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Hi there, I'm C. NBC producer Cameron Costa.

Today on a super-sized squawk pod,

a truly wide-ranging interview with Starbucks founder and interim CEO, Howard Schultz, workers in the unions and in the office.

I have been unsuccessful despite everything I've tried to do to get our people back to work.

You want them back.

I want them back.

I plead him with him.

I said I get on my knees.

I'll do push-ups, whatever you want.

Come back.

And how inflation is hitting consumers

in their gas tanks and in their coffee cups.

When I look at gas prices at six and getting to $7 a gallon,

we are on a collision course with time in terms of how long the American

consumer, American family can continue to spend at the level they are.

Plus what Schultz thinks of his third time in the CEO role and what happens when a well

intentioned leader gets down to business.

Talking the talk and walking walk and sooner or later walking walk you run into reality and reality's a bitch

That big interview and the inflation data rocking the markets food prices are up prices are up, and it's all affecting our future.

Former Senator Heidi Heikamp.

We're not going to have a sustainable climate policy until we have a sustainable and affordable energy policy.

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