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toronto may be different. they're not going to prosecutor him for that but are they going to go after him and find reasons to pull him out of the office? you betcha. how do you say you're running a city when you're a drunk and a drug addict. >> well, the way these things normally end -- kilpatrick's case in detroit was different. those are real financial abuses and abusing public funds. we don't know if that's the case here. but in a lot of these cases -- i covered my share of them -- what happens is there's a settlement reached to kick the guy out of office, and part of the settle. is we'll pay your legal fees, just get your ass out. >> for him to go on the air like that i thought main they gave him immunity from prosecutor in order to come out. but we see the sense of entitlement in elected officials. an aural a couple weeks ago in "the wall street journal" talking about how people with power, they get drunk with this power and think they're beyond reproach, and this is somebody people are supposed to look u

nic robertson joins us from toronto. i hate to use hyperbole when i asked for a comment from a reporter covering a story but this is jaw-dropping it does not seem to be a day when there isn't a bizarre development. >> there was another bizarre twist here not just this idea of the process of stripping powers from him that could cost taxpayers a lot of money. clearly the defense they are trying to put up. his brother is also a counselor here. this whole idea that he will be left without any power, he is fighting that but the extraordinary thing was he stood there and said i was in your shoes i would do exactly the same thing. is in his shoes and he will do what he wants to do. he understands that it will go down as his own. >> as he has been doing up until now, if you can believe it. a reality tv show is in the office with his brother. joining us now from toronto is city councilor. this has been so unbelievable to watch and i am sorry that you're going through this. need to ask you what exactly were you able to do with the

he is hurting toronto -- >> is he hurting toronto? toronto is a lovely place, i've been there. it is not the most exciting -- i'm talking to people in london, saying wow, i want to be to toronto. if that guy is the mayor, what are the rest of them like? is he damaging toronto? >> i think he is. >> how. >> i think people are saying is there a crack problem or a gang problem in toronto? and they fear that. i tell people, come to toronto, it is a safe city -- >> what he did to you, you claim -- he denies it, obviously. >> one of the other lies. >> was he just being rambostuous rob ford -- >> he was completely stoked. he was not the rob ford i know. i had been with him for about ten months in the election. this is a man who wouldn't even look me in the eye. and then -- >> did he say -- >> no comment. >> what people say, you're quite a polarizing figure, people saying i can't believe you got this sarah thompson, it is all talk about him, making herself relevant, what do you have to say? >> it is about toronto. i have always been how we put toronto on the map, make it a world class c

. >> just into the news desk, the crack-smoking mayor of toronto has just done it again. [ laughter ]> jon: which brings us to our brand new segment "this just in the crack-smoking mayor of toronto has just done it again." [laughter] [laughter] so apparently -- the crack-smoking mayor of toronto has done it again. [ laughter ] here is the sentence i'm assuming does not follow that sentence: saves the day. >> the hours long city council meeting deteriorating into a spectacle. mayor rob ford at one point started mocking a council member suspect of driving drunk. >> mayor, stop disrupting. >> amid the chaos he nearly knocked a councilwoman to the ground as he ran across the room. [laughter] [cheers and applause] >> jon: poor woman. you know she got into politics thinking this may be a dirty unrewarding business but at least i'll never have to worry about going to work and being trampled by a crackhead. [ laughter ] and there's a reason rob ford may have been worked up by that particular city council meeting. >> the city council in toronto has just begun debating a measure that would stri

does this affect the other residents of toronto? >> the toronto star, where i work, has been reporting on this mayor for about a year, year and a half. earlier this year, we reported on this -- well, it is not alleged any more, crack video. drinking, being removed from a military ball -- there were signs of this before. but when the police chief announced they had obtained the rack video, things changed. but this was not totally out of the blue. yearsr the last couple of he has been accused of sexual harassment, texting and driving, giving a woman the finger, and now the drinking and the crack. >> he has a huge base of support and the only thing you can liken it to is sort of a tea party sort of culture in the suburban areas of toronto. is popular and conservative. he has that sort of every diet pill -- every-guy appeal. he has been the champion of the working class. people really like him. one, was a poll, a small taken that suggested his numbers took an uptick after this. people are very embarrassed. >> you had a front-row seat to

