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Nov. 29, 2023 - Sean Hannity Show
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Senators Marshall and Tuberville
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If you want to be a part of the program, just to remind you, you know, look at the big lie that our media took as it relates to Israel and their ongoing defense of their country and fight for their very survival.
You know, the big lie that Hamas propaganda put out that, oh, Israel just bombed a hospital and killed over 500 doctors and nurses and children.
Well, it turns out that all of it was nothing but a big fat lie.
And that, in fact, the people that fired the weapon that didn't even hit the hospital, but the parking lot next to the hospital was the Islamic Jihad.
But, you know, it didn't stop the media from lying and wanting to believe the worst.
And this has been the MO of this terror organization for many, many decades.
You know, that's why they fire their missiles, their rockets from schools.
That's why they use hospitals.
That's why they have human shields.
That's why they take hostages.
That's why they have a tunnel, a network of terror tunnels.
I've been in them.
I've shown them on TV.
You've seen me in them.
That's why they put their command headquarters in a tunnel underneath the biggest hospital in Gaza, where they keep their military equipment and other munitions, et cetera.
Well, now the issue is, what is the Senate going to do in terms of helping Israel, our number one ally in the Middle East, as they now fight for their survival?
Now, also on top of that, we've had over 75 attacks on U.S. installations and soldiers, you know, throughout the region.
And Joe Biden's answer has been, you know, two little pin tricks, you know, a missile here, missile there to empty warehouses.
He hasn't responded.
Now the issue is going before Congress.
And what Chuck Schumer in the Senate is trying to do is, well, now he's threatening to keep members over the holidays unless they pass this $106 billion Ukraine-Israel package that may include some border security.
Now, remember, Ukraine has gotten, you know, close to $80 billion of tax dollars up till now.
And now they're looking for another $80 billion.
But for Israel, they're offering, what, they're talking about $14 billion.
And then yesterday, on a separate vote, it voted against aid for Israel, which makes no sense at all whatsoever.
And, you know, at some point, you know, when is the U.S. government going to help our best ally in the region?
Anyway, let's say hi to Senator Dr. Roger Marshall of Kansas and Senator Tommy Tuberville, Coach Tuberville of Alabama.
Welcome both of you.
By the way, Coach, you got to admit, that was one hell of a game and a finish at the Alabama-Auburn game.
Come on, Sean, don't bring that up.
I'm trying to get over that.
That was there.
What a game it was.
Kid made a throw at the end and great teams make big plays and they made it.
Well, you got to say this.
I think Nick Saban is by far the single best college football coach right up there with Bear Bryant.
You both come from Alabama, right?
So I'm right up there with you, I guess, too.
Well, he's done an unbelievable job winning all those championships.
And the big thing about coaching, and it's anything, Sean, it's consistency.
And he's been consistent for, what, 13 years there at Alabama.
So, yeah, he's done a heck of a job.
Good friend.
And I tell him all the time, he has done something that's almost impossible.
He really has.
I thought the Michigan-Ohio State game.
I didn't think he could beat that.
But, you know, on comes the Alabama-Auburn game.
And it was wild.
Anyway, let me get to the issue at hand here.
And Dr. Marshall, let me start with you.
And I think this is important.
Why are we waiting so long to help our ally that's very existence is hanging in the balance here?
Pay attention to what Chuck Schumer says.
Watch what he does.
He says he supports Israel, but hours after he gave a big speech saying he would not sleep until we supported Israel, he walked on the Senate floor and instructed every Democrat to vote against our standalone Israel package.
We're no closer today to helping Israel than we were on October 7th.
When Chuck Schumer wants to bring all these policies together and leave out border security, by the way, the most pressing national security issue we are facing is this open southern border where 10 million illegal immigrants have crossed the border since Joe Biden took office, including one and a half million gotaways.
So nothing is happening up here because the Democrat is divided on this.
Well, the reality is, Senator Tuberville, is that they had an opportunity to offer aid to Israel.
I like standalone bills.
Schumer's bill would include Ukraine, which would get a massive amount of money yet again, in this case, another $80 plus billion dollars.
