We're going to Plan C!! Also... what's Plan C? (12-20-2024--Hour1)

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[00:00:28] Alrighty, so we're going to Plan C, everybody. Plan C, in effect. Plan C. What's that? What's Plan C? We don't know yet, but that's what we're doing, okay? Plan C. For the shutting down of the government, but not the essential workers who are basically like everybody, and then the ones that get sent home and are not essential, but we'll pay them back to them.

[00:00:58] So, it's basically just like a vacation for them. This is government efficiency, everybody.

[00:01:05] All right. So, right now, as I understand it, House Republicans are trying to hammer out some sort of continuing resolution to fund the government for some period of time, not really sure, but some period of time for some amount of money, maybe a disaster relief bill thrown in there too.

[00:01:33] So, there's a couple different components to this. Also, the White House press briefing gets underway at 1215. Now, I normally don't dip into that or jip it, as they say in the biz, which means join in progress, J-I-P.

[00:01:48] But today, I feel like I might be somewhat interested in the line of questioning that the White House press corps will choose to pursue.

[00:02:03] Namely, the Wall Street Journal report with 50 sources that said Joe Biden was basically infirmed from day one.

[00:02:13] I also just saw this. I haven't even read it yet, but the New York Post headline Biden lacked energy for phone call with House Armed Services Committee chairman before the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal.

[00:02:32] What did I say yesterday? I said this, like, maybe now we'll be able to tell the stories of, you know, what was really going on in Biden world.

[00:02:50] And I remember getting some pushback on that. No, no, Pete, that's not going to happen. They're going to still protect.

[00:02:55] Like, I'm not so sure. Those are pretty big stories. And so we're going to we're going to pass back to all of that, too.

[00:03:02] But I might jip it. I don't know. But I got to start with this continuing resolution.

[00:03:10] Well, let me see here. What do I want to do? Because I was going to start with the plan because I understood that they were going to be fixing to vote.

[00:03:18] Hmm. Hmm. 1215. I call the audible and start with the Biden stuff. I finished with that yesterday.

[00:03:26] OK, we're going to start with the Biden stuff. So that's see, that's how I make these decisions.

[00:03:31] I have a trusted group of advisors on this. All right. Yeah, much like Joe Biden.

[00:03:42] OK, so the Wall Street Journal. Oh, sorry. I almost forgot to mention much like the Department of Defense.

[00:03:49] Forgot to mention, we do not have like 800 troops in Syria.

[00:03:54] We actually have just a smidge more, just a little bit, teensy weensy. It's like 2000.

[00:04:02] See? Like more than double, but, you know, Pentagon math. What can I say?

[00:04:09] I do wonder, is this also a product of not having a functioning commander in chief?

[00:04:14] The Wall Street Journal report.

[00:04:21] Shows how Biden's close knit circle of advisors sought to swindle the public, the press and even Biden's legislative allies and cabinet appointees about the rapidly deteriorating state of the president's mental health.

[00:04:40] Non compass mentis.

[00:04:44] That is the Latin for what we are describing here.

[00:04:48] He is mentally incompetent.

[00:04:52] Not because he's an idiot.

[00:04:55] He's just gone.

[00:04:58] Jeff Blair writing a national review quotes Kingsley Amos's response to being proven right about Stalinist Russia saying, quote, we told you so you bleeping fools.

[00:05:13] Except he didn't say bleeping.

[00:05:16] There are so many anecdotes piling up chronologically in escalating despair as the lengthy expose proceeds that by the end of the Wall Street Journal report, you are left reeling with anger at the near criminal irresponsibility of Biden and his staff.

[00:05:34] In the spring of 2021.

[00:05:38] A national security official explained to another, quote, he has good days and bad days.

[00:05:44] I mentioned this quote yesterday.

[00:05:46] He has good days and bad days.

[00:05:48] Jeff Blair says, I read this with a clenched fist.

[00:05:53] In spring of 2021, that is to say a month or so after he took office.

[00:06:01] Our commander in chief was already having good days and bad days.

[00:06:08] I want to say this again.

[00:06:10] At the beginning of his presidency, Joe Biden was showing visible signs of major mental decline.

[00:06:20] All of this was concealed from the world and this guy ran for reelection.

[00:06:29] What in the world?

