misogynistic and racist rhetoric against harris before and i wouldn't be surprised if we saw china doing the same thing. >> the vice presidents online fan base memes and videos, this is not aiming or the most effective way to fight this information? >> it is one of the best ways and it is heartening and hopeful to see women, primarily, retaking the narrative for vice president harris, just like they did for taylor swift when deepfake pornography was trending in january, swiftie slotted social media and twitter to make sure that was depressed in the algorithm. i think it is interesting and savvy to seek kamala harris supporters do the same thing.

>> is there an appetite among social media companies to help users at all try to avoid false and misleading content like the attack videos? you are not getting the information as a researcher, are you getting any sense companies are being responsible that way? >> no, i don't think they are being responsible. the entire political climate heading into november has been set up to say that any content moderation on social media platforms is aching to censorship, of course that is false. the social media platforms are scared to be seen censoring content, by and large, the safeguards we saw in 2020 do not exist today. >> nina jankowicz, we will have you back for more. in a moment, will unpack this headline, pennsylvania presidential election results could take days to count and it could have been avoided.

good day to all of you from nbc world had critters in new york, welcome to alex witt reports. we begin with the latest on decision 2024 as we countdown 101 days until the election. vice president kamala harris in massachusetts this hour for fundraiser, first element doug emhoff on the trail in wisconsin as our democratic governors josh shapiro and andy should appear. later this hour, former president donald trump will speak in tennessee and his running mate j.d. vance in minnesota. donald trump is raising new concerns today following this electoral comment to a gathering of religious conservatives yesterday in florida. >> and again, christians, get out and vote! just this time. you won't have to do it anymore, four more years, you know what, it will be fixed, it

will be fine, you don't have to vote anymore, my beautiful christians. i love you, christians. i'm a christian. i love you, you have to get out and vote. in four years you don't have to vote again, we will have it fixed so good you don't have to vote again. >> democrats riding the wave of exuberance after record-breaking zoom calls in support of the harris campaign, 300,000 people across demographic groups joined online meetings this past week to show support and raise money. >> the truth of the matter is, vice president harris is already electrified the democratic movement and democrats across the money. the amount of money she is raising, $125 million in a few days, tens of thousands of volunteers, grassroots donors all across the country for the first time chipping in, thousands of people trying to apply to work on the campaign. i see it every day on the ground, democrats are fired up. >> river number of reporters in place around the country ready to go with today's headlines. we begin with allie raffa at

the white house. what are we hearing from some of harris' potential vp picks today? >> reporter: as the historically fast vetting process is underway for vice president harris' running mate, we are starting to see the people she is actively considering for that role out on the campaign trail, stopping for her as part of the harris campaign weekend of action, trying to get people to donate, make calls, knock on doors and on the momentum her campaign has been able to reach the past six days and keep the momentum going over the next 101 days until election day. these are people coming from critical battleground states that could help vice president harris in november, people like pennsylvania governor josh shapiro, who is out stumping for her in his home state. shapiro talked about her record saying that she would have no problem facing off against former president donald trump in a debate. we all wait to see whether a second debate even happens

after former president donald trump did not want to debate vice president harris saying that he wants to wait until she is officially the democratic nominee, before that process happens. listen to a bit of shapiro's comments. >> i will tell you something, that is a of a contrast with the guy she is running against, donald trump. did you see, trump noses, you can tell, now he is afraid to debate her, did you see that? by the way, he is not just afraid to debate her because he knows she will take his ass in the debate, she is a skilled debater. he is afraid to debate her because he is afraid of his record. he is afraid of having to defend a record that has been really dangerous and destructive . >> reporter: your member former president donald trump and

president biden had agreed to a debate on september 10th, the trump campaign is saying it would not be appropriate to debate vice president harris at this point, until she is the nominee, suggesting that democrats could change their mind again, even though we have seen in a delegates come out and support her to make her that affect the nominee, as well as the fact no challenger has emerged to vice president harris. harris, for her part, is appearing to bait the former president, ready any time any place, former president donald trump is backpedaling on that commitment. today marks exactly one month since the poor debate performance from president biden that really set in motion this chain of emotion -- even spot set to this. we can see how much can change in one month, who is knows what could come over more than a month. >> it shows the power of a debate, especially if it is a

