become quite evident to the laypeople that donald trump is involved in the defense. the character examination and even the lines the defense uses. the kinds of things that donald trump would be sang behind-the- scenes and it is impossible for me to imagine that the next 20 to 36 hours donald trump is not going to be saying more. my heart goes out to those individuals who are managing one of the most unwieldy clients in america. >> the owner calling the dugout with some thoughts on which pitcher should come in. >> just a couple of thoughts. we believe it there. that will do it for us now. don't go anywhere. our coverage continues with "the last word with lawrence o'donnell." >> one of my first guests tonight predicted to me, in the courtroom, just before cross- examination started, that donald trump's defense lawyer,

todd blanche, was going to be terrible. and he actually believes that todd blanche is the worst of the three lawyers and now i have come to agree with that after watching today. my other guest is the person who actually found the $130,000 game going on and started the criminal investigation of michael cohen. and here's the thing, you know him. you all know andrew weissmann. that is who found the $130,000. he started everything that you are seeing in that courtroom. >> incredible. >> the gift that keeps on giving, andrew weissmann. >> coming up right here. thank you. thank you, both. we are going to take you inside the courtroom today for the next hour, but american

political history demands that we begin with what happened outside the courthouse today when the republican party boldly and bravely rose up in spirited defense of adultery with porn stars, paying off porn stars to buy their silence and hiding payoffs to porn stars by republican candidates. the republican party did not specify whether bans on abortion should include exceptions for pregnancies resulting from republican political candidates having sex with porn stars. at 9:51 a.m., michael cohen was shown an invoice that he created to facilitate donald trump's false bookkeeping, recordkeeping, to cover up donald trump's reimbursement to michael cohen for paying off porn stars stormy daniels to buy her silence about what she says was a very brief sexual encounter with donald trump. question, was this invoice of

false record? answer, yes ma'am. donald trump is facing the criminal charge of falsifying business records and exactly 15 minutes after michael cohen said that the highest-ranking republican in america stood outside the courthouse where michael cohen was testifying about false business records and said this. >> president trump is a friend and i wanted to be here to support him. >> that means republican speaker of the house mike johnson, who is a southern baptist and uses his religion to defend and explain everything he does and says, has now proclaimed himself to support a friend who, as johnson's religion would describe it, committed adultery with stormy daniels and then arrange to create false business records to cover up the payoff to stormy daniels. mike johnson who uses his religion as a sword and shield

every day brought not just himself but the full weight of the republican party to a microphone today to declare his support for and the parties support for everything donald trump is accused of in this trial because here is what speaker johnson did not say today. i don't believe stormy daniels. in fact, speaker johnson did not say a word about stormy daniels. speaker johnson did not attempt to deny a single word of the evidence that has been presented against donald trump and that leaves speaker johnson supporting donald trump no matter what donald trump did sexually with stormy daniels or what donald trump did criminally with michael cohen. >> president trump is a friend and i wanted to be here to support him. >> that is the profoundly perverted depth to which donald trump has personally pushed the most overtly religious speaker

of the house in history. no other speaker has ever worn and wielded his religion as his professed guide in every single thing that he does, in every single vote and and everything he says. religiosity is to mike johnson what vulgarity is to donald trump. it is the essence of the man. so in supporting his friend donald trump today, mike johnson unwittingly destroyed the facade of his own political religiosity. as mike johnson was debasing himself at the courthouse today, michael cohen was asked, quote, was this check stub a false statement? answer, yes, ma'am. michael cohen repeatedly said yes ma'am to prosecutor susan hoffinger, who asked about all of the checks he received from donald trump as reimbursement of the payment to stormy

daniels. each of those reimbursements, each of them was mislabeled as being for legal services rendered instead of as a simple reimbursement, which is what they really were. michael cohen's testimony delivered all of the elements of the false business records charge in the indictment of donald trump and michael cohen's testimony also delivered the necessary evidence to prove that donald trump's decision to order the payoff to stormy daniels was to save his presidential campaign, not to save his marriage. at the direction of was the key phrase that we all read six years ago in the federal indictment of michael cohen for an illegal trump campaign contribution in that payment to stormy daniels for the benefit of candidate trump and the trump campaign. the indictment and guilty plea said that he made that payment, quote, at the direction of individual 1. individual 1 turned out to be donald trump.

