1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:21,435 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Trump 2 00:00:21,515 --> 00:00:25,475 Speaker 1: has already won his presidential immunity case beginning today at 3 00:00:25,515 --> 00:00:28,355 Speaker 1: the Supreme Court. I don't mean they're actually going to 4 00:00:28,435 --> 00:00:33,675 Speaker 1: make up an unconstitutional, nonsensical political science fiction thing called 5 00:00:34,115 --> 00:00:37,715 Speaker 1: presidential immunity. In fact, as I'll explain in a moment, 6 00:00:37,755 --> 00:00:42,315 Speaker 1: the last thing they or Trump want is actual presidential immunity. No. 7 00:00:42,875 --> 00:00:45,395 Speaker 1: To do its part in Trump's cover up of his 8 00:00:45,555 --> 00:00:49,595 Speaker 1: January sixth treason, the Supreme Court only has to do 9 00:00:49,675 --> 00:00:54,395 Speaker 1: this pretend, just like Trump is, pretending that the concept 10 00:00:54,915 --> 00:00:59,515 Speaker 1: of maybe there is presidential immunity is just plausible enough 11 00:00:59,715 --> 00:01:03,955 Speaker 1: that it has to be debated and dejudicated. And they've 12 00:01:03,995 --> 00:01:09,035 Speaker 1: already done that. The Samuel Alito conspiracy to delay justice 13 00:01:09,315 --> 00:01:12,675 Speaker 1: to save Trump and to try to fix the election 14 00:01:12,835 --> 00:01:16,875 Speaker 1: in his favor this November. This confidence trick by anti 15 00:01:16,995 --> 00:01:21,915 Speaker 1: American scumbags like Alito and Clarence Thomas, and Trump's three 16 00:01:22,035 --> 00:01:26,355 Speaker 1: concierge justices and lower court judges has helped to keep 17 00:01:26,475 --> 00:01:30,555 Speaker 1: Jack Smith's prosecution of Trump for his coup attempt frozen 18 00:01:30,835 --> 00:01:35,275 Speaker 1: in place since December thirteenth. Trial was supposed to have 19 00:01:35,315 --> 00:01:38,715 Speaker 1: begun on the fourth of last month. We should be 20 00:01:38,835 --> 00:01:44,275 Speaker 1: fifty three days deep into this thing, but Trump came up, 21 00:01:44,555 --> 00:01:48,275 Speaker 1: or somebody smarter than Trump came up with something ridiculous 22 00:01:48,435 --> 00:01:52,155 Speaker 1: yet not too ridiculous, and has bought and paid for 23 00:01:52,395 --> 00:01:56,235 Speaker 1: theocratic rubber stamp. Justices could then say, good enough, we 24 00:01:56,315 --> 00:01:59,275 Speaker 1: can make something out of this crap. They are the 25 00:01:59,355 --> 00:02:03,955 Speaker 1: Supreme Court and as long as death or resignation are 26 00:02:03,995 --> 00:02:07,635 Speaker 1: the only way to remove their members, Trump could have 27 00:02:07,755 --> 00:02:11,915 Speaker 1: used almost anything to achieve what he has already achieved. 28 00:02:11,995 --> 00:02:14,555 Speaker 1: He could have argued that he can't be prosecuted because 29 00:02:14,595 --> 00:02:17,435 Speaker 1: of presidential immunity, or he could have argued that he 30 00:02:17,475 --> 00:02:21,075 Speaker 1: can't be prosecuted because first he deserved a commission to 31 00:02:21,235 --> 00:02:24,395 Speaker 1: investigate whether he really lost in twenty twenty, and thus 32 00:02:24,435 --> 00:02:27,875 Speaker 1: maybe he can't be prosecuted because he's still president. Or 33 00:02:27,915 --> 00:02:31,875 Speaker 1: he could have argued that God wants him not to testify, 34 00:02:32,395 --> 00:02:35,035 Speaker 1: and thus the case cannot proceed until they get a 35 00:02:35,075 --> 00:02:41,715 Speaker 1: deposition from God, which flavor of bullshit Trump is feeding 36 00:02:41,755 --> 00:02:45,395 Speaker 1: the justices and the nation doesn't matter so long as 37 00:02:45,435 --> 00:02:48,475 Speaker 1: it is typed up in the form of a submission 38 00:02:48,475 --> 00:02:53,755 Speaker 1: to the court. But this stain on democracy. The John Roberts. 39 00:02:53,915 --> 00:02:58,035 Speaker 1: Court can go even further now in colluding and conspiring 40 00:02:58,075 --> 00:03:02,035 Speaker 1: with Trump. Most of the coverage anticipating oral arguments has 41 00:03:02,075 --> 00:03:06,195 Speaker 1: been binary. The Court is going to will presidential immunity 42 00:03:06,235 --> 00:03:10,315 Speaker 1: into existence out of thin air, or the Court is 43 00:03:10,355 --> 00:03:13,995 Speaker 1: not going to do that. In point of fact, the 44 00:03:14,035 --> 00:03:18,075 Speaker 1: best outcome for Trump now is none of the above. 45 00:03:18,995 --> 00:03:22,315 Speaker 1: If the Court takes just its ordinary length of time 46 00:03:22,595 --> 00:03:24,755 Speaker 1: on a case like this, it doesn't have to say 47 00:03:24,795 --> 00:03:29,475 Speaker 1: a word about this before the thirtieth of June. It 48 00:03:29,515 --> 00:03:32,955 Speaker 1: can ice this trial for another two full months and 49 00:03:32,995 --> 00:03:35,955 Speaker 1: not even look as corrupt as it actually is. Just 50 00:03:36,155 --> 00:03:39,395 Speaker 1: that timeline. It's June thirtieth. Here's our ruling. Oh, there 51 00:03:39,435 --> 00:03:44,155 Speaker 1: is no presidential immunity. Just having Clarence Thomas sit his fat, 52 00:03:44,595 --> 00:03:48,715 Speaker 1: useless ass on the scales of justice for the normal 53 00:03:48,835 --> 00:03:51,675 Speaker 1: length of delay time, and there's no way the election 54 00:03:51,795 --> 00:03:55,475 Speaker 1: subversion case can get to the jury before the election. 55 00:03:56,475 --> 00:04:02,155 Speaker 1: If Trump loses, he wins. But if that's not enough, 56 00:04:02,435 --> 00:04:04,955 Speaker 1: and trust me, Trump has gotten the message through to 57 00:04:04,995 --> 00:04:09,315 Speaker 1: these useless, gutless fascists that it is not enough. If 58 00:04:09,355 --> 00:04:11,915 Speaker 1: Trump wants them to not only delay the case but 59 00:04:12,035 --> 00:04:14,715 Speaker 1: destroy it, the court can look at the case and 60 00:04:14,755 --> 00:04:17,955 Speaker 1: not say there is presidential immunity, nor say there is 61 00:04:17,995 --> 00:04:22,355 Speaker 1: no presidential immunity, but to say instead maybe there is, 62 00:04:23,115 --> 00:04:25,515 Speaker 1: and we need to find out if it applies here. 63 00:04:25,875 --> 00:04:29,795 Speaker 1: We have studied this carefully, Sam Alito can lie, and 64 00:04:29,835 --> 00:04:34,795 Speaker 1: we have decided that there is a litmus test needed 65 00:04:34,835 --> 00:04:39,715 Speaker 1: to determine whether or not presidents might have criminal immunity 66 00:04:39,915 --> 00:04:45,435 Speaker 1: for what they have crimed while in office. And that 67 00:04:45,475 --> 00:04:49,555 Speaker 1: test ain't person woman, man, camera TV. It's one hundred 68 00:04:49,555 --> 00:04:53,875 Speaker 1: and sixty seven different points. And before Judge Tanya Chutkin 69 00:04:54,155 --> 00:04:58,475 Speaker 1: may resume her little naive attempt to preserve democracy and 70 00:04:58,595 --> 00:05:02,115 Speaker 1: to put criminals behind bars, she has to apply this 71 00:05:02,235 --> 00:05:04,595 Speaker 1: litmus test we just made up out of whole cla 72 00:05:04,715 --> 00:05:08,875 Speaker 1: off to everything in the indictments of Trump gotten by 73 00:05:08,875 --> 00:05:14,035 Speaker 1: the Special Council. She has to take this new presidential 74 00:05:14,035 --> 00:05:19,275 Speaker 1: immunity quiz, maybe even seek expert testimony in her own 75 00:05:19,395 --> 00:05:23,195 Speaker 1: court to everything in the Trump indictment before she can 76 00:05:23,275 --> 00:05:29,675 Speaker 1: even begin the actual trial. And guess when the actual 77 00:05:29,755 --> 00:05:36,235 Speaker 1: trial would start. Then you're right, it wouldn't. It wouldn't 78 00:05:36,315 --> 00:05:41,075 Speaker 1: unless Joe Biden is reelected. So, as I said, Trump 79 00:05:41,115 --> 00:05:43,355 Speaker 1: has already won at the Supreme Court, because this is 80 00:05:43,515 --> 00:05:47,035 Speaker 1: rigged and this is fixed, and we know the names 81 00:05:47,035 --> 00:05:49,515 Speaker 1: of the people doing the rigging and the fixing, and 82 00:05:49,555 --> 00:05:52,235 Speaker 1: they are doing so in plain sight. And their names 83 00:05:52,235 --> 00:05:56,275 Speaker 1: are Samuel Alito and Amy Barrett and Neil Gorsch and 84 00:05:56,355 --> 00:06:01,115 Speaker 1: Brett Kavanaugh and John Roberts and Clarence Thomas, and may 85 00:06:01,195 --> 00:06:05,875 Speaker 1: they burn in hell. And there is not a goddamned 86 00:06:05,995 --> 00:06:08,755 Speaker 1: thing we can do about them. And know there's