1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:22,155 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. The 2 00:00:22,195 --> 00:00:27,035 Speaker 1: worst possible outcome to the Biden situation is that there 3 00:00:27,195 --> 00:00:31,275 Speaker 1: is no outcome. That we stay here in the middle, somewhere, 4 00:00:31,435 --> 00:00:36,555 Speaker 1: always wondering if it was just a bad night, or 5 00:00:36,595 --> 00:00:40,235 Speaker 1: if there is another one, perhaps on September tenth, the 6 00:00:40,275 --> 00:00:44,155 Speaker 1: second debate, or if there are one hundred other ones. 7 00:00:44,795 --> 00:00:47,635 Speaker 1: And so I have a suggestion for President Biden that 8 00:00:47,675 --> 00:00:51,155 Speaker 1: will resolve this and there would be no more questions, 9 00:00:51,715 --> 00:00:53,755 Speaker 1: and there would be no more debates. And in fact, 10 00:00:53,875 --> 00:00:57,275 Speaker 1: if he wants to communicate only by written notes, he'd 11 00:00:57,275 --> 00:01:00,715 Speaker 1: get applause every time he did it. As someone who 12 00:01:00,835 --> 00:01:05,555 Speaker 1: was worried that President Biden correctly perceived the threat posed 13 00:01:05,555 --> 00:01:08,195 Speaker 1: by Trump and his fascists and their plan for a 14 00:01:08,195 --> 00:01:11,275 Speaker 1: form of Nazi Germany in this country, worried about that 15 00:01:11,395 --> 00:01:15,635 Speaker 1: long before I was worried that he correctly perceived that threat. 16 00:01:15,875 --> 00:01:22,715 Speaker 1: I have this suggestion, no more talk about Trump or 17 00:01:22,755 --> 00:01:28,315 Speaker 1: anything else, just action. Start, mister president by recognizing that 18 00:01:28,395 --> 00:01:33,275 Speaker 1: this is a terrorist threat posed by Trump and his 19 00:01:33,395 --> 00:01:39,315 Speaker 1: cult and his allies. Literally declare them terrorists if need be, 20 00:01:39,635 --> 00:01:42,955 Speaker 1: or now that you have been immunized by the Supreme Court. 21 00:01:43,715 --> 00:01:47,715 Speaker 1: Invoke the Insurrection Act as Trump plans to do. Invoke it, 22 00:01:48,155 --> 00:01:52,395 Speaker 1: invoke it for an hour, and arrest and detain people 23 00:01:52,835 --> 00:01:56,995 Speaker 1: like Trump and the Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina, Mark Robinson, 24 00:01:57,195 --> 00:02:01,315 Speaker 1: and the head of this bloodthirsty gang in suits called 25 00:02:01,355 --> 00:02:05,795 Speaker 1: the Federalist Society and creator of Project twenty twenty five, 26 00:02:06,275 --> 00:02:07,555 Speaker 1: Kevin Roberts. 27 00:02:08,035 --> 00:02:10,915 Speaker 2: Our side is winning, and so I come full circle 28 00:02:10,955 --> 00:02:12,995 Speaker 2: in this response and just want to encourage you with 29 00:02:13,035 --> 00:02:15,395 Speaker 2: some substance that we are in the process of the 30 00:02:15,435 --> 00:02:19,195 Speaker 2: Second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left 31 00:02:19,195 --> 00:02:19,835 Speaker 2: allows it to be. 32 00:02:20,155 --> 00:02:24,035 Speaker 1: That was Kevin Roberts. He just promised revolution against the 33 00:02:24,035 --> 00:02:27,315 Speaker 1: government of the United States. He did it again yesterday 34 00:02:27,355 --> 00:02:31,355 Speaker 1: at the National Conservatism conference in Washington. And by the way, 35 00:02:31,635 --> 00:02:35,635 Speaker 1: if national Conservatism sounds like it was meant to invoke 36 00:02:35,715 --> 00:02:39,075 Speaker 1: that old German party, what was it called National Socialism? 37 00:02:39,915 --> 00:02:44,635 Speaker 1: No kidding? Also National in this use is just a 38 00:02:44,675 --> 00:02:49,475 Speaker 1: brand name. This is actually an international fascism cartel run 39 00:02:49,515 --> 00:02:52,915 Speaker 1: by a guy from Israel and starring victor Orbonn of 40 00:02:52,995 --> 00:02:58,595 Speaker 1: Hungary and the reprehensible British racist Suella Broberman. This Roberts 41 00:02:58,715 --> 00:03:01,755 Speaker 1: may have phrased his threat of revolution against the government 42 00:03:01,795 --> 00:03:04,875 Speaker 1: of the United States in a passive aggressive form. But 43 00:03:05,035 --> 00:03:07,835 Speaker 1: eighteen US Code two three eighty five is still on 44 00:03:07,875 --> 00:03:10,955 Speaker 1: the books, and mister Roberts just urinated on it and 45 00:03:11,035 --> 00:03:13,475 Speaker 1: all but dared you, mister President, to put him in 46 00:03:13,515 --> 00:03:16,875 Speaker 1: prison for twenty years, which is what a violation of 47 00:03:16,915 --> 00:03:20,115 Speaker 1: the statute can cost you. So you have your Attorney 48 00:03:20,155 --> 00:03:23,875 Speaker 1: general do it by whatever legal means are required to 49 00:03:23,995 --> 00:03:27,835 Speaker 1: do it. And remember the Supreme Court said you, mister President, 50 00:03:27,875 --> 00:03:30,835 Speaker 1: you can do anything you want as long as you 51 00:03:30,915 --> 00:03:34,515 Speaker 1: can prove it's official. And putting that asshole in jail 52 00:03:34,715 --> 00:03:38,515 Speaker 1: is as official as anything could be. Just at the moment, 53 00:03:39,035 --> 00:03:42,275 Speaker 1: he's called it a revolution, and he has implied that 54 00:03:42,435 --> 00:03:47,635 Speaker 1: he will make it violent. One eight US Code two 55 00:03:47,675 --> 00:03:51,715 Speaker 1: three eight five. And when you are done with Kevin Roberts, 56 00:03:51,715 --> 00:03:56,355 Speaker 1: mister President, go and get this psychopath Mark Robinson, who 57 00:03:56,435 --> 00:03:59,715 Speaker 1: is a the Lieutenant governor of the state of North Carolina, 58 00:03:59,995 --> 00:04:03,955 Speaker 1: b the Republican candidate for governor of North Carolina. And 59 00:04:04,075 --> 00:04:07,395 Speaker 1: see who is at best trailing the Democrat by one 60 00:04:07,475 --> 00:04:10,715 Speaker 1: point in polling there and at worst is four points 61 00:04:10,755 --> 00:04:11,835 Speaker 1: ahead of the Democrats. 62 00:04:12,195 --> 00:04:14,915 Speaker 3: And get mad at me if you want to some 63 00:04:14,955 --> 00:04:21,115 Speaker 3: folks need killing. It's time for somebody to say it. 64 00:04:21,115 --> 00:04:24,275 Speaker 3: It's not a matter of vengeance, it's not a matter 65 00:04:24,315 --> 00:04:27,995 Speaker 3: of being mean, it's fitful. It's a matter of necessity. 66 00:04:29,075 --> 00:04:31,995 Speaker 3: We have wicked people doing wicked things, torturing and murdering 67 00:04:32,035 --> 00:04:36,755 Speaker 3: and riping. It's time to call out those guys in green. 68 00:04:37,835 --> 00:04:40,835 Speaker 3: Go have them handle with those boys in blue, and 69 00:04:40,875 --> 00:04:43,635 Speaker 3: have them go handle it and need to start handling 70 00:04:43,635 --> 00:04:44,435 Speaker 3: our business again. 71 00:04:44,475 --> 00:04:49,115 Speaker 1: From Lieutenant Governor Robinson there and Federalist Society President Roberts, 72 00:04:49,195 --> 00:04:52,315 Speaker 1: this is not the same rhetoric of the fascists from 73 00:04:52,435 --> 00:04:56,835 Speaker 1: even three or four months ago. This is overt, violent, criminal, 74 00:04:57,235 --> 00:05:00,995 Speaker 1: terroristic threat. Mister President, If your attorney general is he 75 00:05:01,035 --> 00:05:04,275 Speaker 1: incapable of finding something to arrest them for, find a 76 00:05:04,275 --> 00:05:08,595 Speaker 1: new atten atorney general, or arrest the current attorney general 77 00:05:08,955 --> 00:05:14,715 Speaker 1: and utilize your national security powers now, not later, Now, 78 00:05:14,995 --> 00:05:20,075 Speaker 1: not after the election, now, not after somebody gets killed. Now, 79 00:05:20,915 --> 00:05:25,315 Speaker 1: and if Trump objects, arrest him too. Supreme Court says, 80 00:05:25,355 --> 00:05:29,515 Speaker 1: you can, if you can find him, if nobody has noticed. 81 00:05:29,915 --> 00:05:32,795 Speaker 1: He hasn't been seen in public since June twenty eighth, 82 00:05:33,075 --> 00:05:35,835 Speaker 1: hadn't even appeared on video since the fourth of July 83 00:05:36,235 --> 00:05:39,275 Speaker 1: didn't make a phone appearance until going on Hannity last night. 