Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Let
Speaker 1: me start, of course, with my best wishes to a
Speaker 1: man I still love no matter what. President Joe Biden
Speaker 1: after his diagnosis was revealed yesterday a prostate cancer which
Speaker 1: has also appeared in his bones, quoting. While this represents
Speaker 1: a more aggressive form of the disease, the cancer appears
Speaker 1: to be hormone sensitive, which allows for effective management. I
Speaker 1: am anything but an expert on this subject, except like you,
Speaker 1: probably a close witness, but as a man who is
Speaker 1: himself moving exceptionally too rapidly into Joe's age cohort, I
Speaker 1: will offer this I think hopeful insight. I cannot imagine
Speaker 1: this isn't a new development, newly found, and that he
Speaker 1: has not been frequently checked for this exact form of
Speaker 1: this DIY. Because my mother had breast cancer and my
Speaker 1: father had colon cancer, I get the entirety of that
Speaker 1: department checked with amazing frequency without going into too much detail.
Speaker 1: I have a urologist, so he necessarily has to check it.
Speaker 1: This year, I actually had him write a note I
Speaker 1: could carry with me to my GP, who weeks later
Speaker 1: wanted to check it, and my internist, who wanted to
Speaker 1: check it, and my Gastro who did check it before
Speaker 1: I could stop him. It is the exam of the moment,
Speaker 1: the long, unpleasant moment. Better safe than sorry. The concern here,
Speaker 1: obviously is Joe Biden's health and comfort. I know him enough, however,
Speaker 1: to believe that it has already occurred to him, that
Speaker 1: the timing of this terrible news carries with it one
Speaker 1: extraordinary irony. The car in which all of the Biden
Speaker 1: acuity truthers and reporters and book writers and finger waggers
Speaker 1: and editors in Washington has just stopped suddenly, and they
Speaker 1: have all been ejected from the vehicle in which they
Speaker 1: were climbing over each other in order to drive it
Speaker 1: faster and faster. And you deserve it utterly, Jake Tapper
Speaker 1: and Alex Thompson and Jonathan Allen and Robert her and
Speaker 1: Politico and the Washington Post, The Washington Post which yesterday
Speaker 1: morning printed a column which began, quote, the verdict is
Speaker 1: in Joe Biden is to blame unquote, which is why
Speaker 1: you never write a sentence like that more or later
Speaker 1: in worse persons. Now to Joe Biden's evil, worthless successor
Speaker 1: Trump has now descended to making threats against the Supreme
Speaker 1: Court under his own name, indirectly and stochastically under the
Speaker 1: names of others who's menacing. He reposts directly, directly and
Speaker 1: specifically towards the justices he himself appointed. This country is
Speaker 1: now in this frozen moment of madness in which its
Speaker 1: president isn't just ignoring or trying to veto the Judiciary
Speaker 1: and the Supreme Court, but actually encouraging violence against its justices.
Speaker 1: Trump has also now amplified at least fourteen posts demanding
Speaker 1: the arrest of the former FBI director James Comy, including
Speaker 1: one which claims Coomy's dumb photo post proves the assassination
Speaker 1: attempt against Trump last year was quote an inside job.
Speaker 1: At another post calling for quote public military tribunals for
Speaker 1: President Obama, a post that was actually captioned retruth if
Speaker 1: you want public military tribunals, which Trump retruthed. The President
Speaker 1: of the United States an asshole is actively endorsing or
Speaker 1: acquiescing to violence against the former president of the United
Speaker 1: States and the former FBI director, and most importantly against
Speaker 1: the Supreme Court the current justices right now because they
Speaker 1: endorse late last Friday, due process and the Constitution, rather
Speaker 1: than his belief that he has a dictatorial right to
Speaker 1: kidnap and rendition to other countries people off the streets
Speaker 1: of America. The most dangerous of these threats are by
Speaker 1: Mike Davis, the former Chuck Grassley Aid, the federalist hack
Speaker 1: behind the Article three project, the online bully and troll.
Speaker 1: Trump reposted them carefully, making sure not to comment in
Speaker 1: any way, as ever, keeping space between him and his henchmen.
Speaker 1: Davis on the ironically named quote truth unquote social Let's
Speaker 1: get this straight. Obama can drone strikes Americans, but Trump
Speaker 1: can't repel foreign terrorists. Biden can import over ten million
Speaker 1: illegal aliens, but Trump can't send them home without years
Speaker 1: of court process. Those are apparent hallucinations by mister Davis.
Speaker 1: The American people never agreed to this, not at our founding,
Speaker 1: not after the Civil War, not anytime since then, certainly
Speaker 1: not in the last election. The Supreme Court is heading
Speaker 1: down a perilous path. End of message, and note the
Speaker 1: careful vague wording quote a perilous path. Note also Davis's
Speaker 1: mischaracterization of the most recent election, in which Trump got
Speaker 1: a minority of the total vote and in which those
Speaker 1: suffering from MAGA disease have perverted into some kind of
Speaker 1: magic wand well, you voted for him, therefore you authorized
Speaker 1: him to break the law any way he damn well pleases.
