2020 that 77 million americans voted for a man who had already shown us the worst side of him and who had already, mika, been pressing his attorney general to arrest his political opponent and his entire family two weeks before the election. 77 million americans voted for him. >> and here we are. >> "the new york times" shows today that the majority of americans, the overwhelming majority of americans believe donald trump has committed serious crimes, and the majority of republicans overwhelming majority of republicans don't care. that's the battle we're fighting. >> it's important to listen to what he says. >> it's a tough political battle. >> and believe him. that does it for us this morning, ana cabrera picks up the coverage right now. right now on "ana cabrera reports," donald trump vowing to

appeal a bombshell court decision out of colorado. the state's supreme court disqualifying trump from colorado's 2024 primary ballot, where this goes next. plus, the candidates trailing trump in the polls rushing to his defense. the impact on the campaign trail. also ahead, breaking point, a new record number of migrant crossings at the southern border passing a record set only two weeks ago. and later, israel's president saying he is ready for another pause in fighting in the war with hamas. could it lead to the release of more hostages. ♪♪ great to have you with us, i'm ana cabrera. it is 10:00 eastern, and this morning lawyers for donald trump are vowing to appeal a bombshell decision from the colorado supreme court. that court disqualifying the former president from the state's ballot in a 4-3 ruling. this is a first of its kind decision in a case brought by some republican voters.

the court says trump engaged in 2021, and that disquafies him on constitutional grounds. the majority writing in part, quote, we do not reach these conclusions lightly. we a mindful of the magnitude weight of the questions now before us. we are likewise mineful of our solemn duty to apply the law without fear or favor and without being swayed by public reaction to the decisions the law mandates we reach. joining us now garrett haake in washington, and here with me, nbc's vaughn hillyard and msnbc legal analyst lisa rubin. garrett, the court has stayed its own decision until january 4th. walk us through this ruling and what it means. >> that's right, and colorado closes that ballot out on january 5th. what this means is that donald trump will stay on this ballot basically unless and until the supreme court acts. and there's every indication including the fact that there are more states with challenges

like this working their way through their court system, that the supreme court is going to have to take this up in some capacity, at least that's what colorado's secretary of state said on msnbc last night. let's listen. >> so whether or not the united states supreme court decides to review the case, whether or not they issue a decision by january 5th, if they do review the case, i believe that they will issue some type of order or be cognizant of the fact that we have an election that is quickly approaching. we're a super tuesday state with a january 5th deadline for ballot certification. >> so legally this might not get really sorted out until super tuesday, but politically we're already seeing the impacts here where even donald trump's campaign rivals have been rushing to his defense arguing that if he's going to be kept from being president again, it should be voters who make that decision, not judges. and it's not just his campaign rivals. it's not just his most

traditional supporters, but we're seeing lots of this from within the republican party rallying to donald trump right now. this decision could be rocket fuel for him politically among gop primary voters here in the short-term, ana. >> vaughn, what are we hearing from trump world? >> for donald trump, he was up on stage, last night in waterloo, iowa, he went and began speaking just about 15 minutes after this decision came down. notably over the course of an hour-long speech, he didn't say a single word about it, instead letting the trump campaign statement do the speaking for him, in which they call this a completely flawed decision tonight, and we will swiftly file an appeal to the u.s. supreme court. we have full confidence that the u.s. supreme court will quickly rule in our favor and finally put an end to those un-american lawsuits. speaker johnson saying every citizen registered to vote should not be denied the right to support our former president and the individual who is a leader in every poll of the republican primary. notably as we saw in the days after the search warrant

execution of mar-a-lago, after each of the four indictments, and now again we have seen a united republican front around donald trump, even chip roy, the conservative member of congress from texas who was out on the campaign trail yesterday for ron desantis coming out with a statement saying that in part, removing trump from the ballot in colorado under this theory spurious, scotus should end this. >> what do you think happens there and how quickly could this move? >> i think this could move incredibly quickly. yesterday i put together a calendar of what trump legal looks like over the next month. that calendar is going to have to be amended today or soon thereafter. >> your list showed like ten different court hearing dates and specific deadlines for motions, et cetera. >> that's right. and now because jenna griswold has a statutory deadline to certify that colorado ballot by january 5th, you should expect

