In their second week, without power. Amid extreme heat in louisiana and extremely challenging conditions. Conditions that get more and more challenging, with each day passing. With the power still not returned. Reviewing the damage today, President Biden said quote, the evidence is clear. Climate change poses an existential threat to our lives to our economy. The threat is here. Its not going to get any better. The storms are going to get worse and worse and worse. He said quote we have got to listen to the scientists and economists in the national security experts. They all tell us this is code red. The nation in the world are in peril. That is not hyperbole, that is a fact. President biden speaking today, again on his trip to New York in new jersey, of course what is he proposing to do on climate, is whats in his build back better plan. The big Infrastructure Bill. That democrats are trying to pass. One thing to sort of have in mind over these next few days, is by The End of this week, you may not know definitively, but we should have a pretty good idea by The End of the week is to whether or not they will be able to pass this bill. As to whether or not President Biden is going to be able to effectuate, most of his policy agenda, for his first term in office. Its an important horizon to set in this week in particular, in politics i learned early on, that its common wisdom in politics in a news about politics, that the day after Labor Day, whether or not you are in School Whether or not you have kids in school, the day after Labor Day, is the First Day Of School for everyone. Or the first day of the year. The theory is that, in an election year, today is the day, the day after Labor Day, that the country actually starts paying attention to who they are eventually going to vote for. Even when it is not a national election year, still, today is the day, the day after Labor Day is when members of Congress Start to head back to washington, having gotten an earful from their constituents back home. About whatever the outrage of the days. That motivated politics through the summer season. Case in point. 2009. The first August Recess of the obama presidency, you might remember, that was distinguished by rip roaring raucous. Sometimes crazed occasionally even violent, Town Halls and protest, all over the country. By anti obama republicans. By the new Tea Party republican movement. Screaming bloody murder about how obamacare was going to destroy the country. And they were willing to start a Civil War over it. In The End, obamacare of course passed into law, and it is now the affordable Care Act. We are quietly providing Health Insurance to tens of millions of americans without much fuss. And without Hell Mounds opening up anywhere that i can see at least. So looking back at 2009, and the freak out on the right, about the affordable Care Act, a caleb ahmed care, it does seem a bit hyper in over the top. But it was real at the time. It was remarkable thing to cover in the moment. In the fact remains that that huge pushback, in 2009. The first time lawmakers had a long break at home, in august 2009. The first time they had a long break at home after obama was elected president , that huge pushback. That roiling opposition, in their home districts. That Set The Tone for the opposition. The in transience opposition, that obamacare well, that was 2009. That was the first August Recess. When obama was president. Fast forward to now. We just had the first August Recess of President Biden, being president. And, this time it is not obamacare. This time its not the affordable Care Act thats the proposal on the table, this time its way bigger. This time the new democratic president is proposing a three and a half trillion dollar Infrastructure Bill. Which is way way bigger than obamacare was. Its funny, not really a peep at home. No angry Town Halls about this. In the home districts. Actually not even really a peep from elected republicans about. Or from right wing activists who are supporting them. It turns out bidens Infrastructure Bill is really popular. If you want to look for signs of life, signs of agitation around this gigantic Infrastructure Bill, when members of congress and senators went home for the August Recess, look no further than Senator Bernie sanders a vermont, doing Town Hall meetings in support of the Infrastructure Bill. In places like indiana, in iowa. During august. Thousands of people coming out to see him talk about it in indiana and iowa. In his Home State of vermont. Not to protest him and tell him how much they objected to it but to cheer him on, and tell him how much they support. It which youre seeing here is around the big infrastructure, bill including all the Climate Stuff its the opposite of the bloody minded screaming crazy right Wing Opposition to obamacare. That we saw at this exact point in the obama presidency. Opposition substance or otherwise is not materializing on the right. Against President Bidens major proposals the way it did for President Obama. That of course is a problem that democrats have the fix for they might just decide in the absence of significant pushback they might just decide that they oppose their own agenda themselves. With the Tea Party did to the agenda for President Obama four years, West Virginia democratic senator Joe Manchin is trying to do bidens agenda. Now saying he just does not want to vote for the Infrastructure Bill. Doesnt plan to vote for it. Climate be damned. And all the rest of it to. Despite how popular it is. Even among his own voters. Its worth