1 00:00:04,755 --> 00:00:08,995 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Oldman is a production of I Heart Radio. 2 00:00:28,475 --> 00:00:32,315 Speaker 1: Trump has confessed he may or may not know it, 3 00:00:32,635 --> 00:00:35,355 Speaker 1: but he has now confessed on the record to possessing 4 00:00:35,395 --> 00:00:39,195 Speaker 1: all the government documents classified or otherwise found at mari Lago. 5 00:00:39,795 --> 00:00:43,955 Speaker 1: The second paragraph of his new new attorney's response filed 6 00:00:44,035 --> 00:00:47,635 Speaker 1: last night to the Department of Justice bombshell from Tuesday night, 7 00:00:47,915 --> 00:00:50,995 Speaker 1: closes with the assertion that the government quote has filed 8 00:00:51,035 --> 00:00:54,075 Speaker 1: an extraordinary document with this court, suggesting the d o 9 00:00:54,195 --> 00:00:57,155 Speaker 1: J and the d o J alone should be entrusted 10 00:00:57,155 --> 00:01:03,195 Speaker 1: with the responsibility of evaluating its unjustified pursuit of criminalizing 11 00:01:03,355 --> 00:01:08,995 Speaker 1: a former president possession of personal and presidential records. Second 12 00:01:08,995 --> 00:01:14,155 Speaker 1: paragraph states as fact that Trump had quote possession of 13 00:01:14,195 --> 00:01:18,955 Speaker 1: personal and presidential records. Nothing was planted, nothing was sent 14 00:01:18,995 --> 00:01:23,035 Speaker 1: there by a rogue employee from mailboxes, etcetera. Nothing was 15 00:01:23,075 --> 00:01:27,435 Speaker 1: there by accident. A former president's possession of personal and 16 00:01:27,515 --> 00:01:32,115 Speaker 1: presidential records is at the core of this case, and 17 00:01:32,235 --> 00:01:36,195 Speaker 1: on his social media platform last night, Trump insisted he 18 00:01:36,235 --> 00:01:41,475 Speaker 1: didn't strew all those classified documents on his cheesy Marilago carpet. 19 00:01:41,475 --> 00:01:45,275 Speaker 1: In that photo, the FBI quote took them out of 20 00:01:45,395 --> 00:01:49,515 Speaker 1: curtains and spread them around on the carpet. They dropped them, 21 00:01:49,555 --> 00:01:55,275 Speaker 1: not me, So he confessed to having the documents again. Thus, 22 00:01:55,315 --> 00:01:58,675 Speaker 1: if Trump has confessed to having all the documents the 23 00:01:58,755 --> 00:02:02,635 Speaker 1: FBI reclaimed on August eight and earlier in the answer 24 00:02:02,715 --> 00:02:06,355 Speaker 1: to the d O J. Finling, he his lawyers must 25 00:02:06,395 --> 00:02:09,355 Speaker 1: be claiming to the judge that all those personal and 26 00:02:09,435 --> 00:02:14,195 Speaker 1: presidential records that he possessed had been declassified, as Trump 27 00:02:14,235 --> 00:02:16,675 Speaker 1: has been saying NonStop for weeks, and thus this is 28 00:02:16,755 --> 00:02:20,595 Speaker 1: just a trivial book keeping mistake being inflated into a 29 00:02:20,635 --> 00:02:26,435 Speaker 1: death penalty case. No. As phrased in Politico by Kyle Cheney, 30 00:02:26,515 --> 00:02:30,875 Speaker 1: Josh Gerstein, and Nicholas wou quote, Trump's legal team notably 31 00:02:30,955 --> 00:02:35,315 Speaker 1: avoided echoing an assertion that their client resurfaced earlier in 32 00:02:35,355 --> 00:02:38,315 Speaker 1: the day, that he had declassified the documents at issue 33 00:02:38,315 --> 00:02:42,795 Speaker 1: in the dispute end quote. So legally, first Trump admits 34 00:02:42,875 --> 00:02:46,715 Speaker 1: he had the documents, and then legally Trump does not 35 00:02:46,915 --> 00:02:51,875 Speaker 1: claim he declassified the documents, any of them. That is 36 00:02:53,155 --> 00:02:58,035 Speaker 1: a confession. It's two confessions, to possession of government records 37 00:02:58,195 --> 00:03:02,875 Speaker 1: and to possession of classified documents. The only thing Trump's 38 00:03:02,915 --> 00:03:06,315 Speaker 1: lawyers assert in The answer they sent last night to 39 00:03:06,395 --> 00:03:09,715 Speaker 1: the government's filing is that there should be a special 40 00:03:09,755 --> 00:03:15,755 Speaker 1: master who will decide what part of the undeclassified documents 41 00:03:15,795 --> 00:03:18,955 Speaker 1: they and their client have now legally admitted he took. 42 00:03:20,475 --> 00:03:24,395 Speaker 1: What part of those documents might be subject to executive privilege. 43 00:03:24,475 --> 00:03:27,995 Speaker 1: With a former president not having any executive privilege to privilege, 44 00:03:30,235 --> 00:03:35,035 Speaker 1: how has Trump not been indicted? Where's the purp walk, 45 00:03:35,475 --> 00:03:39,395 Speaker 1: Where's the raincoat thrown over his face? Where's the finger painting? 46 00:03:39,875 --> 00:03:44,475 Speaker 1: Where's the sketches by all the courtroom artists. Trump has 47 00:03:45,515 --> 00:03:53,635 Speaker 1: confessed and handed the confession to the judge. Incredibly, Bloomberg 48 00:03:53,715 --> 00:03:57,795 Speaker 1: News reports the Department of Justice is terrified of being 49 00:03:57,835 --> 00:04:04,235 Speaker 1: accused of interfering with an election. Not election, but the 50 00:04:04,315 --> 00:04:08,115 Speaker 1: nove Bird mid terms in which Trump is not running, 51 00:04:08,475 --> 00:04:12,795 Speaker 1: in which no member of his family is running. Federal 52 00:04:12,875 --> 00:04:16,275 Speaker 1: prosecutors are likely to wait until after the November election 53 00:04:16,315 --> 00:04:20,155 Speaker 1: to announce any charges against Donald Trump, writes Chris Strom 54 00:04:20,315 --> 00:04:23,995 Speaker 1: of Bloomberg. If they determined he broke laws, according to 55 00:04:24,035 --> 00:04:26,355 Speaker 1: people familiar, I don't know if I've mentioned this yet, 56 00:04:26,515 --> 00:04:29,755 Speaker 1: but he confessed breaking laws. Read the note from his 57 00:04:29,915 --> 00:04:38,075 Speaker 1: lawyers to resume the Bloomberg reporting quote. Under longstanding departmental policy, 58 00:04:38,515 --> 00:04:43,635 Speaker 1: prosecutors are barred from taking investigative steps or filing charges 59 00:04:43,835 --> 00:04:47,155 Speaker 1: for the purpose of effecting an election or helping a 60 00:04:47,235 --> 00:04:52,915 Speaker 1: candidate or party traditionally sixty days before an election. This year, 61 00:04:52,995 --> 00:04:56,315 Speaker 1: that would be by September ten, which makes it unlikely 62 00:04:56,395 --> 00:05:00,195 Speaker 1: anything would be announced until after November eight, said people 63 00:05:00,235 --> 00:05:04,355 Speaker 1: who asked to remain anonymous, speaking about potential Justice Department 64 00:05:04,395 --> 00:05:09,795 Speaker 1: act well, potential Justice Department in actions. How in the 65 00:05:09,875 --> 00:05:12,035 Speaker 1: hell does this apply to Trump since he isn't running 66 00:05:12,315 --> 00:05:15,755 Speaker 1: the tortured How many angels can dance on the head 67 00:05:15,795 --> 00:05:19,395 Speaker 1: of a pin do o j logic here is, Yeah, 68 00:05:19,555 --> 00:05:23,875 Speaker 1: he isn't running in November, but people he has indorsed 69 00:05:24,435 --> 00:05:31,875 Speaker 1: are running in November. Well, that's ducky. So if tomorrow 70 00:05:32,595 --> 00:05:35,875 Speaker 1: I endorse a bunch of candidates in the mid terms, 71 00:05:36,715 --> 00:05:39,515 Speaker 1: and then after that I go over and hold up 72 00:05:39,515 --> 00:05:42,995 Speaker 1: the bank around the corner from my house, the Department 73 00:05:43,035 --> 00:05:46,715 Speaker 1: of Justice will wait until November nine to indict me, 74 00:05:47,755 --> 00:05:51,075 Speaker 1: giving me two months to I don't know, spend the 75 00:05:51,115 --> 00:05:54,635 Speaker 1: money or destroy the evidence, or just leave the continent. 76 00:05:56,075 --> 00:05:58,715 Speaker 1: Every day, for the last seven years, Donald Trump has 77 00:05:58,795 --> 00:06:01,555 Speaker 1: lit this country on fire, and every night we've all 78 00:06:01,595 --> 00:06:03,875 Speaker 1: had to put out the flames. And now he's shipping 79 00:06:03,915 --> 00:06:06,875 Speaker 1: in tankers full of gasoline and a million boxes of matches. 