like sanctuary. >> that's all for this edition of "dateline". i'm natalie morales. thanks for watching. a very good morning everyone. i'm alex witt here in next at msnbc headquarters. 6:00 a.m. here in the east. 3:00 a.m. out west. william barr rushing to the president's defense. how he's down playing the special counsel probe and why it could have lasting effects. >> on edge as tensions with iran escalate. u.s. diplomats have a work about passenger planes flying over the persian gulf. no dice. why both republicans and democrats have a problem with the president's new immigration plan. and pro choice advocates vowing to fight alabama's abortion ban all the way to the

supreme court. what it all means for the future of roe v wade. developing this hour the attorney general facing new backlash after genociding with the president, casting doubts on the legitimacy of the russia investigation. william barr say it's necessary to investigate the investigators because the special counsel did not cover the possibility that officials abused power. >> i've been trying to get answers to questions and a lot of answers have been inadequate and i also found some of the explanations i've gotten don't hang together. in a sense i have more questions today than when i first started. if we're worried about foreign influence. we should be worried if government officials abused their power. >> democrats are charged that you are the president's attorney now. >> they don't know what they are talking about. >> barr told the "wall street journal" his new inquiry into the origins of the russia probe

could lead to rule changes. the president repeated a claim on twitter his campaign was conclusively spied upon. he wrote, treason means long jail sentences and this was treason. the a.g. doubled down on the word spying. >> are you comfortable using those words, witch-hunt, hoax? >> i use what words i use. it was an investigation. but i think if i had been falsely accused i would be comfortable saying it was a witch-hunt. >> this raises the stakes for the highly-anticipated testimony from the special counsel which may now not happen until next month. the "wall street journal" is reporting negotiations for robert mueller's testimony have been stalled partially over whether the president's assertion over executive privilege would limit what mueller is allowed to say. house democrats are vowing to considering enforcement action after a.g. barr missed

wednesday's deadline for the unredacted report and mnuchkin missed a deadline to turn over the president's tax returns. >> we will likely proceed to court as quickly as next week. i have mfollowed the advice of counsel and plan to stick with that. that's the best policy and best strategy. it's understandable you can have an idea but the implementation of the idea is equally important. [ inaudible ] >> i don't he see that as an option. >> also developing today house democrats say the president's new immigration plan is dead on arrival. it will scale back family based

immigration for merritt based immigration. it doesn't address the future of the daca program which helps protect 700,000 immigrants brought to the u.s. as children. and this congressman has this message. >> what mr. cukushner and his tm laid out is only two planks of the immigration system. there was nothing in there about daca or asylum fixes or about guest worker programs or seasonal worker programs. we need to be addressing the humanitarian crisis that we're dealing with at the border right now. this plan doesn't do that. >> also today in reaction to that. let's go to our white house correspondent. what all is the president saying about this? >> there's a lot of things

happening on the immigration front and a lot has happened over the course of the last 24 hours. administration official from the department of homeland security, the cpb, i.c.e. and others are getting together a program. they are literally putting detainee, immigrant detainees on planes from detention centers in texas, delry jobs texas and flying them to san diego, a grouch detainees arriving there yesterday evening. the plan is to fly at least three plane loads of 130 individuals from del rio, texas to san diego, at least three times a week. and the administration is letting it be known that they might expand this program further, might expand this program to other cities and they named them. detroit, buffalo, new york and miami. and you better believe a lot of the politicians in all of those places in particular florida are really railing against this plan that was announced by dhs and there's some back tracking going on.

in the meantime border patrol officials say they are being overwhelmed. here are the numbers. undocumented imgrant from march and april, 100,000 crossed the border during those months. that's the highest total in 12 years since 2007. meanwhile the president has plenty to say. he was with our friends yet again on fox news in an interview that's going airing later in the next couple of days. here's what he had to say. >> we've gotten very tough on the border. we have a catch and release. where you catch and then you have toby law release. or you have to take them to a court. nobody has a court system. what country has a court system if somebody walks into their country. >> does this new plan have details in it that would change that? >> tremendous details. the asylum system is a disaster. >> reporter: it was last month or two months ago when president trump said that he wanted to

