are they ratcheting up rhetoric against the u.s. as well? including new word from that country's second in charge that response from north korea would be all-out war. this as vice president mike pence heads to south korea. is he looking to green light military action against the north? we are showing you live pictures from joint base andrews. we will tell you there live. from the white house, new word on the comings and goings of visitors which are logged, but now officially private. why the shroud of secrecy? >> he will lose his base. that is an important message for the president to receive. >> the split in the west wing. will it create problems with the base? some of the people who voted trump in office and could it lead to a departure from the inner circle? we have the latest on msnbc live. we want to kick off with the

intercontinental ballistic missiles and nuclear missiles in pyongyang as north korea is threatening a response to military aggression from the u.s. nbc's janice frayer with more. >> reporter: they marked the most important day on the calendar and today it delivered. with anxiety simmering, the weaponry rolled out in pyongyang. missiles and military hardware. some according to experts not seen before. looking on with delight, kim jong un. sheeri cheering the show of military strength. and a warning. from the man said to be the regime's second most powerfu official. the u.s. faces all-out war and anniliation.

the concern is another missile test or sixth nuclear test or the concern of launching a ballistic missile capable of reaching the united states. >> north korea is the problem. the problem will be taken care of. i think china has really been working very hard. >> reporter: china has urged an end to mutual provocation. cautioning it could spiral out of control. with an aircraft carrier strike group heading to the korean peninsula and other missile equipped u.s. destroyers said to be in place. that uncertainty loomed at the 105th anniversary of kim il-sung's birth. the most crucial time for security. experts say some of the military hardware on display today was new. some of it just modified and repainted. on whole, it shows how committed the regime is to building its

arsenal. thomas. >> janice. thank you for the report from seoul. these are pictures from joint base andrews. we have vice president pence and his wife heading off to seoul. we will find out more from the south korean trip of the vice president. the agenda setforth and whether or not this is any indication of issues ratcheting up with tensions between the trump white house and north korea. president trump is monitoring the situation in north korea while spending the weekend at his florida estate. kelly o'donnell is in west palm beach, florida. >> reporter: good morning, thomas. president trump talked about the advantages of unpredictable as a leader with foreign policy. he talked that way as a candidate. now the white house is trying to project caution and reassurance to allies when it comes to north korea. kim jong un's ambitions to pose

a grave challenge for president trump. today on his way to asia, there is a critical test for mike pence on a long planned trip. what counts as celebration in north korea, again rattled nerve around the world. the capabilities and test launches pose a major challenge to president trump. >> north korea is a problem. the problem will be taken care of. >> reporter: today, the vice president heads to seoul, south korea. part of a four-country trip. delivering a message of unwavering support. >> the president's message and vice president's message is to show support with allies and the fact we are there with them and confront this threat. >> reporter: while president trump has a new friendship with the chinese counterpart, the foreign minister urged caution. u.s. and north korea have their

swords drawn. in two weeks, president trump has deployed american fire power against syria and isis in afghanistan. with the pentagon first ever use of the mother of all bombs. >> we are so proud of our military and it was another successful evt. >> reporter: the white house made use of an old washington ay. releasing a controversy stirring document on a holiday weekend. this time the trump administration announced visitor logs. records showing who gets inside the white house and who may have influence will be kept secret. citing grave national security risks and privacy concerns of the hundreds of thousands of visitors annually. critics say it under cuts pra z transparency and the president's pledge to drain the swamp. what is clear is the d.c. to palm beach commute. this is the 7th of 13 weekends

in office president trump has spent in florida at his mar-a-lago home. the weekends have become expected. something is different this time. the president's most senior adviser who often travel with him are not here this weekend. spending time with their families for the easter holiday. also new, updated figures on the results of the president's action in afghanistan. that strike on an isis target. afghan officials say the number of isis fighters believed to be killed has risen to 94. >> kelly reporting in west palm beach. thank you. and north korea putting countries on notice this morning. as we saw, showing off for the first time a number of nuclear missiles. two of them appear to be missiles which could help it strike targets in the u.s. and europe. joining me now is congress member francis moony. let's go to it. how concerned are you about the posturing we are witnessing from north korea with the missiles even if they turn out to be non

