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Market analysis firm showing liquor shortages at about 11%. and in november consumers paid nearly 1% more for drinks than a year earlier according to the labor d.. so when will things improve, and what do bar owners do in the meantime? joining us now is jon taffer, host of " bar rescue." and if you havent seen this on the paramount network, ive got to tell you, its a lot of fun because you put some energy into this, and you know how to run a business, run a bar, run a restaurant. thanks for join...

>> reporter: of course, thats not what we heard just before the 2020 election. >> im going to shut down the virus! ill shut down the virus, not the economy. im not going to shut down the country, i by -- but i am going to shut down the virus. >> reporter: earlier this week the u.s. recorded over one million new covid cases in a single day, shattering the previous record. it comes amid a testing shortage nationwide. the white house has signed two contracts with industry to boost the number of tes...

Those javelins they so badly know. greg, well come back to you shortly, thanks. gillian: well, inflation hit a 40-year high this week, the labor d. is reporting that consumer prices jumped 7.9% during just the month of february. marking the sharpest spike since 1982, and according to economic analysts signaling that even higher prices are still to come. the biden administration is now pinning the blame on vladimir putin. >> reporter: the presidents statement blames the putin price hikes. are you...

Market analysis firm showing liquor shortages at about 11%. and in november consumers paid nearly 1% more for drinks than a year earlier according to the labor d.. so when will things improve, and what do bar owners do in the meantime? joining us now is jon taffer, host of " bar rescue." and if you havent seen this on the paramount network, ive got to tell you, its a lot of fun because you put some energy into this, and you know how to run a business, run a bar, run a restaurant. thanks for join...

Theyre also our consignors and our customers, that our cooperative effort with them is out of compliance with the fair labor standards act. we disagree, jenna. we feel that we are in compliance, and the law is on our side. jenna: its interesting. we reached out to the labor d. because we were hoping to learn more about the law. the argument is that if you wanted to volunteer for a nonprofit, that would be one thing, but for a for-profit company, you have to get a wage. you cant go in and volunte...

He would feel the need to appoint someone beyond blemish. jon: and then theres senator max baucus, he doesnt like the idea of a potential counsel atil counsel, but isnt he one of those who wrote to the irs and urged them to start investigating some of these conservative groups? >> with he certainly was. he asked the irs to look into conservative groups. he didnt ask them to look into conservative groups at the expense of looking at anything else or only target them specifically, but maybe that w...

From the labor d., and the number of americans filing for first-time unemployment rising to 372,000 in the last week of 2012. one number we try to look at is 375, 350,000, below those numbers is what youd like to see to see some longer-term job growth. its something that were kind of bouncing in between, so were going to continue to watch this number. adp, a company that prints paychecks, released their monthly report suggesting it actually went up in december, so thats a good sign. again, one r...

Food and commercial workers union, in essence arguing the group is trying to organize a stealth effort at unionizing the retail chains -- gregg: giles, that was a huge -- james, that was a huge legal concession you got out of the pastor there. a lot of these groups including our walmart claim, no, no, no, we dont have anything to do with the union, the united food and commercial workers union even though they register with the labor d. as an affiliate of them. so, i mean, this would normally hav...