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Trump admin. ousts Obama-era Homelessness Council official
Executive Director of the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness, courtesy of USICH online.
The Trump administration is ousting an Obama-era official who oversaw efforts to combat homelessness. On Friday, Matthew Doherty announced his departure from his role as the Executive Director of the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness.
In an email to coworkers, Doherty said administration “no longer wishes” to have him in the position, which he had held since April 2015. He also took to Twitter with a similar message, saying it was the administration’s request he resign.
Doherty’s ousting comes as the White House continues its efforts to solve the country’s homelessness crisis.As Tweets from faster fingers than mine have been hinting, today was my last day in service as Executive Director at @USICHgov, at the administration’s request (as is their right.) Incredibly honored to have had the opportunity to serve in this role, and, as importantly … (1/4)— Matthew Doherty (@m_j_doherty) November 15, 2019
“The people of San Francisco are fed up, and the people of Los Angeles are fed up,” President Trump said last month. “We’re looking at it and we’ll be doing something about it.”
Senate confirms Trump appeals court nominee Steven Menashi over Dem objections
The
Senate on Thursday voted to confirm Trump nominee Steven Menashi to a
federal appeals court despite fierce opposition from Democrats.
Menashi, who will be seated on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, was confirmed by a 51-41 vote. He had been criticized by liberals in Congress and in the media over accusations of a lack of professionalism and bias, though Menashi has said the attacks mischaracterize him and his writings.
"Mr. Menashi is one of the most contemptible nominees to come before the Senate in all my time in this body," Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said on the Senate floor Thursday. "He would be a disgrace, a disgrace to the seat once held by the great Thurgood Marshall. Sitting before the Judiciary Committee, he refused to answer simple questions. He showed a breathtaking contempt for senators on both sides of the aisle. His record on race, women's equality, LGBTQ rights and the rights of immigrants should be disqualifying."
Menashi was grilled during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing over his past writings and his work with the White House counsel’s office. A segment on Rachel Maddow’s MSNBC show discussed a law journal article Menashi wrote in 2010, titled "Ethnonationalism and Liberal Democracy." Maddow cited Menashi’s use of the term “ethnonationalism” to suggest he is aligned with white nationalists, alleging he's on the “fringe of racial thinking.”
During questioning, Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., said that Menashi had faced “unusually personal” and “vicious” attacks.
Menashi denied the white nationalism allegations, saying, “It’s hurtful and I think it misrepresents what I’ve written.”
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who has steadily advanced nearly 50 Trump picks to circuit court posts while also shepherding two Supreme Court nominees and dozens of district court nominees through confirmations, complimented Menashi's credentials on the Senate floor this week.
"Mr. Menashi is a graduate of Dartmouth College and Stanford University Law School, he's accrued an impressive record in private practice and earned clerkships on the D.C. Circuit and with Justice [Samuel] Alito," McConnell said of Menashi this week. "I hope my colleagues will join me in advancing each of these nominations."
Conservatives, including Judicial Crisis Network policy director Carrie Severino, who co-authored "Justice on Trial," a book chronicling the confirmation of Justice Brett Kavanaugh, have stepped up to defend Menashi's record.
Severino wrote in the Washington Examiner last month that the criticism levied by Maddow is unfair because Menashi's take on Israel as a Jewish state that is also a democracy, "has roots in his family history. The nominee’s grandparents suffered anti-Semitism in Iraq and the former Soviet Union — his grandmother survived a pogrom in Baghdad — before emigrating to the United States, as did his in-laws, who were Soviet refugees."
Severino also wrote that other liberal attacks on Menashi for his college writings were baseless.
"Most people would be embarrassed to reread their musings from their teen and early adult years," she wrote. "But even as a young college student and recent graduate, Menashi managed to address divisive topics thoughtfully, respectfully, and fairly.
"It is merely because some of those arguments took conservative positions that he has been subjected to unrelenting and misleading attacks from biased news media."
