in sales. but anyway, this is what he said. all supermarkets challenging cost increases from suppliers where they couldn t tesco was confronting companies it believed it was increasing prices beyond what was necessary. we do try very hard to challenge price hikes, i think, and we have a team who can look at the composition of food costs of food and cost of commodities and work out whether or not these cost increases are legitimate. people will make up their own minds. that s what he said. and as i mentioned, we have simon in macclesfield and nina in launceston. welcome, both of you. simon, good morning. what is your contribution? i simon, good morning. what is your contribution? contribution? i spent most of my career working contribution? i spent most of my career working in contribution? i spent most of my career working in the contribution? i spent most of my career working in the food - career working in the food manufacturing industry as a sort of negotiator. manufactur
all of that fear and anger, all of it just came out that moment. and i got myself together and january 7th everything was different, nothing was the same. at least not for us. i was born in a communist country. i spent my career working in or around countries where people struggle, risk their lives for democracy, for the chance to enjoy the rule of law. i think the demons are always out there, and if we don t do everything in our power every single day to defend the system that we take for granted, then we can still lose it.
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today. ali vitali is here and annie carney is back. donna edwards is here. and with me on set for the hour, alicia menendez. donna edwards i start with you because you have served with speaker pelosi, what are your thoughts today? it was so moving to hear her today and also hear her talk about the expanse of her legislative career working in concert, working with three presidents, bush, obama, and, of course, president biden, on legislative agenda that was important to the american people. so when i listen to her today, she was a mentor of mine. i served on her leadership team. i learned so much from her in the way that she was able to understand the democratic caucus and to speak to the needs of the american people. and while it s a, you know,
who is perla, and what exactly is her role here? reporter: we learned her full name is perla huerta. she was instrumental if you remember a few weeks ago into luring migrants to board one of sevt flights from san antonio, texas, to martha s vineyard. all of this was done without really the knowledge of texas officials it. was quite controversial at the time, but all of the migrants involved when they landed on martha s vinyard and they really had no idea where they were going to be ending up, they all talked about a woman named perla. we have been able to figure out that this is perla huerta. what we ve been able to gather so far, she has been discharged from the u.s. army back in august where she had a more than 20-year career working in a counterintelligence unit and served several tours in iraq and afgha afghanistan. we spoke with another migrant who apparently worked closely with perla huerta to attract