>> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >> welcome to "the lead," i'm jake tapper and we start today with some breaking news. a shelter in place warning at the university of north carolina, chapel hill. authorities say there is a, quote, armed and dangerous person on or near the campus. the governor roy cooper now pledging all resources to capture the person he is characterizing at the shooter. moments ago a law enforcement source told cnn that federal law enforcement has responded to the scene but at this point, there was no information, at least not yet, about anyone being shot. right now we're getting information in about a situation where somebody is armed and dangerous. but we do not yet know if anybody on the campus in chapel hill, north carolina, has been wounded or shot in any way. we're going to go now to former boston police commissioner ed davis. ed, right now this is an unusual situation. moments ago local schools around the unc campus at chapel hill were clear to dismiss students. what does that tell you about what might be going on right now? it could seem to me, although i'm a lay person, if there were wore yours of an active shooter situation, they would not be dismissing students? >> yes, i agree, jake. it seems as though the situation is winding down at this point in time. but it is sort of a worst case scenario situation. you have an incident that occurred and you clearly have either a shooting incident or an armed person. they believe was very dangerous. they've locked everything down. now they're starting to clear those places. but they don't have their hands on the suspect. sometimes these guys get out of the area and they're on the run. other times they hunker down in place. and so this real uncertainty, especially in the immediate vicinity of where the incident happened. you have to keep that place locked down until you could clear every room, every area where the suspect might be hiding. if you could rule out that he or she is in that -- is not in that area, then you could start to -- to open things up. and the peripheral areas are easier to open up an the actual scene of where the incident occurred. >> commissioner davis. stand by. i want to bring in nick valencia who is covering this for us. and what is the latest? what do we know concretely about what, if anything, happened on campus or near campus today. >> we know that the university sent out an alert shortly after 1:00 p.m. to indicate that there was an armed and dangerous person on or near campus. and then a lockdown went immediately into effect and we began seeing images from wtvd and wral of a chaotic situation and an all too familiar situation on campuses of individual students that it appears being let out with their hands up, escorted by police officers in tactical gear. that was around 1:00 p.m. and into the 2:00 p.m. hour. anden this the scene abruptly changed and it seemed as though things were calming down. it was just shortly -- a little while ago that the university of north carolina police put out a photo of a person of interest. and i what to show that to our viewers. the photo or the x, this photo shows a person of interest in today's armed and dangerous person situation. if you see this person, keep your distance, put your safety first, and call 911. that is coming from the unc police department. prior to that, we had heard or seen a tweet from governor roy cooper who said this was an active shooter situation and he was pledging any and all resources needed to catch this person of interest. we have no information as of yet. updating from the university police department there in unc. so as far as we could tell you, it is an active situation with the lockdown still in effect. however, we are hearing reports of those schools in the area, middle schools and elementary schools, allowing parents to pick their students up. so conflicting reports right now and conflicting information that we have to go off of, but a person of interest, a photo has been put out there of a person of interest in this armed person situation happening at chapel hill. jake. >> nick, stand by. commissioner davis, i understand police wanting to err on the side of caution in this day and age. where there are far too many active shooters situations in the united states. pa specially there are heightened concerns around back-to-school time. but based on what you unc, university of north carolina police have said, they have not described a shooting, they have described an armed and dangerous person situation. is it possible that there has not yet been an sort of shooting? there was an just an individual that was deemed armed and dangerous and was on the loose as it were? >> yes, that is certainly a possibility. in the beginning hours of a situation like this, the information is often wrong. it is often exaggerated. it is -- it's information that that needs to be run to ground before you make any specific decisions. unfortunately, the erring on the side of caution is the stand aard right now because lives are on the line here. so it may actually be an overreaction when all of the facts are on the table. but you don't know that right now. and there are public official that are saying there was a shooting there. so that kind of confusion requires detective work. it required getting people into the location and interviewing witnesses and potential victims. it takes time to do that before you understand exactly what is happening. and in the meantime, there is some kind of confusion unfortunately. >> many students with whom cnn reporters have spoken did not actually hear a shooting. although we continue to see reports. how are police right now figuring out what exactly happened? >> well, the first thing they do is to go