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And a key Group Booze Jd Vance as he tries to rewrite trumps labor record. Joining me live, lets do it. When 87yearold Lydia Martinez woke up before 6 a. M. To a sound of a knock on her door last week, she assumed it was perhaps a neighbor who needed milk or eggs. But, to her surprise, it wasnt a neighbor. Rather, nine officers. Most of the men, came to her front door. Some of them had Riot Shields or guns in their holsters. The officers presented a Search Warrant and question her for three hours. At one point they even had the greatgrandmother stand outside in her nightgown. According to their warrants, officers were looking for records including applications for ballot by mail, a list of voter banks, and documents about elected officials and candidates. Martinez said the officers told her they were there because she had filled out a report saying that older residents were not getting mail ballots. That is quite an aggressive response to that report, but she confirms she actually did file it. Martinez is a retired educator in San Antonio who has spent 35 years as a Member And Volunteer with the oldest civil Rights Group in america. Part of her work with that organization includes helping older residents and veterans register to vote. That is apparently what made her suspicious to republican Texas Attorney general ken paxton. On monday, martinez and other leaders held a News Conference outside of Paxtons Office in San Antonio. They took my laptop, my appointment book, i dont know when i have an appointment with my doctors. They took my cell phone. They took all the information that i had. I have two sons and two daughters and they dont want me involved in this anymore. They are scared that im going to be in prison. And i said they cant, i am not doing anything illegal. Martinez was just one target of raids on several latino democrats and members in south texas. They are all part of a two Year Investigation into alleged election fraud, and Vote Harvesting collected by Paxton Election Integrity unit. That was the same unit that was created in the wake of Donald Trumps fake election claims during the 2020 president ial election. Of course, no charges have been filed against those who have had their homes searched this month. So, what does this new stunt by paxton actually achieved, besides Fueling Fear . His raids left targets shaken up and scared, and outside the latino community they push a false narrative about a noncitizen supposedly voting illegally. The Texas Attorney general has been eager to advance these baseless claims about Voter Fraud throughout his career. On a Radio Show earlier this month he said, quote, there is a reason Joe Biden brought people here illegally. I am convinced that is how they are going to do it this time, they are going to use the illegal vote. Two be clear here, absolutely clear, u. S. Law already bans noncitizens from voting in federal elections. And as Election Officials and experts have repeatedly said to us, there is no evidence of widespread Voter Fraud in texas or this country at large. You know it is true, though . Texas has a long history of discrimination against its citizens of mexican descent. It is actually why the historic latino civil Rights Organization came together in the first place back in 1929. You can imagine these raids felt deeply personal to leaders and members. The groups national president called them, quote, pointblank voter intimidation. Now it has turned the tables on paxton by calling on the Justice Department to investigate the investigator. You know, The One really searching for Voter Fraud and for potentially violating the voting Rights Act of 1965. Joining me now to discuss this more is the ceo. It is good to have you on the show, thank you so much for making time for us. Just walk me through what has happened since that incident with ms. Martinez, has there been any more insight into what they were trying to achieve, what they plan on doing, and have her possessions been returned to her . Her possessions have not been returned to her. We have a lot more information relative to the other warrants that were served to victims, to our best knowledge there were about 12 of them. We have spoken with five for those members. We have sent the letters to the Department Of Justice asking for an inquiry and we will be meeting with them as early as next week to provide them with all the information that we have relative to this case. What you want the Department Of Justice to do and is angry . I assume they have not responded to you, perhaps they will respond to you in person when you meet with them. What is it that you are seeking from the Department Of Justice . We want an investigation. On the civil justice side, but also the criminal side, as well. We believe that ms. Martinez civil rights have been violated, so we wanted to investigate that. Can paxton seems to have launched kind of an attack now on organizations in texas. And, you know, if you are an outside observer you can kind of say with some degree of confidence, this has the hallmarks of voter intimidation. When you are targeting groups and trying to undercut their ability to vote freely and fairly and feel confident in their vote, you are doing a great disservice to our democracy. How do you fight that, how do you come to that . How do you get these organizations to mobilize in these tactics . First and foremost, there is a pattern here. Weve been talking about the rates for the last week, but if you go back to june you see