people could be persecuted for such thing. in their eye, racism and bigotry are words from the olden days. yes, those voices are still around, but thanks to people like adam silver they're being silenced and getting quieter. that's a good thing. i'm michael smerconish. i'll see you back here tomorrow night. cnn special report with don lemon starts right now. this is a cnn special report. tonight, turns how you do pay a price for being a racist in this country. if you're donald sterling, that price is $2.5 million. not to mention being banned from the nba for life. >> effective immediately i am banning mr. sterling for life from any association with the clippers organization or the nba. >> just moments ago and moments before their playoff game, clippers coach doc rivers praised adam silver for that decision.

>> i thought adam silver today was fantastic. personally i thought he made a decision that really was the right one that had to be made. >> but the question is, is that enough to put out the raging fire that is the sterling scandal? i'm going to ask dominque wilkins and the real life olivia pope will join us. we have the latest on the search for flight 370. why tonight some are saying that the plane may be in the bay of bengal. you have been tweeting us by the thousands and my experts are standing by to answer your questions about the plane and the sterling scandal. like this one, rich men are probably paying off their mistresses right now out of fear. i'm going to bring in, begin with the sterling scandal and bring in stephanie bram. and then unguarded host rachel

nichols is here. you're outside the staple center where the clippers are playing tonight. how are the fans reacting. >> reporter: we haven't heard from the players just yet other than a few tweets coming out earlier today. we haven't actually spoken to them yet and i think they're doing a darn good job of keeping them sequestered because they want to focus on the game, they want to win this game. but what i can tell you about the mood here, i've been out here all day long and as that press conference began in new york, you could feel the tension build up to it and then calm down. even was wondering what was going to happen if the nba did not react swiftly and with the harsh ability at their command. all day out here, when i first got here, they had the street barricaded. they wanted everything shut down so that if there was a big protesting it wasn't going to

happen. just talked to a commander from the lapd, he there are some people on the other side of the arena. there are people in the arena with clippers jerseys on. it looks like everyone is back here focused on the game, including the coaches. they're tired but they're ready to play this game, don. >> as normal as they can get. rachel, i want to ask you this. the commissioner's decision, banned for life. >> the hammer. >> and it seemed personal for him. do you think this is a turning moment for racism in professional sports? >> absolutely. it's a big moment for adam silver and the nba. this is a new commissioner and it was his chance to put a stamp on what his tenure is going to be like. what he said is there is no room for this in this league. he also explained that hey, this problem goes way beyond sports. we heard that echoed from kevin jackson, the mayor of san francisco who used to be a

player in the nba. this is an example for everybody that bigotry cannot stand. it's basically everybody standing up saying hey, we've got a limit and you have passed it. >> doc rivers, the players in a statement for the commissioner, it seemed like they were just so relieved because they were thinking the worst thing could happen that nothing or something very minor would happen. but there was a sigh of relief. >> i want to explain what a powder keg the nba avoided here. the players all day today were talking to each other, not just the l.a. clippers players but players around the league. they were waiting with bated breath to see what he was going say. and if it wasn't enough, they had all agreed they were going to boycott the games tonight. these are huge games for the nba. these are the playoffs. they make a tremendous amount of money. yet they said they were going to walk out and not play these games if the penalty was harsh enough. there's a bit of an anvil

hanging over his head. he better do something major. >> these are the clippers players. >> also players from around the league. this was a group effort. there was no one to single out. it's more of hey, as a unit, as a group we're going to say we're not going to play under these circumstances because they know that's the greatest weapon that they had. and adam silver came outer and made everybody incredibly happy and relieved. >> this is all in the owner's court right now. can you imagine three quarters not coming out? >> this is a power play on adam silver's part. >> hugh do you mean? it's genius. the thing that he could do, what is in his power was to institute the life-time ban. he could fine him up to $2.5 million, which he did, the maximum, although, let's be honest, donald sterling with worst $1.9 billion. that's couch cushion change. so that's nothing.

