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And take out $50,000 or more for security today or retirement tomorrow. get the cash and peace of mind every veteran family deserves. so make the call. harris the port of los angeles looked like a ghost town over the weekend despite joe biden's promise to move cargo around-the-clock in an attempt to clear some of the choke points blocking our supply chain. dozen of cargo ships there and elsewhere waiting for a turn to unload. then containers piling up on the dox. it goes on and on. economists are sounding alarm

About the worries out there, the effect this is going to have on the economy, how it's going to impact holiday shopping. i want the rick newman reality check here. how concerned are you? >> well, i'm planning to buy less this christmas. you know, so let's say we're not going to get everything we want. so just strike a few items off the list and maybe prepare your kids this is not going to be the extravaganza that maybe they were hoping it was. but look, it's going to be a lot better than last christmas. you know, last year we did not have vaccines yet. everybody was stuck inside, and nothing w...

Place, or there is one thing. it's a lot of stuff that's built up. >>, where everyone is sticking their head of the car in the freeway saying why is no one moving their. car why is no one driving. they can't see exactly where the checkpoints are. it's partly because there's just so many choke points. you have a container problem, there aren't enough containers, we've had a container shortage for a. while there's a trucker problem, there's a trucker shortage of 60, 000, truckers it's gotten worse during the pandemic. because we have job openings rail is being backed up. because they can't take ...

About, the nation's ports, the port of long beach and los angeles are choke points as dozens of cargo ships will have to wait weeks at sea before they can dock. and unload their products. national correspondent william la jeunesse is of the port tonight. good evening, william. >> well, bret, basically the pipeline of goods from china to the u.s. consumer is running at the pace of a turtle. right now there are million containers offshore and waiting to be off-loaded and i am told 90% are likely christmas presents. >> i just know that there's a huge demand for truckers right now. so i decided to...

Choke points, so border patrols had a chance. right now, they outnumbered. >> jesse: the perfect symbol of a biden presidency, just the solution staring him in the face but he will not act. next up, if you see hogs roaming around, which i'm sure many of you might, don't expect it to be your friend because chances are you are going to end up on the floor like this guy. you hear that? [laughs] i'm nervous. how about you? >> at the end of it he says "help!" i don't know what he thought he was getting here, pumba, if he thought the thing was going to sing "hakuna matata," but they are not for pett...