the impeachment inquiry gains steam, a parade of key witnesses and then this. >> we do that all the time with foreign policy. and i have news for everybody, get over it. >> plus the president abandons an ally and draws bipartisan skorn. >> what we have done to the kurds will stand as a blood stain in the annals of american history. >> and bernie sanders wins a big

endorsement. >> i would like to introduce the man, the ally. >> to put it bluntly, i am back. >> "inside politics," the biggest stories sourced by the best reporters now. welcome to "inside politics." i'm john king. to our viewers in the united states and around the world, thank you for sharing your sunday. we begin this week with something very rare. president trump blinking and retreating on the issue that to him matters most, his name and his brand. and make no mistake, it is a retreat connected to an impeachment inquiry that is gaining steam. in a series of tweets saturday night, the president said he was canceling plans to hold the annual g-7 summit next year at a trump-owned resort in florida. as you can see in the tweet, he blames the media and democrat-crazed and irrational hostility for his decision. by irrational hs tilt, perhaps

he meant deep republican unease. >> is it inappropriate, does it violate the law? i don't think so. i don't believe that it does. but it just -- it's one of those things that is so unnecessary. with all of the stuff that's going on in washington, d.c. right now, why would you invite just more controversy? >> most gop revolts during the trump presidency have been small and short lived so it's wise to be careful in assessing the current splits. this is different, more wide spread and more angry. and while most of it is about syria or the doral decision, there are a few jitters and cracks on the question of impeachment. >> you are saying at this point you are not ruling out the possibility that this is an impeachable offense for the president? >> i don't think you can rule anything out until you know all the facts. >> if i was sitting in the house of representatives today and you were to ask me how should move

forward and should go for a full examination and a trial in the un would be yes. >> again, just two republican voices there, but it is a dynamic worth watching. with us this sunday to share reporting and insights, kate lynn collins, michael sheer of the new york times. let's start with the president doing an abrupt about-face on a saturday night after his acting chief of staff in the white house briefing room said we've decided on doral, it's the right choice, the best choice, get over it. why did the president flip? >> i think the president is facing an increasing amount of criticism not just from democrats, which is what he alluded to in his tweet, but also members of his own party and people inside the white house who were confused not only that they picked this location, but also the way mick mulvaney defended it in that briefing. you don't usually see the

president back down from a decision just because he's criticized for it. but i think when you step back, it's the broader scope of the president being criticized on several front right now, and this is one of them that the president backed off of. it's interesting it comes after he made mick mulvaney go out and defend him, and now they're changing their mind. >> i was up on capitol hill all week talking to republican members and we'll get to the conversation obviously about impeachment as well. but what i heard repeatedly after that doral announcement was just kind of puzzlement from republicans. they were all trying to do the dance where they say he's going to do this at cost, he wasn't going to profit from this supposedly. but they were all struggling to figure out why would you -- as kaitlyn said, why would you do this now? you've got so many things on your plate, and i'm sure that that message got communicated back to the white house. >> why would you do it anyway, because it raises optics, even

if you're doing it at no profit. get over it. it raises the optics of conflict of interest and trying to benefit from your office and all of that, plus why do this this when republicans are furious about syria, and many of them very unhappy with what they're hearing from the house testimony about ukraine testimony and rudy giuliani and trying to be loyal republicans and bite their tongues. he keeps poking them. >> it's very difficult to find republicans saying very positive things about this, unless you're talking about the two florida senators. but generally speaking, when it comes to impeachment they're talking just about process and not about substance, because to undercut the process seems to be their best defense. when it comes to syria, you've got everybody up to the senate majority leader saying absolutely not. and as lisa was saying, she doesn't necessarily think it's illegal, although i think there's a question as to whether

it would have made it to an article of impeachment if he had stuck to the decision. but if you want to keep the votes of the senate republicans with you when it comes to impeachment, it would help if you keep their confidence at the same time so they're not listening for that one thing that makes their brain flip the switch and say i'm done here. >> and the loudest part of it is syria. syria is both honest, angry objections to what the president did. republicans and democrats think he left an al eye on the battlefield. but also it's become a vehicle for other frustration. they have carried frustration for a long time. after the president himself tweeted republicans should stick together, trying to keep the team together, mitch mcconnell, as neo-isolationism reers its head on both the left and right, we can expect to hear more talk

