>> thomas, what did you learn? >> the kardashians are like the geese that lay golden eggs. >> i learned that some of nicolle's friends on twitter like to refer to her as a right wing winch, not a wench or a witch, but a winch. >> mika, we'll be thinking about you and hope it goes well. it will be tough. send pictures. >> okay. >> when joey went off to school, i remember saying good-bye to him and was actually walking up the stairs and i had to stop about four stairs in. my legs just completely -- legs completely just went out and i just sat there for about two hours. it's a nightmare. on that happy news, if it's way too early, it's "morning joe." i hope i cheered you up. stick around now. we've got chris cizzilla. he's the fix, you know. "the daily rundown" straight ahead.

iraq's leader vows again to hold on to power, as america wonders just how many u.s. personnel will be back there. and bombs in baghdad spread fear that the country is coming apart. back at home, more protests in ferguson, missouri, and there's another incident of police gunfire. we'll talk to naacp president cornell brooks about the unfolding investigations. plus, with the primary behind him and before any 2016 talk really gets going, wisconsin governor scott walker could have a tough road to re-election ahead of him. good morning from washington, it's wednesday, august 13th, 2014. and this is "the daily rundown." i'm chris cillizza in for chuck todd. we begin this morning with the u.s. wading deeper into the crisis in iraq and putting more americans in harm's way. a new contingent of 130 american

military advisers has been sent to help rescue thousands of refugees still trapped in the northern mountains. that raises the total number of u.s. troops in the country to more than 900. but defense secretary chuck hagel said this is not a slippery slope. >> we're not going back into iraq in any of the same combat mission dimensions that we once were in in iraq. >> thousands of members of a minority christian sect remain stuck on sinjar mountain with limited food and water after isis fighters forced them from their homes. the u.s. advisers will try to determine a way to get them to safety. nbc's keir simmons talked to refugees who are starting to grow desperate. >> we need obama help us. >> why? what do you need him to do? >> we need food, everything. >> meanwhile, the u.s. is continuing to send weapons to kurdish fighters and france has

announced it will start supplying arms as well. the u.s. is also keeping up air strikes against isis positions, but the pace of those strikes has slowed. over the last two days, u.s. military officials have stressed that the strikes effectively is limited. martin dempsey told "usa today" and i quote, the pace at which isis was advancing has been abated. it doesn't mean it will stay abated. while the fighting goes on in the north, new attacks in baghdad are spreading fear among the population there. two car bombs exploded today, following two bombings tuesday that left ten dead and nearly 40 wounded. the new violence comes against a backdrop of political instability sparked by prime minister nouri al maliki who is still fighting to hold on to power despite moves by the newly elected president to replace him. today maliki went on tv and insisted that the nomination of a new prime minister is a, quote, violation of the constitution. but maliki seems to be running out of allies.

both iran's supreme leader and top officials in the iraqi military have indicated they don't support maliki's efforts. for the very latest on a very complex situation, i'm joined by duncan golestani who's live in the kurdish capital of erbil. duncan, let's talk about the american military officials coming to the region. do we get a sense of their presence when you're there? >> reporter: hey, chris, good morning. yeah, the 130 u.s. military advisers arrived in erbil today. apparently they will be helping with coordination of that humanitarian effort to help the yezidi people, that minority group who were pushed up into the sinjar mountains, forced from their homes by isis fighters. although a few thousand of the yezidis and some christians have made it to safety, the united nations estimates that between 20 and 30,000 are still stuck up

there in the mountains with no food, no water and no shelter from the scorching temperatures here. yesterday four u.s. air force cargo planes dropped 108 bundles of food and water that are desperately needed. the british royal air force has been helping by dropping containers that are reusable for water and lanterns that can be used to charge up cell phones. but still the threat from isis is ever present. a u.s. drone having to take out an isis mortar position that was threatening the kurdish peshmerga as they tried to defend -- they say they need more and there are questions about what will happen in the long term, chris. >> duncan, thank you. as the obama administration tries to get out in front of that growing crisis in northern iraq, it's facing new calls to get more involved.