michael cohen used that phrase today on the witness stand under oath to describe that he made the payment, quote, at the direction of donald trump and for the benefit of donald j. trump. the surprise of the day was cross-examination. there were two surprises. one, donald trump sully defense lawyer, todd blanche, had nothing. one of our guests, tim o'brien, predicted to me that the cross- examination would be terrible. he was right. todd blanche did not score a single relevant point against michael cohen. the other surprise was that michael cohen maintained his poise and reasonable tone that he established indirect examination by the prosecutor that few of us expected michael cohen to be able to maintain under the stress and challenges of cross-examination, but todd blanche presented no challenges.

he tried to wake up the jury with his first question. my name is todd blanche. you have -- you and i have never spoken or met but you know who i am? answer, i do. question, as a matter of fact on april 23, after the trial started in this case, you went on tiktok and called me a crying little -- didn't you? answer, sounds like something i would say, but the jury already knew that michael cohen doesn't like donald trump, so it came as no surprise to them that michael cohen who already testified to being profane might say something about donald trump's lawyer like that. the only person who needed waking up in that room today was donald trump, whose eyes remained closed for about 90%

of the day. wildly beyond what we've seen before. it is impossible for donald trump not to be asleep during some of his long, extended, i closing sessions including michael cohen's cross- examination. donald trump has insisted after being caught sleeping that he is not sleeping, he is just resting his eyes, but no eyes need to be rested the entire day. even 77-year-old trump eyes. and donald trump, so aware of everything his face is doing, when, for example, taking a mug shot or being on public display in any way, leaves his face with his eyes closed in torture. he drifts off into his closed i space. his mouth shifts from a scowl to the look of a collapsing building. the mouth loses all shape. the lips become unrecognizable under the closed eyes that

stayed closed today, longer than they have ever stayed closed in that courtroom. more than 10 minutes at a time. the old man sitting there in the defendant's chair, head tilted back to the right. eyes closed, made it look like a trial at a nursing home. if he were found like that at his chair at a table in the nursing home during lunch, he would immediately be checked for signs of life. his lawyers have given up, given up on trying to keep donald trump awake. the trick that seem to work so well yesterday, giving him printed comments full of praise about him to read, didn't work today. nothing worked, especially the trump defense. todd blanche has tried and will continue to try to use michael cohen's public words to emphasize how much he hates donald trump, but the problem with that, with an american jury, is that michael cohen is

speaking for at least 100 million people in america. at least one third of the country and some days maybe half of the country hates donald trump as much as michael cohen does. no juror will be shocked that michael cohen hates donald trump . they all know people who hate donald trump, as do most americans, but with the prosecution was able to do was tell the story effectively through michael cohen's testimony about how donald trump and michael cohen committed crimes together and that destroyed michael cohen's life, leaving michael cohen with more reason than most americans to hate donald trump. i will always protect mr. trump, said michael cohen in a statement to the media in the second year of donald trump's presidency that was introduced into evidence today and that was when michael cohen was, quote, knee-deep into the cult of donald trump. cult member michael cohen was stunned when the fbi knocked on

his door to serve a search warrant in an investigation begun by our first guest tonight, former federal prosecutor andrew weissmann. michael cohen spoke to donald trump on the phone after the fbi raid and according to his testimony today, donald trump told him, quote, don't worry, everything is going to be fine. i am the president of the united states. that turned out to be the last time michael cohen spoke to his courtly -- his colt leader. michael cohen set i felt reassured. i had the president of the united states protecting me. then came the messages from donald trump. some direct communication and others indirect communications through others which michael cohen testified he took to mean, don't flip. he was paying legal fees in a joint defense agreement with michael cohen when michael cohen was getting the don't

flip the message. it was 11:30 a.m. in the courtroom when michael cohen said, don't flip. at that moment the trial took on the familiar tone of a mafia trial. michael cohen was concerned that robert costello, a lawyer who wanted to defend him in the fbi investigation, would not represent his best interest. michael cohen testified that castillo, who used to work with rudy giuliani, wanted to establish a back channel, which he called a back channel, from going to donald trump in the white house. he wanted to be able to talk to his own defense lawyer without necessarily telling rudy giuliani and donald trump everything he told his lawyer. in an email to michael cohen trying to convince him to maintain that back channel of communication, attorney robert costello wrote, you are loved with the oddity of the word