It would include $14 billion is my understanding for Israel, then money for Taiwan, and then potentially border security.
No, no, thanks.
I don't want your $106 billion bill shoved down our throat.
Sean, that's what you get when you straddle the fence.
You try to play both sides.
Chuck Schumer is the worst leader I've ever seen.
He couldn't lead a marching band.
And as Roger Marshall just said, he stood on the Senate floor and instructed every Democrat how to vote.
Now, if you don't have enough guts or gall to vote for your people of your state, you shouldn't be up here.
And they let down the people of Israel when they voted down that package.
They care more about the tax money being taken away from the American taxpayer with keeping all these IRS agents that they want.
They care more about that than they do about helping the people that are our allies.
And it's just, it's a shame to see what's going on up here.
So how does this play out in your view, Dr. Marshall?
So I think that we have the votes to block cloture on leader's Chuck Schumer's bill, his bill that combines all these together.
That's not going to include border security.
We now have the votes to block cloture and force the border issue.
That's what our goal is.
We need to be locked in as Republicans saying we won't go anywhere, hell no, unless there's funding for meaningful border security and specifically some meaningful policy changes, which you've enumerated multiple times, Sean, what that looks like.
No, I mean, I find this whole thing just unbelievable.
And the fact that we had an opportunity to do this yesterday and Chuck Schumer, yeah, I'll stay told you won't even go home for Christmas holidays, which we know is a lie because they'll find a way.
Now, the question I have, and Senator Marshall, I will ask you first, is Mitch McConnell on board?
Is he going to hold the conference together in the Senate?
Because that's what you're going to need.
Sean, he is.
He has been very strong on the floor.
And then it's just recently in our conference meeting.
He's very sturdy on this.
That I think we have over the 40 votes needed to stop cloture, 41, actually, 41 votes to stop cloture.
I think that he's leading this.
It's about as strong as I've ever seen him stand up.
John Thune, all of our leadership, is pledging that we will vote down cloture on this big package unless there's very meaningful border security opportunities on that bill as well.
So I think the leader McConnell's on board with this on this one.
Yeah, but I always worry because the Senate always seems to want to go home for Christmas.
And when push comes to shove, Senator Tuberville, you'll get enough Republicans partnering with enough Democrats to get a big omnibus bill.
Although I don't think they're going to get Republicans in the House to go along with it this time.
At least I'm hoping.
Sean, our country's in trouble.
We're in bad trouble.
The border is a disaster.
I call it the immigration industrial complex.
The drugs, the human trafficking, the sheep labor, the things that are coming in, and the 500 billion that we've already spent on these illegals coming in with taking care of them, putting them in a hotel.
$500 billion.
And they complained when President Trump wanted $20 billion to build a wall.
These people up here have lost their mind.
If we don't get 49 closure votes, I'll be disappointed.
We need 41, but there's no way we should do anything else up here until we do something at that border.
Because if we don't, our country's gone.
It's going to be over with.
The country that you and I, Sean, you and I and Dr. Marshall grew up in, it will be no longer.
Well, I mean, certainly for the rule of law, we just cast it aside.
And all because Joe Biden is not upholding his oath of office, which is to uphold our Constitution, which is the foundation for every law that's ever passed.
And he's just picking and choosing which laws that he cares to enforce, Senator Marshall.
And that has become unfortunate.
But again, the question I go back to is, Republicans now have a clear choice to make here.
How hard are they going to fight?
And then we've got to get to the issue of Ukraine.
How much money should America be giving Ukraine?
We've given them $80 billion.
And as far as I'm concerned, Joe Biden does not.
He's put handcuffs on President Zelensky from the get-go when he wouldn't allow Zelensky to receive the MiG jets from Poland.
And then he's telling the Ukrainians what weapons they can and cannot use in the middle of a war against Vladimir Putin.
And this amount, the 80 billion already, and now another 80 billion.
I mean, is this just a proxy war between Russia and the United States at this point?
Because I don't see Europe stepping up and paying their fair share.
We're paying more than all of European countries combined.
Yeah, absolutely.
On all those points.
Look, we cannot keep throwing good money after bad money.
