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This is happening as opposed to define the Police Department is on. Now this, hundreds of convicted and accused criminals, free from new york to prisons since march, rearrested, hundreds of times. The same thing happening in state like florida, hawaii and california. We are on that story and also with us tonight, janice on that and how the covid19 pandemic and Police Reform, has suddenly turned a harsh spotlight the painfully wrong decisions made by local leaders. They are making many of the most important decisions in the country. Now having farreaching ramifications. While deepening the police, this is not the answer. Also the chairwoman, and the Trump Campaign is now calling cn, sexist. For his personal attack on the Trump Campaign. Legal advisor john ellis plus senator jane with us, Homeland Security on President Trump declaring during the commencement address at west point. We are ending the era of endless wars. Releasing from its presence, thousands of taliban fighters, and lee sultan with us on the nations former top spy chief raising serious questions over the Obama Administration from what critics say is a historic spy and sabotage of the Incoming Trump white house. As new information is coming to light, are now president obama, the questions are now, how he made have put pressure on the Intelligence Community about the russia probe. Thank you for joining us. In the evening at edit source now. Liz thank you for joining us and watching the fox news. President trump planning to roll out his executive order on Police Reform tomorrow. The District Attorney in Atlanta Georgia now says the Police Officers involved in the death of brooks could face felony murder charges after the release of body cam video. The washington with hillary for the latest. Reporter the spring court says they will not review a legal document, that shield police from being sued for misconduct just 48 hours after another Police Officerinvolved shooting for an africanamerican man died in their custody sparking new waves about race around the country. This police but body cam shows an altercation between brooks outside of the wendys parking lot in atlanta minutes, for being shot to death by police after he tried to escape their custody. Brooks is been struggling taking the taser from the officers. It was used on him before the officer then shot him several times in the back. The medical examiner in atlanta ruled brooks at a homicide. The atlanta Little Police chief resigned. And the officer that chuck brooks has been fired. Theyre announcing, changes to the Police Policies today. Of a Police Officer sees another officer using force that which is beyond a reasonable under the circumstances that they are dutybound to intercede and prevent that use of force. Reporter while they wait Law Enforcement reforms for the Police Department, congress and the white house are working on it several reforms. Excited to announce, isnt reforms tomorrow through an executive order. The president give a preview of what is expected this afternoon. This is about law and order, it is about justice also. Pres. Trump and it is about safety. I think we are going to do a goa good job tomorrow. Im beginning to see some things that a lot of people that would not happen. We would be able to get them done. But we will get theme. Theyre working on reform legislation on capitol hill. The putting things like more money for body cameras, for place also making federal funds depended on Police Reporting incidents where use of force result in death. Or serious injury and tomorrow the senate, will host a hearing on use of force and we will hear from police chief, from around the country. Liz thank you hillary so much. The covid19 pandemic, police, process, all of this has suddenly turned harsh National Spotlight on local leaders. They are making important decisions in the country. Now having far reaching ramifications. This is what is now happening. Twentyone people now shot dead in the protest. More than 800 Law Enforcement officials assaulted. Many are injured as well. And also lots of Small Businesses have been slammed and buildings vandalize to bring it look at this. 29 yearold the Police Officer shot in the head in las vegas. And now paralyzed from the neck down. The First Amendment of the constitution says yes, but is does it say yes to this. Look what is happening here. Protest leaders in seattle, nation wide other cities, planning a summer of nation wide action the question is will protesters try to take over other city blocks and other cities like they have in seattle. In seattle mayor says the city blocks there, no police are allowed the protesters is lawful and patriotic. Watch this. Lawfully gathering and expressing First Amendment rights, demanding we do better as a society, and providing true equity for communities of color, is not terrorism. It is patriots it to them. Liz watched this footage of protesters in seattle for any going after a christian preacher. The question is is that patriotism. In bc reporters, before the shut down by a protester after the reporter said what is going on there. Watching this. Reporter since monday, after a week of clashes between the demonstrators and of the police, youve seen essentially the street festival like atmosphere. [inaudible]. Reporter for purpose. Do not say it is a street festival. Dont say that. Board right now, it is not. Liz heres President Trump earlier, watch this. Pres. Trump seattle is big stuff, it is a major city. We