to get. good morning from new york. this is "daily rundown" i'm chuck todd. a ton to get to. 158 days until the election and as we count down the days, each monthly jobs report is more important than the last one. it's a gut punch. just 69,000 jobs were added in the month of may, while the unemployment rate rose to 8.2%. the unemployment rate had been trending down. that is not necessarily good news since more people were giving up on the job search. the rise in the jobless rate, this time, is due in large part to the return of more than 600,000 people either getting jobs or looking for jobs. nevertheless, the trend line for jobs added is unmistakable. that number dropped dramatically in march and then again in april to falling to 69,000 in may with the president working to beat the clock and convince americans

the economy is improving, this report is nothing but bad news. a perception that could drive a reality. 58% of americans still believe the nation is on the wrong track and this morning, romney argues he has the experience to turn the economy around. >> from day one, president romney focuses on the economy and the deficit. president romney's leadership puts jobs first. but there's something more than legislation or new policy, it's the feeling we'll have that our country's back. back on the right track. >> that's the latest ad that romney is put on the air. remember, he's only on the air in four states. more on the states in a minute. the highs and lows of presidential politics have been on full display with political theater at the white house and cheap political stunts outside it. president obama attempted a moment of political civility and hosted his predecessors, official portrait unveiling. >> i'm pleased that my portrait brings an interesting symmetry

to the white house collection. it now starts and ends with a george w. >> george, i will always remember the gathering you hosted for all the living former presidents before i took office. your kind words of encouragement, plus, you also left me a really good tv sports package. >> but civility ended there. on opposite ends of the country, the president's chief political strategist david axelrod and mitt romney were engaging in not so civil dueling political stunts. the obama campaign traveled to romney's home state of massachusetts for a press conference on the state house steps to slam. >> romney's economics didn't work then and it won't work now. >> awkwardly, though, given the close proximity, axle rod was knocked off message by a vocal group of romney staffers and

volunteers, something they shouldn't have been surprised about. >> you can't handle the truth, my friends. that's the problem. >> few hours later, the romney campaign had a political stunt of their own to unveil in california, at solyndra the company that president obama visited. part of his green jobs initiative. now, to prevent their event from being upstaged, the romney campaign kept the solyndra visit top secret until the las minute not even allowing traveling press to report on it until they appeared outside the company's headquarters. >> it's a symbol of success, but a failure. a symbol of a serious conflict of interest. tails and the taxpayers lose. >> now, romney already has a web

video out this morning pegged to that solyndra visit and he can court conservatives with an aggressive style, rather than specific changes in policy. you heard that tone from him yesterday in his response to questions about the heckling supporters at the ax aal r aa a rally. >> if they're going to be heckling us, we're not going to sit back and play by very different rules. we'll show them that we conservatives have the same kind of capacity he does. >> of course, never mind the whole solyndra thing. a lot of republican governors including mitt romney invested taxpayer money into companies, as well. some of them didn't work. romney did get one expected but symbolic stamp of approval. nancy reagan's endorsement after they met at lemonade and cookies yesterday. she said in a statement "roni would have liked governor romney's business background and strong principals s and i have

to say i do, too." another former president, bill clinton was shockingly off message as far as the obama campaign is concerned. as he was praising romney's career at bain capital. >> i think he had a good business career. i don't think that we ought to get in the position where we say this is bad work. this is good work. there's no question that in terms of getting up and going to the office, you know, basically performing the essential functions of the office, a man who has been governor and had a startling business career the qualification threshold. >> republicans pounced on the phrase, sterling business career when it comes to that, another case of where a supposed obama surrogate seemingly going off the reservation. this one more noteworthy not just because it is president clinton, yes, he had a habit of doing that for his own candidate of choice, hillary clinton four

years ago, but did it after cory booker. so, seemingly, as if he was planning on that one. why it may sting the obama white house a little bit more this morning. finally, both campaigns may be happy that the edwards' verdict came in. with all its frenzy drowning out cheap political theater on both sides, we saw that edwards ended up dominating everything else and, again, if yesterday is what the next 60 days are going to be like, we're going to see a lot of the middle of the road voters maybe feeling a liltal tuned out. we're unveiling a brand-new battleground field and obama maintains his lelect toral vote now. 191 electoral votes in the republican column. a slight change from our last map in april.

