been since the post was first put up. >> are his numerous apologies enough? >> when we think about the nba audience, for some people kyrie's written and verbal apologies will be enough. and, for other people, it's never going to be enough. nothing he could say would be enough. posting that video is a sin that won't be able to be washed away. >> irving has been criticized for not apologizing and not clarifying that he's not anti-semitic until after the nets suspended him. >> he was asked if he would file a grievance over his suspension. and he said he would leave that up to his legal team. >> "erin burnett outfront" starts right now. "outfront" next, breaking news in the colorado night club shooting. police revealing the identities of all five victims who were killed. we're going to speak to a couple who survived the shooting and

helped others amid the chaos. the colorado springs police chief is also "outfront" tonight. plus, a special counsel in the trump investigation's officially at work tonight. the new details about what he's been briefed on and what it says about the speed of his investigation. and we have new audio of a russian soldier's call to his girlfriend saying half his unit is gone, he's fighting alongside prisoners just released from prison to wage putin's war. let's go "outfront." good evening, i'm erin burnett. "outfront" tonight, breaking news out of colorado springs where officials just named the five victims killed in the horrific mass shooting at an lgbtq night club. at least 19 others were injured. the five people who lost their lives. rump was a bartender at the night club along with daniel

aston. rump's sister saying every bar should have a daniel and a derrick. the husband of ashley paugh saying, she was my high school sweetheart and she was just an amazing mother. her daughter was her whole world. the suspected gunman is in the hospital tonight amid growing questions about whether red flag laws would've stopped this. the mayor saying this tonight. >> i would caution against an assumption that the circumstances of this case would lead to application of the red flag law. we don't know that. >> comes as cnn obtains new video tonight from that standoff that the suspect had with police last year where you see him wearing body armor and ranting about the officers outside. i'll play this for you. >> this is your boy. i've got the [ bleep ] outside.

they got a beat on me. you see that right there? got their [ bleep ] rifles out. if they breach i'm going to [ bleep ] blow it to holy hell. >> police tonight also thanking the heroes who confronted and stopped the gunman, saying they saved countless lives. those men are thomas james and richard fiero who said i just went into combat mode and started hitting him in the head over and over. rosa flores is "outfront" live from colorado springs to begin our coverage tonight. what are police saying about the charges in this case? >> reporter: well, you know, police say that the suspect has not been charged yet, but he is in custody pending possible charges of multiple counts of first-degree murder and also hate crime. now, he is in the hospital according to police, and his condition is unclear. all this as this community

continues to grieve, and we learn the names of all the victims. police naming the five victims of the shooting at club q in colorado springs. kelly loving, daniel aston, derrick rump, ashley paugh, and raymond green vance. the shooter was stopped by two men inside the club, thomas james and richard fiero, according to the "new york times," fiero says he was watching the drag show when gunfire erupted. he says his instincts as an army officer kicked in. >> he simply said to me, i was trying to protect my family. >> according to authorities, fiero and james confronted and fought with the suspect, took his handgun and hit him with it. >> god bless them. it could've been a lot worse if they hadn't have stepped in. >> two absolute heroes. if not for them, i don't know how many other people would've been injured.

>> reporter: barrett hudson survived and miraculously escaped serious injury. >> there was a man in front of him, he put his hands up a little bit and took two steps back. and the dude just killed him. >> reporter: the shooting started just before midnight on saturday night. at 11:57 p.m., someone at the bar called 9-1-1, and police started dispatching officers. >> active shooter. we are getting reports of four to seven possibly injured. >> reporter: the first officer arrived on scene at 12:00 a.m. then at 12:02 a.m., the suspect was in custody. the suspect, 22-year-old anderson lee aldrich, is in the hospital. sources telling cnn he bought the weapons used in the attack. now aldrich being held pending possible charges that include

five charges of first-degree murder as well as possible charges related to a bias motivated crime. new video obtained by cnn appears to show the suspect ranting about police last year during a standoff. [ bleep ] got their [ bleep ] rifles out. if they breach i'm going to [ bleep ] blow it to holy hell. >> reporter: over a bomb threat at his mother's home. the surrender captured on camera. but local media report no formal charges were pursued, and his records were sealed, according to the district attorney. this close-knit lgbtq community in colorado springs now struggling to find a way forward. >> i'm doing okay considering i lost some friends that i care about. and i don't think it's really sunk in yet. >> reporter: now, erin, the gentleman that you just heard there, i talked to him inside his hospital room in what he described was the chaos in those intense moments. he says that he heard two

