we'll have the scoop from dib durbin and bob casey. reports of another massacre in syria. and hillary clinton calls for assad to go. >> the regime-sponsored violence we witnessed again in hamah yesterday is simply unconsciousable. he has doubled down on his duplicity. and syria will not be peaceful, stable or certainly democratic until assad goes. obesity is growing, pun intended. are americans expanding waistlines putting our national security at risk. the bask ball star takes his turn at the weather map on canadian television. >> the snow up there, but i don't know those names, so we don't have to worry about those places, and there's water over here, so we're in vancouver, i'm

happy to be there. i'm assuming there's bears and cougars up there, too, so stay away from there. >> stay away from bears, and al roker, your job is safe. in hour daily fix today, help by big donors to a joint committee with the rnc. both campaigns broke all fundraising records in may. all the money in the world won't solve the president's economic problems. at a beverly hills fund-raiser, mr. obama previewed republican attack lines. >> what they're going to do is they're going to say, well, you know what, you're still not satisfied, an it's obama's fault. that's the essence of their campaign. very easy to put on a bumper sticker. chris cillizza, after the

numbers on friday, the campaign has been trying to deal with those numbers, and nothing shabby about the obama fund-raising, but the romney numbers are astounding. >> yeah, you know, andrea, look, you can spin the jobs report, you can spin the money, but this is a bad week for president obama. this doesn't mean he's going to lose the election. it means it's a bad week in june for the president of the united states, and a good week in june for the man running against him, mitt romney. i think we always have to be careful of extrapolating what it all means, but look $76.8 million is a massive amount of money for mitt romney and the rnc to raise together. 93% of it together according to kevin madden, $250 donations and less, so i think that's a bit of pushback against the idea this is all just rich people giving to romney. clearly he's getting big donors.

so, you know, a good week, certainly a good day for the mitt romney campaign. >> and they were raking it in in texas last night, how did it go for 9 romney camp? i want well, look, texas is -- this is why we all thought that rick perry was going to be the governor of texas was going to be a serious candy for the republican presidential nomination, because texas is the home of republican money, both small and large, but especially large. anytime he goes to texas or frankly california, not a state you think all that much of when it comes to republican, but there are a lot of wealthy republicans there, he is going to raise massive sums of money. it's important to remind people, this election between mitt romney and barack obama will not by decided by money. they are both going to raise my guest north of $750 million, you're going to have at least that amount, probably more spent by outside groups.

they are both going to have enough money. what i would say, though, remember in 2008 barack obama raised $750 million. john mccain raised and spent total $239 million. he, the president of the united states will not enjoy anywhere close to that kind of fund-raising advantage this time around. we also saw a new obama ad that's just come out today targeted, and will be playing in key states? >> yeah, absolutely, andrea. what it is is talking about the president's message, which is hard. it's essentially saying, things have not been as good as we thought, we know that there's still time -- that no one's happy, essentially, but that the policies he's put in place are starting to work, and what mitt romney would do, would not in fact work, that the economy is getting better, it's not as good as they'd like it, but it is getting better. that's a tough message. it's the obama message, but it's a tough message, which is things

aren't great, but they would be worse under the other guy. >> it's running in nine key states. let's take a quick look at it. we're talking about colorado, iowa -- >> we're on our way back from the worst economic crisis since the great depression, our businesses have created almost 4.3 million new jobs over the last 27 months, but we're still not creating them as fast as we want. >> the president's jobs plan would put teachers, firefighters, police officers and construction workers back to work now, and it's paid for by asking the wealthiest americans to pay a little more, but congress refuses to act. tell congress we can't wait. >> so it's sort of trumanesque, running against congress. i was saying colorado, florida, iowa, north carolina, new hampshire, nevada ohio and that's a contention that pennsylvania is in play. if democrats can't carry pennsylvania, the game is over. >> well, andrea you, and i have talked about this before. if you look at the will be tore

map today, president obama starts with an advantage, no question, but if pennsylvania, wisconsin, which we've talk about a lot this week, or michigan, those are states in all five of the last presidential elections have all gone democratic, if any of those three states tilt and go for romney, particularly pennsylvania because there's a lot of electoral votes there, now all of a sudden president obama's advantage on the map disappears. the question is can mitt roll any put one of those three big states in play. my guess, an educated guess is wisconsin is the most likely to be in play, pennsylvania second-most likely and michigan third most likely, so we'll see. campaigns clearly see some evidence in the polling data there's vulnerable to the president of the there. >> chris cillizza, thank you for starts us off today. syria's military is accused of carry out another massacre, allegedly executing dozens of

