against a roman catholic. this time around they're meeting to consider which of the two roman catholics to endorse, to gather their circled wagons. progress takes time. a half century ago, jack kennedy had to defend himself against the defending forces of americana. this time around, two of his co-religionists are up for the big prize for getting their endorsement. that's "hardball" for now. thanks for being with us. "politics nation" with al sharpton starts right now. gop candidates trying to win, but they're trying to win ugly. tonight rick santorum and the rest are headed right off a cliff, pulling some ugly language front and center in the campaign. gop rivals teaming up to take down the front-runner, and scott walker, we hardly knew you. his recall drive is nearly done.

the signatures are piling up, but the governor is still in denial. >> all the focus from out here in washington, in terms of the national unions were focused on defeating me in the recall, what it comes down to is i took away the gravy train, the free money. >> welcome to "politics nation." i'm app. sharpton. the republican candidates are going after each other in new hampshire. a new australia poll shows mitt romney with a huge lead there, and he's putting pressure on south carolina as well, out campaigning today with senator mccain. but here's a word of warning, willard. newt's on the warpath. more on that later. but we start with a message that is emerging in this gop race, and it's a rough message. here's rick santorum, mocking the idea of health care for all americans. >> now, we have to have

something for everybody. we could have people having better health care than -- access to better health insurance than other people. no. no. it all has to be the same. is that america? equality of result is it is that what built the greatest country in the history of the world? no. >> i'm sorry. access to health care lessens our nation's standing? rick, you seem to be saying let the poor fend for themselves, and then you demonize anyone who brings up inequality. >> this divide of america, 99/1, you know it's not 99/1. it's anybody that makes money and pays taxes, and anybody who doesn't. that's the 99/1. >> that's fine, rick, pick a fight with those too poor to pay their taxes. realize this. a new report today shows that economic mobility is worse in this country than in canada and much of europe.

you're tone-deaf, as much as newt is, a man who repeated this line twice today. >> if the naacp invites me, i'll go to their convention and talk about why the african-american community should demand paychecks and not be satisfied with food stamps. if the naacp invites me to speak, i'm going. if latin-american group invites me to speak, i'm going. >> help blacks and latinos get off food stamps? are they the only people in this country who needs foot stamps? that tone sounds a lot like rick sap storm last week. >> i don't want to make people's lives and provide for themselves and their families.

>> i looked at that and i didn't say that. what i started to say is a word and then sort of changed and it came out, and people said i said black. i didn't. in fact i'm pretty confident i didn't say black. i started to say a word and sort of mumbled it and changed my thought, but i don't recall saying black. no one in that audience, no one listens, no reporter there heard me say that. >> no reporter heard you say that? npr had a journalist in the room, who reported exactly that. let's listen to santorum's initial comments again. >> i don't want to make people's lives better by gives them somebody else's money. i want to give them the opportunity to earn money and provide for themselves. >> if you didn't say "black people" what people were you talking about you didn't want to

go out and get other people's money? who are the blah people? where is their an zest real background. if you were going to put another word in there, what was that, rick? all of us have said things we regretted. we said we said it, we either corrected it, or we took the blame and said that is not what my life is about. don't act like we're silly. as i said, as one who has seen these kinds of campaigns before, from the welfare queen to the willy horton, to the angry white male vote that we heard in the '80s, to now extreme white branch that they're trying to ignite in this party. we don't need this. the only way we can come together is to be open and honest and deal with reality. and the reality is that we need to come together in this country and deal with our divisions. that's the only way we're going to heal them. joining me is emanuel cleaver,

democrat from missouri, and chairman of the congressional black caucus. mr. chairman, thanks foe coming on the show tonight. >> good to be with us. >> let me, mr. chairman, show you three things that make me become very disturbed that they're playing to a branch of this party that you and i have seen in milder forms before, some of which i named before you came on. if you listen to the same rick santorum. in january of last year, say this about president obama, and abortion that he brought in race. >> the question is, this is what barack obama didn't want answered -- is that human life? a person under the constitution? and barack obama says no. well, if that person, human life is not a person, i find it almost remarkable for a black man to say, no, we are going to decide who who are people and

who are not people. >> i think he said black man that time. he might have said blah man. let's look at ron paul's newsletter, express, horribly bigoted ideas, saying if you've ever been robbed by a black teenage male, you know how unbelievably fleet of foot they can be. order was restored in l.a., only when it came time for blacks to pick up their welfare checks, things about dr. king, and also ron paul has gotten support in the republican primaries from extreme supremist groups, yet people say to me, what are you talking about extreme white branch. isn't this clear that there's an element they're seemingly playing to that's been played to before that we need to deal with it? one thing i give to president obama, there have been black extremists, and he said i will not deal with that, i will not take your endorsement. >> absolutely.

