good. give you one more question because your answers are short and sweet. where are you putting money. >> we put our money towards value an health care and financial stocks. [closing bell rings] lauren: that is the closing bell. send it over to melissa francis and david asman. melissa: the dow closing down 100 points after logging biggest gain in two months yesterday. s&p and nasdaq falling as well. nasdaq closing higher for the week although not the day. i'm melissa francis. >> happy friday. i'm david asman. this is "after the bell." more on the big market movers. here is what we're wrapping up a extraordinarily busy week. sarah huckabee sanders steering media through the allegations against roy moore and al franken. how the white house is responding this afternoon. this is big week of revelations

linking hillary clinton with the dnc and the russians s there enough there there to appoint another special counsel? in last night's senate finance committee markup of the bill. we'll play the interaction with talk on capitol hill. joining us town hall's guy benson. florida congressman ted yoho, ambassador john bolton and texas attorney general ken paxton. melissa: breaking news. you're looking live fire in residential building. look at that, it is huge. this is at 144th street. manhattan in new york. fdny tweeted about the four-alarm fire. we'll break in with any further details as we monitor the situation. the flames devouring the building, sending so much smoke in the sky. the dow closing in the red down the 99 points after rallying 240 points yesterday. nicole petallides on floor of necessary psy.

the stocks got a big boost. we had the house pass the bill last night. why is the market in the doldrums? >> utilities and technology and health care, reality everything good for the tax overhaul when that foes through the market goes up, if it hits roadblocks the market sells off. the move is not a big one. but it clocks in the second losing week in a row for the dow after eight weeks of gains. want to take a look at some movers today. tesla had big unveiling in california yesterday where everybody was waiting for the semi-truck. the stock was up about 1% today. they also gave a glimpse at the new second generation roadster, the $200,000 vehicle. the headlights went on, everybody would cheer. it was a big deal. j.b. hunt, trucking company, walmart, even ryder is putting

something to order more trucks. that is good news for tesla. can maybe wipe away some production issues they have had recently. look at apple. there is a lot of hope for the apple speaker. this is $350 item. i'm not sure, some analysts say how will this compete with behemoth of amazon echo? echo dot is 50 bucks. there is another delay. it will be beyond christmas. not good news here for apple and its new homepod speaker. that is tough for apple. it finishes down 95 cents at 170.15. melissa: i know why anybody wants that in the middle of their living room. david: get one for 50 bucks from amazon. doesn't make sense. meanwhile the white house wrapping up a jam-packed press briefing highlighting components of the tax plan with president's chee economist kevin has sit and the take on hall --al franken's

sexual misconduct. reporter: you have two polar issues on this day. both of them front and white house. wife of roy moore, kayla moore, that he is not getting out of senate race in the state. sarah sanders said it is up for the people of alabama to decide exactly with to do in that race. the other issue of course, that falls under that umbrella the issue involving al franken. specifically the press secretary sarah sanders was asked as she said yesterday in the briefing it was appropriate for the senate to investigate al franken, why it is not appropriate she was asked for the president himself to be investigated for past claims made against him of sexual misconduct. listen part of that exchange. >> this was covered pretty extensively during the campaign. we addressed it then of the

american people spoke very loud and clear when they elected this president. >> how is this different? >> i think in one case specifically senator franken has admitted wrongdoing and the president hasn't. that is very clear distinction. reporter: briefing started as sanders brought out cea chair kevin hassett talking about gains made on tax reform. has set was peppered about individual side of the senate plan, phaseout for the individual tax cuts to occur in 2025. when wees asked about it, cited political reasons, reconciliation and need for this to be deficit neutral over the course of 10 years. i follow you had by asking hassett, if there is any good reason to sunset them in 2025 or afterwards. here is his response. >> for the most part permanent tax cuts are far more impactful

when things expire. look at obama administration here during the great recession, they even extended bush tax cuts at the top because they understood this. reporter: admitting it would be better if the senate tax cuts on individual side would be indeed permanent meant. david and melissa, you remember the scene earlier this week at "wall street journal" ceo council with gary cohn, how many ceo's would reinvest in their companies. they asked for a show of hands, a couple appeared during the crowd. haas set was asked. i spoke after gary cohn, he was asked the very same question, about half of the ceo's raised their hand. still some would say a number left to be desired. david: he is economist. he focuses on economic history. it is shown when you have tax cuts you have economic growth. very simple. reporter: that sort past his argument. david: let's bring in carol roth, entrepreneur, former investment banker and jack hough

