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	Our next guest, our next guest, the governor of the great state of South Dakota, Governor Christy Noam.
	Happy birthday to you.
	It's her birthday today.
	Happy birthday to you.
	Happy birthday.
	Happy birthday to you.
	Anyway, we welcome back to the program, South Dakota Governor Christy Noam.
	Governor, happy birthday.
	Congratulations.
	Thank you.
	I appreciate it.
	That's wonderful.
	Now I can say that Sean Hannity played the happy birthday song for me.
	It's fantastic.
	You know, I'm not a person that actually likes birthdays.
	I don't like birthdays at all.
	Once you have a certain amount of them, you kind of get sick of them after a while.
	What do you like?
	And then I tell my family, see, my birthday is five days after Christmas.
	And all I tell my family is, all I want is a Betty Crocker cake, a vanilla cake with that canned vanilla icing.
	That's all I want for my birthday.
	And then they always try to turn it into something elaborate that I always find out ahead of time.
	And I try to cancel ahead of time.
	And I know they're trying to be nice, or they give me something that I don't need or want anyway.
	I mean, I'm the worst person to buy stuff for.
	I'm like, oh, thank you.
	Here, James, you want this?
	To my brother-in-law.
	But what are you doing for your birthday?
	Anything special?
	You sound like a lot of fun, Sean.
	Well, what I do is I turn.
	I agree.
	I'm not a lot of fun.
	Right, right.
	I turn mine into a birthday month.
	So we just celebrate the whole month and we don't do anything big.
	I don't like big parties either.
	And I hate surprises.
	I'm one of those people that please don't ever surprise me with anything.
	So, you know, I just talk about it for a month, and then they're so sick of me talking about it that then they just don't really want to have a big party either.
	And it's just a lot of little things.
	At that point, it's anticlimactic, right?
	Exactly.
	then it's not that big of a deal and then they see but you you just turned 39 You know, once you hit 50, and I had a big blowout for my 50th birthday, that's it.
	I'm done.
	Yeah.
	Well, I think at 50, you just in your mind, you stay there mentally, spiritually, emotionally, right?
	Yeah, I hope so.
	Boy, I'm going to try really hard to dial back time here because I'm 52 today, which for me seems like I should not even be close to that number.
	Well, you're not.
	So you're doing pretty well.
	All right.
	Let me ask you this.
	First, let me play Kamala Harris refusing to comment on TikTok.
	And of course, our giggling vice president starts giggling at the end of the question out of, I think it's a nervous habit she has, but we'll get your take on it.
	Listen.
	And you don't have a specific view on TikTok yourself.
	Are you on TikTok yourself?
	I'm not.
	Are you not like a voyeur?
	People in my family are, I'll tell you that.
	And you tell them to get off?
	You know, you can tell young people in your family all kinds of things to do.
	All right.
	You have been in the forefront, really, of trying to warn people that TikTok is, in fact, a spy mechanism of the communist Chinese.
	Now, others have been saying it, but nobody's been saying it as loudly as you, as often as you.
	Yeah.
	So is it something the Chinese spy on the Americans with?
	Absolutely.
	A thousand percent it is.
	It is a tool that they are using to undermine the United States of America, and they will continue to gather more and more information and manipulate Americans' thoughts and perceptions in order to control us.
	So we were the first state to ban it.
	Since then, I think 30 states have banned TikTok on government devices.
	Even the federal government has taken action to do so.
	That's what was so puzzling by her answer is she didn't give an answer, which is strange because their administration has already taken action on it.
	And I thought it was especially interesting in that clip, too, how she can't even get her family to listen to her.
	So, you know, you kind of want a vice president that has influence and that when they talk, people listen and pay attention.
	And she doesn't even have that in her own family members.
	So we're in Alpharetta tonight, and we're doing our big blue state, red state debate.
	Maybe you could do one in the future against the governor of your choice.
	Maybe is there anybody in mind that you would like to debate?
	Oh, I think Whitmer's done a terrible job up there in Michigan.
	I can't even figure out what she's thinking.
	But, you know, I think it'll be fantastic to watch you guys tonight and to watch Governor DeSantis and Governor Newsome contrast the policies because that is what is unprecedented that we have right now going on in this country is that we for years have talked about liberal policies, conservative policies.
