Greatest represented democracy in Human History and thats us and happy halloween. And thats hardball for now. All in with chris hayes starts right now. Tonight on all in why in the world the fbi would decide to jump into an election with no evidence of any wrongdoing with just days to go. Fbi director james comey under fire. Ten days to go . I think its disgraceful. Criticism coming from across the political spectrum. I think this is probably not the right thing for comey to do. But is the fbi decision actually impacting voters . Well breakdown the state of the race with over 23 million votes already cast. Jew usa rom lock her up to jew sa if in a donald trump
close to the election. A second source later confirmed that same story to the huffington post. Now, this all comes as comey faces growing backlash for his decision three days ago to announce the bureau had discovered a new trove of emails belonging to top clinton aide huma abedin discovered during an investigation of abedins estranged husband, anthony weiner, for allegedly sending elicit texting to an underage girl. We still have no idea whats in those new emails and we have no idea if they have anything to do with the original investigation of potential Classified Information on Hillary Clintons private email server. The fbi has now began to review abedins emails but it remains unclear if they are finished before election day. What we do know about the emails and the decisions to make them public 11 days before the election has come largely by leaked to the press. Comey explains his thinking and acknowledges potential consequences. Given that we do not know the significance of this newly discovered collection of emails, i dont want to create a misleading but i wanted you to hear directly from me about it. Anonymous sources said he had two main reasons, a sense of obligation to lawmakers and testified this summer and concern that word of the New Discovery would be leaked to the media and be reported as a coverup. The Clinton Probe has been the subject of an internal feud at the fbi. Some investigators pushing for a more aggressive approach. Its been widely reported that in disclosing the new emails, comey acted against the guidance of his boss, loretta lynch, and against department policy. Earlier today, clinton addressed that issue in cleveland, ohio. Im sure a lot of you may be asking what this new email story is about and why in the
host janine piero. I think its disgraceful. Im outraged because its a violation of Department Justice policies and procedures, whatever. It was probably inconsistent with protocol so in that sense you have to question the decision. The protocols are put in place for a reason and ensures more consistent Decision Making and in that sense you have to question this decision. Comeys actions violate not only Longstanding Justice Department policy, the directive of a person that he works under, the Attorney General. But even more important, the most fundamental rules of fairness and impartiality. Even some of the gops most famous flame throw ers have bee critical. Joe walsh said, look, i think comey should have said prosecute
her back in july but what he just did 11 days before the election is wrong and unfair to hillary. And then a member of the outspoken Freedom Caucus in the case of the a postelection leadership coup. I actually agree. I think this was probably not the right thing for comey to do, but this whole case i think theyve mishandled. Im joined by sheldon whitehouse. Hes a former judiciary committee. Basically, this would leak, so instead of the director of the fbi writing a letter, you would have reports popping up from unnamed official sources saying we found a bunch of emails and it looked like a coverup so he had to do something. What do you think. If the fbi is not a safe
place for Classified Information or confidential investigative information to go, thats a problem that he needs to address in a very, very serious way. Theres a very important public right at stake behind all of this, which is that prosecutors and investigative agencies, like the fbi, get incredible power to look through our personal lives, to look through our papers, to look through our emails and they get that power at the price that they are not allowed to disclose it unless they are bringing charges. When i was the Attorney General of my state with broad criminal jurisdiction, when i was the United States attorney, we had a very clear rule. Any derogatory information that we developed in an investigation had to be listed in the charging document, in the indictment or in the criminal information or else we didnt talk about it. And if there were no charges, then we would never divulge
derogatory investigative information, least of all opinion about the suspect who had never been charged. So director comey broke that rule right off the bat with his first press conference. The Second Bright Red Flag is that you dont engage with the legislature. He had no obligation to congress to clarify anything. Once a prosecutor goes down the rat hole of trying to make sure that congress thinks that what hes doing is fair, theres no going back. And congress is perfectly able to manipulate that by denying its approval, by false criticism and so comey is caught in a terrible trap now of his own making and its stunning to people who are prosecutors if someone has experienced and honorable as him would fall into this trap. Its fascinating to hear that from a member of the article 1 branch, u. S. Senator, to say that this idea of sort of bending the congress or being worried that he was misleading the congress, you dont think