no 87 00:06:08,955 --> 00:06:13,595 Speaker 1: Mike Johnson with a brief and transient burst of conscience 88 00:06:14,035 --> 00:06:18,995 Speaker 1: riding to democracies rescue today, And there is not even 89 00:06:19,035 --> 00:06:22,515 Speaker 1: a realistic scenario in which the Supreme Court metaphorically shoots 90 00:06:22,555 --> 00:06:25,435 Speaker 1: itself in the foot and metaphorically shoots Trump in the 91 00:06:25,475 --> 00:06:29,795 Speaker 1: face and says, why, yes, there is presidential immunity, And 92 00:06:29,835 --> 00:06:32,515 Speaker 1: there's also a Santa Claus and there are brownies and 93 00:06:32,555 --> 00:06:35,275 Speaker 1: elves and UFOs and John F. Kennedy is alive. Because, 94 00:06:35,275 --> 00:06:38,035 Speaker 1: as I said before, the last thing the Court or 95 00:06:38,075 --> 00:06:42,435 Speaker 1: the Republicans or the fascists or Trump want is forth 96 00:06:42,435 --> 00:06:46,155 Speaker 1: here to be actual presidential immunity, because if come June 97 00:06:46,155 --> 00:06:51,555 Speaker 1: thirtieth they declare it really is extant, there really is 98 00:06:51,715 --> 00:06:55,555 Speaker 1: presidential immunity. If that happens on June thirtieth, then Joe 99 00:06:55,555 --> 00:06:57,475 Speaker 1: Biden is smart. The first thing he would do is 100 00:06:57,595 --> 00:07:01,195 Speaker 1: arrest and detain Alito and Barrett and Gorstach and Kavanaugh 101 00:07:01,235 --> 00:07:04,435 Speaker 1: and Roberts and Thomas, and arrest and detain Trump and 102 00:07:04,715 --> 00:07:08,115 Speaker 1: Ansel the election, because guess what, If there's going to 103 00:07:08,155 --> 00:07:13,155 Speaker 1: be presidential immunity and thus there are no circumstances in 104 00:07:13,195 --> 00:07:17,075 Speaker 1: which any president is held to any account for breaking 105 00:07:17,195 --> 00:07:20,915 Speaker 1: any law or betraying this country in any imaginable way, 106 00:07:21,195 --> 00:07:28,435 Speaker 1: who would you rather have wielding those dictatorial powers, Joe 107 00:07:28,435 --> 00:07:34,395 Speaker 1: Biden or Donald Trump. A declaration before the election that 108 00:07:34,435 --> 00:07:41,595 Speaker 1: there is presidential immunity would literally officially end American representative government. 109 00:07:42,675 --> 00:07:49,395 Speaker 1: It would make the president an absolute monarch instantly that day, 110 00:07:50,995 --> 00:07:53,155 Speaker 1: and he would have the entirety of the US military 111 00:07:53,155 --> 00:07:58,115 Speaker 1: behind him. And if the Supreme Court rules that on 112 00:07:58,275 --> 00:08:01,955 Speaker 1: June thirtieth, we will be put in that oldest of binds. 113 00:08:02,875 --> 00:08:05,675 Speaker 1: Would you rather be the person going to the prison 114 00:08:05,755 --> 00:08:09,555 Speaker 1: camps or would you rather be the person sending other 115 00:08:09,635 --> 00:08:13,395 Speaker 1: people to the prison camps? And sorry, I'll choose being 116 00:08:13,435 --> 00:08:16,835 Speaker 1: the person sending somebody else to the prison camp. Every 117 00:08:17,075 --> 00:08:22,115 Speaker 1: single goddamned time, especially if I know that my dictator 118 00:08:22,635 --> 00:08:25,955 Speaker 1: is going to be the proverbial benign one who would 119 00:08:25,955 --> 00:08:32,235 Speaker 1: restore democracy as soon as possible, as fantastical as it 120 00:08:32,355 --> 00:08:38,235 Speaker 1: is just to speak out loud, these crazy nightmarish things, 121 00:08:38,835 --> 00:08:43,995 Speaker 1: they are this serious. The Supreme Court ruling that there 122 00:08:44,155 --> 00:08:50,595 Speaker 1: is presidential immunity would be that earth shattering instantly, Lady 123 00:08:50,675 --> 00:08:55,555 Speaker 1: or the tiger fight or flight? Eat or be eaten? 124 00:08:57,475 --> 00:09:01,635 Speaker 1: Eat or be eaten? Let me see the menu, please, 125 00:09:02,075 --> 00:09:07,555 Speaker 1: and what are the specials today? And that, of course, 126 00:09:07,635 --> 00:09:09,595 Speaker 1: is why the point of the Supreme Court hearing the 127 00:09:09,595 --> 00:09:12,555 Speaker 1: presidential immunity case, why the point of Trump bringing the 128 00:09:12,595 --> 00:09:16,755 Speaker 1: presidential immunity case, is to have it heard and debated 129 00:09:17,155 --> 00:09:21,395 Speaker 1: and drawn out and drag on and continue indefinitely, and 130 00:09:21,475 --> 00:09:25,875 Speaker 1: ultimately to fizzle out just late enough that it eliminates 131 00:09:26,315 --> 00:09:31,995 Speaker 1: the Trump election subversion trial and presumably eliminates the Trump 132 00:09:32,155 --> 00:09:36,715 Speaker 1: espionage and documents trial. Like that one needs more stalling 133 00:09:36,875 --> 00:09:45,235 Speaker 1: than already being provided by Judge Cannon. Now there is 134 00:09:45,755 --> 00:09:50,675 Speaker 1: one remaining ultimate nightmare scenario, and I suspect that even 135 00:09:50,795 --> 00:09:54,275 Speaker 1: Trump and his Supreme Court will not try this one, 136 00:09:54,755 --> 00:09:58,515 Speaker 1: because just to put this structure into place almost guarantees 137 00:09:59,395 --> 00:10:04,075 Speaker 1: that if Trump loses the election, he will instead die 138 00:10:04,275 --> 00:10:10,595 Speaker 1: in prison and willll capital letters no backup plan. If 139 00:10:10,595 --> 00:10:13,315 Speaker 1: the gambit here is to send the case back to 140 00:10:13,395 --> 00:10:17,555 Speaker 1: chuck In for review and presidential immunity quiz, and then 141 00:10:17,675 --> 00:10:20,595 Speaker 1: return it to the Supreme Court for final approval and 142 00:10:20,715 --> 00:10:23,995 Speaker 1: drag out that final approval until after the election, so 143 00:10:24,035 --> 00:10:26,955 Speaker 1: that in late January, the Court could then say, hey, 144 00:10:26,955 --> 00:10:31,115 Speaker 1: guess what, there is presidential immunity and Trump's president, so 145 00:10:31,235 --> 00:10:35,035 Speaker 1: guess who gets to see that ultimate power menu. Now. 146 00:10:35,795 --> 00:10:39,275 Speaker 1: If that is the ultimate play for the ultimate power 147 00:10:39,315 --> 00:10:44,435 Speaker 1: for Trump, it would blow up irretrievably in Trump's face 148 00:10:45,915 --> 00:10:48,955 Speaker 1: if he didn't win the election, because then there are 149 00:10:48,995 --> 00:10:51,755 Speaker 1: only two scenarios. If the Supreme Court actually delays a 150 00:10:51,835 --> 00:10:54,635 Speaker 1: ruling until late January, just late November, and the ruling 151 00:10:54,715 --> 00:10:58,675 Speaker 1: is there is no presidential immunity and Biden has been 152 00:10:58,675 --> 00:11:02,715 Speaker 1: re elected, Trump might as well confess he's finished. But 153 00:11:03,555 --> 00:11:06,795 Speaker 1: if the Court delays the ruling until after Biden is 154 00:11:06,835 --> 00:11:10,075 Speaker 1: reelected and the ruling is yes, there is presidential immunity, 155 00:11:10,355 --> 00:11:12,875 Speaker 1: well Trump can say, see, you can't convict me. I 156 00:11:12,955 --> 00:11:16,435 Speaker 1: was immune while I was president. Whereupon Biden could say, cool, 157 00:11:17,235 --> 00:11:21,355 Speaker 1: you ain't president. Now I am, and sitting presidents are immune. 158 00:11:22,235 --> 00:11:26,995 Speaker 1: So my Attorney General is suspending your habeas corpus rights boy, 159 00:11:27,515 --> 00:11:30,635 Speaker 1: and my FBI is imprisoning your ass. And good luck 160 00:11:30,675 --> 00:11:35,075 Speaker 1: to any judges who try to stop my government because 161 00:11:35,155 --> 00:11:43,555 Speaker 1: I'm immune. So the point of having a presidential immunity 162 00:11:43,595 --> 00:11:46,755 Speaker 1: case go to the Supreme Court was and is to 163 00:11:47,035 --> 00:11:52,835 Speaker 1: have a presidential immunity case go to the Supreme Court 164 00:11:53,115 --> 00:11:57,835 Speaker 1: and waste all this time, not to create a new 165 00:11:58,115 --> 00:12:04,395 Speaker 1: law that is suggested by approximately nothing in the Constitution, 166 00:12:05,115 --> 00:12:07,435 Speaker 1: nor in anything in two hundred and forty eight years 167 00:12:07,475 --> 00:12:11,675 Speaker 1: of American case law, but just to stall, and to 168 00:12:12,075 --> 00:12:15,315 Speaker 1: by the way, keep the unheard testimony about Trump's coup 169 00:12:15,395 --> 00:12:18,715 Speaker 1: plans and what he was doing on January sixth, the 170 00:12:18,755 --> 00:12:21,435 Speaker 1: testimony for Mark Meadows and Dance Covino and others, the 171 00:12:21,435 --> 00:12:23,715 Speaker 1: stuff Liz Cheney wrote about in The New York Times, 172 00:12:23,835 --> 00:12:27,395 Speaker 1: saying it was vital evidence that her January sixth committee 173 00:12:27,395 --> 00:12:32,875 Speaker 1: could not get to make sure that unheard testimony remains unheard, 174 00:12:32,995 --> 00:12:38,155 Speaker 1: especially before the election. But the ultimate point of this 175 00:12:38,315 --> 00:12:46,475 Speaker 1: tawdrey corrupt, partisan anti democracy delay by Trump's fellow conspirators 176 00:12:46,595 --> 00:12:50,835 Speaker 1: on the Supreme Court. Is that the tawdry, the corrupt, 177 00:12:51,315 --> 00:13:00,235 Speaker 1: the partisan, and the anti democracy all win merely by delay. 