economic issues and crime issues and the independents over overwhelmingly favoring the market. >> in this particular election, overwhelmingly gop victory would indicate a country still in love with free enterprise. >> when you look at the state of the economy today, it is going in the bad direction. third quarter, wrong direction. >> this is a forest fire of inflation.

>> we're trying to divert it. stu: new york city looking rather busy for a monday. for a second, i'm goon call it midterm's eve. check the markets dow is up 200 and nasdaq up 13 points. little green for stocks. show me big tech. the two year well above 470. now this. this is a list of what voters

consider the most important. there is one issue not on the list, i think it should be. it's an issue we've been following closely and that's the president's cognitive ability, focus and gaffes. it's not top of mind but underlies our measure of this president. stumping for governor hochul in new york, biden was heckled by environmental activists and looked confused and said no more drilling for oil. he's contradicting himself. earlier he talked about shutting down all the coal mines. karine jean-pierre had to walk that back too saying the president's words had been "twisted". today in the washington post,a lengthsy article on the president's gaffes, he just gets things wrong. he's not traveled 17,000 miles with china's xi jinping, he did not give senior as big increase in social security, he was wrong on the price of gas, he did not sign any law for the student loan handout. his handlers tried hard to

shield the president to keep him away from reporters. when he had to speak in public, they tried to keep him from straying too far from the tell prompter but right before a crucial election, they couldn't keep him entirely under wraps. by the end of this week with control of congress likely to switch to the gop, the democrats will have to decide if the president is cameable of leading his par -- capable of leading his party into the 2024 elections. third hour of varney, we're just getting warmed up. stu: well, well, just look who has joined us this morning. ace columnist from the what's post. washington post, mark teasner. welcome to the show. >> thank you, stu. when you put out a list of all the concerns underlying all that is the president's cognitive ability and his competence in

office. i think when people look back at this election, they're going to decide that the turning point was afghanistan and the withdrawal from afghanistan. that's what caused them to lose this election. if you look at the president's poll numbers and approval rating, above 50% until afghanistan and then it plummeting and never recovered because the american people made a decision this president is incompetent and when he was incompetent in afghanistan skin fellation and the economy so it spread and they made a decision that this guy is not fit for office, a large segment of the population. stu: do you think that by the end of this week, if the election was really against the democrats that the democrats will be calling for him to step down? >> so this is the interesting question is i think that's goon happen. who's the first one to do it? but they're going to start joining republican calls on this thing trying to push him out by saying he's not fit and maybe should step aside for someone else.

he didn't have a gaffe when it came to coal. that's administration policy. john kerry went to the conference in november of last year and adminsed administration policy was no coal plants in the united states in eight years by 2030. that's policy by the climate czar and biden said the quiet part out loud and reminded people of that before the election. that's competence. stu: thank you for the correction. former president trump, he called florida's governor desantis ron de-sanctimonious. is that a good idea for a former president to attack a popular governor of florida right before the election? >> no, but it's not going to hurt desantis. desantis will win by 11 or 12 points and that's why he's worried. stu: that much? >> yeah, i bet he gets in double digits in florida. even if he wins by nine, that's three times as much as trump won in florida. tram subpoena worried about

desantis. trump is worried about desantis. americans want a fighter and desantis offers the same counter punching but without the baggage and personal vendettas that trump brings and has a record of a conservative reformer and able to talk in numbers and give details about he's a policy wonk and look at his leadership during the hurricane. compare desantis' hurricane briefings to trump's covid briefings. no fights with reporters. it's pure, here's what we're doing and mobilizing this and doing that. people were worried and wanted a leader to step up and he was a commander in chief and delivered and did a great job. trump was doing great until he started picking fights with reporters in the white house press briefing room and his approval on covid plummeted. he gives you everything you like about trump without all the things you don't like about trump. stu: if desantis wins miami

dade, the earth will move. let's get back to the markets. thank you very much. we got some green. not bad at all. 230 for the dow, s and, up 15 and nasdaq up 13 points l. you have it. some green. jason katz, market guy with me this morning. jason, is a gop win good for the markets? when i say win, take the house, take the senate, is that good for the markets? >> is it good for the market when you don't have regulation? the short answer is yes. the market is sniffing it out and look at performance of energy, defense stocks, of pharmaceuticals, financials, they've all outperformed in the last week where we didn't have such a good market. make no misseating about it. this election is a referendum on the economy. and the fed can't do it alone. listen, raising rates, quantitative easing. that only goes so far. that blunt instrument goes so far. it has to come from a policy

