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Sept. 10, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 10, 2015, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 247 podcast.
And we're here, folks.
It's great to be back with you.
Rush Limbaugh behind the Golden EIB microphone, the one and only EIB network 800-282-2882, if you want to be on the program.
And the email address, Rushbow at EIBNet.com.
I was telling Mr. Snerdley mere moments ago.
You know, some days, and I'm I'm not even comfortable sharing this with you.
Although, you know, there's a I've got a story in the stack here.
There's a guy and his daughter.
Their last name is Bennett, and they have uh they've written a book, and the title of the book, F-Bomb Feelings.
That's what the title of the book is.
I mean, you know, it's it's it's you know, it's getting tougher and tougher to do this program, uh, a family-oriented way.
You can't even quote things that are in the public domain.
The title of the book is F Asterisk asterisk feelings.
And it's all about how, you know, everybody's wasting all their time and then getting all down in the weeds, sharing their feelings instead of worrying about actually doing things.
Anyway, just to uh get to that in due course as the program unfolds.
Telling Mr. Snerdley today, I'm I'm a little frustrated.
It's not even the real word for it.
But like I'm doing show prep today, and I'm I'm watching some of the media last night, and everything they're talking about are things we did days ago on this program.
Um for example, two days ago, spent so much time talking about the Iranian nuclear deal and the way the House and the Senate could go about defeating it.
And I was bouncing off a great column written by my friend Andrew McCarthy at National Review Online, and the sum total of it was, and I didn't spend 30 minutes on it, I just went in and I got in, got it, and got out.
And the sum total of it is is that Obama has violated the law.
He has violated the terms of the ill-fated corker cardon bill, because in the corker cardon bill is a requirement that Obama share the details, all the details of the Iranian nuclear deal with Congress by date certain.
I think it was July 19th.
Whatever the date is, Obama hasn't done it.
And it it relates to it, it has to do with the treaty clause, but it also relates to the fact that the sanctions, which the Republic well, we can't do anything about it, you know, Obama says it's not a treaty.
Well, it is a treaty.
If you if you if you wanted to deal with it and stand up for your rights, separation of power, congressional power, you can demand that he treat it as a treaty if you wanted to make a fight of it, but they don't want to make a fight of anything.
So the alternative was hey, look, if you don't want to make a fight about it, all you got to do is deny Obama the right to lift sanctions because he hasn't followed the law for crying out loud.
It's right there in the Corker Cardin bill.
He has to make everything well known.
Anyway, spent all a lot of the time two days ago talking about yesterday and yet then today it's huge news.
And so I sit here and I wonder how many people remember that we talked about it.
Snerdley says, You can't worry about that.
You just you do it.
I know.
But there's there's even more to that story.
Then there's there's um uh big news last night and today.
I saw it on Drudge last night, Hillary dised Obama.
We led the program with that yesterday.
We had these sound bites from Mrs. Clinton in her interview with David Muir, in which everybody was focused on her just deer in the headlights persona, particularly as it dealt with her emails, the question she was getting about the emails, but in this answer, and I heard it just going by, I said, she dissed Obama.
She talked about how the American people need great leadership right now.
And I said, Well, what would and then I reminded everybody that she's the second to come to this party because Biden was out there a couple days before the Labor Day weekend, he was ragging on the economy.
He was at a Labor Day parade in Pittsburgh with a bunch of union people, and he was talking how rotten this economy is, how bad, and I'm made mention of both these things, and now they're both news today.
And then yesterday, a lot of time on the um the invasion taking place in Europe of the Western socialist democracies by for the most part, male military age males from Muslim countries, and they're not stopping in places they could stop, like Turkey.
They're heading on to Germany and Sweden.
And to made a point of telling you that how shocked I was a couple days ago when I read that Germany was welcoming them.
And Angela Merkel was going to allow 800,000 of these invaders in this year, and then 500,000 a year for the foreseeable future.
And she's happy about it.
She was excited about it.
She said, this is going to change our country.
I said, none of this made sense to me.
So what's this?
Thursday.
It's a Tuesday night.
I had to go find out what this is all about.
Found out it's about the birth rate, below replacement levels.
Germany's economy is in big trouble.