have a governors stiff and we have a mayor who said, this will be ups separated by the way these are violent people, these are not people who are nice people. I saw a new Network Today john. I saw what went on, with the hitting in the punching in the beating and all of the other things going on in seattle. In the governor does not do a damn thing about it. And you have a mayor that does not know she was alive. Just talking about shes going be a lovefest. The summer. They will do the job. I will do the job. Speech of joining me now, his political analyst, jono. Great to have you on. These peaceful patriotic princess. She think this is the summer of love. What is your take. Guest and incredibly enough to handle on what is going on pretty cant believe the worst thing in their markets anywhere you have a kid quarters of microsoft, and all of these other major corporations, it is completely been taken over by folks who are beating up individuals late at night pretty them going and try to take videos. And until no, you cannot take any videos here because i dont want anything to go on twitter or any other social media platform. They said the police cannot compare these folks to keep order. What American Cities like this. If this does not exist pretty in my biggest concern here is theres going to be other cities and other less groups are going to say, they can do it in seattle, certainly we can do it here. And this is where we glue as the country. Were no longer a country of law and order. And that is where the problem starts. And it in this there as well. Liz the protester happening at least 80000 criminals according to the ucla, 80000, now released from prison due to covid19. The fears in the prison system. 250 convicted accused criminals freed. That was since march of the been rearrested 450 times. For crimes. Step to your point, reports are coming in, protesters in seattle are spreading to the Police Precinct in the western part of seattle predict their calling themselves capitol hill organized protest. Juno, one of the persons, the police institue seattle accent does anybody here know what happened to the people who did not get on board with the french revolution. Shot for crowded spotted. Thats the message we are sending. What is your take on that. Guest these individuals obviously need police control. Theres been over 12000 the complaints to the Police Department for that not doing anything about it. In the citizens in the city, although it is a very liberal city, people really fed up with this. There truly fed up and as they should be and i think this is the point for President Trump as he says if they dont take anything about it than he wanted to. We need to see without action plan looks like. Because the federal government has to step in. Because they elected officials there, completely totally lost that. Liz the moderate voice, the most powerful voice in america. They have had and they are done with it. The pandemic, is basically been dealt with by the local leaders and how the protesters and writing has been dealt with. We understand, the Grassroots Movement for reform. That is duly noted of course do it. But they have pushed to defund is coming as nationwide only represents 4 percent of spinning. House minority leader Kevin Mccarthy says do we train and dont defend the police pretty what is your reaction to what is going on. We are looking at philadelphia. Thirty atms blown up with explosives in philadelphia. Cocktails shown at the new york city Police Officers. And in other states nationwide your reaction. Guest i think, i read a piece that came out of the New York Post yesterday. Saying we need to fund the Police Credit i had interactions with Law Enforcement pretty some positive, up a lot positive, overwhelming positive. And ive also had negative were they probably find me for 2 miles and then pull me over. And they wondered how i can afford the car is driving in. First they put me back in the squad car company. Ive had negative experience is that another place is not beyond reform. It should not be defunded. I think it is really ridiculous and stupid. I think about my hometown on chicago may 31st were there was the most murders in one day in 60 years. We dont know how far back it actually goes because they only have six years worth of records. On the same day, the city of chicago had 65000 calls to the 911 center. 50000 calls more than they usually have. Usually about 15000. We are at a fever pitch right now. And as a country, we all need to come together. We have to unite and certainly, we need to reform the police. Not to defund it. It. Liz great to see you. Its great to have you on. Guest thank you. Liz coming up, the nations former chief now raising questions of the Obama Administration for what critics say is historic find and sabotage of the Incoming Trump administration. We have new information coming to light. 