kevin: new hour of fox news live on the ground in new york city, palestinian protestors are rallying against the genocide in gaza. and welcome in, everybody. i m kevin corke. happy thanksgiving to you and yours, and especially to you, molly line. molly: thank you, kevin, i m molly line. great to be with you. a handsful of protestors disrupted today s thanksgiving parade. you can see them attempting to block the route in the big apple. fear not, bluey, sponge bob, they made it through. alexis mcadams is new york city, she got to watch the big parade. alexis, to you. we saw big crowds out here trying to catch a glimpse of that beautiful parade, all of those beautiful floats and creativity going by along with the marching bands as everybody was waiting to experience the macy s thanksgiving day parade, but that was not all that came with the parade. lots of protestors behind me, lining the route and now they have continued throughout the day. hundreds of people showing su
2021 was devastating from a profit standpoint because the ingredients and the package and the prices were going up quickly. and our prices had already been set for the year. so we got behind in it was a difficult year. in 2022, we raised our prices between 12% to 18%. this year has been better from a profit standpoint, but we definitely have had to increase pricing to be able to absorb inflation. we ve had the same problem with labor shortages. carley: larry, real quickly are you worried about the rail strike looming and happened december 9th because i know you had supply chain issues? i am worried about it but even though we don t have rail delivery to our plants, the sugar that we use comes across the country on rail. so we ve been warned by the sugar suppliers if there is a strike we can expect disruptions in our sugar prices and that is our number one ingredients. carley: absolutely.
and at that point seeing if we got the results that we needed then a new incoming president can decide if that s something to expand, something to contract, something to continue as is. congressman, let me ask you, at a time when the heads of the fbi and the director of national intelligence agreeing with the cia assessment that russia interfered in the u.s. election in part to help donald trump, why would this be a time to consider lifting sanctions? well, victor, as i said, i was meeting with a lot of businesses and they tend to look at things from a profit standpoint. one of the things that we also discuss is, look, the big issues still are going to be crimea, syria and ukraine and the president has to deal with that. where businesses can play a role with or without sanctions is just being a good conduit for relationships and communications. many of these business have been there for 20, 30, 40 years. caterpillar tractor has been in