was, it was the '70s. >> dino might. ♪ you can catch the premiere of cnn's original series the '70s this thursday at 9:00 p.m. that's it for the lead i'm jake tapper. i turn you over to wolf blitzer in the situation room. happening now, multiple threats, parts of the white house and the u.s. senate office building evacuated after bomb threats are phoned in, were the threats connected? manning hunt for murderers, helicopters and blood hounds they're called to an area 3,000 miles from a security prison. are police closing in. not guilty plea the former speaker of the house dennis hastert is surrounded as he makes his first public appearance since federal banking

uncovered a sex scandal. and isis explosives. the terror group is changing the battlefield by using massive new bombs to scare up attacks. is there anyway to counter these incident incidents. bomb threats, forced evacuations at parts of the white house and the senate office building today. the press briefing was suddenly interrupted with an urgent evacuation order. that came just hours after a bomb threat emptied a homeland security committee hearing in the u.s. senate office building. the all clear was later issued at both locations, still leaving a lot of questions and concerns. all of this as an urgent hunt is underway right now for two convicted killers, who made an extraordinary escape from a prison in upstate new york. after a sighting of two so-called suspicious men, a massive sweep is focusing in on

an area some 35 miles from the maximum security prison. our analysts and guests are on top of both of these stories. standing by with full coverage. let's begin with the bomb threats here in the nation's capitol. evan perez is standing by with the latest. what are you learning? >> this is an unusual situation. it all began around this afternoon, with a phone call threat to the capitol police. the caller was specific saying there was a device in the offices of the senate homeland security committees. police cleared the nearby hearing room where senators were discussing problems at the tsa. more than an hour later, another bomb threat call came in here in washington. again, the threat was specific to the press briefing room at the white house. cameras captured the unusual scene as secret service officers interrupted the press briefing already underway and cleared the room. police are looking to see if the threats are related. and there's also been a spate of similar threats, some against airlines and authorities say

that there reaction to these threats and the media coverage may be bringing forth some more of these threats. >> do they think there is a connection between the threats that went to these airlines coming -- flying in the united states including from overseas as well as this threat that went into the senate today, and later at the white house? >> they don't know but they are checking this out, it is an unusual spate of these types of threats, wolf it is tough for them they have to treat them seriously, especially when you have something as specific as someone telling you, there's a device inside the press briefing room or inside the specific office. >> two threats that were made here in washington today in the senate and the white house, do they believe those two threats came from the same source? >> well, it's certain lily sufficient because they came so close to each other. >> evan stand by i want to get more on what's going on. michelle kosinski is standing by at the white house.

you were inside the white house when all of a sudden the white house press secretary got the word from the secret service, evacuate the press briefing room. walk us through what happened. >> reporter: it's kind of stunning to hear those words. even when the most serious threats happen we all know they happen periodically something thrown over the white house fence. the most serious precaution is a lockdown where no one can leave this building which is in the west wing. this time was totally different. even some of my colleagues who have worked at the white house for more than 20 years said they've never seen anything quite like this first, we are told to leave the briefing room go out on to the north lawn that location is moved, it's clear that the secret service officers didn't want anyone to see what they were doing, and investigating this on the white house lawn with their dogs. then we were moved off the premises beyond the white house fence, right next to the white house. we're moved inside of a building across the street from the white house. that's what made this so unusual, this seemed to be such an extraordinary threat that

those measures would have to be taken. now we find out that the president was in the oval office while this was going on. the white house just revealed this moments ago, he was essentially yards away from this briefing room where the threat was directed. and he was not told to move from that location. he stayed there. also the first families with a in the white house residence, they stayed in place. the press secretary and other white house staff who were also in the west wing yards away from the briefing room did not move their location either. so that's one of the big questions here. since this bomb threat was connected to this room if this were a real bomb how do they feel about staying in place within this building? wouldn't that threat still be present? for those of us who were told to move if this bomb threat would have been connected to a person who might have brought the threat into the building we

