or ship between nations yes trump's harsh sanctions have led to an iran china partnership china and iran have drafted a sweeping economic and security partnership according to new york times china will get a regular heavily discounted supply of iranian oil for the next 25 years as well as an expanded role in iranian banking ports railways telecommunications and myriad other projects iran and china will also increase their military cooperation said. but trump is accomplishing all kinds of stuff he's such a tank that china and iran have been forced into bed together in an awkward sticky romantic trist i honestly i love i love this story because it completely infuriates everyone from rachel maddow out of my palm peo to bill kristol to sean hannity and mitch mcconnell to nancy pelosi to chuck woolery all of the corporate psychopaths who make up the neo liberals and the neo cons are just getting themselves whereas those of us who fall in the how do i call rational part of the spectrum we understand that we should want all countries to cooperate and work together china iran rise the us narnia

how convinced are you by the case put forward that china iran and russia pose a threat to the democratic process in the us that i'm completely unconvinced it's ridiculous the threat of the democratic process in the us is entirely internal american democracy itself collapsing no one knows what the i don't remember elections will bring they may bring fighting in the streets lawsuits chaos no one knows but this is not the fault of russia or iran or china or britain france or israel it's entirely 'd of america's own doing the political structure here is just disintegrating whatever the outcome and november the result is going to be divisive do you anticipate a repeat of 2016 when everything was blamed on alleged outside interference yes yes definitely i mean. both sides setting themselves up for this the republicans who are accusing the democrats of cheating trump is already doing that through the misuse of mail ballots and the democrats are repairing to blame it from fiction way on russia so i so both sides are now as down now building up their excuses and case they lose to blame it on the

created a stunning and powerful partnership between nations yes trumps harsh sanctions have led to an iran china partnership trying to and iran have drafted a sweeping economic and security partnership according to new york times china will get a regular heavily discounted supply of iranian oil for the next 25 years as well as an expanded role in iranian banking ports railways telecommunications and myriad other projects iran and china will also increase their military cooperation said. mark. trump is accomplishing all kinds of stuff he's such a dick the china and iran have been forced into bed together in an awkward sticky romantic trist i honestly i love i love this story because it completely infuriates everyone from rachel maddow out of my palm peo to bill kristol to sean hannity and mitch mcconnell to nancy pelosi to chuck woolery all the corporate psychopaths who make up the new year old liberals and the neo cons are paying themselves. whereas those of us who fall in the how do i call rational part of the spectrum we understand that we should want all countries to cooperate and work togeth

iran. one with china and iran that is being undergone. there are other players. turkey might end up being a part of this exit of the players that try to afford some of the things that are of concern by the united states and america. so i think both as well as how we are working to solve the problems that threaten our security and the security of the world including proliferation of nuclear weapons. we have a lot of work to do and i hope president bush gets to try to do that and i think that he will make tremendous progress. >> .. >> mr. secretary good afternoon,. very nice to see you it's an honor to welcome you to the aspen insecurity for him. you're probably the busiest person on the planet these days. i just want to say to welcome you what an honor it is for us ladies and gentlemen the 27 secretary of defense he has been for the past year and previously secretary of the army. very distiui

saying china, russia, and iran are attempting "to increase discord" and "undermine our democratic process." the president, down in the polls, has taken an aggressive posture toward beijing, blaming china for the pandemic. >> it came from china. it should never have been allowed to leave china. >> reporter: intelligence officials assess china views president trump as "unpredictable" and would prefer a president biden. while russia is working to denigrate the former vp. and a ukrainian lawmaker, a contact of rudy giuliani, is involved. >> putin knows i mean what i say. this is a violation of our sovereignty, our sovereignty. >> reporter: and after allegations of colluding with russian in 2016, which he has long denied, president trump said he wouldn't have a problem accepting information from a foreign government. >> you'd want that kind of interference in our elections? >> it's not interference. they have information. i think i'd take it. >> reporter: tonight, his campaign says they don't need it, saying, "president trump will beat joe biden fair and square." and a senior adviser to the bi

iran. one with china and iran that is being undergone. there are other players. turkey might end up being a part of this exit of the players that try to afford some of the things that are of concern by the united states and america. so i think both as well as how we are working to solve the problems that threaten our security and the security of the world including proliferation of nuclear weapons. we have a lot of work to do and i hope president bush gets to try to do that and i think that he will make tremendous progress. >> .. mr. secretary good afternoon,

