a march to the capitol from the ellipse rally on january 6th but did not end up doing so." last december trump pardoned stone of charges stemming from the mueller investigation, but that won't help him here. tonight stone issued a statement in response to these subpoenas. it reads in part, "i have said time and time again that i had no advance knowledge of the events that took place at the capitol on that day." now, as for alex jones, the committee says he helps organize the rally ahead of the riot. the subpoena also says, "as you have stated, the white house told you on or about january 3 that after the ellipse rally on january 6th you were to lead a march to the capitol where president trump would meet the group. you and others on infowars repeatedly promoted president trump's allegations of election fraud and made statements implying you had knowledge about the plans of president trump with respect to the rally." last week alex jones was found liable for damages in defamation lawsuits that were brought by parents of the children killed in the sandy hook elementary shooting. his attorney responded to today's subpoena with this statement. "the first amendment guarantees the right of assembly and the right of petition for redress of grievances. we will be in touch with committee staff to determine what our next steps will be." the other trump allies subpoenaed include trump's current spokesman taylor broadowich and trump supporters dustin stockton and jennifer lawrence, no relation. >> taylor budowich reportedly slised a 501c-3 organization to conduct the radio and social media advertising campaign to get attendance at the meeting. ms. lawrence and mr. stockton helped organize a series of rallies in november and afterwards, and we want to know more about what they were doing and who was paying for that. >> stockton and lawrence released a statement saying they weren't surprised by these subpoenas and added this. "we are concerned that the timing during the week of thanksgiving, while most normal business is closed, is further demonstration that this committee is not acting in good faith." meanwhile, new video was just released today by the department of justice. it shows the rioters breaching a loading dock at the capitol during the siege. images show police trying to use that corrugated steel garage door to keep the surge of protesters out. police, however, were quickly overwhelmed, and the rioters streamed in after some of them assaulted the police officers. tonight the current president and first lady jill biden traveled to fort bragg in north carolina for an early thanksgiving celebration with service members as biden also focuses on making his economic plans law. inflation has threatened to overwhelm that domestic agenda. tomorrow he'll speak to our country about the economy. reports say the biden administration is expected to release oil from our strategic petroleum reserves in the coming days in an effort to slow rising gas prices. today biden renominated federal reserve chairman jerome powell to serve a second term. it's a move a lot of people saw as an attempt to maintain stability in an economy that is still recovering from the pandemic. right now there's increasing concerns about the rise in new cases amid fears of a possible holiday surge. we'll have much more on that later on in this hour. also tonight, the city of waukesha, wisconsin held a vigil to remember the five people killed when the driver of of an suv ran into a christmas parade on sunday and kept on driving. police say the suspect, darrell brooks, is facing five counts of first-degree intentional homicide. he is a repeat offender who was out on bail. his first court appearance is scheduled for tomorrow. with that let's bring in our starting line on a monday night. yamiche alcindor, white house correspondent for pbs news-hour, moderator of washington week also on pbs. phillip rucker, pulitzer prize-winning senior washington correspondent for the "washington post," notably co-author along with carol leonnig of the "new york times" best-seller "i alone can fix it." and former u.s. attorney joyce vance who spent 25 years as a federal prosecutor. she hosts the podcast "sisters in law" along with our friends kimberly atkins stohr, jill wine-banks and barbara mcquade. counselor, i need to begin with you. given the news at the top of our broadcast tonight, these two notable names are big names that come out seemingly late in the game on the subpoena list though we don't get to know how long the game is planned for. what's your read on this latest round of subpoenas? >> well, it looks like congress is doing what prosecutors typically do. they're following the money. they're trying to figure out who funded the events on january 6th, which will be very telling in helping them place accountability. p but they're also doing something else that i think is a sign that they have actually gotten a fair bit of information as they've been interviewing cooperating parties. they appear to be zeroing in on conversations that were attempted or perhaps had with the white house by people who were concerned that there was a risk of violence in connection with january 6th. and so now congress is trying to figure out did those conversations take place? if so, what was the reaction inside of the white house? and they're beginning to cross over from merely learning the truth into figuring out where accountability should be found. >> yamiche, some members of the base, especially those who appear daily on social media, are kind of trolling the committee over their perceived lack of aggression and their perceived lack of speed. having said that, though, i'm curious to get the reaction from your view at the