watchers does we invented it. [ laughing ] >> that's a good line. >> the interesting thing is that he talked about in the speech which we don't know is what is going to be discussed a week from wednesday. again, those are the big hunking issues. when you watch consumer confidence this worries me. first two weeks of august consumer confidence deposited like a stone because people couldn't figure out what was going on. i guess we get preview in 10 days. >> sean: we can't spend more than we have. you don't do it as a company. see you tomorrow night. >> greta: fox news alert. major terror threat in the united states at this hour there are reports of a manhunt underway for at least two suspects believed to have7-g bn planning a car bomb on or near september 11th, targeting new york city or washington, d.c.. one of the suspects could be an american.

let's get to katherine herridge. >> reporter: bottom line is that this information is described as specific and credible but still unconfirmed. which means law enforcement and the intelligence community is trying to see if all the dots connect. i know this chatter or intelligence spiked in the last 24 hours. that it comes from a known source that has a track record with the intelligence community, which is why it is being given more weight. and the information emanates out of pakistan. in terms of the specificity, i was told it talks about making a statement to coincide with 9/11. also, the need to move their people, their operatives into place. also washington, d.c. and new york city and again the vehn explosive in simple terms a car bomb. >> greta: does that mean we can exclude other things? i doubt it. we may all be looking for cars. if there is someone trying to

do something bad why limited to automobiles? >> threat information is specific about a car bomb. i spoke with a law enforcement source tonight dz said one of the reasons it has added weight is that al-qaeda and year had this operation in times square. they had american citizen drove his car bomb into times square, failed to detonate. this was someone who traveled overseas got their training and came back. these groups saw this as a successful attack because he try and plant that bomb in times square and he was an american citizen. >> greta: spike in chatter, what does that mean? >> you are looking at the intelligence picture and see bump in information this goes over the threshold because of the source. the source is i don't know if it is a human source my sense is it may be it is a source we dealt with in the past or tracked in the past. we have some way to assess credibility.

>> greta: not necessarily the person who is the bad person but someone who has information about the bad person? >> yes. the other thing that caught my attention i was told there was -- they didn't use the word manhunt, they were actively looking at leads that these individuals might be american citizens these operatives they talked about moving too the united states or people who may have already been here this is something we talked about in my book. this transition to american operatives as people who really kind of can get past the traditional screening can enter the country with that passport especially if they have a clean background. >> greta: i suppose what the united states is looking for whatever makes up the bomb? >> correct. >> greta: supplies, anyone trying to market and slice, buying something unusual? >> very intuitive. they want to look at supplies. any abnormal activity in terms of the renting of vehicles. as you remember the person who tried to drive the car bomb in times square last year had

recently purchased this suv the vehicle they used to go into times square. again, what we see tonight is this effort to drill down and try and see if this specific and very specific information that comes from a credible source is in fact lining up with other information. >> greta: catherine, thanks of course we will keep following this story. right now to the president's job speech. all the big names from both sides are here. michelle bachmann, governor huntsman and senator santorum. congressman andrews and paul ryan, governor nikki haley. but first to house majority whip kevin mccarthy. what did you think of the jobs speech? >> pretty political. seemed like the stimulus plan with stuff added in. kind of vague, no real specifics. a lot of times he told us we had to pass the plan. >> greta: he said that 17

times we counted. anything in the plan that you like and that you could live with and you think is a good idea? >> free trade agreements. >> greta: what is the hold up? >> the president has to call. >> greta: why wouldn't he do that? >> there's union issues that he felt needed to be stronger that has been holding up the whole time many we believe it is a good opportunity. you heard the president say it lets america be more competitive. we are not waiting we want to move 'em. we want american products sold at lower prices in other countries and let us compete. >> greta: anything else he said you could live with or you like? >> i'm always interested in ways to rebuild america, make sure the infrastructure is strong. >> greta: we had the stimulus bill and shovel-ready and i thought that included those projects. >> that's what you have to be worried about. he says shovel-ready we know

