Im george howhowell. And natalie allen. We begin right now. Russia has a message for dozens of diplomats, it is time to leave. They are being expelled as relations between russia and the uk, the u. S. And its allies continue to crumble. The u. S. Consulate in st. Petersburg is being closed. Workers have been seen packing up and leaving. And russias actions may extend to the courtroom. Its ambassador in washington told reporters his country may sue the United States for closing moscows Diplomatic Properties in the u. S. On friday, ambassadors from more than 20 countries were called to the Russian Foreign ministry, they were told some of their diplomats need to go home. All of this in retaliation for the expulsion of Russian Diplomats in those countries. The fight started with a nerve gas attack on a former russian spy and his daughter seen here. Britain says russia was responsible. Moscow denies that. Sergei skripal remains in critical but stable condition and his daughter is showing signs of improvement. Matthew chance is following the story for us. What more do we know about the latest expulsions . Reporter we know that the russians have summoned ambassadors from 23 countries that themselves expelled Russian Diplomats in the days before. And handed over a letter of protest and telling them that their diplomats would also be expelled. There was also a number of other countries which the Russian Foreign men industry said in a statement it was reserving the right to protest to and to expel diplomats from as well. And so it all amounts to this Huge International standoff, diplomatic standoff between russia and much of the international community, particularly western countries, europe, the United States, canada, australia, places like that and of course britain. Which themselves expelled 149 Russian Diplomats in response to the poisoning of sergei and julio skripal allegedly by a russian nerve agent earlier this month in salisbury, as you say an attack which the russians say they had nothing to do with. But the net result of that is that russia is very isolated diplomatically it seems, these are the biggest expulsions of russian officials since the end of the cold war. And the big question now i think is whether this will have an impact on russias behavior. Certainly the hope is amongst many western countries that this will show russia that there is unanimity in the west, and that russias behavior will be adjusted. But it could also just antagonize the russians. And indead the rudeed the russ gone further than simply expelling diplomats. They have also issued a new dictate to the british embass is i here in moscow saying that they want parity, and what they are saying is that they want the number of british Staff Members and diplomatic workers in the uk mission in russia to be reduced by more than 50 personnel to become the same number as the number of russians that work in the United Kingdom. Were not exactly sure how many uk british diplomats that would involve at all. But obviously it is yet a further sanction on the part of the russians towards the United Kingdom and could set off another tit for tat expulsions on both sides. I think the point though what impact does in have on russia, do we see this as the end of this or could there be more to come. Matthew chance liver for us in moscow, thank you for the reporting today. Now, as all of this is playing out, donald trump is spending the weekend at his resort in the u. S. State of 234r5. Florida. He has a cab met members spending habits to the fallout on his comments on syria. Jim acosta wraps it up for us. Reporter president was laying low in maralago, playing golf while back in washington Senior Administration officials are scratching their heads over this comment mr. Trump made in ohio about syria. Were knocking the hell out of isis, well be coming out of syria like very soon. Let the other people take care of it now. Very soon. We soon were coming out. Reporter as one Senior Administration official put it, we are still trying to figure out what he meant about syria. The president made the remark as fighting continues in syria on the same day as mr. Trumps speech two coalition soldiers, one american and one british on a counter isis operation were killed when their vehicle hid an ied. The president s comments are also contrary to what hes insisted in the past, that he didnt telegraph his moves. I have a substantial chance ever winning. If i win, i dont want to broadcast to the inany exactly what my plan is. Let me tell you, this is what obama does. Were going to leave iraq on a certain date. Reporter the president has also been a tough critic of his predecessors in the middle east, knocking george w. I invin invading iraq. Iraq, we have people talk about me with the button. Im the one that doesnt want to do this. Reporter and slamming barack obama for leaving iraq too soon that led to the creation of isis. He is the founder of isis. He is the founder of isis. He is the founder. He founded isis. Reporter a sudden u. S. Withdraw from syria could strengthen the hand of Vladimir Putin who supported bashar al assad. Putin is doing some saber rattling this week boasting about a new Nuclear Weapons system that is capable ever i evading any Missile Defense and striking targets in the u. S. Like florida where the president is on vacation. Translator this new system has swrirnvirtually no limitati distance as you can see, it is capable of attacking targets via both the north and south pole. Reporter russias ambassador to the u. S. Is defending moscows decision to good spell u. S. Diplomats. If anybody slept