84 00:05:39,475 --> 00:05:42,355 Speaker 1: He's supposed to show up today after an arduous journey 85 00:05:42,395 --> 00:05:47,195 Speaker 1: of just under two hours from mary Lago to one 86 00:05:47,235 --> 00:05:50,315 Speaker 1: of his golf courses. If he makes it, arrest him too, 87 00:05:50,395 --> 00:05:54,795 Speaker 1: mister President, since the Supreme Court, which he appointed, says 88 00:05:54,835 --> 00:05:58,115 Speaker 1: there is no chance anybody in the world can stop you. 89 00:05:59,355 --> 00:06:03,195 Speaker 1: And do it. Not just because he and Roberts and 90 00:06:03,315 --> 00:06:07,675 Speaker 1: Robinson and the Federalist Society and the nat Cons and 91 00:06:07,755 --> 00:06:11,155 Speaker 1: the other Nazis represent a clear and present danger to 92 00:06:11,275 --> 00:06:14,795 Speaker 1: the safety of every person of every political stripe in 93 00:06:14,835 --> 00:06:18,195 Speaker 1: this country. Don't do it just for that. Do it 94 00:06:18,235 --> 00:06:21,355 Speaker 1: also because, since the night of the start of the debate, 95 00:06:21,475 --> 00:06:24,195 Speaker 1: the only thing I have heard you say, mister President, 96 00:06:24,315 --> 00:06:27,875 Speaker 1: that filled me with dread. It was not any mumble 97 00:06:28,355 --> 00:06:34,395 Speaker 1: or stumble, or inaccuracy or imperceptibility or confusion. But what 98 00:06:34,595 --> 00:06:39,355 Speaker 1: filled me with dread was when you said what you said. 99 00:06:39,915 --> 00:06:44,315 Speaker 1: After Stephanopoulos asked how you would feel if you lost, 100 00:06:44,475 --> 00:06:47,195 Speaker 1: and you said, as long as you felt you had 101 00:06:47,235 --> 00:06:53,355 Speaker 1: done your best, That's what it was all about. No, 102 00:06:55,155 --> 00:07:02,075 Speaker 1: I don't want to hear about your best. I don't 103 00:07:02,115 --> 00:07:07,635 Speaker 1: want to hear the chance that your best will be insufficient. 104 00:07:09,435 --> 00:07:12,275 Speaker 1: If you are allowing for the chance that your best, 105 00:07:12,355 --> 00:07:15,435 Speaker 1: mister President, will be insufficient, get somebody else in the 106 00:07:15,475 --> 00:07:21,355 Speaker 1: goddamn chair. If you say, as you reportedly did privately 107 00:07:21,395 --> 00:07:24,515 Speaker 1: to donors yesterday, we're done talking about the debate. It's 108 00:07:24,515 --> 00:07:27,475 Speaker 1: time to put Trump in the bullseye. Let's do it. 109 00:07:28,435 --> 00:07:30,875 Speaker 1: I want to hear you say that Trump and the 110 00:07:30,915 --> 00:07:38,115 Speaker 1: fascists will not win, that you will not let it 111 00:07:38,355 --> 00:07:43,475 Speaker 1: happen no matter what period. Enough talk enough, I beat 112 00:07:43,555 --> 00:07:46,115 Speaker 1: him before, and I'll beat him again. Enough the elites 113 00:07:46,115 --> 00:07:49,435 Speaker 1: are trying to keep me out. Enough, we'll start defeating 114 00:07:49,875 --> 00:07:54,955 Speaker 1: them today. The nation is under threat, as surely as 115 00:07:55,035 --> 00:07:59,515 Speaker 1: if there were armies at the border. You are going 116 00:07:59,555 --> 00:08:02,035 Speaker 1: to stop Trump. You are going to put him in 117 00:08:02,075 --> 00:08:06,715 Speaker 1: the bulls eye. Do it now. Arrest Mark Robinson, then 118 00:08:06,955 --> 00:08:10,155 Speaker 1: arrest Kevin Roberts, and I guarantee you, if you take 119 00:08:10,235 --> 00:08:14,155 Speaker 1: only those two steps, you won't even need to act 120 00:08:14,235 --> 00:08:17,275 Speaker 1: against Trump or any of the other leaders, or any 121 00:08:17,315 --> 00:08:20,595 Speaker 1: of the psychopaths out there who support him. They will 122 00:08:20,635 --> 00:08:28,635 Speaker 1: all flee. This election is existential for the future freedom 123 00:08:28,755 --> 00:08:32,315 Speaker 1: of everybody in this country, and potentially for the survival 124 00:08:32,435 --> 00:08:37,035 Speaker 1: of everybody in the world. But it only has to 125 00:08:37,115 --> 00:08:40,635 Speaker 1: be existential. Mister President, if you do not now use 126 00:08:40,675 --> 00:08:44,795 Speaker 1: the defenses provided to you as commander in chief, and 127 00:08:44,915 --> 00:08:50,635 Speaker 1: by this assenine a moral but ultimately unimaginative Trump Supreme Court, 128 00:08:50,715 --> 00:08:53,915 Speaker 1: on whom it never dawned, you might use the weapons 129 00:08:54,115 --> 00:08:57,755 Speaker 1: they tried to give to him. They have immunized you. 130 00:08:58,875 --> 00:09:03,235 Speaker 1: Now you can immunize all of the rest of us 131 00:09:03,555 --> 00:09:07,835 Speaker 1: from Trump's immortal threat to the United States of America. 132 00:09:08,995 --> 00:09:15,755 Speaker 1: Enough I regret to share with you that I do 133 00:09:15,835 --> 00:09:18,435 Speaker 1: not expect that President Biden will do any of this. 134 00:09:19,955 --> 00:09:22,155 Speaker 1: I'm sure if he heard what I'm suggesting, he might 135 00:09:22,235 --> 00:09:25,235 Speaker 1: recoil from it, not realizing that the one time this 136 00:09:25,355 --> 00:09:28,715 Speaker 1: nation truly faced an internal threat akin to that posed 137 00:09:28,755 --> 00:09:32,955 Speaker 1: now by Trump, President Lincoln did exactly these things to 138 00:09:33,075 --> 00:09:37,195 Speaker 1: the insurrectionist scum of the Confederacy. The history books, in fact, 139 00:09:37,235 --> 00:09:40,035 Speaker 1: might have judged him far more harshly, but there seems 140 00:09:40,115 --> 00:09:42,515 Speaker 1: little doubt that if he had been able to round 141 00:09:42,635 --> 00:09:46,035 Speaker 1: up the Confederate leaders from Jefferson Davis to Robert E. 142 00:09:46,155 --> 00:09:49,395 Speaker 1: Lee and all the others and imprison them. In May 143 00:09:49,475 --> 00:09:52,315 Speaker 1: eighteen sixty one, the Civil war would have been a 144 00:09:52,355 --> 00:09:56,355 Speaker 1: lot shorter and the death count a lot lower. And 145 00:09:56,435 --> 00:09:59,315 Speaker 1: I do not believe anybody ever got to ask him, 146 00:09:59,315 --> 00:10:01,555 Speaker 1: but I get the feeling that if you had said 147 00:10:01,555 --> 00:10:05,075 Speaker 1: to Abraham Lincoln in retrospect, should you have simply ailed 148 00:10:05,235 --> 00:10:08,515 Speaker 1: Davis and Lee and Bedford, Forrest and all the others, 149 00:10:08,795 --> 00:10:11,795 Speaker 1: he would have said yes. I mean, this was the 150 00:10:11,795 --> 00:10:16,075 Speaker 1: president who ultimately resorted to ignoring the Supreme Court and 151 00:10:16,155 --> 00:10:20,235 Speaker 1: contemplating the arrest of the Chief Justice of the United States. 152 00:10:21,795 --> 00:10:25,475 Speaker 1: I mean, mister President, if you want to change the 153 00:10:25,595 --> 00:10:32,035 Speaker 1: topic from the debate, change it, change it from talk 154 00:10:32,875 --> 00:10:37,435 Speaker 1: to action, and change the election from the sum of 155 00:10:37,675 --> 00:10:43,435 Speaker 1: all fears to Biden versus the last leader of the 156 00:10:43,475 --> 00:10:47,555 Speaker 1: Republican Party who is not in communicado somewhere in a 157 00:10:47,675 --> 00:10:54,755 Speaker 1: brig that would be Check's notes here. It is the 158 00:10:54,795 --> 00:11:08,315 Speaker 1: election between you, sir, and Republican candidate Asa Hutchinson. As 159 00:11:08,355 --> 00:11:10,235 Speaker 1: I said at the start of this episode, the worst 160 00:11:10,275 --> 00:11:12,755 Speaker 1: option facing Joe Biden and this nation is staying where 161 00:11:12,755 --> 00:11:16,195 Speaker 1: we are right now. Leading congressman calling for him to 162 00:11:16,315 --> 00:11:19,275 Speaker 1: leave the ticket, the Congressional Black Caucus calling for him 163 00:11:19,275 --> 00:11:22,475 Speaker 1: to stay on the ticket, Chuck Schumer voicing support, The 164 00:11:22,595 --> 00:11:25,715 Speaker 1: Washington Post anonymously quoting two Democratic senators who say the 165 00:11:25,715 --> 00:11:28,515 Speaker 1: consensus among Democratic senators is that he needs to step down. 166 00:11:28,675 --> 00:11:32,355 Speaker 1: Mark Warner scheduling an urgent meeting among Democratic senators and 167 00:11:32,395 --> 00:11:35,795 Speaker 1: then deciding it's not that urgent can wait till today, 168 00:11:35,795 --> 00:11:38,915 Speaker 1: and then issuing a statement backing away from Mark Warner. 