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what does a secretary of commerce do? until now, mainly promote u.s. businesses abroad. it had not been a high-profile job, until gina raimondo turned the second tier agency into a center of job creation, manufacturing, and national security. once the governor of rhode island, raimondo, at 52, seems to have come out of nowhere to become a rising star of the democratic party and of the biden administration. as commerce secretary, she's running new projects that could touch the lives of every american. and she's helping lead the expanding cold war with china and confront russia's aggression in ukraine. the battlefield for both those conflicts is technology. >> if you think about national

security today, in 2024, it's not just tanks and missiles. it's technology. it's semiconductors. it's a.i. it's drones. and the commerce department is at the red hot center of technology. >> and at the red hot center, a global chip war that ramped up, says gina raimondo, when russia invaded ukraine. >> the commerce department stopped all semiconductor chips from being sold to russia. every drone, every missile, every tank has semiconductors in them. and you know, lesley, you know we're being effective because shortly after we started that work, we heard stories of the russians taking semiconductors out of refrigerators, out of dishwashers. >> what? >> out of breast pumps, getting the chips to put them into their military equipment. >> however, the russians are now working their way around this. >> they are.

>> successfully. and they're doing better in the war probably because of this. >> you are right in what you say. >> but, she says -- >> it's absolutely the case that our export controls have hurt their ability to conduct the war, made it harder. and we are enforcing this every minute of every day, doing everything we can. >> these are some of the enforcers. >> pushed to talk about our controls of russia. >> raymondo's team at commerce that monitors and polices the ban on any company in the world from selling products with american chips in them to russia. but not just russia. >> i've made sure that the most advanced american technologies can't be used in china. >> the chinese warn that these export controls could trigger an escalating trade war. >> trade with china accounts for 750,000 u.s. jobs. and if trade ends, we lose those

jobs. >> we want to trade with china on the vast majority of goods and services. but on those technologies that affect our national security, no. >> those advanced chips are in consumer goods. banks use them, hospitals. this is going toward products that are made for civilian use. >> well, they also go into nuclear weapons, surveillance systems. and we know they want these chips and our sophisticated technology to advance their military. >> her toughness has made her a target in china, where fake ads have her promoting the new chinese-made smart phono. last year, the government in beijing hacked her email. and when she was in china, ironically on a trip to improve relations, the tech company, huawei, introduced that

smartphone with an advanced chinese-made chip. >> it was, kind of, in your face, as if to say, look at the chip that we have. and it was a pretty good, high-level chip. >> well, i have their attention, clearly. >> and they've gotten yours. >> well, it tells me the export controls are working because that chip is not nearly as good. it's years behind what we have in the united states. we have the most sophisticated semiconductors in the world. china doesn't. we've out-innovated china. >> well, we, you mean taiwan. >> fair. >> while american tech companies design the world's most advanced chips, none are actually made in the u.s. 90% of them come from taiwan, and they are key to the future of u.s. military weaponry. >> and china, from time to time,

threatens, you know, the wolf to invade taiwan. and some people say the whole reason is to get their hands on those chips. >> that's a problem. it's a risk. it makes us vulnerable. >> the problem of our outsourcing production goes way beyond high-tech. with millions of american workers having lost their jobs that went overseas, something raimondo knows first hand, growing up as the youngest child in an italian american family in rhode island. >> this is the old bulova watch factory, where my dad worked for 30 years. >> her dad lost his job when bulova abandoned the factory in 1983 and moved its operations in china. >> it's hard for you to imagine it now as you look around here, but this was a bustling place. you know, they had 1,000 people working here, food trucks on the sidewalk, an electric shop dye there, a tool and die shop

there. and now this is what you have. >> and how old were you? >> i was in, like, sixth grade. but i saw the toll it took on my dad and my family. >> and that influenced her career choices. from when she studied economics and played rugby at harvard -- >> so, this is my office. >> -- to when she left a high-paying job as a venture capitalist to run for public office in rhode island. >> this was the day that i was sworn in as state treasurer. and those are my parents. that's my dad. >> that's your dad? >> super proud of me. >> the man who worked at bulova. >> the man who worked at bulova, the man who taught me about manufacturing, taught me your job is about your pride, ability to take care of a family, not just a paycheck. >> married with two children, raimondo, a yale law school graduate, was elected the state's first female governor in 2014 as a moderate, pro-business democrat. >> liberals in your party, this