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national security adviser insisted on meet the press that the director of national intelligence found china, iraninterfere in the november election. >> once again, the report that has not come out before, detailed the influence and efforts of china and much iran to denigrate president trump and make sure he is not reelected. also talked about russian interference. as i have said as the president made clear, we're against every party, foreign party trying to get involved in our elections, whether it is the communist chinese, vladmir putin's russia, the theocracy in iran, we want them all to stay out of our election. >> here's the fact check. the statement said they prefer president trump be defeated, didn't say they had taken action. to the contrary, they said russia is the one country already taking action to hurt joe biden and help donald trump by interfering already in the election. joining me now, writer for "new york times" robert draper. his new book "to start a war." they're trying to create equivalence amongst three countries, there's only one, russia, led by vladimir putin, already trying

. >> president trump said that russia, china, iran, north korea and other countries might forge ballots mail them in. cnn reported the top u.s. intelligence officials dismissed that in a closed-door house briefing. do you have any intelligence suggesting that any foreign power is planning to forge mail-in ballots in 2020? >> no, at the department what we're focused on is obviously those disinformation campaigns and that foreign interference we see from a number of nation state threats such as china, iran, russia and others. at the department we're focused on addressing cyber threats to election and election infrastructure specifically. we are focused op that. we know about the disinformation campaigns that they are doing every day to try to influence the inn of election along with the department of justice and ic and other entities we're pushing back aggressively and making sure that skrtecretaries of sta have the services this he need to protect their electiones. >> we know about the disinformation campaigns and have heard about the attempts to break into election infrastructure. what

rightfully they are waiting until after the election because there is nothing china, iran, russia wouldike to see more than have trump be defeated where they can deal with joe biden. that would be a dream. mohammed is a great leader and we are very happy. you got to see many other things happening in the middle east over a very short period of time. this is the first time in more than 20 years. the uae is big stuff. very powerful, very strong. one of the strongest militaries. >> do you know when delegations will meet? pres. trump: very soon. >> in the next several weeks mr. president. we suspect there will be a meeting at the white house. pres. trump: there will be an official signing over the next few weeks. other than that we will meet you at 5:30 to talk and take one of your questions. [applause] [indiscernible] c-span live coverage continues at one :00 eastern today when white house press secretary kayleigh mcenany will talk with reporters and discuss issues facing the trump administration. you live toill take iowa where vice president mike pence will deliver remarks at a trump camp

rightfully, they are waiting for after the election because there's nothing china, iran, russia, allf them would like to see more than have trump be defeated when they can deal with joe biden because that would be like a dream. this was something that would be very exciting. we thought this would be the first country. mohammed is a great leader and we are happy he was the first country and you will see many other things happening in the middle east in a short time, but this is the first time in more uae is bigrs and stuff. uae is very powerful, very strong, has one of the strongest militaries, it is big stuff. >> do you know when the delegation are going to meet specifically? pres. trump: i guess they will be setting up the meetings. >> we expect there will be a meeting at the white house. pres. trump: there will be an official signing at the white house over the next you weeks. we will meet you and talk and actually take one of your questions. [applause] >> president trump holds a news conference today on the response to the coronavirus. watch life beginning at 5:30 eastern on c-spa

the decision comes weeks after the intel community warned that china, iran, and russia, all of them are trying to interfere in the 2020 election. why the move toward secrecy. jeremy diamond at the white house. >> over the weekend, we learned that the director of national intelligence has informed congressional leaders that his office will no longer brief members of congress in person on matters of election security, and these questions of foreign interference in the 2020 presidential elections. now, this is a big change because of course we have seen briefings in the past from the office of the director of national intelligence, including a series of briefings in july in which i was told at director of national entenls aintelligence officials indicated they would continue to provide in-person briefings. no longer, the director of national intelligence and the president of the united states suggesting this change is coming because of leaks by members of congress. >> director radcliffe brought information into the committee, and the information leaked. whether it was shifty schiff or some

he rattled off russia, china, iran, north korea, with mail-in ballots.that statement? >> well, paper cannot be hacked. however, there is a legitimate concern about logistics. i'm not so much concerned about foreign entities interfering, but we need to make sure that states are prepared to take in the huge number of mail-in ballots that will come in, and they can do the signature verification to maurere iso can be donrs ad colorado, ure y ready now versus tho talk to people in the government, and why wasn't there a strategy to do what you just laid out? >> i think we haven't been preparing for this, and a lot of people were assuming that the disease would go away in a few months. of course it is still here, and now a lot of people are kilometers per concet voting in person. and we need to make sure they can do so safely. >> brennan: but there wasn't a federal strategy to have the states do what you said they should have been doing for the past four years? >> well, this is hard to do because, of course, the federal government is not in charge of elections.

