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washington where the house of representatives still doesn't have a speaker. >> we've seen 11 votes over the last three days and each time publicly kevin mccarthy has fallen short despite his party's narrow majority in the chamber. >> no nominee having received the majority of the votes cast. a speaker has not been elected. >> a small group of republicans now known as never kevins is blocking his path. the california republican said talks are continuing and he remains confident. >> i think we're having good discussions. i think everybody wants to find a solution and the good thing about it is we'll work this all out in the beginning so the rest of the congress will be very productive for the american people. >> mccarthy said he's not threatening to strip committee assignments for anyone voting

against him. he's not putting a time line on his pick to be speaker. >> reporter: 11 times in a row kevin mccarthy has failed to get the 218 votes he needs to be elected speaker. it has been 100 years since it's gone to multiple ballots. it's been since the mid 1800s since it's gone for this many votes. he is not where he needs to be, 218 votes to be speaker. behind the scenes he has been negotiating. he and his allies to try to assuage their concerns, try to bring them over to his side. he has proposed a number of concessions to give them power, some of them denying him the speakership, giving them more power, more say over the legislative process. the ability to call for a vote, to oust a sitting speaker. now under the rules, one member could do that. that is down from conference rules that half the republican

congress, 111 members, have to do that. mccarthy has gone down to one member about keeping the speakership stable, the stability of the speakership assuming he gets the job. mccarthy is speaking late after the final failed vote on thursday, was confident he would ultimately get there, he just didn't know when. >> the entire conference is going to have to learn how to work together so it's better that we go through this process right now so we can achieve the things we want to achieve for the american public. so if this takes a little longer and doesn't meet your deadline, that's okay because it's not -- it's not how you start, it's how you finish. >> reporter: but even if a deal is reached with some of those dissidents and mccarthy and his allies, that doesn't mean he's going to get the 218 votes right away. there are other members with different concerns trying to work out an agreement with those members with a different area of concern. can they get there with those

members after cutting those deals? that still remains to be seen. the so if he does get this deal, he's got some more work to do which means a lot of people think this is going into next week at least to see if mccarthy can get the votes, if not maybe even beyond. manu raju, cnn, capitol hill. cnn's political analyst ron brownstein joins us from los angeles. this is extremely unusual, isn't it, in terms of the situation. it's not unprecedented. it could go for months. >> in the 19th century it did go on for months and although as manu pointed out, we have not done this in exactly 100 years. this has been building a long time in the sense that there were similar concerns once john b b boehner and paul ryan departed

the house. kevin mccarthy has had months to mollify these critics and now his answer to do so is pretty much to give away the scorecard. >> does he have a path? if not, are republicans formulating a credible plan b? >> you know, it's not clear. those last few members are unlikely to ever vote for him. the core of the never kevin movement. the question is can he simply allow them to vote present and allow him to get the mathematical majority. the big picture, the reason the republicans have such a narrow majority in the first place is because too many voters in the competitive districts last november in our mid-term election saw the candidates as extreme and now you have the most extreme elements of the

caucus using that narrow majority to demand more power and visibility to impose on the party the exact same politics that the voters rejected in the first place, and mccarthy so focused on his personal ambition is getting into them on front after front possibly at the institutional cost or risk to the republican party itself. it really is an extraordinary dynamic when you take even half a step back. >> is the frustration also growing with a group outside the 20 with the current candidate? why aren't they offering someone else up as an alternative who may be more uniting? >> it's not clear, first of all, if there's anyone in the republican party that can easily get to 218 votes but your basic question is right. i mean, the moderates -- to the extent there are at least republicans in swing districts, center right members, they largely have stood aside as mccarthy has made concession

after concession to the most extreme elements of the caucus that will increase their power and visibility and give them more leverage to find the republican party over the next two years in a way t t t highly unlikely to be helpful to those 18 republicans who are representing districts of voters for joe biden where the ones who ultimately provided the majority. i mean, the center of the party simply has not shown as hard an edge or as much ruthlessness as the far right extreme of the party and as a result you are seeing this imbalance that is setting in motion the conditions for potentially two years of a highly, highly chaotic republican control of the house. >> what impact is this having on republican voters? exasperation, frustration? >> yeah. no, we have not seen polling on voters themselves, but certainly in the conservative media that is often a gauge or kind of a window into those voters, you're

