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we are joined now by jonathan and jill wine-banks. skip over donald trump's queens accent that some people in alabama might be occasion ly uncomfortable with. this is one attempt to explain the flipping that we have seen this week, most recently lindsey graham, most dramatically lindsey graham going from there's holy hell to pay going to it's okay with me. do it after voters cast their votes in november. >> wasn't it just last week, lawrence, that the president said he didn't like flippers? he's known flippers for 30, 40 years and he doesn't like flippers. it was in a completely different context, but the fact that he is as reported personally lobbying senators to flip on senator sessions speaks to a larger issue here. senator sessions, to his mind, should never have recused himself from oversight of the mueller probe, which would not have been necessary had the president not fired the fbi director, jim comey. and in what you read about the president's not only anger ability that but about the accent and his nonivy league pedigree jus

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jill is back with us.jill, when you pointed this out to us today, i have to say i hadn't seen it myself. i hadn't thought about this as a direct interference with the manafort trial. >> well, because the jury isn't sequestered, they may see this. i know they're not supposed to watch the news or hear the news, but it's so all pervasive that i worry they might. i think the words that you just read are really a message to them in the same way i think the pardon was a message to witnesses you don't have to cooperate, don't worry about it. you can be in contempt of court and i'll pardon you. i think he's sending a message. he also in addition to the language you read, he also was very complimentary to paul manafort by saying that he had worked for ronald reagan and dole, so he was going out of his way to say things that were laudatory about this defendant. it is just simply inappropriate for a president of the united states to use a public means of communicating, which twitter is, and the judge in new york rule

john heilemann and jill wine-banks are back with us. jon meacham, we need the steady hand of a historian to guide us through these choppy waters tonight. i want to show on the screen to you and the audience what is a photograph of what will be the front page of the print version of the "new york times." "the new york times" tweeted this out tonight with the headline, bold headline saying "pleading guilty, cohen implicates president." and then that subheadline, quoting what the prosecutor has said about this crime, "in coordination with and at the direction of a candidate for federal office." jon, where are we tonight? >> well, i think we are -- one of the things the trump era has done, as you know so well, is it has now taken us beyond superlatives. i googled "worst day of trump presidency" earlier and got something like 600 different candidates for it. but i do think given that the legal time is now catching up with political time, and that always -- the wheels of justice always move more slowly than the press, than a lot of the people

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and msnbc contributor jill weinbanks, former stuftant watergate special prosecutor. the twitterstorm, twitter defenses, rudy, all of it. start wherever you want. >> it's hard to know where to begin, andrea. but, look, what we saw from rudy giuliani over the weekend was this sort of aggressive defense. it's become increasingly defensive. in which you heard giuliani say, look, we're not concerned about don mcgahn cooperate with the special counsel. we feel confident whatever he told investigators would be supportive of the president. but then you saw chuck really push him and he ultimately acknowledged, yes, of course he can't know everything that mcgahn shared with investigators. so this is sending concerns throughout the white house, throughout the president's legal team. president trump becoming increasingly aggressive. ramping up his attacks on twitter against the special counsel. and effectively trying to not only undermine the special counsel, but trying to say, look, i gave don mcgahn a green light to talk because this was a part of our strategy of being transpa

jill is with me today.ars i have been a single dad, no-bid deserves one great love, let alone two. and i met jill who changed my life. and she fell in love with him and he with her. later, he would call her jilly. when they get bored, i would have them with me on these trips, i remember saying i will take jill to dinner. i later learned they were done at the cafe, at the port. and he has her dancing on top of the cement table, drinking ouzo. we got to know each other well. he loved my sons, as a young man he came up to my house, to wilmington. out of this grow great friendship, that transcended whatever political differences we had, or later developed. above all, we understood the same thing. all politics is personal, it's about trust. i trusted john with my life, and i think you would trust me with his. we both knew then, from our different experiences, and as our lives progressed we learned more, there are times when life can be so cruel, pain so blinding, it gets hard to see anything else. it took our fr

jill colvin, thank you for spending time with us. when we come back, the open warfare between the president and the justice department escalates. is a high-level firing next? also is donald trump the branding guru gets rebranded as an unintentional co-conspir store? a member of the house intelligence committee joins us to discuss whether the president's fixer will make a return trip to his committee. and republicans go there. the "i" word getting thrown around more and more. stay with us. know what? no, what? i just switched to geico and got more. more? got a company i can trust. that's a heck of a lot more. over 75 years of great savings and service. you can't argue with more. why would ya? geico. expect great savings and a whole lot more. it's a revolution in sleep. the new sleep number 360 smart bed is on sale now, from $899, during sleep number's 'biggest sale of the year'. it senses your movement, and automatically adjusts to keep you both comfortable. it even helps with this. so you wake up ready to put your pedal to the metal.

