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inclusion. the diversity though kicks in next week when select countries will get additional tariffs added on. but there's not a whole lot of equity here. who do you think got the steepest reciprocal as they're called tariffs. maybe china with its $295 billion trade deficit with the u.s. nah. lesotho lesotho a country of 2.2 million people surrounded by south africa. they got hit with the world's highest reciprocal, although it is not rate of 50% now between holes of golf. the president is reportedly speaking with world leaders about negotiating their rates. but markets? they don't like this strategy one bit. if you haven't checked your 401(k), don't. but if you are keeping track for the past two days, you've seen a lot of red, a lot of down arrows, and some of the worst stock losses since the pandemic five years ago, those are the markets. but how could
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this impact you, your livelihood, right now? in a moment, we'll get reaction from a small business owner who's worried about the impact to his line of work. but first, let's start with valerie wilson. she's the director of the economic policy institute's program on race, ethnicity and the economy. valerie, good to have you on the show. there is a finding from the saint louis fed that i it always sticks close to me. they found that for every dollar of wealth that an unmarried white man has an unmarried black woman has $0.08, an unmarried latino. she has $0.14. and we know that the legacy of of the wage gap and wealth gap. what's the expectation of how these higher costs, these tariffs will impact these communities? >> well. >> victor, first of all, thank you for. >> having me on this morning. >> i think the biggest risk to women of color in particular, given those wage disparities and
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the huge racial and gender wealth gap that you described, the biggest risk to women of color is the risk of a recession, which would be totally self-inflicted by the trump administration, given that they inherited the strongest economy of any president since george w bush. and what happens during recessions is that people of color more broadly, tend to have higher unemployment rates for longer periods of time, but those with less wealth that provides some stability and something to fall back on if they experience a job loss, are most at risk. >> i mentioned 401 s, everybody's 401(k) took a hit regardless of of demographic, race, religion, age. you saw those those down arrows. but people of color tend to have smaller balances. even when you account for a just for income and for tenure. and so what does that look like as people of
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color look ahead to retirement and versus their white counterparts, how the market could impact that. >> yeah. so i think the the problem is, is the biggest burden is going to be on people who want to retire soon because they are going to experience those losses. i think most analysts will tell folks, if you have money in the market, just sit back, let it sit. if you don't need it right now, just ride it out. but for those who are retiring soon, that will be a major hit to their retirement savings. and for people of color, women of color who have less of a balance to start with that could, you know, essentially wipe it out and mean that they have to work longer or, you know, risk going into retirement at the risk of poverty? >> yeah. we have the unemployment numbers out for march. and of course, the president just announced these additional tariffs this week. so those are not factored in to those numbers. they were good. they were stronger than expected. but what are these tariffs mean for unemployment.
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>> yeah. again the tariffs are really a threat to the u.s. economy. and i think the predictions increasingly are increasing in terms of the likelihood of triggering a recession. the problem with these tariffs is that they are too broad, too large to be effective economic policy. narrowly tailored, very strategic tariffs can be effective. but when you impose a tariff on essentially every import good. that's just too broad to have any benefit for american consumers or businesses. >> and the tailored. i'm glad you made that point, because those tailored tariffs, that's what we saw in trump 45, in the first term, focusing on chinese aluminum and steel. and the biden administration kept those. but as you say, that these are for everybody. your suggestion is that they are not effective. the point that that the president is trying to make is
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that if you levy these tariffs, companies will bring their manufacturing to the u.s. but this is the question i've had there. the discussions with cambodia and vietnam and potential negotiations. if a company is going to make those investments of eight, nine, ten, maybe 11 figures to move manufacturing here, a hint of a negotiation that would be, an impediment that would suggest maybe we don't move. right. don't they need to know that the the tariff climate is going to stay the same for the next six months or a year before they invest? >> yeah. you hit the nail right on the head. the the biggest problem beyond the fact that the tariffs are two broad too large, too high is the fact that there's so much uncertainty and chaos around what the strategy even is. the fact is that the tariffs imposed on the the goods that the terrorists are being
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imposed upon are not things that we can produce quickly enough domestically to meet demand. so that is going to result in higher prices for u.s. consumers as well as u.s. businesses who purchase inputs for the final products that they do produce here in the u.s. >> all right. valerie wilson, thank you so much for setting the table. enjoy the rest of the saturday. my next guest is worried about what these tariffs mean for his american dream, philippe arajarvi. he came to this country from colombia. he learned english. he started a business. he started a specialty contact lens company based in atlanta. and back during the pandemic, he and just one other person, they ran the show together. well, now he has more than a dozen employees offices around the world. spectrum international, that's the name of the company. it was just recognized by the small business administration as the 2024 small business exporter of the year. now, that's all to say that these tariffs could disrupt all that progress. and to explain,
