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epic episodes, you're in for a treat. So much is going on. We're going to try to get to a lot of it.

All right? We're going to do our best. And we're going to start with just less than 12 hours ago,

I think, maybe about 12 hours ago. When a man named Mark Vogel, a schoolteacher

from Pennsylvania, appeared at the White House alongside the president. I watched the whole thing

live. First, he walked up to the portico door, and it was snowing, and he had an American flag

around his shoulders, and you'll see that in a second. Mark Vogel released from Russia.

It was a promise that Donald Trump made to the man's mother, right before he was shot in

Butler, by the way, before Trump took that bullet to the ear in Butler.

He had promised the 95-year-old mother of this schoolteacher and said, we're going to bring him home. And last night he came home.

Roll it, John. I feel like the luckiest man on earth right now. And I want you to know that I am not a

hero in this at all. And President Trump is a hero.

These men that came from the diplomatic service are heroes.

The senators and representatives that passed legislation in my honor to get me home are the heroes

now there was an exchange and it happened this morning we're just getting this news as we're

recording this that there is a russian bitcoin person that's about as detailed as i'm going to get right now, because I don't

want to speak out of turn, who was sent back to Russia or who was being released and going to

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