were all herded out into a small group, taken and put into a small place, that doesn't feel great for those of us who were in that group either. how the white house responds to this is by saying we have full confidence in the methods taken by the secret service. the secret service isn't getting any more detail on how this all played out. >> i want to be precise, michelle and i speak as someone who spent 7 years covering the white house, i'm familiar with the west wing the press briefing area the offices nearby certainly the oval office not that far away they told all the media in the press briefing room get out, get out right away the people hnd the briefing room the offices there, they were allowed to stay and then you go 50 feet away to the oval office the president is not evacuated. i'm sort of confused if this is taken as a serious threat whien wot they at least move the president? >> right, i mean if it's taken seriously, to the point that we have to leave the premises and people here again remained in place, you're right, not only

are these offices yards away from this briefing room where the threat was directed. they're attached to it they're in the same building. so the president in the oval office is attached to the same building where the threat was directed. so you might think ahead, well okay, maybe they thought the threat could have been brought into the building. well then everybody in the briefing room is told to get out and they're kept in a small space away from the white house. how does that feel for the people who might be within that small space of the threat? we don't know the wording of the threat but we have to assume they took it very seriously, because of the measures they took regarding the people in the briefing room. that's a big question mark there. both the white house and the secret service aren't giving any more detail the white house just saying they have full confidence in how the secret service chose to handle this. >> michelle lots of questions, we'll get answers, thank you. michelle kosinski at the white house. other breaking news we're following here in the situation room. police right now they're stepping up their manhunt for

two dangerous killers. they're swarming fields and farms in a town only a few dozen miles away from that maximum security prison where they staged an elaborate escape using power tools. the very latest, what are you learning? >> reporter: wolf we're learning that eyewitness reports and other indicators suggest that the killers are on foot so it does not appear that anyone was waiting for them to give them a ride. tonight police are searching a perimeter in willsboro new york, about 35 miles from the prison. tonight law enforcement officers using blood hounds and helicopters are canvassing upstate new york around the town of willsboro, after two suspicious men were spotted walking down the middle of the road and took off when a car approached. authorities are searching for two convicted killers, richard matt imprisoned for murdering his boss. and david sweat convicted of killing a sheriff's deputy. >> that presents a dangerous

situation for innocent people in the community, who are going to stand in the way of them and food or them and a weapon that they want to have or them and transportation or funding. >> reporter: a resident near the clinton correctional facility told abc news he believes he came face to face with the escaped killers the night they escaped. before authorities knew about the jail break. >> i go look at them and see them i ask them what are you doing in my yard, get out of here. as soon as i came across, they ran out of my yard. >> after they cut their way through a steel walk. surfaced through a manhole outside the prison. >> so many tunnels, all the attics all the catwalks. it's a big maze. >> they used that maze? >> they used the maze. >> they knew exactly where to go. >> authorities believe the two had help. police had interviewed and

searched the home of joyce mitchell a prison employee. investigators are trying to determine if mitchell provided money, tools or a cell phone to the men. >> i don't see that cunning coming to a stop as soon as they got to free air. that cunning has a deeper plan a more distant plan whether that was a car that took them to a train where they could have been halfway across the country before the alarms were really sounding. >> reporter: we know that mitchell worked with the men at a taylor shop in the prison. sources say she has been somewhat cooperative, her son told nbc news that she is not going to risk her life or other people's lives to help these guys escape he's basically saying she played no part in this and so far wolf no arrests have been made. >> pamela brown, thanks very much. let's get some analysis on what's going on. our cnn law enforcement analyst, and arthur roderick is joining us. if these two guys these killers

are on foot 30 miles or so from this prison this maximum security prison, what does that say as that are as what's going on? >> art? let me ask arthur. we're going to fix tom's microphone. go ahead. >> it says to me that whatever they had planned post escape once they got out of the facility, didn't work out, they're on foot for a good 30 or 40 miles, it's been four days at this point they had better be completely mentally and physically stressed out. >> if their plan went awry they didn't get help didn't get money, clothes, they're in the woods, even this time of year it's going to be cold at night. if they didn't have any plans for being in the woods. i think they're going to have a pretty good chance of being caught pretty soon. >> if they're in that area i suspect you're right. the point has been made it was

a sophisticated escape with power tools, going through tunnels, going through brick walls, steel walls too, at one point. you would think if they're going to go through all that effort come up through some manhole, if you will they must have had some help from the outside as far as an escape is concerned as well. >> exactly. to go through all that planning and not have the part of it to get away from the facility you would think they would have that mapped out. because they're only 40 miles away that whatever they had planned had either fallen through or they possibly didn't plan for it at all. >> you agree? >> yeah whoever agreed to pick them up when they came out of that manhole, may have assumed, they're never going to make it this is ridiculous i'm never going to go out there. it could be they popped that manhole cover, there's nobody around now they're on foot in the woods at night, do the best they can. that would account for only being 30 miles away if it's true

