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welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. this is "new day," wednesday, august 23rd, 6:00 in new york. angry and defiant, president trump last night attempted to rewrite history of his charlottesville response conveniently admitting -- the president combative speech did not stop there. he went after arizona's two republican senators again without ever saying their names. all of this as cnn learns the president and senate majority leader mitch mcconnell have not spoken in weeks. >> let's be clear. this is a new low. the president was not merely recharging the base. he was playing americans for fools. the nation's former director of national intelligence is calling president trump's speech down right scary and disturbing. james clapper questioning the commander-in-chief's fitness for office and his access to the

nuclear codes. one night the president calls for peace and unity that our fighting men and women deserve after they return from war. the next night he does his best to destroy the same. we have it all covered. let's begin with cnn's boris sanchez live in phoenix. i was watching last night as the president said we had turned off the live feed, i was watching him say that on cnn. that's how bizarre it was. >> reporter: bizarre it was, chris. another whirlwind performance by the president of the united states, really what we've come to expect from donald trump. as you said, he went after some of his favorite targets, the media, the democrats, some members of his own party in congress. he seemed very focused on trying to clarify his response to the violence in charlottesville though he left out some important information. >> we condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious

display of violence. >> reporter: president trump selectively recounting his past statements about the deadly violence in charlottesville, virginia, and purposely omitting his off-the-cuff responses that sparked the unroar. >> we condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides, on many sides. >> you also had people that were very fine people on both sides. >> reporter: the president blaming the media for the backlash. >> i hit them with neo-nazi. i hit them with everything. i got the white supremacist, the neo-nazi. i got them all in there. kkk, we have kkk. i got them all. so they're having a hard time. so what did they say, right? it should have been sooner. he's a racist. >> reporter: and accusing the press of giving a platform to hate groups, a charge the

president reiterated on twitter after the campaign rally. >> they're bad people, and i really think they don't like our country. >> reporter: president trump for meanting division by attacking the removal of confederate statues. >> they're trying to take away our culture, our history. our weak leaders, they do it overnight. >> reporter: mr. trump also plans to shutdown the government over the bore der wall, but made no mention of making mexico pay for it. the president throwing more red meat to his base. >> i think we'll end up probably terminating nafta at some point, probably. >> reporter: before once again attacking arizona's two republican senators, jeff flake and john mccain who is battling brain cancer, without saying their names. >> one vote away. i will not mention any names.

very presidential, isn't it? and nobody wants me to talk about your other senator who is weak on borders, weak on crime. >> reporter: president trump also firing up the crowd, teasing a potential pardon of controversial sheriff joe arpaio. >> so what sheriff joe convicted for doing his job? i'll make a prediction. i think he's going to be just fine, okay? >> reporter: despite his press secretary telling reporters the president wouldn't discuss the issue. outside the rally, thousands gathered to protest the president. inside mr. trump was in denial. >> all week they're talking about the massive crowds that are going to be outside. where are they? you know, they show up in the helmets and the black masks and they've got clubs and they've got everything. antifa! >> reporter: police using teargas and pepper spray to

disperse the crowds after his rally. the president also called out the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell by name saying we have to talk to pitch which the phrasing of is very interesting. as you said, alisyn, sources are telling cnn the senate majority leader and the president haven't spoken for weeks. "the new york times" reporting that mitch mcconnell has privately questioned the president eeps fitness for office. >> ordinarily we do use the expression throwing red meat to the base. last night the president was feeding them poison. let's bring in cnn politics reporter and editor at large chris cillizza and cnn political analysts john avlon and april ryan. i know we also say, ooh, never seen anything like this before, never seen anything like this before. last night was stark in contrast to the night before. all of the worst suspicions were

confirmed. he read the speech. he clearly didn't believe it. as soon as he could -- >> you've got twitter trump, teleprompter trump and town hall trump. last night was unbridled president on a red meat ram page, and it was poison because he kept targeting different groups. chris, yesterday onset we had a little bet, just a little abe lincoln on whether he would stick to the script, try to be presidential. in fairness when you saw me this morning, you gave me a ten. >> yes, i was so wrong, i had to double -- i can't believe how wrong i was. >> required a little hamilton to address that wrongness. among the significant things last night, first of all, he teased a pardon for arpaio, went after two republican senators, albeit not by name but with a vicious twist. he said he would accept a