They simply aren't giving birth to there aren't enough births happening in Germany to maintain current population levels or grow them, which is bad news to the economy.
And that's and she's welcoming them in and welcoming the change that it's going to bring.
And of course, I was demonstrably curious about that's a huge story in the Washington Post today.
Now, you might say, well, you, you know, Russia, you always say in a cutting edge, side of evolution, you're always ahead of the game.
Yeah, I know.
But at the same time, I wonder how many people, like yesterday listening to this never-ending debate, and it timed with with Cruz and Trump appearing in Washington or anti-nuclear deal rally.
Yeah, the only thing for me is I wonder how many people remember that we did it first.
I mean, obviously you do, those of you studied listeners and so forth.
I mean, it's just it's a minor point, folks.
It's uh it's a it's a minor point, but that's you know, being in the lead, being on a cutting edge, carries with it some risk.
That means some people are gonna hear it just one place than have it affirmed when they hear it again and again someplace later.
Anyway, that's what happens here.
They say if you listen to this program on a regular basis, you're gonna be ahead of the game.
You're gonna know what's this show prep for the rest of the meeting.
That's what this program actually is.
Now, the news today uh, and it's well, it's what it is.
The big news today is Trump.
Trump seems to be the big news every day.
Trump went out and did an interview with Rolling Stone.
I don't know why.
I don't know what the purpose.
I don't know what anybody thought was the upside there, but not for me to question.
There was a time on this program, maybe a month ago, where some similar things were going on, and I very graciously and with with just overwhelming humility came to the golden EIB microphone with just a small tiny message for the Trump campaign, and it was what I would say today.
Let's get back to the issues.
And I don't mean to be mocking you in the stick to the issues crowd here.
I mean, I'm serious.
I don't I don't know what the value is in ripping into Ben Carson as an okay doctor.
And now Carson's he's firing back.
I don't know who fired first in this.
I don't know who launched the salvo at who first.
I mean, the rule of thumb is, according to Trump, that he's fine with you until you hit him.
And if you hit him, you better look out because he's gonna counterpunch, he's gonna come right back, and he's not gonna apologize no matter what he says.
Okay, so I don't know if I missed something where Ben Carson, maybe Ben Carson said that Trump was unserious.
No, it was Bobby Gendal that said that.
Whatever, Trump responded with some things about Ben Carson, obviously are not true.
Ben Carson's a great man.
He's a great, great surgeon.
He's far more than an okay doctor.
Uh, And he has a genuinely American life story that is worthy of inspiration for anybody in this country.
He is a kind and decent man, but he's not a softie.
He's uh he's hard as a rock, he's tough as nails.
He happens to be soft-spoken because he's humble.
But he is a brilliant person.
Some say that he's wasting his talents running for president because he's in an area of business where his personality type and so forth does not lend itself to rising to the top.
I think all that's out the window now.
When you talk about the formula for a presidential candidate, given this campaign, we can see that's all out the window.
If you can make a case for yourself, then you're in and you're valid.
Ben Carson, I look, I know that for Ben Carson and Carly Fiorina, having Trump go after you is a plus.
It's name recognition, it's name idea, and it is validation.
And all of this, of course, is a gigantic ratings gift for CNN.
Because after Trump went out there and said whatever he was about Ben Carsi's, okay, doctor, now he's in the in the Rolling Stone interview.
Trump sort of mocked Carly Fiorina's face.
He said, look at that face.
Would anybody vote for that?
Can you imagine that?
The face of our next president.
Trump reportedly bellowed while watching his Republican presidential rival on the news.
I mean, she's a woman, and I'm not supposed to say bad things.
Really, folks, come on, are we serious?
Now you can say, I can I know what some Trump people are going to say.
I can predict it.
They are they are going to.
Hey, wait a minute, Rush.
He's not going to hurt himself with any of this because you know he's just being honest, and we've got so much political correctness to running.
I mean, how many people in this country look at somebody else and judge their appearance one way or the other?
Nobody ever says anything about it because it's supposedly rude and impolite, but Trump doesn't have those boundaries.
He looks at, and don't forget Rush, Carly Fiorina hit him first, and it's Trump playing the type.
You attack him, he's going to come back at you.
So I mean, I fully expect to have people defend Trump.
People are going to try.
