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Speaker 1: is paying to provide Iran with the location of where

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Speaker 1: letting Iran's ally, Russia, sell more of its embargoed oil,

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Speaker 1: that information that we just essentially paid for and give

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Speaker 1: it to Iran, which it reportedly is doing right now,

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Speaker 1: helping Iran locate American forces in the Middle East, planes, ships, personnel,

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Speaker 1: Russians helping Iran hunt Americans. Trump is in effect paying

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Speaker 1: Russia to help Iran attack Americans in this war. What's

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Speaker 1: that called again? When you are fighting a war and

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Speaker 1: people in your own government help a country that's helping

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Speaker 1: the country you're fighting the war against, what's that called again?

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Speaker 1: Tree surgery? Jackie Tree Horn Tree Tree, All right, Trezon

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Speaker 1: neverlind that we have a no business being there. B

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Speaker 1: We're not winning Sea. We're going to be there for

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Speaker 1: up here for an Iranian revenge terror attack. There's the

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Speaker 1: other problem with the treason part Iran. It is far

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Speaker 1: worse than you think. We are paying for the appo

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Speaker 1: intelligence against American troops there. And in case you were

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Speaker 1: wondering about this, Russia just reiterated it is on the

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Speaker 1: this war, Russia is making it very clear. No, no,

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Speaker 1: We're not an American ally in this and we're not neutral.

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Speaker 1: This is Russia's ambassador to the UK, Andrea Kahlin on

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Speaker 1: to be neutral in this? We are not neutral, No, Trutu.

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Speaker 1: We are supportive to Iran, of course, and we consider,

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Speaker 1: as I have said, are very negative. Clear what is

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Speaker 1: being done? Okay, are we clear on this? Because our

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Speaker 1: UN ambassador Mike Waltz an idiot responds to this reminder

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Speaker 1: Russians are giving the Iranians intel about where Americans are

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Speaker 1: primordial ooze quote. If they are providing anything, it certainly

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Speaker 1: hasn't been very effective. Translation. So what if Putin is

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Speaker 1: shooting at us? Putin's aim is only so so, Moron

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Speaker 1: E Fane, Moron, Mike Waltz, Moron, Oh, it doesn't matter.

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Speaker 1: They haven't hit us yet. Let me just go through

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Speaker 1: this again. Absorb this. Trump is now letting Iran's ally

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Speaker 1: Russia sell more oil to get more money. It's starting

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Speaker 1: forces are, where the war is, satellites, live video, human

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Speaker 1: we help pay for it. Scott Bessant, the Treasury secretary

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Speaker 1: India from buying and processing the embargoed Russian oil. Now

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Speaker 1: The Russians are supporting Iran. Iran. You can hear the

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Speaker 1: So the Trump doctrine, the Don Row dumbass doctrine, it's

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Speaker 1: Save time. So Russia is backing Iran. And whatever you

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Speaker 1: Exquisite intelligence not a pairing of words you hear used

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Speaker 1: and which he thinks he's already won. Quote. We want

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Speaker 1: them to have a good leader, he says, sounding like

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Speaker 1: If you'll leave here and go there, Trump, I'll carry

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Speaker 1: anybody realize we will be in Iran for years? Or

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Speaker 1: Trump will convince himself he has one and they unconditional surrendered,

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Speaker 1: Trump will say they haven't surrendered. They haven't surrendered because

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Speaker 1: something there, But but this guard googling his name one

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Speaker 1: hundred other Google searches in a short period of time

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Speaker 1: and getting a bunch of deposits that reach nearly five figures.

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Speaker 1: If there is something about Epstein's death, this ain't it

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Speaker 1: also of interest? Here? It says, what on the wall

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Speaker 1: behind Caroline Levitt in the White House press room? The

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Speaker 1: words in the White House logo on the wall spell

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Speaker 1: what if she stands in just the right spot at

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Speaker 1: the podium and nobody has noticed and nobody told her.

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Speaker 1: It's a damn shame. I'm going to tell her. But

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Speaker 1: apparently if I don't tell her, you don't get to

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Speaker 1: enjoy the joke. And you know where my priorities lie.

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Speaker 1: That's next. This is countdown. By the way, somebody has

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Speaker 1: to pay tribute to my friend Letterman's perpetual and perpetually

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Speaker 1: funny joke. As I mentioned earlier, Iran has chosen its

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Speaker 1: new Ayahtola. He's the son of the assassinated one, George

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Speaker 1: w Iahtola. This is countdown, with Keith Oberman still ahead

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Speaker 1: on this initiative. Countdown. I happen to tell this story

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Speaker 1: to somebody the other day, so now you get to

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Speaker 1: hear it. I'll just say, in teasing this that it's

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Speaker 1: about a bunch of MSNBC hosts in a men's room

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Speaker 1: twenty years ago talking about how many inches there were

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Speaker 1: inches tall, inches tall. Actually, the other conversation probably would

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Speaker 1: have been a lot less weird. Our conversation was about

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Speaker 1: how the new president of our network was six foot four,

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Speaker 1: but he claimed to be taller than that, which let

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Speaker 1: all of us who were taller than him to ask

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Speaker 1: the unanswerable question, who that tall would ever feel the

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Speaker 1: need to lie about their height? The game of inches next,

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Speaker 1: and things I promised not to tell first. However, we

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Speaker 1: always have more new idiots to talk about. The roundup

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Speaker 1: of the miscreants, morons and Dunning Kruger effects specimens who

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Speaker 1: constitute today's other worst persons in the world, The brons worse,

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Speaker 1: the Maga circular firing squad. This is this is really fun.

