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My name is John Stewart. Now where was I? I'm excited to be back. I'm very excited. Why am I back? You may be asking yourselves. It's a very reasonable question. I have committed a lot of crimes. From what I understand, talk show hosts are granted immunity. So it doesn't, doesn't make a lot of sense, but take it up with the founders. I don't know. We're going to have so much we're going to talk about this year, obviously, elections. Maybe we'll talk about China. Maybe we'll talk about AI, maybe something a little lighter. Israel, Palestine, who knows? But first, the Super bowl was a gentleman in the crowd who's delighted that Kansas City won. It was really, sadly, a lose lose for real America. Kansas City chiefs are world champions, which means the decades long plot in which Travis and Taylor Brainwash America into getting routine vaccinations is complete. But it was really kind of a no win for conservatives. I mean, if the Chiefs lost, who wins? The People's communist Republic of gay Pelosi stand. It's almost like the right's ridiculous obsession with politicizing every aspect of american life ruins everything. But now that it's over nine months till the election, people, and the exciting part is we already know our candidates.

It's drum roll, please, these guys. That's why tonight we're debuting our election coverage, indecision 2024. American democracy. Say it's a homophone. We didn't change the sound of the word, but we added a k, which makes it wittier. How about indie jason? 2024. Electile. We changed the one letter. Are you disappointed yet? So Joe Biden and Donald Trump. And by the way, this weekend, the big news was the special counsel report on Joe Biden's handling of classified information.

The special counsel's report offers scathing details of what it calls his diminished faculties and faulty memory writing. If charged, Mr. Biden will likely present himself to the jury, as he did during his interview with our office, as a sympathetic, well meaning elderly man with a poor memory.

Where did I park those documents? This guy couldn't remember stuff during his deposition. Do you understand what that means? He had no ability to recall very basic things under questioning. The footage of the president unable to recall simple facts. Must have been brutal to watch. James Webb. I don't remember the name. I don't remember ever buying something for myself.

Do you recall what years you were.

Married to Ms. Maples?

I don't remember that. As good as my memory is, I don't remember that, but I have a good. So you don't remember saying you have one of the best memories? I don't remember. That was the wrong footage. That's the high functioning candidate from nine years ago unable to recall if he has a good memory. I'm sorry. Here's the actual footage.

Who created Trump? International realtor? I don't remember. I don't remember the email.

I'm just saying I don't remember this. I just don't seem to recall anything about this. He actually seemed upset about it. I don't know. Yes, it turns out that the leading cause of early onset dementia is being deposed. But back to President Biden. Biden was not about to take the special counsel's characterizations lying down. Although chances are he was lying down when. The point is this to the press conference, Batman.

My memory is fine. My memory. Take a look at what I've done since I become president. None of you thought I could pass any of the things I got passed. How'd that happen? I know what the hell I'm doing. I'm president. I put this country back on its feet. I did not say that.

Okay, Mr. President, let me answer your question.

Many american people have been watching, and they have expressed concerns about your age.

That is your judgment.

That is your judgment.

Boom. He took them to the house. He was all over it. Joe Biden taking nerves, kicking ass. Press conference over. You didn't mess. No, don't.

Stop.

Wait, hold on. Hold on, sir, don't. No. You killed this. Take the w. What are you doing? Do not go. Allow me to present to you a one man show about what Joe Biden's advisors were doing when he turned around and went back to the podium. The show is called. No, do not go back, please. But he went back.

I'm of the view, as you know, that the conduct of the response in the Gaza Strip has been over the top.

By the way, the response in Gaza has been over the top. You know, I like how Biden describes Israel's incessant bombing of civilians the same way my mother talks about the Super bowl halftime show. It was a little much. Did they need to be on roller skates? Whatever happened in music, just sing the song and people will love it. But with the abs and the dwirling and the hits kept coming.

Initially, the president of Mexico, CC, did not want to open up the gate to allow humanitarian material to get in.

