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| It was very cool last night. | |
| I ended up doing two hours of Hannity because of the release that took place of this teacher. | |
| I mean, it's really amazing what is happening around the world. | |
| And Mark Fogle is his name. | |
| He was a history teacher, even quoted Winston Churchill when he made it to the Oval Office with the president. | |
| Met outside by the president. | |
| And anyway, he was, you know, to serve a 14-year sentence. | |
| He served about three and a half years in jail, all during the Biden years. | |
| And you know, he profusely was thanking President Trump and his team. | |
| That would include Secretary of State Rubio and guys like Steve Whitkov, who actually flew to Russia to meet with Putin and pick him up. | |
| Um it just is great to see happen. | |
| And it's great to see Americans come home. | |
| I had only known of seven American hostages worldwide that had been released. | |
| The other six, Rick Rennell was responsible in large part for that negotiation with Venezuela. | |
| I didn't even know Venezuela had American hostages. | |
| And now this morning, uh the White House said that the president secured the release of at least three people jailed in Belarus, including an American that it has not named and a journalist in in Belarus, Adam Bowler, the White House special envoy, he's also get deserves a lot of the credit. | |
| The president deserves the most credit uh for the hostage affair, telling reporters that the prisoners released in Belarus were not part of any exchange to his knowledge. | |
| Vladimir Putin was not involved. | |
| Although you have to believe anything Belarus does is probably Putin-related. | |
| Uh they do have an authoritarian leader and a close ally to Putin, but one of the individuals is an American citizen who wants to remain private. | |
| And Belarus also released Radio Free Europe, Radio Liberty journalist, a guy by the name of uh Andre uh Kuzachik, and who's more than what, three years in prison on charges, you know, criticized as politically motivated. | |
| I mean, when you travel aboard abroad, you better be you better be careful. | |
| Anyway, Mark Fogle last night calling Trump a hero. | |
| Uh these men came from the diplomatic services, our heroes. | |
| He thanked uh his home senator, uh Dave McCormick for his active involvement in it. | |
| The senators, representatives passed legislation. | |
| The president was pretty funny last night. | |
| You know, would you like to go see the Lincoln Bedroom? | |
| You know, not many people get to see the Lincoln Bedroom. | |
| I've actually seen the Lincoln Bedroom. | |
| It is it is pretty cool. | |
| And uh Abraham Lincoln was pretty tall, and it's a pretty long bed, and it's pretty low to the ground. | |
| That's the best way to describe it. | |
| And they have the Gettysburg Address uh actually in the room, the the Gettysburg address. | |
| Um anyway, it's fantastic news. | |
| I think it has broader implications, and the broader implications simply are that we now have Vladimir, we have Zelinsky on record as saying that um he is open to a peace deal. | |
| And we have now I I think this is obviously the only way to interpret this is to say that that Vladimir Putin is interested in Donald Trump and getting a deal done, which I think is critical. | |
| You know, it's funny because I it didn't get any play here in the U.S., but Vladimir Putin did put out a statement not that long ago in the last couple of weeks, as it as it relates to President Trump and you know, and how supportive they were, was uh which I found pretty fascinating. | |
| And anyway, Putin said, I assure you that Donald Trump with his character with his persistence, he will restore order there quite quickly. | |
| He's speaking about Europe, and all of uh of and all of them will see, meaning Europe, and it will happen quickly and soon. | |
| They will all stand at the feet of the master and they'll wag their their tails in a little. | |
| Everything will fall into place. | |
| And you can see that is now beginning to happen. | |
| Now, it's been reported that President Trump got on the phone with Vladimir Putin earlier today. | |
| They had a wide-ranging discussion, and they covered everything from Ukraine, the Middle East, energy, artificial intelligence, the power of the dollar, and other important topics. | |
| And uh the president said we both agreed we want to stop the millions of deaths from taking place in the war with Russia and Ukraine. | |
| So now you've got both sides expressing that they want a negotiated settlement. | |
| I could tell you what the settlement is going to be. | |
| And uh when I interviewed Zelensky for TV, and we didn't get to the second part of the interview. | |
| The second part of the interview, I did ask him if he would be paying back, being such a mineral rich country. | |