80 00:06:06,915 --> 00:06:10,155 Speaker 1: But go on tell me how you can't apply the 81 00:06:10,315 --> 00:06:14,755 Speaker 1: law to a treason is desperate bastard until November nine, 82 00:06:14,795 --> 00:06:19,195 Speaker 1: because God forbid, you heard all the treason his desperate bastards. 83 00:06:19,235 --> 00:06:25,355 Speaker 1: He's also endorsed for the mid term elections. Moreover, you 84 00:06:25,395 --> 00:06:30,555 Speaker 1: are extending this ludicrous delay to Trump because the reason 85 00:06:30,635 --> 00:06:33,955 Speaker 1: we are dealing with his potential arrest only sixty eight 86 00:06:34,035 --> 00:06:37,715 Speaker 1: days from the mid terms is he dragged his feet 87 00:06:37,715 --> 00:06:41,635 Speaker 1: about returning those documents he had illegally in January, and 88 00:06:41,715 --> 00:06:44,355 Speaker 1: he dragged his feet about returning those documents he still 89 00:06:44,395 --> 00:06:47,275 Speaker 1: illegally had in June, and he dragged his feet about 90 00:06:47,275 --> 00:06:50,355 Speaker 1: filing the motion for the Grand Special Master poo bah. 91 00:06:51,275 --> 00:06:54,235 Speaker 1: We are up against the election rule because the suspect 92 00:06:54,235 --> 00:06:58,595 Speaker 1: has manipulated the system, and in turn, the refusal to 93 00:06:58,675 --> 00:07:02,475 Speaker 1: act against him means the Department of Justice still has 94 00:07:02,515 --> 00:07:06,355 Speaker 1: its thumb on the election scale anyway, because not indicting 95 00:07:06,435 --> 00:07:09,915 Speaker 1: him winds up favoring all the candidates he endorsed and 96 00:07:10,075 --> 00:07:13,595 Speaker 1: every other Republican on the ballot. It is absolute madness. 97 00:07:13,875 --> 00:07:17,475 Speaker 1: This is national security we're talking about, not politics. This 98 00:07:17,635 --> 00:07:20,595 Speaker 1: is nuclear weapons secrets, not the fact that we don't 99 00:07:20,635 --> 00:07:23,315 Speaker 1: like this guy or trust him. This is the identity 100 00:07:23,355 --> 00:07:27,355 Speaker 1: of US intelligence sources around the world, life or death 101 00:07:27,435 --> 00:07:33,595 Speaker 1: for human assets, not Donald Trump's hair. The damned mid 102 00:07:33,755 --> 00:07:36,835 Speaker 1: terms should not have anything to do with his arrest 103 00:07:36,915 --> 00:07:39,555 Speaker 1: in the first place. And that's even more true because 104 00:07:39,595 --> 00:07:41,715 Speaker 1: he is the one who delayed this to this date. 105 00:07:41,995 --> 00:07:45,715 Speaker 1: He should be charged, arrested, and detained without bail. Before 106 00:07:45,995 --> 00:07:51,955 Speaker 1: I finished the sentence, I am speaking to you now, 107 00:07:53,355 --> 00:07:56,195 Speaker 1: and this is only going to get worse in the 108 00:07:56,235 --> 00:07:59,115 Speaker 1: next sixty eight days before the mid terms. The d 109 00:07:59,155 --> 00:08:03,875 Speaker 1: O J filing and the now immortal carpet photo are 110 00:08:03,955 --> 00:08:08,315 Speaker 1: still slow, only giving up their secrets in the photo, 111 00:08:08,915 --> 00:08:13,075 Speaker 1: several of the documents on the floor have dates on them. 112 00:08:13,115 --> 00:08:16,435 Speaker 1: After thirty six hours of study, it has proved that 113 00:08:16,475 --> 00:08:19,915 Speaker 1: one of them has the date May nine, two eighteen 114 00:08:19,955 --> 00:08:22,835 Speaker 1: on it. And May nine, two eighteen is the day 115 00:08:22,915 --> 00:08:28,275 Speaker 1: after Trump sabotaged the Iran nuclear deal. Donald Trump may 116 00:08:28,315 --> 00:08:33,035 Speaker 1: have stolen documents about the Iran nuclear deal, but we 117 00:08:33,115 --> 00:08:39,235 Speaker 1: can't charge him for because of the midterms, and in 118 00:08:39,315 --> 00:08:43,675 Speaker 1: the filing there are references to documents marked HC S 119 00:08:43,755 --> 00:08:49,195 Speaker 1: DASH oh that's Human Control System Operations to find as 120 00:08:49,275 --> 00:08:53,835 Speaker 1: quote used to protect exceptionally fragile and unique intelligence community 121 00:08:53,875 --> 00:09:01,355 Speaker 1: clandestine human intelligence operations and methods people. There are other 122 00:09:01,395 --> 00:09:04,835 Speaker 1: references in the filing to T S slash s A 123 00:09:04,955 --> 00:09:08,155 Speaker 1: P and S slash f r D and that is 124 00:09:08,875 --> 00:09:14,395 Speaker 1: top secret, special access program, secret formerly restricted data, and 125 00:09:14,475 --> 00:09:18,835 Speaker 1: that means nuclear weapons as designated by the Atomic Energy Act, 126 00:09:18,875 --> 00:09:24,035 Speaker 1: nuclear weapons or nuclear weapons information. And there are references 127 00:09:24,075 --> 00:09:27,315 Speaker 1: to those out of date passports to that Trump wind 128 00:09:27,355 --> 00:09:32,075 Speaker 1: about in the government filing wind that they had been 129 00:09:32,115 --> 00:09:34,995 Speaker 1: mixed in with the stolen documents and they were taken 130 00:09:35,035 --> 00:09:40,275 Speaker 1: from him. Several analysts are suggesting that the passports maybe 131 00:09:40,315 --> 00:09:45,715 Speaker 1: the smoking guns that proved Trump handled those documents himself, 132 00:09:46,195 --> 00:09:52,435 Speaker 1: boxed them himself, stole them himself, because what somebody else 133 00:09:52,435 --> 00:09:57,035 Speaker 1: stuffed his passports in among the docks. Somebody else did that, 134 00:09:57,355 --> 00:10:00,755 Speaker 1: and he just happened to immediately know after the search 135 00:10:00,835 --> 00:10:05,635 Speaker 1: that his passports were gone. He just guessed. And let 136 00:10:05,675 --> 00:10:10,475 Speaker 1: me remind you again, all this is on top of 137 00:10:10,515 --> 00:10:15,035 Speaker 1: the fact that Donald Trump's lawyers filed a document with 138 00:10:15,075 --> 00:10:19,315 Speaker 1: the court last night that confirms Trump had possession of 139 00:10:19,395 --> 00:10:23,115 Speaker 1: all the documents and makes no claim that he ever 140 00:10:23,235 --> 00:10:28,275 Speaker 1: declassified any of them. Do we need more? One of 141 00:10:28,315 --> 00:10:31,915 Speaker 1: his idiot attorneys may have also convicted him of the 142 00:10:31,995 --> 00:10:35,875 Speaker 1: violations of the Espionage Act in her role in one 143 00:10:35,915 --> 00:10:38,715 Speaker 1: of the other Trump cases, the New York State investigation 144 00:10:38,755 --> 00:10:44,155 Speaker 1: of the Trump Organization finances. Alina Haaba told the New 145 00:10:44,235 --> 00:10:46,875 Speaker 1: York Court on May five that she had complied with 146 00:10:46,955 --> 00:10:50,955 Speaker 1: its orders and she had conducted a quote diligent unquote 147 00:10:50,995 --> 00:10:54,235 Speaker 1: search for records. Per Turning to the New York case 148 00:10:54,835 --> 00:11:02,235 Speaker 1: she searched, she said through quote all desks, drawers, nightstands, dressers, closets, 149 00:11:02,235 --> 00:11:07,635 Speaker 1: etcetera at our lago, which means she saw or handled, 150 00:11:07,715 --> 00:11:10,155 Speaker 1: or read, or who knows, took pictures of with her 151 00:11:10,155 --> 00:11:15,235 Speaker 1: phone all the classified documents Trump had stashed in the desks, drawers, 152 00:11:15,515 --> 00:11:22,355 Speaker 1: night stands, dressers, closets, etcetera at mari lago. Last night's 153 00:11:22,595 --> 00:11:27,475 Speaker 1: Trump filing means he has dropped the entire excuse that 154 00:11:27,595 --> 00:11:33,435 Speaker 1: these documents were planted, that they were plants. But one 155 00:11:33,555 --> 00:11:37,515 Speaker 1: begins to think this Elena Habba may herself be a plant. 156 00:11:38,755 --> 00:11:42,555 Speaker 1: By either definition of the word. This is Elena Habba 157 00:11:42,675 --> 00:11:46,875 Speaker 1: on Wednesday explaining on a right wing network that now 158 00:11:46,915 --> 00:11:49,795 Speaker 1: I can't even summarize it, just listen to the damn thing. 