1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:21,915 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Trump 2 00:00:22,075 --> 00:00:27,035 Speaker 1: may be facing another round of federal indictments, maybe two 3 00:00:27,115 --> 00:00:34,715 Speaker 1: of them, maybe imminently reindicted, re reindicted. The grand jury 4 00:00:34,755 --> 00:00:37,675 Speaker 1: that indicted Donald Trump last Thursday for his attempts to 5 00:00:37,715 --> 00:00:40,915 Speaker 1: stop the transfer of presidential power was seen at the 6 00:00:40,915 --> 00:00:45,955 Speaker 1: Preddyman Courthouse yesterday, and not for picture day or an 7 00:00:45,995 --> 00:00:49,555 Speaker 1: alumni reunion. They were there, according to a report by Politico, 8 00:00:49,795 --> 00:00:57,515 Speaker 1: convened again meeting, hearing evidence of some kind about something 9 00:00:57,995 --> 00:01:01,035 Speaker 1: we do not know about. What if you can keep 10 00:01:01,115 --> 00:01:04,235 Speaker 1: all of them straight? You may remember that after Trump 11 00:01:04,315 --> 00:01:08,755 Speaker 1: was ind in the stolen classified documents case, a superseding 12 00:01:08,835 --> 00:01:12,515 Speaker 1: indictment on the documents was issued, and not only was 13 00:01:12,515 --> 00:01:17,715 Speaker 1: Trump reindicted, but a third defendant, Carlos de Olivia, the 14 00:01:17,755 --> 00:01:20,595 Speaker 1: Boss wants the server deleted guy. He was added to 15 00:01:20,675 --> 00:01:25,675 Speaker 1: the Jack Smith Rogues gallery. Frankly, there have been so 16 00:01:25,915 --> 00:01:29,915 Speaker 1: many Trump indictments, and so many Trump indictment stories, and 17 00:01:29,995 --> 00:01:33,355 Speaker 1: so much Trump indictment news that if I did not 18 00:01:33,515 --> 00:01:37,075 Speaker 1: keep a spiral notebook about all of it, I don't 19 00:01:37,075 --> 00:01:38,995 Speaker 1: think I would be able to keep it all straight. 20 00:01:39,435 --> 00:01:43,875 Speaker 1: First documents, Second documents, coo, Lord, It's like I'm rattling 21 00:01:43,955 --> 00:01:46,995 Speaker 1: off the titles of the books of the Bible. It 22 00:01:47,075 --> 00:01:50,995 Speaker 1: can cloud the sense that Jack Smith had clearly established 23 00:01:51,315 --> 00:01:57,475 Speaker 1: three overlapping but separate types of investigations documents, coup and 24 00:01:57,995 --> 00:02:02,995 Speaker 1: financial fraud involving Trump's various packs and his fundraising pitches 25 00:02:03,035 --> 00:02:06,115 Speaker 1: to the suckers and cult out there to send him 26 00:02:06,195 --> 00:02:09,355 Speaker 1: money to help fix the stolen election that he knew, 27 00:02:09,435 --> 00:02:13,835 Speaker 1: damn well was not stolen. Jack Smith's grand jury has 28 00:02:13,875 --> 00:02:17,235 Speaker 1: not handed up any indictments on any of that latter 29 00:02:17,515 --> 00:02:21,715 Speaker 1: money stuff yet, and it might be the easiest to prove. 30 00:02:22,475 --> 00:02:25,635 Speaker 1: Politico Now quotes the lawyer for the ex con ex 31 00:02:25,675 --> 00:02:28,675 Speaker 1: New York City Police Chief Bernie Carrick, as saying his 32 00:02:28,835 --> 00:02:32,275 Speaker 1: interview with the Smith team on Monday was filled with 33 00:02:32,435 --> 00:02:37,795 Speaker 1: questions about quoting the reporters save America Pack's enormous fundraising 34 00:02:37,835 --> 00:02:41,355 Speaker 1: hall in the weeks between election day and the January sixth, 35 00:02:41,355 --> 00:02:44,755 Speaker 1: twenty twenty one attack on the Capitol en quote the 36 00:02:44,915 --> 00:02:48,715 Speaker 1: reporters quote the attorney Tim PARLATORI as saying, it's a 37 00:02:48,915 --> 00:02:53,075 Speaker 1: laser focus from election day to January sixth, But then 38 00:02:53,315 --> 00:02:56,275 Speaker 1: and I don't want to insult Kyle Cheney or Betsy 39 00:02:56,275 --> 00:02:58,635 Speaker 1: Woodroff of Politico. I mean they have stuff that the 40 00:02:58,635 --> 00:03:00,995 Speaker 1: New York Times report last night on the Carrick interview 41 00:03:01,075 --> 00:03:03,955 Speaker 1: does not even mention. But I think the significance of 42 00:03:03,995 --> 00:03:07,355 Speaker 1: the rest of what the attorney Tim PARLATORI said may 43 00:03:07,435 --> 00:03:11,235 Speaker 1: not have fully hit them. Parlatory went on to describe 44 00:03:11,555 --> 00:03:14,995 Speaker 1: the rest of his client, Carrick's chat with the Smiths, 45 00:03:15,715 --> 00:03:19,395 Speaker 1: and it isn't about fundraising and scamming. It's about stopping 46 00:03:19,435 --> 00:03:22,955 Speaker 1: the peaceful transfer of power. Jack Smith is still investigating 47 00:03:22,995 --> 00:03:25,755 Speaker 1: stopping the peaceful transfer of power. He's going to indict 48 00:03:25,875 --> 00:03:30,955 Speaker 1: him again. Quote. Parlatory said. Smith's team didn't ask any 49 00:03:31,035 --> 00:03:35,275 Speaker 1: questions about Jenna Ellis or about Mark Meadows. The team 50 00:03:35,395 --> 00:03:39,155 Speaker 1: did ask a few questions about Boris Epstein, and the 51 00:03:39,195 --> 00:03:45,155 Speaker 1: investigators asked multiple questions about Justin Clark, who was deputy 52 00:03:45,155 --> 00:03:52,075 Speaker 1: campaign manager of Trump's reelection bid. Unquote Wait, Justin Clark, 53 00:03:53,475 --> 00:04:00,795 Speaker 1: new shooter. Justin Clark, the lawyer at the Fringes who 54 00:04:00,875 --> 00:04:05,115 Speaker 1: was working the room pushing the Brett Kavanaugh nomination, the 55 00:04:05,115 --> 00:04:09,435 Speaker 1: one with no visible neck. That Justin Clark, I mean 56 00:04:09,515 --> 00:04:14,795 Speaker 1: Jenna Ellis. We know Mark Meadows flipped the Boris Epshtein 57 00:04:14,995 --> 00:04:18,795 Speaker 1: is Maggie Haberman's pick for unindicted co conspirators six, as 58 00:04:18,835 --> 00:04:22,515 Speaker 1: Bernie Carrick is my pick for six. But Justin Clark 59 00:04:24,195 --> 00:04:26,475 Speaker 1: after mentioning that towards the middle of twenty twenty one, 60 00:04:26,515 --> 00:04:29,115 Speaker 1: Giuliani and his crew tried to convince Trump to use 61 00:04:29,195 --> 00:04:34,115 Speaker 1: Save America pack funds to pay Rudy Politico ads quote. 62 00:04:34,315 --> 00:04:38,355 Speaker 1: There was significant tension between Justin Clark and Rudy Giuliani 63 00:04:38,675 --> 00:04:42,875 Speaker 1: over Trump's strategy of contesting the results in Georgia. Carrick 64 00:04:42,995 --> 00:04:46,875 Speaker 1: described to the Special Council's team a contentious phone call 65 00:04:47,035 --> 00:04:51,155 Speaker 1: where Giuliani yelled at Clark and called him a liar. 66 00:04:51,595 --> 00:04:58,035 Speaker 1: Parlatory said, so what is that about money? The attempt 67 00:04:58,115 --> 00:05:01,515 Speaker 1: to coerce the Georgia Secretary of State to fraudulently create 68 00:05:01,635 --> 00:05:04,635 Speaker 1: fake votes for Trump on the phone the recorded phone call, 69 00:05:05,035 --> 00:05:10,195 Speaker 1: both did Rudy say anything about owning those breasts? More 70 00:05:10,755 --> 00:05:25,315 Speaker 1: indictments cometh and that right soon reindicted, prepare for it. Meanwhile, 71 00:05:25,395 --> 00:05:29,875 Speaker 1: in the indictments we already have, Trump has pre contempted 72 00:05:29,915 --> 00:05:34,555 Speaker 1: a court order that hasn't been issued yet. And Judge 73 00:05:34,595 --> 00:05:37,955 Speaker 1: Tanya Chutkin was nice enough to slap his attorney's sideways. 74 00:05:37,995 --> 00:05:41,955 Speaker 1: On another matter, Trump First Wyndham, Hampshire in one of 75 00:05:41,955 --> 00:05:45,675 Speaker 1: those anybody ever tell them that anything you say can 76 00:05:45,715 --> 00:05:49,355 Speaker 1: and will be used against you moments. There's no gag order, 77 00:05:49,555 --> 00:05:52,595 Speaker 1: there's not even a protective order on sensitive evidence yet, 78 00:05:52,835 --> 00:05:56,875 Speaker 1: and Trump has already convicted himself of contempt of court. 79 00:05:57,115 --> 00:05:59,555 Speaker 2: They take away you write our trest amendment? Now they soone, 80 00:05:59,675 --> 00:06:02,635 Speaker 2: because so now I have one of these lunatic reporters 81 00:06:02,675 --> 00:06:05,395 Speaker 2: back there saying, sir, would like to talk to you 82 00:06:05,435 --> 00:06:08,795 Speaker 2: about your case. I'm sorry, I'm not allowed to. 83 00:06:08,755 --> 00:06:11,035 Speaker 1: Talk about it. Somehow that's that good for votes? 