keeping that in mind over the course of these next few days. We shall see. I think by The End of this week we should know a lot more as of course its happening at the same time that a lot of other things around the boil. Covid, the administration is making some new moves as well the President Today directing that 600 Dollar Payments should be made to individual Farm Workers and people who work in meatpacking plants. To compensate them for the extraordinary risk, and to thank them for the extraordinary service they provided the country during the covid pandemic. Earlier agricultural Aid And Food Supply Chain Aid and basically gone to the owner of this businesses. Not to the low level workers President Biden is now saying a 600 Dollar checks to go out to low level workers in those fields. As of this week we are back up to a steady stream of more than 1500 deaths every day, from covid. Which is impossible to swallow. In some states, states with lower vaccination, rates are having even harder than others. Harder than the rest of the country. The great state of Idaho Today the state officials announced a decision they made quietly yesterday. Which is that hospitals in the northern part of that state, hospitals in the northern part of idaho will now move towards called Crisis Standards of care. Crisis standards of care means they effectively agree that the states hospitals are going to have to start Rationing Care now, they are not going to be able to give everyone the optimal treatment. Because the numbers are so overwhelming for covid hospitalisation. This is something idaho fear they might have to do last year during one Everybody Thought was the worst of the covid surge. They never actually had to do it before now. But now that policy is in effect in northern in north central idaho. The day after tomorrow, President Biden is due to make another address to the country on the issue of covid. Specifically on the issue of Vaccination Boosters and more we are starting to see signals that the plan for Booster Shots being made available starting later this month that maybe influx. The details of that should become more clear as well over the course of this week as we head toward the president ial address that we believe will be on thursday. I mean, just as it was before the holiday weekend, theres just a time going. On lots of major news developing still every day. Sort of relentlessly. But i want to start tonight. This proverbial First Day Of School, with a story of a Charming Bar in the great state of massachusetts. There is a bar in cambridge massachusetts called, grand Isles Dan. I have never been, but it looks great. It looks like my kind of place. This year marks the 50th year in business. And thats an amazing achievement for any local business. Particularly to hit that achievement in whats been a tremendously difficult year for restaurants and bars everywhere. But to celebrate their 50th Anniversary they had to get creative about how to celebrate. They apparently put together an lp of vinyl records, we local bands. All Recording Songs from the year that it was founded. All Recording Fat songs from 1970. One thats pretty cool. They also did a whole bunch of new merge, you can buy a onesie for your baby. You can buy a Celebratory Jar of their famous hell opinions. You can buy a collapsible grand Isles Dan doggy bowl, for your dog. Very handy. Comes with a little carrier there. For 4 you can also buy the commemorative Shot Glass which says take the shot. It promotes covid vaccination. But this, year for their 50th year in business, they may also have a president for the whole country, a present for the constitution if you will. Because they started out and cambridge as a restaurant, then the soon added a salad bar, and it was not until they had been open for a few years, that they decided they wanted to open their current base location, as a proper bar. And in order to open as a bar, they had to apply to the city, for a state regulated Liquor License. And that is where Todays Gift to you comes from. Because, back then if you walked out the Back Door, the next building you would encounter across the alley, a little Courtyard Thing there was a church. That church has sent moved out to the suburbs. I think the location where the church used to be is now a coffee its kind hard to tell. It all change a lot over the decades but back when the bar was applying for a Liquor License, so they could open their bar in this area. Their backdoor was across the alley from the Back Door of a church. In that was really really important because a Massachusetts State Law at the time gave churches the right and the opportunity to veto any liquor Laces Application for any business that was near to them. And even 50 years after they were founded, as are celebrating their 50th Anniversary of being in business, the collapse of called the doggy bowl. Even today they have a footnote properly citing the res supreme Court Case on their website. Its the same website where you can buy the Shot Glasses in The Ones in all the rest. They have a link to the proper citation for the supreme Court Case, on their website. Even to this day. Because theyre very proud of that case. Because they won that case. Massachusetts law said the state, the government of course have the power to give or withhold a license to serve liquor, which you need in order to operate a bar, but massachusetts then delegated effectively that power to a private entity. Two churches. The Holy Cross armenian catholic church, use that power to say that the bar could not have a Liquor