31 years at nbc. enjoy the golf game. still mediocre. we'll be back next week. because if it's sunday, it's "meet the press." be back next . because if it's good day. welcome to the pulse of america on msnbc where your voice can be heard in real time. here are the showtory we want y false on. first up, tax obabombshell. the "post" reporting donald trump may not have paid taxes for eight years. and can trump win women voters of a tech a week of missteps calling out the weight of a former miss universe and while

pulling out hillary clinton there's husband's affairs. and the have not shvice pre nominees in the final throes of their debate prep p. and snl blasts clinton's and trump's debate performs. funny, no doubt, but the preliminary impact is no laughing matter. as we kick things off, a quick note on how to pulse. calipari paerry is here. how does it work? >> remember pulse.msnbc./america. go on there, log on, and we can hear from you. we'll break it down would i various dem graph by various demographics. for the first question -- >> all right.i by various demographics. for the first question -- >> all right. we'll start with voirs the bombshell "new york times" story breaking today and the question will this story put pressure on

trump to rye leaelease his tax returns? his 1995 tax record was obtained by the "times" and shows that trump declared a $916 million loss from his failing businesses. according to tax experts consulted by the "times," that means key use a loophole to use that loss and write-off nearly a billion dollars in future income. no way it to tell for sure wout the rest of the attorneys. trump responding that he's the only would that can fix the carbon monoxide code and his campaign says mr. trump is a highly skill businessman who has a fiduciary responsibility to his business, his family and his employees to pay no more tax than legally required. so far tax and his campaign aren't really refuting the story. meanwhile rudy giuliani defended his tax practices on "meet the press." >> it's all legal.

should it be? that's a good question. but it is and it was and we're talking about 21 years ago and if he didn't take advantage of it, he would have been sued. and that's why maybe somebody doesn't want to put up their tax returns because somebody will distort it that way. the reality is he's a genius. >> joining me now to dig into that genius syndrome, katie, starting but, is this a bona fide october surprise because it is new documents, butt theory here has been discussed before. as a trump chronicler, what do you make of it? >> it's a confirmation of a theory -- or more evidence to support a theory that has already been out there, that donald trump doesn't pay federal income taxes. this first surfaced months ago when somebody uncovered late 70s documentation that showed that he didn't do it. now again this 1995 partial tax rush that shows that he could

potentially have not paid federal tax returns for 18 years. of course this idea was furthered in the debates as well when hillary clinton brought it up and donald trump did not deny it saying that it would make him as smart businessman to not pay taxes in that way because he'd be able to manipulate the system. i followed up directly after that in spin room and i said mr. trump, do you pay federal income tax now and he refused to answer it. so that question still remains. whether it matters is a larger question when you're talking about donald trump support ir, we can say no, it doesn't matter to them. hillary clinton supporters will scream bloody murder over this. but those unconvinced, a smaller portion of the population that are still deciding and now they have reason to say that i don't think donald trump is on my side, maybe he's on his own side, i'll vote for hillary clinton or this guy knows how to manipulate the system and he'll be able to throw it a bomb into

it the way no one else can. >> how did your paper obtain them? >> they were mailed to us. and as a reporter for the "new york times," i think that tells us that we're still the paper of record, mail things to the "times" means if we're going to break this news, that's where it is. but the other thing that is important, the reporter had been writing about donald trump's finances and digging into this and people knew that the "new york times" was looking for this. so that's how we got these records. p. >> if it were an ira or government source just doing what you described mailing the records of a private individual's taxes would be a felony punishment by several years but there aren't many people who had their paws on these returns. do you have any views of who it would be? >> i have no idea and i think that the "new york times" will not want to say who this person

would be. but i think that is clear here and what the bigger question is, whether or not it matters is the question that goes on everybody's mind because this idea is that even if you can prove this, even if donald trump does say, yeah, you know what, i did not pay federal income taxes and that makes me smart, does that matter to the undecided voters that will be critical. >> well, i mean, i don't know whether it's good, bhad, or in between. but it matters because it is a fact about a business record that he's been running on. and we talk about a lot of things we in the press, we as vote are, talk about a lot of stuff that matters a lot less about b. what the candidates like and sound like and who was sniffling or not sniffling or did the mike work. doesn't it matter that we can see just the scale, the exact scale of his loss and then thre record saying this can bounce about a, his detractors saying no, you used a lot of tricks to

