thank you both. i appreciate it. >> thank you. >> that is "all-in" on this monday night, the "rachel maddow show" starts right now. >> everything that you picked to cover tonight and the people you booked and everybody, every single way you covered everything that you talked about tonight, this is your best show in ages. it's fantastic. >> thanks, buddy, i appreciate it. have a great monday. >> thank you very much. happy to have you here. there's a lot going on in the news today and indeed tonight. we just got breaking news tonight from the "new york times" that in the criminal inquiy in to formerpresident trump andhis business about, state prosecutors in new york are reportedly focusing now on the chief financial officer of trump's business. a man named allen weisselberg who's name came up repeatedly with the hush money payments for which trump's lawyer michael

cohen went to prison. trump was named individual one. that is in fact what opened up the criminal inquiry in the first place. the "times" is reporting that inquiry is now focusing at least in part on the chief financial officer of the former president's company. now, simultaneously tonight, the atlanta journal constitution is breaking the news that in the other known criminal investigation in to the former president, the one in fulton county, georgia, as to whether or not president trump illegally tried to pressure election officials in to changing that state's election results that case reportedly is being brought in front of a grand jury this week in atlanta. it's reported that fulton county prosecutors are going to go before the grand jury in georgia this week, and ask them for subpoenas for witnesses and documents in that case that reportedly targets the former

president. we have never had apresident or former president criminally prosecuted in this country. but on two different fronts, state prosecutorers in new york and state prosecutors in georgia, we are getting closer and closer to that prospect all the time. again, the chief financial officer of the president's business reportedly in the cross-hairs of state prosecutors in new york, georgia state prosecutors taking the case against president trump on election interference to a georgia grand jury this week. which means just in the next few days. we will keep following both of the stories as they continue to develop tonight. also tonight, in the wake of the dave stating and fatal collapse of the power generating system and the electrical grid in the great state of texas, the head of that state's public utilities commission has resigned. everybody is pointing fingers in texas as to why oil and gas companies and power generators of all kinds are not required to make sure they can still operate in cold weather since it really was just cold weather that

caused the whole state grid to shut down last month. but so far, even with multiple high level resignations and state hearings and thousands of texans still without drinkable water even tonight, apparently no one in the all-republican state government believes the solution is to make sure the system is winterized to regulate it so the power generators and operators are not allowed to operate in the state of texas unless they can operate in cold. that is out of the question, because you know, big government. the head of the public utilities commission is out tonight. just like the next time there's a cold snap and the power. if nothing changes except resignations is so we can blame people who are no longer there, butnothing changes in terms of the infrastructure. in jackson, mississippi tonight, they are creeping towards two

weeks now with no drinkable water in the city. the city of jackson has not had running water or diminished running water since cold weather hit there, those with running water are under a boil water advisory. there's no clean potable drinking water in jackson, mississippi, it's not a back water. it's a city the of 160,000 people. it's the capitol of the state, the water infrastructure is so bad and particularly to poorly prepared for cold temperatures that the recent cold snap there rendered the city completely without safe water to drink from the tap. for as i said, nearly two weeks now. you think we need infrastructure investment in this country? maybe? we are the richest and supposedly most capable nation on earth and we cannot keep water running and lights on now when it gets cold. when it gets can cold in february. which is when things get cold

every year. it's never a surprise. a massive national investment in upgrading our infrastructure. everything from roads and bridges and air ports and electric car charging stations and trains and the electrical grid, except in texas where they prefer to fail alone. and national broad band, that big infrastructure proposal, every part of which is popular with the public when you ask them what the government should be doing. that infrastructure bill is next. it's the next big thing that president biden wants to get passed through congress after the covid relief bill. it is, this is a procederal thing, but it's important in terms of what our government will be able to do this year. it's generally expected that in the senate, the departments will have two shots this year. two bills that they can pass using the budget reconciliation rules that allow them to pass something with 50 votes.