	We now have concrete examples of the effect of those policies on people's lives.
	And so I'm hopeful that they will just roll out the exact lifestyle that people in their states are living because 99 out of 100 people, if they really knew what it was like and what it could be like living in a state like South Dakota or Florida, they would choose our states over California every day.
	I get that they got great weather.
	I agree that it's beautiful out there.
	But the rest of it is just tragic what he has done to that state and what liberal policies have done to that state.
	You know, I think this is a debate that people need to have.
	I don't think people fully grasp or understand how profound it is that on the state level, the local level, the impact that politicians and laws and rules and regulations can have on people's lives.
	And governor, I mean, you know as a governor that had you taken, for example, a very different posture on something like COVID, it would have been an entirely different experience for the people of your state.
	You did not shut anything down.
	Granted, you don't have a population, say, the size of New York City or Los Angeles or whatever, but it doesn't matter.
	You made a decision to do it one way, and it impacted people's lives.
	And I think, you know, we tend to get caught up with what the federal government's doing all the time, but what's happening on the state and local level matters a lot also.
	Absolutely.
	And we still have parts of our state that are extremely populated and that are relevant to what it looks like in parts of those larger cities.
	I would just say, Sean, I hope one thing you asked these governors tonight, and especially Governor Newsom, where did he think he had the authority to decide that?
	In his job description, which should come from his state constitution and the U.S. Constitution, did he have anybody in his office that ever said to him, wait a minute, Governor, you don't have the legal authority to do that.
	You don't have the legal authority to close down that business because from what they did, they literally opened up the door for those business owners and those people to sue them as a governor and as a state for a taking of their business and opened up the taxpayers of their state to billions of dollars worth of legal liabilities.
	They could have bankrupted California and these other states by the decisions that they made.
	And did they really grasp the monumental things they were doing that were far beyond their scope of just being governor of their state?
	Well, think about, for example, California is a sanctuary state.
	I'm sure this will come up tonight.
	And as a result, by the way, starting in, I believe, January, Medi-Cal is going to be available for every single person in the state.
	That means every illegal immigrant.
	But right now, it's a sanctuary state.
	We have governors all over the country.
	Governor from New York, the mayor of New York City, the governor of Illinois, and so many other blue states are very critical of Joe Biden's open border policies because it's costing the states a fortune.
	And again, that's like an unfunded mandate, right?
	Absolutely.
	And because they have more people in Congress that represent their states, they go to D.C. and they ask the federal government to bail them out all the time, and they keep responding.
	So that's why you have to have strong people in the White House, in the executive branch, that can shut down the nonsense and recognize the consequences of these continuous bankrolling of liberal policies that's devastating our way of life.
	You're exactly right.
	It really is.
	Now, one issue that you have paid attention to, and I've been paying a lot of attention to, I actually think we are probably the two most outspoken people in the country on this, and that is that we are watching Chinese nationals in droves buying up thousands and thousands and thousands of acres of our farmland, our ranch land, and land near military installations.
	You were on TV last night, and I said, well, it'd be nice if I could invest money in China if I ever wanted to and go over there and buy their farmland and land near their military installations, which we know they would never allow under any circumstances.
	Not that I would want it.
	But the point is, why would we let them?
	Isn't that a national security threat?
	Yeah, definitely is.
	It definitely is.
	And we've seen Chinese companies come in and buy up our fertilizer and our chemical companies, our seed corn genetics.
	They're buying up our entire food supply chain.
	But now what they're doing by their dramatic increase, it's a 5,300% increase on purchasing of American land from 2010 to 2020.
	So in 10 years, over 5,300% increase on the amount of investment they've made in buying land.
	And a lot of this land is strategically being purchased by our national security interests, by our Air Force bases, our NSA buildings, our areas that we have our top secrets and our operations and three-letter agencies operating from.
	And it's to gather information on us on how to destroy us.
	So I sent Chairman Gallagher, who is the chairman of the Select Committee on China, a letter encouraging him to include his bill in the National Defense Authorization Act.
	I know the Senate took some action, but his bill is very strong.
	It would stop this kind of practice, not allow these six foreign countries that are our enemies to purchase up our land, and it would stop them from making that kind of an investment that would devastate our national security protections that we currently have.