License. They sued. They got a really good soon to be famous lawyer on their side, to argue that case, all the way up through the court system, all the way up to the Supreme Court of the united states. And in 1982, in fact, in an 8 to 1 decision, authored by the chief justice, the united states Supreme Court cited with the bar. They sided with grand Isles Dan. Nothing against the church of course. But the Supreme Court ruled that massachusetts, had crossed unconstitutional territory, when it, quote delegated to private nongovernment Entities Power ordinarily vested in agencies of government. The court said by doing that, the law substituted the churchs own views, whatever they may, be regardless of what theyre based on. This state substituted their own motivations to act, quote, for the Reason Decisionmaking of a public legislative body. And guided by standards. On issues with significant economic and political implications. In other words, nobody has got a right to have a Liquor License that was not what was it issue here. What was that issue is that the government, the State Cant let some random entity a church, school, some other private entity make that decision, its a governmental decision and you cannot delegated to a private entity, to make that determination. That is standing supreme Court Precedent from 1982. 8 to 1 decision. Today the very accomplished very famous Harvard Law Professor who took that case, back in the day, who took all the way to the united states Supreme Court in one. Today that professor, have sort of set off a Flare Warning that the Texas Abortion Ban, which the u. S. Supreme court let pass in the law last week. He says thats basically this same case all over again. As with the Massachusetts Liquor Law the Texas Abortion Law delegates quintessential government powers, two private parties. Except this time, its not the state delegating authority to a church to decide who gets a Liquor License this time its a state delegating authority to literally anyone on earth with an objection to abortion. Giving that individual or organization, the unilateral power to inflict punishment and whoever assists a woman in terminating her pregnancy. Lawrence tribe says that supreme Court Precedent, that he pursued and won in 1982, the way he won that case for that bar in cambridge can be the undoing of the Texas Abortion Ban as well. How exactly i has to go for that strategy to work . Who has to bring the lawsuits. And win, and against to me. That itself is obviously very important to the strategy, logically its also interesting, even to those of us who are not, lawyers we will speak with him in just a moment. Since the Texas Abortion Ban was allowed to go into law, last week, we have been keeping an eye on neighboring states, around texas, even neighboring states like oklahoma for instance. Where clinics still offer abortion services, and they already say theyre filling up with patients from texas. We watching activist groups and womens networks put plans to fund women, and help women across state lines. Out of texas. So they can access abortion legally. Before those neighboring states start to ban it to. More than half a Dozen Republican controlled states are already moving to copy this law, and thereby effectively a Ban Abortion in other states as well. For right now at least texas is the only state that is effectively banned abortion and so women in texas who need an abortion have to leave the state somehow in order to get one. We have been watching that sort of delicate and somewhat panicked maneuver by Texas Women and people who support them. To try to get around the structures of this new. Law this new reality in which theres a state in the country where its illegal to get an abortion now. In the midst of that today, watching all of those developments, its a bit of a goal from the, blue to get Todays News from across texass other state line, from across Texas Border to the south. Because today, the Supreme Court of mexico, ruled that it is unconstitutional to Ban Abortion any longer in that country. Some states In Mexico allow for legal abortion, some do not. But the Supreme Court Ruling Today In Mexico struck down one states abortion ban. In the ruling is expected to be binding on all states in the country. In other Words Mexico just got its roe v. Wade today. Just a few days after the republican appointed majority an our Supreme Court, got rid of the protections of row in the united states of america. Its like we are two countries passed each other at the threat. Hold one country leaving this and going backwards, one on its way in. In nobody is quite sure what the biden administration is going to do or what they can do. Especially as red states, Republican Controlled States Gear Up To Xerox the texas. Bill and put their own bans in place. President biden did pledge a whole of Government Approach to try to protect womens constitutional rights, the Attorney General said the doj is urgently reviewing its options. But nobody is quite sure exactly what they will do. Professor Lawrence Tribe offered some advice there as well. Joining us now is professor Lawrence Tribe. He 1982 decision, he argued, that and one. He argues today that it could up and texass new abortion law. Professor its very nice to see. You thanks for making time to be here. Its great to be here. Rachel i am not a lawyer, i have never been a law student. Im sure i got some of that wrong. I feel humbled even asking you, but could you tell me if i screwed up any of that meaningfully . You got it just right. You brought back wonderful