spectacularly embarrassing debacle for congressional republicans, their star witness was indicted for lying to the fbi. it was also revealed that some of smirnoff's claims about the biden family had allegedly come from russian intelligence. and this week, the so-called star witness alexander smirnov was officially sentenced to six years in prison for lying to the fbi and for committing a little tax evasion as well. >> we leave you on that note. that is our show for tonight. >> now it's time for the last word with ali velshi, who's in for lawrence. >> good evening. ali. >> i hope you got some r&r plan for this weekend, because this has been one week of news. >> ali i have a five and seven year old. >> so, so for several years you will not actually have any r&r on the weekend. >> sorry i brought that up. >> we'll talk in about 2030. >> yes, exactly. >> well have have a good few hours at least ahead of you now. and a good weekend, friend. >> have a great show. >> we do have breaking news tonight. >> firefighters are still racing

to fight those wildfires burning across the greater l.a. area at this hour. >> our affiliate, wnbc is reporting that the palisades fire is showing new signs that it is growing due to shifting winds. >> aerial firefighting teams are dropping water on the flames. the calmer winds tonight are not forcing those crews to land, which is a good thing. >> the santa ana winds are forecast, however, to pick up again on sunday or monday. officials are confirming that the wildfires have killed at least 11 people, but admit that the real death toll is unknown. >> two of the biggest and most destructive fires, the palisades fire and the eaton fire, have scorched over 50mi!s of largely urban area. >> officials say the palisades fire is 8% contained. >> the eaton fire is only 3% contained. over 12,300 structures have been destroyed in the series of wildfires. >> accounts of some of the victims killed include people who stayed behind to try to save their homes, or to try and stay with family members. >> at a press conference

yesterday, the senator, adam schiff, pleaded with residents to heed every evacuation order. >> if you're told to evacuate, then get the hell out. >> you might think you can outrun a fire. >> you are not going to outrun these fires. >> you're just not. if you stay, you're going to die in them and it's not worth it. so if you're told to evacuate, get the hell out. >> save yourselves. >> you can rebuild because we are going to rebuild. >> senator schiff is going to be our guest tonight from los angeles, where he is being briefed by firefighters and fema and surveying the damage. >> we'll speak to him in just a moment. but earlier today, my colleague ellison barber talked to a man in altadena named felipe, whose home was spared, but his neighbors lost everything. >> he described waking up in the middle of the night earlier this week as the fires began. >> about 2:00 in the morning, i had a garden hose hooked up to the front of the house. it's about 150 foot garden hose and that was spraying the house. i

first started spraying our house. i was watering the sidewalks, the grass, and then literally i was trying as far as the hose could reach, as far as i can help my neighbors and my heart and my soul goes out to them because we just they lost so much. they've always been there for me and my family since my kids were born. they always come over and make sure we're all right and at their birthdays, christmas, thanksgiving, even though by name they're not family, they're in our hearts. >> joining us now is our nbc correspondent, ellison barber. >> styn still in altadena. i've been watching all day. fires have been breaking out as you've been covering the story. >> what's the situation now? >> ellison. >> yeah, i mean, ali, you know, it's really hard to wrap your head around some of what is happening here. and a lot of residents have been understandably frustrated that

they see images on tv. they see us reporters out in areas where there's a lot of debris and they think, okay, if they're in that area, it probably is safe. why can't we go in there? i want to show you some of why the fire officials and officials in la, this county and others are saying, hey, stay away for now still. so this crew, they've been fighting out this fire. we have been in this area for the last few hours. they just shut their water off. they're about to crank it, to put it back again. they are dealing with numerous hotspots of fires reigniting in this building. and this is about two long new york blocks away from another building where we saw the exact same thing happen in the last few hours. so these are buildings where when we were here 4 or 5 hours ago, late in the afternoon, it looked like they were debris. it looked like in terms of fire and immediate threat to other properties and or people, it looked like that was gone and that it was going to be in a cleanup position. and very quickly in the last two hours we've seen it's not the case. and it's because a lot of these buildings and this is one example, have basements, they have other layers of levels of

