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good evening jim sciutto sitting in for arounder son. for the second straight day the president went to his golf course near mara lago. unlike yesterday when we managed to get exclusive video of the president playing around perfect instead of getting back to work, we got a different view today. in response to our footage someone put a big truck between our camera between our truck and the links. when we moved the truck moved. during the campaign mr. trump said he would not have time as president for golf. this was however the 87th day he has spent at one of his own golf properties since taking office.
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the president did have at least one official function today. visiting a fire station in near by west palm beach where he talked about upcoming legislation for first responders and boasted about his legislative accomplishments. >> we've had more legislation passed including the record was harry truman that was a long time ago. we broke that record. >> keeping him honest again, the president has rolled back plenty of regulation and did sign a deal of executive orders and does have the tax bill to his credit however when it comes to the number of bills bassed the president is the worst since dwight eisenhower, the worst in half a century. that said, he's trying for something big next year. ph phil, the president said he broke that record, is there anyway he can make that
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argument? >> short answer, no, the 96 bills he signed into law fall fall short of his predecessors going back to dwight eisenhower. it's an odd metric to fix. he's done major accomplishments for conservatives. can talk about the tax bill. allowed for drilling in alaska. he has 12 circuit court judges. supreme court justice that have all been confirmed. these are things republicans would like to focus on. not necessarily the numbers particularly when they fall short. these are not all major legislative initiative, certainly don't measure up to his predecessors to this point. >> the president did have a legislative treatment. the tax bill with a lot of things in there that would have been republican priorities. looking ahead to next year what
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are his big priorities and will he need democrats with a 51 vote majority in the senate. >> yeah he will definitely need democrats which is why white house is focussing on infrastructure many for for years the the ideas of fixing bridges and roads and airport has been something on the bipartisan level, at least on the top line, people agree to, that's -- or agree should be done -- that's something the trump administration has been talking about. top aides meeting on capitol hill while not fruitful to this point they believe there's an opportunity there. here's the rush. right now the trump administration is hoping for $200 billion in funding up to $1 trillion with state and local funding as well. $200 billion is not enough. you think $1 trillion that the federal government kicks in. on the other side of things conservatives say $200 billion
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in federal funding may be too much. there's a line the president and his team will have to walk if they push this forward. there's ten senate democrats up for reelection come from states president trump wants not coming from the aisle in 2017 despite what a lot of people predicted. they are in play for something like infrastructure. the question is can president trump and his team and republican leadership on capitol hill thread the needle maybe on the top line everybody agrees to but when you get into the weeds becomes significantly more difficult. >> thanks very much. now we hear from former senior advisor david axelrod are. >> happy new year. >> look the president is almost like he can't help himself on
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putting out what are ease lid refur easily refutable claims about being the most legislatively president in the office. >> yeah it's really peculiar that he feels a compulsion to claim his is the biggest, the best, record-breaking on almost every subject and is unnecessary and is easily refuted. and the truth is, look, i don't particularly agree with the direction he is leading but he has been very impactful in terms of very, very rapid deregulation in the environmental area, in other areas, certainly taking over the consumer financial protection burrecracy owe and sending mull vainy over there as a big change of direction that's going to be meaningful. pulling out of global agreements, paris accord, tpp, i think they are wrong decisions
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for the country certainly are meaningful decisions. if you're on the other side of that there's things he can point to. why he gets caught up in these things is a subject i'm not qualified to discuss. >> so i wonder in your view how long does the political capital like that last? legislation victory for obama you were involved in, that like this tax bill was not very popular. may lose seats for obama then and may lose seats for president this time around. >> i think it's early to talk about political capital because this is the most popular major pieces of legislation a
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president passed. the affordable care act is more popular. there's a widespread belief based on some evidence ploeft most of the benefits will not go to the working class but to others at the top, to corporations. this has been a great source of consternation to voters so it's not clear that he's going to be rewarded for this in anyway. the argument of the administration is people will start seeing this in their paycheck. president obama passed a major tax cut for the middle class part of the recovery act and people did get reduction in their taxes in their paycheck and it did get down to the president's persona himself, his style of leadership, this is the complaint you see in research
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and polling. people complaining about his tweets his asset style, his divisive nature and the kind of thing we were talking about at the top of this discussion this need to exaggerate his own accomplishments and belittle everyone else in order to enlarge himself. those kinds of things have created enormous problems for him and will dog him going into the mids term election. >> once again the idea of bipartisan legislation comes to the floor and again it's infrastructure. it was talked about earlier in this year that republican and democrats working together and infrastructure one of those. do you see that as a possibility in this divisive environment all of the things you said, can they work together on something like
