every person in line is there to buy the maximum amount. >> that place will be sold out. >> i don't think anybody's buying the strain that's the one that intentionally makes you hungry. when you're looking up the lineup -- >> i was thinking about this. >> the lineup of joy, rest, pain free -- >> hunger -- >> i don't think you go with this one, makes me hungry. >> i'm not generally looking for that in life. >> i need that naturally. >> chris, good to see you. >> good to see you both. >> i'm ali velshi. >> i'm stephanie ruhle. it's october 17th. let's get smarter. >> trump says he won't accept blame if the gop loses house. the ap said they told the reporters face to face last night in the oval office and this morning the president's calling that headline fake news after talking up republican enthusiasm in a separate sitdown. >> i keep hearing about the enthusiasm, the blue wave. i think we have tremendous

enthusiasm. >> where is democrats flip seats? there are a couple of places on the map where republicans actually have a chance of getting pickups. looking for answers. mike pompeo meeting turkey's president. turkey accusing saudi arabia of murdering a "the washington post" writer. turkey has images of the hit squad they suspect murdered jamal khashoggi. pompeo earlier met the saudi king and crown prince describing their conversations as candid. >> we're going do give them the space to complete their investigations of this incident and when they issue they reports we'll form our decisions about accountability connected to that. >> i'm not giving cover at all. with that being said, saudi arabia's been a very important ally. so they're an important ally but i want to find out what happened, where is the fault and we'll probably know that by the end of the week. but mike pompeo's coming back. we'll have a long talk. >> why not send the fbi?

>> he wasn't a citizen of this country for one thing. we are going to determine that. and you don't know whether or not we have, do you? >> i think he's dead and i think the saudis killed him. we need to condemn the conduct in the strongest possible terms. and the president and congress need to do it together. >> okay then. we begin with the crucial midterm elections that are just 20 days away and early voting begins today in three states. north carolina, tennessee and oregon. president trump continues his media blitz. blitz is an understatement. to push his party's candidates. >> the president admits he doesn't like speaking to journalists and wants to keep republicans in power. >> this is just for the midterms. we want do win and get the republicans nominated and we want to get them elected. we need republicans. you know? they talk about majority. we have a majority of this much. >> he might not like speaking t speaking to some news hosts and

told the associated press on tuesday he won't be to blame if republicans lose control of the house saying, quote, i think i'm helping people. we have had a very big impact. some of the people i have endorsed gone up 40 and 50 points just on the endorsement. >> new numbers show democrats have a massive fund raising edge in the race for the house. according to the latest filings, democratic candidates more than doubled gop fund raising in the 108 districts considered the most competitive by the nonpartisan cook political report. >> all right. joining us now our dear friend steve kornacki. steve, that argument the democrats are making, they've outraised republicans, i'm pretty sure the three of us have seen that movie. it was called the 2016 presidential election. raising money doesn't necessarily mean the fast track to winning. >> yeah. no, no. no question. it speaks it seems because so much of the money coming from small dollar donations.

it continues that theme we have been talking about for a last year. stephanie, just in terms of there being energy and the question is there comparable energy on the republican side? >> let's talk about races there. we keep talking about republican districts, democrats are targeting. is there another side to this? are there democratic districts that republicans target and the democrats are worried about? >> that's an interesting point to keep in mind. and saying number 23 for so long now. the democrats need the net gain of 23 to pick up the house. very doable for them and dozens of targets out there they're going after but if it's a close election night, there's another piece of the puzzle to keep in mind. it is this. there are some districts out there where republicans think they have a chance of doing -- to democrats what democrats are doing to them. there are a couple of them. this is probably -- counts as the exhaustive list here.

