>> good evening. everyone i'm laura coates and this is cnn tonight. on the night the former president, twice defeated, while, once defeated, once impeached, former president who is currently facing multiple investigations. he is now announcing that he is running again. he throws his party now into turmoil after midterm losses just over a week.

and that has many of the people in his own party openly discussing a future that does not include him. that, as the eyes of the world are on vladimir putin's war in ukraine. president joe biden holding an emergency roundtable with world leaders at the g20 in bali to discuss the explosion in poland that killed two people today. now, poland is saying what they called a russian-made missile fell on a village near the ukrainian border. president biden vowing to find out just what happened, but saying it's unlikely the missile was actually fired from russia the. >> and we agree to support poland's investigation into the explosion. rural poland, near the ukrainian border. and then make sure we fog out exactly what is happening. -- apparently two people were killed. and then we are going to

collectively determine our next steps of the investigation. >> we also have breaking election news tonight. yes, a week after the elections we are still calling it in california, two longtime incumbents will hold on to their seats. cnn projecting republican congressman ken calvert will win a another term in his southern california district. that puts the gop now, if you're keeping score, and we are, at 217 seats. that means just one seat away from getting the 218 number they need to now take control of the house. and there is more. cnn can also project that democratic congressman jim acosta will also --

ug mastriano, who can't run a campaign, he takes down the whole take it. it is not because they didn't have a platform, in a typical midterm election, i bet david would agree with me. you don't have to be with for

someone if you're parties out of power. it's about them. it's about the party in power. but trump made it about himself. he came into the campaign's late, and states like pennsylvania and elsewhere, very late in the campaign, making this a choice more than a referendum. he did everything the republicans did not want him to do. they wanted him to go away, particularly in these swing states. they didn't want him to show up and make it about himself. he did it. and it was a problem. that's why they lost. we can all pretend, oh, yes, we did have an agenda to run, on no positive agenda. we never needed one in a year like this. >> you say that, and obviously you've been a member of congress, so far be it for me to challenge you about what members of congress believe, but i have been a voter for a long time. and i can tell you how long, tell you my true age, i'm fine with it. but the idea here thinking that their need not be a platform. i think in some ways is a policy even comments to believe oh no, voters are only going to turn out as long as they're about something in turn parties down.

i know it shows that. but the other point i want to ask you about, david, in this regard, look, they are going to have to do something if you are the republicans now. and if you are vying to be a contender as a party in 2024, right? they're going to have to decide whether they're going to go along with donald trump, whether they're going to follow that. for reasons you are talking about, do you think there are members right now, in leadership positions in the republican party, who are willing to say, look, the finger-pointing does go your direction, and i am out? >> it goes youdirection, donald trump, you're saying? >> donald trump, yes. >> listen, we're starting to hear some elected officials, some of whom have been associated with donald trump, cynthia loomis, the senator from wyoming was just talking about how she preferred to see ron desantis lead the party. she does not think don trump's leader of the party anymore. that's someone who stood rock solid to donald trump. there are individual voices in the party. i actually don't know that we are going to get our answer from the elected officials.

this is going to get answered by the electorate, by the voters as donald trump now has entered into this presidential contest. and i don't know if we know the answer, that republican voters, primary voters, are willing to give him another shot yet. i think the structure of the race is going to be a really important factor here. is it a very crowded field that donald trump is running in? where a bunch of non trump candidates split all the rest of the vote and maybe he can win primary contests after primary contests with 25 or 30% of the vote and when all the delegates. that's similar to what happened in 2015 and 2016. the rules are the same way to get the nomination, so far, in the republican party. so i do think the structure will help us understand sort of where the voters are. but for us to presume now how republican voters are going to respond to this campaign, i just think could be seriously premature. >> can we think about the, laura, the idea of what leadership might do? because a lot of it, you know, in terms of maybe shaping the way in voters evaluate and

context lies this might come from the top down, right. if you have a senator mitch mcconnell or you have a presumably future leader possibly mccarthy, speaker mccarthy, that might actually inform people. but there is some tension about what they are going to do. are they going to support trump? are they not going to support him? is that part of the tension they're grappling with right now, to secure their leadership spots? >> i think it's definitely part of the tension. to david's point, david, i'm sorry, i called you daniel a second ago. >> no worries. >> but right now republicans are some what starting to say we support ron desantis. again, ron desantis was also an election denier. and desantis did support president trump repeatedly. but they -- right now, we have not seen a break in the terms that we have seen from former congress members are current congress members but i'm going to congress members, like liz cheney or adam kinzinger or others who have outright said anyone that is like trump or in

