so monday on "morning joe" joe and miikka's guests will include haley barbour and the former chairman of the national republican committee terry mcauliff, and author of "covert affairs" piper perabo and walter issacson. we go the chuck todd now. this mornings numbers showed that unemployment stayed the same adding fewer than 100,000 jobs. we will look at the impact on the presidential race this hour. more hand wringing over team romney as conservatives accuse the campaign of mishandling the health care ruling and the

ruling is struggling with messages, but they are rolling in the dollars to the tune of $100 million this month. and maybe it is the oppressive heat, but members on both sides of the aisle are behaving oddly. good morning. it is friday july 6th, 2012, i'm chuck todd. the "daily rundown" starts right now. the jobs report gives more pressure on the presidential election. this month 80,000 jobs added in june leaving the unemployment number stuck at 8.2 making the second quarter of 2012 the weakest in terms of jobs added in two years. after a brief dip in april the unemployment rate has not moved at all, but the bad news is hiring with 80,000 new jobs with adjustments to april and may and you can see 225,000 jobs were added in the last three months combined, and that is less than

the total number of jobs added in february alone. on average 226,000 jobs were added each month in the first quarter. the second quarter average just about 75,000. down by more than 2/3. the jobs report essentially means a political status quo of sorts, but it is bad enough to give romney some breathing room from a bad week. yesterday the hand wringing about romney's campaign continued after a brutal editorial from the "wall street journal" followed up be i the weekly standard's bill crystal comparing romney to quote "losing candidates from massachusetts" in a piece titled "can dukakis carry romney" and a "prevent defense in the second quarter when you are not ahead is a daubous strategy, and the maniacal belief that the economy and only the economy is an annoying tick to a self-delusion." a chance that the romney branch

is trying to throw an olive branch to the critics, a few selective reports this morning. one the washington post notes that romney will bolster his communications and messaging team, and that some republicans who have been advising romney behind the scenes may take on more public roles and add tv time, but the "post" reports that there are no plans to alter romney's core team of boston advisers and unclear how the changes are, but he is clearly wanting to offer something to the critics to calm them down, and one of the things is the june fund-raising hall with over $100 million. and that is combined with the romney victory fund. and in is combined with a trip for the summer and with his already trip to the olympics and his recently announced trip to

israel, and it would start out in reno, nevada, where he would make a big foreign policy speech there and go to great britain and travel to israel and then back the europe to visit both germany and poland. the romney campaign had considered a stop in afghanistan, but that is now unlikely, because the speculation about this trip is one more piece of evidence that romney may nouncot annthe vp pick until after that trip and after the olympics, and the timing would seem odd if they did it before. remember, we are dealing with about a two-week window before he would take off on that trip. the president will address the jobs numbers when he stops in poland, ohio, later this morning and the second day of what the campaign is calling the betting on america bus tour. it also takes him to boardman, ohio, south of youngstown, and then wraps up the afternoon in carnegie mellon in pennsylvania. and the drive to win the president is making an unsubtle plan to go after middle class

workers and he is targeting romney as out-sourcer. >> governor romney said we should just let detroit go bankrupt. i refuse to turn my back on communities like this one. i was betting on the american worker. governor romney's experience has been in owning companies that were called pioneers of outsourcing. my experience has been in saving the american auto industry. >> and in an interview with nbc cincinnati affiliate wlwt, the president dialed up the rhetoric on the health care mandate and went right at romney calling him a flip-flopper. >> the fact that a whole bunch of republicans in washington sudd suddenly said this is a tax, for six years he said it wasn't, and now he is suddenly reversed himself and so the question becomes, are you doing that because of politics, are you abandoning a principle that you fought for, for six years simply because you are getting pressure for two days? >> the romney campaign responded in a statement this morning

saying, quote, president obama is right, what you say as president matters and he told the american people that it is not a tax and then sent the lawyers to the supreme court to insist it is a tax and now insisting again it is not a tax. in another interview this one with columbus affiliate wcmh the president was asked how he would respond to governors like john kasich who said they will use medicaid funds to expand coverage. >> what is going to happen and we saw it when medicare first started, a lot of times politics gets in the way of common sense. so, there are a lot of republican governors who feel pressure from, you know, rush limbaugh and members of congress not to implement and so they think it is bad politics, and over time though, when they see that more and more people in states that do implement are getting a better deal on the health insurance and the costs are going down and fewer people are uninsured and over time what

