It's Friday, June 28th, 2024.

Donald Trump has been indicted for the murder of an elderly man on live television next on the AM update.

Boy, howdy, I did not expect that last night.

Yesterday on air analysis, I talked about three things I wanted to see, but was quite certain I would not see.

And I think I got at least two, at least one and a half, I should say.

Maybe two out of those three things.

I just did not expect what happened last night to happen.

I knew it could happen, but I did not expect that.

During especially the first half hour, which is the most important part of any presidential debate, I would wager,

Donald Trump absolutely eviscerated Joe Biden, both in Donald Trump's style,

form and discipline, but also in the format. The much-ballahood format for this CNN presidential debate, which you'll hear from in just a little bit, where there would be no audience, there would

be mute buttons. It was it was postulated that that would be a huge

negative for Donald Trump, that that would essentially allow CNN to run the show, to bail Joe

Biden out, and no doubt they tried to on multiple occasions. But the format was actually the thing

that was the boon for Donald Trump last night. The format of not having an audience there, Donald Trump really had to dial in on content,

and he did so very well, especially in the first quarter to third of that debate.

On the other hand, the split screen of Joe Biden and Donald Trump, especially when Donald

Trump was speaking, was just devastating

for Democrats.

Absolutely devastating.

I'm not exaggerating here in the least when for about the entire debate, with limited exceptions.

Joe Biden on that split screen when he was not talking, was staring around the room randomly, his mouth

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