we consider nine states, 110 electoral votes a toss-up. in april we considered pa a a toss-up and iowa lean ed republican. you need to win to put that state in play. iowa and wisconsin are now toss-ups. speaking of wisconsin, we're just four days from the recall election. bill clinton heads there this morning to make an 11th hour campaign stop for milwaukee mayor tom barrett. they had a final, extremely contentious debate. more on that later this hour. it was really full of fireworks. but, let's turn back to what is a inarguably a disappointing may's job's report. moody's analytics. mr. zandy, we have monthly numbers under 70,000. revisions downward for previous months. is the only bright spot that more people came back into the

employment system? >> yeah, i know, chuck, nothing very redeeming about this report. pretty ugly all the way around. the unemployment rate and it was pretty, pretty weak. you know, if i had to hang my hat on anything, i'd say still some payback from the warm winter weather. big declines in construction jobs and leisure and hospitality. no matter how you slice it, it suggests that the economy's growth rate has slowed coming into the spring and summer. >> is everything here tied to europe? how much of this tied to europe? corporate america the so-called job creators, if you will, deciding to hold back on doing any investments because they have no idea what is going to happen to the euro? >> great question. you know, my sense is that business people are very skiddish and nervous. if you look at their profits. >> overly skiddish, would you say? >> they've been through a lot. they had a lot of near death experiences in the last few years and i don't think you forget that.

if anything goes off the rails and goes off script and europe certainly off script i think they pull back and that's what we're seeing. one of these thing wheres the economy looks like it's going fine and then all of a sudden it kind of hits a wall and it just seems to suggest that business people are going to react very negatively to anything that, again, just isn't quite right and europe is certainly not right. >> i guess what's odd about this is that you see a whole bunch of money headed to u.s. treasuries which tells you, is it the case that if europe's unstable, asia and china seem to be trending downward. yes, it can drag the u.s. economy down, but any bright spot the fact that people want to throw their money, this is the safest place to be? >> well, i mean, that is a bright spot. i mean, we are a triple a credit. all the investors say that. this ask where you go when there is a problem and we have investors coming here when there is a problem anywhere on the planet.

1.5% for a ten-year treasury bond, that is just amazing and the flight to quality and the u.s. treasury is still quality. >> very quickly. what do you expect next month? snowball effect jobs wise? >> i hope not. this overstates the case. i really do think that underlying job growth is higher than this and we'll see that in the coming months. you know, hopefully, europe doesn't unravel. i don't think it will and hopefully we start addressing the fiscal issues that are coming very quickly with regard to the fiscal clip. we do that, i think we'll be okay. >> always good to have you on on jobs. still ahead, we're going to have the obama take on the brand-new jobs report. first place you will see it is right here. plus, secret cyberwar against iran. the details read like a spa novel, but was the espionage a success? first, the president's schedule. first travel day of the week

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well, a highly sophisticated cyberwar is under way against iran and has been for years. according to a new report by david sangar, details a complex but risky program computer programs running iran's nuclear facilities. moderator of "meet the press." i want to start with this because in many ways it is a

huge story and on any other day we would be talking about this. the u.s. government essentially acknowledging it is at war, t in cyberspace with iran. >> it is a huge story and a huge issue. you know, there have been warnings about this now for years about not only our vulnerability to cyberattack as a new front in the war on terror, but also what the united states and its allies have been doing to target iran's nuclear program, which have less to do with diplomacy and any kind of arm conflict and a lot more to do with what can be done via computer viruses to attack iran. and, apparently, successfully over the past several years to at least slow the growth of a program. >> what was interesting about the program, it is one of the two main programs that president obama is continuing from the bush administration. very aggressive decision to make on that front along with drones, which made this mitt romney comment last night on cbs all the more striking when he was asked to grade the president's

foreign policy record. here's what he said. >> what grade would you give president obama? >> oh, an f. no question about that. >> across the board. >> across the board. >> even despite the killing of osama bin laden? >> i look at what's happening in the middle east. the arab spring has become the arab winter. that is hardly a success. >> it's interesting on rhetoric and ed gillespie struggled with this this morning when he didn't have a response on what new different policies they would have because on these things their continuation of bush policy, cyberwar, some of the more aggressive action. >> no question when it comes to targeting al qaeda and being tough in the face of the war on terror. i mean, what governor romney's alluding to there is how to manage say syria. how to manage, you know, transition to democracy in countries like egypt, which is going to be very difficult for the united states and other allies to manage, as we move forward and requires a kind of