of endless wars. but rhetoric cannot change the fact that wars do not end. it will be endless only if america refuses to win them. that is a 2 by 4 to the president of the united states from the top republican in congress. >> so far republicans have said they do want to take action and try to move forward to reverse some of the actions that trump took. and this happening at the same time as trump comes out and says he wants to have the g-7 at doral, as well as impeachment proceedings are going on, the investigation, of course this doesn't help the president and continues to put him more in a corner. it also puts republicans in a bit of a predicament, because more and more we're seeing some of them starting to play with the idea of will i support impeachment? again, it's the lot of the ones that are not running for reelection or are not up for reelection in the case of mitt romney. but it's putting them more in a corner, and also i think that when you look at doral, there's a broader team of -- that goes along with the impeachment

inquiry, which is the president abusing his power for self-interest. and it's all of that. that entire prism that republicans have to go to look at. >> every one of these fights connects back to what's happening at the moment and that's the impeachment drama. and everybody in the senate fully expects the house to impeach the president. so the question is, can you get to two-thirds in the senate? not even close. but if you're just talking about some procedural motions, anything that you need a majority on, it only takes a few republicans, if the democrats stick together, to say we're going to do this or this evidence is acceptable, if it's the majority rules. that's when you see republicans getting mad and walking away from the president, you have to keep a close eye on it. like on syria, you mentioned mitt romney, but also presidential friend normally, lindsay graham. >> the announcement today is being portrayed as a victory. it is far from a victory. what we have done to the kurds will stand as a blood stain in the annals of american history. >> he's making the biggest

mistake of his presidency and i will do my job to make sure these decisions unfold as i think, that he will get the responsibility for it. >> lindsay graham would like to stay in the middle east for the next thousand years with thousands of soldiers and fighting other people's wars. i want to get out of the middle east. >> one of the things that can happen, and this is obviously projecting forward a little bit. but if you had a trial in the senate after the house impeached the president, there's likely to be a motion to dismiss at some point, that the republicans will say we want to dismiss these charges. that is a 51, a majority vote. and if you had four senators go the other way, you could have that motion to dismiss fail, which would be a real embarrassment for this president. and when you look at those clips, you can sort of figure out how to get to those four or five republican senators if they're angry enough at the president on other things. >> people like lindsay graham, he said i'm keeping these two things separate. yes, i'm furious with the

president's syria decision, but that has nothing to do with how i feel about impeachment. >> the place to look for those people is going to be sometimes in the swing states, people that are up in 2020. some of them are fighting to keep their seats in states that are not that red. and then some of them are retired. there's people that have an old way of thinking about things. they're along for the ride but it's not how they think business should be done. >> cory gardner, swing state, rit romney, just reelected. seems to be an independent voice on this. howard baker, he's retiring. up next the acting white house chief of staff throws gasoline on the impeachment fire and then tries to take it back. but first politicians say the darnedest things, brexit edition. >> order. to the right, 322, the nos to the left, 306.

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presidential corruption and abuse of power. rudy giuliani is at the center of this and in the headlines through this past week. in testimony this week, administration officials testified the president's personal lawyer, mr. giuliani was the point man for ukraine at the president's direction and official business or promised u.s. military aid were used as leverage as giuliani pushed for ukraine to pursue a debunk 2016 conspiracy theory or to look for dirt on joe biden and his son hunter. now, the president and his allies insist there's no there there and they accuse the democrats of exaggerating or cherry picking testimony. but then this on thursday from the white house briefing room. >> this is a corrupt place, i don't want to send them a bunch of money and have them waste it. did he also mention to ne in the past that the corruption related to the dnc server? absolutely, no question about that. that's it. that's why we held up the monday. >> quid pro quo is funding will

not flow unless the investigation into the democratic server happened as well? >> we do that all the time with foreign policy. >> absolutely. no question about it. that's why we held up the money. we do that all the time with foreign policy. you just heard it right there. republicans on capitol hill were blindsided. the president was furious. mulvaney quickly issued a statement that denied he said what he said. democrats say mulvaney had conceded in public just what the witnesses are saying in private. speaker nancy pelosi saying to cnn on friday, what he said was of course a confession. he tried to take it back, but, yeah, we held up the money. how do you want to do that? >> it's very hard to unhear those things. and the issue really for him even more so is not only did he detail the three terms in which we held up the money and then try to say there were two terms later, but also he went into detail. he's saying that there was corruption issues and the server