169 00:11:39,195 --> 00:11:41,355 Speaker 1: I believe it is incumbent upon the President to more 170 00:11:41,395 --> 00:11:44,075 Speaker 1: aggressively make his case to the American people. That's not 171 00:11:44,235 --> 00:11:48,395 Speaker 1: exactly in the name of God go the President's people 172 00:11:48,795 --> 00:11:52,275 Speaker 1: uniformly insisting they have nothing to hide and have hidden nothing, 173 00:11:52,435 --> 00:11:56,475 Speaker 1: while the White House visitors logs show one Parkinson's expert 174 00:11:56,675 --> 00:12:01,275 Speaker 1: visited eight times between last July and this March. The 175 00:12:01,315 --> 00:12:04,635 Speaker 1: bigger story confusing that even more, being that that parkin 176 00:12:04,675 --> 00:12:06,875 Speaker 1: since expert has been a White House regular and a 177 00:12:06,915 --> 00:12:12,635 Speaker 1: consultant since twenty twelve. The Vice President behaving in an 178 00:12:12,675 --> 00:12:16,475 Speaker 1: exemplary manner, while there is at least one Biden veteran 179 00:12:16,995 --> 00:12:19,835 Speaker 1: quoted anonymously from inside the White House in The New 180 00:12:19,915 --> 00:12:22,515 Speaker 1: York Times, trying to get him out and her in. 181 00:12:22,915 --> 00:12:25,955 Speaker 1: The President trying to prove he is cogent and clear 182 00:12:25,995 --> 00:12:30,715 Speaker 1: minded by phoning in to Joe Scarborough, as if Joe 183 00:12:30,755 --> 00:12:34,515 Speaker 1: Scarborough were cogent or clear minded and not an opportunistic 184 00:12:34,635 --> 00:12:39,155 Speaker 1: leech who has taken every side of every issue just 185 00:12:39,195 --> 00:12:45,395 Speaker 1: since twenty sixteen, when the man wrote the center cannot hold. 186 00:12:45,675 --> 00:12:49,795 Speaker 1: This is what he meant. The problem, ultimately is this, 187 00:12:52,035 --> 00:12:54,275 Speaker 1: even if the President will not withdraw from the ticket, 188 00:12:54,795 --> 00:12:58,715 Speaker 1: and those urging him to suddenly all relax on the subject, 189 00:12:59,635 --> 00:13:01,835 Speaker 1: if the New York Times suddenly realizes that it could, 190 00:13:01,915 --> 00:13:06,115 Speaker 1: you know, flood the opinion and reporting space against Trump 191 00:13:06,195 --> 00:13:08,475 Speaker 1: in exactly the same way it has against Biden for 192 00:13:08,515 --> 00:13:10,875 Speaker 1: the last week and a half, if other events we 193 00:13:10,955 --> 00:13:14,275 Speaker 1: haven't experienced yet crowd the issue off the page, if 194 00:13:14,275 --> 00:13:18,515 Speaker 1: he has a good week or a good month, or 195 00:13:18,515 --> 00:13:20,915 Speaker 1: they say, hell, what do we need Scarborough for? Will 196 00:13:20,955 --> 00:13:25,155 Speaker 1: just put the president on every morning on MSNBC. Even 197 00:13:25,195 --> 00:13:27,275 Speaker 1: if all that happens, What makes anybody think that this 198 00:13:27,315 --> 00:13:31,355 Speaker 1: will neutralize this issue? Even if every Democrat and liberal 199 00:13:31,395 --> 00:13:34,475 Speaker 1: and pro democracy person in this country woke up tomorrow 200 00:13:34,595 --> 00:13:39,115 Speaker 1: committed to never mentioning this again, what will stop Trump 201 00:13:39,115 --> 00:13:43,515 Speaker 1: from doing so? His campaign announced the sixty one million 202 00:13:43,555 --> 00:13:46,955 Speaker 1: dollar ad buy last night surrounding the Olympics, guess what 203 00:13:47,035 --> 00:13:53,155 Speaker 1: that's going to be about? Are there not? Ultimately, no 204 00:13:53,235 --> 00:13:55,995 Speaker 1: matter what else happens. Two questions that cannot be erased. 205 00:13:56,315 --> 00:13:59,115 Speaker 1: One do you want him on the debate stage on 206 00:13:59,155 --> 00:14:03,115 Speaker 1: September tenth? And two do you think not that he 207 00:14:03,195 --> 00:14:05,915 Speaker 1: is going to hold steady in term of his mental alacrity, 208 00:14:05,915 --> 00:14:09,635 Speaker 1: but that it and the perception of it and of him, 209 00:14:10,235 --> 00:14:14,355 Speaker 1: that these things will improve between here and election day? 210 00:14:14,395 --> 00:14:19,195 Speaker 1: Because to beat Trump, the perception of Joe Biden is 211 00:14:19,195 --> 00:14:25,595 Speaker 1: going to have to improve. The thing is the consensus 212 00:14:25,595 --> 00:14:27,795 Speaker 1: on this story seemed to be that the dams would 213 00:14:27,835 --> 00:14:31,515 Speaker 1: all break yesterday. They did not. There were leaks from 214 00:14:31,555 --> 00:14:35,435 Speaker 1: the Congressional conference call Sunday, Jerry Nadler Adam Smith to 215 00:14:35,595 --> 00:14:40,355 Speaker 1: others get out the warners. Senate meeting postponed. The president 216 00:14:40,435 --> 00:14:43,115 Speaker 1: railed against the elites trying to get him out, blamed 217 00:14:43,115 --> 00:14:45,635 Speaker 1: the millionaires, said, rank and file Democrats want him in. 218 00:14:45,675 --> 00:14:48,115 Speaker 1: But reality to this point appears to be the exact opposite. 219 00:14:48,195 --> 00:14:50,475 Speaker 1: It's now forty six percent of Democratic voters who want 220 00:14:50,515 --> 00:14:55,915 Speaker 1: him to drop out. It was thirty six percent. The 221 00:14:55,995 --> 00:14:59,995 Speaker 1: other headlines, one of the marquee names from the Democrats 222 00:14:59,995 --> 00:15:02,635 Speaker 1: have a deep bench crowd just withdrew her candidacy for 223 00:15:02,675 --> 00:15:04,875 Speaker 1: a job that has not yet open. Governor Gretchen whit 224 00:15:04,915 --> 00:15:07,795 Speaker 1: MURV Michigan said if Biden drops out, she would not 225 00:15:07,915 --> 00:15:11,235 Speaker 1: seek to replace him on the ticket. Also, the White 226 00:15:11,275 --> 00:15:13,795 Speaker 1: House leaked yesterday that besides his letter to all of them, 227 00:15:13,875 --> 00:15:16,835 Speaker 1: Biden has personally called twenty Democratic members of the House 228 00:15:16,955 --> 00:15:22,435 Speaker 1: since the debate, which sounds impressive except that's less than 229 00:15:22,475 --> 00:15:26,315 Speaker 1: two a day. This is a head scratcher. The president says, 230 00:15:26,315 --> 00:15:29,315 Speaker 1: the twenty twenty polls underestimated him, so why should we 231 00:15:29,315 --> 00:15:32,155 Speaker 1: pay attention to the polls now? Except they didn't. He 232 00:15:32,275 --> 00:15:35,595 Speaker 1: was up by nine points this month in twenty twenty, 233 00:15:35,715 --> 00:15:38,675 Speaker 1: and he was never less than four points ahead of Trump. 234 00:15:38,955 --> 00:15:41,275 Speaker 1: As CNN pointed out, he is the first Democrat to 235 00:15:41,315 --> 00:15:44,035 Speaker 1: trail in the national polls in July since al Gore. 236 00:15:46,195 --> 00:15:49,035 Speaker 1: It is possible that he meant the polls in the 237 00:15:49,075 --> 00:15:53,755 Speaker 1: primaries in twenty twenty. But if anything is obviously bothering 238 00:15:53,795 --> 00:15:58,075 Speaker 1: the president, it is this exact thing, lack of specificity. 239 00:15:58,795 --> 00:16:01,235 Speaker 1: Trump has been like this since about nineteen sixty six, 240 00:16:01,915 --> 00:16:05,235 Speaker 1: but Joe Biden is becoming like this. Primary polls, residential 241 00:16:05,315 --> 00:16:09,715 Speaker 1: race polls, they just become polls, and one with this 242 00:16:10,195 --> 00:16:14,755 Speaker 1: assumes that the listener knows which one I meant. This 243 00:16:14,875 --> 00:16:19,875 Speaker 1: is not fatal, nor necessarily an indicator of anything. Hell 244 00:16:19,915 --> 00:16:24,275 Speaker 1: I do it in conversation on rare occasion, well, on occasion, Okay, 245 00:16:24,315 --> 00:16:29,715 Speaker 1: every day, but it leads to statements that seem like lies. 246 00:16:32,235 --> 00:16:35,555 Speaker 1: There also have been some pleasant surprises in polls, particularly 247 00:16:35,595 --> 00:16:40,515 Speaker 1: in battleground polls. Best members yet overall, and in Michigan 248 00:16:40,555 --> 00:16:43,035 Speaker 1: and in Wisconsin, and the forest not seen for the 249 00:16:43,035 --> 00:16:45,475 Speaker 1: trees in this is He's still losing in five of 250 00:16:45,515 --> 00:16:50,395 Speaker 1: the seven consensus battleground states. There are advantages through a 251 00:16:50,435 --> 00:16:54,115 Speaker 1: crisis like this, as Trump long ago proved stories that 252 00:16:54,155 --> 00:16:59,075 Speaker 1: would ordinarily be disqualifying scandals go buy almost unnoticed. The 253 