white house of the committee activities this week. >> well, the president and white house officials have been very clear that this committee's work is essential. the president has said over and over again that january 6th was a dark moment and that it really needs to be probed and that people need to be held accountable. and what we see today is really a subpoena of people who would be really, really knowledgeable about what went into january 6th, the planning of the rally, what the safety concerns were. you have some of the people that were -- that are subpoenaed now, the committee laying out that some of them were even so worried about the sort of safety issues there that they were in touch with a liaison, katrina pearson, a liaison, who was then supposed to tell former white house chief of staff mark meadows about the safety concerns of the people who were planning the rally. these are trump supporters saying hey, i might be worried. then of course you have roger stone, who is a close ally of the president -- of the former president. you have alex jones, someone who of course has spread a lot of misinformation and disinformation over the years. so this really in some ways is just a committee bearing down and looking even more closely at some people who would have knowledge. the white house is being clear they want to make sure they stay independent of sort of justice issues. but obviously the white house is paying attention. and as we know, they've kavd v waived executive privilege for at least the initial set of documents because they understand this needs to be probed. >> phil, indeed, to yamiche's point, they are paying attention. remind us if you you would the short version of roger stone's relationship with the now former president, how it has changed if at all, and his relationship with groups like these would-be army men, the proud boys. >> yeah, brian. so roger stone is a figure who has operated in the dark corners of american politics for decades now. when donald trump was just a real estate mogul and reality television star, it was roger stone in trump's ear teaching him about politics, trying to get him involved with the hard right, trying to shape his ideological agenda. and of course when trump decided to run for president ultimately in 2015 roger stone was front and center as a key adviser. he ended up not working through most of that 2016 campaign. he was more of an outside figure then. but he's operated within the trump orbit ever since. and there have been moments when he's been close to president trump, former president trump, and moments when he's been distant from former president trump. he's also of course had his own legal challenges, his own connections to the russia investigation over many years. he's a rather complicated figure with a notorious past in politics. but he very much channels donald trump's id. he understands what trump wants, and what he understood, what roger stone understood in december and early january was that trump wanted to overturn the election. and stone went to work to try to galvanize trump's supporters here in washington in the run-up to january 6th and on social media and around the country to do their part to apply pressure to the congress to effectively reject the electoral college results in a bid to keep trump in power despite having lost the election. >> joyce vance, i imagine as a law professor you teach your students that a good lawyer should come out of law school ready to argue both sides. so with that in mind, if stone or jones hired you to be their lawyer, and i would pay cash money to be at that pitch meeting, but if that were the case, could you make a case against cooperating with these subpoenas? >> well, there's cooperation and then there's cooperation. and i suppose the case that they can make is to limit the questions that they will answer and the documents that they will turn over. and there may perhaps be some legitimate scope here. but the reality is when you're served with a congressional subpoena absent a question of privilege or some other legitimate defense, and these are clearly folks that are engaging on the campaign side of affairs, not the governance side, so there's no executive privilege anyplace in sight, you are obligated to comply with a subpoena, whether you like the investigation, whether it's law enforcement or congress. as american citizens we have certain obligations, and one of of those is to comply with a lawful subpoena. does that mean that this crowd will? i think likely not. they will throw up all sorts of red herrings. my first amendment rights are being invaded is one that we've already heard in this regard. but just because you have first amendment rights doesn't mean that you don't have to answer questions about your activities when a body with subpoena power makes a legitimate inquiry. so my advice would be go ahead and cooperate. what do you have to hide here? >> i misspoke. stone's relationship was with the oath keepers and not the proud boys. so followers of groups of this ilk i'm sure will be -- will hear me stand corrected. so let's see here. yamiche, let's pivot if we can into the actual business of governing. is this one of the weeks when we learn whether the biden white house can walk and chew gum? meaning the work continues on this massive social spending bill, the work continues to try to control inflation, things like gas prices, oh, by the way, the government is set up to run out of money shortly as is the u.s. military. >> well, in some ways when i talk to white house officials they would sort of underscore that the reason why president biden ran for the office and why they felt like his experience was one that would allow him to