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Speaker 1: I think I have this in the right chronological order,

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Speaker 1: but it's hard to tell. I mean, it's a firing squad.

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Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson attacking Shabbad, Bill Ackman attacking Tucker Carlson. Meghan

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Speaker 1: Kelly attacking Bill Ackman. Buckley Carlson. That's NEPO baby. Tucker's

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Speaker 1: own NEPO baby. So Buckley is a and NEPO baby

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Speaker 1: attacking everybody. Let me read you some of this. It's

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Speaker 1: like the old far left organizations of the sixties and

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Speaker 1: seventies attacking each other. It's wonderful Bill Ackman at Tucker

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Speaker 1: Carlson has reached a level of absurdity that is going

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Speaker 1: to get someone killed. He needs to stop this now.

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Speaker 1: Someone who knows him well needs to intervene or he

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Speaker 1: will have blood on his hands. Meghan Kelly retweets that

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Speaker 1: and ads you literally retweeted someone who goes by alpha

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Speaker 1: ce dash dash t. Only she didn't write seed dash

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Speaker 1: fing b word. Only she didn't say fing or be

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Speaker 1: a yesterday. So please spare us your above it all

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Speaker 1: tisking on dialogue. Bill. By the way, of all the

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Speaker 1: words in that, the only one that Megan Kelly changed

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Speaker 1: in any way was please. She wrote please as pls

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Speaker 1: any who to continue. Bill Ackman was in fact retweeting

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Speaker 1: somebody called Joel Mowbray. Exclusive. Tucker Carlson claims that a

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Speaker 1: sect of Judaism called Shabbad is ultimately behind the military

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Speaker 1: strikes on Iran. Bill Ackman answering Megan Carlson and Buckley

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Speaker 1: carl I haven't labeled anyone, libeled anyone, but you, Buckley

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Speaker 1: Carlson are clearly doing so here. Charlie Kirk was a

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Speaker 1: friend and his death was a grave loss for all humanity.

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Speaker 1: Somebody actually thinks that, I don't care who they are.

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Speaker 1: Somebody thinks it was a grave loss for all humanity. Wow,

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Speaker 1: you alleging that I had anything to do with his

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Speaker 1: death is about the Where are they in this? I mean,

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Speaker 1: I know there is an investigation going on by I

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Speaker 1: believe it is Candice Owens who now claims that some

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Speaker 1: of the key female figures on the right wing side,

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Speaker 1: including Charlie kirk Widow, may be transgendered. I mean, it's

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Speaker 1: it's wonderful. If we could just get them all to

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Speaker 1: talk about themselves, there'd be no more maga. They will

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Speaker 1: have destroyed themselves within hours. I left out Buckley Carlson, actually,

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Speaker 1: Bill Ackman. The blood is on your hands in Gaza, Lebanon, Iran,

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Speaker 1: the wider region, in US units and most likely even

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Speaker 1: from Charlie stop libeling as anti Semits, Nazis and jew haters,

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Speaker 1: those who oppose war and love America and Americans, c C. Ghouls,

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Speaker 1: Josh Hammer, Laura Lomer, Mark Levin's show, and Joel Malbrad.

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Speaker 1: I mean, this is just about everybody except Jesse Waters.

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Speaker 1: Jesse Water's not involved here because he doesn't know how

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Speaker 1: to type with with you know, hoofs rather than fingers.

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Speaker 1: The runner up US Weekly. This is a little lighter

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Speaker 1: than that, I think in one sense it's not political,

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Speaker 1: it's a little darker. In a different sense. There are typos,

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Speaker 1: and then there are typos that kill US Weekly. Selena

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Speaker 1: Gomez and there's a picture of her with Martin Short

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Speaker 1: has spoken out following the death of only Murders in

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Speaker 1: the Building co Star Martin Short. No, you didn't miss

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Speaker 1: some sad news. Martin Short is alive and well. Unfortunately

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Speaker 1: is Martin Short's daughter who died. And for like a

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Speaker 1: day this tweet was up there advertising a story that

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Speaker 1: they had written about Selena Gomez showing support for Martin Short.

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Speaker 1: After dot dot dot and the article read only murders

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Speaker 1: in the Building co Star Martin Short was dead, which

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Speaker 1: would come as a big surprise to him. But the

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Speaker 1: winner the worst whoever designed the White House press room

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Speaker 1: for our Saint Pauli Girl, our Ava Brown Caroling Levitt's

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Speaker 1: White House press room. Yes, in a sense, I am

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Speaker 1: defending Caroline Levitt this. I don't think it's her fault,

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Speaker 1: although she may have been too stupid to realize it

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Speaker 1: or stop it, or look at anything in the picture

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Speaker 1: besides how lovely she looks. She must have signed off

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Speaker 1: on this, or if somebody tells her now that this

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Speaker 1: is a problem and she doesn't get it fixed, then

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Speaker 1: it's her fault or God's will or Hilter's fault. You remember,

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Speaker 1: she's the one who got Hitler's name wrong. For photographers

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Speaker 1: and cameras shooting Caroline Levitt from positions on the left

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Speaker 1: side of the White House press room there left the left.

