Wow did they literally schedule this interview for 10pm so they can be like "look! he stays up late *And* talks real good!"? Like… It'll *work* (in part if not mostly because they're gonna have surrogates out tomorrow spinning and stumping as hard as they can), but I still find it really funny.
(Yes, it was very definitely recorded earlier; that's why they're going to be able to release an unedited transcript, tomorrow, i think they said? Just making observations that the timing of the airing made me giggle.)