will happen is that the politics fade fades away and this thing gets impleme implemented. >> this trip is all about trying to connect with voters who do not have much of an affinity for the president and in a series of off of the record stops, the president bought a cheeseburger and fries at a diner and had some corn and sipped beer at ziggy's. >> i had a beer in amherst at ziggys so i'm feeling good. >> and that was a miller lite on tap and bud light in the bottle and the president spoke off of the cuff and dropped the tell prompter. >> i don't care how much the other side spends, you cannot be stopped once you have decided what is right and what is true. >> in the last election i told people, i'm not a perfect man. i certainly wasn't going to be a perfect president. but i said, i'd always tell you

what i thought and i'd always tell you where i stood. >> anybody else getting w flashbacks on 2004 on that line? it is a familiar line. all right. back to the big story of the morning and the spring slowdown continues in the summer and the numbers of june caps off one of the weakest quarters of the year, and now joining us is mark zandi and given the slowdown from may to june, any wonder to have a slowdown in hiring again in june or worse than you expected? >> well, i was disappointed, because it is not enough and it is not enough to bring down the unemployment and when you have 8.2 unemployment rate, it is uncomfortable. we are growing, but not fast enough to make anyone feel good about what is going on. >> one of the things that we had hard about a couple of weeks ago, slowdown in manufacturing. breakdown the report for me a little bit, what did you see in

it that gives you any glimmer of hope for growth and what did you see in it that has you nervous that this sort of status quo slowdown is going to continue. >> well, you look in the details and it is odd. i think that is why there are some glimmers of hope. we saw a decline of employment in retailing which is incredibly unusual and that is not the reality of retail. and construction was zero after few months of declines, but it is not con ssistent with the pickup of construction and leisure and hospitality and tourism, and that is incredibly weak, so is some of the numbers if you look at the details don't seem to add up with what is going on in the industry, so i am hopeful when the data gets in the numbers will look better, but the reality with the caveats, we are still not growing fast enough. >> and there has always been a lot of speculation that a lot of businesses are not doing any hiring right now as they wait for the results of the election.

is that really the case? is that really how the american business community operates? >> well, some truth to that. what is going on is that everyone is incredibly nervous of what we went through and the nightmare of the recession is deeply embedded in people's thinking so if anything goes off a little bit, they pull back and not that they layoff worker, because that is a recession, but they stop hiring. i don't know if it is the election, but the confluence of thing, and what is going on in europe and all of that and the fiscal cliff that is coming and the fiscal decisions that we have to make. and it is all of these things that make business people incredibly nervous and again, they don't layoff, but they just stop hiring and that is how we get the tepid job numbers. >> all right. looking ahead to the next couple of months the rest of the summer, and summer has been at some point there is an expectation that you would see some summer hiring pickup, and you expect that? >> yes, i do. that is captured in the data and

the seasonal adjustment, and just because you get a pickup of the seasonal numbers, will not affect the numbers per se. but the underlying job growth in te k the economy is better than this and we will get better fum numbnum -- numbers, but chuck, i have been overly optimistic for the last four months, so take it with a grain of salt. >> thank you, mark zandi of moody's, and we will see you in a month. >> four more jobs reports including the friday before the election. and we will have driving direction as president obama rolls into pennsylvania and we will hear from a congressman who is talking about what his constituents wants to hear. and we will talk about how one has gone radio silent and the other won't stop talking.

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from now until november the other side will spend more money than we have ever seen before and they will be raining ads down on your head, and they will tell you it is all my fault. that is what all of the scary voices in the ads will tell you. that is what mitt romney will say, and what the republicans in congress will say, and you know, that is is their plan for winning the e llection, but it

not a plan to create jobs. >> we can expect more of that message when president obama travels to pittsburgh today and addressing criticism that mitt romney is spending too much time criticizing the president and not enough time detailing his own economic plans. and we have found that mitt romney will respond to the new jobs report in 20 minutes and do it in wolfs bwolfesboro. and now joining me is congressman from pittsburgh, and so when we talk about the voters in pennsylvania and northeast ohio, it is the quote swing voter, and you look at the folks, and they seem to be disappointed in the president, and they feel disconnected from mitt romney. is that a fair assessment? >> no, i don't think it is. look, the issue is that the president e

