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Nov. 19, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 19, 2014, Wednesday, Hour #2
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Greetings, my friends.
Welcome back.
It's great to have you here.
Rush Limbaugh having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have, doing what I was born to do.
And that is not preside over the end of America.
That's not what I was born to do.
And so that's not what's going to happen here.
It's great to have you.
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Okay, so it looks like it's official.
Uh CNN, they think they have breaking news that there's going to be a prime time presidential address tomorrow night.
Wherein the president will announce his immigration amnesty executive action.
Now this is how the mainstream media found out about the timing of Obama's announcement.
This is from the Washington Post.
We hear there'll be a primetime Thursday evening announcement to preview and a full unveiling in Vegas on Friday.
Immigration advocate Dawn Lee told other activists in an email which was later inadvertently sent to a group of reporters this morning.
These are the activists that Obama called on Tuesday with a heads up.
So he did and did you know he did that?
You didn't know he did.
Oh, I I'm remiss.
Obama called immigration activists yesterday.
He called them on the phone.
I I I think there was a uh I think it was just a phone call.
It might have been a meeting, but he called all the gang from La Raza and all these other community organizer type groups that are obviously in favor of this.
He called to give them a heads up.
He called to tell them it was coming and when and how.
And the media learned of it because one of those people inadvertently sent an email that reporters saw.
The White House has still not announced this.
The White House is only told they're activist buddies.
Again, from the Washington Post.
We hear that there will be a primetime Thursday evening announcement to preview and a full unveiling in Vegas on Friday.
Immigration advocate Don Lee told other activists in an email.
And that email was later inadvertently sent to a group of reporters this morning.
So it was no meeting.
Obama just called him.
He called his his his activist buddies and told them.
Oh, here's what I'm gonna do.
Uh time to party.
It's time.
This is what I'm gonna do.
And he told them.
And one of them in sheer joy sends an email around.
And it was inadvertently sent to some reporters.
Obama apparently still hasn't officially told the press.
The Washington Post heard about it, CNN heard about it, and now they're running with it.
It's just a little sideline.
Interesting story.
NBC News, breaking news.
They just announced a poll.
Forty-eight percent oppose the president's executive action on immigration.
38% support it.
NBC, Wall Street Journal, Barack Obama House organ polling unit.
Forty-eight percent opposed, 38% support exec.
None of this matters in terms of stopping Obama or stopping the process.
None of it matters because everything Obama has done when you get down to it is against the will of the people.
It hasn't been popular support for anything that he's done.
Yes.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Aha.
One of our broadcast engineers here, ladies and gentlemen, is a uh co-owner of some uh Spanish language radio stations.
And the staffer here has just informed me that Spanish language radio stations have received.
What was it?
A note from the White House.
Mm-hmm.
Thursday.
Right, but it doesn't say how they were told about this.
Okay.
Okay.
Right.
Okay.
Anyway, so the Spanish language radio stations are preparing for a special one-hour broadcast around Obama's announcement.
And if they're doing that, it means they've been told.
So Obama is getting the word out to Spanish language media and to his immigration activist buddies.
And he is is the only thing interesting about this is that he is he's going over the heads of the drive-by media.
He's not letting F. Chuck Todd know about it.
He's not letting anybody at the New York Times know about it, or CNN or the Washington Post.
He's telling his buddies.
He's telling his activist buddies and probably some donors in there, as uh as well.
They're the first to find out what the president's plans are.
Now again, NBC 4838 oppose what the president's gonna do.
Now this question.
What are the Republicans going to do now, folks?
And here is why I ask.
They wanted in on this.
This is something fundamental to remember.
All this past year, and this uh, well, let's just strict with the past year, but it was obviously longer than that.
We have been hearing that from Republicans.
They bought it.
They believed that if they were to ever have a chance to win in the White House again, they had to build bridges with the Hispanic population because Hispanics hated them.
Hispanics love Democrats, they're gonna vote Democrat, Hispanics love Obama, Hispanics hate the Republicans, and the Republicans are gonna have to get back in good graces, and the only way to do that is be in favor of amnesty, right?
Bush is out there saying this.
Any number of Republican leadership elected officials and party officials are running around saying this.