seeing the same divisions you are in the house. i think primarily republican media figures want there to be a resolution. by and large they are willing to accept mccarthy so long as he has made all of these extraordinary concessions to increase the power and visibility of the far right, but there is also an element like steve bannon, tucker carlson, that are supporting the holdouts. you know, i think you see this division. we have seen -- as i said, this has been building for years. there is a portion of the republican base that is deeply distrustful of the party's leadership, no matter who that leadership is. as groucho marks said, any club that would have me i wouldn't want to be a member. once you become a figure you depart the republican base. that is playing out here. these members who are pursuing this, who are resisting mccarthy, are from overw overwhelmingly safe republican

districts and almost all of them are election deniers. we're now on the 2-year anniversary of the january 6th riot and kevin mccarthy is going to commemorate that by making concessions to election liars and using as a character witness jim jordan and marjorie taylor greene who were singled out after voters explicitly rejected in at least the competitive races most of those election deniers on the ballot. so you almost see the inverse of what you expect as a political reaction to the vote being driven by the internal republican policies to republican conference in the house. s. >> ron brownstein in los angeles. thank you. >> thanks for having me. as ron just mentioned, today marks the second anniversary of the january 6th insurrection at the u.s. capitol.

the events of that day stand out as an especially dark moment in recent american democracy. numerous people have been charged so far and far-reaching criminal investigations are ongoing. >> u.s. capitol police have stepped up security at the capitol and supreme court. lawmakers are expected to hold a bipartisan open advance. president joe biden will mark the occasion of the white hauser money r -- house ceremony. >> on thursday sicknick's estate filed a lawsuit. >> new details from just-released court documents from a man who brutally killed four university of idaho

students. bryan kohberger did not enter a plea. >> the documents say kohberger's dna was found inside the house where the killings took place on the sheath of the knife that was left behind. cnn's veronica miracle has more on the story. >> reporter: dna evidence, a suspicious vehicle and a new witness account. critical information released publicly for the first time, dethals led to the arrest of bryan kohberger who was charged with the brutal stabbings of four university of idaho students more than 17 weeks zblag mr. kohberger i am going to advise you of the rights you have. >> reporter: he appeared in an idaho court looking straight ahead and not at the victim's family members. do you understand these rights? >> yes. >> reporter: it places the murders between 4 a.m. and 4:25 a.m. on november 15th.

according to an affidavit, kohberger's dna profile obtained from the trash at his family's home matched dna on a tan leather crime sheath and was found laying on the bed of one of the victims. the same document says one of the surviving roommates says she was awoken at around 4 a.m. and heard a voice say, it's okay. i'm going to help you and that she heard the crying and saw a figure clad in black clothing and a mask. she describes him as 5'10" or taller, male, not athletically built. he walked past her as she stood in a frozen shock phase. questions remain why no one called 911 until eight hours later. security video picked up distorted audio of distorted voices, a loud thug. a dog can be heard barking.

the document details multiple citings of a suspect vehicle showing a white hyundai elantra that helped lead to kohberger's arrest. about two weeks after the murders police from washington state university, where kohberger attended school, flagged his vehicle later seen at a traffic stop in mid december in indiana while driving with his father to pennsylvania. >> is this your car? okay. >> reporter: before the cross-country drive and just five days after the brutal murders kohberger received a new license plate for his car according to washington state licensing documents. according to investigators, cell phone records suggest kohberger's phone was near the victim's residence at least a dozen times in the last six months including about five hours after police believe he committed the murders suggesting he may have returned to the crime scene. still, no evidence was released that connects kohberger to the victims or any indication of a motive. in court today kohberger seated with a new court-appointed

attorney responded to each charge of murder. >> do you understand? >> yes. >> the attorney for the victim kaylee gonzales responding. >> it's an emotional time for the family seeing the defendant for the first time. this is the beginning of the criminal justice system. >> and the family of kaylee gonsalves hardly took their eyes off of him. veronica miracle, cnn, moscow, idaho. russia has ordered a unilateral cease-fire but ukraine is not buying it. while promoting his memoir, prince harry talks about the scuffle with his brother and a red mist. the u.s. football play er were who suffered d cardiac arrt