memories and youve got all of it right. The whole case arose because of this arbitrary power that was given to a private entity. It happened to be a church. But the issue is the same whether its a church or not. There are cases in which the Supreme Court said you cannot give governmental power over peoples lives or liberty to private bodies, that have no public accountability. And the Supreme Court has said, in 1925, in a unanimous decision, that the Attorney General of the united states, even without a statute, has authority to go to court, to represent the united states against any state, which interferes with interstate commerce, or in this case, international commerce, to mexico, or to New Mexico within the country. Or that violates Human Rights pursuant to a treaty. In order to get injunctive relief. And i know, the Attorney General is looking closely at all of those options. He also has options under the Ku Klux klan act, to bring criminal proceedings, against Bounty Hunters who are basically engaged in the kind of Vigilante Justice that led to the enactments of the Ku Klux klan acts in 1871. So there are all kinds of options available. It is curious that this little restaurant in the square, could become a landmark, in the path to womens rights Human Rights and the rule of law, which is being turned upside down by the state of texas. I think a lot of people looking at this from the outside, again from the outside the legal system is lamenting this abrupt change from 50 years established President S in the court and what we follow on our constitutional rights i think theres some appeal or some easiness to the idea that the Justice Department could swoop in here and sort of save this constitutional right. That the government the administration can move into act. One of the ways youre describing this lot is including bringing lawsuits by people who effectively were targeted by this texas. Lock and that would be handled as a civil matter . The individuals who are targeted, the clinics who were taken Out Of Business. Could bring lawsuits under the civil equivalent of the Ku Klux klan act, which is 42 u. S. Code sections 1983 and 1985. And those are the sections they can bring suits to basically get a multitude, of whatever bounty is are being claimed against them. What we need since this Texas Law operates by chilling Abortion Helpers and providers. Frightening them Out Of Business when they can do is say. You sue us for 10, 000, or 10 million, because there is No Limit put on the statue. And we will see you for double that. I think a lot of the people, would waltz into court in exercise this impermissibly Delegate Veto Power over abortion, are going to think twice or maybe several times interesting lee, the point about this ten case in all of these precedents about private power, is that even a justice who does not believe in roe v. Wade. Who doesnt think there is a basic right to abortion, would have to confront all of these precedents that say that even if what youre doing is not something that specially protected by the constitution like Serving Liquor with the meal that youre serving people. Even then your livelihood cannot be put at the mercy, of a private party, who is delegated unbridled authority. Now we have many fronts, on which this law can be challenged. And i think the Attorney General has been doing serious job investigating, the best way to proceed. Do you have confidence in the Attorney General garlands judgment, and to his commitments, to finding a way to meeting the challenge this lawsuit . Very much. Ive known him for years. He was my student, i know a lot of people would like him to move more quickly. I get impatient myself sometimes, i havent been easy on him. But i do have confidence that he is working very hard with the boss possible way for the united States Government to proceed and protect both women and the rule of law. And im looking forward to whatever he is going to do. Professor, in the save years of the Ins Ability to serve booze. Thank you very much for your time. Tonight and helping us understand. Thank you. Rachel okay we have much more to get to tonight, stay with us. Muc more to get to tonight, stay with us. What can i du with less asthma . With dupixent i can du more. Yardwork. Teamwork. Long walks. Thats how you du more, with dupixent, which helps prevent asthma attacks. 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As you know a State Prosecutor in georgia in Fulton County georgia the District Attorney there has been investigating whether former President Trump, broke State Laws by trying to interfere in the November Election in georgia. Its an investigation that revolves around trumps phone, call in january in which he pressured Georgia Secretary of state to find extra votes, for trump. In thereby overturn bidens electoral victory in the state. The daily beast is now reporting that that prosecutor has interviewed at least four officials in Georgias Secretary of State Office and investigators have reportedly shown a particular interest not just in the Phone Call from, trump but also in a similar earlier call from republican u. S. Senator lindsey graham. Georgias Republican Secretary of state has said that Senator Graham called and told him he should use his power as secretary of state, to throw out a whole bunch of Absentee Ballots in georgia. In order to hand the states electoral votes to trump. Beyond that, the Atlanta Journalconstitution is now reporting that the investigators are coordinating with the congressional committee, thats investigating the January 