good morning. it is sunday, august 123r23rd. we are 72 days from election day. the global death toll has hit another milestone surpassing 800,000. that includes more than 177,000 americans. america's less than 5% of the global population but it accounts for more than 20% of the world's cases. in keeping with his ways, president trump continues to make the pandemic all about himself. yesterday during a wide ranging and at times incoherent tweet storm trump wrote, quote, the deep state or whoever over at the fda is making it very difficult for drug companies to get people in order to test the vaccine and therapeutics. obviously they are hoping to delay the answer until after november 3rd. must focus on speed and saving

lives. by the way, that steve fda is steven hahn. not only that, the president accuses the fda of purposefully stonewalling them in an effort to hurt the re-election chances. trump is not being -- trump not being re-elected is more important to a bunch of doctors than saving the lives of literally tense of thousands of americans. he didn't stop there. in a really bad attempt at a magician's mind game trump inserted the word doctors and studies when he meant i. many doctors and studies disagree with this, this being the fda's decision to revoke the emergency authorization for hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine for covid-19 because they only work on treating covid-19 in donald trump's mind and not in reality. the fda consists of doctors, health officials and experts. trump is none of those. the fd a is a nonpolitical body.

a very similar situation has been playing out with the united states postal service, another nonpolitical body which trump has nonetheless corrupted at the expense of american people. new reporting details how trump used treasury secretary steve mnuchin to essentially strong arm the republican members of the postal service board of governors to install and find someone to do trump's bidding focusing on extreme cost cutting, price increases and be it appears suppressing the vote by significantly hampering americans' ability to voting by mail. remember louis dujoy. he has no business being in the position of postmaster general. he owned a logistics business and he reportedly still maintains significant financial stakes with companies that either do business with or compete with the agency he runs. dujoy is mostly known for being a major republican and trump donor. as recently as october of 2017

dujoy reportedly threw a lavish fund-raiser at his home for trump's re-election campaign. "the new york times" was told he's been to way more republican fundraisers than post offices. that could be why dujoy had such a tough time before his remote testimony which was filled with apparent lies or misrepresentations regarding several of his controversial changes notably regarding overtime rules and also the fact that the postal service isn't going to return recently decommissioned mailboxes and equipment. his actions and internal post office memos also don't back up his claim that the agency is set to handle the expected influx of voting by mail this year. all of this makes his appearance tomorrow morning before the house oversight committee all the more important. yesterday at a bipartisan effort meant to reinforce the agency, the house of representatives passed a bill reversing the recent cost cutting policies and

infusing $25 billion in emergency funds. and the difference in opinion on the need to help american icons remains stark. >> it is also necessary for us to have this legislation because in my conversations with the postmaster general, which are most unsatisfactory, he said he had no intention of restoring the post office boxes that were removed, no intention of restoring the sorting machinery in the postal services and other infrastructure. very essential to keeping the mail on time. >> we don't trust the person who heads this but we're going to give you $25 billion. do we need that money? absolutely not. post office tells us they have $15 billion on hand, they have access to a $10 billion line of credit. that will more than take them for a year from now. we don't need to be spending this money right now. it's a silly, silly bill. >> the actions by the postmaster general in recent weeks is a

sabotage campaign aimed at manipulating mail service and whatever the intent, it's hurting everyday americans. >> now decades later here i am again on the floor of the house of representatives watching a cartoon. >> while the trump administration and its allies continue to gas light the american people, we actually listen to our con stiet two went and their lived experiences and how this has disrupted their lives. >> joining us now nbc news correspondent for the white house, jeff bennett. he's done extensive reporting on the benefits of the mail-in ballots and the u.s. postal service. the u.s. house bill is expected to stall in the senate. what happens next? >> it means it's up to the public to keep up the pressure. up to house democrats to keep up the oversight. so william dujoy keeps up what he said under oath to commit to

handling ballot mail in a timely manner. but that does not really address the underlying issue about these delays because separate from what happens with election day, all ali, we are hearing from americans tragic story after tragic story. we had a story out today, spoke with a woman named jan stowe. she's been a nurse for more than 40 years. she says over the course of her career she's helped heroin addicts withdraw from that drug. now i know what that feels like. she herself is withdrawing because she hasn't been able to get much needed medication for her chronic back pain. i heard from a guy who runs a small newspaper out in oregon, rural oregon. he says in many cases his hyper local community paper isn't getting to people who ordered it or it's showing up two to three weeks late. not much value for a newspaper that shows up two to three weeks late. in one of the most egregious stories, i heard from the daughter of a vietnam combat veteran who is 100% dependent on

