coordinated campaign. what you see now as a continuation of that, i have pledged my support to make sure we continue this strong infrastructure and it is now an organization. that's our strength. right? >> there is nothing like it in the country, particularly in any state. thanks so much for your time tonight. >> that is all this evening. the "rachel mad mad /* -- mad w maddow" show continues now. >> the news this evening we are up to a total of ten bombs, ten explosive device sent to high profile targets of the president's public criticism around the country in addition to the bombs we knew about yesterday, which were sent to former president obama and hillary clinton and philanthropist george soros and eric holder, democratic congress woman maxine waters.

today we learned about two additional ones targeted at former vice president joe biden. hollywood superstar robert deniro sent an explosive device at a house that houses his production company in downtown new york city. so this story it continues to develop in terms of the number of device apparently sent, the number of targets, also the progress of the law enforcement that has enviewed as more devices turned up, we are told the fbi started analyzing these things at their lavenl it is the sort of holly grail for investigators to have this much physical evidence. to have these up, ploeded devices will give investigators leads to pursue. in terms of who put these things

together and how and what their intentions were. i will just mention one other thing about this, though. when we bought the news confirmed late last night about the two devices targeting congress woman maxine waters, one senned to her offices in southern california. one sent to her offices in washington, d.c. and then today we got the confirmation about two devices sent to target vice president joe biden. both of those developments in this story were further confirmation that although initially it seems like some might have been dropped off by hand or career now it seems like most if not all of them were put through the u.s. maim. and that has led to an interesting new lead tonight, where investigators are reportedly zeroing in on the prospect as these things were mailed from florida. the u.s. postal service apparently takes pictures of each individual maim as it goes through the system.

so the fact that these were mailed may have investigators zero in using that data on where they were mailed from and maybe who mailed them. and an even more immediate level, though, i want to say if you think about this for a second, if all of these things were put through the mail, yes, that gives a lead in terms of figuring out who did this and catching them. >> that also means the men and women that work for the u.s. postal service. this bomber has already gone through them. right? we are told these are explosive devices, packed with explosive powder, right, pipe bombs, pvc pipes, at least in some of these cases, these things appear to have been packed with shrapnel. every mail carrier in the country. everybody who works at a post office or a sorting facility for the u.s. postal service. everybody who drives a maim truck. the ones you pull up on the highway, every one of those people, those are the front line people who have had their lives

put at risk here. separate and apart from the famous and powerful people who have had these intercepted by the secret service or corporate screenings, right? to the extent that you may be mad about this mad bombing campaign targeting all these high profile democrats and targets of the president's public ininvestigative, honestly, be mad, too, for the regular working people. thousands of them, drives, letter carriers, all the rest who this is targeted to. right? it's just infur rating. do something nice for your mailman. at least say thanks it's absolutely infuriating. but because of all the physical evidence that has been collected in this investigation, we do expect continuing developments in terms of the law enforcement investigation here.

tonight the newest level of detail seems to be this focus on their origin, potentially from florida and investigators focusing on a specific site that these might have been mailed from. we will have more on that coming up as the story continues to developing also tonight a little of an update on the jaw dropping national security story that broke late last night in the "new york times". this was the news that the president has been knowingly using a private unsecured cell phone to make phone calls as president, even though he has been warned by white house personnel that it's a serious security risk and that foreign spy services can listen in on those calls. in fact, the "new york times" found in its report, they were told for their report that china's spy service has been not only regularly listening in, chinese spy versus started a new and active influence operation to use people who are in contact with the president to try to shift u.s. policy in china's direction. they can do this in a way that

nobody has been able to do this to a u.s. president before because president trump is reportedly insisting that he should still speak on his private unsecured cell phone despite the security risks. balls of that, the chinese know who he is speaking to, they know what he and his interlockuters are saying and what he is hearing, now the chinese are shaping those conversations to benefit the chinese government. just an astonishing story. right? after that story broke in the "new york times" last night a former white house chief officer told fast company, quote, if true this may be the largest most significant breach of white house communications in u.s. history. now, the one still terrible silver lining in the "new york times'" report from last night was the part where current trump