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this? >> it's possible. the environment has been so poisoned by this first year. now we're headed to a competitive election year which i'm sure democratic leaders are not eager to hand victories to the president. they remember for six years president obama proposed major investments in infrastructure and for six years republicans refused to do so on the grounds that they said it was unaffordable and now having passed a tax bill that added $1.5 trillion to deficits that will be ringing in people's ears and you will find republicans on their side arguing that now, having done this on the tax bill, we certainly can't move forward on infrastructure. there's a lot of obstacles here and also a question of what kind of infrastructure investment will it be? to reward investment bankers
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doing private infrastructure inveftsmentes or actual investments and public works which is what democrats favor. i think there's a lot of hurdles to cross. >> good point two parties have a different vision of what an actual infrastructure plan would be. david, happy holidays to you and your family. >> same to you, jim. coming up next, a question how do you reconcile claim that's the g.o.p. is bias against trump and the russian probe during the clinton campaign while clinton are claimed it worked against her in the probe. are keeping them honest. also, later what obama told prin britain's prince harry and the storm brewing over whether he will be denied a wedding invitation to avoid offending president trump. even love it. and today, you can do things you never could before.
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out? what are the facts? the logic behind what the president and supports are claiming. here's one of those supporters, congressman jim jordan of ohio. >> you have the fbi actively speaking with intent with a plan actively trying to stop donald trump being president of the united states. >> what exactly is his evidence? a series of text message sent by fbi intelligence and paige dispadi calling candidate trump an idiot and other things we won't say on tv fearing his win would be terrifying. earlier in the month, -- the president has been going after the mueller probe and has recently singled out another top
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official in tweet after tweet, here's one -- all right. this particular tweet stands out for many reasons. mccabe's wife got the campaign donation from the senate race from a pact from a virginia friend had late 2014. she lost. it wasn't until three months hateser andrew mccame became the fbi's deputy director and that according to a statement to the wall street journal was the first time mccabe had any over sight over the clinton case so that claim by the president is false. as for the claim the clinton investigation was somehow phony,
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candidate trump didn't think so in late october when director comey reopened the probe. >> the fbi -- has just sent a letter to congress. -- informing them that they have discovered new e-mails. -- pertaining to the former secretary of state hillary clinton's investigation. >> i have great respect for the fbi for writing this wrong. the american people fully understand her corruption and we hope all -- all justice will finally be served. >> so there's candidate trump applauding the fbi for the very decision many clinton's supporters say tipped the election in his favor the same fbi he is now dispairageing to
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be anti trump bias today. and many lawmakers accused of being anti trump during the campaign both sides are making allegations but both sides can't be right. it's more than likely both sides are in fact wrong. the fbi and d.o.j. and the rest were and still are professional but sometimes flawed human beings trying to do the best they can in pursuing investigation that they are under taking. which brings us to a conversation with former fbi and cia official, phil mudd and matt lewis. of the daily beast. matt how do you reconcile republican claim that's the fbi is bias against president trump and hillary clinton camp that
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probe was bias against her both can't be true. >> no they can't. one, james comey had to reopen the case. he was bound to do it. he was going to come out eventually and it was very public. antho anthony weiner's laptop was one thing by the time the investigation came forward, we assumed hillary clinton was going to win. i'm not saying it to be true but if you're looking for a conspiracy theory you would easily say of course james comey opened that investigation, he never thought looking into hi hillary was going to hurt her. everybody thought she was going to win. >> that doesn't answer the fundamentally charge from the
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president, he's alleging the entire bureau's leadership is bias and some going further to deep state conspiracy extended to intelligence agencies not about one person or one day or one step in the investigation, they're making a much broader charge here. >> yeah it's unclear whether or not there's bad apples in senior positions that have done very questionable things or if there's something more systemic involved. i will say today i think was a turning point. until now it has been donald trump and psychofants trying to delegitimize the fbi. couple don't fit that description. one is c nrks nrkn analytics perfect wrote today
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he writes that changes need to be made at fbi headquarters. the other is the cnn legal analysis who has looked into this and said there is really disturbing stuff there. >> you got a couple quotes no question. we have advantage of having a live former fbi and cia official here, what is your view of all this. >> this is pretty simple. let's deal with facts not speculation. the 7th floor of the fbi is not critically involved in the investigation. the fbi director is not, the special counsel is. he's the former fbi director so don't tell me the 7th floor is tainted they're not conducting the investigation. let me give you couple facts if you want to argue this is a deep
