opposition leader. hello, i'm wolf blitzer in washington and you're in the cnn newsroom right now, donald trump is inside a florida courtroom for a crucial hearing. it could decide when the criminal case over his handling of classified documents goes to trial. the judge is set to determine whether it will move forward as planned. in may or be delayed. trump's lawyers now say they would accept the trial in august. that's three months before election day here in the united states. cnn's chief legal affairs correspondent, paula reid is outside the courthouse in fort pierce, florida for us. paula, have you heard anything yet from inside the court? >> yes. well, if we just got our first update, a handwritten note from inside the courthouse, we're learning from our colleagues who are inside watching these proceedings. it's so far the special counsel and trump's lawyers, they have been discussing this larger question of timing such a consequential issue in this case, because we know the special counsel is keen to try this case as soon as possible. trump's lawyers wanted to lay it. know so far the judge aileen cannon, she has not signaled if she will definitely reschedule this trial or delay it, which he has given us some clues. now prosecutors apparently told her that they believe the one thing both both parties agree on is that this can go this summer. technically, that is true. the special counsel said they'd like this to start on july 8. trump lawyers said that if it has to go it could start on august 12th, but they also argue that their client should not be sitting in a federal courtroom when they believe he should be out campaigning. they believe this would be a violation of his first amendment right. but in an ominous sign for prosecutors, or we're learning that judge cannon called some aspects of the government's proposed schedule unrealistic, suggesting that she may delay this and may delay it further than this special counsel would like, but well, if i want to talk about why i'm holding a handwritten note here. right behind me in this federal courthouse, there was a proceeding of a national significance questions about the former president allegedly mishandling classified documents and a judge, a federal judge is hearing arguments about when this trial will go but the press is allowed to be in there and observe the proceedings, but they're not allowed to transmit electric tonically as they are in most other courthouses. so we're relying on a team of reporters inside the courthouse right now taking handwritten notes and then running down those stairs and across four lanes of traffic to bring us these updates. this is the first note we've gotten. this morning and hopefully we'll get some more notes soon. >> hopefully we will re paula, what does this mean this case you're watching right now, what does it mean potentially for all the other legal cases facing trump? >> well let's pull up our handy calendar graphic. you really need this to understand all of the different elements here. >> the >> only case that we know criminal trial that we know former president trump is expected to face this year begins on march 25th. that is the hush money case. hush money payments that he made to stormy daniels ahead of the 2016 election? that case is being framed as an election interference case. and those charges were brought by the manhattan district attorney. now that trial is expected to last 4.6 weeks, ending in mid-may. currently, the classified documents case is penciled in for may 20 20th, but we expect the judge will likely move that and then we know the other federal case, the january 6 federal election subversion case. that's off the calendar right now now because in late april, about two months from now, the supreme court is going to hear arguments about whether trump has any immunity that would shield him from that prosecution. so we don't don't know what that case will go at all or if it does, if it will go before november, and then there's also the question of the georgia election subversion case. fani willis says she wants to bring that in august but these efforts so that we're also covering today to disqualify her may delay that. so that's just an open question right now. >> one >> trial definitely going to go in a few weeks and then we're waiting to see waiting to see what the judge does with this case. the classified documents probe, we should find out. i >> suspect fairly soon, paula reid. thank you very much for that complete update, joining us now, cnn anchor and chief legal analyst laura coates and cnn senior political analyst, gloria borger. laura, let me get to you for from trump and his lawyer's perspective, they want to delay delay delay everything is delayed much as possible. what are the chances they're going to be successful in this additional case that we're watching right now. >> well, he has many to choose from and they all can't go at once in a federal setting, particularly why? because a defendant actually has to be present in a federal courtroom. so you're going to have to be deferential to the different schedules, but the delay tactic is real sends in mar-a-lago, if you get back date on the calendar knowing that you have the april just room court oral argument and then eventually a june deadline for the justices actually cite a case if one already has a placeholder, they want to leap frog. and so using one to play against the other and saying why i would love to do your trial but i've already got this one knowing full well, that might not ultimately go on time. >> yeah. so there's a lot of questions still to be answered. gloria trump's legal team was adamant that this trial could not be held before the presidential election, saying as the leading candidate and erase, it wouldn't be fair. but then they propose the date and august what's the