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March 27, 2014, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 Podcast.
Yeah, right.
Greetings, my friends.
It's great to have you here.
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The all-knowing, all-caring, all-sensing, all-feeling, all-concerned Maharashi fighting the ravages of the common cold virus.
You know, it's been sneaking up on me for the past three days, and I'm convinced that nicotine is one of the greatest weapons against the common cold.
I mean, I, you know, I used to smoke cigarettes, and when I quit smoking cigarettes, I was sick all the time.
I mean, I had respiratory stuff.
I had colds and bronchitis type stuff.
And when I, I mean, literally went up for years and years.
When I started smoking cigars back in 1990, well, I don't know, three or four, I got, you know, cold every two years.
And when I get one, it's not bad at all.
This thing has just been creeping up on me.
You know, the increasing tightness in the bronchial tubes, you just know.
So you start psychologically beating it back.
So you're not going to win this to the virus.
Just to start talking to the thing.
And last night when I went to bed, I knew that there's a chance I was going to wake up with a really sore throat and a swollen throat, and just moderately so.
And hopefully this will be the worst of it.
Yep, using some Zycam, always go get that first thing that happens.
And we will see.
And just a little, you know, I turn into Big Baby if it's a full-fledged cold.
It may as well be the flu.
I just turned into Big Baby.
And unlike with most people, it doesn't get me any sympathy from anybody.
But normally, if it just stays like this, it isn't going to be bad.
Just feel a little sluggish out there.
Just a little lethargic.
And of course, the boundaries sort of expand too.
You never know.
It's sort of like showing up giddy with not a whole lot of sleep.
So I'm just warning you.
Where we're headed.
Telephone numbers 800-282-2882.
The email address, ilrushbow at EIBNet.com.
Folks, the FBI is up to something.
The FBI is raiding and arresting Democrats all over this country.
You know, it's incredible.
I mean, Democrat mayors, and in California, a Secretary of State, old buddy Leland Yee, man, is this guy in bad trouble.
This guy's in deep.
Details coming up on Leland Yee.
In fact, Sacramento, local media, my adopted hometown, they feel so sorry for Senator Lee because, A, he got caught in a massive gun-running operation.
They feel sorry for him.
He got caught in a massive gun-running operation.
He's one of the biggest anti-Amendment II people you'll find in the Democrat Party.
He's the biggest hypocrite you can find.
He's out there saying nobody can have their guns and it caused all kinds of, here he is running them.
AKs, folks, we're not talking about Saturday night specials.
This guy's into the big stuff that kills people like automatic weapons.
That's the automatic word for liberals using automatic weapons and they just have conniptions.
And so the local Sacramento media is feeling so sorry for Senator Lee because this happened to him.
He didn't do anything.
See, it happened.
And then they really feel bad because he was criticized by me yesterday.
Barack Obama.
I'm going to get to all this FBI stuff.
I'll tell you, this is fascinating to me.
What the FBI is doing.
And they've been doing this for a while.
These investigations that they've been engaged in have been going on for years.
If I didn't know better, and I don't know better, I'd have no idea.
But it just seems like, I mean, the number of years this has been going on, it's almost as though somebody, and the FBI is part of the regime, you know, Obama runs the FBI.
They're part of the justice, part of the executive branch.
But man, they're going after Democrats and they're nailing them.
It's like they've been doing this for years under the cover of darkness and everything else in a way that is perhaps saving the country.
You'll see what I'm talking about when we get to it.
Now, according to media reports, President Obama met with Pope Francis for 52 minutes in the Vatican.
Obama didn't intend to show up there.
He looked at the word quickly and thought it said vacation.
And when they were pulling up to St. Peter's, Obama said, what, whoa, whoa, whoa, what are we doing here?
Well, sir, you said you wanted to come to the Vatican.
No, no, it's a vacation.
So once they were there, they were committed.
This giant entourage shows up at the Vatican.
So Obama went in there and he met with Pope Francis for 52 minutes.
We're told that it was supposed to show how the two men are aligned on subjects like income inequality.
Meanwhile, here's Obama.
He spends 52 minutes.
Look at me.
52 minutes with Il Papa.
It makes news all over the world.
He spends 20 years in Reverend Wright's church and you can't find a story on it.