to the exact scene and interview people that were there or were anywhere in the area. they're talking to witnesses. they're talking to potential victims. the secondary level is immediately downloading any camera footage that is in the area. that is become critically important in police operations today. and they'll have technical teams that are out there that are looking at that information right now. i'm sure if it was on campus, there is a very intricate system of cameras that probably allow immediate access to the data to the officers that are investigating. and we do have a good partnership based upon the vehicles that i've seen in the area. you have the state police, you have the campus police, you've got the chapel hill municipal department. so people are all working together on this. there is going to be a command post set up. that information is being fed to the command post. but as you're managing an incident like this. there is the incident, which is critical, making sure everybody is safe and your office is safe and doing everything that is humanly possible to maintain safety. on the other side of it, there is the messaging that you're giving out. you see these young kids leaving the dormitories and buildings being herded out with hands in the air. that's upsetting to the students, it is upsetting to the parents, and really difficult situation. >> commissioner ed davis, thank you so much. we're going to continue to follow all of the developments coming out of chapel hill and we'll bring you an update as soon as we get one in terms of concrete information. miin the meantime, another story we're following today. three substantial legal developments when it comes to the legal cases involving the 45 nl president of the united states, donald trump. one, in the federal case, brought by special council jack smith, where trump is accused of staging a conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election, today judge tanya chutkan set the trial date for that case. the federal case about trying to overturn the election for march 4th, 2024. that would be just one day before super tuesday in the presidential primary contest. that is when 15 states will hold elections choosing their nominees for president and other office. the second major development comes from fulton county, georgia, where today mark meadows, trump's chief of staff, took that the stand. he's trying to convince the judge there that his case should be moved to federal court instead of georgia court. there meadows could have -- could move to have the entire thing thrown out if he could successfully make the case that his participation in attempts to subvert georgia's election results were part of his official white house duties. third, also if fulton county, we know when the former president and his 18 co-defendants will be arraigned on charges related to the conspiracy to overturn georgia's 2020 election results. that date is next wednesday and the previous cases mr. trump was arrested sand arraigned the same day. trump will be arraigned first next wednesday at 9:30 a.m. next wednesday. he'll be followed by some of the folks that vice president pence has referred to as a quote, gaggle of crackpot lawyers, unquote, including rudy giuliani at 9:had a a.m., john eastman at 10:00 a.m. and sidney powell at 10:15. then mark meadows will face the judge at 10:30 and the rest of the co-defendants will be arraigned back-to-back throughout the afternoon. they face charges from racketeering to influencing witnesses to conspiracy to commit election fraud. we'll cover this starting with sara murray and a closer look at what is unfolding right now in the fulton county courthouse. >> reporter: former white house chief of staff mark meadows. >> to start wholesale trying to change the way that we conduct elections state by state, i could tell we're asking for problems, we're asking for fraud. >> reporter: taking the tand in a federal courtroom in georgia after he and former president donald trump and 17 others were charged with racketeering by the fulton county district attorney. for their attempts to overturn the 2020 election in georgia. >> you can't ever accept when they steal and rig and rob. >> reporter: meadows who has kept a stunningly low profile amid the various investigation news donald trump now breaking his silence on the case under oath. those were challenging times, bluntly. meadows told the court of his white house tenure. as meadows soo seeks to move from state to federal court, prosecutors delved into the allegations against meadows. denying under oath that he directed another white house aide to write a memo about how to delay or disrupt the certification of the election on january 6 saying he had zero recollection of had a happening and it was the biggest surprise to me upon reading the indictment. putting meadows on the stand, a risky approach for any criminal defendant. meadows looking to make the case that his activities after the 2020 election were part of his official duties as chief of staff. including arranging the call between trump and georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger. >> mr. president, everybody is on the line and this is mark meadows, chief of staff. >> i just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have. because we won the state. >> reporter: when prosecutors questioned what federal role meadow was fulfilling in calls with trump and another purveyor of election falsehoods, rudy giuliani -- >> we cannot allow these crooks because that is what they are to steal an election from the american people. they elected donald trump. they didn't elect joe biden. >> reporter: meadows said he was acting as a gate keeper andin sistered there was a federal interest in accurate