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business. look at the headline. the big problem with the joe biden documents story. byron york wrote the headline. he joins me now. what is the biggest problem, byron? >> the big problem is we only know what joe biden's have told us. think about some of the things you know in this story? they just discovered five more documents in the personal library in wilmington. or there is a small number of documents in the garage, and maybe 10 or so at the penn biden library. how do we know that? because biden's lawyers have told us. you look how the whole thing started. there was a search on november the 2nd of 2022. his lawyers were closing up his old office. how do we know that story. because his lawyers told us. we're just getting one side, the side from joe biden's lawyers. lauren: we're getting it drip by drip. crisis control you would think come out tell us everything that

they know, but that has not happened. i want to segue to this, byron, a reporter at cnn is warning about the political damage that the documents are having on president biden. watch here. >> they might be confident that in the end this won't really go anywhere, it will be fine but it will hang over them for a while. i think the damaging thing people are worried about to that perception, this takes some paint off the boyden presidency. it is because they are suppose to be ones that know what they're doing, being grown-ups, the competent ones. this does not look like an example of great competence here. lauren: it takes some paint off the biden presidency. he was doing well, right? you had republicans fighting over the speakership of the house, infighting among the opposing party and now this. how does this damage president biden politically, byron? >> well the president was having a good week before all this started. and it is in fact a perception

problem but it is more than a perception problem. remember we don't know what the classified documents were, that were mishandled, that were in places they should not have been in joe biden's home and in his office. that is the same issue, by the way, in the trump documents case. we don't know what those documents were either. so the substance, the facts of what's in the documents will tell us if this is something serious or maybe it is really not that serious and it is a perception problem of the president just being more careless when he was critis seeing trump for not being careful. lauren: do you think that that, that defense if you. will: 12 work for the president? it was inadverttant i didn't know it was a mistake? >> it may be the best he has right now. it all depends how serious it is. i hate to keep repeating this,

these documents are they the nation's most sensitive secrets, the nuclear secrets, secrets that will threaten american sources lives? or are they things that shouldn't have been classified in the first place? it could be either one. one would be a lot more serious than the other. if it is serious, joe biden has more than a perception problem. lauren: it was last thursday, press secretary careen karine jean-pierre said six times there was no more search. we had all the documents. clearly that was not the case. we had more documents over the weekend. >> her word lasted 24, 48 hours. that is an indication of organization not really set up for damage control. the biden white house has had a pretty easy ride with the press. a lot of people in the press defended the biden white house on all the hunter biden

questions republicans have had. i think you can say some people in the white house were not prepared for substantive questions, how many documents are there? what did they do? why did the president leave them there? what is going on? they simply tried to deny it or say okay, this is everything, we told you everything when in fact they had not. lauren: yeah. byron york, thank you very much for the time. we appreciate it. >> thank you. >> and the democrat congressman adam schiff is also weighing in on the documents. watch here. >> you raised a possibility of national security assessment. is it possible that national security was jeopardized here? >> i don't think we can exclude the possibility without knowing more of the facts. we asked for an assessment in the intelligence community of the mar-a-lago documents. i think we ought to get that same assessment to the documents found in the, in the think tank as well as the home of president biden. i would like to know what these documents were. i would like to know what the

ic's assessment is, whether there was any risk of exposure and what the harm would be. whether any mitigation needs to be done. i think that would be appropriate and consistent with what we requested in the case of mar-a-lago. lauren: that is adam schiff saying national security might have been jeopardized here. biden's attorneys say an investigation will show nothing to see here. the documents were and i'm quoting, inadvertently misplaced. that is what they're saying. one way the democrats are trying to distinguish between the president biden document case when he was vice president and former president trump document case. next case, big banks kicked off the earnings season last week. they're warning after mild recession this year. octavio m-orezi. joins me. what are you expecting? >> i'm expecting business results look quite bad.