volleys of gunfire. he says he got shot in the back. then the second volley of fire he got shot in the leg. and he says when he fell down, he said he could hear others asking for tourniquets just trying to help each other. and he says that even though this is tough, he believes in this community because they are resilient, and they will fight back. >> all right, thank you very much, rosa. and i want to go now to gill rodriguez and felicia, who were inside the night club, survived this attack. gil, let me start with you. i can't even imagine what you mentally, both of you, are going through. you were there, i know, together to support a friend who was deejaying that night. and then you actually saw the gunman as he began shooting. can you tell me more about that moment? >> um, honestly, i never saw

him, just the way all the events transpired, from the amount of shots that initially went off when he came into the club, i honestly thought it was multiple people shooting either at each other or just in general multiple people shooting, just how quick the number of shots were coming out in rapid succession. all i had time to do really was to put the table next to us and to use it as cover and i just yelled for everyone to get down, and just dropped to the ground and was kind of holding, you know, her head down to ensure that she didn't catch any stray bullets. i thought the bullet grazed my foot. and then i immediately jumped on top of her because i was assuming that the gunman was looking in our direction and was shielding her from potentially getting any stray bullets in her direction. and shortly after the shooting had stopped. >> so, felicia, let me ask you

about that moment, gil is talking about maybe a stray bullet. i know that fragments from the bullet sort of did ricochet off your shoes. what do you remember about these horrifying moments when this barrage of shots started? >> really, um, at that moment i remember the sounds. i honestly thought it was the music until i smelled the actual gun powder. the smell is what got to me. and when gil just said to get down immediately, my initial thought was just react, act quickly and get on the ground. and i think i was -- the only thing that was going through my mind at that time is i was praying. i was praying out loud that it would just -- >> gil, you mentioned that -- but you haven't said you have a military background, but i know you have one. but you're talking about the music, and you just heard felicia say first she thought it was the music for a brief moment.

and i know your instincts led you to go straight to the deejay booth as this was happening. what went through your mind? >> um, so kind of like my instincts just kind of kicked in with my military background just to kind of assess the situation. once i kind of heard the gunshots, like, stop shooting, i kind of, like, scanned the room to ensure that he wasn't still in the room, like maybe reloading or something. i didn't see him like at all, which kind of led me to spring up and pull out my phone. i immediately called 9-1-1 to get them on the scene as soon as possible. i couldn't hear what the 9-1-1 operator was saying, which led me to logically just go to the deejay booth and start turning all the knobs and turning the system off so that i can kind of better hear the 9-1-1 operator as well as kind of better understand what was going on around me. >> felicia, how is your friend who was deejaying doing tonight? >> she's doing much better. i know at this point that it was

a success to get the bullet out. and they did have to take her appendix out, but she is going to make a great recovery. and she's doing much better. >> i mean, that's miraculous, but i can only imagine just the horror in the beginning of the process that she'll be going through. for both of you, gil, first to you, you have military training, you're prepared for triage, but nothing would've prepared you to expect this in this place at that time. can you even start to understand what sort of an impact this will have on you? >> um, i mean, like you said, honestly, we kind of train for this, we kind of expect stuff to happen when we go overseas and maybe do a tour deployment. but nothing really prepares you for when you actually experience it firsthand. just kind of just instincts are pretty much the first thing that, you know, kind of take

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tonight, no signs of slowing down. jack smith, the newly named special counsel in the trump investigations, is already reviewing and approving all the filings related to a key court hearing tomorrow. the hearing is related to the mar-a-lago classified documents criminal case. o one source saying, quote, the grand jury doesn't seem to have skipped a beat. this is a growing number of former top legal officials say that president trump is headed for indictment. >> at the end of the day, i expect that donald trump will be indicted by the special counsel. >> i personally think that they probably have the bases for legitimately indicting the president. >> "outfront" now, ryan goodman, former special counsel at the department of defense and