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it comes three days after the severe hit to safety damar hamlin. the league's planning to recognize hamlin. >> the biggest news is hamlin is neurologically sound and moving his hands and feet. the first question upon awakening, did we win? >> the news has been very encouraging as we are all up to date at this point, and just extremely grateful. >> reporter: the good news teammates and fans have been waiting for, damar hamlin showing some improvement today as the buffalo bills, head coach and quarterback are speaking out for the first time. >> today's news was -- brought a lot of tears of joy, i'll tell you that. >> reporter: both reacting to the positive news that damar hamlin's medical team delivered earlier in the day. >> it appears his neurological condition and function is intact. we are very proud to report that. very happy for him and for his family and for the buffalo bills organization.

this marks a really good turning point in his ongoing care. >> reporter: while hamlin remains in critical condition and on a ventilator, he's able to communicate with written words. one of the questions hamlin asked. >> last night he was able to emerge and follow commands and even asked who had won the game. >> to see damar go through that and to come out on the other side and still think about his teammates, that's damar. that's who he is though. >> reporter: shocking details were also shared about hamlin's understanding of what happened to him. >> he was -- expressed surprised that he had been not with the world for two days. >> reporter: doctors describing how hamlin's supportive family never left his side. >> we wish everybody had parents as wonderful as his parents are. >> reporter: hamlin's father taking time to meet with the team yesterday. >> his message was, the team needs to get back to focusing on the goals that they had set for

themselves. damar would have wanted it that way, and i'm paraphrasing, so that includes our game against new england this week. >> reporter: as for immediate next steps or hamlin's recovery, doctor's stay focused on his day-to-day progress. >> getting him breathing on his own will be the next milestone. >> reporter: a much less definitive answer from doctors about the return to the field. >> entirely too early. >> reporter: big change today. the fact of the matter to the coach, to quarterback, to doctors all seem pretty happy with how he's been progressing. he was able to write down on that message whether or not they had won the game or not. this is progressing thin a completely different way. people really believe the kid's going to pull through. ryan young, cnn, cincinnati, ohio. ukraine showing no i indication it will go along with russia's unilateral cease-fire

that went into effect a while ago. president vladimir putin ordered them to have a 36-hour cease-fire. ukrainian officials are saying this is pure propaganda and an attempt to buy time. the deputy of russia's security council said ukraine said no to the hand of christian mercy. meanwhile, these satellite images show months of fighting had done extensive damage to the eastern sea of bakhmut. russian fire pummelling the city which is still in ukrainian hands. 60% of bakhmut is now destroyed. >> ukraine is also getting more fire power foreground operations against russia. the u.s. and germany are pledging to deliver armored infantry vehicles as there is expected to be an uptick of fighting. >> the idea that putin is

showing christian mercy does give incred duty. do you think it's likely to be for reasons of regrouping? an opportunity to move troops or weaponry? or is it deference to the pow jpower? >> that was putin having good cover, political domestic cover. it's a disastrous war for him. it's unpopular. hundreds of thousands of men have left the country. it's had big military issues. this would be a positive thing for him back home. i think that's an important market for him right now. there are opportunities to say the ukrainians aren't playing fair. on christmas and new year russia was quite happy to bomb hospitals and schools and

civilians, so this is -- it's not being taken at face value at all, least of all by president zelenskyy. this is what he said about his views on it. >> translator: now they want to use christmas as a cover to at least briefly stop the advance of our guys in donbas and bring equipment, ammunition and mobilize men closer to our positions. what will this bring? just another increase in the death toll. >> so the question is obviously can you have a unilateral cease-fire? does it work? we were talking there about bakhmut. you were mentioning the pictures and the destruction. i was there in the summer, i was there in the fall as well. that destruction comes about after intense fights so imagine the russians sitting in their trenches having a cigarette or going to church as their patriarch has suggested they should do, then the ukrainians will take advantage on the ground.

it's hard to imagine a unilateral cease-fire and that doesn't work. will there be a diminution? maybe a little bit. will it hold long? not really. let's not forget putin is asking for a cease-fire in a war that he's created. it was his invasion, unprovoked invasion, illegal invasion and now he'd like to stop fighting for 36 hours. >> yeah. the okay, nick. thank you very much, indeed. a hard core group of right wing republicans refuse to support kevin mccarthy as speaker. coming up, you'll hear what some of the never kevins have to say. plus, the u.s. labor market is looking as strong as ever. investors on wall street are worried. air wick essential mist. connect to nature.

