you. right now, we're talking about the white house shakeup. the president's communications director resigns just as the shakeup begins. i'll have exclusive new reporting from a source inside the west wing. if corey lewandowski is back in, more staffers could be out. back channel is back under fire. jared kushner reportedly laying low as new revelations surface about his alleged ties to russia. is his white house role in jeopardy? escalating tensions. in hours from now, the pentagon will test an intercontinental range missile for the first time. the message to north korea. good morning, everyone. i'm steph knanie ruhle at our mc headquarters here in new york city. we begin with a flurry of develops. this morning, the white house and russia. nbc news confirming a long-rumored shakeup has officially begun.

departing, white house communications director, mike dubke. as he left his home, no comment from president trump's son-in-law, jared kushner, to the latest reporting he tried to set up a back channel communications with russia during the election. the president himself taking to twitter this morning, declaring, quote, russian officials must be laughing at the u.s. and how lame excuse for why the dems lost the election has taken over the fake news. this as presidential counselor kellyanne conway strongly defending kushner this morning. >> kushner said from the beginning he is willing to go and share any information that he has with congress, with the fbi, and as you heard general mcmaster, as you heard secretary kelly over this weekend say, they're not concerned. back channels like this are the regular course of business.

that's really all we know. i think it is very important to recognize that the president has expressed full confidence in jared kushner. >> nbc news white house correspondent kristen welker joins us live. nbc news reporting president trump and his aids aes are plang an aggressive effort to push back against allegations involving russia, beyond fake news, got to have more than urces. at can you tell us about this organized effort? >> they're planning to set up a war room staff. it'd be headed by jared kushner, reince priebus and steve bannon. now, important to note, that was the plan at the end of last week. prior to those bomb shell reports coming out that kushner may have tried to set up a back channel with russian officials. the big question everyone has, is he going to continue to head up that war room? based on my conversations over the weekend, i know there are some here who have said, look, he should lay low a while while

he leaves with this. but the president has expressed full confidence in kushner. he made the comments to the "new york times," saying that he's doing great things for the country. saying that he's a good guy. of course, he is the president's son-in-law. so it is tough to see that he is going to be sidelined. again, that's the key question. we haven't heard from sean spicer since these bombshell reports came out. we're going to hear from him today at 2:00. a lot of questions when he steps foot behind this podium, steph. >> the president earlier this morning retweet a tweet put out by "fox and friends," supporting jared kushner. i'll point out in the tweet, it said a source inside the white house, and it is that which the president has been so critical of. these unnamed sources. i want to talk more about the shakeup. what more can you tell us about the departure of white house communications director dubke and what this signals of a further shakeup? he left the president know, he put in his letter of resignation, back on may 18th, but he said he'd stay through

this foreign afactory air ffair. though we were talking shakeup before the trip, it's back on, and it's not like dubke woke up this morning and said, hey, i'm out. >> right. the inference is that he is going to train whoever is coming in. based on my reporting, he submitted his letter of resignation on may 18th, before the foreign trip was gei iwas g underway. why did he do it? was it at the request of the president? that remains unanswered at this point in time. we do know that the president is considering some new roles for some people, expanding some profiles here behind the scenes, and he's looking to potentially bring in outsiders, some former campaign staffers, including corey lewandowski and dave bossie. based on my reporting, it is more likely, more realistic, that he'd bring in dave bossie, the former deputy campaign manager. corey lewandowski has tensions with some of the trump family members. so very unlikely you'd see him

come back into the fold in the white house. but could he take on a broader role in terms of counseling the president, advising him outside of the white house? that's a possibility, steph. that's one of the things they're eyeing moving forward. >> i want to share a bit more on the tension. it is not just tension between corey lewandowski and the -- some of the trump family members, it's about what this means. bringing back a corey lewandowski and a david bossie, if they were to join the administration, a source inside the white house told me that other staffers could actually leave. why? not because of ego or personality, who is in charge, but because there are people inside the administration who are not part of the campaign, who joined because they said, we want to focus on policy. they have concerns that if we get back to this campaign-style, if the president goes out and conducts raies, he surrounded by the team he was and, granted, he did win with that team, then they won't get to the administration's agenda. in fact, it could bog down the

