District attorney cruz Videos

+Matthew Miller - As a consultant only.

+Bill Still YES BILL!!! AND this line CLEARLY indicates a distinction as well:" a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States".Do you have anything on your channel about statements from TRUMP negative about the FED?

I agree it should be cleared up. I doubt anything will come of it though. Business as usual in the capitol.In regards to "Ahhh, whoever you are, and I wish you would stop trying to deceive with this pseudonym - I perceives that thou art not yourself an American and I am uneasy with your presence here." You have nothing to be uneasy about. I use a pseudonym to separate my personal views from the views of my employer.

+Tyler Durden - Ahhh, whoever you are, and I wish you would stop trying to deceive with this pseudonym - I perceives that thou art not yourself an American and I am uneasy with your presence here. However, having fired that warning shot: From Wikipedia: Section 1 of Article Two of the United States Constitution sets forth the eligibility requirements for serving as president of the United States, under clause 5:"No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty-five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States."Perhaps the most on-point comment is the following:"On July 25, 1787, John Jay wrote to George Washington, presiding officer of the Convention:Permit me to hint, whether it would not be wise and seasonable to provide a strong check to the admission of Foreigners into the administration of our national Government, and to declare expressly that the Command in chief of the American army shall not be given to, nor devolve on, any but a natural born Citizen.[23]While the Committee on Detail originally proposed that the President must be merely a citizen as well as a resident for 21 years, the Committee of Eleven changed "citizen" to "natural born citizen" without recorded explanation after receiving Jay's letter. The Convention accepted the change without further recorded debate."The bottom line is that the Supremes will probably not rule on this because:"... some experts have suggested that the precise meaning of the natural-born-citizen clause may never be decided by the courts because, in the end, presidential eligibility may be determined to be a non-justiciable political question that can be decided only by Congress rather than by the judicial branch of government.[3][4]"I am convinced - at this point, and I could be way wrong - but, the Supremes will judge that if a U.S. citizen goes through the primary process, and then stands for election successfully, what right do they have to intervene? The current process in place would be that when the electoral college meets in the various state capitols, the Ted Cruz electors would be challenged as being unable to vote for someone who is not a natural-born citizen, and a huge mess would ensue. This is not a good option. So, someone should  challenge this in court right now, as is being done.

+A Change - bring it on. Even though I'm not a Grayson fan (he was my Congressman at one time), I would urge him to file immediately. We need to get this sorted now.

+Tluccodis741 Obama has said that he will not endorse any Democratic candidate.Biden on the other hand, seems to be endorsing Sanders.

Wouldn't have mattered... a 2 year investigation has ALREADY determined Obama's birth certificate (currently on display on the Whitehouse website) is a fraudulent document. Nobody is doing anything about THAT!

+lovernuts1 Agreed.Cruz, by his very involvement in this contest, will influence the overall dynamics of it.If it is determined later (rather than now) that he was not qualified, and winds up disqualified at some point, regardless of how far he traveled in this race, then that can hardly be considered responsible or fair, and that will speak to his character.Either he ought to put his own aspirations aside and think about what is the best for the Republican party, or someone ought to help him out with that.Cruz is scared right now.

Sign here at: https://change.org/JeepFires

Petition signed. Heart goes out to Skylar's family. There is no reason a modern vehicle should burst into flames on impact.

Speaking of "fat checks," remember during the first 24 hours of the Tracy Morgan crash (where investigators said the Walmart Tractor Trailer driver was up for 24 hours straight and didn't stop when rear ending Tracy Morgan and limo bus full of comedians) when Walmart said that if it was their fault that they would take full responsibility?  Well, guess what, now Walmart is saying it is not their fault because those hurt and killed were not wearing seat belts.   //abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/walmart-alleges-tracy-morgan-crash-injuries-wearing-seat/story?id=25845219