investment banking is under tremendous amount of pressure. q4 looked awful on the ipo front. virtually no companies went public where they generate fees. that is difficult for them. trading side volumes are okay. volatility, some banks can navigate those well but that should be okay. i think we see fairy substantially decline in the revenues and substantial decline in earnings this fourth quarter. lauren: octavio, the biden administration trying to play down risks of a recession. we had steve moore on a few minutes ago, it is possible we avoid recession. some economists say a severe recession is coming. where in this recession will we get one, weren't get, where do you fit in and why? >> well i think the predictions have been all over the place which gives you a sense this particular time seems to be very, very difficult to predict

where things are going, much harder in the past. the reason for that we're seeing a confluence of different factors we have not seen before. we haven't seen for many decades before. the fact in the past when there is looming recession the central bankers decided to lower interest rates and charge the rescue and bail out equities and bond markets this time around it will be very different. the fed feels hands are tied. they are trying to fight inflation jacking up interest rates. even if we do tip into recession they will not fail out the bond and equity markets. those two factors make for very bad start in 2023, very bad midterm in 2023 for the equity markets. we'll see. even if recession is not that bad. people have softened their views how bad this recession is going to be. we talk about the big banks. remember over the course of the summer jamie dimon was talking about economic hurricane. we thought armageddon was coming. now he is saying slowing down a

bit. look at jpmorgan jpmorgan's recent results. things hold up pretty well as far as corporate and consumers are concerned. i think the worst fears are sidelined. some people say it will be absolutely terrible but it is okay. lauren: the head of u.s. equity at bank of america, saying anything can happen. my bull case scenario for 4600 for the s&p 500 which is a nice rise for the year. but the parent case is 3,000, which is a huge fall, octavio. she says this is one of the most telegraphed recessions. that might infer that everyone's prepared for it. it won't be that bad. your thoughts. >> she is gives us enormous range where the s&p 500 will be. lauren: i know. >> she will be spot on, somewhere in that range. lauren: 4,000 where we are right now. >> up 25%, down 25% somewhere

between those two outside markers. i think that is forecast -- lauren: that is where you make the money, octavio, right? if you jump looking really good or looking really bad. otherwise we could end the year, likely will, right where we are? >> i don't want to commit reputational suicide giving you absolutely firm number in terms of where the s&p 500 will be. end of the year that is foolish to do, a bit of a fool's errand. pressures are mounting in terms of the markets in particular. i said the fed would not ride to the rescue. not question of rescuing the economy but rescuing the markets. we'll see the markets go down the way we saw in 2022. fundamental pressures have not changed. i think we see go down 10% more this year. lauren: octavio, thank you for your time. people are looking for jobs themselves. new career move, worker cushioning.

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overlooked if applied in a politically popular manner or against a politically unpopular demographic. wow. the league deleted event post posting from the linkedin page. they told fox news the original wording posted for the event was not accurate. they caved. ron desantis wins. coming up department stores and restaurants are struggling to find help as workers quit at historic levels. one expert said this could cause more companies to turn to robots. we got that report coming up. some democrats seemingly no longer in denial about the border crisis. >> this is a national problem. we must have real immigration reform. lauren: new york city council minority leader joe borelli will react to new york mayor eric adams, calling on the

administration to step up that in our next hour. president biden facing bipartisan backlash as more classified documents down in his home in delaware. house oversight committee chair james comer is calling on the white house to release the visitor logs from his home. peter doocy, the man with the hard questions has the latest developments from the white house. ♪.

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lauren: five more classified documents were found inside of president biden's home in wilmington, delaware, over the

weekend. peter doocy is at the white house. peter, more documents after more documents. what is the latest? >> reporter: the latest, lauren, we are learning there are no visitor logs for president biden's private residence in wilmington, delaware. no chronicling who comes and who goes. i spoke to a official at the white house counsel's office. a personal residence is a personal residence. they think that is precedent for modern history. they're trying to draw the distinction of white house visitor logs. unlike the trump administration they're more transparent with white house visitor logs. again the news, no personal residence visitor logs. that will rub republicans the wrong way, including jim comer who wrote this. given serious national security implications, they must provide the visitor logs. we know that doesn't exist. on thursday we asked about it.