administration, even derail republican plans. according to the source inside the white house, it is a choice between promoting the brand, which kellyanne conway and cory lunn douewandowski do best, or promoting the country. if we see a shift, if the president goes to his comfort zone, out there on the trail, conducting the rallies, doesn't it set up the administration, who then have to deliver policy n a difficult position, like the position they were in when they had to deliver the new health care bill? >> absolutely. but i have to tell you, steph, that is under real consideration here. having the president hit the trail, visit some of these various swing states, talk about his agenda, talk about things like helts caalth care reform, reform. they think it is a way to push the agenda and shift some of the headlines away from these complicated headlines they're having to deal with as it relates to russia. will they actually follow through? that remains to be seen.

it could be a controversial move behind the scenes, steph. >> those make for exciting shows. kristen, there's so much we have to cover here. kristen welker, live at the white house. glad she's inside. no longer out in the rain. >> me, too. >> i want to bring in white house reporter for the associated press, ken thomas. you've been reporting the president is frustrated with his staff in the face of what has been a steady drum beat of revelations about russia and how moves today, what he's considering, what they mapl out to be. what have you learned? >> well, asristenaid earlier, in the interest of trying to set up an outside group that can deal with both the legal issues and also the crisis communications problems that they have with this russia investigation, essentially try to inoculate it from the day to day work of the white house. to try to accept braseparate it white house can focus more on policy.

things like getting the health care bill through the senate, working on tax reform. so they're looking at getting some lawyers who can help them with this and also some crisis communicators. >> jared kushner didn't comment this morning. that's not a surprise. he's not somebody who would walk out of his house and speak to the press. his lawyer has said he's willing to cooperate and answer any questions. is there any reason to believe president trump has lost confidence in jared kushner? >> i don't think there is. i mean, there is an incredibly strong bond between the two of them. we also saw that the president put out a statement to the "new york times" over the weekend, reaffirming his confidence in jared. so i don't think we've seen jared's role diminished in any way, or that the president has somehow lost confidence in him. but that said, it is a significant story that we saw last week. we're going to have to see how it plays forward. >> thank you. ap white house reporter ken

thomas. joining me now, former assistant u.s. attorney in new york. nick ackerman, who also served as a special watergate prosecutor. sean turner was deputy press secretary in the obama white hous sharon is an investigative porter at the "new york times." robert served as senio communications adviser to the bush/cheney presidential campaign and now an msnbc political analyst. nick, you have the home-court advantage. let's start with you. >> sure. >> in the face of the fbi and congressional investigations, there's talk about expanding teams with lawyers, including the president bringing in his personal attorney. can the white house corner this off, separate it, put it to the side, and continue to lead and get to the agenda? you were intimately involved in how everything went down with watergate. how big of a cloud does this place over the white house? >> a huge cloud. each of these people, as they get called in by the special counsel, are going to have to have their own private lawyers.

there's going to be an agreement among the lawyers, joint defense agreement, so they can all speak together. they're going to tell their clients not to speak to each other. let's face it, you've got three people who are tied together by blood. you have jared kushner, donald trump and his daughter. i can guarantee you, they'll be talking about this, despite what their lawyers say. so all of this is going to be a huge side attraction. you're also going to see that none of these people are likely to take the fifth amendment. if history is any kind of predictor here. what was amazing during the watergate scandal was that all of nixon's top aides wound up going and testifying before the grand jury, speaking to investigators, simply because, i think, they think the political repercussions are so great, that they have to -- they're in kind of a svival mode. they have to get their side of the story out rardless of what

their lawyers are going to be advising them to do. >> why has mike flynn pleaded the fifth? >> he's no longer in the white house. he's been fired. he's out of the picture at this point. that's an ease y one. but the people who are next to the president, for them to take the fifth amendment would be a huge political problem for the president. >> shawn, we saw kellyanne conway defending jared kushner this morning. john kelly defending him on "meet the press" and elsewhere. do you believe that is a good start to a new public relations offensive? >> i think it is problematic, to be honest with you. look, this president is dealing with a lot of issues right now that no amount of effective communication will in any way make it seem less weighty. that said, this president has had some policy decisions, personnel decisions, that he's made that were completely within his purview, and he'll have more. i think what we're seeing right now is a situation in which he doesn't have a strong, effective