from "barron's." i thought it was refreshing, a non-"politico" facing the political press was nice. i loved his knock-down, when one reporter asked about trickle-down economics that is all the tax cut was, he had such a great knock-down trickle-down economics, people use this as excuse to pretend that there are no economic effects from tax cuts when in fact there are almost always. >> absolutely. i think the biggest challenge they didn't go far enough. we all know cutting taxes will lead to more growth. the challenge is, they have cut taxes on the corporate side, which is very much-needed. unfortunately most of the small business owners in this country, which is the backbone of the economic engine and who really create most of the jobs in this country will not benefit from this. i have spent the entire day emailing senators and laying out things they need to do, including making sure all small business owners can participate in these tax cuts because you are exactly right.

when we is cuts for the small business owners, they can reinvest in the business, same as corporations. when you have i had on the individual side they spend more that creates growth. that is what needs to happen. if they stop short, it is not going to work. i'm afraid that will, market is -- david: may not work as effectively but i think there is going to be some effect. so that point, jack, ubs says, just looking at the corporate tax rate, even if it goes up from the 20% that the president wants to 25%, they have done analysis. they say it hasn't all been baked into the s&p 500. the s&p 500 would have 6 1/2% boost in earnings per share if the corporate rates just goes down to 25%. >> if you had that sort moveddest decline in the corporate rate, you wouldn't have to make this kind of al franken two-handed grab on middle class income. david: you had to bring that in. >> over the long-term plans i've

seen thus far. something a little more benign for the middle class or beneficial for the middle class, you could still get some corporate tax break. david: carol, you brought up a good point which is small business. they're bothered by the fact that their rate doesn't come down to the 20% for big corporations. ron johnson said he will not vote for the tax bill. he is a republican, until that is resolved one way or the other. how do you think it will be resolved? >> i certainly hope reaching out to senators like senator johnson and senator brown who understand -- david: you're responsible for senator johnson holding out on that? >> i don't know if he actually read anything i said yet, laying out case you have to remove those guardrails. if you're a small business owner, solo on -- entrepreneur, 22 million, you still -- david: we get it. how will it be resolved between the house plan and the senate plan for small business? >> i certainly believe the

republicans will never take an opportunity to screw something up and not screw it up, unfortunately i'm not optimistic. beating on it and beatings on it hope they go do the right thing because it makes economic sense to do so. david: i think it does and i think ron johnson has an open mind or at least that is what he said. he said he is not absolute about this somehow they work it out in committee. jack, carol, have a good weekend. thank you. melissa. melissa: the white house fielding numerous questions on sexual assault in the briefing following the disturbing al franken allegations. >> this is something that should be looked at and widespread not just in the political sphere but in the business atmosphere and across the board in this country. something we certainly take seriously. melissa: here now to react, guy benson, "town hall" political editor and fox news contributor. guy, this turned into a free-for-all. >> it has and there is a lot of names that are being attached to

this and there seems to be whispers and some buzz in d.c. that there are more lawmakers. melissa: no doubt. >> that are going to be sucked into this i saw a moment ago on twitter, there is allegation against senator blumenthal of connecticut. again you have to wait and see if these people are credible, so on, so forth. i think we might be at the beginning of this whole saga of trying to clean some of this up, as opposed to getting towards of end of it. melissa: one of the things i find overwhelming, how do you sort through these allegations? it used to be people really crucified the victim, it was very scary to come out. now it feels like we're in a zone, we believe people come out and make these claims. i worry down the line, that it, we stop looking closely and, you know, does it degenerate into a situation we're not properly vetting people coming forward?

i don't know. how do you sort through that in your mind? >> that is it really tough because, you're right, in the past, there is a lot of victim shaming and attacking of victims. melissa: right. >> which takes a lot of people who were truly attacked and victimized and makes them very hesitant to come out and many cases they never do. that is not a healthy thing. melissa: right. >> but we shouldn't also pretend that there is no such thing as false allegations. that people won't just pile on political figures that they don't like. melissa: right. >> because they don't like them politically and it is convenient. one example i would give, melissa, in 2014, there was a congressional race in san diego where the republican nominee was gay, and there was an allegation about sexual harrassment against him. it cost him a very close election because of that allegation, which after the election, the person who made the allegation admitted to fabricating evidence.

