bridge, should there be ramificatio ramifications, a punishment, a fine? >> we want to do what's right for our community. we are waiting to see the results but what's important to us is making sure we get it right. >> all right. right now we hand off to andrea mitchell for andrea mitchell reports. thanks for watching. right now, critical condition. donald trump's pick to run the second largest federal agency is on life support amid aels allegations of freely handing out prescription meds and being drunk on the job. the president is standing by his doctor despite growing concern. >> whether it's giving out prescription drugs without a prescription. whether it's intoxication or whether it's a toxic work environment. all three are very harmful to somebody that will be a secretary and run an agency as big as the v.a. pay to play. mick mulvaney telling a group of

bankers he would not talk to will be byists. >> if you can buy what he said at what's happening at the epa across the entire administration, this is a corruption administration that talked about the president, draining the swamp. this administration is the swamp. and french kiss. the french president on the hill today after being wined and dined at the trump's first state dinner. a lot of public displays of affection.

with thanks to our friends at the 11th hour who put that together. g good day i'm andrea mitchell. ronnie jackson add mant he will become secretary of affairs. john tester saying that 20 military staffers have now come forward to complain about the president's position. alleging a toxic work environment, drinking on duty, improperly prescribing drugs to staff under president trump and obama. jerry moran tells reporters dr. jackson is denying allegations of a hostile workplace or drinking on the job. despite a broods hiad hint from president giving jackson an exit strategy, the white house is still calling his record impeccable. >> i don't want to put man through a process like this. it's too ugly and too disgusting, so, we'll see what

happens. he'll make a decision. >> are you saying that you will stand behind him? >> i would definitely stand behind him. he's a fine man. i'll always stand behind him. >> joining me now kristen welker who was at that news conference and robert costa, national political reporter and moderator of washington week on pbs and msnbc political analyst, former chief of staff to george w. wuswus bush. welcome all. that endorsement last evening even after that news conference with the president was basically making it possible for him to gracefully withdraw but when they met in the oval office they doubled down on trying to fight for him. >> reporter: they did. i got details about what took place. according to a white house official, president trump asked ronnie jackson how he was doing. jackson denied the allegations against him. said he wants to fight and then president trump said, look, i

stand behind you. i'll help you do that. i asked an administration official if there was any indication that jackson does, in fact, want to bow out. this person said nothing has changed since last night to this person's knowledge. bottom line, i think you're seeing ronnie jackson did this for a fact and i think you're seeing the administration rae try to move forward in a more robust way in terms of protecting and defending him. the administration getting a lot of criticism for not having a smooth roll out of the jackson confirmation process and as a part of that potentially not doing a thorough enough vetting job here. they dismiss these allegations against jackson as just a political smear campaign and they expect the confirmation process to pick up again in mid-may provided there are no other big stumbles or big hurdles that they come across. important to point out, i have been talking to some tomorrower obama administration officials, they say they're not aware of these allegations, excessive

drinking on the job, handing ou pills in excess. they say he doesn't have experience managing a large agency and the v.a. is the government's second largest agency. >> bob costa, there's a real experience gap here. there's no question. the president acknowledging that. this seem to have been poorly vetted, impulsive decision to no, ma' nominate him for a job he's not experienced. there's not the support from veterans groups and senators, democratic as well as republican. that said, in his defense, from my experience, from a number of our white house correspondents, past and present, there's a habit, no pun intended on these overnight flights where the white house physician does hand out ambien and other pills for sleep aid and also for getting

back up the next day to cover the job. it's not unheard of. >> that's why these hearings will be revealing if they actually happen. that dr. jackson will detail his side of the story about these allegations for now. they remain allegations that have been repeated by several lawmakers. the white house has to know that if dr. jackson does appear before congress, you cannot lie before congress. dr. jackson will be pressed about how his dispense medication, how he handle defenda different issues inside the white house. that's the process. >> apparently john tester is speaking again about all these allegations. john tester is a tough re-election fight but he's not alone at all. the fundamental question is this man's lack of experience and the way he was not properly vetted which is a problem for this white house starting with mike flynn and going 15, 16 months