but this move to disenfranchise him and make him actually sell his team, that's unprecedented. and if adam silver had gone to the other owners first, which is normally what he would do, say, hey, do have consensus, would you back me if i do this, a lot of them would say no. he didn't do has. >> he didn't ask. >> i asked him in the press conference today, i said, do you poll your owners? what kind of support did you have? he very tellingly gave the answer, i haven't polled them. aye talked to a few of them and i think i have the support. he threw it out in the court of public opinion first. that is a power move. now all of the owners have the public and their player to deal with. >> the players really responded to it. stephanie elam, thank you very much. rachel, help me get through the next hour. i want to bring in dominic williams, vice president of the

atlanta hawks. i feel like i'm at a hawks game because that's where i would run into your guys. we heard words like historic to describe today's decision, the great kareem abdul-jabbar said this is a turning day. is this a turning moment in sports? >> i think so. what adam silver did was outstanding. was personally so proud of him, the way he stood up, not just for the players and owners but how he stood up for people in general to really level -- i just think in coming down with the decision that he came down with really put everybody at east, like you talked about before. because at the end of the day, everything that happened up to this point has been wrong, that everything that came out of donald sterling's mouth. and you're right, there's no room in sports, there's in room

in society actually for this type of behavior and bigotry and racism. it shouldn't exist but unfortunately it exists in some people's mind. racism is taught. 's not inherit. we got to do the best we can to eradicate that. >> thank you. david, to you next. after the commissioner's decision, there seemed to be a

and frankly i think that not only will they get donald sterling out, i think it's going to be unanimous. i don't think any owner is going to be the guy that bodes against getting donald sterling out of the nba. >> i want to ask you this, people say who's the owner in the team. the guy in the blue jacket that's pulling his hair out over there. >> not this week by the way. >> do you think that he, you know, he's going to vote to force to sell? >> no question about it. i'm very close to all of our owners particularly here in atlanta. you've got all these guys who are part of the ownership feels the exact same way. they want this man out of power. because again, you can't condone

part of pit although in this case i think they're going to be looking for the right ownership, the right partners. there's doing to be a town of scrutiny. whoever takes over the team is going to have to pass a stiff standards in terms of morality and pr and appeal. >> great conversation. i'm so glad that you're all here. when we come back, now that donald sterling has been banned for life, some sponsors are coming back to the clippers. but will sterling's charitable giving change anybody's mind about him?

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or it's pittsville, brah. it's never too late to learn a foreign language! go and smell the roses! a $2.5 million fine is a drop in the bucket for donald sterling. forbes lists him as the 25th richest person in the world. he's donated the charitable 'causes but is he really a philanthropist? poppy harlow has that. >> mr. sterling, how are you? >> billionaire donald sterling opened his wallet for charity and let people know it. >> are you a racist, mr. sterling? >> of course not. >> this ad in sunday's l.a. times touting his gift for kidney research was placed by sterling himself, not the university.

ucla is returning his 425,000 donation and rejecting the rest of his $3 million pledge. >> he likes to portray himself as a charitable man. i would say on a spectrum he's about one of the less charitable billionaires out there. >> sterling amassed a fortune of nearly $2 billion according to forbes largely from real estate with apartments across california. the nba's $2.5 million fine, the maximum allowed is a drop in the bucket for this billionaire. he bought the l.a. clippers for a reported $12 million in 1991. some put the team's worth now at half a billion dollars. tax returns show that donald t. sterling charitable organization has donated $1.4 million since 2007 with thousands going to minority organizations, including the united negro

college fun and the naacp. >> how much money did donald sterling give the naacp? >> it was not a significant amount of money. >> he even received a humanitarian man of the year award and a lifetime achievement award from the los angeles chapter of the naacp in 2009. >> we have to be careful about the money we take and we have to make sure that the color of the money does not taint us. >> sterling's foundation donated $30,000 to museum of tolerance but its leader is appalled and says it won't accept money from sterling ever again. >> we used that $30,000 to combat the kind of racism, hatred and anti-semitism that symbolized what sterling said in that tape. >> cnn's calls to sterling's representatives have not been returned and some organizations

that have benefitted from sterling's fortune want nothing to do with him now. >> philanthropy has a long history of turning bad money into good. >> sterling's charitable foundation gifts total less than the nba fine. poppy harlow, cnn new york. >> here to react to all of this were author of "the agent." also political commentator mark lamond hill. before i ask you a question, i want to tell you what charity watch said. they said seeing how small his foundation is, it makes you wonder why he has one other than the prestige or for his public image value. so lee, i mean, welcome to the panel. what do you make of that? >> well i live here and you cannot open the los angeles times virtually any day without a massive donald sterling ad

