it and pretend to use a joy stick to joyfully stick it to the press. jeanne moos, cnn, new york. >> thanks for joining us. anderson starts now. good evening. thanks for joining us. is it just me or does the current president of the united states have a lot of time on his hands? like more time than any president i've ever heard of. we know he watches a lot of cable news early in the morning, seemingly all night and on the weekends between rounds of golf which is hard because he plays a lot of golf. i know the enablers of the white house called the giant blank spots on his schedule executive time but can you imagine any real executive at any reputable company sitting around watching so much cable news and tweeting so much made up stuff and retweeting other people's dribble? this is not a new question of course, it's been asked before but i bring it up tonight because the president once again have been playing one of his favorite games suggesting a

conspiracy exists without any proof and with the intention of hiding any potential blow back on his own possible actions. today the president defended his new conspiracy mongering by falling back on one of the lamest excuses he used time and time again. i want to quickly give you the back story you probably know shortly after pedophile jeffrey epstein was found dead a comedian that doesn't have upcoming dates but does sell t-shirts and ring tones sent a tweet suggesting the clintons were somehow involved in the death of jeffrey epstein. no evidence. no facts. just this guy tweeting it out. now, if you were the most powerful person in the world and had briefing books to read and decisions to think about and grieving families of victims of gun violence to call and console or even i don't know, a wife and young child to maybe spend a little time with, what would you do when you read that tweet? i mean, you might read it and if you were, even on twitter, that's to say and then you would

probably go about your important work but this president doesn't think that way and apparently doesn't have either the courage of imagination to come up with this sleazy unfounded conspiracy theory on his own so instead, he takes the time to retweet the sleazy unfounded tweet, which is fine. it's something he did in the spur of the moment and maybe thought better of it and moved on and felt bad about it beneath the dignity office, not presidential. but no. not this president. today in fact the president defended his conspiracy mongering by describing the source of the tweet and how respected he is. >> highly respected conservative pundit. he's a big trump fan. that was a retweet. that wasn't from me. that was from him. he's a man who is half followers, a lot of followers and respected. the retweet, which is what it was, a retweet was from somebody that is a very conservative p

pundit so i think it was fine. >> he's a self-styled comedian. because someone has half a million twitter followers, they are respected or legitimate. the size of your crowd and twitter following and rating, fine. we know this. it sad and shallow but nothing surprising. the second thing to note that was a retweet defense. this is a personal favorite of mine for quite sometime going back to the campaign because for all his talk about being tough and taking the head, that was a retweet is like when you're 5-year-old blames his 4-year-old brother for hitting him first and claiming he started it if. can you imagine if the president was hauled in for questioning on something, he would turn on a dime. wasn't me. it was him. i just retweeted what he did. he used this excuse a couple times before. >> i mean, they made a big deal out of that and i just don't see it. it was a retweet. >> i did a retweet.

retweet sometimes you do retweets -- when you do your own tweeting or social media, it's fine. when you do retweets, they can cause problems because you never know who is doing it to start off. >> sure, but don't let that stop you. you don't know who is doing it but, you know, you can claim they are a respected conservative pun danlt ladit la. the site arrived on twitter according to the account just months before the 2016 election and its run by quote unquote independent journalist and that's all we know about them from their site but the president felt the need to repeat accusations, as well, today. >> then they question did bill clinton go to the islands because epstein had an island. that was not a good place as i understand it. i was never there. >> okay. so did you notice what he did there? this again, is just classic. ist it's a classic trump. he made the acquisition about

the former president possibly going to epstein's island and as of now, there is no evidence he did and unprompted the president said and i quote i was never there. which is kind of weird, right? this other person did something horrible but by the way, i wasn't there. why would the president want to reflect and raise this point that he was never there? perhaps because he told new york magazine in 2002 quote i've known jeff, meaning jeffrey epstein for 15 years, terrific guy. terrific guy jeffrey epstein. the future president then went on to say and i quote, he's a lot of fun to be with and said he likes beautiful women as much as i do and many of then are on the younger side. no doubt about it, jeffrey enjoys his essential life. he sucertainly did. not a lot of other people did but he did. we have tape showing epstein enjoying his social life with trump. nbc news broadcast this tape. at one point you can see him gesturing toward a woman and appears he says to epstein look