that the supreme court will be asked to intervene at least before january 4th so that they don't have to blow that deadline, and, therefore, reprint ballots, for example, in preparation of super tuesday in the event that the supreme court agrees. i don't think that the supreme court is going to agree, but i think there are a number of off ramps for them short of deciding that a president is not an officer of the united states. one of the things that could be an off-ramp for them is that the clause here prevents someone from holding office, but it doesn't say anything about running for office. it's on that ground that at least one other court, the michigan court of appeals decided that the case brought before them was not ripe right now. why? because as it stands, donald trump is merely a candidate and not actually an office holder. >> you bring up the fact that this is not the first 14th amendment case we've seen. >> certainly not. >> other states have had them and many have been rejected already, these -- this effort to

remove him from the ballot in michigan, which is on appeal, but also in minnesota, also in arizona. is this case different than those? >> yes, because it reached the merits. a lot of those states, like i said, when talking about michigan, they didn't want to engage with the critical question. is someone who was the president of the united states engaged in an insurrection prohibited then from taking office under this constitutional provision? many courts have taken other off-ramps. for example, in arizona, you referred to the arizona court there, the decision there was that the person who brought suit, a fringe presidential candidate, would not suffer a competitive injury from donald trump being on the ballot and, therefore, he had an insufficient injury to be a plaintiff in a case. he didn't have what legal experts would call standing. he wasn't the right plaintiff in that case. so you've got a number of courts making decisions here to eject these 14th amendment cases but not really on the substance of

whether he engaged in an insurrection, certainly not on legally parsing the wording of the 14th amendment itself. >> please standby, thank you for the reporting. joining us now is mario nicholas, an attorney who represented the six colorado voters who brought this case. thanks for joining us. your reaction to the court's decision? >> thanks for having me, our reaction is we think the court made a fantastic decision. they made a well thought through decision. it's over 130 pages just the decision, and i think that we have a very good chance going forward if donald trump does, in fact, decide to appeal. >> this was a 4-3 decision, which we mentioned and that's important because it wasn't unanimous, and these were all judges who were appointed by democratic governors. does that give you pause at all about what the u.s. supreme court, which is 6-3, might do with this? >> it doesn't.

i think it's important note that the judges that did dissent here, two of them dissented on state law grounds, which the u.s. supreme court is not going to review. so really what you're looking at is more of a 4-1, and i think that one of the things you have to look at is how detailed the majority's opinion here is, how much it went into the legal standards that it set out are so well thought through and so well documented that we think we've got a really good chance at the u.s. supreme court. for example, they quoted justice gorsuch, who did remove a presidential candidate from the ballot here in colorado previously about decade ago, a little over a decade ago. so i think when you look at that and you look at the case law, and you look at the history that we have from the time that this was adopted, the 14th amendment was adopted, we have really strong arguments before the u.s.

supreme court. >> one of the dissenting opinions in this ce comes from the chief justice on the colorado supreme court who writes this, my opinion that this is an inadequate cause of action is dictated by the facts of this case, particularly the absence of a criminal conviction for an insurrection related offense. so mario, if trump hasn't been convicted of any insurrection, can he be punished for engaging in an insurrection? >> well, so i have a great deal of respect for chief justice boatwright, but i think he just got this plain wrong, and the reason is because the 14th amendment is not a criminal statute. we're not imposing some sort of criminal punishment on him. it just says he's not eligible to run for office again, and that's what the constitution says. it's a different standard of review. it's not beyond reasonable doubt like in a criminal hearing. in this case we cleared the clear and convincing bar, and further more, the history of the

14th amendment says that that's just wrong. many, many, many confederates were never convicted of a crime but were barred from actually holding office or running for office immediately after the passage of the 14th amendment. the history of the 14th amendment, which i think is important to scotus members, when they look back and they want to go through originalism, and they want to go through textualism and they want to say, well, how did the people who wrote this, how did they act? well, they didn't require convictions. and so i think that's going to be incredibly importa here, and that's why the chief justice got that question wrong. >> one of the key questions here is whether section three of the 14th amendment covers the presidency. initially the district court there in colorado concluded that the presidency is not an office, civil or military under the united states and because of that, the district court had ruled in trump's favor. can you explain why you believe section 3 of the 14th amendment

does apply to donald trump? >> yeah, and this was something that we argued at length before the colorado supreme court. it's parsing words about whether the president is an officer of the united states or an office under the united states, and we think that it was very clear, and we've set this out in our briefing and argued it with the colorado supreme court, and i think they understood it, that it wouldn't make any sense for the president not to be an office of the united states and for the most powerful position in the country to be exempt from the same thing that they were trying to stop people from doing after the civil war. for example, if this reading -- if that reading was right and he wasn't an officer of the united states, jefferson davis could have had president after abraham lincoln. that -- there is no one who drafted the 14th amendment who thought that that would be appropriate. and in this case -- >> just real quick --

