apparently, according to sentence, kate biden told him what he talked to putin about the united states. also saying that they will provide ukraine with will, the weapons they need to fight back a if what comes to was was comes to worse, whatever, whatever that means. but there was also a un general assembly session in which they cooled on russia, the un general assembly, to guarantee the safe passage of all vessels from the black sea to the sea of as up and vice versa. and this is again happening yes, the backdrop of a major. this isn't being talked about as much or at all. major ukrainian military build up at a, at the dumbass region in the east of ukraine. and vladimir putin himself has come out and has spoken with tremendous concern about what is happening in the east of ukraine, georgia family. i should say that russo phobias the 1st step towards genocide of what's going on and on bass now very much resembles genocide. we see it and we know about it. the similar thing on a slightly bigger scale out back in 2018, didn't it? didn't we were there the next day. are film qu, filming tho

kate: let's speak to your washington correspondent. president biden saying americans should be concerned, but not panicked about this latest wave. what else d he say in his latest address to the nation? >> that message was for those who are vaccinated and boosted. he had a stark warning for those who are not vaccinated, telling them they should have serious concerns about their health if they are not vaccinated. he urged people still unvaccinated to go get vaccinated. we heard the sound bite you just played. the patriotic duty. he also slammed those that he considers as peddling misinformation about the vaccine , telling those people that this is simply wrong and immoral, telling americans to please go get vaccinated because that's the biggest protection against covid-19, whatever the variant. there was another big pillar of his speech, testing, testing, testing. you mentioned those 500 million at home testing kits. that won't come until starting in january. possibly even mid-january. people will still have to wait for those testing kits. there is the

kate? >> good to see you. joining me is margaret at alliev, managing editor at axios. let's start with build back better and where it stands. what are the options now for president biden yeah. kate. i do think that biden and the majority of democrats in the house and senate are trying to figure out how pragmatically speaking what can be salvaged, what is it that joe manchin and kirsten sinema can deal with? we know what the contours of that looks like, a pared back version that would probably include some kind of universal pre-k, child care, some of the senior care, some environmental or climate provisions, and the big question marc around the child tax kate credit. did you try to do it. is build back better a poise on number and how do you do it? i think what takes is the hardest is also the thing that perhaps could be the only glue that could get it done. remember, there are lawmakers in swing districts all across the country whose point of view is somewhere between pramila jayapal and joe manchin, form of them closer to joe manchin, so there is at some point going to be a desire among some number of democrats to cool it on the airing of the grievances, as you put t

kate bolduan. here's what we're watching at this hour. high-stakes diplomacy. president biden speaks with ukraine's leader in the next hour as concerns of a russian invasion worrying his top generals. another shot. americans may need a fourth dose to protect themselves against the new variant. why one top vaccine maker is raising that possibility now. >>> and going boldly. blue origin prepares for another launch to suborbital space. william shatner joins me live to talk about his own trek to the final frontiers. >>> thanks for being here. we begin with president biden preparing to hold a critical call with the president of ukraine. the call to president zelensky, which will happen in the next hour, is critical because right now russia is amassing troops still on the borders with ukraine, and there remains real fear russia will invade ukraine. president biden warned vladimir putin this week in that call that putin will face severe consequences if that happens. the ukraine military officials are sounding the alarm today saying they don't stand a chance against a russian invasion

>> reporter: well, listen, kate, president biden is going to try and accomplish a few things with this speech today, the first of which is to try and provide some assurances to those americans anxious about this omicron surge and the coming holiday season. for that, the president has a message to the vaccinated, which is that you are well protected from serious illness and death, particularly if you have that booster shot. you can continue to go ahead with your christmas and holiday plans. but to the unvaccinated, beware, essentially, making clear that you are at higher risk if you are unvaccinated of those bad outcomes with covid. the president will also announce a series of new actions that he is taking to try and address this surge of coronavirus cases including the most notable of which is this shipment, this purchase initially of half a billion rapid at-home tests which americans with can request beginning next month using a website that the administration is setting up and receive those tests free of charge. the white house is sending additional teams to states hardest hit includ