poor performance. allie raffa, thank you. let's go to nashville, tennessee as we know, donald trump is set to speak at the bitcoin conference, that is any moment now. you just sat down with congressman, what did he have to say? >> reporter: we are awaiting former president donald trump's keynote speech at bitcoin 2024, he is coming directly from a campaign fundraiser in nashville. we have seen thousands of people lining to get a chance to make it through secret service's tight security protocol and sit in for his address. we are waiting to hear if you will join on calls from u.s. to build reservable going to back the u.s. dollar think of it as a crypto version of fort knox. independent presidential candidate robert f kennedy junior called for similar buying spree that will cost u.s. and hundreds of billions of dollars i have been coming to the event for years, i can tell you the people here are excited politics are taking center stage as a mix of senators and congressmen joined

the events. we spoke to attendees who say it is a positive sign the former president donald trump's backing crypto alongside a host of other republicans. the vast majority of lawmakers here are in the republican party and democrats have been seen as on the back foot. i sat down with congressman ro khanna a few minutes ago, one of the few immigrants here, asked about vice president harris and the growing reporting her campaign is talking about the crypto space. he has been advising the vp on that and her team has been open- minded when it comes to crypto policy. what do you say to people who are worried about what crypto looks like under president harris? >> it is not about softer or more, it is about smart regulation. i don't want the value and wealth he made out of the united states, i want the united states to be part of that wealth generation and for people with assets to have that opportunity here and have that

job here, that should be a bipartisan message. >> reporter: i asked congressman khanna about silicon valley, part of the district he represents, recent reporting that tech billionaires are funneling money toward the trump campaign while the harris campaign is trying to win the donors back. he says that those concerns are overblown and the vast majority of voters in silicon valley support democrats. >> thank you, appreciate the live report. let's go to capitol hill with julie tsirkin you heard from senator mark kelly this week about his name being included as a potential pick for vice president on the harris ticket, what did he have to say? >> reporter: i can tell you mark kelly is not shying away from his newfound spotlight, i got a chance to catch up with him this week before the senate left town until monday. he talked about his record, talked about his background area he is a freshman senator but he says that his experience does speak to along public

service record and he would be a good candidate, he implied he would be for harris to pick as a running mate, he did not want to get into private details or details of their conversations, those that they may or may not have had. listen to little bit more about what we heard from him. >> i have been a public servant even since i was in the navy, i drove an ambulance in high school. i was an astronaut for 15 years, i filled up an aircraft carrier. the job in the united states senate is the highest service i have had to my country. i think that would be fair to say, the most important job i have had so far, this is not about me but always when i had the chance to serve, i think it is very important to do. >> reporter: remember, harris, these are her old stomping grounds, she was a senator before she was chosen as biden's vice president after she ran herself for president

in 2020. a choice like kelly would be someone that comes from a border state, arizona, really a battleground for reproductive rights access as well, there's abortion related ballot , excuse me, amendment on the ballot come this november, someone that speaks actually highly of harris, his wife, gabby giffords, former congresswoman a shooting survivor herself, he does bring a lot to the table. he notably brought up j.d. vance, someone he would have to go head-to-head with as the former president's running mate out of nowhere, unprompted we asked him pointedly about ukraine, an issue that kelly, a former astronaut and army veteran cares intimately about. this is something that j.d. vance has argued against him and he said that as an example of how dangerous j.d. vance and trump would be in the white house kelly is one of five , at least, that received the bedding materials you heard allie talk about from harris.

harris has about a week and a half left to make the decision before august 7th and certainly she has a lot of candidates to choose from. >> i'm glad to keep putting the spotlight on mark kelly for now, we will see where it goes. my next guest says she has never seen the democratic party disunited, former senator barbara boxer when we are back in 90 seconds. with the swiffer powermop. meet the jennifers. jen x. jen y. and jen z. each planning their future through the chase mobile app. jen x is planning a summer in portugal with some help from j.p. morgan wealth plan. let's go whiskers. jen y is working with a banker to budget for her birthday. you only turn 30 once. and jen z? her credit's golden. hello new apartment. three jens getting ahead with chase. solutions that grow with you. one bank for now. for later. for life.

