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Go to Economist.com and get your first month free. Well, Welcome one and all to the damage report which we were back for it's a Monday and thus

Francesca if you're in teeny Francesca how's it going welcome hey

glad to have you here very glad

Palestine hey don't say radical that's violence so okay that's

I know it's genocidal to say free anything.

Hey, people who say in history free blank those people are on the wrong side of history.

I don't know if you've been following.

I just find it to be aggressive.

Yeah, I think like maybe like couches like someday a little bit free.

Right. We'll be so absolutist about freeing or living. I don't like it. I don't like it. This war is really about words.

Oh, geez. Okay, we're getting big break. Literally, the show starts with

getting breaking news so we're gonna see what we do out of that

but before we get to that breaking news and perhaps to give me a second to

learn the breaking news we're gonna give you a little update on the

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