harris takes us off the ai tonight. i wish you a very good night you can catch my show american voices a saturday and on sunday, 60 am eastern, right here on msnbc. for all of our colleague across the networks of and d.c news, thank you for staying up late thanks for joining us, our a lot going on the news righ now. it is turning out to be an

unusual newsday, which may b in part a function of th holiday? but i don't really think, so i think it's just turning out to be an unusual newsday. first, of all i should mention that this remarkable search an rescue operation is stil underway right now about 370 miles off the coas of newfoundland in the north atlantic a submarine is an autonomous self supporting undersea vessel. a submersible, as opposed to a submarine, is a vessel tha also goes under the water bu it is not autonomous it has the use either anothe ship or a surface platform o some kind as a home base t which it is based. the vehicle that has been lost that they are looking for righ now, is a submersible. the ship from which it launche lost contact with it yesterday about an hour and 45 minutes after it started a dive. the dive was supposed to b about two and a half hours down,

three hours on the bottom of the ocean, and then another tw hours back so it was about eight hour beneath the waves but about an hour and three quarters into that eight-hour mission they reportedly lost communication. on the submersible there are five people on board, th reason they were going dow that they were in that part of the north atlantic is becaus they were planning to go loo at the shipwrecked ruins of th titanic. again, it should've been about two and a half hours divin down, roughly two miles to see the shipwreck, about three hours down there looking at it and then two and a half hour coming back up, those two mile back through the seat. but this submersible has bee out of touch and missing since it first doses yesterday morning. the canadian and the coast guard are both out there looking for it a new york national guar

aircraft is also joining the search now it's a vessel that only abou the size of a pick up truck, i is about 20 feet long, again five people on board if those five people are alive and on board they have reportedly got about enoug oxygen on board that vessel to last them about four days. again, they've been out of communication since yesterda morning. so that search is stil underway as we speak we will let you know more as we know more tonight there has also bee developments today in th criminal prosecution of former president donald trump as of today, a federal judge i his case has ruled that trum will be subject to a protectiv order when it comes to the evidence that is going to be disclosed to him as part o this case. he is not allowed to show an use that evidence to the publi or to the media he's not eve allowed to look at it alone. he can only look at that evidence in the presence of hi lawyers. it is not at all a surpris that this order has been issued,

trump's lawyers did not even object when the prosecutio proposed this kind of protective order all of the legal observers say that this is exactly what yo would expect when it comes t somebody being persecuted, excuse me, being prosecuted. he says persecuted when it comes guns to somebody being prosecuted under the espionage act. , a protective order under the case almost goes without saying it is just that it is neve going to not be astonishin that this is a former presiden who is in the middle of bein prosecuted under the espionage act, and therefore he has to sign off on a formal protectiv order from the court coverin his handling of the evidence that is going to be forthcomin in his criminal case that will never not be a astonishing thing to have to absorb and report on now in daily way. the washington post today as a gigantic, like 8000 word exclusive story about,

basically, what took the justice department so long t get to this point of bringin federal charges against trump. specifically, what took them s long to even start a concerted investigation, not into th espionage act charges about hi mishandling classified information. that stuff that he's already been charged for with the post really looks out today is what took the u.s justice department so long t start investigating trump' role in trying to overthrow th u.s. government? trying to stay in power by force after he lost reelection the bottom line, finding of th investigation is essentially that it has taken so long, i has taken long enough that now if there are charges brought i will not only be butting u against that other federal cas against him, it will definitel be leaking into th presidential primary calenda under which he is running fo president to try to be the republican nominee again the post's bottom line in th investigation is essentially

that this was all taken so long basically because the justic department, under merric garland, has been very cautiou and very slow-moving also that the fbi unde christopher wray, has been something more than that they have essentially been throwing sand in their ears, also saying no to participatin in certain investigations even when they later say asked to those same requests. well, now that the governmen overthrow part of the trum federal investigation is under the auspices of special counse jack smith, so it is being run in some ways, independent of the justice department, that part of the investigation into trump, which could theoretically yield a second federal indictment of him, the post does betray tha investigation as now movin faster under jack smit potentially even moving toward a close. but it was a year plus of sort

