>> why didn't you go to georgia to help senator raphael warnock? >> i'm going to help senator warnock, i'm doing a major fund raiser in boston today for the -- our next and continued senate candidate, senator. thank you. >> refill the strategic reserves? >> as soon as i can convince the republicans to see the light. >> thank you very much, everyone. >> everybody, lindsey reiser here from msnbc world headquarters in new york. we've been listening to the president talk about the new jobs report just released today and talking about that new deal to avoid a rail strike that the president just put pen to. we're going to begin with the breaking news, those higher than expected november jobs numbers. starting us off, brian cheung,

our senior white house correspondent kelly o'donnell is with us, and roben farzad, the host of full disclosure on npr. we just heard how this is landing at the white house. talk to us about how confident they feel with this new jobs report and what it means for the president's economic agenda in the new year. >> reporter: one of the things you heard the president talk about is when there is bad news, it gets a lot of attention and they want to try and shine a light on when there is positive news. you heard him talking about how gas prices have come down, how this is a strong jobs report, and they're trying to use that to show that over time there is a positive trend in the economy without shrinking away from the fact that inflation is still a real concern and one that many people feel day-to-day. but they're trying to put together the pieces of the economy that have been favorable and that they want to shine a light on those to show that some of the decisions the president has been making are showing favorable results in the economy. so that's part of what this

message was today. and then to tie it into the fact that they believe that they saw a crisis coming with this pending rail strike and were able to put together the team to negotiate an imperfect deal, but a deal nonetheless that provides these rail workers with an increase in wages, a one-time bonus, some other protections. you heard the president a number of times there reference that he's not satisfied with everything because there are workers in this package who do not get the paid sick leave that they wanted and that's something he says he will continue to work for not only for rail workers but more broadly. it's one of the pillars of his belief that the united states is behind the world when it comes to providing paid sick time. so the president saying that this was an essential need because of what rail workers provide to the overall economy. that there had to be this sort of unusual intervention instead of just letting the labor kind of collective bargaining process go forward as it typically

would, you needed congress to intervene here and the force of his own pen to put the force of this union agreement into effect to avert that rail strike. so it's a mix of messages here today of putting economic piece together to say a crisis asserted, some good jobs numbers, gas prices coming down, trying to put their best spin on what's happening right now. their best assessment of what's happening with the jobs picture while there are still concerns about inflation and some worries that recession is still a danger over time. lindsey? >> kelly, thank you. we're going to go into inflammation with roben in a little bit. what does it mean about where we are and what bigger trends are you seeing heading into 2023? >> the president speaking after the jobs numbers we got this morning and these are the figures here. november, 263,000 jobs added in the month. that was well above what was

expected. they revised october as well. more jobs added in the previous months. where did we see these job gains? we saw them in leisure and hospitality, bars, restaurants, health care also getting a big boost. interesting here, professional and business services adding only about 6,000 jobs. it's essential flat month over month. but this is where you would see a lot of tech jobs. you're starting to see a little bit of this, but keep in mind, it's not contracting and the headline numbers look pretty good. it's not like the tech layoffs are having a substantial effect on the overall picture. again, inflation remains the big story here. if we take a look over here at the wage growth numbers, i'm going to draw over here, 5.1%. that's the year-over-year increase in the month of november and how much people were getting paid. that's a faster pace than the 4.7%. again, what are we dealing with right now, 7.7% inflation. you're having to pay almost 8%

more for everything else. >> so roben, help me dissect exactly what this means when we have good jobs numbers, inflation may be holding steady, wage growth not growing incredibly high. but you saw the figure there that brian just point out. does it mean we're cooling? does it mean that this is good news in terms of avoiding a perspective? >> wage growth is still too hot. this economy looks like it's too hot to stop, to quote another lyric from the 1980s. the fed hiked almost four whole points this year. i lost track of how many rate hikes we had and we added 263,000 jobs at a time when everybody seems to think that a recession and cooling down is not happening.

