Everyone worries about food prices and who bears the brunt. Theres a lot of evidence that concentration and Food Supply Chains contribute. As a result the federal trade commission have brought cases ranging from investigations into pesticide manufacturers, Food Distribution processing restaurants as well as Grocery Store retailers. Today the panel will focus on potentially anticompetitive conduct and mergers up and down. The Senior Advisor for the fair and competitive market agriculture and the Deputy Assistant the department of justice and the chair of the commission in india and chief of the antitrust division for the attorney general. To get ourselves started, i want to start with this toplevel question. The covid19 pandemic taught us some hard lessons about the importance of resilience in the supply chains and so i would like to start with a broad question of now post pandemic what are your jurisdictions focused on. In the last six months to a year we filed suit against a company t
trump says he will get rid of the popular health care program if elected again, as north carolina becomes the latest state to expand medicaid. that states governor, roy cooper, joins me to discuss. and sashay away, george santos becomes the first member of congress sixfold were the 20 years. with more than half of its republican colleagues voting to give him the boot. you just know tara setmayer will have something to say about that. no jonathan capehart, this is the saturday show. we begin this morning with the israel-hamas war, where the israeli military is intensifying its attacks on southern gaza after a week long pause in fighting came to an end. the idf says within just the last 24 hours, it struck more than 400 targets across the gaza strip with airstrikes, tank fire, and its navy. according to the hamas-run health industry in gaza, that least 200 palestinians have been killed since the fighting resumed. secretary of state antony blinken in dubai yesterday blamed ham
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President trump signing the continuing resolution into law a couple hours ago. In this hour the battle is just getting started. Congressman john geir menddy, democrat of california with us live. Whats his and the democrats price for passage . Well ask him. And he is in california where wildfires in los angeles now expanding to san diego county, getting more and more dangerous. 1000 plus firefighters on the ground right now battling the spreading blazes that threaten some of l. A. s most luxurious hopes. The star of the l. A. Listing, josh flagg is here. One clients home has already burned. He will tell you what they are most worried about when it comes to the wildfires and their real estate. They call this guy the hollywood brand father. Row hand oza, the man with the midas touch. When it comes to introducing new, disruptively Healthy Snack food. Rohan will tell us how the gop tax plan could affect him and other venture capitalists and other entrepreneurs. One hour to the closing bell
Art laffer on what this can be done to correct this. The fda is under fire for its handling of food recalls. What the agency is accused of doing. Were fourdays away from new years eve. New york city is bracing for unprecedented security and record low temperatures. What is being done to prepare for the nations largest celebration. Leah . Lea dow making a turn around this afternoon. Inching closer to 25,000. Gerri willis on the floor of the new york stock exchange. Gerri, what are the traders saying. Lea, were down with the traders and they are optimistic. The dow closed up 27 points. Back and forth all day long, finally ending in the green for the dow. Winners in the dow, visa, mcdonalds, amex, unitedhealth. Variety of industries there, broad improvement across the board. Other news that markets responding to, pending home sales increasing. 2 of a percent, exactly like it sound. Tells you how the Housing Market will be in future weeks. Gaining hovnanian, lennar, pulte group and toll br