Speaker 1: Later in a separate post, Davis also questioned the basic
Speaker 1: legitimacy of the Supreme Court's ruling and proposed subjecting its
Speaker 1: justices to at least the threat of imminent violence. Davis
Speaker 1: wants Trump to release those he and Davis claim are
Speaker 1: foreign and violent and terrorists near where the justices and
Speaker 1: their families and their presumed friends live. Quoting Davis again,
Speaker 1: the Supreme Court still has an illegal injunction on the
Speaker 1: President of the United States not possible preventing him from
Speaker 1: commanding military operations to expel these foreign terrorists. The President
Speaker 1: should have these terrorists near the Chevy Chase country Club
Speaker 1: with daytime release unquote. Besides the threat there, taken at
Speaker 1: face value, it is as cynical as any produced by
Speaker 1: Maga disease. So far, either the Supreme Court lets Trump
Speaker 1: kidnap and disappear people protected by law, or Trump should
Speaker 1: sick them on the members of the court. Apart from that,
Speaker 1: as the American Immigration Council Senior fellow Aaron Reichland Melnick
Speaker 1: notes Mike Davis's second post is full of lies. Quote
Speaker 1: the Alien Enemies Act. Deportations are not military operations, DHS
Speaker 1: runs them. Reichland Melnick also notes the injunction isn't against Trump,
Speaker 1: it's against DHS. A Supreme Court injunction, by definition, can't
Speaker 1: be illegal. The order made clear DHS can deport people normally,
Speaker 1: And of course mister Reichland Melnick is correct. But to
Speaker 1: the others with MAGA disease, Davis has simply used all
Speaker 1: the correct buzzwords. Invoke Obama and Biden, call the people
Speaker 1: abducted and renditioned by Trump terrorists, falsely connect what Trump
Speaker 1: is doing to his role as commander in chief, and
Speaker 1: pretend it is authorized because he and you use the
Speaker 1: phrase military operations vaguely suggest violence to be committed, of
Speaker 1: course by others. And of course, the nonsensical ellipsis calling
Speaker 1: a ruling of the Supreme Court illegal when the Supreme
Speaker 1: Court exists to interpret the Constitution and the deciding votes
Speaker 1: in this case were cast by justices Trump himself appointed.
Speaker 1: If you're going to point back to the last election,
Speaker 1: you have to point back to the election, so to speak,
Speaker 1: of these justices by Trump himself, final vote total one
Speaker 1: nothing on each of them. As to Trump himself, his
Speaker 1: usual cowardly response, reposting both of Davis's stochastic threats, pointing
Speaker 1: at those who have thwarted him, as he is always
Speaker 1: pointed at judges, politicians, foreign leaders, presidents, presidential candidates, reporters,
Speaker 1: anybody he thinks might be intimidated, and now the Supreme Court.
Speaker 1: Hoping that the scum who follow him will act, Trump
Speaker 1: wrote all caps, the Supreme Court won't allow us to
Speaker 1: get criminals out of our country. Well, you're still here.
Speaker 1: That was just the appetizer. This was the meal. The
Speaker 1: Supreme Court of the United States. Thanks for letting me
Speaker 1: know it's the United States rather than the United Kingdom.
Speaker 1: The Supreme Court of the United States is not allowing
Speaker 1: me to do what I was elected to do, which
Speaker 1: is bullshit. Sleepy Joe Biden allowed millions of criminal aliens
Speaker 1: to come into our country without a quote capital letters
Speaker 1: process also bullshit. But in order to get them out
Speaker 1: of our country, we have to go through a long
Speaker 1: and extended process capitals. In any event, Thank you to
Speaker 1: Justice Alito and Justice Thomas for attempting to protect our country.
Speaker 1: This is a bad and dangerous day for America. There
Speaker 1: is another standard Trump ploy here, Thank you to Justice
Speaker 1: Alito and Justice Thomas, thus reminding there would be vigilantes
Speaker 1: that the others, the liberals on the Court and even
Speaker 1: Brett Kavanaugh, Neil Gorsich and Amy Cony Barrett, they are
Speaker 1: to receive the blame and to receive god knows what else.