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philippe is here with me. philippe, good to see you. you import, as i've learned, some of your raw materials from china. and on thursday. correct. 54% tariff on those. how does that impact the sustainability, the health of your business? >> well. >> victor, so. the problem that. >> we have. >> is that even if we make the products inside of the united states, just like valerie was saying, we cannot switch to a local source overnight. so we import raw materials to manufacture our contact lenses from china, from mexico, from canada and other parts of the world. so what are we going to do? are we going to pass this cost to the consumer? are we going to eat it up? if we eat it up, we will have to reduce our profits. and if we reduce our profits, we will start firing people or stop hiring people. so this is really affecting our business. it's just it's just
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affecting the supply chain. just like valerie was saying, we cannot switch overnight to a local source and manufacture. >> what percentage of your customers are overseas? >> 100%. >> all of your customers are outside the u.s. >> yes, we want exporter of the year because we are currently exporting to 70 countries around the world, and every single one of our products is made in the united states. >> so one that's phenomenal. second are you seeing any reluctance or resistance from some of those customers, all of them outside the united states, from from buying from you? are any of them backing away now, even before potential reciprocal tariffs? >> of course, the people abroad are starting to boycott american, u.s. made products. that is happening right now. victor, and is one of our
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biggest concerns. why? because we're going to get retaliation tariffs from other countries. prices are going up because the supply chain has changed. and we are going to continue to see inflation on u.s. made products. that is just the reality. >> are you comfortable saying where you're seeing some of these boycotts? >> yes, a lot of people in the middle east, a lot of asian countries are boycotting u.s. made products. people in canada are switching to local manufacturers, and i'm afraid that we're going to be less competitive. victor. >> you mentioned that the impact of absorbing some of these costs, are you able to absorb any of them? >> we can't. like, for example, i was talking to other importers and exporters this week and just in the cost of packaging, victor, it has gone up three times. so either we raise prices or we pass it on to to the end
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user, the end user abroad. and that is going to make our product less competitive. and you know who's trying to to export more and more products around the world. china, taiwan, vietnam and majority of the countries. what that they don't have one of the most expensive labors in the world, such as the united states. so we have one of the highest operational costs in the world. and now, if we add this tiers, it's just the the perfect recipe for failure. >> you told my producer that you don't even you don't even like to watch the news anymore. >> every single time i turn cnn, i don't even know what the white house is going to do or what countries are going to be involved next. i mean, a couple of weeks ago, it was just canada, china and mexico. and now i mean, you saw the press release a few days back and it's it's just as exporters and importers, we have no idea what is going to happen next.
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and, victor, what concerns me the most is that american made products used to stand behind values, technology, and people used to trust their products. and now i'm just afraid that this is changing and, and and we're we're going to be less competitive in the next couple months or couple years. >> had you hoped that that president trump would be different? i mean, most people who said that the economy was their most important issue, four out of five voted for donald trump. how does this match your expectation of what the trump administration would be, especially in the first 100 days? >> well, victor, we we live in the greatest country on earth. i mean, every single person that has a dream, every single company that that wants to sell to other countries comes to the united states. but we need to be able to sell those dreams and those products to other countries. we cannot become an isolated island. the united states needs to work with
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partners. countries cannot see us as a bully. countries cannot see us as their biggest enemy. we need to work together. that's how trade works. so to your question, i thought the economy was going to do great and i hope the economy does great. i mean, everybody wants to make america great again. i mean, every single company in the united states was our country to thrive. but if we keep bullying countries, if we keep just pressuring countries like this, that's just not how the world organization works. and i'm extremely concerned with retaliation. >> philippe, thank you for being with me this morning. and our best to you as you try to to navigate this new landscape. >> thank you so much, victor, for the opportunity. >> certainly. all right. there's now a deadline for the u.s. to bring a man. the government admits was mistakenly deported to el salvador, back to maryland. how the salvadoran community in that state is reacting to the crackdown. plus books on black athletes, diversity in the workplace, even
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government admits was mistakenly deported to el salvador. a judge in maryland called it illegal and says that kilmar armando abrego garcia must be brought back to the u.s. no later than 11:59 p.m. on monday. the trump administration has appealed that ruling. the deputy white house chief of staff, stephen miller, called the judge a marxist who, quote, thinks she's president of el salvador again. the u.s. admits they sent the father of three to el salvador because of an administrative error there. an estimated 2.5 million people of salvadoran origin living in the u.s., according to pew research center. they are the third largest hispanic population in the country. and maryland is home to a significant part of that community. cnn's polo sandoval traveled there and found this high profile case is not the only one raising alarm.
