just giving people the assurance that they don't have it, the people around them don't have it. and we're nowhere close to that, yet. >> yeah. i mean, waiting for ten days, so many have said, seems to be meaningless. sanjay, as always, thank you. the news continues next with chris cuomo. all right. thank you, anderson. i am chris cuomo and welcome to prime time. listen. here's the headline. the second quarter was the worst quarter in terms of gdp action in america's history. we were down almost 33%. okay? and of course, the reason is covid. but it's how this president mishandled covid. what's the proof? well, lots of countries are dealing with covid, right? why are we down almost a third

of our gdp growth and yet, germany was down 10%. china. remember, we're going to get on top of china, only i can fix it. they were up 3%. why? what happened to this being the best economy in the world? so, pay no mind to the president's delay the election flash bangs to disorient you. he knows that his mishandling of this pandemic, his handling of the economy, as a result, has li him losing this election now. really, in earnest, november 3rd, anything can happen. things can get better with the pandemic. better with the economy. anything could happen. but right now, it is no coincidence that his unconstitutional, unethical, and

almost impossible suggestion to move the election, coincides with our economy's worst drop, ever. ever. okay? 32.9%. i know he didn't address it. he doesn't give you bad news. that's our job. to give you the truth, so that you can use it in your processing. i will not let him distract you on our watch. between april and june, we lost almost a third. germany lost just ten. china is up. why aren't we the best? he's going to have to answer to you for that. and remember, he told you this the other week. >> i'm not a good loser. i don't like to lose. >> of course, he doesn't like to lose. it's what is he willing to do to avoid taking a loss? he gave you the answer tonight.

>> i don't want to delay. i want to have the election. but i, also, don't want to have to wait for three months. and then, find out that the ballots are all missing and the election doesn't mean anything. that's what's going to happen. do i want to see a date change? no. but i don't want to see a crooked election. >> how does he know that's what's going to happen? he's lying to you. just like he did with his 2 million fraudulent votes to explain why he got whooped in the popular vote by hillary clinton. he's lying to you. but see, this is america. this is a republic. it is not a banana republic. we are bigger than any one piece, even the president. so, while trump may be saying things that are bananas, he is still in an actual republic. not a banana republic. there is a difference. we have a constitution. we are about laws. now, remember, now, he is pulling back. this is what he does. he says something completely

bananas, and then tries to back away. and let the provocation fill the space, and the media loves it. they run, run, run, run, run. they forget about the economic numbers, and they play his game. not here. be clear. what he is suggesting is something without any basis in fact. there is no proof that mail-in voting is rife with fraud. states are considering it because they're screwed because of the pandemic. they're trying to find ways to get us to be able to exercise the franchise. because of the pandemic that he is mishandling. so he is making up the idea that the election will be rigged. just like the 2 million fake votes, he lied to you because he can't rig the truth. he is losing in the polls right now, because he has mishandled the pandemic, and the economy has suffered, as a result. the net effect, of all of this that he is doing to try to

create doubt about the strength of our democracy is just to create doubt, if he loses. >> it's had an interesting impact. i didn't know it was going to be the impact it had. what people are now looking at is, am i right? >> no, nobody's looking at if you're right. you knew exactly what impact you wanted it to have. that's why you said it. you said it to try to hurt confidence in the democratic process. he doesn't even deny it. that's why it's so obvious, it's so ugly, that president obama, actually, used it as the context for what it was that john lewis, at his funeral, to memorialize this warrior of democracy, what he was against. listen. >> there are those in power who

are doing their darnedest to discourage people from voting that's going to be dependent on mail-in ballots so people don't get sick. it was an attack on what john fought for. it was an attack on our democratic freedoms, and we should treat it as such. >> no, trump didn't attend. sure, he should be there. he represents all of us. we're burying a hero. but it's just about him. if you don't get that, you're not paying attention. but why would he go? he doesn't believe anything john lewis stood for. good news, bad news, it's the truth. a president has zero power to delay this election. it can't happen. it has to happen through congress. and it's certainly not possible, just to help your own political survival, under the cover of our survival. suddenly, he cares about the pandemic. think about the logic or the l

