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An hour two, Sean Hannity Show, 800-941 Sean, if you want to be.
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We're in beautiful Milwaukee.
We're in Wisconsin.
We had the greatest dinner last night, so we finished doing TV.
We did a special Sunday Hatterday, and then two hours, obviously, Saturday.
That was a tough two hours.
Got very little sleep Saturday night.
I think I slept maybe a total of 90 minutes.
Um had a very hard time, like so many others.
Uh I don't think I've ever been texted, because I don't have an email account as much in my life.
And the people that in my life that know what I do for a living, which is everybody, um, the level of concern and worry and level of upset was beyond palpable.
It's hard to absorb a national trauma like this.
One thing I did think about that, you know, Donald Trump literally of course he's he said it like this.
I should be dead now.
And it's in many ways, you know, God had his hand on his head and turned it at just the right moment.
So I believe in divine providence.
Do I believe God has a hand in the affairs of man?
I do.
I do if you are if you believe in Judeo-Christian values and ethics as I do as uh as an avowed Christian, I'm non-denominational, but you just believe that, just like I believe in heaven.
It's a conversation sense I and I have often.
Um, but the people of Milwaukee, uh, first I want to say to all of them, they've been amazing to all of us as we've walked around the city a little bit.
And we went to this restaurant last night.
It was so good.
What was it called again, Kristen?
It was just so, which is well known.
And what's cool about it is it's had more U.S. presidents than I think any other restaurant in the country go there.
And they have all these pictures all over the rest of the restaurant's huge.
Got a huge big bar.
As a matter of fact, that's about the size bar I used to work at when I was 17 years old.
And with a very busy service bar, and they made all these frozen drinks.
I mean, we we worked our, you know, what's off all the time.
Um these are amazing times we're living in.
We just had a former president and an attempted assassination that became very close to an assassination.
We have JD Vance has now been chosen.
We've gone over his background and experience.
We'll do all of that tonight on Hannity on the Fox News channel.
JD Vance will be our special guest, his first interview.
When I saw him in Atlanta, I didn't finish really the thought.
I told him I I had not known that much about him.
And a lot of people, friends of mine that were conservative saying it's gotta be JD, gotta be JD.
The amount of of the sheer number of people lobbying me as if I had any say in who Donald Trump picks for for vice president is insane.
I don't have that influence with Donald Trump.
And I just don't.
This is a very personal decision that a president has to make.
And you know, if uh asked what I give thoughts to anybody that that asked me, of course I would.
But there's certain there's a certain process that goes along with selecting a vice president that I'm not a part of.
And that would include vetting that candidate.
Because you know that the media, they're a bunch of sharks.
I doubt they're going to take Joey's message to lower the temperature.
I think the temperature is about to rise precipitously and dramatically as they try to destroy Vance as a means of hurting Donald Trump and his chances to win.
The same media that pushed cheap fake videos, the same media that's been covering up Joe's cognitive decline.
And yet they will ignore this incredible story that I've I've gone over with you, growing up dirt poor, Appalachia, heading into the Marine Corps, serving in Iraq, coming back, going to Ohio State, off to law school, uh thriving as a law student, top law student at Yale, leading him to uh corporate America and then into the U.S. Senate.
It's just an amazing American story.
And I'll talk to him about that.
Uh we'll get his positions on issues as well, what his role as vice president would be, and so on and so forth tonight on Hannity.
I mean, these there's a lot of questions, and we're honored to have him on as his first guest.
We also have other news today, and this is something, an argument that I have made many, many times on this program, and that it never made sense the appointment of these special counsels.
Now, I brought this question up when Robert Muller was appointed.
And Judge Eileen Cannon, this has to do with the Florida documents case, ruled that the appointment of the special counsel in this case, that being Jack Smith, was unconstitutional.
Now, this I believe is the correct decision.
The appointments clause, there was no congressional oversight input at all whatsoever.
Where did the authority come from?
And Smith and the DOJ, I'm sure they're going to file an appeal to a higher court.
But the heart of this decision is the appointments clause of the Constitution, which provides the exclusive means for selecting, quote, all officers of the United States, unquote.
They must be appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate if we're going to follow the Constitution.