of delay and foot shuffling at the justice department while they really, internally, could not agree on how to proceed in that part of the investigation now, it is interesting, ther are revelations in the washington post today about part of that jack smit investigation that we covere really intensively here on thi show, which was the so-calle fake electors plot the apparent plot by the trump campaign and white house t organize republicans in handful of states to declare formerly that trump had wo those states, even though he had lost them. and the fraud problem with thi alleged plot is that these groups of republicans and al of these different state apparently at trump's directio they actually formally reporte themselves to the national archives and to the congress a if they were the officia electors from those states whe they were not. now, we covered that story o alleged criminal fraud, scheme orchestrated by the trump white house and from the

trump campaign and carried out by republicans in multiple states we covered that story really intensively here you might remember that we broke some of that story her on this show we know that there have been investigations related to thos alleged crimes and it least tw states, georgia and michigan and now federally under jack smith of the justice department the washington post today give us some updates on how tha part of the investigation is unfolding, the prospect for th criminal charges related to th fake electors scheme at long last we will have all those details coming up in just a moment like i said, it has been a unusual and interesting news day today. but, we start here tonight wit a story out of the great state of florida florida, in the 1950s. florida governed very much as deep south estate a long serie of segregationist governors at that point even in a state wit the fastest growing population

in the country and a increasingly diverse population, particularly getting more an more diverse all of the time i florida cities that state, in the 1950s was effectively run by hard-line conservatives just from th rural parts of the state very, very conservative stat in terms of its governance i the 50s. and, in the 1950s, the mos powerful politicians in th really hard-core conservativ florida state government, they decided that they were going t go after the naacp and the were going to make a big sho of it. they were going to bring the power of the state governmen to bear by going after and exposing and running into th ground the naacp because the said the naacp was a bunch o communists the naacp was, of course at th time fighting for civil rights fighting for desegregation among other things florida conservatives an florida state government at th time they decided that this wa

marxism, this was communism, and they were going to end tha in the state of florida usin the power of the state government and so in the 50s they convene hearings in which they planned basically, to harangue and mak a public example out of some o these naacp economies and they called up naacp members as their witnesses for these live hearings and what survives on tape from that history, which we have th benefit of today, is that thos naacp witnesses were havin none of it they were not going to tak this lying down, they were not gonna be used for some political stunt, and, when pus came to shove and it was tim to do those public hearings, they just ran rings around the politicians. they ran rings around this florida inquisition that was supposed to shut them down listen to this

>> a protest against thi committee. i think it's illegal i think it's a moral, and think it's indecent. >> i was born and reared i these counties ian american citizen i believe in the heritage of america. i believe in the principles of the constitution of the united states i would not permit thi committee or any other committee to intimidate me o to deny me my lawful constitutional rights. >> these poised, defiant witnesses, they seemed t really flummox the johns committee and charlie john himself. >> i want to say that the wa the witnesses defied art legislative committee when w were down at miami was simpl ridiculous, and i feel thi committee should go back dow there and call those witnesses before us to testify and if they refuse, we shoul put them in jail and let the stay there >> we should put them in jail. they didn't cooperate that wit us at all, we should put the in jail. that sound from today's episode,

episode number two of my new podcast digit news, i promise will not talk about this forever. there's only six episode altogether of the series, i' really proud of it and reall happy with the way it came out there are six episodes altogether, the second one jus posted today, which is where that sound is from you heard my co-host isaac davey allison there, along wit -- and theodore gibson from the florida naacp and also the conservative florida leade charlie johns complaining so bad about these witnesses wh humiliated him at his ow earring. so, the reason we just did a podcast about this, about th florida inquisitions in th 1950s and 1960s and thos inquisitions going so poorly for florida state government conservatives who thought they were going to be great, th reason we just did this podcas about this is because it doe give you a deja news feeling

when you realize that this today, is the most powerful gu in florida and he really i singing the same kind of tune. >> that means we are require to wage a war on woke and that is exactly what we are going t do woke, some people say i do not care about woke. there is huge value in recognizing that this is a for of cultural marxism. when woke ideology and the forms of things like esg tak over our economy, when wok ideology takes over ou education system when woke ideology takes ove the criminal justice system. so woke ideology, the woke i the schools, the woke in the corporations the woke in the halls of congress. surrender to the woke mob. woke ideology. >> the man has a seam. the man has a theme and he i sticking to it that was republica presidential contender and florida republican governor ro desantis showing off his rhetorical skills as a

