and with weather causing havoc, sadly some gifts will not make it to their destinations in time. some of our amazon stuff didn t arrive, so we got to do some last-minute stocking stuffs. reporter: the holiday shopping season began with great expectations, but in november consumer spending rose only .1%. in one survey americans said they are buying nine gifts this season, down from 16 a year ago. unlike past holidays a barbie dream house. reporter: there is no hot christmas toy. and retailers are ready to slash prices. if they had a sneaker store with a 50% off thing, it would be amazing. reporter: while many americans right now are escaping in their christmas winter wonderland, there are also fears of recession and they re also wondering what next year has in store. robert. steve futterman, thank you. tonight pop francis offered the christmas eve mass in the
? it wasn t not relevant to january 6th? meaning there was not a full accounting of that day on the record, congressional wise, and was it the responsibility of congress who actually figured that out, figured out the attempt to disrupt that particular day? i think that it is the responsibility of congress to do that in a bipartisan way in good faith, and if you are going to analyze political violence, of course that was political violence, so you are not going to ignore that. you are going to add it as a larger political context of that you do not look like you are just using it as a political thing. that it was it turned into, it turned into this is a democrat-led committee it s very partisan. all of that stuff didn t mean anything. she practically let it, that is what it is. right, there was a token
i think this world cup has shown that anybody can be anybody on any day. we saw saudi arabia argentina. we saw tony should beat france. i think there are so many examples in this world cup teams who, of groups of teams who traditionally would not be considered contenders, or people who can measure up against some of the best teams in the world who really take, i mean the world cup is such a singular moment, such a singular experience, and players, this is the moment. this is what you dream of when you are a kid. i think that this young team, this team who again, the last time the u. s. played in the world cup all of these guys were kids. i think that they are going to be really ramped up for this and anything can happen. imagine, to your piece, and people should read it in the atlantic, imagine all they had to do is address themselves as athletes. just the burden of sport in and of itself. thank you, both of you, nice to see you. and history is being made in other areas, of course,
black woman as a . when you talk about the context of this, speak to the significance. the context for me is when you look at the congressional black caucus, so many lawmakers there are lawmakers like jim clyburn, who really came of age and came to power in that sort of integration in many cities across the country. they didn t end up speaker. they got close, but not there. i think the fact that hakeem jeffries has been mentored by claiborne. that clyburn still has a lot of influence in the party and will remain in leadership is quite significant. but it is a reflection of the ability of that particular kind of powerbroker and figure in congress. to help be part of that ushering in and part of that decision-making. there is not a hakeem jeffries without all of these other lawmakers that you saw in the congressional black caucus working hard all of those years.
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