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my mom just called me at commercial break to let me know the yankees lost in a sad night for new york but a good night to be with you. that does it for us and i wish you a very good night from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thank you for staying up late with me. i will see you again tomorrow. thank you for joining us is our. tomorrow night, kamala harris will give her big primetime speech. tomorrow night, one week out from election night, she will be live from the lips in front of -- ellipse . and not behind a podium directing his enraged followers to attack congress and let's look what it means to address from the ellipse. we'll take the primetime

speech tomorrow night and taking it live in its entirety and i will be joining for that starting in the eastern our at 7:00 p.m. and we really hope you will watch that with us and then stay afterwards to get reaction and analysis with me and chris hayes and everybody else which will start tomorrow night at the 7:00 p.m. hour and i am looking forward to that and interested to see what this closing argument will be from vice president harris. marc it in your calendars and i will see you then tomorrow night. as vice president harris puts together her closing argument in the crucial schedule for the last few crucial days of the campaign her campaign has put out a somewhat controversial ad and it may be their last one that is directly about her

opponent. watch. >> do you think he is a fascist? >> he certainly falls into the general the -- definition of fascist with far right authoritarian nationalistic characterized by dictatorial leader in the former president using the military to go after american citizens and the very very bad thing and he admires people who are dictators. >> he commented more than once that hitler did some good things too. >> if you are left to his own devices what a b addict tater if he didn't have people around him? >> i think he would love to be. >> when somebody is president, the authority's total. >> i am kamala harris and i

approve this message. >> one of the closing argument advertisements from the kamala harris campaign. it is a powerful advertisement. i mentioned it is somewhat controversial not because of any of the factual assertions in the ad and it is all true stuff but it is controversial strategically because there are debates in democratic circles as to whether or not it is the most effect of thing to do in terms of voters reaction and whether or not it is effective with voters to talk about his extremism and his unfitness and dictatorial inclinations. i have no idea whether it is effective with voters are not. it does have the virtue of being a true thing to say about your opponent which is always a nice thing in any campaign and not always something you can bank on. but, you know, as much as kamala harris and the democrats may want to be running this

campaign on the basis of the good jobs record of the biden/harris administration or restoring reproductive rights are bringing down housing costs or any other thing, and as much as they may want this contest to be about those things, it is just plainly true she is running against the i want to be a did tater terminate the constitution hitler did some good things guy. that is who she is up against. you can't ignore that or let it frame the contest, but you can't ignore it. he really did offer his own big primetime closing argument with this thing at madison square garden yesterday. which i was very prepared to not compared to the german american rally in 1939 until i heard what they actually said at this rally last night. and, again, i had no inclination toward this or no intention of doing this whatsoever but i will play you two very quick clips.

the first one is from his rally at madison square garden last night and the second one is from the infamous pro nazi rally in february of 1939. >> americans are slipping on their own feces on a bench in central park but the effing illegals get whatever they want, don't they? five star hotels, cash, probably get yankees dodgers tickets tomorrow night. >> great floods of tears for a few jewish refugees who incidentally in general have more of this world's goods then you or i will ever possess >> floods of tears for a few hundred thousand job taking so- called poor jewish refugees who, incidentally in general have more of this world's goods then you and i will ever

possess from the 1939 rally and that speaker was a german- american leader would ultimately be indicted for espionage and sedition. and leading the crowd to denounce these so-called refugees, the so-called poor people who get so much better treatment than real americans. the argument doesn't change at all. you know, if you don't want to be compared to those people in history, don't steal their lines, don't say you admire them and if you don't want to be called a fascist, don't convert a normally governing personality into a cult of personality and say elections are rigged in the country was great and it has been humiliated and brought low because of an enemy within and we will have to use force and violence against that enemy and terminate parts of the constitution to get them.