>> go ahead. >> no, i didn't mean to interrupt you. i do want ask you before i let you go, this is obviously a legal win for you, but are you worried at all about the political upheaval this will cause? >> look, the way that we look at it is you can't pick and choose what parts of the constitution you abide by. that's the constitution that we live by as americans, and it's a rule of law country. and if we don't have rule of law, then we don't have much of a country. and so that's the important piece to us. i think that's what we have focused on, and certainly think that political upheaval if we abandon the rule of law will be far greater than if we say, hey, we need to make sure that everyone is playing by the rules and that we have a country that is worth defending and a constitution that is worth defending. >> thank you for joining us. back with us now nbc's

vaughn hillyard and lisa rubin. your reaction to what we just heard there from mario? >> i appreciate how sanguine mario is about their chances, and i agree with him that an officer of the united states does include the presidency. that's why -- and in particular, the reasoning of this decision, which is designed to appeal to our supreme court justices right now goes extensively through the text of the provision, the structure of our constitution, and where there are parallels in other places and also the history. what were people talking about when this was ratified on the floor of our congress? what was the attorney general at the time? how did he interpret it? all of that supports mario's interpretation. where i think this potentially breaks down is in those other potential off-ramps. i do think the holding office aspect of it is a potential way for the supreme court to get a get out of jail free card so to speak without having to rule about the insurrection and the facts here, and without having to say that a president is not an officer, which just doesn't

pass official smell test, ana. >> vaughn your thoughts on how this impacts trump strategy and republican voters. >> i think that let's take ron desantis and nikki haley here for a moment. i think there are very real conversations, vivek ramaswamy as well. would they drop out of the presidential race here? and we have to work under the premise of the united states supreme court could very well remove donald trump as a presidential candidate in 2024 here, and the time line of this is what is so key. of course january 15th is the iowa caucus. colorado's primary is march 5th. when you look at some of these deadlines here, january 5th, the statutory deadline to approve the ballot this colorado. february 14th is the day those ballots go out, but let's just take the premise that the supreme court potentially doesn't even make their ruling by march 5th. there's nothing that says they have to do that. they could make a decision that ultimately impacts the general election. at the same time, by march 5th, that's super tuesday. at that point, more than one-third of the delegates will have already been apportioned out, and so if there is any

concern from the supreme court about negating or nullifying the vote of the american electorate, the longer they wait to take up this ruling and potentially kick donald trump off the ballot, the even more heightened state of concern republicans particularly will be around the country about their ability to actually choose the nominee for their party. >> vaughn hillyard, lisa rubin, thank you both so much. when we're back in 60 seconds, new reaction from donald trump's 2024 rivals to the news out of colorado, just as the gop front runner doubles down or triples down on his nazi era migrant blood comments and what he's saying about hitler's manifesto, mein kampf. plus, israel signaling new readiness for another humanitarian pause, what we're learning. and how much would kevin mcallister's grocery haul cost in today's economy? l cost in today's economy h - all on th♪

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we're back with our breaking news. we have new reaction this morning to the colorado supreme court decision kicking donald trump off that state's ballot. his republican competitors facing questions about that ruling on the campaign trail. >> i do not believe donald trump should be prevented from being president of the united states by any court. i think he should be prevent bid being president of the united states by the voters of this country. >> i will beat him fair and square. we don't need to have judges making these decisions. we need voters to make these decisions. the last thing we want is judges telling us who can ask can't be on the ballot. >> i would pledge to withdraw from the colorado gop primary ballot unless trump or every other candidate is able to run. >> it's unfair, they're abusing power 100%. >> let's bring in our political analyst, fernand armani, and former republican congressman from florida, david jolly, great to have both of you with us. congressman, what did you make

of those reactions we just heard from these republican rivals? >> well, look, i think on substance it's an important effort by many of the advocates suggesting donald trump did engage in insurrection. we saw it in front of our own eyes. so they're asking states to remove him. i am skeptical that it holds, though, and i think the politics of this you're seeing reflected in how the republican candidates have handled it, which is in the realm of your exchange with the colorado attorney that pushed for this. can you really remove a candidate without a prior criminal conviction on the question of insurrection? essentially what colorado did is they issued a finding of fact that jack smith and the criminal courts are still ramping up trying to figure out can we actually suggest criminally that donald trump is liable for this. i think that's where the supreme court might begin to penetrate that. more importantly, i think that's kind of where the common sense politics of the republican party landed and you saw that in the candidates say we don't want judges to just be able to declare he can't be a candidate. it's got to be more than what we're seeing now, and i think