at her back there, she's hot. classy. now by any legitimate standard, none of that means the president is involved with jeffrey epstein's crimes. but by the standards of our own president, it raises questions by the trump standard and any of this about the former president clinton. probably not. that doesn't matter. does he believe the clinton's killed vince foster as he suggested or ted cruz' dad was involved in the jfk assassination or schoalia was murdered. he was found with a pillow over his face according to trump. all we know is these theories about murder become more prominent as we get into election season. this is the way he connects and solidifies support among his base like what he told reporters about whether his base could accept background checks. >> i think my base relies very much on common sense and rely on me in terms of telling them what

is happening. >> they rely on me in terms of telling them what is happening. all of america used to be able to rely on the president to tell them what was happening, particularly times of crisis but sure feels like a long, long time ago. i want to read what clinton's spokesman said in july about his travels with epstein and the current president is now eluding to and building off of according from the spokesman in 2002 and 2003 clinton took four trips on jeffrey epstein's airport, one to europe, one to asia and two to africa that included stops in connection with the work of clinton foundation. staff, supporters of the foundation and his secret service detail traveled on every leg of every trip. he had one meeting in 2002 and around the same time made one brief visit to epstein's new york apartment with a staff member and his security detail. he's not spoken to epstein in well over a decade and never been to little st. james island in new mexico or his residence

in florida end quote. joining us now, cnn presidential historian and rice university history professor and cnn political commentator and white house press secretary joe lockhart. joe, you know, again, i feel like we say this on many a night but again, this is the president of the united states once the most, you know, probably still the most powerful office in the land, most powerful person on the planet used to be a respected office held with reverence by all americans or most americans but now this is the president defending a conspiracy theory about the clintons push by a comedian i've never heard of again and no disrespect to him, i wish him a great success, but, you know, he's got no actual stand jaup da -- stand updates being involved in epstein's death. the irony here, the president often questions his own intelligence community and his own justice department, which is

now investigating the whole epstein death but he's perfectly fine taking a comedian on twitter at his word and retweeting it to 60 plus million people. >> well, i mean, that's been his game plan since the very beginning, to use whatever method he can to spread this information and keep his base happy whether he's telling the truth or not telling the truth. we know now that he's not told the truth, you know, 10, 11,000 times according to the washington post, which, you know, take a breath there. that's a staggering piece of information. the president has lied to 11,000 times in less than three years. you know, i think one of the things that gets missed here and maybe this is why trump is acting the way he does towards former president clinton, if you look at the trips, i've been on a bunch of trips with the former president clinton. when he goes to asia and africa and haiti, the job he's doing is helping people save their lives whether it's rebuilding a haiti,

whether in africa it's clean drinking water. whether it's aids drugs that have saved tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of people's lives. this is something that trump doesn't understand. you know, his foundation is under investigation for self-dealing. they don't help people. they help themselves. i guess there is some sort of envy in there but, you know, the president's team now has been clear that will is nothing to this and you've got to -- you know, you've got to wonder and i think you eluded to it. i don't play the conspiracy game. so i don't know what trump's involvement if any in any of this is but you have to wonder why he's pushing so hard to deflect and to project this on to someone else. >> doug, the president continued to insinuate that the clintons could be involved in a murder. to say that it goes far beyond presidential norms, obviously would be an understatement.

does, i mean, is there something comparable in presidential history you can think of, twitter was not involved but just pushing, you know, a president so quick to essentially amplify the conspiracy theories of random people he may not even know? >> no, i mean, this is the death of the so-called ex president's club. he despises barack obama. he doesn't like george w bush and he uses bill clinton as a punching bag. the very fact of the matter is he was beat by hillary clinton by 3 million votes. that sticks in his crawl. he almost was undone by the ""access hollywood" tape at the last minute he didn't bring those three women accusers of bill clinton into the limelight again to try to say well, he's worse than i am on this front, so he's using bill clinton as his foil in 2020.

it's been a staple of talk radio, rush limbaugh does it and michael salve vagvage does it. he has 63 million twitter followers and that's his base. >> doug, do you remember when nancy regan got consulting a psychic because she was concerned in the wake of regan being shot or maybe before. i remember as a kid, listening to this and people were, you know, people's heads were exploding she consulted a psychic. essentially, donald trump could retweet a psychic. there is no -- there is not a lot of filter in terms of who he's retweeting or who he's reading, if he retweeted, you know, if he was sort of backed to some psychics, if he backed walter's theory of something, i guess he would -- you know, i guess the republicans in congress would go along with it like that's fine you're backing a psychic.

