good day. i'm chris jansing live at msnbc head quarters in new york city. if you're watching this from an airplane gate, you already know the headline. more than 8500 flights delayed or cancelled after a key system went down. >> your flight was supposed to leave at 9:30 this morning? >> yeah. >> what time are you going to get to leave? >> 5:00 p.m. >> wow. so what are you going to do? >> just wait. >> how much more do passengers have to take before something is done to fix the airline system? plus house republicans are staing the first battles of what looks to be an all out political war over the next two years. votes on abortion rights, immigration and the irs are expect anded soon. is it just for show? and somehow the catastrophic situation in continueses to get

even worse. relentless rainstorms have led to the deaths of 17 people. hundreds of homes have been damaged. some ripped right off their foundations. i'll speak live to the local sheriff about how they are coping, even as they brace for yet another full week of rain. but we start with this tidal wave of flight delays and cancellations that swept across the country early today. the latest in a series of widespread meltdowns that have repeatedly in recent months left thousands of passengers stranded. at one point this morning, all commercial domestic departures were suspended after a breakdown in what's known as a notice to air missions system. although flights began taking off four hours ago, the ripple effect delayed more than 7 50rkz 0 flights and forced the kansslation of more than 1100 others. the exact cause of the breakdown is still unknown, but the effect major headaches for the flying public are now all too familiar. and it's been bad for awhile.

msnbc has obtained data from flight aware showing the number of delayed flights in the u.s. was up 5% last year from the year before. the number of cancelled flights nearly doubled. from 121,000 to more than 210,000. we have a lot of folks to talk about this with. tom costello, who covers aviation. kara lee is at the white house for us. blayne alexander is at atlanta international. and jeff is a former ntsb investigator, president of gazetta risk discovery. great to have you all here. what's the situation right now? >> the system is back up and operational again. it was down for two hours. the first started, we think, around 5:00 a.m. or so. it was clearly in the early

morning hours. then it started to snowball. the notice to air missions computer system that provides critical information about runway closures or maybe there's construction equipment on the ramp or fire department activity, that computer system went down. you need that computer system because pilots need to know what to expect at the airport that they are going to. and they really should thot be leaving their origination aurpt until they have that data in front of them. not only can they print it out with reams of paper, they can also have it on their ipad in front of them in the dock put with realtime data. and then it became to put a pause on all departures. the system was back up is and running and validated the system. so it's been up ever since. but as you mentioned, we have had significant delays. we're at 7,700 delays in the

united states. and 1,100 cancellations that map illustrates the problems. the big hubs, as you would expect, new york, d.c., charlotte, chicago, denver, san francisco, lax. the west coast also dealing with all of the weather out there. but now it's going to take awhile to work through the ripple effect from all of this. now the fbi is suggesting they don't at the most see signs of a cyber attack. however, the question is what happened to this critical computer? we believe it's siloed from other parts of air traffic control, but why did this go down? we don't have the answer yet. >> in kind of laymen's terms, is there a most likely possibility for what happened here? >> it's still too early to tell. it could be something as simple as a repair that was done to the computer software that didn't take properly. or a power interrupt problem

this which they couldn't get the backup system operating. it could be user error or prauter error or maybe a hack. we just don't know a at this time. >> how vulnerable, though, are we to these kinds of problems? from your point of view? >> well, all systems in the united states government are vulnerable to cyber attacks. the faa has been working hard to take care of that. the inspector general's office constantly audits them and shows them deficiencies and how they can strengthen their cybersecurity. so they are doing the best they can. we live in a world with a lot of airplane flights and a lot of of sophistication it's a constant challenge for all agencies to keep up with the cyber threat. >> so as we have been saying, this is nothing new, sadly, to fliers. christmas was a disaster for a lot of people.