elections. meadows claimed he wasn't the driving force in pushing bogus claims of election fraud but then when bill barr dismissed the fraud claims. >> i made it clear i did not agree with the idea that the election was stolen and putting this stuff out which i told the president was bullshit. >> and he felt that further investigation was warranted. >> reporter: now meadows was on the stand for about three and a half hours an then the district attorney was able to call some of their witnesses, up right now is brad raffensperger who is already testified that the federal government does not play a role in certifying the state election results. and jake, as you pointed out, the next major milestone is likely to be the arraignment september for september 6th. we're staill waiting to see if that will happen in a courtroom or if the defendants might waive their appearances. now back to the federal case over the alleged conspiracy to overturn the election in seven battleground states. not just jageorgia, but seven total. that was set for march, 2024, one day before super tuesday and three weeks before the trial in the new york hush money case. there is a lot more that goes on in march as well. jessica schneider is with me. the defense was pushing for a trial in april 2026. the judge said no. we're going to do march 4th. how did she arrive at that date. >> she tamped down on trump's team and said it woe unpress dissented to wait for 2016 and put it this way to trump's lawyer, she said you are not getting two more years, this case is not going to trial there 2026. and then she proceeded to really chide trump's legal team for not already prepping for this possibility of a trial in six months. she said this. she said any agent diligent, zealous defense lawyer would not have been sitting on their hands waiting for an indictment. so saying that trump's lawyers should have started their investigation and preparation for this soon after the special counsel started all of his work. john lauro, trump's lawyer, he hit back and he said, look, i was only just brought on to the legal team recently but that is still not a valid excuse for this. and he also really warned the judge that he wouldn't be able to provide trump effective legal counsel on this tight of a timeline. john lauro there kind of setting up the stage for a future appeal on this issue. and this trial date, it is not only tight, but it is crowded now. so between october and may 2024, all four of the criminal trials against trump are slated to start. some of those could slide. but that is really how the calendar looks right now. really packed, really hectic for his legal team. so prosecutors, they pushed back here. they said that most of the material in this particular case in d.c., it is already known to trump and his team. so the evident that they've handed over including 3 million pages associated with trump and his pacs. 170 pages from the national archives. so all information that came from the white house. more than 5 million pages of grand jury transcripts, exhibits. and the prosecution said there are 47,000 pages that they will make key to their case here. so, jake, prosecutors saying, look, trump team, it really isn't that tight of a timeline. we're going to be focussed on 47,000 pages of these documents. you should easily be able to search these with a key word search. you should be able to prepare in time for that trial start date in six months. so that looks like it is the start time. it could slide slightly but the judge determined to keep that march 4th date. >> thank you so much. from the mountains of evident to the trial set right before the election, is this just the beginning of an extremely messy 2024 calendar. our legal experts will weigh in next. and plus that search for an armed individual near the campus of university of north carolina two days after murders near a florida college campus. we'll go live to that scene. into and a powerful storm headed for florida's gulf coast. a new storm track is due out in just minutes. we'll bring that to you as well. a busy afternoon. stay with us. the all-new tempur-pedic breeze makes sleep feel cool. so, no more sweating all night... ...or blasting the air conditioning. because the tempurreeze feels up to 10° cooler, all night long. because the tempurreeze for a limited time, save up to $700 on selt tempur-pedic adjustable mattress sets. hi, we've both 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>> well it doesn't surprise me that the trump lawyers of a 2026 trial date was aspirational to say the least. and i don't think it was realistic. and the judge didn't give either side what they wanted but she sided with the prosecutors on this one. she planted the flag for a march trial date. i suspect the trump team will file a flurry ofe flag for a mah trial date. i suspect the trump team will file a flurry of motions trying to get the trial date bumped back and we'll see if the judge holds her ground. but today she's serious and thinks this ca trial date with great deference. i don't think the team has a big likelihood of asuccess on a appeal. and this doesn't mean they can ask her to re-set the date. so ion't think this is a last battle ia long w. >> clint, you think that president trump's gal team rmed its chances of getting a cart date aftethe 24 election by requesting arial so far away in 2026? >> right. first, thank you all so ch for having me. anthat is absolutely what i think the judge and in fact said that was really a little unrealistic to set the trial out so far from where we are today. i think she kind of has planned a flag so to speak and said, hey, we're going to move this case along. i think the government said we're going to help you streamline and prepare. we're going to