they may take rates to 5% next year. the boogeyman of thick of the holiday shopping season. we just saw brian talking about the incredible hospitality, bar and restaurant numbers. what happens when the holidays are behind us? >> i would see that hangover. to a certain extent, looking at the jobs and wages numbers is like driving by looking in the rearview mirror, you're starting to see a cooling. we felt it in the journalism community in the last 48 hours. brian talked about tech layoffs. there are a lot of companies trimming the grass, realizing that capital costs a lot more, demand is falling, advertising-intensive industries, what is the cry uncle point? if you take rates to 5%, are you going to crash the economy or can we trade this inflation for higher unemployment and have it not too hot and not too cold. >> if companies are trimming the

grass, what does that mean for after the holidays? are they going to take out the lawnmower and start fresh? >> well, i could tell you in reporting for episodes and you're seeing this stuff in wall street and reported in the journal, people are thinking, i don't want to be the first to get chopped. i want to show up at the office again, up until a month ago we were negotiating three days a week, four days a week, five days a week, it's like, show up now so you're not out of sight and mind. i wonder about this economy staying power. 3.7% unemployment is gorgeous. it's a natural rate of unemployment, below the natural rate. what happens when you take rates up another point? we're at 4% right now. if we go to 5%, can we take off some of this hot demand, the airline demand, the fear of missing out, spending, that is the big question. i've never seen the fed engineer anything like that. >> before we go back to that

rail strike, when we talk about the fed and what they're going to do, i need you to take out your crystal ball. you lost track of how many times they raised rates. the thought was that maybe they wouldn't raise them quite as much. what do you think is going to happen? >> i think they're going to have to take them to five. even if he comes out -- he has other -- jerome powell can raise by a half a point next time and channel some more hawkish language and say we see the need to keep doing this until we get inflation back down to trend or he could hike by 75 basis points which right now everybody seems to be expected a half a point and say, you know what, we're closer to the end of this cycle. there's a lot of kind of soft easing and soft hiking, if you will, and you can kind of wink-wink. i think that's why everybody is on tenterhooks right now. >> you mentioned the president and the white house were lumping these issues together. the jobs report and avoiding the rail strike. it would have been meant disaster economically for the

administration. but when we see that the workers didn't get the amount of sick time they wanted, and the president said i'm going to continue to fight for this. what does that look like? >> reporter: one of the challenges is that the president felt a time urgency of getting this done so they didn't want to extend the negotiations. so what he would hope to do is try and fight for future legislation. now, remember what's happened, the house will go into republican hands come january and so that could be a much more difficult pathway. so the president has long believed in having expanded protections for workers in these areas and certainly identifies himself as a labor president. but how that will actually materialize and what type of legislation and what the timeline is, is unclear to us at this point. but it's something he's talking about something that he wants to emphasize to labor, that he will

continue to fight for as a part of any programs and policies that he may be able to put forward in the new congress coming up. lindsey? >> thank you all so much. coming up, more republicans distance themselves from rapper ye after he praised hitler and spewed anti-semitic rhetoric in a stunning interview. why did it take so long? the legal setback for former president donald trump. why it could mean new speed into the investigation into the documents found at mar-a-lago. it's the final day of record-breaking early voting in georgia's senate runoff. how former president president obama made the case against herschel walker with blistering comments like these. >> in case you're wondering, mr. walker decided he wanted to be a werewolf which is great. as far as i'm concerned, he can be anything he wants to be. except for a united states senator!

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it's the final day of early voting in georgia's senate runoff election. voters are lining up this morning to get their ballots in. shown here in cobb county after what has already been a record-breaking stretch of early voting in this race. former president obama was in georgia last night appearing at a rally with senator raphael warnock and he took some pointed shots at republican challenger herschel walker. >> mr. walker has been talking about issues that are of great importance to the people of georgia. like whether it's better to be a vampire or a werewolf. this is a debate that i must confess i once had myself when i

was 7. as far as i'm concerned, he can be anything he wants to be expect for a united states senator. >> president biden will always try to give warnock a boost at a phone bank event this afternoon. but from boston. vaughn hillyard joins me now just outside atlanta and white house correspondent mike memoli is in boston. vaughn, even though we saw president obama in georgia there for warnock, we aren't going to see the most recent republican president, donald trump, stump for walker. the state's top republican governor brian kemp has tried to give balker a boost instead and you just spoke with kemp. what's he saying? >> it's quite a turn of events for georgia politics over the last couple of years, isn't it? brian kemp is also suddenly the one that is looked at as being a potential savior for the likes of herschel walker after he won by a significant margin his general election despite the ires of donald trump over the

