according -- it's the fourth most popular tourist attraction in all of cleveland. also tomorrow night fox nation 7:00 eastern time you can see the patriot awards live. the whole cast and crew in florida. >> martha: looking forward to that. buy that house and have christmas there. >> bill: we could have a party. >> martha: harris is coming up next on "the faulkner focus." >> harris: fox news alert. top republican in the house kevin mccarthy has cleared a major hurdle in his bid to stake nancy pelosi's job. i'm harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus." on the list of powers they would inherit if they get the majority will be subpoena power which they might use to investigate many things like the origins of covid. the u.s. response to covid including lockdowns, president biden's knowledge or participation in his son's business dealings.

minority leader mccarthy easily won the vote among his conference. they have nominated him to be the speaker if indeed the g.o.p. take control. when it comes to the full house vote in january, that was the conference for nomination. then they take a full house vote in january. we could see a battle. conservative challenger andy biggs of arizona won 31 votes during that same conference vote. so mccarthy didn't get all of them. he will have to get all 218 republicans will have to vote for him to become speaker in january. republican mike waltz of florida is optimistic that members will unify around mccarthy. >> transparency there. they don't want all the power to be in the hands of just a few. those are reasonable demands. mccarthy is listening to the demands. we'll have internal family discussions so we can get there, he can be speaker and we can moving the county forward and

get accountability that so many people are demanding. >> harris: on the senate side leadership elections are getting under way this morning. senate campaign armchair rick scott is the challenger taking on mitch mcconnell's leadership. mcconnell told reporters i have the votes and i will be elected. in "focus", republican congressman brian mast of florida. first, though, senior congressional correspondent chad pergram where all of this is cooking. >> good morning. house republicans are sitting on the precipice of a majority. they have 217 seats. the g.o.p. tapped house minority leader kevin mccarthy to be its speaker in january. >> we know our job will not be easy and we know the task, we have a close majority and we have to work together. we want to work with anyone who wants to make america stronger. we want to work with anybody on both sides of the aisle if they

want to make america energy independent. >> mccarthy prevailed over andy biggs of arizona. mccarthy still lacks the votes to become speaker in january. on the senate side rick scott of florida is running against senate minority leader mitch mcconnell. mcconnell isn't sweating the outcome. >> i don't own this job. anybody in the conference is certainly entitled to challenge me. and i welcome the contest. >> tommy tuberville of alabama backs mcconnell but he likes competition. >> i wish we had 3 or 4 people running and give their reasons why and you get better out of that. people learn. if you keep the status quo and you don't have a challenge it doesn't make people better. >> some conservatives hope to postpone the leadership elections until after the georgia senate runoff in december. there is tension between

mcconnell and scott. scott faced criticism for how he ran the gop campaign arm this cycle and still came up short. harris. >> harris: chad, thank you very much. in "focus" now brian mast, republican congressman from the great state of florida and member of the armed services committee. we have a lot to get to. let's start here. thank you for that and for your service. this is a capitol hill behind the scenes type of item. i would guess that most people don't tune in for it. so what do the american people need to know about who becomes the next speaker? >> number one, why it matters who the next speaker is is because the speaker of the house will determine all of those things that come to the floor of the house of representatives. so if you want to see term limits but you wonder why it's not there it is because the speaker of the house didn't allow that bill as an example to come to the floor of the house. all of the things that the committees will look at in terms of their jurisdiction to go out there and conduct oversight over

hunter biden, over the afghanistan withdrawal or a host of different things. those things will be run through the speaker's office. that's why it really matters to the american people who the speaker of the house actually is. >> harris: thank you for that. a "washington examiner" op-ed argues that americans wisely voted that both political parties deserve to lose. here is a quote. national democrats have caused or greatly exacerbated inflation, border chaos, a crime wave and an illicit drug crisis. national republicans didn't just spread the lie that the 2020 election was stolen but even after a vicious incursion into the capitol a majority of republicans voted against certifying election results. neither major party reserves full governing. voters created that. >> i agree with everything that