[00:06:33] This is the biggest scandal the presidency has ever seen, he says.

[00:06:37] I would submit it.

[00:06:39] This may like depending on how bad this was, because this is just sort of the first run at this kind of a story.

[00:06:47] People are going to be writing books about this.

[00:06:50] Okay.

[00:06:51] And this isn't like the olden times when it took a really, really long time for a lot of people to get up to speed because, you know, books were the only way that you could communicate this stuff.

[00:07:04] And you had a media that just would never go back and cover this stuff.

[00:07:09] There's too much media now.

[00:07:11] Right.

[00:07:12] Everybody's got their own printing press.

[00:07:14] So.

[00:07:16] You can't contain this any longer.

[00:07:20] Blair says it's the biggest scandal the presidency has ever seen because it runs to the core of what the presidency is supposed to be for practically his entire term.

[00:07:30] I would submit it was his entire term.

[00:07:33] Joe Biden has been, if not non compost mentis on a rare good day, then at least severely mentally diminished or periodically incapacitated.

[00:07:45] By the way, do you think that's why Russia did what it did?

[00:07:49] Do you think that they were unaware?

[00:07:51] Do you think Vladimir Poodie Pood was unaware of the mental fragility of Biden?

[00:07:58] Do you think he didn't know that?

[00:07:59] Do you think he doesn't have spies inside the U.S. government that would report back like, whoa, this guy, he's out to lunch.

[00:08:09] At no point.

[00:08:13] During his time in office, has Joe Biden been fit for the presidency?

[00:08:19] Think about that.

[00:08:21] Think about all of the stuff that Joe Biden supposedly signed off on.

[00:08:26] You would not be able to sign contracts.

[00:08:28] You would not be able to sign your signature to anything if you are in this kind of a mental state.

[00:08:35] Yet this guy is signing into law trillions of dollars in debt.

[00:08:39] That's what he did.

[00:08:41] That's what he did.

[00:08:43] The withdrawal from Afghanistan.

[00:08:47] The forgiveness of, oh, hang on a second.

[00:08:49] We got news on that too.

[00:08:51] Somebody in the administration is now canceling more federal student loans.

[00:08:56] Another 55,000 people are getting student loan, quote unquote, forgiveness.

[00:09:02] Forgiveness.

[00:09:03] Which isn't theirs to forgive.

[00:09:06] It isn't those bureaucrats or the administration officials.

[00:09:09] It's not their debt to forgive.

[00:09:12] It's ours.

[00:09:13] It's mine.

[00:09:14] I have to pay that back.

[00:09:16] That's not forgiveness.

[00:09:18] That's a buy off.

[00:09:24] The closest parallel, Edith Wilson.

[00:09:27] That's why I've been calling her Dr. Jilson all this time.

[00:09:30] Joe Biden, Dr. Jilson.

[00:09:32] That's why, because what she has been doing with her husband and for her husband and instead

[00:09:39] of her husband is exactly what Edith Wilson did when her husband became incapacitated.

[00:09:45] She could not give up the ring.

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[00:10:49] I am awaiting, and therefore you must be as well.

[00:10:53] Wow, there's only like six people there.

[00:10:55] What's going on?

[00:10:56] One, two, three, four, five, six, seven.

[00:10:59] There are not a lot of people sitting in the seats at the White House press briefing, which

[00:11:04] was supposed to start at 1215 but hasn't yet.

[00:11:08] Why are people so disinterested?

[00:11:11] Well, I guess because it's Christmas, there's not a lot going on up on Capitol Hill or at

[00:11:17] the White House.

[00:11:20] No big stories to respond to.

[00:11:23] No breaking developments going on with like government shutdowns or anything like that.

[00:11:27] So I guess it makes sense that people wouldn't be very interested.

[00:11:29] I'm sure it'll fill up.

[00:11:30] Oh, I'm sure it'll fill up.

[00:11:33] So the White House press briefing, we are awaiting.

[00:11:36] And when it starts up, I will, I'll be sure and bring it to you if I can.

[00:11:43] Got a message from Steve, who says, Pete, I and many others already knew that the cheese

[00:11:48] had slid off of Joe's cracker before he took office.

[00:11:52] I am mad as hell.

[00:11:54] Yeah, same.