last few years. after he certified joe biden's win in the state. and that is where it is brian kemp, not the likes of donald trump, in stark contrast to the 2021 january 5th runoff when it was donald trump who held a rally as the final closing messenger on behalf of those candidates before they lost to jon ossoff and raphael warnock. that's where brian kemp is trying to validate an individual, herschel walker, who has been plagued for several months now by a litany of allegations by not only his own family members in which they contend that herschel walker threatened their own lives, but also several women who have come forward to say that herschel walker paid them to have abortions and then the latest allegation yesterday in the new "daily beast" report in which a woman is saying over the course of a five-year relationship that she had with herschel walker, that she was repeatedly

threatened by him and at least on one occasion was attacked by him physically in which he put her hand on her chest and neck. i asked brian kemp about that allegation. i want to let you listen to part of his response. >> i think you can say there's questions about the characters of all the candidates that ran for u.s. senate and the two that remain in the runoff. but we're four day before the election. for someone who has been personally destroyed and had their family members targeted, i can see why people don't put much stock in that especially four days before the election. >> reporter: really brian kemp is his most notable validator here in the state of georgia. when you look at the general election results, there were 200,000 voters who voted for brian kemp but not herschel walker. that number needs to close if herschel walker wants any chance

of a victory on tuesday. >> certainly. mike, what can we expect from president biden's campaign event in boston today? how is he showing support for georgia voters in the northeast? >> reporter: well, lindsey, it stands to reason based on what we've heard from white house officials ever since this georgia runoff senate race went into a runoff that he was willing to do whatever senator warnock wanted him to do, the fact that he hasn't been to georgia, not traveling to georgia and hasn't, in fact, been to the state of georgia since january tells you that senator warnock doesn't think the president would be helpful. what the president can be helpful with is helping to finance what is a $7 million voter organization effort, mobilization effort by the committee. that's why he's coming to boston today for a campaign fund raiser. he's going to be visiting a union hall with senator elizabeth warren where volunteers are making phone calls into georgia to help with that get out the vote effort. the other reason, of course, that president biden is in

boston is he's having a much anticipated meeting with the prince of wales, prince william who has been here for several days with a very closely scrutinized u.s. tour. this is going to be the first meeting he's had with prince william since he became prince of wales. president biden having met with king charles iii in london when he attended queen elizabeth ii's funeral. this is one day after he underscored the relationship with the u.s. and the uk. while the president is inserting himself in the debate about whether to up end the presidential primary process. the president is recommending that south carolina, the state that revived his 2020 campaign take the coveted first spot according to a top democratic source. it's a position that iowa caucuses have held since the 1970s. joining me now, senior national

politics reporter jonathan allen. jonathan, "the washington post" was the first to report about a letter that the president sent to the dnc asking for a calendar that put south carolina first writing for decades black voters have been the backbone of the democratic party but have been pushed to the back of the early primary process. walk us through the president's likely thinking here. >> it's always hard to decipher exactly what's going on with such political muscle moves, right? there are a lot of layers here. one thing that we've been hearing is that a lot of the folks in south carolina and the democratic party there were unaware that this was going to happen until it did happen. you can take it from that that this was not something they were pushing for so much as something that president biden wanted to do obviously. he wants to highlight south carolina. he talks about the diversity there, the black community voting in democratic primaries and certainly in his. another thing that's going on is

it sends a signal to other democrats who might think they might run against him. if they're going to do that, they're going to have to come through him in south carolina which is really the birthplace of his 2020 revival but launching him to super tuesday, the nomination and ultimately the presidency. >> and obviously new hampshire wouldn't like this. they're the first state right now after iowa's caucuses. what are the political players in that state saying? >> new hampshire is the live free or die state. they're arguing that they will live here and go ahead have their primary exactly when they want to. they will not wait as the democratic party or certainly as president biden wants them to do, to go behind in this case south carolina and to go at the same time as nevada. they are not the only states who are going to have problems with this map. there's still a process. i talked to debbie dingell yesterday, michigan got into this early window. she was excited about that. but she also said that, you

know, it's not done yet. they have to go through a rules and bylaws committee and ultimately the democratic national committee itself. >> okay. thanks. coming up, a new twist in the investigation into the documents found at mar-a-lago. why that probe could be about to pick up some serious steam. and more republicans are finally denouncing the wrapper ye after a new string of -- wrapper ye a a new string of -- i promise to bring you advice that fits your values. i promise our relationship will be one of trust and transparency. as a fiduciary, i promise to put your interests first, always. charles schwab is proud to support the independent financial advisors who are passionately dedicated to helping people achieve their financial goals. visit findyourindependentadvisor.com