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i went from sadness to relief for him and then gratitude to him for everything he has done and also for selecting kamala because if he had not done that, i think we would be in chaos. i would say, finally, to you, i have been around a long time, as you may have noticed, and i have never seen this party united in this way, ever. >> is former california senator barbara boxer summing up a wild week of roller coaster emotions for democrats and senator boxer joins me right now. as i welcome you, glad to have you here because it has been quite a week. have you never seen the democratic party this united? >> it has been a very long time and there have been times when i have seen this type of excitement and i go way back,

when i was very young, to jfk, people said, oh my god, the use and energy, that speaks to america. he won and we know the tragedy that followed. then we had bill clinton and al gore, i remember that because that is when i went to the senate. they were a young team and that made a huge difference. of course, barack obama, the excitement there. now, kamala harris. the difference between her and trump is incredible not only their vision, hers, america the beautiful, him, he talks about america the loser. we don't want that. then there is the energy and spontaneity and the ability to talk to our hearts that she has and i have to say, my last remarks here, line of fire, i saw trump say last night, to a

group, this would be the last election. he said, vote, this will be the last election. if you take that and his promise to be a dictator on day one, we are in a five-alarm fire. i can't say it enough, i have given so many years to public life, i have never seen this. the good news is, we can put out the fire if we all vote. republicans, democrats, independents, all of us. >> vote for democracy is what you're saying, the preservation of that. let me ask about president biden and his immediate endorsement of vice president harris. i want to play, his long- standing friend, congressman james clyburn, what he said. >> joe biden can consider himself with a very special place in this nation's history. he served for eight years as

vice president to the first african american president. he picked as his running mate the first woman to be vice president of the united states. and he has handed the torch to a woman who could very well be the first woman president of the united states. >> as energized as democrats are, do you get the sense i had a chance to fully appreciate the historical significance of joe biden's impact? >> maybe not but what they are doing is looking at themselves, their life, what would your life be like under donald trump? women will be forced to give birth, there won't be contraception, they want to end and change forever social security and medicare. they want to deport millions of people, that will break up

american families. people are looking at the future, not even to mention how bad record trump had on jobs and how great a record biden/harris have had. i don't know that most people have looked at joe at this point, they are so excited looking to the future. i can tell you from my standpoint, his stepping aside so selflessly and throwing his support to kamala harris, that saved us the chaos that would have ensued on an open convention, we still have a chance for other people to run, his endorsement solidified it. she is prepared, if you look at her, he looked at trump, just their personal stories, she is the personification of the american dream. i'm the daughter of a refugee, my mother, my dad was born in america, the only one of nine children.

i know what it meant to my mother when she got her naturalization certificate. she put it in saran wrap and when she passed, it was the only thing so protected. kamala , look at her history. this is what america is about. where is donald trump, he was born on third base and barely made it home, he went through so many bankruptcies. we have a story to tell, the personal stories of both candidates. even more important, what are our lives going to be under a trump dictator versus a kamala harris democracy? it is such an exciting important moments. >> can i ask you to drill down a little bit more on that? because vice president harris began her career in san francisco, she had 26 year career as a prosecutor. in 2016, when you, barbara, did not seek re-election, she wants

to your seat in the u.s. senate. you had a front row seat to her success, what can you tell us about her and her political instincts? >> i think she is very smart and i think i working as a prosecutor, it is very, very helpful because she can prosecute the case against trump. she saw the worst of it, she saw the abusers, she saw the cheaters, she saw the thieves and she went after them. some people on the left try to use it against her but you have to have him as she pointed out, safe communities. i think she brings that to the table. when she ran for my seat, i had held it 24 years, she ran against another woman and she was very smart about how she ran that campaign, it was a very positive campaign. her opponent was quite negative. she showed that she had the vision and she won big in that race. >> let's take a look at how the harris campaign is framed to

press releases this week, first, buyers remorse, the trump vp pick already a disaster and 78-year-old fox news appearance. first of all, is j.d. vance a disaster and what is your assessment of her approach to donald trump? >> for whatever it means, the day i found out j.d. vance was the pick, and i knew about his crazy right-wing views, i put out on my account that it was the worst pick since sarah palin. i just knew it in my bones. he said once that trump was going to be america's hitler, he said anyone voted for trump was an idiot. how does he get picked for this thing? you talked about how kamala is looking for running mate, you want to find someone that you have a rapport with. then again, you look at trump, what

