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Well, Jake Novak, one of the smartest guys around, great television producer, editor, columnist.

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Jake Novak, how you doing?

I'm doing well. I don't know. I'm getting excited. I don't think I'd ever say this. I'm getting excited about these midterm elections. I can't remember in 40 years of following them so many close races and so many issues that are being batted around. So, you know, unless you're just not interested in the world, you've got to be excited around this time.

Yeah, pretty amazing.

So Oz and Federman in Pennsylvania, are they going to debate?

What's going to happen in that debate?

Yeah, they're going to have a debate in eight days on October 25th.

And, you know, you might remember one of the things I always ask journalists to do, whether they're working with me or for me, is to not forget to

ask the obvious question. So when we talked about people like Setterman, and of course, in the last

few days, the controversy has come out about how he gets a little closed captioned computer readout

of a question that's being asked to him live.

And that's going to happen at the debate, by the way.

And the explanation is he's recovering from a stroke, and this helps him make sure he's answering the question properly.

And if you have a problem with that, you can go back and forth.

But what I want journalists to ask is, can we see that readout just like he sees it? In other words, what is that readout is coming with something from his aides with a note or a two or a highlight or two? I mean, if he's getting a readout of it, I think that that's fine if he wants to have that. Imagine if we were another handicap and we were going to work with it. I can, I'm okay with that. But I want to see that feed that he sees, especially during a debate. You know, an interview, all right, but a debate, the public should see what's in that feed. And if it's just the same, if it's just the verbatim of what's being asked. Great. But otherwise, there's a lot of room for problems there

where he could be given cues. He could be helped in a lot of other ways. And we need to be able to see that feed. I hope we can get it. If we can't, I want an explanation as to why not. Hey, has anybody asked if he were to serve in the Senate, God forbid, would they use closed captioning?

Would they use that every second? Because how is he supposed to hear anything otherwise?

Yeah, well, you know, look, if following what goes on in the Senate, first of all, the Senate has

always been a club of very, very elderly and sick people. And I love how that fact is being used to defend any given candidate.

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