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Sept. 16, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 16, 2015, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Greetings, my friends.
It's great to have you here.
So much fun.
So, well, it's an honor.
You know, I never, ever will take for granted the opportunity I have, be able to talk about all of these things with you and to have you benefit from what I think about all this.
I mean, I just thank God every day I have this chance.
It's great to have you here.
Always is telephone number 800-282-2882.
And the email address, lrushbo at eibnet.com.
Look, there's other things in the news, and I've got soundbites.
I've got media soundbites analyzing this from yesterday, last night.
Want to get to some of those.
Some soundbites still from Trump's appearance last night aboard the USS Iowa.
And of course, more of your phone calls to get in.
Here's an example.
This is in the Washington Post today.
Here's the headline.
Boehner and his allies prepare fall battle with conservative GOP critics.
In the midst of all of this, House Speaker John Boehner is bracing for what could be the toughest weeks of his speakership as several dozen conservatives in his party are threatening to topple him unless he's more ferocious with Democrats during the upcoming fiscal showdown.
Now, you can read this headline one of two ways.
You can read the headline, Boehner's getting ready to really unload on the conservatives.
He loaded for beer.
He's going to take him out.
Or you can read it that Boehner is sitting there mild-mannered, minding his own business, trying to do the best he can.
These rotten, mean-spirited conservatives who are not happy about anything are lining up to try to take him out.
You can interpret this headline either way you want.
That internal Republican feud has increased the chances that Washington, for the second time in two years, could stumble into a shutdown of the federal government.
Here we are in the midst of all of this that's happening, which is an eye-opening awakening for I don't know how many millions.
What are we treated to from the powerful forces inside the Beltway?
Once again, it's time to pull the lever that the Republicans are about to shut down the government again.
You talk about a disconnect.
And I'll tell you what, the conservative media inside the Beltway is all nervous about this, folks.
They're all a Twitter.
They think this presidential campaign, this thing, think this Trump thing and the people of this country getting all revved up and excited is going to lead to another shutdown and it's going to kill the Republican Party.
I, for the life of me, I saw a, there's an analyst that appears on Fox News who is a harbinger of inside the Beltway conventional wisdom.
It was Britt Hume.
And it was, I think it was last week or maybe earlier.
This is Wednesday, so it might have been earlier this week.
Warning yet again that the worst thing on the horizon out there is a government shutdown.
Oh my God.
Oh, geez.
Because they live with the perpetual fear that whenever there's a government shutdown, the Republicans get blamed.
And then the Republicans lose any chance of winning the White House in 2016, which is, of course, what their money people want.
I don't know how to express my incredulity at this.
We're so far past this.
We are so far beyond the government shutdown and the Republicans being blamed for it.
The Republicans have a lot more in their way about winning the White House than worrying about a government shutdown for crying out loud.
I'd say there must be something in the water there.
There's got to be something that totally alters the outlook on life.
Because I'm telling you, a government shutdown makes these people more afraid, more scared of anything else in politics than I can think of.
And it's a holdover from 1995.
That's where it goes back to, where Newt showed down with Clinton over a budget battle in 1995 that featured the school lunch cuts, the phantom school lunch cuts that weren't.
And the Republican, it's just like the Republicans, when you hear conservative, they associate it with Barry Goldwater, not Reagan.
And they associate government shutdown with Newt and what happened in 1995.
And they have this attitude, there's no way they can, oh, God, we can't win that.
Oh, no.
A government shut.
Oh, my God.
That's a death nail.
Oh, we got to stop.
We can't have a government shutdown.
Oh, my God.
And they literally start panicking over it.
What must they think if they think the biggest thing they have to fear is being blamed for government shutdown?
What else must they think is okay?
This just boggles my mind.
I'm sorry, I'm not doing a better job of expressing why.
It boggles my mind, other than to say we're so far beyond a government.
This is a Democrat trick that everybody's up to speed on now.
And by the way, it assumes this government shutdown fear assumes that 80% of the countries still love Obama and the Democrats.
And that's not true now.
This country is up in arms over Obama and a lot of things in Washington.
You name the issue of the Iranian nuclear.
Do you see the numbers on that?
27% support the Iranian nuke deal.
There never has been a majority in support of Obamacare.
