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from cnn world headquarters in atlanta, welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. i am george howell. >> i am natalie allen. newsroom starts right now. this story dates back to the trump transition. jared kushner reportedly tried to set up a back channel with moscow so conversations couldn't be monitored by u.s. intelligence agencies. >> "the washington post" reports that kushner, top adviser to president trump and his son-in-law brought up the possibility of secret communications last december with the russian ambassador. cnn's jessica schneider fills us in. >> reporter: new reporting the president's son-in-law and top adviser jared kushner proposed setting up secret methods of communication with the kremlin back in december. "the washington post" first reported this. now "new york times" is adding

the back channel of communication was meant to discuss strategy in syria and other policy issues. u.s. officials briefed on intelligence reports told the post that the intelligence community picked up these details when the russian ambassador reached out to superiors in moscow. during a meeting in december, the post reported that kislyak said kushner suggested using russian diplomatic facilities in the u.s. to correspond directly with the kremlin opposed to the state department setting up a secure communication which is usually typical. the post and "new york times" report this meeting between kushner and kislyak was also attended by michael flynn, form. they wanted this to avoid intelligence that listens to foreign phone calls. no one from the white house is responding to the report and neither kushner nor his lawyers are putting out any statements.

jessica schneider, cnn, washington. >> thank you for that reporting. let's get more reporting from claire sebastian live from the capital. this is a big story in the united states, but again, what is it playing there, is it a big story there as well or is this kind of swept under the rug? >> reporter: it is getting some attention, some wires kind of retold "the washington post" story. official reaction when we reached out to the foreign ministry spokeswoman on the story reported by "the washington post" about whether jared kushner had asked the russian ambassador to set up a secure channel of communication, she replied with the phrase mccarthyism or just political squabbles, that was the original

response, whether or not the ministry was aware of the request to the ambassador back during the transition and would not be drawn on that. said if we want to know more about jared kushner's business or political dealings, turning our attention to the middle east, a reference to recent deal with saudi arabia to invest in u.s. infrastructure through the black stone group, investment group that jared kushner has dealings with in previous role as head of kushner companies, a real estate development group. this is along the lines of rhetoric we have seen recently in the past few months to paint this as internal political chaos in washington to say that russia is being used as a tool by trump's opponents to hurt his administration and to try and deflect this. they're very much aware how toxic this issue is for trump. >> another meeting in question of note, this meeting with the head of the sanctioned russian

development bank that has close ties to the kremlin. what more can you tell us about that player? >> reporter: well, this is another meeting that happened during the transition apparently on the initiative of sergei kislyak, russian ambassador to the u.s., with gorkov, the head of a development bank in russia, not a commercial bank, has been under u.s. sanction since july, 2014. ukraine related sanctions. the interesting thing about this meeting was the conflicting reports that came out about it. the white house saying this was a meeting with kushner in his capacity as adviser to then president-elect, a conduit. the russian side saying this was a business meeting, part of a road show they were doing in the u.s. there are still a lot of questions surrounding that, not illegal to talk to a bank under sanctions but no business could have been done with it. >> clare sebastian in moscow. thank you for that insight.

and jared kushner has been traveling with president trump, it is the last day of the president's foreign tour with another round of talks at the g7 summit. nic robertson is covering this and joins us live. interesting with the new president and no one there quite sure what they were dealing with perhaps, unconventional to say the least, where had been the commonalities, where had they made steps forward on fighting isis is one all of them are concerned about. >> reporter: yes, sure, there's commonality on terrorism but seems to be disagreement on trade and climate, not an agreement, from the meeting with theresa may, putting pressure on tech companies, social media platforms to cut down, remove jihadi content, it is seen as

inspiring and recruiting young people to join groups like isis. it was interesting listening to the italian prime minister as he was talking about talks today and he said, i was very struck by this, he said you know, it is important that we have formal negotiations the hope of reaching concrete agreement. he seemed to imply so far the talks haven't been formal and that they haven't been able to reach a lot of agreement. indications are normally after a g7 you may have an agreed document, 20, 30 pages long. what we're understanding at the moment, the agreement might just total a few pages rather than substantive aspiration to the italian government who are hosting this, natalie. >> he traveled to several countries on this, his first foreign trip, nic. we really haven't heard from him whatsoever. how is that going across?