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Speaker 1: As you look at the podium, something very unfortunate happens

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Speaker 1: as Levitt moves from side to side, rocking behind the

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Speaker 1: podium the way people who are lying often do. They

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Speaker 1: can't hold still, you know, the way when hag Seth

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Speaker 1: gets in front of the podium and starts to talk,

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Speaker 1: and it's like he can't hold still. It's a bad sign.

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Speaker 1: It's a bad sign often indicates lying. It's also an

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Speaker 1: actual bad sign. Involved is a big bad sign behind Levitt.

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Speaker 1: It is a graphic representation a drawing of the White

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Speaker 1: House before Trump destroyed it, leveled it, and replaced it

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Speaker 1: with a giant I don't know golf club and or

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Speaker 1: mausoleum for his ex wives. Anyway, beneath it roughly even

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Speaker 1: with Levitt, when she's standing on her podium behind her lectern,

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Speaker 1: just above eye level with her and she's five foot four,

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Speaker 1: are the words white House and beneath it Washington. Well,

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Speaker 1: what's wrong with that? It's been there for years. I

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Speaker 1: think the exact same logo dates to the Clinton presidency,

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Speaker 1: maybe earlier than that. And they are at the White House,

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Speaker 1: they're in Washington. So when it says white House, Washington,

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Speaker 1: that's one of the few things you can count on

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Speaker 1: she's not lying about and whether or not she's a

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Speaker 1: congenital liar who should be the subject of a special

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Speaker 1: prosecutor given how her husband may have capitalized on her position.

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Speaker 1: So what, there's nothing wrong with the sign except they

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Speaker 1: need to move the sign, or they need to move

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Speaker 1: her because the words white house are in fact exactly

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Speaker 1: level for photographers and videographers, exactly level with her forehead,

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Speaker 1: and when she moves all the way to her left,

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Speaker 1: that is camera right. We get moments like we did

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Speaker 1: at the latest press briefing win for very long stretches

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Speaker 1: of time, she blocks out the last three letters of

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Speaker 1: the two word name white House, white hous And what

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Speaker 1: you see then is Caroline Levitt standing to the right

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Speaker 1: of a sign that reads white ho. You heard me,

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Speaker 1: white Hoe, blocking out use. Perhaps they'd like to change that.

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Speaker 1: I would just a piece of advice, just a professionals

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Speaker 1: piece of advice to another professional in the media field. Also,

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Speaker 1: I once played softball in the centerfield or two, so

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Speaker 1: I feel kinship with her, even though, even though she's

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Speaker 1: not a human being. Caroline Levitt reporting to you from

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Speaker 1: Washington from the White Hoe to day's other worst person.

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Speaker 1: And it is February seventeenth, two thousand and four. At

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Speaker 1: one of those moronic corporate speak town halls. The bosses

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Speaker 1: have just introduced Rick Kaplan as the new president of

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Speaker 1: the network. Kaplan speaks for an hour without interruption or breath.

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Speaker 1: He does not mention that he was the president of

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Speaker 1: CNN when it's nineteen year streak at number one in

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Speaker 1: the cable news ratings came to a crashing end. He does, however,

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Speaker 1: mention that he is six feet seven inches tall, but

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Speaker 1: he does not seem to be six feet seven inches tall.

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Speaker 1: As this nonsense ends, I rush into the men's room

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Speaker 1: and find to my amusement, Joe Scarborough, Chris Matthews, Jesse Ventura,

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Speaker 1: Lester Holt, and one unoccupied yurinol. As I moved to

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Speaker 1: occupy it, it dawns on me that Ventura, the former

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Speaker 1: professional wrestler, is the shortest man in the bathroom at

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Speaker 1: six feet two. All five of us are silent. Finally,

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Speaker 1: Matthews says it helen hell, can he say six foot seven?

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Speaker 1: He's barely taller than I am, and I'm six four,

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Speaker 1: slightly taller than me. You're slightly shorter than me? How

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Speaker 1: is he six seven? Everybody keeps looking forward, of course,

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Speaker 1: into the wall in front of us. I'm six three

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Speaker 1: and a half. Lester, he's your height. I saw you

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Speaker 1: standing with him, you tour even What are you six'?

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Speaker 1: Five lester says uh huh and. Flushes scarborough chimes, In

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Speaker 1: i'm just olver sixty. Four we're almost. Dyed, aye he's

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Speaker 1: not six. Seven, Finally ventura, Speaks i've been thrown around

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Speaker 1: a ring by guys who were six. Seven this guy's

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Speaker 1: not six. Seven from the, Sink Lester holt now, says

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Speaker 1: have any of you known anybody our height who lies

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Speaker 1: and says they're? Taller matthews, again who lies about their?

