larry: on these border negotiations, the republican party has to be trump tough. no massing around. trump tough. wall, remain in mexico. replace title 42, national security, economic security, trump tough. that's how important this is. and then we can all be elizabeth macdonald tough. how about that? liz: thank you so much, larry.

merry christmas to you. great to listen to your show. we love you, larry. larry: thank you, liz seizure disorders. y. liz: the biden white house has a big problem. irs government whistle blowers again refute and contradict the white house narrative on a big way in the house impeachment probe and ied explosives and normally founded war found at u.s. border and fueling calls to shut the border now. is it right that one man can destroy the entire trump empire? we're talking new york judge who alone tides that in the new york fraud trial. when will that come out? we'll debate it. plus, a big red flag and we've got shipping giant suspending shipping in the red sea because of houthi attacks. why did president biden take the houthis off the u.s. terror watch list? we have new developments and former president obama parachutes in to rescue biden. can that really stop the

president's polls hitting again now record lows? i'm elizabeth macdonald and the evening edit starts right now. liz: house oversight and house judiciary congressman andy biggs. good to have you on the show and merry christmas to you. this is a significant development this area of investigation for the house impeachment probe. here's the allegation, that the president and his family buried overseas profits they earned, tens of millions of dollars and white house narrative is these are loans. they were loaning each other money. the white house has insisted this is all koenen sure. kosher and that's the narrative and profits and that's the breaking news and irs whistle blower gary shapely and joseph ziegler testified to ways

and means and the loan actually existed. what do you think, andy? >> yeah, okay, so here's what i think about that. they couldn't find evidence of loans at all. then you also have bank examiners and auditors finding no evidence of loans or where this money even came from. it blows a hole in their narrative and that's one way they were laundering their money claiming it was loans and quite frankly that ultimately is why you end up with an invasion of tax and you've got corruption and invasion of taxes going on. they've lied to the american public and lied to us, which is why we need to get to the bottom of this even more. larry: congressman, the biden white house rejected house oversight chair to release financial documents to pack up these supposed loans and irs whistle blower shapely and ziegler, they're both veteran

irs criminal investigators and they've been investigating along with the justice department and hunter biden tax evasion charges and gun charges for them to come out and say this and testify this and it's a red flag and biden white houssaying these are just loans but there's no records so again and again, the white house narrative is falling down here. >> that's exactly right and one thing about the whistle blowers, they've been consist in their testimony even though they've been punched out and they've been slandered and liabled, but they've been consist in telling their story and they've talked about the impediments laid down by the department of justice as they were investigating and they've been very solid, and they come back and answered every question, and they've answered it kently. i think their versus frequency e

believed and they helped reveal not just what's going on with the biden family and what they did but also the corruption of ick position of the doj into this particular investigation. larliz: having covered the irs r years and rare to see any irs official speak out. we haven't seen this in decades. we don't see irs certainly veteran criminal investigate sores speaking out and taking a stand and saying there's something wrong and banks and red flag into the treasury and biden trans-accounting standards boards for thins like suspected money laundering and more. you know, is house oversight, you guys are finding anything bank records whatsoever showing that, yes, that president joe biden that 40,000 check for example in september 2017. they say that was a loan; right. that that was money coming in from james bind. any records supporting that?

>> no, we have found nothing supporting that there was -- this was a loan. what we have found is that some of these -- like the transaction you just mentioned, everything that we saw when the start of that is all the timing that goes through the records, it's a single transaction to a single bank account that didn't have anything else until millions hit that bank account, and then you can actually trace that money from that bank account to wasco and various other biden and biden family accounts and james and rolls out through them to joe biden. you can trace that temporally and by the records of the bank transactions themselves. liz: this is classic layering. classic layering and look at numbers and what's going on in the impeachment probe. i mean, the democrats keep ignoring and dodging about e-mails and text messages and bank records and white house

visitor logs and more and more. they're not addressing the evidence that's coming up about this. final word. >> they want us to produce somebody who actually slipped an envelope full of cash across the table to joe biden is doesn't happen in sophisticated money laundering operations like the biden family was operating on and that's the truth and we got it. liz: congressman biggs, merry christmas to you again. thanks for joining us. staying on this and getting his reaction, former acting attorney general matthew whitaker, good to see you on this. we've got irs whistle blowers now testifying to house ways and means. they can't find any records whatsoever to back up the white house's claims that the money they were getting is just loans. not profits from overseas deals. then the impeachment probe is xerseazearing in on the biden fy