does this affect the other residents of toronto? >> the toronto star, where i work, has been reporting on this mayor for about a year, year and a half. earlier this year, we reported on this -- well, it is not alleged any more, crack video. drinking, being removed from a military ball -- there were signs of this before. but when the police chief announced they had obtained the rack video, things changed. but this was not totally out of the blue. yearsr the last couple of he has been accused of sexual harassment, texting and driving, giving a woman the finger, and now the drinking and the crack. >> he has a huge base of support and the only thing you can liken it to is sort of a tea party sort of culture in the suburban areas of toronto. is popular and conservative. he has that sort of every diet pill -- every-guy appeal. he has been the champion of the working class. people really like him. one, was a poll, a small taken that suggested his numbers took an uptick after this. people are very embarrassed. >> you had a front-row seat to

pollslooking at opinion in toronto, not something i do terribly often. it looks like rob ford's approval ratings have actually risen since he admitted to smoking crack cocaine. what is his base of support in the city? >> it is interesting. rob ford was elected three years ago on a platform of ending the gravy train, as he put it. that was the spending, the frivolous spending, as he sighed, here at toronto city hall. basically, he has gone into battle on behalf of the little man, as he puts it. he is an unlikely champion of the poor, because he himself comes from a very wealthy family. the messageess, resonated with a certain percentage of the population here. and despite the fact people are turning against him, there is still a constituency for rob ford. we saw evidence of it in the weekend, when he was mobbed when turning out at the toronto game. >> mobbed not by opponents, but by supporters in this case. thanks ray much. of rob ford.aga you are watching bbc world news america. still to come, from the battlefields of gettysburg to the fascination in dal

you don't trust what the toronto star says.eep ]. i shouldn't have sworn in front of the kids. i made mistakes. i drank too much. i smoked crack sometimes. what can i say? i made a mistake. i'm human. >> can't you see why some would question your judgment? so lie about it, just hide? >> you said you wouldn't do it in the first place. >> no, i didn't say that. you're absolutely wrong what you said. they said do you smoke crack and are you a crack addict? no, i don't smoke crack and i'm not a crack addict. have i? yes, i have. i don't smoke crack the. i haven't smoked crack in over a year. dy? typical media. you guys are cut from the same cloth. you know, you guys can spin it every way you want. >> so then the mayor's brother coming to his defense here. nic robertson spoke with doug ford. here's what he said about the upcoming council vote that's about to happen. >> what is happening today is an overthrow of a democratically elected mayor. illegally. this is what you see in third world nations. you don't see this in canada. you d

>> i could have been in toronto wearing that last. -- wearing that.laughter] i need to know do you have a problem with that photograph? >> jon: i love that photograph. that brings me such joy because it looks like it brings you such joy. like, you seem to be so tickled in that. i don't know is that -- were you selected out of that? are you playing -- look it looks like hey, let's play restaurant and -- [laughter] and then people just walk by and go yeah, i'll take that one. >> the thing is people have pointed out that i shouldn't have been pink because if i was pink i was dead. >> jon: who pointed that out? >> a lot of people on twitter pointed that very thing out. if you were a live lobster with a smile on his face he should have been black or gray. >> jon: sure. and if he was six feet tall he should be in a circus. all i get from that picture is pure joy. there are people literally that will see that and saying you are the wrong color for a lip lobster -- live lobster. >> one has to do with my wife who has a great sense of humor. we were going to a

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. >> the city council in toronto has just begun debating a measure that would strip a crack-smoking mayor of most of his powers. [ laughter ] >> jon: wait, smoking crack gives you powers? [ laughter ] are those powers an unquenchable thirst for crack? [ laughter ] with you oddly in mayor ford's case with great power comes very little responsibility. how did the council attempt to strip him of his powers turn out? >> ford went down 36 votes to five. >> jon: five votes. who voted to continue to give this man power? [laughter] i imagine he must have given an empassioned defense. >> his answer? >> this, folks, reminds me of when -- and i was watching with my brother-- when saddam attacked kuwait, you guys have just attacked kuwait and you will never -- [laughter] >> jon: the reference may be dated but in rob ford's defense it may be one of last things he remembers. [laughter] let me tell you something. there was an invasion of kuwait and the next thing i know and i woke up i was the mayor. i don't know how. [ laughter ] well the vote yesterday capped off a hell of a couple of days for rob for

