against the isis fighters trying to open up on escape route for thousands of refugees still trapped on sinjar mountain. in baghdad, prime minister maliki refuses to turn over power to his newly chosen successor. >> we believe that the government formation process is critical in terms of sustaining the stability and calm in iraq. and our hope is that mr. maliki will not stir those waters. >> a tale two of interviews. we'll talk to the atlantic's jeffrey goldberg about his revealing interview with hillary clinton. and her strongest criticism yet of the president's policy in syria. while the president gives his take about arming the syrian rebels to "the new york times" tom freedman. >> with respect to syria, it's always been a fantasy. plus, grief and outrage

spilling into suburban st. louis streets overnight after an unarmed teen is shot and killed by a police officer. >> you aren't god. you don't decide when you're going to take somebody from her. that was mine. that belonged to me. >> a grieving mother. today the family demands answers as the community rallies in the streets. >> open communication. they are venting and expressing their anger and frustration. they don't have the information they want. they don't like what's going on with all the violence and rioting and looting. they are looking for answers. we're trying to give them answers. good day. i'm andrea mitchel in washington. we're monitoring military and political developments across iraq today. u.s. forces continue their bombing campaign against isis as the sunni militants engage with kurdish troops in towns throughout the northern part of

the country. farther south, the threat of a political coup by the iraqi leader. u.s. officials are blaming him for the toxic political environment in baghdad. another cause for international concern. nbc's duncan golistani is live in erbil. tell us what the latest is? >> hey, andrea, well, it's been a calm day here in erbil where things are getting back to normal. none of the panic that we saw a few days ago when people here were occurred that isis fighters were going to advance on to the capital of the kurdish region. that reason for calm and optimism is because of air strikes over the weekend which allowed the peshmerga, the kurdish forces to push on to two strategic towns. strategic in the sense that they are only 30 minutes away, giving you a sense of just how close isis were getting. so under u.s. fire, peshmerga were able to move back into those towns.

and the question now is really, can they hold those towns? -- bring some of the yazidi people, the religious minority who have been hiding in the mountains. some of the yazidi people have been able to come out. ironically coming out via syria and back into northern iraq to be helped by the kurds. but it is still feared there are still perhaps tens of thousands of yazidis up in the mountains. so those are some of the positives but we are still seeing isis fighters pop up elsewhere in the country. about an hour away from baghdad, isis fighters overran the kurds there. so a bit mixed day, although the feeling here is more -- no doubt because of that news that arms will be coming direct now from the united states. andrea? >> duncan golestani, thank you

so much. reporting from erbil. rhode island senator jack reed serves on the armed services committee and is a retired army ranger. senator, thank you for being with us. there's a lot to unpack here. first, the u.s. is now initially through the cia, eventually we believe through the pentagon going to be arming the peshmerga forces. this is a limited part of the problem. do we at this point have to worry about taking on more of the isis challenge? and that means going to syria. >> well, i think the first issue is to stabilize the situation in iraq. the peshmerga are confident fighters. with our air cover and also more sophisticated equipment which they are receiving. i believe they'll be able to go and push back isis, secure their border and then the real issue is the one that you've talked about previously, which is the political issue in baghdad. getting iraqi leadership that's both competent, efficient and effective and using that

leadership and their military forces to begin to roll back isis in iraq. >> senator, i know that u.s. officials were really disturbed by both the tenor and the specifics in maliki's speech yesterday, last night. when he said the army was going to defend the constitution. he's basically deploying armed forces that we help train and equipment around baghdad. and that looks like the makings of a potential coup. >> well, he, unfortunately, is staying true to form, which he's militarized the politics there. he is now using his forces that appear to be loyal to him and not necessarily to the iraqi constitution for his own benefit. that's been the problem for months if not years. but the issue, i think, has to be an international message for not just the united states but from every concerned party that he's not helping the government of iraq stabilize the country and not helping his own people,

the shia, to be able to form together with the sunni and kurds and other minorities a unified country. i sense he's got to go, but he is trying his utmost to resist not only his fellow parliamentarians but also the will of the international community. >> the deputy speaker has been chosen by the shiite coalition with the bless ing of the ayatollah sistani. so what's to stop him from taking power? maliki and his weapons? >> that's the first obstacle, which is to physically just sort of getting maliki to withdraw from at least a presumption of holding the office. i think that's best accomplished by the pressure that, again, sistani, ayatollah sistani can bring, others can bring. but it's interesting that this is the shia sort of themselves