The American Bar Association (ABA), which evaluates federal judicial nominees, rated Menashi as “Well Qualified,” its highest mark. That has not been the case for some other Trump judges confirmed by the Senate, like Judge Justin Walker, who was confirmed to the Western District of Kentucky last month.
Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., bashed Republicans for the pick.
"I find it hard to believe there's a shortage of experienced conservative attorneys and state court judges in Kentucky," he said.
Even as the Senate voted to confirm Menashi Thursday, Democrats continued to rail against the pick.
"The Senate is voting right NOW on Steven Menashi, one of the MOST extreme and LEAST forthcoming judicial nominees I have seen in my 45 years in the Senate," Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., tweeted. "His refusal to answer even basic Qs from both parties made a mockery of our constitutional duty to provide advice & consent."
Fox News' Ronn Blitzer contributed to this report.
Menashi, who will be seated on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, was confirmed by a 51-41 vote. He had been criticized by liberals in Congress and in the media over accusations of a lack of professionalism and bias, though Menashi has said the attacks mischaracterize him and his writings.
"Mr. Menashi is one of the most contemptible nominees to come before the Senate in all my time in this body," Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said on the Senate floor Thursday. "He would be a disgrace, a disgrace to the seat once held by the great Thurgood Marshall. Sitting before the Judiciary Committee, he refused to answer simple questions. He showed a breathtaking contempt for senators on both sides of the aisle. His record on race, women's equality, LGBTQ rights and the rights of immigrants should be disqualifying."
Menashi was grilled during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing over his past writings and his work with the White House counsel’s office. A segment on Rachel Maddow’s MSNBC show discussed a law journal article Menashi wrote in 2010, titled "Ethnonationalism and Liberal Democracy." Maddow cited Menashi’s use of the term “ethnonationalism” to suggest he is aligned with white nationalists, alleging he's on the “fringe of racial thinking.”
During questioning, Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., said that Menashi had faced “unusually personal” and “vicious” attacks.
Menashi denied the white nationalism allegations, saying, “It’s hurtful and I think it misrepresents what I’ve written.”
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who has steadily advanced nearly 50 Trump picks to circuit court posts while also shepherding two Supreme Court nominees and dozens of district court nominees through confirmations, complimented Menashi's credentials on the Senate floor this week.
"Mr. Menashi is a graduate of Dartmouth College and Stanford University Law School, he's accrued an impressive record in private practice and earned clerkships on the D.C. Circuit and with Justice [Samuel] Alito," McConnell said of Menashi this week. "I hope my colleagues will join me in advancing each of these nominations."
Conservatives, including Judicial Crisis Network policy director Carrie Severino, who co-authored "Justice on Trial," a book chronicling the confirmation of Justice Brett Kavanaugh, have stepped up to defend Menashi's record.
Severino wrote in the Washington Examiner last month that the criticism levied by Maddow is unfair because Menashi's take on Israel as a Jewish state that is also a democracy, "has roots in his family history. The nominee’s grandparents suffered anti-Semitism in Iraq and the former Soviet Union — his grandmother survived a pogrom in Baghdad — before emigrating to the United States, as did his in-laws, who were Soviet refugees."
Severino also wrote that other liberal attacks on Menashi for his college writings were baseless.
"Most people would be embarrassed to reread their musings from their teen and early adult years," she wrote. "But even as a young college student and recent graduate, Menashi managed to address divisive topics thoughtfully, respectfully, and fairly.
"It is merely because some of those arguments took conservative positions that he has been subjected to unrelenting and misleading attacks from biased news media."
The American Bar Association (ABA), which evaluates federal judicial nominees, rated Menashi as “Well Qualified,” its highest mark. That has not been the case for some other Trump judges confirmed by the Senate, like Judge Justin Walker, who was confirmed to the Western District of Kentucky last month.
Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., bashed Republicans for the pick.
"I find it hard to believe there's a shortage of experienced conservative attorneys and state court judges in Kentucky," he said.
Even as the Senate voted to confirm Menashi Thursday, Democrats continued to rail against the pick.