84 00:06:11,075 --> 00:06:13,835 Speaker 2: Do you agree when we say I can't talk, i'd 85 00:06:13,955 --> 00:06:14,915 Speaker 2: I will talk about it. 86 00:06:14,915 --> 00:06:15,195 Speaker 3: I will. 87 00:06:15,195 --> 00:06:18,915 Speaker 1: They're not taking away my first send them the earth. Well, sure, 88 00:06:19,595 --> 00:06:22,275 Speaker 1: talk about it, talk about it, and then you are 89 00:06:22,315 --> 00:06:25,755 Speaker 1: in contempt of court, and the judge will just expand 90 00:06:25,835 --> 00:06:29,875 Speaker 1: the restrictions, and sooner or later she'll expand them so 91 00:06:29,995 --> 00:06:31,795 Speaker 1: much that she will have no other choice but to 92 00:06:31,835 --> 00:06:36,955 Speaker 1: put your ass in jail. It's now inevitable. I would 93 00:06:36,995 --> 00:06:40,195 Speaker 1: wonder why his lawyers are not warning him about this 94 00:06:40,595 --> 00:06:43,235 Speaker 1: like that would work but it turns out these new 95 00:06:43,315 --> 00:06:47,915 Speaker 1: lawyers are bigger idiots than the last new lawyers. Easy 96 00:06:48,155 --> 00:06:51,275 Speaker 1: timeline here over the last weekend, in a couple of 97 00:06:51,355 --> 00:06:55,235 Speaker 1: days on social media, Trump threatened everybody. On Friday, special 98 00:06:55,275 --> 00:06:58,715 Speaker 1: counsel asks judge for a protective order to keep Trump 99 00:06:58,715 --> 00:07:02,995 Speaker 1: from you know, using the evidence to docs witnesses. Judge 100 00:07:03,355 --> 00:07:06,755 Speaker 1: asks Trump's lawyers for a response to that. Trump's lawyers 101 00:07:06,755 --> 00:07:10,795 Speaker 1: ask for a delay. Judge refuses, Trump's lawyers give the response. 102 00:07:11,395 --> 00:07:15,595 Speaker 1: Smith responds. Judge then gives Trump's lawyers the hearing they wanted. 103 00:07:15,915 --> 00:07:18,435 Speaker 1: Judge tells them and Smith to agree on two dates 104 00:07:18,475 --> 00:07:22,155 Speaker 1: for the hearing Friday or earlier. Submit them to her 105 00:07:22,195 --> 00:07:26,235 Speaker 1: by yesterday afternoon. So it's yesterday afternoon, and Smith says 106 00:07:26,635 --> 00:07:31,435 Speaker 1: anytime Wednesday, Thursday or Friday. John Lorow and Todd Blanche 107 00:07:31,435 --> 00:07:36,035 Speaker 1: the Trump lawyers say next Monday or Tuesday, neither of 108 00:07:36,075 --> 00:07:41,035 Speaker 1: which is before Friday. So Trump's lawyers ignore what the 109 00:07:41,115 --> 00:07:44,235 Speaker 1: judge asks for and sends her something else. So she 110 00:07:44,435 --> 00:07:48,075 Speaker 1: steam rolls them and schedules the hearing anyway on Friday. 111 00:07:48,675 --> 00:07:54,635 Speaker 1: Be there Aloha, by the way, dollars to donuts. One 112 00:07:54,795 --> 00:07:58,275 Speaker 1: or both of Trump's lawyers don't show Friday, and then 113 00:07:58,355 --> 00:08:01,555 Speaker 1: Trump can claim the judge has gagged him without his 114 00:08:01,635 --> 00:08:05,915 Speaker 1: attorney's being present, the old kill your parents and cry 115 00:08:05,995 --> 00:08:10,075 Speaker 1: that you're an orphan ploy, which Trump had already done 116 00:08:10,195 --> 00:08:13,875 Speaker 1: yesterday in New Hampshire. I'm sorry to play you two 117 00:08:14,075 --> 00:08:17,075 Speaker 1: clips of dementia Jay that you have to hear this 118 00:08:17,235 --> 00:08:18,355 Speaker 1: to set up the punchline. 119 00:08:18,475 --> 00:08:20,595 Speaker 2: Is this going to be the future of elections in 120 00:08:20,675 --> 00:08:24,235 Speaker 2: America where a sitting president tells his tells his attorney 121 00:08:24,315 --> 00:08:26,795 Speaker 2: general to indict the opponent to try and knock the 122 00:08:26,795 --> 00:08:27,515 Speaker 2: opponent down. 123 00:08:27,755 --> 00:08:31,995 Speaker 1: Yes, we wouldn't want a new tradition of the Attorney 124 00:08:32,035 --> 00:08:37,075 Speaker 1: General of the United States indicting the president's likely election opponent. 125 00:08:37,355 --> 00:08:39,555 Speaker 1: Oh wait, who was it again who went on Fox 126 00:08:39,555 --> 00:08:43,115 Speaker 1: in October twenty twenty and demanded that his attorney general 127 00:08:43,155 --> 00:08:50,875 Speaker 1: indict Joe Biden and Obama? All right, this Trump is 128 00:08:51,035 --> 00:09:01,235 Speaker 1: so eft up he doesn't even remember all his past threats. Okay, 129 00:09:01,315 --> 00:09:05,435 Speaker 1: back to reindictment. Mentioned yesterday that the logistical Tea Leaves 130 00:09:05,475 --> 00:09:09,075 Speaker 1: confirmed Fawnie Willis is going to the Fulton County Grand 131 00:09:09,155 --> 00:09:15,035 Speaker 1: Jury for the Georgia indictments presently, but no earlier than tomorrow. Now, ABC, 132 00:09:15,195 --> 00:09:18,435 Speaker 1: the New York Times, and The Guardian probably others are 133 00:09:18,475 --> 00:09:22,675 Speaker 1: all reporting it'll probably be next week. The Times uses 134 00:09:22,715 --> 00:09:26,275 Speaker 1: the same divining rod that the Atlanta Journal Constitution used Yesterday, 135 00:09:26,675 --> 00:09:30,715 Speaker 1: two subpoenad witnesses confirmed they had not gotten the follow 136 00:09:30,795 --> 00:09:33,035 Speaker 1: up noticed that they need to show up the one 137 00:09:33,075 --> 00:09:36,475 Speaker 1: that arrives forty eight hours before you have to show up, 138 00:09:36,755 --> 00:09:39,515 Speaker 1: So that means they could not get them now until 139 00:09:39,555 --> 00:09:43,395 Speaker 1: today Wednesday, which would mean a grand jury hearing Friday. 140 00:09:43,675 --> 00:09:47,715 Speaker 1: But they're not starting this on Friday, so next week. 141 00:09:48,355 --> 00:09:51,995 Speaker 1: Guardian says as early as Tuesday. The Atlanta Paper may 142 00:09:52,035 --> 00:09:56,115 Speaker 1: have the best tidbit about this. Roads are already closed 143 00:09:56,275 --> 00:09:59,875 Speaker 1: around the courthouse. And by the way, as I recall 144 00:09:59,955 --> 00:10:03,155 Speaker 1: the details of the new Fawnie Willis grand jury, it 145 00:10:03,275 --> 00:10:05,995 Speaker 1: was one of two grand jury and the meeting days 146 00:10:06,395 --> 00:10:09,235 Speaker 1: were not the Tuesday Thursday schedule of the Federal Court 147 00:10:09,235 --> 00:10:14,395 Speaker 1: in DC, but a Monday, Tuesday, Thursday Friday schedule or 148 00:10:14,435 --> 00:10:18,555 Speaker 1: whatever that is worth. And of course, besides getting reindicted, 149 00:10:18,595 --> 00:10:20,835 Speaker 1: Trump has already set himself up for a gag order 150 00:10:20,875 --> 00:10:24,675 Speaker 1: in Georgia or maybe a defamation suit. Four years ago, 151 00:10:25,035 --> 00:10:28,475 Speaker 1: Fannie Willis was a defense attorney, and briefly she was 152 00:10:28,515 --> 00:10:32,155 Speaker 1: a defense attorney for a rapper calling himself YSL Mondo. 153 00:10:33,755 --> 00:10:37,635 Speaker 1: The Trump campaign uncovered this and unused the same magic 154 00:10:37,755 --> 00:10:41,075 Speaker 1: wand with which Trump has skated through life. Oh you know, 155 00:10:41,195 --> 00:10:44,955 Speaker 1: two and three are practically the same number. So let's 156 00:10:45,075 --> 00:10:48,555 Speaker 1: just say two and three are the same number. And 157 00:10:48,675 --> 00:10:51,075 Speaker 1: if two and three are the same number, well, then 158 00:10:51,315 --> 00:10:54,475 Speaker 1: two and three placed next to each other, well, that's 159 00:10:54,515 --> 00:10:57,715 Speaker 1: the same as two or three. Therefore, the number two 160 00:10:58,235 --> 00:11:01,715 Speaker 1: is exactly the same as the number twenty three. Thus 161 00:11:02,475 --> 00:11:06,395 Speaker 1: Fannie willis used to be YSL Monday attorney. She does 162 00:11:06,435 --> 00:11:10,275 Speaker 1: not announce this to the entire world first thing every morning. 163 00:11:10,635 --> 00:11:15,275 Speaker 1: Therefore she's hiding it. Therefore, she was hiding a relationship 164 00:11:15,835 --> 00:11:20,195 Speaker 1: with a rapper, and therefore all rappers are gang members. 165 00:11:20,475 --> 00:11:24,355 Speaker 1: Therefore she's a DA She prosecutes gang members. Therefore, she 166 00:11:24,595 --> 00:11:29,475 Speaker 1: was quote caught hiding a relationship with a gang member. 