That we don't have a prayer, we have got to stand for amnesty.
We have got to be involved in comprehensive immigration reform.
It was the only way they were ever going to win.
We had Chuck Schumer and Democrats warning the Republicans if you don't get on board this, you're gonna be left behind, and you're never ever gonna win the White House again.
You're never ever gonna win a meaningful election if you don't join us in this executive amnesty thing that the president's gonna do.
If you don't join us in amnesty.
And now Obama's going to do this, and there aren't any Republicans that are going to be sitting next to him basking in the glow.
They wanted in on this, and Obama is now freezing them out.
The Chamber of Commerce is going to be conflicted on this.
On the one hand, they like what Obama's doing, but on the other hand, they wanted some Republicans to get credit for it.
Because it's all about the donor base, and the donor base of the Republican Party is made up of people who want comprehensive immigration reform.
Now there are another faction, however, in the Republican Party, both in the House and the Senate, which is totally opposed to this.
What will they do after this happens?
What efforts will they undertake to prevent its implementation?
And that takes us back to the power of the purse.
And there we are left to wonder, because right now, folks, being quite honest, we don't know what the Republican Party's gonna do on this.
We know for sure that the Republican Party's taking uh taking impeachment off the table.
And it's probably likely that the Republicans are not going to use the power of the purse.
I think it's it's sad reality, but I think it's something we have to admit.
The Republican leadership simply doesn't want to engage in that manner.
The Republican, there's no doubt it's coming tomorrow night.
I don't need a note telling me it's happening tomorrow night.
NB MSNBC just ran it.
Everybody knows it.
All Obama had to do was tell his buddies that it's happening tomorrow night.
That means it's happening tomorrow night.
The media are the last to know.
The question now is there's been all this talk prior to the election, a little bit after the election, the Republicans had a plan.
Maybe defund this, maybe uh not permit some of it to be funded, paid for, power to purse.
But it is clear the Republican leadership doesn't want to engage in that way.
Impeachment's off the table, and if you listen to the Republican leadership, you just don't hear a lot of energy devoted to the idea of not granting Obama or not allowing Obama the money necessary to implement this.
There's another development here that will cast further light on this.
Jeff Sessions is the chairman of the budget committee in the Senate.
Jeff Sessions is also the most eloquent, consistent, outspoken critic of illegal immigration amnesty.
He is writing op-eds, he is delivering effective speeches from the floor of the House of Representatives from the floor of the Senate.
He's just all over.
He has been tireless in his characterization of the danger that this portends to the country, to the future.
Jeff Sessions is actually been in the Senate in a way a lone voice.
There have been others, of course, uh uh Ted Cruz comes to mind and Mike Lee.
Well, the other bit of news today is that this Republican leadership in the Senate wants to kick Sessions off the budget committee and take the chairmanship away from him and give it to Mike Enzey of Wyoming.
And if that happens, that pretty much tells us everything we need to know about what's going to happen with the Republicans in the Senate.
If the most effective, the most tireless, the most committed, the most eloquent anti-amnesty spokesman in the Senate is to be removed from his budget committee chairmanship.
That is where the power of the purse would be used.
And it would obviously be assumed that Sessions would be in favor of denying the administration the money necessary to implement this amnesty.
So the story is out there that they want to get rid of Sessions and remove him from the Budget Committee chairmanship and put Mike Enzi in there.
Mike Enzi is a nice guy, but he's not a battler.
Um...
So if the leadership wants to get Sessions out of the way, and again, it's just a news story.
I'll get the source for you here as soon as I take the break.
That alone tells you where the Republican leadership mindset is on this.
They want to take out the one primary voice of opposition to this and remove him from his position as chairman of the budget committee.
That pretty much tells us that there isn't going to be any opposition to Obama.
So no immigr uh uh uh impeachment and probably limited use of spending denial.
Power to purse.
Let me take a quick timeout.
We'll be back and continue after this.
Here is Dana Bash at CNN mere moments ago, breathless, excited, can barely contain herself as she announces confirmation that Obama is going to announce amnesty on Thursday night.
You hear from White House officials and other Democrats who I talk to, and I say, look, you know, you know what you're doing here, right?
