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>> elon musk becomes the star of the show during president trump's first cabinet meeting of his second term. the world's richest man, sitting among top officials at the white house with trump's blessing. even though musk is not a cabinet member himself, nor is he an elected official. musk, kicking things off by touting the department of government efficiency, sweeping cuts and mass layoffs across multiple agencies as he stood before the very leaders who run those agencies. his visit coming amid controversy after recent email ultimatum to federal workers telling them to justify their jobs or risk losing them. cnn's jeff zeleny is live for us now at the white house. and, jeff, this was quite a moment to see the cabinet secretaries all gathered around and elon musk really holding court. >> jessica, it was holding court at the invitation of the president. really. there was no question who is in charge in this administration. if there was ever a look at the pecking order of the ranks of advisers.

yes. the cabinet secretaries from departments like defense and treasury and transportation and commerce and others were sitting around the table. but it was elon musk standing to the side who was invited by the president to explain his plan to remake and reshape and shrink the size of the federal government. there is no question the president has been using elon musk as the front man, if you will, for many of these efforts to bring government efficiency, in his words. but it's also brought government confusion. of course, you mentioned that email that went out last week, and it is still causing confusion, and there is another email to go out to federal workers to basically account for what they've been doing. now, the president overlooked some of the very specific concerns from members of the cabinet there who instructed their employees to actually not respond because some of the work is classified, of course. so they're worried about perhaps a foreign actors also getting their hands on these emails. but it was the president who made clear that the million or so people who have not responded, in his

words, could be on the bubble. >> i'd like to add that those million people that haven't responded, though, elon, they are on the bubble. you know, i wouldn't say that we're thrilled about it. you know, they haven't responded. now, maybe they don't exist. maybe we're paying people that don't exist. don't forget we just got here. this group just got here. but those people are on the bubble, as they say. you know, they may be they're going to be gone. >> now. no evidence that there are vast swaths of federal workers who don't exist. the president did not account for their again, the fact that several agencies instructed their employees to not respond. but again, if there was any dissent or any questions from members, which we have learned, actually, there have been from several cabinet secretaries just concerned about elon musk sort of taking charge of their agencies. the president did not offer much room for dissent. he jokingly said, if there is any, you can leave the room. so,

jessica, at that first cabinet meeting, most people sat silently as trump and elon musk spoke. >> and jeff, yeah, it was quite something to see, that is for sure. thank you so much for your reporting. we appreciate it. boris. >> sure. >> at the top of his first cabinet meeting, president trump announced that ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy will be at the white house on friday. trump saying that zelenskyy will sign a ukraine natural resources and reconstruction deal when he gets to washington. but when he was asked, trump refused to guarantee ukraine's security in the future. that is a major sticking point for kyiv. listen to this. >> i'm not going to make security guarantees beyond very much. we're going to have europe do that because it's in, you know, we're talking about europe is their next door neighbor, but we're going to make sure everything goes well. and as you know, we'll be making a we'll be really partnering with ukraine in terms of rare earth. we very much need rare earth. they have great rare

earth. >> cnn chief national security correspondent nick paton walsh joins us now live from kyiv. and nick, earlier today, president zelenskyy appeared to signal that this deal hadn't yet been finalized. so where exactly do things stand? yeah. >> i mean, it is clear that until really both presidents or their. representatives signed, the actual document will probably see last minute horse trading. but trump's comments about zelenskyy coming to the white house and it being confirmed, do i think, mark a step forward? because even after yesterday, where he suggested that he was on his way, it really wasn't entirely clear if that diary date. had indeed been made. what we have heard from ukraine's president volodymyr zelenskyy is his notion that in the latest draft, he's been made aware of that. there is a. >> point that. >> makes ukraine feel more comfortable about ukraine's security and the idea of guarantees. now we have seen a draft of the latest deal, which was current as of this morning,