former president trump's mold or willing to sow doubts about the democratic process cannot possibly be someone that we can support, even though they are republicans and they are very conservative policy wise. so, we have not seen that. we did not see it after january 6th, a wholesale break from the party after an insurrection happened. and i think a lot of my colleagues that were there that day, and i used to cover the hill, thought that it would happen. and it didn't. so, the idea that it may happen now, i'm very skeptical of. we don't know what the republican base is ultimately going to vote for. we do have some telling signs though that a majority of the republican base in recent polls this year believe that the 2020 election was stolen. so, they believe that lie. and part of why they believe it, i think, is because the former president has repeated it, and because other republicans have not shot that down repeatedly and loudly and forcefully. >> i'll give you last word on that, what are your thoughts? >> i think what the former president did tonight, he's trying to condition the field. he's out there first, and he's trying to tell these other guys,

okay, take me on, we'll see you actually shows up to the fight. this mike pence run, this ron desantis, run this chris christie run, does nikki haley run, youngkin? we'll see who actually runs. this is not a good decision for the party that he announced tonight. it's not gonna help republicans in the georgia runoff, but trump does not care about that. he's trying to shape this field. and frankly the more people who get in this race, the better for him. because he can win for literally with the vote. but his star is diminishing it, it has been dimension for sometime. it's only gotten worse. in many respects, i'm puzzled that he would announce now. but on the other hand, i get it. he wants to see which cameras are actually want to come at him. >> we will see. and as laura pointed out as well, multiple investigations and multiple states on multiple subjects. there is an exhaustion factor here going on. so what is going to change now that trump has announced his 2024 run? plus, president biden says it is unlikely, i repeat, unlikely a missile that killed two people in poland was fired from

russia. and were on the scene tonight on these issues. and on that idea of what's happening, we are talking about poland and talking about what happened. i think it's important to note this contrast, right. you've got the former president, donald trump, speaking about these issues. and i think he used the phrase, i'm paraphrasing, we are on the decline, america is on the decline. just within the last 24 to 48 hours, president biden was speaking from a bit of a empowered position, a little bit more spring in his presidential step, so we say. because he thought that on the world stage, democracy had function, it had worked. it was a closing argument, remember. thinking about that, and that contrast, while he is overseas meeting with world leaders, you've got the former president talking about us being on the precipice, i think is the word he used, of nuclear war. when you think about that contrast, and i don't want to elevate the former presidents statements to the current president of united states, but

that contrast on a world stage to the electorate, what does that play? >> yes, not just on the world stage, as you said, also to the domestic audience here at home. i think we heard donald trump ain't not terribly dissimilar from the picture he painted as an audiologist address of american carnage. he painted a pretty dark picture. and he was kind of saying it is going to get so much worse. and you are gonna feel how bad it is, so that you will elect me as the person that can with store american greatness. but he has to paint a very dark picture first. or at least one half, two but that's the path he chose in the speech, was to really dark in the mood in the country. >> by the way, it is interesting to do that, because we know he mentioned reagan in his speech. a statement that is often repeated, are you better off now than you were a sir number of years ago? but kind of a different twist. because you can look back and retrospective and say and have a comparison point, right. actually, i know how it was four years ago. you don't necessarily know how

you're gonna be in two years. so, it's almost like proving the negative. he's aware of that politically. >> he is aware that politically. it is part of the appeal for his base. he is really tapping into -- when we talk with trump and grievance politics, this is actually at the center of it, the very grievance of a changing society. that is what has a lot of appeal to a base that i agree with charlie, is one that is gonna be tested here if it has the same strength and size that it is had before. >> i'm glad you're all here. thank you. we're gonna come back to these points. of course, this is all evolving tonight. so, thank you so much. and trump, as we mentioned, is facing a minefield, really, a minefield of investigations and legal challenges from state level investigations in places like new york and of course georgia. to the ongoing investigation into january 6th. cnn's tom foreman is at the magic wall to walk us through all of the legal challenges. tom? >> hey laura, the former president is facing a

