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waiting for the latest shoe to drop in the mar-a-lago documents case, but also how that fits now that the a special prosecutor has been named and the january 6th committee in the house is laying charges to recommend him and a number of his closest allies. in a moment, committee member adam schiff joins us. but first, cnn's pamela brown sets the stage. what is the latest we know about possible criminal referrals by the january 6th committee? >> i just got off the phone with a source familiar with the deliberations, and i'm told the intent for the committee is by the end of this week, they will have made the final decisions on criminal referrals. and the people they're looking at include the former president donald trump and his allies. now, i am told by the source that they're only looking at people who may be under investigation by doj but have not been prosecuted, have not faced charges. this week is going to be a very busy week for the committee, as they go over various names and deliberate on these criminal

referrals that, again, as part of these deliberations include the former president. >> and jack smith has sent subpoenas to officials in wisconsin and arizona, as he investigates. is it clear precisely what those subpoenas pertain to exactly? >> so, what we're told by sources, what they pertain to are communications between trump, the trump campaign, and local officials on the ground in these three states, arizona, wisconsin, and michigan. and the focus primarily appears to be over efforts to interfere in the 2020 election results and stop certification of the results where biden won. and so that appears to be a big focus of jack smith, the special counsel. and it just gives us a window into what his focus is on, as he is now the special counsel. and it seems to be an aggressive step to then revisit this.

and more subpoenas -- we know there have been subpoenas sent prior to some of these officials. now jack smith going a step further. >> smith is involved with the mar-a-lago documents case as well. is it clear how today's newly revealed discovery might impact that case? >> it's not. it is significant that the trump team, people overseen by the trump team, searched this florida storage unit and three other locations and in that storage unit found two documents with documents with classified markings. we don't know anything more than as to what the documents were. but of course it would be of interest to the justice department as they investigate the former president's mishandling of classified information. as you'll recall, trump's lawyers had attested to doj, signing a form saying, look, we've handed everything over that has classified information. and now we're learning that these two documents are in that storage document. i will note trump spokesperson steven chung is saying they are being cooperative and

transparent with federal officials. >> appreciate it. to the question of the former president's larger troubles, there was this today from adam schiff about the decision to consider criminal referrals to the justice department. >> the facts support a potential charge against the former president. and, you know, the justice department, in my view, needs to hold everyone equally responsible before the law. >> congressman schiff also chairs the committee and joins us now to talk about that and the latest turn in the documents case. i wonder what your reaction is to the discovery of two more documents apparently with classified documents in a storage unit belonging to the former president? >> the case for the former president just gets worse and worse and worse. you have the archives asking for the documents, not getting them all or not getting them all. you have the fbi asking, fbi subpoenaing. you have a search warrant conducting and they still didn't get them all. and the trump counsel apparently

representing they had done a dilige diligent search, they turned them all over, and that's not the case. and more documents are uncovered at another location. as the chair of intel, it scares the heck out of me to think about what other documents could be floating around any trump residence or anywhere else. and one final point, anderson, not withstanding the trump representation that they're fully cooperating, it sounds as if they were forced to do this by the judge in the case or those documents wouldn't have been recovered. >> do you support a criminal referral of the former president to the department of justice? >> let me talk generally, anderson, because we haven't announced our decision yet. but, look, i think that congress, when it sees evidence of criminality, particularly affecting the institution of congress, has responsibility. you know, we generally make

referrals where there's a perjury case, a witness before congress, or a witness refuses to show up before congress. here there was an attack on congress. so, to me, that goes right to the heart of our responsibilities. so, we are weighing that. we're going to be announcing our decision, i think, with our report very soon. and i think there's also a high degree of consensus among our members. i know there was some earlier reporting that members were at odds with each other. i've never seen that on this issue. i think we've been pretty consistent all along in our views. >> so, you're saying very soon. what does that mean? >> well, you know, we intend to conclude all of our work, including the issuance of the report before the end of the year. so, that means this month. precisely when this month, i'm not ready to say. but we are speeding to put the pen down, to finish our writing. and that day is coming up very soon. >> so, there's a special counsel, jack smith. as you know, he's been conducting his own investigation

