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Michelle dockery musical guest Gary Clark Jr. And the legendary roots crew its the tonight show at home edition. And now, heres jimmy. Jimmy welcome to the tonight show at home edition. Everybody, thank you so much for being here it is wednesday. Oh yeah, man thats what im talking about. Actually, its almost thursday, basically. So its thursday, kind of. You gettin that vibe . You gettin that vibe from me . Cool, cool, cool all right, lets get to some news here everybody. Tomorrow, President Trump will be visiting a ford plant in michigan that requires facemasks, but trump said hes not sure if hell wear one trump actually loves ford, especially cause the f in the logo sort of looks like his air. I think trump might be a little disappointed when he gets to the ford factory cause once he walks in, hes gonna be like, when i asked to see the new models this is not what i meant. Well guys, the election is coming up, and everyones debating mailin voting. Republicans are worried old people wi