thank you so much for spending part of your weekend with me. don't go away i'll be back in an hour from now, i hope you'll join me then. smerkonish is next. i'm michael smerkonish in philadelphia. we welcome viewers from around the state and around the world. cnn exclusive, special prosecutor robert mueller has grand jury approval of his fist charges in the russian meddling investigation, what comes next? and the divided gop has driven senators and congressmen to announce they would rather quit than fight. find out why i think they should all run. as independents. plus, many classified jfk files finally dropped this week and president trump has promised almost everything else will be released. i'll discuss with alexandra

zapruder, granddaughter of the man whose home movie famously captured the shooting. and the president keeps calling opioids a national emergency but no funding. what's the solution? a man who won a record settlement against big tobacco says it's time to sue big pharma. and his rebuke of donald trump at the 2016 democratic revengs riveted america. isar khan, the father of a gold star soldier killed in iraq is here. the announcement of muelle mueller's first charges is head-spinning. let me recap. one, republicans in the house said they will investigate the 2010 sale of a stake in american uranium, to a state-owned russian company. two, slip gop members will look at the fbi's handling of hillary clinton's email. three, for his part, the

president has asked the state department to speed up its release of any remaining hillary clinton emails. four, the white house also pushed that a gag order on an fbi informant pertaining to the uranium one deal be lifted. five, we also learned that the data analytics firm relied upon by the trump campaign reached out to wikileaks founder julian assange in the hopes of getting the 30,000 deleted clinton emails. six, meanwhile turns out the infamous trump dossier compiled by former british spy christopher steele was partially paid for by the clinton campaign and the dnc. seven, and now we know the original client who hired fusion gps was the washington free beacon, a conservative website financed by a major gop donor supportive of marco rubio. eight, the russian lawyer who attended the june 2016 meeting at trump tower with don junior, paul manafort and jared kushner

was coordinating her efforts with russia's prosecutor general. nine and now to cap things off -- cnn is reporting that as soon as monday, someone might be taken into custody to be first charged in connection with the probe led by special counsel robert mueller. we don't know who, nor do we know why but whoever it is, and whatever the charge is, this will begin a new chapter of mueller's probe. and this last story makes me wonder -- if there was a relationship to the others that i mentioned. grand jury proceedings and indictments like this are sealed. and maybe it's not the government that leaked the news. the revelation might have come from the defense. and if so, it begs the question of whether others knew this was coming, and wanted to get ahead of the story by muddying the waters with other seemingly contradictory narratives as part of a deliberative strategy. these are complicated stories and i say be leery of anyone

trying to reduce them to sound bite size. here with more insight is a former federal prosecutor and current candidate for attorney general of illinois. renato renati. the top of the list, who are we talking about? what are your thoughts? >> if i had to guess, my guess would be paul manafort. we've heard news that he had been told that he was going to be indicted and i believe that one of his own representatives confirmed that. that would be the obvious person that we should be thinking about. michael flynn is another possibility but we really don't know. that's informed speculation. i think you know, it's certainly unlikely that you know, mueller is going to have a series of indictments against a whole slew of people. but i guess anything is possible at this point. we don't know for sure. >> whoever the individual is or

individuals might be, do they know at this moment, do they know that monday is their day of reckoning? i asked for a particular reason tied to the commentary that i just offered. because i'm wondering if everything we've just seen this week is part of a defense strategy? >> what i'll tell you is what would ordinarily be the case in a white-collar criminal investigation like this one. typically what you would do is you would talk to the defense attorney in advance, you would actually hear whatever arguments they had regarding why their clients shouldn't be charged. and ultimately you would tell them in advance, we, we have an indictment against your client. the initial appearance of your client in court is scheduled for a particular date. would you please have your client in court on that date. so there's not even a need for an arrest. if you have a defense counsel, typically you could arrange that and save everyone the time and effort. so if that's the case, then

which is like i said, that would be the ordinary course. then they certainly know. >> what must the grand jurors believe in lay terms in order to get us to this next step? >> so the what the grand jurors have to believe is that there's a good reason to believe that a crime has been committed by that particular person, and so, for example, let's just say we're talking about paul manafort and he's being charged with a disclosure violation. making these false disclosure. the grand jury would have to believe that there's a good reason to believe based on the evidence that's been presented to them that paul manafort committed that particular crime. that he had a false disclosure. know that that's not proof beyond a reasonable doubt. the proof beyond a reasonable doubt would come at trial but obviously bob mueller and his team have to believe that they