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state democratic conspiracy. number one a trump appointed nominee, deputy toifrn said there is a inappropriate investigation he nominated robert mueller to run the investigation that's two for two senior republicans who say the investigation is appropriate. four indictments have come out of this, two of those have resulted in guilty pleas from people who said yes, not only did i do wrong but i lied to the fbi. so we can have all of this conversation about conspiracy with the fbi but if you think this is a bunch of democrats conspireing, republicans run the investigation the fbi leadership doesn't including the fbi director nom designated by the president of the united states and number two, there's four indictments two have resulted in guilty pleas, what do you want. >> the other point i would note smurlt him robert mueller himself a lifetime republican
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many singing his praises. >> i tell you where i come down on this. i think very clearly president trump is attempting to delegitimize this institution and it's perfectly logical and obvious why he would want to do that. would benefit him in terms of this investigation looking into him. i do think, however, that the fbi and mueller investigation and that the clinton and trump investigations have aided and betted donald trump in this effort. i think the fbi comes out of this looking really bad. the problem is there's so many examples. you got the fact so many people in this investigation contributed to hillary clinton. you got the fact that mccabe's wife took hundreds of thousands of dollars from the tariff mccoll mccollough organization. >> before the day he was deputy
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director. >> i think that makes it worse. why would you promote someone to be in this position of investigating the clintons if you knew their wife was given like $700,000 by their best friend. it looks really bad. >> and i want to make sure phil gets in before we run out of time. phil you are a cia official but you served in the fbi as well. i imagine there are people with party affiliations in those buildings, people who vote and may be guilty of the sin having a partner with different political views of their own. in your experience do folks separate the political leanings of their partners from the counter terror and legal work they have to do. >> i spent maybe 2,000 meetings with robert mueller and never made him make a political
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comment. let's be clear if your spouse participates in an election should you never be promoted in a federal government institution, you kidding me? what are you supposed to say, sweetie you can't participate in the american democratic process. secondly if you're an investigator are you suppose to either support donald trump or be trump. i didn't know we had to have political -- excuse me -- there should never been a congressional investigation because every single one is a political partisan so get out the senate and the house. get them out. >> folks, we have to leave it there. i appreciate you taking part in a sane, reasonable conversation about this. seriously. we're going to keep it up.
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we have all heard the old adage that every vote counts. for our next guest in the virginia district sleaze hoping to represent that is quite literally true. after a recount it appeared she won the seat by just one vote. until one last last-minute ballot left the election in a tie. thousands voted and was almost decided by putting candidates names in film cannisters or in a hat. may still be done that way.
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but is delayed because simons asked the judges to reconsider the decision before the final mystery ballot. if simons wins the republicans would lose their majority and control over the house of delegates for the first time in 20 years. shelly simons joins me now. it's a remarkable story from the beginning. one sorts of twist at the end here. i'm sure there are twists to come. let's take a look at this ballot that came out of nowhere that tied it up again i want your thoughts on it. here it is. if you look down there we'll get closer to see that what happened this voter filled in the bubbles for both you and your republican opponent and to be clear put a slash mark through your name and the question i suppose is whether that meant they meant you or the other guy. tell me your view of this an where'd this ballot came from? >> you know, in virginia we have
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very clear rules and i'm sure most other states do too about what ballots can be counted what are to be considered over votes to be thrown out, there's a handbook with very clear rule s about this, that gave me a lot of confidence going into the recount but i'm afraid that ballot is really not in the land book and it should have been thrown out and it really saddens me that the judges didn't feel the same. >> so you're taking this to court, in effect, and the judges will have to decide whether this is a spoiled ballot or should be counted for the republican? >> you know, i think the judges are going to have several options, one option is since the ballot does not appear in the handbook for the state board of elections they can refer it to the state board for guidance which i think would be a really
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good option for them. the other thing they can do is they can decide not to count that ballot and change their opinion that it is an over vote. >> this is remarkable from the beginning, almost regardless of the turn out. more than 23,000 voted in this election. did you ever imagine this would all come down to a one vote and potential tie-breaker. >> i knew it was going to be close but i never imagined that it would be tied and honestly i think the process for the recount went really smoothly. during the recount if they said okay it's a tie i'd be much more accepting of this coin toss game of chance conclusion but the end of the recount i was ahead by one vote and so it would be really disappointing for the story to change instead of every vote matters, you can win by one vote in virginia, now the story
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can turnaround to oh, well kids let's draw a name out of a hat. >> does part of you worry that someone's trying to take this away from you. >> i think clearly my opponent's team didn't play by the rules of the recount. we had a court order that said any ballot to be contested had to be marked on the recount day on tuesday so they did not follow the rules of the recount. >> well shelly simons it's a remarkable story we will continue to follow. thanks for joining us this holiday week. >> thank you so much for having me. >> coming up a interview fit for a prince. prince harry and obama. he talked about life outside of the white house and a little bit about its current occupant, next.