And Smith failed both requirements.
That's it.
Case closed.
Now, instead, he was uh anointed by the Attorney General Merrick Garland without legitimate statutory authority.
This this unilateral act, our friend Greg Jarrett probably has the best column on it, if you want to post it.
Um, you know, literally now commandeered the legislative right of Congress, and frankly, you know, what we should have what we should be respecting here is the idea of separation of powers and constitutional authority.
What canon said is the framers gave Congress a pivotal role in the appointment of principal and inferior officers.
That role can't be usurped by the executive branch or diffused elsewhere, whether in this case or in another case, whether in times of heightened national need or not, she's a thousand percent right.
What I love about Judge Cannon, she's come under fire.
Oh, Trump appointed judge.
Well, okay, well, at least she wasn't like Judge Mershawn and and a donor to the Biden campaign.
But in two cases, the U.S. Supreme Court emphasized that the appointments clause is more than a matter of etiquette or protocol.
It is among the most significant structural safeguards of our constitutional scheme.
And by naming Smith to this very powerful position, Garland relied mainly on internal regulations devised by the DOJ, deliberately circumventing Congress.
This is a clear-cut case.
This is not a controversial decision in any way.
And historic practice is argued and justified, you know, they claim his maneuver.
But, you know, that this is a misinformation.
And this is what Greg pointed out in his piece, Greg Jarrett, our friend.
It's it's true, other special counsels have been appointed.
Patrick Fitzgerald in the case against, you know, he went after Scooter Libby, Carl Grove at the time.
Robert Muller, John Durham, David Weiss, etc., Robert Hurr, all of them presidentially appointed, Senate approved in their prior positions as officers of the United States.
Here's one exception.
Jack Smith.
He never was.
Never.
Um anyway, here to weigh in on all of today's news, we have Joe Concha is with us, I think the best media guy in the country.
Uh boy, there's there's there's no dearth of news to talk about.
Uh you've been on fire lately.
I mean, are you do you like are you taking whatever Joe took on the State of the Union address tonight?
Because you've just you've just reached this new level in your game, and I gotta give you all credit for getting there.
You gave a rant on Friday's show that was almost as good as mine.
Maybe even better.
Almost, almost, right, which counts in horseshoes and hand grenades, but no, Sean, we've I couldn't.
Well, what do you want me to say?
My guests are a lot better than the host.
I mean, what the hell's wrong with you?
Are you out of your mind?
Linda's laughing right now, that that I do know.
No, of course not.
She's laughing.
The guy, you're the man.
Uh yeah, look.
Now it's just become I'm not a we know each other to a certain extent.
You know, we talk mostly on the air, but you mean we know each other?
We we're friends for crying out loud.
Stop stop dancing around the fact and being embarrassed to be my friend.
No, no, I'm not saying that.
It's just we we haven't, you know, played beer pong together and like done like the friends bracelet kind of thing, right?
So, but I I I think the point I'm trying to make is that Wait a minute, wait a minute.
You exchange bracelets with your friends.
No, Joe Biden and Barack Obama for doing it when they actually hate each other.
That that's that's all I'm saying.
You play beer punk.
How old are you and you're playing beer punk?
Uh I'm I'm on the I'm not on the back nine.
I'm approaching it, but uh look in the league and I'm I'm pretty good at it, so I I I just go with what you're talking about.
All right, I'm kidding.
Go ahead, make your point.
I have a point here, I swear to God.
And now I forgot it because we went up on so many Oh, yeah, that's we love doing that to our guests, but you talked about all of this about Democrats camped out in the offices, you know, and and the double standard in terms of the rhetoric, you were you were on your game calling this out uh over the weekend on X. And I was very proud of you because very few people did it.
I tried to do my version of it last night.
And you were all over it.
Let's talk about that.
Thanks.
Yeah.
So I I was in the Fox Screen Room Studio M. We're about to do the big weekend show.
It's it's Katie Pavlich and Jason Chafetz and and me that were in there at the time.
Brandon Devine was was back in makeup, and I saw this happen to President Trump, and at first I'm like, is he swatting a fly?
Like, what's he doing?
Like, and then you see him go down, you're like, then you hear the gunshots.
