enforcement and intelligence analyst john miller is here with us, with with all the information that police have, namely that she's the last person to be seen with him. he did not leave that room after she left the room for the final time. why isn't she a suspect so far in this case? >> well, she is a suspect. >> but it doesn't mean she's. >> chargeable yet. it seems if we were watching law and order, this would be easy. they do a search warrant at her residence. they find his credit card. they find his phone. right. he's been drugged and is now deceased. but they have a much longer way to go. and i mean, i know this because we had similar cases in new york, one involving a similar suspect who left three men dead in various hotels in queens. we had a more recent spate in bars in manhattan where men were being drugged in drinks and then taken and robbed. so we know the pattern here, but we also know the difficulty of proving these cases because, um, you have to wait for the autopsy

and find out what drugs are in the system. and that's the toxicology, which. >> takes a long time. >> stretch out a couple of more weeks. do they match any drugs found on her person at the time of arrest, or in his home or in her home at the time of the search? um, if you charge her with this case, based on the fact that this may fit with her pattern of criminal activity, will they allow you to bring her prior arrests into court because those cases are disposed of? and that's not what she's on trial for. so it's complicated. but as chief connelly from the kenner pd told us, you know, they are going through all of those things. they obtained a search warrant. they found they found the credit card, the phone. they found a stolen pistol, allegedly. so they're going slowly because they have to to get it right. >> yeah. there's a lot of details and information that you don't always see right up front that the public now knows about and that the police now know about. but so terribly sorry for his family going to do his job and ending up dead in his hotel room. thank you so much, john miller, for being here this morning with us.

>> thanks, sarah. >> a new hour of cnn news central starts right now. >> standing by for the arrival of the king of jordan at the white house. his first chance to respond in person to the president's plan to take ownership of gaza. one person killed, several injured in an airport collision, all caught on video. a plane owned by the motley crue frontman involved in this crash. and then i don't think he's a happy person. i feel for him how the dripping scorn between tech titans and yes, elon musk is one of them could very well reshape the a.i. industry and frankly, the world as we know it. i'm john berman with kate bolduan and sara siner. this is cnn news central. >> we are keeping a close watch on the white house right now.

we're very soon. president trump will be welcoming the king of jordan, a close u.s. ally and one that the that president trump has now threatened, suggesting he would withhold aid if jordan does not get on board with donald trump's plans to take over gaza. >> would you. >> withhold aid. >> to. >> these countries. >> if they don't. >> agree to take in the palestinians? >> yeah, maybe. sure. why not? you mean if they don't agree? if they don't agree, i would i would conceivably withhold aid. yeah. >> as we know, the president says he wants to move millions of palestinians out of gaza into jordan and egypt so that the united states could own gaza and redevelop it. jordan and egypt have resoundingly and continuously rejected that. president trump, though, doubled down on the idea in a new interview overnight. >> beautiful piece of land. would the palestinians? know big money spent? no, they wouldn't.

>> it would not have a right to return, is what the president now says. cnn's alayna treene standing by at the white house for us to start us off this hour. elena, the king of jordan is about to arrive. they've got a lot to discuss. what are you hearing about this? >> that's right. >> i mean, of course. >> kate. >> what he's been saying. >> what the. >> president has been saying. about gaza, and particularly about wanting jordan and egypt and some of the other arab countries to take them in, is going to be at the forefront of that conversation. >> notable that. >> this is also, you know, the king of jordan, king abdullah, is going to be the first arab leader to come to the white house since the president was sworn in. but again, this is really going to be central to those discussions. and i can't emphasize enough you said it, but we have to say it again. both jordan and egypt have said that they flatly rejected this idea of being open to taking in any gazans displaced. they argue that they already have done so and that they are not on board with the president's plan. but despite that, when when the

president was asked about this in the oval office yesterday and said, would you even consider trying to force them to do this and the possibility of withholding aid if they do not? the president said he was open to that idea. so i'm hoping, you know, we are going to learn more details about what the conversation between president donald trump and king abdullah will look like today behind closed doors. that's the thing i need to emphasize as well. their conversation is going to be behind closed doors, so we're not going to have an opportunity to really try and glean anything from what king abdullah is saying. we'll see if that changes. but this will not be similar to that bilateral press conference that the president had last week with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu when he was at the white house. so still standing by for all of these details. but we are set to see the king of jordan arrive to the white house at around 11:30 a.m. kate. >> yeah, and the setup of it, i mean, as you know, but for our viewers to know the fact that it is only behind closed doors, that does suggest how high the stakes are and how careful they want to be and how candid and