159 00:11:50,115 --> 00:11:53,315 Speaker 1: So what they did was to try and criminalize Donald Trump, 160 00:11:53,355 --> 00:11:57,355 Speaker 1: as they always do. They found these three mundane statues 161 00:11:57,995 --> 00:12:01,795 Speaker 1: espionage and the two others obstruction, and they're trying to 162 00:12:01,835 --> 00:12:06,035 Speaker 1: claim that there was some sort of criminal activity. Dane statutes, 163 00:12:06,155 --> 00:12:11,675 Speaker 1: you say, like espionage mundane. Espionage is now mundane. It's 164 00:12:11,675 --> 00:12:16,475 Speaker 1: a mundane statute. It's a mundane kind of statute. It's 165 00:12:16,515 --> 00:12:21,395 Speaker 1: so mundane that when we mundanely convicted Julius and Ethel 166 00:12:21,475 --> 00:12:24,915 Speaker 1: Rosenberg of it, we then mundanely executed them in the 167 00:12:25,035 --> 00:12:33,075 Speaker 1: mundane electric mundane chair. Idiot and Trump's Republican friends have 168 00:12:33,115 --> 00:12:36,195 Speaker 1: also officially run out of excuses. Governor Curling Iron of 169 00:12:36,235 --> 00:12:39,355 Speaker 1: South Dakota, also known as Christy Nome, is sticking to 170 00:12:39,475 --> 00:12:43,155 Speaker 1: the they were planted argument that Trump has just denied. 171 00:12:43,875 --> 00:12:47,795 Speaker 1: Alan Dershowitz just said that with the carpet photograph, the 172 00:12:47,835 --> 00:12:52,115 Speaker 1: Department of Justice is guilty of giving classified documents to 173 00:12:52,155 --> 00:12:56,875 Speaker 1: our enemies, and the dumbest of them all, Congressman Ken 174 00:12:56,915 --> 00:13:00,515 Speaker 1: Buck of Colorado wonders if anybody has yet considered the 175 00:13:00,555 --> 00:13:04,595 Speaker 1: possibility that Trump just took those documents because he's writing 176 00:13:04,755 --> 00:13:12,635 Speaker 1: his memoirs like Trump could spell memoirs. This is an 177 00:13:12,675 --> 00:13:19,195 Speaker 1: open and shut case. Last night Trump confessed to possession 178 00:13:19,555 --> 00:13:23,555 Speaker 1: of the documents and handed the confession to the court, 179 00:13:24,395 --> 00:13:28,075 Speaker 1: and in that confession his lawyers did not even mention 180 00:13:28,595 --> 00:13:34,275 Speaker 1: the word declassified. It's such an open and shut case 181 00:13:34,355 --> 00:13:37,355 Speaker 1: that the former federal prosecutor, who has been writing story 182 00:13:37,435 --> 00:13:40,675 Speaker 1: after story for the Murdoch owned New York Post saying 183 00:13:40,675 --> 00:13:42,675 Speaker 1: the Department of Justice has no case and there will 184 00:13:42,715 --> 00:13:46,035 Speaker 1: be no charges against Trump, read the government filing and wrote, 185 00:13:46,115 --> 00:13:48,675 Speaker 1: in effect, hopes I was wrong. They have all the 186 00:13:48,715 --> 00:13:51,515 Speaker 1: evidence of obstruction of justice they need. That's a game changer. 187 00:13:51,555 --> 00:13:55,315 Speaker 1: There will be charges, then charge him already, Even the 188 00:13:55,315 --> 00:13:58,595 Speaker 1: New York Post is on board. My god, Trump confessed 189 00:13:58,715 --> 00:14:05,195 Speaker 1: he may be on board. Lastly, as if we needed more, 190 00:14:05,675 --> 00:14:10,515 Speaker 1: there is always more. You will recall the case of 191 00:14:10,675 --> 00:14:15,275 Speaker 1: Edwards Snowdon, the n S a contractor who stole top 192 00:14:15,315 --> 00:14:19,275 Speaker 1: secret documents that damaged American intelligence around the world, and 193 00:14:19,315 --> 00:14:22,475 Speaker 1: then he fled to Russia while this government was unsealing 194 00:14:22,475 --> 00:14:27,555 Speaker 1: two charges of espionage that mundane crime against him, As 195 00:14:27,595 --> 00:14:31,995 Speaker 1: the sportswriter Jeff Perlman notes, as that happened, somebody got 196 00:14:32,035 --> 00:14:37,715 Speaker 1: onto Twitter and wrote, of Edward Snowden in June two thousand, quote, 197 00:14:37,755 --> 00:14:42,155 Speaker 1: how did Snowdon get access to top secret US records? 198 00:14:42,235 --> 00:14:46,795 Speaker 1: He then gave or sold those records trader? And then 199 00:14:46,835 --> 00:14:50,155 Speaker 1: the same guy also tweeted call it any way you like, 200 00:14:50,355 --> 00:14:54,035 Speaker 1: but Snowdon is a trader. When our country was great, 201 00:14:54,315 --> 00:14:59,275 Speaker 1: do you know what we did to traders? Well, you 202 00:14:59,395 --> 00:15:03,555 Speaker 1: already know who that was, calling those who accessed or 203 00:15:03,675 --> 00:15:08,515 Speaker 1: took or sold top secret US records, hey trader, and 204 00:15:08,635 --> 00:15:11,635 Speaker 1: implying that traders should be executed. You already know who 205 00:15:11,675 --> 00:15:16,795 Speaker 1: wrote that, right, those tweets from two thousand thirteen, we're 206 00:15:16,835 --> 00:15:23,435 Speaker 1: by Donald Trump. And oh, by the way, Trump confessed 207 00:15:23,555 --> 00:15:26,755 Speaker 1: last night. Doesn't anybody notice this? I feel like I'm 208 00:15:26,795 --> 00:15:40,235 Speaker 1: taking crazy pills. Still ahead on countdown. I'm gonna need 209 00:15:40,275 --> 00:15:43,595 Speaker 1: a little more water for the crazy pills. Congrats Sarah 210 00:15:43,675 --> 00:15:46,275 Speaker 1: Palin on losing the Alaska House seat that had been 211 00:15:46,275 --> 00:15:49,355 Speaker 1: in the hands of Republicans for half a century. Well done, 212 00:15:50,195 --> 00:15:52,475 Speaker 1: Chuck Todd tweets out a link to a quote that 213 00:15:52,515 --> 00:15:56,755 Speaker 1: he thinks confirms he hasn't been fired. Unfortunately the quote 214 00:15:56,835 --> 00:16:02,035 Speaker 1: is fake, and Serena Williams says, hello, a little second 215 00:16:02,115 --> 00:16:05,075 Speaker 1: ranked player in the world, and then goodbye, a little 216 00:16:05,115 --> 00:16:09,115 Speaker 1: second ranked player in the world. That's next. This is Countdown. 217 00:16:17,475 --> 00:16:25,795 Speaker 1: This is Countdown with Keith Olberman coming up. Was the 218 00:16:25,795 --> 00:16:28,515 Speaker 1: founder of the Proud Boys arrested by the FBI in 219 00:16:28,555 --> 00:16:31,595 Speaker 1: the middle of his streaming show or did he just 220 00:16:31,755 --> 00:16:37,155 Speaker 1: leave early to go on vacation in the South France? First, 221 00:16:37,195 --> 00:16:39,315 Speaker 1: in each edition of Countdown, we feature a dog in 222 00:16:39,395 --> 00:16:41,635 Speaker 1: need whom you can help. Every dog has its day, 223 00:16:41,675 --> 00:16:44,795 Speaker 1: and we go to the pound in Downey in southern California. 224 00:16:44,915 --> 00:16:48,475 Speaker 1: Arnold is seven. He's got a big tongue hanging out smile. 225 00:16:48,595 --> 00:16:52,315 Speaker 1: He's a ninety two pound Rottweiler. But he's so calm 226 00:16:52,355 --> 00:16:54,875 Speaker 1: that they literally would let you walk in tomorrow and 227 00:16:54,915 --> 00:16:58,035 Speaker 1: adopt him take him home right away. He's that calmn 228 00:16:58,075 --> 00:17:00,115 Speaker 1: with people, and if somebody doesn't do that, they're gonna 229 00:17:00,155 --> 00:17:03,315 Speaker 1: put Arnold on the kill list. They are overcrowded beyond words. 230 00:17:03,635 --> 00:17:05,315 Speaker 1: To find out more about our Old and the other 231 00:17:05,355 --> 00:17:07,875 Speaker 1: dogs on death row at Downey Please check my Twitter 232 00:17:07,915 --> 00:17:11,275 Speaker 1: feed for dogs in need at Tom Jumbo Grumbo. Look 233 00:17:11,315 --> 00:17:14,035 Speaker 1: for the tweet about Arnold. If you can't help him, 234 00:17:14,075 --> 00:17:16,915 Speaker 1: just retweeting that tweet can make a huge difference. And 235 00:17:16,995 --> 00:17:28,875 Speaker 1: thank you very much. Coming up on countdown, Chuck Todd 236 00:17:28,915 --> 00:17:30,915 Speaker 1: wants you to know that he has not been fired 237 00:17:30,955 --> 00:17:34,195 Speaker 1: as the host of Meet the Press, not yet anyway, 238 00:17:34,795 --> 00:17:37,795 Speaker 1: but he did it in the most Chuck Todd way possible. 239 00:17:37,875 --> 00:17:41,315 Speaker 1: Worst persons Coming up first, postcripts to the news, some headlines, 240 00:17:41,395 --> 00:17:54,115 Speaker 1: some thoughts, some snark, dateline shooto Alaska. I always used 241 00:17:54,155 --> 00:17:56,435 Speaker 1: to say of Sarah pale And that woman is an idiot, 242 00:17:56,475 --> 00:17:59,195 Speaker 1: But now I can say again that woman is a loser. 