constellation of legal challenges which could derail any future plans he has. and they are very active right now. the grand jury probe in atlanta into whether trump illegally overturned georgia's 2020 election will see several big names testifying this week. former white house aide cassidy hutchison as well as governor brian kemp and senator lindsey graham of south carolina, now that they're twin legal attempts to avoid legal appearing failed. schedule next week, retired general michael flynn. the new york attorney general has a 250 million dollar lawsuit against trump, his three eldest children, and others tied to the trump organization, accusing them of extensive financial fraud. the manhattan district attorney's steaming through a criminal trial against the trump organization, alleging a series of illegal tax dodges where the former chief financial officer allen weisselberg testifying. trump has consistently denied

all of the claims in these cases. and then there is mar-a-lago and those papers seized by the fbi. and suspicions that trump may have illegally taken sensitive documents from the white house. just this week, trump's team said in a new filing that all of the material was personal because allegedly trump said so while he was president. the justice department says nonsense. allowing a president that kind of power would nullify the whole purpose of the law protecting presidential records for the public. and then there is the big bear, january 6th. the congressional select committee said the deadline passed, trump failed to comply with their subpoena for documents and testimony about his actions around the january 6th insurrection. his legal team has argued the committee has no right to such things. but that claim could face a much stiffer test if the department of justice probe into january 6th produce, as

some think it might, charges against trump. again, trump says in all of this, he has done nothing wrong. but any of it could pose serious challenges to whatever he wants to do next, laura? >> tom foreman, thank you so much. i want to bring in cnn legal analyst elliott williams and norm eisen. gentlemen, the picture that was just painted, it's a little bit exhausting thinking about it. the breadth of things. we're not hiding out, one we're talking about two, we're talking about very substantial notions as well. and this is for someone who has just announced he is running for president again. i mean, norm, thinking of the scope of all these different issues, politically speaking, i'm sure that is a calculus for people and think about what that is going to mean. but legally, what is the true exposure here in your mind? how significant is it that we are talking about all of these issues? >> well, laura, the former president has tremendous criminal exposure.

i mean, you are a prosecutor. you know that when you've got, like, take fani willis in georgia. she has powerful evidence, not one, but two smoking guns. the tape in which trump demanded 11,780 votes that he knew did not exist. and these phony electoral slates that he has sought. i think it is very likely that she is going to charge him. behind her comes the department of justice. the mar-a-lago classified documents investigation. he is at risk there. there is additional federal investigations, and they're coming after him civilly. i think it is tantamount to a corporate death penalty, tish james, the new york ag, hitting his wallet, trying to take his name off the businesses. this is going to be a drag, even when his loyal fans in the republican party, a drag on him over the next two years. >> i mean it certainly is a drag. but i do wonder, is there something that could remove that anvil?

he just declared his presidency. for some people looking at this issue, and i know what you're thinking, elliott, but i want you to expand on it, and that's the idea that some might think, oh, hold on, you cannot indict a sitting president. and he's running for office again, and there's the idea of, is this the politicization of the doj if they try to pursue these things? >> laura, let's play this out. had the justice department charge donald trump with a crime yesterday, what would have been any different with charging him today or tomorrow? he remains, is, was, and will be one of the most famous people on the planet after justin bieber and the rock. >> that's the order? johnston, the rock, then trump? >> in the pantheon of american heroes, yes. but seriously though, he remains a former president and one of the most famous and recognizable individuals on earth. what is different today than yesterday based on his announcing his candidate? there are still the same

political questions that would have existed with respect to the former president, regardless of he announced his candidacy. the question is, as norm laid out, are the facts in law there to indict this individual? and it appears that in some of the instances it looks like there might be. but i just think this -- whether he announces his candidacy to avoid getting charged or not, i don't think that changes the calculus for the justice department, or should i. >> are we talking special counsel men, just to insulate from that criticism? >> this decision is going to be made by somebody who probably has never heard of justin bieber or the rock. >> [laughter] well, that's not possible. >> attorney general -- i can tell you for sure, he doesn't spend a lot of time with them. attorney general merrick garland. and he is going to feel -- i agree with elliott on the announcement. but the ag, i've known him for a very long time, he is going to look at the special counsel regulations and he is going to look at the words elliott. and you know this.

