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miranda devine, thank you. others are picking up your reporting. what a turn. thank you so much for coming back on the program today. >> sandra: great to be here with you today. that was two hours that went fast. >> bill: flying by. you are back in two hours. >> sandra: i'll see you back at 1:00. >> bill: i'll be watching. harris is out today. here is gillian turner. >> thank you. the biden white house now has a major baby formula mess on its hands. the president admitting he didn't know until april about the crisis that a plant shutdown in february was causing. the white house communications team says they had by that time already been working on it for months. i'm gillian turner in for harris today. the president's admission came moments after formula manufacturerers told him during a white house round table they realized pretty much immediately how bad the shortage was going to get.
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they also say it is not likely to improve for a couple of more months yet. the fda force evidence to shut down an abbott plant in michigan in february. the out of stock rate for most formula manufacturerers and brands nationwide is up to 70%. listen. [inaudible] >> white house press secretary dodged repeated questions over why the president was not briefed up much sooner. >> leadership in the administration they said you don't have that time frame. >> i just don't have the time frame to share. what i can say is the white
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house began working on this from the first day of the recall. from day one of the recall, which was back in february. the president said he did not understand how bad the issue was until april. perhaps the wasn't aware of the work going on in february. >> the president has multiple issues and crises at the moment. >> just this morning the white house is launching a website. it's white house./formula to show the american people what the white house is doing to stock shelves. jason chaffetz joins us now. there is a lot to unpack with this. let's start with the messaging. first it was the fda knows about the crisis fwut white house doesn't. the white house staff knows about this but the president does not. yesterday we got a new
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perspective from the formula manufacturers themselves. we knew about it and obvious to all of us. i guess the question -- a couple of questions here now. is there any liability on the part of the manufacturers? did they alert anybody? >> i don't know. this administration has given such mixed messaging along the way it just wreaks of incompetence. remember the white house sent pete buttigieg out on the sunday morning shows specifically face the nation and told the world that hey, the administration has been on this since day one only to weeks later have the president of the united states saying he had to be a mind reader to figure out what was going on. that's just incompetence within the white house. we haven't gotten a straight answer and most importantly there is not formula on the shelves. >> so yesterday bill hemmer had on president obama's former deputy chief of staff jim
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messina. he said president obama used to say one of the most important responsibilities is to be the explainer in chief. jason, it is not that everybody expects the president to know about every formula factory that gets shut down across the country. bigger picture than that but they expect him to have accountable and able to answer questions and what critics say we are missing from the white house right now is a clear explanation of the chain of events here. >> well, this is a pattern here. joe biden is not a very good communicator. kamala harris is nowhere and to admit out loud he had to be a mind reader to figure out what was going on within his own administration speaks volumes because it is not just his baby formula situation to say hey, we have a new website at this late in the game. i was at our costco and people were lined up for a long period
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of time hoping to get two cans of formula. at the end of the day i don't think a parent is -- they will look at this administration and say what's going on? to hear that it started back in february and here we are turning the corner into june, that doesn't give anybody a lot of confidence. >> us moms knew what was brewing and there was a recall and a lot of us had to chuck out storage bins of formula. it was the first sign something was going to go on here. i want to switch gears here while i have you to make sure we get in your take on the sussman trial. in the wake of the acquittal of clinton campaign lawyer sussmans they are taking a victory lap and the future viability of john durham's probe at large into the origins
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of trump/russia investigation. >> it's been as nine from the start. investigation of the deep state? this investigation of the investigators is much ado about nothing. it cost millions of dollars. what do they have to show for it at this time? >> not much. >> the hammer was supposed to finally come down. instead it was time to hear the sad trombone sound track. >> the verdict was a blow for the durham probe but it is not dead in the water, right? >> it was a blow undoubtedly and disappointing from my perspective. what joe scarborough, what he is talking about? they're investigating the fact that guess what, hillary clinton's campaign manager said that hillary clinton was personally involved in the decision to plant a story within the f.b.i., plant a
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story within the media that was a fabrication, it was a lie in this country for years and that network he works for has story after story after story just beating this drum on a total falsehood. they lied about donald trump. they dragged him through mud and totally lied. i don't think there is any question about that at this point. i wish durham had been found guilty. i don't know you have a jury donors to the democratic party. a daughter on the same ball team as the other. i just don't understand how that is supposedly justice in america. >> you are talking about the jury pool. >> the jury pool was so tainted in washington, d.c. but nevertheless, i hope durham continues because somebody planted this false story. i think we now know it is hillary clinton. where are the other charges? that's where i think a huge swash of america wants to see justice in this country. >> listen to president trump.
