> > >> biden is flying people across the country to florida, texas, god forbid ron desantis does it and he's getting the crazy names called at him. >> the republican governors are doing from florida and texas, it's simply inhumane. i think they're using these people as a political pawn. >> crimes against humanity is for them to let them in and

then they don't know what to do with them. that's a crime. neil: they're trying to find out what to do with them, certainly in new york, there is talks of building tent cities and bringing some to ships off the east river, the hudson river around manhattan and it's a big number. right now no indication how all of this will be settled. and following it very, very close. nate, what are we hearing now? >> neil, good morning. a bronx parking lot will be the first migrant tent facility. big enough for 1,000 migrants, and they've received 13,600 migrants from texas and with shelters strained in the city, it's meant to ease that. the migrants will come directly here from the port authority, food, water, medical help, but this will be a short-term solution for migrants travelling alone. families will get more privacy with different accommodations. i migrants will it stay here

one and four days, before moving elsewhere, possibly a hotel room. and the mayor argues that the migrants are treated better than homeless here. >> we are not in any way going to ignore those everyday new yorkers who are part of the homeless issue that we are facing. we're going to continue to provide the shelter that law requires and going beyond that for the everyday new yorkers here. >> every single day this week, more and more migrants are arriving in the city. three more buses arrived this morning, five buses arrived yesterday with a total of 206 migrants. now, officials in the mayor's office continue claiming that migrants are misled where they're going, but that's something texas governor greg abbott strongly denies and he's getting some support from the ceo of the el paso rescue mission who agrees with him. ceo blake barro says that 20% of all migrants they say want to come to new york city and those migrants, according to texas authorities are signing

waivers before they deport on their journey and we know that the cost is going up in new york city and according to the new york post, mayor eric adams is asking for $500 million in federal funding to deal with the influx of migrants, yet still refuse toss call on president biden to secure our southern border. we'll send it back to you, neil. neil: nate, thank you very much. our friend nate foy on that. and let's get to alexis mcadams. another side of this, the dangers of those who come in now and then very dangerous inside. alexis. >> yeah, neil, that's right. we're learning about a new case out of florida that has a connection here to the southern border in texas. investigators out of florida telling us a man who was not supposed to be in the united states, ran over a sheriff's deputy and killed him at a construction zone, just a few days ago, and he actually crossed right here at eagle pass, texas where i'm standing right now. this is the mug shot of that person that we're talking about. this is salas, charged with

leaving the scene that he ran over the deputy with a frontloader and took off. the 19-year-old veteran of the sheriff's department in florida. the family is grieving and figuring out he was approved to work ott the construction site. and deputy hartwick was there to patrol the area and make sure that the crew was safe and when he got out of the car, they say molino salas, ran over him and afterwards he told he knew he killed the deputy and took off on foot and took police nine hours to track him down. >> he has no qualifications to drive a frontloader and what he said he told the people is that back in honduras he worked some construction and he knows how to operate this thing so they

said go ahead. >> and investigators say he entered the u.s. illegally in october of last year, crossing right here through eagle pass, texas, but that time, neil, he was sent back to mexico by border patrol and then the 32-year-old said he came back again, crossing back in through texas at the border, this time undetected. he had been in the tampa area, he told police, since at least march and he's one of the more than 500,000 known got-aways this fiscal year. got-aways is what the border patrol call the people who evaded capture. right now governor desantis is trying to figure out how he was working on the construction site without the proper paper work and driving without a license, calling illegal immigration a serious problem in the u.s. that has a multi-facetted affect on florida. and neil, we saw hundreds passing at eagle pass, texas. that's the concern, they don't know who was smuggled in from

the cartel and their background and where they're coming from. neil: i want to go to a florida state senator, a democrat, that says the state's governor ron desantis has gone too far with the effort to fly migrants from texas to martha's vineyard and is trying to put a stop to it right now. senator, very good to have you. the governor argues this is a problem, he wants to help out with the problem. you're saying he's creating one. >> good morning, neil, thanks for having me, the border situation is an awful problem. and i am a huge advocate for expending resources and efforts to try to stop the importation of drugs and illegal immigrants. that's not what's at issue here. what's at issue is that this past legislative session just a few months ago, in our 109 billion dollar budget that i voted for, has a small provision in there for $12 million, allotted to remove unauthorized illions from the state of florida. 48 venezuelans in texas is not from the state of florida.