love and the email being in quotation marks. one of those odd use of quotation marks you see in donald trump tweets and posts. what did you understand costello to mean you are loved, by whom? answer, by president trump. and that is what michael cohen always wanted. donald trump's respect, donald trump's admiration, donald trump's love. by then michael cohen probably knew that donald trump is incapable of love and luckily for michael cohen his family was capable of love, even after the horror they experienced of an fbi raid that michael cohen brought into their family home. michael cohen's wife and daughter, then in college, and his son, then in high school, did something of an intervention on michael cohen. michael cohen testified that it

was conversation with his family that made him decide that it was time to escape the trump colt. by that time, what if anything had you decided about whether you would continue to lie for president trump? answer, i made a decision based on the conversation with my family. i would not lie for president trump any longer. question, if not for the campaign, would you have paid that money to stormy daniels? answer, no ma'am. michael cohen said that the day he pleaded guilty was, quote, the worst day of my life. donald trump issued a tweet that day aimed at michael cohen. michael cohen told the jury that today, when he testified to congress about paying off stormy daniels and being reimbursed by donald trump and showing congress the actual checks used to reimburse him, quote, i apologized to

congress. i apologize to the country. i apologize to my family. the final question the prosecutor asked michael cohen before handing him over for prosecution was, question, mr. cohen, do you have any regrets about your past work with donald trump? answer, i do. question, what are they? answer, i regret doing things for him that i should not have. lying, bullying people in order to effectuate a goal. i don't regret working at the trump organization, because as i expressed before, some very interesting, great times. but to keep the loyalty and to do the things that he asked me to do, i violated my moral compass and i suffer the penalty, as has my family. and so, in careful, thorough description through question and answer, michael cohen's story contained the classic arc of tragedy. michael cohen, whose father was

a holocaust survivor, made the long and unlikely climb all the way up to a meeting with the president of the united states in the oval office. he stood there that they in the white house, floating high up in the thin air with the title, personal attorney to the president of the united states. he reached an altitude he never thought he would reach, but there he was. in the oval office, reaching that high-altitude. a higher altitude than his father could have dreamed for his son or michael cohen could have dreamed for himself. question, while you are visiting the white house, did you have a private conversation with an president trump? answer, i did. question, where did the conversation take place? answer, in the oval office. question, did you discuss in the oval office the reimbursement payments that

were going to be made to you? answer, yes ma'am. i was sitting with president trump and he asked me if i was okay. he asked me if i needed money and i said no, all good. he said because i can get a check. i said no, i'm okay. he said all right, just make sure you deal with alan. question, did he say anything about anything would be forthcoming? answer, excuse me? question, did he say anything about what would be forthcoming to you? answer, yes, a check for january and february. question, at that time you had not been reimbursed for the payments you made to stormy daniels? answer, no ma'am. so, when michael cohen is played by a great actor, you will feel sorry for him. if you were in the courtroom today, you could, for the first time, begin to understand him.

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michael cohen on the witness stand this morning. prosecutor. why, in fact did you pay that money to stormy daniels? michael cohen. to ensure the story would not come out. question, if not for the campaign, would you have paid

that money to stormy daniels? answer, no ma'am. question, at whose direction and on whose behalf did you commit that crime? answer, on behalf of mr. trump. andrew weissmann is with us, tim o'brien, adam klasfeld. the audience knows them all. we don't have time for your 32nd introduction tonight, but we are starting with you. the most important thing we saw today was as a prosecutor when you are brought into the investigation, you discovered this $130,000 somewhere in that massive investigation about the question of did russia interfere with the american presidential election. >> totally fortuitous. this was public. i went through pre-publication review. it is in my book. it was very fortuitous.