And um and uh the first thing I'm thinking of, I I I hope he's okay, and then when he gets back up, the fact that, you know, in one minute after the man was struck by a bullet and it and his ear is is just blown off, right?
And his head could have been blown off on national television, that that would have been it.
It's one millimeter, one millimeter, and he turned just to look at a screen he normally doesn't look at as far as a stat that he was trying to grab on immigration.
And Trump's first instinct is to then let his supporters know that he's okay, but not just the supporters, Sean, but the country, the world.
And then he says, fight, fight.
You could knock me down, I'm getting back up, and and and and you there's nothing you could do to stop me.
There was just such a I I I don't get emotional, is what I was trying to tell you.
Like if you know me pretty well, I'm not a terribly emotional person.
Maybe I gotta work on that part.
But I I'm uh I I was welling up in tears, and and uh and then I like thought, like after we knew that he was okay, like, okay, how's the media gonna cover this whole event?
Because obviously it's like a 9-11 type of thing where we all rally together and as one, you know, we say that this is unacceptable, and we see objective good reporting.
And then what do we see from there?
CNN has a headline.
Secret Service rushes Trump off stage after he falls at rally, you know, like a banana peel was there, and he happened to fall on the Secret Service right up, and they're like, how do you watch that live or on tape and and come to that conclusion, and that's that's CNN, you know, not it's not like some blogger in his basement.
Like that's what you come to the conclusion of?
Associated press.
Headline, quote, Donald Trump has been escorted off the stage during a rally after loud noises ring out in the crowd.
Loud noise.
It was clearly gunshots.
He had blood on his face, blood all over his ear, and you go with loud noises, you're the associated press.
You're supposed to be like a a wire service that we can count on, but no.
And then we see George Stephanopoulos yesterday, quote, President Trump and his supporters have contributed to this violent rhetoric as well.
Absolutely, George, said Martha Raditz, you know, the girl who cried on election night in twenty sixteen after Trump won.
And let's remember January sixth, she adds.
In other words, this is actually kind of Trump's fault, right?
Because he's been speaking with all this rhetoric that's bad.
Meanwhile, it was Joe Biden who said to put a bullseye on Donald Trump less than a week ago.
And we're talking about Trump's rhetoric.
So I I just was absorbing all this on X, on TV, and I say, boy, our media is gone.
It is broken.
You've been saying it since 2008.
I know that, but this moment deserved for once.
Can you people be objective and put the Trump derangements in aside?
And of course, many of them couldn't do it, and that's why I got his pissed off as I was.
You know, I and and rightly so.
I had the same reaction.
I I turned to a friend of mine that I was with.
I said they just killed him.
Oh, wow, really?
I thought they I at first I thought they had just killed him.
I thought Kennedy, you know, Kennedy grabbed for his neck in 63, you know, and then the head shot like once he grabbed for his I thought he grabbed for his neck, but it's actually his ear.
Yeah, I thought the same thing once he went down, like, oh boy.
And Sean, I mean, I'm I'm not conspiratorial in any way, shape, or form.
I try to live in a world of facts, but I'm how did that shooter 150 you know firearms better than I do.
150 yards away, is able to actually it's target practice.
I could do it my sleep.
Right, yeah, exactly.
I've I've I've talked to several people who've said that.
Like, that's nothing.
That's that's a two-foot putt, right?
That that's that's the term I keep hearing over and over again.
How there's like almost no buildings in the area.
That's the one building you had to secure.
How did this happen?
Yeah, I I totally agree with you.
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I'm Mary Catherine Hamm.
And I'm Carol Markowitz.
We've been in political media for a long time.
Long enough to know that it's gotten, well, a little insane.
That's why we started Normally, a podcast for people who are over the hysteria and just want clarity.
We talk about the issues that actually matter to the country without panic, without yelling, and with a healthy dose of humor.
We don't take ourselves too seriously, but we do take the truth seriously.
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You're our kind of people.
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All right, we're in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
We're gonna get to call's next half hour, 800-941 Sean.
If you want to be a part of the program.
Where are we?
Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
On Milwaukee?
You say Milwaukee.
So did you just now find Sir?