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he spoke to fox news digital yesterday and he said this verdict makes me want to fight even harder. if we don't win, our country is ruined. he goes on to reiterate they spied on his campaign. since we're now in political season i would be remiss if i didn't ask you -- this sounds like an admission, he is going to run, does it not? >> oh, i think donald trump is going to keep us guessing for a very long time. >> saying i will fight harder. those are fighting words >> he still fights. whether or not he is a candidate or not he is holding rallies around the country. nobody attracts a crowd like donald trump. he still has the biggest microphone out there on the republican side of the aisle and there are still tens of millions of people that support donald trump. so when he speaks, people listen. and i think he is right on this. he was on the receiving end of a lie that went on for years and the mueller report that supports the idea that it was a
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lie. where is the journalistic integrity? where is the journalistic endeavors to get to the bottom of how the national media was wrong for so long? where is that? >> i can tell you one thing as a journalist. if the president wants to rev up more interest in this he will announce one way or the other what he is going to do in 2024 and everybody will pay a lot more attention. we have to leave it there. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> fox news alert. any moment tulsa are set to give an update on the shooting yesterday. the shooter killed four people, wounded several others and then took his own life. here is a witness. >> we just took cover. >> what was going through your mind? >> fear, just fear. >> let's bring in garrett
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tenney with breaking details. hi. >> we are awaiting the press conference from tulsa police where we hope to learn more about what happened. what we know right now is shortly before 5:00 p.m. yesterday tulsa police received a 911 call about a man with a rifle at st. francis hospital. officers were on the scene in three minutes and they heard gunshots on the second floor. as they breached the door to that floor the shooting stopped when the suspect took his own life after killing four people. around 10 or 10 others suffered non-life threatening injuries. for a motive. investigators say it appears to be a planned and targeted attack. >> this is not a random event. it is not as if he went to a hospital and was indiscriminately shooting at people. he very purposefully went to this location, went to the specific floor and shot with
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very specific purpose. >> the floor where the shooting took place has several medical offices including an orthopedic center. investigators haven't released the suspect's name. a black man between 35 and 40 and he was armed with a semi automatic rifle and handgun. with the school shooting in uvalde, texas fresh on everyone's mind local leaders are praising the response by tulsa police. >> i also want to express our community's profound gratitude for the broad range of first responders who did not hesitate today to respond to this act of violence. men and women of the tulsa police department did not hesitate. >> after the shooting police received information the shooter may have left a bomb at a home in the town about an hour outside of tulsa. police tell me no explosives were found. we expect an update from police in the next few minutes and
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learn more about the shooter and the four people whose lives he took. gillian. >> garrett tenney in chicago. thank you. conservatives now say it is the left's war on fossil fuels that is most hurting american wallets and the pain is now getting worse by the day. listen. >> you better put your seat belt on. they will give us a crash landing. if you get rid of fossil fuels. we'll have a drastically lower standard of living. >> president biden is saying it is not up to him. he can't turn high prices on or off with the flip of a switch. back to the future for brian kemp facing a rematch with stacey abrams and already handing out tremendous political gifts to his campaign. we have governor kemp in "focus" next.
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>> gillian: we're taking you live now to a police press conference out of tulsa. let's listen in. >> senseless tragedy. we grieve with the co-workers and we pray -- we pray because we all need prayer. i cannot begin to thank the men and women of the tulsa police department for the immediate response that they had to the incident yesterday. our training led us to take immediate action without hesitation. that's exactly what officers do and that's what they did in this instance. they had the right mindset framed and went into action and
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did a tremendous job. the other first responders that came to the scene, the tulsa fire department, oklahoma highway patrol, tulsa county sheriffs office. st. francis security team, the federal bureau of investigation, alcohol and tobacco and firearms. united states marshal service. tribal police and other federal and local agencies all responded and descended upon 61st and yale yesterday. this was not done -- this was a coordinated effort. it was not done haphazardly. i also have to thank the dispatchers and call takers at our 911 center that reacted as they were trained. law enforcement across the nation is dealing with increased violence among people.