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this morning, donald trump and his legal team were just dealt another below in the investigation over the classified documents found at mar-a-lago. a federal appeals court has scrapped a judge's order appointing a special master to review the documents the fbi seized from mar-a-lago. the ruling lifts a major hurdle in the justice department's criminal investigation into trump's handling of classified materials. for more, i want to bring in ken dilanian and msnbc legal analyst. ken, what does this mean for the investigation going forward? >> it means the justice department will gain access to nearly all of the 22,000 pages of documents the fbi seized at mar-a-lago for its criminal investigation and based on the resounding language in this

opinion by very conservative judges, it seems unlikely the high court will have anything to say here. the trump investigations are being led by special counsel jack smith and the doj has said in court papers in this case that getting access to all of these documents would really help speed things along. as a technical matter, the ruling is set to take effect next thursday, if the supreme court does intervene, the special master goes away and the judge would be forced to dismiss trump's lawsuit and the doj would get full access to these documents. it's worth pointing out that this appeals court ruling was a total repudiation of trump's legal arguments about the mar-a-lago search and an embarrassing reversal for judge canon who's reasoning was called out as deeply flawed in this opinion. the judges found there was nothing improper about the search of mar-a-lago and that cannon had no right to prevent the justice department from using all the documents in its criminal investigation and they said that her comments suggesting that trump deserves

special treatment because he's a former president had no basis in law. >> let's read some of that. quote, the law is clear, we cannot write a rule that allows any subject of a search warrant to block government investigations after the execution of the warrant nor can we write a rule that allows only former presidents to do so. did you find these judges to be particularly critical of judge cannon's earlier decision? >> absolutely. their judgment of her was straightforward and resounding and, lindsey, you read the most important part which started with the principle that we are all equal under the law. if there's something that president trump could do, then anybody who's home was searched, who's phone was searched could also do and that, of course, would just turn the entire criminal justice system upside down, it would make it impossible for the government to ever conduct an investigation if

someone who had been searched could run to a different court as he had and blocked the government from continuing even though an earlier judge had said that the search was lawful. and that was a reasoning on that -- was always really hard to follow, what would it mean for the entire system, and they said, no, that just does not work and they shut it down. >> in other legal news in new york's closing arguments, they're under way in the tax fraud case. the defense is trying to pin this on allen weisselberg alone claiming the company didn't know about these off the books compensations. the prosecution says it wasn't that they didn't know what they were doing that was illegal, it's that they didn't care. who's made the stronger case so far? >> well, you know, they're wrapping up their final arguments right now and donald trump is not a defendant in this lawsuit and each side is trying to make the arguments about him

one way or the other. the profession continues to bring his name up to say that he benefitted, the organization benefitted from weisselberg, what he was doing, and the defense, of course, is that he was acting pretty much alone and for his own benefit. and i will say that he did continue to fall on his sword and what he had to say in this trial consistent with his guilty plea and to really take it all upon himself. so always very hard to predict a jury verdict. but we shall see. >> all right. thank you both. this morning, republican outrage is intensifying against ye formally known as kanye west after the rapper went on an anti-semitic tirade yesterday. during an interview with alex jones, a fully masked ye praised hitler and repeatedly invoked anti-semitic stereotypes. he tweeted an image of the star of david interwoven with a

swastika prompting elon musk to suspend him from the site. i want to bring in vice president of the anti-defamation center on extremism, and brian buck. ben, i want to get to this, president biden just minutes ago weighed in on twitter writing, quote, i just want to make a few things clear, the holocaust happened. hitler was a demonic figure and instead of giving to a platform, our political leaders should be calling out and rejecting anti-semitism wherever it hides. silence is complicity. that is also worth noting that ye was sitting alongside nick fuentes during this interview. both men dined with former president trump. help us untangle the action we're hearing in republican circles and the growing pressure on trump to respond. >> within republican circles, you will hearing in but come dem

nation about this. this is a man that met with the president ten days ago, two days before thanksgiving. this is a very recent development. and kanye, there's no other way to put this. the stuff he was saying yesterday was nazism. it was dog whistle white supremacy stuff that you would hear on info wars. it was nazism. saying he liked hitler and hitler had a lot of good ideas and he said he loved a lot of those ideas. he's not dancing around this thing. that's exactly what he was talking about. so within those circles, you hear a lot of that, you hear people saying, we must con text message this. but there are people saying they don't agree with the classification that all the jews are doing this, kanye might have some good points. the things that you hear right now trying to thread the needle and move the window over so that

