dagen: right. it's the front page of the new york post today by the way, how there's outrage because congressional staffers, up to two workers in every congressman's office can now get the shot before most americans, before your grandmother, your grandfather, your mother, your father, even somebody who is battling, say, cancer. so that makes no sense. tell us about the importance of telemedicine, it's become very popular during covid-19. even in terms of -- particularly mental health. does it -- what's the future look like beyond the pandemic? >> yeah, i think it's safe to say, telemedicine, telehealth, whatever we used to call it, really it exploded in the pandemic. i mean, it proved to us in the healthcare industry and consumers and the doubters out there that you could provide really excellent healthcare, obviously it's not -- it doesn't work in every episode. there needs to be face-to-face in-person visits, but it just shows that you can provide great care. our privia physicians transformed the

dagen, you? >> dagen: well, my mom, but i would love to hear from him about anything he had to say. >> jesse: all right. geraldo? >> some of the great people that have helped heal the world, i would rather interview or sit next to the great conqueror napoleon, i think that he would be fascinate fascinating. how he got france back on his feet and conquered all of europe, a big swath of the world, what made him so special, this little guy, and that would have been tremendous organizational skills. >> greg: you are quite the giant, geraldo. >> jesse: perfect segue to you, our little napoleon. would you like to sit next to? >> greg: i wonder why it has to be a bench. but okay. if i could sit on a bench for an hour and talk to anyone history it would have to be adolf hitler because when i sit down next to him, i would immediately kill him! >> dana: problem solved. >> jesse: i didn't think we were going to go in that direction. >> jesse: i don't want to speak to anyone in history, i'm perfectly content

dagen: yeah. steve: this is the best news of the year. i mean, finally the brits are leaving the european union and the answer to your question, dagen, is absolutely yes, this benefits the united states. we want britain to be more like the u.s. they've always been tugged between whether they're going to be more like europe or more like the u.s. here is the outcome i want to see, dagen. i talked to maria about this. she loves this idea as well. so does trum donald trump for tt matter. why don't we have a free trade agreement, with the brits, or let them into nafta. so we really have a united front especially as we move into this new era of conflict with china. dagen: what's the possibility of that, steve, before i move on to tom, what's the possibility of that happening under a biden administration he though? >though?>> you know, i don't kn. i think the big mystery about joe biden is where he is going to stand on trade. i hope he is a free trader. i hope he moves forward with this idea. don't you l

all right, dagen? >> dagen: by the way jesse if you keep snakes in your home, you feed them rats.i not live rats because they bite the snake but you have to buy frozen rats at the store and bought them in the microwave and then feed them the rats. just in case you are interested. >> jesse: you are full of useless trivia information. >> dagen: thank you. and annoying. i would love to have an i elk because it would be so bad to just ride at least once before you kill yourself, ride the elk down the street. >> greg: that's interesting because i also freeze my rats but not to feed the snake. and dana, you grew up in a pharmacy must find a question like the silly. >> dana: while i also feel like i made a total mistake when i set a nondomesticated animal has to be something that could be in your house because i think domesticated animals alsole include horses and cattle so i think i screwed up this entire segment. and you would never believe that i actually grew up on a ranch. what what i like to have. you k

dagen in. >> dagen: yes, i'm a woman and we carry a lot of water. in our bodies. meaning we're constantly bloated. we can lost more than two days. >> greg: interesting. i didn't know that. what about you, dana? you're a woman. >> dana: i didn't know that. now that i know that, i will answer yes, i could survive alone for two days in the woods. probably not the desert. >> greg: the person with you wouldn't though. [laughter] oh! juan, why are you looking at me funny? >> juan: i couldn't grasp that. i guess you think she's a tough customer. >> greg: yeah. >> juan: anyway. well, i tell you this, as a cub scout, i would hope that i remember some things, greg. i hope i regular some things. like for example, how to find true north and get out of there. two days is a long time unless you're near water. dagen is on to something. >> greg: what about you, jesse? you don't seem out doorsy. >> jesse: in the desert, you slice a cactus in half and drink the water. seen that on a dozen cartoons. in the woods, you build a lean-to and trap a bear with a sharp stick. >> greg: my so

