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american people deserve to hear from the leaders of the intelligence community. director haines, continue >> the second category is a set of more intense in unpredictable transnational challenges, such as climate change, corruption, or codex trafficking held security, terrorism, and cybercrimes cyber crime that often interact with traditional state-based political, economic, and security challenges. and the third category is regional and localized conflicts that have far-reaching and at times cascading implications not only for neighboring countries, but also for the world and all three challenges are affected affected by trends in new and emerging technologies, environmental changes, and economic strain that are stoking instability and making it that much more challenging for us to forecast developments and their implications. these dynamics are putting unprecedented burdens on the institutions and the relationships that the united states relies on to manage such challenges. and perhaps more

than ever, frankly, highlight the need for sustained us leadership to uphold the rules-based order. and i'll just touch on these three categories of challenges, starting with strategic competition in china in an effort to provide some context didn't highlight some of the intersections. president xi continues to envision china as a leading power on the world stage. and chinese leaders believe it is essential to project power globally in order to be able to resist us pressure for their convinced that the united states will not tolerate a powerful china nevertheless, the prc seeks to ensure china can maintain positive ties to the united states, will likely continue to do so this year as they see stability in our relationship is important to their capacity to attract foreign direct investment. boosting the domestic economy is a fundamental priority for president-xi. yet he appears to be doubling down on a long-term growth strategy that will deepen public and investor

pessimism over the near term. with youth unemployment around 14.9%, no major stimulus aimed at consumption, forthcoming massive local debts and a property market contraction 2024 is likely to be another difficult year for china's economy all against the backdrop of an aging and shrinking population and slowing economic growth i'm president xi is counting on china's investments in technologies such as advanced manufacturing and robotics. artificial intelligence, high performance computing to drive productivity gains and spur future growth >> yet he >> is increasingly concerned about the united states ability to interfere with china's technological goals consequently, in an effort to protect and promote china's capacity to compete technologically, which president xi views as fundamental to his long-term growth strategy. prc leaders modified their approach to economic retaliation against the united states over the last year and posing at least some tangible costs on us firms,

even as they continue to moderate such actions to avoid domestic costs in chinese leadership is furthermore, pursuing a strategy to boost china's indigenous innovation and technological self-reliance, expand their efforts to acquire steel or compel the production of intellectual property and capabilities from others including the united states and can tinubu to engage in coercive behavior, to control critical global supply chains of relevance. in the meantime, president xi's emphasis on control and central oversight is unlikely to solve the challenges posed by china's economic and endemic corruption demographic decline, and structural economic constraints. and over the coming year, tension between these challenges and china's aspirations for greater geopolitical power will probably become all the more apparent given its ambitions, beijing will continue to use its military forces to intimidate its neighbors and to shape the region's action trends in accordance with the

prcs priorities, we expect the pla will feel more advanced platforms, deploy new technologies, and grow more competent in joint operations with a particular focus on taiwan and the western pacific. and the role intended for china's growing nuclear forces and cyber capabilities in this effort and the ultimate intent behind unprecedented growth in these areas remain a priority for us in the ic and they are not unrelated to actions of russia. president putin's war of aggression against ukraine continues unabated. ukraine's retreat from a vika and their struggle to stave off further territorial losses in the past few weeks have exposed the erosion of ukraine's military capabilities with the declining availability of external military aid. >> the assistance that is >> contemplated in the supplemental is absolutely critical to ukraine's defense right now. and without that assistance, it is hard to imagine how ukraine will be able to maintain the extremely hard advances it has made

against the russians, especially given the sustained surge in russian ammunition production and purchases from north korea and iran meanwhile, president putin is increasing defense spending and russia reversing his longstanding reluctance to devote a high percentage of gdp to the military, as he looks to rebuild in many ways, this is prompted by the fact that russia has paid an enormous price for the war in ukraine, not only has russia suffered more military losses that in any time since world war ii, roughly 300,000 casualties and thousands of tanks and armored combat vehicles, setting them back years. it is also precipitated. finland and sweden's men's membership in nato, which putin believes requires an expansion of russia's ground forces. putin continues to judge the time is on his side, and almost certainly assumes that a larger, better equipped military will also serve the purpose of driving that point home to western audiences. such messaging is important because putin strategic goals remain