he's going to say conflict of interest, extraordinary circumstances, questioning the public view of doj. and he is going to weigh those considerations very heavily. now, i think the wrong decision, because of the potential for delay, would be to appoint a special counsel. certainly, you do not have to do it for the classified documents investigation. but he is going to take that very seriously. >> look, a big part of it is the appearance of impropriety. even if there is not a political conflict, one thing the attorney general has to consider is, might it look like there's a question of politics there? i'm with you, norm, at the end of the day it's for delayed. the decision does not change. but yes, the attorney general is going to do it by the book, then yes, what he probably has to appoint a special counsel. but slows the whole thing down and doesn't change the ultimate answer. >> except, you generally mentioned at least two state proceedings for which the attorney general does not have any control over whatsoever. and even the hint of impropriety should not impact

his decision in say, georgia or new york. i do wonder on the conflict of interest aspect, i mean, you do have a supreme court justices continue to rule on matters surrounding january 6th. and that surely is in the wheelhouse of potential impropriety. what do you think? >> well, just as clarence thomas should be anywhere near, any cases related to january six. because we know his wife, ginni thomas, was neck-deep in election denial. i mean, we have our text to mark meadows, the former chief of staff. we know she was talking to people in the states who were driving this canard. but, but if you were any other judge, he would be forced to recuse under federal law it. and the supreme court is totally up to him. >> at the end of the day, regardless of -- the thing about living in america, is ginni thomas -- whatever conspiracy theorist views she may hold, the problem

is it is bad for the supreme court. how the public sees the supreme court is affected by that relationship there. so, regardless of the merits of what she believes or what she has done, this is bad for the court. and look, when your husband's supreme court justice, you really wish some of that right. or, look, you have the right to do whatever you, want that's gonna have some blow back on this. job and just bad for the court and bad for the rules. >> what could be very bad two is your's estimate of the order the most recognizable people, justin bieber, at the rock, then trump. there's not a single athlete named. that's fine, we'll talk about another time. the next question, of course, is will 2024 be a rematch between trump and biden? we know trump has thrown his hat into this ring. we will definitely have what the president is saying. and what does that mean for the next generations of leaders? we'll dive right into that next. plus, there are new details tonight about this horrible tragic shooting of three young man at the university of virginia. student athletes who were also

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>> so, the question everyone is asking tonight is just what

does the former president, donald trump, announcement that he'll run again, what does it mean for everyone else who are hoping to toss their hat into the ring? will be a bit of a domino effect happening? or something very different? joining now to discuss, cnn political commentators scott jennings, a van jones. good to see you gentlemen here tonight. just a minor announcement that everyone anticipated, oh, for about two years. but here it is, it's actually here right now. and i have to ask, because you are the first to smile, van, scott, welcome back to you when you show me the teeth. van, what do you think about this announcement? what does it mean in terms of is it going to be a domino effect? is it going to be a seal is broken so others might enter? what do you see playing out here? >> look, he as moved very early. and i don't think others have to jump out immediately. there is time to kind of see what the public reaction is, pulling reaction, and other lawmakers reactions in term of on the republican side.

you know, this speech was just kind of a remix of the american carnage speech that he gave when he was initially sworn in for office. you know, he looked more chastened that i've seen him. i think he would -- i would cover for him as demoralized, but determined. in some ways, that could send a signal that maybe there's weakness there. but i don't think you're going to see -- people who have to jump in tomorrow, we are still two years out from the election. i think the wise move would be for people to figure what they need to do, and pick their own time. >> scott, on that point, van is right, on the calendar, we are two years out. but he has still opted to do this now. what do you make? what is your reaction to his decision? and do you think that invites others to expedite their own decision-making process about whether they too will run? >> yeah, i do not think people have to file the paperwork tomorrow. i agree with van about that. i slightly disagree about

letting the public know that they are seriously considering. obviously, mike pence is out there doing that, pompeo is doing, that chris christie is doing that. but the person who we are all waiting for a signal from is florida governor ron desantis. he obviously had a big win on election night. and i think he does not have to file right away. but if he is looking at this, right now, trump is at his weakest point, really, politically since he won the presidency. in terms of just a pure political context. and there is a vacuum. and desantis has momentum. so, if he just told republican party i'm seriously looking at this. and it may be time for a new generation of leadership. and i will be getting back to you in the weeks ahead. that would probably be enough. because i just feel the fervor out there for something new. i thought the speech tonight was lame. i thought the crowd was lame. i think some of the themes will work that he used. but this was not what i expected. candidly, he was quite subdued, low energy, dare i say? and i was surprised, candidly,