enrich yourself? >> he has been running on his business acumen. do you say this is a manipulation or this is not fair? there the warren buffett rule you pay 30% of your income. and donald trump is clearly not abiding by that. mitt romney got hammered for only paying about 14% even though he was worth so much money. so -- and donald trump hammered him for this. so the idea that donald trump can get away with not baying any income tax certainly goles a lot of people. he's tweet shamed a number of of people for not paying enough taxes. hedge fundser, other billionaires. >> and tweet shaming stings. >> not even that, just regular americans who he says don't pay enough income tax when we are in such debt. he says this on the campaign

trail. >> the idea, though, that if this is something that he's willing to brag about, why not just release? >> i think -- why not just reshlaes because maybe he doesn't want to future it all out there, he wants to be coy and say i'm clearly this smart man but i won't give you all the secret. undecided voter, it's whether or not he will be continued to be teflon. you talk about the idea of being hypocritical, but he's also insinuated that he might go after bill clinton's infidelities. he's obviously been married three times and embattling the beauty queen. people saying is that really what you want to argue with people about? so he's been able do a lot of stuff that any other candidate would look hypocritical. >> and what does it mean to the american electoral system going

forward. >> new standards, new norms and is he setting a standard that other candidates think they can use and work, we shall find out. thanks for joining us on a big, big sunday story. i want to circle back for a breakdown of how you have been voting on this story. >> most people seem to agree. and you notice at home you can vote as many times as you want. we'll take a look at our snapshot. our snapshot is an instant look at what people are saying right now at this moment. not a total look, you about right now, 30% of you at home disagree, you don't think there will be anymore pressure on donald trump. let's take a look at political affiliation. really what we saw is agreement, most people seem to agree that in will put pressure. you see there amongst conservatives, a little bit of a dip at time, but most of you agree that this will put pressure on donald trump. finally we'll take a look by

education. and you'll see most of you agree, folks with botachelor's agrees roughly 30% of you disagreeing. we'll always put the disagreement number in red, agreement in blue. finally, big scoreboard, final results, 67% agree that this will put pressure on donald trump to release those results. about a third of you at home disagreeing. >> it's interesting what you as you say, that means even regardless of party, an overwhelming view that this story could change something. we'll obviously be tracking it. next week, a difficult week for donald trump. debate, his taxes, attack on a lea the miss universe. as trump himself made gender a bigger issue in this election somea the miss universe. as trump himself made gender a bigger issue in this election some the miss universe. as trump himself made gender a bigger issue in this election some. >> yes, we're opening up the second question. go back to that browser, type in that address,

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we just launched our second question. log again, pulse.msnbc.com/america. i'll have the results in a couple minutes. to now, back to you, ari. >> it has been a week of missteps for donald trump when it comes to women, a key voting bloc. and he needs to gain ground with them if he has any shot in november which brings us to that second question. has trump made gender a bigger issue in this election after repeated attacks this week on a former miss universe? trump doubling down on another

line of attack the clinton's marriage itself and hillary clinton's husband's pastin-fi d in-fid in-fidelities. and then this. >> i don't even think she's loyal to bill, if you want to know the truth. and raeally, folks, why should she be, right? why should she be? >> today rudy giuliani also reacting down that path. >> the problem with hillary clinton mass nothing to do as far as i'm concerned with her marriage, it's her protection of bill clinton for 20 or 25 years against allegations of rape, taking advantage of an intern, and going on the attack and trying to make those women appear to be insane in some cases. >> joining me to discuss, elyse jordan, former adviser to rand

paul, and basel smyckel. i'll start with you. is this fair game substantively? >> no, and i think it's horrific that we're in a place where both donald trump and his sur row gots including rudeddy giuliani are using this language to talk about both people's marriages and women's issues broadly in the way that they are. listen, several months ago when i was a clinton surrogate, they said it's a boutique issue. but issues that impact women affect the politics of the country and i think that donald trump will feel that on election day and in the meantime it's having an impact on the polls. but language that is used in the last few days, couple with what

he's done in the last few years, i think has been an abomination. >> i have to say, you look at some of it, the way that they have rolled out this attack which basically amounts to bill clinton did questionable things. hillary was around. so you should be mad at hillary both strikes a note that is disrespectful and also somewhat illogical. i want to get your response. this is rich gaylen, he's been down this road as a republican and he says looking at it all, bill clinton is not the candidate on the ballot. she is. we've already litigated bill as a nation. it gives them a week and a half to come up wheith an appropriat response which she will and then she will practice it until she can say it in her sleep. >> as a republican woman, i find the attitudes that are being displayed right now by trump and his surrogates morally deplorable, but i also think that it's just tactically stupid. women are 53% of the electorake.