167 00:11:29,755 --> 00:11:36,035 Speaker 1: She was prosecuting. But wait, there's more. Now Trump sees 168 00:11:36,075 --> 00:11:40,155 Speaker 1: this and sees one word and one word alone, relationship, 169 00:11:40,675 --> 00:11:45,275 Speaker 1: and that means only one thing to him. Waka waka waka, 170 00:11:45,435 --> 00:11:46,555 Speaker 1: they say, I guess. 171 00:11:46,595 --> 00:11:50,155 Speaker 2: They say that she was after a certain gang, and 172 00:11:50,195 --> 00:11:52,235 Speaker 2: she ended up having an affair with the head of 173 00:11:52,275 --> 00:11:54,675 Speaker 2: the gang or a gang member. And this is a 174 00:11:54,675 --> 00:11:56,155 Speaker 2: person that wants to indict me. 175 00:11:56,355 --> 00:12:04,435 Speaker 1: Donald Trump is trash, pure human garbage, reindict. Of course, 176 00:12:04,675 --> 00:12:07,475 Speaker 1: this whole seventy eight counts and counting thing against Trump 177 00:12:07,555 --> 00:12:11,435 Speaker 1: is just going to go away because Matt Gates has 178 00:12:11,635 --> 00:12:14,635 Speaker 1: just figured out how to get him out of all 179 00:12:14,675 --> 00:12:18,395 Speaker 1: this quote. You can actually bring Trump in to give 180 00:12:18,555 --> 00:12:23,955 Speaker 1: testimony before Congress and in doing so immunize him. Gates 181 00:12:23,995 --> 00:12:26,755 Speaker 1: told this to one of the right wings streaming propagandists, 182 00:12:26,795 --> 00:12:29,475 Speaker 1: the one with the Charlie Brown balloon head, I think, 183 00:12:30,155 --> 00:12:33,195 Speaker 1: and even he was not buying this. When has this 184 00:12:33,235 --> 00:12:36,915 Speaker 1: been done before, he asked. Gates answered cheerfully, it hasn't, 185 00:12:37,835 --> 00:12:40,755 Speaker 1: and it hasn't because a grant of immunity by Congress 186 00:12:40,795 --> 00:12:44,915 Speaker 1: means they can't use what you say at your congressional 187 00:12:44,955 --> 00:12:48,515 Speaker 1: hearing in any prosecution of you. It doesn't mean they 188 00:12:48,555 --> 00:12:53,235 Speaker 1: can't prosecute you. It's not a pardon. Besides, even if 189 00:12:53,275 --> 00:12:57,515 Speaker 1: they did do something that kakamamy, what is Trump going 190 00:12:57,595 --> 00:13:00,275 Speaker 1: to reveal? What is he going to testify to that 191 00:13:00,315 --> 00:13:03,715 Speaker 1: he could then wipe off the prosecutorial blackboard. Is he 192 00:13:03,755 --> 00:13:07,035 Speaker 1: going to tell the truth? He didn't even remember he 193 00:13:07,115 --> 00:13:09,755 Speaker 1: demanded that Bill Barr indict Joe Biden late in the 194 00:13:09,795 --> 00:13:14,555 Speaker 1: twenty twenty campaign. And there's one more thing about Trump. 195 00:13:14,595 --> 00:13:17,475 Speaker 1: Indicted and re indicted and re reindicted. We appear to 196 00:13:17,515 --> 00:13:21,435 Speaker 1: be seeing the law of diminishing returns finally kicking in. 197 00:13:21,635 --> 00:13:25,675 Speaker 1: Thank god. I've already mentioned here that the Trump fundraising 198 00:13:25,755 --> 00:13:29,955 Speaker 1: windfall after the first Jacksmith indictment was only about half 199 00:13:30,035 --> 00:13:33,995 Speaker 1: of the wind fall after the Alvin Bragg indictment. Now 200 00:13:34,195 --> 00:13:38,915 Speaker 1: Axios has analyzed Google trends for the various Trump indictments. 201 00:13:39,195 --> 00:13:41,875 Speaker 1: The scale on Google trends is from a minimum of 202 00:13:41,955 --> 00:13:44,995 Speaker 1: one to a maximum of one hundred. The Mary Lago 203 00:13:45,075 --> 00:13:47,275 Speaker 1: search was a sixty five out of one hundred, the 204 00:13:47,275 --> 00:13:51,995 Speaker 1: Stormy Daniel's indictment announcement that banged the gong one hundred, 205 00:13:52,635 --> 00:13:57,235 Speaker 1: the Classified Documents indictment was a fifty two, and the 206 00:13:57,275 --> 00:14:01,235 Speaker 1: early data on the Coup indictments the Google trend number 207 00:14:01,315 --> 00:14:07,035 Speaker 1: of forty two. So let him be reindicted. The financial 208 00:14:07,075 --> 00:14:12,955 Speaker 1: benefit is waiting And wait, have I said reindicted like 209 00:14:12,955 --> 00:14:14,395 Speaker 1: like eight times already? 210 00:14:15,435 --> 00:14:15,995 Speaker 3: What is this? 211 00:14:16,195 --> 00:14:26,835 Speaker 1: Why? Is this word praying on my brain? Reindicted, reindicted. Oh, 212 00:14:26,955 --> 00:14:30,915 Speaker 1: I feel a song coming on, Oh. 213 00:14:30,635 --> 00:14:41,395 Speaker 3: Nancy reindicted, And it feels a good reindicted, Like it's 214 00:14:41,515 --> 00:14:46,915 Speaker 3: filing wood and there's one perfect fit and sugar prison 215 00:14:47,235 --> 00:14:52,595 Speaker 3: is it? The country is so excited cause he's predited. 216 00:14:52,755 --> 00:15:05,275 Speaker 1: Hey, thank you, Nancy Faust. I don't know how I 217 00:15:05,275 --> 00:15:07,195 Speaker 1: get away with it every day. I really don't. Also 218 00:15:07,235 --> 00:15:11,075 Speaker 1: of interest here, obviously, Issue one fails. In Ohio, the 219 00:15:11,195 --> 00:15:15,875 Speaker 1: Republican push were correctly the Republican push to make it 220 00:15:15,915 --> 00:15:20,435 Speaker 1: tougher to amend the state constitution designed specifically to make 221 00:15:20,475 --> 00:15:25,155 Speaker 1: it more difficult to protect abortion in Ohio rejected. Issue 222 00:15:25,155 --> 00:15:29,035 Speaker 1: one fails. Why look, I just poked it with a stick. 223 00:15:29,075 --> 00:15:34,475 Speaker 1: Democracy is still breathing. And listen. Listen to this from 224 00:15:34,475 --> 00:15:38,195 Speaker 1: the home park of the Baltimore Orioles baseball team and 225 00:15:38,235 --> 00:15:57,915 Speaker 1: their suspended announcer Kevin Brown. And they are freeing Kevin Brown. 226 00:15:57,995 --> 00:16:00,715 Speaker 1: He is coming back to the Orioles booth. About a 227 00:16:00,755 --> 00:16:04,355 Speaker 1: dozen baseball broadcasters went on the air and pancaked the 228 00:16:04,395 --> 00:16:07,475 Speaker 1: ball more Orioles for this madness. But the bad news 229 00:16:07,595 --> 00:16:11,155 Speaker 1: is a lot of other broadcasters wanted to do so, 230 00:16:11,435 --> 00:16:15,635 Speaker 1: but we're afraid to because this premise that the job 231 00:16:15,675 --> 00:16:18,875 Speaker 1: of a TV sports play by play man is to 232 00:16:18,955 --> 00:16:22,035 Speaker 1: say only positive things about his team or he will 233 00:16:22,075 --> 00:16:28,115 Speaker 1: be beaten severely. This is rapidly taking hold in baseball 234 00:16:28,235 --> 00:16:31,755 Speaker 1: and basketball and hockey. And that's why you heard all 235 00:16:31,795 --> 00:16:34,515 Speaker 1: the announcers say what they did in defensive Kevin Brown, 236 00:16:35,155 --> 00:16:39,555 Speaker 1: because ask not for whom the bell tolls. That's next. 237 00:16:39,595 --> 00:16:40,435 Speaker 1: This is countdown. 238 00:16:42,675 --> 00:16:45,435 Speaker 3: This is Countdown with Keith Olberman. 239 00:16:57,995 --> 00:17:04,755 Speaker 4: This is Sports Center. Wait, check that, not anymore. This 240 00:17:05,235 --> 00:17:08,955 Speaker 4: is countdown with Keith Alberman. 