government shutdown which is already looming in september, in exchange for the wall. and then he went after the press which is a normal day in donald trump's life, except he did it in a way i hadn't heard before, accusing us of being the primary source of division in this country and hating our history and our culture. that's different. that was a poisonous red meat speech, the likes of which we've seen in other nations, but rarely in the united states from the president of the united states. >> april, what did you hear? >> i heard a lot of hate. let me say this. let me go back a little bit. monday night i was at fort meyer with the president when he delivered that speech, delivering it to the teleprompters and to the soldiers in that room. 24 hours later it was a stark contrast, polar opposite speeches. some people wanted to say that this president is unfit because of his mental stability. others are saying it could be an

archie bunker moment. either way, this is the president of the united states. one minute he says, you know, i'm for peace, tolerance and he doesn't want to use words like bigotry. he's not a bigot or anything, and we can't stand that. but the next thing, code words again the next night, going after people, going after the media, going after groups of people, supporting people who want to gather groups of people based on culture and race. it's a sad day for this nation. it's a sad day. we got glimpses of it during the campaign. i guess people would say that was the honeymoon. now you see the real president donald j. trump. i'm shocked from monday to last night. it's shocking. >> i think the honeymoon -- maybe a better metaphor is that was the high and this is the

hangover we're dealing with right now in terms of how he's decided to express himself. be clear, this is not a matter of opinion. this is a matter of fact. take a listen to what the president said about charlottesville and how he tried to double down. here is the sound. >> here is what i said on saturday. we're closely following the terrible events unfolding in charlottesville, virginia. this is me speaking. we condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence. that's me speaking on saturday. >> we condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides, on many sides. it's been going on for a long time in our country. >> so can we conclude that he was embarrassed by his original words, the fact that he omitted them last night? can we conclude that because he

omitted "on many sides" he made a mistake there? >> no, you can't judge his intentions. he misled that audience last night, hoping to play them for fools. >> rewrite history. >> he whitewashed it, rewrote history. why, chris cillizza? >> because he does it all the time. he does it to make himself look better. he does it to make it look like he won, he was the victim. he was ill treated. his candidacy was built on grievance, both his own and the ones he identified within the country. i don't think he does it because he's embarrassed. i think he does it because in his mind he's always right, so he will adjust the facts. well, there were muslims celebrating on 9/11, barack obama did wiretap trump tower,

there were more people at my inauguration. he rewrites history constantly to make it more favorable to him. now, lots of people rewrite history and make it more favorable for them, very few are president of the united states. there's a through line here, victim line and grievance. donald trump is forever the victim in his own mind, the victim of poor staff, victim of bad choices made by other people, victim of the media mows especially. remember his comments about jeff sessions. i can't believe he would do this to me about jeff sessions' recruisal. we talked about it on the show. 100% focused on himself. this is who the guy is. he may have other moments. monday night is the exception. tuesday night is the rule. >> it's when he actually gives a speech written by staff that's apparently taking the office of the president more seriously

than the president himself. i think -- chris makes an important point. conservative presidents -- think of ronald reagan. playing the victim was not in his vocabulary. it was about a larger purpose beyond himself, and the con nation of conservative populism and victimhood is significant. as tim o'brien, his biographer has pointed out, everything can be in two prisms, self aggrandizement, self-preservation. that seems to be the president's two speeds. >> narcissim as well. >> narcissim as well. >> april, going after the senators, mccain and flake, from arizona in their back yards, the crowd seemed to like it, obviously. everybody there is predisposed to support president trump. where does that leave us today? what happens on capitol hill? how do people like mitch mcconnell and the arizona senators respond to him now? >> senator john mccain is really

in a battle for his life and trying to heal. so that's probably his primary focus, which it should be. and others in the republican party are fighting for him. here is the bottom line. the other night we heard hear on this network, cnn. we heard speaker of the house paul ryan say the president messed up with his words, and he came back monday and it was okay. this is the fifth time. you wonder how this party can stand and justify -- and you already know mitch mcconnell just last evening, to donors saying that he felt the president wasn't fit, and he also didn't believe he was going to finish out this term. republicans are rising up. the question is will their base see what the leadership in washington sees?