probes. stay on that. >> good to be with you tonight. typically loans even among family members are evidence by a promissory note and they pay an interest rate and in fact the irs requires an interest rate for loans to be actually loans and many taxpayers have had certain amounts of money transferring them disallallowedd counted them and because they couldn't demonstrate there was a loan and looks like a classic scheme in that regard. they keep saying from the white house lectern there's no evidence and there's actually a ton of evidence. that evidence needs testimony connected to it and guess who's not willing to testify and hunter biden. guess who can't seem to remember anything about the investigation now. ausa that was in charge of that investigation. i think this to me is righteous what the house is doing with this inquiry and there is a ton more that they're going to

uncover as they actually get to the bottom of this. liz: another thing coming in, new reports coming in and this deal with china and biden family struck a deal with chinese companies cefc and that started after joe biden left the obama white house and reports are coming in and may have started in 2015 when joe biden was vice president. not later in 2017 and vice president biden knew about it and the bidens netted and made at least $5 million from chinese energy companies cesc and reportedly this deal may have involved a meeting with joe biden before he left office as obama's vice president. what do you make of this news? >> well, that would make a lot of sense, liz. remember, i believe this was the exact person that hunter was texting asking for the money to be transferred saying his father was sitting there with him and wondering where the money was. so it wouldn't surprise me if we had vice president biden at the

time wasn't involved in getting that deal signed up. obviously he was important as vice president and there was no doubt that he would ultimately and possibly going to run for the presidency. and this money is important to the inquiry the house is doing right now. liz: the other thing coming up with the irs whistle blowers is hunter and shapely and they were blocked from investigating evidence they said about these payments from china to the biden family and they testified these payments of china with work to be done and joe biden being done and left the obama white house to make things look kosher and saying chinese business partners in china that we will charge $10 million a year for "introductions".

apparently to power players inside dc and the government and all in, the biden family was going to make and it's bigger and bigger and charging $10 million for introductions and that's the biden family brand. that's money off joe biden as "the brand". introductions, influence peddling. >> yeah, this is a classic dc influence peddling scheme. the real thing that has kind of come out recently is hunter biden has moved the goal post once again and said his father was never financially involved in his business. they're not denying that he took business meetings and not denying they took those phone calls and sent e-mails and all the things he did and they're not just staking out this very flimsy defense now he never got money from the loans and car payments and possibly other

business transactions. you know, if joe biden were being honest. he'd open up the bobs at this point in time. he'd say hayed and receive transfers from my son or may team that was related to these business owners and i contested don't think he can say that and honestly say that he didn't get any benefit from this. remember, these irs whistle blowers were blocking for return and they're very credible witnesses and what they have to soy should be listened tomter liz: matthew whitaker, thank you for joining us tonight. good to see you. still ahead, congresswoman beth anne dine, former justice department official francey hakes and messenger columnist joe concha and trump business empire hangs in the balance and is it okay that one new york judge can decide that and not a jury in the new york fraud trial and the u.s. border is literally looking more and more like a war

zone under biden. his policies open the border. shut the border down crit ibrams are saying because -- critics are saying and saying for "the evening edit". stock for them going on the president doing that. >> not all democrats believe in an open border but the looks doo and unfortunately many members of the white house staff made policy with their pumpkin spice lattes and man purses. they believe in open boarders. ♪

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they're saying it's already a war zone and they're scared. build the wall now. hillary vaughn on capitol hill. hillary. >> good evening, liz. u.s. border patrol warning the agents to be careful after the u.s. mexican military seized ten ieds and explosive devices on the mexico side of the u.s. mexico border and a federal law enforcement source shared with us officer safety alert that went out to cvp agent this is week and alert reads agents should exercise extreme caution and possible armed subjects approaching the border with possible explosive devices and the alert defining the explosive saying the mexican military seized ten ieds filled with black powder and shrapnel in an area south of the ranch located east of the port of entry. this incident happened on wednesday and border patrol agents stumbled upon a cartel turf war gunfight near the ranch