unchanged. he continues to see nato enlargement and western support to ukraine as reinforcing his long-held belief that the united states and europe seek to restrict russian power and undermine him of course, in the meantime, russia continues to modernize and fortify its nuclear weapons capabilities. even though it maintains the largest and most diverse nuclear weapons stockpile, we remain concerned that moscow will put at risk longstanding global norms against the use of asymmetric or strategically destabilizing weapons, including in spain base and in the cyber domain. another critical intersection we are monitoring is the relationship as a vice chairman noted between government of russia, china, north korea, and iran, which is evolving as these four countries expand collaboration through a web of bilateral and in some cases, trilateral arrangement instruments. this growing cooperation and willingness to exchange aid and military

economic, political, and intelligence matters enhances their individual capabilities, >> in >> enables them to cooperate on competitive actions, assist them to further undermine the rules-based order and gives them each some insulation chun from external international pressure nevertheless, we assess these relationships will remain far short of formal alliances, or a multilateral axis, parochial interests desire to avoid entanglements and wariness of harm, and instability from each other's actions will likely limit their cooperation and ensure it advance answers incrementally absent direct conflict between one of these countries in the united states nevertheless, the power dynamics are shifting among them. and this is creating new challenges. in particular, russia's need for support in the context of ukraine has forced it to grant some long-sought concessions to china, north korea, and iran with the potential to undermine, among other things, long-held non-proliferation norms and as i noted in the

beginning, intensifying transnational challenges are intersecting with these more traditional threats. for example, with the advent of generative ai states and non-state actors who are interested in conducting foreign malign influence operations no longer need to master a language which to create potentially believable false content. the threat of malign actors exploiting these tools and technologies to undercut us interests in democracy is particularly potent as voters go to the poll in more than 60 elections around the globe this year is chairman noted. we have also seen a massive increase in the number of ransomware attacks globally which went up roughly 74% in 2023 from what it was in 2022. and us entities were the most heavily targeted. many of these are conducted by non-state actors with the russia-based cyber criminal group lockbit remaining the most popular ransomware as a service provider. lockbit was responsible for nearly a quarter of all oh, claimed attacks worldwide leading to a joint effort by 11 countries to seize its resources and take

down its online domains transnational criminal organizations and human smuggling operations increasingly exploit migrants for extortion, kidnapping, and human trafficking and in particular, the threat from illicit drugs remains at historic levels with mexican transnational criminal organization supplying and moving large amounts of synthetic opioids, such as fentanyl into the united states. more than 100,000 americans have died from drug related overdoses during the past year. and most of those deaths have been attributed to elicit fence and as such, the threat from fentanyl and other synthetic drugs to the health and welfare of everyday americans remains a top priority for the intelligence community. >> in the >> third category, we have multiple regional conflicts with far-reaching implications, perhaps nowhere more obviously than in the middle east. this crisis and gaza is a stark example of how regional developments have the potential for broader and even global implications >> now, >> having lasted for more than five months, the gaza conflict has roiled the middle east with

renewed instability, presenting new security paradigms and humanitarian challenges while pulling in a range of actors the conflict has prompted new dynamics, even as it has entrenched old ones. we continue to assess that his bowl in iran do not want to cause an escalation of the conflict that pulls us or them into a full-out war. yet the houthis entered the war and were willing to do so without iran acting first, becoming one of the most aggressive actors in the conference? plucked and the iranian maligned militia groups in iraq and syria that have been attacking our forces and had been more focused on the united states and israel using the conflict as an opportunity to pursue their own agenda moreover, the crisis has galvanized violence by a range of actors around the world. and while it is too early to tell, it is likely that the gaza conflict will have but generational impact on terrorism both al-qaeda and isis, inspired by hamas, have directed supporters to conduct attacks against israeli and us interests. and we have seen how it is inspiring individuals to conduct acts of anti-semitism

and islamophobia, terror worldwide in this third category of regional and localized conflicts, we have made more, we might discuss including haiti and sudan and what is happening in the eastern democratic republic of congo. and the list goes on and this finally brings me to 702 of the foreign intelligence surveillance act, which will expire on april 19th without congressional action. the intelligence gathered pursuant to section 702 was essential in preparing this annual threat assessment. and he's absolutely fundamental to every aspect of our work. as i know, you know? >> 702 provides >> unique insights into foreign intelligence targets such as foreign adversaries, terrorist organizations, and being hamas weapons proliferate or spies, malicious cyber actors. fentanyl trackers, traffickers, and he does so at a speed and reliability that we simply cannot replace with any other authority now as congress pursues re-authorization, we understand there will be reformed and we support those that bolster the compliance and oversight regimes in place