243 00:17:59,435 --> 00:18:02,635 Speaker 1: In the special election to succeed the late Alaska Congressman 244 00:18:02,715 --> 00:18:06,795 Speaker 1: Don Young, ranked choice voting has done Palin in. She 245 00:18:06,915 --> 00:18:09,875 Speaker 1: needed six of the second place rankings from those who 246 00:18:09,995 --> 00:18:13,515 Speaker 1: voted for another Republican Nick Begich, show I got fifty. 247 00:18:14,155 --> 00:18:18,035 Speaker 1: So Alaska's lone house rap will be Democrat Mary Peltola, 248 00:18:18,475 --> 00:18:21,715 Speaker 1: an indigenous Alaska who is actually a friend of Palin's. 249 00:18:22,075 --> 00:18:26,955 Speaker 1: The Palins once give gave the Peltola's their trampoline only 250 00:18:26,995 --> 00:18:30,075 Speaker 1: in Alaska. She will be in the House through the 251 00:18:30,235 --> 00:18:32,315 Speaker 1: end of the year. She will again face Palin in 252 00:18:32,355 --> 00:18:35,515 Speaker 1: another election for the full time seat this November. Since 253 00:18:35,515 --> 00:18:38,875 Speaker 1: there's a Palin story, I must buy law again. Read 254 00:18:38,955 --> 00:18:41,595 Speaker 1: the singular and never to be matched description of her 255 00:18:41,675 --> 00:18:45,515 Speaker 1: after the vice presidential debate October eight, written by Rich 256 00:18:45,595 --> 00:18:50,275 Speaker 1: Lowry of The National Review. Quote, a very wise TV 257 00:18:50,395 --> 00:18:53,035 Speaker 1: executive once told me that the key to TV is 258 00:18:53,235 --> 00:18:56,675 Speaker 1: projecting through the screen. It's one of the keys to 259 00:18:56,835 --> 00:19:00,395 Speaker 1: the successive say Bill O'Reilly, who comes through the screen? 260 00:19:00,635 --> 00:19:03,235 Speaker 1: Well that's a terrifying thought. Who comes through the screen 261 00:19:03,315 --> 00:19:06,955 Speaker 1: and grabs you by the wrote Palin two projects through 262 00:19:06,995 --> 00:19:10,955 Speaker 1: the screen like crazy. I'm sure I'm not the only 263 00:19:10,995 --> 00:19:14,275 Speaker 1: male in America who when Palin dropped her first wink, 264 00:19:14,715 --> 00:19:19,355 Speaker 1: set up a little straighter on the couch and said, hey, 265 00:19:19,875 --> 00:19:23,595 Speaker 1: I think she just winked at me. And her smile 266 00:19:24,355 --> 00:19:26,995 Speaker 1: by the end, when she clearly knew she was doing well, 267 00:19:27,035 --> 00:19:30,395 Speaker 1: it was so sparkling, it was almost mesmerizing. Its tint 268 00:19:30,635 --> 00:19:34,955 Speaker 1: little starbursts through the screen, ricocheting around the living rooms 269 00:19:34,995 --> 00:19:38,435 Speaker 1: of America. This is a quality that can't be learned. 270 00:19:38,475 --> 00:19:41,115 Speaker 1: It's either something you have or you don't. And man, 271 00:19:41,795 --> 00:19:46,675 Speaker 1: she's got it. No, no, she doesn't. Dateline Pennsylvania. If 272 00:19:46,675 --> 00:19:49,195 Speaker 1: you think Doug Mastriano, who must go to sleep dreaming 273 00:19:49,195 --> 00:19:52,155 Speaker 1: of fighting at Gettysburg for the South, would be a 274 00:19:52,195 --> 00:19:55,795 Speaker 1: disaster as governor of Pennsylvania turns out his possible secretary 275 00:19:55,835 --> 00:19:59,035 Speaker 1: state might be worse. Media Matters for America reports that 276 00:19:59,115 --> 00:20:03,395 Speaker 1: two years ago, on nine eleven, Tony Shoop posted twenty 277 00:20:03,515 --> 00:20:07,435 Speaker 1: nine separate and eleven truth or conspiracy theories, including that 278 00:20:07,515 --> 00:20:11,395 Speaker 1: the crash of Flight ninety three in Pennsylvania was faked. 279 00:20:11,875 --> 00:20:14,315 Speaker 1: M m f A also reports Shoop has called Q 280 00:20:14,475 --> 00:20:18,195 Speaker 1: and on a very valuable resources and pizza gate quote 281 00:20:18,235 --> 00:20:21,955 Speaker 1: absolutely real and date line Madison, Wisconsin. What do you 282 00:20:22,035 --> 00:20:25,275 Speaker 1: do after you've been a fake elector who signed the 283 00:20:25,355 --> 00:20:28,835 Speaker 1: fake electoral slate paperwork that may still land all the 284 00:20:28,835 --> 00:20:32,715 Speaker 1: election fraud stories and fake electors in prison? If you 285 00:20:32,755 --> 00:20:35,715 Speaker 1: are Pam Travis, you go to work for the re 286 00:20:35,795 --> 00:20:40,035 Speaker 1: election campaign of the dead eyed Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson. 287 00:20:40,115 --> 00:20:44,675 Speaker 1: Of course you do. Johnson spokesperson has confirmed Travis's employment, 288 00:20:44,675 --> 00:20:49,275 Speaker 1: but added quote, she's a grassroots staffer, answering phones this 289 00:20:49,355 --> 00:20:54,675 Speaker 1: is being blown way out of proportion, or is it 290 00:21:07,835 --> 00:21:14,115 Speaker 1: this is Sports Center. Wait, check that not anymore. This 291 00:21:15,115 --> 00:21:21,355 Speaker 1: is Countdown with Keith in Sports Serena Williams continues her 292 00:21:22,475 --> 00:21:25,195 Speaker 1: Jimmy Connor's impression at the US Open. At the age 293 00:21:25,195 --> 00:21:27,875 Speaker 1: of forty one, she has now knocked off the second 294 00:21:27,955 --> 00:21:31,675 Speaker 1: ranked player in the world, a net Contivate seven six 295 00:21:31,755 --> 00:21:34,675 Speaker 1: two six six two. And it's not like Contivate had 296 00:21:34,715 --> 00:21:38,875 Speaker 1: a bad night. It's just that Serena shot eleven aces 297 00:21:38,955 --> 00:21:49,875 Speaker 1: passed her. Thank you, Nancy Faust. What was that about? Connors, 298 00:21:51,075 --> 00:21:54,595 Speaker 1: at age thirty eight and eight years removed from his 299 00:21:54,755 --> 00:21:58,235 Speaker 1: last Open title, Jimmy Connors Rallied from two sets down 300 00:21:58,315 --> 00:22:01,395 Speaker 1: and three zip in the third to win his opening 301 00:22:01,435 --> 00:22:04,595 Speaker 1: match against Patrick McEnroe. By the time Connors had beat 302 00:22:04,795 --> 00:22:07,475 Speaker 1: Paul Harhus to get to the Semis, he had already 303 00:22:07,475 --> 00:22:10,115 Speaker 1: turned thirty nine and I got blown out in that 304 00:22:10,195 --> 00:22:12,835 Speaker 1: last match, but he had re energized the US Open 305 00:22:12,835 --> 00:22:16,795 Speaker 1: and the after globe lasted several years baseball. It can't 306 00:22:16,835 --> 00:22:19,515 Speaker 1: be Why did they do this? When the Miami Marlins 307 00:22:19,555 --> 00:22:22,515 Speaker 1: activated picture Trevor Rogers from the injured list, they had 308 00:22:22,555 --> 00:22:25,195 Speaker 1: to get rid of somebody, so they designated for assignment 309 00:22:25,235 --> 00:22:32,555 Speaker 1: another picture reliever Jake fish Man. Yes, the Marlins dropped 310 00:22:32,555 --> 00:22:37,875 Speaker 1: a player named fish Man. They threw him back catch 311 00:22:37,955 --> 00:22:40,995 Speaker 1: and release. Fishman of the Marlins was one of those 312 00:22:41,035 --> 00:22:45,035 Speaker 1: guys like Johnny Padres of the Padres or Butch Metzker 313 00:22:45,075 --> 00:22:47,915 Speaker 1: of the Mets, or Jose Cardinal of the Cardinals, Ted 314 00:22:47,995 --> 00:22:51,515 Speaker 1: Cox of the Red Sox, Mini Mendoza of Minnesota, Jason 315 00:22:51,555 --> 00:22:56,595 Speaker 1: Castro the Astro, and Angel Bravo who played for the 316 00:22:56,595 --> 00:22:59,275 Speaker 1: Reds and the Padres, but neither the Angels or the Bravos. 317 00:22:59,635 --> 00:23:02,235 Speaker 1: And among active players Rangers Suarez of Philly who has 318 00:23:02,275 --> 00:23:04,635 Speaker 1: never played for the Rangers, and Colorado Picture den Elsa 319 00:23:04,755 --> 00:23:08,635 Speaker 1: Lament who has yet to pitch for Lamets. Big Night 320 00:23:08,675 --> 00:23:12,315 Speaker 1: in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, thirty five years ago. Last night, the 321 00:23:12,395 --> 00:23:16,075 Speaker 1: Reading Phillies of the Eastern League led the Williamsport Bills 322 00:23:16,155 --> 00:23:18,275 Speaker 1: of the Eastern League one nothing. In the fifth inning. 