night. 9:00 you turn as the former vice president mike pence will join us for a interview. we'll talk about russia, ukraine, taiwan, the communist chinese. pretty much everything. including a 40 year high of inflation. please set your dvr is so you never miss an episode. in the meantime, let not your heart be troubled. >> laura: is there anything that biden is done -- i mean, anything, that has worked out? usually you will get one thing. maybe even a small measure. did he rename any post offices? is there is anything he did that was right? this is just off the charts. >> sean: he seems to be helping out the ice cream business. a good little joey. they take them out and get him ice cream and cookies and milk and send them to bed. >> laura: you do have to start asking, how do we last three more years with this? and all i can say is help is on

the way in november. awesome show. i cannot wait to watch tomorrow. >> sean: have a good show. >> laura: all right. i'm laura ingraham. this is "the ingraham angle" from washington tonight. as the biden administration beats the war drums in ukraine, they are actively gutting our military with these vaccine mandates. we are going to speak to -- and it's going to use just about any possible excuse again fine to change the subject and then

silence its critics. now let's walk past down memory lane. first leaves the riots of january 6th as a justification that fends off capital with razor wire. they did this for several months costing us tens of millions of dollars. i don't even think we know the final amount. if i treated ordinary citizens who weren't part of any violence at all as insurrectionist. second, they used covid to illinois medical professionals who are actually treating covid patients also saw right through tony fauci's bureaucratic blather in the cdc's cherry picked data. our medicine cabinet new for two years that lockdowns were just going to prolong the pandemic and closing the school's which is going to end up destroying kid's lives. doctors who question biden and all of these medical experts that were touted on television every day from the left, well, the doctors who actually knew what they were doing and their

livelihoods threatened. in the end, we were right. in the mandates are finally being lifted. obviously neither of this topic work to turn americans away from biden is mounting problems of crime, inflation, energy crisis, and an open border. and while the bob's a bit unlike opposition is building a remember virginia parents. they elected glenn youngkin after seeing that the teachers unions were really the ones in charge and education and in that world, aristotle loses out to -- and george washington is not as important as george floyd. this is going to flatten the democrats this fall and i think they know it. so this leaves democrats with no other choice this election season but to go with the golden oldie. forget about the gas posing in on $5 per gallon because russia is on the move.

>> we are united in our understanding that the urgency is serious of the threat russia is making to global peace and stability. >> this is the greatest threat to stability in europe since world war ii. ukraine is in danger. president putin is blatantly and violently making the laws. >> listen, guys, we are talking about the potential for war in europe. let's really take a moment to understand the significance of what we are talking about. >> laura: do any of these people really care about ukraine and russia? not long ago, obama talked about he wanted to make deals with russia and then he made fun of romney for sounding the alarm on putin. >> a few month ago when your asked asked what is the biggest geopolitical threat facing america, you said russia. not al qaeda, you said russia. in the 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back because the cold war has been over for 20 years. >> laura: the democrats don't care about russia. they never have. they care about holding on to

power at all costs. they certainly didn't care about russia when the soviet union was actually a real threat to the united states in the 1980s. now the russia has an economy about the size of italy's, they care? but how do we get here? the answer, believe it or not, lies over in china which is now becomes russia's biggest booster in this current conflict. for two decades, at least here in the united states, thought it was a good idea to build up china, make them richer and more powerful even. biden not only thought it but he said it. >> arising china is a positive, positive development. not only for china but for america and the world rich large. >> laura: i know china has all it needs to prop up russia no matter what putin does in ukraine. biden not only got a rising china, they are poised to surpass the united states economically and artie have a larger standing army than we do.

