>> well, good morning to you. you are live this in a newsroom. i'm pamela brown and washington and we begin with the breaking news. >> president trump is about to

speak with governors at the white house. he'll be talking with a group of bipartisan governors to strengthen the partnership between federal and state governments. of course, we will bring that to you. and this comes as his administration is ramping up the mass firings of federal employees, from the cdc to veterans affairs to the forest service. workers by the thousands are being shown the exits. many work in the very states these governors serve. and it's not just the governors feeling the heat. so are some lawmakers in their home districts. just one example a town hall held by georgia republican congressman rich mccormick. >> tyranny is rising in the white house, and a man has declared himself our king. so i would like to know rather the people would like to know what you, congressman, and your fellow congressmen are going to do to rein in the megalomaniac in the white house. >> things are going to be more controversial than others. some things are going to seem partisan, but by and large, the president has great purview over where a lot of this money goes. now, some of this is going to be

litigated. i'll pause whenever you want and you can go and yell all you want. but i can't understand ten people, let alone 100 people at once. >> and you are doing us a disservice to set that down and not stand up for us and control. >> our. >> americans are deeply divided over trump's first month back in office. about half say that he has overstepped when it comes to using presidential power, and about the same feel that he has gone too far in cutting federal programs. joining us now is cnn's rene marsh and washington correspondent for the atlanta journal constitution, tia mitchell. so i want to bring you in for some perspective and context here. tia, the congressman and his staff seemed a little bit caught off guard by this backlash. tell us more about his district and the people who live there and who were there at that meeting. >> so rich mccormick district is a pretty red district. it voted for trump by about 20%. um,

above how the district voted for kamala harris. however, last night's town hall was held in roswell, which is a suburb of atlanta. it's north fulton county. it's one of those towns that has increasingly become more democratic as more young, more and younger families have moved to that part of the state. so i think that even though his district is pretty red, he went to an area that was bluer. he went to an area that is less, you know, trump overall. and i think that was reflected a little bit in the turnout for this particular town hall. >> interesting, important context there, renee, to go to you. so a federal judge declined to stop a union request to halt trump's mass firing, saying that he doesn't have the jurisdiction to review. tell us about that. >> right. so labor unions asked this federal judge to pause the

mass firing of these probationary employees that we've been seeing from agency to agency. but what the judge said is that there is a process here. and the the, the labor unions actually have to follow that process, which is going to the labor board first before bringing this claim to the court. so he just felt that he didn't have jurisdiction. doesn't mean that this is over. it just means that they missed a step in his eyes and needed to go through that process. but pamela, i mean, that video really kind of highlights here, the sort of cracks that we are starting to see, even if roswell is growing blue area here in georgia. um, the fact of the matter is, some 80% of the federal workforce is outside of washington, dc, and that includes red states like georgia, where you have some 79,000 federal workers. so when you're talking about mass layoffs and firings, it's happening in these red districts. it's happening in these red states. and and the question is going to become, how

do these republican lawmakers deal with angry people who are losing their jobs? uh, and yet these republican lawmakers are staying true to or trying to stay true to the president and his policies. it will be interesting to see how they'll handle that, because it's not just the job cuts, but it's also the funding freezes. we have farmers in red states who say that they can't access funds. some of them voted for trump, but they can't access funds from the usda. and then you have the cuts that happened at the nih, where you have senators like susan collins. um, reflecting on how, you know, these research centers that hire hundreds of thousands of employees within their communities. it's a big part of these economies that will impact them. so i will be watching how these republican lawmakers handle the what they're hearing from their constituents who are being impacted by some of these actions. >> yeah, i was just talking to democratic congressman gerry connolly, who was saying privately, some republicans have expressed to him unease about what is going on because they're

getting the heat from some of their constituents directly impacted, whether it be by the firing, not getting the aid like the farmers. um, people not getting the programs and services they once relied on. and i think that that as this is being felt to to bring you in on that. um, what is the sense you're getting from, from voters that you're talking to? i think it's really important to sort of take the pulse across america on how this is being felt. >> yeah. and of course, you know, voters are divided a lot of times along party lines where you see voters who are supportive of president trump and very maga voters who are saying, give him time. let's root out the fraud. let's root out the waste. let's give it some time to play out. but you've seen a lot of other voters, particularly democrats, but also some voters, as was mentioned, that are trump supporters saying they're concerned. again, not just about the layoffs, but about the