if you don't want to be compared to the folks who held rallies like that in 1939, don't hold rallies like that. if you don't want to be called a fascist, quit constantly acting out the dictionary definition of fascist and we will all agree we won't use that word anymore. what is the selection ultimately going to be about in the end? i don't know. maybe it will be about the economy. the u.s. economy leads the world says international monetary fund and united states is increasingly pulling ahead of the world's advanced economies with a surge of investment paying off in higher productivity and wages in what has become something of a trend and upgraded the outlook for both the united states and global growth though more so for the united states and they made a forecast of the u.s. economic growth in january which they upped in july and they have had to up it again

because we are not only doing well but doing so much better than anybody expected. the u.s. economic growth is increasingly ahead of all of the world's wealthy nations. the u.s. economic growth beats everybody else in the group of g-7 major advanced economies. according to them why is it that the u.s. economy is doing so well, better than anybody else in the world? because wages are up for regular people and productivity is up and investor money has flooded the united states in recent years while big legislative packages funded green energy and infrastructure. meanwhile abundant domestic supplies largely insulated u.s. companies from energy shortages and price shocks and economist say it led to a surge in investment which boosts productivity. and productivity is the maine ingredient for higher long- term growth and living standards. so is the selection going to be about the economy?

people say it is the economy, stupid. it is always the economy and you think politics is about something else but it's always economy. but is it? it turns out ahead of the selection next week the united states is beating the pants off of the whole rest of the world economically. why is that? that is in part because, what did they say? because of big legislative packages funding green energy and infrastructure. in other words, the u.s. economy is doing great because of the signature legislative achievements of the biden/harris administration. what have those signature legislative accomplishments achieve for the american people? they resulted in what? rising real wages and rising productivity which is the maine ingredient for higher long-term growth and higher living standards.

that is the wall street journal. with the biden/harris administration has done economically has produced the greatest economy in the world with better prospects for americans on wages, long-term growth and living standards than any other major economy on earth. that is the wall street journal and the imf. here is the economist saying "the envy of the world" the american economy and here is the new york times on what we are experiencing right now in 2024 is the best jobs market in the most healthy job market we have ever had in the history of the united states of america. here is the washington post. this is likely the best economic year of any of our lives. in this year 2024 we have an election. in which we are choosing between the vice president of the administration that brought you the best economy in the world or this guy.

trump rally speakers lob racist insults, call puerto rico island of garbage. his rhetoric ranks among the most flagrant demagoguery by a major figure of any western nation since world war ii. a closing carnival of grievances, misogyny, and racism. sometimes the vote in a national election is about the fundamentals or is this candidate a good choice on the economy and sometimes it's about a different fundamental and does this candidate say he likes hitler? sometimes it's a more personal thing when it comes to just liking each of these candidates are not liking each of these candidates, americans broadly like kamala harris and her running mate tim walz and they broadly don't like donald trump and his running mate jd vance and the latest ap poll on this

question do you like him are don't, it puts kamala harris up +5 and tim walz up +5 and jd vance -16 and donald trump -17 unfavorable. that is its own kind of election fundamental as well. and maybe this election will come down to fundamentals the number one economic basics and the harris biden administration with a riproaring economic record to run on, literally the envy of the world and maybe they will be the likability of the candidate and boaters like harris roughly 22 points more than they roughly don't like john donald j. trump -- donald j. trump and they just like her and she is positive and he is negative and she is positive by a little and he is negative by a lot. another fundamental is number three quality of the campaign.

i mean, just take a little snapshot of the quality of the campaign right now at crunch time a week out. yesterday it was the local press coverage of kamala harris's day in pennsylvania and they say she goes to church and visit small businesses and yet another visit philadelphia. simultaneously here is the local coverage of donald trump's day in new york. racist rally in speakers supporting trump at his madison square garden event insults puerto ricans, blacks and jews. when it comes to the quality of the campaign, not for nothing but trump has been focusing his campaign message in the final few days to include important issues like him saying he thinks there is life on mars or his top surrogate in funder elon musk telling a crowd at a trump rally that there are

aliens walking among us right now and trump has ramped up all of this talk about robert f kennedy junior here at the end of the campaign saying that rfk junior will get a big job in government and in trump's terms he will be in charge of making america healthy again and if trump is reelected, robert f kennedy junior will get a big job. he says this more and more the campaign trail thinking this is awesome and well rfk junior himself is spending his end of the campaign talking about how we can't have wi-fi anymore in america because it causes something that he calls leaky brain. and if you have wi-fi, you get leaky brain. also, hiv doesn't cause aids. the early 90s called and they would like their conspiracy theory back. so maybe it is the economy are the candidates of the campaigns. i don't know how this election will be decided and neither do you but there are two additional wildcards that we

