saying, they ve had enough. nuisance for retailers. costly. nathaniel pointed out, and they have to figure what to do with it. resell it? discount it? adding friction to the return process. someone like me hates returns because i m lazy, this means i probably won t return anything now. experience, folks. take someone out to dinner. buy them a bat. okay. i actually think this means some will buy less. you know it s going to be a pain to return it then people will buy fewer things. very true. all right. both of you, thank you for us. guess who s back? anderson and andy are back for another new year s eve celebration. join them live from times square starting this saturday night 8:00 p.m. eastern right on cnn. don will join as well from, hopefully, a warmer new orleans.
lies that unraveling when you look at it. is this like the age that lots of people do? is this the world we re living in now? flat out lying about huge parts of his resume saying, oh, i just embellish. everyone overstates, i m embarrassed, but he flat-out lied and silent for a week on this and now is speaking out? i don t think he s finished, by the way. more questioning come up. like the pet charity and so forth and so on. the whole question of him saying, because he s on the record saying that he s never had a problem with sexuality and so forth, that he s a gay man and turns out he was married until just a few years ago and then says this is quiet. you can t put it on your website, talk about it in public speeches and run for public office are and when asked about it, hey, straighten out the timeline if nothing else and run behind a cloak of privacy. he s been invited and remains invited to come on cnn.
you sort of see a domino cascading effect across the country. a few things to think about if fleur a flier. talked to brian kelly, runs the points system and said, look, if you have a really important destination you need to get to, unimportant it takes this, but probably have a plan b. right? the frequent fliers book a second flight as a backup, a plan b, using those. that s not not affordable for using points, if you have it. something to consider, but it s unfortunate, as i said, you would even have to think about that. and i think, also, this puts so much attention back on southwest when it comes to this actual systemic part of this and whether or not this is an issue they can fix, because if you were on a southwest flight, you heard that woman, not seeing her dad for christmas. why would you book a southwest flight again if this is the risk you re taking . by the way, a great point. heard from southwest travelers through different cnn reporters over the weekend who hav
take his time this time around. the circus went on as he was making that decision i m sure left a mark. yeah. i think there might be a little more to unpack on those decisions, especially the last one. that was a big swing in the headlines, that s for sure. carolyn manno, thank you so much for joining us. i m whitney wild. cnn this morning starts right now. until we got here, it was canceled, our 4:20 flight, and they said we had to rebook and the line s like four blocks long. we re just going positive recheck into a hotel, because they said if you go through this line it might be up to new year s before you get a flight. i m still on hold. good morning, everyone. so glad you re with us.
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