leaders are leading the way. this is real. this is not fake. people are not making this up. there's omission. he's going after a prisoner of war, a man who is sick. two senators in their own home, in their back yard. there is a lot of -- i don't even know what you call it there. we've never seen this. >> april, be clear. he can criticize anybody he wants. that's fine. it's about how he abuses the facts and how he is twisting reality for people to create enemies, and the insensitivity of forgetting a man is fighting for his life, look, that's stock in trade for the president of the united states. he misled them on the facts last night and trying to destroy the people who call him out on that who is the media. he's not a victim and neither are these republican senators. mitch mcconnell is no victim. his job is to stand up and speak truth to power. will he do it? we'll see. >> panel, thank you very much. we'll rely on you later in the

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president trump last night once again hinting that he may pardon controversial former maricopa county sheriff joe arpaio. >> was sheriff joe convicted for doing his job? [ cheers and applause ] >> he should have had a jury. but you know what? i'll make a prediction. i think he's going to be just fine, okay? >> i won't do it tonight because i don't want to cause any controversy. >> let's bring back our panel, chris cillizza and john avlon. and we'll bring back alex burns who just broke a story about the feud.

he's been. >> arpaio is a great exemplar of that whole militia movement, minutemen movement on the border that was os sense pli trying to cecil legal immigration. the investigation, by the way, that led to this conviction which the president suggests he's going to overturn dates back to the george w. bush administration. so if you conspiracy theorists think this is driven by congress radio courts, go check your facts. he was campaigning with the president, too. >> it wouldn't make sense for president trump to be hard on joe arpaio, chris cillizza, because he represents everything he was trying to spoon feed people in the audience last night. if you take the president at his word which is he's all about him and what works for him, he will not surrender the me to the we

in any way, big or small. why wouldn't he support joe arpaio? >> one of the fundamental rules of trumpism is if you like me, i like you. go back to vladimir putin. he said nice things about me, so why wouldn't i say nice things about him? that's the fundamental default. if you were nice to donald trump, donald trump will be nice to you until you stop being nice to him. it really isn't much more complicated than that. joe arpaio has said their relationship goes back years, says donald trump sent him notes, thanking him for his leadership on birtherism. he was an early supporter, he formally endorsed him in iowa right before the caucuses in 2016. this is seen as a big thing. donald trump brought him to iowa to endorse him. just one other thing about the way in which trump presents this, it's a classic stay tuned, wait until the next episode, right? who knows what will happen, but i think he's going to be okay.

this is donald trump reality star. make sure you tune in for the cliff-hanger. >> he's the master of the tease, chris cillizza. he did another one last night. while congress is so worried about government shutdown, president trump seemed to feed that. let's watch. >> the obstructionist democrats would like us not to do it. believe me, if we have to close down our government, we're building that wall. let me be very clear to democrats in congress who oppose the border wall and stand in the way of border security. you are putting all of america's safety at risk. you're doing that. you're doing that. >> so that was a message to democrats. i'm sure mitch mcconnell was listening to that, ha the president thinks the government shutdown is one of the answers. >> right. that's a big deal. it's sort of obvious to say it,

but republicans right now are deeply, deeply concerned that when they get back to washington after labor day, they are going to defund the government, raise the debt ceiling and hopefully get some kind of traction on another issue like tax reform. they see trump as having not been helpful in any way on any of those subjects so far. so to have him out there, even republicans who in general support the idea of maybe not a border wall, but enhanced border security of some kind. to have the president out there drawing not quite a red line but pretty close in saying i'd rather see no government funding at all than see government funding without the wall, that makes it awfully difficult for republicans to put together the votes on their own side. ironically it means that republicans will have to rely that much more on democrats to fund the government. >> so what is the inside scoop about what's going on between the president and the senate majority leader? mcconnell's silence is often taken as acceptance. what is the reality from your reporting? >> the reality is the silence

