and time warner. it is up 12%. that is a planes company, buying that. >> the broadcasting system, cnn. >> and warner movie studios, neil: i do not remember a time we have seen $200 billion in deals. i can never remember, the at&t talks to acquire time warner, $70 billion combination, the viacom cbs rumor, a $60 billion combination, and the remaining

state from reynolds american, that could be a $50 billion combination. to put this in perspective, this is friday going into a weekend, this is just one industry, king players in multiple industries combining multiple businesses. it is eye-popping, it is huge. in this political season i guarantee it is going to be an issue. the latest with nicole pedallides. nicole: an exciting friday, merger monday, this friday we are facing huge stories, we begin with this one, at&t is an advanced talk to acquire time warner and it could open as early as this weekend with the wall street journal, the whole thing could fall through, the deal could be $70 billion, time warner stock surging before

11:00 a.m. volatility and the stock surges, we are seeing time warner at 13% moving to the highest levels in 50 years. at&t has been trying to reshape its business. over the next several years changing what they do, turning into a media powerhouse, directv last year, that is a $48.5 billion deal. you mentioned viacom and cbs exploring a deal, potential merger, verizon, yahoo deal may be set back but that is something we are watching. other cable providers to the downside but if we look at the media companies, they are seeing a boost on the heels of this deal, you see viacom up 30%, 21st century fox up 3%. back to you.

neil: thank you very much. ancillary deals for verizon, whether that ever is to fruition. if you were to include lesser deals, $10 billion. it is a record price we had never seen ever in wall street history, so many deals, and this big ever. i cannot stress that enough. never, ever, ever, ever. a lot more coming up. meanwhile, in north carolina today, pushing the rigged election. we have republican party chairman joining us now. the election is rigged, the voting could be rigged.

in your state coming up in 2000 always perpetual fears of process is flawed. >> the election system in florida it is relatively safe. we are a paper ballot system, and we feed those into optical scanners on closed networks not connected to the internet. we can re-create the election of paper ballots. we are seeing inconsistencies and things that are cause for concern in the state of florida. neil: like what? >> look at what is happening. we have a democrat primary that was clearly rigged by the outcome if hillary clinton is the nominee. bernie sanders would have had to have won by an average of 59-41,

just -- we are seeing the project veritas videos. there are shenanigans going on. the florida democrat party on behalf of the hillary clinton campaign. and count the votes registered in the state of florida. that is unprecedented, scary to create chaos. we are happy the judge shot down that lawsuit but you have to ask why did they ask the judge for that in the first place. neil: you see the danger in going in ahead of time to generate across-the-board. in states that are run by republicans, it presupposes corruption. is that a wise position for mister trump to take? >> is letting everybody know to be vigilant.

there are inconsistencies in e 36 or 37 cases of voter fraud. those are the only people who got caught. i believe mister trump knows how important it is to keep the integrity of the electoral process in place and at the end of the day should he lose i believe -- neil: does it depend -- it depends on the size of the lawsuit if that is the case. if it was a big one he might have no choice. >> the reasoning why he is doing this, at the end of the day we believe in the electoral process, we believe clearly, a predetermined outcome, we are going to make sure we work as hard as possible that he comes out the winner and won't have this issue. neil: thank you for taking the

time. we do appreciate it. i want to go to governor haley barbour of mississippi, republican party honcho, his take on this. do you think it was wise on the part of mister trump to even signal that he might not accept the election results after people cast their ballots. >> i ask a specific question about chris wallace, and i wrote down what he actually said, i will look at it at the time. chris asked a couple times, pushed him the last time, i will tell you at the time, keep it in suspense. there was nothing wrong with

what he said. looking at it at the time. albert or challenged the election. we didn't know who was going to be president for five weeks. nobody criticized him for that because the liberal media love him. donald trump, a lot of people love to hate him. everything he says. neil: many in your party have chastised him for not clarifying things, given the experience of 2000, given the forces in 2004 bemoaning problems in the state of ohio and the problems they would have won, should he have provided some context to that? >> every time this election is not about issues, not about the conditions in the country, not about obama's policies and failures of those policies, not

that obama's third term will be hillary. there will be more government control over our lives, more government control over the economy, more taxes, more spending, more debt and deficit, anytime we are not talking about that, i will take your question that way. and caused by obama's policies, 65% of people in america think the country is going in the wrong direction but the news media doesn't want to cover the part of substance of what do we do about the economy? two simple visions, hillary clinton says for the economy we need to redistribute wealth. she never talks about growth. donald trump says we need to grow the economy so more people can have better jobs, he is exactly right. we have the weakest recovery since world war ii. during the recovery, after the last deep recession ending 1982,

the reagan recovery, economic growth in the first eight years was over 41/2%. in the obama administration 2.1. think of the different our country would be today if we had economic growth in the obama administration like a reagan administration twice as much growth. this would be a different country. the real issues instead of what did donald trump mean by look at that when the time comes. neil: many in your party are aware, jumped on donald trump, what do you think of them? >> i will vote for donald trump. my mom raised my brothers and me and said life is a series of choices. of the choice is hillary clinton and donald trump and one of them is going to be president i will be for donald trump. as simple as that.

do i approve of everything he says? i don't approve his position on everything but you don't have to agree with haley barbour on everything. i don't expect anybody to, donald trump or anybody else. he is much less dangerous for this country than hillary clinton. we know what we will get from her. i mentioned the third term of obama, socialist economic policy, like bernie sanders, supreme court you won't recognize the constitution in five years and the supreme court will affect the country for my grandchildren's entire lifetime. neil: you are not sure about hillary clinton. always a pleasure, thank you very much. haley barbour. updating you, we are looking at a friday with a record number of deals. committing to the weekend, we are talking at&t with time warner, viacom closing something with cbs, british american

tobacco getting the rest of what it doesn't own, going on about verizon, half a dozen deals under $10 billion, north of $200 billion, we have never gone into a weekend with that many potential deals in play and my buddy gary says, i am quoting here, asinine money, no organic growth, to make yourself bigger, part of an easy money bubble. he said absolutely. kids at home come up with your own.

