The heads of the Five Eyes intelligence alliance sat down for a joint interview for the first time to discuss the monumental threats posed to the West by communist China.
CBS News&#8217;s &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; broadcast the discussion on Sunday after host Scott Pelley met with the five in Palo Alto, California, where they emphasized that Silicon Valley was one of China&#8217;s top targets for hacking and influence operations.
The five intelligence chiefs include the United States&#8217; Christopher Wray, Director of the FBI; Australia&#8217;s Mike Burgess, Director-General of Security; Canada&#8217;s David Vigneault; Director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service; the United Kingdom&#8217;s Ken McCallum, Director General of MI5; and New Zealand&#8217;s Andrew Hampton, Director-General and Chief Executive of the Government Communication Security Bureau.
&#8220;The People&#8217;s Republic of China represents the defining threat of this generation this era,&#8221; said Wray. &#8220;There is no country that presents a broader, more comprehensive threat to our ideas, our innovation, our economic security, and ultimately our national security. We have seen efforts by the Chinese government, directly or indirectly, trying to steal intellectual property, trade secrets, personal data &#8212; all across the country. We&#8217;re talking everything from Fortune 100 companies, all to smaller startups. We&#8217;re talking about agriculture, biotech, health care, robotics, aviation, academic research. We probably have somewhere in the order of 2,000 active investigations that are just related to the Chinese government&#8217;s effort to steal information.&#8221;
Burgess acknowledged that, to an extent, all countries spy, although it&#8217;s mainly done so that countries can be &#8220;covertly informed&#8221; about what their adversaries are doing.
&#8220;But the behavior we&#8217;re talking about here goes well beyond traditional espionage,&#8221; Burgess said. &#8220;This scale of the theft is unprecedented in human history. And that&#8217;s why we&#8217;re calling it out.&#8221;
The five chiefs in the last week held 15 meetings with top leaders and executives in Silicon Valley and at Stanford University, warning them about the threats the Chinese pose to the national security of the U.S. and its partners.
&#8220;This is not just about government secrets or military secrets. It&#8217;s not even just about critical infrastructure,&#8221; McCallum said. &#8220;It&#8217;s about academic research in our universities. It&#8217;s about promising startup companies. People, in short, who probably don&#8217;t think national security is about them.&#8221;
The Chinese target civilians working in the private sector through various traditional means for either hacking or influence operations.
McCallum is director general of MI5, the U.K.&#8217;s FBI.
&#8220;You have the biggest hacking program in the world by far, bigger than ever other major nation combined,&#8221; Wray said of what China is currently doing. &#8220;Stolen more of our personal and corporate data than every nation, big or small, combined.&#8221;
Wray warned that the threat was more serious than people realized and has &#8220;flesh and blood, kitchen-table consequences.&#8221;
He referenced an American wind turbine company from which the Chinese stole intellectual property, costing the company its competitive advantage and resulting in hundreds of people losing their jobs.
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President Joe Biden said an Israeli occupation of Gaza would be a &#8220;big mistake&#8221; and that there must be a &#8220;path to a Palestinian state&#8221; in the wake of the ongoing deadly conflict between Israel and Hamas.
&#8220;I think it&#8217;d be a big mistake,&#8221; Biden <a href="https://www.cbs.com/shows/video/BQrwRiDm1_Xp8SJNv2r_46ntiul2Cy6R/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> on CBS&#8217; &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; broadcast Sunday evening. CBS spoke to Biden on Thursday.
The president added that Hamas does not represent all Palestinians and affirmed that the group must be &#8220;eliminated entirely.&#8221; However, Biden also said there must be a &#8220;Palestinian authority&#8221; and a &#8220;path to a Palestinian state.&#8221;
Last weekend, Hamas launched deadly terrorist attacks on Israel that killed more than 1,400 people, including children. Israel is now waging a massive counteroffensive, <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/israel-hamas-war-gaza-palestinians-death-toll-ground-offensive-expected/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">launching</a> airstrikes in Hamas-controlled territory and preparing for a ground offensive.
&#8220;Can you foresee U.S. troops in combat in this new Middle East war?&#8221; CBS News reporter Scott Pelley asked.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s necessary,&#8221; Biden responded. &#8220;Israel has one of the finest fighting forces in the country. I guarantee you we&#8217;re going to provide them everything they need.&#8221;
Biden also answered &#8220;yes&#8221; when asked whether the threat of terrorism has increased in the U.S. due to the Middle Eastern conflict. The president said he has met with Homeland Security, and the FBI in the Situation Room to discuss how to prevent &#8220;lone wolf&#8221; or coordinated attacks on synagogues or Jewish people, saying the administration is making a &#8220;major effort&#8221; to prevent such attacks.
&#8220;Is it time for a ceasefire?&#8221; Pelley asked.
&#8220;Look, there&#8217;s a fundamental difference,&#8221; Biden said. &#8220;Israel is going after people who have engaged in barbarism that is as consequential as the Holocaust. So I think Israel has to respond. They have to go after Hamas. Now Hamas is a bunch of cowards. They&#8217;re hiding behind the civilians. &#8230; I&#8217;m confident the Israelis are going to do everything in their power to avoid the killing of innocent civilians.&#8221;
The president also issued a warning to Iran not to interfere in the conflict, saying his message to Iran is, &#8220;Don&#8217;t. Don&#8217;t, don&#8217;t, don&#8217;t.&#8221;
Biden added that so far, there is &#8220;no evidence&#8221; that Iran knew about Hamas&#8217; attack beforehand or helped plan it.
Biden also said the U.S. is in talks about how to help Palestinian civilians who are caught in the danger zone, but &#8220;it&#8217;s hard.&#8221;
On Friday, Biden <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/13/politics/joe-biden-israel-gaza-hostages/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">appeared</a> on a video call with Americans in Israel whose loved ones disappeared during the attack.
&#8220;Why do you feel so strongly about speaking to these families personally on Zoom?&#8221; Pelley asked.
&#8220;Because I think they have to know that the president of the United States of America cares deeply about what&#8217;s happening,&#8221; Biden responded.
Pelley said during the broadcast that Biden seemed &#8220;tired&#8221; during the interview.
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&#8220;America&#8217;s oldest president seemed tired from directing all of this, but he was very clear on what he stood for and how his policies and his view would see America through,&#8221; the CBS journalist <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/president-joe-biden-2023-60-minutes-transcript/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
&#8220;It had been a rough week and we could see it on him. Mr. Biden will be 81 next month. And he has said that when he&#8217;s tired, his life-long stutter can creep back in,&#8221; Pelley said.
On Sunday night, former President Donald Trump attacked CBS over the broadcast, accusing the network of &#8220;protecting&#8221; Biden with a &#8220;highly partisan&#8221; softball interview.
&#8220;The show &#8217;60 Minutes&#8217; should be ashamed of themselves. They just interviewed Crooked Joe Biden, and led him along like a lost child,&#8221; Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/111241867373111428" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> on his social media platform, Truth Social. &#8220;Each question contained the answer, and was so weakly and apologetically asked that it was a JOKE which should be considered a campaign contribution to the Democrat Party.&#8221;
Trump added that CBS never apologized to him for &#8220;mistakes&#8221; in its coverage of Hunter Biden&#8217;s laptop.