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Speaker 1: HEIGHT i flush this guy. Does, gentlemen we are in

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Speaker 1: trouble here for the presidency Of Rick kamplan AT. Msnbc

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Speaker 1: that might have been, SORRY i can't resist it the

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Speaker 1: high water. Mark, later On, Friday march, fifth two thousand and, Four,

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Speaker 1: kaplan who had been there three, weeks assembled the hosts

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Speaker 1: and producers of the primetime shows on the network that

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Speaker 1: would have been, Me, Scarborough Dan, abrams our, staffs The

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Speaker 1: us that the next day was going to Be. Monday

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Speaker 1: somebody From scarborough's staff helpfully corrected him and Mister, Kaplan i'm,

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Speaker 1: sorry tomorrow Is. Saturday kaplan sternly explained he was now

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Speaker 1: president of this network and we all. Sucked and if

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Speaker 1: he said today Was friday and tomorrow Is, monday then

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Speaker 1: today Was friday and tomorrow Was. Monday he wanted to

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Speaker 1: see us react to sudden changes in our. Plans we

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Speaker 1: sixth day tomorrow for no. Reason kaplin then started yelling at,

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Speaker 1: msnbc losing the staffs of all four of his primetime

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Speaker 1: shows on his fifth day on the job and never

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Speaker 1: Displayed he ordered producers to move segments, around and he

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00:45:49,555 --> 00:45:52,515
Speaker 1: berated me for not having anticipated his whims and at

636
00:45:52,515 --> 00:45:54,995
Speaker 1: one point he, screamed, stop what the hell are you?

637
00:45:55,075 --> 00:45:58,075
Speaker 1: Doing and he got up and he grabbed the, pushpin

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00:45:58,675 --> 00:46:01,155
Speaker 1: which held up an index card bearing the name of a.

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00:46:01,195 --> 00:46:05,515
Speaker 1: Guest you don't use green pins with yellow index. Cards

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00:46:06,555 --> 00:46:10,755
Speaker 1: you use yellow. Pins with yellow index. Cards what kind

641
00:46:10,755 --> 00:46:15,435
Speaker 1: of a newsman Are you can't imagine how this guy

642
00:46:15,515 --> 00:46:19,195
Speaker 1: choked away CNN's monopoly on cable news. RATINGS i was

643
00:46:19,235 --> 00:46:22,755
Speaker 1: reminded recently that later On december, eighth two thousand and,

644
00:46:22,795 --> 00:46:26,275
Speaker 1: five seventeen years, ago, tomorrow he did one of the

645
00:46:26,315 --> 00:46:31,475
Speaker 1: most unintentionally funniest THINGS i have ever. WITNESSED a plane

646
00:46:31,635 --> 00:46:34,795
Speaker 1: slid off the runway At Midway airport In. Chicago nothing

647
00:46:34,835 --> 00:46:38,635
Speaker 1: funny about, that, obviously But kaplan called into our control

648
00:46:38,715 --> 00:46:42,515
Speaker 1: room demanding we changed something about our live coverage that

649
00:46:42,595 --> 00:46:44,675
Speaker 1: he didn't. Like we promptly made the. Change he was.

650
00:46:44,795 --> 00:46:48,235
Speaker 1: Right five minutes later he called in and started swearing

651
00:46:48,235 --> 00:46:50,595
Speaker 1: at one of our. PRODUCERS i told you to change

652
00:46:50,595 --> 00:46:54,595
Speaker 1: that if you you're, fired and the producer, said we

653
00:46:54,755 --> 00:46:58,035
Speaker 1: changed it five minutes. Ago when you called, in, Silence,

654
00:46:58,915 --> 00:47:00,995
Speaker 1: Rick are you watching the network on some sort of?

655
00:47:01,035 --> 00:47:06,755
Speaker 1: Delay are you watching ON tvo or? Something silence. Again

656
00:47:07,195 --> 00:47:10,235
Speaker 1: finally he, said, okay good, work see you tomorrow and hung.

657
00:47:10,315 --> 00:47:14,835
Speaker 1: Up he didn't know he was watching it on a.

658
00:47:14,875 --> 00:47:18,435
Speaker 1: Delay kaplan was also one of these forget the mean

659
00:47:18,475 --> 00:47:21,035
Speaker 1: THING i said. Yesterday god KNOWS i have kind of

660
00:47:21,035 --> 00:47:24,035
Speaker 1: guys By, monday he had heard people laughing at some

661
00:47:24,115 --> 00:47:27,595
Speaker 1: of my on air, jokes and his front runner instincts took.

662
00:47:27,595 --> 00:47:30,715
Speaker 1: Over he called me and the producer in for a.

663
00:47:30,755 --> 00:47:33,395
Speaker 1: MEETING i have only one criticism of your. Show the

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00:47:33,555 --> 00:47:35,795
Speaker 1: which of these stories will you be talking? About thing is?

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00:47:35,835 --> 00:47:38,675
Speaker 1: Genius the fifth, story the fourth, story then the third.