oxygen. his medication, his inhalers have been two weeks late in the mail. still haven't shown up. if he has to go to his va to get those medications himself, it's a 40 mile drive and she's worried he could be exposed potentially to covid. house members are up to the job if they ask focused and informed questions. they will ask the postmaster general about those issues and they will ask him about how it is he got into that position. the open to the show you detailed the reporting by "the new york times" which we also have about the undue influence, the inappropriate and undue influence of secretary mnuchin and other people who helped install dujoy. in another universe the postmaster general would be a man named ronald strohman. he was the top ranking african-american at the postal service. been on the job for 40 years. had been the deputy postmaster general for nine years.

when the board of governors, all trump appointees, skipped over him and appointed louis dujoy, a man who has no direct experience working for the postal service, unlike his predecessors, and really was, you know, a trump megadonor appointed him over strohman, strohman resigned, ali. >> thank you for your important reporting on this. we'll be watching that houseovsi think you're right, in the end this comes down to public pressure. this comes down to americans saying particularly those who can't get their medications, veterans who can't get the medications they need and the american public being able to vote by mail. this comes down to public pressure. jeff bennett from the white house. joining me is the lead author of that "new york times" piece diving into treasury secretary steven mnuchin's central role in donald trump's war against the post office. political reporter ken vogel. thank you for joining us this morning. talk to me about this.

republicans have had for a very long time now a beef about how the post office is run. it seems misinformed because there was pressure to make the post office prefund 75 years of its pension within ten years which is something most private companies don't need to do. they've translated that into it being an inefficient organization. why did mnuchin get involved in the potential selection of a postmaster general? >> well, ali, this dates back to president trump's fascination and fixation with the postal service which predates his election as president, but after he took office he started focusing on the post office not just because it was fiscally insolvent which does in some ways attribute to that pension requirement that you just mentioned but also because he thought that it was giving an unfair advantage to amazon, which of course is owned by jeff bezos who also owns the

washington post which president trump thinks covers him unfavorably. so he started tweeting about how the postal service was getting taken advantage of by amazon and soon after that he appointed secretary mnuchin to head this postal service task force to recommend reforms to help -- ostensibly to make it fiscally solvent. mnuchin in the process of becoming interested in that and doing this report began meeting with potential nominees to the board of governors, which is the body that picked the postmaster general, and kind of feeling them out on whether they would be supportive of these reforms and making recommendations to the white house of nominees to this board based upon their willingness to buy in on these reforms and as the board of governors is being reshaped and these task force recommendations are being pushed, the postmaster general resigns and so the board

of governors has a chance with these mnuchin recommended appointees on it to pick a new postmaster general who would implement these reforms. and steve mnuchin, our reporting shows, followed this process, the selection process very closely, asked for updates repeatedly and kind of suggested to folks if not louis dujoy in particular someone who might be in that -- cut from that same cloth, a private sector person who would push these types of reforms. >> ken, we appreciate your reporting on this, you and your team at "the new york times." ken vogel is a reporter for the "new york times." joining me now is democratic congresswoman robin kelly of illinois. she's the chair of the black caucus brain trust. she's part of the house oversight committee. on a personal level, congresswoman kelly's mother was a postal worker and her brother works for the postal service so, congresswoman, you are uniquely

connected to this, as are many african-american families. in fact, a disproportionate number of african-american families are connected to the u.s. postal service. it's been a real ladder into the middle class for a lot of them. >> definitely. my mother is no longer with us, but she worked for the post office. she was a mail clerk and my brother is a mail handler and, yes, it has been a pathway to the middle class. >> let's talk about the testimony tomorrow. since friday's testimony so much more information has come out, including about what we were just talking about, treasury secretary mnuchin's potential involvement in this, something that dujoy didn't have a very good answer to when senator peters asked him about it on friday. more importantly, the fact that the postal service has not returned its service levels to what it was before he started cutting. they just have stopped apparently cutting and decommissioning machines. >> i mean, it's absolutely ridiculous. families depend on the post