>> well, exactly. you know, i once wrote about harry truman and dwight eisenhower and i used to be shocked they said ieisenhower knows more about politics than a pig knows about sunday. that's skancandalous lying. with this retweet you have the president of the united states charging a former president to be part of a murder conspiracy and charged barack obama with bugging of trump tower. i mean, you're charging or in felonies against former presidents with zero evidence while the justice department is supposed to be investigating it. it's such foul play. it's so disgusting. i have to teach history for a living. we have young people that don't think neil armstrong went on the moon and 9/11 didn't happen and instead of a president bringing clarity to history, he peddles in this muck of constpiracy

theories. >> joe, we don't have time but this, you know, you and i had discussions about the importance of white house briefings in the past. this is a case if there were actually still white house briefings, which there are no longer, this is the kind of thing you could question the white house about but that's gone. those days are gone and again, nobody seems to care that much about it but it's yet again an roegs erosion of a norm. i'm sorry, out of time. appreciate your time. given your tired, poor, income base changes to legal immigration. we'll discuss how the trump administration is trying to rewrite the inscription you can find on the statute of liberty and inspired millions of immigrants knot that just come to this country but millions of citizens in terms of how we view and they view the united states. later, president trump blinks on tariffs, why the christmas spirit hit him in the heat of august with his fight to china.

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when presidents talk about the statute of liberty and the pedestal and contains the words given you're tired, poor, huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the poem called the new pope wasn't part written to help raise money for the pedestal only years later was it rediscovered and allowed to give maini meaning to the statute and a beacon of hope to huddles masses yae yearning to breathe free. when they quote the poem, this is how they sound. >> from her beacon hand worldwide welcome. keep ancient lands your storied. >> give me your tired, your

poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. the teening shore, send these, the homeless, tossed to me. >> the reched send them. presidents both republican and democrat gave those words at the base of the statute of liberty in normal times and what will be the under statement of the night, these are not normal times. with that in mind, listen to what president trump's acting director said on npr today defending administration's new policy for green card and visa holders, legal ill grammigrants poor backgrounds will get here and get citizen ship providing a rewrite he did of the words of the poem. >> would you also agree that the words etched give me your tired, your poor are also part of the

american ethos. >> they are. given you're tired, you're poor and stand on your own two feet and will not become a public charge. >> to discuss this xavier state where two counties just hours ago sueed to block administration's immigration policy. i spoke to him before air time. attorney general, i want to talk to you about your fight with this rule in a moment but first, i want to get your reaction to ken's quote essentially rewriting the poetry of lazirus you can stand on your two feet and not become a public charge. >> i would invite him to meet my parents who have lived the words and believe in the statute of liberty and probably would not have qualified over the interpretation but they have been nothing but great americans, and they have built this country, and thank god that

those words are etched in bronze below the statute and thank god we don't rewrite history so cavalierly as we just heard him try to. >> i mean, you know, essentially that is what this administration with this effort is trying to do. i mean, they are fund mentally trying to change a stance that this country has taken and been proud of and not just, you know, a position they have taken but something that the united states has promoted generation to generation throughout the world as a beacon of hope to people who are in difficult circumstances who come here and can start a new life and make something of themselves and we all stand on their shoulders. >> and that's what has made american great. we don't just say give us the folks that say they have proven to be the top for foperformers.

