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the entire memphis police department after the brutal beating of tyre nichols. plus, the man behind the decision to shoot suspicious balloons out of the sky testifying on capitol hill. congress is demanding some answers today to a long list of questions about how all of that went down. also, what we're learning from the wife of one of the four americans kidnapped in mexico, as her husband is being treated in a texas hospital. and trip delayed, the massive protests in israel, so big, so disruptive, the u.s. defense secretary just pushed back his planned trip. our nbc news reporters are all around the country and the world with the very latest. first, we begin in the middle east where the defense secretary will now be going, we believe, tomorrow, but as that latest round of violence leaves at least six palestinians dead, raf sanchez in te aviv, tell us about this delay, what we know about it, and what will he be

walking into? >> reporter: well, chris, secretary austin's plans have been totally scrambled by the domestic political crisis in israel, as you and i have spoken about before. prime minister benjamin netanyahu is trying to ram through this controversial plan to weaken israel's supreme court. he says it is a necessary reform to curb activist judges, but tens of thousands of israelis have been out on the streets in recent weeks, warning that this could be a potentially fatal blow to israeli democracy, and they are going to be out on the streets again tomorrow trying to block major highways. and that has totally turned upside down secretary austin's original plan which was to come here to tel aviv to meet his israeli counter part and israel's defense ministry. instead, he's going to fly into israel's airport, he's going to do all of his meetings at the airport, and he's going to fly out again without actually leaving the compounds. in terms of the substance of

those meetings, we are two months into 2023. this is already turning into one of the most violent years in israel in the occupied west bank in two decades. just yesterday, israeli special forces raided the janine refugee camp in the northern west bank. they killed six militants, including a hamas operative they say was responsible for killing two israeli brothers at the end of february. the u.s. is very concerned that this is an escalating cycle of violence with no clear way out. we are expecting secretary austin to urge the israelis to scale back the military raids during the daytime. these daytime raids lead to very large crowds of palestinians, confronting israeli soldiers, and as a result, a lot of casualties. we also think he's going to tell the palestinians, they need to do more to confront militant groups themselves. >> raf sanchez, thank you for that. details emerging on the americans attacked in mexico.

the two who survived the horrific kidnapping are in a hospital. ellison barber is in the hometown of the survivors. what more are you learning about the group of childhood friends. i understand there's a report of a fifth person who traveled with them from where you are. >> reporter: right, so a law enforcement official who is close to this case is telling nbc news that there was a fifth person traveling with this group, but that fifth person didn't actually cross the border into mexico because they did not have the proper documentation to cross the border with the other four. mexican authorities say once the four crossed the border, they were in mexico for about two hours when their van, the car they were traveling in came under fire. two of the four were killed. the other two, last we heard, were receiving treatment at a hospital in texas. one of the two survivors, eric williams was reportedly shot in the leg. nbc news had a phone call with his wife yesterday.

she talked about how she didn't have a whole lot of information on how he was doing, his condition. she said the conversation they had was brief. but she talked about just the range of emotions she has experienced from feeling relief, gratitude that her husband is safe and alive, but absolutely devastated for his friends and their families because their loved ones are not coming home. she said when she first heard about all of this, she did not believe it was real. listen. >> i didn't know anything until sunday morning when the fbi came. i was just -- everything just seemed so surreal to me. at first i thought it was a scam. i'm thankful that my husband and tay is coming home. but i'm just heartbroken that the other two families can't say the same, they won't be able to hug their loved ones. >> the families of the victims have said that they were traveling to mexico because one

of the individuals was going to have a cosmetic procedure, but there's still a whole lot of unanswered questions, a whole lot of concern amongst those individuals, loved ones and this community. and, chris, later tonight, we expect the community here, lake city to have a vigil for all of them. chris. >> ellison barber, thank you. this hour, what it's like to be up against the violent drug cartels with someone who spent his career infiltrating them. a former top dea official will join us live a little later on. let's go to nbc's courtney kube, new testimony from the general directly involved in shooting down the balloons over the u.s. what are we learning now, courtney? >> reporter: that's right, this is general glenn van kirk, his command was the one tracking these balloons last month, actually late january and into last month that the u.s. ended up shooting down. he got a lot of questions from the members of the armed services committee. you and i, chris, we're