178 00:13:00,835 --> 00:13:03,915 Speaker 1: And they already have their delay. They have their win. 179 00:13:05,235 --> 00:13:08,235 Speaker 1: It is now just a question of whether these Supreme 180 00:13:08,315 --> 00:13:22,795 Speaker 1: Court injustices give them a second delay as protection. Let's 181 00:13:22,875 --> 00:13:26,875 Speaker 1: run a couple of other headlines. The Arizona election interference 182 00:13:26,955 --> 00:13:30,835 Speaker 1: fake elector's indictments came out near close of business yesterday. 183 00:13:31,635 --> 00:13:37,035 Speaker 1: Eighteen Trump allies accused of trying to keep Biden from 184 00:13:37,155 --> 00:13:43,035 Speaker 1: legally becoming president. Trump is an unindicted co conspirator, which 185 00:13:43,075 --> 00:13:46,595 Speaker 1: would seem cowardly. But again, if you're indicting him now 186 00:13:46,675 --> 00:13:49,475 Speaker 1: at the end of April, what's the rush. If he's elected, 187 00:13:49,515 --> 00:13:52,595 Speaker 1: you cannot prosecute him. If he's not elected, you got 188 00:13:52,595 --> 00:13:55,555 Speaker 1: plenty of time, or more likely you'd just be hanging 189 00:13:55,595 --> 00:13:58,915 Speaker 1: around as backup, ready to prosecute just in case all 190 00:13:58,955 --> 00:14:02,595 Speaker 1: the other prosecutions failed. Take a number Arizona. You're number 191 00:14:02,635 --> 00:14:08,235 Speaker 1: thirty eight ung those indicted, all of the fake electors, 192 00:14:08,875 --> 00:14:13,795 Speaker 1: and Juliani and Mark Meadows, maybe Ken chesbrow to experts 193 00:14:13,835 --> 00:14:16,795 Speaker 1: I rely on disagree. One says he is. One says 194 00:14:16,795 --> 00:14:21,155 Speaker 1: he's not Mike Roman, the guy who tried to screw 195 00:14:21,195 --> 00:14:27,635 Speaker 1: up the Georgia case, John Eastman, Boris Epstein. Two very 196 00:14:27,675 --> 00:14:33,795 Speaker 1: interesting names, Christina Bob and Jenna Ellis, And I'm going 197 00:14:33,875 --> 00:14:37,155 Speaker 1: to bet on Jenna Ellis turning state's evidence in Arizona. 198 00:14:37,635 --> 00:14:43,275 Speaker 1: And perhaps most satisfyingly of all, the former Arizona Republican 199 00:14:43,355 --> 00:14:46,715 Speaker 1: chair who tried to sue everybody after the twenty twenty 200 00:14:46,715 --> 00:14:50,475 Speaker 1: election and presented no evidence that Trump had actually won 201 00:14:50,795 --> 00:14:55,355 Speaker 1: and got laughed out of court. Kelly Ward, the Kem 202 00:14:55,475 --> 00:15:00,795 Speaker 1: Trail lady. She's been indicted too. Speaker of House Johnson 203 00:15:00,835 --> 00:15:06,275 Speaker 1: went to Columbia yesterday and got shouted down the student protesters. 204 00:15:06,675 --> 00:15:10,675 Speaker 1: So he and Tom Cotton and Josh Hawley now say 205 00:15:10,675 --> 00:15:14,875 Speaker 1: they want the National Guard called in. Okay, you do that. 206 00:15:16,195 --> 00:15:21,475 Speaker 1: You order the Democratic president or the Democratic governor of 207 00:15:21,475 --> 00:15:24,035 Speaker 1: New York or the Democratic mayor of New York to 208 00:15:24,155 --> 00:15:28,875 Speaker 1: call in the National Guard to clear out a liberal 209 00:15:29,035 --> 00:15:36,035 Speaker 1: university in New York. They'll get right back to you. Now, 210 00:15:36,035 --> 00:15:38,995 Speaker 1: maybe the mayor will. That's a reason that he's at 211 00:15:39,035 --> 00:15:44,275 Speaker 1: sixteen percent approval. I appreciate the seriousness of the protests. 212 00:15:44,835 --> 00:15:47,755 Speaker 1: I have not devoted any time to them here why not? 213 00:15:48,715 --> 00:15:52,595 Speaker 1: Harvard Kennedy School study voters aged eighteen to twenty nine, 214 00:15:52,635 --> 00:15:56,075 Speaker 1: done in English and Spanish. Which national issue concerns you 215 00:15:56,115 --> 00:16:00,275 Speaker 1: the most? Various economic issues? Inflation, gas prices, taxes twenty 216 00:16:00,315 --> 00:16:05,875 Speaker 1: seven percent, environment and climate change six percent, abortion rights 217 00:16:06,035 --> 00:16:10,235 Speaker 1: six percent, gun rights and the Second Amendment three percent, 218 00:16:11,195 --> 00:16:17,395 Speaker 1: Israel and Palestine two percent. I don't plug stuff from CNN, 219 00:16:17,475 --> 00:16:21,835 Speaker 1: but read Annie Grayer and Melanie Zanona on their website 220 00:16:21,955 --> 00:16:27,515 Speaker 1: about James Comer suddenly trying to find an emergency exit 221 00:16:28,515 --> 00:16:36,235 Speaker 1: from the impeachment disaster. Suddenly for some reason, he wants out. 222 00:16:36,875 --> 00:16:39,435 Speaker 1: In fact, he wants out of Congress so he can 223 00:16:39,515 --> 00:16:43,835 Speaker 1: run for governor again, which is when we found out 224 00:16:43,875 --> 00:16:46,835 Speaker 1: about his college girlfriend and him allegedly beating her up 225 00:16:46,835 --> 00:16:51,675 Speaker 1: and threatening her life. Quoting the story, Comer is hoping 226 00:16:52,275 --> 00:16:56,315 Speaker 1: Jesus comes so he can get out. One of the 227 00:16:56,435 --> 00:17:00,355 Speaker 1: GOP gawmakers who spoke to Comber told CNN he is 228 00:17:00,635 --> 00:17:08,035 Speaker 1: fed up. He is fed up? Is that he Comber 229 00:17:08,195 --> 00:17:15,355 Speaker 1: or Jesus help me. Non impeachment Jesus, and your daily reminder. 230 00:17:15,675 --> 00:17:20,075 Speaker 1: As I say endlessly that democracy is preserved not by 231 00:17:20,115 --> 00:17:22,235 Speaker 1: the efforts of those of us trying to save it, 232 00:17:22,555 --> 00:17:25,195 Speaker 1: but by the stupidity of those trying to destroy it. 233 00:17:25,355 --> 00:17:29,875 Speaker 1: Jesse Waters, who started at Fox as the guy who 234 00:17:30,115 --> 00:17:34,355 Speaker 1: stalked women reporters that his boss Bill O'Reilly didn't like. 235 00:17:34,915 --> 00:17:42,195 Speaker 1: Jesse Waters is perhaps the dumbest person in America. Don't 236 00:17:42,235 --> 00:17:46,675 Speaker 1: worry Trump loyalists, He insisted yesterday Trump will get out 237 00:17:46,715 --> 00:17:51,275 Speaker 1: of it, just like King Kong got out of it. 238 00:17:52,355 --> 00:17:55,515 Speaker 2: Uh, they called him. 239 00:17:55,795 --> 00:17:57,875 Speaker 1: They trapped him in a cage we called a courtroom, 240 00:17:57,875 --> 00:17:59,675 Speaker 1: but as a cage. I mean they're acting like it's 241 00:17:59,715 --> 00:18:02,395 Speaker 1: like a zoo creature. And what happens with King Kong? 242 00:18:02,475 --> 00:18:05,275 Speaker 1: You remember boom, It's not going to be good. So 243 00:18:05,315 --> 00:18:07,355 Speaker 1: he's gonna bust out of this cage. Eventually, they're not 244 00:18:07,395 --> 00:18:08,995 Speaker 1: going to be able to keep him down. They killed 245 00:18:09,035 --> 00:18:12,715 Speaker 1: King kog Yeahens. He took a white woman on top 246 00:18:12,715 --> 00:18:14,635 Speaker 1: of a boar and it was frowned upon in the forties, 247 00:18:14,875 --> 00:18:18,235 Speaker 1: I think I saw the end of that movie. And 248 00:18:18,435 --> 00:18:21,635 Speaker 1: of course I'll add the PostScript. Not only did they 249 00:18:21,755 --> 00:18:25,675 Speaker 1: kill King Kong and then he fell from the top 250 00:18:25,715 --> 00:18:28,635 Speaker 1: of the Empire State Building to his death. Hey, Jesse, 251 00:18:28,715 --> 00:18:32,235 Speaker 1: it's your Trump analogy not mine, But in nineteen seventy 252 00:18:32,315 --> 00:18:36,715 Speaker 1: two or so, the great cartoonist B. Clibin added a 253 00:18:36,755 --> 00:18:42,075 Speaker 1: PostScript that really makes the Jesse Waters King Kong Trump 254 00:18:42,235 --> 00:18:48,715 Speaker 1: imagery work for me. In this cartoon, Clibin's got two 255 00:18:48,755 --> 00:18:53,475 Speaker 1: guys eating hamburgers at a New York automat or