00:16:59,075 --> 00:17:04,235 Speaker 1: Biden campaign arranged two quick interviews with obscure local radio 254 00:17:04,275 --> 00:17:08,435 Speaker 1: station to prove he could do them, and supplied the 255 00:17:08,475 --> 00:17:12,835 Speaker 1: interviewers with questions. One of the interviewers said, they gave 256 00:17:12,875 --> 00:17:15,675 Speaker 1: me the exact questions to ask. There was no back 257 00:17:15,715 --> 00:17:20,635 Speaker 1: and forth. The other interviewer is no longer with her station, 258 00:17:22,035 --> 00:17:24,235 Speaker 1: and I'm hoping whoever dreamed this up is no longer 259 00:17:24,235 --> 00:17:26,635 Speaker 1: with the Biden campaign. It is a Trump trick. It 260 00:17:26,715 --> 00:17:31,715 Speaker 1: is deeply offensive and most importantly, Oh on God's green Earth, 261 00:17:31,835 --> 00:17:38,395 Speaker 1: thought it would not come out the stupid people are 262 00:17:38,395 --> 00:17:43,035 Speaker 1: supposed to be running the Trump campaign. One other headline 263 00:17:43,035 --> 00:17:45,475 Speaker 1: shows that no matter how grave or unprecedented the news 264 00:17:45,475 --> 00:17:47,435 Speaker 1: may be, there are always people who can come up 265 00:17:47,555 --> 00:17:50,915 Speaker 1: with something so stupid that it becomes laugh out loud funny. 266 00:17:52,355 --> 00:17:56,715 Speaker 1: First of all, no, if Biden with draws, you do 267 00:17:56,835 --> 00:18:00,675 Speaker 1: not want a mini primary or some sort of huge debate. 268 00:18:01,195 --> 00:18:04,875 Speaker 1: The vice president becomes the nominee, even if you have 269 00:18:04,915 --> 00:18:08,115 Speaker 1: to blackmail everybody else mentioned for the job to pretend 270 00:18:08,155 --> 00:18:11,195 Speaker 1: they've all come to this unanimous decision. Even may I 271 00:18:11,235 --> 00:18:13,835 Speaker 1: say this if the president has to resign or step 272 00:18:13,835 --> 00:18:16,355 Speaker 1: aside under the twenty fifth Amendment in a leave of 273 00:18:16,395 --> 00:18:19,675 Speaker 1: absence and make her acting president, Because if the vice 274 00:18:19,675 --> 00:18:23,235 Speaker 1: president doesn't become the nominee and you have a mini primary, 275 00:18:23,555 --> 00:18:26,875 Speaker 1: guess what you will automatically have five or six or 276 00:18:26,955 --> 00:18:31,835 Speaker 1: seven losers, and they will be disappointed, and more importantly, 277 00:18:31,835 --> 00:18:34,915 Speaker 1: their supporters, who cannot grasp that their candidate is not 278 00:18:34,955 --> 00:18:37,395 Speaker 1: more important than the future of the country, will all 279 00:18:37,435 --> 00:18:40,315 Speaker 1: be disappointed and maybe even disaffected. And this doesn't even 280 00:18:40,315 --> 00:18:42,955 Speaker 1: address the fact that you would be bypassing the vice 281 00:18:42,995 --> 00:18:49,195 Speaker 1: president of the United States. Just as importantly, to create 282 00:18:49,355 --> 00:18:53,115 Speaker 1: an ad hoc nominating system, you open the door to 283 00:18:53,395 --> 00:18:58,675 Speaker 1: crackpot ideas. Semaphore News reported that a former Obama and 284 00:18:58,755 --> 00:19:03,715 Speaker 1: Clinton staffer and a Democratic donor have a plan, and 285 00:19:03,755 --> 00:19:08,475 Speaker 1: they wrote a memo. Oh Biden and Vice President Harris. 286 00:19:08,475 --> 00:19:14,195 Speaker 1: According to their plan, would announce the Blitz Primary one 287 00:19:14,235 --> 00:19:19,115 Speaker 1: month voting by the convention delegates a pledge of a 288 00:19:19,155 --> 00:19:23,795 Speaker 1: positive only campaign or you can't run a ranked choice 289 00:19:23,995 --> 00:19:27,035 Speaker 1: vote before the convention, the winner of which is announced 290 00:19:27,035 --> 00:19:30,355 Speaker 1: on day three of the convention, with the nominee unveiled 291 00:19:30,395 --> 00:19:35,635 Speaker 1: on stage by Biden, Bill Clinton, and Obama, presumably the 292 00:19:35,675 --> 00:19:38,155 Speaker 1: nominee standing there with a bag over his or her 293 00:19:38,195 --> 00:19:40,435 Speaker 1: head and you just pull it off, you go whoo. 294 00:19:41,955 --> 00:19:46,355 Speaker 1: The memo insists the nation would be captivated by the 295 00:19:46,395 --> 00:19:51,235 Speaker 1: Blitz Primary and donations to the Democratic Cofference would flow 296 00:19:51,355 --> 00:19:55,395 Speaker 1: like water, and Biden would be compared to George Washington 297 00:19:55,475 --> 00:19:58,555 Speaker 1: retiring for the good of his country. And best of all. 298 00:19:58,995 --> 00:20:05,555 Speaker 1: Best of all, there would be lively live weekly Blitz 299 00:20:05,675 --> 00:20:11,995 Speaker 1: Primary candidate forums, one with each candidate moderated by Michelle 300 00:20:12,075 --> 00:20:20,395 Speaker 1: Obama and Oprah Winfrey and Taylor Swift. And you know 301 00:20:20,435 --> 00:20:25,395 Speaker 1: why they chose the name the Blitz Primary, because you 302 00:20:25,435 --> 00:20:29,915 Speaker 1: would have to have been Blitz to have dreamed this crap. Uh. 303 00:20:35,435 --> 00:20:38,075 Speaker 1: Also of interest here, Yes, Marjorie Taylor Green is the 304 00:20:38,115 --> 00:20:40,675 Speaker 1: dumbest woman on the planet. But what special is just 305 00:20:40,715 --> 00:20:43,795 Speaker 1: when you think you know how dumb, it turns out 306 00:20:43,835 --> 00:20:49,155 Speaker 1: she has new, previously undiscovered supplies of dumbness. Marge explains 307 00:20:49,395 --> 00:20:54,555 Speaker 1: how Paul Revere signed the Declaration of Independence, not the Raiders, 308 00:20:55,195 --> 00:21:00,115 Speaker 1: just Paul Revere. She lists eight signers of the Declaration 309 00:21:00,195 --> 00:21:04,035 Speaker 1: of Independence and six of them didn't sign. And there's 310 00:21:04,075 --> 00:21:07,355 Speaker 1: one true silver lining to all this. It gives me 311 00:21:07,395 --> 00:21:10,155 Speaker 1: a chance to really go out there and attack the 312 00:21:10,195 --> 00:21:13,035 Speaker 1: morons on the left. And God knows we have them too, 313 00:21:14,075 --> 00:21:16,675 Speaker 1: and God knows some of them are in the Biden campaign. 314 00:21:17,395 --> 00:21:20,555 Speaker 1: Because apart from that whole idea about writing the interviews 315 00:21:20,635 --> 00:21:25,755 Speaker 1: for the radio reporters, they are soliciting applications for a 316 00:21:25,875 --> 00:21:30,195 Speaker 1: key campaign job right now. And you will not believe 317 00:21:30,275 --> 00:21:35,755 Speaker 1: what the job is. That's next. This is countdown. This 318 00:21:35,795 --> 00:22:00,675 Speaker 1: is countdown with Keith Olberman Stella ahead of us on 319 00:22:00,715 --> 00:22:02,955 Speaker 1: this edition of Countdown. I have told it before, but 320 00:22:02,995 --> 00:22:06,675 Speaker 1: it seems like it is the absolutely correct time to 321 00:22:06,875 --> 00:22:10,435 Speaker 1: tell it again. And if normally you hit stop after 322 00:22:10,635 --> 00:22:13,675 Speaker 1: worse persons in the world, you may want to stick 323 00:22:13,715 --> 00:22:17,755 Speaker 1: around for things I promised not to tell. As I 324 00:22:17,795 --> 00:22:20,315 Speaker 1: recount again the day I was taken to lunch and 325 00:22:20,435 --> 00:22:23,395 Speaker 1: asked for advice on public speaking, especially on how to 326 00:22:23,515 --> 00:22:28,955 Speaker 1: sound righteously indignant instead of crazy, by a then senator 327 00:22:29,035 --> 00:22:32,955 Speaker 1: named Joe Biden. But first, there are still more new 328 00:22:32,995 --> 00:22:35,355 Speaker 1: idiots to talk about. The daily roundup of the miscreants, 329 00:22:35,435 --> 00:22:40,835 Speaker 1: morons and Dunning Kruegerffet specimens who constitute today's worst persons 330 00:22:40,915 --> 00:22:45,875 Speaker 1: in the world, the bronze worse. Maureen Dowd of the 331 00:22:45,915 --> 00:22:49,795 Speaker 1: New York Times. Why yes, Mareen Daud still is with 332 00:22:49,875 --> 00:22:53,075 Speaker 1: the New York Times, and she's finally done it. She 333 00:22:53,155 --> 00:22:56,035 Speaker 1: has finally written the column we have always wanted to 334 00:22:56,115 --> 00:23:00,875 Speaker 1: read from her, not her retirement column that still looms 335 00:23:00,915 --> 00:23:03,995 Speaker 1: on the horizon like I don't know the promise of 336 00:23:04,035 --> 00:23:08,515 Speaker 1: eternal life. No, no, this is a column by Maureen 337 00:23:08,635 --> 00:23:13,475 Speaker 1: Dowd about the incompetence of Maureen Dowd. Let me quote 338 00:23:13,515 --> 00:23:17,915 Speaker 1: a paragraph or two in my Saturday column, I quoted 339 00:23:17,955 --> 00:23:21,235 Speaker 1: Biden's line to ABC's George Stephanopoulos about how he would 340 00:23:21,275 --> 00:23:23,795 Speaker 1: feel if Trump were sworn in as president because he 341 00:23:23,835 --> 00:23:27,235 Speaker 1: refused to step aside, I'll feel as long as I 342 00:23:27,275 --> 00:23:30,955 Speaker 1: gave it my all and did the goodest job as 343 00:23:30,995 --> 00:23:34,995 Speaker 1: I know I can do. That's what this is about. Now, 344 00:23:35,115 --> 00:23:39,395 Speaker 1: goodest isn't a word, but my researcher, Andrew Trunsky, and 345 00:23:39,475 --> 00:23:42,515 Speaker 1: I listened to the video our ears up against the 346 00:23:42,555 --> 00:23:49,715 Speaker 1: computer ten times, and that's what it sounded like. Unquote. Okay, 347 00:23:50,115 --> 00:23:55,595 Speaker 1: there's a lot to unpack here. Firstly, Maureen Dowd actually 348 00:23:55,635 --> 00:24:00,395 Speaker 1: has written a column about writing her previous column. This 349 00:24:00,475 --> 00:24:03,315 Speaker 1: goes on for paragraph after paragraph about how the White 350 00:24:03,355 --> 00:24:06,955 Speaker 1: House asked her, harassed her, interfered with her to make 351 00:24:06,995 --> 00:24:10,515 Speaker 1: the correction after she misquoted President Biden. I mean, he 352 00:24:10,595 --> 00:24:13,515 Speaker 1: mumbled through the answer, and maybe you do need to 353 00:24:13,555 --> 00:24:15,995 Speaker 1: listen to it a second time to be sure, but 354 00:24:16,075 --> 00:24:18,315 Speaker 1: he obviously says I did as good a job as 355 00:24:18,355 --> 00:24:21,275 Speaker 1: I know I can do. The issue of how clear 356 00:24:21,315 --> 00:24:25,515 Speaker 1: he was is the whole point of this. That's the story. Also, 357 00:24:25,635 --> 00:24:28,835 Speaker 1: I have mentioned previously that this answer is the only 358 00:24:28,835 --> 00:24:31,195 Speaker 1: thing he's done. That's really terrified me because the correct 359 00:24:31,235 --> 00:24:33,635 Speaker 1: answer is I will let Trump take power only over 360 00:24:33,715 --> 00:24:37,395 Speaker 1: my dead body or his dead body or something similar. 361 00:24:38,395 --> 00:24:41,555 Speaker 1: But that's not what Doubt is complaining about. She heard goodest, 362 00:24:42,195 --> 00:24:45,315 Speaker 1: and her researcher heard goodest, so it was goodest, and 363 00:24:45,435 --> 00:24:47,795 Speaker 1: damn you all the hell for correcting her white House, 364 00:24:49,075 --> 00:24:51,675 Speaker 1: which brings me to point number two. She has a 365 00:24:51,715 --> 00:24:56,955 Speaker 1: research assistant. Maureen Daoud has a research assistant, and the 366 00:24:57,035 --> 00:25:03,155 Speaker 1: columns still suck that much dairy air. Seriously, it takes 367 00:25:03,195 --> 00:25:08,275 Speaker 1: two of you to produce this thirdly quote. My researcher 368 00:25:08,355 --> 00:25:11,995 Speaker 1: and I listened to the video our ears up against 369 00:25:12,035 --> 00:25:17,315 Speaker 1: the computer ten times. So you have a researcher, but 370 00:25:17,395 --> 00:25:20,755 Speaker 1: you don't have headphones. I mean, I'm not even asking 371 00:25:20,755 --> 00:25:24,155 Speaker 1: that you and your researcher both have headphones, just maybe 372 00:25:24,195 --> 00:25:27,395 Speaker 1: a shared pair of headphones perhaps, or he has one. 373 00:25:28,315 --> 00:25:31,675 Speaker 1: Am I being too demanding? I mean? Has the Times 374 00:25:31,715 --> 00:25:36,275 Speaker 1: been lying about its fulsome profits? Can the Times not 375 00:25:36,315 --> 00:25:40,355 Speaker 1: afford a pair of headphones for Marine Doud or some 376 00:25:40,475 --> 00:25:43,955 Speaker 1: beats or buds? Are you guys spending too much money 377 00:25:44,035 --> 00:25:47,875 Speaker 1: sending me email after email after email dozen a day 378 00:25:47,955 --> 00:25:51,275 Speaker 1: trying to get me to start paying to play wordle again. 379 00:25:51,715 --> 00:25:54,435 Speaker 1: I'm not going to I'm wordled out. Stop it. Save 380 00:25:54,515 --> 00:26:01,115 Speaker 1: the money, Buy Marene some cans. We listened to the 381 00:26:01,155 --> 00:26:07,115 Speaker 1: computer ten times God the runner up worser Marjorie Taylor, 382 00:26:07,315 --> 00:26:10,835 Speaker 1: Barney Rubble. The way to reassure people about Biden is 383 00:26:10,835 --> 00:26:15,395 Speaker 1: to compare his acuity to hers Taylor Green. If somehow 384 00:26:15,435 --> 00:26:18,795 Speaker 1: you miss this, I'll just read it from Twitter x. 385 00:26:19,795 --> 00:26:23,115 Speaker 1: The average age of the signers of the Declaration of 386 00:26:23,195 --> 00:26:29,595 Speaker 1: Independence on July fourth, seventeen seventy six, she wrote, was 387 00:26:29,675 --> 00:26:32,715 Speaker 1: forty four years old, but more than a dozen worth 388 00:26:32,755 --> 00:26:37,115 Speaker 1: thirty five or younger. Thomas Jefferson thirty three, John Hancock 389 00:26:37,195 --> 00:26:42,235 Speaker 1: thirty nine, James Madison twenty five, Alexander Hamilton twenty one, 390 00:26:42,635 --> 00:26:48,315 Speaker 1: James Monroe eighteen, Aaron Burr twenty, Paul Revere forty one, 391 00:26:48,795 --> 00:26:53,875 Speaker 1: George Washington forty four. Wait a minute, First of all, 392 00:26:53,915 --> 00:26:56,835 Speaker 1: Marge says more than a dozen worth thirty five or younger, 393 00:26:56,955 --> 00:26:59,275 Speaker 1: and then her list of a dozen or more only 394 00:26:59,275 --> 00:27:02,355 Speaker 1: has eight names on it. And of course, out of 395 00:27:02,395 --> 00:27:05,635 Speaker 1: her list of the dozen signers of the decl of Independence, 396 00:27:05,675 --> 00:27:08,155 Speaker 1: all eight of them, six of them did not sign 397 00:27:08,235 --> 00:27:11,595 Speaker 1: the declaration of Independence, like James Monroe, who had just 398 00:27:11,675 --> 00:27:14,275 Speaker 1: dropped out of college to join the Continental Army, and 399 00:27:14,355 --> 00:27:17,235 Speaker 1: Alexander Hamilton, who had just dropped out of school to 400 00:27:17,275 --> 00:27:20,035 Speaker 1: join the Continental Army, and Aaron Burr who had just 401 00:27:20,155 --> 00:27:22,915 Speaker 1: quit law school to join the Continental Army. But I 402 00:27:22,915 --> 00:27:25,475 Speaker 1: will never get over the idea that Marjorie Taylor Green 403 00:27:25,555 --> 00:27:31,715 Speaker 1: thinks Paul Revere signed the Declaration of Independence. I mean 404 00:27:33,115 --> 00:27:36,075 Speaker 1: Paul Whiteman, the jazz band leader of the thirties, would 405 00:27:36,075 --> 00:27:38,875 Speaker 1: have been a better guess. It's like she asked AI 406 00:27:38,955 --> 00:27:40,835 Speaker 1: to give her a list of eight people who were 407 00:27:40,875 --> 00:27:44,195 Speaker 1: alive in America in seventeen seventy six, and she was 408 00:27:44,235 --> 00:27:47,835 Speaker 1: just lucky it didn't pick Andrew Jackson, who in seventeen 409 00:27:47,835 --> 00:27:52,355 Speaker 1: seventy six was nine years old. Paul Revere signed the 410 00:27:52,395 --> 00:27:56,795 Speaker 1: Declaration of Independence same year he invented Revere Wear sauce 411 00:27:56,875 --> 00:28:01,515 Speaker 1: pans nineteen thirty nine. Holy crap, is this woman a moron? 412 00:28:02,875 --> 00:28:06,635 Speaker 1: And she might be the brightest Republican from Georgia. But 413 00:28:06,755 --> 00:28:10,795 Speaker 1: our winners, the Joe Biden for President twenty twenty four campaign, 414 00:28:10,795 --> 00:28:13,995 Speaker 1: I know what you're thinking. No, not for that, it 415 00:28:14,075 --> 00:28:17,915 Speaker 1: is for their new ad or listing in Daybook, which 416 00:28:17,955 --> 00:28:21,755 Speaker 1: is a website for job postings, mostly political ones, some educational, 417 00:28:21,795 --> 00:28:24,515 Speaker 1: some nonprofits. This one is next to one from the 418 00:28:24,555 --> 00:28:27,555 Speaker 1: Democratic Party of Illinois, which is looking to hire a 419 00:28:27,555 --> 00:28:32,795 Speaker 1: new head of its direct mail campaigns Rapid Response Communications 420 00:28:32,835 --> 00:28:36,195 Speaker 1: Manager Wilmington, Delaware. The Biden for President campaign is seeking 421 00:28:36,715 --> 00:28:41,675 Speaker 1: and rapid response communications manager. Well, there's your problem right there. 