journalists, we never get enough answers. we didn't get a whole lot of new details about what occurred over those days that the u.s. military made those decisions to shoot down the one chinese spy balloon off the coast of the u.s. and three others, we have gotten very little detail. one piece of information i found fascinating was about another balloon we heard about at that time transiting over latin america. he said that the chinese government actually detonated that one. they self-destructed it, and that it went down as well. that answered a potential question that we had throughout this entire reporting on these balloons which is did the chinese government have the ability, theoretically, to detonate that initial spy balloon that the u.s. ended up shooting down off the east coast of the u.s. we don't know that answer still, but it gave us insight into the fact that they were able to detonate another one. another thing the general said, he talked about how the chinese have these capabilities to spy

on the u.s. all the time. they're doing it every single day and how it can be divisive to the american public and how people discuss the relationship with the chinese. here's what he had to say about that. >> candidly, the internal discord of this event caused -- just showed that one of the ways our competitors target us each and every day in the information space, and they're becoming increasingly adept at driving wedges between the american people. >> reporter: and chris, this was a similar theme to another hearing that's going on on the hill today, that's the worldwide threats hearing. what we heard from the director of national intelligence, avp avril haynes, she spoke extensively about the threats to the u.s., russia and china the one the with the most attention. with china it's important to note that the u.s. assessment continues to be that despite all the tensions from the chinese surveillance balloon, the concerns about china getting more and more involved in the war in ukraine, and helping russia that the assessment

continues to be that china does not want to have a period of high tension with the u.s., and their hope is things will not continue to escalate from where they are. >> courtney kube, thank you so much for that. it's fascinating stuff. the justice department looking into use of force policies at the memphis police department, a significant player of federal scrutiny, two months after the beating death of tyre nichols. nbc's kathy park is there. tell us about the review and what the city is doing. >> reporter: chris, good afternoon to you. there have been a lot of developments in the past 24 hours. i'll start there with the department of justice at the federal level. officials will be looking closer at the memphis police department, looking at policing as well as practices within the department. also more broadly speaking, they plan on offering more guidance when it comes to the specialized units and when it's appropriate to move forward with them. you might remember in memphis, the scorpion unit was under

scrutiny because several members now facing criminal charges who were seen in the body camera footage, beating tyre nichols, that unit was disbanded after his death. last night, another interesting turn of events, city council officials actually decided to move forward with several police reforms. change, it appears, is headed this way in this community. they are saying that police vehicles should be marked when they have to stop someone at a traffic stop, and also they want more police data. but in the past, i would say last hour, chris, we just learned that a judge actually granted a request from a attorney, representing the officers who were facing these criminal charges to block the release of roughly 20 hours of video footage, audio, as well as documents as well. so, you know, we were waiting for more information, perhaps that would go along with the initial footage that was released in january.

so a lot of questions about what led up to the traffic stop, and we were anticipating that, but regardless, we heard from the chief legal officer here in memphis, and she said that the internal probe at the administrative level, both with the memphis police department as well as the fire department is now over. chris. >> well, we'll see if we ever get any of that video that we were hoping to see today. kathy park, thank you for that. and in the wake of the kidnapping and murder of americans in mexico, we have brand new reporting from our capitol hill team. what we're learning about a new gop investigation into the january 6th select committee. the reporter with that scoop is here. plus, it's a hearing plooza toda covid, the border and fall of afghanistan. a growing trend that just turned more deadly, why more americans are crossing into mexico for medical procedures,

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idea. i want to bring in nbc news capitol hill correspondent ryan nobles, and "new york times" congressional reporter luke broadwater joins me on set, also an msnbc political analyst. what can you tell us about this new effort? what exactly are they going to be doing? >> this is an extension of the house administration committee which has a subcommittee on oversight. they've collected more than 2 million documents and records that were part of the voluminous investigation by the january 6th select committee, and they have tasked the chair of the committee, congressman barry loudermilk into looking into all of the records to see whether or not the january 6th select committee told the full story and to specifically zero in on the security failures that took place on that day because some republicans believe that the january 6th select committee did not do enough in that regard. he is an interesting figure to lead the effort. he was identified by the select

