Peter doocy on that. Plus, our friday money team. What is in the covid deal and will it bring help to you. We begin the hour with kevin corke covering congressman swalwell. Good afternoon. Congressman swalwell may not have a lot to say about christine fang. Hes made it clear he did all he could to help authorities once approached. He said he was shocked when the fbi told them about the risk that she posed. He said the bureau thanked him for his help noting that fang is no longer in the country. Questions still swirl including fundraising that she did for him and the fact that she placed a fellow Chinese National in his office. Democrats have shown support for swalwell including hakeem everreese of new york, nancy pelosi and adam schiff. They all say they have confidence in him but republicans are demanding answers about swalwells ties to beijing. Today i will get a briefing. What is important to me, it raises so many more questions. What do the communist chinese have on the democrat that is so powerful . So powerful that they focused on a person when he was a city councilmember, bundled money for him to become a member of congress. This person got on to the intel committee. Did somebody lobby for him . In his first year, he was overseeing the cia. Then he ran for president. Meanwhile, theres democrats including adam schiff that make the argument that members on both sides are approached by foreign nationals working covertly for their respective government. Theyre reported to the authorities that matter and they keep it moving. He argues that is what swalwell did in this particular case. But is that true . Thats a question for the briefing now underway. As we get reaction, i promise to pass it along. Back to you. Bill well watch the microphone. Thanks, kevin corke in d. C. Breaking news now. Peter doocy reporting that biden transition officials declined to take questions from the Fox News Channel during a weekly meeting today. Thats not where it ended. Peter doocy picks up the coverage. What happened in wilmington today, peter . Bill, the way they have been doing the briefings is on zoom. If you have a question, you go to the chat function and you say i have something id like to ask. They call on people. Today they called on journalists from five outlets. It was politco, new york times, washington post, cnn, pbs. We said we had a question. We didnt get called on. We have never been called on in one of these. Towards the end of the briefing where nobody asked about hunter biden among other things, some of the other mainstream journalists in the chat function started complaining that they were going to stop at five questions today. One guy from the daily beast wrote this. Hey, guys, theres tons of folks looking to ask questions. Since this is done once a week, can we hold more frequent briefing. Zeke miller said any chance you can take a few more questions . Theres a lot of folks here with questions. An independent journalist got on there and said is there a point in saying we want to ask questions if you only call on the same small group every week . We know jen saki and the president elect promised to bring back Daily White House briefings when they take back the white house. Were getting a sense of what that might look like and something that is problematic in a zoom press briefing is if they dont call on you, you cant just shout to get somebodys attention. If you shout in a zoom, youre annoying the people in the hotel room next to you. Bill . Bill two questions. Are they doing this every day and is this the first sense of pushback that youve gotten from that crew . This is something that theyve been doing once a week on fridays the last few fridays. This is certainly the most direct push back that weve seen in a chat function that has about its a combination of biden staff and reporters, about 100 people on there. Its not like its a private email, this is airing grievances bill very interesting. Can you predict what the coverage could be like come january . How much access will you have . As long as covid is a concern, seems like this is what well be getting. There were questions food about what the west wing is going to look like, whether or not staffers are going to have to get the Covid Vaccine in order to work in the west wing and proximity to the senior officials. But they do not have any information as of yet as to what that might look like. Bill wait till they call on you. Thanks, peter doocy watching the press corps. Thanks, peter. Im just saying, lets get through this shortterm rescue package, which has awfully good things in it, particularly with respect to extending the Small Business loans, the ppp. We need to focus on letting people keep more of what they earn. We need to focus on providing less red tape. Bill larry kudlow earlier today with stuart varney. Congress is racing against the clock to get a deal done on covid relief. Chad pergram says both sides are trying to finish as quickly as possible. Steve moore from the trump team and cofounder from government pari parity. Steve moore, you get a shot now to close out the year. What is in the deal . Is it too big . Is it too small or just right, steve . Boy, thats a big question. I have never been a big fan of a massive spending bill to get out of this crisis. It is a crisis. You know, were looking at potentially 100,000 restaurants around the country closing their doors. Some of them already have. Were looking at real problems with stores and retailers and the brick and Mortar Retail stores around the country that are not this is their biggest season and theyre not open for business in a lot of places. By the way, its divided america. Those shutdowns are truly in states like new york, new jersey, connecticut, california and illinois that are run by democratic governors. You know, a lot of these states like florida and texas are open. So do i favor this bill . Theres a lot in it i dont like. I think providing some shortterm relief to the