but to the extent that russia is any real threat today, it is only because china is standing beside them. biden promised he was going to return us, didn't he come into our proper standing in the global community, the rules-based international order and that he was going to be a unifying force around the world. remember that? but after one year, he has weakened america and he has united our enemies. quite an accomplishment. mark my words. as long as china is perceived as the most powerful country in the world, the u.s. is going to have a tough time containing someone like putin. rather than figuring out ways to make china weaker and to unite america, biden and the hill democrats are looking for new villains here at home. searching for a strategy to avoid a 2020 midterm disaster, advisors to president biden have discussed elevating a unified republican foil not named

donald trump. those from axios today. that political stage from the islands, mazie hirono, told axial i was dominic wish we could find one face we could point to as with donald trump. maybe a composite. i would like us to do much more effective job of drawing difference between republicans and democrats. when i being a mike idea being considered is to substitute trump with fox news. >> these right wing pundits and the g.o.p. that supports them really frankly have blood on their hands. >> what does this say that you have people like tucker carlson and fox news drumming up support for putin? >> it is not frustrating, it is sickening. it is un-american. >> tucker carlson is one of the most dangerous people alive right now, actually. the voices of the newly radicalized g.o.p., they are all on the putin train. >> laura: they are on the putin train. and i once much respected

professor tweeted and deleted this. led by fox news channel tucker carlson, the g.o.p. trampling appears to be throwing its weight behind putin. if putin opts to wage war on our ally, ukraine, such aid and comfort to an enemy would appear to become treason as defined by article three of the u.s. constitution. by the way, he actually i think wrote a constitutional law school book. he is in her law school's right now. but this isn't about silencing critics, is it? no. calling them traitors are questioning whether inching toward war with russia is the right choice. perhaps he spent too much time in cambridge, but the entire populace conservative movement was based in the idea of making america so strong economically that it would be able to avoid future wars or conflicts. but now they have a mumbling imbecile in the white house bumbling us toward conflict and they turn around and try to

blame us for them? nice try. our nation, of course, remains exceptional. but we have been debilitated by two wars that we did not win back and now we are sitting on $30 trillion of debt republicans and democrats both responsible for that. but as long as the u.s. stays weak economically, the world would become a harsher and far more cruel place. that is news to the left which has been the last 16 years attacking our middle class. rather than trying to fix big problems and make america better, they just use this as an opportunity to demonize their political adversaries. think about the stupidity of this. we are on the verge of war. and we still have the same military leadership in place who couldn't get us out of afghanistan the right way. that is brilliant. and we are on the verge of war and our trade policies are still making china, russia's new strong friend, richer by the

day. biden has driven our energy crisis higher by limiting domestic drilling, and who benefits from that? not us. before does. every time oil prices go up and biden's supporters love high energy costs, they are climate crazy, russia has more money in pocket to fund its military ambition. putin is happy. yesterday, it was trump, the bill and they could run against. then it was january 6th, then was covid, than the parents protesting at school board meetings, and now it is russia and fox news. but the important thing to remember in all of this is that after 25 years of establishment leadership, except for the four years of donald trump who got a right, america is dramatically weaker. so going forward, it is the job of our leaders to fix america, rebuild the military culture, and find a way to give more leverage over china.

meanwhile, the democrats are slowly committing political suicide. and that is the angle. joining us now, tucker carlson, host of "tucker carlson tonight" and of course on fox nation, "tucker carlson today." tucker, the left is clearly trying to use this russia scenario as a way to silence the critics. you, myself, others on fox news, were merely asking questions about this slow role in the ukraine with u.s. military support. your reaction to what we have heard? >> thank you for that monologue and for not being intimidated or mindless as so many republicans -- i hate to say it -- have been. the question i think the country needs to answer is a really simple one and it has nothing to do with the intricacies of russia and ukraine's border dispute. the question is why is intervening in eastern europe in this conflict benefit the united states?

what essential american principles interests are at stake here? and by asking that question, you are immediately denounced as on patriotic by the very people who openly hate america, one of the many layer of ironies here is people are constantly telling you is a racist country, founded on slavery, an evil place. they are the quickest to whip around and accuse you of committing treason, d -- igno the barking and ignore the name-calling and moral posturing in the moral blackmail which is their specialty. i think it is important to keep focused on that question. how is it worth of united states facing a lot of turmoil at home, economic and social, and this immense rivalry from china, how does that make sense for the united states to intervene in this conflict given are very limited resources? and they can't answer that question, which really should make us nervous. >> laura: tucker, for some

reason these same individuals, who are pushing war -- the war narrative in ukraine for u.s. forces -- they are the same ones who seem to soft pedal criticism of china. so i love china and be committed to war against russia when russia's economy is about the size of italy. not saying they are not an adversary, they are, but compared to china? >> they are not getting rich from russia. the biden family garbage from ukraine which is the main -- what goals me personally -- i believe in acting in whatever ways are necessary to enhance the interest or protect the interests of the united states, period. super simple guide to action abroad in my opinion. and it's a traditional one. it is not isolationism.

