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this case could mean for trans rights nationwide. >> and a defiant pete hegseth saying he will, quote, never back down despite what appears to be, quote, a rocky road to confirmation for president elect trump's pick for defense secretary. we are following these major developing stories and many more, all coming in right here to cnn news central hello, i'm brianna keilar in washington alongside phil mattingly in for boris today. >> and right now investigators are on the hunt for a gunman in new york city. a man suspected of fatally shooting the ceo of united health care. this happened this morning just outside the new york hilton in midtown manhattan. and officials say brian thompson was on his way to united healthcare's annual conference when a masked gunman about 20ft from him opened fire and shot him multiple times with what police say appears to be a gun

with a silencer. >> we're going to show you photos of that suspect. officials say he took off on foot before hopping on a city bike with holiday festivities underway. investigators are making it very clear this was not a random attack at this time, every indication is that this was a premeditated pre-planned targeted attack. >> millions of people will be enjoying the tree lighting tonight, among other holiday events, and the nypd will be out there with them keeping them safe cnn's shimon prokupecz is live near the nypd headquarters with more details. >> shimon, this case is astonishing on some level. what more are we learning as the investigation continues to kick into gear now? >> it truly is. phil, when you think about where this happened, really in the heart of manhattan, just about an hour over an hour before the ceo was scheduled to attend this investment conference at

the new york hilton and police say the gunman was just waiting, lying in wait for the ceo. it all unfolded early this morning at around 6:40 a.m., when the gunman first gets to the scene and just minutes later opens fire on the ceo and what police say was essentially an assassination. the chief of detectives here at the nypd just a short time ago described how some of the events unfolded. take a listen the shooter steps onto the sidewalk from behind the car he ignores numerous other pedestrians, approaches the victim from behind, and shoots him in the back. >> the shooter then walks toward the victim and continues to shoot. it appears that the gun malfunctions as he clears the jam and begins to fire again and so that gun jamming is a really important clue for law

enforcement. >> they say that the fact that the gunman was able to clear the jam in the nine millimeter weapon indicates that the individual has some proficiency in weapons. and so that's another reason why they think that this was a really someone who knew what they were doing plan to be here, had this man in his sight and then when he saw the individual fired the weapon and essentially assassinated him. now police have a lot of things to work with. they have that e-bike. it's a city bike that's run by a program here in new york city. you know, people will be familiar with them. they're across cities all over the united states. there is a gps tracking device on that bike. and so police are waiting for information on that gps device. what they say is that they do have video of the gunman. they have photos of the gunman. and so they have those clues and they know exactly where the gunman went into central park just blocks from the shooting area. and at that point, they

lose the individual on video, but they are looking for more video. another thing that they've been able to obtain and they're waiting to see if it's connected to the gunman, is a cell phone. they are working through the cell phone to try and get information to see if it's connected to the shooter. so they have a lot of things to work with here, and a lot of things that they still need to investigate. but i can tell you that i spoke to investigators sources just a short time ago, and they are confident they're going to be able to identify this individual. they are just working through everything at this point and really trying to figure out the motive here. >> yeah, huge question. shimon, thank you so much. and we should mention we are looking at live pictures here of the scene where you can see the police presence as they're investigating this. we have cnn's senior law enforcement analyst charles ramsey with us now. he's a former washington, d.c. police chief and former philadelphia police commissioner. charles investigators, you've heard what they're saying, that this was a targeted shooting. the gunman was masked in cold weather waited outside of the

hotel opened fire from about 20ft away from behind the united health care ceo fled through an alleyway, cleared the gun very quickly. what does this say to you about what kind of killing this was well, it does begin to sound like it was targeted. >> i mean, he was standing there for a period of time. >> multiple people went by that he if he just wanted to do a random shooting, he certainly would have had the opportunity to do it. the victim was across the street at his hotel coming across to the hilton for the for the conference after he passed the gunman. the gunman opened fire. so this does sound like it was targeted. it was planned. the individual fled on foot, then got on an e-bike and left, went into central park so he had an escape route. all planned out as well. so this certainly doesn't sound like some random shooting that took place. the question is why is this something that was a beef