a 256 00:18:53,515 --> 00:18:58,155 Speaker 1: greasy busy lunch counter. One man, still wearing his hat 257 00:18:58,195 --> 00:19:03,035 Speaker 1: and coat, has taken clearly one bite of his hamburger, 258 00:19:03,035 --> 00:19:05,475 Speaker 1: and after the first bite he is daring at his 259 00:19:05,555 --> 00:19:11,195 Speaker 1: burger as if some great, horrible truth has just become 260 00:19:11,275 --> 00:19:18,235 Speaker 1: clear to him. Cliven's caption question, what did the city 261 00:19:18,315 --> 00:19:30,115 Speaker 1: of New York do with King Kong? He'll get out 262 00:19:30,115 --> 00:19:37,395 Speaker 1: of it. He's like King Kong. Look out below. Also 263 00:19:37,435 --> 00:19:39,555 Speaker 1: of interest here, I said Jesse Waters might be the 264 00:19:39,635 --> 00:19:43,515 Speaker 1: dumbest person in America. Then again, maybe not so long 265 00:19:43,555 --> 00:19:47,955 Speaker 1: as Cornell West is around Trump. Cornell West says is 266 00:19:47,955 --> 00:19:52,755 Speaker 1: a fascist. That's why he Cornell West will beat Trump 267 00:19:52,795 --> 00:19:58,155 Speaker 1: and become president. Wait till doctor West finds out who 268 00:19:58,195 --> 00:20:01,995 Speaker 1: is out there actively soliciting the signatures to get him 269 00:20:02,075 --> 00:20:07,315 Speaker 1: on the state presidential ballots. How about the head of 270 00:20:07,555 --> 00:20:13,795 Speaker 1: early voting for the Trump campaign that's next. This is Countdown. 271 00:20:15,555 --> 00:20:40,275 Speaker 1: This is Countdown with Keith Olberman stell ahead of us 272 00:20:40,315 --> 00:20:45,115 Speaker 1: on this edition of Countdown. So the Supreme Court ever 273 00:20:45,195 --> 00:20:49,795 Speaker 1: been there? Ever been there? On a date? I don't 274 00:20:49,795 --> 00:20:52,675 Speaker 1: mean the Supreme Court, bar and grill, I mean the 275 00:20:52,715 --> 00:20:56,675 Speaker 1: Supreme Court, the Supreme Court. You ever sat in Clarence 276 00:20:56,675 --> 00:21:01,035 Speaker 1: Thomas's chair? You ever gotten a free RV? Because some 277 00:21:01,195 --> 00:21:04,155 Speaker 1: fascists just assumed that if you were sitting at the 278 00:21:04,155 --> 00:21:06,995 Speaker 1: Supreme courting Clarence Thomas's chair, you should get a free 279 00:21:07,115 --> 00:21:11,475 Speaker 1: RV or something else. I have experienced all but the latter, 280 00:21:12,355 --> 00:21:16,355 Speaker 1: my date at the Supreme Court. Ahead in things I 281 00:21:16,435 --> 00:21:19,635 Speaker 1: promised not to tell. First, still more new idiots to 282 00:21:19,675 --> 00:21:22,915 Speaker 1: talk about. The daily roundup of the misgrants, morons and 283 00:21:22,955 --> 00:21:27,355 Speaker 1: Dunning Krueger effects specimens who constitute today's worst persons in 284 00:21:27,395 --> 00:21:33,955 Speaker 1: the world, the bronze worse. The Los Angeles Dodgers. Comedian 285 00:21:34,035 --> 00:21:37,315 Speaker 1: and singer and dog activist Elaine Boosler has sung the 286 00:21:37,395 --> 00:21:40,275 Speaker 1: national anthem there at five Dodgers games over the years. 287 00:21:40,715 --> 00:21:43,955 Speaker 1: She has played in the Dodgers' annual Hollywood Stars Softball 288 00:21:44,035 --> 00:21:48,075 Speaker 1: game ten times, and done other volunteer activities involving the 289 00:21:48,115 --> 00:21:52,635 Speaker 1: team since the nineteen eighties, and Sunday, the Dodgers got 290 00:21:52,675 --> 00:21:56,635 Speaker 1: her arrested. Boozler, Who's bit about how if you sing 291 00:21:56,715 --> 00:21:59,635 Speaker 1: the anthem, the echo from the public address system at 292 00:21:59,635 --> 00:22:03,595 Speaker 1: the ballpark comes back to you seemingly forty five seconds 293 00:22:03,675 --> 00:22:07,235 Speaker 1: later is a class. As Boozer was taking some of 294 00:22:07,275 --> 00:22:10,555 Speaker 1: her family to the Dodgers Mets game Sunday and bringing 295 00:22:10,635 --> 00:22:13,555 Speaker 1: her baseball bag with her, basically a ten inch perse. 296 00:22:14,315 --> 00:22:17,395 Speaker 1: As she went through the security screening at Dodger Stadium, 297 00:22:17,595 --> 00:22:20,595 Speaker 1: they told her she could not bring that bag into 298 00:22:20,595 --> 00:22:23,915 Speaker 1: the ballpark because it was not clear. It was not 299 00:22:24,155 --> 00:22:27,395 Speaker 1: see through. She pointed out that it didn't say at 300 00:22:27,435 --> 00:22:30,715 Speaker 1: anywhere on her ticket, or at the Dodgers' official secondary 301 00:22:30,715 --> 00:22:33,315 Speaker 1: market ticket site or anywhere else that you could only 302 00:22:33,355 --> 00:22:36,515 Speaker 1: have see through clear bags, and that her bag was 303 00:22:36,595 --> 00:22:38,835 Speaker 1: absolutely okay to bring into a bunch of other Big 304 00:22:38,915 --> 00:22:42,155 Speaker 1: League ballparks that she'd been to. And they said, you'll 305 00:22:42,195 --> 00:22:44,515 Speaker 1: have to take it back to your car or throw 306 00:22:44,555 --> 00:22:47,835 Speaker 1: it away, or you can't come in. And she said, 307 00:22:48,195 --> 00:22:50,955 Speaker 1: back to the car. We just paid fifty dollars to 308 00:22:50,995 --> 00:22:53,875 Speaker 1: park the car a mile away, and it's eighty degrees 309 00:22:54,835 --> 00:22:56,715 Speaker 1: and then they told her the rules were there to 310 00:22:56,755 --> 00:22:59,675 Speaker 1: prevent terrorism and that if she didn't cooperate they would 311 00:22:59,755 --> 00:23:02,715 Speaker 1: arrest her, and she said sure, And then she gave 312 00:23:02,755 --> 00:23:06,555 Speaker 1: it up and apologized repeatedly for the even apologizing to 313 00:23:06,595 --> 00:23:10,235 Speaker 1: the Dodger security clown who was making the scene, and 314 00:23:10,315 --> 00:23:12,275 Speaker 1: he said there was no way they were going to 315 00:23:12,355 --> 00:23:15,235 Speaker 1: let her into the game. And then they arrested her. 316 00:23:15,995 --> 00:23:20,875 Speaker 1: Arrested her for trespassing, trespassing while she had her Dodger 317 00:23:20,915 --> 00:23:24,755 Speaker 1: tickets in her hand. They cuffed her, They cuffed her 318 00:23:24,795 --> 00:23:28,195 Speaker 1: behind her back. They then handcuffed her to a bench 319 00:23:28,235 --> 00:23:30,595 Speaker 1: for a couple of hours. They threatened to have her 320 00:23:30,915 --> 00:23:34,995 Speaker 1: taken downtown and booked sergeants take her downtown and Booker 321 00:23:35,235 --> 00:23:39,235 Speaker 1: sergeant take her down Sergeant Booker if she didn't just leave. So, 322 00:23:39,475 --> 00:23:44,835 Speaker 1: after being handcuffed with welts and swollen wrists, she cut 323 00:23:44,835 --> 00:23:48,355 Speaker 1: her losses and left. In addition to this, as Elaine 324 00:23:48,355 --> 00:23:51,755 Speaker 1: Boosler noted, somebody with just a little power always wants 325 00:23:51,795 --> 00:23:56,195 Speaker 1: to exercise it. There's a larger issue. Since nine to eleven, 326 00:23:56,275 --> 00:24:00,355 Speaker 1: baseball and the other sports leagues have employed draconian screening 327 00:24:00,395 --> 00:24:03,755 Speaker 1: processes that you don't even go through at airports, and 328 00:24:03,875 --> 00:24:07,075 Speaker 1: for nearly a quarter of a century they have gotten 329 00:24:07,115 --> 00:24:11,555 Speaker 1: away with insisting they are doing so to prevent terrorism. 