and the references in point ten, uh, suggest that the united states supports ukraine's desire to get security guarantees. but it doesn't necessarily say that the u.s. is indeed going to give that. and if you listen to trump speaking there, he says, beyond very much. when asked about the u.s. role in all of that, pointing. want potentially to be involved in a peacekeeping force if the conditions are right, if there's a ceasefire, but they say they can't do it without what the uk calls a u.s. backstop, which is basically logistical support for their troops on the ground here from the united states. so we're getting the vague idea of a deal slowly moving forwards here that most parties seem to have some kind of truck with. but there are major sticking points. and zelenskyy, in his press conference today said he wouldn't accept the idea of $0.10 that had been given by the united states being, quote, reimbursed because ukraine's position is all that money was basically grants, not debts, which is how the trump

administration refers to it. and indeed, zelenskyy said he urgently needed to know about security guarantees. so it really comes down to this friday personal meeting. the two men in the white house after a horrific week to ten days in which trump leveled a significant number of falsehoods against zelenskyy and zelenskyy said that trump was living in a disinformation circle. so those two men have to get along. they have to rekindle that relationship. they have to make ukrainians feel that the u.s. has their back. indeed, zelenskyy said today he was going to ask trump whether or not the u.s. was going to give more aid to ukraine. so much in flux here. but if these two men are able to hit it off on friday in the white house, it could restore part of this relationship, but also two, if it doesn't go that well, it could be deeply horrific for the largest land war in europe since the 40s. >> yeah, we'll see how that meeting goes. nick paton walsh live for us in kyiv. thank you so much. let's discuss a broad range of issues with republican congresswoman maria elvira salazar of south florida. she's a member of the doge caucus and

serves on the foreign affairs committee. congresswoman, great to see you. thanks so much for being with us. i want to talk to you about doge and the cabinet meeting. >> we're having. >> us, of course, but we just heard from nick paton walsh there, live in kyiv. i want to get your reaction to critics of this rare earth minerals deal who are describing it as extortion of a victim. what would you say in response? >> oh. >> no, i don't think. >> that at all. and i. >> think zelenskyy was he agreed that if he wants to. >> make a deal with the. >> united states, he can contribute. something that we need. there's nothing wrong in give and take. and i love the fact that that. zelenskyy is on the radar, that we are going to be helping ukraine continue helping ukraine. and if they have to give something back or repay the debt, i'm sure they don't have any problems. what they need is the support of the united states military and europe, not only ukraine. they need to have that reassurance too. so it's a fair game, give and take, and we're both winning the united states and ukraine.

>> moving on to doge, we have heard from several of your republican colleagues and some cabinet officials who were in that meeting today as well, that have expressed confusion and concern about the way that doge has gone about some of these firings and hirings. you've heard some of these reports about officials who oversee the nuclear arsenal, for example, who've responded to bird flu, to ebola as well. do you believe that doge has authority over cabinet officials in determining who should be cut out? >> look, i think that we have to put this into perspective and into context. what elon musk is doing is what congress should have done 50 years ago. go in and see where we are spending our money or the taxpayers money and clean the abuse, the waste and the fraud that hasn't been done. and sometimes maybe righteous, the righteous are going to pay for the sinners, but he is doing a good job and he is doing exactly what we are supposed to be doing. the federal government is

responsible for the taxpayers money, and we need to make sure that those monies go to where they need to go. it's impossible for usaid to be. i mean, i don't have to repeat it. you've heard it. $12 million for guatemala. the guatemalans do not want the money. $55 billion that they have discovered that has been wasted or fraud that can be happening. that can't be happening. and for that reason trump won on the on the on the message that we're going to clean up and we're going to reduce the debt that we have, which is $2 trillion a year. we have a debt. i mean, a deficit. we have a debt of $33 trillion. so when the average american viewer or voter, here's what's happening, they go, yeah, welcome us or anybody that is going to do the cleanup. that's what he's doing. maybe he's not perfect and impeccable, but he is cleaning up house and that's what we need. >> and there have been. >> the good programs. keep the good programs and make them better. >> sure, there have been calls

from some of your republican colleagues for more congressional involvement into that work of determining what should stay and what should go. there are also questions about transparency and exactly how musk's personal professional business interests might conflict with some of the work that he's doing with doge. i wonder what kind of oversight you have on the doge caucus over musk and his associates, and whether you can tell us, for example, what they're doing with this sensitive financial information of millions of americans at these systems that treasury and at the social security administration. >> listen, boris, i think that congress i'm sure that musk will welcome and appreciate the fact, if we can help him from the legislative point of view, i think that his intentions are the best. he doesn't think about it. he doesn't have to be doing this. he's the richest guy in the world. he could be on a rocket somewhere. where is he? he's helping us. he's helping our government get better and