in. let's listen to what tester just had to say. >> do you have anymore accusations brought dwroyour offices? >> i would have to go back and talk to my staff. there's been coming up and talk to people like you that we weren't aware of. >> can you understand any of these allegations from yesterday? >> we've been talking to the folks. >> the facts are there was a dispute within the office. there was an inspector general's review. i don't know if it was a formal report. he denied there was a report from the ig but there's an inspector general's assessment, which was very negative about his conduct there when he was having internal friction with another captain. he was a captain at the time and accused of really bad management. there was a recommendation that he may be should be replaced. >> i start off with thinking the president should have the right

to get who he wants in his cabinet. on the side of confirming him or saying if that's who the president want, we'll hold the president accountable. there's been a problem at the white house been exposed. it's up to chief of staff john kelly to speak candidly with dr. jackson and say do you want to go through this. do you want to put the president through this is this we're willing to stand with krou if you want to take the heat. this comes down to a decision that dr. jackson has to make with the advice and counsel of the chief of staff. i think the president is doing the right thing to say if is who i wants. hold the president accountable. >> the chief of staff since the portman firing and several of the other firings close aides to the president, he has lost out altitude here. he wasn't in on the putin phone call. he hasn't been in on key meetings. he didn't go to mar-a-lago.

there does seem to be a john kelly problem as well. >> chief of staff serves a t the pleasure of the president. he's patriot. the president needs a strong chief of staff. >> this is not a strong chief of staff. >> i think he's still pretty strong inside the white house. he may not be as involved as i think he should be. that's up to the president and the chief of staff to decide on their own. it's not going to be external forces that say whether the chief of staff is up to doing the job. i hope the president respects how he does the job. this is where the chief of staff should stand up and say to dr. jackson, this is situation that you know more about than anybody else. if you're willing to go through the challenge, the president said we'll stand with you but you have to make that decision. >> bob costa, when i heard that answer from the president at the news conference that if there was a gentle push. i understand his affection for dr. jackson and so were the obamas and others who were telling us and kristen's

reporting on all of this. that said, they certainly gave him way out of this and he's not taking it. >> he decided to not take it. he was on capitol hill when the president made those comments. he came later to the oval office and told the president he wants to move forward. based on my conversation with several officials this morning, that is still fluid. dr. jackson wants to move forward. there are plans to continue to have him be the nominee for v.a. wu th but that doesn't mean the door is still shut. democrats continue to ramp up the pressure. the white house saying to reporters today, they are standing stand ing by drmt dr. jackson. the decision remains his. >> that sounds fluid is a good way of putting it. i will not bet on this becoming a confirmed cabinet post. >> there's broad acknowledgement that the hurdles are high.

in addition to these allegations dr. jackson is facing skepticism from the veterans community about his lack of experience. i've spoken to advocates for the veterans community who say we want someone there who does have experience and adding to that they say the instability is not helping. not helping to solve the problems at the v.a. that so dear lly need to be addressed. that continues to be a significant hurdle and the late e allegations only compoundsing what is a very rocky path to confirmation. >> bob, andy and kristen thank you so much. that tees up what we're talking about. is the experience factor. president trump pushing back on that other criticism. dr. jackson's lack of experience and running a major organization. it's a critical flaw. >> i've gotten to know him pretty well. he's a great doctor. it was a suggestion.

i know there's an experience problem was a lack of experience. a admiral jackson is a wonderful man. i say what do you need it for. as far as experience is concerned, the veterans administration is so big, you could run the biggest hospital system in the world and it's small time compared to the veterans administration. nobody has the experience. what he is is a leader and a good man. >> joining me now, melissa bryant is the chief policy office for iraq and afghanistan veterans of america and joins me here. thank you for being with us. what about the experience factor? what is your position on ronnie jackson to take this job? >> before any of these scandal news hit, our members were hit. rerepresent 425,000 members and supporters for the post- 9/11 generation. they were concerned about his

ability to lead such a massive bureaucracy. over 3040,000 employees. they have held a staff of about 40 million now. >> one argument is he has the support and affection of the president which is a big deal in this cabinet to get your budget to get what you want. >> absolutely. >> he has no management experience handling this and the one office he did help run back in 2012, there was a negative inspector general's review of the way he handled personnel decisions. >> absolutely. that's troubling. we're appreciative of senator tuser who is digging into this and vetting this candidate. it's troubling to see any one come into this job in a sense that 20 veterans are dying by suicide per day. there's massive concerns about the reform. legislation hanging in the balance. this is a big job for anyone to