tim kaine, a close obama ally, issued a statement tuesday saying, quote, it is now up to the administration to receive congressional authorization for the current air campaign against isis. the mission and objectives of any military action must be made clear to congress, the american people and our men and women in uniform. joining me now, maryland democratic congressman chris van hollen. congressman, let's start there. do you agree with senator kaine that congressional approval is needed for further air strikes? >> i don't think congressional approval is needed for the type of air strikes the president is conducting right now. if the president were to try to expand that dramatically, which he said he's not going to do, then obviously i think he would want to come back to congress. there's a distinction here between what the president can do and what he should do. the authorization to use norfor in iraq is still in effect or in place. a lot of us have been trying to repeal it or scale it back. so the president could do a lot

more than he's doing legally. but the president has been very clear he's not going to do a whole lot more. we're not talking about boots on the ground and he is going to consult with congress. >> the boots on the ground point raises one in my mind which has been the president has been very clear, as you say, about no american troops on the ground but there has been in the last 24 to 48 hours growing concern that rescuing the refugees from sinjar mountain may take a -- what's been called a human corridor. that to ensure their safety off of it, there may need to be american troops there. what's your feeling about that, given your concerns about sort of keeping the exercise, this military exercise very limited? >> sure. i think the president has laid out two clear objectives. first was to stop the advance of isis and protect american folks in erbil. second, to stop the potential genocide. part of that is the direct air strikes the united states is

taking. the other part is at least the reports that we're supplying additional arms for the kurds. so i think the preferred approach here is to strengthen the kurdish military presence there, allow them to help fend off the isis and help with the humanitarian situation with the yezidis and others. >> and if secretary kerry and president obama decided that a small group of -- we have almost 1,000 americans now in the country, this 130 being added, if they decided a small group to protect these refugees down off the mountain, would that be something you would support? >> what i do not support and i think the president has been clear he's not going to do is to send american ground forces into combat operations. air strikes i think are appropriate given the limited mission the president has discussed. i think it is very important that we stop the advance of isil. i think it's important that we protect american facilities and folks in erbil and i think it's

important that we prevent the extermination of the yezidis who are on the mountain. those are all very clear goals and the president's use of information is proportionate to those goals. joining me now senior correspondent and associate editor at the "washington post." i do want to talk and we've heard a lot about the slippery slope argument. you have chuck hagel saying maybe there's the possibility to create a humanitarian corridor to get these refugees off of sinjar mountain. how does president obama handle what is a very delicate situation both diplomatically, policywise and politically? >> well, this is a huge challenge, chris. the slippery slope doesn't just end with the refugees coming off the mountain, as complicated as a challenge that will be for the military and the u.s. of u.s. special operations advisers as

perhaps u.s. marines on the ground to facilitate that. the political situation in baghdad is the critical part of all this. even if you get those fighters off the mountain, even if you resupply the kurdish peshmerga, you still have isis fighters. they are trying to jettison al maliki. he looks like he's on the way out. but then you still have to bolster the iraqi army. we've made kind of implicit commitments to the iraqi political leadership that we're going to help them. perhaps not with conventional troops on the ground but with advisers, with air strikes and so i think we can look at this engagement as being something that's going to drag on for quite some time and go well beyond getting those refugees off the mountain, and that poses

a real challenge for president obama who campaigned on getting u.s. troops out of iraq, who told the american people that the situation was stable there just a few years ago and now getting drawn into a conflict that isn't going to end in the next few weeks. >> rajiv, you mentioned the political -- sort of the political fight ongoing. you wrote what i take to be the definitive book about our time in iraq. you know all of the players here. can you give us a sense of nouri al maliki. you suggest that he seems to be on the way out. he continues to take to tv to say he's not. maybe that's bluster, maybe it isn't. tell us who he is and how he can be removed at this point. >> well, his key basis of support principally the iranian government across the border as well as his own security forces, if you will, because he's done a

lot to politicize the security forces in that country, don't seem to be fully standing with him. so his days perhaps are numbered, chris. i think the challenge here is going to be he's going to probably put up a fight for a little bit longer. hopefully the iranians might offer him a nice villa in exile, get him out of the country pretty quickly. but he's done a lot -- he's put a lot of tentacles into the army, into the interior ministry security forces, into the intelligence services. trying to unwind all of that and try to create more professional security forces that are willing to fight for the overall population of iraq, that's going to be a months long, a years long task ahead. so it's not as simple as, okay, maliki is gone, we've got a new prime minister, a new government seated and everything is going to be okay. >> rajiv, getting up early in seattle, thank you. >> good to talk to you, chris. another night of protests and another police-involved

