I think of it this way: “less than 24 hours” means the tape will air Thursday night. That gives API a little breathing-room to come up with an excuse for why it didn’t air.
Tomorrow afternoon “We regret to inform that the Michelle Obama tape has been confiscated. We only had access to the original and it was taken from us by 7 big black men in white suburbans...we were not able to make the transfer with Fox News in time. We were scheduled to make the transfer 35 minutes from the time it was confiscated.
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Until Fox airs it lets not put it up again.
Yep. "Taking that to the bank"