the toronto mayor strikes again. justdays after his ministr -- days after he committed smoking crack cocaine, video services of him threatening to kill someone. countsthere as russia down to the sochi games. >> roaring off on its way. the olympic torch on board. you can feel it in your stomach. >> welcome to our viewers on public television in america and also around the globe. twitter, which has helped to fuel revolutions and bring us the latest from lady gaga, saw it stocks soar. can they keep the momentum going? twitter takes flight on the new york stock exchange. top tweeters including patrick stewart taking part in the social media phenomenon. one of twitter's founders on the floor of the exchange. the share price soars. simple tool. yet, people have done so many amazing things with it. team has spent the last few weeks of playing to investors why a company which is yet to make a profit will be a great bed. 26 with thisin tweet from one of the founders. than 230 million users ranging from the president celebrati

what else can happen in toronto?s right after this. ♪ [ woman ] i'd be a writer. [ man ] i'd be a baker. [ woman ] i wanna be a pie maker. [ man ] i wanna be a pilot. [ woman ] i'd be an architect. what if i told you someone could pay you and what if that person were you? ♪ when you think about it, isn't that what retirement should be, paying ourselves to do what we love? ♪ >>> just in, the crack-smoking mayor of toronto has just done it again. not smoked crack but put himself in a bad position. mayor rob ford -- a bad thing just happen. the mayor just got into a screaming match right in the middle of a city hall meeting, of a city council meeting, with his -- with everybody in there. he ended up running and knocking over a fellow council member or council woman who was voting to strip him of his powers. listen to this. >> yes, so we have some angry things going on -- >> watch here. >> you attacked -- the mayor -- [shouting] >> another counselor went after and grabbed her. >> not sure about the grabbing part but we k

thanks for keeping it clean after that mayor of toronto. we crossed a line there. >> you got it. >>> counterpunch. let's play "hardball." ♪ >>> good evening. i'm chris matthews in chicago. let me start tonight with this. president obama took back the health care fight today. he unleashed a brisk combination of both defense and offense. he declared people who had their own health insurance before his bill became law had a chance to reup with their current plans. a total failure to present even the outline of their own plan to save the country's 40 million uninsured from life in the emergency room. can the president regain control of the fight? can he begin to stand toe-to-toe with his critics with whom is empty handed? can he win the argument he alone is offering a solution to the country's health care challenge after decades of debate, log jam, and failure. can he win this historic test? howard fineman and jonathan gruber. gruber was an adviser to congress and the president on the affordable care act. anyway, president obama has taken fire

senior international correspondent nic robertson in toronto today. nic, you spoke with rob ford's brother who was also on the city council. what is next? how and why are they remaining in this fight? >> reporter: well, they plan to continue to fight, even if it means dipping in the mayor's own pokt to pay for legal costs. as this goes on, they could mount substantially. as it goes on, more and more details emerge about allegations about not only the mayor but what his family members might have been doing in their past, and i asked his brother, wasn't all of this just becoming humiliating, and what's it going to do to the family's political legacy. >> i think our legacy is going to be pretty solid based on how rob performs. you're going to look at a family that doesn't need to be doing this, that has sacrificed massive amounts of time, money, their business to serve the people. >> aren't you worried about his health with all of the additional stress, not just the public and not just counselors but family. >> i am confident that the people that actuall

rob ford is the mayor of toronto. claims but as don dahler reports, police say they've got video. the mayor may have a hard time explaining. >> reporter: just three years ago, toronto's nuclear applicanted mayor, rob ford, was enormously popular. his larger-than-life personality and boisterous nature made the conservative politician seem like a fun guy to be around. >> he walks down the street and people reach out to touch him. >> reporter: michael cooke is editor of the "toronto star." >> he's instantly recognizable. he's a big man in all meanings of that word. >> reporter: but a series of bizarre incident and anti-guy statements have left people scratching their heads. >> his behavior has been extraordinary. over the last two or three years he's been caught in florida smoking marijuana. he denied it. he's been caught at a sports haven't in toronto attacking other fans and been thrown out of the stadium. he denies it. >> reporter: then in may, this photograph appeared. that's ford standing outside a known crack house