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President Joe Biden admitted during an interview that aired Sunday evening that the threat of terrorism in the United States has risen as a result of Hamas terrorist attack against Israel.
Biden made the remarks during an interview with CBS News&#8217; &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; that aired Sunday evening after the attacks killed more than 1,300 Israelis, including more than two dozen American citizens.
Host Scott Pelley asked Biden if &#8220;the threat of terrorism in the United States increased&#8221; as a result of the attacks.
&#8220;Yes,&#8221; Biden responded. &#8220;I had a meeting this morning with the Homeland Security people, with the FBI, with — for the Situation Room, for the better part of an hour to discuss how we make sure that we prevent a lone wolf and/or any  coordinated effort to try to do what was done in synagogues before, do what was done to Jews in the street. We&#8217;re making a major effort to make sure that doesn&#8217;t happen.&#8221;
Biden noted an important distinction between civilians that have been killed in Israel vs civilians that have been killed in Gaza.
&#8220;Look, there&#8217;s a fundamental difference. Israel is going after a group of people who have engaged in barbarism that is as consequential as the Holocaust. And I think Israel has to respond,&#8221; he said. &#8220;They have to go after Hamas. Hamas is a bunch of cowards. They&#8217;re hiding behind the civilians. They put their headquarters where civilians are and buildings and the like. The Israelis are gonna do everything in their power to avoid the killing of innocent civilians.&#8221;
He said that he was confident that Israel would do everything that it could to follow international rules of wars minimize the loss of civilians.
Biden also said that Israel needed to eliminate Hamas entirely.
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This past Sunday, &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; ran <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ftx-founder-sam-bankman-fried-michael-lewis-book-60-minutes-transcript/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a feature story</a> on the former cryptocurrency baron <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/sam-bankman-fried-upset-after-jail-refuses-to-accommodate-vegan-diet-adhd-meds-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sam Bankman-Fried</a> (aka &#8220;SBF&#8221;), founder of the once high-flying crypto exchange FTX. Bankman-Fried goes on trial this week, facing multiple felony charges for various categories of fraud and money laundering. The segment was a revealing look at the inner workings of the man behind perhaps the most sudden collapse of personal wealth in the history of business: from a net worth of $20 billion to zero in a matter of days.
The story was told through an interview with best-selling author Michael Lewis, who by sheer happenstance found himself acting as Bankman-Fried’s de facto biographer and stenographer. Lewis followed the eccentric billionaire from place to place, accumulating over one hundred one-on-one interviews with the man who was once considered a candidate to become the world’s first trillionaire. The result is Lewis’s new book “Going Infinite,” an intimate look  at the inner workings of a mind that was both genius and pathetically immature. 
What the &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; segment revealed, however, was the inherent political bias so pervasive in the mainstream media machine that even when attempting to tell a story so stand-alone and fascinating as the rise and fall of SBF, they just cannot help themselves.
Reporter John Wertheim devotes a decent chunk of the allotted total story time (which, sans commercials, runs about twenty-five minutes) to Bankman-Fried’s political activities. SBF believed in what is called “effective capitalism.” As Lewis describes, Bankman-Fried believed the USA, acting through the power and reach of its democratic government, was essential towards solving the world’s problems. In the accused felon’s mind, the greatest threat to that government was Donald Trump. &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; then goes to great lengths to describe how SBF offered tens of millions in donations to Republican superPACs, headed by GOP Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), to bolster the campaigns of those in the party who were either tacitly or actively opposed to Donald Trump’s re-election. 
SBF also allegedly offered to pay Donald Trump money to not run again in 2024. The figure floated in the story is $5 billion, but nothing came of it. And at least &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; grudgingly concedes there’s no evidence that number came from Trump himself. Still, this apparently warranted mention, as anything that stains Trump, even speculation and non-events, must be front and center in this new age of activist journalism. As this segment of the story wraps up, one reading the implications of the language in the reporting might even conclude that this plan to buy Trump out of the running for re-election didn’t happen solely because FTX blew up before the vaguely speculative deal could be consummated. 
In fact, &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; devoted three minutes — more than ten percent of the precious allotted airtime — to these GOP-related narratives, concluding with: “Approached for comment by &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221;, neither former President Trump nor Senator McConnell responded.” 
Regardless of political affiliation, isn’t it curious that &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; would frame the story of Bankman-Fried’s active political involvement in such a way as to make it seem like he was primarily a dedicated donor to the GOP? The real story, of course, is far more bipartisan, if not the opposite even. 
According to Time Magazine, not exactly a right-wing outlet, Bankman-Fried gave $40 million to Democrats. Indeed, he was the party’s second largest check-writer, behind another infamous activist billionaire, George Soros. And yet, for some reason, &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; devotes just one five-second line of copy to even hinting at his active support of the Democrat Party: “Back in 2020 Bankman-Fried ranked among Joe Biden’s biggest donors.” With that little disclaimer out of the way, we quickly move back on message to the real menace to democracy, Donald Trump. But this seeming footnote is a strategic understatement. According to the Wall Street Journal, Bankman-Fried in fact donated a whopping $5.6 million to the Biden campaign. 
Bankman-Fried now claims to have given an equal amount to Republicans. It&#8217;s very possible SBF gave to both parties equally. And given the revealing psychological profile Lewis paints of this man-child who, it seems, saw himself on a mission to use his once-gargantuan checkbook to save the world, that even makes sense. 
What doesn’t make sense, at least if CBS claims to be “unbiased”, is why &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; chose to focus almost exclusively on Bankman-Fried’s scheming with GOP leaders while but for one sentence completely ignoring his very deep entanglements with Democrat powerhouse players and institutions. 
Again, according to Time, his D.C. activities included $27 million to Democrat-aligned superPAC Protect Our Future, $7 million more went to two other Democrat superPACs, as well as other personal donations to Democrat Senators Dick Durban (D-IL), Corey Booker (D-NJ), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), and Maggie Hassan (D-NH). 
Bankman-Fried also gave to Republican Senators Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), John Boozman (R-AR), and Susan Collins (R-ME). So, it seems, he was indeed an equal opportunity donor — especially when Hassan and Boozman co-sponsored a bill to put FTX on the path to regulatory compliance in the U.S..