communication team in place. obviously, the news this morning contributing to that, but he doesn't have a team in place to allow him to communicate about these policy decisions and the other decisions that are within his purview. to do that in a way that at least gives people the opportunity to make a decision as to whether or not they think those decisions are the right decisions. so whatever you think of the decisions this president is making, he absolutely must put in place a strong, effective communication team to get the information out about these decisions. that team has to do a better job than the current team of building relationships with the news media. if he doesn't do that, i don't know how we're ever going to -- the president is going to turn the conversation back to his agenda. >> how are they possibly going to do that when the person in charge, president trump, is the one who is at war with the media more than his communications staff? >> i know. it is a really good point. i will tell you, that speaks to this president's team. one of the things that has been particularly disturbing about

this president's team is that when i look at the national security team members in particular, you're looking at a bunch of people who have distinguished careers and who, by all accounts, are people who are not afraid -- or should not be afraid to speak truth to power. what this president needs more than anything is someone on that team who will stand up to him and firmly but respectfully have the courage of their conviction to be able to say, mr. president, this is not the right approach. and to have him listen to him. if that person does not emerge, this president is going to continue to struggle to get the focus back on his agenda for the country. >> sharon, that was the exact argument that supported jared and ivanka sitting behind the president. many said, yes, it is unorthodox, we haven't seen things like this before, but these are the two who can help moderate him. they can speak truth to power. according to you and your colleagues at the "new york times," the trump/kushner relationship is showing some

signs of strain. we know that donald trump's sons met with dprgop leaders last we. they're vocal on twitter. we haven't heard them weigh in on the jared kushner situation. are there real signs that president trump is distancing himself in any way from jared? >> i don't think distancing is the right word, buthaty lleagues have learned is that the president is lashing out at his whole staff. jared used to be exempt from that, those kind of tongue lashings, but now he is in the room. interestingly, one of the reasons is his sister's dangling these eb5 visas to chinese investors who might be interested in one of his family's real estate projects. but jared had nothing to do with that. a more serious matter was his advice to the president that it would be a political win to fire

the fbi director. that turned out to be a miscalculation. so, yes, there are strains, but jared kushner is somebody who has boundless self-confidence. he is not going to go slink away to the office of american innovation. i think -- and not be heard of for months. he is -- i think he's actually less worried about the fbi investigation than he is about whether there are white house officials who are criticizing him and leaking to the press. he doesn't -- he's not the kind of person to take that lying down. he's, as friends would say, tough and his critics would say he is vindictive. >> if that's the case, if jared kushner is more concerned about the leaks within the white house, the factions within the

white house, can a white house survive with a steve bannon, reince priebus, steven miller and jared at the same time, or does one team have to go? >> i mean, it's a good question. it's really anybody's guess. i think jared's point of view, you know, he's always been within the family business. it's a very insular kind of environment. it's almost a bubble. it could be a surprise to him that actually in the white house, there are competing power centers. when he criticizes other white house officials, they have their own allies. they have their own power bases. and they're going fight back. you know, that's -- it's a big difference from being -- having a hand in glove relationship he had withrunning the businesses.

>> we don't know what this inquiry is specifically about. jared kushner's lawyer said he's more than willing to answer any questions. i don't believe he's actually been directly contacted yet. i want to play for you part of what senator john mccain said about jared kushner and these allegations about back channel communications with russia. >> iofficials are saying, well, it's standard procedure. i don't think it is standard procedure prior to the inauguration of the president of the united states by someone not in an appointed position. >> could more republicans begin abandoning the president in the face of the constant russia revelations? maybe jared didn't mean to do anything bad, but we've heard from people within the white e, he doesn't knowhat he doesn't know and c be dangerous because of that. >> ablutely. i think a lot of republicans on capitol hill are keeping their powder dry. they want to get all the information. here's an interesting thing, the information keeps changing. i think republicans are right to

