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>> if completely embarrassing to the democratic party and the biden administration. >> comer says he has discovered one of another one of biden's family members may be involved in influence peddling. >> no denying it with the bank records. we will keep following the money. >> there it is. for the win. it is no good. no good. and pittsburgh advances in the ncaa tournament. ♪ >> steve: we start with a fox news alert on this wednesday morning. >> hoosegow and washington, d.c. engage in a tense war of words after a russian fighter jet downed a u.s. reaper drone at 35,000 feet above the black sea. >> brian: the pentagon calling out the kremlin's unsafe action as russia's ambassador demands the u.s. put an end to hostile flights in international waters, mind you. >> ainsley: lucas tomlinson is live in washington with the

latest. >> good morning. the reaper drone went down southwest of crimea near ukraine after a russian fighter jet complied with it. the kremlin says the will on its own. potentially sensitive military technology falling into russian hands. there are no u.s. warships in the area. the u.s. reaper drone cost $32 million. for years the workforce for u.s. military combat biden administrations in iraq, afghanistan, syria and yemen. the pentagon says this drone was launched from a base in. the drone costs about the same price of the fighter jet that collided with it. a pair of russian flankers were recklessly engaging with the drone for about 30 minutes including dumping fuel on it before the drone was clipped, according to u.s. officials. the russian jet later landed in crimea. the pentagon has not released any video of the incident. the pentagon says the drone went down after the russian jet struck the drone's propeller.

>> this incident demonstrates a lack of competence in addition to being unsafe and unprofessional. we call on the russians to conduct themselves professionally and safely. >> russia's ambassador to the u.s. disputes the accusations claiming the drone was libertily and provocatively moving toward russian territory and called for the u.s. military to stop what he called hostile flights in the black sea and added, quote: we assume that the u.s. will refrain from further speculation in the media and stop flights near russian borders. we consider any action with the use of u.s. weaponry and openly hostile. the u.s. defense budget is set to increase by 3.2% next year which experts say amounts to cut when you factor in inflation. more money is needed not only to deal with russia but also china which many say are building up their forces like 1930s germany. the u.s. air force says it wants to build up a world class diversity inclusion program and hiring managers across the

country to run it. >> brian: what a great mix of priorities. lucas, i saw one account saying that we took our own drone down. that we have got our fuel -- the fuel was dumped on it twice. and then it took itself down. do you understand -- can both be accurate? >> well, brian, that's what the russians are claiming. not about dumping the fuel on the drone but that the american drone went down on its own. certainly these drones have cameras, optics that you would think any kind of, you know, like a rainy windshield without windshield wipers tough to look at russian forces or crimea or ukraine if it was soaking wet, obviously fuel can you potentially be ignited but the u.s. say it was when the russian fighter jet clipped the drone and bashed the propeller that's when it went crashing down into the sea. >> steve: right. i understand u.s. forces the military was watching it all in retime on surveillance from

ramstein. see what happened. lucas, apparently the identifying transponder, everything that flies is supposed to have a transponder on it. the identifying transponder was turned off which if you are going to have a surveillance flight that's what you do. it was in international airspace; however, russia demands that if you're going to be near our operations regarding ukraine, you have got to have it on. that's obviously a point of contention between the united states and russia. >> there's no question. actually fairly standard practice, steve. but there's no question that the russians for years have been irate, is issue no question the. military is looking at this in real time. drone has cameras that's why it is flying no. question video showing the russian jet colliding. and want to see that video soon.

>> brian: if you want a forceful response from the pentagon, it hasn't come out yet. thanks so much, lucas. appreciate it. >> ainsley: do you expect that to happen with this administration? the operative phrase is international airspace. this happened in international airspace. this is a violation of international law. and john kirby, the white house national security council spokesperson he is slamming russia because of this. he said if they want to deter and dissuade us from flying in international airspace that message will fail. we don't need to check in with russia before we fly in international airspace. what can happen now? does this allow -- what's our response going to be? is it just going to be we condone this and talk to the ambassador. >> brian: we should throw three more reaper drones in international airspace. idiotically pulled all of our naval out of the black sea when this conflict began. mike rounds did respond the way you would hope the biden administration would. listen to this, this instinctive

