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| Sunday on C-SPAN's Q&A, Liberty Media Chairman and cable TV pioneer John Malone, author of Born to be Wired, discusses his life and entrepreneurship. | ||
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| We're joined now by Representative Al Green, a Democrat of Texas's 9th District. | ||
| He's a member of the Financial Services Committee. | ||
| Congressman, welcome to the program. | ||
| The Texas Tribune is reporting that the GOP Governor Greg Abbott has signed the redistricting the new maps. | ||
| Your district got carved up. | ||
| Tell us what happened. | ||
| Well, thank you for allowing me to explain. | ||
| The president, behind through the Justice Department, mandated that the state of Texas carve out five additional seats for Republicans. | ||
| And he was very specific with this in indicating that it should be the 9th congressional district, which is where I happen to currently represent the people. | ||
| And it would also be the 29th, which is the one that is adjacent to the 9th. | ||
| Representative Garcia happens to be the representative there, the 33rd out of Dallas, and the 18th, which doesn't have anyone in Congress currently, but has been represented by Jackson Lee and as of late Sylvester Turner, both of whom had their untimely demises, in my opinion, and left that seat vacant. | ||
| And as a result, the president was able to acquire the assistance of the state of Texas, the governor, and what they did was racial gerrymandering. | ||
| They decided that they would eliminate the 9th Congressional District as a district that could elect a person of color who happens to be African American. | ||
| They moved it to another county over to Liberty County. | ||
| The 29th, they moved it up north in Houston. | ||
| And in Dallas, Mark Veaze may be having a challenge, but I think that he could be successful if he chooses to. | ||
| So the point is this. | ||
| The President of the United States made a decision, and this decision was based on race. | ||
| How do we know? | ||
| Because the letter that was sent to the state of Texas had in it the last sentence indicated that there was racial gerrymandering that took place to favor African Americans. | ||
| However, the Attorney General for the state of Texas denied that and said that they don't gerrymander like that in Texas. | ||
| So I'm in a lawsuit now, have been in lawsuit since I've been in Congress for the most part, defending the 18th and 9th congressional districts. | ||
| And I'm going to continue to do so. | ||
| So the president introduced race, but we've reached a point in this country now where if race is introduced by someone and it raises its ugly head, it is difficult for people to respond and say that that's racist. | ||
| If you say it's racist, you're almost persona non grata at that point. | ||
| We have to allow people to defend against racism by at least acknowledging that it exists. | ||
| Well, let's take a look at what Governor Abbott posted on X as he was signing that redistricting plan. | ||
| Governor Greg Abbott, I'm about to sign the law that creates the one big, beautiful map that ensures fair representation in the United States Congress for Texans. | ||
| I want to thank Lieutenant Governor Patrick, Speaker Burroughs, Senator King, Representative Todd Hunter, Representative Cody Vesut, and all of the legislature who stayed in the Capitol and got this law to my desk. | ||
| Texas is now more red than the United States Congress. | ||
| What did you think of what he said? | ||
| He said that it's a fair representation in Congress. | ||
| Well, I think it's grossly unfair because what he's done is eliminated an African-American seat in Houston. | ||
| He combined the 9th district and the 18th. | ||
| Both were represented by African Americans. | ||
| And in combining them, he has done what is called cracking and packing, which has been unconstitutional in the past. | ||
| I don't know what's going to happen with this. | ||
| What does that mean, cracking and packing? | ||
| When you crack, you cut a district and then you separate it from some parts of it. | ||
| And then if you pack, you take those cracked parts and you can push them together. | ||
| And when you pack them together, you now have another district, but it's not going to be the same as the two that you had before for obvious reasons. | ||
| You've eliminated portions of each of those two districts. | ||
| So they eliminated about two-thirds of the 18th congressional district, combined it with about two-thirds of the ninth congressional district, eliminated two-thirds of the 18th, and combined it with two-thirds of the ninth. | ||
| And as a result, they have now moved the 18th into the 9th. | ||
| My home is in the 18th now in the new map of the people that I serve. | ||
| So your home itself is no longer in your district. | ||
| It's no longer in your district. | ||
| In the new map. | ||