is a quote, look upon you as a sell-out to big business. >> i think that's ridiculous. i hold businesses accountable as much as anyone. when i tell them they can't sell their semiconductors to china, they don't love that, but i do that. >> in late 2020, president-elect joe biden called her about leading the commerce department, which until then, managed without much fanfare and headlines, a mishmash of agencies and assignments, ranging from monitoring the weather to measuring the level of contaminants in household dust. >> so, one day president-elect biden calls you and said, what about being commerce secretary? and you heard that and thought? >> truthfully, initially i thought, what does the commerce secretary do? >> yeah. >> and then the president-elect said to me, come, i want you to work with me to help rebuild american manufacturing. and i called my brother, my big brother, and he said, gina, dad

would be so proud. you've got to do it. you've got to do it. and that was it. >> once at commerce, she began to lean on congress. >> this is just good business. >> to fund her new programs with $100 billion, including 50 billion for the bipartisan chips act that she is now dispensing to reduce america's reliance on taiwan. >> it's a huge day for the entire country. >> last month in arizona, she announced her first award for making leading edge chips in the u.s. to intel. >> we are announcing our intention to invest $8.5 billion in intel, america's champion semiconductor company. >> intel intends to construct and modernize facilities in arizona, new mexico, oregon, and ohio. she's made two other big awards, totaling $13 billion, to

taiwan-based tsmc, and the south korean company, samsung, to make the world's most advanced chips in arizona and texas. raimondo is also spreading her largesse elsewhere in the country with another huge initiative, the internet for all program. we went with her to a corning factory in north carolina, the world's largest manufacturer of fiberoptic table. >> you're looking at fiber on these spools, all different colors. what's inside of there is actually one of the most precise products ever manufactured by man. >> wendell weeks, chairman and ceo of corning, is expanding production to some of the 10 million miles of new cable that's needed to connect the 24 million americans living mostly in rural america, who don't have access to high-speed internet. and under prodding by raimondo,

he's investing corning's own capital to do it. >> we invested another half billion dollars and doubled our footprint for the u.s. >> when you're spending all this money to connect, you know, small numbers of people, who lives mile away, the expense almost doesn't make sense. >> it does make sense. the internet is no longer a luxury. you need it to see the doctor, to go to school, to do your business, to pay your bills, to sign up for, you know, social security. everyone has electricity in this country. everyone ought to have the internet. >> together, she says, the internet for all and the chips act initiatives will create about a half million jobs by 2030. but wall street is skeptical. intel, for example, just reported $7 billion in operating losses. >> when you go to pick these different companies to give the money to, it's social/industrial policy, something, you know, we

gave up because it was shown that private industry does a better job picking. you're smiling. >> well, do they? because in the case of semiconductors, the market didn't get it right. >> how did we lose this? >> we allowed manufacturing in this country to wither on the vine in search of cheaper labor in asia, cheaper capital in asia. and here we are. we just pursued profit over national security. >> there are strings attached to these grants. they have to provide daycare. you want them to have a diverse workforce. the union markers? >> that is not social policy, lesley. >> sounds like it. >> it's math. this is pure math. >> what do you mean? >> you won't have enough workers to do the job unless you figure out how to get women working in the facilities.

>> but on that point, if they need women and women need daycare, that's a decision for the company to make. why mandate it if it's what they need? >> it's not mandated. to be clear, these are not mandates. >> but it's written in there. >> it is written. but you know what's funny? i never hear complaints about this from the companies. the only complaints i have are from politicians. >> in her three years in washington, raimondo has elevated the commerce department and its secretary into a high-profile player. >> china wakes up every day figuring out how to get around our regulations. we've got to wake up every day that much more relentless and aggressive. so, i bring it every day. >> so, here comes the inevitable, obvious question that you know is coming your way. you are on a list of future presidential candidates. does that sound good to you?

