fascinating, meg. tell us more yeah, kate. >> so we know that lead was added to gasoline between 1923 and 1996, in the united states. >> we started to learn about some of the health impacts even before it was phased out finally in the 90s. >> and we know that lead has terrible impacts on the brain, and this has been linked to lower iq. >> for example, in previous studies but what this study did was take estimates of blood lead levels from leaded gasoline exposure and car exhaust from everybody back through the decades. >> and then paired that with what's known about the connection between blood lead levels and mental health diagnoses. >> and they use that to make this estimate of more than 150 million excess mental health diagnoses that can be attributable to early childhood lead exposure and so we are talking about things like depression and anxiety, adhd but they say also sort of milder impacts that can still negatively impact people's lives. >> this increase in what they call neuroticism, a lack of

conscientiousness, the inability really to focus more on details and to to get things done. >> they say all of this is potentially driven by that lead exposure that we had for decades in the us and around the world, really. they say that the generation most affected by this would be those born between 1965 and 1980, because of how high the lead levels were at that time. that, of course, is generation x. and, kate, we know that even though we've taken lead out of gasoline, there are still a lot of sources of lead in the environment. it was supposed to be taken out of water pipes in the 80s, but if people live in older homes, they could still have exposure that way. also, through lead paint in the homes and in other places can be in the soil and in food. so it's recommended that children get their blood screened for lead at ages one and two. and of course, if anybody has concerns, they can get their blood screened at any age. kate. >> meg thank you so much for bringing us that drawing attention to it. we really appreciate it. a new hour of cnn news central starts now

so we've got brand new reporting just in on the suspect in the shooting of a health care executive. >> the new images we are just seeing from the hospital where he stayed for ten days, that's a long time. plus the item police are now trying to get their hands on. we're standing by this hour for the penultimate jobs report of the biden administration. analysts are expecting a big bounce in nearly two years. five continents and $1 billion later, the end of the eras. what taylor swift is planning after her tour that changed everything. sara is out today. i'm john berman with kate bolduan. this is cnn news center so investigators are chasing new clues as the manhunt for the gunman who killed the ceo of unitedhealthcare is still going full throttle. >> and a surprising source for

a potential lucky break. a flirtatious exchange giving security cameras a chance to capture the person of interest. pulling down his mask and smiling. authorities say he was flirting with an employee at the hospital, and she asked him to lower his mask to see his face. he arrived in new york city and checked into that hospital ten days before the murder. cnn has also learned he used a fake new jersey driver's license to check in to that hospital and paid in cash, and he arrived in new york on a greyhound bus. the route originating in atlanta, though it's not clear when or where he got on. joining us now is cnn chief law enforcement and intelligence analyst john miller. you've been bringing a lot of this new reporting and breaking a lot of this news. you you're saying that you have said that there is a new, renewed focus maybe on this backpack that he had. why is this the new focus? >> you know, they developed the video canvas that shows him going into central park on the e-bike, wearing the backpack. we knew that a couple of days ago, but then they were able

through further canvases up and down the park to catch him coming out. and they developed that video yesterday where he's not wearing the backpack so he comes into the park on a bike wearing it. he comes out of the park and a bike without it. the assumption was he was in the park. they did a grid search. they brought in a mobile field force. they, you know, blocked it out and searched the trees. the bushes and all that. and they didn't find it now, you know central park, it's a complicated terrain. >> plenty of places to hide, a lot of stuff. >> yeah, and you could miss it in the first one. so they may go back on that. but then there's a message piece, which is if somebody found a light gray backpack in central park, you know on wednesday in in the early morning hours and said, well, here's a great backpack. i think i'll keep it. they're going to want to look at that because it's kind of a unique backpack. >> it's not just like a classic backpack. you would not just a regular, you know i don't know, jansport black backpack. it was a distinctive look to it. right. >> and they know the make and

the brand and and i mean, we may be hearing more about that today and here's the the smoking gun question is is there a weapon in there. >> because that has not been found. right. >> that has not been found. did somebody pick it up? so that's one focus. >> the ability of the nypd to be able to track him ten days prior in coming to new york city. i just find fascinating what that says about the capabilities. but also, what does that say about if he arrived ten days prior? we're now 48 hours after he went on the run. do they still believe he is in new york? >> they don't. now, this is what do they believe versus what do they know? and why don't they? because you know he came smoking in on a greyhound bus. they have him on video at the port authority, courtesy of the port authority police moving through the terminal. they have developed a picture of his travels. he's taken taxis. he's going to mcdonald's. the first place he goes is the hilton hotel. so he

