martha: we have three seconds to say good-bye. good-bye, bill. see you tomorrow. "happening now" starts right now. jenna: we start off with a fox news alert. the president defending his decision to swap five top taliban members for an american soldier even as he acknowledges those detainees could launch tear tore attacks against the nights. i'm jenna lee. >> what a weekendhas been. jenna: thanks after a long weekend. jon: be couple days off. the controversy is only growing over the prisoner exchange that led to sergeant bowe bergdahl's freedom. the joint chiefs chairman says the army might pursue a investigation that could lead to desertion charges against bergdahl. the president defended his decision and made it clear his administration did not leave

congress out of the loop. >> we have consulted with congress for quite some time about the possibility that we might need to execute a prisoner exchange in order to recover sergeant bergdahl. we saw an opportunity. we were concerned about sergeant bergdahl's health. we had the cooperation of the qataris to execute an exchange and we seized that opportunity. jon: we have live team coverage now of all of the breaking developments. ed henry is traveling with the president in warsaw, poland. jennifer griffin is at the pentagon. let's start things off with chief white house correspondent ed henry. ed? >> reporter: jon, you heard the president right there making his first robust defense here in warsaw at a news conference thor these questions mounting back home literally whether he broke the law with this prisoner swap.

you heard specifically he was hammering the point they thought bergdahl's life was in danker. obviously questions being raised that his life was essentially in danger the last five years. the law still says congress 30-day notification. the president pushed back by saying he has a sacred trust to make sure that any man or woman in uniform is rescued if the u.s. can do that. while former vice president dick cheney made clear last night on "the kelly file" he believes this is nonsense. >> i wouldn't be doing it if i thought it was contrary to american national security and we have confidence that we will be in a position to go after them if in fact they are engaging in activities that threaten our defenses. >> these are people most likely to go back and once again launch strikes or attacks against americans, against our friends and allies in the region. i think the odds are that they will in fact do that and, that we'll end up paying another kind

of price because of the transaction that's been negotiated here. >> reporter: white house officials also elaborating a statement this morning that they're citing a section of the law that basically says, the secretary of defense can determine that prisoners, detainees can be released if it is in the national security interest of u.s. former vice president dick chain any, others on capitol hill suggesting this was certainly not in the interests of u.s. national security. bottom line there is closed hearing of the senate armed services committee back in washington next tuesday. you can bet there will be a lot of fireworks there and days to come as questions continue to mount, jon. jon: this story is getting rolling. ed henry, thank you. jenna: soldiers coming forward sharing stories about the search for sergeant bergdahl and risks they took to find him. on bergdahl's next scheduled promotion from the senior defense officials and concept over this prisoner exchange. national security correspondent jennifer griffin is live at the

pentagon where surely these hallways are full of a lot of conversation about this. jen? >> reporter: jenna, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff says now he will not rule out investigating bergdahl for desertion. the army reached out to former members of bergdahl's unit to question themes, as part of what is known as a 15.6 investigation, a commander's grand jury. general martin dempsey took to facebook this morning to urge people not to rush to judgment. quote, in response to those of you interested in my personal judgments about the recovery of sergeant bowe bergdahl, the questions about this particular soldier's conduct with separate from our effort to recover any u.s. service member in enemy captivity. this was likely the last, best, opportunity to free him. as for the circumstances of his capture when he is able to provide them, we'll learn the facts. like any american, he is innocent until proven guilty. our army's leaders will not look away from misconduct if it occurred. it is notable that u.s. army

chief general ray odierno has not issued any public states about sergeant bergdahl since his release. the investigation into bergdahl's actions before and after he left his base would fall under the army chief. he has been notably silent. we just learned that bergdahl's promotion from sergeant to staff sergeant which was slated to take place later this month is on hold. u.s. army fishes say that now that he is back, there will not be an automatic promotion. he was promoted twice while in captivity. u.s. officials confirm that bergdahl could be return returned to the u.s. later this week. away time he would likely be reintegrated with his family at brooke army medical center in san tone know, texas. the final decision is left up to psychologists at landstuhl. jenna: we'll watch for that. jennifer, thank you. jon: the parents of lieutenant darrin andrews, an american soldier killed in afghanistan say they were misled. initially told by military higher-ups that their son died on a mission to hunt for taliban