	So it allows CIFIAS the ability to review these transactions, which if you remember, previously they said they didn't have the authority to do.
	And it also puts individuals on the CFIAS committee that have an agricultural background to really know if some of these purchases are tied to true research and investment or tied to the Communist China and their party on what they're doing as foreign adversaries of the government.
	Let me ask you, I want to play for you another Joe Biden quote.
	He was at this speech in Colorado just the other day.
	And if you can decipher this for us, Governor, we'd really appreciate it.
	We're looking for interpreters.
	But I am friends with your leader, Mr. Moon.
	I don't even know how we're a good guy.
	Here in Colorado, the wind turbine manufacturing is investing $40 million to expand its factory and hire an additional 1,000 employees.
	Solar manufacturer Meyer Berger is building a new solar cell factory just down the road in Colorado Springs instead of cutting Ember like Congressman Trump and Boeing want to do.
	The political coverage.
	Look some of the political players and some of the let me ask a rhetorical question.
	Anyway, I find it embarrassing.
	I feel embarrassed for our country.
	What do you feel when you hear that?
	And does that scare you because it scares me?
	It does because it clearly tells me he's not in charge.
	There's no way somebody who can't communicate a basic speech can be making decisions.
	So somebody else is making the decisions for him.
	He is in cognitive decline.
	I think it's tragic, tragic that the people around him are continuing to prop him up on a world stage in order to keep power.
	But it is having devastating effects on the strength of the United States of America.
	Every country knows right now if this was a time, if this was a time to take bold action against the United States of America, you would certainly do it when you have someone in charge that can't even keep their thoughts together for more than an hour or two a day.
	Unbelievable.
	All right, quick break, right back more with South Dakota Governor Christy Noam.
	Your call's on the other side, 800-941-Sean.
	As we continue, we're in Alpharetta, Georgia for the big debate tonight.
	Ron DeSantis versus Governor Gavin Newsome.
	You don't want to miss it.
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	All right, we continue now with South Dakota Governor Christy Nomas with us.
	Let me ask you this.
	With all the intellectual property theft and all of the unfair trade practices and the Chinese spy balloon incident and confronting our Air Force in international airspace and confronting our Navy in international waterways and confronting our ally Taiwan constantly and saber rattling.
	Why is Joe Biden doing nothing to the communist Chinese?
	I personally have to wonder if it's tied to the millions of dollars his family made from the communist Chinese and the CEFC, an energy conglomerate out of China.
	That's my thought.
	What are yours?
	But it's not just that, Sean.
	It is big business, big banking.
	It is our investment portfolios are heavily invested in China.
	I've been asking Vanguard to develop a product that we could invest our state dollars and pension funds into that would take China out of the emerging markets fund.
	China is not an emerging market.
	It should be in a completely different fund and give us the opportunity to continue to deal in the stock market and in investments without funding China.
	But that's not what Vanguard is doing.
	We don't have the federal government taking action on that.
	I actually got my congressman to introduce a bill now in Congress.
	I think he did it today, that is going to force us to divest out of Chinese investments.
	We did that years ago on Iran and Sudan.
	Congress did it.
	It gave us a faith the ability to completely divest out of these countries that hate us.
	And that is exactly what we need to do now.
	So I don't think it's just his family.
	I think it is a lot of these entities that have put all their eggs in China's ask it and they're worried financially about their own pocketbooks and not about the safety and security of the United States.
	It's unbelievable.
	Governor, you do have a beautiful state.
	I've been there many, many times.
	I urge people to take a visit.
	I love your jobs program and your apprenticeship program.
	I hope it's going well.
	I think it's innovative, creative, out of the box.
	Anyway, we really appreciate you being with us and also happy birthday, Governor.
	Thank you, sir.
	I appreciate it.
	It means the world to me.
	Do you have a green?
	Happy.
	You too.
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	What I told people I was making a podcast about Benghazi, nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked, why?
	Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies.
	It's almost a dirty word, one that connotes conspiracy theory.
	Will we ever get the truth about the Benghazi massacre?
	Bad faith, political warfare, and frankly, bullshit.
	We kill the ambassador just to cover something up.
	You put two and two together.
	Was it an overblown distraction or a sinister conspiracy?
	Benghazi is a Rosetta Stone for everything that's been going on for the last 20 years.
