bases in iraq. they had a buy run civil aviation authority telling them quote, we will not give the black box to the manufacturer or america. so many questions for them. maybe a neutral country. we'll never know what is going to happen. kennedys next year tomorrow. kennedy: president trump says he wants peace. but they are iranians, they are still furious, and their missile attack was just a slap in the face, so our way back from the brink still on the edge of war? as you know military lost a bunch of missiles that u.s. troops stationed in iraq. sixteen entitle, for fail before impact. fortunately no u.s. or i rocky troops were wounded. and check this out, before and after pictures of one of the bases that was attacked. today the pentagon sang the strike was definitely meant to kill americans. for society u.s. was tipped off to the launch and troops

were able to find shelter. that's a good thing because the missile said here's some billy buildings on the airbase the michelle attack was on retaliation for a drone strike on iran's top general, but he has since fallen apart. today president trump said qassem soleimani had it coming. >> soleimani's hands was drenched in both american and a rain and blood. he should have been terminated long ago, by removing soleimani we have set up powerful message to terrorists. if you value your own life you will not threaten the lives of our people. as we continue to evaluate options in response to iranian aggression, the united states will immediately impose additional punishing on sanctions in the iranian regime. these powerful sanctions will remain until iran changes its

behavior. speedy five the president also says he hopes this is the end of hostilities. >> to the people and leaders of iran, we want you to have a future and a great future, one that you deserve. one of prosperity at home and harmony with the nations of the world. the united states is ready to embrace peace with all who seek it. i want to thank you and god bless america. thank you very much. kennedy: oh yes, god bless america. that's not enough for some democratic lawmakers and candidates. >> it's a reminder when donald trump is taking us and that is right to the edge of war. >> i'll make the iraq war look like a picnic. it is. >> it is imperative that the commander-in-chief think they're all the applications of his actions. but unfortunately that is just not his nature. >> we should not be responding disproportionately that

elevates the conflicts, and tension in the region. >> it's created more problems than it solved. >> cowboy diplomacy did not work and in iraq it will not work. and iran. kennedy: so what is the strategy here i will at work? joining me ten nights and u.s. army resume of lieutenant colonel who was once deployed to iraq in 2006 and knows a bit about that place. lee zeldin is back in welcome back congressman. there has been some mixed reviews and those briefings the congress where you stand? >> the house briefing went fantastic. i was out in the center briefing but on the house side of thought is a great briefing there's a lot of great questions asked and answers were given. it is important to point out that even if there was no briefing, i will have to tell you as far as what i know of qassem soleimani killing over 600 troops and wounding

thousands more in the embassy attack, and that list goes on, i already knew enough with open-source information to justify in my opinion taking him out. but it was still good to have that top-secret setting to get additional info. kennedy: so what did they tell you the house was a tell us? [laughter] >> you would ask, the best part about you kennedys you'd probably follow-up i did tell you. as far as what has been told inside that briefing is top-secret. i can share, but of what i would encourage the administration to do, not just today but in the days that follow, whatever information that can be shared, if there is any that could get declassified, that they do that. kennedy: the president can declassify that information. >> sure and there are some sources and methods regarding evidence collection especially in this case that you don't want to give up because going forward you would not want to lose that access to that

intelligence. you would not want to put certain assets in harms way. and you would want to be able to get additional information as time goes forward. but where you can protect those sources and methods, it is important to tell the united states citizens as much as possible as is much as they can. kennedy: i think we can afford to be transparent we are mature country. we can handle some facts without hiding behind the cloak of sources and methods, because often times that is so opaque and is used as more of a clutch than in actual necessary justification. but let's talk about where we go from here. we know that this news cycle and this attention span, it is faster and shorter than ever. and it is conceivable that we could move past this conflict with iran by next week. so then what? >> why think it would be fantastic if we were able to

move past hostilities instantly while you and i are talking. tomorrow there is going to be this debate on the floor of the house of representatives for house democrats want to pass this war powers resolution, essentially to punch the president in the face. the worst-case scenario that they were saying they were fearing didn't play out by a longshot. and as you just pointed out in your opening bit, there is no u.s. casualties or coalition casualties whatsoever as to what the eye iranian foreign minister says is a conclusion. so hopefully that is all done going forward. i wrought has a decision to make, its people for the most part, would prefers stability, peace prosperity and security. kennedy: i think that universal lawyer for persian as well and the americans, they want peace, they want prosperity they do not want war. it is costly, deadly, and horrific. so should we have zarif come