By signing this executive order, you are, as Mitch McConnell said from day one, uh waving a red flag in front of a bull, not so much because of the Republican leaders, but because they have to deal with the Republican rank and file conservatives who are in the House, especially from very conservative districts who are very worried about primary challenges, and they are going to be saying to their Republican leaders, really?
You want me to work with this president on anything?
Never mind immigration on anything after what he just did, and I already have a constituency that doesn't trust him.
So that is the context in which this is happening.
What they're excited about here, they're excited about the fact that this is going to make conservatives mad.
That is what the people in the media and and many on the Democrat side, the Democrat Party, the left.
That's really what gives them their jollies.
As much as advancing their own agenda, they just love ticking me, ticking you off and us off.
They just love it.
They get the biggest thrill.
That's one of the reasons why Bill Clinton's so popular, because it was seen, he was seen as somebody who routinely made fools out of Republicans.
And they love that.
And Dana Bash all excited here, too, because why, look at what Obama's doing.
He's raising that flag in front of the bull, it's just gonna make these conservatives so mad.
What they are forgetting here, it's not just conservatives who are going to be upset with this.
Forty-eight percent of the country, uh, at least people polled in an NBC poll, express opposition to this.
Wolf Blitzer, a little concerned about some.
Now, this is last night, but I want to get back to it.
He is talking to the White House domestic policy council director, Cecilia Munoz.
And he reminds her that Obama at one point said he wasn't an emperor, and he couldn't do things like this.
So why is he all of a sudden going to do it now when he couldn't do it then?
So he was in the process of giving the House of Representatives an opportunity to act.
He gave him 16 months, in fact, since the Senate passed a strong bipartisan bill with all kinds of support around the country.
He's made it very, very clear he's gonna do what he can to fix something that's broken.
Uh he's gonna do it within his constraints under the law.
But he gave the Congress, the House of Representatives in particular, sixteen months after a strong bipartisan bill passed the Senate.
Uh, and it's time for him to get on with doing what's right for the American people here.
Right, right.
We got to get on with doing what's right for the American people.
It doesn't matter he can't do it.
Wolf, it doesn't matter.
It's too important, he's got to do it.
The Republicans won't help.
He's on his own.
He's got to do this, he's got to do this to the American people.
The American people need this done.
We need to do this for the American people.
It's the only wonderful beautiful thing to do.
We can't do it.
If we have to wait for the Republicans, we're gonna do it, we're gonna do it.
And Wolf, wait a minute.
He just said just a year ago that he's not an emperor.
A year ago, he said he didn't have the power to do this.
So she gave her answer, and he wasn't finished.
I mean, he's all for Obama doing it, don't misunderstand.
But he did pretend to be a journalist last year.
He himself repeatedly said over the past several years that he didn't have the authority to do it.
He's not the emperor of the United States, he's the president of the United States, but now he he believes he does have the authority.
So he's asked his team, the Secretary of DHS and the Department of Justice, to outline specifically what he has the legal authority to do.
What he was responding to, Wolf, was questions from folks in the community who wanted him to stop enforcing the law altogether.
That is beyond what he has the authority to do.
But he does have the authority to act, and he's gonna use that authority before the end of the year.
What he was responding to, Wolf, was questions from folks in the community who wanted him to stop enforcing it all together.
That's beyond what he has the authority to do.
So this is how they're massaging things.
They're just making it up as they go.
And they don't care.
They don't care about public opinion.
As look, folks, bottom line, if nobody's gonna stop you, why should you stop yourself?
You have a political agenda, you want to remake America, you want to transform it, and the opposition says they're not gonna stop you, why should you stop?
And the Republicans have signaled they're not gonna stop him.
You know why?
Because the Republicans think the public would hate them.
The Republicans think the media would be mean to them, the media would be critical, would call them racists and whatever else.
And the the Republicans think that they were sent there to be cooperative and to work with Obama, and so they can't stop him.
That that they would be hated.
So if you're Obama and you're watching this, and you don't care about public opinion anyway, there's nothing to stop you.
You don't even need to justify it.
Just do it.
Here's here's Bob in Laramie, Wyoming, as we uh grab a phone call.
First time today.
Great to have you, Bob.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
Thanks for taking my call.
First time caller.