jason and jill weren't expecting him home until christmastime.ing across thailand, cambodia, and singapore. >> oh, so he ran out of money. >> jill rushes right over to hug him and greet him. meanwhile, jason is still just stunned. but once his son troy walks over to him, he just embraces him and starts to cry. this particular day who been emotional for jill and jason in general. they had just laid an old friend to rest. they had just come back from that funeral and so it put things in perspective in terms of life and how you have to live it and love those around you. >>> this family has no idea what's in front of them. that's tori brown standing in the dark. the first family member walks past, doesn't look like she even notices him. >> he's walk around. >> oh, look, grandma. >> oh my gosh. >> that's grandmy. now tori said she was perfectly fine after the video. she just needed some time to recuperate. >> he's a marine and he came home to surprise her. >> i bet you he's going to be calling next time, grandma, i'm coming home. >> oh, wow! >>> this

jill colvin, thank you.will talk to you again in a little bit. >>> it has been confirmed that allen weisselberg was granted immunity during the course of the michael cohen probe. he also testified before the grand jury. a person with knowledge of the matter says that on page 17 of the criminal papers filed in the cohen case, that means according to that document cohen sent an invoice to weisselberg requesting payment, a payment meant to reimburse cohen for the stormy daniels pay-off. weisselberg sent that invoice to another trump organization executive via e-mail directing him to, quote, please pay from the trust, put retainer for the months of january and february 2017 in the description. weisselberg is a third long-time trump confidante to provide information to investigators regarding the hush money case. >>> president trump took another swing at attorney general jeff sessions on twitter over the weekend. he wrote, jeff sessions said he wouldn't allow politics to influence him only because he doesn't unde

jill is with me today.e years, i had been a single data, and -- a single dad, and nobody deserves one great love, let alone two. and i met jill who changed my life. and she fell in love with him and he with her. he would always call her jilly. as a matter of fact, when they would get bored being with me on going tops, i remember greece, and you said, why don't i take jill to dinner. i later learned they were done at the cafe, at the port. and he has her dancing on top of the cement table, drinking ouzo. [laughter] isn't that right -- right, jilly? we got to know each other well. he loved my son beau, and my son hunt. as a young man he came up to my house, to wilmington. out of this grew a great friendship, that transcended whatever political differences we had, or later developed. because above all, we understood the same thing. all politics is personal. it's about trust. i trusted john with my life, and i would. and i think he would trust me with his. we both knew then, from our different experiences, and

jill wine-banks and harry lipman.l wine-banks, your assessment of where this case stands tonight? >> i would say the case went in very well for the prosecution. the evidence especially in the form of documents was very strong. but so were the witnesses. yes, rick gates is a flawed person, but his testimony was corroborated by the documents. and i think it is believable. and he isn't the one who benefitted from all of the foreign accounts. the beneficiary was the man who's lavish lifestyle was funded by those accounts. his expenses were paid out of the foreign accounts he didn't acknowledge at all. so i think it went very well. my only concern is some of the remarks that the judge made i think were very detrimental and some of it was taken care of by corrective instructions right before the jury went in. but it is of concern to me, and it only takes one juror for a hung jury. i don't think there is any chance that there will be an acquittal. but there is a possibility of a hung jury. >> harry lipman, 18 counts includin