this does come in play, false allegations. tough to tell who is telling the truth. it comes down to credibility, amount of evidence and patterns of behavior. melissa: you talk about opportunism. you look at kirsten gillibrand and her coming out saying this. let's listen. >> is it your view that the president should have stepped down at that time given the allegations? >> yes. i think that is the appropriate response but, i think things have changed today. i think under those circumstances there should be a very different reaction. melissa: i mean, what is so frustrating about this, being a new yorker, no one has benefited more from clinton money and clinton coattails than kirsten gillibrand. here she is coming out, now, a million years later, throwing bill clinton under the bus frankly where he deserves to be. now that she used them to her best advantage for years and years, i don't know what is your take on this one? >> yeah.

because she is trying to be woke as possible because she will run in 2020. now the clintons are expendable. very recently they were very invaluable. you would never cross them if you were her. now it is easy to do so because they're out of power and relatively convenient to do so and politically expedient to do so. i think it is completely fair to conservatives for conservatives to attack democrats who are all of sudden coming to jesus seeing light on bill clinton who had credible allegations against him for years. they circled the wagons for him. not just in the '90s but up to 2016. he is hero of the party. speaking at every convention. raising money for all the democrats. all of sudden, now we believe juanita broaddrick. now the stuff from paula jones something we should pay attention to. it seems opportunistic, which last point, is not a defense something like roy moore. just because the democrats have

done something terrible, doesn't mine the republicans should defend stuff on their side. that is bad look for democrats. they should be called out for their being hypocrites for political reasons. melissa: guy benson, thanks for coming on. we appreciate it. always good to see you. >> sure, melissa. >> there is more honor among thieves than among politicians, i think it is fair to say. melissa: it is true. david: you're looking at saudi arabia's king. he could passing down his crown early as next week. former ambassador john bolton, whether the changes in the kingdom could affect the anti-terror coalition president trump put together in saudi arabia. melissa: a fund for secret taxpayers paying for it, of course we are. talking millions of dollars. david: the debate gets heated in the senate finance committee. senator orrin hatch blasting sherrod brown after claiming that the tax bill only benefits

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saudi arabia. the president put together a very successful coalition of arabs against terrorism and iran. that was a very important coalition for us. is that in danger with all these shake-ups in the kingdom? >> well, i think that the shake-ups in saudi arabia are really a further step in the effort, by mohammed bin salman to modernize saudi arabia and certainly cleaning up corruption to make the people feel they're getting more of the wealth of the oil of the country than just the crumbs off the table with the royal family walking off with the rest. all of that makes sense but i must say, the norms of saudi behavior since the kingdom was formed are being swept aside very quickly. so you have got 2900 other princes who are now not in positions of power, who are not happy. the wahhabi clerics are not happy. the terrorists groups may see an opening here.

i hope they're prepared in saudi and i hope the united states government has a plan b, in case we find ourselves in a shah of iran scenario. david: i was going to mention that. the shah of iran did a lot of modernization. his wife was trying to modernize the role of women in iran. it led to backlash of fundamentalists. it led the ayatollah khomeni. the same thing could happen in saudi arabia, yes or no? >> look, i think it is possible. the idea you're making extraordinarily rapid changes, none of which i think people in the united states find terribly unsettling. imagine letting women drive, how about that? david: right. >> but for the conservative clerics and the radicals on both sides of islam, this i think is potentially very disturbing. david: it is risky. >> to take advantage of destablizing saudi, imagine what that could do to international oil prices. david: some producers here could fill in the gap but it would be

very dangerous. quickly i want to switch to russia, uranium, u.s. and the uranium one and what amounted to 25% sale of our uranium reserves to a russian company. you have all these russian board members of this russian company, rosatam giving gifts to the clinton foundation. russian oligarchs are the worst fill lan throwists in the world. they don't give something unless they thought they were getting something back for that. what do you think they were getting for it? >> i think they were getting to hillary clinton during her tenure as secretary of state even before the 2008 election to the return of the clinton dynasty. it somehow had been derailed in 2000, because al gore couldn't quite carry on. surely hillary was going to be president. it was only a matter of time.