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developing now, there's been another police officer involved shooting overnight in the already tense suburbs north of st. louis. ksdk reporter casey nolan tweeted these pictures just

outside ferguson, missouri, where a st. louis county officer critically wounded someone overnight. police say the person pointed a gun at an officer. that before -- just before that incident, a woman was wounded in a drive-by shooting just a few blocks away in a residential neighborhood. police were already patrolling around ferguson using tear gas to control the crowds. this is the third night in a row residents have taken to the streets to protest saturday's shooting death of an unarmed black teen. police say 18-year-old michael brown was shot during a scuffle with officers. witnesses say brown had his hands up when he was shot, but the police version differs. the governor of missouri, law enforcement and religious leaders held this public forum last night hoping to quell the anger that's fueled the protests in which dozens have been arrested. missouri governor jay nixon commented for the first time, saying the shooting of michael brown, quote, opened old wounds. >> to have patience for the investigation that is now under way, but the unwavering in our

insistence that it be open, thorough and fair. >> the fbi and the justice department have joined the investigation. meanwhile, police have decided against releasing the name of the officer who shot michael brown because of threats. last night the police chief said he wants to get answers too. >> i want what you want. i want the truth and i want justice. >> nbc news correspondent ron allen joins us live from ferguson, missouri. ron, let's talk about we've had three straight nights of protests. do we, do the police, do you expect a fourth night? >> reporter: well, chris, every night here there are a lot of police officers on the streets and there are a lot of residents out on the streets as well. so anything is possible. that's why for the past three nights there's been a lot of tension. there have been smaller confrontations, but last night there was this officer-involved shooting. the police -- and it's the county police, which is perhaps an important distinction, not

the city of ferguson police responded to a call of armed men firing a weapon. when the police responded to that call, they say that a man turned and pointed a gun at them and officer fired his weapon. we're not sure how many times it happened, the man was critically wounded. we don't know who that individual, this suspect, that victim is. but it's an example of the kind of thing is not surprising, if you will, that would happen here because every night there are cops all over the place. they try to block off the main thoroughfares. they try to block off the shopping mall that's down the street, they try to prevent confrontations and prevent things from erupting that are going to spill out of control, frankly. so that's the general scene that's happening. also you have a lot of what i guess is the best way to describe it is just a seething resentment and seething distrust between the community here and the police force. at this meeting last night there were a lot of people who were just venting past grievances, concern about the lack of diversity on the police force,

so again, the bottom line is i think the police are on alert, on high alert here every night because, again, there are just so many people in the streets. some are confronting the police, some are just yelling and screaming at them. last night clearly there were weapons involved. the police have said that there have been rocks and coins and other objects thrown at them on different nights. they have used tear gas. they have used what are described as bean bags which are nonlethal ammo that they fire at the crowds to try to disperse the crowds. so i guess the bottom line is anything is possible as we go forward because this investigation will take quite a long time to unfold. chris. >> thank you, ron allen, in ferguson, missouri. let's turn now to the new president of the naacp, cornell brooks. mr. brooks, first of all, thanks for coming into the studio. >> good morning. >> i hosted this show roughly 24 hours ago and the news of that day was the police would release the name of the man, the police officer involved in this

shooting. they chose not too do so. was that a mistake? >> the police are trying to balance the safety of this police officer with the need of the community for accountability. here i would simply emphasize that we have a family that's grieving, a community that's grieving, and a community and a family that are demanding accountability. that police officer's name is going to come out at some point, sooner rather than later would be better. >> the congressional black caucus on tuesday called on the department of justice to get involved in this. the fbi is involved already. how much of a federal role do you see in this case and how much of one should there be? >> well, when the naacp previously prior to michael brown's death called upon the justice department to look at the county police department, to put it under investigation, the

fact of the matter is -- >> this is prior to michael brown's death. >> prior, prior. there's a history of poor community/police relations. there is a history of racial tension in this community. so the role of the federal authorities here is appropriate. it's based upon long-standing concerns that are made more urgent, more insistent as a consequence of michael brown's death. >> let's talk about your organization. what can and what are you doing and what do you hope to do on the ground in ferguson, missouri? >> let's be clear. michael brown died in a community of ferguson in a county where the naacp has been there for a half century. in nearby st. louis, that branch has been there for 100 years. so we're on the ground. we're deeply embedded in that community. we're doing three things. number one, we called for a federal investigation quite some time ago and we're happy to see that the president and the attorney at law have responded. number two, we have worked with the community to bring forward

