this morning more homeland security chaos. director of the secret service is leaving his position. the news came one day after homeland security secretary kirstjen nielsen resigned under pressure. plus another democrat joins the 2020 white house race. this time it's california congressman eric swalwell. an election takes place in israel as benjamin netanyahu seeks a fifth term. the race has been a tight one despite netanyahu facing corruption allegations.

good morning, everybody. it is tuesday, april 9th. i'm yasmin vossoughian. we start with president trump beginning this week by gutting the department of homeland security. purging allies of his ex-chief of staff and john kelley. yesterday the white house announced the director of the secret service retired marine major general randolph alice is out. alice disputed that he had been fired. outi assure you that this is not the case. in fact i was told weeks ago by the administration that transition in leadership should be expected across dhs. it is my regret i was not able to address the workforce prior to this announcement. the "new york times" reports trump who talked with members of his own secret service detail had soured on alice a while ago convinced as an outsider he not popular among the agents. the president made fun of the

agent's looks calling him dumbo because of his ears. dhs reports the president may remove claire grady in order to avoid any legal challenges. and lee cissna and john mitnick will be out soon as well. as for what's next the "wall street journal" reports that administration officials said trump recently told steven miller one of his most hard-line advisors quote you're in charge of the administration's immigration policy. political reports that miller has been telephoning mid-level officials at several federal departments and agencies to demand they do more to stem the influx of immigrants. vacancies at dhs have some top lawmakers expressing their worry about disorganization at the department. here's the republican chairman of the senate homeland security

committee ron johnson. >> i'm concerned. i'm concern of a growing void in leadership within the department of homeland security and this is a department that's charged with trying to grapple with some of the most significant challenges facing this nation open i'll be talking to the cpb commissioner who will be the acting secretary. we'll talk about what's happening inside the department and how we'll fill these leadership positions the. >> president trump and secretary kirstjen nielsen have been at odds since january over restarting the family separation policy. for more on that i want to bring in heidi przybyla. three u.s. officials with knowledge of the meetings at the white house tell nbc news that president trump has been urging his administration for months to reinstate large scale separation of migrant families crossing the border. according to two of the sources kirstjen nielsen told trump that federal court orders prohibited dhs from reinstating the policy, and that he would be reversing

his own executive order from june that ended family separations. three u.s. officials said that kevin mcaleenan who is expected to take over as acting dhs secretary has not ruled out family separation as an option. according to the officials, the policy lean would consider is known as binary choice and give migrant parents the opening of being separated from their children or bringing their children with them into long term detention. white house deputy press secretary had this to say about kirstjen nielsen's departure. >> i find it kind of interesting the media is so focused on what happened behind-the-scenes with the resignation of secretary kirstjen nielsen instead of worrying about what's actually happening at the border. she offered her resignation. she resign. the president moved forward. look, this is the most important position right now in the federal government and he put someone in place in kevin

mcaleenan who knows tissue, he'll do a great job there. we have to address what's going on at the border. >> for the first time since announcing her resignation secretary kirstjen nielsen spoke to reporters briefly yesterday. here's what she had to say. >> i just want to thank the president again for the tremendous opportune to serve this country. i'm forever grateful and proud of the men and women of dhs who work so hard every day to execute their missions and to protect the homeland. i spent the last 24 hours since yesterday talking with government officials, administration officials, members of congress to ensure a smooth transition. as you know dhs has a vast array of missions. i want to make sure we continue to cute them all with excellence through the transition. >> rumors since last summer that secretary kirstjen nielsen would be out and now it's finally happened. >> with all the heartbreaking images we saw basically a year

or so ago now because of the family separation policy, with all of those numbers of children being separated from their parent, the illnesses that ensued, the deaths of children that ensued, some kids that have not been reunited with their families since then, the president still considering family separation policy. are you hearing this could actually still happen? >> it could actually still happen because this is exactly the reporting that's coming out of the who you that the president wants to go in a tougher direction and that according to our own nbc reporting he's been brewing about this for months that he wants to go back to inreinstating that family separation policy. if it's not that then what would something tougher look like? that's the reporting we're trying to track down because that policy has been so controversial and kirstjen nielsen and others have told him it's not practical and it's not even legal. and yet he seems to be pushing this as part of a broader purge at the agency which really