identify what it is you need to focus on. and i think that that two-year window was just unreasonable. >> tom, when it comes to the arguments that former white house chief of staff mark meadows is raising in georgia today, as he tried to move his case from state to federal court, meadows is trying to suggest that he was acting in his capacity as white house chief of staff when he allegedly assisted trump in his attempts to overturn the election in georgia. he told the judge, quote, i dealt with the president's personal position on a number of things. it is still a part of my job to make sure that the president is safe and secure and able to perform his job. serving the president of the united states is what i do, to be clear, unquote. what do you make of that argument? is it strong. >> think mark meadows has a nonfrivolous argument but i don't think he's going to be successful. i mean, his point about that he was following the president's instructions, makes him acting in the course of his official duties, that only goes so far. it is not the case that anything that the president asks him to do is therefore within his official duties. if the president hypothetically asked him to commit a criminal act, that would not be within the course of his official duties. i also think the prosecutor has a decent argument that even if meadows was trying to act for a political purpose, that would violate the hatch act which is the law that prohibits federal officials are engaging from that kind of activity. i don't think he'll win on this one. >> if the judge does move the case to federal court from georgia court, am i correct in assuming that the district attorney for fulton county fani willis, she could still prosecute the case and do you think that she would change her strategy at all? >> that is absolutely right. although, the venue for the trial and the case would move from state court to federal court, which of course perhaps for the trump team brings in the advantage of opening up the perspective pool of jurors that potentially could hear the case. i think that the district attorney's office and fani willis will continue the same strategy. based on what we've seen from the indictment and some of the testimony even today, from the secretary of state who i understand is perhaps still on the stand or wrapping up, i think she's got a good strategy. with respect to the case, i say stay tuned. it is going to be riveting to see how this all plays out. >> clint rocker and tom dupree. >> thank you. and governor chris christie will be with us. stay with us. important things aren't worth compromising. at farmers, we offer both quality insururance and great savings. 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super tuesday. one day before super tuesday. we're joined by candidate and former new jersey governor chris christie. thank you for joining us. so your reaction to the federal judge setting trump's trial on the special counsel election interference case for early march of next year. while you're also a former federal prosecutor, a former u.s. attorney. is that too soon? too far away? what do you think? >> i think it is a realistic date, jake, given that it is a one-defendant case. i remember talking to you at the time of the indictment and there is question about why did jack smith just indict donald trump and have six unin indicted co-conspirators and i think today is the reason why he did that. he decided to get this case moved to trial, he had to restrict it to one defendant. he indicted the person he felt was most culpable. and today i think what the judge did was two fold. one, she gave them another six months to get ready for trial. in a single defendant case. and, two, she made it quite clear to the trump legal team that the public relations games that they and their client play are not going to impact the decisions that she makes in the courtroom. and, so, i think for republican voters, the biggest thing they have to look at now is we're going to have a guy running for president who from march 4th, probably for the next four to six weeks will be every day in a courtroom in washington, d.c. and not campaigning against joe biden. this is disastrous for the republican party. and this is why i've been saying right from the time i got into the race, that given his personal conduct, given the stuff that he did himself, that he simply can't be our nominee. >> so, on that debate stage last week, you and governor asa hutchinson were the only two to talk to -- to call out what donald trump is accused of having done. although former governor or ambassador nikki haley pointed out that donald trump is the least popular politician in america and nominating him could be a bad idea for that reason. six out of eight of you, not including you and hutchinson, raised their hand and said they would support him even if they were a convicted felon. do you think the other six feel that way or just performing for the base? what do you think they actually think? >> you know, jake, i can't imagine that six experienced people up there who have had the life experiences that they have had and the political experiences that they've had could actually think that that is the right answer. that that is the right answer for our party. but more importantly, that is the right answer for our country. and they'll have to search their own hearts and their own conscience about why they made the decision they made to raise their hand. but what i'll tell you is that i had absolutely no doubt in my mind that it is the wrong thing to do for our party. and it is the wrong thing to do for our country. we cannot normalize this conduct, jake. put aside the charges and whether you agree or disagree with the charges. no one disputes the