dagen. is this going too far and scares you or this is the kind of tech advancement that you're into? >> dagen: i like the dirty dancing version of the song better. number one. number two, i would rather sit next to a robot man on a plane than somebody with frito feet. robots over actual human men on occasion, absolutely. >> jessica: make sure to not mention that to your husband. lawrence, what say you on the dancing robot? >> lawrence: y'all are scaring me. everybody's talking about the robots dancing. what else can robot do? it freaks me out. >> jessica: everything. >> lawrence: exactly. the attack of the robots. caesar without exactly where we're going. humans will be displaced. up next, hilaria baldwin breaking her silence. the wife of alec baldwin telling "the new york times" that she never lied about her background and is being misrepresented by the media. she's also commenting on the now notorious today show segment where she did this. >> very few ingredients. tomatoes. we have, cucum

dagen, let me give you the last word. >> dagen: a lot of the criticism of senator kelly loeffler that i was seeing from the left from people in the media was about her faith and her appearance. they were passing around photos of her home. when all you've got is criticism of the way this woman looks, you have nothing. you have nada. they have nothing on her. >> dana: she went into the debate wanting to make sure raphael warnock was labeled a radical liberal and she did th that. >> dagen: she called him that 14 times. 14 times. i counted. >> dana: all right, coming up, critics call out nancy pelosi for suddenly changing course on the desperately needed covid stimulus bill. ♪ ♪ experience the power of sanctuary at the lincoln wish list sales event. sign and drive off in a new lincoln with zero down, zero due at signing, and a complimentary first month's payment. with zero down, zero due at signing, the only thing a disaster can't destroy is hope. donate now at redcross.org a livcustomizeper iquickbooks for me. okay, you're all set up. thanks! that was my business gi, this one's casua

-oh. ♪ >> dagen: can liberals really say anything? comedian sarah silverman boasting that she and her fellow lefty comics can get away with offensive jokes because of their liberal politics. >> we are liberal so we can say anything, we can say the words that are unsalable, you know i don't mean it so i can say it, there is kind of like liberal [bleep] about it in retrospect, i don't know, it's a weird balance. >> dagen: this is one of those segments were i just want to hear what you have to say, let it rip. >> greg: it boils down to this, she can use the n-word because she's a liberal, she can wear black face because she's a liberal. she's also saying in a way and it's true that liberals have more freedom of speech than other people do because you assume their intentions are in the right place. at her and i were to say the same joke, my intentions would be bad but her intentions would be good so her solution is into that everybody has the same freedom of speech which is all freedom, hers is basically, let's just roll it all back becau

>> dana: hello, everyone, i'm dana perino along with juan williams, jesse watters, greg gutfeld and dagen mcdowell, it's 5:00 in new york city and this is "the five." ♪ covid restrictions crippling small businesses all over the country, many now struggling just to keep their doors open and it comes amid a spike in cases, hospitalizations, and deaths in the country, many states run by democratic governors responded by imposing new lockdowns. new york governor andrew cuomo causing the latest wave of outrage by banning indoor dini dining. florida governor ron desantis taking a much different approach, calling out leaders pushing lockdowns and telling businesses he has their backs. watch this. >> is a close down possible in january? >> some may want to shut you down, we want to pull you up, we've got your back. >> you should be happy because if we don't change the trajectory we are going to go to shut downs and then your business is going to close. >> if you are somebody who is a waitress or a cook or you are a family owned business, you are an important part of our state. you are working f

>> dagen: absolutely. and i hope it lasts four years because that's her mind -- actually it only needs to last two years because that's how long nancy pelosi is going to last in that job. let's remind the voters over and over again that she did at a very bare minimum put her own politics and greed for power above, the well-being of the american people. her calculation was that it would hurt donald trump that she withheld that money. the suffering of the american people be. do you know mr. creosote, medium life, monty python? i would rather watch mr. creosote on a loop than ever look at that woman again. >> jesse: do you think this cripples nancy pelosi? >> geraldo: i think nancy pelosi is a colossal failure and this is one of the worst political moves ever but i have to regret to announce the springboard has done as i expected, they have denied the last minute attempt by trump's allies to overturn the election results in pennsylvania so there will be other lawsuits but remember today's safe harbor day. i t