while preserving the operational agility that is vital to keeping the nation saves. thank you for your patients and we look forward to your questions. >> thank you, director haines. let me go for members. i appreciate it. i know we don't normally do these on monday. i appreciate everybody coming in. we will be conducting a close session after this open session so members should hold any questions on a classified nature until after that and after the chair and vice chair go through our first round of questions, will then recognize members in line and director of national intelligence, avril haines, as she's briefed, members of the senate intelligence committee on threats to the united states. we're of course going to keep monitoring what questions she and others on the panel or asked. but briefly reviewing some of her remarks, you went through a series of overall threats to the united states, including strategic competition but china, the ongoing russian invasion of ukraine. and we

should note the conflict in gaza. it struck me that during the beginning of her remarks, she was interrupted by a protester demanding a ceasefire in gaza. she specifically said that that conflict is prompted complications and the dynamics across the middle east. and she said that it would have a generational impact on terrorism. obviously, a lot of threats to go over, a lot of hotspots around the world. that's right. and she went on to talk about russia and ukraine. she said that when it comes to vladimir putin, his strategic goals remain unchanged, that he continues to see nato's enlargement and western support to ukraine is reinforcing his long-held belief that us and the us and europe are trying to restrict russian power that they're trying to undermine him. and she, before congress was making the point that this aid to ukraine is critical, that they're not going to be able to remain where they are in the war if they don't get it. yeah

>> significant point we expect will come up over and over again. let's dig into what we've heard so far with some key voices, we have alex marquardt and beth sanner with us. thank you both for joining us. beth first to you, you were comparing some of the remarks that we heard in this annual briefing of members of the senate two last year. and he specifically pointed out that there was a difference this year in the way that the dni connected some of the adversaries to the united states being russia, china, north korea, and iran that is significant painting that picture, right? exactly. and marco rubio made the same point in his opening remarks. and so i think that this is something really important for people to understand. it was missing last year last year, was kind of a country by country thing and the sea or she really did say, look, this combined effort and collaboration between our adversaries is making each one of them stronger. and i think that that's, that's something that we're really going to have to pay attention to for a long time what stood out to you, alex? >> well, i mean, just generally

this is such a rare opportunity to see all these top officials who speak. i can count on one hand the number of times we hear from them publicly each year to have them all together. such a rare opportunity. so to some extent, it is going to be a laundry list of the various threats that the us is facing from nation-state actors, non-state actors, but then other things like climate change, a health the economy, that kind of thing. and i think two to beth's point will be very interesting to see how they bring all of this together. now, i think they're really going to dig into the meat of these various subjects in the queue. when a, when the senators get to ask the questions, then as we just heard from haines, there's going to be a classified briefing afterwards, but this is two days tomorrow. there's a house version of this of really a rare glimpse into what these people are thinking. and so what i really want to hear is their assessment of what has happened in the past year and what they expect to come in the coming year, specifically, these two wars that are raging in ukraine and in gaza, their

assessment of where they think russia is going to go in the coming year on the ukrainian battlefield. but also in other, various other fora like cyberspace and interfering with our elections, a lot of this will be through the prism of american politics. of course, the senate did approve a supplemental funding for ukraine that is something that we have not seen in the house. and so i've imagined these natural screen officials are going to be encouraging these lawmakers to send more funding to ukraine to ward off that russian threat. and then of course, the war in gaza and where they think that is going. this is to some extent they're not just looking at the past year, but they're also trying to give the american public a sense of things to come. but they don't have a perfect crystal ball i was looking at the report from last year. there is no mention of hamas. there is a mentioned the threat to israel via iran and its proxies, but nothing to indicate that we're going to see the scale of the war that we're going through now. and then i think on the domestic front or they're also going to be asking chris wray about the head of the fbi, about the

