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DC now, McAllen always 🇲🇽
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Daniella Diaz
3 years
I spotted the National Guard sleeping in the hallways of the Capitol as I walked in this morning.
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President Joe Biden will receive a routine colonoscopy today while he is undergoing a physical at Walter Reed. The process, which requires anesthesia, means that he will temporarily transfer power to Kamala Harris, who will briefly become the 1st woman President.
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Gladys Sicknick tells me why she didn’t shake McCarthy/McConnell hands: “They’re just two-faced. I'm just tired of them standing there &saying how wonderful the Capitol police is &then they turn around &..go down to Mar-A-Lago &kiss his ring &come back.. It just, it just hurts.”
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I asked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi about her reaction to Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy saying he didn’t watch today’s hearing. “Anytime you mention his name, you're not getting an answer from me. Don't waste my time,” she told me.
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The same House chamber doors where the armed standoff took place hours ago is being cleaned for members to return for the joint session:
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Spottted: @ewarren marching at the DC protests with her husband Bruce Mann and their dog Bailey.
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CNN PROJECTS: Joe Biden to become the 46th president of the United States
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The Biden campaign just advised that @KamalaHarris is going to ... McAllen Texas.
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5 years
This was toward me.
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Shortly after this chant, he spat in the direction of the CNN camera after calling them “Castro News Network.”
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I took this photo at 5 am — just hours after the Capitol attack. After experiencing the attack from inside the Capitol, I kept working the rest of the day and night covering the joint session to certify the 2020 election. I will never forget that day. I hope you don’t either.
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I don’t think a lot of the country realizes what’s happening in Texas right now. There are millions of people that don’t have electricity. No electricity means no heat. In some cases no electricity means no running water. For DAYS. In freezing temps.
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After the Miami rally, President Barack Obama made an impromptu stop at a taco restaurant with Sen. Bill Nelson and Andrew Gillum in Wynwood and said hi to locals hanging out ... also told them to vote.
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Sen. Ted Cruz's office has not responded to multiple requests for comment by CNN amid reports that he traveled to Cancun amid a winter disaster in his home state. Millions of Texans have been left without power or water.
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I asked Pelosi about the deal she reached with moderates when she walked off the House floor. "What deal?" she responded. "They wanted clarification about how we go forward and that's what we did."
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The diagnosis amounts to the most serious known health threat to a sitting American president in decades. At 74 years old and obese, Trump falls into the highest risk category for serious complications from the disease.
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. @ewarren just asked a question:
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The tapes were recorded by Stephanie Winston Wolkoff. "I'm working ... my a** off on the Christmas stuff, that you know, who gives a f*** about the Christmas stuff and decorations? But I need to do it, right?"
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. @SenSchumer says he and @SpeakerPelosi tried to call @VP this morning to urge him to oust the president. He said they were kept on hold for 25 minutes & then staff told them that Pence would not come to the phone.
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Personal news: I'm joining CNN's incredible Capitol Hill team as a reporter! I'm so excited for this new chapter of my career. And Hill staffers, if you see this, please add me to your press lists! 👀
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Champ, they said, had been with the family during their "most joyful moments" and "most grief-stricken days."
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. @Liz_Cheney said on @ThisWeekABC the Jan. 6 panel has testimony revealing that Ivanka Trump, Trump's daughter, visited Trump "at least twice to ask him to please stop this violence" during the insurrection.
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Fun scooplet with @mj_lee : @johnlegend is going to campaign for @ewarren in South Carolina
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4 years
Someone is holding a sign that says “endorse Bernie already” in the audience.
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. @RepCori is still outside the Capitol to send a message about the need to pass an extension on the moratorium on evictions.
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3 years
A Getty photo from inside the Capitol:
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A year later, here’s what I experienced on Jan. 6: My day began as any day does for me. I planned to work overnight and help the CNN team with our coverage of the session to certify the election results. (Thread!)
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It’s Friday. @SpeakerPelosi has the leather jacket on the House floor
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. @ewarren told us she walked 2.2 miles today and got breakfast at McDonald’s. #FITN
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Pelosi when asked about the GOP’s15 week abortion ban bill: “There are some (Republicans) who believe life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.”
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She also said the panel has "firsthand" testimony revealing former President Donald Trump was "sitting in the dining room next to the Oval Office watching the attack on television as the assault on the Capitol occurred."
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. @MittRomney to @DanaBashCNN : "I believe that what is being alleged and what we saw, which is incitement to insurrection, is an impeachable offense. If not, what is?"
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good morning! why yes I AM wearing a leather jacket on air
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When asked by CNN after the press conference if she regretted her impeachment vote, @Liz_Cheney responded: "Absolutely not."
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3 years
Here's the list of Republicans who supported impeaching Trump SO FAR: Cheney Gonzalez Herrera Beutler Katko Kinzinger Meijer Newhouse Rice Upton Valadao
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This is incredibly hard to watch.
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Now it's SEVEN GOP members supporting impeachment.
