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| And that is that Donald Trump is fighting a cartel of vile, corrupt, far left judges trying to kill his campaign promises. | |
| Caroline Levitt, the White House press secretary, ripping this partisan judge over President Trump's migrant flights, illegal immigrants, in this case, linked to Trende Aragua, the violent gang now labeled a domestic terrorist organization. | |
| And then we have a a whole laundry list of of background on the judges that have been blocking Key Trump executive orders. | |
| Uh, and we see that many of them have a history of left-wing activism and democratic donations. | |
| The Biden-appointed judge blocking transgender military, that that band used to be an anti-Trump legal activist. | |
| Uh Trump's attorney general claims this judge in in this particular case as it relates to deportations, and she's right, and we went through the four private prior presidents that have uh used the Alien Enemies Act uh to deport people in the Supreme Court decision in 1948 that absolutely upheld that law uh in a landmark decision that you think John Roberts would be aware of. | |
| And uh and the and the AG Pam Bondy is fighting back as hard as she can, the federal judge temporarily blocking the Trump administration from reclaiming the billion dollar climate grants that have been out there. | |
| This is the same uh judge in in this particular case that was involved with Jack Smith in the case on January 6th. | |
| It just it just never seems to to end. | |
| And we have a list of the Obama judges who are working to sabotage Trump's agenda and a Biden-appointed judge blocking Trump's Pentagon from banning trans transgender troops, and they're stopping what the American people voted for. | |
| Now, Governor DeSantis, my governor had a great idea, and others have discussed it. | |
| We've discussed it as well. | |
| He uh very articulately laid it out on X. Congress has the authority to strip jurisdiction of the federal courts to decide these cases in the first place, sabotaging President Trump's agenda by resistant judges or resistance judges, uh uh is predictable. | |
| Why are what why are there no jurisdiction stripping bills teed up? | |
| You can't have all these local judges in most cases unelected, unaccountable to the American people that are just, you know, ruling by executive fiat and taking away a president's power, uh a duly elected president's power to do the job the American people sent him to Washington to do. | |
| Now Pam Bondy spoke out about this and here's what she had to say. | |
| You is there something you can do or do you need the Supreme Court here to play ball to get this going quickly to get resolution? | |
| Yeah well we will appeal through the process but we we do anticipate getting there quickly yes we do need the Supreme Court we anticipate that because many of these lawsuits of course are filed right here in DC many of these injunctions these liberal activist judges are based right here these these judges who have no right to control President Trump's agenda. | |
| Yeah we of course we need the Supreme Court we will get there we will get there fast and we will prevail. | |
| Now Pam Pam Bondi also is not the only one that in the administration that has spoken out Mike Waltz defending the deportations to El Salvador a wholesale shift of what a terrorist is and he is correct. | |
| Why is this being done to protect you, the American people we see what has happened with gangs like Trend Aragua. | |
| We have known terrorists, murderers, rapists, cartel members, gang members in our country we've got to be able to deport them the president has the authority to do it as codified by the U.S. Supreme Court and by precedent. | |
| We had nine eleven to begin thinking about Al Qaeda like the terrorists that they are trendy agua has Aragua has been labeled a terrorist organization. | |
| They are no different than ISIS uh they maim, kill, torture, uh create mayhem chaos uh on our streets in the United States and I think if you had some of those you know tattooed shaved head men uh labeled ISIS, then we wouldn't even be having this debate. | |
| So this is about a wholesale shift on what a terrorist is and how they should be treated in the United States, uh how they should be treated when they're attacking our soil and when they're violating our sovereignty and when they're terrorizing our citizens. | |
| All right joining us now is the Attorney General of South Carolina and that's Alan Wilson is with us and a group of uh Republican state attorneys general is filing an amicus brief at the U.S. Court of appeals in DC uh urging the circuit court to reverse a judge's order to block Donald Trump from deporting the alleged Trend Aragua gang members and basically saying one one AG saying these judges are basically supporting foreign terrorist organizations is over the safety of the American people. | |
| And by the way, these are you know all this is all connected to Democrats all of it. | |
