washington. a former governor of two states, delaware and pennsylvania. from miller's run washington planned to proceed southwest to his largest frontier holdings, nearly 30,000 acres near the ohio river in what is now west virginia. word had spread of danger ahead, however. washington wrote in his diary, the indians it is said were in too discontent a move for me to expose myself to their insults. they were provoked by incursions into their land northwest of the ohio river which they claimed as their territory and a failure of congress to negotiate a peace treaty with them following the revolutionary war. two years earlier while leading attack on a native village northwest of the ohio, washington's then local agent was captured, beaten, scalped and slowly roasted to death. washington obviously did not want to suffer a similar fate or risk a possible kidnapping for ransom. "i thought it better to return"" his new local agent, the successor to the one when had been killed later informed to washing

washington. if he had died, of course he does not die, he was severely injured. the same left leg that was almost destroyed at the battle of quÉbec earlier in the war. survives for the story to unfold. washington wrote him letters of condolences, urged him to get better. said i will find a good spot for you when you do. 1778, i think a significant date because it is right after france recognizes us as an independent country, washington gives to benedict arnold -- washington had received a valuable set of epaulets from an important frenchman. he gave a pair to benedict arnold as a testimony of my sincere regard of your conduct. i think in a way he is recognizing to arnold arnold's great importance in that victory. george washington as a man of wise judgment. but george washington is a man. like every man, he screws up from time to time and makes bad judgments. ous thisan horrend judgment when he decided to take an addict arnold and give him command of the city of philadelphia after general howe's

and what people don't realize about washington. washington is dysfunctional, blah, blah, blah. washington is extremely functional when it comes to making money, when it comes to helping people not getting things done. if an immigration bill passes tomorrow that's 10s of billions of dollars lobbying, fees, cable-shouting matches, so the town does very, very well when. >> so grid lock is actually a desirable goal. >> absolutely. >> conflict. conflict can be monetized. >> conflict and complication can be monetized. when there's an extra 10,000 pages added to the dodd frank bill, that's 10s of millions of dollars that can be makeen that can be injected into it, can be very lucrative for the people who are paying them. >> is there anything about this particular official washington that makes it different from official washington of yore? where is the pivot point when it became this washington, d.c. in this town. >> i would say a couple of factors, one is just an infusion of money into the system. >> you date that to when? >> i would say, you know, maybe the clinton era was a real --

washington, even the british on their ships called it ft. washington. so my question is, how prevalent is the use of the white house? >> it's not prevalent. i only know of three instances. but it's the point -- the point is it was known as the white house before. >> sure. >> and it really didn't become popularized, as you know, until much later, until the 1930s. >> us ba the real white house was down on the potomac. >> okay. i think we're going to on the c-spand networks, tonight at 8:00, the funeral for forming -- former washington post editor ben bradlee. at 10:00, on booktv's afterwords, james mcpherson on the confederacy's president, jefferson davis. sunday live at noon on in-depth, our conversation with the former tour editor-in-chief at simon & schuster publishers. ,onight at 8:00 on c-span3 propaganda and america's view of the japanese during world war ii. a 1936 film on tuberculosis in america. fine our television schedule at www.c-span.org and let us know about the thing -- programs you ar

tonight on "washington week." >> tonight we shook up the senate. >> we are heading to washington, and we are going to make them squeal! >> it was absolutely a mandate. it was a mandate really opposing the principles and the policies of barack obama. >> to everyone who voted i want you to know that i hear you. to the thirds of voters who chose not to participate in the process yesterday, i hear you, too. gwen: the sounds and sights of an eventful week in american politics -- conciliatory signs. >> i think there are a lot of people who believe that just because you have divide government that doesn't mean you don't accomplish anything the >> i would enjoy having some kentucky bourbon with mitch mcconnell. gwen: and signs of conflict to come. >> i believe that if the president continues to act on his own, he is going to poison the well. when you play with matches you take the risk of burning yourself. gwen: so did, the white house and congress get message the voters were sending in a sweep that stretched from state houses to the senate? we search for answers with peter baker, chief white