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Peter Meijer
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President Trump betrayed his oath of office by seeking to undermine our constitutional process, and he bears responsibility for inciting the insurrection we suffered last week. With a heavy heart, I will vote to impeach President Donald J. Trump.
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Update on trump tax returns: we’re let back into the room! Vote happening soon.
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NEW: The Wyoming State GOP Party voted MOMENTS AGO to formally censure Liz Cheney for her vote to impeach Trump in the latest example of state Republican parties punishing lawmakers who have gone against supporting the former president. (with @aaronpellish & @SuzanneMalveaux )
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As I exited the morning of Jan. 7, I took this photo of the Capitol. Still beautiful despite the tragedy of that day.
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After a busy day covering impeachment, @kristin__wilson is now giving National Guard members from Delaware a tour through the Capitol. (Yes I joined the tour!)
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President-elect @JoeBiden is currently at the Philadelphia Korean War memorial at Penns landing with Dr. Jill Biden for Veteran's Day.
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Joe Biden becomes first Democrat in 28 years to win Georgia
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HUGE HUGE HUGE thanks to the Capitol staff who kept reporters safe today and allowed us to do our job while escorting us to and from the Capitol after rioters swarmed the hallways. cc @HouseRadioTV
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Via @mkraju : On a private conference call moments ago, McConnell urged GOP senators not to join House members on Jan. 6 to object to state electoral results. No senators have pushed back so far, according to a source.
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✨ NEWS: After 8 wonderful years at CNN, I’m rejoining @politico as a congressional reporter today! Hill folks — please add me to all your press lists: ddiaz @politico .com
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During @CoryBooker ’s press conference in front of his Newark home after announcing he’s running for president, a Latina neighbor cheered him from her balcony across the street. “A la victoria!” he said back to her in Spanish.
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. @SpeakerPelosi says confidently on the budget reconciliation bill: "We don't have a bill yet but when we bring it to the floor, we will have the votes."
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SCHUMER moments ago on TANDEN: "Well everyone heard that one of our Democratic senators Joe Manchin doesn’t want to vote for her, I am working with President Biden to find the extra votes so she can be passed, I think she would be a very good OMB leader."
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And yes, I took a portrait mode photo of Bailey at @ewarren ’s second stop in New Hampshire. #fitn
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It’s a good day!! 💉
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T-minus 15 minutes until @JoeBiden gives remarks on the Affordable Care Act. Per pooler @AlxThomp , he is giving these remarks behind a podium that reads “Office of the President-elect."
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The Capitol Attending Physician says in new guidance that masks are now optional at the Capitol, just in time for President Joe Biden’s first state of the union address.
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Tonight alone has been three news cycles.
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When I asked if it was a win/win for both sides, she responded: "It's not about a win/win, the win/win was for the American people." I asked her about the 10 moderates constituents: "I don't know what they're doing, We have a large contingent of moderates in the Capitol."
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It’s finally spring 🌸
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And that’s a wrap on the last 15 months of my life. @ewarren
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. @maddow : If Biden asked you to be his running mate, would you say yes? . @ewarren : Yes.
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Congressional Hispanic Caucus members yell at Trump about the “zero tolerance” policy as he walks by after his meeting with GOP lawmakers at the Capitol.
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. @BernieSanders : "Well I don’t come from a billionaire family ... my family knew what it was like to live paycheck to paycheck. I know where I come from."
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3 years
NEW: There are metal detectors outside the House chamber. Members and staff will now have to go through them to enter the floor. A senior Democratic aide tells me a notice from Acting House SAA is imminent. (H/t @bresreports who tweeted first!)
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Just tried to grab @KellyannePolls while she was at a Hill opioids event and was courteous with her staff about wanting to talk to her ... she left through a back door to avoid me.
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"And with respect for those who work in this Capitol, and as a courtesy to my colleagues, I will be brief," Pelosi says on the floor moments ago.
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It took hours but the joint session resumed & the election results were certified. It was 4:30 am on Jan. 7 & I wanted to go home but the city was locked down and it was impossible to find a ride. I took this photo of myself that really summed up how I felt at the time.
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. @ewarren when I asked about @BernieSanders criticism of her M4A plan: "Bernie may have a different vision of how to pay for it, but let's be really clear, Bernie and I are headed in exactly the same direction," she told reporters.
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. @ewarren says she has a “surprise guest” — @AyannaPressley comes on stage.
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Is this a presidential campaign first? @AndrewYang crowd surfing?
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When I was back in the Capitol I ran to the House chamber and took this video that went viral at the time of Capitol staff cleaning up after the rioters.
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. @RonJohnsonWI is a NO on the same-sex marriage bill.
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. @ChrisMurphyCT : “We don’t have any more mental illness than any other country in the world. You cannot explain this through a prism of mental illness because we’re not an outlier on mental illness. We’re an outlier when it comes to access to firearms.”
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. @ewarren to @davidaxelrod on her brother dying of Covid-19: "I talked to him twice a day every day and he kept saying, I'm fine, I'm fine. And for 11 days after he tested positive, he kept saying he was fine. And then on the 12th day I called him, and no one answered."