perspective. this is a critical election and the markets are waiting with baited breath and we get a red wave, which is base case, i don't know if we'll take off and the market sniffed it out but it's the starting point for perhaps a move in the right direction. stu: which sectors of the market are you concentrating on right now that you like? >> above and beyond the normal republican sectors, i think regardless of the outcome, cybersecurity could be the most investable sector i've seen in my 30 year career. stu: why? >> because the onslaught of cyber attacks subsequent to the invasion of ukraine is unprecedented, and i speak to executives of public companies all the time. it's like 15% of their tech spend. it's a prerequisite. not just for big business, for small business, for federal government, for local government, for schools, for universities, we expect cyber spending to be nearly a 10 to 15% grower a year in perpetuity.

regardless of the outcome of this election, the presidential election, you can get down long trieding with big tech in the last few weeks. stu: i didn't know you were going to say that but say microsoft is going to bounce back like you believe, but we didn't get that . it's still all right. jason, thank you for joining us. important day. now to lauren, the movers. lauren: is china going to loosen covid zero lockdown policies or not? leadership says there's an unserving commitment to covid lockdowns. china is looking to cut the hotel quarantine from 10 to 7 days and reduce the frequency of pcr testing, move in the right direction and look at number of inflections over the foxconn factory and 1300 cases saturday doubling the number from friday. who knows. investors don't seem to believe

bejing leadership is sticking with covid zero. stu: carvana down 14%. what happened? lauren: below $7 for the first time ever. all time low and stock had been paused .t remember when it was $376 summer of 2021? it's continuing a free fall on friday, which was the worst day in history on the heels of bad earnings. deterioration in the used car market, volatile environment for funding and rates; right? rates are through the roof. stu: it was over $300 at one point? now it's $7 a share. lauren: went to 6 and change. stu: we better move on: dish. what do they have? lauren: fair up. final -- they're up. finally a winner. divided congress favoring companies merging. this is dish/direct tv merger. the head of the fcc but she's not confirmed. it's been a year. what happens if republicans take the senate; right?

stu: she won't get confirmed. lauren: then the chair is saying this merger could happen after the midterm elections. stu: marc thiessen sitting here with a big grin on his face talking about a gop sweep. lauren: i was going to ask you a question. stu: i got to move on, the producers are killing me here. loser and counting. pennsylvania is considered a bell weather for the state's senate race between fetterman and oz. at a rally, protesters held up signs accusing the president of being a socialist. this was his response. roll tape. >> i love those signs when i came in, socialism. give me a break. what idiots. stu: okay, idiots. we're all over that one for you, guaranteed. bill clinton joked about recent subway crime in new york city and mocked lee zeldin. watch this. >> everybody gets on the subway, looks like he's auditioning to

replace dwayne johnson in all the movies. stu: lee zeldin says this tellings you all you need to know about the democrat's stance on crime. joe concha dissects it, next. ♪

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may determine the outcome. jeff flock is there right now. >> reporter: it's the economy, stupid. i mean, i don't mean you, stuart, specifically. just reference to that james caravelle line of -- carvill line of 2022. maybe you see debt ick headquarters behind me but it turned into a pivot county. it's one of hundreds across the u.s. that voted twice for president obama and pivoted to tram nap 2016 and the only pivot county in pennsylvania that ststayed with trump in 2020. two of the others pivoted back to the democrats. the democrats have been losing registered voters here in lu cera n county for awhile and about 12,000 since 2016 and the republicans named 14,000 since 2016. why is that? well, as we said at the outset, kind of about the economy.