and the governor, the lt. governor, a number of republican politicians that i serve with, my colleagues across the aisle have recognized this as i have that venezuela lives under a tyrannical regime and awful dictatorship and those seeking asylum who have been paroled in as we've discovered from the 48 venezuelans are not unauthorized aliens. neil: if they had been entering through florida would you have a problem with that and the governor doing this? >> i'm not a fan of that section of the bill per se, but, neil, i will tell you, i would not be filing a lawsuit for injunctive relieve, from florida this is the economics and critical resources we're spending outside of the state of florida for political purposes. we're bearing down now in anticipation of a hurricane, property insurance and housing affordability, but let me be

very clear about something, this is $12 million that was allotted and allocated for this exercise, so to speak. i would be-- i would advocate for double, quadruple, triple the amount if the governor asked if we could use for florida resources to assist at the border as relates to importation of fentanyl, of illegal immigrants, of those that are, you know, that are dangerous. your previous segment about deputy hartwick from pinellas county, that guy should face the 30 years in prison that comes with a first degree felony in florida leaving the scene of an accident ending with death. i'm a former prosecutor and extent the-- >> i understand what you're coming from, you know people are saying there's a double standards among democrats on this issue and you've been pretty consistent on this to be fair. but on this idea of being outraged about what governor abbott is doing with the buses to sanctuary cities, what your governor just did sending these

planes to martha's vineyard, hardly any one of them said boo when president biden working with ice was jetting migrants from all over to all over, often times without a heads-up to local authorities. and that strikes them as a bit rich. what do you say? >> neil, i say it, and i think you'll appreciate this sentiment, which is you shouldn't group all democrats together, you shouldn't group all republicans together. i think we absolutely have a border crisis, i think we're doing a terrible job. i think this administration's doing a terrible job and i think the last one didn't do much better and the one before that wasn't great either. i'm the great grandson of italian immigrants on one side of my family and so is the governor. onwhere you draw the line and say stop. i don't have an answer, i'm a state legislator and wouldn't pretend to have the solution, i know we have a problem, i acknowledge it, but should not be a partisan issue. i'm not a fan of how it's going

either. neil: i respect that. let me ask you though, you're right this turns into political back and forth which obviously stymies any chance of progress, but we've got two million who have crossed the border, maybe hundreds of thousands more, senator, who we've never caught, the got-aways and yet we hear that the border is secure. it seems pretty clear from what you're saying that it is not. >> i believe it's not. i believe if you want to get into this country you can get in. you know, neil, i'm originally from new jersey, i went to undergraduate-- >> what a great state, i love new jersey. jacqui: i know you do. listen, this is the only news segment about this issue that i can assure you my brother kenny will be watching, but to be honest with you, this situation is-- it's untenable on the immigration front except where do you draw the line? where is that bright line rule and i'm sure well in excess of

two million, i'm sure it is. but your previous segment spoke to the gentleman who worked for the contractor for the florida department of transportation, shame on them for not vetting employees for insurance purposes, identification, shame on them. the same agency tasked with the $12 million allotment that's in our budget for this particular issue that's hiring a vendor to go outside of florida to texas to lure people with motel rooms and mcdonald's gift cards and hair cuts to get them to massachusetts. wouldn't it be less expensive, neil, to send them back. less expensive to send them back than to martha's vineyard. neil: at that stage, we'll see. senator, i urge you to talk to your brother kenny. urge him to watch the whole show we're fair and balanced. very, very good seeing you. >> thank you. neil: we want today reach out and try and see this in its totality here. fair and balanced and i want to get to chris cabrera, the council spokesperson. chris, you heard what the

senator is saying, acknowledges the depth of the problem and two are at loggerheads, the parties, some individuals notwithstanding and nothing gets done. i'm wondering what you think about a plan has mexico dealing with this on its side of the border or mexico dealing with guatemala at the southern side of their border, but there's too much pressure put on guys like you on our side of the border? >> yeah, we're in a-- now on our side, coincidentally, the last administration with the mexico problem, the mexico, we're dealing with-- (inaudible) don't know about and then back to the normal. neil: chris, we're having problem with your audio, but what we're looking at, you in eagle pass and some drone