send some of these detainees to so-called sanctuary cities, a retribution or payback to democrats who wouldn't cooperate with him to reform immigration laws the way he sees fit in congress. officials say there are no political considerations here in choosing these cities, detroit, beautiful, miami and already happening in san diego. but ron de santis a saunch trump ally, new governor of florida is fighting against this. marco rubio. the mayor in broward county, broward and palm beach coin say let's put them in trump hotel properties down in south florida and see how the president likes it. it's bounds to be controversial. it's starting to unfold right now. >> in particular that palm beach coin. that's near mar-a-lago. there's a lot about this you have to question. we'll do that today. thank you. so new this morning a warning to commercial airliners

flying over the persian gulf coast. airplanes face the risk of being misidentified as tensions escalate between u.s. and iran and iraqi government officials express fear of getting caught in the middle. let's go to bill neely. he's joining us from iraq. bill, a good day for you. first up on the airliners. what are you hearing on this today? >> reporter: yeah. good morning, alex. this is a fairly standard warning and it comes really from the faa distributed, of course, by u.s. ploediplomats. remember the per man is gulf is a airline hub and the faa is warning of heightened military activity and asking pilots to be very aware with their navigation equipment or breaks in communication and be aware of what might be causing that and the possibility of being

misidentified. in other words, identified not as a commercial aircraft but as a military aircraft. but there's been no restrictions, no cancelations, no rerouting at the moment but it's a sign of the tension in this area. also in shipping, lloyd's the main shipping business in europe warned of possible risks. here in northern iraq and indeed in baghdad there are warnings about drones. so there are unidentified drones near the base and there's concern. also at the u.s. embassy in baghdad on thursday an unidentified drone led to the embassy being in lockdown for an hour, although in the end that posed no threat. so plenty ever signs of worry and of tension, but also, alex, signs ever tension easing.

it just end president trump saying that he doesn't want war, for example, u.s. officials briefed congressional aides and lawmakers friday and said that there were signs that iran was taking missiles off boats. remember there were photographs allegedly of missiles being loaded on to boats which is one of the pieces of the jigsaw that brought this concern and this heightened tension. apparently those missiles are off the boats. there are decreased communications between iran as revolutionary guard and militias here and iraq, two u.s. navy destroyers went through the straits of hormuz uninterrupted, so plenty ever signs, also, alex that this crisis is not increasing but decreasing. thank you for that comprehensive report. we'll pick up on that right now.

joining me senior reporter with business insider and jonathan allen national political report with nbc news. good morning to both of you. as the president addressed yesterday reports of these drigss over iran policy between his national security adviser john bolton and secretary of state mike pompeo. let's dictate a listen to that. >> these people, they put out messages. [ laughter ] i'm angry with my people. i'm not angry with them. make it sound it's a conflict. they say confidential source. did you ever notice they never write the names of people any more. everything is a source says. there is no source. the person doesn't exist. the person is not alive. it's bull [ bleep ] okay. [ bleep ] >> that was charming. so what do you make of the president's claims? the fact that the administration's internal

conflicts have been widely reported. >> right. this is something that has bothered the president for a long time. he sees himself as steering this white house and steering this ship. if he doesn't like reports of conflict and especially reports that people working for him disagree with him. it's important, i think, to note the reason why so many of these source want to go on background and don't want to have their names out there. the primary reason is that a lot of the time what happens, somebody will tell you something on the record and then even -- within an hour, within a few hours trump will blast out a statement or a tweet that contradicts what that person told you on the record. a lot of the time these people want to be on background because of pure self-preservation, they don't want to be embarrassed advocating for some kind of change and then have the president come out and contradict them. >> or lose their job. we've seen that happen as well. let's look at this. timing wise it comes as "the

washington post" is reporting that steven miller tried to have another shakeup at the department of homeland security but the acting secretary prevented that. what do you make of that, jonathan, the president pushing back on these reports of internal conflict? >> i think that somebody ought to walk around the white house and make sure that there aren't so many sharp object, because everybody there seems to be grabbing knives and stabbing each other. steven miller taking out cabinet secretaries, taking out deputy secretaries, taking out customs and border officials and i.c.e. officials and, obviously, seen some conflict on the national security council staff as well. this is something that normally happens in a much more subtle level in administrations. people jockey for power within the trump orbit. obviously he rewards some of this behavior. the aide that's able to destroy