you're going to continue to see that from the republican candidates. >> so what about that argument, this message we're hearing from the republican contenders that it's the voters who should decide, not the courts who's on the ballot. what do you think? >> i think despite the rhetoric that you're hearing them say, i think that's probably what they need to say. you can see it in nikki haley's face, ron desantis's face, barely disguised glee at this news by the colorado supreme court, ana. what it does is now gives a lifeline so their candidacies. this was really the only reason, in my judgment, why they are still in the race because numerically, empirically, donald trump in essence clinched the republican nomination long ago. we've never seen these types of margins before, this lead that anyone has had in either pri rare race at this point. it gives nikki haley and ron desantis the ability to say to donors, to others, look, this guy may not be on the ballot. that would be awful, that would be terrible, blah blah blah, but

it makes them viable in a way that it wasn't before. on the other side for democrats this truly is a gift from above, and the reason is i think it now frames the race in the contours, ana, that the democrats cannot lose, and that is making this race a choice between democrats and donald trump and a choice between democracy and potential fascist dictatorship. if that is what the contours of the race do now that the court has said he is an insurrectionist, like congressman jolly said, one that we saw before our very eyes, i don't think the democrats can lose that race, and it's a much stronger case to argue than traditional issues like the economy, health care, immigration, foreign policy. if the rac is about that, the democrats can't lose. >> lo, the only republican candidates who seems to be accepting this court decision is asa hutchinson, formersas governor, he's also a lawy

he said this in a statement, the colorado supreme court's ruling barring donald trump from the presidential ballot is what i raised as a concern in the first presidential debate in milwaukee. the factual finding that he supported by insurrection will haunt his candidacy. congressman, will it haunt his candidacy given, you know, you've seen the polling. donald trump's way ahead in the polls over republican candidates. he's even beating president biden in some of the polls right now. >> sure, sure. i do think to ferdinand's point, it does frame the race in an interesting way. the entire race is going to come down to about 6% of the voters that showed up in 1820 and '22, and said, you know, i may have performed as a republican in the past at the voting booth, this reminds them why they can't go along with trump. i don't think you're going to see republicans say oh, no, he's an insurrectionist. for those persuadable voters, asa hutchinson and i had a sharp exchange on this very question. i thought -- i knew where he was going with it, but i still found

it improbable. i will tell you there's a tiemg question. all of these lawsuits now to try to kick trump off the ballot, may be premature. suppose there's a jack smith conviction, early summer, mid summer on questions of defrauding the united states and now donald trump is convicted. what happens between then and november? maybe then you push to have him disqualified from state ballots. we could have absolute chaos if that is successful, but it could actually prevent donald trump from being successful. >> i also have to wonder if the prosecutors will use as evidence this court ruling that already claims and says as fact that he was responsible for insurrection. ferdinand, you mentioned how this gives democrats this opening, and yet, we're not hearing anything from the biden campaign, the dnc, or president biden himself on this ruling. he didn't take questions this morning as he was boarding air force one. is it the right call to stay silent?

>> you know, it wouldn't be my call, ana. totally candid. i think the biden campaign needs to be more engaged on this issue because, again, this is an issue and this framing of the democrats representing a coalition to defend democracy in this country versus the insurrectionist, fascist authoritarian dictatorship style government that trump would bring to the united states if he's elected. i think you're going to see them engage that in much greater intensity after the new year. i think that's when you're going to see the campaign kick into gear, but there's also to be argued a very smart and wise sense of let's see what happens, let's not get ahead of our skis. let's understand the dynamics because, as you know, the court could surprise the political world and then it's on to who is the other opponent if it's not trump. i don't see that happening, however, i think the court is going to keep trump on the ticket no matter what the considerations are and despite the clear violation of his oath and the 14th amendment with his insurrectionist statements on

