The following podcast contains explicit language.

It's the early morning of Wednesday, October 5, 2016.

It's a just rapid response, vice presidential debate edition.

The VP debate was supposed to be a bland on bland crime.

It wasn't that.

It was raucous, but not revealing.

Now, no vice presidential debate has ever been shown to have a real effect

on the general election.

Well, maybe this one.

Who am I?

Why am I here?

That from Admiral Stockdale may have doomed candidate Ross Perot's chances

or more accurately may have confirmed to the American public

that the Perot candidacy was doomed.

So let me make my first point.

And in the spirit of Tim Cain actually telling us how many points he's going to make.

Hillary and I have a plan that's on the table.

That's a your hired plan.

Five components.

I will tell you that I have four points to make about the debate,

but think of them as fitting together like a nesting doll, a Russian nesting doll.

And let me be very clear on this Russian thing.

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