crossroads. the real question is whether we will lead or fall behind in that race in the future, and or the jobs to build these vehicles and batteries are good-paying union jobs with benefits, and jobs that will sustain and grow the middle class. right now china is leading in this race. make no bones about it. it's a fact. you know, we used to invest more research and development than any country in the world, and china was number eight. excuse me, number nine. we now are number eight, and china is number one. can't let that be sustained. the future is going to be determined by the best minds in the world, by those who break

through new barriers. you know, it has china the largest fastest growing vehicle market in the world. the key part of the electric vehicle is the battery. right now 80% of the manufacturing capacity of those batteries is done in china. so not the battery for the 150, f-150. we went down to georgia and took care of that. it allows them to corner the market on the supplies of raw materials for those batteries. important -- importing almost all the lithium, 90%, and it comes from countries like australia which leads the world in mining these kinds of critical materials. here's the deal. it's not that china's technology

is that much better than anybody's elses, and remember our automakers led in the development of this technology, but today china has a bigger manufacturing scale than all other countries, and using that scale to make these batteries not just in china but are making them in germany and mexico and exporting those electric vehicles around the world, with sights on the american market, and they think they're going to win, but i got news for them, they will not win this race. we can't let them. we have to move fast, and that's what we're doing here. when president barack obama and i -- when barack and i were in office, the auto industry was flat on its back, and i got criticized because i was the

auto guy pushing, and guess what? we were told we would never be able to sell american-made cars at the same rate as before, and we didn't listen and we bet on you, the american auto worker. we extended a lifeline and we stepped up, saved more than 1 million jobs working in the auto industry, and we set fuel industry standards and and through the recovery act we made the largest clean investment in battery technology ever, and we're in a position to sell millions of vehicles made right here in the united states. but then the previous administration came into office and they rolled back the standards they set, and rollbacks the ford motor company opposed, despite bipartisan support for consumer incentives, they let the federal tax credit expire penalizing auto workers

for selling the most electric vehicles at the time, and they announced infrastructure week and they announced it and announced it and announced it every week for four years and didn't do a damn thing, didn't get the job done. folks, the rest of the world is moving fast, they're moving ahead. they're not waiting for the united states of america. government, labor, industry, working together, have to step up. we have a playbook that will work. we're going to set a new pace for electric vehicles. that means reversing the previous administration's roleback on standards, and setting strong and clear targets where we need to go. it means passing the american jobs plan to do three things, one, transform our

infrastructure. our infrastructure is ranked, like, 38th in the world. this is the united states of america for god's sake. we are going to put americans to work, modernizing our roadways, airports, rails and transit systems and that means putting union members to work installing 50,000 charging stations all along the roads and highways, our homes and our apartments, and the ibw is ready to do it, and they can. we are going to boost our manufacturing capacity. that's why the american jobs plan invests in new and retooled union facilities. grants to kick start new battery and parts productions. loans and tax credits to boost manufacturing of these clean vehicles. it also makes the largest investment in research and development in generations and

that's going to help innovate manufacturing supply chains that make electric trucks and cars go to be even more reliant than they are now. it matters. the little things matter. you saw last night the united states senate voted overwhelmingly to begin work on part of the bill that i have been pushing, to strengthen our innovation and infrastructure, by investing in research and development manufacturing. i don't remember the exact number but it was pretty high, i think it was 83 to something in a bipartisan vote. that's a good first step. and your members of congress in michigan, they know the value of that as anybody, and are vital in pushing forward that bill as are others. never again should we be in a

situation where we are faced today with semiconductors. the united states can't manufacture the semiconductors. we were the beginning. you know, i think some people think i'm too -- too proud of what the united states always did and why i get so frustrated when we are sliding, but i make no apologies for it. we know these kinds of federal investments work, and with the defense department and nasa that got them on the street decades ago. we started it. your tax dollars. our department of energy pioneers and transformed the

battery industry when barack and i were in office. through the recovery act, grants and loans, battery prices dropped 80%. 80%. because we were looking forward. we need that same mind-set today. we have to look forward. we have to work to support consumers and these fleets. that means new purchasing incentives for consumers to buy clean vehicles like the ford 150, and it's made right here in america. and that means spurring demand by turning the vehicles into clean vehicles and transforming