| Because what they cannot get done electorally at the ballot box, what they cannot get done legislatively race to these activist uh judges, they go judge shopping and this is how they're trying to stop in its tracks the agenda that Donald Trump was elected to enforce. | |
| Anyway, Mr. Attorney General welcome back. | |
| Good to have you. | |
| It's great to be with you, Sean. | |
| Thanks for having me. | |
| Well, I think that we could put a final end to it if Republicans would unite behind Governor DeSantis and his idea, and other people have had the idea as well, and just put this to rest once and for all, and they won't have jurisdiction. | |
| Although, you know, it's frustrating when you have a 1948 Supreme Court ruling on this very topic, and in that very ruling it says that they don't even have a right to judicial review, And that raises the question, what part of Supreme Court precedent and what what part of that ruling John Roberts didn't understand. | |
| Well Sean I want to remind people that Trendaragua the the gang at the center of this is a gang that has actually been stood up and supported by the Maduro regime in Venezuela. | |
| So this is a not a domestic terrorist organization while they may be doing uh domestic terrorism there are foreign uh terrorist organizations designated by the Trump administration so that makes them foreign actors of a foreign government which supports the alien enemies act uh arguments that have been made by the Trump administration. | |
| Um last summer there were no TDA in South Carolina according to the Drug Enforcement Administration officials I met with now they're all over our state. | |
| So th this is why me and other twenty five other state AGs are very concerned that the the the a single court of federal district court judges trampling all over the president's Article two powers to be able to engage in foreign affairs and promote national security. | |
| You know, we can't do this without President Trump and his team, and so that's why we're doing what we're doing right now in federal court. | |
| Well, I hope you're successful at it. | |
| Now, uh the problem is is this this is going to the DC uh Court of Appeals, and I appreciate the fact that you've you've put forward this brief along with the other attorneys general. | |
| Uh however, uh I I don't really feel the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia is the best venue for you, and I would imagine that the odds are probably against you. | |
| Well, my my aim, my my target is the U.S. Supreme Court. | |
| I mean, we have a 6-3 court that 90% of the time gets it right. | |
| Uh not not 100% of the time, but I think we got a legitimate shot here of getting this to the U.S. Supreme Court, where the Supreme Court can underscore the President's Article II powers and his uh federal statutory uh power, which is the codification of the Alien Enemies Act. | |
| That's Title Fifty that we've been talking about that allows the president to push back against predatory incursions by agents of foreign governments, which is what TDA is. | |
| And so getting this to the Supreme Court, I think is what our ultimate goal is, not not the Court of Appeals in the DC circuit. | |
| Well, I think that that's probably a good strategy on your part, and I uh appreciate all of that. | |
| What are the main arguments you're gonna make? | |
| Because I think the nineteen forty-eight Supreme Court precedent should pave the way for their decision. | |
| It's by the way, and by the way, two of the four presidents, you know, we're not doing this during wartime, and the president is saying that this is an ill illegal invasion. | |
| No, no, you're absolutely right. | |
| I couldn't agree with you more. | |
| I mean, our arguments are very simple. | |
| I mean, obviously, if you look at the U.S. Constitution, the co and the court's uh prior interpretations of the Article II powers of the President. | |
| They're very broad, they're very wide, they're um they allow the president areas of foreign policy and national security to have unfettered discretion to go ahead and do things like this. | |
| This judge and courts and other judges like him have no more right to go to the Pentagon and tell generals that they can't fire missiles at um enemy combatants or direct troop movements in a foreign battlefield than they can tell the president of the United States he can't remove, you know, i i enemy combatants or foreign terrorists. | |
| There's no difference than if Osama bin Laden was being taken out of the United States, in my opinion. | |
| So that that is uh that is our legal argument on this issue. | |
| Oh, I think that I think the legal arguments are on solid ground. | |
| Uh how would you what would the other arguments be if he if this does eventually make it up to the Supreme Court? | |
| What are the other arguments you think you can make? | |