handle the responsibilities of the presidency is because he can walk and chew gum. he walked in of course during the middle of a crisis with the pandemic that has just been really i think -- it's intensified because of inflation, because of him trying to pass these big social policy plans. so the white house is absolutely trying, at least based on my reporting, they're trying to do all of these things, juggle all of these things. it's very, very hard, of course. and in some ways you see this in the president's poll numbers because americans essentially are deeply anxious about their lives. they're anxious about the virus. they're anxious about sort of arguing with their in-laws over thanksgiving this week when it comes to the vaccines and who's coming. they're focused on the price of gas, the price of meat, the price of groceries. all of those things people look to the white house, rightly or wrongly, to really deal with. add to that the president's really trying to push through this transformational bill as he puts it, this social policy plan. and while the house was able to pass it, which is a big deal, the senate is now going to possibly pull out important things including possibly paid family leave, something that senator manchin has not at this point backed and something that a lot of progressive women and a lot of progressives period really want to see in the bill. so this is going to be i think one of the weeks where we're going to see them do that but because we're not going to see any actual governing, it's a holiday week, the president's going to be in nantucket for the rest of the week, working a bit i'm sure, but mostly i think you're really going to see that over the next couple of weeks because there are all sorts of things to get done, between budget, between sort of running out of cash and the debt limit and of course passing the build back better act. >> phil rucker, like you i'm fascinated that yamiche singled out in-laws at thanksgiving. we'll have our investigative unit look into her -- the underpinnings of her reasonings there. but phil, while i have you, to another point yamiche made, this uptick in cases. give me the level of concern in the biden camp about this pandemic that we cannot seem to stamp out. >> well, brian, there certainly is concern in the white house but also throughout the federal government with the various covid officials who now for nearly two years have been trying to protect americans and trying to get rid of this virus that simply cannot go away. here in washington today was a big day. it was the first day that the mayor's order mandating masks inside of businesses, inside of restaurants, thatlifted as of t. and it of course coincides with what we're seeing, the rise in cases around the country. so there's actual concern here in washington that the lifting of the mask mandate may not last very long if these cases continue to spike, we may be back to wearing more masks and further shutdown. it's just a problem that continues to persist, and it's a political headache for this administration, the biden administration, which is really trying to grapple with it and really deal also with the fact that so many millions of americans are still hesitant to get those vaccines even as now americans are being urged to get their booster shots, there are so many who still haven't even gotten the initial vaccination shots and that of course is what medical experts believe is contributing to the continuation of the virus here in the united states. >> pandemic of the unvaccinated, they're calling it. phil rucker, yamiche'll asindhor, joyce vance, thanks to our first starting line of this holiday-shortened week. coming up our friends for us robert gibbs and tim miller are here to talk about what's at stake for the president as he faces this long to-do list we mentioned including passing his social spending bill. and later, remember this time last year? good. because those rising cases around the country are sparking concern just ahead of thanksgiving. as promised, we're going to talk to one of our leading public health experts about the recent uptick in both boosters and travel ahead of the coming holiday weekend. all of it as "the 11th hour" is just getting under way on this first of the week monday night, the view from the west wing. ♪ baby got back by sir mix-a-lot ♪ unlimited cashback match... only from discover. one of my favorite supplements is qunol turmeric. turmeric helps with healthy joints and inflammation support. unlike regular turmeric supplements qunol's superior absorption helps me get the full benefits of turmeric. the brand i trust is qunol. get help managing your money for the life -- and years -- ahead. with fidelity income planning, we'll look at what you've saved, what you'll need, and build a straightforward plan to generate income, even when you're not working. a plan that gives you the chance to grow your savings and create cash flow that lasts. along the way, we'll give you ways to be tax efficient. and you can start, stop or adjust your plan at any time without the unnecessary fees. we'll help you go from saving... to living. ♪ play all day ♪ - san francisco can have criminal justice reform and public safety. but district attorney chesa boudin is failing on both. - the safety of san francisco is dependent upon chesa being recalled as soon as possible. - i didn't support the newsom recall but this is different. - chesa takes a very radical perspective and approach to criminal justice reform, which is having a negative impact on communities of color. - i never in a million years thought that my son, let alone any six-year-old, would be gunned down in the streets of san francisco and not get any