some of these might be real reaches but an example here, it would be the 8th district of minnesota. let's see if we can find it. there you go. geographically large. duluth, the iron range. this is the home of bob dylan by the way. he was born there. take a look at this district. they changed up the thing and i have to get more muscle memory here. bottom line is here. we have talked about the districts of obama to trump. look at the swing in the district. obama won it by 6. trump won it in a landslide. it was a democratically held seat. here's the matchup and what the polling is showing us in this race. the republican now out in front by 15 points. democrats talking about pulling back. maybe some ocf the financial effort here. this would be a republican pickup and talking about that magic number for democrats being 23, if they lose in minnesota 8,

it could go to 24. losing down here in a similar district in minnesota, it could go to 25. again, there are a lot more, a lot more democratic targets than republican tar gets on the map but if the accounting is tight on election night these are the sorts of thing that is will come into play. >> kamala harris and others warn if turnout is low, the low end of the projections show substantial democratic gains in terms of the number of seats and there is some scenario that doesn't show democrats taking the house even if they gain houses. >> if the republicans don't get -- >> 22 an and something like that. >> quite a dramatic -- >> a successful night for democrats and don't take the house the mathematical success sort of gets wiped out. >> the expectations are 23 and past it. >> all right. thank you so much. let's bring in bill kristol of "the weekly standard." what is your take? president trump says if republicans don't pull this off it will not be his fault.

he's created quite a swell of enthusiasm. at least in the last few weeks. take a listen. >> we have great poll numbers. we have tremendous turnout at these rallies. i think we have a lot of enthusiasm. i keep hearing about the enthusiasm, the blue wave. but i think we have tremendous enthusiasm. >> so, bill, look. it is not atypical for president trump to say if something works it is his doing and if it doesn't it's somebody else's fault but talk about this gop enthusiasm and its ties to trump. >> i mean, so in a normal off year election, when one party controls the presidency and both houses, they lose about 30, 32 seats so it's fair enough if that's the result for trump to say, oh, it is a normal thing. doesn't reflect on me. on the other hand, on the other hand, the house because of the nature of the districts, gerrymandering and the concentration of democrats in some districts is republican. it is republican for 20 of the last 24 years so to lose the

house is a bit of an achievement or gain the house is an achievement for the democrats and i think this is one of the few reasons is a massive gender gap in suburban districts where a lot of voters who have voted republican, where i live in northern virginia, for example, barbara comstock, if they swing and that's not because they changed their mind about barbara comstock. she is a congresswoman and well liked in the district actually. i don't think trump gets away despite the average if there's a huge gender gap. what's causing that? it's not general republicanism. it's trump. >> i want to talk for a moment about this disappearance of the middle. there's a new report out called research tribes and more in common put it together and puts the nation's voters in seven distinct groups a enthe most active is small and the extreme. progressive activists on the

left and devoted conservatives, about 6% on the right. tiny groups but that seem to be running the show. and david brooks had an amazing piece yesterday and his takeaway, quote, the conflict is a rich, white civil war. it is between privileged progressives and privileged skeftd conservatives. does that make sense to you? >> it does. there's more narrow political causes. but i wouldn't overdo it. we elected a democratic govern nor of virginia last year. moderate. i think voted for bush in 2004. in a lot of these congressional districts these are -- the democrats i think luckily or intelligently, elected moderately reasonable conservatives. so i don't quite buy that everything is so polarized that nothing can be done.

moderates organize better in both parties. you dent get a choice of two extremes and we could end up with surprising number of moderate democrats, fairly moderate democrats perhaps, at least in the house this year. it's stale highly polarized moment and trump makes it even more so. it's hard to know what will happen. steve was right to be cautious i think. there's a lot of cross cutting currents in the polls and feels to me like '94 and 2010. you have a bit of a bear market rally let's call it by the party in power in early, mid-october. in '94, clinton on the stump. the democrats didn't look as bad and then the primary trend kind of reasserts itself often in the last two or three weeks and might be happening and then the democrats could go to a 40, 50-seat win in the house and put the senate in place. >> bear market rally. customizing that for you. >> i did that for you,

stephanie. >> i appreciate it. >> when you talk to regular folks who are voters, economics plays high on the list of major concerns which is interesting given we have such low unemployment and one of the things that democrats are really taking seriously is discussing health care, what they do about obamacare. talking about this for two years now. "the new york times" is reporting that republicans are suddenly running ads of preexisting conditions and protecting them. scott walker is doing this, as well. is running on part of obamacare a good strategy for republican party that worked very hard to eliminate it? >> i think it opens them up to a counter attack and what the polls are showing and the focus groups show is pre-existing conditions is powerful. republicans want to take away your health care. true or false or exaggerated is powerful. i think the debt -- we just got the debt up 17% in the past year. mostly due to the republican tax bill and the notion that the next republican congress if you put republicans back in power might cut social security or medicare or let's be more clear,

