1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:21,835 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Just 2 00:00:21,875 --> 00:00:26,755 Speaker 1: as Samuel Alito should wake up tomorrow in Gitmo or 3 00:00:26,755 --> 00:00:30,035 Speaker 1: in a hospital prison ward being examined for schizophrenia or 4 00:00:30,075 --> 00:00:33,915 Speaker 1: brain tumors or something, he and the other conservative members 5 00:00:33,955 --> 00:00:37,035 Speaker 1: of the Supreme Court are as dangerous to the future 6 00:00:37,075 --> 00:00:40,915 Speaker 1: of this country and its citizens, and its freedoms and 7 00:00:40,995 --> 00:00:45,555 Speaker 1: its form of representative government as any terrorists who have 8 00:00:45,755 --> 00:00:50,955 Speaker 1: ever lived. I knew the Alito Court hearing, and we 9 00:00:51,035 --> 00:00:53,595 Speaker 1: can't call it the Roberts Court. We were reminded yesterday 10 00:00:53,675 --> 00:00:56,675 Speaker 1: Roberts is an impotent frontman. This is the Alito Court. 11 00:00:56,915 --> 00:00:59,995 Speaker 1: I knew the Elito Court hearing was going to be bad, 12 00:01:00,515 --> 00:01:03,515 Speaker 1: and I tried to convey that yesterday, but I honestly 13 00:01:03,595 --> 00:01:05,955 Speaker 1: did not believe and would not imagine it would be 14 00:01:06,555 --> 00:01:11,875 Speaker 1: that bad. If presidents knew they might be prosecuted for 15 00:01:11,955 --> 00:01:15,515 Speaker 1: little things like trying to overturn a valid election and 16 00:01:15,635 --> 00:01:19,995 Speaker 1: illegally stay in office, Alito told the lawyer representing Jack Smith, 17 00:01:20,315 --> 00:01:23,995 Speaker 1: they would be way more likely to try to overturn 18 00:01:24,035 --> 00:01:28,475 Speaker 1: a valid election and illegally stay in office. So Alito said, 19 00:01:28,795 --> 00:01:32,275 Speaker 1: if you want to preserve democracy, you can't prosecute a 20 00:01:32,275 --> 00:01:36,955 Speaker 1: former president for trying to overturn a valid election and 21 00:01:37,035 --> 00:01:38,515 Speaker 1: illegally stay in office. 22 00:01:38,875 --> 00:01:45,475 Speaker 2: What is required for the functioning of a stable democratic society, 23 00:01:45,635 --> 00:01:49,635 Speaker 2: which is something that we all want. I'm sure you 24 00:01:49,675 --> 00:01:54,835 Speaker 2: would agree with me that a stable democratic society requires 25 00:01:55,035 --> 00:01:59,635 Speaker 2: that a candidate who loses an election, even a close one, 26 00:01:59,795 --> 00:02:04,475 Speaker 2: even a hotly contested one, leave office peacefully. If that 27 00:02:04,755 --> 00:02:06,355 Speaker 2: candidates is the incumvent. 28 00:02:06,755 --> 00:02:10,875 Speaker 1: That is the constitutional position of the leading justice on 29 00:02:10,955 --> 00:02:14,955 Speaker 1: the Supreme Court, the justice that Trump's sheep on the 30 00:02:14,995 --> 00:02:20,355 Speaker 1: Court follow. That is Alito echoing, virtually word for word 31 00:02:20,475 --> 00:02:23,395 Speaker 1: things that the mad Trader Trump has posted on his 32 00:02:23,515 --> 00:02:28,395 Speaker 1: social media feed about persecutions and retributions and even retirement. 33 00:02:28,915 --> 00:02:32,195 Speaker 1: This is Samuel Alito telling you that the way to 34 00:02:32,435 --> 00:02:37,755 Speaker 1: ensure peaceful transitions of power is you can't prosecute a 35 00:02:37,835 --> 00:02:41,715 Speaker 1: lame duck president who partially and nearly fully disrupted the 36 00:02:41,755 --> 00:02:48,515 Speaker 1: peaceful transition of power. It sounds like something Joseph Heller 37 00:02:48,675 --> 00:02:51,475 Speaker 1: cut from his novel Catch twenty two for being too 38 00:02:51,595 --> 00:02:55,235 Speaker 1: stupid to be useful as political satire. It is also 39 00:02:55,275 --> 00:02:59,955 Speaker 1: a blackmail threat. Here's a crazy thought, sam Alito. If 40 00:02:59,995 --> 00:03:02,955 Speaker 1: you are actually worried about some sort of cycle of 41 00:03:03,075 --> 00:03:06,555 Speaker 1: presidents prosecuting the expert presidents that they have defeated in 42 00:03:06,675 --> 00:03:10,595 Speaker 1: large part because the ex president was corrupt and incompetent 43 00:03:10,675 --> 00:03:14,035 Speaker 1: and disloyal to the country and a criminal and tried 44 00:03:14,075 --> 00:03:17,675 Speaker 1: to overthrow the democracy. How about you get your side, Sam, 45 00:03:17,715 --> 00:03:20,675 Speaker 1: how about you get you and your fascists to stop 46 00:03:20,795 --> 00:03:26,595 Speaker 1: supporting psychotic criminals like Donald Trump. Or if you just 47 00:03:26,715 --> 00:03:31,595 Speaker 1: can't dismiss the glorious idea that the ends that our 48 00:03:31,715 --> 00:03:37,595 Speaker 1: Republican power do justify the means, namely the utter blasphemy 49 00:03:37,635 --> 00:03:41,035 Speaker 1: of a Trump presidency, what about instead getting Trump to 50 00:03:41,155 --> 00:03:44,635 Speaker 1: sign some sort of document in which he forfeits I 51 00:03:44,675 --> 00:03:49,275 Speaker 1: don't know, fifty billion dollars if as president he tries 52 00:03:49,315 --> 00:03:53,755 Speaker 1: to persecute Joe Biden. Or maybe Sam, you could break 53 00:03:53,795 --> 00:03:56,235 Speaker 1: this cycle that you have conjured out of thin air 54 00:03:56,355 --> 00:03:59,795 Speaker 1: by you know, addressing the fact that you, Sam Alito, 55 00:03:59,915 --> 00:04:07,795 Speaker 1: are personally backing America's hitler. As these six evil, corrupt, partisan, useless, 56 00:04:08,035 --> 00:04:13,315 Speaker 1: anti democracy gangsters on the Supreme Theocratic Court flailed around 57 00:04:13,355 --> 00:04:17,395 Speaker 1: yesterday looking for an excuse, any excuse to bury the 58 00:04:17,435 --> 00:04:20,715 Speaker 1: evidence against Trump and to fix the upcoming election so 59 00:04:20,755 --> 00:04:24,515 Speaker 1: that he again seize power. I found myself wishing that 60 00:04:24,515 --> 00:04:26,835 Speaker 1: they would follow Liz Cheney's plea in the New York 61 00:04:26,835 --> 00:04:31,355 Speaker 1: Times that they issue a nearly immediate order, but not 62 00:04:31,395 --> 00:04:34,315 Speaker 1: in order to eliminate forever the argument that there is 63 00:04:34,475 --> 00:04:39,555 Speaker 1: presidential immunity, but instead to affirm and establish that there 64 00:04:39,715 --> 00:04:44,755 Speaker 1: is presidential immunity, so that President Biden could immediately arrest 65 00:04:45,035 --> 00:04:50,155 Speaker 1: the lot of them and Trump and Trump's henchmen. Because 66 00:04:50,195 --> 00:04:54,275 Speaker 1: what the six conservatives on this destructive fascist court hinted 67 00:04:54,315 --> 00:04:59,075 Speaker 1: at yesterday was how far they would go to prostitute 68 00:04:59,115 --> 00:05:03,235 Speaker 1: themselves to rule for Trump in any case that comes 69 00:05:03,275 --> 00:05:07,275 Speaker 1: before them. We have already seen them erase the clear 70 00:05:07,435 --> 00:05:10,835 Speaker 1: mandate in the fourteenth Amendment because they felt it would 71 00:05:10,875 --> 00:05:15,395 Speaker 1: deny American democracy the right to vote itself out of existence. 72 00:05:16,835 --> 00:05:19,115 Speaker 1: We have now heard them try to cobble together any 73 00:05:19,235 --> 00:05:22,875 Speaker 1: bullshit they had in their tiny brains to immunize Trump 74 00:05:23,035 --> 00:05:27,475 Speaker 1: for his countless crimes. But more importantly, we have now 75 00:05:27,475 --> 00:05:30,995 Speaker 1: been forewarned that if a case comes before this court 76 00:05:31,355 --> 00:05:37,115 Speaker 1: relative to this election, these justices will figure out what 77 00:05:37,355 --> 00:05:40,755 Speaker 1: is best for Trump and then make up the reasons 78 00:05:40,795 --> 00:05:47,115 Speaker 1: why they will. You and I may have assumed this, 79 00:05:48,075 --> 00:05:53,395 Speaker 1: but after yesterday, you and I now know this. This 80 00:05:53,555 --> 00:05:57,315 Speaker 1: is the Trump attorney John Sower, whom Alito and Clarence 81 00:05:57,355 --> 00:06:01,115 Speaker 1: Thomas and Roberts and the three Trump stenographers were clearly 82 00:06:01,155 --> 00:06:04,635 Speaker 1: applauding and encouraging and siding with yesterday. And this is 83 00:06:04,875 --> 00:06:09,435 Speaker 1: mister Souer explaining to Justice Sonya Sotomayor that you can't 84 00:06:09,435 --> 00:06:13,595 Speaker 1: prosecute a former president for any official act. And yeah, 85 00:06:13,635 --> 00:06:17,435 Speaker 1: you know what, Trump ordering the assassination of the guy 86 00:06:17,515 --> 00:06:20,235 Speaker 1: running against him for president. Yeah, that could be an 87 00:06:20,275 --> 00:06:23,235 Speaker 1: official act. So you couldn't prosecute Trump for assassinating the 88 00:06:23,275 --> 00:06:23,675 Speaker 1: other guy. 89 00:06:23,835 --> 00:06:30,915 Speaker 3: If the president decides that his rival is a corrupt 90 00:06:31,115 --> 00:06:36,555 Speaker 3: person and he orders the military or orders someone to 91 00:06:36,635 --> 00:06:41,515 Speaker 3: assassinate him, is that within his official acts for which 92 00:06:41,555 --> 00:06:43,275 Speaker 3: he can get immunity. 