justice. - chesa's failure has resulted in increase in crime against asian americans. - the da's office is in complete turmoil at this point. - for chesa boudin to intervene in so many cases is both bad management and dangerous for the city of san francisco. - we are for criminal justice reform. chesa's not it. recall chesa boudin now. i think joe biden has been just -- his mindset is trapped in amber from the '90s where you could go back and play squash somewhere or racquetball and work these kinds of issues out. we're not there anymore. and i don't know -- for everybody on the panel who travels around the country, claire in the midwest, north, wherever we go, i've not met one regular voter anywhere who says i think we need more bipartisanship in washington. no one ever says that. no one outside of d.c. says they want more bipartisanship. what people say is they want things to get done. >> democrats have a lot to get done by the end of the year, in fact. first there's the most massive social spending bill since roosevelt. then there's the looming government shutdown deadline, the debt ceiling and a must-pass military defense funding. joining us now to talk about all of it, robert gibbs, former obama campaign senior adviser, white house press secretary of course under president obama. he also was co-host of the "hacks on tap" podcast. and tim miller, whose clothing choice may give away which of the 50 states he joins us from tonight. he is a contributor to the bulwark and the former communications director for jeb bush. gentlemen, good evening to you both. mr. gibbs, i presume you heard what jason johnson said this afternoon. we just ran there. agree or disagree? >> well, i agree with the passion of it. of course many in the democratic party and many in the democratic base feel that acutely. i remember in 2009, the first year of the obama administration, hearing those same arguments. the problem with what jason said is the reality of the world we live in. right? we have 50 democratic senators. so to get anything done almost assuredly requires the tie-breaking vote of the vice president. and that's before we even delve into the idea that in reality you need 60 votes. so while i appreciate it, the passion behind it, i don't think the statement honestly lives where we currently live in our government and in governing this country. i understand that frustration, and i think, you know, if you look at something like build back better i think the process of this has far overwhelmed the substance of it. i can imagine if we'd have started at 2 trillion and were whittling this down to 1.75 or 1.5 trillion, people might think this is a huge victory rather than starting at 6 trillion or 3 1/2 trillion and then 2 trillion. and so i think it's just -- it's a hard message when you're governing the country to have a little patience. i do think we're on the cusp as you mentioned of passing something as big as to list joe biden among the pantheon of people like franklin delano roosevelt. >> so tim, to part of robert's point there, is there any chance that all of us have overstapted the importance of build back better to the biden presidency, considering the talk always devolves to dollars and americans walking around today really can't name anything in the bill? >> i think for sure, brian. and mahalo for that introduction. i don't want to pile on jason when he's not here. so jason, we can debate this next week or in two weeks or something, bring jason on. but look, you can't get anything done with just one party. this is fantasy politics. this idea that joe biden should be able to wave a magic wand and solve everybody's problems. maybe biden leans a little bit more into bipartisanship than some folks on the left would have liked. but he passed this massive infrastructure bill that should provide very real results for people, and a lot of the parts of the country the democrats haven't done very well. i'm happy it hear they're campaigning on it, there are a lot of events throughout december on it. you know, rural broadband. there's a lot of elements of the infrastructure bill that they can and should sell. i think that looking ahead to next year if we're just going to talk about the raw politics of this rather than the impacts on people, the economic recovery, he reappointed powell to the fed changed, dealing with covid as i know you're going to talk about in your next segment, i feel like all of those things are more important than getting all the items to build back better and making sure the democrats do as well as they can in the midterms. there are policy reasons to want to advance what passed through the house even though there are some elements of that bill that i personally don't agree with. but i think as a political matter that isn't as important as i think some on the left are trying to make it out to be just looking ahead to the midterms. >> mr. gibbs, people are falling all over themselves to say, well, of course joe biden's going to run for a second term. and as a press guy you understand the underpinnings for that. you can't have a distraction one year into a presidency. you can't have questions around. but here's what our friend a.b. stoddard writes. "there is nothing reassuring about the oldest president to ever be elected promising three years out that he can handle a second presidential campaign, let alone a second term when the odds are that he cannot. democrats may hope biden will stand for re-election, but should his polling remain abysmal they are likely to change their minds." robert, the question is can you envision, can you envision an effort to replace him at the top of the ticket? >> not if he wants to run for re-election, no. i think that's