666
00:47:38,715 --> 00:47:44,755
Speaker 1: Story it's original and. FRESH i. HESITATED i almost said to, him,

667
00:47:45,115 --> 00:47:48,395
Speaker 1: yeah this whole counting. Thing we just invented. That the

668
00:47:48,475 --> 00:47:51,595
Speaker 1: music is, genius the graphics are. Genius you're a, genius

669
00:47:51,635 --> 00:47:54,675
Speaker 1: but you're missing something, obvious something. Genius after each one

670
00:47:54,715 --> 00:47:57,515
Speaker 1: of these, stories after you thank your, guest you should

671
00:47:57,515 --> 00:47:59,195
Speaker 1: do a list of the things you didn't tell us

672
00:47:59,195 --> 00:48:02,355
Speaker 1: about those. Stories so like after the fifth, story you should,

673
00:48:02,395 --> 00:48:04,635
Speaker 1: say now here are the other five things we didn't

674
00:48:04,755 --> 00:48:06,995
Speaker 1: tell you about the fifth, story get it a full

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00:48:07,035 --> 00:48:09,875
Speaker 1: screen graphic and you telling. People and then four things

676
00:48:09,875 --> 00:48:14,115
Speaker 1: for the fourth story and three for the. THIRD i

677
00:48:14,155 --> 00:48:15,875
Speaker 1: thought for a, moment AND i, Said, okay well what

678
00:48:15,915 --> 00:48:18,115
Speaker 1: happens if we make those graphics up and then a minute,

679
00:48:18,115 --> 00:48:21,035
Speaker 1: beforehand the guest brings up one of those things we

680
00:48:21,115 --> 00:48:24,475
Speaker 1: claim we didn't tell you when he just told you

681
00:48:25,795 --> 00:48:29,435
Speaker 1: we had Lost Rick caplin's attention by that. Point, hmmm he.

682
00:48:29,475 --> 00:48:32,915
Speaker 1: Grunted for a, SECOND i thought his eyes were pointing

683
00:48:32,955 --> 00:48:36,555
Speaker 1: outwards in different, directions but he snapped himself back into this.

684
00:48:36,635 --> 00:48:40,595
Speaker 1: Reality huh could. Happen you'll figure it out. Anyway too

685
00:48:40,675 --> 00:48:42,115
Speaker 1: late to do it, today figure it out and do it.

686
00:48:42,155 --> 00:48:47,395
Speaker 1: Tomorrow thanks the producer AND i had to then explain

687
00:48:47,435 --> 00:48:49,315
Speaker 1: to the staff Of countdown that from now, on for

688
00:48:49,475 --> 00:48:52,915
Speaker 1: every story they had to deliberately leave out one or

689
00:48:52,955 --> 00:48:56,235
Speaker 1: two or three or four or five facts or, details

690
00:48:56,875 --> 00:48:59,195
Speaker 1: something interesting enough to be made into a full screen,

691
00:48:59,235 --> 00:49:02,395
Speaker 1: graphic but not interesting enough to be included in their

692
00:49:02,435 --> 00:49:06,875
Speaker 1: scripts or the interviews with the. Guests SUDDENLY i thought

693
00:49:06,915 --> 00:49:09,555
Speaker 1: a lot of people's eyes were pointing outwards in different.

694
00:49:09,555 --> 00:49:13,315
Speaker 1: Directions the line, Producer Greg, kordick who was in charge

695
00:49:13,355 --> 00:49:15,915
Speaker 1: not of content but of timing things and making sure

696
00:49:15,995 --> 00:49:19,195
Speaker 1: things like graphics got, made, said matter of, factly this

697
00:49:19,275 --> 00:49:23,155
Speaker 1: will add five hours to everybody's. Workday and so it.

698
00:49:23,235 --> 00:49:26,915
Speaker 1: Did after the next day's show when we listed the

699
00:49:26,915 --> 00:49:28,835
Speaker 1: top five things we didn't tell you about today's fifth,

700
00:49:28,835 --> 00:49:30,515
Speaker 1: story and the top four things we didn't tell you

701
00:49:30,515 --> 00:49:33,475
Speaker 1: about today's fourth, story. Etc and we had to shorten

702
00:49:33,515 --> 00:49:36,195
Speaker 1: all the scripts and shorten each interview just to make

703
00:49:36,315 --> 00:49:39,835
Speaker 1: room for all of this extraneous. Crap greg the producer,

704
00:49:39,915 --> 00:49:43,315
Speaker 1: said people here will be quitting By thursday and dying By.

705
00:49:43,355 --> 00:49:45,755
Speaker 1: Monday AND i, said you're. Right plus it ruins the

706
00:49:45,795 --> 00:49:48,275
Speaker 1: interviews and it weakens the. Show don't do it tomorrow With, kaplan,

707
00:49:48,355 --> 00:49:52,315
Speaker 1: Yells i'll take the. Eight so now It's. Wednesday and

708
00:49:52,355 --> 00:49:55,115
Speaker 1: not only DON'T i hear anything From kaplin about The

709
00:49:55,155 --> 00:49:57,555
Speaker 1: tuesday show and his the top five things we didn't

710
00:49:57,595 --> 00:50:00,235
Speaker 1: tell you about today's fifth Story, jazz but after The