who are asking for his removal now. and that's a significant step forward. and he has to, i think, listen to that call and then the pressure, political pressure has been brought to bear both within iraq and internationally to get them to step aside peacefully. >> militarily, one of the critical points last week was that the maliki government, the iraqi air force had finally done its own air strikes in support of the kurds. we finally had them working together. how can that happen with maliki now staging this political, you know, run about. how do we fight isis effectively if the iraqi armed forces are loyal to maliki? >> well, that's a fundamental issue here. if the armed forces of iraq are not committed to the nation, but they are committed to individual politician, then any help we give will be short term and not decisive. so the key here is what's going

on in baghdad in terms of -- and the parliament and the parliamentarians and the shia politicians seem to recognize that. they want him out. he is holding on. if he goes, and i hope he does, then i think you have the ability to start organizing and directing the international national security apparatus of iraq against isis. and that's the first step forward to ultimately being able to prevail. without that first step, this is a chaotic situation and isis will be pushed back but it will be very difficult to ultimately defeat. >> and finally, are we just applying band-aids here, even with the kurdish situation in the north? until you shut that border or go after their command and control in syria, how do you really get at isis? these fighters are crossing the border. >> you are absolutely right. first you have to have the political stability to give

positive direction support to iraqi forces. you have to stabilize the situation along the fronts. but very shortly you have to cut the lines of communication from isis back into syria. once you cut those lines of communication you can bring pressure to bear individually. one of the military aspects of this is as isis has been move with the captured equipment, which we can easily identify from the air and as they move out of sunni communities, then their advantages dissipate. as they get driven back further into the communities, as they abandon the equipment and go back to the pick-up truck, it's a harder target. your point is well taken. if we can cut the lines of communications, significantly stop the flow of men and material across the board that will give the security forces the kind of -- will machine the plal field and allow them to take the fight to isis. >> senator, thank you very much.

thanks for being with us. >> thanks, andrea. taking a deeper dive into what maliki is up to, ambassador chris hill. thank you for joining us. do you think maliki will take this as far as he might and actually stage a coup? >> i think anything can happen right now. i don't see him getting too far on the coup idea. this is a man who is very thin skinned who believes he's the best thing that ever happened to iraq. and so i think it's going to take him a couple of days at least to absorb the fact that his own party, his own coalition state of law has come up with a new candidate. he probably knows al abadi very well. al abadi is not an imposing looking leader. he studied in the west which is, i think, good from our standpoint. he knows a lot of economics and finance which is also not a bad

thing. i don't think he's been in the position of leading troop formations. so probably maliki is being decisive about his punitive successor. i think it will be very important as senator reed suggested that the endorsements start coming in from ayatollah sistani. i think that's critical. but i'd also like to hear the sunnis for once. for all the talk about how they hated maliki, i haven't heard them get behind anyone else in the shia community, and i think that's a longstanding problem for iraq. >> iran seems to be taking for now a back seat, letting the ayatollah sis staunny take the lead on whom to endorse. they seem to be saying they're not going to interfere and they'll certain lie not back up maliki. >> iran has a real interest in keeping shia, the shia in charge of iraq. and so they don't want to do any thoorm that proposition. by the way, they were never enthused about maliki. frankly, no one is or no one has

been. he was about their fourth choice back in 2010. they don't think any more highly of him now. so i think they will try not to exacerbate the situation with the understanding that we need to get a new prime minister. prime minister can somehow rally those iraqi forces and see if isis can be a pushback as they appear to be getting pushback in the northern areas. >> and who is the army going to be loyal to? >> well, again, i think it's going to take a little time. but i don't think maliki is going to be able to pull off a coup. obviously, they are loyal to him now. he held on to the army and -- or to the defense and interior portfolios through 2011 for the real purpose of developing this loyalty. but i think in the fullness of time, the army people will understand that they need to support a new government. so i think all in all, it's a