into january 6th. he subpoenaed officials in wisconsin, michigan, arizona, for their communications with the former president, his campaign. at this point, do you believe the special counsel knows everything that your committee does? have you turned over everything to him yet? >> no. i don't think they know everything we know. you know, i can't go into the particulars of what we have provided or not provided yet. they will be getting everything. indeed the public will be getting the body of our evidence as well. and you know, i think, anderson, watching these -- the serving of these subpoenas recently, it ought to tell us a couple of things. it ought to tell us that the special counsel is moving swiftly. i also expect though that because doj policy prevents the department from overtly doing things in the run-up to an election, that a lot of the groundwork for what we just have seen in the serving of these subpoenas was probably laid even before the special counsel took over. but now that the midterms are behind us, they can go forward

with these oversteps of the investigation. and i think we'll see more of them. >> why not have -- why wouldn't the committee just have shared everything that they had when they had it with, you know, investigators, people who can actually bring charges? >> well, first of all, in many cases, we were way ahead of the justice department. and my feeling all along is we shouldn't have been. that is the justice department the should have been moving with far more urgency than they were. >> so, wouldn't it have helped if you shared information with them to get them to move with more urgency? >> not if the effect of that was to discourage witnesses from coming before congress or had any impact on our investigation. lt i think our investigation really did have the effect of stimulating the justice department to get moving and to get moving on more than just the people who gauged in the violence against the police officers in the capitol that say, as significant as that was. but we also have an

institutional interest. we want them to be successful. we're going to help them be successful. but it's not just not the way that congress or the executive branch operates, where one branch says to the other, gives all your files. we don't say that to the justice department. i've never seen it said to congress. we're making sure they get what they need and we want to do that to the degree there's remaining information as soon as possible. >> congressman mccarthy has threatened to kick you off the committee if he becomes speaker when republicans take control. what would that mean for you? you would essentially have no recourse. isn't that correct? >> you know, they can probably force me off the committee if they choose to do it. and what we're seeing is kevin mccarthy basically doing what marjorie taylor greene wants him to do. and she wants the retaliation for being removed because she was, you know, inciting violence against her colleagues. but more than that, i've held their feet to the fire,

including the former president. and they don't want me to continue doing it. but i've got news for you, i'm going to continue doing it in whatever committee i serve on. far more consequence, anderson, is what will they do if we have a post-presidential election in two years? will they try and do what they did before, and that is overturn the election if they lose? and to me, whether i serve on this committee or that is far less significance than what they can do to injury democracy in the meantime. >> congressman schiff, i appreciate your time. thank you. >> thank you. next on the heels of a far better than expected midterm election for democrats, the question of president biden in 2024 and his age. the raids in germany targeting suspected member of a far right group. and the arrests the made and the plans the group had to try to overthrow the german government. designed to babalance growth and guaranteed income so you can enjoy the l life you've created.

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celebrated his 80th birthday, quietly, likely because his age is an issue. "the new york times" has reported that first lady jill biden told french president macron that she and the president are ready for his re-election campaign. here to talk about it, paul bigala, and abby phillip. i should say the state dinner was last week. if the president does run in 2024 and wins re-election, he would be 82 when he takes the oath for his second term. how much, in your view, should voters be concerned about his age? >> well, if they are, they are. he can't change that. he -- i think -- has done a very good job. he's done more in two years than somebody his age could do in

four. just look at the scoreboard. how did i do? david brook, ronald reagan, everybody thought he was too old. before his midterm, 60% of americans thought reagan shouldn't run. chuck grassley just got re-elected in iowa who's 89. and he won by 12 points. i don't think people see age as disqualifying right now. >> what do you think of that? >> i think a lot of americans do see it as disqualifying and they're worried about it. i think paul is right. the pendulum has swung now. i think the dynamics of the race have changed in the last two days with the midterm elections. before the midterms, it was clear that joe biden was going to be under a lot of quiet pressure from within the democratic party not to run. and the election results in the midterm had been bad, he probably wouldn't have done it. the midterms really helped him.