need to factor in to how this will result in we shouldn't have to factor either in, but we do. the first is the absolutely totally telegraphed easily foretold effort by the republican party to disrupt, subvert and ultimately to try to steal the election if they lose it and flip the results or cause enough chaos and delay and confusion that they prevent any clear results from emerging. as you do know, we have covered this in detail for most of the past four years since their last effort to overthrow it caused chaos and intimidation and violence and death and led to hundreds of people being convicted of crimes and sent to prison. they have professionalized their approach to the matter since then and there is only a certain percentage, right? and we are covering this stuff

at nausea and we know to expect it and are ready to watch for it. at this point there is no doubt it is coming. there's not much to do to prepare for it but to know it is coming and get your knees loose and get ready and we are watching for local republican officials to refuse to certify election results even when elections are run totally normally looking for them to at least try to delay's advocation of local election results in order to make it seem like there is something wrong with the election in their area so you could serve as a pretext for a larger effort to come up of the works in that state and we are watching for republican state legislatures especially in swing states like georgia or north carolina, arizona and wisconsin where they have control of the legislature and we are watching for state legislatures to try to submit electoral votes for trump even if harris wins that state. trump and house speaker mike johnson started saying this weekend they have a secret plan between them, between trump and the republican controlled house that will result in them doing

"really well in trump's terms. and that has something to do with how the republican controlled congress is planning to handle the counting of the electoral votes if harris wins. that of course is dependent on republicans keeping control of the house of mike johnson will still be in charge but apparently they do have a plan in case he is. republican state legislators refused to comment to politico.com when they were contacted last week and asked if they had been in touch with the trump campaign about trying some kind of fake electors plot again and cnn reported late last week that the house administration committee in congress hired two people involved in trump's 2020 fake electors plot and hired them to come on board as staff of that committee now to advise them on election matters in house administration committee, the committee that reads the electoral votes and advises members of congress as to what

procedures they should be following while doing things like reading and counting the electoral votes. and again they have hired two people from the fake scheme in 2022 advise them as congressional staff for that process this year. so that doesn't seem good. we shouldn't have to worry about and watch with things like that in an election, but in the republican party's trump era, we absolutely do. we should also expect that sometimes the goal will be just chaos so nobody has trust in the result, chaos and upset with anger and dread you felt when you saw the headlines today and you saw these images today of burning ballots and ballot drop boxes that were set on fire in portland, oregon and vancouver, washington. there hundreds of ballots were destroyed and in portland,

oregon, interestingly, they think only three ballots were destroyed because they installed a fire suppressant system inside that portland ballot drop box and, thank god they had. only three ballots were considered to be damaged in the portland firebombing of a ballot drop box and they said they were able to contact those voters whose were damaged and in portland and in vancouver where they believe with hundreds destroyed they are advising that people who put their ballot in that particular box that burned, people who put them in sometime after 11:00 a.m. on saturday which was the last time it was empty before the fire, people who hey -- may have used that boxer being asked to contact the department to get replacement ballots and police say they think the two fires are connected and they say they caught a suspect vehicle on surveillance footage and they are pursuing that lead in the fbi is investigating both of these as well. and we shouldn't have to deal with what everybody is

expecting to be a plan to sever the election to flip the result of the democratic candidate winning and we shouldn't have to deal with efforts to stop the election or burn ballots or make us believe that there is no real notable results. we shouldn't have to, but in the trump era we do. and this is the last point. we also shouldn't have to deal with any other country trying to determine who we pick of president. we shouldn't have to deal with any presidential candidates having secret communications with a foreign dictator who is hostile to the united states trying to determine who we choose as the next president. that you shouldn't happen. but in the trump era of republican party politics, this is the now familiar and in the 2016 election we know the russian government interfered and they helped leak documents

and had a propaganda campaign impersonating americans trying to mess with us and turn the election toward trump and we know in 2016 that his campaign chairman was during the campaign sharing proprietary nonpublic information from the trump campaign with the russian intelligence officer while russian intelligence was mapping that operation against us and then four years later it was the 2020 election and we know russia again interfered on behalf of trump and that time it was his personal lawyer working with a sanctioned kremlin agent to try to derail joe biden's campaign against trump. and now four years later happening again and now in the 2024 election we have russia seemingly doing more than they have ever done straight up paying pro trump podcasters and media personalities and we have russia making deep fake videos about kamala harris supposedly hurting somebody in a hit-and-