you will be heard in washington. [cheers and applause] and look, when you get right down to it, that is what this campaign was really all about. it was not about me or my opponent. government that people no longer trust to carry out its most basic duties, to keep them safe, to protect the border, to provide dignified and quality care for our veterans. a government that cannot be trusted to do the basic things because it is too busy focusing on things they should not be focused on it all. a government that is too busy imposing its view of the world on people who do not share that view. too many and washington have forgotten that their job is to serve, so tomorrow, the papers race."y "i won this [cheers and applause] but the truth is, the truth is tonight we begin another one, one that is far more important than mine, and that is a race to turn this country around. [cheers and applause] to restore hope and confidence and optimism to this commonwealth and across this nation of ours. do not change after tonight. i do not

corporate funding for "washington week" is .ed by -- -- provided by -- >> funding for "washington week" is also provided by -- the annenberg foundation, the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to pbs stations from viewers like you. thank you. once again, from washington, moderator gwen ifill. gwen: good evening. we're bringing you a slightly different program this week. that's because we reached out to you to hear what you want to talk about and several of you get to play the role of fifth panelist tonight. this week's biggest story comes from ferguson, missouri, where darren wilson, the white police officer who killed black teenager michael brown was not indicted by a grand jury. the debate that proceeded that decision had cast a shadow for 107 days and it's not over yet. john from tallahassee, florida, wrote this -- pierre, what kind of challenge does that leave for the jut and law enforcement? >> if there are going to be criminal charges, the criminal justice has to be the entity that does it. the jut department has a high threshold in this case. they would hav

and i guess it's us, it's washington. we haven't gotten any better, so the voters keep casting that anti-washington vote. but at the same time, we all covered 20 so. that was a mad-as-heck election. that was people really bringing out the pitchforks. i don't get that sense of a real tide of anger, especially anger in one particular direction that 2010 was. so that's why, as you said earlier in the show, it seems like it's going to be a little more of a splash than a tidal wave. gwen: mad as heck. that's so sweet. well, as you can see everyone tonight has been on the road, reading the polls, talking to candidates and the voters to try to get a handle on those tea leaves. here's part of my conversation last weekend in north carolina with the two candidates involved in the most expensive senate race ever. republican thom tillis and incumbent democrat kay hagan. gwen: why is it, so close to election day, things are so tight? all these ads, $100 million worth? >> you know, north carolina is this purple state, but i feel very g

you sometimes need to bring other people into the washington conversation, so that washington people can understand what is going on in the rest of the world. >> that is what we try to do here. >> that is what you do a great job of. be like charlie rose, that is my mantra. [laughter] >> there is the trayvon martin experience. it was a turning point for obama. >> he had avoided race discussions. >> after having dealt with it in his campaign? >> dealt with it a little bit. they almost ran from it sometimes. i think he found his voice on job was on theis race issue, during the trayvon martin thing because he was able to be -- he personalized it. i think he used his role on these race discussions as a calming voice to african-americans and as an interpreter to white america. having basically saying, he has one foot in both worlds. half black, half white. he is in a unique position to do that. i think he saw that that is -- i don't know if the country is mature enough to have race conversations right now. i don't know if we are, but i think on the specific context -- >> you don't know if

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in washington they took a vote to the people. "america tonight"s adam may looks at a new method that could tighten gun laws across the u.s., and has the n.r.a. sounding the alarm. >> reporter: some gun owners in washington state are fired up. >> we got crumbled. champion. >> that is the rifle i shoot for the u.s. team. that's my baby. she led a campaign against pallet initiative i 594. they waste resources on something that will not make washington safer. >> reporter: 594 was designed to plug loopholes, mandating background checks for private sales and gun transfers. on election say washington voters passed 594 in a landslide. become 60 to 40%. fight? >> i think they did. now they have a huge, huge, huge battle on its hands because it will spread to other states. this was a cancer. this seattle was a test bed for this issue. >> reporter: like most attempts to pass stronger gun laws the effort to expand gun checks was held up in the legislature for years. lawmakers were afraid to touch the issues, gun rights activists showed up in

and washington says the same. oh, chicago, they're so philanthropic, and they are and so is washington, d.c. and every city is ultimately very fill anthropic to the degree that they can give. in the case of the kennedy center, we actually reach across the country and around the world which gives us a really great opportunity because of our international programming and the reach of our performs. the most important pitch is the one i just gave you, i believe, which is art is for life's sake and without it our lives are nothing. they're nowhere near as interesting, it isn't a way in which we can communicate and share and come together. so, in the end, it's about finding people who love the arts, who give back, who believe in sharing, and who want to share their passion just as much as we who are administrators love to share the passion. and there's nothing so rewarding as seeing young people participating in the arts or seeing something that you didn't know could happen happen. whether it's on dance stage or in the