>> reporter: you know, there have been brief moments when he spoke at nato headquarters and quite surprised everyone there by not sort of embracing the core principle, article 5, attacking one is attack against all which came into play after september 11, the first time article 5 was in voeehicled whe all nato allies supported the united states. he didn't embrace that. that was a surprise. which commentary about how wonderful the trip had been in saudi arabia, how he had been hosted so well by the saudi king salman. but there's no opportunity on his trip here, and this is unusual for a trip of this length, this magnitude, at least the way they described it, this importance, that he is not holding a press conference. that's unusual even after a g7 meeting. theresa may was on record, the german chancellor, but no chance

for journalists to question and talk to donald trump about what he has taken away from this visit, what he's learned. we are hearing from some of his advisers, chief economic adviser, national security adviser on the record, but that's not the same as asking the questions. sometimes statements are a little contradictory, natalie. >> there are a lot of questions about this trip, of course. he would be getting questions about what's going on back at home as well within his administration. we'll wait and see if he has any parting remarks. nic robertson covering it live insist lee. thanks, nic. >> for more, bring in brian class, fellow of compared politics at the london school of economics. brian, a pleasure to have you with us. 10:09 in london. what's the lasting impression the u.s. president left on world

leaders there in cicely from your point of view z. >> from an optical point of view was a disaster the way it was viewed by allies in the nato community. trump was seen smiling and dancing with swords with the saudis, saying we're not going to lecture you on human rights and went and lectured our closest allies on nato, rather than encouraging them to spend more on defense, he chastised publicly, an astonishing move to publicly rebuick allies that have the united states' back on the global stage and it is not playing well in europe at all. >> there were a couple of instances where there's video of the president pushing through to be in position with world leaders and also some hand shakes that have gotten played on social media. again, these are optics that come out of this trip. what do you make of it? >> the optics matter, they're an important diplomatic signal.

anyone looking at the trip sees trump smiling and dancing with saudi arabia royal family, one of the most brutal, barbaric regimes on the planet, skoulg and shoving nato allies. it is not the optics you want and sends an important signal that ties back to trump's problems at home. sewi sewing division is one of the most important things for putin's regime. they want to splinter. when you have lecturing democratic allies in brussels, this is a dream come true for putin. it ties this story back home that won't go away about trump's ties to russia and on-going investigations. >> leads me to the other question about russia. this administration was hoping to turn a corner from the controversies brewing in the states. now there are more questions as mr. trump returns and they're going to great lengths to avoid questions from journalists. >> this story is rotten to the

core. jared kushner shouldn't have been in any of these meetings in the first place, he is an unqualified real estate developer, everyone knows he wouldn't be in those meetings if he wasn't married to trump's daughter. once he did the meetings, tried to establish a secret back channel to russia and lied about it, trump fired the fbi director who is investigating his son-in-law. this is beyond partisan debates. people that are defending as normal behavior are deluding themselves, this is not normal behavior for a president to do. if you want to discuss syria with another foreign power, you can do it openly, don't have to do it secretly, don't need to lie about it, fail to disclose it on security forms. people need to take stock of this, say do we want to defend this behavior, it is rotten, there's something to it, needs to be investigate rapidly. either the president's chief adviser, one of his main advisers is compromised or has dubious dealings, either way it

is a catch twenty two, and terrible news for the united states and its people. >> international diplomatic editor nic robertson a few minutes ago talked about the lack of agreement, a concrete agreement out of g7 there are so many issues that were focus. climate change one of them. one question still remains, whether the u.s. president will back out of the paris climate accord. how significant could that impact be on that agreement? >> it would be enormous. any sort of major environmental international pact requires the u.s. and china to be involved to have any meaning. it would be a massive symbolic move, take teeth out of the agreement. as we see more according to g7, what's going to emerge as a narrative, accurate one i would suggest, it is likely going to be 6 versus 1 with trump being one on issues related to environment and trade. this is a problem. if the g7 is a core leader on

the global stage of agenda for the west, when that group splin ters, it is harder for american interest to be served with allies abroad. >> brian class from london. thanks for your insight. british police make more arrests in the manchester bombing case. what we learned about bombers' possible ties to terror groups. a bus packed with families targeted in a deadly attack. how the egyptian president is vowing to fight back as "newsroom" continues. it's a series of smart choices. and when you replace one meal or snack a day with glucerna made with carbsteady to help minimize blood sugar spikes you can really feel it. glucerna. everyday progress.