93 00:06:43,515 --> 00:06:45,395 Speaker 4: It would depends on the hypothetical. But we can see 94 00:06:45,395 --> 00:06:46,755 Speaker 4: that could well be an official He. 95 00:06:46,835 --> 00:06:52,155 Speaker 1: Could again the temptation to say, hey, scotus, go ahead, 96 00:06:52,795 --> 00:06:59,235 Speaker 1: establish presidential immunity right now. John Sower's theory that assassination 97 00:06:59,395 --> 00:07:04,155 Speaker 1: of the opposing candidate is an official act of the 98 00:07:04,195 --> 00:07:07,515 Speaker 1: president and did thus not subject to prosecution. Let's give 99 00:07:07,555 --> 00:07:13,635 Speaker 1: that some legs. On the bright side, a political assassination 100 00:07:13,795 --> 00:07:16,475 Speaker 1: ordered by Trump, that would be only one dead guy. Right, 101 00:07:16,995 --> 00:07:19,915 Speaker 1: It's not like Trump ordering a military coup to keep 102 00:07:19,995 --> 00:07:24,515 Speaker 1: him in office and thus killing civilians along with civilian 103 00:07:24,515 --> 00:07:27,355 Speaker 1: government in America. It's not like you want us to 104 00:07:27,395 --> 00:07:30,235 Speaker 1: declare that Trump ordering a military coup to keep him 105 00:07:30,275 --> 00:07:32,995 Speaker 1: in office and thus killing civilians and civilian government in 106 00:07:33,035 --> 00:07:37,595 Speaker 1: America is also an official act. Oh sorry, that is 107 00:07:38,155 --> 00:07:40,235 Speaker 1: Justice Kagan with Trump attorney John Sower. 108 00:07:40,475 --> 00:07:43,915 Speaker 3: How about it if a president orders the military to 109 00:07:44,035 --> 00:07:44,875 Speaker 3: stage a coup. 110 00:07:48,195 --> 00:07:51,035 Speaker 5: I think that, as the Chief Justice pointed out earlier, 111 00:07:51,075 --> 00:07:53,435 Speaker 5: where there is a whole series of you know, sort 112 00:07:53,435 --> 00:07:57,515 Speaker 5: of guidelines against that, so to speak, like the UCMJ 113 00:07:58,235 --> 00:08:01,515 Speaker 5: prohibits the military from following a plainfully unlawful act. If 114 00:08:01,555 --> 00:08:04,955 Speaker 5: one adopted Justice Alito's test, that would fall outside. Now, 115 00:08:04,995 --> 00:08:07,755 Speaker 5: if one adopts, for example, the Fitzgerald test, and we advanced, 116 00:08:07,795 --> 00:08:09,515 Speaker 5: that might well be an official act. And he would 117 00:08:09,515 --> 00:08:11,315 Speaker 5: have to be, as I'll say, in response to all 118 00:08:11,315 --> 00:08:14,755 Speaker 5: these kinds of hypotheticals, has to be impeaching convicted before 119 00:08:14,755 --> 00:08:16,075 Speaker 5: he can be criminally prosecuted. 120 00:08:16,355 --> 00:08:20,355 Speaker 1: So a president and I'm dropping the pretext here Trump's 121 00:08:20,355 --> 00:08:23,915 Speaker 1: attorney is talking about Trump, Alito is talking about Trump, 122 00:08:24,195 --> 00:08:27,875 Speaker 1: Sodamaiora and Kagan are talking about Trump. So Trump could 123 00:08:27,875 --> 00:08:33,355 Speaker 1: have ordered Joe Biden assassinated and not be subject to 124 00:08:33,395 --> 00:08:36,795 Speaker 1: any criminal prosecution for doing it. And he could have 125 00:08:36,875 --> 00:08:40,235 Speaker 1: imposed a military dictatorship, and after some kind of you know, 126 00:08:40,875 --> 00:08:45,635 Speaker 1: a civil warish thingy, he could have been deposed and 127 00:08:45,715 --> 00:08:48,515 Speaker 1: not killed in the process. And when the newly restored 128 00:08:48,555 --> 00:08:50,995 Speaker 1: civilian government of the United States of America went to 129 00:08:51,035 --> 00:08:53,595 Speaker 1: put him on trial for doing all this, oh sorry, 130 00:08:54,235 --> 00:08:56,395 Speaker 1: that was an official act of a president. You can't 131 00:08:56,395 --> 00:09:00,155 Speaker 1: put him on trial just for overthrowing the democracy and 132 00:09:00,555 --> 00:09:04,395 Speaker 1: establishing a coup in a military dictator Again, just rule 133 00:09:04,515 --> 00:09:07,795 Speaker 1: all this into existence now, and let's get all of 134 00:09:07,835 --> 00:09:10,795 Speaker 1: it out of the way, because with this Court certainly 135 00:09:10,835 --> 00:09:13,835 Speaker 1: going to delay any ruling on this until July third, 136 00:09:14,195 --> 00:09:18,315 Speaker 1: then thus postpone even the emulsified remains of Jack Smith's 137 00:09:18,315 --> 00:09:21,475 Speaker 1: case getting to a jury before the election. I can't 138 00:09:21,475 --> 00:09:23,875 Speaker 1: think of any other way to stop these Supreme Court 139 00:09:24,035 --> 00:09:28,395 Speaker 1: bastards from continuing to act as Trump's magic wand whenever 140 00:09:28,435 --> 00:09:31,115 Speaker 1: he needs one, and I cannot think of any length 141 00:09:31,155 --> 00:09:35,275 Speaker 1: they would not go to after this election to protect Trump. 142 00:09:36,875 --> 00:09:39,075 Speaker 1: And oh, by the way, remember the idea that June 143 00:09:39,155 --> 00:09:44,275 Speaker 1: thirtieth or July third was itself an optimistic date for 144 00:09:44,395 --> 00:09:46,715 Speaker 1: a ruling of any kind in this case by the 145 00:09:46,715 --> 00:09:50,835 Speaker 1: Supreme Court. Remember the premise that these whores could make 146 00:09:50,875 --> 00:09:53,755 Speaker 1: it even worse and delay the whole thing for months 147 00:09:53,795 --> 00:09:56,915 Speaker 1: more beyond that, well into twenty twenty five, by use 148 00:09:57,035 --> 00:10:01,875 Speaker 1: of remand remand sending it back to Judge Tanya Chutkin 149 00:10:01,915 --> 00:10:04,675 Speaker 1: and making her run the charges against some kind of 150 00:10:04,875 --> 00:10:07,795 Speaker 1: checklist of maybe this is an official act, maybe this 151 00:10:07,995 --> 00:10:11,835 Speaker 1: is an official act. And then she rules, and then 152 00:10:11,875 --> 00:10:14,675 Speaker 1: Trump appeals to the DC Court of Appeals, and then 153 00:10:14,675 --> 00:10:17,955 Speaker 1: it goes back to the Supreme Court six months from now. 154 00:10:18,995 --> 00:10:23,835 Speaker 1: Guess which one of the terrorists in Robes got to 155 00:10:23,915 --> 00:10:29,795 Speaker 1: turn that rumor into reality. Yes, the first paralegal ever 156 00:10:29,835 --> 00:10:34,715 Speaker 1: appointed to the Supreme Court, Amy Coney Handmaid's tail. 157 00:10:35,235 --> 00:10:38,155 Speaker 6: Barrett, you say, even if the court were inclined to 158 00:10:38,195 --> 00:10:41,635 Speaker 6: recognize some immunity for former presidence official acts, it should 159 00:10:41,675 --> 00:10:45,315 Speaker 6: remand for trial because the indictment alleges substantial private conduct. 160 00:10:45,755 --> 00:10:48,355 Speaker 6: And you said that the private conduct would be sufficient. Yes, 161 00:10:48,715 --> 00:10:52,435 Speaker 6: the Special Council has expressed some concern for speed and 162 00:10:52,515 --> 00:10:55,875 Speaker 6: wanting to move forward. So you know, the normal process 163 00:10:55,915 --> 00:10:58,875 Speaker 6: what mister Sour asked would be for us to remand 164 00:10:58,915 --> 00:11:02,075 Speaker 6: if we decided that there were some official acts community 165 00:11:02,595 --> 00:11:05,515 Speaker 6: and to let that be sorted out below. It is 166 00:11:05,595 --> 00:11:08,515 Speaker 6: another option for the Special Council to just proceed based 167 00:11:08,515 --> 00:11:12,475 Speaker 6: on the private conduct and drop the official conduct. 