have sufficient evidence to prove beyond a reasonable doubt the crimes that are charged in the indictment if they didn't, it would not only be improper for them to bring it, but ultimately they would lose the case at trial. >> and your reference to a disclosure issue and all hypothetically stated, because we don't know. we don't know who it might be. we don't know what the charges might be. but it underscores another point that i wanted to make. which is that this might be relative to the mueller probe of meddling. but whatever the charges that are brought on monday themselves, might be ancillary, right? this might not relate to the russian meddle per se? >> that's absolutely right. in fact if i was going to make an educated guess about what the, what the state of the investigation is, based upon all that we know publicly, i would say that we're not going to get all of the charges against everyone in the case. usually that comes at the very end of the investigation.

and everything we've seen suggests that the investigation is ongoing. mueller has continued to interview white house officials, he's done so recently. so what i expect this is, is a set of indictments against one or two people and the effort is to flip them. to get them to cooperate with the investigation so that you know, mueller can obtain additional evidence that he can use to charge other individuals. if that's the case -- >> renata i was going to thank you for your time. finish your thought. didn't mean to cut you off. >> no problem. if this is, if that's correct, then we will see a lot more in the future. >> renato marriotti, thank you very much. tweet me at smerkonish or go to my facebook page. i'll read some through the program. here's the first, trump seems to have managed to upend the

mueller investigation and make it by a failed presidential candidate and a 7-year-old sale. we live in interesting times, it's hard to be conversant in everything going on in this news cycle. this week in particular, the nine legitimate headlines i shared with you, it's a bit much even for this president's watch. and i'm wondering whether today's news was not a surprise to some among us. and whether they wanted to get ahead of the news with all the headlines that i summarized. one from facebook if i've got time. quickly. michael is right, we want to bury a story, release it on friday afternoon and talk about it on saturday when no one pays attention and it's old news by monday. maybe i should resent that remark, michael as host of a saturday program. i don't think there's anything left of the idea that friday has to be the day for a document dump because frankly we're not reliant upon printed versions of newspapers, which is where that all arises. every day is a hot news cycle.

ahead, on november 22nd, 1963, a dallas dress-maker named abraham zapruder made the most famous home movie in american history. i'm about to talk to his granddaughter about that fateful day and this week's release of classified jfk files. how do you chase what you love

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this week the government released nearly 3,000 previously classified files related to the kennedy assassination in 1963. as mandated by a 25-year-old law. though it also delayed the release of many others due to concerns expressed by the fbi and the c.i.a. among the new revelations -- the c.i.a. considered mafia hits on cuban president fidel castro, that someone called the fbi threatening to kill lee harvey oswald a day before oswald's murder and that the c.i.a. had intercepted a call from oswald to the russian embassy in mexico. our main record of that day was filmed by the grandfather of my

next guest. on november 22nd, 1963, dress manufacturer abraham zapruder used his 8-millimeter home movie camera to film the kennedy motorcade as it passed through dallas, texas. the 26 seconds of footage were an important part of the warren commission hearings and all subsequent investigations and are among the most analyzed pieces of film in our history. zapruder's granddaughter, alexandra, investigated her family's role in that footage and published a book. "26 seconds: a personal history of the zapruder film." alexandra, tell me about your grandfather, why was he in dealey plaza that day? >> he was there because he loved the president. he was a russian immigrant who came to this country at age 15 in 1920 and made good like so many others did. and he was an absolutely devoted fan of president kennedy and of course he was also a home movie

enthusiast. so he had a new camera, and his office was right adjacent to dealey plaza, so he went there to make a home movie like he had been doing for 30 years before that. >> he was not the only photographer in dealey plaza that day as i learned from your great book. what made him so remarkable in part is that he was able to stay so steady. >> uh-huh. you know he himself said that he could never account for that. he just didn't know how he did it. he said he felt that maybe he froze a little bit when he saw the events unfolding. but i think it was one of those moments when someone just -- he rose to the occasion and all of the strength he had in him came to the fore. and there's no accounting for it i suppose it's a good thing for history that he did. >> with the assistance of the skres service and kodak. he develops the film that very