illogic he is trying to get you to swallow herement it's ok. it's okay for you to go out into public, to expose yourself, while the cases are going crazy with coronavirus. it's okay for you to expose your kids in areas, where people don't believe they'll be safe in school, they should go, anyway. in fact, he will lie to you. about kids, you know, they don't transmit the disease. he knows the research says that, over the age of 10, they transfer just the way anyone would. you or me. he knows it. he says it, anyway. lie, defy, deny. those are the main prongs of the division handbook. and that's what he is. conquer and divide. so, all that's okay in the heat of a pandemic. but suddenly, suddenly, he's concerned that, one day, november 3rd, may not be safe. almost 100 days from now. it's okay to go out during the worst point of the pandemic,

with no mask and expose your kids, too. come to a rally for me. but maybe, on election day, maybe, we should think ahead. really? all of the sudden, the pandemic matters because it matters to him. my brothers and sisters, vote for him or against. but see him for what he is. he is about himself and his interest, not yours. he wants to move an election day but he doesn't want to fix schools. he wants to move election day but doesn't want to deal with you wearing a mask. he wants to move election day but he won't help with testing. in past pandemics like the spanish flu, even mitch mcconnell said the date is set in stone. i know his patsy pompeo said, well, the doj could move it. yeah? ask him for an kexample. him saying that is out of his

depth. i know his tried and true loyalists. they're not going to back him on this. the constitution is clear. the law is clear. it's asinine. why does trump think he can do whatever he wants? because he is a splendid marriage of ignorance and arrogance. it's all about the me, and zero about the we. the virus is, rapidly, swallowing us. all colors, all stripes, all creeds. it just took a former presidential candidate, herman kaine. yes, he supported the president. the president says he was a good friend of his. we wish his family well, and we wish that he rest in peace. and i wish that this president have no peace, until he thinks about what he's exposing people to. he didn't even mention that mr. cain was at his rally among the maskless masses, right before he was diagnosed. maybe, he didn't get it there.

sure as hell didn't help. may herm cain rest in peace. he fell ill, not long after that rally in june. the one in tulsa, oklahoma. you see him not wearing a mask. how many lives do we have to lose? how many have to be sick? how many have to have their lives changed? how many businesses have to close? how many kids have to go underserved and fall behind? how much more inequality and inequi inequity must there be for something that is within our control? when will you say enough? when will you demand action? this is not about our democracy being in doubt. this is about the strength of our leadership, absolutely, being in doubt. let's bring in "new york times" columnist tom friedman, the

author of the best-selling book "thank you for being late." always good to see you on prime time, brother friedman. >> chris, good to be with you. >> i hope everybody is well in your house. and how big a nail in the potential political coffin, for this president, are these economic numbers and why? >> well, you know, chris, i think you framed the big picture, which is that we don't have a plan for reviving the economy. we don't have a plan for defeating the coronavirus. we don't have a plan for getting kids back to school. and we don't have a plan to hold a free and fair election. and so, we're really drifting right now. that's the raeal problem. there's enormous diynamism in te economy. but parents, chris, are not going to send their kids to school, if they think they, or

teachers, are going to get sick and be infected by this virus. you can hector people to get the economy going. but people are not going to go to restaurants, in large numbers, if they think they are going to get sick. everything defend -- depends on crushing the virus. and the countries that you named, chris, that are doing better. germany and china. they didn't just flatten the curve. they crushed the curve. they crushed it so much that they got the numbers down so low, that they could trace, track, and quarantine the few -- the relatively few cases that were still out in their societies. we have completely failed to do that, and that's why we're in the pickle that we're in. >> you know, instead of talking about the fact that herm cain was at his rally, he said that he was killed by the china virus. remember, when the president and mike pompeo said they have proof that china had manufactured it? how come they never came out with that proof? >> well, you know, obviously, if they had had the proof, they would have come out with it. no one, i think, knows exactly

where this virus emerged. whether it did escape from some kind of lab. did it happen in a wet market in -- in china? but this is not been a -- they've n they' they've not approached any of this in a serious way, and this is a piece of that. >> in terms of -- you know, here's the problem. there is always a little bit of something that the president can anchor any of his wild speculation to. he says i just want to make sure we know the results of the election on election night. we never know the results of an election on election night. we often project. i think, what, 2000-2004, we didn't project that night. but generally, we project that night but you don't know until you go through the whole electoral process. so there's no way you have all the results on the election night. now, the silly part is him suggesting he could move the date. what's the reality there? >> first, congress sets the dates of our elections, as mitch