floors underneath the debris. and inside of that there can be these hotspots, fires that you can't see or embers that are still burning, that reignite and get bigger and mean and make the entire structure itself unsafe. so come look over here, this team on this other side fighting the same thing. because again, they just have inside of here all of these different pockets of fires that are reigniting four, five hours ago, late in the afternoon when we were here, i would have told you this building and one that is down this same street in kind of the main area, the main street area of altadena, that those fires had been put out and those buildings were piles of debris. i would have probably walked in some of them if i was someone walking in this community, and if that was property i owned to say, okay, let's start cleaning it up, i would have been wrong. because underneath this building, underneath that building, there were still hot hotspots, fires inside of the basement, underneath the stairwell that were still burning. and they have reignited tonight. and now you have all of these teams out here working to put them out. one other thing i will tell you, and it's hard to

see because it's so dark. but next to this stop sign there is a fire hydrant. i actually have a flashlight so i can show it to you a little. let me flip this way. ali. sorry. see that right there. so there's a fire hydrant. we saw this earlier down the way. the firefighters aren't using it. the striker team that's here right now. and that's because there's not enough water, not enough pressure in these fire hydrants for them to actually use it to deal with these hotspots that are reigniting. so when they're telling people in this community, if you're under a mandatory evacuation order, you still can't come in. and when they're also saying you can't come in even during the day to take a look at some of it. this right here, they say, is why? because a lot of these buildings, they're not actually sure if they're safe yet. they're not entirely clear because so many of these buildings have basements and multiple levels and layers where this can happen again and again, hotspots underneath them that reignite and are essentially death traps. if you were to walk into here and step on an area where there could be this flame and i mean, i could feel the heat even radiating from here.

ali. but again, i was here 4 or 5 hours ago, walking down this street, walking past these buildings, didn't notice a thing, didn't feel the heat, didn't see anything smoldering in these buildings. and i would have been really wrong had i walked back into this area here, an alert going off on my phone right now. but this is an area that is still under a mandatory evacuation order. over 150,000 people still under mandatory evacuation orders. but you can see here there's still so much work to be done. and these teams, they are using tankers to get water to try and put these out. that though takes time. and because there are so many different pockets of fires, small hotspots as well as bigger flames, they say if this was just one fire in a neighborhood, we would flood all of our resources here. but we can't do that because of the scale of these fires. and all of that makes putting something out like this a lot harder and take a lot longer. >> it's hard to understand the concept of containment. this is the eaton fire. >> there's a lot of rural and suburban areas around los angeles, but you're not in one. this is the city. >> you are. you are in an area

that is essentially an urban area, and there are multiple building fires. so this isn't the same as a forest fire. they're very hard to fight as well. but it's not that helicopters can just fly over you and drop water. a building is on fire and the firefighters have to come in and treat it as it's as if it's one fire. and yet, as you're describing, they're all over you. >> right. >> and what's also stunning about it is you see something like this, this one on fire. and if we turn a little this way, you'll see the building kind of right next to it. looks like it's totally fine in terms of fire. it looks like it was almost jumped over. but on the other side, on the other half of that street, on this same avenue, the building that's down there on the left hand, about two long blocks away, that building has hot spots. it's been completely destroyed. and inside of it it is smoldering yet again. so that also adds to the problem of how do you contain something in an area like this when all of it isn't burning, it's one here burning big gap of things that are okay, then more things burning, all of

it. layers and layers of complications that fire teams have to deal with in addition to them being stretched so thin and telling us in all of these different spots that they're not able to access water or the water pressure in the way that they would if there was just one fire in the area. >> ali, allison, i know you've been in a lot of dangerous places in your life and you know how to handle yourself, but please stay safe. >> fires are really, really hard because of everything you've just been describing. >> they pop up around you, so make sure you and your team stay safe while helping us get the information that our viewers need. >> ellison barber is in altadena, california. of course, our team will continue our coverage across california for as long as this is going on. the california senator adam schiff is going to join us with the latest on the firefighting and the recovery effort in just a moment. >> but first, the historic news day that america is about to have its first convicted felon, president, after donald trump's repeated appeals to stop his criminal sentencing, including to the supreme court this week, all failed. donald trump was sentenced for 34 felony counts

related to paying off stormy daniels to help his 2016 campaign. >> trump and his lawyer, todd blanche, connected remotely to the remote manhattan courtroom from florida, where judge juan merchan emphasized to trump how he arrived. >> at this moment. >> a unanimous jury of 12 ordinary new yorkers, the protections afforded the office of the president are not a mitigating factor. >> they do not reduce the seriousness, seriousness of the crime or justify its commission in any way. the protections are, however, a legal mandate which, pursuant to the rule of law, this court must respect and follow. however, despite the extraordinary breadth of those protections, one power they do not provide is the power to erase a jury verdict. >> one power they do not provide is the power to erase a jury