They're going to do it under the rubric of political correctness, and now he's continuing to blow that up.
But don't feel sad for Carly Fiorina.
My point is she loves this.
And Carson probably does too.
Because Carly Fiorina has just had her awareness level raised significantly.
Especially with low information voters.
I mean, here's Trump out there talking about this ugly woman.
With whatever else he said.
I mean, for God, are you kidding?
Anybody vote for that?
Can you imagine that's the face of her neck?
Can you imagine a low information vote?
Who's he talking to who's he?
Wow, wow, what?
They go and they find out.
And voila, a whole bunch of people who'd never heard of Carly Fiorina now know who she is.
She'll take that any day.
She's an adult.
She can handle this kind of stuff.
See, this is the point is her feelings aren't her.
If I, and I don't know her, maybe her feelings are.
My guess is this woman has been at the top of the rough and tumble high-tech business world.
She had a job where a lot of people thought she had no business having a job trying to undermine her every day.
This is small potatoes.
It may be impolite.
It may be rude.
It may be all those things that people say about polite society.
It may be totally inappropriate.
But we've, you know, appropriate and American politics have been strangers for how no.
Who knows how long now.
Appropriate and American politics or inappropriate in American politics.
But don't feel bad for Carly.
And I'm don't misunderstand.
I'm I'm I'm not endorsing anything here.
As usual, I'm objectively analyzing what has happened since we were last together.
And I would probably say the Senator Ben Carson.
Don't feel sorry for him.
He's not.
The Democrats have said worse about both of these people.
Just Trump's happened to be personal.
But the Democrats and the media have said far worse things about Ben Carson, far worse things about Carly Fiorina.
Nobody gets mad at them.
Nobody gets this is Trump change compared to the kind of insults and character assassination the media engages in against Republicans every day.
And what are we told when that happened?
You gotta tough it up.
You gotta handle it.
You gotta learn to deal with it.
Because that's the game.
We know the rules.
The media's on the left, the Democrats and the media on the same teams.
You're gonna run as a Republican, you've got to be able to stand the heat in the kitchen.
Can't complain about it.
Fine.
Same thing goes here.
And if at some point this stuff starts to blow back and negatively impact Trump, but I'm tell I'm telling you what, the Republican established can't believe any of this.
There's a new CNN poll.
I think it's CNN.
Trump's yeah.
Trump has become the first Republican presidential candidate to top 30% in the race for the nomination, according to a new CNN orc poll, which finds the businessman pulling away from the rest of the GOP field.
Now, obviously before this.
Trump, by the way, said, Well, blah, blah, blah.
It's talking about her persona.
All right, fine.
But it's out there, but it's not part of the uh pool of uh polling respondents here.
This poll took place before this latest.
It'd be interesting to see if uh if if Trump continues to build even after his uh highly uh personalized comments at both Carly Fiorina and uh Ben Carson.
Now, look, folks, I'm just gonna tell you what I have here.
I mean, you can mad at me if you want, but I have a story, June 9th, 2010.
Huffing and Puffington Post, headline, Carly Fiorina open mic video, Republican Senate candidate mocks Barbara Boxer's hair.
She's running for the Senate.
She made fun of Barbara Boxer's hair.
So, I mean, these people, they know what's coming their way.
They can handle it.
Um, and I'm telling you, Carly Fiorina, I mean, she may not be doing handstands, but believe me, the new awareness level she's gonna get, she'll take it.
Snerdley just asked me this morning if I had a lot of fun with the Apple stuff yesterday.
I'll tell you what I did when the program ended yesterday, just a second.
Here's what started it with uh with Ben Carson and Trump.
This was yesterday in Anaheim, California.
Carson held a press conference and got a question.
What are the main characteristics that differentiate you from Donald Trump?
I realize where my success has come from.
And I don't in any way deny my faith in God.
And I think uh that probably is a big difference.
I haven't heard it.
I haven't seen it.
You know, one of my favorite Bible verses, Proverbs 224.
It says, by humility and the fear of the Lord are riches and honor and life.
And that's a very big part of who I am.
Humility and the fear of the Lord.
I don't get that impression.
Okay, so he uh he questioned the authenticity of Trump's faith.