in pima county, arizona and arrested a american on the u.s. side of the border loaded with an ak47 rifle and two ak magazines, loose rounds and a handgun. tucson sector border patrol agent encountered an armed subject along the united states side of international boundary fence once the subject noticed the agent. he lowered his weapon to the ground and gestured to the mexico side of the boundary and multiple additional armed soucts were located and according to the alert, that subject told the agents there were 11 armed subjects nearby and pulled back to a safer area. mexican military responded and found the ten explosive devices. my law enforcement source says that this ranch has a gap in the border fence that is typically used to funnel drugs through but now it's a magnet for the cartel to push people through so this gunfight was essentially a turf

war between the two gangs fighting for the gap in the fence. liz: hillary vaughn, thank you for joining us. congresswoman, this is really shocking. just a generation after 9/11 and biden saw trump's border policies and ied explosives at the border that you usually only see in wars in the middle east. nearly 1300 terrorists on the watch list already caught. >> it's shocking but given day one of biden's administration is not surprising. there's a war zone on the southern boarder and administration's policies that have cause it had and are continuing to ignore it. when you've got cvp officers right now spending the majority of their time processing illegal immigrants into our country

they're incentivizing them with housing and healthcare and education and actually dollars and they're giving them credit card now and -- cards now with cash value. they're incentivizing them to come over and this administration continues to do that. one of the things that we did last week was passing national defense authorization act and this week in commerce on the house and it helps finish the border wall. it puts money into the border wall. liz: senate democrats could shoot that down. here's the thing. seeing them doing that and all the pressure by sanctuary cities now and new york and chicago and la, i don't know that the senate will want to turn that down.

liz: we have to wait and see. listen, this has been a big fight for years. the white house now has a really disingenuous narrative out. the question is where are biden's executive actions reversing his own orders that weaken the border. the white house claims congresswoman, it cannot do anything about border security that it's up to congress and the president with his own p pen abolished trump's remain in mexico and he did what he did and watch the disingenuous white house narrative. watch this. >> all the president would have to do is go back doing the things we were doing under president trump the day before president biden took office. he doesn't want to do that and he was caught in the middle now and he's got to make a decision. he's got to either do the right thing or he's got to give in to his look wing. >> the white house is

negotiating in good faith and ready to compromise? >> i believe everyone is negotiating in good faith right now. liz: we played the wrong sound. we're so sorry. let me read to you. this is a white house press secretary basically saying the president, it's up to, the president did all he can to do border security; right? it's up to the congress to fix it. we are trying to work with congress to fix the border and immigration. go ahead. >> the president did everything to take it apart. he stopped the funding of the border wall and remain in mexico policy and biden administration got rid of those and he caused this problem and hr2 and border security act we've already passed and we're waiting for the senate to act on it. that's completely disingenuous and another lie the biden administration continues to tell and did this problem and trying to fix it and go back to the policies they took off the table and we can actually get control of the border once again as we

did under president trump. liz: congresswoman, thank you for joining us. good to see you. >> thank you. liz: the fallout of the white house to ease up on palatine and more and more terrorists going on camera slamming hamas saying they're wrong. israeli troops accidently killed three israeli hostages via friendly fire. the fallout of that. and also legal aid francey hakes is here and future of trump's business empire now in the hands of one man. the new york judge gets to decide the outcome of trump's fraud trial. not a jury. plus joe concha is here and biden and obama teaming up to push obama care enrollment and this is what's happening. obama to the rescue apparently. biden is facing another severe poll drop. evening edit next. ♪

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department official former federal prosecutor francey hakes. francey, good to see you again. francey, we've got news now coming into the studio. the fate of trump's civil fraud trial in new york now moved behind the scenes into the hands of one man judge arthur engoron and the news is he could decide after the new year whether or not trump will lose his business empire without a jury. just him alone will decide this verdict. what do you make of this, francey? >> well, seems to me, liz, pretty unconstitutional and talk about the takings clause and the due process clause to the institution and we're all guaranteed due process of law before the government takes something from us and it seeps to me that no jury is not due process of law and that this judge showed his bias very early on in some of the outlandish rulings they've handed down and his gag orders and other behavior during the trial. he certainly showed that he's biased against president trump.