Now, geography buffs might have noticed Gaza and Mexico do not share a border that Biden was referring to Cece, the president of Egypt, not Mexico. Unless it was even worse than that. And he thinks the president of Mexico is named CC. So Joe Biden had a big press conference to dispel the notion that he may have lost a step and politically speaking, lost three to four steps. But don't worry, because they don't need the press conference. The Super bowl was on Sunday, and the president was offered a chance, as per tradition, to do an interview where millions and millions of people could see him competently and clearly lay out his 2024 agenda. Or he could just turn that down. And do what? This is the Biden Harris campaign joined TikTok over the weekend. The first video was released during the Super bowl, and it shows President Biden answering questions related to the big game game or halftime show game. Jason Kelsey or Travis? Kelsey.

Mama Kelsey. I understand she makes great chocolate chip cookies.

Fire, everyone. How do you go on TikTok and end up looking older? So, yes, everyone spent the entire weekend talking about whether the democratic choice for president is mentally up to the challenge of the world's most demanding job. So what was his opponent saying this weekend? We have to win in November or we're not going to have Pennsylvania. They'll change the name. They're going to change the name of Pennsylvania. I can't believe I've lived in New Jersey this long and have been mispronouncing Pennsylvania. Apparently, the emphasis is at the end of the line. Yes, it should be noted, while concerns over any president's fitness and acuity are legitimate, especially those at an advanced age, Biden's opponent also seems to live at the villages. So the question then becomes, what the are we doing here, people? Oh, wait, no, that's a nice indecision. 2024 title. Yeah. Let me tell you something. Biden's lost the step. But Trump regularly says things at rallies that would warrant a wellness check. All I know about magnets is this. Give me a glass of water. Let me drop it on the magnets. That's the end of the magnets. I am not a scientist.

I'm pretty sure water is not the end of magnets. I think he may be thinking of cotton candy. Pretty easy to mix those up. It's probably why the front of his refrigerator is so messy. It just sticky. Look, these two candidates, they're very kind with your enthusiasm. These two candidates, they are both similarly challenged. And it is not crazy to think that the oldest people in the history of the country to ever run for president might have some of these challenges. Now, Democrats will say that any criticism like this, especially of Biden, is unfair because you just don't know Biden like they know Biden. President Biden, who I've been around numerous times just in this last year, is sharp. He's focused. He's bright. He is sharp, intensely probing and detail oriented and focused. This is a man who is Sharp, who is on top of his game.

Who knows what's going on.

He's smart. He's on his game.

I was in almost every meeting with the president, and the president was in front of and on top of it all, coordinating and directing leaders who are in charge of America's national security, not to mention our allies around the globe.

Did anyone film that? Because if you're, if you're telling us behind the scenes he is sharp and full of energy and on top of it and really in control and leading, you should film that. That would be good to show to people. Instead of a TikTok. Where he goes, we see he's in charge. You see, I like cookies. Of course, when it comes to republicans, they've got a different strategy for their 77 year old candidate.

Well, first of all, Donald Trump is not an old man.

He's an old man. He is objectively an old man. On a human scale, Trump is objectively old. If he was a tortoise, I would tell him as a tortoise at 77, oh, young man, go off and enjoy college, but he is not a tourist. He's not a tortoise. That is not being ageist. That is being human lifespanist. One thing we know for certain is this. We have two candidates who are chronologically outside the norm of anyone who has run for the presidency in this country, in the history of this country. They are the oldest people ever to run for president, breaking by only four years the record that they set the last time they ran. They are at the age. They are objectively old. They are at the age there are no more age related milestones to hit. They got the ARP card. They've got Social Security. They've got their movie discounts. There is no, oh, wait till you hit 88. You get to drink and drive. No. The only thing left to them is a Today show. Smuckers shout out. You know what? I think we've got a new name for our election coverage.

Indecision 2024 Antiques roadshow. All right, look, here's what I'm going to tell you. We're not suggesting neither man is vibrant, productive or even capable, but they are both stretching the limits of being able to handle the toughest job in the world. What's crazy is thinking that we are the ones, as voters, who must silence concerns and criticisms. It is the candidate's job to assuage concerns, not the voter's job, not to mention them. And look, I'm not trying to be cruel. I didn't want to have to do this on my first date. Come up. Come over here. Look at me. Look what time hath wrought. Give the. Give the kids a tree to the lunar surface. Here. Look at this. I'm like 20 years younger than these. This. Look at this. They wish, by the way. You don't. You don't. You don't. Here's the truth. And if you think like, oh, 20 years isn't that long, this is me 20 years ago. Yeah, I agree. And perhaps it was my mistake for sleeping in a meat dehydrator. Look, Joe Biden isn't Donald Trump. He hasn't been indicted as many times, hasn't had as many fraudulent businesses, or been convicted in a civil trial for sexual assault, or been ordered to pay defamation, and had his charities disbanded or stiffed a shit ton of blue collar tradesmen he'd hired.

