something we have having intensive discussions about. but the u.s. position is clear. we do not believe it makes sense for israel or is right for israel to occupy gaza. reoccupy gaza over the long term. and we like to see ultimately that transition take place and we can continue to work through the circumstances and the context for that transition. and then, your final question was on the hostages? look. here is what i will say. i can't characterize myself as optimistic or pessimistic. we are talking people being held in captivity, but their family members waiting hour by hour, day by day, to learn the fight of their loved ones to know when they will come home, when they will be able to embrace them again, hold them

again. and so i don't want to be in the prediction business with something as heavy as that. what i will say is that my meeting with the director of the masad last night, we met for more than twice the expected 45 minutes because we had a very detailed conversation about how to move forward to secure the release of the hostages. ultimately that will be something that we have to work in a very sensitive way between the u.s. and israel, working with qatar, with egypt, with other actors. and so i will leave that conversation where it belongs in those sensitive channels. but i will just say this has seized the attention from the very first day the president of the united states and every other senior member of his team and just this week the president met with the families of the american hostages to reaffirm for them that we're going to do

everything in our power working with our israeli counterparts to ensure every hostage comes home safely and i'll leave it at that for today. hallie jackson. >> thank you for doing this. looking ahead to your trip and the separate one on the broader conflict, the prime minister has suggested that the palestinian authority wants to destroy in stages. and that the palestinian authority needs to be revamped and revitalized. do you do you do you ha habas is best positio do what is next. and more broadly regionally, do you have any indication or any concern that the prime minister is poised to launch a bigger campaign against hezbollah in the north? >> so taking your second question first, as i have said and others in our government

have said, we believe that ultimately the citizens of israel who have been evacuated from the north have to be able to return to their homes and to do so with a true sense of security. and that means dealing with the threat that comes from the other side of the border. but we also believe that that threat can be dealt with through diplomacy and does not require the launching of a new war. now, it requires not just diplomacy but as i said in my opening deterrence as well because we need to send a clear message that well not tolerate the kinds of threats and terrorist activity that we have seen from hezbollah and from the territory of lebanon. but in our view, and i reaffirmed this yesterday, best way to do th come up with a negotiated outcome in which those israeli citizens in those communities up on the northern border can know that they are not going to be subject to an attack that would take their lives or destroy their

communities. we'll continue to work at that and i believe that we can accomplish that. and that is going to be a significant priority for the united states. when it comes to the palestinian authority, i'm not going to characterize personalities. what i'm going to say is at a basic level, we do believe that the palestinian authority needs to be revamped and revitalized. needs to be updated in terms of its representation of the palestinian people and that will require a lot of work by everybody who is engaged in the palestinian authority starting with the president. mahmoud abbas who i will go see. and ultimately it is going to be up to the palestinian people to work through their representation and it will be up to those leaders of the palestinian authority to work through the types of steps that they need to take to reform and update the authority for the situation we face today. the united states will be a partner in that with them,

respectfully, you know, and we'll be there to try to support their efforts to ultimately deliver a vision in which israelis and palestinians live side by side in peace and security. >> hello. what is the intensive phase continue for months if not for weeks as you hope, what the united states will do to save the lives of palestinian children and women. >> so i feel that very similar question from idf radio, the what if question down the road, and i said before that i'm not going to entertain those hypotheticals because my job here is not to go out into the future and say if x then y. it is rather here is how the united states sees the situation. here is the way in which we believe that israel can best ensure hamas never represents a threat to israel again, one. and two, protect the civilians

of gaza and enable them to have a future, a vision of a future where they can live in peace and security as well. that's what we're doing. i'm doing that today. president biden does that every time he speaks with prime minister netanyahu. and we're not kind of engaging in a hypothetical conversation about what could come. we are laying out what we believe is the best course forward. we're doing that behind closed doors because we think that is the best way to achieve convergence around an approach that satisfies those objectives. and obviously we will see how things unfold and make decisions accordingly. and the president will look at the situation at every point along the way and judge how the united states should react and respond to that. and i'll leave it at that for now rather than try to answer a hypothetical question for the future.