co-editor in chief of the just security blog. you and your colleagues just put out 169-page sort of charging document and very clearly showing why you think indictment is appropriate in the mar-a-lago case. and there was worry 72 hours ago there was worry that appointing a special counsel for both the mar-a-lago case and the january 6th criminal case investigations would slow the whole thing down. 72 hours later he's approving everything, the hearing's going ahead tomorrow. evan and caitlin are reporting that nothing's changed on the schedule, nothing's been slowed down. so what are you seeing now? >> so the reporting is consistent with his reputation that he is this kind of a dogged prosecutor who's very quick and efficient. he's a triathlete in his other life, but it seems as though that's kind of an attitude he takes to the work. and i do think that there are concerns before garland's decision that it could slow things down in the abstract having a special counsel. but the person is so important

in the equation. and he is the kind of person that has obviously hit the ground running. >> so now tomorrow's briefing, jack smith is now fully briefed on that, approved everything, all the documents were ready. he goes this hearing is about the document review of the mar-a-lago documents, right, that the special master is supposed to go through. that's what the hearing is regarding. and you believe that this hearing could be very telling at this point. how come? >> i think it could be telling in a certain sense that government's position is very strong. there's almost like a menu of choices that the 11th circuit has to uphold the government's case and just allow them to proceed ahead and have jack smith have all of the evidence that was selected in the fbi's search. the government is sticking with the same argument that there's no evidence of declassification of these documents, which is telling because they've now interviewed kash patel, who is the only person out there in the

world who has said other than donald trump that he declassified material. the fact that they're still sticking to that argument post having kash patel before the grand jury i think is a tell that they're pretty confident about that idea. >> all right. so in terms of where it goes from here, this whole okay, well, they could clearly seem to have enough on the mar-a-lago case if they want to indict to do so. then you've got january 6th separate from that and more involved. from what you know about jack smith, when do you think we know? >> i think we might have something very significant within the next couple months on mar-a-lago. i do think that that is basis of facts that already provides for an indictment. so i think he's obviously somebody who is not going to slow down in that determination. and the big question is does he move forward with one case if he feels like he has enough for an indictment, or does he wait for the other, which is the january 6th materials? and that could be a much more complex process. >> and then you wait for both, which then you run the risk of leaks and people knowing what you have on the first one.

so there's risk there too. all right, thank you very much. next, new audio from an intercepted phone call between a russian soldier and his fwf. what you're going to hear here reveals startling conditions on the front lines. and the mystery over two killed the four idaho college students is deepening tonight. police say there were other friends who were at the apartment when 9-1-1 was called.

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tonight, the third world war, that's how one russian soldier describes what he's seeing on the ground in ukraine in a new recording just in exclusively to cnn. cnn has obtained this intercepted phone conversation between the russian soldier and his girlfriend. listen to this part. >> translator: it's world war three out there. if they didn't bring in the mobilized soldiers -- if we didn't go there, we'd already be here. we would be totally [ bleep ]. they would hammer away at moscow. they'd hammer everything. >> it's so scary. >> the soldier says that his unit of 96 has already lost more

than half its people. more than half, 50. and he says that it is clear to him that those in charge don't care about the troops. >> translator: the commander's position was hit by a rocket for [ bleep ] sake. [ bleep ] incredibly he managed to gather up his unit in just 30 minutes. and they all retreated further from the shelling. but, us, we were totally [ bleep ]. are we not human beings? i don't know, some guys here. soon we will just leave and go to him. to the commander of the battalion. and we'll just shoot him, nobody will even investigate. >> threatening to shoot the commander of his battalion. it is unbelievable to hear this. and yet we have heard and seen, we've shown you this incredible discontent and unrest among the

russian fighters. in fact, we're hearing it yet again tonight in another newly obtained video believed to have been filmed recently in russia at a training ground. listen to this. >> translator: we haven't held rifles for the past two weeks and came today to the training grounds to throw grenades. when we were there, they told us they didn't have any grenades. and they didn't even have a bus for us to return. so we walked from the training grounds back to here. >> ten kilometers, it took ten kilometers to get back. we came from there to here. how can we fight along officers who are like this [ bleep ]? they would sell us off there to [ bleep ] ukraine. >> matthew chance has much more on all of this out front in kyiv. i want to warn you that some of the images you will see in his report may be disturbing. >> reporter: as russia's military highlights its barrage