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I think you can make the argument for unmasking at other times but to unmask during this transition period, to me, is another level and really shows how the beginning of the excuse of why Hillary Clinton lost, how this was developed, they were so shocked that donald trump won, that it must have not have been because the American People just really chose donald trump but because of some other thing. And remember, we had 67 democrats refuse to come to the inauguration. Elizabeth lets welcome republican lee zeldin of new york. Great to have you on, congressman. Former house i impeachment memb. Food to be here. Elizabeth media leaks seven times greater when President Trump took over than under president george w. And under obama. So were talking like a leak a day. So that is he is talking about, media leaks there. Do you think, do you agree with Richard Grenell, that the Obama Administration both spied on and tried to sabotage the Trump White House . Youre certainly seeing through that fisa warrants which ended up getting extended, that process was flawed. We saw a lot of abuse as Ambassador Grenell was just pointing out during the transition, not just with the unmasking but then the leaking of classified information about those calls to the Washington Post. Then as you just pointed out, over the course of the first several months of the Trump Administration you have these leaks coming out and what was a greatly unfortunate, was that you have these major Media Outlets basing their stories off anonymous stories, often times those Anonymous Sources proved to be inaccurate, however once you get two or three years down the road and, whether it is ig horowitzs report comes out or the good work of declassification from acting dni grenell or current dni in ratcliff and other aspects were getting more facts, like, for example, that the nunes memo is accurate, not the schiff memo, you on fox business and fox will put out the rest of the story but unfor the senately these major outlets, whether it is other networks, of course newspapers, theyre not taking the time to correct the record after spending years dumping down their audience on this stuff. Elizabeth you know, congressman, former dni grenell also said, quote there were red flags, red flags from the beginning of the trump russia investigation that numerous officials at multiple agencies raised the red flags about the problems the fbi, what they were doing in the trump russia probe but they were pushed aside. Those red flags kept hidden, concealed from the public. Watch this. Look, what i will say, i really encourage people to read the footnotes. When you read these footnotes, you clearly see that the Intelligence Community, not just the fbi, but multiple agencies, knew that the charges were flimsy, or that the russians from the very beginning were wreaking havoc on the process by pushing propaganda into the steele dossier. People knew this, maria. There were red flags from the very beginning and those voices within the Intelligence Community were pushed aside or classified or both and most people never saw the warning signs and thats exactly the problem i think that we have to drop back and solve. Elizabeth okay. Congressman, heres the thing, by late 2016 the fbi officials led by james comey knew that the trump russia probe was falling apart. Comey, lisa page, peter strzok made statements to that effect. Heres the what were uncovering in the documents. That basically president obama wanted everything you have on russian influence put in the Intelligence Community assessment. So were going to dig deeper into that later in the show. How much influence did president obama have on this here . We dont have all the answers but we narrowed it down. Whether president obama and his closest associates at highest levels of the white house as well as the doj and the fbi, they knew there was no there there but continued to pursue it. Ambassador grenell has done a great job getting information out. That is why he was such a threat and dni ratcliff is such a threat. Theyre afraid of them doing their job. Not afraid of them not doing their job. Elizabeth i got to jump. In obama wanted steel dossier put into the file by Andrew Mccabe. Stay with us. Well have a lot more show on thththth [ engines revving ] its amazing to see them in the wild like th shhh. For those who were born to ride, theres progressive. There are people who say things arent made here anymore. Those people should make a trip to michigan. Or kentucky. Or illinois. Where youll find our workers and dealers and engineers and technicians. Building for america. Were proud to employ more hourly workers than any other automaker in this country. Because we build for this country. Since your ancestors served in world war two. Many of their stories remain untold. Find and honor the veterans in your family. Their stories live on at ancestry. 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Elizabeth lets bring in senator James Lankford from Homeland Security. Great to have you on, sir. Your reaction to what the president just said . It is coming on the heels of afghan leaders vowing to release 5000 taliban prisoners including suicide bombers. What is your reaction . Reaction is pretty clear from the president. We dont need to be everywhere all the time but we need to be in a posture to be able to defend ourselves. What we found out from afghanistan back in 2001 in a faraway country, we feel like there is no threat there, they have the capability of bringing the threat to us, to kill thousands of americans. And so for the United States military to stay strong, to stay dispersed around the country to be able to act at moments notice. Be attentive, if you bring the fight to us, well bring it to you first to make sure we protect our people is a fair way to protect the nation. Elizabeth you know President Trump also revealed new details on saturday about a Hypersonic Missile that the u. S. Has been working on. He says it goes 17 times fastter than the fastest missile currently available in the world. Can hit a target 1000 miles away 14 inches from center. What is response to that