422 00:28:41,835 --> 00:28:46,275 Speaker 1: And rapids Response Communications manager to support the Rapid Response 423 00:28:46,315 --> 00:28:50,595 Speaker 1: team communications teams in Wilmington, including drafting and sending press materials, 424 00:28:50,795 --> 00:28:54,115 Speaker 1: maintaining press lists, and other duties as assigned. We're looking 425 00:28:54,195 --> 00:28:56,795 Speaker 1: for folks with a variety of backgrounds and experience and 426 00:28:56,835 --> 00:28:59,435 Speaker 1: are dedicated to building a team that looks like America 427 00:29:00,515 --> 00:29:03,755 Speaker 1: doesn't know that it's a rapid response communications manager. Well, 428 00:29:03,795 --> 00:29:09,275 Speaker 1: there's Marjorie tail Key. Responsibilities draft press materials including statements, 429 00:29:09,515 --> 00:29:13,915 Speaker 1: press releases, advisories and talking points. You bet your ass 430 00:29:14,595 --> 00:29:19,195 Speaker 1: draft briefing memos, presentations, and other internal facing documents like 431 00:29:19,235 --> 00:29:25,915 Speaker 1: the one reading. He correspond and coordinate with reporters as appropriate. 432 00:29:26,155 --> 00:29:31,875 Speaker 1: Hello Marine DOWD. Help manage the flow of communications material 433 00:29:31,955 --> 00:29:37,315 Speaker 1: internally to key stakeholders and externally to surrogates, allies, and press. Well, 434 00:29:37,355 --> 00:29:39,355 Speaker 1: this would be the thing about setting up that interview 435 00:29:39,355 --> 00:29:41,755 Speaker 1: with the radio places, and the guy doesn't work there 436 00:29:41,755 --> 00:29:44,515 Speaker 1: anymore when you gave him the questions in advance. Collaborate 437 00:29:44,835 --> 00:29:48,035 Speaker 1: with communications team, senior staff and other team members on 438 00:29:48,075 --> 00:29:53,995 Speaker 1: additional projects as needed. How do you draft a resignation track, 439 00:29:54,075 --> 00:29:58,555 Speaker 1: approvals and strategy meetings? Well, you need approvals, Coordinate with 440 00:29:58,635 --> 00:30:02,835 Speaker 1: state teams and rapid response bracketing. I don't even know 441 00:30:02,835 --> 00:30:07,395 Speaker 1: what that is. HU provides and manage communications department interns. 442 00:30:08,555 --> 00:30:13,075 Speaker 1: Oh No. Preferred skills and qualifications. Strong written and verbal 443 00:30:13,075 --> 00:30:16,675 Speaker 1: communication skills, strong interpersonal skills with the ability to work 444 00:30:16,675 --> 00:30:19,995 Speaker 1: effectively with employees at all levels. Ability to organize and 445 00:30:20,035 --> 00:30:24,755 Speaker 1: manage multiple priorities and deadlines in a detail oriented manner. Hello, 446 00:30:24,915 --> 00:30:29,795 Speaker 1: Mareen Dowd. Ability to organize and manage multiple priorities and 447 00:30:29,795 --> 00:30:32,355 Speaker 1: deadlines in a detail oriented manner. No, that's my fault. 448 00:30:32,355 --> 00:30:35,155 Speaker 1: I read that twice. Ability to handle projects with the 449 00:30:35,195 --> 00:30:41,275 Speaker 1: appropriate level of discretion and confidentiality. This was sort of 450 00:30:41,275 --> 00:30:43,635 Speaker 1: an actor thought until the last week or so. Ability 451 00:30:43,635 --> 00:30:49,435 Speaker 1: to work well under pressure with humor and grace. Yeah, 452 00:30:49,475 --> 00:30:52,795 Speaker 1: I'm sure. A team player that recognizes the importance of 453 00:30:52,835 --> 00:30:59,555 Speaker 1: working collaboratively additional useful skills and qualifications prior experience on 454 00:30:59,595 --> 00:31:04,515 Speaker 1: a political campaign seventy five thousand dollars to eighty thousand 455 00:31:05,075 --> 00:31:10,835 Speaker 1: a year. So you're telling me you're just hiring somebody 456 00:31:11,555 --> 00:31:17,475 Speaker 1: to do this now the Biden campaign, Well, hell, I 457 00:31:17,555 --> 00:31:21,195 Speaker 1: suppose if they're still reconsidering the position of president in 458 00:31:21,235 --> 00:31:23,875 Speaker 1: the campaign, I guess it's not too late to hire 459 00:31:24,275 --> 00:31:31,675 Speaker 1: an rapid response director. Two days worst Persons, somebody's been 460 00:31:31,715 --> 00:31:57,235 Speaker 1: taking this listing down in the world. Early in two 461 00:31:57,275 --> 00:32:00,675 Speaker 1: thousand and seven, my phone rang at MSNBC headquarters in 462 00:32:00,715 --> 00:32:04,555 Speaker 1: New Jersey. The Senator would like to take you to 463 00:32:04,795 --> 00:32:06,955 Speaker 1: lunch the next time he's in New York. He needs 464 00:32:06,995 --> 00:32:10,635 Speaker 1: your advice. Would you be willing to do that? It 465 00:32:10,715 --> 00:32:15,915 Speaker 1: was Joe Biden's press chief. My first reaction was to 466 00:32:15,955 --> 00:32:18,515 Speaker 1: ask if they had called the wrong number. My next 467 00:32:18,555 --> 00:32:21,035 Speaker 1: reaction was to make sure this was not some policy question, 468 00:32:21,115 --> 00:32:25,235 Speaker 1: because as a news anchor and commentator for MSNBC, it 469 00:32:25,315 --> 00:32:28,595 Speaker 1: did not seem appropriate for me to offer advice to 470 00:32:28,715 --> 00:32:33,955 Speaker 1: a candidate for his party's presidential nomination. And doesn't that 471 00:32:33,995 --> 00:32:37,635 Speaker 1: seem quaint now, Sean Hannity, No. I was told it 472 00:32:37,675 --> 00:32:42,795 Speaker 1: was more technical, more about communications, less about content. My 473 00:32:43,075 --> 00:32:48,555 Speaker 1: antique news standards satisfied, I said sure, and they gave 474 00:32:48,555 --> 00:32:50,955 Speaker 1: me a couple of dates, and they suggested, given his schedule, 475 00:32:50,955 --> 00:32:52,635 Speaker 1: the best place for us to eat would be a 476 00:32:52,675 --> 00:32:55,435 Speaker 1: restaurant in Manhattan. And I laughed and I said, yeah, 477 00:32:55,435 --> 00:32:57,635 Speaker 1: that's great. It happens to be about forty five seconds 478 00:32:57,675 --> 00:33:01,875 Speaker 1: from my apartment. The day and the hour arrived. It 479 00:33:01,995 --> 00:33:05,035 Speaker 1: was March twenty seventh, two thousand and seven, and I 480 00:33:05,075 --> 00:33:07,355 Speaker 1: made it to the restaurant and I sat down, and 481 00:33:07,435 --> 00:33:10,635 Speaker 1: moments later in came the Senator from Delaware. He had 482 00:33:10,675 --> 00:33:14,995 Speaker 1: that big welcoming smile and equally big welcoming handshake that 483 00:33:15,035 --> 00:33:18,595 Speaker 1: you may have seen from back when candidates could still 484 00:33:18,595 --> 00:33:21,355 Speaker 1: go greet the people in a crowd. He reminded me 485 00:33:21,395 --> 00:33:23,835 Speaker 1: that we had met briefly when he was in Los 486 00:33:23,875 --> 00:33:27,075 Speaker 1: Angeles for the two thousand Democratic Convention, and he happened 487 00:33:27,115 --> 00:33:28,995 Speaker 1: to be staying in the hotel there in which I 488 00:33:29,075 --> 00:33:32,835 Speaker 1: lived at the time. Senator Biden then said some nice 489 00:33:32,835 --> 00:33:35,275 Speaker 1: things about my days in sports, and particularly about the 490 00:33:35,275 --> 00:33:38,995 Speaker 1: commentaries I had begun to do the previous summer on MSNBC. 491 00:33:39,675 --> 00:33:44,035 Speaker 1: Those special commentaries. He said, with first a smile, then 492 00:33:44,075 --> 00:33:48,315 Speaker 1: a whistle. There was, then and there remains now almost 493 00:33:48,315 --> 00:33:51,595 Speaker 1: no space between the public Joe Biden of the campaign 494 00:33:52,235 --> 00:33:55,635 Speaker 1: or the presidency, and the guy who talks informally to 495 00:33:55,755 --> 00:33:59,195 Speaker 1: some knucklehead off the streets, which in this story would 496 00:33:59,235 --> 00:34:05,035 Speaker 1: be me. There might be a few more swear words words. 