southwest had the biggest problems, but there was weather and other problems that went on. tom will correct me if i'm wrong, but something close to a million passengers stranded over the entire christmas period. what are passengers telling you now today? >> reporter: you talk about that travel nightmare from a few weeks ago. i was covering it almost in this exact same so the. you saw people stranded for days. we're talking about there are a number of inconveniences, certainly it does not appear to compare to what we saw back then when people were stranded for days on end. but certainly talking about the busiest airport in atlanta, it's called that for a reason. when we look at the number of delays, about 700 or so delays. a few more than 700 flights delayed right now. bh you look at the flight information board, i took a quick glance, you can certainly see it's having an impact here. you can see a number of delays. but when we talk to passengers, it seems as though they are being inconvenienced for a matter of hours, but still able

to get on flights today. take a look. >> we're going to fort lauderdale on an 11:20 flight. tv came up this morning and said faa said there was a problem. so we started going crazy. >> we said happy birthday. it's my birthday today. >> we called southwest. 40-minute wait. we get here and amazingly there's only one person in line ahead of us. so we went up there and said we can et get you on 6:55 tonight. >> reporter: i think they just underscored impactly how the ripple effects are happening. we're talking about a number of missed flights. even though they are back in the air for quite some time, there are planes that didn't get to where they were supposed to on time earlier this morning. that means people missed connections. so that means kind of seeing them increase as the day progresses. i think one thing that's important to talk about, when we talked to passengers today as

well as a couple weeks ago with the southwest meltdown, this idea of having confidence in the travel system in general. confidence with air travel. that's something that with this incident, even though the delays are minor, it certainly takes a a hit. >> i do think there's a lot of anxiety for people flying these days and the government does keep track of customer clants they are up 400% between october of 2019 is and october of last year. with keep hearing conversations, should there be more severe consequences when these things happen, more about passenger bill of rights, but is that all it is at this point, talk? any sense something might happen given the series of problems? >> yeah, let's keep in mind this is not the airline's fault. so the airlines are not going to be held responsible for this. this is the faa. this is the government. and perhaps archaic computer system. so if you, a passenger are hoping to get your money back for your lunch today or a hotel,

that's not going to happen. this is going to be going down as an act of god and you can't sue the government asking for your money back. it this were an airline, that's different. i would also say every time we put up these numbers about record numbers of cancellations or record numbers of complaints, but there are so many caveats. especially if you compare it to the pandemic when there wasn't much going on at all. keep in mind, we had a meltdown in the summer travel season between may and july 1st. they corrected that pretty quickly. and then the problems we have had over the christmas holiday, that was pretty much all southwest airlines. so the other airlines did just fine over the holidays. it's easy to gloss over it and say the whole system is bad and we have to blow it up. if it you start looking at it piece by piece, we have individual issues that need to be addressed and right now, the faa has a big one it has to get to the bottom of. >> i think there's this sense, and i fly a lot.

i have noticed changes without a doubt. i think on christmas when i was trying to come back here to new york, i was told there was a 600-minute delay before an agent could get to me. 600 minutes. and i have pretty good status on the airlines. i wondered to pick up on what tom said, when you say the entire system needs to be reworked, we have too many people flying. we don't have the infrastructure. we don't have the staffing. we don't have the planes. is there some truth to that or how do you see it? >> yes and no. i completely conquer with tom that there's a variety of reasons why all this has happened. and unfortunately, this came on the heels of the southwest airlines dispatch computer system problem. sure, aviation is inherently complex more and more growth every year. the air traffic control system in this country has prevented two airplanes from coming together for decades now.

is the system safe, yes. does the system need repaired ask upgraded, yes. is the system completely broken and needs to start over, absolutely not. it needs to evolve with the technology and with the social demands of aviation. >> so to the idea that this today was not about the airlineses, what are we hearing from the administration? >> reporter: what we're hearing from administration officials is while they don't yet know the specific cause of this disruption, they are not seeing, as of now, any signs of nefarious activity such as a cyber attack. they are promising a full investigation to get to the bottom of this. we heard from the transportation secretary pete buttigieg just a little while ago on msnbc where he talked about that decision to bring much of air traffic to a halt. take a listen. >> what i would say is there's no direct indication of any kind

of external or nefarious activity, but we're not prepared to rule that out. >> is there a critical vulnerability where the country had to be stopped because of something that probably involved one sector or another? >> part of what you're seeing here is an abundance of caution and making certain that rations were safe. this is one of the reasons why we need to get these answers and have this review of exactly what happened. >> now as for president biden, we know that he was briefed on the matter earlier this morning by secretary pete buttigieg and told the secretary that he was to report directly back to him once there's been a determination on what caused all of this. the president also said that once that determination is made and they know more, then the administration will have some sort of response. >> hopefully we'll not be talking any time soon about anything like this, but i