when will white house release a log of visitors to the wilmington house? >> peter you asked this question, your colleagues asked before, don't forget what we did at the white house. we endings suited that the something the lasted a administration got rid of, making sure there was a white house log, extensive white house log. >> reporter: saturday was the latest disclosure about more documents more than a day after we were told the white house was being transparent, two days after officials assured us they were done looking. >> we're not avoiding anything here. we have been transparent in the last couple of days. the search is clearly complete. >> reporter: president biden's personal attorney is now saying this, the president's personal attorneys have attempted to balance the importance of public transparency where appropriate with the established norms and limitations necessary to protect the investigation's integrity. these considerations require avoiding the public release of

detail relevant to the investigation while it is ongoing. marine one is in the air from wilmington to the white house. if president biden decides to talk about any of this we'll bring it to you later on. lauren: what will you ask, peter. >> reporter: i can't say now, somebody sees, what will peter doocy ask. lauren: maybe he will be prepared is and get a good comment. >> reporter: everything i asked is something he should know. lauren: peter doocy, thank you very much. senator ted cruz is demanding when the fbi raid on his home will be after five more documents were found there. jessica johnson. jessica, thank for coming on. president biden has not been probed as nearly as hard as president trump was when his documents were found. so how differently are the two being treated if at all? >> well i think there are obvious differences between the

situations but listen, right out of the gate the administration says this is inadvertent mishandling. that is not a against. in fact it is ad mission of sorts. if you look at the statute, it talks about knowingly removal of the documents. here we are days later. we don't know who knew what when. that is the important part of this piece. lauren: i guess you could say president biden hasn't admitted guilt, what we don't know what is in the documents, who else had them. quite frankly if there is anymore. >> absolutely right. chain of custody is critical in a situation like this. especially now we have three different locations including the president's personal library in delaware where the documents have been found. we really do need to know who knew what when. who had access to the documents? who had access to these locations? what did the president know about the individuals? did he grant permission? how did that work? we need to know these questions. lauren: we do. some democrats are now publicly

criticizing the biden white house, the way the biden administration is handling this. former clinton advisor david gergen said on cnn these documents could end biden politically,lyally this is a very big deal. >> we saw drone footage of a raid of his home. if you're looking to vilify someone you're a supporter of president trump, gosh sure easy to look look at the fbi wonder e response was correct. here we have nothing days later f you're a democrat, keeping in mind you're always running for re-election you have to say something. there is unfortunately no one to vilify but the president himself. lauren: talk to me about attorney attorney merrick garland and how he not only factors into all of this, but the power that he has in the political developments here. >> absolutely. well because we don't know anything, because the administration hat not been forthcoming, because we've seen this tap dancing it is important

for these democrats to ask for an investigation. so he really is very powerful here. because the administration is not coming out with the facts. that is the lynchpin how we move forward here. his questions will be very important. the answers even more so. lauren: jessica, thank you so much. >> thank you. >> congressman jamie raskin is also weighing in on the biden documents. listen to what he has to say here. >> my understanding they did the right thing by immediately alerting the archives and turning them over that day but maybe there is a different proper procedure for dealing with them that we're unaware. that is meaningful think we can look at. obviously we don't want to turn it into a political football. it's a bit disturbing to me saying there was no problem with what donald trump did which was defiantly reject any cooperation. lauren: but it cobecome a political football. raskin said he was delighted to learn that president biden's team turned over the documents

immediately. that's the way they're trying to differentiate the two cases between the two presidents. still ahead, health fir h officials are warning a new, a new covid variant may be more likely to infect people who have already been vaccinated. the cdc discuss identified a possible safety concern for some people who got pfizer's covid vaccine. dr. marc siegel is on the show. he is going to try to sort it all out for us. that's next. ♪.

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lauren: businesses are still struggling to fill job openings despite millions of positions actually being open across the country. rich edson in washington. good to see you. what exactly is the problem? >> reporter: good morning, lauren. labor shortages from the great pandemic fed into supply change problems, small business staffing and higher prices for consumers. they also helped workers negotiate better salaries.

the percentage of working age americans in the u.s. labor force is still a full percentage point lower than before the pandemic. >> we're seeing the historically high openings up across the spectrum. certainly in things like leisure and hospitality and so low wage service workers but also in manufacturing. we have really high levels of, of job openings compared to the available unemployment workers out there. so this is really a system-wide issue. one that there is not any easy, quick fix. >> reporter: last month fed chairman jerome powell said there was a structural labor shortage with more than four million fewer workers available for the demand. responding to that robert reich, the secretary of labor in the clinton administration wrote, quote, here is the truth. there is no labor shortage. there is a shortage of job paying sufficient wages to attract workers to fill job openings.