civilian. the white house has issued a statement. senator dib durbin just back from refugee camps on the syrian boardest last week. senator, i know that you're just back from syria, from the border along syria and turkey. we want to talk to you about the refugee camps that you saw and that crisis there. first, i want to talk about ben bernanke on the hill today, the economy crisis, there's a lot of pressure on the fed chairman to do more to stimulate the economy. isn't there going to reach a point where he is out of bullets and where the white house and congress in a bipartisan way have to deal with the underlying problems? independents absolutely. and i think that bernanke and the federal reserve have moved forward on monetary policy. they may have reached the end, but it's our turn now on the fiscal side. that means congress and the president should move together. let me give you a specific example. we passed 74-22 on a bipartisan

roll call, a transportation bill that would create 2 million jobs across america and a lot of business opportunities. the house of representatives refuses to even raise it for a 1r0e9. now we have the conference committee coming forward. we need to make this the highest priority to be done before july 1st. >> there are talks, secret talks we understand going on on the hill. you've been involved with the gang of six, involved with all of the deficit reduction talks, are you involved in definite at this time reduction talks to try to come up with legislation that would at least be ready to go in november? >> yes, we are. it's a bipartisan group, some 32 senators. i think it would encourage a lot of people across america to see -- we're a lot way from an agreement, but there is a common feeling, if we can work together in the senate on a bipartisan basis, we can produce a starting points for this conversation the day after the election. >> does this include entitlements, changes in medicare, social security as

well as tax increasing. >> i can tell you it's based on simps simps simpson bowles, and for those that boyer, don't presume that. i vote indeed support of simpson/bowles, believe that major programs would actually be stronger. >> can this be done before the election? if it's that important way wait? why not come out with some sort of proposal before the election so voters will know what they're getting? >> andrea, we passed a bipartisan bill in the senate and the house won't even call it for a vote. we have to be honest about this, absence some intervening situation, i think it's realistic to believe we'll take this up after the election. the results may change this conversation, but we should be ready, at least poised with a centerpiece to begin this

conversation. >> greece is going to vote next week. you talk about absence intervening events there could well be intervening events. this crisis is brewing in europe. we may not have the time. >> i may be more confident to the outcome in europe but i'm realistic, too. if there's a global economic crisis that threatens another recession in the united states, it may force of hand of both political parties to -- to sit down and get to work. >> the cbo, congressional budget office has estimated this week that if nothing is done and if the bush tax cuts are extended, and the automatic spending cuts are not allowed to kick in, that the federal debt will be 200% of the gdp by 2037. that's a fiscal cliff not just a fiscal cliff we're talking about in the fall, but that's a real cliff, a disaster. >> it's an absolute disaster. think about this. at this moment in time, if we

can move forward in congress with a bipartisan approach to deal with the deficit, it will not only 15u8d fill the dollar in terms of its credibility, i think it will launch economic expansion that's long overdue. i know the president supports this. i hope we can have bipartisan report going into it, at least to prepare us having it done. >> you just came back from the border with syria. there's talk now of another massacre, another massacre of civilians, u.n. monitoridaitors complaining today they have not been able to get in kofi annan thrown in the towel on his first plan, back at the u.n. proposing another plan. what did you see and what can we do? >> i saw 10,000 people in the city of kilis, in southern turkey, 60% of them women and children. turkey is doing an extraordinarily good job, a humanitarian effort that should be commended around the world.

