albuquerque police have a man in custody they say tried to actually terrorize four democratic new mexico officials.

i don't use that word lightly. that's exactly what the man is accused of doing. terrorizing. they say the republican candidate was so angry over his defeat and claims the election was rigged against him that he hired four men to shoot at the homes of officials, even pulling the trigger himself during one of the crimes. we have one of the officials who was targeted joining us in a moment. she's going to tell us what the bullets hit and how close they came to her and her grandchildren. it is scary. what makes this our top story today is that it's not just about an alleged one off crazy person. it's not isolated. this terror is part of a growing problem. just ask nancy pelosi or pramila jayapal or the one in five adults who said in a survey they would be willing to condone acts

of political violence. what is motivating all of these people and what is law enforcement doing about the threats before they turn violent? joining me now is nbc news senior capitol hill correspondent, garrett haake and clint watts. the who is this guy? >> well, solomon pena was a convicted felon who ran for a house district. a state house district in the albuquerque area and lost. police allege he then visited the homes of several democratic lawmakers to complain about an election that had somehow been stolen from him. after that, police allege he ended up hiring these four men and went along with them to fire in many case, more than a dozen rounds into the homes of these same officials to whom he

complained. there's some pretty terrifying stuff here. one of the victims says her 10-year-old daughter came into her room and thought she felt something on her face and felt like there was sand in her bed, could she sleep with her mother. the next morning, she went in and found bullets that had come through. the sandy feeling was sawdust in her bed. this was a case bad enough on its face, with pena charged with more than a dozen crimes now. it could have been significantly worse had anyone be hit by any of these drive by shootings that occurred from early december to january before this arrest yesterday. >> so we have some photos of this guy. he wears a lot of make america great again gear. he denied that the election was fair. said it was rigged against him. you know, repeating a lot of the same allegations that president trump made about his own election. about other trump aligned

officials who have made about their own elections. not winning like kari like et cetera. what sort of signs were there that he might have turned violent or might have targeted the officials that cops say he did? >> well, in terms of turning violent, he had a previous felony conviction for a smash and grab robbery. there was a court battle about whether he could even be on the ballot in new mexico that led up to this. then there were a series of confrontations on the doorsteps of these other democratic lawmakers who weren't his opponents or weren't especially involved in this race that he had gone to complain. the arrest warrant talks about one of those getting quite angry, although there wasn't apparently violence threatened in that moment. so it's not clear what the triggering factor was between the loss, the anger and decision to hire these men to try to commit violence against people who were at least connected to these claims. unfounded by evidence of some kind of stolen election.

>> so there have been other lawmakers who themselves have been targeted or you know, their husbands. nancy pelosi, her husband got attacked in their san francisco home. there's also the high profile targeting of pramila jayapal, susan collins. what are lawmakers on capitol hill saying about this, this threat that got potentially deadly. the guy used a gun and you talk about the 10-year-old girl in her room feeling the dry wall. we're going to have one of the other lawmakers who was, officials on in a moment. she's going to tell us how close it came to her and her grandchild. what are lawmakers on capitol hill saying about this since they've experienced the threats themselves? >> it's been a growing risk, katy. steve scalise, gabby giffords. you name a lawmaker. they're keenly aware of the increasing threat environment against them. in part because capitol police keeps track of this sort of

thing and have been warning that the threat environment keeps getting worse and worse year after year. they are managing more threats against more lawmakers. the capitol police department is even trying to pivot it from kind of a traditional police department that keeps track of one area, one town, one community to something more like a protection agency like the secret service with a beefed up intelligence bureau so they know how to protect lawmakers not just when they're here on the capitol, but when they're in their districts and traveling back and forth where we've seen confrontations at airports and airplanes. it's become a problem with recruiting and retention. someone like anthony gonzalez who's an up and coming law maker who voted in favor of trump's impeachment who decided i'm retiring. i'm not sticking around. the threat environment has become untenable for people who otherwise would be up here serving and it's become a fact of the job. there's just not enough details

