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Senator Tom Cotton - September 27th, Hour 3
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Now, 18 Democratic senators looks like 19.
I think Dickie Durbin joined in.
The question is, what's Schumer going to do?
That's going to be interesting to watch.
The one person that has said, no, we believe in the presumption of innocence, and we also believe that the DOJ has been weaponized is Senator Tom Cotton.
You know, he actually tweeted out that the charges against Menendez are serious.
They're troubling.
At the same time, the Department of Justice has a troubling record of failure, corruption, and cases against public figures.
And he pointed out, rightly so, the case of Ted Stevens.
By the time, you know, he was exonerated, you know, he was ready out of the Senate.
Or what happened to Bob McDonald?
11 convictions.
And lo and behold, all of those convictions vacated in a unanimous verdict before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Pretty amazing.
This is Menendez defending himself.
I recognize this will be the biggest fight yet.
But as I have stated throughout this whole process, I firmly believe that when all the facts are presented, not only will I be exonerated, but I still will be the New Jersey's senior senator.
Well, time will tell.
The first Democratic senator to jump on board the bandwagon and get rid of Menendez was that ever-so-brilliant new senator from the state of Pennsylvania, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, John Fetterman.
Listen.
Honestly, I was actually surprised that I was the first one.
I mean, it's so black and white.
I mean, it's so clear.
The last times there's ever been a man with so much cash in their home in New Jersey was Tony Sophano.
You know, I mean, it's not a close call.
And if you were looking for the most incriminating kinds of evidence, nobody could even come up with gold bars and a mattress.
So, and again, he's entitled to have his day in court, but he is not entitled to remain in the Senate, and he needs to go.
All right.
And now we're up to 19 Democratic senators.
Anyway, here for here to give a different view is the only person I think up to this point that has come out publicly to defend them, and that's Senator Tom Cotton from the great state of Arkansas.
Senator, great to have you back, sir.
How are you?
I'm doing well, Sean.
Thanks for having me back to have this important conversation about due process and the rule of law.
As you said up front, I stated yesterday, these are serious and troubling allegations about Bob Menendez.
And if he is convicted by a jury of his peers and that conviction is upheld by a court of appeals, the book should be thrown at him.
As you know, I'm staunchly opposed to so-called criminal justice reform that is really just masquerading as criminal leniency.
So if Bob Menendez is convicted of these charges, then he should have the book phone at him.
But at the same time, the Department of Justice does, in fact, have a very troubling and even corrupt record in cases against public figures.
We see it right now with Donald Trump, where you have a zealot from this very division, Jack Smith, trying to gag the leading candidate of the opposition party in America in a presidential cycle.
But look at the case of Ted Stevens, you mentioned.
It wasn't just that it was overturned or there was kind of negligent misconduct.
They simply made things up out of whole cloth, Sean.
They said Ted Stevens didn't pay for modifications and renovations to his home.
They said that it was $250,000 worth of renovations, when in fact it was 80.
And the Department of Justice knew those things at the time that they charged Ted Stevens and went to trial.
With Bob McDonald's, you said, they got a conviction, and then the Supreme Court overturned that conviction unanimously.
Every justice sitting on that case overturned it.
So I don't think the Department of Justice in these public corruption cases deserves the benefit of the doubt.
The allegations, again, are no doubt troubling, but given their track record of failure and corruption, I think that Bob Menendez and frankly, any politician charged by this Department of Justice has the same right of every other citizen to present their case to the jury of their peers, to have the evidence tested and to be judged by jurors and their voters, not by a bunch of Democratic politicians, Sean, if you view it as inconvenient to their hold on power.
Because look at it like this.
You got New Jersey legislative elections coming up in six weeks.
Most of the senators who first came out against Bob Menendez yesterday are up for re-election in 2024.
And what's the main difference, Sean?
The main difference between 2015 when they circled the wagons for Bob Menendez and 2023 when they're throwing him overboard.
In 2015, Chris Christie was the governor and he would have appointed a Republican replacement.
Now they have a Democratic governor to appoint a Democrat.
So this is simply a matter of Democratic politicians who view one of their own as politically inconvenient to them.
You know, you would have thought, number one, that he would have learned his lesson and not put himself in these positions.
Look, the case is very damning.
