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we're back with "jansing & company." julian assange was just granted bail. let's listen. >> becauseprosecution, which was also extremely weak and inadequate has been challenged on the facts, that's why. there's no case against julian assange. we have a swedish lawyer here and we have so much more

information and the fact that he's been in solentary confinement -- >> that is not mark stevens, that's the australian filmmaker who did a documentary on julian assange wikileaks. peter alexander was inside that courtroom, literally standing next to julian assange. peter, good morning. what's going on there in? >> chris, we want to give you a better sense of what happens right now. it is really a work in progress right now. we have just heard that the swedish authorities have said they're just likely to appeal. they have roughly two hours to launch that appeal and if that does happen, julian assange may be kept in custody for another 48 hours where there would have to be another hearing before one of britain's appeals' court judges. again, that would have to happen within two days from now.

we're waiting to hear what does happen. here's what happened inside the courtroom just a short time ago. i was sitting literally right next to julian assange separated by a glass. he was in the defendant's box as it is described. he was expressionless throughout the course of today's hearing that lasted close to an hour and 40 minutes and the only time he showed expression was laughing a few times during the funny comments that he was made by his supporters. one of his supporters who offered to give her entire life savings in his support said to the judge, the reason she trusts him is for a variety of reasons, including the fact that she has allowed him to walk her dog and he has always returned home safely with her dog and that's the only possession she really cares about in the world. assange smiled at that moment and looked down towards me and a couple others. when it was all said and done after the judge set bail at 250 pounds, roughly $320,000. assange would be forced to surrender his passport, that he

has already done. that he would have to stay at the home of a wealthy british man. a man who owns a property that is said to be 600 acres, he told the judge, ten bedrooms that his parents live nearby and that his staff would look after julian assange. assange forced to wear electronic monitoring and have to check in with the police once each evening. chris, most importantly to note, assange after the ruling was made inside, there was a loud cheer from everybody outside. you're hearing another right now as we believe some members of the prosecution, the defendant's team are coming outside to see the public. >> real quickly, we saw brianna jagger come to the microphone a little while ago. do we know where that money is coming from? that 240,000 pounds. >> the money is largely coming from two prominent names von smith, he is a former army captain, celebrated army captain here in the uk, as well as a close personal friend of julian assange. but breoncujagger was in there

all of whom have been offering money, saying they will provide whatever money is necessary. julian assange's own attorney said we can get more money than that, but a lot of the ways we have been gathering money has been shut down. a reference to the fact that organizations like pay pal has shut down access for assange and the wikileaks team to take in money. >> fascinating story out of london. peter, thank you for that. big weather story in the states. bitter, slow-moving storm that battered the upper midwest and moving our way. heavy snow and strong winds caused near whiteout conditions. blowing snow that blanketed roads and highways. bone chilling cold swept in behind that storm dropping wind chills below zero in many places. in kansas city a man returned from a weekend trip to find that a broken water main turned his house into an ice palace. >> i get a lot of questions

like, oh, what happened? what's going on? how did you do that? >> he's laughing. take a look at lake michigan's eastern shore. waves 25 feet high, wind gusts up to 35 miles an hour and what is that guy doing out there? that's what i want to know. this is a lake, not an ocean. several people out there in their wet suits. we have reporters blanketing the country. let's start with the weather channel's mike sidel in austinburg, ohio, good morning, mike. >> hi, chris. the snow has eased off a little bit since we talked to you an hour ago. behind me you can see the plows out here working overtime during december. looking down the ramp, he's going down the ramp westbound and that will take you back towards cleveland and we're about 45 miles off to the north and east of cleveland. visibility has come up in the past hour but, still, this is not the perfect driving day, especially when you encount smr strong, gusty winds that will blow and drift that snow across

the roadways. temperatures in the mid-teens and the wind chills around zero and the lake-effect will continue in some way, shape or form from here into western pennsylvania and western and central new york through tonight and as you get over towards buffalo and even syracuse and rochester, some of that lake-effect will not wrap up until some time thursday morning and some spots will pick up another foot of lake-effect. it will stay cold with temperatures running 10 to 15 degrees below average. chris, back to you. >> the midwest could use a break, thank you, mike. florida, meantime, could reach record low temperatures today leaving farmers on edge whether citrus and strawberry crops can survive these temperatures. weather channel meteorologist paul goodloe has been following that story from plant city, good morning. >> i'm here in plant city, florida. i'm standing in a strawberry field and this is an extremely valuable crop. as an industry, $700 million here in florida. we're concerned because the