You like that, huh?
How they like that one on the other side of the glass.
I can always tell when I've scored.
But it's true, ladies and gentlemen.
He sat in Reverend Wright's church for more than 20 years, but we're supposed to believe that they had nothing in common.
And we're supposed to believe that Obama didn't even hear what Reverend Wright said.
He just went in there to sort of establish a connection with the Chicago political mafia.
And going to Reverend Wright's church is one of the many things the young Obama had to do.
Pardon the sniffles.
I'm going to sniffle as little as possible.
It's going to irritate you.
I know it irritates me when I hear people sniffle.
There's nothing I can do about it, folks.
I can't hit the cough button every time, or there wouldn't be a program.
So I apologize in advance for that.
I know it's not polite.
I know it's not professional.
I know it's uncouth, but what am I going to do?
Excuse me.
Yeah, anyway, where was I?
Oh, yes.
What is so funny?
They're laughing at my discomfort, a little bit of a disability here today.
Not at 100%, but still gaming it.
Anyway, we're supposed to believe that Obama had nothing in common with Reverend Wright, right?
In fact, Obama didn't even hear a word Reverend Wright said in those 20 years.
He didn't hear all that radical stuff.
He's not familiar with any of that.
Now, the Politico says, ladies and gentlemen, that Obama met with the Pope.
And really, this is what you talk about a reversal of fortunes, and you talk about a 180.
The Politico says that Obama met with Il Papa because Il Papa is now the biggest superstar on the international stage.
And Obama wanted to benefit from his popularity and from his cool factor.
This is in the Politico.
This is not in National Review.
This is in one of the state-run media Bibles that Obama had to go over to Il Papa and bask in the glow of the Pope and soak up the aura and the cool factor of the Pope, which the Politico says now outweighs Obama's cool factor.
I'm not, what do you, what, what, what's wrong?
Oh, no, no.
No, no, no.
Putin is not Mr. Cool.
Certain places, but Il Papa, the Pope, when he came out there for income inequality, that's why Obama's there.
Obama is trying.
I mean, it's a reversal.
It's a true reversal of fortunes.
The Pope's out there sounding like Obama a lot.
And Obama's, you know what?
I like the way that sounds.
I'm going to try to get in on it.
And he goes over there and he's trying to soak up this income inequality thing that the Pope stands for.
And the Pope's cool factor.
Pope's at 85% approval and Obama's at almost the same number, disapproval.
His disapproval number is almost 60% now.
The disapproval has never been this high.
I mean, it's Panic City inside the regime, no matter what the drive-bys tell you, it is.
But I'm not kidding.
This is how the media talked about both the papacy and the presidency, the cool factor.
Just to show you how watered down great institutions have become in our modern pop culture, Obama had to go visit the vicar of Christ to try to get some of the excess cool factor that the Pope has.
In fact, the original political headline for their article was, Obama Wants Halo Effect.
You would think that Obama would be surprised to learn that he has lost the halo effect.
I mean, every picture of him, they still try to put a halo on him.
But you have to wonder, and I do, this is what I do.
You have to wonder if Il Papa, Pope Francis, likes being used by Obama as a photo-op prop for his cool fact.
Because don't think the Pope doesn't know this.
One thing I can't find out is if, was this scheduled, was this on the itinerary, or did Obama decide to make a detour on his way out of Belgium to Rome?
I haven't read enough to know.
But you do have to wonder.
I mean, the Pope knows it, but the Pope is a big man.
He doesn't care.
I mean, whatever for the goodness of the world, if whatever he is can rub off on Obama, then fine.
He will do it.
But, you know, Obama has used Beyoncé.
He's used Jay-Z.
And now, can you understand, folks?
Try to think of it this way.
Can you understand the humiliation of Barack Obama having to meet with the leader of the Catholic Church in order to recapture some cred.
Man, you would have told anybody back in 2008 that it would have been so bad for Obama he'd have to trek off to the Vatican and meet with the Pope in order to restore his image.
Can you imagine what, what a, I mean, these people, the Catholic Church is enemy number one.
Stop and think of that too.
Obama's big donors are wealthy, leftist, gay activists who do not like this Pope and they do not like the Catholic Church.