I did not, Mr. Oh, Milwaukee.
You are projecting your projected right into your pronunciation.
You're welcome.
We're gonna get a response and final moments with Joe Concha, then your calls 800-941.
Uh Sean, JD Vance on Hannity tonight, more on the assassination attempt of Donald Trump, and of course, Eileen Cannon's decision.
Twenty-five to the hour.
Toll free on numbers eight hundred nine four one Sean, if you'd like to join us as we come to you from beautiful Milwaukee, Wisconsin, at a pork shank last night.
It was delicious.
I know.
I'm just I'm becoming like David Portnoy.
I care about food more than anything.
He loves it.
Do you know who um do you know who Guy Fietti is?
By the way, who am I before I answered?
Who are you?
Miss Peaches.
Come here, Miss Peaches.
Let me give you I brought you a beautiful steak, Miss Peaches.
It's actually super weird the way he talks to that dog.
No, it's then it's actually.
I love my dog, but I don't talk to him like that.
Okay, yeah, but you you fed a cat so much that you had to send it out to a um uh hungry too.
I'm gonna steal a knife from my favorite comedian Nate Borgazi, where he says, you know, if my cat went out and had a couple birds outside, I don't know where they're putting on the weight.
I don't know.
He's not telling me I still gotta feed him, you know.
I don't know what's going on.
Okay, well, you did to that cat, it was four times the size of a normal cat.
And we showed the pictures that everyone was shocked that you had to send it away to a farm.
Yes.
A um farm freedom where it could run.
A weight challenging farm.
I don't know if I would call it weight.
I never heard of such a farm that existed for cats.
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Programming note, JD Vance, the vice presidential pick of Donald Trump will be on Hannity tonight.
Uh final moments, then your call's coming up, 800-941 Sean with Joe Concha.
Joe, you were you were on an X-Storm last night.
You know, CNN host scolds Donald Trump for saying fight after they tried to assassinate him.
Wow.
Margaret Brenner Brennan over at CBS doing the same thing on MSDNC.
You have Joy Reed last week.
Uh, well, Hitler uh keep Hitler out of the White House.
Uh how much what did Joe Biden say last week?
Donald Trump is evil.
And then we get a lecture from Donald uh from Joe Biden last night about we need to lower the temperature.
Well, are they gonna lower the temperature?
All their criticisms that are predictably coming against J.D. Vance, like they would any candidate.
Are they gonna do that?
Did anyone point out that Benny Thompson tried to take away Secret Service protection from Donald Trump for pure political partisan purposes?
Thankfully, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. just got word today that he's getting Secret Service protection.
I had him on the on Saturday night, and I'm was grateful he came on.
He was he's been kind of ducking us because I've been critical of his positions, but I have been a staunch advocate for him to get Secret Service protection.
He lost his father, he lost his uncle to assassination in this country.
His name makes him a target.
He's a presidential candidate.
Well, now Joe finally sees the light after the assassination attempt on Donald Trump.
Now, apparently Robert F. Kennedy met with President Trump this morning.
He did put on X. Our main topic was national unity, and I hope to meet with uh Democratic leaders about that as well.
No, I'm not dropping out of the race.
Um anyway, Joe Conchett commented about this hypocrisy.
Earlier, I mentioned Kamala Harris and the bail fund and the during the rioting in the summer of 2020.
We're not gonna stop.
They're not gonna stop.
Uh they shouldn't stop and you know uh what how come that's not viewed as an insurrection, Joe.
And how is it the media is mad at Trump for saying fight after he courageously stood up after being shot and and waved you know put his fist in the air saying he's strong that iconic video now.
Jamie Gangal, CNN that's not the language that is really useful right now.
Are you serious?
The guy nearly got his head blown off.
He gets up to show the country that I'm okay the it shows the world I'm okay and let's keep moving forward and and and that that you criticize him for I mean if you suffer from T uh TDS, you know, Trump derangent syndrome for for like more than four hours like go see your psychiatrist because you're you're gone now at this point.
But but I I mean Sean this last 18 days 18 days meaning since the debate think about this for a second.
Trump picks JD dancers as vice president right he unifies with RFK Jr.