vision, but also a recognition that the united states doesn't want to try to tip the balance there. pure, head up national security debate, i think it is going to be very difficult for the republicans to argue that somehow they're going to go in a different direction because of the continuity that we've seen. and then you get into areas like iran. what will they do materially different and they also have to confront a fact that americans are war weary after afghanistan and iraq. and i think that makes the republican argument more difficult. >> of course, what you see, you see mitt romney gets more animated when he can talk about the economy and jobs and i can't, we can't stress enough this may jobs report perception wise and how it could lead to a change of political reality. a lot of what we've seen in the president's numbers they rise and fall, not based on a tax by mitt romney, they rise and fall by the country's feelings on the economy. >> let's be very clear on this. president obama has to ride the wave of this data and nothing

that david axelrod says at an event in boston is going to change anything about that. i talk to advisors this week and they're very plain about it. if you have jobs reports like this that get you south of 110,000 private sector jobs created in a month up to 200,000, that has a material impact in how he's going to do in the key states we're talking about between now and november. it is the economy. it's a referendum on the president's policies and a sense whether things are moving in the right direction. that is going to lead people to more, to the area where romney wants them to get to where they will reject the idea that somehow this president has the answers to lead the economy to the future of some kind of sustainable recovery. >> all right, david gregory, i have to leave it there. thanks very much. this sunday on your program on "meet the press" an exclusive debate between duval patrick of massachusetts and republican governor john kasich of ohio

only on "meet the press" this sunday. up next, the verdict is in for john edwards. ends with a bizarre appearance by john edwards still seeking a public redemption. that's next. but, today's trivia question. it's a multiple choice one, folks. no spelling involved. according to the washington, d.c., building code, no building can be taller than "a," the golden ratio. 1.6 times the length of the building's base. "b" the width of the capitol dome. cor the width of the street it faces, plus 20 feet. the answer and more, coming up on this special edition of "daily rundown" in this wonderful city of new york. i have extra sugar in my extra large drink here, mr. mayor. we'll be right back. ♪ surf's up everybody get your boards and your wetsuits ♪ free-credit-score-dot-com's gonna direct you ♪

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>> if i want to find the person who should be held accountable for my sins, honestly, i don't have to go any further than the mirror. finally, my precious, quinn, who i love more than any of you could imagine and i'm so close to and so, so, so grateful for. so grateful for quinn. grateful for all my children. including my son, wade, who we lost years ago. i don't think god's through with me. with still believe he thinks there are some good things i can do. that was john edwards on the courthouse steps moments after a jury found him not guilty on one count of campaign finance fraud. the jury deadlocked. lisa myers is at the courthouse in greensboro and registered

voter in north carolina and pete williams is in d.c. let me go to my tarheel resident now, ms. myers. lisa, describe the scene yesterday of the elation that john edwards expressed all the way around. >> well, john edwards when he heard hit the verdict leaned back and a sense of relief washed over him and then once he was able to, he gave a long hug to his daughter, kate, who has been a rock and been by his side every moment and hugged his parents and hugged his lawyers and especially his lead counsel who asked him, you know, to take some chances and they clearly paid off. it was a highly emotional day. i mean at one point when we had word that the verdict came in, cate edwards sat there for an

hour holding her grandfather's hand. >> you know, pete williams, the justice department has to make a decision now to retry on the other five counts and we have been reporting and it's unlikely that they're going to do that. this morning on "today" show we had three jurors on and all three raised their hand when matt lauer asked them, do you believe that john edwards is guilty of something? it was legal. they all raised their hands and two of the three believe there should be a retrial. does that matter to folks at the justice department seeing these jurors now say, hey, they believe there was guilt there. they just didn't get enough evidence. >> i'm sure it matters to some folks at the justice department, especially the prosecutors who worked on the case. you have to consider, i think, the justice department has to look at what is the larger interest of justice here. the rulings in this case were generally pro government and the government got to put on a very effective case and they took their best shot and, still, they couldn't persuade these jurors