that's all we want. we see people that struggle and make a difference. that's what the statute of liberty is. from adversity comes great achievements and if you only take the winners, those who always had the chance to eat the cake, it would be a very different america and fortunately, most people know that our way of life is not going to change because someone says it should. to me, those words are in many ways unamerican that were articulated and thank god that we have documents like the constitution, words like the statute of liberty that have out lasted statements like that. >> two counties in california brought the lawsuit against the rule. you vow to fight it, as well. what steps do you plan to take? >> we're preparing to file, as well. we think it's unamerican and unlawful and we believe it would destroy good portions of our

economy if we allowed a rule like this to take effect. we rely on hard work of people who understand what it means to toil and to somehow overcome to be able to have a state like california that's become the number one state economically for this country and the fourth -- fifth largest economy in the world. we need people that want to show they earned a place in america. >> just finally, if this policy is allowed to stand, what does it mean for california or frankly, any state. the long-term effects that this administration has. >> anderson, this policy won't stand. i can say that to you as not just the attorney general from the state of california, i say it to you as an american and son of immigrants. >> you say it's illegal. how is it illegal? >> the process by which it's being implemented is we believe illegal. the terms it would impose on

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welcome back. president trump spent the past few months saying tariffs were good for the economy but will not cost american consupmers anything. they decided to delay a round of tariffs until after the holiday season because of the pain it would cause shoppers. he said china was paying for the tariffs which was never true, either. some perspective from david

garrigan with chief white house correspondent jim acosta. let me start with the president's explanation about the reversal here. what did he have to say? >> the president almost did something remarkable today. he admitted he was wrong. the president said as you said a few minutes ago that they are postponing these tariffs because he doesn't want to have an adverse effect on the shopping season saying he doesn't want consumers to be impacted. that runs contrary to everything he said up until this point. he said u.s. consumers are not affected by these tariffs when we know they have been and i talked to a source close to the white thousand this evening and the trumped a machine station and policy without admitting he made a policy mistake here. >> so that's as close as he came, he didn't actually acknowledge it, he just stated it. >> that's right. >> okay. >> he once again said well, they are not feeling the pain from these tariffs which of course is not the case but this was as close as he's come to

essentially acknowledging that these tariffs are to some extend being passed on to consumers if they buy smart phones and toys later on during the holiday shopping season, potentially if they go into place in september instead of december, consumers would have been affected. >> the president says or does something negative or maybe more intense than expected and finds a way to shift course without admitting he's responding to pressure or shifting course. >> it's very familiar pattern by now, anderson. often he surprises us with impulsive decisions getting out in front of advisors, not listening to advisors and gets push back and blinks. goes back to the old kennedy and cuban missile crisis eyeball to eyeball and they blinked. makes a big difference who blinks on this one. in essence, it is good policy. if he's going to probably avoid a recession, have pretty good

christmas sales very likely. he would be warned that unless he changed course here, he could have a very bad christmas season and the chances of a recession were 1-3 this coming year. so i think he made the right policy but terrible politics. when you flip like this so easily when you go up against the chinese, one thing to go up against mexico and make them and bully them into going along with your policy and a different proposition to go up against china and china didn't blink here. they out lasted him and will take their measure if they can hang tough, he can blink on other things. >> to that point, it seems like most of the advisors and analysts outside the white house were in agreement it was bad news for the u.s. markets. >> that's right. there were economists heading into the lead line to go into effect that this could send the country into a recession and as everybody knows in washington, president trump is riding on a

good economy right now. it is essentially the trapped door under his feet right now and if this economy were to head south and spin into a recession, that could of usually put his reelection prospects into major jeopardy because every other measure, he is in big trouble with a big part of the electret. just to jump off of what david said, keep in mind president trump for the last few weeks is going off on vice president former vice president joe biden saying he's not the kind of guy who can go toe to toe with china. here is an example where the president took things to the brink on this trade policy with china and then he was the one that blinked and so he is giving his opposition here some thought heading into the 2020 campaign. no question. >> jim mentioned one economist, another reacted saying from the perspective of political self-interest, the tariff threat was suicidal, which is his word. do you agree? there no other way out of this for the president? >> i think the real question is why he got into it and it just

wasn't thought through. to this day, they are continuing to act very tactically when these issues come up. they don't have a long-term strategy. we're dealing with a super power in china with a long-term strategy for a couple centuries looking ahead. we're trying to make it day to day. as a result of that, they are playing the game better. they hold lower cards than we do but playing better than we are. >> so interesting about the time frame they are looking at. you're right. david garrigan, thank you. jim acosta, president trump ramping up trash talk for the man that used to speak for the entire white house. up next, the newest clash and what it means is a another high-profile loyalest turns on the commander in chief. this summer at panera,