they can pass it even if all republicans vote no. the infrastructure bill with all the things in it that i described, that's what they are going to use their second shot on. they are going to use the second of two opportunities for a budget reconciliation bill, a bill that can pass without republican support. the second infrastructure after the first one is of course covid relief. and the covid relief bill is a lot. it's direct $1400 checks to individuals. it's some padding added to unemployment checks. so, it's, you know, unemployment checks come from the state, the federal government will add money to the unemployment checks so it's enough to live on because the pandemic has people out of work still. it's the money to pay for vaccine distribution. more on that in a moment. it's the money to re-open schools safely, which everybody wants. it's the ban on eviction and foreclosures during the pandemic. it's a big child tax credit to further financially help families with kids. this thing is nearly $2

trillion, it's a huge, huge thing, for context on what this particular large number means. republicans in the obama administration freaked out for eight years over the recovery act that president obama signed in 2009 when the financial crisis happened. they lost their minds over the recovery act. over the size of that bill. they never stopped talking about it. for the entire time that obama was in office. that bill that they were so horrified by the size of was about $800 billion. the covid relief bill that is about to pass is 2-1/2 times that size. and the house just passed it. this weekend. and now it's going to pass the senate. and then, president biden is going to sign it in to law. the reason the senate can pass it is they can do it without any republican votes. they have two shots this year to pass stuff under budget reconciliation, they will use one of the shots for infrastructure, this first shot though they are using for covid

relief. and the reason they have to do that is because republicans are deciding this year that they don't want to support covid relief. which is astonishing on its face. i mean, astonishing in terms of the substance and politically astonishing how much the american public wants the covid relief bill. democrats, independents, republicans, it's wildly popular with the entire american public, it's will get zero represent want votes. republican on capitol hill want to complain about schools not being open but then they are going to vote no on the funding to reopen schools. they want to complain about access to vaccines. but they want to vote no on paying for vaccine distribution. good luck selling that. but, you know, they will deal with the political consequences of that themselves. substantively it's fine, it will pass with out them. it doesn't matter. one uncanny thing, at least to me is how little they want to

talk about this. i mean, republicans did really lose their mind in 2009 over the recovery act that cost less than a trillion dollars, but they lost their minds and never stopped talking about it. they turned it in to this socialist hellescape that they had to warn us about and maybe nobody should have children again because the future generations had will suffer so much from this $800 billion bill that it will ruin america. they never stopped talking about it. there was no rhetoric too extreme for them to use to denounce the recovery act. that was less than a trillion dollars and this is$2 trillion and they are like, oh, they pass it in the house? can we talk about mr. potato head instead? not a peep. here is the big conservative cpac conference in florida. quote, as the conference began, house democrats were preparing to approve a coronavirus relief package worth nearly $2 trillion

that was opposed by every house republican. but inside the hyatt, it was hard to find many conservatives who cared. they don't care. at least they just don't want to talk about it. it's like they know it's really popular. even among republican voters and they are going to stay very quiet about it. and let democrats do it themselves and hope no one notices that they are all voting no. did i mention that it's a $2 trillion bill. and there's another $2 trillion infrastructure bill coming on its heels that will be potentially more popular andthe republicans will not vote for that either. i mean, they better hope there's a lot of mr. potato head stuff going on to give them all something to talk about whale the new administration and the departments basically just make tracks around them and despite them with them trying to pretend like it's not happening. speaking of making tracks, today they started to ship out doses

of the third vaccine approved to prevent coronavirus. it's thus far proved to be radically effective at keeping people from being hospitalized and keeping people from dying from covid-19. i will also tell you. i have to do it as full disclosure, you will see it in my face if i don't explain it so i should just tell you. personally as a person who is embarrassingly afraid of needles, i get so wwozily i have to sit down, i cannot handle myself with any dignity at all with a shot or blood draw or anything. personally this is the one i've been waiting for. because it's only one shot. if you are a person who is l -- legit and afraid of needles is only thing work is knowing you have to do it again. the anticipation of it happening a second time after you endure

it the first time for a person with a phobia, it's the anticipation of the second shot is worse. i will take whatever vaccine is available whenever it is finally my turn and i cannot wait until it is my turn. but i'm so hoping that it's the one i get. so, i will only have to turn green and panic once, not twice. one shot and it would be over. yes. the footage today from the plant in kentucky that is packing up and shipping out the first doses of the johnson & johnson vaccines, it's nice to see work ers at the plant signing the first boxes and cheering and cheering each other as they got the very first boxes got loaded on to the first trucks. here's what they wrote on the very first box today. first j and j pack out, get healthy! and they signed bourbon 1, kentucky to show the plant they shipped that out of in kentucky. that was today. to hit president biden's plans