committee during their investigation, and he accused them of giving tours around the capitol in the days leading up to january 6th at a time when the capitol was closed off to visitors and tours. and some members of congress suggesting that those were reconnaissance tours ahead of the january 6th riots. loder milk has been vocal saying that's not the case. it is a bit of a surprise, chris, because some republicans, especially in leadership signalled they wanted to move past january 6th and not talk about this, but when you take into account they're launching this investigation and the fact that they handed over all of the that video to tucker carlson and the way that he's utilized it over the past couple of days, they seem to keep coming up with reasons to keep talking about january 6th despite saying that they're ready to move on. chris. >> and luke, you have been talking exactly and writing exactly about that divide, the fact that a lot of republicans

don't think it's politically smart to relitigate what happened, and they're also referring to what tucker carlson has been doing, suggesting that what we see on the tape isn't exactly what happened. but this is going to practically guarantee, won't it, that this is not going anywhere? this is going to go into 2024? >> right. and this is the nightmare scenario for some of the senate republicans. the last thing they want to do is relitigate january 6th, and have that issue be front and center on voter's minds as they're trying to retake the senate. the house is a completely different world on this stuff. they're much more aggressive, in tune with the sort of hard right wing of the base and the type of issues that they want to talk about. if you talk to most of the senators on capitol hill, they will tell you that this stuff is very, very bad for them politically. >> there's another part of this, and you have written about this as well. there's a divide on how to approach the capitol police, right? because if you think that there

are people giving sight seeing tours on january 6th, instead of people more than 100 of them who were injured, some who died as a result of what happened on january 6th, it's pretty tough to say we're the party of law and order when you have the capitol police chief coming out and saying this is despicable what you just said on fox, and yet, nobody on the house side seals to be standing up and saying it's not right. >> right. in some case, everybody has seen the video of the violence from january 6th, anybody who has watched tv, they have seen the people beat officers with objects and hockey sticks and flag poles, and you know, to say don't believe your own eyes is a big ask of voters, and i don't think a lot of voters are really going to go for this. >> and you called it kind of much -- well, you didn't call it that. it was framed as must watch tv, right, because what you did was you tweeted a link to a portion of tucker carlson's first report that was re-tweeted by the house republican conference, right,

the political arm of republicans, but, again, the people who lived it have a very different view of it. where is this going? >> right. well, you know, kevin mccarthy has authorized this investigation in the house, and so barry loudermilk is leading it. he feels aggrieved by the january 6th committee, he thinks they did him wrong. i would expect them to start reairing the findings from january 6th, and you know, liz cheney put on twitter today, please do this, let's relitigate it, put out transcripts and witnesses back on, and make it the topic again on capitol hill. so, you know, it's -- we're shaping up for another probably toxic conflict on capitol hill. >> you know, ryan, the base isn't going anywhere, at least if you just agree, tell me that. it doesn't seem like the republican base is going anywhere. they're all in. i don't think anything they have seen that would contradict what

has been said this time or previously, and the fact that it's come out in reports that what you're hearing from fox hosts is different from what they were saying privately. hasn't changed anybody's minds. i guess the question is what do the house republicans think they gain from this? do they just continue to shore up what's already there? . >> well, in many ways, chris, when you talk to them, it seems as though it's an airing of grievances. they feel as though the january 6th select committee did them wrong. they characterized the events of that day in a way that they don't agree was properly framed and that in many ways the responsibility was laid not only at the feet of a man they admire in the form of president donald trump, but many of them as well, many of these current members of congress were specific targets of the january 6th select committee. they were called upon the committee to answer a subpoena of which they all ignored, and so they in many ways are hoping to correct the record.

the question, though, is when you look at the actual facts and the detail that the committee went through, the select committee over these past two years, how did they correct the record in a way that most americans are going to have some sort of differing opinion on. i think your point is really well made, the opinions on this seem to be pretty baked in already. chris. >> ryan nobles, luke broadwater, great to have you on set. thanks for coming by. appreciate you guys. it's the house gop's unofficial theme, hearings, hearings, hearings. the gop's busy day on capitol hill taking aim at the biden administration. but first, we're a day out from the norfolk southern ceo's testimony after a federal investigation was just opened. so what consequences could they face? you're watching "chris jansing reports" only on msnbc. you're watching "chris jansing reports" only on msnbc mara, are you sure you don't want -to go bowling with us tonight? -yeah. no. there's my little marzipan! [ laughs ] oh, my daughter gives the best hugs! we're just passing through on our way to the jazz jamboree.