starts his reconnaissance on the 24th. >> first place he goes, right. >> so i mean he's getting right down to business. he's a man on a mission while he's here. but the assumption then is number one, since they've put that picture out with his face, they've not been flooded with calls from new yorkers saying, i know that guy. okay so it suggests he may not be local, but what suggests it more strongly is he came in on a greyhound bus. so the assumption is he may have just gotten on the bus going out the day of that murder and is back home. he wasn't expecting police to find that picture of his face and to blast it out. so one of the adjustments in focus we may see today is a call not just to new yorkers to say, did you see him? do you know where he is? but to push that out to the nation and say, who left on the 24th from your small town or your city or your social world and came back, you know, late this week or midweek and looks like this and looks like this. so, you know, they're going to be pushing to

get more stimulus under those tips. >> so fascinating john. thank you so much. really. thanks, john. >> all right. with us now is bounty hunter zeke unger. thank you so much for being with us. so this new picture of apparently the suspect's face, how does that change the search well, i think now there's facial recognition. >> it allows not only the general public, but law enforcement to start searching data bank using a lot of ai. and those types of formats searching internet and getting the word out there which will broaden the scope of the investigation. >> how much harder does it make for this person to hide well, again, you know, he came in camouflaged. >> he left camouflage. um, you know, these days it's a society of wearing hoodies and masks. he can blend in like a chameleon anywhere. the

question is going to be at some point he's going to make a mistake so a mistake he. >> we believe sent a message in this shooting. there were those words delay and deny scrawled on the shell casings that were used in the killing and that apparently is tied to a message within the health insurance industry someone who wants to send a message in the killing. what might they do while they're on the run well, i believe that profiling him now for a few days he's a social justice warrior and i believe that he at some point will reach out to social media to justify his position. >> um, as you know, on the internet, there's been a flood of people going, oh he did what i was thinking there's a lot of, uh, a lot of chat out there about the health care industry and people being abused by the health care industry, and i think that was his idea to bring this to the forefront i think we're going to hear from

him if we do, if he does send some message, doesn't that increase the likelihood of him getting caught? >> isn't that a huge risk to try to send some kind of a message? now not necessarily, because social platforms these days are so masked that you can send it anonymously, but i truly believe that, uh profiling him, he is definitely someone who needs to get his position out there so people understand what he has done there are so many pictures now of this individual here in new york. there's this electronic record of him. how hard is it in general to hide right now? if you want to not be found by authorities, particularly if you start in a place like new york city. how hard is it well, i mean you have a huge city. >> um, and if you stay contained and you stay

camouflaged, somebody could hide forever. these investigations sometimes take a long time. uh, usually successful at the end. some go quickly, some more timely. but i believe this is going to take a moment. but we will be successful in locating him. >> all right. day three. right now zeke unger appreciate you being with us this morning thank you very much, kate so the one senator who could hold the key to the success or failure of donald trump's pick to lead the defense department and the no comment comment from republican senator joni ernst and how the trump transition might be reading that today. >> and also, why one democratic senator says, joe biden should pardon president elect donald trump. california, though holding its breath right now for more aftershocks. look at the mess that it left behind after the strongest earthquake this year hits the northern part of the state. scientists also are saying a stronger, more destructive quake is almost certainly on the way

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check for one, but also suggested that they would be taking could be taking legal action against one of his accusers if he is not confirmed the false claims of somebody that was part of an extortion that was then, that was then put out in violation of a settlement agreement ultimately causes him to lose his future employment opportunities, then yes, that is something that is worth bringing a lawsuit against her and her friend. >> and potentially even the attorney cnn's kristen holmes is tracking this one for us this hour. >> kristen, just minutes ago, donald trump posted about on social media about what he say yeah. >> kate, this is interesting because what we know for the last several days and we reported this out last night, was that trump has been supporting hegseth behind the scenes, but a lot of it has been private. they've been speaking on the phone. he's been talking to people around him. but now he took this public and he posted on truth social to essentially say hegseth has not only made it to friday, but it looks like he's