day. and then it's remarkable to me, takes home the original movie and shows it to your grandmother and i think your uncle as well. >> my uncle, my aunt refused to watch it. she was so completely distraught. it's such, it's something that i addressed in the book so many times. this is such an indication of the times. you know the secret service was with my grandfather within an hour of the assassination. but they didn't take his camera. they didn't take the film. they sent him off to have it developed. they went with him for a period of time and went back to deal with oswald. and by the end of the day he dropped off two copies of the film at the secret service offices and went home with the original camera, the original film and one of the copies. that's just something that is unthinkable of course today. but it was very much the way things were. >> ultimately, the government seized this movie there was a highly publicized battle, ken

feinberg as he acted as he so often does, the ultimate arbitrator, a $16 million value was based on the film to the benefit of your family. i have to ask this -- was it a blessing or a curse, when all is said and done? because there have been many trials and tribulations, relative to your family and this movie? >> i don't think i would say it was either a blessing or a curse. i think we always viewed it as a tremendous responsibility. and something that you know, our family, we were the possessors of a record of the kennedy's family tragedy and that was the important thing that we needed to treat it always with dignity and with respect. balance the interests in the public interest in the film and the need for the american people to see this film. with our own family's values and that was a difficult, very difficult thing that my grandfather had to do and then my father had to do. but you know, they did, they did the best they could. and i think rose to the

occasion. >> alexandra, maybe nothing speaks to the universality of the zapruder film as the fact that there was even a parody of it on "seinfeld." how did that go over in your family? >> you know, i wrote in the book that it was one of the few times that my father, i ever saw my father laugh about anything that had to do with the zapruder film. you know it was a very serious and somber responsibility. but you know, "seinfeld" is "seinfeld" and it was certainly, it was certainly irresistible. >> alexandra, thanks so much for being here. >> thanks for having me. coming up, more and more republican lawmakers calling it quits, senators, representatives, even a red state speaker of the house. instead of giving up the fight, i want to offer a better idea. that help them save on their car insurance. any questions? -yeah. -how do you go to the bathroom? great. any insurance-related questions?

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i've got advice for the growing number of republicans who are choosing not to seek re-election. the senators like jeff flake of arizona, bob corker of tennessee have announced they won't run next year. in the house, republicans charlie dent, iliana ros-lehtinen, they've announced retirement and last wednesday, joe strauss, the speaker of the texas house of representatives and a bush family friend said he will not run again. what do they all have in common? they're regarded as establishment republicans, not the type aligned with this president. what an office-holder should do when they can't be renominated, is an extraordinarily different question. most retire. to me, no glory attaches to that. some switch parties.

some stand, fight and lose in a landslide. i don't see the point in that. all that proves is that their party doesn't agree with them. senator flake said this week, the bottom line is that if i were to run a campaign, that i could be proud of, and where i didn't have to cozy up to the president and his positions or his behavior, i could not win a republican primary. well no doubt he's right. last week i saluted his arizona colleague, john mccain, who in a speech that i attended in philadelphia, called out those who support half-baked spurious nationalism. but it was not lost on me that even mccain only found his voice after his own re-election was secure. that he didn't immediately go after candidate trump when the gop presidential candidate besmirched his war service, was a sign that as mccain told ryan lizza at the time he was worried about the crazies that trump had stirred up. the sway held by media

provocateurs over closed primary voters has created a situation where the fringes have outsized influences in the primaries. but not in general elections. which raises another option -- imagine if a talent pool comprised of the likes of corker, flake, dent, and democrats like evan byah and joe lieberman and independents like michael bloomberg and angus king would unite and fight as independents, the label that's preferred by 45% of americans? see together we can take this debate back from the angriest voices. it's been more than a century since theodore roosevelt saluted those with the grit to get involved saying quote it's not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. the credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and

sweat and blood. who strives valvaliantly, who e and comes up short gand an again. joining me now governor from the great state of indiana. evan byah. i want to show you something just posted at "u.s. news" that references you. he said reference to senator flake, said flake should leave his party, not the senate. he should run as an independent. we are starting to see a pattern, respected senators like olympia snowe, and evan byah announce their retirement. but how does leaving the senate improve the situation? >> he has a point, michael and it raises the larger question, what are we going to do about this? as you mentioned in your piece, just running in a primary, which senator flake was facing to

