april 7th at 8:00 eastern time ken burns and lynn novik, thank you both very much look forward to it congratulations. all right. that does it for us this morning. stephanie ruhle picks up the coverage right now ♪ hi there i'm stephanie ruhle, it's wednesday, march 31st and this morning we have breaking news on the covid front. pfizer announcing its vaccine is 100% effective in kids ages 12 to 15 and it plans to submit that new data to the fda as soon as possible which could be a huge step in the nation's much-needed effort to re-open schools entirely now the question, when will the kids be eligible for the first shot we're keeping a lot of focus minneapolis where the trial of derek chauvin is set to resume 90 minutes from now.

genevieve hanson, a minneapolis firefighters will continue her testimony after being reprimanded with the judge after directly clashing with the defense yesterday. the prosecution has not revealed which other witnesses they plan to call today. yesterday hansen testified that as an off-duty emt she offered to help when she arrived on the scene, but she was turned down by the police officers. >> i offered to wralk them through him they needed to start compressions and that wasn't done either. >> how did that mackke you feel? >> totally distressed. >> her testimony after we heard from minors at the time. including the 17-year-old who captured the video that sparked a nationwide and international -- >> it's been nights i stay up

apologizing and -- apologizing to george floyd for not doing more and not physically interacting and not saving his life >> you know why you only heard her voice and didn't see her face because she was a minor when she witnessed that i want to begin with a man who has been in minneapolis for weeks covering this story for the better part of a year. my colleague, shaquille brewster shaq, what was your main takeaway from day two? >> stephanie, it was the level of emotion in the testimony. out of the six people there was only one who did not stop to wipe away tears and didn't cry for a little bit of time and that person was a 9-year-old who was there with her cousin to go get snacks from cup foods. her cousin was darnella frazier,

the one who you heard from who stays up at nights apologizing to george floyd because she thought she could do more. it sparked this entire movement. you see one of the bystanders that is one of the more vocal bystanders and that's mma fighter and a mixed martial artist donald williams, excuse me he was one of the more vocal people in the video. he also testified on the stand yesterday saying he believed officer chauvin was using a blood choke that day trying to get george floyd to lose consciousness. he pled with the officers trying to get them to get off of george floyd. the first testimony that we will hear from later today is genevieve hansen and she clashed with the defense, as she described the scene and she was an off-duty firefighter going for a walk and she saw a patient who needed medical attention and they didn't let her help george

floyd. she grew frustrated by that and she grew desperate and she clashed with the defense attorney after she asked that the crowd was getting angry. she said what do you expect when someone is getting killed and that could be psetting she was reprimanded by the judge and she'll be the first one today. >> that remains to be seen and i can tell you after yesterday it was an emotional day we'll see who the prosecution pulls for testimony today, stephanie. >> take us outside the courtroom. what is it like in the streets after day one we saw peaceful demonstrators holding signs simply saying the world is watching what's it like today >> the world is watching it's relatively quiet. >> oh, yes, there is a police officer right behind me, but that's unrelated to protests down the street, but down the street there's been a modest group of people who have been waving flags and honking and

holding up signs as cars drive by and the cars honking showing support and that's been a consistent group of protesters that we've seen in the downtown area so things have been relatively muted with the exception of that peaceful protest that you mentioned that we saw on monday, so that was the scene downtown and you still see the law enforcement presence you hear from local officials that say that the law enforcement presence, the national guard presence will only gradually increase as the trial continues, but they emphasize things have remained peaceful and protests have remained peaceful and that's how many people are hoping for and hoping that continues as this trial continues. >> shaquille brewster,y this so much and thank you for your extraordinary reporting. he has been working around the clock. rachel for the state of minnesota.