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more on the breaking news an active search underway for escapees some 35 miles away from the prison in upstate new york. they are combing the fields in

willsbor in upstate new york. jason carroll is there for us joining us on the phone. set the scene. what's going on? >> reporter: this is a rural area there's still a number of law enforcement who are in the wooded area where we're standing off of this desserted road here. i spoke to one of the residents just off the road. about 50( law enforcement showed up at his house about 10:30 this morning. they began their search walking arm in arm through the wooded fields behind his home his home is bordered on one side by train tracks. they've been out here for several hours, not just out here but also in town. i spoke to a woman who owns a business there, a meat shop. they came to look at her security cameras, did not find anything there. they were also going to his son's home who lives on the same

road to look at his trail cameras, they're going to check his cameras to see if anything was spotted there as well. >> stand by i'll get back to you. two other residents said they spotted they believe these two guys carrying a guitar case or cases. they used to break out of that prison. do you believe that? >> i think that you know for now, it's the best thing they have to go on they may as well do everything they can to follow up on that. they see these pictures in the wooded area it's dense forest. they're going to need to be able to find aircrafts to be looking for the heat signatures of people moving in the woods. >> they have that cape ability, right? >> absolutely fp. >> the state police and the federal authorities were coming in to help. >> this is what you have the task force scenario set up where you have all state, local and

federal combined together with the new york state police sort of in charge of this loose federation and making sure that everyone's doing their job. >> they can fly surveillance drones over there as well. i assume they have drones right? they can fly that -- they're looking for -- at the same time you and i have been talking about this for three, four days by now, they could be anywhere. >> that's the funny thing about the case if they didn't get the help they expected when they popped out of that manhole cover and no one was there to pick them up. looked around and thought, we're going to be on foot in the woods up here in northern new york where it's going to be cold at night. and they're not provisioned for being in the woods like that they're going to have a tough time staying out there for any length of time which makes it that much more dangerous to the local resident there is. they're going to invade a home looking for food weapons, water, cash vehicles. everybody in that general area if they're there, is in extreme

danger. >> these are convicted killers, remind viewers who are watching right now, they suspect, they see one or both of these two guys, what should they do? >> just call 911, i'm sure if it's in the willsboro area law enforcement officers all over the place. make contact with him as soon as you can. both these persons are dangerous felons both convicted for murder. one was doing life without parole one doing 25 to life these are desperate individuals, and i can guarantee you, they don't want to go back to jail. tom, you'll be back later, more u.s. troops could be heading to iraq if u.s. military planners get their way. we're learning brand new details out of the pentagon. and isis is changing the battlefield by using massive bombs to speer attacks. are these new weapons unstoppable. stay with us. you're in the situation room.

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breaking news some military planners here in washington have their way, more u.s. boots could be on the ground in iraq before long. let's go to barbara starr, she's picking up new information. what are you learning? >> ever since ramadi fell last month, and the secretary of defense told cnn the iraqis lacked the will to fight in ramadi. front burner issue, what do you do to get the iraqis back in the

fight? cnn has learned that one option the pentagon is presenting to the white house, send another 1,000 troops to iraq many, not all of them, many will be trainers if the option is approved to train more iraqi forces. the pentagon's view and there's a lot of skepticism about this when they train the troops the iraqis will stay and fight. when the iraqis have run away, these are troops that have not been through the confidence building of u.s. training. a good deal of skepticism about that it's not likely this option if approved is going to satisfy republicans on capitol hill. many of them want to see even more. more air strikes. u.s. boots on the ground picking up targets. don't look for that to happen. this is likely to be a decision to send more trainers. wolf? >> at the same time as you know isis now utilizing weapons that the iraqi army is unable to stop. what are you learning about that? >> these -- let's call them the