extends to mcconnell's relationship with the president. the president berated mcconnell on health care and especially over the russia issue. what they're saying about each other to the people around them while they're not talking to each other is as stark as it has ever been. mcconnell has never been a huge fan of the president and has been up front with folks for a while about feeling like the president is not the governing partner, the ideal governing party is pretty close to saying he's given up. >> who wins the battle royale? >> we're watching a basic inversion of the american system where you have a series of people even within the administration coding and trying to contain a president they view as impetuous and impulsive racketer than the president being a father figure. and with a larger context of government, even though republicans have unified control, mitch mcconnell and other republicans privately,

increasingly, corker questioning his fitness for office. that's very significant given the context in which you can see a president have power challenged, not just institutionally but more fundamentally. that's a serious step that people are starting to discuss openly. that's a dangerous thing to do. last night on cnn's air, jim clapper did that as well, former dni who served in every administration from kennedy to obama and doesn't do it lightly. mcconnell may be doing it privately, but that carries enormous weight. watch his face. this is significant. >> at the end of the day, cillizza, you have talk and you have action. you can condemn him slowly in different terms to different degrees. at the end of the day, it's about what do they do when they get back here. how does the president not win in as much as these republicans have to try to empower their own agenda. that's how they'll get re-elected. that's how they show progress, no matter how they have a relationship or don't with the

president. isn't that the reality, they have to try to get it done, no matter if they want to do it with him or not? >> largely speaking, they have a similar agenda. this is how they justified getting -- backing him in the first place. alex is exactly right. mish mcconnell and donald trump are oil and water politically speaking. i know they're in the same party, but that's about where the similarities end. the theory of the case was, look, he has an agenda much more similar to ours than hillary clinton does. you're right, chris, tax reform, immigration of some sort. maybe they try health care reform again. sure. but in your question of who wins, i think mitch mcconnell probably wins. mitch mcconnell is not going anywhere. he doesn't have a serious challenge as leader. john cornyn who is second to him from texas has already said he's for him. mcconnell is up in 2020. i don't think he's going to lose there. donald trump has a lot more chance of losing in 2020 than does mitch mcconnell. so that's the thing about

institutions. they remain while individuals pass through. so near term you're correct. longer term, i think a classic example and another way they're different, mitch mcconnell always playing the long game. donald trump playing the shortest of all games, the day-to-day short-term chaos. >> mitch mcconnell is married to elaine chao in donald trump's cabinet. to be a fly on the wall. >> a lot of people played down that angle, said he's a master at disassociating the personal from the political. the way he was talking about the president's remarks last week on charlottesville was more heated than people typically hear from senator mcconnell. it may not be an accident that that happened after his wife was standing next to the president during that whole show. >> mcconnell actually is very

passionate about civil rights, goes back to his history and certainly, obviously, his relationship with his wife. i wonder if the folks in the rally understand that the people who know trump best, who work with him closely, whether in the administration or the senate, are not more poly admiring the president in private than they are in public. there's a continuity of dealing with the president by the people who work with him that is deeply troubled and somewhat disgusting. >> panel, thank you all very much. we have had government taking action after this spate of naval problems. there have been four collisions. there have been fatalities. now the commander of the pacific's seventh fleet is being dismissed. what will his removal mean? and will it be enough to make things better? live report next.

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. i hit them with neo-nazi. i hit them with everything. i got the white supremacists, neo-nazi in there.

kkk, we have kkk. i got them all. they're having a hard time. so what did they say, right? it should have been sooner. he's a racist. it should have been sooner. >> president trump wants you to believe that we, the media, are to blame for the backlash to his response to charlottesville. let's look at what he said versus what he told the crowd he said. here are his words. >> here is what i said on saturday. we're closely following the terrible events unfolding in charlottesville, virginia. this is me speaking. we condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence. that's me speaking on saturday. we condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides, on many sides. it's been going on for a long time in our country. >> on many sides, on many sides. i wonder why he didn't say that

last night when he was trying to convince the crowd that he was taken wrongly by the media. odd? of course not. let's discuss with cnn political commentators symone sanders and paris dennard. we'll get into different points of reference last night and why they were misleading and what it means to each of you. let's start with a matter of fact. paris, he said on many sides, and it triggered a feeling that he was creating moral equivalence between nazis and those who oppose nazis. it has reverberated around the world because of what he said. last night he took out the poisoned part of the words that he said. he took it out, out of convenience. can you defend that? >> i'm not here to defend president trump, but my opinion is you're missing the whole promise of the point of last night's rally. what the president was saying was the media and liberals are