for 100 million vaccine doses to be administered in his first 100 days in office, you can do that math in your head, 100 million in 100 days. right, we are needing to administer 1 million shots a day to hit the goal. right now, our average a rolling seven day average of how many shots we are giving a day is 1.8 million. if we could double that, it would be great. don't get me wrong. it's a huge ramp up from where we were. there was a dip with the cold weather and the storms that hit half the united states, but look we are back up. 1.8 million is our average now. and today, bizarrely today, we were told for the first time that president trump was vaccinated. along with first lady melania trump at the white house in january while he was still president before the inauguration. why did they keep this information secret from the american public? who, i mean, sometimes i -- sometimes that administration and that president did things

that i thought were sort of crazy or wrong. but at least i could discern the self interest. what haves the self interest? to whom did the benefit accrue from keeping this secret from the american public? while he was president, president trump never encouraged americans to get vaccinated. now we know that he himself took the vaccine in secret and never told anyone. what possible benefit was there to him to keep that secret from the public? i mean, think of all the good it could have done. one new poll shows that americans that have not been vaccinated there's a 2-1 disparity between democrats and republicans in terms of who is planning the to get the vaccine when they get the chance to. of americans who have not yet been vaccinated among democrats. 70% intend to get the vaccine as soon as they can. but among republicans, it's not 70%, it's only 33%. it's less than half the number among republicans. why is that?

what is it about being a republican that might make you shy about vaccines? only a third of republicans who have not been vaccinated yet intend to get the shot when had they can. what would the number be if president trump was honest. i got vaccinated, and i was able to get it because i was president. nobody would resent him forgetting the vaccine. of course you want the president vaccinated. how about if he said in january, i got vaccinated because i'm the president and as soon as you can get vaccinated you should too. you think there would still be a third of the republicans in the country that were planning to get the vaccine if they knew president trump got it. why did he keep it a secret? and i will tell you, this comes of course not long on the heels of the news that was broken from the "new york times" last month, that president trump was way sicker with covid than the white house would publically admit when he was hospitalized.

it was the "times" reporting that his blood oxygen level was in the low 80s. that is bad. low 90s mean you are quite sick and dangerously sick with covid. he was not in the low 90s, he was in low 80s and with infiltrates with his lungs that means his lungs were showing up cloudy and white in their lungs which is scary with somebody with advanced covid. when he went to walter reed some expected that he would be on a ventilator when he got there, that is how sick he was. none of that information was given to the public at the time. we only found out months later after he was out of office. again, had the white house, had the president just been honest about his personal, his personal experience of covid, how many republicans and people who love that president for whatever reason would have finally believed that covid is a serious thing that can kill even big strong people who you like. but they kept that from the

american public until he was out of office and now we find out that he also took the vaccine. but kept it secret. at a time when simply being straight with people about that might have saved thousands of american lives. or more. i mean, it's just, it's just unbelievable. who does that benefit? you -- doing that cost millions peopler their lives. excuse me, cost thousands of people their lives. what for? your pride? didn't want people to know that, i mean -- it's incredible. anyway. but now, we have got three vaccines approved as of today. and this third one is only one dose. hooray, and it only needs to be stored in a normal fridge, which means a lot in terms of the supply chain and places this can get to and places it can be safely transported and stored and administered, there's going to be 4 million doses of that

johnson & johnson vaccine shipping this week. they say they will have 20 million doses shipped by the end of the month and on top of the other two vaccines that are already out there, that means we will have enough vaccine available in month, by the end of this month, to vaccinate more than a third of the whole country. and that's not even factoring in the astrazeneca vaccine that was approved in canada today, it was used in europe for weeks now. there was concerns that it was not tested on a lot of older people. so there was reluctance about that vaccine for older people in parts of europe. but the uk has been using the astrazeneca vaccine and they have released results of a significant study that actually, it works great in older people. works in older people just as well as all the other vaccines work in older people. approved now in multiple countries and approved as of today in canada and likely to be approved here in april. that, next month, that will be vaccine number four on top of