joining our discussion, jill wine-banks, brett stevens and eugene robinson. all three are now msnbc contributors. jill, i wanted to get your reaction to what we saw here today in terms of the president actually once again going after the attorney general and the weakness we are seeing in the republicans in the senate very publically now talking about the possibility of replacing jeff sessions. >> it is appalling, of course, to hear this kind of conversation. the president once again is really obstructing justice in plain sight. his tweets are constantly attacking our systems, our institutions of justice and are having an effect. we saw that in the manafort trial. the juror who is a big supporter of his said this is a witch hunt, but the evidence is there. so on the one hand, it shows that a jury will convict because they pay attention to the actual evidence, but it also shows how much influence he's had in undermining the mueller investigation and the department of justice, the fbi and that has an effect that we should not be tolerating. this is just totally

robert costa, jill colvin, frank, elie.thank you all very much. >>> coming up president trump once again attacks his own attorney general, but this time jeff sessions hits back. >>> and then later presidential scandal. an investigation into the president and chatter of things like high crimes and misdemeanors. the kind of talk we haven't heard in this country since way back in 1998. "the 11th hour" is just getting started on this thursday evening. this wi-fi is fast. i know! i know! i know! i know! when did brian move back in? brian's back? he doesn't get my room. he's only going to be here for like a week. like a month, tops. oh boy. wi-fi fast enough for the whole family is simple, easy, awesome. in many cultures, young men would stay with their families until their 40's. >>> i put in an attorney general that never took control of the justice department, jeff sessions. never took control of the just department. jeff sessions recused himself, which he shouldn't have done, or he should have told me. even my enemies say that

minor party voters and accusing libertarian party candidate gary johnson and green party candidate jill stein of electing trop and they added a whole new layer to their accusations are supposed r.t.d. was central to this accused of undermining democracy u.s. intel communities exact words for hosting a debate between johnson and stein and showing americans that they had other choices besides the two establishment candidates a horrible crime apparently and then when an old photo of jill stein sitting next to blatter we're putting out an r.t.a. gallow went viral all hell broke loose his jill stein crushing the us wall in russia in december twenty fifth thing she attended a russian propaganda t.v. and sat at the table with mike flynn and putin keep in mind there was absolutely no reason for her to be that except to become a russian pole they're not the only ones who've been accused of colluding or working with russia anyone who doesn't toe the bipartisan anti russia line is obviously on the kremlin's payroll now senator rand paul one of the strongest libertarian voices of the republican par

gallow went viral all hell broke loose his jill stein crushing the u.s. wall in russia in december twenty fifth thing she gets into the russian propaganda t.v. and sat at the table with mike flynn and putin keep in mind there was absolutely no reason for her to be there except to become a russian pole they're not the only ones who've been accused of colluding or working with russia anyone who doesn't toe the bipartisan anti russian line is obviously on the kremlin payroll now senator rand paul one of the strongest libertarian voices of the republican party is also under suspicion let's be honest minor parties are a nuisance to the two establishment parties that make up the two wobbly the fewer parties the better right no one old dilute votes but here's the question without minor party guests who. i've been scapegoated maybe i should just be one party safely protected from brushing involvement but there's only one surefire way and that's to have no elections at all samir khan r t washington d.c. . that's a wrap up of today's top headlines for now thanks fo

jill colvin, i appreciate you joining us late tonight. >> coming up to us, a comment from the new york governor that has done the impossible, united democrats and republicans. members of both parties are wondering what was andrew cuomo thinking? the story when we come back. i'm april kennedy and i'm an arborist with pg&e in the sierras. since the onset of the drought, more than 129 million trees have died in california. pg&e prunes and removes over a million trees every year to ensure that hazardous trees can't impact power lines. and since the onset of the drought we've doubled our efforts. i grew up in the forests out in this area and honestly it's heartbreaking to see all these trees dying. what guides me is ensuring that the public is going to be safer and that these forests can be sustained and enjoyed by the community in the future. >>> make america great again. the american dream. look at all those hats, red ones and white ones, make america great again. make america great again. maybe the greatest slogan ever. >> people forget he is a long-time marketer. the president continues

jill is here with me today.serves one great love, let alone two. i met jill. it changed my life. she fell in love with him and he with her. he'd always call her jilly. matter of fact, when they'd get bored being with me on these trips, i remember in greece, he said why don't i take jill for dinner. later, i would learn they are at a cafe at the port and he has her dancing on top of a cement table drinking. not a joke. jilly. but, we got to know each other well and he loved my sons. as a young man, he came up to my house and he came up to wilmington and out of this grew a great friendship that transcended whatever political differences we had or later developed because, above all, above all, we understood the same thing. all politics is personal. it's all about trust. i trusted john with my life and i would and i think he would trust me with his. we both knew then, from our different experiences that as our life progressed, we learned more, there are times when life can be so cruel, pain so blinding it's hard to