transit systems and school buses, and when i got elected i signed an executive order saying we're going to buy american. i award contracts in the area of 600 to $700 billion a year, and building aircraft carriers, and buildings. guess what? representative kilde knows, i will not hire anybody that has a supply chain that is not an american supply chain. and by the way, that's not violating any trade agreement. it has been the law since the '30s, but nobody has has the courage or nerve to insist on it being applied. it's no violation of the world trade organization or anything else. we're spending american tax

dollars. we're able to say buy american. but if you don't have the part immediately available you can go abroad and get it, and anybody in the agency can say i can't find it here and i'm going somewhere, and not anymore, got to go through the white house. not a joke. nobody can give that exception now. because there's thousands of companies out there ready to do small companies, three, four, 15 people that can supply those pieces if they know they can compete for them. my friend told me, joe, you have to know how to know. you got to know how to know. we don't let the american companies know what is available to them, especially if they are small. so we're going to have an office

facility in the white house to let people know what is needed. there's another thing we have in our playbook that will out play other nations. the biggest secret we have. the american worker. not a joke. it's our ace in that deck. i know many of you watching at home are like the folks i grew up with in scranton and delaware, they feel left out, left behind, in an economy and industry that is rapidly changing. i understand it. i really do. but we will leave no one behind. nearly 90% of the jobs created in the american jobs plan do not require a bachelors degree. and 75% don't require a associates degree. we are going to be working with

companies and community colleges and training programs to make sure an american worker will be able to compete with anybody in the world. just like ford does with its workforce training center here in dearborn. when we invest in infrastructure, we will buy materials, services and materials made in america. we will do everything in our power to encourage and protect the right of workers to unionize and collectively bargain. i met with -- i think it was more than a dozen ceos in major fortune 500 companies. we started off and i said i want to be clear with you, i am a union guy. and every one of them but one said i understand, because now

they are realizing what mr. ford realizes, that you are the best workers available. you are the best trained. you are the most capable. and you save overall. bottom line, american jobs plan is a blue collar blueprint to rebuild america, a blue collar blueprint to build america. and we need automakers, and other companies that invest here in america and not take the benefits here and expand production abroad. we need to deepen your partnership with the uaw, and pay good wages across the country. we need to come together as a nation. the vice president and i have had meetings with members of

congress, and we look forward to hearing more details of their proposals, and they will submit counter proposals later today or tomorrow to me. we made one thing clear, we'll compromise but doing nothing is not an option. doing nothing is not an option. the world is not waiting, i say for a second time. i will conclude with this. last month i kept my commitment to convene the leaders of the major economies around the world, russia, china, india, japan, the european union, i think there are 48 or 50 heads of state, presidents and prime ministers, and a meeting i hosted by the white house, one of the most consequential items,

and when i think of the climate crisis, the health of our very planet, i think jobs. i think jobs when i think climate change. good-paying union jobs. i think about the uaw workers here today, and i wanted to make sure that the world could see that there was a consensus that we are at a inflexion point in our history, and almost every major leader in the world spoke to it and if we have to save the planet we have to create millions of good-paying jobs, and raising the standard for not only people here but around the world, and i also wanted to put the world on notice america is back! america is back! and the competition for the 21st century, the future will be built right here in america. look at this plant. we're moving and working again and dreaming again and

discovering again. we're leading the world again. we have shown each other and the world that there's no quit in america. there's simply no quit in america. that's never ever -- every time i have these sometimes knock down drag them outs with heads of state in private, they will say, look, it's never been a good bet to bet against america, never, never, never. this is the united states of america. there's not a single thing i believe as every fiber on me, not a single thing, nothing beyond our capacity when we act together and that's exactly what we're about to do, starting with all of you. thank you for allowing me to be here. may god bless you and may god protect our troops. thank you. thank you. thank you. ♪♪