kate berner with the biden administration argues the bill would cut taxes and lower the cost of prescription drugs, health care and child care. >> and she says steps the white house took in recent weeks are already working good progress this keep prices starting to >> and some of those steps include boosting the processing of cargo from congested ports and also releasing crude oil from the petroleum reserve live in washington. i'm jessi tenure. >> major retail. saying enough is enough now calling on congressional leaders to pass a piece of legislation that aims to prevent people from selling stolen goods online. these are the types of crimes top executives. some retailers like cbs, best buy and nordstrom. many of them. they say they're just tired of them and they're now writing a letter to congress endorsing a bill called the inform consumers act a new legislation that retailers believe will help stop the sale of stolen items. >> make it harder to hide behind a screen name and pedal stolen products either on facebook or amazon marketplace. we think that is a huge driver for a lot of these cr

kate bolduan in for erin burnett. out front tonight, this is not march of 2020. that was president biden trying to reassure americans today. telling them not to panic over the latest surge. but he did warn things are about to get worse. >> we'll see some fully-vaccinated people get covid, potentially in large numbers. there will be positive cases in every office even here in the white house but these cases are highly unlikely to lead to serious illness. if you are not fully vaccinated, you have good reason to be concerned. you are at a high risk of getting sick. >> right now, the u.s. is reporting more than 140,000 cases per day and the cdc is predict -- predicting we could be at 250,000 new cases a day in the next few weeks. breaking the record set back in january of this year. president biden insisting the u.s., though, is ready for an omicron wave announcing 500 million at-home tests will be available sometime next month. but that is next month and the president is facing real questions about why americans are struggling so much right now to get tests. >> is it a failure that you don'

kate berner with the biden administration argues the bill would cut taxes and lower the cost of prescriptionre. >> and she says steps the white house took in recent weeks are already working good progress this keep prices the starting to >> and those steps include boosting the processing of cargo from congested ports and also releasing crude oil from the petroleum reserve live in washington. i'm jessi tenure. so just yet. we heard that opposition from senator graham to the build back better plan. where does the bill stand in congress today. senator graham definitely is not alone in his opposition from mines. all republicans have made it very clear that they're united in their opposition against the legislation. so that's why all eyes have been on democrats, specifically senate democrats with that 5050 threshold. and so president biden did say today that he will be having a conversation with one of the biggest naysayers, i guess you could say in the next couple days. moderate senator joe mansion to try to get him on board to make sure that this could potentially advance will see what happens.

kate, they are. but dr. fauci did say this morning the biden administration is re-evaluating the bans on the eight african countries and hopes that they will be lifted soon. kate? >> thank you. >>> we're learning new details about the moments leading up to the tragic school shooting in michigan. tonight the suspected shooter and his parents are all in custody with growing scrutiny being put on the school, itself. we'll go to pontiac, michigan, for the latest. >> reporter: tonight the suspected high school shooter and his parents under close surveillance. >> all three of them, the son and both parents, are segregated, each individually, in isolation. we have advanced watch on them. >> reporter: james and jennifer crumbley joining their son in jail after being captured and charged saturday with four counts each of involuntary manslaughter. >> how do you plead to count one? >> not guilty. >> how are you pleading to count four? >> not guilty. >> reporter: the couple was arrested inside this art studio early saturday morning where police say they were hiding out. a person of interest, speaking to nbc news through his at

i really appreciate it. >> good to be with you, kate. >>> breaking news we need to get to. president biden as he was leaving the white house about the pfizer news as well as his phone call with vladimir putin. let's listen in together. >> i have good news this morning that pfizer lab report came back saying that the expectation is that the existing vaccines protect against omicron, but if you get the boosted, you're really in good shape. so that's very encouraging news. that's the lab report. there's more study going on. that's very, very encouraging. >> -- by talking with putin yesterday? >> he talked about you a lot. >> -- >> can you answer my question first? >> the meeting with putin, i was very straightforward. there was no minced words. it was polite but i made it very clear. if, in fact, he invades ukraine, there will be severe consequences, severe consequences, economic consequences like none he's ever seen or ever has been seen in terms of being imposed. his immediate response was he understood that. i indicated i knew he would respond. beyond that if, in fact, we would also be req

