>> your honor, this might be a good time for a break. >> ladies and gentlemen, addressing the jury, we will break to 2:15. go to the jury room, please, and not discuss the case. >> john: ok, taking a break in the alec murdaugh trial as alec murdaugh gives gripping testimony for a second day in a row, this time the prosecutor trying to poke holes in the story he delivered when the defense was giving direct testimony. john roberts here, as we begin

"america reports" with my partner for this friday, how are you today? >> i'm good, well, thanks for joining us on this friday. welcome to "america reports." this has been fascinating to watch, day 2 as the prosecution now cross examinates alex, and what's interesting to me, jonna spilbor said the prosecutor is seemingly getting outlawyered by his own witness here. let's bring in now criminal defense attorney phil holloway to get his take on what we have seen so far, as they take a break there in south carolina. phil, you know, yesterday you said that you thought that he needed to testify. he's admitted to stealing from clients, admitted to lying repeatedly, do you still think that was a good idea? >> yes, i do, good afternoon. thanks for having me back. i think so far the defendant is doing quite well as a witness in this case and honestly this is a

master class how not to conduct a cross examination. open ended questions, and even in law school in trial advocacy classes young lawyers are taught never ask an open ended question on cross examination, especially if you don't know the answer to. you ask leading questions, lead them down the primrose path using your facts, your narrative, and you're getting your message as the lawyer out to the jury. in this case, alec murdaugh has taken over the courtroom. he has been asked open ended questions and he's taking full advantage of that and i think he's really not hurt himself at all, in fact i think he's probably scored a few points here. >> john: hey, phil, john roberts. interesting tale alec murdaugh is trying to weave to the jury, saying i'm a lying, theiving

drug addict but trust me when i say i didn't kill my wife and son. can he sell that? >> so far i think he's doing an ok job with that. we don't know what the jury will say. but he did the right thing. said i own all this other stuff and honestly, john, i think the prosecutor is overplaying the hand in terms of these other crimes. basically the witness has said look, yeah, i did all those things, i'm a terrible person and i'm sorry. but the pros -- prosecutor went over and over in minute detail when it does not provide the motive for the murder as the prosecutors have alleged. sure, show he's a crook, absolutely. going to spend the rest of his life in prison, probably for all the other things but he doesn't want to go to prison, john, being known for being convicted for killing his wife and his son, and i think that's what he's playing for here. the prosecutor, i think, should focus more on the facts of the case as it happened on the night

of the murders and stick with that day, get in, make your points, and sit down and move on but they are belaboring the point of all this other stuff and might risk losing the jury, john. >> interesting yesterday, emotional testimony finding his son paul and his brains spilling out, i mean -- very, very dramatic, and if you are watching the family in the courtroom, if you are the jury, as we were watching the family, you would notice nobody was sobbing, nobody is crying, buster wasn't crying, his son, it seemed like his own family wasn't buying the emotional story. what did you make of that, and what do you think the jury made of that? do you think they were paying attention to that? >> well, i'm sure they were paying attention and it's always weird trying to read the tea leaves. you can look at the audience and look at the jury and try to divine what they might be thinking and of course until they get into the jury room and start talking about it and

deliver a verdict, we really don't know. but the lawyers for the defense, that was their job, i think, at that point was to humanize their client. i think he had to get on the stand, he had to convey emotion, he had to convey how he felt as a human being, you know, seeing this gruesome sight where his wife and son were laying dead by the dog kennel. so i really think that that's about all they could do with it, how well it was received by the jury we'll have to wait and see. i think that's what the defense was going for, they had to bring out that emotion, he had to appear emotional and there's some people saying maybe it was fake tears or he wasn't really crying, but we really don't know. the lawyers, i think, for the defense did what they had to do at that point in time. >> john: phil, and for the control room, call for number 4 as the prosecutor again went to the idea that alec murdaugh just keeps making things up. listen here. >> you, like you've done so many