168 00:11:12,795 --> 00:11:16,915 Speaker 1: That's great, amy break the case in half and just 169 00:11:17,035 --> 00:11:21,475 Speaker 1: drop all those official acts from the prosecution. So now 170 00:11:21,875 --> 00:11:25,555 Speaker 1: when Judge Chuckkin somehow says yes, this charge and this 171 00:11:25,595 --> 00:11:27,475 Speaker 1: one and this one and this one and this one, 172 00:11:27,475 --> 00:11:31,195 Speaker 1: they're not official acts. They're private acts. So Trump can 173 00:11:31,235 --> 00:11:35,395 Speaker 1: be prosecuted on these. Trump can then start new lawsuits 174 00:11:35,795 --> 00:11:39,155 Speaker 1: over each decision she makes and keep the case in 175 00:11:39,195 --> 00:11:42,755 Speaker 1: the courts until the year twenty one hundred, when you 176 00:11:43,075 --> 00:11:47,915 Speaker 1: Christo fascists are carrying around his stuffed body and claiming 177 00:11:47,915 --> 00:11:50,155 Speaker 1: that even though he was born one hundred and fifty 178 00:11:50,155 --> 00:11:53,395 Speaker 1: four years ago and is now dead, he's still president 179 00:11:53,475 --> 00:11:59,795 Speaker 1: because he's just that good at it. To be fair. 180 00:12:00,595 --> 00:12:04,235 Speaker 1: The Barrett idea, sorry, the idea they had Barrett express. 181 00:12:04,275 --> 00:12:06,115 Speaker 1: It's clear Barrett has never had an idea in her 182 00:12:06,155 --> 00:12:10,235 Speaker 1: life other than how to express more enthusiasm when she says, 183 00:12:10,475 --> 00:12:15,875 Speaker 1: we've been sent good weather. The idea Barrett expressed contains 184 00:12:15,915 --> 00:12:18,515 Speaker 1: the only germ of a sliver of a chance, of 185 00:12:18,515 --> 00:12:21,195 Speaker 1: a possibility that there will be any kind of Trump 186 00:12:21,235 --> 00:12:26,275 Speaker 1: presidential election subversion trial before the election. The Special Council's 187 00:12:26,355 --> 00:12:31,035 Speaker 1: Office lawyer seemed to be completely ready to proceed with 188 00:12:31,115 --> 00:12:36,515 Speaker 1: a case that only pertains to Trump's personal acts, so 189 00:12:36,595 --> 00:12:39,915 Speaker 1: long as his official acts could still be used as evidence. 190 00:12:40,955 --> 00:12:43,715 Speaker 1: I mean, what the hell. One conviction on one charge 191 00:12:44,075 --> 00:12:47,395 Speaker 1: could be enough to put Trump behind bars, at least 192 00:12:47,435 --> 00:12:51,315 Speaker 1: until Alito figures out a new scam. It's almost as 193 00:12:51,355 --> 00:12:54,675 Speaker 1: if Jack Smith saw this coming. I hope to god 194 00:12:54,715 --> 00:12:58,395 Speaker 1: he did, because I did not. As I said, I'm 195 00:12:58,435 --> 00:13:01,875 Speaker 1: now over here in the declare there is presidential immunity, 196 00:13:01,875 --> 00:13:04,115 Speaker 1: and have Biden send Trump in the Alito six to 197 00:13:04,115 --> 00:13:07,595 Speaker 1: get Moke camp own by the way, go in grace. 198 00:13:09,555 --> 00:13:12,555 Speaker 1: And now, to summarize the nightmare at the Supreme Court yesterday, 199 00:13:12,715 --> 00:13:15,795 Speaker 1: let's turn to our special legal analyst. 200 00:13:16,195 --> 00:13:22,475 Speaker 7: The US Supreme Court had a monumental hearing on community 201 00:13:22,515 --> 00:13:27,195 Speaker 7: and the immunity having to do with presidential immunity, and 202 00:13:27,315 --> 00:13:29,035 Speaker 7: I think it was made clear. I hope it was 203 00:13:29,115 --> 00:13:32,115 Speaker 7: made clear that a president has to have immunity. You 204 00:13:32,155 --> 00:13:33,595 Speaker 7: don't have a president. 205 00:13:33,475 --> 00:13:39,515 Speaker 1: For monumental immunity, an immunity having to do with immunity immunity. 206 00:13:40,155 --> 00:13:44,275 Speaker 1: Do you see what happens? Do you see what happens 207 00:13:44,475 --> 00:13:56,875 Speaker 1: when you keep him from falling asleep in court? In 208 00:13:56,915 --> 00:14:00,675 Speaker 1: that court? It started yesterday with the prosecution demanding he'd 209 00:14:00,715 --> 00:14:03,955 Speaker 1: be found in contempt for remarks about Cohen and Pecker, 210 00:14:04,035 --> 00:14:07,795 Speaker 1: and I aiming the jury remarks he literally made on 211 00:14:07,955 --> 00:14:12,595 Speaker 1: the way into court minutes earlier, and then the entire 212 00:14:12,635 --> 00:14:15,595 Speaker 1: subject of the gag order, and even some kind of 213 00:14:15,675 --> 00:14:19,995 Speaker 1: metaphorical warning shot from Justice Meyrshan. The subject just vanished, 214 00:14:20,595 --> 00:14:24,155 Speaker 1: never came up again all day at one hundred Center Street, 215 00:14:24,955 --> 00:14:29,875 Speaker 1: though Mershawn now says he will conduct another hearing into 216 00:14:29,915 --> 00:14:34,555 Speaker 1: the gag Order and its violations next Wednesday, because, as 217 00:14:34,595 --> 00:14:37,275 Speaker 1: any judge would obviously conclude from what was said at 218 00:14:37,315 --> 00:14:42,995 Speaker 1: the Supreme Court yesterday, what's the rush? There was a 219 00:14:42,995 --> 00:14:46,155 Speaker 1: lot of Pecker testimony about buying and selling stories and 220 00:14:46,195 --> 00:14:49,835 Speaker 1: Trump refusing to reimburse him for the bribe. Karen McDougall, 221 00:14:49,995 --> 00:14:52,875 Speaker 1: and yes, that was a lot of talk about Trump 222 00:14:53,315 --> 00:14:58,155 Speaker 1: stiffing Pecker, and all Trump's defense has, by the way, 223 00:14:58,475 --> 00:15:02,835 Speaker 1: is that Pecker met with prosecutors on August two, twenty eighteen, 224 00:15:03,075 --> 00:15:06,955 Speaker 1: but he does not run remember the exact date. Therefore, 225 00:15:09,515 --> 00:15:15,155 Speaker 1: something perhaps most interesting from the courtroom was a text 226 00:15:16,515 --> 00:15:20,315 Speaker 1: by then National Inquirer editor in chief Dylan Howard to 227 00:15:20,395 --> 00:15:24,675 Speaker 1: an unidentified relative, which the prosecution read. It was sent 228 00:15:24,715 --> 00:15:27,955 Speaker 1: the night Trump was elected. Quote, He's just been named 229 00:15:28,075 --> 00:15:32,035 Speaker 1: president elect. At least if he wins, Dylan Howard writes, 230 00:15:32,475 --> 00:15:39,235 Speaker 1: I will be pardoned for electoral fraud. You may have 231 00:15:39,315 --> 00:15:42,435 Speaker 1: heard that. Before the trial resumed in Manhattan yesterday, Trump 232 00:15:42,435 --> 00:15:47,635 Speaker 1: had another one of these spontaneous interactions with real people. 233 00:15:49,275 --> 00:15:51,755 Speaker 1: Like at the bodega last week in Harlem, it turned 234 00:15:51,795 --> 00:15:55,275 Speaker 1: out to be entirely staffed by members of Young Republicans 235 00:15:55,315 --> 00:15:59,395 Speaker 1: for Fascism. This time it was construction workers at Park 236 00:15:59,435 --> 00:16:04,995 Speaker 1: and forty ninth who just happened to be wearing Trump merch. Badly, 237 00:16:05,635 --> 00:16:10,195 Speaker 1: most media, especially the news operations in New York, did 238 00:16:10,195 --> 00:16:14,355 Speaker 1: not recognize that this was an astro turf event, even 239 00:16:14,555 --> 00:16:18,875 Speaker 1: with them all wearing hats with Trump lettering on it. 240 00:16:20,155 --> 00:16:24,075 Speaker 1: Even after the Fox Morning Show team foolishly asked, it's 241 00:16:24,155 --> 00:16:28,555 Speaker 1: not very bright. Reporter on the scene, Alexis McAdams, how 242 00:16:28,955 --> 00:16:32,075 Speaker 1: all these construction workers found out about Trump being there? 