get leaner. so we do have to appreciate that he is bringing dozens of his best minds to find all this. to help with the algorithms, to to understand where the waste, the fraud and the and the abuse is at in all these different federal programs. so we appreciate what he's doing. i don't think that he's going to profit. he has contracts with the with the doj or dod. he has government contracts. he doesn't need to be doing what he's doing in order to make more money, money that he doesn't need. so i think it's the other way around. we've got to be very grateful that he is wanting to do this and investing his time, energy and money into it. >> i do want to get your thoughts on a number of other things, congresswoman, and i want to make sure we're as efficient as possible with getting answers. i want to ask you about the budget blueprint that house republicans passed yesterday. they're calling on the energy and commerce committee, which oversees medicaid, to cut some $880 billion in spending. would you

support some of those cuts coming from medicaid. >> i support to clean up the system, which is what musk is doing. i know what you're telling me is $880 billion. that energy and commerce. but i am sure that for what i have learned and all the meetings that i have been to, that the benefits are not going to be cut. what's going to be cut are the waste and the fraud, and that we are not going to have to touch those who need medicaid. we understand. i mean, florida has a great need for medicaid recipients. so i am confident because it's not only for the floridians, but for the new yorkers. everyone agrees that you cannot touch those who deserve the benefits. >> understood. uh, one more issue that was brought up in the cabinet meeting that would affect your constituents. as you know, hundreds of thousands of venezuelans and cubans in your district who came into the country the right way. as president trump said during the cabinet meeting, he wants immigrants to come to the united

states the right way. they're not potentially at risk of deportation because of some new immigration policies. what is your message to them and to the white house? >> my message to the white house has been very clear. we have to make a differentiation between the tren de aragua and those venezuelans who came in through the tps. i am sure that we're going to come to an understanding. we're talking about 600,000 venezuelans that are group expires in april. another group expires in september. and i'm sure that the biden that the trump administration understands that these people who are here fleeing communism and that we we need to keep them under that tps protection. these are not illegals. these are tren de aragua or ms 13. these are good people who came and we welcome them. and i'm sure they're going to be able to stay. >> on the subject of venezuela. before we go, congresswoman, just moments ago, trump announced that he would reverse a concession given to venezuela as part of an oil deal made by president biden. chevron, a u.s.

producer of of oil, has had this exception in venezuela through the biden administration into the trump administration. uh, trump administration officials have not said whether they want regime change. in fact, i believe ric grenell, who went down there to negotiate the release of some americans in caracas, said that trump does not want regime change. that's a marked shift from his first term. do you agree with that stance that nicolas maduro should remain in power? >> and i don't agree that president trump believes what mr. grenell is saying. maybe he got that idea somewhere else. we do. but we all agree. grenell, the president and ourselves and the south florida delegation, we all agree that what the president did is outstanding and that we are very grateful for he has done. and you know why? because chevron was producing $500 million a month to maduro and his regime. he's using that money for the repressive apparatus. enough an american

company cannot give a regime a communist regime, any weapons or any money in order for them to suppress their people who, by the way, had maduro had an election last year and he had he signed an agreement called the barbados agreement, where he committed to leave if he lost the presidential elections. well, he did 70 to 30. what is he doing still in power? nothing. it's. and the benefit of the united states to do away with maduro. because then those oil rigs are will definitely be the american companies will be welcomed to partnership with the or with the oil industry in venezuela. and we're going to be able to have a win win situation, just like we're having with ukraine and the united states. >> congresswoman maria elvira salazar. we have to leave the conversation there. thank you so much for sharing your point of view. >> thank you to you, boris. >> thanks. still to come, the bodies of four israeli hostages are expected to be returned to israel today in in exchange for palestinian prisoners. the