happened to's last vp, almost killed his last vp, pence isn't even supporting trump to vance was a terrible, terrible pick . he is a chameleon, now he is going after women of all stripes. if you have children, he is going to force you to give birth to more and not give you a chance having the right to choose. if you never had children, he insulted and he wants you to pay more taxes. this guy is a total and complete disaster. >> okay, that is the opposite of you, former california senator barbara boxer. thank you so much, good to see you, appreciate you coming on the show. the questions during a white officer that shot a black woman in the face in her own home. eliable ground shipping. thanks brandon. with usps ground advantage®.

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the latest on the killing of sonya massey, a black woman shot on july 6th by an illinois sheriff's deputy inside her home after she dialed 911 for help. newly released autopsy results confirmed she died by homicide with a gunshot wound to the head. here's the report by maggie vespa, there's a warning, some viewers might find the video and new details disturbing. >> reporter: any chapter in the tragic saga of sonya massey, autopsy results showing the 36- year-old mother of two was shot in her left eye, the bullet

exiting the base of her neck. >> how do you justify this? accelerate attorney ben crump alleging the reports then deputy sean grayson, who responded to massey's springfield, illinois home july 6th about a probable prowler fired downward as she crashed to the ground, seen before the shooting picking up a pot of water. >> [ bleep ] >> reporter: graceton firing moments later. >> there was no humanity. >> reporter: he was fired and pleaded not guilty to first- degree murder charges. >> that was disturbing. so joining me is cedric alexander, a former member president obama's task force on 24 century policing and analyst. i want remind the viewers you are a former police chief, what did the details from the newly released autopsy report tell you ?

>> i think the autopsy report will be consistent with what we saw on the video. the video is troubling, not enough strong enough adjective to use because it is very troubling from the time they made contact with ms. massey. for what we could see, take a look at the video, what people have seen from the video, it is pretty descriptive there and the amount of force that was used far exceeded anything imaginable. this is a very unfortunate incident, which to me, it really speaks to selection of your personnel, it speaks to the hiring of your personnel, it speaks to training, supervision, and also, quite frankly, speaks to the entire attitude of behaviors and concerns, what you have about the entire sheriff's department in illinois.

>> let me get into some details with that, this officer, sean grayson, he is worked for four police departments and two sheriff's offices since 2020, he pleaded not guilty, guilty to two dui charges, before his law enforcement career u.s. army mechanic for may 2014 to february 26 when he was discharged for misconduct, serious offense. shuffling between six law enforcement departments in four years, is that a red flag or could that be normal to any degree? >> it is a number of red flags, to be quite honest with you. if you can go back further, probably indicators before his military career i would not be surprised about him would have been a troubled individual. if you look at what is being reported as it relates to his military career, what relates

to his law enforcement career, moving from one department to the next and no one, out of all of those agencies, more importantly, the more recent agency that he belonged to to see any red flags, it really is highly questionable as to how anyone can call themselves a legitimate law enforcement agency the stand time that comes under some state regulation troubling with hiring and allow someone like this to be part of their agency. ms. massey should have never lost her life in the violent manner in which she did. i think it will be evidenced, certainly evidenced by the fact he had first-degree murder charges brought against him, this is a horrific case, something that should not have happened. >> what about the justice department announced investigation into the killing, does that surprise you? what are the circumstances or instances in which federal

investigators get involved? >> they will get involved in this and take a look at the evidence being presented by the state and do their own investigation as well. too many times over the years, we have seen these cases over and over and over again. we see them investigated by the justice department. the bigger question is, why are we continuing to see these types of violent acts by some police officers, not all, let me be clear about that. but by individuals that find themselves in the way inside these police departments, able to exist and carry out the type of inappropriate, ill training, lack of humanity, in this case, with ms. massey, if you watch the video, the whole way condescending toward her on that scene. this is totally unacceptable.