good day but, obviously, it's got some real warning signs where we have to play this very carefully in the coming hours. >> thank you, ambassador chris hill. nascar champion tony stewart remaining out of sight today. investigators are examining what caused the death of a young driver, kevin ward jr. only 20 years old mean was hit seconds after ward stepped out of his car and on to the track on a dirt course saturday night. because of the graphic images we're only going to show you the video from before this incident took place. here's nbc's kristen dahlgren with the details. territory was a packed house saturday night. the home of sprint car's racing around the track. then video posted on youtube shows two cars colliding. one spins out while the other driven by nascar legend tony stewart keeps going. the driver of the sidelined car gets out and in the dark appears to point at stewart, then walks on to the track toward stewart's

car. >> tony stewart just hit that guy. >> 20-year-old kevin ward jr. is hit by stewart's back wheel mean was later pronounced dead at the hospital. authorities are examining video of the crash but say it appears it may just be a tragic accident. stewart pulled out of sunday's nascar race saying, quote, there aren't words to describe the sadness. >> and kevin ward started racing go-carts at age 4. he took to racing high-powered sprint cars. there's no word yet on when stewart will race again. nascar has said it will respect the process and the timeline of local authorities. and coming up here, grief and anger. a suburban st. louis community is rallying in the streets today demanding answers after unarmed teenager michael brown was shot and killed by police this weekend. we'll have a live report coming from ferguson, missouri, ahead on "andrea mitchell reports." we'll be right back. by every s .

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we've got a he said/she said over foreign policy. over the weekend, dueling interviews showing a sharp contrast between former secretary of state hillary clinton and president obama on u.s. policy in conflict zones. joining me is jeffrey goldberg who interviewed hillary clinton and wrote about her for "the atlantic." look at what you started. troublemaker. >> i just ask questions. i just ask questions. that's all i do. >> what was so fascinating, let's start with syria and iraq by extension, isis. hillary clinton seeing the big picture and saying, you know, woulda, coulda if we had done what i had suggested in syria, let me read the quote, which i've got somewhere here. hillary clinton on syria. the failure to help build up a credible fighting force of the

people who were the originators of the protests against assad in syria, there were islamists, there were secularists, there was everything in the middle. the fakure to do that left a big vacuum which the jihadists have now filled. that is hillary clinton to the atlantic in your interview. and that is strikingly different from barack obam to tom freedman who said, let's play a little bit of that clip. >> with respect to syria, it's always been a fantasy that they were going to be able to battle not only a well armed state, but also a well armed state backed by russia, backed by iran, battle hardened hezbollah. that was never in the cards. >> he calls that a fantasy. >> right. this is probably their single sharpest point of disagreement. in my interview with her, i think she went a little further than she usually goes in noting this. i think maybe because over the last couple of weeks she

probably feels, people around her feel somewhat vindicated in her position. she basically says if we'd gone in there early we could have shaped the opposition, kept out the jihadists. and he says with a more fatalistic attitude, no way that was going to happen. contradicted by the early assertions by the obama administration. there was only a matter of time before assad fell. so, i mean, it doesn't exactly -- >> assad has to go. >> not only assad has to go bow seems to be going. there's a little contradiction there. hillary hedged in this interview. she's not attacking the president, but i think she felt like, you know what? i thought this and i think events are bearing out the truth of what i advocated for. >> and then very sharply against what the president had called his single organizing principle, which is don't do stupid, quote/unquote, redacted stuff. so she said to you, great nations need organizing principles and don't do stupid

stuff is not an organizing principle. >> right. she then -- again, she does this very careful sophisticated thing. look, you know, he was just trying to signal maybe that he was telling the american people he's not going to do anything crazy. she's very specific. she knows every word she says is going to be interpreted a certain way. when she says that's not an organizing principle and people understand that to be one of his organizing principles, it seems like a bit of a shot. what she's saying is my organizing principle is we defeated communism and we'll defeat jihadism. barack obama is allergic to that kind of sweeping language. >> by the way, obama also said to tom freedman, a lesson he now applies to every situation is should we intervene militarily? do we have an answer for the day after? that because of what's happened and now he acknowledges in libya. they didn't have an answer to the day after. that gets back to, if you break it, you are stuck with -- >> the pottery barn.

