1 00:00:04,755 --> 00:00:08,995 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of I Heart Radio. 2 00:00:21,715 --> 00:00:25,755 Speaker 1: Did the FBI search the toilets at mari Lago? Facts 3 00:00:25,755 --> 00:00:28,795 Speaker 1: are few, and speculation is mountainous, But the FBI raid 4 00:00:28,835 --> 00:00:32,795 Speaker 1: of the home and office of Trump Donald John hereafter 5 00:00:32,875 --> 00:00:36,475 Speaker 1: possibly known as the Defendant, may wind up being the 6 00:00:36,555 --> 00:00:41,035 Speaker 1: corrupt presidential equivalent of the prosecution and conviction of al Capone, 7 00:00:41,635 --> 00:00:45,955 Speaker 1: not for murder or organized crime, but for tax evasion, 8 00:00:46,755 --> 00:00:51,995 Speaker 1: two important immediate political facts. For all the frenzied crescendos 9 00:00:52,035 --> 00:00:55,595 Speaker 1: of rage from the right, I felt a great disturbance 10 00:00:55,595 --> 00:00:59,075 Speaker 1: in the farce, as if millions of voices suddenly cried 11 00:00:59,075 --> 00:01:02,115 Speaker 1: out in terror and were suddenly silenced. For all that, 12 00:01:02,355 --> 00:01:05,755 Speaker 1: the reminder that the head of the FBI, Christopher Ray, 13 00:01:06,115 --> 00:01:09,915 Speaker 1: is a Trump appointee, and a further reminder that the 14 00:01:09,995 --> 00:01:13,395 Speaker 1: stuff in the boxes they pulled out of Marilago is 15 00:01:13,515 --> 00:01:18,315 Speaker 1: serious stuff. These were not boxes full of thank you notes. 16 00:01:19,595 --> 00:01:22,755 Speaker 1: And whatever happens from here on in the Department of 17 00:01:22,835 --> 00:01:26,835 Speaker 1: Justice is most feared scenario that it would be investigating 18 00:01:26,875 --> 00:01:32,635 Speaker 1: a candidate for president again has been averted. Trump has 19 00:01:32,715 --> 00:01:36,595 Speaker 1: not announced his candidacy. Whether charges result from this or 20 00:01:36,635 --> 00:01:39,955 Speaker 1: they do not the investigation is already under way and 21 00:01:40,035 --> 00:01:45,435 Speaker 1: as dramatically as it could get underway without a purp walk. Anyway, 22 00:01:45,675 --> 00:01:48,915 Speaker 1: what this case looks like from the little evidence we 23 00:01:49,035 --> 00:01:52,075 Speaker 1: have would suggest that the endgame here could be a 24 00:01:52,075 --> 00:01:56,675 Speaker 1: court finding Trump guilty of violation or violations of eighteen 25 00:01:56,795 --> 00:02:00,915 Speaker 1: US Code two oh seven one, section B, which includes 26 00:02:00,995 --> 00:02:04,555 Speaker 1: a very specific penalty for a federal office holder who's 27 00:02:04,675 --> 00:02:09,635 Speaker 1: eels or destroys records disqualification from federal office for the 28 00:02:09,675 --> 00:02:14,035 Speaker 1: rest of your life caveat. In two thousand and fifteen, 29 00:02:14,075 --> 00:02:17,475 Speaker 1: the Republican Party thought it had found a way to 30 00:02:17,675 --> 00:02:20,595 Speaker 1: keep Hillary Clinton out of the White House, come hell 31 00:02:20,835 --> 00:02:25,075 Speaker 1: or high water by prosecuting her under this exact law. 32 00:02:25,795 --> 00:02:28,955 Speaker 1: And then it concluded that the Constitution specifies that the 33 00:02:29,035 --> 00:02:32,595 Speaker 1: eligibility requirements for the president are this and that, and 34 00:02:32,675 --> 00:02:37,275 Speaker 1: you cannot add to them without a constitutional amendment. Still, 35 00:02:37,755 --> 00:02:40,835 Speaker 1: eighteen US Code two oh seven one, section B is 36 00:02:40,875 --> 00:02:45,835 Speaker 1: worth hearing pretty much in full, quoting whoever having the 37 00:02:45,875 --> 00:02:50,315 Speaker 1: custody of any such record proceeding, map, book, document, paper, 38 00:02:50,475 --> 00:02:55,835 Speaker 1: or other thing, willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, 39 00:02:55,875 --> 00:03:00,315 Speaker 1: false fies, or destroys the same shall be fined under 40 00:03:00,355 --> 00:03:04,595 Speaker 1: this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both, 41 00:03:05,075 --> 00:03:09,395 Speaker 1: and shall forfeit his office and be disqualified from holding 42 00:03:09,435 --> 00:03:15,755 Speaker 1: any office under the United States. Disqualified from office. Would 43 00:03:15,795 --> 00:03:18,475 Speaker 1: the conviction of an ex president be different than somebody 44 00:03:18,555 --> 00:03:21,915 Speaker 1: seeking the presidency? Could you offer Trump a plea deal 45 00:03:22,035 --> 00:03:25,675 Speaker 1: on this, No fine, no jail time, but you accept 46 00:03:25,795 --> 00:03:30,515 Speaker 1: that last proviso disqualification from office. There's also a hatful 47 00:03:30,555 --> 00:03:36,235 Speaker 1: of other crimes specifically related to taking or destroying classified materials. 48 00:03:36,475 --> 00:03:38,995 Speaker 1: And I'll repeat my joke more seriously this time. Did 49 00:03:39,035 --> 00:03:42,835 Speaker 1: the FBI search the toilets at Mari Lago? All of 50 00:03:42,875 --> 00:03:47,075 Speaker 1: this is speculation, or a better phrase might be extrapolation, 51 00:03:47,515 --> 00:03:50,515 Speaker 1: in large part based on some very good reporting by 52 00:03:50,515 --> 00:03:54,955 Speaker 1: the Miami Herald, quoting the FBI raid focused only on 53 00:03:55,035 --> 00:04:00,115 Speaker 1: Trump's possession of boxes containing alleged classified materials and was 54 00:04:00,315 --> 00:04:04,315 Speaker 1: unrelated to the ongoing January six federal grand jury investigation. 55 00:04:05,035 --> 00:04:09,595 Speaker 1: The Herald, which has absolutely cleaned the repertorial clocks so 56 00:04:09,635 --> 00:04:13,275 Speaker 1: far of The Washington Post, New York Times and the networks, 57 00:04:13,315 --> 00:04:17,435 Speaker 1: also quoted law enforcement sources who said, quote, FBI agents 58 00:04:17,475 --> 00:04:20,115 Speaker 1: obtained a search warrant from a federal magistrate judge in 59 00:04:20,155 --> 00:04:24,355 Speaker 1: West Palm Beach to gather dozens of boxes containing alleged 60 00:04:24,355 --> 00:04:27,995 Speaker 1: classified materials that President Trump had taken with him when 61 00:04:27,995 --> 00:04:32,195 Speaker 1: he left the White House in January. The Miami Papers 62 00:04:32,235 --> 00:04:36,435 Speaker 1: Alex Roarty, Michael Wilner, and Jay Weaver also quoted sources 63 00:04:36,435 --> 00:04:40,155 Speaker 1: who said quote Federal agents were able to establish probable 64 00:04:40,275 --> 00:04:43,515 Speaker 1: cause for the warrant because Trump and his lawyers had 65 00:04:43,515 --> 00:04:47,435 Speaker 1: already turned over some classified documents that had been sought 66 00:04:47,475 --> 00:04:52,035 Speaker 1: by the National Archives and Records Administration. Agents suspected that 67 00:04:52,075 --> 00:04:56,955 Speaker 1: Trump was unlawfully holding other classified documents from his presidency 68 00:04:57,275 --> 00:05:01,635 Speaker 1: in his private club and residence at Mari Lago. It 69 00:05:01,675 --> 00:05:04,275 Speaker 1: was Eric Trump who first learned of the raid. His 70 00:05:04,395 --> 00:05:07,195 Speaker 1: father there then announced it, ending it with the now 71 00:05:07,235 --> 00:05:11,315 Speaker 1: timeless quote they even broke into my safe, which may 72 00:05:11,315 --> 00:05:14,835 Speaker 1: now join the pantheon of similar quotes, like you sunk 73 00:05:14,875 --> 00:05:17,915 Speaker 1: my battleship, and I'm not going to pay a lot 74 00:05:17,955 --> 00:05:21,035 Speaker 1: for that muffler, and of course the newest one, John 75 00:05:21,075 --> 00:05:24,155 Speaker 1: Eastman's I've decided that I should be on the pardon list. 76 00:05:26,315 --> 00:05:28,755 Speaker 1: The other part of this story is the reaction from 77 00:05:28,795 --> 00:05:33,315 Speaker 1: Trump's defenders. It is nothing short of amazing the more 78 00:05:33,395 --> 00:05:35,955 Speaker 1: hysterical parts of it in a moment. First, the running 79 00:05:36,075 --> 00:05:40,275 Speaker 1: theme of the actual criticism that this is unprecedented. You 80 00:05:40,355 --> 00:05:44,915 Speaker 1: don't investigate a president past or presence. That's all nonsense. 