hi everyone i'm tamron hall, this is "news nation." developing news tulsa county sheriff stanley glanz just held a news conference defending the reserve deputy who fatally shot a suspect and said his department is investigating claims that robert bates's training records were falsified. much more of that and hear more from the sheriff in a few minutes. but i want to get you caught up on another story we are following. we began with the frantic search under way to find survivors after a migrant boat with hundreds feared dead. it is expected to be the mediterranean's deadliest migrant tragedy ever. right now, just 28 people have been rescued. the boat was traveling from libya, heading towards sicily when it capsized.

this as new developments emerge from survivors. it is believed up to 300 people were locked below deck. it is spurring strong new calls for european leaders to address the crisis of migrants fleeing the violence in libya and northern africa. adding to the urgency, new video this morning shows survivors clinging to rafts after the migrant ship they were on ran aground off the greek island of rhodes when dozens of people were onboard. also two other migrant ships with about 400 people onboard have issued distress calls. nbc's news chief -- nbc's chief global correspondent bill neely joins me now with the latest. this year alone i believe the number is somewhere around 1,500 people have died on these boats and there's outrage from world leaders as a result of it. >> good morning, tamron. yes, it looks like this is the worst case in the world as the mass drowning of migrants certainly in the last year what's not clear is the exact

numbers. you reported 950. that was the word of one bangladeshi survivor who says he thought there were several hundred people below deck. there were at least two decks on this boat which was about 60 feet long. but again, we simply don't know exactly how many people have drowned on this ship. as you say the numbers of those who survived just horrifically low, 28 survivors, only 24 bodies brought on shore so far. it was a midnight distress call the conditions on that boat must have been absolutely horrendous as people seeing a rescue craft, a portuguese merchant ship apparently rush to one side of the boat and that given the large number of people onboard, tipped the boat over. it's in deep deep waters about three miles down so drivers simply can't go down to bring anyone up to the surface, so we may never know in fact the true death toll. as you said there's been

another tragedy in the last 24 hours, this time off the greek island of rhodes and some very dramatic pictures emerging from that. this was another even flimsier vessel, it seems. looks from the debris from that wreckage like it was mostly wooden ship. three people at least, have drowned. although again we're not sure how many were onboard. 90 people were rescued. you can see from the footage there, people onshore trying to bring ashore children women holding their children up to try to get them on shore after another horrific drowning. this, just the latest in a whole wave of tragedies in the mediterranean, making it as one politician said a mass grave. and the summer season when a lot of these migrations really happen hasn't even begun yet. so already we've got 1,500, 2,000 dead this year alone. >> bill neely live for us in london. thank you very much. also developing this

morning, ethiopia confirms 30 men shot and beheaded on a video reportedly made by and released by isis were its citizens. isis says the men were ethiopian christians. the white house has condemned the killings and offered support to the ethiopian government. and here in the u.s. we are following a developing story out of minneapolis. where just moments ago, federal prosecutors discussed the arrest of six men on suspicion of supporting isis. the men were arrested in minnesota and california. they were all from the somali community in minnesota. prosecutors are warning now about the heavy recruitment in that area. >> parents and loved ones should know that there is not one master recruiter organizing in the somali community locally. what this case shows is that the person radicalizing your son, your brother, your friend may not be a stranger. it may be their best friend right here in town.

>> prosecutors indicated that the men were attempting to leave the united states for training in syria. we'll have much more on that developing story. and now to 2016 politics. hillary clinton will be campaigning in new hampshire today, the same state where republican candidates were on attack over the weekend. gop hopefuls took turns teeing off on the former secretary of state at that republican leadership summit in nashua considered the unofficial kickoff for the gop primary. >> i think that her dereliction of duty, her not doing her job, her not providing security for our forces for our diplomatic mission, should forever preclude her from holding higher office. >> we want something new. we want new leadership to change the page and to turn around. you know the democratic version of this i'm pretty sure is hillary clinton having a conversation with a chipotle clerk.

