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Dec. 22, 2022 - The Charlie Kirk Show
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The Omnibus Abomination with Tom Homan and Kurt Schlicter
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Extraordinary Bill Passing Congress 00:01:57
Hey, everybody.
Today on the Charlie Kirk show, The Border Remains Wide Open.
Meanwhile, there's an extraordinary bill that is being passed through the Senate and the House of Representatives.
You won't even believe what is in this bill.
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In just a minute here, we'll be joined by Tom Homan, the former director of immigration, customs, and enforcement.
And I am just chomping at the bit.
I got to tell you, because what is going on in Washington, D.C. right now is so it is rather remarkable.
First of all, Zelensky, the international welfare queen, is coming to Washington, D.C. to go demand more of our money.
I tweeted this morning, or at least I think I tweeted, because I told my team to put it on Twitter.
Border Security Crisis Explained 00:08:16
Very simple fact: Ukraine is not in America.
Ukraine is not America.
Being able to patrol and enforce your border is a luxury that America is no longer afforded.
Ukraine is being treated with more sovereignty, care, appreciation, and funding than our own country.
And so actually, all of these themes tie together.
There is a disgusting omnibus bill that is being passed through the U.S. Senate right now.
Because look, the senators, they have a really tough life.
They got to get home for Christmas.
Democrats do not have the votes to be able to pass this omnibus bill without the assistance of Republicans.
They do not have the votes.
But Republicans want to get home for Christmas too.
And not only do they want to fund the government, they want to have a nine-month extension robbing the new Republican House majority, giving another tens of billions of dollars to Ukraine.
Let's get the exact number so I'm precise.
Funding January 6th prosecutions and more.
Another $45 billion to Ukraine.
$45 billion to Ukraine.
And the turtle, Mitch McConnell, is going up on the Senate floor saying, hey, this is the number one priority of Republican voters.
He's telling you what your priorities are.
Play clip 28.
Making sure the Defense Department can deal with the major threats coming from Russia and China.
Providing assistance for the Ukrainians to defeat the Russians.
That's the number one priority for the United States right now.
According to most Republicans, that's sort of how we see the challenges confronting the country at the moment.
So the Kentucky Turtle is telling you that the number one priority, according to Republicans, Republican what?
Republican lobbyists?
Republican senators?
Not Republican voters.
Lisa Murkowski, Senator Shelby, Senator Tubberville, Senator Boozman from Arkansas, Senator Cotton from Arkansas, Senator Rubio from Florida, Senator Grassley from Iowa, Senator Young from Indiana, Senator Moran from Kansas, Senator McConnell from Kentucky, Senator Collins from Name, Senator Blunt from Missouri, Senator Moran from Kansas, Senator McConnell from Kentucky.
Sorry, there's some duplicates in this list.
I don't know why that's that way.
Anyway, Senator Thune from South Dakota, Senator Rounds from South Dakota, Senator Graham from South Carolina, Senator Portman from Ohio, Senator Wicker from Mississippi, Hyde Smith from Mississippi.
Do you know what is a really interesting through line here?
These are some of the most conservative states in the country.
Arkansas, Missouri.
It shows that they really don't care about their voters because they just think they're going to get elected no matter what.
Joining us now is Tom Holman, former head of immigration, customs, and enforcement.
Tom, welcome back to the program.
Thanks for having me.
So Tom, walk us through.
There is some question around Title 42 of the Supreme Court is now putting a pause on it being repealed.
What is the significance of this issue with Title 42 when it comes to the relentless invasion of our southern border?
Well, look, it's significant, but we've got to accept the fact that we're already in a historic crisis, even with Title 42 in play, right?
So we got 1.7 million last year, 2.4 this year.
Both historic highs.
We've never seen numbers as high in the history of this nation.
So we've got to understand historic crisis anyways, out of control despite Title 42 in play.
But the crisis right now is taking 70 to 80 percent of agents off the line, taking them off patrol to process these large groups, which means the border is vulnerable to drugs, vulnerable to no suspected terrorists, vulnerable to sex trafficking, women, and children, because you're basically just on the line.
If Title 42 drops, that just means more people come, which is going to result in, what, more agents being pulled off the line.