not giving me credit for actually what i said and how many times i said it. so what he did was remind the media and remind everyone at that rally in phoenix where i'm from exactly what he said as it relates to condemning neo-nazis, racist individuals that are part of the white supremacy movement or the kkk. so he read the points that denounced all of those individuals on each occasion. so that was the point, not that he was taken out of context, but the fact that he did say it. >> context is everything. symone, the context is everything. that's not only non-responsive, but irrational. he left out the "many sides" part. that's why he left the -- you can't make the point that paris is straining to make. >> i'm not straining.

>> it's strained, trust me. >> don't put words in my mouth. >> i'm not putting words in your mouth. >> the truth is he left the words out last night that created the moral ambiguity, and you know that. why you're not owning it, i don't know. >> he said there was no moral equivalency to anything. he said that. >> he said it, he happens to be wrong. >> when donald trump stood up in front of the american people last weekend and equated -- that's what many of us thought he did, equated the white supremacists to the other protesters who were at this rally to protest the white supremacists, that set off a firestorm. what we saw from donald trump last night from the president is we saw him in an attempt to rewrite recent history, and i think donald trump knew exactly what he was doing. donald trump is not new to this game of the media. donald trump knows how this works, and this is his attempt to speak directly to his, quote,

unquote, base and vilify the media. this is dangerous, dangerous territory. the president is not doing himself any favors here. he has to own this thing and continue to let the american people and the world really know that he understands that charlottesville was an egregious attack and it had a lot more to do with more than just protests. this was a white supremacist rally that happened in america where someone died via isis-styled tactics. donald trump is clearly identifying with white supremacists here. i'm not sure why. >> paris, you're smiling and shaking your head. >> the point is that you all are making the point the president was trying to make last night. moving the goal post for him. it's never good enough. he's denounced them multiple times. i think this is like the fifth time he denounced them. he said everyone in this arena stands united about the horrible things that happened.

he said that charlottesville strikes at the core of america. he went on and on and on taking up a lot of time to reiterate, to double down, triple down, five times hit it down how much he deplores the actions of the white supremacists who drove the car and the people that were there, the white supremacists, the nazis and the kkk. >> what about the good people who were marching with the kkk? how come he didn't mention them last night? those good people, you know, the ones who didn't exist? what about them? >> i don't know -- here is the funny thing. heather was there at the rally, and i think everyone can say that heather was a good person. >> he wasn't talking about heather heyer. don't let those words be in your moigt she was there protesting

against bigotry. he was saying there were good people fighting to keep the statues up, he was saying there were good people with the kkk. heather heyer was on the other side, fighting against the nazis. she was part of the many sides problem that the president drew up. don't put her in the good people. that's not who he was talking about, paris. >> i'm talking about what i'm talking about. i'm saying that there were good people out there -- >> no kidding. nobody disputes that there were good people fighting against the nazis. he said there were good people with the nazis. symone, am i wrong? >> you're not wrong. the real problem with this is not only did donald trump again lump in anti-white supremacist protesters with white supremacists, last night he had a chance to again signal to the american people and to the world that he understood the gravity of this moment and he took it upon himself to call himself the real victim, the real victim from charlottesville, the press

attacked me, and that is a problem. that demonstrates that the president clearly does not not only not understand the moment, but he thinks -- from what i gather, he thinks this is a game. this is not a game. white supremacy is real. we're dealing with people's lives, and the president of the united states either a, identifies with white supremacy, which i believe he does, or, b, just doesn't give a damn. >> he actually said i draw the line when they attack you. he made it not about himself. it was about how they attacked his supporters for their standing up and believing that he did the right thing in condemning these people on multiple occasions. that's exactly what he said last night. >> donald trump needs to continue to condemn his individuals. >> and he has. this is like the fifth or sixth time. he's consistently condemned them. what more do you want him to say? he's consistently condemned them. >> he's not consistent on race in this country. >> if you say he's not credible -- >> he's the president of the