And there is Obama trying to soak some of it up.
They'll let it slide, but I mean, this is just not something that anybody would have forecast.
But I can't help but think back to the truly historic way that President Reagan and Pope John Paul II worked together to bring down the Soviet Union.
When Reagan met with the Pope, it was about world affairs and improving the lot of life for millions of citizens.
When Obama meets with the Pope, as always, it's about Obama.
It's about reviving and restoring Obama.
When Reagan met with the Pope, it was about liberating millions of people from the bonds of communism.
But Obama, according to the drive-by media, is simply seeking a boost in his cool factor.
The difference is stunning to me.
Quick time out, ladies and gentlemen.
And oh, no, no.
One soundbite before we go.
Just to show you, you may not think that it's as bad for Obama out there as I'm making it out to be.
Tuesday morning in The Hague in the Netherlands, Obama held a joint press conference with the Netherlands Prime Minister Mark Rutte.
And at the very end of the presser, Obama ends it by saying this.
Now, you'll hear the MC, but the point is one person.
We did not doctor this.
This is the point I have to tell you.
We did not touch this.
There is no verbal audio equivalent of anything being photoshopped here.
This happened exactly as you will hear it.
And I'm rolling the dice that it is what I think it is because I haven't heard it yet.
So it better be.
Here we go.
I'm also confident that the core values that America has always believed in, in terms of privacy, rule of law, individual rights, that has guided the United States for many years and will continue to guide us into the future.
Thank you very much, everybody.
Thank you again.
Okay, ladies and gentlemen, that was the last question.
Thank you very much for coming.
That's it.
One person applauded.
So I didn't tell you what to look for.
I just told you we didn't doctor it.
One person.
Remember when Obama went to Rome in 2008 with the God effect and the big sound system?
Citizens of Rome.
I'm here to save the world.
Now, what do you have?
500,000 people show up as a beer garden night, and 500,000 people show up.
Now compare it.
Here he is over here trying to bleed off some cool factor from the Pope.
Play this again, Friday.
This is the president.
This is Tuesday morning, a couple of days ago, wrapping things up at The Hague, standing next to the Netherlands Prime Minister, Mark Ruta.
I'm also confident that the core values that America has always believed in, in terms of privacy, rule of law, individual rights, that has guided the United States for many years and will continue to guide us into the future.
Thank you very much, everybody.
Thank you again.
Okay, ladies and gentlemen, that was the last question.
Thank you very much for coming.
That's not even a golf course clap, folks.
That's just well, that's just different.
You know what I just saw on Fox?
And I'm wondering, how did we miss this?
I just saw an advertising for portable catheter on fire.
How did we miss that client, Snerdley?
Portable catheters, right up our alley, don't you think?
No, I was not on the thing.
Thank God they haven't called us.
After the president met with Pope Francis Il Papa, he then went over to the Via Modama, the headquarters of the Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi.
They had a joint press conference that was interrupted.
The cable nets actually cut away from this.
For news about Governor Christie, I kid you not.
Here is what we got of Obama's joint presser.
Not all of it, but some of it with the Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi.
My day started with the great honor of meeting His Holiness Pope Francis.
I've been incredibly moved by his compassion, his message of inclusion.
I was grateful to have the opportunity to speak with him about the responsibilities that we all share to care for the least of these, the poor, the excluded.
And the excluded?
Yeah, I was extremely moved by his insights about the importance of us all having a moral perspective on world problems and not simply thinking in terms of our own narrow self-interests.
Come on, is anybody buying?
He doesn't believe that.
It's all about him.
Anyway, the excluded.
Obama was moved.
By the way, you know, I think that one person applauding in that previous sign was probably the White House pool reporter.
I think I figured a White House pool reporter is who applied.
But they cut away from this.
They cut away from this to go to the office of the firm of Gibson, Dunn, and Crutcher.
Attorney Randy Mestro, lawyer hired by Governor Christie, to review Bridgegate.
They held a press conference to discuss their findings.
In connection with allegations related to the George Washington Bridge realignment, we found that Governor Christie had no knowledge beforehand of this George Washington Bridge realignment idea and that he played no role whatsoever in that decision or the implementation of it.
