>>> bill clinton's post presidency is unlike any before. >> i had always said that bill clinton would run for president for the rest of his life -- not literally but figuratively -- and i think i underestimated him. i think he is going to run for president of the world for the rest of his life. >> but in january, 2001, as the clinton administration is coming to a close, it is difficult to see what he will do next. the president is only 54 years old, and now saying good-bye to the greatest job he could imagine. >> they may find somebody who can do this job better than me. they will never find anybody who had any more fun doing it than i had. >> this is a person who's had a very purpose-driven life, so he had to find that purpose again. >> daunted perhaps by the thought of leaving office -- >> i want to thank the academy for this tremendous honor. >> he is able to make fun of his situation with this comedy skit he did for the white house correspondents dinner. >> yazhtsee! >> you did it my man. >> in reality his last days in the white house were a frenzy to beat the clock. >> wanted to

susan, we talk about bill clinton. the other news of the morning is the idea that not only are we hearing from the two of them today but may be hearing this pair could become a traveling road show and they certainly want bill clinton on the road. the white house asking and bill clinton agreeing to be the secretary of explaining the health care law to red states it looks like. >> i can't believe that president obama loves the idea he has to turn to president clinton to explain the health care law. >> you were just stunned by some of the results of that poll. >> 4 in 10 americans think it's been repelled. that is a failure to respond to the republican attacks to make the argument, not only is it not repelled but here is what we are going to do. big test in october 1st. will healthy people go to them and buy insurance? >> interesting to see if the president mentions health care in his remarks today. i think he might as sort of he might fit it in. i had always heard he was somewhat jealous bill clinton can somehow do a spe

bill clinton didn't want him to stay and bill clinton was there for 45 minutes and was like, this is how you do it. >> this is how it's done. i think the speech in arkansas is going to be so important because it's really going to set the tone for the rest of the speeches that the white house is saying are going to come. the administration officials are talking that there will be more high-profile speeches about the law, but, you know, you can't get anyone better than bill clinton to fire people up about this. >> bill clinton is good at explaining stuff. you notice some of the lines in the speech were used by the president and the vice president and their staff after that. my guess is we'll hear some lines that you haven't heard before that will help you and i and other people who do this for a living understand this better. >> the it's arithmetic thing. i remember that popping up a few times. i think obama tried it in the bay and it didn't quite work the same. >> one point about the whole clinton/obama drama. never have two blood feud enemies been so helpful to each other for so many

. >> host: kennedy, what happened when bill clinton and al gore came to visit the studios? and see if i could cause a little trouble. they would find a remote shoe for me when someone in real power was visiting the studio. >> host: why? >> guest: they were worried i would say something to them and not only would i embarrass the network, but i could get in trouble with the government. >> host: you have a chapter in here. we'll show it to our audience. what is his chapter about? >> guest: the 1993 mtv and not robot because the president had the great fortune of attending that night. many were very nice. it's a play on words. go ahead and explain the chap there. >> guest: mtv was thrilled and giddy to be able to finally throw. it was a racquetball presidency. it was a rock 'n roll and not euro ball. this is the greatest concentration of power had ever seen. whether it's politicians, actors, and musicians. and not, the biggest people on earth were all at the mtv inaugural ball. if you are lobbyists, if you are a staffer, you would have punched a homeless person in the mouth in

sending out bill clinton. bill clinton was widely seen as the best surrogate for barack obama. what message does sending out bill clinton send? where is the white house on this? just wait, the numbers are going to get better. the numbers haven't gotten better. >> bill clinton, it's a sign, you know, his speech next week is part of this much broader push by the president, the first lady, the bidens. they're coming up with a plan right now to send all of these guys out there. they view this next 6 to 7 months as sort of an early vote if a political campaign. using their assets strategically. monitoring enrollment in the key markets where they need to see a lot of people. sending folks like, you know, bill clinton or the president or anybody they can into those markets to boost enrollment. and, you know, this is -- the president does not -- he even tells the staff, we're not going to see these numbers turn around any time soon. >> basically where they've been for a long time. >> they know that. the white house is very consumed with making this implementation work as best they can.