243 00:16:32,715 --> 00:16:34,315 Speaker 1: And she let the cat out of the bag, and 244 00:16:34,355 --> 00:16:36,635 Speaker 1: she explained it had been pre arranged by the Trump 245 00:16:36,675 --> 00:16:39,555 Speaker 1: campaign and all the guys you saw on camera had 246 00:16:39,595 --> 00:16:44,555 Speaker 1: been vetted. By the way. If that reporter's name Alexis 247 00:16:44,635 --> 00:16:49,915 Speaker 1: mccadams of Fox News, If that sounds familiar, Remember the 248 00:16:49,955 --> 00:16:53,955 Speaker 1: Bentley that went airborne at the International Bridge at Niagara 249 00:16:54,035 --> 00:16:57,795 Speaker 1: Falls just after Thanksgiving and Fox reported it had sources 250 00:16:57,835 --> 00:17:00,035 Speaker 1: who had confirmed it was a terrorist act and the 251 00:17:00,075 --> 00:17:02,675 Speaker 1: car was full of explosives, and then they began to 252 00:17:02,675 --> 00:17:05,835 Speaker 1: speculate that it was a Hamas attack the US. The 253 00:17:05,875 --> 00:17:08,955 Speaker 1: Fox reporter who had the sources confirming it was terrorism 254 00:17:09,035 --> 00:17:11,955 Speaker 1: and a car full of stuff. Oops, it was really 255 00:17:11,995 --> 00:17:14,875 Speaker 1: just a bad driver in a horrific accident. That reporter 256 00:17:15,155 --> 00:17:22,955 Speaker 1: was Alexis McAdams and she still works there. There was 257 00:17:22,995 --> 00:17:25,155 Speaker 1: news of a third Trump case yesterday. He will not 258 00:17:25,235 --> 00:17:28,315 Speaker 1: get a new trial in the second Egene Carol case. 259 00:17:28,395 --> 00:17:31,115 Speaker 1: The eighty million dollar award, at least not from Judge 260 00:17:31,195 --> 00:17:34,515 Speaker 1: Lewis Kaplan. Honestly, we have to number all the court 261 00:17:34,555 --> 00:17:38,235 Speaker 1: cases I have lost track in Trump adjacent legal news. 262 00:17:38,515 --> 00:17:42,115 Speaker 1: Plea deal for ex marine John Perez, who was stalking 263 00:17:42,155 --> 00:17:45,635 Speaker 1: former FBI lawyer Lisa Page. This is an example of 264 00:17:45,675 --> 00:17:50,675 Speaker 1: the results of trump stochastic terrorism. Last December, this Perez 265 00:17:50,715 --> 00:17:53,315 Speaker 1: showed up at least four times at Lisa Page's home, 266 00:17:53,715 --> 00:17:57,555 Speaker 1: once interacting with her son. This was after the FBI 267 00:17:57,675 --> 00:18:00,515 Speaker 1: had assured Page that he was no threat to her. 268 00:18:01,235 --> 00:18:04,915 Speaker 1: She is still outraged and she should be. The yel 269 00:18:04,955 --> 00:18:08,235 Speaker 1: they made with this guy only bans him from the 270 00:18:08,315 --> 00:18:11,915 Speaker 1: DC area for the next six months and insists that 271 00:18:11,955 --> 00:18:17,115 Speaker 1: he goes to therapy six times. A polling note, the 272 00:18:17,155 --> 00:18:20,955 Speaker 1: swing towards Biden is so big that even five thirty 273 00:18:20,995 --> 00:18:23,475 Speaker 1: eight dot com has begun to sit up and take notice. 274 00:18:24,635 --> 00:18:27,395 Speaker 1: It's average of national polls, it says, is now tied. 275 00:18:27,955 --> 00:18:30,875 Speaker 1: A month ago, it was Trump plus two. The state 276 00:18:30,955 --> 00:18:33,795 Speaker 1: by states still has Trump ahead in the swing states. 277 00:18:33,995 --> 00:18:36,155 Speaker 1: But if you think Trump is not panicking, you are 278 00:18:36,475 --> 00:18:40,275 Speaker 1: wildly mistaken. He posted a graphic late yesterday after court 279 00:18:40,715 --> 00:18:45,315 Speaker 1: Trump crushes Biden in Pennsylvania and beneath it Trump forty 280 00:18:45,355 --> 00:18:50,995 Speaker 1: seven percent, Biden forty six percent, forty seven to forty 281 00:18:51,075 --> 00:18:55,675 Speaker 1: six is crushing only if you are panicking. And to 282 00:18:55,755 --> 00:19:02,915 Speaker 1: tie all this together, for years we I have wondered 283 00:19:03,355 --> 00:19:09,075 Speaker 1: when Trump would hit what marathoners call the wall, that 284 00:19:09,355 --> 00:19:14,835 Speaker 1: moment in the race when your stamina meets age and 285 00:19:14,995 --> 00:19:21,355 Speaker 1: exhaustion and pain and gravity and you discover, to your dismay, 286 00:19:21,875 --> 00:19:28,915 Speaker 1: oh look, gravity works. This was defendant Jay Trump as 287 00:19:28,955 --> 00:19:32,515 Speaker 1: he reached the cameras after the day ended in court 288 00:19:32,595 --> 00:19:35,355 Speaker 1: in New York yesterday. And you know how old he sounds. 289 00:19:35,835 --> 00:19:37,635 Speaker 1: He sounds two hundred and six. 290 00:19:38,155 --> 00:19:38,955 Speaker 6: Thank you very much. 291 00:19:38,995 --> 00:19:41,715 Speaker 4: Everybody today was breathtaking. 292 00:19:42,195 --> 00:19:42,915 Speaker 7: This room is on. 293 00:19:43,155 --> 00:19:45,155 Speaker 4: What went on was breathtaking. 294 00:19:45,475 --> 00:19:53,035 Speaker 1: And breath taking. You bet your ass. Trump's words may 295 00:19:53,075 --> 00:19:57,635 Speaker 1: not be planned, and they are hardly logical, but never 296 00:19:57,755 --> 00:20:00,795 Speaker 1: think they are random. He said it a couple of 297 00:20:00,835 --> 00:20:05,635 Speaker 1: times he was having trouble breathing. It might be another 298 00:20:05,715 --> 00:20:08,875 Speaker 1: explanation for that, however, other than the possibility that the 299 00:20:08,875 --> 00:20:13,955 Speaker 1: proverbial sand is running out in his hourglass. Next time 300 00:20:13,995 --> 00:20:16,875 Speaker 1: you hear Trump complain that the trial keeps him off 301 00:20:17,075 --> 00:20:21,315 Speaker 1: the campaign trail, CNN is reporting that he spent the 302 00:20:21,395 --> 00:20:28,755 Speaker 1: day off from the trial Wednesday playing golf in New Jersey. 303 00:20:34,075 --> 00:20:38,995 Speaker 1: Also of interest here. Never before, Never before have all 304 00:20:39,115 --> 00:20:43,275 Speaker 1: of the medallists in Worst Persons come from one newspaper 305 00:20:43,755 --> 00:20:47,355 Speaker 1: and earned their spots because of one article about that 306 00:20:47,475 --> 00:20:50,915 Speaker 1: one newspaper. The New York Times is not going to 307 00:20:50,955 --> 00:20:54,195 Speaker 1: go out of business if you cancel your subscription, but 308 00:20:54,275 --> 00:20:57,835 Speaker 1: it just has given you three more reasons to cancel 309 00:20:57,915 --> 00:21:05,075 Speaker 1: it anyway. Clueless scumbags, unaware that their pomposity could cost 310 00:21:05,235 --> 00:21:11,075 Speaker 1: us democracy. The New York Times scumbags. That's next. This 311 00:21:11,275 --> 00:21:11,915 Speaker 1: is countdown. 312 00:21:13,635 --> 00:21:16,315 Speaker 4: This is countdown with Keith old Woman. 313 00:21:37,995 --> 00:21:40,755 Speaker 1: Still ahead of us on this initiative. Countdown Fridays with 314 00:21:40,875 --> 00:21:44,755 Speaker 1: Thurber and without Trump, and without politics, and without anything 315 00:21:44,795 --> 00:21:51,115 Speaker 1: resembling Trump or politics. Thurber's quiet, subtle condemnation of a 316 00:21:51,235 --> 00:21:58,355 Speaker 1: practical jokester from Hell. Meet Bertie Doggett. Next first, still 317 00:21:58,395 --> 00:22:00,715 Speaker 1: more new idiots to talk about. The daily round up 318 00:22:00,715 --> 00:22:04,515 Speaker 1: with the miscreants, morons and dunning kruegerfecs specimens who constitute 319 00:22:04,955 --> 00:22:10,715 Speaker 1: today's worst persons in The New York Times. And as 320 00:22:10,755 --> 00:22:14,755 Speaker 1: I teased, something special, all the winners today come from 321 00:22:14,755 --> 00:22:19,355 Speaker 1: the same newspaper, Your New York Times. And they come 322 00:22:19,355 --> 00:22:22,835 Speaker 1: from the same article about the same newspaper a piece 323 00:22:22,875 --> 00:22:27,595 Speaker 1: by Eli Stokels in Politico. I am a daily critic 324 00:22:27,635 --> 00:22:31,355 Speaker 1: of Politico, but occasionally it does catch lightning in a bottle, 325 00:22:31,795 --> 00:22:34,355 Speaker 1: and very deftly. In fact, this fits in with this 326 00:22:34,395 --> 00:22:37,435 Speaker 1: week's Thurber story. It's subtle and you never really notice 327 00:22:37,435 --> 00:22:42,075 Speaker 1: the knife drawn, let alone plunged. Politico lets the New 328 00:22:42,155 --> 00:22:47,315 Speaker 1: York Times destroy itself on one topic. The piece is 329 00:22:47,355 --> 00:22:51,675 Speaker 1: about why the Times has what is obvious to everyone 330 00:22:51,715 --> 00:22:57,075 Speaker 1: else accept people at the Times a grudge against President Biden, 331 00:22:57,115 --> 00:23:01,395 Speaker 1: and why it is actually slanting its coverage against him, 332 00:23:01,875 --> 00:23:04,035 Speaker 1: even though other parts of the newspaper appear to be 333 00:23:04,075 --> 00:23:08,835 Speaker 1: awareasionally that the democracy is at stake, and any gratuitous 334 00:23:08,875 --> 00:23:13,275 Speaker 1: criticism of Biden, like the Times weekly piece on how 335 00:23:13,275 --> 00:23:17,635 Speaker 1: old he is or its weekly stupid column by Maureen Dowd, 336 00:23:17,875 --> 00:23:20,875 Speaker 1: how that increases the chances that we'll have, you know, 337 00:23:21,715 --> 00:23:26,355 Speaker 1: a dictatorship next January. I have said here repeatedly that 338 00:23:26,395 --> 00:23:28,635 Speaker 1: it is