he will trump seems to be doing everything he can to alienate the votes that are critical.wil everything he can to alienate the votes that are critical. >> so you're making an assertion of how women feel. impact check what you said and say it's true and we'll put up on the screen where where i am are at in favorability. pre-debate, trump was down 35 points. both debate, 43. >> these are stunning numbers and they will probably get worse. and i don't see where any of his surrogates, i don't see any-of will think about what he says, what he's doing is signaling in my opinion policy. if he has any. the point is things that he says will give you a sense of the kind of policies that he will -- >> is it policy or just a personal attack about what he says happened in this marriage in the '90s or before?

what is the policy content? >> this is what it is to run for president of the united states. when you talk about anything that you talk about is a signal of how you're going to govern. first of all, i'm not so sure he wants to govern, he just wants to win at all costs. and the way in which he's doing it is furtherful and harmful in terms of the fabric of the country. it's just harmful. and so if you extend it further and say, okay, let's say for argument sake that he actually does want to govern, he smas policy prescriptions for the country, what are he r are we g get from him? you listen to his surrogates not just about voters broadly, but about women and he's in pennsylvania talking about watch these voting sites very carefully -- >> very provocative language about that undermine the election. >> absolutely. this is dangerous stuff that we're wading in to. >> let me put it back for the question on the bottom of the screen, which is donald trump himself making gender a bigger

issue? because as you know, as you both know, a lot of it is trying to frame what is the race about. there was a period of time particularly in the primaries where he made the race about his view of immigration. whether you agree with it or not, it was policy and it had some kind of sponsor solution, some of them might have been farfetched. and now i put the question to you, is he with his conduct, with his worrieds, about his attacks making this race about gender and does that help or hurt him? >> donald trump absolutely make ma this race this week about gender by wallowing in his comments post debate. he didn't have a great debate, but it would have been a whole lot better for him if key have just shut up and moved on instead of focusing in on miss universe and his attacks over her weight. instead he kept digging a deeper hole which is exactly what the clinton camp was dreaming of. and you better believe going into the next debate that the clinton campaign has similar

opposition research designed to get in to donald trump's head. >> and that is the strangest point about all of this strategically, talk about previewing your game day strategy. if this was your big surprise, it's out of the bag and we'll see if it does or does not come up. thank you both as always. i want to flip right back to cal oig parry for a break down of how everyone is voting. >> even more agreement on this would be. this is how people are voting right now at this moment, not cumulative total. taking a look, # 5 respect ab95 trump is making this a bigger issue. let's take a look at political affiliation. widespread agreement here as well p obviously democrats break a little bit more than republicans, but as you can see, pretty much widespread agreement across the board. we now look at our tug of war

graph based on gender and again, not a lot of difference here for men or women at home. almost agreement across the board from both groups as you hit that button. keep voting before. every five seconds, you can vote. we want to track the results over time. final score board for this question, 94% aboof you at home agree this has become a bigger issue because of donald trump. only 6% of you disagree. we'll shut this question down. we have another one coming straight up. we want you to keep being heard. type in pulse.msnbc.com/america. we'll keep taking a look at this bas based on demographics. ugh. heartburn. sorry ma'am. no burning here. try new alka-seltzer heartburn relief gummies. they don't taste chalky and work fast. mmmm. incredible. can i try?