at just how subdued the entire event was. >> i mean, he really was on prompter, right. there is a couple of moments where he would divert from it. but interesting, as we're talking about potential candidates, oftentimes people do not include an incumbent president as a potential candidate. yet, here we are talking about the prospects of president joe biden. will he be the person running against trump in 2024? and look at this, there's actually a new york times cnn trump biden poll, just from october. and in a, they asked the question of who would you go for if 2024 presidential election were held today? this was among the registered voters, by the way. 43% said trump, biden, 42%. of course, there is a margin of error of about plus or minus 4.1%. so, you have got that. because the idea -- also there is another one that came in from october that included among registered voters for the primary, this is for a gop primary, and they

said trump 49%, desantis 26%, and pence 6%, among others who are down in the list as well, all the way down to pompeo at two. again, margin of error. when you look at this, van, and think about how people are structuring their thoughts, evaluating what the options are, not everyone likes sort of the déjà vu. it wasn't the most -- talk about low energy, that was a common complaint, right, about the 2020 election. the idea that either candidate did they truly energize their bases in a way that previous administrations and candidates had hoped to do? do you think a possible rematch of these two candidates is going to be a catalyst for people to turn out? >> i think people will be demoralized but determined as voters. they will trudge out there. and they will pull it. scott and i agree that if people want something different,

the biggest number is that 15% that ida said neither. and these are going to be the people who determine who wins. and those people are looking for something else. and even those who said they would vote for either one, you know, i think people want something else. look at desantis, who was not a household name two years ago. when donald trump left the eight house, no one had heard of desantis outside of florida. to see him at 26, you'd have to say 26 with a bullet and rising, donald trump, less than half of the party wants him. and probably declining, or at least i think those numbers might be soft. so, what has to happen in the republican primary is they've got a clear the field. there's gonna be a motto i mano a mano a woman, there is gonna be a two on two here. if you put in 15 people, and every dog catcher whoever wants to be dog catcher run, that it's obviously gonna be trump. >> it's interesting, we're talk about 2024. and i feels like we're skipping ahead. i asked the question, of course, but let me just bring it back

scott. the numbers are still ticking in. we don't know who is actually going to be, oh, i don't know, the senator from georgia, whether it's gonna be herschel walker, who hopes to be, or going to be the incumbent for a full term, senator reverend raphael warnock. and yet today, the former president spoke about this race. and try to get people to be supportive and turn out to vote for herschel walker, the cause calling him a great, person a phenomenal person, those are the words, paraphrasing here. do you think that hurts or helps the georgia runoff situation? because i think camp, the georgia governor who's gonna be reelected, is going to try and stop for herschel walker and others in the republican party. these are not, you know, there is no romance so to speak between kemp and trump. is it helpful or hurtful to the georgia runoff to have trump weigh in? >> well, it's better than what he did last time the runoff, when he told republicans not to vote, because their votes would not count. so, this is a step in the right direction.

[laughter] i don't think it's any secret that herschel walker was picked by donald trump in this race. and i think most voters know that already. so, i would say it's probably a neutral thing. i think it was good that he put it in his announcement. you know, smart politics or ham. i don't anticipate it having a huge impact. because i think everybody in georgia knows everything there is to know about both of these candidates, including trump's involvement with walker. >> i mean, van, on that point, finally, just the idea of being a different sort of candidate tonight in terms of seeing trump. is biden better position now in terms of being able to counter the incoming and potential assault you are going to hear? >> i mean, yeah, because the democrats did so much better than people thought. and i think, you know, biden can now have a narrative about himself that says you guys just keep underestimating me. [laughter] you guys just don't get the joe. you said you could i could never get the primary. i was too old, nobody wanted me. he said i was gonna get beaten by trump.

you said i was not going to be able to get anything done on gun reform or anything done an infrastructure. he said i was not going to be able to pour fail in the midterm. you guys just do not get it. i am a lot better than you think. and the american people are a lot smarter than you think. and i think that becomes his narrative, if he wants to do it. but, yeah, obviously if we were sitting here with a different set of cards in terms of a massive defeat, and the midterm elections, it'll be harder for him to make that case. >> sure. >> but i want to make that case, he can make now. >> sure can. but you know, nice talking to both of you. in terms of the case is making right now, he's overseeing. gentlemen, nice talking to both of you. we also know that there are emergency talks late tonight with the president of the united states and of course after what poland calls a russian-made missile that killed two people in poland. president biden and world leaders are reacting. we'll talk about it, next.