>> dagen: it's astonishing, what katie said. there was active censorship by big tech, by twitter to basically wipe this story away about hunter biden's laptop, china, you name it. active censorship, it's astonishing and breathtaking. i want to mention quickly, we don't know the details of this case to what marie was talking about. the federal government and i heard this from someone who worked in the justice department, the federal government would never tell hunter biden the full scope of the investigation, ever. and in fact in a subpoena they won't even fill in all the statutes that are involved in the investigation. number one this does go to a biotin administration and a biden justice department so by this investigation now being over with subpoenas involved in the lake and interviews with witnesses potentially, number one, it will force the appointment of a special counsel to potentially, either hunter biden gets charged, special counsel gets appointed to ensure that this investigation is not interfered with, not corrupted

dagen. dagen: this isn't just sour grapes from a political has-been for donald trump and hillary clinton didn't get 50% of the popular vote, we should point that out. it was 48-46% when she lost to donald trump in the electoral college. but this is something that we should all pay attention to because elizabeth warren early last year was talking about abolishing the electoral college. it's very much on the minds of democrats who think they're tired of -- joe biden won, but they're tired of losing. and i just point this out. the wall street journal last year wrote the following. this is the editorial page. the founders designed the electoral college to help ensure that states with diverse preferences could kohere under a single federal government. the electoral college helps check polarization by forcing presidential candidates to campaign in competitive states across the country. as you pointed out, instead of spending all their time trying to motivate turnout in populous, partisan stronghol

>> harris: 30 seconds, dagen? >> dagen: i think in the closing weeks and days toward the runoff you are going to hear that phrase from chuck schumer over and over again. "first we take georgia. then we change america." also, major issue for all gauzens is their guns and the second amendment. you start talking about joe biden's policies, potentially taxing some weapon. gun confiscation. you will hear about that. >> harris: yeah. you heard the vice president tell those people in georgia "friend don't let friends go vote alone." great to see everybody today. i'm going to scoot and start "outnumbered overtime" now. and thank you for watching "outnumbered." >>> we'll begin with a fox news alert. the battle heating up on capitol hill over the hunter biden investigation and the 2020 election. "outnumbered overtime" now. i'm harris faulkner. fox news has obtained a june 2017 correspondence between hunter biden and the chair of a chinese energy company. hunter jo biden in the e-mail offers quote/unquote "best wishes for th

i'm harris faulkner, here today, fox business and kurt dagen mcdowell, katie pavlich, executive director of serve america pac and fox news contributor marie harf. and joining us on the virtual couch in the center seat, one day soon it will be a real couch again, former house oversight committee chairman and fox news contributor trey gowdy, good to see you on this fine friday evening. i'm going to start with you, voting irregularities. you and i have been talking for weeks now about what you look for, what kinds of cases make it to court, what gets taken seriously and what can win. >> trey: to call me and points, harris, we should strive for error-free elections, whether it's fraud or innocent miscalculation or simply negligence, we should strive to have perfect elections. that said, where i look for perfection in our culture is the courtroom. you just mentioned it, witnesses have to testify with a legal obligation to tell the truth and the most powerful tool we have on our culture, the most powerful tool we have his cross-examination. anybody can have a press conference, anybody can make

dagen mcdowell, your reaction? dagen: to be clear, this is just aftermarket armor that this company put on a ferrari, trying to promote i guess its armored car business. that being said, who really needs this? like who needs to have a bulletproof office ferrari. some rich dude who has money to burn, i guess. maria: yeah. i mean, where are you going to park that thing? $625,000. wow. heather: you can park it anywhere if it's bulletproof. maria: okay. that's true. i want to get your take on ikea's latest trend, tiny homes. the swedish furniture store's newest venture is built for sustainability. they're offering small trailer size homes full of solar panels, composting toilets and on demand heater supply. you can move in for just under $50,000. we know how hard it is to put a dresser together. you're going to put the home together, obviously. heather: it's really cute. ikea calling it a perfect pairing because of your furniture. every time you buy something you have to put it together for hours. do you actually have

dagen: right. there's research that shows that's why there's been such a push to open the schools, that children, they are less likely to contract it and even spread it and when they do the results from even having covid aren't as severe and tragic as those of older people, elderly americans and also those individuals with co-morbidities. but there's just so many questions out there about -- one thing that i think everybody needs to know is that particularly if you are in a higher risk group, where do you go to get it? people want to get on a list. you know, if people are eager to get vaccinated, you want to encourage that. i know with my father who is 84, called his cardiologist and the nurse was kind of nasty to him. he was like i just want to make sure like where do i go to get vaccinated when it's available to me and i think that's really something that needs to be coordinated and needs to be happening across the country. if somebody wants to get it, make sure that they -- you know, that you ge