mcconnell said. so he has no power to do that, whatsoever. chris, we should ask ourselves a very simple question. what would a real president do, facing a pandemic, on the eve of an election? he would call together the leaders of both parties. he would call together the best experts in the country. and call together 50 governors and say i want a plan for a free and fair election on my desk by october 1st. in other words, he would address the problem. trump behaves like a troll who comes out from under the bridge. you know, tweeting something at us. and then, retreats under the bridge, as if he has no ability to actually shape the outcome here. and -- and that's why -- that's where you see the utter failure of lead evership. that's what a serious president would do. by the way, chris, if he is so worried about the election in november, why don't we move it up to october 1st? >> yes, why don't you ask congress to do that? >> i say september 1st. i mean, he's worried, right? well, let's just move it up. you know? >> that's right.

no coincidence he wants to move it back, right? he wants to buy himself time. but look, you know it's not serious because he has no problem with exposing people and their children to the virus, during the worst time. but he has a concern 96 days out? it doesn't make any sense except for his own interest. >> i admire the fact that you come on every night and point out all these contributiadictio. but you know, it really comes down to the point, now, where there's really nothing left to say about this man. what he's done. we've run out of words. there is actually only one thing to say. vote for joe biden. drive someone to the polls to vote for joe biden. raise money for joe biden. canvas for joe biden because, chris, this is about power. donald trump is not going to change. the republican party is not going to change. the only hope for the country is that we get a change in leadership and administration. that may not be sufficient to fix everything but it is damn

well necessary. >> i want all these people reaching out to me about hydroxychloroquine. like i wouldn't have taken it, if i could think of one reason it was going to be good when all the doctors were telling me watch out. i didn't have the right symptoms. i didn't have the pneumonia. i would have taken anything. but notice, today, he didn't even mention hydroxychloroquine when talking about the different tools to fight this. he talked about remdesivir and another drug. he didn't even mention it. when will people figure out that, just because he's selling, does not mean he's buying his own bs. he didn't even mention it today. tom friedman. go ahead, last word to you, sir. >> you just have to hope that people understand that, when you're up against mother nature, chris, she's just asking you three things. are you humble? do you respect my virus? two, are you coordinated in your response? and, three, is your response built on chemistry, biology, and physics, not ideology, politics, and an election schedule? if it's the former, you have a chance. if it's the latter, she will

hurt you or someone you love. >> tom friedman, i am not surprised to hear that you have dialogues with mother nature. i just hope you haven't been messing around with any aliens. >> not at all. >> because if you had, you get the demon seed and then we got a problem. thank you, very much, for giving us the truth, my brother. stay healthy. >> always. thanks, chris. >> all right. look. we got enough on our hands with this pandemic. i knew that he was going to say something about the election. i knew this was going to happen. but it's all about how you decide to respond. stay focused on what we need to fight, that is real. a key model, trusted by the white house, has just upped its projection to more than 230,000 covid deaths, by november. why? we have no plan. we can't go it alone, here. we need a plan, and that means we need the truth. a top medical mind for some shortcuts, next. t-mobile and sprint have merged.

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studies that are out say. by the way, we could use better testing on that drug. why isn't the president making that happen? in fact, for all of you who are saying, hey, i think the drug's real. i -- i believe the doctor who tells us about alien sex and demon seed. why didn't the president mention hydroxychloroquine today, among other drugs, when he was describing tools to fight the virus? why didn't he even mention hydroxychloroquine, if he believes it's so powerful? do you get that, just because he's selling it to you does not mean he is buying it himself. andy slavitt, good to see you on prime time as always. look. science aside. true or false, if the president believes this pill is worth taking, he bought a lot of it with our money.

he could definitely look at experts, like the job that you had, and say start looking now, with as many different patients as you can. start offering it now. start talking about it now. he could do all those things. he has done none. why? >> well, we used to live in a world where we would -- you know, people would come and tell us what drug they liked. and we didn't know who to listen to. today, we have things called studies. and these studies are conducted by the world's best researchers and experts, as you point out. and for better or worse, we have a system. it's called the fda. they're not perfect. we can get down on them, if they don't approve something fast enough. or if they approve something they shouldn't approve. in the case of hydroxychloroquine, they -- they leaned in. they approved it, without evidence. they did what the president wanted. they buckled to his pressure, which they probably shouldn't have done. but when they got evidence that it was doing harm, and that it wasn't actually effective, they pulled it back.

