards required through this process known as budget re

lauren, i want to talk with you, you heard antonia hylton speaking about the impact on communities of color. where and how is it being felt most acutely? >> thank you for having me. one of the best examples of this from the health care side is the effect it's had on dialysis patients. here in san antonio we have extremely high rates of diabetes and end stage renal disease. and patients just need dialysis every other day in that situation. so what happened when we had intermittent power and water outages throughout the week is that folks were just unable to get into their dialysis clinics. and that's a lifesaving, mandatory treatment for those patients. those patients are predominantly black and hispanic. they were going days, sometimes a week without dialysis because you need an enormous amount of both water and power in order to do dialysis. you also need good water pressure and clean water. all of those things were in short supply over the past week. >> alana, when you hear about this level of human tragedy, part of where the conversation is now going is how much of this could have

with lauren boebert it's this defense against the big government. and january 6th we saw a willingness to tackle that government. that's where the danger of the republican party moving from a party of less government to one willing to undermine and kneecap and tackle the government while leaders of the republican party are embracing this imagery of the second amendment. that's where it's so dangerous because that gets us to a world in which the oklahoma city bombing happened. and chris, there's two major deceits that republicans practice. the first is they conflate fundamental rights with absolute rights. laura boebert did that in her rant before the natural resources committee. she suggested that owning guns and taking them into the capitol is an absolute right. that's not the case. all of our fundamental rights have certain restrictions including the second amendment, including the first with speech, religion and so forth. the second deceit republicans practice is they know that there's no legislation that would pass the house and be signed by pre

lauren, good morning. >> good morning, erica.ouse budget committee expected today to try and pass that massive $1.9 covid relief bill. it of course includes those $1,400 direct stimulus checks to americans making $75,000 or less. it also includes an expansion of the child tax credit. and a rise in the $15 minimum wage. now, we expect that this is going to sail through the house of representatives by the end of the week. then it will be up to the u.s. senate to pass this bill. now, republicans have criticized this package as too large and unwieldly, unnecessary right now at a time where they argue that there is still money that has not gone out the door from the last covid relief package that they passed. here's what president joe biden said to that criticism. >> reporter: critics say my plan is too big. that it costs $1.9 trillion. says that's too much. let me ask them, what would they have me cut? what would they have me leave out? should we not invest $20 billion to vaccinate the nation? should we not invest $290 million to ext

thank you very much, lauren. joining us now to talk about this, we have two former republican congressmen and cnn commentators, mike rogers and charlie dent. great to see both of you. >> alisyn, good to see you. >> congressman dent, why should we believe that kevin mccarthy that marjorie taylor greene apologized? she's never done that publicly. in fact, just two days ago, when she was given an opportunity to do so on a radio show, i will quote her, she said, i don't think i have anything to apologize for. for looking things up on the internet and saying things about it on facebook? big deal. she has been proudly unrepentant about her violent rihetoric. and just to remind people of what she said, one of them, online, on social media, when somebody said, why don't we hang hillary clinton and president obama? she said, the stage is being set. this will have to be done very carefully. so, you know, liberal judges don't throw it out. that's just one of them. >> well, alisyn, once upon a time, and not so long ago, memb

lauren, when will it now expire. lauren: three month extension.a quarter of homeowners with a government-backed mortgage, they paused or reduces monthly payments. they can continue to do that. how much the white house has not extended the eviction moratorium for renters just yet but some relief for other homeowners out there, forbearance requests as well as foreclosures. stuart: that is a little relief for the landlords if the renters for closure barrier is not extended. lauren: yeah. they could try to get something. stuart: moving sagely here. all right, dow industrials now up 150 points. how about that? and goldman sachs has good news on this earnings season. what is it? susan: the fact it has been the second best, second best in 23 years because of the fact if you look at 65% of the s&p firms that have reported so far they have blown away already high expectations on the markets. i should also point out that goldman sachs raised guidance for year-end forecasts for the s&p 500. they say we'll get to 4300 for the s&p 500 that means we're up close

they've already got our next guest lauren bohr lauren boebert in theirsides. this is nancy pelosi's press release today. she had and if i give mccarthy she cited john thune who said that the house has decided to make itself the party of q and . if you are concerned, pick up the phone and have a private conversation peer do not you will be left narrative. it only weakens your power and weakens whatever agenda you think you are advancing. that's the angle. colorado congresswoman lauren boebert. you were singled out by the head of the democrat congressional campaign committee as being next. your response tonight? >> i've been on the list since the day i announced. it's like a game of whack a mole at this point. you knock one down and three more pop out. i'm encouraged. because i know that the d ccc is terrified of what this class is doing, the momentum that is still behind us in 74 million americans. i am proud to be a part of this, i'm honored to be the first woman to represent the people of colorado's third district, the first mom who has been sent to washingto

that's boxes, lauren blanchard tells us.dent biden says he wants to make it a top priority for his administration. but it's up to congress to pass the necessary funding. which is you know a massive should have been awarded for the last week. frigid temperatures of grip the south, dozens have died as their homes were left without power and water in texas. you know, they decided not to winterize our plans, so everything is failing pipes have burst and energy systems have failed to keep up. this is something that our ship person, our infrastructure is not accustomed to it. president biden says he will try to visit the lone star state, but not while they're still trying to restore utilities working like the devil to take care of their folks. if, in fact it's concluded that i could do without creating a burden for the folks on the ground while they're dealing with this crisis. i plan on going. earlier in the week, president biden met with labor leaders to campaign for his coronavirus american rescue plan. he also spoke about the