kate bolduan. you heard president biden speaking about several topics -- the pandemic, russian aggression and ukraine, and the november jobs report, a jobs report showing hiring hit a speed bump, falling well short of expectations last month. just 210,000 jobs added, well below expectations. let's get over the john harwood live at the white house for us. john, what stood out to you from what we just heard from the president? >> reporter: well, first of all, he's got a cold, which he acknowledged. everybody could hear that in his voice. he got a question at the end of the news conference in which he said he's tested for covid all the time, this is simply a cold he got from -- he thinks he got from his grandson. setting that aside, on the economy, he unsurprisingly skipped over the most disappointing part of this very uneven jobs report, which was just 210,000 jobs added, much below forecast. he noted the previous months have been revised upwards, which is true. the measurement has gotten very uneven in the last several months during the pandemic. but he focused on the large drop in the unemployment ra

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kate? >> all right. some tests very expensive right now at least in new york. thank you. >>> president biden will be delivering a speech tuesday to address the omicron variant. but on top of that the white house now has another major problem. today democratic senator joe manchin effectively brought down the build back better plan by vowing to vote against it. monica alba has details on how the biden administration is now responding. >> reporter: tonight a potentially fatal blow to president biden's massive social spending and climate plan. >> this is a no. >> reporter: senator joe manchin a democratic holdout for months over the size and scope of the package closing the door on the $1.7 trillion bill in its current form. >> i cannot vote to continue with this piece of legislation. i just can't. i've tried everything humanly possible. i can't get there. >> reporter: the white house firing back in a lengthy, blistering statement, writing, manchin's comments are, quote, at odds with his conversations with the president this week where he pledged to keep negotiations going. if his comments indic

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kate? >> jeremy, thank you for that. so where does biden and the democratic agenda go from here? me now is catherine lucy, white house reporter for "the wall street journal." thanks for being here. so the white house, jeremy read part of the statement from jen psaki and the white house after this pretty remarkable slapping back on manchin. i want to read another part that stuck out to me from jen psaki's statement when she wrote after learning of this, just as senator manchin reversed his position on build back better this morning, we will continue to press him to see if he will reverse his position yet again to honor his prior commitments and be true to his word. they're saying he didn't keep his word. they're treading pretty closely to calling him a liar. is that their intention? >> i mean, you are right, and jeremy was right. this is really a blistering statement coming from the white house and it's particularly notable given the way they have tried to manage the manchin relationship and negotiations up until this point, which has been very careful. they've been very cautious

kate bolduan. we begin with breaking news. right now, president bidene bide frn the white house situation room meeting with russian president vladimir putin in a video call. the meeting comes at a critical time with russia amassing tens of thousands of troops on the border with ukraine with the threat of another possible invasion looming. white house officials say president biden will be warning russia will face severe sanctions if they invade ukraine. the kremlin has signaled today's call will be lengthy but is tamping down expectations, saying they don't expect any major progress to be made. let's start at the white house this hour. jeff zeleny is there for us. are you hearing anything so far? >> reporter: the meeting has been under way neerply an hour or so. it started about 10:07 eastern time. we are not getting a readout of course, but we saw

kate bolduan. here's what we're watching at this hour. high-stakes diplomacy. president bidenn worrying his top generals. another shot. americans may need a fourth dose to protect themselves against the new variant. why one top vaccine maker is raising that possibility now. >>> and going boldly. blue

kate, is whose privilege is it? it's no more his privilege than it is the former-president trump's privilege. it's really joe biden'shave decided to waive it. >> you know, someone else who has tried, um, to help donald trump push the big lie is conservative lawyer john eastman. and he -- he, of course, is the man who wrote that memo ahead of january 6th urging vice president pence to overturn the election. today, eastman says that he plans to claim fifth amendment protections when he shows up before the january 6th committee and this is just after, shan, you know, another key figure here, former-justice department official, jeffrey clark. he said he is going to do the same. and i am seeing this and i am wondering if you think this is some kind of a domino effect it's creating and kind of what it means in the bigger picture of the committee's investigation? >> yeah. i am actually just surprised no one else has taken the fifth, already. there's obvious potential criminal culpability here. there could be a referral. doj could already be looking at it. and so, they are right to be concerned. it seems like they may have