operational? >> thank you for having me on, thomas. i'm concerned that we have gone so long without tangible actions and the clear definition of policies that now we seem to be back in the game with president trump's disruptive actions and sending vice president pence over there is a good start. these guys will put up a show and they want everyone to know they have missiles and some solid fuel booste. the end of the day, we are defining interests here. the president has done a good job of drawing china in. >> this is a show. they have done this before. this is not something new other than seeing some different weapons that the world has never seen before which leads to speculation of what they could do. i want you polito listen to for deputy chief mike morrell said. >> we have a new president and kim jong un is trying to challenge him. trying to get him back to the

negotiating table. remember, barack obama ignored the north koreans for years. did not run to the table. kim jong un wants to get to a situation where we give them gifts when they do something bad. we are making it worse with our bluster and sending aircraft carriers in there. we are raising the crisis. >> by our bluster, with the show of military force, as you said, donald trump being a disrepublicdisruption. donald trump getting praise, but do you think this is a tipping point that could be more dangerous than some actually realize? >> well, you know, like when you see an alligator down here, he flutters and looks bigger than he is. i think kim junk unis doiong un that now. i think north korea is working to have their bad behavior

rewarded by gifts from us. i think president trump is turning the table. it is them wanting to do something for us now. >> obviously, we know diplomacy is what needs to be in parallel and in respect to what is taking place with different military force shown. with the vice president going to south korea, how will that help with the allies we have in that region like japan? >> when you have a show of strength and strong military and defense parameter, diplomacy has a chance to work. i think this combination of those disruptive acts sets the table for vice president pence to further define our interests in the area which are vague right now and to reassure our allies, particularly south korea and japan and indonesia and australia. we are with them. >> are you worried that not only outside of what's taking place with north korea, but what is taking place in conversations with russia after rex tillerson

went there and what we recently did with the military force? afghanistan. we are demonstrating a military posture without the diplomacy that should go with it. >> i think you kind of have the cart and horse here. we have to get back into a position of strength. power abhors a vacuum. we become receitiscent in the world. as we seek to reassert strength, in my feelings, give diplomacy a chance to work. >> listen to a colleague from the foreign affairs committee. telling my colleague the other day about north korea and its threats of a preemptive spritri. take a listen. >> we have to understand the implications of the military action. i fear you have a political bump from the syrian strike. the mother of all bomb strike in

afghanistan. we don't want the president to make decisions where he just thinks more bombs are the way to build up his popularity. they are making decisions based on the national security interests of the united states and long-term safety of the american people. >> how do you react to that especially with the decision making process going into this and not just for our national security, but message we sent to allies around the world? >> you see, i fear the opposite. i fear that always seeking weakness and fear created the vacuum that created the countries to become emboldened and threaten our interests. look at the president's work with china. the strategy of serving up currency manipulation and tpp. that set the table for china to take a strong role with north korea the way they did with the bush administration. >> when you bring up currency manipulation with china. dona trump said they were and

this week to say they're not. which line from donald trump do you believe from china? >> i think he is a negotiator. he served that up. now that it's on the table, he has something to negotiate with china. they have a particular advantage concerning north korea that we need them to exploit. >> you talk about the constant negotiator. should a negotiator actually be using fact when trying to create leverage as opposed to one label and one part of what a donald trump meant prior to administration as to what he means now 80 plus days in. >> you know, negotiation in business is best when it is a win-win game. not a zero-sum game. what is encouraging to me about the evolving relationship of xi jinping and donald trump is they have the ability to banter about economic and security realms. both are very important to

redefining how the united states and china will cooperate. >> when it comes to foreign matters and how donald trump talked about not wanting to get into traps and mires of situations like syria and middle east in general, are your constituents confused or speaking out why the president is taking such an aggressive role? >> i answered questions for two hours yesterday to constituents here in southwest florida. most were excited to see the united states reengage in the world. they are feeling more secure than two weeks ago. >> feeling more secure, but did they really feel that we were lessen gau engaged? we have been active in the international hot spots. why do they feel there is such a difference right now? >> we were active in syria, by putting down red lines. we never moved forward on no-fly zone or containment structure.