the networking had a lot of access to bill clinton. i'm not saying they were pushing bill clinton. there were a lot of people excited about the idea of a clinton presidency. they didn't try to hide their politics, so at some point, i was outed eventually by "the washington post. >> and what happened then? were you allowed to talk politics on the air? >> i wasn't encouraged to talk about politics. i wasn't the host of a political show. i also was encouraged to talk about volleyball or, you know, auto repair. they wanted know talk about the music. but i did have a lot of interviews with musicians who considered themselves to be very political, and, you know, occasionally we would get in heated discussions including with tom from rage against the machine. he has an ideology which is very confining, and in his world, if you don't agree with him, you are the enemy. there's very little room for actual free. i found that to be hypocritical. when i came across people like that, i would call it on them. tom and i got in to it on the air. with my lynn manson. and other artists. mostly trying

but bill clinton even knows hillary is the frontrunner also. it's going to be very hard after eight years of barack obama even if he by some miraculous magic comes back from this very low popularity because of all these collective scandals, failure overseas and his porn followsy. bill clinton knows after eight years of a president it's hard to want to re-elect their vice president. they want some difference. you've seen bill clinton stake out the claim hillary having different foreign policy. >> whoever runs against little for the nomination, not just running against her but against bill. that is a tough uphill climb. >> it is. hillary has the advantage as obama gets less popular of being out of the administration. she needs to frame an agenda of her own as she goes forward without attacking or criticizing the president. she's started that with her speech on voting rights. i'm very confident she'll continue. >> whoever gets the nomination, it may not be such a great deal for them to be the natural obama successor with a crap economy and who kno

bill clinton is like that. he steps back. he gives it a couple of days thought and comes up with a metaphor. he takes his time and does beautifully at that. the president doesn't do that. >> clinton is the greatest political communicator since fdr. he just is able to understand his audience better than any politician alive. and -- >> does part of his head stay home and stay a regular person who thinks about the stuff that the common person thinks about at the kitchen table? >> exactly. the man from hope thing was shtick, but it was true. that was the genius of clinton is he grew up exactly like the types of people that sam was talking about. he understands who they are, where they come from and how they think, and he is able to relate to them like no one else. >> you know, sam, i want to get to that now. it seems to me that health care has not been so sold well. it did get 60 votes in the united states senate. it did get a majority thanks to nancy pelosi as speaker. but it never broke through in a way that for example somethi

bill clinton is like that. he steps back. he gives it a couple of days thought and comes up with a metaphor. the image that makes sense. he takes his time and does beautifully at that. the president doesn't do that. >> clinton is unbelievable. he is the greatest political communicator since fdr. he just is able to understand his audience better than any politician alive. and -- >> does part of his head stay home and stay a regular person who thinks about the stuff that the common person thinks about at the kitchen table? >> exactly. the man from hope thing was shtick, but it was true. that was the genius of clinton is he grew up exactly like the types of people that sam was talking about. he understands who they are, where they come from and how they think, and he is able to relate to them like no one else. >> you know, sam, i want to get to that now. it seems to me that health care has not been sold well. it did get 60 votes in the united states senate. it did get a majority thanks to nancy pelosi as speaker. but it never br

bill clinton and barack obama. we saw some of the acrimony that took place. to see these two halves of the democratic party coming together, uniting around something that is so important after having secretary clinton in the administration, i think what we're seeing is the democratic party has not split. the democratic party is united. the republicans, however are, still at war with each other, trying to figure out how they move forward after the disastrous two election losses in the last two campaigns. >> all right. let me say to both of you, if i had the memo, i would have worn my glasses too. thank you for being on the show tonight. >>>. >> thanks, rev. >>> friend or foe, i want to know. "reply al" is next. and we're celebrating. asional have constipation, diarrhea, gas, bloating? yes! one phillips' colon health probiotic cap each day helps defend against these digestive issues... with three strains of good bacteria. [ phillips' lady ] live the regular life. phillips'. ♪ now you can give yourself a kick in the

with bill clinton, these guys, these sexual issues with politicians, bill clinton is one of the most beloved politicians in the world now after a sex scandal. i think that's why people stay on weiner and his wife and everyone keeps going behind him and backing him, so that's why. we're going to keep covering it and i think that hopefully at some point we will get a response from them. >> we've got to go. mike walters, jim moret. quickly, before we let you go, are we done? please tell me we're done seeing pictures from anthony weiner's cell phone? >> i don't think so. i think there's more. >> no! >> there is more. there is more. and they're coming. >> mike walters, jim moret, thank you for joining us. i appreciate it. >>> ahead, an update on the global terror alert, and then the hbo -- hbo's "the newsroom" is back for a second season. although it's fiction, some reporters say it's too far afield. we'll ask two real-life reporters to give us a fact check. at a better time. these chevys are moving fast. i'll take that malibu. yeah excuse me, the equinox in atlantis blue is mine! i was h