reduce the rate of increase in future years and gives democrats pretty good issues to run on. republicans are running up the debt and threaten social security and medicare. if i were a democrat candidate, i would leave aside the culture war stuff and appeal to independent voters. >> bill kristol, weren't you a conservative once? >> i still am. i'm analytical here. >> thank you for that. bill kristol, editor at large. all right. we have breaking news. new allegations of a treasury employee leaked suspicious activity reports known as sars about paul manafort, rick gates, the russian embassy, maria butina. >> the fbi assistant director in

charge said the information on manafort and others was leaked to the media. and the time of edwards' arrest she was in possession of a flash drive containing information specifically in question. this is a lot to go through. joining us is investigations reporter tom winter. tom, what do we know about the charges? from our perspective, they sound pretty serious. >> at the most to face up to five years for each of the charges she is hit with. >> that's serious. >> yeah. that would be serious. of course, any time that you have a secret information, so the suspicious activities reports, the sars, generated by banks and not the treasury department and from there that information is transmitted to the financial crimes enforcement network which is what you were referring to before and all covered by the bank secrecy act so this information is never supposed to be disclosed to the public and what this person is charged with today is disclosing this information and based upon the court documents that we have

the criminal complaint filed by the fbi, all the stories they reference that were linked to the documents that she provided all published by buzzfeed and nbc universal invested in, our parent company. so all the -- essentially able to trace the disclosure of this information directly to articles that later appeared in buzzfeed. >> also named as having information leaked is prevazon alexander. >> this was money coming into the united states, money that was received illegally, a money laundering allegation brought here in the u.s. the same prosecuting office, the u.s. attorney's office for the southern district of new york brought a case and recoup funds run through new york city real estate essentially and an article two days ago based off of information according to the charging documents that was provided by edwards to buzzfeed and that information came out

literally two days ago and it was about money that flowed through td bank here in new york and a case going on for sometime i'm told and obviously led to an arrest today. she is going to appear in court in the next hour or so. >> thank you. tom winter. all right. next, president trump is defending saudi arabia as we learn more about the likely death of jamal khashoggi. we'll break down the latest on the suspects an the ties to the crown prince. you are watching "velshi & ruhle" on msnbc. only fidelity offers four zero expense ratio index funds directly to investors. and now we have zero account fees for brokerage accounts. at fidelity, those zeros really add up. ♪ so maybe i'll win, saved by zero ♪

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welcome back to "velshi & ruhle." saudi diplomats are retreating, retreating back to the kingdom's borders as the fallout of "the washington post" columnist disappearance and suspected murder grows. >> secretary of state pompeo was greeted by prince bin salman, the younger brother of crown pi prince mohammed bin salman and this man who we're talking about last week returned to saudi arabia. u.s. officials tell "the new york times" it is unlikely he will return to the united states. >> and as turkish investigators with forensic specialists among them arrived at the saudi consul's rez sensidence said th deny any involvement in the disappearance. this thing -- >> this is -- yeah. this is unusual. let's -- turkish investigators are going through the saudi consul's residence and learning more about the suspects in this alleged murder.

"wall street journal" cites people familiar with the 2 jets belonging to sky prime aviation services seized last year in the anti-corruption efforts, what they call it. we have scans of the passports of officials and nbc news not verified independently the identities of the men in the documents. one man maher mutreb is assigned to the embassy in london in 2007 according to "the times" since then they report that he's seen with the crown prince all over the world, potentially as a bodyguard. a french professional identified the next man, ab dullazis al hawsawi who typically travels with the prince. another man, thaar al harbi

reported in an outlet as a lieutenant in the saudi royal guard and "the times" said he was promoted for defending the royal palace last year during an attack. another suspect traveled with a passport named him muhammad alzahrani. he's identified adds a member of the saudi royal guard. "the times" cites a 2017 video showing a man wearing a name tag bearing his name with the crown prince. and adding to the suspicions of khashoggi's murder and then dr. salah al tubaigy also with the group. "the times" found the doctor listed himself as the head of the saudi scientific counsel on -- >> say that one more time. say it one more time. an autopsy specialist. an autopsy expert.