i would say the same for jordan, which continues to accept refugees from iraq, syria and other nations. they make great sacrifices we should acknowledge, but the solution to ending the killing in syria is for bashar al assad to step down. he is not prepared to do that today. kofi annan is trying to set up a mechanism where there's a contact group, including russia to try to at least come to a peaceful conclusion for what's a massacre-like sit wake on a daily basis. >> secretary clinton just left turkey and she talked about it. she said the regime sponsored violence we witnessed again in hamah yesterday is -- and syria will not, cannot be peaceful, stable or certainly democratic, under assad goes. you agree with that? >> i agree completely. i understand assad is fighting this effort. the question is whether his lifelong friends, at least

allies politically like russia will step up and tell him the reality. they cannot continue to prop up assad when he is massacring his own people. i have met with the russian ambassador here in my own office, and urged him to have a leadership role in russia, to try to bring a peaceful conclusion to syria. senator, what about mitt romney's suggestion and john mccain, lindsey graham and others that we should be arming the rebels? >> i still you, i am one who is reluctant to see the united states engage itself in what might be an opening for a larger civil war, and even more death in syria. i will tell you that if we go through the ordernary process in congress, there's a real reluctance to see the united states get involved in another war in another muslim country. i told the opposition that, they have to be realistic. i think president obama is doing the right thing now to pursue a diplomatic effort through russia

to put pressure on assad through sanctions, as secretary geithner suggested, and work with kofi annan to have a peaceful conclusion. thank you so much, senator durbin. thanks very much for checking in with us today. >> thank you. when we come back we'll talk to the chairman of that joint economic committee who has just been questioning ben bernanke. stay with us. you're watching andrea mitchell reports only on msnbc. recently, students from 31 countries took part in a science test. the top academic performers surprised some people.

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economy. as you point out, there may be some diminishing returns. it was today even if the we had were to try another round, it might not be enough to pop new life into the economy. bob casey charles the joint economic committee. thanks so much for being with us, senator. what's your takeaway from what the fed chairman said. are they going to stand pat? or have they done enough, are there down side risks? >> well, my sense of it from listening to a statement, then asking the first question, he wants to leave some options open for the next couple weeks when they have their next meeting, so i think it's a business open-ended, but i think he made a very clear statement, that if the, in the judgment of the fed

the economy needs help, they'll take action. i think the most critical thing for congress to focus on is for us to have a monetary policy debate or lecture series. so we can keep the economy moves. >> how about doing something that promises is long-term solution, so businesses know whether to hire. people are sitting on their money because they don't know what to face the next week. >> no question we have to come down in a bipartisan way, and we hope we can by the end of the year, to put in place as chairman bernanke has said a long-term plans. what we could do, however, is to do that in such a way that it short-circuits or impedes the

short-term economic growth the to put any strategy on the table to keep the economy moves. at the same time there's -- to reach an agreement -- >> i hear that from you, i just talked to dib durbin about it, but we're seeing no sign from the hill. >> that doesn't mean the work -- or continuing the work that's been done over several years. we know there's been various groups, none of them came to the consensus we had hoped but i think that work becomes cumulative. i think there's a good body of

bipartisan support and willingness to finally get a debt deal i don't know -- and we saw the jobless numbers on friday, and they also have obviously a political component. republicans say they think your state of pennsylvania is in play. selfpennsylvania on the table potentially for mitt romney? >> well, we're see. we'll see what the pundits and political sciencists say, all i know is this, the instructions i get are go to washington and work out a deal to create jobs. work on getting a bipartisan agreement, and focus really on the near term on jobs. secondly we know elections are always close in pennsylvania.

>> i expect this year to be no different. >> but republicans don't usually win it. we have to leave it there. thank you very much, senator bob casey. good to see you. >> thanks, andrea. there is more ammunition today on for new york city mayor mike bloomberg's campaign against big gulps. a new report says obesity is actually a threat to our national security. some of the facts that the group cites back up their claims. joining me is former secretary of health and human services donna shalala, president at the university of miami and part of the bipartisan group. great to see you again. >> great to see you. >> let's talk about the effect on the military of what we're finding, and more and more of us are out of shape. >> it's really scary. 27% of young people between 17 and 24 are obese. in the military, of the people that they take in, half of them can't pass the first fitness

test. the navy, to retain people gives them numerous tries. it loses 2,000 people a year who can't pass the fitness test after numerous tries. that costs them $300 million a year, first generation of young people to come through without mandatory physical education in their schools. we're seeing the effects, as well as the effects of bad eating habits and simply not enough exercise. >> the lack of physical education is because of the budget cuts. they don't have gyms, they don't have school yards. >> and some of it is time. we put so much emphasis on certainly subjects that we simply have not recognized fitness s. strong bodies and strong minds as the core of our education system. the military is doing lots of things. they're changing the eating habits of young people. they have a million young people they need to work on. they're investing in their health care system for more