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norfolk southern ceo will be grilled by senators on capitol hill, asked about that toxic train derailment in ohio last month. healed of that hearing, west virginia senator shelley moore capito had this to say on a press call earlier. >> norfolk southern will pay for the harm it has caused. norfolk southern will be held completely liable, and no expense should be spared in their clean up efforts. >> nbc's maggie vespa joins me now. what else do we know about the line of questioning we're expecting tomorrow? is this all about accountability? is it about finding solutions? what are we expecting? >> what we're hearing on the press call ahead of the hearing is they're going to be asking about all of the above, frankly. demanding that norfolk southern ceo allen shaw helped diagnose what's behind the series of crashes, derailments, proving fatal for an employee, and trying to figure out if the senators want to, whether this is a norfolk southern specific

problem or whether this is something indicative of problems with regulations and safety standards industry wide. you're also going to hear really stark demands for a tangible plan, like down to dollars and cents and time lines to take care of the people of east palestine, ohio, the site of the horrific derailment a month ago. toxic chemicals flowing into the soil, to the water, people reporting feeling dizzy, headaches, nauseous, those types of things. the epa is removing a lot of contaminating soil, and warned people they will notice smells and odors in the air. really alarming for people, regional and state epa officials set to testify at that hearing tomorrow. it starts at 10:00 a.m. tomorrow morning eastern. it will be streaming live, and senators on this call today said the people of east palestine, chris, need to know that we care. you're going to hear a lot of that. >> maggie vespa, always good to see you. thank you so much for that. house republicans holding

not one, not two, but nine hearings on capitol hill today, and a number of those are just taking direct aim at the biden administration. the topics range from the border to covid's origins to what they call wasteful spending. testimony got emotional focused on what one veteran called the catastrophic withdrawal from afghanistan. a marine corps sergeant explaining what happened when he was hit in the deadly attack in august of 2021. >> i'm thrown 12 feet on to the ground but instantly knew what had happened. i opened my eyes to marines dead or unconscious lying around me. i ask you to please ask me about getting shot at the tower and how no one wanted my report post blast, ncia and the fbi failed to interview me. the withdrawal was a catastrophe in my opinion, and there was an inexcusable lack of accountability and negligence. the 11 marines, one sailor, and

one soldier that were murdered that day have not been answered for. >> nbc's ali vitali is on capitol hill for us, and look, that was a powerful moment in one of as we said, the nine house hearings today, but i guess the question is when you have nine, and some of the names of them would indicate a political bend, how do you separate legitimate oversight, legitimate questions, trying to get to some better place from what is just what we talked about earlier, an airing of grievances? >> reporter: yeah, this was always going to be the story of this house majority because there were so many different things that they wanted to leverage their majority into investigating. some of them were always going to be more hyperpartisan in nature, digging into things like hunter biden's laptop, and ignoring the family ties of people in trump's family, for example. that's one of the examples of something that's much more on the partisan spectrum. then you have other committee

like the china select committee, and the committee on foreign affairs, digging into the withdrawal of afghanistan, which are serious and sober issues that people on both sides of the aisle need to be looked into and legislated around. this was going to be the story o. house majority. a day like today showcases it in numbers. simply because there's a lot of hearings. they think it's frankly impossible for us to even watch all of them in realtime. you have to go back and flip between them. you need an espn red zone to keep up with them. broadly speaking, if you chart this out, not just on a random wednesday in month, but instead looking at it in the long term, this was always going to be a problem for them. how do you make sure people are focused on the somber and serious, not being distracted by the red meat for the base. >> ho do you make sure you don't lose legitimate oversight, and maybe you're going to get attention on something because it's incendiary or a lot of

members of the committee say incendiary things, but that's different than saying to the american people, look at me, we're getting stuff done. >> reporter: yeah, i mean, even just look, the difference between what you saw in chairman mccall's hearing about the afghanistan withdrawal which was thoughtful questions, a deep probing of just trying to better understand what happened there, that story that captivated all of us as america withdrew from afghanistan after years of being mired in war there. that's something that i've heard from democrats and republicans both. they want more answers. they want to better understand what the administration knew, how they informed their decision making, versus another hearing that was happening today that really fell along partisan lines on the origins of the covid pandemic, and that was really democrats camped in their corner. republicans camped in theirs, and you couldn't see a lot of consensus there. those are two competing headlines that republicans have focus on both, but you can't get