to go around for every lawmaker to have their own sort of personal protection so it's kind of baked into the job that gets done here. nobody's happy about it. but also they don't necessarily want a further level of distance armed guards or something like that all the time when you're trying to do the people's work. it's a very difficult situation. >> in recent years, a lot of this has been traced back to people getting spun up by election conspiracies. you've got some people in congress right now who denied the results of the 2020 election. pretty prominently back then and still do to this day. do they have any thoughts about this or is it just what about it? >> congress is out today so we've not had the opportunity to do the chasing down of lawmakers to acquire people to speak on this, but you don't hear a ton about this particular incident from many lawmakers and usually when you do ask those kind of election denying folks about this kind of thing, you'll hear

something like we condemn violence on all sides. there's a desire to thread a needle that may be impossible to thread, but condemning violence broadly without condemning your supporters specifically who may be motivated by the same thing, but would never in a million years consider taking it to this level. but there are folks when you say that an election is stolen and use apocalyptic terms about the end of democracy who might feel it is necessary to take things a day up. take things up another level. even if that's a small percentage of people, obviously only takes one to have a violent episode. >> garrett haake, thank you for the reporting. all right, clint, i'm going to lean on your expertise and analysis in this area. talk to me about why this guy, why it got to this point. why law enforcement didn't catch him before it got violent. >> you wouldn't think we need to use the extremism spectrum to understand the behavior of someone running for office.

i think that's the real shock in this case, but it's quite textbook. what is terrorism? it's the threat of violence, the use of violence in pursuit of political change. could not get a more clear cut case of what domestic terrorism is in this country. i think the other thing is when you stack it up, the last two phases of extremism we always talk about, frustration, result of violence. very clear case throughout the accounting of mr. pena. he went and did what first? went and confronted individuals. tried to argue with him at their house. a form of reconnaissance. secondly, when you look at his claims which were all turned down about the election being rigged, he was beat by 50%. this is not even remotely close, but yet he thought the best course of action was to do what he had seen before. deny the election and use intimidation. when that didn't meet his goals, he pursued violence. that's a very classic extremism case we used to talk about ten years ago with isis or al-qaeda

was the development and radicalization of people who continued to ratchet it up. the other thing in terms of this is how do we look at assessing this over time? during the pandemic, we were looking at healthcare workers. right before the election, we were talking about election workers if you remember. they were receiving these threats. the more verbal threats they are hearing, the more likely they are to be targeted. what do we see here? an individual who made online threats or verbal threats then showing up to their houses then he pursues violence at those individuals. so i think we need to take a step back and look at what our tips and warnings, indicators we use to assess where there could be extremism. how do we report that at a nationwide level? the last point, just to look at nearly all the cases you mentioned, they were all targeting women politicians for the most part. if you just look at the cases, yes, there are men targeted, but there's a preponderance of

misogyny. >> that's a good point when we talk about who has been targeted. the majority of people are women. there are obviously men. a man listed here, but has been a lot of women. dhs is aware of this threat. they sent out a bulletin late last year saying that calls for violence targeting elected officials, candidates, and ballot box, drop box locations rose over 2022. we'll put it on your screen. so dhs is aware of this. how to they address it? do they have the tools they need to address it? >> the big challenge across the board is after january 6th, it went from national to local. most of these threats went to become very local. when you look at things like elections or protecting front line workers or protecting candidates, just the sheer volume of number of candidates stretched across the entire united states, we are not staffed for that.

we don't really have the intelligence system built for that. so it really bills the question again of where is the line between international domestic terrorism. we see this is a clear incident of domestic terrorism and meets by definition as i was always trained. separately, what is our tips and warnings? how are we going to do this on a nationwide level when many threats are online? one of my biggest disappointments out of the january 6th committee, there was a lot of anger. why didn't the fbi, intelligence stop this. it's still not clear even after the hearings what we're allowed to watch on social media on the internet. we're also not allowed to pair that with a lot of physical incidents. sounds like some law enforcement were contacted different times either due to the shootings going on or to the confrontations going on. so that system has to be put together and the best ones to do that are usually the fbi. they're just staffed better. they do better with those national systems. for dhs to do that on the scale

it needs to be done, i don't know how they would be staffed to do that. then you go to each state, some have lots of resources. others do not. >> thank you very much. all right. now let's bring in vice chair of the commission. she was one of the four people targeted by the violent political attacks in new mexico. talk to me about where the bullets hit your house and why it was so scary. >> yeah, i came home from shopping for christmas lights to see my house shot up. four shots directly through my front door. directly through my living room and kitchen. right where i had just hours before been playing with my grand baby. >> so if you were there, you think there's a high likelihood at the least would have come close to you. >> i definitely think and you know, traumatizing enough without being there, but i heard the comments about the women being targeted and one of our