stuart: neil: we focus on these developments because the day after donald trump is getting criticism of one sort or another in the debate about not accepting the election results and this on the heel of the dinner, a lot of things that would be more than humorous, the media pile on was on. that is the kind of stuff that might get attention, i believe in fletcher, north carolina, the polar pretty tight. when he goes to that microphone we will go to him. something you don't hear as much press coverage of his wikileaks and the latest data, these ones involve pretty big figures involving morocco. peter barnes with the latest. >> one reported email from huma aberdeen to john podesta is about foreign donations to the clinton foundation and hillary

clinton's role in that. to be clear, clinton set up a conference in morocco a year and a half after leaving the state department and months before announcing her campaign for president, not while she was secretary of state, she announced in 2014, scheduled for may 2015. in january 2015 four month before announcing her campaign for president her aides raised questions about the event am a aberdeen respond to the condition upon which moroccans agreed to host the meeting was her participation, hillary rodham clinton was not part of it, meeting was a nonstarter, the clinton global initiative wasn't pushing for a meeting in morocco and it wasn't their first choice. this was hrc's idea. our office approached the moroccans and they 100% believe they are doing this at her request was the king has

committed $12 million both for the endowment and supporting the meeting. it will break a lot of china to back out now. clinton created this mess and she knows it. her husband went to the event, no comment from the clinton campaign with the clinton foundation. neil: did morocco give the $12 million even though she didn't? >> it is listed as a donor on the clinton foundation website, but the amounts are not specified in those disclosures. neil: thank you, peter barnes. in north carolina we are waiting to hear from donald trump, we will fees on these developments and he has effectively, a lot of these development, proof that hillary clinton says one thing and means quite another.

the media focuses on what he has to say, considered out of turn. the latest comments in a so-called friendly venue, the ultimate dinner just weeks before the general election, and comments that were inappropriate. a lot of you will come back and say the media, both sides seem to hate me and i am okay with that. in the meantime i am okay with saying this would we are looking at a record proposed merger friday. the deals are back in town. we will outline them. i am not really glad. i am just tolerating it. tomorrow, a special cost of freedom kicking off at 10:00 eastern, it will be consummated tomorrow. i think cnbc will be skilled.

neil: welcome back. to quote donald trump all these deals, $200 million worth being proposed on a friday. unbelievable. i have never seen anything like it has a lot of you are saying you get a lot with my life is been devoted to these numbers. i cannot believe it. so many deals, so little time. the finest brains on this later on. to take advantage of an opportunity to see it low interest rates or new change on pennsylvania avenue but must see something. they are bidding huge sums of money on getting it done. why are you doing this?

ask your self that question. i don't want you to do it right now. do it in the commercial break. it is a lot of money, almost as much money as you have, close. we are on that and also on hillary clinton and this issue of only taxing the rich guy. grover norquist has been approaching the numbers. hillary clinton is not just going after the rich guy. anyone making 250 grand a year doesn't add up and furthermore, explain what you mean. >> her husband made the same promise and broke it when he had a gas tax. >> he rescinded it and talked about the middle-class with potential hype over the gas tax.

>> this is something politicians say when they are running for office. usually until they are in office they change their mind, obamacare had seven taxes, middle income americans, hillary before she hit the election has already said i will never tax anyone who makes less than $250,000 but when asked if she would sign a bill to tax everyone who makes less than $118,000, bernie sanders, wage tax, she would sign that, so she already made it clear she will tax middle income people $118,000 all the way down to 0. she endorsed a soda pop tax when asked about it in pennsylvania that it was a great idea. you don't have to be rich to drink soda pop. she has attacks on guns and

refused to walk it back when asked. something you don't have to be rich to buy a gun. neil: they come back after hearing you say we were talking specifically about federal income tax hikes and sticking to a pledge not to raise them for those making less than 250 grand a year. you are right with these taxes, but even that, does it allow for sustaining itself. and bernie sanders was saying -- and a lot more social spending. >> absolutely. she endorsed bernie sanders's tax on everyone with less than $118,000 a year. her promise goes beyond income taxes but she is already made it clear she will break that.

her campaign manager endorsed a carbon tax with a tax on gasoline and everything else and her party at the convention endorsed a carbon tax and almost every single democrat, in favor of a carbon tax. her position on taxing lower middle income people, her husband did it, obama did it and she told you she will do it too. neil: george bush senior did it as well, no new taxes, you know what happened. >> we asked him to go find a new line of work. >> i do an impeccable george bush senior impression. thank you, my friend. i want to look at these deals, they are big, we are looking at a record friday, record any day for a proposed deal, proposed

deals, we are rifling through the bigger ones including at&t in advanced talks to scoop up time warner and viacom. i could go on and on. i want to go to a veteran of these things, what is going on here? i don't think we have seen so many so fast trying to close something so soon. >> it is a combination of easy money and inability for all these companies to grow their business so they have to go elsewhere. best example is british tobacco, their sales dropped in double digits, the only way they can grow is someone like reynolds who paid $27 billion two years ago so when you have low interest rates you can borrow easily and high stock prices because of low interest rates and easy money, it is a great combination to grow the

business. neil: you don't want these deals. i have another crackpot theory, you are the expert. that qualifies me. when you see so much going on, in the past, it impresses a market hit. before the 97 route. much more powerful factors in each of those events but among the things we noticed were these type of things. do you worry about that? >> yes. i study markets and one of the characteristics of a late stage market is a lot of buyouts, companies jumping all over each other to make themselves grow before things turned down and there is a reason why at&t bought directv.

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. neil: all right, now, you've probably seen all the polls, hearing the media say call it a day, you're finished, mr. trump. imagine if the guy wins. my cardiologist is going to be on speed dial after that. i can see this apoplectic cardiac reaction. lee carter here to say you might want to step back from that, particularly when it comes to independents who were told like everyone else might have been soured on the donald. she suggests just the opposite. lee, good to see you. >> great to be here. neil: let's talk about what the knobs and everybody else tell you. what are you hearing? >> right now independents have given donald trump a second chance, certainly at the debates we saw independents respond similarly to republicans. there are few times throughout the election cycle where they soured towards donald trump.

one was during the three weeks following the conventions when he was in with the khan family and that was horrible for him. then ten days of the allegations by women and the video from billy bush, that soured them. what independents are telling me, not necessarily i like donald trump, i don't like either one of them, he's a fighter who's going to fight the system and i don't think the system is working for me. neil: what about female independents? i know i'm slicing it here. are they of the same mind-set? >> there's a big division between married females and unmarried females. unmarried females are breaking for hillary clinton. married independent females are willing to give donald trump a chance. it's an interesting divide. i'm not sure why it is. it's something trending the last two to three months. neil: in one of the states, namely arizona, 20% of the electorate was deemed undecided.