	I'm Leon Napok from Prologue Projects and Pushkin Industries.
	This is Fiasco, Benghazi.
	What difference at this point does it make?
	Yes, that's right.
	Lock her up.
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	Jobs.
	Joe Biden can't spell it and he can't keep them for the American people.
	Check out the Sean Hannity Jobs Forum today.
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	I knew him.
	What a wonderful man.
	Actually, in front of him, smart as could be, if you want to talk about shuttle diplomacy, he's the guy that created it.
	Escaped Nazi Germany.
	I would like to know what he thinks about all the virulent anti-Semitism that we've been discussing.
	What an incredible life he led.
	All the people that he met opening doors to China, serving under two presidents, President Ford, first President Nixon, the work he did in terms of ending the Vietnam War, his involvement in that.
	Amazing man, amazing intellect.
	Had many great conversations with him, interviewed him many, many times.
	One of the more fun experiences I had is, you know, I try to do these stupid impressions.
	I kind of suck at them, but people seem to like them.
	Linda likes some of them.
	And, you know, I said, I'm Dr. Talk about him balance.
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	That's pretty good.
	I mean, I like my favorite, my godfather.
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	All right, we got a lot of people standing by on the line.
	Let's say hi to Steve is in North Carolina.
	Steve, how are you?
	Glad you called, sir.
	Hi, Sean.
	How are you?
	I'm good.
	What's going on?
	Good.
	Well, you've shown us many times the horrendous conditions on the streets of San Francisco and L.A. since Governor Newsom's been governor.
	And apparently he didn't care about the citizens, and neither did the city leaders.
	But why was there such a push to clean the city of San Francisco when communist dictators coming to visit like a couple weeks ago?
	So that's just telling me one thing.
	Does he care more about the communist Chinese or does he care more about the citizens of his own state?
	Look, I mean, everybody saw what happened.
	The question is, if you can show that you have an ability to fix something and you have that power to fix something, why not fix it permanently?
	Why just, and look, they've got a big, big homeless problem out in California.
	When I lived five years in Santa Barbara in the 80s, at a time in my life, I didn't have much money and was living paycheck to paycheck, pretty much.
	I got to tell you, it was a beautiful place, but the homeless population was huge.
	If you remember Rush back in the early days, he used to do those homeless updates, and he got into a huge controversy because he was talking about, I guess he was advertising for a local barbecue place, if my memory serves me right.
	And everybody flipped out because he'd do these homeless updates.
	And I remember I was actually in the college radio station studio when I first heard of Rush.
	And I had just started my own show.
	And I started in 1987.
	And some guy goes, man, you got to listen to this guy, Rush Limbaugh.
	And then that huge Santa Barbara controversy.
	And he did something very unique and different.
	In response to the controversy, it was almost like the first attempted boycott of a conservative host.
	Instead of fighting them, he invited his audience to go into that store and patronize the store.
	And guess what?
	It worked.
	They went back and they started advertising again on Rush's show.
	And that reminds me of a boycott.
	Remember, Kerrig pulled their ads off of my show.
	Ow, all of a sudden I'm getting text messages and copies of tweets that people are sending out.
	They're taking videos and they're beating up their Kerrig machines with baseball bats.
	They're firing shotguns at it.
	They're dropping it from three stories high.
	And that had a huge impact on them coming back as an advertiser.
	And they did come back as an advertiser.
	Now, the most interesting part is I never asked people to do that.
	And what I did was I said, you know what I'm going to do?
	For all of you that stood up for me, and let me at least buy you a new coffee machine.
	And I bought them Kerrigs.
	Now, I couldn't get in touch with the CEO of Kerrig.
	So I had to pay full freight for all of them.
	Linda, that was a nightmare for you.
	I will tell you now that it's many minutes ago.
	Were we buy 500 or 1,000?
	3,000.
	3,000.
	Oh, my gosh.
	3,000.
	There's probably still some in a warehouse somewhere.
	But the guy who hooked me up, he was mad cool, and he was a conservative.
	Oh, okay.
	So he was like, listen, you're my cousin.
	I'm going to help you out.
	He's like, you're buying 3,000.
	So he did.
	Oh, he did give us a break.
	Yeah, on the deal.
	He was great.
