it. >> dana: it's pretty cool. good to be back. are you happy to be here? >> absolutely. july in new york city ain't so bad just yet. not too hot. if it gets steamy we have issues. >> dana: how is the pollen? we ask every day. we have to ask every day. harris faulkner is up next. "the faulkner focus" is here. >> harris: fox news alert. who left the coke out? it has the press secretary in hot water. karine jean-pierre accounting of the biden family's whereabouts before the cocaine was found is not adding up. i'm harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus." the investigation into how the illicit drug cocaine ended up inside the white house may wrap up as early as today. house oversight chair james comer is demanding more information on the journey of

coke at 1600 pennsylvania avenue. comer says the secret service must give a briefing to congress this week. lawmakers are also ready to press f.b.i. director christopher wray on the white house's illegal drug controversy at a hearing on wednesday. and again, the top spokesperson for biden is playing high intensity defense. >> they were not here. they were at camp david. they were not here friday, saturday, sunday, they were not even here monday. they came back on tuesday. so to ask that question is actually incredibly irresponsible and i'll just leave it there. >> harris: i'll give you irresponsible. check out these facts. the press pool reporting contradicts what she is claiming. their reporting shows first lady jill biden, hunter biden and beau left the white house with the president at 6:30 p.m. on that friday, june 30th. you know, one of the days she

says no, they were not there. so in fact they were seen there two days before the drugs were found. here is republican congressman darrell issa. >> this administration is constantly making up new lies and not being held accountable for those lies. the white house press person and others are deliberately telling lies and not being held accountable and it is an area that is normally one of those when you roll your eyes. there has to be accountable for this kind of security compromise. >> harris: senior congressional correspondent chad pergram is live on capitol hill. chad. >> good morning. lawmakers are baffled as to why this investigation is taking so long. gop members say investigators should be able to narrow this down by looking at logs and security cameras. >> you know, this isn't losing your glasses in your kitchen.

this is the most heavily surveilled building on the face of the earth. this is literally something that they have tapes where they look at every part of the white house all the time to make sure, seps for parts of the west wing. >> republicans have been quick to accuse the white house of potentially engineering a cover-up about who the drugs belonged to. it's why they want answers from the secret service and f.b.i. director christopher wray. >> now it seems there is somebody at the white house that apparently is using some of these drugs. it is a really interesting thing here that we're seeing. we've never seen before in the history of this country. but someone has to be held accountable for not only using drugs within the white house, but for whoever smuggled that into the white house. >> the white house has been defensive about the cocaine. however, officials say there will be proper penalties if the drugs belong to someone who works at 1600 pennsylvania avenue. >> we have rigorous drug testing

policies at the white house and rigorous drug use policies here at the white house. we take those extremely seriously. so we'll let the investigation unfold. if it involves someone from the white house, the appropriate consequences with ensue. >> tests identified the white powder as cocaine eight days ago. it was discovered in a west wing lobby. where official visitors and aides come and go from the white house. harris. >> harris: thank you very much. ben domenech. the united states is in the top three nations that use cocaine the most in the world. the people's house is sacred ground in our democracy. so we hope. so there is a big picture and why it matters. talk to me. >> well, i think that one of the things that we should understand about this is that this is a

security breach of the kind where there are already, i think, in all likelihood, people who know who the culprit is within this white house. the fact that karine jean-pierre would play so fast and loose with the facts when it comes to talking to the journalists in front of her is not a surprise. she has been, i think, an utter disaster as a communicator for this administration. she has used the indication of the hatch act to try to dodge various questions and yet ended up violating it anyway and also someone who i think does not have the faith of a lot of the journalists asking questions of her that she is going to bring them an accurate assessment of what's going on. the fact that she would go out in front of them and say something so blatantly false. as soon as i heard her say it, it was one of the moments i yelled at the television saying no they weren't gone yet. and everybody who pays attention knows that. so one of the questions about this is who did this? the other question is how does

something like this happen without greater awareness? if they come to us and say oh, we don't know who did it. first off i think americans won't believe that because it is not very believable. second, i think they should then ask okay, if you can't figure this out in a place that's supposed to be as secure as the most secure sort of place that we have in america, with the most important people at the head of our government involved there and just steps away from where this happened, how can we have any confidence in your level of providing security for the first family and for the other people who work in that building every day? look, as someone who did walk through those halls and literally i've put my phone in the same cubby area where they found this to go into meetings and the like, it is something that's very disturbing to me that something like this could happen just a stone's throw from where the president and the vice president work. >> harris: getting that first person eyes on it as you are giving us right now is really