appreciate you all being with us today. we have a the lot of other news we want the to it get you caught up on. after months of battlefield setbacks, russian president vladimir putin is putting a new general in charge of his invasion of ukraine. the previous general only lasted three months. this change comes as ukraine warns that moscow is planning a major new offensive and the pentagon is wringing ukrainian troops to the u.s. to train on the patriot muscle defense system as early as next week. the biden administration announced it would send the weapons system to ukraine weeks ago. the new training marks a new level of u.s. involvement with its partnership with kraun cain. one human rights activist is calling it a massacre as the death toll in peru rises to 47 after the deadliest day of clashes on monday deepening the political crisis there protesters and human activists are using the security forces of using lethal force. the attorney general is

launching a preliminary investigation against the new prime minister and several other officials on charges of genocide and homicide. students at the university of idaho are still on edge after they begin their spring semester just two weeks after an arrest was made in the grizzlie stabbings near campus. as the suspect prepares to appear in court, students say they want a conviction, but also they want a sense of security. >> i'm worried about the safety here. >> that would go a long way for bringing peace back to the community. >> we find out later that he's a student on campus and was walking around with us. it felt like they were trying to keep it from us or something. >> many students say they are arming themselves with flashlights and mace. others plan to take self-defense classes. they said they were going to do it and now they are doing it. how the republican-led house

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house republicans wasting no time trying to make good on campaign promises notably forming a new subcommittee to probe the ep weaponization of the federal government. also turning their attention to two abortion-related measure asks filing arting of impeachment against problems at the border. i want to bring in capitol hill correspondent ali vitali, "washington post" senior national political correspondent ashley parker, also with us former house overnight sight

committee spokesperson for republicans and current democratic strategist kirk bardella. what are the gop moves right now? >> reporter: chris, this is really the start of setting the tone for what the next two years are going to look like. the use of the subpoena power were going to be critical hallmarks of the way they leverage this period of divided government. we now see what that's going to look like in part by the actions of some of these standing committees, but then also with the creation of things like this weaponization of government committee. this is likely to be chaired by jim jordan. it means he's going to have a lot of power on key committees, incluing the judiciary committee, but he's going to be one of the main figures in the republican push for oversight against the biden administration as well as multiple agencies throughout. i think the important thing when you think about this weaponization of government select committee is they are still figures out the ratios,

how many republicans to democrats are going to be on it. but the lesson that democrats learned from the way republicans dealt with the last select committee, the january 6th committee, is they are still planning to seat members on this committee. jeffries will make that decision in the coming weeks. but it's important because it will allow them to do what republicansen couldn't during the january 6th appearances, which is offer fact checks in realtime and disrupt the narrative the republicans will try to build as they move forward with their investigations here. so again, the investigation piece important ask then we're also seeing republicans today move on two anti-abortion bills. what they are targeting here is born alive legislation. but what we're talking about here is effectively late-term abortions, which represent around 1% of all abortions nationally in the u.s. but not full agreement within the republican conference this is one of the eariest moves

they should be taking. some republicans, including nancy mace and other moderates in the conference, saying this is an example of republicans not learning the lessons of 2022 and the mud term elections where so many of these tight races hinged on reproductive access. >> exactly. these might be issues for the republican base, but abortion wasn't a big winner in midterm elections. is it the right thing for republicans to be focusing on right now? >> governing is about prioritizing. for some reason republicans in congress have made the calculation that they would rather spend time chasing phantom investigations against the biden family and double down on the agenda that was rejected by the americans in the midterm election. sthed of talking about the kitchen table issues, the inflation, the economy, things they actually ran on in the mud term elections are doing something completely different. i just don't think that's going to end up being a winner. most people in this country are not looking for washington for

investigation ps they are looking for common sense solutions to the problems that they face every day. i don't think most people in this country really cared about hunter biden or care about these witch hunts that republicans will be chasing and the grievances. they want republicans and democrats both to do what they said they would do and that's do common sense governing. >> he's right. but also this is messaging. these are no chance of passing in the democratic-controlled senate. this is not unique to this party, but what they are doing whether it's hunter biden or threatening impeachment over policy differences s that a different level than we have seen in the past? >> that's exactly right. these messaging bills are things that both parties do that signal to their base their priority asks what they care about. the challenge on the messaging