497 00:34:06,395 --> 00:34:08,915 Speaker 1: The word malarkey was used during our lunch, and I 498 00:34:08,955 --> 00:34:11,515 Speaker 1: remember that particularly because, as I told him, I went 499 00:34:11,555 --> 00:34:14,315 Speaker 1: to grammar school in Hastings on Hudson, New York with 500 00:34:14,395 --> 00:34:19,115 Speaker 1: a kid named Billy Mallarkey. He was delighted by that, 501 00:34:19,155 --> 00:34:20,915 Speaker 1: and he said, he assumed we gave the fellow a 502 00:34:20,955 --> 00:34:22,755 Speaker 1: hard time, And I said, yeah, but not because of 503 00:34:22,795 --> 00:34:26,795 Speaker 1: the name. None of us third graders knew what malarkey meant. 504 00:34:27,675 --> 00:34:30,715 Speaker 1: Then why did you give him a hard time? Senator 505 00:34:30,755 --> 00:34:36,155 Speaker 1: Biden asked, it was the third grade. I deadpanned. Everybody 506 00:34:36,235 --> 00:34:41,595 Speaker 1: gave everybody a hard time. You liked that answer. But 507 00:34:41,715 --> 00:34:45,115 Speaker 1: back to the point of the lunch, your language, he said, 508 00:34:45,155 --> 00:34:48,635 Speaker 1: in these special comments, now people often brought up the 509 00:34:48,795 --> 00:34:52,355 Speaker 1: language I used to do things like, you know, telling 510 00:34:52,395 --> 00:34:56,675 Speaker 1: President Bush to you know, shut the hell up, because 511 00:34:56,715 --> 00:34:58,995 Speaker 1: I had to say hell rather than the word I 512 00:34:59,035 --> 00:35:01,395 Speaker 1: wanted to say, and some of the events of that 513 00:35:01,475 --> 00:35:05,595 Speaker 1: presidency so infuriated me that I would Redden on camera, 514 00:35:05,835 --> 00:35:11,195 Speaker 1: and I don't Redden in a sauna. Once my high 515 00:35:11,235 --> 00:35:14,235 Speaker 1: school history teacher, a distinguished and elegant man whose nine 516 00:35:14,315 --> 00:35:18,235 Speaker 1: older siblings had been born in Vienna and who had 517 00:35:18,275 --> 00:35:22,275 Speaker 1: the courtliness with which that would be implied, mentioned to 518 00:35:22,395 --> 00:35:25,115 Speaker 1: me the language of the special comments, and I thought, 519 00:35:25,115 --> 00:35:28,035 Speaker 1: oh boy, here it happens. I'm in for it now. 520 00:35:28,755 --> 00:35:32,715 Speaker 1: He Walter Schneller, had told me on the day I 521 00:35:32,795 --> 00:35:36,595 Speaker 1: graduated that my plans to become a sportscaster were very nice, 522 00:35:36,915 --> 00:35:39,115 Speaker 1: and he was sure i'd go and do that, but 523 00:35:39,115 --> 00:35:41,035 Speaker 1: that he was also sure that I would wind up 524 00:35:41,075 --> 00:35:45,035 Speaker 1: in politics someday, either as a reporter or as a combatant. 525 00:35:45,555 --> 00:35:48,715 Speaker 1: And I told him I was flattered, and I will 526 00:35:48,755 --> 00:35:51,675 Speaker 1: always like you, mister Schneller, and you're out of your mind. 527 00:35:53,355 --> 00:35:55,795 Speaker 1: Mister Schneller was also the one who, years later, was 528 00:35:55,835 --> 00:35:59,675 Speaker 1: put in charge of the school's surprisingly generous fund for 529 00:35:59,795 --> 00:36:04,115 Speaker 1: bringing in speakers to address the student body. He was 530 00:36:04,275 --> 00:36:07,395 Speaker 1: very in by the fact that for decades, and he 531 00:36:07,475 --> 00:36:11,155 Speaker 1: got there in I believe nineteen sixty, all of the 532 00:36:11,195 --> 00:36:14,355 Speaker 1: speakers at the Hackley School in Tarrytown, New York had 533 00:36:14,395 --> 00:36:18,235 Speaker 1: either looked like, as he put it, Hugh Side, the 534 00:36:18,275 --> 00:36:23,035 Speaker 1: columnist of Time magazine, or they had actually been Hugh Saide, 535 00:36:23,195 --> 00:36:28,035 Speaker 1: the columnist for Time Magazine. Mister Schneller began scouring the 536 00:36:28,075 --> 00:36:31,755 Speaker 1: Northeast for anybody smart who might have a diverse background, 537 00:36:31,755 --> 00:36:34,235 Speaker 1: and that is how he happened to be driving to 538 00:36:34,275 --> 00:36:37,635 Speaker 1: the railroad station at Tarrytown, New York, one morning in 539 00:36:37,635 --> 00:36:40,275 Speaker 1: the year nineteen ninety one, to meet the train that 540 00:36:40,435 --> 00:36:44,515 Speaker 1: carried that day's guest speaker at the Hackley School. He 541 00:36:44,635 --> 00:36:47,195 Speaker 1: was an editor of the Harvard Law Review, and his 542 00:36:47,315 --> 00:36:53,875 Speaker 1: name was Barack Obama. Anyway, mister Schneller and I were 543 00:36:53,915 --> 00:36:57,995 Speaker 1: talking about the commentaries, and he said about the language Keith, 544 00:36:58,315 --> 00:37:03,115 Speaker 1: and I braced myself and preemptively apologized, No, no, He said, urgently, 545 00:37:03,155 --> 00:37:07,195 Speaker 1: you missed my point entirely. I'm amazed that your language 546 00:37:07,235 --> 00:37:12,755 Speaker 1: is so restrained. If I was speaking, I'd have called 547 00:37:12,795 --> 00:37:17,635 Speaker 1: mister Bush a whereupon mister Schneller made reference to somebody's mother. 548 00:37:19,475 --> 00:37:23,275 Speaker 1: So back to lunch. When Senator Biden asked about the 549 00:37:23,355 --> 00:37:26,715 Speaker 1: language I used, I was wary, but he followed it 550 00:37:26,795 --> 00:37:28,595 Speaker 1: up by saying that it was kind of why he 551 00:37:28,675 --> 00:37:31,955 Speaker 1: had asked me to lunch. I watch the commentary as 552 00:37:31,955 --> 00:37:35,395 Speaker 1: you do. I don't have a choice. Everybody sends me 553 00:37:35,435 --> 00:37:39,155 Speaker 1: the videos, and my staffers tell me about them. And 554 00:37:39,275 --> 00:37:42,355 Speaker 1: every time I think the same thing, you express anger. 555 00:37:42,915 --> 00:37:44,875 Speaker 1: But as close as you come to the line, you 556 00:37:44,955 --> 00:37:48,115 Speaker 1: never go across it. I say to my staff folks, 557 00:37:48,155 --> 00:37:50,915 Speaker 1: is he too angry for you? And they all say no, 558 00:37:51,635 --> 00:37:54,475 Speaker 1: just right. So here's my question, and then we can 559 00:37:54,595 --> 00:37:57,995 Speaker 1: enjoy this great lunch. When I'm passionate about something and 560 00:37:58,035 --> 00:38:00,955 Speaker 1: I speak on the Senate floor, or on the campaign 561 00:38:01,035 --> 00:38:03,435 Speaker 1: or anywhere else, I get told by my friends and 562 00:38:03,515 --> 00:38:07,195 Speaker 1: by my enemies, you're too angry. And when I really 563 00:38:07,235 --> 00:38:11,435 Speaker 1: am angry, they all say, you're really too angry. And 564 00:38:11,595 --> 00:38:16,435 Speaker 1: here Joe Biden laughed. Now you you go on TV, 565 00:38:16,995 --> 00:38:22,395 Speaker 1: far larger audience, far longer speeches, and people say that Alderman, 566 00:38:22,435 --> 00:38:28,395 Speaker 1: he's righteously indignant. With a mixture of laughter, astonishment and curiosity, 567 00:38:28,395 --> 00:38:37,355 Speaker 1: he said me, I'm angry. You you are righteously indignant. 568 00:38:38,515 --> 00:38:40,755 Speaker 1: How do you do it? How do you do it? Man? 569 00:38:41,915 --> 00:38:48,835 Speaker 1: Can you tell me without thinking? I replied, you've been 570 00:38:48,875 --> 00:38:52,395 Speaker 1: in the Senate for how long now, Senator thirty thirty 571 00:38:52,475 --> 00:38:57,235 Speaker 1: four years? He nodded. And you're only just asking this 572 00:38:57,435 --> 00:39:02,595 Speaker 1: question now. The words were barely out of my mouth 573 00:39:02,635 --> 00:39:06,595 Speaker 1: when I froze. This was a friend, or a colleague, 574 00:39:07,195 --> 00:39:09,795 Speaker 1: or even an athlete who would take the little joking 575 00:39:09,915 --> 00:39:13,235 Speaker 1: jab I had just thrown. This was a politician. They 576 00:39:13,315 --> 00:39:16,235 Speaker 1: may have senses of humor, but very few have senses 577 00:39:16,235 --> 00:39:20,435 Speaker 1: of humor about themselves. In that split second, I was 578 00:39:20,515 --> 00:39:24,795 Speaker 1: confident Joe Biden would get up and leave. And he 579 00:39:25,035 --> 00:39:27,875 Speaker 1: was silent for a moment, and then the corners of 580 00:39:27,875 --> 00:39:30,115 Speaker 1: his mouth turned up, and to my great relief, he 581 00:39:30,315 --> 00:39:35,395 Speaker 1: burst into laughter. He rocked back into his chair. He 582 00:39:35,515 --> 00:39:38,555 Speaker 1: slapped the table with a palm. My god, that's funny. 583 00:39:39,235 --> 00:39:46,795 Speaker 1: More laughter, My God, that's true, louder laughter. I do 584 00:39:46,875 --> 00:39:49,715 Speaker 1: not apologize when I say I have loved him ever since. 