Um, this amnesty thing, doesn't it look like this is his test run to see what he can do with the Republicans for the next two years, get them on the ropes, and then just keep them there.
Well, uh uh maybe, but I think he already knows that.
Well, but they they've caved so far, so uh trying to there's he's doing this for a multitude of reasons.
The the main reason he's doing this has nothing to do with the Republicans.
And he's not doing this to test them.
He's doing this to transform America.
He is doing this to change this country.
He's doing this to punish this country.
He is doing this because he believes this country has acted unjustly and immorally for 200 years.
Of secondary concern to Barack Obama is what the Republicans do.
Of tertiary concern to Barack Obama is what the American people think.
He doesn't care.
And the Republicans are already on the ropes, and they put themselves there.
He didn't have to do anything.
Well, no, we're not going to impeach.
No, that would be oh no, no, no.
Way, no, that no, we're not gonna shut down the government.
No, no.
No, we're we're no, we're not gonna defund it.
No, no.
If you're Obama, you don't have any roadblocks.
You got no, you don't even have a stop sign in your way.
Jeff Sessions Stories Conservative Review.com with uh with Democrats control the White House for another couple of years.
There are few tangible benefits for Republicans controlling a Senate.
Undoubtedly the most consequential advantage of Senate control is that Republicans will fully run the budget process.
Unless, of course, they punt it next month.
And they can punt it by agreeing with the uh I just by agreeing with Democrats who have just been voted out to do a full-year budget next month.
That would mean they're just eliminating one of the two years they have to impact the federal budget.
But that's a side issue for now.
The most consequential advantage of Senate control is that Republicans will fully run the budget process, the ultimate check on executive authority that is more important now than ever, with a president who has a wanton disregard for the law.
As such, the chairman of the Senate budget committee will play a pivotal role in holding this regime accountable.
Nobody is more qualified to serve in that role than the current ranking member Jeff Session.
Now, he's not the chairman now.
He's the ranking Republican on the budget committee.
And it would be natural to assume that he's the ranking Republican, he would become the chairman next January when the Republicans take over.
However, there are these convoluted seniority rules.
And it might result in Sessions not being the chairman, but rather Mike Enzi.
Now, as the ranking member, the minority member on the budget committee the past few years, Senator Jeff Sessions has effectively used budget point of orders to tacally block big spending bills.
He has fought terrible budget deals proposed by both Republicans and Democrats, and he has served as a one-man think tank and stalwart against amnesty and in defense of the nation's borders, sovereignty workers and taxpayers.
Indeed, in an era when the budget process will be the last recourse against Obama's lawlessness.
There's nobody more qualified to serve as budget chair than Jeff Sessions.
But this thought process all assumes that other Republicans value the leadership qualities that Sessions has exhibited.
According to Congressional Quarterly Mike Enze is planning to challenge Sessions for the chairmanship.
Even though NZ has not served as ranking minority member on the budget committee or led publicly on any budgetary issue, his seniority would bump Sessions from the position if he seeks it.
And it's yet another example of why the seniority system is a poor method for determining leaders.
So Enzy wants it.
Looks like it's his if he wants it because of seniority.
But my point here is that why does Enzi want it?
Yeah, I think you've got to go behind closed doors to the leadership.
Look, here's simple way to look at this.
If the leadership wanted Sessions to have that chairmanship, he would have it.
This is the only reason they wanted to win the damn election is they wanted their precious Senate committee chairmanships.
Because it puts them in charge of the money for whatever number of years they're there.
This is what they all wanted.
And not wanting Jeff Sessions there is to me, somebody's gonna have to correct me if I'm wrong, but if the Republican leadership, if this is right, and if the Republican leadership doesn't want Sessions running the budget committee, it means they don't want anybody fighting Obama.
Pure and simple.
At least for the leadership.
Now, one other thing here before we before we move on, and this is about immigration.
You remember last week we had some some laughs and some yucks because Biden, Biden was down in Central America, somehow, El Salvador or somewhere.
And everybody thought that he committed a huge gaffe.
He didn't, but they thought he did.
He's making a speech in public with a bunch of Central American leaders, and he basically promises parents and kids that we're gonna make the trip to America safer for you from now.
