confronting the problem of violence forces us to confront the most serious defects in our society. growing concern. a handful of republicans now criticizing the u.s. president for asking foreign powers to investigate his political rivals. plus, thousands protest in hong kong. activists hit the streets again, defying the law that bans face masks. worries about vaping with long-related injuries and deaths linked to vaping on the rise. dr. sanjay gupta sits down with

them to learn about the latest investigation. live in cnn headquarters in atlanta. we welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm george howell. the cnn "newsroom" starts now. 4:01 on the u.s. east coast. we start with the ukraine scandal. and now reports of a second potential whistle-blower. it all seems to have caught the u.s. president's attention. mr. trump on twitter saying the first whistle-blower has been discredited, so a second whistle-blower is being brought in, also armed with secondhand information. keep them coming, he said. none of what he said is true. let's go point by point with the facts at hand. the first whistle-blower did not

get the president's conversation wrong. that's borne out by the white house's own rough transcript. and as for the second potential whistle-blower, the "new york times" describes this person as an intelligence official who corroborated the first whistle-blower's complaint with firsthand knowledge of the call. only a few republicans are stepping up to criticize the president's actions. susan collins for one now the third republican senator to do so. collins told a newspaper in maine that it was, quote, a big mistake for the president to ask china to investigate joe biden. we have the latest now on the impeachment investigation from cnn's jeremy diamond. >> reporter: house democrats are independent ramping up their impeachment inquire into the president and this administration after already issuing subpoenas for the state department. at this point it's unclear how this administration is going to comply with this.

what they are considering is issuing a letter to the house speaker nancy pelosi saying they are not compelled to provide the house committees with any documents until they go to the house floor to vote on opening a formal impeachment inquiry. now, that is something that has been done in the past. there is no constitutional requirement for there to be a vote. but what the white house clearly is doing here is daring democrats, especially those vulnerable democrats in trump districts, to put down their vote in favor of an impeachment inquiry. something republicans have already used to go after the vulnerable democrats as well as to fund raise. what we are seeing from the president this weekend, though, are attacks, attacks in particular on senator mitt romney, one of the few republicans to publicly criticize the president's handling of this ukraine matter. wrong and appalling. that is what the utah senator is calling the president's request

that ukraine investigate his political rival joe biden. he fired back in a series of tweets, including this one where he says mitt romney never knew how to win. he is a pompous ass who has been fighting me from the beginning, except when he begged me for my endorsement for his senate run, i gave it to him, and when he begged me to be secretary of state, i didn't give it to him. he is so bad for r's. that is republicans. while senators can't be impeached, they could be expelled from the senate. there is no indication that is going to happen. but he is sending i signal to republicans if you don't stay in line with him, don't support him, you could be the target of one of his twitter tirades. skwraoe jeremy diamond, cnn, the white house. >> thank you, jeremy. in u.s. president has ever been removed from office. richard nixon resigned in the

watergate scandal. that was 1974, 45 years ago. removing a president is challenging. it requires only a simple majority, at least 218 votes. but two-thirds of u.s. senators, 67 of them, must agree to actually force the president to step down. democrats and two independent allies currently hold 47 seats in the u.s. senate. even if all of them vote to convict the president, they would still need at least 20 republicans to agree to remove president trump from office. the former u.s. vice president is pushing back against president trump's attacks. joe biden writes in sunday's "washington post" opinion page, our first president, george washington, famously could not tell a lie. president trump seemingly cannot tell the truth -- about anything. he shrapbders anyone as he sees as a threat. that is why he is frantically pushing flat-out lies, debunked

conspiracy theories and smears against me and my family, no doubt hoping to undermine my candidacy for the presidency. a lot to talk about this with thomas gift in our london bureau this hour. good to have you with us. >> good morning, george. >> so let's start with the former vice president's response in the "washington post". clearly a move to make sure people see what he has to say. it will likely be headlines for sure on this sunday political talk shows. he first broke his silence late wednesday night in the state of nevada with this. listen. . >> now, let me make something clear to mr. trump and his hatchetmen and the special interest funding of these attacks on me. i'm not going anywhere. [ applause ]. you're not going to destroy me. you're not going to destroy my