And when you talk about amnesty and immigration, there's nowhere near a majority of people in favor of that.
And somehow these people on the Republican side think they are going to get blamed for all of it.
And that's why they never speak up.
That's why they never oppose.
That's why they never object is because they're trying to avoid getting blamed for whatever has gone wrong.
And a government shutdown, they must live with the belief that the American people literally can't exist when the government is shut down.
And because of that, the Republicans must take whatever steps necessary to avoid being blamed for it.
It happens for the same reasons that Trump is on top, but nobody connects these two things.
The Republican Party might want to stop throwing rocks here and start using real ammo in fighting their opposition.
The Republican insiders, I guarantee you, if there's a shutdown, they're going to want to blame the Tea Party.
They're going to want to blame Trump.
They're going to want to blame conservatives rather than blame Obama.
Rather than blame the Democrats, the last thing they'll do is blame Democrats or blame Obama for anything.
Meanwhile, from bloomberg.com, how healthcare.gov botched $600 million worth of contracts.
Can you believe $600 million to set up a website that still doesn't work?
And nobody's bothered by it.
Hey, it's government money.
Hey, it's what's expected of government.
The public employees responsible for overseeing $600 million in contracts to build the website, healthcare.gov, were inadequately trained, kept sloppy records, and failed to identify delays and problems that contributed to millions of dollars in cost overruns.
This is according to a new government audit published today.
It reveals widespread failures by the federal agency charged with managing the private contractors who built healthcare.gov.
The audit is the first to document in detail how shoddy oversight by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, that's the agency, contributed to the website's early struggles.
Just another glitch.
Nothing to see here.
Standard, ordinary, everyday government operation.
This is the kind of stuff that Trump is feeding off of.
Back to the audio soundbites, back to Trump.
We are up at soundbite number.
Let's move on to number five.
This is Anderson Cooper.
This is a montage here.
After CNN last night, this was kind of funny.
After promoting Trump's speech all night, they kept bumping out of Trump's speech that he made on the USSI because he wasn't providing specifics.
Well, we're going to take a little brief break here from the Trump remarks.
Still have another city specifics here.
We're going to come back after a commercial break and we'll rejoin Mr. Trump and hopefully he'll get the specifics.
Here's the montage of how it sounded.
We've been told there'd be some specifics tonight on foreign policy.
Haven't heard them so far.
We'll listen more when we come back.
We've been told to expect specifics on national security.
So far, we have not heard any.
We're going to continue to monitor this.
This debate's right now, kind of a standard stump speech.
We will, if we do hear any specifics from Donald Trump, we'll turn that around and bring those to you.
Donald Trump has just finished talking, not offering the specifics on national security that we've been led to expect.
Perhaps no surprise.
Yeah, he lied to us.
We're sorry here at CNN.
We covered the speech.
We believed him.
He said he was going to do specifics in foreign policy, national security.
We never got to him.
Maybe I don't know.
Anyway, they should have stayed with it, promoting their debate tonight.
Here's Joe Biden unloading on Trump and his supporters last night at the vice president's residence.
Biden invited a bunch of Hispanic leaders to the vice president's residence on the grounds of the Naval Observatory.
There's one guy absolutely denigrating an entire group of people, appealing to the baser side of human nature, working on this notion of xenophobia in a way that hasn't occurred in a long time since the Know Nothing Party back at the end of the 19th century.
You're talking about somebody who's talking about a minority within a minority party within a minority.
Right, so that's Biden pandering to Hispanic leaders, and he went on and he called Trump's message sick and assured these Hispanics that they are welcome in America.
This will pass.
The Trump and that stuff you're hearing on the other team, and this isn't about Democrat-Republican, it's about a sick message.
This message has been tried on America many times before.
We always, always, always, always, always overcome it.
So please, don't take your eye off the ball.
Don't take your off the ball.
The first thing is, you're always welcome here.
What does that mean?
Don't take your eye off the ball.
Keep sending us money.
What does that mean?
Don't take your eye off the ball.
Don't take your eye off the ball.
What does it mean?
We're your friends.
We need your money.
I mean, he's talking to Hispanic leaders.
Don't take your eye off the ball.
What's the ball?
No, no.
He's telling them, don't take your eye off the ball, meaning don't stop supporting us.