times over the course of your life, had to back up and make a new story that kind of fit with the facts that can't be denied. isn't that true, sir. >> no, sir, that's not true. >> the second you are confronted with facts you can't deny, you immediately come up with a new lie. >> john: most recently the whole business about was he at the dog kennels, was he not, the prosecutor said in the interview in the police car you said you were in the house while your wife and son were up at the kennels. turned out that you were up at the kennels. was that a lie when you were in the house. no, it wasn't, they had gone up to the kennels and i hadn't gone up there. in order to be a good liar you have to have a great memory. and how is he doing on that front? >> they are given him the opportunity, though, to give these answers and to give an explanation to the jury. those questions are best left unasked. if that's the point that you want to convey as the prosecutor, save it for closing

argument and then make that statement. instead, he's giving the defendant the opportunity to weasel out of it, to give an answer that, you know, may or may not make sense but he's giving the defendant an opportunity to speak and take over the conversation and to dominate the conversation and so when i say this is a master class on how to not do a cross examination, that's what i mean. some of those thoughts and some of those points the prosecutor wants to make are best saved for closing argument. don't ask the defendant because then he can, he gets a chance to explain it. >> on that point, phil, you know, prosecutors have been trying to paint this very clear picture of not only who alec murdaugh is, but who this family is and has been for decades in this community, come from generations of wealth, they have influence, power, involved, had their hands in pretty much everything in the community and he's caught on camera if we can pull the picture up where he's

displaying a badge on the night that this girl dies in a boating accident that his son is involved in. so, clearly there is years of him abusing his status. how far can that go to this jury, this sort of character assassination the prosecution is trying to get at? >> well, yesterday when i left the studio talking about this case, i was firmly convinced that the prosecutor was winning the trial and for a lot of the reasons that you just mentioned. the fact that he was walking around, you know with that badge, no business hanging out of his pocket. the prosecutor yesterday did a pretty good job of pointing out that he's using basically his position and his influence even if he's got to fudge a little bit about how, you know, how much influence he has, he's basically impersonating a law enforcement officer at that point. so the prosecutor did a good job

of showing that he is a manipulator. ok. and if they had stayed with that theme, he's a liar and he's a manipulator, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, don't let him do to you what he was trying to do at the hospital that night with his badge hanging out of his pocket. those are the kinds of themes they need to stick with in this cross examination. what i'm seeing, they are listening to the wandering rambling answers that are sometimes given, taking the bait and asking follow-up questions about minutia boring this jury to death. >> phil, isn't that because -- it does seem like a deposition, isn't that because he kind of did a 180 on everybody yesterday and decided that he had a whole different story we now need to go through and navigate? >> that's true, he did a 180. how much do you need to talk about that. it's so obvious he did a 180, they are asking about the 180 over and over and over and over again to the point that it's becoming absurd and they need to move on to the next topic.

they need to point out the key points that they want from cross examination. when we are trained in trial advocacy, trained you need to make a list of 4 or 5 or 6 or 8 key points you want to make in your cross examination. you get in, make the points and get out. instead what they are doing is they are beating this horse to death over and over again to the point that i think they are losing the jury. i think they need to have a better organized process here for cross examination because as of right now, any gains i think the prosecutor made up until today i think are being erased by a pretty good job of the answers given by the defendant on cross examination. >> john: so phil, this is all about instilling reasonable doubt in the minds of at least one juror in order to be able to escape the most dire consequences here, and what we have been seeing on the stand in the last day and a half of alec murdaugh being up there is this kind of good old boy network

that was operating in rural south carolina, we are hearing buster and paul-paul and bubba and chickens and grandpa t and yeah, i took his money but he owed me money from a real estate deal and you can see a scenario here where the jury looks at this and goes yeah, that's kind of how things happen in that area of the state, but that doesn't mean that he killed his wife and son. >> yeah. i mean, yesterday i heard that he's riding around with blue lights in his law firm-owned vehicle, for crying out loud. >> john: i've seen that. a lot of places in the country where that happens. >> yeah. and these are the -- this jury is of his peers, from the community, and so you've got to make sure you understand who your audience is, right, and so they may very well look at this and say you know what, he's a scum bag, he's a liar, he's impersonating cops, no business running around with blue lights in his personal vehicle because he's not a cop, but the