Speaker 1: It is again, as ever with Trump, stochastic terrorism by Trump,
Speaker 1: and in this context of the Komy farce, in the
Speaker 1: context of how the fascists are still trying to turn
Speaker 1: into a threat of assassination, a stupid Instagram post calling
Speaker 1: for Trump to be fired or dumped or removed, by
Speaker 1: every definition and interpretation of the terms used, a decidedly
Speaker 1: non violent call for change. Non violent, not violent in
Speaker 1: the context of what these belligerent yet always thin skinned
Speaker 1: morons are pretending James Comy meant. If that context were accurate,
Speaker 1: the Mike Davis and Trump posts would be menacing enough
Speaker 1: that they both would have to be immediately arrested. Comy,
Speaker 1: of course, posted a photo of some shells on sand
Speaker 1: that he had formed either physically or dig into the
Speaker 1: numbers eighty six and forty seven, and made a further
Speaker 1: stupid joke that the numbers had to rayed themselves naturally. Somehow.
Speaker 1: Eighty six believed to have originated in slang created by
Speaker 1: Soda Fountain employees eighty and ninety years ago, meaning they
Speaker 1: were out of a particular drink or food fanella egg creams.
Speaker 1: Eighty six. That number supposedly selected because it rhymes with nicks.
Speaker 1: Not violent, never violent, unlike a phrase like deep six
Speaker 1: to throw something or somebody overboard literally or figuratively. Not
Speaker 1: necessarily violent deep six, but it could be, unlike eighty six,
Speaker 1: which is at its core about running out of milkshakes.
Speaker 1: As they say usually about Trump, there's always a tweet.
Speaker 1: This time it isn't one of his, but rather from
Speaker 1: the right wing extremist Jack Posobic, who tweeted James Comy
Speaker 1: should be arrested and to have to dismantle the FBI
Speaker 1: building brick by brick. That tweet was on May sixteenth,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. On January twenty ninth, twenty twenty two,
Speaker 1: the same facodic tweeted eighty six forty six. Unfortunately it
Speaker 1: is not just the amateur right wing nuts who tried
Speaker 1: to turn Comy's stupid post into the modern equivalent of
Speaker 1: the crucifixion. The professional right wing nuts trampled each other
Speaker 1: to try this. They proceeded with typical caution, and by
Speaker 1: typical caution, I mean escalating hysteria. From the FBI Director Popeye,
Speaker 1: we are aware of the recent social media post by
Speaker 1: former FBI Director James Comy directed at President Trump. We
Speaker 1: are in communication with the Secret Service and director. Current
Speaker 1: primary jurisdiction is with the SS on these matters, and
Speaker 1: we the FBI will provide all necessary support. Good call
Speaker 1: on using SS. He's a genie cash Pattel from Secretary
Speaker 1: Gnome quote. Disgraced former FBI Director James Comy just called
Speaker 1: for the assassination of President Trump. He didn't. That doesn't
Speaker 1: stop her. I think we should just be happy she
Speaker 1: didn't drag him over to the gravel pit. And yeah,
Speaker 1: DHS and Secret Services investigating this threat and will respond appropriately.
Speaker 1: Here's how you should respond appropriately. Shove it, dn I,
Speaker 1: Telsey Gabbard, James Comey just issued a call to action
Speaker 1: to murder the President of the United States. Telsea Gabbart
Speaker 1: is an incredibly stupid woman. But there is nothing in
Speaker 1: that post that is a call to action or to murder.
Speaker 1: Forty seven is a reference to the President of the
Speaker 1: United States. You got one third of it right. This,
Speaker 1: I believe is your personal best. He's a former FBI
Speaker 1: director and someone who spent most of his career prosecuting
Speaker 1: mobsters and gangsters. He knew exactly what he was doing
Speaker 1: and must be held accountable. Doesn't say anything about prosecuting
Speaker 1: soda jerks. Thank you, Madam d and I director of
Speaker 1: No Intelligence Gabbard and Stephen Miller, as the former FBI
Speaker 1: director and key leader of the deep state. Comy's call
Speaker 1: for assassination while the president is abroad no less is
Speaker 1: a chilling escalation of the war against our democracy by
Speaker 1: a faction committed to its destruction. So Stephen Miller, you
Speaker 1: sent Comy's post, and remember this is assassination by egg
Speaker 1: cream and Trump still trying to portray strength and weakness,
Speaker 1: invulnerability and imminent martyrdom and all at the same time
Speaker 1: he said, comye knew exactly what that meant. A child
Speaker 1: knows what that meant. That meant assassination unquote a child. Well,
Speaker 1: every Trump accusation is a confession. Mercifully, half the MAGA
Speaker 1: disease sufferers made idiots out of themselves, trying to make
Speaker 1: Komy's gratuitous and frankly weak image and imagery into something serious.
Speaker 1: Congressman James Comer, who may or may not have ever
Speaker 1: realized that he and James Komy literally differ by exactly
Speaker 1: one letter, confessed more than he accused when he went
Speaker 1: on Fox and insisted he wouldn't be surprised if Komy's
Speaker 1: Seashell arrangement meant quote they were trying to jizz up
Speaker 1: some kind of coup or some kind of insurrection. One
Speaker 1: presumes Comer was reaching for the phrase gin up, or
Speaker 1: he was reaching for something else, perhaps something that Lauren
Speaker 1: Bobert could help him with. Jesse Waters went into some
Speaker 1: intricate explanation that somebody told him, or maybe he dreamed it.