what transpired from that. the stimulus cost a trillion with interest and cost more than $200,000 a job. this sounds the same. i think you need to empower the entrepreneur. when i was 20-years-old, i created my first . my folks didn't have enough to send me to college, i made investments, started my own business. in two years i had enough to pay my whole way through college. those challenges, you need to unshackle. the biggest strength is small business. >> greta: he talked about getting rid of regulations. >> he said he would get rid of 500 if you look at the dodd-frank bill it takes 10.7 million hours to get that it only took seven millions hours to bill the empire state building. if he recalls 500 regulations he added more than every other piece he has put through. we are way behind. i would look at competitive. we are in a world economy. take every country that come peas with -- competes with

america and say america is getting a leveled playing field. if it is three years to bring a new drug in europe, it is going to be three years in america. >> greta: how about china deval whiting -- devaluating is currency? what would you do? >> first, i wouldn't have put us into this mess where we have deficit where you have to listen to china in the first place. >> greta: but we are there. >> don't put yourself further in debt. what is he saying tonight? he said he is going to pay for it. he's going to china and say let me borrow it one more time. i just borrowed a trillion that didn't work. the other thing i would do, i would look at every regulation that makes it more expensive to do business in america. i'd say china if you are going to lay that game, every time america is able to compete, we will win. >> greta: why do you think he didn't do that? >> it is a political speech

he's playing to his political side of why he can't go there. >> greta: he talked about changes in medicare and medicaid that is going to be unattractive to many of his base. >> what is so ironic about that, that's what republicans have been saying from day one. we believe you should save these programs. how? reform them. protect them for the future generations. he used the same phrase that paul ryan would use but he attacked paul ryan. in the same speech he said any ideas should come forward. we have ideas, let's move them through. we have a number of bills to create jobs for the middle class sitting in the senate and have not mohammed. >> greta: when he made the term political circus i saw republicans and democrats laughing. i thought are the citizens sitting at home thinking you guys are all the circus. >> things are not happening in washington. america has a great deal of doubt in washington. i do too. when i see speeches like tonight it only adds to it.

remember what churchill said about america you can always count on americans to do what is right after they've exhausted he have -- every other option. it is time we put partisanship aside and let the policy decide and have the debate and move this country forward. >> greta: thank you sir. what do democrats think of the plan? joining me congressman andrews. the president talked about modification of medicare and medicaid. did that attract your attention? >> i think we have to do that i think with the growing elderly population, thank god, living longer. you have to reform medicare and medicaid in some sense. one way is give the medicare administration the authority to negotiate prescription drug prices the way the va does. save maybe 150 billion dollars over 10 years doing that. >> greta: why isn't that being done? >> because the drug companies don't like it.

>> greta: there's plenty of time to change it. we first heard about this in the bush administration. since that time the democrats have had the house, senate and white house. you had a lot of chance. considered was an ill considered deal in the health care bill. >> greta: which white house? >> the obama white house. they said to the drug industry if you support the health care bill we won't go to the prescription drug negotiation. i think they were wrong. >> greta: the president said until a week from monday to layout his deficit plan to pay for this, right? >> he did. >> greta: then he says later on in the speech, americans are tired of waiting they can't wait any longer. i thought that is dumb you just told us a second ago you going to make us wait for 11 days or whatever. why are we waiting? because he doesn't have it figured out yet? >> i don't know why i think he should come out with this

sooner rather than later. i think you will hear changes to medicare and medicaid to help sustain the program. you will hear sensible cuts to the defense that do not weaken but reduce spending. more reduction in social programs. and i think you will see a call for a greater contribution from the wealthiest people in the country, millionaires and such. >> greta: when you have a program, i don't know how you can evaluate tonight's program unless we know what it is going to cost and where are we going to get the revenue. when we get it piecemeal like this, i'm suspicious that it is being patched together. >> i rather it be all at once. i think we have to focus on what people can agree on. republicans and democrats will agree we should cut taxes and small businesses. i think republicans and democrats would agree that a tax cut for middle class families make sense. republicans in the past have supported infrastructure programs. they have to be targeted but i think we can find some

agreement. most republicans support the trade deals. there's a lot of room for common ground from what i heard tonight. >> greta: congressman mccarthy said there was push back from the white house on trade deals. >> i think -- [ talking over each other ] >> greta: we -- the country is desperate let's wait, we'll do it after labor day or whatever. those trade deals really mean those jobs they should be there yesterday. >> i'm not sure they do. i think you will see them this fall. >> greta: this fall! if you sitting in my hometown tonight, you are probably watching the packer game, but any way. if you don't have a job you don't have that luxury of waiting. i don't get ing business. >> i agree sooner is better than later. those areas of agreement, tax cuts for businesses create jobs. tax cuts for middle class families.