| The 9th congressional district because they moved it over to another county, Liberty County. | ||
| So what does that mean for you? | ||
| Are you just going to run for the 18th district? | ||
| Well, it's important for people to know that I'm not moving into the 18th. | ||
| The 18th moved into me. | ||
| That's important. | ||
| And my constituents in Sunnyside, South Park, Haram Clark, Fort Bend County. | ||
| These are all people that I've been representing. | ||
| And I've said that for now, I won't make an announcement, but it seems logical to me that if I'm going to run, that I would run from the 18th congressional district because that's where my constituents are. | ||
| And would you still be competitive? | ||
| Could you win that seat? | ||
| Well, there will be a lot of money against me. | ||
| I'm running against the President of the United States of America. | ||
| There'll be a candidate, but it's the president that I'm running against. | ||
| And there will be an inordinate amount of money against me. | ||
| So I would assume that I'll be the underdog in the race. | ||
| If I run, I'm going to put up a good fight. | ||
| And sometimes underdogs prevail. | ||
| My hope is that people will understand that I've got a record and that I'm proud of. | ||
| And they'll understand also that the president should not be able to pick their representatives. | ||
| This is something that's unacceptable. | ||
| And I take pride in running against him. | ||
| And hopefully, we'll prevail should I run. | ||
| Well, as you know, California lawmakers have redrawn their maps to try to favor Democrats. | ||
| That's going to go to voters in November. | ||
| Should other states follow suit? | ||
| I mean, if the Republicans continue to redraw their maps, the Democrats will continue to redraw their maps. | ||
| Is it just going to be, is this just going to be an arms race, as it's being called? | ||
| Well, the president started this with Texas, and it is racial gerrymandering. | ||
| And by the way, the only way we can win our lawsuit is to tell the truth and say that it's racial gerrymandering because the law addresses that in Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. | ||
| But California is responding. | ||
| California is not initiating. | ||
| This is a response. | ||
| So let's look at the alternatives. | ||
| The Republicans, as the governor has said, can have five additional red seats as he counts them, and California can do nothing. | ||
| And then the president can possibly use those five seats to maintain control of Congress, or California can offset that with five seats. | ||
| And so we're back to where we are now. | ||
| So California hasn't done anything other than try to maintain the equilibrium that we have currently, which, by the way, I think is unfair, but that's what California said. | ||
| When I say unfair, the equilibrium itself is unfair. | ||
| But I think what California is doing is justified. | ||
| You have a right to defend. | ||
| This is a defense. | ||
| This is not the offense. | ||
| The president created the offense. | ||
| And Representative Al Green, a Democrat of Texas, is with us. | ||
| And if you'd like to join the conversation, you can do so. | ||
| Our lines are Democrats 202-748-8000, Republicans, 202748-8001, and Independents 202-748-8002. | ||
| You can start calling in now to talk to him. | ||
| What are your thoughts on the Epstein files and the discharge petition? | ||
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I have a copy of the discharge petition, okay? | |
| And I brought it because, quite frankly, it's very difficult to comprehend how you can be against this. | ||
| And I'm going to be very terse, but I just want you to know that here's what it says. | ||
| Resolved that immediately upon adoption of this resolution, the House shall proceed to the consideration in the House of the Bill H.R. 185. | ||
| If you go over to page two, it tells you what 185 is. | ||
| This act may be cited as the Epstein Files Transparency Act. | ||
| Now, what does that do? | ||
| It indicates here, no later than 30 days after the date of enactment of this act, the Attorney General shall make publicly available records, documents, communications, investigation materials in the possession of the Department of Justice. | ||
| And flight logs would be included. | ||
| Any immunity deals would be included. | ||
| Autopsy reports, documentation of Epstein's detention or death. | ||
| And then it goes on to say certain personally identifiable information of victims. | ||
| These are things that you won't include. | ||
| Now, this is seven pages. | ||
| And if you're opposed to this and you have the ability, the power, the awesome power that the president has of simply saying, let's get this done, let's release it, and you don't, why wouldn't people think that there's some sort of cover-up? | ||
| So what about the GOP-led House Oversight Committee? | ||
| They're saying that we are getting those files released. | ||