run accident and tim all supposedly abusing one of his students in both of them, the videos, completely fake but both circulated widely online and both of them are now officially considered by you as intelligence agencies to have been created by russia. we have russian military intelligence pain and directing an american expatriate to make fake american seeming new sites and produce conspiracy theory videos that have been promoted widely by pro trump personalities and media outlet. now we have the director of national intelligence coming out saying the recent fake video of ballots cast for trump supposedly being destroyed in bucks county, pennsylvania and that is fake video as well and operation of the russian government. all designed to help trump and hurt harris and make us not believe in our own democracy.

and in 2016 it was trump's campaign chairman talking to russian intelligence while they did their campaign to help trump and in 2020 it was trump's lawyer talking to the russians while they did their campaign to help trump and who is the contact person this time for the trump campaign well russia is doing it again? cheaper to cut out the middleman and this time it is trump himself talking to putin while he is mounting this big new effort to try to get trump elected and reported in bob woodward's most recent book, at least seven times they talked since trump left office as president. and when asked if it were true, he said "i don't talk about that. remarkable message discipline from him on this subject and only the subject. what else is he so tightlipped about? and in addition to trump, it is also reportedly elon musk, trump's top thunder and cheerleader, who is reportedly not only been talking secretly to putin while he has been mounting this effort to try to get him elected but elon musk

specifically has talked to putin's first deputy chief of staff. and why would elon musk be talking to putin's deputy chief of staff? >> i specifically in the government? i don't know, but he is the specific guy in the russian government apparently in charge of operations targeting the american public. like, say for the selection. the guy who orchestrated the whole fake news websites that look like american news outlets or the guy running that part of the pro trump russian campaign operation who is in frequent communication with elon musk now and while that campaign is underway and while elon musk is taking a leading role in the trump campaign which is who elon musk has been talking to well russia has been doing this stuff. i wonder what they talk about when they talk? when the republican candidate and his top thunder are reportedly infrequent and

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san francisco's leadership is failing us. that's why mark farrell is endorsing prop d. because we need to tackle our drug and homelessness crisis just like mark did as our interim mayor. mark farrell endorsing prop d, to bring the changes we need for the city we love. san francisco's leadership is failing us.

that's why mark farrell is endorsing prop d. because we need to tackle our drug and homelessness crisis just like mark did as our interim mayor. mark farrell endorsing prop d, to bring the changes we need for the city we love. i did not see this coming in ohio. i should have, i guess, but i did not. in the ohio senate race this year sherrod brown is running for reelection against a trump endorsed wealthy car dealer named bernie marino and this is a hard-fought race and both are working really hard and mr. marino last month told a town hall, you know my rules, nothing is off limits and if you want to tape record videotape anything i say, you are welcome to do that. record everything i say and nothing to hide. take me. of course that was before somebody, one of his town halls

there recorded him talking like this. >> the left has a lot of single issue voters and sadly a lot of suburban women that are like a listen, abortion is it if i can have an abortion in this country whenever i want, i will vote for anybody else. okay. it's a little crazy by the way, but especially for women that are like past 50. i'm thinking to myself, i don't think that's an issue for you. [ inaudible ] >> thank god my wife didn't hear that one. that i say record me and record everything i say and maybe that was bad advice? that piece of tape of the ohio republican senate candidate saying women over 50 has no reason to support abortion rights because, you know she isn't making babies anymore so why should we care what she thinks and that tape got him a lot of negative press

conference coverage as you would imagine in one way to avoid that would be for the candidate to not say stuff like that and his campaign has instead decided on what they think is a better option and a safer option for them and they can't guarantee he won't say stuff like that. so they have done one of the weirdest things i have ever seen in politics anywhere and credit to the publication business insider for reporting this but watch this video of what they posted. this is bananas, the guy asking the republican senate candidate a question and you can see the questions being asked and hear them but then a staffer for bernie marino runs up to the guy asking questions and hold the big black box that looks like a speaker in the face of that guy and what is he doing? the black box puts out an ultrasonic jamming frequency so nobody can record any sound anywhere near it and it makes

