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Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. The headlines. First,

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Speaker 1: Trump still has to go to trial in just one

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Speaker 1: hundred and eighty nine days from now, and he still

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Speaker 1: apparently does not know that there is no legal mechanism

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Speaker 1: for him to appeal. You cannot appeal the judge's court schedule.

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Speaker 1: Nor still does at least half the Republican Party understand this,

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Speaker 1: Nor still does at least half of all media news

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Speaker 1: understand this, including the BBC, And thus in some Trump

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Speaker 1: is still royallyft. And after Mark Meadows inexplicably testified for

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Speaker 1: more than four hours yesterday trying to get a glorified

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Speaker 1: chain venue in the Atlanta election subversion conspiracy trial by

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Speaker 1: using a singular strategy of confessing to everything, the judge

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Speaker 1: there says he'll have a ruling as soon as possible

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Speaker 1: as to whether it stays in local court in Atlanta

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Speaker 1: or in a federal court presumably elsewhere in Georgia, with

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Speaker 1: a jury pool more favorable to Meadows and Trump. And

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Speaker 1: when they say more favorable, of course, they actually mean

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Speaker 1: more white. I said here twenty four hours ago that

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Speaker 1: if Judge Chuckkin selected a trial date in the federal

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Speaker 1: election subversion case, and the date was in January or February.

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Speaker 1: It was a sure sign that Trump was ft. And

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Speaker 1: I'm given myself this one because March fourth is close

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Speaker 1: enough to February. The point of that prediction was that

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Speaker 1: such an opening day choice would indicate that Chutkin really

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Speaker 1: is going to deploy her plan for disciplining Trump. On

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Speaker 1: that fateful Friday when twenty four hours after he said

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Speaker 1: he understood that he had to be circumspect in public

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Speaker 1: or try to intimidate the witnesses, the prosecutors, the judge,

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Speaker 1: and he began a weekend of doing nothing but threatening

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Speaker 1: and harassing and intimidating them. Judge Chutkin came back with

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Speaker 1: what seemed like a wishy washy response. She wasn't going

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Speaker 1: to jail Trump, no matter how much I wished for

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Speaker 1: it on my lucky beads. She was going to do

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Speaker 1: something far, far worse to him. She was going to

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Speaker 1: assume that he was doing all this to try to

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Speaker 1: poison the jury pool, like he could think that rationally

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Speaker 1: or that far ahead, and so she would just in response,

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Speaker 1: speed up the trial to protect the jury pool. The

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Speaker 1: prosecution wanted the trial to open one hundred and twenty

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Speaker 1: seven days from now. Trump countered with nine hundred and

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Speaker 1: forty seven days two and a half years. Chutkin's compromise

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Speaker 1: re of, Hey, Trump, this is punishment. Please enjoy being

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Speaker 1: ft one and eighty nine days. It's glorious, and it

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Speaker 1: was accompanied when his lawyers read a short version of

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Speaker 1: that schedule for the months ahead for Trump with one

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Speaker 1: gigantic so what She compared his upcoming schedule, which I

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Speaker 1: will review in full in a moment, and his complaints

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Speaker 1: about having to change his dear beloved schedule to a

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Speaker 1: theoretical pro athlete, which must have pleased Trump, who really

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Speaker 1: does think he would have been Mickey Mantle or Jack Nicklaus,

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Speaker 1: complaining that the court dates would conflict with the athlete's

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Speaker 1: schedule of games and practices. Judge Chutkins said, in legalies,

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Speaker 1: who gives a there is one thing here Trump truly

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Speaker 1: fears the other essential ingredient besides a guilty verdict that

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Speaker 1: can put him behind bars, and that is a speedy trial.

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Speaker 1: And his knit co defendants, his supposed minions Ken cheesebro

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Speaker 1: and Mark Meadows and Sidney Powell all invoked the Georgia's

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Speaker 1: speedy trial law, so that one is already on track

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Speaker 1: to start nearly two months earlier than originally planned by

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Speaker 1: the DA. And now on the federal level, Trump is

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Speaker 1: being beaten up by the judge who knows it is

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Speaker 1: the one thing Trump truly fears. And we will see

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Speaker 1: you on March fourth. Now, as to what Meadows did yesterday,

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Speaker 1: I do not get this. I do not get this.