>> price of fuel, the price of diesel, so everything goes up that we see. >> i was a nurse for 40 years and i had my 401k and seems like we're draining on that right now. >> inflation is on the minds of he can be and doesn't seem to be an end in sight and everyone is worried about heating their holmes in the winter. >> reporter: it's money, gasoline prices, inflation and how it hurts us every day of the week. >> retired teacher 33 years but price of gas, price of groceries, you see it every day. >> reporter: one of the analysts, stuart, we talked to in talking about this oz fetterman race said the reason for the switch to the republicans has been they don't like the democrat elites. well, the democrats had hope that had john fetterman with his tattoos and hoodies would say, hey, i'm running against this elite doctor that would turn the tide. whether or not that happens, i guess we'll see tomorrow.

i hope by tomorrow. stu: yeah, cross your fingers on that one. jeff flock, you're all right. see you again real soon. former president obama, he was in philadelphia over the weekend and he said there will be dire consequences if republicans win tomorrow. roll tape. >> when true democracy goes away, people gets hurt and has real consequences. this is not an abstraction. governments start telling you what books you can read and which ones you can't. dissidence start getting locked up, reporters start getting locked up if they're not toeing the party line. corruption reigns because there's no accountability. stu: joe concha joins me now. yeah, wide eyed, look at that. what's going on here? where did that come from, censoring the books you can read and reporters and dissidence going to jail. do you think this extreme rhetoric helps the democrats? >> this sounds like north korea

than the united states of america that we're living in right now, stuart. this is called hyperbole on steroids and this is what happens when you don't have a good closing argument. a winning message on how to solve inflation or how you've been handling the inflation or economy or gas prices or violent crime, the border or education. you regress to this sort of rhetoric and go as far as to insult voters of the other party. first it was bask in the deplorables in 2016 and concerned parents about child's education are deemed domestic terrorist and women that vote republicans are roaches and mega maga is the biggest threat to the country. michael really underscored exactly how crazy the rhetoric is out there, stuart. he's nbc's presidential historian and he said recently that what's in stake in the midterms is "whether we'll be a democracy in the future, whether our children will be arrested and conceivably killed". i mean, that's 31 flavors of inn

sanity but this appears the i can't telly going into the -- to be the flavor of the midterm. stu: local news having a devastating impact on democrats. what's in local newscasts that's a problem for democrats, joe? >> there's not a lot of the opinion in local use casts that's refreshing. every night when you tune into the local news, they tell you who got killed or assaulted or pushed off a subway platform, who won the game and what your whether is. it's very form lake and the same thing. in new york for example, there's 44 hours a week, more than six hours a day of local news starting at 4:00 a.m. going up to 11:30 p.m. and when crime is on the newscast, there's more video in the past and film closer to cameras and that's got a devastating effect on power in the place and people seeing on

your screens every night and when they're told it's only a myth and not as bad as the media is saying, i'm sorry, that's not the case if you just watch any local newscast in new york or philadelphia or san francisco and elsewhere. stu: on that, former president bill clinton is trying to down play crime in new york city. watch this please, roll it. >> lee zeldin, he makes it sound like kathy hochul gets up every morning, goes to the nearest subway stop and hands out billy clubs and baseball bats to everybody that gets on the subway. looks like he's auditioning to replace dwayne johnson in all his movies. stu: zeldin responded "this tells you everything you need to know about how little they care about your life and safety". joe, does crime decide the new york race? >> absolutely. it's the number one issue going away and the number two issue and this is the problem for katie hochul is inflation.

if it's crime and inflation, it's a referendum on the sitting governor and as for the former president, bill clinton, he's part of the richest 1%. he doesn't take the suckway and beside that -- subway and he has secret service anyway and can joke about people being pushed off of subway platforms or raped in central park. it's all a big joke but this sort of messaging will have a boom a rang effect if democrats think they can say something isn't happening that is very much happening. stu: thank you, joe. see you soon a. lee zeldin supporter was choked by a man at a hochul ragaini -lily. go through it -- hochul rally. tell me about it, ashley. >> it happened at the landmark stonewall in saturday night and hochul was shored up lgbtq support and video showed a female protester in a black sweasweatshirt being championeda

man and at one point -- choked bay man and they shoved hip off and it was all very quickly the short clip doesn't show how the fight began but the unidentified woman told the photographer it all began when someone took her sign, her poster there that featured pictures of hochul and other democrats with a tag line, vote them out. they didn't like it and it got ugly. the woman says it was peaceful until she was attacked. stu. stu: another one for you. at a rally, protesters held up signs and they were accusing the president of being a socialist and he responded by calling them idiots. you got anything more on this? >> yeah, he refer to do the group of protesters as idiots while stomach 7ing for democrat candidates on saturday and happened at a rally in illinois where the president was there over the weekend and you can see the signs themselves, a group of protesters had gathered outside