strategy? that's going on over here? >> well, funny how things can change. there is a change in strategy and i think if you read between the lines, they give a date of august 12 because they'd rather be doing a mar-a-lago document case then the case that the supreme court is considering in district court in in dc. and so if they had a choice, they would take the florida case over the dc case. and if the florida case is already being moved, you you can't be in two places at once. so i think their strategy is, well, you know, we can always, we can always say august 12th, we don't really want to do it before the election, but we'll put that down there so that we can put off another trial. so that may be what's going on. >> laura, let me follow up, because in court filings is, you know, a specific clarify the special counsel, jack smith has said he believes trump is to go defendants should go on trial july 8 will this date have any impact on trump's other legal challenges right now? >> it likely if that is the date that goes, you're likely to have the march 25th alvin bragg case be able to be concluded before that july date, the fulton county case are asking for a later timeline for that. the big question many people have is to what impact the supreme court would have in their actual argument about immunity. remember what gloria said is so important? so here wolf, because the why you'd prefer a mar-a-lago versus say, the january 6 case, one has conduct do with what happened after you left office at the presidency? one while and you're trying to go back into the oval office. it's also regarded as a more favorable jury for trump's team. they believe in florida as opposed to washington, dc, that presidential site of the crime of january 6 and so looking at the why they want those dates are very important. but the immunity case before the supreme court united states, has to do with conduct of a former president for acts committed while in office. the classified documents should not be right on the nose to have a delay added to this case. but stranger things have happened. >> you're absolutely right. gloria, the july 8 date is what exactly one week before the start of the republican national convention? is this special counsel making a mistake and asking for a date so close to the convention, does it feed it to trump's baseless claims of election interference well, if you were trump's attorneys, who would certainly be saying that if you were donald trump, you'd be saying that but over at the department of justice i think they're sending a message that we don't we're not talking about politics here we're talking about the law. and this would be a good time to do it. and who knows, we'll maybe they would pause the trial or whatever. but i think he's he's sending a clear signal that he wants this case done before the election. and no matter what gloria, let me follow up, because even if this case were to be tried during the election, is there any reason to think that would actually hurt trump politically? >> well, it >> look, it wouldn't hurt him with his base of supporters. we know that every time he's indicted his poll numbers go up but it might hurt him with the general electorate depending on how the case is decided. if he's found guilty, there's there are polls that show that people would reconsider a vote for donald trump if he has found guilty. so it could affect the outcome of the election one way or another, depending on what happens if trial. >> yeah, we will see a gloria. thank you. laura. thanks to you as well, but laura, stay with us. i got more questions for you coming up from florida. i want to head right now to georgia for another criminal case involving the former president in just a few hours, final arguments begin as fulton county district attorney, fani willis fights to avoid disqualified the cation in this case trump and his co-defendants are trying to get willis removed from the election subversion case in georgia. see you then zach cohen is live outside the courthouse in atlanta for zack. so what can we expect to hear today? >> yeah. wolf, we can expect defense attorneys for donald trump and his co-defendants have to argue why under georgia law, fani willis to polk county da should be be disqualified from this case. we've seen three hearings where they presented evidence saying it supports their core argument, which is that fani willis benefitted financially from her romantic relationship ship with her top prosecutor, nathan wade. that argument has shifted a bit to now focusing on whether or not fani willis and nathan wade additionally lied when they were on the stand and they've testified during one of these previous hearings. now, every isn't clear if the judge in this case, scott mcafee, believes that defense attorneys have met the burden to actually disqualify fani willis. we'll hear from lawyers representing fani willis, who will clearly pushed back on that notion today. but we're looking for clues into what scott mcafee things he's really the only person whose opinion matters here and he gave a window so into how he expects today to play out, take a listen to what he said on tuesday, looking ahead to today's hearing >> at this point, i need to start hearing the arguments in the law and what we've heard so far. and if i think i'm able to reach a ruling based on that, i will. however, if i think that the proper is going to make a material determinative point. we, we can mirror open the evidence at that point, but just the bottom line is on friday. i do >> the intention >> is that we're still sticking with argument mcafee making clear that he does want to see if there's enough information out there for him to make a decision on this >> disqualification to you, but he's also the door open to potentially allow more evidence to come in if you think