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welcome back to "cnn newsroom." i'm max foster. if you are just joining us, let me bring you up to date with the latest top stories. the nfl has canceled the game between the buffalo bills and cincinnati bengals. the decision not to resume play comes just three days after the severe hit bills safety damar hamlin. plus, the house of representatives reconvenes anew today for a 12th vote for house speaker. kevin mccarthy is making major concessions to conservative holdouts, but so far he hasn't swayed a single member of the never kevins. it's that slim minority who are keeping the house from moving forward. over the past three days 20 republicans have been voting directly against kevin mccarthy in his bid to become speaker. they represent less than 10% of

house republicans. yes, they've managed to completely grind congress to a halt. the group includes some of the chamber's most hard right lawmakers including many who question the integrity of the 2020 election. so what are their reason bes for not supporting mccarthy? let's take a closer look at what some have said. the florida representative matt gaetz, it's personal. >> maybe the right person for job of the speaker of the house isn't someone who has sold shares of themselves for more than a decade to get it. >> others like lauren boebert say mccarthy isn't making the concessions that they want to see on issues across the board. >> i will not withdraw. >> why not? >> our asks were not petty of kevin mccarthy. they were not self-serving. we simply were asking for commitments on what the american people want to see. they want to see a vote on term limits, a vote on the texas border. >> most of those blocking mccarthy's speakership bid are

part of the house freedom caucus that has caused disruption over the years. >> i don't take orders from anyone in this town. >> reporter: they have become some of the most obstructionist. >> it gives us the power of negation, the power of no. >> reporter: and antagonist members on the hill. >> fed up with the ways of the swamp and leadership telling us to vote along with a democrat agenda that is completely failing america. >> reporter: the house freedom caucus, a small but feisty group of republican rebels that have become a thorn stuck firmly in the side of republican leadership for nearly a decade. >> what i do not support is blindly supporting legislation that is critically flawed at its core because of, oh, we're in the minority. >> reporter: building a brand on challenging gop leaders, earning them various nicknames from their own party like legislative terrorists in the taliban 19.

>> being told by our own republican leadership. it's 90% good. it's 90% tasty. there's only 10% poisons and toxins in it but drink it anyway. >> reporter: the group has been at the center of some of the biggest fights on capitol hill. >> at this point it looks like we could be in for a long-term shutdown. >> reporter: making the task of governing more challenging. >> i don't want us to become a faction allized majority. >> i share frustration. about 90% of our conference is for this bill to repeal and replace obamacare and about 10% are not. >> reporter: the freedom caucus was involved in former house speaker john boehner's ouster in 2015. >> in my case on any given day there were two or three dozen what i call knuckleheads who wanted chaos. they wanted it all their way or no way. >> reporter: he stepped down

amid difficulty managing the faction. >> the people on the fringes have a bigger platform to make their points and frankly create chaos. >> reporter: later that year they blocked kevin mccarthy's first bid for speaker. >> looking for a speaker who works with conservatives rather than against us. >> reporter: having a hand in his withdrawal then against the race. >> i think i shocked some of you, huh? >> the caucus was first formed in 2015. >> do what we told the voters we were going to do. >> reporter: with founding members jim jordan. >> we all swore an oath of office. >> reporter: mark desantos. open, accountable and limited government, the constitution and the limited law. the group operates with a miss steeg. >> we would have to kill you if we told you. >> reporter: they don't publish their member list which is around 35 members and now a small number of them are again threatening to derail the next

speaker. >> if you want to drain the swamp, you cannot put the biggest alligator in charge of the exercise. >> reporter: the fight has become personal, emboldened in the culmination of this moment. >> the president needs to tell kevin mccarthy, sir, you do not have the votes and it's time to withdraw. >> reporter: cnn, washington. u.s. financial markets are looking to close out the week on a high note after a disappointing day on thursday. a stronger than expected jobs report pushed stocks lower. it shows the labor market apparently immune to the federal reserve interest rate hikes to tame inflation. >> more than 300 points. the nasdaq was down almost 1.5%. the s&p 500 loss more than 1%. >> the new trading day gets underway in five hours' time. so we can see not a great picture at the moment, but

