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this is beyond cable. this is fios. good mornin good morning, and welcome to this week. i have to admit, we hit a bitle bit of a buzz saw this week. after the stunning defeat in massachusetts. the voters have spoken. they want a course correction. the president tries to pivot. so long as i have the privilege of serving as your president,ly not stop fighting for you. i will take my lumps. can health care survive? question for our headliner, david axelrod. and which party will capitalize on the populist anger in 2010? and welcome to waterloo. jim demint. a this week debate. and the round table weighs in on the state of the union, with george will, cokie roberts, sam donaldson and mathieu dowd. and as always, the sffs sffs. hello, i m conan o brien, and i need all of you to write me a letter of recommendation. good morning. it s a brand new ball game here in washington as the president heads to capitol hill this wednesday, he s dealing with a congress that s been dramatically altered by the stunning win in massachusetts of republican scott brown to fill the seat held for 46 years by ted kennedy. health care reform is this trouble. this morning, a reminder that this all takes place in a still dangerous world. a new audiotape that appears to be from osama bin laden in which he specifically talks about the failed bombing on christmas day. joining us, david axelrod. david, thanks for being with us. good morning. that was the week that was. republicans are stoked, democrats are shocked. polls in general are showing that the public is rapidly losing confidence in the president s policies and his leadership. by way of illustration, time and news qun week this week, the inspiration gap. how the trail blazer became the stymied president. did the president fail to connect with ordinary americans or is this a sign that the country is rejecting his approach in his first year? let s understand that we are governing in the worst economy since the great depression. when the president walked in the door he was handed the worst economic downturn since the great depression, a financial crisis and a fiscal crisis. president obama received a $1.3 deficit. he was asked to take care of these when he was elected. i told him that the numbers will be worse a year from now than they were today a rear ago because you can t govern in an economy like this without great disaffection. people are working harder, if they have a job, they re working harder for less. they re falling behind. that s been true for a decade. they look at a wave of irresponsibility from wall street to washington that led to that. those are the frustrations that got the president elected in the first place. they were reflected again on tuesday. it s not just the situation, sit, david? is it also the policies and the approach of the president? if you had the last few months leading up to this political moment, to do over, what would you do over? what have you learned? well, look, some of the policies were some that no one wanted to undertake but were essential. nobody wanted to have to throw a lifeline to the financial sector. nobody wanted to shore up the autoindustry. nobody wanted a emergency recovery act as our first initiative as president. our responsibility was to make sure that the economy didn t tip into a second great depression. that was a real possibility. those were not popular things to do. i have no regrets about that. i think history will look back and say the president met his responsibility. one of the great burdens on middle class families across the country, whether they have insurance or not, on small businesses, on government generally, is the cost of health care. what the president has tried to do and continues to try to do is deal with that so people don t have to face bankruptcy if they get sick so that if you have a pre-existing condition you can get covered, if you re a small business you kay ford health care. this is all part of bringing economic security to the american people. the process, eight months of debate, were a less than satisfying. that was clear. if you look at the polls out of massachusetts, people react as much to the process as anything elsewhere there things we could have done there? perhaps. we have to think that through. this president in l not stop fighting to create jobs, raise income, and push back on the special interests dominance in washington and the withering partisan ship that keeps us from solving problems. no do-overs. david plouffe is back. the architect going to the democratic national committee to help oversee the house, senate, and guber natorial races. is the return of david plouffe an admission that the white house political operation failed the president and the party? well, look. i think that the entire political community was caught a little bit unawares on that one. but so we have a very strong political operation. david was working on his book for the last year. he s done with that now. he s enormously talented. he brings value added to our operation as we look forward in terms of strategy and tactics. he ll be consulting with us on that. we ll be stronger for it. i think the reaction is overblown. washington loves the shakeup story. when are we going to throw a body out story. that s not how we roll. fair enough. let s get to specifics. the impact on the president s agenda. health care, the day after scott brown s victory, the president gave a remarkable interview to george stephanopoulos, in which he seemed to dra mat click scale back his health care goals. i would advise we act quickly to coalesce around the parts of the bill that people agree on. we know we need health care reform. health care reform, as we know it, the huge bill that congress labored on for months