>> and why can't others say you can't deal with that if you want to -- >> one of the problems and obviously you and people of goodwill obviously these candidates believe there's an element they can bring aboard and get excited by making these comments. words and feathers are easily scattered, but not easily collected. what's going on is that these low-grade words are being used to further fracture an already politically polarized nation. what i would hope is that the people of goodwill and the gop, maybe even people like michael steele who would come fort and say that day is over, we're not going to run a campaign like this, because it's going to do enormous damage to this country. i think all of the candidates who are remaining are making

these comments. i hope and maybe i should pray that there is not a receptive audience out there. i don't believe there is, but i think we've all got to be vigilant to make sure when they make these comments, we call them out. for example, i think, you know, if people are forced to eat their words, they may not come back for a second helping. >> well, i think you're right. let me bring in jonathan capehart msnbc contributor and opinion writer for "the washington post." jonathan, thanks for being on. >> thanks, rev. >> let me ask you, when you look at the facts. i want people at home to have the facts, about food stamps s. because when newt gingrich says that, the fact is 34% of the people receives food stamps in this country are white. so it's factually inaccurate, which i believe this is playing to some ugliness.

we all want healing, but you can't have healing if you won't put the facts on the table. when newt says he'll go to the naacp, if i talk about the inequality in education, as long as it was with charter school, that was fine, but if i talk about inequality in income, that's divisive. you can only speak about inequality when they want to use it to their ends. how about let's start talking about inequality, so we can bring the unequal gap? >> you race very good points, but congressman cleaver said something that was interesting. he doesn't thing -- or he hoped there wasn't a receptive audience within the republican party for some of this red rick, but keep in mind they're able to get away with it, because there's seemingly no one on the other side willing to stand up and say, wait a minute what you're saying is factually

incorrect and what you're saying is so coded, it will leave a negative impression. you showed, rev, the percentages there. i think it was food stamps. i couldn't see it. >> yes. >> but we all know that in political discourse, when you hear words such as poor, welfare, food stamps, entitlements, folks automatically think black or minority. and so you can have someone like newt gingrich, who can stand up and say without being challenged by anyone in the room that really poor kids in really poor neighborhoods don't have a work ethic. he didn't put race into the equation. he didn't have to. >> now you're being divisive, you're being polarizing, jonathan. mr. chairman it's not only race, though, it's income, women's rights to choose, it's gays' rights. when you look at what the gop candidates for president all stand for, the 1% in this

country, tax cuts for the beltiest americans, new tax cuts for corporations, support ending medicare as we know it. supporting cutting social security, oppose the buffett rule. they are against various groups and playing to try to divide groups. if we blame one for something rather than the other, we all won't come together to try to bring this country together. >> i think that could be a strategy. i don't think it's going to work. i hope it won't work, but you know, reverend, the best thing that's happening to president obama is the republican campaign. the individuals who are out running and making all these statements i think are turning people off even if they don't turn off people, they'll turn some on who might very well come out now, because they see they are being attacked. not just minorities. >> jonathan, let me say this before we have to go to the next segment, i think that the chairman is right. i think a low of people are

getting turned off, because they're getting frightened by this, and i think that clearly those that have been marginalized, i think the hope is we build one country by what we believe. we don't have to agree, but we have to have a process. you cannot have unity without a fair hearing of the inequality in this country, and those being robbed of civil rights, not just by race, but by the other areas i raised as well. >> right, rev, one thing to keep in mind, to jump off what congressman cleaver said, there are a lot of people within the democratic party base, and folks who voted for president obama four years ago who are really ticked off. they don't think he's followed through on the promises he ade made, they don't think he's strong enough, but i encourage everyone to listen to what's being said on the other side, within the republican party, both the folks running for president and the folks on capitol hill. if you think that, you know,