i don't know whether they were independent or whatever. can't be that high, right? >> absolutely fascinating to see these numbers. important states, up to 22% undecided voters, and i think it's possible because what i'm hearing in conversation for the voters is that they really don't like either candidate, and it's a matter of who is going to be the lesser of two evils and who do they believe is going to work for them and fight for them. all of the wikileaks where it seems like hillary is in the pocket of big government, where the pay-for-play accusations, she is not liking a lot of folks, catholics, christians she's gone after in the e-mails, that is make people say i don't want that. neil: that's assuming they hear it. not been quick to pounce on that. >> they are hearing these things, they don't trust her necessarily, they don't trust donald trump. it's allowing for the vacillation people are saying i don't know what i'm going to do. they are seeing traditional conservative republicans saying

i'm not sure i can vote for donald trump. and they're undecided too. neil: i can't see them not ending up voting. >> interesting, i have four ministers in my family and talking about congregations are saying i don't know how to vote this time. it's either voting for him or her, what do i vote on? what they're coming back to is issues, what matters to me is pro-life, standing up for the country. this is an election not orbits are surprised to say actually, voters saying i don't like either one so i have to look at issues now. neil: is there enough of that undercurrent to turn the numbers in donald trump's favor? >> i believe that there will be. neil: really? >> and i think we're looking at a situation similar to the brexit situation, people are afraid to say out loud they want to leave because it was seen as lowbrow. it was seen as you weren't smart. neil: xenophobic, you are an idiot. >> the issues that are most important like immigration,

like national security, like the economy, like jobs, they're all breaking towards donald trump, and people are saying i'm not going to vote for donald trump. at the end of the day people pull the lever who they think is going to do the most for them and donald trump wins on the issues. the problem is he has people who have them scared. the label that hillary clinton put on him as dangerous is sticking. neil: i'm old enough, long before you were born, young lady, i remember with ronald reagan they said the same thing. you don't want to give this guy the nuclear football. he's the wild card. he's crazy, an idiot. blah, blah, blah. i know he and trump are different in a lot of ways. but the same dismissiveness turned around by poll time and the debate, helped the one and only debate. a lot of people wouldn't admit they were supporting ronald reagan. a lot of people won't admit they supported donald trump. back to what i asked you, are the numbers there, especially

in swing states to reflect that? >> so i think the path is narrow. at this point, everybody agrees for donald trump to win, it's going to be like 1980 miracle on ice. right? i believe it's possible because there are underlying numbers that we're looking on, the numbers on jobs, economy, immigration, national security that could break for donald trump. the numbers of undecided, huge numbers of undecided very important statement arizona might be going democrat. 22% in polls undecided. who knows what's going to happen. this is an election like none other. what we have to look at is not just the polls, also looking at the momentum and trends and what people are talking about. if donald trump is able to convince people he's not dangerous. i'm not sure he's able to do that. he did a good job in the debate. and the next night at al smith dinner. neil: unbelievable. >> people going that's too much. does he know where the line is? he's like an egg beater, frothy.

neil: in the eyes of the beholder. >> everything is a chameleon effect. so i think a lot of folks are looking at it and saying i can't see anything what i see because we're so emotional on the election. if you remove the emotion and look at issues, totally different. neil: i live on emotions, lee carter, genius, genius. quick peek at north carolina. donald trump ready to talk to supporters there. we're going to take a quick break as we thank a lot of people in that audience. north carolina, a state that's very, very close. more after this. d. (music playing) ♪ push it real good... (announcer vo) or you can take a joyride. bye bye, errands, we sing out loud here. siriusxm. road happy.

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. neil: all right, we're watching donald trump in north carolina. we're getting word from john roberts, our fox senior national correspondent, mr. trump is planning a major address in gettysburg, pennsylvania, to talk up a

contract with america. now, you're probably hoping that cnbc will be on this. alas, my friends, they will not be. i will be with a special live cost of freedom tomorrow following these and other live developments. donald trump speaking to north carolina where polls are as tight as a tick. let's listen. >> what happens? china and russia are going to take it. i see him campaigning for crooked hillary. come on. come on. [booing] >> give me a break. strength will also require growth. right now our economy isn't growing at all. we had only around a 1% growth last quarter. gdp, a disaster. you know, when china has 1%, it's over. they don't have 1%. they have 7%. that's considered terrible. india has 8%, that's considered bad for them.

they don't like it. we have 1% and everything is supposed to be fine. but we're going down. if hillary gets in, she's going to raise your taxes and the 1% is going to be negative, and that's going to be almost unheard of. that's going to happen. i made a lot of predictions. if that happens and if she gets in, you're going to have such negative growth, you will have problems like you've never had before, and hour companies and our jobs will flee. believe me. i'm going to get us to 4% growth and create 25 million jobs over a 10-year period. [cheers] many workers are earning less today than they were 18 years ago. they're working harder and longer and making less. some of them are working two jobs and even three jobs, but still taking home less pay than

they were taking home 18 and 20 years ago. but i'm working harder too, folks. i am working harder. there's no doubt about it. i've got three stops today. we've got three of these today. we've got three! [cheers] you know, i've got three, on occasion i have four, i think i have one rest day where i have two, but these are massive rallies and we're going to do this for another 19 days. [cheers] right up until the actual vote of november 8, and then i don't know what kind of shape i'm in, but i'll be happy and at least i'll have known, win, lose or draw, and i'm almost sure, if the people come out, we're going to win, but i will be -- [cheers] i will be happy with myself because i always say, i don't want to think back, if only i

did one more rally, i would have won north carolina by 500 votes instead of losing it by 200 votes, right? if only i did. i never want to ever look back. i never want to say that about myself. we have to work. you have to get everybody you know out there. companies like carrier are firing their workers and moving to mexico. ford is moving all of its small-car production announced two weeks ago to mexico. that's on top of 2 $1/2 billion plan that they built. when i'm president and companies want to leave for mexico or other parts of the world, there will be a tax of 35% for any products they want to ship into this country. [cheers] and you know what's going to happen? because i'm a free trader. lot of people don't believe