op-ed said about democrats. i disagreed what they said about republicans. we can go back and rehash this in a number of different ways and say people like hillary clinton said for years that donald trump was illegitimately elected. that's a he said/she saidening. the fact of the matter is president biden is taking america in the wrong direction. republicans have a different direction. how to change border policy and energy policy, who needs to be held accountable. democrats will be given the option to vote yes or no, up or down and we'll see where they stand. >> harris: it's so interesting. you are touching on foreign policy there and look at what's going on in the world right now. let's do a look at this. fox news alert the latest on poland and the missile that landed in that nato country killing two people. president biden has spoken with poland's president. the people who died were near

the ukrainian border. concerns began to grow that the united states could get pulled into defending that allied nation. but as always we wait for the facts. waiting for the facts is critical. president biden and his polish counterpart began to tamp down on those concerns. let's watch. >> is it too early to say whether this missile was fired from russia? >> president biden: there is preliminary information that contests that. i don't want to say that until we completely investigate it. but it is -- it's unlikely in the minds of the tray -- trajectory that it was fired from russia. >> no conclusive evidence at the moment who launched the missile. the investigation is underway.

>> harris: the congressman and i will watch this together. a flashback to president biden last year in warsaw. >> president biden: the united states will defend every inch of nato territory with the full force of american power. there is no doubt, no doubt that the united states and every nato ally will meet our article five commitments which says an attack on one is an attack on all. >> harris: first of all, your response to the back and forth from a singular person. >> number one, this is the most concerning thing to me. this was one of the most likely scenarios that could happen in this conflict, that ordinance, whether from russia or ukraine land in another nato country. and the administration should have had concepts of operation in place to say if this happens, then execute plan 195 or 196 or whatever that may be. and what you see instead is a level of chaos out of them where they are uncertain about what their reaction is going to be and what they are going to do. as it relates to nato we should

fully support our article five -- what you could say our commitments to nato. we should fully support that. whether this came out of russia or the ukraine, this is absolutely a litmus test for what nato will do. that's the way that vladimir putin has to be looking at it whether he fired it or not. >> harris: i mentioned to our audience you are on the armed services committee. when i hear you say concepts of operation to execute your military background also really comes shining through because everybody has that next plan. and i was reading last night that they were moving pretty quickly to article four, which would mean that everybody would then be monitoring every meeting. there is a gear-up and suddenly we started to learn some of the facts. what is your take on just how the president talks to the american people about this? should there have been more said? >> i think the president and in

turn the pentagon spoke about this in an uncertain way. i use that term concept of operation. he should have given the american people confidence that if this takes place, then there is a pre-thought out, pre-planned american national security objective that is going to be met by doing this action. he should have laid that out. this has been well thought out, not that they are just now sitting in a war room saying man, i wish we would have thought about this happening when it became so likely. so he needs to give that confidence. one of the places i didn't have confidence was the reaction from the pentagon where their first reaction was saying well, we're not even sure if ordnance went from inside ukraine from russia or poland or ukraine into poland. we're not sure it happened. absolutely they were sure it happened and knew it happened but didn't want to answer, 100%. >> harris: wow, let's talk about ukraine a little bit.

election night i had a live audience and voters' voices. one of the things we were touching on had to do where money goes and there is concern that we aren't trying to do everything. like take care of the american people and then take care of what you can around the world, too. we can't just do one was what people were telling me. let's watch this. president biden has requested an additional $37 billion in emergency aid for ukraine. that's in addition to the nearly $19 billion of security assistance already provided from the united states since russia's brutal invasion back in january. house minority leader kevin mccarthy is warning republicans won't back excessive financial aid without the receipts. you want to know where the money is going. people will be sitting in a recession and not going to write a blank check to ukraine. they just won't do it. it is not a free blank check, end of quote. congressman mast. >> i did not vote for the $40

billion that went to ukraine before. i will give you a quick true story on this. on the day of that vote i went to the floor of the house of representatives and asked the number of my colleagues about what are we buying for $40 billion? not which bombs and bullets. are we buying a ukrainian victory and russian nuclear demilitarization or they're out of crimea. what are we getting as a national security objective? i asked steny hoyer his question. his answer was well, brian, i just think what we've been doing so far has been working. so let's just keep doing whatever it is that we've been doing. that was the answer from the democrat majority leader on spending $40 billion of we the people's money. >> harris: congressman mast, thank you for bringing us the details behind the scenes and what's going on with money going to ukraine and all the rest of what we talked about.