rio grande valley. In july he also filed suit against annunciation house, which provides Respite Services for immigrants in the united states. At all those nonprofit organizations and all those latino leaders, civic leaders, members all latino. There is no question he is targeting the latino community. One of the things we are doing in our response is that our response will not be only a latino response. We are working with the naacp, we met yesterday with eric johnson, with the urban league, with meyer from the leadership conference. So, our response will be one of the civil rights community, fully intersectional, hispanics, africanamericans, and the asian committee, as well. Let me share with you something that the governor has been doing, greg abbott. He purged 1 Million people from the state Voter Role, saying that illegal voting in texas will not be tolerated. But the majority of voters, data shows, that were removed from the roles either passed away or failed to respond to notices from Election Officials, or just moved out of texas. Do you believe there is a concerted effort to fearmonger right now at of the election and create this sense of intimidation . You know, i think he actually put that out last friday as, number one, a way to deflect from the story, this negative story, that affects his administration and paxton. But in addition to that, it also really undercuts their argument of systemic Voter Fraud and Vote Harvesting. 6500 of those persons actually removed from the Voter Role were defined as noncitizens. 6500 of 1. 1 Million is less than half a percent. 1900 of those 6500 actually had voting history. So you are talking about less than 1 1000 of a percent of the people that were on those Voter Rolls are a noncitizen immigrant , if you will. That is not systemic Voter Fraud. That is not systemic voter harvesting. It undercut their entire argument. What im concerned about is that he gave those 1900 records, literally handed them over to paxton, and our expectation is he is going to go after them. He is looking for an embodiment, and he is going to arrest someone on those 1900. Let me ask you really quick, we are almost out of time. Why do you think they are so afraid of latinos in texas . Why you think there is such a concerted effort to go after this kind of invisible bogeyman . Well, not invisible. Theres 12. 1 Million latinos in texas. Latinos are 40 of the population. It is actually greater than the 12 Million nonhispanic that lived in the states. When you take into account hispanics, african americans, and asians, that is 60 of the populations. Texas is and has been a Majority Minority State for some time. This is their way to stay in power. Not just to keep in control of the state, but there are districts, and 5050 districts that are changing dramatically because of these demographics. Thank you so much, it is a pleasure to speak with you. We are going to stay on top of this story in the weeks and months ahead. Thank you. Coming up, Donald Trump does the ultimate flipflop on abortion rights. And he is hoping No One notices. 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So, trump left an opening to vote to overturn the florida Sixweek Abortion been. But after 24 hours of conservative backlash, including from his own campaign staff, released a statement to npr, Trump Ran To Fox to officially flipflop yet again and side with the antiabortion rights extremists within his party. Watch. I think six weeks, you need more time than six weeks. I have disagreed with that right from the early primaries when i heard about it. I disagreed with it. At the same time, the democrats are radical, because nine months is just a ridiculous situation. That you can do on abortion in the ninth month, and some of the states like minnesota and other states have it where you can actually execute the baby after birth. And all of that stuff is unacceptable. So i will be voting no for that reason. Joining me now to discuss this, molly john fast, host of the fast podcast. And josh kahneman. Executing a baby after it is born is actually murder, and that is not legal anywhere in the united states america. Just want to make sure we clarify that for anyone who is watching. But i do want to ask you about his flipflop here. Because Kamala Harris jumped a little bit on this today. She wrote first, he got row overturned, then he got Abortion Banned in 20 states. Now voting for an abortion been in the state that he lives. If elected he will sign a nationwide Abortion Ban if it crosses his desk. It seems that Donald Trump still does not realize that everything he says is filmed. So we have a record of what he says. Yeah, im glad you said that thing about the ninth month abortions, you can kill the baby. Because its not true, and there are actually laws against that. If a baby is born alive you have to resuscitate. This is the law. He has been saying this since 2016, it is one of his favorite lies. We know what Donald Trump will do, and we know it is because of the three Supreme Court justices he installed. And he said he was going to put in antichoice justices. He has but an antichoice justices and they overturn Roe V wade, which has been the law of the land. Your constitutional right, it was a protected right. That you could have an abortion, it was federal. And these three justices, along with the other conservative justices overturned it, and we saw the Oral Arguments, the Supreme Court Oral Arguments this session, that alito and thomas talked about using an 18thcentury Law that has not been used in