that. i'm a free trader. our politicians have made such horrible trade deals that they're killing our workers, they're killing our companies are, and our companies are forced to move, including the fact the taxes are so high. but there will be consequences, and we're not going to lose a company in north carolina, have them go to mexico or someplace else, make their product, sell it back in here, which we will have a very strong border, but sell it through our border, and there are no consequences. and i'll tell you what's going to happen when we do this, for years our government has tried to stop our companies from leaving. guess what's going to happen? they're not going to leave anymore because all of a sudden it won't work. if they do, at least we're going to make a lot of money when they ship their products across the border, okay? [cheers] the politicians, you've never

heard this, you heard it for me over six months. for me, so simple, you want to move, good luck, enjoy the heat. let me tell you when you make your air-conditioner, you make your car, you do, this you're going to leave all those people unemployed. there are consequences, you're going to pay a tariff for a tax. hillary clinton raised countless of millions of dollars, and they're not leaving, from big donors who want to ship our jobs to other countries including millions of dollars from corporations and countries pushing for the next nafta. the next horrible trade deal. it's called the trans-pacific partnership. don't let it happen. that will be the rest of your jobs will be gone. [booing] the rest of your jobs. that's how you on system is corrupt and broken. we're going to take on big donors, we're going to take on big business and big media that have been rich themselves at your expense. and i didn't need to do, this folks, and i was part of the

other side for a long time. i understand the game as well as anybody, as well as anybody. but i saw the game and i saw it firsthand and this country has been great to me. i love this country, and i said our country will not survive if we continue to play that game. so this is always a tough thing to do but i'm doing it, and i am so invigorated by the kind of reception. look at this, to the corners of the room. [ cheers ] >> make america great again is all we're going to do. all about making america great again, we're going to do it. and i understand it, i understand it from both sides, believe me, and i think you know that. thank you. the media is so corrupt that hillary was given the exact questions to a previous debate. you remember this, right? just recently. word for word, given the questions. here are the questions. here are the questions.

nobody gave me the question. now i don't know what i do. would i turn the people in or would i take the questions? she was given the question, i think i would turn them in and say what's going on over here, i want to know was she given the goes my debate? but it doesn't matter because we won, so -- [cheers] based on everything we won. i hope that especially the last. i think the first ones, you know, was fine, i thought it was good. i mean i never did this stuff before, in all fairness, but i think we did well. i think it was good. they gave me this great commission on presidential debates. they're wonderful, except they gave me a broken mic, i'm screaming into the mic all night. i think the first one was fine and i think we won easily the second one, and the third one was our best, right? the third one? [cheers]

but she was given the questions to a debate by donna brazile, who is now under pressure to resign. she should be. she should resign, but i ask you why didn't hillary say i can't do this? i can't do this? i can't take these questions. nobody from the media is asking that question. why is it they're putting a lot of pressure on donna brazile. she was on television the other night, it was brutal. they're putting a lot of pressure on her but tell me, she handed the questions to hillary. hillary read the questions, figured out the answers, put whatever she had to do and then why didn't she say i'm not allowed to do this? years ago, years ago there was a show called the $64,000 question. does anybody remember?

don't say because it's old. really? a contestant, charles -- what? correct! how do you know it? look how young this guy is. a contestant got the questions in advance, prior to the show, and his life was ruined. but hillary got the questions in advance, and the press doesn't even bring it up. you can remember if i got the questions in advance and they found out? [booing] can you imagine if i got the questions and they found out? they would reinvent a much more sinister form of the electric chair, is that right? but i have to ask the fros find out why aren't they asking

hillary why she didn't turn in the people that gave her the answers and those questions. but this is even bigger than what we're talking about because we're playing for the presidency of the united states. hillary clinton is the most corrupt politician ever to seek the office of the presidency. [cheers] [chanting] >> lock her up! lock her up! lock her up! >> well, let's do this, let's do this, november 8th, let's win. let's win. [cheers] we win, we have lots of

options, but we gotta win. what a waste of time if we don't pull this off. you know, these guys have said, doesn't matter if you win or lose, there's never been a movement like this in the history of this country. i said it matters to me whether we win or lose! [cheers] so i'll have over $100 million of my own money in this campaign. so if i lose, if i lose, i will consider this, and the nice part about saying that, and i only tell you that because that means i'm not taking all of this money from people that hillary's taking money, right? [cheers] and you know her and her husband made $250 million. i said during the second debate, why aren't you putting 5 million, 10 million, 15, 25. i'm putting in over 100. why aren't you putting in $10 million into your own campaign. and we're fighting this juggernaut because of billions of dollars they raised, and we're fighting.

i turned on the other days, i was in florida and i was in pennsylvania. i turned on the television, it was ad after ad after ad. most of those ads were phony ads. most of the things in the ads were false. they were false. i never said it, they know i didn't say it, they have different things. i won't go into things because my people go crazy, they say don't be particular. they say talk about jobs, but these things are so false, all of these things are so false, such lies, but hillary it's ad after ad after ad all paid for by wall street and special interests, and i'm saying to myself, i think they said in florida the number of ads got to be 50 to 1 and we're tied in florida, and i think we're going to win florida. [cheers] but the ads are phony ads,

they're untrue, mostly untrue. little truth in them, but most untrue. and when you are watching television you see one of the thousands and thousands of ads, just remember put wall street on top. it's wall street. that's who paid for it or largely paying for it. now from wikileaks, she tried to get $12 million from the king of morocco for an appearance, more pay-to-play. [booing] that's why i'm proposing a path of ethics reform to make our government honest once again. [cheers] it's time to drain the swamp in washington, d.c. [cheers] those reforms include the following: a five-year ban on

white house and congressional officials becoming lobbyists after they leave government. a lifetime ban on white house officials lobbying on behalf of a foreign government. thank you. [cheers] a complete ban on foreign lobbyists raising money for american elections. [cheers] additionally, i'm going to push for a constitutional amendment to impose term limits on all members of congress. [cheers] not only will we end government corruption but we will end economic stagnation. neil: we are continuing to follow donald trump speaking to or sort of a revved-up crow north carolina where polls show the race very, very close, a big chunk criticizing the media, speaking of, which the "wall street journal" indicating it's offering a number of workers there.