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president trump is lashing out at the biggest enemy of the moment, not democrats trying to replace him, back to the leader of the free world ripping his own communications director. today the president called anthony a wreck. he no longer supports the reelection bid after calling trips a catastrophe. one more, trump world is skor scorched earth as he told reporters in new jersey today. >> anthony is a guy who worked for me that didn't have a clue.

i think anthony is really somebody that very much out of control. he worked for me for 11 days. he doesn't have what it takes. he really doesn't. anthony is upset because he wanted certain things, the main thing he wanted was to come back into administration and i remember he was a disaster by the 11th day. >> always hires the best. with me now jim schultz a former trump white house attorney, appreciate you both being here. you wrote a book about this very thing. i mentioned it last night because it's always in my mind because i think the title is so fascinating. the idea everything trump touches dies, nobody really survives with reputation in tact and the president's good grace, their interaction with trump

ultimate ultimately turns out in career death or with the president turning on them. >> sure, anderson it's a pattern that's repeated and repeated and repeated. you know, when i wrote the title of the book, i thought this is a kind of principle that seems to be applying. it's to the point where it's basically like a natural law and it will always happen no matter who they are, no matter how secure they think they are unless their last name is trump, eventually he'll turn on everyone. he'll get board or restless or angry or they will say something with independent thugt ought or this idea they are against him and it's over. whether they die slow or fast, it's an open question. scaramucci, it took him a long time to find out this guy's knife is in his back and footprints are owl over him and realize this is a bad guy. trump will play the game saying people are desperate to be with

me. so i think that anthony is in a weird spot on the right side of the argument. >> jim, do you think it's personal at this point between these two? >> yeah, this isn't policy, this is personal. no doubt about it. >> because scaramucci is republican and believes in the agaenda and many things the president has done. >> no doubt about it. this is no question, bare knuckle brawl between two new yorkers having a disagreement and it's out and going outside the bar into the street at this point in time. that's what we're seeing and, you know, anthony scaramucci is a tough guy. he'll stand his ground. the president will punch back when he gets punched and that's the nature of both of them. so i think you have two big personalities clashing here and we'll see how it turns out but i think it's more of a personal issue than anything principle or policy at this point. >> rick, it's interesting.

i happen to see like a few seconds they were talking about scaramucci on fox and it was somebody on a round table show saying basically he is putting his finger up in the air to kind of see which way the wind is blowing and decided which way it's blowing so that's why he's jumping off the trump train. do you think there is an element of truth in that or do you see this as somebody who has, you know, decided, you know what? this guy has gone too far? >> i think anthony gambled, went all in on trump. he spent the last year and a half trying to find a way back into a sense of having trump's ear and of course, once trump shanked him, he was shanked. he was done. he was bleeding out on the floor never going to come back. is it putting your finger up in the wind? i don't know. as anthony found the shocking revelation donald trump is a

faithless person in every dimension, the guy cheated or shanked every person in his life, wives, contractors, business partners, clients, the country and so the shocking revelation trump is a bad dude, maybe anthony isn't that quick. there is no coming back after this guy puts you in the dirt and after you committed everything to him, you're going to get screwed over and, you know, it's ironic anderson because i looked at fox clips from when anthony was named as communications director and they thought he was the greatest thing since prepared mustard. they thought it would be an amazing change. he's an unperson. >> unperson. >> i think the guy -- the only thing he got right was the feisty new yorker part. this is really about two feisty new yorkers having it out in the public domain not really the place to be doing it, not the way to handle it, but that's the way it plays out now with on twitter and through the social

media. so we'll see how it plays out. >> my guess is scaramucci is the on one that's actually been in a fight. i doubt president trump has ever, you know, hit anybody, i don't know if anthony scaramucci has. my money would be on -- if i had to hide behind someone in a fight, i would hide behind anthony scaramucci. >> donald trump is a soft-handed man baby. he's never taken a punch. >> gee. wow. >> this has really digressed. [ laughter ] >> i don't even know -- i'm trying to understand what that visual even means. [ laughter ] >> soft-handed man baby. gosh. jim, you were at the white house when scaramucci was there. he's a likable guy whether you believe in his politics or not. he's certainly a very new york chab ever ch character. there is notion that republicans will speak out against the