of ukraine, cnn has obtained exclusive recordings of a russian soldier describing the brutal reality of life on the front lines. >> translator: the commander's position was shelled so he packed up and moved further back. but what about us? aren't we humans, too? >> reporter: the russian soldier was recorded phoning his girlfriend back home, according to ukrainian intelligence, and telling her candidly about the severe military setback suffered in the two months since he arrived. >> translator: we had 96 people in our unit but now there are less than 50. sometimes there's friendly fire and idiots shoot at us because they don't see our coordinates. >> reporter: but it is advancing ukrainian forces that are the major threat, compounding low morale with high bloodshed. ukrainian officials now reacting

to this extraordinary video of russian soldiers apparently surrendering, geolocated by cnn to a recently liberated town in eastern ukraine. come on out, one by one, a ukrainian soldier calls out. then a short burst of gunfire before the video cuts off. later, a ukrainian military drone shows what appears to be the same men in pools of blood. the kremlin says it's an execution. but ukraine says the soldiers feigned surrender and fired the ukrainians accusing russia of its own war crime. no one disputes the horror. it's unclear if the dead russians were regular troops or deployed as parts of the kremlin's partial mobilization, seen here earlier this year. but the soldier recorded on the phone indicates he was recently conscripted, complaining bitterly at being unable to

leave the war zone. >> translator: being mobilized is crap. nobody can go home until putin announces the order. there's no way to return. and if we weren't here, they the ukrainians would already be at our borders. they would show moscow, show everything. >> reporter: and that constant threat of ukrainian attack is having a terrifying effect, in particular, drone strikes. >> translator: my nerves are on edge. i'm afraid of every rustle, every bang, every click makes me drop to the ground. >> reporter: in russian-controlled eastern ukraine, the funerals are already for more of those killed on the brutal front line. deaths, ukrainian officials insist, would never have happened but for russia's war.

>> reporter: the big change over the past couple of days here in ukraine has been the plunging temperatures with the first snow of the winter covering the ground. this as russia continues its missile strikes against energy infrastructure targets, causing power cuts and shortages across the country. russia may be on the defensive, but it is, at this point, far from defeated. erin? >> thank you very much, matthew chance, with that exclusive report from kyiv tonight. i want to go now to john brennan, the former cia director and the author of "undaunted: my fight against america's enemies at home and abroad," which is now available in paperback as well. director, thank you for your time. when you hear this phone conversation, and it's a full conversation in lots of detail. what do you take away from it? >> well, erin, i think as those conversations indicate, as well

as matthew's reporting, russian military operations on the ground in ukraine are in complete disarray. even after nine months of fighting, they still have not been able to coordinate a lot of their ground and air operations. and it does seem as though the morale of russian forces is at an all-time low. and they are sending in these new recruits without special training, without special weapons. they're basically serving as cannon fodder. so i can understand those russian soldiers who are calling home i'm sure that most of them are very worried about their future, their lives. and i can just expect that this is just going to continue and get worse for them in the coming months. >> sort of the mutiny when he's saying if this continues this way, we'll just go shoot our commanding officer. to actually even say such a thing. i want to play one more clip from that specific intercepted phone call director between the soldier and his girlfriend. this is what happened after he told her that only 50 of the 96 people in his unit were still

alive. he then said this. >> translator: so there are 50 people there with you in the forest or more? >> of course there are more [ bleep ] people. a lot of prisoners, people from pmcs. >> huh? >> pmc. private military company. they came here on contract. >> be careful there, please. >> i'm trying. >> he said expletive loads of prisoners and mercenaries. there is this unbelievable number, more than the actual number. >> it shows that he's running out of options to try to reverse his fortunes on the battlefields

with conventional military means. this is the mercenary group and sending them in. but they're also getting chewed up by the ukrainian forces. and so it's clear that he's going to be relying more and more on these long-range attacks going after critical infrastructure, trying to destroy the electric grids as well as the water stations and other things to try to freeze the ukrainians out and try to undermine their morale. >> you mentioned critical infrastructure. and obviously you've got the largest nuclear power plant in europe and ukraine. now moving to the front burner, all this fighting is still happening around zaporizhzhia's nuclear plant. russia state media tonight director now saying the plant is at risk of a nuclear accident. the head of russia's nuclear agency saying it is obvious that kyiv considers a small nuclear incident acceptable. do you think, director, that