mega ied's, these are massive ied explosions. thousands and thousands of pounds of explosives potentially packed into armored vehicles. the iraqis can't really destroy it, they have no weapons. the u.s. is sending them anti-armored weapons to begin to do some of this begin to attack these ieds, this is also part of what that training is going to be about, trying to get the iraqis trained up so they can go after these armored ied's, this is a much more significant threat than the u.s. faced in iraq and afghanistan in years past. but very much worth remembering over 3,000 u.s. troops lost their lives to first generation ied's in a decade of war in iraq and afghanistan. wolf? >> thank you. barbara starr at the pentagon let's bring in our cnn counter terrorism analyst, phillip mudd. also joining us peter bergen

and the former democratic congresswoman, jane harmon she served on the intelligence armed services. she's now president of the woodrow wilson center in washington. was it just a matter of time before the military said 3,000 u.s. troops were in iraq right now, not enough send another thousand? >> i think it was, when we saw this debate happen over the past few weeks, and months the drug beat was steady. the kinds of options we're talking about, whether you put forward controllers to help with bombing, whether we have another thousand trainers are insignificant compared to the bigger question. over time the iraqis are showing that they're only modestly successful against isis. do we stick with them over the course of years if that's the pattern we see over time? i think it's the question the president and the next are going to face. you. >> just heard barbara say, these isis terrorists now have these mega ieds, these armored vehicles captured from the iraqi army by these ice is

forces they load them up with improvised explosive devices, they go into populated areas and slaughter people. what do you do about that? >> it's tough. we saw more than a dozen of these deployed. these are the size of the oklahoma city bomb which completely destroyed that building. anti-armor is what they need if they're being deployed in these armored vehicles. clearly those are the weapons that are needed to try to counter this threat. >> the tactic they use to get mosul a year ago, to get ramadi more recently before you do a lot of terrorism, scare the hell out of the iraqi army they flee you take it over you're vastly outnumbered. on this point jane harmon you were there, when the war in 2003 was authorized the end of 2003 the former defense secretary donald rumsfeld told the "time"s of london i'm quoting him now, the idea we could fashion a

democracy in iraq seemed to be unrealistic. what do you make of that? >> i'm stunned by that comment. let's roll back the videotape and remember what the pentagon was saying. i remember paul who was deputy secretary of defense telling me we would be treated as liberators and they would throw rose petals. he insists that happened. and democracy would flourish the bush freedom agenda was all about democracy starting in iraq and moving to other countries in the middle east. now, for secretary rumsfeld, 12 years later to have a revisionist view is astounding. >> he told jake tapper rumsfeld that characterizing his words as some how anti-president george bush is ridiculous. your reaction? >> i don't -- i'm speechless. speechless. >> let me ask peter, are you speechless? >> i'm speechless too.

i mean clearly, it's -- he didn't intend it to be anti-george w. bush clearly that was the intent of the president when he invaded iraq. donald rumsfeld was skeptical of nation building. it's -- some wiggle room there, he was skeptical in afghanistan, he wanted to recall that there was very little planning for phase four the period after -- he seemed to not care about that issue. >> let me get all of your reaction i interviewed the iraqi ambassador to the united states. he basically said the problems that iraq right now has, among other things, he specifically cited what he called the u.s. abandonment of iraq in 2011 when the u.s. pulled out of its troops that's the problem, he told the other issues other contributing factors. but he basically blamed the u.s. for what's going on right now. >> can we have a reality check there? we were there for years, training those folks, we lost thousands of lives, we continue

to have trainers on the ground there. we just talked about another thousand guys going there. we're mounting bombing campaigns, one more strategic comment for the ambassador. i'd tell him this if he were here. in counter insurgency campaigns at some point if the host country doesn't lead the fight, i'm not talking about iraq i'm talking about 30 years of studies from latin america to asia if the host cun is the not there, the counter insurgency fails. this is not the u.s. it's iraq. >> and if the government doesn't -- or isn't capable of governing in a pluralist way that makes the moderate sunnis it represents them rather than shiite i think the government doesn't have any ability to cause the army to fight. there's no will to fight, and pouring in more folks without preparing our country for u.s. casualties is something we ought to do carefully. i would urge the president to have the right conversation with congress. good news is tim cane and jeff flake of two different parties