forever, to make Mailing Abortion pills illegal. So we see where this is going. Anyone that looks at product 2025 from their foundation knows for sure, the plan is to regulate ivf because embryos are people. That is the thinking here. You dont want to lose a person. And then do this contact to make it illegal to mail the pill. Donald trump projects this strongman image, but on the issue of Reproductive Rights he is clearly following the extremists within his party. This is a guy that doesnt seem to really have a lot of moral positions, so on this issue he is just kind of, when the party says no, we want to be extreme and we want to have a national Abortion Ban he will literally wake up and say fine, i will do it. And when he wants to try to win an election and try to run to the center and be a little bit more moderate, he will say no, i wont support a national Abortion Ban. Yeah, thats right. I mean, running for president , a campaign, you can promise to do a lot of stuff and No One really knows we are capable of until you are right up in there. And the unfortunate thing for america, the unfortunate thing for knowing where you stand is that we have seen what it is like when he Screws America for four years, and the world. And people dont like that, right . He knows that the position that his party has is unpopular, and he promises that he is saying what he is going to do, im going to allow abortion for six months, eight months, and then when he is in power, you see him stripping away reproductive freedoms. There was another portion of the nbc interview, i want to play that for you, again trying to portray himself as a moderate, announcing a new policy on ivf treatments. Watch this. We are going to be, under the trump administration, we are going to be paying for that treatment. So we are paying for that treatment. For all americans who want to . For all americans to get it. All americans that need it. We are going to be paying for that treatment or we are going to be mandating that the Insurance Companies do. So either the government will pay for it or the Insurance Companies. Under a mandate, yes. Just be clear, when the government pays for medical treatment for citizens, that is called socialized healthcare. I dont know if he knows that, but that is actually the definition of socialized healthcare. So it seems now trump is opening the door to socialized healthcare in the republican party and his administration. And for a really expensive procedure. Ivf is Tens Of Thousands of dollars, and you have rounds and rounds and rounds. And sometimes you never get pregnant from it. And i have to say, this was the guy who tried to overturn obamacare. I mean, this is not a guy who is for socialized medicine. I think what is important is we have hit the moment in the Election Cycle where Donald Trump will say literally anything to get elected. We are at that point where he will say whatever. So is he going to pay for everyone in the world to get ivf . No. Is anyone buying this . Do republicans care about it . Look, ivf is wildly popular. So is, by the way, abortion is much more popular than it ever was. Reproductive rights. I think there are some people who want to believe, right . The trump people want to believe. But do they really believe . I mean, he worked here for four years. We have seen his words mean nothing. After this, Elizabeth Warren came out and really went straight after Donald Trump for making that comment. Watch this. American women are not stupid. And we know the only Guarantee Protection for ivf is a new national law, which Kamala Harris supports and Donald Trump opposes. Is there this kind of thing that Donald Trump does, where he comes out and he says something, and then in a Kratz Respond to it and we kind of get mired down in this debate around who does what for ivf, when in reality, we shouldnt be there because Donald Trump is just shooting from the hip and making comments just to get elected. He is not a serious person, these are not serious things that he is advancing. Yet, somehow democrats are responding and taking it seriously. Yeah, i think their apt questions, taking his policy seriously instead of framing it as just a wild thing that he says and doesnt believe her care about, or probably even remember. I could look to camera right now and say hi, if i am elected president , No One is going to be ticklish anymore. And people wont report that, one, because im some nobody. But two, because i am obviously lying. And for some reason it is not couth to point out when Donald Trump is obviously lying. It is an important point, because i think there are some moments where the media is again, failing the test that we find ourselves in. I mean, it is a shame that he is The One who is talking about this on the campaign trail. I wish more democrats would go further to talk about governmentfunded healthcare, and republicans you never hear talking about it. And that is because when a republican finances reproductive healthcare he makes his mistress sign an nda. 