verdict because of the protections of the presidency. >> however, merchan sentenced trump to unconditional discharge. it's a rare legal maneuver, imposing no criminal penalties. >> merchan noted that this was the only lawful sentence that he could impose. >> the assistant district attorney, joshua steinglass, denounced trump's unrelenting and unsubstantiated attacks on prosecutors, the judge, their families, witnesses, jurors and other trial participants. >> far from expressing any kind of remorse for his criminal conduct, the defendant has purposefully bred disdain for our judicial institutions and the rule of law. and he's done this to serve his own ends and to encourage others to reject the jury verdict that he finds so distasteful. >> joining us now is the democratic senator, adam schiff of california. he's a former chairman of the house intelligence committee. he served on the january 6th committee. he was also the lead

impeachment manager for the first impeachment trial of donald trump. but he's doing double duty for us tonight, not just in those roles, but as a senator from california. so, senator, i do want to start with you on on what's going on in california, what you've seen. i don't live in california, and i've got dozens of friends who have lost their homes or are evacuated. >> not there. >> i'm sure that is many multiples for you and your constituents. >> it really is. >> i've never seen anything like it. >> and i, you know, unfortunately have all too much experience with fire in and around the los angeles area, my district prior to the us senate abutted the angeles forest. we've had devastating fires, but nothing like this. you know, usually in these fires, you'll see a house lost here, one loss down the street. >> it's very fortuitous. >> it is syncretic which houses are taken and which remain standing. but here it's whole

neighborhoods that are gone. people have lost their homes. they've lost their school. they've lost their church or their synagogue. they've lost their public library. they lost their grocery store. it's all gone. and the scope of it is just breathtaking. it's in more than one part of southern california. i was out to the palisades. i've been out to altadena and very similar in both respects. just the scale of the destruction. it looks like a war zone. it's going to take a long time to rebuild. i was in the civic center in pasadena, serving meals to people who are without a basis to provide for themselves right now. and i'll tell you, as heartbreaking as it is talking to some of the folks who've lost everything, they're pretty amazing. many expressed to me gratitude for just being alive, the determination to rebuild. and i have to say, just talking to them was uplifting,

considering what they've been through. >> we have had a strong federal response. the president has said that the federal government will be very, very involved in this. what's your sense of what is needed right now? >> there are a lot of problems, not just the recovery, the rebuilding. there are massive insurance issues that have been going on in in california. >> we've been covering it for the last few years. a lot of public insurers are pulling back on this stuff. the california fair plan now, people are worried that that was the insurer of last resort. but this is such a big loss that will people actually get their money. >> these are there are people worried about their today and tomorrow and then their their next weeks and months. >> that's absolutely right. and first of all, you're right about the administration. they moved really quickly here almost immediately declaring a major disaster, then telling californians that they were going to match 100% of the costs of responding to these fires, and then to some lower match, which is also pretty extraordinary. so they've been

great. the administration has been great, but the need is just overwhelming. so many people were thrown off their insurance prior to this fire. one of my own staff who lost their home in this blaze got a notice, i think a month ago that their insurance was being canceled. but but for fortunately enough, it's not canceled until about a week from now. wow. but a lot of others not so fortunate and lost everything and have little basis to recover. so they're going to need lots of help. sba administrator guzman was out in the district that was so hard hit in altadena today, talking with residents about what the sba can do. the fema administrator, i was with her yesterday talking with the residents about what fema can do. we're going to fight to bring those resources back so that people can quickly rebuild. the most immediate thing a lot of these residents want to know,

though, in talking to folks at the shelter, is does their home still stand? many of them don't know the status of their home. >> senator, i'm going to shift with you for a moment because you are a u.s. senator. >> have you got a handle? >> a few things at once. we have the conviction, the sentencing of donald trump. >> it's a you're a lawyer. >> it's a technical matter. it does mean that he is now a convicted felon. it's the first time we will have a convicted felon as the president of the united states, i wanted to draw your attention to what the ada said about the harm that donald trump and his conduct since this conviction have had on the judicial system, the judiciary and the judiciary. this is not a convicted felon who has accepted responsibility for what he has done. it's quite the opposite. he continues to undermine the judicial system, and if not for the sentencing today would have continued to do so. >> he will probably still try and get this conviction vacated and other matters that he's involved in this. this is something we also have to rebuild the trust and faith in