The broader point, however, as it relates to the tale presented to the viewer is this: viewers who had not done any outside research would have come away from the CBS news magazine feature believing that SBF almost exclusively donated to Mitch McConnell and the GOP.
And that’s really one of the underlying points of the story, beyond telling an interesting and, in my view, overly sympathetic profile of one of history’s greatest swindlers. &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; felt the need to attach this pariah to the party the media despises, while lying through omission about his intimate relationship with the party for whom they have become nothing more than a propaganda wing.
Media bias can be as subtle as it is pervasive. And, perhaps in the case of &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221;, we’ve stumbled across another example.  What should have been an interesting character study, narrated by a very talented author, was reduced to political water-carrying as an election approaches. The primary take-away is now SBF and the GOP were compadres and the Democrat Party was nowhere to be found. And yet, a more misleading and disingenuous narrative could not have been constructed by Karine Jean-Pierre herself.
If anything, Sam Bankman-Fried was the darling of the political and social Left, as well as its most reliable and enthusiastic benefactor. No matter. McConnell and Trump refused to comment. That their counterparts across the aisle and in the White House never appeared in the story to offer comment, says much about the state of journalism today, at least in the offices of &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221;. Viewer beware.
<a href="https://www.amazon.com/stores/Brad-Schaeffer/author/B07MQJBJSD?ref=ap_rdr&amp;store_ref=ap_rdr&amp;isDramIntegrated=true&amp;shoppingPortalEnabled=true">Brad Schaeffer</a> is a commodities trader, author and columnist who&#8217;s newest book Life In The Pits: My Time As A Trader On The Rough-And-Tumble Exchange Floors will be out in December (soon to be available for pre-sale) 
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U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland denied any wrongdoing in how he runs the Department of Justice after facing widespread accusations of political bias.
Garland made the remarks during an interview that aired Sunday night on CBS News&#8217; &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; with co-host Scott Pelley.
&#8220;We do not have one rule for Republicans and another rule for Democrats,&#8221; Garland said. &#8220;We don&#8217;t have one rule for foes and another for friends. We don&#8217;t have one rule for the powerful and another for the powerless, for the rich or for the poor, based on ethnicity. We have only one rule; and that one rule is that we follow the facts and the law, and we reach the decisions required by the Constitution, and we protect civil liberties.&#8221;
Garland said that he could not speak about the two federal criminal cases against former President Donald Trump because it was an ongoing case and that Department&#8217;s policy is that he cannot comment about it.
&#8220;One reason is to protect the privacy and the civil liberties of the person who&#8217;s under investigation,&#8221; Garland said in explaining why the rule exists for all investigations. &#8220;It&#8217;s to protect witnesses who also may or may not become public later in an investigation. And then finally, it&#8217;s to protect the investigation itself. Investigations proceed in many different directions, eventually coming to a fruition, a decision to charge or not charge about a particular thing or not. And if witnesses and potential subjects knew everything that the investigators had previously looked at and were about to look at, it could well change testimony. It could well make witnesses unavailable to us.&#8221;
Garland addressed critics who say that he timed the prosecutions to hurt Trump in the 2024 election.
&#8220;Well, that&#8217;s absolutely not true,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Justice Department prosecutors are nonpartisan. They don&#8217;t allow partisan considerations to play any role in their determinations.&#8221;
Garland said that he is not in communication with President Joe Biden or anyone else in the administration in regards to the cases against Trump.
Pelley then asked Garland what he would do if Biden asked him to take action in the cases involving Trump.
&#8220;I am sure that that will not happen, but I would not do anything in that regard,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And if necessary, I would resign. But there is no sense that anything like that will happen.&#8221;
The segment noted that Biden himself is also under criminal investigation by a special counsel over his own handling of classified materials.
Biden&#8217;s son, Hunter Biden, was recently indicted on federal gun charges in a separate special counsel investigation and remains under investigation over other business matters.
Garland said that he will make the results of the special counsel&#8217;s report public &#8220;to the extent permissible under the law, that is required to explain their prosecutive decisions, their decisions to prosecute or not prosecute and their strategic decisions along the way.&#8221;
&#8220;Usually, the special counsels have testified at the end of their reports, and I expect that that will be the case here,&#8221; he added.
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A &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; segment broadcast on Sunday caused an uproar after the show reported that American taxpayers are &#8220;subsidizing&#8221; Ukraine&#8217;s economy and paying for all of Ukraine&#8217;s first responders.
The news comes as a recent Fox News <a href="https://static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2023/08/Fox_August-11-14-2023_Complete_Cross-Tabs_August-17-Release.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">poll</a> found that 56% of Republicans say the U.S. should be sending less support to Ukraine. A recent CNN poll <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/04/politics/cnn-poll-ukraine/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">found</a> that 55% of Americans say Congress should not authorize additional funding to support Ukraine.
&#8220;American taxpayers are financing more than just weapons. We discovered the U.S. government&#8217;s buying seeds and fertilizer for Ukrainian farmers… and covering the salaries of Ukraine&#8217;s first responders – all 57,000 of them,&#8221; the CBS News show reported. &#8220;That includes the team that trains this rescue dog – named Joy – to comb through the wreckage of Russian strikes looking for survivors.&#8221;
&#8220;And the U.S. also funds the divers who we saw clearing unexploded ammunition from the country&#8217;s rivers – to make them safe again for swimming and fishing,&#8221; the segment continued. &#8220;Russia&#8217;s invasion shrank Ukraine&#8217;s economy by about a third. We were surprised to find that to keep it afloat the U.S. government is subsidizing small businesses.&#8221;
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Former Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell responded to the video: &#8220;Billions for Ukrainian farmers, first responders and Ukrainian entrepreneurs?! Why? The U.S. should be doing the tough work of peacemaking. We need aggressive diplomats if you want to avoid war. Where is the draft peace plan?&#8221;
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&#8220;Such things shouldn’t need to be discovered by media outlets,&#8221; said Fox News contributor Guy Benson. &#8220;If this is what we are subsidizing, make a fully transparent case for it.&#8221;
Fox News co-host Rachel Campos-Duffy added: &#8220;As American farmers, ranchers &amp; small businesses suffer from Biden’s climate/energy policies &amp; basic city services are strained &amp; cut because of his open border policies, Joe Biden is subsidizing THIS!!??!! Don’t tell me Biden isn’t compromised.&#8221;