is dead, right? that s not true at palm i think he s saying let s take a look at this. there are so many elements of this, tax breaks for small business, extending the life of medicare. more assistance to seniors for prescription drugs. a cap on out of pocket expenses. help for people with pre-existing conditions. he s saying let s get back to it. if you look at the polling in the washington post yesterday on the massachusetts race,s the clear. people don t want us to walk away from health care. they want us to address their concerns with the program. they want brown to come and work with us and not be obstructionist. that was very clear in the polling. i suggest that the. party look that poll as well. their policies were viewed more dimly than democratic crying o together. we re working to pass this on behalf of the american people, who are going to feel greater and greater burden from the health care costs if we don t step up and deal with it. you re looking forward to pass this. the president looked like he was trying to reduce the scale. are you talking what do you think about the idea i have a question here. that speaker pelosi and majority leader reid are cooking pup you could strip the senate bill of a few pro visions and then get the political through the house. do you think that s possible? terry, again, i think you re misreading the massachusetts poll. i think people want action on helt care. the bill that the house and the sfat passed, which are largely the same in the main, were patterned in many ways on the massachusetts health care plan, a unique plan in that state. and 68% of the people that voted last week said they like the massachusetts plan. i think you re misreading the results out of massachusetts. the president will not walk away from the american people. will not hand them over to the tender mer sis of the health care insurance companies that take advantage. he will not walk away from senior citizens in medicare. he s just not going to do that. as a political matter, the foolish thing to do would be for anybody else that supported this to walkway from it. it s been defined by insurance company propaganda. the propaganda of the opponents and an admittedly messy process leading up to it. people will never know what s in that bill until we pass it, the president science it, and they have a whole range of new protections than before. the president and you sounding a lot more populist. fight, fight, fight. is this what we re going to see on wednesday, what some are calling barack obama 2.0, the populist crusader? i would be happy to sit down with you or anyone. i travelled with the president across the country for two years. i heard all of his speeches. the element what he said in ohio on friday is consistent with what he s been saying for two years. we have to make the economy work for all americans, not just for a fortunate few. we have to make sure that work pace. people who work hard and meet responsibilities can get ahead. we have to insist on responsibility from institutions on wall street or in washington. we have to push back on special interests, push back on partisan ship. meet the problems that are important in people s lives. that s what he has been saying, really, since 2004 when he spoke at the national convention. i think that, you know in washington, people look for signs, cues, for their script to say, this is obama 22.0. this is obama, the obama that ran for president. the hunger for that kind of leadership is still very strong. all right. we ll hear if the president on wednesday night, the bully pulpit at the state of the union. david, thanks so have mch for coming. thanks for having me. i m going to talk to republican senator, jim demints one of the con sever active leaders and senator robert menendez. your job is to get democrats elected. that didn t go so well last week. are you willing to accept, especially the unhappiness reported, with how nimble the democrats were? do you bear some of the responsibility for what went down up there? there are lessons to be learned from massachusetts. we did egg we could in resources and personnel to help martha coakley win that election. i think the biggest take way there is enormous economy ankt in the country. they is lost jobs, their house is worth less than what their mortgage is. i believe that was a driving force of the voters in that state. it exists around the country. i think the president will address those concerns head on in the state of the union speech. democrats in the congress will address it as we move forward legislatively to help small businesses to have the resources they need, to exist, to grow, to hire people, to be able to key ate opportunities in infrastructure work across the country. help states and localities be able to retain critical personnel. i think that these are the elements of what you ll see in a very focused jobs package, an economic package, and making sure middle class families have tax relief as well. those are the elements we ll go to work on. a lot of what i heard from massachusetts. the massachusetts message heard loud and clear. i want to ask you about something you said last summer, senator demint. about the health care reform fight. if we re wabl to stop obama on this, it will be his waterloo. it will break him. did you break him? is that really how americans want you to behave here in washington? break the president. terry, good morning. bob, good morning to you. good morning, jim. i did not want this to be the president s waterloo. but pushes through a massive government takeover of our health care system was certainly not a good idea. what happened in massachusetts is just part of an american awakening. we saw nit virginia, in new jersey. we see it all over the country in tea parties, town halls. people are