This morning. Im maria bartiromo. It is monday, april 22, your top stories 6 00 a. M. On the east coast. Today congressional drama after the house passed a 95 billion package of foreign a aid billsd no new security at the u. S. Border. Democrats seen waving the National House of ukraine on the house floor after agreeing to send 61 billion in ukrainian aid. House Speaker Mike Johnson maintaining he did the right thing despite the threat of a motion to vacate still hanging over the house leader. Mike johnsons speakership is over. He needs to do the right thing to resign and allow us to move forward in a controlled process. If he doesnt do so, he will be vacated. Maria we will get into this morning, markets meanwhile seeing a nice rally this morning as we kick off a new week. Take a look. Weve got another big week of earnings and triple digit move for the dow industrials. The dow up 170 points right now, the nasdaq up 118, s p 500 higher by 27. Big tech reporting this week including microsoft, meta and google along with key Economic Data on tap. Youve got lots of buying going into those tech earnings. We will get the first read of First Quarter gdp out this week on thursday and the march pce index out on friday. Expectations call for gains across the board. Commodities this morning are pulling back, take a look at the price of oil which is down as is the price of gold. Oil right now sitting at 82. 83 a barrel on crude, brent as at 86, 71, the price of gold is down 1 and two thirds percent. European markets seeing a strong rally. Ft 100 is up 111, cac quarante is up 22 and dax higher by 105, two thirds of 1 . Asia overnight markets finished mostly higher. The weak spot was china, shanghai composite was lower by a fraction, hang seng up 1 and three quarters percent. Opening statements in President Trumps unprecedented criminal hush money trial expected today as trump awaits a Supreme Court ruling on president ial immunity this week as well. Joining the conversation all morning long, columnist, fox news contributor, liz peek is here, as well as chris mcmann. Mornings with maria is live right now. Maria it is time for the hot topic of the hour. All 12 jurors and six six alters are seated for President Trumps hush money trial. The New York Post is reporting michael often avenatti is, quo, happy to testify in trumps defense. He said hes been in contact with trumps legal team. House democrats have stripped a bill that would strip secret Service Protection if you have been in jail for at least one year. They want to remove his secret service security, liz peek. Your reaction . This is one more step in their ongoing determination to humiliate and abuse this former president , maria. I just cant get over the lengths to which democrats are willing to go, to which the white house is willing to go to humiliate donald trump. All in the service of making him look weak and battered and unable and unfit to run for president again. This is an entirely political trial, another one on top the of the horrible Latisha James trial. She is not letting go of that one. Bragg isnt going to let go of this one. I think most americans are watching this and theyre just horrified by the spectacle of a man who basically served very well as president , now having the entire legal establishment of the federal government against him and the new york state government. Its pretty appalling. Maria they want to have that narrative, one candidate is facing 91 indictments, the other candidate is not. Thats the point Hillary Clinton made the other day in an interview so its working for them. Except that donald trump is getting a lot of attention, a lot of air time. Some democrats are pushing back saying maybe hes too much in the lime light. The New York Times ran a big column, no fan of donald trump, basically talking about how he looks diminished, he looks like he is no longer in control. Thats what this is about, presenting to the world a beaten and bruised man as opposed to a strong leader which most voters think he is compared to scro goa. Maria Latisha James asking the judge in trumps civil fraud case to void the bond payment he already post. She claims shes questioning whether Knight Specialty Insurance Company has the funds to back it up. So chris, he puts the first they try to get him to put up 475 a million in bond. Hen a judge cuts it to 175 million. Gets the money. He pa he pays the bond. Now shes trying to get the judge to void it out. You cant write this. Its unbelievable. This weaponized charges is isridiculous. People are seeing this for what it is, weaponizing our criminal justice system. I believe ultimately trump is going to be seen as strong and angry and righteous which is not a normal position for him to be dealing from. I think this will ultimately ben be fit him despite incredible tribulations. Maria theyre mer making him e victim. They absolutely are. Maria we want to hear what Supreme Court says. Theyre set to hear arguments on trumps president ial immunity case, to determine whether he should be immune from prosecution for jack smiths investigation. Trump posted this, if they take away my president ial immunity, they take away crooked joe bidens president ial immunity. Hows that going to square. I think thats a veiled threat, if trump wins in november, guess who will be looking at federal