It's interesting to me is why.
Why do the Democrats, why all of a sudden are they in love with Ukraine?
Their leader is so weak.
This is the only supposed victory that he can claim on the world stage.
Now, I would not claim what's happening in Ukraine a victory.
There's been no movement in the past year that this is a stalemate costing the lives of over 200,000 people, probably another half million casualties on top of that.
We should be focused on some type of a peace agreement in Ukraine right now.
And by the way, the Biden administration still has only implemented one half of the banking sanctions on Russia that they could as well.
So again, they say they're fighting the war over there, but they're really doing, they're not applying maximal pressure.
This is a war that's dragging on.
It's going to last seven, eight, nine or ten years, and America does not need to be involved in this type of a proxy war at this point in time.
Let's take care of our own border.
As leaders, as Coach talked about, when you're a leader, you have to set priorities.
I am personally locked in on securing the border.
I know Coach Dubberville is locked in on securing the border.
A lot of us Republicans up here, we are locked in on securing our southern border.
I hope so.
And do you think there's consensus in the Senate on all of that, Senator Tupperville?
I think we do.
I think we're getting closer every day.
You know, we always don't vote the same on the Republican side.
We don't vote lockstep like they do in the Democratic side.
They just all vote the same way.
They could care less about the country.
They just want to get reelected.
They like the power.
Thing about Ukraine, Sean, there's two things.
Number one, we could have stopped this war.
Joe Biden could have in the first two months.
They did a peace agreement with Turkey, along with Putin and Zelensky.
They could have stopped it.
But for some reason, Joe Biden and the UK wanted this war to continue.
Well, if you're going to want it to continue, give them the means, the planes, the tanks, the missiles to fight this war.
But their average age now is 45 years old in Ukraine of their soldiers.
45.
I can't imagine 45 to 50 to 55 year olds fighting in this cold weather.
It's not going to last.
They got no chance unless we give them enough to fight this war.
So it's been all on Joe Biden and this administration.
They're the reason that this thing's still going on, whether it's with a peace agreement or with going and try to win in this thing.
You can't try to win a fight by just piecemeal things together slowly the way that this Pentagon has done.
I agree with that.
And why are we fighting wars and you're not fighting in to win?
Have we not learned our lesson on any and all of this?
That's what's frustrating to me.
And I know it's frustrating to everybody else.
Exactly.
Exactly.
We don't go in to wars to win anymore.
We just go in to throw out the government and then let them build it back the way they want to build it back.
We go into Iraq.
We lost all those lives.
We spent all that money.
And let's keep those oil wells and pay ourselves back and build our government up.
But no, we just turn around and ran.
Same thing we did in Afghanistan.
So it amazes me.
We don't do anything for the American people to get our money back.
We just go in and try to overthrow governments.
And we hadn't won a war since World War II.
So other than President Trump beating ISIS.
So it's just a shame.
All right, quick break.
We'll come back with Senators Roger Marshall of Kansas and Tommy Tupperville of Alabama.
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We'll also get to your calls final half hour of the program today as we continue.
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What I told people I was making a podcast about Benghazi, nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked, why?
Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies.
It's almost a dirty word, one that connotes conspiracy theory.
Will we ever get the truth about the Benghazi massacre?
Bad faith, political warfare, and frankly, bullshit.
We kill the ambassador just to cover something up.
You put two and two together.
Was it an overblown distraction or a sinister conspiracy?
Benghazi is a Rosetta Stone for everything that's been going on for the last 20 years.
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And I'm Carol Markowitz.
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Long enough to know that it's gotten, well, a little insane.
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What I told people I was making a podcast about Benghazi, nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked, why?
Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies.
It's almost a dirty word, one that connotes conspiracy theory.
Will we ever get the truth about the Benghazi massacre?
Bad faith, political warfare, and frankly, bullshit.
We kill the ambassador just to cover something up.
You put two and two together.
Was it an overblown distraction or a sinister conspiracy?
Benghazi is a Rosetta Stone for everything that's been going on for the last 20 years.
I'm Leon Napok from Prologue Projects and Pushkin Industries.