clear that the people who run the New 339 00:23:28,715 --> 00:23:33,355 Speaker 1: York Times think they will somehow be issued passes that 340 00:23:33,435 --> 00:23:37,395 Speaker 1: will keep them from going to the Fred Trump Memorial 341 00:23:37,555 --> 00:23:41,355 Speaker 1: media re education concentration camp with the rest of us. 342 00:23:41,755 --> 00:23:45,875 Speaker 1: I mean, they really simultaneously perceive the threat, and yet 343 00:23:45,915 --> 00:23:49,475 Speaker 1: they don't seem to remember they would be among the 344 00:23:49,515 --> 00:23:53,315 Speaker 1: first or second group of people to be punished or persecuted, 345 00:23:53,395 --> 00:23:57,675 Speaker 1: or prosecuted or literally rounded up. Because whatever petty, childish 346 00:23:57,675 --> 00:24:01,355 Speaker 1: complaints they have about how Joe Biden deals with them, 347 00:24:01,395 --> 00:24:04,115 Speaker 1: and however Biden and the White House really feel about 348 00:24:04,115 --> 00:24:09,515 Speaker 1: The Times, guess what Trump and his monstrous fascists really 349 00:24:09,595 --> 00:24:12,155 Speaker 1: don't like The Times and would like to see its 350 00:24:12,195 --> 00:24:17,075 Speaker 1: building burned to the ground. The Stokels piece for Politico 351 00:24:17,195 --> 00:24:19,755 Speaker 1: points out episodes in which the White House might have 352 00:24:19,835 --> 00:24:25,155 Speaker 1: been nicer, or more generous, or fed the Times unimaginably 353 00:24:25,315 --> 00:24:28,955 Speaker 1: large opinion of itself a little more. But mostly it 354 00:24:29,075 --> 00:24:32,875 Speaker 1: just lets key Times people hoist themselves with their own petards. 355 00:24:33,435 --> 00:24:37,435 Speaker 1: And the three who are the biggest petards are our 356 00:24:37,715 --> 00:24:44,395 Speaker 1: worst person's medalists today, the bronze worse. Elizabeth but Miller, Washington, 357 00:24:44,475 --> 00:24:46,835 Speaker 1: Bureau chief of The New York Times. I know you've 358 00:24:46,875 --> 00:24:49,475 Speaker 1: never heard of her. I've heard of her. People in 359 00:24:49,515 --> 00:24:53,875 Speaker 1: the business have heard of her. She's Northwestern, she's Columbia journalism. 360 00:24:54,195 --> 00:24:56,715 Speaker 1: She was the White House correspondent, So in Times land 361 00:24:57,155 --> 00:25:00,115 Speaker 1: she's a Hall of Famer and one day in March 362 00:25:00,155 --> 00:25:04,235 Speaker 1: twenty twenty three, somebody at the Times DC bureau screwed up. 363 00:25:04,675 --> 00:25:08,035 Speaker 1: It wasn't a regular White House reporter, so when he 364 00:25:08,195 --> 00:25:11,915 Speaker 1: asked a Biden administration spokesman for a quote late one 365 00:25:12,035 --> 00:25:16,275 Speaker 1: night on a story, the spokesman emailed one back on background, 366 00:25:16,315 --> 00:25:18,835 Speaker 1: meaning you could say it was from the administration, but 367 00:25:18,955 --> 00:25:22,595 Speaker 1: you could not say who personally said it. It's silly, 368 00:25:22,795 --> 00:25:26,595 Speaker 1: stupid kind of rules, like the way figure skating used 369 00:25:26,635 --> 00:25:28,995 Speaker 1: to start with school figures, where the skaters had to 370 00:25:29,035 --> 00:25:32,235 Speaker 1: prove that they could trace figure eights into the ice 371 00:25:32,635 --> 00:25:35,795 Speaker 1: before they could actually dance. But these guys still have 372 00:25:36,475 --> 00:25:39,795 Speaker 1: the journalistic equivalent of school figures. They still performed these 373 00:25:39,795 --> 00:25:43,235 Speaker 1: stupid rituals, and the Times guy screwed it up. He 374 00:25:43,275 --> 00:25:46,235 Speaker 1: wrote a seven instead of an eight. He printed the 375 00:25:46,275 --> 00:25:49,675 Speaker 1: spokesman's name, he attributed the quote that was supposed to 376 00:25:49,675 --> 00:25:51,915 Speaker 1: be on background. While the White House got pissed it 377 00:25:52,035 --> 00:25:54,755 Speaker 1: asked to speak to the Times White House editor, and 378 00:25:54,875 --> 00:25:57,795 Speaker 1: the same guy who screwed up the quote now screwed 379 00:25:57,875 --> 00:26:01,715 Speaker 1: up again and gave them the wrong phone number, not 380 00:26:01,755 --> 00:26:03,915 Speaker 1: the number of the Times White House editor, but the 381 00:26:03,995 --> 00:26:09,275 Speaker 1: number of the Times Washington Editor her honor, Queen Elizabeth B. Miller. 382 00:26:10,035 --> 00:26:14,635 Speaker 1: According to Politico, bue Miller quote express dismay that the 383 00:26:14,675 --> 00:26:18,595 Speaker 1: issue had been escalated to her level, was reluctant to 384 00:26:18,635 --> 00:26:20,915 Speaker 1: alter a story that had already been online for over 385 00:26:20,995 --> 00:26:23,915 Speaker 1: twelve hours. When the White House tried to bring up 386 00:26:23,915 --> 00:26:28,515 Speaker 1: another concern with the story, bu Miller just hung up. 387 00:26:29,795 --> 00:26:32,915 Speaker 1: As Political explains, there have been bad feelings ever since, 388 00:26:32,955 --> 00:26:37,555 Speaker 1: bad feelings at the Times. The Washington bureau chief of 389 00:26:37,595 --> 00:26:40,795 Speaker 1: the Times is so important that when she felt like 390 00:26:40,915 --> 00:26:44,315 Speaker 1: the problem and the person calling about the problem from 391 00:26:44,315 --> 00:26:48,755 Speaker 1: the White House were beneath her, she hung up on them. 392 00:26:49,115 --> 00:26:52,355 Speaker 1: And the Times is mad at the White House because 393 00:26:52,435 --> 00:26:55,555 Speaker 1: the Washington New York Times bureau chief hung up on 394 00:26:55,675 --> 00:26:59,435 Speaker 1: the White House. They're not being realistic about what we 395 00:26:59,555 --> 00:27:02,515 Speaker 1: do for a living. Politico quotes Elizabeth bu Miller is 396 00:27:02,555 --> 00:27:06,315 Speaker 1: telling them, you could be a force for demachocracy, liberal democracy. 397 00:27:06,555 --> 00:27:08,875 Speaker 1: You don't have to be a force for the Biden Whitehouse. 398 00:27:10,035 --> 00:27:13,035 Speaker 1: I think the technical term for that is ass clownery. 399 00:27:13,715 --> 00:27:16,995 Speaker 1: When exactly do you plan to start being a force 400 00:27:17,035 --> 00:27:22,395 Speaker 1: for liberal democracy? Elizabeth ask clown? B Miller The runner 401 00:27:22,475 --> 00:27:25,555 Speaker 1: up worser Peter Baker. I don't know how many times 402 00:27:25,555 --> 00:27:29,595 Speaker 1: I've mentioned Peter Baker here and in other venues. I 403 00:27:29,635 --> 00:27:33,155 Speaker 1: know he hasn't noticed because my podcasts are not available 404 00:27:33,195 --> 00:27:36,035 Speaker 1: to him up there on his high horse. He is 405 00:27:36,075 --> 00:27:39,235 Speaker 1: one of those Times guys, not just from the Times, 406 00:27:39,235 --> 00:27:41,355 Speaker 1: but he's one of the ones at the Times who 407 00:27:41,475 --> 00:27:46,235 Speaker 1: withheld news of the Trump administration debacles until he could 408 00:27:46,275 --> 00:27:49,275 Speaker 1: get a book deal. He also once insisted that Joe 409 00:27:49,275 --> 00:27:52,675 Speaker 1: Biden's job had been made more difficult by quote a 410 00:27:52,715 --> 00:27:56,795 Speaker 1: tough column by David Ignatius. Well, that's a good way 411 00:27:56,835 --> 00:28:00,275 Speaker 1: to start to assess Peter Baker. He thinks stuff written 412 00:28:00,315 --> 00:28:04,835 Speaker 1: by long forgotten pontificators in the Times is what makes 413 00:28:05,435 --> 00:28:10,355 Speaker 1: life difficult for the president of the effing United States. 