thats a legitimate concern in this case . Thats totally not a legitimate concern. Of all of the people that investigators involved in a criminal investigation should be concerned about, they have no obligation to congress. Look, they have an obligation to the integrity of their investigation. And the integrity of their investigation includes keeping information confidential and within the investigation until its charged. You dont get to be a smearer at large with derogatory information and thats what that rule is designed to protect against and thats the trap that director comey fell into and its astonishing. Whats so insane to me and ive got to give kudos to the team that reported this Paul Manafort inquiry, but its the same problem there. This stuff should not be leaking. Were journalists. But from an ethical standpoint what was interesting, after the comey
letter, you have three straight news days of articles with nothing but warring factions of the fbi leaking info without an investigation anonymously and prosecuting this in the court of the Public Opinion and shredding any presumption of innocence that might have existed. This is a terrible week for the fbi. I have never seen the agency with such indiscipline, with such disregard for these basic prosecutorial principles and ultimately when the dust settles, whether its donald trump or Hillary Clinton, the institution thats going to suffer the most will be the federal bureau of investigation for having broken these very, very basic principles of fairness and of prosecutorial conduct. Senator sheldon whitehouse, strong words. Thank you for taking the time tonight. Appreciate it. Im joined by Jennifer Granholm and richard painter, chief
ethics white house lawyer under george w. Bush. And mr. Painter, let me start with you. I read your oped. It was somewhat surprising to me but there seems to be a collective gasp happening after what weve seen played out in the last three or four days. Well, absolutely. The fbis job is to investigate, not to play politics and the fbi certainly doesnt have an obligation to report to congress but should not be reporting to congress. And the members of the House Oversight committee have no business pressuring the fbi to deliver to them information on their political enemies. In this case, Hillary Clinton. Now, in this situation, it appears that the fbi did not have any derogatory information about secretary clinton because they hadnt even gotten a warrant to look at the laptop. So they didnt even know what was in there and yet they are
firing this letter up to the hill telling the members of congress that they have all these emails. That was inappropriate and, not only that, a violation of the hatch act. The only use of that letter only conceivable use is political. And thats exactly what was done with it and it went up on the internet and then they passed the torch to donald trump and this is a tragedy for the fbi. I am i want to ask you a question, jennifer, in a second. But let me just follow up on that. The hatch act is the federal statute that guides essentially that bars political activity while on the federal dollar. It creates bright lines between essentially Civil Service activity and political activity. Its a very important part of the Civil Service architecture of the country. Youre accusing comey of violating that. Thats a very serious thing to say. Well, its he did violate
it. The members of congress, they are not subject to the hatch act. Right. Theres the president. But the president cant order the fbi or pressure the fbi to investigate his political enemies. Neither can members of congress. And thats whats been going on here and weve had it going on for a year and the fbis conducted its investigation. They closed the investigation and, by the way, they did not reopen the investigation. I dont know where that came from. But once this letter was sent, its been blown out of proportion in the media. Its being used for politics and the hatch act prohibits the use of official position to influence an election and i cant imagine a worst violation of the hatch act than the fbi getting involved in partisan politics in trying to influence elections. Jennifer, the Clinton Campaign has been very aggressive on this. You know, theyve organized several phone calls, theyve been public in their frustration and condemnation of james comey. Theyve accused him in the wake
of the report of him keeping the fbi out of that letter about russia of a double standard, that he was careful about that, not here. Is the Clinton Campaign taking a sledgehammer to an important American Institution in precisely theyve attacked donald trump of doing . Its not just the Clinton Campaign doing it. You have 50 Attorney Generals who have signed a letter, bipartisan investigation officials, people who are not affiliated with either camp who have long spent their careers as professional investigators or prosecutors signing on saying this as mr. Painter has said this is unprecedented. I do think, chris, the double standard issue is a really important one. Tonight, youve got this allegation, this acknowledgement that the fbi has opened an inquiry into Paul Manafort and his ties to russia and about a month ago there was another report by yahoo that the fbi and intelligence officials were