briton from abc. >> mr. sullivan, you mentioned israel's right to self-defense. does the right to self-defense justify the level of human suffering we're seeing in gaza right now? >> look, i think that we have to take a step back and put in context what has happened since october 7. on october 7 you had a terrorist group hamas come across the border from gaza into israel and massacre 1200 people in a brutal way. they then turned around and went back into gaza and hid behind civilian population using civilians as human shields, using protected sites like hospitals and schools for military purposes, embedding themselves among the innocent palestinian people and continuing to fire rockets at israeli cities and continuing to go out on the airwaves and say we're going to commit october 7 again and again and again. and go out and state we'd hike

to see israel's right to exist eliminated. so that is the reality that the idf is contending with when it goes in. it doesn't have the opportunity to meet hamas on a field of battle in a way in which civilians are off to one side and the terrorists are off to the other side. the terrorists chose to embed themselves among civilians. and that creates an incredible burden on the idf, a burden that is unusual for a military in today's day and age. now, that burden does not lessen the idf's responsibility to act in a way that distinguishes between terrorist targets and innocent people. and to take every precaution to protect civilians and minimize loss of life. it also doesn't lessen the burden by the way to ensure humanitarian assistance flows in such quantities that the

palestinian people have access to the food, water, medicine, sanitation, that they don't just need, that they deserve as a basic matter of dignity, of human beings. and so those are messages that we have conveyed quite clearly to the israeli people. but what i think has been lost a little bit in this whole debate is the responsibility that sits with hamas who not only is doing all the things i just described to put the palestinian people in a terrible position, but is also holding more than 100 hostages still to this day. men, women, children, in tunnels, in circumstances that are dire and deteriorating. so our position from the very first day of this conflict has been that israel has the right to go after hamas in these difficult circumstances and also has the responsibility to do so in a way that comports with our values, with international

humanitarian law and with the strategic necessity to see the fundamental difference between innocent palestinian people and these evil terrorists of hamas. and that is a position that we've stated publicly, it is a message we drive in very granular terms privately. and we'll continue to do so as we go forward. i'll take one last question from roy. >> hi. thank you very much. two questions. one i would like to follow up about the hostage. israel, idf, has recovered three bodies only today of people who went hostage in gaza. do you think israeli official understand the necessity of -- or the urgency to bring everyone home as soon as possible. and you mentioned besides qatar and egypt other mediators. is germany one of them. because it is reported that german intelligence would like

to be involved. and also about the houthis, there was another stincident in the morning, one yesterday, why we're not seeing any aggressive response by the u.s. against the houthis, against iran when you know it is on a daily basis and you have the firepower in the region. >> first on the houthis, i said last night on i think your network the houthis represent a material threat to freedom of navigation, to commercial shipping, to lawful commerce and they are doing so at a vital artery there in to the red sea. and the united states is working with the international community, with partners from the region and from all over the world to deal with this threat. we are building a coalition, we are working to ensure and rally the nations of the world all whom have an interest in seeing

this stop. this is not about the united states and israel. this is about the entire international community. and we'll continue to take every step that we deal necessary and appropriate to deal with the threat houthis pose. and to your question also deal with the fact that while the houthis are pulling the trigger so to speak, they are being handed the gun by iran. and iran has a responsibility to take steps themselves to cease these attacks because these attacks as i said before are a fundamental threat to international law and international peace and security. and we'll continue to consult about the best way forward, the best means of response. s secretary austin will be in the region in a couple days to continue to work on what the most appropriate response is. that response in our view shouldn't just be the united states, it should be a broader coalition of countries working together in concert and that is what we intend. with respect to the hostages, i

can't speak specifically to german intelligence and their role. what i will say is from our perspective, the more ideas, energy, and efforts that can be pursued, including with good partners like germany, bring it on. i mean, it would be good to be able to work with them in all of this. but the main effort to date in terms of the first round of hostage releases and the continuing discussions involve israel, the united states, qatar, egypt. and we'll look to other partners for their ideas and their thoughts on this as we go forward. and i think you asked another question, but i may have forgotten it. or maybe that is it. [ inaudible question ] >> yes, i believe it is a priority of the government to bring even home. i heard that in stereo yesterday

in my conversations. it is a paramount priority of the united states for our citizens but also for all of the rest of the hostages. i found it to be a priority for every member of the government. and then as i said something director is working intensively at the direction of the government in a way that frankly i find admirable, his personal efforts. and we'll continue our work on this and continue to work closely with the israeli government. thank you, guys. u.s. national security adviser jake sullivan speaking in tel aviv after meeting with israeli leaders about israel's war with hamas. a very warm welcome to our viewers joining us around the world. we want to go straight to melissa bell who was monitoring that at a very sensitive time in