i expect we all know what the verdict is going to be and it's going to be against president trump. liz: he already ruled before the trial began that trump had fraudulently inflated his net worth. this is the penalty phase of the trial. it's the dollar amount and we're hearing that l that liticia jamy ask for more the millions in penalties and the conduct against the judge and over "bizarre behavior" saying the judge is not honoring trump's right to due process in the trial and the bad team in the team and last year judge engoron told trump's attorney he's just a bad guy. >> it's a gad order and gag orders are usually issued pretrial and the point of the gag order is to protect the jury from getting information that they're not entitled to and that

might bias them before the trial starts and here you've got a judge and there is no jury. every judge i've ever known said he can seat aside his biases and only weigh the evidence and why is this judge gagging the former president? it does look like more bias on his part and i do think he's going to find against president trump and give the attorney general, whatever it is she's asking for and it'll be appeal but i suspect she's going to win. liz: andrew mccarthy says the law, this law in new york does not require a showing of harm or damages and new york state does not need to prove intent to defraud or that anyone was defrauded and they don't need to show any victims they're deciding to drop and not pursue the same case against trump. >> fraud has broad definition

and artifice or scheme and take advantage to get something over onto victimize someone or get a profit you're not entitled to and the evidence not defrauded by whatever conduct is going on at trump's business and he earned a profit and they wanted to continue having him as a client because it might lead to other clients. liz: where does this go? a lot of money. does trump appeal to the supreme court? what do you think? >> i suspect that's going to happen and the new york court of appeals has shown they're bias against president trump. i think his only shot at fairness is going to be the u.s. supreme court eventually. liz: all right, francey hakes, thank you so much. we appreciate you. merry christmas. joining us now, we're going to turn to joe concha, he's a columnist with the messenger. joe, this news coming in, we broke the news last night that the president's approval rating plunged to just 33% in the new pugh poll.

joe, used to be if it hit 40% an incumbent president was in big trouble and now it's below that and you've got former president obama parachuting in to help rescue joe biden is they're teaming up for a new obama care enrollment push. what do you make of all this? >> wow, well you made a great point there, liz, that no president, sitting president has won reelection sitting below 40% approval. so if we're seven points below that and entering nixonen territory when he resigned from office, boy, it's hard to see a scenario where a joe biden can win reelection regardless of who the opponent here is at this point. look, i just looked at president's schedule for today and here's what it is. the report at 10:00 a.m. and terrific rihannas like to sleep in on fridays and at 12:30, he had lunch with the vice president. that's it. i mean, the bidens are on the

weekend around 1:30 or so. people look at his schedule and see the way he conducts himself and think, wow, 86 years old and he'd be if he won a second term and still be in the oval office and doesn't sit well with most democrats at this point, liz. liz: he's been call ago lid early on many days. we've got this too, cornell west and gop candidate governor ron desantis said be ready, biden may drop out of the race. watch governor desantis. he also got a cnn action with top democrat strike thattist. >> they're justified and done long ago and clouding his presidency and he clearly would not be a great candidate for the democrats and republicans need be ready for whoever they pull out of the hat and newsom waiting in the wings and quite frankly after that debate, i'm not sure that's the candidate they'd want. he embraced biden and said biden did an a+ job as president.

are you kidding me? i think we have to be ready that it could be someone else. >> trying not to -- try not to affect elections as much as predict them, there's still a lot. people have said we're going to ask them to have a biden trump election and that's the way it's going to b. i don't agree with that. >> what i think is happening is people are claiming an unhappiness with the economy and that's really about how they feel about joe biden and his age. liz: no it's not. they don't like double digit inflation and his age is a cover for problem withs the economy. no, james carville saying it may not be biden and trump. >> well, i think many people are believing thomas mancino now. not so much they don't think trump will get to the finish line but there's all these legal issues we can talk about another time but more that joe biden doesn't -- isn't going to be the nominee. the problem is that kamala harris isn't plan b, liz. he's more in the xyz category as