. >> what's interesting about this statement, kate, he's saying that -- a test he took before the presidential debate with joe bidenhe's not acknowledging in this statement is what mark meadows said happened which is that he received a positive test at one point prior to that debate, in the 72 hours leading up to it and then received a negative test. what meadows acknowledges in his book is that the negative test was basically taken as gospel inside trump's inner circle and they proceeded as normal and totally ignored that previous positive test. not to parse the statement there, but it is interesting he doesn't directly contradict what meadows did say in his book. what is interesting about this entire episode is what it says about the way that the trump white house handled the covid-19 pandemic and internal out breaks of the virus inside that inner west wing circle. after he received this initial positive test, the president did multiple events, both indoors and outdoors at the white house before even going to that debate where he faced off with joe biden. >> gabby, thanks so much for reporting. that timeline more

kate) this year, holiday better, with verizon. because everyone deserves better. >>> just moments ago president biden spoke about the omicron variantst kits to americans across the country. listen to his remarks in an abc news interview with david muir just a little while ago. >> go to the pharmacy, we hear this over and over again, empty shelves, no test kits. is that a failure. >> i don't think it is a nature. i think you could argue that we should have known a year ago, six months ago, two months ago, a month ago, i've ordered half a billion of the pills. 500 million pills. excuse me, 500 million test kits that are going to be available to be sent to every home in america if anybody wants them. but the answer is yeah, i wish hi thought about ordering half a billion pills two months ago before covid hit here. >> but we're nearly two years into the pandemic and you're a year into the presidency, empty shelves and no test kits in some places three days before christmas when it is so important. is that good enough? >> nothing has been good enough. >> let's discuss with our chief national affairs correspondent jeff zeleny from the wh

kate bolduan in for erin burnett. out front tonight, we have breaking news. president biden, tonight, defending his administration's response to the surge in cases from omicron and the testing shortage seen across the country. in a new interview with abc news, the president saying when asked saying this when asked if the long lines and lack of testing is a failure. >> no, i don't think it's failure. i think it's -- you could argue that we should have known a year ago, six months ago, two months ago, a month ago. i have ordered half a billion of the pills. 500 million pills. i mean, excuse me, 500 million test kits that are going to be available to be sent to every home in america if anybody wants them. but um, the answer is, yeah, i wish i had thought about ordering a half a billion bills two months ago, before covid hit here. >> president biden misspeaking there, when he was talking about tests, not pills. it comes as we have confirmed that omicron is everywhere. south dakota -- the 50th state to confirm a case of the strain. it was just three weeks ago, that the first case

biden administration. i could still happen. this year -- might do the last one -- first one last. kate middleton will announce she is pregnant.est documentary. taylor swift will get engaged to joel baldwin, and -- what's the other one? president biden will have a new chief of staff before the end of 2022. >> they told me i could do one, but i'm going to do them all. i predict china will not evade taiwan, putin will enter the ukraine but will not be able to call it an all-out invasion. i share these with dana. in business, i believe there will be fewer streaming services a year from now. can't keep track of them, and neither can you. hulu, amazon -- >> all of them have different passwords. [laughter] >> politics -- the most talked about politician in america. depending on what he does with liberal policies here in new york. crime, policing, bail issues, and sports. i predict tiger woods will not win make a tournament in 2022, as much as it pains me to say, and in celebrity news, dana knows i never pay attention. i predict kim and kanye west will remarry and 2022. >> jesse: that is the boldest one yet. >> bill: a great american

kate, thank you. we will hear from you later in the night. bu >> today, the bidenced new emission standards for cars and trucks, too. help fight climate change. our kron four's, washington correspondent reshad hudson explains how it could impact you. >> the environmental protection agency says it wants americans breathing cleaner air. we have a responsibility to communities who are most heavily impacted by climate change. monday epa administrator michael regan announced a plan to raise average fuel emission standards for cars and light trucks to 40 miles per gallon by the year 2026 the standards are achievable affordable and will deliver significant pollution reduction. regan says the new fleet wide standards will help save money at the pump and protect the planet. and he says major automakers are jumping on board the past several months. nearly all major automakers have announced plans to transition their vehicle fleet to 0 emissions. the epa administrator says the transportation is the largest single source of greenhouse gases generated by the united states repre