This is Fiasco, Benghazi.
What difference at this point does it make?
Yes, that's right.
Lock her up.
Listen to Fiasco, Benghazi, on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
All right, we continue now with Kansas Senator, medical doctor, and Senator Roger Marshall and Senator Tommy Tuppill of Alabama, 800-941 Sean is on number.
We'll get to your calls at the bottom of the hour.
We'll give you the final word, Senator Marshall.
What do you think the strategy will be and what should it be?
Well, I think, again, leaders lead.
I think that we have to clearly set our priorities.
We have to stay locked in on securing the southern border.
Our next priority should be to get the American hostages back home safely.
They're being held by Hamas.
Number three, let's destroy Hamas and stand up for Israel.
Ukraine, there's no solution for Ukraine right now except some type of a peaceful peace agreement that gets us on down the road.
But let's stay locked in.
Let's secure our southern border.
Let's get our schools in order.
Let's look in the mirror and get our own house in order before we keep looking out beyond our own oceans.
I appreciate both of you.
Anyway, Senator Tuberville, thank you.
Senator Marshall, thank you of Kansas.
Great Alabama, Auburn game.
I think that goes down as one of the best of all time.
Anyway, 800-941-Sean, our number, if you want to be a part of the program, we'll get to your calls and comments coming up straight ahead.
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You know, it's interesting in light of this debate that is on Thursday that I'll be moderating between Governor Newsome of California and Governor DeSantis of Florida, you know, the varying reactions we get.
I'm not sure why.
I haven't exactly figured it out.
But if you can't see every single time now that Joe Biden speaks, it's a disaster.
There's not a speech that he gives that we can't pull something from it and play it for you and it not sound disastrous.
I mean, maybe we've grown that accustomed to it.
I'm embarrassed every time I see this man speak.
I'm also angry at every lie that he tells on top of everything else.
Like he was lying about the economy, lies about the borders, lies about success, and blames Trump for everything.
But, you know, what's missing here is I don't think people are understanding the reality that Joe Biden may not be on the ticket come November a year from now.
He may not be there.
He looks terrible.
His health is awful.
You know, if you're in cognitive decline, it is degenerative.
We had Dr. Ronnie Jackson on last night talking about this very issue.
And, you know, let me just play his recent gaffes and his recent blunders.
It's my birthday today.
They can actually sign birthdays.
You could say even this is harder than getting a ticket to the Renaissance tour or Rip Ritney's tour.
She's down in kind of warm in Brazil right now.
Leading tech companies like Anthropic.
And I'm going to mispronounce.
I'm not going to try.
I mean, Linda, as I've been, some people don't understand, I guess, maybe the way my mind works here.
When this came up organically, it's not like I said out, oh, I'm interviewing Gavin Newsome.
Let me see if I can get him to debate Ron DeSantis.
It just came up in the course of the interview that I had with him.
What is this interview?
Go back to June or July.
It's taken a long time to get this thing together.
All right.
So it comes up, and he said, I'll debate him two hours.
I'll debate him three hours.
I'm like, you want to try for four?
And then said, let me moderate the debate.
Okay.
It wasn't as simple behind the scenes, but I promised to keep all that private and I'm going to keep my word.
However, in light of how bad Joe Biden is, why do people want to kind of put their heads in the sand and not face the reality that there may be somebody else on that ballot and not know what they might be dealing with?
And that's basically, you know, I've been warning people, you better pay attention to who's out there that might potentially replace Joe Biden, especially if some deal is struck with Kamala Harris, who even Newsom says would be the natural heir apparent, not him.
But to me, I think we better be prepared for an any case scenario, don't you?
I think it's smart to know who could potentially be in the playing field, without a doubt.
It's good to know who's thinking about it.
It's clear that he is.
He's made all of the public gestures while maintaining the stance.
I'm governor of California.
I respect Joe Biden and all the, you know, all the platitudes.
I mean, it's pretty, to me, it's pretty evident that this is eventually going to happen.
But I think Matt Towery made a good point yesterday where he was like, they cannot leapfrog Kamala Harris.
They just can't.
Because they're not.
Well, they certainly can try.