We're your friends.
We're the guys looking out for your minority of a minority of a minority of a minority, a bunch of criminals inside.
We're looking out for you.
Keep sending us your money.
Keep donating to us.
Keep electing us.
Don't take your eye off the ball.
Don't be distracted by what this Trump guy is saying.
Even though a majority of people know he's right, don't be distracted.
Keep your eye on the ball.
Keep sending us money.
Except maybe in a few weeks I'll be telling you not to send it to Hillary.
Send it to me.
But for now, just keep sending us the money.
Don't take your eye off the ball.
Let's go back, shall we?
Here's Joe Biden, June 17th, 2006.
Nine years ago now.
Does 2006 sound like it's nine years ago to you?
It doesn't to me.
I hear 2006, it sounds like yesterday.
Nine years ago, this was.
And here's Biden on the campaign trail.
In Delaware, the largest growth in population is Indian Americans moving from India.
You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent.
How much are they?
Got to keep your eye on the ball out there.
You got to know where you're going and who's going to be there.
When you go to a Dunkin' Donuts or when you go to a 7-Eleven, you better have an Indian accent because that's who's there.
When you come to the vice president's house, you better be able to speak Spanish because that's who's here.
Don't take your eye off the ball.
That's just Joe.
That's just Joe.
He doesn't mean anything by it.
He's such a sincere, nice guy.
Last night, sorry, this morning, CBS this morning, Charlie Rose speaking with the CBS News congressional correspondent Nancy Cordis about Biden's criticism of Trump.
Here's how that went.
Xenophobic?
Sick?
You know, the one person who you can count on to be almost as blunt as Donald Trump is Joe Biden.
But it's not just Biden.
You're starting to hear from Republicans a much blunter message about him as well.
The Republican senators I talk to are increasingly concerned that he will be the party's nominee, and so they're going to be going after him much more aggressively.
Yes, GOP senators agree with Biden, as she says.
Why do never mind?
Not a big deal.
No, no, I'm just going to say, why do some people say Biden and others say Biden?
Biden and Biden.
No big deal.
I'm just a student of speech patterns, that's all.
So here you have Nancy Cordis at CBS.
Charlie Rose asking her about Trump.
Xenophobic?
Sick?
Well, you know, the one person who can count on to be almost as blunt as Trump is Biden.
Oh, is that it now?
So Biden is blunt, like Trump.
Now we're hearing Republicans saying that they're worried that Trump's going to be the nominee, so they're going to be going after him much more aggressively.
And here is the beginning.
I told you earlier that the media very worried that Trump is going to go after Ben Carson.
Here's Jonathan Carl on Good Morning America today.
The moderators have been clear this time.
They want to provoke a fight.
So it's going to happen.
Carson is the story going into this debate.
He is rising faster than Trump.
If you look at the latest poll, he is actually statistically tied with Donald Trump nationally.
He is on the rise.
He's going to be standing center stage right next to Donald Trump.
Will Trump go after him?
Trump hates the idea of somebody else rising faster in the polls than he does.
All right.
Okay.
So the big news there is the moderators have been clear this time.
They want to provoke a fight, so it's going to happen.
Quick timeout, my friends.
We continue.
When we get back, don't miss it.
This is the cutest thing.
I have to share this with you.
I just got a note about, let's say, about a half hour ago.
Maybe right before the break at the top of the hour, it was from Cookie.
And she was begging me, please do not look at CNN.
Because if you do, you'll be reminded why you hate TV.
So many people here wish I would do TV, either go back and actually do a TV show or guest on TV more than I do, which is practically zilch.
And she was afraid that if I took and looked at CNN at that moment, that I would see exactly why I don't like TV.
So what did I do?
I looked at CNN.
Somebody tells you, don't think pink.
What are you thinking?
And what it was, it was a bunch of stage managers and floor managers leading Scott Walker by the hand, showing him where he had to stand and where the cameras were going to be and where the moderators were going to be.
And it was basically being treated like all people on TV.
They need to be led.
They are not independent operators and can't do anything unless somebody puts it on a teleprompter and tells them where to be, what to do.
And she was afraid if I saw that, that I'd be reminded why I don't like TV.
And by the way, they're not doing just Scott Walker.