put their country first and not the party, by simply saying, let's look and wait and see, all the information coming in from comey, from the lawyers, from kushner. you just go down the list. so i think this probably is a long game here that a lot of republicans are going to -- first of all, not just even republicans but capitol hill lawmakers. you even have a lot of democrats out there saying, look, this rush to impeachment talk is a lot of silly talk. we need to get to the bottom of this. the only way to get to the bottom of this is make sure all of the information and the facts come out. i want to go back to something that was said a few minutes ago. as a former staffer that worked in '04 for the bush/chaney campaign. if the owner of a home wants to add on, the staff can only keep

up in the churn and confusion. it adds drama. that's pubucket a. bucket b, this is nothing new in the country when it comes to family members in the white house. george wh bush, george bush fired johnson. hillary clinton had a west wing office in the white house. we had robert f. kennedy. nancy reagan behind the scenes. this is nothing few, when presidents lean on their family members to give tm unvaished opinions. the question is whether or not jared ksh ner hushner has been gravitas, look, dad, or look, mr., president, this is the reason it is wrong and i have the facts to back it up. >> nick, from a legal perspective, would it be wrong for jared kushner to set up this back channel communications line? some have said, this has been done for years. guys like henry killinger did it. granted, jared kushner has absolutely no government experience. vladimir putin ain't nobody to

play with. >> well, i think we need to me more of the facts to know whether or not there was something illegal here. we know a couple things. he didn't report this on his security clearance form, which in itself is a crime. we also know that there's an allegation about a back channel correspondence with the russian hackers during the course of the election. it would have led to this microtargeting of voters in various, key parts of the country. so was this the same kind of back channel that was done during the election? there are some indications out there now that jared kushner did have conversations with certain russians during the course of the election. as a former prosecutor, i would want to know, what are the facts? why was he doing this? what was he doing during the campaign? who was discussing this microtargeting with the russians if, in fact, it was discussed? we don't know any of that at this point. this is why this is such a significant event. the fact that prior to his

father-in-law taking office, he sets up a back channel or tries to set up a back channel connection with the russians. t time, but given how wre noisy, how messy, how complicated this is, and your experience, do you think we can get those answers? >> i think it's absolutely possible. that's what the special counsel, i am confident, will do. there's a lot of people to talk to. there's a lot of documents to look at. ultimately, i think these answers are going to be uncovered. >> i want to thank you all. great conversation. nick, shawn, sharon, robert, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> we got a lot covered there. next, the latest response to the north korea nuclear test in a few hours. the pentagon will try to shoot down an intercontinental ballistic missile for the first time ever. isn't it extraordinary that it is 11:21 and we're only getting to that now? we'll explain the test and what is at stake. and coming up, the dui of

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welcome back. you're watching msnbc. i'm steph knanie ruhle. preparing for north korea's growing threat. the u.s. is scheduled to test itse its capabilities against an enemy missile this afternoon. it comes 48 hours after north korea's latest missile test.

nbc news/pentagon correspondent and my friend hans nichols joins us now. what are they doing? >> hitting a bullet a bullet. what will happen sometime after noon today pacific time, vandenberg air force base, let's set up an interseptcepteaccept intercepting missile. they're going to launch it from an island. what is different from this test, this is the first time they're trying to knock out an icbm out of the sky. in the past, they had something to approximate what it looks like. two things. one, north korea doesn't have, to our best knowledge, a functioning icbm and, number two, these tests are long planned, long budgeted for. what everyone at the pentagon is telling me this morning is if don't look at this as a response to the recent round of testings from the north koreans. this is us testing our system,

and it was long planned. >> the american interceptor has a spotty track record. is this the only system to combat an international baa ballistbli -- ballistic missile? >> yes. it's been operational 11 years now. what this is, you have a battery in alaska. a battery in california. two are responsible for trying to intercept a full handful of icbms. this is not to counter from a state actor like russia or china. they simply have too many missiles. it could overwhelm the u.s. system. if they knock this one down successfully, it'll be a 50% success rate. throughout the morning at the pentagon, talking to officials, they're saying, look, just because we don't fully knock it out of the sky, we'll still learn something with this test. in a lot of ways, stephanie, it's what they say about north korea, whenever they test. even though it might blow up on