family. i don't care how much money you spend, mr. president, or how dirty the attacks get. >> but a report in the "new york times" says that speech came out so late in the west, it barely got any traction against the president's unfounded claims. critical of timing and tone. the analysis, joe biden struggled to form a response describing the candidate of weary of being baited into a dirty fight. seemingly more vulnerable. can biden shift the narrative? >> well, i think that's what he is trying to do with his "washington post" op-ed. he is trying to control the story, rather than let the story control him. i do think that concerns about him being relatively slow to respond to president trump's charges, being relative live flat-footed are true. he has a real opportunity here, though. although there's certainly down sides to this story and the perception that he didn't do

anything -- the perception that he did something wrong, though unfounded. he can basically say, look, the president is so afraid of me that he was willing to kind of put his political career on the line, take all of these steps with ukraine. that's not something that he would be willing to do with other candidates. for a politician whose entire case for the presidency rests on the notion of electability, i think he can basically say the president is afraid of me, give me the nomination and i'll beat the president. >> thomas, we have also seen some republicans, namely senator mitt romney and william hurd speak out against the president's actions. now susan collins said his decision to launch a probe was a big mistake. do you think republicans will speak out or does it only remain whispers in private? >> well, you're certainly right. that the number of republicans who have actually criticized

president trump have been few and far between. that reflects the extent to which the center right in washington has been totally gutted. moderate republicans have just displayed very little political courage, i think, in the face of these relatively latent abuses of power by president trump. and so whether more republicans will come out or not, that is a relatively open question. but i think the real question for republicans is why. why defend this president for some more tax cuts, for the continuation of a trade war that many of them probably don't philosophically agree with to begin with. it is puzzling. i think if you do see republicans that shift against president trump, that it is all going to happen at once. they will get a critical mass and you will see this tidal wave of disapproval by president trump. but that hasn't happened to this point.

. >> there is the request to talk about documents from the vice president of the united states, mike pence now finding himself deeper into the mix of this controversy. should he be concerned? . >> well, i think that the republican response by the white house up until this point has been to stonewall and to block requests tore subpoenas. and i think you're going to see that continue going forward. they want a full vote to formally launch an impeachment inqui inquiry. they will say until you do that, we to the floor to respond to your requests. president trump has acknowledged that the house has the number of votes to do so, burr he will force them to put their names on the record. >> and wants to see the pressure of anyone who wants to put their name on the record.

thomas gift, thank you so much. we're following events in hong kong. and the ban on face coverings. a high court rejected an appeal to stop the ban. protesters are on the street marching. you see them there under the umbrellas. pro-democracy lawmakers tried to stop it from taking effect. after the reskwrebz, the court agreed to a judicial review hearing on the ban to take place later this month. cnn is live on the streets of hong kong with ana coren. what is the latest ruling from this high court? >> reporter: george, this march has been going for two hours, and there is still a constant stream of protesters,ing defying the anti-mask ban that came into place friday at midnight. the chief executive carrie lam

had to invoke these emergency laws which brought about this face mask ban because of the escalating violence. she said the hong kong government may restore law and order to the streets of hong kong. we have seen the violence escalate now for 18 weeks. these protests have been going on. we have seen mothers carrying children, older people marching the streets calling for hong kong freedom. it is really quite incredible. this is an unlawful assembly. they could be arrested for just being here, let alone a face mask. now you can receive a fine and be jailed forum to a year. that is what these people are defying.

we are really getting a sense that despite what the government are doing, people are still marching, gathering. and then as often happens, violence and clashes erupt between the hardline protesters and police. the fact that people have turned out in the tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, george, is really quite extraordinary. they are extending a very strong message to the hong kong government that they are going to continue to protect and fight for their civil liberties. >> ana, thank you. in iraq, chaos on the streets as well. violent protests show no sign of letting up. we'll take you live to baghdad for the latest there. and the man who worked in the obscure national security program that is keeping him from truly calling america his home. stand by.

tensions continue in iraq between protesters and police, and the result has been more bloodshed on the street there. at least 100 people were killed

in violence this week. chaos also played out at the saudi-owned news channel al arabiya in baghdad. a correspondent says a gunmen with masks stormed in, injuring people. and police also declined to help. cnn reached out to the interior ministry for comment. our senior international correspondent arwa damon is "on the story". the protesters promising to keep the pressure up, come bullets or death. >> reporter: hi, george. and it's not just al arabiya offices that were attacked by these unknown masked men. there were attacks on a number of other local smaller iraqi news channels. the curfew has been lifted.