>> who -- why do you need to travel with an autopsy expert? this is definitely one of the weirder parts of the story and a bone saw taken in to the saudi consulate in istanbul. you can hardly take a sharp pen into most. a bone saw. >> and an autopsy expert. >> identifies as a forensic specialist on the twitter account and held positions in the top medical school in saudi arabia and the interior ministry and that's not it. "wall street journal" adds waleed alsherhri to the list, an air force major, characterized by turk irk authorities as -- listen to this. a forensic experts. according to the journal all of this is still under investigation as the saudi government denies any knowledge or involvement in the disappearance. boy, that's quite a crowd, 15 people on 2 jets seized by the

saudi government making way into the saudi consulate in istanbul. joining us from istanbul is bill neely. bill, what are you hearing thus far from turkish officials? >> reporter: well, stephanie, just on the point first of all you brought up about that forensic specialist, you know, his presence there would suggest that this was a deadly operation right from the beginning. that this wasn't, in fact, an interrogation that went wrong and, indeed, if what we're hearing about the audio recording is correct then khashoggi was killed within minutes of his arrival at that consulate. there's not much time for an interrogation that went wrong. so when eventually there's an explanation from the saudis about this, i think we should bear that in mind. if this was an interrogation to begin with why on earth was there a forensic specialist there in the first place? now to your question, for about

three hours now a turkish team of forensic specialists, about a dozen of them, have been at the residence of the most senior diplomat for saudi arabia here in istanbul at the counsel general's house. there was a delay in letting the team in there. we're not sure what the delay was but saudi officials inside the house. maybe securing saudi secrets in there. maybe covering up. because that's what the turkish president alleged that they did in the next door consulate and they repainted the walls there. anyway, the turkish team are in there at the minute. they're using, we have seen them using ultraviolet light. without getting into too much detail, one thing it's used for is detecting blood spatters on the wall. looking for dna samples, anything to connect the body of jamal khashoggi we believe was in the consulate and may have

been brought to the counsel general's house and one other small detail is that the counsel general left, gone back tory yad and yesterday his wife, his three chin and the two maids in that house were also sent back to riyadh and there are no witnesses left in that house who could tell turkish police of what happened and the saudis preventing the turks from interviewing any saudi official or diplomat. >> that's remarkable. bill, thank you for your coverage. bill neely for us in istanbul. >> ultraviolet works, is a full cleaning crew and they repainted the walls. >> right. i want to bring in former u.s. ambassador to saudi arabia, robert jordan. ambassador, good do see you. look. this is tricky. the president keeps on framing things when asked about whether he'll take action against saudi arabia if it is determined that it did something to contribute to the disappearance, possibly the murder, of jamal khashoggi and talking about $110 million

arms deal. first of all, we only know that the saudis committed to $14.5 million and accept the fact they're among the biggest buyers of american military stuff. and the united states imports a lot of oil from saudi arabia. this is a complicated relationship that we have always had with saudi arabia. how do we start to extricate ourselves from it? >> well, i think we should already be able to be critical of those abuses. when i arrived in riyadh after 9/11 we had similar problems. we needed the saudis to help us fig fight fight and we were critical of the slowness of going after the terrorists. you can do both. i think we have got to be careful about exercising what's called dollar diplomacy meaning

the dollar dictates what our policy is. that's really never been what america stands for and shouldn't be what we stand for here. >> even if it is dollar diplomacy, that the deal isn't a correct dollar, that's not what any side agreed to. >> yeah. >> is there an argument to be made that what the president is trying to engage in here is googood diplomacy with an ally before he has hard evidence to the contrary? >> well, my guess is that our intelligence people are in touch with the turkish officials and are receiving very similar information from what -- to what's been leaked by the government on press. if not, we should be demanding it and relying on our own intelligence collection capacity and reviewing what we have collected in the past and matches up with what we think we know from the turks and count on i think is that the saudis are not effective in investigating

themselves so we have got to demand more from the turks and we have got to get the full picture of it from them and the collection capabilities. >> ambassador robert jordan, good to speak to you. >> thank you. >> complicated because it's not like we don't have somewhat of a complicated relationship with turkey. next, president trump complaining of rising interest rates again and so far to say the united states federal reserve was, quote, my biggest threat. markets improved in the last few hours. the dow down 40 points. >> here's the thing. the market up over 500. >> correct. >> the president saying this is great. why isn't the news talking about it? >> we talk about it all the time. >> market shot up in and sure jay powell didn't lower rates yesterday. >> exactly right. you are watching "velshi & ruhle." e.