711
00:50:00,235 --> 00:50:03,315
Speaker 1: wednesday show when we don't do, It i'm sitting there

712
00:50:03,315 --> 00:50:07,395
Speaker 1: waiting for an enraged phone call because we Didn't thursday

713
00:50:07,395 --> 00:50:10,355
Speaker 1: morning at, Home i'm waiting for an enraged. Email thursday,

714
00:50:10,395 --> 00:50:14,995
Speaker 1: Afternoon i'm waiting for an Enraged kaplan in. Person. Nothing

715
00:50:16,035 --> 00:50:19,635
Speaker 1: he never said a. Word the week passes, nothing a,

716
00:50:19,675 --> 00:50:24,435
Speaker 1: month two, months it's, summer. Nothing the rest of two

717
00:50:24,475 --> 00:50:28,675
Speaker 1: thousand and four flies by. Nothing we did it, once

718
00:50:28,955 --> 00:50:34,595
Speaker 1: we never did it, again and then he never said.

719
00:50:34,595 --> 00:50:38,235
Speaker 1: Anything it is Now january two thousand and five and

720
00:50:38,275 --> 00:50:40,115
Speaker 1: he still hasn't said. Anything And i'm told By Phil,

721
00:50:40,115 --> 00:50:44,315
Speaker 1: griffin my first producer in television sports and sixteen years,

722
00:50:44,395 --> 00:50:47,755
Speaker 1: later my first producer in television news who has since

723
00:50:47,795 --> 00:50:50,435
Speaker 1: become the vice president OF, msnbc That kaplain wants to

724
00:50:50,475 --> 00:50:53,235
Speaker 1: see us in his. Office it's not a big, Deal phil,

725
00:50:53,275 --> 00:50:55,395
Speaker 1: says he's in a good. Mood he just wants to

726
00:50:55,395 --> 00:50:57,675
Speaker 1: make us feel like we have input into his. Decisions

727
00:50:57,875 --> 00:51:01,435
Speaker 1: this is a what do you think? Meeting, NOW i

728
00:51:01,475 --> 00:51:03,835
Speaker 1: have to ask you to carefully picture the layout Of

729
00:51:03,915 --> 00:51:07,155
Speaker 1: Rick kaplan's office AT msnbc in the year two thousand and.

730
00:51:07,155 --> 00:51:13,155
Speaker 1: Five envision a, long narrow. Room BASEBALL'S mlb network now operates,

731
00:51:13,195 --> 00:51:17,155
Speaker 1: there and they have cleverly Turned kaplan's office into a wardrobe,

732
00:51:17,315 --> 00:51:20,955
Speaker 1: room perfect since it was really just a long. Closet,

733
00:51:20,995 --> 00:51:24,195
Speaker 1: Anyways Rick, kamplan who was six foot five but lied

734
00:51:24,235 --> 00:51:26,235
Speaker 1: and said he was six foot, seven sat at the

735
00:51:26,355 --> 00:51:28,835
Speaker 1: very back of this. Room so you come in the front,

736
00:51:28,875 --> 00:51:33,475
Speaker 1: door you turn to your, right and maybe thirty thirty

737
00:51:33,555 --> 00:51:36,795
Speaker 1: five forty feet away from, you in the farthest, corner

738
00:51:37,075 --> 00:51:40,315
Speaker 1: facing his computer on his, desk flush against the left hand,

739
00:51:40,315 --> 00:51:44,435
Speaker 1: wall is the president OF. MSNBC a few feet into

740
00:51:44,475 --> 00:51:48,035
Speaker 1: the room is where you. Sit halfway between these two

741
00:51:48,035 --> 00:51:52,195
Speaker 1: points against the right hand wall is where another executive can,

742
00:51:52,235 --> 00:51:56,755
Speaker 1: Sit So Phil griffin sits. There i'm just inside the.

743
00:51:56,795 --> 00:51:58,955
Speaker 1: Door he is fifteen feet ahead of me to the.

744
00:51:59,075 --> 00:52:02,195
Speaker 1: Right Rick kamplan is thirty feet or forty feet ahead

745
00:52:02,195 --> 00:52:05,235
Speaker 1: of me to the. Left picture this, carefully the way

746
00:52:05,315 --> 00:52:09,195
Speaker 1: these chairs and desks are. Arranged if you're me And

747
00:52:09,235 --> 00:52:12,595
Speaker 1: Phil griffin is looking at, You Rick kaplan can only

748
00:52:12,635 --> 00:52:14,955
Speaker 1: see the back Of Phil griffin's head and not his.

749
00:52:15,075 --> 00:52:18,755
Speaker 1: Face if they are both looking at, you they cannot

750
00:52:18,795 --> 00:52:24,915
Speaker 1: see each. Other, weird seemingly trivial turned out to be.