the other one advances and sort of "game of thrones" like administration. >> yeah. okay. so palace intrigue there. we'll have a lot more on that. i want to talk about the immigration proposal put forth by the president and you write, jonathan, that the president is trying to appeal to the middle. his immigration plan is being criticized from both sides. >> part of the problem for him is this is the seventh or eight or ninth iteration of an immigration plan. i think you have to look at it in a different way than just what's coming from congress. republicans and democrats in congress are criticizing this. nancy pelosi the speaker of house decade it's dead on arrival. a lot of republicans in the house don't like it because they don't think conservatives will get behind it. but what the president is doing here is taking a slice, a very small slice of the immigration issue and pivoting to it.

he's been talking about illegal immigration for so long, very harsh crackdown policies on that. now he's looking at legal immigration and what he's saying he wants more high skilled immigration. that's what polls best in the country. not what the hard left wants. not what the hard right wants. hard right wants lower numbers of immigration in this country. hard left wants a broader immigration policy. but there's nothing more popular with a moderate set. >> to your point here, let's take a listen to the president while he's announcing this immigration proposal. this is on thursday. here it is. >> if for some reason, possibly political we can't get the democrats to approve this merritt based high-security plan, then we will get it approved immediately after the

election when we take back the house, keep the senate and, of course, hold the presidency. >> okay. meanwhile "the washington post" is reporting the president has been telling aides he wants his border wall to be painted a flat back so that it will absorb heat, make the heatal too hot for anyone to try to skalt. so is the president's immigration proposal a political strategy ahead of 2020? >> yeah. it's not surprising because he has said that he wants immigration and the economy to be two of his campaigns bedrock issues going into this election because he sees them as having the best chance at keeping his base happy. and also like jonathan pointed out, you know, floating these kind of narrow proposals that don't really address the broader issue of illegal immigration and, of course, the quote, humanitarian crisis going on at the border as democrats have

painted it. seems like he's kind of addressing this in the best way he can, you know, purely for political purposes. >> let's take a listen to how a couple of house democrats have reacted. >> there should be comprehensive immigration reform and not immigration reform that is based on exciting and inciting those people who have negative thoughts about others coming across our boards. i think some of that is very racist. it's not keeping with what this country is supposed to be all about. >> the word that they use, merit, a condescending word. is family without merit. are most people who come to this country without merit because they don't have an engineering degree? >> immigration is not even a top issue for democratic voters. how do democrats address this big issue in relation to other

big ones like health care. >> what they do is focus on health care. it's the president who has wanted to make immigration a big issue. he did it ever since he started talking about building a wall a few years ago. it's something he keeps coming back to. he believes it's something that will carry him to victory. he thought it would carry him to victory in the mid-terms with the caravans coming to the border. that didn't work out so well with democrats winning the house. it's something he comes back to over and over again and he's been fumbling around for what will be the magic bullet for him on immigration. this is the latest version. it's all about 2020. completely political. a very narrow slice of the issue. it ignores most of the other things. by the way, it does not at all prevent him or stop him from doing various other things he's doing on immigration and has been all the time. he's just trying to focus the public on a piece of what he's

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new abortion bans passed into law this week including yesterday despite protests the republican-led missouri legislature passing a ban on abortions beyond eight weeks of pregnancy. lawmakers in seven other states are limiting abortion procedures including alabama, arkansas, georgia, mississippi, ohio and utah. now the bill now in alabama is the first full outright ban on abortion with zero exceptions for victims of rape or incest and while this sets up some new legal battles the law doesn't go into effect for another six months or so. joining me is our legal contributor. hot button issue.% and if you look back at these cases you've seen that these challenges are successful. meaning that the aclu, they will win on these issues and then they will go the 11th circuit court of appeals which will again confirm you can restrict access to abortions in states such as alabama because of roe v wade. so the transparency behind a bill like the one in alabama has been clearly advanced. opponents said we want to challenge roe v wade that's why we're taking an extreme challenge. it's going to be a flop.