No more 45 days on a train.
We're gonna fly you to America.
And everybody said, What the hell is that?
What an idiot my guy, he's letting the cat out of the bag.
Joe Biden once again blowing it.
No, he didn't.
He was just a week ahead of the official announcement, which I have here in my formerly Nicotina Spain.
Right here it is, uh ladies and gentlemen, from the United States Department of State and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
I read verbatim.
The United States is establishing an in-country refugee parole program in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, to provide a safe, legal, and orderly alternative to the dangerous journey that some children are currently undertaking to the United States.
This program will allow certain parents who are lawfully present in the United States to request access to the U.S. refugee admissions program for their children who are still in Il Salvador, Guatemala, or Honduras.
So the State Department in a press relief is announced, a press release has announced what Biden said last week.
And by the way, it's going to work both ways.
If the children who came here all this past year, if their parents can be found and identified, they too will be flown north and reunited in the United States, which explains what this whole minor migration was all about.
It explains what it was all about.
You get the kids here.
We can't, we can't be responsible for breaking up families.
So the children are here, and if we can find their parents, we'll bring them.
And now we know why the parents let them go.
Now we know why we're all this past year.
What kind of parent would let their eight-year-old get on a train with a whole bunch of other what kind of characters you know I'm going to find it?
Hoboes, rapists, muggers, personages, whatever.
Why would you let your eight-year-old go to trade for 45 days to the United States?
Even if the economy in your own country is in bad shape.
Who what parent would do that?
And the answer, a parent who will use the child getting to America as the ticket for them to get there to join the child.
So what Obama's going to announce Thursday.
Folk, it's a tip of the iceberg.
We're going to grant amnesty, i.e., we're not going to deport whatever five million.
We're not deporting anybody anyway, not in great numbers.
In addition to that, we're not going to shut down the border.
We're not going to make one more move on border security whatsoever.
We're going to start flying people from Central America up here.
And these are three countries, remember, that are not Mexico.
There's a quirk in the immigration law, which says that children arriving in the United States from countries other than Mexico cannot be sent back.
And all of a sudden we've got tens, maybe hundreds of thousands of them storming the border, and everybody scratching their heads, so why?
What's causing this?
It's all been a plan.
And I take you back to Sheila Jackson Lee.
We played her soundbite earlier in which she from the floor of the House said, we can't oppose this.
Well, we're we're generous.
We can't be selfish.
And again, I know to translate this for you.
Sheila Jackson Lee was simply verbalizing what many liberals, and these would be your rank and file pajama boy liberals.
Uh your rank and file college student liberals, uh, rank and file unemployed liberals.
I'm not, I'm not talking about elected liberal leaders.
They are diabolical.
I'm talking about their dupes.
They really do believe it's just not fair that one country on the planet has so much.
Because there's nothing special about us.
In fact, not only is there nothing special about us, we're oppressors.
And we've got a slave history in our own country, and we are racist and we're bigots, and we've been mean to all kinds of minorities ever since this country was found.
We don't deserve all of this prosperity.
And furthermore, we only have the prosperity because we have looted and stolen from countries all over the world.
And so this is just payback.
This is just what we owe the people of the world.
And so we can't be selfish.
They want to come here.
Who are we to say they can't come?
We're here.
Why can't they come here?
And that is what that's the kind of thing a college professor or a high school teacher will teach their kids.
They'll guilt trip them, and they'll use a moral equivalence, and they'll basically, this is why they strip away the whole concept of American exceptionalism.
It's why the multicultural curriculum is what it is.
Ah, the Western Europeans, they actually brought strife and they brought racism and bigotry.
Look at what they did to the people when they came here.
They didn't discover anything.
They came here and conquered.
They imprisoned people in their own country to the Indians.
It just never ends.
United States is nothing but a giant country of guilty oppressors.
And we have to make amends for that.
And so, if somebody wants to come here and even get on our welfare state, well, well, by God, we owed them.
And this is how you get the support of young people and others who become obsessed with the whole fairness thing.
It's epitomized there, verbalized by no less in intellect than Sheila Jackson Lee on the floor of the House.
By the way, the program that I just announced, well, I didn't announce it.