campaigner this weekend in nevada but, this line is constant iteration of the word woke and attacking all things you can call woke, this really is what he thinks is going to propel him to the white house i will tell you right now it did not work out that way fo the last florida politicians tried to make a big florid show out of attacking civi rights groups and attacking ga people and attacking schools and trying to make hot politic out of teachers lessons plans. this has been tried before, in that same state, not that long ago. and it had a very unhapp political ending for the politicians who tried it yes, it worked for them for little while, they got ver excited about that and the thought they could ride it forever but then it really crash landed when people decided they were sick of it as we head into this new, on season of presidential nominating politics with the republican's presidential fron runner indicted and facing

trial in two jurisdictions o more than 60 felonies combined and maybe more to come consider also that the runner-up to the front runne in republican polling right no is really pitching his whole tent on this crusade against wokeness well meanwhile, in florida, th naacp the same naacp that ryan rings around the last florid politicians who tried to run this playbook in the 1950s today they launched a five-day bus tour a five-day, 15 city bus tour i florida on what they are calling the state woke tour. stay woke florida. funny, they do not think o that as an epithet, or rolling protest. they started off today rolling the stay woke boss ended tallahassee, then gainesville, are gonna hit 15 cities in florida over the next five days again, they are calling at the stay woke florida tore from th

naacp. just as governor ron desanti is traveling the country wit all the early voting states, assuming he does not ever have to become a good speaker if he can just wag his finger at audiences like he is mad a them and say the word woke ove and over again and that is all he will need that will do the trick for him it is funny, not everybody hears that were the same way you do the reason the naacp stay woke florida bus tour kicked of today is because today is june 19th, aka juneteenth the confederate army lost th civil war, surrendered it in april of 1965. it was not until june 19th 186 when the union army came t galveston texas to issue general order number three basically saying we mean it. here too it said, quote, in accordanc

with a proclamation from the executive of the united states all slaves are free. and juneteenth has been an african american community celebration in the unite states for generations since as of last year, juneteenth is also a federal holiday in this country. today marks the second forma federal observation of juneteenth as a federa holiday. of course, it all started in texas. this past october in - texas north of houston, a ne elementary schools opened. it is called a net gordon reid elementary school, it is lovely and yet gordon reid elementary it is named for a first grad girl who, in 1964, became th first black child to - it was ten years after the supreme court ruling orderin

nationwide desegregation, that was 1954 this was 1964. but it took all of those ten years it took ten years for th first black student to brave the threshold of a white schoo in texas this was a town that had see lynchings, it's a town that ha seen a black man literally burned at the stake at the courthouse square in the 1 twenties in the early 1940s, a black ma was accused of raping a whit woman in conroe texas. he was literally murdere inside the courthouse during his trial. it was during the trial that demands did up in the courtroo and shot the man in the head i front of the judge the jury, the spectators the man who fired the shot was then acquitted of the murder when you commit murder in th courtroom in front of the judg and they are then going to acquit do of it, conroe texa

was not a place for th fainthearted to brav integration in 1964. but it was a little first grad girl who did it. and she got great grades, sh was great in school. she went on to be a ph.d historian, she wrote the hemmings's of monticello, an american family, for which she won a pulitzer prize in history. she is a university professo at harvard whenever you hear somebody say there are a university professor it is a big deal she is a pulitzer prize-winnin historian. she is the namesake of annette gordon read elementary schoo in texas and she is the author most recently of the book on juneteenth joining us now is professo gordon reid. i'm really grateful you're abl to join us tonight, thank yo very much. >> thank you for inviting me i'm glad to be here. >> let me ask you, first, feel like you've done so muc in your scholarship and your

writing to explain and to sort of paint a portrait of juneteenth in texas and in texas history and communities. i want to ask you how we are doing as a country celebrating juneteenth as a federal holida for the second here >> acted been quite impressed by what i have seen. my husband gives me listings o events that are going on aroun the country and we seem to b doing a good job keeping the basic spirit of the holiday, o the celebration, actually good food and so forth but paying attention to the reason, the important reason for why w celebrate this so i have been very please with what has happened so far. i'll keep it up and it is no just become a day for mattress sales and so forth that this i something that will be reall important and special. >> it strikes me as an important confluence of events in the united states that we