with that individual or is it an issue with the insurance company and he's taken it out on the ceo? we just don't know the answer to that. but the priority right now is going to be to locate this individual. and they do have some things to work with now that's going to help them perhaps narrow things down to identify the person who committed the crime charles, during the news conference, law enforcement officials made very clear it was early on in the investigation. >> they were sparing no expense in terms of resources to try and find this individual. i was struck by two things, and brianna and shimon both mentioned it. one, the proficiency with weapons that they perceived by his ability to clear a jam. but also there were questions about the potential use of a silencer. what does that tell you based on your experience with just gun crimes generally well, they were reluctant to actually say it was a suppressor or a silencer. >> but when you look at the photos, something clearly seems like it's extended from the barrel. so it could very well be a silencer. the fact that he was able to clear a jam very

quickly does show a level of proficiency with a firearm but it also left behind some evidence. i mean, you have three shell casings and three live rounds. they'll be testing that for fingerprints, for touch dna. so they've got things to work with, right now that hopefully will lead them to the individual responsible for this. >> so talk about there's the gps on the bike, which is obviously interesting. there's the fact that there there are so many cameras in manhattan. but this individual did go charles to central park, where i think you would expect that there are fewer cameras. how is that going to play into figuring out who this was well, i imagine there are fewer cameras in the park, but the e-bike with the gps they'll be able to actually track the route once they get that information. >> and they may have to subpoena it. i'm sure they got it on a fast track to try to get it to find out exactly

where that individual went once they got into the park, where they emerged from the park, they may have very well gotten into a vehicle and drove off. maybe they stayed on the bike for a period of time we just don't know. but the gps will help them in terms of tracking them in areas where they may not have access to cameras, but again, you've got business cameras, you've got nypd cameras, busses have cameras some cabs have cameras. i mean, you got cameras all over. and so they'll be piecing that together. and that's on the back end. they're also going to try to backtrack from the time he's first picked up on a camera to go backwards to see how he got to the location. >> we got to cut you off really quick because at this moment pete hegseth the nominee to be secretary of defense, is speaking on capitol hill and a wonderful process to go through and meet with senators and talk to them, especially members of the senate armed services committee, whose passion is the defense department and our war fighters. to hear what they want to do to make sure that department is properly oriented

for the threats of the world, and make sure that we're putting the war fighters first. that's what donald trump asked me to do. your job is to bring a war fighting ethos back to the pentagon. your job is to make sure that its lethality, lethality lethality, everything else is gone everything else that distracts from that shouldn't be happening. that's the message i'm hearing from senators in that advise. and consent process. and it's been a wonderful process as far as everything else i had a chance to sit down with megyn kelly today for an hour. i refer you to that interview. she asked probably all the questions you guys would like to ask. >> will you commit to not drinking? will you commit to not drinking on the job i'm sure that we can think of a few more questions to ask pete hegseth to fact check that i do want to bring in our manu raju who we just heard there in the hallway trying to get a question in to pete hegseth manu. >> this is a high stakes appearance for hegseth and he's really trying to get out there in front of the cameras yeah that's right. >> and look, this is now a

public effort beyond just the private, behind the scenes push to try to get republicans in line. there are a lot of republicans who do have concerns about all the reports of misconduct allegations that have come out over the last several weeks, and there are more than three. remember, he can only lose to four, to lose three. republican senators in the new senate in order to get the job and be confirmed as the next secretary of defense. there are more than three republicans who have concerns whether they actually vote no. that's another question, but there are at least more than have concerns. so he has some work to do. and as you can hear here, this is all part of this new effort to try to go out publicly contend that he these allegations are all false in his in his telling and tell senators that he can actually do the do the job. the question is do the republican senators agree with that? he just met moments ago with senate. the incoming senate majority leader, john thune about all of this. and we expect a critical meeting this afternoon with him and senator joni ernst. he is a member. she's a republican who's served in combat, someone