rightfully, they are waiting until after the election, because there is nothing china, iran, russia would like to see more than half trump be defeated when they can deal with joe biden, because that would be like a dream. and this was something that was very exciting. we felt this would be the first country. this is a great country. mohamed is a great leader, and i am very happy he was the first country. you will see other things happening in the middle east over a fairly short period of time, but this is the first time in 25 years, and uae is big stuff. uae is very powerful, very strong. has one of the strongest militaries. it is big stuff. >> specifically? president trump: very soon. i guess they will be setting up the meetings. do you have the time? >> we suspect there will be a meeting at the white house. president trump: there will be an official signing at the white house in the next few weeks, and other than that, we will meet you at 5:30 or so and take more of your questions. ok? [applause] announcer: the president, available in paperback and e-book from public affairs, biographie

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china and iran have a preference and it's a big difference, were concerned about all three that the scope the scale on the activity about russia is doing to her to vice president from an intelligence perspective is very different from china and iran although we should obviously be concerned about all of it. chris: congressman, it is not surprising to see a foreign adversary in russia is certainly that, wanting to see the elected president defeated. is it surprising, even troubling when according to the intelligence community, foreign adversary in this case russia wants to see the president reelected? jason: i get concerned with any outside influence, the issue is the media, it runs totally counter to what the democrats are trying to do, what we should be doing other country is to authenticate the vote, democrats don't want voter identification, they want to do ballot harvesting where you send them out in mass and they can gather those and bring them back in. if you're so concerned about russia. chris: i understand all of that, forgive me that has nothing to do with foreign interference, i

we know russia, china, iran are using facebook and social media, again, to sew distrust.now that there have been hacking done. prominent people, including joe biden have been hacked. have you seen evidence of foreign actors trying to hack campaign or candidate accounts? what have you seen in that regard? >> there's been a good amount of public reporting. the u.s. government has highlighted this. google highlighted it. they have seen targeting of some campaigns. we know that foreign actors are targeting campaigns. the reason they are doing that because influence operations and perception targets all of society. it starts social media. we see them targeting and using traditional media. we see them targeting debate across all the networks. we work closely together with our government partners, partners in civil society and other partners to be able to find and stop this type of targeting. >> okay. i want to quickly before we let you go, nathaniel, i want to go to this video of nancy pelosi. facebook has put this partly false label on the video of house speaker nancy pelosi b

democrats especially and people briefed on this intelligence is it is not accurate to equate china and iran with russia. really russia is the only power that is actively seeking to intervene in the 2020 election my sources tell me. china may have a preference for donald trump. iran wants to undermine trump. but russia wants to help trump get elected and wants to defeat joe biden. they are the ones active on social media. they have propaganda. they've been doing this for some months now. there's been videos about joe biden's activities in ukraine picked up by right wing media and hasn't broken through though thankfully because we are in the middle of a pandemic and there is so much going on. they are working very hard to try to discredit biden. my sources say keep your eye on the ball. russia is the issue. what the "new york times" article showed is officials have been reticent to bring this up with donald trump because he has never come to grips with the idea russia helped him in 2016 and is trying to help him again. >> china and iran are two different kinds of threats. i understand what th

the last thing that russia wants, and china wants, and iran wants would be for donald trump to win. >what do you plan to do about that interference? pres. trump: well, we are going to look at it very closely. you tell me this came out a little while ago. i have heard it came out just a little while ago. we are going to look at that very closely. you started off with russia. why don't you start off with china? don't you think china is a bigger threat? i think maybe it is. maybe you have to figure it out. we have to watch all of them. we have to be very careful. the biggest risk we have is mail-in ballots. with universal mail-in ballots, it is a much easier thing for a foreign power, whether it is russia, china, iran, north korea, many others, people, countries you would not expect, it is much easier for them to forge ballots and send them in. it is much easier for them to cheat with universal mail-in ballots. one of the things we will have to look at is exactly that. that is a big problem. that is a big problem. you saw in new york they called the winner but they have no idea , what th