legislators, senator linda lopez, who there were shots in her daughter's bedroom and her own head board and roof. these were directly through the homes. >> what interaction had you had with the suspect? >> as chair of the county commission, we have a string of people coming in to deny, election deniers that come in and use the public comment time. so mr. pena had been through that process. he also came to my front door after elections pretty aggressive. i didn't feel threatened necessarily at the time, but he was speaking erratic and aggressive. so he had come to our home, which is not common even though our addresses are publicized as elected official, but yeah, he came to my front door and that of others as well right after the election. >> did you contact the police? >> at that time, i didn't, but i

know that county commissioner o'malley did. you know, i think i take pride that our elected officials are accessible here in new mexico and that you can reach them and talk to them and share your stories and lived experience and opinions on things that we will be debating and voting on so i didn't you know, i thought he was trying to engage in public civil discourse. >> how do you think you can stop this from happening again? >> i think we, you know, it's heartbreaking. i don't know, there isn't obviously throughout years, there's not an easy answer, but i think when one of the biggest problems is that you know, having politicians at our highest level of government continue to make threat and violence as part of public discourse, it has real impacts on our democracy. so i hope we can be better about how we weaponize our language. how we really encourage public

discourse without violence. >> do you believe that law enforcement in your state, your county, has the resources it needs to keep you and your fellow officials safe? >> you know, i live in a community where so many of my neighbors and family and loved ones are faced with you know, gun violence in our homes and in our lives all the time. so i, you know, i think we need to be looking to solutions to decrease gun violence and violence against within our communities, period. and yeah. you know, elected officials, we can't let this stray us from service. you know, while violence is obviously heightened, it's not new to threats and i think you know when we, we have to be courageous and hope that our efforts can win the day. >> adrian, thank you very much

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ukraine is about to get a critical gift. a stock of state-of-the-art battle tanks. the former ambassador to ukraine tells nbc news an offer is expected to be formalized when leaders meet in germany later this week. up until now, the u.s. and other allies had held back on tanks fearing that it would provoke russia. meantime, rescuers have given up hope of finding anyone else alive amid the rubble of an apartment building struck over the weekend. ukrainian authorities say their search, which lasted 69 hours, is now over. the death toll stands at 45 including six children. the youngest was just 11 months old. joining me now from lviv is matt bradley. what is the latest out of ukraine? >> reporter: they're saying they still haven't forfeited the city of solidar. now if it turns out the russians

are correct, that would be their biggest victory in months after really months of massive defeats, embarrassing defeats on the battlefields all across the fringe of the donbas region in the eastern part of this country. but you know, what's interesting here is that the man who claims that he has single handedly led russian forces to this rare victory isn't exactly getting a hero's welcome in the halls of power in moscow. he's more of a thorn in the side of the kremlin. russia's assault on solidar left this town broken, but left -- between an oligarch whose private army led russia to victory an an establishment who wants him sidelined. he has turned eastern ukraine into a project to advance his own political ambitions. three days before the russian government claimed to have con

coried the city, he claims he was in the salt mines under the city, boasting online that victory was his while roasting russia's military who he said hadn't helped. his mercenaries hoisted not russia's flag, but the wagner group's own colors. if moscow's grateful for a rare victory, they had a funny way of showing it. even as the battle raged, putin shuffled his top military ranks. do you think this was an attempt to sideline him? >> especially among the russian population. >> so who is this shadowy figure? a former convict who restarted his career as a caterer to the kremlin. known as putin's chef. but soon, he was leading a private army doing russia's dirty work in places like syria and mali where his soldiers had

been accused of war crimes. to leave the fight in the east, he needed more men. he found them among russia's most desperate. recruiting convicts direct from prisons with promises of pardons. >> no one goes back. no one backs down. no one surrenders. >> ukrainians call his style of fighting meat waves. sending wave after wave of poorly trained convict straight into ukrainian defenses. he showcases every stage of his human meat grinder. addressing his mercenaries on the front lines. demanding even his amputee troops return to the front. >> if another mine explodes, then the iron leg will be torn off and a new one will be welded. >> to finally sending them home in body bags. >> the contract is over. they're going home. >> but ukrainian american officials say these battles have little strategic value. the victory is him.