reaction which asked by jennifer griffin to comment. >> i would just like to get your reaction to what happened today in the black sea. >> pissed off. i mean, let's just be honest about this for a second. the report coming out of our government is that this was an unprofessional act and environmentally unsound. i'm sorry, folks, they shot down a united states warplane. they took it out of action. and that's the response we get back? so, yeah. not very happy about it. and the bottom line is we cannot allow that to happen. >> steve: here's the thing. russia has suddenly had like five different stories. one of the other stories they had about what happened. keep in mind, we were just flying this surveillance flight and they got so close they had been surveilling it and flying around it for 30 minutes and clipped it and it went down in the black sea. but russia says they scrambled their jets to try to figure out what the drone was and then we

turned the drone sharply and it crashed. that is just a lie because we know for a fact that during the time when they were circling, that drone, for a half an hour, they were dumping fuel on it. obviously it was trying to elm pair the cameras or censors or something like that. you know, their story does not hold water and so ultimately, as soon as as the department of defense can declassify those images so we is can just see them zipping around that drone, then russia will be unmasked. >> ainsley: who are you going to believe? russia says they didn't touch the drone, they didn't clip it. the u.s. says they dumped the fuel on top of it and flew in front of it and clipped the propeller sending it down into the black sea. >> brian: look at this administration exuding weakness wherever they go. slow-walking the weapons they promise. they are almost a year late some of them. look at what happened in afghanistan directly related here. we call saudi arabia a pariah

nation. they team with iran now. abraham accords are in jeopardy. we kiss the butt of iran now israel is going to be forced to act as they get closer and closer to a nuclear weapon. any time you have weakness, this is what happens. and this is the russian response. what would the reaction be if of the united states if you see a russian drone very close to san francisco or new york? for me it's clear for you as well. that has nothing to do with it. if you were in international skies that would be it. if you were over san francisco or new york, that would be a different story. >> ainsley: i will tell you want response. the u.s. would do nothing. look at the spy plane from china it. flew all over our country. >> brian: a balloon. >> ainsley: flew all over our country before they took it out. >> brian: absolutely. if you are in international skies, you are allowed to do that. when you breach our airspace in alaska like you do regularly, you are escorted out. >> steve: so, ultimately, because russia does harass our drones all the time, the question is was russia trying to

provoke us to get a response? and if they were doing that, are we responding the way -- >> ainsley: what was their message they were trying to end us? >> steve: nothing is an accident. >> ainsley: putin knows if they shoot down something in international airspace there should be a response to us. >> brian: kirby had a response it was unprofessional. wow, look out. unarmed predator drone by the way. >> steve: let's see what happens. >> brian: antifa activist descend on the campus of uc davis to disrupt charlie kirk's speaking event but the show went on. >> we are not going to put up with force of trying to shut down people you don't like. >> the fight for spree speech flexion. march madness, one beercompany e chill when the heats up. how you can score beer flavored popsicles next. ♪ need to believe you could all

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important to note that significantly low removal numbers is more the result of environmental factors and policy environmental than operational performance. and the national sheriff's association is calling on congress to take action following the cartel murders of two americans kidnapped along with two other u.s. citizens. the group's governor affairs committee chair saying the nation's sheriffs strongly report the american people's demand that our federal government use whatever means proponent to combat these deadly cartels. mexico, however, is pushing back against u.s. intervention. the mexican president even threatening to launch an information campaign against republicans who are calling for justice. back to you. >> steve: thank you very much, todd. the best part of what the president of mexico said though was he said that fentanyl is not produced in mexico. it's not used in mexico. the problem is decay. social decay in the united states. and that's why we need drugs

because our society is decaying. >> brian: did that last week. part ever the disrespect. >> steve: said it again yesterday. >> brian: disrespect from the mexican government and we don't get any words back from the administration. takes individual reporters, commentators, sheriffs to come back at this president who is increasingly unhinged. >> ainsley: we definitely have a problem at the border when it comes to fentanyl. we report all the time on people who have lost their children because they take one little pill thinking it's an adh pill black market pill and has fentanyl in it. also affecting infants. a 7-month-old child a little girl died from fentanyl poisoning in pennsylvania. she was 2 years old. and police -- sorry, 7-month-old, police are weighing charges against possibly her father and grandmother. she was asleep in her bed. she was found unconscious at 6:44 in the morning. police arrive. the father is performing cpr. first responders take over but