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engagement but there was still plenty to talk about including the current president although his name was never mentioned and the interviewed included a good old-fashioned lightning round. >> it was prince harry and meghan markle's first appearance together as a couple but it also provided a rare opportunity, the interview of a former president by a prince. it was aired on british radio on wednesday. among the topics discussed the role of social media. >> all of us in leadership have to find ways in which we can recreate a common space on the internet. one of the dangerouses of the internet is that people can have entirely different realities. they can be cocooned in information that reenforces their current biases. >> president trump was never mentioned. wand politics largely avoided
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the interview allowed an insight into not only barack obama but also the man fifth in line to the hit antic. >> suits or the good wife. >> suits obviously. >> great obviously. >> cigarettes or gum. >> gum now baby. >> white house or buckingham palace. >> white house because buckingham palace looks like it would take a long time to mow. >> fair enough queen or the queen. >> the queen. >> was asked about his upcoming wedding would the man he clearly enjoyed interviewing be invited. >> who knows whether will be invited or not.
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>> which trampolimeans the brit continue to wonder whether the former u.s. president will be invited to the uk for a royal wedding before the current president has visited the country since taking power. cnn london. >> so interesting question there, is there a real possibilities the obamas could be invited to prince harry's wedding and not the current president of the united states. >> i do think it is unlikely president trump and mrs. trump will be invited. miss markle has been very critical of president trump called him divisive and miss mysoginist. there is a question whether or not the obamas will be invited. he and prince harry are clearly great friends. i think in the end the obama
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daughters be invited and not the parents to get around this question but it certainly is a complicated question the british government certainly don't want to be embarrassd. >> prince harry's wedding is not a full state occasion meaning he should have more control over his invites but might the government try to interfere. >> we will get a befudle if there's mr. and mrs. obama and not mr. and mrs. trump. of course what i think the governments are very concerned about, they are very worried about offendsing mr. trump. they want him to come over for a state visit circled around the queen.
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mr. trump likes the royal family so he will see it as a personal slight if he's not invited to the wedding and certainly if mr. obama is invited. prince harry is inch fifth in line for the thrown abone will drop to sixth after the baby coming in april. still this is the big question how do they get around a problem that prince harry is fwrendss friends of the obamas and wants to invite them. that will really offend mr. trump he will not nurse his wounds in private. >> you seen the report gwbetwee former president obama and prince harry what's the origin of their friendship. >> they've been very good friends for a long time,
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particularly over the invictus games and that really has cemented the friendship. it's really a marrying of minds. prince harry was asked about it and he said we have a similar kind of outlook and about the mind set about the charitable sector and we both see young people as aspiring they have very different lives. prince harry was born into privilege, obama was not, yet they do seem to have a very close chemistry to enjoy joking around and want to work together in the future particularly aspirins harry is keen to make a name for himself not just in britain but on the international stage. >> interesting story there kate williams thank you so much. >> thank you so much thank you. >> coming up next cnn investigation uncovering multiple allegations of sexual
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demand a move in her seat and was placed directly behind him and it continued. >> like all of them complained the flight crew did little or nothing to help. >> he grabbed my arm and my side right under my left breast, right next to my left breast. >> ayana hart was on a delta flight from los angeles to denver in may. she says the flight attendant was of no help. >> she said, oh, he flies with us all the time. he's delta platinum. >> reporter: the airline would not comment on this case, citing pending litigation, but said it takes these incidents seriously and with law enforcement investigating them. was dozing off when i felt a hand in my crotch and realized