given that he's doing all that in order to further his own political ambitions. >> i would say that's the case. in particular, strengthening his position. >> climbing the kremlin's ranks but with the courses of his own soldiers. and there was any doubt that the wagner group or he himself are as brutal as social media suggest, we just heard over the weekend that a man who said he was a leader in the wagner group had actually crossed over that arctic border in russia into norway. near the north pole. he said where he was a member of this group, he was fighting in bakhmut in the summer, he had witnessed atrocities and saw wagner leaders committing

executions of their own men who refused to follow orders. he wants to claim asylum. he does not want to go back to russia. >> interesting. thank you very much. for the first time in 60 years, china's population fell last year as excuse me, more people died than were born and economists around the world are worried about that. they're worried that trend will keep happening, leaving china with a diminishing manufacturing workforce which would likely mean higher prices for goods around the world. and what is happening in a small arizona town that has residents there skipping showers an eating off paper plates? also, what kevin mccarthy, there he is. just said about marjorie taylor greene. just said about marjorie taylor greene

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>> she has landed a seat on the house homeland security committee which is the committee that she desired the most. this is the committee that's going to be most focused on the situation happening at the border and really a great deal of oversight over the department of homeland security and specifically the homeland security secretary. in fact, there have been some calls among the republican ranks to move articles of impeachment against mayorcas. the speaker has said he is open to that. he has not fully endorsed that idea, but has empowered members of the homeland security committee to look into his work or lack thereof as it relates to border security. so this is something she's wanted for some time. she rates border security among her biggest priorities in terms of issues and of course, it was something she was denied when the republicans weren't in the

minority. house speaker pelosi at that time pushing to have her removed from all committees after comments that she had made in her past had been unearthed at that time. so this is a significant move by mccarthy showing that marjorie taylor greene, who we should point out, very much supported his effort to become the next speaker of the house will land her most desired committee in this next congress. >> quite a turnaround for her. let's talk about george santos who looks like he's going to be on a committee as well. here's what mccarthy said to reporters today about what he knew about the allegations. >> i never knew about his resume, but i had a few questions about it. i don't know about that happened. i know they corrected, but i was not notified about that. yeah, i didn't know about that

though unfortunately. >> he still going to get a committee assignment though ryan? >> it's what it looks like. they've said he'll be a part of the most high profile committees in the house of representatives, but mccarthy indicated he's going to give him the chance to serve in his full capacity as thee investigations into the lack of honesty he had as it relates to his resume and possibly financial -- there's a referral to the house ethics committee. also been a referral to the committee on ethics which is separate from the house ethics committee and of course there are investigations at the state and federal level into his claims and background. mccarthy's made it clear until there's any sort of adjudication in all those different realms, santos is going to be given the opportunity to serve and it probably had a lot to do with the fact that the house majority is so thin for mccarthy.

only four seats. and he cannot risk losing a seat even if it's the one santos holds. >> can't risk a special election he might lose in a former democrat district. let's talk about the documents and the white house. republicans are getting louder and louder about this. they want to see the visitor logs at the president's delaware home. the white house says they don't have them. also saying they've been transparent. a lot of folks aren't buying that. what's the latest? >> the white house did something today which they hadn't done previously in more than a week now since the discovery of classified documents was first reported which is they held a conference call with reporters to discuss the particulars. it won't surprise you that a lot of the specific questions that the ten reporters who were able to ask questions posed to the white house led to a very similar batch of responses. the white house is explaining in

public what we've been hearing privately about why they feel like they can't address the specific questions we're posing to them and the answer boils down to in their view, they would see that as interfere wg the ongoing justice department investigation. we also heard them go on offense a little bit. this relates to what you were talking to ryan about, which was the spokesperson for the white house council's office say that the cries of transparency coming from republicans on capitol hill are hypocritical because as he put it, they still won't be transparent about the deals speaker mccarthy had to cut in order to secure the speakership. deals which may have included those committee assignments that are being doled out. the white house on the conference call or from the podium, again also -- they are trying to at least get a little bit more out from under this story and go on offense and attack republicans who they also pointed out have continued to

defend if not remain silent about former presidents handling of classified documents while now raising serious concerns about president biden's handling. >> there was a white house briefing and pierre was asked a question by peter alexander about the transparency. let me play that. >> says republicans are faking outrage on this issue. why shouldn't americans be outraged about classified documents being found in a garage? >> i think i've been clear about this. we have answered questions on this at this podium. you've heard as phil was saying twice in the president talk about this. he said he didn't know. he said that he was surprised and he said that he takes classified information and documents very, very seriously. >> the white house did post a statement saying that republicans are faking outrage. so to that point, why shouldn't americans be upset about documents found in a garage?