tough this conversation may, may, may be between these two leaders is what you can read from that. it's great to see you, elena. much more to come this morning, sara. >> all right. thank you. kate. new this morning. huge questions about a conflict of interest. as the lawyers who spent months defending president trump in various criminal cases now take the helm at the justice department. those top officials have been tasked with leading the so-called weaponization working group, which is supposed to look into and identify prosecutors and fbi agents who investigated january 6th cases. in other words, who did the job they were tasked to do. cnn's evan perez is joining us now. as you're looking into this. what did your reporting find? >> good morning. sara. well, look, i mean, we can call this the department of conflicts, right? or at least the appearance of conflicts. we're talking about some of donald trump's former lawyers, and they've been chosen now to work for key jobs inside the justice department. of course, some of them were intimately involved in

his cases. some of them were representing people who were accused and defendants in the january 6th attack. let's go through them. pamela bondi is the attorney general. she didn't represent trump, but she did file a brief in the case involving the classified documents case as seeking for it to be this for for it to be dismissed back. you know, when she was in the private sector in the 11th circuit appeals court. there's also todd blanche, who is the incoming deputy attorney general. we're expecting his hearing later this week. john sauer, who's going to be the solicitor general or he is nominated for that? and emil bove, who is kind of the center of our story that we published today on cnn.com. he is the acting deputy attorney general. and one of the things we found is that he was intimately involved in helping design and helping some of the legal process that fbi agents used for dozens of cases back when he was a prosecutor in the southern

district of new york. and that was back in 2021. he joined donald trump's legal team in 2022, and now he is helping to oversee this weaponization. he's the one that has been sending memos, trying to get the names of all those 5000 agents and analysts who worked on these cases. there's also ed martin, right. he is the acting dc, u.s. attorney. he actually represented january 6th. defendants before now running the u.s. attorney's office in d.c., which did the bulk of these prosecutions. so we've talked to experts, ethics experts who say, look, maybe they're not violating the the the rules as they are established at the justice department, but the department does contemplate that if you have the appearance of conflict, you should recuse yourself. and that's the big question here. we're we're, of course, waiting to see how these this weaponization working group decides who may have violated some of the policies. but

certainly for emil bove, if you talk to some of his former colleagues, they think he should be under review, not leading some of this review. sara. >> yeah, good luck with that at this point in time. thank you so much, evan perez. appreciate it. john. >> all right. this morning, the new york times has a quote from the dean of the law school at the university of california, berkeley that says, quote, we are in the midst of a constitutional crisis right now. there have been so many unconstitutional and illegal actions in the first 18 days of the trump presidency. we have never seen anything like this. with us now is former federal prosecutor and current defense attorney shan shan. nice to see you this morning. one of the things this gets to is, you know, is birthright citizenship. it's the idea of firing inspectors general, but it's also this judge, this federal judge in rhode island who told the white house, you got to start these payments up again, and now saying, you're not listening to me, you're not doing what i told you you had to do. so what kind of a crisis

does that create? >> for the. >> term constitutional. >> crisis? >> we're hearing so. >> often these days? i think. >> the issue is really. >> it's a test. >> and it. >> has been a test for quite some time with donald trump of how the system works. so if you look at the crisis people are talking about, like jd vance's statements about how the courts have no ability to interfere with the legitimate executive authority, that's sort of a self-serving circular argument. vance's making the important part that even he can't get around is the court's role, which is that's exactly what the courts are doing, is determining if the power being exercised is legitimate or not. so that's happening right now. and that's an important part of the system actually functioning. when we get to the enforcement part, john. yes, that's going to be the critical test there. talk to me more about outright refusal to comply with the court's order. right. >> so so far so far this judge