was i right about you when you get behind the wheel, dagen? dagen: i i don't want a driverls car. there are the things in the car -- maria: i didn't think so. dagen: you can use them or not use them like adaptic cruise control but i like driving. maria: yeah. i know. still ahead all eyes on wall street and the federal reserve. the fed is going to be releasing the pandemic-induced mid-cycle capital requirements. that's the ccar stress test, we will find out which banks are the strongest right now, it all start next hour, mornings with maria is live on fox business. ♪ t ♪ fidelity. and now with q4 wrapping up, the north pole has to be feeling the heat. it's okay santa, let's workflow it. workflow it...? -uh-huh. just picture it... with the now platform, we'll have the company you always imagined. efficient, productive, seamless. ok, i'm in. whatever your business is facing... let's workflow it. servicenow. . . . get moving? our new virtual classes were designed for you and millions of seniors like you. you can now choose from thousands of live virtual classes every week. get mov

dagen: right. and these democratic states, it's hard to really know how much money they truly need to administer the vaccine t, to hie additional people, because anything related to federal funding is to cover up for their own -- the left wing mismanagement of fiscal irresponsibility in these very states. so you have to question the money grab. because i have a theory that a lot of this damage that's being done to businesses and livelihoods and economies at the state and local level is they believe, these leaders, these democratic governors and mayors think the federal government's going to come in with more money for them, in the bipartisan kind of framework for the next rescue package, the one that's $908 billion, 160 o 160 billionn that for state and local government, so funding there. i just want to point out, though, that the cdc has already sent $300 million to the states for vaccine planning and everything to do with this vaccine, the vaccine, the doses are paid for, the syringes, the needle

dagen mcdowell, your reaction. jump in here, dagen. dagen: i do think a special counsel will be appointed to make sure that this investigation continues under a biden justice department to make sure it's not buried or just eradicated, number one. number two, the nominee for attorney general to run the biden justice department will now get grilled and then some by republican senators in any confirmation hearing. i wonder if that changes who joe biden picks for the top -- for the attorney general job. maybe it is merrick garland. i talked to somebody who used to work in the justice department and said merrick garland of anybody on the short list seems to be the straightest shooter there. i'll point people back to the devin archer, devin archer, hunter biden's long-time friend and business partner was convicted back in 2018 in the southern district of new york of fraud related to essentially stealing money from a native american tribe. that conviction was overturned but it was h reinstated in octor by a judge. so after that conviction was

dagen: this is what matt tyebi tweeted. increasingly concentrated digital media has reversed the geography of speech controversies. instead of small town school boards, campaigns against books now begin in universities, newsrooms and the offices of companies like amazon and google. google and amazon are the two most powerful corporations in america. and if they want to shut you down and put you out of business, they can and they will. maria: yep. 230, section 230, we're watching that because it is likely going away. these companies will not have this protection, liability protection for the long term in my view. quick break and then we're going inside the paycheck protection program, u.s. small business administrator is here on what's true and not true about the ppp loans. you'll want to hear this. it's next. and then google's top trends, what people were searching for during a year unlike any other. it's making a buzz this morning. you're watching "mornings with maria" live on fox business. this is decision tech. find a st

dagen: right. they've seen, businesses have during the pandemic, what can be accomplished working remotely and working via video conferencing and they're looking at business travel and see a good part of it as a huge waste of money. and when you cut that, it flows right to your bottom line. but this is part of what jon hilsenrath has talked about, the hysteresis in economic terms where it took -- based on jon's dad, who is a doctor, you have a heart attack, you recover from the heart attack. how much muscle damage has been done. it also goes to the restaurant industry. how many jobs are permanently destroyed because of these lockdowns, these shutdowns, and how we've changed our behavior and the way that we'll conduct ourselves. business and personally in the years to come. maria: yeah. how do you feel about that, scott? you're a business guy. are you going to keep up business travel or are you going to change how you approach it? scott: i'm a business guy and i'm a travel guy, maria. i miss it, fra

maria: dagen? dagen: you essentially would need to save your investment, if you are the government for the money already went to the airlines. and they potentially could get more, but this all falls on nancy pelosi getting her act together and charles charles getting the act together about stimulus there are millions of americans unemployment benefits expire the end of this year. what are they doing acting like they might get behind the detail i don't buy. >> it we are waiting on, a return to normalization we are getting weekly jobless claims any minute now expectations call for 775,000 claims, in the last week, we are expecting continuing unemployment claims coming in 5.91 million check markets into this number here, up 30 points dow industrials, nasdaq up 31, s&p higher by one, as we've gone on this morning, we have seen this market improve to cheryl casone has the breaking news right now. cheryl: we do we do first to initial claims we were getting estimate coming in 775, initially claims come in