the royal family got a senate seat in new york even though she lived there, it was all happening. walter russell meade, great historian described the clinton foundation and all the satellite organizations the equivalent of our century, from the 19th century tammany hall party machine in new york city. it was a way to flow the money around to keep the political machine alive. there are all kind of things i think are worth looking into here, both before hillary clinton became secretary of state, but more importantly, even after she became secretary of state. david: you met a lot of russians when you were u.n. ambassador. did you ever see a russian oligarch willing to give money to a u.s. foundation? >> there is one explanation for this and that is, ultimately they thought they could influence decisions. david: right. >> maybe they didn't. maybe the clintons took the money and put it in their pocket and said what have you got for

me next? that is possible. that is why this needs to be looked into. david: john bolton, thank you for coming in. have a good weekend. >> you too. david: melissa. melissa: is there enough evidence to appoint a another special counsel. ken paxton, texas attorney general responds. roy moore is not backing out of the race despite allegations of sexual misconduct by minors, and he is putting up fight. >> the people of alabama need to understand what is going on here, my husband, judge roy moore, is fighting for the people of alabama and has been fighting for over 30 years. ♪ copd makes it hard to breathe.

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harrassment by almost 10 women. but a new fox poll shows women supporting moore are in the minority. moore's opponent, democrat doug jones is now leading by eight points. fox news's peter doocy is live in birmingham, alabama. peter? reporter: melissa, judge moore's wife said today on the steps of the state capital down in montgomery, her husband will not be leaving this race before election day on september 12th. she is casting new doubt on the women who are accusing him of wrongdoing over the last several decades. >> i have been married to my husband, judge roy moore for over 32 years. he was a graduate of west point. he served our country in vietnam, and he has always been an officer and a gentleman. reporter: the women defending moore today, also tried to highlight with they see as an unfair double standard, that al franken isn't being asked to resign by republicans in the senate, even though he admits he was sexually inappropriate with

an accuser but roy moore is being asked to step aside even though he denies all wrongdoing. as others say, they still think it is suspicious these stories came out now. >> i have never heard a whisper or a rumor about judge moore and these kinds of sexual activities. reporter: this public show of support by women in alabama come as day after a fox news poll showed moore is way behind the democrat doug jones with women, who say they will likely vote. moore is at 32% with women voters. jones, 58%. 26 more. the jones campaign is taking out moore is staking a stand against accusers but not making his stance on big issues known. a staffer for surging democrat tweeted this, doug jones asked roy moore for two straight weeks, if he supported medicaid, medicare and children's health care problem. never got an answer. jones appeared at a campaign

meet-and-greet in death that many a little while ago. our crusade there was a big crowd at the restaurant where the event was. afterwards jones said that his focus will continue to be on kitchen table issues, things like jobs and education. up he does think that the state and country is at a tipping point when it comes to women coming forward. he thinks that is a good thing. melissa. melissa: peter doocy, interesting times. david: incredible times. meanwhile in frightening test, department of homeland security was able to remotely hack into a boeing 757 aircraft, needed only two days to do it successfully. the classified test followed a 2015 incident when a passenger told the fbi he was able to gain control of a plane's engine after he hacked into the entertainment system. the fear of course, is that terrorists have learned to do the same thing. melissa: exactly. breaking news right now. the fdny is battling a

four-alarm fire. you're looking live photos, live pictures of the blaze, on the sixth floor of a a residential building at 144th street in manhattan. no word of any injuries. we're keeping eye on it. a moment ago you could see the bright orange flames tearing the building apart. now looks like they're getting control, based on video. david: remember this is a residential building. who knows how many people have been affected by this we'll keep you updated. congressional harrassment on your dime. the heavy price tag of these lawsuits and taxpayers are footing the bill. melissa: exchange over the gop tax plan. a shouting match in the senate finance committee and what it could mean for the tax plan ahead. >> i really resent anybody saying anybody i'm doing this for the rich. give me a break. i think you guys overplay that all the time. it gets old, frankly you ought to get it. >> mr. chairman the public believes it. >> i'm not through.