I mean, in El Paso last two weeks, you're already 90% of the agents are off the line.
There's video out there and box showing hundreds of them just walking across the highway into the city of El Paso, unimpeded by any law enforcement because they simply weren't there.
They're tied up processing.
So it will get worse.
But what I keep telling people is that despite Title 42, even if the secretary and the president want to blame CDC, they have no control over CDC.
They'll do what they want, or the courts will do what they want.
They still got remain in Mexico.
They still can implement that.
The courts haven't shut that down.
They can put that back in play.
They can run it the way the Trump administration did.
And we'd have a significant reduction on border crossings.
But they're not going to do that because they don't want to secure the border.
No, they don't want to secure border for very obvious and transparent reasons.
So, Tom, I mean, you've done a lot of work on the southern border, and your leadership really helped make the country safer.
It seems like Senate Republicans don't really care about the southern border at all.
What could Congress do, if anything, to give resources to Border Patrol and ICE to prevent this invasion of our country?
Well, they're not doing it in this bill.
Matter of fact, I did a show on Fox two hours ago that I said, I'm frankly sick and tired of many Republicans going downtown the border, doing the dog and pony show, and going back to D.C. and voting for this bill that's sitting there right now.
The bill sitting right now is spend billions of dollars to NGOs to process aliens and release them into the country.
None of it for border security.
And if they're going to go down to do these dog and pony shows, which I'm glad they are, but go back to D.C. and make some moves.
Go back to D.C. and at least vote for border security.
So, you know, I'm frustrated with it.
What they can simply do, this administration, which they won't do, is just turn on Trump policies that have shown the most effective border security ever had.
So, you know, when I said Republicans take back the House, they can pass some border bills.
We'll see if they got the guts to do it, but it's really a matter of legislation.
They don't need a dollar more on the border.
They don't need any, all they got to do is change the policies.
Trump administration proved that.
You put the Remaining Mexico program, man.
You put the 36 country game at 10, and you beat 85% of aliens of immigration.
This is a policy, it's not really a money issue.
However, since the border show is hurting for resources, because a lot of guys have quit, a lot of guys have retired, and God help us, 14 of them suicide.
I mean, we'll always use more agents on the line, but this is mainly a policy issue.
And the Congress can sit down and fix the three loopholes that are causing this crisis: fix the Trafficking Protection Reauthorization Act that say that children come across the border, once we ascertain they're not a victim of trafficking, they should be returned to their home.
Secondly, you gotta fix the asylum rules.
Make that first interview on the border at the same threshold the court holds them to.
That way, they're not released in the United States on a false claim.
And third, change the flora settlement agreement.
I'll laugh for a settlement agreement.
If a family crosses this border, allow us to hold them at a family residential center for up to 40 days to see a judge.
We did it back in 2015 under President Obama, and 90% of the lost their case.
We sent them home.
And guess what happened?
The numbers dropped.
If they will take action on those three things, they will solve 85% of the crisis on the border.
Well, Tom, we appreciate you fitting us in.
We're very grateful.
And your expertise is needed right now.
And it's such a tragedy what's happening on our southern border.
Tom Holman, thank you so much.
You got it.
Thanks for having me.
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So let's just make, I just have to reiterate this.
First of all, we're keeping an eye on the Cary Lake situation for all of you that are curious on that.
There is some very interesting testimony going about the length of the ballots, which seems to be a little bit in the weeds, but it's actually really, really important.
Super important.
Okay, so there is a $2 trillion omnibus bill that cannot be passed without Republican support.
It cannot happen.
Now, we've already sent over $100 billion to Ukraine.
I just got to brag on this show a little bit.
Our production team, our guests, we have been warning about Ukraine and this being a waste of money and a waste of time since the very beginning.
And now they want to spend another $45 billion.
Where's this money going?
Where are the weapons going?
Is it being audited?
The answer is no.
We are doing direct bank transfers into the treasury of Ukraine.
And as I mentioned, the uppity foreigner, the international welfare queen that can't be bothered to put on a suit and tie.
I don't know.
Let me just make sure I get this right.
Is Zelensky wearing a suit and tie today?