6th attack on the u. S. Capital. The idea being that the State Prosecutors are interested in any documents turned up by the congressional investigation. That could be useful in their State Prosecution back home in georgia. Even as that election interference investigation, the potentially criminal investigation moves forward in georgia, theres also new developments now in the new York State investigation, into the former President S business. It was two months, ago when the Business Run by former President Trump and his family, got criminally indicted, theyre prosecutors indicted the Trump Organization itself and longtime cfo, and charge them with yearslong multi million Dollar Tax Fraud scheme. Mr. Weisselberg himself, and lawyers for the Trump Inquiry News agent pled not guilty in that. Case the case is ongoing. But since those initial indictments. Lots of breath has been expended, lots of ink has been spilled, as to whether that was the extent of the case. Whether it means will be more charges with those defendants. Whether there would be other and friends indicted on other charges, either related to the initial tax scheme, or to related to something else. Now we know. Or at least we know that its still going. The prosecutors who brought those charges against the Trump Organization and the cfo, they have been continuing to work that. Case in apparently they have more to give. The Wall Street Journal was first to report that the special Grand Jury, thats been Hearing Evidence in the trump case. The Grand Jury handed down the previous criminal indictments, last week they decided they needed to hear from yet more witnesses. 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Mr. Kendall murrays son, matthew calamari junior, started at the Trump Organization right out of High School he is now listed as the corporate security director, of the Trump Organization. It is mr. Squids the younger who was subpoenaed to give testimony to the special Grand Jury last week. Grand jury testimony is secret. We can never know exactly what happened. It happens behind closed doors. But as a general matter in New York. Getting a subpoenaed to testify before a Grand Jury, means you dont have a, choice you must appear you are compelled to testify. But you can also get a form of limited immunity for anything criminal that you cop to during the testimony. Which means, again as a general matter, if you are being subpoenaed to testify to the Grand Jury, yes you have to testify. But you yourself are probably not getting indicted. They probably want your testimony to contribute to a potential indictment to Someone Else. Now mr. Kalahari junior, has provided that testimony, for the New York times reported that mr. Kalahari, appeared in front of the Grand Jury. Late last. Week on thursday of last. Week his lawyers say that he was immunized and testified truthfully. Again its probably not a bad sign, for mr. Calamari junior. Who gave the testimony. But its potentially a bad sign for Someone Else who he was asked to testify about. In addition to that telemarnie appetizer, Cnn Reports that the top financial officer of the Trump Organization, a man in jeffrey mcconney. Also was called to testify again before the Grand Jury. Late last week. Make of that what you will. Mr. Mcconney reportedly testified to the Grand Jury, at least once already. Just before the first round of indictments were handed down against the Trump Organization in the cfo. Now he has been brought back in to testify again. He and his lawyer both declined to comment on that second round of testimony. 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During this current wave of republican restrictions on Voting Laws, marks lawsuits typically cut straight to the point, this latest suit filed in the Western District of texas on behalf of multiple nonprofits, is no one section. It says in Part Quote the legislation is not to preserve Election Integrity or combat election fraud. After all it is Election Official they have knowledge that they are secure. Rather than acted this law to send the growing tide of minority voting participation. By weaponizing the false repeatedly defunct accusations of widespread voter fraud. Advanced by supporters of former president Donald Trump during the 2020 president ial election. It is no coincidence that it passed just months after Texas Republican Party leaders including the states governor, Attorney General and member of its congressional organization tried and failed to overturn the election results, and disenfranchise millions of voters in other states. Joining us now is Marc Elias democratic voting Rights Attorney. And democracy docket. Thank you for being. Here i know you are busy as always. Thanks for having me. So, each time one of these laws has passed and each time you ever recently filed a lawsuit to try to stop it i have asked you if you think there is a remedy for these laws in the courts. And you have been pretty clear here repeatedly in the past, that the best remedy would before congress to pass a new law that something like the for the people, act to bolster Voting Rights in federal statute. In a way that states can deviate from. Does texas passing this Law Change that calculation at all . Are we still in the same place we were . If anything, it just illustrates the problem. Which is that as you point, out this is now the seventh state since the big lie, in the violent attempted coup on January 6th. This is the seventh state that is passed a law to make voting difficult. Yes we can keep going to court in state after state after