the launch pad or travel a few thousand kilometers, every time there is a test on either side, the side doing the test learns something. >> hans nichols, thanks. i want to share this. new pictures this morning of what is reportedly north korean leader kim jong-un's personally overseeing the country's latest missile test. two tests done in just two days. kim jong-un threatening to develop more powerful weapons in multiple phases to defend his country against us, the united states. i'm joined now by nbc's janice in beijing. any reaction from north korea as the u.s. readies to test fire of his own defensive missile system today? and again to hans nichols' point, today's test has been long planned. >> well, the pentagon has also said this icbm test is not solely about north korea. but pyongyang has long

threatened that having an icbm capable of reaching the coast of the united states has been the goal of their weapons program. so pyongyang is going to be watching this u.s. test very closely. it's been the pacing of the recent north korean test that's been some cause for urgency. and apparent successes. they're also showing improving technology. they're using solid fuel, mobile launchers. that means missiles can be fired with little warning. so that means there's a more limited chance of being able to shoot it down. this latest test was a new ballistic missile using a precision-guidance system. kim jong-un called it a huge success. he said it landed within 23 feet of its ined target. while there is no way to verify that information, he has ordered the development of more powerful strategic weapons. after this latest test, north korea has said it's warning that it's got a, quote, big gift package for the yankees.

stephanie? >> as stunning as the images are, for me, they're far, far away. for south korea, have they said anything about the growing rhetoric, the testing from both sides? >> well, south korea's president, moon jae-in, has only been in office for a few weeks now. on his first day, he declared that re-engaging with the north was a priority for him. he saw dialogue was going to be the key to de-escalating the situation on the peninsula. today, a complete change in sentiment. he said that the conditions right now are not good for dialogue. he's talking about more sanctions. of course, as ever, there will be more pressure on china to try to reign in the north. >> all right. thank you. janice joining us in beijing. this morning, over in england, british police are asking for the public's help in the manchester concert attack investigation. officials are now focusing on a key piece of evidence. look at your screen. this blue suitcase.

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before watching, this video is disturbing. graphic video live streamed on facebook last july shows the moments after the officer charged castile during a traffic stop. he is charged with second degree manslaughter. castile's girlfriend who recorded the killing said he told the officer he was armed and he was shot while reaching for identification. attorneys are expted to argue he was high at the te and disobeyed the officer's command. he faces up to ten years in prison. the suspect in the stabbing deaths of two men in portland, oregon, will be arraigned today. jeremy joseph christian, a self-proclaimed white supremacist is accused of stabbing the men after they came to the defense of two young women he was reportedly shouting anti-muslim slurs at. one of the women was wearing a

hijab. christian is being charged with aggravated murder, attempted murder, intimidation and being a felon in possession of a weapon. now to the state of texas. tensions soared in the capital after a protest against a new sanctuary cities law sparked a massive protest and a scuffle between lawmakers. hundreds of activists disrupted the proceedings until being officially escorted out. one lawmaker said he reported the protesters to federal immigration officials. ice officials say they received no such call. another lawmaker also say s rinaldi threat tond shoened to . he said he was speaking in self-defense. we're learning new details about a new story. the dui arrest of tiger woods. the probably cause affidavit detailed what happened early monday morning. kerry sanders is live in

jupiter. this is serious business. i should apologize. earlier, we were joking because there are two identical headlines on the arrest. this is serious business. this is tiger woods and h health. >> well, exactly. here's the deal, he says that he was not under the influence of alcohol. when most people hear dui, they think alcohol. according to the probably cause affidavit, he blew in and they actually took a blood alcohol on the breathalyzer, which indeed registered 0.000%, indicating there was no alcohol in the system. he took a urine test and the results are not back. he told the officers at the scene and publicly released he was perhaps groggy and losing his way as a result of being high on prescription drugs. ad as we look at the report, a few things jump out. first of all, woods was asleep at the wheel and had to be woken up according to the police

officer. woods has slow and slurred speech. woods stated that he did not know where he was. >> wow. this is very serious. >> reporter: this morning, tiger woods said it was a reaction to prescription medications and not alcohol that led to police pulling him over early monday morning on suspicion of dui. woods releasing a statement that reads, in part, i take full responsibility for my actions. i want the public to know that alcohol was not involved. what happened was an unexpected reaction to prescribed medications. i didn't realize the mix of medications had affected me so strongly. >> the latest development gives him a chance maybe to get in front of the story and spin it in a way where it is not as damaging. >> tiger woods arrested. >> reporter: woods's arrest was big news. his mug shot making headlines around the wod. woods was booked on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs. he was released without bail. this morning is free on his own