81 00:05:45,395 --> 00:05:48,515 Speaker 1: The rate itself might be a first, but the FBI 82 00:05:48,995 --> 00:05:53,875 Speaker 1: running an investigation of a president? What was Watergate? The 83 00:05:53,955 --> 00:05:57,875 Speaker 1: famous source deep Throat was the Deputy director of the FBI. 84 00:05:58,035 --> 00:06:01,355 Speaker 1: Mark felt the material he was leaking to the Washington 85 00:06:01,435 --> 00:06:05,075 Speaker 1: Post was the result of investigations by Richard Nick's and 86 00:06:05,315 --> 00:06:10,155 Speaker 1: his administration by the FBI. The FBI and the Department 87 00:06:10,155 --> 00:06:14,915 Speaker 1: of Justice also investigated Nixon's finances and property. Much earlier, 88 00:06:14,995 --> 00:06:18,915 Speaker 1: President Warren G. Harding was investigated, but he died before 89 00:06:18,915 --> 00:06:22,795 Speaker 1: a special prosecutor was appointed. In t pot Dome, the 90 00:06:22,915 --> 00:06:27,635 Speaker 1: Treasury Department investigated President ulysses As Grant over the whiskey 91 00:06:27,755 --> 00:06:32,875 Speaker 1: ring scandal, and Grant wound up while still president, testifying 92 00:06:32,995 --> 00:06:37,795 Speaker 1: for the defense at the trial of his own personal secretary. 93 00:06:38,435 --> 00:06:43,635 Speaker 1: Stuff like this has happened before. Sorry, gang. But then 94 00:06:43,675 --> 00:06:47,315 Speaker 1: there is the sheer entertainment value of the reaction on 95 00:06:47,355 --> 00:06:53,875 Speaker 1: the right. It is panicked and wonderfully apocalyptic. A sampling 96 00:06:54,795 --> 00:06:58,515 Speaker 1: third word to Banana Republic Trump Jr. This does not 97 00:06:58,635 --> 00:07:03,435 Speaker 1: happen in civilized countries. According to Texas fascist Congressman Troy Nils, 98 00:07:03,475 --> 00:07:07,875 Speaker 1: who previously mocked the police injured on January six, using 99 00:07:07,915 --> 00:07:10,755 Speaker 1: government power to persecute political opponents is something we have 100 00:07:10,795 --> 00:07:15,795 Speaker 1: seen many times from third world Marxist dictatorships. Marco Rubio, 101 00:07:15,915 --> 00:07:18,755 Speaker 1: who last month urged that I be arrested for tweeting 102 00:07:18,755 --> 00:07:22,395 Speaker 1: about the Supreme Court. How about the Benghazi scandals? You 103 00:07:22,435 --> 00:07:26,155 Speaker 1: want to talk about scandals that were never investigated. Eric Trump, 104 00:07:26,755 --> 00:07:30,835 Speaker 1: brilliant as ever, sever all ties with d o J. Immediately. 105 00:07:30,995 --> 00:07:34,675 Speaker 1: Any FBI agent conducting law enforcement functions outside the purview 106 00:07:34,755 --> 00:07:39,155 Speaker 1: of our state should be arrested upon site. Florida congressional 107 00:07:39,155 --> 00:07:42,755 Speaker 1: candidate Anthony Sabbatini, the one who called the nomination of 108 00:07:42,795 --> 00:07:47,755 Speaker 1: Supreme Court Justice Catangi Brown Jackson quote anti white racist exclusion. 109 00:07:48,875 --> 00:07:51,675 Speaker 1: All I can say is the FBI better have the goods. 110 00:07:52,675 --> 00:07:55,915 Speaker 1: Harry Fleischer, Bushes press secretary who sold the Iraq War 111 00:07:56,155 --> 00:07:58,995 Speaker 1: w M D fraud when he didn't have the goods. 112 00:07:59,875 --> 00:08:03,955 Speaker 1: Attorney General Garland, preserve your documents and clear your calendar. 113 00:08:04,395 --> 00:08:08,035 Speaker 1: How Minority leader Kevin McCarthy, whom the Trumper has planned 114 00:08:08,035 --> 00:08:11,835 Speaker 1: to oust if they take back the House. Greatest threat 115 00:08:11,875 --> 00:08:15,795 Speaker 1: to our democracy since the Civil War. Some guy, this 116 00:08:15,875 --> 00:08:21,195 Speaker 1: is madness, Former Trump adviser Jason Miller. Meanwhile, former hopeless 117 00:08:21,195 --> 00:08:24,755 Speaker 1: Trump sick offet Richard Grennell. The FBI rags Trump's house, 118 00:08:24,755 --> 00:08:27,435 Speaker 1: and the Democrats vote to add eight seven thousand I 119 00:08:27,635 --> 00:08:31,195 Speaker 1: R S agents to go after Americans. Wake up, America. 120 00:08:32,675 --> 00:08:35,075 Speaker 1: This raid is part of the worst political scandal in 121 00:08:35,115 --> 00:08:39,395 Speaker 1: American history. Tom Fitton, the Judicial Watch guy who wears 122 00:08:39,435 --> 00:08:41,955 Speaker 1: the shirts three times so small so you can see 123 00:08:41,955 --> 00:08:45,595 Speaker 1: his nipples, can't wait to see the disantist reaction on 124 00:08:45,675 --> 00:08:49,315 Speaker 1: Mari Lago. He will drop the hammer on this lawlessness. 125 00:08:50,395 --> 00:08:53,875 Speaker 1: Pizza Jack Possovik, who's expecting the governor of Florida to 126 00:08:54,755 --> 00:08:58,355 Speaker 1: what banned critical race theory in the Florida Office of 127 00:08:58,355 --> 00:09:03,955 Speaker 1: the FBI. Defend the attack on America From Matt Schlepp 128 00:09:04,715 --> 00:09:08,115 Speaker 1: defund the attack on America. Frankly, I'm disappointed in you, Matt. 129 00:09:08,595 --> 00:09:14,235 Speaker 1: Defund the FBI. Eric Ericson, Eric, the FBI is law enforcement. 130 00:09:14,275 --> 00:09:17,995 Speaker 1: You just called for defunding the police. Moron. This is 131 00:09:18,035 --> 00:09:21,595 Speaker 1: the hill to die on. From Monica Crowley, my former 132 00:09:21,755 --> 00:09:27,635 Speaker 1: MSNBC colleague, which invites the response, Okay, Merrick Garland is 133 00:09:27,675 --> 00:09:32,115 Speaker 1: a disgrace to human kind from Dan Bongin No, the 134 00:09:32,195 --> 00:09:35,635 Speaker 1: Fox News talking head with the drawn on hair, Nazi 135 00:09:35,715 --> 00:09:41,915 Speaker 1: Germany meets Soviet Union, KGB Wayne Root Lisa Booth. The 136 00:09:41,955 --> 00:09:45,955 Speaker 1: federal government needs to be dismantled entirely, which you have 137 00:09:45,995 --> 00:09:48,915 Speaker 1: to admit would be a neat trick. We see you, 138 00:09:49,115 --> 00:09:51,795 Speaker 1: and we see how slimy and disgusting you are trying 139 00:09:51,835 --> 00:09:57,515 Speaker 1: to weaponize the FBI, writes Tommy Laren. Frankly, that's also 140 00:09:57,595 --> 00:10:00,755 Speaker 1: kind of underwhelming, isn't it. No, it's not the FBI, 141 00:10:00,875 --> 00:10:05,715 Speaker 1: rights the South Dakota Governor Christie Nome unprecedented upanization of 142 00:10:05,915 --> 00:10:10,555 Speaker 1: the Justice Department. Some other guy insisted the church needs 143 00:10:10,555 --> 00:10:15,595 Speaker 1: to pay attention to this too. Pray