the audio get all squeaky and muffled see you can't hear what he says. it sounds liketracy science- fiction, but they are actually doing it and just watch this. >> hey, mr. marino, [ inaudible ] you have any thing you would like to share for women over 50? >> where have you been? [ inaudible ] >> do you have any other comments you would like to share? >> so you can hear things a little bit until the box gets really close to the microphone. and these are videos from the ohio democratic party and the

campaign apparently bought an ultrasonic jamming gadget that they are waving in front of microphones to stop people from being able to record anything that bernie marino says. >> hey, mr. marino, how many of your former employees do you think will vote for you? >> i can't hear you. not over the sound of my ultrasonic jamming gadget we bought at this by stewart. i don't think putting an electronic noise box in the face of anybody shouting questions at you is going to stop people shouting questions that bernie marino in ohio, but this is apparently their strategy and i have never seen anything like this. joining us now is the ohio democratic u.s. senate are sherrod brown and i appreciate your being here and i know you are in the middle of a busy campaign. >> thank you for having me. >> i have never seen anything like this and what is your reaction to it? >> i don't either. i don't either. he has been hiding the whole election and he really talks to

the media and he doesn't seem to want to answer questions from much of anybody and when he does he gets in trouble. so he finds this by gadget apparently made for the military so he doesn't really want to answer questions about ohioans voting 57% for abortion rights or stiffed his employees out of their overtime $400,000 worth and shredded documents and i guess this is a more high- tech way to avoid talking to the public. >> you know, your opponent did really step in it when he said women over 50 essentially don't have a right to have an opinion about things like abortion since they are making babies anymore at that age and i felt like that comment from him, he didn't have the instinct or did have the instinct to say he hoped his wife didn't hear that but he didn't have the instinct to stop himself from saying it and do you feel like the broader issue here is that he is an inexperienced candidate and his campaign doesn't trust him to be able to either say

things that are more politics or he ought not to not say or be stopping himself from saying. >> he knows better and he is one of those types of candidates but like you said his own staff clearly doesn't trust him to go out and talk to people and answer questions. so it does show something about this race that i fight for the dignity of work and he sticks his employees refuses to talk about it or his staff steps in between him and the question. i don't know really know what to make of this except he really does want to hide his views from the public and the staff really wants to hide his views from the public and when you are that out of step with the public, the only way to win is to spend a lot of money and as you know it's the most expensive -- there has been more money against me in this race we believe than any senate race in history.

so it will be a very close race because ohio has got more conservative in spite of the 57% abortion rights vote last november but he will continue to hide behind his $200 million advertising campaign. that is why i do ask that people can help at my website to send 20 or $25 to beat this machine of $200 million. >> you are right that this is thought to be the most expensive senate race in history all because of the amount of money that has been spent against you and ohio is broadly expected to select trump in the presidential this year and what is your closing argument to those in ohio who are weighing whether or not they want to split their ticket ? ohioans will be supporting kamala harris for the presidency are probably pretty likely to support you as well but ohio voters who may be thinking about voting for trump or may be voting for you, what is your message? >> i have said you in the past and i do appreciate your having

me on again but politics is not so much left or right but whose side you are on in the reason they spend $200 million is because i take on the drug companies and hold wall street accountable and stand up for workers and unions in take on the railroads when they did the disaster or committed the disaster in east palestine. so in the contrast, it is clear with abortion rights on workers, dignity of work, and voters and no matter how liberal or conservative but in the end they want to know who is on their side. i think when they vote a week from tomorrow, they do make that in their own minds and understand i am on their side on this issue. >> senator sherrod brown, it is good to see you and thank you so much. i know this next week will be hanging by the fingernails and a real nailbiter for everybody watching the race and i do know for you and your family so good luck to you sir and stay in

touch with us over this next week. >> thank you. always. >> much more ahead with us tonight. stay with us. with us