| We are subpoenaing documents and all those files are getting out there. | ||
| In some circumstances, too much is not enough. | ||
| This is one of those cases. | ||
| Why not let them do whatever they're doing? | ||
| And why not do this as well? | ||
| Why would anyone be opposed to this resolution? | ||
| It gives the appearance of being in favor of something that these documents might reveal, something about the transportation, something about this that might be harmful to people that you don't want to see harmed. | ||
| And I don't want to see anybody unjust, receiving injustice. | ||
| But the just thing for these persons who were victims and now survivors is to let them have access to this information. | ||
| So the critics are saying, why didn't the Biden Justice Department release all these files? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| And I would have them release it. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| But we're at the here and now. | ||
| And in the here and now, I think we have to go forward and release this information. | ||
| It really is so simple that there's not a lot in here that you can be antithetical to. | ||
| And for the president to say that he won't do it, it just causes people to immediately have a visceral reaction of you're trying to hide something. | ||
| That's the visceral response. | ||
| I think he would do himself a favor if he would move on this, but he won't because he is a very, very recalcitrant person, quite vindictive, and as such, he's going to hunker down and wait for time to lapse and hope that this will cause all of this to evaporate. | ||
| But now this is something that's been going on for more than days, more than weeks, more than months. | ||
| This has been going on for quite some time. | ||
| And I think those persons who are survivors are entitled to know more about what happened to them as well as others. | ||
| Let's talk to callers. | ||
| This is Gordon, a Republican, Kansas City, Kansas. | ||
| Good morning, Gordon. | ||
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Hey, buddy. | |
| Thank you, Mimi. | ||
| Hey, buddy. | ||
| Just think, if we lose your next election, you'll have a chance to go home and wash the grease out of your hair because you're an embarrassment to this country. | ||
| Oh, you shouldn't have cut him off. | ||
| You know, we don't take personal attacks like that. | ||
| I know, but listen, I get them all the time. | ||
| I cannot play over the air the kinds of things that people say to me about my heritage, my mother, and what they'll do to me and my cane. | ||
| This cane is something that people seem to fear. | ||
| It's just a simple device used to aid me when I need help. | ||
| Sometimes it aids me in the sense that it's my rod and staff that comforts me. | ||
| But my point is, I think we ought to expose people like this because, yes, I have grease in my hair. | ||
| It's not what's on my head, it's what's in my head that you fear. | ||
| The hair is just something to see. | ||
| What you experience, what I can produce with my mind, and that's what's feared. | ||
| And there's a belief among a lot of people now that I'll be defeated at the polls. | ||
| And I may be, but I say this: if I run, I'm going to put up a hard fight. | ||
| I'm going to still be unbought, unbossed, unafraid, censured, but not silenced. | ||
| I'm running against the president of the United States of America. | ||
| He obviously supports the president. | ||
| Okay, let's just see what happens. | ||
| Let's see if the people of the new 18th congressional district, should I run, if they will choose Al Green or President Trump. | ||
| This is Richard in Augusta, Georgia, Democrat. | ||
| Good morning, Richard. | ||
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Good morning. | |
| Representative Greene. | ||
| I applaud you for standing up like you did in the State of the Union. | ||
| My question to you is: are you going to try to get the top Latino congresspeople to help you with your campaign along with Jasmine Crockett and also get the Latino vote out to help you? | ||
| Are you going to get on Telemundo so that we can finally wake up the Latino voters in Texas to vote for people who stand up for what is right and what is justice? | ||
| I said on this program in April last year that the dictator is coming to America. | ||
| And I was right. | ||
| The dictator is in office now. | ||
| And that's who you're fighting against, a dictator. | ||
| Would you please make sure that you can get the help from Latino congresspeople from around the country? | ||
| All right, Richard. | ||
| Well, I've received a favorable response from the Latino community in the current 9th Congressional District, which has a Latino population currently that probably exceeds the African American population. | ||
| So I've gone to liberate persons who've been extricated, moved from the country by ICE, and literally brought them back into the country. | ||