now, maybe someone will come and present them evidence, later, which says it works on this small group of populations. and maybe some of these doctors are right. that would be terrific. but i think we ought to be realizing that we got to listen to the fda. not me, not you, not the president, not the president's daughter-in-law. but the fda because that's what they are hired to do. >> the -- i was listening to admir admiral girar. and he said we're really trying to ramp up how fast people can get the response, the result of different tests. but it's hard for us because the need is so great. that doesn't make any sense to me. why is the need slowing down your ability to push american manufacturers and chemists in different places to buy reagent and access and procure what they need, to have more people processing tests?

>> well, you're exactly right. there's two problems. one is that they didn't act quickly enough. they didn't act quickly enough in february and march. and then, in april and may, when cases started growing and people were staying home, they should have been using that time to build up more case -- more tests. now, in the meantime, demand far outstripped whatever supply we grew. so we're growing cases so quickly, you know, we're adding a thousand in other parts of the world or 100, and we're adding 50, 60,000 here, it's impossible. and then, we expect schools to reopen with no visibility on who's spreading this, who's got it. if you wanted schools to open in august and september, you should have been working in april and may. >> so the new study they're looking at that expands how many people are going to die. what do you take from that study about what it means about what needs to be done? >> well, look. i think the white house always

just comes across to me, at least, chris, as too accepting when these numbers come out as you have said, very eloquently, we've lost this battle, so far. the europeans. the asians. i don't think we would have ever expected we would be that far behind them. i think if you told me in february and march, that things would be bad, i would have thought they were bad everywhere. but the fact they're much better in other places. we've lost a third of our economy and 150,000 people and just plan to lose more is because we're not willing to take the action. now, i ran a crisis response for the government before. and if you are going to run a crisis response, you have got to make one thing most important. and if you make human lives most important, then, you do things far differently than this president's doing. and as soon as we decide start about the 151st life, we know exactly what to do. it's done around the world. and will get us back on a path

where we can walk our kids to school, where -- where we can vote in person, safely. but we haven't been willing to do that. >> look. i have on the bottom of the screen here, new study, some people who have not had covid-19 might already have some immunity. we're learning about about all this different stuff. but what we know, for sure, right now, is that if we had a plan, if we had everybody on the same page, doing the same kinds of things, we wouldn't be where we are, and yet, we're still not doing it. andy slavitt, thank you for telling us what the way is, forward. now, we got to follow it. be well. stay safe. all right. we got a dose of normalcy in these strange times with a good event, right? the return of the nba tonight. and it's no accident that the reason they're not having any cases is because they've been living in a bubble. you do it the right way, you don't get sick. you do it the wrong way. we just saw something, though. right before tip-off that, in fact, means more than the

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now, the president, the right, they'll make this about patriotism. but this is, and has always been, about raising awareness. what does the flag stand for? if it does not wave with colors and beauty that resemble our rights. in this country, we show how we feel. that is how we respect what we are about. by exercising those rights. this is about raising awareness, not leveling disrespect. it never was. and many understand that, now. and they all took a knee. black. white. other. there was quiet, among them. they get it. how many others will? of course, it's controversial. of course, it's polarizing. change is hard. we've made very insignificant progress, on this, over a long time. but you got to take progress, where you find it. the unified move signals a shift

in understanding and support. the nba commissioner says this. i respect our team's unified act of peaceful protect for social justice. and under these unique circumstances, we will not enforce our longstanding rule requiring standing during the playing of our national anthem. and you know what? i don't think he should enforce it. this is likely to be only the first of many shows of respect for victims. in a tweet, just hours before the game, the players union wrote, while the season is back, our focus remains the same. black lives matter. remember, nobody's trying to elevate blacks on top of anyone else. it's about being equal. it's about what's in our constitution. right? liberty and justice, for all. that's all. that's all it means. the president doesn't get it. and he dealt another blow to the rest of us today, when he had to