footage. often time we've been able to cash sometimes on the same drone footage, those trying to get into the country and there are a lot of people who are now afraid that they're looking at the migrant and even those bused north on the part of your governor, and governor desantis with extension to martha's vineyard. once you get in, you're safe. you're in, the border is open, and you're going to dd y-- you're going to be protected and that is spurring more activity. do you worry that's exactly what it's doing and some of these efforts are actually highlighting that? >> well, that's how it's been for some time now. people know that they can get in and they know, and i think on that governor abbott shone a light on this and now it can affect them like it's affecting us. we see that, so, completely --

the they're (inaudible) get that in a week and few months. neil: we'll watch it closely, again, chris, i apologize with the audio problems, i think the gist of what he's saying, it a real problem and whether it's galvanized by migrants getting in as record numbers, it's seen as a green light for those thinking about it to try it because the understanding is now pretty widespread, you get to the border, cross the border, you're in and maybe forever. stay with us. would be the last thing on my mind. hey mom, can i go play video games? sure, after homework. thankfully, voya provides comprehensive solutions and shows me how to get the most out of my workplace benefits. what's the wifi password again? here you go. cool. thanks.

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is also on the agenda as he battles it out with texas governor abbott for the governor's job. polls show that the abbott's leading the race, but the tough stance on immigration and the border is-- (inaudible). neil: all right, we had some audio problems with casey there. i apologize for this, we seem to have disproportionate number of these happening today, but just to let you know, that race is, you know, depending on the -- in texas whether a five point lead for an incumbent governor is a big enough lead. there was concern with beto o'rourke challenging ted cruz years back that he was going to win and that he had the momentum. it was close, but not what people thought it would be. developments in new york city and all the buses that arrive in the city by the day often up to half dozen a day and this is the latest a little while ago

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>> well, hell hath no fury like a mayor scorned by one of her city's biggest employers. when the ceo of mcdonald's said because of rocketing crime in the windy city, robberies up 18%, burglaries, and he's having a devil of a time finding workers and it's not a surprising development here because week in and week out we see the startling and scary

numbers in a city that's disproportionately out of whack with an already crime-riddened urban america that's driven with numbers we've never seen before. but is targeting that ceo by acknowledging that he has trouble enticing workers to the city. and that he's having similar trouble getting workers to go to chicago area mcdonald's, even with record high hourly incentive rates. you can understand where he's coming from. so can grady tremble who is following this in chicago. grady. >> hi, neil. mcdonald's ceo chris kempczinski had a lot of good to say about chicago and announced the company is moving more than 100 jobs from the suburbs here to their downtown headquarters, but what drew super-sized criticism from mayor lori lightfoot were his comments about the city's crime problem. >>, but we also need to face facts and the facts haven't been especially kind to the city of chicago of late.

everywhere i go, i'm confronted by the same questions these days, what's going on in chicago? while it may wound our civic pride to hear it, there's a general sense out there that our city is in crisis. >> just in the past few weeks, in this neighborhood, there was an attempted kidnapping and the video you're watching now is from a bar, a few blocks from here, where an employee was shot in a random drive-by shooting. violent crime in the city is up 37% in the past year, but mayor lori lightfoot is simply dismissing kempczinski's concern. >> i think what would have been helpful for the mcdonald's ceo to educate himself before he spoke. i'm going to look on productive engagement and not look in the rear view mirror. >> the mcdonald's ceo made his comments at the economic of chicago luncheon and ken griffin told the organization a year ago that he was worried

about crime in the city. we know how that story ends, neil, he packed up citadel and moved it to south florida. neil: and bought a $600 million home in the process. and thank you very much. and i tell you, when i heard the mayor say that he has to educate himself, referring to the ceo, he can look out his window. a couple of his top executives were held at gun point not too far from where the mayor was. so, i'm just wondering, does she appreciate the magnitude of this? >> absolutely, she does not appreciate the magnitude of it. let's even take you back just some months ago, there was an infant who was murdered in the back seat of a car while they were in the drive-thru of an mcdonald's, she must have forgot about that. let me make it clear, lori lightfoot does not care about black lives. black lives do not matter to