751
00:52:25,075 --> 00:52:29,955
Speaker 1: Essential we begin this meaningless meeting and talk about guests and, graphics,

752
00:52:30,075 --> 00:52:32,515
Speaker 1: fonts And kaplan talks about how much the ratings have

753
00:52:32,555 --> 00:52:35,075
Speaker 1: gone up in his year as. President and, FINALLY i,

754
00:52:35,115 --> 00:52:37,835
Speaker 1: SAY i do have one. SUGGESTION i think the show

755
00:52:37,875 --> 00:52:39,675
Speaker 1: is going to be very, successful AND i think if

756
00:52:39,675 --> 00:52:41,635
Speaker 1: we want to make any, changes we should make them

757
00:52:41,675 --> 00:52:46,315
Speaker 1: now before it becomes. Successful AND i, SAY i have

758
00:52:46,555 --> 00:52:50,555
Speaker 1: never heard anybody say they like the fifth, story fourth,

759
00:52:50,595 --> 00:52:53,835
Speaker 1: story third story. Stuff if you want to continue the

760
00:52:53,955 --> 00:52:57,715
Speaker 1: name countdown because people know it by, now that's, GREAT i.

761
00:52:57,755 --> 00:53:00,715
Speaker 1: Guess but the five, four three two one numbering is a,

762
00:53:00,795 --> 00:53:03,795
Speaker 1: conceit and it's a lot of extra work for, everybody

763
00:53:03,835 --> 00:53:07,515
Speaker 1: AND i think we should kill it. Now kaplan is,

764
00:53:08,315 --> 00:53:13,795
Speaker 1: aghast he is. Pale he is not, angry he is just.

765
00:53:14,755 --> 00:53:19,955
Speaker 1: Stunned but you can't do. That five four three two

766
00:53:19,995 --> 00:53:22,155
Speaker 1: one is part of the. Reasons and the ratings went.

767
00:53:22,275 --> 00:53:24,515
Speaker 1: Up the ratings went. Up WHEN i came up with

768
00:53:24,595 --> 00:53:26,875
Speaker 1: the idea of the top five things we didn't tell

769
00:53:26,875 --> 00:53:29,635
Speaker 1: you about today's top five, stories and the top four

770
00:53:29,675 --> 00:53:33,235
Speaker 1: things we didn't tell you about today's number four, story et.

771
00:53:33,355 --> 00:53:37,155
Speaker 1: Cetera we can't stop. That that's why people Watch my.

772
00:53:37,435 --> 00:53:42,715
Speaker 1: Idea took me a split second to even remember what

773
00:53:42,755 --> 00:53:44,595
Speaker 1: the hell it was he was talking. ABOUT i had

774
00:53:44,635 --> 00:53:48,435
Speaker 1: forgotten the whole five things we didn't tell You albatross

775
00:53:48,795 --> 00:53:51,515
Speaker 1: weeks after the one show we did, it and then

776
00:53:51,555 --> 00:53:53,715
Speaker 1: the staff rebelled AND i, said screw, it And i'll

777
00:53:53,715 --> 00:53:55,715
Speaker 1: take the. Heat AND i was about to say this

778
00:53:55,795 --> 00:53:58,915
Speaker 1: out loud WHEN i suddenly realized That Phil, griffin fifteen

779
00:53:58,955 --> 00:54:01,515
Speaker 1: feet away on the, right his face turned to me

780
00:54:01,555 --> 00:54:03,715
Speaker 1: and thus invisible To kaplan thirty feet away on the,

781
00:54:03,755 --> 00:54:06,635
Speaker 1: left was making him his eyes as wide as, possible

782
00:54:06,915 --> 00:54:09,835
Speaker 1: And phil was looking right at. Me and silently mouthing

783
00:54:09,875 --> 00:54:13,635
Speaker 1: the word, no, no, no, no, no all the while

784
00:54:13,755 --> 00:54:18,235
Speaker 1: keeping his head completely, still So kaplan didn't know he

785
00:54:18,315 --> 00:54:23,795
Speaker 1: was talking to me. SILENTLY i Got phil's, MESSAGE i

786
00:54:23,915 --> 00:54:27,715
Speaker 1: dropped the. SUBJECT i didn't say. It the meeting ended

787
00:54:27,755 --> 00:54:30,155
Speaker 1: maybe two minutes later With kaplan saying keep up the good,

788
00:54:30,155 --> 00:54:32,515
Speaker 1: work and ushering us out by, saying and keep up

789
00:54:32,515 --> 00:54:34,155
Speaker 1: with the top five things we didn't tell you about

790
00:54:34,195 --> 00:54:37,275
Speaker 1: today's five fifth. Story oh that's what's making it really.

791
00:54:37,315 --> 00:54:42,515
Speaker 1: Cook when we were out of earshot Of Rick, Kaplan

792
00:54:42,555 --> 00:54:45,275
Speaker 1: griffin thanked me for being able to read his panicked.

793
00:54:45,435 --> 00:54:49,395
Speaker 1: LIPS i used an oath to liven up my, question

794
00:54:49,595 --> 00:54:53,235
Speaker 1: what the blank was that all? About And griffin, said

795
00:54:53,435 --> 00:54:55,115
Speaker 1: now you know what every day of my life has.

796
00:54:55,115 --> 00:54:57,715
Speaker 1: Become it's not worth it to try to correct. Him

797
00:54:58,155 --> 00:55:01,435
Speaker 1: he believes what he, believes and he won't be checked or.