reflects the sense that he doesn't view the policies as the problem, he views the people as the problem. even though by all intents and purposes she's been loyally executing these policies to the extent she can. here the president thinks he'll actually change the problem, change the dynamic by doubling down on the same policies that critics say are actually causing a lot of the problem at the border with people flooding in, thinking that thing are only going to get worse so now is the time to come across the border. >> shocking that the president might be instituting shuch a shocking policy that we covered a year or so ago. let's talk about steven miller who we know is a pretty hard-liner when it comes to immigration policy in this country and has been the hard-line for the president for quite some time now. the president basically saying what reporting is telling us that steven miller, you're in

charge. >> steven miller has been one of the most controversial figures in this white house behind a lot of this harder line immigration policy and now with some of these firings and this purge, the word is that he's even more empowered than he's been in the past. that's causing consternation not only among democrats but among a lot of republicans. we had our own reporters up on capitol hill yesterday talking to senior republicans who are now also going on the record, like senator grassley, like senator cornyn, saying that this is a big concern. that they are firing people who have been, by all intents and purposes good brackureaucrats a empowering steven miller. >> steven miller has been trump's man the whole time. so it seems to make sense. >> including kirstjen nielsen. >> heidi przybyla, thank you so much. after months of speculation

democratic congressman eric swalwell of california has thrown his hat into the 2020 race. >> i see a country in quick sand. unable to solve problems and threat from abroad. unable to make life better for people at home. nothing gets done. i talk to teachers and truckers and nurses and they feel like they are running in place and it's not adding up to anything. i talk to people who are just like me who are the first in their family to go to college. have a lot of student debt. i talk to kids who sit in their classroom afraid they will be the next victim of gun violence and they see washington doing nothing about it. they see lawmakers who love guns more than they love their kids. none will change until we get a leader who is willing to go big on issues we take on, be bold and do good the way we govern. i'm running for president of the

united states. >> so you heard it there. swalwell a 38-year-old member of the house intel committee has been a prominent voice on russian interference and u.s. elections and other investigations into the trump administration's dealings with foreign powers. he's also made gun reform a top priority during his time in congress. his first major event as a candidate will be a town hall on ending gun violence later today, 13 miles from marjory stoneman douglas in parkland, florida. he's the latest democrat to jump into the crowded group vying for the party's nomination to take on president trump in the 20 election. joe biden will make his first visit of the 2020 presidential cycle to south carolina to deliver the eulogy for his friend the late democratic senator fritz hollings. it will be held next tuesday.

henry mcmaster and jim clyburn will also deliver remarks. still ahead hollywood actress felicity hoffman and a dozen other parents agreeing to plea guilt i in the college admission scandal. we'll talk about what kind of consequences these parents could face. and william barr scheduled to appear before lawmakers on capitol hill today. where he'll likely be grilled about guess what? the mueller report. those stories and a check of your weather when we come back.

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welcome back. 13 wealthy parents and one college coach agreed to play guilty in a far reaching college admission scandal according to the department of justice. they are accused of paying thousands of dollars in bribes to the scheme's organizer to help their children cheat on college entrance exams and

falsify athletic records. court records note that actress felicity huffman will plead guilty to one count to commit mail fraud. the charges carry a maximum 20 year prison sentence. although prosecutors intend to recommend less time in return for her plea. she's accused of paying $15,000 for her daughter to get extra time on the s.a.t. test and for a proctor to later correct her answers. huffman said she accepts full responsibility for her actions and apologized in part to students who work hard every day to get into college and to parents who make tremendous sacrifices to support their children. all defendants who took tax deductions for the bribe payments have agreed to work with the irs to payback those taxes. at least 50 people have been charged in this sweeping case. more paerntsz are expected to

ple plead guilty. danny cevallos is in the house. interesting we're talking more about this than mueller these days but such an incredible scope of a case, i think. >> fascinating. >> so fascinating. >> it touches all of us. we have kids. we think about college. i just had a baby. i'm thinking about college. i'm nervous. >> i'm behind because i'm not. let's talk about the possible prison term, how they could face up to 20 years or so. but, of course, seems felicity huffman will get a reduced sentence because of her plea. what kind of time could these parents see? >> you mentioned the statutory maximum is 20 years. but in modern time that's a horrible predictor of an actual sentence especially with defendants like these with no