commander. this is back in 2009, not long after now sergeant bergdahl disappeared. but then they say soldiers who served with their son told them he actually was out looking for bowe bergdahl. >> why they are covering it up, we were told by another soldier that was there that they were told not to talk about searching for didn't want to compromise bergdahl's situation with the taliban. >> of course on the other hand of that, he had compromised their situation because the taliban knew they were searching for him, so they were prepared. jon: the andrews say that the mission that killed their son also look the lives of five others. they are likening the cover-up here to what happened to in benghazi. jenna: deal for sergeant bowe bergdahl which freed five high-level taliban commanders races questions about negotiating with the enemy.

he questions the wisdom of the deal. >> by the way they were selected by the taliban. we are all grateful that sergeant bergdahl is back, no matter what the reason for it but what is the price we may pay or likely pay in the future in american blood, in return for releasing these five? jenna: what is the price? he served 20 years in the ci a. was the department chief of the cia's counterterrorism center. charles, i understand there's a lot that concerns you about this deal. answer john mccain's questions there, what do you think is the price that will be paid? >> i think the price we pay we encourage people to take hostages in the future there is a reason why we had this policy. jenna: and what do you think of that policy now? >> what we've done is, we've essentially shattered that policy. we've gone completely contrary to our commitment not to negotiate with terrorists. on the other side of this equation, i'm sure the taliban considers this to be complete victory. they're going to be encouraged

to take further hostages and they will also be that much more convinced that they don't need to negotiate with us about peace negotiations. they just wait for us to leave. jenna: based on your experience, what do you make of the reasoning, this was our last opportunity, our last opportunity to get this american soldier back home? >> yeah i don't think that makes any sense to me. i think this is just somebody checking off a box to get this political issue resolved. there is no reason to think that we had to resolve this right now. jenna: i want to talk to awe little bit about the politics in a moment but i also want to ask you about the something the president said earlier today. he was talking about the five taliban members that have now been released. he said this. we will be keeping eyes on them. we have confidence they will be in a position to go after them. is in fact a engaging in activities that threaten our defenses. charles, with all your experience around the world, all your experience operationally on the ground, yes we know what country these five men are in

but how will we keep an eye on them? how effective can we be if they return to terrorism? >> right. those assurances that the president's giving are basically meaningless. these guys will return to, they're sitting in doha. they will be on house arrest. which means they will live very comfortably, probably with family. they will be minimally monitored. but they will be back in contact with their associates almost immediately. if we're lucky, they will stay there for a year. i wouldn't be surprised if that turns out not to be true. and once they leave there, we will have no idea where they are. jenna: really? how can that be? >> well, i mean they will disappear completely off the screen of the these are guys who are very senior, very capable, very dangerous individuals. and they will disappear into parts of pakistan where our capacity to monitor them is virtually nonexistent. jenna: you will, our as ton meshment, charles, after some months of covering nsa scandal

here in the united states, and the constant surveillance that we continue to hear about it is is difficult to understand we would not have a better idea of what's going on with these individuals, especially in a place like qatar who we're saying are great partners in this. there are is a lot of debate about how good the qataris really are as partners in the fight against terror. let me finish up with this final question for you. the president said he would never have authorized the trade if he thought it was contrary to u.s. national security. according to reports, the director of national intelligence, james clapper, flat-out rejected the idea of releasing these individuals. that the intelligence community was so against this. talk to us a little bit about the dynamics at play. you have experience in this, the politics between these different departments who gets to make this call ultimately and what happens when the director of national intelligence, for example, his concerns are not

heeded here? >> well, i seriously doubt that there is anybody of any significance on the intel side who looked at these five people and told the president of the united states that they were not a threat. all of the formal records that are out in the public domain say that they have been repeatedly recommended to be held virtually in perpetuity. so, i think all of you're talking about is purely political decision. there is not an intel justification or a national security justification. jenna: how does that make you feel? if this is all about politics and it is not about our national security, especially a man with your background, charles? what do you think about that? >> it is another one of these decisions incredibly disheartening, right? you have professional people that provide you the clearest possible picture, what they can not do, they can't make you make the right decision of the president is free to then, to then make errors and leave you feeling like you wasted your time. jenna: chars, great to have you on the program.