office. i've gotten almost 1,000 calls to my d.c. office and many, many, many calls to my district office with veterans not receiving their medicine, seniors aren't receiving their medicine, people not getting their checks. i've had businesses say they haven't gotten mail in a week to ten days. some get mail every other day. i mean, they can't function like this. and people can't miss their medicines. >> in a letter to postmaster general dejoy, first and foremost, what happened to the removed equipment? when will it be replaced or better yet, upgraded to serve the 21st century needs. >> i think like you've shown on this report and like my colleague said, there is some sabotaging going on as far as mail-in ballots. i can't think of any other reason he would do it.

but we'll ask him tomorrow, you know, what is his explanation for that. >> one of the things that he talked about was that he had not suspended overtime. we and other organizations have reporting, memos internally that suggested that he had. but it sounds like he's splitting hairs. while there may not have been instructed to say no overtime, there were all sorts of very, very clear directives that anybody who could read english meant there will be no money paid for overtime. are you able to get him to narrow down on this and admit that he's parsing words and that ultimately the intent was to cut overtime? >> we will certainly do every we can to try to get him to narrow down and be more clear on his answers. i went to the post office myself to mail a package and when i was there a couple of the postal workers said we know who you are and we just want to apologize to you for what is going on and i assured them they didn't have to apologize to me, i knew they

were just following directives, that it wasn't their fault. >> congresswoman, thank you for joining us. >> thanks for having me. >> congresswoman robin kelly of illinois is the chair of the congressional black caucus health brain trust and a member of the oversight and reform committee. not only are the democrats trying to win back the house, they're trying to retake the senate. it's crucial if the democrats hope to accomplish anything. i'm going to talk to two candidates who are running on different sides of the country. y

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there's one really important thing to remember this november. even if joe biden wins the presidency, if mitch mcconnell maintains control of the senate don't expect much to change. republicans hold a 53 to 45 seat advantage. democrats need to flip three seats if biden wins the election since the vice president casts the ty breaking vote or four seats if trump is re-elected. out west democrats stand the chance of flipping arizona. they show retired astronaut mark kelly ahead of martha mcsally by more than four points. she made headlines when she

elicited donations if you can give a dollar, five, if you can fast a meal, give what that would be. let's not ask people to give up a meal for political donations in this country. looking into the major battleground senate races starting with candidates from texas and south carolina, this week we head to alaska and north carolina. dr. al gross of alaska. an orthopaedic surgeon and commercial fisherman. he's challenging dan sullivan. gross won the democratic primary despite not being a democrat. he's an independent. first democratic senate nominee who is not a registered democrat. also with me, cal cunningham from north carolina, lawyer and former member of the north carolina senate. he's challenging incumbent senator tom till lis. he served in the iraq war and afghanistan. dr. gross, let me start with you. talk to me about you running as

an independent with the democratic nomination and how that affects you in your race. >> good morning, ali, from alaska. i've been an independent since i was 18 except for a very brief stint when trump won i became a democrat briefly. this state's full of independents. 57%. people like to think for themselves up here. they don't like to be told what to do in alaska independents are allowed to run in the democratic primary, which is what i did. i will caucus with democrats, of course. the republicans have absolutely failed when it came to health care, anything progressive and so that's why i -- in part why i will caucus with democrats. >> are you in an airplane or something? >> no. i'm in my camper. it kind of looks like a boat but there's no billing pumps and no bilg bilge alarms. >> call cunningham, talk to me about your race and what you're

hearing from folks in north carolina. >> ali, thank you so much for having me on. i appreciate it. welcome to the fight for the u.s. senate here in north carolina we are working hard fighting for every vote and we're hearing a lot of folks, including that might otherwise favor the other party. they're looking for a home this fall. they don't feel like washington is working for them. we're picking up those supporters and voters. a lot of independents including even some republicans. my opponent, tom tillis, is deeply distrusted by this electorate. we're working hard to find support and finding it. >> dr. gross, what are the issues out there that alaskans are worried about that you hope to capitalize on? >> well, we need jobs, ali. alaska has been in recession for four or five years leading up to covid-19. it's been devastated with the complete loss of tourism to the