[00:11:56] I've been saying, I've been saying this for the entire duration of Joe Biden's term.

[00:12:02] It got, it has gotten worse and worse and worse.

[00:12:04] And honestly, the gaslighting over the four years, it did make me question whether I was

[00:12:10] reading too much into stuff or whatever.

[00:12:13] But I remember seeing these same signs, these same symptoms when it was my grandfather.

[00:12:21] So I knew what I was looking at and half the country knew what they were looking at.

[00:12:29] And probably more than half the country.

[00:12:32] But we were being gaslit.

[00:12:37] Ace of spades, Ace of spades HQ is the website.

[00:12:42] On the newfound focus of the press corps.

[00:12:53] About, you know, the mental abilities, the cognitive acuity of the incoming president or of the president.

[00:13:01] And he says, yeah, we, yeah, we media really let Biden lie and lie and take foreign money.

[00:13:07] But we'll correct that by getting tough on who's coming in here.

[00:13:11] Oh, that's right.

[00:13:12] A Republican.

[00:13:13] That is always the game they play.

[00:13:16] They have the blinders on.

[00:13:17] They're sniffing the throne.

[00:13:20] And when it's a Democrat and then in comes a Republican and it's like, we are truth tellers.

[00:13:27] We are firefighters rushing into the blaze of democracy in order to save the people.

[00:13:33] They claim that they are a new kind of journalist.

[00:13:39] They would never have covered up, you know, powerful people lying like Woodrow Wilson.

[00:13:46] Woodrow Wilson is the historical parallel to Joe Biden.

[00:13:53] His wife, Edith, concealed from the public the stroke that Wilson had had in 1919.

[00:14:00] She acted as de facto president for the rest of his term.

[00:14:04] And her incompetence destroyed the effort to ratify the Versailles Treaty in the Senate.

[00:14:11] Ensuring the failure of his internationalist legacy.

[00:14:14] Much the same could be said about the historically disastrous economic, immigration and international policy drift

[00:14:21] of the Biden era.

[00:14:23] As might well, as might well be expected from a president who began his term already asleep at the wheel.

[00:14:31] That's what the Wall Street Journal has uncovered.

[00:14:34] That a lot of people already knew.

[00:14:36] Way too many people knew.

[00:14:40] For the entire tenure of his presidency.

[00:14:44] All right.

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[00:15:15] All right.

[00:15:16] So shall we hang on a second?

[00:15:18] Created this mess.

[00:15:19] That's the reality.

[00:15:21] That's the fact.

[00:15:22] And this is the dipping in on the White House press briefing.

[00:15:26] This is not the first time we've been here.

[00:15:28] And the president has had this approach before.

[00:15:30] He understands how Congress works.

[00:15:32] He's been around for some time.

[00:15:34] He understands what strategy works here.

[00:15:36] Does he?

[00:15:37] So this is not this is not the first time that we're being asked.

[00:15:41] The fact that you would about the president and his outreach, I just mentioned he made.

[00:15:45] The fact that you would get up there and say this stuff after that Wall Street Journal report is just astounding.

[00:15:52] The level of chutzpah, as they say.

[00:15:55] But this is the mess that was created by Speaker Johnson.

[00:15:58] No, stop.

[00:15:59] He needs to fix this.

[00:16:00] That's what the American people need to be very clear about.

[00:16:03] No.

[00:16:03] Very clear.

[00:16:04] Very clear.

[00:16:04] Very clear.

[00:16:05] I'm clear.

[00:16:06] You're clear.

[00:16:06] The president's been very clear.

[00:16:08] And he's not holding up his side of the bargain here.

[00:16:09] We hear that message from you, but why aren't we hearing that directly from the president?

[00:16:13] Yes.

[00:16:13] Why haven't we seen or heard from President Biden himself?

[00:16:16] This is a strategy that we have done many times before.

[00:16:19] We're aware.

[00:16:20] Yes.

[00:16:21] We know the strategy.

[00:16:22] This is for Republicans in Congress, in the House specifically, to fix.

[00:16:27] They created this mess.

[00:16:29] There was a bipartisan agreement.

[00:16:32] There was.

[00:16:33] There was a bipartisan agreement.

[00:16:35] To come in front of cameras.