conduct. and the conduct that underlying it is not only beneath the office that he held at the time that he committed many of these acts, but it is way below the conduct that you would want for someone who is going to ask toer that job back. and i want republican voters to understand, they nominate donald trump and he's going to lose to joe biden and independent voters will abandon us in a general election and that will mean a packed supreme court and a filibuster that i think republicans in this country will find a hard time living with and we don't have to. we could nominate someone who could take on joe biden and his record directly and i believe i'm the best person to do that. >> there was a column in the philadelphia inquirer talking about how he thought the news media was doing a disservice to the public by not frankly and candidly describing what he views as an authoritarian streak going on in the republican party. you haven't read the column i assume so i won't ask you about it. but you do describe the conduct of donald trump trying to overturn the election as -- as reprehensible. you do condemn it? but so many people in your party, and i'm not just talking about people running for president or on capitol hill, but i mine voters, republican voters don't seem to have a problem with it. and i wonder, do you think that your party has an authoritarian problem? that they really honestly don't have say problem with violently trying to stop a free and fair election from going forward? >> no, jake, i absolutely don't think that we have that problem. i think what we have is a donald trump problem. and that right now what is gone on is that people view donald trump synonymously with republican party. and that if you oppose trump, that is somehow favoring biden. and many republicans don't want to do that. for very obvious reasons. and i think that that is why we need to have this full debate and discussion that we just really started on wednesday night about who should be leading or party and who should be leading our country and i said clearly on the authoritarian side of things, this is donald trump's problem not the republican party problem. he's the guy who thinks that vladimir putin is an excellent leader and brilliant. he's the guy who thinks that president xi is straight out of hollywood. he's the guy who thinks kim jong-un is wonderful. i mean, these are ithings that he's said about the authoritarian leader and that is because donald trump would like to be one himself. he likes that. he doesn't want to debate with anyone as he showed on wednesday night. he doesn't want anybody to disagree with him. and, look, that is just not the way our system works. and i know that the truth is what matters the most. i'm going to continue to stay up for the truth. i urge everybody to go to chris christie.com and donate to support the truth. because we're going to keep saying it. on i think it is going to get through to republican voters an to voters across country. but it is going to take time and i'm going to be patient and persistent. >> governor chris christie, thank you so much for your time today, appreciate it. >> thank you, jake. appreciate it. coming up, the latest from police after murders near a florida campus motivated by racism. and a new update as tropical storm idalia gains strength to set its sights on florida's gulf coast. stay with us. entle. it cleans better, and doesn't leleave behind irritating residues. and it's's gentle on her skin tide free e & gentle is epa safer choice certified. it's got to be tide hi, we've both got a big birthday coming up. so we have a lot of questions about medicare plans. we've got a lot of answers! well for starters, do you include hring benefits? how about a plan with ntal, vision and hearing benefits? i sure like the sound of that! then how does a zero dollar monthly plan premium sound? ooooooooh! if you're new to medicare, call 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then turned the gun on himself until once police arrived. before that, the gunman had texted his father to go to his room and that is where the gunman's father found these deranged racist messages that the gunman left. it is a pattern of hatred we have seen quite a bit in recent years and in the united states and in 2021 a report released from both the fbi and the department of homeland security called domestic violent extremism the greatest terrorist threat in america right now. carried out by white supremacists. in june 2015 at a black church in charleston, south carolina, a white supremacist killed black people who welcomed him in for prayer. in el paso, texas, targeting hispanics at a walmart killed 23. just 15 months ago in buffalo, new york, another white shooter motivated by hate and racism killed ten african americans. this are just some of the hateful attacks against minorities within past few years and today it is jacksonville, florida. reeling from a form of hate and violence in the united states. let's brin in brian todd outside of the dollar general store in jacksonville. and we're learning more about what happened when this shooter initially shopped at edwards waters university, a historically black college before killing three people at the store where you are right now. >> reporter: that is right, jake. just a short time ago new and very disturbing information coming from school officials at edward waters university, just a few blocks away from here. talking about what the shooter did, what -- what took place when a security officer encountered him on the campus of edward waters university. that was lieutenant antonio bailey and he said that he was tipped off by a student that the shooter looked out of place on the campus of the university. and then he approached