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democratic senator mark kelly. >> mr. feinberg did russia. >> invade ukraine? >> well. >> um. >> going to. my behind closed doors, uh, statement a second ago. i'll just say this. um. the, um. >> they moved tanks and troops and armored personnel carriers across the ukrainian border. it's pretty simple question. >> i gotcha. however, there's a very intense there's a very tense negotiation going on. now, it's important for american interests. i'm not. i don't have. >> mr. feinberg. we've got to live in the real world here. >> but i don't. >> i mean, things happen, and it's obvious to the rest of the world, and i think it's obvious to europe right now that we just blew up an alliance. and for us not to be able to say an obvious fact is it doesn't help a negotiation. >> well, what i was trying to say, senator, is i don't think some person who's not informed

on this not involved in discussions, should make statements, uh, public that could undermine, uh, what the president and the secretary's intent is. >> that back and forth coming as president trump announced, ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy will be at the white house on friday, where trump said zelenskyy will sign a new deal to give the u.s. access to ukrainian national resources. joining us now to discuss is retired u.s. army major mike lyons. thank you so much for being here with us. and just starting off where we where we heard that exchange between mark kelly and stephen feinberg. it is interesting. his initial reaction was, there's these negotiations ongoing, and it's been pretty clear that that president trump is quite hesitant and really has said the opposite, has said that russia or that ukraine was responsible for this, that that's part of negotiating right now is not publicly saying what actually happened.

>> yeah, it's. >> obviously crazy talk. we all know. >> russia invaded ukraine. we know that the conditions that were set, the budapest memorandum wasn't adhered to, russia violated that the security assurances that ukraine was given back in 94. i guess, when that memo stated weren't weren't uphold went upheld. and when they invaded in 2014, uh, and a lot of it has to do probably with nato thinking that they could make ukraine part of it. so but there are those negotiations taking place between russia and united states. and for whatever reason, the administration thinks that it's gaining some advantage by saying not stating something that's painfully obvious to everybody. >> and we know president trump has confirmed that president zelenskyy will be visiting the white house friday. what are you looking for in that meeting? >> so the devil will be in the details of that meeting. and there are some who think that zelenskyy has a gun to his head to sign this, but i don't think so. i think a bilateral agreement between ukraine and the united states is just what

we need right now. while it doesn't provide that security assurance, which i don't see any document like this could, uh, without being a sign of a declaration of war, for example, because ukraine is at war with russia. if we decided to give some kind of security assurance, we could be wrapped into some kind of conflict there. i think that that the united states will will give an implied security assurance, and the fact that we'll be able to send more materials and equipment to ukraine. and i also think it's part of the negotiation with russia, because if russia, we don't know what russia is going to do, we don't know if russia is going to agree to this peace agreement to agree what they come up with. but we also want to show russia that if they don't agree to it, they don't want to stop it, that the united states will rearm and refit ukraine and continue to do so. the united states is objective, is to stop the fighting. that's going to mean concessions on both sides. we don't know what russia is going to do yet. and i think that this deal with ukraine is clearly in the best interest of the united states, and that interest of stopping the war and also ukraine. >> mhm. and then trump has said

the administration has been able to make a deal which could grant u.s. access to the rare earth minerals. um, zelenskyy is calling it a framework he wants to discuss further. but it sounds like based on what you're saying, you think that there is something for everyone within this agreement, finalized or not? >> well, it also reassures it should assure our nato allies that we're still committed to working within the european framework. i don't think that that alliance is as dead as that congressman thought it was either. i think we've got to have frank conversations with allies that we've had for 50, 60, 70 years about their lack of commitment to their own self-defense. um, and because if they don't if they're not agreeing with it, then we didn't really have an alliance. we just had an american security agreement for europe. so i think, i think now is the time to have all this conversation. and i think it's moving forward positively. so i think it shows a commitment, a broader scale commitment that we actually do have to europe, that we're not looking to abandon nato in and

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flight from boston aborted its landing to avoid hitting another plane that was about to take off. this is one of three close calls involving planes in the last few days. >> there was one at chicago midway airport and was caught on camera showing just how close this southwest airlines jet came to a business plan that the faa said mistakenly had entered the runway. cnn aviation correspondent pete muntean is here. pete. three incidents, one in d.c., one in chicago, and you're learning about a near miss in san francisco as well? yeah. there was this asiana flight. >> and you may remember asiana airlines from the july 2013 incident, also at san francisco international airport, also lined up for the same runway when that airplane hit the seawall, in this case, asiana flight 212 got a low altitude alert from air traffic control as it was coming in to land on sunday. and i want you to listen now to the exchange with that plane and air traffic control, essentially warning them they were getting too low. a lot of echoes and reverb here to that crash back in 2013. listen. >> to the.