	All I remember is that the CEO of Kerrig at the time would not take my call.
	Well, no, it's the parent company.
	It's like Mountain Spring Coffee or something like that.
	Yada, yada.
	And he just said he had no ill will towards you.
	Yada yada.
	I think they mailed it out from their facility.
	We get people's address.
	If you could show us that you stood up for me that way and wasted, you know, gave up a lot of money and gave up your coffee in the morning, at least I can do is replace your machine.
	And people saved me at that moment.
	I don't think I've had a boycott, a real boycott effort since, have I?
	No.
	I mean, I think people running over the Keurigs with their suburbans really takes it to another level.
	Just my home.
	Some of my favorite with the golf clubs, others with the shootings.
	Oh, man, they were shooting the crap out of them in the backyard.
	I mean, it was just like, it was a lot.
	It was a lot.
	Or my favorite, they'd be on like the third or fourth floor of a building and drop it down and smash into a thousand pieces.
	But just think about the amount of thought and effort that went into it.
	It was like they called their buddies.
	They're like, listen, come over.
	I'm going to beat the crap out of this coffee machine.
	I'm going to really make a video.
	I mean, it's a lot, you know?
	So I thought that was really funny.
	Yeah, that was very funny.
	All right, let me get back to our phones.
	Gino in Florida.
	Gino, you're next on the Sean Hannity show.
	You're going to be watching tonight, I hope?
	I am.
	Dino, not Gino.
	That's my brother, Gino.
	I'm Dino.
	I think tonight's debate's a big mistake.
	I really do, because I think we're looking at a bait and switch.
	I think you know it.
	And for whatever reason, I don't think you're vocalizing it, but I'm pretty certain we all know that Biden's not running.
	I think we're wasting our time talking about him being a candidate because he made a Freudian slip recently when he said talking about Newsom and said, you know, taking his job.
	You recall that one?
	I do remember.
	We played it many, many times.
	Yeah.
	Biden saying that Newsom could replace him.
	You think that was a slip up or what?
	I do because, you know, I think, Adam, I'm trying to stay on this point, but I think they're afraid because when he talks and he gets less lucid than normal, even worse, he'll say things that are true.
	I think that goes with the whole dementia thing.
	It's like, you know, whatever.
	It's like somebody drunk.
	They'll speak the truth typically.
	I think it's a bait and switch.
	I just think Newsome is a used car salesman.
	Perfect.
	He's good looking.
	And more people don't know about him.
	I think it makes him more dangerous because he comes across.
	He's a great talker.
	He's smooth.
	Ron DeSantis is a little rough around the edges, I think, in comparison.
	I think.
	Well, that raises a question.
	On substance, if you just look at, like, for example, the Wall Street Journal editorial yesterday that went over the statistics of both states, they dramatically favor Florida.
	And Governor Newsom knows this because in the debate I had with him, it came up quite often.
	And I imagine some of that will come up tonight.
	Is it going to be the substance and success of policies or personality that wins a debate like this, in your view?
	I think that, especially with the younger voters, people that haven't been to as much and haven't seen.
	I'm from Chicago.
	I just moved to Florida four weeks ago.
	I think the younger voter, they focus on pretty things.
	You know, you've got influencers on YouTube that got no business being millionaires because they have nothing to offer than whatever they're doing on Facebook.
	There's no substance.
	I think it's visual for a lot of people.
	I just think that's the way it is.
	So you think if somebody just looks good and maybe doesn't have as good a track record, and the guy that maybe has the best track record, best policies, greater success, you think people will look more towards the presentation than the actual results?
	Well, you know, I do only because we're talking about governors.
	We're not talking about the big states.
	So most governors are the states.
	So Florida people, people in the South Net section know about him.
	You got people of California and out there.
	So I just think it's going to be a rough road.
	All right, Dino, appreciate the call.
	Thank you, my friend.
	800-941 Sean is a number.
	Look, Henry Kissinger was a giant.
	Let me play what Fox put together about this man's amazing life.
	One thing about Henry Kissinger is, I mean, he's changed the world.
	He changed diplomacy.
	He opened doors nobody thought could ever be open.
	With his towering intellect and ruthless realpolitik, his dazzling shuttle diplomacy and obsession with his own image, Henry Kissinger was perhaps the most gifted, admired, and reviled American diplomat of the 20th century.