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several republicans are competing to run for senate seat held by democrat tom harkin. he is not running for re-election. a democratic candidate is running unopposed in that party primary. let's talk about all of this with ellison barber, staff writer for the "washington free beacon." start with iowa. because hub republicans are hoping to pick up that seat. you could have, i will stop there. >> joanie earns seems at top of field for republicans. that is interesting because she has support from pail sarah palin pail and marco rubio. you have establishment and tea party side. jon: if she gets nomination she will face her fellow democratic member congress. two members of congress facing off to try to win that senate seat. >> both sides are, iowa is important state. always a state we like to look at. this is race absolutely both

sides are hoping to win. have a chance with two big races are most important for the republicans at least in terms of the general election today are going to be montana and south dakota. those primaries are not necessarily that interesting and not necessarily the big ones that will be watch tag but those matter greatly for republicans in november if they want to take control of the senate and pick up six seats they need. jon: erns came out of nowhere to become a figure in this case. >> that castration commercial came out frommer being underdog. that came out and she is really kind of an underdog and doesn't have much of a shot. jon: let me interrupt. to let our viewers know. she grew up on a farm with iowa. talking with her media advisor one day said, one of her jobs as a kid was helping to castrate the hogs. and the guy had a clever idea. let's make a idea about conduct the pork in washington. that has really enlarge part propelled her but she does have a interesting story.

she rides a harley. iraq war vet. >> she ended up being a really good and strong candidate. she was really someone that was probably underestimated in general and that commercial propelled her and put her in the position she is now. last poll she was about 36% of the vote. she may eke buy getting enough to avoid the state convention. jon: the runoff. you say that she is one of the few candidates who has sort of united the establishment republican and tea party republican wings of the party if you will. that is not happening in mississippi necessarily. >> no, it's not. that is really the biggest and only in terms of senate incumbents and tea party candidates trying to get rid of senate incumbents, that is the only, kirk mcdaniels is only viable candidate. jon: state senator. >> state senator in mississippi. he is only viable candidate tea party had going up against incumbent. they thought graham's challenge would overturn graham and mcconnell. graham's primary challengers have mostly fizzled.

this is the tea party's best chance to potentially remove an incumbent senator. right now really is a toss-up. i don't think anybody could tell you for sure which way they think it will bo. most recent polls end of may, had cochran up 5%. earlier in the month, had opposite, mcdaniels up two and five points. it's a toss-up. jon: thad cochran is in the middle '70s. what has he done so angered the tea party? >> he is six-term republican. across the country we're seeing anti-washington sentiment. he represents what washington is and what criticism of him from mcdaniels they say that he works with democrats a lot to increase federal spending. that is sort of something he doesn't really shy away. he embrace as lot of pork spending and earmarks to bring back home to his constituents. they complain as well as things like support for passing the farm bill the they see him as sort of the old school, what people used to refer to as southern democrats who embrace federal spending spending when s for their constituents.

that is something in stark contrast to the tea party and particularly chris mcdaniel. jon: talk about the va. there was a "abc news/washington post poll" that said fully 97% of the americans are angry about what is happened at the veterans administration. what is congress going to do with that, that football? >> that is interesting right before they went on memorial day break they had a bill pass the house to make it essentially easy to fire people. that was brought to the senate. marco rubio took it on the floor with stand alone bill and harry reid failed to take it up. both of those fizzled along with the spending bill. bernie sanders, chair of va committee on senate side he brought up yesterday, has a lot of similar elements of the bill and a lot of people say it protects more civil service clauses. either way the debate in congress fizzled from the main pages of news right now. i don't think it is going away. there is lot of debate about the house bill and sanders new bill