+tga3007 I thought of your statement this morning: " The families now have a great big fat check coming from Jeep for their arrest and incarceration."  I was reminded of this statement as I read the story: Family of mother, baby born after terrible I-95 crash need help to pay medical bills.  //wtnh.com/2014/09/26/family-of-mother-baby-born-after-terrible-i-95-crash-need-help-to-pay-medical-bills/  I was reminded of the statement because even though a tractor trailer rear ended the expectant mother and friend (killing the friend) and even though the article was about raising money to help pay for medical bills, there were many ignorant comments from the public on media websites and facebook about insurance and the tractor trailer owners paying the bills not the public and how dare she ask the public for money.  Meanwhile, the public is her only hope of getting support during the time she is in need.   Meanwhile, no insurance money has been paid and corporation and owner of the tractor trailer is not just chomping at the bit to pay her bills.  Not only is her friend dead and not only did she have to be rushed to the hospital to give birth prematurely and in pain due to the crash, and not only is she having trouble speaking and is not standing up yet and is she doing physical therapy for times a day and not only is she broke and not only is it the tractor trailer driver's fault who was not paid a penny and will resist paying anything, but all these people are making comments about "great big fat check."  LOL.  The insensitivity of people is amazing.  What some people don't get is that big fat corporations and trucking companies have big fat lawyers and the involvement of the big fat DOT and law enforcement and prosecutors who delay justice sometimes for years and sometimes forever.  The net effect of "justice" is that many corporations and trucking companies operate with impunity while victims are maimed or killed yet the public thinks the victims are getting "big fat checks."   What some people don't get is that tractor trailer drivers and trucking companies are involved in 4,000 fatalities per year and very little is done to prevent it or hold them accountable for safety and even when it is their fault.  It is like pulling teeth to get any evidence or  reports or a "big fat check." Corporations and trucking companies have major resources to resist paying a dime.  They can even get free passes from NHTSA or DOT with known product safety issues or for operating illegally or unsafely. Meanwhile, the victim may not get anything but a bunch of medical bills and funeral expenses and little else.  Try being a victim with no money and with your ability to work (or breathe) taken away and go up against corporations, trucking companies, insurance companies, law enforcement and DOT.  Oh, "the big fat check is in the mail." Meanwhile, there is no check in the mail, no moving violations, no police report, no stopping tractor trailers from speeding and rear ending people killing them, no stopping corporations from making defective vehicles, no forcing manufacturers to recall the vehicles in less than 1 year.  All there is, is a victim on the laying on the side of the highway bleeding or on fire, with people making insensitive comments about the "big fat check" (which exists only in their minds) and that "drivers should be given driving classes and that it is insane to charge the people who caused the crash."  Actually, what is insane is that people think that criminals should go free.  What is insane is that people think that victims have big fat checks when victims are dead or maimed and in the hospital and broke.  What is insane is that people think a driver should driver over a couch cushion (but somehow miss the people carrying the couch cushion in the middle of the highway).  What is insane is that statements get released to the media and reported by the media which are false, saying that a driver hit a tractor trailer when the driver was rear ended by the tractor trailer.  What is insane is that nearly 1 year later, it is impossible to get a police report, crash reconstruction report or a 911 call record or anything, but somehow the news and the public think they know what happened and can insensitively talk about letting people go and vendetta's and driving classes and big fat checks.  The victim was burned to death, but we should be more caring about people who ran back and forth across busy highway who worked hard to pay for the couch. LOLOLOLOL,  You just cannot make this stuff up.  This is real people.  And these are the same people who are on juries.  Scary.  Scarier is that when the crash first happened, TV news reported that it "looked like the car did not stop for traffic and just went under the tractor trailer."  Meanwhile, the facts are that a tractor trailer did not stop and then pushed the car (which had stopped for traffic) under another tractor trailer.  The news later reported the truth, but how many people saw the first report and not the later report?  So, the lesson here is, don't go by news reports.  They can be false because they are rushing to get the story out and because sensationalism sells.  Rarely are these media outlets held accountable for accuracy and the impact had by false reporting.  So, if you really want to recommend that people be given driving classes when they really ran across a highway, causing cars to slam on the brakes and spin out and get rear ended by tractor trailers, perhaps you should verify the story first, or perhaps you should contact the prosecutor and demand that because it has been nearly one year since the crash, they should release at least a preliminary police report.  Did you hear about the crash in Oklahoma a couple of days ago, between a tractor trailer and a school bus?  Well, law enforcement and NTSB said that a preliminary report would be released within 10 days.  Why does it take 10 days in one crash vs 2 years in another crash?  Same with the Fedex Tractor Trailer vs bus crash in CA, and the Tracy Morgan crash in NJ.  911 calls were released within a couple of days.  So, the real travesty of justice in this case is false reporting and delayed reporting and the lack of transparency to the public about what really happened.  This leads media outlets to just put anything out there and it leads to the public making a lot of assumptions.  It is wrong.  Perhaps we should be demanding transparency from our government and truthful reporting from the media, not that men be let off with driving classes without having the facts.