threats that we're facing. and i would imagine that as a result of this war in gaza, he's going to honed in specifically on the anti-semitic threats. and the islamic phobic threats as well that are set, that are so high right now, you mentioned something she said about a desire by these adversaries to interfere in us elections. and she specifically mentioned something about the use of artificial intelligence making that easier. that's going to be the next frontier. a worth of challenges for the united states. it really isn't, it's not something that came up. i don't recall how much it came up last year, but certainly he'll be nothing compared to this. you're i mean, this really is at the forefront. we're talking about deepfakes. we've already seen that kind of thing and there is a question to what extent? china will interfere in the election they, i was just looking through some of her opening remarks and she does talk about china actively wanting to exploit societal divisions here in the united states. that's essentially ripping off the

russian playbook right? and they >> hinted at this last year, but i think we've really seen over the past year, china's stepping up up and mirroring this kind of approach to societal divisions with using ai generated images, like a picture of the staff but you have liberty, fully armed, and showing, trying to show that america is the perpetrator of unrest around the world. so it is a definitely a different mood move by china. how significant is this description of this cohesion of countries that are not friends of america at a time where you see donald trump previewing what he would like an another term, should he go back into the white house? we see him. obviously, mick continuing his applause of authoritarians and his desire to pull america back from the world order post-world war ii who that it has benefited from

so much that would counter this cohesion of these nations that you're talking about, that haynes is describing here here before this committee right? >> i mean, >> i think that this is this whole idea of that we can put up a wall around our country. and somehow everything gonna be okay. if we just like pull in and just let, let the world go because we're so powerful and strong. and as warner, senator warner brought out in his introduction, then the world and the threats that face the united states. our whole vision of what national security threats our needs to change. we used to think about it as tanks and ships, but now we have to think about it as cyber. we have to think about it as economic warfare and all these things are coming to our homeland in different ways. and if you allow one of these actors to go, it's kinda hard to say, oh, you know, russia do what you want and think that

that doesn't have an implication with it. iran. we're waiting right now for a state treaty between russia and iran to be finalized. and iran and russia are exchanging military capabilities that will only make iran a stronger adversary against us and israel. so how does that work? it doesn't. >> when you were talking about rethinking national security, i thought for a moment that you were going to mention tiktok because that because that may come up with as part of the conversation today, given where things stand on capitol hill, there's a division were previously it seemed like lawmakers were more in line with this idea that it needed to be regulated there's more division now in part because former president donald trump came out and supportive, not banning it effectively know >> yeah. i mean, it's kind of an interesting thing. the way that the bill goes, it's kind of conflict kaden, but it would only ban it on the app. so you could still get it on your computer. and what they're trying to do is force a divestiture to make bytedance, the parent company b owned by

an american and so a lot of this is about pressure tactics to get them to sell. and i think that the president trump would support that. i think it's just human knows how popular it is and he's just playing the populist card. but just like biden is on tiktok, it's complicated. >> it is remarkable also to see marco rubio and senator mark warner are the republican and democrats who leave this committee very much on the same page when it comes to the threat of tiktok and the fact that at the end of the day, they're obviously looking past the point that the fact that this is a very, very entertaining app, but it has a very powerful, clever out rhythm that allows china to essentially to suck up this data. and we have seen the president essentially arguing that tiktok should not he allowed on government phones as a result. and then he's also getting blowback because he's very much using it as part of his campaign and talking to cure, to creators and

influencers on tiktok for his political motivations shows you how you have to do that. if you're going to reach people, you know exactly welcome to our world. >> we're watching for a house vote on that divestiture bill that passed the committee that should come later this week, we'll keep an eye on it for now. it's more court, but center. thank you. people so much. >> appreciate it >> so still ahead. >> a royal apology. the princess of wales, kate middleton now responding after several international news agencies hold a dr. photo of her with her kids, plus or teenagers starting to spend less time on their phones. a new study suggests, yes. why a lot of teens are starting to unplug more often, this we're talking about tiktok, good for them. well we'll be right back >> the lead with jake tapper today at 04:00 a.m. cnn >> so would you get to nashville lot tenders and three mandarin orange tenders