for Trump's safe, 144 00:10:16,195 --> 00:10:19,875 Speaker 1: some woman saying the Trump rally tax number is eight 145 00:10:20,035 --> 00:10:23,515 Speaker 1: eight O two two and that just happens to be 146 00:10:23,555 --> 00:10:26,675 Speaker 1: the day Trump's home gets rated. Yeah, because there was 147 00:10:26,715 --> 00:10:31,075 Speaker 1: a conspiracy and Trump was in on it. This weaponizes 148 00:10:31,155 --> 00:10:36,515 Speaker 1: power to squelch dissent. Governor Abbot of Texas, what descent 149 00:10:36,715 --> 00:10:40,355 Speaker 1: was involved in this? Abbey the election denier from Arizona 150 00:10:40,395 --> 00:10:43,995 Speaker 1: Mark Fincham going a little hyperbolic with the FBI just 151 00:10:44,315 --> 00:10:49,595 Speaker 1: united the entire world behind President Trump. I don't think so. 152 00:10:50,435 --> 00:10:56,315 Speaker 1: Gestapo from nut job congressional candidate Laura Loomer, and Gaspacho 153 00:10:57,155 --> 00:11:00,675 Speaker 1: from Marjorie Taylor Green not just made that one up, 154 00:11:00,995 --> 00:11:04,115 Speaker 1: though she did do that earlier. For the last comment 155 00:11:04,155 --> 00:11:08,115 Speaker 1: from the right, former Trump Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders quote, 156 00:11:08,515 --> 00:11:12,195 Speaker 1: when you're attacking FBI agents because you're under criminal investigation, 157 00:11:12,235 --> 00:11:16,955 Speaker 1: you're losing. She tweeted that on November third, two thousand sixteen. 158 00:11:17,035 --> 00:11:21,235 Speaker 1: But you know it still counts. But the overriding reaction 159 00:11:21,955 --> 00:11:26,955 Speaker 1: consisted of one word. It's a very disturbing word war, 160 00:11:27,955 --> 00:11:32,475 Speaker 1: a repeated meme the late alcoholic Andrew Breitbart's saying that 161 00:11:32,515 --> 00:11:36,715 Speaker 1: word war. It is an understandable reaction. The rules and 162 00:11:36,755 --> 00:11:40,275 Speaker 1: the laws do not apply to Republicans and fascists, say 163 00:11:40,315 --> 00:11:43,675 Speaker 1: republicans and fascists, and the fact that so far Trump 164 00:11:43,715 --> 00:11:47,235 Speaker 1: has gotten away with everything for seven long years, in fact, 165 00:11:47,315 --> 00:11:50,155 Speaker 1: for the whole of his life, has led republican and 166 00:11:50,155 --> 00:11:56,195 Speaker 1: fascists to a certain sense of collective invulnerability. Granted almost 167 00:11:56,235 --> 00:12:00,075 Speaker 1: all of this hyperbolic reaction is their fear and their 168 00:12:00,155 --> 00:12:05,955 Speaker 1: sudden realization in millions of heretofore numbed lines, that the 169 00:12:05,995 --> 00:12:08,955 Speaker 1: man they are totally invested in, the guy they think 170 00:12:08,995 --> 00:12:14,755 Speaker 1: they are hiding behind, is actually in trouble. Still calling 171 00:12:14,835 --> 00:12:18,315 Speaker 1: for war, whatever that means, seems to be a really 172 00:12:18,355 --> 00:12:21,035 Speaker 1: odd flex. When the military of the United States of 173 00:12:21,075 --> 00:12:26,715 Speaker 1: America is in the hands of President Joe Biden Dark Brandon, 174 00:12:26,835 --> 00:12:30,835 Speaker 1: that would be through at least January. I mean, it's 175 00:12:30,835 --> 00:12:33,355 Speaker 1: the same lack of logic that has led countless Second 176 00:12:33,355 --> 00:12:36,795 Speaker 1: Amendment nuts to bark, to boast, come and take my goons, 177 00:12:37,235 --> 00:12:40,075 Speaker 1: or you'll only get my gun when you're prior from 178 00:12:40,075 --> 00:12:42,475 Speaker 1: my dead hands, and you realize it has never occurred 179 00:12:42,475 --> 00:12:45,515 Speaker 1: to them, not once that were the government actually planning 180 00:12:45,555 --> 00:12:48,595 Speaker 1: on taking their guns, or if there actually were to 181 00:12:48,675 --> 00:12:52,915 Speaker 1: be some sort of war over Trump's safe the government 182 00:12:52,955 --> 00:12:55,755 Speaker 1: would not walk up to them empty handed, nor bring 183 00:12:55,795 --> 00:12:59,395 Speaker 1: one gun. They would bring forty seven tanks and thirty 184 00:12:59,435 --> 00:13:06,595 Speaker 1: five troops war in defense of Trump's Say, if you say, now, 185 00:13:06,755 --> 00:13:11,235 Speaker 1: I asked this as literally as you are or aren't 186 00:13:11,275 --> 00:13:26,835 Speaker 1: saying at trump Ists, you and what army still ahead 187 00:13:26,875 --> 00:13:31,515 Speaker 1: on Countdown postscripts to the news. Wasn't there another Trump 188 00:13:31,555 --> 00:13:34,995 Speaker 1: story yesterday? Oh yeah, the little one about how much 189 00:13:34,995 --> 00:13:55,955 Speaker 1: he admired Hitler. That's next, there's a countdown. This is 190 00:13:56,075 --> 00:14:05,315 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith. Thank you, Larry David. Just head wait, 191 00:14:05,355 --> 00:14:09,435 Speaker 1: there was another Trump story something about Hitler. 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I did nothing to break it, but 210 00:15:15,995 --> 00:15:20,355 Speaker 1: first postscripts to the news, some headlines, some thoughts, and 211 00:15:20,555 --> 00:15:32,115 Speaker 1: some snark Dateline Washington somehow quotes indicating that he wanted 212 00:15:32,155 --> 00:15:36,395 Speaker 1: his generals to behave like Adolf Hitler's Nazi general's winds 213 00:15:36,475 --> 00:15:39,915 Speaker 1: up not being the biggest Donald Trump story of the day. 214 00:15:40,875 --> 00:15:43,275 Speaker 1: Let's talk about that other story for a while, and 215 00:15:43,315 --> 00:15:46,635 Speaker 1: I start with a question. We didn't all know that 216 00:15:46,715 --> 00:15:50,755 Speaker 1: Trump admired Hitler. We didn't all already know that Trump 217 00:15:50,835 --> 00:15:53,835 Speaker 1: thought Hitler did quote a lot of good things. We 218 00:15:53,875 --> 00:15:56,475 Speaker 1: didn't all already know that Trump used to read from 219 00:15:56,475 --> 00:15:59,035 Speaker 1: a book of Hitler's speeches that he kept in a 220 00:15:59,115 --> 00:16:02,835 Speaker 1: cabinet next to his bed. According to his first wife, 221 00:16:04,075 --> 00:16:07,875 Speaker 1: this story that Trump complained about disloyalty from his general, 222 00:16:07,995 --> 00:16:10,795 Speaker 1: so he asked his chief of Staff, General John Kelly, 223 00:16:10,995 --> 00:16:13,555 Speaker 1: you effing generals, why can't you be like the German 224 00:16:13,595 --> 00:16:17,195 Speaker 1: generals in World War Two? This is new to us 225 00:16:17,235 --> 00:16:22,355 Speaker 1: that Trump thought, probably still thinks, that Hitler's generals just 226 00:16:22,435 --> 00:16:25,395 Speaker 1: gave him a stiff armed salute and did whatever had 227 00:16:25,435 --> 00:16:29,235 Speaker 1: just crackled through that madman mass murderers mind that. When 228 00:16:29,275 --> 00:16:32,235 Speaker 1: General Kelly then said, you do know that the generals 229 00:16:32,275 --> 00:16:34,635 Speaker 1: tried to kill hit where three times and almost pulled 230 00:16:34,635 --> 00:16:37,915 Speaker 1: it off, Trump replied, no, no, no, they were totally 231 00:16:38,035 --> 00:16:40,715 Speaker 1: loyal to him. Because of course, to be Trump, you 232 00:16:40,755 --> 00:16:43,955 Speaker 1: can never be ignorant or stupid or wrong. We do 233 00:16:44,595 --> 00:16:47,995 