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It is time it is time now for our worst of the week. The gop Boys Club Edition. It all started with these despicable comics from fox Prime Time Host Jesse watters on monday. She is going to get paralyzed in a situation and the senators will have their way with her. Jesse, i dont like that. Take it back. Have their way with her, control her. Not in a sexual way. You know you have gone off The Deep End when Jeanine Pirro is trying to reel you back in live on the air. Water is issued and insincere, not apology the next day where he claimed his comments about Vice President harris were not sexual in nature, but then hours later said this. Are you going to gamble our country away on a frightening woman too insecure to tell us who she is . , is a nervous wreck cannot be trusted with the nuclear codes. This job is not for her. By wednesday, trump Running Mate and totally normal Human Adult male Jd Vance also joined in on attacking harris, this time on afghanistan. Kamala harris is so Asleep At The Wheel that she wont even do an investigation into what happened, and she wants to yell at Donald Trump because he showed up. She can go to hell. Keep in mind, this is just one week after vance had the audacity to lecture democrats about toning down the rhetoric about Donald Trump. Speaking of trump, we wont even show you the absolutely vile post he reposted on his failed Social Media site. Spoke about boast esteem politician, one the Vice President of the united states and the other Secretary Of State in deeply misogynistic and belittling terms. This from a Campaign Accusing Vice President harris of not focusing enough on policy, believe it or not. Stephen miller later suggested on cnn that trump may not have read the language on the post before pushing it out to his followers. So, do you have in the worst of the week . They all suck this week. He didnt read it. He just didnt read the post. He just wrote it, he didnt read it. The misogyny is deep in this party. This is what trump is running on. Trump has had many opportunities to not double down on misogyny at every point he has. I think Jesse Watters, if we are going to have to choose between all of the misogynists in trump world, that, you know, the sort of over sexualizing, the inappropriate comments, and she is a sex crimes prosecutor. Attorney general. She was a senator, she was a Vice President , and now she is running for president. She has had many more jobs than both Donald Trump and Jd Vance. And even obama. She has been doing this a long time. So the idea that they are going to post these pictures of her smiling and laughing and say she doesnt have the temperament because she is a woman, it is pretty much the grossest misogyny that i have seen in a long time. When you think about what Jesse Watters says on tv, i think he is just a character of himself, and he is just trying to follow tucker carlson, thinking i could become a player in the republican party if i can become more hateful, more misogynistic, more racist, and kind of spewed this disgusting rhetoric out there. But he is doing it because he wants to be in the good graces of Donald Trump. Yeah, so sorry, i inc. What is useful for knowing is that republican men have two positions on womens rights. It is the sexism that they mean and the sexism that they accidentally say and also mean. The sexism they do on purpose and the sexism they do on accident. But this week i have to go for the people running for the highest two offices in the land. I think it is reasonable to disagree with Vice President harris on substantive issues. I know people that do it from the right, but i know a lot of people that are doing it from the left right now. But you can do it without being demeaning and sexualizing. I can disagree with a lot of Donald Trumps policies, and i dont have to say that he is so sexist because he has a weird, unnerving that he doesnt want women to ask to see. They turn to push him away. I can disagree with Donald Trumps Point Of View about reproductive health without saying he has that are like a number two pencil The Horse kicked. And that is because i can disagree with his brain which is like a wet Nerf Football The Horse kicked. I love that. Let me ask you about something that vance said preemptively before the Vice President s interview with cnn. He compared her to a 2007 miss Teen Usa Contestant named caitlin upton, who was marked for an embarrassing moment on stage. Upton, who is a trump supporter, called out vances bullying on x. Before she deleted her account she revealed she was constantly bullied for that verbal stumble. Again, it is kind of like par for the course for republicans that attack the intelligence of women in this kind of sexist, misogynistic way. Not dealing with the substance of the issue, just dismissing it purely on the grounds that they are women. And somehow less intelligent. And in that interview, they asked vance if he would apologize, and he said no. I mean, look, for whatever Reason Vance is trying to do what trump does. But even though it doesnt totally work for trump, it works for trump better than it works for vance. So he is doing this whole thing where he is sort of doubled down and doesnt apologize, and , you know, it is good to apologize. There is nothing wrong with apologies. They are small men. They are not going to apologize. The Jesse Watters apology was insincere, as we said. You know, they are all just small men in the way that they behave. Let me actually show you this, as well. This was republicans, they were quick to criticize the Vice President for doing an interview with Tim Waltz by her side. Watch. I think it is incredibly weak. Weak sauce to show up with your running me. To have your Running Mate on with you is really insulting, i think, to her. Why does Kamala Harris need, i dont know, a Security Blanket . Do they have to sit down together . She has her emotional support dog, Tim Waltz, there. Again, they either think that we are stupid or that we dont have a Video Record of past president ial interviews, because