| Does he plan on paying back the American people for the two hundred billion dollars that they paid to fund that war is you know, Joe Biden kept escalating it by being basically it bec if it evolved into a proxy war between the U.S. and Ukraine. | |
| You know, the problem is is that the Russians have have so bombed out such large areas and cities uh and of Ukraine. | |
| I mean, the the process of rebuilding is is a decades long, probably longer, you know, lift for them, and it's gonna be really hard. | |
| Trump posted on Truth Social. | |
| I just had a lengthy, highly productive phone call with President Vladimir Putin of Russia. | |
| We discussed Ukraine, the Middle East, energy, artificial intelligence, the power of the dollar, various other subjects. | |
| We reflected on our great history, the great history of our nations and the fact that we fought so successfully together in World War II, remembering that Russia lost tens of millions of people, and we likewise lost so many. | |
| We each talked about the strengths of our respective nations and the great benefit that we will someday have in working together. | |
| But first, as we both agreed, we want to stop the millions of deaths taking place in this war with Russia and Ukraine. | |
| And President Putin even used my very strong campaign motto of quote common sense. | |
| We both believe very strongly in it. | |
| We agreed to work together very closely, including visiting each other's nations. | |
| We have also agreed to have our respective teams start negotiations immediately, and we will begin by calling President Zelensky of Ukraine to inform him of the conversation, something of which I will be doing right now. | |
| I have asked the Secretary of State Marco Rubio, director of the CIA, John Ratcliffe, National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, ambassador and special envoy Steve Whitkoff to lead the negotiations, which I feel strongly will be successful. | |
| Millions of people have died in a war that uh that would not have happened if I were president, but it did happen, and so it must end. | |
| No more lives should be lost. | |
| I want to thank President Putin for his time and effort with respect to the call and the release yesterday of Mark Fogle, a wonderful man that I personally greeted last night at the White House. | |
| I believe this effort will lead to a successful conclusion, hopefully soon. | |
| Um wow, what a difference. | |
| You know, he's only begun his fourth week in office, President Trump. | |
| That's it. | |
| It's all he's only been there four weeks. | |
| And you know, when you watch the media freak out over all things Donald Trump, you would think that nothing great is happening. | |
| But you know what? | |
| Every day there's something new. | |
| Even little things. | |
| I saw today that you know the president could call claw back four point three billion dollars in unspent federal funds for this ridiculous California high speed rail project, just as he froze a billion for the perpetually delayed and derailed project during his first term as president. | |
| He stopped nearly a billion dollars from going to California for the project after the governor Gavin Newsom scaled back the original plan for the bullet train to link San Francisco and Los Angeles. | |
| I mean, this makes no sense, by the way. | |
| It's now supposed to travel between small towns in rural central and the central Valley of California, Merced and Bakersfield. | |
| And they don't need a train. | |
| It's called an automobile. | |
| Drive a car. | |
| And it's not like you're going to be in LA traffic or San Francisco traffic. | |
| Presno B reporting that Elon's Department of Government efficiency could have the ailing project in its sights. | |
| The first $2.5 billion in federal grants awarded by the Obama administration in 2009. | |
| What the hell's taken so long under the American Recovery Reinvestment Act has been fully spent, matched by an equal amount of state money, almost 4.3 billion remains unspent, most of that awarded by the Department of Transportation under Joe Biden. | |
| The unspent federal funds conceivably could be subject to cancellation by a hostile Trump administration. | |
| This is in the Fresno B. It's not hostile. | |
| It's a boondoggle. | |
| It's a waste of taxpayer money. | |
| And it's time to cut your losses, considering you're not getting the job done. | |
| This this thing was, you know, supposed to be done, you know, a decade ago for crying out loud. | |
| How long does it take to build a railway? | |
| And how do you do it so incompetently? | |
| Anyway, so it's interesting to watch Putin agreeing to work with uh Trump to end the war in Ukraine. | |
| Zelinski agreeing to the same. | |
| And now you see what the difference is when you have a president that is actually engaged. | |
| Um we do have some updates on Trump appointments, by the way. | |
| Tulsi Gabbard has been uh confirmed as the director of national intelligence. | |
| Uh and it looks like Cash Patel is not going to be far behind. | |
| First, it'll be RFK Jr., either sometime late tonight or tomorrow. | |