330 00:24:12,075 --> 00:24:17,035 Speaker 1: There has never been an act of terrorism inside a 331 00:24:17,075 --> 00:24:21,995 Speaker 1: stadium at an American League sporting event. So why the 332 00:24:22,035 --> 00:24:25,035 Speaker 1: security theater at Dodger Stadium at other places, why the 333 00:24:25,235 --> 00:24:28,195 Speaker 1: you must have a clear bag. It's so the Dodgers 334 00:24:28,195 --> 00:24:31,155 Speaker 1: can be certain you are not sneaking something into their stadium, 335 00:24:31,275 --> 00:24:35,275 Speaker 1: something more dangerous to sports franchises than any terrorist attack 336 00:24:35,475 --> 00:24:38,995 Speaker 1: that might be attempted by a seventy one year old 337 00:24:38,995 --> 00:24:43,755 Speaker 1: comedian with a baseball purse. The teams demand clear bags 338 00:24:43,875 --> 00:24:46,435 Speaker 1: so they can be sure you are not bringing in 339 00:24:47,915 --> 00:24:52,635 Speaker 1: good food or booze. You can bring in at Dodger 340 00:24:52,675 --> 00:24:56,155 Speaker 1: Stadium up to one liter of water or tea or 341 00:24:56,435 --> 00:24:59,515 Speaker 1: some food in a small, clear plastic bag. That's it, 342 00:24:59,835 --> 00:25:02,515 Speaker 1: because if you could bring in other food or drink, 343 00:25:03,115 --> 00:25:05,875 Speaker 1: you wouldn't have to buy the Dodger seven dollars hot 344 00:25:05,915 --> 00:25:11,195 Speaker 1: dog or they're sixteen ounce beer that costs sixteen dollars 345 00:25:11,635 --> 00:25:16,915 Speaker 1: a dollar announce for beer at the ballpark. Elaine had 346 00:25:16,955 --> 00:25:18,955 Speaker 1: the final word on it. Of course, now she knows 347 00:25:18,955 --> 00:25:22,755 Speaker 1: why Dodger fans always notoriously arrive late. They are all 348 00:25:22,795 --> 00:25:25,675 Speaker 1: delayed because all the women have to take their bags 349 00:25:25,755 --> 00:25:30,955 Speaker 1: back to the car first. The silver worser, Shane Vaughn 350 00:25:31,475 --> 00:25:35,555 Speaker 1: a racist maga quote pastor unquote. Now, the last we 351 00:25:35,595 --> 00:25:38,195 Speaker 1: had heard from this nutjob Vaughn was when he reported 352 00:25:38,235 --> 00:25:40,755 Speaker 1: that God had told him in no uncertain terms that 353 00:25:40,915 --> 00:25:43,475 Speaker 1: Kevin McCarthy would be ousted as Speaker of the House 354 00:25:43,715 --> 00:25:49,435 Speaker 1: and replaced by Jim Jordan. He explained that happening or 355 00:25:49,555 --> 00:25:54,355 Speaker 1: not happening. He explained, you know, God being wrong by 356 00:25:54,435 --> 00:25:57,235 Speaker 1: revealing that the actual new speaker, Mike Johnson, was in 357 00:25:57,275 --> 00:26:02,195 Speaker 1: fact Jim Jordan, just a duplicate of Jim Jordan. Now, 358 00:26:02,835 --> 00:26:07,635 Speaker 1: Pastor Vaughan of Waveland, Mississippi, who is nuts, has broadened 359 00:26:07,675 --> 00:26:11,395 Speaker 1: out a little bit to stark racism. He pretended he 360 00:26:11,515 --> 00:26:14,875 Speaker 1: was not calling Joy Reid from MSNBC a racist name. 361 00:26:15,195 --> 00:26:18,715 Speaker 1: Listen carefully to him say it anyway. It may be 362 00:26:18,835 --> 00:26:21,995 Speaker 1: difficult to hear, maybe not. It sounds kind of like bugs, bunny, 363 00:26:22,235 --> 00:26:23,195 Speaker 1: only it ain't bugs. 364 00:26:23,395 --> 00:26:25,755 Speaker 2: Now, y'all gotta watch this little well. I gotta watch 365 00:26:25,795 --> 00:26:27,475 Speaker 2: my mouth here, because when I talk about I'm talking 366 00:26:27,475 --> 00:26:30,795 Speaker 2: about anybody unless they black. Okay, y'all gotta watch this. 367 00:26:31,275 --> 00:26:33,115 Speaker 2: Don't call no jungle bout it. Let's see, y'all gotta 368 00:26:33,155 --> 00:26:35,235 Speaker 2: watch this. Uh, let's go with the wig. How about that? 369 00:26:35,275 --> 00:26:38,075 Speaker 2: Let y'all watch this blonde wig? He it, y'all gotta 370 00:26:38,075 --> 00:26:40,075 Speaker 2: watch this now. I gotta I can't talk about them 371 00:26:40,115 --> 00:26:42,035 Speaker 2: like that because I get in trouble. Let me see, 372 00:26:42,115 --> 00:26:44,795 Speaker 2: you talk about anybody in the world. But anyway, they 373 00:26:44,795 --> 00:26:47,075 Speaker 2: can talk about me all day long. They can call me. Look, 374 00:26:47,115 --> 00:26:49,835 Speaker 2: they can still frame my face where you know, like, yeah, 375 00:26:49,875 --> 00:26:51,355 Speaker 2: I can do anything you want to no white man. 376 00:26:51,515 --> 00:26:53,635 Speaker 1: I would point out that if you've never seen him, 377 00:26:53,675 --> 00:26:58,355 Speaker 1: Pastor Vaughn has hair that comes down over most of 378 00:26:58,395 --> 00:27:01,595 Speaker 1: where his forehead should be, and it immediately made him 379 00:27:01,955 --> 00:27:03,995 Speaker 1: look like to me, it made me think of one 380 00:27:03,995 --> 00:27:07,555 Speaker 1: person in one person alone, James Brown, the Godfather of Soul. 381 00:27:08,315 --> 00:27:10,955 Speaker 1: Other critics have suggested that mister Vaughan may in fact 382 00:27:10,995 --> 00:27:14,195 Speaker 1: belong to some of the group he so loudly hates, 383 00:27:14,395 --> 00:27:16,835 Speaker 1: but I'm not going to go that far. I'll just say, 384 00:27:17,195 --> 00:27:22,035 Speaker 1: regardless of race, creed, color, or orientation, he's clearly maga 385 00:27:22,675 --> 00:27:27,835 Speaker 1: and that is universal. They all suck, but our winner 386 00:27:28,035 --> 00:27:32,475 Speaker 1: the worst, Doctor Cornell West, third party presidential candidate, I 387 00:27:32,515 --> 00:27:36,115 Speaker 1: believe his party is the help Trump get elected anyway, 388 00:27:36,155 --> 00:27:39,515 Speaker 1: and then express shock and outrage that Trump got elected 389 00:27:39,555 --> 00:27:43,315 Speaker 1: party doctor West, who I must adds another former professional 390 00:27:43,395 --> 00:27:47,715 Speaker 1: friend who used to address me as brother, Olderman, gave 391 00:27:47,755 --> 00:27:50,155 Speaker 1: a fulsome interview with The Washington Post the other day 392 00:27:50,155 --> 00:27:52,475 Speaker 1: in which he explained that Trump is a fascist, and 393 00:27:52,595 --> 00:27:55,475 Speaker 1: Jill Stein is no longer his friend, he voted for 394 00:27:55,555 --> 00:28:00,395 Speaker 1: her before, and Kennedy is evidence free, and Biden is unacceptable, 395 00:28:00,555 --> 00:28:02,595 Speaker 1: and the reporter never asked him what he's going to 396 00:28:02,635 --> 00:28:05,155 Speaker 1: do if he draws away enough support from buyers to 397 00:28:05,275 --> 00:28:08,955 Speaker 1: get Trump elected. The Post instead gave Cornell West all 398 00:28:08,995 --> 00:28:12,195 Speaker 1: the space he wanted to say things like quotes both 399 00:28:12,275 --> 00:28:15,395 Speaker 1: parties are beyond redemption, and I just see both of 400 00:28:15,395 --> 00:28:20,635 Speaker 1: them as so thoroughly unacceptable, which is saying you can't 401 00:28:20,635 --> 00:28:22,955 Speaker 1: tell the difference between the two parties, which means you're 402 00:28:22,995 --> 00:28:26,275 Speaker 1: a moron. But nowhere in this article is there anything 403 00:28:26,275 --> 00:28:29,195 Speaker 1: about what his opinion would be of himself if he 404 00:28:29,195 --> 00:28:31,915 Speaker 1: helps to get a guy elected who would first put 405 00:28:31,955 --> 00:28:35,795 Speaker 1: Hispanics in concentration camps and then put African Americans in 406 00:28:35,875 --> 00:28:40,115 Speaker 1: concentration camps and then put intellectuals and liberals in concentration camps. 407 00:28:41,035 --> 00:28:44,395 Speaker 1: The interview leaves the clear impression that doctor West actually 408 00:28:44,395 --> 00:28:48,315 Speaker 1: thinks he is going to be elected president, which is 409 00:28:48,515 --> 00:28:51,795 Speaker 1: a second definition of insanity, the first one being you 410 00:28:51,835 --> 00:28:54,955 Speaker 1: can't tell the difference between the Democrats and the fascists. 411 00:28:55,595 --> 00:28:58,555 Speaker 1: But more importantly, the article never touches on the reality 412 00:28:58,555 --> 00:29:02,555 Speaker 1: that right now, this minute, the Trump campaign is out 413 00:29:02,555 --> 00:29:07,835 Speaker 1: there actively gathering so signatures on Cornell West's behalf in 414 00:29:07,955 --> 00:29:10,955 Speaker 1: order to get him on the ballot in as many 415 00:29:11,155 --> 00:29:15,035 Speaker 1: states as possible, to hurt Joe Biden as much as possible. 