good morning. happy thanksgiving. i'm david gura. this morning supreme smack down. chief justice roberts criticizes president trump after the president takes aim at the judicial system. asked and answered a day after trump's team deliver written answers to robert mueller, giuliani says there will be followup questions. thousands of u.s. troops spending their holiday at the border awaiting a new caravan but a new plan from the

administration could have migrants spending time south of the border. >> high winds and cold temps wreaking havoc in new york city. will the giants balloons be allowed to fly? >> president trump begins his thanksgiving morning in another public feud. this time with supreme court justice john roberts. this latest skirmic began tuesday on the south lawn of the white house with these comments in response to a court injunction on the administration's asylum policy. >> this was an obama judge. i'll tell you what. it's not going to happen like this any more. everybody thats to sue the united states, they file their case in the 9th circuit and it means and automatic loss. no matter what you do. no matter how good your case is. and the 9th circuit is something we have to take a look at.

>> the chief justice said this, we don't have obama judges or trump judges, bush judges or clinton judges, what we have is an extraordinary group of dedicated judges doing their level best to do equal right to those appearing before them. the president came off the golf course on wednesday firing back dismissing the chief justice's point ever view while calling theth circuit very dangerous and unwise. joining me now kelly o'donnell and others. kelly, let me start with you down in florida. this is unprecedented. we haven't seen attacks like these between these two branches as we've seen it in the last 24 hours. >> reporter: so many of us have been accustomed to the president firing off on twitter or elsewhere. lots of political rivals or targets of the moment. what we have not seen before is

this kind of engagement with someone who is the head of a co-equal branch of government, the judiciary, of course, is just as important in our system as the executive branch and the legislative branch and so this is an unusual pathway. but also unusual on behalf of john roberts the chief justice, for him to comment publicly is rare, and it is sending a message. we have been told by those who have been appointed to the bench that one of the frustrations they experience is being sort of tagged with the president who nominated them throughout their career and presumption that they would somehow render their judicial assessments based on the politics of the president who nominated them. we've seen over time where there certainly have been surprises where judges who were selected by a president ended up appearing to be somewhat different in philosophy than maybe that president had hoped

for. so the message from the chief justice is that there are not judges who are aligned with the presidents who nominated them, there is a dispute, of course, because the president fired back in a way that is sort of typical for the president but, again, the adjudicatijuxtapositioadjuj president and john roberts is unusual. the chief justice has gotten the president's twitter treatment and it's a noteworthy moment. the underlying issues, there are things to debate about how the president felt that his cases related to his administration have been treated, but this is certainly notable. i was in the east room, david, when the president presented the medal of freedom recently and a number of members of the supreme court were in attendance including john roberts because antonin scalia was being given that honor so the president had opportunity to interact with members of the court.

he said nice things about ruth baden ginsburg who had just been injured from a fall. who would have thought days later we would have this dispute spill out into public. >> lynn, i want to ask you about the timing. there's other moments when donald trump was a candidate in which he talked about judges, talked about the judiciary. we think about this mexican-american judge that he called out before. why now? why did john roberts feel he had to speak up. >> i think what's different here is that trump gave him the opening by the way he criticized the judge. it was a broad side by saying it's an obama judge and that creates an opening for roberts to go through to make the point he made rather than defend one particular judge, which is harder. and the other thing in terms of the timing is not only how trump

framed his dissent, it's that for trump and his timing forgoing harder against roberts i think he sees this tough road ahead with the democratic house majority coming in just a few weeks. i think what he's trying to do is tackle another institution, the supreme court, the co-equal branch of government as kelly was saying and try to deacon struck it and delegitimize it as a political operation that could rule against him. obviously, this defies and goes against his own appointments of judge kavanaugh and judge gorsch which he praised and if they rule against him which, in time, they will. all presidents don't get everything they want from a court, it will be interesting to see how he reacts. i would say keep in mind what he's trying to do now is to call any entity that rules against him a political call, not straight and the umpires are

throwing the game. >> the attacks on the institution or the institutions and attacks on individuals as well. you covered donald trump when he was a candidate. i want to go back to 2015, to when donald trump then candidate trump was speaking at a town hall in south carolina. he talked about john roberts the chief justice and the supreme court. >> i will tell you this. justice roberts really let us down. he really let us down. what he did with obamacare was disgraceful. and i think he did that because he wanted to be popular within inside the beltway. when we talk about supreme court, we talk about supreme court judges he's so disappointing to me. but, but -- i hope i don't have a case before the united states supreme court any time soon. that's how i feel. >> i look how it played in the room. you heard the applause from what the president said about chief justice roberts. what happens next?