news, dramatic increase in americas firepower there, your reaction . This is something china and russia both worked on a long time. They put high emphasis a long time. If we maintain a good deterrent with china and russia we have to have equal size and capability weapons. The president s statement wasnt well have equal capability. Well exceed their capability. Both their speed and accuracy. So the main focus is, if you plan on attacking us, know that we have the capability to get to you first around get to you more accurate than anything else that youve got. So that deterrence is a help to us because again, if something is coming that fast at us, very different cut to be able to hit, people need to know if you launch were able to get to you faster. Elizabeth sir, next story. A number of books coming out. John boltons book created an uproar in d. C. Claims that President Trump, it is ha about to be released, his book, President Trumps transgressions well beyond what happened with the ukraine saga. It went to his impeachment and led to reelection calculations drove the president s major decisions. Attorney general saying today, both did not complete the clearance process of his book. Needs to be deletion of classified information before it can be released. Reaction to john boltons book in light of everything we talked about . Not just john boltons book, the publisher is trying to make as money as they can. Shocking revelation any president during his four year term would think about reelection. This was constant statement from president obama as well, he did everything based on a poll how this would work for his election in the future. It is absurd to say the president was constantly thinking about elections in the future when he made decisions. Of course he did. Youre working for the American People. You have to have actually have the favor of the American People to do anything and be reelected to stay into office. So well see what the book actually says. Right now is sounds like theyre building it all up to sell as much precopies as they can rather than trying to get information out. If john bolton had something to say he is certainly not shy. He could have said at any point. He seems to be focused on selling the book right now, not getting Accurate Information out. Elizabeth we have another book, the art of her deal, untold story of Melania Trump by Washington Post mary jordan. That there is another book coming out the neas niece is one that helped New York Times look into president s taxes, leakerred Tax Information to the New York Times. What is reaction to that book coming out . Hard to be able to judge. Well see what comes out on facts and figures. A lot of folks will too to make money off the president at this point in the campaign, to try to distract the campaign. Get the facts out and than trying to sell the book to profit off the president. Elizabeth senator, thanks so much for joining us. Really appreciate it. Glad to be with you. Elizabeth okay, still ahead, the Trump Campaign is now calling Cnns Brian Stelter quote, sexist for his personal attack on Trump Campaign Legal Advisor jenna ellis. In an interview now being called a quote, a train wreck. It was about the Trump Campaigns threat to sue cnn over a poll last week that showed joe biden 14 points ahead. This is hot controversy. We have rnc chairwoman Ronna Mcdaniel on her take on that. 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The Trump Campaign is now calling Cnns Brian Stelters interview sexist. It is an interview that turned into a personal attack on Trump Campaign Legal Advisor jenna ellis. The interview was about the Trump Campaigns threat to sue cnn over a poll last week that showed joe biden 14 points ahead watch what happened. Some day you will reget this, right. 3 1 2 years. Some day you will regret this when kids and grandkids look back at this time and you use slurs. Brian, you cant even come on and talk. 10 or 20 years, you will recognize how damaging it was, how damaging it was, terms like fake news to attack journalist trying to do their job. In 15 or 20 years youre not trying to do your job. Youre not a journalist, brian. Youre act activist. Elizabeth welcome rnc chairwoman Ronna Mcdaniel. It got heated and turned nasty. What do you think . If youre a journalist you allow your guest to express their opinion without constant interruption. Brian stelter not that long ago had a guest on accusing the president killing more people than hitler and he chose not to interrupt or correct that guest. He is an activist. He doesnt like this president. His coverage shows that. And he wouldnt let jenna speak. He resorted to person that attacks talking about her future children and grandchildren saying that she would be an embarassment to them. That is why a lot of people in this country are turned off by the socalled news because it is not news anymore. It is a agenda driven and cnn has become a network that is very much antitrump. You can see it when you watch it night after night. Elizabeth you know, the Trump Campaign released a statement condemning Brian Stelter es attack saying Brian Stelters comments towards senior Legal Advisor jenna ellis were sexist and demeaning, implying that her children and grandchildren will be ashamed of her simply holding Media Outlets accountable. There is part of the story. Why sue cnn because after poll. The Trump Campaign is suing the New York Post New York Times and Washington Post. What is going on there. They are pushing back defense media that say theyre balanced