the option to take buyouts. the editor gerard baker, the pleasure of co moderating a "wall street journal" debate is offering this to all workers on site, they're not specifying how many workers they hope will take advantage of this, but it continues what has been a trend certainly in the newspaper industry, a downsizing trend, there are no indications how many they're talking about here. they're seeking a substantial number of employees to take the buyouts. all right. but back on the media, that is the focus of donald trump's attacks because he says most of the attacks on him have come pretty much from establishments of media, i was talking specifically about "wall street journal," the umbrella of establishment media. a big trump supporter, as a trump supporter, do you buy that?

when you hear negative stories on your candidate, it's always the media's fault? >> well, i would not say it's just the media's fault, it's not that simple. the media have continuously nuanced the story, seen it here and from europe where i'm from. great example is the latest news that the clinton campaign was involved in creating trouble at trump events while trump was presented and the one inciting violence, and now we hear very little about what really was going on at the rallies. and who actually was behind inciting violence. very little coverage about that, it's an absolute outrage and this has actually been dominating the news for weeks and months that trump, the candidate of inciting violence, it's an outrage. neil: emily, what do you think of that? >> few candidates have benefitted as much from the media as donald trump. he received over $2 billion in

free press essentially to see his campaign and been horrific to the media. poses some of the greatest challenges to first amendment rights and banning outlets he disagrees with which is a tremendously serious threat to journalism and the tradition of a free press in america. neil: do you think, the serious journalism thing under the press is hypocritical on the issue, certainly a little smarmy, establishment media types sucking up to hillary clinton in the wikileaks eshg mails and feigning rage with donald trump when they rode the tiger all the way to strong newspaper sales, a lot strike me as hypocrites? >> the problem with donald trump is if he wants the media to focus on clinton's faults he should shut his mouth. flirting with the idea he will not allow a peaceful transition of power, that would upend centuries of a peaceful democracy in our country.

the threat he is posing is newsworthy. if maybe he didn't boast and flirt so much with the issue, it wouldn't be a problem. neil: not taking sides here, why should he precommit to something that might not be the case, right? >> i think he should absolutely say he will agree with the results of the election on november 8th. i don't think that's unusual to ask the candidate. neil: would you have asked the same of al gore back in 2000? >> there were serious voter concerns. neil: right, now we know after the fact things change, right? i'm not blaming al gore, why are you saying it's so offensive for donald trump, given that history, given that experience, given irregularities, probably the in the number to sway the outcome, but why is it okay and not now? >> he is the candidate stoking midst of a rigged election. it's not the same issue. not saying he will agree to

even the most basic of election outcomes. neil: well,in what you're saying, we see things through the prism of our bias here. the one thing i'm seeing here to once again rally supporters that donald trump is going after the media now. i think to maybe emily's point, i don't know the dog hunts anymore, it does rouse your base but beyond that i don't know, what do you think? >> well, i don't know if there's ever been a republican candidate who's had a clearer taste that the media was out to get him than donald trump. the wikileaks e-mails themselves are certified proof there are members of the press sucking up to the hillary campaign and cheering about their own accomplishments going after trump. the notion he's bringing up the notion that donna brazile working for cnn sent along a debate question, it's a big one especially because you have debbie wasserman schultz was run out before the democratic

national convention because she was favoring bernie sanders. now we have evidence that donna brazile, the vice chair of the democratic national convention was routing through the assistance of media organizations a question to hillary clinton. all of this is definitely the sheet of music that donald trump should be on, and he's a guy who's often had trouble prosecuting detailed cases like this on a national stage. he's good at the one-liners not so good at the four liners. when he's staring at a teleprompter, these are the things he needs to be reciting. attacking the press who's out to get him truly is a good idea for him. neil: what i have trouble understanding, and you're a trump supporter is whether this will get independents? whether this will get women, and i know there is a difference -- >> i'm a democrat. neil: how does that strategy and maybe we'll get the contract he's going tout line with america tomorrow in

gettysburg, pennsylvania, how will that lift them up? >> definitely not an easy task, but also due to the fact that they talk to the newspapers the "washington post" and "new york times" have endorsed hillary clinton. we see the influence in the media. it's tough for him. he's not just fighting the establishment or the parties on both sides. he's fighting the connection between the media and politics, especially those media organs heavily supporting hillary clinton. will an independent at this point be persuaded by certain of his messages, certain words he says? maybe not, maybe persuaded by the facts, and it's important that we put the facts on the table. they're very persistent. neil: thank you, we have breaking news i want to pass along. getting word that much as you noticed early in the day if you're on amazon or netflix, there were outages for different periods of time. we're told from some viewers that they continue experiencing them.

homeland security is looking into it. the catalyst could be a nation state whether it means russia, but the fact that these outages were all occurring at some of the most popular sites in the world, amazon, netflix and twitter, looking at to whether this was a coordinated cyberattack and whether russia was behind it. we'll keep you posted on that. to the idea of a rigged election and whether some of the stuff that came up when bernie sanders and hillary clinton were going at it are coming back to burn her, bernie sanders supporter says the election was rigged against her candidate especially with the dismissive e-mails the clintonites had of bernie sanders, but that's throwing the coin before the buffoon. seeing the coordination with the white house and some of these e-mails that have since come out, your worried that

fears are justified now, right? >> what we saw with bernie was not necessarily voter fraud or anything like that, but a system that was set up probably from years ago that kind of served as an incumbency prediction system, the incumbent being hillary clinton or the favorite. the democratic party set up primaries, you had a primary in new york if you wanted to vote for bernie in april of 2016, you would have had to have been registered as a democrat by october of 2015, and that's really goes against new people coming into the process, the momentum that bernie was creating, the energy he was creating, and new york was the only place that happened. and you look at open primary states like michigan, indiana, wisconsin, minnesota, where bernie could operate and compete on equal level, he won those states. so that's what we saw in the primary, and i don't think that

happens as much in a general election but that is what we saw on the ground in the primaries. neil: one of the things rally a little bit, i talked to folks like you uncommitted, they don't know what they're going to do but hillary clinton was saying one thing in a lot of the debates or said something differently in the e-mails, really against banks and big money center banks and investment brokers and the like, but behind closed doors in speeches to the same community, very friendly supported-type statements. that was something bernie sanders said let me see those speeches. now we're getting wind that worst suspicions are right, but he is still supporting her, so why not you? >> look, i understand bernie's support of hillary, i think, and a lot of us actually, for instance, i would never in a million years vote for trump, if somebody asked me the chances of voting for trump, i'd say zero. if somebody said voting for

hillary, i'd say 10%. neil: are -- i'm sorry, are you more likely to vote for hillary now than obviously donald trump, but even a third-party candidate? >> no, no, i'm leaning toward third-party candidates now very strongly. i can't vote for hillary based on many things, based on being an arab and muslim american, the way she's treated our community. everything that bern eedz in the campaign is true. the real fear i have is donald is doing a good job in rallies talking politics and turns it into a rally. much more obsessed with welcoming the story than length the politics become the story. would have come up in a general election, middle class, working class, whites that live throughout the midwest, that would have gone totally towards bernie against trump because they don't like trump's demeanor, they might be the same on policy.