rachel, we did see the clash between the final witness yesterday and the defense so much that the judge felt like he needed to step in. how common is that does that have any impact on the jury >> actually the sort of clashes that you see can be much more volatile i think if we step back and look at the context, though, the defense has been playing these stereotypes from the inception of this case and the stereotype that they tried to use on genevieve hansen, the firefighter was that she was a bossy woman who was not being respectful to the men on the scene who were literally choking the life out of a human being so understandably she questioned that both on the scene and in the courtroom yesterday, and all of these troubling tropes that the defense is using i understand that the defendant has a right to a constitutional defense and to vigorously challenge the charges against him, but in many ways what

happens in the courtrooms reflects the culture and i was disturbed by what i saw and not only in the courtroom, of a white patriarchal notion of unquestionable authority >> we saw a lot of strong and emotional testimony yesterday. hansen said she was trying to offer life-saving assistance she said it was a patient on the ground what stood out to you? what will stay with jurors >> thought the testimony yesterday was raw and emotional and the conviction of the people on the scene that what they were witnessing was not a lawful arrest, but murder was quite compelling how many people broke down in tears and how many people responded in ways that this witnessing this murder has continued to impact them it was really quite searing.

>> what are you watching out now after day one and day two. here we are, day three what do you have your eye on >> well, i think we will continue to see the state witnesses talk about what they observed on the scene and the appropriate and inappropriate level of force as well as the continuing impact that it has on them and it will be interesting to see how this defense attorney continues to question these witnesses and whether at some point they realize this could backfire in a tremendous way the lack of human emotion and the understanding of human frailty is really striking here. >> rachel, thank you so much for joining us this morning. i appreciate it. >> thank you now we've got to turn to politics and economic recovery this morning we're learning new details about president biden's $2 trillion infrastructure plan as he heads to pittsburgh today to sell it included in the plan more than

$600 million for roads, bridges and airports and nearly $6 billion investment in american manufacturing. nbc news chief white house correspondent kristen welker joins me now what stands out from this plan and how exactly does the biden administration plan to pay for this thing it can't be, hey, we're going to raise corporate taxes. this is a lot of money >> that's right. a couple of things that stand out about this plan, steph as you points out it's a $2.2 trillion plan that includes more than $600 billion to fix the nation's crumbling infrastructure and help for the elderly and disabled americans and includes hundreds of billions of dollars to address the water systems and the electric grids as well as affordable housing this is the first tranche of what we expect will be a two-part system unlike the $1.9 trillion covid relief plan,

steph, that was spending that would take place over a year this spending takes place over the course of about a decade the pay force comes through increases in taxes and the president proposing to increase the corporate tax rate from 21 to 28% right now he's being squeezed and you have moderate democrats and republicans who say they are not going to be onboard with increasing taxes and their argument is it could hurt business and it could drive some businesses overseas, but then you have progressive democrats and the president's base who say wait a minute. this package should be bigger because it is taking place over such an extensive period of time, over nearly a decade so that is where i think the debate is going to be. the question is can president biden and can democrats get ten republicans to get onboard with bipartisan support or will this be yet another piece of

legislation where democrats go it alone that additional covid relief package was passed with only democratic support and remember, this is a president when campaigned on spirit of bipartisanship infrastructure is something that should have bipartisan support and while senate majority leader mitch mcconnell had said that he would support a more narrow, targeted infrastructure package. he and other republicans just aren't going to get onboard with this plan to increase taxes and one of the big outstanding questions, steph how many jobs will this create the white house right now saying millions, but not giving a specific number. >> some economists are saying it could create 2.3 million jobs and an important reminder if we do raise corporate taxes president biden isn't looking to bring them to 38% when former president trump dropped them to 21% the majority of fortune 500

ceos were saying how about 20? how about 25 there's room to move joining us now, lieutenant governor of pennsylvania, john fedderman. he will web president biden today. always good to see you >> a massive investment in manufacturing and the first place he's going is pittsburgh that can't be a coincidence. >> pittsburgh and pennsylvania is graceland the president knows that and we are so excite toddle welcome him to the state because pittsburgh and pennsylvania made us the country that we are today and it is absolutely no accident that he's returning today >> western pennsylvania has been struggling for a very long time and it's why people in your area turned in 2016 and voted for former former president trump they wanted something different. they didn't get much and now they've got president biden. how is it going? >> i know we're only a couple of

months in. >> fantastic, really i don't know how much i realized i missed just basic competence and the fact that we're not coordinating and we're not arguing about masks and rolling out millions and millions of doses of new vaccine every day and weir going to beat this virus and we're not arguing or bickering. i mean, this is something that should unite us and infrastructure is one of those core things. nothing is more fundamentally american than it comes to the roads we drive on, the water we drink and the electrical grid. we saw what happened in texas. they benefit the reddest of the red counties and the bluest of the blue and this to me is a slam dunk and the president should be credited for driving it home and the whole infrastructure has become a running joke and what you know what joe biden is delivering is infrastructure week and the majority of pennsylvanians are well behind him.