at 7:05 she was pronounced dead. >> brian: also a 2-year-old who thankfully was able to survive when the dad realized she had overdosed and pulled over -- started screaming. neighbor called 911. the cops able to show up with narcan and gave cpr and the child is alive right now. needed two doses of narcan at that age. thank goodness it was in the car. >> steve: apparently the person driving was a guardian and they were able to, when they stopped somebody and they called 911 and what they were able to do, they were able to in administer of the narcan up her nose and brought her back to life but she stopped breathing in the hospital. they are trying to figure out whether or not to charge that particular guardian but it's very troubling because, as we have seen, the front lines wash against fentanyl is in the

police cruisers. where police arrive at the scenes where narcan is used or was used. a lot of them can also overdose just by touching it or sniffing it. >> ainsley: a police officer in portland needed two rounds of narcan too. just exposed to fentanyl. >> steve: steve saved their life. one thing about the democrats refusing to go to mcallen for the hearing. our congress spends tens of millions of dollars every year to send bipartisan caudills, congressional delegations all around the world, if they're going to deal with something they can see it with their own two eyes. for members of the democratic party not to want to go down to our southern border to hear from the people who are protecting us, whether a their challenges are and what they are facing is just looks so political. and they are saying look, the republicans made it political by having it down there. but why don't they want to go down and see it? we talk about it every day. it's terrible. and just the fentanyl alone is a good reason to go.

>> ainsley: let's hand it over to ashley for headlines. >> ashley: good morning. want to start with this. update on the silicon valley bank. the company's creditors forming a group ahead of a possible bankruptcy filing after the bank's sudden class. serve has not said it plans to file for bankruptcy yet. we are also learning that only one member of silicon valley bank's board of directors had an investment banking background tom king has 35 years of experience in the field previously working as ceo of bar clafs. the would've roof of a shopping mall collapsing potentially due to heavy snow. parts of the northeast buried in 3 feet of snow. after a powerful nor'easter. harsh conditions could force more than 1,000 flight cancellations. california pummeled by rains and winds as another atmospheric

river drenches of the state. wind gusts as high as 77 miles per hour reported in san francisco as stunning footage shows a tree that fell on a house in the bay area. you can, of course, follow and track these storm systems by down loading the fox weather app. for free on any connected device. home goods retailer tuesday morning is closing more than half of its stores after filing for bankruptcy last month. company representatives say the move will position the company to emerge from bankruptcy more profitable. nearly 300 locations across 38 states will shut down this year. the closures take the store countdown to just 215 nationwide. now to college basketball as pittsburgh punches their ticket to the big dance for the first time since 2014. the panthers survive after mississippi state missed this wide open shot that would have won the game. texas a&m, corpus christi also outlasting southern missouri state make it to the tournament. two more games today despite the final spot in the bracket.

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>> steve: we would be using actual coors. >> ainsley: you might want that if you are watching march madness what is the pointed of the cam lowers. >> brian: if you have a family tupperware party this week. >> ainsley: do they still have those? >> brian: we got two lawn chairs my mom did very well we got two yellow lawn chairs. i don't know why. we never spent enough. spent the rest of our lives retrieve. when you go to aunt kathy's house we need the tupperware back. all of a sudden we open up my brother's freezer buried in the back we thought the freezer was overwhelmed by ice sure enough meatballs frozen in the back in my mom's tupperware probably two years old. >> ains >> ainsley: ains bottom of the tupperware piece of tape kilmeade. if you give food to your neighbor it's returned.

brian wine would have been the great idea. i wish we had the innovation of the earhardt household. >> ainsley: steve came up with the solution of that he made the bread bowl when you give it to the neighbor put in the bread bowl and don't have to worry about getting it back. >> steve: problem with the freezer kathy oftentimes makes chilly and makes a double batch and puts if in the freezer. one day we wound up eating an entire bowl of bowl alan phase thinking it was chilly. it all looks about the same. >> ainsley: still tastes good. >> steve: a little rich. >> brian: do you remember when they told that you antifa was just an idea? that was the fbi director. antifa, it was just really an idea. it's not really like proud boys or anything like that. well, tell that to charlie kirk. he decided to go to u.k. davis to have one of his great turning point u.s.a. conference that bring in the next generation of conservatives and would be republicans from colleges around the country.