administration officials tried to sell the "new york times" on the fact that they were quote confident that trump was not actually spilling secrets in these calls, they're confident in that because president trump rarely digs into the details of the intelligence shown and is not well known in the specifics of the covert activities. this is supposed to be the silver lining. you can see why this is terrible. don't worry about the president stilling anything and those calls, he can't absorb anything all that secret. he doesn't pay attention to his briefings. that was the glass half full part of this amazing story in the "time's" last night. well the glass is not all that

number. nbc news reports today that, in fact. president trump has been disclosing sensitive information in these calls that he has been making on his insecure private phone and that the chinese have apparently been listening in on all this time. current u.s. officials tell nbc they have been worried for months about the sensitive information that president trump has been disclosing, i kid you not, to cable news hosts at the fox news channel. lock her up. lock her up. one other national security thing that has broken today that we'll get to in more detail is that there are a couple intriguing new developments today in the robert mueller investigation. first prosecutors in the michael cohen case told the federal court that materials have to stay under seal. because those materials pertain

to proceedings targeting not only cohen, himself, but other named persons as well. who are these other persons? who are the target of ongoing grand jury proceedings along with michael cohen? we don't know. but we know officially today that there are other persons. prosecutors also said in that same filing, that there are multiple people who turn up in materials related to the cohen case, who have not been notified by prosecutors that they are involved in this ongoing matter. prosecutors say they haven't told those people they turn up in the cohen case materials because notifying those people of that fact would compromise the ongoing investigation so that is new today. >> that is very intrigue that the prosecutors are trying to protect. as a separate matter, we will

have inteeg signs that mueller and his prosecutors appear to be involved in some new major legal fight that has been taking place out of the public eye in a series of sealed proceedings before high level judges. they're sealed proceedings. nobody knows enough about them to report on them directly. one reporter stumbled on them almost on accident that this big new fight is under way. we have informed speculation based on the circumstance under which they have been sealed and what has been seen in terms of the kinetic activity around them. but the reporter who stumbled upon this will join us live in just a moment. i am super interested in that story. up, even as all those news stories unfolded today and tonight the biggest story in the country continues to be the election which is now 12 days

away. one of the u.s. senate races where democrats hope to pick up a seat is in the great state of arizona where republican senator jeff flake is retiring. one of the interesting things about this race in arizona is no matter who wins, it will add to the number of women is insurance the democratic and republican candidate, each are female members of congress. so whoever the senator is, it's going to be a woman. now, who is the senator going to be? 538.com durantly has this race as a lean democratic race the cook political reporter right now as it as a tossup. this is a critical election both for arizona and the i don't have all question of which party ultimately controls the senate. take a look at what that race is like on the ground. . as you know, as we have been covering on the show the polls say the issue americans care about more than any other when

it comes to this election the issue they're paying more attention to than any other, the single most important issue to voters this season, this election, is health care. well, here's what that looks like in this crucial senate race in arizona. >> welcome back, etch, republican senate candidate martha mcsally is now claiming that she is fighting to protect people with pre sifting conditions. >> does that match up with mcsally's record in congress? our political editor dennis welch looked at her record. >> dennis, can we talk about the things that matter to voters instead of repeating the arizona party press releases? >> reporter: less than two weeks left in this election, martha mcsally showing her frustration. >> do you have anything to talk about like the caravan? >> can we please talk about the caravan? have you heard about the

caravan? the reason reporters were asking republican congress woman about health care in that instance, the reason they were asking her is her latest ad says she's leading the fight to force insurance companies to could have pre existing conditions. which is amazing. so, of course, republican, excuse me, of course, reporters are asking her about it. i want to look at this in arizona, but this is happening all over the country. since we have been focusing on this issue for the fast couple of days. it was crazy a couple days ago. it's gone absolutely nuts on the republican side since then. obamacare you may recall is what forced insurance companies to guarantee people with pre-existing conditions, that's why insurance companies can't turn you down because you have a pre-existing condition and they can't charge you more money if you got a pre-existing

condition, that's obamacare. that's what that did. that's why that exists. republicans in congress have voted at least 70 times to kill that. the top senate republican mitch mcconnell says, yeah, in the senate, they'll do it again if republicans are able to hold onto the senate. 20 republican-led states right now are suing to kill obamacare, including specifically that part that makes insurance cover pre-existing conditions. >> that lawsuit is supported overtly by the trump administration. and to put the icing on all of it. the trump administration this week, three days ago, unilaterally changed the rules said by obama care, so that now insurance companies will be allowed to turn you down if you have a pre-existing condition or they'll be allowed to charge you more because of it, literally just this week the trump administration took that a, so that people with pre existing conditions will no longer be protected.