at night, an entirely different story. we were out last night. the security forces are everywhere. they are blocking a lot of main roads. they set up a ring of security that demonstrators would want to reach to on a main road. that is forcing them to group in smaller numbers and in different areas. they are burning tires and they are absolutely enraged. the more the violence continues the more determined they say they are becoming -- a number of number of them said friends have been killed in these demonstrations. one young man told us, from his perspective, their demands are quite simple. they want an end to corruption. they want to have job opportunities. they want to have basic services improved. a lot of demonstrators out there are young adults. they are university graduates.

a young man is in physical education. he was unemployed. another young man said he studied law, but the only employment he could find is as a hairdresser. they have run out of patient with the government's, the government's promises to address their concerns. this is not the first time iraqis have taken to the streets making these same demands. and what they are saying right now, the only thing that is going to stop them is concrete action from the government to actually address these issues. on nightfall when demonstrators tried to take to the streets is when we get a more accurate idea of just what is tran entiring. this is hardly a country that can afford this level of insecurity at this stage given how tenuous the security situation historically has been. >> the nation's prime minister

seemed to have acquiesced in a speech earlier this week saying they had legitimate demands but suggested curfew and deadly actions by security force, were bitter medicine that needed to be swallowed. how is that going over with the crowds? >> reporter: well, all the statements being made by the government and even by religious leaders here are not going over well with the demonstrators. any attempts to try to apiece them quite simply is not working. the perspective of the demonstrators we spoke to is the government is tkpweuflg license to security forces to do whatever they want to do. people are concerned about going to the hospital to try to pick up relatives that have been wounded because they are afraid of being detained. that's what some of the demonstrators we spoke to told us. they said when people are injured during these demonstrations, ambulance

services are not able to assist them. they are trying to assist each other. we heard the speaker of parliament who also acknowledged the demonstrators's grievances saying his party would be willing to put together a package to try to address some of the reforms they are demanding. again, at this stage it is just rhetoric, george. until it turns into action, the anger on the streets is really only growing. >> arwa damon live in baghdad. arwa, thank you. now, to the story of an iranian man trying to become a u.s. citizen. he's lived and worked in north dakota for many years now. he met and married his wife there. he started a family there. but thanks to a mysterious national security program, the life that he has built may come crashing down. cnn religion editor daniel burk has his story for you. >> reporter: so what is this? what is all of this? >> this is basically our immigration case and somehow how

we are trained to make a life in the u.s. >> this is medi. he is at the center of a landmark lawsuit that could affect the u.s. immigration system and many other immigrants who want to live and work in the united states. >> i am paying for my names. >> reporter: he has a class-action lawsuit that says president trump is holding his application. he first applied for a green card five years ago. he said the long delay has affected his job and his family. >> i just want my immigration to go through because i just need to see my family. if i leave this one, it would be impossible for me to come back. >> reporter: his lawyer believes his green card application was flagged by a little known

national security program called carrp. >> it is a program which is the no-fly list. you could end up on the no-fly list and not know how you got there. >> reporter: uscic flags applicants for additional vetting if they believe the application presents a potential national security concern. aclu says it unfairly targets muslim immigrants. immigration officials say he admitted significant facts when applying for a student visa to study for the united states in 2009, including his membership of a student branch of an iranian organization called a besiege. >> when i was a student the only place available was besiege. >> reporter: in 2019, the trump administration designated the rye rain yann revolutionary guard core and his subsidiary organizations, including the

besiege, as foreign terrorist organizations. uscis declined to answer cnn's questions about caarp or his case citing pending litigation. in a statement the spokesperson said the agency fairly identifies, vets, and a jude indicates app kaegszs that present national security or egregious public safety concerns. in april, five years after he first applied, his green card application was rejected for a second time. he could be deported at any time. whether or not a judge rules in his favor this spring, it's a class-action lawsuit which means the outcome could affect thousands of immigrants who suspect caarp has played a role in delaying their applications as well. >> if i pay the price, at least things get better for everybody. >> that's a lot to have on your shoulders, though, isn't it? >> reporter: definitely. but i think i am able to handle that. >> that was cnn's daniel burk