was part of that. it's one thing if it's saying we had concerns about corruption in ukraine. a lot of people had concerns about corruption in ukraine. but then he legitimately leans into a debunked conspiracy theory is there a server from the dnc that's in the ukraine. people don't support that. the republicans don't really support that for the most part either. and he kept repeating that this was what he had discussed with the president and that -- and this is what the corruption was. and so every time he kept referring to the corruption being the quid pro quo -- >> we held up the money, that's what we do, get over it. >> it was amazing. all week long you saw the president's fierce defenders on capitol hill come out to like bash the democratic impeachment inquiry and say this isn't happening, it's not real. there is no quid pro quo. and then it was like they're the defenders and all of a sudden the guy on their team is running the ball the other way.

they were astounded and he didn't actually take it back for, i don't know, like five hours or something. it was a long time on capitol hill. >> and he said the media was misconstruing. these guys forget there are cameras. we can play it over and over again. you have reporting that he was kind of on shaky ground to begin with. he's still the abing chief of staff, ten months later. >> ten months in. this is interesting, now because of the headline generating performance, his job is under scrutiny. i'm being told that right before nancy pelosi announced she was endorsing the impeachment inquiry, top officials inside the white house were reaching out to people about being potential replacement for mick mulvaney. it essentially goes to show that long before he was making these comments about ukraine, he was already on unsure footing inside the west wing. the efforts seem to have subsided now that they're being forced to deal with the impeachment inquiry that's escalating by the day. but it does raise questions

about who would want to take this job as the chief of staff, a job that is famously tough and now more so. but also whether or not he's insulated because of the central role he has in the ukraine scandal. >> and the fact testimony, this is why we talked about republican cracks. on the impeachment question there are minor cracks right now. when you talk to republicans privately about what they're hearing about giuliani and the president and how this worked, it makes them sick to their stomach. they're just hoping the democrats bellow it. they're counting on house democrats. i just want to go through some of the testimony. first rudy giuliani -- remember, he's making money. he's not just the president's private attorney. he has clients overseas, including in ukraine. so gordon sondland, director of the united nations, fiona hill reported concerns and said her boss called him, quote, a hand grenade. george kent, told to lie low

after raising complaints. mike pompeo, thought pompeo did little to support the former ukraine ambassador. in addition to that, cnn reporting that in mr. kent's testimony he said that giuliani kept pushing for a visa for one of the ukrainian officials who is spreading the conspiracy theories, that the state department said no and he went to the white house and appealed saying let's let this guy into the united states. this is why republicans look at this and they just think what? >> it's not even somebody who is spreading conspiracy theories. the person he was trying to secure the visa for. it's part of the republicans' argument this is why biden is stained. but it's not really held up that much in terms of how the testimony has gone. so that's even more central to that because you're talking about somebody who they had legitimate grounds to keep out of the united states and yet giuliani is pushing for that. that's significant and it shows you the rupture. right now the white house is

putting a lot of pressure on anybody the the administration. and people have said i don't care, i'm going to testify anyway. but to kaitlyn's point before, if mick mulvaney is out of a job, he's a beautiful witness for the impeachment investigation. who is going to be the person that is so close to the president that they know everything and can open up and tell the public what was going on. >> what's so stunning about mulvaney's admission, he also says political influence always happens in foreign policy, get over it and it's his attempt to normalize that we see time and time again, that there's im p impropriety. >> trump pulled back the doral announcement, and there's the trump campaign saying never miss a crisis, let's make some money

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new york's presidential primary is late, not until next april. but in queens yesterday, a boost bernie sanders hopes sends a national message. >> he fought for these ends when they came at the highest political cost in america. no one wanted to question the system. >> bernie's back was the rally mess im, back from a recent heart attack and his team hopes back in the top tier conversation. let's take a look at his standings. no question about it, he's only at 11% in the recent national polls. that's a problem, especially given the rise of the other progressive candidate, elizabeth warren. if you look at the national numbers, senator sanders does have a problem. but we pick presidents state by state.