step into. we knew it was going to be a steep learning curve but the senate v.a. committee was willing to give him fair shake. now they are doing due diligence. we wish the white house would have done the same. >> the military, as you know better than i, is so by the books. how could he be where i think drinking on the job, running sw into a secret service issue in that regard and reported by the new york times and other news organizations, not by us, how could there be no record of that? >> that's what's most troubling. >> maybe it's not true is my point. >> it could not be true. they are serious allegations that warrant looking into. that's something that we want to see the committee really dig into. it would be troubling. there's always the concern of those who are in ranks, especially flag officers, we hear enough in the news about folks getting promoted and you hear the different spanks for different ranks. that's something we hope is not

the truth here. we appreciate they are digging into it and ensuring they are over it. >> you're going to be all over it. >> absolutely. >> great to see you. coming up, third time around. the trump travel ban reaching the isssupreme court after bein knocked down twice before. pete williams will be here. stay with us on msnbc. you know what's awesome? gig-speed internet.

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a long awaited critical test for president trump's travel ban at the supreme court after his original muslim ban was rewritten and kept getting knocked down. this third version banning from a handle of muslim countries. the justices have to decide whether it's legally acceptable or just another version of muslim ban. pete williams is at the supreme court. pete, what can you gather from the oral arguments, and i know that's always risky, as to which way this might go? >> reporter: for the president it seemed the president will have a bare majority of five here. the challengers say this is illegal, first of all because they say congress has banned restricting travel from everyone in a certain country, nationality wide. secondly they raise the constitutional religious claim it's a muslim ban. the lawyer for the justice department, knoll francisco said no, it's not illegal and

majority of the justices both seem concerned about reining in too much of the president's sdib ability. if it's a muslim ban, he said i don't see how you can call this a muslim ban when it only applies to 5% of the world's muslim population. based on those comments, it would seem, this third time will be different. the administration's argument is this one should be different was a unlike the first two, this one was imposed last september only after a worldwide review of how other countries do in terms of vetting the backgrounds of people who apply for visas to come to the united states and how well they do it resisting terrorism within their own borders and sharing terrorism intelligence with the u.s. >> they are narrowing it to those countries they say don't do a good job on the vetting.

>> reporter: correct. >> let me ask you about daca was a there was a federal court ruling on daca that seems to be pretty important. >> reporter: right, applying to many of our people, certainly those in the united states. we've had two court decisions already saying that the government was wrong to stop daca and had to at least allow people already in the program to keep re-applying every two years. this opinion was different. last night a judge here in washington said, i agree with those previous rulings but the government must allow new applications to daca. he said that the justice department did not have an adequate basis for saying that the program was illegal. he ordered the government to start accepting new daca applications, wu he put his own rule on hold until late july saying he wanted to give the government another chance to try to justify legally why they think it's illegal. an unusual ruling saying i don't

think you've got it but i'll give you another chance. try again. perhaps because of the fact this would be so much sweeping than the earlierandrea. >> wow, a lot happening on that front. thank you. coming up now joining us is congressman jojoaquin castro. your reaction on the daca ruling. >> a court has given daca applicants a chance to remain part of the program and be in the united states. we're talking about the futures of 800,000 young people who came to the united states who no fault of their own and find themselves in legal limbo. aisle i'll be anxious to see what reason they come up with for closing down the program and kicking these kids out of country. >> i want to ask you about some of the other foreign policy developments. north korea, the president

yesterday during his meeting with emmanuel macron had this to say about kim jong-un looking forward to the north korea summit. >> kim jong-un was he really has been very open, and i think very honorable from everything we're seeing. a lot of promises have been made by north korea over the years but they've never been in this position. >> there's been a lot of reaction around the world here and here at home to the president calling this dictator honorable. what is your reaction? >> i was stunned to hear that. that the president of the united states could call somebody like kim jong-un, a dictator who has repressed his people and killed his own family members an honorable guy especially considering what he's called fellow americans like john mccain. that aside, i'm hopeful even though we have been here a few times in the last dozen years or so where north korea has made