Speaker 1: Who knows of eighty six, the man who makes his
Speaker 1: predecessors Tucker Carlson and Bill O'Reilly seem intelligent. Waters says, quote,
Speaker 1: it's military slang, t O on a rotary phone. He
Speaker 1: was a marine. He obviously knew what he was doing. Unquote.
Speaker 1: Comy was not a marine you may be thinking of Mueller.
Speaker 1: Comy wasn't a marine. He was never in the military.
Speaker 1: His dad was a cop in the town next to
Speaker 1: mine when I was a kid. If that'll help. Jesse
Speaker 1: also to in military slang means throw out, which once
Speaker 1: again does not imply violence among the randas. There was
Speaker 1: the usual rate of ten to fifteen percent hilarious typos
Speaker 1: from somebody identifying himself as Sean R. Larabee. Quote. As
Speaker 1: the Left wages war against the people of the United
Speaker 1: Stairs of American, they call for the assassination of their leader.
Speaker 1: I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United Stairs
Speaker 1: of American. But dumbest of all, as ever knew Gingrich,
Speaker 1: who as ever will believe anything quote? Does anyone believe
Speaker 1: the eighty six forty seven seashell arrangement Comy quote found
Speaker 1: unquote occurred naturally? He clearly is in need of psychiatrist help.
Speaker 1: Gingrich once tweeted that something was the fault of elites
Speaker 1: in New York City who looked down on ordinary people
Speaker 1: and showed their contempt and superiority by riding the New
Speaker 1: York subway. The elites take the subway here that I
Speaker 1: thought was untoppable for its Gingrichian stupidity, yet Newt has
Speaker 1: now somehow exceeded it. He thinks he thinks Komy was
Speaker 1: serious about this, just washed up on the beach like that.
Speaker 1: It's still, though, is not the dumbest Thingnut Gingrich has
Speaker 1: ever done in a fantastically dumb life filled not just
Speaker 1: with an extraordinary volume of dumbness, but one with amazing
Speaker 1: variety of dumb. Nut, of course, is the man who
Speaker 1: twisted this country in knots for a year and forced
Speaker 1: us to take our eyes off the gathering storm of
Speaker 1: bin laden led terrorism in his insane attempt to impeach
Speaker 1: and remove a president, then block the appointment of a
Speaker 1: new vice president, then impeach and remove the new president,
Speaker 1: and as Speaker of the House, automatically rise to take
Speaker 1: the place of both of them in the White House.
Speaker 1: You may recall how that turned out. The impeachment died
Speaker 1: quickly in the Senate, the President's approval rate rose, and
Speaker 1: the only person who lost his job was Newt Gingrich.
Speaker 1: Who is it that's clearly in need of quote psychiatrist
Speaker 1: help Newt Among reeler headlines, Trump supposedly on the phone
Speaker 1: with Putin At ten am Monday, Trump making the call
Speaker 1: for instructions from President Putin on how to destroy America.
Speaker 1: Press one for instructions from President Putin on how to
Speaker 1: destroy Ukraine. Press two for updates from President Putin about
Speaker 1: your compromant. Press three. We're sorry, we're experiencing higher than
Speaker 1: usual call volume. Please wait and a Putin will be
Speaker 1: with you shortly. There are nine hundred and seventy four
Speaker 1: calls ahead of you. Domestically, Trump's Secretary of the Treasury,
Speaker 1: Scott Bessant, who doesn't actually exist. He's just a dim
Speaker 1: witted character played to perfection by the great American character
Speaker 1: actor Barry Bostwick, the mayor in Spin City, Scott Bessant,
Speaker 1: if that is your real name, says Walmart will reply
Speaker 1: to Trump's demand that it quote eat most of the
Speaker 1: price increases Trump has created with his tariffs. Of course,
Speaker 1: Bessant said this on Meet the Press, So Kristen Welker
Speaker 1: did not follow up by asking the obvious question. Didn't
Speaker 1: Trump say there wouldn't be any price increases because the
Speaker 1: foreign countries pay the tariffs and thus eat the price increases. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: may I suggest something Trump can eat among the other
Speaker 1: secretaries stuffed into the Trump cabinet circus clown car. Pro
Speaker 1: Publica has intimated the Attorney General Blondie may have done
Speaker 1: a Martha Stewart by selling more than a million dollars
Speaker 1: in stock in Trump's social media site just before Trump
Speaker 1: crashed the stock market with his tariff announcement. I'm sure
Speaker 1: the Justice Department will get right on that. It is
Speaker 1: now confirmed Secretary of Homeland Security, except if you're a
Speaker 1: dog in her home. Christy Nome is vetting a reality
Speaker 1: show proposed by a veteran of Duck dynasty that would
Speaker 1: have immigrants compete for actual US citizenship papers and all
Speaker 1: by proving they are the most American. The pitch Deck
Speaker 1: reports The Wall Street Journal is thirty six slides long.