it's i am not against all words. but it stupid, counterproductive words that cost the lives of americans wouldn't hurt our economy, of course. but when it is infuriating is to hear these people who don't respect the basic precepts of democracy, the most basic of all of which is the people rule, they don't respect that at all. telling us that ukraine is a democracy and therefore we've a moral obligation to defend it. ukraine is not a democracy. ukraine is a country in which the president's ruling party, supported by joe biden, essentially managed on the state department, has arrested the main opposition leader. has closed opposition media, newspapers, and television stations. that is not a democracy. if the biden administration leaves that is a model democracy, we ought to be concerned because it is not. it is authoritarian. >> laura: tucker, it seems that, again, the elites, the people who you and i have spoken about and written about for decades, who got rich off globalization and the deindustrialization of the

united states, they are absolutely committed to keeping this entire dynamic with nato going. long after germany -- even with the stopping of the north stream pipeline at least temporarily -- germany clearly far less interested in containing russia than we are and we are not even forcing our own border and we are indisposed to enforce ukraine's border. how does that make any sense the average american out there? >> one point the biden administration got ahead of the president of ukraine in calling for some sort of -- even ukrainians are like settle down, joe biden. much also germans. it's a whole different conversation. in one sentence, energy matters. you can't run a civilization without it. the truth is, we have progress, we have lights, we have airplanes, we are not living in caves because we have cheap energy. that is a prerequisite for civilization. germany cares about gas from ukraine and russia, period.

why wouldn't they? we should care. we are pretending as if we don't need energy. they are going to wreck our economy with this nonsense. we have been rich for so long we don't understand what that means but it's a disaster. you don't want to be a poor country. and they are on the road to making this one. >> laura: the same individuals who in the 1980s -- when i was in college -- were making excuses for the soviet union and had the no nukes concerts. remember those all over europe and jackson brown and no nukes. rodney raygun and they hated the strategic defense initiative, all of those people are now are like a much weaker russia is our biggest problem facing the united states. and meanwhile, he of on television like joy reid who thinks anyone who isn't beating the war drums is basically a kremlin apologist. launch. >> trump -- adoration of vladimir putin are all too real. and worse, trumps putin love has

seemed to infect many in his party. so much so that the republican party, once a stalwart opponent of soviet aggression during the cold war, are now essentially kremlin apologist. >> laura: tucker, that is the line. you're going to hear that a lot. i have to say, you have to pull back a little bit. >> that women, who is a, went to harvard. i was at trinity college in connecticut, sue has the religion exactly? this is someone who is not the bull of thinking or expressing herself clearly, riding a coherent sentence, and she got into harvard. so it does tell you that our system is producing, elevating, and producing the most mediocre people imaginable. that is part of the problem. and they run every american institution. these people have been brought up there is schism among system who is desired no mic designed to create dumb leaders. >> laura: do you think the american people given what we are facing, this push for higher

and higher energy prices, does a loved thing $10 per gallon is high enough? they want gas to be that we are all going around on the screen scooters. when they are facing those high gas prices at the pump and heating oil at home, do you think any of this, the war drums beating, is that going to bring people along to biden is because in the democrat party? >> is pretty clear. if you're a close and pipelines in this country and now you are provoking conflict with the largest gas supplier in europe, may be making the play against fossil fuels. this has two effects. one is ideological. they hate fossil fuels on principle. kamala harris does not believe in anything but she has donors and friends were making a ton from alternative energy, from renewals which are not sustainable real energy sources actually but if you hike the cost of fossil fuels way up, all of a sudden those investments become more profitable. so of course it is about energy

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>> laura: let's go now to our fox news alert on the situation unfolding ukraine. on the ground in ukraine with the latest. lucas. >> laura, some of the american diplomats that have evacuated the city started to trickle back and as new satellite photos showed russian forces moving closer to the border including ukraine second largest city. this russian field hospital just 12 miles from the border right now. and the second photo shows more russian armored units being delivered by rail. u.s. officials say all signs continue pointing to a potential full-scale invasion. in washington, ukraine's top -- leader of his visited the white house. his message regarding sanctions against russia was simple.