that's how the nomination process works. in iowa, bernie sanders is right in the mix. in nevada, also one of the first four states, senator sanders right in the mix. he's very competitive in some of these early states. it's a little more troubling for him in new hampshire. sanders runs a relatively distant third. and in south carolina, biden still has a big league and sanders is down here. so the early state picture, early on some of it good, some of it not so great. what does he hope to get from the endorsement of alexandria ocascio-cortez? among very liberal voters, elizabeth warren is beating him quite well. maybe it can help there. he's in a fight with elizabeth warren for younger progressive voters. he certainly hopes alexandria ocascio-cortez and ihlan omar can help him with this group here. the big rally yesterday and the big crowd, he said i've got momentum, don't worry. >> i am happy to report to you

that i am more than ready, more ready than ever. i am more than ready to assume the office of president of the united states. damn right, we're going to win. >> endorsements can be overplayed, but they can also help. what do we think about this? >> this endorsement comes at a key time for him because we all know he had the heart attack and he's been facing questions of whether or not he can go the distance, whether or not he's up to the task given his health. and ocascio cortez came right at the moment he needed, which is after the debate and the questions came up. as well as an endorsement by ihlan omar. but endorsements in the grand scheme of things mean very little. could she potentially help him with young voters? possibly. it's difficult to say at this

point. >> it will be willing to watch in that lbernie sanders says he plans for her to travel with him. he's very gentle with elizabeth warren, but is one role for alexandria ocascio-cortez to make the case that she's not a socialist, but she's not one of us. she's not a true believer. >> you've seen bernie sanders kind of play into that in certain interviews where he talks about whether or not he's a capitalist, if she's a capitalist. he's taken small digs at that. of course they are friends and did have this pact did not attacking each other, but in the end one of them wants to be the nominee and it can't be both of them. right now elizabeth warren is doing much better in the polls and that's going to be the question going forward. >> if you look at where we are in the race, the optics are great for bernie sanders and he does look good and sound good since he's back. if you look at the money, senator sanders well positioned there. the question mark is the former vice president, joe biden. sanders leads the pack, warren

has plenty of money. joe biden in the last quarter came in behind kmkamala harris. joe biden has got a problem there. how big of a pro be? >> well, he's got a problem because the money both is a problem of actual spending and it also is an indication of an enthusiasm that isn't maybe there, especially in the sort of grass roots fundraising that sanders and elizabeth warren are so good at. i think one of the things to go back to the question about bernie sanders, is can alexandria ocascio-cortez help broaden a little bit, and if joe biden sheds his supporters, some of these other candidates who are lower in the polls, those folks are going to have to find some place to go. and do they go to elizabeth warren or do they go to bernie

sanders. and perhaps, you know, seeing the sort of fresh new face of the democratic party endorse this older candidate maybe some of those younger people decide we're going to go that direction. >> and with biden's lack of fundraising is also he had a higher burn rate as you mentioned and there are a number of his supporters that are concerned about it. because with his so-called firewall in super tuesday states, if you don't have enough money to put people on the ground to build the infrastructure, you could easily get overrun by the other candidates. >> and if you start losing in the early states, too, sometimes your money doesn't even help. he needs both, money and some wins. another fascinating dynamic is elizabeth warren for months has said i'm with bernie's medicare for all plan. in the last debate she had to deal with this. >> will you raise taxes on the middle class to pay for it, yes or no? >> so i have made clear what my principles are here, and that is

costs will go up for the wealthy and for big corporations, and for hard-working middle class families costs will go down. >> credibility matters. she's going to have to tell the truth or the question we raised about whether or not she's going to be candid and honest with the american people. >> the morning after the debate the warren campaign said that she was going to have her own analysis of financing, that they were going to crunch the numbers themselves. which leads you to believe they're going to have their own health care plan. one thing she has not done. a huge test for her because she keeps getting badgered why can't you answer the question yes or no. >> that's the big question. it's a moment for her to take some momentum back in a way if she does come out with a health care plan that seems to answer the questions more able lee than bernie sanders has been able to answer the questions and can