sensible infrastructure programs like transportation i think there's an area of agreement where we can get something done. >> greta: do you think there's a will in congress setting aside -- both sides have a lot of lines drawn in the sand willingness to look where common ground is. >> i will not speak for the republican party. i think republicans want to put americans back to work and so do democrats. i think there's an opportunity to reach out and do that. let's get to work on it tonight. >> greta: why was this been 0 slow? '09 we were told shovel-ready projects, now we hear infrastructure i thought that was part of the first round. >> it has been much slower. our framers designed a system of government that makes decisions slowly. sometime it is frustrating but often wise. because you can't rush to make bad decisions when that happens. >> greta: between us is the gao report from last march, billions of identified waste

where we could pick up some cash. the president didn't even mention waste tonight. >> the law that he signed in early august calls for a trillion in spending cuts that's where a lot will come from when the appropriations committee starts to go through different places to cut. i would rather not wait lodge but it is better than not doing -- i would -- i think there's a lot of us would join an impatience caucus. >> greta: thank you sir. michelle bachmann is here. good evening. before we go get to the president's speech since you are on the house intel committee i'm curious if there is anything you can add to the distressing news that there is a credible threat, unconfirmed. >> of course it is very serious. one thing i will say is the intelligence community -- community is on this.

the american people should feel confident that the government is doing everything they can to keep them safe. one issue excels all the ref. keeping the american people safe. both democrats and republicans on the same page. he >> greta: there's a conflict between how do you tell the american people so they are vigilant and help and how do you not square them to death so next time when you have information they don't think we already heard that. >> you are right, you don't want to be crying wolf when there is nothing going on. clearly, something is going on. it is important for people to be smart, wise, if you see something, say something. use your head. keep alert. >> greta: the president's speech tonight, what do you think? >> it wasn't a plan. i was a political speech. i think my bottom line is, so what's new about what we heard? the president gave no new

ideas. the real problem, again this was political i'm a business byrne. i'm a former federal tax lawyer. what we needed is what works in the economy. we didn't have an economic speech. we had a political speech. we need to do what works. simply, to extend payroll tax deductions, there's no credible supporting evidence that shows that created any new jobs. extending the unemployment benefits, if you look at the president's new economic adviser, he said in two different studies that the longer you keep people on unemployment, the less likely it is they are going to find a job, that doesn't work. more stimulus? do we need son stimulus? we passed a trillion in stimulus. will billions more do the job? there is nothing new here. >> greta: if you look for the silver lining, i think it puts everybody's feet to the fire that something has to be done. >> absolutely. not this.

-- >> he kept saying hurry, hurry, how many times did he said pass the plan? >> greta: every time he said pass the plan, i thought why didn't you give us the plan you went on vacation. and number two, if you have a plan we need the whole plan. >> there still is no plan. >> greta: i'm with you on that. if he has a plan, we need to see it and evaluate. this drip, drip, drip, does not leave me with a sense that there is a plan, good or bad plan. >> this is a significant event tonight you don't call in 535 members of congress and have a joint session where the president gives a speech to the nation and not have something more concrete. i think what was unfortunate and what the coming days will show, the people who are the job creators, i'm one of them, this is -- this doesn't tell a job creator that we'll see certainty. this doesn't tell a creator that the return on their investment is bound to be

safe. that's what is detrimental in this. i'm not talking about political points, i could care less about political points. what i'm concerned about are the 14 million people as my democrat colleagues are as well. the reality is, this speech will impress no one who has an ability to bring the economy back. washington, d.c. will never solve the economy. it is main street that solves it. washington messes it up and gets in the way. >> greta: it is not just 14 million, eight million plus unemployed, two million plus who have given up. it is 25 million who are in desperate situation. [ unintelligible ] the big problem is we don't have the money. [ talking over each other ] >> greta: the president said he was going line by line when he was running for president, he was going through the