guess what? they tell graphed the media to maximize the attendance and somebody else showed up at it. they were wearing black. >> steve: so charlie figures that is antifa. they -- the protests have not been identified by the authorities yet. but they surrounded the event according to charlie. they smashed windows and doors on campus. they kept students from attending. they spray painted a trans flag on the building. riot police responded. barricades. turning point said antifa pepper sprayed the students. hit them with umbrellas trying to keep them from going to the event. >> ainsley: smashed windows and spray painted graffiti outside. went up to a police officer from behind. threw them on the ground and jumped on top of them. here is charlie kirk talking at that event. he calls the people outside doing. they calls them terrorists. listen. >> i don't know if you saw, but they broke some windows, the terrorists did outside much to try to come in. people had things thrown at them.

the whole place was spray painted not just throughout the week but also tonight. we are not going to put up with force of trying to shut down people you don't like and, instead, we are going to have a free society based on speech, based on dialogue, based on discourse and tonight is a statement to them that they are the losers and that speech wins in america. that is what tonight is all about. [cheers and applause] >> steve: we don't know how many people turned out. but uc davis after what happened put out this statement. tonight's event organized by turning point u.s.a. at u.k. davis a registered student organization occurred with minor incidence. one officer sustained a an injury when he was jumped on from behind and pushed to the ground. >> steve: how minor was that. two people arrested and taken to yellow county jail for averagedly painting graffiti on the exterior wall on the university of center. uc davis security planning allowed the students to

successfully hold their event. even though there were a lot of protesters, they had it but there was some trouble. >> brian: if they are smashing windows and harassing people and jumping on cops. did you not have a successful security event. that is not good. you didn't plan well and take proper precautions. those people should have been kept away from the event about a half mile away. especially if you knew their intent. >> ainsley: hats off to the police officers that were at the door. at least the domestic terrorists as charlie would call them did not come into the door. >> steve: right. ultimately the protesters did not shut it down. because we have seen this. >> brian: that's a low bar. but if you are hearting people and feel feel threatened and a cop gets attacked that's not successful. >> steve: we have seen this all the time where there is a bunch of protesters and they tried to shut down free speech. whatever charlie wanted to say, he was able to say it. there was trouble but according to the cops planned for it. >> ainsley: i'm sure people wanted to go to the event that don't go because this is going to happen.

>> brian: advertise going to come out harassment. affected attendance. maybe this is national news besides us and other people picking it up. organization is unbelievablely successful. >> charlie is very brave to go and do this. >> steve: he is, indeed. meantime on this wednesday. fox news alert. troubles in the sky. a russian fighter jet, couple of them, were flying around a u.s. drone over the black sea, clipped it, it's the first such incident since russia's invasion of ukraine, the drone went down. congresswoman nancy mace on the rising tension. she is coming up next. derate-toe plaque psoriasis for the chance at clear or almost clear skin. it's like the feeling of finding that outfit psoriasis tried to hide from you. or finding your swimsuit is ready for primetime. [dad]

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weak. and you mentioned earlier, brian, our withdrawal from afghanistan, the way in which we did that our world leaders saw that they saw our weakness china sea weakness on the world stage and vulnerable because of that. and so far in the last 24 hours it's just been a slap in the wrist. russia is bad. those are just empty words. but we have to take action. we cannot allow this to have any consequences. if we are unwilling to shoot down a russian jet that brings down one of our pieces of equipment, then we ought to be exacting more sanctions on russia. there ought to be consequences to their action. >> brian: we should send three drones today right over there. >> let's do it. let's go. >> brian: let's do it? >> right. >> brian: that cost us $32 million and we call them unprofessional. what an embarrassment that is. >> right. >> brian: from an admiral who should know better. let's talk about something else. for the longest time we knew hunter biden was up to no good we didn't know how far this would go. now we have got the bank records