we even allowed the isis to operate a gas plant and provide electricity to damascus for a long time. i'm not so sure we are strongly active maybe done things that are better off not done. i would rather see disruptive acts to get enemies on the defense and put our allies on the offense. >> congress member rooney. thank you for being here. >> thank for having me on. have a great 50eeaster. >> you as well. you heard about this. who will stay? who will go? can we believe reports that steve bannon could be sidelined and if he does go, could that be bigger problems for donald trump if bannon is outside of the west wing? if you have moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis like me,

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what i do is authorize my military. we have the greatest military in the world. they have done a job as usual. we have given them total authorization. frankly, that's why they have been so successful lately. >> so there we have president trump he lelaborating on the military strategy. joining me now is vice president of foreign and defense policies studies at american enterprise institute d msnbc news contributor. we have a lot to talk about. let's dive in about the president and his language of total authorization to the military. how dangerous is that to think the president is not more involved in the oversight of his military force? >> there is always a balance in washington. the president is commander in chief statutorily. the fact he is giving

authorization doesn't mean they are off running the show. he is following their advice. he is contrasting himself with president obama who heard from the military, but didn't listen to the military. >> is that what you think? i was writing notes to myself this morning in terms of reading articles about this. it seems as if president trump wants to be the opposite. everything that president obama did. okay. let's dot-c thdo the complete o direction. >> that is a bad habit. when president obama came in office, he wanted to be the anti-bush. there is no question that trump wants to be the anti-obama. he wants to draw new lines and set new expectations for the united states. we don't know he wants to do anything more. >> we know president obama won because of the anti-bush. americans wanted to be out of wars.

president obama ran on wanting to withdraw and having our men and women in harm's way in per s utuity. and using a weapon that hasn't been used before, but why do you think they go so far in using that weapon in afghanistan at this juncture? >> first of all, president obama did run on the platform of taking us and ending war, but the reality is that we pulled all ofur troops out of ira in 2011 and thousands have gone back. run hundreds on the ground in syria. we are still fighting a war in afghanistan. we don't talk about it. we have troops and nato allies. when we drop a bomb like this, which is what is known as a moab. the mother of all bombs. when we drop something like that, while it feels like it is being done because it is fun orphan as i o

or fancy or heavy or almost a nuclear weapon. this is what we use to penetrate the cave system and knock out the terrorist cells operating out of there. >> when we think about the president obama. withdrawing troops. it was signed in action by president bush that obama adhered to. do we run a risk of not having diplomacy running parallel to the type of military posturing we are demonstrating in the world? >> that is a perfect question. that really is it. military action only goes so far. you can solve a lot of strategic problems with military action. what comes after that and more importantly, what preempts military action is diplomacy. a lot of people in washington are concerned that the budget the president sent out cut

diplomatic and development efforts. that makes us less secure. >> judging from what the president said in specificity to certain actions. where do we go from here? >> that is a good question. we are not 100 days in the administration. let's be fair. he has done important and decisive things. gas attacks. that's a receipt lind line for . sarin gas. he said i'm not down with the nuclear testing thing with the obama administration. these are tactical steps. what is the strategy he will roll out? we don't know. >> do you think it isore of an improv mode of reactionary to saying yes to solving certain problems and figuring out what comes next within that strategy? basically improv is the strategy. >> i don't know the answer to that question. president trump doesn't call me

every morning and tell me what he is thinking. the one thing i say for people who are worried whether this is improv. this is what i will do today because ivanka showed me a picture of babies being gassed. that happened on a thursday. and throughout the weekend, there was an evolution and position of the administration against syrian president bashar al assad. that is an actual transformation and opposed to a one-off. where do they go from here? i don't think any of us know. we want to see strategy, not tactics. >> based on the first 86 days, we are coming up on that 100-day mark. are we closer to a war time situation or have these moves showing president trump wants to walk with a big stick taking us back from any type of military posture. >> i'm not sure what a professional opinion is in

foreign policy. i don't think we are closer to war. i think it is important that people understand what happened over the last year. al qaeda has spread. isis spread. we are still at war in afghanistan. syria is in a terrible, terrible situation. north koreans are threatening us. the chinese are establishing in the south china sea. the reality is we need to push back on these guys so they don't think they can push us around. what you want a military for is not to fight war. >> it's supposed to be a deterrent. we shall see how it unfolds as we continue. dani, thank you for your time. what do you make of the reports of steve bannon and the fact he could become a white house outsider? would steve bannon seek revenge? we explore that coming up.