state this year and i'm sure it will last into next year as well. the status quo is not working here in this state. dan sullivan is just a yes man to the president. we need something new and different. new ideas to bring this state up into a successful future for sure. >> cal, what about you? what are the things you are hearing that you can really do differently than tom tillis is doing? >> well, we're focusing on fighting corruption and reforming our democracy to be stronger and more healthy. in addition to creating a stronger economy in the midst of a pandemic. we need to focus on health care. north carolina has so many people who don't have quality affordable care and costs continue to climb and so we're focusing on those issues and finding good, strong support. >> dr. gross, you talk about this recession. one of the things that's

interesting about alaska is it does boom and bust a little bit. what's the kind of thing that's going to help the economy there? >> well, we need to diversify our economy up here. right now we have the highest health care costs in the entire country. it's keeping any business, finance, technology, information businesses from moving here. why would they move here when the barriers of entry are so high? public option for individuals and small businesses to access health care by buying medicare on the exchange would be a great way to level the playing field and invite other businesses to move here. we can't keep going the way we're going. our oil resources are diminishing. revenues to the state are diminishing along with that. we had a billion dollar deficit last year and we'll have another one this year. we also need to lower energy costs in rural alaska. there are a lot of renewable clean energy projects that can be developed in alaska that haven't been yet. i will be a leading advocate for

those. >> postmaster dejoy who will be testifying before the house on monday, he's actually been a pretty big donor to your opponent. >> he sure has. he's also from north carolina. mr. dejoy is apparently so important to my opponent that tillis skipped a veterans affairs committee meeting to go to a fund-raiser at his home. only agenda is dealing with toxic exposures at an installation right here in north carolina. once again, it's clear that my opponent at least is not going to ask the tough questions and we need to be asking them. the postal service is essential to north carolinans for prescriptions, for checks. we have a very rural, very expansive state here. we need the postal service to be

working. >> we appreciate your time, both of you. dr. al gross, democratic candidate for u.s. senate in alaska and cal cunningham is the democratic candidate in north carolina. join msnbc for week long special coverage of the republican national convention as the gop makes the case for a second trump term. join my colleagues rachel maddow, joy reid and nicole wallace here on msnbc. last week we witnessed an unconventional democratic national convention. it will be interesting to see how they spin all of that.

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vaulted nominating conventions typically filled with media to highly produced live streaming events. despite the obvious impediments last week americans witnessed inspiring speeches at the democratic national convention. the prevailing themes seemed to be one of kindness, inclusiveness, veteran angels and the nation they would create. personally i'm not that into conventions even under normal circumstances, but what i acknowledge them to be is an opportunity for a party to put the better foot forward. tomorrow the republican's party chances begins. i'm legitimately curious how this will play out. never mind putting their best foot forward. does the gop have anything left that resembles a foot at all. donald trump has completely subsumed the party of lincoln and john mccain. he's replaced what honor there was in replacing racism, antiscience and climate

denialism, lawlessness and a moment where america needs good governance more than ever. he's done so become complicity of the american party. trump brought us the muslim ban and republicans supported him. he broughts policies separating children from parents as they tried to cross the border in hopes of a better life and republicans supported him. he squandered the ten-year effort of the iran nuclear deal. republicans supported him. the u.s. was leading the way on climate change until trump in one of the darkest speeches he's ever delivered withdrew it with republican support. he's threatened nato despite the united states having been the only beneficiary of the mutual defenses treating article five after the attacks of 9/11. trump has embraced conspiracy

theorists and white nationalists some of whom have jobs in the white house now as we speak. republicans have not chastised him for this. he's told more lies from the bully pulpit than the most diligent can count. i'm running out of time to talk about the russian conspiracy theories or his clemency of crooks who didn't deserve it. looking at you, roger stone. donald trump has been a blithe on america and an indelible stain on the gop. that's the only logical theme of a four-day event to memorialize the last four years. in the words of donald trump himself, it is what it is. at the end of the day you can put lipstick on a pig but it remains a pig.