we were looking at this bank account for other reasons and a defense lawyer who had the information set i'm going to send it to you and i remember pulling it up on my computer screen and there was the information we were focusing on and at the bottom of it the bank reported something separate, which was this essential consulting $130,000 to keith davidson, which is sort of odd. it had struck the bank as odd, so it got reported. >> the bank reported the odd transaction? >> exactly. so just fortuitous. we did some digging on keith davidson. i remember my colleague and i looked up, like what is a stormy daniels and walking into mueller's office day >> he knew. >> know. we are all buttoned up federal

prosecutors in blue suits and white ties, very square. i remember i said to him, we have a blue dress problem. referring to, the last special counsel. an independent counsel who we very much did not want to be and we did not want to emulate that as a model. that led to keeping the michael cohen part of the investigation involving russia and what ended up being his perjury to congress, but carving out the sort of salacious part. we were already thinking, what are the ramifications to the bank? thinking of bank fraud. but it was not directly related to russia. so, that was the genesis and then kudos to the southern district of new york and ultimately alvin bragg, because walking in the other day to court and seeing from this

little acorn, sing proof that is, in my view, you know, truly overwhelming. but for the defendant being donald trump. i think anyone would say this is an incredibly strong case. you never ever predict because you never know, but this is an incredibly strong case. >> we have all been in the courtroom a lot, all week, but for you it has got to be so peculiar. you have found little seeds like that in the past in your investigative capacity that have become trials and major trials, but they were your trials. in federal courts and they grew where they were supposed to grow, from seeds into the flowering of a trial. here you are. it fell out of federal court. a completely different jurisdiction. it is years later. you had reason to think you would never see trial testimony about what you discovered. >> absolutely. this is one of the things that

a good investigator does. you keep digging and for everything you dig for, there are a lot of dry holes and that is where good prosecutors and, more important, really good investigators, agents on a case, are important. i always say a prosecutor is only as good as the agents they are working with and they need to be a dog with a bone and go down all of those leads. you really see that here. hats off to the prosecution team. i just think as a matter of looking at it with a professional eye, the arc of how they put this case together is amazing. that is not to take anything away from the individual witnesses and the credit they get in terms of handling this enormous pressure. the final point is, i can't stress enough having done high- profile cases, but not high- profile like this one. it is very difficult when there is that searing spotlight on

you, as i have said. it brings out every flaw you have as a lawyer and a person. i think people sort of forget how much pressure is on both sides. >> speaking of flaws of a lawyer, tim o'brien who literally wrote the book about from businesses and record- keeping and all of that stuff and lying about his wealth level, which got you sued by donald trump. a lawsuit that he lost, you one. just before cross-examination started he offered me a bet. you wanted to bet me that todd's cross-examination would be terrible and we did not bet, because i am not up at her and i also liked your side of the bet best. i have not seen enough to have the view that you have, which is the least effective in the courtroom. >> i was sitting in the

courtroom and ciu studying your phone and i needed some lunch money, so i said i would go over and see if i could get some money from lawrence. you forgotten more than i know, so it's not like i think you are an easy mark, but i said i will bet you five dollars that he blows the cross. use that i won't bet that, because i hope he does, so we did not make the bet. before watching this trial i had no idea about todd blanche or about susan necheles. though i think susan necheles came to the court with a great reputation at a distance. i knew nothing about the other two. i think from the very beginning the first time i saw him in action after jury selection was arguing why donald trump did not violate the gag order and in short order judge merchan, who i think is an impeccable justice -- you know, he is even- tempered and runs a tight court, and he gave him a warning about 10 seconds into

his defensive trump on the gag order and said you are losing credibility in front of this court and losing credibility as a lawyer. if you like that has hung over him from the beginning of proceedings and every time i think he has step up to make an argument he is not as polished. he lacks, i think, and ability to thematically lay out an argument for a jury and i think in front of a jury you are doing many things, but important things are building someone up or taking them down and when it came to the cross- examination of michael cohen, who i think had been a stellar witness for the prosecution, a day and a half prior. >> just for you, how surprised were you with michael cohen as a witness? >> i was very surprised. >> you know better than us. >> will you know, michael is a

volatile, volatile guy. >> he can be. >> he can be and i think in a civil case, in a courtroom that was much more of a clown rodeo. in this one. a tight courtroom like justice merchan does. i anticipated some of the traits in the civil case would bleed into this, but from the beginning i was amazed at how tempered he was. he hit every point that the prosecution needed him to hit. president trump told me to do this. no, these weren't legal expenses. yes we were all worried about the impact on the election. those were the key things and he kept coming back to those. he sometimes reminded the prosecutors of what the whole, robust version of the question should be. he was terrific and for a jury that does not know his history, they have a lawyer that worked for donald trump. a very good story. todd blanche had to come in and