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Speaker 1: I do not get this. Mark Meadows went down to

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Speaker 1: lawyers for other defendants looking into this same idea. Get

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Speaker 1: this transferred to federal court. And Trump had to listen,

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Speaker 1: at least by extension, as Meadows just started talking and talking,

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Speaker 1: talking and talking and incriminating self and confessing and contradicting

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Speaker 1: I do not get the reward. Here is what happens.

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Speaker 1: If the Meadows part gets transferred from Fulton County to

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Speaker 1: federal court, or if all of the trials get transferred

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Speaker 1: to federal court, you get a trial in a court

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Speaker 1: in northern Georgia, so more white people in the jury pool.

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Speaker 1: That's it. Here's what you do not get. You do

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Speaker 1: not get a different prosecutor. Fani Willis can continue to

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Speaker 1: try this case or direct her office's attorneys as they

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Speaker 1: try it. You do not get a federal sentencing guideline.

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Speaker 1: You do not get a venue in which, if you

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Speaker 1: get convicted you can be pardoned by a president. The

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Speaker 1: state pardon rules continue to apply, and they deny anybody,

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Speaker 1: but the Pardons and Parole Board from pardon anybody, and

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Speaker 1: even they can't do it until five years after you've

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Speaker 1: served your whole sentence, and only then if you show remorse.

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Speaker 1: Now, look, I get it. If you're on trial, especially

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Speaker 1: if you happen to be guilty, you need to maximize

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Speaker 1: your chances of a racist jury letting you off the hook,

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Speaker 1: because it still has not adjusted to appomattox. I get that,

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Speaker 1: But why did that mean that Mark Meadows had to

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Speaker 1: testify for four hours that Yeah, he was Trump's gatekeeper,

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Speaker 1: and he was at every meeting, and he was on

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Speaker 1: every phone call, and he was the guy others went

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Speaker 1: to to get Trump to listen to them, and he

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Speaker 1: went to Georgia and he arranged the Raffensburger phone call,

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Speaker 1: and he was in the meeting with the Michigan politicos.

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Speaker 1: And wait, wait, wait, wait, that Michigan meeting and the

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Speaker 1: Raffensburger call were about overturning the election results in Georgia

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Speaker 1: and Michigan. Really, that's what Up meant about those eleven

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Speaker 1: seven and ninety votes. I'll be damned. When Meadows was

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Speaker 1: not incriminating himself under oath, mind, you easily read back

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Speaker 1: as evidence at trial and always admissible, since he was

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Speaker 1: under oath at his own request. When Meadows was not

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Speaker 1: incriminating himself, Meadows was shoveling so fast he really lost

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Speaker 1: the plot. At one point, he said that all he

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Speaker 1: knew about the Raffinsburg phone call was that it was

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Speaker 1: an attempt by Trump to find a quote less litigious

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Speaker 1: resolution to the Georgia presidential vote. I can see in

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Speaker 1: row doing a simultaneous triple spit take. If that's what

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Speaker 1: Trump was doing, calling Raffinsburger, hoping to make it all

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Speaker 1: less litigious, that means it was to some degree litigious,

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Speaker 1: and that means it was a campaign litigation phone call.

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Speaker 1: And what the hell is the chief of staff at

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Speaker 1: Because that violates the Hatch Act, And they're not going

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Speaker 1: to grant you a federal trial here if the only

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Speaker 1: violating the laws that say what federal administration officials can

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Speaker 1: and cannot do. We already know Meadows flipped to Jack

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Speaker 1: publisher Liz Harrington, Mark Milly Iran War Plan revelation meeting,

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Speaker 1: eventually just how badly he actually did flip. But what

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Speaker 1: my theme for the day. Trump is royally f So, now,

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Speaker 1: with all that out of the way, here is your

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Speaker 1: not take you the whole of this list to begin

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Speaker 1: to appreciate what has happened to Trump. Almost inadvertently. He

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Speaker 1: is now being chased by every judge and every political

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Speaker 1: Here we go. September sixth. Arraignments for the Trump nineteen Trump, Giuliani, Powell, Eastman,

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Speaker 1: the Whole Gang in Fulton County September seventh, the next day,

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Speaker 1: Classified discovery productions for the documents trial in Florida September fourteenth.

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Speaker 1: The week after that, Section ten notice due to Judge Cannon.

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Speaker 1: September twenty seventh, the second Goped debate, which he will

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Speaker 1: skip because he really is a coward. October second, the

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Speaker 1: start of the Tish James, New York State Trump Organization

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Speaker 1: trial that will be three of them in progress at

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Speaker 1: the same time. October ninth, All motions due to Judge Chutkin.