Jack Smith his appointment is declared unconstitutional presidential immunity is struck down by the Supreme Court.
He destroyed Trump did Biden in the debate if Biden didn't destroy himself so now you have the left is exposed you have the media exposed you have the deep state exposed and and oh by the way Donald Trump survived an assassination attempt and then played golf the next day after getting shot at which I I don't know how he did it.
But by the way let me let me burst your bubble that was an older video that's fake news he did not play golf the next day and I only know because I asked him personally I saw the same thing you saw and I thought the same thing.
The media didn't correct it but he didn't play thank you see we fact check here.
I got it wrong I'm sorry that I said that like it No no no every but by the way it was reported everywhere.
Yeah it was everywhere.
That's true.
And I even had one host before I was on uh with with uh a station in London that said oh yeah I heard that he sank a 20 foot putt on the 18th hole I'm like wow I read the same thing.
So yeah you get you got to be very careful when you talk about these things.
But but the point is that here Donald Trump is already in Milwaukee.
He's gonna give this speech on Thursday night and you get this feeling just by watching that convention this air of in i it's inevitable, right?
And I hate to say that because you're gonna now tell me no no you got to vote, you gotta get out there.
I'm not saying that you know it's a lock but there's such an optimism around this convention that obviously 2020 that was at the White House South Wall basically it was COVID.
It was a bad time but in 2016 we didn't know what to expect.
But now Donald Trump said something at a rally that I was at in Wildwood, New Jersey that really resonated with me and I'm writing a book on the campaign and I I I jotted this down and put like five asterisks next to it.
And he said you know what I'm more popular and powerful than I was in 2016 or 2020 because unlike those races we actually now I had to talk about what a Democratic administration would be like under Hillary Clinton or under Joe Biden.
Now we saw it.
Now we we've felt it now we've lived it and now people see ah that's the alternative this is what you could have with me and if we're comparing the Trump presidency with the Biden presidency then this thing is over.
I mean we're seeing polling now Sean where Donald Trump is even in New Mexico, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Virginia, Minnesota this is crazy.
I mean Joe Biden is not nimble enough to to defend all those states and oh by the way he's losing in every swing state so you tell me you have this but I I I I they're in serious trouble because Joe Biden's gonna be the nominee right now.
He's not going anywhere because how can you take him out now at this point given what we saw on Saturday.
All right Joe Concha the only media person that frankly I trust or believe in that's honest uh you really deserve your own show on Fox.
I'm I'm hoping that that happens sooner than later.
Uh Joe Concha thank you my friend.
Thank you Sean.
Uh we do have some news NBC apparently uh Biden sat down for that interview with Lester Holt and uh said it was a mistake to you the use the word bullseye five days ago while discussing former president Trump but said to focus on what Trump would but said to focus on what Trump is doing.
Okay.
We know what Trump is wants to do, lower taxes, become energy dominant, control our borders, and the insanity of no bail laws, defund, dismantle the police, reimagine the police.
He wants to reassert America's role on the world stage and be the leader of the free world.
And he wants to do it without any long protracted conflicts or war.
And he will stand strong against America's top geopolitical foes and those with ties to terrorism.
Jim in Tennessee, Jim, welcome to Milwaukee.
How are you, sir?
Glad you uh hung in there.
Thanks for being with us.
Yes, sir.
Good afternoon.
Um just a couple of comments about Vance and the derogatory comments that that he may have made about Trump.
You know, Trump did the exact same thing uh during the 2016 um candidate race.
Uh Biden has done the same thing with Kamala Harris.
I think it's just part of the game, and Trump would be the first one to admit that.
Um I don't put any credence into what the media is going to say about him.
The other thing about his positions.
Well, can I have one thing on that topic alone?
Sure.
Donald Trump is very aware of those comments.
And Donald Trump's comfortable that JD at that point in his life really wasn't as active politically as he became.
And if he's comfortable, that's on that's up to Donald Trump.
That's why I didn't feel you know, I didn't feel I I needed a way in, even though people were pressuring the hell out of me as if my opinion mattered on this.
It doesn't.
It's up to Donald Trump.
If you remember correctly, during the during that that 2016 race, some of those people he made those derogatory comments about, he put in his cabinet.