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north really wants the world to see in terms of missile program. analysts are still looking at the video and figuring out what is real and prototype and development. north koreans show off two of the missiles in the square today. the ballistic missile and land based version. the second test launched last month. the big question is were there any icbms on display? are they showing off anything new? two of the missiles sort of trotted out today appeared to be icbm prototypes according to analysts. something that could become or will become test launch missile maybe in a couple of years. four years is an estimates from analy analysts. nothing that is firm. nothing that is absolutely developed yet. the idea here is that they are

still in the early stages of development on that particular technology. now the other big concern among analysts is solid fuel. solid fuel for missiles would allow north korea to fire quickly without loading liqui fuel first. that fueling allows satelliteo capture exactly what north korea is doing. sort ofs giv gives analysts a h up. it would give them quicker launch abilities and launch without anyone getting a head's up yet. it appears from the hardware in today's parade, they are working on that technology as well. thomas. >> kelly, we saw the vice president mike pence and his wife arriving at joint air base where they were leaving. the vice president flying to south korea. the reaction around the world allies demonstrated out of north korea and the tension was our country and their country.

what's it been? >> reporter: a lot of talk of brinkmanship. you can see it around the headlines in britain. "the times of london" headline is "step back or it's war." the more tabloid "daily mirror." we're on the brink of nuclear war. a lot of headlines reflecting a message. the editorial in "the daily mail" called this week, quote, the darkest and most dangerous since the cuban missile crisis in 1962. you get a sense of what people are thinking around the world. thomas, both china and russia now pleading for caution from both president trump and the north korean leader kim jong un. the japanese governor reporting evacuation plans for citizens in south korea. just shows you how nervous

countries in the region are at this point. thomas. >> kelly reporting in london. thank you. i want to bring in usa today columnist eliza peters. i want to speak with you about what we witnessed from north korea. is this just really a big show or more of something as kelly was talking about? the brinkmanship issue? >> this is a further step than we have seen in the past. it is a show on north korea's part. they were able to use the whole world watching. they go to parade out technology. now everyone is talking about it. they successfully able to use the show. i do think it is different than the past under president obama who was cautious. there were steps to take when dealing with north korea. we have seen president trump change his foreign policy over the last two weeks. he is talking about it.

he is saying china should deal with them. if they don't, we will. now you are seeing china and russia as kelly talked about warning for things to calm down. i think this is a new step than before. >> jeremy, how much of a corner has the white house painted itself in with rhetoric about north korea and any type of provocation it would demonstrate? >> this is a slightly different situation. with syria, you have despite all of the criticism of trump back tracking on foreign policy. a limited trying. in this case, with north korea, we would talk about taking preemptive military action. that is different than syria. this is a huge test for any administration. let alone one that is still getting sea legs and staffed by outsiders. he has generals around him who are competent and experienced.

this is not a decision that donald trump -- the scale of which donald trump has ever had to make before. it's a reminder just how weighty the responsibilities of the president. the crises happen and they tend to happen early and test a president quickly. george w. bus had to bomb iraq a couple weeks into his presidency. the bay of pigs happened a few months into kennedy's administration. >> and off jeremy's point, eliza, how much is this a test of trump to see how he reacts or improvs based off the type of actions these entrenched regime leaders demonstrated over the years? >> i think jeremy is right. it is a massive test. you can argue it is one of the biggest of his presidency so far. the whole world is watching and involved. we are hearing north korea say they have the capacity to take

out the south korean white house or blue house i guess it is called. so it is not just the u.s. at stake anymore. we're hearing in london warning of step back. the world is at the brink of war. a big test and everyone is watching. >> jeremy, you wrote about trump supporters sticking with him. there are some off the trump train. it appears still full because the flip flop on certain issues about what donald trump represented so far. listen to congress member steve king who we know is an early supporter of trump. >> something thats gives me some level of comfort is jeff sessions is the attorney general. and john kelly repeated many times. i will enforce the law. then we have steve bannon and kellyanne conway and steve miller in the white house to support a restoration of the rule of law with regard to immigration. i look at the to-do list that

comes out of the campaign promises of donald trump. there are a few to go or he will lose his base. that's an important message for the president to receive. >> jeremy, a lot of points to take out of that. what do you think about what congress member steve king says there and about the primary figures that he discussed. innercircle, how that hurts the president moving forward with the campaign promises. >> you know, any break with the base, thomas, is not going to happen within the first 100 day mark. the talk of the base getting weary is overblown. if you are a conservative, it has been a good first 100 days. neil gorsuch sworn in at the supreme court. abortion funding is being taken out of the budget. jeff sessions is going to the border and giving fiery speeches about border crossings are down. things are happening that conservatives are pleased about.