[00:16:37] There was a bipartisan agreement.

[00:16:39] She does not want to talk about that, huh?

[00:16:42] This is a great question.

[00:16:43] And so what we want to do and what we want to, what the president wants to make sure we

[00:16:47] do is he stands to, ready to help get a bipartisan deal.

[00:16:52] Breaking news.

[00:16:53] The president can stand.

[00:17:01] Oh my gosh.

[00:17:02] She has no other talking point.

[00:17:05] The president doesn't reflect what the deal, what that bipartisan deal that they came up

[00:17:11] with, obviously with Democrats.

[00:17:14] And, you know, they're showing, Republicans are showing a disregard for the American people.

[00:17:19] Just lastly, some leading Democrats are calling Elon Musk President Musk or Co-President Musk.

[00:17:25] What is the White House's and President Biden's reaction to this labeling of Elon Musk and whether

[00:17:30] or not House Republicans are listening more to this billionaire than the president-elect?

[00:17:35] What I can say is congressional Republicans at the direction, and you all know this, you all reported this, of President Trump and Elon Musk are trying to pave the way.

[00:17:47] And me.

[00:17:47] I said stuff on Twitter, too.

[00:17:49] Five trillion dollars to our national debt.

[00:17:52] That's what this decision does.

[00:17:55] I mean, you're talking about with cuts for billionaires, slashing Social Security, slashing Medicare, slashing Head Start.

[00:18:03] What are you talking about?

[00:18:04] Congressional Republicans did what they did because of what the president-elect said.

[00:18:09] What is she even talking about?

[00:18:11] There's no plan.

[00:18:13] That's the reality.

[00:18:14] You guys all reported this.

[00:18:16] That's why we are where we are today.

[00:18:18] So this is for Speaker Johnson to fix.

[00:18:22] This is the mess that he created.

[00:18:23] He needs to fix this.

[00:18:24] Again, a bipartisan agreement.

[00:18:27] There is a bipartisan agreement.

[00:18:28] Is it bipartisan?

[00:18:31] She hits the table too much.

[00:18:33] Would the president support a four-bill strategy that we've seen discussed today?

[00:18:37] We can separate a clean CR from a formal extension and a disaster aid and a debt.

[00:18:43] Would the president support splitting it up?

[00:18:45] Clean bills.

[00:18:46] There is a by your I'm going to get very repetitive here because it is true.

[00:18:50] And you have nothing else in your notebook.

[00:18:51] Partisan agreement.

[00:18:53] There's a deal that was agreed upon.

[00:18:55] And that's what they need to move forward with.

[00:18:58] And when I mean day, I mean that's the see, this is the problem.

[00:19:01] There was a deal that was agreed upon by four people by leaders.

[00:19:05] That's it.

[00:19:06] There are 431 other people.

[00:19:09] They didn't get their or 531 other people.

[00:19:11] They didn't get all of them on board.

[00:19:13] They were just like, here's our deal.

[00:19:15] We're going to negotiate this.

[00:19:16] Now go get your people.

[00:19:18] And Johnson couldn't do it.

[00:19:19] Trump's statement this morning that this is a Biden problem, but if Republicans can help solve it, they will.

[00:19:27] I imagine you'll repeat some of what you just said.

[00:19:29] But in response to that.

[00:19:30] Congressional Republicans made their decision because of what the president-elect said at their direction, the direction of the president-elect and the right direction of Elon Musk.

[00:19:42] There was a bipartisan deal on the table.

[00:19:45] Oh, my gosh.

[00:19:45] Moving forward, the speaker agreed to do this, to move forward the bipartisan deal.

[00:19:49] And they stopped that because of what the president-elect said and what Elon Musk said.

[00:19:56] They wanted to clear a way for their billionaire friends.

[00:19:59] Tax cut.

[00:20:00] Five trillion to the national debt with tax cuts to billionaires.

[00:20:05] You spent trillions that we didn't have.

[00:20:08] That's the reality.

[00:20:09] You've all reported this.

[00:20:10] We've seen this.

[00:20:11] By the way, that's her hitting the desk every time.

[00:20:14] What was being put out there by the president-elect and Elon Musk.

[00:20:17] There's no hiding from that.

[00:20:19] That's the reality.