to the un? >> ironically february 2016, where it might be low personal for me as i remember filing a visa application to go to i iran within congressman pompeo and then share the cia subcommittee, he attacked the three of us back then. there's a little bit of irony with him whining about his visa application to come to the united states. as well as being dialogue between our two countries, i think that is important. i think were we had early warning in regard to the attack, that saved lives. kennedy: do you think they'll attack again or do you think this was that? >> i hope not but i don't know the answer to that. the point you just made about persians generally and how they view their country, their future, their people, they were gmail that's in charge

they will oppress those people who want freedom, security, and stability. they even talk about democracy. those millions of other eye iranian's who will take to the streets. so ultimately it comes down to decisions that may not have been made by this i iranian regime. kennedy: why help us if one good thing comes from soleimani's death, that is the oppressive regime falls apart and i iranian's get the leader they want and deserve of their own choosing. and not someone we put in place over there, because that is not our job. i appreciate you doing your job and asking questions and paying attention to the whole thing. so for some of it as it is still confusing and nerve-racking. thank you congressman. the president only blame iran for the showdown. >> i rancid hostilities substantially increased after the deal was signed into

thousand and 13. the missiles fired last knighted us, and our allies were paid for with the funds made available by the last administration. kennedy: , but president obama's former secretary of state jon kerry, why the long face. he was the architect of that nuclear deal. and he said quotes i think it's a tragedy for the world that instead of diplomacy this administration has rushed a confrontation. if this develops into eight hits for tats increased efforts will become a war that is meaningless and did not have to happen and would be a war reckless war of choice. that would be by the president of the night states. that is not you jon kerry. that on capitol hill members of congress attend classified briefings today hungry for background info on the president's plan. democrats left the briefing quite angry. >> my reaction to this

briefing is it was sophomoric and utterly unconvincing. i calmly from this briefing really angry, deeply dissatisfied. >> it raised more questions than it answered. >> president trump assassinated soleimani he had no evidence of an eminent attack. kennedy: is the left wise to pounce on the president's iran dealings are they just blowing partisan smoke? let's meet tonight's party panel and talk about it. with god's townhall editor and fox news contributor katie pavlovich along with attorney danielle mclaughlin, and townhall.com political editor and hosted a guy benson show it is guy benson. welcome everyone. so jon kerry says this is tragedy. i think you could argue jon kerry has done more harm in

the iranian realm then his boss or the current president. >> yes jon kerry in the obama administration didn't norma's damage not just to the eye iranian situation but to the region. jon kerry has been running diplomacy by meeting with iranian officials behind president trump's back. when he is questioned about he justifies it said the iranians should just wait out the american president ms anti- american to do that. the truth is the obama administration in the iran deal took sanctions off just like soleimani. he had u.s. sanctions off him and they took it off due to the iran deal. the obama administration never asked for his travel ban to be enforced, so he was traveling all over the middle east. and the un stood by his solemn mommy backed by the obama administration has been engaging and genocides of thousands, hundreds of thousands of people all over the middle east. separate him to criticize now and say that america under the president now, is the aggressor the situation just is not true. kennedy: and obviously it's a

very complex situation that goes back several administrations and you could argue that not one of them has gotten it right because it is so difficult and there is no one clear answer. but it is rich that democrats have now had turned into an antiwar party when they had no party with what happened in libya and with a number of civilian killing drone strikes under president obama. >> there is a very clear difference we noted jerome strike in an isis fighter or low level terrorist. kennedy: oil wedding party of innocent civilians. speedy. >> who was a second-in-command of a nation state. this is not osama bin laden is different onto the international rules, it is under different under international law on its musk bigger ricin take out obama. speedy five you think of president obama had called for the assassination of soleimani do you think democrats would be outraged and want to

curtail his war powers in the same way? >> this is always such a political hot spot. i think back to syria when obama went to congress and said look i want to bomb this facilities after he killed a thousand syrians with the help of soleimani. that is a war crime. and republicans refuse to give it to him told him it was beyond his. [inaudible] congress has the power to declare war and "after words" when he didn't do it because he thought he might be impeach and they threaten it, they told him. >> he also into the uk and lost his leadership because of that. >> neither mom is very popular. >> there are many things to say about this whole issue. one thing that is sticky and mycroft. kennedy: what is a crock? without a will and grace. [inaudible] speedy. >> i actually didn't watch