witnesses who can speak to what happened and whose testimony, as i understand it, stands in stark contrast to what the police are saying happened in terms of michael brown losing his life at the hands of this police officer. number three, we are the ones in the community, among others, who are calling for peace, who are calling for justice in a nonviolent way. and so we're on the ground doing the work. >> i want to talk about -- let's go from 10 feet to 10,000 feet, which is you were on this show, i believe, last week talking about the new york choking incident. you have talked about in your tenure wanting to -- the generational change of naacp. given the series of high-profile incidents, and we were talking about, you've been on the job for five weeks. >> yes. >> given the series of high-profile incidents that have happened, what is your message to younger people about both the michael brown incident as well

as the broader state of race relations in this country? >> my message to young people in this country is we're not asking you to join this movement, we're asking you to lead this movement. when we note the death of trayvon martin, when we note the death of eric garner in new york, what we see again and again across this country, particularly when it comes to law enforcement, is particularly young people who are suspected of minor, underwhelmingly minor offenses facing overwhelmingly major and often lethal use of force. we need a change in police culture, a change in policing in this country so we move to what a model of community policing where the police both protect and respect the community. young people can play a vital role. why? because they're the ones frequently who find themselves

on the back side or the back end of a badge or a gun and who find their lives in jeopardy. and so we're asking young people to step forward nonviolently to make clear that they're calling upon those who have sworn, who have sworn to protect them, to protect them and respect them, we're calling on them to do that. >> cornell brooks, newly minted president of the naacp, thanks for your time and thanks for coming in. >> thank you. next, primary results from connecticut, minnesota and wisconsin. and a look at scott walker's biggest fight yet. plus, another election in baseball. there's some old school wheeling and dealing going on in the race to replace baseball commissioner bud selig. we'll explain. first, today's tdr 50 trivia question. when was the last time mississippi and alabama both voted for a democratic presidential nominee? i think i know this. the first person to tweet the correct answer to @dailyrundown will get an on-air shoutout. the answer and much more coming

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if it's wednesday, it means an election happened yesterday and we've got primary results. the challengers to three first-term governors are now set. in connecticut, former ambassador to ireland, tom foley, won his primary against john mckinney with 56% of the vote. that sets up a fall rematch against embattled governor dan malloy who lost by just 6,000 votes. >> change is coming to connecticut. dan malloy, change is coming. >> malloy is viefighting to avo the first sitting governor since the early '50s to lose re-election after just one term. his campaign hopes to paint foley as a millionaire in the mold of mitt romney and is already out with a statement

saying tom foley would take connecticut's progress and shift it into reverse. he has spent his career making millions while destroying jobs. that sound familiar if you watched the 2012 campaign. moving on to minnesota where hennepin county commissioner jeff johnson won a four-way primary and will take on mark dayton in the fall. >> you know, i think that message of electability is a huge deal for republicans this year. we saw it at the convention. they wanted a conservative but it was very pragmatic convention. people are saying we want a conservative but we want a conservative who can win. >> dayton had primary opposition of his own but won nearly as many votes as all of the republicans combined. the general election also officially kicked off in wisconsin, where democratic businessman mary burke sailed through her primary. republican governor scott walker, who is running in his third election in four years, is doing his best to make 2014 a referendum on his democratic

predecesso predecessors. >> does anybody remember how bad things were four years ago? we don't want to go back to the days of double-digit tax increases, of billion dollar budget deficits and big-time job loss. remember, jim doyle, jim doyle hand picked mary burke to be a part of his cabinet, to be his chief job czar. we don't need a third term of jim doyle's failed policies. >> right now we're lagging in terms of our economy. we are dead last in the midwest in terms of job creation under scott walker. i know that we can do better than that. i know the people of wisconsin know that we can do better than that. >> down the ballot in wisconsin, state senator glenn groffman appeared to be the winner in the race to succeed tom petrie but after a recount in sheboygan county, state senator joe leibham is within 215 votes. in minnesota, mike mcfadden