>> we have been listening to president biden there in dearborn, michigan, on a visit to tout his jobs plan, and infrastructure proposal, the president there leaving the stage to the jackson 5. good to see you. i am jeff bennett in for katy tur. the president wrapping those remarks there in michigan, and he's in the detroit metro area, which is them to a large arab community, and pro palestinian protesters gathered there ahead of the president's arrival. >> i think the president should pick up the phone and say stop, and if you don't stop here's the consequences. we still believe in him and we believe he has a good heart, and we still believe he's just and fair and we need him to take a stronger action. >> the president is facing growing demands to do more to intervene in the two-week conflict between israel and

hamas, and the president voiced support for a cease-fire in the region, but the violence shows no sign of slowing down. israel launched 110 guided missiles last night, and the idf said it's targeting a network of tunnels used by hamas, and more than 60 children have been killed according to the gaza health ministry, and gaza continues to fire rockets towards israel, and more than 3,000 today the vast majority of which were intercepted, and one of those rockets killed two people today. there's a general strike, and they are protesting what they are calling apartheid conditions of which the latest violence is the latest example. the government rejects the characterization. we have richard engel, and white

house correspondent and msnbc contributor, erin gearen. give us a sense of what you saw earlier today in the west bank and unpack for us, if you can, what both sides want right now? >> reporter: so and of course we understand that there's plenty of intervening news, but you described it as a conflict between israel and hamas, but what i think we're seeing right now is that is expanding beyond that, and it's no longer just hamas, which is one particular faction that leads the gaza strip, and it's the faction that has been firing the rockets at israel, but today we saw the broader palestinian community, palestinians that live in the west bank which is a separate territory, and palestinians in

jerusalem, and all of them striking and some out protesting and some in the west bank having violent clashes with israeli troops, and eyewitnesses some of them today with our crew here, and it's not just when you speak to the demonstrators about gaza, not just a cease-fire, they want a fundamental change and they want more palestinian rights to end what is a apartheid system, and wherenians in the west bank are trapped behind walls where palestinians in jerusalem feel like second class citizens or worse, and they could be thrown out of their homes or abused by jewish settlers, and they want to see a

succession of hostilities and they want to change the dynamic to give the palestinians more rights. the israelis see it very differently. they see it very simply, as a matter of peace for stage stop attacking the gaza strip and there will be a period of calm. that's what israel is looking for at this stage, a prolonged period of calm. that's what they think they got after 2014 when there was another major escalation similar but on a larger scale to the one we are seeing right now, and in 2014 israeli campaigns went into gaza and stayed there for weeks and palestinians were killed, but it bought seven years of relative peace and quite. from the palestinian perfective things got worse and worse and they don't want to go back to a situation where for them their lives just continue to

deteriorate. the calls for a cease-fire so far, there does seem to be back room negotiations but the two sides at this stage are talking about very different things when they are talking about a cease-fire. >> richard, our thanks to you. mike, over to you. this trip the president made to michigan and it had been on the books for weeks and risked being overshadowed by the escalation and violence in the middle east in large part because dearborn, michigan, is home to a lot of arab americans, and you saw some protests at the factory, and what did you hear? what we just saw and heard from the president, you understand clearly this was meant to be a major set piece for his sales pitch for his multitrillion

economic plan here, and he was surrounded by the union workers, and talked about the investment ford is making in electric vehicles and seeing a sneak peek of their f-150 electric vehicle, and then he said china is winning the race in terms of who will own the electric vehicle market in the 21st century, and making his pitch for his $2.5 billion jobs plan is promoting and enhancing the electric vehicle market here. very clearly there was a moment -- you remember yesterday, i asked the press secretary, jen psaki, about the pressure president biden is getting from fellow democrats to take a stronger line with regard to israel, and we saw congresswoman rashida tlaib that

represents part of michigan here, and this is personal for rashida tlaib, as the president singled her out and said he would do everything he could to ensure the safety of her family who is in the region at this moment. that was not clearly part of the prepared remarks for the president, but seemed like such a perfect venue here in dearborn, and it ended up being overshadowed. we were at the demonstration earlier, and we expect to see similar protests throughout the day here. the message we heard from community leaders saying we voted for this president and in a lot of ways are responsible for him winning the state of michigan, and they expect and want to see him take that stronger line, and understanding his history and his relationships with israel, but as one person put it to me earlier, there's nothing

anti-anything about being pro palestinian, and they think he should stand up as the u.s. has been a force for values in the world and the death tolls calls for a stronger hand here. >> and it was the third time president biden has spoken with netanyahu, and what followed each call revealed the heightened concern about the growing conflict and how the president needs to respond to it. >> yeah, the white house released a statement following the call with netanyahu last evening that was markedly different in tone from the ones before. the language might not sound like a big shift to many people saying the president supports a cease-fire that he had told the prime minister that, and it's really a game changer in terms of what president biden has been willing to say publicly that is