united states. >> great. he's going to keep saying it. >> -- the people of our country to be consistent and credible on the issue. we do not believe him. let me tell you why. donald trump is the man that pioneered and literally led the charge for the racist birther movement against the first african-american president of the united states. he has a history of this. this is not new. >> you just proved his point from last night. it doesn't matter what he says, you won't give him any credit. >> it's because you have to say what you mean and mean what you say. he said coming out of the box, he threw a moral equivalence between nazis and white supremacists -- >> that's not -- >> that's been a huge part of the agenda, new policies they put in place to go after this, right, paris? we leave the debate right there. >> give credit where credit is due. >> what you ignore, you empower.

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treasury secretary stephen's wife apologizing after getting backlash over an instagram post she made. lise linton bragged about all the expensive designer clothes she was wearing. this was during a visit to kentucky, one of the country's poorest states. she touted her own family's mouth after being called out. cnn white house reporter kate bennett. this is just like the ultimate let them eat cake moment. why louise is become criticized for being tone deaf. >> this is the first time we're seeing this pop culture-politics mash-up where i think she

thought it was okay to do something like tag the designers. this is like a fashion blogger, kardashian move. instead it was in front of a government plane after an official trip that her husband, the secretary of the treasury, took to kentucky. it felt inappropriate and over the line. it's hard to understand the more egregious episode here, whether it was the post itself or her response to this mother in oregon of three children who just decided that she would comment. what she got back was a real fiery response that sort of kept coming. there was a lot going on with this, an apology that came yesterday afternoon. >> this woman, a moth are er ofe from oregon, she said on instagram, glad we could pay for your little getaway.

here she was on cnn expounding on why she was offended by the post. >> it also upset me because here was a person getting off a government-owned plane on what i assumed was a government trip with a government official. i honestly didn't know who she was. i assumed she was the secretary's wife but didn't know her name or anything. but to then be tagging everything she was wearing with all these expensive european designer names just r just seemed ridiculous and, quite frankly, offended me as someone who paid for part of their trip. >> then secretary mnuchin's wife, when she read that woman's post saying basically hash deplorable. this is what she said. have you given more to the economy and me and my husband, either as an individual earner in taxes or in self sacrifice to your country? i'm pretty sure we paid more taxes toward our day trip than you did.

pretty sure the amount we sacrifice per year is a lot more than you would be willing to sacrifice if the choice was yours. you're adorebly out of touch. >> we also didn't see in the graphic, a heart-faced emoji, there's something about that. louise linton has not been shy about her wealth and growing up in a scottish castle and being an actress in hollywood, et cetera. so maybe perhaps this is a lifestyle she's accustomed to. but to say to an american woman, as she said herself, ms. miller, an average american woman seeing this, the adorebly out of touch part felt a little mislabled in terms of who might be applying that after posting about valentino and tom ford and the other labels that she put on her instagram post. >> here is the good news.

louise linton, stephve mnuchin' wife did apologize. she said i apologize for my response, it was inappropriate and highly insensitive. is there some feeling -- after ivanka's company tweeted out the bracelet she was wearing after the president won on "60 minutes." after kellyanne conway hawked ivanka trump's shoes, is there some feeling that the tenure in and near the white house is a massive branding opportunity for some people? >> i think critics are going to feel that way, right? i think there's certainly more ground to stand on in that case in this administration more than others. i think ivanka trul has distanced herself from her brand officially while she's in the white house. she does continue to wear sometimes at least one item a day of her own brand. she doesn't tag it. she doesn't say here i am

sitting at a roundtable wearing my $120 dress from the ivanka trump brand. however, she's still representative of this brand she created before she came into the white house. there is a bit of a line crossed for sure. >> i agree with you, there is a melding. but the doubting it is the stranger part. kate bennett, thank you very much for keeping an eye on all this for us. the president unscripted and off the rails attacking the media for distorting his comments about charlottesville. this is a matter of fact. we will show you the facts next. ! wait so you got rid of verizon, just like that? uh-huh. i switched to t-mobile, kept my phone-everything on it- -oh, they even paid it off! wow! yeah. it's nice that every bad decision doesn't have to be permenant! ditch verizon. keep your phone.

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