"The Senate is voting right NOW on Steven Menashi, one of the MOST extreme and LEAST forthcoming judicial nominees I have seen in my 45 years in the Senate," Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., tweeted. "His refusal to answer even basic Qs from both parties made a mockery of our constitutional duty to provide advice & consent."
Fox News' Ronn Blitzer contributed to this report.
Elise Stefanik emerges as main Schiff antagonist in fiery impeachment hearings
Rep.
Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., emerged this week as a central figure on the
Republican side of the House Intelligence Committee in the public impeachment hearings -- and a top antagonist of Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif.
The 35-year-old lawmaker featured prominently as tensions boiled over between lawmakers on Friday during the questioning of former Ukraine Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch. Ranking Member Devin Nunes, R-Calif., attempted to give up the remainder of his time to her. But as Stefanik spoke, Schiff slammed down the gavel, arguing that it was not allowed under committee rules: "The gentlewoman will suspend."
"What is the interruption for now?" she shot back.
What followed was a debate between Nunes and Schiff as to whether the Republican could offer his time to a fellow member of Congress, rather than minority counsel. Stefanik repeatedly tried to speak, only for Schiff to bang his gavel again.
"You're gagging the young lady from New York?" Nunes laughed at one point.
"This is the fifth time you have interrupted a duly-elected member of Congress," Stefanik told Schiff, who repeatedly told her she was "not recognized" to speak.
Before the testimony began Friday, Schiff shut down Stefanik for the first time after Stefanik asked if he would “continue to prohibit witnesses from answering Republican questions.” Schiff said it wasn’t a “proper” point of order, and then declined to recognize her colleague Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, who also tried to raise a parliamentary question.
“We know clearly you're going to interrupt us throughout this hearing,” Stefanik complained within minutes of the gavel.
Tensions and spats between Republicans and Democrats were expected amid the partisan impeachment hearing, but eyes were generally on Nunes and Jordan -- who normally play the roles of attack dog at hearings. But instead, it was Stefanik who generated significant buzz, as well as viral clips that quickly zipped around conservatives and Republicans on Twitter.
Another moment came later in the hearing when Stefanik read out comments from Schiff about how the whistleblower was going to testify “very soon” -- comments that he had not allowed to be submitted for the record. As she did so, Schiff sat emotionless with his arms folded.
In this case, the fact that we are getting criticized by [Schiff] for statements he himself made early on in this process shows the duplicity and the abuse of power we are continuing to see," she said.
She also scored some key narrative points for the Republican side too. In the questioning of Yovanovitch, she asked the ex-ambassador whether it was accurate that “defensive lethal aid” that she had pushed for was provided to Ukraine not by the Obama administration, but by the Trump administration.
“That’s correct,” Yovanovitch responded.
Her performance in the hearings drew praise from fellow Republicans.
“She’s effective. She’s a great spokesperson,” said Rep. John Ratcliffe, R-Texas, another member of the Intelligence committee, to The Associated Press. “And these issues are in her wheelhouse.”
It was for Republicans, something of a mirror of another viral 2017 moment when Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., shut down remarks from Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. When McConnell subsequently complained that he warned her she was breaking Senate rules, he added that “nevertheless, she persisted.” Those words formed a slogan for Democrats -- and sympathetic media outlets -- that carries on to this day.
Some of those media outlets appeared less sympathetic to Stefanik, however, The Washington Post, which had once called Warren’s moment a “battle cry” called Stefanik’s a "transparently" "manufactured" moment and a "gender-centric stunt." It also accused her of making "political hay."
Stefanik has indeed used the Friday moment, as well as the controversy it generated, to follow up with a fundraising push.
“Since I’ve exposed Adam Schiff, radical liberals & never-Trumpers are launching disgusting attacks against me in an attempt to silence me,” she said.
But so has her Democratic opponent Tedra Cobb, tweeting that “partisan political theatre is beneath the dignity of her office.”