almost certain defeat, doesn't accomplish a whole lot. in might particular case i probably would have won re-election, but it concluded that the structure in washington created an impossible dilemma between being independent and doing what you thought was right. on the one hand and being effective inside the establishment on the other. because, and this is a longer conversation, everything is structured inside the congress these days. to reinforce party discipline, vote downing the line, even to the effect of if you're not with your party 1% or 2% of the time, you run the risk as senator mccain pointed out, of the crazies coming after you. and practical things, you want to get a bill passed? you want to have an amendment passed, you want to make a difference, you go to your party leader and the response is you've been a little independent, too much of a maverick, we're not going to let you pursue your ideas, that's the constant dilemma that you face. >> if those individuals that i've referenced and if evan byah was still in the united states today and you would be in that mix if they were in today to

change their party label would they not be the critical caucus that nothing would move without their support? and that would then force compromise? >> possibly. but when you look at the independents and you mentioned them, angus king, bernie sanders and the democratic side, they caucus with the democrats. when there's han independent on the republican side, they caucus with the republicans. it's because of the structural imperatives i mentioned, if you want to be effective inside the system. it's very difficult to be independent. everything forces you to one side or the other. which we probably should do away with the caucus system and just have rather than party lunches every week, a lunch with 100% there, something like that dealing with those things. but the broader point you're making is, it's very difficult to have an independent party in our country, we go back to the getting on the ballot as an independent, very difficult in my state it requires tens of thousands of signatures, california, millions of

signatures, you get the superpacs that come into reinforce party or doxy. jeff flake would have faced continues of millions of dollars in negative ads from the superpacks. the name you mentioned, michael bloomberg, that gets some interest because he has the stature and financial resources to establish an independent movement and fight back. but the final thing i would say, michael, what we really need, in my opinion, is more of your viewers, more americans to vote in those primaries. so that it's not just eight or 9%, it's 30% or 40% or 50%, take back the process. moderates, independents, people who want a system that works again and the final point i would make is, we need to get away from this notion that compromise is somehow or other a sign of moral weakness. our country was founded on compromise. the constitution itself was writ bin people who profoundly disagreed about some things, but got together and reconciled those differences. we used to think that that process was a sign of

statesmanship, not an act of betrayal. that's something all of us americans need to rediscover. >> i agree with everything you've just said. but i'd like to believe and the data supports in fact put up on the screen, you ask americans, gallup asked americans what party do you identify with, 45% this summer said i'm an independent. i think next in line was 29% with the d's and 26% with the r's. here's another one senator, you asked americans do we need a third party? and you get a number where roughly there it is, i was going to say two-thirds, 61% say yeah, we want a third party. so i get it, you know there's some cache in saying i'm an independent. maybe the data is off a little bit. but my point is a lot of folks agree with the sentiments that you've just offered. i think they're there to be harnessed. it just needs leadership. you get the quick final word. >> well the polls support that michael. but the practical reality is running as an independent is for structural reasons very difficult so my guess is the best path to getting to a more

functional governing system is to actually fight this out within the two parties so that we have more moderates and independents participating in primaries which lead to more sensible candidates. final thing i would say is, i love the fact that people consider themselves to be independent. but starting about 10 or 15 years ago the theory arose that people say that but they don't mean it. when you drill down, they're only about 4% or 5% who are truly independent. that's what's led to this personicious situation we have now where everyone plays to the base. no one compromises. and the government comes to a stop. that's what we they'd to change and i think that is going to involve reforming the two parties and the nominating process. >> senator bayh, thanks for being here, i appreciate it. >> always a pleasure. let's check in with what you're saying or facebook and twitter. corker and flake are not centrists they are super conservative, just not crazies, betsy you're right in so far as they are not centrists they are right of center, but they're

more independent thinking than their brethren. and that's the skill set that i think we need to harness. from twitter comes this, smerkonish, yes trump is going to find out if his people follow his brand of loyalty. it's his republican party right now. and let me give him credit. if that's the right word, what does the data show? 85% of republicans are comfortable supportive with the leadership that he's providing. one more if i may. love the tweets and the facebook comments. smerkonish, let trump have the gop and start a new party. you know i keep saying this as well on my sirius xm radio program. the trump era will pass, these are more long-range issues we need to come to terms with and i happen to think, you know this from watching me that a third party would be in the nation's best interests. i wish there had been a third-party candidate on the debate stage in last year's election. up ahead, the opioid crisis has already killed as many americans as the vietnam war. the president has not committed