conservatives blamed government action in the pandemic era. >> so you've got a whole lot of people sitting on the sidelines because frankly they're flush for the moment. what we got to hope is that once they run out of money they will start concluding it is better to work than not to work. >> reporter: white house reportedly examining government intervention on child care, housing, workforce training, to get americans back to work. lauren. lauren: arguably. they're running out of money. they're just putting it on the credit card. rich edson, good to see you. state supreme court judge in new york shot down the state mandate for health care workers to get vaccinated. the judge ruled that kathy hochul and the new york state health department overstepped authority by making the vaccine mandate permanent. the state health department said it strongly disagrees with the judge's decision. now the department is currently exploring their options.

this, the cdc has, are you ready, identified a possible safety concern for some people who received pfizer's covid shot. they say the vaccine could be linked to increased strokes who aged 65 and up. dr. mark siegel joins us now. doctor, a lot to get through with you. in terms of warning about the vaccination, increase of stroke just for the pfizer shot or moderna one as well? >> good morning, lauren. it is just for the pfizer shot. it is for the first 21 days getting the shot in the age of 65 or older. they showed what is called a signal, increased incidence of stroke. they didn't find that with medicare data, they didn't find it with have. a data. they didn't find i had in the united kingdom or israel or the self-reporting system called veers, they didn't find it. it doesn't mean it is not real. the vaccine data language they

take seriously. they will investigate next couple weeks and the fda advisory committee will meet on it whether there is a real association or not. meantime, it's a problem, those over 65 are a high-risk group by definition. they're the group we've been trying to get to take vaccines if they haven't had a vaccine in six months or if they haven't had covid. especially if they're diabetic or other underlying health problems. we have other alternatives like moderna or novavax in the meantime, if people want to say, hey, we'll wait what this ends you showing. >> excuse my ignorance, doctor, the warning for the booster or initial two shots of mrna vaccine? >> only for the by veil lent booster. never found it over the original monvaletn. overly 21 days after getting the

bivalent. lauren: seems like they don't know anything. >> we know a lot. lauren: warning a new coronavirus variant could more likely infect people who have been vaccinated. what is the point of getting vaccinated right now, doctor? >> well again, i think that it has been shown that those who are high-risk, over the age ever 65, or have underlying health conditions it decreases the risk of hospitalization. i don't believe that study is really correct, that if you have been vaccinated you're less likely, you're more likely to get covid. i think that is a numbers game. how many people have been vaccinated. i think the real message is that the new subvariant is very, very contagious. we're underestimating greatly. it is generally mild. so if you have been vaccinated or you had recent covid or i give you paxlovid you will not end up in the hospital, you will not end up in the icu.

we haven't messaged that enough. this is a milder version of the virus we're looking at now, one we're getting more likely to live with but we have tools to fight it. lauren: washington post columnist, dr. leana wynn admits there is overcounting of covid deaths and hospitalizations here in the u.s. she says that is a problem. what have you been saying? >> i say we've been talking about that on the show for two years now and "the washington post" is finally waking up to it. that is not a surprise. it is not really a headline. if you go into the hospital, get tested for covid you may be there for something else or maybe the covid is contributing to the problem. maybe you end up getting severely ill from heart disease. we don't know what role covid actually plays. i will tell you one thing -- lauren: that is, that then recorded if you're in the hospital for multiple reasons and you die, that recorded here in the u.s. as a covid death or

stroke death? >> it, well, look, it shouldn't be, let's be clear. if you have a cardiac arrest, that is your cause of death. if you have a respiratory arrest, that is your cause of death. i think that the point that is being brought up here is, maybe they're listing covid as the primary cause of death and they shouldn't be. we know, i know, for a long time now that not as many people are ending up in the icu from covid period. lauren: yeah. >> not as many people are ending up on the ventilator from covid, period, but it is not something i pay no attention to. it's a contributing factor. that's the point. this isn't news. it may be news for "the washington post." it is not news for us here. lauren: on the flipside, dr. siegel, china has reported nearly 68,000 covid-related deaths, that is since the beginning of december alone. do you think that's a big number or not? i mean they recorded if you're in the hospital and you have covid and something else, they