john roberts made this unprecedented step of making this statement. president fired off in twitter in response. we won't have a lot of back and forth and how does that handicap the supreme court justice and the judicial branch as a whole? >> well, public relations wise i think it presents a challenge particularly as the president now turns his fire and fury against the supreme court. from an institutional standpoint the supreme court is very much well protected. this was a president who campaigned, david, on the notion of appointing supreme court justices to the supreme court. he's already appointed two. there's openings now for even more potentially in the conclusion of his first term and if he were to be re-elected for more judicial appointees. that was the trucks of his campaign argument. you talk to the base of president trump's political movement and nominations to the

supreme court was a key at the net of their political calculation. the question becomes as robert mueller begins to conclude his investigation as the president has respond and written responses to robert mueller's investigation team, democrats seem poised to take control of several gavels and now the situation where cases could ultimately end up in the supreme court. you're seeing the president, whether it's chipping away with arguments at the supreme court or even jockeying for ranking memberships at the subcommittee level in the house of representatives by aligning himself with key conservatives such as congressman jim jordan, a republican from ohio, a member of the freedom caucus to help him bolster and defend himself number one from the democrats who will use subpoena power in their investigations in the house of representatives, but also ultimately chief justice roberts could have a final say or some type of very influential

say in this president's term. >> kelly o'donnell, walk us through what we can expect from this president from this vacation. it was a busy day yesterday, played golf with jack nicklaus. what's on his agenda today, what can we expect during the rest of this vacation down in the florida? >> reporter: one event on the president's schedule that will be public in the sense of the president participating in a teleconference with members of the military where from his mar-a-lago home he's able to extend thanksgiving greetings to service members who are based around the country. we've seen him do this kind of thing before. presumably then there will be a trump family and extended friends thanksgiving meal at some point. we always ask the white house for some of the details of that. what kinds of things will be served, who will be in attendan

attendance. we don't know if we'll get that answer. they are not as forthcoming as other white houses in the past. mar-a-lago is the president's private club and residence. members of the public who are members there who will also be in attendance in a larger setting of the president's sort of hosting of thanksgiving. other than that, we don't expect to see much of the president except going back and forth between the mar-a-lago compound and one of his golf clubs here in the area. >> thank you to all three for joining me on this thanksgiving day. coming up after months of back and forth, president trump and his attorneys submit written answers to questions from the special counsel. now the president's lawyer rudy giuliani says he expects follow upess but insists a subpoena is off the table. later question everyone young and young at heart is asking this morning will the macy's thanksgiving day parade balloons be allowed to fly.

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the middle to end of next week. your reaction to this the developments of this last week. rudy giuliani has been the prism through which we see how this process is unfolding. what's your sense of where things stand now that this questionnaire centering on collusion not obstruction has been tended to the special counsel. >> it seems like they know that mueller doesn't want to get involved in the election and the mid-terms so used structural impediments to delay and accelerated at other points. why didn't we get written answers before the election or a month ago. that's because they didn't want it before the mid-terms. now he's basically saying we won't have a subpoena. why? we have kavanaugh there. they've masterfully pieced together the timing and structural moves. my one caveat to this is that

they are making a lot about some things that necessarily true. you saw chief justice roberts come out and say we're independent and i think that is a signal that for some reason trump's world view is that everybody is on a side or is part of a team or they are going to help me out in some way. that's not necessarily the case. that was the issue with obamacare and chief justice roberts. he said no this is what my opinion is. what we could have in all of this, let's say mueller does go for a subpoena. it goes to the supreme court. they will go with the rule of law. this is where the president makes missteps. he thinks everyone will play based own a team when actually these institutions play by the rules. director wray is another investigation you should investigate hillary clinton. director wray is like there's no case for me to move forward on. i'm not a partisan tool of the president, i'm the chief law enforcement officer for the country. >> let's talk a bit about what we've learned from rudy giuliani