are, again, just at the very beginning of celebrating juneteenth of celebrating this very particular celebration, this very important moment in african american history and american history, really as country for the first time while we are also having thi big culture war movement against teaching civil right history. >> it is strange >> i wonder, i do not think on is causative of the other, but what happens when these tw things crashed gather? >> well, what i'm hoping wil happen is that we will overwhelm the forces of people who want to cut back on or hid history and we'll just kee going forward with it. but,it is strange. in texas there have been moved to try to limit what can b taught about history, what you can say about texas history. so far, juneteenth is kind o escaped that but i think that, we cannot rest on our laurels. we need to be bold and continu

to celebrate the holiday, an to talk about the history that makes this important the legacies of slavery, wha happened before, them and what happened after it is a really tricking time that we are in >> the thing that strikes me it always strikes me but strikes me in your writing about it, is that one of the important things about this as a holiday is that it is holiday that marks a celebration. it is obviously about pivo point in american history an about the darkest and wors things about us as a country but, what's this day marks, is the celebration of african american communities and getting news that things wer going to change. it is something to commemorate it is not even just celebratory, it is a built acknowledgment o change towards a better future and i feel like that has a colonel in it that i think americans want to learn, potentially across partisa

divides and can turn this into something that feels different most of the other holidays tha we have got. >> yes, it is a celebration, but it is also a commemoration the celebration recognizes the joy that people felt, knowin they would no longer b possible to legally separate families the way, the main trauma of slavery was neve seeing your mother and fathe and children again because the were treated as cattle and sold whipping, all of those kinds o things but they knew that they were going to be in for a struggle. so those kinds of things g together you are happy that one thing i and it, but a new struggle begins and that, i think, is the thin that as you are suggesting i makes the holiday fertil ground for a conversation an perhaps conversation eve across racial lines but even party lines, to the extent tha we can do that these days. >> it's also true, we should not overstate the idea tha this is settled as a matte

where we now all agree as country that this is something that we will celebrate and commemorate. there is a story that i saw in the mississippi free press today noting that, i mississippi, state offices wer open today even though juneteenth is this a federal holiday. a couple of months ago, when i mississippi celebrates the state holiday of confederate memorial day, they closed. so state offices closed for confederate memorial day and opened fortune teens >> i'm not surprised it is not surprising, it's not surprising but it is disheartening, obviously you have to keep going in th face of all of that. that is what we have done sinc 1865 is keep going in the face of a lot of unnecessary -- >> and that, gordon read university professor a harvard. pulitzer prize-winning historian and the namesake o annette gordon reid elementary school in texas.

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make podcast about it >> i'm rachel maddow. >> each week we will bring you a story from history >> that helps with something the headlines today. >> rachel maddow presents digi news with isaac davey aaron so an msnbc podcast and what seems to be a coordinated effort between the republican parties in variou different states we think that this is a matter that is best investigated an

detention he prosecuted by the feds, and as such, just today, we referred this matter to the western district, the u.s. attorney's office for them t evaluate it. >> that was michigan's attorne general dana nessel speaking o this show back in january 2022 wondering what republicans i multiple states had to send in fake electoral votes from fake presidential electors, a though donald trump had wo their states when he had not they clearly hope that whe vice president pence won t certify the results of the election on january six he would use their fake votes fro the fake electors from trump instead of the real ones for biden and in so doing he would make donald trump president. michigan attorney general told us that night that in januar 2022, so a year after th january 6th attack on th capitol, she told us that this matter of the fake electors, she believed it was best

investigated and potentially prosecutors at the federal level. she told us that night that sh referred this matter to th u.s. justice department. january 3rd, excuse me january 13th 2022. january 13th 2022. that was a long time ago now whatever happened to that? we covered the story intensively at the time. we had the documents, we had the fake slates of electors, because the republicans who ar involved in the scheme actuall sent them into the nationa archives, which is where rea electoral votes are supposed t be sent. you can see here that the real elector documents, you can see every state does them a little differently. they all come up with some variety of certificate, they all have their own quirks, their own fancy or not fancy paper decorations and seals. this is what the real ones loo like look at the forged republica documents instead. they do not look quite s fancy. in fact, they match. the same formatting, the sam font, same spacing, and as you