record that, i believe as something else. so they're not capturing all their covid deaths. it is quite the opposite. >> they have the opposite problem. they have the opposite problem, right? where nothing is covid. 5000 deaths from the whole pandemic you can't believe a word coming out of china, right? covid lockdowns, covid zero didn't work. now they opened everything up, that everybody is getting infected all at once. only thing you believe out of china, with a photo people looking very sick rushing to the hospital, lining up outside. it is an absolute mess right there. the only thing we're worried about, if a new variant emerges we won't know about it. we don't know the truth what is happening in china. covid zero was incredibly dumb policy should never have been invoked anywhere. lauren: the lunar new year is upon us, two billion plus trips are happening from the city centers where they have

hospitals to the rural parts so chinese can see the families they haven't seen in years. the numbers are going to get even worse. dr. siegel, good to see you. thank you very much. >> good to he you. great to see you. lauren: many are asking why the fbi didn't raid president biden's home after finding classified documents like they did after trump's home in mar-a-lago. a republican panel will get into the bottom of it investigating the justice department. ashiah hasnie has the story coming up. james comer responds to growing calls for new york congressman george santos to resign. >> he is a bad guy, this is something, that it is really bad. he is not the first politician unfortunately to make to it congress to lie. lauren: it is not should he, but could he get kicked out of the congress if? we're on it.

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♪. lauren: george santos raised money the sec says was a ponzi scheme. it goes from bad to worse for mr. santos. he was hired in 2020 to raise capital for a company called harbor city capital. santos land the at least one significant investment from a well think investor but the investment failed to delivered on the promised returns. santos tried to assure the investor i personally raised $100 million had my own family's money invested in harbor city. so there is that. republicans and all of congress is dealing with as well. meanwhile congressman james comer is warning george santos

could be ousted from congress. roll the tape. >> look, he is a bad guy. this is something that you know, it is really bad. he is not the first politician unfortunately to make it to congress to lie. you know elizabeth warren wasn't truthful about her ethnicity i could go on and on. i haven't even introduced myself to him, it is pretty despicable the lies that he told. at the end of the day it is not up to me or any member of congress to determine he could be kicked out for lying f he broke campaign finance laws he will be removed from congress. lauren: ah, did he break campaign finance laws? santos is facing calls to resign from democrats and a number of new york republicans as well. now this the republican newly created panel of weaponization of government will look how the justice department handled biden's classified documents as compared to the trump documents. ashiah hasnie has the story. she is in washington. this is more than just a double

standard. it goes beyond that, doesn't it? >> reporter: that is what judiciary chairman jim jordan would say. in fact he said that this weekend on "sunday morning futures," lauren, that federal agencies are not just creating a double standard for republicans they're really committing election interference. watch. >> 2016 they spy on trump's campaign. 2018 it is the mueller investigation. 2020 they suppressed the hunter biden story. 2022 they raid the president's home 91 days before the election but don't tell us about joe biden's classified document issue they knew about prior to the election. maybe the fbi if i should just stay out of things. >> reporter: that is why jordan said select subcommittee on weaponization of federal government will look at the biden docs. they will have subpoena power over federal age is. a lot of power there. democrats say they will simply obstruct justice launching investigations during a federal investigation. >> get a briefing from the intelligence community about any

potential risks to national security of where those documents were and what they contained but congress shouldn't try to interfere with the investigations. >> reporter: lauren, they have got to get their committees in order first. a handful of top house republicans are actually in washington for the next three days to finalize committee assignments including which nine republicans, six democrats will sit on this new powerful panel. we'll see what happens. lauren: asia, -- aishah i like your hair. >> thank you very much. lauren: 7-eleven owners have come up with a unique solution from people camping outside of their stores. listen to this. ♪ lauren: opera? classical music? i wonder if it is working? border agents encountered more than 250,000 migrants at the