>> it's an abstract. when people hear the road infrastructure they go yeah, i want better roads and bridges. literally what do they need? texas was not a weather event. texas was a political event. for years and years deregulation put tex in that position where their grid was failing so in the state of pennsylvania what are people willing to pay for and what do they actually want in terms of infrastructure? >> one of the standard refrains is we have to fix our roads and better bridges we need pure drinking water. you name it. pennsylvania has needs that this is going to be a bonanza for pennsylvania and especially the union way of life. this idea that we'll create millions of jobs and we can argue about how many onsjobs ani will be serve figures and everybody knows because everybody lives it and we can rebuild our airports and transportation hubs. we can create better roads and

when you think of the bang for the buck that we got from original infrastructure investments that were manufactured in pennsylvania are rail lines and you name it everyone gets this and understands that infrastructure is the backbone of driving economic growth here in america and also driving employment here in not only pennsylvania, but across the united states this is not controversial. you can't spin it and to your point earlier about the corporate tax. we're not raising taxes and we're calibrating them appropriately to where they should be before the president dropped them to unprecedented levels, to your point that no one even asked for so it's disingenuous for anyone to say this is anything other than a long overdue investment and our infrastructure that's gotten to be paid for after multiple years of ridiculously low tax rates to create jobs and to benefit red and blue america alike. >> well, it sounds like these remarks are going to be music to

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breaking this morning "the new york times" reporting that florida republican congressman matt gaetz is being investigated by the justice department over whether he had a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old girl "the times" citing three people briefed on the matter. a close ally to former president trump denies any wrongdoing and is accusing a former justice department official of a multimill multimillion extortion plot. we have to get to the details this had sam, what in the world -- or what in the state of florida is going on here? >> fair enough so far it's been a bizarre story, stephanie

good morning all of this is according to "the new york times." it's not just that congressman gaetz is being investigated for a relationshipwith a moonor. it's all part of a $25 million extortion plot notably, steph, according to the times it all started during the trump investigation and then-attorney general william barr. >> it is a horrible allegation and it is a lie. >> this morning florida gop congressman matt gaetz on the defensive answering questions he was being invested by the justice department over whether he had a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old and paid for her to travel with him according to three people briefed on the matter, "the new york times" reports. the times report whether the 38-year-old congressman elected in 2017 violated federal sex trafficking laws which make it illegal to induce someone to

travel overstate lines to engage in sex for moneyor something of value. >> what is happening is an extortion of me and my family involving a former department of justice official a person demanded $25 million in exchange for making horrible, sex trafficking allegations against me go away you and i went to dinner about two years ago. your wife there was and i brought a friend of mine you'll remember her, and she was actually threatened by the fbi >> i don't remember the woman you're speaking of or the context at all >> but gaetz said that plot started last month the actual investigation against him was opened under president trump according to "the new york times. he said he was the subject of that investigation, not a target. >> this investigation began last summer and has been going on for eight months and this is a serious investigation. >> the conservative, whose

profile rose in fiery tv appearances, he considered leaving capitol hill for a tv pundit role. gaetz denying the allegations saying in part, no part of the allegations against me are true and the people pushing these lies are targets of the ongoing extortion investigation. he also told the times that he has a suspicion that someone is trying to recategorize my generosity to ex-girlfriends as something more untoward. >> tucker carlson called this one of the weird of the interviews that he has ever done nbc news reached out to the justice department and they have no comment he said on fox news that the 17-year-old cited in the investigation does not exist steph, back to you >> what in the world is going on here, sam? i've got to bring in former federal prosecutor glen kishner. what do yah make of this >> i probably spent too much

time watching the tucker carlson interview of matt gaetz trying to unravel, and it was like people dumped three puzzle boxes and no matter how diligently you try to put the puzzle together a clear picture cannot emerge. you can take down some of the things that matt gaetz said. i've heard the exculpatory subjects from suspects many times in my 30 years as a prosecutor it's not unfamiliar to me and he's trying to find something exculpatory, but when he says -- >> it is unfamiliar to me. what in the world does that mean he says he's the subject, not the target i don't get that >> so that's the best question let's go to "the new york times" reporting which was terrific because matt gaetz himself in "the new york times" reporting confirmed he's the subject of the investigations