your cheek, your face, what will be your reaction from the side . You will think and you will humiliate and it doit goes with saying. Reporter all that as epa administrator scott pruitt is facing accusations of taking a security detail with him on personal trips to disneyland and College Footballs rose bowl game. Democratic senator sheldon wh e whitehouse complained that Significant Energy resources are being devoted to his round the clock security even when on nonofficial business. That follows the firing of David Shulkin who is accused of wasting taxpayer money as well. Surely before the president tweeted out that chief of staff gave me a call to let me know and gave me a heads up. So kelly told you and then you found out by tweet. Yes. Reporter shulkin was hardly given the same sendoff as former Communications Director hope hicks that came with flattering photos with hicks in her office snapped by the new york times. Jim acosta, cnn, west palm beach, florida. Lets talk about these developments with james davis, he is dean of the school of economics and political sicienc joining us from munich. Thank you, james. Nice to see you. Lets talk about these developments. Donald trump suddenly making announcement that it is time for the u. S. Military to exit syria. The question is, did he mean that, was it just talking smack out in the country as he faces supporters, and the question is, what might our allies in the region working in the region be thinking about that announcement . We dont know what he was thinking. I tend to think this was campaign rhetoric. He is in this kind of Campaign Mode when he goes out to the countryside and to tries to rally the base with all kinds of blustery statements and i tend to think that he got out in front of himself on this. The announcement search is a r certainly is a surprise to the military which is planning for a longer term deployment so we dont make the mistakes of the past and that is leave before the situation has been stabilized in a way that prohibits the eperrmergence of there. And the kurds who have been carrying a lot of water for us in this conflict, it might be a surprise to them and also to putin who of course would use the absence of american support for kurds and other allied groups to increase his influence, expand his influence and that of his patron assad in the regime in the area. And so it is a confusing statement. But once again, the sort of statement that weve gotten used to in this administration. We may get used to it, but it is certainly unsettling. It can be dangerous. It certainly takes a lot of intellectual band width for people to break it down, analyze to go not going down that road. So who knows. But the president has said before that he doesnt make announcements about what he is doing militarily. He has maintained that. And then he made the speech. Listen to what mr. Trump has said before. We know longer tell our enemies our plans. Americas enemies must never know our plans or believe they can wait us out. I dont want to telegraph what im doing or what im thinking. Im not like other administrations where they say were going to do this in four weeks and that doesnt work that way. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So that is just an illustration of what were dealing with here, correct . Thats right. And i mean the president s critique of the Obama Administration was wellknown anden accepted by many people and also members of the him diddic party who thought that obama was far too quick to signal what he was doing both in afghanistan and in a iraq airaq emboldened of people who wanted to take charge ofs situation contrary to the United States interests. So in that respect i think trumps position was perfectly legitimate. But the remarks today or yesterday suggest that he has failed to take his own advice and once again leads to this kind of sense that no one is really in charge or the man who is in charge changes his mind quite frequently and that is no basis on which to develop a Long Term Strategy for winning this battle in the region and creating stability in an area that is still in important to america and its ale llies. Lets look at the other issue that we definitely know is happening and is that the fau out of the poisoning of former spies. Shutting down the consulate in st. Peters urg about aburg and diplomats from over 20 countries. This is serious business. I think this means we are in for a long period of tense and difficult relations with russia. I think that it was essential that the United States stand with its ally britain and expel Russian Diplomats and spies from the United States. But i do think we need to become a little bit more clever in the way we deal with putin. There are other means that we might want to adopt because at some level this kind of behavior hurts both sides and also those that we dont want to hurt, tourists who want to travel, students who want to get visas, all these people will find it difficult now to continue to travel and conduct their business. So it is not clear to me that we really hurt putin, but there are ways that we could. We should be targeting putin and his cronies, we should be targeting those in the west that are on the payroll of the kremlin. We should be much more clever and perhaps asymmetric in the way that were dealing with this newing a agrees suffer stan ina stance of russia. Hopefully somebody is listening and will take heed. Sounds like they need to. James davis, thank you for being with us. Thank you, natalie. And jim acosta mentioned this in his report, but russia is showing off its military capability. Just