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Congresswoman <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/60-minutes-host-interviews-marjorie-taylor-greene-and-liberals-cant-stand-it/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Marjorie Taylor Greene</a> (R-GA) appeared to leave “60 Minutes” host Lesley Stahl speechless when she doubled down on claims that the Democratic Party was “the party of pedophiles.”
Stahl interviewed Greene for Sunday evening’s broadcast — and she asked the Georgia rep. why she had, in recent weeks, referred to the Democratic Party in that manner.
“The Democrats are ‘a party of pedophiles,’” Stahl said, prompting a response from Greene.
“I would definitely say so. They support grooming children,&#8221; was Greene&#8217;s reply.
&#8220;They are not pedophiles. Why would you say that?”
“Democrats support – even Joe Biden, the president himself, supports children being sexualized and having transgender surgeries. Sexualizing children is what pedophiles do to children,&#8221; Greene answered, drawing a direct comparison between pedophilia and the adults who were condoning or even promoting hormone-based or even surgical gender transition for minors.
After a pause, Stahl said simply, &#8220;Wow &#8230; okay.&#8221;
Greene shared video of the exchange and repeated her position in a tweet on Monday: &#8220;I’ll say it again: sexualizing children is what pedophiles do to children. You’re either fighting to stop it or you support it. There is no in between.&#8221;
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I’ll say it again: sexualizing children is what pedophiles do to children.
You’re either fighting to stop it or you support it. 
There is no in between. <a href="https://t.co/SA2RZ3P0fT">https://t.co/SA2RZ3P0fT</a>
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Greene has vocally opposed gender transition for children — whether hormone-based or surgical — and has put forth a bill titled Protect Children&#8217;s Innocence Act in an effort to stop it.
&#8220;In order to protect our nation’s children from gender lies and permanent damage to their bodies, we must pass my bill, Protect Children’s Innocence Act. My bill will make it a felony to perform &#8216;gender, affirming care&#8217; on minors under the age of 18, stop damaging puberty blockers, unhealthy hormones, allow victims to sue for damages, and will protect growing kid’s bodies into adulthood,&#8221; she tweeted.
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In order to protect our nation’s children from gender lies and permanent damage to their bodies, we must pass my bill, Protect Children’s Innocence Act. 
My bill will make it a felony to perform “gender, affirming care” on minors under the age of 18, stop damaging puberty…
&mdash; Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepMTG/status/1642199266587295749?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 1, 2023</a></blockquote>
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The &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; interview was largely panned before it even aired by liberals who were angry that CBS was giving the Georgia Republican any attention at all.
During Monday&#8217;s broadcast of ABC&#8217;s midday talk show &#8220;The View,&#8221; the hosts were angry that Stahl had not pushed back harder against Greene&#8217;s claims.
&#8220;Where were the receipts?&#8221; host Sunny Hostin complained.
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&quot;I think she looked like an idiot.&quot; Ironically, racist Sunny Hostin wants MTG to be visible so we can all see how dumb she is. She also takes a swipe at 60 Minutes reporter Lesley Stahl for not bringing the &quot;receipts&quot; to push back on MTG. &quot;Where were the receipts?!&quot; <a href="https://t.co/FwBqJkfMt2">pic.twitter.com/FwBqJkfMt2</a>
&mdash; Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1642917217426628614?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 3, 2023</a></blockquote>
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‘Wow … OK’: Marjorie Taylor Greene Leaves ‘60 Minutes’ Host Speechless With Assessment Of Democrat Party