alarmed and arrangery about the spending, the debt, the government takeovers. i ve been amazed to hear mr. axlerod. miss ps was a rejection of the president s massive policies of spending and debt. and we, if we re going work together, we ve got to do nit a step by step, reasonable approach. we ve been pushing health care reform for years as republicans. the president voted against interstate competition in the senate. he voted against fair health treatment. he voted against changing the abusive lawsuit system that adds so much to the cost. it s hard for us to take seriously that the president really wants health care reform. he seems to want more of a frankly roosevelt massive government program. i think the people of america want us to work together to step by step work to fix the problems in the world. the voters in massachusetts did reject the democratic approach. they have not embraced what the republicans are talking about. they can t really figure it out much. one will be ral wag said obama campaigned on hope. scott brown campaigned on nope. a lot of people see the republican party as the party oaf no right now. the rejection of the democrat agenda in miss ps was not necessarily acceptance of republicans. we have to reearn the trust of the american people. it s incumbent on us to show the american people how we can improve hemt care and focus on the priority of jobs. the president s stimulus has been a massive failure. when the democrats came into power slee years ago, unemployment was half what sit today. we ve seen in the past from john kennedy to the present that broad-based tax cuts for businesses and individuals is the best way to get the economy churning again. the massive government spending program is not working. we have to recognize that quickly. otherwise people will continue to lose jobs. terry, my dear friend jim did want to break barack obama. the whole political strategy for the republicans party is for this president and congress to fail. the sad thing is it s not about barack obama failing or democrats in congress failing, it s about the country failing at one of the most critical challenges that the country has had. i love my dear friend talking about fiscal responsibility, when george bush came to office, he had a $236 billion surplus. barack obama was handed a $1.3 trillion deficit. the economy was almost on the verge of depression. the collapse would created major calamity. since the president came, after having inherited all of those realities, and trying to meet the challenges head on. having to spend so we could stop the economy from going into a depressi depression, be able to start moving the economy in the right direction, meet the challenges of the abyss that we were almost in, all our republican colleagues have said is no. they have used the fill buster to stop progress 101 times, unprecedented in the history of the united states senate. i hope that they understand that they have as much responsibility to help us govern and move forward. no doesn t create a job or health care or stop the abuses of the health care company. no doesn t help a senior citizen with their drug care coverage. it s time to say yes. let me follow up. you gave an eloquent description of what the president came into. what did he do? he spent eight months on health care. was that a mistake for the president to do that? let s look at what happened last year. people forget. just as people forget what he inherited and the enormous economic consequences, two wars totally unpaid for, credit card mentality, putting it on our kids future, a medicare part d. program unpaid for. at the bottom line, he passed a stimulus package to stop the nation if going into a deep depression. he succeeded at that. health care was the wrong thing to do? health care is an economic issue as well. if you re a family without health insurance, you get sick, you can be in bankruptcy. you re a family with insurance, you see the double-digit premium increases you can t afford it. if you re a senior, you have the gap created, you need to fill it. this is what we re trying to meet. that was quite and indictment. i don t hear much by partisanship here. we re not going to visit as long as the democrats are doing what they re doing. the democrat congress had taken us in the wrong direction. in the first year of obama s presidency, he created more debt than george bush did in eight years. the president and the democrats need to take responsibility. the republicans want to work with the democrats on improving health care, focusing on jobs. there are a number of other priorities. for the first year, the president believed he could steamroll the republicans. in the process, he was steamrolling the american people. that s where the anger coming from. people feel like the president, the democrats, some republicans have not been listening to him. people are sick of politics, sick of both parties in a lot of ways. i ve been proud that the republicans have been trying to come together the stop the spending and debt. we need to work together. hopefully the president will stop the effort to take over our health care system, refocus on jobs, look at ways to get the economy going. you re in the same room now, not literally. i want to shift gear. i want to talk about the landmark supreme court decision. the campaign finance reform ban on corporations and unions spending the general funds to advertise directly in favor of candidates, that s a violation of free speech. that will help republicans. what do you think? the big losers are the average american citizen. this will put an enormous amount of influence on big oil, big banks, that will support candidates that support their point of views. will republicans join us on regulatory reform? so we don t have the excesses of