+Christine Lund LOL.  No one is hating you. I am sorry that taking truth and lives seriously have upset you.  I never said that I hate you.   I feel your life is important just like I feel like everyone's life is important, which is why I don't think we should let criminals off the hook, whether they are men acting illegally carrying couches across busy highways who would make decisions that result in death, or whether they are men speeding in 80,000 lb tractor trailers driving recklessly carrying US Mail thru hazardous zones rear ending innocent people resulting in death, or whether they are corporate executives knowingly making decisions putting human lives in danger then dragging their feet on recalls, resulting in death.  All of this is despicable and there is no defense.  If you get on here spewing comments based on false reporting and having little information, when someone has died, then yes I will respond to it.  We cannot make bad, illegal behavior resulting in death some sort of accident that can be rectified with a driving class.  I don't hate you.  I hate ignorance, assumptions and injustice.  If you don't know about a case, then educate yourself.  Demand information.  Demand that the press report facts, not fiction.  Demand that criminals be held accountable, not let off with driving classes.  Demand that the police and prosecutor release reports, rather than withhold ALL of the reports for years.  This is an injustice that is not helped by withholding information, reporting false information, then making comments based on withheld and false information.  It is criminal behavior that is not taken seriously, where people get off scott free, and where reports are not released, and where speeding tractor trailer drivers who rear end other people do not get moving violations that I hate.  Not you.Now, let us talk about your latest comments.  No one said that you suggested that what happened was planned.  Please familiarize yourself with the law.  Planning something vs not planning something is a legal distinction that makes planning it a more severe crime.  But it doesn't make not planning it merely an accident that is not illegal.  You may not plan to discharge a weapon and kill someone.  But that doesn't mean that you will not be held accountable for it.  If you didn't plan to speed through a hazardous zone, but you did, and people died, it was not merely an accident.   If you run across a busy highway carrying furniture and cars are spinning out trying to avoid people and cars as a result (not a couch cushion), then the act of running across a highway is a decision, not an accident.  It didn't just happen.  At some point, people are accountable for their actions, whether they planned it or not.  If speed limits dictate that drivers should be going 55 mph but drivers are speeding through a zone which has cars spinning out and swerving and braking due to people running across a road, then the speeding vehicles made a decision to break the law and must be held accountable for the result.  If corporate executives were thinking about profits, yet knew about a design flaw and have repeatedly been presented with evidence that people die, then they agree to a recall but over 1 year later no notices are sent out and no cars have been recalled, then that is no accident.  The deaths may not be planned, but that does not make it an accident.  If we do not obey laws, or respect human life, or just dismiss every unplanned action as an accident, then the very fabric that values human life falls apart.  I don't want to live in that world.  I want to live in a world where people do not run across highways, and where tractor trailers do not speed through hazardous zones rear ending people, and where corporate executives design vehicles that have been proven to kill people.I am not taking what you said personally.  I am merely trying to right wrongs.  It does not help to sweep what happened under a rug by calling it an accident.  It does not help that law enforcement, prosecutor and the press either release false information or release no information.  This leads to many perceptions out there that builds public support in the wrong direction.  The cumulative effect of bad or no information is a travesty of justice.  I don't want to live in that world either.  We should not have to wait years for a basic police report to come out.  This is wrong.  Just look at at any major or minor cases.  Police reports and crash reports are either released almost immediately, or sometimes in complex cases, they may take up to a year, but never 2 years. 911 calls are usually released almost immediately, but in this case, NOTHING has been released. So then what happens?  The public thinks that a driver swerved due to a couch cushion and hit a tractor trailer because TV news reports it.  Meanwhile, this is completely false and the tractor trailer driver carrying US Mail has not been cited with a moving violation.  Oh, and by the way, the tractor trailer company which has not been named publicly has been involved with 5 fatalities in 3 separate crashes in 2 years, but they still have a good safety ratings.  Yeah, I guess they would have a good safety rating when they can speed and rear end someone and kill them yet get no moving violation while the public hears news reports about a how a driver hit the tractor trailer due to swerving due to a couch cushion.   This is sickening.  And you wonder how anyone could be upset?  I don't take what you said personally and I don't hate you.  But if you are free to comment then so am I.  Don't take what I am saying personally.  I am just trying to change public perception, one commenter at a time.  Unfortunately, I don't own newspapers or news stations.  But if I did, I would be reporting on injustice, not sensationalism.  I would be trying to save lives, not dismissing actions as an accident.  I would be searching for the truth, not rushing to judgement to get the story out.  I would be demanding that the US Senate and USDOT and NHTSA require auto manufactures recall dangerous cars quickly so that people do not die.  If you sense frustration, then you are 100% correct.  See, we do agree on something.