Marjorie Taylor Greene Leaves '60 Minutes' Host Speechless With Assessment Of Democrat Party

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Young people won&#8217;t know it, but there was a day — not too long ago, at least for me — when you just didn&#8217;t miss &#8220;60 Minutes.&#8221; On Monday morning, at the water cooler (I said I was old!), everyone was talking about the latest installment.
The news show was born in 1968, hosted by real newsmen Mike Wallace and Harry Reasoner. Don Hewitt, who had been a producer of the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite, ran the show. Over the years, the ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s, the show featured a veritable who&#8217;s who of non-fake journalists.
But that was then. Nowadays, &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; stars highly partisan celebrity &#8220;journalists&#8221; like Anderson Cooper, Norah O&#8217;Donnell, Scott Pelley and the like.
Then there&#8217;s Leslie Stahl, 81, who has been with CBS for 52 years. It doesn&#8217;t get more partisan than Stahl.
In the show&#8217;s latest installment on Sunday, Stahl opened a biased piece on Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) with this: &#8220;It&#8217;s rare for a member of the House of Representatives to become well known nationally, especially someone in only their second term. But Marjorie Taylor Greene, MTG, is as famous as they get. She&#8217;s gained her national celebrity, some say notoriety, with a sharp tongue and some pretty radical views.&#8221;
Well. That&#8217;s certainly not the intro you&#8217;d expect for another three-letter initialism: AOC, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY). But it&#8217;s entirely OK for the media to call conservatives notorious and radical. Imagine the caterwauling you&#8217;d hear from the MSM if you called AOC that!
Oh, then Stahl dropped that MTG &#8220;has a history of believing in conspiracy theories.&#8221; Real journalism, there.
Stahl jumped right in during the interview proper, asking Greene why she &#8220;styled&#8221; herself &#8220;after Donald Trump.&#8221; Then, using the old &#8220;some say&#8221; trope, Stahl said, &#8220;many consider Marjorie Taylor Greene&#8217;s behavior outlandish, even thuggish.&#8221;
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For good measure, she threw in that &#8220;MAGA activists and right-wing media eat it up.&#8221;
Had enough &#8220;journalism&#8221; yet? Too bad, we&#8217;ve got more.
Stahl told the lawmaker that &#8220;economic and financial catastrophe&#8221; (yes, both economic and financial) could occur if Congress doesn&#8217;t raise the federal debt ceiling.
&#8220;You know, what is an economic catastrophe is, again, the people that have spent $31 trillion that forced this situation to happen,&#8221; Greene said, noting that both Republicans and Democrats are to blame.
Stahl mansplained a bit, then asked MTG if she&#8217;d be willing to &#8220;raise some taxes.&#8221;
&#8220;I don&#8217;t think we have a revenue problem in Washington. We have a spending problem,&#8221; the congresswoman said.
Stahl literally rolled her eyes. With the disdain only achievable by Manhattan limousine liberals, Stahl said: &#8220;You know something, that&#8217;s glib. That&#8217;s glib. That&#8217;s &#8212; what does that mean?&#8221;
MTG explained but not to Stahl&#8217;s liking. The journalist then opined that there are things MTG says that are &#8220;over the top, like the Democrats are a party of pedophiles.&#8221;
&#8220;I would definitely say so. They support grooming children,&#8221; Greene said.
Stahl rolled her eyes again. Then she puffed out her cheeks and blew out a scornful breath. &#8220;They are not pedophiles. Why would you say that?&#8221; Stahl said.
&#8220;Democrats support, even Joe Biden the president himself, supports children being sexualized and having transgender surgeries, sexualizing children is what pedophiles do to children,&#8221; MTG said.
And less than a minute later, as Greene sought to explain further, the edited piece just drowns her out with Stahl talking over her.
Stahl dropped some more disdain about &#8220;flyover country&#8221; when she said of MTG that &#8220;most of her constituents in her conservative, largely white, working-class district agree with her on the issues and especially like the way she fights for her beliefs.&#8221; Imagine that, constituents agreeing with the representative they elected to Congress.
At the end of the segment, Stahl sought to paint MTG as the face of the GOP. &#8220;You want to bring the Republican Party closer to your views. You want to bring the country closer to your views,&#8221; she said.
&#8220;The question for her and the country is: Can she expand her brash MTG brand beyond the Right-wing populists base?&#8221;
There you have it, &#8220;journalism&#8221; in 2023. And yet another reason you don&#8217;t need to watch &#8220;60 Minutes.&#8221;
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent for a national newspaper. He was also the a.m. editor of the Drudge Report for four years. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.