a federal judge blocking joe biden from enforcing two mandates requiring millions of workers to get vaccinated. your executive order banning mask man katesvernment -- mandates by government entities becomes law. tell me about the economic story in,. i know concern in texas. i know that he's the la announced it's officially moving its headquarters to austin. what because that mean for texas? and then there's the samsung committing to a $17 billion semiconductor factory in taylor, texas. this is going to be the real impactful not just for texas, but for the country as we battle this shortage of semiconductor chips. >> well, it's huge. i'll address both issues that you raise,, and that is, first, texas has been very aggressive about legally challenging all of these mandates that the biden administration has put in place concerning covid whether it be vaccine mandates or mask mandates, and we've been winning them all in the course. and right now in texas there are the noal federal mandates, the only mandate that applies is my executive thehs order says noboy in the statee of texas can be mandated to take a vaccine shot. obviously, they're av

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kates. >> you see those issues snowballing as the variant spreads. thanks, pete. >>> also at this hour, the white house reversing course. president biden says he plans to lift covid travel restrictions imposed on african nations. let's get over to the white house. joe johns is standing by. what is the white house saying? >> reporter: the white house always said this was a temporary measure, and now they say the cdc has made progress in understanding the omicron variant. also they say there's more confidence that vaccines do work, especially when people go ahead and get the booster shot. so given all of that, the white house has a bit more confidence to say they're going to lift these travel restrictions that went into effect in late november on eight african countries including botswana and south africa that's going to go into effect on december 31st at just about midnight, just about midnight of december 31st. the other thing i think is important to say as well is these restrictions were controversial and did create just a bit of international upset as you know, kate. there were concerns about the fact that the african countries have

kate bolduan. >>> unprecedented surge -- the number of covid cases hits a level we've never seen before as cities struggle to keep critical services operating. >>> high-stakes call. president bidenussia's president in just hours as putin continues his aggression at the border with ukraine. >>> and justice for survivors. a jury convicts ghislaine maxwell of sex trafficking. reaction from several women who survived jeffrey epstein's sexual abuse. >>> we begin with a surge unlike anything we've ever seen. that is how one medical expert describes the alarming rise in cases as the omicron variant spreads like wildfire all across the country.

kate bolduan. >>> unprecedented surge -- the number of covid cases hits a level we've never seen before as cities struggle to keep critical services operating. >>> high-stakes call. president biden will speak with russia's president in just hours as putin continues his aggression at the border with ukraine. >>> and justice for survivors. a jury convicts ghislaine maxwell of sex trafficking. reaction from several women who survived jeffrey epstein's sexual abuse. >>> we begin with a surge unlike anything we've ever seen. that is how one medical expert describes the alarming rise in cases as the omicron variant spreads like wildfire all across the country. now averaging moren 300,000 cases a day. hospitalizations are also climbing to more than 84,000, up 70% from last month. at least ten states are reporting their highest hospitalization numbers of the pandemic. more than 1,500 americans are dying each day from the virus, an increase of 72% in the last month. and the cdc now predicting tens of thousands more could die from covid in the next four weeks. but there is some positive news, and that is new research from south africa that a johnson & johnson booster shot provides strong

kate, that's the day after the election. a member of congress, white house chief of staff, discussing a plan to disenfranchise millions of voters. president biden weighed in on meadows and the contempt issue a short time ago. let's take a listen to what he said. >> i don't know enough -- just what i've seen, i've not spoken to gone. it seems he's worthy of being held in contempt. >> biden had previously weighs in on steve bannon's contempt case suggesting he should be prosecuted. and there was some criticism of that for the president to weigh in on a pending justice department case. the justice department is, of course, supposed to act independently of the white house. now going forward, a lot of questions, kate, about why the lawmakers who sent these text messages are not named. the committee has named fox news hosts, the president's own son in some of these messages they've shared but cnn is told by the committee in the next week or so they'll decide whether they will name those lawmakers. the committee insists they wanted to put out the content before naming these lawmakers but we'll be reporting on this, too, trying to figure out who was se

kate uingly stuff out there yesterday. >> chad, thank you. let's focus in on one area, the recovery efforts from kentucky from the outbreak of tornados there. president bidennd met with survivors. the president is promising that the federal government will cover the cost of part of the cleanup. joining me now for more on this is republican congressman james comber of kentucky, the most devastated areas in his congressional district. he traveled with the president yesterday. thanks for being here. we heard the president announce that the federal government is going to cover 100% of the costs of the emergency work in kentucky for the first three days. what does that mean for your district? >> it means a lot. this is rural america. rural america just doesn't have the tech base that a lot of other parts of more suburban and urban areas have. so that was the biggest concern among the county executives and mayors was. we've got all this debris to remove, all these roads to open up. how are we going to pay for it? that was one of the things i requested, governor ba shear requested, and i was pleased he announced the federal government would pick up the cost of th