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he was also epa administrator from 1989 to '93 under president george h.w. bush. william, give us some background on what the accord does and what the fallout would be if we pulled out. >> there has been a succession of conferences of the parties of countries from all over the world for a number of years now, going back about 25. they have progressively moved toward more concrete responses, specific agreements to reduce greenhouse gases, which are causing global warming. that culminated in 1915 in a meeting in paris at which the 197 countries, i think virtually every country in the world, made its own best effort, its commitment, to reduce its greenhouse gases. the commitment made by president obama and the united states was 26% to 28% by 2025. significant reduction. in fact, the united states is on track to achieve that, in my

opinion. we are decarbonizing because co coal-fired power plants are converted to natural gas. we're seeing renewables, wind, solar, coming on faster and less expensive than expected. the paris agreement is not something, if we were not to achieve it, one could go to court and enforce it. it is not a legally binding target. it's, as i said, a best effort. over time, expected when the agreement was reached, the countries would improve their performance as they saw the renewables come on and the economics of this is more attractive than they have been. that, in fact, is occurring. >> we've also seen big business come out urging the president to stay in the accord. companies like dow chemical, google, exxon, ibm. ted cruz put out an op-ed saying the accord costs a lot of money and it doesn't do a lot to

protect the environment. what's the argument? >> it is an id lodealogical one. if you were trying to get something through congress, you'd never talk about climate right now. it is a toxic word to -- >> why is it a toxic word? if t's been, over the years, bipartan suort, if countries around the world are on board, why has this become a partisan issue? >> it's taken on a significance that's way in disproportion to any realistic analysis. the tea party certainly, evangelicals to a degree, conservatives, the alt-right, all have targeted this as an unacceptable intervention in the economy. reduction in their freedom. a curtailment of the american lifestyle. these are the terms that we hear about. thrks i thi

this, i think, largely amplified by talk radio, has gained currency. >> what is the rationale behind it? if you have companies like exxon saying, we want you to stay in, what's the argument it is curtailing a lifestyle? this is our planet. >> well, the argument disregards the scientific abnalysis. mainstream science has been clear on this. it seems to take a lot of self-confidence, especially if you're not a scientist, to fly in the face of more than 11 national academies of science, including our own, which have given the verdict on this. the vclimate is warming. humans are contributing to it by their generation of greenhouse gases, largely, carbon dioxide. >> thank you so much for your thought this is morning and i hope the president is watching. william reilly, appreciate your time. >> thank you. we'll take a break. next, president trump and top secret intelligence. we've got new details on how the commander in chief consumes his most critical information. nside look at his

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being looked at more how the president absorbs and receives his intelligence. it is a lot of information for any president to take in. we know he starts with all of his senior advisors, reince priebus running it and he has reviewed all of the news out there with his name on it and he wants people to answer for any negative news that he doesn't like. he is all over the media, but as far as bdigging in, about leakig nuclear subs, talking about intelligence from israel to russian officials. what is it that the president doesn't understand or that he is getting that he doesn't realize is such private information? >> the report, our story this

morning by my colleagues, really show this is a president who wants things really boiled down. very brief sbjs repointelligenc. a lot of killer graphicings. he takes in information visually. but the real question social security what he does with that information. he started the presidency with a very tense relationship with the intelligence community during the transition. he said he thought a lot of the briefings were wastes of time. so whate have seen is the way he absorbed information is one issue, but what he does with with it -- we had an episode we reported where he basically handed over to the russian foreign minister key and sensitive intelligence. he will blurt out things that were wrong, like saying it was

china not russia that may have been messing with our elections, or blurting out a name in israel. >> is this a source of frustration? they said that president trump's overseas trip was a learning experience for him, gary cohen walked back his aggressive remarks toward germany and the president doubled down on it again today. while he is getting this information, is he processing it or are they changing his views in any ways? >> right now, the biggest concerns both within the intelligence community and among our foreign allies are just precisely what information can really be shared with this president, and how he handles it once he gets it. >> all right, then, we're watching that all day every day. karen, thank you for joining me this morn.

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