414 00:28:10,435 --> 00:28:17,195 Speaker 1: Not fascism or Trump or insurrections or the Supreme Court 415 00:28:17,795 --> 00:28:21,515 Speaker 1: or Putin or the Republicans, or North Korea or climate change. No, no, 416 00:28:21,595 --> 00:28:26,195 Speaker 1: David Ignatius is making life difficult for Biden anyway. The 417 00:28:26,235 --> 00:28:30,875 Speaker 1: Politico piece has two wonderful vignettes reemphasizing how clueless and 418 00:28:30,955 --> 00:28:35,515 Speaker 1: condescending Peter Baker is. It's Baker who's written most of 419 00:28:35,555 --> 00:28:40,275 Speaker 1: the Biden age stories. He told Politico quote. Every White 420 00:28:40,275 --> 00:28:43,235 Speaker 1: House I've covered complains about our coverage. It comes with 421 00:28:43,275 --> 00:28:46,995 Speaker 1: the territory. But because of Trump, there's this new assumption 422 00:28:47,035 --> 00:28:49,715 Speaker 1: that the New York Times and other media are supposed 423 00:28:49,755 --> 00:28:52,315 Speaker 1: to put their thumb on the scale and take sides, 424 00:28:52,995 --> 00:28:57,595 Speaker 1: and we don't do that. I am reminded suddenly of 425 00:28:57,635 --> 00:29:02,275 Speaker 1: my favorite TV news promo of all time. The BBC 426 00:29:02,435 --> 00:29:06,315 Speaker 1: ran this for year. It featured their Washington bureau chief, 427 00:29:06,635 --> 00:29:09,915 Speaker 1: arrogant and disconnected from reality as Peter Baker is, and 428 00:29:09,955 --> 00:29:14,035 Speaker 1: as she walked through the streets of DC, condescendingly insisting 429 00:29:14,075 --> 00:29:16,715 Speaker 1: that the BBC could be trusted and nobody else could 430 00:29:16,875 --> 00:29:19,635 Speaker 1: because the BBC had never taken sides in any election, 431 00:29:19,995 --> 00:29:24,635 Speaker 1: or story or war. These words appeared as giant sculptures 432 00:29:24,795 --> 00:29:29,515 Speaker 1: behind her on the streets she traversed. The first time 433 00:29:29,515 --> 00:29:32,235 Speaker 1: I saw this promo, I burst out laughing. I actually 434 00:29:32,275 --> 00:29:35,035 Speaker 1: wrote somebody I knew at the BBC and said, are 435 00:29:35,075 --> 00:29:38,315 Speaker 1: we sure about this? The BBC never took sides in 436 00:29:38,395 --> 00:29:42,435 Speaker 1: any war? How about that one war when it was 437 00:29:42,475 --> 00:29:47,395 Speaker 1: sending out secret coded messages to British troops in the 438 00:29:47,395 --> 00:29:51,955 Speaker 1: newscasts and secret coded messages to resistance fighters around the 439 00:29:51,995 --> 00:29:55,755 Speaker 1: world in their music shows. I mean, you know that 440 00:29:56,195 --> 00:29:59,115 Speaker 1: Big War what is it called the Big War with Hitler? 441 00:29:59,635 --> 00:30:04,115 Speaker 1: Where Hitler was specifically sending bombers to London to blow 442 00:30:04,195 --> 00:30:06,595 Speaker 1: up the bill the BBC was in the BBC was 443 00:30:06,635 --> 00:30:10,635 Speaker 1: an actual written Hitler target. What was that World War something? 444 00:30:10,875 --> 00:30:12,315 Speaker 1: What was it called that they took the side? What 445 00:30:12,435 --> 00:30:15,835 Speaker 1: was it? Come on, come down? World War World War 446 00:30:15,915 --> 00:30:19,915 Speaker 1: twelve twelve something with a two in it? Did you 447 00:30:20,075 --> 00:30:24,715 Speaker 1: take sides in that one? They eventually killed the promo? Well, 448 00:30:24,755 --> 00:30:27,275 Speaker 1: I hope you damn will did take sides in that promo. 449 00:30:27,315 --> 00:30:29,915 Speaker 1: And Peter Baker because of Trump, there's this new assumption 450 00:30:29,955 --> 00:30:31,795 Speaker 1: that the New York Times and other media are supposed 451 00:30:31,835 --> 00:30:33,875 Speaker 1: to put their thumb on the scale, take sides, and 452 00:30:33,995 --> 00:30:37,635 Speaker 1: we don't do that. Hey, guess what, you're wrong. You 453 00:30:37,675 --> 00:30:40,035 Speaker 1: don't have to treat other people fairly if they're trying 454 00:30:40,075 --> 00:30:44,195 Speaker 1: to kill democracy and kill the constitution and kill free 455 00:30:44,235 --> 00:30:46,515 Speaker 1: pres and oh, by the way, kill you, Peter Baker. 456 00:30:46,995 --> 00:30:49,675 Speaker 1: This isn't a game. We don't do that. We don't 457 00:30:49,715 --> 00:30:52,035 Speaker 1: put our thumb on this not a scale. These guys 458 00:30:52,035 --> 00:30:56,195 Speaker 1: were at the Supreme Court yesterday insisting assassinations and military 459 00:30:56,275 --> 00:31:01,595 Speaker 1: coups were all part of their president's official duties. You 460 00:31:01,595 --> 00:31:03,475 Speaker 1: think wiping out The New York Times is going to 461 00:31:03,555 --> 00:31:07,235 Speaker 1: take more than half a day under President Dictator heil 462 00:31:07,355 --> 00:31:11,315 Speaker 1: Hitler Trump. And oh, by the way, Baker, nobody is 463 00:31:11,435 --> 00:31:14,835 Speaker 1: asking you to put your thumb on the scale. They're 464 00:31:14,875 --> 00:31:17,675 Speaker 1: asking you to take it off the scale and to 465 00:31:17,715 --> 00:31:22,875 Speaker 1: stop doing unethical, unjournalistic things like covering up Donald Trump's 466 00:31:22,875 --> 00:31:26,475 Speaker 1: malfeasance in office and keeping it out of your goddamned 467 00:31:26,515 --> 00:31:30,875 Speaker 1: newspaper until you get your book advance. And by the way, 468 00:31:30,875 --> 00:31:33,235 Speaker 1: it isn't your thumb you've put on the scale, Peter Baker, 469 00:31:33,275 --> 00:31:37,755 Speaker 1: it's your schlung. Zip it up, boy. But our winner, 470 00:31:37,835 --> 00:31:43,515 Speaker 1: the Times boss, the publisher Ag Sulzberger, who got The 471 00:31:43,595 --> 00:31:49,155 Speaker 1: Times for free. The newspaper writes Politico carries its own 472 00:31:49,275 --> 00:31:53,355 Speaker 1: singular obsession with the president, aggrieved over his refusal to 473 00:31:53,435 --> 00:31:57,675 Speaker 1: give the paper a sit down interview that publisher Ag 474 00:31:57,915 --> 00:32:02,755 Speaker 1: Sulzberger and the other top editors believe to be its birthright. 475 00:32:03,835 --> 00:32:07,235 Speaker 1: It gets worse last May, when Vice President Kamala Harris 476 00:32:07,315 --> 00:32:10,395 Speaker 1: arrived at the newspaper's Midtown headquarters for an off the 477 00:32:10,395 --> 00:32:14,675 Speaker 1: record meeting with around forty Times journalists, Salzburger devoted several 478 00:32:14,675 --> 00:32:18,995 Speaker 1: minutes to asking her why Biden was still refusing. In 479 00:32:19,115 --> 00:32:22,795 Speaker 1: Salzburger's view, according to two people familiar with his private 480 00:32:22,875 --> 00:32:26,715 Speaker 1: comments on the subject, only an interview with a paper 481 00:32:26,875 --> 00:32:30,355 Speaker 1: like The Times can verify that the eighty one year 482 00:32:30,355 --> 00:32:35,395 Speaker 1: old Biden is still fit to hold the presidency. Unquote. 483 00:32:37,515 --> 00:32:40,915 Speaker 1: If that's true, Ag Salzburger thinks the Times is, you know, 484 00:32:41,075 --> 00:32:46,515 Speaker 1: like the Supreme Court, but the ps to resistance. In 485 00:32:46,635 --> 00:32:50,875 Speaker 1: the entire political piece about Ag Sealzburger is an anonymous 486 00:32:50,915 --> 00:32:55,515 Speaker 1: quote about this publisher who got The Times for free, 487 00:32:55,555 --> 00:32:58,475 Speaker 1: and about which, once they've read it, the Times is 488 00:32:58,595 --> 00:33:01,035 Speaker 1: likely to launch I don't know, a six month, eight 489 00:33:01,075 --> 00:33:06,315 Speaker 1: hundred and eighty seven million dollar internal investigation quote. These 490 00:33:06,435 --> 00:33:09,555 Speaker 1: Biden people think that the problem is Peter Baker or 491 00:33:09,595 --> 00:33:13,835 Speaker 1: whatever reporter they're mad at. That day, one Times journalist 492 00:33:13,915 --> 00:33:18,955 Speaker 1: said it's Ag. He's the one who is pissed that 493 00:33:19,035 --> 00:33:24,395 Speaker 1: Biden hasn't done any interviews and quietly encourages all the 494 00:33:24,555 --> 00:33:31,915 Speaker 1: tough reporting on his age. Oh man, cancel your Time subscriptions. 