kind of strike a balance that pleases the progressives but doesn't lose her everybody else. which is just her general challenge as well as she starts to ascend into the top rank basically of many of the polls now. so we will see what the details of that are going to be. she's bought herself some time and doesn't have anybody else who is going to rival her in terms of having a new plan out because a lot of the others have already articulated what they want. we've been waiting on her. but generally speaking, she's been pulling support from various people's camps and doesn't necessarily seem to have quite as cohesive of a coalition as bernie sanders is clearly on one end of the democratic party spectrum, or biden who seems to be mostly on the other. her challenge going forward, especially things like is she a capitalist, socialist, et cetera. is it going to cost her either the nomination. >> she has been the growth stock in the race because of smart decisions on the ground, strong

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warren champ yend in the wake of the 2008 crisis. she says it's constitutional and in her view isn't going anywhere. >> the big banks fought us, the republicans fought us, shoot a big chunk of the democrats fought us. they told us not to even try. but i ignored them and stayed in there and i fought for that agency. president obama fought for that agency. when i'm president, that agency is going to do just fine. >> mayor pete buttigieg cutting ties with a chicago attorney who once tried to suppress footage of the police shooting of a black teenager. the shooting, five years ago today, resulted in protests and an jest gagz. he was to co host a fundraiser for b for pete buttigieg. he faced criticism earlier this

year over what happened in south bend and said he was frustrated by the failure to properly vet donors. >> especially as mayor of a city that has had a lot of anguish over police/community relations, i believe strongly that justice is more important than campaign contributions. you need to be sure you've gone through the steps to make sure there's no concern that would make you regret they're associated with the campaign. >> and facebook under attack. the biden campaign asking the social platform to reject another attack ad on the former vice president. biden's campaign manager says facebook is letting candidates misled americans. facebook says the ad in question isn't even running on their platform. alexandria ocascio-cortez, another facebook critic, took a jab yesterday at the rally in queens. >> we need to take power over our lives again. i don't know about you, but i don't want mark zuckerberg

making decisions over my life. [ crowd chanting ] >> tulsi gabbard is next. hillary clinton looks back at 2016 and ahead to 2020 and sees russia doing all it can to help president trump. there's a power in listening;

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hillary clinton stirred a new spy drama this past week, suggesting russia is already crafting a plan to help president trump win reelection and suggesting current democratic contender tulsi gabbard is part of that plan. >> they're also going to do third party again and i'm not making any predictions, but i think they've got their eye on somebody who is currently in the democratic primary and are grooming her to be the third party candidate. she's a favorite of the russians, they have a bunch of sites and bots and other ways of

supporting her so far. >> the hawaii congresswoman called it preposterous and dared hillary clinton to enter the race. she stayed her anti-establishment views are why these being targeted. >> the establishment who are conducting this coordinated smear campaign. >> how concerned are you about russian meddling in 2020? >> once again, this is not about russia. let's stay focused on the issue at hand here, that hillary clinton is labeling me as a foreign agent and a traitor. >> what do we make of this? >> i mean, that answer by tulsi gabbard was a little strange that they wouldn't say that she is concerned about potential russian interference because there was that last cycle. there are huge fears about that heading into 2020. >> and there are a lot of bots

on the internet that support her. if she has nothing to do with it, that's not her fault. but she could say i have nothing to do with it. >> there are a number of russian bots. richard spencer, a white nationalist has said that he would vote for her and gabbard has done very little examine "the new york times" has documented this well, done very little to distance herself. >> this is what hillary clinton has allowed by making this claim with no proof. there are valid critiques by tulsi gabbard, but by saying this without proof it makes people wonder and if she able to avoid questions about that, about concerns in the next election. she can say there are conspiracy theories being pushed by hillary clinton which make people wonder what was she thinking. >> she has a point that who the third party candidates are is going to have a huge part in this case. the third party candidates will matter. jill stein, she also said that jill stein is a russian asset or

at least was. >> no, i am not a russian spy. i think this is a completely unhinged conspiracy theory. i think it's really outrageous that hillary clinton is trying to promote this crazy idea. you can't just slander people. you have to present some basis in fact. >> i just think it's great that the accusation is now that hillary clinton is the vast left wing conspiracy that sort of echos what she used to say in reverse. and i think it does open a kind of wound in the contract party, this sort of kind of fight that there are legitimate and substantive reasons, philosophical reasons that are differences between these two parts of the party. but having one of these sfatspas