president's job numbers are abysmal and have been since he has been in office. these 8.2% numbers and talking about the 20 million unemployed or underemployed are a serious problem. out here in southeast pennsylvania and with the president's anti-coal and anti-natural gas policies are of grave concern. when you hear about the slowdowns in the coal mines in kentucky and pennsylvania that is a problem -- >> you call him anti-coal and he voted pro-coal in the senate, and he gave a license to the first nuclear power plant -- >> well, he -- >> and in a long time, and this is different from other democrats. >> well, his epa policies as president of the united states have been ones that have been leading to closing the coal-firepower plants which will see in turn to people's energy bills going up $300 to $400 a year, and on top of the anti-drilling policies and we have seen people whose gasoline costs since his day of inauguration have gone up $2,500 to $3,000 per year and you see the increases in the health care plans going up according to the

kaiser foundation, $1,800 to $2,000 since the health care bill has been passed and these are serious concerns. and they are not concerned what he did as a senator and the missed votes, but what he is doing as president and those policies are grave concern here for the people out re. >> and you argue that from the president that these things take time, but i want to play a clip of what governor romney said about the jobs picture in 2006 and get you the respond on the other side. this is what he said. >> i came in and the jobs had been falling right off of the cliff, and i came in and they kept falling for 11 months and then we turned around and we are coming back. and that's progress. and if you are going to suggest to me that somehow that the day i got elect ed that immediately somehow the jobs should get turned around, that is silly. it takes a while to get the jobs turned around. >> that is governor romney in 2006 when he was asked about why employment growth in

massachusetts had been flat after he took over, and you could hear the same thing and you have heard the same thing out of the president. is that a legitimate way to look at how you get out of a recession? >> we are talking about 2012 and the president's answer to these poor job numbers is to distract people away, and to talk about other things with governor romney, but you can't run a wai y from the fact has the people are worried about their jobs and future and a lot of the southwestern pennsylvania jobs are related to energy and health care and health technology and other areas there. when you look at the numbers of 1.7 million college graduates in the last month and 3 point some million high school graduate nas is a serious problem and going to try to distract you and having a beer at some place, and the families are worried and are they going to support their families? they don't care about this stuff, because the president has had four years to work on these things and we have seen a steady

decline and policies coming through that have ended up hurting job growth. it is estimated that the coal-related policies are going to cost people more as it gets going. people are saddled with more costs and not seeing hope or help from the president's policies. >> are you believing that mitt romney has put out enough details of the economy and what he would do differently or enough to say, i'm not president obama. >> well, a number of things he said are important he would move forward with the keystone pipeline and that is 830,000 indirei injobs, and he said he would work more on exploring energy and not buying as much from opec and he would reverse some of the terribles a specks of the ohealth care bill to prevent families from paying more, and what is also important is that as you look at the small

businesses who are worried about hiring more because of the punitive things that will happen to them if they go above the 50-employee level or worried about the future. so any family would say, let's hold off on buying a car or this or that until we get a sense of the future is, that is the same thing that happens to america's small businesses. they are also worried about that and continuation of the same policies out of this white house is not giving people hope for change at all. it is more worry about the same thing and the same strategies and the president's plan is to do the same thing where he sees job growth coming from more government jobs, but government jobs and the government worker requires three to five private workers to support that job and a private sector job such as construction can lead to seven to ten more private sector jobs and that is where governor romney has an advantage over president obama saying we need to grow the private sector. >> so you agree with bill kristol of the "wall street

journal" editorial that he has more meat on the bones. >> yes, governor romney has offered quite a bit of what he would do as president of the united states and there is more to come and president obama is not offering anything more new but more distraction and denial and delay of the reality of the terrible unemployment numbers and he wants people to pay attention to personality issues and political issues and all of the things about governor romney and saying what he is doing -- >> so you think that the criticism of bill kristol is wrong? >> well, i think they governor romney will put out more policies. i would love to hear more from him and i would quite frankly love to see president obama do what he said he would do with clean coal energy and open up yucca mountain and push more things and not have ten federal agencies standing in the way of drilling for natural gas and open up the drilling for oil so we don't have a $127 billion trading deficit with opec. those are important issues and you can't take them off of the