far as plans are concerned and keep an eye on hillary clinton and we haven't talked about her very much and she's been very public over the last couple months and she may be the best worst option at this point but either way democrats are panicking and we saw the bloomburg poll and showed joe biden losing in six of the seven swing states if that happens in 2024, we're talking about a landslide we've not seen in the 1980s and who else getting out of the bullpen and they're stuck at this point unless hillary somehow is the answer and she's already lost to trump. liz: really? hillary clinton you think that could be the choice? >> i think that only because i can't think of anybody else viable. it's not the vice president. gavin newsom has a record he'd have to run on with california and so hillary clinton, i mean again, if i had a bench here to work with that i'd give you somebody better, liz. but perhaps i mean, she did win the popular vote, which means

nothing against donald trump .x maybe they'll turn to her, the clintons have a war machine so-to-speak. i'm throwing out speculation here at this point, but i don't know where else to go if it isn't joe biden we talked why he wouldn't be a good option. liz: jo joe concha, have a good weekend. thank you. >> thank you. liz: israeli forces reveal they mistakenly killed by accident three israeli hostage tans in gaza confusing them as terrorists. we'll take this on but first, let's check in with our friends jackie deangeles in for dagen and also hear from sean. hey, guys, what's coming up next hour on the hit show the bottom line. >> hey, e smo mac, great show ad majority of americans support price controls, what? steve moore here on that as well as bad case of trump derangement syndrome in the media and kellyanne con wway reacting to

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liz: tensions are growing, a rift in growing between president biden is israel's prime minister netanyahu. the white house reportedly pressuring israel to deescalate in its war against hamas terrorists. now, peter doocy, he's been breaking news on this. he's live at the white house with more. peter, it's good to see you. >> good to see you too, liz. sounds like president biden is vice president harris had plenty to talk about at their lunch in the president's private dining room today because politico is reporting the following: vice president kamala harris telling colleagues in the administration she wants the white house to show more concern for the humanitarian damage in gaza where israel is locked in a bloody and prolonged battle with gaza according to to three people from harris' comments. joe biden is among the officials harris urged to show more sensitivity to palestinian civilians they said.

>> why do you believe the vice president is up set with the president about gaza. >> that's a great question because i just -- i mean, if i can answer a question why somebody would leak, i mean that would make me pretty smart and a lot smarter than i am. she's part of the team and not offering advice on president and council. her job is to provide advice and council to the president. >> ted cruz saw this story about tensions and he said since day one, biden officials have been pathologically obsessed with undermining and infuriatingly that continues in the aftermath of hamas' atrocities and the cost of israel's national security are catastrophic and we didn't hear anything from the president or the vice president about this. they kept their events all off

camera today. liz, liz: peter doocy, thank you so much. we appreciate you and your journalist. deputy national circuit court adviser kt mcfarland. you heard peter doocy's report, what's your reaction? >> things getting a little tension and president of the united states sparring with netanyahu about how to perceive with the war and what's supposed to happen after hamas is destroyed and now the president and vice president sparring in public about it. they need to sort of get a strategy here and one of the strategies should be let israel finish the job. let israel destroy hamas and not only good for israel's national security and our national security and security of all the countries in the region. you know, privately the muslim leaders, a lot of suni gulfer era leaders saying you're getting rid of hamas, we don't want to deal with them, do the job. let israel finish the job, mr. president, and let them do it on their own terms.

liz: white house national security adviser jake sullivan reportedly told israeli leaders yesterday they should end the "intense phase of fighting against hamas and gaza in the next few weeks". this would be right at the start of the 2024 election by the way. israel saying it could last several more months. what do you think? >> first of all, have we not learned anything in the unit is not very good at telling the other countries how to fight their wars and not very good at telling them what kind of postwar government to have weawhether in vietnam, afghanisn and now israel telling them this is the kind of government we want you to have and we ought to learn our lesson and have humility and not going to be easy and we've seen today the israelis mistakenly killed some of their own idf soldiers and it's a brutal on the ground stuff and it's person to person and door to door and building to building and that's the only way israel is going to eradicate

hamas. stop now. they'll come back. liz: they mistakenly kimed three ziti ragaini ellie hostages. that was the report today. >> yeah, three israeli hostages, sorry. idf could kill three israeli hostages. liz: which is unfortunate but, kt, we're seeing the footage coming in and watching and covering this, kt. we see more and more palestinians, people in gaza standing up saying no to hamas. i'll read what they're saying. hamas takes all of our money, leave us alone, hamas. surrender, this is foolishness. you're killing your own people. you're killing us. they get cars, they get jeeps, they get suvs and they get food and our children get nothing. this is the people of gaza saying this. >> yeah, they do nothing to eliminate ha nassau county and 30,000 fighters and population