never good. >> whether you like her or not. hillary clinton decides what she wants to talk about. she wanted to do this. >> she did want to do this and she doesn't want to fade quietly into the wings. this is yet another example of how we have never been able to have a conversation about russian interference in this country that is separated from the politics and the political o egos at play. everybody gets personalities involved and it goes nowhere. >> we'll leave it there for now. our reporters share from their notebooks, including vice president mic pence and his urgent turkey diplomacy. i'm not really "there." talk to your doctor, and call 844-234-2424.

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let's head around the "inside politics" table and ask our reporters to share something from the notebooks to get ahead of the big political news around the corner. kaitlan collins. >> so i traveled with the president to turkey, this whirlwind last-minute trip and we didn't have a totel and flew there. he held the meetings with the turkish president as the white house is facing criticism for the president's abrupt decision to withdraw troops from syria and it is an interesting angle to watch this because the president didn't go. he sent pence in his place. and wanted him to go immediately and they ended up leaving the next day and it was interesting watching pence be in that room for so many hours negotiating with them and then we flew home and it was probably a 12-hour flight back and as we're flying back you're already seeing the reports about potential cease-fire violations. something that the administration has since faced criticism over. just a really interesting perspective to watch it from and to see how the president sent

pence in his place to conduct this foreign policy. >> michael. >> immigration has dropped out of the news amid impeachment and syria and the other news, but in a couple of weeks the supreme court will hear oral arguments about president trump's decision to end daca. daca was the obama-era program that protected immigrants brought to this country as young children and raise as americans. president trump tried to end the program and blocked by the lower courts. if the supreme court upholds the president's decision and program, some 800,000 undocumented immigrants could be at risk of deportation and injecting the immigration issue back into the country just as the 2020 election is underway, the supreme court decision could signal what it will do with other extreme proposals by the president and the final decision will come next june just as the general election gets underway

and so as to the president said we shall see what happens? >> one of several collisions between the court and the election calendar. an interesting year. >> tomorrow the canadians are having elections and we'll see who is prime minister and while we don't consider the canadians to be that big of a deal, especially with the other turmoil in the world, there is one thing that is in the mix right now between the united states and canada and that is that neither have ratified the trade agreement with mexico which is trump's top policy. it is not going to go off the rails depenning on who wins but the fact that you take until november or december before they recall the parliament and delays on this side of the fence and the conservatives are discontent with parts in canada and nancy pelosi refusing to put it on the floor because there are changes that labor wants to see here and you could see shaking in the mix and the more things potentially change and shift the more you move away from the original

agreement and that is a big deal when you are talking about who stands to benefit and where they vote in the country and what that means for 2020. >> i think mick mulvaney said it elections have a consequence. in a different consequence but they do. >> i'm heading to eye law because the lead of latinoin american citizens is hosting a forum and bernie sanders and julian castro and beto o'rourke and they're trying to register thousands of latinos ahead of the caucus hoping the group will have some way in who ultimately democrats put on top but a lot of other candidates are in iowa. joe biden is going to be there. kamala harris is going to be there. so they're trying to pay -- pay attention to this state as we're close. >> 100 day mark. closer than you think. and i'll talk about a turning point week for republicans. mitch mcconnell shot down the idea that perhaps republicans would have no choice but to

censure president trump. quote, shot it down hard. according to a source familiar with that dinner conversation. but a majority leader did tell his gop colleagues they need to prepare for a serious impeachment trial and shift in the past mood this week. again the open anger at the president is about syria. but politicians study the polls and support for impeachment is rising. plus the testimony about rudy giuliani's ukraine meddling makes serious republicans nervous. and the mick mulvaney briefing was unnerving proving that team trump is woefully unprepared for the storm ahead. that is it for "inside politics." catch us week days at noon eastern. don't go anywhere. busy sta"state of the union" wi jake tapper and he talks with david petraeus and two 2020 candidates, senator pete buttigieg and amy klobuchar. thanks for sharing your sunday. have a great day. i am royalty of racing,

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