| Well, I mean, honestly, Article Two of the U.S. Constitution, Title Fifty, Section 21 of the Alien Enemies Act, I mean, are the two primary arguments, but also not, you know, resp the respect for presidential authority that the TRO, this temporary restraining order the judge order gave is the wrong remedy. | |
| I mean, these people are being basically it's about whether they have a hearing before they're deported or you know, after they're deported. | |
| The point is is they're being deported no matter what, and they're stopping the federal the federal government is being stopped by judges from removing foreign terrorist actors that are being stood up by a foreign government regime in Venezuela from being removed from the United States. | |
| This is the kind of stuff that is putting our citizenry in harm's way. | |
| This is this is having a a negative impact on public safety. | |
| And so the court needs to allow the executive branch to execute the laws and get the federal district court judges out of the business of being law enforcement officers or enforcement agents. | |
| Yeah, well said. | |
| Anyway, we're gonna uh keep up with this case. | |
| Attorney General Alan Wilson, South Carolina, thank you, and thanks to the other 24 AGs around the country that are joining with you to to put an end to this so that the president uh can enact his his agenda that he was duly elected to enact. | |
| And uh I find this, you know, this is a common tactic of the left. | |
| We appreciate your time, sir. | |
| Thank you, Sean. | |
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| John is in the great state of Arkansas. | |
| John, hi. | |
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| I'm great. | |
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| Hey, I got a I'm good. | |
| Not a question, more of a statement. | |
| Um it seems like to me that the Democrats are kind of like it's like a a marriage uh when one person is cheating on the other. | |
| They're telling you what they're doing. | |
| And it sounds so outlandish. | |
| Like um, like say uh like when all the Democrats wouldn't stand up and clap for that that kid during the the the speech that president gave and said they were told, you know, don't do this. | |
| But they're all sitting there saying you guys are Nazis. | |
| Hitler uh uh Trump is Hitler. | |
| Well, when you're being told not to do something, and you do it even knowing in your heart that hey, you know what, let's stand up for this kid. | |
| I mean, I don't care if they don't like anybody else. | |
| That kid has no partisan. | |
| And the other thing, another thing that they're telling is like Maxime Waters. | |
| She's like, Trump is gonna start uh a civil war. | |
| No, ma'am. | |
| It is you that is gonna start the civil war with all your rhetoric. | |
| If you had just tone that down, bring it back, because I don't know what these people are you know burning up these Tesla stations and shooting stuff. | |
| I don't know where they're getting their news from, but I mean, I think common sense would be going, hey, let's not do this. | |
| This is a crime and all for saving m money. | |
| I don't get this. | |
| I I don't I don't get it either. | |
| I yeah, except that I can say is that they are they have totally completely gone off the rails. | |
| I've never seen a party disintegrate like this before our eyes, and I've been doing this a long time. | |
| And in many ways, if if that's their path, let them do it. | |
| You know, there's been one Democrat that I can now name uh that has a Tesla manufacturing center in his district, Rokana, that said, please stop doing this. | |
| This has got to stop. | |
| No other prominent democrat has has spoken out against the violence and the domestic terrorism. | |
| And if they don't have the soul and the spirit and the conscience and and the heart to stand for mothers that lost their children, a young man that uh won his battle against cancer and has dreams, or the wife of a slain hero officer, or young man who lost his father that was informed he's going to West Point. | |
| If they can't stand for the first lady and they can't stand uh for the president of the United States, and they want to play bingo and they want to stand up for men and women's sports and their rights to do so, and they want to stand for the rights of illegals, even trendy Aragua members over the safety of Americans, and and they want to be the party that spends hundreds of billions in and waste fraud and abuse and liberal liberal activism abroad, then let them be that party. | |
| And if they're gonna be the party that sits silently while while Tesla dealerships are destroyed, and we run the risk that that hardworking Americans are gonna lose their career jobs at at dealerships, at manufacturing centers, mechanics are gonna be out of work. | |
| Um let them be that party. | |
| I'd rather be the party of the hardworking men and women, which is why we have our Tesla contest. | |
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| Okay. | |
| And and we're gonna stand up for what's right. | |
| You know, the people that work for Tesla, I don't know anything about their politics. | |