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Speaker 1: October tenth, Defense Section four challenge forms due to Judge Cannon.

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Speaker 1: October seventeenth, Section four hearing before Judge Cannon. October twentieth.

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Speaker 1: Live golf match play at the Trump Course in Durral, Florida.

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Speaker 1: October twenty one. More golf October twenty two. More golf

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Speaker 1: because you can't get enough golf. October twenty three motion

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Speaker 1: County Trial in Atlanta, November third, pre trial motions due

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Speaker 1: December eighteenth. Exhibits list due to Judge Chutcken. December twenty seventh,

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Speaker 1: Hope you enjoyed Christmas. Motions to suppress evidence due to

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Speaker 1: to Judge Canon. January ninth, No no motions on evidence

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Speaker 1: to Judge Chucken and Iowa caucuses and opening day of

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Speaker 1: The Nevada caucuses February twelfth. Joint discovery report to Judge

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Speaker 1: bring Judge Chutkin an Apple March fifth, super Tuesday fourteen.

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Speaker 1: Republican primaries March twelfth. Three more primaries, including Georgia, while

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Speaker 1: the Georgia trial is certainly underway. March twentieth. Evidence motions

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Speaker 1: trial in Florida. May twenty sixth. Good Golf, Live Golf

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Speaker 1: at the Trump Golf Course in Washington. July fifteenth, Republican

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Speaker 1: National Convention, and as a side note, that is the

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Speaker 1: not the paramilitary wing of the Republican Party, and all

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Speaker 1: other days should be assumed to be booked for Trump

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Speaker 1: to bitch and moan about everything as usual. Two updates.

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Speaker 1: All hell has broken loose in Hampshire over fourteen three,

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Speaker 1: the disqualification clause Article three of the fourteenth Amendment. The

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Speaker 1: balloon headed kid the fascists hired because he can spew

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Speaker 1: their drivel for dozens of hours a week. Charlie Kirk

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Speaker 1: Corky Messner, saying he was meeting with the Secretary of

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Speaker 1: has to stand up for the Constitution. And Kirk turned

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Speaker 1: understand Trump betrayed New Hampshire trying ban Trump attacked New Hampshire.

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Speaker 1: Send flying monkeys now it's war. The chairman of the

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Speaker 1: State Republican Party has attacked Corky Messner. That group I

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Speaker 1: mentioned yesterday free Speech for People, with its letters to

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Speaker 1: the one in New Hampshire has gotten there. David Scanlan,

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Speaker 1: Monkeys because Charlie Kirk's listeners busted the switchboard. And the

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Speaker 1: Governor DeSantis was never supposed to speak at the vigil.

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Speaker 1: Alberman postscripts to the news, some headlines, some updates, some snart,

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Speaker 1: Nancy Faust. Dateline, Toledo, Ohio. Joe Wurzelbacher is dead. He

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Speaker 1: seem to follow the balloon. Unfortunately, if you did not

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Speaker 1: move a balloon through her hospital room, Terry Shibo's head

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Speaker 1: wife's feeding tube removed and thus release her and him

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Speaker 1: her parents fought him, and finally in two thousand and three,

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Speaker 1: the parents went public. They showed video of their daughter

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Speaker 1: contacted every politician who would take their call. The Republican

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Speaker 1: leader in the Senate, doctor Bill Frist of Tennessee, a

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Speaker 1: heart surgeon, said on the Senate floor that, of course

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Speaker 1: he could not diagnose a patient just from a videotape,

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Speaker 1: a videotape. He said on the Senate floor. She should

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Speaker 1: Republicans to pass a bill in the House and Senate

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Speaker 1: taking her case away from the Florida courts and putting

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Speaker 1: to sign that law on camera. Of course, this was

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Speaker 1: a topic for all of tabloid television, and for all

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Speaker 1: of tabloid television that pretends it is not tabloid television,

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Speaker 1: like the Today Show, and it went on for months.

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Speaker 1: Eventually there was a pack of guests willing to appear

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Speaker 1: on your show and imply cleverly that Michael Schaibo had

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Speaker 1: caused his wife's vegetative state and was now trying to

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Speaker 1: quote finish the job from my own network. Joe Scarborough,

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Speaker 1: who had been a lawyer, put on Terry Schibo's brother

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Speaker 1: and sister, and they both implied their quote foul play.

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Speaker 1: Joey scars put it this way, I am quoting him.