The entire article I was read only one half the size of your comment.  And none of the information you are 'quoting' was in the initial report I read.  I am surprised you complicate simple statements made long BEFORE all that information was even available.  Hate someone else.  I am suggesting none of what happened was planned.  If someone is bothering to transport heavy furniture and pay for the gas and vehicle to do it, they did not do any of this on purpose which seems to be the implication in the charges.  You seem to know so much about this, one would think you know about this personally. which is an advantage to someone who read an initial story lacking any substantial facts.  Don't take personally what was said in  my initial response to the severity of the charges, considering the lack of details available at the time. 

+Christine Lund  Of course I don't think everyone is perfect and that ropes don't break and the weather is perfect and loads don't shift.  Let's review.  The load was dropped twice, not once.  After falling off the truck once, the load was placed back onto the pickup truck, only to have it fall off again.  One of those times, it fell off, causing a car to spin out across the highway.  The men CONSCIOUSLY decided to run across a busy interstate highway to retrieve the couch, causing other cars to break and swerve, ultimately leading to a death.  A Jeep was rear ended by a tractor trailer pushing the Jeep into the back of the pickup truck owned by one of the men that dropped the load twice and who ran back and forth across the highway to retrieve the couch.  The two men jumped into the pickup truck and left the scene of the crash which was between the Jeep and the very pickup truck that they left the scene in.  Oh, by the way, the Jeep was burning with a person on fire crawling out of the Jeep with no one helping.  Yes, the 2 men CONSCIOUSLY left the scene and CONSCIOUSLY did not call 911 so the police and emergency vehicles had to deal with the situation including trying to locate these men and determining who was at fault.  All of this was a CONSCIOUS decision and none of it was an accident.  People must take responsibility for not securing a load twice and dropping it and running across a highway with vehicles going 55-75 mph and causing mayhem on a highway resulting in death and evading law enforcement.  Oh, the weather was perfect.  It is against the law to run across a busy highway.  It is no accident.  Ask any police officer or attorney if it is an accident to run across a highway rather than call 911, then to leave the scene while the person you are in a crash with is burning to death.  Leaving it there would not have been more dangerous.  When a major obstruction is on a highway, the first cars may hit it, but eventually traffic will either hit the object out of the way or the next waves of traffic will eventually slow down and the cars behind them will stop.  Traffic happens.  That is why drivers and vehicles should not be speeding and should be paying attention.  Calling 911 is ALWAYS the better option than taking the law into your own hands.  Listen to yourself.  You are saying that it was OK for these men to take the law into their own hands and run across a highway.  That is illegal.  It is no accident.  Laws exist for a reason.   Not so that you can decide that it is OK for men to break those laws because you think it would have been more dangerous for them to leave the couch.  Had these men called 911 instead of running across the highway, a HUMAN BEING would still be alive and we could then discuss the dropping of the load which is a maximum $500 fine in Massachusetts.  Listen to yourself: "This represented a lot of hard work to buy those items."  Are you an expert on what someone paid for a couch vs the value of a human life?    More and more, you demonstrate little regard for the law and lots of regard for people who break the law, but you outdid yourself by basically saying the money and work to buy a couch is greater than the value of a life.