We further found no evidence that anyone in the governor's office, besides Bridget Kelly, who's gone, knew of this idea in advance, played any role in the decision or the implementation of it.
Okay, so the firm that Governor Christie hired to investigate himself has been cleared.
Well, the firm cleared him of any wrongdoing.
It's great news for the Democrats, great news, the Democrats.
But they cut away from the Obama press.
Yes, you heard me right.
You heard me right.
Yes.
Righto, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have Rush Limbaugh serving humanity simply by being here.
From the Los Angeles Times, federal prosecutors unsealed an indictment against state senator, California State Senator Leland Ye in court yesterday, accusing him of conspiring to commit wire fraud and traffic in firearms.
Military-grade weapons, Senator Ye, allegedly trafficking.
Senator Leland Ye was among the most vocal, anti-Second Amendment Democrats in the country.
This guy wanted to eliminate it.
He didn't want you to have any gun.
And here he is indicted for trafficking in military-grade weapons.
In all, 26 people, including the former screw board president Keith Jackson, were indicted on charges related to extensive crime ring headed by well-known Chinatown figure Raymond Chow.
Oh, yeah, he's also known as the shrimp boy.
Raymond Chow, the shrimp boy, he was also arrested and charged.
Now, Raymond Chow, the shrimp boy, is head of the Wohop 2 gang.
It's a well-known criminal gang, California, Shrimp Boy.
Raymond Chow heads it up.
The indictment alleges that Leland Yee and the screw board president Keith Jackson defrauded citizens of honest services and were involved in a scheme to traffic firearms in exchange for thousands of dollars in campaign donations to the senator, Senator Yee.
Federal prosecutors also allege that Senator Leland Yee agreed to perform official acts in exchange for the money, including one instance in which he introduced a businessman to state legislators who had significant influence over pending medical marijuana legislation.
In exchange, the businessman, who was actually an undercover FBI agent, agreed to donate thousands of dollars to Leland Yee's campaign fund, according to the indictment.
The indictment also describes an August of 2013 exchange in which Keith Jackson, the screw board president, told an undercover officer that California state senator Democrat Leland Yee had an arms trafficking contact.
Keith Jackson allegedly said that Democrat Senator Leland Yee could facilitate a meeting for a donation.
Now, Raymond Chow, also known as the Shrimp Boy, who has been connected over the years to the criminal gang, the Wohop 2 gang, was indicted for money laundering, conspiracy to receive and transport stolen property, and conspiracy to traffic contraband cigarettes.
I mean, these guys were into all of it.
Democrats.
Democrats.
Looking out for the little guy.
Democrats trafficking in military-grade weapons for campaign contributions.
Trafficking in black market cigarettes.
Trafficking in the evil weed.
Well, not so evil in California.
And all the while, Senator Leland Yee is demanding that there be a boycott against me for attempting to translate the Chinese that Chikom premiere at a press conference with Obama.
And he's again, as I said it stated, he is just virulently anti-the Second Amendment.
There is, I mean, if he could, he'd get everybody to have to give up their guns.
And, yeah, it's hypocrisy, but it's worse than that, folks.
This is just trafficking in military-grade weapons and black market cigarettes with a well-known gang, the Wohop 2 gang, Shrimp Boy, Raymond Chow, all for campaign contributions and facilitating meetings between other gang members he knows and with other elected officials.
The indictment was unsealed in federal court downtown San Francisco after the Phoes and other law enforcement officials carried out multiple raids early yesterday.
The FBI agents also searched the Sacramento office of Democrat California Senator Leland Ye.
The San Francisco police chief Greg Seward described the raids as massive, hundreds of officers involved in this.
Press secretary to Democrat Senator Leland Yee, Dan Lieberman, said yesterday that his office would not comment on the FBI raids.
Representatives of the U.S. Attorney's Office also wouldn't comment.
Let's go.
The audio soundbites.
And to my adopted hometown in Sacramento, where all of this that you hear today literally actually began back in October of 1984.
This is WTXL-TV Fox 40, Eyeball News.
We have a portion here of the correspondent son Ciray Tunsell reporting about the arrest of California state senator Leland Yee on corruption charges.
Allegations that since March of 2011, Yee has been running with the Chinese organized crime group, the Chief Hong Tong, and its leader known as Shrimp Boy, taking cash to pay down $70,000 worth of old campaign debt for a failed run from mayor in San Francisco.