$480,000 found around his house, you know, in his jack coat jacket, you know, gold bars and him Googling how much is a kilo of gold worth, 70 grand in cash in his wife's safe deposit box.
I mean, you're talking about a lot of money here.
I think the most damning part of at least what the, you know, what they're charging him with is, and the evidence that they're saying that they have, is if they have fingerprints and DNA of his co-defendants on the envelope stuffed with, you know, all of this money stash in his clothing at home, that's going to be, I think, pretty difficult to overcome in terms of where he got the money.
But you're right.
We, you know, we have a justice system.
I firmly believe in the presumption of innocence and due process.
However, on the surface, it looks really bad.
I mean, the gold bars have serial numbers linked to the co-conspirator.
I mean, that's a problem.
Sean, these allegations are all a big problem, very troubling.
But they are still, in fact, allegations.
And I think we need to be mindful that the allegations against Ted Stevens was deeply troubling as well, that a sitting United States senator received $250,000 worth of home renovations without reimbursement.
In fact, that was a bald-faced lie.
It was $80,000, not $250,000.
And he did, in fact, reimburse his contractor.
And more importantly, the government knew that at the time.
So Senator Menendez has said in his public statement that the facts are not as they are alleged.
He has a right to test that evidence.
If it does, in fact, turn out that he was taking official acts as a United States senator in return for envelopes of cash and gold bars and payments under Mercedes, then there's no question he should have the book thrown at him.
But until that evidence is tested by jurors or Senator Menendez pleads guilty, then I don't think we should jump on the bandwagon that Democratic senators are on, which is simply trying to save their own political hide, trying to save their majority in the New Jersey legislature, trying to win reelection for themselves next November, confident that a Democratic governor would appoint a Democratic replacement, unlike the situation in 2015 when you had a Republican governor in New Jersey.
You mentioned President Trump, and I'll just be straight up, completely transparent and obvious with you.
I'm very concerned.
I don't think he can get a fair trial in a venue like New York City.
I don't think he can get a fair trial in Washington, D.C. In New York City, about 12% of that population voted for Trump.
Not exactly Trump territory.
It was less than that in D.C., about 5.5% of the voting electorate there.
If you go down to Fulton County, Georgia, a little higher, I think about 24%.
I'm not sure he's going to get a fair trial in Fulton County, Georgia.
I lived in Georgia.
I know Georgia well.
And so here's the problem that I have is, you know, they had all of these years to bring these charges because they all go back and date back many years ago, but yet they bring the charges knowing that the trials are going to be taking place during an election year and where I think the president would have a better shot at getting some type of integrity.
In the legal system, it's going to be on the appeals level.
Except, you know, the trials will take place during the presidential election year and the appeals process will take place later.
Sean, I share those same very concerns.
Again, let's look at the Ted Stevens case.
Where was he tried?
He was not tried in Alaska, where he's from.
He was tried in Washington, D.C., a jurisdiction, as you point out, routinely votes more than 90% Democratic.
I think President Trump faces the same dilemma with Jack Smith's charges in Washington, D.C.
Now, the New York charges, I think, are so far-fetched and so preposterous that it's hard to imagine any jury whatsoever convicting him.
But it only takes one in the assault that the Democratic Party and their bureaucratic wing and the Department of Justice and state's attorneys' offices to try to interfere with this election next year.
And I think your point's very well taken that all of these cases could have been brought a long time ago.
They didn't need two and a half years worth of investigation.
It's very curious that these charges were only brought in 2023 as Donald Trump had declared for president and he was consistently tied with or slightly ahead of Joe Biden in the polls.
I think there's a reason why these cases happen in 2023 and not in 2021.
And Sean, also look at what else is happening.
You've got Democrats now suing states to try to get Donald Trump kicked off the ballot because he somehow committed rebellion or insurrection against the United States under the 14th Amendment.
Now, as I said earlier, Jack Smith is trying to gag Donald Trump to prevent him from saying exactly what you and I have said about Jack Smith, about the liberal Obama judge that's presiding the case and has been for him, or about the electorate and therefore the jury pool in Washington, D.C. Again, this is something you would expect to see in Brazil or Pakistan, not the United States of America.
So the judge in the case in New York that just through summary judgment, you know, decided that the Trump organization and Donald Trump lied to lenders, et cetera, et cetera, about his valuations.