will and i like that you assume i did this. kennedy: you're too young. >> senator blumenthal is outraged by this briefing today, he seems like he is concerned about a rush to war and i feel like this is another lie he could lie about. [laughter] if you spend much of your life lying about having served in a war, you should just sit out war debates for the rest of your life. kennedy: i agree with you. this think about lying to not get into a war. >> multiple presidents have done that. speedy. >> this is not president trump region warned ironic was a very specific target word troops have the authority to be there. so first thing the second thing is soleimani and all the iranian proxies that we are serving under him and carrying out his terrorist attacks all over the middle east, and elsewhere, he was hiding by the iranian flag and using that as a state government official so that people like

president obama would not go after him. he used it as a shield. [inaudible] kennedy: what about when they are funneling millions and millions of dollars to terrorist organizations and helping other leaders in states gas their own people? can you have it both ways? i don't know maybe you can. >> this is what president trump said when he was talking about bombing historic sites. he says that they will do all of this why can't we? there's a reason the american people are part of the country that is the force in the system of nationstates. and it's of course because we abide by the laws and international law, we don't scale. kennedy: that is most clumsy moral equivalents. by the way i completely disagree with what the president tweeted in words on digital platform. i disagree with that notion.

i don't know how much it betrayed his actual intent, but it's not the same thing as a person who is responsible for the death of thousands and thousands of civilians. but please know that there is a difference between damn thing the president says and soleimani actually helping to kill. >> i'm not disagreeing with you kennedy but we have a system of rules. >> and we abide by them. >> why is the iranian terror list leader soleimani operating in iraq? and the guy who is behind this guys also operating iraq is in a terrorist. kennedy: we have to wrap this up as we have so much more with the panel because they are bright. coming up libertarian leaning senator rand paul and mike lee's say they are furious over the rush to war. they say none of this is

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kennedy: welcome back house speaker nancy plus he told the american people bold that impeaching president trump was an urgent matter. in fact so urgent that she is already waited three weeks to submit those impeachment articles to the senate. she still hasn't handed them over because of their urgency. but that was not lost on fellow democrats and suiting dianne feinstein he reportedly said it's time for nervous nance to hurry up and offense purchase" the longer it goes on, the less urgent and becomes. so if it is serious and urgent, send them over. if it is not, don't send it over. i will send my chinese chauffeur to pick it up. because he was a spy, that's fine. policy told congressional democrats she plans to hold the articles of impeachment until senate majority leader

mitch connell outlines the term for trial. but cocaine mitch was not high on the idea and just said the house speaker's just looking for leverage in all the wrong places. but like en vogue, she is never going to get it. those were mitch's words, it exact words a big en vogue fans. settlements policy give mitch mcconnell something he can steal or is she going to hold on ♪ ♪ the panel has returned katie daniel guy, they are as attractive as they are brilliant and they are very attractive. so danielle i will start with you because there democrats who said come on lady, their democrat senators saying okay i get it, you are the queen bee in your house hi, this is the upper chamber. >> that's right nancy plus he has no jurisdiction over the senate she cannot force them to do things she wants him to do. if i was her i would reopen the impeachment proceedings and call bolton's bluff. let's see if he's going to do in front of the house instead

of trying to. kennedy: can they do that can they go back on. >> lee is clinton in 1999 in a lot of ways to set a precedent. but there's very little in the constitution about how this thing actually plays out. so i think if she really wanted to do it. kennedy: she could get freestyle. maybe not a total freestyle but maybe party like it's 1999. but maybe she should go back to the house. kennedy: tells the real story guy. >> i think she maybe had this cockamamie idea in the back of her mind that if she me impatient was withheld there would magically be some leverage in the press would go after this. but clearly she does not know much about mitch mcconnell, he does not give a crab about any of that. he has his whole team behind him in the senate. look up the democrats in the house i would love to hear from john bolton, if they could've at least tried to subpoena him which they did not. in if they are saying this was our entire democracy depends