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this is yet another act of violence upon an american city. i will say that as a tulsa police officer we train and we train and we train. we train for instances such as this. and i'm overwhelmed and proud of the men and women, all those that responded yesterday. now i want to take some time and go over the timeline with you as we know it today. this information is fluid and can still change. but it is the most accurate information that we have at this point. before i do that, let me go ahead and provide the names of the victims and i will allow st. francis to elaborate more
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on those victims. we have dr. preston phillips, dr. stephanie hughesen, amanda green, william love. and our suspect, michael lewis. on may 19th, michael lewis went into the hospital for a back surgery. the performing physician was dr. preston phillips. mr. lewis was released on 5/24, may 24th. after released, lewis called several times over several days complaining of pain and wanted
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additional treatment. on may 31st, dr. phillips saw mr. lewis again for additional treatment. yesterday, june 1, lewis called dr. phillips' office again complaining of back pain and wanting additional assistance. now, we know through the help of our atf and their gun tracing that at 2:00 p.m. on june 1st, mr. lewis purchased a semi automatic rifle from a local gun store. that semi automatic rifle was an ar-15-style rifle.
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we know that mr. lewis purchased a semi automatic handgun, a.40 caliber smiths and weston pistol on may 29th from a local pawnshop. i now want to go into the shooting timeline. at 4:52 p.m. on june 1st, a third party who was on a video chat off location with an on location doctor called 911 saying the doctor told her to call 911 saying there has been a shooting. at 4:53p.m. we received a 911 call about a shooter in a building. we then continued to receive multiple calls that were more
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specific on a shooter being on the second floor of the natalie building on the campus of st. francis hospital. at 4:55 p.m., a person called and clarified the building as the scene of the shooting. the first tulsa police officers arrived one minute later at 4:56 p.m. i want to give some context on the natalie building. the natalie building is a five-story medical office building with numerous offices, rooms, hallways, and so forth. it is an exceedingly complex environment. a tactical situation for an officer to deal with is pretty complex. officers entered the building on the first floor and made their way to the second floor based on the information they received.
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while on the second floor of that building officers began yelling tulsa police. this is something we train to do. as officers were calling out tulsa police and advancing toward a suspect location, they heard a gunshot. we believe that was the final gunshot with the suspect taking his own life. the gunshot was at 4:58 p.m. approximately 39 seconds after the first officers entered the building. as officers started clearing the building they came across a victim that was down in the exam room. officers requested help to the floor and continued searching for the suspect. this victim later died at the hospital. we found the suspect and we
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rescued a female who was hiding under a desk at the suspect's foot. she was there when the suspect took his life. she did not appear to be injured. officers rescued that victim who was hiding under a desk but officers also located another deceased victim next to the shooting suspect. officers continued to search the building for victims or additional suspects and came across another victim that was down in an open area near a nurse's station. at this point, officers began directing first responders to those victims to render first-aid. again, this is something we work cooperatively with and we can go into what we call a hot environment with medical personnel and fire personnel and start rendering aid. in that same room, there was --
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the victim was at, officers also rescued an elderly female that was in the room. as officers continued to clear the building, they located dr. phillips deceased in an exam room. as officers continued to clear the building, they removed multiple witnesses and victims and escorted them from the building. as more officers arrived on scene, we began a methodical search of each floor of the five-story structure looking for witnesses and/or victims. thus far, we have recovered 30, 223 casings from the crime scene. we have also recovered seven .40 caliber casings from the crime scene. we have also found a letter on
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the suspect which made it clear that he came in with the intent to kill dr. phillips and anyone who got in his way. he blamed dr. phillips for the ongoing pain following the surgery. at 5:24 p.m., we received a call from the cherokee county sheriff's office and that dispatcher told us a woman on the line, whose name they did not have, called saying that her husband had killed several people at dr. phillips' office. this would have been a half hour after the event occurred. we received two follow-up phone calls from the cherokee county sheriff's office providing clarifying information. all of this information was after the fact. once the scene was secure, the
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tulsa police homicide and crime scene detectives began working the scene. they continued work until 3:00 a.m. this morning. we have now turned that scene back over to the hospital staff at st. francis. i cannot emphasize enough that we train rigorously over and over and over again for not if, but when. because we have seen the violence that has taken place throughout the united states. and we would be naive not to think that that would not happen in our jurisdiction. so again, to the men and women of the tulsa police department, oklahoma highway patrol, all of the surrounding jurisdictions that descended upon the scene yesterday, i offer a heart felt thanks and i hope that each and
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every citizen that sees an officer today thanks an officer today because this job is hard. it is difficult. >> thank you, franklin. i had an opportunity to walk through the clinic this morning and i did that for two reasons. one of which so that i could see it for myself more than just the lobby, which is where i was last night, but also so that i could do one thing, which is i represent over 10,000 people that make up the st. francis health system and i prayed over each of the areas where it was clear that someone had laid, including the