table, and obama's failing policies and yes we will continue to see more out of governor romney. >> it seems like you are in the referendum camp. >> i am not sure what that means, but we have to change things. >> all right. congressman, thank you very much for t for joining me. i appreciate it. coming up, what is going on in the land of lincoln and we will have the latest news on two well known member s s of the delegation and making outlandish comments and odd moves. plus, they are calling it internet doomsday and will you lose all internet access when we wake up monday morning? i feel like we have had this today. but the trivia question, three sites hold the distinction of being the burial place for two american presidents. what are they? we will have the answer on chuck da daly

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welcome back to the "daily rundown." a few stories i am watching this morning and the holiday week. s secretary hillary clinton met with allies about syria. >> it is frankly not enough to just come to the friend s of s syrian people, because i will tell you very frankly, i don't think that russia and china believe they are paying any price at all. nothing at all. for standing up on behalf of the assad regime. >> arguably the toughest words yet from the obama administration about china and russia and all of this is coming as a member of the military elite defected and on the way to paris, and the brigadier general is a close ally of president

assad and if it is confirmed, it is the highest defection of the syrian regime. and according to the polls 6 in 10 republicans say that the presidential campaign is dull. good grief. by contrast the democrats are becoming increasingly interested in the race and 45% say they find the race interesting up five points from march. ok okay. and the internet may shutdown for 250,000 computers monday. the government has been warning of harmful malware that is embedded in some servers and affecting some sites. the fbi has tried to patch the problem that hackers caused by creating the new servers, but the agency is taking the fix offline, but a they believe that the users have had the time to fix the problem and to find out if your computer is infect and how to fix it. go the dns-ok.

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our heroes and now i'm running a against a woman who, my god, that is all she talks about. >> four days later, walsh was not exactly apologetic and here he is yesterday. >> this wasn't a slip-up. i don't regret anything i said. >> this isn't exactly the first time walsh's headlines have made headlines, and remember his opponent is a double amputee for what happened during her service. if you are speaker boehner, please take control of the house and hope this guy goes away. and then jesse jackson, jr. who has been on a leave of absence since last month and his office said quote, recently we have been made aware that he is grappling with certain physical and emotional ailments privately for a long period of time. he has checked into in-patient medical facility, and he will need extended treatment, and his

wife only added to the i intrigue when she said a qualified support. >> as a wife, my primary concern is that of my children and i just want to make sure they are taken care of and provided for. >> some context here. jackson has faceded four years of scrutiny tied to governor blagojevich's attempt to sell president obama's senate seat in illinois. all of this is amid grand jury indictment could come down any day. he represents a district that is still heavily democratic, but his republican opponent brian woodward is trying to take advantage. >> i think that jackson has the obligation the do it not just for the constituents, but to dispel the rumors and there are a lot of rumors out there as to what is going on. >> something tells me we will hear more about both stories and both members of congress in a weeker oso. >> are all right. back to the big news of the morning the disappointing jobs

numbers with the unemployment rate holding steady at 8.2%. we are expected to hear from the president and mitt romney in about an hour. terry bacon a political editor at grio, and also deputy national political hillary bloom, and robert, a msnbc contributor. and so you cannot be caught rooting for the bad news, but this is the jobs report they were probably looking for? >> well, after the back and forth over the spin on health care and even a couple of days ago they were pointing to friday and saying, don't forget, there's news that is going to happen, and this is obviously the news that fits into their message and not to say they were routing for it, but they have said it is a campaign only about the economy that has frustrate ed ed a lot of the republicans because it is single-minded as i know we will talk about later, but it is further evidence that you can't get too far away from it, and the numbers are

disappointing for the white house and we will hear president obama try to make the most of it in a couple of hours. >> and perry, you look at the first quarter to second quarter and averaged over 200,000 in the first quarter of the year and the second quarter the average is under 100,000, and that is clearly, this is not like a blip, right. it appears that we are in a slowdown. >> we are in a slowdown and 8.2% in two months of in a row and 8.1% in the month before and it is hard for the president to make the case that the economy is improving in a broad way light now. no president has won in the modern times with unemployment over 7.4%, and he has to and it is hard to believe that unemployment will get that low in the next few months. >> and romney campaign have fumbled around with health care and yesterday put up the money story to make sure that everybody saw that and say, hey, for a badly run campaign, we know how the raise money, and that seemed to be a little income, and romney makes sure on vacation he can make a comment.