russia and china do not want iran to have access to nuclear weapons. we all are aware this is a rogue regime. look no further than the way they treat their own people. we want to protect the iranian people, people in yemen, syria, libya, lebanon, venezuela. i could go on and on where this regime is going in and only adding fuel to the little fires they have set themselves. it is important we started early because this is a crucial issue that will affect the world for generations to come. china and russia have threatened to veto but they understand there is a choice here and this is a choice they will have to make. they will have blood on their hands. they understand we have a talent pool it feels adamantly about their choice of freedom and this is something we have been working on, brian who will be speaking at the aspen institute will speak more technically. what i have been doing is reaching out to the security council and re-emphasizing the importance that there is a choice between freedom and tyranny and this is a choice that will affect millions o

at the same time, the top intel official on election security warns that russia, china, and iran arey trying to interfere in our 2020 election. joining us now is cnn national security analyst, james clapper. he's the former director of national intelligence. director clapper, great to have you here. what do you make of in-person briefings for congress going away? >> well, i think this is very disturbing, particularly, you know, just about two months away from the election. not to brief, in live sessions, the congress, particularly the two oversight committees. and what's missing, of course, is the back and forth give and take with responding to probing questions. which, i guess, insulates the dni from responding or saying something that might displease the white house. and obviously, the rationale given that, well, we'll provide writtenbriefs, doesn't -- you know, that dog doesn't hunt to me, because you can leak written materials just as easily as oral. >> yeah, sorry to interrupt. if they're worried about leaks, why not stop the leaks, why stop the briefings? >> yeah, exactly. and

but making effort to conflate what russia is doing with what china or iran may do. disservice but convenient one to suit the president's political narrative, elevate china threat and diminish concerns about russia when russia is engaging here in covert way to influence the vote. comparing it to 2016, using some of the same tactics as we've seen in public reporting in social media campaign, endeavoring to hide it better using cutouts like they used in africa. this was romanian reports recently, we don't know if russian-directed or emanates from elsewhere. for the hacking and dumping in 2016, we know there are conversations, tapes of biden that are being pushed out from ukraine, and there is obviously an identification in that statement by -- of the players. >> are these the deep fakes you warned about? >> we don't know yet in terms of the authenticity of the edited recordings. deep fakes i'm concerned about are may create fictitious audio and video of biden and push that out. >> or any politician. >> there were circulated videos of speaker pelosi that some social medi

and china, russia, iran all go that a little differently.e want to make sure at the end of the day that voters, american voters are deciding american elections. and we'll continue to do that to make sure that secretaries of state, again, states run elections that they have all the information that they have the intelligence and they have a number of no-cost services the department provides to them to make sure their election systems are safe and secure. >> you know of no intelligence that suggests that any foreign power is looking to forge ballots in mail-in voting? >> i haven't seen anything specifically. but i'm a consumer of that intelligence that the i.c. and others pick up. what we're focused on at the department are cyber threats to election systems. so the information and the threats that i see i'm looking at it from that perspective. >> i want you to take a listen to what your former colleague at the department of homeland security, the former chief of staff there, miles taylor, had to say about president trump's view of russians int

is now cooperating with iran. china was one of the countries i had to persuade to vote for international sanctions at the un security council to set the table for the negotiations. and of course, we know that if iran pursues nuclear weapons, the gulf states will likewise, and i cannot imagine a more dangerous situation than a nuclear arms race in the persian gulf. so, there is an enormous amount at stake in the middle east, and no responsible administration could ever walk away from that. mr. kempe: i am so glad you drilled down a little deeper on iran. i think a lot of viewers in america have not paid as much attention to the chinese iranian relationship, which seems to be a change that seems to be different. do you go right back to jcpoa if you are a newly elected president biden? how would you manage that? can you just pick things up, or has it been so altered that you need a different strategy? sec. clinton: well, that's a question to be answered, fred. because i think it would be in to united states' interest rejoi