I don't know.
He's probably wearing the Fetterman look.
So Senate Republicans are enthusiastic to now go spend $2 trillion.
$2 trillion.
And let me read this list again.
Some of these are repeated on this list.
I don't know why.
So it's Shelly Moore Capito from West Virginia, Mitt Romney from Utah, John Cornyn from Texas, John Thune from South Dakota, Mike Rounds from South Dakota, Lady Graham from South Carolina, Rob Portman from Ohio, Wicker from Mississippi, Hyde Smith from Mississippi, Roy Blunt from Missouri, Susan Collins from Maine, The Turtle from Kentucky, Moran from Kansas, Blunt from Missouri, Collins from Maine.
Okay, yeah, it repeats.
So Young from Indiana, Grassley from Iowa, Rubio from Florida, Cotton from Arkansas, Boozman from Arkansas, Tubbard from Alabama, Shelby from Alabama, and Murkowski from Alaska.
Their priority is border security.
It is very clear.
Border security for other countries.
Do you know that this bill sends money to secure the border of Jordan, Nepal, Lebanon, Egypt, Tunisia, Oman, and Pakistan?
It doesn't send money to go to secure our own border, though.
No, the Senate Republicans that I mentioned, they are more concerned about making sure that that darn annoying Nepal border is enforced.
Yeah, you know, that Tunisian border crisis, really a big concern for Americans.
Or how about what's happening in Oman?
I will give if more than 10% of Americans could look at a map, an unlabeled map of the Middle East, and get within 100 square miles of guessing where Oman is, I would be very impressed.
By the way, it's on the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula, east of Yemen.
So I do know where Oman is.
Most people don't.
This is what Republicans prioritize.
This is what your voter, what your people that you send to D.C.
And honestly, you know, a couple weeks ago after the Herschel Walker campaign failed and people stayed at home, I was very upset and I will remain upset with that.
I still think you have to vote, but I get it.
Senate Republicans deserve to be in the minority, period.
This kind of behavior, I don't want them to be in the minority, but this voting behavior, for example, $6 million for Clemson University is in this bill, $982,000 for motel vouchers in LA, $817,000 for partnerships with justice-involved individuals, $2 million for improving coordination in the New York mayor's office,
Wasteful Spending Exposed 00:11:47
$8.6 million for the Pentagon to do gender advisor programs, $166 million for neighborhood reinvestment activities, $4 million for shared equity housing models, $900 million for land acquisition and related programs.
The EPA gets $10.1 billion, an increase.
Republicans are giving the EPA more money.
$108 million for environmental justice activities.
The FBI is getting a new $375 million headquarters.
Oh, that's right.
Senate Republicans, after we have now learned the FBI was executing a coup d'état, these Republicans want to give the FBI a new HQ.
$3.6 million for the Michelle Obama Trail.
$750,000 for Trans Latin Coalition.
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Okay, $2.35 million in improvement and maintenance on the Iditarod Trail.
That sounds like a handout for Lisa Murkowski.
Just a guess.
Iditarod's in Alaska, isn't it?
Yeah.
$1.5 million for the restoration of the Albany, New York City Hall.
$400,000 for the Racial Justice Improvement Project.
Your Republican senators think we need $400,000 for racial justice improvement.
$70 million for minority business development.
$286 million in Title 10 funding, which funds Planned Parenthood.
Your Republican senators want to make sure you guys, that Planned Parenthood gets more money.
Also included on this bill is regulations on cosmetics, changes to horse racing rules.
Huh, I wonder what state would be lobbying for horse racing rule changes.
Ryan says, California, no.
Kentucky, obviously, it's the horse racing capital of America.
The Electoral Count Act, all of this.
The bill was released around 2 a.m. on Tuesday.
And to have read this entire bill by now, you would have had to read four pages per minute without a single break for 16 hours straight.
Rand Paul shows us the enormity of the bill, play cut 29.
When did they know that this would be necessary?
Well, it's in the law, September 30th.
You got nine months, almost 10 months, to produce a plan.
The process stinks.
It's an abomination.
It's a no-good, rotten way to run your government.
$6 trillion entity, and they want 24 hours to process this, and then they want to go forward.
