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Speaker 1: Boston's Bulldozer never sleeps The Kooner Report weekend edition on

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Speaker 2: Joining me now, doctor Grace, putting liberals in their place.

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Speaker 2: Grace vote full disclosure, my wonderful wife and man that

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Speaker 2: I marry up Grace straight out of the Gate Deal

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Speaker 2: no deal.

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Speaker 3: Jeff. First of all, I want to congratulate you on

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Speaker 3: your incredible coverage ever since this war has begun. You've

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Speaker 3: shown every step of the way that you're such a

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Speaker 3: class act, not only giving all of the information but

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Speaker 3: allowing everybody with opposing points of view to speak. So honestly,

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Speaker 3: it's one of your finest hours. Now regarding this, I've

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Speaker 3: been saying the whole time I've been listening to you,

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Speaker 3: go can we get door three? Here? Can I get

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Speaker 3: door three? Deal or no deal? How about door three?

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Speaker 3: This is what I really want to say this morning, Jeff.

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Speaker 3: So what I want now is I want Petex, Lindsey Graham,

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Speaker 3: Marco Rubio and Donald Trump to suit up and go

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Speaker 3: right now and clean the strain of Hormuz for us,

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Speaker 3: because you know what, it's very, very easy to send

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Speaker 3: other people to die. But if you're going to make

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Speaker 3: a decision like this, contrary to everything that our intelligence

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Speaker 3: community told them, contrary to what many people in MAGA

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Speaker 3: told them, You're going to make a completely idiotic decision.

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Speaker 3: Now you own this problem big time, and we've already

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Speaker 3: lost thirteen American service members. They were told by the

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Speaker 3: intelligence community two things. The people of Iran are not

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Speaker 3: strong enough to overtake the Mullas. So everybody that's saying

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Speaker 3: that it's the Iranians people's fault don't understand that all

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Speaker 3: our intelligence agencies already told the President and anybody that

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Speaker 3: could listen that it wasn't going to happen. And they

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Speaker 3: also told them that the Strait of Ramouse were going

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Speaker 3: to be blocked. And now this administration, who actually is

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Speaker 3: being led by an Imbaso at the Department of Defense,

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Speaker 3: Pete Hexsas, who I've set from the start, is completely

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Speaker 3: incapable of running the Department of Defense. They made no

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Speaker 3: plans for the two most basic contingencies, that the Iranian

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Speaker 3: people were not going to overtake the moles, that they're

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Speaker 3: not strong enough now, and that the Strait of Hormus

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Speaker 3: was going to be blocked. So now they cost the

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Speaker 3: largest oil shortage in world history. This is worse than

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Speaker 3: anything that ever happened in the nineteen seventies. They caused it,

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Speaker 3: and thirteen American service members are dead, two hundred almost

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Speaker 3: two hundred and ninety American service members are wounded. And

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Speaker 3: you know what they want to do now. They are

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Speaker 3: amassing amassive, massive contingencies of Homer service members to go

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Speaker 3: and clean up their Darya. Because that's what this is

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Speaker 3: right now, this is Dunya that they created, and let's

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Speaker 3: not make it. What did you mistake about it?

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Speaker 2: Grace? I understand you're very passionate about this. Let me

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Speaker 2: ask you, though, what do you say to the argument,

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Speaker 2: these are the Mullahs, this is the Islamic Republic of

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Speaker 2: Iran since nineteen seventy nine their very inception, they have

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Speaker 2: been at war with the United States, at war with Israel,

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Speaker 2: at war with their neighbors, at war with the West,

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Speaker 2: and that they have been building up a clandestine nuclear

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Speaker 2: weapons program for decades, and that no responsible president, when

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Speaker 2: given the possibility to take out the Mullahs and finally

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Speaker 2: obliterate their program, shouldn't take it. Trump saw the opportunity.

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Speaker 2: He and Benjamin Att Nyahu, and they acted and whether

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Speaker 2: you agree or disagree with the war. Their nuclear program

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Speaker 2: is gone. It's gone. They cannot, in any nuclear way

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Speaker 2: threaten to wipe Israel off the map, as they've done

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Speaker 2: for many years. They can't put a ballistic missile with

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Speaker 2: a nuke that could hit Europe. In other words, yes,

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Speaker 2: the regime may survive. You're right, and Pete Hegseth has

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Speaker 2: a lot to answer for. I agree with you that

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Speaker 2: the planning of the war on his part was a disaster,

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Speaker 2: but that in the end, militarily Trump achieved his goals.

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Speaker 2: The Mullahs will not be able to have any nukes

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Speaker 2: and they will not have the ballistic missiles to threaten

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Speaker 2: their neighbors.

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Speaker 3: What say you, Jeff listened to me in the election.

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Speaker 3: He does not have a mandate to do this. First

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Speaker 3: of all, he doesn't have a mandate to take the

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Speaker 3: country to war. He didn't have a mandate to go

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Speaker 3: and do this at all, and he has yet to

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Speaker 3: show us. I mean, unless you have Ratcliffe and Telsey

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Speaker 3: Gobbert who lied to the public for two days under oath.