Speaker 1: know all of this, right, This didn't just come over 234 00:16:48,075 --> 00:16:51,835 Speaker 1: our collective transom yesterday in the latest book in which 235 00:16:51,835 --> 00:16:55,435 Speaker 1: the purported journalist sat on an important piece of history 236 00:16:55,795 --> 00:16:59,275 Speaker 1: happening before their eyes and waited until they could get 237 00:16:59,275 --> 00:17:02,555 Speaker 1: a book deal. I mean, you remember the first of 238 00:17:02,555 --> 00:17:05,155 Speaker 1: these books are Michael Bender The Wall Street Journal. When 239 00:17:05,155 --> 00:17:08,075 Speaker 1: he's in France. Trump, that is in two thousand eighteen 240 00:17:08,315 --> 00:17:10,635 Speaker 1: for the centennial commemorations of the end of the First 241 00:17:10,715 --> 00:17:14,355 Speaker 1: World War, and Trump tells Kelly, quote, well, Hitler did 242 00:17:14,395 --> 00:17:18,075 Speaker 1: a lot of good things and quote and Kelly says, no, no, 243 00:17:18,195 --> 00:17:21,755 Speaker 1: he didn't. And Trump comes back with how Hitler revitalized 244 00:17:21,795 --> 00:17:24,435 Speaker 1: the German economy after the First War. Because of course, 245 00:17:24,475 --> 00:17:28,755 Speaker 1: to be Trump, you can only understand and prioritize money. 246 00:17:28,795 --> 00:17:32,755 Speaker 1: It is all your diseased mind can actually upload. Right. 247 00:17:33,155 --> 00:17:37,875 Speaker 1: I mean, the Trump loves Nazis thing is not breaking 248 00:17:37,955 --> 00:17:43,795 Speaker 1: news to anybody, right. I don't mean Charlottesville Nazis with 249 00:17:43,835 --> 00:17:48,635 Speaker 1: tiki torches or the Nick Fuente's Nazis or the online Nazis. 250 00:17:48,835 --> 00:17:52,995 Speaker 1: I mean the Nazi Nazis. Hitler and the boys. Trump 251 00:17:53,075 --> 00:17:57,915 Speaker 1: loved them, Trump loves them now. Trump believes they are 252 00:17:57,995 --> 00:18:01,115 Speaker 1: excellent governmental role models. That they just went off the 253 00:18:01,275 --> 00:18:04,475 Speaker 1: something something tracks something something, but you know, if it 254 00:18:04,675 --> 00:18:07,315 Speaker 1: heard from the genocide, something in the World War something, 255 00:18:07,635 --> 00:18:12,995 Speaker 1: you know. And Trump's personal affinity for Hitler is one 256 00:18:12,995 --> 00:18:15,835 Speaker 1: of the first historical or political things he went on 257 00:18:15,875 --> 00:18:22,075 Speaker 1: the record about. Vanity Fair interviewed him in September. I'll 258 00:18:22,115 --> 00:18:27,075 Speaker 1: give that date again, just one more time. September, a 259 00:18:27,155 --> 00:18:32,515 Speaker 1: reporter named Marie Brenner interviewed Trump. She wrote, quoting Ivanna, 260 00:18:32,595 --> 00:18:35,195 Speaker 1: Trump told her lawyer that from time to time her 261 00:18:35,275 --> 00:18:38,755 Speaker 1: husband reads a book of Hitler's collected speeches, which he 262 00:18:38,875 --> 00:18:42,635 Speaker 1: keeps in a cabinet by his bed end quote. So, 263 00:18:42,875 --> 00:18:46,835 Speaker 1: the reporter asked Trump about that. Did your cousin John 264 00:18:46,875 --> 00:18:50,995 Speaker 1: give you the Hitler speeches? I asked Trump. Trump hesitated quote, 265 00:18:51,195 --> 00:18:55,555 Speaker 1: who told you that I don't remember? I said. Then 266 00:18:55,635 --> 00:18:59,675 Speaker 1: Trump gives the game away. She quotes him, Actually, it 267 00:18:59,755 --> 00:19:02,395 Speaker 1: was my friend Marty Davis from Paramount who gave me 268 00:19:02,435 --> 00:19:06,395 Speaker 1: a copy of mine camp, and she gets a second 269 00:19:06,435 --> 00:19:08,955 Speaker 1: source quote, I did give him a book about Hitler, 270 00:19:09,075 --> 00:19:13,155 Speaker 1: Marty Davis said. But Davis then explains the Hitler book 271 00:19:13,195 --> 00:19:15,955 Speaker 1: he gave Trump was not mine comp it was my 272 00:19:16,195 --> 00:19:23,235 Speaker 1: new order Hitler book of his favorite speeches. So Trump 273 00:19:23,275 --> 00:19:28,235 Speaker 1: had like small library of Hitler books, enough different Hitler 274 00:19:28,275 --> 00:19:31,395 Speaker 1: books that he couldn't be certain which Hitler book the 275 00:19:31,515 --> 00:19:36,315 Speaker 1: interviewer meant, and then Trump circles back to it, still 276 00:19:36,435 --> 00:19:40,875 Speaker 1: quoting this magazine piece from later, Trump returned to this 277 00:19:40,955 --> 00:19:44,195 Speaker 1: subject quote, if I had these speeches, and I am 278 00:19:44,235 --> 00:19:51,435 Speaker 1: not saying that I do, I would never read them. 279 00:19:51,475 --> 00:19:53,795 Speaker 1: There's a bigger question, of course, raised by this newest 280 00:19:53,835 --> 00:19:56,835 Speaker 1: account of Trump's admiration of Hitler, which is at minimum 281 00:19:56,835 --> 00:19:59,395 Speaker 1: well into its thirty third year. I'll get to that 282 00:19:59,435 --> 00:20:01,395 Speaker 1: in a moment, but in case you missed it, the 283 00:20:01,595 --> 00:20:04,235 Speaker 1: why can't you be like the German generals in World 284 00:20:04,235 --> 00:20:08,075 Speaker 1: War Two quote, which just part of another fall down 285 00:20:08,115 --> 00:20:12,235 Speaker 1: another bottomless stairwell of hate and Shock from a book 286 00:20:12,275 --> 00:20:14,595 Speaker 1: excerpt in The New Yorker by Peter Baker of the 287 00:20:14,595 --> 00:20:17,395 Speaker 1: New York Times and Susan Glasser of The New Yorker. 288 00:20:17,955 --> 00:20:20,835 Speaker 1: If you missed the other highlights in the big North 289 00:20:20,955 --> 00:20:24,355 Speaker 1: Korean style military parade on July four that Trump dreams of, 290 00:20:24,555 --> 00:20:27,315 Speaker 1: he said, quote, I don't want any wounded guys in 291 00:20:27,355 --> 00:20:31,755 Speaker 1: the parade. This doesn't look good for me. Well, that's 292 00:20:31,755 --> 00:20:35,195 Speaker 1: not new. He's already disparaged those who are less than perfect. 293 00:20:35,275 --> 00:20:38,275 Speaker 1: The New York Times reporter you remember and the wounded 294 00:20:38,315 --> 00:20:42,155 Speaker 1: pow what was his name, John McCain, when he pushed 295 00:20:42,155 --> 00:20:45,035 Speaker 1: out Kelly's chief of staff that says in this article 296 00:20:45,035 --> 00:20:48,475 Speaker 1: he was advised against hiring Mick mulvaney now Mick mlbany, 297 00:20:48,755 --> 00:20:52,675 Speaker 1: CBS News Washington because mulvaney was just a yes man. 298 00:20:53,075 --> 00:20:56,195 Speaker 1: I don't give a crap anymore. Trump is quoted as saying, 299 00:20:56,395 --> 00:21:01,595 Speaker 1: I want a yes man mc mulmany, CBS News, Washington New. 300 00:21:01,755 --> 00:21:05,315 Speaker 1: In this piece was the draft of one of Trump's 301 00:21:05,355 --> 00:21:09,035 Speaker 1: ploys to stay in office that has gotten less attention 302 00:21:09,075 --> 00:21:11,635 Speaker 1: than the other domestic crazy talk of Sydney Powell and 303 00:21:11,675 --> 00:21:15,355 Speaker 1: her ilk, namely the prospect of Trump starting a war 304 00:21:15,435 --> 00:21:22,075 Speaker 1: with Iran on say December or January, and somehow using 305 00:21:22,115 --> 00:21:28,435 Speaker 1: that as a pretext to stay in office. And then 306 00:21:28,475 --> 00:21:31,755 Speaker 1: there's this thing with General Mark Billy's resignations Chairman of 307 00:21:31,755 --> 00:21:34,515 Speaker 1: the Joint Chiefs. This came after the infamous gassing of 308 00:21:34,635 --> 00:21:37,315 Speaker 1: Lafayette Square so Trump could do the photo op with 309 00:21:37,395 --> 00:21:40,675 Speaker 1: the Bible. Millie wrote, it is my belief you are 310 00:21:40,715 --> 00:21:43,915 Speaker 1: doing irreparable harm to my country. I believe you have 311 00:21:44,035 --> 00:21:48,035 Speaker 1: made a concerted effort over time to politicize the United 312 00:21:48,035 --> 00:21:53,555 Speaker 1: States military. No Shinola, General Sherlock, that guy admired Hitler. 