things will be better if president obama is not reelected, or if you stay home because you're angry, just take -- you're going to have yourself to blame if the man you voted for four years ago and who is more aligned with what you think and what you believe than the person who's going to run against him eventually come december -- or i'm sorry, come november, then you're only going to have yourself to blame for what might happen. >> seen, jonathan, i was all the way with you, chairman cleaver i was about to say -- and then you said you're -- i have to check you out, jonathan. >> november. >> we must do it by interesting responsible enough. i've had to learn even the hard way, we've got to denounce extremists on all sides. anchts right. >> that should not be how any of the candidates for the president tolerate. >> absolutely. >> congressman, and jonathan

capehart, thank you both. ahead, so much for staying positive. newt hits the ground in new hampshire with one goal -- droid willard. he's ripping him for being a timid moderate. plus pop quiz -- what does willard have in common with speaker boehner's republican congress? answer, they do nothing for jobs. we'll show you how president obama plans to run against all of them, and scott walker's in washington today bashing unions as recall signatures are rolling in by the thousands at home. this is about to get interesting. you're watching "politics nation" on msnbc. this is an rc robotic claw. my high school science teacher made me what i am today. our science teacher helped us build it. ♪ now i'm a geologist at chevron, and i get to help science teachers.

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we've been telling you the gop race is the greatest reality show on tv. and now we are our first alliance. politico reporting today the gingrich camp is interested in forging a non-aggression packet with the santorum camp, but newt's holding nothing back on willard romney. he's in full-on attack mode in new hampshire today. >> governor romney ran for

governor -- called himself a moderate. as governor he appointed liberal judges to appease the democrats. at governor he raised taxes. as governor, he pullet planned parenthood in romney-care by name, and as governor, romney-care has tax-paid abortions. i thought it was telling after the millions he spent, he only got 25% in iowa. 3 out of 4 iowa republicans said no. i don't see him as much of a front-runner, frankly. >> ouch, and out with the first willard-bashing ad. this one dropped in new hampshire and south carolina today. >> the plan, tim mid, parts of it virtually identical. timid won't create jobs and timid certainly won't defeat barack obama. so what made newt forget this promise to stay positive? >> we're going to stay positive. i am not going to go negative.

they can't hit me with enough negative ads to make me go negative. >> probably the rapid free fall. he's dropped from second to fifth place in new hampshire. romney remains way ahead of everybody. >> make no mistake, it's personal. it looks like he has one goal, to defeat willard. joining mess is matt stengel. the newest edition of "time" has him asking, do you like me now? thanks for being here. do they like him? or is it still an open question? a couple weeks ago -- i am a "time" magazine reader, you had the opposite side. >> why don't they like me? our memory is pretty short, as recently as a month ago, he was

polling in the second tier. he wasn't spending a lot of time there, hadn't spent a lot of teem there as he did 4 years ago, and then he made a calculated risk which paid off. i seem to be rising, the other people seem to be falling. i'm going to go all-in. it was a risky, interesting thing he did. yes, even though as mr. gingrich says, only 25% of the people voted for him, that was more than it had been just a few weeks before. >> because of the increase, he seemed to have calculated a way that didn't explode in his face, but how do we deal with the fact that santorum, who was nowhere on anybody's radar has now become a legitimate rival to him? >> i think that question remains to be seen, whether he's a legitimate rival. remember, iowa is the only place -- first of all, it's not a primary, but a caucus, the only place where retail campaigning really works. that worked for jimmy card are

carter back in 1976. you need an organization there, you need endorsements. santorum doesn't have any of those things. he doesn't have an organization. he doesn't have money. what romney has is a juggernaut and it's going to roll over everybody in new hampshire, maybe the same in south carolina. >> but newt gingrich was on radio today, and he started talking about maybe tying some kind of coalition together, alliance with santorum. listen to this. >> absolutely. of course. we both dislike deeply the degree to which the stability sells out the american people. we have lots of things that fit together. >> and if you also see that

huntsman and attacking romney. tell me whether -- >> i've never been for -- unlike the other two folks who were running here. >> when you've been on three sides of all the major issues, that then creates a trust problem. >> you see, al, let's look at iowa and new hampshire. they're as different as chalk and cheese. new hampshire is the northeast. it's a primary where independents can vote. there's no democratic primary. if i'm an independent and i'm interested, interested in a moderate, i even like that romney-care in massachusetts, i'm going to vote in the republican primary. republicans can't talk about this, because it's scary to them, but there are a lot more moderate republicans and independents, than conservatives or evangelicals.