all of which is very, very unpopular with the american people, in an election year with the american people say health care is more important to them than any other thing when it comes to deciding who they will vote for. is this is a fundamental political science problem for the republicans, right? what they are doing and what they have been pounding their chests and brag about doing for years, on the most politically salient issue in the country this year is the exact opposite of what the country wants to happen on this issue. the thing they most wanted to be known for, for years. we will kill obamacare, eradicate obamacare the thing they most campaigned for most vociferously for years and dragged about doing sense they have been in congress for years. the thing the trump administration is not doing in general. they're doing it this week. that thing voters don't want it. it is the thing most important to voters this year so what do republicans do for that election season? what they've decided to do is just lie about it.

they've decided they're just going to run as if they're the democrats on this issue. the president is doing it with tweets like this, republicans will totally protect people with pre-existing conditions, democratsle will not. what? he also says stuff like this at his rallies now. saying this literally in the same week his administration acted unilaterally to take away insurance companies for people with pre-existing conditions, he's campaigning saying, hey, vote republican. if you don't want that. it's happening at the national level. surprise, the president is lying about that thing. it's also happening in these individual republican campaigns around the country, too, like with this super hard not race involving martha mcsally. in her case, it is making local news anchors spit up their coffee, it's through the looking glass bizarre for a republican looking congress martha mcsally to run for senate as if she is

the champion of obamacare. her record is not a subtle thing. she voted to kill obamacare and its pre existing conditions dozens of times. literally more than 50 times. not only does she never peel off from her party on this even once, she has been kind of a crusader about killing obamacare and its protections on pre-existing conditions. she has crusaded on this in a way that stood out, memorably, profanely. do you remember this 21 frone fm last year? gop repeal vote. here's the lead on this with unfrom the hill newspaper. again, if martha mcsally is your member of congress, this is the kind of thing you remember. if you are a local news anchor, this is the kind of thing you'd remember. this would kind of stick with you. quote, speaker paul ryan and his go op leadership team amounted to a rally in the capital basement thursday morning as

they predicted victory. leaders played the "rocky" theme song as they walked into the meeting. majority leader kevin mccarthy put an image of george patton on the screen. and martha mcsally of arizona told her colleagues, quote, let's get this f-ing thing done. says martha mcsally. according to other people in the room and multiple reports, she didn't say f'ing. she said the whole thing. let's get this [ bleep ], let's get this f-ing thing done. she means let's kill obama care. let's f-ing kill it. that's martha mcsally. now she's running for senate in arizona like this. >> we cannot go back to where we were before obamacare where people were undiagnosis away from going bankrupt because they could not get access to health

care. >> what was the way she put it? let's get this f-ing thing done, let's f-ing kill obamacare. now running as the senate candidate that arizona should trust to protect obama care. it's just like are you freaking kidding me? i mean, it would be one thing if this were one issue, if martha mcsally had done this on light rail. i love light rail. or postage rates, all right, this is the thing that more americans care about than any other in this issue. she's like, vote for me, i stand for exactly the opposite of everything i've ever done in this issue, including where i used the f-bomb in congress. so with everything else going on in the country, this is pretty much half the fight right now for these last two weeks. for these last 12 days. republicans are like can't we talk about the caravan? or something?

is this voters are like, know, we want to talk about health care. on the issue more americans care about, we are in a strange twilight zone now where republicans all over the country, including the president are pretending they have been the real democrats on this issue all along. it will be fascinating to see how well democrats are able to capitalize on that of these next kefl e 12 days. that's half the fight. the other fight 12 days out from election day is the fight to actually get out and vote. look at what's playing out on the ground at the polls right now all over the country. here's the palm beach post. florida tops 1.1 million early voting doubles in palm beach county. here's the tennesseean, early voting turnout massive as mid-term interest approaches presidential level here's the advocate in louisiana, early voting turnout after first day, much higher than expected. same thing in idaho, in minnesota, in delaware. in the states with the big marquee contests, georgia and