but are agenda driven. Weve seen more and more with the administration. Give example of the refusal to cover the tara reid story. Allegations against joe biden, 17 interviews over five weeks where it was not raised. Why would that happen if there wasnt an agenda . Why are republicans treated differently than democrats . I think it is something the American Public really feel right now is that there is one set of standards for republicans and a different set of standards for democrats. Were seeing that with the rallies now. Were about to have a rally. Everybody is up in arms about the fact were having a rally and saying it is dangerous yet, when these protests were happening, you had Media Outlets saying this is fantastic this, is wonderful. They never talked about ppe and social distancing. So it is a totally different way the media covers republicans versus democrats. Elizabeth you know the president has been criticized for attacks on the media for calling them the enemy of the people. We have also journalists like glen green wall, matt taibbi, calling media out for acting like antitrump and change agents. Not staying neutral, calling balls and strikes. Here is what happened. President trump announced killing george floyd is disgrace and chokeholds should be ended and stopped. Cnn accused of editing backs sound bites that dont show the president s position. President still hasnt said which Police Reform measures he will back. He told fox news he is generally against police chokehold. Somebody in a chokehold, what are you going to do now, let go, say i will start over again, im not allowed anyone to be in a chokehold . That is tough situation. Elizabeth cnn Brian Stelters ronna, downplayed the seattle organized protests, happening in just a small part of the city. What is your take on all of that . I just think there is an agenda, activist mentality, you know what . , own it . Guess with were for democrats, be honest with the American People. When i come on your show. Im for President Trump. Im head of republican party. You will hear my viewpoints, coming through that narrative that im a republican, what you have is, with specific outlets, journalists saying were journalists were fair and balanced and they absolutely skewing the way they cover stories based on their dislike of this president. And i think enough is enough. American people are smart you have . To determine and digest the news and term what it means for themselves without having the media have to tell them what they need to believe. If they dont believe what the media is telling them, that theyre children and grandchildren will be embarrassed by them like they just said to jenna, which is absolutely despicable and out of line. Elizabeth give us an update, next case, can you tell us about the Campaign Fund raising . Where does it stand now for the Trump Campaign, amount of money being raised . Yeah weve been raising record money. Of course the president hasnt been out there fundraising which joe biden has had an advantage. He did 20 fund raisers last month alone. The president is focusing on governing. Youre seeing benefit of that as were seeing coronavirus cases go down and youre seeing the economy starting to come back. But he got on the road last week. We had two great fundraisers with him. Well see more and more of that. But we have a record day yesterday with 14 million raised online. Elizabeth Ronna Mcdaniel, thanks for joining us. Come back soon. Thank you. 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Government documents show, that fbi officials told james comey in summer of 2016 about the probe. Fbi officials and Text Messages and documents show he was keeping tabs on it. You see that from texts from lisa page to peter strzok. Your reaction . Look, the top officials working under obama, the head of his fbi, the head of his national intelligence, his chief of staff were all engaging in unmasking of intelligence intercepts of campaign personnel and people in the transition. We supposed to believe that they did all of this without letting the president know about it . That he didnt participate in the Decision Making on this . Thats very hard to believe. I certainly wouldnt believe that about president obama. So he was, i think, intimately involved in all of the wrongdoing that went on with this. Elizabeth you know, hans, it looks like president obama pressured the fbi here according to government documents. Right. Elizabeth former fbi official Andrew Mccabe tells the dojig, why did the fbi push to have the discredited steele dossier that had disinformation in it, russian disinformation in it, why did the fbi push it to have that put in the 2017 Intelligence Community roundup on russian interference even though the fbi knew it was discredited, it was not substantiated . Mccabe said, quote, obama wanted everything you have on russian influence. Fbi officials told the senate they would have a major problem if the steele dossier had not been included. What is going on here . Well, either mccabe is telling the truth, that that is the reason this totally discredited dossier was in there or you have to believe that the top officials in our intelligence agencies and the fbi were totally incompetent in their jobs and that was the reason they included this totally discredited dossier. I dont think theyre all incompetent. It sounds like in fact there was pressure coming from the white house and frankly, look, we know now this was a partisan use of both our Law Enforcement capabilities and the very powerful