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Hey everyone, I'm Megan Kelly. Welcome to the Megan Kelly show. Here we are, post the

first GOP presidential primary debate of 2023. Did you watch it? Or did you watch Trump

on Tucker? I watched the debate, and then I watched Trump on Tucker today. That's the

advantage of the Tucker forum. You can watch it when you want query whether that works

as a counter programming measure, right? Because you don't have to watch it live. And the

debate was interesting. It was interesting. It was bizarre for me personally because,

of course, I was out there with Brett Baer for all of his past GOP presidential debate

primaries. We used to do them all together. And so I had a lot of sort of inside knowledge

on what they were doing, what they weren't doing, changes that they've made. Some I like

some I didn't. I'll tell you my number one thing in terms of the formatting of the debate.

Get to it. Get to it. Everyone's been waiting. Don't we don't need to hear the national anthem

at the beginning of the debate. You play that right before the debate gets started. I'll

do respect the national anthem. You guys know I love the national anthem, but we don't need

to waste three minutes of the prime time debate with that. That can be played before we actually

start. We don't need the long video wind up trying to get people excited. They're already

excited. Let's go. And we need a strong first question that kicks things off with a boom.

I'll do respect to Oliver Anthony. We've been covering that story too in his song. That

was the wrong first question. It was a sleeper. It was such a gimme. It invited the stupid

opening statements that Fox was trying to avoid. No, get in and get out a precise hit.

And I will also say this. There is nothing wrong with the reporters in the room at a presidential

debate. The hosts being slightly antagonistic to the candidates. It works. It's our job.

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