released new video of an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile test. Brian todd takes a look at the diplomatic fallout from this missile test. Reporter it is powerful, provocative and now it is on public display. Vladimir putins latest throat america is this Intercontinental Ballistic Missile officially called sarm tachlt t, but nickn t tan 2. Putin says it is capable of reaching the United States. It is capable of attacking targets via the north and south pole. Sarmat is a formidable weapon, no system are an obstacle for it due to its characteristics. Reporter the russians say this missile came carry as many as 16 Nuclear Warheads, enough to wipe out texas. This dramatic test firing which experts say was meant to send a signal to the u. S. Comes on the heel of putins grandiose presentation of other russians Weapons Systems a few weeks ago. Including a Cruise Missile which can fly low to the ground, weave around obstacles and enemy radar and is powered by a Nuclear Engine on board. As well as this unmanned underwater drone launched from a submarine. It could carry a Nuclear Warhead directly to an enemy city. U. S. Officials tell cnn they have doubts that many of these weapons are near operational, but experts say the russians will get there and for putin, there is a bigger game afoot. What is his motivation . He has two audiences. First is always his domestic audience to show russians and to show the rest of the elite that russia is still a great military power. The other audience is always a conversation with the United States to show us he is a force to be reckoned with. Reporter putin is now in an allout diplomatic brawl with the u. S. And its allies over the poisoning of Sergei Skripal and his daughter in england. The kremlin denies britains claims that putin is behind the attack. But after the Trump Administration along with several European Countries kicked out dozens of russian diplomat, putin is retaliating, expelling western diplomats from russia. And a according to plit dougolpe ambassador to the u. S. Has complained in a letter to orrin hatch that he cant get meetings with anyone in the trump white house, with cabinet secretaries or members of congress. If true, why would he be shut out . If im in the administration, the last person i want to see on my calendar is the ambassador from russia to the United States. At least right now. And if im going to do it, im going to do it in a way that is incredibly transparent, lots of people in the room. Number two, i think it very much is in response to the poisoning in the uk and the evidence that russia was behind it. Reporter but the white house is claiming that ambassador antinovembers claim is not true, a senior white house official telling cnn that they have always been responsive, that he has met several times with Senior NationalSecurity Council officials throughout the year and that they have encouraged other people in the u. S. Government to meet with him. This official points out that access to jon huntsman has not been granted in moscow. Brian todd, cnn, washington. Next we turn to the fight against Police Violence in the United States, two u. S. Cities hundreds of miles apart dealing with the deaths of two africanamerican men killed by police. Plus after a deadly day in gaza on friday more protests are planned for today. Well take you there live. 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On friday night the crowds came together outside city hall chanting black lives matter. And they held a moment of silence for Stephon Clark. He was the unarmed africanamerican father of two who was killed by police less than two weeks ago. Doctor nu. A new and yutopsy show that was shot eight times, six of the bullets went into his back. An independent pathology retained by clarks family performed the postmortem. The familys lawyers say the results contradicts the Police Version of the shooting. Police describe clark advancing toward them holding what they thought was a gun. It turned out he was holding a cellphone. Other developments to tell you about in another policeinvolved shooting in the u. S. , this back from 2016. On friday officials in baton rouge fired one of the officers who shot and killed alton sterling. Officials also released four new videos from that night. Cnns caylee tar hung hkaylee h latest on the investigation and footage. We warn you it is disturbing. Reporter graphic and disturbing new video. [ bleep ]. Put your hands on the car. Reporter showing the controversial shoot willing death ing death of altonst sterling. And the officer will be fired over hactions. Violation of command of temper has been sustained. The officer has been terminated from the Baton Rouge Police department. Reporter this week he refused to answer any questions during a disciplinary hearing the chief said while howie lake the other officer involved answered them all. The chief says lake was given three day unpaid suspension. Two different perspectives, one officer did not follow the tactics, training, professionalism and organizational standards. Reporter the police chief making it clear their administrative investigation was separate from the federal criminal charge, both officers were already cleared of. The Police Department released four videos from the night of the shooting. Including this Surveillance Footage from the triple a convenience store. That is sterling sitting at a table where he is selling krmpt ds. Minutes into the tape, he is seen con on ducting a traction with an unidentified man. He removes what appears to be a gun from the front pocket followed by money. Within