criminal history. they are likely to get far, far below. just look at the plea agreement. they agreed to a sentencing range of four to ten months. huffman has a chance to argue for less. she might be in the zero to six category which and i predict huffman will be one of the defendants who will get a straight probation sentence. we start at the maximum of 20. now there's a good shot of zero. >> some of that is based on the fact that she paid $15,000 versus some people who paid upwards of $1.5 million. >> everything in the fraud guidelines that boost the sentence is related to gain or loss to the victim. that's a significant factor. consider she rushed in and pleaded guilty. you get a two point reduction for that just for accepting responsibility. she's doing all the things right in pleading guilty and trying to get the least possible sentence. notice also she's working with the irs to deal with the tax

issue. that had to have been bundled into the overall agreement. >> part of felicity huffman's statement is her child had no knowledge of her action. stanford university just expelled one of its students that was connected to this scheme, yale university being the first university to do such a thing. first of all why are they expelling these students. can they prove these students had knowledge of what their parents were doing to get them into school? >> it doesn't matter. they don't need. universities are like their own sovereign, they have have their own rules. so what stanford did they don't need to prove whether or not the child knew about the whole scam and the federal indictment and everything el they just need show that student falsified admissions documents or falsified statements in trying to get admitted. if they did that that's a

violation of the internal rules at stanford and you can expel a student for that. having defended they cases students get very little if any due process. it's a lot like a third world country when defending a student in front of a tribunal at a university. >> sort of a dictatorship. >> exactly. that's the price of admission. >> stick around for "morning joe" as well. is that okay? >> of course. >> let's get a check now on your weather with nbc meteorologist bill karins. >> two things to talk about. we have severe weather which is typical. then this april blizzard that's is going take place in the next couple of days. jaw dropping for when we see pictures how much snow will fall in the central plains. rain in south florida. most of the heavy stuff will be down in sarasota to ft. myers.

isolated storms from mayon to augusta. charleston and myrtle beach back up to wilmington. even back down in here towards savannah. we'll watch this. i don't think it will be too bad. here's the big headline for the rest of this week. this is all the winter storm warnings and watches and now we have blizzard warnings in effect for south dakota, nebraska, little portion of minnesota. this is going to be a major winter storm. this snow forecast is ridiculous for any time of year let alone april. this area of red is 18 inches of snow is expected in areas of south dakota, southern minnesota, even minneapolis is expected to get a foot of snow out of this. so, yeah, it's going to be a mess. by the time we get through thursday interstate 90 will be closed. this will be an incredibly powerful blizzard. winds could gust to 60 miles per hour and up to 18 inches of snow. middle of april. that's cruel. >> i feel like if we're sitting

here on the east coast, 70 degrees and sunny we're over it, seeing that forecast for the people in the middle of the country. >> it was 70s a couple of days ago. what a difference makes. virginia completes the turn around in an overtime thriller. details next in sports.

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tournament. rebound into the hands of hunter. and virginia with the all time turnaround title. >> all right. how many people in this room had virginia? raise your hands. welcome back. time now for sports. new ncaa basketball champion top seeded virginia they are national champions. they defeated texas tech. to minneapolis the teams were neck to neck. virginia took the lead at the break with a three-pointer before the halftime buzzer. locker room red hot. they stretched their lead to as much as 10 points midway through the second half. maybe a nice easy win. texas tech turned the tide with five minutes left in regulation and raising the deficit, taking

a brief lead in the final minute before virginia right here they needed this one just like they did against purr ddue and aubur. texas tech the magic was gone in overtime. late in the extra period virginia a couple of key defensive plays. perfect 12 for 12 for the free-throws and then go on to the 85-77 victory in the school's first national championship. what a run it was. congratulations. to highlights to chicago where the cubs newfoundlander baez somehow makes contact with this pitch. let's go take a look at the replay. the ball was in the dirt. threes the bat at the ball. watch. a little strange. almost like hitting ing ting a .

with that the cubs is the fourth team to score ten runs. chris davis has this record, he went 0 for 5 in last night's game, 12-4 against the athletics. because he did this he set the major league mark for the longest hitless streaks. it goes back to the end of last season in september. at one point they were booing him, but now it's like you almost have to cheer him. he has to hit three balls last night. got unlucky. that's a long time to go. i can't imagine. baseball players are fragile. >> did you win the office pool? did you win the bracket? >> die win. >> come on.