The program that I just informed you, the State Department announced, where the children and the parents, Central America flown here.
That starts next month.
That starts in December.
That's not even underway yet.
These are free flights they're gonna put these people on.
The flights are for the children of people who are lawfully present in the U.S. Tomorrow, Obama is gonna make a few million more people lawfully present in the U.S., which means all of their kids are going to be Flown up to the U.S. for free.
The program that the State Department announces or has announced says that the flights bringing them here are for the children of people who are lawfully present in the U.S. You hear about the illegals, they come here and they work, but they send money back home to the fam.
Not going to have to send the money home anymore.
They're going to be able to bring the family here, and the U.S. State Department is going to pay for the airline flights to make it happen.
President Obama has cut his own promo for his speech tomorrow night.
President Obama has cut his own Facebook promo.
I I don't I don't know that I've ever seen this before.
Here is the audio.
It runs 24 seconds.
Hi, everybody.
Tomorrow night, I'm going to be announcing here from the White House some steps that I can take to start fixing our broken immigration system.
And then on Friday, I'm going to be traveling to Del Sol High School in Las Vegas, where two years ago I laid out the principles for comprehensive immigration reform.
So tune in tomorrow night at 8 o'clock here from the White House.
The president is promoting his own appearance on his own Facebook page.
I've never I've never seen this.
I've never seen this happen.
And parsing the words in a fix to start fixing our broken immigration.
You know what's broken about the immigration system is that we're not enforcing it.
There's nothing broken about the law.
The law is perfectly fine.
We're just not enforcing it.
And that is being used as an excuse for the president to say I can't I I I patiently waited six years for the Republicans to join me, but they don't care about Hispanic people.
So I have to do this on my own.
Watch me do it tomorrow night at eight, right here on the White House channel on your favorite streaming device.
A lot of people asking me, what is this controversy involving Uber, Rush?
That's easy.
And I will explain this to you in the next hour.
And I'm also, it's it's kind of uh it's kind of fun.
The media reaction to this is quite telling, too.
But that's coming up in the meantime.
Here's Eric in Charlotte, North Carolina.
You're next, sir.
It's great to have you on the program.
Hello.
Thanks for all you do, Rush.
Um I wish it could be more, sir.
I really do.
I I do as well.
Rush, you know, the politics of black people is stupid to the point of insane.
I don't understand.
Well, I do understand in a way, but it's we're proverbially shooting ourselves in our own hip pocket.
I don't know why blacks are not outraged over this immigration situation because what's going to happen is we've already been a minority and we complain about what we don't get and so on and so forth.
But now we're being becoming more and more second-class minority.
We our black leadership, uh, we don't realize or they don't realize the likes of Travis Smiley, uh, Cornell West, uh Jesse Jackson Shock and Tom Joyner et al.
You name them all.
We are right now facing all kinds of dire needs economically.
We don't have jobs.
Right, but they aren't, are they?
Well, they I mean, no, no, they're they're they're not, Eric.
They've they all have got seats at the table of power of the Democrat Party.
Everybody you just mentioned.
They're all they're all doing quite well economically.
They may be doing well, but this well, to the point, they're really to the point of being deceitful because what's going on is Oh, I don't deny that.
I don't deny.
I'm just saying they're not good representatives for it because they're not they're they're not experiencing what you experience.
Well, the jobs right now, we're being displaced because of these immigrants who are coming in.
And the jobs that we used to get are actually being given away and taken away from us by these illegal immigrants.
And we're now advocating policies to make our situation even far worse.
That's exactly right.
It's well stated, exactly what the black leadership is doing.
Well, if these people, and so black the black community should be dialing in to their representatives, I'm sure a deaf ears there, but they should be saying this is wrong.
What Obama's doing in the name of political advantage.
It's hard not to be.
They're too excited about what may happen in Ferguson.
Well, Ferguson.
Maybe you realize that's the 60s is about to be reborn for however long, and they're all focused.
They're so excited about Eric, do not hang up.
If you can hold on, do so.
I gotta take a break here, though.
Okay, we will uh finish with our caller Eric in Charlotte, North Carolina.
We get back and explain the Uber controversy.
And there's some other stuff we got to get into here, too.
Uh great, great audio sound bites.
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