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🗓️ 3 January 2024

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Ron Desantis's chances are slowly declining as we get closer to the Iowa Caucus. Desantis's performance at this next event could determine his chances of becoming our next president. Harvard President Claudine Gay has officially resigned from Harvard as of yesterday, over nonpolitically correct statements she made over the last two months.

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0:00.0	Well, they've got a lot to get to today. It's, uh, what's the day today? It's Wednesday. This is a very confusing week. Yesterday felt like Monday. Today feels like Tuesday. It's Wednesday. Don't worry, the week is almost over. A lot to get to. We'll get to Claudine Gay. Sean Hannity. Did he leave New York? We'll get to that coming up. We'll get to the migrants.
0:24.1	And, hey, there's another mayor who seems much better at handling this than Eric Adams.
0:28.9	We'll get to Jimmy Kimmel and Joe Biden. And Kathy Hochle is now standing up to the federal government.
0:35.6	We'll get to, of course, Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis and all. Hey, there's another debate coming up. It's going to be a CNN debate. January 10th. When is that? That's next week. It's going to be in Iowa. And the RNC has pulled out of the debate business.
1:00.0	It was a mess with the RNC running it, the Republican National Committee, run by the bungling incompetent Ronna McDaniel, who will be thrown the hell out of there as soon as Donald
1:04.5	Trump takes charge, was selling the debates.
1:08.9	In other words, whatever network would pay $4 million could have a debate.
1:13.0	That's why you saw some very odd choices.
1:16.7	News Nation was one of them.
1:18.9	I mean, it's a nice network, but that's not where you'd want to put your debate.
1:23.1	And you'd say, like, well, why wasn't it on Newsmax?
1:25.5	Well, they didn't feel like paying the $4 million for it.
1:27.8	And who could blame them?
1:29.3	It didn't get much in the ratings.
1:32.2	So the candidates were approached by CNN to do this debate next week, and they wanted to do it.
1:41.4	So somehow, somewhere, the RNC decided to step out of the debate process.
1:45.6	They're no longer involved. Candidates are now free to do whatever debates they want.
1:51.0	Before that, they were told they'd be banned and blocked if they ever did a non-RNC debate.
1:56.2	So now the RNC is out of it. CNN will do a debate next week, January 10th.
2:02.6	I don't know who's going to be in it. I don't know who's going to be, I guess, DeSantis and Nikki Haley.
2:06.8	I don't know if Chris Christie will even qualify. But here's the thing.
2:11.4	The night of the debate, at exactly the same time, Donald Trump has now agreed to do a town hall on the Fox News channel,
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