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welcome back, everybody. i'm yasmin vossoughian. it's the bottom of the hour. let's start with the morning's top stories. we begin in israel where voters head to the polls for today against ral election. prime minister benjamin netanyahu is seeking a record fifth term. in late february israel's attorney general intends to indict the prime minister on a host of prescribery and fraud charges. a key focus of netanyahu's campaign is playing up his relationship with president trump who is pretty popular in israel right now by putting up billboards and ads promoting their closeness. trump hosted netanyahu at the white house just two weeks ago. joining us now from tel aviv bill neely. bill, how are things shaping up there so far? >> reporter: good morning. voting has begun and the closest

israeli things in a decade. this really is all about one man, a referendum on benjamin netanyahu, the man who has led israel for the last ten years. many israeli are tired of him. he's facing charges on corruption. he's facing his toughest challenge from a man, the former head of israeli's army. but netanyahu has a trump card in his back pocket almost literally. he's been campaigning as if donald trump was his running mate. trump is on his posters, in his campaign video and just yesterday trump designated iran's revolutionary guard a terrorist organization. that's gone down very well here. trump is giving netanyahu gifts although just a few days ago he said both main contenders were good people. the poll is suggesting netanyahu is the one who will be able to

put together a right-wing coalition and remain in power. it would be his fifth electoral victory and make him in just a few months time israel's longest ever serving leader. back to you. bill neely in tel aviv for us. a federal court said the trump administration cannot force asylum seekers to wait in mexico while their cases work through u.s. immigration courts. now outgoing homeland security kirstjen nielsen initiated the policy in january and ordered it to be expanded just last week requiring hundreds of additional border patrol agents to be assigned to ports of entry in order to process asylum seekers and deport them to mexico. but a judge of the u.s. district court of northern district of california ruled that the policy violates immigration laws and did not include quote sufficient safe guards to comply with the obligation against returning migrants to places where their life or freedom would be threatened. in recent days trump railed

against judges and immigration laws saying he's prepared to take extreme actions. >> i don't mind closing the border. i tell you. a lot of these fakers back there they say he will never close the border. too much. well, you know, close the border we stop about $500 billion of drugs from pouring into our country. there's a lot of advantages to it. i don't want to do it. i'm okay with it. i'll do whatever is necessary to stop an invasion of our country. that's what it is. >> and president trump reportedly sought to close the southern border in el paso, texas as his conflict with kirstjen nielsen escalated. according to cnn in an oval office meeting with top official last month the president was quote ranting and raving, saying border security was his issue. senior administration officials tells cnn that trump ordered kirstjen nielsen and secretary of state mike pompeo to shut

down the port of el paso on friday, march 22nd at noon. the plan was that subsequent day trump administration would shut down other ports. kirstjen nielsen told trump that would be bad and even a dangerous idea. according to two people in the room the president said i don't care. attorney general bill barr is set to appear before lawmakers in a few hours for the first time since releasing his summary of bill robert mueller's report. there will be a hearing on the justice department's budget. democrats, they are expected to grill the ag about his handling of mueller's final report. i want to bring back nbc news national political reporter heidi przybyla for more on this. >> according to barr's prepared opening statement his remarks include no mention of mueller's report or the redaction process. meanwhile another house committee and specifically its chairman has increasingly become the focus of president trump's

ire. according to "the washington post" during a meeting at the white house last month with house republicans on trade, the president suddenly launched into a tirade about jerrold nadler. trump referred to the congressman as quote fat jerry. and went on about nadler's weight loss surgery in the 2000s and suggested that the democrat was still overweight despite it. the paper says trump then claimed that he had been battling nadler for years. the president took to twitter yesterday to air his grievances about efforts from nadler and other democrats to get mueller's fuel russian report as well as his tax returns. he quoted the democrats will never be satisfied whatever they get, how much they get or how many pages they get. it will never end. but that's the way life goes. it's a message the white house reiterated. >> if we gave them the entire