Should we even get to the grab the pussy stuff? Probably not. But the stakes of this election don't make Donald Trump's opponent less subject to scrutiny. It actually makes him more subject to scrutiny. If the barbarians are at the gate, you want Conan standing on the ramparts, not chocolate chip cookies. So what's the good news? That was not rhetorical framing. I'm literally asking you. Look, the next nine months or so, and maybe more than that, depending on the coup schedule, they're going to suck. You're going to be getting emails with insane subject lines like, hello, John, it's Chuck Schumer. Donald Trump is right. Behind you with an ice donate, you're going to get inundated with robocalls and push polls and real polls, and people are going to tell you to rock the vote and be the vote and vote the vote and finger bang the vote. And it's all going to make you feel like Tuesday, November 5 is the only day that matters. And that day does matter. But man, November 6 ain't nothing to sneeze at. Or November 7 if your guy loses, bad things might happen. But the country is not over.

And if your guy wins, the country is in no way saved. I've learned one thing over these last nine years, and I was glib at best and probably dismissive at worst about this. The work of making this world resemble one that you would prefer to live in is a lunch pail job day in and day out, where thousands of committed, anonymous, smart, and dedicated people bang on closed doors and pick up those that are fallen and grind away on issues till they get a positive result, and even then have to stay on to make sure that result holds. So the good news is, I'm not saying you don't have to worry about who wins the election. I'm saying you have to worry about every day before it and every day after. Forever. Although, on the plus side, I am told that at some point the sun will run out of hydrogen. When we come back, we'll have full team coverage. Don't go away. The news media is going to be overwhelming you with nonstop election coverage, and we want to be a part of that. So we're going to preview our wall to wall election season coverage with the best news team going.

We got our very own Desi Lydick and Michael Casta. Desi, welcome. Michael, welcome. Desi, I'll start with you. Where are you going to be reporting from this election season?

John I'm going to be spending the next nine months here in a Michigan diner because diners are where real Americans eat. The people are gritty, the menus are sticky, and the chickens have fingers.

And I'll be in the same diner as Desi, but the realer part of the diner, not the booth section with all the coastal elite Democrats and their fancy back support. I'll be spending the campaign at the counter with the Trump voters because realer Americans want to sit at the bar stool on their coats.

John Michael, what do Trump voters think about this election?

They're excited for President Trump to win the presidency a third time and enact his agenda.

Are they talking about borderwall tariffs? That's what they're excited for.

No, I would say the vengeance, total and utter vengeance. One woman I met, Irene, retired nurse, she said that she hopes that Trump will, quote, split the skies and rain fire upon the states of blue, his terrible blades sundering his enemies until nature herself bows before his dominion and his name is carved upon the moon.

End quote. Is there also enthusiasm on the democratic side, Desi?

Oh, the Democrats are pumped for Joe Biden, whether it's this Joe Biden or maybe someone else who changes their name to Joe Biden. Point is, everyone's excited and no one's crying in the bathroom.

It sounds like things are going very well, and we'll certainly be.

John, over here.

It's dulce Sloan, everybody. It looks like you're outside. Why aren't you inside the diner asking people what they think?

I know what they think. It's what everybody thinks. This is the same shit all over again. It's just a reboot. We need more than just the same show with an older yet familiar Facebook.

You talk. The two candidates, you talking about the.

Yeah. I mean, I already had this job.

It.

Now these old white dudes got to come back and reclaim it. Like, come on, sir, go do something new. We're so desperate. Like, let someone else run the show.

We're talking about the election, right?

I said what I said.

John.

I disagree. You won't find a single Republican who will say they don't want to vote for Trump. Now, is that because they're afraid of being murdered by other Trump voters? Yes, but being afraid is a form of excitement.

Yeah, same here, John. The Democrats here can't wait to show their Joe Biden support with these great campaign shirts.

Desi, his name is velcroed on that shirt.

No.

Yeah. No. What's underneath the name? Desi. What? So they're counting on. They're counting on Taylor Swift to jump into the race.