january 6th. >> president biden's not talking about this, at least not yet. trump had a rally last night and he didn't talk about the colorado ruling, but he did double down or triple down on his controversial comments about immigrants poisoning the blood of our nation, which some have compared to the language hitler used in his manifesto mein kampf. here's what trump said about that last night. >> they're destroying the blood of our country. that's what they're doing. they're destroying our untry. they don't like it when i said that, and i never read mein kampf. they said, oh, hitler said that much different way. >> congressman, before you react, there was this 1990s article by "vanity fair" where ivana trump is quoted by saying her husband read hitler's speeches and kept them in his bedside cabinet. how do you make sense of what we're hearing? >> i find this chilling, and i think we do a disservice

sometimes by just presenting it in the context of politics. this is a cultural conversation about elevating a person to the white house who is expressing absolute racism. and we need to be careful in using that term, i understand that, particularly in this industry, but he is paraphrasing hitler. in my mind, it's almost worse if he has not read hitler's writings because this suggests it's a true reflection of his ethos. so donald trump has continued to issue racist statements about immigrants poisoning the blood, those from africa and asia, and he says south america, he leaves out central america. it either reflects racism in his heart or a willingness to use racism on the campaign trail to build a coalition. politically we need to crush that, but culturally, the next stage is segregationist southern governors coming back because that's where this goes. it's a dangerous moment for the country. >> got to leave it there, thank you so much, former congressman david jolly and fernand ar man

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these surges.n we this might be the largest surge at the u.s./mexico border. >> we know it's complicated. we know the current system is working. guad venegas thank you for your reporting. secretary mayorkas is back on capitol hill today, even though the senate is preparing to wrap up its work for the year without a deal.t[: but lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are sending hopeful messages that they canh?&÷ get deal in the new year. chris murphy, the lead democratic negotiator saying we areic closer than ever before t an agreement with james lankford, the top republican negotiator noting our commitment is to k done.ne nbc's ali vitali joins us now from capitol hill. the majority and minority leaders also3!y issuing a rare joint statement saying they t st remain committed to addressing the border and approvinshborderh aid and they will not let these national security challenges go but they wanted to get something

done by theth end of this year. if it doesn't happen t now, especially with the record crossings at the border, will it happen at all? >> reporter: well, we know it's not happening this hayear, ana., i think that much is for certain especially as we watch the senate begin the process of leaving town, though you're gh y right, the keyou negotiators ar■ alongside alejandro mayorkas he arrived here on capitol hill just in the last half hour or as much as those conversations ongoing,cmíthe reality is that once we get into january on capitol hill, they'vec6ía got a very lengthy to-do list, and things that have clocks attached the idea of funding the government, there's not just onu deadline now, there's twost deadlines associated with a possible government shutdown, one in mid-january, oneu%in mid-february. we're going to have to see congress ready to go, ready to handle thead appropriations battle. that's app not exactly likely t a battle without bumps in the

road. they already have that laundry list to e do, now tacking on ukraine, israel, taiwan and border funding, it just makes aa already kemessy month that much messier. >> switching gears to this bombshell decision by the lorado supreme court to keepu$et reaction are you getting there on the hill? >> what's about to happen here is we're watching on the campaign trail, even trump's republican rivals coming to hi the same thing is happening here in congress, just a few of the folks we heardgr from, many of them staunch trump allies, people like elise stefanik, lauren boebert saying it's extremeg judicialq#ñg activism. we've even got mike johnson calling it a thinly veiled partisan attack. people we expected to see coming out in defense of the former svm president. what's more jarring is the fact that even people who are no fans of the w former president here capitol hill are coming to his r judicial overreach and they

don't think this is something that should be decided in court. it's something that should be decided by thek >> ali vitali, thanks so much. up next, new signals from israel that they could be looking for a humanitarian pause we're in the region with more on the growing urgency to bring home more hostages. plus, aaa expects airports to be the busiest they have ever been over the christmas and new year's travel period how airports are preparing for one curve ball t hey can't control.

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welcome back. we are watching what's happening at the u.n. this morning, the united nations security council preparing to vote on aggnew resolution to stop the fighting in gaza. this vote comes as several of this vote comes as several of israel's closestl called for a cease fire and as israel's president says the country is ready for a new

humanitarian pause to get more hostages out of gaza and more aid in. and this morning, a new report from the institute of the study of war says israel could be in the final stage of its colleague operation in northern gaza with israel now saying it has destroyed 1,500 hamas tunnels. nbc news foreign correspondent molly hunter has more. >> reporter: overnight as new israeli air strikes pounded the gaza strip, israeli president isaac herzog signaled readiness for a new deal. >> israel is ready for another humanitarian pause. >> reporter: intense discussions aimed at securing another pause in fighting to allow for hostages to be released and more aid to get into gaza are underway this morning. as the u.s. works to free more hostages, it also has new concerns this morning about the ripple effects from the war. america now leading an effort to protect the key red sea shipping