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>> no, no no no. no no. oh, mommy. >> this is salvadoran elsie noemi barrios, behind the wheel, detained by federal agents in maryland earlier this week. her daughter shot the video. >> right. >> don't grab. >> her like that. >> dhs said in a statement this individual has been identified as an associate of the vicious ms-13 gang. americans can rest assured that she's off our streets and locked up. barrios family was shocked by the allegations, saying their mother has no ties to ms 13 or any gang, adding that she held a valid work authorization while her immigration proceedings were pending. her daughter saying simply it's not true. >> oh my god. >> the images are sending shock waves through maryland's salvadoran community, which is still reeling from the deportation of kilmar armando abrego garcia, a husband and father who was sent to a notorious mega prison in el salvador. the trump administration admitted it was an administrative error. the government claims that he was associated with the violent salvadoran gang mara
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benitez is deeply worried that members of his salvadoran community will be mislabeled as gang members, detained or even deported by mistake again. >> now things can just turn like that where a narrative of gang members mara salvatrucha is being sent. and i'm doing this because i want people to know that's not the reality. that's not who we are. and that's definitely not who my people are. >> like benitez, elementary school teacher yakie palma has noticed heightened fears in the eyes of her students. >> children are. >> scared. >> as well. >> and it's really impacting. >> their performance in school. >> as a first generation salvadoran american, palma says she's formed bonds with migrant parents of her students, many from el salvador. she recalls a recent conversation with a seven year old student. >> she told me that she was very terrified that she would get deported. her parents have told me that she is a u.s. citizen. she was born here. but still, it's that widespread fear that if you're hispanic or if you're salvadoran, you're going to get deported, right? because of that
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racial profiling happening and that affiliation with ms13. >> all throughout. >> like back in his old neighborhood. benitez remains hopeful but also fiercely protective of his community. >> this is not the first time our communities have been under attack. we survived four years in the past and we can do it again. >> polo sandoval cnn. prince george's county, maryland. >> now, scenes like that are playing out across the country, but in chicago, one story has a different ending. a man from venezuela trying to help his brother who needs a kidney, is being allowed to stay in the country. josé gregorio gonzalez's brother is battling kidney failure, and this was the moment in the reunion on friday, after being detained for more than a month. this week, he learned that he was set to be deported, but that kicked off pleas for mercy from his family and community. those paid off on friday. gonzalez will be allowed to remain in the u.s. for one year on humanitarian grounds. here was his brother, speaking through an interpreter. >> the question was what the
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first thing he's going. >> to do with his brother is. he said, the first thing is call his mom so that she can see them both and just be able to to share in life together. >> gonzalez we'll have to check in periodically with i.c.e. his attorney says he'll also be eligible to apply for a work permit. but most importantly, gonzalez says that he'll now be able to drive his brother to dialysis and become a kidney donor. if confirmed to be a match. all right. we now have a list of nearly 400 books pulled from the naval academy library. you can probably already guess what a lot of them have in common. next, i'm going to get reaction from someone who knows the navy well, both as a navy vet and the pentagon's first dei officer. >> my happy place. one place i could truly be myself. >> i want people. to experience this beautifully diverse city. there's no other place like it. >> my happy place premieres sunday, april 27th on cnn. >> double check that.
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without bending down. try skechers slip ins, boots. >> the trump administration's quest to end diversity policies has now reached the library of the naval academy. defense secretary pete hegseth ordered the academy to identify books related to diversity, equity and inclusion themes and remove them from the nimitz library. late friday, they released the list of almost 400 books that were pulled this week. the books include i know why the caged bird sings by maya angelou. my vanishing country, a memoir by cnn's own bakari sellers, long time coming reckoning with race in america by friend of the show historian michael eric dyson. a book on jack johnson, the first black world heavyweight champion, and a book that might have come in handy here. managing diversity in the military. the value of inclusion in a culture of uniformity. my next guest comes at this from multiple perspectives. he's a navy veteran. he served as the
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undersecretary of defense for personnel readiness in the biden administration, where he was responsible for force readiness, education and training. he was the pentagon's first chief diversity and inclusion officer. joining us now is congressman gil cisneros of california. he currently sits on the house armed services committee and small business, and we'll talk about that in a moment. but, congressman, first, thank you for being here. and to those people who say, you know, if these midshipmen want to read about memorializing the holocaust or a book about, you know, female comedians, pretty funny was also a book pulled from the shelves. they can do that on their own dime, on their own time. it shouldn't be in the library. what do you say to them? >> look, we are training leaders over there. >> at the service academies. whether it's. >> the naval academy, whether. >> it's west point air. >> force.