416 00:29:15,275 --> 00:29:19,435 Speaker 1: And for once, the Trump campaign is not lying about it. 417 00:29:19,435 --> 00:29:21,555 Speaker 1: It's doing so in hopes of taking a point or 418 00:29:21,595 --> 00:29:24,915 Speaker 1: two away from President Biden. On November fifth, and how 419 00:29:24,915 --> 00:29:28,635 Speaker 1: do we know this? Scott Pressler, the very troubled QAnon 420 00:29:28,795 --> 00:29:32,555 Speaker 1: guy with the shoulder length hair, whom Lara Trump wanted 421 00:29:32,555 --> 00:29:37,555 Speaker 1: to give a formal Republican National Committee titled to but didn't. 422 00:29:37,915 --> 00:29:40,915 Speaker 1: But he's still working for the RNC. He says so 423 00:29:41,475 --> 00:29:44,515 Speaker 1: on the record on tape. This is from the last 424 00:29:44,595 --> 00:29:47,475 Speaker 1: Trump tour stop in North Carolina. I don't see any 425 00:29:47,515 --> 00:29:51,435 Speaker 1: ambiguity here, Cornell West, this helps take away votes from 426 00:29:51,515 --> 00:29:57,875 Speaker 1: Joe Biden. He is the bar left Marxist. If we 427 00:29:57,995 --> 00:29:59,715 Speaker 1: get him on the ballot, he going to take up 428 00:29:59,715 --> 00:30:01,835 Speaker 1: percentage point a waiver ruse by yea. 429 00:30:02,795 --> 00:30:06,995 Speaker 2: The Trump team tr to get him. 430 00:30:07,315 --> 00:30:10,075 Speaker 1: So there you are, doctor West. You're a stalking horse, 431 00:30:10,675 --> 00:30:14,195 Speaker 1: You're a spoiler, your prop, your stooge. You're a useful 432 00:30:14,235 --> 00:30:17,115 Speaker 1: Trump idiot. You're a Trump asset. You are in effect 433 00:30:17,675 --> 00:30:22,755 Speaker 1: a fascist and a totalitarian. And the Communists would throw 434 00:30:22,795 --> 00:30:26,075 Speaker 1: you out. And if Trump is lucky and you keep 435 00:30:26,115 --> 00:30:29,195 Speaker 1: helping him, you will realize all this only when some 436 00:30:29,395 --> 00:30:33,595 Speaker 1: Trump beholden law enforcement official comes to arrest you and 437 00:30:33,675 --> 00:30:36,595 Speaker 1: put you in the camp where, just to make it worse, 438 00:30:37,195 --> 00:30:40,795 Speaker 1: they'll put you in the same cell with me. And 439 00:30:40,875 --> 00:30:42,635 Speaker 1: for as long as we are in there, I will 440 00:30:42,715 --> 00:30:47,595 Speaker 1: keep repeating only one thing I effing told you so, 441 00:30:49,155 --> 00:30:57,035 Speaker 1: Cornell West, asshole. Two days, worst person and the world 442 00:31:17,995 --> 00:31:19,915 Speaker 1: to the number one story on the countdown on my 443 00:31:19,955 --> 00:31:22,475 Speaker 1: favorite topic, me and things I promised not to tell. 444 00:31:23,075 --> 00:31:27,995 Speaker 1: So apparently it's Supreme Court Day, So why not of 445 00:31:28,075 --> 00:31:32,275 Speaker 1: all the weird things I have ever experienced in what 446 00:31:32,435 --> 00:31:38,275 Speaker 1: will soon be literally half a century of dating. Maybe 447 00:31:39,075 --> 00:31:41,635 Speaker 1: the idea that one of my dates had for where 448 00:31:41,675 --> 00:31:46,595 Speaker 1: we should go on our first date remains the weirdest. 449 00:31:47,435 --> 00:31:54,235 Speaker 1: Her idea the Supreme Court, where I sat in Clarence 450 00:31:54,275 --> 00:31:59,115 Speaker 1: Thomas's seat. Unlike him, nobody paid me anything. I didn't 451 00:31:59,115 --> 00:32:02,715 Speaker 1: try to subvert democracy, but the woman I was out 452 00:32:02,715 --> 00:32:04,675 Speaker 1: on the date with she explained how she had done 453 00:32:04,755 --> 00:32:08,715 Speaker 1: unplenty in that regard to subvert democracy. In fact, it 454 00:32:08,835 --> 00:32:12,755 Speaker 1: was about this time of year, early May late April 455 00:32:12,915 --> 00:32:15,875 Speaker 1: nineteen ninety eight when I went on my second and 456 00:32:16,035 --> 00:32:18,995 Speaker 1: last date with this person. She had been one of 457 00:32:19,035 --> 00:32:23,035 Speaker 1: the originals at MSNBC, and by November of nineteen ninety 458 00:32:23,035 --> 00:32:25,995 Speaker 1: seven she had appeared on my first show there as 459 00:32:25,995 --> 00:32:29,475 Speaker 1: a guest for the first time. She was paid to 460 00:32:29,515 --> 00:32:32,835 Speaker 1: be there on the show, not on the date, and 461 00:32:32,915 --> 00:32:38,675 Speaker 1: her name was Laura Ingram. This began a process that 462 00:32:38,835 --> 00:32:43,675 Speaker 1: ended in us going out on two dates, and something 463 00:32:43,755 --> 00:32:45,835 Speaker 1: she told me on the first of these dates has 464 00:32:45,915 --> 00:32:49,795 Speaker 1: resonated with me literally every month since and is relevant 465 00:32:49,955 --> 00:32:57,435 Speaker 1: to politics today. I did not so much date her 466 00:32:57,555 --> 00:33:02,195 Speaker 1: as survive her. Even then before nine to eleven helped 467 00:33:02,275 --> 00:33:05,635 Speaker 1: to slide her cheese off her cracker. I find a 468 00:33:05,675 --> 00:33:09,835 Speaker 1: diary entry referring to her as Hurricane Laura. That was 469 00:33:09,875 --> 00:33:14,595 Speaker 1: March fifteenth, nineteen ninety eight. Beware the iddes of March 470 00:33:15,075 --> 00:33:21,875 Speaker 1: Julius Caesar. I didn't, honestly, and God helped me. Nearly 471 00:33:21,915 --> 00:33:23,715 Speaker 1: forty eight years of dating, I have not been a 472 00:33:23,755 --> 00:33:26,915 Speaker 1: kiss and teller. I have dated. I don't know dozens. 473 00:33:27,195 --> 00:33:31,675 Speaker 1: We're in a couple of hundred, actually thirteen, seriously, with 474 00:33:31,715 --> 00:33:34,715 Speaker 1: maybe three exceptions. You don't know any of their names. 475 00:33:35,355 --> 00:33:38,155 Speaker 1: One of them, now a political writer, basically lived with 476 00:33:38,235 --> 00:33:43,395 Speaker 1: me for three years. I keep that confidence. So why 477 00:33:43,435 --> 00:33:46,675 Speaker 1: am I telling this story violating that? Because not three 478 00:33:46,755 --> 00:33:49,755 Speaker 1: months after that first date, when we were still going out, 479 00:33:50,475 --> 00:33:52,355 Speaker 1: Laura Ingram asked me if she could look at a 480 00:33:52,395 --> 00:33:54,995 Speaker 1: speech I was going to give it Corneill's graduation weekend 481 00:33:55,355 --> 00:33:59,955 Speaker 1: and offer suggestions. This is so long ago. I literally 482 00:34:00,155 --> 00:34:04,275 Speaker 1: faxed it to her. Sure Enough, a couple days later, 483 00:34:04,715 --> 00:34:07,915 Speaker 1: I'm watching Imus in the morning, which was televised by 484 00:34:07,955 --> 00:34:11,675 Speaker 1: my network MSNBC, and there on his desk in front 485 00:34:11,715 --> 00:34:15,195 Speaker 1: of him is the faxed copy of my speech, and 486 00:34:15,235 --> 00:34:19,715 Speaker 1: he is reading from my facts. I could recognize the 487 00:34:19,795 --> 00:34:24,275 Speaker 1: exact sequence of the vertical stripes my cheap fax machine 488 00:34:24,355 --> 00:34:28,555 Speaker 1: used to streak all my outgoing pages with Laura used 489 00:34:28,595 --> 00:34:31,075 Speaker 1: to go on his show a lot so to curry 490 00:34:31,075 --> 00:34:35,715 Speaker 1: favor with iMOS. She sent him the speech without asking me, 491 00:34:36,875 --> 00:34:40,555 Speaker 1: as I told her that day. All bets are now off. 492 00:34:41,515 --> 00:34:44,395 Speaker 1: So I've told parts of this story before, like she 493 00:34:44,555 --> 00:34:47,955 Speaker 1: had been a Supreme Court clerk for Clarence Thomas, and 494 00:34:48,115 --> 00:34:50,995 Speaker 1: our first date consisted of taking me on an insider's 495 00:34:50,995 --> 00:34:53,275 Speaker 1: tour of the court and having me sit in his 496 00:34:53,515 --> 00:34:56,435 Speaker 1: chair in tribute to him. I did not say or 497 00:34:56,475 --> 00:35:00,475 Speaker 1: do anything constructive. She then cooked me the largest steak 498 00:35:00,515 --> 00:35:02,995 Speaker 1: I had ever seen that did not have a rodeo 499 00:35:03,035 --> 00:35:06,555 Speaker 1: cowboy writing on it, and we watched a woman later 500 00:35:06,635 --> 00:35:09,955 Speaker 1: discredited because she could not keep her stories straight, go 501 00:35:09,995 --> 00:35:13,555 Speaker 1: on sixty minutes and make allegations against Bill Clinton. This 502 00:35:13,755 --> 00:35:18,795 Speaker 1: is my perfect date, Laura told me, seared into my memory. 503 00:35:20,275 --> 00:35:23,955 Speaker 1: But the important Laura Ingram's story sitting there in the 504 00:35:23,955 --> 00:35:26,835 Speaker 1: middle of all the debris. I don't think I've ever 505 00:35:26,875 --> 00:35:31,115 Speaker 1: told this. The first date was only about six weeks 506 00:35:31,155 --> 00:35:33,395 Speaker 1: after the then First Lady Hillary Clinton got on the 507 00:35:33,395 --> 00:35:37,395 Speaker 1: Today Show and blamed the at best exaggerated scandal about 508 00:35:37,395 --> 00:35:41,115 Speaker 1: her husband at Monica Lewinsky on the quote vast right 509 00:35:41,155 --> 00:35:46,595 Speaker 1: wing conspiracy that is sound stumpid. Laura said that night, 510 00:35:46,635 --> 00:35:49,595 Speaker 1: as she showed me her small office upstairs, I expected 511 00:35:49,595 --> 00:35:51,955 Speaker 1: that she was about to decry the idea that Republicans 512 00:35:51,955 --> 00:35:56,315 Speaker 1: would exploit television, talk radio and the brand new Internet 513 00:35:56,515 --> 00:35:58,795 Speaker 1: to try to bring down a president from the other party. 