prosecutor has not linked any of that up to the murders in my opinion. they said all of these prior crimes, the financial dealings and all that stuff, they are saying that is somehow a motive for murder, and so far, john, i have not seen that. i don't understand the nexus, how that one gets you to the other, and i think the defense, from this point on, is going to continue to make that point to the jury. they are going to say look, he did all these other things, that does not prove anything about him being a murderer and if the prosecutor cannot make that case, john, i think it takes away from the credibility of their entire presentation. so, they had best move on from all these prior crimes and stick to the events of the night of the murder. >> john: we will find out soon enough, phil, if the prosecution has made its case or the defense has instilled enough reasonable. thanks for being with us. we have more testimony coming up in just a little while. we'll go back to that as soon as it happens. >> the other part of this is --

thank you, phil, apparently the prosecution really getting played by this guy because he's also flipped the script in terms of pointing the finger back at them and saying look, you wasted your time and looked at me the entire time from day one and didn't look at any other potential suspects. now what? i think that's something else that has been interesting, too. he's really turned the tables here in day two. >> john: in terms of turning the tables, if it is true he did what the prosecutors alleged him to do, moments before he allegedly did it, everybody thought everything was great. and suddenly turned around in a murderous rampage? the jury has to believe that's possible. >> make a movie out of this one, i say. we have mark eiglarsh, criminal defense attorney later in the next hour if we can get to it, if we don't go back into this testimony. >> john: meantime, roll on to this. >> whoa, large explosion, two

miles behind me. >> you can hear the air ride sirens behind me, right now the ukrainian capital of kyiv is under attack. >> john: dozens and dozens of russian missiles raining destruction down on the nation. vladimir putin is putting through hell. >> rescue workers are digging through the rubble looking for survivors. >> john: today marking one year of a war that many people thought wouldn't even last a week. even as ukraine holds firm a year after putin's forces invaded, no end in sight to the slaughter that has left hundreds of thousands of people dead and the world is closer to the first conflict since world war ii. and announcing plans to send another $2 billion to military aid to ukraine to help it fight off the expected spring offensive from russian forces.

>> these are uncertain times, john. as more american taxpayer money is poured into battles that american troops are not even fighting, we are hearing more questions about how long this bloody conflict will continue to rage on. fox team coverage right now with retired general keith kellogg standing by for us. but first, to trey yingst live in kyiv where the first explosions sounded one year ago and remember you, trey, running from shelling out in those fields, i'm sure you remember it like it was yesterday. >> aishah, absolutely, good afternoon. one year since russia invaded ukraine and no end in sight. difficult to predict what lies ahead. we look back at those who survived the first year of the year. >> prays at a church in the kyiv suburb of bucha, before the war, he was a business owner. he was married and had many

friends. after living under russian occupation, his world collapsed. i mean, our family fell apart, the 65-year-old ukrainian explains. i actually lost the firm, before the war i had 65 employees. today, i have six people left. he now lives alone. he and his wife divorced, his children moved to germany and he spends his days delivering food to a local hospital trying to help the community. if you relax you will fall into depression and serious consequences, he says. his story is not unique. when russia launched the full scale invasion one year ago, they worked their way toward the ukrainian capital, destroying everyone and everything in their path. this time last year, the ukrainian allies were tell zelenskyy to flee. he responded i need ammunition, not a ride. >> what was going through your

mind the day the russians invaded? >> the first time i didn't have any feelings, i didn't have enough time for feelings. >> today the biden administration announced another $2 billion in aid to ukraine. ukrainian president zelenskyy is calling on that support to get delivered as soon as possible. aishah. >> thank you so much, trey yingst live in kyiv. please stay safe. >> john: retired lieutenant general keith kellogg, former national security adviser to mike pence and fox news contributor. general, one year on the war in ukraine, where do you see this heading and what does the u.s. need to do in the days, weeks and months ahead? >> yeah, john, thanks for having me. look, this is an endless war and this is very bothersome to me. a year ago, or about ten months ago, i said the russians violated every known principle of war that for years we

train -- they go back to 500 b.c. on what those are. and one is simplicity and we are starting to fall into the same trap, we have not figured out how to end the war and there is a way to do it, we have not put that forth, and that's what president biden needs to do. say look, this war can be brought to a conclusion, it needs to stop, the american people are going to get very dissatisfied with it by putting all this money and no end date. he's got a great bumper sticker, as long as it takes, as much as it takes, that's not a strategy or policy. and they need one how do you end this thing. two ways to maneuver in war. one is maneuver and one is attrition. ukrainians cannot win that fight. >> john: you said we are spending all these billions of dollars to keep russia bogged down and it would seem and throwing another $2 billion at it, additional ammunition, 155