weather, this arct ic blast, ha dropped the temperatures in this field around 26 degrees this morning. they have the sprinklers on and the sprinklers putting ice on the plants on the blossoms, on for fruit to encase them in ice. what this does, it basically insulates the fruit and keeps it at 32, which keeps this fruit viable which means it can be picked and brought to your market. if they weren't running the sprinklers, we could have major damage on this crop, big-time crop loss and that means, well, basically, the prices of fruit will go up because there is less fruit available in your supermarket. so, that's how one way this weather can be affecting you in the pocket. but, unfortunately, though, this farmer was out here since midnight sprinkling the fields and they just turned it off a little while ago as temperatures risen into the mid-30s which means this ice is melting and the fruit will be fresh and pretty soon your breakfast table. >> let's hope so. president and vice president

is meeting with the security team about the future of afghanistan and pakistan. the picture inchange would the death of one of the most influential figures in that region. just before they got the news listen to how the president and secretary of state described him. >> america is more secure and the world is a safer place because of the work of ambassador richard holbrooke. >> ambassador richard holbrooke has been a giant of the diplomatic core for almost 50 years. he has practically synonymous with american foreign policy. >> jamie reuben was the state department spokesman during the clinton administration. jamie, good morning. seven times richard holbrooke nominated for the nobel peace prize and more than a few people thought he should have won it and talked about for secretary of state. someone who has been influential, really, since vietnam. what does this loss mean for the country and, in particular, as we know, that this meeting is

going on right now between the president, the vice president, the national security team. what does it mean for afghanistan? >> well, let's start with richard and his role in american foreign policy. what richard did perhaps as well as anyone is to a diplomat that can get the job done with foreign leaders and with rebel leaders and with others in a complex negotiation, but, also, the principles behind american foreign policy and particularly during the bosnia crisis in this country. richard not only helped negotiate an end to the war, but richard was important with others in dramatizing the importance of the united states caring about the people of bosnia and i remember spending some time with one of his sons in colorado and he had, obviously, not seen as much of

his father as he would have liked over the years because of this phonetic travel, but he said he was proud that his father helped people. that he helped deal with refugees. that he was an individual who really cared about people and the effect that wars and conflicts and civil strife could have on hundreds of thousands of people and -- >> it really does say so much that at age 69 he took on what could arguably be the toughest assignment of his career. i mean, what he was trying to do in afghanistan was to, say the least, extraordinarily difficult. >> well, he himself said that it was his toughest assignment and the reason for that is the complexity of america's role in afghanistan. on one given day richard might be negotiating a new cell phone method to pay army soldiers and

police, policemen in afghanistan. another day working on agriculture problems to move them away from an opium-based economy. a third day trying to talk to the pakistani government about its long-term strategic interest. meantime, all the time trying to work very closely and i think he was remarkable in this in developing a really good remarkably good relationship with admiral mullen and the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff who spent some time with him at the hospital and general petraeus who was on the ground doing the job. richard really understood the synergy between force, diplomacy and america's moral power in the world. >> jamie, stay with us. i want to bring in our company, democratic strategist emily heihl and america's morning news, amy holmes. dan, give us your perspective. how does this change what's happening in that situation room

right now. >> any time you move a central player like this from a lot spot and a challenging one is going to be disruptive and you can't replace ambassador holbrooke's strategic and his relationships and all those dhithings. in a certain sense this is such a big challenge that the loss of any one figure is prominent as influential as ambassador holbrooke was is not going to be a make or break thing and we'll have to find a way to compensate in some way for that loss of relationship and experience. >> amy, the things you compensate for is that depth of knowledge, that experience, those relationships. you cannot replace the kind of personal relationships that he forged, not just over years, but in many cases over decades. >> certainly. and all of those are very valuable valuab valuable at ributes to be bringing to the table.