helpful. i was going to add congressman drew from the republican from new jersey who was in chad pergram's reporting pointed out, it isn't just that this is the most secure place on the planet, it is that then there might be questions what else is going on that we don't know about? a quick thought and we'll move forward. >> i just think the congressman's point is taken and one of these situations that becomes all the more concerning given the number of family members that are reportedly living at the white house or spending so much time there. they might as well be. family members aren't subject to the same kind of testing that jake sullivan was talking about when it comes to drug use. that's a critical thing to remember as well. they don't have the same restrictions on them that staffers do have. and that's something that becomes more concerning when there are a lot more people there than perhaps is intended or is the norm when it comes to the number of people who live at the white house. >> harris: we'll segue into hunter biden because it seems natural because that's been part of the concern about him.

any sort of illicit drug use by anybody close to the president makes the situation vulnerable around the president, whether it's staff, family, friends, whatever. republicans certainly are not going to let up when it comes to his son, hunter. the first son's legal problems and personal issues a hot topic for the 2024 race. white house candidate chris christie on hunter biden's recent tax and gun probe plea deal. >> well, listen, u.s. attorney attorney weiss has to explain himself in public. the fact is that this investigation, the hunter biden in delaware, is either a lie or incompetent. there is no way that it should take five years to get to a two-count misdemeanor tax plea and then to dismiss the gun charges. >> harris: a new op-ed. bidens do the not the time. newt gingrich did not hold back. >> the most corrupt administration in american history surrounded by fem who

live in a fantasy land in terms of how the world works. the combination is an enormous danger to the very safety and survival of the united states. >> harris: your response to that. >> former governor christie's point is a very important one. the idea it would take five years to get to this type of result boggles the mind. i don't think anyone who knows anything about the way these charges normally work views this as being normal. instead i think especially given the whistleblowers' claims along these lines we have to know whether mr. weiss was able to advance the kind of charges he wanted to bring in other jurisdictions as opposed to being, as they report, blocked in a number of different respects from going after the meatiest parts on hunter biden. the second question is what level of corruption continues to this day? it is one thing to say we will sweep all this under the rug and

when we put hunter out there at state dinners or during fourth of july celebrations, that's just normal and you have to accept it. that seems to be the attitude of the bidens and their family. it's a political mistake. the bigger question is look, he is not that long removed from doing and promising things to foreign entities including america's adversaries. getting millions from them and disbursing that money through a network of llcs to members of his family. that stinks to high heaven. it looks as if this is an act of serious ethical breach and corruption. whether he delivered on the promises or not is something that remains unclear. until we can have clarity on that point, these questions are still going to be asked and the suspicion that the former speaker has about the level of corruption that could still be going on are certain life not allayed by any of the attitudes of the people at the white house who seem to act as if it's something that be easily

disregarded. >> harris: the potentially blocking of the questions within the investigations and actions in the investigation it is problematic that hunter biden would be around leaders of foreign countries given all you just said continuously. ben, always good to have you kick us off on the "focus." what if doctors wore body cameras seeing patients? would you feel comfortable with that? one resident at yale university says cameras on lab coats are needed to get ready for it, fight racism. okay. plus where do the voters stand right now on 2024 as the primary calendar is fast approaching? the first nominating contest upcoming. first gop debate is next month on fox. veteran polling expert lee carter and "the faulkner focus" voters voices live on set in big studio m, republicans and democrats next. ♪