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welcome back to "velshi & ruhle." president trump is attacking the federal reserve again. >> after calling the fed's decision to raise interest rates

which was planned and normal crazy and out of control just last week here's what the president said last night. >> my biggest threat is the fed because the fed is raising rates too fast and it's independent so i don't speak to them but i'm not happy with what he's doing because you looked at the last inflation numbers, they're very low. >> not speaking to them but criticized them on a regular basis. >> after the market up 538 points. >> joining us now is a fellow at the american enterprise institute. he's called the fed and jerome powell his appointee out of control. stephanie said i don't think anyone called jerome powell out of control -- >> in his life! >> it's a schedule similar to janet yellen to increase interest rates. we can debate the right or wrong thing to do and not particularly unexpected. >> no.

i mean, listen. what the fed is doing right now is reasonable. you are right. there's a debate whether they should be going quite this quickly and well within the general realm of what you might expect but what i think's really strange here is that the president's really worried that the federal reserve is raising interest rates, well then, perhaps he should not have supported a big bunch of stimulus when the economy probably didn't need it. that's the issue. that's a reason raising the rates is because of that stimulus. >> correct. it's easy to blame the fed and -- >> and taken into account. >> the government imposed a set of tax cuts doing some of this. what's wrong? >> when ali goes full uh-huh you know you're on the same page he is. but here's the thing. conventional wisdom would tell you it doesn't matter what the president says. the fed will do what the fed's going to do. except we are not living in conventional times. >> correct. >> you could see steve mnuchin say it's not the fed. this is totally normal.

blah blah blah. but is the president going to be successful in pushing this narrative out so loud and so repetitive that maybe it will impact the fed. maybe jerome powell and others keeping things not so crazy impacted and they'll slow their pace. >> well, listen. i mean, maybe that's his hope and in the past presidents have tried to browbeat even, you know, having leaks about the fed. to get the fed to do what they wanted to do. >> yes. but there's no president -- >> the opposite might happen. the opposite might happen where the fed feel it is need to raise rates faster, more to show investors around the world that they will not be influenced by the president and will continue to fight inflationary pressure and reduce expectations. >> do you agree? >> look back at 1992 was it when george bush took issue with alan greenspan? no president likes the rates

increased before an election but the fed's -- i'm trying to think of examples of a fed influenced by a president's rhetoric. >> lbj? nixon. those are the famous episodes where then it became clear to people the fed needs to be independent and like i said trump may do just the opposite of what he may be trying to do. >> except i think the two of you are missing one key point that takes us outside of history and precedent. president trump is the world wrestling federation champion in terms of browbeating and pushing his narrative so hard that it actually exhausts people into doing things. >> but in -- you would know this better than we would. people respect the head of the fed. i mean, they don't really think he's one of those guys even though he's a trump appointee and there aren't a lot of people thinking that jay pow sell a toadie for the president.

>> i would be really shocked if the fed led by jay powell begins to slow down its tightening cycle or begins to cut interest rates because of the fed. listen. i have met jay powell. that would really shock me. >> all right. james, good to see you, as always. >> you bet. >> ali, it also shocked me to watch fortune 500 ceo of ceo sit next to the president while the president lied -- >> they faced the public. >> do you remember he turned to the ceo of ge and said, tell them. tell them. got a hole in one. >> the fed answers to neither. that's another issue. they don't answer to them. interesting. >> tell them about when i got a hole in one and saw the ge ceo do just that. an active new hate group in america.