the event carrying those signs and read in part, socialism sucks, vote pro life. bind told the audience -- biden told the audience, i love those signs. socialism, give me a break. what idiots. i wouldn't say people think that. polls suggest republican gains in the midterms could be greater if democrat voter turnout is depressed and we're seeing biden and clinton and obama increasing their public appearances trying will rally support for incumbents and they're using the classic play book play, delivering scathing attacks on proported gop efforts to cut social security and medicare benefits part of fear mongering. stu: you're right. that's what it is. shoppers splurge on luxury items during the holiday but a vast ma joyty say not this -- majority say not this year and looking for cheaper alternatives. we have that story. biden looking for coal plants.

>> it's not cheaper to generate electricity from wind and solar than from coal and oil, lit literally cheeper and weir -- cheaper and we're goon shut these plants down all across america. stu: mike rowe made a clear talking to blue dollar workers and -- collar workers and we'll talk to him next. ♪

stu: to the markets where i see some green u especially for the dow up 230 and nasdaq up 30 points. not bad. susan lei is back. start with apple. susan: yeah, apple warning the i phones shipments lower than expected and wait timing longer than expected and because of covid lock double coverages in china and the massive iphone factory and a rare warning for america's biggest company. apple's pretty conservative with guidance and quick to alert the market ifs things aren't going

100%. it's important to note that demand has been so strong there's been a backlog for top of the line iphones, which is good and make more per hand set they sell. apple has been guiding for a slowing sales growth and holiday shopping period and guidance doesn't seem to have changed from my conversations and looking at small growth but from the huge record, $129 billion sales quarter, $129 billion in sales last month, that's incredible. barkly, bank of america cut price target calling 144 do 154 for for the stock but apple is the biggest stock on s&p 500 in 40 years and bigger than amazon, alphabet, meta combined last week and supply chain, the most samiest indicated in the world -- samiest sophisticatede world and rush limbaugh was in awe of this and it's amazing and

tim cook is the architect of the fast moving chains and if anybody can get this fix, it'll be him. stu: they come back rather nicely. tell me about musk and the latest tweet. susan: let's talk through this i'm interested in your views. he says to independent minded voters, maybe mike rowe as well and shared power curves the worse exit of both parties and elon musk is recommending voting for the republican congress given that the president is democratic. he said hard core democrats or republicans never vote for the other side and independent voters are the ones that decide who's in charge. historically i will note that split government when you have gridlock in dc, best for the stock markets and you're up 14 to 16% on average the year after midterms because most expect one house, one chamber to go the other way. stu: we used to have at least one musk headline a day and now it's at least two.

susan: three. stu: thank you, susan. mr. biden says coal plants across america will be shut down and replaced by green energy. roll it. >> it's cheaper to generate electricity from wind and solar than coal. cheaper. we'll be shutting these down across america and having wind and solar. stu: senator joe manchin called those comments outrageous and forced the white house to walk back the president's remarks. mike rowe is with me. how america works, this is the man who does that, okay. i hate to say this but sometimes, mike, it sounds like the president doesn't really respect blue collar workers, you know what i mean? >> yes, i know what you mean, and i think that sentiment is probably alive and well in more than a few places but i don't think this issue is about the workers. it's about the people who rely

on energy. it's about all of us. it's tricky, i was talking to a friend of mine this morning about the same thing who's on the left side of the aisle. he said, it's unpleasant when you have to decide whether or not the president meant what he said or not. it's awkward. if his comments need be explained, what does that even mean? i don't have any answers other than i'm pretty sure thatchy china and india combined are building a coal plant every week and have plans to continue for the next three decades. there's a bigger story and i'm not sure why we would end it here. stu: you're right to identify the bigger story because if the white house has to walk back what the president said, who is in charge of saying what policy is? >> the walker backer. stu: the walker backer and that doesn't make any sense.