which features a big picture of them and the charities that he's donating to. he worked very hard. he was very many years the most despised owner in southern california, the team didn't win, he made profit and this team has given him the ability to be in the hollywood spotlight, to be on the cutting edge. i can't think of a more awful punishment from his perspective than to lose the team. he doesn't need money. but to lose the team. this is all going the happen quickly. they have three days for an owner to file a charge. he's got to respond one five, within ten they hold a hearing and after the hearing hay go immediately to a vote. i was blown away and southern california was blown away by the decisiveness and the way that the union came together with the players. >> and adam silver.

and you're right. for him saving face pr nightmare, that's probably worth you know more than money for him. listen, mark, you did -- you've talked about this and i've heard you speaking about it. why has this touched such a nerve, you think? this one went beyond the basketball world didn't it? >> it strike as nerve because many black people talk about this type of situation every day. what donald sterling articulated is what black people feel every day. they know there are people who don't want them in their space. they might want them to work for them, clean their house or might even want to date them but don't see them as people. then there was a quest for money. >> i got a tweet in bob and he says, i don't agree with sterling but whatever happened to free speech in this country. mark first and then rachel. >> he has every right to say what he wants in his house or

elsewhere. the reality is that free speech comes with penalties. people have a right to make judgments about you. >> according to her he knew what he was being recorded. >> it doesn't matter. what matters is this is what he now hoe he thinks, which by the way a lot of us knew already and it made it more clear than it's ever been. we don't want to be around this person. we don't want to be partners with this person. we don't want to buy tickets from this person. we don't want to work for this person you're the players. that's not about free speech. that's about revealing character and knowing who you want to spend your time with. >> you heard what leigh said, this is probably the worst thing that could happen to him because he has such a big ego, there's always some ad in the paper. the team is now worth half a billion dollars, probably a billion dollars or more. who wins here?

>> we win because the flip side of free speech is the freedom to react to that free speech. donald sterling, listen, i think the 1.9 billion includes some valuation on the clippers. so he's not going to be any richer than he already is. he'll get the cash and we can move on without him because we won't have to deal with him. >> do you think this reflects badly. i want to read from mark cuban. does this reflect badly, so a lifetime bad when you're 80, did david sterling allow him to flourish in the nba too long? >> he flourished for a long time. >> it's not just david stern. a lot of people turned the other way, right? >> you can't really reflect on the past. >> naacp. >> go ahead. i'm sorry. >> you can't reflect on the past.

only thing you can do is reflect on what happen sometimes in life it takes a dramatic act for people to come together and see that something is wrong and this is one of those acts that sterling has displayed. and and most people would be puzzled by donald sterling, he gives money to minority organizations, but the fact of the matter is she's very strategic. he gets people to buy in to what he believes. on the surface, he looks like he's a great guy. >> that's what leigh articulated in the beginning. i want rachel to respond first and then you guys can as well. i'm going to read it here. just yesterday, mark cuban said, in this country people are allowed to be morons and forcing someone to sell their team because of what they said in the privacy of their home is a very slippery slope. i mean he obviously said what he said was wrong but do you think in private that some of the owners are like oh boy.

>> this goes back to what i was saying before. this is the power play that adam silver put out there today. a lot of people might not realize this. he did not go to the owners first. because if he had gone to them first, there were definitely concerned. we heard them articulated outloud by mark cuban. wait a minute, if we give adam silver the power, if we let him lead the charge to take the franchise away, he might turn on us next. there some other owners in professional sports with dirty laundry out there. there are guys that might have the right to be concerned. but by making it public and putting it out there, adam silver took that choice away from them. mark cuban today after hearing silver and knowing there's in way he can come down on the side of donald sterling, then he puts out a tweet saying i totally support the commissioner. you can't be on donald sterling's side.

even if you're worried about the precedent, adam silver set this up very smartly to make sure that he would get what he wanted. >> as one of the mega sports agents. i want leigh to weigh in on how this changes for the player. if they're deciding to boycott a game when they're in the playoffs, that's a huge, huge move. we'll be right back after this break. [ hypnotist ] you are feeling satisfied without standard leather. you are feeling exhilarated with front-wheel drive. you are feeling powerful with a 4-cylinder engine. [ male announcer ] open your eyes... to the 6-cylinder, 8-speed lexus gs. with more standard horsepower than any of its german competitors. this is a wake-up call. ♪ [ female announcer ] there's a gap out there.