>> that's for the american people to decide. >> she says that's for the american people to decide. >> yeah. you can see how the whole situation and embarrassing it is for them. look, the white house right now, they're trying to point to republicans and say they're being hypocrites right now. they said they weren't even going to investigate what happened at mar-a-lago when trump had his own issues and continues to have issues with classified documents. now republicans are up in arms, how dare biden accuse trump. republicans in the past have turned a blind eye not only to trump and his mar-a-lago documents problem, but also january 6th. you know, the situation with ukraine and taxpayer money that led to the first impeachment. trump trying to profit off the oval office. you name it. republicans in congress basically turned a blind eye or tuned it out, but democrats have their own sort of hypocrisy

problem here and that is for week, they've been saying that trump should be charged because of this issue with the documents at mar-a-lago and now that biden is in a similar situation, obviously there are differences here, they're saying look, accidents happen. some people when they leave office don't know what documents are in these boxes they end up taking home. that's what we saw jim clyburn saying something similar on this. it's a very sort of different tone than democrats were taking when it came to trump and mar-a-lago. i think the average american voters, they're going to be very confused by this and say what is the difference here and granted, there is a difference. >> on that note, i mean, the white house seems to think and republicans seem to think it's a zero sum game. if one side is worse then the american public will see one side as worse when they are at risk of the american public becoming further disillusioned

with politicians who say one thing and do another and they might look at president biden himself saying on camera that donald trump was mishandling documents and how terrible it was when he knew at the time that classified documents were found at his own house and ryan, the favorability ratings for government, congress, and the white house, aren't high. >> you're right. and this is, you know, at the very least a political problem for joe biden at the very worst it could be a legal problem for him and that's why i think you see the white house being so aggressive in their messaging trying to one hand show the clear differences between the situation with donald trump and on the other hand as well, trying to show they're at least attempting to cooperate with this investigation, but there's no doubt this in many ways was a gift to the republicans here in the house of representatives that were already promising

aggressive oversight into the biden administration. they have been very candid in the fact they understand there isn't going to be much legislation they'd like to champion that's going to become law, but they have the power of oversight and this is just one of many things they plan on looking into while they have a power here in washington. >> ryan nobles, rachel, mike, thank you very much. coming up. after a week of storms, california is just beginning to clean up. what recovery efforts look like there and a small town in arizona says it is being left out to dry. what is happening that could leave thousands of residents waterless in a matter of days? >> it's now. we need water now. we can't wait. >> i just cannot believe that a group of people would look at their neighbors and say we're going to slowly kill off your community. y kill off your community. and mine's unlisted. try boost® high protein

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after being battered by severe storms, the clean up is starting in california, finally, with repairs to infrastructure alone set to easily top a billion dollars. at least 22 people are dead. neighborhoods are still submerged, roadways crippled and tens of thousands have fled their homes. the president will head to california on thursday to see the devastation for himself. he'll also survey the need for additional federal support after approving a major disaster declaration this past weekend. and from deadly flooding to life threatening drought. hundreds of residents outside of scottsdale, arizona, are fending for themselves after their main water supply was shut off by the city. those living in the foothills have been eating off of paper plating, skipping showers and

trying to collect rainfall. the city shut off water? how does that work? >> when you're looking at documents in some of the southwestern communities, you see people developing further out and water is not there. take a look at what this community is now dealing with. >> water crisis in arizona as thousands are about to be left without water. the water hitting those in the rio verde foothills. two weeks ago, the city stopped the transportation of water, making good on a year's worth of warnings that the water supply was running dry. about 500 homes including some mid construction now counting down the days until their water runs out. >> it's their livelihood. >> we need water now. we can't wait. >> last week, residents taking their fight from the steps of city hall to the first meeting of the year to the scottsdale