it won't make it to the supreme court. people who are backing this bill, they are not going to be looking at this bill any time soon. >> can i ask if all this threatens roe v wade, especially if it finds its way to the desk of the supreme court? because that's a law that was enacted in 1973. >> so, it's a long time ago. the reality is the supreme court of the united states and its precedent. but the truth s-alex, when you're dealing with legal issues sometimes it does take a bill this radical or a concept that's just so extreme to be able to get the supreme court of the united states to be able to change its mind. however fundamentally in order for a bill like the one in alabama to get to the supreme court it's got to go through a district court judge, 11th circuit court of appeals before it makes it to the supreme court of the united states. >> the way to describe these bills, the fact that it is that

extreme, does that harm its chances in the supreme court? >> sure it does. it's a complete 180 from existing precedent there's something about it that the supreme court finds to not only be compelling to hear it. people have this misconception just because you want to go to the supreme court you get to go. that doesn't happen. the supreme court has to agree to take the case. if it doesn't agree to take the case it doesn't reverse itself. in order to reverse itself it has to have a case to decide. this type of bill or case or issue is one they want to take up. thank you. a georgetown university student is filing a lawsuit to stay in school after his father pleaded guilty in the college admissions scandal. the student said he did not know his father used bribes to get him in that school and should be allowed to keep his credits. miguel almaguer has the story. >> reporter: the georgetown junior had just filed a lawsuit

against the university, trying to prevent the cool from kicking him out when ten hours later his attorney says the student's admission was suddenly rescinded. his father pleaded guilty this month admitting he paid $400,000 in bribes to get his son into georgetown. prosecutors say after the tennis coach was paid off, adam was admitted to the school even though he didn't play the sport competitively. his attorney says adam was unaware of the bribes and wants to at least leave with his credits intact. the university says applicants to georgetown affirm that the information and statements contained in their applications are true, correct and complete. prosecutors allege in the complaint some students entangled in the college entrance exam were aware they were cheating. >> for each student it will depend on the school's approach to discipline and that student's

rights under the applicable honor code. >> reporter: with the rich and famous facing prison time and some making deals, tonight their children are paying the price for what prosecutors say they never earned. miguel almaguer, nbc news, new york. >> it's being called a huge poll for joe biden in south carolina. the story behind his dramatic lead. that's coming up. but now to this morning's laugh lines and the late night take on president trump calling the trade war a squabble. >> this squabble. we had a lot of squabbles. we have civil squabble. world squabble i, world squabble ii. >> that's language your dad uses why he's been sleeping in a motel for the past few weeks. fatal mes

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the next few days in the central u.s. still no word on just what caused a fighter jet to crash in a warehouse in southern california. the f-16, we were seeing it before it went down. you see part of the plane's tail there from this video. that was taken moments after the accident. no one was seriously injured fortunately including the pilot. investigative report confirms an ohio state doctor sexually abused 177 male students for nearly 20 years. richard strauss worked as a doctor. most of the abuse what happened the pretense of providing students with medical treatment. investigation commission by the university also found personnel were aware of strauss's actions but did nothing to stop him. new today there's outrage over just released text messages from an nypd commander in the eric gardner case.

now text messages show a police lieutenant saying gardner's death was not a big deal. >> reporter: the 2014 video of new york police arresting eric gardner and wrestling him to the ground started a nationwide battle cry for police accountability. the officer put gardner in what was an illegal chokehold after suspecting him of selling loose cigarettes. five years after gardner's death a police disciplinary hearing has uncovered text messages sent after he went unconscious. a sergeant at the scene texting about the officer. danny tried to grab him. they both went down. they called the bust asap. he's most likely doa. he has no pulse. okay keep me posted. i'm still here. not a big deal.

we were effecting a lawful arrest. the lieutenant said the text was meant to assure that officer. but protesters and his mother are outraged. >> no big deal. now if one of your loved ones or his loved ones was on the ground dead and someone came up to you and said it's no big deal, how would you feel about it? >> reporter: a grand jury declined to indict the officer. let's go to the race for 2020. former vp joe biden has a kick-off rally today. his primary opponents are fanning out across the country. biden is expected to go after trump for dividing the country and to make his pitch as unifier in chief. joining me is former senior

adviser to hillary clinton's campaign in south carolina and ceo of american majoritier and former writer for president george w. bush. guys good to see you. good early saturday morning. look overall it's early but biden's lead among democrats have been expanding. is this rally all about solidifying perception out there we're looking at a two person race? >> absolutely not. not only political mall practice but an act of political suicide for the vice president and his team to adopt this line of thinking. what he know is polls are a snapshot of the time. depending on who success asked, how it's been asked and when it's been asked generates the response you get. i'm old enough to remember the fact that i worked for hillary clinton in 2008 here in south carolina. she was up 20 points coming into south carolina. and then the tide began to turn. there's no education in the second kick of the mule.