>> hit russia's economy now and hit it hard. >> some in the west want to turn up the temperature on moscow. the british sanctions five small russian banks. but four were previously sanctioned by the u.s. they are seeing more fuel shipments being delivered to frontline russian forces, concerning sun here on the ground in ukraine. >> laura: lucas, i'm confused about what president biden said today. want to make sure he get it right. he said we have no intention of fighting russia, but we want to send an unmistakable message that the u.s. together with our nato allies will defend every inch of nato territory by the commitments we have made. is that confusing to hear if you are vladimir putin and you are thinking of moving in and a full-scale invasion? >> well, u.s. officials say what the president is referring to is supporting nato. of course ukraine is not a nato and president putin does not

want to see ukraine become part of nato. that's part of the reason we are in the situation. so president biden is moving forces, some 5,000 in poland, some are going to be pushing up to the baltic states. he is also pushing 32 apache gun ships. that is what the person is referring to was supporting nato countries. >> laura: thank you so much for staying up for us. we really appreciate it. and after flopping sanctions on russia today, biden admitted something when you about beforee got elected. he wants you to pay more at the pump. speak out defending freedom will have costs for us as well and he at home. you need to be honest about that. joining me now as stephen miller, america first legal founder and former trump senior advisor at the white house and also with the indian act congressman jen is this giving the democrats cover to stick it to americans

and continue this war on private vehicle ownership and use in the united states? >> it is very convenient. they shut down america's pipeline. canceled leases for oil and natural gas drilling and put enormous new restrictions on the ability to explore and expand energy domestically and now they're saying you will be paying more for energy because of vladimir putin. so it has nothing to do with any of the situations we have made here in america. the truth is there is one problem, america should truly never have, and that is paying high prices at the pump or paying high prices to heat or cool your home because we are one of the most energy rich nations on planet earth. we have energy independence under donald trump and they made a decision, a voluntary decision, to end our energy independence. >> laura: think of where we would be today vis-a-vis russia and the leverage they would have over us or not if we had just left trump's policies in place.

this is just yet another example of the situation around us crumbling because biden stayed on the fanaticism and away from common sense. >> yeah, laura, across-the-board, whether you're talking about going overnight from an energy independent nation to one that is reliant on oil coming from foreign countries, especially from our adversaries like russia. whether you're talking about the border crisis or crime rates around to this country. on almost every issue facing america today, there's a direct line between decisions that joe biden and this administration made in the very first phase when they came into office and the crisis that we are facing in this country today. the very fact across the board on average american spending $1.25 more for gasoline at the palms, that is directly related, as stephen said, to stopping stopping drilling on federal

lands and ending construction of the keystone pipeline. that is why you're spending more of the pond. it is not because of vladimir putin. >> laura: stephen, the numbers for biden in the new gallup poll on russia, are abysmal. we keep asking how low can he go in polls. is there even a floor for his support? i'm not sure there is. but it keeps edging lower and lower and lower. do you think there is a hunger for more military involvement? in the situation ever precarious as it is in ukraine? >> no. the most assuredly is not to. i would say if you study the history of world war i, what you know is that complex networks of alliances combined with foolish, hasty, or rash thinking can potentially lead to enormous and deadly conflict. and so we have to tread with experience care and caution here. we are to keep in mind part of

the reason why people are so sad joe biden is seeing him stumbling and bumbling around europe talking about ukrainian sovereignty, they are also keenly aware of the fact that joe biden has actually launched a full-scale assault on american sovereignty that has erased our own southern border. so we are paying more for energy prices because of this failed your policy, we are paying an american lives for his failed border policy. >> laura: and there is an interesting comment made by the pentagon spokesman about this burgeoning romance between president -- >> we have been watching at least in public this burgeoning relationship between russia and china. we would say that they are passive support for russia is alarming and rankly even more

destabilizing to the security situation in europe. >> laura: more destabilizing, i believe he says, than even what russia is doing in ukraine, congressman. who is responsible for driving putin into xi's arms? are we still saying it is donald trump's fault? >> without a doubt we have the week as president perhaps ever in the white house who on a daily basis projects weakness and appeasement to our adversaries. for four years, the world was far more safe on donald trump's watch than any single day that joe biden has been an office. that is a fact. with everything we see from russian aggression to china continuing to move toward their ultimate goals. i ran on the rise again acting out. and firing missiles and rockets at our greatest ally in israel, across the board, the world is far more safer worker years under trump than it has ever