the state department can run and does run whoever is the secretary of state. but i would underscore jamie's point that mr. holbrooke had this experience in the clinton administration of combining might with diplomacy and we see that president obama is ramping up the troop presence in afghanistan. of course, the big question is, when can we withdraw or withdraw those troops and mr. holbrooke was going to be a very important voice and player in determining that. >> there's one thing to know about milltrary strides and the other thing is the diplomatic strides and really finding a way towards a stable government in afghanistan. he was somebody, emily, who wasn't afraid to talk tough to harmid karzai. what are you hearing in washington about this huge loss for american foreign policy? >> his death is being met with great sadness here on capitol hill. particularly there was a very touching tribute that john kerry put out just this morning. had kerry won in '04, it was thought that holbrooke probably

would have been a secretary of state and he put out a very moving tribute calling holbrooke a warrior for peace and that's how he was viewed on capitol hill. what i think was notable about his relationship on capitol hill, is that they went back decades. this was a man who a lot of folks on capitol hill felt that they could trust. when you're dealing with delicate situations like that, that trust and those long-term relationships is really key. >> emily, thank you so much, jamie, dan, amy, my thanks to all of you. the disgraced bernie madoff won't go to his son's. the situation in north korea is oeskilating. richard lui will have an exclusive interview with someone who's been there more than half a dozen times. my doctor said most calcium supplements...

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breaking right now. former white house chief of staff rahm emanuel is answering questions about his bid for chicago mayor. he was sworn in half an hour ago and the big question is if he lived in chicago long enough to run for mayor. he started off answering some very basic questions about jobs he's held, where he's lived since he was a child. he's been explaining how he moved back and forth between washington and chicago over the past couple of years. as white house chief of staff, we're going to continue to listen in and we will watch this hearing for you with rahm emanuel. some new signs today it might be a green christmas for the nation's retailers this holiday shopping season. a new report out just this morning shows sales climbed nearly 1% in november and strong clothing sales helped lead the way. they rose nearly 3%. and lock at what is happening right now on the markets. the dow is up 55 points and the s&p and nasdaq is in positive

territory, as well. wall street having a little something to feel good about this morning. well, two years after ruining thousands of lives in a massive ponzi scheme, bernie madoff is still making headlines. take a look at the "new york post" madoff's final insult. he will not be attending the funeral of his son, mark, who committed suicide over the weekend. jeff rossen has the latest on all of this. it has really been a tragic twist to what is a tragic story for lots of people. >> yeah, it really has. bernie madoff apparently decided not to attend the funeral out of respect, he said, for his family. a fammy that has basically shub shuned him. his kids haven't spoken to him in years and bernie's wife, ruth, is furious with him and blames him for mark's suicide and now bernie madoff own grandkids may pay for his mistakes. at the madoff's connecticut estate, the family gathered monday, no comment as relatives came down the long, winding

driveway. as they grieve mark's suicide, apparently depressed over the criminal investigation and lawsuits against him, his father, bernie madoff, has made a decision behind bars. he will not attend mark's funeral out of his consideration of his daughter' in-law and grandchildren's privacy. instead according to his lawyer, madoff will hold his own private ceremony in prison. it's not even clear if bernie madoff would be welcome that funeral. mark cut ties with his father and mother, ruth, when the scandal broke in 2008. friends say they haven't talked since. now, living in florida, reportedly blames her convict husband for their son's death. >> she claims that bernie madoff has blood on his hands. she calls him an and that he totally ruined their family and the death of their son was the final straw. >> mark madoff pled poverty to

friends. his compound in connecticut worth $2.3 million. his strauling ocean front estate in nantucket scene here is worth $7 million and the manhattan apartment where he hanged himself with a dog leash is worth $6 million. now, lawsuits against him seek payback for his father's admitted scam. with mark gone, his wife and young children, as young as 2 years old, may be on the hook for tens of millions. >> the victims of the bernie madoff ponzi scheme want their money back and one thing that they've tried to do is go after mark madoff's children, seeking money that they got through allegedly the bernie madoff ponzi scheme. so, this litigation is going to go on. >> reporter: federal investigators haven't ruled out criminal charges either. mark and andrew turned their father in when he confessed to them, but officials still want to know what the sons knew about the ponzi scheme and whether they were involved. >> andrew is now the soul