so-called pottery barn rule. >> let's talk about israel. i see a distuninction there between what hillary told you. israel needs to defend itself. they both say that. hillary clnton said israel did what it had to do to respond to the rockets. israel has a right to defend itself. the steps hamas has taken to embed rockets and xhantd and control facilities and tunnels makes a response by israel difficult. she's categorically behind netanyahu where he is much, much more -- >> nuanced? >> nuanced. let's play it. >> i think the question really is how does israel survive? and, you know, how can you create a state of israel that maintains its democratic and civic traditions.

how can you preserve a jewish state that is also reflective of the best values of those who founded israel. >> he's raising the question of, does israel need to think bigger when it goes into a war like this with gaza? >> by the way, hillary doesn't think that differently. i think she's running for president and he's not. and she knows that israel is a popular cause and remains, according to polls, a popular cause in america. she also is trying -- this is another place she's disassociating herself from obama policy. she's saying, i'm not just a continuation of this guy. this guy had a tough relationship with israel. i'm going to have a smoother relationship with israel. but, yes, she did not show what you might call nuance in her discussion of the recent gaza war and of israel's problems and the way he was showing some nuance. >> fascinating. jeff goldberg. we always sit down with you exactly when they're going to make news. king abdullah a year ago. hillary clinton now.

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morning, we've talked to a wide range of reasonable, sensible leaders in this community who are really wanting this to be peaceful. >> the town of ferguson, missouri, that was the police chief. this is a suburb of st. louis. police have decided to allow that demonstration to proceed and it has. if the participants can remain peaceful. it's the community's latest response to the shooting death of an unarmed teenager by a local police officer. this after a night of violent confrontation with police and 32 looting related arrests with two officers injured. the outrage was sparked by the death of 18-year-old michael brown. he was killed saturday after an encounter with an officer. a witness to the shooting gave nbc's john yang her account of michael brown's final moments. >> he's running this way. turns his body towards this way. hands in the air being compliant. he gets shot in his face and chest. >> st. louis dispatch reporter jesse bogan joins us.

thanks for being with us. the fbi is involved. there are other federal officials there now. what can you tell us about how the community is deal with this and the law enforcement officials. >> it's a real mixed bag. there's people from many different camps that are there on the ground and that were there last night. and there are so many other people looking in on it from the st. louis area and way beyond st. louis. so it's hard to put my finger on just what everybody is thinking at this point, but for sure, last night was a rough night for the st. louis area and it's going to take a while to get passed this. so the good thing is that the heavy protesting seems to have died down by this morning. last night it was a different story. >> there was a lot of looting last night. an arrest and two officers injured. what is the community, the local storekeepers, the retail

community. how are they responding? >> well, last night, i worked -- pardon me. i worked until early morning hours, and so i was there where some of the shopkeepers were. some of them showed up and were having to defend their own -- >> and we've got some studio problems there. we will try to reconnect with jesse. as he was just describing, the situation last night, some of the shop owners he said, were trying to defend their own shops. police were obviously overwhelmed. we'll continue to bring you the latest developments on this tragedy out of ferguson, missouri. we'll be right back. new factor, but where? fortunately, they get financing from ge capital. we're part of ge, a company that's built hundreds of factories. so we can bring in experts to help them evaluate costs, incentives, and zoning to make a decision that would make their founder proud.

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had to defend their own shops because the police were so overwhelmed. >> that's right. the police were trying, obviously, they didn't want to be shooting weapons. they wanted to have more of a presence out in the streets. but the looting expanded to, you know, different pockets around that area north of st. louis. and so it was very hard for them to respond to all the areas that were being broken into. and so the memorable moments that i have from last night was being at a shop, convenience store, with the family and they were defending their shop. and somebody, a group did try to break into it. they were able to push them back and left and presumably went on to other stores to break into. other store owners couldn't get there in time to protect their property. and so -- but the police were out in force. there were police from all over the area there. and like i said, they were trying to have more of a presence to deter the crime. >> briefly what do you mean by

defend? did they have weapons or just physically trying to keep the looters out? >> some of them were armed. the family i told you about, while i was interviewing him, he was gripping a pistol. he said that they did have other firearms as well. the looters, he says, also were armed. there was a small shop coincidentally, i think they sell firearms, and they were out front with kevlar vests and assault rifles. out showing their own force to protect their store. and so -- >> wow. >> st. louis, i'd like to add, this was -- the police captain told me he hadn't seen anything like this in more than 34 years of policing here. even some of the heavy riots that hit the rest of the country during the civil rights movement, st. louis really wasn't known for that. that said, we have some very deep seeded racial challenges here in st. louis. this is an old city.