the pfizer and the moderna and now the johnson & johnson was shipping out today. as of today, we are getting 1.8 million doses administered every day and that is hopefully set to rise because now we actually do have a vaccine distribution plan for the country. for the first time, something that did not exist six weeks ago when the new president and administration took over from the previous administration which not only hid the details of the president's covid-19 illness, but also hid from the american people the fact that he himself and the first lady were vaccinated. just astonishing. but now, we have got apresident who doesn't lie about covid-19 for sure. we have a president who got vaccinated on television. who tells people every chance he can get, get vaccinated as soon as you can, as soon as it's your turn, please do it. we have got 1.8 million shots a day going in to american arms. and we have got legislation that's going to pay for it and much more. and it's legislation that is

going to pass. you guys, it's working. what else can we do? joining us now is someone who has really quite series goals for what we can do and should do. senator warren, it's great to see you, thanks so much for making time tonight. >> thank you, it's good to be here with you. >> let me ask you about the big covid relief bill first? do you think it pass, and pass soon so people don't start to lose unemployment assistance, are we on track? >> yes, i sure hope so. we need this money. and it's exactly as you said at the beginning. this is the money we need for vaccines, this is the money we need to help people who are struggling and this is the money that we need to get the schools open. this is government working the way it should be. >> as far as the content of the

bill and what can be tweaked, let's talk about the minimum wage situation, and the parliamentarian saying it should be excluded from the bill because of the senate rules. there's the issue of whether or not there's conservative democrats, frankly, moderate democrats who are insisting on making the bill smaller. the washington post is reporting that biden met with conservative democrat senators who want the income eligibility tightened so is fewer people get the $1400 checks. what is your reaction to that? >> look, i will be pushing for more not less help for people. that is critically important. the bottom line is we are democrating we understand the need for help and we will be talking with each other about it. that's what we are committed to and i feel good about where we are on this. look, all you have to do is look around. we have lost half a million

people in the country and we have had people sick, children home from school for a year. we need to get the money out the door. we need to get it to our state and local governments. we need to get it to the folk who is are on the ground and need to get things moving. we have money in this bill for child care. do you know how many people can't get back to work because they can't get decent child care. we had a child care crisises before this pandemic. and now, it is far worse. so, these are the measures that we need, it is literally a covid relief plan. and the sooner we get it out the door the better. i think the house has given us a good bill. i think there may be some small tweaks for much more technical reasons within the senate about jurisdiction and so on. but i think this is a good bill for us to go forward on. it's not as big as i would like it to be. but it's a good bill. >> on the issue of the minimum wage, i know you support a $15

an hour minimum wage. >> i do. >> i feel like we have sort of talked this provision to death in the sense that every american is paying attention to the news knows about the senate parliamentarian and the bird rule and all the other things. bottom line, do you think there's a practical vehicle by which you and your colleagues can get us a rise in the minimum wage this year? do you think it can happen? >> well, of course it can happen if we just get rid of the filibuster. and look, i know i have been singing this song for a long time about the filibuster. but watch what's happening. mitch mcconnell right now, has a veto, over our being able to do anything unless we can twist ourselves in to pretzels and make it fit through reconciliation. now the parliamentarian said that pretzel will not go in the bag so we cannot do minimum wage through reconciliation. but if we say that we are going to get rid of the filibuster, we

are going to go with majority rule the way the constitution holds for the house and the senate, and we can actually pass the things we need to pass, then this, this is not an issue. and understand, it's not just minimum wage. it's voter protection. it's environmental crisis issues. it's immigration. it's universal child care. it's college. it's gun safety. it's the things we need to pass to make this country work and i want to be clear, it's the things the majority of americans strongly support. americans didn't send us to washington to be some kind of debating society. they sent us here to get things done and that's what we should do. and that means no veto for mitch mcconnell. >> you have proposed and today introduced legislation that would put a new tax on the ultra wealthy on people with net worth

more than $50 million and increasing amounts of tax with significantly even larger net worth than that. this is something, i feel like, i have talked to you about this a number of times, this was a central part of your platform when you had the gang busters run for the nomination of the presidential race this year. the thing that people don't know about your wealth tax proposal is how popular it is. it has democratic support and a majority of republican voters as well. i wonder if that creates the possibility of strange bed fellows for you on a targeted proposal on the one you introduced today. >> it's wildly popular. people get it the system today is unfair and rigged. let me remind everyone what the wealth tax is. it says on fortunes bigger than $50 million on your $50 millionth and first dollars you have to pitch in two cents and

two cents every dollar after that until you hit a billion dollars in assets and then a few pennies more. that makes the top 10th of 1%, that affects 100,000 families in america. this would make them pay and it would produce about $3 trillion in revenue. that's money for child care, that's money for infrastructure. that's money to build back better like joe biden says. we needed this before, when i was running for president. but just understand, now that the pandemic has hit, while millions families have slipped in to poverty, millions families are unemployed what's happened at the very top is the 660 billionaires in america have increased their net worth over the last year, are you ready?