biden, obama, trump, romney, every single candidate has done an interview with their Vice President by their side. But yet, when a Woman President ial candidate does it, republicans are up in arms, saying it is a Security Blanket. Yeah, they will go after anything, and i am old enough to remember the present. It is not oh, i am old enough to remember the way it used to be. It is the way things are and the way things continue to be. I just think it is not giving that any gravity. Just being like shut up, loser, thats the way to be. Because they are being losers about it. And you want to talk policy, talk policy. But they dont have winning policy. So they are resulting to making up scandals. I want to get your thoughts on this. And the media plays a big part in this, as well. We are kind of normalizing a little bit of this, which is kind of shameful on the media. I am speaking collectively to all of us across different platforms. The media is not calling it out enough. They are indulging in this, in some of the questions that are being asked of the campaign. And getting them to respond to these misogynistic comments. And that is a great example, in the interview we saw that harris was apt to respond to different attacks from Donald Trump. I am not sure what we get from that. We want policy, we want to know about her, voters want to hear about her experiences and the government. But her feelings about some of the really atrocious things he said to her, i dont know how, and by repeating that how does it help a vote or make the decision about who to vote for . By repeating them you are elevating them, you are reminding people about them, youre giving them gravitas. One of the thing that helped trump in 2016 was that the media would repeat his lies. So trump says Hillary Clinton is. And that kind of framing really did elevate trump, help him, and give him a lot of media. Weve been doing some horrendous work on the Fact Checking, as well. So the Fact Checking we have been seeing coming out of publications about trumps comments. Josh, molly, thank you so much. I really appreciate it, as always. Up next, Jd Vance make a Campaign Stop at a Firefighters Union to win their endorsement. Instead, he got booed. Thank you. During our biggest sale of the year, save 50 on the Sleep Number® limited edition Smart Bed and free delivery when you add any base. 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So now im always smiling or cheesing because now my teeth are much wither. Announcer this offer is not available in stores, so call or click now before the special buy one, get one free offer goes away. Thank you guys. Thank you guys. Thank you so much. Semper fi, guys. Sounds like we got some fans and some haters, thats okay. At least listen to what i have to say here. Awkward. Because actions do speak louder than words, Jd Vance earned that frosty reception this week at the international association of firefighters. After all, the man he is running with spent 40 years weakening unions and appointing antiworker judges who have outlasted his ministration. Yet, the Trump Vance Ticket persists, trying to appeal to organized labor. In our polarized nation, there are few institutions that have remained as popular and as respected across a wide swath of americans. In fact, a new Gallup Survey shows that americans approval of labor is up to 70 near its highest level since the 1960s. Only 23 of americans say they disapprove of unions. The aflcio represents more than 12 1 2 Millions workers, and its president , liz schuller, joins me now. In the past years we have seen a lot of union activism. Teacher strikes, autoworker strikes, writers, Screen Actors striking. We have also seen workers attempting to unionize at places like starbucks. I mentioned that gallup poll. Amazingly, despite how divided this country is on so many issues, and how much structure there is in institutions, support for Labor Unions has skyrocketed in the past 50 years to 7 up from 48 in 2009. What do you attribute that to . How do you explain . Yeah, we are actually more popular than ice cream. Which is hard to do. But i attribute it to the fact that workers are fed up. They are fired up. And they finally see unions of the past to make change. Because they see Union Members working through the pandemic, Healthcare Workers giving Garbage Bags as ppe. And they said no and walked out, because they have union protections, and got the ppe they deserve. So, all through these last few years, where workers have been mistreated, not had control over their lives, they see their bosses making more and more money. They want a piece of the pie. And they see unions as a pathway to get there. As i mentioned, vance, he wasnt the only Vice President ial candidate sent to address the international association of firefighters. Tim waltz was there, and he cited his own membership in the teachers union. And he got a much warmer welcome than vance. Maybe a few more of us should be Union Members. I can promise you this. When Vice President harris and i win this election, we will have your back just like you had ours this entire time. It is notable that the Firefighters Union backed biden early in the 2020 race, however, but the firefighters and the teamsters have yet to endorse. Why do you think that is, and what would your case btu Union Members . Well, the firefighters are looking at the candidates, just like many of our unions. We have 60 in the umbrella of the aflcio. We as a movement have endorsed walz and harris, of course. But each union has their own