u.s./israel relations. >> reporter: that's right. and this was very much a press conference designed to paper over any cracks that might have emerged the last few days between the united states and israel on a couple of different questions. first of all, the question of the time frame of when this transition from the high intensity bombing campaign that we've seen so far since israel's invasion of gaza began into something lower intensity that will involve intelligence-led targeted attacks against hamas. the united states has been urging for that to happen quickly. and what you heard jake sullivan there do was really address the fact that the conversations were going on, deny really that there is very much distance between the american and israeli position and remind the journalists he was speaking to that essentially these are ongoing conversations and decisions that israel will take. the question of when that phasing out of the first phase

and bringing in of the second phase happens simply he reminded those journalists that it will happen in the future. not giving any details really about what was discussed specifically because he says it is about not telegraphing that to hamas. the other question of disagreement that has emerged between washington and tel aviv these last few days, the question of what happens after hamas. we heard benjamin netanyahu refer to that couple days ago speaking of a difference of view about what should happen afterwards. the american position is that the palestinian authority needs revamped and it should perhaps take control of what happens in gaza once hamas has been eliminated. this is something that benjamin netanyahu had really dismissed out of hand but jake sullivan hopes that this will be something that can be discussed with mahmoud abbas when he meets with him later today. so very much the press conference designed to show that

israel and the united states are on board with each other, there are conversations that continue and there is broad agreement on what should happen next even if the time table remains fairly vague. >> melissa bell, thank you so much for your insight. as the u.s. pushes israel to change its strategy in fighting, turkey says they must have a permanent ceasefire. turkey's president erdogan told joe biden during a phone call according to a readout from the turkish government. president erdogan said the way to do that is to use american support for israel as leverage. let's turn to scott mclean who is live in istanbul. this is an important relationship for the u.s. and does offer some insight on how to deal with israel. >> reporter: that's right. turkey of course is a nato ally. but joe biden and recep tayyip erdogan have not had a direct

conversation, at least one that is publicly known since the conflict in gaza began. erdogan has been one of the most outspoken critics of israel and obviously biden has been one of its closest allies. when you compare the readouts on how the call went, it is really remarkable to see how little crossover there is. there is no indication, at least on my reading of it, that they really agreed on anything at all. of course you have biden saying that the u.s. supports israel's right to defend itself and erdogan's side is saying that look, the u.s. should withdraw its unconditional support for israel in order to get a ceasefire. and the fundamental problem is that turkey and the united states see this conflict fundamentally differently. turkey views israel as the terrorist state and does not view hamas as a terror group. i had a conversation this week with erdogan's chief adviser on

foreign policy and security, and i asked him about unconfirmed reports that the hamas leader was actually in turkey on october 7. i also asked him about the fact that that mhamas leaders are ab freely in the country. here is part of the conversation. a lot of people in the west will wonder why turkey agreed to host hamas members at all. >> they are asking that question today, but the issue is we have been trying to resolve the palestinian/israeli conflict for a long time now. and whether people like it or not, the fact is that fetah and hamas are part of this. >> was the hamas leader in turkey on october 7? >> i'm not aware of his whereabouts in the world so i

cannot answer on that. >> is it possible that he was here? >> it might have been. >> reporter: but again, turkey does not see this as any kind of a problem even if he was here. obviously hamas not viewed as a terror group. and erdogan's chief adviser there made clear that turkey thinks that it is better to engage with hamas. he said that it is actually something that israel asked turkey to do more than a decade ago to engage with them and work with them and that is what he said turkey is doing in order to help broker some kind of an eventual peace deal. >> okay. scott in istanbul, thank you. eight people suspected of planning attacks on jewish institutions have been arrested in several european countries. germany's federal prosecutor says authorities arrested three in germany, one in the netherlands accused of being long standing members of hamas. authorities say the suspects

allegedly started searching for an underground weapons cache in europe for hamas earlier this year. and in a separate incident three were arrested in denmark and one inth netherlands for terrorism offenses. authorities say they were acting on behalf of the hamas terrorist organization but didn't provide any further information. let's take you now to brussels where any moment now eu leaders are begin second and final day of their summit. the israel-hamas war and fight against anti-semitism and islamophobia are on the yaagend. thursday they announced talks with ukraine and moldova. they say it was an important moment of unity. >> this is really important. we want to support ukraine. this is a powerful decision.