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on u.s. soil. escorted by a security convoy, relatives of latavia washington mcgee and eric williams confirming to nbc news, their loved ones are alive, but authorities say two others with them were killed. on friday, the four long time friends drove a white minivan from south carolina into northeast mexico. a law enforcement source said they went there for a cosmetic procedure but instead were mistakenly targeted by cartel gunmen. video showing a violent abduction, the group forced into a pickup truck. so called medical tourism is on the rise with americans heading across the border for access to cheaper health care. experts say it comes with a variety of risks, but a kidnapping like this is rare. pre-pandemic, an estimated 1.2 million americans travel to mexico each year for elective medical treatment, mostly cosmetic procedures and complex

dentistry. there can be serious medical risks. >> the most common thing they call us about are people who have had plastic surgery, usually medical tourism and had a complication. what becomes a chief thing, becomes a real expensive and dangerous thing sometimes. >> reporter: for one medical tourist, jeff summerville, sky high prices in the u.s. made the trek to molar city worth it. he says he replaced all of his teeth for $7,000. >> it cost me probably 30 to $50,000 here to get it done. >> reporter: he warns other to do their homework before heading south of the border. >> do your research. don't just go to the first place that you read about. >> reporter: gabe gutierrez, nbc news. i want to bring in former head of drug enforcement administration, international operations, mike vehill. thank you for being with us. a lot of us were shocked, to see

that video, to find out what happened to the folks who thought they were going to have a medical procedure. you went undercover, infiltrating these dangerous cartels in mexico. were you surprised? >> i was not surprised, chris, because the violence in mexico has increased significantly, and it has happened under the current administration, he has developed the policy which means hugs and not gunshot, so he has taken a nonconfrontational approach to the cartels which has allowed them to act with greater impunity. and in total disrespect for the rule of law. >> you know, the initial video, as i watched it, and i think it struck a lot of people, that these folks seemed to be, like,

taking their time. they didn't seem to be afraid of getting caught. everybody else seemed to be going about their business. when you look at that, what is the message to americans who are thinking about doing this? >> well, i always caution americans about going to mexico. you'd be surprised at how many calls i get, should i go to mexico, and i say, well, i would not recommend, but they still go anyway because i think they feel that nothing is going to happen. and in many cases, it doesn't. but once you get into a situation like that, it is really difficult to extricate yourself. and then the first thing you would ask yourself is why did i come. now, in viewing the video, chris, you're absolutely right. these people are taking their time like they have all the time in the world, and it's like

they're totally unafraid of mexico's security forces or the fact that there's collusion on the part of the security forces in matamoros and a lot of the state police forces, as well as the local police forces are in the pockets of the cartels, and the other thing i see is all of these vehicles just driving by the cartel gunmen. you know, mexico as a result of the horrific violence that has spread throughout mexico, the population has become desensitized to this violence. mexico suffers from about 35,000 violent deaths every year. and under lopez obrador's administration, it's going to be the bloodiest administration in the history of mexico, and he refuses to change this policy.

apart from that, he has limited the ability of d.e.a., fbi and other agencies to do what we were doing in the past in helping stem the flow of drugs from mexico into the united states. >> mike vigil, so many other questions i would love to ask you. come back soon. we appreciate you taking the time. thank you. >> thank you, chris. as the top intel chief's testify on capitol hill about the growing threat of china, we're also learning more about the daunting and potentially deadly effort to find out what's actually going on behind the scenes in beijing. nbc's dan de luce joins us with that new reporting, and dan, you talked with former senior intelligence officials. what did they tell you about the efforts to get reliable information out of china right now. >> chris, they say it is extremely difficult and getting more difficult by the day, and

it's because the president of china, xi jinping has really consolidated power, so the circle of people at the top has become very small and very closed. and then on top of that, the regime has built up this elaborate surveillance date that tracks electronic communications. there are cameras on city streets. it's very difficult to offer right there, and then of course the worst thing that happened is about a decade ago, the u.s. intelligence network there was exposed and penetrated by the chinese and a lot of u.s. informants were either imprisoned or killed, and that was described to me as one of the worst intelligence breeches in u.s. history and the u.s. has not recovered from that. >> thank you for the new information. appreciate it. meantime, thousands of demonstrators took to the streets in front of the country of georgia's parliament today in what's being described as a kremlin inspired law. protesters are demonstrating against a draft law on foreign