on the racing through of this process, it is so, so urgent that we have to do it by christmas because of whatever. kennedy: because it's an emergency. >> so nancy policies i'm sitting on this for no apparent reason. >> is a calculated investigation because they already said you're not getting a documents or witnesses. they would be tied up in impeachment for a year. kennedy: it's not the same thing as eminent domain on the border, there are judges who are very happy to act and then rule on whether or not. [inaudible] >> that is the issue they didn't want to go to court and then lose and be embarrassed that they had been using the talking points that the white house wasn't cooperating and had no authority and they were issued in a cover-up. but now they try to put this on the senate and made the gamble that maybe if mitch mcconnell calls these witnesses like john bolton they won't go to court because they will happily comply with the testimony. and mr. mcconnell's like nope, were moving on.

>> why did they need more evidence? they said he is impeached. kennedy: that's what you do devotes it pass,. >> so now they are looking for an indictment which is different than a trial. >> and if it was a trial the democrats would've lost a long time ago because it would have been thrown out. kennedy: if tyson days not running the anchor he can't similar run another hundred guys. i'm just feeling it i'm not to hand off the baton. he can't do that he be disqualified. you can't just make of rules. rules rules we have rules. >> they made a miscalculation, well they maybe they didn't and we don't know. maybe john bolton will publish a book in the aftereffect will see all of this. [inaudible] kennedy: a right panel stick around there so much motor discuss. is the u.s. attack on the soleimani justified? and would i war with iran be

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requires, and drive-by notification or after-the-fact a lame brie things like the one we just received are not adequate. kennedy: elaine, there are two issues for our lonely freedom fighters that have not been satisfactorily addressed. one, how eminent was the soleimani threats and how can you trust intel from deep stators you have been maligning for two years? and how on earth can you possibly use an 18 or 19-year-old completely outdated and deeply flawed and a nap for justification of against iran. the 2002 resolution targeted saddam hussein's iraqi is dead and it's hard to hold a wedding without the groom. and the place is really a shell of a former self. the 2001 amf was vague and dangerously so to the tune of $6 trillion there's hardly a clear bridge from selmont's intent to the actions of 911, sure qasem soleimani was a bad

guy, he is the devil. but if you want to assassinate every demon on the plans, you are going to put thousands maybe millions of lives at risk and there's no guarantee. externally displacing every king jon you are vladimir putin was stabilize the place or make it safer or more prosperous for americans. and it's pretty easy to make the case these are all awful people with the department of general. just ask the leaders. several democrats want to neuter the president's warmaking abilities by kentucky bourbon night thomas massey has a much better idea for nervous nancy tweeting quotes, she should schedule a vote on revoking the 2002 congressional amf or war in iraq in the open ended 2001 a umf for the war on terror. but i won't hold my breath. we don't want him blue in the face, but if you are firing up the unit factory, it's a hell of a place to start snipping nancy. and that's the memo. noted war hawk, lindsey graham

blew off mike lee and iran paul's concerns with this little clip. >> i think there is a lot of concern about a game plan, what we do next. but you know they are libertarians. kennedy: damn skippy rand paul fired back that was against the constitution of our family fathers and making light of it. mike lee reiterated the white house refused to answer questions about the eminent attack they say is about to take place. so do iran and mike have a point? they usually do. joining me tonight constitutional studies and cato supreme court review elite's shapiro's back. to be back. so you can go ahead and split the difference. i think eminent do that i am with what i what you describe is the kentucky bourbon night tom massey. i think the problem

fundamentally is with these open ended authorizations that are going into two decades now and that's the be-all and end-all of it. this strike was not an expansion of the military theater theater or launching missiles or anything like that. this was attacking an enemy commander who has american blood on his hand in the theater of war where there is authorized use of force. so out the grand strategist figure all of that out implode back and all of that, but as a matter of law i think this was a justified strike and militarily i am with david french, no trump acolyte ran against him. david french almost won michigan. [laughter] >> well anyway he has a good analysis strategy aside wisdom of the action it might be working out now. who knows. but on the legal side whether it's legally justified on a tactics perspective i have no