241 00:17:09,155 --> 00:17:13,395 Speaker 1: In Sports Baltimore, Orioles play by play announcer Kevin Brown 242 00:17:13,475 --> 00:17:17,075 Speaker 1: will come off the secret suspension list and rejoin his 243 00:17:17,195 --> 00:17:20,595 Speaker 1: broadcast Friday. And if you think this indicates that the 244 00:17:20,635 --> 00:17:25,515 Speaker 1: tsunami of banned publicity and genuine indignation over the team's 245 00:17:25,515 --> 00:17:30,755 Speaker 1: punishment somehow affected authoritarian CEO John Angelos of the Orioles, Nope, 246 00:17:31,155 --> 00:17:35,235 Speaker 1: nothing gets through to him. Brown's non suspension suspension, which 247 00:17:35,275 --> 00:17:38,475 Speaker 1: was clearly supposed to be two weeks, was supposed to 248 00:17:38,595 --> 00:17:43,915 Speaker 1: end Friday anyway, two weeks. If you somehow miss this story, 249 00:17:44,595 --> 00:17:47,755 Speaker 1: mister Brown, read the statistics on a full screen graphic 250 00:17:47,835 --> 00:17:50,755 Speaker 1: showing how much better the Baltimore Orioles have been I'll 251 00:17:50,755 --> 00:17:55,355 Speaker 1: repeat that word better this year against Tampa Bay than 252 00:17:55,395 --> 00:17:58,635 Speaker 1: in years past. The graphic was produced by the team's 253 00:17:58,635 --> 00:18:02,315 Speaker 1: broadcast crew, the statistics were produced by the team's media 254 00:18:02,355 --> 00:18:08,035 Speaker 1: relations department, and Brown was suspended for mentioning what it's 255 00:18:08,035 --> 00:18:10,595 Speaker 1: said on the graphic that the Orioles used to lose 256 00:18:10,715 --> 00:18:14,675 Speaker 1: more than they do now to Tampa Bay. It's madness, 257 00:18:15,235 --> 00:18:17,955 Speaker 1: and it's not just important because it reflects what happens 258 00:18:18,075 --> 00:18:22,995 Speaker 1: when rich, vulgar, unintelligent, messianic people who have enough money 259 00:18:23,035 --> 00:18:25,435 Speaker 1: to threaten the jobs of anybody who works for them 260 00:18:25,995 --> 00:18:28,995 Speaker 1: do that. It's also not just important because the Orioles 261 00:18:29,035 --> 00:18:32,275 Speaker 1: and CEO Angelos were called out on the air by 262 00:18:32,315 --> 00:18:34,835 Speaker 1: my friend Gary Cohene of the New York Mets telecasts, 263 00:18:35,515 --> 00:18:37,515 Speaker 1: and my friend Howie Rose of the New York Mets 264 00:18:37,595 --> 00:18:41,115 Speaker 1: radio broadcasts, and my friends Jason Bennetti who does the 265 00:18:41,115 --> 00:18:43,795 Speaker 1: White Sox games, and Michael Kay and John Sterling and 266 00:18:43,795 --> 00:18:46,555 Speaker 1: Susan Waldman who do the Yankees games, and Kevin Eucles 267 00:18:46,555 --> 00:18:48,675 Speaker 1: and Dave O'Brien who do the Red Sox games, and 268 00:18:48,715 --> 00:18:51,115 Speaker 1: Tom McCarthy of the Phillies and Kevin Connors and Kevin 269 00:18:51,195 --> 00:18:57,035 Speaker 1: mcganbie of ESPN. And there's something else here that actually 270 00:18:57,075 --> 00:19:00,355 Speaker 1: pertains to a see change in what the broadcasts of 271 00:19:00,435 --> 00:19:04,875 Speaker 1: sports events are now becoming and are now expected to be. 272 00:19:05,515 --> 00:19:09,755 Speaker 1: This has been happening behind the scenes, sodo vocha, off 273 00:19:09,795 --> 00:19:13,635 Speaker 1: the record for the last several years, not everywhere, obviously, 274 00:19:13,675 --> 00:19:16,995 Speaker 1: not with those teams which did not blink as their 275 00:19:16,995 --> 00:19:21,315 Speaker 1: own announcers savaged, the Orioles, nor the teams that recognize 276 00:19:21,315 --> 00:19:24,435 Speaker 1: that if their teams stink and their announcers pretend they 277 00:19:24,435 --> 00:19:29,275 Speaker 1: don't stink, nobody will believe those announcers anymore, nor watch 278 00:19:29,315 --> 00:19:33,275 Speaker 1: the broadcasts, nor buy the products the announcers are trying 279 00:19:33,315 --> 00:19:37,955 Speaker 1: to sell. But since last year at least, I have 280 00:19:38,035 --> 00:19:42,195 Speaker 1: been hearing more and more from announcer friends in other sports, 281 00:19:42,555 --> 00:19:46,715 Speaker 1: some of them genuinely terrified for their own jobs or 282 00:19:46,835 --> 00:19:51,035 Speaker 1: jobs of their colleagues, from baseball, from basketball, from hockey, 283 00:19:51,595 --> 00:19:54,395 Speaker 1: not so much football because those are almost all network 284 00:19:54,475 --> 00:19:57,795 Speaker 1: TV broadcasts. It's all off the record, it's all friend 285 00:19:57,795 --> 00:20:00,955 Speaker 1: to friend, and they have been telling me that they 286 00:20:01,115 --> 00:20:06,715 Speaker 1: or their friends have been called in and warned, warned, warned, 287 00:20:07,435 --> 00:20:10,955 Speaker 1: warned by their teams, often warned by their teams general 288 00:20:10,995 --> 00:20:15,035 Speaker 1: managers or vice presidents of broadcasting or presidents or owners 289 00:20:15,755 --> 00:20:18,635 Speaker 1: that not only are they the announcers expected to put 290 00:20:18,635 --> 00:20:21,555 Speaker 1: as positive as spin as possible on what they say 291 00:20:21,595 --> 00:20:25,355 Speaker 1: about the team, which has largely always been true, but 292 00:20:25,475 --> 00:20:32,075 Speaker 1: that they now literally cannot acknowledge any problems past, present, 293 00:20:32,395 --> 00:20:37,275 Speaker 1: or future with their teams. In hockey, no penalty against 294 00:20:37,315 --> 00:20:40,675 Speaker 1: their team is legitimate. In basketball, all the referees are 295 00:20:40,755 --> 00:20:44,555 Speaker 1: biased against their players. In baseball, no the replay is wrong, 296 00:20:44,915 --> 00:20:47,875 Speaker 1: and that pitch was outside and that next pitch was 297 00:20:47,955 --> 00:20:51,715 Speaker 1: to a strike. In all sports, every player who was 298 00:20:51,795 --> 00:20:56,075 Speaker 1: traded away was no good, and every free agent who 299 00:20:56,195 --> 00:21:01,755 Speaker 1: left the team was disloyal. In sports game broadcasting, there 300 00:21:01,755 --> 00:21:04,275 Speaker 1: has always been, since the first of them in nineteen 301 00:21:04,355 --> 00:21:08,355 Speaker 1: twenty XI one, a delicate balance between actual reporting and 302 00:21:08,515 --> 00:21:13,315 Speaker 1: actual salesmanship. My dear late friend Bob Wolf, who announced 303 00:21:13,315 --> 00:21:16,235 Speaker 1: his first Major League baseball game in nineteen forty seven 304 00:21:16,995 --> 00:21:19,715 Speaker 1: and who announced his last Major League Baseball Old Timers 305 00:21:19,755 --> 00:21:24,795 Speaker 1: game in twenty seventeen, titled his book about Baseball broadcasting 306 00:21:24,835 --> 00:21:28,035 Speaker 1: and the tensions between teams and sponsors and the Truth 307 00:21:28,675 --> 00:21:31,635 Speaker 1: It's not who won or lost the game. It's how 308 00:21:31,675 --> 00:21:36,595 Speaker 1: you sold the beer. Well, now it's how you sell 309 00:21:36,595 --> 00:21:41,235 Speaker 1: the team. The Orioles suspension of Kevin Brown revealed some 310 00:21:41,435 --> 00:21:43,555 Speaker 1: other things about what the O's have been doing to 311 00:21:43,595 --> 00:21:48,075 Speaker 1: their announcers. They have been punishing various unnamed announcers, per 312 00:21:48,155 --> 00:21:53,435 Speaker 1: widespread reports, all year, for things that reek of madness. 313 00:21:54,395 --> 00:21:58,235 Speaker 1: One Orioles announcer was supposedly reprimanded, may be even suspended 314 00:21:58,555 --> 00:22:01,595 Speaker 1: for saying nice things about a player who used to 315 00:22:01,635 --> 00:22:06,315 Speaker 1: play for the Baltimore Orioles but doesn't anymore. Brown's suspension 316 00:22:06,355 --> 00:22:09,555 Speaker 1: for this Orwellian crime of admitting that the O's have 317 00:22:09,715 --> 00:22:12,995 Speaker 1: not always been at war with East Asia, or at 318 00:22:13,075 --> 00:22:15,115 Speaker 1: least that they have not always been winning the war 319 00:22:15,155 --> 00:22:19,995 Speaker 1: with East Asia. That suspension was reportedly delayed for several 320 00:22:20,075 --> 00:22:24,115 Speaker 1: days because the Orioles needed Brown to fill in on 321 00:22:24,315 --> 00:22:27,435 Speaker 1: radio for yet another announcer who had committed the thought 322 00:22:27,515 --> 00:22:30,315 Speaker 1: crime of not wearing a shirt with an Oriole's logo 323 00:22:30,395 --> 00:22:35,475 Speaker 1: on it, and he had been suspended. It is fitting 324 00:22:36,115 --> 00:22:40,075 Speaker 1: that this slow but unstoppable conversion of the sports broadcast 325 00:22:40,195 --> 00:22:43,915 Speaker 1: in many different sports from mix of truth and promotion 326 00:22:44,515 --> 00:22:49,715 Speaker 1: into pure propaganda and indeed something close to brainwashing bubbled 327 00:22:49,795 --> 00:22:52,635 Speaker 1: to the surface, at least in terms of general knowledge, 328 00:22:52,635 --> 00:22:56,035 Speaker 1: because a baseball team, one with the second best record 329 00:22:56,035 --> 00:22:59,715 Speaker 1: in the game, enjoying a glorious renaissance season, decided to 330 00:22:59,795 --> 00:23:04,235 Speaker 1: punish its announcers anyway even though everything is going great. 