funding freezes. they're also worried about proposals on the table to perhaps cut some of the safety net programs that a lot of voters of all political stripes rely on. we're talking about medicaid, food stamps. um, even people like rich mccormick have said perhaps we need to find ways to to save money at social security. and of course, there are many older americans concerned that those cuts could come to medicare. so these programs we know are popular among people, period. no matter who they voted for for president. and, um, also, let's talk about like, veterans. uh, there have been layoffs at the department of veterans affairs. again, we know our veterans are of all political stripes, for example. so i think there are a lot of americans who just at this juncture, are, if not upset, confused at this point, wish there was more transparency. wish there was more information. wish there was messaging coming from the white

house that shows there's a method to the madness. and without that information, there is a lot of concern we're hearing from voters. and again, that is starting to kind of cross party lines. >> renee. you know, we're talking about the firings. and there's actually now a pause on the firings at dod. right. tell us about that. >> so the pentagon is saying that they're going to pause this plan for the mass firing of probationary employees. cnn had reported on wednesday. it could impact over 50,000 employees there at dod. but they're saying they're putting the brakes on this for now because they want to review what the impact of those firings would have on military readiness. um, you know, we have reported already at other agencies like nnsa, uh, the agency charged with, uh, maintaining and overseeing the nuclear stockpile for the country, hundreds of employees were fired there only to have to

be rehired. so what we are seeing here is the pentagon saying, wait, before we do this, let's take a review of what the impact will be. perhaps some lessons learned from some of these other agencies. >> that the energy department for one. renee. tia thank you both. and still ahead, a top u.s. official calling ukraine's volodymyr zelenskyy, quote, the embattled and courageous leader of a nation at war. it is a far cry from what president trump called him. we are live in kyiv next. >> lockerbie. sunday at nine on cnn. >> time to press rewind with neutrogena rapid wrinkle repair. it has derm proven retinol expertly formulated to target skin cell turnover and fight not one, but five signs of aging with visible results in just one week. neutrogena. >> we handcraft every stearns and foster using the finest materials like indulgent memory foam and ultra conforming inner springs for a beautiful mattress and indescribable comfort. save up to $800 on select adjustable

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trump is now finally admitting that russia attacked ukraine and then going to fault. going on to fault the biden administration and ukrainian president zelenskyy. this follows a dizzying week for u.s. diplomacy with the new trump administration insulting allies, echoing an adversary, and leaving much of the world concerned and somewhat baffled about what's going on here. so let's take a look. last friday, vice president jd vance shocked the munich security conference by scolding european leaders and accusing them of suppressing free speech. he also said their greatest security threat was from within, not from china or russia. and this week, president trump piled on blaming ukraine for russia's illegal invasion three years ago and echoing russian talking points by calling president zelenskyy a dictator repeatedly. cnn's nick paton walsh is in kyiv. alex marquardt is back here from saudi arabia, where the u.s. and russia just had talks without ukraine. a little bit of whiplash here. and you have some new reporting, nick, on the u.s. ukraine peace talks. tell us

about that. >> yeah. our understanding from ukraine official is that they're very much talking still negotiating this rare earth mineral contract, which seems to now be at the heart of ukraine and u.s. relationships, period, going forward. one element, a ukrainian official tells me that the ukrainians want to see added is, in his terms, security elements. that's slightly different to the security guarantees that we heard the president talk about. and at the same time, the official describes the sense of urgency now around these talks. clearly, they are beginning to overshadow this entire relationship. and it's not clear if they form the focus of the negotiations that the ukraine envoy keith kellogg has been having here with zelenskyy's team over the past days or so, but they're clearly the only thing in town right now. and at the heart of, frankly, whether we see this relationship stall or begin to evaporate, the enmity between