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>> harris: fresh back from two weeks with the family in florida, arizona and more and i found out that everybody is talking about this 2024 presidential race. people are thinking about where they are right now, how it feels to be in this country and who they will vote for. a crowded primary on the republican side with the former president trump holding a commanding lead over everybody else. the contenders making their cases in the early contest states of iowa and new hampshire. >> did you see the news today about the record fundraising haul we've had? nobody has been able to match

that in the history of presidential politics. >> i will end the disaster of bidenomics. destruction for our country. >> you could say president biden but it means a vote for president biden is a vote for president kamala harris. >> most of this country doesn't yet know who i am yet and glad to see we're doing better in the polls than donald trump was doing even in june of 2015. by a wide margin, actually. >> harris: trump's challengers have a lot of ground to make up. the former president has a 34-point lead over the closest rival, florida governor ron desantis. on the democrat side president biden is far ahead of his two primary challenges, rfk junior and marianne williamson. some polling puts them both in double digits. if democrats stay home because they don't like biden and don't necessarily vote for those other

two, you know what that does for republicans? the ones on set with me are smiling. lee carter pollster and president of a company and voter's voices and i will start with kevin. they will pop your names up as we go. republican voter from new york. now a new jersey democratic voter. david new jersey republican voter and dan new york democratic voter. great to have you here. i want to find out how everybody is voting. david, tell us who and why? >> i'll be voting for republican contender will hurd. >> why? >> because of his experience at the border and his experience with the c.i.a. it makes him in a good position to lead the country. >> harris: it's interesting, a lot of people would pick somebody with 1% and i just want to show you where your guy is polling right now. i know he is recently into the entry and i want to get your thought whether or not this matters now.

can we pop that up? will hurd is a #less than 1% now. why does it matter? >> it is hard at this point to predict what will happen. when you are this low it is tough when you are against some of the big names like donald trump and desantis pulling in so much. in 2015 donald trump was nowhere to be seen in the polls at this stage in the game. everybody expecting jeb bush to win. 1999 elizabeth dole with ahead and not thinking about george w. bush. people have to make their case to the voters. you guys are the most important in making this decision right now. >> harris: dan, i know who you will vote for. democrat. >> i will be voting again for president biden. >> harris: why are you voting for him? by the way, a new associated press poll fresh out -- he lost seven points in this category while he was on vacation. my executive producer said i'm bad for him when i get time off.

he now has 85% of the country according to the associated press poll, saying that they think the country is going in the wrong direction. >> sure. i think voters felt the same way about other presidents at this point. once they see the alternative, if it is former president donald trump, then i think the decision will be just as clear as it was in 2020 that president biden should get a second term. >> harris: is dan's calculation right about oh, just make it all about trump? >> i don't think it is necessarily right but i do think that what the democrats are going to try to do is talk about dangerous it is for republicans to take control. a threat to democracy. a threat to equality, threat to freedom of a different type. republicans are having an argument. i think that's what they will try to capture and i think some of the issues in the supreme court are important to voters, more than you would expect. look at people said the economy is number one, abortion must be the last. when you start talking to

democratic voters they say the supreme court matters, i will be about abortion and affirmative action to drive me to the polls. >> harris: we saw a tick up for democrats after the abortion decision. they were able to fundraise on that. >> absolutely. >> harris: these are the types of moments not the best look for the president who would be 86 years old at the end of a second term in he reelected. let's take a look. >> president biden: the constitution says we hold these truths to be self-evident. he is clearly losing the war in iraq and at home. >> harris: most voters say they don't feel biden has the mental fitness to serve another term. 68% have major or moderate concerns. i know you are voting for president biden again, why? >> he got the job done. when president biden took over

this economy we were doing terrible because of covid. he brought us back from covid. he reduced inflation. almost half of what it was last year at this time. unemployment is the lowest it has been since 1960. tracking for i believe 17 months in a row under 4%. you know, the economy, u.s. economy is thriving. he has restored our respect internationally bringing nato together. he has done a fantastic job. >> harris: when former president trump left office and we were still deep in the pandemic, inflation was rocking between 1.4 and 1.7%, some of the lowest in history. when president biden took over we had never seen those numbers in my lifetime that rose to. it has taken a lot of time to bring those back down to still record level. just something to think about. the president is campaigning on what he calls bidenomics now and

here is a taste of that. >> president biden: yesterday we announced since i took office we've attracted a half trillion dollars, $497 billion in private investment in bidenomics in action. my economic vision to move from trickle down economics to what everyone on "wall street journal" financial times is calling bidenomics. today's job shows that i think jobs report i think shows that bidenomics is working. >> harris: i think he needs to hire dorese. you know more than he does when it comes to actually selling it. what he is trying to sell. voters don't seem to be feeling any of that. 45% say they're falling behind with personal finances and holding study. 11% say they are getting ahead. kevin, i come to you. who are you voting for and why? >> i'm a conservative republican