. >> guest: referring to clinton. c-span: ... bill clinton. "neither reagan nor bush did that after all these years of my advice and, frankly, i've had it. they'll find me when they need me, but i may not be available." did he really mean that? >> guest: i'm not sure he was referring to clinton there. he may have been referring to the bush campaign. i'm not sure. we'll have to clarify that. c-span: but there's a lot of that kind of a quote in the book... >> guest: right. c-span: ... about different politicians and the advice that they would seek from him, but they wouldn't acknowledge it publicly. what was that all about? >> guest: that's right. well, generally that was a problem with the republican presidents, because obviously there was a great political problem for them in dealing with richard nixon. this was a republican president who had been driven from office, and they did not want to publicly acknowledge the association that they had with richard nixon. so even though reagan and bush consulted with nixon on a fairly regular basis, alth

rwanda has defenders, among them tony blair and bill clinton. i don't support the oppression of journalists. i don't think human rights tramped in the congo to protect the rights of rwanda. i suppose i do make more allowances for a government that has produced as much progress as they have. that is the way it is. very few situations are perfect. >> but the politics has already changed, whereas the clintons are out to win hearts and minds across africa, the united states has already opened up a new and more dangerous phase with the continent. africa is now one of the magic fronts in battle against terrorism. >> we are in a very unstable per in the word, particularly on the con tint. many of the experts i have spoken to link this to what happened in libya. libya has now become the primary source of funding and arms for al qaeda. was it a mistake to overthrow gaddafi in that manner? >> well, first of all, it doesn't work that way. there is no way that you could -- unless you thought the united states or you should do it directly, should invade the

bill clinton because he is one of my heroes is definitely my favorite. >> a fan favorite getting up lose and personal with at&t blackberry customers and after ix albums and one certified megahit robin amazed how much the business has changed. 3-year-old can download his own songs better han me in some ways is where technology has brought us. but you need innovative companies like blackberry and at&t. >> watch his performance at extratv.com. summer may be winding down, but there are still plenty of movies. >> one flick that i want to check out is paranoia with harrison ford. he plays there evil tech billionaire. neck.m standing on your >> he may be playing a tech mogul but he is not tech savy. my son watches me and tries to grab the phone and fixes it and there. >> i'm trying to build an apple and they are taking it away from

and bill clinton survived a sex scandal while he was in the white house. does he have any advice from the mayoral candidate anthony weiner? we'll hear from the former president of the united states. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >>> in the white house the former president was always very healthy. but today a constituent was placed in an artery after a routine exam revealed a blockage. it was performed, quote, successfully without complication and that he is in high spirits, eager to resume his normal schedule. tom forman joins us with the latest details. >> reporter: wolf, with all the other news breaking in washington today, this caught many people far off guard that the news that the former president had a heart health scare. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: in office and out, george w. bush has been regarded by many as the most fit president ever. he took up mountain biking at the suggestion of his doctors and even though he's had cuts and bruises along the way, he's been pedaling of since. he now hosts an annual ride honoring wounded soldier co

nobody would foot the bill that was a joke. >> host: what happened when bill clinton and al gore came to the studios? >> guest: i will never know what happened at the studios because i was not allowed. literally they would find a far this place for me to travel and put me in a car and take me there usually with camera crews so it was not like that was at the zoo because i would sneak onto a train to see if i could cause trouble there would always find a remote shoot for me when somebody was real power was visiting the studio. i think the word i would say something like i did to rod stewart not only embarrass the network but get in trouble with the government. >> host: you have a chapter in here i will show to the audience. what is this about? >> guest: the 1983 inaugural ball because the president has a great fortune to attend many cotillions and many word that knives -- were nice. >> host: explained mtv was a the thrilled and kiddie to finally throw a rock-and-roll presidency a rock-and-roll is inaugural ball. this was the greatest concentration of power i had ever seen whether polit