Another alleged transaction mentions promise of contracts for a client of an undercover FBI agent, Yi, now the third Democrat indicted in the last few months for public corruption and misuse of office, making it tough on his party's agenda.
It's not going to be tough on his party.
Is it going to matter?
They're Democrats out there, and he's going to end up not having anything happen to him.
His buddies are the judges.
His buddies are going to be on any jury if there is one.
And besides, the Republicans don't even have a presence in California.
They're going to be, I mean, it's embarrassing for California state senator, Democrat Leland Yee.
Yeah, but I mean, this doesn't, these guys don't get.
Hell, this guy was doing great work.
He's trying to legalize marijuana.
He's trying to get guns out of everybody.
The hell with him.
Okay, so he's trying to earn a little money to do his good works by trafficking AKs.
Big whoop.
Easy to look the other way.
Now, the next bite, it's even worse for Democrat Senator Leland Ye.
The next report from the correspondent son Ciray Tunseil mentions me.
He's also taking his knots from an old adversary, Rush Limbaugh.
Ye attacked him back in 2011 for mocking the Chinese premier, and today, Rush on the attack.
They sit up there all majestically in their royalty, and they try to eliminate their opposition all the while their hands are in the till and they're engaging in corruption I couldn't even dream of.
And of course, that makes me the bad guy saying that.
See, poor Leland, poor Senator Yi.
First, he gets indicted.
Oh, such a nice guy.
And then it got even worse.
Can you imagine?
Here he is indicted on weapons trafficking charges and illegal campaign contributions and running bogus cigarettes and hanging around with these gang and shrimp boy.
And even worse than that is having me talk about him on the radio.
I am living rent-free in their heads.
Can you believe that?
Even worse than being indicted is the fact that I was on the attack.
I wasn't on the attack.
I never go on the attack.
I get up here and I look at things being attacked that I believe in, people being attacked that I believe in, and I defend them.
I defend the institutions, the ideas, and the people that I believe in.
Anyway, this is the tip of the iceberg.
Big city mayors are going down.
Democrat mayors being investigated left and right by the FBI.
Do you know, folks, to show you how bad it is, the FBI has also, we're going to get to the details of that in a second here.
The FBI has dumped the Southern Poverty Law Center as a hate crimes resource.
Now, the Southern Poverty Law Center is run by this genuine loco weed by the name of Mark Potok.
And this guy exists for one reason, and that is to make false allegations about racism and sexism and bigotry and homophobia and hate crimes against standard, ordinary, run-of-the-mill conservatives, whenever they open their mouths.
And he's accredited the drive-bys whenever Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center says anything, he's gospel.
And the FBI has dropped Potok.
And the Southern Poverty Law Center is a hate crimes resource.
This is a big thing, too.
Hate crimes are nothing to sneeze at if you are accused of one.
You know, a hate crime is when you have some sort of emotion attached to whatever other crime that you did.
Like if you squash an ant, but you really didn't like, you were mad when you did it.
They accuse you of a hate crime and double your punishment.
And it's a judgmental thing.
And that's the kind of thing that the Southern Poverty Law Center did was run around and attach hate to standard, ordinary, everyday conservatism.
And the FBI tracked down whoever the Southern Poverty Law Center targeted.
And it was a big, to have these guys thrown overboard as sources on this is huge.
I think this FBI activity against these Democrat mayors is in and of itself huge.
And it's, of course, not being talked about much in the drive-by media.
But because this is really, it's profoundly damaging and very embarrassing.
By the way, let me just to read to you, if I just found something here, it's placed in front of me from the actual indictment of Democrat state senator Leland Yee.
Quote, Senator Ye said, do I think we can make some money?
I think we can make some money.
Do I think we can get the good?
Yes, I think we can get the goods.
According to Senator Yee, the arms dealer source, the weapons from Russia.
So the weapons that Senator Yi was trafficking in came from Putin.
Well, they came from Russia.
And now a brief time out, my friends.
Sit tight.
Much more straight ahead and we get back.
Don't go anywhere.
Let me read you just a couple of more things from the indictment of California state senator Leland Yee.