The judge in this case actually put a real estate estimate on Mar-a-Lago.
Mar-a-Lago at, you know, $18 million.
Let me tell you something, Senator.
I know the price of real estate.
I've been doing real estate for years, and I guarantee you that property is a minimum of $500 million minimum.
And the judge is saying it's $18 million.
Now, and here's one other point on this, and there's actually a provision, according to my sources, in every one of these applications that says don't go by our estimates.
So every lending institution, they have their own fiduciary responsibility to do a proper valuation of a property that's being used as collateral before any loans are given out, regardless of what the applicant puts down.
So frankly, their valuation is meritless to me because the valuation that should matter is their own valuation, right?
Yeah, I think that's the basic point, Sean.
I think the deeper point is that you have yet another judge who wants to get himself in the limelight and get a piece of Donald Trump and is issuing these far-fetched rulings that are detached from the facts or customary legal precedents.
Again, it's just another example of how the left in America, whether it's elected Democrats, judges, prosecuting attorneys, bureaucrats, or what have you, will pull out all the stops to try to defeat Donald Trump because they are scared that he's going to defeat Joe Biden.
I would suggest then, as always, the best way to resolve these differences in our country is at the ballot box and in the political process, not weaponizing the law against their opposition party's leading candidate.
All right, quick break more with Senator Tom Cotton of the great state of Arkansas on the other side as we continue.
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Hey there, I'm Mary Catherine Hamm.
And I'm Carol Markowitz.
We've been in political media for a long time.
Long enough to know that it's gotten, well, a little insane.
That's why we started Normally, a podcast for people who are over the hysteria and just want clarity.
We talk about the issues that actually matter to the country without panic, without yelling, and with a healthy dose of humor.
We don't take ourselves too seriously, but we do take the truth seriously.
So if you're into common sense, sanity, and some occasional sass.
You're our kind of people.
Catch new episodes of Normally every Tuesday and Thursday.
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We continue now with Senator Tom Cotton, Arkansas, 800-941-Sean, our number.
We'll get to your calls on the other side.
Senator, what are your plans?
What's the top of your agenda for, you know, do you think we're going to have a government shutdown?
Personally, I like if the House holds out and sticks to their 8% cut in spending after we just had $2 trillion added in this year alone under Joe Biden, new debt to the country, now at $33 trillion a record.
I want them to stand firm on spending.
I want them to stand firm on securing our borders, which are an unmitigated disaster, costing this country billions and billions of dollars.
But I think that your Senate colleagues are going to be probably the next big obstacle, not the Democrats, the Republicans in the Senate.
Well, Sean, I can tell you a lot of Republican senators actually feel exactly like that.
They don't want to have a shutdown.
I don't think that's a productive thing if we can avoid it.
But they also recognize that our border is in complete crisis.
And, you know, after Joe Biden tried to take a victory lap a few months ago for small declines in the number of border crossings, as you frequently see during that time of year, you now have record high numbers and the chaos just continues to deepen.
So there's widespread agreement among Republican senators and congressmen that we need to try to get real, meaningful border security measures passed, whether it's now or whether it's 45 days from now when these matters come to a head with full-year spending bills.
But I would certainly welcome the House majority getting 218 votes for a bill to fund the government.
Well, Mitch McConnell already signed off on the spending limits that I think are way too high.
I think we need significant cuts.
I think 8% is just the beginning.
Well, I mean, Sean, I personally say that I'd be happy with more.
I mean, sometimes people talk about going back to the fiscal year of 2022.
I got to say, I don't think that we're exactly living in austere times right before the pandemic in fiscal year 2019.
Now, of course, I'm just one guy, but that's my position.
That's my position on it.
I opposed the debt ceiling deal earlier this year that set those limits in those small parts because I was very worried about what it would do for our defense budget if we didn't have full-year funding.
But I personally would be willing to go much further.
I'll take any kind of spending restraint I can get.
We need every Republican senator to bring that message to Mitch McConnell and make it loud and make it clear.
I really do.
We love having you, Senator.
Tom Cotton, great state of Arkansas.
Appreciate you being with us, sir.
Talk to you soon.
Thank you, Sean.
All right, 25 to the top of the hour, 800-941 Sean is our number.
We'll get to your calls in a minute.