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biden: very kind of you. >> when did attending the kennedy honors become a constitutional prerequisite for the president? >> laura: it's amazing that you did that, that you took the martyr katee >> in 2017, as we said last week, norman lear, then a kennedy center honoree, refused to attend of trump shut up, so trump, to honor the kennedy center said okay, i'll just stay home so we don't disrupt the gathering. but when it's down to the actual topics, biden had to check his notes. >> how much do you pay attention to approval ratings? >> president biden: well, not anymore. people are afraid, people are worried, and so they are -- you know, they're being told that, you know, armageddon is on the way. one of the things that i find, jimmy, and i think you really would associate with this, and i think most republicans -- there's an awful lot of republicans in congress that -- >> throughout the interview he lost his way repeatedly. he would occasionally just trail off and jimmy gleefully went onto the next next question, but there are serious consequences, laura, for performances like this. our allies and our enemies are watching, and this is why his domestic agenda is having sony p

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current president joe biden is not standing in the way of these documents and in fact has said that executive privilege should be waived. now it will be up to the u.s. supreme court. kate>> joan, thanks so much for that. now let's turn to this. optimism from the president that the center before piece telling abc news he's not going to let this die down. let's go to jessica dean. you hear the president saying they haven't given up. has gott congress? >> that's the question. there's so many senate democrats who want to see this. the vast majority want to see build back better become law. chiefly among them senate majority leader chuck schum, but question is what does senator joe manchin want? look, he had a call, the democrats had a call earlier this week where they were kind of able to say their piece and air their grievances. manchin spoke on that call and he told us what he's been selling us publicly on the hill and his colleagues largely for months that he's concerned about inflation and concerned about geopolitical issues, that he doesn't want to add to the debt. that he thinks that build back better as it currently stands costs too much and he cannot see a way forw

jill biden and second gentleman doug inhofe laying a wreath and visiting the victims and first responders of the november parade attack that killed six people and injured more than 60. cnn's kate i did, john. this was a really difficult day, and part of what's going on in the country, we had the president visiting tornado victims, the first lady and the second gentleman in waukesha, new covid variant coming, there are lots of things affecting the country, i asked them how does the country heal if so much is going on and here's what the first lady said. >> and joe was showing up today in kentucky, doug and i are showing up here in waukesha, you know. these are terrible tragedies that have happened and we need to heal our country. people, they're not only hurt physically, but also emotionally and that's why we came to waukesha. >> yeah, i think what we saw here today and in the face of this unspeakable tragedy, this community coming together, and you can really feel it and nothing to do about politics or anything, only had to do about this community coming together to help each other get through this, but also now as we're seeing today, to just to heal. so it's inspiring. >> rep

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the biden administration is easing sanctions stan afghanistan to get more aid into the country. less than five months after the kateerts say it is not enough to address what is going on in the country. david: after all we left behind, billions and billions dollars worth of hardware we left behind we'll be sending them -- it is just a very strange situation. rich edson at the white house. thank you very much, rich. >>> now this, united airlines cutting flights ahead of the busiest travel day of the year. we've got the details. the defense department issuing a warning to all servicemembers. get vaccinated or vase consequences. but our next guest says, pushing for 100% compliance is unrealistic. it will harm our military readiness. major general michael maguire here on that. (vo) the more we do with our phones, the more network quality and reliability matter.. and verlyon hly heeen d daan usatasaf gean ojo r ma , exexthalls,lstwork quality and eemostastor n frk fwowoalit t io acrdincoin cg rstors. e' e' b neesor lye o#1ke ianeeen d daan usatasaf gean ojo r ma , eneabre16ites tima tw. tw.w.d eemostastor n frk fwowoalit