millimeter artillery rounds, drones, secure coms, equipment, sustainment, no f-16 in the list, ukraine is saying give us those and maybe we can beat these guys. >> john, i've heard this before, we say we are going to give and not give and we end up giving it so them. abrams, we give them abrams. no himars, we give them himars. and endless stream, not looking at how to conclude this. how does all this work together whashgs is the plan to do this, why doesn't biden call putin, explain to the american people how this thing needs to end. confusing to the american people. you can't keep this thing going because you are into an endless war. there's no stoppage, nobody can tell me when it's going to end. we do know major offensives in the spring and summer, more death and destruction.

when i was in ukraine you look at a country that's lost major cities, mariupol or izyum, and one-third of the country -- and 150,000 russian soldiers dead, somebody needs to say this is how we stop it. it can be done, this administration is not leading the way to do it and they need to. the free world looks at us to lead and right now we are not, we are just following. >> john: well, a year into it, who knows how much longer we are going to be in this. general, great to get your thoughts, appreciate it. have a great weekend. >> updating a story that broke here yesterday, the top prosecutor in america's most dangerous city ignoring demands that she resign. now her critics are going forward with a plan to kick her out of her position. just the latest far left prosecutor backed by george

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>> john: the sheriff's office in orange county, florida releasing body camera video showing the dramatic arrest of a 19-year-old career criminal accused of killing a woman and then returning later to kill two more victims. watch here. >> [bleep] [bleep] your face, get on your [bleep] face. >> they killing me, they killing me. >> deputies spotted keith moses walking and ordered him to get on the ground. deputy remarking the gun they found in waistband was still hot. he is accused of killing, three

did not survive the shooting spree. a known gang member with a long rap sheet. prior arrests include grand theft and domestic violence charges. >> a push to remove a far left prosecutor in the most dangerous city in the u.s. is now in the hands of the court. this after st. louis circuit attorney kim gardner refused the missouri attorney general demand she step down. so now the a.g. is asking the courts to kick her out. chief correspondent jonathan hunt is following the story. how is gardner reacting to this. >> kim gardner says she was elected by the people of st. louis and intends to continue serving those same people, even as the missouri attorney general says she has to go precisely because, in his view, she has consistently let down the people

of st. louis by neglecting her duty to tackle crime and the a.g. says he can and will prove that in court. >> we need to prove nefglect, ad statute and missouri supreme court rule. >> a.g. cited as one of gardner's failures the case of high school volleyball player, 17-year-old janay edmunson, horrifically injured over the weekend as a result of a car crash allegedly caused by 21-year-old daniel riley who was out on bond on a robbery case and supposedly under house arrest. now, kim gardner blames judges for that, claiming her office asked several times for riley's bond to be revoked, but the courts denied the request. and she accused the republican attorney general of playing politics. >> the attorney general and

others use this unfortunate incident and tragic happening to this young lady as a political stunt of an unelected individual who wants to use politics to, one, stop the voice of the people in the city of st. louis. >> and the attorney general's attempt to have gardner removed has hit an immediate roadblock. all the judges in the st. louis circuit court have recused themselves, citing potential conflict of interest. so now the state supreme court has to find a judge from another jurisdiction to hear the case further delaying a decision on whether kim gardner should stay or go. aishah. >> jonathan hunt, we know you'll be watching it for us. thank you for that report. >> john: a lot to talk about some other guests as well, brian kilmeade is on the soft on crime

stuff. >> and watching governor ron desantis on the three-state tough on crime tour, talking to shannon bream as well coming up. >> john: and then we'll go back to the alec murdaugh trial as soon as it resumes. the jury in the murder trial now having lunch after another dramatic day of testimony. he is set to return to the stand after the break some time in the 2:00 hour as the prosecution continues its cross examination and of course as we said we'll go back to that live just as soon as it rezooms. >> also, have you heard about this? erin brockovich headed to east palestine after a train derailment up ending the lives in the small ohio town. how the activist plans to help those who are scared for their safety, even after officials say everything is okay. >> the water is clear, the air is clear, we have a clinic set up for anybody who has a problem. they believe it is safe to live there. delallo. i teach ap and honors economics in pittsburgh, pennsylvania.