in the senate are trying finally to push the authorization to use military force to have some congressional buy-in to a strategy for the region. my view is the thing i votes for the aumf doesn't apply any more and now we need congress and the american people ready to face the consequences if we send thousands of more people even as trainers in harm's way in iraq. >> all right, guys thanks very much. peter bergen philip mudd jane harmon. we'll stay on top of this. considering military planners in the pentagon sending another 1,000 u.s. troops on top of the 3,000 that are already there in iraq. we'll see what happens. coming up he was one of the most powerful men in washington but only a few hours ago, he pushed his way through a pack of reporters and photographers on his way to court. stand by for the breaking news on the former speaker of the house, dennis hastert. and later, an incredible

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suspected hush money payments. this was his first public appearance since we learned of shocking allegations he sexually abused a student years ago when he was a high school wrestling coach. our senior washington correspondent is here with me in the situation room watching what's going on. dramatic day. >> it was dramatic. he was fingerprinted and photographed just like any other suspect charged with a crime, before he made his appearance in front of a federal judge in chicago. when he asked if he understood the charges against him, he said, yes, sir. >> after 12 days in hiding dennis hastert arrived at federal court in chicago to a spectacle. >> what do you have to say to people -- >> he fought his way through the biggest crush of cameras since his time as speaker of the house. he's accused of paying millions of dollars in hush money to keep secret allegations of sexual misconduct from his time as a high school wrestling coach. inside court today, he pleaded not glgt. he was ordered to surrender his passport all firearms and give

a dna sample. he was released on $4500 bond and left the courthouse alone. not accompanied by his wife, children or other family members. >> how are you doing? >> former federal prosecutor said he expects hastert will plead guilty to avoid a messty trial. >> this is like going after al capone for tax evasion. the aren't department is bringing charges against a 73-year-old politician who's out of office has everything to do with the underlying allegations. >> the allegations are from four decades ago when he was a teacher in illinois. the name of the person receiving hush money, a former student has not been disclosed. cnn has learned the fbi has identified at least three potential victims. >> the house will be in order. >> hastert is not charged with sexual misconduct. the statute of limitations on any such allegations would have long expired. he faces these two counts.

illegally structuring bank withdrawals to hide more than $1.7 million in payments made to a person the indictment refers to as individual a and lying to the fbi about it. hastert allegedly said he was setting aside cash because he didn't trust the banking system. each charge carries a penalty of up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine. >> he left the courthouse without saying a word today, not offering any response to these explosive charges or how he intended to fight them. the judge who was randomly assigned once contributed $1500 to hastert's campaign. he could be impartial, but would step aside if either side agreed. >> prosecution said recuse yourself the judge said he would. >> he said he'll decide that by thursday. >> thanks for that. coming up injustice exposed. why was a teenager locked up for nearly three years without any trial. haunted by his ordeal even after his release, he's now taking his own life. also we'll have a live

update on the hunt for two dangerous escaped killers. searchers are checking farms and fields after someone reported a pair of suspicious men about 35 miles from the prison where the breakout happened. while others go in circles... and repeat themselves...

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we're getting new information, very disturbing information about the young man who spent three years in new york city's notorious rikers island jail even though he was only a teenager and never had been convicted of a crime. khalid broad ard was eventually

freed but killed himself over the weekend. brian todd has more details. >> this is one of the most jarring cases of injustice we've come across. i just spoke with khalife's attorney who says they're suing the city of new york and law enforcement agencies there for $20 million. the brutal treatment of this young man is unmistakable in this security camera video from the prison. >> chaos inside riker's island prison. gang members assault khalife broward, this disturbing security clam rah footage shows the gang beating him, being held back, and are barging into an isolation cell and beating him again, corrections officers were powerless. >> this seems like lord of the flies, what's going on here. >> there is obviously a lack of control. they do not have the capacity. and this is not to demean the officers they're clearly

outnumbered. and they do not have the physical capacity to totally protect the inmate. >> this video was obtained by the new yorker magazine which first reported khalife brodard's story. this video shows him being slammed to the ground his head smashed, this time by a corrections officer. after he appears to say something to him. >> verbal assaults don't count. if we had responded to every verbal statement that was made that was derogatory in nature we would be fighting every minute of every hour. that is commonplace. it's part of the culture. >> he was sent to rikers for stealing a backpack in the bronx. he always maintained his innocence but was kept in jail three years without a trial, two of those years solitary confinement. >> no apology, no nothing. they said case dismissed, don't worely about nothing. what do you mean don't worry about nothing. you took over three years of my