our judiciary. >> well, that's absolutely right. and you know, what i had been hoping is that the judge would sentence the president to whatever any other similarly situated felon would receive by way of sentence. now, that did not happen. and it didn't happen for a reason that the judge properly articulated, which is this man, this now convicted felon, is going to be the president of the united states. and legally, he cannot encumber that office with, for example, detention. so normally i would think that a defendant who doesn't accept responsibility, who doesn't make restitution, but rather continues to attack the justice system, attack the prosecutors or the witnesses, you know, they might end up getting time in a case like this, even where if they accepted some responsibility, they would not. so look, he escaped, you know, a fair sentence that others would have received. but nevertheless, it

is significant that he is now forever branded a convicted felon. he goes into his second term as a convicted felon, the first felon to serve as president of the united states. you can see how upset the president is about this because it is a you know, it is quite a statement that the justice system makes when it brands you a felon and he will forever be branded a felon. >> there are a number of people who are asking or talking to or about whether president biden should issue preemptive pardons in the cases of some, some americans. >> your name has been brought up. >> you said you don't like that idea. does that mean for you it doesn't make sense? or you don't like the idea of preemptive pardons? >> i don't like the idea generally of preemptive pardons. i don't want to see a precedent where every president, on their way out of office, grants a broad category of pardons, maybe

for people in their administration or people in their party or people aligned with their view. because i think if that becomes the new norm, it tells the people coming into an administration that they don't need to worry about where the line is in terms of whether they're committing criminal acts or not, because they can expect a pardon on the way out the door. so i'm very concerned about the broad prospect of pardons, but i also understand where the president is coming from here because his successor is threatening to persecute people who were doing their jobs properly, holding him to account. people like jack smith, people like the members of the january 6th committee and others. i'm most concerned, frankly, about the witnesses before the january 6th committee who, unlike myself, don't have the speech and debate clause to protect them. so i understand where joe biden is coming from. >> also, i want to ask you one other thing. >> we're ten days away from this new administration, this biden-harris administration has been strongly supportive of, as

they are in every state of the tragedy that's going on in california. are you at least are you worried at all about that? there's been a lot of nonsense on the right about the reasons for these fires and how they should be treated. are you worried about this response becoming politicized? >> yes, i am worried about it. and frankly, it has already become politicized. you know, i remember a time because it wasn't that long ago where you waited until the fires were out. you waited until lives were saved and people were safe before the political attacks began. but i guess we are way past those quaint days. and i do have concern that what happens when the new administration comes into town, whether they're going to seek to punish blue states or reward red states, because i'll tell you this, i've been in congress a long time. whether it was a disaster affecting texas or florida or new jersey or new hampshire, didn't matter to me. but there's a red state or blue state. i was

there for them voting to support aid for them. they were not democrats or republicans. to me, they were all americans. i hope to hell that's the view of the next president of united states. it really needs to be. we're in this together, particularly when we're facing a natural disaster like the tragedy being visited on southern california right now and one in which whatever your view of government is, or big government or small government, this is one in which there is no choice, whether it's from the rebuilding or the infrastructure or the insurance perspective in which government has got to be involved. >> the federal and state and local governments here, there's no way to recover from this without active government involvement, whatever that may look like. >> that's absolutely right. and even beyond that, you brought up the insurance issue. this was a huge problem before this crisis, before this terrible tragedy. that crisis is going to be magnified by this enormously. and there's no way the private sector is going to do this on their own. we have to work

together on this to find a way to make insurance affordable and accessible to people, and to go beyond that, we're going to have to do a much better job bringing urgency to attacking climate change. otherwise, we're going to see this over and over and over again. what one of the things that makes this terrible disaster in california, all the more striking, is that it's january. we are not used to fires in january, but there is no normal anymore. the fire seasons never end and so we need to get ahead of the climate change disaster in the making, or we're just going to see this repeated in every part of the country in different forms. >> well, you say get ahead of it. >> there are many people who are continuing to say, that's not what this is. >> it's not tied to aids. that's nonsense. it's politicization. >> you can think what you want, or you can look at the data and you can look at the tragedy that we're both looking at tonight. senator, i hope you, your family, your constituents,