wall street? are they going to make sure that insurance companies don t deny people when they need it the most? this is a david and gol liath situation. you re going to try to reform this through legislation. it s a first amendment decision. it will be hard to do. i think there are things that can help curtail this. this was a reform effort 20 years ago. mccain mccain-feingold. senator demint, quickly, are you on board for trying to limit the impact of the supreme court decision? we can t promote freedom and democracy by repressing free speech. i think people should be able to come together in associations and organizations to spend money to be able to get the message out. we essentially give the labor ewons carte blanche over the situations. i think free speech needs to come first. are you in favor of foreign corporations being able to take part in american e leks through this decision? i don t believe, right now, foreigners can t give to the political process. i hope we mare sure this is an american focus. we have to sort that out. the problem is a corporation is a corporation, is a corporation. a foreign corporation is going to be able to spend money determining who is elected to the united states congress. it s a tough problem. senator robert menendez, senator jim demint, thanks for joining us. stay with us. there s a lot to talk about. with the round table. and later, the sunday funnies. it s thursday, january 21st. or as john edwards calls it, it s father s day. what s around the corner is one of life s great questions. and while it can never be fully answered, it helps to have a financial partner like northern trust. by gaining a keen understanding of your financial needs, we re able to tailor a plan using a full suite. of sophiscated investment strategies and solutions. so whatever s around the corner can be faced with confidence. northern trust. look ahead with us at northerntrust.com. advisor:. ms. davis, this is onstar. ve received a signal you ve been in a crash. i m contacting emergency services. 911 dispatch:.onstar reporting a front end crash. on wakefield road. chevy malibu. fire/ems:.air bags deployed. .injuries reported. advisor: ma am, help is on the way.ok. and i ll stay on the line with you until theyet there. automatic cras response. built into 15 chevy models. it doesn t cover everything. and what it doesn t cover r can cost you some money. that s why you should consider. an aarp medicare supplement insurance plan. insured by united healthcare insurance company. it can help cover some of what medicare doesn t. in out-of-pocket expenses. call now for this free information kit. and edicare guide., if you re turning 65 or you re already on medicare, you should know about this card; it s the only one of its kind. that carries the aarp name see if it s right for you. you hoose your doctor. you choose your hospital. there are o networks and no.referrals needed. save up to thousands of dollars. onotential out-of-pocket expenses. with an aarp medicare .supplement insurance plan. insured by united healthcare insurance company. call now for your free information kit. how ou ould start saving. right now 1.2 million people are on sprint mobile broaand. 31 are streaming a sales conference from the road. 154 are tracking shipments on a train. 33 are iming on a ferry. and 1300 are secretly checking email on vacation. thas happening now. america s most dependable 3g network. bringing you the first and only wireless 4g network. right now get a free 3g/4g device for your laptop. sprint. the now network. deaf, hard-of-hearing and people with speech disabilities access www.sprintrelay.com. up up next, the round table and the sunday fun lis. the the story s false, it s completely not true. i ve been in love with the same woman for 30-plus years. i don t respond to these lies. i would welcome participating in a paternity test. i would welcome it. i have seen a picture of the baby. i have no idea. it doesn t look like my children. to fake the dna results. he asked me and sherry to steal a diaper from the baby so he could secretdy do a dna test to find out if it was indeed his child. that is just painful to watch. that is the john edwards saga. that broke again this week. we ll talk about that and other things. george will, matt dowd, sam donaldson, cokie roberts. welcome to all of you. let s start with massachusetts. the second most bizarre interpretation of it was that scott brown s pickup truck is coded racism. the most bizarre was the president s in his interview with george stephanopoulos where he indicated it was a failure to explain this. first of all, the president has been ubiquitous arguing with this. you re talking about health care? health care election. tip o neill s axiom that it s local stood on its head. people of massachusetts and the country are hotly angered over its substance but coldly contemptuous of what brought it about. i don t think anybody knows what is in the bill. i think serve furious with washington. and barack obama rode that tide last year. now he s feeling the waves breaking on him. the fact is, everything that s happening in that beautiful building there is making people mad. and scott brown was the beneficiary of that. do you think that george is right that the president doesn t get it? i think the president gets it after the fact. remember the anchorman, the old one, i m mad as hell and i m not going to take it anymore. that s the way americans are feeling. the thought is throw the bums out. the bums are in, the democrats. i don t care what your name is, your position, you re the other guy. first, think it s funny, unlike las vegas, what happens in massachusetts doesn t stay in massachusetts. this is a wave that is moving across the country. i think this is a signal for both parties and members