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away from the coming vice presidential debate. tim kaine and mike pence will meet at longwood university in farmville, virginia. kai do you agree or disagree these vp advocates are more important than ever this election? it's now your chance to weigh in.

welcome back to pulse america. time for you to vote on our third question. go to pulse.msnbc.com/america. start voting now. i'll have the results in just a minute. back to ari. in just two days, tim kaine and mike pence doing their faceoff, first and only vice presidential debate of the cycle. both men supporting two of the most unpopular presidentials to ever run for office. and it brings us to our third pulse question.

do you agree or disagree that the vp candidates are more important than ever this election? a new post debate poll showing a majority of americans still viewing each unfavorably. when it comes to age, also the oldest presidential match-up in history. back with me, elyse jordan and bass sele smikly. i don't know if you ever listen to alicia keys, but she had a great song you don't know my name. and if you look up here, 28% of people don't know pence, 27% don't know tim kaine. and if you remember the video for that song, you know, it's all about her having a crush on a guy and he comes in to the coffee shop and he wants to date her but he's singing you don't even know my name. how do we get there.

how am i even going to get you to like me if you don't know who i am. and that is a quarter of the voters. so how critical is tuesday to deal with that alicia keys question? >> it's funny because somebody some weeks back when both choices were made for vice president said watching the first debate will be like watching an episode of frazier. and i happen to love frazier. but what i think you're going to see to answer your question and to respond to that tweet is that i think it will be more policy driven than the presidential was because hillary clinton talked a lot about policy but donald trump talked about whatever he wanted to talk about. this is one thing that i think will come up which is that mike pence will have to not only defend his candidate, but he will have to defend the logjam, the gridlock in the senate and house during the obama presidency. he will have to defend his republican party not allowing a democrat to get anything done.

>> but in fairness to mike pence, he has house experience, but he's out there doing real things in the state. >> yeah, i think that is a little overly optimistic it that it would be policy driven, that it would be tactically driven. i think that it will be a lot about personality and inevitably mike pence will have to defend donald trump's poor choices of rhetoric. and i think that's what it if anybody will tune in for fire works, it will be for that. but i think unfortunately this will be a sleeper debate. it probably will be similar to when kempbated in the ' '96. one of the least watched ever. so is this not excitement. >> mike pence would be potential lay very important vice president. p we have reporting out there that when trump was shopping the job to kasich, that he was saying you can handle the foreign policy and the domestic

policy. like not interested in any policy if you believe that reporting. trump aides have pushed back on that. but take a listen to mike pence compare to go another powerful vice president. >> i hold dick cheney in high regard as his role of vice president. >> that's the kind of vice president you'd want to be? >> well, i think a very active vice president. >> very active. and pence would have his work cut out for him if his boss was donald trump. >> executive power grab for sure it looks like. but certainly that is not an answer that will upset anyone among the republican base to model yourself on dick cheney. >> and that's what i was going to say, i don't even know if he would have the power of dick cheney given donald trump is at the head of the ticket. because i think first of all dick cheney had more experience in government and being able to sort of -- he was the republican party in many respects during

that -- >> he's not just going to get into those details. even in business, he's known for not reading the fine print and letting other people handle it. i don't think it's debate thabl donald trump will not be in every inner agency meeting. >> but the question is does mike pence move republicans on the hill and i'm not sure that he can. so i think ultimately whether you think mike pence will be able to actually do the governance donald trump won't do, i don't enp know if you'll get that out of him. >> i also want to talk about mr. nice himself tim kaine. he's just a sweetheart of a dude. just a nice guy. whether that is political informati formidable or not against pence, we'll see. take a listen. >> somehow debate prep? >> it's good. just got to be hmyself. it's intense, but i'm calm. things work out the way they're

supposed to. >> vice president or just the dad down the block at the barbecue? there is a risk of being too nice. >> he could just get clobbered on the stage. one potential risk i think for republicans with tim kaine is that he does come off as very likeable. . and is well regarded among republicans. hillary has been doing a great job moderating her strategy. tim kaine has more appeal toward that bloc of voters. >> so the vp pick really does matter. and i think you will see tim kaine on the offensive in this debate, not only pushing policies that the democrats are promoting, but he will push mike pence on defending donald trump and that is what mike pence is there to do. it will be to defend donald trump which will ultimately is a losing strategy. >> my last question on pence, when you're in an argument and

you don't have a good comeback and then like ten minutes lighter you're like what i should have said! and i feel like that was the trump campaign this week. he was saying why notice i could bring up benghazi and other things that weren't in the questions. does pence do some of that cleanup and bring up some of the things that trump didn't? >> he might try that, but i think that it will go back to things that donald trump has said. and again i go back to the point, i think that he will have to defend how republicans behave during barack obama's presidency. and that is a real issue. >> thank you both. i want to read black ack to cal perry. >> this is was more of a split vote. you'll see a better sort of even slight on this question. about a third of you disagreeing thinking it's not such a big deal. whereas two-thirds of you, 70%