>> 212 leavitt chuck grassley immediately. >> 30262 and two heavy. >> are you correcting? >> the. >> two? 123. >> roger. >> go around, fly runway heading. >> so this is significant not only because of the similarity to the previous incidents, but also that these close calls continue to happen. this is something that happened in a southwest flight not too long ago, about a year ago, where they were coming too low. seems like the pilots may have been fatigued late at night. they forgot where they were and essentially got too low and were woken up essentially by the flight crew. the flight crew was essentially woken up or alerted to the fact that they were getting too low by those in the air traffic control tower. so we have seen these incidents over and over again where there are close calls. thankfully, the layers of safety are there and keep things from happening badly. although we have seen things that can go so wrong so quickly, like the potomac airfield or, sorry, the potomac mid-air collision, as that plane was coming in to land at reagan national airport with an army helicopter back on january 29th.

67 lives lost. and clearly so much could have gone right there and could have been so preventable. >> i know. and then there was this other incident at dc at back at reagan. what do you know about that? >> well, this is a little bit different. and so this was a go around essentially a plane lined up to land at american airlines flight, lined up to land as another airplane was taking off. the air traffic controllers in the tower said a little too close for comfort. might as well go around. this is something that does essentially get people jumpy, though, and if you're on a plane, it seems very significant. thankfully, nobody hurt in this incident. the plane came around and made a successful landing, although it's notable given the fact that there was this near collision and a very, very close call at chicago's midway airport around the same time yesterday. and when you look at the video, it is really startling. the southwest flight was only about three feet from touching down one. a business jet essentially pulled out onto the taxiway onto the runway in front of it. clearly some confusion there by the crew of the business jet. transportation secretary sean duffy said last night that the

pilots should have their licenses taken away. doesn't really fit in lockstep with the faa policy. usually they preach compliance and try and remind pilots that are involved in something like this to remedial training, but it's important to put the context in here. these these go arounds. not like this. this is notable. this is definitely something that is very newsworthy. but go arounds happen at a rate of about 1 to 3 per thousand approaches. so it's pretty common. yeah. you've probably been on one before. and so, you know, coming from the small airplane world like i do, we do that all the time, especially when you're training and learning how to fly. it's much less common in commercial flying. and it's really a pilot's ace to play. they always have that last out in the southwest incident at midway yesterday. that was something they did unprompted in the dca incident. that's something the tower told them to do. so a little bit different, although they all fit in the same theme here, and people are understandably very anxious about flying right now. >> they are pete muntean. thanks so much. so he is the richest man in the world, but elon musk has lost more than $50 billion

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november. lance ulanoff is editor at large for techradar. lance, thanks so much for being here with us. walk us through this, this slump at tesla. >> you know. >> there's a couple. >> of things happening. >> so they really took a. >> hit in europe. >> where. >> you know, their. >> competitors are actually seeing increased demand. but tesla. >> not so much. and then. >> in the u.s. you know. sentiment it's a very strange. >> thing. >> to watch over the last decade, how sentiment toward tesla has changed. i mean, this was the go to electric car in the u.s. they're everywhere. model three was a number one seller, but now the business has been politicized and people feel differently about the brand because they feel differently about elon musk. and it is not only causing people to potentially not buy teslas, but some people who bought them are putting stickers to say they bought it before things changed, or they're trying to get out of leases, or they're trying to sell them. so it's really the perception, the perspective on

elon musk and tesla has really changed. >> i wonder you sort of alluded to the politicization of tesla having something to do with this. i wonder if you think musk can do something to turn it around. >> uh, i not in the short term because he is very deep into the business of doge. right? he is busy carving up the u.s. government with that department, and he's doing very much the same thing he did with twitter. you know, they're firing people and then going, oops. and then bringing people back. so there's chaos there. and as long as that's going on, i don't think people are going to feel the same way they did about these cars. and i have to say, i always love tesla cars. it had been on my it was the first electric car that i really wanted. and now, you know, it's hard to think about it the same way. >> yeah, you're right, it is. it's just that injection of politics. everything means something one way or the other. what about investors in tesla? what are they saying? are they