You know, Trump uh uh says the Bible's the greatest book ever, even ahead of his uh book, The Art of the Deal.
The art of the deal is second.
Uh the Bible greatest book ever, Trump says.
But then he said earlier, and I I warned everybody this is gonna come back at some point.
He said he never had asked God for forgiveness because he'd never done anything that he thought needed to be forgiven.
And I think it was in Iowa when he said that.
They um everybody was distracted by what he had said about McCain and the Mexicans, and a lot of people say, Well, you know, his audience is base supporters, a lot of evangelicals in there, they're not gonna like that.
So Carson questioned his authenticity and also said that Trump had not fully thought through the implications of his immigration policy.
Had not fully thought through the implications of trying to send 11 million people back to Meiko.
And El Salvador.
And wherever they're coming from.
So those two things, Carson starts it in Trump's view.
And as Trump has said, hey, you take you don't attack me.
I love you.
Leave me alone, I'll leave you alone.
But you come after me, and I'm gonna fire right back at you.
And I'm not gonna apologize.
So that's what I don't know what Fiorina did to him.
She had to have done something.
Said something.
Anyway, be right back.
Okay, Friday.
Employee standby on uh Sound by 21.
Keep it handy there.
Uh Ted Cruz, a lot just broke here.
I mean, during the break, a lot of just a lot of stuff just uh just broke.
So I'm just now getting it uh organized.
Ted Cruz has uh put out a letter proposing the plan that we mentioned two days ago on this program to stop the Iran deal based on Obama's failure to comply with a Corker bill condition that he disclose the entirety of the agreement.
Again, you know, there are two ways to go about this Iran deal, and there's there's intellectual heft on all sides, and there's valid reasons to do both ways.
One side says go after it on the basis of a treaty because it is one.
The Constitution is very clear.
Don't let Obama get away with doing something it's not a treaty when it is.
And then there's the other way, which basically requires the Republicans in the Congress to illustrate, to point out that the deal is invalid because Obama's not followed the law.
And the law is the precious corker cardon bill, which on one hand made opposing it practically impossible because the convoluted way it reversed the voting procedure and the objective of the voting procedure.
In a treaty, you need 67 votes of support in the Senate to ratify it.
The corker bills.
No, no, no, no.
We're gonna we're gonna make it so that uh we only need 33 votes to stop it, essentially.
So it never had a chance of failing if they wanted to treat it the uh the the uh well deal with it the treaty way because the corker bill convoluted everything.
But there was another element of the Corker Bill that required the president to fully disclose everything in the Iran D, including the two-side deals on a date certain.
It was July 19th.
That was not complied with.
As such, the Corker bill is law.
It was passed and signed, and Obama is in violation of it.
And the Republicans in the Senate and the House, perfectly within their rights under the separation of powers and the whole concept that the law is the law and we have a rule of law, they're perfectly within their rights to assert that the Iran deal is invalid because Obama has violated the statute that he signed regarding its passage and approval, the Corker-Carden bill.
It's no more complicated than that.
Spent a lot of time on his two days ago.
Now Ted Cruz has put out a letter proposing a plan that is right along the lines of that which we've been discussing.
There are four points.
This is not the whole letter.
These are just the four-point highlights.
Number one, the Republicans should find that Obama did not provide The agreement.
So the 60-day congressional review period never started.
In other words, Obama did not give them the details.
He was required by law to provide Congress with the details, which is something he hasn't done.
Look at the pan Pacific Trade Deal.
You had to go to a super secret room to read it.
You couldn't take any notes outside the super secret room, and you couldn't tell anybody what you had read.
Obama care.
It's become pretty clear that the vast majority of people that voted for it had not read it.
And you remember Nancy Pelosi saying, well, we got to pass it.
We have to sign it before we can find out what's in it.
So this is par for the course.
Obama's been thumbing his nose at Congress as much as they'll let him get away with, which is quite a bit.
But in this case, they could find, they should find that Obama did not provide the terms of the agreement.
So the 60-day congressional review, which is part that that's another thing.
Treaties are months and months and months are allowed.
The law of the sea treaty, how long was that debate?
For years.
So should this have been.
But Corker, hey, thought they were being cute.
They put a 60-day limit in it.
The 60-day congressional review limit was, it supersedes treaty clause in this case, but it never started because Obama didn't comply.