on any of the counts that he was guilty. not only that, chuck, the other thing the government will look at what this message has sent about john edwards and not mixing up campaign funds, but the other factor is things have changed very much since this case was brought. the government originally said we need to tell public officials that they can't have secret sources of funds and everything has to be above boards. the whole landscape of campaign finance has changed and the whole way money has been given to candidates and supporting candidates. when you look at the big question, what would be the point of retrying this? i think the message has been sent. >> lisa, very quickly, the prosecutors, did they react yesterday? what did they do? >> they, they were clearly disappointed, but they said nothing. they just left the courtroom. but at one point about those jurors is the fact, despite what they said on "today" show the fact that even on the five counts in which the jury could not agree, a majority of jurors

in each count voted in favor of john edwards. more of them voted not guilty on each of those counts than ever voted guilty. i think that is the key thing that prosecutors will probably look at. >> all right lisa myers, pete williams, thank you. lisa, we still want you to come home. i know there's probably good barbecue down there. anyway, thank you, both. up next, why are people always dissing d.c.? wash tonians get a lot of abuse. some of it is deserved, but some of it is just plain harsh. capital complaints from our favorite d.c. natives. still to come, we'll hear from the white house on the just released job numbers. you're watching "daily rundown" only on msnbc. ll also find us i, with dedicated support teams at over 500 branches nationwide.

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little breaking news. the opening bell rang just a few minutes ago and the dow is way down following that disappointing jobs report this morning the numbers, folks, already down 152. one of those where you see it drop big early. the question is, does it stay that way or is there recovery later in the day? nato confirms an insurgent attack on their base in eastern afghanistan, according to witnesses at the scene, the attack was on a base in khost province. no word on what kind of attack or the number of casualties. a federal appeals court in boston has ruled the defensive marriage act constitutional to marry same-sex couples. the issue now appears to be headed for the u.s. supreme court. one of those cases when you talk to folks at the human rights campaign. this is the one they want to get to the supreme court not the

prop 8. and former florida governor jeb bush is on capitol hill right now testifying for the house budget committee. focusing on removing the barriers to free enterprise and economic growth. if you didn't have enough bushes yesterday in d.c., you get one more this morning. all right, more to washington, d.c., than just politicians. but when congressional approval ratings are in the low double digits like they are now, doesant do much for the city's rep. we're leaving it to a real d.c. native. mike viqueira is going to stick up for his home town. hey, i lived, i'm a new orlenatonian. we love our public schools. but, go ahead. >> you're from the dmv, district of maryland and virginia. you may think this is a popular place. the town is swarming with interns like it is every summer hopefully trying to land a more

permanent job, but all we get is a long list of gripes and complaints and misperceptions and a good time as a native to give a complaint, chuck. stuff people say about d.c. too boring. no style. too early, no nightlife. too rich, no roots. too corrupt, no ethics. too small, no skyscrapers, but, most of all, too darn big. welcome to the dmv. ♪ district maryland and virginia where we native have heard it all before. northern charm and southern efficiency said jfk. living that one down for years. conjured from a swampy wilderness and now 5.5 million people live here.

>> they don't manufacture, they don't drill, they don't harvest. >> reporter: true. love it or hate it, government is the biggest employer here. here's another one. people come to washington to do good and end up doing well. >> heck, they even have a lamborghini dealership here. >> reporter: true. dmvers are highly paid and highly educated and physically fit. top five nationwide in all three. no fashion sense. subjective, but kind of true. too small, no skyscrapers, true, but that's on purpose. you want to block out the monuments? >> nobody seems to be from d.c. everyone you meet is from somewhere else. >> reporter: false. an urban legend. they don't mind sharing.

