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Journalists. there's no sense at the moment that western journalists are being targeted. i think the main people here in terms of journalists are afghan journalists who are absolutely petrified, particularly women journalists. there are so many of them across the country, and they've been doing bold and incredible reporting for many years. and now there is a very real fear that they might face retaliations for that or that certainly they won't be able to do their work anymore. >> and those afghan journalists, television journalist, radio journalists, some of those stations have been taken off ...

Activities, to keep everyone safe. and now we're almost at the end of this and it's more transmissible to children than ever. and i have friends who say don't worry about it, it doesn't affect kids. the big x factor for me is what are the long-term effects? like listen, we are lucky. we're blessed. we're healthy for the most part. i think we'll be okay. but i don't know what the long-term effects are. and i have other parents who have kids who have all kinds of medical issues. we don't know what's going to happen to them. and it's like we're almost there. we're almost there, don. we can get th...

Kids. big "x" factor for me is, what are the long-term effects? we're lucky, we're blessed, healthy for the most part. i think we'd be okay. but i don't know the long-term effects and i have other parents who have kids who have all kinds of medical issues. we don't know what's going to happen to them. and we're almost there, we're almost there, don, we can get the vaccines for kids probably in a few weeks or months, can we just hang on and do this the right way a couple more months to get the kids back to school and get this over with? that's all i want. >> seems personal for you. >> it's been...

Hand? >> erin, it is so fluid. i'm on the end of my seat personally because i've been through a lot of mayoral elections in new york city and never seen anything like this. it's in someways the most fluid election we've ever seen and right now rank choice is one of the big x factors. do people actually fill out multiple choices or think of it as their first choice and walk out? it's really unpredictable and now it's raining. that could affect turnout. turnout seems low. that could make it worse. this one is going to be potentially a real nail biter and then here is another curveball. we're pro...

We need? and they will do the math. and that will determine the # field plan, their advertising buys. they're trying to figure out how do we add up enough votes to hit the number we need? and one of the things that leads to upsets, joe crowley and alexander re ocasio cortez is you just get the vote number wrong. matt bench said if i get 700,000 votes, i am probably good to go. and he got 700,000 votes. >> we talk about rural areas, you talk about ex-urban areas where republicans are still showing strengths. as we see in pennsylvania there. the big x factor in all of this is you know the suburb...