charges . I think this is a horrific idea that president s should be look, they have to obey the law but the fact that a successor or competitor can go after illegally for actions they took while president , imagine what this could open up. This may not be a good rational or good case on which to hang that but i think the whole request of president ial immunity is somewhat tricky and i think trumps lawyers are going to have a pretty good case to make. I want to say one more think about Michael Avenatti. If i were the trump team which be very careful about enlisting the help of michael oft avenatto lies for breakfast, lunch and dinner and who cannot be trust. Maria im sure theyre thinking that way. Youve got to put it out there. Its weird that he claims hes ready to testify in trumps favor. I think thats the last witness we would ever call. Dont worry, Michael Avenatti would come from prison and save the day. The concept is absurd. I ti thinkliz is right on, sayiy careful what you hope for. Maria big tech is on deck, tesla, microsoft , google, meta on track this week. Phil orlando has expectations coming up and well talk about 2024 investing. At 7 00 a. 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Take a look at futures this morning, we are expecting a big opening this morning on the upside, dow industrials up almost 200 points this morning, three hours before the opening bell, up 189 on the dow. The nasdaq up 132, s p higher by 30 points. Earnings season is kicking into high gear this week. Particularly with big tech, reporting quarterly numbers. Tesla, meta, microsoft, google, all poised to report quarterly quarterlyearnings this week. Joining me now, chief equity market t strategist, phil orlando. Do you attribute this big rally to expectations of good numbers for the Big Tech Companies this week . What are you expecting . Good morning, maria. Thanks again for having me on. The rally were seeing this morning i think is come by nation of combination of two things. Firsts is the s p 500 is actually down about 6 over the course of the last couple of weeks. The nasdaq composite down about 8 . And i think that pulls back some of the gains that weve seen in the market over the last couple of months. The s p was up 10 in the First Quarter. And it was the best First Quarter weve seen in the market since 2019. But from an earnings perspective, were about 15 of the way through the First Quarter earnings season. Earnings season is coming in pretty good. Revenues so far are up about 4 andahalf percent year over year. Earnings are up about 7 andahalf percent year over year. So the seasons been pretty good and the companies you mentioned are among the best companies we have in the u. S. You economy ect now. I think the expectations are tthat earnings are going to be pretty good. I think investors are enthused about this week. Maria enthused going into the quarterly numbers. What were focused on is what companies will say about guidance an the rest of the year. Lets take a look at Interest Rates, where we stand ahead of the first read of First Quarter gdp p and this comes out on thursday recall economists expect annual growth of 2. 4 . Yield on the 10 year is at 4. 65 . Well also get in addition to gdp numbers, well get the feds preferred reading on inflation, pce index out on friday. Gdp is expected to be up 2. 4 . What are your expectations for First Quarter macro story and beyond into the rest of the year . Nothing like easy questions, maria. So thank you for that. [laughter] gdp in the First Quarter we thithink is going to be 2. 2 sot too far from consensus. The key is the trend here. Remember, in the fourth gdp was up 3. 4 . In the Third Quarter of last year, 4. 9 . So we are decelerating in terms of economic growth. Into what we believe is a soft landing. We do not have a recession forecast. At the same time, inflation cpi, ppi and this weeks core pce, inflation bottomed at the end of last year and has accelerated the last couple of of monthsnd as the work that of weve done suggests that the base effects on all of those inflation readings are going to be rolling off over the next couple months. We expect inflation to continue to move higher over the balance of the year. So what youre looking at is sort of a stagflationary environment. You have inflation going higher, economy slowing, Federal Reserve officials who are back pedaling furiously in terms of how many cuts theyre going to have this year or even if the theyre going to have any Interest Rate cuts so from that perspective the bond market has backed up, bencher marked 10 year treasuries from 380 up to 470 over the course of the last couple months. The equity market i think has been largely ignoring those developments, up until a couple weeks ago. And then it got to be too significant for them to ignore any longer and i think thats what precipitated the 6 correction in the s p and 8 correction in the nasdaq over the course of the last couple of weeks. Maria yeah. Chris mcmann, jump in here. Phil, i was thinking about netflix, for example, had a double beat last cr week, great news, sill went down 10 . That shows investors want to take a breath. Were concerned were going to see even if the numbers are good for the mega caps coming out this week, were concerned were going to see a real pullback, 10, 12 pullback. What are