the president just yesterday i think it was said no more oil drilling. or words to that effect. we're not drilling for oil. well, we are. >> of course we are. stu: which is not drilling enough for oil. >> the very first episode we did of how america works in season 1 was on oil. one of thousand of oil companies in this country called cameron energy, and i got some pushback for it, but mostly what i got from viewers was surprise. they're like we're still doing that? i'm like, of course we're still doing that. oil. natural gas, fossil fuels, we can talk very grandly and broadly about what the future might hold decades down the line but right now we are deeply, deeply reliant on those energies and i don't understand why we would pre-tent we're not. stu: -- pretend we're not, stu: the greens run the government. >> i'm a sip million man, stuart. -- simple man, stuart. stu: no, you're not.

you're the host of how america works and see the latest edition tonight on 8:00 p.m. eastern on fox business prime. you're my lead in and i follow you at 9:00. >> yes, you do. my job is smooth out the runway to come in with american built and once again get your ratings and do your thing. i'm happy to help. stu: thank you very much, rowe. see you soon. inflation is indeed changing people's shopping habits this holiday season. ashley, come on in. how many people plan to look for cheaper alternatives to the standard luxury gift? ashley: if you believe polls, 72% of shopper according to a recent morning consult survey, industry analysts say more shoppers are starting to buy less expensive clothing and accessories as inflation of course eats into their disposal or income and a rocky stock market is eroding their wealth. the down shift is raising concerns of course about the coming holiday season. historically a time when many

consumers splurge on designer handbags, fine jewelry and other extravagant purchases for themselves or loved ones. we've seen this trend earlier this year as consumers are trading down to less expensive groceries and other necessities. now, according to forecasts from the national retail federation, holiday retail sales this month and in december are expected to increase between 6 and 8%, okay. but that compares to a 13.5% jump last year. we're trading down, maybe not the designer exclusive gifts, maybe something more middle of the road. stu. stu: i'll stick with the carharts, ash, remember that one. perfect. coming up, tomorrow's elections could pave the way for congressional leadership in both parties. there's details on a secret meeting that may have decided who will replace nancy pelosi if of course the democrats keep the house. if republicans take the senate, will rick scott challenge mitch

mcconnell's position as leader? rick scott is here and he's next. ♪

astu: all right, let's head to

florida where voters are dropping off their ballots, early voting proceeds. phil keeting outside broward county board of elections. set the scene for us, phil. >> reporter: stuart, good morning to you. it all but the three impacted hurricane counties on the west coast and all in-person early voting wrapped up yesterday. here in broward county, there's a couple of drop boxes up and running so you can elect that guy right there. walk right up or drive up, very convenient and watch him as he puts his ballot in the mail and

helps them count the ballots and don't get lost in the mail. early voting in florida led to 4.5 million ballots cast already and that's in person and interest by former president trump with his out to vote rally. >> it's a community of people that lost their country and they saw the destruction of countries, the nation of their birth, they saw what socialism and communism and markism can do and they're not going to lose the country. >> reporter: a new ad was aired called little marco letting trump assist her from the 2016

primaries. >> >> little marco rubio so much and never votes or shows up to vote, he's conned the people of florida. >> reporter: broward county voting workers are very busy and we've seen a steady stream as well because florideans have something out on the horizon to be concerned about. nicole is on the tip of the bahamas and forecasted to hit florida tuesday, wednesday and thursday with a lot of heavy wind and rain potentially arriving as a light category 1 hurricane. so all of that happening this woke. week -- week here in the sunshine state, stuart.

stu: used to be california and now it's florida. see you again later, phil. senator rick scott, republican from the great state of florida joins me now, mr. senator, i have a lot to talk to you about but i want to start with social security. do you want to raise the age when benefits start? >> absolutely not. i don't want to make any changes to the benefits for social security and medicare but i don't know any democrat or republican that does but what i do know is every democrat senator voted and every democrat in the house voted to cut $280 billion out of medicare and then joe biden when he was in the senate wanted to cut both medicare and social security and by the way, joe biden organized his personal finances to not pay our medicare taxes but what i want to do is grow the economy so you have the resources to fund medicare and social security and that's what i want to do. stu: the president said you're going to drop medicare and social security. not true at all? >> no, that's not true.