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♪. lauren: it really is astonishing the number of migrant encounters in december expected to surpass 250,000 people for the first time in history. congressman andy biggs, republican from the state of arizona joins us now. congressman good to see you. >> good to see you, lauren. lauren: we're 16 days into 2023 and we still don't have official figures. what do you expect, congressman? >> i expect them north of 250,000 encounters, which won't include known and unknown got-aways which will exceed 125,000. polices like yuma sector seeing over 1000 people a day flowing through the community of 80,000 people. it is going to keep going up because the policies are incentivizing people to come. we're not enforcing the laws on

the books so it is just going to keep growing, lauren. lauren: you know, with he try to have sympathy for some of the migrants that are coming from latin america but if you look at it, congressman, fiscal year 2022 migrants came from over 170 countries and so far, early in fiscal 2023, already 140 countries. this is, anybody can come here. it is easy for them. >> yeah that is exactly right. i can't go down to the border. you can go down to yuma, to any other place, you will find there are different segments n yuma you will get russians, you will get eastern european, you will get haitians and you will get cubans and brazilians. that is like, where they come there. you get other latin american countries represented in those coming to el paso and rio grande valley. they know where to go. the cartels control that flow and they are, they're going to bring in more than 3 million

people illegally into the united states. when i say illegally, i'm talking between ports of entry. these are not people showing at ports of entry saying that i have a asylum claim. these are people coming up where there is a gap in the fence, there is just desert, they will look for a border patrol agent so they can surrender. this is big business for the cartels. it is coming from all over the world. lauren: i heard, congressman, when drugs were seized at the border they used to be weighed in grams but now it has gotten so bad, so extreme that they're actually weighing them in pounds. is that true? >> that is true and, the way to think of it is, we're catching more drugs coming across but still only catching about the same percent. so we're catching anywhere 8, to 15% depending on year, month, et cetera. that means when you catch more the overall net in volume is going to increase as well. so that is why they're measuring

in pounds and they're coming, these known got-aways and unknown got-aways coming in carrying guns on their back. there are places in the arizona desert, you can't believe the environmental degradation from drug smugglers coming across. lauren: chemicals from china, drugs made in mexico killing americans, young americans especially. republican congressman tony gonzales would not say whether he would vote possibly impeachment proceedings against dhs second area area. alejandro mayorkas. >> i will see where the hearings take us the hearings take us down the line but i'm waiting to see all the facts come out. lauren: why won't he say what he sees all the time, that mayorkas is not doing his job and should be impeached? >> i don't know what tony's reason is but i've been told by some people they think maybe it is joe biden that should be impeached over this, not

mayorkas but the reality this is not a matter of incompetence or failure to do your job, this is willful. he ordered i.c.e. not to remove over 1.2 million people who have active removal orders. they have got due process. been ordered to be deported but they're running around in our country. when you start deporting people that have deportation orders that will slow the flow down at the border. he is also sigh lated the parole, you know you're supposed to have dozens of people per year on very individual basis. he is doing hundreds of thousands of people a year, tens of thousands amonth he is just releasing into the country. there is a whole list of things he is doing violating the law. i think that violates a high crime as far as founders interpreted 200 years what a high crime is. lauren: congressman biggs, griff jenkins with fox news is reporting that customs and border patrol said there have

been 50,000 migrant encounters across the southwest border since january 1st. nearly 50,000 in what, two weeks time? half of those were title 42 expelled, saying yes title 42 is a bandaid it actually works. and also, this is the part that troubles me. demographically, 73% of them were single adults. >> yeah, that's right. so when those single adults come in, a lot are working age men, single adult men, males coming in, and they're going to come in. we don't know why they're coming in. we're actually not vetting anybody. a lot of people don't understand this, the vetting process requires that we have access to databases and most countries, like you said, over 170 countries last year, they don't have databases that we have access to. so outside after few countries we can't even check to see what their criminal record is, what their status is if they are who they say they are.

we don't know what their intention is. we say, welcoming country, how about for the million people who we welcome in every year through legal immigration rather than the millions that we're now bringing through between the ports of enfrom? lauren: it is astonishing, it is troubling. congressman, thank you for everything that you're doing to fix it. got a long way ahead. still ahead, jo concha, the penal county sheriff mark lamb, new york city councilmember joe borelli and david webb. the 11:00 hour of "varney" and co next. ♪. ♪ ♪ wow, we're crunching tons of polygons here! ..na?.

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