worried? >> you know, i mean, what i know about stocks, you could fit inside a very small cup. but i will say that i understand you take the long view. this is a big company. this has a lot of customers. it is really responsible almost for almost single handedly helping to build the electric infrastructure in the u.s. so i wouldn't, uh, pay too much attention to the short term activity. but if we're not able to separate musk and what he is doing with the government from this business, then the long term outlook might change. >> yeah, it will be interesting to see how this all plays out. lance ulanoff, thank you so much. we appreciate it. a major shakeup at the washington post as the paper's owner, jeff bezos, announces that from now on, the post will only publish opinion stories based on what he calls two editorial pillars personal liberties and free markets, and quote viewpoints. opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others. >> bezos also says the shift led to the resignation of the

post's opinion editor. cnn correspondent hadas gold joins us now. hadas, what is bezos thinking behind this move. >> guys. >> the jeff bezos of today under this trump administration is almost unrecognizable to the jeff bezos as the washington post owner from the first trump administration, when he was seen as really standing behind and alongside the washington post as they were being attacked by the trump administration. now he is getting so much more deeply involved in the day to day workings, especially when it comes to the opinion side of his newspaper. he is the owner. of course, it is his own right to do so. this change is being described as taking a more libertarian wall street journal like approach to the opinions page, versus the sort of broad view that the washington post opinion page was taking until now. why is he doing this? jeff bezos laid this out. he says that he believes these pillars of personal liberties and free markets are underserved in the current market and current market of ideas and news, opinions. and he says people who oppose these viewpoints, they

can publish those viewpoints elsewhere. here's a little bit more of what he had to say. he said there was a time when a newspaper, especially one that was the local monopoly, might have seen it as a service to bring to the readers doorstep. every morning, a broad based opinion section that sought to cover all views. today, the internet does that job. this has, of course, as you noted, led to the resignation of the editorial page editor, david shipley. it's been a rocky period for the washington post. the spiking of the endorsement by jeff bezos before the election led to, of course, more than 250,000 subscribers canceling their subscriptions led to some high profile resignations. a lot of high profile reporters have also left the washington post in recent weeks, and we are now getting some pretty harsh reactions from washington post reporters. take a look at some of what some of them have posted very publicly. washington post columnist philip bump, writing on bluesky. what the actual f? we are also hearing from jeff stein, who is one of their top reporters, writing, this is a massive encroachment by jeff bezos into

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gaza strip, killed on october 7th and his body taken to the gaza strip. there will not be any ceremonies surrounding the release of these bodies, as per an agreement between israel and hamas. and this comes following days of uncertainty since saturday, when israel refused to release 620 palestinian prisoners. it was slated to release in exchange for those four living hostages who were released on saturday. and that's because israel claimed that there were humiliating ceremonies involving hostages inside the gaza strip, and therefore refused to hand over those prisoners. but once those bodies of the four hostages are identified this evening, something that's going to actually take place at the kerem shalom crossing between israel and gaza, then israel will begin releasing those prisoners in waves. >> jeremy diamond live for us in tel aviv, israel. thank you so much. stay with cnn. we're back in just moments. >> it's the news.

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visible injuries, and the vatican says pope francis has had a, quote, peaceful night and is showing, quote, further slight improvement. a source telling cnn the pontiff is still receiving the same flow of oxygen he's been getting over the last few days. he has been diagnosed with pneumonia in both lungs. >> we do want to leave you with a bit of lighter news this afternoon. it involves three men, a toilet and a $6 million heist. look at that right there. this is all part of a high profile criminal trial taking place in the united kingdom right now. the stolen booty involves a golden toilet, 18 carat gold, to be exact. this heist took place back in 2019. you're watching. you were watching a second ago. some surveillance video that shows thieves stealing pieces of the toilet after breaking into the blenheim palace, where the toilet, the golden throne, was put on display as part of an art exhibit. apparently, they swiped the whole thing in fewer than five minutes.

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