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now, holly williams on assignment for "60 minutes." >> the names auschwitz, bergen-belsen and buchenwald are infamous as the scene of atrocities, concentration camps ran by adolf hitler's notorious s.s. what you may be surprised to learn is two nazi concentration camps were established on british soil in the channel islands, around 8:00 miles from the british mainland. the islands lie just off the coast of france, became

possessions of the english crown around 1,000 years ago, and were occupied by germany for nearly five years during world war ii. even in the united kingdom, many people don't know about the camps. and as we discovered, exactly what happened there is hotly disputed. >> pretty well hidden, isn't it? >> well, if you didn't know how to get here, you wouldn't easily stumble across it. this was a, sort of, back entrance. >> there's not much left of this third reich's lager sylt concentration camp. on the wind swept island of alderney, about three miles long and one and a half wide, nature is gradually swallowing up its crumbling concrete walls. >> these take you straight into the camp. >> marcus roberts is an oxford-educated amateur historian who runs heritage

tours. he spent years researching this forgotten chapter in british history. >> so, undoubtedly, if you wanted to put a pin on the map, you could say, this is where the holocaust happened on british sovereign territory. >> when germany invaded france in 1940, the british government calculated that the channel islands had no strategic value and gave them up without a fight. nearly all of the residents of alderney decided to evacuate before the german troops arrived. on the empty island, the germans set up two concentration camps as well as labor camps. they brought in prisoners of war and forced laborers to build giant fortifications that still survive today. part of hitler's atlantic wall to protect against allied attack. a minority of them were jewish. others were from russia, ukraine, poland, and spain.

>> i understand this was called the tunnel of death. >> yes, it was notorious in the memory of prisoners. on two occasions, they were forced to cram in here in an apparent rehearsal for their own death. >> after the war, in 1945, the british military investigated the camps and put the death toll on alderney in the low hundreds. some of those who lost their lives were buried under this plot of land. but marcus roberts and others argue that more than 10,000 must have died on the island, based on controversial calculations about the size of the labor force needed to build the fortifications. roberts told us it's because he's jewish that he's determined to count all of the dead. >> there's the jewish instinct to, you know, leave no one behind. >> you're trying to make sure that all the jewish dead are counted. >> remembered.

if you don't remember a life, it's as if they never lived at all. >> most academics dispute roberts' estimate of the death toll. but partly as a result of those disagreements, last year the british government appointed a team of researchers to comb through archives across europe and more accurately count the number of prisoners who died on alderney. dr. julie carr, an archaeologist at cambridge university, is coordinating the review. >> why is this a document search, not a dig? >> it is likely that some of the people in mass graves were jewish. and according to halakha, or jewish law, you cannot disturb the dead. but the second reason is that, according to prisoner statements, some people were dumped at sea or thrown off cliffs. what are we going to do? dig up the entire island? well, we can't do that. >> the researchers are drawing on rich material. the nazis were meticulous record

keepers. and british archives contain first-hand testimonies from survivors. >> look at this. we were beaten with everything they could lay their hands on with sticks, spades, pick axes. >> it sounds absolutely ghastly. >> on certain days, five to six, up to ten men died. >> dr. carr told us there's no evidence that gas chambers were used on alderney, but there were summary executions. and the prisoners built the nazi fortifications on starvation rations. >> were they taken to alderney to be worked to death? >> they were certainly seen as expendable. the aim was to get every ounce of work out of them. and if they died, it didn't matter, and that was kind of, perhaps, expected. >> they were disposable human beings. >> yes, yes. >> how did your father end up in alderney? >> at a pub in the channel islands, we met gary font.

his father, francisco font, fought on the losing side in the spanish civil war, was arrested by france, handed over to the germans, and sent to a concentration camp on alderney. francisco survived and later married a british woman, gary's mother. >> he witnessed the execution of a young soviet boy, who decided to leave the working detail and to change his footwear. so, he started to pick up these paper bags and wrap them around his feet and tie them with string. an s.s. guard saw him do this and walked up to him and shot him point blank range. >> gary told us, his father's experiences left him scarred. >> i saw the emotion on his face. it's tough. >> do you think that emotion came from that he had survived

the war in spain and survived the camp here. >> it was the first time i realized, wow, this man has a deep-rooted emotion inside of him that he can never get out. >> the british government's effort to get the truth out, by recounting the dead, was commissioned by lord pickles. >> sir eric pickles. >> a former cabinet minister and now the uk's envoy for post-holocaust issues. >> the figures vary, not by a few hundred, not by a few thousand, but tens of thousands. >> so, it was the controversy that prompted you to commission the review. >> yes. it seemed to me that the sensible thing was, okay, let's do this out in the open. let's do it fully transparent. >> he's also asked the researchers to put names to as many of those killed as they can. >> if you remember them as individuals, then it's another