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has broken ranks with the u.s. president. calling on china to investigate democratic rival joe biden. susan collins joins mitt romney and ben sasse in criticizing the president. mr. trump singled out romney on saturday, insulting the utah senator with crude language. in hong kong, protesters are marching again against police violence and against the new emergency ban on face masks. many demonstrators are wearing the masks in defiance this hour live at 4:30 p.m. there in hong kong. the 18th straight weekend we have seen pro-democracy protests like this. and it's happening just days after the first clashes we have seen in months. four people, including two firefighters, have minor injuries when a series of spectacular explosions rocked the california restaurant a few hours ago. the blasts happened from the firefighters who were responding

to an electrical fire opened underground electrical equipment. some patrons said they smelled gas. >> at the heart of the impeachment inquiry in the united states is its ally ukraine. but that nation is facing troubles of its own as well. in the coming hours, thousands of people are expected to protest a controversial decision by president zelensky. he is supporting a deal with pro-russian rebels that would introduce a special status and elections for you auto crain's breakaway regions. that's where a five-year war where separatists and ukrainian troops has killed more than 13,000 people since 2014. our sam kylie is live in kiev this hour. sam, some ukrainians are critical that their newly elected president is not holding the line against rush that and that this new plan would legitimize russian proxies. >> reporter: yeah. there is a very serious concern

for that. equally, a lot of young people who think the last three or four years or more of fighting against this russian-sponsored incursion which sliced off a good chunk of the east of the country, and also bear in mind there is the illegal annexation of the crimean peninsula which off gets forgotten in this context, george. what was it all about if now the new president zelensky will give a high degree of regional autonomy backed up with some kind of local election process that could reinforce that and ultimately submit russian dominance, if not control, over a region of ukrainian territory. the flip side of that argument is that ukraine is impoverished by this process. it is losing people to it just in the last 36 hours, 33-year-old was killed in exchange of artillery.

he is being buried day. it is exhausting this country and draining its resources. that has been the focus for many ukrainians in terms of public discourse over the last week or so rather than the internal political trevails of the trump administration and that he tried to use his office to bring private political pressure to bear here on the new president, george. . >> sam kylie live in the capital of ukraine. sam, thank you. nuclear talks between the united states and north korea have broken down in sweden. both sides are painting different pictures of what happened there. the u.s. said the two sides had a, quote, good discussion. pyongyang claims washington came to the table empty handed. paula hancocks is following this story for us. this sharpry teak comes as the nation has been venting its own frustration with missile

launches. >> reporter: that's right, george. when you listen to the two descriptions of this meeting you could imagine the u.s. and north korea were actually and completely separate meetings. this isn't unusual. you hear two very different accounts of what happened behind closed doors. from the north korean side, they are saying the u.s. didn't bring anything new to the table. they kept the same standpoint and the old attitudes. now, what we can read into that is that the u.s. is not willing to ease sanctions until they have seen something concrete from the north korean side. this is fundamentally what north korea wants at this point, some relief from the sanctions that the u.s. and the international community has on them. but we also heard from the north koreans that there is a crossroads of dialogue or confrontation at this point. the u.s. should go away. think about it. come back by the end of the year with something fresh. but then of course what we heard from the u.s. side is they were good discussions. what the north korean delegation was saying was not

representative of this 8 1/2 hour discussion they had in stockho stockholm. they said they had fresh ideas. as far as the u.s. was concerned, sweden had invited them back in two weeks's time to continue in these discussions, which they said they were willing to do. there was just a few hours after they had agreed this weekend they would be meeting, north korea had fired that missile, submarine launch ballistic missile launched from an under water platform in north korea. so obviously making its frustrations known. and once again showing also that it is -- it does feel it can do that and it is not going to derail talks at this point as the u.s. president said up until now the short-range missiles don't concern him too much. >> two very different stories. one from washington, one from north korea. paula, thank you for the reporting. a story to tell you about in the u.s. state of texas. a key witness in the case of a