has said that the white house, you're not doing what i said you had to do. now, there are still several steps along the way here. and this judge isn't moving yet on contempt or whatnot. but what enforcement mechanisms are there well, the contempt is the primary one. >> and then you get into some nitty gritty as to what kind of contempt. so, for example, the old notion of u-haul, the defendants in the court, did they show up? it seems like they're showing up. and then if you say, we're actually going to put someone representative of an agency, let's say we're putting you in the back, will the u.s. marshals do that when they actually are part of doj and answer to doj leadership? then there's the other part of contempt, which is typically fines, that in some ways is not that direct kind of take someone into custody enforcement, but you can levy the fines every day if the government doesn't comply. they just keep stacking up. eventually you get to the question of, you know, how are they going to collect the fines? but in the meantime, they can be levied sort of without somebody actually showing up with

handcuffs. >> yeah, but who even pays the fines? is it doj or is it the private individuals? >> uh, no, it would be the agencies. so for example, if you look in the past when agencies have not been in compliance, judges will levy fines. you know, sometimes, you know, in the millions a day. i mean, there's litigation that went on, i think, for well over a decade or more about the way that the bureau of indian affairs has managed certain tribal issues, and those just kept on being litigated and fines kept piling up with that. so it would be against the agencies, not against individual people. >> it is interesting. ultimately, the taxpayers would pay for the trump administration's decision not to comply with court orders. i want to ask you very quickly about eric adams, the mayor of new york city in the department of justice, leaning on the southern district of new york to drop or suspend the case and the justifications for it aren't there's no case. the law is wrong here. the justifications

seem to be something along the lines of there is a mayoral primary sometime in the not too distant future, and we need eric adams to help us with immigration enforcement. what's the precedence for something like this uh, well, the election angle, you know, kind of smells familiar, right? >> i mean, it's the idea that they used with trump that he was running. anything you do would interfere with his election. that's kind of the analogy there. it doesn't really have any precedent. i mean, trump's cases themselves were precedent making that way. it certainly does not have any kind of basis in precedent with regard to a local official like a mayor. and this idea that, oh, we can't prosecute the person criminally because we need them to help us with our policy. that makes no sense whatsoever from a law enforcement prosecutorial standpoint. i mean, that's the height of sort of transactional morality. >> and what kind of precedent or signal does this send to any

public official facing some kind of federal corruption? small c charges? i mean, what do they have to do if they want to have their case pushed off? >> they need to follow the eric adams playbook, which is it's obvious that they would need to cozy up to president trump and his administration. and that's the way to go. and it really terribly, terribly undermines any sort of trust in doj's independence, not even its independence from the president, but its ability to actually look at criminal cases and decide, is this worthy of being prosecuted? >> it is a new era of alleged in alleged political corruption, one might say. shan wu, thank you very much, kate. >> our democracy is under siege. the message now from five former treasury secretaries about america's financial future. one of them is our guest and one person is dead, several others injured after a private jet

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funds and halt payments for grants, grants and other programs. this also comes as five former treasury secretaries are now speaking out together against president trump's move to overhaul the government and slashed the size of the workforce, including elon musk and his doge team, moving to access a sensitive treasury department payment system that's typically handled by nonpolitical career civil servants. the secretary is writing in part, this we take this, we take the extraordinary step of writing this piece because we are alarmed about the risks of arbitrary and capricious political control of federal payments, which would be unlawful and corrosive to our democracy. joining me right now is one of those former treasury secretary, larry summers, to talk more about this. secretary, thanks for coming in. elon musk and his team having access to this payment system. what does it risk? >> invasions of privacy. they are political appointees. it

appears largely unvetted, untrained and with potential conflicts of interest. it risks, um, breakups of necessary payments for people who depend on them. and it reflects. and it risks, uh, constitutional challenges if they use their authorities as some statements indicate, they intend to. to cut off or stop payments that were mandated by the congress, that the president doesn't have the authority to halt. so it's threatening to people, to livelihoods and to the constitutional democracy that we have. >> just earlier in the show, secretary, i had the former republican governor of new hampshire on chris sununu, and he campaigned against donald trump in the in the campaign

against donald trump. he was for nikki haley. so he says he doesn't like him, but he now says that this does not worry him at all. he actually applauds elon musk's move going into treasury and going into this payment system. let me play this for you. >> do you know how many people have your social security number right now? >> so you're just saying cool. >> i'm saying i don't like it, but that's the society we live in. i mean, it really is, guys. so many people that you don't know that have no security clearance, have all that information. don't be don't. >> fool yourself. you're just okay with it. >> you're okay with. i don't like it. >> access treasury department information. >> i understand that about a million people have access to my social security number right now. and if you don't think that's the case. america. i'm sorry. it just is. >> what the governor is saying is that what's needed is to overhaul the government and get government debt under control. and he likes that elon musk is doing this. what do you think of that? >> i got great respect for governor sununu. and i think there needs to be a lot of