Oh, my. No.

Why?

Has she said something to you?

No. Listen, guys, thank you so much. It's going to be a great camp. Payne, is that Ronnie Chang behind you? Hey, John. Hey, Ronnie. It's great to see you're going to be out on the campaign trail. What do you got? I got potato skins, John. That's what I like them do. Still frozen in the middle. Back to you, John. Ronnie, what about the people? Now, don't encourage this behavior. What about the people there, Ronie? What are their beliefs, their positions? The. Are you talking about? Their position is hunched over that place, eating. This is a diner, okay? People come here to eat and sometimes take a quick bath in the sink. Ronnie, get back over here. Don't you walk away. Ronnie. You are there to get a story. Ask someone a question. All right, everybody want those fries? Bernie Chang, everybody. Give it up. One more time. You know, if I can say just this one thing. When you consider the election, bra friction. Jordan Klepper, everybody. I didn't see you there. You must have snug up. Shouldn't you be out somewhere talking to insurrectionists in a parking lot? Oh, biting, John, biting. You must be so proud of yourselves.

All these little satirical bits exposing the absurdities of our political process. I mean, it was fun. We had a fun day. We had fun making this stuff up. Oh, I bet it was. Did you save democracy yet? No, I didn't. Your 90s brand of snark and both siderism. Oh, George Bush is dumb. Al Gore, so boring. Wow. Searing, John. I wasn't really trying to save democracy. I was just trying to. All you do is brainwash voters into accepting a corrosive status quo when they could be out marching in the streets to affect change. Frankly, you disgust me. I can tell that from the tone of your voice on there. But, Jordan, I'm here like once a week. Seriously, what do you want from me? It's like. Wait, you're only here once a week? Yeah. Who's hosting the show the other days of the week? The news team? Jordan. In fact, you're the host this whole week after I leave. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, that's you. It's great having you back, buddy. I gotta tell you that. This is going to be so much fun. What we're doing here is important, John. I can't wait to change the world with you, my friend.

Thanks very much. Really nice to see. When we come back, we'll be joined by Zanny Minton. Betto. Don't go away.

When I was here nine years ago, we almost killed Jimmy Carter with the rolling trace. He almost went all the way back.

No, it swivels this way.

It does swivel. We have the economy. This is your magazine. We have it. We brought it with us. I don't know if you can see that there. We're out there. Got a post it note in there for the right page. Why there's a post it note in there? I thought there was a centerfold. It wasn't there. I don't know what was happening. Welcome to the show, though. We very much appreciate it. I wanted to ask know, the economist wrote about some of Joe Biden's issues a year ago you wrote, is he going to be up for the job in the second term? What were the concerns that you guys had then?

So we wrote after the midterms that he should not stand for a second term. And when he came in, he was hoping to be, he said pretty much that he wanted to be a one term president. He was a grown up. He would save the country from.

He was the bridge candidate.

He was the bridge candidate.

He didn't say which bridge wasn't the Williamsburg Bridge. It's one of those bridges in Florida that go 30 miles.

Absolutely. And I think we, after the midterms, we thought that it was time for him to kind of make that clear. He would have been, had he said he was going to be a one term president, he would have been a remarkable one term president. He's achieved an unbelievable amount for one term. But now we are where we are here. And huge majorities of the american people, including huge majorities of Democrats, think he is too old for a second term. It's really alarming that the only person between us and the return of Donald Trump is a frail 81 year old.

Said that like Baltimore, the return of.

Donald Trump, it really worries me. And it may be a little weird, but for those of us outside the US.

Oh, couldn't they say, though, if you say I had a remarkable first term, what's to say I won't have a remarkable second term?

He's 81 years old. What? You know, he is the same age pretty much as my father. I love my father dearly. My father's a wonderful man, but my father should be nowhere near the most important job in the world. He probably never should have been. But 81 year old, 81 year old.

He doesn't watch this thing, does he? Does he watch.

This may be a little explanation. We'll have to go. But an 81 year old, you know what they're like at 81. You know what they're going to be like at 85. Time travels one way, and people go in one direction at that age.

Why are you looking at me like that? When you say that? That seemed awfully personal.

As you said at the beginning of the show, you're a good 20 years younger. You've got a long time still.