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Speaker 1: They can attack every last person who is trying to

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Speaker 1: save this young woman from starvation. But in the Americans

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Speaker 1: shocked by this macabre chapter in American politics, we'll see

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Speaker 1: the Democrats as the party on the side of death

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Speaker 1: and see George Bush as the defender of defenseless. Unquote

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Speaker 1: Joe Scarborough, MSNBC. Joe Scarborough is a jackass and a fraud.

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Speaker 1: If you watch his show, you are getting hustled. If

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Speaker 1: Finally sanity prevailed. A court ordered the feeding tube removed.

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Speaker 1: In March two thousand and five. Two weeks later, Terry

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Speaker 1: Schaibo died. The autopsy showed her brain was half its

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Speaker 1: normal size. It had been irreversibly damaged fifteen years earlier.

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Speaker 1: There were no signs of physical trauma, not the slightest

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Speaker 1: indication of foul play. In January of two thousand and six,

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Speaker 1: rather matter of factly, that he had tried to avoid

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Speaker 1: that there was one reporter who tried to balance the

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Speaker 1: hysteria and to treat him fairly, and that that was me.

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Speaker 1: And he wanted to know if I wanted to be

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Speaker 1: the first person to interview him. Nothing fancy, he said.

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Speaker 1: This guy, Matt Lower, he said, had been calling him

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Speaker 1: for Today in Nightly News and Dateline and MSNBC. Michael

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Speaker 1: Chaibo didn't want to do any of that, and he

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Speaker 1: celebrity interviewers, it would probably be Diane Sawyer, but he

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Speaker 1: hadn't made up his mind yet. What Michael Schaibo wondered

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Speaker 1: well naturally.

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Speaker 2: And I said yes.

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Speaker 1: So on February first, two thousand and six, I got

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Speaker 1: Michael Schaibo. Bluntly, he was as dull an interviewee as

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Speaker 1: But it was a good, factual interview, and for a

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Speaker 1: big deal just for journalistic credibility, just to balance what

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Speaker 1: we had been playing on the Scarborough Show. Everybody at

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Speaker 1: NBC News knew we were doing it. We recorded it

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Speaker 1: Everybody knew, including the president of NBC News, Steve Cappus,

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Speaker 1: and the executive producers of Today, Nightly News Dateline, all

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Speaker 1: After I finished, I went and visited the executive in

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Speaker 1: I went home and I took a nap before I

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Speaker 1: Steve CAPPIs, President of NBC News. Look, you've interfered with

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Speaker 1: the Today Show's long standing plans and commitments. We have

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Speaker 1: signed contracts with Michael Chaibo. Matt Lower is furious, but

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Speaker 1: I understand Hivo offered you this interview, so you couldn't

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Speaker 1: have known how you were violating the Today Show, and

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Speaker 1: Matt I pointed out that Chaibo had said specifically that

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Speaker 1: he had not signed anything with anybody. The president of

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Speaker 1: NBC News ignored this. Here's the offer, Matt and I

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Speaker 1: will make you. You don't run the interview tonight, we

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Speaker 1: will run a segment of it tomorrow on Today, giving

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Speaker 1: a full plug to countdown. Then tomorrow night. You can

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Speaker 1: run a four minute segment. The rest of your interview

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Speaker 1: can run. And I think, despite what you've done to us,

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Speaker 1: your interview should run after Matt Lowers does sometime next month.

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Speaker 1: I think this is a great idea, since Matt wants

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Speaker 1: me to fire you. I said, this was the dumbest

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Speaker 1: thing I had ever heard, which was saying a lot,

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Speaker 1: since I had spent nearly three years working at Fox.

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Speaker 1: There was nothing about our interview that risked Matt Lower's

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Speaker 1: prospects of getting his own interview. In fact, it probably

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Speaker 1: increased them. I could now pitch Michael Chaivo on Lower's behalf.

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Speaker 1: Michael Chabo did not like Lawer. On the other end

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Speaker 1: of the phone, Cappus gasped, doesn't like Lower. Don't say that,

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Speaker 1: But to bury our interview for a month was crapping

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Speaker 1: all over MSNBC and me and Michael Schaibo and journalistically.

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Speaker 1: It was indefensible and it made me feel like walking out.