that if he thinks it's warranted >> zach cohen reporting for us with an update. thank you very much. i want to bring back laura coates along with cnn legal analyst, the former former us attorney michael moore, laura judge scott mcafee, will decide whether or not to take in new evidence and testimony in this case, what kind of impact could this have on the timeline here when fani willis is waiting to find out if she can continue to work with her team. >> well, what's so important about this is that the crux of the argument has to be that would ever benefit she derived actually hurt the defendants chance at a fair trial. this judge is really trying to be streamlined in that we've heard a lot of information tmi is way the name of the game. what we're seeing right now. but when you have to actually get information of is whether it would ultimately hurt the chance of a defendant have a fair trial. this judge wants to dick there. he wants to go there. today's argument is going to be about the legal burden, not about the factual salacious details. the legal burdens here where they have met their case, not the prosecution, but those bringing the motion to disqualifier. >> michael board, does the judge agreeing to hear new testimony on the same day when final arguments are set to begin. does that give any indication about how he is leaning in this case? >> well, i'm glad to be with you both. >> it doesn't give a lot of indication. i think the judge has held things pretty close to the vast year, and so i'm not surprised that he's not not send in a flashing sign to tell us exactly how he's thinking, but i also think that there is some important to say that we can draw from that and that is that the judge may say, look, i've gotten up to think there's an appearance of a problem here and that can be enough. he's already told us that he told us in an earlier court hearing that the appearance alone could could serve as a basis to remove ms willis but he also made me saying look at i don't know if you've connected the dots to the defense. i don't know if you've connected the dots on the financial payments and the remuneration, is there something here where you could actually show a connection between the monies that were paid and the da that to me, it could boil down to something as simple as saying, look, you in fact did take vacations and you if he believed that the judge believes that the relationship began first and it gives the appearance at least that they received mr. wade and his law firm received monies which allowed them to do these outside activities. and this idea that there has to be some for tat or the he paid for lunch one day and she paid for lunch enough i don't know that that's gonna be enough to carry the day the one piece of evidence of state wants is to have this bartender to come in and say, well, yes, she does pay in cash. i don't even think that's a question. i >> mean, when you're having to use the testimony of a bartender somewhere to say did you pay cash to try to sort of rehabilitate? >> your argument? i'm not sure. that's a good day for the state >> laura, the former president trump's claim. of having presidential immunity, that whole issue is now being taken up by the us supreme court. it's a significant case that the supreme court is considering right now, a lower appellate court ruled he did not have presidential so let me see what the supreme court eventually decides. but what kind of impact could a supreme court decision have on this case that we're talking about oh, >> and all of these matters, the eyes are towards a supreme court about this particular issue. but remember, he's only one of the defendant. this is a rico case, a criminal enterprise. he is one of the initial 18 many of the rest well, in fact, none of the rest will have an argument about presidential immunity remember that mark meadows, his former chief of staff, also wanted to have his case removed to federal case, and a federal courthouse because he said it was based on official acts. don't forget that very important part of the supreme court argument that they're gonna have to hear about, not only whether a president has absolute immunity, but what are the parameters? because of an official act? could it be things involved in trying to get a false slate of electors or things about trying to talk to people about whether you believe the election is fraudulent. that's going to be the most important part for this georgia case. but ultimately, this is such a moment in time. the fact that mark i mean, i'm our colleague michael psaki about this fact that we're talking about bartender tabs and someone going dutch as opposed to the underlying facts of this case, does not bode well for a jury pool looking to have credibility in the benefit of the doubt to the prosecution. that's why the optics of this are so problematic for any prosecutor going we need to record as saying focus on the facts forget everything you've heard, all these details. >> margot law, even if fani willis is not disqualified, has the damage already been done? >> you know, i think there has been damage to the case. i mean, and i do think this has been sort of a self-inflicted wound that we're seeing here. >> the goal of a >> prosecutor is to protect the integrity of the investigation, the integrity of the case off by the integrity of a conviction. if one is obtained. and so we start sort of saying it already unraveling because there's information has now been has been laid out there and people get as laura said, the jury pool has already listened to this kind of information. so that's what you, what you do not wall. so i don't want to say that it's been on win for the defense to file the motion in the first place, but it has certainly cast a doubt. a bad light on the district attorney mr. wade, in this circumstance. and