agree that the vice presidential candidate is a bigger role than ever. our tug of war graph on political affiliation, you'll see it's really about the same. doesn't vary too much. republicans seem to disagree more than the other two parties, independents again about a third of you at the home who would relate to the independent sort of ticket would disagree with this question, whereas democrats, less than 30% of you disagrees at home p. finally by age, keep in mind these two presidential candidates older than any of the other candidates we've seen in the past. and by saage, the younger our viewer, the more neutral you are on the question. whereas the older you get, and this is our 55 and older, more likely that you were to agree. so older the more agreement it seems to be. this might have been our alicia keys spike downward. i'm not sure. but i think that was roughly

where that was. fin finally the final reports, 65% of you agree bigger in this election than any we've seen in the past. 35% of you at home disagree. >> i have one quick question for you. and i appreciate the feedback. always good to know when the jokes aren't working. but on the fact that people do largely think it's more important, do you read that as a reflection of the top of the ticket? because it is just so unusual to have two so polarizing unpopular people at the top. >> cultural figures. both of these individuals are cultural figures. i think early on in the election i think people thought it would be more important and now we seem to see people at home not thinking it's as big a deal. i think it probably is the top of the ticket. >> all right. very interesting stuff. now to our fourth stoptopic of day. how big an impact does "saturday night live" have? you knew they would give their

take on the debate and boy did they ever. what did you think handled it. that is straight ahead.

this man is clearly unfit to be commander in chief. he is a -- he started the birther movement. >> you did. >> he says climate change is a hoax invented by china. >> it's pronounced gina. >> first "saturday night live" of the new season was a doozy beginning with of course their take on monday's debate between trump and clinton and now our final pulse question, how did snl handle its first shot that the clinton/trump contest? take a look. >> secretary clinton, let's begin with you. why are you a better choice than your opponent to create jobs and put hone into the pockets of american workers? >> well, lester, my opponent's

tax plan benefits the top 1% so much, it's not just trickle down economics, it's, i don't know, i guess if i had to call it something off the top of the old dome with no prep whatsoever, i guess i'd call it trumped up trickle down economics. >> very catch which i. you just came up with that? >>dy. right off the stiff red cuff. >> hey jazz man, i've got a very presidential answer. our jobs are fleeing this country. they're going to mexico. they're going to gina. if hillary knew how, she would have done it already. i won the debate, i stayed calm just like i promised. good night hofstra. >> donald, there is still 88 minutes left. it's a 90 minute debate.

>> my microphone is broken. it was picking up something sniffing here. she's been sniffing all night. gina, gina. huge gina. >> secretary clinton, what do you think about that? >> i think i'm going to be president. this man is clearly unfit to be commander in chief. >> wrong. >> he is a bully. >> shut up. >> he started the birther movement. >> you did. >> he says climate change is a hoax invented by china. >> it's pronounced gina. >> he has pronounced his tax return which mean he's either not that rich. >> wrong. >> not that charitable. >> wrong. . >> or he's never paid taxes in

his life. >> warmer. >> let's move on to national security. you've criticized secretary clinton for voting for the iraq war, but you yourself assumed the war -- >> wrong, wrong, wrong. you're being very mean to me tonight, cole train. very mean. i was against the war, ask anyone in the world named sean hannity, i told sean hannity. >> why is your judgment better than sect clintretary clinton's? >> i have the best judgment and the best temperament. she's always screaming, she's constantly lying. her hair is crazy. her face is completely orange except around the eyes where it's white. when she stops talking, her mouth looks like a tiny little butt hole. >> secretary clinton, you have two minutes to respond. >> oh, that's okay. he can have my two. >> okay. mr. trump, two more minutes.