>> hillary clinton's going to raise $2.5 billion, which that's a lot of chipotle my friends. >> clinton's new hampshire visit will follow the same playbook as her trip to iowa. today she will hold a round table with employees, small business in keene, and tomorrow she'll visit a community college in concord. joining me now newsweek contributor patricia murphy and republican strategist john fury. thank you so much for joining. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> john let's start off with you here. the hits just keep on coming, and now you've got hillary clinton on the ground in new hampshire. republicans deciding to focus heavily on her with jokes and all. how do you score so far, at least that early? >> listen hillary is definitely the leading contender for the democrats, she's the only contender, so you might as well take the shots that you can. president obama's kind of old news you got to focus on the

future, and hillary clinton is seen as the past. she's also not been particularly accessible to people outside a very tightly controlled group and i think she's running as the front-runner again. i remember when we were having hillary clinton versus rudy giuliani, how that was going to be the nomination fight last time around. now it's hillary clinton versus probably somebody else in the republican field. she's the front-runner and i think that's a very dangerous place for her to be. >> let me read this kimberly atkins wrote in the boston herald, her campaign has to be about something more than humanizing the former secretary of state. she'll have to put some meat on the bones of her campaign message sooner rather than later. new hampshire voters are looking for substance over style. well you heard the republican candidates there giving a lot of style, where they giving a lot of substance and will they be held to the same bar? >> you know i think that they are going to be held to the same bar, it's just going to be on a different timeline.

they, obviously, right now are having a basically big clash of personalities, also a clash of what direction the party is going to want to go in. this is sort of the next chapter of the internal fight within the republican party and the presidential nominating process, i think, will be the ultimate culmination of that. yes, these men and woman, so far, are going to have to put a lot of meat on the bones. new hampshire voters iowa voters, will not settle for anything else, but republicans are in a different place. hillary clinton is the nominee, basically, so that's why voters are going to be looking for more from her sooner because looks like basically out of the way, now they are going to want to know exactly, yes, hillary clinton, we know you, we know who you are, but what will you do if you are the president? i think that's where they are, same standard different time frame. >> that's interesting. quickly, john i want to read from politico none of the 19 declared are likely republican presidential candidates who descended on new hampshire this weekend came away with any sort of breakthrough moment.

instead, they got a glimpse of what could be a long slog of a primary, the natural outgrowth of a field rich with options. sometimes options are tough. we should certainly always have them in our process, but do you worry that this could hurt these candidates for the gop while at some point hillary clinton may grow stronger? >> listen, i am really excited about this debate that we're having in our party. we have a lot of young, exciting new candidates. we have some real good experience with jeb bush and we have a wide diversity of ideological options, and we're going to have these debates so we can have deep debates about the future of the country. i think what the democrats their debate is with hillary clinton and herself and i think that's dangerous for the democrats, because is it going to be a third obama term i think that's what the republicans are saying, and the republicans are going to talk about the future in a much more vibrant way than hillary clinton can possibly talk about. >> well it's interesting you say that because governor marlten o'malley was on cbs

"face the nation" asking about potentially challenging hillary clinton and what that will do for the democratic party. let me play that. >> i think it would be an extreme poverty, indeed if there weren't more than one person willing to compete for the presidential nomination of the democratic party. look, this is the way i think it's supposed to work. i believe that if you have the executive experience the ideas that can serve our nation well, and the ability to govern you should offer your candidacy and let the people decide. >> we know governor o'malley says he's seriously considering, bernie sanders, joe webb vice president joe biden, who people seem to forget when we talk about potential challengers that exist, which is a shame in itself, but it is not as if hillary clinton will be standing there alone. yes, she's the front-runner we were talking about jeb bush as the front-runner even though he's not officially entered the race, but this notion that she will stand alone unchallenged seems to be one that we're discussing now, but that may not

be the reality in a very near future. >> i think that's right. i think she probably will be challenged, but i think we all know it's not going to be a significant challenge. the polls alone tell us she is such a run away favorite among democratic voters. anybody who wants to mount a real campaign as a democrat is not going to do it this cycle and there's nobody else to get the name i.d. popularity democrats pretty universally want her to be their nominee. they are not in 100% agreement with her policies. >> i think it was the "time" magazine article -- >> i think they want her challenged. >> they do and i talk about, and this has been brought up many times, i believe it was the "time" magazine article, they had all the democrats and president obama's face was nowhere to be found. yes, the clock is ticking, but to assume that for example, joe biden, the polling may not be there for him, but that he would not be a formidable debater against her and bring out the best in her or the party, i