issues that they take a look at, and i think the boos that you saw at that convention were variable the project 2025 agenda spells out that they would be coming after the ability to form unions and vance has sponsored a bill that would institute company unions, so it would not be a free and fair voice for working people. So, i think that working people are smart. Union members are ready to get the vote out for the real pro worker ticket, which is the harris walz ticket. I want to, if i can, switch gears to another important topic within the democratic coalition. There is a big debate going on about Ftc Chair lena kohn. Goldberg and the New York Times writes Billionaire Donors have it out for this prodigy, but president harris will need her. Goldberg is referring to some big democratic donors publicly calling on harris to not keep kohn in her position at the ftc. She has been fighting for consumers and fighting against monopolies. What are your thoughts on this, what you think about this . What do you make of Ftc Chair lena kohn, and if she should stay in her position or not . Well, Chair Kohn has been bringing the voice of working people and consumers into the discussion. It is obviously in the best interest of workers to have someone who is scrutinizing what has become more and more mega monopolies, where companies are merging and really boxing out workers abilities to fight back and get their fair share. So i think that harris, obviously, was part of the Biden Harris administration, still is, and will continue to bring working peoples voices to the center of the economic policy. She has said that building the middle class will be at the center of her presidency. And unions build the middle class. 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More updates right here as we get them, but for now, we return you to our regular programming with Ayman Mohyeldin. The tenures of connections i made working in journalism, at the beginning the taliban were seeking a kind of validation through journalism. I got in at that time, and 10 days later i would not of gotten the access. I was going to ask you about that access. Did you ever feel unsafe when you are within taliban Rankand File . I mean, what was the moment where you felt like you may have been way over your head . Did you ever feel that . Throughout the filming at all . You know, you are filming living in afghanistan, including the taliban, of course. They are suffering from ptsd. So at any second you cannot trust what they are doing. They never trusted me and never trusted them fully. I did not trust the acting when i was there. I know that i understand you cannot film civilians while you are making this movie with the taliban. But what are some of the things that you observed or noticed about civilian life in those early weeks and months in afghanistan under the taliban, particularly for women, which has an impact through the years that has considerably gotten worse . I have seen, i have seen the situation of converting, saying at the beginning where the taliban is going to ban them from schools, until the Womans Voice in public is forbidden, which is the weirdest kind of thing they are doing today. As you are probably very well aware, the issue of afghanistan has very much fallen out of the public eye, or the political discourse in this country. Unless it is for political points from one side or the other. Why do you think this documentary is so important for the public, perhaps more so in america and the west to see . It is so important, i am not saying this site and decide. Unfortunately it is four different administrations, it took four different administrations in two different kinds of parties to make an effort to understand and work together for the situation going on in afghanistan. And the people should understand where it is today. Are you still in touch with the taliban . I mean, the 7 Billion of hardware that was left behind, do you know what has come of that three years on, since 2021 . Has it been used, is it being used . Have the taliban been able to kind of repurpose it for their own intents and purposes . Unfortunately at the moment i have to keep my connections for my own safety and security. I saw like everybody else that they have years in power, more than The One that i found two years ago. Let me ask you, if i can, about how you see the situation in afghanistan right now, when people are looking at it three years on. The taliban certainly has been getting stronger over the past three years. Based on your reporting, based on how you see, as you described, the mistakes of the past 20 years of war in afghanistan, could this have been prevented based on what youve seen and documented . Based on what i have seen a document, we have found that the only thing is the power and the pain they cost our generations. A country that has never had a choice for years, did not have the choice. They did not have the choice to be in their country or the public before that. In the station that was torn by war, and it took the worst invasions. Leaving it for the taliban was not a solution. But also waiting and having to conduct another war could not be the solution. Because war gets war. That is exactly where we find ourselves now. And it is a country that is not very much on the radar of a lot of western news organizations anymore, unfortunately. All right, abraham, inc. You very much for your time. I greatly appreciated, and congrats on this very powerful and important documentary. 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