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poverty to presidential frontrunner. was something remarkable and uniquely american. it, also, ended far too soon. just in his 70s, he had a lot of life in front of him. like so many of the 150,000, plus, that this pandemic has taken from us. there was a lot more to his

story that he wanted to tell. in fact, he was about to launch a new show on news max tv. chris ruddy is both the ceo of news max and a friend of the show as well. it's good to see you back on prime time. >> glad to be back, chris. >> i'm sorry about herm. i am sorry for his family, and i'm sorry for his extended family. he had a lot of life left in front of him, and i'm sorry we lost him as soon as we did and how we did. >> herman would want -- not want americans to be sorry about his death. he loved america. he loved this country. he contributed to the very bitter end. to this country and making it great. and keeping it great. and so -- and he was on borrowed time. you know, he -- he had stage four cancer in 2006. he survived it. he beat it. and i think that was part of the thing he was traveling all over the country. he thought he was invincible and he wasn't invincible. this virus is going around, and he was doing book signings and going out on film tours. and he was at the tulsa rally.

a number of things. and you just couldn't stop the man. so, he was a force of nature, great american, and we will miss him. >> i, of course, extend only condolences to his family. and i wish them well. this has to come as a shock because he had already beat what was supposed to be his big challenge. so on to your friend, and our president. i don't understand why something like this, something like everything that's going on around him, has not shaken his approach to this pandemic. i don't understand why he won't embrace his role, and take charge and tell the experts around him to make a plan to fight what's going on. what is his resistance, chris? >> chris, i think he's done a good job. first of all, let's give him credit. a plus for handling the economic response. we faced a near economic

collapse. he has signed off on three and, now, soon to be four, bipartisan stimulus bills that are in the trillions of dollars to keep this economy going. keep the country going. you know, barack obama, when he started his presidency, started with a trillion dollar stimulus and he wouldn't allow any republicans to be part of it. this president's just -- four bipartisan stimulus bills. so the idea he's some sort of rogue president. >> wait, chris, how is he doing the job he needs to do? i don't want to talk about cnn. hold on a second. we just had our worst quarter in history. we are, relatively, faring worse than other countries that dealt with this, at similar scale and worse scale. i don't know how you give him an a plus. i wish you had been one of my teachers in school. but don't make it about obama. obama inherited one of the worst economies in history, and took some of the tools and added others. and we turned it around,

democrat and republican, in unprecedented fashion. i don't know why you would want to compare it to that. this is because of the pandemic. and this -- >> no president has. >> -- this president refuses to own the situation. you heard him say, chris, i take no responsibility. why? >> well, he's not responsible for the virus. i think we all agree. >> he's responsible for the response to the virus, and the bad testing. >> i think it's been pretty darn good. you know? >> how is it good? by what measure? we're the worst. >> well, compare us to europe. >> we're worse. >> the percentages here are less than in europe. he inherited a terrible situation that -- that he didn't -- you know, he's not a dictator in terms of health. >> he's not a dictator in terms of health? he shouldn't be a dictator in terms of anything. that's why he shouldn't be talking about moving the election. >> chris, the highest death rates in the world are in new york state/new jersey. it's over 1,300 per million.

florida only has 150. most of the country is under 200 deaths. >> first of all, florida has the worst numbers in the country. and the reason they have them is because they neglected this crisis. all right? >> so, the death rate. the death rate across europe, in the key countries that were affected, is about 500 people per million that have died. in new york, it's over 1,300. new jersey, it's even higher. and you're blaming the president for what happened in new york and new jersey. >> no, i'm blaming the president for the lack of response. he's left the states, to themselves. and this is a national emergency. we need a plan. we need better testing and turnaround. he did it with the wall. why won't he do it with the pandemic? >> look. when this first happened in january, the president made the most crucial decision the president could make, which was cutting air traffic to china. it was opposed by joe biden. it was opposed by nancy pelosi. she went to chinatown to

complain about it. it was opposed by anthony fauci. it was opposed by the europeans. it was opposed by everybody, but he did it and it probably saved us 100,000 additional -- >> the virus had already moved to europe, chris. you don't know what you're talking about. and he missed that. and then, he did nothing on testing and he pretended we didn't have cases for a month. >> the germans and italians wouldn't cut the air traffic. if anything, we were slow cutting the traffic in from europe. >> chris, the problem is the testing. the problem is the testing. man, this isn't a tax bill. this isn't a trade bill. people are dying here, chris, because of his inaction and you know it. >> no, i think his in -- his activity has been pretty good. >> where is our plan on schools? where is our plan on testing? >> let's go through -- part of this is he's been getting such conflicting medical advice. here, you have dr. fauci, in january, said this was not going to be a problem. this virus. >> in january. >> yeah. and he told people not to wear masks. he told people -- >> and then, he changed.