don't know how people can go to this conclusion that won't happen. >> tamron let me jump in i think that she needs not only to be challenged her ideas need to be challenged. we all know about hillary clinton. she's well known, she's an iconic figure in american history. the question is what is she going to do and the only way we can figure that out is if she has an aggressive challenge from both the left and right in the democratic primary. >> patricia? >> yeah, i think democrats want her challenged but i also think they want her to be the nominee, they want her challenged so she can be the best nominee possible. the only way to get better at campaigning is to campaign only way to get better at debating is to debate. they want that experience going into the general, but do they want to lose the primary? i don't think. >> thank you very much we greatly appreciate both for your time. developing today for the first time today, the tulsa sheriff is addressing claims that a reserve deputy's records

were falsified. he's defending his close relationship with that deputy. >> how many times have i been where, to the bahamas with bates? i believe once. i've been twice with the other reserve deputy. >> sheriff stanley glanz also saying today he has no plans to resign. we are live in tulsa with the latest. plus a bomb shell report claims the fbi admits some of its top forensic examiners gave false testimony over the span of two decades and some of those cases the defendants were executed. i'll talk with a reporter who broke that story. and just days after that gyrocopter at the capitol, a man with a so-called suspicious package climbs the fence at the white house. the latest on that incident is coming up in your morning's first read on politics. and you can join the conversation online @newsnation on twitter, facebook, and instagram. we'll be right back.

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welcome back developing now in the last hour the tulsa county sheriff stanley glanz for the first time publicly addressed the shooting of eric harris by reserve deputy robert bates. glanz defended his office's handling of the shooting disputing claims his office falsified training records and addressed calls for discipline against other deputies involved. >> we have an incident where a life was taken, and that's the business we're in is life and deaths occur every day in law enforcement. there's been a lot of things said about the sheriff's office that are untrue. through our administrative process, we will review what those officers did and we'll take some administrative action. >> sheriff glanz also claims a

local fbi office completed its investigation into harris's death and found no wrongdoing by his office. however, that's not been verified by nbc news. over the weekend, bates's attorney released more than 60 pages of training documents, which he says shows the deputy successfully qualified to use a handgun ten times and took at least one taser class though many documents are still missing within the sheriff's office. gabe gutierrez joins us now. gabe, you pushed the sheriff to really explain why some of these documents have still not been located and how they were keeping records. >> reporter: yeah, tamron good morning. that's exactly right. i should add the sheriff also announced a few other things. he said that the two deputies two other deputies that were seen in that body cam video, have been reassigned and that the violent crimes task force that was involved in the incident has been temporarily suspended because some of the deputies involved in that task

force have been threatened. but as you mention, i did ask the sheriff whether it was fair to say if his office had done a poor job of keeping some of these records. here's what he had to say. >> i'm not sure how to answer that. we keep records, and those are placed in his personnel file. i think he keeps his own personal records and he's provided a lot of them to the press. >> reporter: was it a poor job on the part of your office to not have all the records? some of them were misplaced. >> it could have been. last year we went through the legislature. >> reporter: and there are still some questions, as you mentioned, tamron over the weekend his -- bates's attorneys released dozens of pages of documents, repeatedly insisting bates was properly trained, and so has the sheriff's department but the family of the man shot and killed in that incident want more scrutiny of the other deputies in that video and the attorneys for eric harris say the records released so far are

not complete and that they don't prove bates was adequately trained. we spoke with the mother of harris's child over the weekend, his 16-year-old son adan. here's some of what adan had to say. >> they should all go down. they were all involved in it. the one of the dudes had his knee on his head. i felt like that played a part in his death after the shooting. so i would like all of them to get what they deserve. >> reporter: bates is charged with second-degree manslaughter he's expected to be arraigned tomorrow tamron. >> live for us in tulsa. we're getting in new video from baltimore this morning where protests are taking place over the deaths of freddy gray that happened on sunday the man allegedly injured in police custody last week. earlier today baltimore's mayor appeared on "morning joe" and discussed the steps she is taking to investigate the incident. >> i've instructed the police department to work in full