and it has some great traditions and it has a lot of work to do on that front as well. and we're seeing some of that come out with the people who have been taking to the streets. >> thanks for making those points, jesse. we still don't know what happened, but we do know an 18-year-old teenager, michael brown, is dead. his family grieving and they want answers and the fbi has joined the investigation but it's still being led at this point by local officials. thank you very much, jesse bogan. appreciate it. >> you're welcome. republican critics are not cutting the president any slack for his decision to defend the kurds in iraq. and even some democrats are warning that they will only support a very limited engagement in iraq. joining me for our daily fix, chrissil scizza, msnbc contributor and managing editor of post politics.com and "the new york times" pentagon correspondent eileen cooper. thank you both very much. krirks this has become, as is

everything, so politicized. the people have been criticizing the president for not doing enough, not getting involved now that he is getting involved, they are taking shots at him. how does he find his way through this. >> politically speaking, it's virtually impossible. that has almost nothing to do really with his party. any president, i think, given what we know about the american public, would struggle with this. the american public is supportive of sort of a humanitarian aid avoiding a genocide. they are in favor of intervening in those circumstances but it's a very narrow definition of intervention. both times the president has spoken publicly about this in the last five or six days he's reiterated there will be no u.s. troops. no u.s. troops. because he knows there's zero appetite for american forces elsewhere. he was elected at least in part on ending the wars in iraq and

afghanistan. so from a political point of view it's really a no win situation for the president. >> you've covered the white house, the state department, national security. now the pentagon. you know this better than anyone. how can we really effectively go up against isis and defend the kurds without using at least ground forces to spot more aggressive air fire? >> i think that's going to be quite the challenge for the american military. i was talking to a defense official yesterday who said in particular in the case of the yazidis on sinjar mountain, air strikes can do, and you've started to see the air strikes and american military air strikes on isis targets around the mountain. but once you get to the point where you start talking about establishing a humanitarian corridor to get these people off the mountain, you are going to need ground troops. the americans and president obama has been very clear he's not authorizing, he's not sending any more ground troops there. the pentagon is hoping kurdish

military, the peshmerga, or maybe even iraqi military, can stand in that. but that's all of that is part of the planning that's under way now. who is going to actually serve as in the role of, you know, the military role to help these people establish humanitarian corridor to get them off the mountain. and another problem for the military is that once that starts, then all these air strikes get a lot more difficult. as these people start to come off the mountain, they may end up mixing with the sunni militant fighters who have been bombarding them. and at that point it becomes a lot harder to figure out who you strike. you know, the figuring out the targets and that sort of thing will be very difficult. >> and it's a classic case of blowback as well because you've got these isis forces with m-1 tanks they got from the iraqi military, and we are having, you know, the peshmerga fighters, their bullets bouncing off these american-made tanks. want to play a little of dick

durbin with david gregory an "meet the press." the problem is not only republican critics. >> escalating it is not in the cards. neither the american people nor congress are in the business of wanting to escalate this confluct beyond where it is today. >> and chris cillizza. the president now has no partner in baghdad. so if the iraqi forces have to be working with u.s. forces to minimize american exposure here, maliki is now, you know, off on his own and deploying the army to keep himself in power. >> the question here, too, andrea, politically and from a policy perspective, what is the end goal? if the end goal is getting down off the mountain, can we do that with what dick durbin just talked about. president obama is saying very clearly there will be notice american troops on the ground. what does success look like? that's the question we keep coming up against in this sort of modern age which is what does

winning look like and are we willing to do the things, militarily, that can make that happen? the truth of the matter is the american public does not want anything that looks anything like any kind of military intervention. they have made that quite clear since about the mid-2000s. >> before i let you go, you know west africa so well, having come from there. originally. tell me what you are hearing from liberia and other contacts you may have about ebola and about this disconnect. we do have now other american missionaries who are coming home. we have the serum that was tested on the two americans. but the health services for the thousands of people who are exposed or potentially exposed in liberia are minimal, at best. >> liberia has already been struggling with this public health system to begin with and it simply does not have the

