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Fired! Noem ousted amid ICE backlash as Trump WH vet predicts more firings ahead · THE DAILY BRIEF

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  Speaker 1: With Donald Trump's big news he has fired Homeland Security
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  Speaker 1: Chief Christy Nome. This is the first cabinet member to
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  Speaker 1: be ousted in this entire sometimes chaotic Trump's second term
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  Speaker 1: as of today. It's a big one. Nom overseeing Trump's
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  Speaker 1: immigration crackdown, which proved both unpopular, ineffective, and at times
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  Speaker 1: lethal against Americans. Her tenure was also marked by widespread
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  Speaker 1: reports from internal watchdogs like dar Inspector General within that department,
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  Speaker 1: and independent reporting and accounts from people who worked for
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  Speaker 1: her and with her of really erratic and troubled leadership there.
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  Speaker 1: In other words, the policy issues or whether ICE was
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  Speaker 1: working well. Even Donald Trump clearly wants to make some
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  Speaker 1: visible change. And then there's the competence issues. Nicole's guests
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  Speaker 1: and our other colleagues have covered this throughout today's breaking
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  Speaker 1: news because there were a lot of problems inside that department,
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  Speaker 1: criticism from Republicans today, the firing, and there's nomes chief adviser,
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  Speaker 1: who was a long time Donald Trump campaign figure, Corey Lewandowski,
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  Speaker 1: were told he's also leaving DHS along with her. From
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  Speaker 1: this news today, Trump plans to nominate a Republican Senator
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  Speaker 1: Mullen to replace her. And remember, we got here from protests.
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  Speaker 1: We got here from independent reporting. We got here from
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  Speaker 1: people risking life and limb quite literally to make their
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  Speaker 1: own videos and evidence of what ICE was doing. That
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  Speaker 1: all escalated in Minnesota when federal agents swarmed that particular
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  Speaker 1: place in these sweeps, and then you saw the pushback
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  Speaker 1: and protests around the country. The protests worked, The pushback worked,
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  Speaker 1: but it did not come without problems along the way
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  Speaker 1: that couldn't be stopped in time. Because while the protesters said, hey,
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  Speaker 1: let's be careful and peaceful, it was Donald Trump's agents
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  Speaker 1: who killed two Americans, Rene Good and Alex Petty. Gnome
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  Speaker 1: also would not take accountability or apologize for falsely branding
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  Speaker 1: those people as quote domestic terrorists.
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  Speaker 2: It was an active domestic terrorism. What happened was our
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  Speaker 2: ICE officers were out in an enforcement action. They got
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  Speaker 2: stuck in the snow because of the adverse weather that
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  Speaker 2: is in Minneapolis. They were attempting to push out their
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  Speaker 2: vehicle and a woman attacked them. This individual, who came
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  Speaker 2: with weapons and ammunition to stop a law enforcement operation
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  Speaker 2: of federal law enforcement officers, committed an active domestic terrorism.
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  Speaker 3: That's the facts.
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  Speaker 1: Those were not facts, those, as we've shown you in
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  Speaker 1: our reporting, were false claims. Stamping that but showing you
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  Speaker 1: that's one of the reasons that may have contributed to
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  Speaker 1: her firing. Today. Trump's approval on immigration has been crashing.
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  Speaker 1: It's underwater by thirteen. He recently skipped overnome at a
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  Speaker 1: cabinet meeting, which was noticeable, and Republican senator again speaking
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  Speaker 1: to one piece of this that I mentioned, the outright incompetence,
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  Speaker 1: this Republican said her leadership was a disaster.
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  Speaker 4: And what we've seen is a disaster under your leadership,
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  Speaker 4: misnown a disaster. What we've seen is innocent people getting
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  Speaker 4: detained that turn out our American citizens. I could talk
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  Speaker 4: about the culture that's been created here with Steven Miller
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  Speaker 4: aiding in a betting the fact that you can't admit
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  Speaker 4: to a mistake, which looks like under investigation, it's going
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  Speaker 4: to prove that miss Good and mister pretty probably should
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  Speaker 4: not have been shot in the face and in the back.
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  Speaker 4: We're an exceptional nation, and one of the reasons we're
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  Speaker 4: exceptional is we expect exceptional leadership. And you've demonstrated anything
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  Speaker 4: but that.
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  Speaker 1: That was a recent Republican view Nome came to this
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  Speaker 1: position from a history in politics, and many viewed her
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  Speaker 1: efforts to do branding amidst the Homeland Security project as
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  Speaker 1: a kind of political effort that apparently failed, or at
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  Speaker 1: least failed with the public. When we talk about the
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  Speaker 1: numbers in with Donald Trump ultimately ousting her today, critics
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  Speaker 1: said some of her photo ops verged on the baroque
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  Speaker 1: and grotesque. This one speaks for itself. Gnome also faced
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  Speaker 1: bipartisan criticism over the DHS ads, which cost over two
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  Speaker 1: hundred million dollars, featuring her.
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  Speaker 3: Why do I love these wide open spaces? They remind
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  Speaker 3: me of why our forefathers came here, not just for
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  Speaker 3: its beauty, but for the freedom only America provides. I'm
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  Speaker 3: Christino that freedom's a precious thing, and we defend it vigorously.