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yes, that's former president bill clinton on the right and on the left, his best friend forever, terry mcauliffe, former chairman of the democratic national committee, fundraiser supreme for both bill and hillary, and the personification of the corporate wing of the democratic party. smack in the middle, that's haley barbour, former chairman of the republican national committee. he made a fortune lobbying for corporations, especially for the ta backco industry, then went home to serve two terms as governor of mississippi, and couldn't wait to get back to washington, where once again, he's gun-slinging for the big boys. so why did these three d.c. desperadoes ride into a small mississippi town? seems that when barbour was governor, he offered mcauliffe a very attractive state package of price and tax subsidies for a plant there to build electric cars for his greentech automotive company. mcauliffe also tapped his politically connected network for more than $100 million in capital with the help of hillary clinton's brother, tony rodham, whose company, gulf coast funds management, shares

behind him president bill clinton, and behind him president jimmy carter. and professor williams, not lost that you have thon the fact thae first african-american president and then two presidents born in the south. >> so it's significant that they are southerners but we have to acknowledge johnson's role to the fact that southerners had to be on board to a certain extent for that legislation to get through. >> just a momentis moment, if y, dr. hendrix, what must be going through his mind as he releases what has come over the last 50 years. [ the "star spangled banner" ] [ the star-spangle the "star sp] [applause] >> what a moment in the sun for those young ladies not to be lost on history the fact that marianne anderson performed there because as an african-american performer she could not perform at constitution hall. here is congressman john lewis. >> president and mrs. obama, president clinton, president carter, i want to thank bernice king, the king family and national parks service who invited me here to speak today. when i look out over this diverse

you worked for bill clinton. you know his style. who was he talking to about the complainers and the whiners? was he talking about the liberal progressive democratic heirs of dr. king? or is he talking about the right? about the people who blame everything on gridlock. who's he blame? >> first of all, you have to ask him directly who he was talking to. >> but i'm asking you. >> second of all i would say that he was talking to the american people. this was a speech directed to everyone. and he's just as frustrated as everyone about the gridlock in washington. president clinton is also somewhat of a provocateur. so he's not -- >> was he pulling a sister soldier against obama today? >> no, it was not against obama. it was against -- it was directed -- >> i like to provoke too, you know. i like to provoke trouble. >> i know you do. >> i feel like he's talking about liberals. because he said whining and complaining and heirs of dr. king. you wouldn't call mitch mcconnell an heir of dr. king. or donald trump an heir to dr. king. i would c

president bill clinton is in south africa. he has been visiting the hospital where nelson mandela is being treated for a recurring lung condition. he is also paying tribute to south africa's anti-retroviral treatment campaign. >> there are too many people in the world and in this country who have both aids and tuberculosis. their lives, even if they are saved, become miserable unless they are tested and get the medicine. so we have seen a big production in the price of tests from about $17 to $10. south africa has the largest testing program for tuberculosis in the world. >> clinton and his daughter are visiting the clinton foundation projects in several countries across africa. it also funds attempt to tackle climate change. that wraps it up for world news. >> before we go, they say love is blind, but this blind couple fell in love thanks to their guide dogs. they are the seeing-eye dog, they met one year ago. the owners were on a training course. since then, they have been inseparable. you can say it was possibly fate or goo

bill clinton comes in. he says, we're going to tackle the deficit, do it by slightly raising taxes on the wealthy and it set off this sort of popular revolt. >> well, 1.2% of the population? they all lived in my district. >> bryn mar. >> but it was fascinating for me. i had said over and over again i'm not going to be a read my lips candidate because i didn't know what was going to happen when i got down there. we went down with him. it was his most important piece of legislation. we didn't know that it was going to create 23 million jobs, that it was going to create the largest sustained period of economic growth since world war ii. we did not know that. but, in fact, it did. but we knew it had to pass. all day long on the -- on the floor that day, republicans were saying, we know it has to pass, not one of us will vote for it. walked in that night and they were high-fiving saying they didn't have the votes. and a lot of the democrats were saying they were going to switch. i'm thinking, wow. now, when the