it transformed the race, best midterm elections for any president in 20 years. they make it much more likely that he's going to run and the democratic establishment will rally around him. i think the argument of age will subside. there are other things that can come along. if he has a gaffe or shares a gaffe, he could go backwards. but i think tonight, as of this moment tonight, he's doing well, and i think he's celebrating and moving forward based on what paul begala just said, about how well his presidency has been going. >> abby, is there a consensus among washington democrats about whether the president should run again? >> i think both paul and david are right. there's an emerging consensus. i think a lot of democrats, i believe biden is perhaps strongest position politically that he's been since he won, beating donald trump in 2020. and the midterm elections have the huge amount to do with that. you're hearing more and more,

even biden's own most staunch critics of this generational argument that they have been making starting to say, well, you know, he's done a good job so far. and if he runs, i'll probably back him. maybe i want someone else from another generation. but so far that person has not emerged. the one complication to all of this is i think democrats feel most strongly about this if biden is running against a donald trump. if that person on the republican side is someone else, someone who is younger, who does represent a changing of the guard on the republican side, i think you might start to see a little bit more consternation. if we're talking about a ron desantis or someone else, nikki haley, i think it changes the dynamic both for biden and also for his party. but for now, i mean, i'm hearing way more contentment, frankly, with the status quo on the democratic side than i heard at

any point since biden was elected. >> how much of the president's chances for re-election, in your view, would hinge on the economy? >> a lot. and there's a general consensus among experts now, economic types, that we're very likely going to have a recession in this coming year. and i think that's going to be one of the variables. just like gas prices, we've seen it -- numbers went up and went down, how expensive gasoline was. that's going to be true in spades if we have a serious recession. so, yes, it's one of the things i think could imperil his presidency. right now he's riding a wave that's very positive. >> paul, obviously there's a lot of talk about vice president kamala harris possibly running if president biden doesn't run. is there any reason to think she would clear the primary field. >> there's no way she clears the field. i can't recall a time when the current or former vice president sought the nomination and didn't get it. she would be a front runner.

but believe me, there would be 10 or 20 democrats flooding the field. but i don't think it's going to happen. one of the most remarkable things about the midterm, anderson, it was in a time when everybody is upset. it's great time to be incumbent. it doesn't make any sense, and yet it happened. 96% of governors who sought re-election won. 100% of senators. that's never happened in american history where 100% of senators who sought re-election won. and i think what it is -- i'm not sure. i could be wrong. i think in a time of turmoil like this, they want stability. voter dos want -- abby's right in the status quo. they want stability. the fact that biden is old and experienced might be a very good thing, especially if donald trump is the opponent. >> abby, if president biden doesn't run, how messy could it get for democrats who unified behind the first african american woman of color as vice president? >> if biden does not run? >> yeah. >> i think there are a lot of people waiting in the wings here.

it's not going to be an easy kind of clearing of the field. i mean, i think one of the factors is that, you know, vice president harris ran before in 2020, and she left the race before any votes were cast in that primary. so, i think a lot of other democrats would be looking at that and saying, we as much of a shot as anyone else. but also, i mean, remember, biden is now setting up a change of the primary calendar for the next presidential cycle. if he does not run, that primary calendar that he wants to have, which would put south carolina first and put georgia in the top five states and michigan in the top five states, would help a kamala harris and it would help a candidate of color. so, i think that's a huge factor. >> david gergen, paul begala, abby phillips, appreciate it, thank you. the investigation in the attack that temporarily crippled two substations in north

carolina. details next. also german officials arrest more than two dozen people for what they say was a plot with ties to qanon to overthrow the government in germany.

days after an electric substation in north carolina was attacked, the same power company, duke energy, tonight is reporting shots fired near another substation, this time in south carolina. duke energy is working with the fbi and there are no reports of anyone harmed nor power outages. this happening days after the attack on those two substations in north carolina county. curfew and state of emergency there will be rescinded tomorrow morning. tens of thousands were initially without power. tonight, north carolina officials are offering up to $75,000 for information leading to the arrest of anyone involved. sources tell cnn that investigators were zeroing in on two possible motives, and they've uncovered new clues.

whitney wild joins me now with the latest from car thaj, north carolina. whitney, it seems investigators are focused on two possible motives centered around extremist behavior. what exactly are they looking at? >> investigators are looking at two threats, the first calls by violence extremists on social media platforms, call for attacks on infrastructure. that's the first thread. the second thread is a series of disruptions to lgbtq events. on saturday, there was a local drag show. police have not said there is a specific connection between these two events, but they are looking at the correlation here, similar timing, in a greater context of these disruptions all around the country to similar lgbtq events, anderson. >> what have investigators found at the scene? >> reporter: well, anderson, law enforcement has found around 24 shell casings here.