vice president kamala harris spoke to the massey family by phone, including hakeem jeffries have called for deeper investigations. according to a washington post database, more than 1170 people killed by police the last 12 months, with black americans killed it twice the rate of whites, why is this still happening four years after the reckoning over george floyd's murder? >> let's go back further to that, michael brown, incidents between michael brown up to ms. massey and all those that occurred in the past. it is surely an indicator in our environment and society, particular in the culture policing, something is wrong and broken and we keep talking about the same thing over and over. we keep putting these panels and programs together but nothing changes. i think we have to look deeper, we have to look at other policing, the services, more

importantly, who is that we are hiring and how they are supervised, how they are being trained. there has to be total accountability, not excuses for any agency, all agencies, trust me, out of the 17,000 police agencies out there around the country, many of them are working hard every day to counter what we just saw here. we have these type of events that do take place, we really have to look harder and wholly at our culture and policing and society and why this particular group of people, african americans, people of color, are continually harmed by police, even when they call the police for help themselves. it just requires much more investigation and far more accountability on everyone's part. >> amen to that, cedric alexander, thank you, sir, so much. they don't love donald

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new questions about the burgeoning presidential campaign of vice president kamala harris, she has fired up her base but will she win over the never trumper republicans? a recent conversation with some of those letters as offering a glimpse of how they feel, specifically the nikki haley voters. take a listen. >> i don't know enough about

vice president harris other than the fact she was running for the presidential nomination in 2020 and dropped out before the iowa caucuses so she was eliminated quite early. beyond that, i don't have a good understanding of her policies. >> that is one of the things i dislike about her, we don't know enough, she has been vice president almost four years and we still have no idea what her platform is or what she stands for. >> on me, mark murray, senior political editor for nbc news, always a treat to get you on the air. let's get into this because his focus group gives us insight into these voters and their opinions on kamala harris, what strikes you most from these conversations? tort number one is the clips you and up playing how they want to hear more from the vice president now that she is going to be the democratic standardbearer in the 2024 presidential election. we have heard so much about the base, the democratic party absolutely ring joyous about the harris candidacy.

we heard reaction from the republican right, we have not heard much from the middle, this focus group of 14 different nikki haley voters from the primaries gives us a really good indication. as your hearing from those clips, we want to hear more about her. that is one of harris' jobs, reintroduce herself or introduce herself to the middle of the electorate. the other thing this focus group ended up doing, asking people's one-word descriptions about harris, some of the voters had very nice things to say about her, intelligent, potentially history making. others did not have a lot of nice comments. when we asked all of the voters, okay, it is donald trump versus kamala harris, third party, who did you into voting for? three ended up saying they would vote for harris, five would vote for donald trump, the rest said they would vote third party or not at all.

>> interesting. did they tell you what they are looking for in a presidential candidate? given those numbers, you said that three would vote for her, five for donald trump and others sing nobody or setting it out or independent candidate committee think outside the group, kamala harris can win over voters? >> reporter: potential he. these voters have seemed to make up their minds a long time ago, people in the middle that went into voting, the three harris voters that i mentioned to you ended up for joe biden in 2020. if joe biden were still at the top of the democratic ticket, those three nikki haley voters said they would have voted for joe biden to they are firmly in the democratic can't and might have been the democratic camp over the last four years. the others, there were folks who did vote for donald trump in 2020 who can't vote for him, particularly after january 6th, they ended up saying so there

is a little erosion for donald trump. what really struck me was, our conversations with these focus group voters, not only is harris most likely going to be the head of the democratic ticket, this focus group came after the assassination attempt on donald trump, after the republican convention, the j.d. vance vice presidential candidate. it came after that tumultuous eventful past month that the voters have not budged one way or the other, where they were on june 27th is where they are today. >> that is interesting. getting to the veep angle, these voters have strong feelings about potential vice presidential canada, -- and a more. >> i would vote for harris. the unity ticket, maybe some other moderate republican, maybe liz cheney, something like that, i would be strongly likely to vote for her. >> anybody else have a dream person that if she picked them,

move you closer to harris? audrey you have on? >> yeah, if she picked nikki haley. then i would vote. >> is choosing a vp candidate who these voters connect with, is that necessary for harris taking these votes? i will tell you, everyone else i've spoken to prior to this interview on the show today, it is all about the top spot, the vp does not count that much. >> i think there is something about nikki haley voters, they want to see unity, bipartisan ticket. what really did strike me as how joyous they would be if somehow that democrats ended up picking mitt romney or nikki haley to serve as harris' vice presidential pick, which is not going to happen. you know, if you were nikki haley watching this focus group with these voters, you would have a smile on your face right now because