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click, call or visit a store today. >> today, world leaders are huddling after poland said what they called a russian-made missile fill near a village near the ukraine border on tuesday, killing two people. poland did not actually say who fired it. the white house putting out a photo earlier, president biden on the phone with the polish president, saying he affirmed the united states is full support for the investigation and for the nato alliance and. new pictures tonight reveal where the missile struck today, leading a crater and two dead. i want to bring in cnn senior white house correspondent phil mattingly. phil mattingly, what are you hearing from nato?

>> laura, we are here at the g20 in bali, and this is a very tightly scheduled, closely coordinated 48 hours. the fact that there was an emergency meeting held with key world leaders representing the g7 and nato just underscores how high tensions are in the wake of this incident across the border in ukraine. what we know right now from nato and g7 officials is that investigation is underway. they are in close consultation with their polish counterparts. president biden spoke with polish president andrzej duda earlier today -- sorry, i'm getting the time zones mixed up. and what we know right now from leaders here is that they are very, fairly closely engaged but also cognizant of the fact that there are a lot of details they need to still discover. one thing they don't hesitate on, that is, the support for ukraine, which we have seen in a very unified manner from the these leaders over the last nine months. but also something else that was going on in the course of the last 24 hours, which was dozens of missiles that landed inside ukraine, targeting

civilian infrastructure, targeting civilian facilities even before the incident in poland, world leaders, including top u.s. officials said they have been keeping a very close eye on. that so, the investigation will continue to play out. they made very clear they will support not just the investigation but also the nato member country poland, as that plays out. they are very concerned here about ukraine and what they have seen as an escalation targeting of civilian infrastructure by the russians over the course of the last several weeks, laura. >> and just in the last 24 hours and two days we have been talking about the liberation of kherson, watching the ukrainian president they are thinking about that, and now here we are in very different context. you have been talking to white house officials still on the ground in bali. so, what is happening behind the scenes now? >> yeah, the engagement has been intense. and you showed that picture at the white house, tweeted out a picture on the phone, with the polish president surrounded by his secretary of state, anthony blinken, and national security adviser, jake sullivan. the three of them were really huddled over the course of a multi hour period when this happened earlier in the

morning. jake sullivan the national security adviser was first informed of the incident, and first reports came, and he got on the phone with his polish counterpart shortly thereafter, and briefed president biden. that is when the president started to block in his phone call with the polish president. the president has also spoken to the nato secretary general jens stoltenberg. that's obviously very critical. there is a nato ally, and several different pathways they could pursue here, article five being the most significant, the high stakes, only been invoked once. that is the collective defense treaty that has been signed by the nato organizations, the 30 countries that are involved in the. that is not the route they are going yet. it looks like, and they've suggested they may follow article for -- apparently that would lock down -- between member states. what we do know is that there will be an emergency nato meeting of nato ambassadors on wednesday. but when we talk to white house officials, we heard this a little bit from the president after that emergency meeting, they are being very cautious. they're being very methodical. in part that is because, as the president alluded to, they have not seen any clear evidence that this missile came from

russia. it does not mean it wasn't russian-made. there are a lot of different elements there, a lot of different variables here. and that is in part why we have not had a definitive conclusion about where this came from, the origin or the genesis of this incident in poland right now. they understand the stakes here. growing too fast when you don't have all of the information, given this is an article five ally, that is an extraordinarily high stakes move to make. that is why you are seeing such methodical efforts going forward. i would just put one final thing, laura -- when you talk to u.s. officials they made clear, in the consultations not just with their polish allies but also with u.s. intelligence and nato members and nato intelligence infrastructure, they have a very good idea of the trajectory of this missile, the kind of process that went into this. so, the investigation should not take a very long time. they have a pretty good sense of things right now. but where that actually lands is still leaving that an open question. >> phil mattingly, i'm so glad you are there to give us all the insight. and just right, the stakes are re-measurable. to get too drawn would-be extraordinary. thank you so much.

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