The American people don't want this.
They're sick and tired of it.
They're paying for it through the nose with inflation.
Adding a trillion dollars to the deficit will simply fuel the fires that are consuming our wages and consuming our retirement plans.
This, this, this is why Republicans did not show up and vote in the Georgia runoff.
This is why Republicans did not show up in the midterms.
I wish they would have, but they don't make it easy.
Welcome to the program, Kurt Schlichter.
Kurt, the floor is yours.
You know, Charlie, I'm going to try and keep it FCC compliant.
Please do, or else I'll send you the invoice.
Oh, my gosh.
You know, I keep hearing these people babbling about our democracy and how important it is.
But is it really a democracy if you don't have a chance to actually work on legislation, to run it through committees, to see what's in it, to vote on it, to move amendments?
Or is it just a, you know, practically a dictatorship with this little bow on top that makes you think that you have a voice?
I'm tired of it.
It needs to stop.
And I think what Kevin McCarthy ought to say is, you know, the September 30th deadline is the deadline.
This isn't happening again.
Get it done by September 30th.
There's no extensions, nothing move on.
Don't come to me and say, bail me out.
It either gets done or we shut everything down, which I would not mind.
You know, you look at what happened at Twitter, and it was a bloated, woke, garbage organization.
And Elon Musk went in as a businessman, looked around, fired two-thirds of the people.
And Twitter works better and is freer than it has been in years.
Yes.
I think the federal government could use the same kind of culling process.
Well, I mean, Kurt, I just read through this list here.
Who do these Republicans represent?
I mean, $3.6 million for the Michelle Obama trail, $2.3 million to improve the Iditarod trail.
By the way, let me just for the record, I'd rather spend money on the Iditarod than send money on Zelensky.
Just full disclosure, I think that's actually probably money better spent.
Totally wasteful, though.
And then you got the uppity foreigner who can't bother to find a suit and tie Zelensky demanding more money.
And Republicans want to give him $45 billion more dollars.
And the southern border remains wide open.
Well, here's the thing, Charlotte.
Let's talk about Ukraine because I think that's very important.
Now, you understand I'm an actual old Cold Warrior.
I was in Germany when the wall fell as part of NATO, part of the United States forces there.
For years, all I did was train on how to kill Russians.
Okay, so I'm not a Russian pal.
I went over to Ukraine four times to train Ukrainian soldiers.
There was a Ukrainian Polish battalion with my unit in Kosovo.
I respect the Ukrainian people.
I like them.
It's the most corrupt place I've ever been.
I mean, there are Nigerian princes in awe of its corruption.
And look, I understand there's a huge history there.
I understand everybody's got their arguments.
I don't think there's any good reason for Russia to invade with a couple armored corps and kill a bunch of people.
And I don't have a problem with the Ukrainians fighting back.
And I don't have a problem in theory with Americans supporting them.
However, you can't just dump $45 billion into Ukraine.
That's crazy.
And the idea that AA, like McConnell, says it's a murder to Republicans' number one priority, dude, it's not.
It's not even in my top five.
I think there's a good argument to be made for supporting Ukrainian resistance to the Russians.
No one's making that argument.
Okay.
I'm a war college graduate.
Admittedly, it was the Army War College, the party war college.
We could have used a turning points branch there.
The thing is, where's our strategic objective?
What are we doing?
Look, I could be convinced.
Again, I'm a guy who grew up learning how to kill Russians.
I know how to kill a motor rifle regiment.
Most people don't even know what one is.
I do.
But what we're doing here strikes me as crazy because it violates all the things that we know about foreign policy, about military leadership.
What is our goal there?
What is the end state we're seeking?
Are we just going to have a meat grinder where we feed more bodies into it?
Look, I'm not a pacifist.
I'm not pro-Russian.
I sympathize with the Ukrainian people who are suffering greatly and want to fight for their country.
And they do.
They're tough, patriotic people.
The government's corrupt as hell.
And I got no real use for Zelensky.
But the idea of just throwing $45 billion on top of all the other billions of dollars we tossed in strikes me as crazy.
There's an argument to be made.