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recent storm, plus up to 8 inches of new rain, and that's got a lot of people worried. nbc's niala charles has more from the hard hit mountains of san bernardino. how worried are they there? >> right now there's an avalanche warning on a ten-mile stretch of the mountain. that's what officials are monitoring closely as more rain could be expected by friday. so right here i'm at one of the only places in crest line residents are able to get food and water thanks to the nonprofit kitchen center and also mcdonald's here giving that food for free. the past two weeks, chris, have been a grueling process for the people who live here. in many cases they've been snowed in, hit by a lot of snow in a small amount of time. we have met some people who have been able to come here finally getting their cars from out from under the snow and can participate in this, but others have to walk here. listen to what this couple had to say that we met.

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this point still 80 residents don't have power, which has been the case for some of them for days. and at night, that's even a bigger concern because it gets cold, about 20 degrees, chris. >> niala charles, thanks so much. you stay safe out there. today is international women's day, and around the world women are celebrating, they're marching, and overall, just pushing for equality. appearing today on "morning joe" in abu dhabi, former secretary of state hillary clinton spoke to mika brzezinski. >> just yesterday the secretary general of the united nations said that based on current data post-covid, it would take 250 years for women to achieve pay equality. >> 250 years, clinton added that not only is there work left to do, obviously, but also, quote, we can't take any of the progress for granted.

and speaking of international women's day, a new group is leading the charge to diversify the male-dominated nfl. it wasn't too long ago when a woman working in the league was almost unheard of, nbc's kaylee hartung has more on why the future of football could look a lot more female. >> just steps away from the nfl combine, it's conversations in this room that are shaping the future of football. >> don't let someone tell you you can't. >> reporter: 41 young women all rising stars in college football programs were invited to the ultimate networking event. >> i mean, the room is magic. everyone in the nfl who cares is coming together for one cause, and that is to make us better. >> you actually see history being made for women right there. >> reporter: leading the charge for the seventh annual women's forum are commissioner roger goodell's wife. >> what challenges do you see for women looking to get swrobs in the nfl? >> the biggest challenge is

they're not hanging out in places where they could get these jobs. they're as qualified, they want it as badly as men do. we built a bridge between that disconnect, between the women themselves and the people that could hire them. >> reporter: isabel diaz and hunter carson have grown up with a love of the game. now they're a step closer to their dreams of working in the nfl. >> what did it feel like to walk into that room? >> it was surreal. >> i had to hold back tears. if i'm being completely honest, i get so emotional over all of this just because i've wanted this since i was a little girl. i didn't see a woman in a coaching position until i was 15 years old. seeing where these women were in this program and now they are in these roles that i hope to be in one day, there's no words to describe it. >> reporter: in the forum's first year, just seven teams participated. since then the event has led to more than 200 women being hired. the cleveland browns and head coach kevin stefanski have hired more women from the forum than

any other team. >> when we're trying to hire a position, we want all the best candidates, for us to say let's eliminate 50% of the population from the jump really makes no sense. for us we don't care male or female, but until we've closed that gap, i do think it's important to raise awareness. >> this year all 32 teams took advantage of the opportunity to meet the future. >> we truly deserve to have a seat at this table right now and to be that next wave of women making it in this industry. i'm so excited to see where we go. >> kaylee hartung, nbc news. >> and now i have another reason to say go browns. meantime, it is launch day for the world's first 3d printed rocket. here it is right now on the launch pad at florida's cape canaveral, and any moment now this 110 feet tall booster is scheduled to lift off. there are some unresolved issues, the launch has already been pushed back a couple of times this afternoon, but we're

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