| You know, all I know is they make the most American car on the road and it is one of the most innovative machines I've ever seen. | |
| It's incredible. | |
| And I'm like, you know, if you prefer a different car, fine, but if you want a free one, I'm I'm buying it myself and I'm giving it away on this show. | |
| And then am I going to be able to save Tesla? | |
| No. | |
| Am I going to hopefully send a message that that what what is happening is just morally repugnant, evil and wrong? | |
| Yes, I'm going to send a loud message. | |
| Anyway, my friend, thank you. | |
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| What's up, Jim? | |
| How are you? | |
| Glad you called what part of Tennessee are you in? | |
| We're in West Tennessee, Sean. | |
| It's great to be alive and living in the volunteer state, sir. | |
| Yes, sir. | |
| Go go Valls. | |
| I'm sure you're a big uh volunteer fan. | |
| And my wife and I are both grads. | |
| We're uh we're we're playing tonight. | |
| But uh Sean I really why did I know that? | |
| Why how did how did I have that insight? | |
| I just assumed. | |
| I know how popular uh they are in Tennessee. | |
| What's on your mind today? | |
| Well, I really had two things to share. | |
| Number one is very short. | |
| There's a lot being said by the left about Elon Musk not being duly elected. | |
| And I would just – it's never been said that I've heard that all these activist judges that are – these federal judges that are going against President Trump's programs, they're not duly elected either. | |
| They were appointed as well, and I fail to see. | |
| It just seems like a lot of hypocrisy there. | |
| And, you know, with respect to Elon, Musk I would just tell you that my wife and I owe him a lot and this takes 30 seconds. | |
| I know you're busy um but in the fall of 2013 my wife and I were in the Oakland San Fran area we drove by the uh Tesla factory there when we were out on the road and I suggested that we go find a dealer and and drive one and we did I'm I'm an engineer and the tech was just amazing even back there in 2013. | |
| We considered, strongly considered, buying one then. | |
| But with us living in kind of rural Tennessee, lack of infrastructure, we decided against it. | |
| But I just couldn't shake that idea of what a neat tech product it was. | |
| So about two weeks after we returned, I talked to my wife. | |
| I'm going to be honest. | |
| I was ignorant about how great this product is. | |
| And, you know, I was kind of resistant to the idea of the government forcing electric vehicles into our driveways. | |
| But I've always said that I'm pro-choice. | |
| In other words, if you want to drive an electric vehicle, drive one. | |
| If you want to drive a hybrid, I once had a hybrid, drive it. | |
| If you want a gas-powered vehicle, then stay with your gas-powered vehicle. | |
| And I always believed in freedom of choice. | |
| And I didn't like the fact that the government was pressuring companies like Ford and GM to invest billions and billions of dollars into an EV program that was not the car that their customers wanted or the business. | |
| the business they wanted to be in. | |
| And Ford lost one year four and a half billion dollars and if they continue to lose money like that then high paying career jobs are going to be lost. | |
| And so I said stop it. | |
| Tesla wants to be in this business now I've gotten a little bit more informed. | |
| And now that we have our Tesla giveaway and I know a lot more about the car it's the most America made car on the road and in terms of parts and labor and everything else number one. | |
| Number two it is self-driving technology is the most incredible thing I've ever experienced it is amazing. | |
| You just put in your destination let's say you have your car parked you don't need a valet the all you do you can call your car and have it come to you and pick you up I mean how cool is that and it just is I it goes from zero to sixty in two point oh seconds not zero point two which I said to Elon and a lot of people made fun of me it goes and and more importantly it's got over a thousand horsepower. | |
| This thing is a I and I love muscle cars. | |
| And this thing even beat my favorite Z06 in a drag race and it's on video tape. | |
| I'm like wow because that's a killer car. | |
| It really is by GM. | |
| And so you know I I what has this man done to incur this kind of hatred? | |
| And the answer is nothing. | |
| He has done a lot of good for this country. | |
| And he helped President Trump win. | |
| And he's helping save us money. | |
| And he saved these astronauts. | |
| And he helped the people in North Carolina in your state of Tennessee and the people in in California after the wildfires. | |
| And he's got one of the most innovative plans in terms of AI technology to help cure, you know, help people that are blind to see and people with spinal cord injuries maybe to walk again. | |
| I hope he's successful. | |
| And I'm like, why is he hated? | |