| We've helped Latino families when they've been in need of services from the congressional office. | ||
| So I plan to continue to do that. | ||
| And I plan to always speak up for people who find themselves living in harm's way. | ||
| They're among what I call the least, the last, and the lost. | ||
| And we have African Americans and Latinos and Anglos who are among this group of people. | ||
| So we're going to continue to fight for them. | ||
| People who need health care. | ||
| We're going to fight for that. | ||
| James, an independent in Collins, Mississippi. | ||
| You're on the air, James. | ||
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Yes, Mr. Green. | |
| How are you all doing? | ||
| I'm quite well, better than I deserve. | ||
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Mr. Green, I wanted to ask you a question, and then like another one, but can she let me know before she's going to cut me off? | |
| Mr. Green, I noticed that the president and all his cabinet is talking about the African-American cities. | ||
| But Mr. Green, I want to know why it is so difficult for people to understand that those urban communities or Chicago and all these places, those cities was under siege all the way back during segregation, racism, and a lot of the money and economic power that was drained from these cities called these problems. | ||
| And also, they took the economic power out and put drugs and guns and had people fighting against each other. | ||
| And not only that, Mr. Green, as you see across the world, these three tyrants or four tyrants that's meeting with Kim Young-you and all those, this is a sign of the world order against America. | ||
| America is in danger, not only on the inside, but definitely on the outside. | ||
| And it's a shame that people don't wake up and see what is happening with America because this is a sign that as far as the medicines that we're taking, they're already talking about children should not take their, they don't have to have medicines in front of the people. | ||
| James, you're giving us a lot to deal with, so let's get a response. | ||
| Well, thank you. | ||
| Let me start with what he said about the three personalities that he mentioned. | ||
| She, Kim, and Putin. | ||
| The president is probably the reason that they are together, because it was the president who went to Kim and had love letters. | ||
| He gave him legitimacy. | ||
| The president didn't have to do that. | ||
| The president rolled out the red corporate for Putin, who is engaging in war against Ukraine and is doing it in such a way as to want to take all of that country over. | ||
| He's not interested in just some parts of it. | ||
| He wants all of it, just as Netanyahu wants all of Palestine, by the way. | ||
| So in doing this, the president gave Putin legitimacy. | ||
| And he's always talked about his events and his relationship with Kim, with Xi Jinping. | ||
| The president has given them now the legitimacy and also the rationale for being together because of his tariffs and the way he's treated his friends. | ||
| He wants to take over Canada. | ||
| I believe him when he says it. | ||
| Wants to take over Greenland. | ||
| Wants to do things to friends that you just don't do. | ||
| He's alienated the European nations against us that have been our allies and trying to pull that back together. | ||
| So it's the president who has brought all of this on the United States of America going to take some time to undo what he has done. | ||
| He has literally caused us great harm in the geopolitical world. | ||
| I want to ask you about President Trump saying that he will federalize the National Guard and send them into Chicago, into Baltimore. | ||
| He's also mentioned New Orleans. | ||
| What's your reaction to that? | ||
| My reaction is let's do something to end crime and let's have a total, take a total look at this and have a wraparound position. | ||
| Wraparound, meaning be all inclusive in terms of what we do. | ||
| I still think that we should take assault weapons off the streets. | ||
| I think they belong in the hands of the military. | ||
| I don't think we should have those weapons. | ||
| I think that we should do things to make sure that schools are secure, but also to make sure people don't have these weapons that can harm a good many people in an instant. | ||
| And schools are some very sacred places for me. | ||
| These are where children are the futures in these schools. | ||
| So I think the president should, rather than decide he's going to arbitrarily and capriciously do things, why don't you visit with the business community? | ||
| The business community has a role to play in this. | ||
| And the business community is silent on these issues. | ||
| School shootings. | ||
| We have an organization called the Partnership in Houston. | ||
| I've written them many letters indicating that they should get involved and try to do something about this gun violence. | ||