by $1.3 trillion all we are asking is $.2 to help build a future for the rest of america. >> massachusetts senate elizabeth warren, good to have you here tonight. >> thanks for having me. >> we have more to get to, busy monday night, stay with us. trelegy for copd. ♪ birds flyin' high you know how i feel ♪ ♪ breeze drifting on by you know how i feel ♪ [man: coughing]

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last week, here on the show, we covered a story that i said at the time skeeved me out in a way that made me worry about my ability on sleep that night. i was right to worry about there a and we actually heard from a lot of you guys at home that story resonated with you and skeeved you out too. the story was about looking in to one particular participant on the attack of the u.s. capitol.

her name is riley williams, she is seen in the spot shadow, appearing to direct other riot ers inside the capitol. she gained notariety when she was charged ultimately with helping to steal a laptop from the office of house speaker nancy pelosi. the fbi cited in the charging documents a witness who claimed that ms. williams planned to pass the laptop to somebody she knew who was going give it to russian intelligence. riley williams denies the charges. pelosi's laptop incidentally has not been found. what they have discovered that riley williams is also the woman in this incredibly creepy video. her giving a nazi salute, she is wearing a mask and sunglasses, she gives the nazi absolute, and she is wearing the neo-nazi symbols and advocating that in

the video. to prove that she is in the video that indeed among the capitol hill rioters that are explicit neonazis and anti-semites, the way they did the leg work to figure out that that same person not only appeared in that video and posted racist and anti-semitic comments. it's a photo that she posted in one of her accounts. it's atity a pro truch rally in d.c. in december and in that to he toe, she is standing next to one of the speakers at the rally who is apparently her hero, a man named nick fuentes, they discovered in combing through her social media history, that of all the people she followed this guy was her clear favorite. mr. fuentes is an advocate for a whites only homeland, as in a

country exclusively for white people. i will give you one guess as to what country he thinks that should be. his resume is denying that the holocaust happened and america was better under jim crow laws. the better to achieve a whites only nation. he was at the white nationalist unite the right rally in charlottesville in 2017. he rallied pro tump rioters outside the capitol on january 6th. and while conservatives and elected republicans were holding their annual conservative political action conference, cpac, it was all how donald trump won the election and he is still secretly the president. while that was happening at cpac, this guy, nick fuentes hosted his own rival conference for trump fan who cpac was not enough and cpac is missing the

explicit white nationalist, holocaust denying flare. he took to the stage this conference, this america first conference that he hosted. andfrom there, railed against a quote, new racial cast system in the country, with whites at the bottom. he said america needs to protect its quote, white demographic core. really nice, nice folks, right? guess who the keynote speaker was at the conference this weekend? the keynote at the white homeland holocaust denial, went jim crow great, a sitting congressman. a sitting five-term republican congressman and by sitting, yes, he is still in congress. paul gosar in arizona, not a sitting member of congress would go to this conference. but for congressman paul gosar

of arizona, sure. don't just go, keynote it. he is the kind of congressman who has said things like the u.s. is already in a civil war and quote, we just haven't started shooting yet. he says stuff like this had and associates himself with causes like this, keynoting the white nationalist conference? the conference for america being a whites only country? that is something that is supposed to be too crazy and offensive even for this republican party now, right? i mean, that's why they had to have their own separate conference aside from cpac, right? here's how congressman gosar paid for the arizona republic. where is the condemnation from the fellow party leaders. this is an easy call for a party that insists it is not the party of white supremacy. it's a easy call, because paul gosar was joined at the white

nationalist conference by steve king. remember who steve king is? former republican congressman. he is a former republican congressman because he was stripped of his committee assignments, shunned and ultimately defeated in a republican primary. after he said one too many nice things about white supremacy is, and that was seen as over the line for the republican party. steve king is exhibit a for the republican party's straight forward playbook how to handle these things and he is a walking talking exhibit a, standing there at the same white nationalist conference right next to congressman gosar, how come they are not going to use that playbook against gosa are -- gosar, the guy currently in congress. tiktok, watch this face.