been with joe biden in the white house. that weakness that putin is seeing, that is why he is acting out this moment. i'm telling you, chairman xi and the chinese communist party are watching the biden weakness as well just going to have even more disasters conquered, consequences down the road. >> laura: why do the elites think that americans care more about defending ukraine's border than our southern border? i never did figure that out. >> i think for some of them there's a lot of financial interest involved and we have seen that with president biden's family. in other cases, there's always been amongst both neo-con and democrats -- will being completely and emotionally disconnected from and having no emotional attachment to their own citizens, their own country, their own borders, and this administration typifies that, personifies it as no

administration ever has before. they truly do not care about the fact that you have chinese fentanyl pouring through mexico into our community, murdering our citizens, -- no compassion for the american lives being lost. >> laura: think you both for being here tonight. and as a democrats saber rattle of ukraine, bidens vaccine mandates are affecting our military. we will speak to a west point cadet

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♪ ♪ >> laura: think about this. right now, biden is tempting to deter vladimir putin with a military that he is trying to woke-ify. under the guise of rooting out extremism, extremes of

now they're targeting soldiers for refusing the covid vaccine. for thousands of men and women who have actually applied for religious exemptions from the military and they don't want to take the jab, they thought it was completely unnecessary, but out of the 16,000 plus who applied, only 15 were granted those approvals. i should note that the exemptions were only granted in the last few weeks. in the preceding month, not a single exemption was even issued by the biden administration. worse, the service members who would not get the vaxx were treated like pariahs, and that includes my next guest. joining me now is nikolai's, former west point cadet. i know you did not apply the exemption. you just got fed up because you refuse to get vaccinated. tell us how this all went down and what the thoughts are of your former fellow cadets.

>> the actual date that the mandate came down, september 27th, last year we were all brought into a briefing room in order to get the vaccine. and we knew that what they were doing was illegal because they wanted us to get a nonfda approved vaccine. the only available at vaccine is not fda approved. the real vaccine that was fda approved, the mentor need -- this edit wasn't available and the it it was not even in distribution. but this vaccine and the other vaccine were made the same, that was their justification for the mandate and it was obviously deceitful. >> laura: you say that at one point, that the course you to take this nonfda approved vaccine that west point advisors kept comparing it -- is this right -- the advil and tylenol, which as most people no, they are not the same drug. what did you make of that line

of reasoning on their part? >> i was shocked. it was clearly deceptive. the covid coordinators consistently compared the vaccines with advil and tylenol saying that they are the same, they remain the same, they do the same thing, therefore, the secretary of defense is justified in a mandating this illegal vaccine to us. >> laura: how did you feel as someone who had a lifelong dream of graduating from west point and serving our country in uniform that this is what changed your whole life plan? i can't imagine how that must've felt you. >> honestly, i prayed to god that everything would work out. i did not have any plans, didn't identify a school, i just left on a win. i was willing to drop everything because i was not going to

compromise my morals for this agenda. i was willing to drop everything with the faith of knowing that everything was going to be all right in the end. >> laura: now the pentagon is standing by the destructive vaxx mandate. watch. >> remains a lawful order. it remains a readiness issue. the vaccines work. and we want everybody to take them and to keep safe, to keep their unit safe. >> laura: how does it help readiness to needlessly purge the ranks of those who for whatever good reason don't wish to get vaccinated? maybe you already had covid, may be religious issues, other conscious issues. how does that help our readiness, especially with everything that is happening in ukraine now? >> it doesn't at all. in fact, it hurts our army which people don't seem to realize.

i saw my friends get way more sick from this vaccine saw them benefit, which was the beginning of my doubts and which is why i decided to do some of my own research and judge for myself whether this vaccine is truly as they say it is. at the end of the day, this was hurting mission readiness and i will refer military. >> laura: thank you for speaking out. thank you for following your conscience on this and sharing your story with us tonight. are you at hillsdale? i see your sweatshirt. >> yes. >> laura: what a great school. say hi to larry. he is my old body. i just noticed the sweatshirt. thank you so much. anti-technocrats trying to get republicans elected? wait until we tell you what one liberal -- don't go in energy is everywhere...