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All right, I got to play.
What was I going to play here?
All right.
So we've got now the, as I keep saying, the dominoes falling, starting with Maureen Dowds, starting with David Ignatius, starting with Liberal Joe, starting with James Carville and David Axelrod and Van Jones, and even Carville going further when he was on Bill Maher's podcast.
And, you know, just in the media in general piling on Biden.
Let me play all of this for you because there's a lot of it.
There is a certain coastal arrogance in this country and people feel it.
The Western far left is habitually the most stupid, naive people you can imagine.
They come up with these really goofy constructs, and it's all about feeling good about yourself.
Yeah, just feeling as opposed to like free speech.
Like if your feelings are hurt, that's more important than free speech.
Most people don't even know what they're talking about.
Openeducated coastal white people got a hold to the word and if they do everything else, they completely it up and everybody in the country off.
Now you're speaking my and if we just could get the humanities faculty at Amherst to shut up, we'd be a lot better off.
CNN reads the country's mood right now and finds that America is deeply unhappy with Joe Biden.
Most Democratic voters hope for a change at the top of the ticket and Americans don't take the president at his word when he talks about his son Hunter.
Joe Biden's like that grandpa that you love, that you believe in, you owe a lot.
But you start to wonder, you know, would you give this grandpa a high-stress job for six more years or would you want something else for him?
And there is real concern about his age.
And that has been true for some time.
It continues to be true.
And the reality is if this were a referendum, he would be in deep, deep trouble.
Sometimes you have to win ugly.
And I think that's what lies ahead here for this president of this White House.
The last eight polls are all the same.
73 to 77% of the country does not want Biden to run again.
I'm just round after 75.
Okay.
Hey, big number, man.
That's a big number.
Everybody we talk to, every political discussion, all uh it talks a lot about Trump.
But when it comes to Joe Biden, people say, man, he's too old to run, isn't he?
Well, let me just say, Democrats off the air will say Joe Biden's too old.
Why is he running?
On the air, they won't say that.
Is Joe Biden the person who can stop Donald Trump or somebody like Trump who gets the Republican nomination?
That's what he's got.
He's got to look in the mirror, search his soul, and make that decision.
And I wanted to raise that question.
I'd like him to think that through carefully because I have my concerns.
Once they start tying Joe to the bribery, money laundering allegations scandal, which he's up to his eyeballs in, and he's lied about and having to ask him questions about the shell corporations and the meetings at Cafe Milano and the phone calls with Hunter and his foreign business partners and very penetrating questions about Burisma leveraging money that resulted in his son who admits he had no experience getting paid millions of dollars and
the WhatsApp message.
I'm sitting here next to my pops and why didn't you fulfill your commitment?
And you're going to regret it because between everybody he knows and my ability to hold a grudge, you will regret this.
It's like there's your soprano shakedown.
But you know what?
None of those questions yet.
When you start hearing that aspect of this story, then you will know it is over.
That will be the beginning of the end of Joe Biden in terms of political viability.
Anyway, 800-941 Sean is our number.
You want to be a part of the program.
So anyway, so we arrive in California and we decide last night, Blair, how'd you like your In an Outburger?
It was awesome, right?
Fantastic.
He loved his.
Now, we have this weird thing that goes on when we go on the road.
And I don't know what's going on.
Linda's acts weird every time we go on the road.
Oh, my.
Why?
Only when we're on the road?
No, you're weird all the time.
There you go.
That's true.
Now it feels like a problem.
But it's not bad.
It's not a bad weird.
Okay.
So Blair and I get in the car.
Sweet baby James is in the car.
And I'm like, well, where's Linda?
Oh, no, no, she's staying at another hotel.
That's right.
And where the cool kids stay.
Okay.
Where the cool kids stay.
So we're fine with that, but you do this all the time.
Now, there was a time this really worked in everybody's favor.
Yes.
Okay.
And that was when we were in London and we had to do the show from London.
First of all, I'm in charge of that room.
You know that.
Can I finish?
Okay, because you're welcome to stay in the hotel where the rest of us stay.
It's usually nicer than the ones you stay.
It's definitely nicer than where I stay.
Okay, let's take the one in London, for example.
The one in London.
So we're trying to set up in my room a radio signal to 730 radio stations, and we're not having any luck getting a signal.
