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Tremendous. Always underappreciated the military families, the greatest people on earth. Rich edson is live right now in west palm beach, florida. Rich, the president spending time with family today . Yes. A very publicly quiet day for President Trump and first family. Havent seen much of him today. Also a quiet day on twitter for the president. Fairly unusual for him. Though this morning he did tweet out a christmas video message from himself and the first lady. Our fellow americans, melania an...

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I know one of the things you said you have to do with a trucking company is you have to start passing the rising gas prices on to the consumer. how are you doing that? >> actually, with the gas prices being so high, we are at a 40% fuel surcharge meaning on every dollar, were adding $0.40 for transportation. warehouses and middle men do not eat up that cost. that cost is directly passed on to the consumer at the retail locations. >> so thats not good news for you and me and everyone else because...

Gas started really skyrocketing? >> weve increased the fuel surcharge just as every other trucker has to. >> uh-huh. >> frank, who do you think is to blame for the situation now? and what would you like to see happen? >> i think right now, i think oil speculators are anticipating a low supply of oil in their future by summer so theyre raising prices now to try to drive the demand down a little bit. who do i blame? thats a tough question there. i would probably say we need some legislation passed...

But over the long term, it seeps into every one of our employees budget and industry will have to adjust as well. >> have you had to lay off people? >> absolutely. weve cut services and weve taken equipment off line in an effort to reduce our overhead and naturally that leads to layoffs and that just trickles down to all of us. >> i know gas is up like a buck from this time last year. and as i said in the introduction, it could go up to $6 a gallon. its going to change a lot of peoples lives if ...

>> no. he self-edits. lets tell you whats happening on capitol hill today. you know weve been describing these gangs of six. i say gangs plural because a new gang seems to crop up on a daily basis. this is the original one -- wait a minute. thats the new one. lets go back to the original one which was three republicans and three democrat senators, they are under the gun now to come up with a plan by may 2nd specifically because standard & poors came out with that rating from the good s...

information. thats followed by the 30th annual news and documentary emmy with tributes, and the lifetime achievement award for barbara walters from c-span2. >> this week on "q & a" our guest is tracy kidder. his newest book is called "strengthen what remains." . >> tracy kidder, when did you "strength in what remains?" >> well, i think actually -- when i went and heard the story the outlines of it i -- i had met him three years previously and -- deo that is. story, the rough outlines o...

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