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muhammad leyland joins us with the latest on the investigation and standing in front of this beautiful memorial as people there continue to remember the victims. hello. >> reporter: good morning, natalie. you're absolutely right. it has been raining this morning and people are still literally standing out in the pouring rain to come to the vigil and pay respects. police describe it as a fast moving investigation, raids continue in central manchester. police arrested two more men. that brings total number of people in custody to 11. they carried out an explosion, not sure if they found an in send ari device. this is an international investigation. big part focusing on the suspect's time spent in libya, believed he spent almost a month there before returning to

manchester. there's a libyan militia group in tripoli. libya is awash with militants since the regime change. they say it arrested the suspect's brother, under interrogation, suspect's brother admitted he was aware of the plot, in manchester helping his brother prepare the plot, that his brother phoned him 15 minutes before the attack took place. one of the criticisms of that kind of information, it was obtained under interrogation. in libya with many militia groups, it is unclear what that entailed. if it entailed torture or forced coercion, some of the information may not be considered reliable. one of the first things investigators in manchester want to do is to be able to speak to that person in libya who is currently, believed to be currently in custody now to get as much firsthand information as possible. >> meantime, this of course happened at the end of ariana

grande concert, she did send out a tweet how broken she was. now she's had something else to say. what can you tell us? >> reporter: well, that's right. if you remember right after the concert, ariana grande said that she was heartbroken, she flew immediately back to the united states, put some of her other concerts on hold. she's broken her silence with an emotional, powerful statement. want to read one excerpt where she says our response to this violence must be to come closer together, to help each other, to love more, to sing louder, and to live more kindly and generously than we ever did before. that was just part of her response. >> i'm sure she has been quite changed and moved by this. we thank you. for more, here's george. for more on the bomber, salman abedi and his ties to libya, jomana karadsheh has

more. what more do we know about the investigation? >> reporter: what we know is from family and friends in tripoli and from special deterrent force, one of the main, powerful groups that is nominally under control of the ministry. following the attack on manchester, they detained two mums members, the father, ramadan abedi, and younger brother, hashim. they brought in two siblings and mother of the bomber and questioned them, but released them. the main information we're hearing from the special deterrent force comes from 20-year-old hashim abedi, saying that he has provided them with information. we don't know the circumstances under which this alleged confession took place. says he and his brother were members of isis, that hashim abedi was planning to carry out

attack in tripoli, he was in united kingdom with his brother in what they describe as planning phase for that attack. and they say that salman called his brother hashim in libya 15 minutes before carrying out the attack in manchester but we do not know the details of that phone call but they say hashim knew of his brother's movements, knew he was planning something, but he did not know details when and where that attack would take place. why the brothers were in libya in the first place, learning from family and friends, say their father ramadan who returned to tripoli following the overthrow of gadhafi in the revolution in 2011, he was concerned his sons were getting into some sort of trouble, gang violence back in manchester. so in april he brought them back to libya. he confiscated their passports to make sure they don't go back to manchester, but according to

the special deterrent force, according to family friends, salman deceived his family, told them he wanted to go to saudi arabia to perform the umrah pilgrimage, took his passport, flo flew back to united kingdom, two days later carried out the attack in manchester. while we hear they don't believe the planning or training took place in libya because according to this armed group from what they say, hashim told them that the planning took place starting at the end of 2016. but you would still feel investigators will be looking into what may have taken place during his time in libya, whether this trip or previous trips, who he may have met with or spoken to considering the situation in libya, lawless country where you have so many armed groups and isis operating in that country. >> very important background

there live from tunisia. thank you so much. another terrorism attack to tell you about. the egyptian government promises to fight back against terrorism after a deadly attack. at least 28 people were killed after gunman targeted a bus packed with coptic christians. they were headed to a monestary in southern egypt. in retaliation, egyptian air force launched air strikes against what the president called terror camps in eastern libya. ian lee following the latest from istanbul. turkey is certainly we know yis has been targeting coptic christians. what makes this even more bad, these people were in the middle of nowhere, no recourse, nothing to do when suddenly they were attacked. >> when you look at the pictures, you can see this van was in the middle of the desert,