city council. >> it's not too late to do the right thing. within a matter of days, our water tanks and homes will be dry, but this is avoidable. we just need scottsdale to process that water. >> scottsdale had been warning residents of the supply of water. noting developer bypass the state law, which on the books would have required them to prove a guaranteed supply of water for the next 100 years but the supply of water in the area continues to drop. a drought, depleted ground water sources and reservoirs at record lows leaving it an unincorporated town without its own supply of water high and dry. residents filed the lawsuit last week saying the city violates state law, it must resume providing water services to the town. now only days away from being left out to dry, residents are doing what they can to conserve the little water they have left. >> i just cannot believe that a

group of people would look at their neighbors and say we're going to slowly kill off your community. >> this is the issue here we are dealing with. when you're talking about maricopa county, a greater phoenix area, consistently. every year, it is one of the top five fastest growing metropolitan areas in the country. so you see folks that are moving further out here and yet you're seeing lower colorado river supply. you're seeing depleted ground water resources. you're seeing depleted reservoirs here and that is where the reality sets in. just three months ago, there was a new development where ground was broken on. they're talking about 100,000 new homes. an area of land close to the size of st. louis. that is a development that just broke ground and is planning to be completed in the years ahead and just this month, the state said look, there is inadequate water supply to fund that new development. so folks want to move out to phoenix. >> i understand the frustration of residents and feeling like

they've been cut off, but there's only so much you can do when mother nature cuts you off herself and if the water's not there, what are you going to do? the new construction, hard to imagine it going forward. thank you very much for bringing us that story. coming up next, a farewell to a long time member of the nbc family. c family hi, i'm eileen. i live in vancouver, washington and i write mystery novels. dogs have been such an important part of my life. i have flinn and a new puppy. as i was writing, i found that i just wasn't as sharp and i new i needed to do something

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i hate these stories. before we go, we've got to take a minute to celebrate the career of an nbc family member who first walked in the door 32 years ago. savannah guthrie has a look back at kerry sanders' incredible ride. >> a fly over honduras. >> kerry sanders, nbc's resident superhero, crisscrossed the planet at warp speed. >> tomato fight! >> but on earth, he was our every man. no ego. >> hey! looky there. >> no fear. >> i'm not looking down. >> he was just a guy asking the

questions we would have asked. >> did you know that he had purchased these weapons? >> no, i wish i did know. >> and this is where the garbage winds up. plastic. >> one day trekking to the far regions of the globe and the next, discovering magic in our own backwards. >> i say wow. >> how do you feel when you see this plastic? it's hanging on your head. >> he introduced us to the most wonderful humans. >> do you feel like a young rooster? >> characters we'd never forget. >> are we ready? >> and in the field, it was always why don't we or i've got it. and what if i hang in a cliff.

start in a freezer. broadcast underwater? he pushed the envelope, keeping us all glued. >> we have a baby dolphin here that has washed ashore. >> if you were an opera singer, he'd hit a high c before a bass note. >> casey anthony. >> students are being urged. >> always on top of breaking news. >> this is the third tornado that he has survived at this address. >> whoa, that wind is blowing. >> he weathered over 100 named storms. >> the military rulers here -- >> holding his ground during political turmoil. >> the fighting has been fierce for two days. >> and then there was everything in between. >> and true to his word in 20 minutes, the pizza guy's here. >> for three decades, day after day, up with the sun and with us after dark. we often wondered when he slept. kerry simply never said no.

there was too much to discuss, too many people to meet, too much to tell. >> one thing that's quite apparent -- >> just a kid at the start, he joined team nbc in 1991 but never lost that eagerness, heart, and curiosity and from his first to his very last live shot, it was always clear, he loved every minute of it. >> i've already won the jackpot in life. >> thank you, kerry, for a job well done. >> for today, kerry sanders, nbc news. >> come on. the best career in tv news. my favorite part about kerry sanders, my favorite story is whenever you see him in a suit and tie doing a live shot talking about something serious or not, definitely wearing shorts underneath. that's going to do it for me this hour. we're going to miss kerry sanders. great dude. hope he has a lot of fun in the news after life. hallie jackson picks up our coverage next. ks up our

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