zelenskyy and trump has been startling as a backdrop to kellogg, who had come here essentially to try and give ukraine the chance to be involved in the peace process that began between the u.s. and russia in saudi arabia. but that sort of pace over these rare earth minerals continuing to grow. and we understand, too, that this is all about repaying old debt. and i think the ukrainians are trying to force into any deal that's eventually signed the idea that there will be, as i say, security elements going forward. and so, yes, this is a week that should have been about the details of peace, potentially what ukraine wanted out of that us-russia rapprochement. but it's been overshadowed by the enmity. and we're just hearing now to that. trump has said that biden did some wrong things. zelenskyy did some wrong things. he appears in this latest interview to continue to rail against the ukrainian president. and that fractious relationship, increasingly distracting from the urgent task between the two nations of making sure their relationship stays on track going forward. >> all right, alex, to bring you on, what are u.s. allies

thinking about all of this? >> i mean, this is whiplash and pamela. all you have to do is look at how they've been responding in the past week. you have two emergency meetings that president macron of france set up with, with european allies. he then announced a sudden trip to washington. he's going to be here on monday. that's going to be followed by the british prime minister, keir starmer, as you know. well, oftentimes, you know, the heads of government trips to washington are often planned months in advance. and this was very sudden. now you have europe essentially scrambling. they're having a collective freak out, if you will. and it's not just about ukrainian security, but it's about european security as well, which the u.s. has backed up for for decades through a variety of means, including nato. so now europe is sending over probably two of the most effective officials at convincing president trump. you have keir starmer, you know, a longtime ally, of course, that trump does respect. and president macron, who is kind of a trump whisperer. he has a good

understanding of president trump's appreciation for pomp and ceremony. president trump went to paris back in his first term to see the bastille day parade. president trump was invited most recently almost as a sitting president, to the opening of notre dame. so these two men are going to come here and essentially say, please don't give up on ukraine. please don't give up on on european security. but also please don't give in to russia and the arguments that they are making. this is going to be a particularly challenging time. so much is in flux. there's a lot shifting, as we've heard just in the past few days. >> does it seem when you talk to your sources from u.s. allied countries that they are looking at this as this is just trump trying to gain leverage and bluster and, you know, trying to gain russia's favor to help try to make a peace deal. or do they really think that this is the beginning of a new geopolitical alignment? >> i think many of them looked at the first trump term as a blip, as an abnormality. and then when president biden came back in that, you know, we were

back into a more traditional, normal times. but now that we have president trump in office a second time, i think they understand that that a fundamental shift is underway. and this is not the united states that they have known for the past decades and who they have dealt with for the past decades. look no further than that speech that you referenced that vice president vance gave in munich a week ago, in which he scolded europe and then went on to meet with the head of the german afd party, which has been accused of nazi sympathies. then you had president zelenskyy standing up the next day and saying, we can no longer count on the united states, we need to fend for ourselves. that was a stunning moment. and then during the week, we saw top american officials sitting down across the table with with russian officials not behind closed doors, not secretly. they were doing it out in the open in saudi arabia. by the way, a country that president biden essentially kept it at arm's length. but but president trump is is clearly a fan of including their crown prince. he's talking about making that his his first foreign visit. then you have all the worry in nato and and

concerns about whether the united states will actually support this vital transatlantic alliance. so, yes, i think european officials are recognizing that this is very much a different moment, not just for ukraine, but about but but for europe as well in the longer term. >> all right. alex, nick, thank you so much. still ahead, the measles outbreak in texas has grown drastically from 58 to 90 cases. doctor sanjay gupta will answer your questions next in the cnn newsroom. >> i'm hanako montgomery in tokyo, and this is cnn. >> u-box. there were many failed attempts to fix my teeth. i retouched all my wedding photos and it was even affecting my health. i trusted you because you specialize in dental implants. you created a permanent solution and customized my teeth. so it still felt like me. my new teeth have improved my life and changed my future. thank you.