makes it easy for the assailants to slip away after the attack. it has been difficult for egypt to secure the country and secure the christian community which is roughly about 9 million people because it is such a large country, and the christians have monestaries all over, this bus going to saint samuel when the attack happened. the president convened emergency session of security council to talk about it. also directed the air force to carry out air strikes. he said he will target terrorist camps, whether inside or outside egypt, very strong words, calling for the international community to back him, calling for solidarity in support against terror. no one claimed responsibility for this attack, isis has said in the past in statements that egypt christians are their favorite prey, natalie.

>> yes, they certainly are acting like that in the past few months with their attacks. as far as terror camps go, ian, how many are there, how backed is isis operating in this region in egypt? >> reporter: in libya we know that isis has a foot hold there. as we heard from jomana, they're all over the country from the east to the west. when i have spoken with egyptian generals, they tell me one of the main concerns if not the main concern is that long border with libya because militants can slip across the border and slip back. they have been battling militants on that western frontier quite some time and it has been a struggle for the egyptian military to try to root them out, because of the instability in libya.

you do get attacks like this into egypt from time to time because they have a hard time finding them and locating them. so for the egyptian government it's something they'll likely continue to struggle with as the instability in libya continues. >> ian lee, live in istanbul. thank you. the iraqi military started the final stages of liberation of mosul from isis after months of intense street fighting, the terror group's control of that city shrunk to a few neighborhoods in western mosul. the military didn't say how long the final push might take. leaflets have been dropped over the city urging civilians to flee ahead of advancing iraqi forces. you're watching cnn newsroom. still ahead, more on a meeting between president trump's son-in-law and russian banker trained in the ways of moscow intelligence. plus, how former fbi chief

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russian ambassador. cnn has not confirmed the post report and there's been no comment from the administration. president trump is finishing his first trip abroad on saturday with a second day of g7 meetings. differences with european leaders have been laid there, particularly at thursday's nato summit in brussels. g7 leaders pushing trump to commit to paris climate accord. that deal has frequently been threatened to leave by the president. egypt is remembering 28 people killed when gunmen opened fire on a bus of coptic christians. funerals held friday. some of the victims children. hours after the attack, the president announced the egyptian air force carried out air strikes against camps he says train terrorists. protesters faced water can nones and tear gas as they march against the government in venezuela.

demonstrators clashed with national guard members as they tried to reach military barracks in car ak us. dozens have died in the past couple months there. protesters demand the president step down. again, our top story, president trump's inner circle amid growing scrutiny of contacts with his administration. >> cnn looking at a meeting between his son-in-law, jared kushner, and a russian banker, happened while kushner was part of the trump transition team. >> reporter: this is the man jared kushner met with in december, 2016, just a month after kushner's father-in-law, donald trump, was elected president. his name is sergei borkov, russian banker, chairman of a bank. putin appointed him to head the bank. he graduated a russian academy that trains people to work in russia's intelligence and security forces. here's how the white house explained the nature of

kushner's meeting with the banker. >> jared did a job during the transition in the campaign where he was a conduit to leaders. he wants to be sure he is clear about the role he played, who he talked to, and then that's it. >> reporter: that may be true, but it doesn't square with what the bank itself said. in a statement, said the executives met with kushner not as a representative of the white house but as head of kushner companies. the bank said its leaders met with numerous global financial executives as it developed a new strategy for the bank. it's interesting the russians seem to contradict what jared kushner said, when he said he was acting as liaison between the campaign and foreign government. so i'm sure that will be an issue that we'll try and clarify. >> reporter: what exactly was discussed between kushner and the banker remains a mystery,

though jared kushner offered to answer senate intelligence committee questions about not only this meeting but another meeting he had with russian ambassador sergei kislyak that same month. it was kislyak that suggested kushner meet with the russian banker. the fact that kushner didn't mention either of the meetings on his white house security clearance forms may also be a topic of inquiry, he did rectify that a day after the omissions. there's concern the russian bank has been under sanctions since july, 2014. when kuch ner met with gorkov, was still ceo of kushner companies. they question whether he was looking for financing for a manhattan real estate project. >> reporter: investigators want to know what was said. >> i have a feeling that it related to financial issues since it involved a russian bank but to his credit, he is willing to testify on that issue and i