texas, all right, you have been trying to take the temperature for what voter enthusiasm is like in this election compared to the last time we voted in a congressional election four years ago. look at georgia and texas. georgia and texas have been a super interesting thermometer. the number people turning out continues to absolutely destroy the past records those states have seen in any previous mid-term election. well, now tonight we can add details to this portrait that has been developing on the ground in states that have started early voting. a professor in florida, michael mcdonald, has been tracking the early vote on his website, which is elect project.org. he actually flagged this strange little milestone which caught our attention, minnesota, early update. minnesota is the third state to surpass its 2014 total early vote joining delaware and tennessee. more have voted early in those

states in 2014, either by person or in mail than the last time we had a mid-term election. we're still 12 -- there is still 12 days left. they've already beaten the last mid-term election. then this afternoon, professor mcdonald added another state to his list. indiana has exceeded its total early vote. still with 12 days to go. in all four of these states, tennessee, delaware, indiana, more people have voted earlier than the number people early voted the last time we had a mid-term election, which is nutles. now, in minnesota there is one asterisk, after the last mid-term in 2014, minnesota did pass a law, to make it easier for people to vote earlier. and that could be a part of the reason we're seeing that just with more people early voting this year compared to 2014? what is still shocking ability the minnesota numbers, though, is people in minnesota are early voting this year, not just at a rate exceeding what they did in 2014. they're early voting in

minnesota at the same paces a 2016. after that law passed and when there was a presidential race on the ballot, too. it's too early to tell exactly what these numbers mean in terms of who has the best shot of you know flipping the house or the senate heading into next tuesday. generally speaking, democrats perform better when more people turn out to vote. for democrats to have a shot to take control of congress turned out as everything for the democratic party. everything. republicans super know it. i said earlier that we're watching the fight going on right now. to go vote. i said it that way. because in some places it really is a fight. there is a really good case study tonight in north carolina. we will have that story for you next. stay with

. q1 of the things we have been covering over the last few days before we head into the final trench of the election, which is 12 days from now. it's record breaking turnout in terms of people voting early this year.

we will not know until every last vote is counted. we are seeing records paul in states big and small, red and blue, in terms of people turning out early to vote so tonight i want to show you one thing about why the fight to protect the way of voting has been so tooth and nail with the parties. i want to show you one single piece of data and how much the two parties know it. tonight we've got sort of incredible new do you that that proves this as clear as day now. it's out of north carolina from this past week. sundays have traditionally been a big early voting day in north carolina, particularly for african-american churches. the churches call it souls to the polls. go to services, go to vote afterwards. in 2012, 61,000 feel voted in north carolina, just on sundays ahead of election day, mainly because of that huge get out the vote push by black churches in

the state. vote on sunday, early vote on sunday ahead of election day. as you probably know, black voters practice ditionally favor democrats by an overwhelming majority. so everybody can do the math and republicans in north carolina have for years now, they have been doing everything they can to try to shut down voting on sundays, full stop. it started in 2013 when all of those african-american church goers added all those tens of thousands of votes. they signed a sweeping new voting law that cancelled sunday voting across the state of north carolina. that law was eventually struck down by the courts. so sunday voting did have to come back in some counties across the state. not everywhere. the way it worked ut, it's up to every single individual county in north carolina to decide

plrnt they're goi whether or not they're going to open up the polls on sunday. north carolina republicans are pecking this fight about sunday voting, literally it's at the county by county level trying to put a choke hold on how many people can make it to a ballot box to cast their votes. democrats are fighting for sunday voting. republicans are fighting against it. those fights happen in every county in the state. the republicans have been pretty successful at vokeing it off. right now a total of 23 coin. ies o-- counties out of 100. why they want so badly to shut it off? we have new clear data that gives very clear insight into what republican versus tried so hard to lock down this particular kind of early voting. look at this, mike at blitzer a political science professor runs a website old north state politics. can you see here the makeup of the in pitch early vote in north

carolina so far. red is republican. blue is democratic. grey is unaffiliated. grey looks purple on our monitor here. can you see what it is, this is wednesday, thursday, friday, saturday last week, running along, democrats gently outpacing republicans, wednesday, thursday, friday, saturday. fill in what happened this weekend. look at that sunday vote. hey, wrapped to all the republicans? look at the portion of the vote. if professer blitzer clocked it 54 democratic. 15% republican. then wince we roll out of the wemgd, look what happe-- weeken much more red again. more republicans start foet voting again. you can see why nor vrt carolina republicans have -- north carolina republicans have

focused like a laser, while they have done everything they can to stop voting on sundays. it's terrible. on sunday, democrats vote, particularly black democrats. can't have that let's make that hard or impossible it is a fight to vote all over the country this year. we have a doozee of a story. a fight for a reason. republicans know why they are picking the fights they are picking to shut down or crimp early voting. the only question this year is whether enough people will vote despite the hurdles put in their way. way. we'll be right back.