Well, we should just caveat.
We were in Trafalgar Square.
Right.
You know, reception from like, you know, the 1800s.
It's a disaster.
Forget about it.
And so we had to get out and go to a hotel where they had some more unique items available.
We were lucky because like this trip, I won't get into that part.
You need good signal when you have items available.
All right.
So like this trip, you just go your own way.
Now, why you do that, where you go, who you might meet, what you're doing is like a mystery to all of us.
That's me.
We just, I'm the only one honest enough to tell you that these questions are swirling amongst us.
Listen, there's a lot of questions.
Okay.
There's always questions.
So in London, when we couldn't get the signal in my hotel room to do a radio show.
I'm not going to do that.
Can I finish?
No.
Okay.
Then, you know, we decide it's not going to happen, and we got like 20 minutes to pull the plug, set up the equipment at another facility, and the only option we had was to try your hotel.
Bada bing, bada-boom.
Okay.
I don't remember what the hotel name is.
Do you?
I sure do.
What was it?
Linda's Love Palace.
Okay.
So imagine this.
No, it's the W.
Okay.
This is the freakiest place with the darkest hallways you've ever seen in your world.
I'm not going to disagree with you.
It's super weird.
And it's got like a heart-shaped mattress, like sleazy old Vegas style.
The way you put the quarter in.
Exactly.
With the cheap, you know, jacuzzi in the room.
And the bathtub.
Okay.
Some jets.
And then, so we get there.
We actually get on the air with like a minute to spare.
That was a day.
We were sweating it.
God bless Blair.
All right.
You lost your mind, of course.
And I kept telling you.
First of all, I was at high heels carrying gear across the middle of the day.
You were great, but I told you, don't worry.
You were great gets lost in the midst of you were weird.
You were crazy.
You were nuts.
You were yelling.
Yeah.
Of course, James is singing your freaking prayers.
No, you had lost your mind.
And I kept saying to you, we're not talking about it.
We're talking about him.
We're talking about me.
So we get to the hotel.
Did he actually talk about us getting on the air?
I don't think so.
Yeah, I was calm as a cucumber.
That's because you didn't have to twist the wires, the coaxials.
And I said, if we can't get on, there's nothing we can do.
We've tried our best.
I said, don't put that much pressure on yourself.
I was trying to be a good boss and be understanding, which is what I would think most people would want.
You probably were just distracted by those unique items in the room.
No, you were all before.
You were calm.
You're like, you know what?
That's all before we got to the room.
Anyway, so I'm about to sit down on the heart-shaped bed, but I think I'm thinking better of it.
I'm like, it kind of grossed me out.
And then I see next to the bed is like, you know, all the sex paraphernalia kits.
Man.
You know, with comedy.
You know, when you say it like that, it sounds really bad.
All right.
James, correct sweet baby James.
Correct me if I'm wrong.
It's got feathers.
You know, I don't even know half the stuff in there.
I have no idea.
No idea what some of that stuff was.
Me either.
I mean, the feathers freaked me out.
I mean, the bed freaked me out.
The whole hotel freaked me out.
But the question remains, on that day, it was a good thing we had a plan B.
But for the life of us, and we were discussing.
It turns out we had a plan C, D, and E, too.
We were discussing amongst us last night, where's Linda always going?
Why does she not stay with the group?
Why does she decide to go elsewhere, Blair?
You remember when you took a hot air balloon to Singapore?
It took you a month and a half to get there?
By the way, that's another true story.
I can't tell the whole story.
That's a terrible story.
No, it's not a terrible story.
So we all have, what were we on?
The Emirates taking, by the way, they have a great airline.
Like Singapore, great airline.
Do you want me to talk about why I wouldn't take that airline?
I do not.
I didn't think so.
No.
Because it's going to cause me a headache.
So you make decisions that, okay, you're not going to fly with your team because of, you know, some quirky political view.
And all we're trying to do is get the hell home and back to where we want to live and get to our families.
Linda and I took the plane that the Wright brothers created.
Pretty much.
All right.
So we offer, I'm begging her not to do this, you know, for your own safety.
Sure.
Okay.
You don't listen.
No.
And she arrives home 24 hours after I landed.
That's right.
And you had to go.
You felt an obligation.
I'm like, I'm not doing it your way because this is dumb.