blow against hitler. they wanted to eradicate the memory of people. >> so, this is, kind of, an ongoing fight against hitler and his ideas. >> hitler's evil still continues to affect europe and to affect the world. >> but it's taken nearly 80 years for the british government to re-examine what happened on alderney and to make its report public. the official british investigations in 1945 were classified for decades. and unlike the trials of nazi officials in nuremberg, the british authorities failed to prosecute a single german officer who worked on alderney. even though many of them ended up in british prisoner of war camps. >> just to be clear, these are possible war criminals. the british government has gathered evidence against them, and they are in british custody. >> yes, they are at this point, yes. >> a sort of slam dunk case. >> you'd have thought.

>> that's led marcus roberts and others to claim that the british government tried to cover up the extent of the atrocities on alderney. dr. carr told us that could be true. but one key document from the british war office investigation that may explain why there were no prosecutions is missing. >> it could have been shredded decades ago as part of, what do we need these files for anymore? >> but could it also have been shredded for more nefarious purposes? >> i have no idea. in order for me to say there was a cover-up, i want to see the decisions taken. i want to look through those steps and to make up my own mind. >> why might the british government have tried to cover up or whitewash what happened on alderney? and maybe more broadly on the channel islands? >> there are some things that happened that might not -- that the british government might not

necessarily have wanted a wider audience to know about. >> those things, once feared too troubling for the broader public, happened on three of the other channel islands, where most residents did not evacuate before the occupation. when the germans arrived, the locals mostly cooperated, often with little choice. hitler's portrait was hung outside this cinema on the island of guernsey. nazi propaganda showed the british police working for german troops. and british newspapers on the islands printed orders from berlin. >> this is a british newspaper and it's got a swastika on top. >> that's right. >> at the official archives on the island, linda romeril showed us how british officials implemented policies asking jewish residents to identify themselves and then confiscating their assets. >> there was a huge amount of requisitioning of people's houses, people's property, during the occupation period.

>> but some resisted, risking punishment to paint anti-nazi graffiti and illegally listening to british news on the radio. >> that's my great aunt louisa. i suspect that she was probably quite steely. >> one remember of the resistance was louisa gould, who hid an escaped russian prisoner in her home for nearly two years. >> and this is the house? >> yep. >> jenny lecoat told us, when her great aunt louisa was finally caught, she was sent to ravens brooke concentration camp. >> she was killed in a nazi gas chamber? >> she was gassed to death. >> after the occupation, did the british government get in touch with your family to talk about what louisa had done during the occupation and about her murder by the nazis? >> the british government, i think, were kind of ashamed. they were horrified that it happened.

and they didn't really want to get too involved in what had gone on there. >> not wanting to talk about the resistance or not wanting to talk about the occupation at all? >> well, it was such a mixed picture. there were people who were resisted for germans as much as resistance was possible within a tiny nine by five mile island. and there were also people who collaborated. some people had betrayed their own country. the only possible legislation was treason, which was still a hanging offense. they didn't want to get into that. that was the confusing, messy, dirty, mixed picture of the channel islands occupation. >> we'll learn more about that messy, dirty history when the british government's review of the death toll at the camps on alderney is published next month. but it's unlikely to satisfy everyone. >> some kind of apology and moral recompense would be helpful. >> you want the british

government to apologize for not having prosecuted alleged war criminals? >> yes, i think it would have been appropriate for them to recognize what shouldn't have been done happened. >> the horrors carried out on this island were difficult to imagine. the victims were silenced and buried. now, nearly eight decades later, they're finally being counted. cbs sports hq is presented by progressive insurance. in the first round of the nhl playoffs, the florida panthers beat the tampa bay lightning 3-2. in the first round of the nba playoffs, the boston celtics defeated the miami heat 114-94 to open up a 1-0 series lead. for 24/7 news and highlights, visit cbssportshq.com. this is steve overmyer reporting.