They just did it with Huckabee.
it's called, I forget what the term is.
It's, it's not a, well, it's a walkthrough.
Yeah.
But it's, it's a, you go over and you, yeah, walkthrough at work here.
You go over and you look at the venue if you're going to do a speech, any kind of appearance.
I mean, you go there, you test the sound system and all that kind of thing, just to be familiar with it so that when you walk out for the real thing, it's not new to you.
But she was right.
I mean, these people are being let around, the candidates don't know dentally squat about what they're doing.
And you stand right here.
See your names right there in the podium.
You know what that means?
It means you're to stand right there, right behind your name.
And to your left is going to be Carly Fiorina on your right.
And when you get out there, make sure that they're both where they're supposed to be, and they will make sure where you're supposed to be.
And that way we all end up in the right spot, okay?
So she's right.
Okay, back to the audio soundbites.
We'll get to your phone calls the next half hour.
Governor Chris Cuomo on CNN this morning.
Carson and Fiorina are the only two people on the stage that in a way Trump owes something to.
He did the wrong thing by Fiorina.
Then you have Dr. Carson where it doesn't feel quite right when he goes after Dr. Carson.
All right.
So Carson and Fiorina, the only two people on stage that in a way Trump owes something to.
He did the wrong thing to Fiorina commenting about her face.
Dr. Krauthammer, nah, sorry.
Do not have time to squeeze Dr. Krauthammer's comment in.
But he was going to say, he did say, it was on Fox's special report with Brett Baer last night, that the last thing Trump should do is go after Carson.
He attacks Carson.
He's toast.
You can't do that.
You better not do that.
Be back.
Here's Dr. Krauthammer, ladies and gentlemen.
This is special report with Brett Baer last night during a discussion about the debate tonight.
I think if Carson pulls ahead, even if it's a point or two, that's going to be hard on Trump.
And that's where I think he goes after a guy who is so likable that going after him, calling him a so-so doctor, there's a guy who performed the first successful separation of Siamese twins conjoined at the head in history.
So, you know, maybe an okay doctor.
I think that could be something that could hurt him.
And O'Reilly was talking to, let's see, Trump last night.
He said, Ben Carson, your main competition now.
Are you going to call him Dr. Welby DeMar?
He's a mediocre doctor.
You're going to do that tomorrow?
Are you?
No, I like Ben Carson.
He's not a deal maker, and we need somebody in this country that's going to get rid of the $19 trillion in debt that's going to bring back our jobs.
You're not going to question his faith.
You're not going to do any of that.
No, I wouldn't do that at all.
Now, it depends on what he does with me.
If he hits me, I'm a better counterpart.
No, no, you should take a pledge.
You're not going to do it no matter what he does.
All right, last question.
Look, I don't know who's coming from where I hear everybody's going to be hitting me because I'm number one in the polls.
Yeah, that is going to happen.
This would be fascinating to see.
Anyway, it's as though Ben Carson can't take care of himself.
All these people, you better not touch Ben.
You barely Ben alone.
Trust me, ladies and gentlemen, Ben Carson can take care of himself.
Ben Carson's a phenomenal human being.
We would all be fortunate to be in Ben Carson's world.
Trust me.
I'm still smoldering over something I saw weeks ago now on CNN.
It was a female conservative analyst on CNN worried that something, I forget exactly what it was, but it was going to make Ben Carson look viable.
And I'm thinking nobody on CNN could even walk in Ben Carson's shoes.
And here we're commenting on going to make him look reasonable or viable or something.
It was really, really insulted.
You know, Ben's not afraid to put the gloves on.
He's questioned Trump's faith.
I mean, some might say that Ben Carson started this.
It doesn't matter who started it because it's happening no matter what we think.
Here's Dino in Chicago.
Dino, glad you waited.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hi.
Hello, Rush.
I just would like to say I'm 23 years old.
I'm a graduate of Northern Illinois University.
And I'm calling because I feel compelled.
I see some shocking similarities between the run-up to the 2008 election and the run-up to the 2016 election.
I think I know what this is going to be, but I'm going to let you, I think I know what you're going to go with, but go over there anyway.
Okay.
So to paint the picture for you, in 2008, we were in Bush's second term.
The economy was doing poorly.