cooperation with the state's attorney's office to do this investigation, and we have already indicated that we will also have independent eyes take a look at this. >> nbc's justice correspondent pete williams has more on the latest police incident sparking protest. >> reporter: tamron, the mayor and the police chief say they are committed to finding out what happened and give a public accounting. this baltimore man was 25 he died a week after he was arrested, and the family's lawyer says the man's spine had been partially severed in police custody. this cell phone video provided to nbc news by the lawyer for 25-year-old freddy gray shows the arrest. the lawyer says gray suffered a broken neck last sunday when police arrested and restrained him. >> ahhh! >> reporter: the police have not given a cause for gray's injuries or specified why he was arrested saying there is an

investigation into the incident. >> get off me! >> reporter: the lawyer for gray's family says he died sunday from his injuries. >> what we know is that while in police custody, committing no crime for which they have no justification for making an arrest except there was a black man running, his spine was virtually severed. >> reporter: officials say gray's arrest came after he ran from four officers on bicycles. according to a police timeline at 8:42 a.m. april 12th officers called for a police van and says gray was conscious and talking when officers put him into the police vehicle. another video, apparently shot by a witness shows the van stopped at a second location at 8:54. gray appears to be taken out of the vehicle, put on a pavement and confined by more restraints. at 9:24 they called paramedics to the precinct to take gray to hospital. more than 100 protesters gathered outside the baltimore

police station sunday demanding answers, the latest in a string of protests regarding allegations of police brutality across the nation. at a news conference officials said they are committed to providing answers to what happened to freddy gray. >> what we do know is we had officers in an area a high crime area known to have high narcotic incidents. one of the things we do not want to do is give out any information that is speculation and not fact-based. >> reporter: the police officers involved have been placed on administrative leave, at the request of the police commissioner, the justice department had been investigating complaints about police brutality in baltimore. tamron? >> thank you very much. and the fbi admits some of its top forensic examiners gave flawed testimony at hundreds of criminal trials. i'll talk to the "washington post" reporter who broke that story. plus after a six-month delay full of heated rhetoric on both sides, a vote on loretta lynch's nomination as attorney general could come within days.

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are committed to ensuring defendants are notified of past errors and that the justice department has done in every instance that. joining me live now, the man who broke that story, legal reporter spencer shu. thank you so much for your time. >> thank you. >> there are a number of questions, first of which, obviously, is what happens now that this information has been revealed? >>. >> what is happening is that defendants in all these 257 trials are being notified, so are prosecutors, that 46 states and the district. the fbi is reviewing and establishing -- one of the things it says is a problem here is they lacked until 2012 written standards for appropriate, versus erroneous testimony in terms of hair comparison. they are now completing so those standards there year for 19 forensic disciplines, one of the challenges for defendants now is you know, the fbi offered to

retest dna in these cases if requested by a prosecutor or a judge, the justice department has offered to lower procedural objections to appeals, but many of these cases the dna is no longer available or never was available, or has been lost and many states there are not laws that allow defendants to get back to appeal their convictions when the forensic evidence against them has been undermined or recanted. >> you quote brandon l. garrett, he said the results reveal a mass disaster inside the criminal justice system. the problem is there may be few judges prosecutors, or defense lawyers who are willing to do anything about it. take us inside this laboratory and this particular -- specific unit at the heart of this report and how they got this so wrong, if these allegations are true? >> right. hair comparison has been done since the 1800s, the fbi lab

started using it in the 1950s. they kind of reached its heyday in the '70s and '80s before the era of dna, viewed as almost sort of second best to fingerprints. fingerprints could be used to identify an individual hair was sort of the next best thing, even though they said they could not say with, like fingerprints they could say it was highly unlikely hairs of two people might be a match. they went on to say maybe in their own experience, only twice in ten years, doing 10,000 examinations, could they ever not tell the hairs of two different people apart. in reality, there is no scientific basis for saying how often the hairs of two different people might look alike. after dna came along, fbi discovered their matches were wrong at least 12% of the time after two agents had confirmed it. and while the era we are talking about, problem was judges defense attorneys, didn't know