in any way even a tiny bit critical of israel and what it is doing in gaza, because israel doesn't want a cease-fire, and they don't want anything called a cease-fire and they don't like that term for a lot of reasons including for in their view it elevates hamas to a government capable of making such a deal, and as richard engel was telling you a moment ago, in past conflicts hamas has been significantly degraded by the israeli air strikes, and they like to call it mowing the lawn and they would like to continue, the israelis would like to continue getting a little bit further down their list of targets before they stop. i am here in michigan as well and very interested to hear the

president's comments from rashida tlaib today, and he's getting pressure from different parts of the democratic party and democratic base to be more critical of israel and i think you are beginning to see a little shift as we did in that statement last night. >> thanks to the both of you for these great insights. meantime, caught in the cross fire on both sides of the conflict between israel and hamas are children. according to gaza health officials more than 60 children have been killed in the air strikes. over half of those have been younger than 10. the youngest, just six months old. a teacher in gaza described a tangible sense of hopelessness ripping through palestinian children as they are forced to live through another wave of violence. >> they feel there's no future. when i say to them, live to work, if we died there's no need for our education. >> with me now is the special

representative to the state of palestine. thanks for your time this afternoon. can you give us a sense of what it's like for the children of gaza right now? the world took note of the palestinian girl, the girl in the purple who through tears said i'm only ten and i can't deal with this anymore. >> thank you, thank you for having us. we need to remember that being a child in gaza is also being very difficult even before this, and one out of three children before a week ago, they needed social support because of the different level of traumas that goes through different generations. there's 1 million children in gaza, and no place to be, no place to go and hide. this is a situation in the last few days only dramatically increased the challenges and the

difficulties and the immense trauma of those children and young people. we have our team on the ground and what we are waiting is for a level of trauma and destruction that is beyond belief, and this scarcity of electricity in the last few days is making it more difficult, because without fuel and electricity, the water system is being affected, and what they need is safety, a cease-fire, a cessation of hostilities. >> families cannot leave and they are pinned in, and that region is often referred to as an open air prison. what are the long-term affects on children growing up in these kinds of conditions? >> if you are a child, a

9-year-old child today in gaza, you have gone already the first nine years of your life, you have had many conflicts, and there's immense trauma and the psycho social effect, and they have lost brothers, sisters, peers, and also have lost opportunities in terms of education being interrupted. and the health services also being interrupted. it's something we will unfortunately continue to see for generations to come, and this is why we need the end of the hostilities, and teams need to go in and bring more supplies, life-saving equipped so those children can go back to

sense of normalcy as soon as possible. >> thank you. still ahead a. district attorney calls the death of andrew brown jr. at the hands of police justified. we just got a new statement from his family. later the top republican in the house announces he opposed a bipartisan bill, a bill a member of his own party negotiated. covid infections are falling, and mask mandates lifted. i'm ordering some burritos! oh, nice. burritos?! get a freshly made footlong from subway® instead. with crisp veggies on freshly baked bread. just order in the app! ditch the burgers! choose better, be better. subway®. eat fresh.

after reviewing the investigation conducted by the north carolina state bureau of investigations, mr. brown's death, while tragic, was justified because mr. brown's actions caused three deputies with the sheriff's office to reasonably believe it was necessary to use deadly force to protect themselves and others.

>> a north carolina d.a. today announced he will not file charges against the officers in the death of andrew brown jr., calling the shooting justified. the 42-year-old father of seven was shot while behind the wheel of his car last month, as police say deputies were attempting to serve an arrest warrant, and the d.a. played portions of long sought-after body camera footage of the shooting. a warning, this video is disturbing. >> let me see your hands! hands! [ bleep ]. [ bleep ] [ bleep ] hey, let me see your hands! >> let me see your hands! >> joining me now is msnbc law

enforcement analysts, served on president obama's task force on 21st century policing. thank you for joining us. andrew brown jr., his grieving family and this community deserve answers and received anything but from d.a.'s attempt to whitewash the unjustified killing, to say the killing was justified despite the facts is a insult and snap in the face to brown's family. what is your reaction to what we heard from the d.a. there today in elizabeth city? >> first we have to put everything in the context in terms of where policing is in this country at this very moment, and the lenses in which people in communities across the country are looking at the police with a great deal of concern. you know the d.a. was absolutely right because he attempted to