side for republicans is while some issues may animate the base, what we have seen is the base is often produced extremist far-right candidates who can win a primary and then can't win a general election that's why republicans have been so frustrated in 2018 and 2020 and 2022. in terms of what they are actually doing, you're also right that is a second level, especially this committee to investigate the weaponization of government. one thing that is particular ily ironic about this is president biden's predecessor, former president trump, very clearly tried to weaponize the government. i guess you could argue on the one hand it didn't need to be investigated because he made it clear he would come out ask say publicly or tweet he wanted his attorney general to act as his own fixer. he wanted his enemies to be investigated. it sounds like there will be

democrats on this committee if they will try to expand this to the proceeded president biden. >> i'm curious how you see this playing out. let me read the way politico put it. the committee will cause, quote, mutually assured obstruction as the house gop aims this weaponization panel at the doj. where is this all going? >> i think that you're going to see republicans push to try to investigate things that franly the justice department is not going to undermine the existing cases that they are currently investigating to comply with this really pr stunt more than anything. this is just a publicity stunt. democrats are smart in learning from the lessons of kevin mccarthy not seating members. you cannot give the opposition to do whatever you want. you have to have opposition and resistance and, in our case, a setting to tell the facts about what's going on, point out inaccuracies and hypocriies.

it will be one of the most important decisions that jeffries makes in his first couple months. who is he going to apoint to serve as ranking member to go up against jim jordan? i'm looking at members like a ted lou and members who are very publicly conscientious, good on social media, good at messaging, understand the politics and have played large roles in some of the previous investigations against the traigs. >> in the middle of all this, there's the ongoing george santos controversy. the gop signalled they are going to call for him to resign. there was another republican group that said the same. speaker mccarthy just said he should not be seated on any top committees. so where does that leave him? >> reporter: any top committees, that's an important distinction. as we have been talking to republican leaders in congress, they have been red sant to weigh in in any concrete way about george santos' future.

there are probably conversations happening now of what comes next for george santos. the thing that works in his favor is that the margins are so slim here that republicans after just going through the bruising speakership battle probably do not want to deal with a special election in a place that's going to have millions of dollars poured into it as democrats try to not just seat they badly need. but on the other side of this, it does make it difficult for santos to continue on this this fashion, especially when the very people that elected him, his own state party, his own county party are now coming out and saying that he's disgraced the u.s. congress and they think he should resign. >> thank you all so much. right now, let's take a live check from los angeles airport. the faa outage causing travel disruptions all across the country there's always a domino effect. we're going to get an update with one of the busiest in the

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air travel continues in disarray across the country. airports with the most cancellations now, denver, dallas-fort worth and atlanta. that's according to flight aware. in today's predawn hours, the frustration about it all started pouring out this realtime from province to milwaukee, with one recurring word. stranded. complaints about aur travel have quadrupled since before the pandemic. today's ground stop is simply the latest in a string of headaches. just bad service by airlines. but the flying public really doesn't have a lot of options. >> no information from the airline, no e-mails, no text messages, nothing. what i'm hoping is that we're

not part of the people that's grounded. >> we did try calling the airline this morning and we weren't able to get through. probably because everybody was trying to call. >> what makes all of it even worse is that it comes as demand is sky high. people trying to escape from the rest of life's problems. antonia hylton is at newark airport. so if you'll allow me a bad pun, can we look at this from 30,000 feet. i think people face so many compounding problems right now, whether it's the pandemic, inflation, any number of things. so they want to get away, but thn they face something like what we saw this morning. how much stress are people feeling? and is there a kind of cumulative effect? >> reporter: on the faces that i have seen throughout today, i would say the overriding emotion

is more resignation, sort of exhaustion more so than outrage. which we saw a lot of during the holiday season. you're right to connect all this to recent events because that's on the forefront of travelers' minds. not only is this not the first delay they have dealt with, it sort of feels cumulative, but there are the cost issues. one traveler, you just played a clip a moment ago, he was talking to me about how this could have this snowball effect of causing him to lose out on a reservation for the airbnb for a trip he's planned for months. while that doesn't sound like the end of the world, we are feeling the squeeze from inflation. those cost issues are the on the front of the minds of travelers. because this is chalked up as an act of god, it's not the airline's fault, that means that in terms of the reimbursements, the waivers people are going to get back, they are going to need