report if we gave them every tax return they would come up with something else. it's never good enough for the democrats because they have nothing positive to offer the american people. >> a different tone from a few wheeks when the president said release the fuel report. >> i know we have part of barr's prepared opening statement as you mentioned none of which mentions the mueller report in that opening statement but we do have part of many of opening statements of some of the democrats on the committee as well and many do mention the mueller report as well and asking that very key question which is why, in fact, he issued that four page summary letter when there were summaries issued alongside the mueller report that were prepared for public release or release to congress. what do we expect to hear from bill barr if anything on his explanation? >> he's going to be hamstrung by the fact he legitimately is in the middle of this redaction

process. there's more fundamental questions democrats will try to get to the bottom of, most likely, including whether he was operating under that department of justice assumption that you can indict a sitting president, whether mueller was prafting under that. whether mueller even intended for barr to step in and make that call on obstruction. we expect barr to avoid the meatier questions. democrats will try. behind all of this, the subpoena canon is loaded. that canon is loaded and they are waiting for this full report to come to them to see how redacted it. then after that a fight will likely ensue whether it plays out in the courts or the judiciary committee during an impeachment probe, we don't know. >> so, of course, we under this fight being between the president as you mentioned and also chairman nadler with regards to the mueller report the full release of the mueller report and what will ensue there. but also over the president's

taxes this fight has been ramping up as well. the president saying, no way is he going to release his taxes and make sure his lawyers make sure of that. chairman nadler on the other hand seems very committed to getting, to view at least six years or so of the president's taxes. talk more about that fight and how it could end up. >> according to the statute it's clear that congress has a right to see any american's tax returns. the issue is that they have to keep that confidential. they cannot release that without a vote. even so it's unlikely that treasury secretary steve mnuchkin is going to go ahead and release those taxes which means that this too could go to a court fight. again, the chairman of that committee tried to make this a tailored proposal but still likely to end in a court battle because the president has got his allies on his side and he's made it clear, the president has, he would even take this all the way to the supreme court if necessary. >> can we agree there's a lot of

court battles going on? >> this is just the beginning. we're not even there yet. >> thank you. we'll see you again on "morning joe". the new concerns that fundraising levels for democratic 2020 hopefuls are creating within the party. plus, the new details we're learning about the chinese woman arrested at president trump's florida club including the hi-tech devices found in her position. bill karins will be back with another check of your forecast. f your forecast

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phones and a usb drive which contained malware. a secret service agent testified yesterday that one of his colleagues put that usb into his computer and it immediately began to install files. federal authorities also revealed yesterday that in her room at a nearby hotel zhang had a trove items including nine more usb drives, another cell phone, five sim carl edwards, $8,000 in u.s. currency and a signaled detector which is used to detect hidden video or audio recording devices. prosecutors add that zhang quote lies to everyone that she encounters. last week president trump down played the situation calling it a fluke. minnesota senator amy klobuchar's presidential campaign announced yesterday she has raised $5.2 million in the first seven weeks of her 2020 bid. amy klobuchar's campaign said the average online donation made was $40 and that 85% of donors gave less than $100.

amy klobuchar's first quarter fundraising totals put her just ahead of new jersey senator cory booker who announced over the weekend he raised $5 million. but behind south bend indiana mayor pete buttigieg who has raised $7 million for i had potential presidential campaign. democrats are voicing concerns about the low fundraising totals being posted by the 2020 democratic presidential field. a information u.s. ambassador and finance director for president obama's re-election campaign tweeted yet i have to said. i'm concerned by how little money the 2020 democrat candidates are raising. the last time there was a large primary field in 2007 the top three candidates, hillary clinton, barack obama and john ed edwards released big numbers.