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there have been plenty of successful standup comedians, but few who have managed to do what kevin hart has. in addition to becoming a bankable movie star, he's also built an entertainment and business empire. and last month, at 44, he was awarded the mark twain prize for american humor, as close to a lifetime achievement award as you can get. hart's comedy isn't particularly controversial. it's conversational, with a lot of cursing thrown in. he tells revealing stories about his wife and four kids, his embarrassing insecurities, and his many shortcomings. on stage, kevin hart is an open book. but when we sat down with him on one topic at least, he was a bit hard to pin down. >> gq said you're 5'5". the l.a. times said you're 5'4". and some other place you're 5 2. >> well that place is bull [ muted ]. gq finally got it right. >> 5'5".

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is that what you're looking for? >> you can't fix that. >> i can't fix that. that's a problem. one of the sites wasn't even porn. one of the sites was a bunch of tall men being active. they were changing light bulbs. hanging painting. what kind of sick [ muted ] is this. she's like, what, you can't do any of that stuff? i like that stuff. >> hart is the highest grossing comedian today. he sells out arenas around the world and the occasional football stadium. >> we sold a football stadium out tonight. i need to hear that. >> the wall is full of great comedians. >> when we first met him in january in his offices in los angeles, he was working on new material for an upcoming comedy tour. >> to do an hour comedy special, how long does it take? >> you really work on the set eight to nine months. >> are you sitting in a room with your team? >> no. i'm going back to ground zero. >> small comedy clubs. >> small comedy clubs, rooms. i've got two guys, harry ratchford, joey wells, act as my

writers. what they do is they grab my material as i say it. you can't write it down for me. i don't like the long jokes, the long sentences. it has to be in bullet points. travel, bad. bad travel. why bad travel? makes me drive. driving, good versus bad. everything has a good and a bad. my rule is when i get on stage, i would much rather have the dismantled picture in my head of kind of what i think it is and it not be good and then figure out in realtime and walk off stage and go, there was something there. >> a few hours later, 3,000 people showed up in pasadena to hear hart figure out his new jokes on stage. everyone had to hand over their phones. before he began, hart explained why.

>> like, 90% of what i'm going to do tonight i feel like is really good. the reason why i took your phones is because of the other 10%, right? like, just in case. just in case some of it's not, you don't have no proof. >> we agreed not to record any of his routine either. but backstage, we found his collaborators, harry ratchford and joey wells, taking a lot of notes. >> kevin hart, i love you. good night. >> how was this audience? >> this audience was great. great. you could feel the laughter never stopped. that's the beauty of the theater. the theater lets you really feel the highs and lows of a set. >> there's so much that he wants to do. >> joey wells and harry ratchford along with social comedians are also known as the plastic cup boys. >> what are you looking for when

he's on a stage and telling a joke, what notes do you have? >> harry is always structured. we should put the joke here and move it around. for me, i'm like, how can it be a little bit funnier. he might get a standing ovation, i go, that was great, that was great. what if you try this? >> spank and na'im have known hart since he was a teenager growing up in a rough neighborhood in north philadelphia. >> was kevin always as confident as he is today? >> it was always perplexing, why did this little ugly guy have so much confidence. i didn't get it. >> what do you think he's doing? he swears he can dance. >> home movies his mom made show hart was always the family entertainer. he lived in a one-bedroom apartment with his brother, robert, and his mom, nancy hart. she kept a close eye on kevin. >> she planned every moment of your day. >> no free time. after finishing my homework, i had to get to swim practice. we would walk home from practice.

the homework i was supposed to do, she would check, make me redo it. nine times out of ten i rushed through it just to get it done. she would make me read. i would skip pages, not expecting the quiz of the book to come. which she would give me when i said i was done. then she would make me read it again. >> do you credit her with the drive you have? >> absolutely. absolutely. >> his mom also kept kevin's dad, henry witherspoon, at a distance. he was in and out of prison and addicted to drugs, which hart talked about in a 2011 standup special called "laugh at my pain." >> i was in a weird, like, spelling bees, debates. here's the thing. my dad would show up at my events and treat them as if they're athletic events. first of all, you can't cheer for no kid at a spelling bee. it's a spelling bee. it's quiet. i'm focused. i'm in the middle of spelling a difficult word. my dad shows up late, high as hell making cokehead noises.