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>> reporter: republicans on the house. >> john: republicans on the house oversight committee are threatening to reveal the identities of hunter's mysterious art buyers after he missed a deadline t turn over the financial documents. miranda divine joins us now. if they do decide to go ahead and do that it may take a while, the art dealer is not cooperating by telling the committee who the clients were. but if they do eventually manage to get the names and release them, do you expect that would be revealing? >> well, i don't know. i mean, it may be, i'm not sure if we are going to see something as obvious as president xi buying one of hunter's paintings at an inflated price. what we do see is a fair amount of contempt and arrogance

towards congress, towards the oversight committee, and whether or not james comer goes down the january 6th nancy pelosi line will be very interesting. because remember, steve bannon was convicted and sentenced to four months in jail for defying a subpoena from the january 6th committee. peter navarro was arrested and put in leg irons in a jail cell again for ignoring a subpoena. so now james comer is saying he's going to subpoena hunter biden and perhaps his art dealer, so let's see how tough they are going to be, and if they are going to match the january 6th committee. >> john: not quite sure they have made a final decision on that yet, they say they may have to as a last resort. one of the big questions, inflated prices, who would buy hunter biden's art in the first place. michigan congresswoman lisa mcclain said hunter biden's

artwork is not worthy of hanging on the walls of a foreclosed motel. why would anyone buy it? the answer is simple, curry favor with the corrupt son of the president. portrayed by democrats as a witch hunt by hunter biden, but does it not behoove the oversight committee to at least look into it. >> i don't think the paintings are that bad, and maybe there are people who want to buy them for reasons, aesthetic, art world is used in corrupt fashion, it's ridiculous the names are secret. >> john: and james comer said there needs to be transparency here and this is an investigation, after all, of the president, not the president's son. said if president biden is compromised by deals with foreign adversaries, and they

are impacting his decision-making, this is a threat to national security. the american people deserve transparency and accountability about the biden family's influence peddling. we had the former national security adviser, robert o'brien on the other day and it's not his belief that president biden is compromised when it comes to china. are you so sure? >> well, i don't know how anyone can say one way or the other. what we do know, millions of dollars came into the biden family bank accounts from china as well as other countries, russia, ukraine, and we don't know whether the fact that joe biden, the biden administration, has gone soft on china in comparison to their predecessors. we don't know if that's for legitimate policy reasons or if joe biden is going soft because of his family's money making activities, which have compromised him. we don't know either way, and

it's up to i guess the oversight committee if joe biden keeps on ignoring this important issue. i don't see how he can go into run again in 2024 without giving a full account of all those monies. >> john: with china making the move its making and decide to arm russia, we may find out how tough this president will get with xi jinping. thank you for dropping by. hope you have a great weekend. >> aishah: president biden back in delaware as people in east palestine, ohio continue to live in fear after the toxic train derailment, compounding criticism that biden appears out of touch, first fueled by the visit to ukraine instead of ohio. mike tobin is live in east palestine. mike, it's been three weeks since this disaster. you've been talking to folks. i would think about a

presidential visit would get a lot of national attention and help for these folks. >> so far the kind of help and attention they are getting is from high profile people such as erin brockovich who joined the list of high profile people to show up here in east palestine, she has a town hall tonight. noted a number of things, the way the ntsb distanced the agency from the decision to drain the hazardous vinyl chloride into a ditch and set it on fire with the intention of burning off the hazardous material. she says it has been bungled. >> digging a ditch to drain the liquids into it, you just set yourself up for ground water contamination for a decade. and then set it on fire? i would like to know who was in charge of that decision. i mean, this could have been

prevented. >> now nearly 3 weeks after the train wreck, pete buttigieg arrived at the crash site. expressed some regret for the slow arrival but wanted to give the ntsb room to lead. people here in east palestine are not happy. >> i think he should have been here when the evacuation was lifted. i just -- that's what i think. he should have been here sooner. >> absolutely too little too late. and we have biden over in ukraine handing out millions of dollars, where is he? >> it's one aspect, but it's over all. everything has just failed us. you know, he could care less about it. >> and the ohio epa says 43,000 fish have died in area waterways since the train wreck. aishah, back to you. >> aishah: mike tobin in east