prevention. no question the military is on top of this and needs to do m e more. of course michelle obama has taking the leadership out of the white house, on 9 nutrition and exercise fronts. and mike bloomberg under fire, "new york times" editorializing against him under fire for trying to stop us from being ability to buy these super-sized sugar drinks. >> the mayor has it right. he is taking the leadership, as are other mayors across the country form the truth is all of us are involved. this is carey. by 2030, we expect almost half

of americans to be overweight and obese. that's unacceptable. unacceptable for our military. we can't afford it. the military now spends 10% of their budget on health care. most of the health care costs in this country are associated with chronic illness and obesity. we've got to do something. that means everyone. some of it by regulation, most of it by our behavior, and by our jobs, our workplaces and our schools, making a difference in terms of what they offer us to eat and what opportunities they offer to exercise. >> stick around, donna, and come down to our cafeteria after the show, and we'll do some fact-checking down there. >> you bet. >> thank you very much. welcome back to washington. and up next, the politico briefing, the fallout over bill being bill. plus the story behind president obama's kill list. this is "andrea mitchell reports" only on msnbc. tdd#: 1-800-345-2550

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this is one of the toughest decisions i've had toe make since i've been in office, but i want them both. >> i think i have a solution, though. i propose that toby and kristin co-host the show. i just put two back to work. you're welcome, america. >> both making cameo video appearances at the country music television awards last night. that shows they're both going after country music fans, and why won't they? being bill clinton is taking a toll on the obama campaign, which is still reeling from a successions of his off- -- john, your reporting is this isn't just a case of the white house asking and pushing for a clarification to use a kind phrase, but that the clinton team themselves, bill clinton's aides pushed him to do this, because they thought he was off message. >> there's no question that even people who are around bill

clinton recognize they was making a valid and defensible points, but he did so in kind of meandering ways that are the exact opposite of how you should try to be communicating in a campaign context, where message control and being very focused, even though the point of being repetitive, very precise on your message is key. bill clinton is past the days where he's a candidate himself or he thinks that he, as a former president, somebody with an international profile should worry about -- sometimes he says things that are not on point, and that's what happened in these cases with his remarks on mitt romney, on the state of economy, about the timing, changes in tax laws. >> he's still such an effective campaigner, and you know that they want to use him, but there's that awkwardness of their prior relationship and mutual suspicions to whether he's really doing things that

are in the president's best interests or own wife's best interests. there's so many layers and layers between the relationship between obama world and clinton-world. >> no question, but i've come to the conclusion, and this is from watching and listening to bill clinton a long, long time, it's a mistake to imagine there's too many layers. he's a fairly transparent man. if something is on his mind, i can guarantee you it will come out. if you just listen and listen at the right time, evening fund-raisers, interviews where he gets a bit off-script, what's on his mind will come out. i don't think there was a carom shot he was trying to make. he was just saying what was on his mind, about you doing so in a somewhat undisciplined fashion. i don't think there's any -- he and barack obama have a complex relationship because of the history in 2008, no question about that. but i don't think there's any question that is rooting for barack obama's reelection,

thinks it would be good for it is country, good for democrats, he's not in some way trying to, you know, hold back or carry out a plot with hillary clinton. >> i wasn't suggesting that. >> i know you weren't, but some people have. they tend to imagine that bill clinton is much more machiavellian than he really is. >> ed rendell on cbs with charlie rose, did compare hillary clinton to barack obama, in the way they would each deal with congress. let me play a bit of that from today. >> i think she would have come in with a lot more executive experience. i think the president was hurt by being a legislator only, for example, health care and stimulus, two bills i think did good things for the american people, too much of it was left up to the congress. he sort of said here's my concept, you guys flesh it out. i think hillary clinton would have sent them a bill and said here's what i want. >> so that's ed rendell. he has a new book, "a nation of