it is not what we need in washington. we do not need more gridlock. >> and this is an interesting issue, mr. perdue, about the farm bill and what is tied to it. >> well, it is a perfect example of an ombudsman bill were only 20% of the bill was related to the farmers. the other 80% was related to the food stamp program. but let me go back to that plan. in her own plan, her advisers said that she was too liberal for the state of georgia. that she is not even a real georgian. they had to put her in a rural scene so that people would think the rural issue was important to her. this is not the kind of senator we need in washington. we need some buddy to be a champion for the working men and women in georgia who are concerned about their kids in the future. barack obama wants her up there to defend his policies. that is not the kind of senator we need a washington. >> we know that you have all been on this. now to our next panelist, please. >> ms. nunn, short of seeing you in person, the most repeated thing that most viewers h

checks for all gun sales in washington state. the gun lobby countered with a competing ballot measure that would have banned background checks for gun sales in the state, so both of those were on the ballot at the same time. i should tell you that six washington state counties did stick their thumb in the eye of logic by voting to pass them both. in six counties they passed both a thing and a ban on that thing simultaneously. that's kind of amazing. but otherwise of those six counties overall in washington state it was a big win for background checks. background checks passed by an 18-point margin and the

i was trying to send a message to washington. the saddest thing i saw was the veterans administration, and people that should have jobs lost or in jail -- nothing. i am talking about nothing. crickets. when you have people working for the epa that can watch porn on the internet for four hours a day and nothing happens to them, it is out of control. host: robert, i am sorry. i did not mean to cut you off mid-sentence. that was my fault. i apologize. in 37 days there will be another election, the runoff in louisiana. c-span covered senator landrieu and bill cassidy in their speeches last night. here is a little bit of that. [video clip] a so, tonight, i issue challenge to congressman cassidy -- six debates, six hours. [applause] debates, six hours, one hour for each year of a senate term. i do not think that is too much a guy that wants to represent 4.5 million people in the united states senate. >> this comes down to one fundamental issue -- do you want a senator that represents barack obama, or a senator that represents you? [app

that goes back to washington. washington has let the country down. the congress now has a unique opportunity with the administration to stop the polarization, dysfunction and demonstrate immediately a new set of rules. that rule has to be civility and conversation and co-operation. if we don't get that, they will dismiss washington. we can't have that. this is a unique opportunity. >> let me ask you, you are doing this concert. you wrote a book. this is about the veterans coming home. there's been a lot of talk about trying to help them get back into civilian life. what is the one thing that you think the public needs to understand about helping these folks back into civilian life? >> 2.5 million extraordinary young men and women have served for the last 10, 15 years in an all volunteer service. as a result of that, most of america -- 98% have not had real skin in the game. we need to have a conversation, be empathetic, be understanding and do everything we possibly can across the country in rural america and every town to hire a veteran. >> all righ

federal''t realalize the government controls 90% washington property in washington dc.c. lot -- long long legged behind others. our next guest t d a vision for a huge waterfront park. he had to get approval from more than t two dozen agencies. testhe needed congress to three e lalaws for his plan to become reality.. his good guy approach has worked for him. he explained how would we sat down with him one-on-one. >> welcome to washingtoton business report. tell us about your background. how did you u get into this business? father was a contractor, so i grew up in n the constructn 84 andmoved down here in moved in with a couple of friends from college. rightable to get a job away and that worked out well. them.ound 10 years with in the early 90's i decided i wanted to go off on my own. partner, wey started the company in 1993. that time there was a mass exodus of people leaving the district of columbia. it was the crack cocaine epidemic. we regularly have people stealing our tools and selli it back to us. a police officer was shot in the front yard of one of the sites we w