who's actually a victim of sexual assault and someone who has pushed to change how sexual assault claims are dealt with throughout the pentagon. and of course, hegseth has been accused of sexual assault, something that he has denied. but ernst has been pointedly not taking a position about whether she would support hegseth but has said that she would have a thorough conversation with him and frank conversations with him when he meets later today. how does she deal with what hegseth have been saying privately and publicly? will she come on board and will the other republican skeptics as well people who are uncertain if they will back him like senator susan collins of maine, lisa murkowski of alaska, other republicans? will they fall in line? and the ultimate question here to brianna, is whether or not donald trump continues to stand behind him. hegseth has been telling reporters all day that trump has his back is still behind him, and he spoke to donald trump before coming to the capitol. the question is, how long does trump have his back? and will these misconduct allegations ultimately become too much of a distraction and force him to

bow out? that is what a lot of people on both sides of the aisle are watching here that is making the rounds and trying to make the appeal that he should get the job. >> yeah such a notable and clear shift in strategy, publicly fighting back today, even taking well, not taking questions, making statements to folks like manu raju avoiding questions from folks like manu raju we'll see if it works out. certainly seemed like it was teetering last night. manu raju for us live on capitol hill. thanks so much. well, the supreme court is now weighing the fate of a blockbuster case involving transgender rights. at the center is whether it's constitutional for tennessee to ban children and teens from receiving gender affirming care, which can include treatments like puberty blockers and hormone therapy. >> oral arguments wrapped up here a short time ago with lawyers for the biden administration making the case that the law is a form of sex discrimination. while tennessee said lawmakers are justified in denying medical care for people under 18 and a ruling here could have significant implications across the country. well, you have more than half of u.s. states

adopting similar laws banning gender affirming care. with us now is cnn chief supreme court analyst joan biskupic who was in court today. what stood out to you, joan? sure. >> it was just a very gripping 2.5 hours of oral argument very compelling from both sides and i'll get to the bottom line. but i also want to give you a couple of examples. there was real conservative momentum on behalf of tennessee. it looks like they're going to have a majority to uphold this tennessee law and say that it is not sex discrimination to block this kind of gender affirming treatment. i can explain a little bit about where the justices in the majority were, but i also want to mention, right at the start, the kind of anger and frustration that became evident from the three liberal justices when they could feel the whole thing moving in the opposite direction. for the justices who really want to vote with tennessee, it seemed like what concerned them most is the fact that judges and justices

shouldn't be making this decision. it's something that should be left to the legislative process. justice alito really complained a lot about what kinds of studies really show that this might be beneficial. he tried to poke holes in the biden administration and the aclu lawyers cases about this, how this could help people. but let me let's see if we can hear from chief justice john roberts and what he said about how they might not really be up to the task of looking at this kind of medical treatment here, it seems to me that the medical issues are much more heavily involved than in many of the cases that you you look to and of course, we are not the best situated to address issues like that unlike in, you know, like morales and craig and some of the other ones where it doesn't strike me that they're intensely affected by medical considerations and if that's true, doesn't that make a

stronger case for us to leave those determinations to the legislative bodies rather than try to determine them for ourselves yeah, and i have to say, that was the tone from the others on the right wing throughout justice kavanaugh at one point said, well, who decides? should it really be us deciding? i'll tell you, the one person we did not hear from at all during that entire 2.5 hour period was neil gorsuch. and it's important because neil gorsuch was the author of the one decision that the justices have already issued on transgender rights. and in that case, involving a statutory protection, not the constitution, as it is issued at issue here, he wrote the opinion that said that in the workplace, transgender people should be protected from discrimination because it is based on sex. but he said nothing to either side and obviously it might not matter what he thinks because it looked like there was a sure majority to as i say, vote for tennessee some of the concerns

that came from the liberals is just, you know, what's going to happen to some people who were already getting this treatment in tennessee and not be able to complete the treatment and just as ketanji brown jackson, the first african-american woman on the court did raise the question of what about for all kinds of discrimination, all kinds of violations of the equal protection clause are we going to be going backwards in that? so very gripping. yeah. >> it was to your point. it was a fascinating argument to listen to from all sides to see where this is going to land. we've got some time before we see where it's going to land. but watching that's why we have joan biskupic in june. joan, thanks so much as always. let's turn now to cnn's lucy kafanov live outside the supreme court, where demonstrators gathered today ahead of those oral arguments. lucy, what was it like there and this really monumental moment as it unfolded at such a critical court case and so much energy here on the street from the supreme court, there is a small but vocal opposition group here who has been protesting transgender and gender affirming care, and then