i'll bring you back. good to have you in "focus", thank you. we do have breaking news now. story we've been covering for a short time. a group of sheriff's recruits were hit by a car earlier this morning in los angeles county. california highway patrol says the group was on an early morning run. they were on foot when a vehicle ran them down. at least ten recruits are injured. two of them reportedly are in critical condition. we're told police detained the driver. what you see is a horrible scene. they are investigating to see whether this was deliberate or accidental. exactly what happened. as we learn more, we'll report it. texas governor greg abbott fresh off his re-election victory has sent another bus carrying people entering our nation illegally to a democrat-led city. they arrived in philadelphia today. violence there is off the charts. the city's liberal district attorney actually is telling

abbott his move could be a crime. by the way, the city's liberal district attorney larry krasner is up for a recall. we'll see what happens with that. plus former president trump making his 2024 bid official. reaction is mixed today. >> the american people elected donald trump and i think he was the right man at the right time for america. now i believe we're in a different season in the life of the nation. >> harris: some people love it. the announcement not likely to stop a host of other republicans from throwing their hats into the ring for 2024. former white house press secretary ari fleischer is in "focus" next. 's costing more. if you need cash, call newday. you can borrow up to 100% of your home's value. veterans get more at newday usa. my asthma felt anything but normal. a blood test helped show my asthma

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>> harris: the mid-term

elections are still not settled but the 2024 race kicked off last night. former president donald trump made his official campaign announcement. >> america's comeback starts right now. for millions of americans, the past two years under joe biden have been a time of pain, h hardship, anxiety and despair. i am tonight announcing my candidacy for president of the united states. >> harris: there was mixed reaction from republicans. senator lynndie graham is not offering his endorsement but tweeted if president trump continues this tone and delivers this message on a consistent basis, he will be hard to beat. others in the party say trump's move came too soon and the timing won't stop other candidates. >> won't clear the field. he is really making the announcement at one of his weakest political points.

we just got crushed in this election. other folks will enter until late 23. a lot of things will change politically between now and then. we have a long way to go before anything serious starts moving for 2024. >> harris: the potential contenders include florida governor ron desantis, former vice president mike pence and former secretary of state mike pompeo and several other high-profile names are bubbling to the top as you see there. mark meredith live in orlando, florida where republicans governors are holding their annual conference. >> multiple republican governors say they think it's way too early to be talk of 2024 and not close to offering up any endorsements. politics dominating the discussions at the conference and one of the big headliners a governor getting a lot of attention, ron desantis. he was the big speaker last night. his remarks were not open to the

press and cameras were not in there. he did not bring up the former president. he received quite a bit of a standing ovation and many in the room were eager to apply the desantis playbook to other battleground states going forward. the governor at a separate event was thrilled with the idea of playing a larger role in the party. >> we focused on results and leadership and at the end of the day, i would just tell people to go check out the scoreboard from last tuesday night. >> this year's republican governor's conference is something of a reflection point for the party. we heard from arkansas governor elect sarah huckabee sanders urging republicans to focus on the education issue. >> we have to take back the moral high ground when it comes to education. we have to take back the conversation and go on offense and start talking about how we are the party that is empowering parents to make the best

decisions for their kids. >> i've heard from other governors who said they believe issues matter here, education, tax policy, what's going on with the price of diesel. one of the people who says the party needs to focus on those issues is brian kemp of georgia. i had to ask him about 2024. the news last night. here is what he had to say moments ago. >> i didn't get to see the announcement. i don't think anybody was shocked by that. there will be a big conversation of what 24 looks like. we have got to stay focused on the 22 cycle. >> the governor also saying he is focusing on the mid-term election in georgia, the senate runoff. a lot of focus on what governor kemp's future and desantis. the party will be looking to see where it goes from here. >> harris: governor kemp is correct is that all eyes are focused on georgia now as herschel walker, they want to see if they can push him over the line against raphael warnock.

it is 20 days until that runoff. not a lot of time. they are all focused on that as he said. mark, good to see you. the "wall street journal" editorial board is asking will the gop nominate the man democrats know they can beat? we warned about mr. trump's character in 2016. but once he was elected, we covered him like any other president. we owed that to readers and he had many policy successes. here is a list. taxes and deregulation, energy, security, judges, yet not to mention the u.s. supreme court justices and then all of the judges that trump put into place. the abraham accords which came via his son-in-law, correcting illusions about iran and his character flaws, this is a quote, nares is -- narcissism.