reform. there are a lot of wasteful payments. the government makes the government's computer systems could be modernized and upgraded, but that's no excuse for abandoning the rule of law. that's no excuse for allowing the president to do what the supreme court rejected. when richard nixon did it. in terms of just cutting off payments, that's no excuse for not vetting, uh, the people who are doing it. that's no excuse for politicizing positions that have been held as, uh, nonpolitical positions for the last 75 years. so, uh, look, i, i'm not saying there isn't an objective here that we would all want to pursue, but when we allow, um, a

complete breakdown of what have been traditions for who gets to be appointed, uh, to jobs in terms of politicized people. when we allow things that federal judges are calling direct violations of their orders, something that really didn't happen, uh, appreciably, even under president nixon, who was impeached, then we're in a different place. and so what we need for the country is to find the will to reform, but to do it in ways that, are legal. >> i want to ask you about something else and get your take on president trump's tariff moves. i mean, we now have a 25% tariff on on all steel and aluminum coming in, 10% tariff on chinese goods and tbd on the

eu. they say it's coming. the white house says it's all going to be paid for by other countries. what's the impact tariffs are going to have on all of this? >> think about it. if you buy a hot dog and they put a tax on the hot dog, do you think it's all bought by the you think it's all paid for by the. concessionaire. there is no evidence zero that that is the right way to think about the economics of a tariff. when you put a tax on a good that people buy, they pay more for the good. there's no reason why it would, uh, be eaten by the foreign, uh, producer. and what actually happens often is that not only does the price, uh, go up for

the canadian steel, we import, but the u.s. producer who has to compete with that canadian is also enabled, uh, to raise their price. so you get some higher prices without even there being any government revenue. uh, at all. so this is, you know, economists disagree about virtually everything, but there's essentially no disagreement among economists that this kind of thing is inflationary. and in some cases hurts job creation. i mean, i've got to say, kate, that the steel and aluminum tariffs seem to me to be a particularly odd choice. there are 150,000 people who work between them in the steel and aluminum industries. but if you take cars, if you take construction, if you take packaging, there are 9 or 10 million people who work in

industries that use steel and aluminum, all of which are going to be more expensive and less competitive because of the higher priced input. so even if you judged purely in terms of jobs, we're helping tiny industries smaller actually, than the manicure industry, less than a 10th of all workers in the country. and we're really putting it to some of the largest industries in the united states with higher costs making it harder for them to compete. so this seems to me to be an example of lose, lose economics. >> secretary sommers, thank you for coming in, john. >> all right. this morning, elon musk has a major stake in space travel, social media. and it seems the federal government why he just offered up almost $100 billion to control the future of a.i. and the special insults that came with it.

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>> 11 days ago. and that mexican medical. transport flight crashed. >> into a neighborhood. >> shortly after takeoff. >> now, this crash. >> involving a. 36 year old lear, 35 a, those can be picked up on the used market for about $1 million, but cost a lot to maintain over time, which really raises some questions about the longevity of an aging fleet of these private jets. and maintenance records are something the ntsb always investigates, and the agency has opened a probe into this crash. the chain of events here really started as this flight was arriving from austin on scottsdale's runway two one pretty busy airport, popular for private jets. and we know, according to a statement from the city, that the left landing gear failed on touchdown. the plane apparently veered off the runway out of control and into that parked gulfstream 200 jet. the flight tracking data from ads-b exchange shows this plane was going about 65mph at the time of the collision. so we're talking highway speed. a lot of force. four people on board the learjet. one member of the crew was killed, according to the preliminary report, just out from the faa. another member of

the crew and both passengers seriously injured. and a city spokesperson says all were taken to nearby hospitals. as you noted, the learjet, owned by mötley crüe frontman vince neil, a representative for the singer, says he was not on board at the time of this crash, although investigators really have their work cut out for them. so many incidents we've been covering over the last couple of weeks. >> absolutely. you're absolutely right on that one for sure. great to see you, pete. thank you so much for bringing us that. john. >> new this morning elon musk is leading a group of investors in a bid to buy openai, the parent company of chatgpt. their offer is nearly $100 billion. now he's facing opposition from openai ceo sam altman, who is openly hitting back at the bid and hitting back at musk himself. this is pretty juicy and personal, frankly. cnn's matt egan is here with the latest on this. matt. >> yeah, john. very personal. >> i mean, look, this is a blockbuster. >> takeover offer involving two of. >> the biggest players. in