what does that mean? two important words in that context, target and subject. so target means exactly what it sounds like. you are the person we're investigating and intending to indict subject is almost as bad, steph. subject means that you have potentially engaged in criminal acts and your criminal acts are within the scope of the department of justice investigation. so here's the important piece. if i were to put a witness in the grand jury and that person was either a target or a subject, i am required by doj rules to say mr. witness, you are a subject of the grand jury investigation and that means your conduct falls within the scope of the grand jury's investigation and you could be indicted do you understand that and are you willing to testify in any event so subject is not a badge of merit. it's like target minus one >> glen, this story is

complicated. we'll have a whole lot more questions. we will continue to report on it, so please, stay close. i've got more questions. we will leave it there for now >> thanks. >> coming up, we have breaking news in new york city, a suspect who was just arrested in the brutal attack of an asian woman. we have the details next you do not want to miss it woo! you are busy... working, parenting, problem solving. at new chapter vitamins we've been busy too... innovating, sourcing organic ingredients, testing them and fermenting. fermenting? yeah like kombucha or yogurt. and we formulate everything so your body can really truly absorb the natural goodness. that's what we do, so you can do you. new chapter wellness, well done.

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suspect caught on video attacking a 65-year-old asian woman in times square, and it is just the latest incident of anti-asian violence happening across the nation. nbc's jolene kent has been all over the story i cannot imagine what this is like covering this day in and day out especially this story. what have you learned? >> steph, thanks so much nypd made an arrest in the case of a suspect, it's a 38-year-old male whose name was brandon elliott, multiple counts he's been charged with of attempted assault of a hate crime, assault as a hate crime. two counts of that and here's the latest of what we know of the situation and how the white house and the doj is responding. >> overnight, police in new york city arresting the man they say was caught on surveillance video brutally attacking a 65-year-old asian woman in midtown

manhattan. the suspect identified as 38-year-old brandon elliott now charged with felony assault as a hate crime he's accused of violently kicking the woman to the ground and stomping on her head all while shouting anti-asian statements according to police the attacker then seen walking away as security guards in a nearby building stand and watch. >> the most painful part of that video was watching that man close the door on that woman, and i -- i hope that as a country, we don't do the same thing. >> the biden administration now launching new efforts to curb the growing violence, committing nearly $50 million to help aapi survivors of violence and assault and $33 million towards studying bias and xenophobia attorney general merrick garland announcing the justice department will conduct an expedited 30-day review prioritizing criminal

investigations and prosecutions. >> the disturbing wave of anti-asian violence in all corners of the country has law enforcement experts concerned about copycat incidents. >> there are those who are out there, they're doing it because they're seeing others do it, because it's getting the attention that it's been getting and that is contributing to the numbers of crimes that we're seeing >> but on the ground, young leaders in local communities are speaking out, fueling new hope. >> i learned that we can make a difference. >> like 12-year-old korean-american mina fador who organized a rally in california binging more than 1,000 people together to demonstrate against anti-asian hate. >> it is unfair that it is happening and it makes me very sad and upset about this, and yeah, i just wanted to do something. >> what's your goal? what's your hope >> raising awareness also raising youth voices for them not to be afraid to stand up for themselves and other people.

>> thanks to activists like mina, no matter how young or old they are, there is so much hope this morning when it comes to addressing this issue on the ground mina told me in our interview that she's getting involved because one of her family members was harassed last year and as for the three people that you saw that stood there and did nothing, the building management says they have been suspended pending further investigation steve and a lot more to go on on this particular case, but it's people like mina who put a smile on our face this morning joe, thank you so much a very important story we'll stay on it right now we're gearing up for the third day of derek chauvin's murder trial and we're watching several criminal justice stories. in the city of baltimore, the city announced it will stop prosecuting drug procession, prostitution and lower-level crimes and in new york city it