a much larger and much more colorful, louder group of people who have come together love and warming it up with this kind of gender affirming care care for the children. >> and one thing i really want to emphasize there's a lot of conversations being had about transgender people. we are not hearing enough from the individuals who are affected, and we've been spending our cameras have been spending time with several families who traveled all the way from arizona to have their voices heard. these are not professional activists. they're normal kids, normal parents. they're taking time off work, off school to be here in order to have their voices be counted. and i spoke to one young girl, violet diamond, who's been open about being a transgender child. here is how she felt being surrounded by all of these supporters here today. take a listen it's honestly quite emotional and hearing like the echo of the the opposing kind

of side be drowned out by cheers and music and voices of love and affirmation for violet like it's so powerful. >> violet, what does it feel like to be here finally? >> it feels really good. >> i love how those mean people are just like they're not being heard by anybody and being ignored and i feel really glad to be here these families say they feel like their rights are being eroded and regardless of how the supreme court rules, they will continue to be active to continue organizing in their communities, to help other families who are facing the same struggles as them. >> back to you. >> all right. lucy kafanov live for us from outside the court. thank you. we have much more to come on this story. we'll be speaking to montana's first openly transgender state legislator, zoe zephyr, and also ahead, more on president-elect trump's pick for defense secretary, pete hegseth. you heard him just moments ago on the hill. he's

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that republican conference that some of them have been meeting, including you, i believe, sir with pete hegseth weighing where this is going to go. senator, i want to start with something that my colleague manu raju reporting that he just sent in from josh hawley, your colleague from missouri, who said he's not 100% sure that it's not 100% clear who trump wants as secretary of defense right now. that was striking to me. hawley made very clear he would support who the president wants to be. the secretary of defense the president has made a nominee or has told you who he's going to nominate. do you think it's not clear who he wants to be? secdef. uh no. >> i think it's very clear. phil and pete spoke with president trump this morning and president trump again indicated his support. i've been behind pete from the very beginning. he's actually been using my office as a base as he meets with other senators, and he's done a very good job. it's a process of advice and consent. he's stepping through this and he's taking a tremendous amount of incoming pressure for for very obvious reasons he's here to change the

pentagon. he's here to put the pentagon back on a mission of lethality, getting away from pronouns and social experiments and fixing a broken procurement system. we've got a retention crisis. that's that's terrible. we've got a recruitment crisis that's terrible and an inspirational leader like pete is just the person to fix this. >> senator, i know this isn't a place most potential nominees or potential replacements in this case would want to weigh in publicly but you can't avoid the fact your name is mentioned in a lot of the stories over the course of the last 24 hours. there are people in the trump transition operation who think very highly of, you would love to have you inside that administration come january 20th. has anybody reached out to you to talk to you about secretary of defense? if hegseth does not make it through no, phil, and i think everybody needs to remain focused on the fact that pete is the person that president trump has designated, and i certainly support him. >> 100%. and i think the republican conference will, as they have their opportunity to get to meet pete and get past a lot of the allegations that are in the media to to the truth. and that is that pete is a very

highly qualified leader, a very bright, intelligent and he's somebody that's going to inspire the rank and file there in the pentagon as well as our troops on the ground, that they've got a true leader in place it appears today there's been a shift in strategy coming out and trying to fight back as as pete hegseth said in his interview with megyn kelly earlier today, his mother was also on tv this morning said she regrets sending an email in 2018 to hegseth, accusing him of mistreating women. >> she urged senators, especially female senators, to judge pete hegseth for who he is today. has penelope hegseth appearance quelled any of the concerns that some of your colleagues have stated publicly well, i'd say this. >> i was just with pete meeting with a large group of house members and he had an ovation. that was resounding. i think that pete is as people get to know him again, as people get to see his deliberation his deliberate stance on trying to repair the pentagon, try to fix our recruiting crisis, our retention crisis. i think people are overwhelmingly supportive of him. and i think that's going to continue to move in the right direction the momentum is with pete right now