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and improving our neighborhood public schools is always tony's top priority. earlier this month, the "new york times" and a bunch of other fuse organization filed a motion in a criminal case involving trump organization executive michael con. the news organization asked the judge in the cohen case to unseal, make have aible to the public a whole bunch of material from the searches conducted on mookal cohen's house and hotel room and office and cell phones and his safe deposit box. well, today, prosecutors told the judge, no, judge, please do not unseal this stuff. it's important that it stays secret. sometimes when prosecutors tell you know, they ends up revealing a whom lot of fascinating stuff in the course of telling you why they are saying no that's what

happened today. here's why they say the materials from the michael cohen case shouldn't be released to the public. oh. the grand jury investigation into michael cohen is ongoing? even though he has pled guilty to eight felonies, he has reportedly spent more than 50 hours speaking with prosecutors in the special counsel's office in the southern district of new york and more since he pled guilty to those felonies. second of you'll, this filing says it's a grand jury investigation into michael cohen and others. what others? who are these other people who are the subject of an ongoing

investigation in new york? we didn't know about that. then there's this. quote, unsealing of the materials at the present time would interfere with this investigation and implicate significant privacy concerns for numerous uncharged third parties named in the materials. oh, numerous uncharged third parties who are named, like who? well, there's this is probably the most revealing part of it. this footnote from the prosecutor's filing the governor has not notified the uncharged third parties that they were named in the materials, in part, because disclosure of that fact, to concern e certaof the your h charged -- owe to concern of the uncharged parties, what is that about? if you told people that they're in the michael cohen case materials, that would screw up the ongoing investigation, so those people don't know, really? so there's a lot going on in the

michaelen case we don't know about. with this filing, we get a little more visibility into what we don't know, into shoes we didn't know that were going to trop is that apaemptly were going to drop in the future. in addition to that, there is something going on in the special counsel's investigation right now that is a complete mystery. last week, cnn was first to report in a couple practice was in an otherwise longer piece on a whole bunch of different subjects. they were first to mention in a report last week there appeared to be secret unexplained legal wrangleing happening at the d.c. courthouse where mueller's jurisdiction sits. in the previous six weeks or so, the judge overseeing that grand jury had apparently held two sealed hearings with prosecutors from mueller's team, sealed hearings, that means no reporters, no member of the public can go in there and report on what happened. now, mr. itco.com has done some sleuthing at that same d.c. court howls. this is what they report today. quote, special counsel robert

mueller appears to be locked in a dispute with a mystery going witness, resisting giving up information sought in the ongoing probe into alleged trump campaign collusion with russia. quote, it's unclear exactly what the two side are fighting of the case resembles a legal battle with allie roger stone, namely andrew miller fighting a mueller subpoena. so, hmm? this is what we know. this is the docket entry for the case the parties are listed as sealed versus sealed. mystery. but remember what i said about sleuthing? here's how we know this sealed case velocity report micro. politico reporter who visited on a day when a key filing was due earlier this month observed a man requesting a copy of the special counsel's latest sealed filing so the man's law could

craft a response the individual declined to identify himself or his client and replied, quote, i'm okay when offed a reporter's business card to remain in touch. well, i know you don't want to talk now. can i give you my card in case you'd like to talk at some point in the future? yeah, i'm okay. i don't need your business card, in fact, if i go home with it in my pocket, i'm disappear. in fact, i was never even here. what is going on here? and how can we tell whether it's important. joining us is politico josh guerstin, glad to have you here. >> thank you, rachel. it's good to see you again. >> we have seen some wrangleing over the i don't have all sort of constitutional health of the special counsel's office and robert mueller's appointment when it comes to this guy andrew miller and him trying to fight subpoenas that he has received