talk to me, lauren, as i say welcome.ting this group together and the kind of work these women are doing. >> well, first of all, thank you so much for having me, alex. we are still in the first week of black history month. it is so great to be here. man, it was really hard to narrow it down to 28 women, 28 days of black history month. we wanted to celebrate the accomplishments of these women over the past year. you named so many great women. many of them are the first to hold their position ever. rasheeda jones, president of msnbc, first black woman to hold this position. amanda majorman, who will be a of the the super bowl. first both laureate speaking at the super bowl. it was not easy to narrow it down. >> can i imagine. each one gets an entire day of folk to us themselves, if you want to look at it that way. well deserved. in addition to what you mentioned, joy reid, the first black woman to anchor a prime ministertime cable news show. symone sanders becoming the first black woman to serve as chief communication spoke

cnn's lauren fox live on capitol hill from what we will see and hear today, lauren. >> reporter: wellthat's right, john. just a couple hours we expect to see some preliminary arguments being set forth by both the president's lawyers and the house impeachment managers. we expect that the democrats are going to make the case that the president intentionally worked for months both before the election and after the election to subvert the will of votes. they're going to argue it's more than constitutional to move ahead with an impeachment trial in the senate even though the former president is no longer in office. we also expect on the former president's side of the aisle that they are going to be arguing that this is not constitutional and, of course, that's significant. that's an argument that many republicans have adhered to over the last several weeks. you saw multiple republicans, 45 of them to be exact, voting that this process was unconstitutional just a few days ago in the u.s. senate. so that is something that's going to be resonating with them. meanwhile, you have the fact that

lauren hi, heather. well, good evening from a snowy and wet washington today, the house managers began their 16 hours of opening arguments between their presentations today and tomorrow, their hope is to sway any undecided republicans to convict. to us, it may have felt like chaos and madness. but there was method in the madness that day on day two of former president trump's impeachment trial. the house managers trying to prove the former commander in chief knew what his words would do sewing doubt in the election and riling up his supporters, ultimately leading to the january 6th attack on the capitol, and when they heard his speech, they understood his words and what they meant because they had heard it before. the manager's played clips and read tweets from president trump of four and after november, 3rd, claiming the election was rigged or stolen. they say the president's actions are not protected by the constitution, and it was an attempt to overturn the election. he truly made his base belief that

they are days that lauren thomas lives in the past tense.ou're wearing your engagement ring. >> thomas: yes. i cannot take it off. even though i saw him in the casket. i saw them lower that same casket into the ground. but taking this ring off just confirms that all of this is real. he's really gone. so, i don't know how long it's going to be on my hand, but i'm in no rush to take it off. >> pelley: all over the country, people are talking about, "isn't it going to be great when this is over?" and it occurs to me, speaking to you, that for a lot of people in this country, it will never be over. >> thomas: never be. what is normal? normal is not a thing for a lot of us anymore. ( ticking ) this is andy, my schwab financial consultant. here's andy listening to my goals and making plans. this is us talking tax-smart investing, managing risk, and all the ways schwab can help me invest. this is andy reminding me how i can keep my investing costs low and that there's no fee to work with him. here's me learning about schwab's satisfaction guarantee

lauren: the weather is playing a big part in it. weather makes it harder to get vaccine sites. and it makes it harder to encourage people to show up. weather hopefully continues to improve. with the hope that we didn't lose too many vaccines to some of these big storms and also the people who missed appointments can easily and effectively reschedule them. people who are on the fence about getting the vaccine making sure they are able to reschedule their appointments. jonathan: thank you. the vaccine rate a little more than 1.2 million. though numbers right now look like this. 20 doses given per 100 people in the united states. 13.4% of the population has had at least one shot. 6%, including yusor, fully vaccinated. tom: -- you, sir. fully vaccinated. tom: with the booster shots, you just have to grind it out every day. i'm getting go back to the cover of two or three days ago. jonathan: i'm to go to the travel and leisure stock story. largely off the back of what's happened in the united states and europe, particularly the u.k. wher

lauren, 1.9 billion is the democratic offer. 600 million is a republican offer. the big question is, will republicans come up or are they willing? >> reporter: i think that is the question going into the meeting. we do know democrats can learn as soon as this week on a budget resolution that will unlock their ability with just democratic votes. so the question is how low is joe biden willing to go on his own covid relief proposal. she right now sitting at $1.9 trillion and how high are republicans willing to go? they are awaiting a score from the congressional bug office. the one big question is, what is joe biden not willing to give up? the republican proposal, which we have just received a copy of, a summary of, essentially doesn't include any money for state and local governments. that was a sticking point. whether or not they are willing to aboandon that. there will be some progressives on the democratic side is that don't like it and will be whetheri willing to vote for it. you need upwards of 12, 13 votes. it's not clear that many will be willing to go with

lauren fox is there. lauren, so walk us through the first day of the trial. >> well, this question of whether or not it is even constitutional to be holding an impeachment trial of a former president, that is going to be the agenda today. four hours of debate followed by a vote this evening on that question of constitutionality. now this is going to look very similar to what we saw a couple of weeks ago when rand paul forced senators to answer this question in a vote. back then we saw five republican senators siding with democrats. 45 republicans saying this was not constitutional. we expect a similar breakdown today. now starting tomorrow, the real arguments of this case will begin. first the house impeachment managers have two days, 16 hours, to make their case. followed by the president's defense team, former president's defense team, making their case for 16 hours over two days. we still don't know which weekend days or both weekend days will be used as part of this impeachment trial. that's still bei