other things interfered with that success. let's get ari fleischer's take. there were other things that list could have been a lot longer like operation warp speed and a vaccination during a pandemic. record low economic situations for people of color. the list was long. what do you take of it? >> there is no question donald trump was a policy success. for taking on china to the abraham accords and international success getting nato members to spend more money. the child poverty rate in america pre-pandemic was the lowest since 1958. tremendous policy success. energy security and southern border was mostly closed. the question is, is donald trump too hot to handle? does he break so much china to enact policies that people are tired of him? the best way to settle the issues is a primary.

they are how parties breathe, identify the next, solidify support for the existing donald trump, or say it's time for a new generation or different leaders. you let the people decide that. so i do think there will be a primary and unless it's 2 or 3 or 4 conservatives running against donald trump it will be a fair fight. donald trump could win it or potentially 1 or 2 candidates running against him can win it. nothing wrong with a primary. >> harris: you know who agrees with you about the power of the primary? the democrats. they dumped $40 million into primaries across the spectrum and they were putting their money on the far right mostly new candidates. and seeing if they could meddle in the elections. by an argument on their side it worked. >> i wonder if they'll put all their money now on donald trump. will they run ads saying donald trump is the best candidate in a republican primary.

>> harris: sure, spend what you have i suppose. >> i don't care what the democrats think about a primary. i care about republicans think. this is how parties breathe and how parties identify the next. there is always a next in politics. donald trump might be what's next but it also might be someone new. you have to err the grievances and let it out. the question of if donald trump is too hot to handle and stand in his own way and mess things up is a legitimate question that people need to talk about, including the former president. >> harris: great to see you, harry -- thank you. >> harris: an interviewer said he was told to avoid certain questions in a recent conversation with hunter biden. new political fallout after the collapse of crypto currency exchange ftx.

>> a political operation and obvious it would go down in flames and only went bankrupt after the mid-terms. >> the exchanges founder donated nearly $40 million to democrats mid-term campaigns. outkick founder clay travis is in "focus" next. ♪

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>> harris: huge palm it call fallout after the collapse of crypto currency exchange ftx. a top democrat senator hitting members of his own political party from taking big money from it. brown saying criminal charges could be coming for

bankman-fried. he donated $40 million to democrat election campaign in the mid-terms. their causes and pacs. hillary vaughn is live on capitol hill with the details. hillary. >> that big chunk of change makes bankman-fried the second largest donor for the democratic party after george soros according to open secrets. he handed over $37 million to democratic causes and pledged to spend a lot more. back in may he said in an interview he would give up to $1 billion in the general election to democrats but now that money it seems has suddenly run out. there are big questions about if the money bankman-fried used for campaign donations came from customers on his crypto exchange and top democrats on capitol hill want answers. >> we will aggressively do oversight here. they need to be held accountable.

>> i think an awful lot of them have to explain what they've done. >> some republicans are wondering how the security exchange commission, who is in charge of oversight, overlooked this. >> this is huge. you are looking at scandals to the level of madoff, right? this is something that could be highly criminal activity. this whole operation just to funnel more money to democrats and that's the big question is what did they know about it. >> dozens of congressional candidates benefited from the crypto founder's tainted cache. it was protect our future that received over $27 million from bankman-fried. should lawmakers give the ftx donations back? >> do you think some lawmakers that got donations from the founder should give that money back? >> i don't want to get into that. both sides democrats and

republicans have received donations. thank you. >> the daily beast reached out to 25 different offices of lawmakers that received some of these donations. some of them said that they will give the money back. others said they are donating it to charity and others just didn't say what they were going to do. harris. >> harris: not yet, right? see how it will land. they better come up with some answers, though. good to see you. outkick founder clay travis is in "focus" now. what you do make of all of this? you watch the crypto currency. explain it to us. >> i think a lot of people don't understand crypto currency at all which is how we end up in this situation where you lose it appears $50 billion potentially before this whole thing is done. that's pretty crazy. look, there are a lot of details that need to be ironed out here. to me the fact that ftx gave