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>> this is a new royal family much different from the time during princess diana's death in 1997. instead of placating the public and giving them what they want, queen elizabeth, the second coming down and visiting kensington palace now. it seems they were trying to engineer their way out of controlling the narrative against the public. >> they seem to be losing >> the story. and everyone is noticing it so molly, that the princess tweeted that explanation for the photoshops now, fu that she was responsible for it. it doesn't sound like you think that was enough to put this issue to bed it seems like you think it needs more cleanup the challenge for the royal family right now is they are in a damage control situation. >> there is >> scrutiny from everyone, not just the press, not for, not just from fervent royal-watchers, but just the

general casual public. people are literate enough to recognize that not only is the royal family engineering things behind the scenes, there seems to be some type of theater happening, but everyone can see the strings. they know what they're doing and what they're trying. and these attempts to try and tell everyone that everything is fine with princess kate. >> however however, there is no evidence that everything is and that's why this is a story that will not go away. and one that's getting away from the royal family >> so in those situations, would it be better to just be as transparent as possible and come forward? and give a more thorough explanation of what's happening >> yeah, at this point, it's clear that they have been trying for quite some time through messaging and statements to tell everyone we are not going to release information about princess kate however, there is so much the

online and now there's conspiracy theories and rumors and chatter, and that's mixed with the algorithm silence is not golden in this case, so it seems as if the more they try, the worse it is, it's so ham handed at this point. and what's very interesting is how they're putting all of the blend i am so to speak, on kate herself. so here's your princess kate is in is recovering. we can't see her yet. she's operating as her own media agent as the same time it's highly suspicious to people like myself who work in crisis management, but also to the general public well, look as well. >> yes, strikes me that they would post an image like that without it being vetted and without somebody pointing out, hey, there's like a sleeve that's in the wrong place and there's a tile that's missing and this is clearly messed up yeah, it's almost so

amateurish. >> it >> makes some people wonder perhaps, is this a red herring? are they hoping that everyone talks about how poorly doctored this photograph was, that they're not paying attention to other things happening within the royal family right now. no one could track it at this point because it really is been a challenge for them. and one that they are failing miserably >> again, we hope that whatever is going on with kate, that she's okay. but it is quite the story. molly macpherson appreciate your sharing your analysis with us >> thanks so much boris. >> still ahead on new central, a nation under siege, violent gangs in haiti continued to tighten their grip. several embassies beginning to evacuate staff because the country now teeters on the edge of total collapse secretary of state anthony blinken is currently in the region attending an emergency meeting on the situation. more detail was on that when we return your

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patrick, what's the latest? >> blinken has been meeting with the jamaican prime minister, other regional leaders conspicuously absent. briana is haiti's prime minister was not at the meeting today blinken has been calling on ariel henry to form a transitional governments, something that henry has resisted in the past. but the us is pushing forward saying that they have the funding for a force about 1,000 kenyan soldiers to come to haiti and begin to restore order, take all those violent gangs that if pushed this nation to the brink of collapse, you've already seen over the last several days, several embassies beginning to take out the personnel from heavily guarded compounds, saying they simply cannot operate anymore in haiti us removed some non-essential personnel. they had to fly in a military helicopter in the middle of the night over the weekend and take out those non-essential personnel, also bring in more security keep the

embassy safe, and you're starting to see are around port-au-prince areas that had once been relatively safe. the presidential palace the area where the embassy's and diplomatic compounds are located, come under a gang. gang violence and gunfire and receiver some of those coordinated attacks that we're seeing more and more of the haitian people. it is entirely different story thousands have been forced from their homes, can not receive any aid, cannot get the hospitals there are essentially being terrorized before the entire world a, by these gangs that have said that they do not want arial henry returning the country. they did not want him as prime minister. they do not want the security force coming in and they are a flagrantly violating the calls from the international community to stop the violence. so this situation is not improving anytime soon, brianna >> all right. patrick, thank you for the very latest,

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angela chao. angelo's the sister of elaine chao, former transportation secretary and the wife of senate minority leader from mitch mcconnell. angela is seen here with her husband, billionaire jim breyer. the journal reports that on february 10, chao mistakenly put her tesla and to reverse instead of drive, sending her car backwards into a pond. >> the journal details, quote, over the next several hours, her friends, then the ranch manager and his his wife, and then paramedics and firefighters and sheriff's deputies rushed around and tried to break the windows find an escape hatch, or any way to get chao out of the car. somehow an executive who made her living on the sea was drowning in a stock pawn within sight if her home joining us now is carolyn barto one of the reporters who wrote the piece on angela chao. and you show this story of her. she's having this weekend with a number of her girlfriends. she's going back to her home to be with her child and she mistakenly reverses her car carrier. you report she'd made this error