they still adore nikki haley. many of them, a handful of them ended up saying, my vote for nikki haley in the republican primaries was a protest vote against donald trump, i don't like donald trump which is why i'm voting for haley. the majority said no, my vote is not a protest vote, i really like nikki haley and her message to i think it is important to note, we were really glad to be able to hear from these nikki haley voters because when we are slicing and dicing the electorate, particularly the folks in the middle, independent voters, nikki haley voters, the double haters, those voters have different motivations and different rationales. this was our ability to look and gauge the middle of the electorate, who we think are kind of swing voters and these are their answers and they were interesting. >> i've been told the wrap up, nikki haley endorsing donald trump, did that buy her anything? >> reporter: it did not, that was one of the questions asked of the focus group participants, no.

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new article out today shows potential for a repeat of 2020 election problems this november

in pennsylvania. the headline in the washington post reads, pennsylvania presidential election results could again take days to count and says, quote, despite widespread calls for change, pennsylvania is likely to again take several days to announce this year's winner. alarming state election officials that worry the delay will cause confusion, deteriorate trust in the process, and make election workers targets for harassment. joining me is the director of law program at ohio. it is good to see you again. republicans in the state senate there refused to change the law allowing votes to be counted before election day, what is happening here and are republicans encouraging this kind of confusion? >> yes, this is really unfortunate. we have known for a long time that good election administration practice would be a to allow for what is called pre-canvassing of these absentee or mail-in ballots

before election day because they come in for days and weeks prior to election day and the proper thing to do is to open the envelopes, verify the signatures, verify the eligibility of the voters, count the votes, do all the things necessary to count the ballots. if you do that ahead of time, you can report the results on election night with all the other votes. if you wait until election day, before you start opening the envelopes, you have this big backlog which is what happened before in pennsylvania and unfortunately is going to happen again. >> what are republican arguments for doing it this way? >> they don't have a good argument. other states have changed this rule including republican states, republican-led state like my own state of ohio or florida, this is basic proper practice to do it the way i described, not to do what

pennsylvania did. there was bickering within the pennsylvania legislature over trying to compromise or to get a bipartisan bill that failed. ultimately, it is a sad fact they could not get this done. >> reporter: it also comes as republican activists file barrage of lawsuits for replacing president biden on state ballots, they call it unlawful despite 85% of the nearly 4000 democratic delegates currently pledging support for harris, how fruitful would the lawsuits be? >> they are without merit, they have no validity whatsoever. the courts would dismiss them very, very quickly, they are not going to go anywhere. >> fearing donald trump might not run against presiden biden, his allies have pledged to launch legal attacks from putting democrats anyone is on the ballot. one source telling rolling stone, team biden or team whoever, will be getting on all sides between now and election

day, every political weapon is on the table. what is this? is it wishful thinking? you say that there is little to no substance in this sense biden himself made the decision to step away in favor of his running mate. >> correct. i really don't know the motivation for the claims of these lawsuits are because they will not be successful, maybe it is to try to make the democrats spend more money on lawyers. and that becomes a fundraising thing but the fundraising numbers have been astronomical this last week so it does not seem to me a promising strategy so i can't understand why they're doing it. >> never they took a page out of the donald trump playbook legally which is delay, delay, delay. however, let's move on to the dnc to hold virtual roll call ahead of august 7th to confirm harris as the nominee. will this invalidate any gop efforts claiming harris missed the deadline to get on their state ballots? >> correct.

some complexity here but the bottom line is just as you say, as long as the democrats act by august 7th, there would be no way shape or form to claimed they were too late in any state or anyway. the democrats get the right to choose their nominee, they will go forward with choosing harris as long as that is done by all the state deadlines, it is perfectly correctly procedure so there is no reason to complain. >> will put exclamation point at the end of this interview. thank you so much, edward foley, med. breaking news about rocket attack on a soccer field. ♪ -cologuard®? -cologuard. cologuard! -screen for colon cancer. -at home, like you want. -you the man! -actually, he's a box. cologuard is a one-of-a-kind way to screen for colon cancer that's effective and non-invasive. it's for people 45+ at average risk, not high risk.

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