of congress for both sides. the country is saying when the republicans held office, the m ds came in, they said, you re not listening to us. barack obama wince a big i lex, they expand the majority, within a year, the democrats lose new jersey, virginia, and they lose the senate race in ted ken did i s seat. it was a republican victory. it was a victory for outsiders that say washington doesn t get it, republicans and democrats, you don t get it. we re going try something else. take a look at a chart that refutes that a little bit. this is a chart that shows how people identify themselves. are they liberal, moderate, conservative. over the last five years, no change. this country didn t swing to the left in 2008. the fastest rising group of voters in the country are independents. not as if the democrats suffered and democrats have rose. it s like saying a pox on all your houses. we don t like any of you. you ask which party do you trust more with various issues, the republicans do worse. it s not a republican tide. it s a throw the bums out tide. that s going to be there as long as the economy is bad and the congress continues to act in way that people think they re not representing them. that s it. it s a tide to get things done. last spring, the polls said people wanted health care reform. they wanted the public option. did the white house pursue it? he let the cats at capitol hill try to herald themselves. they took all summer and fall, they argued back and forth, ben nelson got a little something to his state. surely, the interesting poll about health care that we had when this whole process showed this waunt poll it was a fact. 85% of the american people had health insurance. 95% of that large majority were happy with what they had. there was no underlying discontent proportional to the change that the president was trying too put through. i m on medicare. people in the military are on a government health program. yet, the republicans were able the make the idea that being on a government health program is terrible. absurd. how did the democrats and the wous lose control of the message? that s phenomenal. after doing as well as they did in the campaign nobody heard of a public option. suddenly, it became the holy grail. they should have been saying, 35 million more people insured and you don t have pre-existing conditions. wehere does it go now? david axelrod saying that the president still wants to go big. what do you think? i think it s madness to spend another three months at least on health care. the president s second sentence last year was we all know that the primary question is jobs and the economy. so they spent a year on health care. they dare not surely do that again. the votes are not there if for big bill. the white house has to go through the stages of grief. they ve been in denial. the massachusetts election maybe woke them up out of it. now they re in ang person they re going the fight fight fight. they cruised fight 20 times. they re going to go through a series of depression and then get to ak accept tense. the american public wants the members of both problems to get together and solve the problem. what is the likelihood it s what barack obama ran on. so did george bush, by the way. hillary clinton was the fighting president. barack obama was we re going to unite the country and come together. the first thing we have to do is pass the health care? how are you going to do that, david is this thank you very much. the last thing he said was, no more bed welling. that means, get tough. if you went to mitch mcconnell right now and said, okay, you win. let s agree on some things. you ve always said pre-existing conditions, what is the incentive for mitch to say yes, let me hem you pass a bill that the americans really want? to avoid being the party of no. they re looking at the short run. the other problem that the president has, the anger is now focusing on the banks, and boy, do i get that. i mean, i spend a lot of time being furious with the bonuses and the way these people live and all of that. but, it s having a detrimental impact on wall street. you see wall street dropping 4% as it did last week in the weak of conversations about financial reform and talk of ben bernanke not been reappointed, that becomes a problem for them. if they take a populist stand and it hurts the economy rather than help it, then they re really up the creek. the president gets a chance to restart the agenda, presidents love to come before the country and say, the state of the union is great. sometimes they can t, however. in the near future, the state of the union, and the economy will be better, much better. if we sun mon the strength to continue on the course that we ve chartered. what is the state of our union? it is growing stronger. but it must be stronger still. so sometimes they have to find way to say things are not so great. what should barack obama do? once before, someone said, the state of the union is bad. and he lost. what should barack obama do when he gets before the congress and the country on wednesday? i think the first thing, he has to do a combination of things. he understands the people s fears, concerns, and anxieties and give a voice to them. point a path to hope, the promised land. people want to be understood. they want to sense some thing hopeful. he s going to have to say i emwrites a this. we went off a bit. i want to bring a bipartisan solution. he needs to call on them. call them to action, ask them to be in it together for the country so they look unpate yotic if they re not. here s where i difr. so to some extent, david plouffe is right. bed wetting? i think ronald rig on the some exticket. harry truman. the president wants the cooperation. he s going to try and get it done. if he says, bring me