franken-shirt dagen, what do you think? dagen: this is all the rage. it's basically quilts that are shirts many it'. it's like various pieces of different fabric all sewn together. they're reusing fabric, part of the sustainability trend. for that amount of money? forget about it. maria: steve, what do you think? steve: it looks like something i would sew and i can't sew. so you might call it a modern art jackson pollak, stuff you throw together, call it art and charge 1200. gosh, only in america. dagen: it's british, steve. it's not american, it's british. it's burberry. maria: that's right. that's right. steve: they're getting their revenge against us. like blue jeans that look like they came out of a dumpster and you can charge $500 for them. fashion is -- dagen: i always felt that way about fashion. i always say that about fashion. they're playing a joke on us. maria: all right. quick break and then retired lieutenant general michael flynn is here as the case against him is finally dropped and two weeks after president trump granted him a full pard

maria: dagen? dagen: these dancers are athletes and if you've ever watched break dancing like modern break dancing in the 21st century, they are athletes. it is -- it takes incredible skill and physical strength to do what they do. and that applies to all the olympic sports. jon: i don't diminish their skill or aptitude. when programs like wrestling are being cut all over the country for break dancing, i just -- i'm sorry. i've got no time for that. maria: still ahead, a big you 8:00 a.m. hour is coming up. hear from kyle bass, he will be here to talk china and investing, plus jenna ellis, secretary eugene scalia, it all starts in the mention couple minutes, -- next couple minutes, next hour. "mornings with maria" is live on fox business. s) s) the world loves a hybrid. so do businesses. so, today they're going hybrid with ibm. a hybrid cloud approach lets them use watson ai to modernize without rebuilding, and bring all their partners and customers together in one place. that's why businesses from

maria: dagen mcdowell reaction. dagen: hollywood liberals the gone further than that they aren't just intolerant if you voted for president trump, you've ever had a maga hat on top of your head our nazi a big oft a racist that is where they go they go immediately, do i think though that this loudest voices if you will on social media coming from hollywood, people who really don't have much of a career left. that they spend all their time like deborah messing making fun of kelly loeffler's face on twitter last night mar tina navratilova making fun of love love's face fine and dandy the difference between matthew mcconaughey decade of career ahead of him beloved by people left and center or robert de niro long in tooth had to deage him digitally in "irishman "to stress of i think most upset active on social media are people who don't have careers anymore. >> lee what do you think? >> i think more people need to listen to him bottom line is this joe biden has this message of unity sounds great when you have a democrati

have a great evening dagen: good morning, i'm dagen mcdowell in for maria bartiromo. thursday, december 31st, new year's eve. top stories at 6:00 a.m. eastern. push for more stimulus. time running out for congress to agree on 2,000-dollar checks for members as they try to put the focus on overriding president trump's defense veto. we are on this all morning long. we hear from tennessee congressman chuck and california congressman john garemendi. election issues, senator josh hawley will oppose the results of the presidential election

dagen: good morning, everyone, i'm dagen mcdowell in for maria bartiromo. 6:00 a.m. eastern. mcconnell blocking stand-alone vote on 2,000-dollar checks to americans instead tieing it to separate legislation this is some of the 600-dollar checks are already going out. we are following this all morning long here from pennsylvania guy and brad, the vaccine front

we want to thank the people at fox, yourself, stuart, susan, dagen, for carrying the plight of every day someone on from a restaurant, and you've been behind us all the way. without you we wouldn't have got what we got. you are making it noticeable to the people that vote on these things. not that i really think they care but getting back to the non-taxable and the expense account, that's great if the people were back in the office but you have nine, 10% of every building midtown is only occupied. the other 90 percent are working from home. so if they're going to have those lunches, expense accounts they're not having them midtown manhattan. they're having them in long island, they're having them in queens, westchester, connecticut. it's really, it's a great thing if we get everybody back in the office but if you listen to all of the other channels besides fox all you hear is fear. fear now virus coming from london. now london is shutting down. of course de blasio and schumer, cuomo the three stooges will jump on top of that we haven't seen the worst of it yet. not going to help -- m