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i come from the lower middle class originally. we didn't have anything. so don't spew that stuff on me. i get a little tired of that crap. melissa: whew. all right. david: yeah. melissa: fireworks on capitol hill. senate finance chair orrin hatch and democratic senator sherrod brown exchanging some words there, over the gop tax plan and if it benefits the rich. here is florida congressman ted yoho member of the tax writing house freedom caucus. what did you think about that exchange? first of all, is orrin hatch generally like that? that is not how i picture him in general. >> not generally. melissa: is that rare occurrence, or we don't see it but it happens? >> melissa, i think it is great. i'm glad to see some energy over there so there is not low energy. somebody put some oxygen in there. it is refreshing to see. people like to see people with grit and, by god, time they stood up. melissa: you know, it does get

frustrating for republicans, that is what expressed. that they only care about rich people. that they only care about poor people. as opposed to maybe everybody is working towards the common good, you think that there is completely different ways to get there, in one answer is through government help. >> absolutely. melissa: the other group it is not government, basically anything but government. >> yeah. look at the last eight years. we're getting criticized because there is possible 25 billion-dollar cut to medicaid. but they forget, democrats to forget about 800 million they cut with obamacare. so that is why it is so imperative we put in repeal of the mandate, so that money goes back in there. but, you know, politics gets played on this. i heard nancy pelosi on the floor yesterday just going on, how all these people will starve to death. that is nonsense. those are outright lies not

helping us advance the tax policy to help the economy. is this a perfect tax bill? absolutely not. my question would be how will the last one work? were there winners and losers in that? melissa: what is your response specifically, when they come out, say that i have this study shows 80% of the tax cuts go only to the wealthy, how do you respond to that? >> just, that is not true, because everybody is getting a tax break. every bracket is getting a tax break. plus you double -- melissa: not the very wealthy though? >> yeah, but, they will be okay. they will do fine. everybody but the very wealthy will get a tax break. but you're getting a doubling of the individual deductions. i mean, there is some good things in this, but what people aren't really measuring, is effect it will have on our economy. you will create more jobs here, by more businesses going into business, make it easier for them and by doing that you create competition in the workforce. when there is competition in the workforce, wages go up. so this is win/win for the

american people. >> i brought up that idea of not the wealthy because one of the problems is, we hear on one hand republicans say, every single person is getting a tax cut. then on the other hand, we hear republicans saying, i can't vote for this because the people in my district are going to get a tax increase, and then somebody shouts at them, but they're rich, so they don't need a tax increase. in some ways there are two messages coming out from the republican side. and that can give the other side ground, look you guys don't even agree with each other. how do you respond to that? >> if you go through and read that, most of the people over, 85 to 90% are going to get an immediate relief. there are going to be some jockeying around in there, the people in the high income tax states, they have got a deduction of $10,000. that is going to affect the majority of the people, will be better off with that. there will be a few that do fall into the higher tax bracket but you know, most of those people will be higher income people, the people that are business

owners and so are other things, like immediate expenses of businesses expenses and things like that. the lowering of the corporate tax rate. so overall, this will be a good bill and there will jobbingkying back and forth. keep in mind, this is still fluid. it will go to the senate. the senate will put their, wave their magic wand over it and it will come back. we'll go to conference and after conference we'll pass this in reconciliation. melissa: okay. >> i think you're going to see this pass. melissa: all right. thank you so much, we appreciate your time, sir. >> you betcha. have a good thanksgiving. melissa: you too. david: we want to give you an update on the fire in upper manhattan. after the other show we only saw smoke with we initially saw the fire. melissa: wow. david: the building itself is almost completely gutted. >> wow. david: it is not just affecting the one building you're looking at. there are 170 firefighters battling the flame.