once again, i cannot make this up. i'm in the middle of spelling. out of nowhere, all i heard was all right, all right, all right. yeah! >> the actual details of stuff he did are really heartbreaking. >> yeah. >> and yet you tell it in a way that's funny. is it heartbreaking to you? >> no because -- >> it must have been at the time. >> i see it for what it was. as a kid, that's dad. by the way, in my environment, that's the norm. it's normal to see your parent drunk or whatever. >> your dad, even in the depths of his drug use, he wanted to see you and your brother. >> absolutely. there was a period where he disappeared where i didn't see him for a long time. i saw him on the subway. he was in bad shape. i was like, dad. he turned around and saw me. the doors opened, my dad walked off and ran. later told me, i ran because it just hurt me for you to see me like that. that was one of the factors in getting him help.

>> hart was able to get his dad help before he died in 2022. his dad loved to hear the stories kevin told him in front of thousands of people. but when hart started doing standup at 18, he struggled to find places to perform. >> you would take gigs wherever you could get them. >> you're talking bowling alley. if you're talking cabaret, strip clubs -- >> is there a lot of comedy in strip clubs? >> no! i don't know who thought that comedy and strippers mix. but i remember one of the most heartbreaking moments being on stage is, like, in the middle of my set -- >> this is at a strip club. >> and i remember hearing this lady go, oh, baby. >> after you told a joke. >> oh, baby. so disgusted and heart broken that this is what i chose to do with my life.

>> hart thought he was about to make it big when he shot a sitcom for abc called "the big house" in 2003. >> it's kevin hart! >> the network flew him out to present the show to advertisers and the media. >> i'm next to walk on stage so you can announce "the big house." you're the guy with the microphone backstage managing. this is what i say, he's right here. i'm ready. all right. i'll tell him right now. kevin, hold up one second. they're not going to go through with picking up. i'll talk to you shortly. what does that mean? >> the guy with the microphone is telling you that your series is not being picked up by the network. >> not the network exec. no, no, no, a guy named barry in the back holding the curtain. >> it was only because of that rejection -- >> i don't want to feel that. i don't like that you got to hire me when you're ready. you're saying that my career is

basically determined off of the needs of people that i don't know and that i don't talk to? i might be sitting here all day if i don't go grab it and i don't go make what i feel should be mine. >> and that is what he did. he started a small production company, now called hartbeat, and began making his own hour-long standup specials. he also marketed himself relentlessly through social media. hollywood studios took notice. >> get on my back. >> i would rather die. >> jump on my back. >> i'm gone die. >> kevin, what's up? >> when he was picked in 2018 to host the oscars, it seemed like a high point in his career. >> i have nothing against gay people. >> but then comments he made about gay people years earlier on stage and on twitter caused controversy. >> me being a heterosexual male, if i can prevent my son from being gay, i will. >> hart stepped down as the oscars host. >> initially you didn't

apologize. later on you did. >> later on, the understanding came from the best light bulb ever. wanda sykes said, there's people being hurt today because of comments you made then. and there's people saying, it's okay to make those comments today based off of what you did then. it was presented to me in a way where i couldn't -- i couldn't ignore that. so, in those moments of despair, great understanding and education can come out of it if you're given the opportunity. >> these days, it's hard to keep track of all the businesses hart has a hand in. the weekend we spent with him, he was in constant motion and promotion, starting with his daily pre-dawn workout. >> "60 minutes," is this what you want? is this what you want? i'm gonna give you what you want. >> and he was off to walmart to publicize a nutrition supplement company he owns. >> you want to reach people. >> you're a real person. >> i am.

>> he's also got a fast food chain, a tequila brand, and a $100 million venture capital fund. >> cheers. >> and hartbeat, that little production company he started is now worth more than $650 million. >> i'm no longer just a comedian. i'm an investment. i'm a studio. i'm a partner looking for partnerships. work for hire is not in my best interest if it's a one and done situation. >> that means the endless stream of movies, shows, podcasts, and commercials kevin hart pops up in, chances are, hartbeat is making money off them too. >> even my stunt double has a stunt double. >> are you a billionaire yet? >> none of your business, man. you trying to get me robbed? >> you will be a billionaire. >> i mean, hopefully. and even if i don't or if i'm not, i think the better side to what i've done is create what

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