| They barely respond, and when they do, it says that's not in our field of vision. | ||
| Not with those exact words. | ||
| So here's my point. | ||
| I think that the president should do more than say, I'll send in the National Guard. | ||
| Let's do something about the things that are at the root cause of these problems. | ||
| Let's make sure that people have more jobs. | ||
| Let's make sure that people can get housing. | ||
| Let's make sure that people can get good educations. | ||
| Let's do all of the things that can better the lives of people. | ||
| You don't have a lot of millionaires and billionaires robbing convenience stores. | ||
| If people have security economically, they don't do these things. | ||
| So I'm for ending crime, but I would like to see us take a serious look at it as opposed to do something that's temporary. | ||
| And when the National Guard is pulled out, then the situation returns to what I don't want to see occur. | ||
| If the National Guard can do something that's meaningful, it would be temporary. | ||
| Let's take a long-term, permanent look at these problems. | ||
| Here's Michael, a Republican in Bowie, Maryland. | ||
| Good morning, Michael. | ||
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Good morning. | |
| Good morning, Representative Green. | ||
| First, I just wanted to say thank you for standing up for Medicaid and Medicare at the State of the Union. | ||
| I really appreciated that. | ||
| My question is, just like the few Democrats that voted against you or voted for your censorship, to me, it really seems like Democrats just don't know how to fight. | ||
| Looking from the other side of the aisle, like as far as Republicans, we're lockstep. | ||
| We have a plan. | ||
| But when I look over there on the left, it really seems like they have no fight. | ||
| The leadership is really confused. | ||
| Can you speak to a little bit about your confidence in the Democrats to kind of take back the House and actually execute on a plan for the American people? | ||
| Well, the Democratic Party did take what President Obama has used, used this term of shellacking, in the last election cycle. | ||
| And this is something that you recover from, but it's not something that you recover from instantly. | ||
| We're months into this, and we're still trying to sort our way through it and make decisions about how to proceed. | ||
| The obvious way to proceed is to say to people what you're going to do for them. | ||
| I think that's important. | ||
| But also, I think you have to acknowledge that some of the things that we did not do have to be discussed. | ||
| For example, we didn't pass George Floyd Justice and Policing. | ||
| We didn't pass John Lewis Voting Rights Act. | ||
| We didn't raise the minimum wage. | ||
| We didn't pass the PRO Act to protect labor's right to organize. | ||
| There are things that we didn't do. | ||
| We didn't bring in comprehensive immigration reform. | ||
| And we had the opportunity because we had the House, the Senate, and the presidency. | ||
| But we had two senators who declined to vote with us, a cinema and mansion. | ||
| And when they declined to vote with us, they prevented the vice president from breaking tie votes and passing all of these things. | ||
| So I mentioned those specifically because there's a tendency to blame minority people when we fail in these elections. | ||
| It wasn't the failure of minority people. | ||
| It was our failure to give them reason to continue to vote for us. | ||
| There was a lack of enthusiasm as a result of our not doing what we could have done if those two senators had voted with us. | ||
| The House passed the legislation and the Senate had opportunities, but the Senate couldn't do it because of two members. | ||
| So I think we're going to get there. | ||
| You have to go through this period of evaluation and being candid about what occurred. | ||
| And I'm going to be very candid about it. | ||
| We have to do more when we get the power. | ||
| The president has demonstrated to us how to use power. | ||
| It is ephemeral. | ||
| It doesn't last indefinitely. | ||
| You've got to be prepared to use it when you get it. | ||
| And I believe that when we get it again, we will use it and we will make a difference, a positive difference in the lives of the American people with health care, which is something that you brought up. | ||
| We've got to make sure that we protect Medicare and Medicaid. | ||
| We're going to protect Social Security. | ||
| We're going to make sure that there is affordable housing. | ||
| These are the things that American people need and want, and we have to be there to provide them. | ||
| Steve, a Democrat in Freeland, Maryland. | ||
| Good morning, Steve. | ||
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Good morning. | |
| Mr. Green, I hope you and the legislative branch are well rested after your five weeks of recess. | ||
| There are 365 days in a year. | ||
