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it retailed leaders speaking on the rise in crime, the neiman marcus group ceo has to say about thisiday sale amid rising inflation in the company may be splitting into three, let's take a look back at some of the top newsmakers on boarding with maria on this edition of the week's talkers. >> the union boss of the los angeles police department is wanting people to stay away from los angeles. >> the sad part it is true, if you're coming to los angeles, don't come here, it's true, it's dangerous. >> the child tax credit goes away in one year but they don't really wanted to go away and one year? >> nor will it. democrats have been pretty clear they want to make all the provisions permanent by using one or two years or gimmicks. >> what you see in terms of performance, what is your outlook for the new year? >> we just finished the best nine months of the company's history in terms of profits. the reason for that, we had lower claims than we had expected due to people not going to the doctor or remaining at home. jackie: here's a look at where the markets ended the week. joining me now ch

the ceo of the neiman marcus group with the 20 retail ceos sending a letter to capitol hill.ry stores have been targeted across the country. maria had a chance to speak with him and talk more about this. >> taking some attribute here, i am so sorry to look at these pictures and see what you have been dealing with, what do you think congress can do. >> what we can do is take measures to protect the safety of our customers and associates. as an industry we joined america coalition requesting support so we can take different measures to ensure the safety and allow everyone to shut any environment they don't feel good. jackie: and to. >> house a price for you to see this what incredible brazen lawlessness to have these people smashing windows to steal thing into things. what can even impact has a high view in the business. >> with not seen an impact on the business from those incidents. we are very focused on making sure our employees and associates feel safe in the environment that they are in leaders we travel to supporter teams and were taking any measure that we can to limit

. >> we had lunch at neiman marcus, and we did some shopping at macy's. last-minute. we forgot a few things. tim: others had their shopping list already completed and came out only to see the decorations. >> i always come for the last years. tim: she came with her family. >> last year, we were not out . but this year, very lightly. tim: she says she and her daughter waited in line to see santa. >> what did you give to santa? >> a card. >> she wrote a letter to santa and said what she wanted as a christmas present. tim: shopping was not the only thing on people's minds. after smash and grab robberies happened, safety was also a consideration. law enforcement has been a notable presence this holiday season after smash and grab robberies rocked the area several weeks ago. their presence giving many shoppers we talked to a sense of security. >> it is well lit. this is all remodeled, it is beautiful out, lots of people out. it is a nice day. tim: the other issue top of mind was covid, but despite the threat of omicron, many say it will not ruin their holiday spirit. >> all

. >> we had lunch at neiman marcus, and we did some shopping at macy's. last-minute. we forgot a few things. tim: others had their shopping list already completed and came out only to see the decorations. >> i always come for the last years. tim: she came with her family. >> last year, we were not out . but this year, very lightly. tim: she says she and her daughter waited in line to see santa. >> what did you give to santa? >> a card. >> she wrote a letter to santa and said what she wanted as a christmas present. tim: shopping was not the only thing on people's minds. after smash and grab robberies happened, safety was also a consideration. law enforcement has been a notable presence this holiday season after smash and grab robberies rocked the area several weeks ago. their presence giving many shoppers we talked to a sense of security. >> it is well lit. this is all remodeled, it is beautiful out, lots of people out. it is a nice day. tim: the other issue top of mind was covid, but despite the threat of omicron, many say it will not ruin their holiday spirit. >> all

i'm aware of with my wife and her girlfriends is to go to union square and go have a lunch at neiman marcusshopping. all that one of her girlfriends said i'm not doing it. i'm too afraid to go. is that unusual and how do you deal with something like that. >> now, again, i think the fear is real. i mean, you think of again, all the social anxiety we've all dealt with over the last year and a half or so. and now with recent crime, it makes sense. and i think look, we all have to take certain precautions in our lives and we have to be real with ourselves and with our friends and our family about what we feel comfortable doing and not doing these days. and it's unfortunate, of course. but you know, look, i think i say this all the time to the people that i work i don't think any of us are really playing with a full deck emotionally these days. given everything that we've been through. and i think this you know, crime spree that we're seeing is, of course, very concerning for a number of reasons. but i think it's really important that we all take care of ourselves as best we can. so there's a se

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are they stealing,000 chanel bags from neiman marcus because of covid? >> joe biden said if we spend $2 trillion more dollars it will help with inflation. i don't think the american people believe a word they say. what they understand is what democrats have done which you outlined. this idea we'll get rid of bail for violent criminals is ridiculous. the people of this country get it. that why they did a few weeks ago in virginia, and in waukesha, 1 brave individuals on that jury said we are going to follow the facts, we are going to follow the truth, we'll follow due process, and they did. they will push back the right way and retake their country. judge jeanine: when we talk about ending all this. what else can we tell the american people? they are fed up with this. you are in congress. we have got to keep them some hope and some map to end this. >> we can bring attention to it and bring out the truth. the other thing people hate is the double standard. they have private security all too often. they make sure they are protected from this violent crime.