evangelicals are disproportionately represented. the biggest threat to romney -- >> south carolina you don't have the same demographic, maybe not florida. >> but romney has a lot more competition to him on the right than on the left. huntsman, in some ways, is the only guy competing with romney in new hampshire and south carolina. south carolina is the place, that's the killing ground of candidates. that's where organization and money, i mean, remember what happened to mccain there eight years ago i don't know if that will bush but hits strategy -- >> his strategy is to win new hampshire and try to wipe everything out in south carolina. >> and then he would be the consensus candidate. his only enemy in new hampshire is expectations. he's polling so well -- >> when he's next door to his home state, they'll act -- no

election is nothing, but south carolina, suppose if by then they can get a consensus conservative candidate, and this whole gingrich/santorum, the rest of them kind of come together. >> but then they have to drop out. >> i would say, guys, skip new hampshire. you know, mitt has a house there. he was the governor of the state next door. you have nothing to gain. just leave and starred campaigning in south carolina, but they're not doing that. >> i think -- so you're saying that you think because he has the organizational muscle and the resources, he may be able to outlast these guys and play on the fact that the right is divided, and he only has huntsman on the left? >> you said it better than i did. if i'm wrong, you can have me back. >> i'll have you back anyway. rick stengel. "time's" magazine's managing

editor. ahead, the fight for jobs is working, and he won't stop. positive news out today. plus more skeletons are flying around in willard's closet as bain capital. >> mitt romney wants to calm himself a job creator. he doesn't care about jobs. he cares about money. and it's been exactly one year since john boehner took the speaker's gavel. i'll survey the damage. that's next.

we've reported on the progressive wave rolling through america, and now the wave hits indiana where the fight over workers ease rights is heating up. democratic lawmakers there are boycotting the state assembly to keep republicans from ramming through an antiworkers bill designed to cripple unions. last year the same democrats fled the state rather than let the gop pass the bill. as soon as tomorrow, the republican speaker could start fining the democrats $1,000 a day in a bid to drag them back to the table. it looked like republicans are starting the new year off with the same old tricks, but there may be a few surprises in store for them. big news on scott walker recall is coming up.

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welcome back to "politics nation." today we got new signs that the economy is moving in the right direction. unemployment claims dropped by 15,000 last week. moving its best average in 3 1/2 years. this progress is happening despite is the lack of a jobs bill coming out of congress. one year ago tonight john boehner took the speaker's gavel, and promised he would create jobs, but instead republicans have focused on blocking virtually every single plan for president obama. nancy pelosi talked about that today. >> one year in office, no significant jobs bill, i know they're saying we passed one piece of the president's jobs bill, the veterans piece. of course they did. of course they did.

>> this do-nothing congress has forced the president to go it alone. that's why the plan was announced to put together low-income teenagers to work this summer, a plan he can launch without congress. and richard cordray has been nominated. >> i've got an obligation to act on behalf of the american people. i'm not going to stand by while a minority in the senate puts party ideology ahead of the people that we were elected to serve. not with so much at stake, not at this make-or-break moment for middle-class americans. we're not going to let it happen. >> the strategy is becoming clear. he'll call out republicans both in congress and on the campaign trailing for faili to care about jobs for the middle class. joining me now is patrick

gibheart, and tad devine. thank you both for joining me. >> thank you for having us on, rev. >> let me start with you, patrick. how will the dnc support the president's plan to run against a do-nothing congress? >> rev, let me back up for a quick second, if i can't. i want to note as previewed today in "new york times," it's clear under this president, under his policies, we've managed to grow manufacturing jobs foe the first time since 1997, contrast that with the bush administration two straight years now. you can trust the dnc and the president's campaign, we're going to continue to amplify all the great success we've had in growing this economy. sure there's quite a way to go still. americans are still struggling to have economic security, but it's clear with 21 straight

months of private sector job growth, reverend action and with the great news that we had today in manufacturing, in some increase in consumer confidence that we're beginning to turn this corner here, and the vision this president has laid, and the foundation he's laid in his budget and all the great work he did in making sure we preserve the iconic automobile industry, while republicans were saying let detroit die, it's abundantly clear those policies are taking hold, we're having success, and we're going to press the case. >> that's very impress iive tad will that resonate with voters? when you're talking about manufacturing jobs, you're talking about jobs that make middle-class families become possible for them to sustain themselves.