surviving son and if the u.s. attorney had intended to bring charges against the sons, it will all fall on andrew now. >> both mark and andrew madoff have denied any knowledge or involvement in the ponzi scheme from the very start and law enforcement sources now say two years later, there's just not enough evidence yet to charge either one of them. by the way, so far, no word yet on funeral plans. the family hasn't even claimed his body. >> we don't even know if the mom will go to the funeral. >> that's unclear. the family has gone into shut down mode. they have been seen at some of the different properties that we showed you, but no one is talking. we don't know if ruth is going either. taking bags on a vacation used to be a given now, of course, it's just one more thing you have to pay for. when you hear how much the airlines are making on your luggage, you might want to take your next flight wearing lots and lots of layers or maybe just hit by a bus, but not a heart.

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let's get you up to date because there is a lot going on. first of all, in london, if you didn't hear, julian assange has been granted bail, although already swedish authorities who have charged him with rape want to appeal the judge's decision to allow him to go into a friend's house where he would have to check in every night. second thing, just handed this, coming from steny hoyer and representative patrick murphy. they've just released a statement saying they're going to introduce a new stand-alone piece of legislation. they want to repeal don't ask, don't tell. that was very much up in the air in this end of congress session, this lame duck session of congress. and in addition, we know that the president and vice president have been in a meeting with the national security council. this was a planned meeting to talk about the way forward in afghanistan and pakistan, but takes on new significance

because of the untimely death last night of ambassador richard holbrooke. so, we're following all those stories for you on a very busy morning on msnbc. meantime, get a load of this. they've been nickel and diming us for every little thing, but check out how much the airlines are making. $4.3 billion so far this year in bag and change fees. that's just through the third quarter, by the way. up dramatically from last year. charles leoca is the director of the travel alliance. good to see you, good morning. >> good morning. >> just in time for all this holiday travel and people look at these numbers and they, frankly, probably are saying are you kidding me? i guess the question is, are these legitimate business charges or are we being taken by the airlines? >> well, they are legitimate business charges, but we are being taken by the airlines. and what the airlines are doing is the airlines are hiding these

charges from us. anyone who buys an airline ticket from a travel agent and that's the travel agent on the corner or one of the online travel agencies or a businessman getting his tickets to his corporate travel agent is being lied to by the airlines. the airlines are hiding those fees from those people. so, even if you wanted to know them, the travel agents don't know what the fees are so they can't tell you what they are. and that's one of the big problems. when we feel that we're nickeled and dimed it's not because it's nickal and dimes, it's because we feel surprised. we feel outraged that all of a sudden this charge shows up that we didn't even know about. they don't even buother telling us. >> confusing sometimes when you go to the airplane and if you're a frequent flier. it really is very confusing, particularly for people who don't fly all the time and i would think rolooking at these numbers because they have taken some airlines to profitability

that they're not going to go away any time soon. >> the airline fees are not going away. but what we have been working on here in washington we have been working together with the department of transportation on rule making and hopefully this rule making will come out in a full months and mandate that the airlines be required to tell us all of the fees up front so that we can compare prices across airlines and know what we're buying before we put down our credit card. that's what we've been working on right now. at least they can tell us how they're going to jab us with fees instead of hiding it until we go to check in or show up at the airport. >> is there any indication that an airline like southwest that doesn't charge baggage fees is being held by that? >> well, southwest thinks that they're being helped by it. southwest has really focused around airline fees. their new approach will say, no change fees.

i don't know if you know, but change fees are the second biggest fee that the airlines are collecting and i think southwest will be helped by this, but they can only put so many people on their airlines and we have to deal with the rest of the airlines. >> i guess is the best message for people out there, if you don't have to check, don't do it and try to quo that you're going to be able to keep that fare or try to know that you're not going to have to change it because i was just hearing this morning something about some airlines are thinking about you letting sort of buy insurance in case you have to change your ticket to avoid that big fee, which is often like 150 bucks. >> that's right. that happens to be, i think continental just introduced what they called fare lock and for a fee they'll let you hold your airfare for between three days and five days. so, airlines are looking at it. part of the rulemaking of the department of transportation that they're looking at and part of the ruling which should come down in a couple months they