That's the period that Corker and McConnell are trying to rush us through by September 17th, which lets Obama win with 34 votes in the Senate.
That's what the Corker bill basically does.
It lets Obama win with 34 votes instead of 67.
Now it's clear that just with that first point in Cruz's letter, this whole thing could be defeated.
But McConnell and Baehner and Corker are trying to rush this thing through by September 17th, so that they will get, you know, get past the 60-day congressional review and make it look like it's all legal.
Second point that Cruz makes in his letter is that McConnell should find that if Obama had submitted the deal as a treaty, it would have been soundly rejected, which it would have.
They never have 67 votes for anything in the Senate, not even this.
And a treaty requires two-thirds at 67.
Remember the Corker bill did everything upside down and uh ended up saying all Obama needed was 34 votes to get this dangerously stupid deal authorized.
Now, third point is that uh and Cruz, by the way, smart enough to know that Obama is going to ignore all of this and try to waive the sanctions anyway, no matter what happened.
The sanctions are a key here, because if the sanctions are not lifted, the Iranians will not get agree to anything else.
The sanctions are the key being lifted.
That gives them 150 bucks and a million billion bucks and freezes their assets, and it allows them to start doing business with virtually anybody around the world again.
But that 150 billion that we have of theirs that's frozen that they would then have access to opens up all kinds of exciting investment opportunities for worldwide terrorism and so forth, coupled with their continuing development of a nuclear weapon.
Oh my god, you don't even think about it.
The sanctions are a key.
The sanctions are statutory, which means they don't have to come under the rubric of the treaty clause anyway.
And since Obama has not complied with the law, the sanctions do not have to be lifted.
And if they aren't, then the Ayatollah hominy is going to be left muttering about Israel, which is nothing new, and angry and condemning the U.S., which is nothing new.
Anyway, so Cruz says that any since Obama will ignore, try to waive the sanctions anyway and lift them.
Cruz says that Congress should make clear that this would be lawless.
And that as far as U.S. law is concerned, the sanctions are still in effect and remain on the books to be enforced after Obama is out of office.
And This would make banks and big companies leery of dealing with Iran.
Their lawyers would advise them, they might eventually face big fines, even if Obama won't enforce the law.
It's just, it's a it's another bit of advice, if you will, a suggestion to the powers that be in the Republican leadership.
Hey, you say you want to stop you say you want to stop this deal.
This is we're giving you the roadmap here.
And one of the ideas just can continue to pound the fact that the President of the United States is behaving in a lawless manner.
I don't care what Obama thinks of himself in terms of his narcissism and his legacy and so forth.
The I nobody, nobody wants the term lawless attached to them.
And that term happens to resonate.
You know, everybody looking for communicating ways to reach low information voters and pop culture people who are bored by this.
Uh lawless, accusing Obama of it.
His actions would be lawless as far as U.S. statutory law is concerned.
That would be another way to go.
And point number four in Cruz's letter, the idea here is the one that was outlined yesterday by Andy McCarthy at National Review.
Under Corker Carton, Obama cannot lift the sanctions from the time he was supposed to give the whole agreement to Congress until ten days after he finally vetoes the resolution of disapproval.
That process could take well over two months, 60 days for Congress to review plus vote on the resolution, and then for Obama to veto, and then vote on the override of veto.
That's a lot of stuff to happen in 60 days.
It probably couldn't all happen in six days.
The point is Obama has violated the law.
He has not fulfilled the terms of the agreement in the court Corker Cardin bill.
He did not fully apprise everybody of all the details, including the side deals.
Therefore, he cannot lift the sanctions from the time he was supposed to give the whole agreement to Congress until ten days after he finally vetoes the resolution disapproval.
So if Congress takes the position that the 60-day review clock has not started yet, because Obama didn't trigger the clock because he didn't present the full details to Congress.
And that 60-day period will not start until Obama fully finally discloses the whole agreement.
We can keep the sanctions in place for a few more months.
And all they would have to do is do this.
The law is on McConnell's side.
The law is on the Republican leadership side.
Obama did not comply.
He did not provide full details as the law requires.
You might be saying, so what's the big deal about that?
Well, how can they vote on it if they don't know everything that's in it?