>> i think it will. the president's record is coming into full view. when he was inaugurated, that one month in january '09, this country lost 820,000 jobs in that one month. in the next three months we lost 2.2 million jobs. 3 million jobs in four months. and tomorrow when the jobs report comes out, i think we will see this country has created over 3 million private sector jobs in the last 22 months. i think that will put things into perspective for people. do they want a president who's adopted policies very different from george bush, on do they want a rep president, who all have said they will take the bush policies a back into force and move the country in the direction that bush did. >> you can't blame one man for another man's deeds, but let's look at willard. while you have talked about every month the increase of jobs, the president bailed out the auto industry, willard wrote

november 2008 in "new york times" an op-ed titled "let detroit go bankrupt." >> if they get their bailouts that the chief executives asked for today, you can kiss the american automotive industry good-bye. >> well, let's look at it. chrysler is still there with a 26% increase. ford 17% fleck. general motors 14% increase. it looks like willard was a little off the mark, patrick. >> i would say he's way off the mark. let's look at the facts here. as a consequence of the courageous position that the president took in the face of ferocious opposition from republicans like mitt romney and all the tea party republicans on

capitol hill, we preserved 1.4 million jobs in the heartland of the country. look at what mitt romney did when he was governor of massachusetts. under mitt romney, that state declined in manufacturing at twice the national average. twice the national average, rev, and they ranged 47 out 50 in job growth overall in this country, so mitt romney likes to say he's going to conduct the campaign and prosecute the case about the economy, we welcome that conversation against a governor who ranked 47th out of 50 in this nation on job growth. >> i might add that ford is the only one that didn't get a bailout. tad, let me ask you this, david axelrod has called mr. willard 25%. you're a political strategist. how do you deal with a guy with all this money, with all of the implosions of the flavors of the month, he can't get over 25%.

what's going on here? >> i think what's going on is republica conservatives don't like him. he has changed his position on fundamental issues. when i worked against romney in 1994 for senator kennedy in that senate race, he was strongly pro-choice. he said publicly he would be better on gay rights than ted kennedy. he said global climate change was happening, and now he's changed his position on all of that to appease the right wing of his own party. this was a guy who wanted to let detroit go under, but was more than ready to bail out friends on wall street when they needed minneapolis. i think the republicans don't like him for a simple reasons. they don't believe a word he says, and he's been on both sides of big issues. >> so you were pasch of the kennedy campaign that beat him in massachusetts when he was on the other side of the issues. >> that's right. i went to indiana in 1994, and made some ads in that campaign, talked to striking workers, a

company that was put out of business by mitt romney. they came in, fired everybody, retired three quarters of the workers at partial pay. they took the most vulnerable people out of the workforce and turned it into a profit center. after several years, they ran that company into bankruptcy, took $100 million into their own pockets and left town. >> no, ted, not the job creator. don't say that. mr. patrick, let me ask you about one question i need to ask you, the congressional races. you're the executive director of the dnc. how do we deal with the fact that this congress has gone from 24% in may down now in december to 11%. are you confident? that a lot of the newly elected tea party congressmen can be defeated and the dnc has a shot of trying to take back the

congress? >> reverend, i am convinced that republicans in this congress, tea party leaders in this congress have been exposed. if you look still data, it's abundantly clear places in the country where the tea party brand is at the absolute lowest is where tea party members were elected. 2010 was a tough year, and of course the economy was the number one issue facing all americans. during that election, republicans ran with the promise they would create jobs. from the moment that they stepped into congress and mitch mcconnell said his number one imperative to was to make sure that -- and every sing the republicans from boehner, kantor, to folks like romney and santorum all followed suit. i'm conferred when the contrast is made, americans will make the

sat right chose, and they'll said him back to the white house with democratic majorities in the house and senate. >> thank you both for joining us tonight. the recall drive is hotter than ever. smart move, scott. and a late holiday present for the late-night comediennes. the cain train is getting ready to take off again. [ male announcer ] to the 5:00 a.m. scholar. the two trains and a bus rider. the "i'll sleep when it's done" academic. for 80 years, we've been inspired by you. and we've been honored to walk with you to help you get where you want to be. ♪ because your moment is now. let nothing stand in your way.