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minute rant that he gave during his time to speak. today, at his own sentencing. >> this has been a very terrible experience. i think it's been a tremendous setback for new york and the new york court system. >> but trump's sentencing was a testament to his failure. trump's failure to persuade the jury that there was reasonable doubt of his crimes, and ultimately, trump's failure to obey the law. >> and as judge juan merchan noted today, the u.s. legal system has already given trump extraordinary protections because of the election. >> it is the legal protections afforded to the office of the president of the united states that are extraordinary, not the occupant of the office. donald trump, the ordinary citizen. donald trump, the criminal defendant, would not be entitled to such considerable protections. >> trump also wants the court system to cover up jack smith's two volume report about his other criminal cases, related to

the attempt to subvert the 2020 presidential election and his possession of classified documents. today, the justice department asked the 11th circuit court of appeals to overturn or overrule judge aileen cannon's three day hold on the release of jack smith's report. if the 11th circuit overrules her, the special counsel's report about trump's election subversion case could be released immediately. joining us now is democratic congressman eric swalwell of california. he's a member of the judiciary and the homeland security committees. he served as an impeachment manager in the second impeachment trial of donald trump. he is suing donald trump over the january 6th attack. congressman, good to see you. thank you for being with us this evening. let's talk about, first of all, the sentencing. donald trump is now a convicted felon. >> and despite the fact that it was an unconditional no sentence per se, he is a convicted felon. >> and there are things that come along with that. and that is the fact that he's a convicted felon for the first time in history. we will have a

president who is one. >> the most important part is that judge merchan went through with this and set as a model. >> as donald trump comes into office, projecting this absolute immunity that he has, that you can stand up to donald trump. and he was backed up, of course, by the democratic appointed judges, but also chief justice roberts and justice amy coney barrett. so do they have the muscle through the next four years? is the question that i have to stand up to trump, as he surely will seek to commit further abuses, go after his political enemies. >> but it was encouraging in these final hours before he takes office to see accountability. >> and donald trump finally meet. >> and the next part of this, the release of the jack smith report, isn't the accountability in the same sense. in other words, it will have no legal teeth for the moment. there are two issues here. one is that attorney general merrick garland has talked about releasing the part about january 6th, not the

part about the about the classified documents. we'll see about that with the 11th circuit court of appeals. but tell me what the consequence of releasing that report are as far as you're concerned, as far as releasing the report. >> you know, transparency is in sunlight are the best disinfectant. and so, you know, for donald trump and all of his cries of witch hunt, i'll tell you, when people are accusing someone else of a witch hunt, they want everything out there. they're not seeking to cover it up. this is a guy who has a little bit of experience of that, because kevin mccarthy went after me and adam schiff and made some pretty ugly accusations and launched an investigation into me, and all i did for two years was, say, release the report then if you have something. and then when he released the report, there was nothing. but that's the tact that you take when somebody is falsely accusing you of something, he's taking the other tact, which is to say, i don't want the american people to see this. and that's what's so

concerning. >> i want to ask you about your civil suit related to january 6th. where does that stand right now? >> we've made a lot of progress, and donald trump has tried to use absolute immunity as a way to get out of this. it's me, january 6th. officers and a couple of my colleagues bringing a suit for what trump did on january 6th. and we have one at the district court level, the court of appeals, he took it to the supreme court and then withdrew that appeal. and we're now taking depositions, and we have taken depositions from former senior trump officials, some of them going into the new trump administration. and this is proceeding. so this is, you know, one of the last pin standing that the bowling ball that is donald trump did not knock down by coming into office. and he can't avoid trial with this because the precedent of clinton v jones says that because this is a civil matter not related to the office of president conduct that was not, you know, becoming of a president. it was outside of his

scope of being president. he's going to have to answer for this, and he's going to have to answer soon. >> congressman, good to see you. thanks. and as i said to senator schiff, our thoughts are with you and the folks in your state. it doesn't really matter where you are in california. you are feeling the effects of this thing because, you know, many, many people who are affected by it. so we continue to think and pray for you and your constituents. congressman eric swalwell of california, thank you for joining us. coming up, cal fire battalion chief is going to update us on the wind going to update us on the wind situation in los angeles right speak now or forever hold your- [cough] only took 4-hour cough liquid? [cough] unlike robitussin dm, delsym liquid offers 12 hours of cough relief all day or night. delsym, cough crisis averted. a beard that doesn't itch. and you're using king c. gillette on that thing? king c. gillette? look! this beard trimmer pro's got 40 length settings. and this beard oil — one of gq's best beard conditioners for soft, no itch facial hair. the best a man can get... ...is king c. gillette.

