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The countrys retailers had a merry christmas with a big jump in sales. but now that americans have exchanged presents, shaquille brewster tells us theyre back in the stores returning the ones that are not quite what they wanted >> reporter: now comes the multi-billion dollar effort to correct santas mistakes. >> i would say its like 75% to 80% is going to go back. >> reporter: after holiday sales saw their biggest increase in 17 years, up 8.5% compared to 2020, two in every three shoppers are no...

To a country they never lived in and never known. on monday, the hill newspaper reported the senate parliamentarian have gone back to the democrats and ask for further information supporting their argument for including immigration reform in the big bill as of today shes yet to make her ruling. the second highest ranking democrat after chuck schumer, dick durbin of illinois. he told nbc news he is losing sleep, awaiting her decision saying it is the best opportunity we have had in 20 years. and ...

Youre putting a lot of money behind this, as we know, when a lot of time. what has the response been from the president and the white house to these efforts? >> we made our opposition clear to these tariffs to the protegsiprotegs i protectionism. we have done that privately. publicly. but we feel like we got to do more, erica. were launching this, it is a multimillion dollar effort, long-term effort. it is going to be television ads, digital ads, grassroots, town hall meetings, a long-term effor...

What im talking about, would be looking at in the neighborhood of less than $100 billion that the government would pay. but the entire effort would be a trillion dollar effort, which means about $900 billion that other people are gonna have to pay. the insurance, the people. thats what i said. >> sandra: okay. wow, congressman, thank for jumping on with us and also giving us an update. as you said, tyler county is going to be one to watch. thank you for the update. >> you bet. >> sandra: emergen...

Multimillion dollar effort in red states now. and theyre not doing it just by trying to appeal to republican voters to cross over, theyre doing it by sending folks like bernie sanders and first lady, michelle obama to go wake up and mobilize and organize the democratic vote that has been lurking inside red state arizona all these years. in addition to this big new investment in arizona, the clint campaign announced that they will also announce today they will be splitting $1 million in new inves...

Part of the reason they think its worth the while, despite the totally red voting history is because the trump campaign may have taken arizona for granted. now trump himself has done a lot of campaign events in arizona, but events are just events. and according to nbc news this morning there are only five staffers in total in the state of arizona working for the trump campaign there. five staff for that whole state divided between the trump campaign itself and the arizona republican party. one r...

Government regulators say officials have set limits for whoever takes over, a target of $500,000 a year in pay. the chairman of the house financial services committee says its about time. in a statement he writes: the lavish compensation packages, million dollar bonuses that have been given to top executives in these two failed companies are an outrage to those taxpayers whose assistance is the only thing keeping fannie mae and freddie mac afloat. though one analyst and former federal housing of...

May have taken arizona for granted. now trump himself has done a lot of campaign events in arizona, but events are just events. and according to nbc news this morning there are only five staffers in total in the state of arizona working for the trump campaign there. five staff for that whole state divided between the trump campaign itself and the arizona republican party. one republican state operative a former senior staffer tells nbc news about trump, quote, i think hes going to lose arizona. ...

Will the multibillion dollar effort get beyond congress? a florida businessman legally adopted his girlfriend. he is 47. and she is 42. now he is his daughter. why? well, wait until you hear why. and an attempt to protect assets from a wrongful death lawsuits. can he get away with that. the official nfl quaterback joins us, live, to discuss injuries, addiction, recovery, and his plan to help other athletes. it is all ahead unless breaking news changes everything. this is "studio b." but, first f...