wusses." he speaks his mind. there's no question what example he came from originally, which was the clinton camp. that is what a lot of people say, that hillary clinton had those legislative stills that we're still seeing lacking from the white house. you hear the complains from the democrats on the hill. >> there's no question, but the fact is both barack obama and hillary clinton would have been coming in dealing with a highly polarized washington environment, and with republicans not really of a mind to meet them halfway, but trying to destroy their prospects for reelection. i think hillary clinton has impressive experience that is different from barack obama's, but i would be hard pressed to say that i agree with rendell it was necessarily much better. hillary clinton in 2008 made -- excuse me, back in the '90s made a lot of mistakes when she

pushed health care. her own campaign was somewhat disoriented. >> true enough. >> i don't know that the executive experience argument doesn't particularly resonate with me. >> john harris, thanks so much for our political briefing today. topping the headlines, lee zone panetta made a surprise stop today in kabul, meeting with service members and afghan officials only a day after a nato strike reportedly killed 18 more civilians. wednesday was the deadliest for civilians this year after suicide bombers kid 22 in a kandahar market. eric holder was unfire against from chairman darrell issa. he's been demanding about the controversial fast and furious gun program. >> have you and your attorneys produced internally the materials responsive to the subpoenas? >> we believe that we have responded to the subpoena -- >> no, mr. attorney general, you're not a good witness.

a good witness answers the question asked. isn't it true, mr. attorney general, you have not produced a log of materials withheld, even though our investigators have asked for it? >> i know that -- i'm not sure about that. >> okay. i'm sure you didn't. so let's move on. >> you really conflated things -- >> you -- >> will he be allowed to answer the question now? >> don't you love it when a congressional chairman refuses to let the witness answer, even a cabinet secretary. attorneys for football players have consolidate 80 lawsuits, accusing the nfl of hiding information. league officials have not yet commented on the suit. up next, a report card on the obama foreign policy. you're watching "andrea mitchell reports" only on msnbc. oh. let's go. from the crack, off the backboard.

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from the killing of bin laden to winding down the wars in iraq and afghanistan, but there have been major mistakes, arguably the mostp arab/israeli conflict, where the obama administration mass made little, if any progress. "bending history" highlights the accomplishments and some failures. the co-author of "bending history" martin ten dig. what do you think is the biggest failure of resolve our execution? is it the arab/israeli conflict, which has not been addressed? >> i think it's the most obvious one, the president has done a good job of being the custodian of the national interesting, and essentially pulling out of the meet, and ending the wars in

iraq and now afghanistan shifts the focus to asia, but the process part of the reason for that is a failure to resolved. >> he only embold under netanyahu and made it more difficu difficult. that was one of the things undermining the the mind authorities it was reasonable to expect the israelis to constrain the activity, but he set a high goal, as he did in much of his foreign policy, put out these very high goals, soaring

visions, so on, and then authorized his special envoy, george mitchell to negotiate something less than that, and the something less than that was instead a settlements moratorium for ten months, but if fell far short of the objective of a full settlement so the gap -- >> that was weak and projected weakness. >> and created a problem in terms of the expectations of the arab world. and netanyahu said i've done more than -- so don't ask me for more. >> let's talk for a minute about syria. you're such an expert on that, more accusations that these are targeted killings, that we have evidence of what looks like crimes against humanity, war crimes. what will it take to get the united states with the rest of the world to intervene?

>> well, i'm afraid to say it's going to be more massacres like the ones we have witnessed again today, that the effect of this is it's simply intolerable, to accept a situation in which assad and his gangs -- to go around essentially involved in sectarian violence of the most horrendous kind, and the world kind of argues about whether, you know there could be a few more sanctions here, or how we get the russians back on board. it becomes an untenable situation, so we're moving to a point where i think the international community will have to figure out a way to get us assad to step aside and start a process of transition that's very difficult to do unless you've got some coercive means. where are the coercive means going to come from, is the big question. 20 years ago, 20 years ago "time" magazine's cover was

about the killings in bosnia and the concern that the world was standing by. we're showing it now. that was the disaster at the end of the bush years and beginning of the clinton years. bill clinton said it was one of his greatest regrets that he didn't move more quickly. you were in the white house then dealing with other issues, but how do we get, quote, coercive means against assad without russia changing its posture? >> we have to work very hard on moving russia. as the situation deteriorates, their position as the only holdout for the assad regime becomes more untenable. they have shown a bit of -- in that regard, they contrived very hard to get the russia on board, and in the end we couldn't get them on board, we ended up using force after a lot of people

died, unfortunately. that ended up resolving the situation. here it's very complicated, you know, the president himself is runs for reelection on a platform of ending wars in the middle east, not starting new once. the american people are war-weary. they've had the longest wars in iraq and afghanistan in america's history. it's not clear who would we be intervening on. this will not be capable by any means. so first thing we have to do is try to get the russians on board, try to have agreement in the security council for more coercive means, and if we can't do that, then we're going to have to look for a plan b that is more unilateral in its intervention. martin indyk.