investigating another official tied to the Trump Campaign named carter page and who was supposed to have ties to russia. Those things are really explosive and if the fbi if comey came out and sent a letter to congress saying, yes, im investigating the fbi for this, there should be there would be incredible outrage. But you dont hear any of that happening. Let me stop you right there. The only way we have it is someone leaking it which is improper. That is definitely true. My point is, you dont have the director of the fbi coming out and confirming that. And he is the face of the fbi, which is why this is such a pickle and which is why only he, now that hes gone through this door, he needs to step through and tell us what he has. I know that it may be you know, we dont know how big the universe is, we dont know if
its just emails that huma sent saying print this or Something Like that, your cars outside. We have no idea what they are. But if it is an innocuous as i know the Clinton Campaign believes it to be, then he needs he has a duty to let the citizens know that theres nothing here, if he can. This entire episode is a reminder of what a thin line it is between the fbi independent and fbi rogue and for much of his life it was in the latter category. Thats something to keep in mind. Jennifer granholm, richard painter, thank you so much. You bet. Still to come, the new unbelievable pro trump ad from white nationalists. Thats after this break. You work at ge . Yeah, i do. You guys are working on some pretty big stuff over there, right . Like a new language for crazybig, worldchanging machines. Well, not me specifically. I work on the industrial side. So i build the worldchanging machines. I get it. You cant talk because its super highlevel. No, i actually do build the machines. Blink if what youre doing involves encrypted data transfer. Wait, what . Wowwww. Wow . What wow . There is no wow. [burke] hot dog. Seen it. We know a thing or two because weve seen a thing or two. We are farmers. Bumpadum, bumbumbumbum just serve classy snacks and bew a gracious host,iday party. No matter who shows up. Do you like nuts . Chanted jew sa. [ crowd chanting jew sa ]. It will be a very, very high priority. That man has been identified as a 51yearold and he says thats the way i say usa adding, im around mexican people all the time. I speak spanish. Thats just the way i say it. Not making it up. Seeing as he ended his rant by telling reporters, were worried about the jews, okay . Trump Campaign Manager Kellyanne Conway described his conduct as deplorable. We have seen a lot of
antisemites and racists and misogynists who support the trump candidacy. Would you call that deplorable . It does not reflect our campaign or candidate. I have to push back on the adjectives that youve described. These are usaloving americans. Absolutely. Who want the country to be safe and prosperous again. The vast majority are not those who chant jew sa but William Johnson leaves a quote, the white race is dying out and attacked Evan Mcmullin who is saying hes going to defeat trump. Evan has two mommies. Hes over 40 years old, not
married and doesnt even have a girlfriend. I believe hes a closet homosexual. Dont vote for Evan Mcmullin. Vote for donald trump. In new mexico yesterday, trump falsely claimed hillary advocates, quote, open borders and certainly suggested she would allow 650 Million People to, quote, pour in, more than twice the current population, in just one week. He also cited a baseless claim sayi saying immigrants will murder americans. They have warned that hillarys radical plan would result in the loss think of this of thousands of innocent american lives and an uncontrollable flood of Illegal Immigrants across the border taking jobs and crime would be
rampant. Joining me now is jason. I guess its one of these things where you have this conversation, you point to all of these various people and say, look, its really a thing that these people are supporting trump and the trump folks say and i understand why they do, youre painting with a broad brush and the overwhelming majority are not like that. People dont stand at the rally of a Major Party Nominee chanting jew sa. Right. Right. Donald trump was a racist and gets support by racists. This has not been a question for a long time. He started this campaign by saying there are rapist mexicans and good mexicans. And this is a problem. And its not because we havent had racist president s before. We definitely have throughout american history. I would say that would be the norm, actually. Exactly. Hes not going to be the first. But hes mainstreamed it. Even the turn altright. Now we have hipster neonazis and thats considered fine and