going to make it into next week as well. he says pete hegseth is doing very well. his support is strong and deep, much more than the fake news would have you believe. he was a great student, princeton, harvard educated with a military state of mind. he will be a fantastic high energy secretary of defense. there's a typo defense, one who leads with charisma and skill. pete is a winner, and there is nothing that can be done to change that. so if you pete hegseth and you're waking up to this, you're probably feeling pretty good today particularly given the week he's had. he ended the week with no hard news but a lot of senators still concerned. and while donald trump and his team see a pathway for hegseth, i am told that the support could wane, particularly if there are more accusations. for example, one of the things we know is that there are people around donald trump who don't believe hegseth was completely forthcoming with his background. obviously, those fbi background checks will likely see some new results or possibly not. but that would have helped them in the beginning had they gone with

that to begin with. but the other part of this is that there are some around donald trump who believe that this is kind of turning into a power struggle with lawmakers in the gop, and they don't want him to give up on hegseth again as of now. donald trump clearly here voicing his public support for hegseth amid all of these accusations. >> yeah, i mean, and that is definitely noteworthy. also donald trump, as i mentioned, he's heading over to paris this weekend for the grand reopening of of the cathedral. what is what are you hearing about this trip look, this is a trip because donald trump is very fascinated with notre dame. >> it's also a trip because macron invited him. one of the things that we talk a lot about right after donald trump was elected, was one these foreign leaders trying to ingratiate themselves with donald trump rushing to congratulate him. the first person to congratulate him was macron in france. he is going overseas. this is his first real debut on the world stage. we are told he is likely to meet with a reception of world leaders, and it's a time where donald trump

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he will continue with the vetting process. >> i think that that is incredibly important. >> it doesn't sound on your answer that you've gotten to a yes. if i'm wrong about that, correct me and if that is the case, it sounds to me as if the hearing will be critical for his nomination. am i right about that? i think i think you are right i think for a number of our senators, they want to make sure that any allegations have been cleared and with me right now is cnn political commentator alyssa farah griffin, who was also the press secretary to the defense department during trump's first term, which is what other jobs as well, which is particularly relevant here, of course, when joni ernst says that, what do you think it's a noncommittal listen. >> the senators are largely doing what they're supposed to. they're advising consent roll. they're taking the meetings they're asking him questions, and they're not showing a lot of leg on whether they're going to be. >> he's not a no she's not a yes, exactly. >> and she's critical because this is someone that a lot of senate republicans would love to see. donald trump pick if he

were to pull this nomination. she's someone who would get bipartisan support. she's beloved within the pentagon through her post on armed services, she deals with pentagon officials regularly. i think that, honestly, as much as the more scandalous allegations are what drive the headlines, the real worries i'm hearing from senate staff is just a simple qualifications. it's a 3 million plus organization. it's an 80 billion plus dollar budget 800,000,000,800 billion. it is the hardest organization to run in america. and he would be one of two people on the planet who could deploy the us military. so i think if he runs into significant roadblocks, it's more because of his lack of qualifications specifically for the job. >> and if you talk about if you talk about the past, some relevant past allegations to exactly that point are that he has been accused of financial mismanagement of two, especially compared to the pentagon, relatively small veterans organizations. >> exactly. we used to joke in the pentagon that $10 million is a rounding error because the budget is so big so somebody

who doesn't have financial management skills or has had past issues, that is not a person you could put in the most expensive organization in the us government. >> you have talked about how, just as you said here, that joni ernst would be a slam dunk for to head up the defense department. marco rubio even ratcliffe, he's he's talked about as well, even ron desantis. you've said the same. yet this morning we see donald trump has posted just minutes ago his it's his first public support that we've seen from him in recent days. for hegseth still why do you think that is. >> listen trump's got to be with his nominees until he's not is kind of how i interpret it. and like if what will ultimately in my prediction happen if hegseth doesn't go through and get confirmed is senators are going to go to him and say the votes simply aren't there, give us another option. we're going to get that person through they're not going to make it. donald trump's problem because that is that is what happened to matt gaetz, right? >> it was the it was the math isn't there. and you didn't have donald trump leading that

charge. >> exactly. and and the math is not matching for pete hegseth. and i don't see how he could overcome the hurdles on kind of qualifications alone. listen, he's a veteran, but he's never run an organization of this size. he'd be young for the role and then add to that, you've got these allegations that are hard to look past i want to on this. >> i want to play for you. hegseth attorney tim parlatore that we everyone knows very well. he was on cnn. he was on with caitlin last night and he not only said that hegseth name has been put forward but has been given over to the fbi for an fbi background check. he also then leveled a threat against one of the accusers who've leveled allegations against pete hegseth, saying that they would take legal action if hegseth is not confirmed. let me play this for you the false claims of somebody that was part of an extortion, that was then that was then put out in violation of a settlement agreement, ultimately causes him to lose his future employment opportunities, then, yes, that is something that is worth bringing a lawsuit against her and her friend. >> and potentially even the