So that's true.
And but and every other candidate from JD Van uh I'm sorry, from uh Doug Bergam, Marco Rubio, all the names we heard, they it all made negative comments about Trump at some time.
I mean, Trump does have an uncanny ability at times to piss pretty much everyone off.
Uh but but he then he has the ability to, you know, repair relationships and move on.
Yep.
The other thing I wanted to say is that a lot of people are going to question Vance about his position, and this goes towards every candidate in any any position within our government.
To me, while it's important to know what an individual candidate's position is, because we tend to vote uh for people who are like-minded.
I think the more important question that should be asked to all candidates is that should the will of the people go against what their own personal view is, would they still be willing to support the will of the people rather than their own ideology?
I think that's a great question.
I really do.
I think in this case, the role of a vice president is to support the policies of the president.
I think it's that simple.
And they'll go after J.D. and his former positions on abortion.
Uh they'll go after him.
Remember, he he kind of became an intellectual after going to Yale law school, etc.
And sometimes you give somewhat esoteric answers, not thinking you're ever running for political office on where you might stand on issues like abortion.
For example, I have one position in terms of where I stand morally on abortion, but I also understand the reality is that if Republicans uh ever say that they make no exceptions or that they're not for legalized abortion, you might as well not run for office because you're gonna lose and you're gonna get your ass kicked.
And that's not where the country is.
And at the end of the day, you're a public servant.
Some would say you're compromising your principles.
Well, it's certainly better than the extreme position of Democrats, which is uh no restrictions at all for late-term abortion among seven, eight, and nine.
Uh back to our busy phones as we say hi to Brent Brenda is in Oregon.
Hey, Brenda, how are you?
Glad you called.
Hey, hey, Sean.
Hope you're having fun in Milwaukee.
I am.
The food's great.
Uh so I just do not trust the Secret Service except for the people that have been around Trump for you know his regulars.
But with a DEI hire, and who sees the point?
I mean, there's just too many mistakes.
Uh why couldn't he use campaign funds and just um hire private uh uh private security?
And telling me I I don't think you should have to do that.
I mean, if you look at the how many hundreds of billions of dollars that have gone to Ukraine, can we not beef up security and our secret service that every person that needs secret service protection gets it and gets the that they get the proper training?
I mean, that that to me seems seems like a very simple thing to do.
And I it's so rudimentary that if you are within such a close shooting distance or any shooting distance of a president, former president, presidential candidate, you can't that that is considered the perimeter.
The idea, well, it's outside the perimeter.
A hundred and thirty yards is not an outside the perimeter.
That is as close inside the perimeter.
Anyone that has any skill with a rifle will tell you this was an easy shot.
Now, I thought in the beginning it might be somebody that was trained.
There is another factor that that we must bring into this as well.
If you're at a range and you're firing and you're you're hitting every target in and out.
Very different situation.
If you're firing to assassinate somebody, you might uh be as skilled as you are in the range, which might be the reason why he only pierced the ear.
Or the fact that maybe God turned Donald Trump's head at the right moment.
Hannity, you're invoking God.
Well, okay, Hannity guilty, it's just charged, I believe in God.
Uh thank you, Brenda.
Quickly, Lisa Utah, very short on time, Lisa.
What's on your mind today?
Thank you, Sean.
I have a comment and a question.
My comment is when I first tuned in, you were talking about someone with a very troubled childhood, and I thought, oh, he's talking about the 20-year-old shooter.
And then you went on to explain how they overcame their obstacles, and it was JD Vance.
And it just crystallized in my mind how it is not our circumstances that matter more.
It is our choices.
So it was just like, wow.
And then my uh question is how did that 20-year-old kid know that that building was going to be unguarded?
Because you don't just calling a rifle.
I it this we need answers.
There is no excuse for this part of it.
This is a security failure.
This can't happen in this country.
It can't.
And thank God it was only his ear.
It came within a millimeter of you know, us talking today about the assassination of Donald Trump.
How scary is that?
Joe Biden, I shouldn't have used the word in talking to Lester Holt at NBC News.
I don't think I should have used the word bullseye five days ago.
You think, Joe?
All right, that's gonna wrap things up for today.
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