that's according to law enforcement sources telling my colleague john miller what evidence was collected here. that's critical for two reasons. the first is because that could help investigators figure out where the shooter was at the time of the shooting. and the second reason is because those shell casings have a unique marking specific to the firearm used. when federal officials run those shell casings into a national database, they can figure out if those shell casings connect to any weapon that was used in another shooting that has been entered into the database. and that's not just localized here. they can run that ballistic evidence all across the country. unfortunately, the high powered rifle, the heat of that rifle because it is so powerful, burned off the dna. the shell casings, anderson, are very critical. >> officials said whoever fired at the substations knew exactly what they were doing because they knew what piece of equipment to target. does that narrow down the list of potential suspects at all?

>> it certainly might. and at a minimum, it gives law enforcement a place to start. what they're trying to do now is build this from the ground up. they're looking at any possible lead, any information they can build -- they can use to build a profile here of the possible shooter is critical. law enforcement certainly trying to appeal to the public. the fbi is putting out a poster tonight asking the public for more information. they're really leaning on the public, anderson. and as more evidence of that, local officials, state officials, and county officials here are offering up to $75,000 reward leading to the arrest of this person. >> whitney wild, appreciate it, thanks. to germany, officials on their own mission to combat extremism. qanon inspired terror group, 25 people arrested, 27 suspects being sought. prosecutors say the group had active plans to overthrow the government in germany. the white house today praised the arrest.

fred pleitgen has more. >> reporter: the raids started in the early morning hours, several thousand police officers searching dozens of locations across germany, including this castle, home of the alleged ringleader, who prosecutors say uses the title heinelich 8. bas based -- conspiracy ideologies. the group is called rite burger. they're united by the hatred for

the state and the people who support our community. conspiracy theorists have a massive following in germany. in august 2020, tens of thousands, including qanon followers and right wing extremists took to the streets of berlin, praising russian leader vladimir putin, and then u.s. president donald trump. >> do you like donald trump? >> yes, i like. >> why? >> deep state. i have long-time -- and that must end. >> reporter: the crowd tried to storm german parliament that day, similar to the insurrection in the u.s. on january 6, 2021. crowds ransacking the capital with members of the oath keepers militia group playing a key role in the violence. that's another parallel to the alleged coup in germany. the -- had assembled a military

arm. this military arm aims to set up a new german army, federal prosecutors said, consisting of homeland security units yet to be built. several suspects were flown to the federal prosecutors office by pris helicopters, an indication of just how seriously german authorities are taking this attack on their democracy. >> and anderson, the german authorities are coming out tonight saying they've been observing this group for months now. they say the moment for them came when they realized they had to act. when the members of this group were no longer talking about setting up shadow ministries and councils were actually forming what they called a military arm of this group. and there are people who are legally arming themselves, some also illegally as well. the german government now treating this as an extremely high profile case. we saw there some of the suspects being flown with

choppers to the central prosecutors office. the german government says for them, this is state terrorism, and they're going to fight it as hard as they can. >> appreciate it. perspective from analyst phil mudd, former fbi intelligence officer. phil, this is bizarre. kwouf are got this group inspired by qanon and the former president and attack on january 6th. i mean, why do you think -- does this strike you as just really strange? >> no, actually i would disagree with you. it doesn't look bizarre to me. in the age of social media when people can communicate across continents, we've seen a wave of people in this country, election deniers talking about things like deep state in this country. it's become part of a dialogue in america that you would not have managed six, seven, eight years ago. if you had said deep state to you or me seven or eight years ago, i would have said i don't know what you're talking about.