things are moving. >> meanwhile, the european markets are up and running and here's how a look at markets across asia have been performing as well. >> on the u.s. jobs front, tech and media companies are leading layoffs in the end of 2022 according to outplacement firm challenger, gray and christmas. they announced more than 43,000 job cuts in december. that's an increase of 129% in the same period back in 2021. >> among the other companies laying off workers as they brace the trouble ahead, amc networks, doordash, facebook, parent company meta and blue apron. they plan to layoff more than 18,000 employees. >> so are american companies hiring? we'll find out in a few hours when the u.s. labor market releases the jobs report. economists anticipate that employers will have added 200,000 jobs in december. that's good but it would be a

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prince harry is promoting his new book, in case you didn't notice. he said he was probably bigoted before his relationship with meghan, the now duchess of sussex. >> what meghan had to go through was similar in some part to what kate and what camila went through. very different circumstances but then you add in the race element, which is what the british press jumped on straightaway. i went into this incredibly naive. i had no idea they were so bigoted. hell, i was probably bigoted. >> you think you were bigoted before the relationship? >> i don't know. put it this way, i didn't see what i now see. >> during his media blitz harry also elaborated on the alleged

physical altercation with his brother. after prince william knocked him down he, quote, wanted me to hit back but i chose not to. harry spoke about seeing a red mist take hold of his brother that he recognized all too well. and the son of a notorious drug lord is now in police custody in mexico. and we'll be returning to that story. we're going to chat a little bit about prince harry and his memoir. what are your initial impressions, not having yet read the book but having seen all of these allegations? >> the point i've been making is it is one sided. we're not getting the other point of view. you have to think about that. i think it's up to people to make up their own minds. the most relatable part of it is his experience growing up and being so damaged by the death of his mother and then he then brings that forward to, you know, how he was then treated as a spare.

so that compounded his sort of suffering. and america has a lot of sympathy for that. i think there is a lot in this country. also in this country, you know, the sense of reality that it is a monarchy. he was the spare and it sounds quite brutal but that is the reality of his constitutional position. but i think william was trying to help him not feel like a spare. >> yes. because he was saying how they were giving him additional responsibilities, essentially trying to beef up his role so it didn't feel that discrepancy so keenly. i wonder if that's why culturally it would be received differently in the u.k. compared to elsewhere. in the u.k. we're aware of that constitutional expectation. unfortunately, the spare will be treated differently. they are afforded more freedom, more opportunities. in some ways prince william would wish he had some of the chances prince harry had, but he had to trade that for being next in line to the throne. >> what do you make of the fact

that the royal family and never to expose, you know, these moments behind palace walls, whereas, prince harry is doing that? >> i think that's one of the elements that makes it so shocking. it's shocking, first of all, because of the content of the allegations. it's also shocking because it's unusual to see anybody air their family dirty laundry in such a public way, but especially when it goes completely against the grain of every approach we've seen. >> is he a celebrity now? is that the difference? >> it seems so. he'll be hitting some of the late night talk shows next week. we're seeing a media blitz. it's a real saturation. that's perhaps one of the contradictory elements some people are struggling with is prince harry's feelings towards the press are completely understandable because of the circumstances in which his mother died. he says in the book that he and his brother wanted to reopen that investigation because they didn't think that it was

entirely plausible. maybe oversimplified. but then if he has such strong feelings towards tabloid culture, his book, his memoir has become the ultimate material for the tabloids to dissect, to become click bait and to create that kind of salacious atmosphere in the media that he claims to have such a problem with. i think that's one of the elements people struggle with. >> they accuse him as well of using their model, which is selling stories. >> yeah. exactly. >> but he sees it differently. he sees it as his chance to put the record straight. >> but it certainly seems like it is escalating, the tensions -- >> yes. >> -- rather than doing anything to ameliorate them. >> and there will be more material for days, right away, right after colbert. president biden will meet with the leaders of mexico and canada. the. >> and on his way there mr. biden will stop in el paso,