798
00:55:01,435 --> 00:55:06,555
Speaker 1: Contradicted AND i, said we only did the five things

799
00:55:06,595 --> 00:55:09,595
Speaker 1: we didn't tell you a thing, once only. Once it's

800
00:55:09,675 --> 00:55:12,195
Speaker 1: like a year. Later how in the hell could he

801
00:55:12,235 --> 00:55:17,275
Speaker 1: possibly think we're still doing? It griffin laughed like a

802
00:55:17,355 --> 00:55:20,395
Speaker 1: soldier on A World War one battlefield who has just

803
00:55:20,515 --> 00:55:23,875
Speaker 1: run out of. Bullets see that's the, problem. Buddy he

804
00:55:23,915 --> 00:55:27,155
Speaker 1: only WATCHES msnbc here in the, office the place he's

805
00:55:27,195 --> 00:55:34,155
Speaker 1: renting it doesn't have. Cable president OF msnbc doesn't have

806
00:55:34,275 --> 00:55:39,675
Speaker 1: cable at. Home On june, sixth two thousand and, six

807
00:55:39,715 --> 00:55:42,155
Speaker 1: they Fired Rick kaplan as the president OF. Msnbc they

808
00:55:42,195 --> 00:55:45,795
Speaker 1: let him. Resign they also let him keep his, secret

809
00:55:46,515 --> 00:55:49,795
Speaker 1: the darkest of secrets for him and FOR, msnbc, that

810
00:55:49,955 --> 00:55:53,315
Speaker 1: for his two years on the, throne the president of

811
00:55:53,355 --> 00:56:13,835
Speaker 1: an all news cable channel did not have. Cable Rick.

812
00:56:13,955 --> 00:56:20,515
Speaker 1: Caplan Rick kaplan who once tried to run me down

813
00:56:20,635 --> 00:56:25,035
Speaker 1: and kill me because he THOUGHT i was deliberately making

814
00:56:25,115 --> 00:56:30,995
Speaker 1: references to blood after surgery so that all the viewers

815
00:56:31,035 --> 00:56:33,635
Speaker 1: would stop watching the first edition Of The Rita Cosby

816
00:56:33,715 --> 00:56:39,035
Speaker 1: show ON, msnbc because the geniuses AT msnbc once thought

817
00:56:39,595 --> 00:56:43,715
Speaker 1: What america needed was a worse version Of Fox news

818
00:56:44,075 --> 00:56:46,355
Speaker 1: featuring all the people who could not make it On Fox,

819
00:56:46,395 --> 00:56:49,075
Speaker 1: news when in fact we found out later that What

820
00:56:49,115 --> 00:56:53,275
Speaker 1: america apparently, wanted at least some of them, did was

821
00:56:53,315 --> 00:56:55,155
Speaker 1: a White house that was made up of all the

822
00:56:55,155 --> 00:56:57,875
Speaker 1: people who could not get good jobs On Fox. News,

823
00:56:58,195 --> 00:57:00,195
Speaker 1: Okay i've done all the. DAMAGE i can do. Here

824
00:57:00,235 --> 00:57:03,595
Speaker 1: thank you for. Listening our musical directors here At countdown

825
00:57:03,595 --> 00:57:06,275
Speaker 1: Our John Phillips chanel who does the keyboards and handles the,

826
00:57:06,355 --> 00:57:11,355
Speaker 1: orchestration And Brian, ray who plays, guitar, bass drums and

827
00:57:11,395 --> 00:57:13,555
Speaker 1: of course is in charge of the whole vibe of the.

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00:57:13,595 --> 00:57:17,835
Speaker 1: Thing and their work is produced By Tko. Brothers Nancy,

829
00:57:17,915 --> 00:57:21,315
Speaker 1: fauss the best baseball stadium organist, ever is responsible for

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00:57:21,555 --> 00:57:25,635
Speaker 1: our satirical and pithy musical comments whenever we play sports.

831
00:57:25,715 --> 00:57:29,835
Speaker 1: Music it's the old theme from The Old Olderman show

832
00:57:30,355 --> 00:57:33,315
Speaker 1: FROM espn, two and it was written By Mitch Warren

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00:57:33,355 --> 00:57:36,875
Speaker 1: davis S and it appears COURTESY, Vespn. Inc other music

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00:57:36,995 --> 00:57:40,075
Speaker 1: arranged and performed by the Group No horns, Allowed and

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00:57:40,155 --> 00:57:43,395
Speaker 1: in the spirit of THE espn, theme my announcer today

836
00:57:43,515 --> 00:57:46,875
Speaker 1: was my Friend Tony. Kornheiser NOTICE i didn't call him.

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00:57:46,875 --> 00:57:52,595
Speaker 1: Old this program was produced By. Ted everything else was

838
00:57:52,635 --> 00:57:55,715
Speaker 1: as always my. Fault that's countdown for, Today day four

839
00:57:55,795 --> 00:57:59,875
Speaker 1: hundred and fourteen Of america held hostage, again but just

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00:57:59,915 --> 00:58:03,275
Speaker 1: one fifty seven days until the scheduled end of his

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00:58:03,355 --> 00:58:06,515
Speaker 1: lame duck and lame brain unless he is removed sooner

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