There were wars going on.
People wanted something different.
They didn't know what they wanted.
They just knew that they wanted something different.
So the Democrats pull out Barack Hussein Obama.
He had a different complexion.
He's talked differently.
He had a slick delivery.
He was what appeared to be a new type of politician.
People were wooed by this, and they rallied around him.
And we all know what we've gotten.
Well, I believe we're at a crossroads in this country where we're either going to continue onto the same path as socialism or we're going to go back to our founding principles.
So to bring you to 2016, it's the end of Obama's second term.
Much the same conditions.
The economy is still doing poorly.
There's perhaps more wars going on.
And people are even more divided and really want change.
So I see this man, Donald Trump.
I think he has a lot of the same attributes that Obama did.
He speaks differently.
He speaks through the Washington speak.
And he has a different appearance.
He's not a politician.
He's a businessman.
So people are rallying around him.
I'm worried because people are not properly vetting out this man, I don't think.
I don't think he is a true lover of liberty, and I don't think he's going to do what needs to be done.
I think we need somebody that's a strict constitutionalist.
I think luckily for us, this man is running in the race.
Okay, I'll bite.
Who is that?
Rand Paul, sir.
Rand Paul.
And I'm not, I don't work for Rand Paul.
I'm not telling you or your audience to vote for him.
What I am saying is listen to the man.
A good place to start is his State of the Union address.
You can find that on YouTube.
He did it in January as a response to President Obama's op-ed piece called Don't Call for a Fake Conservative.
This will just take 15 minutes of your time.
And I feel that everybody owes it to themselves and the country to do this.
Let me take you back to the early part of your comment because I've heard it.
And this is, I'm not trying to diminish what you said.
I'm just saying it's I've even heard it from the conservative inside the Beltway media who are very worried that the way I've heard it expressed is, oh my God, we've got another Orwellian demagogue.
Oh my God, the people are falling for another phony.
Oh no, except this time it's our people.
This is horrible.
Another phony.
And look what we got the last time, meaning Obama.
So let me ask you a question about this.
I'm serious now, taking your comments seriously.
I'm responding seriously here.
Do you think there's any difference in the people who embraced Obama and made him whatever they wanted him to be?
Is there any difference between those people and the people who are embracing Trump?
Yes.
And the difference is, I'm glad you brought that up, is that I think Trump is bamboozling a whole different sector of people that haven't been tapped into.
And that's Tea Party people.
That's patriots.
That's the grassroots movement.
I've heard so many people calling into your program and others that are Tea Party people.
And they're just enamored with Trump's speech.
They're enamored with this.
Well, wait a minute.
Wait, no, hold on.
Nobody that's called here has identified themselves as Tea Party.
So you're assuming that.
No, I'm not saying your program.
I'm saying I do listen to other programs.
And I'm just saying that maybe not on yours Tea Party, but I know I heard on Michael Savage.
One of your, okay.
So let, you know, you are thin ice here.
But I'm a great guy, one of the greatest.
And I'm going to stick with you for one more comment.
I happen, the reason I asked your question is because I think there's a huge difference in terms of substance and knowledge and awareness between the mind-numbed robots that glommed onto Obama out of hatred for America and what they had been told to hate about America for four or five years prior.
The group glomming onto Trump is out of love.
And they are and they're far more substantive than the people that glommed onto Obama in 2008.
I do agree with you about the Obama people, why they followed him.
But I kind of think, honestly, a lot of people are following Trump out of fear.
I think that's the difference.
I don't know if it's necessarily love all the time.
I think it's fear that you're going to end up with another Obama.
So you're going to that different guy.
Love of country, not love of Trump.
Love of country.
The Obama crowd, anger at America.
Anger here, anger there, everywhere.
There's anger in the Trump group, too, but they're angry not at the country, but at specific politicians and what they're doing to it.
I think there's a huge difference.
And I think it's typical of Washington to try to, okay, take what happened in 2008 and discredit because it was a disaster.
It gave us this Obama guy.
It's been a total disaster.
Try to equate that with what's happening now.
Gives us an idea of what Washington really thinks of average ordinary Americans.
They are mind-numbed robots led around by a bunch of Svengalis and so forth.
Can't be trusted.
The money people have to run the show.