. >> dagen: i have a box on top of my refrigerator and that's where i'm heading. that does it for us. "special report" is up next. >> bret: good evening. i am bret baier. breaking tonight, the senate has taken the first steps to override the president's veto of the national defense authorization act. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell singh today the senate will stay on the defensive bill until it's completed one way or another. he also slammed efforts to approve the $2,000 direct payments, stimulus by unanimous consent calling out senators chuck schumer and bernie sanders in a fiery floor speech today. i'll get reaction from the independent senator from vermont, bernie sanders here on the show later tonight. first, correspondent david spunt is in washington also keeping an eye on the senate's end-of-the-year legislative business. good evening, david. >> senators have a lot of work to do but not much time to do it. two major funding bills sitting in limbo tonight and those senators hope to come to an agreement before the new senate is sworn in on sunday. >> le

. >> dana: joining me now is dagen mcdowell, an anchor on fox business. they can come i want to listen to the sound from nancy pelosi. this is when democrats were trying to blame republicans and president trump for starting the bill. watch. >> every single one of these are important to us. we carry these people in our hearts. we should be curing them on our conscience. we are in a full-blown economic and health catastrophe. it's amazing to see the patient's the g.o.p. has for other people suffering. >> dana: let's get your take on how all of this is coming o out. >> this isn't just callous, what the democrats are doing, some of these comments from senator dick durbin, it almost feels like they are running a victory lap. they've broken a thunder by this crisis. it's not callous, it's sadistic. it does she feel tingly on the inside knowing that she basically turned her back on american people, but she won a victory over donald trump for her own political greed and gain because she withheld money from the very people who need it. at the democrats are suppose

i'm jesse watters along with dagen mcdowell, juan williams, sandra smith and greg gutfeld. it's 5:00 in new york city and this is "the five." ♪ president trump releasing a brand-new video statement amid new claims of voter fraud in the 2020 election. watch. >> the constitutional process must be allowed to continue, we are going to defend the honesty of the vote by ensuring that every legal ballot is counted. and that no illegal ballot is counted. >> jesse:

i'm jesse waters with juan williams, dana perino, greg gutfeld and dagen mcdowell. it's 5:00 p.m. in new york city and this is "the five." joe biden has spent the last week dodging tough questions about the federal investigation in to his son, hunter's taxes and foreign business dealings. last night he sat down for a hard-hitting interview and finally addressed the scandal in great detail. just kidding. he went on the late show with stephen colbert. >> people that want to

i'm dagen mcdowell along with jason chaffetz, jessica tarlov, lawrence jones, and lisa boothe. it's 5:00 in new york city. this is "the five." ♪ president trump firing back at joe biden over this criticism of the vaccine rollout. >> the trump administration's plan is falling behind. as i long feared and worn, the effort to distribute and administer the vaccine is not progressing as it should. with only few days left in december liberally

." >> greg: i'm greg gutfeld with jesse watters, dagen mcdowell, geraldo rivera, and a candy cane is her walking stick. dana perino. "the five." it's a long way from the alamo booked an l.a. restaurant owner, angela, called on her city's mayor for shutting down her outdoor business while allowing a hollywood movie crew to set up a similar daily area yards away. >> i'm losing everything. everything i own is being taken away fm

>> dana: hello, everyone, i'm dana perino along with juan williams, jesse watters, greg gutfeld and dagen mcdowell, it's 5:00 in new york city and this is "the five." ♪ covid restrictions crippling small businesses all over the country, many now struggling just to keep their doors open and it comes amid a spike in cases, hospitalizations, and deaths in the country, many states run by democratic governors responded by imposing new lockdowns.

i'm jesse waters with juan williams, dana perino, greg gutfeld and dagen mcdowell. it's 5:00 p.m. in new york city and this is "the five." joe biden has spent the last week dodging tough questions about the federal investigation in to his son, hunter's taxes and foreign business dealings. last night he sat down for a hard-hitting interview and finally addressed the scandal in great detail. just kidding. he went on the late show with stephen colbert. >> people that want to makeay

in the meantime, hello, everyone, i am dana perino with jesse watters, geraldo rivera, dagen mcdowell and greg gutfeld. it's 5:00 in new york city and this is "the five." president trump says america is just days away from the first covid vaccine, also signing an executive order making sure americans will have first priority on any vaccine made inside the country. take a look. >> we are just days away from authorizatio