of gaza well over a million and the palestinians, the human aid going to humanitarian assistance and food stuff and not going to the palestinian people and stolen by hamas and diverted by hamas and when they're "trying to fight against the israelis" they're grabbing palestinian women and children and throwing in front of themselves to take the bullet so they don't. the palestinian people, common sense would just tell you that they can't want hamas to govern them because hamas has brought them nothing but misery and strife and poverty. again, let israel finish the job. everybody will be better off. liz: kt, you're saying that it seems that that understanding, that intelligence about what's going on on the ground in gaza and it's not hitting home with campus protesters or colleges. we saw protesters, kt, again disrupt colorado democrat governor jared polis in his pro israel events shouting shame on

you, colleges are focusing on diversity and not education. anti-israel students doing these anti-semitic protesters and they're ignorant about history here and university of california berkeley, they did a survey, eight out of ten students can't name a decade for the six day war, they can't locate palestine on a map, they can't name the actual river to the sea in their anti-israel rants, kt, and they don't know who arafat is. >> the smoke screen on the american campuses are anti-semitic including my alma mater mit and they're worried about myorobin lou aggressions and safe spaces for d micro-aggressions and safe spaces for themselves and it's so frustrating for them to sea. our best universities and some of the dumbest people are out in the streets talking about things about which they know very little. liz: we're hearing more and more

republican lawmakers, they really want to kill and get rid of the billions of dollars in federal funding and tax breaks to these colleges and college anti-semitism and grady trim seatbelt reporting harvard alone gets nearly $680 million from the federal government and they get 350, $350 million from state governments and $2.5 billion in tax-free investments and they've got endowments the size of hedge funds to pay something like 1.5% on those endowments and as a tuition gouge and raise tuition nationwide for middle class families and their children, what do you think of this push in congress and you don't know, the senate democrats don't know what they're going to do and now it feels like it's revealed that they -- it's pulling back the curtain and this is what the colleges have really been doing. >> yeah, and there's so much money and they're so rich and they don't really care what anybody else says. pan had to fire the president oe

university of pennsylvania because they're costing them maybe $100 million in doe nayses but anastole lot more by keeping her there. harvard said it'll maybe cost us a billion if we keep our anti-semitic president, who's a plagiarist, but we'll keep her anyway and support her. might cost up a billion but we don't care because we have so much money. you know, let's take a -- you're right, let's pull back the curtain and see what's really going on. how much american taxpayer dollars are going to the institutions? how much money are they avoiding in being taxed and getting tax free and when they're spewing not good education, they're spewing indoctrination and meanwhile they're not getting their job done. they're not training young americans to go out and get jobs and be productive members of american society. let's get a m microscope on the colleges. liz: kt, it's well taken and news coming in that coming back to what's going on in middle east and one of the world's biggest shipping companies have

suspended shipping through the key red sea straight. after attacks by houthis on merchant and commercial ships and white house today saying, yes, this is dangerous what's going on in the red sea straight with commercial ships. so why did president biden, one of the first things he did was remove the houthis from the terror watch list for the u.s.. is he going to put them back on? >> yeah. well, i would hope s. the problem is, liz, it's a miracle that no american haves died and all these 80 some attacks on american interest and american forces and american ships flag vessels and extended by american military and we've had no american casualties and only a matter of time and once we do, has anybody thought through what this mean s? if you want to take out the houhouthis and give iran a mess, we know where the missiles are coming from. why not destroy the missiles and done that in previous administration and trump

administration did that and you don't hear from the guys for awhile. the reagan administration and worked with president reagan and reflagged some vessels and tankers being attacked by the iran at the time. once that happens, you don't hear from iran and sit back and hope for the best and if that happens, we'll see american casualties in a very near future and it'll be a great tragedy. liz: gosh, hope for the best is not a policy. kt mcfarland, thank you for your ex-peer at the scene and merry christmas, happy hanukkah and happy holidays, everybody. we'll be right back on "the evening edit". stick with us. he hits his mark —center stage—and is crushed by a baby grand piano. you're replacing me? customize and save with liberty bibberty. he doesn't even have a mustache. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪

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