We can't leave it up to these people.
They're too flighty.
They're too unsophisticated.
They're too unknowledgeable or what have you.
But I think there's a huge difference in the level of information, knowledge, involvement, any number of their characteristics between the people that are supporting Trump.
And it is broad-based.
It's not just Tea Party and the people that were glomming on to Obama.
I mean, it's a difference to the left and right.
I don't care.
You say Trump's not a conservative.
I guarantee you most of the people on his side are.
But not just, but most of them are.
The people glomming onto Obama.
Geez, that was a bunch of Julias out there.
People that wanted to be led every day by the government, the government garden, to the government school, to the government cafeteria, to the government television station, to the government radio station, to the government, whatever it was, and then go back home and sleep in government sleeping pills for crying out loud.
Back after this, folks.
Hey, look at this.
Look at this headline on Drudge here.
New CIA documents show Oswald visited Soviets, Cubans, before Kennedy assassination.
Now, wait.
You might be thinking, that's not news, Rush.
The Cubans, it is.
The Cubans, that's all been in these conspiracy movies and stuff.
It's never been officially ever went to Cuba.
I mean, not before the assassin.
He was there.
He was all over the place when he was working for the Soviets, but this is right before the assassination.
He's in Cuba.
And a lot of people have believed for a long time it was Fidel Castro working with the mob that assassinated JFK, arranged for it with Oswald.
No, no, no.
What's interesting to me about it is here we have new CIA documents.
They're actually got to be old.
Show Oswald visited Soviets, Cubans.
So here we're back now with official possibilities that the Cubans were involved.
And who did we just open relations with?
The Cubans.
I love it.
And then there is this.
This just in from thehill.com.
It's an Arizona polling data story.
And in Arizona, Trump is at 29.9% with overall approval there at 49.2%.
He leads.
The reason Arizona is important, it's a state known for immigration as the top drawer issue.
Ben Carson at 21.3% there.
And that's second place as well in Arizona.
So more polling data and more similarities in all of them.
Trump on top, Carson second.
This is Arizona, 29.9% for Trump and 21.3% for Ben Carson.
Jeb Bush, Carly Fiorina, and Ted Cruz round out the top five Republicans in the state of Arizona.
I'm sure we'll be hearing about this in Trump today.
He's tonight, number one in Arizona, too.
Did you update the iOS 9 in there yet?
Did you?
Cool.
Did you, Snerdley?
No problems with it in there?
Oh, cool.
On the iPad?
You can only do that on the iPad.
You can't, no, no, you can't multitask on the phone, only on the iPad.
And the keyboard as a trackpad only on the iPad until the new iPhones.
The iPhones will have that, the iPhone 6 Plus with Force Touch or 3D Touch, whatever it is.
But you need an iPad, iPad Air 2.
You can't do it with an iPad Air 1 or, well, there is no iPad Air.
You can't do it with an old iPad.
It's got to be a current iPad.
Yeah, see, Brian, demoing it to you.
Dawn, of course, is going to wait until probably February until all the bugs are ironed out.
What are you still on iOS 7 in there?
Oh, yes.
Ladies and gentlemen, people are peppering me as though I don't know it.
Hey, Rush.
Hey, Rush, did you hear?
Apple delayed the release of the new watch.
Yes, folks, I knew that was going to happen this morning.
They have found, not found, they've been unable to fix a bug in the new watch OS.
They'll get that out soon.
I think, you know, I'm running the beta of Watch OS 2, and it's perfectly fine.
But we can't test everything.
There haven't been any third-party apps to test, for example, and some other things.
It's got to be something about that, but they'll get it fixed.
It'll be out soon.
I'm sure they wanted it out today, but it's a good thing they didn't, because if something goes wrong with the Watch OS, you can't just restore it on the watch like you can on the phone.
You have to send it back to Apple for this.
So that's why they've got to get this right.
The Watch OS.
Hang in there, B-Tough.
It's cool, too.
Really, really is cool.
Be right back, folks.
So they asked Trump just a moment ago what his strategy is for the debate tonight.
He said to win.
As I usually do.
So I plan on doing what I usually do.
I'm a winner, and I'm going to win.
Watch, and you'll see.
We will.
We'll be back here tomorrow, folks.
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