"She skipped several important private hearings— now with the cameras on, she has repeatedly attempted to derail the public hearings," Cobb tweeted. "Stefanik should take her oath to the Constitution seriously."
Hearings continue next week on Tuesday, and it will remain to be seen the role that Stefanik plays during those hearings as well.
Fox News’ Joseph A. Wulfsohn and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
The 35-year-old lawmaker featured prominently as tensions boiled over between lawmakers on Friday during the questioning of former Ukraine Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch. Ranking Member Devin Nunes, R-Calif., attempted to give up the remainder of his time to her. But as Stefanik spoke, Schiff slammed down the gavel, arguing that it was not allowed under committee rules: "The gentlewoman will suspend."
"What is the interruption for now?" she shot back.
What followed was a debate between Nunes and Schiff as to whether the Republican could offer his time to a fellow member of Congress, rather than minority counsel. Stefanik repeatedly tried to speak, only for Schiff to bang his gavel again.
"You're gagging the young lady from New York?" Nunes laughed at one point.
"This is the fifth time you have interrupted a duly-elected member of Congress," Stefanik told Schiff, who repeatedly told her she was "not recognized" to speak.
Before the testimony began Friday, Schiff shut down Stefanik for the first time after Stefanik asked if he would “continue to prohibit witnesses from answering Republican questions.” Schiff said it wasn’t a “proper” point of order, and then declined to recognize her colleague Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, who also tried to raise a parliamentary question.
“We know clearly you're going to interrupt us throughout this hearing,” Stefanik complained within minutes of the gavel.
Tensions and spats between Republicans and Democrats were expected amid the partisan impeachment hearing, but eyes were generally on Nunes and Jordan -- who normally play the roles of attack dog at hearings. But instead, it was Stefanik who generated significant buzz, as well as viral clips that quickly zipped around conservatives and Republicans on Twitter.
Another moment came later in the hearing when Stefanik read out comments from Schiff about how the whistleblower was going to testify “very soon” -- comments that he had not allowed to be submitted for the record. As she did so, Schiff sat emotionless with his arms folded.
In this case, the fact that we are getting criticized by [Schiff] for statements he himself made early on in this process shows the duplicity and the abuse of power we are continuing to see," she said.
She also scored some key narrative points for the Republican side too. In the questioning of Yovanovitch, she asked the ex-ambassador whether it was accurate that “defensive lethal aid” that she had pushed for was provided to Ukraine not by the Obama administration, but by the Trump administration.
“That’s correct,” Yovanovitch responded.
Her performance in the hearings drew praise from fellow Republicans.
“She’s effective. She’s a great spokesperson,” said Rep. John Ratcliffe, R-Texas, another member of the Intelligence committee, to The Associated Press. “And these issues are in her wheelhouse.”
It was for Republicans, something of a mirror of another viral 2017 moment when Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., shut down remarks from Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. When McConnell subsequently complained that he warned her she was breaking Senate rules, he added that “nevertheless, she persisted.” Those words formed a slogan for Democrats -- and sympathetic media outlets -- that carries on to this day.
Some of those media outlets appeared less sympathetic to Stefanik, however, The Washington Post, which had once called Warren’s moment a “battle cry” called Stefanik’s a "transparently" "manufactured" moment and a "gender-centric stunt." It also accused her of making "political hay."
Stefanik has indeed used the Friday moment, as well as the controversy it generated, to follow up with a fundraising push.
“Since I’ve exposed Adam Schiff, radical liberals & never-Trumpers are launching disgusting attacks against me in an attempt to silence me,” she said.
But so has her Democratic opponent Tedra Cobb, tweeting that “partisan political theatre is beneath the dignity of her office.”
"She skipped several important private hearings— now with the cameras on, she has repeatedly attempted to derail the public hearings," Cobb tweeted. "Stefanik should take her oath to the Constitution seriously."
Hearings continue next week on Tuesday, and it will remain to be seen the role that Stefanik plays during those hearings as well.