I think there might be a backlash to it.
Clay Travis actually.
I don't know how they could, though.
Well, Clay Travis had an interesting point.
He goes, well, Sean, where's the Democratic Convention next year?
I said, well, it's in Chicago.
And he's like, exactly.
Who else lives in Chicago?
And then he thinks he actually believes.
I'm not sure if I agree with this.
I don't see, and I've never seen in Michelle Obama any desire to ever run for office.
As a matter of fact, I think she could not get out of that White House fast enough.
Maybe I'm wrong.
Yeah, I mean, I've had this conversation many times myself with a lot of friends.
I think Michelle Obama, if she ran, she would win.
And I think it's a very dangerous thing.
I think a lot of people are blinded by the appearance of the family.
So if it's August of next year and they're at the convention and Joe either pulls an LBJ, you know, if nominated, I won't accept.
I'm not, you know, whatever.
Yeah.
You think that is there any possibility or what would the odds of it be that Michelle Obama would be selected?
I think that there would be a pomp and circumstance moment.
Kamala Harris would get the nod and then for whatever reason that they decide behind closed doors would be able to gracefully bow out and they would hat tip the person that they've already preordained behind closed doors.
I don't think Kamala Harris would go along with that.
I don't believe that.
She's dumber than Adam Schiff.
Even she knows it.
She knows she can't do this.
She has no desire to do this.
I disagree.
I mean, there's something about people, anybody that's ever gotten close that's an elected official to that office.
And there's a majesty to that office.
I've been in that office many times.
And I remember thinking it was like I was in a movie the first time I was in it.
George W. Bush was president.
I walked in.
I'm like, am I real?
Is this really him?
It was very bizarre.
It's almost surreal.
I don't disagree with you.
Think there's an overwhelming magnitude and magnetism to the role of being the most powerful person in the United States.
However, I just don't believe, and this is just my opinion, that the quote-unquote most powerful person in the United States is actually that person.
I don't believe that Biden or Kamala have anything to do with our day-to-day running of this nation.
I believe that they are puppets.
They're being told what to say and do.
He's just not with it, and she never had it.
So, between the two of them, we're screwed.
So, there's somebody in the background running the show.
I don't think she wants it.
I think she likes being where she is.
I think she's very comfortable where she is.
You know, she goes around saying silly things like, you know, I like space, you know, businesses, communities, you know, I like buses.
I mean, she's just, it's the most random.
I've never heard anybody talk the way she.
I can't believe she's an attorney.
So, we're here to talk about the community because in a community, we all live together in the community.
So, this is about it's bizarre.
Yeah.
So, I'm a woman sitting in a blue suit.
That was weird.
Yeah.
And what is it?
Venn diagram diagram.
Oh, the Venn diagrams.
Honestly, that might be my favorite one.
I was like, who the hell says they like Venn diagrams?
I mean, it was just, she's just very odd.
I think she's very socially awkward.
I don't really know what her deal is or why she behaves the way she does.
The laughing thing is truly annoying.
Like, I mean, and I'm a person that loves to laugh, but her laugh is not infectious.
This is just irritating.
I like to think about a lot of things in the context of a Venn diagram.
I love Venn diagrams.
Always ask, is there a Venn diagram for this?
I'm telling you, it's fascinating when you do.
So, Venn diagram, those three circles, right?
And if you want to add some more circles to the Venn diagram, the solutions also look like what we need to do to invest in a clean energy economy.
So, I think it's very important, as you have heard from so many incredible leaders, for us at every moment in time, and certainly this one, to see the moment in time in which we exist in our present and to be able to contextualize it, to understand where we exist in the history and in the moment as it relates not only to the past, but the future.
We invested an additional $12 billion into community banks because we know community banks are in the community.
But here's the thing: so, your choice is that, or we have Biden, right?
So, we have Piano Biden, which is my favorite cut of all time.
There is no better cut than Piano Biden, in my humble opinion.
All right, this is the political coverage.
Look, some of the political players and some of the rhetorical questions.
Anyways, all right, let's get to the phones.
Let's start this half hour in California.
Kevin is up.