now, there is a point at which people start to say is trump really be true to the core campaign conservative populist convictions? that is where the concern over steve bannon's questionable role going forward is and i think more than anythings else, policy speaks. it is not about personnel as policy. right now, conservatives have a lot to be happy about. despite the reversals this week. i really think are so esoteric that voters are not paying attention. they are not sitting around the dining room table. >> do you think the devil in the details about calling china a currency manipulatoor and now calling it a manipulator and nailing a policy down, but a strategy. eliza, let me ask you

intrigue with steve bannon and the uphill battle with the one-on-one with jared kushner. is that distracting from trying to get accomplishments out of thes white house within the first 100 days? >> thomas, you said intrigue. that is what it is. stories. people want to talk about the personnel issues. it is gossip. it is interesting. it does mean something that steve bannon brought on a lot of supporters who like trump's america first and isolation message. that is counter to what he has done the last couple weeks. they are a distraction. trump and the trump white house believes they had a successful couple weeks. neil gorsuch confirmed. the strike in syria was pretty bipartisanly appraised. they are taking a tougher stance on the foreign policy stages. they like those to be discussed

and not if ivanka trump's husband, jared kushner, who has a large role, but talking about he's part of the family. that's why trump's loyal to him. they don't want to talk about that. they want to say adviser are advising him on these successful policy. >> let's be honest. so everybody knows, these men leak to reporters about the other one. you can shake your head up and down or left and right. or smile broadly like jeremy, i know you are trying not to do anything. they leak on each other. >> no doubt, thomas, it looks messy. that is part of the problem. this is where it starts to hurt donald trump. it is not an issue of specific policy as it is competence. donald trump doesn't suffer when he looks inconsistent. people expect that. they did not elect him because of an ideology. >> the flexibility which he is proud of. >> and his supporters, a lot,

will say if that is what he needs, that flexibility to get things done, that's fine. it is when he looks incompetent. when the white house looks in disarray, that drawn out over an extended period of time could be bad. yes. >> thanks. great to see you both. jeremy peters and eliza collins, thank you. coming up, united against syria and russia and iran. a warning ofon't do it again ors else. then in the next hour the fallout from the united airlines ejecti ejection. new questions of your rights when an airline says you have to get off. >> we were horrified and shocked and sickened to learn what happened to him.

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been seeing are true or fabricated. we don't know if those dead children were killed or were they dead at all? >> so we have syrian leader bashar al assad on thursday claiming the chemical attack in idlib could have been a fabrication. joining me is the co- founder of newsdeeply.com. a start up on the mission to advance literacy. you have a big task ahead of you. youreactn to assad saying that could be fake news. >> it has been sort of his standard response to anytime confronted with evidence, cha e charges and allegations of war crimes for the past six years of war. it is not shocking he came out to plant seeds of doubt around this attack and around whether it was true and he was responsibility for it. we have seen similar messages

from russia and iran. calling in question everything the white house said that he is responsible. >> flying in the face of the intelligence of what the u.s. has said and as you make a great point of syria and iran and russia on the same page and warning the u.s. not to have an air strike like that again. what do you make of that threat and how does that aggravate the u.s. involvement already? >> what we saw is russia, iran and syria, of course, coming together for a team huddle. deciding what to do and talking about the message they want to send to the west which is don't come after the assad regime. don't force regime change. we will protect assad. that is happening publicly. obviously they have been in cahoots for a while. russia stepped in 2015 with massive air support for bashar al assad. essentially helped him gain momentum to takeover the battle