585 00:39:52,595 --> 00:39:55,315 Speaker 1: I didn't think I actually would have had much advice 586 00:39:55,515 --> 00:39:58,115 Speaker 1: for him, and was prepared to just go through the 587 00:39:58,195 --> 00:40:00,755 Speaker 1: lunch having lunch. But as we talked about this topic, 588 00:40:01,355 --> 00:40:04,435 Speaker 1: he asked me follow up questions that made me analyze 589 00:40:04,435 --> 00:40:08,115 Speaker 1: for the the first time some of the processes I 590 00:40:08,355 --> 00:40:12,395 Speaker 1: used unknowingly when writing and reading on television. I had 591 00:40:12,435 --> 00:40:14,475 Speaker 1: never thought of them before because I had never had 592 00:40:14,475 --> 00:40:18,275 Speaker 1: had lunch with Joe Biden before. I will not bore 593 00:40:18,315 --> 00:40:20,595 Speaker 1: you with the full results of the dissection of the 594 00:40:20,635 --> 00:40:24,755 Speaker 1: process or how to turn anger into righteous indignation, if 595 00:40:24,755 --> 00:40:28,235 Speaker 1: that's really what I was doing. The most valuable conclusion 596 00:40:28,275 --> 00:40:30,515 Speaker 1: was simply the oldest one in the book. I always 597 00:40:30,595 --> 00:40:34,395 Speaker 1: wrote late at night while fully angry, and then in 598 00:40:34,435 --> 00:40:37,995 Speaker 1: the morning I would take a lot of things out, 599 00:40:38,475 --> 00:40:44,715 Speaker 1: usually adjectives. Whatever anger was left was only the most 600 00:40:44,715 --> 00:40:48,275 Speaker 1: intense and the most justifiable. And if you present it 601 00:40:48,315 --> 00:40:51,235 Speaker 1: twenty four hours after you have written it, you will 602 00:40:51,275 --> 00:40:54,115 Speaker 1: be in control of the anger and not have the 603 00:40:54,155 --> 00:40:58,555 Speaker 1: anger be in control of you in short sleep on it. 604 00:41:01,075 --> 00:41:03,115 Speaker 1: That was in March two thousand and seven. I saw 605 00:41:03,115 --> 00:41:05,515 Speaker 1: the Senator next in August of five, two thousand and seven, 606 00:41:05,555 --> 00:41:10,915 Speaker 1: a Democratic primary debate officially called the afl CIO Candidates Forum, 607 00:41:11,315 --> 00:41:20,035 Speaker 1: Soldier Field, Chicago, outdoors ninety five degrees, threat of thunderstorms, Obama, Clinton, Biden, 608 00:41:20,235 --> 00:41:27,115 Speaker 1: Dodd Richardson, Kusinich, Edwards, and the moderator me. There are 609 00:41:27,235 --> 00:41:31,395 Speaker 1: photos of this, Joe Biden and I walking towards each other, 610 00:41:31,475 --> 00:41:34,795 Speaker 1: hands extended for a greeting. He is literally asking me 611 00:41:34,875 --> 00:41:37,395 Speaker 1: if I have noticed that he has been trying to 612 00:41:37,435 --> 00:41:42,995 Speaker 1: turn his anger into righteous indignation, and Senator Biden asking 613 00:41:43,195 --> 00:41:48,315 Speaker 1: if I thought he had succeeded. They are great photos, 614 00:41:48,355 --> 00:41:52,275 Speaker 1: largely because my back is to the camera. He did 615 00:41:52,275 --> 00:41:54,995 Speaker 1: not really succeed in doing this in the debate, though, 616 00:41:55,755 --> 00:41:58,755 Speaker 1: and he actually came over to me during the commercial 617 00:41:58,835 --> 00:42:01,875 Speaker 1: and told me what he was going to do, that 618 00:42:01,955 --> 00:42:04,635 Speaker 1: he didn't think he'd actually gotten the chance to answer 619 00:42:04,955 --> 00:42:08,035 Speaker 1: a previous question sufficiently, and he was going to go 620 00:42:08,155 --> 00:42:09,875 Speaker 1: back to it the next time. I called on him, 621 00:42:09,875 --> 00:42:12,275 Speaker 1: and I told him, don't, don't, don't, don't do that, 622 00:42:12,315 --> 00:42:15,555 Speaker 1: and he did it anyway, and later he let me 623 00:42:15,595 --> 00:42:19,715 Speaker 1: know he should have listened to me. Since then, I 624 00:42:19,755 --> 00:42:24,635 Speaker 1: cannot recall him being angry, not even in those debates 625 00:42:24,675 --> 00:42:32,675 Speaker 1: with that goddamned madman. The words were harsh, cutting, destructive, fatal. 626 00:42:33,035 --> 00:42:43,835 Speaker 1: The tone, no, the tone was dismissive, disappointed, slept upon 627 00:42:44,115 --> 00:42:49,315 Speaker 1: rage perfect a plus no notes. But it occurs to 628 00:42:49,355 --> 00:42:52,355 Speaker 1: me in all of the analysis of all of the 629 00:42:52,515 --> 00:42:57,275 Speaker 1: changes in Joe Biden since day one in nineteen seventy three, 630 00:42:57,995 --> 00:43:01,395 Speaker 1: nobody touches on this one thing. As late as two 631 00:43:01,435 --> 00:43:05,235 Speaker 1: thousand and seven, he seemed to be his reputaieation was 632 00:43:05,315 --> 00:43:10,515 Speaker 1: as a hothead. When was the last time he was 633 00:43:10,555 --> 00:43:16,195 Speaker 1: accused of that. I'm not saying I had anything to 634 00:43:16,275 --> 00:43:22,875 Speaker 1: do with that, But in the years now, since January sixth, particularly, 635 00:43:22,915 --> 00:43:28,235 Speaker 1: it has been a comforting change, and not a change 636 00:43:28,515 --> 00:43:33,555 Speaker 1: within Joe Biden, but within our presidency. And yet now 637 00:43:34,435 --> 00:43:38,835 Speaker 1: twenty twenty four may make President Biden have to change back, 638 00:43:39,755 --> 00:43:43,395 Speaker 1: because the comforting Joe Biden is great and the sardonic 639 00:43:43,475 --> 00:43:46,795 Speaker 1: Joe Biden is greater. But the one who beat Trump 640 00:43:47,275 --> 00:43:50,355 Speaker 1: and the one we need right now is the Joe 641 00:43:50,355 --> 00:44:07,115 Speaker 1: Biden of the righteous anger. I've done all the damage 642 00:44:07,155 --> 00:44:09,755 Speaker 1: I can do here, and now he's going to Joe 643 00:44:09,755 --> 00:44:17,675 Speaker 1: Scarborough for advice. Thank you for listening. Countown musical directors 644 00:44:17,675 --> 00:44:20,715 Speaker 1: Brian Ray and John Phillips Chanel arranged, produced, and performed 645 00:44:20,995 --> 00:44:23,915 Speaker 1: most of our music. Mister Ray was on the guitars, 646 00:44:23,955 --> 00:44:26,995 Speaker 1: bass and drums, and mister Shanelle handled orchestration and keyboards 647 00:44:27,395 --> 00:44:30,475 Speaker 1: produced by Tko Brothers. Other music, including some of the 648 00:44:30,515 --> 00:44:33,915 Speaker 1: Beethoven compositions, were arranged and performed by the group No 649 00:44:34,035 --> 00:44:37,995 Speaker 1: horns allowed. Sports music is the Olderman theme from ESPN two, 650 00:44:38,035 --> 00:44:41,675 Speaker 1: written by Mitch Warren Davis courtesy of ESPN inc. Our 651 00:44:41,755 --> 00:44:44,475 Speaker 1: satirical and pithy musical comments are by Nancy Fauss, the 652 00:44:44,515 --> 00:44:47,435 Speaker 1: best baseball stadium organist ever. Our announcer today was my 653 00:44:47,475 --> 00:44:50,915 Speaker 1: friend Larry David, and everything else was pretty much my fault. 654 00:44:51,595 --> 00:44:54,155 Speaker 1: Let's countdown for this the one hundred and twentieth day 655 00:44:54,875 --> 00:44:58,315 Speaker 1: until the twenty twenty four presidential election, the one two 656 00:44:58,395 --> 00:45:02,195 Speaker 1: hundred and eighty first day since convicted felon Donald Trump's 657 00:45:02,195 --> 00:45:05,515 Speaker 1: first attempted coup against the democratically elected government of the 658 00:45:05,635 --> 00:45:09,915 Speaker 1: United States. Use the September eighteenth sentencing hearing. Use the 659 00:45:09,955 --> 00:45:13,835 Speaker 1: mental health system. You have this now, mister president, use 660 00:45:13,995 --> 00:45:18,395 Speaker 1: presidential immunity, arrest him, stop him from doing it again 661 00:45:19,235 --> 00:45:25,835 Speaker 1: while we still can. The next scheduled countdown is tomorrow. 662 00:45:25,955 --> 00:45:29,115 Speaker 1: Boltons as the news warrants, Oh God, I just want 663 00:45:29,155 --> 00:45:32,435 Speaker 1: a day off till the next one. I'm Keith Olreriman. 664 00:45:32,515 --> 00:46:02,155 Speaker 1: Good Morning, good afternoon, good night, and good luck. Countdown 665 00:46:02,235 --> 00:46:05,955 Speaker 1: with Keith Oldreman is a production of iHeart. For more 666 00:46:06,075 --> 00:46:10,995 Speaker 1: podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio, app, Apple Podcasts, or 667 00:46:11,035 --> 00:46:12,875 Speaker 1: wherever you get your podcasts.