| And he definitely has the votes to do it on the Tulsi Gabbard uh vote, it was 5248. | |
| The only Republican voting against Tulsi was Mitch McConnell, who's just become, you know, Mitt Romney on steroids. | |
| I mean, it it really is pathetic. | |
| You know, you would think with you would think if there's one person that would understand how hard the job as a Senate major majority leader would be, it would be Mitch McConnell having had that position. | |
| He just needs to honestly, it's time, it's time to go home, Mitch. | |
| He keeps falling down. | |
| He's having these these mental, you know, disturbances, if you want to call them in public constantly. | |
| Anyway, so Tulsi Gabbard is in. | |
| RFK Jr. will be in. | |
| Susan Collins announced that she will vote to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. | |
| She said, and that's a big boost for Kennedy's confirmation. | |
| And uh anyway, earlier this year, Collins called some of his past comments and statements alarming, but you know, a lot of it was taken out of context. | |
| And, you know, I thought he did a pretty good job in his hearings, and as belligerent as they were to him, and they were belligerent, and so you know, and then the press reports he's taking your polio vaccine, he's taking away your measles vaccine. | |
| He's not, he's not doing any such thing at all. | |
| And it's always been one big lie on their part. | |
| So that's the latest there. | |
| Um the other front where war is taking place. | |
| It was interesting. | |
| We'll get into more specificity later, but the Jordan King Abdullah, you know, said to the president that his nation will take in thousands of sick children from the Gaza Strip, as Trump predicted that Jordan and Egypt would set aside a parcel of land for Palestinians to live ahead of the takeover of the enclave, and that's been another media lie about what Donald Trump has planned for Gaza. | |
| What did he say that he would do? | |
| He said that he would go in there, he would we would take the risk and we'd get the bombs and the weaponry and demilitarize the area, then clean out all the rubble because Gaza's been pretty much leveled, and then begin the process of working with Arab nations to rebuild Gaza into a place that somebody's gonna want to live, | |
| and hopefully, you know, we have a strong enough presence militarily, or Israel does, or somebody does, that this can no longer be a launching pad for the Palestinians or for their proxy Iran. | |
| All good for the American people. | |
| We have Matt Towery and Robert Cahaley saying Donald Trump up by nine points. | |
| Another new poll out in last year's election, 21% of African American men supported Donald Trump, a 70-year record high for a Republican presidential candidate. | |
| Washington uh examiner has a poll out today. | |
| Democrats on the ropes uh with a surging support from African Americans, prompting a poll to declare the quote black men love Trump, and it shows a shocking 42% approval rating from from African American men, a massive edge over any past Republican president. | |
| Uh and they I'll tell you there's a good reason that you know Amer Americans, you know, regardless of background, race, what whatever, they're all supporting Donald Trump. | |
| Because he's rooting out the waste, fraud, abuse, and corruption, and that's gonna free up money to make our cities and towns more safe and secure and our schools better. | |
| And it doesn't matter that you have these federal judges blocking Trump's executive orders. | |
| You know, one turns out to be a democratic megadonor. | |
| I'll tell you about this on the other side. | |
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| Hey everybody, it's Linda McLaughlin with the Sean Hannity Show, and we are thrilled to be with Yayel X Dean today. | |
| She is the CEO of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, and she knows exactly what is happening on the ground in Israel. | |
| And that's why she's here with us today for our Israel Today minute. | |
| Hi, yeah. | |
| So great to see you again. | |
| It's always wonderful to see you, Linda. | |
| You know, you were recently traveling through southern Israel, and we were just in Sarot, which over the years has been one of the most Embattled cities in Israel, less than a mile from the Gaza border. | |
| Can you tell us a bit about what you saw and how are the people there surviving? | |
| Well, what I saw is a community that's trying to rebuild. | |
| As you drive across Southern Israel, you see full communities that were destroyed by missiles that were destroyed on October 7th and have yet to be able to be rebuilt because we are still at war. | |
| When I was in Sterot and at the Gaza border, there were still rockets being launched. | |
| As I sat in a meeting with the survivor October 7th, there was a rocket that flew overhead, and she looked at me and she said, the trauma just comes back every single time. | |