NEW YORK – APRIL 1: Sunday on 60 MINUTES, Lesley Stahl sat down with Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene  days before the indictment of former President Donald Trump  for a wide-ranging interview and profile. Greene, an influential and vocal member of the far right and close ally of Trump, speaks with Stahl at her home in Georgia and meets in the halls of Congress in Washington, D.C., to discuss her America First, populist views as she continues her rise in the Republican party. The 60 MINUTES interview will air  April 2 on the CBS Television Network. Photo is a screen grab. (Photo by

‘60 Minutes’ Does A Hatchet Job On MTG; Host Rolls Her Eyes At Congresswoman

'60 Minutes' Does A Hatchet Job On Marjorie Taylor Greene; Host Rolls Her Eyes At Congresswoman

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&#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; host <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/iranian-president-ebrahim-raisi-engages-in-holocaust-denial-cbs-news-lesley-stahl-does-not-push-back/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lesley Stahl</a> spoke with Congresswoman <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/exclusive-interview-marjorie-taylor-greene-says-she-hasnt-changed-the-party-has/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Marjorie Taylor Greene</a> (R-GA) — the interview aired during Sunday&#8217;s broadcast – and liberals immediately attacked both Stahl and CBS.
&#8220;Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, nicknamed MTG, isn’t afraid to share her opinions, no matter how intense and in-your-face they are. She sits down with Lesley Stahl this Sunday on 60 Minutes,&#8221; the show&#8217;s preview tweet read.
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Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, nicknamed MTG, isn’t afraid to share her opinions, no matter how intense and in-your-face they are. She sits down with Lesley Stahl this Sunday on 60 Minutes. <a href="https://t.co/mEN4CWeXMW">https://t.co/mEN4CWeXMW</a> <a href="https://t.co/BIzcRHgrLT">pic.twitter.com/BIzcRHgrLT</a>
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Liberals quickly criticized Stahl for interviewing Taylor Greene and CBS for daring to allow such an interview to air.
&#8220;Some of the most important decisions you make as an editor are about who and what NOT to cover,&#8221; Laura Helmuth said.
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Some of the most important decisions you make as an editor are about who and what NOT to cover <a href="https://t.co/ElN8dQQ22v">https://t.co/ElN8dQQ22v</a>
&mdash; Laura Helmuth (@laurahelmuth) <a href="https://twitter.com/laurahelmuth/status/1642337849881010180?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 2, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Wasteful of our time journalism malpractice. This should have been an April Fool but sadly is not. Serious treatment of this individual by @60Minutes is not providing informative, insightful news or analysis but rather a platform for hate to build on,&#8221; Bruce Bourgoine <a href="https://twitter.com/BruceBourgoine/status/1642277974178250755" target="_blank" rel="noopener">complained</a>.
Television producer Jonathan Goldman called Taylor Greene a &#8220;domestic terrorist,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/akjakalope/status/1642275682725302272" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeting</a>, &#8220;Shame on 60 Minutes for normalizing the hateful bile that MRG spews. She’s an antisemitic, QAnon conspiracy peddling bigot who conspired to overturn a presidential election w white nationalists. MTG is not a politician, she’s a domestic terrorist &amp; Leslie Stahl is amplifying her.&#8221;
&#8220;Lesley Stahl and @60Minutes should be ashamed for giving a known racist, election denying, Anti-Semite the stage for a national interview. Even respected, once reputable media are providing Fascist a microphone and endangering Democracy in America,&#8221; Southern Sister Resister (@ResisterSis20) <a href="https://twitter.com/ResisterSis20/status/1642236483351322626" target="_blank" rel="noopener">scolded</a>.
Huffpost politics reporter Jennifer Bendery took a more mocking tone, tweeting, &#8220;Coming up after the break: She&#8217;s spread conspiracy theories and lies about the 2020 election, 9/11 and the Parkland shooting. She&#8217;s racist and antisemitic. She&#8217;s expressed support for executing Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama. And&#8211; she makes an excellent blueberry muffin.&#8221;
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Coming up after the break: She&#39;s spread conspiracy theories and lies about the 2020 election, 9/11 and the Parkland shooting. She&#39;s racist and antisemitic. She&#39;s expressed support for executing Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama. And&#8211; she makes an excellent blueberry muffin. <a href="https://t.co/BmO5orFlY5">https://t.co/BmO5orFlY5</a>
&mdash; Jennifer Bendery (@jbendery) <a href="https://twitter.com/jbendery/status/1642235709946830850?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 1, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;WTAF!? Why? Just WHY??? 60 Minutes and Lesley Stahl have just soiled their credibility. Why would you lend legitimacy to a white supremacist terrorist who sought to overturn a fair election?&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/mommamia1217/status/1642190624177676289" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeted</a> @Mommamia1217 before admitting: &#8220;I certainly won’t be watching. Will you?￼&#8221;
Independent journalist Glenn Greenwald noticed that — the fact that many of the people complaining about the interview were not likely to watch it — and argued that the liberal left was giving the game away.
&#8220;The number of liberals vehemently condemning this interview they have not seen — based on their view that journalists should ignore everyone who isn&#8217;t a Democrat or at least a good Trump-hating Republican like Mitt Romney or Liz Cheney — reveals so much about their mindset,&#8221; Greenwald began.
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They want journalists to create a make-believe reality for them in which bad people and bad things don&#39;t exist. Don&#39;t we learn when we&#39;re 8 that this doesn&#39;t work?
MTG is one of the most influential and trusted members of Congress among millions. Of course you interview her.
&mdash; Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) <a href="https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1642602376958820358?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 2, 2023</a></blockquote>
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He went on to point out that Taylor Greene, whether they liked her or not, was certainly an influential member of Congress and it made perfect sense for a journalist to interview her.
&#8220;They want journalists to create a make-believe reality for them in which bad people and bad things don&#8217;t exist,&#8221; Greenwald added. &#8220;Don&#8217;t we learn when we&#8217;re 8 that this doesn&#8217;t work?&#8221;