and voting for trump. why? i think the american people have seen the fallacies of the policies when it comes to crime, immigration, fiscal policy and foreign policy. i think the american people have had it and they want change. >> harris: i will go in reverse order and come back to you, dorese. look at each other when you talk here. you have very different views about where the country is going and how we get there. you want the man who has already had the job and you want a man who has already had the job. could you come together if there were other people running? >> possibly. i think that right now the democratic and republicans have kind of far apart on policies given like the woke policy, right? there is a big disagreement between both and can we get together and come along? possibly, but we have to meet in

the middle. >> trump, all he is a cult leader and he has done a very good job in, i guess, hypnotizing his followers. he is not a man of the people. this man was born with a gold and diamond spoon in his mouth, not even silver, yet the majority of his base are not college educated. they are not wealthy and grow up in wealthy families. he has convinced you guys he is one of you all and he is not. that he is for the people. he doesn't have policies for the people. who was the man who got it done? biden. >> harris: time to rebut that. >> biden has been in politics how many years, 40 plus years and now he has got the opportunity as president, his last 3 or 4 years now and it's gone really south. so what has he done in the last 40 years to come to this point and the country is now in dire

straits? >> harris: one thing i would say just on president trump is that we had the lowest unemployment among black americans in 50 years when he was president. let's move forward. something causing a lot of angst for democrats, 44% say they are open to supporting a third-party candidate. so just for democrats, what would that look like? >> i personally don't see any other person in the country ready to lead that president biden except kamala harris. i personally- >> harris: her numbers are lower than the president. >> i speak for a lot of democrats who say she is probably one of the most prepared politicians in american politics. she was the attorney general of the largest state in the country, a popular senator and vice president is a very difficult job with no real constitutional authority in terms of what you do every day. it is a hard job for everybody. i think she would find a way to become a popular president as well.

>> harris: do you think she needs some wins before you call her a success? >> yes. i have never seen anything that she has done that i would say would move the ball forward. i do think going forward she needs to show more and do more. i haven't really seen anything that she has done to bring the country together. >> harris: i know the press is trying to get her out there. the press office is clearly trying to get her out there. >> yeah, the day after biden did his official announcement that he was running again they put kamala harris to talk about abortion. a key factor in the race. ist is not resonating and she is not registering. when you look at the polls and how people are reacting to other candidates you see newsom doing better, governors in the midwest are polling higher. a deep bench on the left including more than kamala harris should it come to that. >> harris: would you vote for

gavin newsom? >> well, i would vote for any democratic candidate over republican. gavin newsom, yes. >> if newsom was the nominee of our party i would vote for him. i would campaign for him. >> harris: on the gop side, would you vote for anybody who is on that list right now, that crowded field of republicans to make sure your party gets in if it's not trump? >> absolutely. the republican party has strong candidates. >> no, i wouldn't vote for anybody. we need somebody who is going to take a common sense pragmatic approach. >> harris: would you just not vote if it is not your candidate? >> i wouldn't say i wouldn't vote but i have my choices. >> harris: interesting. david. thank you all, great to have you voters' voices. thank you, lee. lawmakers in tennessee are marking a legal victory. a court temporarily upholding the state's law to block gender

transitioning for children. plus a disturbing new trend is threatening performers. have you seen this? i tell you, look at him. harry styles the latest victim of someone hurling objects at people giving concerts. he got hit. another artist with a stern warning to her fans. charlie is in "focus" next.

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>> harris: a federal appeals court ruled the state of tennessee can, in fact, ban transgender care for minors, at least temporarily. this would stop children from getting puberty blockers or gender surgery. tennessee's attorney general called it a big win. attorney phil holloway with this.