313 00:21:53,835 --> 00:21:58,515 Speaker 1: Weren't you're reading the magazines in he had a Hitler library. 314 00:21:58,555 --> 00:22:01,075 Speaker 1: It was in Vanity Fair. They reprinted it in two 315 00:22:01,075 --> 00:22:03,555 Speaker 1: thousand fifteen. I did a video commentary about it for 316 00:22:03,595 --> 00:22:06,395 Speaker 1: g Q in two thousands sixteen. To be fair, it's 317 00:22:06,435 --> 00:22:10,115 Speaker 1: a great resignation letter. Millie was both slightly more genteel 318 00:22:10,235 --> 00:22:13,515 Speaker 1: in his writing and slightly harder on Trump than I 319 00:22:13,595 --> 00:22:17,115 Speaker 1: usually am. There's one big problem. He didn't make the 320 00:22:17,195 --> 00:22:20,075 Speaker 1: letter public. He didn't resign and make it public. Then 321 00:22:20,155 --> 00:22:22,915 Speaker 1: he didn't get fired and make it public. Then okay, 322 00:22:22,915 --> 00:22:25,715 Speaker 1: but that's good. Maybe Milly was a counterweight against the 323 00:22:25,755 --> 00:22:28,755 Speaker 1: various kinds of fascist coups Trump was setting up. The 324 00:22:28,795 --> 00:22:32,155 Speaker 1: piece notes that Milly warned Trump, Flunkey's Ezra Cohen and 325 00:22:32,235 --> 00:22:35,235 Speaker 1: Cash Patel that if they tried some way to stop 326 00:22:35,275 --> 00:22:38,675 Speaker 1: the Biden inauguration, they would wind up in prison. But 327 00:22:38,795 --> 00:22:41,755 Speaker 1: why didn't Milly make his letter public when Trump tried 328 00:22:41,795 --> 00:22:44,755 Speaker 1: to overthrow the government just shy of seven months to 329 00:22:44,795 --> 00:22:48,675 Speaker 1: the day that Milly wrote the letter. The managers of 330 00:22:48,715 --> 00:22:53,955 Speaker 1: the rushed second impeachment never saw that letter, never heard 331 00:22:53,995 --> 00:22:58,235 Speaker 1: what Milly had to say. And then there's the bigger 332 00:22:58,275 --> 00:23:01,115 Speaker 1: issue here. Once again, journalists and x Trump staffers have 333 00:23:01,235 --> 00:23:05,955 Speaker 1: saved a story, sat on breaking news, and sorted details, 334 00:23:05,955 --> 00:23:09,635 Speaker 1: perhaps vital to the safety of the nation, until they 335 00:23:09,675 --> 00:23:13,195 Speaker 1: could get a book deal. Now it's Baker and Glasser. 336 00:23:13,595 --> 00:23:16,395 Speaker 1: In May, it was former Defense Secretary Mark Esper saving 337 00:23:16,475 --> 00:23:18,875 Speaker 1: for his book. The fact that he warned Trump to 338 00:23:18,915 --> 00:23:21,515 Speaker 1: try to hold up Ukraine for Biden dirt was illegal. 339 00:23:22,155 --> 00:23:24,475 Speaker 1: In February of this year, we found out Maggie Haberman 340 00:23:24,515 --> 00:23:28,355 Speaker 1: withheld info about Trump destroying documents, often flushing them down 341 00:23:28,355 --> 00:23:33,795 Speaker 1: the toilet. The pictures came out yesterday. Bloomberge Jennifer Jacobs 342 00:23:33,835 --> 00:23:35,995 Speaker 1: then confirmed she'd heard that about the toilets too, and 343 00:23:36,035 --> 00:23:39,515 Speaker 1: also didn't report it. November of last year, John Carl 344 00:23:39,555 --> 00:23:42,795 Speaker 1: revealed a Jenna Ellis letter to Trump about invalidating the election, 345 00:23:42,875 --> 00:23:45,915 Speaker 1: which he saved for a book. Last September, Bob Woodward 346 00:23:45,915 --> 00:23:48,755 Speaker 1: and Robert Costa revealed the Eastman memos, which they saved 347 00:23:48,755 --> 00:23:51,875 Speaker 1: for a book. The previous September, Woodward released a tape 348 00:23:51,875 --> 00:23:56,435 Speaker 1: of Trump from February warning him that COVID was airborne 349 00:23:56,795 --> 00:23:59,195 Speaker 1: and worse than was being reported, which he held for 350 00:23:59,235 --> 00:24:03,875 Speaker 1: another book. In June, John Bolton revealed the first impeachment 351 00:24:04,075 --> 00:24:08,555 Speaker 1: had missed other cases besides Ukraine of Trump trying pay 352 00:24:08,635 --> 00:24:12,115 Speaker 1: for play diplomacy for dirt, and Bolton held that for 353 00:24:12,155 --> 00:24:14,915 Speaker 1: a book and it's far back. In September two eighteen, 354 00:24:14,955 --> 00:24:18,355 Speaker 1: Woodward revealed John Kelly had called Trump an idiot and 355 00:24:18,395 --> 00:24:21,235 Speaker 1: the White House crazy town, and he held that back 356 00:24:21,635 --> 00:24:27,915 Speaker 1: for a book. Hey, your reporters report, even if for 357 00:24:27,915 --> 00:24:30,395 Speaker 1: no other reason than the possibility that somebody else has 358 00:24:30,435 --> 00:24:32,635 Speaker 1: the same scoop. Isn't that the whole idea of being 359 00:24:32,635 --> 00:24:34,995 Speaker 1: a reporter. With making a scoop, you want to be 360 00:24:35,115 --> 00:24:40,035 Speaker 1: first then that's just under normal circumstances. This democracy has 361 00:24:40,035 --> 00:24:41,995 Speaker 1: been hanging by a thread for five years, and you 362 00:24:42,035 --> 00:24:45,115 Speaker 1: guys are rushing not to the editor or the press 363 00:24:45,155 --> 00:24:48,155 Speaker 1: conference to tell the world about what this horrible thing was, 364 00:24:48,435 --> 00:24:51,795 Speaker 1: but to your book agent. And then you defend it 365 00:24:52,675 --> 00:24:57,315 Speaker 1: by throwing out words like context and confidentiality and and and. 366 00:24:57,755 --> 00:25:03,675 Speaker 1: If Trump had told me on tape in February that 367 00:25:03,875 --> 00:25:08,955 Speaker 1: COVID was airborne and worse than being reported, I would 368 00:25:08,995 --> 00:25:11,875 Speaker 1: have made five copies of the tape and handed them 369 00:25:11,875 --> 00:25:14,955 Speaker 1: out to every news outlet I could think of, because 370 00:25:15,795 --> 00:25:19,555 Speaker 1: I'm an American and the ultimate goal of my little 371 00:25:19,635 --> 00:25:24,435 Speaker 1: quarter of journalism over here is to, you know, preserve 372 00:25:24,555 --> 00:25:30,275 Speaker 1: America and the lives of Americans. Write the damn book later. 373 00:25:31,915 --> 00:25:36,035 Speaker 1: Good God. It worked for Woodward and Bernstein, which apparently 374 00:25:36,075 --> 00:25:39,675 Speaker 1: has been forgotten by Baker and Glasser, and for that matter, 375 00:25:39,755 --> 00:25:47,075 Speaker 1: apparently has been forgotten by Woodward. This is SportsCenter. Wait, 376 00:25:47,235 --> 00:25:54,835 Speaker 1: check that not anymore. This is Countdown with Keith Alberman, 377 00:26:06,875 --> 00:26:09,355 Speaker 1: briefly from the World of Wide Sports. Oh perfect. The 378 00:26:09,475 --> 00:26:12,555 Speaker 1: National Hockey League, which applause itself on an hourly basis 379 00:26:12,595 --> 00:26:15,555 Speaker 1: for its inclusiveness, is on the verge of having a 380 00:26:15,595 --> 00:26:19,675 Speaker 1: new bigot owner. Former Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam is taking 381 00:26:19,715 --> 00:26:23,155 Speaker 1: over the Nashville Predators. He signed bills into law in 382 00:26:23,195 --> 00:26:26,275 Speaker 1: two thousand eleven and two thousand sixteen denying rights to 383 00:26:26,715 --> 00:26:30,755 Speaker 1: LGBTQ people in his state. He banned the words spouse 384 00:26:31,195 --> 00:26:34,955 Speaker 1: and demanded people use only husband for men or wife 385 00:26:35,155 --> 00:26:40,195 Speaker 1: for women. Haslum will start, as ironically enough, a minority owner. 