and today and tonight, i think to the people of ukraine that we are on their side and this decision made by the member states is extremely important for the european union. >> but he didn't take up most of the attention, it was actually the hungarian leader that seemed to be the man of the moment, bianca. >> reporter: it has been a summit of twists and turns. yesterday people were expecting summit that was due to end friday afternoon to stretch all the way through to sunday, that it would be difficult meetings. but uneffectedly viktor orban essentially abstained from the vote and officially start the negotiations. it has taken quite a few hour, but we've got a good sense of what happened now. it really was a surprise.

apparently macron tried to argue with orban saying your issues with ukraine don't hold up and also another diplomat saying it is quite rich given hungary has its own issues with the rule of law. so it was suggested get a cup of coffee out of the room so we can to this vote without you. so it was a surprise turn of events. but then viktor orban blocked this 50 billion euro package intended to give ukraine support for its economy through the next four years. that is likely to be discussed in january. leaders are optimistic about it, but it is probably the case that viktor orban can't concede two things at the summit. so he has allowed the ukraine to continue with these discussions, become an eu member, but he probably can't count on giving

the green light to that euro fund. but president zelenskyy acknowledged that this next step becoming a member of the european union will be a difficult process and probably a long time in coming. >> translator: today we had the decision to start negotiations on joining the eu. after this step, there will be further ones. it is a big job. all institutions, all norm, all this to the european union. but we'll do it. ukraine has proven more than once what it is capable of. there will be another victorious decision, there will be a time when we can celebrate ukraine's accession to the eu. now in ukraine many people are in high spirits and this is important. it is motivation. >> on average, it can take about a decade for a potential member state to become an official member of the eu, but that depends on the state of the

country. with ukraine at war, with issues of corruption and current state of its economy, it would likely take a lot longer. so this is an important diplomatic win for zelenskyy, but he's had a disappointing trip to the u.s. in terms of funding, he hasn't got the 50 billion euro k34i789commitment e eu. so any new membership is rendered pointless if vladimir putin has success in his invasion of ukraine. >> bianca, thank you. next, nikki haley wins the support of female republican voters. and a jury will resume deliberations in the defamation trial against rudy giuliani, it could cost him tens of millions of dollars.

the u.s. is just one month away from the iowa caucuses where republican voters will get the first chance to throw their support behind their presidential candidate of choice. donald trump rallied in iowa on wednesday urging supporters not to take his substantial leads in the polls for granted and to show up to caucus on january 15.

the former president also took the chance go after two of his main competitors. >> desanctus doesn't even like farmers. and i keep hearing about the surge from haley. i'll never vote against you, i'll never run against you, you've been a great president, sir, this goes on for a year and a half and then i hear she's having a news conference, i decided to run. what is with these politicians, right? desanctimonious has been saying for the past six months wait for the bounce. he's waiting for the bounce. the bounce is going that way, it is going the wrong direction. >> trump is right when he talks about lack of surge for haley and desantis at least according to the latest "des moines register" poll. trump at 51%, desantis up three points from the paper's october poll with haley staying flat.

haley breaking with many republicans by defending a texas woman who is seeking an abortion for a high risk pregnancy, this as her campaign seems to be winning the support of more and more female voters as jeff zeleny fund out. >> that is why i think you need a badass woman in charge at the white house. >> reporter: nikki haley trying to break the highest glass ceiling in politics but you won't hear her say so at least not directly and that is fine with many of her admirers. >> i think we're past the point of talking about that. she's the. male or female, she's a strong today. >> reporter: and whether or not high school history making. there great to have a female president, but that is not what it is about. >> reporter: and haley takes great care to walk a fine line wielding gender as a humorous shield. >> i love all the attention, fellas. they are 5 inch heels and i

don't wear them unless you can run in them. >> reporter: and that len that says it is time for a woman in the white house. >> time to get the testosterone out of the white house and put a woman in there. but a specific woman. not kamala harris. but nikki haley. >> reporter: at campaign rallies, a sentiment echoing from iowa. >> she's smart, she's tough, and she's passionate. >> reporter: to south carolina. >> she is level headed and speaks to the issues rather than a lot of rhetoric. >> reporter: haley is on a quest to draw suburban women back to the republican party after so many fled during the era of trump administration. her support among that key demographic is a leading reason she fairs better in a hypothetical contest against job eve joe biden even as women still back trump. allies of ron desantis are trying to compare haley to hillary clinton in new tv ads that have been debunked as