so far they've raised less than clinton or obama. let's get a check now on your weather with nbc meteorologist bill karins. >> you ruined it for me earlier. i was planning this cool weather whiplash story and then you said earlier how it was 70 degrees and then -- >> it's so -- i'm a very ainstituastute observer. >> let's call this our weather whiplash. we'll start in areas where it was 70 to 80 degrees over the last couple of days. denver on monday of 80 degrees. minneapolis was 70. chicago was 73. so now we have to set the stage for our blizzard and our cold conditions. denver goes from 80 to 44. minneapolis 70 to 41. chicago goes from 73 to 40. that's spring in the plains. kit change in a heart beat. we have blizzard warnings that extend from nebraska all the way through central portions of minnesota. the impacts from this -- this

could be one of the worst winter storms we've had all season. this area of pink in here that's 18 inches of snow. these little red dots our computer model is telling us potential for two feet of snow. minneapolis a foot of snow for you. not just your average blizzard. this will have 40 to 60 mile-per-hour wind gusts and this incredible amounts of snow. on top of that we'll have very windy conditions. wind as high as 70 miles per hour in areas like lubbock, texas. watch out for fire danger today. brush fire season in texas and new mexico and oklahoma. so a lot to watch right now anticipate hopefully we'll get through you it. the taliban claims responsibility for a deadly attack in afghanistan. as the trump administration works to strike a peace deal with the group. plus details on the trump administration ramping up the evenings with iran. we'll be right back. we'll be right back

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welcome back. three u.s. service members and a contractor are dead following what is called a catastrophic i.e.d. one of those killed was christopher slotman, a u.s.

marine and 15-year veteran of the fdny. he reportedly leaves home a wife and three children. the bombing comes less than a month after the latest rounds of peace talks between the taliban and the trump administration ended. it remains unclear how much progress has been made on that front. seven u.s. military members have died in afghanistan this year. >> and in an unprecedented move in its campaign against iran, the trump administration yesterday designated the islamic revolutionary guard as a terror organization. this is the first time that the u.s. has classified a branch of a foreign government's military as a terrorist group. in retaliation, iran's supreme national security council said it was designated as a terror organization the united states central command, which overseas american military operations in the middle east.

secretary of state mike pompeo and john bolton were purportlied maj -- purportedly major proponents of this move while the cia was against it due to anticipated backlash against u.s. forces in the region. and the u.s. banned 16 saudi individuals from the u.s. for their role in the murder. the list includes mohammed bin salman's right-hand man. the move also comes just days after saudi arabia arrested at least ten people associated with women's rights advocates, including two u.s. citizens. coming up, everybody, axios' nick johnson has a look at this morning's "1 big thing." coming up on "morning joe," the new warnings being raised about

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welcome back, everybody. joining me in studio with a look at axios am, nicholas johnson. thank you for being with us. talk to us about the "1 big thing" today. >> it's trump's new hardline order push. with nielsen out of the way, the trump administration is beginning a lot of discussions on what they want to do next, big new plans by regulation or executive order. they want to make it more

difficult for less skilled immigrants into the united states, at the same time making it easier for skilled immigrants to get in, crack down on people getting asylum. they say asylum seekers are using that as a way to get into the country illegally. they want to make it more difficult for them to get work permits or benefits and they want to eliminate the rule that keeps child separation limited to 20 days overall. >> what difficulty will they have implementing some of these changes, especially when there are so many top jobs within dhs are vacant. >> i think it's not so much implementing them but legally moving forward on them. all four of these things i mentioned, it's unclear if they

can move forward on regulation. you know house democrats will challenge them. >> is this more for the president to save face in the leadup to 2020, to basically say i am trying to implement these changes? immigration is my thing, it was my thing in 2016, i want to make it my thing come 2020, so he's trying to implement these changes whether or not it ends up in court, he wants to say i'm doing everything that i can? >> the one thing the president has stuck with has been has to policies. the folks that have gotten in the way of that, like secretary nielsen are out of the way. >> axios is learning about a push on capitol hill to target a tech company's abuse of users data. >> we talked about the tech lash in the united states and what congress is going to do about reigning in tech giants. i learned it targets dark patterns, the thing tech

platforms to entice us to engage more and share more information. new legislation from senator warren and a republican colleague would make it illegal for companies to do that. former facebook executives have told us about the tweaks they do to draw people in and they would make that public. >> and the ouster of the secret service chief. >> in is somebody the pred put in at the behest of john kelly. now that kelly is gone, those folks are on the way out. this is separate from the nielsen thing, though there's a lot of empty slots. >> nikolas johnson, thank you. we're going to be reading axios am in just a little bit. that does it for me on this tuesday morning.

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