capabilities to deal with this sort of ebola outbreak. i've been on the phone with family members who are there, who talk about panic and all the widespread belief is that this is going to get a lot worse before it gets better. that there are few more weeks that we're going to have to ride this out, where you may see the death toll continuing to increase and a big part of that is this is a current that's come out of, you know, in the last decade or so, 25 years of civil war and complete, like, you know, anarchy. and has just now started rebuilding its public infrastructure. but it's still, you know, it's still so behind, you know, where even a lot of developing countries and other parts of africa are. that the second this shows just sort of this fragile link. it didn't take very much for this whole infrastructure to break down and that's sort of been tragic. i think what liberians are

looking for now is where is the cavalry. they are looking for more help from the united states and from the international community because the liberian public health structure, such as it is right now, can't deal with this epidemic. >> thank you so much. thanks for your unique perspective there. and, of course, chris cillizza. as we say, more american missionaries who had been serving in western africa are returning home, including nancy writebol's husband david. david writebol and two others working with the same organization in liberia arrived last night flying into charlotte douglas international airport on a private charter. all three are healthy but out of precaution, will be held in quarantine for another 21 days. no problem. you want to save money on rv insurance? no problem. you want to save money on motorcycle insurance? no problem. you want to find a place to park all these things?

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peace. nbc's martin fletcher joins me from tel aviv and nbc's chief global correspondent bill nealy joining us from gaza. there was a lot of action overnight. it seems as though the cease-fire is now holding. >> yes, 20 hours in, no reports of any missiles being fired. the very last one landed about 100 yards from where i'm standing. people are being out going back to some of the devastated areas trying to recover some possessions. we've been in many areas. i've been in earthquakes in haiti and china and pakistan, and i have to tell you, some of those areas do look like an earthquake zone. so the rebuilding process will be immense. but all eyes here as i'm sure in israel are actually on cairo and on those negotiations at the moment because although the missiles aren't in the air, there is plenty of mistrust and even hatred in the air. the question is, can the two sides find some mutual interest? can they make this truce stick because the last one, of course, did not. it only lasted 72 hours.

and if they do come even close to a deal, can they make the deal stick? so the challenges are absolutely immense. one of the challenges, of course, rebuilding. the price rof rebuilding here i about $6 billion. what i saw today was, i don't know how you'd calculate it because the destruction here is immense. one of the sticking points is concrete. the israelis want guarantees the concrete that might come in here won't be used to build more tunnels. obviously the palestinians need concrete to rebuild this shattered slice of land. so the challenges ahead really are immense. but for now, the cease-fire appears to be sticking. >> bill neely. and martin fletcher, clearly the israelis and their american supporters in the government here are going to demand that there be some sort of international monitoring of what happens if they open up those crossings and let the concrete and the other materials for rebuilding go in, which they have to. >> that's right, andrea. as bill mentioned, the concrete

is one of the examples in the past, israel was pressured greatly by the united states and other governments to allow concrete in. and israel says look what happened? 90 mills of concrete was poured into what they call the terror tunnels. international supervision will be one of the keys that israel insists on. i don't think it's the key insistence. the border crossings between israel and gaza, so israel can monitor those. it's the rafah border crossing between gaza and egypt that is probably the most important one. because in the past that is how for the most part hamas rearmed itself. israel is insisting when that border is reopened, and i think it's a given that out of these talks eventually there will emerge some kind of agreement to open that area, the border with egypt to an extent. israel is insisting the people who man that border are not members of hamas. instead, they are members of ma

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chris cillizza is back with us. what happened with governor abercrombie who lost? >> we suspected that governor abercrombie was going to have a tough race. he lost by 36 points to david egay, a state senator who is now the favorite in general election. republicans are talking potentially about that. but hawaii is a democratic state neprace that's not done yet, brian schotts is ahead by about 1600 votes over congresswoman colleen hanabusa. there are two precincts that have not voted at all with about 8,000 votes. why? because the hurricane came through and hit certain parts of the big island worse than others. these two precincts were the worst hit. they have to figure out how those people can vote. hanabusa still has a chance but an outside chance. >> still going on out there. thank you very much, chris

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