323 00:23:18,595 --> 00:23:21,955 Speaker 1: Redding's Rick Lundblade was at third base when the Williamsport 324 00:23:22,035 --> 00:23:25,715 Speaker 1: catcher Dave Bresnahan asked the umpire behind the plate, Scott Potter, 325 00:23:25,795 --> 00:23:28,235 Speaker 1: for time out. Presnihan said there was something wrong with 326 00:23:28,275 --> 00:23:30,035 Speaker 1: his glove and he needed to run to the dugout 327 00:23:30,035 --> 00:23:32,035 Speaker 1: to switch to his backup glove, and the ump agreed. 328 00:23:32,235 --> 00:23:34,875 Speaker 1: It only took a moment. On the next pitch, Bresnahan 329 00:23:34,955 --> 00:23:37,675 Speaker 1: tried to pick off that runner at third Lundblade, but 330 00:23:37,755 --> 00:23:40,955 Speaker 1: instead threw the ball over his third baseman's head and 331 00:23:41,075 --> 00:23:46,155 Speaker 1: into the outfield. The runner Lundblade trotted home, where Bresnahan 332 00:23:46,315 --> 00:23:50,915 Speaker 1: tagged him out with the baseball. Pandemonium reigned for several months. 333 00:23:50,915 --> 00:23:54,195 Speaker 1: Nobody knew actually what had happened. Then Redding's manager put 334 00:23:54,195 --> 00:23:58,635 Speaker 1: the pieces together. Literally. When catcher Bresnahan had changed gloves, 335 00:23:58,675 --> 00:24:02,195 Speaker 1: his new one had contained a potato. He had not 336 00:24:02,355 --> 00:24:06,835 Speaker 1: thrown a baseball into the outfield. He had thrown a potato. 337 00:24:06,915 --> 00:24:09,075 Speaker 1: It came apart when it landed, and there were little 338 00:24:09,115 --> 00:24:12,835 Speaker 1: pieces in left field. The crowd roared. When everybody figured 339 00:24:12,835 --> 00:24:15,275 Speaker 1: this out, the umpire potter said the runner was not 340 00:24:15,395 --> 00:24:17,115 Speaker 1: out and the run had to count. And it quickly 341 00:24:17,155 --> 00:24:20,155 Speaker 1: turned out bresd Han had been planning this practical joke 342 00:24:20,235 --> 00:24:24,035 Speaker 1: with the potato for weeks. His teammates were in hysterics. 343 00:24:24,035 --> 00:24:27,395 Speaker 1: Even some of the Redding players were delighted. The management 344 00:24:27,435 --> 00:24:30,115 Speaker 1: of the Williams Sport Bills were not. The next day, 345 00:24:30,155 --> 00:24:33,435 Speaker 1: they in their Major League affiliate, Cleveland fired Dave breast 346 00:24:33,555 --> 00:24:36,435 Speaker 1: Hand caught him from the roster. Bresd Hand later admitted 347 00:24:36,435 --> 00:24:38,515 Speaker 1: he didn't think he had much of a career left anyway. 348 00:24:38,555 --> 00:24:40,555 Speaker 1: He was twenty five years old, playing in Double A 349 00:24:40,635 --> 00:24:44,315 Speaker 1: minor league baseball and hitting one fifty. He never played again, 350 00:24:44,795 --> 00:24:47,235 Speaker 1: but within a week Dave Bresdhand was a guest on 351 00:24:47,355 --> 00:24:50,515 Speaker 1: David Letterman Show and on the TV Baseball Game of 352 00:24:50,515 --> 00:24:53,475 Speaker 1: the Week. The following May, the Williams Sport Bills, in 353 00:24:53,515 --> 00:24:57,515 Speaker 1: an incredible reversal, held Dave breast Hand Night and retired 354 00:24:57,595 --> 00:25:01,355 Speaker 1: his uniform number. In two thousand seven, on the twentieth 355 00:25:01,395 --> 00:25:05,155 Speaker 1: anniversary of Potato Gate, a new Williams Sport team called 356 00:25:05,155 --> 00:25:08,875 Speaker 1: the Crosscutters also retired bresne Han's uniform number, and they 357 00:25:08,875 --> 00:25:13,195 Speaker 1: inducted him into their Hall of Fame. Last night, thirty 358 00:25:13,195 --> 00:25:16,315 Speaker 1: five years to the day of Potato Ball, the team 359 00:25:16,435 --> 00:25:19,355 Speaker 1: changed their name for one night only to the Williams 360 00:25:19,355 --> 00:25:23,915 Speaker 1: Sports Great Potato Capers and thousands of Spans Welcome to 361 00:25:23,995 --> 00:25:27,635 Speaker 1: Dave Bresnahan back, and the players all wore special uniforms 362 00:25:27,675 --> 00:25:32,955 Speaker 1: bearing images of potatoes and bearing Dave Bresnahan's name, all 363 00:25:32,955 --> 00:25:35,195 Speaker 1: of which adds up to the following. If he was 364 00:25:35,235 --> 00:25:38,995 Speaker 1: not before, Dave Bresnahan certainly is now more well known 365 00:25:39,515 --> 00:25:42,355 Speaker 1: than his great uncle, well, who the hell is his 366 00:25:42,395 --> 00:25:46,075 Speaker 1: great uncle Roger Bresnahan, who is not just a former 367 00:25:46,115 --> 00:25:49,155 Speaker 1: Major League player and manager, but a Hall of Fame 368 00:25:49,235 --> 00:25:52,635 Speaker 1: player and manager, as one of the best of the 369 00:25:52,715 --> 00:26:10,515 Speaker 1: early catchers without potatoes still ahead, it's back to school time, 370 00:26:10,515 --> 00:26:12,355 Speaker 1: and I want to tell you about my college professor 371 00:26:12,395 --> 00:26:15,075 Speaker 1: who nearly failed us all after his favorite football team 372 00:26:15,115 --> 00:26:17,195 Speaker 1: lost a game in one of the worst chokes in 373 00:26:17,235 --> 00:26:21,635 Speaker 1: sports history. First, the daily roundup of the misgrants, morons 374 00:26:21,635 --> 00:26:26,115 Speaker 1: and Dunning Kruger effect specimens who constitute today's worst persons 375 00:26:26,155 --> 00:26:30,515 Speaker 1: in the world, lebronze to the folks at Odyssey Radio 376 00:26:30,595 --> 00:26:33,515 Speaker 1: and Audio and podcasts and stuff. Evidently somebody in quality 377 00:26:33,515 --> 00:26:36,395 Speaker 1: control took the month off. First, it was a spot 378 00:26:36,435 --> 00:26:39,035 Speaker 1: that announced the Odyssey Baseball Player of the Week, that 379 00:26:39,155 --> 00:26:43,195 Speaker 1: rendering audio streams of Major League games like forty million 380 00:26:43,235 --> 00:26:46,475 Speaker 1: times in one week, saluting Chicago White Sox pitcher Johnny 381 00:26:46,635 --> 00:26:51,795 Speaker 1: Quto mispronounced his name like that three times in thirty seconds. Quto, 382 00:26:51,915 --> 00:26:55,395 Speaker 1: It's quato c u e t o. He has been 383 00:26:55,475 --> 00:26:58,675 Speaker 1: a major league pitcher since two thousand eight. It's always 384 00:26:58,715 --> 00:27:02,555 Speaker 1: been quato. That spot has been mercifully retired. But now 385 00:27:02,595 --> 00:27:05,595 Speaker 1: some Odyssey music news spot is running forty million times 386 00:27:05,675 --> 00:27:08,995 Speaker 1: all day everywhere reporting the remix of the Beatles album 387 00:27:09,315 --> 00:27:12,515 Speaker 1: by the producers son of the legendary producer of the Beatles, 388 00:27:12,515 --> 00:27:16,315 Speaker 1: George Martin, Giles Martin his son, except Odyssey has called 389 00:27:16,395 --> 00:27:24,035 Speaker 1: him Gills Gills Martin. Maybe he's half fish. The runner up. 390 00:27:24,035 --> 00:27:27,915 Speaker 1: Gavin mckinnis, the comically bearded founder of the hilariously misnamed 391 00:27:27,955 --> 00:27:33,315 Speaker 1: Proud Boys fascist poser group troubled with declining influence. He 392 00:27:33,355 --> 00:27:34,995 Speaker 1: was in the middle of a live scream a week 393 00:27:35,035 --> 00:27:37,875 Speaker 1: ago when he indicated somebody had entered his Bronx studio 394 00:27:37,955 --> 00:27:41,275 Speaker 1: without his permission. Mckinnis got off, went off camera, was 395 00:27:41,315 --> 00:27:44,315 Speaker 1: heard talking off microphone, and has not been seen since. 396 00:27:44,835 --> 00:27:47,995 Speaker 1: For days. His right wing nut job fans were convinced 397 00:27:48,075 --> 00:27:52,075 Speaker 1: mckinnis had been arrested, presumably by the FBI, but a 398 00:27:52,155 --> 00:27:55,475 Speaker 1: mckinnis confidant named Owen Benjamin has now posted what he 399 00:27:55,515 --> 00:28:00,235 Speaker 1: says is a text exchange with mckinnis. Benjamin expresses his concern, 400 00:28:00,355 --> 00:28:05,875 Speaker 1: and mckinnis supposedly replies, quote prank, don't tell. Benjamin responds, 401 00:28:05,915 --> 00:28:08,475 Speaker 1: so you're just gonna pretend the FBI rated your studio. 