hope the committee thoroughly looks at what the reasons were why he engaged in that conversation. >> reporter: seems that jared kushner, who rarely speaks beyond a whisper in the president's ear, may soon be called on to do a whole lot of talking. randi kaye, cnn, new york. development about fired fbi director james comey that shows how russian interference impacted the decisions of top u.s. officials during last year's presidential campaign. our chief political correspondent dana bash has more. >> reporter: cnn has learned that then fbi director james comey knew a critical piece of russian information related to the hillary clinton e-mail investigation was fake, but felt he needed to take action anyway because he was concerned if the information became public, it would undermine the investigation and the justice department itself. this according to multiple sources, talking to my

colleagues. these were a major factor in comey deciding to declare the clinton probe was over last summer without consulting then attorney general loretta lynn. you may remember earlier this week, "the washington post" reported on this intelligence and doubts about its credibility. the fact comey felt he had to act based on russian disinformation is a stark example how russian interference impacted decision making at the highest levels of government in the 2016 campaign. the russian information at issue claimed to show then attorney general loretta lynch had been kpl compromised because of e-mails, reportedly between then dnc chair debbie wasserman schultz and political operative saying that lynch would make the fbi clinton probe go away. according to one government official in classified briefings, comey told lawmakers he was afraid the information

would drop and undermine the investigation, but comey did not tell lawmakers he doubted the accuracy of the information, even in a classified setting. according to sources close to comey, the fbi director felt validity of the information didn't matter. if it became public, they had no way to discredit it without burning sources and methods. think about the chain of events this helped set off. when comey held a press conference in july, 2016, announcing no charges against clinton, he also took the extraordinary and many say inappropriate step of calling her extremely careless. clinton aides convinced her reputation was damaged with voters and she never recovered. probably wouldn't have happened without russian interference. also targets on capitol hill and elsewhere, dissemination and fake information is still a major issue. multiple sources say russia is trying to spread false information to cloud and confuse on-going investigations. dana bash, cnn, washington.

former u.s. national security adviser has died. he served under jimmy carter in the iran hostage crisis and soviet invasion of afghanistan in the late 70s. mr. carter described him as brilliant, dedicated, loyal and sue push public servant. his death announced on instagram by his daughter. she called him the most inspiring, loving, devoted father any girl could ever have. he was 89. time to change the uk foreign policy on terror. that's the message from head of britain's opposition. coming up, why it is sparking controversy. in sri lanka, dozens dead and missing after monsoons and mud slides. more as newsroom continues. the future isn't silver suits and houses on mars,

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back home. >> no government can prevent every terrorist attack. if an individual is determined enough and callous enough, sometimes they will get through, but the responsibility of government is to minimize that chance, to ensure the police have the resources they need. that foreign policy reduces the threat to the country and at home we never surrender freedoms we won and that terrorists are so determined to take away. >> you could say it is a courageous thing to do, first day of election campaigning to basically say the attacks are at least in part fault of british foreign policy. i don't think that will go down with a lot of the electorate, particularly among floating voters, conservatives will be relentless in the way they attack them for saying this. >> reporter: so they were. the back lash hardly missed a beat. >> it is in sensitive, inned

middle of investigation, and it is cheap politics. he doesn't seem to understand his own history. jihadism has been around way before interventions in the middle east. >> reporter: the home secretary on the defensive, over cuts to the police force, lashing out at the labor leader. >> to suggest there's any justification for the horrors that took place is completely outrageous. >> reporter: will voters find it outrageous. the times newspaper suggests conservative leader for labor is shrinking. that's not what theresa may would have anticipated when she sat down at downing street, called for a snap election. then had a comfortable double digit lead in polls, reduced because of social care policies in her manifesto.