overt nazism is the far right now and somewhere in the middle is the republican -- it's very grim stuff. >> i want to read part of a statement from the republican jewish colation, it says conservatives who have indulged kanye west must make it clear that he's a pariah. this isn't the first time we're talking about anti-semitic comments from ye. will he be treated as a pariah now? >> i certainly hope so. it's not just that ye doesn't care about the jewish people. it's that his consistent and repugnant anti-semitism can lead others to violence. we have seen this play out over and over, how these types of statements animate people online and that's why the jewish community right now feels particularly vulnerable. it's really important not just that republicans and democrats, but that others in online space try to make it more difficult

for him to spread his hate. at the end of the day, people will remember not just the horrible anti-semitism and hatred that he's spreading, and the platforms that provided that, but what they did about it to create friction so that they are standing up against the anti-semitism as well. >> kevin mccarthy called ye's comments disgusting and unbelievable. does that go far enough and do you think we'll hear similar condemnation from trump? >> i don't think donald trump will ever acknowledge mistake. that's not how he operates. i'm glad that kevin mccarthy said that. but this is the reality of the republican party that has -- imagine being told ten years ago that you're going to find out that kanye west is an antisemite racist and it's a big problem for the republican party? it's because we have associated ourselves with just about anybody who does outrage. right now the biggest organizing principle of the trump wing of

the republican party is owning the libs. if the media, if the elites in washington are upset, that's a win. and that's what you -- you walk into situations like this and that's how you end up with idiotic tweets. hopefully we learn lessons from this that we just lost the senate, we almost lost the house because people think our party is kind of crazy and hopefully this can be a learning lesson for republicans. associating yourselves with people that just may score you some points on the far right, but turn off everybody else. we got to knock this stuff off. >> you have to mention the tweet that we showed from the house judiciary republican committee. it had been up since october. this isn't the first anti-semitism we're hearing from kanye. why do you think this tweet was up for so long? >> because it got us talking about it. it used to be that republican politics or in politics in general, you were fighting for

some means or some conservative outcome. right now fighting is the end. that's all you're trying to do is fight and spark outrage. that's a win. that's why they did it, so we would talk about it and have people's heads explode, and that's sadly probably more republicans care about than anything else. and i'm hoping deleting it is a bit of an acknowledgement that they walked into some trouble and will think twice about doing stuff like this in the future. >> this is the second time ye has been suspended for twitter in recent months. it's the first time under elon musk and it's worth noting that ye took a few swipes at musk last night. what does it say if ye's behavior was extreme enough this time. >> elon musk has repeatedly announced -- basically affiliations and allegiances with kanye west over the last couple of months, tweeting memes of him alongside kanye. clearly he met elon musk's line.

there's no direct line. his terms of service is whatever he believes is too far, but this was too far for elon musk. this is the problem with free speech solution to for-profit social media. everyone believes in free speech and we all agree with that, right? in principle that is correct. but at the end of the day everyone has a line. for elon musk, his line was tweeting swastika in the middle of the night and, by the way, tweeting an unflattering picture of elon musk right before he was banned from the platform. >> zooming out a little bit, what does it say about where we are in society and politics that a person in ye's position can feel this emboldened, to praise hitler on a live broadcast. >> it shouldn't be too much of a surprise that he would go onto a platform like alex jones and

praise hitler when just the week before he had dinner with the president of the -- the former president of the united states and a white supremacist. the normalization of people who are promoting the types of narratives and disinformation and hatred that they are doing now and the ability to get people to amplify that is just kind of unheard of. to jump from a meeting with a former president to a place where we know has animated people to action before. that platform that he spoke on yesterday has animated people to violence in d.c., has led people in sandy hook to get harassed. when he's spreading the anti-semitism and getting legitimacy from all sorts of corners, this is why we think it's so dangerous. what has to be done? stop having dinner with kanye west and white supremacists. stop allowing them to use their

platforms to provide the types of hatred that we know animates people to violence. at the end of the day people can make that choice and it's not unreasonable for users to expect that people will not give them the oxygen and the degree of aid and comfort that they are getting. enough is enough, but it starts with people taking responsibility. >> thank you. coming up, chinese authorities may finally loosen those harsh zero covid restrictions that led to massive protests across the country. but that doesn't mean protestors are getting away scot-free. the details of the new response and how officials are finding even the most disguised demonstrators. will team usa's star plaifr be on the pitch. we're live with a preview of tomorrow's game. e pitch. we're live with a preview of tomorrow's game. gle with cpap... (groan) (growling) (chuckle) ...you should check out inspire. no mask. no hose. just sleep.