attorney parlatore says she is free to speak because one question was, is she still bound by nondisclosure? >> confidentiality agreement. what do you say what do you think of that? >> listen, there are jobs in the federal government where you can, frankly, have these kind of past allegations, and it would be fine it won't affect your work. the pentagon is something where we look for people of the highest moral character who can't be exploited by our adversaries china, russia, iran are watching to see who the secretary of defense is. and if there's stuff they can dig up for blackmail purposes, for exploitation purposes that's dangerous. that's why those jobs go to the highest level of vetting. and i think that it's going to be a real problem for hegseth there's also this new reporting that there is serious discussion going on within the biden white house right now of considering offering preemptive pardons and or legal aid to people who might become targets of donald trump when he comes into office. >> the way our reporting is, is biden's senior aides inside the white house have been deliberating for weeks about the possibility of issuing preemptive pardons. this is

with source familiar with the discussions. people like liz cheney, who was on the january sixth committee, of course, adam schiff anthony fauci, who have been targets of donald trump's over and over and over again what do you think of that coming from the outgoing administration? >> i have very mixed feelings about it. i think it will probably be more widely received in a positive way than perhaps the hunter biden pardon. i think people are weighing how serious they have to take donald trump's threats and concerns about retribution. we all remember the first term. he said he was going to go after hillary clinton. he never did it. he's going to come in with a herculean task on securing the border trade, foreign policy. the world is on fire. so i think a lot of folks are trying to weigh like what's actually necessary. >> that's a great and that is an important point because it's not like donald trump was quiet about what he wanted to see happen to hillary clinton before he came into office. he's also not been quiet at all. what he would like to see happen to the people i've just named out coming into office, i

mean, but also running on the i am your retribution, right? >> i don't want to be pollyannaish about it. it's my personal belief knowing donald trump, that he's not personally likely going to target those people but who gets into rolls with the capability of doing that? that is what matters, because that's where personal vendettas on his behalf could be carried out into this. >> you now have another democratic senator, john fetterman, saying that he agrees and thinks it would be appropriate that biden even offer to issue a pardon and offer a pardon to donald trump fetterman said this to you on your show on the view just yesterday what would that do? i mean i'm asking questions. >> we don't have answers. i thought it was fascinating when he said it. listen joe biden could do it as the sign of trying to bring people together and unite the country ahead of, you know, what was a very contentious race, an election. um, i listen, it won't be received well by democrats. i could see it actually making some republicans who are diehard trump supporters be like okay, they're willing to play ball with us. they're willing to at least acknowledge that if he's going to say hunter biden's or indictments were politically motivated,

perhaps he's acknowledging that about donald trump i don't know what i'd advise him exactly, exactly. >> we are not you are not in the position. exactly. that's the one thing we could say about today. it's great to see you good to see you. thank you john. >> all right. we got breaking news just moments ago. a brand new jobs report and after a lousy one last month, a pretty good one. let's get right to cnn's vanessa yurkevich. what are the numbers? >> these are the numbers. this is a very, very strong jobs report for november. >> rebounding from october's dismal numbers, 227,000 jobs added the unemployment rate ticking up slightly. >> but that's not always a bad thing. it means there are more people in the job market looking for jobs but i want to turn to october if we can because that's when we saw about 12,000. you see, the unemployment rate there. that's when you saw about 12,000 jobs added in october revisions. we got that in this jobs report showed that actually it was 24,000 higher. but you're still you're still talking about only about 36,000 jobs added in the month of

october. we're going to say that's a blip because we had the boeing strike and we had the o es, which essentially employers maybe were not hiring, but also not reporting that they were hiring during that month key areas of job growth traditionally, what we have seen health care, leisure, hospitality and government, those are the sectors that added jobs in the month of november. what does this mean for the federal reserve? we always talk about them when we talk about jobs. well, this paves the way for potential cuts. their next meeting is in december. so they're going to look at this in november. and say, okay, this was strong maybe october was just a blip and we can sort of forget about that and move forward. i think one thing to note, though, is next year we're going to start to see maybe tariffs come into play, immigration reduced immigration. those are things the economy and immigration have helped spur job growth. if those two things change under the trump administration, these