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jill said go up and talk to her. doug and ann, sydney, mac, kimmy, bridgette, you may not have had your father as long as you would like, but you got from him everything you need to pursue your own dreams. to follow the course of your own spirit. you are a living legacy, not hyperbole. you are a living legacy and proof of john mccain's success. now john is going to take his rightful place in a long line of extraordinary leaders in this nation's history. in their time and in their way stood for freedom and stood for liberty and have made the american story the most improbable and most hopeful and most enduring story on earth. i know john said he hoped he played a small part in that story. john, you did much more than that, my friend. to paraphrase shakespeare, we shall not see his like again. [ applause ] >> the second reading from 2 tim verse 4 6-8. the time for my departure is near. i have fought the good fight, i have finished the race. i have kept the faith. now, there is in store for me the crown of righteousness

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jill wine banks former assistant watergate prosecutor. barbara mcquade is a former district attorney for michigan. coming up, i'm going to be jointed by a swror from the paul manafort trial. she says she owns a make america great hat and that the mueller investigation is a witch-hunt. but she whole heartedly believes that manafort is guilty. first, john mccain, as you herd is distipping treatment for the aggressive form of brain cancer he's been battling over a year. his family announcing the decision today. we'll talk about the war hero, five time senator, and one time presidential candidate. i've been making blades here at gillette for 20 years. there's a lot of innovation that goes into making america's #1 shave. precision machinery and high-quality materials from around the world. nobody else even comes close. now starting at $7.99. gillette. the best a man can get. inkporable. >>> i fell in love with my count u can't when i was a prisoner in someone else's. i loved it not just for the many comforts of life here, i loved it for its de

as jill was saying, possibly a little bit longer than that.ays out, this is a jury that's not sequestered, is that correct? >> that's right, they're not sequestered. the judge warns them every day they shouldn't be speaking to anyone in the media, they shouldn't be watching any media. but that's easier said than done in this day and age of push alerts and all kinds of other ways that you come across information, in almost every venue, including getting it from people in your own family, associates, so forth, when you're out on the weekend. so it's one thing to have a little bit of media coverage or even a lot of media coverage out there. quite another thing to have the president of the united states opining, essentially, on the guilt or innocence of the person whose fate is being deliberated by a jury. in a sense, it would be simpler if the president did just go forward with a pardon instead of sort of the dangling of this pardon. but i guess, again, as joe points out, maybe dangling the pardon keeps the president away from whatever ammunition

i ended with you, jill, i want to stay with you. is it your sense that that's basically the president's team, if they are coming to that conclusion, that they're right to come to that conclusion? there might be a fight on a subpoena over obstruction, but they would lose a fight over a subpoena on collusion, so therefore they're sort of cornered on that part of the investigation? >> i think they would lose on both issues. i think that the watergate nixon supreme court decision which says you can subpoena a president for documents would equally hold to you could subpoena the president for testimony. so i think they would lose on both issues. there is a crime exception to any executive privilege he might claim, so i don't think he's going to win on that. but i also may be the only one who thinks that his testimony is, first of all, wouldn't be credible because look at how many lies he tells. he's up to, what, 16 a day, it was at 6 a day. why would we believe his testimony? and two, i think that he has been colluding and i'm sorry, i ju

jill, tell me about the pin today. >> the pin is two flippers. and my twirts follo wit followel me who they think these are. >> very good. let's start with the sound.wit me who they think these are. >> very good. let's start with the sound. what president trump said to fox news. let's take a listen. having some trouble. i'll read you that jeff sessions said i'll recuse myself. only reason i gave him the job is because of loyalty. we have seen the attacks on the attorney general. i think 21 tweets in total expressing disapproval of what the attorney general has done. what was different about in week as you listened to what the president said and the three tweets that spoke to the attorney general about. >> to me it is a continuation of what he has been doing from beginning which is undermining or institutions of justice and it is very scary because i think when we look at the juror who has talked from the manafort trial, she was a supporter of his and she remains a trump supporter. but she recognizes that there was overwhelming evidence of guilt.