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Speaker 3: The intelligence community had already told him that the program

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Speaker 3: means that essentially he's been violating international law and American law.

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Speaker 3: And now he has been using the word war. He

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Speaker 3: has taken us to war over something that is not proven. Look,

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Speaker 3: he's got a credibility problem right now because his own

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Speaker 3: intelligence community is contradicting what he's saying. And there's another

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Speaker 3: factor to consider right now, Jeff, if you are Vladimir Putin,

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Speaker 3: you're smiling from here to ear at this situation. And

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Speaker 3: what am I going to do? If I'm Vladimir Putin,

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Speaker 3: I'm telling the Iranians, let me coach you on how

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Speaker 3: to play the Americans. Now you see Jared and Witcof coming.

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Speaker 3: I can run circles around Jaron Witcock. Let me teach

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Speaker 3: you how. And that's what's going on now. The Russians

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Speaker 3: are sharing intelligence with the Iranians. The Russians are gaining

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Speaker 3: billions of dollars because now we have to lift the

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Speaker 3: oil sanctions, and the Russians are going to teach the

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Speaker 3: Uranians how to run circles around the completing competence there

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Speaker 3: negotiating for the Trump administration. The Vladimir Putin has been

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Speaker 3: running circles around around the American negotiators since Trump got

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Speaker 3: into office. It's the same to mons that we're sending

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Speaker 3: now to negotiate with Iran, and Vladimir Putin is coaching them,

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Speaker 3: and what they all they have to do is listen,

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Speaker 3: pretend to negotiate, and string it along as long as possible,

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Speaker 3: because guess what, this president went to war without the

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Speaker 3: support of his own people. And that's what's squeezing Trump.

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Speaker 3: If he had gone to war with the support of

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Speaker 3: the people, he would have he would have been in

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Speaker 3: a position of strength. But everybody around the world knows

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Speaker 3: that he's going to talk a clock ticking because the

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Speaker 3: people don't support the war. So everybody around the world

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Speaker 3: knows string it along, warm Patrician. The guy is now

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Speaker 3: in a box that he put himself in.

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Speaker 2: Grace. We've got less than two minutes. Will Has Trump

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Speaker 2: lost the midterms in your view over this war? Has

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Speaker 2: this war cost him and the Republicans the midterms? You

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Speaker 2: said the war is unpopular. A poll show it's maybe

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Speaker 2: fifty to fifty, But you're right, there is strong opposition

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Speaker 2: to the war. That is true. And gas prices are up,

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Speaker 2: energy is up, inflation is coming back. I know his

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Speaker 2: inner circle is very worried about the political fallout with

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Speaker 2: that has this now cost Trump the midterms.

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Speaker 3: Jack, It's so damaging, honestly, and that's why I respect

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Speaker 3: what you're doing, because you're doing everything you can to

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Speaker 3: try to keep everybody together. But look, the anti war

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Speaker 3: people are extremely upset, and they're upset precisely because many

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Speaker 3: of us are triple Trumpers, right, We're triple Trumpers. We

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Speaker 3: voted for him three times, and we voted for the

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Speaker 3: focus to be on America, and so we're extremely upset.

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Speaker 3: And it's going to take people like you to get

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Speaker 3: everybody who's upset to go to the polls and help

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Speaker 3: win the midterms because he's got big problems now, lost

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Speaker 3: the independence, upset a key faction of his base, and

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Speaker 3: he seems to be in a quackmire, and now almost

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Speaker 3: anything that he does is not going to be good,

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Speaker 3: and he unfortunately owned it. And one of the reasons

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Speaker 3: he owns it is that he has somebody completely incompetent

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Speaker 3: at the Department of Defense who gave him very bad advice,

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Speaker 3: and he's surrounded by neo khn hawks that are telling

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Speaker 3: him go go go. Lindsey Grandiam just said go send

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Speaker 3: the Marines. You know what, So we did it with

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Speaker 3: Ewo Jima. Let's do it again. Sure, we lost several

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Speaker 3: seven thousand, seven thousand of our service members in Ewo Jima.

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Speaker 3: You know, look at the beautiful faces of the men

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Speaker 3: and women that we lost. Thirteen American service members are

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Speaker 3: already gone, gone forever and for what for shawny planning

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Speaker 3: and for a war that the American people never voted for.

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Speaker 3: This is completely unacceptable.

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Speaker 2: Tell me how you really feel.

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Speaker 3: I'm sorry, Jeff, I'm not as classy as you. I'm

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Speaker 3: just not as closed.

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Speaker 2: I could see you're very passionate and you're very hot

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Speaker 2: under the collar. Head up, all right, Grace, thanks, thank

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Speaker 2: you so much as always, and we'll talk to you

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Speaker 2: next time, next week, same time, same place, all right.

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Speaker 2: Gray says this is now turning into a debacle and

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Speaker 2: that this is going to cost Trump the midterms. Agree, disagree,

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Speaker 2: and she's angry at Pete Hegseth, saying he gave the

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Speaker 2: president very bad advice, promised him an easy, quick victory,

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Speaker 2: and it's turning out to be anything but easy or quick. Agree, disagree.

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Speaker 2: Your calls next Jeff doesn't.

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