capabilities of our intelligence agencies. Something that has never happened, that i know of in the history of the United States being used against the opposition political partys president ial candidate. Elizabeth yeah. Critics have accused president obama and his administration of abuses of power. He literally, his administration literally spied on the media. They did wiretaps and seized phone records of people like Associated Press reporters, New York Times reporter james rosen, fox News Reporter james rosen. Irs commissioner visited white house under Obama Administration, the obama white house, nearly 160 times as irs was targeting conservative nonprofits for extra scrutiny. Is that an attempt to shut them down. Right. Elizabeth in order to get obama reelected or get democrats reelected. That was an issue too. You know, there has been dozens of problems with the abuses of power under the Obama Administration. Final word, hans . Particularly the spying on reporters. They did more of that than any other Prior Administration that i know of and they seemed to be totally unashamed about it. Elizabeth Hans Von Spakovsky, thanks for coming on. Come back soon. Thanks for having me. Elizabeth up kelsey bollar with the independent womens forum with us. On a whole how they gonna pay for this . They will, but with accident forgiveness allstate wont raise your rates just because of an accident. Cut is that good . No you were talking about allstate and. I just. When i. Accident forgiveness from allstate. Click or call for a quote today. vo at whether on the track,that exhor the everyday drive. Ty, today, that philosophy extends to how we connect with you. We call it, audi at your door. Whether a remote test drive, shopping, tradein, or even service pickup, audi at your door can do this and more at participating dealers. The premium audi dealership experience, on your terms. Audi at your door. Elizabeth welcome back. Ucla law school now tracking the number of Prisoners Released nationwide due to fears over covid19 in the prison system. Okay, here is what is going on. Local leaders and jail officials and prison officials have released more than 80,000 prisoners nationwide. Now on top of that there has been a major push in places like new york and california to do bail reform, letting those accused of crimes out earlier. Now this, at least 250 convicted, accused criminals freed from new yorks Rikers Island prison since march, rearrested, more than once for a grand total of 450 rearrests. Welcome independent womens forum senior policy analyst kelsey bollar for her reaction. Kelsey, your take on this story . First liberal politicians want to release a bunch of criminals into our cities and now they want to defund the police so there are no forms of Law Enforcement to respond to them. This is really a handful of stunning policies weve seen, these far left politicians respond to lately. I think it takes away from bipartisan efforts that weve seen the Trump Administration come out and support, advocate for criminal justice reform. Also for Police Reform but unfortunately when these policies get taken so far out of hand, it reduces the open students to have productive conversations about how to enact sensible reforms while also still protecting our communities from violent criminals who still do exist. Elizabeth you know, kelsey the mass release of convicted and accused criminals of new york, it is happening as Violent Crime surges double digits in places like new york city, also in seattle. Also major cities across the country. Bill de blasio, the mayor is saying he will cut the nypd funding. Now votes coming in billion dollars in reductions. Kelsey, your take on this, now the trucking industry, eight out of 10, eight out of 10 Truck Drivers we aint driving into cities where the Police Budgets have been defunded. Your take on that . Can anybody blame them . My heart goes out for all the families who are sending their loved ones who are Police Officers out into their local communities to try to prevent some of the violence weve seen break out from the peaceful protests. And of course this is all going to have a Ripple Effect much businesses and Industries Like truckers saying were not going into these communities if there is no Law Enforcement to support us. So it is, i have my deepest sympathy for these Truck Drivers and other businesses who need to come to cities from outofstate because it is going to have a huge Ripple Effect in our economy if we really do defund the police. Elizabeth you know, also when you have experts are saying when you have mayhem like this and chaos, you see problems popping up elsewhere. Look at the surge of human smuggling at the southern border lately. 40 rise, significant rise in both illegal Border Crossers and drugs now crossing the border. This is as of may. According to Homeland Security, a 40 spike higher in human smuggling. Your reaction . This is why Border Security is a Public Safety issue as well. We constantly get told you know, it is just a National Security issue. Covid19 is a Serious Public Health issue and it is yet another reason why we need to have tough Border Security including walls in places where it makes sense to prevent viruses including coronavirus from entering our country. Elizabeth kelsey bollar, thanks for joining us. Really appreciate it. Come back soon. Thank you. Elizabeth im elizabeth macdonald, youve been watching the evening edit on fox business. Thank you so much for watching. 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