life. i didn't get to go to prom graduation, nothing. those are the years i'm never going to get back. never. >> he never did, this past saturday he committed suicide, hanging the former commanding officer at rikers is baffled by what happened to this young man. >> i cannot fathom why a person would be in that type of isolation for so long a period of time. >> contacted by cnn, an official with new york's department of corrections said the zeds a tragedy that their thoughts are prayers are with his family. they said the office here slammed browder to the floor is being retrained. that the incident is being investigated. since the release, bill de blasio has introduced reforms moving to reduce number of cases where inmates are held at riker's island for a year while their cases are pending and ending solitary confinement for

teenage inmates. that's among the many reforms and we have to clarify, the browder family is not only suing the dampl corrections, they're suing the city the bronx d.a. and other law enforcement officials. $20 million. >> so shocking endeed. thanks vex. joining us now in the situation room is jennifer from the new yorker magazine. she profiled kalief browder. also joining us our senior legal analyst, jeffrey tubin. jennifer you covered kalief browder's story once he was released from rikers. he told you how he felt how he was ronald of his happiness. how could this have happened? he spent two years in solitary for what? >> you know it is a straight up american tragedy. almost beyond words. he was arrested in the spring of 2010 for a robbery he said he had not done. he was walking down the street late at night with a friend coming home from a party.

a police car pulled up with somebody in the back seat who accused him of robbing them and there was confusion whether it happened a week before two weeks before. from the first moment he said i didn't do anything. i didn't do anything wrong and there was no evidence that he had done anything wrong. there was no stolen property. and he thought he was going to the precinct with the police officers for an hour or two and ended up staying in custody for three years. and the reason it dragged on and on and on is because he insisted on his innocence. he said i didn't do anything wrong. i'm not going to plead guilty. i want to take my case to trial. it was his insistence on his right to a trial which god delayed and delayed and delayed because he was arrested in the bronx which is notorious for its court delays. that's yefs there three years despite never being convicted of a crime and in the end, the case against him was just dismissed. >> and even two years in solitary that's like torture. are there others like kalief

browder out there? no run-ins with the police given a probation, youthful offender status but sent away as a 16 17-year-old, accused of stealing a backpack. they threw away the keys basically. what a tragic ending when he killed himself. >> i think people need to focus on the difference between jails and prisons. prisons are for people who have been convicted and sentenced to more than a year. jails for the most part are about people awaiting trial or serving short sentences. but jails are not managed and not supervised the way prisons are. they are really law of the jungle. jennifer wrote this extraordinary story in the new yorker about rikers island. i wrote a story in the new yorker about baltimore which had another scandal where guards were running, were running riot. and some of the gang members and the inmates were running wild.

people on bail people who were being held in lieu of bail of entail abused terribly by the legal system and people wind up serving in effect longer sentences, just waiting for trial, than if they had been convicted after trial. >> is the criminal justice system jennifer at least in this particular case it was clearly broken. is it broken more widely? >> certainly. it's broken in many different ways all over the country. i think we see that again and again in the news. we've been seeing all these cell phone videos recently of police officers acting horribly. and you've seen this huge push. all these protests pushing for accountability from our police officers. and width the videos you're showing today, i think it could potentially be the beginning of a push for accountability behind bars. really showing the public with video footage exactly what's happening. from the first day i met kalief

he was saying you have to get footage from september 23 2012. that's the day an officer took me out of my cell was ostensibly going to bring him to the shower and instead slammed him to the floor. i was thinking how will i get that footage? kalief how could you possibly remember that date? and he did. because even though it was certainly not the only time that he endured this abuse and it was not even the worst incident it was just so brazen. he knew exactly where the surveillance cameras were in rikers as do all the inmates and he knew it happened right in front of the camera. as if the officer knew nothing would happen to him. you said in the set-up, in fact nothing did. the department saying he is being retrained. >> did you a great job. i remember reading the article. what a horrendous story. we'll take a quick break.

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