what is not only fringe but unknown years ago, has become political parlance and clearly a certain percentage of people who believe that believe it is violence. i'm not surprised there are a number of people on the internet spreading this stuff. >> qanon is based on age old anti-semitic, anticatholic tropes that have been used in germany and elsewhere for centuries. >> yeah. and part of this is validation, again, going back to the internet. you're going to have a number of people who believe, for example, immigrants are bad, who believes muslims are bad, who believe that certain other religions are bad, who don't like homosexuals, who don't like lesbians. one of the things the internet does is allow people to gather in groups virtually to validate beliefs in ways they could not have validated them 30 years ago. you find someone in this country one county away or one state

away that feels the same way and you start to feel the same thing i suspect is happening in this german case where they're looking -- they arrested 25 but they're look at 50-plus. that's incredible. >> a former far right member of germany's lower house who was a judge was involved. how does that make members of government sympathetic to these ideologies complicate these investigations? >> this gets really sensitive and we're going to see this again. there's a parallel in the united states. if you ask one question, is the it appropriate for the fbi and others to investigate domestic extremist groups that want to practice acts of violence, you would say, of course, that's what the fbi does. let me change the question that would go back to president trump's rally before the insurrection and say, is it appropriate for the fbi to have informants at political rallies who are members of congress. you would say, boy, that makes me really uncomfortable.

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new tonight, cnn is learning ukrainian officials and lawmaker versus urged the biden administration and congress to give ukrainian military cluster munition war heads. the weapons were banned by more than 100 countries. russia continues to use them with devastating effect in ukraine. this is video from april in kharkiv. the request is one of the most controversial since the war began. tonight we're seeing some of the most damning effect of russia's attacks. sam kylie takes us inside a hospital on the front lines. >> reporter: wartime brain surgery in tandem, wounded in battle on the same day on the same front, two young men, the focus of these over-practiced

neurosurgeons. kramatorsk is often bombs. the windows even in here are taped to slow flying glass. the effort is intense to repair brains, to save lives, memories, loves, and future dreams. they would have little idea where to start their delicate work if they didn't have use of this ct scanner. it can pinpoint damage, find what it's done, and it gives surgeons a plan of action. he says, yes, and unfortunately, there is no left eye. there's a suspicion of damage to the right eye as well, but definitely no left eye. this is the first patient we've seen in the space of about an hour. they're supposed to do 15 or 20 a day. they're actually doing 70 or 80. in short, it's wearing out. >> this equipment is vital. the hospital can't afford a new one, but a used one is for sale in the west of ukraine, cost

about 120,000 bucks. price of losing this one, incalculable. he says, he shows signs of severe cranial energy with acute hematoma and severe brain contusion. he needs urgent surgery. the administrator heres have raised about $60,000. they need help with the rest. this is the only ct scanner in a vast region. critical, this machine is critical. ct is critical to provide appropriate care for patients with both head wounds and acute brain injuries, he says. is it saving lives? >> translator: definitely, absolutely, 100%. >> reporter: there's been a steady flow of soldiers injured in and near bakhmut. that is the scene of the heaviest fighting. this is a hospital that is trying to deal with an area

about 300 square kilometers, and a lot of that is at war. some soldiers are relatively lucky. this man was shooting mortar at the russians who shot mortars back. >> translator: my commander was lucky. he sat behind me and i sat and he was unhurt and i got hit in the leg. but, yeah, we've seen dead and wounded before. as i'm sitting here, i am lucky. >> reporter: ukrainians on this eastern front call it the meat grinder. chet was alongside duck when they were hit. how would you describe the battle for bakhmut? [ speaking non-english ] he says world war i, trenches, mud, that's it world war i and world war ii, something like that. the song, something like that. the difference is that modern

weapons are now powerful. modern surgery often the only route to survival. that, and old fashioned grit. >> sam, did the doctors express concerns for their own lives working so close to the front lines? >> reporter: the amazing thing, anderson, is that all of the medical staff i've met, even relatively close to the frontline here in kramatorsk and very much closer in the past in bakhmut, i've never heard a medic complain about the danger that they're in, not even those who are racing to the front lines to collect those wounded soldiers. a lot of those soldiers are brought in by unpaid volunteers with relatively limited medical training who are go physically to the front lines, collect the wounded, put them in a van or an ambulance, and then race them to hospitals. no, i've never heard anybody ever refer to the danger they were in, anderson. >> that's really incredible that

the ukrainian military in some cases does not have the capabilities of evacuating wounded. it's civilians going in in their own vehicles and pulling soldiers skpout getting them to medical triage. >> yeah, i mean, they volunteer. they're recognized by the military. they're sanctioned by the military, but they are people who step up to take on that role because the military is focused elsewhere. of course there are of course military medics. and indeed all the people you saw operating on the soldiers there were under military command. most of them were medics in the military themselves. as you know, anderson, from your own experiences here, there's a huge volunteer sector not only on the front line and people actually fighting, but also helping out. and particularly people with medical backgrounds and people who don't want to fight or kill necessarily but do want to do their bit. and there's an enormous network of people like that working right across ukraine, anderson. >> everybody involved.