about the questionnaire itself. he said there were questions about the speech that the president gave when he was a candidate in florida, called upon the russias to release the emails and said there were questions about that trump tower meeting as well. does that -- your reaction to that. are there other things in there that rudy giuliani hasn't mentioned? >> that's probably the case because these are things -- what's interesting about this case it played out in public. the sfeech peech in russia, if t those emails, it's alarming. did you know about emails when you stood on that stage that day? there's also, you know, everyone seems to get that feeling because they answered in writing the president can get away with things. this is not necessarily the case. we've seen the president be fairly inconsistent on a routine basis about his answers to any given question. imagine you're trump's lawyers and ask him what happened at

this moment we have to document on paper. we don't know what all the other witnesses said in the mueller investigation. a question about are you on stage did you know about the trump tower meeting. who knows what the truth is going to come out and shake out as? these other witnesses may have told mueller something and if it doesn't jive with what is in that written statement they could go for a subpoena saying we need to clarify this and talk to him in person. >> help me understand the magnitude of that piece in the "new york times" about the conversations that the former white house counsel had with president trump, suggesting that hillary clinton should be prosecuted, james comey should be investigated. in this interview rudy giuliani said it's disgraceful she wasn't prosecuted. if anyone else did that they would have to go to trial. dove tailing those would things how important a moment is that? >> i constantly ask myself what it must be like to be don mcgahn in the white house.

you get these queries does he understand what he's saying. the truth is i don't think he does. what consistently comes up the president doesn't understand how the functions of government worker and that the judiciary is supposed to be nonpartisan, somewhat separate and should be no undue command influence. no leadership pressure on where the investigations go. he does not understand natural. and consistently even after firing comey you would think he would sort of pull back and say okay i'm pushing too far. he continues to pursue which is just striking that he puts himself in that danger which tells me he doesn't understand even to this day that those aren't really his people that are there, authors the servants of the united states and the american people and that he's the one who selected them. it's just confusing why he would continue to put himself in that danger. i'm sure don mcgahn was alarmed when he had the question and to don't write me bhos the same reasons why this is a bad idea and present it to the president

is really striking that he would continue to pursue that. >> great to see you as always. happy thanksgiving. up next we're about 90 minutes away from the start of the annual macy's thanksgiving day parade. nice cold weather here and high winds leave the fate of the iconic balloons in balance. we'll go to the parade route to see if those giants balloons will be allowed to fly. d to fly - [narrator] meet the ninja foodi, the pressure cooker that crisps. it's the best of pressure cooking and air frying all in one so in as little as 30 minutes it will be crispy on the outside, juicy on the inside, and on your table. the ninja foodi, the pressure cooker that crisps. jimmy's gotten used to his whole yup, he's gone noseblind. odors. he thinks it smells fine, but his mom smells this...

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commissioner, we've been following this moment. we're wondering if these big balloons will go. i think it's time to make a declaration. what do you think? >> i'll leave this to rodney. the parade is a go. >> new york city police commissioner giving the green light for the macy's thanksgiving day parade despite a brutal forecast. hundreds of thousands of spectators have gathered here in new york city for that parade. joining me now is nbc's ron allen who is along the parade route braving the cold. help us understand what went into the calculus. this was very much up in the air until a few moments ago.

>> reporter: we're talking about the balloons and floats. 16 all together. if the winds exceed 23 miles per hour, gusts over 34, they won't fly. that's, of course, what everybody is looking for. they are out here already. we have crowds already, a few people deep. they will get to as many as 15, 20 people deep. the parade kicks off at 9:00. right now it's about 20 degrees which is somewhere near record territory but, of course, who cares about record. we're out here to have a good time. the route is blocked off. if you're trying to get here from manhattan, police are not letting backpacks in. i want you to meets some folks who are here from nashville and atlanta,a. it's warm down there. >> yes, it is. >> this is your first time here. why dew point to be here? >> always watched the parade when i was a kid. just excited. it's one of those bucket list

things i want to check it out. you know what if they need some help people carrying those balloons, i want to really see the balloons. >> you sign up over there. what about you? you said you're from nashville. >> atlanta. >> i was in atlanta the other day. 61 degrees down there. >> nice down there. >> cold down there this morning but warm up a lot more than here. >> why dew point to be here? >> i watched this since i was a little girl. i'm 55. it was on my bucket list. time to come to new york for the first time. >> we're sure floats will fly and everyone will have a great time. back to you guys in the studio where it's warm. >> ron allen along the parade route. i want to bring in bonnie schneider in for the latest on the forecast. it's 20 degrees out there. is that a record? what can we expect?