businesses and to the workers make sense. By the way, you just showed that clip from larry kudlow. I agree with him. We should put more money in peoples paychecks through tax cuts and deregulation. Theres none of that. A massive spending bill. Bill im going to austin now. What do you think, austin . They dont have a deal. I mean, really . Seriously . Theyre going to have a government shut down because they cant agree on this . I know theres a lot of other things going on. I look at congress. I look at the president. I look at the millions of people out of work. The pandemic is raging. Its like do your jobs. This is their job. Trying to prevent permanent damage from a raging pandemic. That is their job. The vaccine is a glorious thing. Now we come to find out that pfizer says that have millions of extra doses but the federal government hasnt updated the shipping list to tell them where to send them. So its just do your job. Its christmas time. Lets have bill my guess is they do get the this done tomorrow. What do you think, steve . They will. Theres one issue about keeping the government open. Im in favor of that. How do we come to the final deal on the relief bill . I dont like a lot in it but i agree, get it done and get the money to the businesses and the people that really need it. But i have to say this you know, austin, every year the last 30 years, the moore family has trekked to chicago. We go on Michigan Avenue and the wonderful restaurants and the wonderful stores and the decorations. Its an incredible, fun three or four five days. Were not going this year, bill. You know what . Because chicago is entirely shut down. So were going to go to florida instead. Bill no, because theres a raging pandemic. Theres a raging pandemic. Its not because of policy. Bill . Why is florida open then . Floridas economy, texass commit, california, new york, the virus is killing the economy. We have to slow the virus. Its not about the lockdowns. Those lock downs are trying to stop the spread of this virus. Bill hes right about the jobless. California, new jersey, new york. These states are leading the list, austin. Well, you say theyre leading the list. Look at the economic slow down in the red states. The virus is raging. The red is part of america is now tennessee, red in terms of spread of the disease. The Economic Impact is extremely negative. Bill steves point is that i get it. Steves point is that democratic leadership is more prone to shut down as opposed to staying open. Final comment, steve. This is the problem. Austin and i agree. Its a terrible, deadly disease. We need to do everything we can to stop the spread and get the vaccine done. Its been really harmful to the restaurants and stores. 15 Million People are hired by restaurants every year. Bill i get the point. The vaccine is a stimulus, gentlemen. Get it rolls. Thanks, austin and steve. Nice to have you back. Merry christmas. I have great confidence in my son. Im not concerned about any accusations that has been made about him. Bill joe biden is not concerned. Some republicans say that they have seen enough to warrant a special counsel now. All this surrounding hunter biden. John kennedy sits on the judiciary committee. He will react. Well talk to him in a moment. And then theres this. We are poised to have vaccine for 20 million americans before the end of december. 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I think that. If i have relatives coming in from chicago, florida or wherever, have them wear a mask, wash their hands. I would take their temperature as they got to my front door. Bill that will make for a great dinner, huh, doc . Dr. Fauci was here yesterday. A lot of headlines going around that he was urging families to cancel christmas. He said that wasnt the case. Heres how he clarified that yesterday. You can still spend time with your family. Im asking people to be careful when it comes to travel that may not be necessary. Travel that you can avoid. And when you get together, try to make some limitation to it. Theres been misinterpretation. Ive heard and seen tweets saying fauci says cancel christmas. Nonsense. I have never said that. Youre saying, doc, if you have folks from out of town, wear a mask inside the house. Youre saying take their temperature. Right. They havent quarantined. You dont know what theyve been in contact with. We know that asymptomatic people can spread the virus. You have to be careful. Im not going to be a grinch and tony fauci wont say cancel christmas. But we have a bump here. Were taking car of everybody that was together for thanksgiving. Were saying christmas could be another double whammy for us. Bill the World Health Organization they will go to wuhan, china in january. 12 months later. Arguably, 13 or 14. What do you think of that, doc . They should have done it a lot sooner bill of course. Than this january. The second week, theres eight members of the team that will go to wuhan. They dont think this is a manmade virus. They think it jumped species, which is common with viruses. So theyre going to look at the boomerang bat and look in this wet market and theyre going to try to get the data that the chinese have already accumulated. Theyve been working on this for many, many months. So im wishing them look. 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Santa, santa, youre on mute just wanted to say thanks. Thanks for believing. Bill were now learning Kevin Mccarthy and nancy pelosi are meeting behind close doors about eric swalwell. Debbie dingell out of michigan with me now. How are you doing . Merry christmas to you. I know you miss your man. Its your second christmas without him. I want to send you my very best to you and youre working in washington. We have to get you out of there. Youre with me on that. Yes. We have to get out of here. We cant leave until we get work done. Bill i expect this weekend. Hope that is the case. Hope see. Bill how big of a problem is this swalwell deal for you