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NEW: Sen. Ted Cruz and his family flew to Cancun, Mexico, as a winter disaster in his home state left millions without power or water, according to photos posted on social media and confirmed to CNN by an airline industry source. Story coming soon. W/ @murphy , @mkraju
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Y'all already KNOW I'm repping Texas this morning on CNN!!!
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New: Trump admin officials "usurped control of CDC communications and blocked public health officials from providing accurate information about the coronavirus to the American people," according to the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis.
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. @ewarren adds: "Here's what you don't know. Because of your privilege, because of how you grew up, here's what you missed. So I've tried to build in that way." (2/2)
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NEW: Pelosi has secured the votes to keep the Speaker's gavel for another two years.
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. @SpeakerPelosi on impeachment: "My members are very much interested. My phone is exploding with ‘impeach, impeach, impeach.'"
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. @VP is currently delivering remarks at a Make America Great Again rally in Carter Lake, Iowa. The event is indoors and most of the audience isn’t wearing face masks. There are more than 200 people here.
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NEW: Biden has announced the unions and rail companies have reached a tentative agreement to avert a strike ahead of a critical deadline Biden called it “a win for tens of thousands of rail workers who worked tirelessly through the pandemic."
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14 YES GOP VOTES: Liz Cheney Adam Kinzinger Tom Rice John Katko Maria Salazar Chris Jacobs Brian Fitzpatrick Peter Meijer Fred Upton Steve Chabot Mike Turner David Joyce Anthony Gonzalez of Ohio Tony Gonzalez of Texas
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An executive summary released after the meeting identifies the four Republicans as GOP leader Kevin McCarthy and Reps. Jim Jordan of Ohio, Andy Biggs of Arizona and Scott Perry of Pennsylvania.
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. @ewarren during a Women for Biden national call: "The deep inequities that persistent America fall especially hard on black women. And that's why I want to take a moment to say a name that we cannot afford to forget or to ignored. Breonna Taylor."
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This is the first time the US Capitol has been breached since the British attacked & burned the building in August of 1814, during the war of 1812, according to Samuel Holliday, director of scholarship and operations with the U.S. Capitol Historical Society. (via @PeterNickeas )
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House Ways and Means committee aides wheel tax documents into the committee room ahead of the 3 pm meeting on Trump’s tax returns.
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. @CoriBush spent the night outside the Capitol to send a message about the need to pass an extension on the moratorium on evictions. "I know what it's like to wonder if I'm going to get that eviction notice," she said.
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She adds: "I make mistakes in this campaign. There are times when I didn't hear things and people have come back at me. & here's the best part, they come back and I can hear it, because there are enough people around from enough places to say, here's what you need to know." (1/2)
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. @AyannaPressley is referencing my video I took and posted to Twitter the day of the Capitol attack.
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Manu Raju
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“One of the images that I’m haunted by is black custodial staff cleaning up the mess left by the violent white supremacist mob. That’s a metaphor for America,” Rep. Ayanna Pressley says to @jaketapper on @CNNSotu
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. @DebDingell just said on CNN that Pelosi didn't know about @Sen_JoeManchin 's document from July to Schumer about his topline of $1.5T for the economic document until this week. Notable.
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BREAKING: House reaches enough votes to impeach President Donald Trump
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The House Oversight and Reform Committee is slated to hold a vote TODAY to approve a bill that would grant statehood to Washington, DC, a Democratic priority that still faces obstacles for final passage. via @ckmarie
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Then we stayed hours in an undisclosed location until we were cleared to return to the Capitol. I was offered leftover pizza by a Capitol staff member — my first real meal of the day — around 4 pm. I’m still incredibly grateful for that, otherwise I wouldn’t have eaten that day.
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. @ewarren tells @abbydphillip : “How about if we're unified against insurrection? How about if we're unified for accountability? Unity starts with accountability. And then unity is about doing the work that the American people want done. It's not about ideology."
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I asked @ewarren in a gaggle with reporters if she would have ordered the strike. Her response ⬇️ “No. And I would not have been in the position to do it. Keep in mind that much of this started back when Donald Trump decided to pull out of the Iranian nuclear deal.”
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Aaaand a brief interaction between @VP and @SpeakerPelosi ⬇️
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Biden ordered four tacos to-go from on homemade corn tortillas from tortillera Neri-Diaz: pork al pastor, beef barbacoa, lengua (tongue), and carnitas. He also picked up a homemade green chorizo and a mushroom quesadilla.
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I grabbed my stuff as quickly as I could and ran out with the other reporters to separate Capitol building. Here’s the only video I took at the time.
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"Lies have consequences. This violence was the inevitable and ugly outcome of the President’s addiction to constantly stoking division."
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Senator Ben Sasse
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This is not how we peacefully transfer power.
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Pelosi just left the Capitol. When asked about state and local/liability in stimulus, she said: “We’re talking about going forward, we’re not talking about that ...” (1/2)
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. @SpeakerPelosi to pooler @lukebroadwater on @Liz_Cheney supporting impeachment: "Good for her to be honoring the oath of office."
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