numbers could look different and the fed's decisions could look very different. >> obviously, a very very strong run of numbers right there to be sure. all right vanessa, thank you very much kate. >> let's talk crypto let's do it. >> let's do it. >> fell on the back i mean like that's what phil reacts to apparently. >> and now he goes back to sleep. crypto traders rejoicing bitcoin is trading above 100,000 for the first time ever. this week. investors are betting on president donald trump, president-elect donald trump being a real help to crypto and allowing it to reach even higher heights. but harry enten has been running some numbers around this, and he's obviously here with me. um, how well is crypto doing? let's start there. >> yeah, let's start there with the simple question of how well is crypto doing. >> all right. >> this is the change since election day and the baseline right is the s&p 500. it's up 5% since election day. >> why does it keep doing that? >> i think it's because my sleeve is actually dragging and i don't like you i don't like you going bitcoin is up 41%. so

way above. but dogecoin which i think a lot of people haven't heard of, it started basically as a joke about a decade ago. that's up 167%. obviously doge the doge caucus, everything the doge administration leading elon musk i think that's part of the reason it's up, but not all of it up. 167%. so the bottom line is this kate bolduan, no matter which cryptocurrency you look at, you see massive growth compared to the baseline of the s&p 541%, up 167%, versus just the 5% of the s&p 500, which is where i actually park my money. >> exactly. and people would say, that's very smart of you. why are people buying crypto? i mean, is it is it it's just fun to do so right now. is that where we are? >> is it just fun to do so? i mean, the bottom line is this they're not making it. they're not buying it to make online payments or make payments in person. just 5% of folks buy crypto to make payments, which is actually what i think the original idea might have been to do with it what they're really doing is they're buying it as an investment, right? 93%

of those who buy crypto say they're buying it for an investment. they're parking their money. they're hoping that it will climb ever higher. whether it will or won't who knows? but that is what the folks are hoping for they're not actually using it for its original purpose, which of course was actually to you know, buy things who is buying crypto? >> who is buying who? >> who is buying crypto? i think there's this idea that it's losers and their mother's basements, but that is not i will tell you, it's definitely not from what i'm hearing it's definitely not the people who are buying crypto. 23% of those in the upper income bracket have bought crypto compared to 18% in the middle income. just 14% of those in lower income are buying crypto. so the bottom line is, the folks who are buying crypto are wealthy people. they do tend to be younger, but they are wealthy people and they are making a lot of dough right now even if they are buying bitcoin or they're buying dogecoin. either way, those gains since election day, in part because donald trump is coming into the presidency, have been flat out massive. >> let us see if this sustains the market tumbles and it's

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well california largely pacific northwest in general. >> we know about the san andreas fault, which runs along california. >> that that was always the fear that that would be the big one. >> there's also a fault system called the cascadia, which runs the vancouver island. it's a little bit north. that's this quake might have been from there. but this is a big wake up call for california, especially in the north. oregon coast there. this is the 12th biggest in history there. and no tsunami warnings. you know, permanent one. it was a brief one, but a good test for people to start thinking about what's my route of evacuation to high ground, because when the really big ones happen, you got maybe 15 minutes to get away from those waves. >> now, maybe 15 minutes. i mean, we've seen what a tsunami and the horror that it can bring we've there's been talk of the big one for a long time, especially along when you're talking about california is west coast infrastructure ready for something like that i don't know that there's any human infrastructure ready for

a 9.0 quake. >> and you can tell the power of a quake, usually by how long they last. a big one, a 9.0, would last about four minutes or so. there was a mega tsunami in 1700 that was so legendary that native americans told stories of how the prairie turned to ocean and put their canoes in trees, and they ran a scenario. basically, they ran computer models that if a similar thing were to happen today, they predict it would basically wipe out highway 101, caused about $70 billion in damage, and take out 100 bridges. so even in sparsely populated areas down in southern oregon, way up in northern california, where not a lot of people, that would have a ripple effect in terms of the economy and basically cutting off entire towns up there as well. uh, you can't build for that. and these are not predictable the way hurricanes are. there's no no correlation with the climate crisis with with earthquakes. we're at the mercy of these shifting plates. if they move vertically, like if two plates, tectonic plates shift like