former dallas police officer convicted of murder has been shot and killed. joshua brown was a neighbor of amber guyger and the man she murdered. brown was found shot several times outside his apartment complex on friday. he died at a nearby hospital. just days earlier, guyger was found guilty of murder and sentenced to 10 years in prison. she said that she mistakenly entered jean's apartment thinking it was hers and shot him thinking he was an intruder. >>, in police are investigating a series of beatings in which four homeless men were killed apparently as they slept on the streets. police say it seems the beatings were random. one person is in custody. our polo sandoval picks up the details here. >> reporter: detectives here in new york city have established what happened. now the key question is why it happened. as they try to establish a motive, investigators saying four homeless men were beaten to

death early saturday morning in new york city's chinatown. it is a neighborhood usually bu bustling with activity. homeless will spend the night on the streets, in doorways. they believe these four men were likely sleeping when they were attacked by an individual with a metal pipe in what is being described as a series of random attacks. investigators do have a suspect in custody. they have only identified him as a homeless 49-year-old man. there is a fifth victim in all of this. the only person who survived it was 49 years old, also homeless. i can tell you it is certainly shining an even brighter spotlight across the country and in america's largest city here in new york. according to the department of homeless services, at least 60,000 homeless woke up in area

shelters friday morning. consider that, plus the unsheltered homeless individuals who continue on the streets, on the city subway system. that is who authorities say is perhaps the most vulnerable. polo sandoval, cnn, new york. >> thank you. some call it a mass panic, but u.s. authorities say it is time to stop vaping now. listen. >> the outbreak of pulmonary injury associated with vaping or e-cigarettes is an emergency. >> but businesses aren't so sure about that. they say if you ban vaping products they won't be able to survive.

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>> hi, jane. >> hi, guys. >> are you happy to be home? >> very. >> on saturday, the longtime senator spent two nights at a las vegas, nevada hospital after experiencing chest discomfort during a campaign event last tuesday. sanders, who is 78 years old, still plans to be on the stage with other candidates at cnn's democratic debate. it will be held october 15th. businesses in new york and massachusetts are pushing back on the state's new vaping bans. vape store owners say they will be wiped out if they can't sell those e-cigarettes. a new york judge put a temporary pause on the ban. so for now shops are in the clear. after an you outbreak of unexplained illnesses connected with vaping, u.s. officials are cracking down on what they call a public health emergency. more than 1,000 people have experienced vaping-related lung

injuries, this according to the u.s. centers for disease control. as of friday, 21 deaths have been connected with vaping. researchers and doctors are scrambling to figure out what's happening here. cnn's chief medical correspondent, dr. sanjay gupta, has more for you. >> i had the shivers. and i couldn't control it. so i would just convulge. >> reporter: his story repeated thousands of times around the country. >> i couldn't control myself. >> reporter: young, healthy, and suddenly struggling for his life. >> to be laying in a bed and not being able to breathe is every parents's nightmare. >> reporter: it is cases like adam's that prompted the centers for disease control, to now open their emergency operations center. >> i'm used to it being activated around ebola or things like that. why vaping? >> the outbreak of pulmonary

injury associated with e-cigarettes is an emergency. we are seeing young people become critically ill and die. >> reporter: most frightening, eight weeks into the investigation, no one knows exactly why. >> it's important to say that no single product, substance, brand or additive is linked to all the cases right now. and what is on a label may not actually be what the product is. >> our guidance is quite simple. don't do it. don't do it because we don't know that it is safe. >> why did you do it? >> i didn't think there was any risk in trying about it. i had never heard of anybody having any negative effects from it. so i thought i had nothing to lose. >> reporter: last year jay jenkins and a friend drove to a convenience store and brought yolo, meaning you only live once, and vaped in.

>> next thing you know i'm not thinking straight, not being able to move. >> reporter: within seconds, jay lost consciousness and started to have frightening hallucinations. his friend drove him to lexington medical center, where he started having seizures and breathing difficulties. >> i thought i was in hell and already dead. >> reporter: so what did cause jay to react so violently? it is what professor michelle piece has been trying to answer. >> is this the vape lab? >> reporter: what her lab and others have stone is two-thirds of these products are not what they have seen. some have thc. some have other things. jay jenkins, he had vaped a totally synthetic substance. it had no cbd whatsoever and no way to know who manufactured it. >> is the cbd supply chain safe? >> there are pockets or lanes in