the statistics didn't know the science, didn't know the right questions to ask, even though the fbi was aware of these doubts, other government agencies, other forensic experts raised questions in the '70s, the inspector general discredited unscientific activity by several fbi agents in the late '90s. they identified one hair examiner, they said at the time off the reservation, now turns out all the examiners testified in the same way, the problem was, the fbi didn't know who was doing it didn't keep track of testimony. and in some ways was trying to protect these convictions after that period of time rather than do what they've done now. >> as you well know the debate as of late it's been cocktail will be used in states that carry out the death penalty. the real question people want to know after reading your report and seeing this information, is the impact this could have on cases, particularly those people who are still on death row and whether or not people were executed with this bad

information. or this faulty information. >> so we know you're right, absolutely right, we know that 18 of the defendants are still alive, they have this information. we are told that many of them are trying to act on it. there's a question what happens to those who have already been executed, you know their estates, their families may seek posthumous testing if evidence is still available. we know in the district of columbia, where public defenders and prosecutors alone, we think it's the only jurisdiction where they've reinvestigated every fbi hair case there were seven of these 257 trials that were discovered in the district three of those cases have been exonerated through dna. that doesn't count another two cases where there was an exoneration and the conviction vacated for similar reasons. it's an open question and one last disturbing note these 28 fbi hair examiners over this period trained another 500 to

1,000 state examiners to testify the same way. >> wow, it's an incredible report. spencer shu, thank you so much we greatly appreciate you joining us today. >> thank you. still ahead, five years ago today, 11 people lost their lives when the oil rig exploded in the gulf, sending millions of barrels of oil into the water. tonight, an award winning new documentary premieres exploring the fallout from the disaster and examines the lives and how they've been impacted. >> i can smell that night now. i can smell smoke, oil. they had to cut it off of me. >> well the film follows oil workers and residents still struggling to recover from what happened. i'll talk with the director of this new documentary coming up.

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welcome back. we now turn to today's first read on politics for you this morning. another security breach at the white house overnight, and after a five-month delay, well this could be a vote for loretta lynch's nomination for attorney general, and some welcome news for senate democrats, announcement from west virginia senator joe manchin, let's bring in nbc news senior political editor, the great mark murray. what's going on? >> hey, tamron. well, you mentioned the white house jumper the fence jumper and the one thing worth noting on all of that is this is the time where the system actually worked, the person who jumped the fence was immediately arrested, as opposed to the incident from a few months ago where the person was actually able to get into the white house. there are always going to be folks who decide to jump over the fence. >> all right, loretta lynch has been waiting 163 days for a vote. the nomination came down november 8th and we're hearing

finally some movement here. >> that's right. there is some chatter the vote's going to happen this week but tamron, still tied to the antitrafficking legislation that's all bottled up because of abortion and the politics of abortion. republicans are saying she might have the vote this week we'll need to watch, but as you mention, it's been some 160 days since she was nominated in november of 2014. >> and joe manchin, good news for some democrats there. >> joe manchin is going to stay in the united states senate his seat is up in 2016. the reason why that's good news for democrats is joe manchin, if he decided to run for governor and ended up winning, that senate seat would eventually probably flip to republican hands at some point, just given west virginia's republican-leaning nature. >> all right. we'll talk of course about hillary clinton and new hampshire tomorrow, lots still going on there and the gop holding court, some of the candidates holding court over the weekend. a lot more exciting news this

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leaking more than 130 million gallons of oil. today, the gulf is on the rebound, but the debate rages on about the long-term impact of the spill. many gulf coast communities are still recovering and thousands of lawsuits against bp are still pending. to date bp has spent more than $30 billion in claims and cleanup, with $13 billion more still budgeted. the lasting effect of the deep water horizon disaster on the gulf is the subject of a new documentary airing tonight on pbs. margaret brown and alabama native traveled to the gulf to get a first-hand account of those affected, includeing survivors from the original explosion. >> i can smell that night now. i can smell -- i can smell smoke, oil, insulation. they had to cut it off of me.

i was having extreme difficulty moving. >> documentary filmmaker margaret brown joins us. thank you so much, margaret, for your time. >> my pleasure. >> i know you talked to a number of people we're going to show another clip here in a second of a man, roosevelt harris who reached out and helped so many others with a trucking ministry after the explosion. did you find that it was therapeutic for people to talk about this or did they want to make sure that we did not forget and that we just don't take the line that bp is cleaning this up and all is well again? >> well i feel like the people down there are still living it you know and i think that you know they wanted to show what was going on in their community to the world, and i think that's why they spoke to me. >> i do want to play that clip from roosevelt harris. he's from alabama, like yourself. as i mentioned, he runs this truck ministry. let's play a clip from him.