i will ask another famously accused green party spoiler jill stein what she thinks.oes the media help or hurt president trump by covering his rallies? this debate persisted ever since we elected donald trump. this week came an interest crop-offer, however, from an unlikely source, "new york times" columnist thomas freidman, and this set off a new fire storm. keep up the blanket coverage of trump, it hurts him. freedman says "it appears to be the toxic lying and bullying and unpresidential behavior that trump exhibits most in his rally and tweets which we so incessantly cover, that's turning off those trump will need. bring on the coverage. the reaction like places of fox news was -- isn't this what everyone said leading up to the 2016 election? >> what a great idea, remember what happened the last time the media covered every tweet and rally and every word of donald trump and every wink and nudge cough became part of the media's snark-nado? they elected donald trump, the bozos. is it a no win situation or if you are the president, no lose? i want to know what you thi

jill, thank you so much. >>> 5:40 right now.ornia man under arrest for posing as a doctor even diagnosing and treating children. >> plus severe weather in the midwest spawning a tornado and leaving one state under water. and is now facing some very *real charges. police say: former u-c irvine student arya ouskouian >>> a fake doctor is under arrest in southern california and facing charges. police say that former uc- irvine student -- impersonated a doctor even gave a medical diagnosis to a patient in a consulting room on the uci campus. investigators say that he also pretended to be a doctor at the children's hospital of orange county. >> that's scary. if someone tried to treat my kids and they weren't a doctor, that's bad news. >> the suspect was arrested obtuse. he is charged with a felony count and eight misdemeanor counts. polk county, florida say it appears to be a case of "stand your ground." a uber driver fatally shot a man tuesday... after he was cut off and th >>> sheriff's investigators in polk county, florida, say it

jill, thank you very much. police in venezuela have been rounding up suspects after this dramatic video appearing to show a failed attack on the president. this is from over the weekend. the footage is raising an alarm about a new threat, weaponized drones. here's charlie d'agata. >> reporter: the u.s. administration is among many casting doubt on the alleged assassination attempt on onnezuelan president nicolas asduro. but the exploding drones above appeared real enough to send troops scrambling for safety below. cbs news could not authenticate this video. whether staged or legit, the incident highlights growing concerns over the threat of weaponized drones. isis deployed them on the battlefields of iraq and syria to drop explosives on u.s.-led forces. iraqi forces we were with in mosul told us they had little defense against the terrorist drones. iraq veteran and drone threat expert pete norton. i disaffected individuals m ming from overseas would like e bring their experience with drones into the western wor

before we go i have to ask jill wine-banks what's your pin?> my pin is a goose because i think manafort's goose is cooked. the evidence is really strong, it's gone in very well and the defense hasn't dented it. mrs. manafort left the courtroom in tears after the testimony about her husband hiding accounts and lying about his taxes. >> i can't hear. >> that's why i'm wearing this pin today. >> the goose is cooked. the pins need their own book. do the pins have a twitter account yet? >> they do. it's #jill'spins. >> i'm tolling that as soon as the show is over. thank you all very much. >>> and next up donald trump stops pretending to be a populist and flat out announces a huge tax cut for the super rich. that's next. (vo) why do subaru forester owners always seem so happy? because they've chosen the industry leader. subaru forester holds its value better than any other vehicle in its class according to alg. better than cr-v. better than rav4. better than rogue. an adventure that starts with a subaru forester will always leave you smiling. get 0%

jill, thanks for being with us. the scene was the jury was deliberating over in alexandria, virginia, on the first trial. what would get the defense lawyers to sit down and start talking about robert mueller's lawyers about a plea deal, not a cooperating deal but a deal to avoid the second trial. what would be the leverage on either side? >> i think the reason the manafort team would approach the prosecution is because they saw how the evidence went in. they saw the documents. they saw how compelling it was. they knew that their attack on rick gates would only go so far and that they had nothing else. and the documents were really clear and convincing, and that they knew there would be a conviction. so they started to talk about possibly doing some kind of plea deal to reduce the sentence that he might face. that's the only thing that i can think of. i feel like the prosecutors would have felt, yes, for sure we're going to get a conviction, and there's no chance of an acquittal, there is a chance of a hung jury at l