budget and make sure we get rid of the programs -- there's billions and billions so much waste we sent over to the wars, waste. it astounding that we are worried about where money is -- >> you won't find an ounce of disagreement with me. we should have a budget and implement these items if you want money there's 1.2 trillion dollars that americans companies have already earned. if we have a 0% what is called a repatriation tax overnight we'll see 1.2 trillion that the tax players aren't supplying that they don't have to pay back, that we don't have to borrow from china, overnight -- >> greta: the corporate money? >> yes. >> greta: i guess it goes through the economy. it is not coming back to the corporate till. >> it is permanent. 0% repatriation tax through december 31st, make it

permanently 5% thereafter. you continually bringing infusions of capital. if you lower the corporate tax rate you will bring american companies back too. >> greta: congresswoman, thank you. straight ahead jon huntsman goes on the record. what does he think about the president's jobs act? he's next. >> also, south carolina governor nikki haley is here. her state's unemployment rate is higher than the national average. does she think the president's plan will boost jobs? that is coming up.

>> greta: the secret is out. president obama's new jobs plan is on the table. he wants sizable tax cuts for middle class households and businesses. will it be enough? joining us former governor of utah jon huntsman. good evening. >> i'm here as you instructed last week. >> greta: good, i'm delighted. thank you. not going to take a lot of guessing what you thought about tonight's speech. empty rhetoric, failed policies. president obama has failed. i guess that sums up. anything about the speech that

you thought was worth looking at? >> well, the words are okay. i guess the rhetoric is okay. but i guess the sad story here is that we're americans here. we're big, bold optimists, we want solutions. when the economy has hit the wall, you can't take half steps. you can't make half measures you have to go big. wherever i go in this country i have plenty of conversations with people, they want leadership. they want someone to go big and bold. the problem is, we're not doing that. the half measures are not going to get in economy where it needs to be. the only way we get out of this fix if we look at the tax code and say it is aged dilapidated, we need to shake it up. i put forward a proposal that strips out the loopholes, deductions corporate welfare and subsidies that says we have to lower the rate,

broaden the base and make it a 21st century competitive tax code. if the president said things like dodd-frank maybe even made some reference to obamacare. let's get real about what is clogging the marketplace and keeping small business from investing and hiring. it is simple, it isn't recreating the wheel. we need to recognize and listen to what we are hearing from the business community. >> greta: it is a little distressing. the issue of the tax code, december of last year the simpson bowles commission came out with a proposal they said there was 3300 earmarks in the tax code. they wanted to redo it. they didn't get enough votes on the committee. that didn't stop the white house or congress they could have picked it up and runny way. nobody does. there's no appetite. i have this report i didn't put together the gao put together which lists billions and billions of dollars of waste that senator coburn commissioned that has been out

since large march. if you want money go get the waste it is simple that has not been done. tonight the president says he has this big plan and lays it out but says we have to wait for his more ambitious deficit plan until a week from monday. so it is hard to think everyone does give a damn it is just talk and khaet are -- and chatter, nothing moving forward. >> we had three summers of talk and discontent. let's get real. washington doesn't have a vacuum of ideas. the ryan plan is on the table. simpson-bowles is on the table. what we lack is leadership. >> greta: if you become president, chances are you are going to have a divided house and senate. that's the problem the president has now. let's assume you are the president. what can you do differently in

terms of leadership to unlock this problem we have in washington? what is special about you? what would you do differently? >> first, i believe the 2012 election cycle is going to be a referendum on getting this economy going and creating jobs. we are going to take a specific list of proposal as as we've laid out tax reform, regulatory reform, energy independence and free trade agreements. i believe the stamp of approval by the people in 2012 will give you a two year opening to get the work done. i've been a governor. i know when you have the will of the people with you, you have a two year opening in which to get it done, then it closes. my worry for this president and the american people is the door is closeyxy there is nothing more this president76 can do. he can talk through the rest of his term, but there is no will of the people. they've already>up÷r tuned out. 2012 is going to be an election based on ideas relative to the economy.

when i win we are going to take those ideas and go to congress and say we have two years if get it done. very specific, very detailed proposals that will carry the will of the people. then you use that good old fashioned instrument called the bully pulpit. you get out from behind the teleprompter speak from your heart and so soul to the person people to the congress, give them a very specific proposal, unlike tonight which was a lot of words and continued rhetoric. they know where you are. the american people know where you are and you get down to business. >> greta: governor, thank you for keeping your promise and coming back tonight. >> anything for you greta. >> greta: thank you. coming up south carolina governor haley goes on the record. she was fearful the president's speech would be groundhog day all over again. what does she think now? >> rick santorum is here. he has a jobs plan too he says democrats will stand behind