>> it is a record. that happened just moments ago as the temperature dropped down to 20 degrees. it's the coldest thanksgiving day parade officially. temperatures are at 20. wind chill factor in the teens and some places even in the single digit. feeling colder than it is. cold and windy for forecast. notice how close we come to the parameters of having to lower those balloons when parameters say they have to be stronger than 23 and gusts have to be above 34 miles and we expect them to 2k3w0e9. close call. hopefully they will stay below those standards. temperatures though, so cold. by account maybe one degree more than where we are now. it's the coldest. wind chills in the low teens. even by noon we're expecting temperatures to stay so cold in the 20s. no warm up in store. in fact, looking at the forecast, if you're heading out

for black friday that cold, cold air, the arctic air that came in from siberia is here in the northeast. it's not going anywhere. if you're traveling we're looking at the coldest part of the country, 49% of the people dealing with cold in the northeast. that's where we're getting the coldest weather unfortunately. as i mentioned the parade, we're look at records. it did get to 21 degrees back in 1930, 1938 and 1972. did it ever drop down to 20 degrees? yes. in 2018. we're the lucky winners of that record. morning low temperatures getting cold. boy, timing is everything. if this has been another couple of days we would be in the 50s. enjoy the wonderful parade. lots of memories being made today. up next, nearly 6,000 members of the u.s. military are spending their thanksgiving day on the u.s.-mexico border. a new order from the

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>> welcome back. i'm david gura. 5800 troops are spending this thanksgiving along the u.s.-mexico border. this comes as "the washington post" reports central americans arriving to the u.s. have to wait in mexico for their asylum claims to be processed. central american asylum seekers who cannot establish a reasonable fear of persecution in mexico will not be allowed to enter the united states and be turned around at the border. hans, i want to ask you about a couple of tweets. talking about john roberts once again and talking about border security. i'll read from these two tweets in part. he writes judges must not legislate security and safety at the border anywhere. they know nothing about it and making our country unsafe. our professionals must be allowed to do their job. if not only bedlam, chaos,

injury and death. we want the constitution as written. your reaction to that tweet and how it's ringing along the u.s.-mexico border. >> reporter: no immediate reaction. they are focused on the task at hand which is deep frying. what the president is trying to do on the border it's so clear everything will be litigated in the courts. that's clear in trying to funnel everyone to points of entry. whatever he does with asylum claims whether on this side of the border or other side. in similar ways what he did on the ban of primarily muslim countries that ended up to be decided by the courts. in the view of the white house they have broad prerogative to make these decisions. we live in a democracy, we live in a republic where courts have the final say. >> you say the task at hand is deep frying. i see deep fryers going on

behind you. how do these troops and general mattis 5,700 of them have been deployed to the mexican border. how are they spending this thanksgiving day? >> too muddy for a turkey trot. there may be pickup football. here's what they are doing this morning. they have deep fryers. been going since 4:00 in the morning. these are tents all set up. they are trying to turn them around, make them more homely. transforming the insides, putting up banners, hanging things. they will have tvs going here as well. they have 800 pounds ever turkey that they are deep frying here. it's being run with military precision. on top of that they have 3,000 servings of roasted turkey, 14,000 pounds of steak. they are cooking those in those kitchens over there. they got 300 pounds of potatoes. 350 pounds of mashed pots to,

asparagus. i don't want to live in a world where there's more asparagus than mashed pots to. and sergeant first class will join us. sir, thanks for joining us this morning. tell bus this operation, what time did it start this morning? >> good morning. we started at about 3:30 in the morning. we got here roughly about 4:00. then we started our propane tanks, got everything going, got safety procedures and fire extinguishers to go. >> how many are you cooking for >> 2300. >> how will you spend your day. everyone else has the day off. but you're working. >> part of the job. comes with the territory. that's what i signed up for. help the troops' morale. >> what's next? where do you think this mission heads? >> whatever the "chain of command" and president says that's what we'll do. >> what do you want to say to