>> it might be unconstitutional to tell an adult that they can't permanently alter their body in some way. however, when we are talking about children, minors, i think it's probably not unconstitutional in light of all of the other ways states can regulate minors differently than states can regulate adults. >> harris: you might have guessed the aclu doesn't like a ruling. a statement. an excerpt from it. this ruling is beyond disappointing and heartbreaking development. tennessee now joins 17 other states with bans or restrictions on trans care for minors. on the books. charlie, outkick post is with me now. charlie, great to see you. first of all, your take on how this is shaking out now, 17 other states and tennessee. >> harris, i have think it is such great news. the idea of being able to chemically castrate or surgically mutilate is child is

obscene and banned everywhere. you probably remember when you were a child it was confusion every day. you woke up not realizing what life was going to be for you, what you wanted it to be for you and to introduce the idea of gender i den tee makes it more confusing. since 2004 a 1300% surge in google searches that relate to sexual orientation. am i guy, lesbian or trans. this is out of parents who want to protect their kids. the other day there was a father that went off on tiktok so upset. his 9-year-old son went to a physical getting ready to start the football season. the doctor asked what do you identify as? such an obscene idea. this is clearly a boy that is attending this appointment. for parents to now realize a lot of it is out of their hands because you have teachers and doctors who are attempting to brainwash all of our children.

>> harris: doctors have told me that the real bottom line issue here for the actual children undergoing puberty blockers and surgeries. we don't have enough long-term scientific research to tell us what really is not reversible and what the long-term effects are. doctor siegel at fox news broke it down for me in prime time saying look, when it comes to the puberty blockers they are using a drug that is used for prostate cancer which makes the bones brittle in growing young people. that's already on the books medically. we have a lot of places to go with finding out how to protect the children. for all the reasons you just mentioned their psyche and physical. >> the emotional trauma as well. not just the physical effects. you grow up and realize wait, made a horrible mistake and it is too late. it is all over the place. >> harris: let's keep it medical. a yale university doctor is arguing that medical

professionals should wear body cameras when they are with patients. she says that's going to help health workers catch themselves being racist. in on op-ed she wrote black people face wristism and worse heth outcomes in hospitals. time to document it. body camera footage is reduced police brutality. if we want to see a reduction in poor health outcomes for black patients we must hold healthcare professionals accountable in realtime. hipaa, i don't know how they get around the federal law protecting everybody's privacy if you put cameras on the doctors. >> that was my first point. if i'm a patient there are a lot of questions, things that happen in the privacy of a doctor's office i wouldn't want recorded or be seen by other people regardless of any circumstance. if the left insists on playing the race card in another facet of our life like they have with the police, there have to be guidelines if place.

cameras worn in every instance not case-by-case circumstance and then if maybe there are situations where it goes against their agenda, those need to also be released as well and not delayed or withheld from the public. but you also have to think about just the subject child indoctrine nation. now we can see the doctors putting these ideas onto our children at a young age. there is a lot of, i think, ins and outs. >> harris: you may make the argument for people on the right and keep people on the left available and adoption, is that coming up enough at all or in conversations about abortion? one more. harry styles got an unwelcome and painful surprise at a concert saturday night. this is getting quite dangerous. someone in the audience threw

something at his face and it was clear that it hit him and it hurt. he is the latest victim of a disturbing new concert trend. others have had things thrown at them on stage. adele has a warning, though. >> harris: all right. apparenting cussing out the audience. >> they shouldn't throw everything. disturbing trend after disturbing trends. now they are throwing phones. our society is in such decline. i don't see it ending.

people will do absolutely anything these days to get likes and comments on social media. i just saw the other day there was an influencer to go into stores in broad daylight and trash the place and getting millions of views about stuff like this. i don't see any of this stopping unless there are some serious security measures in place in these situations. security have their hands tied in a lot of these situations as do police in so many of these situations. what is going to cause it to end? i don't see it ending. people will do whatever it takes to be popular on social media. >> harris: addicted to attention. our greatest export of america is fame. i wish they were addicted to inte integrity. great to have you on the program. portland businesses are still struggling three years after the george floyd riots. >> it is not safe, unfortunately.

