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We do a little media stuff tonight.

I mean, I've been in the media now 50 years, 5-0.

I know everybody.

I know how it works. I've been successful in every part of it. He's bragging again. I'm sorry, but I've got to state the facts.

So the media now is in sharp decline. Donald Trump didn't just defeat Kamala Harris. Donald Trump defeated the Democratic

Party, the whole party, they don't have a leader now, and he defeated the corporate, corrupt

media. All of the hate Trump media, defeated, blew it out of the water.

And the older media people know it.

Salaries are being cut, people are being laid off, ratings are terrible.

There's a big ship in the way Americans are getting information.

They're getting it from YouTube and other places.

They're not sitting there watching Lester Holt or David Muir, and you can't even name the anchors on CBS.

You can name them.

I can, but nobody else can.

Okay, Dubois, he comes from Channel 2 in New York,

and Dickinson, been to CBS forever.

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