[00:20:22] And so, you know, we're talking about this is not politics here.

[00:20:28] We're talking about the American people.

[00:20:30] Oh, my God.

[00:20:31] She is so bad at this.

[00:20:33] Who need it?

[00:20:35] And so, political playbook said, had to say what they had to say about this.

[00:20:41] Trump picked the fight.

[00:20:42] He picked the fight.

[00:20:43] And it was Trump.

[00:20:45] Well, with him and Elon Musk, who sank the bipartisan deal.

[00:20:50] That's what you were reporting.

[00:20:52] You can't twist the facts or change history here.

[00:20:56] I love how she just automatically assumes that the bipartisan deal was a good deal because it was bipartisan.

[00:21:02] And the fact that the process, I went over this yesterday, right, did not include any of the members of Congress.

[00:21:07] It was just these, as Mike Lee calls them, the firm, like the four leaders, House and Senate, majority and minority leaders.

[00:21:16] And they hammer out whatever deal they're wanting to do.

[00:21:20] This was the Democrats' last bite at the apple.

[00:21:22] And now they're crying that they're not going to get to swallow it.

[00:21:27] It's like they took the bite or they were going to take the bite.

[00:21:30] Maybe they got off a little bit and then somebody smacked them in the back of the head and they spit out the piece of the apple.

[00:21:36] No!

[00:21:37] And they want their apple back.

[00:21:39] It's a terrible analogy, I know.

[00:21:40] Now, Corinne Jean-Pierre will not say whether Joe Biden is going to stay in D.C. to try to help get a deal done.

[00:21:50] She keeps saying that this is Speaker Johnson's mess.

[00:21:54] There was a bipartisan deal.

[00:21:55] I think she has said the word bipartisan, I think, about 32 times at this point,

[00:22:01] saying that basically they need to go back to the 1,500-page cramnibus.

[00:22:06] And that's not happening.

[00:22:08] That is not happening.

[00:22:09] That was Plan A.

[00:22:10] That went down in flames.

[00:22:11] Plan B was the House running Donald Trump's idea, which was to eliminate the debt ceiling

[00:22:17] and just do a clean CR with disaster relief.

[00:22:21] And that went down in flames.

[00:22:22] And so now they're working on a Plan C.

[00:22:25] Plan C.

[00:22:26] And I would recommend clean CR, disaster relief, two different bills, and then go home.

[00:22:35] Make Democrats vote against it all.

[00:22:39] Just a continuing resolution and disaster relief.

[00:22:43] And then they go home.

[00:22:45] Nothing gets passed.

[00:22:46] That's all on Democrats.

[00:22:47] And if the House Democrats vote for it, now you're going to jam up the Senate Democrats.

[00:22:52] All right.

[00:22:53] Let's see what she's saying now.

[00:22:54] It's happening.

[00:22:55] The president looks forward to it.

[00:22:56] And we certainly will have more to share as we get closer, like we normally do when an

[00:23:02] Acona strip happens.

[00:23:03] Should we expect domestic travel for the president in January?

[00:23:06] Is he going to be out there doing any farewell speeches on policy issues in other parts of the country?

[00:23:12] Nobody has asked.

[00:23:13] We'll certainly have more to share about what January.

[00:23:16] Nobody has asked yet about the Wall Street Journal dementia report.

[00:23:20] I'm just going to try to ask this a different way.

[00:23:22] The president is still in office.

[00:23:25] I'm just going to try.

[00:23:26] He's still in office for a long time.

[00:23:28] The American people really haven't heard from him on whether or not the government is going

[00:23:32] to shut down.

[00:23:33] Wouldn't the message hit differently if the president were out there countering the message

[00:23:38] that he was hearing from the president-elect and Elon Musk?

[00:23:39] This is so stupid.

[00:23:40] So you hear what they're doing, right?

[00:23:41] The reporters are asking, is he non-composementous?

[00:23:47] But they're asking it in the frame of, will he come out and talk about this topic?

[00:23:51] They know why he won't come out and say these things.

[00:23:54] He cannot.

[00:23:55] But they don't want to put Corringe in some sort of awkward position.

[00:24:00] She's been lying to you, you dupes.

[00:24:07] She's still talking about the 1,500-page monstrosity, Plan A, that again went down in flames.