the city fire department, says believe it or not, despite this vast fire covering blocks and blocks, no injuries have been reported. this is on 145th street, upper manhattan. we'll keep you updated on this good news, no injuries as of yet. still early, early hours though. we'll keep you updated. melissa: i wonder if people were currently living there? we'll hear. harrassment that costs you money. now we know just how much money it is costing tax payers to settle lawsuits with "politicos" in the beltway swamp. gerri willis breaks down the numbers. gerri. >> last night the office of compliance made the total cost of harrassment settlements from the legislative arm of our government and it is far bigger than folks thought. $17,240,854. that is your taxpayers dollars going to settlements and awards over 20 years, beginning 1997. total settlements, 264 over the

period with the average award totaling, pardon me, $65,000. no details, no names released at this type. the data released last night because of volume of recent inquiries according to the letter from the office's executive director susan brunman that is the hr office for congress. not all settlements are for cases of sexual harrassment. it is overseas disputes over race or disability discrimination, family medical leave, among other things. the single biggest year for disputes was 2007, when 25 settlements were awarded with a total value of more than $4 million. and this year, eight settlements have been awart awarded with a value of 934,000. earlier this week representative jackie speier brought thislight that they advantaged the institution. that mediation and strict silence about settlements are

observed. she said two sitting members of congress, one democrat, one republican have been accused of sexual harrassment. here is cathy mcmorris rodgers, house republican conference chair. >> insure that this is unacceptable, and make sure that we are educating, raising that awareness and taking action so it is unacceptable. making sure our victims are getting the support that they need. i think we all were taken aback by the reports of the settlements and we're looking at that. >> so as you can see, melissa, very contentious subject. some people thinking education is the answer. back to you. melissa: gerri willis, thank you. david: well minnesota senator al franken is under an ethics probe. we all know that by now. of course this is the reason why. this photo, allegations from other women who say he sexually harassed them as well. not all of his democratic supporters are standing by him. >> we can't condone this kind of

thing and i think that, you know, the miss tweeden must have have taken tremendous courage it make that statement.

melissa: another woman now accusing senator al franken of sexually harassing her 17 years ago. members on both sides of the senate calling for allegations to be reviewed bit ethics committee. some saying former comedian turned senator should step down. here with the latest our own hillary vaughn. reporter: melissa, democrats in washington have turned their back on senator al franken following these allegations, and now outside of washington in franken's home state of minnesota one brave woman, a rape survivor, who worked with senator franken to write a bill, helping survivors of sexual assault is kicking him off of her bill. abby honoal says she no longer wants franken's name on the legislation. the senator was supposed to

introduce this bill this month but she is now looking for a new sponsor. sources familiar with the search, tell me the top contender is franken's fellow senator from minnesota, senator amy klobuchar. the blow back from radio show host leeann tweeden's accusations haven't stopped an the senator's apologies for the incident keep coming. just this morning the senator sent tweeden a fourth apology in the handwritten letter but franken hasn't apologized to his second accuser, melanie morgan, who says franken harassed and stalked her after they met during a tv appearance. >> he trailed me, stalked me back really to the green room where he got in my face again, got very aggressive with me. i felt physically intimidated. he followed me out of the studio. i thought the story would end there but it did not. i found it -- reporter: franken insists that the incident with tweeden was a bad joke but his fellow comedians are not laughing. last night, late-night tv hosts

put the former comedian, "saturday night live" star on blast. even the president i chiming in with his late night take. the al frank ten stein picture is really bad. where do his hands go in pictures 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 while she sleeps? this is not the first time he had to apologize for a bad joke. he made a rape joke talking about a "snl" skit with lesley stahl. the senator eventually apologized for the joke while running for his senate seat in 2008. years later he took it back, melissa, writing in his book he published this summer, he only apologized to win the election. melissa? melissa: that is really bad timing on that. thank you, hillary vaughn. david: growing calls for a special counsel to investigate hillary clinton and dnc. now the fbi informant in the uranium one is speaking out

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involvement with the uranium one deal and clinton foundation it seems worth looking into. until we look further there will be questions and would be nice to have this behind under the circumstances us to know what the truth is. david: talk about uranium one first we know the fbi informant. he was a guy named william campbell. he was working for a lobbiests for the uranium company that bought the uranium, rosatom you know how the investigations go. could blow the case open? >> absolutely. if you have somebody that is a source of information that understands the details, this may be exactly what the department of justice needs to as sign a special prosecutor. getting this type of information ultimately could be the key to finding out the truth. david: let's switch to the trump dossier, which was fade for by the dnc. as we know from donna brazile's book, hillary clinton essentially controlled the funding of the dnc. hillary paid fusion gps which

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