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>> harris: slow moving storms are people in the northeast facing massive flooding. conditions killed at least one person in new york state not far from new york city. stony point is not that far. flooding also submerging cars as you go farther and farther up the east coast. this was the scene in northwestern connecticut, the high water washing away roads and bridges. i don't know why that says virginia. it is connecticut. it's happening throughout new england. police closed a road in vermont because of a huge mudslide. cities and towns across up and down the eastern corridor seeing rain totals of six inchs or more. it has already been raining and more in the forecast.

los angeles just reinstated 0 bail policy. they won't arrest and jail shoplifters and others. l.a. is finished. watch how bad it gets out there. shaking my head, he says. the stats prove him right. a recent study found suspects released without bail reoffended more than 70% of the time. william la jeunesse is watching it for us in l.a. is 50 right? >> i tell you right, bail is there to insure people show up for court. the period we're talking about is 2 to 4 days after an arrest and before you see a judge. in l.a. police can no longer hold the suspect for misdemeanor crimes in that time. $0.50 calls it a huge mistake. he attached this to prove his point. >> starting at midnight tonight the sheriff's department will no

longer detain people for theft, shoplifting, drug use, vandalism, battery and a whole host of other non-serious, non-violent crimes that affect the quality of life of people here in los angeles county. >> besides reducing the appearance rate in court, critics say 0 bail also deters police from doing their job. it is pointless to arrest a non-violent offender because they aren't being held. >> he walks around with a wrench sometimes in his hand, a pair of pliers, a hammer. >> he turned on this spigot and defecated in that corner on the last brick. >> multiple times in this l.a. neighborhood residents witnessed this homeless guy vandalize water pipes and cut power and utility lines without penalty. >> when you call the police, what do they say to you? >> they say that there is nothing they can really do. >> i have five street lights out

on two streets and my house sits in complete darkness. the taxes i pay are outrageous. >> activists say bail discriminates. prosecutors say just because you were arrested an non-violent crimes doesn't mean there wasn't a victim and usually means you won't face justice and no deterrents. >> harris: william la jeunesse, thank you very much. >> harris: if you lost everything in the violent rioting in the wake of george floyd's death you need to pay attention to this. the violent protesting lasted for months in 2020. remember that? it turned cities like portland, oregon into a disaster zone with small businesses bearing the brunt of the damage. >> it is not safe, unfortunately. the city is at a breaking point and it has been. >> they have protest to defund

the police and then spend the last nine months proving that we need more police, not less by destroying our city. >> it is sad. it feels like a dungeon. inside. we're trying to recover. >> it devastated the image and reputation of portland. >> harris: we don't know exact will i where it will end up. damages are estimated in portland in that district alone at $23 million. now an effort is getting underway to get the city to pay for those losses. greg shoemaker is the founder of restore law and order incorporated. the group launched lawsuits against the city of portland and the state of oregon. tell me the goal and where you are going with it. >> well, thank you for having me on the show. restore law and order. our website is restore law and order.com. our goal is to recover economic damages for businesses,

individuals, and organizations and set a precedent for future loss candidates not to run for political office knowing that they'll have consequences as their predecessors. what we're doing is we're gathering the businesses and people that have economic damage due to the riots, homeless problems, illegal protests, and we are suing the city of portland, the state of oregon and government officials personally. >> harris: what is the response from the city so far? what you are doing is fighting city hall and you are trying to stave off what has not just been expensive but dangerous for the citizens of your city. >> it is not safe to go into downtown portland. it's a wreck. not just in portland, oregon but across the united states and

wherever you have these sanctuary cities and states and far left liberal viewpoints and government officials running the cities and states. and we have to put a stop to this. >> harris: what has been the response for you? are you getting any pushback from the left? >> not at this point we are not. >> harris: you are just getting started. do you have citizens thanking you in >> we have a tremendous amount of support from businesses, citizens, just generally people throughout the state of oregon. >> harris: just one last thing. you went through this yourself. tell me how bad it got. >> it got very, very bad. so i own one of the oldest businesses in portland, which was established in 1895. year of 2005-2007 going back 17 years ago, our company was

terrorized by terrorist groups and thugs for almost two years with 0 law enforcement. so every time a crime happened, we called to inform the police, f.b.i., went to the mayor, city council, went to the governor of the state, even went to president bush at the time not getting anywhere. >> harris: i will bring you back. keep us posted how your fight is going. "outnumbered" is after the break. do not take with strong cyp3a4 inhibitors. allergic reactions to ubrelvy can happen. most common side effects were nausea and sleepiness. ask about ubrelvy. i was told my small business wouldn't qualify for an erc tax refund. you should get a second opinion from innovation refunds at no upfront cost. sometimes you need a second opinion. [coughs] good to go. yeah, i think i'll get a second opinion. all these walls gotta go! ah ah ah! i'd love a second opinion.

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