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Speaker 1: This is a podcast from WOR Now, the WOR Saturday

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Speaker 1: Morning Show.

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Speaker 2: Here's Larry Minty.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Saturday Morning. On this week's show, Scott Jennings,

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Speaker 1: the Conservative Lion on CNN, has a new book out

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Speaker 1: about Donald Trump, called The Revolution of Common Sense. He's

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Speaker 1: here to talk about it. Scott. It's great to talk

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Speaker 1: to you again. Thanks for being here.

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Speaker 2: Hey, I really appreciate this conversation. Thank you.

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Speaker 1: Hey. Listen, something just happened in New York today that

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Speaker 1: is a big deal. You know, zorin Mam Donnie is

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Speaker 1: the mayor elect. I've heard you talk about him before.

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Speaker 1: Everybody was hoping that Jessica Tish was going to stay

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Speaker 1: on as police commissioner, even though they disagree with each

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Speaker 1: other on just about every law enforcement policy. We got

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Speaker 1: the great news today she is staying on. Does that

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Speaker 1: give you some comfort?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it doesn't a short term, but I still think

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Speaker 2: what you said is true. They disagree fundamentally on law enforcement.

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Speaker 2: I mean heard I'm Ganni repeatedly over the years make

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Speaker 2: disparaging remarks about law enforcement and his views on criminal

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Speaker 2: justice in general. He wants fewer police on the street,

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Speaker 2: but he wants to empty the prisons, and I just

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Speaker 2: think that's fundamentally at odds with what most people would

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Speaker 2: think is a right way to run a criminal justice system.

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Speaker 2: He's also saying this week he'll have the NYPD or

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Speaker 2: as Prime Minister net and Yahoo of Israel if he

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Speaker 2: comes to New York City. So I wonder what will

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Speaker 2: happen when some of these operational things, you know, after

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Speaker 2: he takes over, happen. And I hope Tisch stays, but

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Speaker 2: I get a feeling she's going to be given orders

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Speaker 2: that she simply can't follow.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if she's going to be giving orders

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Speaker 1: they gave said they had several meetings, and the fact

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Speaker 1: that she look she doesn't need him, he needs her,

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Speaker 1: And so I got a feeling, at least, let me

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Speaker 1: let me enjoy this for a minute, Scott, Let me

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Speaker 1: just feel like at least the police department's going to

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Speaker 1: be in good hands.

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Speaker 2: I hope you're right, and I pray that you're right.

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Speaker 2: But I also think this guy's got a ton of

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Speaker 2: supporters who aren't interested in the kind of police force

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Speaker 2: that you're in interested in, and he's going to be

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Speaker 2: under a huge amount of political pressure from his base

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Speaker 2: to do what they thought he said he was going

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Speaker 2: to do. I hope you're right, and maybe he'll surprise this.

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Speaker 2: And certainly politicians have surprised me in the past. I

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Speaker 2: don't think he's going to be one of them, but

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Speaker 2: maybe he'll be right in hope springs eternal.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll tell you what, if she's forced to do

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Speaker 1: anything she doesn't want to do, she's gonna leave. I mean,

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Speaker 1: she's from a billionaire family, she doesn't she doesn't need

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Speaker 1: this job, and I believe she's going to run for

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Speaker 1: mayor somewhere down the line.

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Speaker 2: Look, I'm fearful for New York City. I'm fearful the Jewish,

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Speaker 2: fearful for the Jewish population in New York City. But again,

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna I'm gonna choose to hope for the best,

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Speaker 2: but plan for the worst. I spend a lot of

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Speaker 2: time here now. I'm from Kentucky, but I'm in New

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Speaker 2: York all the time. So these things matter to me

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Speaker 2: more now than they ever have.

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Speaker 1: Well, congratulations to you on the new book, A Revolution

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Speaker 1: of common Sense. I think I can figure out what

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Speaker 1: you're getting at, But why don't you just explain in.

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Speaker 2: Case, Well, here's what the deal is. I heard the

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Speaker 2: President use that phrase in his inaugural address, and I

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Speaker 2: thought to myself, boy, that'd be a great title for

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Speaker 2: a book. And it is the perfect way to explain

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Speaker 2: how he has branded the Republican Party and the conservative

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Speaker 2: movement since he's come on the scene. And I went

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Speaker 2: with the President in fact, to Michigan on his hundredth

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Speaker 2: day in office, and he said something like to the

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Speaker 2: in his speech. You know, whether you're on the right,

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Speaker 2: whether you're on the left, or whatever you are, it's

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Speaker 2: just common sense. That's how he thinks of himself. You know,

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Speaker 2: he is a conservative, and he operates mostly as a conservative,

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Speaker 2: but more than that, he just thinks of himself as

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Speaker 2: someone who's trying to act on common sense and trying

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Speaker 2: to get to outcomes. And so that's why I wrote

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Speaker 2: the book, because I think understanding how he thinks of

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Speaker 2: himself and how he leads is key to understating how

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Speaker 2: our government currently operates. So it's really more of an

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Speaker 2: informational or an educational book. If you want to learn

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Speaker 2: about how Donald Trump leads the government, this book has

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Speaker 2: the access and the information for you.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree with you too. I think that he

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Speaker 1: like many Americans, and especially some young men who were

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Speaker 1: left out of every conversation when it came to politics

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Speaker 1: or the last administration. They looked at him and what

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Speaker 1: he was talking about and just said that made sense.

