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3.21am GMT

Here's a recap, from me and Joan E Greve:

2.49am GMT

McCarthy feigned ignorance of QAnon, pronouncing it Q-on".

I don't know if I say it right, I don't even know what it is," he said, despite having directly spoken about the conspiracy theory group and pronounced it correctly in the past.