your plans. when he threw the public option under the bus last september by saying, i m for it, but if you have other ideas, bring it to me, you knew it was dead. he needs to be affirmative. doesn t he need to get distance between himself and congressional democrats? yes. one of the problems he had is people thought he was something else. now he look like nancy pelosi, harry reid and barack obama is the same ping. aproouchl among independents is 14%. i don t think the country is so much angry as it is sober and frightened. it s frightened by the deficits. a sense that that s no assumption that we ll make this turn out right. i expect that the president will come in with a plan. it will be bogus and rejectioned. to have a commission that recommended difficult choices. we have had those before. we have. what some people want thereupon is the e quichlt of the base closing commission. no one could do it politically at the end of cold war. that won t happen. that s the only one that s worked. the base closing commission. the social security commission in 1982, because there was a crisis looming. we have had budget commissions. they ve all sort of fizzled out because nobody had the political will to do what the commission said. he s the president. he has to be the leader. he may go down again. he s got to say, here s my plan, he has to herd the democrats, first of all. i don t i think they re much more upset about the job. i think the best thing for him to do is get in a fight with the democrats right away. they re less likesed a the. s are in congress. if he says, i got elected because i was going bring the country together. i was going stop the dysfunction up the street. the dysfunction belongs in both political parties. i m going to take on the democrats with something big and work with the. s to do it, i think the country wants that. lincoln signed the reform bill and the good liberals said it s the end of the kun. he koud do it in education. he does have an interesting proposal. let s go across the street. an historic decision out of the scout on the first amendment. the court holding that the campaign finance reform proe hi bigs on corporations and unions, that s a violation of free speech. is this a vindication of the first amendment or is this a surrender? vindication. because the court recognized the obvious. you cannot disseminate political speech without money. they have freed up the amount of money that will be spent. people think microsoft will be getting involved. it won t. it will bring in the sierra club. they were fined in florida last year for fall age foul of the that thick set of regulations on our political speech. how about goldman sachs? i agree, mr. bumble, of dickens fame, the law is an ass. an idiot. let s take mr. blankfine, in charge of goldman sachs. he can only give $2400 of his own money to a candidate. now the company can give millions. they can spend it and say, this man, barney frank, has gone too far in trying to restrict us, let s defeat him, vote for x. but blankfine can t give the $2400. what sense does that make? it s not like we re looking for money in politics. it s not like we re just staufing for cash. the politics is awash in money. that is really one of the biggest problems. one of the reasons we ve had the stalemates we have had on capitol hill. they re spending so much time out fund-raising, dealing with funders. not necessarily the american public. i don t know, obviously, the constitutional law part. the practical application is, first, it s not news that corporations and labor unions are not influencing the process. do they have a right to influence it more directly. they are influencing the process. they hire lobbyists. i think this is an incouple when si protection act. corporations and most large entities will side, as they usually do with the incumbent. let me challenge, the concern smot just in elections, but when they take votes. they re going take a vote and they re going to no if they vote the wrong way, wall street can spend against them. a mountain of social science has failed to demonstrate campaign contradicti campaign con try brugss affect how someone votes. all federal e lebs last year, $5 billion, congress up to the president, almost as much as the country spends on tortilla chips. we re not awash in money. second, what matt said is right. the democrats are the ones that are proffering right now. the president came out and said this is big oil and big gas. lawyers are the biggest contributors. 83% of their money is going to the democrats. leave that there. have to get to john edwards. it is painful to watch. will this story never end? i think it kind of ended. with any luck it s ended. have you ever seen anything so sleazy in your entire life? it s so despicable. there he is, lying, lying, lying, lying, lying. before the lie, there was the act. there s his wife. it s just so awful i don t know where to begin and end with it. can i say i m against adultery. one time i said before, compared to murder. oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive. edwards, as young as he was in washington, he should have understood the washington rule. the rule if life, confess immediately. he lies for two years in the most egregious way and then tries confess and say, i m a new man. to me, on a personal thing, i have tremendous simple think and compassion for elizabeth edwards. the ability for people today to come part meant liz their life. tiger woods for men to compartmentalize. on the day that john edwards announced his lie, he was in haiti. haven t the people of haiti been through enough? you can get political updates all reek long by signing up for our news letter. still to come, t the sunday funnie funnies . d mentioned? 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