your family? >> i love you. miss you. hopefully i'll see you soon. >> with that we'll send it back to you guys. our thanks to the sergeant for joining us on this thanksgiving morning. i want to bring in colonel jake jacobs. your reaction to the scene on the ground at that camp base in texas. your reaction to what we heard from the secretary of defense yesterday. initially there was some thought this mission would be complete by december 15. now the secretary saying it could be longer than that. >> general buchanan said he would like to see everything closed down soon and certainly before christmas. but, secretary mattis has said that's not going to happen. even if the mission itself stops now, it would take quite a bit of time for the remainder of the troops and most of them are support troops to close down and get back home. when you deploy anywhere, there's an advance party and

they go there weeks in advance and when you close down the trail party takes weeks to come home too. this mission won't end any time soon, it doesn't appear. >> the secretary of defense said this cost $72 million thus far. that number is likely to go up in the coming days and weeks. your sense of how clear the mission is at this point now that we're a few weeks init. >> if you're down there on the ground you can see that the mission is not for the active duty troops, is not to stop people from guatemala and el salvador from coming into the united states. it's to support the border patrol. and to support the national guard troops who are down there to do that. the large majority of the effort for the active duty troops is support. to construct barbwire barriers to support with helicopters,

military police, logistical support for the border patrol and for the national guard. they are not armed and not going to be standing guard on the border and prevent migrants from coming in to the united states. so purely in a support role, david. >> i want to go back to that tweet that i read to hans a moment ago the president talking about the threat of bedlam, chaos, injury and death. none of which seemed remotely visible from the vantage where hans was standing. help us understand. >> the lot of this is political. there's a large number of migrants coming to the border. there's a large number of them actually tijuana at the moment. some people say as many as 6,000. it's causing some problems, of course, for the mexican government. but the likelihood that we're going to get overrun by a huge

number of migrants at the border at multiple locations is very unlikely. the biggest problem there is not for the united states but is for the incoming mexican president because he's going to get sworn in soon and has two big problems in addition to the other problems he has. one is the number of migrants on his side of the border and the other is dealing properly with the american president, both of them are challenges, david. >> i mentioned that change in policy when it comes to asylum. there was another change ever policy announced as well, that having to go the ways in which the troops down there could use force if they needed to do to protect border and customers protection. i want your read on that if that's a wise idea to authorize troops serving in the mexican border to use force if necessary. >> well, what that order means is that the decision to use force, and there's always a

decision to use force one way or another in difficult circumstances, that decision has been delegated down below the white house. so the commander on the ground and there's a general officer down there to make that decision can decide whether or not either his troops or the border patrol troops or the national guard are in trouble and need to defend themselves. remember that the active duty troops are not armed. what general mattis does not want is to have a repeat of the 1970 kent state massacre. that's not going to happen. and i think it's just a minor change in the rules of engagement down there. but the decision will be that of the general on-the-spot. >> thank you very much. happy thanksgiving. >> and to you. >> coming up a growing number of republicans blast the president, his praise of saudi arabia.

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welcome back. president trump is facing a growing backlash from his own party following his defense of saudi arabia, despite the brutal murder of "washington post" columnist jamal khashoggi. the momentum is building ahead of a possible senate vote on legislation that would sanction saudi officials despite the president's insistence that would hurt the united states. >> i'm not going to destroy the world economy or destroy the economy for our country by being foolish with saudi arabia. we are with saudi arabia. we're staying with saudi arabia. >> the language that was used, it was as if they were writing a press release for saudi arabia not for the united states. >> it's not too much to ask an ally not to butcher a guy in a cu consulate. this is not world war ii. >> the president and a couple of his critics on this issue.