386 00:26:40,995 --> 00:26:42,955 Speaker 1: In a couple of years, though, he'll be the principal 387 00:26:43,075 --> 00:26:47,075 Speaker 1: owner of the Nashville Predators unless the league stops this 388 00:26:47,355 --> 00:26:52,555 Speaker 1: madness right now. Hockey, anyone can play, just maybe not 389 00:26:52,675 --> 00:26:57,195 Speaker 1: in Nashville. And baseball, Chicago Cubs and Cincinnati Reds have 390 00:26:57,355 --> 00:27:00,395 Speaker 1: unveiled the throwback uniforms they will wear in the second 391 00:27:00,475 --> 00:27:04,115 Speaker 1: Field of Dreams game. They are Vintage nine fourteen and 392 00:27:04,235 --> 00:27:07,395 Speaker 1: I love vintage nineteen fourteen baseball. I know more about 393 00:27:07,515 --> 00:27:11,555 Speaker 1: vintage nineteen fourteen baseball than anybody else does. Well, who's 394 00:27:11,595 --> 00:27:15,675 Speaker 1: listening to this? But enough with all of the alternative uniforms, 395 00:27:15,915 --> 00:27:19,515 Speaker 1: what on earth is the record for most consecutive games 396 00:27:19,875 --> 00:27:24,555 Speaker 1: wearing your actual regular uniform in the stat cast era? 397 00:27:25,315 --> 00:27:39,275 Speaker 1: Like what six? Stella had the greatest story I Ever Broken, 398 00:27:39,355 --> 00:27:43,395 Speaker 1: Why it lost the Emmy to a profile of morgana 399 00:27:43,475 --> 00:27:48,155 Speaker 1: The Kissing Bandit First, the daily roundup of the miscrants, 400 00:27:48,235 --> 00:27:51,755 Speaker 1: morons and Dunning Kruger effects specimens who constitute today's worst 401 00:27:51,835 --> 00:27:56,915 Speaker 1: persons in the world. Le bronze right wing commentators Stu Peters, 402 00:27:57,035 --> 00:28:04,795 Speaker 1: that's stupete ers, I like that stupete rs rallying or 403 00:28:04,915 --> 00:28:10,035 Speaker 1: Florida congressional candidate Laura Loomer screaming that people who provided 404 00:28:10,155 --> 00:28:13,595 Speaker 1: or promoted vaccines quote should be tried in a criminal 405 00:28:13,675 --> 00:28:18,035 Speaker 1: court for crimes against humanity. Indict them, try them, and 406 00:28:18,395 --> 00:28:23,955 Speaker 1: fry them. Okay, down, Sparky our silver. Frank Thomas, the 407 00:28:23,995 --> 00:28:26,715 Speaker 1: Baseball Hall of Famer. The noted TV critic Phil Rosenthal 408 00:28:26,875 --> 00:28:29,595 Speaker 1: points out that Thomas is an investor in the firm 409 00:28:29,715 --> 00:28:33,675 Speaker 1: which owns the Field of Dreams Ballpark and will also 410 00:28:33,795 --> 00:28:37,955 Speaker 1: be on the Fox coverage of the game at the 411 00:28:38,035 --> 00:28:45,035 Speaker 1: Field of Dreams Ballpark. Conflict of interest. Maybe that's silly 412 00:28:45,115 --> 00:28:50,235 Speaker 1: med It's Fox. But our winner, Kanye West, are you 413 00:28:50,395 --> 00:28:53,875 Speaker 1: kidding me? I don't know Pete Davidson. I've seen him 414 00:28:53,915 --> 00:28:56,715 Speaker 1: on Saturday Night Live. And if you think he's really talented, 415 00:28:57,035 --> 00:28:59,875 Speaker 1: maybe it's me. I don't see. It doesn't matter. The 416 00:28:59,955 --> 00:29:02,395 Speaker 1: man has been open and brave about his battles with 417 00:29:02,515 --> 00:29:06,275 Speaker 1: mental health, and when he breaks up with Kim Kardashian, 418 00:29:07,275 --> 00:29:09,035 Speaker 1: which will probably see is a good thing in the 419 00:29:09,115 --> 00:29:12,315 Speaker 1: long run. This jackass West posts a fake New York 420 00:29:12,435 --> 00:29:16,955 Speaker 1: Times front page to Instagram reading Skeet Davidson dead at 421 00:29:17,035 --> 00:29:21,235 Speaker 1: age dead. He used the word dead. I mean, we 422 00:29:21,315 --> 00:29:24,195 Speaker 1: know Kanye West is an idiot. He let Trump and 423 00:29:24,235 --> 00:29:26,475 Speaker 1: the Republicans trot him out as a phony third party 424 00:29:26,515 --> 00:29:29,955 Speaker 1: presidential candidate and still probably believes it was all legit. 425 00:29:30,475 --> 00:29:32,715 Speaker 1: And if you want to bash some guy who dating 426 00:29:32,875 --> 00:29:36,715 Speaker 1: your ex, it happens. I've done it. But to go 427 00:29:36,835 --> 00:29:40,115 Speaker 1: after someone who's admitted he has struggled with suicidal thoughts 428 00:29:40,715 --> 00:29:44,915 Speaker 1: by putting up a dead at age post, no class, 429 00:29:45,555 --> 00:29:47,675 Speaker 1: none at all, and then he deleted it so he 430 00:29:47,715 --> 00:29:51,755 Speaker 1: can pretend he's sorry or whatever. Kanye, let's not talk 431 00:29:51,875 --> 00:30:12,275 Speaker 1: mental health. West Today's worst person and the word Finally, 432 00:30:12,315 --> 00:30:14,915 Speaker 1: I remember one story on the Countdown things I promised 433 00:30:14,955 --> 00:30:17,235 Speaker 1: not to tell And back to my favorite topic, me. 434 00:30:18,115 --> 00:30:20,915 Speaker 1: This is thirty four years ago, so it was August 435 00:30:21,115 --> 00:30:24,395 Speaker 1: eighth on the West coast, but by the time I 436 00:30:24,475 --> 00:30:26,355 Speaker 1: got the story on the air at ten pm p 437 00:30:26,515 --> 00:30:29,275 Speaker 1: d T, and it made all the wires that made 438 00:30:29,315 --> 00:30:35,155 Speaker 1: it August nine, So happy double Day Anniversary, Wayne Gretzky. 439 00:30:35,995 --> 00:30:38,955 Speaker 1: Just after dinner, the phone rang in my office at 440 00:30:39,035 --> 00:30:42,235 Speaker 1: Channel five in l A. Hi, I'm a viewer. I 441 00:30:42,355 --> 00:30:44,835 Speaker 1: took a deep breath. You you never knew where a 442 00:30:44,955 --> 00:30:47,635 Speaker 1: call that started like that was going to end up. 443 00:30:48,235 --> 00:30:50,715 Speaker 1: I just wanted to Genoa. I was out golfing at 444 00:30:50,835 --> 00:30:54,675 Speaker 1: Riviera at the Riviera Clubs afternoon and Bruce McNall, the 445 00:30:54,755 --> 00:30:56,995 Speaker 1: owner of the Kings, well, he just walked through the 446 00:30:57,075 --> 00:30:59,155 Speaker 1: locker room saying, hey, guys, if you want to buy 447 00:30:59,195 --> 00:31:02,515 Speaker 1: your seasoned King's tickets, do it now. I just traded 448 00:31:02,595 --> 00:31:04,395 Speaker 1: for Wayne Gretzky. The price is going to go up 449 00:31:04,475 --> 00:31:09,795 Speaker 1: next week. To be polite to the viewer, I asked 450 00:31:09,835 --> 00:31:12,635 Speaker 1: a few questions, but frankly, the story was pretty stupid. 