the gift that keeps on giving. we ve seen a 33% increase in buying online pick up in store. surveys indicate 82% of shoppers that are going to take advantage of that particular buying method will continue to shop once they get to the store to pick up their items. reporter: in all, online sales are projected to hit $143 billion this season. and on black friday, more than 40% of online purchases were made from smartphones. a great option if you re not up to the crowds. i m ready to leave! too many people. too much stuff going on. we can t concentrate. reporter: some of the biggest discounts this year on items like sports apparel, appliances and big screen tvs, expect to see the larkest discounts on cyber monday around 30% off. all of it enough to send shoppers flocking to the brick and mortar stores for the sales or just for sport.
those and already next weekend returning again. we have back-to-back weekend visits from the president. down here to raise money at an event in miami next weekend. local or state gop annual dinner. a fund-raiser there. all right. christine stapleton from the palm beach post. good luck during those presidential visits. from what they call trump seize ton a record-breaking holiday shopping season with black friday s online sales, revenue skyrocketing to more than $7 billion in total sales throughout the holiday period set to hit a staggering $143 billion. nbc s blaine alexander braved the chaos to speak with some of those who opted to hit the stores. reporter: ready, set, shop. from crowded stores to online clicks, it s beginning to look a lot like a record-setting holiday shopping season. once the floodgates open, it s nonstop, steady. reporter: and for many retailers, online shopping is
letter giving up your freedom of speech. ear stenny hoyer, democratic who criticized her, big supporter of netanyahu came out and said it is unprecedented. it would be a problem for anybody if any american were blocked for a lot of reasons except that america has given israel since 1945 in some fashion or other, whether it is deals or direct assistance or military aid, something along the lines of about $143 billion, about $3 billion in the 2017 fiscal year. only iraq and afghanistan were ahead of israel in 2017, but historically no one is even close to israel as a recipient of american money. last night bernie sanders was on the show and had a view maybe this is the opportunity to rethink whether that s a good return on investment. let s listen to what he said. israel doesn t want members of the united states congress to visit their country to get a firsthand look at what is going on. i have been there many, many
rasheedah came out today and said this is unprecedented. that would be a problem for anybody. if any american were blocked for a lot of reasons, except for america has given israel since 1945 in some fashion or other, whether it s deals or direct assistance or military aid, something along the lines of about $143 billion, about three plus billion last year nor the 2017 fiscal year, only iraq and afghanistan were ahead of israel in 2017. but historically, no one is even close to israel as a recipient of american money. last night bernie sanders was on the show. and had a few that maybe this is the opportunity to rethink whether that s a good return on investment. let s listen to what he said. israel doesn t want members of the united states congress to visit their country to get a first-hand look at what s going on? and i ve been there many, many times. but if he doesn t want members to visit, maybe he can respectfully decline the
those foreign earnings in those foreign countries because companies, they didn t want to pay higher u.s. taxes on them. so the new tax law lowered the rate from 35% to 15.5% for liquid assets and just 8% for hard assets like real estate. in return, the president promised as much as 4 to $5 trillion would be repatriated brought back to the united states because of a lower tax rate, and those companies would be spending that money here. that sounds awesome, right? according to a new analysis from the wall street journal only $143 billion has come back to the u.s. so far since the law took into effect january. the commerce department has a much higher estimate, $464.4 billion repatriated. they are just estimated and they are far, far away from the 4 to $5 trillion that the president promised would flood into the