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welcome back to "velshi & ruhle." please pay attention to this. with the midterms now 20 days away, nbc news has a rare inside look at a fringe group whose express purpose is to, quote, take over the gop. >> that should worry you because that's more specific purpose than often fringe groups have. it's a white nationalist group of -- >> white nationalist. >> white southern law center calls them a new active hate group in america. here's a producer anna shechter. >> reporter: this is patrick, a president of allowing non jewish whites as members. >> we are focused on preserving our own identity and culture, we only allow applicants with european heritage, as well. >> reporter: he calls himself an

identitarian. casey took the reins after richard spencer -- >> hail trump. hail our people. hail victory. >> reporter: -- a key fig chur severed ties with the original and organized last year's unite the right rally in charlottesville, clashes between white nationalists anti-that and protesters that turned deadly. casey says he wants the u.s. to only allow immigration for whites. and he's focusing his recruiting efforts on college campuses across the country. >> so we do encourage our members to go get involved in local politics, in the college republican clubs on campuses and we have had a lot of success in not only getting the guys involved that regard but also using them in those positions to influence other people and turn

them into identitarians. >> mainstreaming is the goal. and casey attended cpac, the conservative conference held outside washington, d.c. >> i did have many great conversations with a particularly younger attendees, college republican types, many more were very sympathetic to our cause. >> reporter: he's playing the long game, ultimately he has sites on taking over the republican party. >> the goal for now at least politically is to get them into positions of power in the gop, covertly. >> okay. that's a remarkable story and see a fuller version on nbc news. he says he goes to cpac. he talks to college types and many of them are identitarians. is he making it up? is he blowing up importance or can you show up as a mainstream

republican or conservative conference in america, go up to a college kid who actually says i'm glad you scratched the surface, i too, believe in white power? >> this is an interesting question, ali. i reached out to the clairemont institute which is an academic organization out in california and even the director was saying he has to steer the alt-right kids away from the dark side. >> wow. >> there's something happening in this country and we all need to pay attention to it. this group is a fringe group. they are extremists but even college campuses and conservative groups that cater to young people, they're having to address this issue. >> this is where the exhausted majority of this country needs to stand up and say, stop. what is the rnc saying? because you have watched the president right out of the gate tiptoe around this narrative and never come out directly face to face with all the media as he

does and denounce them. >> well, i actually reached out to several prominent republican members of congress and none of them wanted to touch the issue and didn't respond to comment. i did speak to a spokesperson of the rnc and didn't want to comment for fear of el vatding them and pointed me to a statement, it was a unanimous statement that was voted on at the rnc after charlottesville that condemned all actions by kkk, neo-nazis. >> what's the goal? >> have these young people who are in college republican clubs and then get into local politics and work their way up, covertly and secretly and try to influence the republican party and turn it towards their ideals which is essentially to only have whites emigrate into this country. >> to get into congress, become governors, become senators, and

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welcome back. a national experiment is beginning north of the u.s. border as canada becomes only the second nation in the world to legalize recreational marijuana. some americans are concerned the u.s. is missing out on big money by not following suit. >> senator ron widen of oregon agrees issuing a statement that says now that our neighbor to the north is opening its legal cannabis market, the longer we delay, the longer we miss out on a potentially significant

economic opportunity for states. use more than 30 have approved medical marijuana. even so, marijuana remains illegal under u.s. federal la it's very tricky. >> you cit makes it a cash busi. in canada that's not a problem. are you any closer to the front or have you stepped out to give you a sense of how long this line is. it's probably stretching two or three city blocks. i'm going to walk a bit to give you an idea. the people who are already up here, already waited about two hours. they definitely have another couple of hours to go before they will get to the front of the line. this is a physical embesiodimenf those profits and that money the united states losing out on.

right he one of the reasons this line is as long as it is is there aren't that many stores opening up today in canada. there's a website that people are using to buy marijuana but here in quebec, just one of ten provinces and three territories in the country, there's ten stores. british columbia has one. ottawa has none. people that are there have to go onto the website. some say this roll out is sort of as understated as the canadians themselves. i'm still walking. we have gotten to the corner and we'll make this turn. it's a little dicy because there's lots of people. i'll ask my camera man if you can pan down the treat. that flag is the front of the store. >> wow. from an economic perspective, what's the advantage to canada doing this. how important is this to dan's

economy? >> reporter: you're talking about roughly $8 billion to the canadian economy. there's also this other promise. the other promise is the potential that perhaps a legal market opens up in the united states. say the united states decides to legalize it nationally. you have these companies that are staking out their claim in the market that would be able to come in and there's a historic example of this during prohibition in the u.s. in the 1920s. there were companies like seagram's that were able to corner the market. they're still a huge brand in the alcohol business as a result of it. that's something you'll hear a lot of marijuana industry leaders in the u.s. talk about. gu guys. >> all right. thank you.

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