It's pretty interesting. But let me ask you. So there is obviously a press pool. There's a White House press corps. There's a certain amount of mystery that seems to surround this. All the people behind the scenes are saying, you don't know, like, we know he's leading these meetings. He's unbelievable. I wish you could see it. But certainly there are press people that travel with the president. Surely. I have not seen people come out with firsthand accounts. They have not come out bounding along Air Force or just said, I follow the president. I'm with him every day. He is unbelievably sharp. He's just camera shy or whatever it is. But nobody is making those, it makes it seem conspiratorial.

Yeah. And I think what is clear is that it is quite hard to get access to this president. He is very carefully shepherded around. He doesn't do very many press conferences. He doesn't do very many interviews. I assume that's for a reason. And I hear the same thing. He's very sharp. He talks for a long time. He can outlast anybody in a meeting. I'm perfectly prepared to believe that on some subjects that's true. Joe Biden knows a huge amount about foreign policy. He is exactly the right person to have in the Oval Office in the world as it is we have today. And I'm sure on certain things he can go for hours and hours and hours. He can probably be in negotiations for a long time. But does that mean he should be president for another two terms?

I think it's worrying now when you say one term.

Yeah.

The world order is changing, and there is a part the economist is certainly, it does represent a certain mainstream point of view or establishment.

Well, actually, interestingly, we stand for good, classic english liberalism. It's not the same as an american liberal, which is more of a lefty, but the english liberalism.

Am I going to get tested on this?

Because I don't, I'm going to start with a little lefty. We believe in individual freedom, free markets, limited government. We've kind of believed in that for a long time. And for a long time, you're right. Our view was the kind of mainstream view, reaganism, thatcherism, even Clintonism, it wasn't too far apart. That was the mainstream view. But now we're absolutely not the mainstream view. Now.

I should have said establishment. I think it's more the establishment status quo.

We're absolutely not the establishment view now. Industrial policy is in big state, is in protectionism, is in all manner of things that we traditionally didn't believe in. And so our kind of liberalism, I think, is very much not the mainstream view now. And we're championing liberalism in the face, actually a pretty concerted resistance to it and people going in different directions. There's a whole kind of trumpist assault. If you will. In fact, our cover, this week's cover is going to be about this, almost certainly unless something dramatic happens, which is about national conservatism. This idea, which the MAGA republicans have, but also a bunch of conservatives in Europe, Victor Orban, Georgia Maloney in Italy, Maureen Le Pen in France. There are differences between them, but they're united by an idea that they want to be anti globalist, they're anti trade, they're very skeptical of migration. They want to push back against what they see as progressive woke ideology.

You say this is perhaps a new world order. That they are.

They would love that.

Oh, no. They're the ones who always talk about how there's a conspiracy to create a new world order when if you really look at it, they're the ones trying to create it. They're shifting. There was an old paradigm, right, which was America post war, aligned itself with liberal Europe against communism. That was the stability of the world since World War II was capitalism versus communism. It looks like there appears to be a realignment along the lines of not capitalism and communism, but woke and unwoke. And I know that sounds ridiculous, but it is what ties Putin to Trump and Orban to Trump. If you listen to Putin when he talks about orthodox Christianity and western society and anti gay rhetoric, he sounds like a Am radio host.

Absolutely. And there are people in the republican party now who war more to Putin than to Ukraine, for example. So I think you're right.

I think all of them.

No, not all of them. Not all of them.

Well, Mitch McConnell, but he just stops working every now.

And that, I think there's a really serious point. There is a complete, one way of thinking about it is a MAGA takeover of the republican party. But another, I think there's something more profound going on, which is there is potentially a kind of revolution in conservatism, which may end up being as big as the kind of thatcherite, reaganite revolution, which is taking it in a completely different direction.

It's a populism and a nativism, but it's combined with this anti wokeism that almost seems to be the more powerful unifying theory than it is. It used to be economic theories and now it's theories of social culture issues, identity, social culture. That's right.

Absolutely. No, I think that's definitely a fault line. And the people you cite are definitely on one side of it. Whether it's a new world order. Yet, I don't know.

We did not talk about NATO. Donald Trump very famously came out and said, I would encourage Russia, this was years ago to attack them so that they would pay their bills, as though the value of NATO is in what they can contribute financially.