We're learning a hell of a lot about Russians, a hell of a lot about modern warfare.
We're getting benefit out of this if we're smart enough to be, you know, capturing the signal and getting the getting the intelligence and learning from this fight.
But it's the idea that we just should shut up and write checks.
That's crazy.
While our own territorial integrity is being overrun in this bill is border security for Oman, Pakistan, Tunisia, Yemen.
I mean, Oman, not Yemen.
I'm sorry.
Oman.
Got to get our leaders.
There's a big difference.
Yeah, exactly.
Our leaders are not appropriating any extra money for border security, and we're being invaded.
I understand why people don't show up and vote now, Kurt.
I get it.
Well, look, when a Republican leader comes out and says, my priority is a fight between two indistinguishable people on another continent.
Well, look, you can have more than one priority, but it's not my number one.
No, it's not number 100.
I mean, how about opioid or mental health problems or depression?
Suicide inflation?
I mean, come on.
The thing is, what gets me is nobody, we're not doing what a democracy does, which is having vigorous arguments about stuff.
We didn't have a vigorous argument about the budget.
It's just here, sign on to this.
It's been out 24 hours.
Now you can vote.
Here, here's Ukraine.
You say anything against it.
Suddenly you love Putin.
And it's particularly attractive to me to be told I love the Russians by guys who never shivered in a West German foxhole.
Okay.
I don't need to be, I don't need lessons in pro-America by this crew who are out marching for the KGB-sponsored nuclear freeze in the 80s.
And yet here we are.
Look, what I'm saying is, I don't think we care.
I mean, we care, but I don't think it bothers us if we have an argument and we lose it.
There, we have a big debate and the people decide, well, we're going to go a different way than maybe Kurt and Charlie want to go.
Okay, we've been heard.
We've been talked about.
People have listened to us.
They've made a decision we didn't like.
You know, better luck next time.
We'll fight harder next time.
But that's not what's happening.
No, it's pure force.
It's just force.
And they don't care.
And I mean, I read this list here, Kurt.
It's so grotesque.
It is just so.
I mean, one after the other, EPA gets $10 billion more dollars.
I mean, it's just, I mean, how about this?
The Pentagon gets $8.6 billion for a gender advisor program.
I'm sure that's super popular.
There are two men and women.
We're done.
Where's my check?
$8.6 million for a gender advisor program.
I'm sure the people of South Dakota are going to be thrilled that John Thune and Senator Rounds are giving $8.6 million for a gender advisor program.
Stop the Chaotic Bill 00:08:01
I don't understand why any Republican is voting for a penny for the Pentagon until Rich Alconis, the lieutenant unjustly imprisoned in Japan, gets his pay restored so his family doesn't starve.
Okay, we leave him hanging out there.
We bring Brittany Griner back.
Okay, she hates America.
She's a dope smoking weirdo.
But, you know, we've got an American service member over there unjustly in prison.
The Americans can't manage to get him out.
You know, when I was a major, I was telling Japanese generals what to do.
Okay.
They're very deferential, and we can't even push them to let this guy out.
Obviously, we need to account for the accident that he was involved in and apologize and pay money.
But you get our guy out, but you don't leave him in jail and then let his family starve.
What the hell is that?
If I was a senator, not one, I would object to every damn thing until he got his money.
Every, I don't care.
I will read the whole bill.
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Kurt, people are fired up.
And so do you think we should require this bill to be read word for word?
What would it take to get that done?
Well, I'm not sure.
Look, I am not an arcane Senate procedure MABI.
Parliamentarian.
Exactly.
Like a turtle.
Mitch McConnell used to be, and he used to do it very effectively.
I don't know.
He's lost a few steps in the last year.
Let me tell you.
But there are a lot of ways for a single senator to slow things down.
And this, you know, Charlie, this has to stop.
This is intentional.
This last minute here, we're going to drop this giant, you know, thing, again, trying to remain FCC compliant on your desks and demand you vote on it immediately.
And that's just not the way our government should work.
And that shouldn't be a partisan issue.
Everybody should want the debates, but they don't.
Look, they want to force this bill through with minimal debate because as soon as you start shining a light on it, you know, the cockroaches start scurrying.