your thoughts. Chris, i think youre spot on. Our target for the s p 500 for this entire year was 5200. We got there a month ago. You know, in mid to late march. Stocks are up 28 since the end of last october. So in our case stocks are ahead of themselves and were due to have a healthy correction. You made a great point. Netflix great revenue, great earnings, stock down 10 . Our view is we could see 5 to 10 correction here over the course of the second and Third Quarter and i think were seeing the early stages of that now. Maria all right. We will leave it there. Phil, great to see you. Thank you so much. We appreciate thank you very much. Maria coming you, the threat of a motion to vacate the speakership hangs over the house but house Speaker Mike Johnson claims he did the right thing on foreign aid bills. Congressman ralph norman is here with where things stand coming up. Youre watching mornings with maria live on fox business. Hi, im chris and i lost 57 pounds on golo. After my car accident, i was stuck at home and my unhealthy eating habits caught up with me, and the weight was piling on. Id seen golo on tv and i was curious about it. I really liked that the golo program didnt make you dependent on a pill, a shot, or a frozen meal program for the rest of your life. It was easy and inexpensive. 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I think it is likely to pass in the senate when it comes over on tuesday. There are elements of the bill that are good, elements that are not so bad. Best parts are much needed 34eu8 military aid for israel. Maria it was the ukraine aid that democrats were celebrating, House Democrats waving the ukraine flag on the house floor. In response, florida congresswoman kat cammack says she is working on legislation to ban foreign flags in the house of chamber. Joining me now, South Carolina congressman ralph norman. Good to see you. Thank you for being here. Walk us through the d ma that tt took place with the passage of the bills on saturday. It was interesting. The real reaction came when the ukraine bill passed. The senate wanted that since day one. That was the linchpin, the leverage we had to get more of what we wanted. We eventually took the senate bill and theyre going to pass it and there will be very little debate. When that passed, when all four of them passed, thats when the flags came out. And thats against the d decoru, chip roy stood up, paulina stood up. They shut it down. It should have never happened in the first place. Im is what it is. Imagine the american flags, for instance, if that had been flown. They they chose ukrainian flags because thats what they wanted. Maria house Speaker Mike Johnson is maintaining he did the right thing he despite the threat of a motion to vacate hanging over the house leader. I spoke with congresswoman Marjorie Taylor greene yesterday on sunday morning futures, she didnt have an alternative plan. I pushed her, whats the plan. You keep making this there. You have no plan. She maintains that mike johnson surrendered any leverage you all had to secure the border at this point. Watch. You wanted mike johnson out. What is your alternative plan . Mike johnson has betrayed america, he betrayed republican voters. Under his leadership he passed the democrat agenda, past the Biden Administrations policies and fully funded them. Were going to fight in congress to do everything we can to stop this part of uni party leadership. Mike johnsons s speakership is over. He needs to do the right thing to resign and allow us to move forward in a controlled process. If he doesnt do so he will be vacated. Maria again, she had no plan, congressman. But she still is pushing that she wants change. She wants the border secured. Your rehe action to a reactin to all of this . She is right, maria, that we expected a more conservative speaker. Americans dont expect us to win every fight. They do expect us to fight. Thats whats been shocking about it. Where i disyou agree with marjorie and i told her, weve got to have an election coming up. We have got to win this election to preserve the countries. You ask most americans who is the next speaker, is that at the top of the agenda . No. Inflation, border, crime, all of the above. Now is not the time and who is in line to be speaker, who wants it . They dont have anybody. Weve only got, what, six months left, two months were going to be out of session. The American People dont deserve the drama that took place the last time we picked a speaker so shes right. Were d disappointed in mike. Im not going to support it. He is a good man. Im not going to criticize him. He needs to get in the fight more than hes doing and to borrow more money with no offsets is at the center of a lot of what hes doing that we disagree with. Maria the timing of all this, this is an election year, to have this drama a makes the gop look unable to govern. Liz peek, jump in here. Good morning, congressman. I would echo your concerns about mike johnson perhaps not having played his cards terribly well but to your point, Marjorie Taylor greene and the other critics really didnt seem to have any plan of their own or an alternative to mike johnson and i guess the question to is, what do your constituents think . Dont you think they want the republicans in congress to look capable, to look like mike johnson