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Speaker 1: That's why he won. He won all the swing states

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Speaker 1: and he won the popular vote because of that, and

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Speaker 1: he's carrying through with it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely, Look, let's take a few of the issues

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Speaker 2: that you know, I called him eighty twenty issues. Maybe

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Speaker 2: they're ninety ten or ninety five to five, like boys

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Speaker 2: and girls sports, boys and girls' locker rooms. You know,

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Speaker 2: the Democrats were dedicated to the idea that we just

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Speaker 2: had to accept that. That's one of a bunch of

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Speaker 2: issues where people thought, well, that's not common sense, that's nonsense,

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Speaker 2: and Trump instinctively knew it, and he comes along and

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Speaker 2: he latches onto it and says, I'm I'm just going

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Speaker 2: to do the common sense thing here. That brought in

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Speaker 2: to his coalition a bunch of people who did not

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Speaker 2: think of themselves as Republicans, but they were tired of

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Speaker 2: being told they had to accept things that they instinctively

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Speaker 2: knew were nonsense. And so Trump got it. That's part

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Speaker 2: of his political talent. To sort of seize upon those issues,

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Speaker 2: and it really really helped deliver him the presidency second time.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's one of them. The border is the other one.

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Speaker 1: What did he do? He closed that on a weekend

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Speaker 1: after we're told that couldn't be closed, or at least

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Speaker 1: what else. We were told it was safe, and then

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Speaker 1: we were told it was too hard to close.

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Speaker 2: We had had effectively zero border crossings in this country

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Speaker 2: for the last five months. I mean, think about that.

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Speaker 2: We had hundreds of thousands of people coming in. Now

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Speaker 2: we have zero. Do you have any laws we've passed

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Speaker 2: since Donald Trump took office on immigration? Zero? We have

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Speaker 2: not passed a single new law. We do have a

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Speaker 2: president who's willing to enforce existing law and tell law

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Speaker 2: enforcement to execute the laws that are on the books.

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Speaker 2: That's the only difference. It was an attitude change, and

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Speaker 2: it was a change in are we going to follow

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Speaker 2: the law or are we not? He's following the law.

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Speaker 2: I don't think it's controversial frankly to follow the law.

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Speaker 2: But the impact has been felt immediately. Zero border crossings.

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Speaker 2: We're also getting rid of some of these people here

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Speaker 2: on visas that came here to hate America and foement

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Speaker 2: anger against America and the West. I think it's been

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Speaker 2: his best accomplishment is getting the immigration system under control.

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Speaker 2: Now we have a lot of internal enforcement left to do,

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Speaker 2: but closing the border alone has been one of his

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Speaker 2: biggest achievements.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely. And I love the name of your book about

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Speaker 1: common sense because when he stakes a ground in issues

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Speaker 1: that we just talked about, on issues like we just

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Speaker 1: talked about, that makes so much sense. It forces the

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Speaker 1: Democrats on the other side of those issues, and they

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Speaker 1: take debit every single time.

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Speaker 2: Scott. One of the dumbest things they do is reflexively

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Speaker 2: oppose Donald Trump no matter what he does. They never

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Speaker 2: stop to say, well, wait a minute, would this put

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Speaker 2: us in a bad position if we oppose this. They

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Speaker 2: do it every single time. Immigration's a great example. He says, well,

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Speaker 2: let's close the border, let's not have people coming in,

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Speaker 2: and let's get criminal, illegal, violent people out of our country.

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Speaker 2: And what do they do. They send their senators to

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Speaker 2: El Salvador to try to retrieve a guy who's at

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Speaker 2: MS thirteen and bring him back to Maryland. The Democrats

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Speaker 2: cannot help themselves. They oppose him reflexively. It is their ideology.

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Speaker 2: Leave in nothing except opposing Donald Trump at all costs.

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Speaker 2: I think it hurts their party and hurts their brand.

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Speaker 1: Well, Scott, thanks for spending time with us. We get

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Speaker 1: a taste of what the book is all about. A

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Speaker 1: revolution of common sense by Scott Jennings that is worth

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Speaker 1: the read, and we'll look for you on CNN. Thanks

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Speaker 1: a lot, Scott, Thanks a lot.

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Speaker 2: It's in bookstores today. Get your copy now. You won't

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Speaker 2: regret it.

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