>> i'm writing it from a washington prison, guilty as charged as far as washington. and i think as far as washington institutions are concerned, he is a stranger. and he still views these institutions strangely. >> chuck todd. pittsburgh, pennsylvania, is well known as an old steel town but did you also know it's famous for its bridges. the city has 446 of them. the bbc's team has been to pittsburgh to find out more. >> there are 446 bridges in the city of pittsburgh. that's more than any other city in the world. the steel is manufactured right here and now the steel mills are gone but the bridges still continue. >> they're my main source of income, first of all. and they are the way that you move around this city. >> i can't go anywhere without marveling at the construction of what's gone on or what's behind the bridge. >> where the two rivers, the llegheny and monogahila come together, they form the ohio river which starts in pittsburgh and flows all the way down to the mississippi. looking up further, you can just see the piers, that are hazy, of the birmingham br

we'll let washington, d.c. debate about what always debates , about who is next. >> governor jindal, are you concerned that it happens to quickly? >> i think others have said this exactly right. it doesn't matter when is the first debate or first candidate announced. the real way to prepare for republicans to use the majority status we have been given, to actually accomplish conservative reforms. i think it begins in state capitals. i think it begins in the house and the senate. it is a top-down government approach that does not work. we believe the american dream can be rescued through health care policies and through our foreign policy. i think the best way to set up not only the republican candidate but also our country to be successful in 2016 is to not wait. let's not wait for the next two years. let's go show people conservative policies can work at the state level. and at the national level, let's challenge the president. one of two things will happen -- either he will adopt the policy , or if he doubles

just weeks before, terror at a washington state high school. a freshman killed four students and himself with a handgun. observers say the event may have motivated some voters. even though the gun was registered to a family member obtained legally just like the gun that entered cheryl stumbow. that shooter actually cleared a background check. >> would .594 have any impact on federation? >> no, not at the shooting at the jewish federation. >> what about the most receipt washington? >> those are the kind of situations that we would like to address with future laws. >> more gun laws sent directly to voters. changing? >> i do. i do. think enough people have decided that the gun lobby has had too much power for too long and that the will of the people needs to prevail and they have decided that they are going to do what i did and put their fear aside and go ahead and say and do the right thing anyway. fears. >> this is the first step of other forms of gun control. we already have now that this is passed, they are starting to write bills for storage

him in the life of george washington. this is one of the first pair are fees that he knew washington very slightly. mother is no such parish but he claimed that connection and he was of a book dealer he realized it would be a good seller washington and dies then there is a biography in 1800. he makes changes the 18 '08 version that abraham would read. and it is still in print you can still buy it on the amazon. and the stories are terrific then the proof is he still remember some of them. the famous is georgiana the cherry tree the little boys slings sit around and accident lee chops the bark of the prize is cherry tree and the father said you did this and he said i cannot tell a lie. i did it. then the father thinks him for being honest. lesson learned but that is not what impressed abraham about the life because he said when pressed in 1961. and traveled 3/7 states on the way to washington and made appearances in six of them and showing the flag as the country was falling apart. and there he talked about the battle of t

george washington wanted a neoclassical city. he picked the design of the white house and for the capital. he wanted a marble city. they've been in philadelphia. they even renamed a lot of the physical features in the new washington, d.c., after famous roman places. so jenkins hill became capital line hill. and gooseberry creek became the tiber river that ran through the middle of washington. they wanted to give a stature to this new government. the first major republic since the roman republic in their eyes. this was a new city for a new government. it was mostly tobacco fields and empty spaces. so they gave it a grand name and planned out major streets. that was the style. it slowly built the city. in the 1890's, there was a major exposition in chicago, the white city they called it, because it looked like a white, marble roman forum. it was mostly made of papier-mÂchÉ, and it was just a temporary exposition for the columbus centennial, quincentennial. but that inspired the construction of new buildings in washington. union s

and washington wanted a visual joke to be played on the muskogee delegates. and he had trembled with the painting on one side of the door that washington then. opened so the delegates could see him, and see him in his outfit in the painting. they loved it. everyone had a good laugh. they felt it. and did not like the way it felt. so john trumbull asked if he could paint them. they said no. he did draw them. and those drawings are in this exhibit. they are just beautiful drawings. and unlike anything that john trumbull ever did. and that's because he was doing it in secret. i'm so glad he did that, even though the delegates did not want that to be done, because it is the closest thing we have to a photograph of who the native negotiators were. and i love the story because no one ever thinks of washington as being a jokester or having a sense of humor or they think of him as being very stiff. and this is a nice way to think about how he was trying to communicate and he was improvising with what he had at hand. i just think -- it's an interesting story about the