| And so the people of the South are both strong and resilient, and they're also in need of a lot of love and support, which the fellowship is giving them. | |
| It's not just about the soup kitchens that the fellowship has there, food boxes that we're distributing. | |
| It's the message that we represent millions of Christians who haven't forgotten Sarah, who haven't forgotten the Jewish people who are living less than 400 meters away from the Gaza Strip, which is full of terrorists who want to kill and wipe out Israel. | |
| Uh, it's that message of Christians understand what the Jewish people in Israel are going through and will never turn their backs. | |
| And it's also knowing that the IFCJ will never leave them alone. | |
| They're always there for you. | |
| Yes. | |
| Thank you, Yayel. | |
| Thanks so much, Linda. | |
| Thanks again, everybody. | |
| This is Linda McLaughlin with the Sean Hannity Show, and Yayel X Dean of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews. | |
| We'll see you next time for the Israel Today Minute. | |
| You know, you see this poll on African American men in support. | |
| You know, and this this is where the insanity of the left, and I'm all for it. | |
| If they want to implode and blow themselves up, I'm all for that too. | |
| But the idea that they want to double down on tens and what will ultimately be hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars in waste, fraud, abuse, corruption, spending internationally on their radical agenda, and double down on men and women's sports and double down on protecting people that are in this country illegally. | |
| Let them be that party. | |
| The Republican Party can be the party of working men and women and the party that looks out for hardworking taxpayers. | |
| I think that's a pretty good uh agenda to run on bold inspired solutions for America. | |
| You know, it's so funny when judges try to stifle the president's initiatives. | |
| Um he does have the option, and this is where the left and the media are so hypocritical. | |
| He does have the option of ignoring court orders. | |
| I mean, Joe Biden did it with student loans. | |
| Joe Biden didn't respect the law when it came to the border. | |
| Um, if you want to go back in time, we can do that in February of 2023. | |
| Yeah, Democratic Senator Ron Wyden advising the Biden administration to ignore a Texas judge and a ruling on abortion. | |
| You know, there are moments in history where Americans and their leaders must look at circumstances like this one and say enough. | |
| A judge's ruling ruling stands because elected leaders and citizens have agreed that abiding by them is the right necessary thing to do to uphold the rule of law. | |
| That's a special social contract in America, but the judiciary must uphold its end of the social contract, too. | |
| That means, let me interpret that. | |
| That means to rule the way they want. | |
| They've got to follow the rule of law, earn the confidence of the American people continually, every day, every month, every year. | |
| The awful reality is that the moment this case is landed in front of this particular judge. | |
| It's been a rig game all along. | |
| It's illegitimate. | |
| The case is an affront to the constitution, the rule of law. | |
| So here's what must happen if and when a judge issues his nationwide injunction halting access. | |
| This happened to be access to the abortion pill. | |
| President Biden and the FDA must ignore it. | |
| Oh. | |
| I thought that's a constitutional crisis. | |
| If you listen to, you know, Democrats today, AOC, echoing widen, you know, saying, I think we've been preparing and anticipating for there being some egregious overreaches by members of the judiciary appointed by right wing Republican Party members whose goal a very long time was to just pack these courts with partisan judges, often underqualified, completely unqualified for their role. | |
| And so there has been thought, I believe, given to this, Senator Wyden has already issued statements, for example, advising that we should do in situations like this, which I concur, which is I believe that the Biden administration should ignore the court ruling. | |
| Now, if Donald Trump does this threat to democracy, our constitutional order. | |
| No, none of which is true. | |
| A federal judge responsible. | |
| Again, what are Democrats doing? | |
| What they can't win at the ballot box in the arena of ideas, what they cannot do legislatively because they don't have the votes, they are trying to use the courts to block a duly elected president from fulfilling the promises that he made to the American people. | |
| So know what they're up to here. | |
| And this is uh a long strategy, long time strategy of Democrats. | |
| Anyway, they have this judge John McConnell, according to trending politics, has a history of contributing hundreds of thousands of dollars to Democratic campaigns and political action committees. | |
| He served as a U.S. district judge in Rhode Island in 2011, previously a personal injury attorney. | |