seconds, sterling is seen jokingly making a shooting moegts toward t motion toward the man. That night Police Responded to a 911 call from a witness who saw a man with a gun. Watch closely as things escalate quickly. From salamonis perspective, you can see a brief struggle and then his gun is trained on sterlings head. [ bleep ]. Reporter sterling was tased twice. Get on the ground reporter before being fatally shot. Previously released sell phone videos recorded by bystanders show at this point salamoni believed sterling was armed. A gun was recovered from sterlings body. But the federal and state investigations determined that the officers actions were reasonable and couldnt prove that sterling wasnt reaching for a gun. Again, that was Kaylee Hartung with that disturbing story there. In florida, the widow of the gunman responsible for the Pulse Night Club massacre is free. On friday a jury found noor salman not guilty of playing any part in connection with her husbands rampage in that club in 2016. Omar mateen killed 49 people, wounded dozens others at the orlando night club. Cnns Martin Savidge has more from the courthouse. Reporter as you can imagine, this was an exceedingly emotional day for noor salman and for her family. Inside of the courtroom just before the verdict was read, you could tell that she was frightened. No doubt about that. And family members themselves were holding on to one another as they waited for the verdict coming from the jury. When it was read, it was not guilty on all counts. And then the release and the tears began to flow and the family members began to hug. She had been facing the possibility of life in prison. Instead, she walked free from the federal courthouse free from being held in federal custody for over a year and now for the first time able to get back with her 5yearold child in quite some time. So for her life, it is remarkably happy day. But then you have the family members of the 49 victims. They also were in court when the verdict was read and their reaction was far more stoic. It is clear that some of the family members were not happy with the outcome, but there was a statement that was released from the Pulse Organization and essentially it was saying that they respect the verdict that came down from the jury and they went on to say this verdict cannot and will not divide us. The survivors, families and First Responders and as well as the community of orlando and everyone around the world must now focus on the work ahead of us. We will always carry the pain of what happened at pultsse and we will never forget those who were taken. For the defense this was of course a huge victory for them. Federal prosecutors had maintained that noor salman had been a coconspirator here. But the defense said no, she was more like a victim herself of the monstrous husband who was lying and deceitful and cheated on their marriage and had no respect, would never have treated his wife as a coconspirator. Charles swift is the defense attorney and here is his reaction. There was no point in time during the governments case that i felt that we had lost. The government didnt deliver on its promises. And as we saw it, this was a case where the more we learned, the better noor salman looked. Reporter as to what comes next, the salman family says that they believed that noor salman herself will have to undergo a lot of therapy to get over what she has been through. This community and of course the victims families will never be able to get over their pain. Martin savidge, cnn, orlando. Ahead here, as we push on, a new take on diplomacy efforts with north korea, south korea sending artists to perform in the north. And plus a former Cambridge Analytica employee says that steve bannon used the Data Collection company to cultural war on america. vo pro plan bright mind adult 7 promotes alertness and mental sharpness in dogs 7 and older. ray the difference has been incredible. She is much more aware. She wants to learn things. vo purina pro plan bright mind. Nutrition that performs. If youd have told me three years ago. That wed be downloading in seconds, what used to take. Minutes. That guests would compliment our wifi. That we could video conference. And do it like that. snaps if youd have told me that i could afford. A gigspeed. A gigspeed network. Its like 20 times faster than what most people have. Id of said. Id of said youre dreaming. Dreaming definitely dreaming. Then again, dreaming is how i got this far. Now more businesses in more places can afford to dream gig. Comcast, building americas largest gigspeed network. Live coast to coast, you are watching cnn newsroom. Im george howell. And im natalie allen. Here are our top stories. Visiting her home for the first time in nearly six years, malala hasnt seen her home since the at that time ban tried to kill her in 2012. She says she is proud of her homeland and praised the fight for tree speefree speech. And moscow is closing the consulate in st. Petersburg out of the diplomatic rift between the United States, britain and nearly two dozen other countries. It all started with a nerve gas attack on a former russian spy and his daughter. T moscow denies it. Protesters in sacramento, california plan to keep putting pressure on city officials to deliver justice for Stephon Clark. He is the unarmed africanamerican man shot and killed by police just two weeks ago. On friday protesters gathered in front of city hall chanting black lives matter. Police thought he was armed. He only had a cellphone. President of the International OlympicCommittee Says that north korea will participate in