And no, I'm not picking.
How come the world will be picking on Senator Lee?
He's been indicted.
See, that's the way people.
In fact, can I offer some other observation?
How about this?
Isn't this the kind of thing Democrats accuse the Tea Party of doing and being this?
This is the kind of person the Democrats say are members of the Tea Party.
Yeah, nuts.
Pro-lifers running around.
Can't wait to fire off their guns, trafficking in these big military weapons.
They all think they're G.I. Joe.
And look who it always ends up being.
These wackos that start pulling the trigger and mowing people down and trafficking all end up being Democrats.
Now, from the indictment, Senator Yi asked the undercover agent to provide an inventory list of desired weapons.
The agent told Yi he would deliver $2 million in cash.
So Leland Yee had $2 million.
He's going to go get $2 million worth of guns.
The agent asked about shoulder-fired automatic weapons.
Senator Leland Yi, Democrat California, responded by saying the automatic weapons are the equivalent to the M16 automatic service weapon.
Automatic, not semi-automatic.
Democrat California Senator Leland Yee, that's YEE, trafficking in M16s.
The agent then asked about the availability of shoulder-fired missiles or rockets.
Senator Yi responded, I told him about the rockets and things like that.
This is an undercover agent.
So Senator Yi is making it sound like you get these M16s, shoulder-fired rockets.
Senator Yi said, do I think we can make some money?
Yep, I think we can make some money.
Do I think we can get the goods?
Yep, I think we can get the goods.
According to Senator Yi, the arms dealer sourced the weapons from Russia.
And further from the indictment, Senator Yi asked the undercover agent to provide an inventory list of desired weapons.
And oh, this is a repeat.
But it was M16s and it was $2 million in cash.
And these quotes from the indictment, they're just from the gun running section.
There's a whole bunch of different other sections, the bogus cigarettes, the gang activity, any number of other illegal activities going on.
It really is a devastating indictment.
Of course, to people like Senator Leland Yee, I'm the bad guy.
And all conservatives, T-Part, we're the bad guys.
And look at this.
Running guns, M16s, campaign contributions.
He's the Secretary of State.
Well, he's running.
He's a senator.
He's running for Secretary of State.
Let me grab a call.
Warmester, Pennsylvania, this is Chris.
And I'm glad you called, sir.
It's great to have you on the program.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Great program.
Love your show.
Thank you very much, sir.
Okay, so listening to all of this, you always say that liberals are never actually doing what they say they're trying to do, like they're trying to ban guns.
That's never, ever the issue.
You have to wonder if they try to ban guns to increase the demand so that when they actually sell the guns on the black market, they can make more money for their campaign contributions.
Well, in this case, you know, I see what your point is, but I don't think that the anti-gun attitude or mentality of the Democrats is phony.
I think that, in fact, I think they think it's the biggest mistake in the Constitution.
The whole thing is a mistake.
But number two, amendment number two, that and the free speech clause in number one, those are the ones that have to go.
You disarm the citizens, and you don't have to fear them at all.
You don't have to worry about anything.
They're dead serious about it.
No, in this case, I think that's just a guy trying to get rich, peddling his influence, pretending to be a big-time power broker.
You'd be amazed, folks, at the number of people in certain elements of the American pop culture who look at gangs and look upon gang and gang membership enviously.
You'd be amazed at the number of people that want to be in gangs because it's cool and it's powerful and it's exciting.
And I think, you know, what does Senator Leland Ye, Democrat California, earned?
Probably not much.
Here's a chance to make a big score.
I don't think he's thinking beyond that, limiting demand, raising prices.
But I'll tell you, this indictment that includes him is 137 pages.
That's a lot of criminal allegations.
Now, sometimes they overcharge, throw a bunch of stuff in there in an effort to get a plea so as not to go to court.
And yeah, you know, of course we need campaign finance reform.
And see, if we didn't, if the Second Amendment didn't wait, poor Senator Lee wouldn't have even been in trouble.
If we'd have gotten rid of guns long ago, he wouldn't have had any traffic or sells either.
Now, it is true if guns are outlawed, then only outlaws and bad guys will have guns and the price would go up.
And Leland Yee could charge a higher price.
So I just think he's in for a big score.
But we'll find out.
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