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answer is no. measles is a relatively stable virus. it has not become more virulent. and there was a period of time before mass vaccination where just about everyone in the country got measles, usually by age 15. most people got measles. but i want to show you something. now, before vaccination, you did see death rates starting to fall pretty significantly as medical care improved. but if you look, for example, around the world, before 1963, you had 2.5 million, 2.6 million people who were dying of measles. and now it's closer to 170,000. so you can see the impact certainly around the world of measles vaccination. if you look in the united states before 1963, it was 4 to 500 people. in 2015. one person died of measles. so again, measles deaths were falling before vaccination. that's because medical care was improving. but then there were still several hundred people who were dying every year of

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>> well, pamela. >> that's right. we're getting a briefing from the medical team treating pope francis. um, it is being led by sergio alfieri and luigi carbone, and they have just started explaining that the pope was at home with the flu, that he was being taken care of by people at santa marta, his residence. and then he was not able to be treated for this infection. that led him to come into hospital on friday. he's been here for a week at the gemelli hospital, and he is now being treated for pneumonia. i was just listening to the beginning part of it and then obviously coming to this to speak to you. i think this medical update is significant and important because, of course, the big question is how is pope francis responding to treatment? we have been given some detail from the vatican, but this update will give us a lot more detail about the specifics of the pope's condition. and i think the other

crucial question, how long is the pope going to be in hospital and how long might his convalescence period be? now, there are all sorts of rumors and speculation in rome and the vatican about a possible papal resignation. now, i'm hearing that's not on the table for the pope. but of course, there are questions about how the pope can carry out his functions of office if he has to spend many weeks recovering. lots of questions, and we hope that this medical briefing will provide some answers. pamela. >> all right. christopher lam, thank you for bringing us the latest there. i know you want to go back and listen to it and give any other pertinent updates. thank you. still ahead, our weekly series, your voice to talk radio host one in florida, the other in washington state. tell us what their listeners are saying about what's happening here in washington. you're in the cnn newsroom.

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today we have got independent and left leaning host randi rhodes in delray beach, florida, and conservative michael medved in seattle. thank you both for being here with us, randi, to kick it off with you. what is the political topic your listeners are really interested in right now? and just tell us a little bit more about who your typical listeners are. >> so my. >> listeners have been with us for ever. okay. we're distributed. >> on a lot of. >> different platforms. >> so we get them from youtube, we get them from free speech tv, we get them, you know, nationally. so it's a it's a wide berth of, you know, pretty interesting people who are very plugged in. and i've been watching politics for a really long time. and, you know, are terrified right now. and embarrassed. so that's what we're hearing mostly is. >> about what specifically. >> how embarrassing it is. well, the ukraine situation, i mean, saying that ukraine attacked

itself is just bizarre. and the idea that that, um, nato is the reason for russia having to attack at the same time as saying ukraine attacked itself as if, i don't know, it's skirt was too tight. and so you had to attack it. i it's just so non sensical that people are stunned and we're embarrassed to see him on the world stage saying stuff like that. so i don't, i don't understand where this is going. >> all right michael to bring you in on this, tell us about your listeners who typically calls in and what's the big issue on their minds. >> well, the big. >> issue right now, it does have to do with ukraine. i mean, people should remember president trump had promised that this war would be ended in 24 hours, and he knew the way to end it. and what he has done is opened up a new battlefront against not putin, but against. zelenskyy.

and i think that's a bridge too far, even for some of the most conservative listeners, because the percentage of conservatives of republicans who actually lean toward vladimir putin and believe that he was the aggrieved party and that he was attacked by president zelenskyy, is is nonsensical. and people do not see zelenskyy as a dictator. they do see putin as a dictator. and then there are people on the left who see trump as some kind of dictator. so basically, i think this is fascinating and compelling to people right now because the war has been going on so long. and it's had so many desperately painful moments and indications of the suffering of the people. >> it's interesting that you both talk about russia, ukraine as sort of the animating issues for your callers. and i, i wonder, um, how the economy is

playing into for your callers and what they're saying about that, because our reporting is that inflation expectations are rising. americans confidence in the economy is falling, that that is not a good combination. um, randy, what are your listeners saying about that? i mean, do they how how much do they care about that also in relation to some of these other issues like russia, ukraine? >> oh it's everything. the economy is everything. it's why some of the people were talked into voting for donald trump. they were very unhappy with the economy. they thought that inflation, even though it had gone in the right direction, meaning down for many, many months in a row, they still didn't think it was happening fast enough, which is, you know, what happens when it's hard to pay for things. and they were hoping that he was telling the truth about, you know, he knew how to bring down the price of bacon. in fact, i think i saw him earlier in a clip on cnn

saying that things have come down, that your eggs have come down and your bacon has come down, but it hasn't come down. and what's scaring everybody is that the idea that he's laying off all these people, government people work in all 50 states, and that he is doing it willy nilly, uh, really sloppily and carelessly, not efficiently at all. not in the manner that bill clinton did when bill clinton streamlined government took a seven year effort after six months of job reviews. and, you know, this is just so hairy and crazy that people feel like it's going to cause a recession on top of this, rising inflation. and it's it's terrifying. and when you look at bigger businesses like walmart and forever 21 and they're starting to react, uh, you know, something's cooking that's not favoring us. the consumer. so.