can herd the calves. We have very few months left until the election. The last time we had a big blowup about the speakership, republican Approval Ratings went through the floor. We started the year very strong. So i hope you and your levelheaded friends can keep this motion to vacate at bay and at least get through this session without any more turmoil. Do you think thats possible . I hope it is. And liz, heres the danger of it. We have a one seat majority. If you want the democrats to basically take over, then go into turmoil, trying to pick another speaker, its not the time. Theres other things that have more priorities than this. Who wants the job . I dont see anybody lining up to the take it. We owe it to the American People to do what we can, try to super suede mike johnson persuade mike johnson to stop some of the to fight, thats the best word i can think of. And hopefully we can do that. Maria quick break and then congressional drama continues after the house passed the 95 billion of foreign aid bills, still no security at the u. S. Border. My next guest says more funding wont bring the war to an end. General Keith Kellogg is here with more on two the ongoing wars. Youre watching mornings with maria live on fox business. You got the best of my love. Oh, oh oh,. You got the best of my love maria this week on mornings with maria, tomorrow donald trump calls the new york trial a sham, constitutional attorney mark smith on alvin braggs real motives. Wednesday, will commercial real estate bounce back any time soon . 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While were focusing on him i worry that he has a slight advantage and so im a little concerned about the overindulgence around the daytoday. I get it. I totally get it. The consequential nature of a criminal trial is profound and outsize in some respects but not more outsize than democracy. He went on to he say less is more, implying the former president wants the spotlight on him at all times. Opening arguments in the hush money trial expected later this morning. Elsewhere in california, one person is under arrest for allegedly breaking into the home of logs angeles mayor karen bass, happening at the official mermayoral resident early yestey morning. They were promptly arrested at the scene. The mayors family was home at the time. No one thankfully was injured. And tesla cutting prices to three of its models in the u. S. Including its top selling electric vehicle, the model y, x and s all seeing a 2,000 price cut from their respective price tags. This happening after teslas stock is seeing rough road, last week dropping below 150 bucks a share, ceo elon musk also announcing a 10 cut to the global staff in he calls an eft to increase productivity. Tesla a reporting earnings tomorrow. The stock price is down almost 3 . And a gouda use of their time cheese slices could be banned in new york if environmentally political figures get their way. The packaging reduction and recycling infrastructure act would require Certain Companies to reduce their t plat pplastic use by50 . Companies the h that use plays e plasticwrapping would face a fih money going towards s recycling efforts if the state. Maria irans Supreme Leader thanking the countrys armed forces for the yo attack on isr, saying h iran, quote, demonstrated its power. Iran says it has no plans to retaliate. But the New York Times is reporting this morning that israel, quote, planned a bigger attack on iran but scaled it back to avoid war. Joining me is America First policy institute cochairman, fox news contributor, former National Security advisor to trump and mike pence, Lieutenant GeneralKeith Kellogg back with us. Great to see you this morning. Thank you very much for being here. Where do you see this iran israel conflict moving next . Maria, thanks for having me this morning. Good morning. I think everybodys starting to to use a military term, taking a knee, taking a deep breath for what happened. Iranians to launch a pretty significant attack against the israelis, used Ballistic Missiles, cruise missiles, drone as well, around then israelis responded quite well with an attack on iran. Heres what actually happened when you look at it. The Israeli Defense system worked really well. Its a tiered Defense System with the arrow, the upper end againsts Ballistic Missiles and then against the cruise missiles and the iron dome against the drones and allied support. They were able to defeat most of the systems coming in. Heres the kicker. When you look at where the missiles were heading, the Ballistic Missiles, they actually hit an air base which is next to a nuclear site for israel. Israelis responded. They went against the 23450u new clearfacility of nucleary of iran. Theyre thinking were at a level thats pretty dangerous now. They created a bit of a deterrence level. We didnt do that. This is an administration that said to the israelis dont or to the iranians, dont, and they did and the israelis, take the win, dont respond and the israelis disregarded that. Youve seen a level of deterrence established by both sides which is good. Good for the israelis in the sense that they can focus on hamas, focus on going down and finishing the job in rafah and completing the mission there and iranians saying well take a bit of a win and back off from there. Maria the next story is pretty stunning. I want to get your take on how israeli leaders are criticizing the reports that secretary of state Antony Blinken is about to put sanctions on an Israeli Defense forces military battalion, theyre y accused of violating human rights in 2022. Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu posted this on x, if someone thinks they can impose sanctions on the idf, i will fight it with all my powers. Where are the sanctions against the aabuse in communist china . Instead, theyre turning their sanctions on the idf in the middle o of this war . We really send very, very mixed signals, this administration does. This is called this is orthodox jews. When you look at the population of israel, its 16 orthodox. They want to bring the man power in. Its actually a unit that operates in the west bank, not gaza itself. You look at the administration a. Its almost like look, start supporting your friends, make a clear line of who were with. The adversary and enemies always look for a gap or seem. Seam. If they say the gap cree can created bythe United States, sae going to be equal handed, its wrong. We should say were with you full stop and go from there. Maria the house passed the foreign aid package on saturday, including 60 billion for ukraine, 26 billion for israel, humanitarian aid for gaza, 8 billion for the indough passc region. It could pass tomorrow. Yesterday i spoke with utah senator mike lee and he said this was a bad bunch of bills, particularly the 9 billion he said was going to hamas. Your thoughts on that human tearan aid that is going to gaza humanitarian aid which is going to gaza which mike lee seems to think its going right to hamas. It is going right to hamas. Where do they think its going to . Of course it goes there. Hamass is the ruling entity within gaza itself. You look at the ukraine bill, its almost like a pox on both your houses. Ukrainians fought valiantly against the russian aggression. You look at the house and say look, theres ways you could have sold this to the American People. I would ask them look at your history. If you go b back to 1941 when president roosevelt was in a lot of trouble with the American People who were isolationist at the time, theres a way to sell an aid package to a concerned public and thats a perfect way to do it. And when you look at the ukrainians, i also push back a little bit on them. If youre in a fight four life, then mobilize, 100 mobilize. They reduce the draft age from 27 to 25. I say pull up all of your peop. Fully mobilize your country to go to war. Saying that again, like i made the comment, ukrainian in the fight for their lives and have fought valiantly against russian aggression. When you look at whats happening here in america, owe to it to the American People to explain how were doing this and what were doing and i blame the Biden Administration very strongly because they have not come up with a strategic plan. As long as it takes, as much as it takes is a bumper st sticker, not a strategic plan. They owe it to the American People and they need to deliver that. Maria liz peek, jump in. I could not echo what you said more aggressively. There is no plan. I dont think from the beginning what joe biden has articulated or our military articulated a plan for victory. They didnt even ever talk about winning this war. So to your point, i think what the american meme want to know, what will this incremental 40 billion mean. How will it be spent in such a way to shorten the war, to bring it to a conclusion, to win the war . Do you have any thoughts about how they could frame that . Yeah, as a matter of fact i do. I actually testified in front of the Senate Armed Services committee a little over year ago, the republican study commit at this as well. When you committee as well. When you look at what theyre doing with this administration, its whistling past the graveyard. Over a year ago they had the russians on their heels, if we provided the correct supplies, aircraft, Defense System, arrest tillly, they probably would have changed it. Right now russians are on the move. I will say candidly, this is the way russians normally fight with attrition, they throw more people, equipment, ammunition, armor, arrest till youl artillen handle. If you get in an attrition fight, the ukrainians are on the back foot what is thend stage . Donald trump said everybody take a deep breath, figure out how to get to the next steps and if necessary negotiate. Negotiate doesnt mean you give up something. That means you get everybody together, slow it down, take a deep breath. Theyre not doing that because theres no plan to do et. Again, i made that comment earlier and i believe this. The plan the Biden Administration doesnt have a plan. Again, when they make a comment as long as it takes, as much as it takes, doesnt mean anything. Doesnt mean anything to the russians. You have to make the russians pay a price. You have to help the ukrainians. Saying that, i will be candid, the most important National Security issue we have in the United States is our southern border. And theyre ignoring that. They ignored it this weekend as well. They need to you address that aa primary way. I think the world is exploding on us, not only the southern border but whats happening in the middle east and t the far east, in europe, major problems and this administration is avoiding it h that is the plan, do Everything Else other than the border. Thats their plan. Ignore the wide open border where with we are watching National Security at risk as a result of this. Lieutenant general, always a pleasure to see you. Thanks very much. Thanks, maria. Thanks for having me. Maria quick break and then the Strategic Petroleum reserve is down more than 40 since biden took office. My flex guest says Bidens Energy policy is harming producers and helping rivals. 