could be easier to hold police officers accountable for bad actions as the city council voted to end qualified immunity. that is the thing that prevents people from being able to file lawsuits against cops. i want to unpack all of this and bring in an expert philip goff he's the co-founder and ceo of the center for policing equity and a professor of african-american studies and psychology in yale ending qualified e mimmunity inh city that has the largest police force in the country what do you think about that >> it's a pretty bold step qualified immunity is an easy target in some ways because it has bipartisan support in the ways that it's been used and interpreted is grotesque for folks not following it closely, what it means is if an officer does a thing that absolutely looks like it's terrible and absolutely violates the law, but no specific case says that they couldn't have done that prior, they get away

with it, right unless there's a specific case law that says that was the thing that officers are not allowed to do, it's okay and in new york now, you can't do that anymore so 36,000 law enforcement officers are subject to a different legal standard than what we've had for the last several decades. i think that's good news i think everybody i've talked to who is a police chief says it's good news because it corrodes public trust if i can't hold someone accountable from killing someone in a way who will be illegal than any other professionend and lauchl, how on and how on earth feel good and the hope it spread across the country >> when police chiefs and communities say it's good news, it certainly is. >> what do you think about baltimore? no longer going after lower-level crimes >> so the way this happens is the prosecutors are saying we're not going to prosecute this anymore, and this is actually

about the fifth city that we're seeing do something like this, right? in berkeley, california, law enforcement has gone even further and said we're not going to stop people for low-level traffic enforcement. we have cameras that will send you tickets and big signs that say you're being watched, but the contact is just unnecessary. in baltimore what's happening is law enforcement saying if you're not going to prosecute it, why on earth should we make the arrests and things are getting better and by better here's what i mean, it's not that fewer people are being arrested and crime is going down, it's that we're not seeing people enter into the criminal system earlier this week researchers outside of texas a & m found when you reduce the member of misdemeanor arrests it reduces subsequent engagement with the law. it makes people more likely to commit crimes later on our system is not actually set up to keep people safe it's set up to punish people wo

have a bad set of options for the way they do that we will start punishing people less and give people the resources they need to keep themselves safe. that's why today -- >> are we -- >> go ahead, stephanie then are we just making these things legal if technically they're illegal, but you won't be prosecuted for them is this the first step to changing the laws? >> it might be the first step to changing the laws and it's another way of re-emphasizing what we've decided to enforce. jaywalking, i know that you're in new york so it's kind of legal in new york, but in most of the arrest of the country jaywalking is illegal. you don't go to jail for it, right? littering is illegal you don't go to jail for it. you get a fine, you get a stern warning and you get your community upset about it, and there are lots of ways to say, this thing, we don't like it, but i don't need to put you in a cage for it and that's the thing we need to be reconsidering and

that's what's happening around the country around low-level offenses >> we are also obviously watching derek chauvin's trial in minneapolis, but we know it is very, very rare to see an officer facing these kind of criminal charges how much progress is riding on the verdict of this trial? >> it's been said since day one, chauvin is in the courtroom, but america is on trial. if we end up with an acquittal or not guilty verdict here, i can't imagine the pain that will be in minneapolis. i can't imagine the pain in many black communities and communities around the world who looked and saw a public lynching if there is not accountability and i want to be clear, there can't be justice -- if there were justice, george floyd would be alive today accountability, what we are saying is we don't have systems again, that keep us safe when the people who are called, the police, can actually show up and

make sure that we go home alive. you heard yesterday someone say i called the police on the police because i knew i was witnessing a murder. if there's not accountability for that then it's very difficult to imagine how many community goes forward with the public safety systems that we've got. this is why the white house today announces $5 billion for violence prevention and gun violence prevention in particular that's what we should be excited about. the campaign is something that we should be excited about because it's a different way of guaranteeing safety because even if we get a conviction in this case, we have to think about the people who have been on the stand and the children who testified to what they saw they don't get remedy out of this legal case. they'll get remedy and they'll get accountability when we start putting things in place that prevent this kind of thing from happening again and the court case, it's only one small step in that direction. >> and every one of those children deserves to feel and be physically safe in this country.