misleading. haley has adds featuring her husband a national guardsman in uniform. >> america's strength prevents wars. >> reporter: as the final chapter of the primary comes into view, haley wrrarely repea a rallying cry. balanced voters take note. >> just because you are a woman doesn't mean i'm going to vote for you. you have to be the right person. and i'm just happy that maybe the right person is finally a woman. >> reporter: whether talking about abortion -- >> i don't think fellas have known how to talk about it. >> reporter: or the economy. she often infuses her answers with her life sxurexperience. >> she speaks for me. >> reporter: but vicky says that

is not why she intends to give haley her vote. >> i would say it is time for the right resume. we're not looking at somebody that we won't box anybody in because you are a woman, because you are first generation american. that is not who republicans are. >> of course not all haley supporters are women and not all women support haley. no question that she is reaching out to women voters particularly independents, moderates as well. there is also an historic nature to her candidacy. only a handful of republican candidates have run as women and she has gotten as far in the process as any of them. jeff zeleny, cnn, keane, new hampshire. a jury in washington will resume deliberations to determine how much rudy giuliani must pay to two former georgia election workers. the former mayor was found liable for tdefaming the two

women. katelyn polantz reports from washington. >> reporter: the jury is out and going to be back first thing friday morning to determine how much rudy giuliani, former lawyer to donald trump, former mayor of new york, quite a celebrity in the united states is going to have to pay two women who were unknown before the 2020 election, those women were georgia election workers ruby freeman and shaye moss, a mother and a daughter who had counted ballots after the election in georgia and who rudy giuliani pointed out on surveillance tapes quite publicly on social media, on his podcast and elsewhere accusing them of stealing votes. that was completely untrue. and so a court in washington, d.c. has already found rudy giuliani liable for defaming these two women and in emotional testimony over the course of the entire week, these two women have essentially said to a jury of eight people in washington,

d.c. how much their names have been smeared, how they have lost their identities, how they have feared for their lives. and suffered an immense amount of emotional distress not just because of what giuliani had to say about them, but how he inspired other people to harass them, people all over the united states calling them over and over again, showing up at their house, saying racist things to them, leaving them voice mails accusing them of being frauds and telling them that they should fear for their lives. so the jury in d.c. is going to be determining how much giuliani should have to pay. that sum could be into the tens of millions of dollars, an astronomical amount before the women are asking for at least $48 million in awards and they also want this jury to punish giuliani for what he did for the sustained viral campaign. their lawyers, ruby freeman and shaye moss' lawyer spoke to the jury and one thing he said, he thought they were ordinary and

expendable. he didn't see them as human beings. it is dangerous for them to be ruby freeman or shaye moss because of rudy giuliani and his co-conspirators. giuliani did not testify on thursday even though he had the opportunity and had indicated he wanted to. he has spent some of the week doubling down on some of the false claims and he wasn't particularly engaged in what was going on in court on thursday as closing arguments were taking place. now it is up to the jury to determine what to do and what sort of message should be sent to rudy giuliani and those co-conspirators who include donald trump, donald trump's campaign and other lawyers who had worked for donald trump after the 2020 election. katelyn polantz, cnn, washington. still to come, what is supposed to be one of the happiest times of the year for the jewish faith is marked with fear and apprehension as the u.s. grapples with an uptick in anti-semitic incidents.

i'm a little anxious, i'm a little excited. i'm gonna be emotional, she's gonna be emotional, but it's gonna be so worth it. i love that i can give back to one of our customers. i hope you enjoy these amazing gifts. oh my goodness. oh, you guys. i know you like wrestling, so we got you some vip tickets. you have made an impact. so have you. for you guys to be out here doing something like this, it restores a lot of faith in humanity. welcome back. i'm max foster. if you are just joining us, let me bring you up-to-date. jake sullivan has wrapped up a news conference after meeting with israel's president.