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donald sterling's racist views might have been an open circle in some views but most of us would not have known about them if it were not caught on tape. joining me now is someone who

knows more than just about anyone about scandal is judy smith. he's a real life olivia pope top crisis expert. she's what you call a fixer and she's at the global conference tonight. thank you for joining us. welcome. this was a scandal that bubbled up quickly and handled quickly as well. how did the commissioner do today? >> i think he did a great job. i think he came out, he set the tone and honestly i think it was a big test for him as well as the league. i think the issue is going to be moving forward, don, is really what will the owners do. because now it's really up to the owners to say that no, you cannot own that team. so it's going to be interesting

to see whether they have the courage to do that. >> you know, v. stiviano has been in hiding. her attorney released a statement to the l.a. times tonight. i wonder what you advice for her is. she says, she's very saddened by the decision to ban donald sterling for life and she never wanted any harm to donald. she also said for the record she is not his mistress. but still a lot of people have been questioning her motives. what advice would you give to her? >> well, i hate to give this advice, don, because i know when i say i you're going to be mad at me. i would tell her that she needs to stop talking to you guys and top putting out statements. you know, i saw yesterday where she came out of the house three or four times issuing statements. i think that she needs to stay out of the press. that's what i would advice her to do. yeah.

>> and donald sterling, what would you say to donald sterling? i've heard one crisis management person say very creative but i don't even know what to do for donald sterling. what advice would you give him? >> well, see, i don't know if i could actually work with him because if i had to talk to him, i wouldn't be able to go to one of the games. on a serious side -- >> judy wins tonight. >> on the serious side, though, look. what he did cannot be tolerated in any shape or form. and really, at least the brief interview that i heard today, there was no apology, there was no sense of being remorseful about what he had said. so i think he needs to start there, if at all he feels that way.

>>y ear speaking at the conference as an expert in crisis communication. what lessons can be learned from this? i'm also wondering too if at this point the clippers might need some crisis management and that you can help them with that. >> yeah, i think, you know, it's very interesting because this particular type of scandal, it really does touch everyone. you have the employees that work very hard at the clippers and the organization that does not want to be tainted with the same brush. you have the players. you have the fans. there are a lot of people that are touched by this and you have the sponsors. there have been a lot of corporations, i know you guys are talked about it earlier, that have pulled out. i think one of the valuable

lessons here is that if you make a mistake, if you've done something wrong, if you've said something that is inappropriate, you need to take ownership of that. and that has not taken place here. right? you can't run from things. you cannot run from things. you have to face into it and i don't think that's been done here. >> all right. i want to bring in the rest of the panel and the expert team and let them weigh in. david, i want you to take a look at this tweet, rich men are probably paying off their mistresses right now out of fear. how many rich men are thinking about their relationships and maybe, oh, wait a minute, i'm changing it, shall we say? what do you think? >> i think not. listen, look, the slippery slope in those kinds of issues is really getting away from what's going on here. i have been saying that prior to today there have been two kryptonite issues in sports. zero tolerance. one is gambling, two is steroids

and now racism. we've had controversies around racism before but we've never had smog so decisive and serious and so impactful in response to racism in sports. so now we add another issue, zero tolerance. >> and you're right. but i ask you that because, you know, you've heard people say she's the worst girlfriend subpoena she set him up, the onus is on here. mark, how many people are rethinking what they're saying behind closed doors tonight pop should we be that surprised? most people are not surprised and many people speak that way in the privacy of their own homes but you don't hear it in public. >> i hope people are rethinking what they say to their girlfriends. i hope they're rethinking about being racist. but to your point, yes, there are lots of people who say this stuff behind closed doors.