see here almost the same wording on every single one. because of the similarities, the obvious similarities between all of these forge documents from all of thes different states it just reall did not seem like this republicans, in all thes different states, independentl have the same idea that they were all going to try to commi this kind of fraud all in th same font. if that was happenin independently in all these states they all would've sen in documents that looked somewhat different, or at leas that sort of matched what th profit format was supposed t look like in their state instead, they all matched from all the different states it did appear to be some kin of coordinated effort. somebody telling all of thes republicans in all of thes different states, here's wha you're going to do, put your name here. the fake electors scheme apparently is centrall organized scheme operating throughout multiple states it is now part of at least

three criminal investigation that we know of. one brought by a prosecutor in georgia, fani willis another on the federal level out of the u.s. department o justice under special counse jack smith and, also in michigan, the michigan attorney genera announced earlier this yea that she was taking back thi case and reopening it in michigan since the doj had not yet acted on her referral to them i hear earlier. what we have now learned today is a confirmation that, at least the federal investigation, took a really, really long tim to get going on this matter and, in the washington post today we learned some of the reasons why. the washington post has a kind of blockbuster report today. it is like 8000 words, describing, in detail, what ha been going on inside the doj since january six as fears o steaming partisan or overl aggressive, essentially stalle big portions of the justic department's investigation int trump. for more than a year

the post says today that the justice department was alerted to the fake electors schem right after it happened in early 2021 quote, officials of th national archives ha discovered similarities in fraudulent slates of elector from trump, that is republican allies had submitted t congress and the archives. the national archives inspecto general office asked the doj election crimes branch t consider investigating these seemingly coordinated effort in swing states. according to two peopl familiar with the decision, th justice department decline that investigation, suggeste to them by the inspector generals office. they declined to investigating it, citing its prosecutors discretion the oj had, instead, decided that they're going to star with the small fry, they'r going to work their way up t the bigger fish. they were going to arrest an prosecute individual rioters from january 6th and not worry so much about the people who had orchestrated the riot an

all everything else as part of overthrowing the government. so, in early 2021, the doj declined to investigate th fake electors and instea focused on the people wh physically, personally attacke the capital. that was 2022. well, the national press has started to pick up the story dana nessel announces live o our air that she wants the justice department t investigate this the january 6th investigatio in congress starts ver publicly looking into the fake elector plot themselves. now, thanks to this ne reporting day in the washingto post, we know that those thing combined finally got the justice department intereste in the fake electors again quote one person directl familiar with the department new interest in the case sai that it felt is that the department was reacting to the house committees work as wel as heightened media coverage and commentary only after they were embarrassed to they star booking the person said.

the process did not go quickly lawyers at the fbi and justice department launched into wha became many weeks of debat over the justification for the investigation and how it shoul be worded. one time consuming issue becam whether to name trump as a subject. finally, as public pressur mounted, quote, in april 202 more than 15 months after th attack, fbi director christopher wray signed off on the authorization opening criminal investigation into th fake electors plot it has been a year and a hal since we began talking about the fake electors scheme on th show almost two now here sinc justice department was first advised to start looking int it still no federal charges, bu now we at least have an idea o why it has been taking so long to take this point thanks to this great reporting from the washington post today we posted a link to the stor at maddow blog tonight,

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court spoke and -- he said the court has decide t make this trial close to the public the press has requested to leave the room they just announced that onc everyone was there to see it happening, journalists o forced out of the room, they were given access to instead a video feed of the proceedings. of course there was a sort o

no sound on that video feed, the feet was barel intelligible and the eventually in the middle o proceedings it cut out entirely without media access was completely cut off to this trial. that was how the latest tria for russia's main opposition leader, alexei navalny began today. navalny is already serving a long term prison sentence in russia following this latest trial that they are putting it through. he could face another 30 years behind bars. in a statement posted to socia media by his allies, his colleagues today, mr. navaln says that the decision to clos the trial to the public was a, quote, sign of fear by putin navalny told his supporter that he, is. quote, scared of what i have t say. and, in all honesty it is pretty good assessment putin probably is scared o him. in that same message navalny also announced the start o what is basically a politica campaign to try to turn th russian public against russia' war in ukraine