easily won the republican primary for u.s. senate. he will take on freshman democratic senator al franken in the fall. mcfadden is already on tv with a somewhat odd ad which shows him coaching football with the tag line now coach mcfadden is the one running. >> coach mcfadden is tough. >> let's get out there and hit somebody. >> really tough. >> i'm mike mcfadden and i approve this message. >> okay. and republican tom emmer who narrowly lost the minnesota governor's race in 2010, won the primary with 73% of the vote. a lot of races. joining me now, nbc news political reporter carrie dann. a lot of primaries but let's focus on the race that i think most people are focused on here. scott walker versus mary burke. scott walker held a big rally last night, although no one thought he wasn't going to be the republican nominee. how much trouble is scott walker

in? >> you notice mary burke also had a primary challenge and didn't do anything last night to recognize that. she's obviously focused on the fall. i think six months ago we were talking more about scott walker, the potential 2016 candidate, than we were talking about scott walker winning his re-election race. this is, as you said, the third time he's running in four years. but i think mary burke has really -- the latest polls have shown them in a dead heat and mary burke has really worked to make herself more of a pro-business democrat, less tied to the union interests that walker's previous opponents had been, so i think we're going to be looking at this as a really tight race come the fall. >> mary burke not having a primary very beneficial to her because she could position herself as that pro business democrat. carrie dann, thank you. >> thank you. time for the first number in today's data bank. the number is two. that's the number of precincts that will finally vote in hawaii's democratic senate primary on friday. those ballots will likely be the

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the clock is ticking. less than eight hours remain before the latest three-day cease-fire between israel and hamas expires. egypt has put a proposal on the table to end the fighting, but it's unclear if it's enough to get the two sides to lay down their arms. nbc's martin fletcher is live for us in tel aviv with the very latest. martin. >> reporter: hi, chris. well, you're right, it is really going down to the wire here. the cease-fire runs out tonight, midnight local time. that's in about eight hours from now. and it's really not clear what's going to happen. the question, of course, is will egypt manage to persuade israel and hamas to prolong the cease-fire, maybe another 72 hours, giving them time to keep negotiating or will egypt fail in that and then the question becomes what happens at midnight local time. will the shooting resume. it really is not clear. it seems that there is some progress in cairo on the key issue for hamas at least which

is to relieve the siege of gaza. so there appears to be some progress along the lines of israel could agree to the palestinian police from the west bank, about 1,000 people loyal to mahmoud abbas, the palestinian president on the west bank, his people could patrol the border between gaza and egypt, be responsible for what goods come into gaza, mostly humanitarian things, food, water, medicine, goods that the palestinian people need. but israel insists they're going to make sure that no weapons are brought into gaza. now, from israel's point of view, they're insisting that hamas not disarm and be dethe militaryized. but the areas of agreement seem to be relieving the hardships of the palestinian people in gaza, israel allowing goods to come across from their borders in addition to the border with

egypt. but either way, this is sma small-scale stuff compared to what hamas is wanting, so the two sides are still very far apart. by the way, even if they do reach an agreement, prime minister netanyahu will have a hard time selling it inside his security cabinet because there are three right wing members of the government that will pretty much not agree to anything he wants because they want the fighting to continue until hamas has been destroyed in gaza. so whatever is reached in cairo will be a hard sell at home in israel, chris. >> thanks, martin. for more on where things go from here, i'm joined by steve clemons, washington editor at large for "the atlantic" and an msnbc contributor. martin's words, small-scale stuff, steve. even if there is a deal made, we're not talking about a larger brokered deal that solves anything. is that the most likely outcome

in these next eight hours, that some sort of deal is reached, ou do you think the cease-fire expires and we go back where we were 72 hours ago. >> i think martin's most interesting comment is that israel might be open to security and police forces loyal to mahmoud abbas being the ones to inspect goods that come in. if any of the siege is lifted, the blockade is lifted, that you don't end up with some sort of infrastructure to kidnap israelis. we've seen when you look at the tunnels it is amazing what they have built while they have had other periods of calm. so that's a legitimate concern. but the broader issue is that this doesn't get resolved other than people will stop dying for the near term. but in the long term you still have a recalcitrant group inside gaza and an israel that doesn't feel its security is being maintained. >> you mentioned abbas and i want to talk about his role here.