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intelligent man. loved to read. >> how will he be remembered by you and your family? >> laughs. we got to keep reading, keep watching nfl football and that'll help him keep going in our minds. >> joining us now for the third night is the cal fire battalion chief, brant pasqua. he's in pacific palisades. chief, thanks for being with us. you know, as a firefighter, what that woman just said. and that is that for all the devastation and for all the apocalyptic scenes, this is about people and their lives. some lives lost, some lives literally forever changed. at the moment, the job of the firefighters is to put the fires out. but there's a lot more to come. >> that's right. >> i just saw it on the faces of the firefighters today up in the palisades, realizing just how much destruction is starting to set in. >> and we're humans, too. >> and i could just tell the

look on their faces. >> they feel like, you know, in some way they've failed just because of how much devastation is around that town. >> but they're also motivated to not give up and stay engaged in this fire. >> yeah. look, it's something we have to remember. and you as firefighters know this all the time that you can show up to what might look like the worst fire you've ever seen. or in this particular case, our reporter, alison barber, is talking about the fact that the fire there, there's a fire there, but they can't leave this one here. and yet there's another one growing there. firefighters never have the opportunity to get back in the truck and leave, saying this is too big. it never can end if the winds are too high and the helicopters got to land, those those pilots have to know that they're going back up again. those those woodlands firefighters know they're going back in again. it doesn't end for you, folks. >> that's right, that's right. >> and when it gets that bad, we have priorities. >> our number one priority is life safety. >> so when it is that bad, we can't run away.

>> we got to get people out of the way. >> after that, we'll protect the homes and structures as best we can. >> let's talk a bit about what's to happen. there's some sense that the worst is over, and yet we're going to see an uptick in winds tomorrow. and on monday. this is a wind driven. incident in some ways where you are in palisades, the winds could be better if they're headed toward the ocean as opposed to another direction. but what how are you thinking about what the next two days are going to bring? >> well, right now it's been a great couple of days as far as the wind goes, the fire is being fueled by the topography and the brush. >> right now, the wind is calm. it's creating a little bit of its own wind on the fire. you're right. >> there is wind predicted. so we're doing everything we can to get as much containment as we can to put this fire to bed before those winds come, and possibly stir up embers that can

be that can spread this fire. >> let's talk about contained. you just said containment as the latest numbers i have. maybe you have newer numbers, but the eaton fire, altadena, that area pasadena, that's about 3% contained the palisades fire, which is right where you are, is about 8% contained. what does that mean? what does enough contained feel like? what is what are the numbers of when you feel like things are under control? >> yes. so the containment is if that 8% contained piece of line, we can leave and feel good that there's nothing that's going to jump or start another fire in that area again. >> so 100% controlled contained 8% of this fire is there. we're working on getting more of that. >> again. >> we know the winds are coming. we're very optimistic, though, that they're not going to be as strong as the first two days of this fire. those were winds that some of us had never seen before. >> yeah, i've covered hurricanes that don't get as much wind as you had a couple of days ago.

you had 0% containment. so the idea that we're at three and eight, if those are accurate numbers is a long way from from zero, but a long way from 100. chief, thanks very much. thanks to all of your colleagues. just please let all of them know from cal fire and the local fire departments that where the rest of us have to run away from things. we know you guys are always running in the direction of that danger, and we honor you for that. cal fire battalion chief brant pasqua, thanks for all that you're doing for us. >> thank you sir. >> all right. coming up today, president biden slapped new sanctions on russia as vladimir putin awaits donald trump's return. former russian ambassador michael mcfaul joins ambassador michael mcfaul joins us my moderate to severe crohn's symptoms kept me out of the picture. now i have skyrizi. ♪ i've got places to go and i'm feeling free. ♪ ♪ control of my crohn's means everything to me. ♪ ♪ control is everything to me.♪ and now i'm back in the picture. feel significant symptom relief at 4 weeks with skyrizi, including less abdominal pain and fewer bowel movements.

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