514 00:35:58,835 --> 00:36:02,755 Speaker 1: And I said, so naive little boy that I was no, 515 00:36:03,035 --> 00:36:06,675 Speaker 1: not that, of course we're doing that. She was kind 516 00:36:06,675 --> 00:36:10,075 Speaker 1: of offended that I doubted the conspiracy part. I explained, 517 00:36:10,115 --> 00:36:13,155 Speaker 1: I'd only been covering politics for two months. At the 518 00:36:13,235 --> 00:36:16,875 Speaker 1: end of the day, she said, end of the day, constantly, 519 00:36:17,075 --> 00:36:19,795 Speaker 1: at the end of the day, it's the vast part. 520 00:36:20,035 --> 00:36:23,835 Speaker 1: It's not vast, vast right wing conspiracy. Why, I bet 521 00:36:23,835 --> 00:36:28,555 Speaker 1: there's not even thirty of us. Laura Ingram then explained 522 00:36:28,555 --> 00:36:30,795 Speaker 1: that she was essentially the central desk for what she 523 00:36:30,955 --> 00:36:34,475 Speaker 1: called the miniature right wing conspiracy. She showed me a 524 00:36:34,515 --> 00:36:37,035 Speaker 1: printed page that had the facts numbers of about two 525 00:36:37,075 --> 00:36:40,955 Speaker 1: dozen people. There at the top are the sources, she said. 526 00:36:41,195 --> 00:36:43,755 Speaker 1: There was Ted Olsen, the attorney, founder of the so 527 00:36:43,835 --> 00:36:46,875 Speaker 1: called Arkansas Project and the husband of Barbara Olsen. A 528 00:36:46,955 --> 00:36:50,435 Speaker 1: constant presence as a talking head on cable news. She 529 00:36:50,555 --> 00:36:54,595 Speaker 1: later died on nine to eleven. Everybody liked her. There 530 00:36:54,595 --> 00:36:57,675 Speaker 1: were several numbers in the Office of Independent Counsel ken Starr. 531 00:36:57,715 --> 00:37:01,795 Speaker 1: One of them read B. Kavanaugh. I said, who's that? 532 00:37:01,915 --> 00:37:05,595 Speaker 1: She said, nobody impartant. The only other I remember was 533 00:37:05,635 --> 00:37:09,395 Speaker 1: Spencer Abraham, who then was a senator from Michigan. She said, they, 534 00:37:09,595 --> 00:37:12,835 Speaker 1: including the people in ken Starr's office, sent her all 535 00:37:12,875 --> 00:37:17,555 Speaker 1: the rumors, the ideas, stuff about Clinton. Stuff they made up, 536 00:37:17,995 --> 00:37:20,715 Speaker 1: and she distributed them to the other parts of the list. 537 00:37:20,795 --> 00:37:25,515 Speaker 1: That's these numbers. One number was marked Hannity Radio, another 538 00:37:25,715 --> 00:37:31,355 Speaker 1: Hannity TV, O'Reilly Radio, O'Reilly TV. There was one for Limbaugh. 539 00:37:31,795 --> 00:37:34,635 Speaker 1: There was one mark Justice Thomas, and I pointed to it. 540 00:37:35,195 --> 00:37:38,155 Speaker 1: He likes to stay and farmed. Now, maybe the most 541 00:37:38,155 --> 00:37:40,715 Speaker 1: important name is not on that list. That's Matt Dredge. 542 00:37:41,915 --> 00:37:45,835 Speaker 1: She said. Matt Drudge used all her stuff, but he 543 00:37:45,875 --> 00:37:47,795 Speaker 1: didn't want any of it to be traceable, very big 544 00:37:47,835 --> 00:37:51,355 Speaker 1: on not traceable, so I never fax it to him. 545 00:37:51,395 --> 00:37:53,715 Speaker 1: She said, I just give it to my brother. This 546 00:37:53,755 --> 00:37:57,475 Speaker 1: is when she still liked her brother. He sees Drudge 547 00:37:57,515 --> 00:38:00,875 Speaker 1: all the time. He gives the stuff to Drudge. Now, Oliver, 548 00:38:00,995 --> 00:38:05,435 Speaker 1: here is my baseball collection. There were reasons to go 549 00:38:05,475 --> 00:38:10,075 Speaker 1: out with her. At the time, I could think only 550 00:38:10,155 --> 00:38:12,715 Speaker 1: of an old cartoon I had once seen. It was 551 00:38:12,755 --> 00:38:16,475 Speaker 1: an octopus working in the post office, using all eight 552 00:38:16,515 --> 00:38:20,475 Speaker 1: of its limbs to sort the mail. But every couple 553 00:38:20,475 --> 00:38:22,235 Speaker 1: of weeks it dawns on me afresh. Then I was 554 00:38:22,275 --> 00:38:26,195 Speaker 1: actually a witness to one of the earliest configurations of 555 00:38:26,395 --> 00:38:29,355 Speaker 1: the machinery. And there is no doubt today whether it 556 00:38:29,395 --> 00:38:33,515 Speaker 1: is vast or miniature. It's beast, the machinery that links 557 00:38:33,555 --> 00:38:35,795 Speaker 1: the right wing politicians and those who are supposed to 558 00:38:35,835 --> 00:38:39,235 Speaker 1: be above the fray, like Supreme Court justices and special 559 00:38:39,315 --> 00:38:42,715 Speaker 1: prosecutors and people like that. There with the right wing 560 00:38:42,755 --> 00:38:46,235 Speaker 1: publicity outlets that pretend to be news organizations like Fox 561 00:38:46,315 --> 00:38:49,395 Speaker 1: and Drudge and Oaan and Newsmax, and the ones that 562 00:38:49,435 --> 00:38:53,635 Speaker 1: don't even pretend, like those who succeeded Limbaugh. This machine is, 563 00:38:53,755 --> 00:38:59,995 Speaker 1: in fact everything that your typical paranoid conservative, Republican fascist 564 00:39:00,155 --> 00:39:05,195 Speaker 1: trumpest thinks is being run by George Soros or Bill 565 00:39:05,275 --> 00:39:10,755 Speaker 1: Gates or doctor Fauci or me. You want to be 566 00:39:10,795 --> 00:39:13,835 Speaker 1: able to say, there are reports or accusations about some 567 00:39:13,915 --> 00:39:16,875 Speaker 1: Democrat or a liberal figure or celebrity. Well, somebody puts 568 00:39:16,915 --> 00:39:20,275 Speaker 1: a rumor in at one end of the machinery, or 569 00:39:20,395 --> 00:39:22,635 Speaker 1: somebody makes up a rumor at one end of the machinery. 570 00:39:22,835 --> 00:39:25,035 Speaker 1: It is then sent to dozens of other people. They 571 00:39:25,075 --> 00:39:30,675 Speaker 1: repeat it voila. Suddenly there are reports. The reports then 572 00:39:30,755 --> 00:39:33,475 Speaker 1: get fed back to Fox News or Breitbart, or the 573 00:39:33,515 --> 00:39:38,075 Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal or the Supreme Court, or they're just 574 00:39:38,155 --> 00:39:43,155 Speaker 1: tweeted by a thousand bots simultaneously. You want to push 575 00:39:43,195 --> 00:39:47,315 Speaker 1: this ancient racist, anti Semitic paranoia called the Great Replacement, 576 00:39:47,395 --> 00:39:49,875 Speaker 1: but you want it to come out washed clean enough 577 00:39:50,475 --> 00:39:54,555 Speaker 1: that soulless opportunists like Elis Stefanic and jd Vance can 578 00:39:54,595 --> 00:39:58,355 Speaker 1: say it aloud on the campaign trail without forfeiting their candidacies. 579 00:39:58,675 --> 00:40:03,635 Speaker 1: This is the machinery. And I saw the machinery when 580 00:40:03,635 --> 00:40:05,995 Speaker 1: it was just a list of twenty and thirty people, 581 00:40:06,675 --> 00:40:09,355 Speaker 1: And at that moment I barely recognized the importance of 582 00:40:09,355 --> 00:40:13,875 Speaker 1: what I saw. Then again, I was still on that night, 583 00:40:13,915 --> 00:40:18,315 Speaker 1: recovering from not just the Giant's steak, but something far 584 00:40:18,395 --> 00:40:22,835 Speaker 1: more visceral. Earlier that day, as we were leaving the 585 00:40:22,875 --> 00:40:26,515 Speaker 1: Supreme Court, Laura Ingram had boasted about getting even with 586 00:40:26,555 --> 00:40:29,555 Speaker 1: an ex boyfriend by going back into what had been 587 00:40:29,595 --> 00:40:34,355 Speaker 1: their house and putting up exact copies of all the 588 00:40:34,395 --> 00:40:37,235 Speaker 1: photos of the two of them together that he had 589 00:40:37,275 --> 00:40:41,315 Speaker 1: taken down from his walls. And when he got smart 590 00:40:41,715 --> 00:40:45,435 Speaker 1: and changed the locks, she went back again to finish 591 00:40:45,475 --> 00:40:50,835 Speaker 1: the job. Found her key didn't work so naturally as 592 00:40:50,875 --> 00:40:54,915 Speaker 1: you would. She stuffed his garden hose through the mail 593 00:40:54,995 --> 00:40:57,875 Speaker 1: slot of his front door and turned on the outdoors 594 00:40:57,995 --> 00:41:02,275 Speaker 1: spigot ten thousand dollars worth of hire. And when Florence ruined, 595 00:41:02,635 --> 00:41:09,515 Speaker 1: she said proudly. Part of me screamed, flee, flee. Now 596 00:41:11,675 --> 00:41:17,595 Speaker 1: I didn't flee. Later, as I tried to sleep, two 597 00:41:17,675 --> 00:41:22,755 Speaker 1: noises kept me awake, snoring, not my own, and Laura's dog. 598 00:41:23,915 --> 00:41:27,715 Speaker 1: Laura's dog kept talking in his sleep, I mean almost 599 00:41:27,755 --> 00:41:37,515 Speaker 1: in syllables, ye like that. It was something like twenty 600 00:41:37,515 --> 00:41:40,155 Speaker 1: five degrees out and I was on the second floor. 