mayor lightfoot and black belts do. and the media has been talking about the violence in chicago so long, never have we seen businesses, major businesses moving out of the city left and/or right. this mayor is trying to come up with a narrative that makes sense for her reelection bid. unfortunately, it not going to work for her. i'm thankful it's not going to work for her. i've got to tell you, even with the safety act, the former cook county prosecutor's office saying how bad this act is going to be for the residents of chicago and the people of illinois. people don't know what's coming for them, neil. things are about to become much worse. if anybody knows the movie "the purge", coming to illinois on january 1 and they need to wake up today. we don't need more time. people are dying by the dozens every weekend. and it needs to come to an end,

neil. neil: and you hit that point home in chatting with dan kirk. i want our audience to see this. this is with dan kirk. >> calling it criminal justice reform, i would argue it's justice for the criminal. >> it's my sincere belief that the people of the state of illinois have no idea to happen. possession of enough fentanyl to kill every single man, woman and child in the united states would be a nondetainable offense. neil: a nondetainable offense, something that kills people in numbers far greater than just the crime. amazing. >> chilling. and amazing in the truth that dan kirk isn't a partisan, not about democrat or republican. it's about cook kicounty. people's lives in jeopardy and set to be in this doesn't change. my little brother murdered on june 24th. how many more christians does there need to be before the city of chicago's leadership wakes the hell up, neil?

that's the question that everyone should be asking, no matter if you're in the city of chicago or not. whether this law impacts you or not. this is an american city, one in which i would argue is one of the greatest american cities, but with third world problems. we shouldn't be having these issues in the city, but thanks to mayor lori lightfoot, kym foxx and the governor, j.b. pri pritzker. neil: and your brother was one of the third world problems, he was a target of-- he wasn't a target and was one of the many, many victims. and i wonder if you've gotten to the bottom of what happened to your brother? have you learned anything more? >> we don't have anything reportable yet, but it's my sin ver hope that we will. i will not stop, not back down and continue to push for answer

in my brother's murder and those in other members of the chicago land family. those individuals who are in chicago and around the country who's losing loved ones in droves. we've got to talk about the city of chicago and other people that need help not just people with a platform or perceived important. every life matters, neil. that's the message for those that live in chicago and across the country. every life matters and certainly my little brother and his life and his purpose will live on me through. neil: now i know why he called you a rock star and loved you to death. i'm just thinking of what you are dealing with and you could have crawled into a corner and just written off the world, anything but. i wish you well, we remember christian, we see what you're doing every day to remember him as well. we will have more after this.

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new york post, the record breaking number of new york residents switched their driver's licenses to the sunshine state last month. in fact, a total of 5,838 new yorkers made the switch in august, that's the highest recorded number for a single month in history. and year to date, 41,885 new yorkers have handed over their licenses and at this rate, a new annual record will be broken as well. now we saw the trend begin when covid hit, but predictions that it would slow down once the pandemic eased are apparently not proving to be true. at first, it was the billionares that headed to florida, then the rich and now the middle class, especially young parents concerned about the crime and state of schools in new york. low taxes, lower cost of living, a booming economy, combined with sunshine and beaches has helped to fuel the surge. in april, new york city mayor eric adams deployed digital

billboards in florida trying to woo new yorkers back, but the data shows it hasn't had any effect. it's not just new yorkers headed south. california set a new high for license exchanges with florida last month, passing the 3,000 mark for the first time with 3,059 swaps and the same for new jersey, 3,259 license switches, 321,000 out of state license trades requests so far for florida in 2022, 1200 new residents every day coming to florida. that's a lot of people. back to you. neil: all right. ashley, that's an understatement as well. jonas max ferris and daniel with us, and the draw, it's great climate and can be worrisome with hurricanes and the rest and fears of that, but the low taxes, the no taxes, and that's a big draw, jonas,

that seems to be the really big draw. >> yeah, funny thing, the land boom of the 20's in florida ended with a super big hurricane which scared everybody back to new york, but today, taxes are a big draw. it's bigger than taxes though, a way it played out in every liberal states versus florida was a big draw. you know, the covid situation, you don't have to go to your office is a huge thing. new york city is much more expensive than miami even though florida real estate is going up higher in rents and percentages with the influx. you have a situation where it's cheap. you don't have to be in an office why not work in florida, incomes are low compared to property prices, one of the lowest real estate market. and if you can work at home why not have where it doesn't have the restriction of travel and the crime overblown to people and there are other factors here. neil: you know, danielle, there

