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sult >> so today, before these closing arguments take place, there had been one more analyst on the standboth the victims were shot quickly and at close range. also testified that chris kyle quote, never saw it coming. why is it important, danny, to present those details of the deaths when the question isn't about who did it? >> i'm speculating as to the prosecution's tactics, but i think we can reasonable bli assume it's this. number one, they're showing how deliberate these actions were and these two're people these victims never posed a threat to anybody. but part two, it's really sort of a picture for the jury that this was a summery execution and nothing more and that leaves them going into the jury room realizing realizing these two poor victims never had a chance to defend themselves and never, ever posed a threat to the defendant. >> defense will say he was hallucinating, he was paranoid he had to do this and get them before they got him. these are the two competing arguments that are going to play out in that courtroom. what the jury ultimately decides is the big question. rememb

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it's creating a small initiative to help them with the planning in with con sulting. so we do what we can. >> yes, senator. my institutions generally tell me that the costs are incured through hiring atigszal staff and also implementing and spending the manual time and efforts in trying to understand the new regulations and implement them and particularly, this difficult, mr rural areas. where you don't have a large group to choose new -- >> let me just add. i think there are certain things like have been mentioned in terms of forms. >> i guess the comment i'd like to make, mr. chairman, and i don't know how you'd grapple with this. my belief is enhanced standards for larger institutions. they have kind of seeped down into the examiners at the small banks. and i don't know how you grapple with that best practices standard. we'll have to come back and revisit that. mr. chairman, thank you. it's my wish to follow up on some of your questions and senator brown's questions. i've used up my five mines but i want to thank everybody for being here. thanks for being here and

. >> to barry's point switch the sult nuance here there's not a lot of pricing at early stages. b's, if you're connected to the deal flow on the ground those are fairly priced. it's when they're e's, f's, that's when you see the $15 billion valuations wrich allhich are all meant to exploit the missing out. >> so much of the complex of assets are yielding nothing. and the fidelityiesfidelities, all these guys. they have nothing on so much. the markets fall. they can get alpha. but if they go in a round, they're going to put in a million dollars. doesn't matter. if they want to play in this space, they have to go around. there's not at the end of the day that many of these. uber at $40 billion you can put in a billion bucks and if you're right it's $80 billion. but if they can't move this into the space and struggling to find a way to make money. >> that's why there's more money on the mid-stage rounds which dominic chu did a report yesterday that showed that when you see an ipo on these companies, they used to pop 100% on the first day. now it's 25% because there are so many othe