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was a loud noise that most observers said was Eric Swalwell emitting, shall we say. Now I've listened to it and my first reaction was that's not real. That's not really that. It was exactly like it and it looked exactly like it but my first thought was man it's not real. Now the official explanation is that Chris Matthews back in the studio dragged his Hardball mug across the desk and it made a s…

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an actual fart on national television. I think it was just a weird coincidence that sounds like it.

Alright there are questions about Trump's health because apparently he went to some medical facility which was unplanned and apparently his schedule has been light recently. And so I said to myself well if there's something wrong with President Trump and first of all if it's something minor let's say he has the flu or something like that I would understand why you wouldn't want to share it. You know just sort of lay low until he feels better. So I wouldn't be surprised if it's just some ordinary thing he just doesn't need the public to know about that. That would be my guess.

But I went over to his Twitter feed with the following question. I wanted to see if he's been tweeting in his own voice lately. You can kind of tell the tweets that have gone through staff because they tend to be you know just retweets of things with maybe one sentence. The really edgy provocative stuff, the stuff with misspellings especially, you can tell is directly from Trump. So I went over to his Twitter feed to see if there's any direct stuff or does it all look like staff. And it kind of all looks like staff tweets today.

So David Pakman quite fairly asked the following question. He said where were all the people you know getting on Hillary Clinton for her health? Where are they now you know talking about presidential. Well nobody talked about Hillary's health more than I did and here I am. So David Pakman and for all of those who say to me Scott Scott Scott why are you so partisan, here you go. I think there's probably a health issue with the president. I think his tweeting or his lack of tw

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eeting, suggestion of lack of appearance, suggests it. I have no reason to think it's a serious problem and certainly we didn't see any signs of it in his public appearances in my opinion but it's a question. It's a fair question and I hopefully get an answer to it and I hope he's fine of course but it's more likely something minor than something major. We would have seen signs of it or we would h…

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