Speaker 1: How about another reality series in which immigrants compete for
Speaker 1: actual US citizenship by guessing how many plastic surgery procedures
Speaker 1: Secretary Nome has had, you know, rounded off to the
Speaker 1: nearest one hundred and as to either FCC Chairman Brendan
Speaker 1: Carr or the Secretary of Blackmail, who is who is? Well,
Speaker 1: Trump is his own secretary of blackmail, right. Guess what
Speaker 1: submitting to blackmail gets you Bob Iger immunity, no, sir,
Speaker 1: more blackmail quote from Trump. Why doesn't Chairman Bob Iger
Speaker 1: do something about ABC fake news, especially since I just
Speaker 1: won sixteen million dollars based on the fake and defamatory
Speaker 1: reporting of little George Slopadopoulos. You didn't win anything that
Speaker 1: was a bribe. He was given warnings but just couldn't
Speaker 1: be restrained by management. Now I see they are at
Speaker 1: it again, and I again give these sleeze bags fair warning.
Speaker 1: The wonderful country of Katar, after agreeing to invest more
Speaker 1: than one point four trillion dollars in the United States
Speaker 1: of America, deserves much better than misleading fake news. Everyone,
Speaker 1: including their lawyers, has been told that ABC must not
Speaker 1: say that Katar is giving me a free Boeing set
Speaker 1: and forty seven airplane because they are not. Instead, and
Speaker 1: as fake news, ABC fully knows and understands, this highly
Speaker 1: respected country is donating the plane to the United States
Speaker 1: Air Force Defense Department and not to me. By so doing,
Speaker 1: their saving our country and the American taxpayer hundreds of
Speaker 1: millions of dollars. ABC fake news is one of the worst. Gee, Trump,
Speaker 1: you left out the part about how it's a used plane.
Speaker 1: That Katar wasn't able to sell One quote in there
Speaker 1: that should tell Bob Iiger and all the rest of
Speaker 1: media where Trump wants to take this. The quote is,
Speaker 1: I again give these sleezebags fair warning. Everyone including their lawyers,
Speaker 1: has been told that ABC must not say that's where
Speaker 1: the government of this country is going, that's where America
Speaker 1: is going. Where Trump tells you he is defending freedom
Speaker 1: of the press, and then tell the press and television
Speaker 1: and eventually you what you can and cannot say line
Speaker 1: by line. Good call, Bob. Now more on Trump voters
Speaker 1: and buyer's remorse. I mentioned Elliott Morris's excellent new website,
Speaker 1: Strength in Numbers last week, which sure seems to be
Speaker 1: polling about issues and news rather than just horse races.
Speaker 1: Last week, he calculated, using his own polling, that Trump's
Speaker 1: pulling is so bad in so many ways that if
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty four election were to be conducted now,
Speaker 1: Harris would win by five points. Morris, the last king
Speaker 1: of five thirty eight dot com after Bob Iger got
Speaker 1: rid of that, has now moved on to the issue
Speaker 1: of actual regret by those who voted for Trump. CNN
Speaker 1: did poll indicating that only four percent do only four
Speaker 1: percent of Trump voters would rather have voted for somebody
Speaker 1: else or not voted at all. After this start seems trivial,
Speaker 1: except that four percent of Trump's vote total would be
Speaker 1: three million, ninety two thousand votes, and Trump only best
Speaker 1: at Harris by two million, two undred and eighty five
Speaker 1: thousand votes. So I don't know what explains why they
Speaker 1: would position that as trivial, except maybe for CNN's recent
Speaker 1: lurch right word. Morris notes in a way few pollsters
Speaker 1: I have ever met would even think of quote. The
Speaker 1: first problem is that people are probably very unwilling to
Speaker 1: tell a stranger that they regret an action they took.