402 00:28:08,595 --> 00:28:12,755 Speaker 1: Tons of people are texting me freaking out. Mckinnis's purported response, 403 00:28:12,955 --> 00:28:15,835 Speaker 1: I never said they did. L A magazine has a 404 00:28:15,875 --> 00:28:19,635 Speaker 1: cute PostScript. It reports Gavin mckinnis wasn't arrested. He went 405 00:28:19,635 --> 00:28:23,155 Speaker 1: on vacation with his wife to the south of France, 406 00:28:23,555 --> 00:28:26,595 Speaker 1: which is exactly like being rated by the FBI. If 407 00:28:26,635 --> 00:28:29,355 Speaker 1: you're an idiot, mckinnis may need a lawyer, May I 408 00:28:29,395 --> 00:28:33,235 Speaker 1: suggest Elena Habba. But our winner Chuck Todd, host of 409 00:28:33,355 --> 00:28:36,235 Speaker 1: NBC's Meet the Press, at least he was the last 410 00:28:36,275 --> 00:28:39,755 Speaker 1: time I checked. But Todd is now shot back against 411 00:28:39,795 --> 00:28:41,315 Speaker 1: the reports that he's not going to be the host 412 00:28:41,395 --> 00:28:44,195 Speaker 1: much longer. The Daily Beast Lackland Cartwright is standing by 413 00:28:44,275 --> 00:28:47,595 Speaker 1: his reporting from Monday that the removal of his longstanding 414 00:28:47,635 --> 00:28:51,795 Speaker 1: executive producer after a ratings drop of one year is 415 00:28:51,795 --> 00:28:55,555 Speaker 1: a possibly fatal sign for Chuck Todd. Quoting Cartwright, NBC 416 00:28:55,675 --> 00:28:58,955 Speaker 1: White House correspondent Kristen Welker is being groomed to replace Todd. 417 00:28:59,035 --> 00:29:01,915 Speaker 1: Multiple insiders with knowledge of the matter said, and he 418 00:29:01,995 --> 00:29:06,235 Speaker 1: quoted the multiple insider asking, at what point does anyone 419 00:29:06,275 --> 00:29:08,795 Speaker 1: have the balls to say, maybe the problem is the 420 00:29:08,795 --> 00:29:12,115 Speaker 1: face of it. At dinner time yesterday the face of it, 421 00:29:12,275 --> 00:29:16,595 Speaker 1: Chuck Todd cryptically tweeted a link, just a link, no comment, 422 00:29:16,715 --> 00:29:19,435 Speaker 1: just a link to dictionary dot com and the quote 423 00:29:19,795 --> 00:29:23,995 Speaker 1: definition of the reports of my death are greatly exaggerated unquote. 424 00:29:24,555 --> 00:29:27,395 Speaker 1: An hour later, Todd tweeted another link, just the link, 425 00:29:27,435 --> 00:29:30,075 Speaker 1: no comment, just a link to YouTube and a video 426 00:29:30,155 --> 00:29:33,195 Speaker 1: of the embattled quarterback of the Green Bay Packers, Aaron Rodgers, 427 00:29:33,195 --> 00:29:36,955 Speaker 1: spelling out the word relax. Exactly what Chuck is going 428 00:29:36,995 --> 00:29:40,075 Speaker 1: for here is unclear, but that link he tweeted for 429 00:29:40,195 --> 00:29:43,155 Speaker 1: the reports of my death are greatly exaggerated, it sends 430 00:29:43,195 --> 00:29:46,035 Speaker 1: you to dictionary dot COM's entry for that familiar phrase, 431 00:29:46,075 --> 00:29:48,635 Speaker 1: which is quote the text of a cable sent by 432 00:29:48,635 --> 00:29:51,115 Speaker 1: Mark Twain from London to the press in the United 433 00:29:51,155 --> 00:29:55,715 Speaker 1: States after his obituary had been mistakenly published. Mark Twain 434 00:29:55,795 --> 00:29:59,435 Speaker 1: never sent that cable and never said or wrote that sentence. 435 00:29:59,755 --> 00:30:03,595 Speaker 1: On June one, and English based journalist from the New 436 00:30:03,675 --> 00:30:05,995 Speaker 1: York Journal got all hold of Twain to comment on 437 00:30:06,075 --> 00:30:09,915 Speaker 1: rumors that Twain was dying in poverty in London. The 438 00:30:09,955 --> 00:30:13,195 Speaker 1: reporter explained he found Twain in fact living in luxury 439 00:30:13,235 --> 00:30:16,155 Speaker 1: in Chelsea in London, and that Twain told him the 440 00:30:16,235 --> 00:30:18,875 Speaker 1: rumor had originated when a cousin of his had become 441 00:30:18,915 --> 00:30:22,595 Speaker 1: gravely ill in St. Louis. Quoting Mark Twain, the report 442 00:30:22,595 --> 00:30:25,755 Speaker 1: of my illness grew out of his illness. The report 443 00:30:25,755 --> 00:30:30,155 Speaker 1: of my death was an exaggeration. In short, Chuck Todd 444 00:30:30,195 --> 00:30:32,395 Speaker 1: tweeted out a link to something that was never said 445 00:30:33,275 --> 00:30:35,875 Speaker 1: in a cable that was never sent about a story 446 00:30:35,915 --> 00:30:38,795 Speaker 1: that was never published, which is kind of Chuck Todd 447 00:30:38,795 --> 00:30:46,035 Speaker 1: in a nutshell Chuck accuracy, shm accuracy Todd two Day's 448 00:30:46,035 --> 00:31:05,395 Speaker 1: worst person in the World. Finally to the number one 449 00:31:05,435 --> 00:31:08,955 Speaker 1: story on the Countdown and my favorite topic, me and 450 00:31:09,075 --> 00:31:14,075 Speaker 1: things I promised not to tell so September again. I 451 00:31:14,115 --> 00:31:17,475 Speaker 1: literally don't know anybody who ever shakes the childhood dread 452 00:31:17,475 --> 00:31:20,515 Speaker 1: of back to school days in August and the beginning 453 00:31:20,515 --> 00:31:24,715 Speaker 1: of September. Third grade, high school, college, doesn't matter. Forty 454 00:31:24,755 --> 00:31:28,915 Speaker 1: four degrees, ninety four degrees doesn't matter. It's September, and 455 00:31:28,955 --> 00:31:33,155 Speaker 1: by now the dread even if you liked. School remains 456 00:31:33,635 --> 00:31:38,915 Speaker 1: until the day you die, especially if it invokes memories 457 00:31:38,955 --> 00:31:40,755 Speaker 1: like the one I have about the day I nearly 458 00:31:40,795 --> 00:31:44,915 Speaker 1: failed a four credit course in college because of a 459 00:31:45,035 --> 00:31:49,755 Speaker 1: fumble in a professional football game. Forty four years ago. 460 00:31:49,795 --> 00:31:52,915 Speaker 1: This week, I actually walked reluctantly but proudly into a 461 00:31:52,915 --> 00:31:55,675 Speaker 1: class at Cornell University, if I remember correctly, To get 462 00:31:55,715 --> 00:32:00,275 Speaker 1: into Professor Joel Sylby's nine Century American History course, eight 463 00:32:00,315 --> 00:32:04,515 Speaker 1: credits spanning two semesters, I had to get special permission 464 00:32:04,555 --> 00:32:07,195 Speaker 1: for the History department because I was not a history major. 465 00:32:07,555 --> 00:32:10,075 Speaker 1: I just took all the history classes they would let me, 466 00:32:10,195 --> 00:32:12,955 Speaker 1: and this was one of the best ones. And I 467 00:32:12,955 --> 00:32:16,035 Speaker 1: remember Professor Silby's first lecture and the accent and the 468 00:32:16,035 --> 00:32:18,955 Speaker 1: mannerisms that quickly identified him not only as a fellow 469 00:32:19,075 --> 00:32:22,915 Speaker 1: native New Yorker, but as a brooke Knight and a 470 00:32:22,995 --> 00:32:25,875 Speaker 1: Brooklyn Knight fan of, as he quickly told us the 471 00:32:25,915 --> 00:32:30,635 Speaker 1: New York football giants. What Professor Joel Silby said next 472 00:32:30,675 --> 00:32:33,275 Speaker 1: caused the I think it was two hundred or so 473 00:32:33,395 --> 00:32:36,875 Speaker 1: other students in the lecture hall to laugh, all of 474 00:32:36,915 --> 00:32:41,275 Speaker 1: them except me, because I was the sports director of 475 00:32:41,315 --> 00:32:44,315 Speaker 1: the Cornhill Student owned radio station, and in those days 476 00:32:44,355 --> 00:32:48,795 Speaker 1: you could actually know everything about and everybody in all 477 00:32:48,915 --> 00:32:51,235 Speaker 1: the national sports off the top of your head. And 478 00:32:51,315 --> 00:32:53,355 Speaker 1: usually that meant you could figure out all the teams 479 00:32:53,355 --> 00:32:55,955 Speaker 1: and all the sports that had the slightest chance of succeeding, 480 00:32:56,315 --> 00:32:58,395 Speaker 1: and all the teams and all the sports that did 481 00:32:58,435 --> 00:33:01,835 Speaker 1: not end. The New York Football Giants did not. I 482 00:33:01,875 --> 00:33:03,915 Speaker 1: want you to know, I grade the papers, not the 483 00:33:03,955 --> 00:33:07,475 Speaker 1: teaching assist me, and I happen to be a lifelong, 484 00:33:07,875 --> 00:33:11,635 Speaker 1: therefore long suffering fan of the New York Football Giants. 