only poll that really matters is the one that's on election and who shows up. he and his team should be laser focused to get people to the polls at the appropriate time but right now focus on connectivity and putting out a message that generates excitement to get people to the polls. >> what would we talk about if we didn't have the polls. i'm just kidding. the president will hold a rally in pennsylvania on monday. according to a poll from quinnipiac university he's got his work cut-out for him there. this poll of pennsylvania voters has biden leading trump by 11 points in a match-up. 53 to 42. what does the president have to do to turn that around? >> first of all, if it was may of 2020 i might be a little bit concerned. again it's spring of 2019. the reason why trump is going up there and why biden is holding this rally, republicans can't

win the white house without winning pennsylvania. trump understands the greatest threat is joe biden in the rust belt. you look at pennsylvania, wisconsin, michigan, those three states were decided by less than 100,000 votes in 2016 and i would argue, i think one of the arguments i would make to the trump team i don't think the philadelphia machine was fired up. i don't think the detroit machine was fired up. i don't think the milwaukee machine was fully fired up. i don't think that's the case in 2020. donald trump understands he has to get up there. he has a message. it's very hard to beat an incumbent president running on a very strong economic record which donald trump is going to run on. >> you all like to make this about the economy. i would remind you while the economy is doing some for other it's not doing well for others. those voters you talk about in those states, white working class and black working class

workers in the rust belt has been failed by this president and the policies that come out of this white house. you all had an assault on health care and women's rights, particularly their right to choose and, therefore, you will be punished for your political sins at the polls if democrats do what we need to do over next several months. >> go ahead and respond, ned. >> i agree with antawn. 2020 will be a referendum on two issues, health care and immigration. republicans are putting forward strong plans on immigration front. i'm concerned on the health care front. >> but, ned, consensus is trump's immigration plan that he just rolled out on thursday is doa. >> well, i would look at lindsey graham. i think lindsey graham has a good plan, especially when we look at the asylum. we have to be series on asylum. we have a broken immigration

system right now. democrats are still refusing to accept the fact we have a crisis on the southern border. hold on, antawn. 100,000 a month being apprehended and we're only apprehending one out of two, one out of three. even jeh johnson is saying it's a crisis. >> what i'm saying to you i think it's mall practice for you to sit here and mislead people on a saturday morning. what we know is 76% of the american people, over 60% want a comprehensive immigration reform package that will deal with all the things the democrats have been talking about for a very long time. what republicans want is a right-wing red meat plan that will simply generate a response from the base to help get donald trump re-elected. >> no. i want a comprehensive plan. i want to deal with the daca situation. i want to deal with e-verify.

i want to deal with chain migration. i want a grand deal. it's high time we come to the table, make concessions on both sides, fix the system and say we're never going to do this again. i think you'll be pleasantly surprised to see what we're willing to give up to get this situation fix. >> what you want and what the republicans who want to get re-elected and want to drive their base are apples and oranges. the bottom line is all you don't want that. you want to have donald trump show up at his rally, shout out all this red meat rhetoric he did in 2016. what we know that will generate a certain response from his base. >> ned, to your point about what you believe some republicans would be willing to give up, does that extend to the president in theory or politically speaking? does this president sign on to that, which you would be willing to negotiate or does he draw a hard-line in the sand because

it's politically expedient for him. >> if you look on the concessions on the daca front. i thought he went too far. he's willing to make some concessions on that front. i'm willing to go and say -- it's anywhere of 12 million to 20 million who have been long time residents. i'm willing to make concessions on that front for us to say we'll end chain migration, fix e-verify, secure our southern border because this is unsustainable, alex. we can't be importing small cities every month into this country without at some point it catching up with us. >> last word quickly. >> ned, do you remember when there was two or three bipartisan proposals sent to the president by members of the congress both in the house and the senate that he asked for, that would do some of the things you asked for and he rejected it and sent them back. >> because he did not deal with the border wall. >> did it.