331 00:23:04,795 --> 00:23:09,635 Speaker 1: That is fitting because the new ultimate goal eliminate anything 332 00:23:09,995 --> 00:23:15,235 Speaker 1: that doesn't get people watching to buy more Orioles stuff 333 00:23:15,595 --> 00:23:20,315 Speaker 1: or tickets or more MLB merchandise or whatever. This started 334 00:23:20,955 --> 00:23:26,355 Speaker 1: in baseball twenty even fifteen years ago. Every one of 335 00:23:26,395 --> 00:23:30,755 Speaker 1: the news stories on Baseball's owned website carried a note 336 00:23:30,915 --> 00:23:33,675 Speaker 1: at its end this story was not subject to the 337 00:23:33,715 --> 00:23:38,195 Speaker 1: approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs. There were 338 00:23:38,235 --> 00:23:40,995 Speaker 1: a lot of things to complain about during the commissionership 339 00:23:41,075 --> 00:23:44,675 Speaker 1: of Bud Ceiling, and god knows I complained about all 340 00:23:44,715 --> 00:23:49,595 Speaker 1: of them several times, but that wasn't one of them. 341 00:23:50,115 --> 00:23:52,155 Speaker 1: In two thousand and eight, Bud Ceiling asked me to 342 00:23:52,155 --> 00:23:55,635 Speaker 1: come work for the MLB website and the new MLB 343 00:23:55,835 --> 00:23:59,115 Speaker 1: TV network it would launch the next year. Say whatever 344 00:23:59,155 --> 00:24:01,835 Speaker 1: you want, you know, that's my rule, he told me. 345 00:24:02,555 --> 00:24:05,555 Speaker 1: All I ask is if it's about me, or if 346 00:24:05,555 --> 00:24:09,075 Speaker 1: it's really harsh about the game. Call me, give me 347 00:24:09,115 --> 00:24:11,315 Speaker 1: a chance to talk you out of it, or at 348 00:24:11,395 --> 00:24:13,875 Speaker 1: least give me a chance to get you to give 349 00:24:13,915 --> 00:24:14,515 Speaker 1: my side of it. 350 00:24:14,555 --> 00:24:14,755 Speaker 3: Two. 351 00:24:15,955 --> 00:24:19,075 Speaker 1: We couldn't make the MLB TV network thing workout because 352 00:24:19,075 --> 00:24:21,555 Speaker 1: I already had three TV jobs, But I worked for 353 00:24:21,715 --> 00:24:26,755 Speaker 1: MLB dot com for four years. I wrote columns for 354 00:24:26,915 --> 00:24:31,795 Speaker 1: MLB dot com because Bud Sealing personally hired me. And 355 00:24:31,835 --> 00:24:35,555 Speaker 1: then as his time as commissioner was beginning to wind down, 356 00:24:36,155 --> 00:24:39,995 Speaker 1: he seeded control of the website and the network to others, 357 00:24:40,155 --> 00:24:43,555 Speaker 1: and soon that little note about the stories not being 358 00:24:43,595 --> 00:24:48,315 Speaker 1: subject to the approval of the clubs disappeared, And soon 359 00:24:48,475 --> 00:24:50,515 Speaker 1: I wrote something about the owners of the Yankees that 360 00:24:50,515 --> 00:24:53,995 Speaker 1: the Yankees didn't like, and my column disappeared, And soon 361 00:24:54,035 --> 00:24:57,115 Speaker 1: after when MLB Network offered me my own daily show, 362 00:24:57,435 --> 00:25:01,315 Speaker 1: the offer disappeared within days after the Yankees found out 363 00:25:01,355 --> 00:25:04,635 Speaker 1: and warned the network president that they would not allow 364 00:25:04,675 --> 00:25:07,035 Speaker 1: Wow It to happen and would kick all the MLB 365 00:25:07,155 --> 00:25:11,595 Speaker 1: network cameras out of Yankee Stadium if it did. And 366 00:25:11,675 --> 00:25:14,955 Speaker 1: even if you didn't know those inside, really they only 367 00:25:14,995 --> 00:25:19,115 Speaker 1: apply to me things. If you last watched the MLB 368 00:25:19,235 --> 00:25:22,075 Speaker 1: Network in two thousand and nine or twenty ten, and 369 00:25:22,115 --> 00:25:25,395 Speaker 1: then you skipped ahead and turned it on today. You 370 00:25:25,475 --> 00:25:30,475 Speaker 1: would recognize the deterioration in the editorial content within minutes, 371 00:25:30,635 --> 00:25:34,875 Speaker 1: maybe seconds. There are some pros like Brian Kenny and 372 00:25:34,955 --> 00:25:37,475 Speaker 1: ad Nan Verk who do not carry the new water 373 00:25:37,595 --> 00:25:41,475 Speaker 1: and sneak in facts, but the rest of them, every 374 00:25:41,715 --> 00:25:47,915 Speaker 1: team is undefeated. Every baseball player is a superstar. Every 375 00:25:48,075 --> 00:25:52,995 Speaker 1: player error is just symbolic of their extraordinary effort. Every 376 00:25:53,195 --> 00:25:56,475 Speaker 1: team punting on its season and trading away at star 377 00:25:56,595 --> 00:26:00,435 Speaker 1: players to other teams. Why why? What an opportunity they're 378 00:26:00,435 --> 00:26:03,755 Speaker 1: providing for the next stars of the game to emerge. 379 00:26:05,395 --> 00:26:09,035 Speaker 1: A team starving its franchise and its fans and then 380 00:26:09,075 --> 00:26:11,915 Speaker 1: abanding its home city of fifty five years to go 381 00:26:12,115 --> 00:26:14,595 Speaker 1: move somewhere else. Well, that's the dawn of a new era. 382 00:26:14,795 --> 00:26:18,275 Speaker 1: And who knows it might also be an opportunity for 383 00:26:18,315 --> 00:26:24,115 Speaker 1: an expansion team in the abandoned city. MLB network, which 384 00:26:24,115 --> 00:26:25,635 Speaker 1: you used to be able to watch for more than 385 00:26:25,635 --> 00:26:27,715 Speaker 1: an hour at a time, is ninety percent of the 386 00:26:27,715 --> 00:26:32,715 Speaker 1: time now useless. It is uninsightful propaganda because you can 387 00:26:32,755 --> 00:26:38,595 Speaker 1: never say anything negative. Everybody is perfect. It does not 388 00:26:38,715 --> 00:26:41,915 Speaker 1: seek to inform, it barely seeks to entertain. It is 389 00:26:41,995 --> 00:26:47,835 Speaker 1: there to get you to buy stuff. Winter before last, 390 00:26:47,875 --> 00:26:52,835 Speaker 1: Bud Selig's successor as baseball Commissioner, Rob Manfred, fired MLB 391 00:26:52,955 --> 00:26:58,315 Speaker 1: network's top reporter, probably baseball's top reporter, Ken Rosenthal, even 392 00:26:58,355 --> 00:27:01,155 Speaker 1: though Ken Rosenthal is the best part of the Fox 393 00:27:01,235 --> 00:27:06,315 Speaker 1: Network baseball game broadcasts, including the World Series. MLB Network 394 00:27:06,355 --> 00:27:08,955 Speaker 1: fired a guy who was on the World Series broadcasts 395 00:27:08,955 --> 00:27:11,795 Speaker 1: every year, and there was no great mystery as to 396 00:27:11,835 --> 00:27:15,875 Speaker 1: why they would do something that petty and stupid. Rosenthal 397 00:27:15,915 --> 00:27:20,955 Speaker 1: had been critical of Commissioner Rob Manfred in columns for 398 00:27:21,035 --> 00:27:25,035 Speaker 1: the website The Athletic, And not only can't you be 399 00:27:25,315 --> 00:27:30,955 Speaker 1: critical of baseball or Rob Manfred on MLB network and 400 00:27:30,995 --> 00:27:33,275 Speaker 1: by the way, Manfred thinks he and baseball are one 401 00:27:33,355 --> 00:27:36,515 Speaker 1: and the same, but you can't have been critical of 402 00:27:36,635 --> 00:27:42,195 Speaker 1: Rob Manfred and then be on MLB Network ever. And 403 00:27:42,235 --> 00:27:47,795 Speaker 1: now this attitude, the correct word for it is editorial dictatorship. 404 00:27:48,675 --> 00:27:53,035 Speaker 1: This attitude is overtaking the local broadcasts of baseball games 405 00:27:53,595 --> 00:27:57,515 Speaker 1: and hockey games and basketball games. And I assume football 406 00:27:57,555 --> 00:28:00,795 Speaker 1: games on the radio. The last one I heard of 407 00:28:00,875 --> 00:28:05,555 Speaker 1: those was about nineteen seventy. There actually are non sports 408 00:28:05,555 --> 00:28:08,235 Speaker 1: implications as well. It's just that much more stuff on 409 00:28:08,355 --> 00:28:11,435 Speaker 1: television or online or in a streaming service in which 410 00:28:11,435 --> 00:28:13,755 Speaker 1: the question of whether or not you have just seen 411 00:28:13,795 --> 00:28:19,195 Speaker 1: something approaching impartial truth is completely out of date and irrelevant. 