Fox News’ Joseph A. Wulfsohn and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
New documents allege millions went to Biden’s and Kerry’s firm
FILE
– In this Jan. 15, 2017 file photo, former U.S Secretary of State John
Kerry speaks with the media after attending the Mideast peace conference
in Paris. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, Pool, File)
OAN Newsroom
UPDATED 8:18 PM PT — Saturday, November 16, 2019
Corrupt actions by the former Obama-era vice president and secretary
of state are coming to light after new leaked documents surfaced. In a
bombshell tweet, activist and entrepreneur Michael Coodrey released a
series of leaked documents from the Ukrainian General Prosecutor’s
Office, which allegedly detail a so-called ‘slushfund’ collecting large
sums of money from foreign sources.The report claimed this fund is owned and operated by former Secretary of State John Kerry and Hunter Biden, the son of former Vice President Joe Biden.Leaked transaction and bank records indicate an influx of large payments from Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings Limited to Rosemont Seneca Bohai LLC, in what appears to be monthly payments of $83,333.33. pic.twitter.com/BZXi61NnOO— Michael Coudrey (@MichaelCoudrey) November 14, 2019
In 2014, Hunter Biden was appointed to the board of directors of Ukrainian oil company Burisma. GOP senators are calling on the State Department to release records of business dealings within the company. This comes after $1.8 billion in U.S. and IMF funds to Ukraine allegedly disappeared.
Career
Foreign Service officer George Kent and top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine
William Taylor, right, are sworn in to testify during the first public
impeachment hearing of the House Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill,
Wednesday Nov. 13, 2019, in Washington. (Joshua Roberts/Pool via AP)
State Department official George Kent claimed he has no idea what qualified Hunter Biden to serve on the board of a Ukrainian gas company. Kent testified on Capitol Hill this week, saying he doesn’t know anything about Biden’s background or how he could be tied to Burisma.
“I heard nothing about prior experience,” stated Kent. “Do you know if he possesses any other element — other than the fact that he is the son of, at the time, the sitting vice president?”
This comes after Ukrainian investigators alleged the only reason Biden was on the company’s board was to protect Burisma from anti-corruption scrutiny — which eventually happened when Joe Biden forced Ukraine’s top prosecutor to resign in 2016.
FILE
– In this Jan. 30, 2010, file photo, former Vice President Joe Biden,
left, with his son Hunter, right, at the Duke Georgetown NCAA college
basketball game in Washington. (AP Photo/Nick Wass, File)
At the same time, Ukraine’s foreign minister released a statement saying the U.S. envoy was never linked to probes into the Bidens’ alleged corruption. The minister added the Bidens were mentioned during U.S.-Ukrainian talks, but were not conditionally attached to the investigation.
The president weighed in on that statement during a ‘Keep America Great’ rally in Louisiana.
“Here it is — Ukrainian Foreign Minister said on Thursday that the United States ambassador did not link financial military assistance to a request for Ukraine to open up an investigation into former Vice President and current Democratic presidential (candidate Joe Biden),” stated President Trump.
#NEW: Pres. Trump reads a statement from the Ukrainian official who said the U.S. Ambassador to the European Union did not attempt to link a military aide freeze to Kiev investigating Joe Biden and his son Hunter. pic.twitter.com/uXJwQwi1Dm— Alex Salvi (@alexsalvinews) November 15, 2019
Saturday, November 16, 2019
Jim Jordan asks why Adam Schiff hasn't released transcripts of 4 closed-door depositions
Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, expressed frustration Friday that House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff,
D-Calif., has not yet released the transcripts of depositions from four
witnesses who gave testimony behind closed doors in the House of
Representatives' impeachment inquiry into President Trump.
"The chairman has promised that we'd get to see the transcript," Jordan said during Friday’s televised impeachment hearing, "but there are still four people that we have not been able to see their transcripts.
“Therefore, the testimony they provided, we’re not able to use in these open hearings,” Jordan added. “If it’s an open hearing, all the available testimony of depositions that has been taken by the committee should be available to be discussed, for the American people to see.”