say, and create a completely different person for that jury. someone who lacks credibility, who cannot be trusted, someone who is a serial liar. he was hobbled by two things. the first that i suspect is todd blanche has a nightmarish client in donald trump who was probably in his ear saying i want you to embarrass him and i want you to score points out of the gate. that actually doesn't make for a good cross-examination or really for any interrogation of a witness. you don't want to come in and decapitate them out of the gate, which is what he tried to do with michael cohen. merchan was having none of it. merchan sustained the objections from the prosecution about how he was being treated and it went downhill from there. >> we discovered in the transcript that has come up now about this that merchan says something to the effect of, to todd blanche when he stops this, why are you making this about

you? >> he says that for a couple of pages, lawrence. >> we are sitting in the audience of the courtroom and we don't know what they are saying, but we know it is about this and now we know because we have the transcript. >> absolutely and it was so jarring. people heard your opening remarks and you talked about how cohen ended it with a stirring speech and no further questions. everyone goes to lunch break and when they come back from lunch todd blanche gives everyone a shot of espresso with that line and then objection, sustained, sidebar. where the judge asks him, why are you making this about yourself? your honor -- one at a time, please. i did not hear you, your honor. blanche on the next page, i'm not making it about myself, your honor. he expressed bias about lawyers, just because of who he represents. the judge at that point says,

well. it just goes on for two pages in this matter. until merchan tells him it does not matter if he has bias towards you. it doesn't matter. the issue is whether he has bias towards the defendant. so that was the kind of jarring and hallucinogenic juxtaposition between the stirring owed at the end of direct examination. rapid fire, todd blanche is tossing cohen post after cohen post and every time he is tossing these statements about michael cohen, michael cohen has this refrain, sounds like i said something like that. i checked the transcript. he said it sounds like something i would say about five times. to the crying little line you

said at the beginning. it sounds like something i would say, said cohen. courtroom misogynist, sounds like something i would say. and that is the last one, you anticipated. it sounds correct, he said that 15 times. so that was just how much material cohen supplied. and just one more point about this, that line that started this cross-examination, cohen said that friday. that was the tiktok that got the judge very angry about it. >> right, that is the nutty part about michael cohen, but the nutty part did not come in except from past statements. adam klasfeld, the master of the transcripts. the speed reader. he is in the courtroom and we are sitting next to each other every day except today.

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more from michael cohen's testimony. prosecutor. and during the time your personal counsel to the president, did you continue to try to protect him? answer, yes ma'am. and during the time that you served as personal counsel to the president did you continue

to lie for him? answer, yes. why did you do that? answer, out of loyalty and to protect him. at the time he was president, is that right? answer, yes ma'am. andrew weissmann, the prosecution has said we don't have any other witnesses and no surprise, that seems to be where we were. they are done. they have basically made their case. they might come back with more questions for michael cohen after cross-examination, but it won't be new material. it might be something they want us to hear again, so this is the case. this is the case. what you make of the evidence that we now know will be available to the jurors and that jury room? >> it is, i think, a pretty bold move to end with michael cohen and if you think about the fact that the state had said that there might be two witnesses, michael and another witness, it does suggest to me that they think it is going well. because you usually don't end

with a witness who may need to be bolstered. if you notice during the trial they have had witness, hard evidence. witness, hard evidence. that is sort of a wonderful rhythm to have and here it is just witness. i think the reason for that is what this witness is doing is narrating something from the states perspective that we know happened and we know these conversations happened and you know this is the story, but you are now hearing it. you imagine this is what had to have happened, from all of the other proof in the case. and i think it is a very strong case. the key issue is, for the defense, they have to figure out an argument for how is it that allen weisselberg and mr. cohen were both involved in this scheme. there is no question about that. you can't argue that they weren't.