i want to bring in my guests now. christine, let me start with you. the president has been tweeting this morning assers yesterday and he begins today by quoting his secretary of state who commented after the president made this policy decision this week, he said it's a mean and nasty world out there, the middle east in particular. is this is a long and historic commitments and one that's vital to the united states national security. president trump tweeting i agree 100%. many billions of dollars purchas purchase purchases in the u.s., big jobs and oil. >> it's a mean and nasty world and journalists should be prepared to get butchered across the world as they are trying to bring what is happening and bring transparency to government to people across the world. i mean that is a horribly cruel

thing to his family and reckless statement. beyond that and in that tweet and others from the president he's made very clear if you want to do business with the united states it's all about the almighty dollar at the end of the day. you can kill a journalist, can you have civil and human rights abuses. it doesn't matter, if you pay up enough it's going to be okay. that's before you even add on the personal financial dealings the trump organization has had or could have with the saudi arabia government in the future. >> rick, your reaction to this. the president focused on the economics. the way you heard certain members of his party criticizing him. senator corker and senator lindsey graham. what difference do you think that makes? how does that add to the surprise you might feel seeing the policy decision the president made this week? >> first of all, the president is lying about our relationship with saudi arabia. saudi arabia has been an ally

but we don't rely on saudi arabia for our economic growth or jobs or anything else. the weapons deal that he's talking about, $1 so million is not even a contract deal. it's a memorandum of intent to e during the obama administration. saudi has marginal impact on oil prices. they have produce -- we import about 9% of our oil from saudi arabia. we import 40% of our oil from canada. but the worst and most cynical part of all this is the idea that a country that was based on individual freedom and the value of life. we have inalienable rights in the pursuit of happiness the president would so cavalierly dispolice the murder of a journalist done in a despicable and horrible ways. if that's not enough for you, kimming a journali -- killing a

school bus of children going on a field trip in yemen. if that's not enough, perhaps a raytheon dropped on a wedding in yemen by the saudis. those weapons were proud here in the united states. now the men and with imthat work at raytheon and lockheed martin do excellent work to build weapons that keep us safe. now they're in the hands of people who do not value human life and the president had an opportunity here to stand up for american values, individual rights and human life, he's demurrered. that's very dangerous. >> christine i want to ask you how this is resonating around the world. i will put up a tweet here. pute

what's the message this sends to other strong men, autocrats around the world? >> the message it send is that this president no longer stands with -- maybe he never did -- true values of the american bill of rights and the american constitution, what was always sack sacrisant, which if you are nice to this man who is nice to him, if you theoretically throw around money, if you make innuendos about promises of the future the president will do business. i think that sends one message

to our allies, we're not the america we once were. and sends a message to dictators, we are opened for business. and it really is the opposite of what america should be and has been. >> christine, great to see you. rick, great to talk to you. happy thanksgiving. >> happy thanksgiving. >> as you get ready to visit family and friend, lots of people are asking an age old question, how do we keep politics and debates from ruining dinner? we visit a family in michigan to get their advice on finding common ground. >> well, thank you forbe having us today for this thanksgiving gathering here in michigan. david, why don't you tell us where everybody stands in the political spectrum? >> i am the baby of the family. i'm probably the most independent. >> we're on the democratic spectrum. >> i'm a republican. i have been in the military most of my life, retired.

>> after this contentious mid-term election, what are your thoughts? >> there has to be a change. there can't be all this hate anymore. >> reporter: what are you saying about 2020? ? >> i will vote for trump again. >> reporter: are you going to vote in 2020? >> it depends if trump is running and the other party has. it's really how i feel. if i can't back him, i mean, everything is so negative. >> the president should be respected. it doesn't matter who it is, blue like him or not. however the issues and the way that those people in higher offices hold themselves, they should be held to a higher standard and they also need to be respectful of the people they work with. >> can you stir this over here? are you going to taste this? >> i'm going to try it. what is the most important issue that matters to you? >> i think taking care of the veterans. >> you are a veteran. >> if there is one unifying

factor it would be supporting veterans. >> i will put a wall with constantino wire around it. >> actually the bad guys have to vote. >> reporter: so how does the country find consensus and families leak your family? >> has the family ever found consensus. >> the way we reach our consensus is here's an idea, a, listening. we used to do that all the time. we stopped doing it. >> reporter: is thanksgiving an opportunity for many families across america to do that, to talk and listen? >> well, there's families out there that don't talk because of the politics right now. >> we're family. we have been family a whole lot longer than trump has been in office and that we have been in this divisive political climate. but we love each other. we're family. bottom line and pretty much that trumps everything else. >> happy thanksgiving, guys.

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