You may think everyone is perfect and ropes don't break and the weather is perfect and loads don't shift but accidents do happen.  In an emergency, sometimes you do not make good decisions due to time constraints or  inexperience and even when you take all precautions, accidents happen.  Leaving it there may have been more dangerous.  You seem to think they deliberately dropped the load or carelessly packed it.  This represented a lot of hard hours of work to buy those items.  Nothing here calls for arrests and these charges.  Hate on something or someone who deserves to be hated but these men aren't legitimate targets.

+Christine LundIf only it were that simple.  Baseless comments can be dangerous.  False reporting can be dangerous.  Both can pervert truth and justice.  Let's start with your most recent comment, "losing your load is an accident."  No, losing your load is not an accident.  Losing an unsecured load is a crime, punishable in all states by jail time and/or a fine.  By law, people are accountable for their actions, especially when the result is death.  But that was not the only crime committed that night by the accused, so we should not limit the totality of their crimes to being an unsecured load, nor should we call it an accident when it is a crime.  The perpetrators not only dropped an unsecured load on a busy interstate without calling 911, but they ran back and forth across a highway, causing cars to brake and avoid them and their unsecured load and other vehicles, one of which spun out across the highway and another which was rear ended by a tractor trailer.  To reduce it to a couch cushion and dropping the couch cushion is not only false, but it minimizes the crimes that set off a chain reaction which led to a fatality.  Then when the crash occurred, these men left the scene and could not be located, which is why state police appealed to the public to help identify them and find them.  It is no accident to make the decision to run back and forth across a busy interstate which has many vehicles traveling between 55-75 mph (and yes some of those were traveling illegally above the speed limit (which is a crime, not an accident) because the speed limit is 55 mph).  So, to address your comment that losing a load is an accident, they are not being charged with only losing a load.  In fact, they are not even being charged with losing a load.  They are being charged with wanton and reckless conduct and leaving a scene resulting in death, which is not just dropping a load, but causing mayhem on the highway with not just a couch cushion but their bodies running across a highway, which cannot be just "driven over" like a couch cushion.  If it was such an accident, then why did they take off?  Do the driving classes that you recommend, tell pedestrians not to run across a highway and instead that they should call the police? As for loads being lost in Houston everyday, does that make it better?  People lose their lives because of unsecured loads.  It should be taken more seriously.  Do yourself a favor and read the book, "Out of Nowhere" by Robin Abel who is a Northwest native whose life was altered by the incident that nearly killed her daughter Maria Federici. She would prefer to live a quiet life with her golden retrievers and garden but is compelled to share this story in order to prevent future tragedies due to unsecured loads.  If you have a heart at all, you may cry when you read the story of one mother's determination to rebuild her daughter's life and change road safety laws to prevent further tragedies.  She took her (our) plight all the way to the US Senate to make changes in our laws, so that unsecured loads are not treated as "an accident."  As for your comment, "I know that if you try to avoid objects in the road, it usually ends badly," again it is not that simple.  Many vehicles tried to avoid multiple objects in the road, including people and other vehicles.  One of the first vehicles to do so, saw the couch, tried to avoid it, then spun out from the left lane to the right shoulder, then the perpetrators ran across the highway, creating even more things to avoid.  But let's get back to the facts.  Even though the media has engaged repeatedly in false reporting about this case, the authorities will not yet release the many reports related to this crash.  Why not? What is being hidden and why?  Why the rush to release false statements and report them across the media, but then do nothing to put the truth and facts out there, which only leads to perceptions based on falsities?  But guess what, an initial police report was obtained, even though it was not officially released.  And that initial police report states that the Jeep driver was driving in the center lane, then braked, then was rear ended by a tractor trailer.  No mention of swerving or changing lanes.  The initial police report also indicates furniture in the road and people running across the road, not just a couch cushion.  But getting back to the real cause of death, besides wanton and reckless conduct and besides a tractor trailer driver driving recklessly through a hazardous zone and rear ending a Jeep, yes you are finally partially correct that the Jeep caught fire due to a factory defect.  But you are only partially correct.  It was not a factory defect (again, another reference to an accident).  It was a design defect that Chrysler knew about.  A factory defect indicates not a design flaw, but a production flaw that was unknown at the time of production.  This was a design flaw, which was very known and is still known, yet people are dying and still no notices have been sent out and still no Jeeps have been recalled or fixed even now which is more than 1 year after Chrysler reluctantly agreed to a recall, which is years and decades after Chrysler knew about the design defect.  So, yes, many people have died and continue to die while Chrysler and NHTSA and USDOT take insufficient actions to prevent these deaths.  Insult to injury will be the installation of a trailer hitch to prevent deaths, rather than pull trailers.  This is all an embarrassment to human decency.  Lives matter.  We can and should do more.