sam kylie, thank you so much. i want to talk now with cnn military analyst with general mark hertling. can you tell us what goes into getting soldiers away from the front line and getting them the time to save lives. that golden hour is critical. >> yes, it is critical. it's a process. the first thing that normally happens is what's called buddy aid. if it's in a good unit, you have something called combat lifesavers, soldiers trained in advanced techniques. then it goes to a medic that does a triage to see what kind of condition you're in, saving the life, getting the blood flow going. if the medic can't handle it, they medevac you back to an aid station. if it even more catastrophic and you have to have to surgery, then those medevacs usually take you back further to the rear to a place called a combat support

hospital. i explain all that because this is a technique the u.s. army uses. we have trained the ukrainian army to do that. their buddy aids and lifesavers have the kits they need to including tourniquets and bandages. scott kelly, the astronaut, has donated a bunch of ambulances to ukraine to make sure the golden hour is complete. i saw the same approach attempted to be used by the russian army. they do not have the buddy aid and it's difficult to go the long distances back to their combat support hospital. >> you and i talked about this early on in the war in ukraine. it seems like conditions are clearly not ideal. conditions for soldiers in this war seems to favor ukraine over russia. >> yeah, it certainly does.

the only big difference truthfully between the ukrainian army and the u.s. army is there is an emphasis in our army placed on aerial medevac and getting soldiers out of the battlefield on helicopter. and those helicopter medics are trained. they treat on the way back to the hospitals. ukraine doesn't have as many helicopters as we have certainly, so they're relying on the ground ambulance movement, which affects the golden hour, as you can imagine. >> sources have told cnn that ukrainian officials have lawmakers have tried to provide military with cluster munition war heads, weapons banned by more than 100 countries. i'm wondering what your thoughts are on that. >> first you have to kind of describe what the munitions are. they are some type of either artillery shell, bomb delivered by an aircraft, or a missile that holds anywhere from 40 to sometimes close to over 1,000 of

small bomblets. they're about the size of a coke can. it's the equivalent of a hand grenade. what happens is those bomblets disperse overhead over a unit. the bomblets drop out of a shell and are dispersed over a very wide area. and they drop, truthly, like hand grenades. in our army, we call them dual purpose improved conventional munitions. what happens is if it hits a vehicle, it has a shape charge, the kind of antiarmor charge that will go through metal. if it hits the ground, it has a fragmentation charge, much like a hand grenade. so, it can affect both equipment and personnel over a very wide area. they are effective. but what i would say, you know, they were banned by more than 100 countries under the convention on cluster munitions. i think it was back in had 2008. i'm not sure of the year. i may be wrong. but they are very dangerous in

many cases because if they don't explode, they're left on the battlefield, children, civilians can come along and pick them up, don't know what they are. they literally look like a coke can. and they can explode. so, it causes dangers to civilian population. there is very much a pro and con on these kind of munitions. >> general mark hearrtling, i appreciate it. thanks. >> thanks, anderson. coming up, we remember pearl harbor 82 years later. and the last two remembers on the uss arizona recall that day when we come back. my name is wendy, i'm 51 years old, and i'm a hospital administrator. when i talk to patients you can just see from here up when you're wearing mask. and i have noticed those lines beginning to really come not so much moderate but more severe.

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101-year-old lou contor is no longer able to travel to the yearly memorials in hawaii but here's a recorded message. >> the rising sun on the planes told us that this was not a drill. we manned our battle stations on the relentless strafing and bombing. but the damage to the "arizona" was severe. >> the "arizona" sank, of course in that attack. other ceremonies took place today at the friends of the national world war ii memorial in washington. retired "uss intrepid" in new york. not remaining pearl harbor survivors, many enjoyed full lives and still are. frank emond played the french horn, was going to play the morning colors on this day of infamy. here he is last month breaking

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