what -- sitting presidents get to make that decision. i don't think you're going to find an effort to move him out. i don't think that would make quite frankly a ton of sense. look, i think it's a little crazy that we're talking about it with three full years left in a term, who's going to run for president on either side. and look, i think we have to acknowledge that in 2020 joe biden and donald trump ran as the two oldest presidential candidates. the likelihood is that donald trump is going to run again against joe biden and they'll be the two oldest presidential candidates plus four years on the record they set before. but i don't think there's going to be any -- any real desire to replace joe biden should he want to seek re-election. >> i don't know what else we'd talk about in the media if not who's going to run three years from now. robert and tim are sticking around, thank goodness. and coming up after this break we'll continue our conversation. even if a fallen trump insider's latest prediction about 2024 is right, his twice-impeached former boss is still making people within the party he controls nervous. we'll talk about that. feel stuck with student loan debt? move to sofi and feel what it's like to get your money right. 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"the new york times" puts it this way. "one year after his defeat, mr. trump is not only looming over the gop but also along with his imitators posing the biggest threat to what is shaping up to be a fruitful year for republican candidates. it is the former president's insistence on playing a haphazard kingmaker that is most troubling to republican officials and strategists." still with us robert gibbs and tim miller. tm miller, i note that trump's preferred candidate for senate in pennsylvania pulled out after a domestic legal case. here's the question. and the same rule as fight club. the only thing you can't say in your answer is glenn youngkin. is there any proof that any republican, again, not named youngkin can succeed after pushing trump away? >> one bit of good news for republicans in pennsylvania, dr. oz is right on sean parnell's heels now that parnell is out of the race. there's been a lot of buzz for oz to enter the race in pennsylvania. look, brian, i don't think so. and i'm going to break your fight club rule and break omerta and i'll say this about -- >> oh, man. >> here it is. you have to get this. there's a reason why it works. youngkin had a convention. it was a shorter year. and he was running against this absolutely insane pro-insurrection candidate in amanda chase. there is not a lot of evidence that that can be replicated in the current senate races we're looking at. we have herschel walker running in georgia. we have eric rightens and a pro insurrection attorney general in missouri. the clown slow in ohio. we just mentioned oz and parnell in pennsylvania. in these long lead two-year things you don't have the option to kind of of stay above the fray the way the man who shall not be named did successfully in virginia. so i think it's going to be really hard to replicate for republicans in the midterms. i think it's their biggest challenge frankly looking ahead to the midterms. i just want to add one quick thing to what gibbs had said before the break. we're one year in with biden and i think as you look ahead to 2024, you listen to the cohen comments there, reagan's numbers were horrible in '81. clinton's numbers were horrible in '93. so i do think that people -- like we have this desire that what is happening right now, you know, needs to be relevant to project out to what's happening three years from now. and i just think if you look at covid, you look at what's happening with the economy, things might look very, very different for biden next november than they do right now. i just want to sort of reinforce that point and caution people getting jumpy like my friend a.b. did, looking three years ahead. >> no, i note that. and it's -- a huge contributor is probably the tiny number of twitter users who account for about 97% of twitter traffic. and that becomes the kind of conventional wisdom on the left. so robert, the other thing tim left out about the future among the question marks is law enforcement that continues to grind at its own pace. what do you make of today's round of subpoenas, for example? >> yeah. i think whether it is subpoenas from the january 6th insurrection committee in washington, whether it is legal proceedings in the southern district of new york, i think the idea that trump is going to emerge unscathed is certainly unlikely. and i think will bring, you know, several train cars' worth of baggage to any prospective presidential campaign. look, michael cohen knows donald trump far better than i ever will. he worked for him for a long thyme. as you mentioned, was his fixer and his lawyer. but i have a hard time believing that donald trump is simply going to exit stage right and go play golf peacefully for the rest of his life. despite what many people might hope. i think the pull is going to be far too strong for him to want to avenge his loss. and i think he will do everything he can to drive himself to the nomination, to drive others away from it. i think the challenge is going to be whether it is what we talked about earlier around him picking clumsily primary candidates that may not fare well in general elections in these off-year campaigns, but i think there are a number of challenges too. republicans don't want and don't think you're going to win campaigns in 2022 or 2024 if your message is centered in 2020. >> gentlemen, thank you very much for coming on and for taking our questions tonight. learned a lot in this