| Because he likes Trump and because he's he's identifying all the corruption, waste, fraud, and abuse in Washington. | |
| And if we don't do this now, we're not gonna save our country. | |
| And to me, uh I I I just hate what they're doing to this man. | |
| I hate it. | |
| I hate what they're doing to his employees. | |
| I don't want to see these people lose their jobs. | |
| And if this continues, if this domestic terrorism continues, they will lose their jobs. | |
| There'll be no choice, and they want to drive him out of business. | |
| And there's a lot of a lot of unsavory money behind this. | |
| Um this is not an accident. | |
| That's why I went after that jackass, Jimmy Kimmely thought he was being funny about it on his low rated, soon to be cancelled late night comedy show. | |
| You know, is this you know, does Mickey Mouse really approve the the inclusive Disney brand does Bob Iger approve of that that type of quote humor, if you want to call it that? | |
| Because there's nothing funny about domestic terrorism to me. | |
| Nothing. | |
| Well, I I agree with all that, sir, and um and so anyway, last year when uh Elon Musk uh came out to support my man for president, my wife and I decided to go buy Model S plaid. | |
| So we were a bit ahead of of you on that, Sean. | |
| But we purchased it last year at 2024. | |
| It's just an amazing car, as you as you have said. | |
| It's amazing. | |
| My and my friends have been telling me, and I'm just like, yeah, yeah, yeah. | |
| I mean, I just hadn't been paying attention to it. | |
| And they're like, you don't know what you're doing. | |
| And now under two seconds, you know, zero to sixty. | |
| And so uh so what that what that says to me is if these folks that think they can um embarrass me or threaten me into selling this car, uh you know, they they truly are candidates for a drug test. | |
| I am so proud to be a Tesla owner, and I'm so glad that last year my wife and I bought this car. | |
| Fantastic car, fantastic performance. | |
| And I I think it's the most innovative car on the road. | |
| I mean, it's innovation is amazing. | |
| And um I'm glad you called. | |
| I'm glad you're letting people know there's a reason why I'm buying a Tesla for one lucky listener, and I hope people every day you can go to Hannity.com, you can have a chance every day from now until April th eleventh, every day. | |
| I'll give you the word of the day. | |
| You go to Hannity.com and you enter that word. | |
| Today's word is freedom, and you can answer enter once a day, every day until the end of the contest, and then I'm gonna give away the car. | |
| Okay. | |
| And uh I feel like Oprah giving away cars on the show. | |
| But you know, it's it's to me it's important that we stand up for people that are being bullied that are victims of of this terrorism and for the rights of their workers to continue in their jobs. | |
| Uh well, he's cutting jobs at the Federal though, those are the jobs that are being cut are jobs that never should have been in existence. | |
| Anyway, I appreciate the call, my friend. | |
| John in my free state of Florida. | |
| What's up, John? | |
| How are you? | |
| If this God you love so much who you deem as a loving God really exists in actuality, God is pure evil. | |
| And I'll give you one illustration that breaks my heart. | |
| There's that's for first of all, that's a judgment on your part, but go ahead. | |
| It's a statement, yeah, a fact. | |
| Uh I believe. | |
| The fact in your mind, I disagree with it, but so it's not a fact, but go ahead. | |
| Okay. | |
| Well, there's a commercial for Saint Us Children's Cancer Hospital that shows a little baby girl about two years old running with her backpack to greet her dad. | |
| Your God gave this poor child leukemia, and she is dying. | |
| She went into a hospital to be saved by humans, not by the God who gave her the cancer. | |
| It's commercial that breaks your heart. | |
| There are many children who are born deformed with horrible diseases that kill them slowly and painfully. | |
| Babies who are born dead, still born, your evil God created. | |
| Uh to not even begin. | |
| All right, I get I get where you're going. | |
| So you're uh basically it's an age old question, and that is why do hard, difficult, challenging things happen to good people. | |
| That's what you're asking me, or in this case to innocent children. | |
| Why does that happen? | |
| Um I wish I had a good answer for you. | |
| I don't. | |
| Because I don't under understand the mind of God, nor uh do I believe humankind is meant to understand the mind of God. | |
| What I do know is this. | |
| For you to be an atheist, um, you know, you talk about faith. | |
| I look at the majesty of creation, and what have we learned from science? | |
| We've learned that there are universes within universes, within universes, and a level of perfection that is so deep and so profound that it is beyond cu human comprehension. | |