again, i don't know if the allegations are true or not but look at it as an observer like everybody else, i think if it's been a bad light, it's a self-inflicted wound that could have been bandaged up a long time ago. had she just removed mr. wade from the case whenever their relationship developed? >> and >> had she she might have been decided yet if something i think i'm going to just step back from this one case this is not fani willis versus donald trump. this is the state of georgia people, fulton county versus donald trump. so she could have said for the reasons of protecting the integrity of the mastication so that there's never any question because i feel so strongly about the evidence in this case. i'm going to step back from this. one. had let another prosecutor come in that could have been done. i understand the taken a hard line approach and not willing to back down, but i do think that some of what we're seeing is self-inflicted and really some unforced errors that the states now having to make up ground force whereas they move forward, regular the world. >> laura coates, guys, thank you very, very much. still ahead this hour. a day of both mourning and courageous protest in moscow. hundreds gathering to pay their last respects to putin critic alexey navalny, despite the very real risk of being arrested by the russian 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defiance even in death thousands of mourners ignore the threat of arrest to gather outside the funeral of vladimir putin's most vocal and darren critic this image of navalny and his casket covered in flowers was posted by his team on social media. it was two weeks ago today that the world was told that the valdi have died in a russian prison camp, his death continues to fuel anger here's the crowd leaving this funeral and marching the one-and-a-half miles to his burial mourners there were heard chanting and i'm quoting now, russia without putin. russia without putin cnn's chief international correspondent clarissa ward, is joining us right now. clarissa, how remarkable is this dramatic show of solidarity? and strength >> well, i think it's pretty remarkable when you think of just how high the stakes are. the last protests that we've seen in russia and in moscow in particular have been brutally cracking down upon and the stakes were very high today, the kremlin had said they had warned people about, quote, unauthorized memorials during the time of the actual funeral in the church, there were cell phone jamming equipment in effect so basically the live signal that navalny's team had tried to put out from the church, was not able to function. our own correspondent, matthew chance, our ground, and moscow was not able to do live shots. and there were just huge rows of ryan it, please, as far as the eye could see. and yet, notwithstanding, thousands and thousands of russians, patiently, quietly, fine ild, the miles to go to the church, to the cemetary carrying red carnations per russian tradition at russian funerals to pay their respects, to a man who they considered to be very great. and you have to ask yourself, wolf how many more wanted to go and wanted to be brave enough to do the same, but did not out of an abundance of caution because it is so difficult and so dangerous in this moment in russia to speak out against vladimir putin. and as you mentioned, the slogans that we heard a few people saying russia without putin many people chanting his names in his name. other people were saying, we're not afraid because you were not afraid. and that's a play on a slogan that navalny himself used. you would say, yan the boy us evenly beauties i'm not afraid and you shouldn't be afraid. and i think that's sort of the brightest are most optimistic takeaway you can have from this scene is the courage of people who are determined in whatever quiet way they can to honor his legacy and to help it continue you've spent a lot of time clarissa covering the alexey navalny story in russia. the pictures we see these huge lines of russia and simply waiting to pay their final respects to alexey navalny. have we ever seen anything like this at all in russia? >> we've seen images like this in the past. there were huge protests in 2011, there were large protests as well. when alexei navalny returned to russia after being poisoned with novichok, thousands took to the streets, but we saw a massive crackdown there hundreds of people arrested and i should know that according to one rights group in russia, at least 40 people have been detained today. so we have seen these scenes, but we haven't seen anything like this recently. and in this context. and another thing that i think is important to emphasize it's wealth is who was not at this funeral. all of these people came, but dasha navalnaya, who was the daughter of alexey navalny zahar navalny, the sun yulia navalnaya, the wife of alexei navalny. none of them were at this funeral. and that is because they have been also very outspoken. yulia navalnaya in a video saying that putin is to blame for her husband's death saying and vowing to take on that mantle and so you can understand that for security reasons, it simply wasn't feasible for them to actually go to the funeral. and the question now becomes what happens to russia's opposition? how does yulia navalnaya take that mantle and move it forward given the constraints upon her, given the fact that it is unlikely she will be able to return to russia anytime soon. wolf we're showing our viewers these pictures right now from moscow huge crowds of people simply waiting outside the cemetery amid a major police presence outside there as well. could they potentially face harassment? down the road? >> i think that's a very real fear, of course, is that there are a lot of police and presumably a lot of security