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hi, everyone, coming up in just 15 minutes on "news nation" developing news right now. reaction is coming in after new fund-raising numbers show mitt romney and the rnc beat barack obama, both candidates are fund-raising today. we'll head deeper. plus a teenager is sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison, plus he will lose his license for 15 years, after causing a fatal crash while texting and driving. is the punishment fair? it's our news nails gut check. according to revelations in a new book, president obama personally signs off on targets on cia and pentagon drone strikes, places like pakistan

and yemen. his extraordinary involvement is detailed in a new book. by a special correspond to "newsweek." he leaves meetings and dinners with his family and others to go over these hit lists. how unusual is that, in your experience? >> well, i think it's very unusual. there's obviously precedent for presidents getting involved in targeting. everyone knows the stories about lbj, but since the war on terror began, as involved as george w. bush was, he was not deciding individual cases in as systematic a way as barack obama has been doing since he's been in office. one thing i think is important to point out is i don't think he was doing this because he thought there was not enough

going on, i think his view was he was a constraining force in some ways on the military. when he came in, you have to remember he was elected at least in part to to remember that he was elected in part to wind down the wars after 9/11. when he came in, i think people like colin powell and others were warning him that it was important to make sure you supervise the military. that you add that civilian control. military has a way of spinning out of control. he was worried about mission >> between political advisers and others you describe as seeing an incredible scene where david axelrod and eric holder, the attorney general, practically come to blows in a west wing corridor. it sounds like something, both these guys come from new york city and went to the same high school. how bad did it get? >> this was a pretty intense conversation between two men. they had to be literally separated by valerie jarrett,

the president's close friend and senior adviser. there is always a certain am of tension. particularly between the cabinet departments and the white house. in this particular case, the white house was trying to stay very focused on the economy. this was early in 2009. as well as getting health care reform passed. meanwhile the attorney general whose obligation is to be independent, was pushing certain counter terrorism policy that's were controversial and the white house was concerned that these issues would be a distraction. they were also concerned that it was off message. they had wanted to put someone on holder's staff who would be at least in holer's mind, a political minder. that was something that did not sit well with the attorney. so there was this confrontation. and what i try to do in this book is lay bare the human dimensions of national security decision making. they are extraordinarily difficult decisions under a lot

of pressure. and these kinds of tensions arise. i was surprised at the level of animosity that sometimes showed itself in the west wing of the white house. >> well, it's a great week. thank you so much. good to see you. thanks for joining us today. the book is "kill or cap you are." at the kennedy center there was a celebration of courageous women around the world. chelsea clinton stood in her to her mother hillary clinton who sent a video message because of her sudden trip to syria. crisis meetings in turningy. also present, the no belt laureate from yemen. a most inspiring of all, the arab trail blazers from tune eastern, a libya, egypt and yemen. notably missing from the group of honorees, the saudi woman who led the protest. the saudi government would not let her leave the country to accept her award last night at the kennedy center last night.

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which political story will make headlines in the next 24 hours? chris cillizza is back. there's a beauty show, a beauty pageant going on in chicago. the c-pac gathering and all the prospective vice president choices are showing up. >> a vp tryout. you have governors chris christie of new jersey, bobby jinl, bob mcdonnell all speaking tomorrow. i would put them in the top ten list. maybe even the top five list for the vp choices. a little tryout. i don't think he will pick any time soon despite reports to the contrary. a few months probably still. >> that does it for this edition of andrea mitchell reports. "news nation" with tamron hall is next. [ voice of dennis ] ...allstate. really? i was afraid you'd have some cut-rate policy. [ normal voice ] nope, i've got... [ voice of dennis ] the allstate value plan. it's their most affordable car insurance -- and you still get an allstate agent.

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