412 00:28:19,955 --> 00:28:22,635 Speaker 1: That question has been replaced by another question, whether or 413 00:28:22,675 --> 00:28:24,755 Speaker 1: not what you have just seen has been enough of 414 00:28:24,795 --> 00:28:29,355 Speaker 1: an infomercial, or if somebody like Kevin Brown has just 415 00:28:29,435 --> 00:28:34,955 Speaker 1: been screamed at or humiliated or suspended for not selling 416 00:28:35,115 --> 00:28:41,155 Speaker 1: you hard enough on something. And then there is the 417 00:28:41,195 --> 00:28:46,435 Speaker 1: more immediate question all those team broadcasts and broadcasters which 418 00:28:46,475 --> 00:28:50,075 Speaker 1: correctly vivisected the Orioles on Monday night after Kevin Brown 419 00:28:50,195 --> 00:28:53,675 Speaker 1: was suspended or the news got out anyway, how many 420 00:28:53,835 --> 00:28:58,955 Speaker 1: of those teams and the channels they largely own will 421 00:28:58,995 --> 00:29:02,115 Speaker 1: be sold to new owners in the years to come, 422 00:29:02,475 --> 00:29:07,315 Speaker 1: new owners who will think the Orioles were right. And 423 00:29:07,435 --> 00:29:12,395 Speaker 1: how soon will this happen, And what happens to the 424 00:29:12,435 --> 00:29:31,595 Speaker 1: honest sportscasters after the sales happen? Still ahead on countdown 425 00:29:31,675 --> 00:29:35,355 Speaker 1: greatest scoop of my career and the amount of hard 426 00:29:35,395 --> 00:29:43,555 Speaker 1: work I put into it approximately yeah, virtually nothing, which 427 00:29:43,595 --> 00:29:45,355 Speaker 1: is I guess the karma behind the fact that when 428 00:29:45,395 --> 00:29:47,835 Speaker 1: they handed out the awards for the stories that year. 429 00:29:47,875 --> 00:29:52,035 Speaker 1: I lost to a story about morgana The Kissing Bandit 430 00:29:52,995 --> 00:29:55,315 Speaker 1: ahead first time for the Daily round Up of the Miscreants, 431 00:29:55,355 --> 00:30:00,395 Speaker 1: Moron's undone in Kruger Effects Specimens, who constitute Today's worst 432 00:30:00,515 --> 00:30:06,075 Speaker 1: persons in the World Bronze Matt, how are things feeling 433 00:30:06,195 --> 00:30:10,915 Speaker 1: on the herschel Walker campaign slap? He tweeted a photo 434 00:30:10,955 --> 00:30:13,595 Speaker 1: of himself on a pretend news studio set with the 435 00:30:13,595 --> 00:30:19,795 Speaker 1: caption quote Newsmax where we hang out, Watch out, gentlemen, 436 00:30:19,875 --> 00:30:24,915 Speaker 1: Matt Schlapp is hanging out again. Runner up Mike Pence 437 00:30:25,035 --> 00:30:30,355 Speaker 1: qualified for the Republican debate. Yeah, could they fight? By 438 00:30:30,395 --> 00:30:35,075 Speaker 1: the way, is that possible anyway? Pence's spokesman immediately put 439 00:30:35,075 --> 00:30:37,675 Speaker 1: out a statement taking a shot at Pence's old boss quote, 440 00:30:37,795 --> 00:30:41,115 Speaker 1: hopefully former President Trump has the courage to show up, 441 00:30:41,795 --> 00:30:43,795 Speaker 1: which of course is more or less what Trump said 442 00:30:43,835 --> 00:30:47,075 Speaker 1: about Pence on January sixth, and which would be a 443 00:30:47,115 --> 00:30:50,235 Speaker 1: sicker burn if you know Pence had at any point 444 00:30:50,275 --> 00:30:52,595 Speaker 1: in the preceding two and a half years actually done 445 00:30:52,715 --> 00:30:58,195 Speaker 1: anything about bringing Trump to justice for January sixth. But 446 00:30:58,235 --> 00:31:02,835 Speaker 1: our winner, Franklin Graham, son of the original religious con 447 00:31:02,955 --> 00:31:06,875 Speaker 1: man Billy Graham. Franklin Graham has now joined the attacks 448 00:31:07,315 --> 00:31:10,155 Speaker 1: on the US women's national soccer team after its loss 449 00:31:10,195 --> 00:31:13,955 Speaker 1: in the World Cup. Graham writes, I used to pull 450 00:31:14,075 --> 00:31:18,875 Speaker 1: for our women's soccer team, liar, but recently they have 451 00:31:18,995 --> 00:31:23,835 Speaker 1: shown disrespect for the US. Liar. When did they do that? 452 00:31:24,555 --> 00:31:26,755 Speaker 1: When half of them sang the national anthem and the 453 00:31:26,755 --> 00:31:29,715 Speaker 1: others stood respectfully silent, You know the way our military 454 00:31:29,795 --> 00:31:33,075 Speaker 1: is instructed to do. And they've used their platform to 455 00:31:33,075 --> 00:31:37,795 Speaker 1: promote the LGBTQ agenda. You mean offering hope to the 456 00:31:37,835 --> 00:31:40,755 Speaker 1: people repressed and bullied by your church. Are the ones 457 00:31:40,755 --> 00:31:43,915 Speaker 1: who are closeted in your church who convince themselves they 458 00:31:43,955 --> 00:31:47,275 Speaker 1: can't be gay because they are helping you bully gays. 459 00:31:48,195 --> 00:31:50,555 Speaker 1: When players think it is more about them than the 460 00:31:50,675 --> 00:31:55,275 Speaker 1: nation they represent, you mean like when phony millionaire preachers 461 00:31:55,595 --> 00:31:58,315 Speaker 1: think it is more about them and their profits than 462 00:31:58,355 --> 00:32:02,755 Speaker 1: their supposed deity, and especially his message of love and 463 00:32:02,915 --> 00:32:12,675 Speaker 1: tolerance and sport. Con man utter naked fraud Franklin Graham. 464 00:32:13,395 --> 00:32:17,035 Speaker 1: If there really was a Jesus and he comes back, now, 465 00:32:17,355 --> 00:32:23,235 Speaker 1: he's gonna punch you in the face. Franklin Graham two days. 466 00:32:23,915 --> 00:32:39,355 Speaker 1: Worst parson in the world, Amen just ahead. It was 467 00:32:39,395 --> 00:32:42,355 Speaker 1: the story I broke that garnered the greatest amount of 468 00:32:42,355 --> 00:32:45,355 Speaker 1: publicity I ever got for one of these. It was 469 00:32:45,395 --> 00:32:48,435 Speaker 1: also the story I broke that I worked the least 470 00:32:48,675 --> 00:32:52,595 Speaker 1: to break. All I did was answer the freaking phone 471 00:32:52,635 --> 00:32:57,275 Speaker 1: a couple of times. Gretzky Day next, first time to 472 00:32:57,275 --> 00:32:59,715 Speaker 1: feature another dog in need. You can help. Every dog 473 00:32:59,795 --> 00:33:04,115 Speaker 1: has its day to Milo in spring Hill, Tennessee. The 474 00:33:04,155 --> 00:33:07,395 Speaker 1: pictures are difficult to look at. Milo was found on 475 00:33:07,435 --> 00:33:11,635 Speaker 1: the streets by house of strays, an otherwise ordinary brown 476 00:33:11,675 --> 00:33:16,515 Speaker 1: and white mutt with a bleeding tumor. They took him in, 477 00:33:16,635 --> 00:33:19,875 Speaker 1: They got him started on chemo. The first results a 478 00:33:19,875 --> 00:33:22,595 Speaker 1: couple of weeks later, are now in from the first treatments. 479 00:33:22,955 --> 00:33:27,355 Speaker 1: The mass is smaller, He could survive this, and he 480 00:33:27,435 --> 00:33:30,115 Speaker 1: has that most obvious signal of the dog who may 481 00:33:30,155 --> 00:33:35,155 Speaker 1: make it a prodigious appetite. Milo's best bet is our donations. 482 00:33:35,835 --> 00:33:38,555 Speaker 1: You can do so and find him at cuddly dot 483 00:33:38,555 --> 00:33:43,235 Speaker 1: com or check my Twitter feeds for Milo. Milo thanks you, 484 00:33:44,515 --> 00:34:00,435 Speaker 1: and I thank you. Finally our number one story on 485 00:34:00,475 --> 00:34:02,835 Speaker 1: the countdown Things I promised not to tell, And back 486 00:34:02,875 --> 00:34:06,915 Speaker 1: to my favorite topic, me, this is thirty four years ago. 487 00:34:07,035 --> 00:34:09,635 Speaker 1: So it was August eighth, nineteen eighty eight on the 488 00:34:09,635 --> 00:34:12,115 Speaker 1: West coast. But by the time I got the story 489 00:34:12,155 --> 00:34:14,755 Speaker 1: on the air at ten PMPDT and it made all 490 00:34:14,795 --> 00:34:18,355 Speaker 1: the wires that made it August ninth, nineteen eighty eight. 491 00:34:18,435 --> 00:34:23,995 Speaker 1: So happy double Day anniversary, Wayne Gretzky. Just after dinner, 492 00:34:24,435 --> 00:34:26,715 Speaker 1: the phone rang in my office at Channel five in 493 00:34:26,875 --> 00:34:30,635 Speaker 1: La Hi, I'm a viewer. I took a deep breath. 