are other reasons, low tax environments seen in florida, but the places where people want to go, but there's also the way they handle, you know, emergencies, covid and all that, obviously, florida's policies were not nearly as restrictive as they were in new york and california. people remember that. >> they do, and the memories will last a long time. here where i am in texas we have a similar phenomena, and we've also been great beneficiaries. california was entered as a state in september the 9th, 1850. last year was the first time that it actually saw a decline, a contraction in its population. and low tax states, friendly states where you can count on education to be independent of any kind of influence, where the rule of law is respected, california will lose, new jersey will lose, new york will lose, and texas and florida will continue to have growing tax bases, which is important. neil: you mentioned it, jonas, but real estate taxes are not

cheap there. and palm beach county comes to mind, a shock for a lot of northerners who come down, but i guess everything else more than makes up for that. >> there's a -- the income taxes is the main thing and inheritance taxes as well. prices are lower from somebody coming from the states where most of the exodus is happening any state with a tent city, washington state, oregon, california, new york, but the price level seems cheap, but it's rising, this gap is slowing between those two areas right now. you know, there's just a lot-- there is a lot of people moving and it's raising costs and it will ultimately equalize and the country is getting older and people are going to move to warmer climates in general. that was accelerated with early retirements through covid in situations like that. neil: do you know what i noticed, and i don't know if you experience it in texas, but a lot of new york, new jersey transplants and they've made, you know, florida driving a

challenge because they're not great drivers, myself included, by the way. but that's another separate issue. and i do want to get your take on how it will change politically the complexion of the state if more northerners, certainly those from california have migrated at record numbers to your fine state in texas, change the political composition, is that happening? >> you know, neil, that's a subject of constantsy here among texans, there's a license plate, don't california my texas and the thing is if people are moving here to be safer, to have independent education, in order to have a lower cost of living, a better way of life, politicians who actually listen to you, if that's why you're moving here, then leave the politics behind where you-- you know, from your home state. and i think that if that subject is lost, then we're going to end up making these states turn from purple to blue

and that would be a disaster. neil: as long as they don't drive like us. that's-- you've got to deal with that, guys, a separate issue here. thank you both very very much. have a save weekend yourself. now, the issue of safety is a big issue in florida right now because they're worried about a hurricane right now, a storm, but gathering some steam. not talking fiona, that's a nightmare for canada, unprecedented. but a tropical storm moving and fast, we don't know where ian is going to go. and more from fort myers, what are we looking at here? >> governor ron desantis has declared a state of emergency in 24 counties and asked a pre-landfall declaration from the federal government that would free up extra aid for florida as well as put the national guard on standby. today, the weather is calm and things are looking nice out there, things are about to change. the storm has the potential for dangerous surge, flash

flooding, strong winds, rainfall and even isolated tornados. emergency officials say now is the time to prepare and know if you're in an evacuation zone, zones that could be inundated or cut off from flood waters. and they say that people should run from the water and hide from the wind. and providing evacuation assistance to those with medical condition and those who might need help to register now. and food and water are disappearing from stores, and people are gassing up and talking about how they're preparing. >> i lived through andrew in miami and i know how damaging these things could be. >> it's always good to be prepared, you know. >> nasa is announcing that they are scrubbing the launch of the artemis moon rocket. that was scheduled for tuesday, from cape canaveral in florida

and pushing that rocket back into its shelter as floridians prepare for this storm, neil, back to you. neil: i wonder if that things is ever going to launch. thank you very much for that, max gordon. more protests in russia, challenging authorities because they don't like this, well, double-downing in ukraine. now, bunches getting arrested, and they're running out of people to arrest there are that many. after this. are you gonna stop me? uh-oh... i'm almost there... too late! boom! earn big time with chase freedom unlimited with no annual fee. how do you cashback? chase. make more of what's yours. we got the house! you did! pods handles the driving. pack at your pace. store your things until you're ready. then we deliver to your new home - across town or across the country. pods, your personal moving and storage team.