everything i am aware of is out there. >>> for more on toronto mayor rob ford i'm joined by toronto by kevin newman who is the anchor of kevin newman live with ctv. >> was that the worst of rob ford's display our is there more to the story that we don't know about? >> who knows. there are things that are going to come out in the police investigation. it's head shaking stuff. just when you thought you heard enough he said he i bought drugs when i was mayor of toronto. and the staff are concerned about drunk driving and he downs a mickey of hard licke liquor an and driving and he consorts with prostitutes. >> legally he can stay on as toronto mayor until his term end. he was a fairly popular mayor. because he had done a pretty good job, right? you are right. >> one of the things he has done is he brought the city's finances into check. he is a bit like a tea partyer. he respects the tax taxpayers dollars. he is a bit of that kind of brand of popular. >> he was incredibly popular. and he did better than anybody thought. and then all of this stuff started to unravel. at the beginning there

. >>> and embattled toronto mayor rob ford has his powers stripped during a rowdy city council session. this is the "cbs morning news" for tuesday, november 19th. this is the "cbs morning news" for tuesday, november 19th. 2013. captioning funded by cbs >>> good morning. good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. we are learning more about the batch of violent storms that plowed through 12 states flattening entire neighborhoods. the series of tornadoes swept through the midwest sunday, leaving at least eight people dead. but if not for accurate early warnings, the toll could have been much higher. meanwhile, thousands remain without power. in washington, illinois, as many as 500 homes were either damaged or destroyed. bigad shaban is in washington. bigad, good morning. >> reporter: anne-marie, good morning to you. the kind of tornado that whipped through here only comes about every ten years according to the national weather service. and for those who still may have homes to return to in this community, the power is still out. officials say it could be days before electricity is restore

the toronto mayor strikes again. justdays after his ministr -- days after he committed smoking crack cocaine, video services of him threatening to kill someone. countsthere as russia down to the sochi games. >> roaring off on its way. the olympic torch on board. you can feel it in your stomach. >> welcome to our viewers on public television in america and also around the globe. twitter, which has helped to fuel revolutions and bring us the latest from lady gaga, saw it stocks soar. can they keep the momentum going? twitter takes flight on the new york stock exchange. top tweeters including patrick stewart taking part in the social media phenomenon. one of twitter's founders on the floor of the exchange. the share price soars. simple tool. yet, people have done so many amazing things with it. team has spent the last few weeks of playing to investors why a company which is yet to make a profit will be a great bed. 2006 with this tweet from one of the founders. than 230 million users ranging from the president celebrati

toronto's mayor is defiant. he won't resign by getting caught smoking a crack cocaine pipe. charges kpexpected to file. problems on the web site now in the courtroom. a big blow to the president's affordable health care law over birth control. >> first up, toronto's mayor made an admission today. he has made mistakes. but he has no plans to resign. even though pris claim they have video showing robl ford smoking a crack cocaine pipe. nick, the mayor, can we say he's defient, even though he is apologetic? >> he ses certainly digging his heels in. he mentioned he made an apology about unspecified mistakes. it's been a tough couple of months when allegations reportedly that he smoked a crack pipe. it alleges to show the mayor smoking a crack pipe. the police chief says they finally got their hands on that video and they have evidence, as has been reported in the media today on his radio show. ma mayor rob ford addressing toronto. >> i want the police chief bill blare to release this video for every single person in the city to see. that is the right thing to do. and, chief, i'm

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toronto's police chief dropped a bombshell on mr. ford by revealing that a video of the mayor had been seized by the police. >> we are now in possession of a recovered digital video file relevant to the investigations that have been conducted. that file contains video images which appear to be those images which were previously reported in the press. >> those press reports were written by journal who is reported it appeared to show the mayor smoking crack cocaine but the police chief said there was nothing in the video that would lead to charges although the contents were, he said, disappointing. >> i think it's fair to say that the mayor does appear in those -- in that video but i'm not going to get into the detail of what activities is depicted on that video. >> that could be because the video is to be used as evidence in court against this man. he's a part-time driver and friend of the mayor who has now been charged with drug and extortion instances. mayor ford responded for less than a minute to reporters outside his office. he r