proved to be massively unpopular. she hoped to bolster her majority in parliament. if the latest poll is anything to go by, she may see that reduced. an australian woman convicted of drug smuggling 12 years ago will finally go home. she will be deported saturday. >> she was arrested in 2004 while traveling in indonesia with family and friends. authorities at the airport in bali found more than four kilos of marijuana in her bag. she said she had no knowledge of drugs until customs officers found them. a year later, following a high profile trial, she was convicted of drug trafficking and sentenced to 20 years in prison. >> she's now 39 years old, served nine years of her sentence, released in 2014. she remained on parole, unable to leave indonesia until now.

at least 91 people are dead. dozens more missing in sri lanka after monsoon rains triggered mud slides. >> the worst flood since 2003. the military assisting with search and rescue operations in the south and west of that country. rescue agencies say some 20,000 people have been forced to leave their homes. this is the time of year, but this is one of the worst. >> this is the annual onset of monsoon rain. it comes, people expect it, they hope for it, wish for it, they need relief from the heat. unfortunately this was a little too much too quickly and water levels are still rising. check out footage. look at what some people have to deal with there. it is a dire situation. some people have been cut off, homesteads cut off by water surrounding their businesses and homes. the ministry of foreign affairs making urgent appeal to united

nations for aid and assistance. military boats, helicopters all sent in to help with rescue operations that are currently on-going as we speak, and get to the graphics, you can think that this is not a daily problem, this is going to be a several week problem as they contend with flood waters, even after it starts to recede. there's still stagnant water and health issue corresponding to that. this is thanks to monsoon rains, heavy rain that came over a 48 hour period. you will not believe the totals. over 450 millimeters in southwestern sri lanka. that's a significant amount of rain. looked at some of the figures there. they received 250 millimeters of that in roughly a nine hour period. almost ten inches for domestic viewers in nine hours. still more rain to come. another 150 to 200 millimeters of rainfall, you can effectively

double what they already experienced. there's significant terrain across southern sections of sri lanka, and a lot of ocean surrounding this island obviously. so we've got very moisture laden air pushed against the mountain side. it is forced to rise. little physics here in meteorologist. moisture laden air cools and condenses, creates clouds. eventually they become too heavy and waterfalls from the sky but in significant amounts. think of it as dipping a washcloth or sponge into a bucket and pressing that sponge against a wall. you see the water that falls from it. that's the same theory that in essence is happening in southern sections of sri lanka. from mountain ouster an comes threat of land slides, adding to death toll figures that unfortunately we're reporting now. thap continues to advance

further inland. temperatures spike to upper 40s and lower 50s, 120 degrees fahrenheit. no wonder they need that monsoonal rain to cool them off. >> thanks, derek. the woman has been writing letters to u.s. troops since world war ii. she keeps putting pen to paper. the story ahead. with type 2 diabetes a lower a1c is a lot about choices. but it can be hard sometimes, 'cause different sides of you struggle with which ones to make. well, what if you kept making good ones? then? you could love your numbers. discover once-daily invokana®, a pill used along with diet and exercise to significantly lower blood sugar in adults with type 2 diabetes. it's proven to lower a1c better than januvia®. invokana® works around the clock by sending some sugar out of your body through the process of urination.

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going to soldiers in harm's way and wounded in hospitals. >> when in florida, he had to have a new ear. and i'm sure he was very depressed. >> reporter: all of cooper's letters at least four pages long, makes sure no two are alike. >> ttyl. talk to you later. >> reporter: it is comfort food for soldier's souls, they send commendations and flags from bases. we connected cooper with one of her marines. >> my goodness, i'm just so pleased. >> reporter: she first wrote staff sergeant chris can tows years ago, in a remote area of afghanistan with no wi-fi. the only contact marines had with home, letters. >> she would send clippings and jokes. she would tell us about her day. >> reporter: cooper's family says her connection to troops is personal. >> she said she wrote every day to my brother. lot of soldiers don't get any

mail at all. >> reporter: her other son larry served in vietnam, survived but still struggles with post traumatic stress disorder. >> all the time i think of these people and their families at home. >> reporter: six years ago, cooper started counting letters. since then she sent nearly 7,000. her hands are getting tired. this grandma to the troops tells us her mission is far from over. >> i decided i am going to write as long as i can, and i just respect everything that you do. >> how about that. very, very sweet. >> heart felt, means a lot. thank you for being with us. george haowell. >> i am natalie allen. thanks for watching.

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