promises, there's been negotiations and things have fallen apart, i think as a nation, we have to hope this president and his administration are successful in helping the denuclearize north korea. >> i gather were you at the meeting, the joint meeting of congress just now when president macron was addressing the congress because that speech drew standing ovations. it seems a strong line on iran. they're not going to let iran get nuclear weapons, but at the same time offering a proposal for an add on agreement. what do you think about that? >> well, first, you're right. it was a plea from the president of france to the united states and to president trump to not just turn inward. he spoke about nationalism and the temptation to turn inward but for the united states to remain a leader among nations in the world. when he spoke about the iran deal, he was clear it's his

position and france's position that iran should never have nuclear weapons but walking away from the jcpoa or what we know as the iran deal would a bad thing. he was open to a more comprehensive agreement. critics of the iran deal have sited it sunsets after a certain point and that should be changed. remember, when you talking about agreement, that means that it's likely that there's going to have to be something else put on the table and offered to iran so that nation can save face, at the least. all of us here in congress and these committees will be watching closely. >> he also suggested that there should be another look at the paris according and climate and spoke and has been tweeting very passionately about the importance of us reviewing that. >> that's right. that's probably, he received a

very warm response, both sides of aisle, republicans and democrats stand up for him on almost everything he said. the one part where there was some difference, if you watched, was on the climate issue. specifically on rejoining the paris climate accord. i agree with it. i think we should be part of it. we should be loadeeaders on tha issue as well. in the room wow could tell there was some dissent there. >> also probably in the oval office. thank you very much. thanks for being with us. coming up, hundrmoney takes. mick mulvaney on how to get his attention. so lionel, what does being able to trade 24/5 mean to you? well, it means i can trade after the market closes.

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there are new ethics questions surrounding a to trump cabinet official. this time budget director mick mulvaney. a former congressman facing scrutiny after the new york times said he told a group of lobbyist they should donate more money to lawmakers to have more influence on their agenda tell them we had hire ar ri in fi

office in congress. if you're a lobbyist who never gave us money, i might talk to you. joining me is jennifer rogers. jennifer, it's stunning comment to me. i don't know if there's a legal question here but if you talk about draining the swamp, this is the swamp. >> you're exactly right. there really are two questions. one is is this a sort of cultural we want? do we want this pay to play culture in washington where lobbyists paying money are the ones who have influence? that's a broader societal question we need to grapple with and demand action from from our congressional representatives. hopefully pass more laws, stronger regs. the other question you raise is a legal question. is mulvaney potentially on the hook for criminal charges for a bribery scheme when he was in congress? i'm happy to go into that more. that's a very interesting legal

question in terms of recent developments of supreme court kind of narrowing the law in this area. >> how does that play out given those recent court rulings? >> one of the developments was to make it the prosecutors have to prove an explicit quid pro quo if is bribe is in the form of of a campaign contribution. developers prosecutors say how can we be expected to prove a case where the bribe is campaign donation because no one will be dumb enough to make a explicit quid pro quo. today i say exhibit a is mulvaney. it's incredible he was willing to go on the record for something like this. the other problem is the other narrowing of the law has been to say from 2016 in the mcdonald case that it's not good enough to have a meeting. a meeting does not count as the official act that's exchanged for the bribe. you have to have more. what i would look for there if

prosecutors are interested in pursuing whether there was a bribery crime is to look beyond the meetings and see whether these lobbyists who gave the campaign donations got a promise for legislation or appropriat n appropriatio appropriations, something like that. they will have to go beyond the meeting. it's possible and make me wonder if some agency will be looking into this. >> this is exactly what we were ta talking about after the mcdonald ruling. in that case it was a friendship. it was an act of friday and pro to the quid or quid to the pro in that supreme court decision that overturned his conviction. fascinating stuff and also they would have to look back at his voting record, i presume on issues involving specific lobbyists. he also, by the way, is reported to be a presidential favorite in a potential future chief of staff if john kelly were to