sexy. Its dangerous no matter if he loses next week. Part of this i think is the atmosphere that is driven by the campaign, right . So theres not right. Campaigns are not responsible for everything their supporters do. Thats just a blanket, important rule. But they do not they have been slow to condemn certain things and heres Wayne Alan Root at a trump rally talking about huma abedin and Hillary Clinton. Take a listen. I have a name for the feature tv movie called Driving Miss Hillary and the ending, if we all get our wish, is like thelma louise. Hes saying we all get our wish that these other two people will die. Right. That is sort of par for the course rhetoric. Yeah. And its become normal. And i dont know, maybe thats his new trump tv show. I dont know. But what weve seen here is that whether its bill burr, a candidate in North Carolina, donald trump, the idea of causing direct violence against your political opponent is a degradation of political discourse. The suggestion that i will jail my political opponent is a degradation of political discourse. The reason we have peaceful transfer of power, people dont worry if they lose they are going to end up in a ghoul la. It makes everyone much more concerned. I would not be surprised if we see violence after this election next week and thats not something anyone wants to see. Im praying thats not the case. Richard burr in a neckandneck battle audio of him addressing it and i want to play that audio making a joke about Hillary Clinton in a gun magazine. Take a listen. Nothing made me feel any better than i walked into a gun shop i think yesterday in
there was a copy of rifleman on the counter and its got a picture of Hillary Clinton on the front of it. I was a little bit shocked at that. It doesnt have a bullseye on it. And he says, look, that was a joke and has since apologized. But there is you know, you cannot go to any event anymore where the range about the feeling of Hillary Clinton is either she should be in a jail or she should be dead. Right. And heres what i see is ultimately the problem with this. Kellyanne can say the Trump Campaign is trying to distance itself from it. This has been the problem in the Republican Party for years. This is what Reince Priebus tried to fix saying we need to open up the party but instead they have gone full and the longterm consequences of this, if you have sitting senators who can make jokes about killing
someone who may become president , what that does is embolden less stable, less invested people in this country to attack, to shoot, to possibly try to capture a Voting Location and thats a problem. Trump is responsible for it. Lets all remember, it didnt start with trump. Jesse helms joked about the president being assassinated if he came to North Carolina back when bill clinton was president. Thanks for joining me. Thank you, chris. Still ahead, the state of the race eight days out, coming up. And the seagulls theyll be smilin and the rocks on the san its so peaceful up here. Yeah. [eagle screams] that the whole wide world is watchin. Introducing the new Turbocharged Golf Alltrack with 4motion® allwheel drive. Soon to be everywhere. [dance music playing] [music stops] woman looks like its done. [whistle] [dance music playing] [record scratch] announcer Dont Let Salmonella get funky with your chicken. On average, one in 6 americans will get a foodborne illness this year. You cant see these microbes, but they might be there. So, learn the right temperature to cook each type of meat. Keep your family safe at foodsafety. Gov. Legality of the actions of North Carolina elected republican officials has once
again been called into question, this time in a lawsuit alleging the state board of elections in three individual county election boards are purging voter roles in a manner disproportionately targeted against africanamericans. Naacp claims, canceling the Voter Registrations of thousands of North Carolina voters has been targeted and the lawsuit offers details on the disproportionate impact on black voters. For example, in beaufort county, black voters make up 65 of the challenges even though the county is 26 africanamerican. Theres an Emergency Hearing on that lawsuit on wednesday in u. S. District court in winston, salem. All of this may sound very familiar. It was this past july that a federal Appeals Court struck down a North Carolina voter i. D. Law saying its provisions deliberately targeted africanamericans with almost surgical precision in an effort to depress and suppress black turnout at the polls. It was only a week ago that an
analysis showed that the reduction in early voting sites in North Carolina, again, pushed through by the states republican governor, reduced the number of early votes. For example, guilford county, cut early Voting Locations from 16 to just one. It saw inperson voting decline roughly 85 . The picture is one of republicancontrolled state and local government making it harder for africanamericans to vote sometimes targeting the means of voting that they know will be disproportionately used by black voters. Nationwide, there have now been 23 million early votes already cast in this election, nearly 12 million in Battleground States and that early voting acts as a hedge against wild fluctuations in the final days. What effect is james comeys October Surprise having on those polls . Well talk about that, next. Even a rodent ridealong. [dad] alright, buddy, dont forget anything [kid] i wont, dad. [captain rod] happy Tuesday Morning captain rod here. Its pretty hairy out on the interstate. Traffic is