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>> academy. >> these are higher. institutions of higher learning. we want them to be well rounded. we want them to be well read. we want them to go out and read different books, get different sides of opinions. we're not creating storm troopers over there. and we're not creating robots. we want them to be able to think. and one of the ways that they're able to increase their capacity for learning, their increase their capacity for thinking is by reading and to remove 400 books that, like some of the the topics that you described there, right. and subjects is just it's unbelievable what this administration is doing and how they are going after everything. that is good, right? diversity is a strength and i don't care what pete hegseth says. it is a strength. and you know, the marine corps did studies that showed diverse teams perform better than teams that aren't diverse. and so we have the proof out there. and it's not only at the service academies in
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the military, but corporate america as well, has shown that diverse teams perform better and why we would want to take steps away from that, and make our teams weaker is just unbelievable to me. >> you know, initially the naval academy, the air force academy, military academy at west point, those were not included in the the purge order, because their colleges, the focus was on the k through 12 schools because they received federal funding. do you think there should be some distinction? i mean, this was under your purview that there should be some separation on the treatment of the the literature available to k through 12 versus those midshipmen and the students in higher learning? >> well, i think it's horrible that i think it's horrible that we're taking books out of all our schools, whether it be k through 12 or these institutions of higher learning. you know, we should give our students the options to go out and read books that they want to read to increase their learning for
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capacity. we want them to be diverse in the sense of reading from different angles, different perspectives. if we only give you one option on one subject as to like, this is what you're supposed to do. how does that increase your capacity for learning? how does that increase your your capacity for thought? again, we're not building robots here. we want thinkers. we want leaders. and to go into to just minimize and say, well, now you can only read these books. you know, this isn't nazi germany, this isn't the soviet union. we are we are not meant to be an authoritarian government that says you can only do this, or you can only read that. and that's the scary part of what's going on here is i think they want to take us down that path. >> i had secretary kendall, former secretary of the air force, on a couple of weeks ago, and he said something that that stays with me. and he said that
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the conversations about racism and sexism will continue in the military. they just won't include white men, and they won't include those white male officers specifically. and as we look at, you know, often this is put in the, the, the context of disrupting cohesion, the absence of those conversation. does that also disrupt cohesion? >> well, it does absolutely. and you know, frank kendall is a great thinker. was a great secretary of the air force. glad to be able to work with individuals like that. in the biden administration there at the department of defense. and, and really you know, one of the other things. right, that is scary about this is that both the navy and the marine corps took steps to put their sexual assault, sexual harassment training on pause. using dei as the reason for doing that. i
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think it's, you know, frank was 100% right. it's these conversations will continue. but they're not going to be inclusive of those individuals. like you said, the white men who need to be part of the conversation. these conversations need to include everybody, and we cannot just minimize this, like, you know, put it to a back room where people are talking about these things in secret, afraid to bring them up because they're afraid. they're afraid they might get in trouble or be disciplined for raising issues that are about things that are occurring all the time. >> i also mentioned you're on how small business committee. and of course, with the tariffs and all that we've seen over the last couple of days, i want to ask you about those i want you and everybody watching to carefully listen here to the republican chair of house small business. this is roger williams of texas. and he says that we don't have to wait months or years for this to be good for small business, that these
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tariffs are good for small businesses. now, and here's the explanation of how. >> i think. >> main street. >> over the, over the, over the short haul is going to benefit from it. there could be a shock in cost of goods sold. but we as retailers take care of that by removing the higher priced unit and selling the freshman that we get. that's that's what it's all about. and controlling inventories. >> how how does that work? just removing the inventory and selling the fresh one. can you explain that? >> no, i can't look, the chairman, chairman williams is a car dealer. his the prices of his vehicles are going to go up. i mean, that's just, you know, the auto dealers are saying that, the big three are saying that prices are going to go up with these tariffs. parts are going to become more expensive. it's going to be more expensive to assemble these cars. and and they're going to have to have to charge higher prices to do