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perpetrator. and i last night sent a message to our staff and i just asked them to do two things. one of which is to ask questions because there are a thousand questions that we are going to need to try to answer over the next couple of days, the next couple of weeks, probably next couple of months. but i also asked them to acknowledge that yesterday will change st. francis and it is up to us to not allow this horrible event, this situation, we can't allow that to make us want to turn our back on the reason that we are here. we were all called into this profession whether you are a physician or a caregiver or a support staff, we were all
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called into this profession to care for others and to care for our community. and while it is human nature to want to turn our backs right now, to want to walk away, we can't do that. and we won't do that. so all i ask is for you to just continue to support this organization and this community with your prayers. and know that st. francis will be -- will come out of this even stronger still.
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hardworking georgians and americans know that
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>> she did subsequently clarify that comment.
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it is you who made the state of georgia unlivable and now servings on the governing board. she has in the past d to distance herself from the defund movement. her office says she doesn't share the group's views but fox news learned the foundation did reportedly pay her $52,000 for her services and it also we're learning awarded ucla professor who has this hot take on capitalism. listen. >> so the secret to capitalism survival is racism. so any true liberation has to be anti-capitalist. there is no way capitalism cannot save us. even if you could create capitalism that's somehow non-racial. let's say you can do that in theory, we still have deep exploitation in the inequality produced by it. >> gillian: we reached out to
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the abrams campaign. what do you say? >> i would say she is attacking my record because her record is coming out now and it is horrible and not where georgians want to go or go in november of 2022. she said that we were going to suppress the vote with our elections integrity act. we just had record turnout. i mentioned that we suspended the gas tax. we're sending a billion dollars backs to the taxpayers. she came out and opposed all those things. you also remember that ridiculous picture of her being in a classroom where you had a school that had a mask mandate but she didn't need to wear one because she is better than everyone else and she had to change her story about that. the same story with major league baseball pulling the all-star game that cost small business owners over $100 million. she was pushing that behind the scenes and then came out and said no, don't move the all-star game.
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you know what? people in georgia are figuring it out. they want somebody who is consist tefnt and truthful. we'll do that to make sure our state continues to be the greatest state in the country to live, work and raise our families despite her opinion. >> gillian: thank you so much for joining us today. we appreciate it as always. >> god bless. >> gillian: ceo elon musk is demanding tesla and spacex employees return to the office full-time or quit. it is making the round on social media. he said anyone who wishes to do remote work must be in the office of a minimum of 40 hours per week or depart tesla. less than we ask of factory workers. any additional comment to people who think coming into work is an antiquated concept? musk replied they should pretend to work somewhere else. musk is right now trying to buy
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twitter which has a very different remote work policy. social media giant reopened offices in march but told their employees they can work wherever they feel most productive. next up we'll bring in the power panel to debate. we have lisa boothe, fox news contributor and jose moounio, former dnc deputy press secretary. thank you for joining us. lisa, let's start with you. what do you think about this for musk. will it help him with what he is trying to do right now with twitter? >> it is good to see you. a hybrid model. we saw covid was the isolation did to so many americans and we saw the highest combined ever rates of deaths from suicide, drugs, and alcohol abuse in 2020. so i think isolation is bad for us as humans. bust i think this is more about
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elon musk being public enemy number one. he dared to challenge the group think narrative. dared to try to buy twitter and have it serve as a check against the propaganda we're fed by the mainstream media and the left as we saw during covid with any sort of opinions that went against the group think narrative being censored and banned. we're seeing the leftist playbook being played out here, right? "the new york times" accuse elon musk of racism. me too allegation and now his companies are under attack. this is honestly more about elon musk being public enemy number one than it is about anything else. >> gillian: jose, there is also in addition to what lisa laid out this refrain we keep hearing over again from economists the job market is now poised for the first time in a long time to really be on the side of workers, people -- there are more jobs than people to fill them. workers can choose where, when
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and how they want to do their job. this is musk going against that, too. >> i actually disagree. i think it's all about each company having different policies. tesla manufacturing products, physical products. it is different. they need to be in the factory. elon musk is a great entrepreneur and actually lived in his factories for a long time. he is demanding that his employees do the same. not live but go to the office and i think that's fine. twitter being a social media platform is a different type of company, different type of poll see.s at the end of the day each employer has the prerogative to decide how they want their employees to operate. >> gillian: lisa and jose, we have to cut short because of the press conference earlier. we love talking to you. thank you for taking time for us today.