>> well, mitt romney has been on a semantics nightmare this week. but is this baked into the polling? and are the independent voters taking this into consideration? and the question for romney, does he have to pivot to other issues and that is what the conservatives are saying, is the economy enough for romney to win the white house. >> and what you said baked in, and that is a lot of argument that the people know that the economy is sort of sluggish and the question is who's the person to sort of steer the ship going forward. >> and yeah, that is why it is interesting to see president obama talking about china and the auto industry and yeah, he is not talking about the raw jobs numbers, but look, this is the needle he has tried to thread for more than a year now and yeah, it is not that good and we are getting better and doing our best, but he is talking about the specifics and with slee if mitt romney talking about it today. >> thank you, guys for being here, and we have a alan krueger

coming in, and we will get the white house's take, and what happens when you give the president a beer and take away the teleprompter. and it has been hot, and you would think they have been serving this soup everyday gazpacho. there should be a prodding f feature. you have to prod me more to be on facebook more than twitter, but social media neutral. we will be right back. to a little girl who saw flames reach her home

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robert, what did you make of that? is it a placation to bill kristol or like calm down, of course, we are bringing on more people. what did you make of it? >> it is a of course bringing on more people. and the gop operative is a strategist who makes the campaign ads, so all of them will stay, and beth myers and others, i don't hear them getting thrown out of the campaign. romney has a inner circle and he is a politicians who likes to have a tight knit inner circle and i don't see him shifting. >> and it does seem that there is an element of the republican party who was of course never on board and don't pretend, and the "wall street journal," and the last guy on board bill kristol the last one on. and first to criticize. >> he was insufficiently con ser vative to them, and now he is accusing him of mismanagement and what you are describing is

exactly right. how do you have a staff shake-up without a staff shake-up? i don't know if it is going to placate them, because they are not looking for symbolic shift, but a strategy to change and they are upset with the tactics and the strategy of the last few weeks. >> but remember that the people we are talking about, they are conservative policy wonks and they want more stuff. you know they want more stuff. they want to -- >> they want a big campaign about the difference of how the paul ryan plan versus obama plan deficit reduction, and romney does not want to run on big idea, but i'll be a better manager of the economy than obama. and he wants to run a different part. and the fund-raising has been good and the messaging is good and most of the republicans are more worried about the candidate and not the staff. >> and someone said to me very bluntly one time, so in a conservative white christian party we elected and nominated

the mormon moderate from massachusetts and we stink? >> and they did bring on ed gillespie and i expect more hires like that, senior republicans to come on, and lenny chin is not the only guy, because he is hiring the paul ryan staffers and a lot of people on capitol hill have come on board, but with angst, policy has not gotten specific with policy, and so when it comes to details that is what the conservatives want more than a staff shake-up. >> one of the scoops this morning from jay martin, one of the more beefed up foreign policy trips and a lot of the major speeches at dfw and starts there in nevada, and then to the speech in london at the olympics and tell that story, but then also a speech in poland and the counter, if you will of the president's then candidate obama's speech in berlin. >> you have to scan the horizon

in new york to see where is safe to go, and poland is one of the safe places for a republican. and germany is a safe place on the list and of course israel. they have been debating the trip for a while and it is interesting to be two weeks away from the supposed departure date and they have not settled it yet and it is a moving landscape for them and they have not locked it in. and poland is a centerpiece to talk about the economy and emerging economy, but no question, israel will be the centerpiece. >> and perry, before we go here and get over to alan krueger over at the white house, the president yesterday, it was interesting the difference between the stump speech thematically was the same, but he did a stop at a bar. had a couple of beers and it was a different president obama sort of stylistically in ohio last night. here is a taste of it. >> a lot of people are looking at this and saying, we don't know how this is going to turn out, because we have never seen a sitting president outspent like this with all of the money and the negative attacks and maybe it will work.