bill clinton, i have a scene in the book bill clinton calls up romney after the election and said, you know, i thought you were going to win until hurricane sandy. now clinton has been known to blow some smoke up people's you know what. [laughter] there was some real concern, and romney himself didn't even prepare a concession speech. paul ryan was so sure that they were going to win, on the night before the election he said his only real concern is would he have to resign his house seat right away after he became vice president elect. he wanted a legal reading on that the constitutional interpretation was. when they told him the next evening that he lost he was completely stunned. even the president at the fair month hotel at 12 minutes after 11:00. my networking called the race for obama, and val i whom i have a chapter in the book said you won! and the president says, i'll believe it when i hear it on fox. [laughter] has been might know i'm in a little bit of spot with roger over the chapter called "fox nation." but it was a kind of a -- and you remember what happened with karl. the

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they found out nothing like that, this is 1994 under bill clinton. and yes, the mantra continues that race and racism continues. it just isn't true, we've elected and re-elected a black president. we've had back to back black secretaries of state. if black america were a country it would be the 15th or 16th wealthiest country in the work. >> i agree with what you're saying. black americans need to be aware of things that can move us forward. when you look at incarceration rates in the country and realize that half are black are hispanic, you think, they're not half of the pop laying. and when you look at the reality, day to day, of what goes on, most of the crimes, white crime, black crime, white on white, black on black, it's a very small. i think almost single digits, interracial crime in our country. >> that's not true. that's not true. >> it is true. >> and you -- >> one last point -- the category of -- >> no, it's, look, i'm telling you overall. i don't know about -- let me say, historically, if you think back to the history of lynching, of assa

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it probably is similar to what happened when bill clinton was governor of arkansas. he had a small to mid-sized state. then you have a national figure that the brings a lot of attention to himself whether because of feuding with chris christie or because of the leadership role in the senate. if he gives a speech to the rotary club in elizabethtown, louisvil louisville, anywhere h h speaks it's national attention. it's another level of press coverage that the kentucky press corps and national press corps are following him. it's interesting, exciting for the local residents there. >> it's probably exciting for him, given that a series of polls have shown chris christie generally leading on the republican side. listen, kiki, to what chris matthews said about senator paul's 2016 prospects. >> i predict the hard right will h take over the republican party in 2016. and the nomination is going to -- rand paul. you watch. this is what i to for a living. >> kiki, what do you think? >> it could happen. i have to say chris wilson couldn't be further from right when he compares

and there she was. >> bill clinton also officiated anthony wiener's wedding. he is all over this stuff. >> he is the zelig of sexual weirdos. he is like forest gump. >> is there a harassment line i can use? >> he is 70 years old. >> he is 70 years old. first of all, you don't touch -- this is 2013 and this is 1950s harassment. doesn't he know you take a crotch shot and then tweet it out? and then you touch yourself later. you don't touch other people. go to a retirement home and be that old man where the nurses put laxatives in the -- stop thinking of the next thing you are going to say and listen to me. >> no, you are boring me. he cannot come back as mayor. >> why would he want to? he is 70. why not move on? >> he is consumed by power. these people do not know how to let go. this is why wiener is fighting and spitser is fighting and why a-rod is fighting. they just can't give up. they don't know what to do afterward. >> look in the mirror. >> why? do i have something on my face? >> you are that guy. >> i am a decent person. >> they know there is the odd chan

in the clinton administration, there were a lot of us that were working for bill clinton. we believed in him. we believed in the things they were fighting for. we stuck with him. remember, we were also fighting against a republican party that was trying to take the president down and our agenda. that had a unifying force. i do remember tough conversations happening with friends and colleagues about whether we were going to stick by the president and we did. i'm glad for it. i think it is very circumstantial. i think it depends on your relationship with the candidate. i don't know what this person's relationship was with anthony weiner was, how far back they went. >> bill clinton was president though. the stakes are differently. >> they were higher. it is pretty clear anthony weiner is not going to win. >> i don't know if you have any experience like this that you want to share. >> we're too dull to have these kinds of problems. >> there are quite a few republicans. i remember someone resigning from the staff of mark sanford. >> most of the time, we fall in love with our ca