route against threats from the iranian-backed houthi militias based in yemen, the threat so high that shipping companies have already diverted some $35 billion in cargo. while nearlylf 130 hostages remn captive in gaza, the palestinian islamic jihad militant group releasing new video of two israeli hostages, after hamas also released video earlier this week of three elderly hostages talking under duress. the man on the right is 80-year-old yuram metz;ñqhp &h(% >> you don't have confidence in prime minister's netanyahu's efforts? do you think i should have confidence in president netanyahu after what happened the 7th of october. >> reporter: israel says hamas is using the hostages and civilians in gaza as human shields overnight strikesz:o$))q central city, civilians inside the enclave are paying an unbearable price. wrafah, he was in the

hospital injured by an israeli strike when doctors brought him the bodies of his son and daughter aisha. her b1;grandmother, suzanne crad her. her. a says. now one of nearly 20,000 people who have been killed in gaza according to the hamas-controlled gaza health ministry, a grim milestone on day 75. >> that is molly hunter reporting. back here at home, the fbi is investigating what it is describing as a significant number of hoax bomb threats to jewish institutions. according to an email reviewed by nbc q&']u$an 30 of the 56 fbi field offices are investigating thesex8p= threatse by email, and to make the situation even more alarming, the fbi has z:>g that the people behind these threats are likely connected and appear to likely c.s.ected and appear to thankfully so far none of the threats have turned into

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that. it was in the paper this morning. $19.83. >> okay. >> are you here all by yourself? >> it's a classic. that was 8-year-old kevin mccallister in the 1990 christmas movie "home alone," making his famous solo shopping trip after his family forgot him at home had they left for their holiday vacation. but now, 33 years later, fans on tiktok are pointing out that his shopping list would be a lot more expensive. usa today analyzed the cost of kevin's cart at the same chicago grocery store today, and found his bill more than doubled. so, how would kevin do if he headed to the grocery store in the year 2023? robin farzad is here to break it down for us. okay, robin, take us through it. i'm almost afraid to ask, what

would kevin's grocery bill look like today? >> look, you need $2.30 to buy you what a dollar bought you back in 1990. and, yes, we are nostalgic for that era, but it was a very different time, preinternet, credit cards weren't accepted in many places, so $20 right now, you would have closer to $55 or $60 to buy that. we saw huge inflation over the last three years. but over decades this is especially pernicious and it just deteriorates your ability to buy things and you have to have income and gains elsewhere hope to eclipse that so you can maintain some buying power. >> from 19.83 to $54.94 for the basic necessities, milk, oj, bread, mac and cheese, how was -- i guess you look at what people are earning, how has american buying power kept up with inflation through the years then? >> it doesn't -- it has not kept

up, and that's been a bigger story. wages have some made some headway over the last couple of years, but inflation had chunky gains. you're talking about 177% in prices versus about 150% in wages. and that's pretty difficult. this is why investors urge people to save and invest so you can beat inflation. there are hedges against inflation. it hasn't visited usor the longest time. ed to be a bugaboo of the early '80s. we're all feeling it and fresh off the trauma of what kind of true pernicious inflation is. and i can remember when, you know, a two liter bottle of soda was 99 cents and you don't see that anymore. you can buy a loaf of bread for 70 cents. it is quaint to say that. imagine going into a starbucks and getting a 99 cent coffee, that just doesn't happen. >> yno, it is pretty frustrating when you go to the grocery store and need a loaf of bread and you're paying $5t this point. bin, you pointed out there are other parts of the tha maybe don't fit with reality and

"washington post" did analysis of the mccallister family trip and found out it would cost $28,000 in today's money. your reaction to that? >> maybe if mr. callister was working for the chicago mafia or some other side gig going on, because i don't know how you afford that many kids, you know -- there was a rich brother or something in paris, if i remember that was the story, but, still, you know, in some ways air travel has been deflationary since then. you've seen gains, i think, in certain luxuries and other things and you're paying maybe a little less per unit. but, still could an upper middle class family have afforded a trip for 15, 16 kids to paris and a house like that. who could buy a house like that on a middle class income? >> in our dreams. so nice to see you. early christmas and happy new year. that will do it for us today. we're back tomorrow, same time, same place. hope you have a wonderful