495 00:33:32,795 --> 00:33:36,435 Speaker 1: I did, and I've been a subscriber since nineteen sixty nine, 496 00:33:36,795 --> 00:33:41,555 Speaker 1: and the New York Times can go f itself. Ag Selzberger, 497 00:33:41,835 --> 00:33:45,995 Speaker 1: publisher of the New York Times. Remember, Ag, if Trump wins, 498 00:33:46,355 --> 00:33:48,595 Speaker 1: at least as they march you off to the camps 499 00:33:48,635 --> 00:33:53,915 Speaker 1: alongside me and all those Biden press aids, you can 500 00:33:53,955 --> 00:33:58,435 Speaker 1: go to the gulag happy knowing that you sure showed 501 00:33:58,595 --> 00:34:34,875 Speaker 1: Joe Biden two days worst person. And I believe the 502 00:34:34,915 --> 00:34:38,235 Speaker 1: first time I ever heard James Thurber read aloud, it 503 00:34:38,315 --> 00:34:41,835 Speaker 1: was by William Windham, the great actor who did so 504 00:34:42,075 --> 00:34:47,875 Speaker 1: much serious stuff, drama, comedy. He's a Star Trek Original 505 00:34:48,035 --> 00:34:52,155 Speaker 1: series key figure. He did a lot of great acting 506 00:34:52,235 --> 00:34:55,595 Speaker 1: in so many different roles. And he did a special 507 00:34:55,755 --> 00:34:58,355 Speaker 1: on PBS when I was in college in which he 508 00:34:58,475 --> 00:35:03,235 Speaker 1: performed as James Thurber, narrated some of the drawings, recited 509 00:35:03,235 --> 00:35:05,435 Speaker 1: from memory, many of the short story and many of 510 00:35:05,435 --> 00:35:08,075 Speaker 1: the longer ones too, And I later had the pleasure 511 00:35:08,155 --> 00:35:10,995 Speaker 1: of telling him that he was my inspiration for reading 512 00:35:11,115 --> 00:35:15,715 Speaker 1: James Thurber aloud, and we corresponded about how to possibly 513 00:35:15,795 --> 00:35:19,515 Speaker 1: improve some of the diceier parts of some of the 514 00:35:19,515 --> 00:35:23,395 Speaker 1: Thurber stories and make them useful for twenty first century America. 515 00:35:24,435 --> 00:35:27,915 Speaker 1: Mister Wyndham died about ten years ago, and I lament 516 00:35:27,995 --> 00:35:33,195 Speaker 1: him still. I recorded on tape his Thurber Special on PBS, 517 00:35:33,195 --> 00:35:37,755 Speaker 1: and I still have it, not videotape, audiotape, a cassette. 518 00:35:37,795 --> 00:35:40,475 Speaker 1: We didn't have home videotape, although I'm proud to say 519 00:35:40,475 --> 00:35:44,595 Speaker 1: he sent me a copy of a DVD of the performance, 520 00:35:44,635 --> 00:35:47,635 Speaker 1: and one of the stories he reads, or in fact recites, 521 00:35:47,835 --> 00:35:50,195 Speaker 1: I will now read for you it is. I like 522 00:35:50,275 --> 00:35:53,235 Speaker 1: it very much. It's not considered part of the great 523 00:35:54,235 --> 00:35:57,235 Speaker 1: canon of James Thurber, but I think it's terrific. And 524 00:35:57,315 --> 00:36:02,795 Speaker 1: it's called Shake Hands with Bertie Doggett by James Thurber. 525 00:36:04,075 --> 00:36:09,595 Speaker 1: John Bertie dogget known as Bertie to the few people 526 00:36:09,635 --> 00:36:13,115 Speaker 1: who speak to him, must be fifty three now, but 527 00:36:13,235 --> 00:36:15,715 Speaker 1: he wears his years with a smirk, and he has 528 00:36:15,755 --> 00:36:19,995 Speaker 1: as bad a practical joker as ever. Other American cutups 529 00:36:19,995 --> 00:36:22,915 Speaker 1: in the Grand Tradition began to disappear in October nineteen 530 00:36:22,995 --> 00:36:25,675 Speaker 1: twenty nine, and they are as hard to find now 531 00:36:25,795 --> 00:36:32,115 Speaker 1: as bison. But Dogget's waggishness has no calendar. You must 532 00:36:32,115 --> 00:36:34,355 Speaker 1: have run into him at some party or other. He's 533 00:36:34,395 --> 00:36:36,675 Speaker 1: the man whose right hand comes off when you try 534 00:36:36,675 --> 00:36:39,715 Speaker 1: to shake it. The late George Bancroft once pulled that 535 00:36:39,795 --> 00:36:41,715 Speaker 1: gag in a movie, but that was so long ago 536 00:36:41,755 --> 00:36:44,395 Speaker 1: the picture must be a cherished item in the Museum 537 00:36:44,435 --> 00:36:49,715 Speaker 1: of Modern Arts Film Library even now. When everybody else 538 00:36:49,795 --> 00:36:53,715 Speaker 1: was running the gamut of bomb fear from A to H. 539 00:36:54,075 --> 00:36:58,075 Speaker 1: Bertie dogget was at Grand Central with one roller skate, 540 00:36:58,635 --> 00:37:00,755 Speaker 1: which he managed to attach to the shoe of a 541 00:37:00,755 --> 00:37:04,115 Speaker 1: man sleeping on a bench. When the fellow woke and 542 00:37:04,155 --> 00:37:08,915 Speaker 1: stood up, he described a brief, desperate semi circle clutched 543 00:37:08,915 --> 00:37:11,555 Speaker 1: a woman shopper about the knees, dragged her and her 544 00:37:11,595 --> 00:37:14,155 Speaker 1: bundles to the cold floor, and was attacked by her 545 00:37:14,235 --> 00:37:18,795 Speaker 1: muzzled Scottie Dogged, as always, was the first to lend 546 00:37:18,835 --> 00:37:21,075 Speaker 1: a hand, helping the woman to her feet, and then 547 00:37:21,115 --> 00:37:24,075 Speaker 1: turning to the man, where the hell's your other skate? 548 00:37:24,595 --> 00:37:28,635 Speaker 1: He demanded, sharply, that's what caused all this trouble. He 549 00:37:28,715 --> 00:37:31,995 Speaker 1: took his skate off the victim's foot and disappeared into 550 00:37:31,995 --> 00:37:35,075 Speaker 1: the crowd that had begun to gather. What's the matter 551 00:37:35,195 --> 00:37:39,675 Speaker 1: over there, a small man asked him apprehensively. Doggett shrugged, Uh. 552 00:37:39,955 --> 00:37:42,235 Speaker 1: They found a woman with a ticking package, he said. 553 00:37:43,315 --> 00:37:46,195 Speaker 1: The other man turned and left the station, missing the 554 00:37:46,235 --> 00:37:50,075 Speaker 1: train he had told his wife he would take. Doggett's 555 00:37:50,195 --> 00:37:53,035 Speaker 1: pranks usually have the effect of involving people on their 556 00:37:53,155 --> 00:37:57,235 Speaker 1: far edges, one of two of whom have been divorced 557 00:37:57,515 --> 00:38:01,475 Speaker 1: as a result. A publisher I know thinks dogget would 558 00:38:01,475 --> 00:38:04,475 Speaker 1: make a good story. I disagree, because I don't think 559 00:38:04,475 --> 00:38:07,315 Speaker 1: they're anything good about the fellow, but I have done 560 00:38:07,355 --> 00:38:09,635 Speaker 1: some checking up on him out of force of habit. 561 00:38:10,595 --> 00:38:14,635 Speaker 1: His father, the late Carol Lamb Dogget, was a Methodist minister, 562 00:38:14,675 --> 00:38:18,355 Speaker 1: and his mother was a witch. Born at a June Birdie. 563 00:38:19,155 --> 00:38:21,115 Speaker 1: When her son was only ten, she taught him how 564 00:38:21,115 --> 00:38:25,435 Speaker 1: to set stranger's umbrellas on fire. After an April shower, 565 00:38:25,515 --> 00:38:28,595 Speaker 1: she would sally forth with the little Hellion. They lived 566 00:38:28,595 --> 00:38:32,195 Speaker 1: in Dayton in search of a citizen with a floppy umbrella. 567 00:38:32,995 --> 00:38:36,595 Speaker 1: After an April shower, Dayton men lower their umbrellas without 568 00:38:36,635 --> 00:38:40,395 Speaker 1: bothering to roll them. Missus Dogget would hunt until she 569 00:38:40,475 --> 00:38:43,395 Speaker 1: found a man waiting for a street car, his umbrella 570 00:38:43,555 --> 00:38:47,355 Speaker 1: sagging open at his side. She would then surreptitiously fill 571 00:38:47,435 --> 00:38:51,355 Speaker 1: the umbrella with paper, several dozen kitchen matches, and perhaps 572 00:38:51,435 --> 00:38:55,875 Speaker 1: one or two ping pong balls. As the street car approached, 573 00:38:56,355 --> 00:39:01,715 Speaker 1: she would drop a lighted match into the umbrella. Now, hell, 574 00:39:01,955 --> 00:39:06,955 Speaker 1: hath no dismay like that of aman whose wet umbrella 575 00:39:07,395 --> 00:39:12,115 Speaker 1: suddenly bursts into flame. Instead of rolling the thing to 576 00:39:12,195 --> 00:39:15,915 Speaker 1: smother the blaze or simply throwing it away, nine out 577 00:39:15,915 --> 00:39:19,715 Speaker 1: of ten men, according to Dogget's statistics, will flail it 578 00:39:19,755 --> 00:39:24,675 Speaker 1: around in the air, thus increasing the conflagration. Many of 579 00:39:24,715 --> 00:39:28,075 Speaker 1: Missus Doggett's victims were arrested for disturbing the peace or 580 00:39:28,115 --> 00:39:33,635 Speaker 1: for arson. Bertie Doggett has never been much interested in 581 00:39:33,675 --> 00:39:38,475 Speaker 1: the exasperating paraphernalia of the trick and puzzle shops. He 582 00:39:38,515 --> 00:39:41,275 Speaker 1: still uses the wax hand, and he has tried out 583 00:39:41,355 --> 00:39:45,635 Speaker 1: dribble glasses, whoopee cushions, the foul smelling stuff you put 584 00:39:45,675 --> 00:39:47,795 Speaker 1: on chair bottoms to make people think they've just sat 585 00:39:47,835 --> 00:39:52,115 Speaker 1: on a lighted cigarette, and other such juvenile props. But 586 00:39:52,115 --> 00:39:54,915 Speaker 1: they never got a real hold on his fancy. He 587 00:39:55,235 --> 00:39:59,755 Speaker 1: likes the elaborate rib involving a lot of people, the 588 00:39:59,875 --> 00:40:03,875 Speaker 1: more the better. He will take a sackful of cold 589 00:40:04,035 --> 00:40:06,555 Speaker 1: poached egg eggs to some crowded Fifth Avenue store at 590 00:40:06,595 --> 00:40:09,915 Speaker 1: Christmas time and slipped them one at a time into 591 00:40:09,955 --> 00:40:15,035 Speaker 1: the pockets of shoppers husbands, and he dreams of bumping 592 00:40:15,075 --> 00:40:17,835 Speaker 1: into a woman visitor in the ancient glass and crystal 593 00:40:17,915 --> 00:40:21,435 Speaker 1: room of some museum, dropping an ordinary table tumbler on 594 00:40:21,475 --> 00:40:26,195 Speaker 1: the tile floor, and sobbing. Sweet God, lady, you have 595 00:40:26,315 --> 00:40:31,595 Speaker 1: broken the sacred chalice of King Alexander and making her 596 00:40:31,595 --> 00:40:35,835 Speaker 1: believe it. He has pulled this gag over and over 597 00:40:35,875 --> 00:40:40,355 Speaker 1: since nineteen twenty four, but never successfully, with the result 598 00:40:40,355 --> 00:40:43,155 Speaker 1: that he has appeared sixteen times in Jefferson Market Court 599 00:40:43,195 --> 00:40:48,155 Speaker 1: alone on charges of disturbing the peace, jostling, and molestation. 