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  Speaker 3: You cross the border illegally, we'll find you. But if
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  Speaker 3: you come here the right way, your American dream can
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  Speaker 3: be as big as these endless guys. From President Trump
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  Speaker 3: and me, Welcome home.
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  Speaker 1: Looks a lot like a campaign Adnome testified under oath,
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  Speaker 1: Trump approved it. Trump disagrees, says it's not true. That's
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  Speaker 1: between them. The Dclan punch Bowl reports he was so
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  Speaker 1: angered that her future at DHS was at risk. Then
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  Speaker 1: hours after that, what might have been the last straw
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  Speaker 1: given them many substantive problems that led to Trump firing Note.
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  Speaker 5: So I think at one level it is minor because
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  Speaker 5: you know, this is a mere two hundred million dollars
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  Speaker 5: as opposed to the four billion dollars that the President
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  Speaker 5: is on record having enriched himself over the course of
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  Speaker 5: the last year. But at the same time, this was
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  Speaker 5: a huge mistake. When Congressman Swalloll was talking about the
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  Speaker 5: demonstrations and democratic criticisms, I don't believe that actually moved
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  Speaker 5: Trump at all. What happened, what moved him today was
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  Speaker 5: precisely what you just showed, where she associated Trump with
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  Speaker 5: this corrupt, you know ad thing that she did, you know,
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  Speaker 5: at a one hundred and forty three million dollar contract
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  Speaker 5: to a business that had been incorporated for eight days,
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  Speaker 5: never had any experience, and was associated with one of
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  Speaker 5: her subordinates. So that's what that's why Trump fired her.
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  Speaker 5: I think it's a good lesson for Pam Bondy as
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  Speaker 5: she goes up next week for the event to which
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  Speaker 5: she's been subpoenaed on her efforts to withhold you know,
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  Speaker 5: critical documents about Trump and his alleged rape of a
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  Speaker 5: thirteen year old among other allegations from the Fstein disclosures
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  Speaker 5: that she, you know, she better not blame the president
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  Speaker 5: for any of those misdeeds. You know, she's going to
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  Speaker 5: have to take that bullet herself.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're drawing that connection to multiple scandals that go
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  Speaker 1: to ethics, propriety and promises made. Trump and Bondie made
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  Speaker 1: a lot of claims about what Epstein transparency would look
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  Speaker 1: like that they've both clearly failed overall. When you widen out,
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  Speaker 1: Gnome is the person carrying out a policy that a
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  Speaker 1: lot of independence and moderates and some conservatives oppose as
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  Speaker 1: well as obviously the left has been against them from
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  Speaker 1: the beginning. If you look at the number here, you
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  Speaker 1: have a majority against these tactics and a lot of
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  Speaker 1: people saying he's gone too far on immigration.
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  Speaker 5: Your thought there, so obviously he's gone too far and
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  Speaker 5: great remember that they promised was to get rid of
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  Speaker 5: the violent offenders, the people that were murderers and rapists
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  Speaker 5: and violent criminals. Instead, what we've seen is, you know,
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  Speaker 5: the vast, vast majority of people are gardeners, housekeepers, you know, cokes, dishwashers,
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  Speaker 5: et cetera, et cetera. And very few of the people
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  Speaker 5: actually deported or detained have a criminal have any criminal record.
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  Speaker 5: So that's not what people voted for. Everybody wants the
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  Speaker 5: border secure from violent offenders. But I think in America,
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  Speaker 5: where you know, compassion, inclusion are virtues that got us
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  Speaker 5: two hundred and fifty years of the world's deepest defection
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  Speaker 5: and admiration, which we've sacrificed in the last year. I
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  Speaker 5: think those are the virtues that I think most Americans
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  Speaker 5: still hold whole deer. Now. I mean, I'm glad that
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  Speaker 5: for certain that Ice Barbie and is no longer her,
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  Speaker 5: and that she and little Landowski will uh not not
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  Speaker 5: get back on the uh the d hs, uh you know,
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  Speaker 5: sugar Shack plane in their time. But I think you'll
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  Speaker 5: see Lewandowski back in in some fashion in the government.
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  Speaker 5: He'll remember he's been He's been dismissed or fired multiple
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  Speaker 5: times over the tenure of Trump's first term. In this term,
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  Speaker 5: so I don't think his influences is going to be
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  Speaker 5: gone forever, but I do think I do think Secretary
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  Speaker 5: of nome is is done. I think that's good. It
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  Speaker 5: could be uh a predicate to a couple of other terminations.
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  Speaker 5: I think. I think Pam Bondi, of course is you know,
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  Speaker 5: certainly worse than know him in the sense that the
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  Speaker 5: damage that she has done to the rule of law.
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  Speaker 5: But I I think we might see some changes there.
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  Speaker 5: Hopefully we will. On the other hand, the replacements that
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  Speaker 5: are likely don't bring a lot of confidence to people.
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  Speaker 5: I think, you know, Mark Waynemullen, zero experience in law
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  Speaker 5: enforcement or foreign affairs of the kind of most EHS
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  Speaker 5: secretaries have had historically at a time where you know,
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  Speaker 5: we were at Defcon five in terms of being at war,
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  Speaker 5: we've got terrorists from you know, Iranian Hesboa or you know,
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  Speaker 5: Iranian Kurds. You know, we've got we've got a lot
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  Speaker 5: of problems that could potentially wreak havoc in the United
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  Speaker 5: States and elsewhere.