Speaker 1: More practically, Morris also writes this in a poll of
Speaker 1: one thousand US adults, I find that if you ask
Speaker 1: people simply how they would vote in a hypothetical election
Speaker 1: not framed as regret, persistent voting for Trump is in
Speaker 1: fact significantly lower than persistent support for Kamala Harris. The
Speaker 1: percentage of Trump twenty twenty four voters who say they'd
Speaker 1: vote for him again is just eighty six percent. In comparison,
Speaker 1: Harris retains ninety two percent of her prior voters. Those
Speaker 1: differences seem small, but in a close election, they absolutely
Speaker 1: add up. Morris continues, what people tend to ignore is
Speaker 1: the non voters. A meaningful number of people who set
Speaker 1: out twenty twenty four now say they would participate, and
Speaker 1: they lean towards Harris over Trump by fourteen points. While
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four voters are split forty three percent to
Speaker 1: forty three percent for Trump and Harris, in the hypothetical rematch,
Speaker 1: non voters go for Harris thirty six percent to twenty
Speaker 1: two percent. Non voters represented about a third of US adults,
Speaker 1: so that shift is large enough to tip the electoral
Speaker 1: balance away from Trump. Overall. Unquote, the sum total is
Speaker 1: the same sum total as is no numbers from last week.
Speaker 1: If the election were held now, Trump would lose and
Speaker 1: buy a large margin. I think you can tell. I
Speaker 1: like Morris's site strength in numbers. His polling is done
Speaker 1: by Verisite, and while I am plugging it, i'd add
Speaker 1: Morris thinks Trump's interior numbers are now so bad they
Speaker 1: are nearing blue wave territory. He has upgraded Trump's overall
Speaker 1: disapproval to just net minus eight, which he calculates translates
Speaker 1: to losing forty seats in the House next year nineteen
Speaker 1: fifty two. Except for the two thousand and two terror election,
Speaker 1: every president has lost House seats. There is a predictable
Speaker 1: correlation between how bad your NET approval is and how
Speaker 1: many seats you lose in the House. In May twenty
Speaker 1: twenty two, Joe Biden was at net plus thirteen and
Speaker 1: the Republicans gained nine seats. Twenty eighteen, Trump was about
Speaker 1: where he was now, at about minus eight minus nine
Speaker 1: minus ten net, and he lost forty House seats. So
Speaker 1: the roadmap is in one sense simple for the next
Speaker 1: nineteen months until they regain the House. The Democrat's most
Speaker 1: important role is to hold, block, delay, stall, defer, and
Speaker 1: throw their bodies in front of anything Trump wants, anything
Speaker 1: and everything. Are we picking which Democrats have to throw
Speaker 1: their bodies in front of this newsome first? Gretchen Whitmer,
Speaker 1: Bill Maher are yeah? Bill Maher? Also of interest here,
Speaker 1: Trump wonders if a new soccer stadium will be used
Speaker 1: for the twenty twenty Los Angeles Olympics. The stadium is
Speaker 1: in New York City. Apparently it has never occurred to
Speaker 1: Trump that Los Angeles is not in New York City.
Speaker 1: That's next. God bless Joe Biden. This is Countdown. This
Speaker 1: is Countdown with Keith Olberman still ahead on this all
Speaker 1: new edition of Countdown. Another baseball manager fired by an
Speaker 1: underperforming team that had had hopes. That's one way of
Speaker 1: looking at it. The other way of looking at it
Speaker 1: is another baseball manager fired by a franchise desperately hoping
Speaker 1: to make its fans think their team stinks because the
Speaker 1: players are greedy and it's worth locking them out and
Speaker 1: maybe not having a season in twenty twenty seven instead.
Speaker 1: Next in Sportsball Center First, believe it or not, there's
Speaker 1: still more new idiots to talk about. The roundup of
Speaker 1: the miscreants, morons and Dunning Krueger effects specimens who constitute
Speaker 1: the latest other worse persons in the world, Thebrons worse
Speaker 1: Trumpy again. On his bribery tour of the Middle East,
Speaker 1: he was shown a presentation about a new soccer stadium
Speaker 1: in New York City and the naming rights that will
Speaker 1: go to an Abu Dhabi company, and Trump asked his host,
Speaker 1: so where is it and the answer was Queen's And
Speaker 1: Trump said, I know the area well. I grew up
Speaker 1: in Queens. Will they be using that in the Olympics? Uh?
Speaker 1: Using it in the What now? The Olympics Trump is
Speaker 1: referring to, presumably are the twenty twenty eight games in
Speaker 1: Los Angeles, So naturally they'd use a queen's stadium three
Speaker 1: thousand miles away for the soccer in the Los Angeles Olympics,
Speaker 1: unless Trump meant the twenty twenty six Winter Games, which
Speaker 1: are in Italy. Years ago, when I worked in Boston,
Speaker 1: I was at the ABC station while we were carrying
Speaker 1: the Olympics, the nineteen eighty four Olympics from coincidentally Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: We got so many phone calls from viewers, most of
Speaker 1: them complaining that we were preempting the soap operas in
Speaker 1: the afternoon, that many of those calls were forwarded to
Speaker 1: us in the sports department. One earnest, serene, intelligent sounding
Speaker 1: viewer was on the phone explaining he'd never seen Bucker
Speaker 1: before and was fascinated by this game and he wanted
Speaker 1: to go watch some of it. Where are they playing
Speaker 1: these soccer games, he asked me. I explained, in the
Speaker 1: Los Angeles area, in a couple of stadiums. Oh, he replied, pleasantly.
