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And despite all the supply chain problems and labour shortages, christmas actually turned out to be pretty decent for retailers overall. as for this one, it had its best ever food sales in the week before christmas. supermarkets getting a boost from more dining and drinking at home. consumers were splashing the cash, but will it last? do you think you re going to be reining back on spending now a bit? yes. yeah. we were just talking - about that, weren t we? yeah. we just were, yeah. yeah, got to be careful now. i spent an awful lot on food. so, and we want holidays, so now it s been relaxed, we re going to cut back on the shopping side. that s not what retailers want to hear. the retailers i m talking to are nervous about the impact of inflation on the amount of money that people will have in their pockets, how much tax they need to pay, the inflation that they will see on their energy bills and on some of the goods that they buy, and all of those things could well dampen demand for ....
Our throat. the left row manhattan sized rage and resistance for four straight years. now they want to cancel you for just daring to disagree. and just as we came up for air, a sketchy virus slipped out of the very country we arrogantly misjudged two decades ago when we brought them in to the wto. then they locked us down. shuttered our businesses, and closed our schools. well, they bought the dip and cap at that pointized on the new normal. the permanent pandemic power grab. and after everything, turns out we were right from the very beginning, weren t we? am i being too dramatic? probably. but i do know what i m talking about? of course i do. the american people have been disrespected for far too long and that stops tonight. we will be exposing the counsel scoundrels celebrating the patriots and making sure we are respected. whenever some snob or idiot disrespects us, we will confront them and tell them what s up. ....
For us this morning. hi, nick, we were talking yesterday, weren t we, how it s strategically important that port city is? reporter: that s right, kay. you know, overnight there were some intelligence reports to suggest that there is now a buildup of russian navy in the black sea. the sea, the coastline here it s just beyond those trees where i am. a long beach coastline then leads to the port and harbor her odesa. it s a big port strategically, important, in peace time, goods come and go and it s economically thriving. and the town itself full of cafes and restaurants. i have to say it was quite busy yesterday but they are hunkering down here but isolated intelligence reports that suggest that the russian navy is nearing this coast. that could be a sign that they re planning to invade from the coastline. from the beaches. not far from where we are. ....
They kept this to a degree of privacy in part because of the queen s medical privacy, but the sun newspaper had broken news of that they said, so buckingham palace has confirmed that the longest serving monarch, queen elizabeth ii, did visit the hospital the come the talk is that she was due to go there to visit specialists, but had been kept in for logistical reasons, returning to windsor castle all earlier and that she is said to be in good spirits and remember, of course, we were told, weren t we, that when she cancelled or postponed her visit to northern ireland, she would be there for the centurion of northern ireland. this was purely precautionary, but there is, as he can imagine, a degree of privacy for the monarch. the fbi has confirmed that human remains found in a florida wilderness park are those of brian laundrie the partner of gabby petito, a well known travel blogger, who was found dead in wyoming last month. mr laundrie had been missing for several weeks, after returni ....
Here, i d get everybody in a room, lock the door. what do you need? what do you need? and let s get this thing done. joining me is the secretary of transportation, pete buttigieg. secretary buttigieg, welcome back to meet the press. thanks for having me back. i want to start, obviously, with the issue of the supply chain. you re secretary of transportation. the ports, all of this is under your purview here. the big news you made was trying to establish a 24/7 operation now at as many of our nation s ports as possible. let me ask you, this supply chain issue has been a problem for months. why wait until this week to try that? why weren t we at a 24/7 operation nine months ago, ten months ago, a year ago? i can t speak to a year ago before this administration was in office. i can tell you as soon as the president came in, he issued an executive order i think in february to look at the supply chain from all angles. one of the things we started looking into earlier this year was ....