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governor scott walker is so unpopular back home in wisconsin, he had to fly all the way to washington, d.c. to find an audience that actually wanted to hear about his antiunion agenda, and thought he should keep his job. walker spoke at a conservative think tank today defending his move to strip collective bargaining rights and blaming unions for his own fall from grace. >> all the focus from washington in terms of the national unions really comes down to, i took away the gravy train, the free

money they had before, and gave that right back to the workers to make that decision. >> you're wrong, governor. this is about workers' rights that's why thousands turned out in the cold to oppose your law. it's why more than half a million people have signed a petition to recall you from office, a petition drive that will wrap up in less than two weeks, just today, two top republican presidential candidates attacked president obama for naming new officials to the national labor board, a move he made to shore up union rights. >> he ade it's killing jobs. this president is a chronny capitalist. he's a job killer. >> he's done it for a clear raise. he's paying off the union allies. you don't want to come here to be left-wing union nlb --

>> labor stooges? chronny capitalists? this is what unions are facing this year with scott walker and people like him. reactionaries who want to roll back decades of progress and put corporations before workers. joining me now is mike tate, chairman of the wisconsin democratic party, which is helping to coordinate the recall effort. mike, how strong is the recall movement right now? >> hi, reverend. the recall movement is very strong, made up nos just of labor union households, but people from all over the state concerned about what scott walker has done to wisconsin in just the one year he was in office. we had half a million right before christmas, we're on track to hit or publicly stated goal of 720,000 signatures collected. >> 720,000 signatures. >> that's our publicly stated

goal. we only need 540,000 signatures to generate an election, but we want to hand in a number so impressive appeared so large there will be little question about which side the public is on and whether the election will happen. it's a pretty strong movement driven by the hundreds of thousands of people standing out in the cold in wisconsin, and have signed these petitions. 9 governor says -- that the bosses, the union bosses would choose let me show you what governor walker says. >> people ask me who my opponent is going to be. i said the person does not matter. it will be the big government union governors here in washington who will pour limitless money into our state and try to influence our vote. we'll have to be ready to counter that.

>> union bosses? isn't this the governor that was talking he thought with the koch brothers. i don't think they lived in wisconsin, and he's talking about money. how do you respond to that? 6. >> he's raised millions from outside of wisconsin thus far. he he and his allies spent about $5 million on tv in the last six, seven weeks alone. it's kind of ironic that he's talking about the millions that will be brought in from washington, d.c. when he's in washington, d.c. himself raising money from people who don't live in wisconsin. >> no, he was in washington -- the clip i just played -- i'll let you finish the statement, but what i just played was him in washington, speaking to a conservative think tank. >> he's in washington today probably raising millions from people who want to see unions put out of business, who are not on the sides of the working-class families that have been affected by scott walker's

simply reactionary agenda. it's kind of ironic. you know who will pick the candidate? is the people. we have an open primary process, and the people will decide. it's not going to be someone who doesn't live here. those are the people funding scott walker's campaign. >> now, when you look at the fact that the polls say that 58% support the recall of governor walker, quickly explain, mike, you're not recalling him for partisan reasons. he didn't run on what he did. the reason that a lot of people in wisconsin all want a recall is had he told them he was going to come in with this, he probably would have never got elected in the first place. he ran promising jobs, got in there and went after the unions. >> that's absolutely right, reverend. i think there's two main reasons that this recall against the governor is happening. obviously things like collective bargaining, health care cuts, those are all part of it.

but it's because he lied to the people. he did not tell us what he's going to do. he's simply benefited the koch brothers. >> i've got to wrap it up. >> okay. >> thank you so much. i'll be watching this. mike tate, thank you. we'll be right back. the best approach to food is to keep it whole for better nutrition. that's what they do with great grains cereal. they steam and bake the actual whole grain while the other guy's flake is more processed. mmm. great grains. the whole whole grain cereal. [ male announcer ] if you're looking for a pickup truck,

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