485 00:33:12,515 --> 00:33:15,075 Speaker 1: I saw my first Giants game in nineteen forty five, 486 00:33:15,515 --> 00:33:18,235 Speaker 1: and over the years I happened to develop this habit 487 00:33:18,275 --> 00:33:20,915 Speaker 1: of grading your papers on Sunday afternoons and evenings right 488 00:33:20,955 --> 00:33:24,675 Speaker 1: after I watch my New York Football Giants. So, to 489 00:33:24,755 --> 00:33:29,195 Speaker 1: some degree great or small, your grade will depend on 490 00:33:29,235 --> 00:33:32,755 Speaker 1: how well the New York Football Giants do in this 491 00:33:32,875 --> 00:33:37,915 Speaker 1: nineteen seventy eight National Football League season. On ninety nine 492 00:33:37,915 --> 00:33:42,835 Speaker 1: of Joel Silby students laughed, I emitted a low moan, 493 00:33:44,875 --> 00:33:48,235 Speaker 1: since they had gone to five NFL championship games in 494 00:33:48,275 --> 00:33:51,235 Speaker 1: the six seasons ending in nineteen sixty three and lost 495 00:33:51,355 --> 00:33:55,035 Speaker 1: all five. By the way, the Giants had had exactly 496 00:33:55,115 --> 00:33:58,395 Speaker 1: two winning seasons, and they had lost nine of fourteen 497 00:33:58,435 --> 00:34:01,595 Speaker 1: games the year before nineteen seventy seven. Though they had 498 00:34:01,635 --> 00:34:04,475 Speaker 1: opened this nineteen seventy eight season with a narrow victory 499 00:34:04,475 --> 00:34:07,195 Speaker 1: over a very bad Tampa Bay team, and the first 500 00:34:07,195 --> 00:34:09,355 Speaker 1: half of their schedule had as many as four more 501 00:34:09,355 --> 00:34:11,915 Speaker 1: opponents who they might be better than. They would be 502 00:34:11,955 --> 00:34:14,355 Speaker 1: lucky to win two games in the second half of 503 00:34:14,355 --> 00:34:17,635 Speaker 1: the season. When I got back to the radio station, 504 00:34:17,635 --> 00:34:22,035 Speaker 1: I looked at the Giants schedule and Professor Sylvie's class schedule, 505 00:34:22,475 --> 00:34:27,995 Speaker 1: and I circled one critical day when the schedules converged, Sunday, November. 506 00:34:30,355 --> 00:34:34,595 Speaker 1: Our term papers were due on Thursday. The he could 507 00:34:34,595 --> 00:34:39,275 Speaker 1: actually read them all after the Giants Eagles game that 508 00:34:39,435 --> 00:34:43,115 Speaker 1: night in the following day. Amazingly, your New York Football 509 00:34:43,195 --> 00:34:46,915 Speaker 1: Giants actually opened the season winning three of their first four. 510 00:34:47,395 --> 00:34:49,635 Speaker 1: In the middle of October, they were still five and three, 511 00:34:49,675 --> 00:34:52,595 Speaker 1: and in the history lecture room, Professor Sylvie was very happy, 512 00:34:52,755 --> 00:34:56,755 Speaker 1: and he often recreated highlights of his glorious Giants pleasing success, 513 00:34:57,035 --> 00:35:00,195 Speaker 1: and he was furiously fan boeing on the new quarterback 514 00:35:00,235 --> 00:35:06,635 Speaker 1: they brought in from the Canadian League, Joe Pisarcik. If 515 00:35:06,675 --> 00:35:09,355 Speaker 1: you are a football history fan, or god forbid, a 516 00:35:09,355 --> 00:35:12,715 Speaker 1: fan of the New York Football Giants, you already know 517 00:35:12,755 --> 00:35:16,355 Speaker 1: where I'm going with this. The Giants lost the next 518 00:35:16,395 --> 00:35:19,115 Speaker 1: three games, and then our term papers were due on 519 00:35:19,195 --> 00:35:23,675 Speaker 1: November sixteenth, and Joel Silby turned morose, and I was 520 00:35:23,715 --> 00:35:26,715 Speaker 1: at the radio station watching the Giants Eagles game of 521 00:35:26,715 --> 00:35:29,035 Speaker 1: the nineteenth on a big black and white TV in 522 00:35:29,035 --> 00:35:34,595 Speaker 1: the lounge when my nightmare unfolded impossibly. The Giants led 523 00:35:34,595 --> 00:35:37,995 Speaker 1: the much better Philadelphia Eagles fourteen nothing after the first quarter, 524 00:35:38,155 --> 00:35:41,755 Speaker 1: for Sargic threw two touchdown passes. After the third quarter, 525 00:35:41,755 --> 00:35:45,155 Speaker 1: it was still seventeen to six Giants. Then the Eagles scored, 526 00:35:45,155 --> 00:35:46,995 Speaker 1: and they were driving to go ahead with a minute 527 00:35:46,995 --> 00:35:49,235 Speaker 1: and a half left in the game, when the impossible 528 00:35:49,315 --> 00:35:52,755 Speaker 1: happened deep in Giants territory. The Philly quarterback through an 529 00:35:52,755 --> 00:35:56,835 Speaker 1: interception with eighty three seconds left and in possession of 530 00:35:56,835 --> 00:36:00,755 Speaker 1: the ball. The Giants led seventeen. The crowd at the 531 00:36:00,835 --> 00:36:05,155 Speaker 1: radio station was ecstatic. I was even more at static. 532 00:36:05,635 --> 00:36:08,475 Speaker 1: All the Giants now had to do was stall and 533 00:36:08,555 --> 00:36:12,115 Speaker 1: have the quarterback fall on the ball, maybe twice, as 534 00:36:12,155 --> 00:36:15,195 Speaker 1: if he had heard me. The quarterback Joe Pisarchic fell 535 00:36:15,275 --> 00:36:18,875 Speaker 1: on the ball. Then he nearly killed me by handing 536 00:36:18,915 --> 00:36:21,235 Speaker 1: the ball off to his running back, Larry Zonka, who 537 00:36:21,235 --> 00:36:23,315 Speaker 1: plowed up the middle to get a first down and 538 00:36:23,435 --> 00:36:27,155 Speaker 1: burn another thirty seconds off the clock. The Eagles called 539 00:36:27,195 --> 00:36:30,275 Speaker 1: their last time out, thirty one seconds left, thirty one 540 00:36:30,315 --> 00:36:33,675 Speaker 1: seconds to my grade and Joel Silby's nineteenth century American 541 00:36:33,715 --> 00:36:37,875 Speaker 1: history class probably ending up being half or maybe even 542 00:36:37,955 --> 00:36:41,155 Speaker 1: a full grade better than I deserved. All Joe Pisarchic 543 00:36:41,275 --> 00:36:43,355 Speaker 1: had to do was falling the damn ball again and 544 00:36:43,395 --> 00:36:49,755 Speaker 1: it was over. However, on the Giant sideline, offensive coordinator 545 00:36:49,795 --> 00:36:52,955 Speaker 1: Bob Gibson decided that the safe play, the winning play, 546 00:36:53,075 --> 00:36:55,675 Speaker 1: was for Joe pas Archic to hand the ball off 547 00:36:55,755 --> 00:36:58,475 Speaker 1: again to Larry Zanka. And now that might have been 548 00:36:58,515 --> 00:37:03,475 Speaker 1: the right play, only Bob Gibson and everybody else failed 549 00:37:03,555 --> 00:37:07,635 Speaker 1: to tell Arizonka. Larry Zanka assumed he was there just 550 00:37:07,675 --> 00:37:10,795 Speaker 1: to block for Joe Pisarchic, as Joe Pisarchic collapsed to 551 00:37:10,835 --> 00:37:13,075 Speaker 1: the turf and ran out the clock and got me 552 00:37:13,115 --> 00:37:16,595 Speaker 1: a better grade. Instead, Pisarchik handed the ball to where 553 00:37:16,675 --> 00:37:20,275 Speaker 1: Zanka's hands should have been, except Larry Zanka was in 554 00:37:20,275 --> 00:37:23,395 Speaker 1: a blocking stance and Pisarchic in fact handed it off 555 00:37:23,395 --> 00:37:29,635 Speaker 1: directly to Larry Zonka's helmet. I screamed. The ball bounced 556 00:37:29,675 --> 00:37:31,795 Speaker 1: once off the turf and directly into the hands of 557 00:37:31,795 --> 00:37:35,635 Speaker 1: Philadelphia cornerback Herman Edwards. I continued to scream. There was 558 00:37:35,675 --> 00:37:38,475 Speaker 1: nobody near Edwards, and he scooted twenty six yards into 559 00:37:38,475 --> 00:37:40,515 Speaker 1: the end zone, and the Giants lost the damn game 560 00:37:40,595 --> 00:37:43,635 Speaker 1: nineteen seventeen in the last seconds, And as the Giants 561 00:37:43,635 --> 00:37:46,995 Speaker 1: fans at the radio station shouted or moaned or swore, 562 00:37:47,155 --> 00:37:49,955 Speaker 1: I could see Professor Joel Silby shutting off the TV, 563 00:37:50,355 --> 00:37:55,355 Speaker 1: grabbing our papers and sentencing us to hell, and I 564 00:37:55,435 --> 00:38:01,355 Speaker 1: continued to scream. Our term papers were returned on Tuesday 565 00:38:01,435 --> 00:38:05,075 Speaker 1: the twenty one, just before school broke for Thanksgiving. Actually 566 00:38:05,115 --> 00:38:08,075 Speaker 1: was thankful I got either a B or a B plus. 567 00:38:08,435 --> 00:38:10,395 Speaker 1: I can't find the paper. It should be somewhere in 568 00:38:10,395 --> 00:38:13,515 Speaker 1: a box. There was a rumor which I was never 569 00:38:13,555 --> 00:38:16,195 Speaker 1: able to confirm, that my B or B plus was 570 00:38:16,235 --> 00:38:20,555 Speaker 1: the highest grade in the class. I can confirm I 571 00:38:20,635 --> 00:38:24,395 Speaker 1: saw classmates most far more prepared and astute than myself. 