discussion. robert gibbs and tim miller as far out west as you can get and still be in the united states. greatly appreciate it. another break for us. and coming up, covid cases surging again and the timing could not be worse. and as a major newspaper put it, this will not be the post-pandemic thanksgiving so many of us had hoped for. beautiful on the outside, but if you have diabetes, there can be some not-so-pretty stuff going on inside. it's true, with diabetic retinopathy, excess sugar can damage blood vessels, causing vision loss or even blindness. so remember this: now is the time to get your eyes checked. eye care is important to your long-term diabetes management. see a path forward with actions and treatments that may help your eyes— and protect against vision loss. visit noweyesee.com and take control of your sight. no one can deliver your mom's homemade short ribs. for starters, your mom doesn't have a restaurant. if she did, it would be impossible to get in. she'd become famous overnight. she'd get talked into franchising everything. and at that point, they wouldn't really taste like your mom's short ribs. no one can deliver your mom's homemade short ribs. that's why instacart helps deliver the ingredients. 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>> yeah, brian, this is going to be an interesting kind of intergenerational mix of people who are traveling at record numbers, and because cases are rising particularly as you noted in the midwest and northeast we're probably going to have many scenarios, i'm already hearing about them, you might as well, where people are saying i was exposed to someone, i'm supposed to quarantine but i really want to see my family, and there will likely be some breakthrough cases that get generated from that. but as you point out and as dr. walensky commented, this still really continues to be a pandemic of the unvaccinated. however, we're going into a colder season. we're also seeing a lot of flu activity, much higher than last year of course. and i think to your point what we're hoping for is a decoupling of deaths and hospitalizations. so we see cases increasing but we're really watching those hospitalization and death rates because we hope that those hold stable or decrease, which really indicates that vaccines are working at preventing death and hospitalization. and what we're seeing are milder cases. but this is going to be kind of a nail-biting four to six weeks to see how the holidays affect caseloads and health systems around the country. >> and dr. patel, i want to play for you a bit of comments today from dr. fauci. this is a warning about immunity from vaccines. >> the effectiveness overall against infection declines from 87.9% to 48.1% as well as the vaccine against -- the vaccine efficacy against death. in people less than 65 and greater than 65. so we know we need boosters. >> so doctor, i was thrilled to hear you on one of our broadcasts say that the benefits of the booster come as early as 48 hours after the shot. is that another way of saying that everyone, if they are able, should move in the next 48 hours if they have thanksgiving plans with family and friends? >> yeah, absolutely. i think we've all kind of had that two weeks, brian, fixed in our heads. and that is true for that first series. doses one and two to take effect. think of the booster truly as a boost of what has already been established in your immune system. so we do see antibody levels rising at 48 hours and pfizer presented data last week to the fda and cdc that reinforced that you can see a reduction in infections in less than seven days. so bottom line, if you're over 18 and it's been six months since dose 2 or two months since one dose of j&j, you need a booster and you can get it tomorrow and it can actually make a difference on those intergenerational or holiday gatherings this week. >> no pressure, but a nation turns its lonely eyes to you. they would love to hear some form of good news. so i'll ask it this way, not knowing how you're going to answer. are gatherings this year, thanksgiving, christmas, new year's, as worrisome to you as they were last year? >> no, they're not. and i think because we're seeing social networks, brian, where most households where people are vaccinated are fully vaccinated or if children are eligible partly vaccinated. that creates a safe environment for celebrating. a year ago, brian, we didn't have these vaccines. so think about the effects that we can create just by having our household gathering vaccinated, masks off. i've got family coming in. i'm hopeful about this holiday season, but i'm also being cautious. i have an 82-year-old father. i'm going to take those precautions that are necessary. that includes making sure we're vaccinated. that also might include for households having access to at-home tests that you can do. they're not foolproof but they can be helpful. and then finally, ventilation if you need to and you're worried wearing masks and quarantining on either end for three days to just make sure that you're not in any high-risk activities if you're worried about anybody in your household. but brian, this should be a much better winter. but it's again up to us. we still have 30% of the population needs to be vaccinated and 70% that needs to have some form of boosting at some point in time. >> thank you for that answer. we hope people at home are paying attention. our guest tonight once again has been dr. kavita patel with our thanks. another break for us. and coming up, a look behind the scenes over what will be an industry under great stress over these next six days. ebenezer. ebenezer. ha ha ha ha. marley? 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