>> so, michael, i'm curious what your callers are saying about that. many of them, i assume, are are trump supporters. i should note you are a conservative. you are not a trump supporter. um, but what are some of those trump supporters saying to you about the economy and the prices at the grocery store? and you're right, brandy, in some cases, eggs, for example. the prices are not going down. what are they saying to you? is it bothering them or are they saying, hey, we'll just give trump some more time? it's only been a month. >> i think there's a tendency from a lot of callers to blame biden and to blame biden for everything. the difficulty is that can't go on forever. and, uh, particularly the issue of tariffs, uh, i don't think that for people in washington state where, uh, i'm based, uh, that the people are very dependent upon foreign trade. and i think many people, including many conservatives who support trump on immigration and support trump

on, uh. transgendered athleticism in, in schools and a range of other issues do not support the idea that somehow the way to attack inflation is adding the cost of tariffs on basically everything that we bring here. when we had that expectation that there were going to be tariffs on mexico and canada, we're not far away from canada and our economies are intertwined. and no, there's no affection among conservatives for justin trudeau. but, uh, the idea that we were going to have a trade war with our two closest neighbors and our two strongest allies, this is not a productive direction for president trump to move, uh, for the country or for his own political future. >> it's interesting, though, that you say so far that, yeah, go ahead. >> no, it's just going to add to what michael is saying, because it's absolutely 100% true that donald trump is picking a fight everywhere with our allies. it

looks to us like he's carving up the world and redesigning it in an image that isn't exactly democratic and isn't american, and americans don't feel comfortable with it. they are telling us over and over again that they want us to figure out how to organize them and how to, you know, make our voices so loud that they can't ignore us saying, this is not it doesn't feel like democracy does. this doesn't do. >> they feel like democrats are doing enough? are they disappointed? democratic leadership then in this moment that they see so critical. >> you know, they they understand we don't have the numbers and we don't. and they see the votes are very, very, you know, party line right down the party line for the whole cabinet and for this budget last night. and they understand that we don't have the numbers in congress, but we do have the numbers in us. and so they're trying to figure out whether or not on march 14th, this government is going to shut

down. and if it does, then we're going to shut down. then we're going to strike as well. a general strike seems to be, uh, something on the horizon if, if and i only say if because if the government actually stays open and then we strike, you know, and something happens to the economy, it looks like that would be a cudgel, you know, that they would blame us. the republicans would blame, uh, people who. but if they shut down the government, we're going to shut down to. >> so. >> michael, that's how we'll be heard. >> what do you think about that? and what are your callers saying about doge in particular? all these cuts? um, it's interesting because a lot of the republicans have had on have been, um, outwardly, the republican members of congress outwardly supportive of it, but some are now feeling the heat in their district. we just saw rich mccormick and his town hall getting some of that heat. what are your conservative callers and trump's supporters saying about doge? are any of them feeling the impact, or are they super supportive of what's going

on? >> i think it's basically a reaction to elon musk's personality. there is a great deal of affection among conservatives, of course, for president trump, and president trump is seen as a winner. there is not that same kind of affection for jd vance, who just endorsed the extreme right party alternative für deutschland. afd in in germany. uh, and there certainly isn't that kind of affection for elon musk. and i, i, i don't know what trump does about jd vance and the messages that he is going to be conveying, but i think that's a problem for the administration, particularly with this recent trip to munich, of all places. uh, and i say that because of the idea of appeasement not working when you're dealing with russia, uh, or america's adversaries. and i thought part of the point that randy made, uh, is very real that people in

the country understand ukraine is not our enemy. uh, russia, i mean, pardon me, canada and mexico are not our enemies. and while people on the right can be very happy that the border crossings, illegal border crossings have gone way down. of course they went down at the end of the biden administration, too, but they've gone down even further. people like that. they like trump's style. they like the fact that he's upsetting the establishment and things of that nature. but i don't think it's a great idea to have the world's richest man as the number two figure in an administration. and i think that's going to long term have real damage. uh, even among some of trump's most strenuous core supporters. >> interesting. i just want to follow up with you. oh, go ahead, go ahead. randy.