nearly $40 million to democrats and had pledged much more than that going forward is an incredible indictment of where we are. i think this guy likely has committed fraud based on some of the details coming out. and will probably end up being charged. and i don't know if you've seen, harris, to me it is kind of emblematic of enron. if you remember enron was the presenting sponsor of the houston astro s stadium and had to take enron off the stadium and you've seen it in miami where they took ftx off the arena of the miami heat. we're just beginning to see how deep and messy this will end up being. i hope it doesn't spiral over into the larger marketplace and create more of an issue. in the meantime i think we need robust investigations. you have to wonder how aggressive those investigations will be given how politically

motivated this guy was in supporting democrats and why as we approach having a brand-new house under republican control i would suggest that there certainly needs to be a house committee investigation here to hopefully make sure this doesn't end up getting covered up based on political connections. >> harris: some of the democrats are saying where the money went but not everybody yet. we need to know a lot about what this dark money was promised. it is odd to come from one source like this. >> how about the fact that it blows up a couple of days after the election. amazing how that happens, right? something blows up and you have the student loan $4 hundred billion, all of it suddenly goes up in smoke a couple of days after the election. i don't think all of the timing on this is coincidental. >> harris: it is not clean. we don't know how dirty it was but it is not squeaky clean in terms of how it all was laid out. you are right. if and when -- it is only a seat

away now for republicans to take the thousand. i mentioned earlier this hour to viewers it comes with subpoena power and this might be one of the things now that they can add to the list, republicans can, to investigate and take a closer look at as you said. let's move to this. an interviewer said his hands were tied during a recent conversation with hunter biden and that he had to avoid certain topics during the discussion. here is some of his reaction on air after the interview ended. >> they just jumped off now so that gives you an idea of how behind the scenes that was tough. seems a lot of requirements we had to meet. it was so stressful, so stressful, man. we always let debates happen. the first time when we were -- hands tied. these are the questions you ask. you can't ask any other questions and boy, it was difficult. >> harris: so, clay, i don't

know how hard it is to ask difficult questions and have the person say i'm not answering that. i had to scratch my head at that. who gives an interview when you are under federal investigation like this and your dad is the president of the united states? i mean, the hunter drama just continues. could be even a legal drama. >> that's my first reaction, harris. how in the world did this investigation ever get -- this interview ever get agreed to in the midst of these investigations in the first place? and with all the places that the interview could have happened, how did it end up on a random crypto show? hunter biden makes poor life choices. we've known this for a looking time. in the middle of what's going on with his dad and certainly with subpoena power likely to reside with the republicans in the house in the next few hours potentially, that could become official in terms of winning elections to put them over the

top and give the gavel to kevin mccarthy. this is going to be a mess, i believe, for joe biden and certainly for hunter biden. we are through the mid-term elections. the department of justice and f.b.i. have had clear evidence of multiple felonies based on the hunter biden laptop and he is trying to give an interview about painting and nfts and craziness? he was trying to sell paintings for $5 hundred thousand like that was normal. they are obsessed with people buying hamburgers at the trump hotel and yet this is happening. >> harris: it's not the feke-out by the reporter. i want to hear what was hunter saying? i can't answer that or attempting to give an answer? i don't know if that's worth -- i do know what we do to get it or if it's worth any of it. interesting to know what was being said on the other side.

critics are going after john fetterman's wife. many were quick to point out her husband is partially cropped out and accused mrs. fetterman of using it for her own 15 minutes of fame. she wanted it so badly for herself. first day for senator elect gistel fetterman and why is she even there? >> she is a lot better looking an he s. as a man married to a wife far better looking i'm sure he would say i don't need to be in the photo. he is not able to do the job, harris. the reality here is that it does feel as if basically pennsylvania has elected his wife and she certainly is furthering that idea with these photos. maybe she will step down and the new democrat governor elect will appoint her when her husband can't do the job.

i can't believe we are in a situation that fetterman got elected. >> harris: every republican lawmaker that you interview will tell you they will take a close look how polling was wrong. they really want to know what happened not just in this race. you lost a republican seat here. that was pat toomey's seat. they'll look at that and we'll look at john fetterman being cropped out of the photo by his wife. clay travis, great to have you in "focus." thank you. tomorrow an award show like no other. the fox nation patriot awards celebrates patriotism by honoring everyday american heroes who have shown dedication to our nation. it will feature dozens of fox news personalities as well. i'll be down there with my co-host. emcee will be pete hegseth and can't wait to meet these individuals who have done so much. some of them are military, some are civilians.