dagen: goo cheryl: good morning i'm cheryl casone. i'm in for maria bartiromo. it monday, december 28th. your top stories, 7:00 a.m. eastern time. shutdown averted, president trump signs a $900 billion stimulus package into law but not before pressing congress to remove wasteful spending and increase the next round of direct payments. we're following this story all morning long. hear from california congressman-elect darrell issa and tennessee senator marsha blackburn. the mystery in nashville deepens, the christmas day rv explosion coming with a warning before the blast. why the fbi believes one man acted alone as they search for why this happened. taking a look at green on your screen, the dow is up 158, nasdaq up 83, s&p up 25, markets are getting a boost this morning in the premarket by that signed stimulus deal from the president. and a look at last week, the dow, nasdaq up two weeks in a row. the s&p did slip just a little bit. elon musk's christmas eve warning, why the tesla chief says it's impossible for the electric car company to ever go private. then,

david: dagen, thank you very much. happy new year if i don't see you. good morning, everyone, i'm in for stuart varney, and here is the big story today. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell blocking the democrats' quick vote on the $2,000 stimulus checkings. a lot of details to come, we'll explain. but there is good news. treasury secretary steve mnuchin says you could see your $600 relief checks in your account as soon as tonight. we're on it. quick check of the futures, right now all in the green. the dow, the s&p and the nasdaq trading up from modest to about a half percent on the nasdaq. meanwhile, colorado has confirmed now the first case of the new mutant strain of covid from the u.k. now, we've got a doctor who says don't panic about this. he'll explain, that's coming up. and the media just couldn't hide their hatred for the president over the past four years, well, they are back at it again even as he's about to leave. bigtime. we're going to show you their latest meltdown and get some reaction from somebody who is working with president trump

look, i want to say that i'm pretty sure that dagen mcdowell said this on this show, that she thinks that apple should acquire tesla over the years, because she was expecting apple to get into the electric car market. she said this a couple times. when she comes back next week we'll ask her about it. thank you so much for the great word on wall street. nancy, keith, and nicole. when we come back, the state of the restaurant industry, smithfield's ceo, den it in or n is here with a new round of shutdowns and explaining why food workers should get vaccinated. later, amazon's obsession with cloning and. parler's ceo will talk about that. presidential pardons, my interview with george papadopoulos on his pardon and his story about being set up by the fbi, it all starts top of the hour, next hour. plus, the president of goya foods is here, here to talk about the company's major food and mask donations. here with me all important is steve forbes and patrice leon w onwuka. stay with us. ♪ it's the little saint nick. ♪ little saint nick. ♪ just little bob sled. ♪ maria: welcome back.

i was on tv last time with dagen and she was coming for a beer. i'm sorry she won't be able to come anymores because it is closed. two in new york and if it keeps going i will have none. stuart: i got to go joseph. we think you're a good man. we are very sorry to see you and eithers in this predictment. >> by the way, stuart. stuart: yes, sir. >> forgive me interrupting but i do have the jamison's ready for you. stuart: jamison's? i thought it was bush mills? >> jamison. stuart: there is secret joke going on here between him and i. we'll get into later. joseph, you're all right. >> have a great christmas. stuart: i shall. thank you. all right. congress has unveiled a bipartisan stimulus bill. in my opinion i think we're going to get something here. sounds like a compromise. i think it will happen. i will ask senator rick scott what he thinks. >>> first we're seeing more business owners revolt against these draconian lockdowns. watch this. >> we shut down indoor dining. no problem. i have a warehouse full of plexiglass okay? we went outdoors, all r

maria: great show today dagen mcdowell and leigh carter, thank you so much. maria: that will do it for us today. have a wonderful monday. we will be back tomorrow with the ceo of eli lilly. "varney & co." begins right now. take it away, stu. stuart: good morning. let's call this what it is, on american triumph, the day when the pfizer vaccine arrives, a medical triumph, first case to reliable vaccine , 10 months, remarkable. would just a cultural and files kept cold and disturbed it mac 50 states and fast and it's working, 145 hospitals get it today. 600 in the next few days , the first inoculation's will take place today. the credit for all of this, in my opinion, should go to the trump administration. when the president is that there be a vaccine before the end of the year, he was laughed at, here it is in the governor of new york said he had experts investigate the vaccine because he didn't trust the president, here it is, fully approved it when the first trucks rolled out with the vaccine there were rounds of applause and a future from flags he deserves t