the next two olympic games. They just wrapped up a trip to north korea. The next two games are set for tokyo in 2020 and beijing in 2022. North korea used this years olympics to launch a diplomatic offensive, but that isnt stopped u. S. Backed sanctions. The u. N. Security council took more steps friday to block north korean attempts to smuggle oil and coal. It accepted a u. S. Proposal to blacklist dozens of ships and shipping companies. The United States and south korea will also put on a show of force with joint military drills like this over the weekend. As the war games kick off, south korean artists will also put on a different kind of show. These performers left for north korea just hours ago for a short tour. The Group Includes a k pop girl band and rock group. Lets bring in alex an dwaex ala field. A lot applay here. Music diplomacy, how does all this come together ahead of a very important meeting with the south korean president. Reporter well, lets start with the military exercises that are set to begin on sunday. Because certainly these are exercises that typically will grab the worlds attention because they seem to create controversy, tension right here on the peninsula. This is something that north korea will regularly protest against, and they will use it as a time to raise their objection to u. S. Influence and also to assert what they believe is their right to their Nuclear Missile program. So for example youll remember a year ago we saw Ballistic Missile testing from north korea at this time it is clearly typically a very tense moment on the peninsula. This year off wrusbviously the things has changed. We have learned through south korea that the north Korean Leader kim jungun himself has said that he recognizes that these drills will go on. And yet the fact that these drills are happening has not derailed the diplomatic developments that we have seen taking place since really january when this breakthrough moment arrived wherein the naekinaeorth koreans and South Koreans decided that a north korean delegate would go to the olympics in south korea. What we know about the drills this year is while the u. S. Is saying the scope of the exercises which they maintain are critical for their defensive capacity, outside they will be a shorter set of drills it seems. They will last just a month where last year they stretched over the course of a few months. But the u. S. Is saying that they get in everything that they need tote good i to get in. But if you consider the fact that President Trump has agreed to speak to kim jungun and said that could happen in may, so when we look at the time line, it does mean that the drills would be over by the time of a potential sitdown with the u. S. President. All right. And also lets talk about the music here. Because again, it started as olympic diplomacy, now were seeing a different type of cultural exchange, south korean k pop band crossing the border to the north. Lets take a look if we have video of this just to show our viewers around the world. If you are not familiar with k pop, this is it. Certainly different from what many North Koreans may be accustomed to. Reporter yeah, look, this is symbolic certainly. These are images that will be seen in many places. You will see South Koreans in north korea, you will even see them sharing the stage. But it is also a significant step forward because south korea has not sent its artists into north korea for more than ten years. And just this morning we saw a huge delegation from south korea, almost 200 people, making this trip to pyongyang. They have been welcomed there by officials. We heard from some of the south korean performers including the k pop Group Red Velvet about their feelings about going to perform in north korea. Listen to this. Okay. Well, they expressed their excitement on the way to the airport. We dont have that sound for you. But i did sit down with one of the rockers going with the delegation, he is part of a legendary korean rock band here, and he actually performed with his group in north korea back in 2002. He described that experience. He said at the time it was pretty awkward to perform to the crowd, they didnt know quite what to make of the music, but at the end he felt that they had won hearts and he said that that is their goal all over again. And certainly this comes at an important time where you see certainly a thawing of the tensions that were raised to a very high level just six months ago, even a year ago. Alex , that be you for the reporting. Cavdavid warner accepts the fact that he may never play for his country again and apologized for list role in a cheating scandal. Warner and two others are suspended over a ball tampering plot in south africa. Here is part of his emotional statement. I apologize to my family, especially my wife and daught s daughters. Your love means more than on anything to me. David warner there. And also australias cricket coach has announced that he is retiring. Funerals and more protests are expected saturday in gaza. Abbas has declared it a day of mourning. This after 17 killed, almost 1500 wounded in clashes like what you see here with israeli troops on friday. It was the first day of what is planneds a weeks of protests called the march of return. Israel says tens of thousands of palestinians advanced toward the border fence. Witnesses say israeli troops responded by firing live rounds, rubber bullets and tear gas. Lets get more on the situation from ian lee. He joins us now live from gaza. Ian, these were to be peaceful protests and now this. It did spiral out of control. Reporter thats