follow the rule of law, and let me be clear about this when i say that. the officers were duty bound to do their job, and that's upheld by the u.s. supreme court, the fourth circuit court there, and in addition to the north carolina appellant court, and he stuck to the rule of law, but here's what may have been beneficial considering the time that we live in at this moment. it probably would have been beneficial to his office and to the community if he had taken this investigation and gave it to a special investigator, somebody outside of his jurisdiction so there would not have been a perception of being or showing any favoritism whatsoever. we heard the d.a. say in his interview that he felt it was his responsibility because he's the elected official, and he's correct, but it's also his responsibility to make sure that people in that community in that city, in that county, in that

state, feel that a fair and equitable investigation is being done. so he did his job, but i think what could have really been beneficial, and to be honest with you, the outcome probably would have been the same as he announced today, but what would have been really important for that community and this country is the people heard from an outside independent investigator. >> let me ask you something about the specifics of this case, because the d.a. claimed the shooting was justified because brown was behind the wheel of a moving car. i want to show you some video from the press conference. >> you're saying he was backing away and the officers were going to the car. >> when you employ a car in a manner that puts officers' lives in danger, that is a threat. i don't care what direction you are going, forward, backward,

sideways. i don't care if you are stationary and neither do our courts. >> so question about that, and a question, how could a car stationary be deemed in effect a deadly weapon? >> well, you know, we see a piece of the video here, and i'm quite sure there are other an angles to that video, and officers on the scene and fully engaged in that act there, we see it from the position that we see it in, and yes, we see the car stopped. we saw the car make a movement which appeared to be going in the direction of the officers, but here's the thing we also have to take into consideration, jeff, is the fact that there's some departments that have policies that you don't get in the way of a moving vehicle, and other departments do not, but at the end of the day what the state did here, they were able to present during their

investigations that the officers had a duty to do their job in that circumstance, what they felt was a threat and that's what holds the glue together for him making the justifiable remark he made. here, again, i will emphasize regardless had he had taken this case and given to an outside independent da's office to look at, the results may have been what he concluded, quite frankly, but it would have made a big difference that that community to their attorneys and that family in that community to have a sense that an outside independent investigation was done and not with the d.a. that works daily with those deputies and police officers in that community, because that's his job. >> right, great point. appreciate your time this afternoon, sir. still the top republican in the house announces he will oppose a deal for a bipartisan

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today on capitol hill the top republican in the house, kevin mccarthy, reject add deal for a 9/11 style commission to investigate the january 6th insurrection, but mccarthy slammed the deal by him. joining us from capitol hill, garrett, congresswoman dean said she thinks mccarthy didn't want

to subject himself and others to subpoenas by the commission, and do you know why he's rejecting this bill now? >> that's speculation, but it's not unreasonable. mccarthy sent speaker pelosi a letter back in february outlining the things he would want to see in a commission, including an equal number of democratic and republican commissioners, and the ability of republican commissioners to veto subpoenas just like the democrats, and he got everything he asked for and democrats are accusing him of being unwilling to get to yes, and yes possibly being concerned about the prospect he would be subpoenaed. it's also notable, the ranking member of the homeland security committee and his word will carry some republican votes as well, and don't expect this to be a complete republican opposition here because mccarthy says he's opposed. >> yesterday we talked about how senate republicans led by the

republican from west virginia had to get their homework back in time to the white house. you just spoke with her. >> i just caught up with the senator as he was leaving the republican lunch and she would not share the details of her homework with me, and she wants to talk to the cabinet secretaries, and she said this will for the first time include republican pays for here, and the last part was essentially sitting down to agree what is infrastructure and what are the things they are talking about. now i'm told this latest not a new offer but the latest homework assignment to stick with our metaphor here will have more details about what goes in what categories here and where the money would come to pay for it, and that's been the biggest challenge on getting to any kind of agreement between the senate and the president. >> president biden said he wants