he said he is enlisting help a volunteers in every walk o life, the plan is to use cal centers outside of russia as well as social media and messaging apps to reach out to every day russians to convince them to change their views o the war in ukraine now, as ambitious as tha sounds for anyone in russia it probably should not surprise u that navalny would embark on something this ambitious eve while he is in prison and they are trying to put him away for 30 more years. he is such a resourceful and fearless and relentles opposition leader that the kremlin has tried everything they can think of to get rid o him. among other things they have already tried unsuccessfully t kill him in a nerve agen attack that strategy is one of th things that marks russia as an international rogue state. there are assassinations and attempted assassinations o people, particularly their own people around the world. and we have obviously seen the

do lots of this and russia, on of the most dangerous places t be as a member of the russia elite is anywhere near a hig floor window during the reig of vladimir putin. but we have also seen them kil people in places like german and in the uk. now we have learned the sort o shocking revelation that the have tried to do it in thi country as well. the new york times today confirmed remarkable reporting that is set to appear in a soo to be published book tha recounts a failed plot by th kremlin to assassinate a forme russian intelligence officia who became a say informant the remarkable thing, in terms of modern russian history is not that they decided want t go to kill the guy, it's tha they decided, apparently, that they want to kill the guy here on u.s. soil in the united states that russian intelligenc officer had to close information that resulted in the fbi uncovering a bunch o russian spies who are living here in the u.s. under dee

cover. not surprisingly, the russia government was not too pleased about that, but what we learne today is that apparently i 2020 an attempt was made t take him out on american soil in miami. now, that plot did not succeed but still, trying it here mean something. and, in a way, maybe thi should not be all that surprising given russia' previous patterns we know what they are willing to do but it does open a whole new can of worms in terms of our relationship with them and the implications of this might be. this is a new rubicon that the have crossed here in the unite states joining us now is mark - he's the former cia chief of operations in europe i eurasia. a lot of experience dealin with the russian government in all sorts of ways he canno talk about we really appreciate you being on the show with us tonight, thank you. >> but to be here. >> so as i mentioned, we kno

about russian efforts to try t track down and kill people tried to kill them not just in russia but i places like germany, in places like the uk. as a former cia chief, who has expertise in this field, doe this strike u.s. significant is this something new an important that they apparently tried to do the same thing i the united states? >> rachel, i think so for a long time, we saw europe as russia's intelligenc playground, and as you ver artfully stated there were successful and unsuccessfu assassination operations in th uk and in germany. russia never was deterred from doing this we'd be tit-for-tat expulsions declaring russian intelligence officers declaring persona non crowded in countries but they never deterred. as they expand on -- support acid to in essence obtain pattern of life on alleged defector who is living

in miami what does that mean? it means trying to figure ou for future assassination team, where this individual lived, how he parked his car, jus every day moves. for something that a lot of us thought was kind of out of bounds which would be russia's activity in the u.s. and rachel, i will say something, and a lot of people don't understand this, wit russian defectors, with an defectors, the cia is allowe to in essence paroled in our country. up to 100 defectors in our country. it's a large number and that's really not important but that also means that w give them permanent residents. that's a path to citizenship so in essence, the russians no only were trying to kill a defector, a former officer o their intelligence officers, this is also a u.s. citizen an will harm a lot of people. >> it's this also -- given that, he's a defector, a cia essentially take responsibility for him, brings him into the, u.s. bring simon

installs him here as a potentially u.s. british citizen which -- from which he defected, is i surprising to you that the kremlin was able to apparently dispatch somebody to get thi close to him as apparently a assassination plot, should h have been more protected >> the answer of course is yes i'm sure that the intelligence community would've tightened u its procedures of course, the operation was not successful one of the things we've seen over the years with defector is they don't always follow th rules. they miss home, they contact relatives, sometimes they do things that open them up t eventually their home countr finding out where they are but really, generally in the united states, they still were considered untouchable and that's what i think is s troubling here look, vladimir putin has a pathological hatred of defectors. he's a former intelligence officer, this goes to kind o hid his dna. and he clearly has made th

decision to kind of cross that rubicon and go after individuals in the unite states and we have to up our game and ensure these individuals - these agents are ours. we have a sovereig responsibility to protect them we have to do that >> marc polymeropoulos, former cia chief of operations in europe and eurasia, mark invaluable to have you expertise on the story tonight thank you so much for bein here >> thanks. >> we will be right back, stay with us. ♪ ♪ the vehicles are all-electric. the feeling is all mercedes. the choice is all yours.

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