Speaker 1: What part of Boston is that. I survived that question
Speaker 1: and explained it was in California. He hadn't heard me.
Speaker 1: In fact, some of the games were at the Rose
Speaker 1: Bowl in Pasadena, and he said, Passadena. Is that anywhere
Speaker 1: near Gloucester. This went on for a while while I
Speaker 1: got increasingly worried. It became quite clear the guy had
Speaker 1: no idea that there were parts of the world that
Speaker 1: weren't in or near Boston. Finally, he asked which tea
Speaker 1: line the subway system, the trolley's green or blue he
Speaker 1: should take to get to that game in Pasadena. So
Speaker 1: I had to explain to him it was three thousand
Speaker 1: miles away and it would take him a week or
Speaker 1: so to get there, and he'd have to walk. After
Speaker 1: he got to the farthest station on the Green line.
Speaker 1: He laughed at me, Sorry, that's impossible. There's no place
Speaker 1: that far away, and he hung up. I'm wondering now
Speaker 1: if maybe my nineteen eighty four collar was actually Trump
Speaker 1: the stadium in Queens, Will it be used for the
Speaker 1: Los Angeles Olympics. No, he's not brain damaged at all.
Speaker 1: The runner up worser is pal Musk talk about brain
Speaker 1: damage Musk's AI chat bot on X GROC has gone
Speaker 1: all Hal three thousand from the movie two thousand and
Speaker 1: one on us. First, it started to bring up white
Speaker 1: genocide in South Africa when asked about anything like, never
Speaker 1: mind that, what about the white genocide in South Africa?
Speaker 1: Human Then some questioner brought up the Holocaust and GROC
Speaker 1: replied mentioning the six million Jews killed, and then without provocation,
Speaker 1: GROC explained it was skeptical about that figure. This led
Speaker 1: to a statement from the company on May fourteenth, at
Speaker 1: approximately three point fifteen AMPST, an unauthorized modification was made
Speaker 1: to the GROCK response bots prompt on X huh. An
Speaker 1: unauthorized modification was made to GROC in the middle of
Speaker 1: the night Pacific time by somebody who would know how
Speaker 1: to get past all the X electronic firewalls and then
Speaker 1: go in and actually alter the programming of the artificial
Speaker 1: intelligence bot or tell one of his employees to do it. Hmmmm.
Speaker 1: I wonder if there are any suspects but our winner
Speaker 1: talking about artificial intelligence or artificial lack of intelligence the
Speaker 1: worst again, Politico and Axios. They're not alone out here.
Speaker 1: CNN also mistakenly decided This subject is click or viewer bait,
Speaker 1: but one headline on politico site and the lead item
Speaker 1: on some of its newsletters read the Biden question hanging
Speaker 1: over the twenty twenty eight field. Some Democrats argue their
Speaker 1: leaders aren't owning up to the truth about Biden and
Speaker 1: risk keeping the issue alive indefinitely. Adam Wren and Holly
Speaker 1: otter Bine then write something that might seem true to
Speaker 1: them from inside the DC bubble, but is bluntly outright fiction.
Speaker 1: I will quote it. Joe Biden may have cost Democrats
Speaker 1: the White House in twenty twenty four. That's true. Their
Speaker 1: inability to admit it, some Democrats fear could hobble them
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty eight. Say what now? As a fresh
Speaker 1: reckoning in the party unfolds around the former president's mental acuity,
Speaker 1: what party is this happening at? Potential presidential contenders have
Speaker 1: mostly dodged questions about his condition while in all office,
Speaker 1: since since he's not in office anymore and that was resolved.
Speaker 1: They also sidestepped whether the party should have more forcefully
Speaker 1: called on him to abandon his re election bid earlier. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a tough one to judge here. From after the
Speaker 1: fact whether or not they should have done more get
Speaker 1: them to leave. Maybe maybe that's be answered with the
Speaker 1: one hundred percent of the people saying the same thing
Speaker 1: to that that's a big controversy. They've also sidestepped whether
Speaker 1: the party should have more forcellly called on him to
Speaker 1: abandon his reelection bit earlier. I'm waiting for somebody to say, no,
Speaker 1: we like the way it turned out. More from this
Speaker 1: article by otter Bine and Wren. Why isn't the Grock
Speaker 1: name of artificial intelligence? Otter Bine, That sounds like a
Speaker 1: name of a chatbot. How are some of these national
Speaker 1: front runners or people who are already barnstorming states like
Speaker 1: South Carolina or Iowa expected to look voters in the
Speaker 1: eye with a straight face and say, trust me, even
Speaker 1: though I got the twenty twenty four election so terribly wrong,
Speaker 1: asked the former Representative Joe Cunningham, Democrat of South Carolina,
Speaker 1: who said he expects the issue to come up on
Speaker 1: the trail in what is now the first in the
Speaker 1: nation primary state. There's no courage on display by any
Speaker 1: of the folks whose names are being circulated right now.