from the special counsel's office. what you are reporting on here seems to be something different, seems to not be the andrew miller case, seems to be somebody else who is triping to question the i don't have all validity of mueller's aboimt? >> yeah, it's pretty clear it's not andrew miller. in fact, that's how we came across the case, i was basically looking for an update on the andrew miller case listed tlt d.c. circuit as an inre grand jury case. if you run that through their system, all of a sudden we noticed at the beginning, i think it was the entd of september there was another case filed a few weeks after the andrew miller matter went up to the d.c. circuit the details on it were even more sparce. but it peaked our curiosity. it led me to dismatch andrew samuelson -- dispatch andrew sam you'llson in early october when

we -- samuelson in early october when a dispute, when this fellow came in to get a copy of the filings in that particular place took place. so that only piqued our curiosity more. it's gone up and down twice now to the d.c. circuit. it seemed like it may be coming to a head. >> now, one of the things you described. again, these are sealed proceedings, one of the things you describe is that this appears to be a fight between mueller and his prosecutors on the one happened, on the other hand, somebody who they've subpoenaed to testify or turn of document to the special counsel's inquiry to the grand jury. how can you discern that from what you have been able to see and report thus far? is that just because it's in the d.c. appeals court, that's the kind of thing a court like that would be called upon to adjudicate?

>> well, i mean, it's doktd as a grand jury matter, there is a limited number of going type issues that tend to come up and get taken to an appeals court. we know that it was handled in the lower court by chief judge burrell howell, so that would be congruent with the cnn report you mentioned a few minutes ago, that there was action in judge howell's courtroom in september and then again in early october. it looks like what happened in this pair of cases since it went up twice to the d.c. circuit here is possibly that the witness here tried to invoke some kind of privilege or make some kind of argument to knock down the subpoena failed and then tried to immediately go to the d.c. circuit, was then rejected by the d.c. circuit who said you have to be held in contempt before we consider your issue. it looks like that happened in early october after the d.c. circuit dumped the first case within basically a matter of a

couple days. there was a hearing in front of howell, according to docket records that we can see. within a few days after that, the issue was back at the d.c. circuit again this week scheduled oral arguments on this matter for december 14th. so that will follow a similar kind of hearing in that miller case in early november. so a fair amount of action for mueller's office as we go into the pre holiday period here. >> briefly, josh, when those oral arguments happen, will that be in open court? >> it's on a public calendar sandwiched between two other public arguments obviously usually in a garage case, they do hear arguments in public. they may try to annan mionemize. they will try to leave out other details that could identify exactly what the dispute is

about. >> this is such a great sleuthing story and bit of reporting. we really appreciate your time tonight. >> thanks, rachel. any time. >> underscoring what josh said there, it appears someone was held for resisting the mueller investigation. we don't know who it is, it's being held in se crest. there is a big d.c. court held on right now. none of which we the public are not allowed to see, yet. more coming. stay with us. when we were dating, we used to get excited about things

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well, in damage ciodge city, ka more than ten times that many voters had to use one single polling place. 13,000 registered voters, one polling amazing. but this year they've decided to move that one single polling place for 13,000 voters in majority hispanic city in kansas completely outside the city limits. now, this was first reported a few days ago. ever since this first got some national attention from an ap story a few days ago people have been trying to rig up special bus service or ride shares to help dodge city voters to get to that way out of town polling location, which is far from public transportation and it's hard to get to if you don't have a car. so that's what's been happening over the last few days. but now tonight it turns out that getting to dodge city is one out of town single polling

place for 13,000 voters is going to be even harder because the elections office has been sending people to the wrong address. not kidding. quote, new voters get notices listing wrong dodge city polling site. the ap reports tonight that local officials sent newly registered voters an official registration notice telling them to vote an old polling place that is no longer being used in dodge city. the chairman of a local democratic party saying tonight, quote, i didn't know this could get worse, but it did. hey, let's move the site and not tell new registrants where they're supposed to go. supposedly officials are sending a new notice to voters with the correct information now. the kansas secretary of state is responsible for running elections in that state. his name is chris kobach, the republican candidate for governor in this year's elections. which means if any of the majority hispanic voters in dodge city ever do get to see a

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