you can't find a good pizza or a good bagel. the cab system is bizarre. the metro closes too early. traffic is a nightmare. >> the traffic is the worst here. >> traffic. >> a lot of traffic. >> reporter: and what's with all the circles? >> senator jefferson smith. >> reporter: there was a time back when mr. smith went to washington that some people revered the place. is it a measure of how people feel about washington that when it's seen in movies now, like in "independence day" -- >> times up. >> reporter: d.c. is always getting annihilated. it can be a tough town, there's no doubt. which brings us to one last chestnut, if you want a friend in washington, get a dog. well, fw yo

well, if you're lucky enough to make it, whether as an intern or as a president -- >> the president of the united states. >> reporter: -- one thing about d.c. that rings true. we forgot to talk about the humidity. it is terrible around here in the summer. the unemployment rate and the dmv 5.1%. if you do make it here, chuck, do us all a favor, stand to the right the metro escalators. >> a wonderful piece. brian williams, that was for you. we know how much you love washington. mike, well done. our friday panel will be here next to wrap up the week, but, first, i'd be remiss if i didn't tell you what the white house soup of the day was. we had spicy vegetable earlier in the week and apparently now the spice wore off and now we have roasted vegetable. you can still follow the show on facebook, if you still have facebook. i kid, facebookers, proceed,

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double dose of our daily flashback. in this day in 1792, tennessee becomes the 15th state and they have been fighting who has the better bourbon ever since. unemployment rate rose to 8.2%. friday panelist here maggie haberman and bob and of course the long-time former columnist of "new york times." welcome all. maggie, let's start political reality. mark zandi said it on the economic front. bad news all around. talk to me about the politics about it.

>> a real problem for the president. nothing positive in terms of the economy and hard to pitch this to people and say, give me four more years if he doesn't have something positive to point to. these months are what the president's team are very concerned about. opinions getting formed before that, getting baked in. it is very hard to sell the idea that people should stick with him based on this. >> you know what's interesting to me, bob, watching, i feel like we're watching business now overreact to now panic, if you will. mark zandi pointed to this, they have corporate profits but so fearful of what happened four years ago, they're just afraid to invest. >> another problem with business and that is that there is just not enough purchasing power out there wbecauses of the jobs situation and the housing situation. if mcdonald's could sell twice as many hamburgers, they would build mcdonald's like crazy. businesses worry that they'll make these big investments going forward and ed rendell was talking earlier today about looking at the long term and they're worried about making

these big investments going forward and those investments is going to tank and that's a problem. then i think obama, picking up on what maggie had to say, i think obama has an enormous problem. four years ago he became president because the nation was looking for change. that was his mantra, after four years of obama, the electorate is still upset and still wants change, you know, and that's working against him. >> alex, the challenge they have, they're trying to say mitt romney is not change, it's going backward. that's their whole mantra here. how much amnesia is there with the public. when you see this trend line. look at december, december, january and february you look at these job gains and you saw 275, 259 and it looked like a wow and then you see this downward slide. we're going from december 223 to 369. >> you're revising previous

months downward. the number that is most troubling is the unemployed. 42.8% of the unemployed. those numbers went up by 300,000 last month and 5.4 million americans who have been unemployed for 27 weeks or more. these are people who may never find jobs, again. serious problem for the american economy. >> i heard republicans say to me that at some point they expect the president. my policies are working, you just have to give them time. are you better off now than four years ago, but are you better off in four years. use the fact that the public liblgs him. this didn't work, but i'll try this next time. do you buy that? >> i sort of buy that. i don't think it is going to be effective. i think we're reaching a point where the numbers are going to be so dismaying to people. my colleague had a piece ben white -- >> i know ben white, long-time

colleague of mine at the hotline. >> two bens. >> morning money ben. >> in the swing states the economic data is going to be a little bit better by the time we get to election day and that will have a bit to do with mood. i think we are reaching a point where the real field issue is not going to change. >> bob, when you look at our battleground map, i made this contentio contention, if this is a state-by-state fight, president obama wins. romney can only win a landslide. he has to win the large argument. >> i'm not sure i agree with that. even if you look at the battleground states where obama has the advantage, he still has to worry about turn out. hang around, we'll go to the white house to get their reaction. according to washington, d.c., building code, no building can be taller than what? "a" the golden ratio, "b" the height of the capitol dome or

"c" the width of the street it faces plus 20 feet. alex, you were wrong, it is "c." in 1899 the congress passed limiting buildings to the height of the capitol, but amended in 1910 to restrict width of the street it faces plus 20 feet. no skyscapers in washington. it's okay with me. [ woman ] for the london olympic games, our town had a "brilliant" idea. support team usa and show our olympic spirit right in our own backyard. so we combined our citi thankyou points to make it happen. tom chipped in 10,000 points. karen kicked in 20,000. and by pooling more thankyou points from folks all over town, we were able to watch team usa... [ cheering ] in true london fashion. [ male announcer ] now citi thankyou visa card holders can combine the thankyou points they've earned and get even greater rewards. ♪