texas, to see firsthand the crisis at the u.s. southern border. it will be his first trip to the mexican border since becoming president. on thursday he released a new plan to help alleviate the migrant surge. >> it's so easy to demagogue this issue. >> reporter: president biden moving to have confront an intractable policy. >> today my administration is trying to stiffen enforcement for those who come without a legal right to stay and to put in place a faster process. >> reporter: the biden administration announcing new plans to allow up to 30,000 migrants from cuba, venezuela, nicaragua and haiti while cracking down on the total number of people attempting to cross the border. >> this is going to substantially reduce the number of people attempting, attempting to cross our southwest border without going through a legal process. >> reporter: it's the latest iteration of a year's long effort to stem the surge with

the u.s. border breaking records each of the first two years of his time in office. >> the safe and orderly process doesn't work the way it should. >> reporter: biden for months resisted gop calls to visit the border -- >> the republicans haven't been serious at all, come on. >> reporter: now preparing to do just that with that visit to el paso. that will happen on his way to the city and also how it allows immigration authorities to drive migrants. there is a plea biden has made and he made that days after he took office. >> this is about having a safe and prosperous path when we have a fair and humane immigration

system. >> reporter: a proposal that also failed for two years to gain any traction at all in the democratic controlled house and senate. biden attempting to lay the blame entirely at the feet of republicans. >> if the most extreme republicans continue to demagogue this and reject solutions, i'm left with only one choice. >> reporter: but pledging to negotiate in good faith an issue defined by decades. >> when i sit down i'll sit down with anyone who in good faith wants to fix our broken immigration system. it's hard. it's hard on the best of circumstances. >> reporter: as president biden travels down to the border on sunday and then on to mexico city and push for lawmakers to take up some kind of comprehensive immigration overhaul is expected to be repeated when you talk to his advisers. they make clear that is a central message to push. phil mattingly, cnn, white house. china's covid outbreak is

getting worse and more countries are adding new travel restrictions. details and a live report from hong kong coming up.

germany, greece, and sweden are the latest to join the growing list of countries requiring a negative covid test for travelers from mainland china. >> videos shows crowded hospitals as patients wait for care. despite scenes like this, the chinese government insists the situation isn't as bad as it appears. beijing is pushing back against situations it's not reporting the full scope of the current outbreak. cnn's kristie lu stout joins us now from hong kong with more. it's a difficult narrative to stick to though. we keep getting these images. >> reporter: yeah, absolutely, especially in the face of mounting evidence. look, earlier today china officially reported only five new deaths caused by covid-19 for january 5th. the previous day reported only one new death caused by covid-19 and these figures are remarkably low and do not match the video, the footage that we've been screening on cnn of absolutely

overwhelmed funeral homes, crema crematoriums all over. there are crowded and chaotic scenes. this is the reason why china has been accused by the world health organization and world leaders for underreporting the scope and scale of the run away covid-19 outbreak. china says it has been open and transparent all along. let's bring up the most recent response. its spokesperson saying china has always maintained close communication with the w.h.o. and we have open communication. china's covid situation is under control. as you recall earlier this week the world health organization is warning that china is underreporting the scale of the outbreak in terms of hospital admissions, in terms of icu admissions, in terms of deaths. and the u.s. president joe biden

as well as the health ministers of france and germany have expressed concern about the lack of transparency and the quality of the data coming out of china, and that is one reason why germany is the latest company to add to the list of governments around the world imposing restrictions on travelers from china. we have an updated map that we want to share with you. germany is requiring proof of a negative covid test as well as sweden, as well as greece. the list just keeps getting longer. china, meanwhile, calls the measures unacceptable and is threatening in turn reciprocal measures. back to you. >> christie in hong kong. thank you. >> you've got it. california getting a small break after what's called a boom cyclone roared through the states and headed north towards canada. the powerful storm brought snow to the mountains, widespread flooding and hurricane wind gusts. >> the break won't last long.

right behind it is an atmospheric river of warm weather called the pineapple express. it will bring more rain to the region. we'll have more in the coming hours. before we go, after a nearly one-month pause in activity, hawaii's volcano is spewing lava again. it began thursday inside the summit crater. >> authorities say it's contained within the crater and there is no danger to residential communities. >> amazing. thanks for joining us, i'm max foster. >> i'm bianca nobilo. "early start" with christine romans is up next right here on cnn.

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