before. can you tell us? plus a little bit about what happened that night >> yeah. i mean, you know, she's she moves the gear shifting into reverse by accident, the car drove over an embankment and into a man-made pond that was on a property. she immediately calls her friend in the house, says i made a terrible mistake. i've done it before. can you please help? come get me? her friends rush out, one jumps in the water. like you said, first responders arrived. it ended up to be a very difficult task getting the car out of the water by the time they got to her, she was unresponsive in the car had been filled with water so kara no autopsy was performed though investigators told the wall street journal and your team that they're treating this case as a criminal matter. why is that? >> so i'm glad you brought that up. this this is part of what prompted a lot of different theories to fly around on this terrible tragedy >> the, this this >> ranch was in a very remote

location, a small town. the sheriff's office probably hasn't seen a case like this. very few people knew angela and her husband they have been a little bit private with some of the information surrounding it. and in response to requests for information, they set a statement that was something along the lines of are preliminary investigation suggests this was an accidental death, but we're treating it as a criminal matter so that's simply a formality to say the investigation is ongoing from what our reporting tells us. this was an accident as we described it seems to come down to a number of factors here, which as you said, this was a very rural area. it was very dark. the water was cold and actually a pretty deep, but also the difficulty right, of breaking glass to get to her. tell us a little bit about that >> one of the things so

haunting about this and why this story resonated so widely is because you're most people's instinct if their car is underwater, we think, oh, i'll open the door, i'll just, you know get out of the car. i'll break a window. in fact, all of these things are very difficult to do we learned through our reporting that really you have about a minute to get out of a car that's submerging itself into water and opening a door is nearly impossible because of water pressure, even breaking windows. and even if you have a tool well, it will break a window can be extremely difficult, not underwater and underwater even more so. that's part of the reason why this recording just was so surprising to us to learn that it would have been very difficult for angela to note what in that scenario yeah, it had to have been a terrifying situation carol, what's the reaction been since the story ran over the weekend, have you learned any more about how her

husband and family are doing? >> you, know what our reporting told us about that was that obvious three, they're completely heartbroken. i mean, the most painful part of this whole story is that she left behind a three-year-old son they don't they don't blame anything on tesla that this had nothing to do with whether or not the car was attending they love tesla's you. in fact, jim considers elon musk a friend the family is in mourning for having lost angela. they've been pained by the conspiracy theories floating around and they simply want her to be remembered for the accomplished ceo that she was yeah. >> well, it >> is such a sad story and obviously, there have been many conspiracy theories, kara and your story puts a lot of it, i think to rest. so we appreciate you speaking with us about it. carroll lombardo with the wall wall street journal. thank you >> the new >> teen trend. unplugging their

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from parents, from lawmakers, from educators with concerns about the impacts of social media, of smartphone use on the mental health and well-being of teens. and i think with this study shows is that teens themselves are becoming a bit more self-aware about the effects of social media and smartphones in their own lives. you have 38% of the close to 1,500 american teens who were surveyed by pew here, who are saying that they're cutting back on the time that they're spending on social media. another 36% saying that they're cutting back on the time that they've spent on smartphones. and here's why 38% of the teens surveyed here acknowledged that they spend too much time on their smartphones, although you do see there about half of the teen respondents saying that they still think they spend about the right amount of time on their smartphones. but let i mean, this comes after a separate report in december from pew that found that one-third of american teens say that they're using major social media platforms almost constantly so not necessarily a surprise here, brianna, to see that some teens find that they

have space to cut back that the study also looked at how they feel without their phones. tell us what the findings are there right so >> 72% of these teen respondents say that they sometimes, or often feel peaceful when they go without their smartphones. i think many of us could relate to that but there appear to be mixed emotions. 44% of the respondents said that they feel anxious when there without their smartphones. i also want to highlight one other piece of information that i found really interesting from this, you have f, of american parents who also participated in a study saying that they have, at some point looked through their teens smartphones. it appears that the teens are generally aware of this 43% of teens saying that they know that their parents have looked through their smartphones. so a piece of interesting information for the parents watching here in wondering what their peers are doing, bruschetta really interesting, yeah, the anxiety part that's called withdrawal. the peace comes after i find anyways clear. thank you so much for taking us through that. still ahead, francis, appetite for frog legs is now threatening an entire species.

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