it is notable that in that report, as you note, they noted that russia, china and iran are all intervening in the election. they know china had a professor for joe biden and that the russia seems to have a preference for donald trump. we should also note that this is, to a degree, kind of chumming the waters because even though china and iran are trying to get involved in the election, what they are doing, according to the intelligence and other administration officials, dealing with national security, what the chinese and iranians are doing is nothing compared to what the russians are doing. the russians have obviously been trying to muck around in elections in the western world for years and years and years and are much more -- have much more expertise and are much better at doing this nefarious thing. >> they're much more sophisticated. last question, jake. how unusual is this statement from the odni? >> i think the action itself is rather unusual given the fact that the director of national intelligence is not supposed to be a partisan for whomever is in the white house. he's supposed

china and iran have a preference and that is a big difference.erned about all three of them, but the scope and the scale and the activity of what russia is doing to hurt the vice president from purely intelligence perspective is very different than china and iran, although we should obviously be concerned about all of it. >> chris: congressman, it's not surprising to see a foreign adversary, and russia is certainly that, wanting to see the elected president defeated. is it surprising though, even troubling, one according to the intelligence community, a foreign adversary, in this case russia, wants to see the president reelected?rned with ay outside influence, but the issue here that i think is immediate is it runs totally counter to what the democrats are trying to do. what we should be doing as a country is to authenticate the vote. democrats don't want voter identification. they want to be able to go out into ballot harvesting where you send ballots out and people can gather those ballots and bring them back in. >> chris: i understand all that

then it said china and iran to a lesser extent and in a far more overt way particularly with china isof some influence in various parts to have the country, but not the covert names that russia is undertaking. you know, they threw china and iran in there and tried to create a false equivalency for those not paying close attention, i imagine to curry the favor of donald trump who's put enormous pressure on the intelligence community to underestimate the role of the russians in this. but russia is in a category all of its own, and they are the adversary in this parti m mindful of. >> stephen: there's another threat to fair election and that's donald trump's attacks on the post office. what do people need to know about that? >> well, what donald trump is trying to do is, first of all, discredit the safety and security of voting by mail. whether absentee or mail-in voting. and there's absolutely no credible evidence to suggesteth any less secure to vote by mail or absentee, which is why donald trump himself is voting by absentee ballot. >> stephen: as mark meadows said to jake tapper, the

trump: they said china, russia, iran, and probably others. but because of the fake news, they seem to think russia plays the best, so what they do -- the way the politicians -- the other day, they said the three countries, china and russia and iran, and some reporter got up and said russia is meddling, and i said didn't it mention china and iran, why did you not mention them, too? i will tell you who is meddling in our elections. the democrats are meddling, by wanting and insisting on sending mail-in ballots. there is corruption all over the place. if you check what happened in new york, a small, relatively small race, with carolyn maloney, and they call her the winner the other day, because i was mentioning it at conferences and getting a lot of action on that statement, so they called her, declared her the winner, and they have no idea who won. and the person, her opponent, is very angry, but they had mail-in voting. they had hundreds and even thousands of ballots that are missing, that are fraudulent. take a look at the carolyn maloney race

we need to take china and iran very seriously. let me assure you of one thing. if china decided to act maliciously in the election, they would make russia look like the junior varsity. we need to focus on russia because they have a track record of being willing to break our laws and interfere and meddle in our democratic election process. as the president is at his country club on a friday night, america is under assault. every one i'm talking to in the intelligence tells me they are almost in a war like posture. this is almost a post- 9/11 response where they were playing whack-a-mole with the al qaeda websites chat rooms and blogs. then the dilemma of what you do. if you take down the sites, you think are atributable to a country, you lose insight. you don't wrap up an entire cell or network. some of whom might be operating here in this country. if you come out and say, look at this tweet. this is a chinese intelligence service tweet, you might get it wrong because ie roran is posin china and china is posing as russia and so on. it gets very complicated. i know

from 2016 that certainly russia have been involved in various forms election interference in iran and china are likely additions to that list certainly have a vested interest in us domestic politics and not surprising to hear that may be involved in some of these tactics which is surprising about this report is simply the willingness of the intelligence community or at least this component of it to come on the record and say foreign actors are not only potentially looking at election interference in this case but they have a vested interest in certain political candidates in the president trump in one case and it is opponent in another case or 2 other cases as it may be no less that is part of the framing that went into the effort to present this information and effort to make it look like it is in some ways and equip ois between the 2 sides but nonetheless it is notable. given the fact that almost any governments in the world could be accused of doing this kind of thing at some point how useful is this information to the voters in america in the run up to the election. well if it is useful