i read in "the new york times" this morning talking about his role that he had been sidelined largely because of his unwillingness, benjamin netanyahu asking him to renounce hamas but he has re-emerged in some ways as a potential broker here. does that jibe with what you know? >> it does. no one will accuse leon of being a palestinian-tilting voice but he said the way to long-term peace in the region is for netanyahu to do a piece deal with abbas. that would destroy it. that's what's been missing when you get to the macro level of the equation. and i think that abbas is standing there. we don't know whether in the end he can deliver all the things he might do, but the point is he's the best they have got. and in that situation in my estimation the israeli government has been really difficult at finding a way to get to yes with mahmoud abbas.

>> how much have the strikes into gaza, how much have they eroded, if at all, confidence among the palestinians regarding hamas? >> it's done the reverse. there was lack of confidence in hamas before this -- >> prior. >> prior, and one of the reasons that they went into this conflict is hamas wanted to reposition itself as the legitimate voice of opposition and arm of opposition against israel. they were competing with their right, with islamic jihad and other militant groups who were trying to grab that ring. so you've got to understand that while we're looking at hamas, as bad as they may be, you know, netanyahu called them the al qaeda of israel, they are not. there is far, far worse there. you can see even in the negotiations, you can't negotiate with lal qaeda, you can't negotiate with isis, you're clearly negotiating with hamas. so they have political objectives. they have an ability to turn up and down violence. in that, that dpigives you a se

of rationality. but i think in the process of this it's very, very important for israel to find ways to reposition mahmoud abbas as the legitimate head of this operation and they have not been engaged in that franchise building effort on behalf of abbas for a couple of years. >> steve clemons, eight hours until this cease-fire ends. we'll see what happens. thank you. >> thank you, chris. voting drama unfolds tomorrow in baltimore thanks to a heated race to replace not a politician, but outgoing baseball commissioner bud selig. back room dealings and even a third party candidate could disrupt this vote like never before. we'll have details before. first, our tdr soup of the day in mobile, alabama. they're serving up cream of crab soup. i would eat that. we'll be right back.

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forget this week's political primaries, the ballot with the most intrigued back room politics and, yes, personal drama is happening tomorrow in baltimore, maryland. where major league baseball's 30 owners will vote on commissioner bud see little's replacement. the number two mlb chief operating officer, boston red sox producer. and the executive vp for business. today the candidates will make their pitch to the owners. manfred assumed to be selig's pick had been the favorite, until it made clear several owners were walki ining wernor.

after one unnamed senior baseball official told the new york times the next eight days would be about bud versus jerry. bud was first to issue a statement saying reports of personal animosity between owners are unfounded and unproductive. that solves things. to win the balloting tomorrow, a candidate must have the support of 23 out of 30 owners, or 75%. that means wernor needs eight votes to block manfred. craig this is fascinating. let's handicap where today we think the votes are. >> i think we still have to say rob is the favorite. i don't think we have a clear 23 votes. there's not a path to victory for him yet. i really don't think that wernor

has the votes. he merely has the opposition vote. he's going to be blocking progress here. there's going to be trading going on. i don't think wernor has a chance. >> you talk about horse trading as a political junky my ears prick up. how much more trading back room dealing goes on and what are the sorts of things being traded? we know what gets traded in politics. what gets traded in baseball? >> the thing is, these are 30 owners for for the last 20 years have done whatever bud wants. the success, if you can call it success of bud's reign has been building consensus among the guys. the acura mown any we're seeing hasn't been there what we're seeing now is future promises, i think. it's going to be whoever the next guy is. how are you going approach the union during the next collective

bargaining agreement. how are you going to approach the idea of changing the revenue sharing? there's nothing on the table they can hand them now. it's about the future. and the most amazing thing about this, i think, is the basis of the tom werner fanks. 20 years ago yesterday was the anniversary of the 1994 baseball strike. it was caused by the same impulse. it didn't work then. bud learned his lesson. everyone wants to forget everything he did. >> quickly, how much if at all, is performance-enhancing drugs who has done what on it how much does the kvgts factor into this? >> it's not going to a factor a bit. it hasn't bought him a bit. i think privately the owners don't care that much. it's all a pr thing for them.

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