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>> greta: each of our nation's 50 governors had to be listening closely to the president's speech because they are worried about their states. our next guest dealing with 10.9% in south carolina well above the 9.1%. joining us governor nikki haley. good evening governor. >> how are you? >> greta: well. the president talked about building world class transportation system, modernizing schools, getting teachers back to work, summer jobs for young people, extend unemployment insurance for another year and $1500 tax credit extension. is that going to help your state? >> greta, i'm just terribly disappointed. here he was calling a joint session of congress. i was supposed to be huge. i was supposed to be great. what we got was a 500 billion dollar plan that he punted to

a committee he doesn't control and said somehow it will be paid for. he created another stimulus. my state has just come through this. we just had to deal with the fact of what a stimulus does to a state budget. creating infrastructure jobs, teaching jobs, you are creating one time money for reoccurring expenses. you can't us is stain -- you can't sustain that as a state. he managed to do all this before reelection and once again the governors are going to be dealing with this. disappointed. >> greta: if you could have the president do just one thing what would that be to help south carolina? >> said he wanted to see things made in america. so do i. i have planes sitting in charleston i want to see made in america and they are suing boeing he's not letting that happen. >> greta: that has been a huge

dispute. have you had any contact with the white house anyone about that? >> i have said in every way possible that i need the president to speak on the nlrb. he has continued to not talk about it. he talks about creating jobs but killing jobs with boeing trying to do this. he talks about made in america but senting jobs overseas by allowing -- but -- he talks about sending jobs overseas, boeing is going to continue to fight, i'm going to continue to fight for them. we need a president that understands every american job matters. every american company matters. don't hurt the ones we already have. we are trying to bring in new jobs. what does it say to the other companies when you are hurting the ones you already have? >> greta: anything the president said where you thought that might help? >> i liked the fact that he did talk about tax cuts. i liked the fact that he is trying to look and see what we can.

a lot of it was temporary. he doesn't know how he's going to pay for it. what we need to remember is the one thing they can do for business is give stability. let them know there are permanent tax cuts that are going to stay that allows them to create a business plan that allows them to look seven years out and decide what they want to do. the other thing with the american public he needs to give them confidence. he needs to they will them we are going to do something besides another temporary stimulus that is putting this country more in debt. he didn't do either. he tkhrepbt the american public feel confident -- he didn't do anything to let me know help is on the way. >> greta: do you think there's a difference in ideology between you and the president or the president doesn't understand the mechanics of revving up the economy and getting businesses going? >> i believe this is a philosophical difference. in his core, i'm convinced now more than anything, he believes that the answer to creating jobs is more

government money, bigger government and stimulus packages. he has proven it time and time again. he thinks if i try this again, this time it is going to work. it didn't work. in police businesses we n need . they need to know there is not going to be epa regulations and you are not going to raise taxes on those that own these companies that are creating jobs. he's in the giving us anything we need that going to help small businesses or big corporations. you got a lot of nervous investors, businesses and people without jobs. >> greta: governor that you. we'll be watching your state closely. >> thanks greta. . >> greta: coming up -- rick santorum is here, no secret he has a big problem with the president's policies. what does he think about the president's jobs act? >> paul ryan says it is one of the best things we can do to create jobs. what is he talking about? hear from the congressman,

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police stations are using generators to accept emergency calls. power may not be restored until tomorrow. i'm marianne rafferty. now back to on the record. >> greta: if you watched the speech you heard president obama tell congress to pass his jobs ab. in fact he said it 17 times. is that going to happen? any republicans likely to jump onboard? joining us former senator santorum. you have a jobs plan. >> i do. >> greta: give me three bullet points how yours is different from the president's? >> mine while create jobs number one in the private sector. >> greta: how? >> as nikki haley was just talking about, permanent tax re , permanent changes so businesses have certainty going forward. -- the big permanent change nikki talked about this,