literally crawling, but there is some movement on the eastside overpass. Getting word of another collision. [burke] it happened. December 14th, 2015. And we covered it. Talk to farmers. We know a thing or two because weve seen a thing or two. We are farmers. Bumpadum, bumbumbumbum [music] jess hey look, its those guys. Shawn look at those pearly whites, man. [music] bud whoa, cute shawn shutup. Jess are you good to drive . Shawn im fine. [music] [police siren] jess how many did you have . Shawn i should be fine. Jess you should be . Officer sir, go ahead and step out of the vehicle for me. Shawn yes, sir. Bud see ya, buddy. Today, shawns got a hearing, well see how it goes. Good luck so, it turns out buzzed driving and drunk driving, theyre the same thing and it costs around 10,000. So not worth it. So lets start with this idea of how much this is going to affect the race. Which a lot of people are thinking about. Whats your sort of general Working Theory right now . You know, weve looked back at october quote unquote October Surprises in the past and some of them move the polls and some dont and if they move the polls, its one or two points and so its possible we get Slight Movement but no Movement Works perfectly well. Christina, one of the reason i want to have you here, theres a way the political sicientists look at these polls and then the cable news does. Right. The Political Science idea, the fundamentals are the fundenls and most of this stuff is noise. Uhhuh. Is that your general working
theory . If you have asked me any other political year, i would say yes. The only caveat to this is that this year and this particular candidate, djt, i try not to say his name, hes so peculiar and unique because hes a celebrity, hes dominated the media, because essentially created a party within a party. Yep. And because he has no record in Public Office at all, which is weird. Not a drop. Not a drop. So some of our theories right now are on hold. Thats an understatement. Essentially, they are out of the window in some ways. We should say right now the Polling Average has clinton up in the three or fourpoint we have her by five, but, yeah. Somewhere around there. With 300 plus electoral votes if the election were held today, my general feeling about the election has been that a lot of
the moving up and down with donald trump has been it drifts away as he attacks a judge or has a feud with a goldstar family or boasts about Sexual Assault which is later confirmed by 12 women saying on the record he did similar things, but that that number its like a rubber band. They want to come back because they are partisan force a reason and hes the republican nominee. Thats exactly right. Before this friday, October Surprise ever broke, we saw trump moving up slightly in the polls before then. Even if he does rise, we cant necessarily say it was because of this. It is because he was getting more republicans than he was before after he shut his mouth. The key dynamic, even when he comes up to that ceiling, that is not and if you talk to the data folks who think about this a lot, they just think they have more votes. They think that the Obama Coalition is a bigger coalition and if they identify those voters, turn them out, that they have the bigger slice of the pie. So, im of multiple minds of this and this keeps me up at night. I do think Hillary Clinton, if we look at the electoral math, if we look at the states that she needs, i think my Political Science brain says she has them. If people turn out, not even at obama levels, if weve taken the average from 1992 until the principle, i think shes pretty solid. The issue is, i wonder if these trump people, who are firsttime voters, who have never been polled. Right. I wonder if they will turn out and they are the noise that we actually havent been listening to. And theres a lot of uncertainty here. Exactly. Yeah. And with Hillary Clinton in a lot of ways, less is more. So the less democrats see of her and the less independents see of her, the more they like her. And so in some ways thats been a strategy, to sort of keep her although, i would disagree in
this way. The less coverage they see of her, they like her. The more they see her, the more they like her. Shes great one on one and with crowds. Its the coverage of her. Thats the point. We have scandal, drama. We have sort of this throwback to 1992 and its all of the baggage that the clintons bring. The two biggest things that have happened from a polling perspective, the conventions, Hillary Clinton talking to you and the first debate, heres Hillary Clinton. So the best things for her have been her actually out there with sustained attention of her as a person and her candidacy and then it ebbs and it moves back in the direction. The emails are a proxy for distrust. Right. The more information we get about these emails, independents are struck with the fact that but the question about that is one of the things were seeing is how strong the partisan fundamentals are even
in parsing the email story at this late stage of the race. Asked about the October Surprise and you see in fact the clinton voters saying, no, we actually like her more. Right. And thats the question, in the big uncertainty, how many persuadables are left, how much this stuff affects them and introduced by the Johnson Stein the only reason donald trump has closed the gap in the last few weeks, its not because Hillary Clinton dropped. Its because donald trump went out and thats always the number to look at. If hes consolidating the republican base. Its still not been enough. Harry and christina, thank you for that. Thanks. Still to come, candid close accounts from those who work with donald trump and how they coax him away from angry tweets. And lower your ability to fight them. Tell your doctor if you are being treated for an infection or have symptoms. Or if you have received a vaccine or plan to. Inflammatory bowel disease can happen with taltz. Including worsening of symptoms. Serious allergic reactions can occur. Nows your chance at completely clear skin. Just ask your doctor about taltz. [baby talk] [child giggling] child look, ma. No hands. Children i, j, k. [bicycle bell rings] [indistinct chatter] [telephone rings] man hello . [boing] [laughter] man you may kiss the bride. [applause]