the supply chain that right now probably cannot be trusted. identifying those lanes, good luck. >> i think for the consumer you really need to be aware right now. something is lead to go death in a number of people and leading otherwise relatively healthy young people to be in intensive care, mechanical ventilators. >> reporter: we just don't know what it is. a possible hint. according to the cdc, nearly 80% of people reported using vape products containing thc, where 16% reported nicotine only vape products. because thc is illegal in many states, there might be many more people who have used it but not admitted it. >> what is in that liquid is not the same composition that's in the vapor. >> reporter: a team of yale

researchers is looking into the chemical reactions. >> what happens after the manufacturer mixes the chemicals even without any heating. they are generally regarded as safe. that is for eating injection not for inhalation, breathing them into your lungs. >> reporter: you super heat them with heavy metal coils, atomize them, they get back into your lungs, they recongeal. i don't know what that does to the body just like they didn't know what cigarettes did to the body when they first came out. does that part of it worry you? >> it worries me for sure because we don't know the long-term effects. it doesn't worry me for smokers. >> professor of public health at boston university. >> it doesn't worry me for smokers. i know one out of every two is going to die from smoking if they continue to smoke.

>> if you can't be certain something is safe right now, would the cdc recommend it for the time being that people not do it? >> what we are recommending, if you are concerned about your health issues in light of this investigation, that you consider not using e-cigarettes or vaping products until we know more. . >> it is a warning jay jenkins has heard. >> i certainly won't do it again. >> you will not? >> i will not. i took a chance and lost once. but luckily, they were able to save my life. >> dr. sanjay gupta there "on the story". stay with us next hour as this very important conversation continues. sanjay will talk with his own kids and their friends about why, despite the risks, it's so appealing, for people to vape. another tough weekend for the british prime minister boris johnson as his brexit plan falls flat with european leaders. and in france, they're preparing for that worst-case scenario.

>> we're bumping in with these live pictures in hong kong for 18 straight weekends where we have seen these protests.

right now the camera shaky there. it is on police. we have seen the police fire tear gas out toward the protesters. as the camera widens, you will get a better view here. again, the protesters are determined to make sure their voices are heard. they are protesting against police violence and against a ban on face masks. protesters have been out on the streets with their umbrellas in hand. police firing tear gas. we will keep our eye on this shaky shot for now. again, what we saw just a few minutes ago, police firing tear gas. we will have more as we continue to monitor. with less than a month to go before the brexit deadline, there are new problems for the prime minister. his brexit plan received a thumbs down from his dutch counterpart. mark root said questions remain about the british proposals. and there are plenty of questions in france about what's going to happen next. our jim bitterman has this.

>> reporter: the british parliament is a long way from the farms of france. its decision-making could soon have an impact here. third generation farmer philippe worries that a hard brexit and hard borderline with ireland could shift beef markets to france. >> it is a huge concern because you don't know what impact it's going to have on market prices. >> reporter: he outlined his worry to british farmers, who a few days ago paid a visit to their counter parts in france. the brits had a different worry, the lamb business. a quarter of lamb does not come from here but britain. farmers are worried hard borders with tariffs could shut them out of their most lucrative market. >> we don't know what's going to

happen. >> 10,000 truckloads of trade go back and forth each day. here the finishing touches and new procedures required when britain leaves the european customs union. when you talk about hard borders after brexit, this is one of them. this is a customs station built, brand-new, in calais, france. here's another part of it. this is a veterinary inspection on food and animal products to make sure they are up to european standards. french customs hired and trained 700 new inspectors nationwide to accommodate the worst-case brexit scenario. >>. >> translator: at the end of the month of october we will be able to face whatever formalities we need to take. >> reporter: not far away at a discount wine story, ben peek and mother sharon from england are also preparing for the worst. >> no one knows what they're

going to do, do they? all the people in parliament haven't got a clue, have they? >> reporter: they could buy reduced taxed wine in france. they, like other brits, traveled across the channel to stock up. more than 1,000 pounds of the wine they bought. the wine store paid for their ferry ticket across the channel. but the surge in pre-brexit wine sales to worried customers could be a short-term gain for a long-term pain. the stores could be put out of business depending what form brexit takes. . >> this is the question everyone is asking. but we don't know, and nobody knows. >> reporter: to paraphrase a mythical headline, there is a fog of uncertainty and confusion on the continent at britain cuts itself off. and for now the sheep may as well have the last word. >> baa.

>> jim, thank you. thank you for being with us this hour. the news continues right after the break. when we started our business

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