getting boeing back to work and getting manufacturing back. we need to have a manufacturing economy grow in this country. that has the greatest multiplier of any sector of the economy. it fills the middle economic of america. if you want to replace that middle income that has been missing in america you have to do manufacturing. what we did is take the corporate tax for manufacturing, right now is 35%, cut it to zero. if you make things in america, you won't have to pay taxes here. you asked ed mccarthy about how are you going to deal with china? beat 'em, compete against 'em. make it more profitable to make yozw!5i products here than over there. how do you think the chinese brought those jobs over there? they made great deals to companies to bring those jobs. [ talking over each other ] >> that's not the only thing. they did a lot to create government incentives, long term, permanent government incentive get businesses there. we want to get those jobs back

we have to create an environment where businesses can be profit able. >> greta: you have a lot of passion on this, a lot of certainty. i can tell that. if you are so certain of this and if this is so sure why hasn't the president latched on to your idea? >> i can't imagine the president of the united states latching on to anything that is going to reduce taxes on corporations in a permanent way. >> greta: that may be where he looks for revenue and an think that is the last-ditch effort to find it there i don't think he enjoys it, do you? >> i think the president wants -- again, nikki was right. the president believes you create jobs through the government. that the government is the one that will deck the resources in a way that -- will direct the resources in a way that is better than the private sector. look at his health care plan. it says government can direct health care resources better than private sector. look at the dodd-frank bill,

that's his plan. >> greta: that was his plan with the february '09 stimulus, right? >> near example. >> greta: i should ask him but he won't come here. >> if i can go on chris matthews then the president can come here, right. >> greta: in february '09 that was his ideology that it would produce jobs now we are in september '11, that hasn't happened would you know think that he doesn't think that worked well. >> listen to the folks he relies upon the academics on the left. that's what he comes from, that's what he believes in. >> greta: you have to have some results. you can't have a 9.1% unemployment rate and think it is working. >> they think it was not big enough. that won't work and they will say it is not big enough.

they believe their ideology is true even though it didn't work in reality, why? because it is true. it is a very scary thing to have a president who is disconnected with reality, with his economic policy, because he believes theory, above reality that's the problem with this president. >> greta: nice speech you thought -- anything in tonight's speech that you thought, that will work? >> the president gave us more of the same. no specifics that were anything meaningful on medicare and medicine. where are his ideas? any time someone talks ideas they run ads that grandma is being thrown off the cliff. it will not do anything to motivate the congress to do much of what he wants to do. >> greta: senator thank you. maybe you will join us to the debate -- will join us after the debate monday night.

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>> greta: what is going on

behind the scenes with the house of representatives? what are your elected officials doing to help create jobs? you are about to find out. here's paul ryan chairman of the house budget committee. nice to see you with >> good to be back. >> greta: what room is this? >> the house budget committee room. >> greta: what are you doing here? >> filming something for our website to put out an idea which is tax reform. get the tax rates lower by closing loopholes. one of the things they do here in washington the tax code has become a system where we pick and choose winners and losers it has made our tax rates higher and uncompetitive globally. we are taxing most american businesses more. unless you are a business that was able to get a tax loophole to get a her rate. so it is not fair. -- to get a lower rate. so it is not fair. we are saying let's lower rates so we can be competitive. >> greta: why are you doing it by video

>> we can do graphics. i can make a point on a website and then have -- created next to me the graphics that emphasize the points we are trying to make. we are trying to show people the kinds of ideas and solutions we've been passing here in the house to create jobs. with new media it is amazing how you can penetrate to show the ideas we've provided. it is not a secret we've been putting ideas out there, passing them in the house and putting them in the senate and they are going nowhere. a lot of that is not getting out. we are trying to show the fact that we put a lot of ideas you. we passed a lot of solutions to grow the economy in the house and they've gotten no attention in the senate. night goal is not to make these partisan, to try and make these things more popular. >> greta: do your kids like to watch them? >> no. my kids watch -- the sighs

they are on usually involve nintendo or mario brothers. they don't watch this stuff. >> greta: we are going to be following you, good luck. maybe you can talk your kids into watching sometime. >> all right great, go packers. growth that was a small part of our jobs talk with congressman paul ryan. the congressman will engine us live next tuesday night. you do not want to miss that. >> which one of president obama's job speeches did you watch tonight? what are we talking about? we'll explain, next.

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