I know that hasn't stopped them yet.
But this stuff has to stop, folks.
This kind of cavalier, haphazard way of governance has to stop.
And it's serious.
This is this is serious.
You know, you know how many people there are running around.
It's it's just easier to remain ignorant about things like this.
It's it's it's the day is easier if you're not bogged down by the weight of what this represents.
We're talking about nuclear weapons in the hands of genocidal madmen.
Despite all of our history, all the lives that have been lost, defeating previous tyrants.
Adolf Hitler's name that comes to mind.
The fact that we're even having to debate doing it again, that we're back in square one, we're gonna enable Neville Chamberlain and a bunch of other people.
No, no, no, no.
Iranians uh not a problem.
They just want nuclear power.
We don't, we can't even take the chance.
They haven't earned the benefit of the doubt, the Iranians.
They never will.
So here's a roadmap.
There are ways the Republicans can stop this with the law fully on their side, without even having to resort to politics.
The law is on their side.
That's important because the Republicans are afraid to do politics.
Because they think people don't it's partisanship.
Republicans are just they don't cooperate and they don't work with people and they're not like, well, this is using law.
But if the Republican establishment presses ahead with the vote that Corker rigs the Corker bill so that Obama must win, then the sanctions will be gone.
And once the sanctions are gone, the Iranians have essentially what they want.
Because the deal really doesn't provide any verification, not serious.
So that's where we are in this.
Now I must take a brief time out.
We're back in a moment with much more.
Don't go away.
Now, there's another interesting point here about in Ted Cruz's letter, uh, an important point that he raises is the what about U.S. banks being held legally liable for unfreezing Iranian assets if Obama unfreezes them by bypassing Congress.
This is another point of pressure.
If Obama is engaging in lawless behavior, behavior, violation of U.S. statutes, then anybody who aids and assists him in this could also be held legally liable.
Now, the president, in many ways, is above the law and is not going to be held accountable, but a bank or two, a much easier target.
And here's another thing that I it might work in terms of uh the Republicans.
Kind of buck them up, uh, who in turn would try to apply pressure elsewhere.
Stop and think of it from this perspective.
Because Cruz made this point yesterday at the rally.
By unfreezing the 150 billion dollars in Iranian cash assets, that's part of the sanctions.
And if the sanctions are lifted, then that's 150 billion would be once again accessible to the Iranians.
By unfreezing that money, the United States would then become a contributing funder of terrorism in the world.
And who wants that around their neck?
Who wants that on their record?
And that's exactly what would happen.
You unfreeze 150 billion dollars of assets that we currently hold.
I know some.
What right do we have anyway?
What right do we have?
It's their money, it's not ours.
We don't have the right.
See, that's the kind of thinking that we've elected to lead the country.
That's the kind of thinking that derives from the concept that there is no good guys, and that there are no bad guys.
And in fact, if there are bad guys, it's us who are the bad guys.
What right do we have freezing the Irans?
It's none of my business.
They should be there, money.
We should have it as you give it to them with no strings attached.
It's what we would want for our money.
Yeah, right, Mr. New Castradi.
Um, and that's who we've elected.
And that's the kind of thinking we have at the State Department.
It's kind of thinking we have in too many places in the Pentagon.
It is the thinking that defines the Democrat Party.
But the reality is if we go ahead and do this and lift these sanctions, and that places 150 billion dollars in the lamp of the Iatola hominy, he uses it to go out and fund further terrorism activities.
We, in fact, are the investor.
Something seriously to uh consider.
Okay, uh, to give you a heads up here.
Bobby Gendal did a speech today, I think, at the National Press Club.
Doesn't matter where it was, and he just unloaded on Trump.
Unloaded.
So I'm just telling you.
Whatever Trump thinks of Gendal, it's gonna be known here fairly soon.
Okay, folks, uh yeah, we have a little bit of audio from Bobby Gendal's speech.
He was at the National Press Club today.
He called Trump a narcissist and an egomaniac, not a conservative, but that doesn't even scratch the surface of what he said.
And sandwiched in there, he talked about how much he liked Trump.
Which that's an obligatory thing.
You're gonna say you like people before you went on there to rip them now.
That's how you get away with it.
I really like so-and-so, but man today stink.
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