i think it is organized. you see the activity online. stolen stuff is only as your ability to fence it. will law enforcement make a concerted effort to interdict this stuff? are they going to go at some of these forums, the social media forums and markets to try to get some of the stuff back? bill: paul mauro talking with us yesterday reacting to america s recent surge in retail theft. major retailers now detailing just how much it is affecting them. target says theft costs the company $4 hundred million in profits last year alone. the national retail federation says robberies were $1 hundred billion problem in 2021. charles payne host of making money on fox business at 2:00 eastern. check him out now with us. good morning to you, charles. you are a ceo running the companies trying to turn a profit. what to do? let me tell you how
the areas around these cities, the suburban areas, so-called soccer moms, they want to go into the city to go a restaurant and go shopping and take kids to a show. there is a feeling. i see it in new york and other cities. they don t want to go. we are getting to the point where there is a received wisdom we have written off our cities. the jewels in the crown. the centers of culture and commerce and the draw for immigrants traditionally. how is it we can write them off? that s where we are. dana: let me ask you two questions. is this gang activity or cartel organized? and also, what do they do with the merchandise? i think it is organized and i don t have to go very far out on a limb on that. you see the activity online, okay? stolen stuff is only as your ability to fence it. after 2020s summer of love when i think a lot of these groups again, right in the article and i should mention i have never had an article blow up the way
china? the same true on the pence issue. would you have done what pence did, there will be interplay on that. and i think ron desantis i mean, this is the trap they are going to set for ron desantis and others. when ron desantis tries to and nikki haley and tim scott, when they try to like fence it, right, when they don t really want to make a decision or thread a needle, then that s what chris christie and others and asa hutchinson who is a skilled prosecutor will filet them on the stage. i hear you. it ain t complicated. election wasn t stolen. it s not rigged, right? you should be able to say that outloud. on the debate stage it s going to get complicated, not to take scott s sides, but i am tired of you guys jumping up on my guy. i hired an attorney. thank you. he is pretty good. he has a decent win/loss record. he has a future in american politics. i am going to another great lawyer at the table.
something wrong or didn t do anything to stop the mob on that day doesn t mean that s criminal. he was saying nit a way of defending him, but he did suggest that donald trump should have done something on that day. then he backed off that, and his campaign, the trump people attacked him for it. they put out a truncated clip, believe it or not, and the desantis people pushed back saying, here s the whole clip. he was defending trump, et cetera. does it surprise you? so it s weird. the reason i say that, jake, is because a lot of republicans are trying to walk that fine line, of being critical of donald trump but not alienating his base. they re finding themselves having to contort into pretzels to do that. there aren t many outside of chris christie and asa hutchinson who have been firmly against the alaskas of donald trump. when ron desantis tries to fence it, you see that he has trouble doing that. nikki haley has the same problem doing that. many get in trouble when they do that. r
expect people to fence it. despite that, local councillors are saying that, local councillors are saying that this tragic accident has forced them to think about improving safety in the area. i ve heard some suggestions from the community even to have a fence over it, and enough signage, absolutely, and maybe a couple of cameras as well to protect the area. we are going to have a meeting about this situation and try to push the council to take measures for that. i have to tell you that i have been down here since monday, after the tragic events unfolded. at that time, there was one single bunch of flowers that was laid on the tree behind me. now, as you can see, there is a carpet of flowers. there are soft toys, balloons, and it s the messages. when you read the messages to the families who have