494 00:34:30,955 --> 00:34:33,555 Speaker 1: You never knew where a call that started like that 495 00:34:33,795 --> 00:34:36,275 Speaker 1: was going to end up. I just wanted you to know. 496 00:34:36,635 --> 00:34:39,595 Speaker 1: I was out golfing at Riviera at the Riviera Club 497 00:34:39,635 --> 00:34:43,155 Speaker 1: this afternoon, and Bruce McNall, the owner of the Kings, well, 498 00:34:43,155 --> 00:34:45,435 Speaker 1: he just walked through the locker room saying, hey, guys, 499 00:34:45,475 --> 00:34:48,355 Speaker 1: if you want to buy your seasoned Kings tickets, do 500 00:34:48,475 --> 00:34:50,875 Speaker 1: it now. It just traded for Wayne Gretzky. The price 501 00:34:50,915 --> 00:34:54,435 Speaker 1: is going to go up next week. To be polite 502 00:34:54,915 --> 00:34:58,195 Speaker 1: to the viewer, I asked a few questions, but frankly, 503 00:34:58,235 --> 00:35:01,075 Speaker 1: the story was pretty stupid. This was the second week 504 00:35:01,075 --> 00:35:03,115 Speaker 1: of August nineteen eighty eight, and there was a lot 505 00:35:03,155 --> 00:35:05,915 Speaker 1: of talk that the Edmonton Oilers, we're going to trade 506 00:35:05,955 --> 00:35:09,115 Speaker 1: Wayne Gretzky, the most famous player in hockey, and there 507 00:35:09,155 --> 00:35:11,195 Speaker 1: was nearly as much talk that that trade would send 508 00:35:11,275 --> 00:35:14,475 Speaker 1: him to USC in LA. But the owner of the 509 00:35:14,595 --> 00:35:19,995 Speaker 1: Kings just telling passers by at random in a golf 510 00:35:20,115 --> 00:35:24,755 Speaker 1: clubhouse that he had just made the trade. I was 511 00:35:25,315 --> 00:35:30,115 Speaker 1: suspicious that I was being pranked. Fifteen minutes later, my 512 00:35:30,155 --> 00:35:32,755 Speaker 1: phone rang again. Hi, I'm a big fan of yours 513 00:35:32,755 --> 00:35:35,595 Speaker 1: and I watch every night. Here we go again. I 514 00:35:35,635 --> 00:35:37,395 Speaker 1: was just having lunch with a friend of mine out 515 00:35:37,395 --> 00:35:40,115 Speaker 1: here at the golf course in bel Air, and like 516 00:35:40,155 --> 00:35:43,075 Speaker 1: an hour later, freaking Bruce McNall shows up in the 517 00:35:43,115 --> 00:35:46,075 Speaker 1: dining room and asks for everybody's attention, and he says 518 00:35:46,115 --> 00:35:50,275 Speaker 1: he's just completed the deal for Wayne Gretzky. And now 519 00:35:50,635 --> 00:35:52,995 Speaker 1: I was beginning to get actually worried. I was a 520 00:35:53,075 --> 00:35:55,715 Speaker 1: lame duck as the sports director of Channel five in 521 00:35:55,715 --> 00:35:57,915 Speaker 1: Los Angeles, and for months there had been rumors that 522 00:35:57,995 --> 00:36:00,475 Speaker 1: I was moving down the street to Channel two in 523 00:36:00,555 --> 00:36:04,195 Speaker 1: Los Angeles. There had been these rumors mostly because I 524 00:36:04,475 --> 00:36:07,275 Speaker 1: was moving down the street to Channel two. The deal 525 00:36:07,315 --> 00:36:10,035 Speaker 1: had been done months earlier. We were going to announce 526 00:36:10,075 --> 00:36:13,435 Speaker 1: it that week. In fact, as these two guys called in. 527 00:36:13,555 --> 00:36:17,795 Speaker 1: I had actually been busily packing up my Channel five office. 528 00:36:17,835 --> 00:36:21,235 Speaker 1: My thought now was that the sportscaster at the local 529 00:36:21,355 --> 00:36:25,955 Speaker 1: NBC station, who had a bit of a substance problem 530 00:36:26,315 --> 00:36:28,595 Speaker 1: and a nasty temper and a real dislike for the 531 00:36:28,635 --> 00:36:31,315 Speaker 1: fact that I was nearly as popular as he was, 532 00:36:31,315 --> 00:36:34,395 Speaker 1: was setting me up. I had once managed to mislead 533 00:36:34,475 --> 00:36:36,555 Speaker 1: him into thinking we were about to break a story 534 00:36:36,595 --> 00:36:39,995 Speaker 1: about a big LA football trade. There was no breaking 535 00:36:39,995 --> 00:36:42,515 Speaker 1: story because there was no trade, and he had actually 536 00:36:42,595 --> 00:36:46,195 Speaker 1: mentioned it on the air, having clearly stolen it from 537 00:36:46,195 --> 00:36:48,555 Speaker 1: me because I was the one who had made it up. 538 00:36:48,835 --> 00:36:51,835 Speaker 1: And oh was he furious at me? For all I 539 00:36:51,915 --> 00:36:54,435 Speaker 1: knew he wanted to embarrass me three weeks before I 540 00:36:54,515 --> 00:36:58,395 Speaker 1: moved into direct competition with him at five, six and eleven. 541 00:36:58,875 --> 00:37:01,755 Speaker 1: This August eighth, nineteen eighty eight was in fact my 542 00:37:01,795 --> 00:37:04,235 Speaker 1: first day back after I had burned all my Channel 543 00:37:04,235 --> 00:37:07,595 Speaker 1: five bacation time. And for all I knew, this guy 544 00:37:07,635 --> 00:37:09,955 Speaker 1: at NBC had been having his staffers call me for 545 00:37:09,995 --> 00:37:12,755 Speaker 1: a week with made up sightings of McNall confirming a 546 00:37:12,835 --> 00:37:15,795 Speaker 1: Gretzky trade that frankly I never believed was going to happen. 547 00:37:16,755 --> 00:37:19,355 Speaker 1: I mean not to get two sidetracked here. But one 548 00:37:19,435 --> 00:37:21,835 Speaker 1: day my phone rang and it was a kid who said, Hi, 549 00:37:21,995 --> 00:37:24,675 Speaker 1: mister Oberman, I'm sorry, but I'm a finalist to be 550 00:37:24,715 --> 00:37:28,115 Speaker 1: an intern here at Channel four for Fred Rogan, and 551 00:37:28,195 --> 00:37:30,955 Speaker 1: mister Rogan says I can have the spot, but only 552 00:37:30,995 --> 00:37:34,115 Speaker 1: if I call you up right now and say I'm sorry. 553 00:37:34,755 --> 00:37:36,315 Speaker 1: If I call you up and I tell you to 554 00:37:36,315 --> 00:37:40,195 Speaker 1: go f yourself, the kid did not say f To 555 00:37:40,275 --> 00:37:44,715 Speaker 1: his credit, he used his real name, Bill Weir. He 556 00:37:44,795 --> 00:37:48,195 Speaker 1: later became a sportscaster for the third Network station in LA, 557 00:37:48,275 --> 00:37:51,315 Speaker 1: then a correspondent for ABC and now CNN and I 558 00:37:51,555 --> 00:37:54,955 Speaker 1: have not let a year go by since without reminding 559 00:37:55,035 --> 00:38:00,235 Speaker 1: him of his f yourself internship phone call. He said 560 00:38:00,355 --> 00:38:02,435 Speaker 1: life paid him back by making him work with the 561 00:38:02,475 --> 00:38:06,195 Speaker 1: guy for several months. Anyway, back to Gretzky Night, two 562 00:38:06,315 --> 00:38:09,275 Speaker 1: supposed listeners have called to say that Bruce McNall, the 563 00:38:09,315 --> 00:38:13,195 Speaker 1: owner of the La Kings, is apparently trapesing through golf 564 00:38:13,275 --> 00:38:15,915 Speaker 1: locker rooms and dining rooms at country clubs to tell 565 00:38:15,955 --> 00:38:18,235 Speaker 1: them he has completed a trade for the babe ruth 566 00:38:18,235 --> 00:38:21,835 Speaker 1: of hockey, Wayne Gretzky. And they're calling me because they 567 00:38:22,035 --> 00:38:26,915 Speaker 1: like me I'm suspicious, And now the phone rings again. 568 00:38:27,715 --> 00:38:30,635 Speaker 1: This guy was playing golf at the La Country Club. 569 00:38:30,795 --> 00:38:33,955 Speaker 1: Same story. McNall, buy your Kams tickets. No, I just 570 00:38:33,995 --> 00:38:37,355 Speaker 1: got Gretzky. The next caller had been it yet a 571 00:38:37,475 --> 00:38:40,675 Speaker 1: fourth club, I think Wilshire or something. If this was 572 00:38:40,715 --> 00:38:43,555 Speaker 1: a pranket was a big one, and bluntly I had 573 00:38:43,635 --> 00:38:48,715 Speaker 1: begun to admire it. Finally came a fifth call. You 574 00:38:48,795 --> 00:38:51,075 Speaker 1: don't know me, but I watch you every night. I 575 00:38:51,075 --> 00:38:53,315 Speaker 1: stumbled onto a story. I think you'll want to run tonight. 576 00:38:54,195 --> 00:38:57,155 Speaker 1: I said, which golf course were you at? And he said, 577 00:38:57,235 --> 00:38:59,955 Speaker 1: excuse me? I was in my office all day and 578 00:39:00,035 --> 00:39:03,235 Speaker 1: so was my uh my missus. She's on the phone 579 00:39:03,275 --> 00:39:05,595 Speaker 1: with me. She works for Bruce in all the Kings. 580 00:39:06,515 --> 00:39:09,075 Speaker 1: This time I grabbed a pencil, Honey, why don't you 581 00:39:09,075 --> 00:39:11,675 Speaker 1: take it from here? And she did. She worked in 582 00:39:11,715 --> 00:39:15,075 Speaker 1: the finance office and she had, literally, she said, just 583 00:39:15,115 --> 00:39:17,435 Speaker 1: made out a check for fifteen million dollars to the 584 00:39:17,475 --> 00:39:21,275 Speaker 1: owner of the Edmonton Oilers, Peter Pocklington. She said, and 585 00:39:21,315 --> 00:39:23,515 Speaker 1: the note memo where you wite write what it's for? 586 00:39:23,915 --> 00:39:28,435 Speaker 1: I was told to put in Wayne Gretzky. She also 587 00:39:28,475 --> 00:39:32,395 Speaker 1: had seen the trade contract identified the players the Kings 588 00:39:32,395 --> 00:39:34,395 Speaker 1: were going to give up with the fifteen million to 589 00:39:34,395 --> 00:39:37,995 Speaker 1: get Gretzky. They were Jimmy Carson and Martine Zelenagh. There 590 00:39:37,995 --> 00:39:40,715 Speaker 1: were also draft choices, but she didn't know or didn't 591 00:39:40,715 --> 00:39:45,275 Speaker 1: remember the specifics of which ones. Now breathless, I asked 592 00:39:45,275 --> 00:39:47,555 Speaker 1: her if I could call her back through the switchboard 593 00:39:47,835 --> 00:39:51,035 Speaker 1: of the LA Forum where the Kings and McNall's offices were, 594 00:39:51,395 --> 00:39:54,275 Speaker 1: just to confirm she was who she said she was. 595 00:39:54,595 --> 00:39:58,435 Speaker 1: She said I could, I did, she was. I believe. 