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one. Both posts have since been removed and the president of the police union apologized saying, these were Halloween Costumes, it was meant totally as a joke. I apologize if this offended anyone in any way. I never expected this reaction. It was poor judgment on my part. Nothing quite brings out poor judgment like halloween more than our election. Now were on a Winning Streak and im never taking them off. Do i know where im going . Absolutely. Were going to the playoff. Allstate guarantees your rates wont go up just because of an accident. Starting the day you sign up. So get Accident Forgiveness from allstate. And be better protected from mayhem, like me. But the best place to start is in the forest. Kubo i spy something beginning with. S beetle snow. Kubo no. Beetle snow covered trees. Monkey nothing to do with snow. Narrator head outside to discover incredible animals
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joking, next. [burke] hot dog. Seen it. Covered it. Influenced him most, an eye for an eye. Joining me is Michael Steele and benji. Its also not like hidden. Hes very much explicit about the role that vengeance, retribution, you hit me, i hit you, its central to the way hes conducted his campaign and his world view. This is part of what people like about donald trump and what donald trump thinks himself as his guiding principle. Im a counterpuncher, hell say, you have to Fight Fire With fire, hell say and applies this to so many different things, i thought it would be good to take this as the way it explains his view and politically hell attack opponents viciously, coming up with some excuse saying they attacked him but also with a policy level, torture, taking out families of
suspected terrorists. Killing Terrorist Family Members is quite illegal. Yes. Michael, the thing i keep thinking about it, theres this creation with Donald Trumps campaign how he went to the last Correspondents Dinner and the president dressed him down and poked fun at him and ill get you back. You wonder how thats going to be directed at the Republican Party should he fall short or even if he doesnt fall short, if he wins, either way, you know, we saw Kelly Anne Conway when Tammy Duckworth threw dirt on the grave. Youve got to think retribution is going to be on the mind after this election, win or loss, against the people he feels wronged him. I think youve already seen some of that. I think we can gather, from
benjys piece, that donald trump is an Old Testament guy. And because hes an Old Testament guy and really is coming out of the world of an eye for an eye and sometimes that extends into a lot of things that it shouldnt. For example, youve already seen just in the last few weeks where the Trump Campaign is like, you know, were not raising any more money for the party. Were just not. And thats just not what you do. Right. You know, with two or three weeks left in the president ial campaign. So theres some aspects of this where donald trump has had enough of the gop. Hes been fed up with this as he would look at them sort of elitists, weakminded leadership and sort of taking a strike out on his own to finish his campaign up on his terms in the way he wants to and that, again, is a slap in the face to the party. Part of it, also, this other sort of aspect of his personality, the way that people who work for him talk about him. Let me say that, for the record, that theres a sort of common theme like staffers on capitol hill, you have to manipulate them, pro us doers in Cable News Led to water. This is sort of a common sort of trope among people who have to staff folks but its another level with the way that trump staff talks about him. I mean, everyone around him is always talking about trying to kind of get this completely unruly undisciplined person to do certain things. It seems like a condemnation of the temperament of the person you want to give the Nuclear Codes to. You need to cajole him with brownies. Were talking about the most powerful job in the world. Every president can use a few brownies. Thats true. Its not like this hasnt happened in other administrations. Thats true. Theres a baseline. Yeah, there is. But i take your point this way because there is something about the difference that has been a stark one for donald trump. Heres a guy whos basically done a lot in business and in the private sector on his own Against The Odds without a lot of people telling him how to do it and, quite frankly, not giving a damn what they thought about how he was doing it from when his dad said Dont Go To Manhattan and its like, yeah, right, im going to manhattan. It shouldnt surprise us that you take this asymmetrical person who has never had to account to anyone other than himself and bring him into politics and were asking why Arent You Doing what we tell you to do . It doesnt work that way and the expectation that it ever would is a shame on us for thinking it. Right. Although, discipline, it matters in the white house. No, it does. Its not like hes being wild and out of control, right . It goes back to this theme. Judge curiel its retribution
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