that's what black people have saying uh-huh about. it's like many people who have said these things behind closed doors and believe it. donald sterling doesn't think he's a racist. >> the new racism is not knowing you're racist. both of them are saying i'm not racist. but a lot of people say it behind closed doors. but if people say it -- we were talking about this in the newsroom. if i ever hear someone say that in my presence, i will call them out. many people don't do that. >> this is a message to a lot of people. david's point is well taken. zero tolerance for this. there are kids watching this play out, people watching this play out that may be a little bit on the fence and this tells them, this is wrong. if you had any questions about this, let me clear that up for you. this is wrong. you're going to get kicked out of what you want to do, you're going to lose your business over it.

stop. >> commissioner silver said the voice on the tape is donald sterling. he admitted it. does it matter how it was retained? >> the young lady is not innocent in this whole thing, the way it was extracted wasn't, you know, right in the way she did it. but nevertheless, the information is out now. we know how donald sterling think behind closed doors. this is one of those situations where you got caught because of those words. but you know what? again, i think this sets a precedent. this is a monumental event that now is going to put people really in the hot seat and more importantly's going to hold them accountable for what you say. it takes events like this to really put people back in check. at the end of the day across the board, forget about sports. this don't belong in society.

unfortunately some of this still exists. i'm glad that we as as a league step guard, stood up for our players, coaches and the society in general. >> and rallied around each other. >> absolutely. >> rallied around the country. leigh, i want to ask you about the players have always been known to be on their best behavior. the players aren't at fault in this story in any way. i'm wondering if this is an opportunity for the league to, you know, burnish its image and also the players -- are the players feeling, you know, a sense of empowerment now? are they feeling themselves, like hey, we actually made a difference in all of this in. >> well i think that you saw that the union worked very closely and had a big influence on adam silver and what he did. remember now when you talk about the owner's question, it wasn't just a clipper problem. i was a problem for the nba. the tsunami wave was about to threaten their international brand, television contracts,

sponsors, every owner sitting there is well aware of this. the interesting thing about sports is you know, i've spent 40 years working with athletes to try to be role models and to make a difference. and the are any is if there's ever a place in america where you have blacks, whites, asians working together harmoniously, it's team sports. it's the fact that they live together, shower together, harmoniously play together, watch each other's back. so this should be a shining example of what is or isn't tolerated today. for the players this will end up well because they'll be a new owner in los angeles. this is their best chance ever to try and overtake the

dominance that the lakers have. we went through this in southern california, hideous owner, terrible, people were staying away in droves. a big balloon got popped today. >> a big weight got lifted today. you mentioned frank mccourt, now you're talking about donald sterling. other owners do they need to pay attention. >> absolutely. he's campaigned against gay rights he says that gay people should stop asking for special treatment because they want to get married. there are a lot of people in this country 0 who think that that is a problem. and i think there's going to be more attention paid to what these owners think. it's not just the players in the spotlight now. it's not just management. they're accountable too. >> judy, where does the nba go from here? you're the last word here.

where does the nba go from here? >> i think the nba has to do a few things. i think, one, hopefully they will be helping to apply pressure to the owners to do the right thing. i think the other thing that the nba is going to find themselves dealing with is an ongoing effort to make the sport much more diverse across the board. not just on the players' side but just diverse across the board, and in particular with the ownership. >> thank you all of you. great conversation. i'm so glad each of you took the time to -- i'll be in new port one day when it's not 60 mile an hour winds out there. >> come on, you're welcome. >> thank you guys. have a great evening. up next, the latest on the search for flight 370. the wreckage of a plane found but it's thousands of miles away from the search zone. could it be flight 370?

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thank you for joining us on this program. david, your company gio residence said it detected a object that could be a commercial airliner. tell us what you saw and what you think it is. >> good evening, don. thanks for having me on in the first place. we have 23 sighters work on the project. so we thought we might as well try and help and we started looking for titanium, steel, copper, nickel, iron, all of thements that make up a boeing 777. we looked north of malaysia and northwest. and we've found what we believe to be the wreckage of an

aircraft. >> what has been the response from searches and from other folks who are looking for this plane? >> silence up until yesterday. we sent our initial report four weeks ago on march 31st to malaysian authorities and then a final report which was a 23-page scientific document out on the 15th of april. to all of those same authorities and we heard nothing. we didn't want to go public at all. the last thing we wanted to do was create any publicity. but we had to give the authorities a nudge because we felt we had a moral obligation to have our findings investigated. >> let me ask you this. malaysian authorities say they're working with searches to assess the credibility of your information. australian searches have dismissed the claim. they believe that the plane is in the southern indian ocean,

not in the bay of bengal. do you believe that the plane is not in the southern indian ocean? >> it very well could be in the southern indian ocean but it's bit of a 50/50 bet that the satellite data, the pings from the royals royce enjoys could have been going up to northern corridor or the southern corridor and it as it stands, it could be -- that corridor goes directly over our coordinates. and the australians could very well be right. but at least the malaysian government now are talking with us. we've spoke within malaysian government. >> what would you like to see next in. >> they're moving it up the chain of command in malaysia. it would be up to the indians or the bangladeshians, whose ever