| And I just acknowledge that there are things that we are not supposed to know or understand. | |
| Uh I do believe mankind is in a fallen condition and in need of salvation, and that that is part of the human experience. | |
| And for you to be an atheist, you you you're making your judgments and you're free to do so. | |
| So live in a free country. | |
| And however, to believe that those universes within universes within universes somehow magically created itself lends itself to the next question. | |
| Where did the energy originate from if there's not a God that always that always has been, always is, I am sent me, if you will. | |
| If there isn't a creator behind it, then you would have to believe that somehow energy existed on its own and that something can come from nothing, and that all of a sudden it just it just collided together and created this this perfect majestic um, you know, creation that we only are beginning to understand the vastness of. | |
| Sean. | |
| And I believe that we are mind, body, and spirit, and that part of the challenges on this earth, and the Bible tells us this, that our challenges are meant to strengthen us and to draw us closer to our creator. | |
| And everybody in this life, without exception, has challenges. | |
| And I have found through the challenges in my life that it has brought me closer to God. | |
| Can I speak now? | |
| Uh but you have to believe that something can come from nothing, and I don't believe that. | |
| Okay. | |
| You talk about the perfection of the universe and the earth and why is uh Earth in a shooting gallery of huge space rocks? | |
| Why did God create trillions of galaxies, each with a hundred billion or more suns contained within them? | |
| You didn't answer my question. | |
| You're uh you're trying to answer a question with a question. | |
| I'll ask you this. | |
| How is it possible for all of that majesty to be created? | |
| And where did that where did that energy come from if there's not a creator? | |
| Answer that question. | |
| Well, astrophysicists who are extremely intelligent are exploring that question, and hopefully, you know, so the answer is you don't have an answer. | |
| The Bible And does it that now w what makes more sense that there's something beyond our understanding and comprehension that actually created the energy or your theory, which is that something can come from nothing. | |
| I would say there is more logic and reason behind faith than there is behind your atheism. | |
| Sean and your judgment of God. | |
| I don't judge God. | |
| I just I try to understand him better. | |
| Okay. | |
| These sons exploding and dying of where did the energy come from? | |
| You're not answering. | |
| Let me finish. | |
| I'm getting Answer the question, and I'll let you finish. | |
| It's a very violent universe, black holes that suck in and destroy everything that comes within their Where did the energy come from if there's not a creator? | |
| You're not answering. | |
| Okay, so your answer is you don't know. | |
| And that hence my proposition to you stands that you believe that something can come from nothing. | |
| Energy and matter are interchangeable. | |
| E equals M C square, the astrophysicist. | |
| I I understand the speed of light, I got it all. | |
| But you're not answering my question. | |
| How can I answer Astrophysicists can't answer it for God's sake? | |
| So then hence back to my proposition to you, for you to be an atheist, you have to believe something can come from nothing. | |
| And I would argue scientifically, mathematically, uh if you're looking at the the the physics behind it, it is impossible. | |
| No, it's for what you believe. | |
| Now, at least an agnostic it, you know leaves open the possibility of a creator. | |
| You're an atheist, and you just you seem to just hate God and you judge God. | |
| And if that's how you want to go through your life, you're free to do so. | |
| I'm not gonna I'm not gonna try to convert you. | |
| I'm not proselytizing to you. | |
| I just think you you lack all logic and common sense. | |
| So being applied to the issue of a God. | |
| Okay. | |
| There are particles that form spontaneously out of nothing. | |
| Look into it. | |
| Why did God something can come from nothing? | |
| That's your that's your answer to me. | |
| There are particles that come particles can just come out of nowhere with no source of energy. | |
| Yes, they do look into it. | |
| Sean, why did you know looking into it? | |
| What you said is is complete BS. | |
| It's not complete BS. | |
| It's science. | |
| It is scientifically impossible for something to come from nothing. | |
| Another question for you. | |
| Look into it. | |
| That's I don't have time for your other question, but it was fun. | |
| It was fun bouncing it back and forth with you. | |
| Uh, but I appreciate you being with us. | |
| 800-941 Sean, if you want to be a part of the program. | |
| All right, that's gonna wrap things up for today. | |
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