572 00:38:24,755 --> 00:38:27,755 Speaker 1: Most of them history majors looking at their grades and 573 00:38:27,875 --> 00:38:32,595 Speaker 1: blanching visibly. One girl cried, a CEE, really a ce 574 00:38:34,635 --> 00:38:37,475 Speaker 1: Professor Joel Silby said, much of our grade would depend 575 00:38:37,475 --> 00:38:39,315 Speaker 1: on how well the New York Football Giants did in 576 00:38:39,315 --> 00:38:42,875 Speaker 1: that national football season, and my god, they had just 577 00:38:42,955 --> 00:38:45,075 Speaker 1: sustained a loss so bad that it has still talked 578 00:38:45,075 --> 00:38:50,635 Speaker 1: about to this day. My classmates did not listen, and 579 00:38:50,915 --> 00:38:57,755 Speaker 1: I only am escaped alone to tell thee there is 580 00:38:57,755 --> 00:39:02,515 Speaker 1: a PostScript. The PostScript takes place thirty two and one 581 00:39:02,595 --> 00:39:06,675 Speaker 1: half years later. I returned to Cornell in March of 582 00:39:06,715 --> 00:39:09,835 Speaker 1: two thousand eleven to give a lecture and teach a 583 00:39:09,915 --> 00:39:13,155 Speaker 1: series of classes to students who no longer afterwards felt 584 00:39:13,195 --> 00:39:16,315 Speaker 1: they had gotten their full money from the university. My 585 00:39:16,355 --> 00:39:19,315 Speaker 1: alma mater was very kind to me. They gave me 586 00:39:19,355 --> 00:39:21,475 Speaker 1: a tour of the secret places they never would have 587 00:39:21,475 --> 00:39:23,995 Speaker 1: shown me when I was a struggling student, like where 588 00:39:24,035 --> 00:39:27,515 Speaker 1: they kept Cornell's copy of the Gettysburg address. And they 589 00:39:27,515 --> 00:39:30,435 Speaker 1: promised me something special for lunch the first day, And 590 00:39:30,515 --> 00:39:33,035 Speaker 1: sure enough I was dropped off at a restaurant, and there, 591 00:39:33,635 --> 00:39:37,035 Speaker 1: rising from a table to greet me with applause, were 592 00:39:37,155 --> 00:39:41,435 Speaker 1: Cornell's official historian and former Professor Glenn Altshuler, and they're 593 00:39:41,555 --> 00:39:45,315 Speaker 1: very famous history Professor Walter la Faber and I swear 594 00:39:45,995 --> 00:39:52,475 Speaker 1: Professor Joel Silby, and they were fans of mine. Of course, 595 00:39:52,755 --> 00:39:56,355 Speaker 1: I could not leave well enough alone. After a few 596 00:39:56,395 --> 00:39:59,715 Speaker 1: minutes of very pleasant conversation with Mr alt Schuler and 597 00:39:59,715 --> 00:40:02,795 Speaker 1: Professor la Faber and Professor Sylby, I brought up the 598 00:40:02,875 --> 00:40:07,875 Speaker 1: night term paper joke sargic handoff story. Professor la Faber 599 00:40:07,915 --> 00:40:10,435 Speaker 1: looked at Professor Sylby like Professor Sylvie was out of 600 00:40:10,515 --> 00:40:15,595 Speaker 1: his mind. Is that true? And Sylvie smiled and said, yes, 601 00:40:16,555 --> 00:40:19,995 Speaker 1: yes it is. And then Joel Silby looked off into 602 00:40:20,035 --> 00:40:23,235 Speaker 1: the distance as if he were peering backwards through time. 603 00:40:25,995 --> 00:40:30,315 Speaker 1: That's when you could really enjoy being a professor. He 604 00:40:30,395 --> 00:40:34,475 Speaker 1: then looked back at me and smiled, Keith, you won't 605 00:40:34,475 --> 00:40:37,795 Speaker 1: believe this, but I actually graded those papers pretty fairly, 606 00:40:37,835 --> 00:40:41,835 Speaker 1: and I didn't follow through on my original plan. After 607 00:40:41,915 --> 00:40:44,155 Speaker 1: the fumble, I actually turned off the TV and I 608 00:40:44,195 --> 00:40:46,155 Speaker 1: sat there for a few minutes and I asked my 609 00:40:46,235 --> 00:40:49,275 Speaker 1: soul if it was okay for me to take my 610 00:40:49,395 --> 00:40:54,555 Speaker 1: revenge on the universe by failing all of you. La 611 00:40:54,595 --> 00:40:59,355 Speaker 1: favorite gulped. Oh, said Sylvie, it was so great to 612 00:40:59,355 --> 00:41:03,395 Speaker 1: be a professor back then. I laughed so much ahead 613 00:41:03,555 --> 00:41:07,035 Speaker 1: tears in my eyes. And then Silby said, okay, okay, 614 00:41:07,075 --> 00:41:08,995 Speaker 1: maybe I was a little unfair to you guys, but 615 00:41:09,515 --> 00:41:13,315 Speaker 1: you know, it's the Giants and you have to take 616 00:41:13,315 --> 00:41:14,955 Speaker 1: this as a whole. The year they won their first 617 00:41:14,995 --> 00:41:18,155 Speaker 1: Super Bowl was that eighty six. The final exam in 618 00:41:18,235 --> 00:41:20,715 Speaker 1: that class was like two days after they finished the 619 00:41:20,835 --> 00:41:23,275 Speaker 1: regular season, fourteen and two, eight o'clock in the morning. 620 00:41:23,435 --> 00:41:25,955 Speaker 1: So I go to the final c which I never do, 621 00:41:26,395 --> 00:41:29,115 Speaker 1: and I waited until they were all sitting there sweating, 622 00:41:29,515 --> 00:41:31,795 Speaker 1: and I said, remember last September when I told you 623 00:41:31,795 --> 00:41:33,715 Speaker 1: your grade will depend on how well the New York 624 00:41:33,755 --> 00:41:38,035 Speaker 1: Football Giants doing this nineteen eight six National Football League season, 625 00:41:38,875 --> 00:41:42,275 Speaker 1: And it was just silence, and I said, well, if 626 00:41:42,275 --> 00:41:45,275 Speaker 1: you didn't notice, they went fourteen and two, and I 627 00:41:45,315 --> 00:41:47,275 Speaker 1: haven't been this happy since when they won the title 628 00:41:47,315 --> 00:41:52,835 Speaker 1: in nineteen fifty six. So guess what, there's no final exam. 629 00:41:52,875 --> 00:41:55,995 Speaker 1: And nobody moved. So I said it again, there's no 630 00:41:56,235 --> 00:41:59,635 Speaker 1: final exam, Go home, go study for something else. Y'all 631 00:41:59,715 --> 00:42:02,755 Speaker 1: get a's. And then there was a couple of seconds 632 00:42:02,755 --> 00:42:05,555 Speaker 1: of silence, and they all simultaneously realized that was not kidding, 633 00:42:05,635 --> 00:42:10,275 Speaker 1: and everybody cheered and ran out into the sunshine. So 634 00:42:10,555 --> 00:42:13,835 Speaker 1: with me and professor's Ault, Shuler and la Faber now 635 00:42:13,915 --> 00:42:18,795 Speaker 1: in tears. Silby said, see it evens out? And I said, 636 00:42:19,035 --> 00:42:22,115 Speaker 1: the hell it does. I graduated in nine seventy nine. 637 00:42:22,155 --> 00:42:25,155 Speaker 1: How does it canceled final in six? Even it out 638 00:42:25,195 --> 00:42:28,915 Speaker 1: for me? Fella? Joel Silby thought for a second, and 639 00:42:28,915 --> 00:42:41,955 Speaker 1: then he said, well, I am buying you lunch. I've 640 00:42:41,955 --> 00:42:43,955 Speaker 1: done all the damage I can do here. This is 641 00:42:43,995 --> 00:42:46,435 Speaker 1: where I ask you to rate and review the podcasts. 642 00:42:47,035 --> 00:42:50,395 Speaker 1: One month in and we are number four in the 643 00:42:50,515 --> 00:42:55,435 Speaker 1: charts for news among all podcasts. Tell them we're better 644 00:42:55,475 --> 00:42:59,395 Speaker 1: than that? Why. The Countdown theme from Beethoven's Ninth arranged, 645 00:42:59,435 --> 00:43:02,115 Speaker 1: produced and performed by Countdown musical directors Brian Ray and 646 00:43:02,155 --> 00:43:05,435 Speaker 1: John Philip Chanelle. All orchestration and key boards by John 647 00:43:05,435 --> 00:43:09,315 Speaker 1: Philip Channel guitarist, bass and drums by Brian Ray. 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