technology, right? >> elon musk has his. >> own a.i. ambitions. he's got his own massive a.i. startup. and listen. >> sam altman, his. >> company is. >> at. >> the cutting. >> edge of the. >> a.i. revolution. chatgpt is. >> really what opened. everyone's eyes to. >> all of this powerful technology. >> so here are the details. >> on. >> this deal. they're offering. >> $97.4 billion. >> to. >> try to buy openai. this deal is being backed by baron capital x, i hollywood powerbroker ari emanuel. >> and it would give. >> potentially give. >> musk control. >> of openai. >> but the backstory here. >> is key, right? >> musk actually. >> co-founded openai back in 2015, but. >> he has. >> feuded with sam altman ever since then, over openai's plans to convert from a nonprofit to a for profit company. it's kind. of unthinkable that this would even happen, right? i mean, this would be like if my new york mets offered to buy the new york yankees, right? it doesn't

really add up. obviously not something the yankees would be open to. and i think the sam altman kind of responded the way that the yankees might respond, right, with a little bit of shade. he tweeted out, no thank you, but we will buy twitter for $9.74 billion if you want. so cleverly moving the decimal point over to the left there. and listen. also altman was on bloomberg this morning and he was asked about the back and forth here. listen to what he said. >> look openai is not for sale. the openai mission is not for sale. elon tries all sorts of things for a long time. um, this is the, you know, this week's episode. >> do you think musk's approach then is from a position of insecurity about a.i.? >> probably his whole life is from a position of insecurity. i feel for the guy. >> do you feel for him? >> i do actually. i don't think he's like a happy person. i do feel for him. >> his his whole life is from a position of insecurity. i feel for the guy. i don't think he's a happy person. >> yeah. >> listen, this battle is heating up. it's getting very

personal as far as what happens with this deal. cnn's kara swisher said unlikely to have a deal here, for obvious reasons, but that might not really be the ultimate goal here. musk could be trying to throw a wrench in some of openai's fundraising efforts. their effort to convert to a for profit company. but we've got to stay tuned to this, this story, because it's not going away. >> yeah, it's somewhere between trolling and also literally wanting to spike some business interests of openai. >> yeah, there could be some strategic moves here by musk. >> so he's got elon musk, some other issues going on with regulators right now. >> yeah. >> well look, he's at. >> the forefront. >> of this effort to essentially gut the cfpb. remember that's the watchdog brainchild of elizabeth warren. it's going after big banks like wells fargo payday lenders. et cetera. and musk. last week he was on x and he sent out a message saying rest in peace cfpb with a tombstone emoji. and a source told cnn that just hours later, doge, which is led by musk, they went and they deleted cfpb's x

account. they were granted access to cfpb. since then, systems. and since then the acting director of the cfpb has basically told employees at that bureau to stand down from all work, including fighting financial crime, which is literally what they were founded to do here. now, what hasn't really gotten as much attention is that elon musk has some significant business interests at stake. when he bought twitter, his goal was to turn it into an everything app, where eventually people could send money to each other, kind of like they do on venmo. x already has dozens of banking licenses in 41 different states. but meanwhile, he's waging this war on what is the primary federal financial regulator overseeing the payments business. so ethics experts, consumer watchdogs are telling me that there is a glaring conflict of interest here and that musk should really recuse himself from anything to do with the cfpb. we've reached out to musk. haven't heard back.

