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Trying to save, trying to watch spending and what we are spending it on. >> expect your breakfast to cost more with brett up 7%, and coffee up 2%. swapping out sweats for work attire? mens clothing is up 3%, shoes are up eight. grabbing lodges more expensive as well up more than 6%. stemming from a surge in demand and shortage of labor and good. still, economists say its not a cause for alarm. at least not yet. >> this time last year, we were dealing with the incredible shock of the pandemic. a ...

Clothing up 3%. shoes up 8%. grabbing lunch is up more than 6%. stemming from a surge in deman and shortage of labor and goods still economists say it is not a cause for alarm. >> this time last year we were dealing with the incredible shock of the pandemic. i think a large part of the reason that prices are rising as rapidly as they are is the economy hasnt rebounded at an exceptional pace. >> reporter: in may gas prices averaged $2.90 up more than a dollar a year ago but compared to 2019 befor...

About what things will be looking like in the future. here is what he told us. >> there was a time when my already slim budget could keep us going for a good week, week and a half between grocery trips, but its getting increasingly difficult to have a full shopping cart. >> and craig, overall, the cpi calculates food prices is up 2%. for airfare, like 24%, a lot of that in the last couple months. for clothing 5.5%. a third of overall inflation. this is a concern for anyone looking for big ticket...

The biden agenda. >> im very honored we all got the chance to speak, listen to each other, and thats really what we have to do. to speak out joe manchin describing his hour-long virtual meeting with black civil rights leaders today about voting rights and senate rules. a constructive conversation, he said, coming days after he reiterated his opposition to a sweeping democratic a proposal to federalize voting rights. speak im very much concerned about our democracy, protecting peoples voting righ...

Manchin is talking about and chuck schumer has operated very differently than the republican previous majority leader mitch mcconnell sure has allowed open debate on a number of bills including a modest rod or infrastructure bill and hate crimes bill combat violence against asian americans and on the bigger ticket items i think progressive senators would say the chamber is not working because its been logjammed on many many issues at this point in terms of lacking a way forward and gun control, ...

Operate in a bipartisan way than ever since ive been here in ten years. the senate is working. >> how much would his fellow senators agree with that assessment that the senate is working? >> manchin is talking about the process and the way that bills come up. chuck schumer has worked differently than mitch mcconnell. schumer allowed open debate in amendments on a number of bills including a modest water infrastructure bill and including a hate crimes bill to combat violence against asian-america...

The filibuster question and around voting rights, thats the big bet. and, you know, any president only has so much political capital. and biden understands as much as he may believe in the institution of the senate, republicans are starting to coalesce around the idea of the midterms and 2024, that they want to run against the left. not even biden so much, but against the left. the more he spends, the more he taxes, the more he feeds into that, hes going to have to make a decision about what he ...

Something. both sides see some gain in that. the filibuster question and around voting rights, thats the big bet. and, you know, any president only has so much political capital. and biden understands as much as he may believe in the institution of the senate, republicans are starting to coalesce around the idea of the midterms and 2024, that they want to run against the left. not even biden so much, but against the left. the more he spends, the more he taxes, the more he feeds into that, hes go...

Be first lady, jill biden. his team is laying out the plan for day one. biden expected to sign roughly a dozen executive orders, undoing some of donald trumps most controversial moves. he will immediately rejoin the paris climate accord, reportedly cancel the keystone pipeline and will reverse the so-called muslim travel ban. and take the first step in his fight against covid -- mandating masks on federal lands and extending the pause of student loan payments. but bidens big ticket items, like t...

Election year, donald trump is campaign on getting out of afghanistan, the taliban, they know that, talking about bringing down troops while they were over there inning thathank. the taliban could sit and wait this out. >> thats a good point, michael. certainly, donald trump has made the case that he wants to extricate the united states from foreign meddling and what he refers to as endless wars. at the same time, i do think afghanistan despite its tremendous importance is a low salient issue fo...