president, which is scaramucci saying he thinks there may be this change on capitol hill among republicans, which a lot of people may it sha-- a lot of democrats may be wishing for but no sign of it. >> i don't see a ground swell of support. the president's numbers among republicans continue to be very, very strong. again, i think this is a war of the words and anthony coming out against the president and taking his punch if you will with the war of the words, i don't see any grounds for, you know, washington republicans turning their back on the president or revolting against the president. no indication of that. >> rick, what was that? soft-handed what? >> soft-handed man baby. >> i have to write it down so i can think about it. thank you. coming up, is it all or nothing now in the conservative movement if you push back on racially charged policies or racist statements, you'll be shunned by other conservatives. it's happened to max boot. heconservatism

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my next guest has been writing a lot these days about the president's role in stoking the flames. now he's been accused of fanning them. max boot wrote a column that touched a nerve with at least one of its writers. in it max argued that president trump was playing on a sense of white victim hood in america. he wrote, get a grip, white people, we are not the victims. the writer fired back with a column of his own titled max boot fans the flames of racial

hatred. max boot is here. he's the arthur of the coercion of conservatism. talk about the argument that you were making in the piece that you wrote about victimhood. >> my article is a response to a public opinion poll that showed that 55% of white americans think that white americans are just as much as part of discrimination. we know there's bias against minorities in this country. white people do not suffer in that way and there's this victim hood complex which has taken root among many whites, a lot of supporters of donald trump, he plays on that complex, but it's also, you see that with the el paso gunman, for example, also feeling that whites are being

persecuted, whites are the victims. all i was saying was snap out of it. whites are not the victims here. we need to escape this victimhood mentality because it's very dangerous. >> conservatives used to make fun of democrats and liberals for a victimhood mentality. when i was growing up, that was the huge charge against democrats and liberals by conservatives and now they do seem to be -- at least certainly trump and others, are stoking this idea of everyone is discriminating against us and it's hard to be a white male today. >> exactly. these -- i mean, trump really indulges in this victimhood mentality. he feels like white people in general are being victimized by latinos, muslims, by other minorities. there this is complex out there which i think is very dangerous because its at the root of a lot of white racism. >> this guy who wrote the

article about you, he declined to appear tonight, but he's saying that you are fanning the flames of race hatred. it's interesting because he doesn't accuse president trump at all of fanning any flames, but somehow you are the one fanning flames. >> this is the double talk that donald trump himself engages in where we know that he engages in racism all of the time and then he says, oh, no, you're the racist. this is an example of that same sort of reasoning and it's also something that you see frankly among white sue prpremacists. that's something you expect to hear from a follower of richard spencer. >> and the companion piece is, they always say, i'm not a racist, i just love my race.

i don't hate black people, i just love my race. >> that's the vibe you get from this article. i've never been accused of being a self-hating white. this is the stuff i hear on the dark corners on the internet and to see this kind of fillth directed at me from the national review, this is a -- >> william. if this is a magazine that i grew up reading. >> you got a subscription when you were 13. it doesn't surprise me, but i love that idea that at 13 -- were your folks like, okay, sure. >> it was my father who -- >> he did. >> he said you need to read this. and bill buckly became one of my heroes. and now it is indulging in this

kind of rhetoric. >> the other thing that this writer wrote is -- i honestly didn't understand it. he said that you had demonstrated that you hate yourself and that your writing was boutique and performative which i don't know what that means. >> it was a very strange article because basically it was saying that boots attacks, you know -- attacks on white people are basically driving them into the arms of the white nationalists and forcing them to choose between the white nationalists and boot and his self-loathing whites. this kind of bizarre -- >> all of those people are reading "the washington post" and your column and going to white nationalism. >> it doesn't make any sense. but it's shocking and offensive to me to see this kind of language appear in what is a mainstream publication.

and even mainstream publications are being trump-fyed. >> they don't want to go the way of the weekly standard which collapsed, but it's tragic, because i revered national review. and i think it's a sign of how far over the edge donald trump is leading not just the republican party, but even the conservative movement. even the intellectual gate keepers who have a lot to answer for in opening the gates wide open to the kind of racism that donald trump represents. >> max boot. i appreciate you being with us. >> police in dayton, ohio, releasing surveillance video. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

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