[00:24:14] That's not going to pass.

[00:24:16] It's not being revived.

[00:24:18] And they're desperately trying to cling to that as their talking point after we've already

[00:24:23] gone past that.

[00:24:24] We're at Plan B now.

[00:24:26] That got shot down last night.

[00:24:28] And so now they're trying to develop a Plan C, which would be to simply do a continuing

[00:24:33] resolution, keep funding the government, right, through two or three weeks, a month maybe,

[00:24:39] do the disaster relief without a pay for.

[00:24:44] It would be new debt, no doubt about it, $100 billion.

[00:24:47] We have spent twice as much on Ukraine.

[00:24:52] So make Democrats vote against this.

[00:24:55] And if it doesn't pass, which by the way, I don't even know if Republicans will all get

[00:24:59] on board with those two things.

[00:25:00] Any thoughts or feelings on the president-elect and Elon Musk?

[00:25:07] Again with this, like how many different ways can you ask this stupid question to get the

[00:25:12] same stupid talking point answers?

[00:25:15] Like this is willful on the part of the press corps here.

[00:25:18] This is willful.

[00:25:19] You just had 50 sources tell you that the president has been basically mentally incapacitated for

[00:25:27] the last four years.

[00:25:28] And you're asking about Elon Musk and you're asking about why Joe Biden isn't coming out

[00:25:33] and making a speech.

[00:25:34] With a bipartisan agreement, the bipartisan agreement.

[00:25:37] There it is again, bipartisan agreement.

[00:25:39] Not too long ago.

[00:25:40] We thought we were going to move forward with that agreement.

[00:25:42] The shrug of the soldiers and the pounding of the...

[00:25:44] They blew it up.

[00:25:45] They blew it up.

[00:25:47] She's so bad.

[00:25:48] Yes, full screen.

[00:25:49] Has agencies, has the government started informing employees who might be furloughed?

[00:25:54] Yeah.

[00:25:55] You know, those specific folks, especially ahead of the holiday season, are they being

[00:25:58] informed that they might not get their paycheck?

[00:26:00] So why do you think this is happening like this?

[00:26:01] What do you think?

[00:26:02] All these reporters from all these different outlets and all of them, I don't see Peter

[00:26:07] Doocy there.

[00:26:08] So far, they're all asking the same question about the shutdown, right?

[00:26:14] Why do you think they're doing it?

[00:26:15] I would submit this is packed journalism.

[00:26:17] This is all of them not wanting to be the proverbial floater in the punch bowl.

[00:26:23] They're all on the same side.

[00:26:24] Look at us.

[00:26:25] We're all journalists.

[00:26:25] And oh, I'll ask it a different way and I'll get a good answer.

[00:26:30] And now here comes the crafting of the narrative.

[00:26:33] We got to do all of these stories about the shutdown and how it affects real people and

[00:26:38] all that.

[00:26:38] Cheryl Atkinson had a fantastic post about this very thing from her time at CBS during one

[00:26:45] of the other shutdowns and how they could not find, literally could not find people to

[00:26:51] talk to that were affected by the last shutdown under Obama.

[00:26:55] And so they had to like go to Democrats and say, hey, can you give us some examples of

[00:27:00] people that are affected?

[00:27:01] They literally asked Democrats for their stories.

[00:27:04] It's very easy for them to fix this.

[00:27:06] It's not very easy to fix it.

[00:27:09] Move forward.

[00:27:10] Keep your word.

[00:27:11] Republicans in Congress, keep your word.

[00:27:13] Keep your word.

[00:27:14] Okay.

[00:27:14] Nobody.

[00:27:15] I have a question on China.

[00:27:16] In the final month of this administration, we continue to see high level talks between

[00:27:22] us and China, including last.

[00:27:24] Story.

[00:27:25] Okay.

[00:27:25] Question on China.

[00:27:26] Like Republican lawmakers did not promise you jack crap.

[00:27:30] Okay.

[00:27:31] They didn't promise you anything.

[00:27:34] Mike Johnson might've made some promises that he would put all this stuff together in

[00:27:39] a bill and maybe he promised you that he could get the votes and now he can't.

[00:27:44] That deal is dead.

[00:27:45] All right.

[00:27:46] That'll do it for this episode.

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