Kevin, you're on the Sean Hannity show.
Glad you called.
Hey, Sean, thanks.
Couple things.
One, you just mentioned about, I think the debate is going to be brilliant.
You mentioned about in case Biden were to do an LBJ.
Can you imagine Biden trying to even get out LBJ?
He'd be going like, okay, well, the LZBG, LBG, TT, they're somewhere down in Brazil.
He wouldn't even be able to do it.
But what you've done is fantastic because it's either prophetic or it's strategic when you put those two together, DeSantis and Newsom.
Like you said, they're giant states.
They're politically opposed to each other.
Why is it working so well here, not working so well there?
Sean, that, you know, Biden's not going to make it.
He can't make it to the dining room.
Trump may not make it because of the legal stuff pushed against him.
This is the 2024 presidential debate you have coming up.
It's brilliant.
And when Americans, as you know, who are smart, hear what Newsom says and what DeSantis says, they just hear it.
They'll know, look at California, look at Florida, no matter how you talk it up.
You did it, Sean.
It's brilliant.
It's brilliant.
I think it's pivotal because you got to understand, probably state laws and regulations and policies impact our lives often more than what happens on the federal level, which we pay more attention to.
Now, certainly they don't have the same impact on national security, but I've been warning people for a long time.
You better pay attention and know what the possibilities are.
I was right about Joe Biden's cognitive decline.
I was saying it before anybody else.
I've been proven right.
Now I'm being proven right almost every day he speaks.
And it just is a reality that there may very well be someone else that is on that ticket come November of 2024.
We'll see, though.
Kevin, appreciate the call, my friend.
Brian in the free state of Florida.
We go from California to Florida.
How appropriate.
I hope you'll be watching on Thursday night.
Hello.
Hey, Brian, how are you?
Yes, sir.
Good afternoon, Sean.
Welcome from Florida.
What's going on?
My first time caller.
Listening to you yesterday and today about Gavin Newsom.
I just want to throw something your way.
I would think the way that Gavin Newson has been positioning himself constantly in TV, wanting to be with you out there in China and everything else, Mr. Slick, I think, is putting himself forward that Kamala will be given a position somewhere, and then Biden will run and run with Gavin Newson as his second in command and then step down and leave Gavin with the chair.
You'd think so.
You'd think that's how this is going to play out.
That's what, because, yeah, each time I've been watching him and I listened to you, I listened to all the other boys, I've listened to 610, WIOD, down here constantly, watch you on TV at night.
And I'm wondering, even when there was the Republican debate and Gavin Newsom was, he is slick.
That man is slick, and he made his state look like the best in the world.
And I'm watching him going, man, I wonder if they will do that.
Because he won't get voted in by himself.
Well, a lot of the questions we're going to compare.
Okay, well, you're a sanctuary state and Ron DeSantis believes in securing our borders and enforcing our laws.
You know, let them debate it.
Let them make their points known.
And then I have confidence the American people will be able to see through what might be, quote, a persona or personality or likability versus a policy.
And what are people looking for?
You're looking for somebody that can actually lead and implement successful policies?
Or do you want somebody that looks good on TV?
What are you looking for?
And I put a lot of faith in people that they're going to see through both of them.
They're going to really have a deep understanding of where they're both coming from.
And that's what I want.
Yeah, but I've seen a lot of faith put in the people who want to leave England, my home country.
And I've seen that place just lose its flag, lose everything, because the end with only the people behind the scenes running the show and now running amok.
Here I see the Democrats and the people behind the scenes doing the same.
They know they can get Biden back in again by hook or by crook, and it will be by crook because we as Republicans never challenge that system.
And they positioned us in a way that if we challenge it at any given time, it's just bad.
It's evil.
It's racist, it's this, it's everything.
I'm just watching for Gavin Newsom to run as a runner mate with Joe Biden.
So, I hope.
I don't know how you push Kamala Harris out of the way.
I think that's a Herculean task.
I think Linda mentioned Matt Towery and Robert Cahaley both had that opinion yesterday, and John McLaughlin, I believe, also.
All right, my friend, appreciate the call.
Thank you.
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