451 00:31:13,075 --> 00:31:15,755 Speaker 1: This was the second week of August and there was 452 00:31:15,835 --> 00:31:18,275 Speaker 1: a lot of talk that the Edmonton Oilers We're going 453 00:31:18,395 --> 00:31:21,395 Speaker 1: to trade Wayne Gretzky, the most famous player in hockey, 454 00:31:21,875 --> 00:31:23,755 Speaker 1: and there was nearly as much talk that that trade 455 00:31:23,795 --> 00:31:26,835 Speaker 1: would send him to us in l A. But the 456 00:31:26,915 --> 00:31:31,835 Speaker 1: owner of the King's just telling passers by at random 457 00:31:32,315 --> 00:31:35,675 Speaker 1: in a golf clubhouse that he had just made the trade. 458 00:31:37,035 --> 00:31:42,915 Speaker 1: I was suspicious that I was being pranked. Fifteen minutes later, 459 00:31:42,995 --> 00:31:45,355 Speaker 1: my phone rang again. Hi, I'm a big fan of 460 00:31:45,435 --> 00:31:47,915 Speaker 1: yours and I watch every night. Here we go again. 461 00:31:48,475 --> 00:31:50,155 Speaker 1: I was just having lunch with a friend of mine 462 00:31:50,195 --> 00:31:52,075 Speaker 1: out here at the golf course in bell Air. And 463 00:31:52,835 --> 00:31:55,835 Speaker 1: and like an hour later, freaking Bruce mcnaal shows up 464 00:31:55,875 --> 00:31:58,675 Speaker 1: in the dining room and asks for everybody's attention, and 465 00:31:58,755 --> 00:32:01,235 Speaker 1: he says he's just completed the deal for Wayne Gretzky. 466 00:32:01,355 --> 00:32:05,315 Speaker 1: And and now I was beginning to get actually worried. 467 00:32:05,595 --> 00:32:07,875 Speaker 1: I was a lame duck as the sports director of 468 00:32:07,995 --> 00:32:10,235 Speaker 1: Channel five in Los Angeles. And four months there had 469 00:32:10,275 --> 00:32:12,755 Speaker 1: been rumors that I was moving down the street to 470 00:32:12,875 --> 00:32:15,835 Speaker 1: Channel two in Los Angeles. There had been these rumors 471 00:32:15,915 --> 00:32:19,515 Speaker 1: mostly because I was moving down the street to Channel two. 472 00:32:19,915 --> 00:32:22,435 Speaker 1: The deal had been done months earlier. We were going 473 00:32:22,515 --> 00:32:25,395 Speaker 1: to announce it that week. In fact, as these two 474 00:32:25,475 --> 00:32:28,635 Speaker 1: guys called in, I had actually been busily packing up 475 00:32:28,715 --> 00:32:32,755 Speaker 1: my Channel five office. My thought now was that the 476 00:32:32,795 --> 00:32:36,395 Speaker 1: sportscaster at the local NBC station, who had a bit 477 00:32:36,475 --> 00:32:40,555 Speaker 1: of a substance problem and a nasty temper and a 478 00:32:40,675 --> 00:32:42,595 Speaker 1: real dislike for the fact that I was nearly as 479 00:32:42,675 --> 00:32:45,995 Speaker 1: popular as he was. Was setting me up. I had 480 00:32:46,035 --> 00:32:48,755 Speaker 1: once managed to mislead him into thinking we were about 481 00:32:48,795 --> 00:32:51,475 Speaker 1: to break a story about a big l a football trade. 482 00:32:52,115 --> 00:32:54,315 Speaker 1: There was no breaking story because there was no trade, 483 00:32:54,555 --> 00:32:57,595 Speaker 1: and he had actually mentioned it on the air, having 484 00:32:57,715 --> 00:33:00,635 Speaker 1: clearly stolen it from me because I was the one 485 00:33:00,675 --> 00:33:03,395 Speaker 1: who had made it up. And oh was he furious 486 00:33:03,515 --> 00:33:06,395 Speaker 1: at me. For all I knew he wanted to embarrass me. 487 00:33:06,555 --> 00:33:09,555 Speaker 1: Three weeks before I moved into direct competition with him 488 00:33:09,595 --> 00:33:14,275 Speaker 1: at five, six and eleven. This August eight was, in 489 00:33:14,395 --> 00:33:16,635 Speaker 1: fact my first day back after I had burned all 490 00:33:16,715 --> 00:33:19,155 Speaker 1: my Channel five vacation time. And for all I knew, 491 00:33:20,155 --> 00:33:22,635 Speaker 1: this guy at NBC had been having his staffers call 492 00:33:22,715 --> 00:33:24,995 Speaker 1: me for a week with made up sightings of mcnal 493 00:33:25,235 --> 00:33:28,075 Speaker 1: confirming a Gretzky trade that frankly, I never believe was 494 00:33:28,115 --> 00:33:31,115 Speaker 1: going to happen. I mean not to get two side 495 00:33:31,195 --> 00:33:33,475 Speaker 1: tracked here, but one day my phone rang and it 496 00:33:33,555 --> 00:33:36,435 Speaker 1: was a kid who said, Hi, Mr Olberman, I'm sorry, 497 00:33:36,515 --> 00:33:38,555 Speaker 1: but I'm a finalist to be an intern here at 498 00:33:38,635 --> 00:33:42,115 Speaker 1: Channel four for Fred Rogan, and Mr Rogan says, I 499 00:33:42,195 --> 00:33:44,555 Speaker 1: can have the spot, but only if I call you 500 00:33:44,635 --> 00:33:48,275 Speaker 1: up right now and say I'm sorry. If I call 501 00:33:48,315 --> 00:33:50,235 Speaker 1: you up and I tell you to go f yourself, 502 00:33:50,795 --> 00:33:54,275 Speaker 1: the kid did not say f To his credit, he 503 00:33:54,475 --> 00:33:58,355 Speaker 1: used his real name, Bill Weir. He later became a 504 00:33:58,395 --> 00:34:01,395 Speaker 1: sportscaster for the third Network station in l A, then 505 00:34:01,435 --> 00:34:04,515 Speaker 1: a correspondent for ABC and now CNN, and I have 506 00:34:04,795 --> 00:34:08,155 Speaker 1: not let a year go by since without reminding him 507 00:34:08,275 --> 00:34:13,555 Speaker 1: of his f yourself internship phone call. He said Life 508 00:34:13,595 --> 00:34:15,635 Speaker 1: paid him back by making him work with the guy 509 00:34:15,715 --> 00:34:19,835 Speaker 1: for several months. Anyway, back to Gretzky night to supposed 510 00:34:19,915 --> 00:34:22,515 Speaker 1: listeners have called to say that Bruce mcnal, the owner 511 00:34:22,595 --> 00:34:26,115 Speaker 1: of the l A Kings, is apparently trapesing through golf 512 00:34:26,235 --> 00:34:28,875 Speaker 1: locker rooms and dining rooms at country clubs to tell 513 00:34:28,955 --> 00:34:31,195 Speaker 1: them he has completed a trade for the babe Ruth 514 00:34:31,235 --> 00:34:34,795 Speaker 1: of hockey, Wayne Gretzky. And they're calling me because they 515 00:34:34,915 --> 00:34:39,835 Speaker 1: like me. I'm suspicious, and now the phone rings again. 516 00:34:40,715 --> 00:34:43,595 Speaker 1: This guy was playing golf at the l A Country Club. 517 00:34:43,795 --> 00:34:46,835 Speaker 1: Same story, McDonald by your King's tickets, No, I just 518 00:34:46,995 --> 00:34:50,315 Speaker 1: got Gretzky. The next caller had been at yet a 519 00:34:50,435 --> 00:34:53,395 Speaker 1: fourth club. I think will share or something. If this 520 00:34:53,595 --> 00:34:55,675 Speaker 1: was a prank, it was a big one, and bluntly 521 00:34:56,155 --> 00:35:00,795 Speaker 1: I had begun to admire it. Finally came a fifth call. 522 00:35:01,635 --> 00:35:03,715 Speaker 1: You don't know me, but I watch you every night. 523 00:35:03,795 --> 00:35:05,715 Speaker 1: I stumbled on a story. I think you'll want to 524 00:35:05,795 --> 00:35:08,995 Speaker 1: run tonight. I said, which golf course were you at? 525 00:35:09,515 --> 00:35:12,155 Speaker 1: And he said, excuse me. I was in my office 526 00:35:12,195 --> 00:35:15,435 Speaker 1: all day, and so so was my uh my missus. 527 00:35:15,555 --> 00:35:17,275 Speaker 1: She's on the phone with me. She she works for 528 00:35:17,355 --> 00:35:21,595 Speaker 1: Bruce mcnal, the King's this time. I grabbed a pencil, honey, 529 00:35:21,595 --> 00:35:23,595 Speaker 1: why don't you take it from here? And she did. 530 00:35:24,155 --> 00:35:26,515 Speaker 1: She worked in the finance office and she had, literally, 531 00:35:27,075 --> 00:35:29,795 Speaker 1: she said, just made out a check for fifteen million 532 00:35:29,875 --> 00:35:32,555 Speaker 1: dollars to the owner of the Edmonton Oilers, Peter Pocklington, 533 00:35:33,235 --> 00:35:35,795 Speaker 1: she said, and the note memo, were you white right? 