| What a shock. | |
| And records from the FEC indicate that before taking the bench, he made significant donations to Democratic politicians, including Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, and that also extended to Democratic PACs, various Senate and House campaigns. | |
| Public filing show these donations amount to several hundred thousand dollars, making him one of the more politically active federal judges in terms of campaign contributions, and he's been a consistent donor to the Democratic candidates and committees over multiple election cycles, and his contributions primarily support Democrats and Democratic congressional campaigns and national committees and political action committees. | |
| Anyway, in the Senate, this guy has, you know, backed Rhode Island Democrat Jack Reed, and I can go on and on and on here. | |
| And, you know, while uh judicial ethics rules prohibit federal judges from making political donations, once confirmed to the bench, his past financial ties raise obvious concerns about his impartiality. | |
| It's uh look, even Jonathan Turley said this the other day. | |
| He said the the left is it he finds it beyond bewildering because he's is a Democrat. | |
| It's not bewildering to me because it's it stopped Trump at any cost. | |
| And he said, I think that Trump is on very solid ground with the buyout, for example, which they put a temporary restraining order on. | |
| I'm still a bit baffled by what the court's doing here. | |
| If the presidents are allowed to dictate conditions of employees coming into office, uh what they're working on, all of that is part of Article II powers and the president controlling the executive branch. | |
| If not, even today, you know, certain w uh what the constitutional problem is. | |
| You have sixty-five thousand employees who are told we're gonna let you we'll let you stay at home and look for a job as long as you agree to resign and give a number of months notice that they're gonna be paid for. | |
| I mean, another judge, you know, ordering the HHS, CDC, FDA to restore deleted web pages, and in this case, the the judge agreed to grant a temporary restraining order, sought by a group called Doctors for America, arguing that their members use the websites when treating patients and conducting research. | |
| That's not what this is for. | |
| The nonprofits said the removal of the web pages, you know, violates federal law, and the judge found that the challengers were likely to succeed in their claims uh that these agencies acted unlawfully when they stripped medical information from public-facing websites. | |
| Well, what if they don't agree? | |
| And what if it's not science? | |
| Uh we had a lot of websites that said take the jab. | |
| I'm not sure most Americans uh are that happy that it that they ended up believing the lie that if they got the COVID vaccine that they'd never get COVID or that they would never inf infect other people. | |
| Anyway, Elon Musk is vowing to root out the highest paid DC bureaucrats. | |
| He's finding people that are paid, you know, X number of hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, but they end up, you know, multi, multi, multi, multi-millionaires. | |
| Now, Donald Trump's FEMA has handled 80%. | |
| This was in worst Western Journal of the cases of Western North Carolina in five days. | |
| Less than 20 days. | |
| Anyway, President Trump visited the community, as did you know, Christy Gnome and the vice president Vance and so many others, and they secured for the people of North Carolina 54 million for families in need. | |
| They registered. | |
| He was taking kicking people out of hotels and motels anyway, and they were registering families that needed assistance that hadn't got the type of help that they needed and helped them sign up for the programs that are available to them. | |
| Now, rather than spending money on woke, Green New Deal DEI programs, transgenderism, LGBTQ, this is what this is what the government's supposed to do. | |
| Help people, Americans out in need. | |
| Uh the president now speaking out. | |
| He wants details provided about his two assassinations attempts. | |
| I want to find out about the two assassins. | |
| Why did one guy have a have six cell phones and why did the other guy have foreign apps? | |
| I think, and why is the FBI taking so long to get into it? | |
| Um, a House Republican did announce, by the way, that he's drafting articles of impeachment against that federal judge that's trying to block Elon Musk and Doge from accessing Treasury Department payment systems. | |
| You know, some of these people have no business being on the bench. | |
| They're just politically motivated. | |
| Speaking of Doge, you know, they were able to chop one billion with a B off the Department of Education budget. | |
| Nearly a billion dollars in contracts with federal the Federal Department of Education have been terminated, including one for 1.5 million dollars to observe mailing and clerical operations at a mail facility and scores of contracts involving DEI. | |