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>> all right, now to the stories that hit my algorithm this week that maybe you didn't see on television. we now know the identity of a cybertruck driver seen making islamophobic comments to three young muslim women on sunday at a mall near atlanta. first, i want you to see some of the confrontation went on for about three minutes. a recording was obtained by cnn. you can hear the man making offensive comments about their religion and ethnicity, repeatedly telling them to go back to their country. not that it's any of his business, but all three women were born and raised in georgia. watch this. >> it doesn't matter. >> where we're from. >> it does. >> not, though. >> why does it matter to. >> you, though? >> because. because you're. you're worshiping a false god. >> no. >> are you christian? >> you have. >> the same god. >> bro. turns out the man in the video is congresswoman marjorie taylor greene's ex-husband, perry greene. a lawyer for the women demanded he issue a public
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apology. and yesterday he did. >> i just wanted them to know that i humbly apologize to them because nobody should be treated that way. and that's not the right way for us to treat anybody with any differences. and just that's, you know, what we came to do. and hopefully they'll find it in their hearts to forgive me and that, you know, that's we shouldn't allow that in our society. so thank you everyone. >> mm-hmm. mm-hmm. the women's lawyer says that they would rather greene donate to a nonprofit to combat islamophobia than pursue any type of civil action against him. >> i want to commend these three young women. standing beside me who have shown tremendous maturity and restraint in this whole ordeal. we admire their commitment to their religion in spirit and letter. they represent the best of our community. >> police in alpharetta, where this happened, called the comments in the video disgusting, but said that the incident falls under protected
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>> in a statement, the family says in part that nia deserved to grow up. we deserve to live in a community where children like him are protected, not pursued, i should say. all right, petey pablo is a part of north carolina culture. he could soon be a part of north carolina history with a new state song. >> north carolina. >> raise up. this one's for you. this one's for who? >> us. us? us. yes, sir. north carolina, come on and raise up. take your shirt off. >> twist it. >> right. tell us about. >> accepting bribes. >> the stuff. >> he did that was completely. >> legal destroys democracy. >> i'm still not sure that you're repentant. >> i have nothing to hide. >> if he hadn't been such a he would have gotten away. >> with it. they would. abuse her on television. >> it was this unholy. combination of overwhelming. >> greed and money. >> it's not a bribe. >> it's trading favors. >> united states of scandal. >> with jake tapper. >> tomorrow at 9:00 on.
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state forever hurrah hurrah. the good old north state. that's from the official state song. or north carolina. come on and raise up. take your shirt off. twist it around your head. spin it like a helicopter. that bop from petey pablo could soon be the state's official hip hop song. i spoke to petey and the state senator, pitching the idea about what it would mean to the state. for our latest edition of art is life. >> my name. >> is natalie murdock. >> i'm in durham, north carolina. >> and i'm a north. >> carolina state senator. >> this is your man, petey pablo. i'm from. >> greenville. >> north carolina, but i represent the whole north carolina and south carolina. and i'm a musical genius. >> i, north. >> carolina. >> take your shirt off, twist it round your head. spin it like a helicopter. >> as a rapper, i've always wanted to make something that you always want. to make something that your hometown is proud of you for. new york is known for fashion. florida is known for the hot, beautiful
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weather. and l.a. is known for the movies and the glitz and the glamor. i wanted to give us recognition. >> and hope. greene county. >> we hear. >> it all the time. so full disclosure i am a tarheel. i'm a usc chapel hill grad. it's at basketball games. we play it at football. >> games. >> when they were doing. >> the roll call. >> vote to nominate vice president harris as president. >> north carolina. >> how do you cast. >> your vote? >> that was the song that the north carolina delegation played. everybody knows the song. >> this one's for who? >> us. >> us in. >> the general assembly, someone has a proposal for an official mineral or an official fruit or an official this and that. and i said, why don't we have an official hip hop song? >> wait a minute. as popular as the state bird is the state tree. and i'm like, man, it's amazing. >> over here. >> the reaction has been overwhelmingly positive
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throughout april and may. we will be working to make this happen, to make it a reality here in north carolina. >> allow me to drink some more. >> tennessee. they hope to have tennessee the song as their, i believe, official state song. >> for some. >> strange reason, it had to be. it was all a dream about tennessee. >> we still could be in contention as the first and only state to have an official hip hop song. >> truthfully speaking. >> it. >> already is. >> but for it to be documented on record is is one of the most powerful things, you know, that could ever happen to a human being in life. >> north carolina. nba are definitely at the front of. >> the line. and peter says he'll keep us posted on what he plans to do if and when this becomes official. but of course, it will be a big party. coming up, a shout out to a community in chicago that showed up for a black owned bowling alley in financial trouble.
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