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a low vaccination rate among the elderly could see a spike of infections. but unusually, the chinese government now seems to be responding to public pressure after extraordinary protests in multiple cities. they're calling for the end of lockdowns. demanding freedom from zero covid rules. a challenge to the leadership of xi jingping. that triggered a dragnet. police using surveillance tools and intimidation to suppress any further dissent. so far the leadership has said nothing about the protests. but officials are now playing down the severity of getting covid, sensors allowing discussions of it on social media. if there's only one covid case in the compound where you live, a huge lockdown doesn't make sense, she says. zero covid has made china an outlier as other countries have moved on. but the messaging here is beginning to shift. an easing of the rules could

soon follow. the government isn't getting rid of the vast covid system it's built, it's adjusting how people use it, like allowing some people to quarantine at home instead of forcing every covid case to isolate in a hospital. the worry remains this probably exit wave with cases already at a record high here and likely to surge. >> thanks to janis mackey frayer for that reporting. let's bring in ian bremer now. what do you think it means that we're seeing this communist government bow to public pressure, if only slightly. does it say anything about president xi jingping's political power? >> it's more of a head nod than it is a bow. let's be clear. and xi jingping, if we were talking just a few weeks ago, we would have been talking about his unprecedented third term and the way he disrespected at the end of the party congress and managed to consolidate power

over the entire leadership of the chinese communist party with all of his loyalists in place and none of that has changed. but their zero covid policy has failed and it is easier for xi jingping to loosen those rules a little bit now that he has all of his loyalists in power, now that he's secured his unprecedented third term. so the timing has gotten better for him, but also, of course, they do recognize that there is an awful lot of anger, that they have mishandled implementation on the ground in a lot of places, we saw that in shanghai over the summer and we've seen that to a greater degree over the entire country over the past weekend. they're going to be repressive. they're going to track down all the people involved in those demonstrations and make sure that they know that if they do it again, they're going to go to jail. so i mean, don't get me wrong, there's definitely some stick involved in this approach, but they will try to be somewhat

more soft in the implementation of their zero covid policy. >> the "new york times" had an eye-opening piece about how police have been tracking down protestors. and one person who was had a protest told about how police contacted him the next day telling him they knew he had been out because he were able to detect his phone had been in the area even though he had not told them where he lived. three officers knocked at his door. he was wearing goggles, he changed his jacket on the way home because he thought he was being followed. what does it say about this surveillance state? >> he's also got a phone with superapps and the chinese have no privacy and they conduct all of their commerce through those apps and also we may be loosening zero covid a little bit. we're not loosening zero liberty and zero freedom in china. it's a surveillance state. the fact is, with zero covid, if you want to engage in any form of commerce, you have to have

your app that shows that you are cleared with your test, that you have to take every couple of days, and that you're covid negative and you haven't been in the proximity of other people with covid. that same app, allows the chinese government to know where you are and if where you are happens to be a place where a whole bunch of people have just been demonstrating, they're going to find you. and, of course, a lot of the people that were demonstrating, we're not talking about millions of people, we're talking about tens of thousands of people, so it's still small, but most of those demonstrators, these weren't organized. they were students, workers, these were people that many of whom have never been in a demonstration in their lives before. so it's not like they -- yeah, they'll put on a mask, but it's not like they're like they are through the strategy of, i'm an anarchist and i want to make sure the government can't find me. no. they are regular citizens. that's what made it a big deal, because so many regular citizens were expressing their anger,

frustration with how their lives have been destroyed by zero covid. the chinese government can find these people, hurt these people. that means we're not going to see these demonstrations this coming weekend. >> fascinating to talk to you. thank you. one day out from team usa's knockout round game against the netherlands. the latest on christian pulisic. the rest of the team's prep and why fans are feeling good. >> usa! >> are we going all the way? >> usa all the way!

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