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opioid overdoses are killing more americans per year than guns or car accidents. on thursday, president trump declared it a public health emergency, but he did not call it a national emergency. which would have provided rapid federal funding. if the federal government won't pay, could lawsuits force big pharma to foot the bill for the epidemic? that's the hope of my next guest, former mississippi attorney general mike moore took on the tobacco industry and won

the biggest corporate settlement in u.s. history. $246 billion. counselor, thanks for being here. this touches everybody in the country. even you as in the case of your nephew. >> no question about it. it is a huge and very emergent problem. something that we need to do something about now. and quit talking about it. you know i applaud the president and the first lady for coming out and having a press conference and making this a national issue and on their agenda. but unfortunately they didn't provide any funding for treatment or prevention programs or the like. and we need that now. there's 60,000 people a year going to die from this. hand let's quit talking about it let's get the companies in the room, if the federal government wants to play a role and provide billions for treatment, that's great. but the companies out to pay their fair share for the mess that they caused. >> with regard to big tobacco, i'm simplifying you said they lied about addiction. give me the distilled version of what it is you're saying about

the opioid industry. >> pretty much the same thing. they minimized the dangers by telling doctors, there was a less than 1% chance of getting addicted under these drugs. doctors should have known better but frankly, the salespeople told the doctors this and i guess they believed it. i think they also duped the fda. the fda should have never approved some of these drugs like oxycontin for the things they approved it for and they didn't tell the truth about the use thefs drugs for treating chronic pain. these drugs are for short-term care. they're for people who have cancer and real severe pain and really what the industry has done has dumped millions of pills on the american people and caused this addiction problem. we've got close to two or three million people in this country who are real addicts, many of them who could have overdoses and many of them that could die. so it's time for you know, a national discussion. but it's really time for companies, distributors, drug

store chains, and the federal government and state governments to get in the same room and say how do we start solving this problem? let's provide some treatment money. let's provide some prevention and education money on the other side to keep people from ever getting in this problem again. but let's do it now. and or we can litigate. look, we, the attorneys general of this country, the private lawyer who is are helping them, we can take these folks to task and we can bring them to their knees just like we did big tobacco and we will. there's no question about it. but within that two or three-year period of time, how many more people have to die? that's another couple hundred thousand people die. so i would rather everybody get in the room tomorrow, and try to resolve this thing. bull we'll fight if we have to. >> so with regard to big tobacco, the settlement went to smoking cessation programs. what will happen to these funds if you're successful? and i'm a trial lawyer. all my cards are on the table, respond to the critics of those

who do what we do for a living who say -- this is all about you lining pockets of lawyers. >> oh, i get that. there's a lot of critics out there in the world but just look at tobacco when we started the tobacco case, there were 38% of american kids that were starting to smoke. now it's down less than 5%. what we put in place worked. we've reduced the number of people who are smoking in this country. adult smoking is below 15%. it was up at 40%. so deaths from lung cancer, heart disease and the like, what we're trying to achieve here is the same thing. you got 60,000 people dying every year. we'd like to begin to reduce that all the way down. will some lawyers make some money? maybe they will, maybe they won't. i can tell you right now if the drug industry would get in the same room with me tomorrow and the attorneys general and sit down and work out some resolution and pay their fair share, i don't need any money from it whatsoever. what i want is a solution to the problem. and if that's what congress and the senate would do, the house of representatives and the senate and the president would get together and say we'll put

this much money aside, 20, 30, $40 billion for treatment, drug companies could do their fair share, we would be off to the races to solve this problem. my guess is they're going 0 it fiddle around in washington, they're going 0 it fiddle around in the board rooms of these companies and we'll have to take them to task in lawsuits and some of them are going to end up bankrupt. >> mike moore, thanks so much for being here. >> thank you. let's check in on your twitter action and facebook comments. i think it's another tweet that comes this way. smerkonish, a big pharma is sued for addiction, then sue mcdonald's for obesity and alcohol makers for d.u.i.s. my response would be the level of deceit that might be the conduct of one of those industries and not the others, right? i mean wherein lies the idea that mcdonald's, my old employer, hid anything from us? or that alcohol manufacturers hid anything from us? i think what you just heard from the lawyer here is that much like the case was with big tobacco, they knew things that

they were not representing accurately. but we'll see, we'll see the way it all plays out. still to come, is gold star soldier son died a patriot. and then khizr khan challenged president trump from the floor of the 2016 convention and he joins me next.