It defies all political common sense.
You can do things out of principle.
And you know what?
My principal comes with a capital P, and that included not getting on that airline.
So I took a break.
And your son missed you for a full 24 hours because you're your principal.
And someday I will tell him on.
He'll be like, you know what, Mama?
That's right.
Stand tall.
Stand proud.
That's right, Mama.
Yeah, well, you also told us that your son would say, Mama, I don't like a happy meal.
And we know that was a bunch of crimes.
And he was then bullied by you, this giant man in a big radio studio, telling him that he would get lots of toys.
I'm like, come on, man.
That is not true at all.
It is totally true.
I did not bribe him.
I said, Liam, we have this on tape.
You know what we should do?
Would you like a happy meal?
Because they make children happy.
That's why we call it a happy meal.
And you know what he said?
He goes, you know, I like my mama's fries.
They're very good.
And then I said, after he tried McDonald's, which ones do you like better?
And he said, mama.
No, he did not.
Yes, he did.
He said McDonald's.
He did not.
McDonald's does not sound like mama.
No, you know what he said?
He said, McDonald's gives me the runs and mamas don't.
And that's the God's honest truth.
And anybody who eats McDonald's knows it's true.
You're going to get real friendly.
I could pull the tape.
It's on tape.
You're lying.
Yeah.
Well, you know what happens when you play tape?
Absolutely nothing because we got hours of tape of all these idiots and it doesn't change anything.
Okay.
Anywho.
All right.
So the big debate tonight, what are you looking for, Madam Linda?
Well, I think it's going to be very interesting.
You made some really good points today, which is, you know, whether you're a Trump supporter or you're not a Trump supporter, it's good to see what, you know, the possibilities are for the Republican Party.
Who's going to be taking the stage in 28?
Who could potentially be a VP candidate?
Who's going to say what about the border, about the economy, about inflation, about what's happening with our health insurance, our options, you know, how much more money we're going to give to Ukraine?
I mean, for me, forget about it.
Those are the things that matter.
And I think we're going to be listening very closely to see what they say tonight.
Going to be a great debate.
And we'll be doing the spin room show right after.
We have all the presidential candidates.
Oh, and the California governor, Gavin Newsom.
Oh, thank goodness.
I can't wait to ask him about the $100 million bridge that I saw with my own eyes.
For the bobcats.
No, for the mountain lions and the rattlesnakes.
Oh, yeah, and the snakes.
We got lizards, snakes, bobcats, so much.
Right.
Full new wizard of us.
Okay.
At $100 million.
But he said mostly private money.
Anyway.
All right.
I talk a lot about personal safety and security.
I have my own personal security strategy.
I've had a license to carry concealed my entire adult life, no matter where I lived.
And let me tell you something.
I take it seriously.
I urge all of you to take it seriously.
This world is a dangerous place.
And my question's simple.
What will you do if, God forbid, somebody tries to come after you and your innocent family?
You need some protection.
Now, many people are uncomfortable with a firearm.
I'm not.
However, I do like the option of a non-lethal way of defending myself and my family.
And that's where Burner, B-Y-R-N-A, comes in.
Now, it looks like a firearm, fires like a firearm, and it launches these projectiles that have two pepper sprays and tear gas, and it incapacitates any perpetrator.
It works.
And if you don't believe me, go look at the videos.
When you go to burner.com, B-Y-R-N-A.com slash Hannity, see for yourself.
It is impressive.
And this technology is really phenomenal.
And it gives you another option.
You know, let me tell you something.
You know, you want to stop people in their tracks and not have the legal complexities that would come if you take lethal force.
So it gives you a non-lethal option.
And as a pro Second Amendment guy, I like the option.
I carry both.
I want both options.
All right, that's going to wrap things up for today.
Hannity tonight, right after the second now Republican primary debate, this one at the Reagan Library.
And we will be doing the Spinroom show right as the debate ends.
That's all happening at 11 p.m. Eastern on Fox.
Set your DVR for tonight.
Well, you don't have to set your DVR for tonight, unless you want to see it in the morning.
8 o'clock Pacific time.
And anyway, thank you for being with us.
Thank you for making this show possible.
We'll see you tonight, right after the debate.
Have a great day.
Have a great night.
And we'll see you tomorrow.
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