. >> joining us today, peter ganis, kathy adams, president of the oakland african-america n chamber ofmerce. thank you for joining us. peter, let's start with you. this push to shop local in oakland, why is it so important, especially right now? >> it is very important right now, especially because we are revitalizing our neighborhoods. people are going out, and they are realizing that oakland is a great place to do their shopping. our attractions, culinary, art, and the community got together, especially with the city of oakland . let's create the next couple of weeks of thinking of oakland first, shopping local. a lot of people don't want to go to the big department stores, they want something that really impacts small business owners and oakland is the ideal place to do that. >> i highly agree, i think that oakland is the hidden gem of the bay area. in terms of foot traffic, what are you seeing bringing people in, and what might be keeping people away? >> what is definitely bringing people to oakland are the new stores opening up throughout all the different neighborhoods, but, it i

eric adams and kathy hochol don't have the first clue how to handle this. because to handle it, would be to acknowledge that these policies have failed, would be to acknowledge that these policies don't work. yes, we need to reform our immigration system. yes, we need to deal with the , at minimum, 11.5 million who are here undocumented. yes, we need to have a more merit-based system that deals with our employment shortages, doctors, nurses, engineers, home health aides. we need immigrants in this country. they contribute to our economy. they contribute to our communities. they are good people, but the needs to be a process here and to allow this to continue in perpetuity, as my democratic colleagues have for years, and immediately at the moment you raise the question, it's racist, xenophobic. total nonsense. total nonsense. we are not only dealing with ahumanitarian crisis at the border, we are dealing with human trafficking, women and children being raped, assaulted, sold, fit no pouring into our country killing 70,000 americans. joe biden has been actual

we've seen the outrage from mayor eric adams and governor hafey -- kathy hochul who said they need morese migrants. >> how much do you see this taking the lead from the house when it comes to this border debates given the fact that there have been questions about leadership and how strong it is in the house and if the senate has been so quiet amid all of that turmoil. >> all of these conversations at the moment are happening on both sides of the capital and both chambers but you are right, the senate is taking the lead on this. this is where the deal will be done. you see the senate has strong support and republican leaders for the likes of aid to ukraine which she said time is running out there is no extra pot at the end of the year we can draw down from and we will kneecap our partner in ukraine at the hands of food and if we do not send them funds. the likes of senator mitch mcconnell went on a tour talking to the press about how this builds up u.s. industrial base and means jobs in alabama trying to explain what this money means. that deal will be cut in the senate and this is why y

eric adams may be having his own political problems or no, but when it comes to the migrant crisis, kathy hochul said it's a new york city problem, not a new york state problem. she really let her down, because at the time, the mayor of new york needed all the hope that we can get, frankly, left catherine hochul to hang out. >> i want to go to you first on the heels and heroes, jen, but let me say my heels of 2023. i want to highlight my favorite florida lid starting with congressman matt gaetz. few politicians not named a trump have dished out more self inflicted wounds on the republican party. congressman gaetz forced mccarthy to force -- and then exploited that vulnerability to replace him with a far more radical speaker less than a year later. only time will tell whether gaetz will cost his party the asked majority in 2024. my ultimate heel weighs down -- sunshine state governor ron desantis, once a leg up on other challenges to trump, but 2023 was the ear of desantis stumbled in his race for the white house, whether it was his off-putting demeanor or obsession with anti-wokeness, gov

eric adams may be having his own political problems right now, but when it comes to the migrant crisis, kathy hochul said it's a new york city problem, not a new york state problem, and she really let him down, because it was at a time when the mayor of new york needed all the help he could get, and frankly, kathy let him hang there. >> and when i go you first on the heels and heroes, jen, but let me say my heels of 2023. i want to highlight my favorite florida man, starting with congressman matt gaetz. few politicians, not naming trump, have dished out more self inflicted wounds on the republican party. congressman gaetz forced mccarthy to accept a historically weak speakership, and then exploited that vulnerability to replace him with this far more radical speaker less than a year later. only time will tell whether gaetz will cost his party the house majority in 2024. but my ultimate he'll wears them in his b sunshine state governor ron desantis, once in georgia, leg up another challenge is -- 2023 was the year of desantis stumbling in his race for the white house. whether it was his off pu

kathy rogers and senate energy chair john barrasso leading the charge to get answer some of the barbed of energy giving the agency until december 21st to provide documentation. david: very important report. adam solyndra except it is worse, if these charges are true, preying on older people who can't defend themselves that well and it is four times more expensive than what we got from solyndra. >> headlines are bad and to be clear, i own this stock and so do my clients. this is one of the best solar installation companies out there in the best margins which is why i was attracted in the first place. if in fact there were several dozen people who were misled, you can't really know without having interviewed each of those people. we heard one report from the woman talking about her parents, that is upsetting. solar installations are expensive. they cost anywhere from 8 to $35,000 and what these loan guarantees were supposed to accomplish was to help consumers finance the conversion of their homes to solar or installation of solar to help argument traditional heating and to be perfectly clear they actually can sell excess solar production back to recoup some of that money but it takes time and i