sullivan says israel will transition to a new phase in the war that focuses on precise targeting of hamas leadership. and in brussels the eu is kicking off the final day of its summit, after a decision on thursday with the bloc announcing that it would begin membership talks for ukraine and moldova. we'll have more on this in the coming hours. a dark shadow looms over the festival of lights as many jews in the u.s. struggle to celebrate hanukkah in the wake of rising anti-semitic incidents. omar jimenez has the details. ♪ >> reporter: the week of hanukkah is supposed to be a time of joy. but for many jewish americans, some of that joy has been replaced with fear. in greensboro, north carolina is man was arrested for vandalizing a holocaust maonumentmonument, with graffiti that included a

swastika inside the star of david at the base of the monument. in oakland, california the city's largest menorah was destroyed and pieces of it thrown into a nearby lake imag. the words free palestinian were also sprayed in arabic around the edge of the amphitheater. >> i don't know why anyone would do this. i know the air is toxic these days. and it shouldn't be that way. >> reporter: in ohio, a 13-year-old is facing criminal charges after allegedly crafting a detailed plan for a mass shooting at a synagogue. even weeks before hamas' october 7 attack on israel. in the los angeles area, two men were charged tuesday with hate crimes, one in connection with an alleged december 9 attack on a man wearing a yam and also

spraying swastikas on a number of buildings. earlier this week at yale university, someone placed a palestinian flag on a campus m menorah. >> enough is enough. >> reporter: and in the little more than two months since the october 7 attacks, there have been horn 2,000 anti-semitic incidents documented in the u.s. that is a 337% increase compared to the same period last year. and the adl is calling it all part of a terrifying pattern they say began on october 7 and currently showing no signs of diminishing. but let's remember this is not happening in a vacuum. council on american islamic relations have also reported what they called an unprecedented rise in the number of anti-arab and islamophobic incidents, specifically in the month after october 7, they reported a more than 200% in being in requests for help and

bias incidents. omar jimenez, cnn, new york. we'll be back in a moment.

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has exported almost 2 million of the c class models to global markets including the united states and to countries in africa, europe, middle east and asia. >> we started at a point where we only build right and drive and then added left and drive and can it opened up the markets tremendously. we've been building vehicles for mercedes-benz for 65 years. the c class is the core. we're building hybrids since 2016. we were the only and first oem building hybrids here in south africa. we are fully integrated member with the plant in bremen and the plant in china. >> reporter: and they are exported annually alongside the port of east london. >> we aexport to the u.s. which is a strong market. and also to china which is

traditionally a market that built korea, australia, europe. we apply mercedes-benz product quality to every unit we build. >> reporter: human resources expect difference director credits the success to its people. >> we have just over 3,000 people based in east london building this beautiful car out of africa for the world. you can look at an operator working at mercedes-benz south africa, and that colleague will be able to compete favorably with anyone within our network across the globe. and that is because of the quality of dedication, quality of training. >> what we really have with the c class is a high end product. we have high end technology out there. without education, you cannot

run a facility like that. so there are $13.5 billion invested and the core is education. >> reporter: the mercedes-benz learning academy has over 4 decades trained thousands of people. >> what the academy does, prepare the skills we need today and the skills we need tomorrow. the learning academy is a very important part of our story. that is what helps us remain competitive as an organization. next, l.a. dodgers announce an historiric new signgning.

a huge moment for baseball as shohei ohtani was officially unveiled as a member of the dodgers on thursday. the 29-year-old who is a two time american league mvp signed an historic deal worth $700 million. he says he has one priority and that is winning, especially given the length of his contract. >> translator: as you saw my contract is ten years. i'm not sure how long i'll be able to play the game. so i do prioritize winning, that is on top of my list and that

will probably never change. that is one of the reasons why i chose this team. steeecu curb your enthusias announced that it is coming to an end next year. >> ha larry, you can look me ine eye? >> and the 12th and final season will be available from early february on max, hbo streaming service, not me. hbo is part of warner brothers discovery. you can watch the final episode april 17th. before we go, it was quite the wild delay for morning commuters in new jersey on thursday. that is as a bull started running along the tracks at penn station in newark. trains two and from new york

city were delayed as you'd expect for 45 minutes as authorities worked to get a hold of him. there were reports that the bull escaped from a local slaughterhouse. the bull has been moved to an animal rescue center to live out the rest of his days. the center named him ricardo. we wish him well. thanks for joining me. i'm max foster. "early start" is next.

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