right. At the end of the day, it became the single bloodiest deadliest day that gaza has seen since the 2014 war. Youre right, it started out hamas calling for peaceful demonstrations. Yesterday we were at one of these karcamps, thousands of pee pushing toward the border fence. He with s we saw people with slingshots, but that is the extent of what we saw. But were hearing from the israeli military, they said project ti projectiles were fired at their troops, live fire and molotov cocktails were thrown, and they fired live rounds at people who they knew were being instigators in all of this. Also they say that this border which is just behind me a few hundred meters away, they say that is a warzone and not a place for civilians. But despite all that, we did see a lot of people get hit yesterday. At one of these locations, we saw so many people injured that they didnt have enough ambulances. So they were putting two to three people per ambulance, also people just had to wait because they had to wait for those ambulances to come back. It just shows the intensity of what took place yesterday. Today its a bit more subdued. We are at one of these camps in the southern part of gaza, yesterday we were in the northern part. And were just seeing maybe a couple hundred people out there. This weeks long protesting, were expecting to see it kind of ebb and flow with fridays where you will get the flareups all the way leading to may 15th, that is when they say that they will try to cross over that border. But for israel, they say that border is their red line, they have said that they will use deadly force to stop people from crossing over. They dont want anyone to infiltrate. So you really do have this clash, this potential for further violence as the weeks progress. 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Long before that, steve bannon was using the Data Driven Technology to push voters toward his brand of populism. Drew griffin investigates. Reporter Cambridge Analytica was born out of Steve Bannons altright vision for america. He had already produced propaganda inspired films, had run the conservative breitbart news. But in 2014, he was looking for yet another tool in his arsenal. And he found it by creating Cambridge Analytica. This was Steve Bannons baby. Reporter this former employee says from his first meeting with bannon, it was clear the goal. Not to push a Single Campaign or candidate, but to fundamentally change america. He sees this as warfare, so he is going to use as aggressive techniques as he can get away with. You are talking about warfare on the american citizenry. This is steve bannon and Robert Mercer using a Foreign Military contractor to use some of the same techniques that the militaries use to fight isis on the american electorate. Thats what they wanted. And thats what they got. Reporter Cambridge Analytica is a subsidiary of the british scl group. For 25 years the military contractor has worked with 60 countries including british and american governments helping battle crime, drugs, terrorists by changing the opinions of foreign populations. Scl sales pitch essentially was look, we go into Foreign Countries and we use our tools, our psycho graphic profiling to manipulate public opinion. Ultimately that is what bannon wanted to do in the United States, he wanted to manipulate public opinion. Reporter so bannon created scls american arm, Cambridge Analytica, with 15 million from conservative donor Robert Mercer and his daughter rebecca. Wiley says using psych gathered app, he tried to push them to the right. It wouldnt always look like an ad or same im candidate and i approve this message. Youre not aware that actually what you are seeing is content that has been created and targeted at you had to make you perceive an issue differently. Reporter the company worked on the 2014 midterms, but amidst all the data analytics, the questionable use of psycho analysis, the micro targeting that the technology allowed, bannons real goal was always much bigger than that according to wiley. He wanted to change peoples perceptions of what was happening in america to make them more open to an altright vision. Reporter part of that included developing and testing messages that would resonate with voters, imagery of walls, deep state, increasing paranoia about government spying, and this we had tested drain the swamp in 2014. Reporter bannon mad worked for two years to provide his messaging when in 2016 the perfect candidate came along to blast those messages to american voters. Drain the swamp. A lot of the narratives of the Trump Campaign were what we were testing in 2014. Reporter Cambridge Analytica is now down playing its work for the donald Trump Campaign insisting it did not use controversial facebook data on it and saying elections are won and lost by candidates, not data science. As for steve bannon, he wouldnt respond to cnn, but recently told a Business Forum his techniques were used in the past by democrats and said no one complained until a conservative did what progressives had been doing for years. Drew griffin, cnn, atlanta. Well, if you look up this weekend, you might see some dazzling fireballs, but you dont have to panic they tell us, the sky isnt falling, but Something Else is. That is coming up here. Nds. Who wants customizable options chains . Ones that make it fast and easy to analyze and take action . How about some of the lowest options fees . Are you raising your hand . Good then its time for power e trade the platform, price and service that gives you the edge you need. 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