to compromise with congress but doing nothing is not enough. appreciate you. >> you bet. meantime, new daily coronavirus infections are at their lowest level since last summer and more states and cities are relaxing mandates in line with the cdc's new guidance, and that means restaurant owners and small businesses are navigating the new normal as they try to make up for lost time during the pandemic. with us now from vienna, virginia, is national reporter, vonn hilliard. are they looking forward to getting back to business and the pre-pandemic normal? >> reporter: yeah, i like the way you call it the new normal, because that's what folks around here want to see the industry become here. we're here at the vienna inn, and it has been around for 61 years. when you are talking about a restaurant industry that before

the pandemic had done 2% takeout, and this was quite an adjustment here. over the last year we have gone around eateries and coffee shops and talked to the owners about the hardships they endured, and here in may of 2021, i know, marty, we are catching you in the middle between lunch and dinner but every one of the tables during the lunch hour was fully packed here. may 28th, 100% occupancy allowed and folks able to come in without masks here. what does the month of may look like for you and your business? >> looks like -- it's going to turn over and we're going to go back to normal, real close. april was our best month so far, last month. so i expect maybe it would be better with the restrictions being lifted. >> compared to pre-pandemic and what you went through over the last year, give me that sense. >> pre- pandemic, we're not back to those sales yet but we are getting closer. the pandemic has been a

challenge and we've been surviving and each month it has gotten a little better and looks like we have turned a corner. >> one gentleman was just telling me a bit ago that he used to come here in 50 years ago as part of his little league team and he's back in here today and the fact that they are able to see this is significant in its own right. thank you. this is the sort of sentiment we are hearing and you are able to see inside of restaurants come entering the summer. >> i think i know where you and your crew are going to have lunch this afternoon. good to see you, my friend. and next the biden administration supports a cease-fire in the conflict between israel and gaza. >> as i think you know, president biden spoke with prime minister netanyahu yesterday and expressed our support for a cease-fire. our goal remains, to bring the

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president biden's support of a cease fire in the middle east comes amid growing pressure from his own party. part of a larger sea change, demo expressingnted criticism of israel. pressure is building on president biden from within his own party to take a tougher stance against israel's bombing campaign. >> children are dying. and netanyahu is out there saying he's doing this with the united states' support. the president needs to make it very clear. no, you are not. >> reporter: more democrats showing a greater willingness to criticize israel and speak up in

defense of palestinian rights. >> we must acknowledge and condemn the discrimination and treatment that palestinians face. >> reporter: the push is strongest from the progressive wing of the party, like congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez, who is accusing israel of operating an apartheid state. >> do palestinians have a right to survive? >> reporter: the conflict also has senator chris van holland all but questioning the administration's commitment to human rights. tweeting earlier this month, if the biden administration puts the rule of law and human rights at the height of its foreign policy, this is not the moment for tepid statements. showing a shift for democrats.

joining me now, jonathan allen. you wrote about this for nbcnews.com. you wrote that benjamin netanyahu has a huge role to play. >> reporter: absolutely. a dozen years ago, 15 years ago, 20 years ago, there was almost no criticism of israel on capitol hill. you saw the loss of mckinney in georgia, the loss of hilliard in alabama, this was a one-sided issue entirely. what you've seen over the course of the last dozen years, benjamin netanyahu, being very insulting to president obama, slamming the iran nuclear deal

in washington, d.c., in president obama's temporary hometown. and as president donald trump became president, netanyahu and trump really saw each other as ideological and political allies. and at the same time, what you're seeing from the grassroots of the democratic party, and more reflected in its elected officials is deep concerns about the plight of the palestinians. they believe they should have social justice as well, you see generational policy, some of the same systemic injustices that you see in the united states. all of which is a precursor to what you're seeing now, the rocket fire into israel, and israel's response.

what you're not hearing a lot of from the administration is any suggestion that -- >> in about the 30 seconds we have left, do you get the sense that what we've seen unfold in the middle east has been a particular inflection point? >> reporter: it's an inflection point in the rhetoric, saying thing that placate the base in terms of a cease-fire. but president biden is not calling on israel to stop retaliating against the rocket attacks. you're seeing the administration fight the in terms of statements that the u.n. security council wants to put out. >> yeah. >> reporter: so the policy is not changing right now. >> nbc's jon allen. that's it for this hour. ayman mohyeldin picks up our coverage, coming up next. but most importantly? they give us something to eat when we drink beer.

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