the president cut $280 billion out of medicare and cutting life saving drugs and you saw "the wall street journal" article the other day and on the investment and drugs that keep you or your family member alive. stu: if the republicans take control of the senate, will you challenge mitch mcconnell for the leadership? >> i'm focused on everything up until tomorrow night. i'll worry about what happens after that. i'm focused with the voters to get out to vote. that's what i'm focused on and we'll get a majority, at least 52 seats in the u.s. senate, republican, but we have to make sure everybody gets out to vote. stu: i was in florida the last three or four days and saw a lot of early voting. i mean, people lined up out the door. are those early voters republican or democrats? >> we're doing really well. it's not just in florida, stuart. we're doing well with early voting across the country and look at all the polls that move in our direction, we have great

candidates running and great races and great grass roots and i've been traveling the country and crowds for the candidates and people where there's a opportunity, you're getting out to vote early and everything looks good for us now and we have to make sure our voters don't take anything for granted and get out there and vote. vot. stu: i have not seen any polls in particular from miami dade county. but perhaps you have. if governor desantis takes miami dade, that'll be an earthquake in the democratic party, wouldn't it? >> marco winning the hispanic vote and assuming people will continue to vote republican because we are the right thing for the country. hispanics like all of us, they want a great education, great economy, they want a secure border, they want low crime so i think we're going to continue to get more and more hispanic voters. stu: one last one for you, congresswoman marjory taylor green said ukraine will not get anymore aid from the united states if republicans win back

congress. no more aid from the united states if the gop wins congress. where do you stand on that? >> i think we've got to do everything we can to help ukraine and make sure we defeat russia. if we don't, we'll be doing it as part of the nato alliance in poland or other countries and we have to continue to help responsibly ukraine to defend their freedom and we have to do it responsibly and make sure russia goes back home and ukraine keeps their democracy. stu: one more last one. if the republicans win the senate, which committee would you like to chair? >> well, i'm on commerce. the committees i'm on commerce, i'm on homeland security and on armed services and those committees, i think we'll be able to get a lot of good things done. stu: which one do you want to chair? >> oh, gosh, i'd like to -- i'm a navy guy so i'd do armed services. stu: i hope you do. we need some more money for the

armed service. senator scott, thank you very much for joining us. we appreciate it always, see you later. >> bye, stuart. stu: democrats are contending to replace speaker pelosi as speaker of the house. who do you have on this, ash? who's the contender here? ashley: jeffreys and a secret meeting was held september the 1 to discuss a potential replacement for nancy pelosi and if democrats hold the house, pelosi is expected to step down from leadership and congress. we'll see. that meeting included clyburn from south carolina and may have butt jeffreys on the map as a contender. they called the new york congressman an up and coming young democrat. but if the gop takes the house and believe the polls, minority

leader kevin mccarthy will likely take over pelosi's position as the speaker leaving jeffreys at most with the post of minority leader. stu: yeah, right, he's not going to replace the speaker. would likely become the leader of the minority party in the house. i had to sort that one out. hanks, ash. what is the key issue swaying voters in georgia? connell mcshane is there and we'll file his report after this. ♪

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stu: the georgia senate race between raphael warnock and herschel walker is neck and neck. turnout in atlanta suburbs could be the deciding factor. o'connell mcshane is in marietta, georgia. connell, what's the deciding factor for voters? >> reporter: it's inflation, stuart. at 38% it was easily the top issue identified by voters in a recent fox poll. going to somewhere like the marietta square park, it's a

food court with a bunch of local restaurant owners and you can see it. we got the sense of how much the higher prices are hurting. >> we just got our healthcare quote for next year as a company and it's going up 61% for us. i can't pass that off to our employees. >> utilities have gone up 25% i will say. some of the food going up 80%. chicken sometimes. >> we tried to raise prices and we have raised prices but you can't raise them consist with what we're paying so we just -- it's a tough time. >> reporter: a tough time that can drive voters to herschel walker's side as those identifying inflation as their top issue, walker has more than a 40 point lead. the logic from the republicans is that in voting for walker, they're making a simple choice, they want control of the united states senate. >> to get the senate back to the republican side, they're going to be able to get the economy back in the right direction.

>> even if he's not your favorite candidate? >> yes. >> reporter: that last point could end up deciding this race. more supporters of warnock say they're voting for him enthuse lastically and more than half of walker -- enthusiastically and half of warnock is not doing the same. that's how all the polls have it. stu: very important too. connell, thanks very much indeed. we'll be seeing a lot of you. monday's trivia question, here it is: what is the median net worth of american families? $97,000, $121, $154, $179,000? what's the answer?rs we'll havewi the right one for r adafter this.

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