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>> secretary mayorkas do you continue to maintain that the border is secure? >> yes. we're working day in and day out to enhance its security. we have markable -- >> i want to make sure that's still your assessment. director wray. >> it is very important if i may. >> there is not enough time for a lot of explanation. >> i think it is a position that denies reality respectfully. director wray, do you believe that the border is secure? >> i can only speak to border security from our narrow lane but i can speak to it from that lane. what i would say is that we see significant criminal threats coming from south of the border. >> harris: homeland security secretary mayorkas being told

that his position denies reality at the border. yet again with that claim that the border is secure, lawmakers are pressing him at that hearing. testimony from f.b.i. director christopher wray at the same hearing as you saw was not reassuring at all, either. the numbers continue to be a shock. customs and border patrol protection report illegal crossings last month alone were above 230,000. remember, when i was down there the month before in september they were 227,000. we are going in the wrong direction. that number does not include at least 64,000 people who got away at the border in one month. the month of october. that's an average of 200,000 people coming through every single day. things may get even worse after a federal judge has struck down title 42. that happened yesterday. that's the trump-era public

health policy which lets agents quickly expel many people trying to enter america, particularly illegally. critics say this will create more chaos. i can't imagine that. >> right now we don't have the resources to have people in the field actively patrolling the border. now that title 42 is going away we can expect the numbers to go up. now there is no mechanism to hold anybody accountable whatsoever. we'll be releasing the vast majority of these people into the united states. >> harris: brandon judd knows what he is talking about and leading a lot of people down there. matt schlapp chairman of the american conservative union. richard fowler fox news contributor. matt, set it up for us how quickly it could go south. you heard from brandon judd. title 42 is gone. >> look, in your reporting, harris, all the word known,

known getaways, known crossings. there is a lot of stuff we don't noechlt -- know. all the trump era policies you can't completely solve the problem but work collaboratively with the mexican government to do as much as we can and the border state governors to make sure we don't have chaos. it is one of the consequences at the chaos of the border these people are shipped throughout the united states as brandon says. 90% of them skip the first hearing. we never get our hands on them again to adjudicate it properly and this is all the unknowns we have in these cities rising crime rates in most cities, concern in these cities that they don't know who is coming into the country and i think this is a big national security question. people i know in that space tell me we have people coming from countries all over the world. not just a central america or mexico immigration problem. >> harris: it's 150 countries is what i learned when i was at the

border. richard, i know that we can talk about legal immigration all day long. that's something that americans want. it's what we all want. legal immigration. many of us have family members who came here because legal immigration allowed for that to happen. what we're talking about are people evading the system and going around checkpoints. when i was down there a few weeks ago they have censors set up where they can't have anybody to watch. they pick up and try to rush to get to the people coming over. 354 people like that in one morning. and i stood there and watched. they are taking off their clothes and doing whatever they can and everybody is trying to get there but can't get their fast enough so they're gotaways. at night they hide, come out, they move, cameras try to pick them up with infrared and they hunt them down. it goes on im -- forever.

>> it is sad for the humanitarian crisis of our border. it is a denial of reality. >> harris: you describe what i just said as a humanitarian crisis. what happens to the women. when people purposely evade what you put into place for them to come into the country legally i wouldn't call it a humanitarian crisis. it's a crime. >> sure. but ask the question who is at our southern border? the number two country of folks crossing the southern border are cubans who qualify would asylum if given the opportunity. they are in line with ukrainians and russians. >> harris: everybody is in line. >> these are folks who would qualify with asylum if given expanded capacity of immigration courts. when we're having a conversation of our immigration system. you can't look at the border in a vacuum. what reforms can be done so folks aren't crossing the border illegally and going to a legal

checkpoint where they are processed in fast manner without being released into the country. how to do we use technology. >> harris: it's too many people. >> we have immigration laws and immigration courts to deal with the process. >> harris: i have to go. matt, richard. we'll bring you back on a different day. it's time for "outnumbered" after the break. thank you, gentlemen.

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