apparatus who are out on the streets today, who could be taking notes, who could be making visits in the days and weeks to come to the people who attended today's funeral. we simply don't know. but what is extraordinary is that you didn't feel that that threat diminished the presence and character of alexei navalny, which you really felt throughout the funeral today, even as his casket was being lowered into the ground and he had chosen that frank sinatra is my way. the famous song would be played as he was buried. that really speaks to the kind of leader that i like say, was. and it really also speaks to the huge chasm between someone like alexei navalny, who was approachable, who was funny, who was down to earth, who loved his family, who was infatuated with his wife, and someone like vlad how to mirror putin, who is fearful, who is for boating, who is formal, who is isolated and utterly unrelatable for many russians, wolf as we say, may he rest in peace and may his memory be a blessing, clarissa ward. thank you very much for that update. other news we're following during a dueling border visit, president biden made an offer to donald trump. why don't we just get together and get it done he was talking about a new immigration bill when we come back, i'll ask a congressman from a border district what he thinks needs to be done about this crisis how do i look? >> perfect good boy. >> we are young republicans >> so let me do my work some sorry streaming exclusively on max >> struggling with the highs and lows 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bill is country's ever seen. so instead of playing politics with the issue, why don't we just get together and get it done? >> congressman, why do you think the president is making this direct appeal to trump? >> yeah. well, that's a good message to former president trump because he's the person that's talking to republican members of the house to block this bill from going on the floor. they want they want chaos on the border that they can continue to count the pain on into november. i had been one of the members that have been the most critical on the border with both administrations. and i support this bill big it addresses a lot of the critical issues that are impacting the country across the country with a mass migration that we're receiving on our southern border and we would have been able to have 34000 more asylum officers over 100 new immigration judges to process these claims faster and be able to remove folks who don't qualify under the asylum laws. now, we would have had 1,100 new agents on the ground. these are all a great proposals that will fix and alleviate the problem our southern border. >> but as you know, congressmen, president biden, he's also calling for the lawmakers to take up this bipartisan border legislation to bring it back up. why is he pushing for a bill? republicans have already said is dead in the water well, maybe because he's feeling the pressure from the american people at the end of the day. but like two-thirds of americans support that bill and wanted to go to the floor. know we need resources on the border. i've been talking about this for three years now. we need more agents, we need more immigration judges. we need more asylum officers there's we need better technology. we can fix this border problem and we have proposals. i've been pushing for the safe zone act, which creates safe zones and and panama, and colombia and places thousands of miles away from our southern border, where migrants can process their claim at that juncture. and it removes cartels out of the equation. it takes the pressure off our southern border, but the border problem is not a democratic or republican problem. it's an american problem that requires bipartisan solutions and we need everyone at the table, including donald trump's allies as you know, congressman, there's been a few recent polls which show that voters say immigration >> is the most important issue facing the country right now. so here's the question. was it a mistake for the biden administration to wait three years to take this issue head-on. >> well i think the critical bill that we have on the floor right now, we didn't have a bipartisan agreement like that in the last three years. and the efforts i mean, we could have always done more. i've been talking about this for three years. i said the same thing under the trump administration and we're not going to rip children from other's arms and separate families and page children the way the trump administration did. but we are going to bring law and order to the southern border >> we talk about an issue in texas right now, your state of texas is appealing a decision from a federal judge to block a controversial immigration law in your state that would allow state law enforcement agents to arrest and detain people they suspect of entering the country illegally. what's your reaction to that >> well, clearly it's an unconstitutional bill that was passed under governor abbott. and this is just a continuation of abbott's political theater that he's using this southern border for he's invested over $10 billion in building walls and bringing national guard peep, the troops and creating buoys and barbed wire. and it has not curved migration to texas southern border. he has squandered a monumental amount of taxpayer dollars that could have been used for our public schools are taking care of seniors for citizens are veterans here in texas. and instead, he's playing politics with a southern border. and at no avail of bringing any real solutions, migrants continue to come in high numbers to the state of texas. and he has not been able to slow that migration down. so what he does on the southern border is for no other reason than to showcase that to the country we don't know if he's trying