russia is now more specifically setting ukraine up for another false flag that could sort of open the flood gates to nuclear activity? >> very possibly. zaporizhzhia is in the middle of a war zone and there is shelling coming from both sides. and there are parts of that nuclear reactor complex that is vulnerable, radioactive material can be leaked out. russia has been saying that the ukrainians are going to use some type of dirty bomb as a pretext for escalation. so, i am concerned that the rhetoric now, once again, is focusing on the nuclear plant in zem zaporizhzhia. it could in fact be the site of a devastating nuclear disaster that could have far-ranging implications. hopefully the reactors are not going to be breached. but given the fighting that's going on, given the fact that some of the electric power going

to the complex is being cut off. and you need to maintain that electricity in order to keep those cooling systems running. so it is at a very worrisome stage in terms of where that reactor's future stands. >> you take these phone calls with those soldiers, and it doesn't take long to get to how desperate he could be on the nuclear front. director, thank you very much. i appreciate your time as always. >> thank you, erin. and, next, police revealing new details about the college student killings in idaho, including the presence of other friends at the apartment when 9-1-1 was finally many hours later called. a cnn investigation exposing the brutal rapes of iranian women. >> they choose the women who were pretty and suited their appetite. then the officer would take one of them from the cell to a smaller, private room.

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tonight werngsz getting new information about the violent murders of four college students in idaho. detectives revealing the initial 9-1-1 call came from one of the surviving roommate's cell phones. police also saying for the first time that there were several other friends at the house when that 9-1-1 call came in, which of course was hours after the actual murders themselves.

now, despite the details, police tonight still have no suspect, no weapon, no motive. >> this incident has shaken our community. and we continue to mourn for the victims. >> reporter: more than a week after the killings of four university of idaho students, the mystery over who murdered them only deepens. as investigators search the crime scene, police revealing who is not considered a suspect. beginning with the two roommates asleep in the home as four others were stabbed to death. >> how does one individual kill four people at night and not wake up the other two roommates? >> i don't even know that information at this point in time. and that's why we're continuing to investigate. >> reporter: but police able to clear the roommates as suspects, adding that one of their phones was used to place the 9-1-1 call just before noon that day. the initial caller not revealed, and police say several people

talked to the dispatcher. >> there was other friends that had arrived at the location. >> reporter: those friends first called over by the roommates when they thought one of the victims was passed out and not waking up. also cleared as a suspect, a man kaylee goncalves called several times. her family say it's was an ex-boyfriend and that they never suspected him. >> he is not a suspect. he is not suspicious. he is 100% innocent in this. >> reporter: police also cleared as a suspect someone seen in video from a food truck that two of the victims visited that night. and a driver that picked up goncalves and madison mogen who picked them up after. the murder weapon, we know, is a fixed-blade knife, generally much stronger than a kitchen knife, and commonly used in hunting. police say all four victims were likely sleeping at the time of

the attack. but some possibly woke up and defended themselves. >> there were stab wounds on the hands of at least one of the students that make it appear that it would be defensive wounds. >> reporter: authorities canvassing neighborhoods for clues and additional video as flyers reading "please help" appeared around the neighborhood. kaylee's mother telling nbc she's urging the killer to end the mystery. >> the guilt has got to be just overwhelming. it's got to be sickening. stop hiding, stop running. >> reporter: and all of these families want to find the killer. they want answers, they want justice. but in the meantime they're also planning funerals. ethan chapin's funeral is happening as we speak. cameras were not allowed inside of the service. but his mother spoke before that service. she was extremely emotional, saying that her son is one of

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tonight, brutal tactics. an exclusive cnn investigation tonight revealing that protesters in iran are being beaten and even raped for standing up to the regime and challenging iran's moral laws. police are using sexual violence to suppress, demoralize and in some cases blackmail protesters. the mass protests which have been happening for months now began after the death of mahsa amini, a 22-year-old woman who was arrested by iran's so-called morality police for failing to cover her hair properly.

we have an exclusive investigation. >> reporter: over these mountains is iran, a regime that has succeeded in cutting many of its people off from the outside world. but disturbing stories detailing the authority's brutal retribution, systematic sexual violence against antiregime protesters have begun leaking out. we've come here to the kurdish region of iraq to try and find out more. this is hannah, not her real name. a kurdish-iranian woman recently smuggled out of iran. she fears for her life. after taking off and burning her headscarf on the streets, she was arrested and detained by iranian intelligence officers. >> they choose the women who were pretty and suited their appetite. then the officer would take one of them from the cell to a smaller, private room. they would sexually assault them there. >> reporter: hannah isn't only an eyewitness. she also was violated.