| Eighty-nine contracts were more than eight hundred and eighty-one million have been ended by Doge. | |
| And it said it also took the fiscal chainsaw to 29 diversity equity inclusion programs costing around 101 million dollars. | |
| I mean, this is insane. | |
| A DHS audit compelled in January found that FEMA wasted 10 billion dollars during the Biden years. | |
| A FEMA audit identified approximately 32.8 billion dollars in proper payments, but they didn't have enough money to help the people in North Carolina. | |
| Unreal. | |
| You know, and if you look at these idiots over at MSDNC, uh Elon Musk could literally cause a global financial panic. | |
| We'll play it later. | |
| And now the latest line by the elected Democrats is uh, and it's kind of funny actually. | |
| You know, F Donald Trump, F Donald Trump. | |
| I'm like, uh, does that make you feel better? | |
| Because you can say it as often as you want. | |
| I'll tell you, I'm from Jersey, so I look a little differently. | |
| I say Trump F. Trump. | |
| I don't swear in public very well, but we have to Trump. | |
| Woo! | |
| Woo! | |
| Please don't tell my children that I just did that. | |
| All right, she said Trump. | |
| I said four F-O-R-K. | |
| Let me hear you say it. | |
| Oh K. We are going to beat the I I was gonna say, but no, we're not. | |
| No, I'm not gonna say that. | |
| Donald Trump and Elon Musk. | |
| It's this it's stunning. | |
| This is what this party's reduced to. | |
| Donald Trump signing an order instructing Doge to massively cut the federal workforce. | |
| Well, I call that a return to constitutional order. | |
| You know, but cutting Department of Education contract saving a billion. | |
| You know, FEMA's sickening, disgusting history of misspending billions of taxpayer dollars. | |
| You know, the most recent audit, you know, showed that they mismanaged nearly $10 billion during the COVID pandemic. | |
| You know, in the Biden years. | |
| Daily Wire points out that government is to fund a study on the fear of deportation leading to sus systemic inflammation. | |
| I mean, you gotta be kidding me. | |
| You know, the study hypothesizes that engaging in political activism would reduce systemic uh inflammation in illegal immigrants. | |
| Oh, that's that's good money after bad. | |
| Why don't we just get the sex change operations? | |
| You know, the president, by the way, has fired the FEMA employees that ignored his executive order and decided to pay off $59 million to New York City for more luxury hotel stays for illegal immigrants. | |
| You know, Trump said FEMA should be terminated. | |
| It really should be terminated. | |
| They left the people of North Carolina high and dry. | |
| Uh we have, you know, minor things that we're finding. | |
| A budget of $850 billion. | |
| They're now digging into the Pentagon. | |
| Long plague. | |
| Remember the $500 hammers or whatever it costs for a hammer. | |
| Anyway, with an annual budget of $850 billion, the Pentagon has been plagued by waste fraud and abuse accusations, inefficiency in defense programs. | |
| Well, just starting with eliminating DEI is going to save, you know, tens, if not hundreds of millions of dollars. | |
| But they've, you know, this has gone on for a long time, but they're going to find billions, hundreds of millions in waste, fraud, abusing, and corruption. | |
| And, you know, they're going to go through it with a fine-tooth comb. | |
| And the inclination of Musk and his team seems to be to cut to cull federal employees, but find the cost-cutting advocates and outsource work to contractors that, you know, will have the opposite effect. | |
| They only get paid, you know, if they do a good job. | |
| Now we have reports of, you know, a $1,300 coffee cups. | |
| And this is this is insane. | |
| $800,000 overpay for soap dispensers. | |
| I mean, that that's what you get when you have, you know, a Department of Treasury that doesn't decline any spending in the Biden year in the Biden Harris years. | |
| Trump fired the U.S. aid watchdog uh uh the day after the report criticized the gutting of the agency. | |
| Well, obviously that person has no business working for Donald Trump. | |
| None what at all, whatsoever. | |
| Um, homeland securities put their staff involved in disinformation and the disinformation board on administrative leave, which I think is out of sync with what President Trump wants. | |
| We have Marjorie Taylor Green as a doge panel to launch their first budget slashing here uh hearing this week. | |
| She'll be on Hannaday tonight. | |
| And so much more happening. | |
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| It's like impossible just to keep up with the headlines. | |
| Never mind the the depth and specificity that I love to go into, but I mean, you really need to keep up. | |
| You need you need to move at the speed of light or the speed of Trump. | |
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