600 00:40:49,835 --> 00:40:52,555 Speaker 1: What doug Ittt probably enjoys more than anything else is 601 00:40:52,595 --> 00:40:55,475 Speaker 1: following a couple of women along Fifth Avenue or Madison, 602 00:40:55,875 --> 00:41:00,355 Speaker 1: keeping discreetly out of sight but well within earshot, until 603 00:41:00,475 --> 00:41:03,235 Speaker 1: he hears one of the two ladies call the other 604 00:41:03,435 --> 00:41:07,555 Speaker 1: by name. He says that women are fond of using 605 00:41:07,595 --> 00:41:10,955 Speaker 1: each other's full name, as in Miriam Shirtle, I never 606 00:41:11,035 --> 00:41:13,195 Speaker 1: heard of such a thing in all my born days. 607 00:41:14,635 --> 00:41:18,035 Speaker 1: As soon as missus Shirtle let us say has thus 608 00:41:18,035 --> 00:41:21,715 Speaker 1: been fully identified, Doggett will walk briskly ahead for several 609 00:41:21,755 --> 00:41:26,235 Speaker 1: blocks and then retrace his steps. This soon brings him 610 00:41:26,275 --> 00:41:28,715 Speaker 1: face to face with his quarry, upon whom he will 611 00:41:28,755 --> 00:41:32,275 Speaker 1: pounce with a delighted Why, Miriam Shirtle, fancy meeting you 612 00:41:32,395 --> 00:41:35,115 Speaker 1: here uncross those lovely eyes and tell me I have 613 00:41:35,235 --> 00:41:40,075 Speaker 1: been a young woman he wants accosted like this in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 614 00:41:40,315 --> 00:41:42,915 Speaker 1: asked him to her house for cocktails in the hope 615 00:41:42,955 --> 00:41:45,715 Speaker 1: that some member of her family would know who he was, 616 00:41:47,035 --> 00:41:50,915 Speaker 1: but nobody was home. His hostess turned out to be 617 00:41:50,955 --> 00:41:54,995 Speaker 1: a bore, so Bertie put knockout drops in her second martini, 618 00:41:55,155 --> 00:41:58,275 Speaker 1: and after she had passed out, he stole a marble 619 00:41:58,395 --> 00:42:02,155 Speaker 1: plaque of Kitchener from her mother's room and he went away. 620 00:42:03,275 --> 00:42:06,595 Speaker 1: The next day it arrived at the Shirtles, beautifully wrapped 621 00:42:06,875 --> 00:42:11,355 Speaker 1: and bearing a card with the simple legend Merry Christmas 622 00:42:11,395 --> 00:42:18,355 Speaker 1: from the President of the United States. John Bertie Dogget 623 00:42:18,395 --> 00:42:22,875 Speaker 1: married a tapioca brain one afternoon twenty years ago, possibly 624 00:42:22,875 --> 00:42:26,515 Speaker 1: because he had lost a bet. Nobody knows. He took 625 00:42:26,555 --> 00:42:28,355 Speaker 1: her to his house and told her to wait in 626 00:42:28,395 --> 00:42:31,235 Speaker 1: the living room while he went upstairs and quieted his 627 00:42:31,315 --> 00:42:34,915 Speaker 1: two great danes. He put a record of a dog 628 00:42:34,955 --> 00:42:37,195 Speaker 1: fight on a phonograph he kept in his bedroom and 629 00:42:37,235 --> 00:42:41,155 Speaker 1: slipped quietly out the back door. At three in the morning, 630 00:42:41,715 --> 00:42:44,075 Speaker 1: he showed up in the living room with two match players, 631 00:42:44,115 --> 00:42:49,995 Speaker 1: lou Gettling and Vic Talbot. Who's this, disconsolate female Talbot 632 00:42:49,995 --> 00:42:56,315 Speaker 1: demanded fairly, using an incurable antipathy to games of chance 633 00:42:56,355 --> 00:43:01,595 Speaker 1: and cunning, The bride drew herself up stiffly. I am 634 00:43:01,675 --> 00:43:07,395 Speaker 1: missus John Bertie dogget she said, striving for a outeur. 635 00:43:07,715 --> 00:43:13,035 Speaker 1: The name will not sustain. I forgot about her wind Doggett. 636 00:43:13,155 --> 00:43:15,475 Speaker 1: After all, we haven't been married twenty or thirty years. 637 00:43:15,635 --> 00:43:20,395 Speaker 1: I've only been married eleven hours, Missus Doggett. The former 638 00:43:20,435 --> 00:43:23,355 Speaker 1: Ann Kheley, went home to her mother, Missus Paul W. Coeley, 639 00:43:23,395 --> 00:43:27,755 Speaker 1: and never saw Bertie again. I join her in the 640 00:43:27,835 --> 00:43:30,635 Speaker 1: fervent hope that he may someday choke on his candied 641 00:43:30,795 --> 00:43:35,315 Speaker 1: dice and pass forever out of our consciousness. He is 642 00:43:35,555 --> 00:43:38,875 Speaker 1: a hard man to forget, though. I never start to 643 00:43:38,875 --> 00:43:40,995 Speaker 1: get out of a chair no matter where I am, 644 00:43:41,035 --> 00:43:44,555 Speaker 1: without glancing at my shoes to see if I am 645 00:43:44,555 --> 00:43:47,835 Speaker 1: wearing one roller skate, and feeling in my. 646 00:43:47,875 --> 00:44:06,035 Speaker 4: Pockets for old cold eggs. 647 00:44:06,395 --> 00:44:08,155 Speaker 1: I've done all the damage I can do here. Thank 648 00:44:08,195 --> 00:44:11,075 Speaker 1: you for listening. Countdown. Musical directors Brian Ray and John 649 00:44:11,115 --> 00:44:14,475 Speaker 1: Phillip Schanel arranged, produced, and performed most of our music. 650 00:44:14,915 --> 00:44:18,315 Speaker 1: Mister Ray was on guitars, bass and drums, Mister Shanelle 651 00:44:18,355 --> 00:44:21,715 Speaker 1: handled orchestration and keyboards, and it was produced by Tko Brothers. 652 00:44:22,075 --> 00:44:25,395 Speaker 1: Other music, including some of the Beethoven compositions, arranged and 653 00:44:25,475 --> 00:44:28,755 Speaker 1: performed by the group No Horns Allowed. Sports Music is 654 00:44:28,795 --> 00:44:32,035 Speaker 1: the Olderman theme from ESPN two. It was written by 655 00:44:32,075 --> 00:44:35,355 Speaker 1: Mitch Warren Davis and it appears courtesy of ESPN Inc. 656 00:44:35,875 --> 00:44:39,435 Speaker 1: Our satirical and pithy musical comments are by Nancy Fauss. 657 00:44:39,475 --> 00:44:42,995 Speaker 1: The best baseball stadium organist ever. Our announcer today was 658 00:44:42,995 --> 00:44:45,515 Speaker 1: my friend Jonathan Banks from Breaking Bad and everything else 659 00:44:45,595 --> 00:44:48,475 Speaker 1: was pretty much my fault. So that's countdown for this. 660 00:44:48,515 --> 00:44:51,675 Speaker 1: The one hundred and ninety fourth day until the twenty 661 00:44:51,755 --> 00:44:55,515 Speaker 1: twenty four presidential election, the one two hundred and seventh 662 00:44:55,595 --> 00:44:59,715 Speaker 1: day since Dementia J. Trump's first attempted coup against the 663 00:44:59,715 --> 00:45:04,035 Speaker 1: democratically elected government of the United States. Use the not 664 00:45:04,275 --> 00:45:08,315 Speaker 1: regular given elector objection option, use the Insurrection Act, use 665 00:45:08,355 --> 00:45:12,035 Speaker 1: the justice system, use the mental health system to stop 666 00:45:12,115 --> 00:45:17,955 Speaker 1: him from doing it again. While we still can and 667 00:45:18,075 --> 00:45:22,875 Speaker 1: before the Supreme Court stops us. The next scheduled countdown 668 00:45:22,915 --> 00:45:25,395 Speaker 1: is Tuesday, Boltons as the news warrants till then, I'm 669 00:45:25,435 --> 00:45:29,635 Speaker 1: Keith Olderman. Good morning, good afternoon, good night, and good luck. 670 00:45:41,515 --> 00:45:45,475 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. For 671 00:45:45,675 --> 00:45:50,555 Speaker 1: more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, 672 00:45:50,835 --> 00:45:52,795 Speaker 1: or wherever you get your podcasts.