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we are hoping to reunite the families either here or in the country of origin. we hope to be in a position to give them the election and if in fact they seek to reunite here in the united states, we will explore lawful pathways for them to remain in the united states and to address the family needs so we are acting as restorively as possible. it's because of the men and women of the department of homeland security and across the federal enterprise that we will dig out of the cruelty of the past administration, and we will rebuild our nation's asylum system and all of our humanitarian programs of which we have been historically so proud to be the leader of in the world.

>> the homeland security secretary, announcing that the hundred-s of kids who remain separated from their parents due to the trump administration's policy, they will be givens a chance to reunite with their moms and dads here in the state if that's what they want. they will give the families a choice as to whether or not they will be reunited which the u.s. or another country. if they do, they will explore legal pathways. under former president trump, 5500 kids were taken away at the border. a thousand kids are separated years later, 611 kids hope seemed totally lost their parents could not be found at all. a court appointed committee of advocates have been trying to do

this, after learning that the trump administration had sat on names and phone numbers and addresses that would have helped. they did not hand the information over while the kids languished with no families. a month ago, days after the inauguration, an interagency task force was launched to make the families whole again. it seems to be working in the past week. we learn that the parents of 105 kids have been located. it's a long way to go, the progress appears to be being made and for over 100 of the 600 otherwise lott k lost kids the s are found. reacting to the announcement. the executive director said, these separated families

suffered unfathomablely because of what our government did and we owe them restitution. this includes a permanent pathway to citizenship, care and resources to help them. joining me now is anthony romero, it's nice to see you. thank you for making time tonight. >> of course, rachel, delighted to be with you. >> i have a whole mix of feelings about this story. i still find it hard sometimes to talk about. i'm still as revolted as an american. >> as we should be. >> and i'm hopeful there's progress being made and the current administration feels as revolted as i think most of us do about what they are trying clean up. i worry about both the pace and scale of what they are going to be able to do to try to right this wrong? >> i share both the urgency, a little bit of the worry. i'm hopeful today, this has been

a long time coming. we filed the lawsuit in february 2018 on behalf of one client and today, we heard secretary of homeland security, commit to helping us find and restore these families. he said, quote, we will restore them to the fullest capacity that we as a u.s. government can do, end quote. so, we are going to hold him to those exact words which i have memorized, because the fullest capacity is a lot. we put a probe on mars. we can find the remaining 499 families. we can bring the families here. we can give them a pathway to citizenship. we can give them restitution for the torture and the child abuse that we committed at the highest level-s of our government, they orchestrated and approved it. we can do it and we would hold him to those words. >> you talk about restitution

and trying to make these families whole. is part of what needs to be done also retribution? does there need to be the kind of accountability for the officials who did this for the policy makers who ordered this and the officials who implemented it that should involve the justice department should there be criminal penalties? >> sure. >> should the trump administration officials that did this be afraid of the biden administration coming to hold them accountable? >> absolutely, if we don't, other governments will. that was one of the biggest mistakes of the obama administration. president obama decided to not seek accountability for torture. he wanted to look forwarder and not back. and look where we ended up, underpresident trump. we had a family separation policy that was torture. and physicians for human rights called it torture.

unless we hold the criminals accountable that they perpetrated on 5500 families and children, 499 kids tonight don't have a mom and dad around them because of what we did as a government. a policy announced by jeff sessions, an official policy, a zero tolerance policy. that was not just cruel, it was criminal. so, we don't hold criminals accountable, then what is rule of law? but our first priority right now is to find the remaining 499 kids. let's make sure that we reunite them. bring all the families back here. give them a pathway to citizenship, restore them, restitution, that means financial resources to put around these families as a way to keep them, keep them from the harm and trauma they have experienced to restore them a bit. we will never be able to pay it back. this is a debt we will never pay back. this is like turning back the st. louis on world war ii or japanese american inturnment.

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