require the airlines to allow everybody to have at least 24 hours to make up their minds. so, at least you've got a one-day hold on your ticket. but in terms of flying, do your research ahead of time. southwest charges nothing for any bags. jetblue charges for first bag, no, they do not charge for the first bag, but then they charge for the second bag. other airlines almost always charge money for all the bags and all these fees are nonrefundable. even if your bags don't show up with you when your flight gets there. they keep the money. >> they keep my fee, too? >> they keep your fee and it's gone all the way through federal courts and the federal court said, sorry, they get to keep the money. it's crazy. >> it is crazy. well, happy travels, charles. thanks so much we appreciate you being with us. >> take care, chris. bye. a deadly winter storm slowly making its way east across the country. americans from the great lakes to florida have been in this deep freeze and at least 16 deaths are blamed on the massive

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optimi optimistic. they wrote a "washington post" we saw similar challenges to laws that created social security and established new civil rights challenges ultimat failed and so will this one. dan, was this a foreseeable bump in the road or a set back? >> this was unforeseeable and the right telegraph that this was going to be a legal attack and a guy at the justice department whose soul job is coordinating a response. i think they're ready for it and they'll probably win but they have a bigger problem than a legal problem. the more that this is out there that the legal scholars that really smart people are questioning whether this is the individual mandate is legal, it just reinforces that notion that this bill is not legitimate and it's not something that people could have trust and confidence. >> public relations problem.

>> political problem, absolutely. >> is it a political problem? i'm asking this from the perspective to the fact that two clinton appointees, two judges said that this law was good and now you have a bush appointee who said the law is unconstitutional. >> we accept that this will go all the way to the supreme court and that they will be the final adj adjudicators on this question. it is more than a pr problem, is a political legislative problem because when this bill was passed what was not included is language that said if parts of this are struck down, then the other parts can still stand. if this personal mandate is struck down as unconstitutional and an overreach of the commerce clause, that brings this whole obama care house of cards down around it. >> emily, let me ask you about another story. we got a statement from steny hoyer, the house majority leader and representative patrick murphy, they're still trying to push, don't ask, don't tell. they have a stand alone bill, what is going to happen? >> that's a little bit unclear

and that announcement that they're going to do the stand alone bill will clear some of it. we're right now in the lame duck session of congress and heading into the holidays. there is a lot to get done before we do and this announcement that there is going to be a stand-alone bill indicates that the choreography of the senate and the house passing this as it appears, i would guess, judging from that statement that the house will pass it first. there was some concern about how it would go through the senate, that it would have to have identical language to the house bill so that you wouldn't have to bounce it from chamber to chamber and this announcement seems to make it that the house is going first. >> important stuff there, thank you so much emily, dan, amy. we'll get back to you on some other issues. americans are pretty used to tv. viewership holding steady over the past five years, but, guess what? online activity is catching up. the average american now spends about 13 hours a week on the web. that's as much time as they spend watching tv.

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wikileaks founder julian assange has been granted bail. this is his attorney mark stevens answering questions from the press. >> what did he say to you? >> everybody was very pleased, everybody on the legal team and many others put in many hours of work this week getting very little sleep and part of the problem is preparing the evidence. it was, of course, an enormous relief, but it is tinged with enormous sadness that we on his legal team know that he is abut to leave the jail for another night in solitude confinement where he is not allowed to talk to other prisoners and locked up

for 23 1/2 hours a day and subject to infrared 24 hours a day. his mail is not getting through and he's not being allowed to read the newspapers or "time" magazine who sent him a magazine. that was ripped up at the prison. >> so, mark stevens, trying to get the money to the court so he can get julian assange out of jail. already swedish authorities are saying they're going to appeal that decision and we'll follow that out of london. in the meantime, you may have heard this north korea threatened the south with nuclear war yesterday and, of course, that raises the question, does the north have nuclear weapons? in an exclusive interview with the scientific observer who was shocked add what he found in north korea last month, richard lui gets his personal views and also saw some pictures that few have seen. dr. siegfried heckert first trip