to that point. >> what do you attribute kind of the burst of of stories, of reports over the course of the last 12 to 15 hours, not made up? i mean, coming from people inside the trump operation, that seemed very concerned. we're floating other names, governor ron desantis was coming out as a potential replacement. why do you think that's happening? >> i think it's totally not constructive. and i think what everybody needs to do is get behind president trump's nominee, and i think we need to move this thing forward as quickly and as expeditiously as we can, because we need to be ready for president trump to hit the ground with the team he wants on day one. >> the attorney general picked the initial one. matt gaetz withdrew from consideration. pam bondi seems to have widespread support. the replacement selection, the president elect's first choice to lead the dea, dropped out yesterday. the drama around pete hegseth swirled since his selection. that's in addition to some other controversial picks that seemed to be doing okay right now. inside the conference. i guess the question is from a vetting perspective, you are a veteran

uh, of how things are supposed to work. are you concerned that the vetting wasn't expansive and thorough enough no i'm not concerned at all. >> again, i know pete, he's my constituent. i've known him for years. i think he's going to be an inspirational leader. and i think what we've seen is what happens here in washington. it seems to be very popular to, you know, go on the offensive to go on the attack to anybody that against anybody that president trump might nominate the reason for that is president trump wants to disrupt washington. he wants to see real change take place. inertia is the most powerful force in the universe. it's happening right here in washington, too. that's why we're seeing all this resistance. washington doesn't want to change president trump was elected to do just that. >> senator bill hagerty of tennessee, thanks so much, sir. appreciate it. thank you. phil thank you. and still to come montana lawmakers rejected a bill that would have banned the first openly transgender legislator from using the women's restroom. will get state representative zoe zephyr's reaction to that coming up next cnn heroes on

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of suffering for each of the adolescent plaintiffs. there are three plaintiffs here, as well as a doctor. and we're joined now by the first openly transgender female legislator in montana state representative zoe zephyr. zoe, i know that you have been outside of the court. you have been monitoring the arguments as they were going on. what really stood out to you? >> you know what stood out to me is the solicitor general's simple argument that this is sex discrimination. >> you have a type of care from puberty blockers to hormone replacement therapy, that the tennessee bill says. if you are cisgender, you can have this medication. if you are transgender. >> that's when they're going to pull your access to that medication. >> to me, that was very plainly sex discrimination. >> and yet when you hear analysts who follow the court say, as they are listening to this argument, it seems like the conservative majority is leaning towards siding with tennessee. what do you think? >> you know, i think what i saw in legislators legislatures

across the country, much like i saw in the court today, is people who want to imagine that this case is happening in isolation, that it is just about this tennessee law here. >> and that's the only thing that we can see. it is blind to the broader context of over 1000 bills in the last two years targeting transgender americans across the country, whether it's youth care bans across the country some adult bans looking at florida you look at bills like in montana, where they tried to write trans people out of code entirely from birth certificates to wedding certificates to death certificates so for me, when i hear the court saying well, this isn't actually about this or it's just this type of narrow policy i think that fails to see the open hostility that trans people in this country are facing day to day. >> the state in this case, has to have a compelling interest in applying a law. and republican lawmakers in tennessee who wrote this law said the state has a legitimate substantial and compelling interest in encouraging minors to appreciate their sex,

particularly as they undergo puberty. what do you say to that? >> i would say you cannot craft a policy, just like in the dobbs decision, where they allowed abortion, you cannot. that does not remove women's need to access abortion. if you ban gender affirming care for trans youth, you do not make them no longer trans. you just ban the medical care that allows them to live fulfilling lives and again, when they talk about, you know encouraging someone of that sex, we know that in states from a study in nature, human behavior in states that have banned this care we've seen an increase in suicidality up to 73%. they are not protecting these children and courts across the country, including in my state of montana, noted that these policies are crafted with, quote, open animus towards transgender people. >> so what happens if the court you know, sides against what you're talking about? what is going to happen? do you think to not just trans kids but

trans americans broadly? >> you know, i think justice brown touched on this a little bit where she talked about the way in which that opens up attacks, not just on trans adults, but things like loving and interracial marriage. if you are going to sort of skirt by the equal protection clause, i think it obviously has the practical effect of making it much more difficult to access the medication that keeps us alive. it makes it more likely that we will see the negative outcomes from ostracization to suicide, depression et cetera. but i also want to push back a little bit and say that you know, this decision or tennessee's law, there is nothing that they could craft in policy that would make trans people vanish. we will. we have been here since you know, the early 1900s and before, and we will continue to be here regardless of the policies that they push against us. >> you mentioned other bills, other laws, and separately. but related in montana, you watched a measure that would ban you from using the women's restroom at the state capitol fail in