leave under one circumstance or another. this is not just any other cabinet official. i want to ask you quickly about also about scott priuitt because we hear a former secret service agent who leads security detail worked on assignments for american media inc during the 2016 campaign freelances according to records and interviews. does that raise issue. that's the same media company close to the president and been involved in the michael cohen and stormy daniels cases? >> it's hard to say without knowing a bit more. pruitt is this trouble for all sorts of things including lots of things having to do with people working at his agent circumstances improper retaliation, improper use of resources and personnel. you want to know more about what this person's role was and why he was with the epa. if he was brought on as a favor or do something not related to

the work of the agency do something outside of that. you have another use of imporp government resources and another indication that scott pruitt has to go not only because of these actual individual violations that it appears he's been committing but send the message. we've had cabinet member after cabinet member with these ethics problems and without demonstrating that these people will be taken out when these ethics violations become clear. you just can't send the proper message. >> thanks so much, jennifer. thanks for all soubjects. >> thank you. coming up, body language. emmanuel macron an donald trump get physical. you're watching andrea mitchell on msnbc.

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as he tries to get the president to delay blowing up the ie iran deal next month and is it working? both are msnbc political analysts. rick, i don't know if you ever seen this kind of physical expression among two leaders at a time of critical decision making on big issues especially iran. >> well, to use a french word, i think it's kind of a cherade and macron has the great charm realizes that he can get what he wants by doing the thing that trump is susceptible to which is flattering him. if i were president trump today, i would feel like my friend just deconstructed every aspect of trumpism before both houses of congress. i think he completely pulled the rug out from donald trump in his

speech and in terms of being pro-globalization, pro-immigration, pro the iran deal. he said everything you stand for, donald, i'm against. >> paris climate accord. this is part of that speech today speaking about iran and the jcpoa, which is the iran deal. >> there is an existing frame work called the jcpoa to control the nuclear activity of iran. we signed it at the initiative of the united states. we signed it both the united states and france. that is why we cannot say we should get rid of it like that. [ applause ] that's why france will not leave the jcpoa because we signed it.

[ applause ] >> his proposal is to expand it with a follow on agreement, a supplemental agreement. pleading with the president don't blow it up on may 12th, but build on it so it doesn't sunset in 2025 of the nuclear constraints. so that you have more control over iran's behavior in syria and elsewhere in the region which would lead to a political resolution in the civil war and covers ballistic missile testing and development. is there any daylight there? >> i feel it's pretty ambitious. that's what macron is proposing and add this onto the nuclear deal and deal with ballistic missiles and curb their aggression in the region, that's some of the concern of what he proposing validates trump's on critique. i look at this trip and the big agenda items the french hoped to

accomplish and you have preserving the jcpoa, you have the aluminum and steel tariffs that the e.u. does not want to be subject to and macron wants to keep u.s. troops in syria. i wonder how much deliverables there will be after the pleas t pleasantries and he goes back to france. >> donald trump is not popular in france. he's got to come back with something. jeff flake, the republican senator was talking to garrett after. he made your point. let me play a bit of senator flake about the read of his speech was it was not trumpism. let's watch. >> he clearly had such a good repor with trump but that was not a trump policy speech. >> it was very contrary to what you might call trumpism, particularly internationally. it was very contrary to an america first kind of stance and

agenda. >> exactly. >> to both of you, rick, let me repreez what the president said. he said some threatening things about the iran and nuclear weapons and what will happen if they do resume any kind of experimentation. this is something he said about the may 12th deadline. >> there is a chance, and nobody knows what i'm going to do on the 12th, although mr. president, you have a pretty good idea. we'll see. we'll see. we'll' also if i do what some people expect, whether or not it will be possible to do a new deal with solid foundations. we're going to see what happens on the 12th. i will say if iran threatens us in any way, they will pay a price like few countries have ever paid. >> that is similar to the last part fire and fury. we have seen he's calling kim

jong-un reasonable. it's a completely different donald trump when it comes to new york. he would switch on iran also. >> it's irresponsibility and what diplomats will never tell you, and i'll tell you right,00right,000 know when you negotiate a deal that lasts 12 or 15 years, you expect you'll go back to the table, 7, 8, 10 years hence. these deals are not meant to last. nothing does the life. if donald trump could get even half with north korea what we got with iran deal, it would with successful. to go wback to this idea of macron. he talk eed about the u.s. as being a foundation of the post-war liberal world order. that's the thing trump has taken on and bashed every day during the campaign and every day during his presidency.