this, that's where the big tsunamis come. it looks like this one was a horizontal shift or maybe the plates just pulled apart enough to rattle people's cages for a little bit, but a reminder that to live in paradise out west there comes with this warning as well. >> and so. and what you just said is an interesting part of it all. so much of our discussion that you and i have, you know, over the years is about the not not coming, but the current and real impacts of the climate crisis on all aspects of our life. and earthquakes. is is a unique one because as you just said, it's not that it's not that. >> it's just we're at this sort of mercy of these shifting plates beneath our feet. there's so much energy. there's a sun beneath our feet, which could be great in terms of tapping geothermal energy and powering lives from the from the heat below our feet. but with that comes this volatility on the fault lines and the ring of fire around the pacific. it goes over. i covered the the fukushima

disaster in japan after that tsunami and went to these villages completely devastated some of the most heartbreaking tragedies i've covered are elementary schools in the in the tsunami zone, where the kids couldn't get out of the way. um, that is a very real concern. but the best these coastal communities can do is have warning systems in place, text messages every modern alert system going and just try to get folks to think about where they will go. should the worst happen. >> absolutely. it's great to see you bill. thank you so much. john. >> all right. new this morning, a jury ordered a ride manufacturer to pay $310 million to the family of a teenager who died after falling from a 400 foot free fall ride in orlando in 2022. 14 year old tyree sampson exceeded the ride's weight limit by 100 pounds, but the lawsuit said information about that weight limit was not posted anywhere. the ride was dismantled in florida, later passed the tyree sampson act, which established stricter amusement park safety rules after more than five years, the notre dame cathedral

reopens in paris tomorrow. among the dignitaries expected to attend president elect donald trump and first lady jill biden. the inaugural mass is scheduled for sunday, followed by eight days of special masses and prayers. hundreds of artisans carpenters and other specialists worked to restore the cathedral after that devastating fire tore through in 2019. so now the moment you've been waiting for, maybe you didn't even know it. did you know there is a color of the year there is, and it's thanks to a company called pantone, which basically does colors for profit. they say the color of the year is mocha mousse, aimed at our yearning for comfort and harmony they say, which i think is presumptuous because how do they know i'm yearning for comfort and harmony? it is inspired, they say, by chocolate and coffee. the first color of the year was 1999. it was sky blue, apparently inspired by our yearning for sky blue kate. >> yes always. i like that brown color. it's very nice i'm not going to renovate my

home though for nearly two years. john berman cares deeply about this topic. for nearly two years, taylor swift's record breaking eras tour has been a global phenomenon. this weekend, after five continents, 150 shows and remind you there are three plus hours long, the tour and this era comes to an end. cnn's lisa respers france has much more on what is a monumental cultural moment with this. lisa, the final show is in vancouver. i took my girls to see her for the first time in toronto, a couple weeks back, and even then she even said, i've got more shows to go. she was becoming emotional. she became emotional for a couple of times during the show talking about the tour coming to an end, are fans ready for this? >> i don't think any of us are ready for this, kate. >> i mean, honestly, it's been almost two years of taylor swift giving us her absolute all we had. >> we went from ticketmaster crashing because people wanted

a ticket so much to people i've seen people out wearing just friendship bracelets just because so i think the love for taylor swift just continues to go on and on, and she is now firmly part of our culture and zeitgeist in a way that a lot of people feel like we haven't seen since, say, a michael jackson or the beatles. >> no, i mean, she is an she is a professional athlete is what i realized in seeing this show i sat down several times and i stand. my job is to stand for hours. and no, i am not singing and watching that and her team, it was. it's remarkable how she does it i will say, um with but i think this moment then offers a moment of reflection right after two years of this and the headlines that have become just taylor swift, just dominating headlines when it comes to her tour and far beyond what does this say after all of this and what she's accomplished? what does it say about taylor swift this moment and her fans? >> i think what it says about taylor swift is that what she

has invested over the years into her fandom has paid off in a way that she early on in her career, knew that the fans were the most important thing so she would do stuff like jump on social media and comment. this was way, way back she would have these listening parties where she would invite fans to come and meet her and listen to her new music and now what we see is that her fandom has increased because people recognize how very much she has given to the world. i mean a 3.5 hour concert, as you point out, is nothing to sneeze at. and what we are seeing right now is literally the end of an era this is an artist who has shifted local economies just by bringing her concert into town. she is a woman who has changed the way that we even buy tickets at two concerts. and so she i don't think we can overstate how important she has been to pop culture. and i think that's just going to continue. i think that with