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have enough evidence to support charging him with murder. senior correspondent alicia is following the case. he was charged with first-degree murder, what's going on? >> it's not entirely clear, prosecutors did downgrade the charge either late last night or early this morning when with this more complicated allegation, george allen kelly's defense requested and was denied a delay in the preliminary hearing. the judge, however, did grant a motion by the prosecution not to allow video of witnesses on the stand. this is the view we have from inside the nogales, arizona courtroom. you can see kelly there no longer in the orange jump suit now that he is out on bond. today kelly's attorney challenged the sheriff's investigator who decided to arrest kelly for first-degree murder, bringing potential bias against the rancher. prosecution hit back claiming it

was not relevant to the prelim. on january 30th, kelly says he heard a gunshot while having lunch with his wife inside their home. the 74-year-old claims he went outside with a rifle and fired warning shots over the group of strangers on his property who he said had backpacks and ak-47s. later he was arrested after he called authorities when he found the body of an unarmed 43 mexican national. the defense claims drug traffickers killed this man and not their client. >> john: thank you so much, aishah. >> aishah: the lunch break in the alec murdaugh murder trial past the halfway point, murdaugh will return to the stand soon. cross examination continues today. we will bring that to you as soon as that comes back up. >> john: also one year since putin began his war in ukraine.

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>> aishah: today marks one year now since russian president vladimir putin launched the war on ukraine. our next guest took up arms as soon as russia invaded. the youngest member of the ukrainian parliament, he is still there fighting for his country and he joins us live now to give us an update. thank you, first and foremost for being with us and taking some time to share with our viewers what you personally have gone through. i want to play, if i can, first, just taking a look back at you when this war first began, watch this with us. >> we thank all the support we got from the united states in terms of javelin missiles and any weaponry. of course nothing is enough in this kind of fight. the fight against second biggest army in the world, so the reality is everything should be very much well received and all the bits of help we are getting from the west are welcome. i see a lot of things come in

and we are thankful. we need much more of that to sustain the fight and to keep defeating the russian troops. >> aishah: you know, one thing i just can't get over is i hear so much gratefulness in your voice there as the war was raging on despite the fact that you personally suffered so much, lost so much. you lost your girlfriend, sasha, we lost our producer, sasha, our photographer pierre. can you tell our audience about your personal losses, the toll this war has taken on you personally? >> the impact, myself is hard to quantify. sasha was my world got smaller when i lost that woman, ten years of everything, love, hate, friendships, ventures, and all

the stories and all the trust that we shared, all that lost just like that because of the russian missile. and pierre, certainly as well, unforgettable presence. everyone who knew him says that about him, and i had the pleasure of knowing him not for so many years and he certainly is somebody who is dearly missed there and also here. as far as my path is concerned, after the loss, after that, i joined the defense, and because they saw fighting, i wanted to fight -- [inaudible] all the hate that filled my heart as they had done to this amazing woman. she made my life so much greater in every single way. and my first walk around kyiv and then during the summer my

platoon was sent to defend -- and it's now famous for what russia is doing to it in the trenches. so, the reality of my fighting experience is that. >> aishah: can i ask you, i hear the music in the background, and wondering what life is like now one year later. how is morale for your people? >> i'm in kyiv at the moment, and i was searching an area with stable connection and of course because it's here people try to take little bits of normality they can get and so we have street musician playing to cheer everybody up. the reality is everybody is not simply myself living with tragedy, every single ukrainian has the story, somebody they lost, somebody is fighting, somebody who moved away, somebody is risking their life, the reality of all of us, and

that is why it's like never before in the fight to get the right to choose our own destiny, and to prove to the world and to russia we exist and has the willing to define its own destiny. >> aishah: you are proof of perseverance for your people, and general keith kellogg said this was an endless war. we hope it is not for your sake and your people's sake. thank you for joining us on this one-year anniversary and we will stay in touch. >> thank you very much. >> john: and we'll be rolling into hour two here on "america reports." back to the alec murdaugh trial as lunch is just about done on the lunch break. we'll hear more testimony from him. cashback on flapjacks, baby backs, or the tacos at the taco shack. nah, i'm working on my six pack. well, good luck with that. earn big with chase freedom unlimited with no annual fee.

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