534 00:35:35,875 --> 00:35:39,915 Speaker 1: What it's for? I was told to put in Wayne Gretzky. 535 00:35:40,915 --> 00:35:44,995 Speaker 1: She also had seen the trade contract identified the players 536 00:35:45,035 --> 00:35:46,955 Speaker 1: that Kings were going to give up with the fifteen 537 00:35:46,995 --> 00:35:50,355 Speaker 1: million to get Gretzky. They were Jimmy Carson and Martin Jelena. 538 00:35:50,835 --> 00:35:53,275 Speaker 1: There were also draft choices, but she didn't know or 539 00:35:53,395 --> 00:35:57,915 Speaker 1: didn't remember the specifics of which ones. Now breathless, I 540 00:35:57,995 --> 00:35:59,835 Speaker 1: asked her if I could call her back through the 541 00:35:59,875 --> 00:36:02,475 Speaker 1: switchboard of the l A forum where the King's and 542 00:36:02,595 --> 00:36:06,755 Speaker 1: McNall's offices were just confirmed she was who she said 543 00:36:06,835 --> 00:36:10,235 Speaker 1: she was. She said I could. I did, she was. 544 00:36:11,035 --> 00:36:12,635 Speaker 1: I believe. In fact, she turned out to be the 545 00:36:12,675 --> 00:36:14,875 Speaker 1: only person on the McNall financial team that did not 546 00:36:14,955 --> 00:36:18,195 Speaker 1: get charged with something. So now I went in to 547 00:36:18,275 --> 00:36:20,435 Speaker 1: talk to my news director and to the producer of 548 00:36:20,475 --> 00:36:23,035 Speaker 1: our newscast. We were not on until ten PM. It 549 00:36:23,155 --> 00:36:26,635 Speaker 1: was now about seven. They were very excited, and they 550 00:36:26,675 --> 00:36:29,195 Speaker 1: said that given that I had exact details from a 551 00:36:29,315 --> 00:36:32,195 Speaker 1: King's source, plus the four witnesses to the owner of 552 00:36:32,275 --> 00:36:35,515 Speaker 1: the team shooting off his big bazoo at every golf 553 00:36:35,595 --> 00:36:38,555 Speaker 1: course he could reach, that we should run it, and 554 00:36:38,635 --> 00:36:40,995 Speaker 1: that we should run it as the lead news story 555 00:36:41,115 --> 00:36:43,795 Speaker 1: right at the start of the newscast that night, which 556 00:36:43,915 --> 00:36:48,635 Speaker 1: we did. The King's would not confirm it, obviously, but 557 00:36:48,755 --> 00:36:50,515 Speaker 1: as soon as I got off the air with my 558 00:36:50,635 --> 00:36:53,195 Speaker 1: sports cast the second time I reported this story, a 559 00:36:53,315 --> 00:36:55,875 Speaker 1: reporter from the Associated Press was on the phone asking 560 00:36:55,915 --> 00:36:59,035 Speaker 1: me to read him my script, which he then quoted 561 00:36:59,475 --> 00:37:03,275 Speaker 1: word for word and put out on their sports wire. 562 00:37:03,635 --> 00:37:06,035 Speaker 1: It was on the back age of the New York Post. 563 00:37:06,155 --> 00:37:08,915 Speaker 1: The next day, my friends called me from New York 564 00:37:08,995 --> 00:37:11,475 Speaker 1: to say, Hey, your sports cast is on the back 565 00:37:11,515 --> 00:37:13,355 Speaker 1: page of the New York Post along with this big 566 00:37:13,435 --> 00:37:17,635 Speaker 1: picture of Wayne Gretzky. The leak caused the Kings to 567 00:37:17,755 --> 00:37:20,435 Speaker 1: move up the announcement of the deal from their original plan, 568 00:37:20,555 --> 00:37:23,955 Speaker 1: which was Thursday the eleventh, to the next night, Tuesday. 569 00:37:23,995 --> 00:37:26,995 Speaker 1: The night A King's vice president told me at the 570 00:37:27,035 --> 00:37:30,515 Speaker 1: press conference that the Oilers were enraged because they had 571 00:37:30,555 --> 00:37:34,115 Speaker 1: wanted to hold off until the eleventh because the deadline 572 00:37:34,195 --> 00:37:37,155 Speaker 1: for their season ticket holders to get their deposits back 573 00:37:37,635 --> 00:37:41,275 Speaker 1: were Wednesday. The Kings were nice enough to let me 574 00:37:41,355 --> 00:37:44,115 Speaker 1: of all the TV guys interviewed Gretzky First Live, and 575 00:37:44,195 --> 00:37:47,435 Speaker 1: I congratulated Wayne on the move, and he actually congratulated 576 00:37:47,475 --> 00:37:48,915 Speaker 1: me on the scoop and I said, I didn't do 577 00:37:48,995 --> 00:37:51,475 Speaker 1: anything but answer the phone, and he thought about it 578 00:37:51,515 --> 00:37:53,955 Speaker 1: for a second and said pretty much the same for me, 579 00:37:54,595 --> 00:37:58,275 Speaker 1: and we've been friendly ever since. But the laziest scoop 580 00:37:58,315 --> 00:38:00,995 Speaker 1: of all time did eventually come back with a sting 581 00:38:01,275 --> 00:38:04,515 Speaker 1: for me and some payback. A year later, we all 582 00:38:04,675 --> 00:38:08,555 Speaker 1: submitted our best stories for consideration for the local Emmy 583 00:38:08,675 --> 00:38:12,475 Speaker 1: for Best TV Sports Reporting for the calendar year. Night 584 00:38:13,075 --> 00:38:18,155 Speaker 1: I submitted Surprise, Surprise, the Gretzky scoop. The Emmys were 585 00:38:18,155 --> 00:38:20,715 Speaker 1: always judged by a committee of television types from a 586 00:38:20,795 --> 00:38:23,995 Speaker 1: different city, so he didn't have that home l A Bias. 587 00:38:24,595 --> 00:38:26,995 Speaker 1: And the guy from NBC, who I had first thought 588 00:38:27,155 --> 00:38:30,395 Speaker 1: was pranking me about the Gretzky story, had somehow found 589 00:38:30,435 --> 00:38:34,795 Speaker 1: out that the Emmys for would be judged in nine 590 00:38:34,915 --> 00:38:39,475 Speaker 1: in Ohio. In Columbus, Ohio, I think, so he managed 591 00:38:39,835 --> 00:38:43,515 Speaker 1: to get an interview with MORGANA the Kissing Bandit, who 592 00:38:43,635 --> 00:38:47,155 Speaker 1: was this scantily clad buxom woman you may remember who 593 00:38:47,235 --> 00:38:49,555 Speaker 1: in the old days of innocence, used to bribe her 594 00:38:49,595 --> 00:38:53,035 Speaker 1: way onto Major League Baseball fields and bounce out onto 595 00:38:53,075 --> 00:38:55,635 Speaker 1: the plate or the mound, and she'd go and kiss 596 00:38:55,675 --> 00:39:01,955 Speaker 1: stars like George Brett and Nolan Ryan during games. MORGANA. MORGANA. 597 00:39:02,075 --> 00:39:07,395 Speaker 1: Roberts lived near Umbiss, Ohio, so sure enough, at the 598 00:39:07,475 --> 00:39:10,115 Speaker 1: Emmy's the next year, my exclusive report of the trade 599 00:39:10,195 --> 00:39:12,795 Speaker 1: of Hockey's Greatest Player. Wayne Gretzky was one of the 600 00:39:12,835 --> 00:39:16,555 Speaker 1: finalists for the Los Angeles Best TV Sports Reporting Emmy. 601 00:39:17,355 --> 00:39:19,235 Speaker 1: But in the ceremony and it was at some old 602 00:39:19,395 --> 00:39:22,635 Speaker 1: Landmark hotel in Pasadena, they showed clips of all the 603 00:39:22,715 --> 00:39:25,195 Speaker 1: pieces that were finalists and then announced that the winner 604 00:39:25,395 --> 00:39:31,515 Speaker 1: was Fred Rogan k NBC. For being chased by MORGANA 605 00:39:31,635 --> 00:39:37,715 Speaker 1: the Kissing Bandit, my agent stood up and booed. My 606 00:39:37,875 --> 00:39:40,995 Speaker 1: girlfriend punched me in the arm and said, let's get 607 00:39:41,075 --> 00:39:52,715 Speaker 1: out of here and go drinking. We left. 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