Both Morrison and Williams were on the July 25 phone call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during which Trump asked Zelensky to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter’s Biden’s conduct regarding Ukrainian oil company Burisma.
Schiff’s team has said they will release those transcripts “shortly,” without providing a specific date, according to Axios.
Morrison, Hale and Williams are all scheduled to publicly testify next week.
"The chairman has promised that we'd get to see the transcript," Jordan said during Friday’s televised impeachment hearing, "but there are still four people that we have not been able to see their transcripts.
“Therefore, the testimony they provided, we’re not able to use in these open hearings,” Jordan added. “If it’s an open hearing, all the available testimony of depositions that has been taken by the committee should be available to be discussed, for the American people to see.”
“If it’s an open hearing, all the available testimony ... should be available to be discussed, for the American people to see.”Jordan was referring to the closed-door testimony given by Tim Morrison, the National Security Council's outgoing senior director of European and Russian affairs and White House deputy assistant; Jennifer Williams, Vice President Mike Pence's special adviser on Europe and Russia; David Hale, undersecretary of state for political affairs; and Philip Reeker, a top State Department diplomat in charge of U.S. policy for Europe.
— U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio
Both Morrison and Williams were on the July 25 phone call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during which Trump asked Zelensky to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter’s Biden’s conduct regarding Ukrainian oil company Burisma.
Schiff’s team has said they will release those transcripts “shortly,” without providing a specific date, according to Axios.
Morrison, Hale and Williams are all scheduled to publicly testify next week.
Chris Stewart takedown of Yovanovitch shows Democrats have 'no case,' GOP says
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| Yovanovitch From the view of the White House and some top Republicans, U.S. Rep. Chris Stewart's questioning of former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch on Friday was the point where House Democrats' impeachment argument showed the party had "no case" against President Trump. During Friday's public hearings, Yovanovitvh told Stewart, a Utah Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, that she could supply the panel with no information regarding criminal activity or bribes that President Trump may have been involved with. Stewart: "I would now feel compelled to ask you, Madam Ambassador, as you sit here before us, very simply and directly, do you have any information regarding the president of the United States accepting any bribes?" Yovanovitch: "No." Stewart: "Do you have any information regarding any criminal activity that the president of the United States has been involved with at all?" Yovanovitch: "No." Stewart thanked Yovanovitch before predicting that public support for impeachment would decrease after the hearings. "The American people know this is nonsense," Stewart said. "The American people know this is unfair." "The American people know this is nonsense. The American people know this is unfair."Both the White House and some top Republicans reacted to the exchange, saying it proved their argument that the impeachment inquiry was without merit. "In 30 seconds," a White House message on Twitter read, "@RepChrisStewart got the answers that House democrats have spent 7 hours trying to avoid. "7 hours that Congress could've spent working for you--on drug price legislation, USMCA, immigration reform, or infrastructure--instead of for their own political careers." "Zero evidence of wrongdoing by the President was presented," White house press secretary Stephanie Grisham wrote in a statement. "In fact, Ambassador Yovanovitch testified under oath that she was unaware of any criminal activity involving President Trump." Grisham added later: "It is difficult to image a greater waste of time than today's hearing, and yet unfortinately we expect more of the same partisan political theater next week from House Democrats." "Zero evidence of wrongdoing by the President was presented. ... It is difficult to image a greater waste of time than today's hearing."Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., reacted to the exchange on Twitter, saying that Democrats had "no case." "The Democrats second day impeachment witness, Ambassador Yovanovitch, has no information on any of the relevant questions," Meadows tweeted. "They have no case. This is not serious." Earlier, Meadows wrote that Stewart's questioning of Yovanovitch had "summarized this whole hearing." Stewart later predicted that more Americans would support Trump as a result of the hearings. "The American people are going to be able to see the evidence and they're going to be able to make their own determination regarding that," Stewart told the Salt Lake Tribune. He also apologized to Yovanovitch for being "drugged" [dragged] into appearing. Fox News' Adam Shaw and Alex Pappas contributed to this report. |
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