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>> laura: and now it is time for a little mid term. a democrat running for congress in california. back in 2010, he was a seat on the school board to introduce students to the confucius classroom program. sounds innocuous.

but the program is funded and run by china's ministry of education, an arm of the chinese communist party. thankfully, concerned parents made sure that his attempt to brainwash kids was defeated. now you think that he would kind of learned from this experience, but instead, he is doubling down. in a recent fund-raising email, he dismissed critics and tried to spin this blatant ccc p propaganda ever is a chinese language and culture program. okay. what a total fraud. and now to her latest edition of taking back the senate, it brings us to pennsylvania wheren candidates are vying to win back the in may they are. all eyes are on the top two candidates, one of them served in the turkish military, dr. oz, everyone knows him from tv. and the other went to west point and served as an army ranger and the gulf war. the latter, dave mccormick, joined me now. dave, good to see you tonight. thanks for joining us.

an earlier poll this month had your opponent, dr. oz, a bye 11 points but i guess a new poll by mclachlan shows you moving ahead now leading by six points. i think the poll is about 600 primary voters in it. so my question to you is he has name recognition, very funny, charms, smart guy, america's doctor. how do you overcome that? >> i am a pennsylvania kid. seventh generation. i grew up in pennsylvania and know my way around. spend more than half my life there and a job there. i have been my ford f-150 pickup and i'm driving from county to county and i am doing a grassroots campaign, an insurgent campaign, and i'm going tv advertising to introduce myself to voters and it has been great. differently building momentum and it is validating because the commonwealth of pennsylvania is a great state and the people there want great leadership. they feel like the country is

headed in a terrible direction and they are terrified that we are going to lose the senate. they need a great senator from pennsylvania representing their interests. >> laura: the wrap on you i think it's going to be that you worked -- my very good friend ray dolly oh, ran the hedge fund the ceo of called bridgewater. bridgewater has made a lot of money over in china. and he is a big defender of china. but you rode for a piece in fox business saying it is past time for america's leaders to confront head on the ccp which poses the greatest economic and security threat to the u.s. he said he will do everything in your power to end our dependence on china. but you are ceo of bridgewater and they have a deep engagement with china. so what gives? how will anyone think that you're going to be tough on china without background? >> i think china really does present this existential risk to our country.

our dependence on china is something we have to break that dependence and we need a whole nation strategy to do it. the pitch i'm going to make to the people of pennsylvania is i've spent my entire life doing the things that are going to make me a great leader to tough-minded fighter in china. i spent the first phase of my career in the military focused on fighting the communist. it was just the communist of the ussr. then i spent the second phase where i was 2005-2 a and six at the highest levels of our government negotiating against e chinese food i've written and sn about the technology stealing and the human rights abuses in the monetization of the pla and it was viewed as a strong ca voice and a china hawk and then the first phase of my career you mentioned iran a big investment firm which did business in 20 countries around the world, including china. about 2% of our business in china. the way i described that is just like donald trump dead which is the international business experience is going to meet me

someone understand who the like how the global economy makes all my quirks -- and what it really requires is a whole nation strategy. >> laura: so you are closer to trump and his position on china then you are with george w. bush on china? yes? >> yeah, absolutely. i think even in 2006 i was a really strong voice on china. but what happened as you know well in 2013 is that when xi came on board, he took china into a much more aggressive direction then it had ever gone before, and that is posing a real risk to our national security, our economy, and so forth. and so it requires a real whole nation strategy to deal with the and reduce the risk national security was also the restore economy. >> laura: so you are not in

agreement with your former partner, ready, on china and the closeness that he believes we should continue to foster with china? >> i think we deftly have a different view on the long-term prospects for china, the motivations of china. that is something -- differences we have held for a long time. and that is okay. he can have its view, i have my view. my views on that i think it is most important right now in terms of i am making my kids to the people of pennsylvania that i can represent them while on this most critical of issu. and i have a track record to do so. >> laura: that means pennsylvanians need jobs. you can keep the mike d industrializing our country. you clarified a lot. we really appreciate you joining us. going to be watching this race very closely. when we come back, the last bite.

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