to be in touch to see case by case because it's not guaranteed. take a toment some of the conversations we have had with travelers today. >> we all anticipate coming to the airport and everything going smoothly. today that didn't happen. you can only control the controllable, and this is out of our control. so i can either be mad and angry and let it ruin my day, or what can i do to make my heart feel bigger and better. >> reporter: i appreciated the advice she gave me there. i took it to heart for myself. it's a helpful reminder. travelers, customers feel powerless. they are waiting to find out what was the root cause of this. what kinds of steps might the federal government need to take? two really modernize our transportation system. it adds to the piling questions after the travel chaos that we all dealt with a couple weeks ago. and consumers feel like they deserve to know more about what the conditions are going to be, especially as they are paying top dollar to travel right now.

while there's a sense of resignation and exhaustion, people are sitting around waiting to make sure they can get on their flights out today, fingers crossed, but there's these long-term questions on people's relationship with the airlines, the relationship with travel and the kind of demands and desire thas might want to see on the federal level in terms of change. >> antonia hylton, thank you. we have new details about the classified documents found in president biden's former office. so what will the doj do about it? and what's it mean for potential charges against donald trump? that's next. nst donald trump atth's next.

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the big questions out there now are what is the doj doing right now? and does that complicate attorney general merrick garland's decision on whether to charge donald trump? i want to bring in ken dilanian and ashley parker is back with us. so ken, based on your reporting, what, if any, legal concerns should the president or people around him have? >> it's a crime to remove classified documents and take them to an unauthoized location knowingly. that's the keyword. there has to be criminal intent. in most cases where classified documents end up in the wrong place are mistakes. they may be subject to civil penalties. you can lose your security clearance. so it's unlikely based on ts information that we have right now that anybody, the president or anyone around him, has criminal jeopardy. unless there's a big thing that we don't know about this situation. really the questions are more political. because especially in the context of the biden administration justice department investigating

president biden's political opponent donald trump over a very different, but somewhat parallel case of the mishandling of classified documents. and so it's a question of how did those documents get to the wrong place. did president biden play any role in questioning them or causing them to go to that office where they shouldn't have been. and then why did the white house sit on this information and not dus close this when they first learned about it six days before the midterm elections. in terms of the justice department, they are conducting a preliminary review. our understanding is merrick garland has been briefed on the review so they know a lot of of answers to these questions and now merrick garland has to decide whether to appoint a special counsel to conduct a criminal investigation or whether no criminal investigation is warranted. >> so the reporting is they did the right thing. they found these and immediately notified the archives that they existed. the political question is being discovered six days before the mud term elections why they

didn't say anything then. what are you hearing about that? >> there's two political questions. one is that, which so far including even among some democrats, feels like a fair question. then it's more of a political issue as ken said, but that is the biggest challenge facing president biden. that republicans are up in arms about this investigation into former president trump's mishandling of classified documents. this gives them the -- while the two things are not the same based on what we know currently, former president trump defied subpoenas. the justice department had reason to believe that he was lying to them and deliberately not turning over classified documents and other documents that belong to the national archives. it gives republicans the perfect political what aboutism, false equivalency, but to basically

say it's a witch hunt against former president trump and why isn't president biden being treated the same way. even though there's a lot of holes in that argument, they are already making it and you can expect this to continue for the foreseeable future. >> speaker mccarthy is calling the handling of this case compared with the investigation into former president trump's handling of classified documents a double standard. here's what he said. >> why did the department of justice treat it differently? every time we find something with biden's family, it's pushed under the rug. >> so two very different situation here's. fewer than 12 documents versus more than 300. biden's team turned them over within a day rather than the fbi having to come in and seize them. but based on conversations and what you're hearing r they going to make this a short-term thing or is this going to be used by republicans on messaging on trump going forward? >> this is going to be used by

republicans as messaging going forward. while it bears repeating, not the same at alls based on what we know right now is a political gift. it allows them to claim hypocrisy and a double standard and to try to put the blame back on biden. this is something that former president trump is masterful at. so when he's accused of something, he will often say that guy did it too. it's a what we're going to see right now. >> good to have you both on the program. thank you. millions of folks in california remain under flood warnings right now as a string of massive storms leaves a dozen people dead. we'll speak with the sheriff of santa cruz county, next santa crx