with hillary they can't agree with policy and free trade and might dismiss trump's demeanor and xenophobia and go towards him, hillary would have totally destroyed donald trump on november 8th. we don't know what will happen on november 8th though it seems likely she will beat him. neil: we don't know. we appreciate it. keeping track of the merges, just planned merges announced or rumors, we've never had a day like this ever in american financial history, and i'm trying to do research during the breaks, in global history, better than potentially 150 to $200 billion in announced rumored or hoped for partnerships that possible leaked be consummated or at least made official this weekend. talking about at&t with time warner, viacom with cbs, british america tobacco with reynolds american, verizon

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the country back on talk the moment he takes office on january in 2017. should he be fortunate to win the office. this will be a compilation of everything he's talked about,

tax reform, repeal and replace obamacare, recraft the iran deal, start down the deal of recrafting the nafta deal, more on trade. he'll lift restrictions on energy to the amount he can using executive orders. he's got that five-point plan to reform ethics in washington, and, of course, as he said again today, he began to outline that yesterday. he would if the department of commerce created america desk and said in fletcher, north carolina, he'll be calling to the america desk to see how we're doing in terms of protecting american jobs and down since china's entry into the wto. those are some of the things donald trump will have on his target screen if and when he becomes president of the united states, neil? neil: interesting, john that tomorrow

10:00 a.m. to noon, the cost of freedom, including a web attack that apparently is massive and involves amazon, twitter, suffering outages with the latest on that gerri willis. >> you reported this is affecting major websites, the east coast customers. the conduit for this was dyn one of the biggest internet providers in the country and hearing the headline now in this hour i was going to say, you reported it moments ago is the homeland security is investigating this. they are investigating absolutely any potential, as you said it could be a nation state, it could be russia. we don't know. but one of the interesting facts i heard about this attack. it is denial of service attack, that's largely what we see coming from overseas, when the bad guys bombard the sites with lots of e-mails, bring them down. what i find interesting.

they took over cameras on phones. security cameras on phones. neil: get out of here. >> some of these chinese cameras, as many as 1 million chinese cameras they took and used against us. so these are home security cameras. these are video recorders that they're using against us and we've seen this where a website is flooded with traffic. neil: you can't do any, you can't purchase anything, you can't communicate, right? >> everybody in this building feeling it today. twitter, netflix, spotify. that's not even a xt list, we don't know who did this. i said russia but we really don't know who it is. neil: amazing, gerri willis thank you very much. want to get the read on all of this with paul burm who hadded up the provisional authority in alaska after the u.s. led investigation of iraq that toppled saddam hussein.

if you don't mind my getting your thoughts first, this seems to be on gerri willis's point, a coordinated large scale nation attack, what do you make of it? >> as a refugee from the 20th century i'm not the best person to ask about technical questions, but it does sound quite serious and have to wait and see what the experts say about the organization, how broad it would have to be to conduct such a broad attack. we'll have to see. neil: changed so mightily since your days, you know, trying to first of all reclaim the mantle and keep the piece in iraq. so many years ago to now the new battleground which is cyber related. increasingly seen that down to leaks of e-mails and the rest. how do you fight a war like that? does involve soldiers, what do you do? >> look, you mentioned iraq. what's going on in iraq proves

another adage which is wars are still about controlling territory, and we have a big strategic operation undergoing now in mosul because isis lost dakik over the weekend, i'm optimistic they'll lose mosul and in the long run lose raqaa. that doesn't mean isis will go away as a threat, they will have the ability to hurt us. we shouldn't underestimate the ability of controlling territories, still in the 21st century. neil: when you see the battle to reclaim mosul, donald trump said we shouldn't be in this position, we had it and it was the obama administration that fumbled it. your thoughts on that? >> the battle in mosul presents iraq with three questions in the united states with one which is relevant to your point about trump. the three questions for the iraqis are can they liberate mosul at acceptable cost?

secondly, can they put in place adequate security after they do that, and most importantly can the iraqis come up with a broad-based system of governance not only for the province but ninevah. can we pull the troops out like we did in 2011? we have to stay engaged. neil: by staying engaged, can we trust the iraqis to do this on their own? we have advisers, nothing like many years back, do you have faith in them that this time some of the same soldiers who ran the other way when isis was coming their way in far greater number are different now? better trained now? ready now? >> looks as if the counterterrorist forces which are the ones we spent the most time training and who led the liberation of fallujah, ramadi, tikrit, beigi, other towns,

they are adequate. the other part is the regular iraqi army, the peshmerga which is the kurdish army, and then the shia militia. and so far anyway, i think prime minister al abadi laid out a careful ban how the assault on the urban center will take place. he said he's not going to allow the shia militia to go in there. that's an important qualification, i think. neil: ambassador bremer, thank you very much, and thank you for your service to this country. >> thank you, neil. nice to be with you. neil: all right. ask you a economic question. say you woke up one morning and saw virtually every home in your neighborhood up for sale. every single one. yours isn't. you look around, all of them are, you immediately wonder what the heck is going on here? similar question. eye-popping deals. so many of them. a record number of them in dollar amount and sheer volume.