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usaid remains on very shaky ground as the trump administration is accused of violating a second court order. federal workers telling a judge that usaid employees who were put on leave have not been reinstated, despite a court order to do just that to reinstate them. joining us now is the vice president of the american foreign service association, randy chester. randy, we talked earlier as there was a ton of confusion when this when this rule by donald trump and doge was first put out telling u.s. aid employees to stay home, the vast majority of them, 10,000 or so. so the question to you this morning is, do you know of any usaid employees who has been told to stay home, whether or not they are back at work now? >> so we're all. >> staying home. we are still under a stay at home order to telework, and we are still receiving reports from foreign service officers that have not had their access to systems

restored. and some officers are reporting that despite having their email access restored, they still don't have access to critical accounting software systems, contract management, accounting software systems and voucher repayment systems. so while some most majority of us do have access to emails, a lot of us who who rely on other systems don't have access to those critical systems to do our work. >> so it sounds like some of the critical systems that you mentioned, there are literally how you get funds to places to do the work that you are charged with doing. in your estimation, is donald trump in doge? are they basically just refusing to do what the court has ordered them to do? what the judge has said they must do? >> well, they're doing it slowly. i mean, the the tro was issued on friday and here we are on tuesday and people are still not having full access in order to do their work. and it's not just accounting software. it's also being able to monitor our

activities. we're at home. we're at home overseas. so we can't go out and help our implementing partners through the shutdown process and make sure that everything is being accounted for. the office of inspector general released a report yesterday citing the lack of field presence significantly increased the risk for fraud, waste and abuse. >> i want to ask you about one part of u.s. aid's. service that they provide and the oversight that is there. they have. you guys have a counterterrorism unit that basically vets who is getting a hold of the monies and of the aid to try to keep it out of the hands of terrorist organizations around the world, as you are in places such as afghanistan, yemen, have any has anyone been told that this is just over? like, is anyone working in that realm? >> i'm not aware of who's working where right now, but you

know, with the shutdown notice and with people on administrative leave and not having access to systems, being able to vet ongoing activities or vet partners in the future, or even doing, you know, accounting for and auditing partners. that ability is extremely limited. so we're not necessarily able to be fully accountable to the u.s. taxpayer right now. >> is it a national security threat or a security threat on the ground for some of the aid workers? if some of this money ends up in the wrong hands? >> it very well could be for both the workers and for us as a country. >> all right. so the inspector general has released a report. they released it on friday saying nearly a half $1 billion worth of food aid may now spoil be completely wasted following the decision of donald trump and elon musk's doge agency to make cuts to usaid. is that something that you are aware of? and and

in that case, why is this food being left to spoil? >> well, it's a critical process. humanitarian assistance is a is a months long process. orders are put in for food commodities to farmers in the midwest and farmers around the united states for tonnage of soybeans, corn and other grain products. moving that those commodities takes a significant amount of time. it goes by rail or road to ports where it's put on american flagged carriers and shipped around the world, stopping or interrupting the supply chain prevents future distribution, delays, future distribution. so now all of that food that was in transit has to be warehoused. and during that warehouse process, if proper care isn't taken, then spoilage will happen. and those commodities, those precious goods that are needed overseas will be lost and the taxpayer will lose upwards of $500 million. like you say. >> that is a lot of money. randy

chester, thank you again for for revisiting us. and we will be checking back in with you to see whether or not these court orders are followed and people's jobs are reinstated. they're allowed to go back to work. we will say, thank you so much. appreciate your time this morning, john. >> so this morning you might want to go with flowers this valentine's day because chocolate is getting expensive. i will say a thoughtful reflection or a poem, though completely free. >> erin burnett out front tonight at seven on cnn. >> okay, everyone, our mission is to provide complete, balanced nutrition for strength and energy. >> ensure with 27 vitamins and minerals, nutrients for immune health and. ensure complete with 30g of protein. >> are you sure you tend to exaggerate your attorney 65 soon you should really call and ask them yourself. >> thank you for calling aetna. >> how can i help you? >> do you really have medicare plans that cover dental, vision

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>> for that, this year, $10,000. yeah. and the reason why is because there's been really tough growing conditions in west africa where we get most of our cocoa beans. you either have really dry weather or really wet weather. that is not good. you also have a virus that has been infecting the cocoa trees and manufacturing costs have gone up. manufacturers on average, who use cocoa beans to produce chocolate have seen an increase in the last two years of 167%. that is a huge jump for them. and then retailers are saying they've had to raise prices because of this. you have lindt chocolate saying it's been a challenging year. they've had to raise prices. they expect the same in 2025. hershey's chocolate, though, says they buy a year in advance. so what's on the shelf today is not going to be as expensive as what cocoa prices are trading at. and then you have mondelez international, which owns cadbury toblerone. they are saying that they are just experiencing unprecedented cocoa inflation. one way to get around this you can buy candy

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