he acted out again in the toronto city council. short time later, the city council took action stripping most of his powers and handing it over to the deputy mayor. that is the breaking news. this happened while his brother, doug, was in an argument with other city council members. he later apologized for knocking the woman over. there was that today. and the saturday night live routine over the weekend, the st. patrick's day bender allegations last week, and the of course, i was too drunk to remember the crack smoking moment". >> i did not use crack cocaine, nor am i an addict of crack cocaine. >> yes, i have smoked crack, but am i an addict? have you tried it? probably indrunken stupor, none of you guys have ever, ever had a drink and gotten behind the wheel, i know that. have i drank, done drugs, yes. i'll do a drug test. >> i have never said that in my life to her. there is nothing else to say, guys, i really effed up. and that is it. >> and given all that you may wonder why he is still in office. you may wonder why some still

let's head back to toronto for just a second. because that toronto city council meeting is ongoing., city council is actually debating whether to allow the mayor to vote on whether he stays in office or goes. when they settle that, we expect to hear from the mayor. >>> but whether mayor rob ford stays or go, he'll have a bobblehead to commemorate his time in office. >> reporter: his admission that he had smoked crack had people shaking their heads. and now mayor rob ford's head is shaking. he's been turned into a bobblehead. but the mayor didn't mind. he was autographing them. just another surreal day at toronto city hall. >> mr. ford, we see you're working out these days. >> who said that? >> your brother. >> who said that? >> reporter: just another collision with a photographer and his mind boggling and head bobbling saga. folks lined up to pay 20 bucks for rob ford's robby bobby with proceeds going to charity. the mayor signed the the bobblehead. >> now you can keep it on the desk every time. >> reporter: -- mayor ford has a lot to bounce back from. at least his bobblehead doesn'

applause) >> jon: toronto mayor and intrepid-- yesterday appeared before the mighty toronto city council. as crowds of his supportive constituents gathered outside. so that's where south park got that. (laughter) anyway, ford has some splaningng to do. >> mr. mayor, do you still have zero tolerance for drugs, guns and gangs? >> absolutely. (laughter) >> jon: wait, did you see zero tolerance for drugs or jim morison like high tolerance for drugs. but then inevitably the $64,000 question or whatever crack costs in canada. >> have you purchased illegal drugs in the last two years? >> yes, i have. >> jon: the pause before mayor ford to answer that factually yes or no question was 8 seconds long. 8 seconds. we don't know what is he was thinking in the interval. but we think it might have been this. >> have you purchased illegal drugs in the last two years? >> yes, i have. >> jon: going through the headlines. (cheers and applause) >> jon: maybe in those eight seconds mayor ford was truly trying to remember the last time he bought crack or maybe he was doing the homer simpson thing, exhorting h

right now there's a mayor in toronto going i'm smoking way too much crack.laughter] i almost feel bad for joe lhota. his opponent has a ton of charisma with his family with their own signature dance moves. check that out. how do you fight that? >> he talks a good game but boy he can't even get into the first inning because once you ask a detailed question it's blah blah blah blah blah. [ laughter ] >> jon: that's your best shot when you ask him a question he answers it with wores. you have to do better than that especially when you look like what happened when new jersey governor jon corzine (bleep) the grumpy cat. [ laughter ] for more we go to senior mayoral correspondent john oliver. john, where are you? [cheers and applause] >> jon i'm at de blasio headquarters where the victory parto is well under way. >> jon: the election isn't until tomorrow. >> doesn't matter. the old rule of politics doesn't apply. he can do anything. as you see his final campaign poster it's a big -- >> jon: i thought was the empire state building. i didn't realize. >> displaying y

. >> a defiant rob ford tells city council members he won't step down as mayor of toronto, despite admitting he purchased illegal drugs while in office. captioning funded by cbs captioning funded by cbs >>> this is the "cbs morning news" for thursday, november 14th, 2013. good morning. good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. now, six days after a devastating typhoon hit the philippines, the situation for hundreds of thousands of victims remains desperate. they have nothing to eat and no place to stay. aid has been slow to arrive. this morning the united nations said it distributed rice and water to 49,000 victims in hard-hit tacloban. the death toll now stands at over 2,300. mass burials began today. the red cross estimates 22,000 are missing. the american aircraft carrier "george washington" arrived this morning, tripling the number of helicopters available for relief work. government officials estimate that it will take six weeks before power is restored to some areas. seth doane reports from tacloban. >> reporter: good morning. yes, aid is starting to trickle in. you certainly see it p