>> no! >> but, but, but -- you know, it is a plan, it is a plan to run a campaign, and it is not a plan to put people back to work. >> just in general, and it is one of the, he was looser and you hate to be cliche about this, but the couple of beers loosen him up, but he was looser. it was -- you said it earlier, it was more clintonesque. >> it looked like the barack obama of 2008 and more funny and less trying to figure out the private sector is doing fine comment and look at how comfortable he looked. he was not trying to illustrate something of a kcomplicated nuance, but a guy about here is how i am trying to win and the republicans are trying the do to me? >> is that a key, beer before the stump speech? >> very clintonesque. >> and you have alan krueger sticking around and you will stick around for trivia and the three sites that hold the

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>> the economy continues to sputter along and within the hour we will hear from both president obama and mitt romney on the jobs report. president obama's council of economic advisers. good morning. i want to start with the quarter to quarter and when you look at a quarter to quarter, you have been big about one month and you have to be careful not to

overreact. it has to be something that troubles you. $226,000 average of jobs added. below 80,000 this second quarter. >> well, chuck, recoveries don't move in straight lines. we will have some quarters that are stronger than others. if you step back, we see that the economy added jobs every month for the last 28 months we added private sector jobs a total of 4.4 million over that period. we would like job growth to be stronger and the president proposed policies that would strengthen job growth and we are asking congress to act. they should be holding a vote on tax cuts that the president has supported for sometime and rewarding businesses that increase employment and also allowing companies to expand 100% and these are the steps along with the proposals to help state and local governments to

retain school teachers and invest more money on roads and highways. these are the steps that economists say can strengthen job growth in the short run. >> sorry your implication that congress is slowing job growth? >> it's a combination of factors are affecting the economy. problems have been building up in the economy long before president obama came to office. middle class jobs have been shrinking and income growth was concentrated at the top. we didn't see enough growth in income among the middle class families and they were overleveraged and working their way down with borrowing. along with issues in europe. there steps that they can take today. we need to focus on the policies that we can effect and that can strengthen the economy. >> when you look at the jobs and you see it for a longer period

of time than most folks, when you look at the report, what is the green chute that you expect to see building? >> there a couple of things in this report that indicate that the economy is continuing. there was a lot of damage caused by the crisis and that's taking time to work through. manufacturing it continuing to expand and a half million jobs have been added. the auto sector added jobs and think the president's efforts to rescue and restructure the auto industry played a role and auto sales were about 14 million in june. another good sign and lastly i added work hours ticked up. when companies are cautious, they feel that things are improving and they increase work hours, that helps families get

more income. they add permanent hires down the road and we saw that total work hours in the economy increased by 4/10 of 1%. the biggest increase since february. >> do you believe that somehow the american business community is holding off on certain decisions waiting for november? are they waiting for the election results? >> what we are trying to do is dissect continues so that they can thrive. there a lot of head wins. the survey reference week took place before the elections in greece. that was a time when there was a lot of uncertainty and that is affecting your businesses. what the president is focused on is steps he can take with his administrative authority and steps that congress can take to strengthen the economy and the president will stay at it. he has been pressing congress for a small business tax cut, for example. >> i have to leave it there.

chairman of the chairman of economic adviceors. thank you for coming on this morning. >> my pleasure. thank you. >> a quick final thought. the comment there at the end that said the survey was taken just before the greek election. >> he didn't answer about waiting. >> implying there is something to this waiting until november aspect. >> for will show us more uncertainty. it has to be decided after november. >> he talked about what congress can do, but when given the chance to say put the blame on congress, he backed off. >> nothing will happen. congress is in campaign mode. you mentioned greece. they are talking about the european debt crisis and this is the argument. romney's argument is the recovery is too slow. >> is it baked in and do folks see the global picture? >> he blamed congress four

times. in addition congress, congress, congress. it was not subtle. >> shameless plugs? >> my brother's don birthday. >> a great piece in the washington press today. are heat waves the new normal. >> the blog on attribute.com. the jobs report. >> that's it for this edition. quite the holiday week. we will see you here on monday. next is chris jansing. diarrhea, gas or bloating? get ahead of it! one phillips' colon health probiotic cap a day helps defend against digestive issues with three strains of good bacteria. hit me! [ female announcer ] live the regular life. phillips'. ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] everyone likes

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