field. from then on, assad made a lot of gains. he has begun to take more territory. he took over the major city of aleppo last year. he owes russia a lot. iran has been on the ground for longer. both secured assad's hold on power. they have done all they can to keep in control of his country and without them, he would not be there any more. >> last week, donald trump talked about for the first time regime change. referring to assad as a butcher. nikki haley out front on this. rex tillerson getting on the same page. do you think there is a coalition of the willing with the u.s. leading the way that could go up against assad, russia and aligned to keep assad? >> the trump administration is doing more than anyone expected of them at this point. didn't sound like syria was a priority on january 1st in

donald trump's mind. he took office when people lost hope of negotiated solution in syria because the u.s. hadn't been there pushing for one. during long stretches of this l war, the obama administration basically didn't treat syria as a priority. it at times was eclipsed by the negotiations with iran over a nuclear deal. that basically left a lot of those negotiations quiet for a while. so now trump has essentially reset the game. there's a new power balance between u.s. and its allies in russia, iran and syria, and there's more optimism from syrians and others that with that power dynamic in place, there's more chance for this war to eventually come to a close. >> we certainly heard a directive of what the trump administration wants to figure out the strategy of it all. thank you very much. the way forward for democrats, how does bernie

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back now to politics and a new attack line for democrats. dep kratic super pac american bridge is releasing ards aimed at demoralizing trump supporters. >> we have to do health care first to pick up additional money to get tax reform. >> weight for who? this is not what we were promised. >> i am your voice! >> who does he really care about? tell congress, don't let trump sell us out. >> democratic stralt strategist krystal ball at the new leader's counsel and author of "reversing the apocalypse, hijacking the democratic party ".

>> you saw part of that clip. do you think that's enough to persuade people that voted for donald trump to convince them otherwise or are they just going to dig in? >> it's a start. it's going to take some time for trump voters. some people will never be persuadable. i do think there's a group not totally sure about them going in, but if they voted for him, they want to give him a hearing. i think it's a start. i like it's engaging on the issues and the reality of the policies he's putting in place rather than attacking his character. we saw in the election, whatever you think of his character, those character attacks didn't work, so let's engage on the issues. what's not enough is democrats can't just stand in opposition to trump. you have to do that but you also have to have a policy that's going to make sense for people. i think that's where the party has fallen down on the job. we haven't had a strong enough economic message to deal with the massive economic changes

we're seeing here and around the world that have let to trump, brexit, the rise of the far right leaders in a lot of the developed word. >> bng a party of no and becoming powerful likehe gop is right now, there's a learning curve. it's hard for them to figure out four different policies. glou ear saying the reverse with the shoe being on the other foot for democrats, they can't just be the opposition party. >> we have dnc chair tom perez hitting the rode with bernie sanders. >> coming to my home state of kentucky. very exciting. >> you wrote in your book about turning the tide for democrats, is this really a message that these two men can deliver? bernie is a fire brand in his own right, but is he the best person to go out with tom perez? >> i think it's a good look for the party. it remains to be seen exactly what direction tom perez goes in. i like some of the early signs.

i think the party, as i put it, i think the party requires dramatic change here. i think there's a lot we can learn from a bernie sanders who did speak to those voters in places like eastern kentucky and west virginia and michigan. they really responded to his message. he wasn't afraid -- been saying the same thing for the past four years. he wasn't afraid to challenge to status quo and focus on the economic message that should be so central. >> he charged into a windmill on this. at least there's payoff on the other side of being able to formulate where the democratic party goes from here. big crowds expected today. tax day protests taking place across the country calling for president trump to release his taxes in greater transparency. now we have new official word that the white house and the logs of visitors, it will not be made for at least five years until after trump leaves office. what do you make of that and

what are they trying to keep from folks? this is als going to go for r-, too, we're not going to have an idea of the folks coming in and out. >> i think that's the question. what are you afraid ofd here, what are you hiding? a big part of donald trump's appeal was he was going to be different. putting all the policy pieces aside, immigration, all of that. the sense was this is going to be somebody who is different. he was going to drain the swamp. now you see an administration stacked with goldman sachs folks. you see him moving in a much more conventional direction in terms of the policies and the type of people that he has in place, and you see nepotism, corruption on a scale like we've never had. i think this is a very important signal. it's going to take time for people who supported him to reassess. when you see pieces like this coming into place, you have to

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