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that the man next to me was grabbing my crotch. >> reporter: allison filed a complaint with delta after her flight from seattle to amsterdam. >> there was not a clear procedure for what they should do. they asked me what i wanted them to do. >> reporter: amonth later, she received an e-mail, saying it's not fair when one person's behavior affects another, and as a good will gesture, offered her 10,000 miles. >> if somebody reports a crime to an airline, it should be flagged. it should not be treated as if it's lost luggage. >> reporter: the airline told cnn, we continue to be disheartened by the events she described. >> he started to touch my leg, stroke my leg, tickle it. >> reporter: jennifer was on a flight from newark to phoenix. she, too, says the flight crew did not move her away from her harasser. instead, the airline made an offer. >> he gave me four $100 gift certificates for travel on an
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upcoming united flight. and he refused to let me talk to a manager. >> reporter: but shortly after a news article about her ordeal was published, united management called to, in their words, check on her. >> this message is for jennifer. this is [ bleep ] calling from united airlines executive offices. i can't even imagine, you know, what you went through when you were on the flight with the gentleman seated next to you. >> at thousands of feet in the air, you can't call for help. you can't remove the problem. >> reporter: sara nelson is president of one of the world's largest flight attendant unions. >> in my 22 years as a frigligh attendant, i have never taken part in a conversation in training or otherwise about how to handle sexual harassment or sexual assault. >> reporter: the union surveyed nearly 2,000 flight attendants. 1 out of 5 says they've received a report of a passenger sexual assault. but law enforcement was contacted less than half the time. cnn reached out to all of the
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major u.s. airlines and the industry trade group that represents them. none agreed to go on camera, but all released statements with a similar message. passenger safety and security is their priority, and they say flight attendants are trained to handle these incidents. but none gave a detailed explanation of the policies or guidelines. no federal regulatory agency tracks how many midair sexual assaults happen nationwide, but the fbi does track how many it investigates. federal data shows a 66% increase from 2014 to 2017. the fbi says it is unclear what's behind the rise, but what is clear for these women, flight crews need to do more bau, beca at 30,000 feet, there's no escape. >> reporter: i want to thank all four women for sharing their stories with cnn. the four women in this piece say they want three things. one, the flight crew should always separate the victim from the harasser.
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parts of pennsylvania are ending the year under a massive pile of snow. in erie, they got, check this out, they got more than 60 inches of snow. five feet. and now a huge chunk of the country is about to get hit with a blast of record low temperatures. cnn meteorologist allison chinchar is live in the weather sent every. 17 million under a wind chill advisory, that number expected to rise. >> people should be expecting incredibly cold temperatures and also strong winds.
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20 to 30 miles an hour to go along with it. the main focus is the northeast, where you have the advisories and warnings. here's a look at the temperatures, though. boston, tomorrow morning, when many folks wake up, the temperature, we're talking minus 13 is what it's going to feel like. minus 15 by friday. so a lot of these areas are going to be worse friday into saturday. that's why we expect to have even more numbers go up in the wind chill advisories. here's the thing you have to understand. we're going to get another blast of cold air. here's the one currently for today. but notice as we get into friday, saturday and sunday, that next round begins to push back through. here's the thing with that. that may actually be a good thing for all those folks in the great lakes region that have had so much snow. here's why. this is a current look at lake erie. only 9% is covered by ice. by the time we get to monday, thanks to these incredibly cold temperatures, it's likely to be 40% covered in ice. this is actually a good thing. because in order to have lake effect snow, you have to have a huge temperature difference between the temperature of the
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lake and the air temperature directly above it. so, if the lake freezes over, you don't have that temperature difference, jim, to trigger a lot of that lake effect snow. the problem is, this likely won't occur until monday, which means any moisture that comes in until that point is going to add to that snow they already have. >> allison, thank you very much. thank you for watching "360." the cnn special report "late night in the age of trump" starts now. the following is a cnn special report. buckle up, because i'm coming in hot! this is going to be a crazy one. >> every day, there's something nuts. >> you're not the potus, you're the blotus. >> wait, how long does this wall have to be? >> he's the most mocked man in america. >> that is the problem with the media. >> monopolizing late night. >> it's hard not to feel like you're being redundant. >> kim jong-un as rocket man. >> kim jong-un, rocket man. >> kim jong-un as rocket man.
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