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car. the rain is continuing to fall in northern california. and the state's governor warns the situation will only get worse. >> we're not out of the woods. we expect these storms to continue at least through the 18th of this month. we expect a minimum three more of these atmospheric rivers. >> the 18th of this month. let's bring in marissa parra in gurnsville, california, an hour north of san francisco and the sheriff of santa cruz county, an hour south of the city on the bay. what is the latest where you are? how are people coping with what looks like utter devastation there? >> reporter: we're around the russian river and in sonoma county, this is a place that has seen flooding with the river before but this is stressful for the people who live around here, and someone who lives in a trail area few feet away from where we're standing and what she was telling us they were forced to

evacuate from here because they were concerned that this river would flood. and at the end of the day, whether it does or does not, this is a very stressful time for everyone around here and obviously, this is a storm, and the storms, over the last ten days, it has caused so much damage. you've seen so much of it plastered across the screen, mud slides. sinkholes. this has been costly in every way, at least 17 lives lost a 5-year-old boy washed away in the flood waters, we understand they have been take spending the last couple of days trying to search for him but the weather makes it difficult to do so. we understand they resumed the search this morning and taking to the skies with a helicopter and drone when they're able to but the problem is we've seen so much rain they haven't been able to do as much as they would like to, they're taking to the waters to try to find him and so far, the only thing they have found is his shoe. this is a heart-breaking

situation. and just all of the damage that it has caused. we're only a couple of miles away from where that toddler was killed last week, this is costly in every single way. >> marissa, thank you so much. sheriff, i'm familiar with santa cruz counties. one of the most beautiful places in the country but wow have you got challenges. what's the situation on the ground there in santa cruz right now, what are the biggest faces you're facing? >> yes, we're still in the middle of it, chris, we have rain right now, it is raining, we have more storms coming in, but just the devastating series of storms where our low-lying coastal areas are covered in debris. there's been about 130 homes damaged about, eight homes destroyed, school closures, 19,000 people without power, 65 roads that need to be repaired, and just a lot of damage from one end of the county to another. >> do you feel like right now,

you have the resources you need to help all of those folks? >> we're working with our partners, the fire, the police departments, we've evacuated about 25,000 people at one point during this series of storms. there's a small town here in this county that has not flooded since 1982 and flooded twice in the last ten days and constantly evacuating and allowing people to come back in and get cleaned up and another storm comes in and causing more debris flow and flooding. it's a mess. the county, i've been here for 35 years, and i've experienced fires, floods, earthquakes, a couple of tsunamis and this is about as bad as a natural disaster as i've seen in this county. >> we just heard from governor newsom, he was in new york county touring the damage yesterday and warning things are going to get worse in the coming days, what you are hearing right now about what the forecast is, and are you prepared for that?

>> yeah, we were on the phone with our national weather service this morning, and it sounds like friday, saturday, sunday, we're looking at another three to six inches of rain, and we just don't know where the next debris flow or mud slide is going to happen. but we have people in position, in different communities, to help out. so we're ready, and we'll take on whatever comes our way, but we've had about 23 inches of rain in the last 10 days and we've experienced extreme drought prior to this series of storms. so the soil is saturated. our rivers are flowing high, so we're concerned about some leavy breaches, levee breaches, and we're working hard to keep our community safe, and the good news, we had a tree fall, not good news, we is a tree fall on a man and with the nonstop rain

and atmospheric rivers, we've experienced one death. and the key is keeping everyone safe and out of the low-lying areas and we'll start worrying about recovery and repopulation once the series of storms leaves our area. >> we'll be thinking about you and wishing you well, as well as we can, under these circumstances. sheriff, kind of you to take the time to talk to us today. we much appreciate it. >> thank you. now to good news, just days ahead of the buffalo bills playoff game. number 3, damar hamlin was discharged from the hospital and is cleared to go home. the team says he will be rehabilitating from home and with the buffalo bills. of course, after suffering that cardiac arrest on the field, with millions watching, we also have learned that damar ham lynn is applying to trademark 3 is back and yes, indeed, he is. i got a little seed planted in my head from one of my producers, what if he actually showed up there at the stadium

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