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if the last three and a half years have taught us anything, it's that there's no more time to lose. the multiple crises facing the country, pandemic, laws flouted, institutions diminished, the media under assault and an earth warming faster than we can deal with call for immediate and united action and the form that action must take is at the ballot box. the ability to vote is this nation's greatest treasure, one that's not been shared equally and the citizenry's rule to fight off lawlessness of the current administration. the resounding message by leaders this week in the democratic party was unity in the ballot box and the importance, the urgency of using

that right to vote for something better. democrats warn americans not to squander the opportunity to uphold the democracy. they push the point to say it will take every american participation to make this work. let's listen. >> here's the thing. no single american can fix this country alone, not even a president. democracy was never meant to be transactional. you give me your vote, i make everything better. it requires an active and informed citizenry. so i'm also asking you to believe in your own ability to embrace your own responsibility as citizens, to make sure that the basic tenants of our democracy endure. >> the urgency of the former president is one that's shared by historians, people who have seen our history repeat themselves and have warned that we must learn from our past. this moment we're in is not just a reckoning but has historian

joanne freeman writes it is a sign that, quote, the united states is having a full-fledged identity crisis. given the high stakes, the ownership of national history has become urge gentd and immediate. culture war doesn't begin to do this struggle justice. it's a battle for the soul of america and the survival of democracy as many americans know all too well. with me now to discuss the urgency to save the soul of american is joanne freeman. thank you for being with us. joanne is the author of the field of blood, violence in congress and the road to civil war. i think this is important to get an historian's take on this, joanne. it is easy to say we're in a culture war or that this is something that's going on all over the world. there is some distance between a culture war and a battle for a soul, the soul of who we are. tell me why you think this is in fact that serious.

>> well, i think there is some pretty fundamental aspects of democracy as well as american identity that are on the table at this moment and i fear, i suppose, and it's part of what inspired me to write that piece, i think there's an assumption on the part of many americans to assume along the lines of american exceptionalism that because everything has seemingly been okay in the past, part of what i want that piece to get people to think about is you can't assume that. you can't assume that. i think we need to be aware of the fact that there are some pretty basic fundamentals and you've discussed voting, that's one of them. there are many more fundamentals of democracy that are threatened.

you might not be okay and they need to be aware of the fact that what they do now matters. >> we don't have a shared view of what that experience is. there are very few americans who think things are going in the right direction right now. i think i saw a poll that said 13%. i'm curious as to who they are. one of the things i need is there needs to be an engagement on all sides. >> i do think that americans

should remember they have the right to protest and that's true on all sides and that maers it in a democracy, right? public opinion matters. i think we are at a moment where a lot of people are seeing, and you're right, they like or dislike different aspects of it, but a lot of people are seeing structural aspects of our government that they don't normally think about. i think that's true white, black, i think there are people thinking about our system in a way that they don't normally think that way and i think during moments of crisis there is the potential for change if people think of it that way. it's easy for me to sit here and say, yes, we need to have a discussion and no one's really willing to discuss, but i think the only way we get out of this moment is some willingness to engage with what's going on and debate, however angry that debate is going to be. >> one of the things that barack obama said the other day, and others have made the point, that they can make it difficult for people to vote but they can't

actually make it impossible. unlike a lot of people in parts of the world where they are fighting for basic democracy or the vote, in fact, it may be harder this time but that people need to understand that. they need to understand that the mail is delayed to get out ahead of this thing. do we have enough of a civic awakening for that to actually happen? >> i hope so. you know, it's part of why i wrote that piece. i want to awaken people to the fact that there are threats. i think that the postal service debate that's going on right now is a great example of what an aware public can do because the fact of the matter is, it was partly the fuss, the public fuss that raised some degree of action on that issue. we'll see what action actually happens but, still, i think there is a growing awareness if that controversy did anything positive, it is the fact that by threatening something as fundamental and as all of these

polls say as basically loved as the postal system is, it has alerted people to the fact that something structural is in endangered here and people need to be aware of that and they need to be willing to take action on that and to help others take action on that as well. absolutely. voting is as fundamental as you can get. maybe a close second is protests. both of those things are pretty much at the core of democracy. >> professor joanne freedman, it is always a pleasure to talk with you. award winning professor of history and american studies at yale. she is the author of "the field of blood, violence in congress and the road to the civil war." thank you for joining us. 163 days after breonna taylor's death by police there have been tho charges and no real change. we are not finished saying her name. inished saying her name ch person unique. that's why i like liberty mutual. they get that no two people are alike and customize your car