>> i feel shy talking about this. you can still see what the policemen did. look here on my neck. it's purplish. that is why i'm covering it. he forced himself on me. >> reporter: then a fight broke out with another protester, drawing away hannah's attacker. hannah and others could hear screams, and they believe a woman was raped in an interrogation room. hannah sketched out the police station as she remembers it. she estimates 70 to 80 men and women were together in a main hall that accessed four private interrogation rooms. it was in these interrogation rooms, she says, that she was assaulted and others were raped. cnn was able to locate the police station through gio location using key landmarks. it's in the islamabad neighborhood. based on the testimony and speaking to a number of sources a pattern of repression comes

into focus. police centers used as filtration points, moving protesters from one location to another, often families left not knowing where their loved ones are held. one iraq based kurdish military pack identified over 240 people who they believe are missing within this maze of detention centers. human rights organizations believe the number is higher. in the thousands. some of the victims as young as 14. many are men supporting female protesters. their punishment as severe as the women's. >> translator: they brought four men over who had been beaten, screaming intensely in another cell, and one of the men who was tortured was sent to the waiting room where i was. i asked him what all that screaming was about. he said they are raping the men. >> based on witness testimony, cnn chased the location to an iranian army intelligence

headquarters voiced here by a translator, a 17-year-old boy sent cnn a voice note following his imprisonment. we are withholding his name and location for his safety. >> translator: when a security guard heard me discussing the rape of the other inmates, he started torturing me all over again. they tortured, raped me from behind. >> even as authorities visited sexual violence on protesters, regime figures accused female protesters of prostitution, of quote wanting to be naked. of the incidents of the sexual violence against protesters, inside iranian detention facilities, most occurred in the kurdish majority areas to the west of iran. home to a historically oppressed minority. disturbingly, in some cases, the rapes were filmed and used to blackmail protesters into silence. there has been a real escalation where female protesters are, as you can see here, being openly assaulted.

often sexually. but the violence against women like the protests are not confined to the kurdish areas. they are often focused on locations where the protests are most intense, like here in the capital, teheran. one of these stories is armita's, a typical 20-year-old on social media, sharing her love of animals. in social media posts appearing under her name, abasi like many young women in iran criticized the regime openly after the protests began. unlike most, she did it without anonymity. it didn't take long for security forces to find and arrest her. abasi disappeared. soon after, whistleblowers began to post on various social media platforms. medics sharing eyewitness accounts of what had been done to abasi. first of all, they say, there

were a few plain clothes men with her, and they did not let her out of their sight, even during a private medical examination, they were there. she was my patient. i went to her bedside, they had shaved her hair. she was scared and was trembling. when she first came in, they said service rectal bleeding due to repeated rape. the plain clothes men insisted the doctor write the rape was prior to her arrest and after this issue was becoming obvious to all, they changed the entire scenario all together. the details of these leaks were confirmed to cnn by an insider at the hospital where abasi was brought to be examined. in a statement the government said she was treated for digestive problems. the medics who treated her said that was not true. the iranian regime denies the rape, accusing her of leading protests, an allegation which could see her face the death

penalty. at this usually busy border crossing between iraq and iran, it is deceptively quiet. those who can cross tell us the noose is tightening on protesters. authorities have for decades used sexual torture against iranians and it appears once more a familiar pattern. sexual violence deployed to enforce an assertion of moral guardianship. iranian authorities have not responded to our requests for comment. they continue to try to erode the telecommunications system to stop stories like the ones we showed getting out. what is important to stress that people are finding ways to tell us these stories. they are finding ways at huge risk to their lives and the lives of their families to tell the world what is happening to them. >> thank you so very much, bringing those stories to the world. next, the first image of jay

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