him. here is what he said happened next. >> there was a individual that was putting on tactical vests, putting on gloves and putting on a mark and hats. and at that time, you know, i just wanted to approach the vehicle and figure out what he was doing on the university property. >> reporter: and lieutenant bailey said when he approached the shooter, the shooter then sped off in his vehicle. jumped a curb and also him a column. also some interesting information from the president of edward waters university, who said a short time ago that the aim of the shooter was to come to florida's first historically black university and to commit murderous havoc. but the sheriff of jacksonville tk waters said he did an opportunity to attack people on the campus and didn't take it. jake. >> brian todd in jacksonville, florida. coming up next, the reaction at edwards waters university where the jacksonville gleam was spotted just before his deadly rampage. tourists p photographing thousands of miles of remote coral reefs. that can be analyzed by ai in real time.. ♪ so researchers can identify which areas are at risk. and help life underwater flourish. ♪ but, you also can't leave 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(gentle music) sticking with our law and justice lead and the aftermath from saturday's racist deadly attack in jacksonville, florida, where a white gunman, motivated by racism killed three innocent black people, i want to bring in jacksonville city councilman rockman johnson, a professor at edward waters university, where the gunman initially stopped. first of all, councilman johnson, how are you, how is the community and how is everybody doing? >> i will tell you -- jake, thank you for having us on. there was a heaviness in this community that continues. i'm better. but i will tell you after i went over near the school to talk with our students and be with the community, i came back to city hall, sat in my office, closed the door and cut the lights out. that's how heavy it felt being here. every journalist -- i've spent my entire life telling stories. this story literally snatched my heart apart. >> i want to ask you as a journalist, a former journalist, if campus security alerted jacksonville police after the shooter sped away, after being approached, or if the issue was dropped once he left? >> -- as a journalist, we'll always be inquisitive. i asked the security team myself. that's what they said, they immediately called jso, the sheriff's office in progress while they were pursuing the suspect. i'm working to get more information. we were briefed by the fbi, the sheriff's office and office. the question exists why wasn't that person stopped since they were trespassing on the campus of edward waters? what was it that allowed them to get away? i certainly appreciate the things that that security department did, but i want to look at what can be done differently. and, we were supposed to be there, meaning my colleagues on the council and so many others, secretary marcia fudge, we partnered with her for the house party. the house party event was scheduled to be at edward waters on saturday. however, we ended up moving the victim to the state college, florida state college about two miles away because there was an issue with the pipe that caused the air conditioning to go out. but by happenstance and, of course, due to the blessings of god, we ended up not being in that space. this could have been so much worse. >> so many questions follow all of these tragedies. one of them that i have, those put under the baker act, which the gunman was under as a teenager, they're not allowed to legally purchase guns. the baker act allows them to be examined up to 72 hours when they're undergoing a mental health crisis. they said there was nothing indicating that the gunman couldn't own any laws. do you think this law, people with severe mental health problems, a danger to themselves and others, gun laws, do you think it's strong enough? >> jake, we're just weeks away from passing a permitless carry statute in the state of florida. absolutely they're not strong enough. this intersection leaves loops available so we end up with people who don't need to have guns, don't need to have access to these kinds of weapons and they get them. we're also in a place where the kind of divisive rhetoric coming from some of the people in leadership, when you come -- especially when it deals with issues with the african american community, where it talks about -- i'm sure you've heard it before, where they were saying that slavery had benefit to some of the people that were slaves, that were enslaved. when you start having those conversations and you want to get rid of diversity, equity and inclusion programs, you're planting the seeds of discord. those seeds are what we saw from this crazed gunman on saturday. >> not to get into the quibble about the changes. i think it was the idea that it's in the curriculum that some slaves were able to learn trades that later able to benefit from. >> i'm not going to get into it. >> thank you for your time today. our thoughts and prayers are with all the people from the community of jacksonville and edward waters university. coming up, the brand new forecast for tropical storm idalia which has a path set on hitting florida. stay with us. ♪ ♪ ♪ wherever you go. wherever you stay. all you need is one key. earn and use rewards across expedia, hotels.com, and vrbo. wayfair has deals so big that you might get a big head. because with savings so real... you can get yo dream sofa for half the price. wayfair. it's always a big deal. ♪ wayfair, you've g just what i need ♪ how long have you been tracking the value of our car? 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