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I'm doing okay. I didn't get much sleep over the weekend following all the attacks and threats to Israel, but grateful that we didn't see tremendous damage

or casualties of any large number. So I guess I'm grateful.

Hey, Friday on this show, we were talking about the attack coming on Saturday. If I knew that,

obviously Joe Biden knew that. Why did he go on vacation and then have to rush back?

Well, you know, Joe Biden's attendance record is really a major issue this weekend.

You know, right now, I think that a lot of people are missing one of the major stories of this.

It was once the attack started, the White House leaked that Joe Biden would address the nation.

Yeah.

Presumably from the Oval Office or in front of the camera somewhere.

And then they said he wasn't going to do it.

And I think that that is very bad news for Biden in his campaign.

You know, unless they have weeks in advance to know that they've got to get him in front of the cameras like they did for the State of the Union, it doesn't seem like they're able to put him front and center. And that's bad. I mean, listen, you know something else is going to happen, maybe not in the Middle East, but somewhere else between now and November, where he's going to have to make a statement and not just a Twitter statement or a, you know,

a graphic that they put on TV, but an actual president in front of the cameras. This is one of

the greatest, you know, advantages that an incumbent president has. He can, he can call off

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