. >> to help understand the president's legal jeopardy, joined by jill win-banks and jeff ackerman. what is the legal applications. >> we don't know what -- i can't believe that he would have pled guilty to exposure of almost six years in prison without having some knowledge that he has got information that would be helpful to the mueller investigation. it is inconceivable to me that that would not have been discussed beforehand. >> also, jill, what is striking to me, the trump orb shows up. executives are named in there. what is the significance of that. >> well the significance of that of course is that the corporation could also be found for tax violations. for example, if they reduced their payable taxes by claiming that the legal fees paid to michael cohen which were phony legal fees, and they were actually hush money, if they deducted that, that is a violation of the tax code. but you hit on the main question that i have about this whole thing which is if he really wants to cooperate, why is he doing it through the public? why didn't lanny davis call up the mueller office and

. >> joining us now, jill rolvin, white house reporter. good morning to you.have been listening to what has been said with president trump mentioning the non-disclosure agreement. one might ask the legal jeopardy omarosa may face based on the nda which is not easy to enforce even in private circles, but in this public sector does she face more jeopardy? >> it is interesting. it is unclear what the president was talking about here when he referred to this non-disclosure agreement. we know during the campaign every member of the campaign had to sign one of these non-disclosures. omarosa denies she signed anything at the white house and that she signed a contract when it came to "the apprentice." when you're a government employee, there are questions about the ethics of having government employees sign these kinds of documents. our understanding is that not everybody in the west wing signed them. kellyanne conway this week referred to a confidentiality agreement, but the white house hasn't walked us through exactly what they feel people are on the hook for. nonet

peter baker, jill colvin, john high heilman and harry litman. former u.s. attorney, former assistant deputy attorney general under president clinton. peter, i'd like to begin with you. i'd like to read to you what sally yates wrote on social media. today our president called on our reduced attorney general as shocking as that is. what's more dangerous is we've gotten used to it. the rule of law won't evaporate overnight but it can slip away if we let it. there we have the president's own words to judge him by. this is on him. this is one of those lessons we get to see if words have consequences. >> what is fascinating is how much this plays out in public out loud. what we see from the president's tweets is him saying what would have been a scandal has like president nixon been found to have said it privately in a taped session in the oval office. the tape that finally undid him in watergate was hearing him order his aides to tell the fry to layoff the watergate investigation. here you have the president saying on twitter the attorney general who reports to

. >> reporter: it's been four months since jill and ron plush lost their 16-year-old son, kyle, he died trapped in a car after calling 911. >> help, help, help. i'm stuck in my van outside the seven hills parking lot. >> the seven hills what parking lot? >> he called the one entity that he knew would be able to help him. >> reporter: kyle was pinned by the third row seat of his minivan while reaching for tennis gear, using siri to call 911 twice. but failures in the system that day meant cincinnati dispatchers had trouble finding him and patrol officers couldn't find him. unable to breathe, he died waiting. i probably don't have much time left. so tell my mom that i love her if i die. >> reporter: you still haven't listened to the 911 call that kyle made? >> no. kyle and i were very close. we went through a lot together. it's really hard to -- it's hard to go on every day without him. >> reporter: jill and ron are now turning their anguish into action, starting the kyle plush answer the call foundation, advocating for upgrades to 911 systems across the country. >> the 911 system is abou

startling survey, jill.! >> the problem is these are longer-term trends, and certainly, the great recession accelerated it. but when you think about it, a lot of these people thought, hey, i'm going to be able to retire when i'm 62, and they really may not have been able to or they had to wait a little bit longer for social security. we also know in the early '80s that 401(k) plans, which are voluntary, basically started to replace guaranteed corporate pensions, and that was a huge shift for so many americans. we also know that we're shouldering a larger share of health care costs, out of pocket, deductibles rising. and you put all of this against a backdrop where median household income, while it's improved recently, the economy has done really well, over the last 20, 30 years, incomes are essentially stagnant. so, this has become a huge problem for those folks coming into retirement. i should also mention, they're coming into retirement with a ton of debt, credit card debt, mortgage debt, fastest growing s

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