state and we are because we believe these laws violate the constitution. In the voting Rights Act. But it would sure be better if congress would pass for the people act, the John Lewis Voting rights advancement act. In put in place a structure that would simply shut down, these terrible suppression efforts. In terms of texas in the news right. Now obviously the Texas Abortion Ban being allowed to go into effect last week by the Supreme Court continues to be a huge News Story in the country. Texas governor making news on that today with bizarre comments, about how his plan for rape victims being forced to bear their Rapist Child under the new law. Is Something Hell take care of because hes going to eliminate rape in texas. Texas is sort of position the vanguard. On social issues. And divisive issues, its something that feels both sort of, perfectly illustrated by this Voting Law and also this Voting Law is just one thing among many i have to ask you if Theres Anything specific about this Texas Law, that makes it either easier or harder to challenge in court . Weve all been following the abortion laws. Journey through the Supreme Court and back in the way that republicans were able to scheme that one in such a way that it could avoid federal federal scrutiny in the courts. I think there are a couple of things about this law that make it particularly vulnerable. The first is, texas cannot claim like some other states do, that it has expansive Voting Rights. Its one of the hardest states already to register to vote. So were starting off with a baseline that is pretty restrictive to begin with. Number two. You have the state officials in texas saying theres no evidence of fraud in their state. So theres no reason for the. Law in the third, which is really one of the pieces of this law that makes it so dangerous. And so different is the allowance in incitement almost. For a partisan poll watchers, to go to the polls. And have free range in the watching of how voters vote. And anytime Election Officials try to rein them, and they face the risk themselves of criminal prosecution. Those are some of the reasons why this Texas Law is uniquely bad. Not to mention that it targets paris county. And i think those things will play prominently in the court. In terms of the poll Watchers Issue that you just mentioned. I feel like observing fights over Voting Rights, and an even election disputes over the years. I feel like this issue of having partisan poll watchers, at Polling Sites has led in the past to charge incredible charges that voters are intimidated by partisan poll watchers. As their constituting now. That Texas Law signed today would empower them to have access to more parts of the Voting Process that they already have access to. It would, and it would also restrict the ability of the Election Officials to sort of control the space. We count on the fact that on election, day we won a bubble around the Voting Locations themselves. Which is why states have bans for example on election and we want to make sure that Election Officials, working the polls. Have the ability to keep checkers in bay. And keep voting lines moving. What texas has done here is put a place a regime that removes the ability of Election Officials to do that. And it really invites bad behavior, on the part of partisan poll watching officials, and we know from history when that is done. It is inevitably republicans who are targeting black and brown voters. I expect we will see that in texas. And we are going to be prepared to challenge that in court. Mark last question for. You if this case or some combination of this, case or other cases, ends up getting to the united states Supreme Court, as we have seen these waves of Voter Restriction laws passed, in republicancontrolled states all over the country. Do you expect that the Supreme Court would be as hostile to Voting Rates as they have shown themselves to be toward Abortion Rights and as a lot of people fear they must be even the Way Theyve got the voting Rights Act success over the last few years . I dont have rose colored glasses. I know what the Supreme Court is. But we have no choice. When the political branches failed to protect peoples constitutional. Writes which the legislature is in texas and in georgia and in florida and in arkansas in iowa and in kansas and in montana have done, when they failed to do that job. Then we turn to the courts. We hope congress will step in and pass for the people, but fundamentally, its the job of the federal, courts the State Courts in this country. To ensure constitutional rights are protected. We will litigate these cases, assuming the courts will do the right things. And we will hope for the best. Voting Rights Attorney in the founder of democracy docket, thank you for your time today. I know its a really busy time. Thank you. Rachel again that texas voting Rights Restriction law passed into law signed into law today. By Texas Governor greg abbott. Its already facing five legal challenges. Both in state and in federal court. Watch this space. More news tonight. Stay with us. Space more news tonight. Stay with us stay with us i needed him to be here. Your Heart Isnt just yours. Protect it with bayer aspirin. Be sure to talk to your doctor before you begin an aspirin regimen. The light. It comes from within. It drives you. And it guides you. To shine your brightest. As you charge ahead. Illuminating the way forward. A light maker. Recognizing that the impact you make, comes from the energy you create. 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