they have to say that they kept it from donald trump, where they had nothing to gain, everything to lose. donald trump has already said that he admits that he paid the reimbursement to michael cohen and if you were going to try to do that scheme, remember, the way that it gets carried out, donald trump has to sign the checks. so you are saying i'm going to not tell him, try to carry this out for a year and keep him in the dark, but for a year he is going to sign checks not for $130,000, but $260,000 for someone who was a micromanager and a penny pincher, which is also a given in the trial. he is proud of being a hands-on person and sort of counting every single penny and you are thinking they were not going to tell him. so i just think that is a very hard thing to get a jury to

believe when they are going to be instructed to use common sense. >> tim, we have all seen a flawlessly attentive jury. age demographics, one of the youngest juries i have ever seen. you don't have people donald trump sage. i think there are no retired people. the oldest person might be approaching 60, maybe. and when i am sitting there and i hear these things about -- that andrew just said about what are the odds of donald trump not knowing what he is signing for $35,000? i'm saying i remember the witness who said they were worried about spending $650 without his approval. $650 they were worried about spending. you've studied the business. you've studied the way allen weisselberg does things. you've written a book about it. you know the kind of obsessive detail that donald trump has been described as having about

every expenditure. >> i think the prosecution was wise when they first laid out all of these different passages from trump's various nonfiction works of fiction, in which he talks about how much he pays attention to every dollar. i'm a micromanager, et cetera. in reality he is a completely horrible manager, but the one thing he pays attention to is the money coming in and the money going out and from very small amounts to large amounts. anything over $1000 to him is a large amount. there is no way that $130,000 moved out of there without him knowing about it. one, you know, one person who was with trump in brooklyn at one point when allen weisselberg was sitting for a relative in brooklyn. they arrive at his house and trump's that i am so happy to see this house and the other person said why? trump said because it is a

garbage house and that means allen is not stealing for me. his view was that allen weisselberg would never steal a dime from him. so the other part of this argument that somehow it was just weisselberg and michael cohen doing this independently to steal from donald trump, there is no way that has credibility, either. i think the jury watches this and they definitely believe donald trump knew what the payments were for. he was authorizing him. we saw in court today he signed a majority of the checks paid to michael cohen. so i don't think the jury is sitting there and thinking he has an innocent bystander. >> we have to squeeze in a break. when we come back, adam klasfeld will give another update from the latebreaking transcript we just got. my daughter. who gets married someplace more expensive? my other daughter. cancun! jamaica!! why can't they use my backyard!!

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2018, because hope hicks's testimony was that trump's story that cohen was acting on his own, that he was freelancing doesn't make sense because cohen was not a selfless person. >> it was hope hicks saying he is not that kind of guy, he did not do this on his own. >> and todd blanche expertly reinforced the fact that michael cohen is not that kind of guy. here is one of those moments. and this was a new detail, at least for me, today. i don't recall hearing this. the first meeting of the manhattan prosecutors with michael cohen in otis bill in the prison he is in. he is asked by blanche, do you recall, one of the things he wanted to talk to the prosecutors about when you are, that the benefit was to you for meeting with them. i did ask that, cohen says, and he told them that you had been screwed over by the system, correct?

i did not know if that is the language i used, but that sounds correct. another of those sounds correct answers that michael cohen had. and there is another moment where michael cohen, and we remember, i think you remarked that michael cohen sounded temperate. we had been talking about how even killed his testimony and delivery was. all of a sudden it gets a little more contentious. he is asked about something he has fully admitted he is lying about. the trump tower meeting. this is what he pleaded guilty. >> and his lie was simply the number of times he talked to donald trump about it. he that i actually talked about it 10 times. and for some strange reason he told fbi agents that he talked about it three times, and that was in the investigation you started, and that ended up being part of the criminal prosecution for him. >> yeah, well, there was a little more to it. he really wanted to distance himself from that, including the timing of it. both the number of times he talked to him, and also when he

talked to him. and because he wanted to sort of remove this as an issue from the campaign. and so, that turned out to be false. and he pled guilty to it. by the way, he had no benefit to lie, other than to help donald trump. in 1 million years, you can't think of a reason for his lying that wasn't about donald trump. >> and you have repeatedly made the point that michael cohen is always looking to get paid back or rewarded for whatever he has done. >> that was such a theme in the direct, which was why did you report this to donald trump? and it was not just look, he is my boss, i have to tell him, i have to keep them apprised. but he wanted credit. he wanted donald trump to know that the thing he had assigned to him, he had done. and that sense of not just doing a good job, but just how much it meant to him to have the i felt like i was on top of

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