. >> we had lunch at neiman marcus and did some shopping at macy's. tim: others had the shopping list completed and came out just to see the decorations. she came with her family. >> lecture we were not out because panic was at its peak. tim: she said she and her daughter waited in line to see santa. >> what did you give to santa? >> a card. she wrote a letter to santa and ask what she wanted as a christmas present. >> shopping wasn't the only thing on people's minds. after the smash and grab weeks ago, safety was a consideration. after smash and grab robberies rock to the area several weeks ago, the presence giving many shoppers we talked to a sense of security. >> it is well lit. this is all remodeled. it is beautiful out with lots of people. a really nice day. ; the other issue top of mine was covid. despite omicron, they won't let it ruin their spirit. >> all we have to do is be careful, wear a mask and wash our hands. julian: some good news, an eight-year-old boy got a special visit from santa. >> merry christmas. julian: that is young alexander

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an element of the culture of lawlessness that hasd the smash and grabs at the nordstrom and the neiman marcus the air comports itself. people believe they could do whatever they want and get away with whatever they want. there always bystanders hoping to catch a viral moment which is somewhat disgusting. furthermore, i want to go off of kennedy's point. i don't think it's alcohol that's the problem. harris, you mentioned we are in the middle of a omicron outbreak. with the ceo of southwest saying masks and airplanes don't do that much. filtration systems are great. i'm not saying we need to give up mask on airplanes, although i would love that route. we need to get to point to be honest about it. the arbitrary lifted up and put it back on. you're chewing something or drinking something. up down, up down. you can chew on something slowly. we've got to the point where the rules have been so strict and the flight attendants and force it more than others. people don't know what to do. they don't know if they can breathe on airplanes anymore. it leads to a lot of hostility and a lot of anxiety. we

mile, police were called back to contain large groups of young people who decided to target a neiman marcusnd another separate rat at saks fifth avenue. a day later a university of illinois chicago crime summit concluded these theft rings are now the number one consumer of retailers, in fact the presiden in ceo of the illinois retail a merchants association said stores are now primarily focuse on safety quoting its determining their livelihood, where they're going to locate, whether they're going to locate and their viability, that's how bad this problem has gotten. instead of looking to defend he cities retailers, mayor lightfoot is now blaming them. >> i'm disappointed they're not doing more to take safety and make it a priority. for example there are still retailers that won't institute plans like having security officers in your store, making sure that they've got cameras that are actually operational. locking up their merchandise at night. >> last year lori lightfoot moved to cut $80 million from her police department budget an now those same police officers are being told to cancel th

ainsley: look at the bottom of the screen neiman marcus i was in neiman marcus on long island girl walks and grabs all five pocketbooks. everyone is screaming to stop her. the police weren't able to. they say it's not worth it we are told by the company not to do it. you feel so sorry for the people who own these corporations because they had to buy the merchandise. thousands -- we heard. steve: they are publicly held corporations. that means all of us are stockholders if you have got a 401(k). ainsley: yeah. will: steve, i have to wonder whether or not it's a lack of ability to enforce these crimes or a lack of willingness. as we see d.a.s across this country decline to prosecute. as we see legislators in places like california. minimize crime, not enforce crimes. under $1,000 a theft. not enforced in california. i question whether or not it's a lack of ability but rather a political will. ainsley: some say it's not organized. there are groups of dozens of them they come in all at once. steve: then they put the stuff online, if you are buying a very fancy handbag online from ebay or som

now and i ask this, because when you see a deal like saks fifth avenue, spin off its website, neiman marcusking sure they're locking in valuations at this level. do they know something we don't? trying to make haynow? you mentioned it a little. make sure you take advantage of the valuations while here and use it or lose it. should that tell the rest of us valuations are coming? >> yeah. i think in a core valuation sense of period of time. that said i think we're in a tapering moment end of the year. we have a lot of short-term investors not just in this market but retail now. it's a bit overdone in terms of selling pressure at end of the year so a bit optimistic beginning of next year, although i do think we're in a much more valuation sense of environment i think companies have to have longer-term scale with profitability, durable models not straight up. i referenced the letter stanley drucker said higher they go cheaper they look. no longer that kind of environment. you really have to have a grounding of metrics as a sustainable plan to get to the other side we are high in valuation that