>> a lot of them they lost their trailers. a lot of them living the way they were tents, living in the woods, living on school buses. old boats. i think they just living from day to day. you know should help these people. going to these folks' houses i do this seven days a week, than to do anything else. >> were these families just not able to you know build back because their equipment was destroyed or they weren't able to get back into fishing? why weren't they able to get back at least a little bit of the life they had before? >> well i mean there's still a lot of uncertainty about how much the gulf is damaged, and one thing that happened is you would have a business that would get some kind of restitution

from the claims then a business across the street that you know the same kind of claims and not get anything so it was hard to rebuild when there was less fish, there were definitely a lot less oysters, so i think it was hard to know what was going to happen next the thoughts of uncertainty and some people couldn't keep their businesses open. >> we should note we reached out to bp to comment on the documentary, they did not give us a comment, but they did make this announcement today regarding an early restoration project, and this project basically bp says it's reached an agreement in principle on 64 projects totaling about $832 million. these projects costing millions currently under way in alabama, florida, louisiana, mississippi, and texas as a part of a restoration project that is under way. when bp makes these big announcements, do they impress the people at all down in the gulf that you spoke with or does it all seem like rhetoric? >> i mean i think like people when they see those bp

commercials on television when you're from alabama or mississippi or somewhere like that, it's almost like you just sort of -- makes you laugh or makes you angry, because it's not what you see on the ground. i mean again, i think some people did receive claims but there were so many that didn't that it's just sort of like adding insult to injury those commercials. >> and the many messages that will come from your documentary, from the mouths of those greatly affected, what do you believe is the most important message right now to get out? >> well i mean i started the film because i'm from alabama, and, you know i wanted to do something. i wanted to make something that would help in some way. i feel in the south we know what to do after a hurricane, but not after a oil spill, so i thought maybe i could make a film but as i made the film i started thinking about, gosh i'm driving making this i'm flying crew in, and i started just thinking about how we're all connected to oil and this

factory under the gulf of mexico that powers our lives. and i really think i want people to think about what's happening when they fill up their car, how we're all connected to this risk when we're doing that this network. >> margaret thank you so much for your time here dedication to this documentary, and i'm sure many people will appreciate the message that you're presenting in it along with the voices of those directly affected. thank you, and it's called "the great invisible" and premieres tonight on pbs. we'll be right back. ood around ♪ ♪ turn around, barry ♪ ♪ i finally found the right snack ♪ [ female announcer ] fiber one. taxi. vo: after years of being treated like she was invisible it occurred to mindy she might actually be invisible. ♪♪ but mindy was actually not invisible. ooh, what are you doing? can you see me? she had just always been treated that way. yeah. you don't have to look at me like

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>> great to see you. >> you are starring in the film produced the film. what was it that made this project so special that clearly you were all in on it? >> i mean i've always been really interested -- i do a lot of work with military armed forces. i was interested in the effects of ptsd and i do work with developmental disabilities. it was a no brainer right away. we switched the location. it was able to be in staten island 1999 my hometown. seemed like a no brainer for our first film for our company. it's a real story, visceral takes control of your motions. we wanted that. >> i think the first time you were on our show we discussed work with veterans and what you do for men and women that served this country. when you pull back the layers and add in post-traumatic stress and struggle that families face everyday trying to get back in.

then this family drugs, alcohol, special needs. then the last sentence i say, but they're bound together by love. with all of that sadness and dysfunction, there's love that keeps them together. >> for me the most interesting part of life is when you see people walking and have -- whether it be a daughter with a developmental disability, son or father back from the war. we see them for a moment and go to events and support. i'm interested in what's behind the door what's going on in their lives and how they stay together. that struggle for their survival to stay together love and all that. we get to see that in this film and get to see a very real -- it was just -- it grips you and holds you. it got me from the second i read the script. a year ago today we were filming. now i'm sitting here with you. >> incredible journey. we fell in love with you in

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