coming up, we are talking with tom wheeler, former sec chair, and no brookings institution visiting fellow will talk about tom's age. we will talk about scotch. this is bloomberg. ♪ ritika: with the first word news, i'm ritika gupta. vice president mike pence will get an ultimatum from house democrats today. he's expected to reject it. lawmakers will demand that vice president pence invoke the 25th amendment to remove president trump for office. he says no, the house will vote to impeach the president. meanwhile, president trump today makes his first public appearance since the riots at the capitol. he will head to texas to claim progress on the unfinished wall along the border with mexico, seen as an attempt to deflect attention from criticism of his behavior, and to highlight what the president sees as one of his signature compliments. pro football coach bill belichick has turned down an offer from president trump to receive the presidential medal of freedom. the six super bowl winner from the new england patriots agreed to receive the honor come but that was before last week's riots at