when he stepped to the podium, the final night of the 2016 democratic convention, khizr khan was not well known. but by the time he finished speaking, few would ever forget him. mr. khan's rebuke of then-candidate donald trump for his stance on muslim immigration was to me the most memorable speech of either convention.

pakistani american lawyer, who went to harvard law school, he was the father of gold star soldier captain hemayun khan hoo who gave his country in service to iraq in 2004 stopping a suicide attack. he's written a book "a american family: a memoir of hope and sacrifice" khizr khan joins me now. mr. khan what i learned from the book among many other things, you never went looking to insert yourself into this debate. had you given an interview that the clinton campaign had taken note of. a written interview. they came looking for you and you weren't sure whether to participate. >> we're humble, modest family. we were really, we have never been political, we were enjoying our privacy and our family. that this invitation came. reluctantly. everyone advised us that this is not your cup of tea. don't get involved. our children advised us such. but some middle school and small

children in our community were reaching out to us. wherever we would go. and we received a card in our mail that sent us to that convention. and the small card from four children said -- mr. and mrs. khan, would you make sure that maria is not thrown out of this country. she is our friend and we love her and i looked at that card that very day, that >> i went to my blessed wife of 42 years and she looked at me swelled eyes and says maybe this is the message we should go, and so we went. >> you are such an efish nod yo of the american constitution that it lines the interior of your brand new book.

here's the moment i'll never forget, my viewers will never forget from your speech. roll the tape. >> donald trump, you're asking americans to trust you with their future. let me ask you have you even read the united states constitution. i will gladly lend you my copy. >> mr. khan, take me in the taxi as you are en route to give that speech and share with my audience the conversation you had with your wife in that momen moment. >> i discovered i had a copy of the constitution in my pocket since i'd been keeping this since 2005. anyway, i tell my blessed wife

that i have this cuppy of the constitution in my pocket. the line in the speech was you have not read the constitution of the united states. if you read it, look for the word liberty and equal protection. so i feel the bulge in my left inside pocket of my coat and i said to her i have this constitution in my pocket, should i pull it out. and as she had been my editor, she said, no, don't do like this. we must get permission first. and the way you're pulling it out, it's not coming out correctly. make sure you place it rightly in your pocket so when you pull it, it comes out like this. so we did. and we practiced in the car and the cabdriver was smiling, what are these folks doing in the back seat of the car. but we practiced it, and that's how it came to be. >> i was going to say i hope

people will read an american life for the full story. but please before you leave me, speak to the photograph on the back jacket. we're going to put it up on the screen. tell me about captain khan and that visit from the nations capitol. >> i had just graduated from harvard law school, and we wanted to come to washington and pay a visit to all these monuments. that depicts that moment. just about the book, there's two purposes. one is to pay tribute to the greatness of this nation, to the goodness that we have benefitted, that all immigrant families benefit from. so this is a reminder, this is a tribute to them. second part from this book, from the proceeds of this book, the goodness he's displayed throughout his life, virginia

has setup a scholarship on a needs base. so good ticontinues to come outf that sacrifice and the 25 years we were blessed to have him in our life. so taets the story of goodness in america. the benefits, our founding documents bestow upon all citizens, i implore and appeal to all americans, the title of the article was democracy requires vigilance and sacrifice. look where we are standing today. how much our democracy requires vigilance against the division from within and the assault from outside. those who don't wish us well have assaulted our way of life, our values, our democracy.

we narrate that through our story that how fragile these values can be. but america needs to be vigilant, monitor and make sure that no one challenges these values. >> we salute captain khizr khan. thank you for being here. still to come your best and worst facebook tweets and comments. in drug stores nationwide. prevagen. the name to remember.

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