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have seen in almost a month, but that does not appear to be stopping people from traveling cal cal perry is live at o'hare airport. it sounds like it is coming back and in a big way quickly >> reporter: yeah, this is an industry that's grateful for any passengers they could get. they lost $35 billion and they're still burning through $150 million a day in cash we can give you a look at the numbers from this week and a snapshot of two days ago tsa checked 1.4 million passengers through security and that is an increase and the snapshot of chicago and here at o'hare, we saw a 400% increase and over a thousand percent increase and there is a new normal and we've been asking passengers about that. take a listen. >> i was nervous the first time

so we went over christmas vacation, but now, no, i'm -- pretty secure with it. >> as long as you take the necessary precautions, i think you'll be fine, but as far as, you know, maintaining social distance, i think that's probably what we'll probably be a little iffy. >> it will be interesting to hear what the cdc has to say about this relationship in the increase in travel and the increase in cases, but as you said, an industry decimated and certainly grateful to have this uptick in travel, stephanie. >> all right, cal, thank you so much now i want to head down to texas because this morning we are getting an inside look at an overcrowded migrant facility at the border the biden administration aloud a camera in donna, texas, holding thousands of migrant kids and it was the first time the news media was let inside one of these sites, but keep in mind it

is also government guided and we are seeing what they want us to see. let's go to sasha burns outside that facility in donna more than 4,000 migrant kids are being held there the normal capacity are 250 and how long will they be there and where are they going next? stephanie, this facility is way over capacity and this morning we've been seeing construction trucks coming in and out of here all morning. we see more tents set up here and there is expansion happening, but the reality is 4100 people in a facility meant for 250 and steph, while we've been reporting on this for weeks, actually seeing the images inside and seeing that footage is astonishing look, there are no cages in this facility and there are plastic partitions and they're calling pods where you can see children crammed inside, sleeping shoulder to shoulder on mats with mylar blankets. the youngest, the toddlers and the very small children don't have room in there so they,

instead, are sleeping in playpens and let's be clear, this is not a facility meant for children i want you to hear from the border patrol agent that gave the tour of this facility. he said he himself is a father and this is not something that he wants to see. take a listen. >> i can't possibly put a 4-month-old in those pods. the little girl that i talked to a little while ago she said that she had lost her mom and she doesn't have a father. so she's coming into this country because her uncle is going to be the sponsor. so they want to take this little girl is going into the states and i asked her what state are you going to what's your final destination? she said i don't know. all i know is it snows there >> he also said i'm a border patrol agent i didn't sign up for this, and that is something that we have been hearing a lot that border patrol agents just didn't feel equipped to deal with this kind of situation and the reality is these kids should not be in border patrol custody.

what's supposed to happen is they get processed in a facility like this and quickly turned over to health and human services care where they have appropriate facilities for concern where they can stay until they're united with a sponsor or a relative, but there is a massive bottleneck, stephanie, because these numbers are just so high where right now you have 2,000 kids in this facility that have been here longer than the 72-hour legal limit and at least 39 that have been here at least 15 days stephanie? >> 15 day, that's a lifetime for a little kid dasha, thank you so much coming up next, the ncaa focusing on a fight in a different court today. i'm talking about the supreme court as eight teams in the men's and women's tournaments stamp their tickets for the final four the bonds we build... should never be broken. ♪♪

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final four for the first time in over a decade. >> unbelievable heart and toughness. no one picked us or believed in us >> earlier gonzaga moving one step closer to an undefeated season blowing out usc behind the strong play of drew timmy. >> something happened to one of the referees >> early on, a scary scene referee burt smith collapsing on the court. he was taken off by stretcher, but thankfully did not need to be hospitalized. back on the floor, gonzaga's incredible chemistry securing their spot in the final four meanwhile in the women's elite eight taking center stage, number one south carolina dominating texas >> goes to the left, up, and in

the gamecocks building a big lead and never looking back. >> drop it's off for henderson >> and a slug fest between stanford and louisville. rolling early. >> knocks down another three >> but top seeded stanford found their lead >> william launches in a bomb >> i hope we get to stay and play two more games. >> a fitting finale with all eyes now on the final four >> if you had a bracket that included these four teams, ucla, we're talking about you, then i would recommend that you pick a long shot on the nasdaq because you're either really good or incredibly lucky stephanie, my sport? soccer >> i'm just saying there have been nba players as short as 5'3" there is a chance, my brother.

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