to north korea was 2004. >> i actually wound up in a conference room in the reprocessing facilitfacility. >> reporter: six more times he made that trip, taking his own pictorial log. after number seven, he says what nobody wants to hear, north korea can now help create new north koreas. nations with nuclear capability that wouldn't hesitate to use it against the u.s. iran could be one of them. first because north korea despite under sanctions is able to export millions of dollars of arms annually says this u.s. report. as a document from wikileaks shows, that could include missile technology and then november's shocking new find. >> the north korean technology that i saw is ahead of iran's. >> reporter: last year he snapped this picture. this year he sees 2,000 as he calls it, beautiful centrifuges as his mock up shows here. >> it was really quite stunning

to see that because i simply didn't expect them to have this sophistication and this scale of facility. >> reporter: and they built it in one year, almost impossible to do. this is the nuclear site in 2009 and then in 2010. but there could be more. >> there's another facility of some size still operating. >> reporter: perhaps making bomb fuel, he says. >> the past facilities i've been in, the equipment, especially the control equipment is old style, sort of '50s america style. >> reporter: but the new control room -- >> what you would see in a good facility today in the united states. >> reporter: he talks openly about what he sees. >> the north koreans expect me to do that because that's the way they can actually have an effect. >> reporter: an effect on a country that hecker says enough plutonium for four to eight nagasaki-sized bombs. >> the message clearly was, look, we have the plutonium and if we have the plutonium, that means zee the ba s they have th.

they wanted me to take that message back to the u.s. government and they say north korea has the bomb and they want some respect. >> reporter: some ask how we can give respect when you see pictures of hungry north koreans. but despite being under sanctions he sees what a poor country could afford. like this new uranium facility with its blue roof. instead boldly saying, we are here. >> richard lui is here now. some very sobering comments from the scientist and you also got to see quite a few photographs that he took, right? >> dr. hecker along the way in his last seven visits have snapped some pictures. basically what he is asking in one way sanctions have been happening in recent times, but are they working? let me show you this picture first. this was of a tower that was being built over the course of 20 years. 2009 he and he comes back in 2010, look at that.

done over the last year. we can zoom in closer to see some of the work that was not done and then it was done over the course of one year. another picture for you, 2009. on the left-hand side i want to show you this, chris. this phone booths, not superman type but phone booths and they have cell phones. not a big deal. what a critic will ask, are sanctions working because they're still able to develop their nuclear functionality and the enrichment process as well as their own economy. in fact, a u.n. report that said that international trade of some $7 billion in 2009, that is double from the year before. so, the question is, what is the solution to north korea based on its new capability to potentially create more north kore koreas. we care about that here in the united states. >> richard lui, thank you so much. in italy they took out some of the lean of that famous tower in pisa. part of an eight-year

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minutes" even the thought of talking to school children gets him all emotional. >> making sure these kids have a shot at the american dream, lie i do. it's important. >> reporter: on abc's "the view" they had a field day of it. >> this guy has a problem. >> reporter: he gets away with in a way his predecessor would not. >> if you had seen nancy pelosi crying all these years what would you have said. >> reporter: they may have said what they said when nancy clinton almost cried in 2008. that the tears were not for the tough. others say it humanized her. she won new hampshire. her husband's frequent emoding

were seen as humanizing him. so that old '80s song by the cure -- ♪ boys don't cry may be out of day. tom lutz says what matters for men is why they're tearing up and when. >> your sense of whether the circumstance warrants it. >> reporter: crying publicly might have sunk a dour ed muskie in his 1972 presidential campaign, and it won't win you fans if you're a governor cheating on your wife or a tel televangelist cheating on god. >> i have sinned you, my god. >> reporter: whether it's glenn beck opening up the water works, or athletes tearing over a loss or a win, and remember the bachelor jason mesnick crying

over which love interest to choose? and more politicians than you can count, giving a view of not their feminine side but their human side. >> i can hardly speak. let's bring in our company, are you a cryer, dan? >> on occasion, yeah. there's nothing wrong with it. >> do you remember, was it like the '80s, '90s, real men don't eat quiche. do real men cry, emily. >> i don't like to see anyone powerful crying. as a reporter you automatically, unless you are a cold fish, you feel sorry for them. as a reporter you shouldn't feel sorry for the people that you're covering. but john boehner, i've been covering him for ten years. he does cry. he's an emotional guy so this idea that it's a put-on, that's not so. he's just an emotional guy. >> i will think about how it might work for me. dan, emily, amy, thank you very

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