to run for vice president or he just kissing up to the former president or what exactly his ideas are. i know he's feeding a lot of red meat to his base. and i would support it if it had real results because i'm for curbing migration on our southern border but what the governor has done has killed texas national guards, men has killed women and children on the southern border and has caused a tremendous amount of resources >> garners. remember, sunday gonzalez, thanks so much for joining us thank you. meanwhile, there's growing international outrage now and calls for an investigation after more than 100 people in gaza were killed waiting for food, still ahead, what we know about the hundreds of people who 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the ongoing humanitarian crisis in gaza. those remarks should be coming later this afternoon over at the white house. and they come a day after hundreds of civilians were caught in a barrage of gunfire around a convoy of aid truck facts in gaza city, i want to warn our viewers right now, the video you're about to see is disturbing there are conflicting versions of the events leading up to this truly horrific scene. now, that reportedly claimed more than 100 lives, cnn is unable to independently confirm the death toll, but outrage over the incident is growing and there are growing calls for an independent inquiry joining us now, from tel-aviv to cnn's jeremy diamond. jeremy, what does this mean for the ongoing ceasefire talks between israel and hamas talks that supposedly we're going to result in the release of more hostages well, wolf and it also comes as we had been hearing that there were reports of progress over the course of the last week, but we know that events like this >> can impact those negotiations can complicate those negotiations. in fact, president biden yesterday saying himself that he believes that he definitely will complicate those negotiations. a senior member of hamas also saying and that they will not allow these negotiations to be what he described as cover for what he said our israel's crimes against the palestinians. but what we are also hearing today are these growing calls for an investigation, the french and the german foreign ministers both calling for thorough investigations into what happened yesterday. united states also making clear that they have more questions about what happens. there are of course those conflicting timelines as it relates to when the gunfire broke out between what eyewitnesses on the ground have told us and what the israeli military claimed yesterday. but what's also still not clear is why israeli troops opened fire they have only said so far that it was because of threatening behavior by india the visuals, who they say approached their forces. but what this is certainly doing wolf, is that it's shining a spotlight on the dire humanitarian situation in gaza, in particular, in northern gaza, we know that over the course of the last month, aid going into gaza declined by half at a time when the humanitarian need was only growing we know that that is partly due to the fact that there are these stringent inspections of aid trucks going into gaza. there is a need a clear need for more border crossings to be open. in particular, a northern gaza, according to humanitarian aid officials. and we also know that there is a lack of sleep security for these aid trucks. in particular, after us official said that hamas that police officers in gaza who are ultimately run by the hamas government there, that they were being targeted by the israeli military. and so all of those factors combining to result in what we saw yesterday. it, you see when you see these hundreds of people massing around these trucks, it is because of how dire the need for food and essential services has become the world food programme is now warning that more than half 1 million people in gaza are on the brink of famine. and we are also wolf getting incredibly sad growing reports of children dying of dehydration and malnutrition just today, the palestinian ministry of health saying that for more children in northern gaza died as a result of dehydration and malnutrition, bringing the total number of children just in the past week in northern gaza who have died. of those causes to a total of ten now, well it's a horrific situation indeed, jeremy diamond reporting for us from tel aviv. thank you very much. other news we're following polls are now open in iran, but voter turnout is expected to be at a record low for today's elections, we're going to explain why cnn is live in terror. run our fred pleitgen is standing by, stay with us. we'll go to fred and tehran when we come back anderson cooper 360 tonight at eight on 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them, as you were mentioning for the assembly of experts election, which of course is the body that elects the supreme leader. so that alone if the conservatives managed to strengthen their grip on that body, certainly could mean a lot for this country going, going forward because of course the supreme leader is the main authority here in this country. and his word is what essentially counts here in iran that other ballot box is for the iranian parliament. now, one of the things that the authorities here are looking at is the voter turnout. you mentioned before that somebody believed that it could be at a record low. well, right now, we've already seen the voting hours here extended for the second time. they've never consented by another two hours because the authorities say it's so many people still wants to cast their ballot in that body as well in the parliament. it looks as though the conservatives are going to get stronger. one of the things that the supreme leader your said 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