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Crude inventory rising, since President Biden took office the Strategic Petroleum reserve levels have fall engineerly 40 . Joining us now, former Principal Deputy solicitor of the u. S. Department of interior under President Trump, Gregory Zerzan back with us. Gregory, good to see you. Consider do you think oil is trading down in the middle of all of this upset in the middle east . Well, maria, thank you for having me this morning. I think what were experiencing is probably a temporary lull. I think the israeli, iranian conflict thus far has not played out as terribly as it could have. But i think unfortunately if you look at it, the overall trend line for gasoline prices certainly much higher than it was under President Trump. Maria yeah. No, but i was surprised because i would have thought that oil prices would have spiked with the unar unrest happening in the middle east. Gregory, you have a new piece out for Real Clear Energy called Bidens Energy policies harm u. S. Producers while helping americas rivals, you write this, the Biden Administration spent the last three years actively discouraging american fossil fuel production, the policies are supposedly aimed at battling Climate Change. The primary beneficiaries the americas global rivals. Tell us more. Well with, thank you. Your previous segment with general kellogg, you really got to the heart of the issue, which is a complete lack of a strategy by the Biden Administration. And they some ways its worse than a lack of a strategy. Its having the wrong priorities. So what this administration has done is locked up literally millions of acres of federal lands, preventing us from getting oil, gas and Critical Minerals from these lands. Meanwhile, our rivals, the chinese, the russians, the iranians, are the primary beneficiaries of these policies. So what were seeing unfortunately is a world that is degoing further into chaos and countries aligned against the United States and this administration is looking to he protect its interests and preventing america from producing the Critical Energy supplies that we need to keep us safe. Maria let me get your take on whats happening in poland. I spoke with the president of poland on sunday morning futures about his countrys use of coal. He also thanked former President Trump for his help with lng gas. Watch this. We are Building Nuclear power plant in cooperation with the United States, want to build the first plant in the region and we have to depart from coal, we need to decarbonize, we need to depart from fossil fuels and we have to say goodbye also to gas and producing energy from gas. The only alternative is the Nuclear Energy as the safest time of energy new r trail for e neutral for the climate. It is tightening polish, u. S. Bonds. Im really grateful to President Donald Trump for the decisions that he was taking in this respect. Maria gregory, your reaction . Yeah. Well, look, nuclear is a fantastic source of energy and again, we have a ton of uranium here in the United States that we could sell to the poles right now, a huge portion of the worlds Nuclear Energy comes from russia. So once again, if this administration were to encourage mining on federal lands, we could actually help the poles switch to nuclear and could provide revenue for the United States of america. Unfortunately, those arent the policies that are being pursued under the Biden Administration. Maria gregory, i mean, the Climate Change agenda is going to continue, this administration has made it a priority and the implications are far and wide. You write about some of them in this piece. Right. Right. Well, i mean, look, at the end of the day the United States is the solution to the climate issue. The United States is where we innovate, where we produce new technologies, we do that largely because we have you affordable, reliable energy. The policies that are being pursued by this administration are actually threatening us having a clean, reliable supply of energy. Again, theyre going in the completely wrong direction. Maria okay. We will leave it there. Gregory, good to see you this morning. Thanks so much. Greg zerzan joining us. Quick break and the power panel is back. Former arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, former assistant treasury, Monica Crowley and liz peek will be here when we come back in the 7 00 a. M. Hour. Youre watching mornings with maria live on fox business. Stay with us. Luck let a gentleman see. How nice a dame you can be. I know the way you treated other guys youve been with. Luck be a lady with me. [alarm beeping] amelia, turn off alarm. Amelia, weather. 70 degrees and sunny today. Amelia, unlock the door. Im afraid i cant do that, jen. Why not . 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