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if you are living through an election that russia is targeting with paid propaganda and deep fake videos about kamala harris and tim walz and supposedly destroyed ballots in pennsylvania, or if you, in other words, are an american voter in 2024, that is what russia is doing the selection while republican candidate and his top funder elon musk are

both reportedly in frequent personal communication with vladimir putin and in elon musk's case with the senior russian government official who appears to be orchestrating this attack on our election for trump's benefit. and it may help to check in with somebody who knows how russia works who have personal experience with it. victoria nuland retired after three decades of government service as the number three ranking official at the us state department and in her time in government service she became a top target of vladimir putin russia's intelligence agencies and putin's regime bugged her cell phone and leaked recordings of her calls with odors -- other diplomats in an attempt to undermine her relationship and america's relationship with our allies and russian state media has consistently portrayed her as a kind of uber powerful american bogeyman. they blamed her, for example copper sink it handily -- single-handedly causing the

resolution -- revolution. she is an american government expert on russian aggression and she also personally knows what it's like to experience it firsthand. joining us now is bacteria -- victoria nuland and madame ambassador, thank you for being here and i know tv interviews are not your favorite thing in the world. >> thank you, rachel. and it is great to be back with you and talk about this issue as we did in 2016 and did as well and 2020. -- in 2020. >> this is the third election in a row when russia interfered and tried to get trump into the white house and how do you assess the magnitude and type of interference they are attempting this year compared to what they have done in the previous two elections? >> as you said earlier, rachel, he is added again and this time

not even trying to hide his hand and he has far more sophisticated tools with a.i. being better so he can make fake videos. he has done things like spend $10 million trying to buy american influencers and get them parroting his lines and not even know it is happening, but he also has a brand-new very very powerful tool which is elon musk and x. in 2020 the social media companies worked hard with the u.s. government to try to do content moderation and try to catch of this stuff as it was happening. this time, we do have elon musk talking directly to the kremlin and ensuring every time the russians put out something like this it gets 5 million views on x before anybody can catch it so it is dangerous. although i think the american electorate has gotten more sophisticated and savvy about this stuff. >> if an american citizen is talking to senior officials in the russian government about

anything, aren't they supposed to be reporting those context to the us government, and if so, isn't that just a nice thing to do, or are they required to do that? >> it isn't a legal requirement, but obviously it does cause some suspicion and question about what elon musk's motives are here especially because putin doesn't like it when he thinks we are interfering in his election, which we don't do despite his views about that. but clearly, he is interfering in our election and elon musk is helping him and elon musk is also helping trump. so now you have this triumvirate on the same team and putin doesn't think it is important to try to look even with any semblance of evenhandedness and selection. he knows what he wants and he wants donald trump elected.

>> i do want to ask you about something else reported in the new york times which is that according to the times reporting, one of the ideas circulating in his campaign is that if he is elected they should get rid of the fbi background checks for security clearances and instead the white house alone or the white house maybe with a private company they appoint for this purpose should decide who gets clearances without allowing the fbi to review, for example, people's past convictions or people's connections with foreign governments or people suspect's ability -- susceptibility. maybe they would be denied a security clearance and it seems like a risky move in any circumstance but given the circumstance that we were just discussing here, it seems almost insanely reckless, but i do want to get your take on it. >> insanely reckless is the

right way to put it. that would mean there would be no independent check on who anybody around trump was talking to or may be influenced by, might be paid by. it would put putin and when was the last time you made space to listen to somebody? what i learned from a very young age is radical love, radical forgiveness. we are meeting people one after the next who have made profound changes and have showed a lot of personal strength for me. why am i trying to make other people happy over myself? so many life lessons going on in these conversations and we are watching a transformation. join hoda kotb for her podcast making space. listen now. , kim jong-un, directly into the situation room and into donald trump the brain which is very dangerous. equally dangerous, if i may is what trump is saying about what he would do inside the united states, that he would turn the united states police or turn maybe the us military against his enemies or obviously use the courts to go after folk who oppose him. he is already suing members of the media and he would deny licenses to media organizations that oppose him. who does this sound like?

it sounds like his friend vladimir putin in the way putin operates in russia and what putin did to the tiny fledgling democracy starting to sprout in russia. so trump is also taking putin lessons as autocrats around the world are. >> the idea of an american led by an admirer of putin who puts the united states not as the leader of the free world but rather into effectively a sort of access with a dig tater of russia and the tatar in china and north korea. and to -- for the united states to be allied with those countries instead of our traditional alliances, i am not sure if people have absorbed the magnitude of what you are describing there. but maybe we will. victoria nuland, it is always a real honor to have a chance to talk with you, ambassador and thank you for being here so much. >> thank you, rachel. >> we will be right back.

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