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and took him into custody. >> there was commotion going on. i got out of my car. i got my phone out and started recording. i didn't know what i was recording at first, but it became quickly evident it was more than just some traffic stop violation. >> reporter: authorities have been looking for chamberlain since saturday. he is a big social media consultant in san francisco. he has worked with gavin newsome and other politicians in the bay area but in part of a disturbing post on his facebook page that came out yesterday, which appeared to be a suicide note, he said over the past year-and-a-half he has been in, quote, a dark place, and he looked at websites may have gotten the fbi's attention because he had, quote, morbid fantasies. authorities found explosives in his apartment on saturday. he is now facing federal charges and some of his friend after his arrest have since posted an online legal defense fund, jenna. so far that fund has about $4500. jenna: good that the story

ended, at least this chapter ended way it did, will, instead of some other directions it could have gone. good work by the local fbi. will, thank you very much. jon: top senate lawmakers hold a closed-door hearing today. high on the agenda, could be the prisoner swap that freed sergeant bowe bergdahl. serious concerns on the hill about the legality of the president's controversial move. plus a crime right out of a horror movie. two young girls charged as adults with attempted murder. what prosecutors say about this chilling case.

jon: still to come this hour, new action on capitol hill over the controversial prisoner swap that led to sergeant bowe bergdahl's freedom as more questions are raised about the legality of the exchange. we'll go in depth. one of those kids got bad marks for penmanship but get this, handwriting matters. new evidence and what is says about educational development. plus why a hurricane's name can tell you how deadly the storm might be. we have the lowdown. jenna: the senate intelligence committee will hold a closed hearing this afternoon, likely examining the president's decision to release army sergeant bowe bergdahl and in exchange for five taliban leaders held at gitmo. as controversy mounts on capitol hill over the legality of this controversial move. our next guest says, as a matter

of international law we would have been required to release these detainees. the former associate counsel to president george w. bush. he was part of the bush administration for eight years including the during the time of the formation of gitmo. nice to have you on the program and have your expertise. this is really interesting conversation, national conversation we're having right now. talk to our viewers a little bit why you say these detainees would essentially have to be freed anyway? >> well i do think this is a defensible deal. this is not an easy decision and, in the national security world often you're caught between hard choices like this. so certainly this deal can be criticized you about sometime in the next couple years, perhaps as early as 2015 we would be required to return these taliban anyway. the war in afghanistan is winding down and we would be required at the end of the conflict to return them to afghanistan.

so -- jenna: john, let me interrupt you to walk us through this. we continue to hear from this administration, that the goal would be to take some detainees in gitmo and put them through a civil court civil, civilian court system, try them the way we could be tried. why would that not be potentially be the case for these guys? >> well, for these people in particular, i think that choice why the administration and some critics of guantanamo were wrong. i don't see how these particular taliban officials could ever have been tried in the southern district of new york. they're certainly some al qaeda detainees who committed actual terrorist acts against americans who perhaps could have been tried in a federal court because they committed federal crimes but these particular taliban detainees i think could never have been tried in federal court. they could have been -- would have been bad candidates if they could be tried at all in a federal court. we were right to be able to detain them under the laws of

war but we couldn't have prosecuted them in federal court. jenna: what you're saying after the announcement we received from the president over the last week, that all combat troops will be pulled out of afghanistan, essentially saying that the war is over, that could pus us in a conundrum legally as far as holding these men in guantanamo bay? >> yeah, that is generally right. the administration has not made clear whether their, the conflict will end on december 31st. certainly arguably, when some of our troops remain in afghanistan on training missions, the taliban are probably going to continue to think they're in a conflict with us. but sometime in the next couple of years, whether it is in the beginning of 2015 or shortly there after, this conflict in afghanistan is winding down, and we would be required, at least under the traditional laws of war, to return people that we've detained in that conflict. so it seems in this case we've gotten, you know, we traded them

for reasonable deal here. jenna: but what happens if we're only ones are saying that the war is winding down? i mean to your point, what if we're saying, oh, the war is over but our enemies is saying actually it's not? >> well, that's a fair point and i think the administration has got some discretion here to say that the war is continuing through 2015. maybe into 2016. what i'm saying here is that, at some point in the near future we would be required to return the that ban or to return the taliban, if the war in afghanistan is over. we can't hold them forever and ever and so it seems reasonable in this case to get our sergeant bergdahl back, not to leave him on the battlefield, to return people who we were going to have to return sooner or later anyway. again, remember, we're sending them to doha, qatar, for a year.