and everybody else changed. and he never did. >> the baseball season was going to open. so why, if dr. fauci can change and he gives the president all of this conflicting, terrible advice, if the president changes, he's a bad guy? >> he never changed. yeah. he said wear a mask, and then he went to a rally. hold on a second, chris. listen. i respect you. i like having you on the show. but let's just -- let's just settle this, once and for all. yes, they got it wrong. they didn't know what they were dealing with. they made bad judgments. the difference between fauci and the rest of the people on that team and trump, they admitted it. there is reporting from jake sherman that people on capitol hill are still told not to wear masks. he just went to texas where they're getting killed to a maskless rally. why would he do that? >> the president said he supports the use of masks. he supports social distancing. >> why go to a rally where they have no masks? >> he backed many of the

lockdowns in the country. i'm not saying everything he's done is perfect. >> that's big of you, chris. >> he's done -- he's done a pretty darn good job with the economic response. >> we just had our worst quarter, in history. >> you know, i just need to quote andrew cuomo. i think you know that guy's name. and he has praised the president for the support he gave new york. governor newsom, in california. >> hold on a second. chris. hold on. you want to talk about selective memories. when -- when cuomo and newsom praised, they had reason. when they criticized, which is a hell of a lot more than they praised, they had reason, as well. i think you know this. i know it, for sure. the states around this country are drowning in cases and desperate for help. this president started this nonsense about this magic pill, hydroxychloroquine, yesterday.

talking to this lady who believes in alien sex. then, today, he mentions the drugs that we're trying to develop to fight. he doesn't even mention it. today, he talks about changing the date of an election. but he doesn't worry about kids going back to school. come on, chris. >> look. i support -- i support national testing. although, the president can't dictate national testing. we have 50 different states. the health systems in new york and california -- >> but he can help. he can help. he moved heaven and earth to build a wall. why can't he get our test turnaround? >> any governor that calls this president, says i need help, they're going to get help the next day. >> they don't. hogan just wrote an op-ed. and he is a republican and he said i didn't get the help. republicans and democrats, all over the country, begging for help. >> which governor? >> hogan, in maryland. >> yeah but if you look at governor hogan's background, he's been critical of this president. >> he's a republican. he's done a hell of a job helping his stay and he asked and he didn't get it. so are you saying because is

that what you're saying? >> i know we are in a deeply divisive political period in this country but i think we should work together. the president's been working with congress on the economic response. the health response has been very important. we are getting a lot of conflicting advice on what people should do or shouldn't do. i think the president's been generally supportive of the conventional approach on this. but he is open to listening to other points of view, as well, which i think is good. he wants social distancing. people are -- you know, herman cain. i loved herman cain but herman cain had cancer. he knew the risks. he still wanted to live life to the fullest. he still wanted to travel. he was on planes, going all over the country. and it wasn't, you know, the president of the united states that told him to traffivel. >> yeah. but he encouraged him to go to a rally where nobody would socially distance and nobody would wear a mask. >> the president's not telling people not to wear masks. >> he has been, absolutely,

telling them that he thought masks were insulting and that they're silly. listen to this fool louie gohmert saying those exact kinds of things. this is he is the president. it's time for him to step up. i always appreciate you arguing his case and you're always welcome here to do so and i'm glad to see you looking well and i hope you stay healthy. >> i'm glad you're doing well, chris. >> i am sorry about herman cain and please extend our condolences. >> he is a good man and i'm sure he's close with god now. he was a great american and we will miss him dearly. >> amen. thank you, chris. all right. let's take a quick break. we'll be right back. little things can become your big moment. that's why there's otezla. otezla is not an injection or a cream. it's a pill that treats differently. for psoriasis, 75% clearer skin is achievable, with reduced redness, thickness,

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