>> the thing about the blacks is that they're killing each other. all the blacks live on one street in chicago, all on one street. it's called hell street. and they're all just killing each other. just like i am killing this debate. >> secretary clinton, did you have a response? >> not at response, more of a request. can america vote right now? >> well, this has been an illuminating debate. but thousand inow it's time for >> alisha machado. >> i'm sorry, who is that? >> thank you for bringing that up, lester. she's a strong beautiful political prop that i almost for

got to mention tonight even though we already made a web video about her. she was miss universe in 1996. >> where did you find this? >> and donald trump called her miss piggy. >> how do you know this? >> and miss housekeeping. >> that's pretty funny. >> mr. trump, your response. >> lester, why are we talking about this woman? we should be talking about the important issues like rosie o'donnell and how she's a fat loser, and everyone agrees with me. i just wanted to bring that up in a presidential debate right at the end, good idea, i did it. >> secretary clinton, why are you crying? >> i'm sorry, lester, this is going so well. listen america, i get it, you hate me. and you hate my voice and you hate my face. well, here's a tip. if you never want to see my face

again, elect me president and i swear to god i will lock myself in the oval office and not come out for four years. but if you don't elect me, i will continue to run for president until the day i die. and i will never die. >> mr. trump, final remarks. >> you know what, lester, i was going to say something extremely rough to hillary tonight, but i said to myself i can't do it, i just can't do it. but if i had said it, it would have been a nuclear bomb. because in the 70s our president was a man named bill clinton. not many people know this, but that man is her husband. and in 1998, get this, he had an affair. it's true. my investigators are looking into it right now. there was a woman named monica, very heavy, i don't have her last name yet, but when i get

it, i will set my alarm for 3:20 a.m. and go sit on my golden toilet bowl and tweet about it until completion. >> incredible. alec baldwin, just incredible. he's very good at that thing that he just did. >> and kate mckinnon has a way of getting the inner hillary out. they will be psyched about our results. people agreeing and just to recap, we sort of changed the voting to nailed it and then on the other end failed. how you're voting right now, overwhelming there 98% of you think snl nailed it. big episode. let's take a look at age. most of you at home believe that they nailed it p. the younger viewers took you a bit to come along there. he if he beginning our younger viewers especially 18 to 24 weren't rail buying it ieally by the end, 98% roughly.

finally political affiliation, we have our graph here, most people thinking that they nailed it, republicans here a little bit of a dip. you came back. republicans came back here. this was the moment that hillary clinton how she was unlikable, and that's when the republicans at home sort of came back around obviously liking that moment right there. finally, our scoreboard, and this is going to be overwhelming. this is going to be one-sided. here it is as we start of close this one out. 97% of you at home thinking that s&l nailed it. people will be very happy in this building. 3% of you at home not buying it. but obviously a big political moment. a little like the tina fey moment of a few years back with sarah palin, right? >> they hit the cultural moments so well. speaking just for myself, there have been times in this election that have been traumatic, but comedy can be therapy and clearly people are welcoming s&l's work last night. >> people needed it. up next, we'll do a complete

breakdown of this weekend's pulse, results from all of the questions.

time for one final look at the pulse of america. back to calip perry for a breakdown. >> let's remind our viewers, the first question, "the new york times" story, will that put pressure on donald trump to release his tax records? let's throw up our final score here. 67% agreeing, 33% disagreeing. this question, interestingly, independents and democrats tended to agree more. people who finished sort of at high school, didn't go on to further education, seem to agree with this more. there you have it. 65% at home agreeing this could potentially force donald trump to release those tax records. interesting on that one. the second question, based on what you're hearing, has donald

trump made gender a bigger issue in this election? we saw -- let's do vp debate before that. do you agree or disagree the vp candidates will be more important in this election than elections past? most at home agree. 65% at home agree that the vp candidates in this election, obviously we have very strong top of the ticket candidates, but 65% of you agreeing that the vp candidate will be more important in this election. we'll look now at the -- >> i want to ask you one thing about the taxes. that was the big story sunday morning, everyone in politics following it. republicans and democrats you found in our polling agreeing whether you like this story or not and rudy giuliani and everyone was out defending, donald trump is smart, a geniiu for doing this, but whether you like it or not, saying it will

add pressure. >> will he be pressured to release his tax records, not necessarily will he. pretty universal agreement that pressure will rise. >> cal, thanks for walking us through so many of the numbers today and what you have been saying during the show. thanks for watching "pulse of america." up next, the trump campaign responding to that report as we mentioned all about whether he ducked his federal income taxes for 18 years. richard lui picks things up on that story and more right after the break. ♪ using 60,000 points from my chase ink card i bought all the framework... wire... and plants needed to give my shop... a face... no one will forget. see what the power of points can do for your business. learn more at chase.com/ink impressive linda.

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