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[chanting] >> that's fans of johnny depp celebrating in fairfax and social media after he won his defamation case against his ex wife amber heard. they said heard's claim she was a public figure of domestic abuse was false. hurt depp's reputation. twitter exploded overnight. one user saying he did it. justice for johnny. another with this. captain jack sparrow until this day has never been caught. and this one, he won in the court of public opinion and he won in the court of law. critics say the verdict is a big setback for victims of domestic violence and the entire #metoo movement. >> without a doubt it will have a massive chilling effect on the #metoo movement on women speaking out without a doubt this will have farther reaching repercussions on the cultural moment that we find ourselves in today. >> gillian: let's bring in
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jimmy failla host of fox across america on fox news radio. is this a case of depp won, heard loss or a case of everybody who touched this trial with a 10 foot pole has lost? that's how i feel. >> the only up side to the whole trial is all of us who watched feel better about our own relationships now, you know? my wife used to question whether or not i was a good fit. after watching these two maniacs for two months she said we're not so bad. at least my wife didn't poop on the bed. stick with me. we have adult conversations to have. everybody yelling and screaming about how this is a setback for real victims didn't pay any attention to this trial because this was an actual victory for what, due process. guilt by accusation was no longer going to be a thing. in theory amber heard set back real victims. i said real victims because it is so rare for a jury to award money, let alone the type of
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money they did in a defamation case, meaning in their opinion she went above and beyond to lie. >> gillian: then there is a confounding detail the jury awarded her money as well. it was because of his lawyers. isn't that a tip of the hat so we hear you also? >> maybe a little bit. definitely demonstrates they were thorough, paid attention and didn't have a vindictive angle. amber heard tried to destroy this guy's career and if he didn't sue it was destroyed. he was getting offers to do low budget films like porch pirates of the caribbean. this wasn't jack sparrow stuff. good on him for pushing back and a good day for due process and i don't think any real victim should be discouraged. if you are telling the truth we all want to hear it.
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we didn't say we didn't want to hear it. the truth was on his side and that's why he won. >> gillian: we have to move to the next topic. the u.s. marine corps stirred up controversy posted a picture for pride month featuring a combat helmet adorned with rainbow bullets. not everybody was happy with this new messaging. accusing the marines of going woke. republicans took outrage to twitter asking is this satire? what do you say? >> it's embarrassing. the military's job obviously is to fight and win wars. there is no room for discrimination on a battlefield because you are counting on the people around you to save your life.qk[ç there is nobody out there saying i'm going in but only you guys are allowed to cover me. i don't want any cover fire from those people. that's not a real thing. this looks ridiculous to people who know the true purpose of the military. what's next? army tanks having bumper stickers that say hate has no
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home here? it's war and it's all hate and we are raising such a fragile generation of people. we are three years away of having a military isis called me an infidel. i'm not fighting today. >> gillian: thank you so much for being with us. thank you for watching "the faulkner focus". "outnumbered" is coming up next. be ready for every moment, with glucerna. it's the number one doctor recommended brand that is scientifically designed to help manage your blood sugar. live every moment. glucerna.
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only for a limited time. to learn more go to sleepnumber.com ♪ ♪ >> this is out number, hello, everyone, i am emily compagno, with kayleigh mcenany, and joining us today julie banderas, jenna arnold, and charlie hurt. the surprising win for johnny depp and his defamation lawsuit against his ex-wife amber heard is raising questions about the impact it could have on the me too movement and standards of defamation. it was a verdict that many were not expecting. >> we find that mr. johnny depp has proven all of the

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