that may be pretty comfortable existence for them but they're not immediately going back into afghanistan. jenna: your point is well-taken, that terms of this deal will be. bergdahl, there is a lot of controversy of his status and some of his teammates say he is desserter. that has yet to be proven officially and, john, we'll wait for that. how does it change things for this deal, legally or otherwise, if indeed bergdahl was not a prisoner of war and we find out later he did dessert his post? >> i don't think is makes a difference. he will have to face justice, military justice. we don't leave soldiers on the battlefield under any circumstance unless they have actually joined the enemy army. let him face military justice and not the taliban justice. he was a young 20-year-old.

young 20-year-olds maybe stupid decisions. i don't think we'll say if you make a stupid decision we've leave you in hanzhands of taliban. jenna: young 20-year-olds served faithfully and we talked about with men that gave their lives to go find him. how do you think in the back conversations, john? everyone says priority getting soldier back. the priority is getting soldier back. isn't our priority is national security for 310 million americans that are here now? >> that's why i say these are tough choices. remember president bush said he would like to close guantanamo as well. in our administration we returned something like 500 detainees from guantanamo. we can not hold these people forever and ever. i'm not saying these are nice people who were shepherds or wrong place at wrong time. that is frankly one of the things that annoys me that suggestion that everybody in guantanamo were innocent shepherds. clearly these five senior taliban leaders were not innocent shepherds.

we were properly detaining them. but we can't keep them for another 50 years. in particular with the afghanistan war winding down. we were going to have to return them sooner or later. not an easy choice here. jenna: sure. >> you know, i'm not saying this is clearly an easy choice but frankly i think a republican, a president of either party, republican or democratic confronted with this opportunity to get back sergeant bergdahl who is apparently in failing health, would have taken this opportunity to do this and then, take the same kind of heat president obama sick tag now. i think we would have made the same decision in the bush administration. jenna: point well-taken, john. we look forward to having you back. according to reports if this is beginning of shut down of guantanamo bay your opinion and counsel throughout that will be important to our viewers. thanks for being with us today. >> nice to be with you. jon: as you were having that conversation, our ace pentagon reporter jennifer griffin sent

out email she confirmed with sources that bergdahl left behind a note the night when he left his unit. he expressed disillusion with the u.s. army. disillusion with being an american. suggestions that he wanted to row announce his american citizenship and go find the taliban. that just confirmed by jennifer griffin when you were having that conversation. jenna: seems like that could be a bit of a game-changer. jennifer noted earlier the head of the army has not come out and said anything about this. that certainly raises some antennas about the politics and dynamics involved in this release and tiling. jon: because if there is to be disciplined handed out to bowe bergdahl, the head of the army will be involved in that decision. jenna: wow. jon: perhaps he can not say anything. jenna: big news. jon: taxpayers may be on the hook for more spending overseas. president obama calling on congress to fund a billion dollar effort boosting america's military presence across europe. the president is in poland to reaffirm the commitment to our nato allies who are worried about russian actions in

ukraine. nato defense minister is holding a two-day meeting in brussels. jenna: attorney general eric holder expected to announce a revive al of a key task force dedicated to domestic terrorism. the panel will include national security lawyers and members of fbi. all in an attempt to disrupt violent plots like deadly shooting the at a jewish community center in kansas this year. the group was formed 20 years ago following the oklahoma city bombing. jon? >> there is horrific crime to tell you about in the midwest. two preteen girls charged as adults accused of nearly stabbing their death their friend n a bizarre plot, the prosecutor said the girls planned for months. garrett tenney live in chicago with that. >> reporter: jon, police say these two 12-year-old girls took their friend to a park for a game hide-and-seek and then attacked and nearly killed her. the two girls held the victim down. while one was holding her, the other stabbed her 19 times in

her torso, legs and arms, hitting several major organs and narrowry missing a major artery near her heart. the victim was eventually left for dead and crawled to a bike path where a bicyclist found her and called 911. the two attackers decided to kill their friend to show loyalty to a demetrios papademetriou mon-like character they became fascinated by after spending a time on a website featuring horror stories and legends. the judge and chief of police say this case is unlike anything they have ever seen. >> the age of these suspects and being female, both lead into, obviously details what happened in the investigation. this is very disturbing investigation. >> reporter: the chief also saying this case should be a wake-up call for parents to monitor their kids use on internet. but also in this case, these two girls, they are being charged with attempted first agree homicide. they could each face up to 60 years in prison if convicted. they're due back in court on