What is your thought? He sounded like the mobster, right? They got to pay. They got to pay.

That's right.

Donald Trump doesn't, I think, understand what collective security is about. NATO is basically, if you attack the smallest NATO country, you're attacking America. That basic deal was understood by the Soviet Union and then by Russia. That's why we haven't had an attack on NATO. I think that is undermined by him basically saying it's a protectionist racket, which is what he. So I don't think Donald Trump cares about alliances. But the reason it's so disconcerting and worrying if you're in Europe right now is this is happening at a time when Vladimir Putin has already done a full scale invasion of Ukraine. He is re arming much faster than Europe. Europe is a fundamentally more dangerous place. So even with Donald Trump nowhere near the White House, yet him saying it right now is destabilizing. It makes it much more likely that Putin, an aggressive dictator, pushes further. And at the same time, you have this aid for Ukraine held up here in this country. And to be clear, aiding Ukraine, giving the money to Ukraine is the cheapest possible way for the US to enhance its security. The fighting is being done by the Ukrainians. They're the people who are being killed.

The US and Europe are supplying them weapons. And in doing so, we are pushing back against Putin. I've been to Kiev twice and lived there 30 years ago, and you can't go there and not think this is a european country that is looking westward and for the US to abandon it now, if it does, it's almost jaw dropping.

The unfortunate part for Ukraine seems to be that it also holds a place in our culture war. I don't think there's any principled opposition from the right in terms of sending arms. There might be in terms of the amount or the money or some of those things. I think they're really caught in the idea that Putin and Orban and that illiberal order are their natural allies. And so Ukraine, they have to paint that as nazified or utterly corrupt, as though Russia is somehow fundamentally just this unbelievable valhalla. But I think that's why Ukraine, Russia had done that somewhere else. Ukraine happens to hold a very strange place in this whole burima. Hunter Biden.

Exactly. Donald Trump doesn't like Volodymyrma Zelensky because of the whole issue around the first impeachment and all of that. He holds grudges and he doesn't like Zelensky and he likes Putin because Putin's tough.

That's right.

That kind of thing. Then I think there are a bunch of Republicans who are genuine, what you might call old fashioned isolationists who just don't think the kind of us should be involved in this stuff. Then there's a bunch who have perfectly reasonable concerns about whether the money's being well spent. Corruption in Ukraine. There is plenty of corruption in Ukraine, whether it's all well spent. And then I think you're right, there are these, and let's call them the Tucker Carlson Republicans who kind of have a sense that there is somehow Putin is the hero and Ukraine is the villain, which is sort of hard to get your head around. But that does seem to be what they think.

Right. And I do think that's the world order that they would be pushing towards. But this gets back to journalism in this country. It's all about the money. And there's very little talk about even after September 11 when article five was invoked and they came to our defense.

Article five has been invoked.

Right.

Come to the defense of the United States.

It really does boil down to, oh, is this just a financial Transaction gone awry or is this the valuable alliance that's kind of held together the world order, which, by the way, though, we have to be able to criticize what it did in Iraq and all these other things. But if we can't talk honestly about it, we end up shutting down all the conversation.

Of course. I think there is discussion about, I mean, NATO most of the time for most Americans is not something that's probably top of mind. But I think there is a kind.

Of, I've not been to a party where it's not the first thing people talk about.

You clearly move in serious circles.

I do. Generally it's, you go in, it's a little NATO talk and then a keg stand. Thank you very much for being here. It's really fantastic. Ladies and gentlemen, Danny, Mitch and Bennett. Take a quick break. We'll be right back after this. That was everybody. That is our show for tonight. This has been a blast. Looking forward to seeing you guys every Monday. And remember, Tuesday through Thursday, this new team's going to be here knocking it out of the park. Here it is. The moment is that we are a nation whose once revered airports are dirty. They're a crowded mess. You sit and wait for hours and then are notified that the plane won't leave. They have no idea when they will where. Ticket prices have tripled. They don't have the pilots to fly the planes, they don't have qualified air traffic controllers, and they just don't know what the hell they are doing. Explore more shows from the Daily show podcast universe by searching the Daily show wherever you get your podcasts. Watch the Daily show weeknights at 1110 Central on Comedy Central and stream full episodes anytime on Paramount. Plus, this has been a Comedy central podcast.

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