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welcome back, everyone. you heard the ceo of geo residence just a few minutes ago. he thinks searches should take a look in the bay of bengal. i want to bring in jeff wise, the author of "extreme fear", the former department general and she's now an aviation attorney. les and jeffrey. i haven't said all of your names in so long all together, i was beginning to have withdrawal. so, jeffrey, you know you just heard david pope from geo residence, they claim to have what appears to be a wreckage of a plane. how are the searchers in perth reacting to this information?

>> look, off the record, the assessment is it's technology. however, my understanding is that the wreckage is about 700 miles -- >> we' peer to be having trouble obviously with -- he he's in perth, australia and those things happen. do you think the searchers are taking this seriously, at least the australians? >> i think they do. they're releasing they data and their calculations. like you remember in school, they said, show you work. they've shown everyone what they did and why they think this is so and it sounds reasonable. we haven't gotten what we were looking for with the other data. so i think given what they've put forth and what they've explained, i think they have to go talk a look. >> have to take a look, you think, jeffrey? >> i do.

>> look. certainly have a look. but the problem is -- i know you lost me a little bit there. but the particular location is about 5, 600 miles to the west of the northern arc. this area of the bay of bengal is where they break a lot of ships up. it's a center for breaking up ships of all sorts -- there's all sorts of wreck out there and it may be that they simply detected some of that. >> the type of, you know, equipment that they're talking about, resin and all of that, it could be from a ship. and that's a very good point. jeff wise, for some time you've been insisting that the australians are not search in the right area. are you more comfort right now that the plane isn't where they think it might be? >> well i mean what i've been trying to say is there's a low probability that where they're looking is right. and i think they've been overconfident.

there's been all of this talk this thing is in the north, you should be happy about it. and actually what i think your guest said was absolutely inaccurate. this is not on the northern arc. it's on the path to the arc. but if you believe the data, which i do, then it shouldn't have crashed en route. it actually had to get to the northern arc. >> i thought he said it wasn't near the northern arc. >> he said it was in accord with the data because it was on the route to the northern arc. which is true, it was very near -- it is near the out to the northern arc but you have to get there the in order to conform with the data. >> we've got this tweet and it says what is the likelihood that the plane would be intact as a geo residence image indicated if it crashed. it seems to be in perfect formation there, right? >> yeah. i mean my guess is just what i know about the 777 and what might have happened with the

scenario we've been talking about. not very likely. no disrespect to mr. pope's technology, i'm not familiar with it, but i'm looking at it from the stand point 0 why this was presented, why it wasn't acknowledged. you've got a team of experts from boeing, from the ntsb, from the other accident investigation teams, from royals royce and he mistakenly said rolls royce pings. he really meant to say handshakes from the satellite. there's discrepancies with some things. what jeff thomas said, i very much appreciate the fact that could be a ship. and why wasn't this information looked at then? i think that investigative team with those experts minds would have said not so much. >> jeffrey thomas, susan meyer asks, why not explore this new development? it's no more farfetched than other search hypothesis in the past 45 days.

>> well, look, absolutely if someone wants to go have a look. we keep getting back to the fact that this team of experts, we're talking about not just malaysians, united states, australia, china, some of the best minds in the world working at light and technology folks as well who are absolutely convinced that the southern arc is the area. certainly go and have a look if they like. but they say no. they say it's not there. >> this audio which was finally release bid the malaysians, in any way does it change the investigation or give us any hint as to what might have happened? >> well, actually it does because it is so normal. in that very last line that he said, it wu just as normal sounding. so whatever happened, happened after that. it must have hapned very quickly. but i thought he sounded impatient but he had asked twice

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