committee yesterday, after a few republicans actually voted against it. you've been in the state senate for almost two years at this point, so what do you make of that timing? >> you know, i think it's obviously falling on the heels of congresswoman mesa's efforts to ban congresswoman elect mcbride from the bathrooms in the capitol building. and i think there's a subset of the republican party who believes that they found a winning issue with the electorate, and so are going to push this culture war. what i see is from my colleagues on the republican side, many of them recognize that this is a distraction. this isn't what we were sent to our legislatures to do. and for the folks who are on the right trying to craft a law that would specifically ban me from using a restroom that i used with my republican female colleagues without issue in the last two years. um, to me, it's just a it's a grab to try to villainize trans people in a moment where there's a lot

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alarming to watch. essentially what we see in that video is the ceo of unitedhealthcare, brian thompson walking toward the hotel here behind me and behind him comes the suspected gunman that police are still searching for. so you can see how he approaches thompson from the back before then where we freeze the video. he fires those shots at thompson. what you do not see from these five seconds, and i can tell you, is that we also see someone sort of running the opposite direction. so that is something, of course, that police are going to be looking into in this video, breaking it down frame by frame by frame to kind of figure out who might have witnessed this. witnesses, they of course, are going to want to talk to anyone who might have witnessed this again, it happens at the really front step of this entrance of this hotel. so there's possible some security there as well. and then of course, follow the path of that gunman as we already have learned, he flees from the scene, going down a dark a back alley behind a theater that's across the street from the hotel where we are and then

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to draw attention to to a particular shooting and you see him, you know racking the slide of that gun, which typically happens on its own with a semiotic nine millimeter style gun. but when you have that suppressor there at the end, if you don't have perhaps the proper parts or it's not properly lubricated, that gun won't cycle. and so you see him essentially racking the slide for every round that he fires. and also at one point, and this is what the police had indicated as well before we obtained this video, that the gun had malfunctioned at one point. and you actually see him doing a clearing drill on that gun. and this is something that those of us who worked in law enforcement practice on over and over, where you essentially have these so-called immediate action drills where they practice for a round not to fire either you know, it could get dislodged, there could be a double feed of ammunition, but in this case, the shooter quickly racks the slide, gets it back up on target, continues to fire and then finally he makes his way of escape so he not only came there obviously very stealthy, but he still has not been found. reports are

that he fled on a e-bike, a bicycle which obviously within the city of new york, a place where you have tons of license plates. license plate readers that a vehicle could perhaps be picked up on instead. this person chose to use a bicycle, which is obviously provides a more agile means of of escape there. and so again, a lot of characteristics here that show this is someone who clearly was operating with some level of sophistication. of course, now the big question comes down to motivation. that's work. that's going on behind the scenes right now as well. by authorities. >> brynn, what we saw in that video has been described to actually watch it is just absolutely chilling. when you talk to your sources within the nypd. law enforcement right now, what what's their sense of things in terms of how the manhunt is playing out, what resources they're actually utilizing, when they may actually find the suspect. >> yeah, i mean, every resource is being utilized at this moment. phil certainly this has been you know, we're now about six or so, seven hours into this investigation and this is

a major manhunt. and it does appear of course, they came out right out of the gates saying we have a $10,000 reward. crime stoppers here are pictures of this suspect at the scene here. and also on the bike. we need your help. so certainly they are trying to get this wrapped up as soon as possible and find this suspect. but certainly they you know, they point to this suspect and they made it very clear in that news conference that we heard earlier today by the nypd that this was a targeted attack. and everything i've heard from sources. and as josh has sort of underscored is that this person knew what they were doing. they seemed to be sophisticated with the fact that they had that silencer some sources have told me they haven't seen a silencer on a handgun like that in forever. like calling it almost like a mob hit so it's pretty startling to not only us as people who are, you know, in just the normal people, but also to law enforcement wondering who this person is with this level of sophistication. >> yeah, it was striking the news conference how unequivocal they were that this was

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