problem with this and i celebrate the death of this great terrorists. kennedy: i celebrate his death as well i hate king abdullah in saudi arabia, and qasem soleimani might have the blood of 6 million americans but the saudi royal family has 3000 plus american spirits are we justified in taking them out? they cited 2001 umf. >> of someone as a military commander and they are going into iraq or afghanistan for that matter, where they are authorized to act militarily in ways and they are plotting in various ways, i think that would be justified. now expanding a theater doing other things no. but this is a clear, legal way of attacking a military commander. if you're going after the plain of world war ii is fair play. kennedy: okay so i think you're onto something though along with massey that the

rules do feel outdated. they don't feel right. so why has congress, both parties been so hesitant to take back their own constitutionally given power. >> it's a book passing at the same thing is that for looking at domestic law and giving power to administrate agencies. this way you can say well, we are authorized were giving a blank check to the president if he does something bad it's not on us. we want him to do good things but he's the one that screwed up. so congress really needs to take back the reins of power, it's not through the war powers resolution which is itself a questionable constitutionality, but it's through authorization of forces. the other day declarations of war which has become passé. kennedy: where we are going to go to war we should declare it. and that's only rights. i don't agree we should go to war, but if the rules are this problematic, then hey man. >> and look i stand with mike lee they should be debating

the propriety of these actions. and they should be briefing the senators and congressmen than a lot better than they did today. and we don't want to get emotionally intense and upset and i'll take him at his word. kennedy: billionaire michael blumberg has run a campaign unlike any in history. he's blasting the airways of nearly a hundred and $70 million worth of great ads. he says he doesn't have any intention of even debating the other democrat candidates. which they are not too happy about. elizabeth warned us that bloomberg is skipping the democracy. stier said bloomberg should be willing to debate his ideas and bernie said he's trying to buy the election. but isn't bloomberg just playing by its own rules? the party panel is back katie, guy, and daniel. so katie i will start with you because this is a very progressive group of people, and michael bloomberg is trying to act like a progressive, he is saying a

people donate money to your campaign, you are beholden to them. you are just buying their support. is not antidemocratic? >> it goes both ways. to all the candidates are going to the process, going to the primary, they have been in it for a long time and along comes michael brumberg and he doesn't want to have any part in the debate are campaigning in places that are important on the ground where they have been working for months. and they are arguing he is buying the election. he is arguing they are buying votes by having people donate to them. so i don't think it really works out. i think it's to his detriment that is not debating democrats because he does when the primary he's going to have to debate donald trump and he will need practice. kennedy: he doesn't just buying a bunch of ads, that never tells the whole story. and you're not really challenged in the issues that face this country and they are very grave as we have seen. they deserved to go through that. >> i'm still not convinced that people's performances and debates really move the needle

when it comes a primary campaign. even with elections and they say hillary clinton won the three debates out of three but she did not win the election. kennedy: but she was also not likable. >> anyway, what i think we are losing sight of here is the big problem democrats really face of the things that they want to fix this corporate money and not the individual donors. kennedy: like a giant corporation such as a bloomberg news or pixie or whatever or bloomberg? >> if they want to change the system. >> are even a support bloomberg? >> or wine types,. [inaudible] >> they are really good at leading and if they want to look at finance they should get into power to make legislation that will. kennedy: know michael bloomberg is just circumventing finance because the zoning to himself. >> but it's not working.

kennedy: so will he be the nominee? >> always pouring all this money's sake it is very risky path, his only path and the reason he's not in the debate is because he is not qualified. so he says i'm in a skip all the early states i'm gonna spend all this money and super tuesday states, and we'll see what happens. i think it will fail we will see. i think there's too much campaign finance craziness. the whole buying the election over and over again voters show it's not that simple. >> and small donors translate into grass roots. so the reason birdie sanders is getting so much money is because they're small donors and they are the most interested groups of people on the left in terms of attitude and wanting to get out and vote. kennedy: and they don't feel like they are buying his affection they feel like they are participating in his message. that's an emotional connection. >> there is no michael bloomberg movement. kennedy: every morning around

630. [laughter] [laughter] kennedy: early bird gets the billions. we think they're doing wrong? [laughter] aren't the state of illinois legalized weed on new year's day and almost every pawnshop sold out despite the crazy high prices. is this the free market glitch or will the state destroy the industry with ludicrously high taxes. jonathan ronning is live in chicago their areas. ♪ we would only hold on to let go ♪ ♪ ♪

kennedy: illinois legal weed industry off to a booming start. stores across the state reportedly sold out of almost everything. but good high taxes send everyone back to the black market? on january 1 stores opened with lines two hours long, keep in mind for weed taxes.