The Michelle Obama trail gender advisors in the Pentagon, they just want to get it done.
They want to get home for Christmas.
Well, then we should ruin their country.
But they also want their earmarks.
No, but they're ruining the country.
We should ruin their Christmas.
I just texted Senator Mike Lee and Senator Josh Hawley, and I asked them, I don't know, I'm not a Senate parliamentarian guy, what is it going to take to get this bill read word for word on the Senate floor, of which will take three days.
I mean, just to minimum.
So read the whole bill.
Read the whole thing word for word on the Senate floor.
You guys are going to have to adjourn because you're going to want to go home for Christmas and the bill will not be passed.
What is the argument against that?
By the way, I'm waiting for a text response.
Kurt, that's basically the only thing we have left, right?
It's just the way to stop the bill is to read the bill.
Well, exactly.
One of the problems that we're facing now is the chaos in the House.
We haven't selected a speaker yet.
And look, I've got my issues with Kevin McCarthy, but it looks like he's going to win it.
I think our guys need to make a deal.
The guys who are opposing him and him and his guys, they need to come together, make a deal so they have a unified front so that the senators who are wondering, are we going to be able to get something done in January, understand that there's people in charge in the House?
So that's another issue.
I think some of the, look, some of the senators are soft.
Some of them are glorified Democrats.
Some of them are concerned that the Republicans in the House won't be able to get together to do the thing that needs to be done in January.
So I think that's a big consideration, too.
Well, I mean, but that's not a reason to go punt it all the way to September.
This bill is awful.
No, no, it is.
This bill is terrible.
I mean, it's horrible.
And so just say, no, we're not doing this.
Have a nice Christmas.
The government's shutting down, whatever.
By the way, when the government shuts down, nothing actually shuts down.
Okay.
Of course not.
And I'm all for a government shutdown because it illustrates how useless most of the government is.
And I'm hoping whoever is the next Republican president goes in and takes a machete to the personnel roles and slices them.
And then, you know, our lives will not.
Look, is your life going to be any worse if there's no Michelle Obama hiking trail?
I mean, it's not.
But my life is a lot worse when I'm paying a huge chunk of my income that could be going to supporting my family, you know, to nonsense like I did a rod.
Trail improvements.
What is this trail fascination with these people?
There might be a lot of money laundering on trails.
Let's play cut 21.
Hey, the turtle and Chuck U. Schumer says this bill is bold.
Play cut 21.
From top to bottom, this omnibus is bold, generous, far-reaching, and ambitious.
We were able to achieve through this omnibus spending bill essentially all of our priorities.
This is no favorite of the House.
If we kick this to another year.
I brought with me the OMD.
4,155 pages.
When was it produced?
In the dead of the night.
It's an abomination.
It's a no-good, rotten way to run your government.
It's bold the way that defecating on a street corner in San Francisco is bold, Kurt.
Oh my gosh, bold.
That's that again.
I, you know, I keep bumping up against this FCC compliance wall.
Bold is not the word I would use.
Shameful, corrupt, obnoxious.
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These are words that come to mind.
Protestant.
Because look, look, I served this country for 27 years.
I want to say in how it's run.
And I don't think it's too much to expect that the people we send to Washington sit out there and argue about the stuff.
I want somebody on the Senate floor saying, hey, maybe we shouldn't be funding the Iditarod Trail.
Hey, I like sled dogs as much as anybody else.
But, you know, there's, you know, there are other priorities like, oh, I don't know, securing our border, which apparently this bill makes it illegal to do.
You know, it's mind-boggling.
And you've got so many Republicans who have this normalcy bias.
They have this bias where they try to believe that things are quote unquote normal and that we're all working together for a better tomorrow, but we're not.
And they need to stop that.
They need to get woke.
They need to figure out what time it is.
It's not going to be easy, but there will be a promise.
Every single one of these people that vote for this bill, you might survive it, but we will primary you.
We will go there.
We will do events.
You might be able to survive it, but we will not make your life easy.
Kurt, thank you so much.
Appreciate it.
Thanks, Dr. Merry Christmas.
Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
Email me your thoughts as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.
Thank you so much for listening.
God bless.
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