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Speaker 1: Steve Cappus, whose later boss at NBC told me that

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Speaker 1: she fired him for telling her that he would never

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Speaker 1: take orders from a woman, began to scream, as I

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Speaker 1: noted at the time in my diary, like a twelve

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Speaker 1: year old. I offer you a way out and not

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Speaker 1: getting fired and not get Matt Lawer on your ass,

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Speaker 1: and you threatened to quit. I pointed out that I

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Speaker 1: had not threatened to quit. I told him that if

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Speaker 1: there really had been a contract with Michael Chaibo, even

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Speaker 1: if he had not mentioned it to me, any of

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Speaker 1: the one hundred NBC executives who had known about my

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Speaker 1: interview with Michael Schaibo for like a week, would have

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Speaker 1: I had even sent Brian Williams a note asking if

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Speaker 1: there were any specific questions. He wanted me to ask

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Speaker 1: Schaibo so he could use a clip on NBC Nightly News. Somehow,

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Speaker 1: Cappus began to scream again in an even higher pitched voice.

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Speaker 1: Matt Lawer advises me to simply kill your interview with

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Speaker 1: Michael Schaivo, and I'm trying to find a way out

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Speaker 1: for you. You start bringing up ancient history from a

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Speaker 1: week ago. He really said that ancient history from a

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Speaker 1: week ago. I said, why don't we do it this way?

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Speaker 1: We run a thirty second clip tonight, the Today Show

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Speaker 1: runs whatever it wants to tomorrow, then we run the

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Speaker 1: rest of the interview tomorrow night, and the night after Well,

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Speaker 1: Cappus resumed screaming, so let me see what I got

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Speaker 1: this straight. Matt Lwer is incensed over you stepping in

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Speaker 1: on his interview. I'm offering you publicity on the Today

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Speaker 1: Show and not getting fired, and your answer is we're

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Speaker 1: going to run seventeen minutes of it. I'm so impressed

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Speaker 1: with your professionalism, Keith. I will always remember how cooperative

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Speaker 1: you were.

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Speaker 2: Fine.

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Speaker 1: You do whatever you want, mister professional. Run the whole

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Speaker 1: half hour tonight. Don't you understand television? Matt needs to

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Speaker 1: be able to say in his first interview since his

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Speaker 1: wife's death. For the fifty third time in my career

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Speaker 1: at NBC News, I thought somebody was secretly filming this

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Speaker 1: and making a segment on it for I don't know,

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Speaker 1: punked or did they still run candid camera. Well, getting

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Speaker 1: back to the interview here with Cappus, I said that

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Speaker 1: and Matt could still say in his first network interview

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Speaker 1: since his wife's death. Well Kappus ignored that too. I've

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Speaker 1: been advised to kill the countdown piece outright, but you

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Speaker 1: do whatever you want for your little countdown show. Go ahead,

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Speaker 1: and curry the enmity of Matt Lower. You think he'll

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Speaker 1: forget this. Over the next two years, Matt Lauer hired

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Speaker 1: away two of my producers, then made a supposed peace

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Speaker 1: offering by running a segment that was to be produced

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Speaker 1: by my show every Friday on The Today Show that

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Speaker 1: By some strange coincidence, for four consecutive weeks, the countdown

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Speaker 1: piece never ran. It was just more petty revenge. The

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Speaker 1: Today Show also booked me as a guest four times,

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Speaker 1: canceled all four times, once the morning of my interview

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Speaker 1: as I was shaving to go in and do the interview.

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Speaker 1: The punchline, of course, my little interview back then with

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Speaker 1: Michael Schaibo ran over the next three nights. It did

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Speaker 1: done on the Shibos story. It counterbalanced that schmuck Scarborough,

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Speaker 1: and on March twenty six, two thousand and six, the

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Speaker 1: Matt Lower Interview aired with Michael Schaibo and as NBC

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Speaker 1: publicity phrased it. Michael and his new wife sit down

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Speaker 1: for their first network interview with NBC News. Is Matt Lauer.

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Speaker 2: Just blank? I had suggested, I've done.

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Speaker 1: All the damage I can do here. Thank you for listening.

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Speaker 1: The best baseball stadium organist ever. Our announcer today was

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Speaker 1: everything else was pretty much my fault. So that's countdown

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Speaker 1: for this the nine and sixty fifth day since Donald

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Speaker 1: Trump's first attempted coup against the democratically elected government of

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Speaker 1: the United States, convict him while we still can. The

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Speaker 1: next scheduled countdown is tomorrow bulletins, as the news, warrants,

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Speaker 1: as happened yesterday till the next one. I'm Keith Oldrimman.

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Speaker 1: Good morning, good afternoon, good night, and good luck. Countdown

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