>> we'll have to leave it there. fascinating stuff this week in washington. thank you. coming up, chelsea clinton claps back. taking on the new memoir by the new york times lead reporter covering her mother's campaign. stay with us. ♪ come fly with me, let's fly, let's fly away. ♪

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with the core of robert mueller's probe, whether anyone in the trump campaign conspired hacking of democratic e-mails undermine the clinton campaign, a big question is, was the news media unwitting accomplices? a major theme with a good chapter, very provocative chapter in a new book by the lead "new york times" reporter on the clinton campaign. she's written a very different kind of campaign memoir. "chasing hillary: ten years, two president's campaigns and one intact glass ceiling." great title as well. congratulations on the book. >> thanks to having me. >> going through the book i had a little ptsd. >> i thought you might. >> just thinking about the bus and the plane and the food and being dissed by the first woman to be in a major -- party

nominee, and almost all female press corps, and we have a good photo of all of us in happier times, beginning of the campaign. i think in las vegas, posing for a politico picture of the almost all-female press corps, if that's handy. and then -- to find how little access -- we actually looked groomed. a rarity as the campaign progressed. >> you do. on it from the beginning. >> just the fact that we had so little access. my takeaway, so buttoned down because of the e-mail controversy and because of us and our editors really wanting to go after that and, of course, trump egging everybody on. she felt her policy questions weren't covered and all we wanted to ask about were the e-mails. >> i would go back to the scandals in the '90s. >> which i covered. >> you were there. that scar tissue built unbetween hillary and the media never went

away and exasperated, released right before she declared. and absolutely. even when policy stories were covered and we covered them, they weren't getting eyeballs on traffic and driving the news. such a contentious relationship and you know, she had, as you said. this historically all-female press corps and a female candidate that didn't want a lot to do with us. >> and when she was at the state department, much more accessible. >> right. >> less protected, less defensive. then with the e-mail scandal, the benghazi hearings and a horrendous news conference, you point out early in march after the "new york times" broke the e-mail private service story, finally came forward at the united nations, in front of the security council, and it was just an unmitigated disaster. we'd all been waiting for hours, xrurnlg ed scrunched in there, she was defensive and didn't really

answer questions so that it continued to exacerbate. talk about russia. what are your feelings -- i see them in the book -- about how unwittingly complicit we were after, on that horrible day "access hollywood" tape comes out and right away podesta e-mails dumped by wikileaks and everybody chased after it? >> absolutely. at the time i did what every news organization did. we covered them. contextualized them, tried to make sure they were accurate but a month after the election i was on the subway on the way to work and read a pulitzer winning story by colleagues how the russians pulled off the perfect hackett to interfere in our democracy funning every media organization including the "time"s into defacts facto age. stopped me in my tracks. definitely newsrooms should grapple with this and how we

handle hacks by foreign adversaries intentionally designed to disturb or democracy moving forward, because we know these will happen again and we're leading into the mid-terms in 2020. i think some hard questions need to be asked of how we handle those. >> now, chelsea clinton has been trolling you on twitter, and going after you, one in particular was the first line, things were already looking bad when chelsea clinton popped the champagne, talking about election night in your book, is false. i would have been happy to tell you if you'd asked, which you didn't, looking forward to the correction once you fact check. thanks. a series of these. your reaction to all of the chelsea attacks? >> i mean, look, i have a lot of respect for chelsea and write in the book when i was about her age growing up in texas i had a lot of -- i sort of saw myself in her and i don't want to get into a twitter war with haerer say i stand by my reporter hired

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this morning republican senators from congressmen returned to the baseball field in virginia for the first time. a gunman opened fire there last june. five people injured in the attack including house majority whip steve scalise. before the gunman was shot and killed by capitol police. scalise wasn't at today's practice because of a planned surgery related to injuries. as he continues to recover from that shooting. senator jeff flake helped treat him and get him into an ambulance spoke this morning. >> it's great to be back, you know, to come, change into your cleats in the dugout where a lot of us were piled in just a year ago. >> the politicians are getting ready for the annual congressional baseball game against democrats to take place one year, the one year anniversary of the shooting at nationals park on june 14th. flag day. that does it for this edition of "andrea mitchell reports." follow us online and on

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