I read one story and commented on it.  If the facts were different or enhanced in later stories, I didn't read them.  I was under the impression that the Jeep caught fire due to a factory defect.  Not true?  Losing your load is an accident.  Happens everyday, all day in Houston.  If I find the enhanced story, I will read it.  I know that if you try to avoid objects in the road, it usually ends badly.  I've seen people wipe out over a cardboard box, empty.  You sure do go on.  Let me know if these stories of yours pan out.  I like to see the completed report before commenting more.  

+Christine Lund  omg, you are really pushing it.  Again, you speak as if you know what happened and what should have happened.  It is not a matter of cushions.  The media has incorrectly reported that the obstruction was couch cushions.  This has led you to say the driver of the jeep should have hit the cushions head on.  Let me help you understand what really happened.  There were more than couch cushions.  There was a car spinning out doing a 180 across the highway.  There were 2 people carrying a couch across the highway.  There were vehicles on the shoulder.  Yet, you think a driver should just hit the cushions head on, when there was so much more than couch cushions.  Well, doing so would have also entailed hitting cars and people.  There is a big difference between a couch cushion and all of the obstructions that were actually in the highway, such as people.  Would you have hit the people and vehicles head on, along with the couch cushion?  Unfortunately, the media has misrepresented what actually happened, which has encouraged you to smugly say that you would have hit the couch cushions head on. The truth will eventually come out.  And when it does, those who have misrepresented and withheld the truth will be held accountable.  You are a prime example of the damage that is caused by false reporting.  False reporting only leads to more victimization.  Instead of getting at the truth and fighting for the victim, you are actually blaming the victim by saying you would driver over a couch cushion.   Meanwhile, you then would have to explain why you ran over the people in the road carrying the couch. What does a so called "experienced driver" do when faced with people on a highway and a car spinning out?

+tga3007 There is nothing personal about defective products that end in death.  They should sue Jeep.  I am saying that the driver of the jeep should have hit the cushions head on.  I don't freak about road debris because I live in a city with tons of it, though.  You misunderstood.  Many inexperienced drivers make this mistake but to blame the men was crazy. 

+tga3007 Your last two paragraphs describe Chrysler Corporations actions very well. They should be charged. 

+Christine Lund  Christine Lund, you speak as if you know the truth but you don't.   You speak of a personal vendetta to charge someone for a crime resulting in death.  You offer "drivers classes" as a solution when the men were not driving at the time of the death. You say the families have a big fat check when the families cannot even get a police report  or crash report of a crash happening nearly a year ago.  You say it is insane to charge these men.  You seem to have more concern for families being terrified of someone being charged for a crime or being in custody than you are concerned for families losing a loved one through negligent actions causing death.  You say these men are in shock.  Yes, they were so much in shock that they left the scene of a crash, hoping never to be found, and never to take responsibility for their actions.  These men dropped an unsecured load onto a busy interstate, then ran back and forth across the highway carrying a couch, causing cars to swerve and crash, then they left the scene of the fatal crash without calling 911.Let me help you understand the reasoning.  Following is the definition of involuntary manslaughter in MA :  One can commit involuntary manslaughter through:(1) an unintentional killing occasioned by an act which constitutes such a disregard of the probable harmful consequences to another as to be wanton or reckless.Let me help you understand the definition of wanton: unprovoked. Let me help you understand the definition of reckless: without thinking or caring about the consequences of an action.

The families now have a great big fat check coming from Jeep for their arrest and incarceration.  Not to mention the horror they have endured because of it.  They were probably in shock after seeing the accident. Their families terrified and the very possibility of coming to harm while in custody.  I hope no one decided to inflict their own brand of justice on them before finding out the truth.

It is because the district attorney has no idea about the Jeep-fire stalled recall, which is why there was a fire. These two men lost a couch cushion that caused vehicles to swerve but had nothing to do with the faulty design of the Jeep; hence, the petition to charge the guys who are at fault for the fire-prone Jeep in the first place.