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closing its borders to russian tourists in the coming days. >> lines of cars were seen not only at the finnish borders, but kazakhstan and georgia. and this an of russian president vladimir putin ordered those, and the media believes the true number could be a million. the matter is not that we're afraid, but don't like the situation. the man says i don't like what they're doing in ukraine. the call up of reservists middle age men are loaded on buses and they may only receive two weeks of instruction before heading to ukraine. the unpopular mobilization is creating new pressure for vladimir putin who threatened last week to use nuclear weapons as the war continues. putin is trying to secure small victories in the area with

russian occupation. and that would formalize the annexation. though the ukrainians and their allies call this a sham and illegitimate. the renewed protests in the capitol of moscow, women taking to the streets in black clothing, protesting against the mobilization, satisfying their husbands and sons should not have to go and fight in ukraine. this, president putin signed into law, 10 years in prison if they refuse to fight. neil: this sure sounds familiar, russians who are trying to get out, just like east germans back in the early 1960's were trying to get out of their country. back then they built a wall. what's vladimir putin going to do? after this.

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>> all right. we've got a lot of crowds that want to get out of russia. no sooner had vladimir putin doubled down on the war in ukraine and first saying 137,000 more soldiers, to fight the good fight there and then call up 300,000 reservists to well, up the ante in the good fight there. the problem is a lot of reservists are essentially saying hell no, we won't go. they've stormed the border of finland, 800 long border that forced the finns to shut down the border. many are trying to get out of the country to countries that require no visas to expedite that and a lot of people are saying it's a matter of time

before we see vladimir putin for bid flights out of the country and do something more at borders where they're flocking. to general david perkins, the u.s. army four star general, a fox news contributor, we're lucky to have them. general, what's interesting in these developments here is not so much what ukrainian soldiers are doing, which is remarkable, but the unravelling of russian support which might be notable. what do you make of it? >> good day, neil. good to be with you. that's exactly, you've nailed it on the head. the two aspects of this are very bad news for the russians, ukrainians have exceeded all expectations and the russians have fallen short in every category and as you were just talking, you know, their attempt to bring in 300,000 or more new people in the army, that that is a huge undertaking of which the russian military is very ill-equipped to deal with. i'll tell you, as a guy who

previously was in charge of that for the u.s. army, bringing in all of our recruits and training them, on an average year, the united states army brings in active duty about 70,000 people. neil: wow. >> and we send them to a very rigorous training, basic training and advanced individual training and that process can take up to a year and then we integrate them into units that are well-trained, well-led with noncommissioned officers and officers and they are the minority of people in the unit and that's full-time job for the united states army. for the russian army to bring in 300,000 people and your report says two weeks of training and form entire units out of them. i can't see ow that's going to go well. neil: and a lot of them aren't keen on going in the first place. so what do you make of it? >> well, you know, in the old days of the soviet union, they could pretty much control information much better than they can today. i mean, the average russians are getting an understanding of

what's going on in ukraine and what is in store for them, and they are just concerned, not only with, you know, politically humanitarian what's going on in ukraine, but they know that the russian military is not good. if they end up in it, they could have a very bad outcome from that, so, they have no incentive to be part of this really ill-thought scheme to continue to push ill-trained, ill-equipped and ill-led people into what's become a meat grinder in ukraine. neil: how do you think this ends, john? >> you know, war is not just one battle that decides it either way, very seldom. and so you have to look at how the paradigm and you know, the entire process has gone and for the ukrainians, it continue to get better and better and better. for the russians, it gets worse and worse day by day in just about every category. just the other day the russians

fired their chief logistical general and so that's been a problem for them. so they're going to bring in a new general in charge of logistics first day of work is money. neil: i'm sorry, general, we're running out of time. my fault for doing that, i want to thank you and more for your service to this country. i do that a lot, don't i? that will do it, fox news continues. ♪ ♪ from out of the blue, every room can be more innovative. with some of that. and a whole lot of this. meet our exclusive dent and scratch resistant stainmaster laminate. check out our most innovative products. only at lowe's. finding the perfect project manager isn't easy. but, at upwork, we found him. he's in adelaide between his daily lunch delivery and an 8:15 call with san francisco. and you can find him, and millions of other talented pros, right now on upwork.com ever wonder what everyone's doing on their phones? they're investing with merrill. think miss allen is texting for backup? no she's totally in charge. of her portfolio and daniel g.

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