601 00:41:40,635 --> 00:41:43,555 Speaker 1: And yet I resolved that if her dog really did 602 00:41:44,115 --> 00:41:47,755 Speaker 1: make that last leap to formulate actual syllables. And it 603 00:41:47,835 --> 00:41:50,595 Speaker 1: turned out her dog was the one telling her what 604 00:41:50,715 --> 00:41:53,035 Speaker 1: to do, I was simply going to leave by the 605 00:41:53,075 --> 00:41:58,875 Speaker 1: window without bothering to open it. First. The next morning, 606 00:41:58,955 --> 00:42:01,275 Speaker 1: Laura and I walked her dog. We got to an 607 00:42:01,275 --> 00:42:03,715 Speaker 1: empty field. She threw a tennis ball, He went and 608 00:42:03,755 --> 00:42:07,235 Speaker 1: got it. She cocked her arm back again. He took off, 609 00:42:08,435 --> 00:42:11,555 Speaker 1: loving life as he did. She did not throw it. 610 00:42:11,755 --> 00:42:15,115 Speaker 1: He went forty to fifty sixty feet, then stopped and 611 00:42:15,235 --> 00:42:20,835 Speaker 1: looked back at her with such disappointment and even a 612 00:42:20,875 --> 00:42:25,115 Speaker 1: sense of betrayal, and she said, loudly, without a trace 613 00:42:25,155 --> 00:42:30,315 Speaker 1: of affection for him or anything else, wait far at, 614 00:42:30,675 --> 00:42:34,955 Speaker 1: which is when I realized I was being courted to 615 00:42:35,075 --> 00:42:40,595 Speaker 1: be the next dog. A few weeks later, back home 616 00:42:40,635 --> 00:42:42,755 Speaker 1: in New York, I got home from working an early 617 00:42:42,795 --> 00:42:45,155 Speaker 1: morning shift filling in for the commentator Paul Harvey at 618 00:42:45,195 --> 00:42:47,755 Speaker 1: ABC Radio. I was just waking up from a tortured 619 00:42:47,835 --> 00:42:50,995 Speaker 1: nap when the phone rang and it's Laara. I'm downstairs. 620 00:42:50,995 --> 00:42:53,475 Speaker 1: We're going to my old law firms party at the museum. 621 00:42:54,475 --> 00:42:57,435 Speaker 1: I said. I was exhausted. We're going, or I'll just 622 00:42:57,475 --> 00:42:59,955 Speaker 1: stay here at this payphone outside your planes calling you 623 00:42:59,995 --> 00:43:07,155 Speaker 1: all night. We went. The next opportunity probably was going 624 00:43:07,195 --> 00:43:10,955 Speaker 1: to be me on the wrong end of a hostage drama. 625 00:43:11,435 --> 00:43:14,675 Speaker 1: Turned out she was not invited to her party. Went 626 00:43:14,755 --> 00:43:17,635 Speaker 1: crashing it. I'm going to drink heavily. Frankly, it was 627 00:43:17,675 --> 00:43:20,395 Speaker 1: a great party. I got to meet Hillary Clinton's mother 628 00:43:20,915 --> 00:43:23,595 Speaker 1: and her brother. And if you think the fascists are 629 00:43:23,635 --> 00:43:27,995 Speaker 1: completely sincere about everything, even their neuroses and their paranoia, no, 630 00:43:28,555 --> 00:43:32,075 Speaker 1: Laura Ingram hugged Hillary Clinton's mother and Hillary Clinton's brother. 631 00:43:32,995 --> 00:43:37,875 Speaker 1: They seem to be friends. Later we wound up meeting 632 00:43:37,915 --> 00:43:40,515 Speaker 1: friends of her in the Oak bar at the Plaza Hotel, 633 00:43:40,555 --> 00:43:45,715 Speaker 1: where she kept drinking. I was astonished. After about her 634 00:43:45,795 --> 00:43:48,795 Speaker 1: sixth Cosmopolitan on top of everything she'd had at the party, 635 00:43:48,995 --> 00:43:52,435 Speaker 1: she began to droop her head, nodding like a bobblehead doll. 636 00:43:52,875 --> 00:43:55,915 Speaker 1: Her friend said, Okay, that's it. We'll take care of 637 00:43:55,995 --> 00:43:59,955 Speaker 1: the check. You take care of her. She had not 638 00:44:00,075 --> 00:44:02,915 Speaker 1: gotten a hotel room or anything. And if you've ever 639 00:44:02,955 --> 00:44:05,955 Speaker 1: heard of anybody who needed to be poured into a 640 00:44:06,035 --> 00:44:08,515 Speaker 1: cab because they were so drunk, you don't really know 641 00:44:08,555 --> 00:44:11,275 Speaker 1: what that means until you have to pour them into 642 00:44:11,315 --> 00:44:15,475 Speaker 1: a cab. Frankly, I wanted to put her in a 643 00:44:15,555 --> 00:44:20,395 Speaker 1: hotel somewhere, but the spectacle would have made the gossip pages. 644 00:44:20,955 --> 00:44:24,395 Speaker 1: She basically could not stand up, so I took her 645 00:44:24,435 --> 00:44:26,555 Speaker 1: to my apartment, put her into my bed, and I 646 00:44:26,595 --> 00:44:29,195 Speaker 1: went and slept on the couch at the far end 647 00:44:29,235 --> 00:44:32,355 Speaker 1: of the apartment, which is where I was hours later 648 00:44:32,395 --> 00:44:34,595 Speaker 1: in the morning when she woke me up because she 649 00:44:34,635 --> 00:44:38,515 Speaker 1: came parading through using my phone to call my assistant 650 00:44:38,555 --> 00:44:41,075 Speaker 1: to get a car sent to my address to take 651 00:44:41,075 --> 00:44:43,515 Speaker 1: her to the airport, and to make sure that everybody 652 00:44:43,595 --> 00:44:46,955 Speaker 1: in my office knew she had stayed overnight at my apartment. 653 00:44:48,635 --> 00:44:51,795 Speaker 1: And all I kept thinking was why didn't I follow 654 00:44:51,875 --> 00:45:01,755 Speaker 1: my instincts. My instincts said flee. I fleed. Not, of course, 655 00:45:01,795 --> 00:45:04,835 Speaker 1: if I had fled, I would have missed seen the 656 00:45:04,875 --> 00:45:22,275 Speaker 1: telephone tree of the miniature right wing conspiracy, wouldn't I. 657 00:45:22,275 --> 00:45:24,275 Speaker 1: I've done all the damage I can do here. Thank 658 00:45:24,315 --> 00:45:28,395 Speaker 1: you for listening. Yes, Sometimes in the middle of a 659 00:45:28,515 --> 00:45:34,955 Speaker 1: cold night at home, summer, winter, fall, spring, I will 660 00:45:34,995 --> 00:45:39,035 Speaker 1: awake my heart doing seven hundred feets a minute because 661 00:45:39,075 --> 00:45:41,675 Speaker 1: I've had a dream in which I have a third 662 00:45:41,795 --> 00:45:51,075 Speaker 1: date scheduled with Laura Ingram. You may scream, but they'll 663 00:45:51,075 --> 00:45:54,755 Speaker 1: never hear you over the sound of her voice countdown. 664 00:45:54,835 --> 00:45:58,155 Speaker 1: Musical directors Brian Rang, John Phillip Chanel Arrange produced and 665 00:45:58,195 --> 00:46:01,635 Speaker 1: performed most of our music. Mister Ray was on the guitars, 666 00:46:01,675 --> 00:46:05,475 Speaker 1: bass and drums. Mister Chanee handled orchestration and keyboards. Produced 667 00:46:05,475 --> 00:46:09,235 Speaker 1: by Tko Brothers. Other music, including some of the Beethoven compositions, 668 00:46:09,315 --> 00:46:11,955 Speaker 1: arranged and performed by the group No Horns Allowed. The 669 00:46:11,955 --> 00:46:15,355 Speaker 1: sports music is the Olderman theme from ESPN two, written 670 00:46:15,355 --> 00:46:18,995 Speaker 1: by Mitch Warren Davis Curtesy of ESPN inc. Our satirical 671 00:46:18,995 --> 00:46:22,115 Speaker 1: and pithy musical comments are from Nancy Fauss. The best 672 00:46:22,115 --> 00:46:25,635 Speaker 1: baseball stadium organist ever. Our announcer today was Tony Kornheiser, 673 00:46:25,795 --> 00:46:29,755 Speaker 1: and everything else was pretty much my fault. That's countdown 674 00:46:29,795 --> 00:46:32,515 Speaker 1: for this the one hundred and ninety fifth day until 675 00:46:32,515 --> 00:46:36,315 Speaker 1: the twenty twenty four presidential election and the two hundred 676 00:46:36,315 --> 00:46:40,315 Speaker 1: and six day since Defendant Jay Trump's first attempted coup 677 00:46:40,555 --> 00:46:43,955 Speaker 1: against the democratically elected government of the United States. Use 678 00:46:43,995 --> 00:46:47,355 Speaker 1: the fourteenth Amendment. Use the only thing the Supreme Court 679 00:46:47,395 --> 00:46:51,475 Speaker 1: will give us, the not regularly given elector objection option, 680 00:46:52,155 --> 00:46:55,955 Speaker 1: Use the Insurrection Act, Use the justice system, Use the 681 00:46:55,995 --> 00:46:59,315 Speaker 1: mental health system to stop him from doing it again 682 00:47:00,115 --> 00:47:06,635 Speaker 1: while we still can. The next countdown is tomorrow. Bulletin 683 00:47:06,675 --> 00:47:09,995 Speaker 1: says the news warrants till then. I'm Keith Oldreman, good morning, 684 00:47:10,115 --> 00:47:27,995 Speaker 1: good afternoon, good night, and good luck, and he's like 685 00:47:28,075 --> 00:47:32,715 Speaker 1: can com Countdown with Keith Olberman is a production of iHeartRadio. 686 00:47:32,995 --> 00:47:38,155 Speaker 1: For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, 687 00:47:38,435 --> 00:47:40,395 Speaker 1: or wherever you get your podcasts.