june 11th. the victim, jon, thankfully and remarkably she is in stable condition. jon: just unbelievable that she is okay and that is the great news but that a website could motivate something like this? >> reporter: it is. and that website just posted a statement a few minutes ago saying that they do offer their condolences to the families here and they strongly speak out against any of these actions for anyone else that does visit that website. jon: might be a little late for the condolences. anyway, garrett tenney, thank you. jenna: midterm election season is turning red hot today with key primary contests across the country. we'll tell you about one race that could end up changing the balance of power in the senate. plus one dog owner out for a walk at a local pond finds himself in a very scary situation after his frisky pup took his car for a spin. >> i was over my head. had my feet down by the time got the puppy out of the car and had slid farther out and was

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of the republican party. senator cochran goes into today's vote with narrow lead with over tea party backed and conservative candidate chris mcdaniel. cochran making the case against voters and his position and seniority and connections in washington are important consideration for people to make. widely believe if republicans take back control of the senate he will become chairman of the appropriations committee. cochran insisting he is fighting for what mississippians want including repeal of obamacare. >> that is one issue i think most mississippians agree on. you could see from the response of the audience, that they want to get rid of obamacare too. and i'm for repealing it. and i have quote sponsored legislation to do just that i will continue to work to see that is accomplished. >> reporter: according to his challenger chris mcdaniel, that cochran's senority and connections in washington is part of the problem. he has been there too long and too eager to compromise with the democrats and it is time for new

blood in the senate. >> status quo in washington is not working. washington, d.c. is broken. we have to change the system. we have to change the city. we can't change it if we keep sending same men up there year in and year out. i would have stood my ground and i will stand my ground. >> reporter: hearing different things from voters at polling places today, doing brisk business we might add. one woman told me she supported thad cochran for a long, long time. lyings him but tile for a change in washington. another man telling me that a vote for thad cochran is no-brainer. he is best positioned to keep republican seat in tear hands in november, because the democratic challenger, chad childers according to many people might stand a better chance against chris mcdaniel than thad cochran. jenna: the race we're watching. we'll see what happens with the results. very fascinating john. thank you so much. >> reporter: will be close. thanks. jon: they are calling it a lost art in this computer age. some students no longer able to write in long hand. what analysts say penmanship

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they look at letters of the alphabet. we found early on that kind of surprisingly that, parts of the brain that we weren't necessarily expecting were being recruited when children, very young children, that couldn't read yet, were looking at letters. this led us to the hypothesis that, perhaps handwriting has a significant impact on how children learn to look at letters and recognize letters of the alphabet. jenna: what did you find out about the hypothesis that you presented? did you find out that indeed was the case? that handwriting was key to some of the learning? >> it certainly makes a difference to the response of the brain when children are looking at letters and words. and so, in one of our studies we trained children either to hand write, that would be printing in this case, letters, of the alphabet, versus children who type them and compared, that with purely visual learning. that is usually taught early on.

we found responses of the children that learned their letters through printing was quite different from the other two groups. and, it was different in the way that the brain was recruiting regions that are used for reading later on, when people become literal readers. so it almost seems like the printing experience was bringing these systems online for children to use while they were looking at letters. jenna: almost like all these different wires were suddenly working together, hopefully towards the good result of good reading and hopefully, good come prehen. what do you think about so much concentrated on ipads and keyboards and good writing skills and penmanship and value of that? >> you know my research is on quite young children. sure they're using ipads and computers and i think that is great. i guess my only concern would be that they're not taught to print

at all. but they certainly are still taught that. the, having other ways of learning letters and other ways of interacting with technology i think is, doesn't do damage, of course, but the handwriting i think is very important for this early cognitive development. jenna: makes us think about that and value of practicing all the cursive and time it took to do that. nice to have you on the program. look forward to have youing back and you continue to do some of your great research. thank you very much. >> okay, thank you. jon: fascinating stuff. jenna: your penmanship, jon? jon: it was bad. i had trouble getting small c under the line. jenna: you turned out okay. jon: i guess. next hour of "happening now" at 1:00 p.m. jonah goldberg and joe trippi on the political costs of this deal the president made to exchange one american sergeant for five senior taliban being imprisoned at gitmo. famed quarterback dan marino suing the nfl.

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