>> no, i was going to say the careless way that he approaches our business, our government, and everybody understands. i think that elon musk does not know how government works, doesn't know how our government works. he he's making decisions, you know, to delete congressionally set up agencies. you know, without going to congress. the whole thing is anti-democratic. the whole approach is is is shoddy and people are paying the price. and now it's just starting to be evident in various, you know, cities and towns across the country. uh, the idea that, you know, he didn't know that the energy department controlled nuclear weapons, the idea that they didn't know that, you know, the epa doesn't regulate. automobile, uh, you know, emissions, uh, and i mean, yeah, it's it's sad and it's scary. and he's got our data and that's what everybody's

reacting to. he has our. >> quickly because president trump is speaking at the white house very quickly, michael. >> well, i don't want to upstage him for long because i think part of the problem is that democrats need a more positive vision about what are the alternatives to the current trump and elon musk policies. and it's more than just criticizing trump and wringing one's hands, uh, having a sense of how things could operate better and more rationally. that would be good. >> really, really. >> important. conversation. we had. that was great. >> i hope you all both felt. >> like you got your your points in your insights. and it was really interesting, actually. i learned a lot through this conversation. michael. randy, appreciate it. happening right now, president trump is meeting with a group of bipartisan governors to strengthen the partnership between federal and state governments. cnn's elena treen is at the white house. what can you tell us, elena? >> well. >> he is. >> meeting right now with a series of governors, i will say,

democratic and republican governors that he's meeting with. we're told as well that there are some cabinet officials and secretaries in the room with him. we are waiting to hear more. we know that there are the pool is in there with him now. we're waiting to get some of that audio from what he is saying. but it does seem like the president is discussing a wide range of topics. but this comes just after we actually heard from the president directly this morning. do an interview with fox news brian kilmeade. it was a radio interview, but he went into length, um, more expanded more on his comments about ukrainian president zelenskyy. he continued to attack him to argue that he is not a great negotiator, that it's been three years and he hasn't gotten a lot done. but one very notable moment is that, you know, i was listening to the interview. you could hear the host kind of saying, you know, trying to press the president to admit that russia was the aggressor, that russia was the one who launched an illegal invasion into ukraine. trump kind of ignored the question repeatedly until he finally admitted russia

attacked. he said russia attacked, but that there should have never been a war. and he repeatedly tried to place some blame as well on joe biden for what he said was saying the wrong things and not knowing how to negotiate well with putin. all to say, i'm curious to see if there's going to be an opportunity, if he's going to take some questions from some of these governors in the room, hear them out, and whether or not this will be one of those topics that comes up at this meeting. pamela. >> all right. alayna treene, thank you so much for the latest there at the white house. and before i go, i have some news of my own to share every day for more than 20 years, you've seen wolf blitzer here on cnn and the situation room at 6 p.m., welcoming viewers in the united states and around the world. well, starting march 3rd, the situation room is moving to mornings. i'm excited to announce the situation room with my colleague and friend wolf blitzer every weekday at ten and 11. we will continue, of course, covering the stories around the globe and across the country. the stories that matter to you.

again, the situation room with wolf blitzer and me will start airing monday, march 3rd at 10 a.m. and thank you all for joining us. i'm pamela brown. i hope you have a great weekend. you can follow me on instagram, tiktok, and x at pamela brown, cnn. stay with us. inside politics with dana bash starts after a short break. >> aveeno introduces new daily. >> moisturizing cream. >> it's clinically proven to moisturize dry skin for 48 hours and instantly strengthens skin's barrier for softer, smoother skin. aveeno the power of oat for sensitive skin. >> ever feel like a spectator. >> in your. >> own life with. >> chronic migraine? 15 or more headache days a month, each lasting four hours or more? botox prevents headaches in adults with chronic migraine. in a survey, 91% of users wish they'd started sooner. so why wait? talk to your doctor.

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