from bank of america and it unveils other biden family members involved with millions of dollars worth of transactions with this chinese energy company. how significant is this discovery that james comer announced yesterday? >> this is major. this is a major discovery. we are also getting access to the suspicious activity reports from the department of treasury but what we are learned yesterday that there were multi million dollars deals that china paid one of the biden associates and within 24 hours, less than 24 hours, actually, that money was then given to three members of the biden family. to say that china wasn't paying off biden or his family members would be a lie. that is exactly what they were doing. multi-million dollars worth and it's insane that people don't want to have this investigated. >> brian: treasury has not helped. they finally gave it over. they wanted to know why wasn't in the majority. now in the majority. what other things are you looking to subpoena to request?

>> well, this is just the tip of the iceberg and quite honestly, brian, seeing the whistleblower reports i have seen on a number of different issues, including fraud and abuse in our federal government, it's hard to know where to start. i just read a whistleblower report, for example, the other day where someone at the pentagon was essentially paid off a million dollars to give a noncompetitive sole source contract to favorite software company for $10 billion. this kind of thing that is going on with the biden family it is prevalent and pervasive and it needs to stop. we need to have referrals once we have an investigation crimes were committed. referrals need to go to doj. people need to be fired there ought to be consequences to bad and illegal behavior. i don't care how high of an office you carry, people need to be held accountable. >> brian: he is looking -- if he gets paid, by the chinese government, and did not disclose it, doesn't show up on his taxes, if this gets bigger, how

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american rescue plan and inflation lit a fire under it. >> that's absolutely true. what happened was the biden administration infused a lot of money into the economy at a time when demand was already high. so, really, really boosted demand. which drove inflation. everybody warned about it from larry summers to art laffer. it was across the spectrum. and, apparently this bank didn't see it coming. they bought long-term low interest yielding bonds, treasuries that yielded about 2%. and then they needed a bunch of money because their depositedders needed money and they couldn't sell it because bonds were now paying 4%. so it was terrible, terrible foresight riske manager was on d and i. woke. not focused on the bank. >> steve: couple of stories regarding the bank's board of

directors only one of them had ever worked in banking. the rest were worked for hillary clinton. like minded accused of being very woke and asleep at the wheel. what do you say about that? >> the g in esg is supposed to be governance and if all you are spo quused on is climate change and trying to hire people for qualifications other than their merit, qualifications of their character. if you are not focused on how your company is governed and run, if you are just focused on being woke, you are going to have problems. and these are the kinds of problems that arise. i think we are going to see this in a lot of other businesses, a lot of other sectors if we don't get back to our historic focus on how corporations are run and hiring people based on merit. >> steve: sure. it sounds like they hired a lot of like-minded people to be on the board and there's nothing

against the law about that. however, if you are in a for-profit business, you have got to make money and make smart decisions and now that's what the doj and the sec are looking into whether or not smart decisions were made and also whether or not the cfo and the ceo sold stock in anticipation of something going south. >> well, obviously they had some inclination that things weren't going to continue on the rose path they had been on. look, they misjudged the impact of interest rates on their investment portfolio and their customers. they misinterpreted their company's -- their customers' needs. they were woke and they had a regulator that was woke and really didn't do its job. so it was a perfect storm for a bank failure and that's what we ended up with. >> brian: and i think the ceo of the bank was sitting on the san francisco fed, which was the regulator for his own bank. how cozy is that?

>> very cozy and, you know, they do these quarterly stress tests at these banks. if you had a bank with a huge percentage of its portfolio invested in low yield interesting-bearing bonds, you should have seen something was going to happen. >> steve: no kidding. andy, thank you very much for joining us today. >> thanks, steve. >> steve: all right. a quarter before the top of the hour, ashley joins us with some video from california. >> ashley: hi, steve, yeah. the crime crisis in california the suspect in a stolen hyundai taking police in orange county on a wild high-speed chase before crashing and flipping over historic park fountain designed in 1886. already it investigation for separate vehicle theft. handgun and high powered magazine at the scene. suspect in the hospital for two broken legs he will be booked at the orange county jail once is he discharged. san francisco's board of supervisors meet to discuss a reparation proposal that would give each qualifying black resident $5 million.