’60 Minutes’ Host Interviews Marjorie Taylor Greene And Liberals Can’t Stand It

'60 Minutes' Host Lesley Stahl Interviews Marjorie Taylor Greene And Liberals Can't Stand It

<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/prince-harry">Prince Harry</a> is currently doing a press tour in anticipation of his memoir release on Tuesday, most recently sitting down with <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/anderson-cooper">Anderson Cooper</a> on “60 Minutes” in an interview broadcast Sunday night to defend the book’s existence.
The Duke of Sussex has been at odds with the British press for years, but in more recent months he’s shifted some of the blame for his troubles to members of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/royal-family">his own family,</a> including King Charles, Prince William, and now stepmother Camilla, the Queen Consort. Harry insists that he’s been forced to speak out in defense of himself and his wife, Meghan Markle. 
In “Spare,” the 38-year-old former working royal said that Camilla needed to revamp her public image and did so at his expense.
&#8220;She was the villain. She was the third person in their marriage,&#8221; Harry told Cooper of his stepmother. &#8220;She needed to rehabilitate her image.&#8221;
&#8220;You and your brother both directly asked your dad not to marry Camilla?&#8221; Cooper asked.
&#8220;Yes,&#8221; Harry replied. &#8220;We didn&#8217;t think it was necessary. We thought that it was gonna cause more harm than good and that if he was now with his person, that surely that&#8217;s enough,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Why go that far when you don&#8217;t necessarily need to? We wanted him to be happy. And we saw how happy he was with her. So, at the time, it was, &#8216;OK.'&#8221;
&#8220;That made her dangerous because of the connections that she was forging within the British press. And there was open willingness on both sides to trade of information,&#8221; the Duke of Sussex continued. &#8220;And with a family built on hierarchy, and with her, on the way to being Queen consort, there was gonna be people or bodies left in the street because of that.&#8221;
In “Spare,” he wrote that Camilla &#8220;sacrificed me on her personal P.R. altar.&#8221;
&#8220;If you are led to believe, as a member of the family, that being on the front page, having positive headlines, positive stories written about you, is going to improve your reputation or increase the chances of you being accepted as monarch by the British public, then that’s what you&#8217;re gonna do,&#8221; Harry added in his interview with Cooper.
During the interview, he said he was one of the “bodies” sacrificed to improve her reputation. It took decades for the public to accept Camilla as Charles’s wife as he had cheated on Princess Diana with her. 
Harry also mentioned the British royal family “trading” stories during the Netflix docuseries “Harry &amp; Meghan” when he discussed how royals would share secrets about different family members to avoid stories about themselves getting published. 
“The level of planting from other members of the Royal Family means in my mind they have written thousands of books,” he told Tom Bradbury during an <a href="https://deadline.com/2023/01/prince-harry-spare-itv-interview-prince-william-meghan-markle-1235214256/">ITV interview</a>, which also aired on Sunday night. “It got to the point where we had to leave. The distorted narrative is that we wanted to leave to make money but that’s not the case, we would have stayed for a life of service.”
He went on to describe how “some members of the Royal Family who have got in bed with the devil,” which in this case was the British media. 
When the Duke of Sussex was asked if he was “pretty consistently scathing” about Camilla and the British press, Harry said, “Scathing? There’s no part of any of the things that I’ve said are scathing towards any member of my family, especially not my stepmother. There are things that have happened that have been incredibly hurtful, some in the past, some current.”
Prince Harry&#8217;s highly anticipated memoir, &#8220;Spare,&#8221; will be available on January 10.

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Prince Harry Declares His Stepmother, Camilla, A 'Villain' While Promoting His Tell-All Memoir