596 00:39:58,515 --> 00:40:00,235 Speaker 1: In fact, she turned out to be the only person 597 00:40:00,275 --> 00:40:02,635 Speaker 1: on the McNall financial team that did not get charged 598 00:40:02,675 --> 00:40:06,075 Speaker 1: with something. I went in to talk to my news 599 00:40:06,115 --> 00:40:08,675 Speaker 1: director and to the producer of our newscast. We were 600 00:40:08,675 --> 00:40:11,115 Speaker 1: not on until ten PM. It was now about seven. 601 00:40:11,515 --> 00:40:14,595 Speaker 1: They were very excited, and they said that given that 602 00:40:14,675 --> 00:40:17,715 Speaker 1: I had exact details from a King's source, plus the 603 00:40:17,795 --> 00:40:20,555 Speaker 1: four witnesses to the owner of the team shooting off 604 00:40:20,595 --> 00:40:23,595 Speaker 1: his big bazoo at every golf course he could reach, 605 00:40:24,075 --> 00:40:26,395 Speaker 1: that we should run it, and that we should run 606 00:40:26,395 --> 00:40:28,755 Speaker 1: it as the lead news story right at the start 607 00:40:28,795 --> 00:40:33,355 Speaker 1: of the newscast that night, which we did. The Kings 608 00:40:33,435 --> 00:40:36,355 Speaker 1: would not confirm it obviously, but as soon as I 609 00:40:36,435 --> 00:40:38,715 Speaker 1: got off the air with my sports cast the second 610 00:40:38,795 --> 00:40:41,515 Speaker 1: time I reported this story, a reporter from the Associated 611 00:40:41,595 --> 00:40:43,795 Speaker 1: Press was on the phone asking me to read him 612 00:40:43,875 --> 00:40:48,355 Speaker 1: my script, which he then quoted word for word and 613 00:40:48,475 --> 00:40:51,275 Speaker 1: put out on their sports wire. It was on the 614 00:40:51,355 --> 00:40:53,875 Speaker 1: back page of the New York Post. The next day, 615 00:40:54,435 --> 00:40:56,595 Speaker 1: my friends called me from New York to say, Hey, 616 00:40:56,955 --> 00:40:59,115 Speaker 1: your sportscast is on the back page of the New 617 00:40:59,195 --> 00:41:01,755 Speaker 1: York Post along with this big picture of Wayne Gretzky. 618 00:41:03,075 --> 00:41:05,795 Speaker 1: The leak caused the Kings to move up the announcement 619 00:41:05,835 --> 00:41:08,475 Speaker 1: of the deal from their original plan, which was Thursday 620 00:41:08,515 --> 00:41:12,195 Speaker 1: the eleventh, to the next night, Tuesday the ninth. A 621 00:41:12,355 --> 00:41:15,355 Speaker 1: King's vice president told me at the press conference that 622 00:41:15,395 --> 00:41:18,395 Speaker 1: the Oilers were enraged because they had wanted to hold 623 00:41:18,435 --> 00:41:21,835 Speaker 1: off until the eleventh because the deadline for their season 624 00:41:21,915 --> 00:41:26,035 Speaker 1: ticket holders to get their deposits back were Wednesday the tenth. 625 00:41:26,875 --> 00:41:28,595 Speaker 1: The Kings were nice enough to let me of all 626 00:41:28,635 --> 00:41:32,035 Speaker 1: the TV guys interviewed Gretzky First Live, and I congratulated 627 00:41:32,035 --> 00:41:34,715 Speaker 1: Wayne on the move, and he actually congratulated me on 628 00:41:34,715 --> 00:41:36,395 Speaker 1: the scoop, and I said, I didn't do anything but 629 00:41:36,475 --> 00:41:38,715 Speaker 1: answer the phone, and he thought about it for a 630 00:41:38,755 --> 00:41:41,715 Speaker 1: second and said pretty much the same for me, and 631 00:41:41,755 --> 00:41:45,435 Speaker 1: we've been friendly ever since. But the laziest scoop of 632 00:41:45,475 --> 00:41:48,315 Speaker 1: all time did eventually come back with a sting for 633 00:41:48,475 --> 00:41:52,075 Speaker 1: me and some payback. A year later, we all submitted 634 00:41:52,115 --> 00:41:55,795 Speaker 1: our best stories for consideration for the local Emmy for 635 00:41:55,915 --> 00:41:59,475 Speaker 1: Best TV Sports Reporting for the calendar year nineteen eighty eight. 636 00:42:00,115 --> 00:42:05,195 Speaker 1: I submitted Surprise, Surprise, the Gretzky scoop. The Emmys were 637 00:42:05,195 --> 00:42:07,795 Speaker 1: always judged by a committee of television types from a 638 00:42:07,795 --> 00:42:11,035 Speaker 1: different city, so he didn't have that home La Bias 639 00:42:11,635 --> 00:42:14,155 Speaker 1: and the guy from NBC, who I had first thought 640 00:42:14,195 --> 00:42:17,435 Speaker 1: was pranking me about the Gretzky story, had somehow found 641 00:42:17,475 --> 00:42:20,195 Speaker 1: out that the Emmys for nineteen eighty eight would be 642 00:42:20,315 --> 00:42:24,275 Speaker 1: judged in nineteen eighty nine in Ohio. In Columbus, Ohio, 643 00:42:24,395 --> 00:42:28,035 Speaker 1: I think, so he managed to get an interview with 644 00:42:28,155 --> 00:42:32,635 Speaker 1: MORGANA the Kissing Bandit, who was this scantily clad, buxome 645 00:42:32,635 --> 00:42:35,755 Speaker 1: woman you may remember, who in the old days of innocence, 646 00:42:35,835 --> 00:42:38,595 Speaker 1: used to bribe her way onto Major League Baseball fields 647 00:42:38,875 --> 00:42:41,755 Speaker 1: and bounce out onto the plate or the mound, and 648 00:42:41,835 --> 00:42:44,835 Speaker 1: she'd go and kiss stars like George Brett and Nolan 649 00:42:44,915 --> 00:42:52,715 Speaker 1: Ryan during games Morgana. MORGANA Roberts lived near Columbus, Ohio, 650 00:42:53,395 --> 00:42:55,555 Speaker 1: so sure enough, at the Emmys the next year, my 651 00:42:55,715 --> 00:42:58,675 Speaker 1: exclusive report of the trade of Hockey's greatest player, Wayne 652 00:42:58,675 --> 00:43:01,315 Speaker 1: Gretzky was one of the finalists for the Los Angeles 653 00:43:01,595 --> 00:43:05,475 Speaker 1: Best TV Sports Reporting Emmy. But in ceremony and it 654 00:43:05,515 --> 00:43:08,835 Speaker 1: was at some old Landmark hotel in Pasadena, they showed 655 00:43:08,835 --> 00:43:11,275 Speaker 1: clips of all the pieces that were finalists and then 656 00:43:11,315 --> 00:43:17,155 Speaker 1: announced that the winner was Fred Rogan KNBC. For being 657 00:43:17,355 --> 00:43:22,995 Speaker 1: chased by Morgana the Kissing bandit, my agent stood up 658 00:43:23,515 --> 00:43:27,155 Speaker 1: and bowed my girlfriend, punched me in the arm and said, 659 00:43:27,635 --> 00:43:31,875 Speaker 1: let's get out of here and go drinking. We left. 660 00:43:45,235 --> 00:43:47,115 Speaker 1: I've done all the damage I can do here. Thank 661 00:43:47,155 --> 00:43:49,035 Speaker 1: you for listening. Here are the credits. Most of the 662 00:43:49,115 --> 00:43:51,995 Speaker 1: music arranged, produced and performed by Brian Ray and John 663 00:43:51,995 --> 00:43:56,195 Speaker 1: Phillip Shanel, who are the Countdown musical directors. All orchestration 664 00:43:56,275 --> 00:43:59,595 Speaker 1: and keyboards by John Phillip Shanell. Guitars, bass and drums 665 00:43:59,595 --> 00:44:04,155 Speaker 1: by Brian Ray, produced by Tko Brothers. 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So 673 00:44:27,835 --> 00:44:30,035 Speaker 1: that's countdown for this, the nine hundred and forty fifth 674 00:44:30,115 --> 00:44:33,595 Speaker 1: day since Donald Trump's first attempted coup against the democratically 675 00:44:33,595 --> 00:44:37,395 Speaker 1: elected government of the United States. Arrest him again while 676 00:44:37,435 --> 00:44:41,435 Speaker 1: we still can. The next scheduled countdown is tomorrow. Bulletins 677 00:44:41,475 --> 00:44:44,435 Speaker 1: as the news warrants till then, I'm Keith Olberman. Good morning, 678 00:44:44,515 --> 00:45:03,075 Speaker 1: good afternoon, good night, and good luck reindted and it 679 00:45:03,275 --> 00:45:10,475 Speaker 1: feels a good reindided luck a spy and woof, it's 680 00:45:10,595 --> 00:45:15,275 Speaker 1: one profic fit and joke a present is it? The 681 00:45:15,435 --> 00:45:26,475 Speaker 1: country is so excited causes Thank you, Nancy Faust. 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