the city's african-american reparations advisory committee presenting the controversy plan to the board yesterday. still unclear who among san fran's 50,000 black residents would qualifier for taxpayer funded checks. this comes a the city already faces an estimated $728 million budget deficit. and chipotle is putting a new protein choice on the menu. chicken eh pastor flavors hint of pineapple and fresh lime. the chain says customers who tried it out in an early roll out loved it. chipotle says it is only available for a limited time. those are your headlines, steve back to you. >> steve: that looks delicious. there is one across the street. adam klotz is outside our building right now. adam just about 200 feet from where you are is a chipotle, we have got to check that out. >> adam: one of my favorite lunch spots here eating it all the time. do you know what is not out here right now. no snow on the ground in new york city even though we had a

nor'easter yesterday. boy that is not the case. check out snowfall totals. beacon, new york if you are not familiar is only 60 miles north of new york city. 43 inches of snow is what they saw. this was a major winter system that just dodged new york city. there is still some of that snow lingering across interior areas. even if you didn't see snow you saw the wind gusts. gusting up to 41 miles per hour currently steve. this system is going to continue to tail off throughout the rest of this wednesday. those are your weather headlines. tossing it back inside to you. >> steve: thank you very much, adam. straight ahead on thissens with coming up, get vaxxed or get expelled. connecticut church suing the state vaccine mandate. we will hear from a pastor on their fight coming up on "fox & friends." coughing? hashtag still not coughing?! mucinex dm gives you 12 hours of relief from chest congestion and any type of cough, day or night. mucinex dm. it's comeback season.

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>> ainsley: get vaccinated or expedal that's the message from a state official to a kentucky church school for refusing vaccine mandates on students. the milford christian church school says a state law was altered in 2021 to remove all vaccine exemptions except the medical ones and now the church is suing. the pastor of the church, jim with the milford christian church joins us now. good morning, pastor loomer. >> good morning, ainsley, how are you? >> ainsley: doing well. thank you: you are suing the department of education, early childhood programs, the office of early childhood development and the department of public health. why is that? >> well, we are trying to protect our liberty to serve families whose conscious doesn't always allow them to vaccinate their children. >> ainsley: so the state of connecticut in 2021 said no

exemptions, no religious exemptions anymore, right? >> that's right. but that religious exemption hadline in place since 1959 during the policy polio epidemic we thought the state revoking that was a injustice to the people of faith in connecticut. >> ainsley: how many families are affected in your school. >> our day care can only 15. only 9 or 10 families in there right now. four of them want to make their own choices concerning vaccines for their children. >> connecticut office of the attorney general says vaccines save lives. the statute is lawful necessary to protect public health. successfully multiple challenges to this statute and continue to defend it. what's your reaction? owe think the problem largely comes from we have just been through the covid season when he

we were told that the covid vaccine would prevented us from being infected and communicating covid and that turned out not to be true people are having a second look at the evenings and whether or not -- i'm sure in many cases they do save lives but the parents still want to maintain their privilege and their right and responsibility to look after their children. make those final decisions for their children. >> ainsley: what is the state saying? they are saying you have to get these children out of the school if they refuse to be vaccinated? >> we have to encourage them -- exactly, encourage them to get their vaccinations up to date or we have tokes pell them. >> ainsley: where's the protection for the parent that doesn't want to give their child this vaccine? they're the parents. they get to decide what happens to their children. and if they are at a school that doesn't require the vaccine, clearly it's okay for all the parents that are there. >> exactly. exactly. >> ainsley: so what happens with this lawsuit? >> well, we are going to take it until we win it.

we really feel as though that the state has overstepped their north. they are usurping the parent's authority in the children's lives and we feel like we need to resist what they're doing. we are planning to continue to honor the religious exemptions not based on state law but based on conscience and upon principles of faith out of the bible. >> ainsley: yeah. i'm sure parents are worried those that don't want their kids to be vaccinated what they don't doo with their children during the day who educates them. >> thank you. >> ainsley: thank you. keep us posted. >> thank you. >> ainsley: spending all day on the diamond a division 3 baseball game lasting 24 hours. the insane number of runs scored during that marathon match ♪ i hope you get your dreamou ahead and ♪breeze driftin' on by...♪ ♪...you know how i feel.♪

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