| And in order to do all the things that you've mentioned this morning on the TV screen, it would be better if we were in session more than 130 days a year. | ||
| Let that sink in. | ||
| If the economy was on vacation as much as the legislative branch was, we would be in dire, dire straits because there are 365 days in a year. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Let's get a response. | ||
| What do you think? | ||
| Well, here's what I know. | ||
| We went into what we call what he calls a recess. | ||
| And we did so because the speaker, as you know, was not interested in having this very legislation that we've been talking about, the discharge petition, brought before the Congress. | ||
| So we left a little early. | ||
| But I have constituents that want to see me. | ||
| I have constituents that I have to visit with. | ||
| And I was not on recess. | ||
| I worked every day of that period of time. | ||
| And much of that time I worked into the night. | ||
| I typically do an 18 to 20 hour day. | ||
| I sleep four to five hours maximum usually. | ||
| I like to get up early and catch the news early. | ||
| So this myth of members being on vacation, it's just that. | ||
| It's a myth as it relates to, I think, most members. | ||
| Now, there may be some exceptions, but I think most members are pretty hard workers in terms of being here to work, but you have to work in your congressional district too. | ||
| One more call. | ||
| Joey Woodbine, Kentucky, Republican. | ||
| Hi, Joey. | ||
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Yeah, I got a question from Mr. Algerine. | |
| Yes, sir. | ||
| I want to know why, if the Democrats start so important to relate our action power, why didn't they do it when they had control of putting nights a closer speaker? | ||
| Yeah, I asked that question, Joey. | ||
| Okay, I can't tell you why, but I can say that we should have. | ||
| And I have no problems with it having been released. | ||
| I think we should release it now. | ||
| This resolution is just very simple, seven pages. | ||
| Anybody can read it. | ||
| It's not difficult language, and I think it ought to be honored. | ||
| Can we do one more question for you? | ||
| Sure. | ||
| I'll take as many as you have. | ||
| Claude, Renton, Washington, Independent Line, go ahead. | ||
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Yes, Mr. Green. | |
| Yeah, I'm glad you brought up cinema and mentioned. | ||
| Now, it sounds like you were pointing fingers, but those two, and I'm a die-hard Democrat, but those two actually kept the Democrats a little on track because it would have been worse on the right. | ||
| And this is the problem with politics. | ||
| When you have part of the party that is dissenting that doesn't agree with your policies, then you want to ostracize these people in the Democratic Party. | ||
| And this is something that the Democrats has to stop. | ||
| The Republicans are on board, lock and bear, regardless of what you think about their policy. | ||
| But the Democrats, once you have Democrats, said, no, no, I don't agree with how we're going. | ||
| Such as charter schools. | ||
| There was a black lady, a Democrat, who opposed the charter schools, and the Democrats kicked her out of the party. | ||
| Ostracized her. | ||
| This is something that the Democrats, in order to get back into power, has to admit that you have to all come together and not fight each other and agree on something that's best for the people, not for you. | ||
| All right. | ||
| I don't know anything about the lady that he referenced. | ||
| I've not read any news reports about that. | ||
| But with reference to Mansion and Sinema, this is not to demean them. | ||
| It's to speak truth about what happened. | ||
| They were the two persons who voted against this agenda that would have benefited persons who would need to have, in my opinion, the protections that John Lewis Voting Rights Act presents, George Floyd Justice and Policing presents. | ||
| They voted against it. | ||
| And you want to see unity among Republicans, but you don't want to see the same unity among Democrats. | ||
| Well, you defeat your own argument when you say this. | ||
| My friend, we could have done much more, but for those two senators. | ||
| I have great respect for them. | ||
| I want to see good things happen in their lives, but they stood in the way of meaningful progress that the Democratic Party could have made. | ||
| That's Representative Al Green, a Democrat of Texas's 9th District. | ||
| For now, thank you so much for joining us as always. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| It's been an honor to be with you. | ||
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| And John Olyatt, former spokesman for the National Security Council and deputy assistant to President Trump on the Trump administration's approach on national security matters. | ||
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