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Bob Casey Jr.: “We've never seen the kind of profits in corporate America…”

Featuring: Bob Casey Jr., Democratic | Former U.S. Senate, Pennsylvania

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Morning Joe MSNBC Senator Casey addresses corporate price gouging in food and groceries

Published | Video Starts at 03:09

Well, it's not, it's really not at the grocery store level. This is at the corporate level. Willie, they've been making record profits. We've never seen the kind of profits in corporate America the last couple of years. And when they're doing that, they're bragging about increasing prices. So my point is that we should give the federal government the power to investigate, just, just run of the mill price gouging and give, give the people an opportunity to fight back against them. (03:09–03:13)

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