and bob costa from "the washington post" takes us inside the washington party as it looks at the future but first a look at the results as of 11:00 p.m. this tuesday night. going to mark halperin and john heilemann and their broadcast currently in progress. >> slightly weird state of alaska remain open. >> the polls in alaska will close at 1:00 a.m. eastern time. we're being watched not just a bloomberg but other viewers for this election night update at 11:00 p.m. eastern time where polls have closed everywhere but alaska the polls have closed. first of all one of the biggest contests in the country with scott walker bloomberg politic is reporting that's the apparent winner. the republicans win the two big races this wis and florida. that's major news not just for scott walker and rick scott but for chris christie the governor of new jersey. >> if the democrats would have been able to win those races would be a big blow to chris christie. he holds those seats. >> a lot of other governor races we'll be talking about where there's still no projected winners. but in the senate the situati

and i've talked to some hardened people in washington. and they said, you know, i once asked rich armitaj, tough guy, deputy secretary of state, remarkable, with colin powell. very tough guy. i said to him once after he had been deputy secretary of state, i said what's the most important thing you've learned. he said it's about people. it's about people. even in terms of the relationship with foreign leaders. >> right. >> rose: it's about people. >> it's funny you say that with foreign leaders. this has been one of the the frustrations of some of his team. that his relationships with foreign-- basically the one person he has bonded with the most is merkel. and that, angela merkel of germany and that relationship got frayed after nsa. >> rose: you talk-- talked to him recently when you took over "meet the press" what is it you think we don't foe about this man? >> i think we know everything about him on that front. but i think we're-- i think it is -- he's more cautious than we thought. i think the country gravitated toward him in '07 and

washington was a liminal space. i doubt many women could have written so freely about native men in this way in the west in the 19th century. it would have been more threatening. because there was a perception even at the time that there was not a huge native presence in the city or that any native presence in the city was a transient, temporary presence, allowed it to be more risquÉ. it was less of an affront to any sort of racial order. i'm excited to see if i can find more examples of that. >> when you're working or is concluded, what do you hope to do with your findings? >> this is a book project. i published my first book with university of north carolina and i'm hoping to work with the press again on this book. there is an amazing visual aspect as well. part of the project is about a movement of people. in addition to a standard monograph, which will focus on washington dc and not only will the native people in the historical record be the main characters, the city itself will be a main character. it is a pla

then, some of the speakers from this year's washington ideas forum, including commerce secretary. that, a discussion on the impact of next tuesday's election on congress. on wednesday, family and friends of the late benjamin bradley washington d.c. for his funeral. he passed away last week at the age of 93. former washington post editor is famous for leading the watergateduring the scandal and challenging the nixon presidency. broke theers who

you do live in washington and your money comes from washington. 82% of your money has come from washington, d.c. over 80% of my money has come from donors in syracuse, in central new york. you are where you get your money from, mr. maffei, and your from washington. on mr.illion have run katko's ads. you need to get rid of that outside money, and the way to do that is campaign finance reform, and i'm a sponsor of a bill that would put campaign back in may has of citizens. it would be funded by tax on lobbyists's, professional lobbyists. and i cosponsored an amendment to the constitution to make sure that these special interest groups running ads on either side are not allowed to run a negative ad with free speech. becausee ask about this it is something we hear day today. it is one of the few years when i have been told by voters that i talked to that the most important thing is not the issues but the campaign ads, that they have grown sick and tired of the negative ads that they see on television. do either of you feel any remorse whatsoever about the tone of this campaign has taken? >> i