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yew economy showed new signs of weakness in the may jobs report. adding 69,000 jobs. joining me now alan kruger counsel of the president's economic advisors. i could imagine you heard others say this, mr. zandi said nothing good in this job's report, do

you concur? >> chuck every month when i go on your show, i say the same thing. the monthly jobs numbers are volatile. the president said last february when we had a very good report that the numbers were going to go up and down, that is the nature the economy. we still face a fragile world economy with lots of head winds out there. from europe and spikes in gasoline prices, and that's just the nature of economic recoveries. they don't move in straight lines. >> we have three key moments coming up in the next five yeeks. when it comes to europe. tough greek elections. you have the g20 meeting. you have the eu that has to meet and make a decision and respond to whatever the greeks decide to do. never mind spain or italy. do you see any improvement on the horizon? doesn't this mean a longer trend

of downward spiral here? >> i think there are headwinds coming from a number of sources. europe is one. the drop in oil prices should help our economy going forward. also, some of the housing numbers coming in indicate that in some regions of the country we're seeing stabilization in housing crisis and expansion of residential construction. the administration is very much engaged in issues in europe. right now the secretary from the treasury department is in europe. the president had a conference call with leaders of the major european countries earlier in the week, and we are providing helpful assistance to them. we made a lot of difficult decisions in the midst of the financial crisis here. they don't have confidence in where the global economy is heading. even though they have the money, they have the profits, they're

not investing? >> i think there is an element of confidence involved. we've had 27 straight months now of private sector job growth. the michigan consumer sentiment survey sowed consumer confidence is remaining high. you can build confidence to her the economy going guard. the president had been fighting all week long to strengthen economic growth, to strengthen job growth. buildings roads and highways, bridges and so on, as well as providing funds to state and local governments keep teachers

in classrooms. we lost 28,000 construction jobs last month. we would be in a much better position had congress acted on the president's proposal. congress can still act on the proposals. >> you think they're not acting because of politics? >> you know, my job is to give the president advice on what the best economic policies are to strengthen this recovery. today he's in minneapolis helping service members. it's worth pointing out that the manufacturing sector, even with today's number is continuing to expand. we have a million manufacturing jobs in the last 28 months. >> alan krueger, chairman of the economic adviser for the president. thanks for coming on. >> thank you. >> let me bring back the panel. alex, is it possible?

what incentive -- >> translation, grin and bear it. >> no, this issue that there is a transportation bill has been deadlocked in congress. and you see, and the question is, what is the political incentive? will republicans believe there's no incentive to help the president? or do the republicans in congress believe, you know what, we might get blamed too, here. let's get off the table. >> and we've seen a little bit of movement. they've had some sort of shame about the obstructionism in congress. i think in the run up to november, they're not going to play ball with the president on anything that's going to significantly change the electoral landscape. >> somebody alerted me to a back and forth you had with valerie jarrett. i want to get your reaction to it. you wrote a column that the president and mitt romney have run away from the plight of child poverty. it seemed to upset, it seemed to

really upset valerie jarrett, seniored ed a viadviser to the. praising you at the same time. when mr. herbert suggested president obama has given up on the idea, he was simply wrong. the chief criticism i heard from some leading african-american democrats about this president has always been he's afraid of singling out the issues. he doesn't want to look like he's worrying about one group over another. >> i think that's true. the president is making a good point. one out of three black children in the country are growing up in poverty. one out of the three. the median wealth for black families in this country is

about $2200. that's basically no money at all. african-americans are in deep trouble. and poor people in general, not just african-americans, are in deep, deep trouble. and so we have a crisis, i think in the country, that neither major party is paying attention to. the fact that this could be a case during the presidential election is outrageous. and those are not the issues that we are seeing spotlighted in the campaign. >> the cynic in me says if it were an issue in say, virginia, ohio, and colorado, i'd be with you. >> al fa b. >> the salsa to your guacomole.

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