and it also talked about the fact that china would prefer to see trump not be re-elected and that iran also would prefer not to see president trump be re-elected, it appears. so certainly there are active influence operations by several countries and the fact that the office of the director of national intelligence will not be briefing members of congress in person is smur sure to get criticism and reaction. >> joining me now to discuss this is james clapper, former director of national intelligence serving in that role from 2010 to 2017 under president obama. thank you for joining us on a busy saturday at such late notice. let's get straight to this breaking news and your reaction to this development that the office of national intelligence will no longer update the house and senate intel committees in person on election security. >> well, bianna, i think it's both amazing and disturbing that here we are just a little over two months away from a crucial election, and of course we all know the history of 2016 where the russians pervasively and deeply invaded us in our political process

and we're going to take every action necessary to keep folks out, whether it is china, russia, iran orthers. >> brennan: in a statement that we saw on friday, the counterintelligence chief released this statement saying that china prefers president trump to lose, but it specifically referred to public em, pocy disagreements. are you here today saying that china is tampering with u.s. election infrastructure? >> well, they would like the president to lose, and china, like russia, like iran, have engaged in cyber attacks and phishing and that sort of thing with respect to our election infrastructure, with respect to websites and that sort of thing. we're aware of it and we're taking steps to counter it, whether it ischinor. we're not going to put up with it. there will be severe consequences for anybody who tries to interfere with our election. if they prefer joe biden or donald trump, it doesn't matter. we are not going to have foreign countries deciding who our next president will be. >> brennan: the statement on friday, specifically to russia, detailed an active campaign to denigrate

they are accusing russia, china and iran of adding chaos. ngton. >> doug: they are also talking about china and iran. now here is what the director of the u.s. national counterintelligence and security center says about this. foreign actors he says may, quote, seek to compromise our election infrastructure for a range of possible purposes such as interfering interfering withg process, stealing sensitive data or calling into question the validity of the election results. now late yesterday during press conference in new jersey president trump was asked about this and belief that russia will try to hurt former vice president's campaign and the president disputes that but he agrees with the assessment that china will work against his reelection. >> china would love to have an election with donald trump, lose to sleepy joe biden. they will dream and if joe biden was president of the country -- >> doug: they will try to repeat that this year. >> other countries have difference of policies and there's a difference between taking active measures to

when you always talk about russia, russia, russia, china, iran on voting, your biggest problem is goingsn't supported by the facts and his opposition to it appears to have more to do with the fact that higher turnouts tend to favour the democrats. it's the sheer volume of mail—in ballots that could cause the problem and the postal service is warning it can't guarantee they will all arrive in time to be counted. a letter sent to states across the country says certain deadlines for requesting and casting mail—in ballots are incongruous with the postal service's delivery standards. democrats are furious and have accused the president of deliberately seeking to sabotage the system. the president says he's not putting up any money for absentee voting and he's not putting up any money for the postal service, undermining the health of our democracy. the prospect remains that if the beleaguered us postal service fails to rise to the challenge, millions of american voters could be disenfranchised. and such is the irony here that two of the most recent florida residents to register to vote by mai

the increased relationship between iran and venezuela, it signals something interesting, which is that far from being able to rely on traditional allies like russia, chinaba, we are them undertake similar relationships that used to have with that country, with iran. so some of their traditional allies are decreasing. seeing this expansion is reflexive of an opportunity. but what it reflects is the basis of this discussion, which is that as u.s. sanctions and international sanctions have constrained the maduro regime's ability to finance itself through traditional sources of income, we are seeing them move to illicit sources, whether illegal gold-mining, narco trafficking, or coordination with states like iran. iran iseeing that supplying materials to venezuela. closely withg international partners to limit iran's ability to supply the maduro regime. in the relationship between the two, we have seen in press reporting that maduro has illegally stolen nine tons of gold bars, the equivalent of $500 million, and sent it to iran in exchange for iran's assistance. it is not clear what type of irantance it -- assistance is providing, although we know they have

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