most people know toronto and like toronto.e would like them to think of a multicultural city and how open we are. the people's first thoughts of the city may have been the cn tower and now it's a crack smokinsmoking mayor. but we would like to turn that corner. >> council men thank you for coming on. >>> thank you very much. >> now to the battle over obama's healthcare problem. 1:5 will not be able to access the healthcare.gov website even after the website fixes in november. mike viqueira from the white whe house. >> the white house set a target date, november 30th. at that time the vast majority will have an experience that will run smoothly. you can register and buy insurance despite the problems in the last weeks. eight in ten americans will be able to log onto the website on november 30th that target date an buy insurance. who won't be able to? those that are still having technical difficulties with the site and those that get frustrated a and give up and the that have policy that's are complicated. jay carney the white h

have you thought about running for mayor of toronto? >> bongy loves you!heers and applause ) we'll be right back. ( cheers and applause ). >> stephen: welcome back, everybody. thanks so much. nation, i don't like to talk about this. the truth is, i've got a little bit of a problem with bugs. not just in the backyard shed where i store my collection of decoratively shattered oreos. for years, scientists have told us up to 75% insects may be involved in same-sex sexual incidents. according to a new study, those billions of insects are having gay sex accidentally. that's a relief. it's all just one big misunderstanding. i'm not surprised. bugs are always getting it wrong. look at the birds and the bees-- hey, bs, stop screwing those birds. they're not giant bees. , and folks, it's happening, because the bugs are in such a rush to reproduce they conot take enough time to inspect their potential mate's gender. see, there's nothing gay there. it's just a normal manua normale to bang everything that moves. and once we're going down that road, we never ask for dir

ultimately you have to govern for the people of toronto.operly in order to gain control of that city, and to get people in power who can move the city forward, i think ultimately is something that will fail in the court. it is time to resign. >> what will his legal fights be that the city council unlawfully is removing him of his powers, that he can continue to maintain his job because this is not a job he can be fired from, he has to walk off the job, voluntarily leave the job of being a mayor in toronto. so avery, is he challenging, you know, city council that no matter what, he cannot -- his powers cannot be removed from him? >> the legislative branch, fredricka, cannot remove executive power, but i don't know that anyone has talked about this yet. certainly it is a common practice in the united states. i don't know what the people of toronto, what are they, torontorians, tarantulas. aren't they going to rise up by way of a referendum or something like that and say we're not going to hold onto this guy five more years. i actually think t

, is still toronto's liquored up, crack smoking mayor.ys he probably smoked the crack in one of his drunken stupor or on the colbert report. >> after months and months after his denials on thursday toronto police confirmed that ford appears in a video that allegedly depicts the mayor smoking crack cocaine. but on the bright side, he is personally taking crack off the streets of toronto. >> what he's not doing despite pressure today is stepping down. toronto is a great city, i should say. i liked it a lot. she joins us now. paula more than 24 hours after mayor ford admitted to smoking crack and still, there is no sign he's stepping down, right? >> reporter: absolutely not, anderson, and, you know, the thing is everyone is telling him, supporters, saying look, take a few months, take a few weeks, take some time. no, the people he's probably listening to are the people i spoke to today, the people in the so-called ford nation saying look, this is the best mayor we ever had in toronto. he can stay in office. these are personal problems. we do

from the toronto star that i use crack cocaine. i do not use crack cocaine nor am i an addict. as for a video, i cannot comment on a video i have never seen or does not exist. >> just last week toronto police came forward and said not only does the rob ford crack tape exist, but they have possession of it. he did not come out and defend himself in the matter. over the weekend ford did soul searching. vowing not to get hammered. that all changed this afternoon at an impromptu news conference when he made his stunning admission. he says he wasn't lying, he says the media didn't ask the correct questions. as the toronto star points out the question have you ever smoked crack cocaine has been posed a number of times. but ford is moving on saying his crack tape should be public viewing. >> there's been times when i've been in a drunken stupor. that's why i want to see this team. i want everybody to see the tape. >> one ally admitting i think he lost the moral authority to leave. reporters were then summoned to another news conference. t

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