with all bill clinton's speeches, they are long. so the one thing that the obama campaign tried to do is cut it for length. >> they're worried about prime-time coverage. the tv networks, what we do, usually 11:00, we move on. >> right, you move on. >> to local news. >> they tried to cut it in a way that would keep it within the prime-time hour. so what went up on the teleprompter was the cut version. but bill clinton had digested and memorized the whole speech. there were times when he looked like he was just riffing, which he's famous for doing. he basically put everything back into the speech that had been cut out and it ran past the 11:00 hour and the networks stayed with it. >> everything you heard about this speech, clinton, he was really fairly nervous about it. he did not want to look like he was hurting the president again, right, he was really concerned. he wanted them to think he was really helping. >> as you remember, he had had that very awkward moment earlier in the summer when he had gone on cnn, on the piers morgan sh

bill clinton there saying it's not for him to decide whether or not the un is liable. but he's actually said that the un brought the disease to this island, so if he can't answer the question about accountability, it's not really clear who can. our next stop: un headquarters in haiti. here, at least we'd be able to find out why mario's clients had been waiting over a year for a response to their lawsuit. we'd been promised an interview with nigel fisher, the head of the un mission in haiti that's known by its acronym "minustah". >> well hi, is that nigel fisher's office? hi is that nigel fishers office? hi there, i'm trying to get through to nigel fisher's office, there doesn't seem to be anybody answering the phone now. >> but it was proving difficult to get hold of him. >> hello, there's still no answer from nigel fisher's office. it doesn't look like it's going to happen. ok well, i guess we'll just do what we can to try and catch up with him. but just as we were about to give up... >> this is nigel fisher, this is the man we've been trying to find all afternoon. it

obama is there he is going to be speaking as well as former president bill clinton and jimmy carter. you can watch all of these events unfold live on our website. just log on any time to see this happening live, nbcbayarea.com. >>> crews have gained a little more ground on the massive wildfire now burning next to the hetch hetchy reservoir. the rim fire has grown to 18 ever 87,000 acres, larger than the size of san jose, san francisco and oakland combined. more than 4,000 fire personnel are now fighting the fire and they have it 23% contained. this is up from 20% from last night. the fire has already destroy ready 111 buildings, including 11 homes. 5500 other structures are threatened this morning including hundreds of homes. campgrounds within yosemite have been evacuated as well as tuolumne city the rim fire is releasing massive amounts of smoke into the air. those plumes are traveling more than 100 miles, clouding the skies in nevada and causing health problems for people there meteorologist christina loren has new details on the air quality in and around lang tahoe and reno. so,

because of what bill clinton used to be involved in. >> neil: right. he didn't have a tag name. right? >> let me ask you, i'm curious about everyone who is -- hillary is inevitable as the democratic nominee. i think i remember 2008 saying the same thing. if true, barack obama wasn't an also ran challenger, he had a lot of heft behind him but he was dismissed. it was hillaryry's nomination to lose and she lost. i guess does she look a good from afar but when the campaign is on, she's far from good and someone else could emerge. >> somebody else could emerge but the racket is around hillary clinton. i've done tons of shows and they want to talk about 2016. >> we get it wrong all the time. >> who the g.o.p. will put up. >> journalist said jimmy carter was going nowhere. they get it wrong all the time. >> but i mean what people are talking about is the hillary clinton run. there's nobody as of -- >> neil: you don't understand. i don't dismiss she's going to run. i dismiss the notion she's going to get the nomination. >> looking around, whose out there, who

under bill clinton. the first republican to serve he is the republican senator from the state of maine. bill is half irish and jewish, his mother was irish and because of jewish law, the jewishness matches a lineal line. since his mother was not jewish he could not be accepted as jewish. so he knew what it was like to be an outcast and not accepted by those that are jewish and not accepted by those that were not. so he felt like he was half the 10 hole of another. i felt as an african-american growing up in apartheid america, was born in 1941 and my husband and i back then were not able to sit together on a bus. much less marry each other. so together we wrote this book in the romance is the best part is that from this morning's newspapers. many americans have no friends from another race. >> that is so sad. we are supposed to be an integrated society. you have friends from another race, don't you? >> yes. >> you didn't expect me ask you a question, did you? [laughter] even though we have immigration and

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