>> no. no, not in a serious way, antoan. you know that as well as i do. >> that led to a 35 day government shutdown owned by the republicans that the voters will remember next november. >> all right, guys. i'll have to let that be the last word. i had to get a word in edge wise, so thank you. what you should buy before the tougher tariffs against china force retailers to raise prices. msnbc is now live every saturday and sunday at 6:00 eastern and we're back in a moment. ♪ ♪

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the impact of the trade war is about to hit home. major retailers like walmart say the tariffs are forcing them to raise prices so nbc's kevin tibbles explain what you should buy now. >> you can't escape the tariffs. anything you buy. >> reporter: how does that make you he'll nervous. >> we have to sacrifice a little bit to be better in the end. >> reporter: for or again them businesses nationwide seeking to preserve the bottom line without scaring away clientele. >> we heard increases as high as 15%, 20%. >> reporter: these tariffs could hit your pocketbooks on a wide variety of items. each american. family can expect to pay an

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today to commercial airliners flying over the persian gulf. u.s. diplomats say aircraft risk being misidentified as the tensions escalate between the u.s. and iran offering a reminder that 30 years ago the u.s. shot down an iranian passenger jet that it mistook for a war plane. joining me now the world news editor at the daily beast, also animist innocence contributor and a very good friend to us here. his latest article is about that incident in 1988, what the last war in iran tells us about the next one. pretty chilly details you recount here. are you having a kind of deja vu moment, you know, where we are right now? >> yeah, there's a terrible sense of deja vu right now. with this warning about civilian aircraft certainly that brings it all home. that was a horrible incident, 290 people died, 66 of them children when the u.s. shot it

ought of the sky. i saw a lot of the people had been dragged out of the water. that was a horrible incident. but the whole sequence of events from 1988 led to a lot of confrontations which are confrontations we're probably going to see now. >> spoking all the tensions that have led to this u.s. military buildup and here's how senate foreign relations committee member jeff berkeley summed it up. >> we designated the revolutionary garld as a terrorist organization. we cut off their oil by eliminating the way for japan, china, and india. we've moved a carrier strike group into the persian gulf. this is dangerous moment. to take this intelligence they're putting missiles onto a boat and convey it into iran is

preparing to attack us is a big leap. >> do you think u.s. officials have made a big leap or stlz a legitimate threat posed by iran? >> i don't think iran is getting ready to attack the united states. i do think it's getting ready to test the united states and test its resolve. i don't think that will come with a tax on u.s. facilities or u.s. personnel. i do think it's going to come with a tax on saudi facilities, saudi oil, saudi tankers. we've already seen hints of that. and then the question will be is the united states ready to go to war to defend saudi oil? >> right, that would be the question. this is very interesting how u.s. allies have not been supportive. there's that british general, the number two officer on the u.s. led coalition fighting isis who said flat out, christopher, there was no increased threat. then you have a senior european official telling "the washington post" that secretary pompeo did not show any evidence to them. i mean, do the allies remain

skeptical? >> i think they remain skeptical of trump's intentions and worry about iranian intentions. i think as we've said a number of times, this is a situation fraught with a possibility for disastrous accidents. and some of those accidents could lead to a much wider war. i don't think president trump wants that. it isn't clear what people like john bolton, his national security advisor wants. >> the president spoke about that. when asked there could be war, he said i hope not. but to be fair the administration could not richg an attack on u.s. troop troops while officials had some sort of intel and did nothing, right? >> well, that's right. i mean, they -- there is going to be this game of sort of cat and mouse particularly led by head of the force, iran's force

who runs their covert operations. he's going to keep testing, and the americans are not going to respond with massive force unless there is some high casualty count. that's my best guess. and i think he knows that so he'll just keep prodding. but the americans are prodding, too. it's like poking a bear in a cage and not noticing the cage could come open. that's the situation we're in right now. >> okay, christopher dickey, thanks for laying it out for us. amc on the attack against big pharma. how could a drug cost almost $2,000 in america yet only $8 in australia? that's ahead. $8 in australia? that's ahead don't stoop to their level. draw the line with the roundup sure shot wand. it extends with a protective shield and targets weeds more precisely. it lets you kill what's bad right down to the root while guarding the good. roundup sure shot wand.

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