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breonna taylor, 160 days since taylor's death at the hands of police and there has not been a single arrest. they executed a so-called no knock warrant bursting into taylor's apartment in the middle of the night without any notice. her boyfriend, a licensed gun holder fired a shot. they fired 20 shots back hitting taylor eight times. the warrant the police served was connected to a drug investigation and the man they were looking for was already in police custody at the time of the shooting. they had no reason to be at breonna taylor's home. five months later, no video footage. one officer fired, a woman is dead, two others back on the job. an innocent black woman is dead. no arrests. nothing has changed. millions of americans remain committed to keeping taylor's live including #sayhername the

case. many have moved on. they made this tweet which my team came across from angel jones salient. you know who hasn't moved on? black people. because we still live with the possibility of being shot in our beds. and then forgotten. joining live with the possibility of being shot in our beds and then forgotten. founder of love and power works focused on creating justice and equity in every sector and a cncn b b cnbc contributor. we have not had movement, despite the fact breonna taylor was killed in the midst of a social movement at a rate that we refuse to believe is true but it is true. why have we not seen any movement here? >> there are two things that are true about this incident.

one, we have no video, and far too often america needs to see with their own eyes and fast-forward and rewind the destruction of black lives in order to believe what we've been saying all along. far too often people are watching that video to figure out whether or not we deserved it. because there is no video, there is no viral nature to this particular case as there were in others. we see people deciding not to care because they don't have that piece of footage. the other thing, though, that is abundantly and persistently true is that because breonna taylor was a black woman, and we so often erase the sufferings of women in the conversation about police violence, we have continued to forget her in the ways that we often forget a black woman. the hash tag was created by kimberly crenshaw who coined the term intersectionality and does so much work particularly around

black violence and a woman who continues to endure this over and over and over again. we have to make sure it takes us to be impassioned into the work that's happening to make sure there is action on her behalf. >> amy mcgrath, who is running for the senate in kentucky, has been back and forth with the attorney general. she tweeted the other day, today marks 100 days since kentucky attorney general took on the breonna taylor case and still no report released the findings or handed over to an independent counsel who could ensure a fair and timely process. the district attorney responded amy mcgrath has demonstrated fundamental misunderstanding of the criminal justice system, the investigation process and even the size of our office. i hope she will stop

disrespecting the men and whom who make up the office of the attorney general and are working hard on this investigation. so it just sits there, and is there some hope in the congressional office that it will just stop, that people will forget? >> people historically have tried to wait processes out for so long that people give up. but both breonna taylor's family and local activists in kentucky and in louisville have been very, very clear that they have been working on this before breonna taylor was killed, and they are going to be in this for the long haul. the goal is always and absolutely to see accountability in breonna taylor's case, for her family to have the kind of transparency they deserve, but also to prevent any other injustices like this from happening ever again. that is the goal of organizers, that is the goal of breonna taylor's family, that is the goal of people from all across

the country who have continued to uplift her name and take action on her behalf. the question is why is that not the goal of the people in power in louisville? between the mayor of louisville who organizers have demanded should resign, the attorney general who you already just spoke about, the entire city of louisville. folks have moved disrespectfully slowly and offered zero transparency to breonna's family. what we also know is that louisville is proposing to spend nearly 50% of their city's budget on policing and incarceration. louisville will still continue to pay for the pensions of two officers, jonathan mattingly and miles cosgrove, who are responsible for the death of breonna taylor, and that $100,000 between them could be used for the issues they're commanding. they want to see them divest

that particular police department, they want to make sure the city is divesting from policing and reinvesting in social services. they want to make sure there is a real review board with subpoena power. if we are going to be paying all this money, and the citizens of louisville are going to be paying all this money, the very least they deserve is that their city and the police officers actually honor the authority that they have as people. >> well, i will say it was something to watch the democratic national convention and see the idea of injustice and police brutality be front and center for those four days. don't hold your breath if you think that can be front and center for the next four days at the rnc, brittany, but you and people like crenshaw will keep this in the lime light. that does it for me. thank you for watching. have a great rest of your weekend. be sure to catch me back here next weekend from 8:00 to 10:00

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