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Daily Wire Editor Emeritus <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/author/ben-shapiro" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ben Shapiro</a> reacted to &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/60-minutes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">60 Minutes</a>&#8221; hosting Stanford University biology professor Paul Ehrlich to discuss purported risks of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/climate-change" target="_blank" rel="noopener">overpopulation</a>, even though his body of work has been repeatedly proven wrong over the past half-century.
Ehrlich, a Stanford University professor emeritus, wrote a book in 1968 called “The Population Bomb” which predicted “hundreds of millions of people will starve to death” in the 1970s and 1980s. During his appearance on &#8220;60 Minutes,&#8221; he likewise <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/i-watched-the-60-minutes-doomsday-diatribe-on-overpopulation-so-you-dont-have-to" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claimed</a> that “humanity is not sustainable” and said “five more Earths” are necessary to support &#8220;our lifestyle.&#8221;
During a segment of “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/podcasts/the-ben-shapiro-show/ep-1638-welcome-to-2023" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Ben Shapiro Show</a>,” the host observed that modern Westerners who reject the role of God and traditional values from their lives subscribe to climate alarmism as a sort of “bizarre paganism.” Ehrlich has suggested mandatory population decrease policies such as assembling a blacklist of individuals and institutions “impeding population control,” offering “responsibility prizes” for childless marriages while taxing parents for having children, and a “luxury tax” on items such as diapers and cribs.
“There’s this great cosmic force out there that will avenge itself upon you because you are living too well,” commented Shapiro, who noted that figures such as climate activist Greta Thunberg have become “icons of religious leadership” under the system.
The predictions made by Ehrlich <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/civilization-is-going-to-crumble-musk-on-chinas-plummeting-birth-rate-and-the-need-to-repopulate-the-planet" target="_blank" rel="noopener">led</a> in part to billions of dollars of spending to combat overpopulation through entities such as the United Nations Population Fund. In some parts of the world, women were forcibly sterilized. The late Julian Simon, who served as an economics and business professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, made a bet with Ehrlich that he could create any hypothetical basket of resources that would become cheaper over time. Ehrlich lost the bet because, according to Shapiro, “people are innately creative and innovative, and therefore people will be able to innovate their way” out of scarcity.
Shapiro noted that the show decided to host Ehrlich because he encourages people to support the “socialistic redistribution programs” favored by leftists.
“What he said was completely and utterly debunked,” Shapiro remarked. “When you are a doomsayer, when you are doing jeremiads on national television about how the world is about to collapse unless you do the socialistic and anti-tradition things we want you to do, you become very popular with the group that is kind of socialistic and doesn’t like tradition that much.”
The ideology advanced by Ehrlich is similar to those once pushed by nineteenth-century British philosopher Thomas Malthus, who theorized that the nation’s birthrate would outstrip its ability to grow food and thereby induce mass starvation. His theories, which were also completely disproven, would later influence China&#8217;s infamous One Child Policy.
Even as many leading economies grapple with <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/in-2021-americas-population-grew-at-slowest-rate-since-founding-of-the-nation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">demographic collapse</a>, millions are convinced that bearing children would be irresponsible given the carbon emissions produced by additional human beings. An <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/analysts-climate-alarmism-leading-people-to-have-fewer-children" target="_blank" rel="noopener">investor note</a> from analysts at Morgan Stanley published two years ago said that the “movement to not have children owing to fears over climate change is growing and impacting fertility rates quicker than any preceding trend in the field of fertility decline.” Thousands of young people around the world have endorsed the “No Future Pledge,” which encourages them to opt out of reproduction in the interest of protecting the environment.

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‘Bizarre Paganism’: Ben Shapiro Reacts To ’60 Minutes’ Hosting Climate Alarmist With Decades Of Failed Predictions

Ben Shapiro Reacts To '60 Minutes' Hosting Climate Alarmist With Decades Of Failed Predictions 

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Last week, Pope Benedict XVI died at the age of 95, nearly a decade after stepping down as head of the Catholic Church. His life was marked by adherence to a belief in an eternal truth above all. As he stated in a 2008 meeting with Catholic educators at the Catholic University of America, “Truth means more than knowledge: knowing the truth leads us to discover the good….[W]e observe, with distress, the notion of freedom being distorted. Freedom is not an opting out. It is an opting in – a participation in Being itself. Hence authentic freedom can never be attained by turning away from God.”
There is a truth; that truth must be pursued; the only substitute for truth is falsehood. Human beings have sussed out eternal truths over the course of millenia, and to discard those truths in favor of subjectivism is crippling. Those eternal truths are rooted in the belief that God made us in His image; that He granted us roles and responsibilities; and that true freedom lies in making choices within the boundaries of those roles and responsibilities.
What happens when we discard those truths?
Disaster strikes.
First we lose belief in something Higher; then we lose belief in ourselves.
We are seeing the consequences of this two-step process before us in real time.
In a recent interview with The Wall Street Journal, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt spelled out what happens when we turn our gaze inwards rather than outward. Generation Z, he said, has been sucked into a vortex of narcissism and jealousy and isolation. According to Haidt, there has “never been a generation this depressed, anxious and fragile.” For girls, particularly, replacement of roles with constant self-assessment has been a pathway to hell: “You post your perfect life, and then you flip through the photos of other girls who have a more perfect life, and you feel depressed.” The new cultural ideology “valorizes victimhood. …You’re not going to take chances, you’re going to ask for accommodations, you’re going to play it safe, you’re not going to swing for the fences, you’re not going to start your own company.”
Civilizationally, the loss of inherited wisdom and traditional values has resulted in new, ersatz gods to worship. The most obvious god is the pantheistic god of nature, revenging itself on us for our capitalist excesses. Why else would “60 Minutes” feature widely-discredited false green Paul Ehrlich, author of “The Population Bomb”? Ehrlich famously stated in 1968 that billions would die of starvation in the 1970s and 1980s; now, half a century later, he explains, “Humanity is not sustainable. To maintain our lifestyle (yours and mine, basically) for the entire planet, you’d need five more Earths. Not clear where they’re gonna come from.”
Never mind that Ehrlich is wrong. The real question is why he is still respected. The answer, of course, is that every religion requires its prophets, and the neo-paganism of environmental catastrophism is no exception.
As the West loses its links with traditional wisdom, it breaks loose of its philosophical moorings. The consequences will be dire, unless those moorings are reinforced. And they can only be reinforced by those who have the courage to defend eternal truths – not merely hide behind the tolerance of pluralism, a repository for the cowardice of conservatives who correctly stand with free speech but incorrectly think that stance sufficient to win the day.
In the end, either the truth will win out, or it will be destroyed. As Pope Benedict XVI told the Bishops of the United States in 2012, “The Church in the United States is called, in season and out of season, to proclaim a Gospel which not only proposes unchanging moral truths but proposes them precisely as the key to human happiness and social prospering.” Defenders of traditional values of all stripes are called to the same quest.

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