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neil: all right. so many big deals, so soon, going into a weekend. certainly in my long and illustrious career i have never seen anything like it. at&t in talks to acquire time warner. viacom, cbs. verizon yahoo!, consummating something itself, add them up, $200 billion. you know the drill. why some drills at same time? why so many companies at same time? why the rush right now. to charles payne, what is going on here? what is it? >> some of it, you listen to the names you're talking about, some of those old, almost

monopolistic type of companies, at&t and others. neil: right. >> i think they're trying to find relevance in a world where they're losing relevance. neil: could explain interest in cnn. i got a ton of these. >> you will be here all week. neil: but what is going on? first of all the regulatory issue but beyond that? >> larger these deals get, less there is, i think one of the things that might have added urgency this week of earnings of netflix. netflix, everyone, there was a big article it, was going to miss earnings. it would be a disaster. instead it exploded. what does that underscore? the need, ultimate combination of content and way to deliver the content that might be the perfect business model for the next, 10, 15, 20 years. neil: streaming customers? >> the customers. margins expanded again, knock on netflix they were overbuilding, overpaying all this stuff. all of sudden, new epiphany on wall street. stock up 20, 30%.

the epiphany is, we always said, cliche, content is king. content ability to own it and to be able to deliver might be the ultimate one-two punch. neil: time warner thing, rupert murdoch wanted to buy it some years back. you're paying too much. now we're talking numbers that could potentially dwarf that. >> one thing people shouldn't get confused, share price higher than when they rejected, but time warner bought back $9 billion of their stock so this would -- neil: at&t at&t spent close to $50 billion on directv the numbers are staggering. >> at&t has 100 billion in debt. only 7 billion in cash. they would have to go into deep debt. sense of your again -- urgency rates will never be this low again certainly for at&t to make this acquisition i think perfect storm has happened, at&t, knowing they made some adjustments to be relevant in

the new word but not enough. interest rates will never be this low to do these kind of things. move now, if one deal comes up, the board sitting, look other day -- neil: everyone looks around. >>crm, colin powell is on the board of salesforce.com. hacked his emails. one of the interesting things is companies they're looking to buy. there could be massive wave of merger mania, massive wave. neil: is this change in administrations or justice, ftc whoever else rules on this, does it matter? >> i would think, i would think hillary clinton would be tougher. i think she would be a little tougher, regulatorywise than say, a donald trump administration. neil: wow. >> but we have seen in president obama, he hated these deals unless there is something, again, anheuser-busch deal to me was mind-boggling considering some of the small pip squeak deals he stopped to save american companies like staples and office depot. neil: if they can save cnn might be worth it.

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neil: all right. we're getting word from our colleague in sky news in london that london city airport has been evacuated following reports of a chemical incident. that is what we're hearing, a chemical incident this afternoon. hundreds of passengers were

forced to flee the airport. this is in outside of london proper and that dozens were sickened. again, no more word than that. whether planes are still flying in and out of this airport but some have been sickened following reports of a chemical incident. we'll keep you posted on that. keep you posted on latest wikileaks news. some revealing, embarrassing comments from donna brazile to john podesta saying people are more in despair how things are going. yes, new jobs, but they are low-wage jobs. housing is a huge issue. most people pay half of what they make to rent. committee for responsible federal budget maya mcginnis, former reagan economist, diana furchtgott-roth on this.

what donna brazile is saying is different than what she was publicly saying, steady jobs gains, that is great, happened under barack obama since taking over the democratic national erns about but even almost exact hurting americans. so this doesn't jibe when her official statements. what do you make of this? >> well i think in private all democrats would agree the economy is just not doing well at all. 1% growth rate, labor force participation rates at 1978 levels. the jobs being created in leisure and hospitality, which are not high-paying jobs. education and health service, retail, everybody knows that's true. what is worse, hillary clinton's plans to increase taxes by 1.5 trillion over 10 years are not going to help the economy. they're going to slow it down, and make more businesses go offshore. so donna brazile is absolutely right, speaking in private. it would be nice if she admitted it into public too. neil: obviously the concern

there, maya, was for pace of recovery, totally stagnant pace of it. but, democrats have argued, and to their accurate credit, that it is much better than it was eight years ago. having said that, there they were wrestling with this issue of bragging about a 1% economy, growing at around that clip. which is what donald trump has been pounding. which wins out? people are kind of used to this. a lot of them look back eight years ago, it was better than it was. what wins out? >> the problem that the politicization of economics is harming this kind of debate and discussion over all. so there is no question what is going on in the economy is mixed. things are much better than when palm obama -- barack obama took over when we were on the edge of a huge recession. the growth in this country is not at all what it should be. >> exactly. >> this country needs fundamental growth strategy. that will look at policies both candidates talked about an many both of them have run away from.

neil: entitlement reform or dealing with some of these runaway government programs. >> absolutely. neil: but is that likely. diana, to you first, how likely will we see anything approaching fiscal discipline here? >> well, if mr. trump is elected president, and he, his tax plan is very similar to that of paul ryan, reforming the tax system, simplifying, lowering rate, broading the base, most importantly bringing corporate tax rate down from 39% to 15 which is below the average of oecd countries. right now we're highest. if donald trump is elected president we have a very good chance of having serious tax reform, which will bring back trillions of dollars from offshore an stimulate the economy. neil: do you think that will be the case, maya? that either of them are even remotely addressing these issues? >> no. i desperately think we need tax reform. and desperately think we need entitlement reform.

the plan donald trump would lose $5 billion in he have are you into. that would balloon the debt. higher levels of debt is economic growth. what you need is comprehensive plan look reforming the tax code but not in a way that loses revenues. in a way that generates revenues. you need to pair that entitlement reform with entitlement reform and you need to make other smart changes, shifting way budget money is spent. goes on consumption and way too little goes on investment. we need a long-term strategy. we have two candidates focused on politically-dirable giveaways, more spending, more tax cuts. hillary clinton does pay for her new spending but doesn't put anything towards the debt. donald trump would balloon it. this is recipe for harming the economy just at a time when our -- neil: but you are right, that neither are addressing fully. >> nope. neil: ladies i do want to thank you you both for taking time. i had to break for the news item. i told you now all flights going in and out of london city airport have been stopped on

talks of some sort of a chemical incident at the airport that has sickened some travelers. we don't know where this originated or what the problem was, whether its at the airport per se. a plane arrived to the airport, just hard to say. all we know flights going into and out of london city airport have stopped. more after this. (music playing) ♪ push it real good... (announcer vo) or you can take a joyride. bye bye, errands, we sing out loud here. siriusxm. road happy. ♪jake reese, "day to feel alive"♪ ♪jake reese, "day to feel alive"♪ ♪jake reese, "day to feel alive"♪

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business brief. here on wall street everyone abuzz about news of potential time warner-at&t combo. at&t wireless distribution company would purchase content of time warner, cnn, hbo, many other content and warner brothers. time warner is popping nearly 8%. in fact this is a 15-year high for time warner. you can see time warner shares as they performed over the the 15 years after the report from "the wall street journal." other cable providers down on the news with charter communications down .7. verizon compounded by crummy earnings this week down by 1.7%. media companies seeing a boost on expectations other deals might be sped up because of this. let's get you back to "cavuto: coast to coast."