they sent prices higher than the customers in the store, and that sayings on them. she would let the free market dictate that cost or will everyone eventually go back there to their buying and selling what they've got. joining me tonight from chicago capitalist pig hedge fund contributor jonathan honing is here. >> it has been horrible known as working anymore in the entire state of illinois there's these huge clouds of marijuana smoke 3040 feet everybody says pass the duchies on repeat. first of all it is not decriminalize its not legalized it is decriminalized and that's an important and positive first step the government still limits dispensaries who can know them and where they can operate. but surprise surprise, there is demand out there. $11million in just the first week, and that's a good thing kennedy. just like marriage, the stigma is changing. with interracial marriage of psychotherapy in the 1960s

and the whole stigma around cannabis is changing. and people are realizing just like booze or cigarettes, it's a part of life for adults. and illinois is one of the first to lead on this issue. kennedy: yes prohibition is already has so many awful unintended consequences paid chicago should know that just about any place. but even in california, they have a very robust cannabis growing industry. most of which is off the books and in the black market because it's a lot cheaper for people to buy weed from a non- dispensary because they have taxed the living crab out of it. that's a problem for everybody. >> that is a problem they're really shooting themselves in the foot. certainly in illinois. sound like they decriminalize the herb, the chronic because of individual rights reason spread they don't think people have rights. they want the money as you said. and 40% tax on cannabis products means that people stay in the black market.

kennedy: absolutely that is where it has been. it's not like cigarettes which started legal. and the marijuana has been proliferating in a black market. it is a natural place for it to stay. and that's were lawmakers, we should point out illinois the first state to pass cannabis recreational cannabis through their legislature and not to the ballot measure. >> is an imperfect solution but you have to give this often time edge is less up legislature some credit. the governor actually commuted a lot of those pots. kennedy: i appreciate that connection between justice reform in the end of cannabis in the state of illinois. a lot of these places have a lot to learn from other states success and failure. >> in five years i think it will be legalized nationally and for adults that's a positive thing in a free country. kennedy: will it should be for those of us who are allergic

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kennedy: 60 minutes is now reporting the police have yet to interview the guard who found jeffrey epstein dead in his cell.

apparently the cops can't afford hillary speaking fee. [laughter] that's an unfair gig. and this is the topical storm. topic number one, we begin tonight in alva cookie new mexico where the buses have to fight their ways through traffic. beep beep beep. kennedy: look at that that is real is that a video from prom night? say what you want about albuquerque transit but they do not tolerate people getting on without their ticket. they paid full freight to ride the express when you get stuck in a headlock. nobody can explain what started in the bus brawl but cops are questioning and ghost whisperer and a federal bikini inspector. at least that's what it said on his hatch. police are also trying to interview a guy was eating a

box of cheese it an and drinking the drivers refusing to talk. 2million people have watched video of the passenger pummeling which they are calling is a major embarrassment. but oddly enough every story is about the movie cats. critics gave cats a one and a half in music ♪ ♪ topic too. i name your kat epstein. the week after new year's is normally pretty tame, but an oklahoma airbnb owner got stuck with the real party animal. oh yeah, look at this fellow. talk about beer in houses pretty smashed to the front door of the airbnb because he thought it meant to bed and bambi. yeah. but it turns out the only place to find a girl named bambi is at a strip club which unfortunately would be filled with the bow hunters, rifle hunters and hunter biden.

gotta spend all that ukrainian cash somewhere. [laughter] i was going to make another hunter biden joke, but we will take a pregnant pause. i know a lot of boys and girls at home might be concerned the deer got hurt and i'm having to report that not only is the deer fine, the owners of the airbnb are defined too. infect businesses through the roof because their breakfast menu now includes venison omelettes. they only cost a couple bucks. [laughter] topic number three, we now had the colorado were driving for amazon is a breeze. oh, wow, we all know working in amazon blows but this is a bit much. at tractor-trailer spun off at side of the highly nearly jack knives and if that weren't bad enough that took two rescuers two hours to get there because the driver did not have a prime membership. according to the reviews people who liked that joke also like snare drums and rubber chickens. traffic shut down for an hour because the crash sent

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