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in for John and Ken on this Independence Day.

And I, like you, woke up thinking today was going to go one way,

and then all of a sudden it went another way.

And I think that's the hardest thing about doing this job.

The hardest thing is thinking you're going to come in and talk about one thing,

and then all of a sudden the news takes you in a completely different direction. I'll often think

that holidays tend to be the least newsworthy days in which there is the least to talk about.

There is the least going on, and then that can change to the drop of the hat

and then when i got going today and i heard the news about the shooting in illinois highland park

and if you don't know that area it's not chicago it really isn't it's a good 25 to 30 miles

north of chicago Calling Highland Park

Chicago is like calling Pomona, Los Angeles. They're not close in physical proximity,

and they're not close as far as the feel of the cities. But when I got the news of the shooting

in Highland Park, I thought about a number of things.

I thought about, this was always in the back of my mind.

I was hoping that nothing bad would happen in America on America's birthday, if only because

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