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and people get on her case. [cheering] >> i have deep respect for people like kellyanne conway. she is working day and night for donald and because he is a contractor he will probably not even pay her. >> here she is tonight in public, pretending not to hate catholics. [shouting] >> but donald really is as healthy as a horse, the one vladmir putin rides around on. neil: all right. george schlatter wrote a few of those jokes, laugh-in fame, one of greatest comic geniuses the world has ever known. they are zinging each other.

neither are that funny. trump is difficult to. when the clown does a pratt fall you get a laugh. when a cripple has a pratfall you don't. donald trump is three-car accident. he says anything he wants. he says hasty lady. deport all illegal aliens. he says, don't let any must preliminaries in the country. neil: wait, a minute. wait a minute. i didn't know, great liberal-backer, comic genius, hollywood insider, not a fan of donald trump? >> oh, yeah, i am a fan of him. neil: oh, okay. >> go ahead. neil: you know i was speaking a little bit, more genteel times when candidates would rip themselves. jack kennedy famously trying to put well issue to bed saying his father wasn't about to pay for a landslide, from those -- >> that's right. neil: it has morphed into something a lot more heated. so if this is the world we live in, george, if candidates were to come to you and seek advice

on the right or the left, you're a fair and balanced spy, how would you help them? what would you tell them to do. >> you know i'm a what, guy? neil: you're a fair and balancedfy. >> fair and balanced guy. i'm really glad you're back. i'm glad you're back, neil. you're add adding a bit of insanity to a situation. i would tell both of them take a breath and stop snowballing. he is ranting and raving like a small child. he says they're not being fair to him. he will not accept the verdict. and, then, it is impossible to add any sanity to this. in the '60s, nixon said i'm not a crook, right? we had fun with that. we had fun with all of that stuff, but now, it's serious because one of these people could win. neil: but you also, famously gave richard nixon an opportunity to show another side on "laugh in" saying sock it to me.

you made him president. >> and i have had to live with that. but we had no idea it would go this far, you know. the thing last night was interesting. i mean, trump started out okay. but then he went, the wheels came off. when he said but she hates catholics. doned a, no. when he said nasty woman, no, donald, no. take a pill. neil: i understand where you're coming from. these kind of things can be eye of the beholder. many agree with you that he went a little too far but how do you advise people to make fun ever themselves without, you know, without going too far? what is that balance? what is that line? >> well it is called taste, and it is called intelligence and called restraint. okay, is it, is it mean? is it funny? and is it true? there has to be a little bit of truth. the problem that we have now with the trump in this whole thing is that even the late-night comics are having trouble doing jokes because,

when the subjects is already a joke, it is difficult to make jokes about a cripple, you know? and got to be very -- neil: concern for serious and we can't really laugh at this anymore because we're worried about where it is going? >> no, i didn't say. i didn't know, i didn't say we can't laugh at this anymore. we must laugh at this, if the answer to you are our future, one thing giving giving comics to breathe. they say the emperor doesn't have any clothes on and mentioned he is not very well-endowed. they are the answer i think, but they're having a tough time now coming up with anything that is more outrage just than he is saying. so it is -- remember in the '60s, we did a joke, and, was interesting that nobody mentioned his recent activities, you know. with these models and i was surprised that nobody brought that up because it is a very, very potent subject.

neil: all right. hillary clinton, you just gave her a total pass, a total pass. >> well, no, she did very, very well. neil: okay. >> trump pretends to be a comic. neil: i think you're blocking. i think you're blocking. i don't know why you're blocking. >> i'm blocking what? neil: i have no idea. but it was very good having you. george, i wish i had more time. blessedly we don't. thank you my friend, you're a class act. >> what? neil: george slatter. >> i'm glad our back. neil: i'm glad you're back with me that i'm back. we will have more after this. i'm serious about that. ahead. 32 years at this place and i've got 9 days left before retirement. look jim, we've been planning for this for a long time. and we'll keep evolving things. so don't worry. knowing what's on your mind and acting accordingly. multiplied by 13,000 financial advisors. it's a big deal. and it's how edward jones makes sense of investing.

neil: starting with -- look at this, 40% of americans are turned off by a lot of these anti-protests.

fantasy sportses -- [inaudible]. contributing to declining ratings for nfl. what is it? is it this stuff? >> everybody is saying taking a knee and making a statement, using that platform for personal gain. i don't believe that. people are blaming fantasy for it. people are not getting into any unt ofparticular players. money go there and cuts to breaks and commercials, taking time away from the fans i think they need to take a hard look -- neil: for people physically there? >> that's right. neil: even people watch on tv. >> same thing. cutting to breaks all the time. it is not fantasy sports. i think it is fantasy sports. neil: multiple day, thursdays, monday, tuesday in the middle of the morning. >> overload. that's right. other thing, let me ask you this, guy taking a knee, will they kick back on short fall of monies being lost? this is about business. that is the things folks doesn't understand.

it is all about money. i love what jerry jones, nfl owner of the cowboys said, right? neil: you're all going out there. >> you're all going out there and do what i say because this is my field. this is my playing ground. you are playing a role in an actor and this is my stage. neil: can he do that. >> he can absolutely and i should. neil: breaks, constant interruptions all that, i think noise around some of the, people, sit out the national anthem and all, the fact that it has grown to the degree it has, that does chafe people. >> chafes me. neil: to the degree they don't watch game, postconcussion phenomenon, but something happening here cuts to the core of the nfl audience. >> that's right. so, you have why are people getting upset? folks in the 50s and older, took survey, 40% are horrified by the fact that people are taking a knee, right? we have to remember our

generation, our fathers and grandfathers fought for this country. and aggravates us. younger demo -- neil: shouldn't be worried about -- >> shouldn't be about the ratings. neil: stick around. more after this.

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