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you're looking live near tacoma, washington. former detainees are arriving as we speak, also on the plane the u.s. director of national intelligence, james clapper, ben yej bey is a korean american missionary, arrested while leading a tour group and charged with antigovernment activities, and sentenced to 15 years in prison. and 24-year-old matthew miller of bakersfield sentenced to six years hard labor for espionage. their release came after the national intelligence director james clapper made a secret visit to north korea. looks like we're looking at kenneth bae right now. clapper is the highest ranking american to visit in ten years. the report of abuses could result in charges against kim in the international criminal court. a former cia analyst is quoted as saying that prospect, quote, startled the regime, leading to frantic attempts to derail that process we're looking at one of the two detainees, kenneth bae getting a hug from a loved one there. this is a special moment for bae. he was in a failing health. his sister pus

washington. >> i was on suicide watch last week and i just came back last week. >> why? what happened? >> they was trying to send me somewhere i didn't want to be. >> so what did you do? >> i cut my wrist with a razor blade. >> washington went on to explain that he cut his wrist to prevent the prison to transferring him to the sensitive needs yard or sny. it's a place most inmates want nothing to do with. >> sensitive needs yards is basically for prisoners that meet certain criterias, such as most of your rapists, your molesters, your dropout gang members. it used to be referred to as pc yard, protective housing unit. >> marcus wait washington's neighbor and fishing partner, told us how a move to sny makes an inmate damaged goods. >> sny isn't just so much rapists and child molesters, it's weaker guys, especially guys who are doing life sentences like mr. washington. any time he is seen by his peers, the guys on the main line they are going to consider him a piece of -- a piece of [ bleep ]. >> h

joining me now from washington is politico reporter lee monsul. thanks for being here. >> thanks for having me. >> what can we learn, do you think it was anti-washington or anti-incumbent? >> it seems like it was a little bit of both. we knew in the weeks leading up to the election it was looking tore a republican wave. it really went so much better for republicans than even was expected, the fact that the senate got called to be a takeover by the republicans early in the night. we thought perhaps we would be waiting for a runoff or perhaps the results of the a alaska race. it really ended up being more positive for republicans than originally was thought. and so it seemed to be a fairly strong anti-incumbent wave. the president is now going to be on the defensive as far as trying to see whether this was a referendum on his time in office or just discontent overall across the nation. >> a "washington post" editorial brings up an interesting point saying, quote, republicans did not claim anything close to 60 seats. the magic number that would allow

for the washington, d.c. region it means a door is opening. startups which have been chomping at e bit can't provide expertise in government techlogyn brand-new ways. joining me about new opportrtunities and challenges s jonathan aberman of amplifier ventures. government innovation sounds like an oxymoron. what do you mean by this and why is it so? >> simply put, take out your cell phone. everything tt matters came out of the relationship we had with federal security r&d a the things that drive the economy. wewe are where we are as a natin bebecause of national security research and development. that is what i mean by innovation. the issue now more than ever is many new industries for technologies to drive our economy and to meet the emerging national security challenges. >> you are trying to convince government to do this. by the time they get funding for new systems, they are two years behind the curve in technology. how do you make them keep up? >> the good news is, we do not have to convince the government. secretary hagel last week, a who

>> we're heading to washington! and we are going to make them squeal! >> all right. if you are just waking up, the numbers are in and the republican party comes out on top. the gop gaining control of the senate widening the majority in the house and winning several key governor's races in this morning. we'll have more results on the battle ground races and the balance of shift in political power. this is "way too early." >>> hey, everybody. good morning. hope you are rested and ready to go. it's wednesday, november 5th. welcome to way too early. we needed an extra 30 minutes. we have all the numbers for you despite millions of democratic dollars, republicans have taken control of the senate they did it on the strength of big wins and races that issue thought to be close so far gaining seven seats it is the end of the harry reid era as senate majority leader. they say he'll now run for minority leader. it wasn't close in mcconnell when he easily beat allison lundergan grimes. we see the tally. a gracious acceptance speech he was conciliatory after a nasty race. >> a l

we'll let washington, d.c. debate about what always debates -- who is next. >> i think others have said this exactly right. it doesn't matter when is the first debate or first candidate announced. forreal way to prepare republicans to use the majority have conservative reforms. i think it begins in the house and the senate. it is a top-down government approach that works. we believe the american dream can be rescued through health care policies and through our foreign policy. next two wait for the years. let's go show people conservative policies. we have good policies at the national level. one of two things will happen -- either he will adopt the policy -- let's remember they didn't tackle health care overnight. number freedom back in -- we may not get our freedom back but -- >> is there a danger of the campaign starting quickly? >> i like the approach. yell eddie tether and having guys like you -- people yell at each other and having guys like you moderate -- [laughter] let's talk about these guys for a seco

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