	There is no country in the world where it is conceivable that a man of my origins could be standing here next to the president of the United States.
	A refugee from Hitler's Germany, Kissinger emigrated to the United States in 1938.
	After serving in Army counterintelligence in World War II, he earned three Harvard degrees.
	Kissinger's seminal 1957 book on nuclear strategy earned him consultancies to the Kennedy and Johnson White Houses.
	Dr. Kissinger is a man who is known to all people who are interested in foreign policy.
	As President Nixon's first term national security advisor, Kissinger negotiated to end the Vietnam War, while the commander-in-chief withdrew U.S. troops and secretly bombed Cambodia.
	Another 20,000 U.S. troops and countless Vietnamese perished in the four years before Kissinger famously declared peace is at hand and received the Nobel Peace Prize.
	When the Cambodia bombings leaked to the press, Kissinger colluded in White House wiretaps.
	Just to get in to vitalize our alliances.
	For Nixon's historic trip to China in 1972, it was Kissinger's secret overseas flights that paved the way.
	And their pursuit of detente with the Soviet Union led to major arms control accords.
	Astonishing breakthroughs that earned Kissinger broad acclaim, but enduring suspicion among conservatives, who later argued he and Nixon should have sought like...
	like Ronald Reagan, to defeat the Soviet Union.
	In the early 1970s, I don't remember any conservative even talking about defeating the Soviet Union before one could even consider some of the aspects of Reagan's policy of Vietnam had to be finished.
	You can make as good a case for the fact that communism was ultimately defeated by the politics that Nixon started and by the politics that Reagan enunciated and that Reagan could never have done what he did if Nixon had not first held the Ford, created the structure.
	Throughout his service to Nixon, Kissinger publicly heaped praise on the president in public.
	But ridiculing him in private and ultimately taking a more measured view of his partner in power.
	He lacked the capacity to reach out to people as individuals the way almost all the candidates that I've known did so naturally.
	I shall testify with respect to all matters.
	Confirmed as Secretary of State in 1973, Kissinger's shuttle diplomacy helped end the Yom Kippur War.
	After Nixon resigned, Kissinger stayed on, a reassuring figure amid the upheaval of Watergate, and also, for a time, an improbable celebrity bachelor.
	Hollywood actresses drawn to the famous diplomat who called power the ultimate aphrodisiac.
	Yet lawsuits and controversy would dog Kissinger for decades after he left power in 1977.
	Liberals called him a war criminal, claiming he had coddled right-wing dictators and was culpable in the assassination of two Chilean officials, charges Kissinger denied.
	Unfazed, the elder statesman trotted the globe, a wealthy consultant, his counsel widely sought.
	He could be critical of U.S. policy.
	And to the last, he remained active in foreign policy discourse, writing a book called World Order, reviewed favorably in the Washington Post by Hillary Clinton, who, like all of Kissinger's successors, drew on his counsel when she served as America's Secretary of State.
	Arrest Henry Kissinger for Lord Crime!
	Arrest Henry Kissinger for Lord's Rights!
	Agitators continued hounding Kissinger, as at this Senate Armed Services Committee hearing in early 2015, prompting Senator John McCain, a Vietnam veteran, to defend the one-time architect of U.S. policy there.
	Get out of here, you low-life scum.
	I'd like to apologize for allowing such disgraceful behavior towards a man who served his country with the greatest distinction.
	Lifelong student of balance of power politics, acclaimed author of more than a dozen books, and embattled subject of dozens more, Henry Kissinger engaged every major foreign policy crisis across six decades of service and commentary and strode the world stage with an authority and charisma matched by few other unelected figures in American history.
	In Washington, Rich Edson, Fox News.
	What an amazing life.
	Our thoughts and prayers are with his family.
	All right, when we come back, we'll continue.
	We're in Alpharetta, Georgia.
	The great state debate tonight at 9.
	Hannity, Fox News, please set your DVR.
	All right, that's going to wrap things up for us today.
	Great to be back in Georgia tonight, 9 Eastern.
	Hannity on Fox, three hours away, an hour and a half debate.
	Governor Rhonda Santos of Florida versus Gavin Newsom of California.
	The great Red State, Blue State debate.
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	We'll set it every night.
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