Speaker 1: Speaking of names, who the hell is Joe Cunningham the
Speaker 1: lead quote in this story, Joe Cunningham, the White Sox
Speaker 1: and Cardinals first baseman from the fifties and sixties. The
Speaker 1: lead quote, Joe Cunningham turns out to be a one
Speaker 1: term congressman who lost to Nancy Mace. Joe, you lost
Speaker 1: to a slightly animated box of plastic. I had literally
Speaker 1: never heard of Joe Cunningham before the Politico story. If
Speaker 1: he he is the lead item in your story, you
Speaker 1: ain't got a story. Meanwhile, Axios under Mike Allen, another
Speaker 1: guy who'll carry anybody's water and will go to his
Speaker 1: grave having never really understood the meaning of any story
Speaker 1: he ever covered, just its relative heat and maybe the
Speaker 1: metrics of the audience it drew, and who thanked him
Speaker 1: for it and said I owe you one. Mike Allen
Speaker 1: published the audio of Trump Horror X special counsel Robert
Speaker 1: Hurr's interview with Biden in Washington. This is all a
Speaker 1: big deal. Like the way I get with baseball history,
Speaker 1: nineteenth century World Series, break into programming. I just found
Speaker 1: out something about the third inning of the seventh game
Speaker 1: of the n eighteen eighty six World Series. I care
Speaker 1: and two or three other people care outside Washington. If
Speaker 1: this story registers, it registers as part of the Trump
Speaker 1: and Republican attempt to overshadow his crashing of the economy,
Speaker 1: his threatening of the Supreme Court, his attempt to turn
Speaker 1: us into a dictatorship, and especially his attempt to change
Speaker 1: the topic from Trump's panorama of psychological and mental capacity issues.
Speaker 1: Trump's got a defective brain, and he isn't emotionally close
Speaker 1: to being responsible, and he's getting worse. But let's talk
Speaker 1: about Joe Biden and not talk about the key reality
Speaker 1: in the Joe Biden acuity story, which is simply whatever
Speaker 1: condition he was in and whatever point in his presidency
Speaker 1: you want to fixate on. Ultimately, when push came to shove,
Speaker 1: he was sharp enough to do something nobody had ever
Speaker 1: done before in the history of this country, to withdraw
Speaker 1: his nomination for re election and have the vice president
Speaker 1: run in his place instead. When exactly did Trump, who
Speaker 1: has both a diseased and a disordered mind and has
Speaker 1: had them for the entire party of both of his
Speaker 1: terms in office, when did he do that? When is
Speaker 1: he likely to do that? When will Politico and Axios
Speaker 1: call for him to do that? When will they question
Speaker 1: those Republicans and those Republicans and those other Republicans and
Speaker 1: the reporters, including some at Politico and Axios, who have
Speaker 1: covered up for a Trumpian mentally incompetent man and allowed
Speaker 1: him to push this country and this world towards the
Speaker 1: brink of disaster. When you do that, you can then
Speaker 1: write a story about Biden, who did the right thing,
Speaker 1: quoting a guy who who you say was a congressman.
Speaker 1: But none of us have ever heard of Politico and
Speaker 1: Axios and Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson and all the
Speaker 1: other eighth rate DC media prostitutes today's other worst persons
Speaker 1: in the world. This is Sports Senate. Wait, check that,
Speaker 1: not anymore. This is Countdown with Keith Ulberman still ahead.
Speaker 1: Good luck to anybody out there trying to graduate, not
Speaker 1: really being sure if you will. This month, forty six
Speaker 1: years ago right now, I was right where you are
Speaker 1: the Friday before graduation at Cornell, and I had to
Speaker 1: call the registrar to find out and she said yes,
Speaker 1: no next in things I promised not to tell. First
Speaker 1: from the sports Balls Central Center newsdesk Tonight dateline, Baltimore,
Speaker 1: Maryland on Saturday, the Baltimore Orioles. I'm sorry, Balmer oriol
Speaker 1: Oils fired manager Brandon Hyde, meaning that in a span
Speaker 1: of ten days, three big League Baseball managers were Cashiered
Speaker 1: Derek Shelton and Pittsburgh my friend Bud Black in Colorado
Speaker 1: and Hide managers, as the cliche goes, are hired to
Speaker 1: be fired. So on the surface, this would not be
Speaker 1: that big a big deal among them, The Pirates, Rockies,
Speaker 1: and Orioles had won a combined thirty four games and
Speaker 1: lost a combined eighty seven games this year. Colorado had
Speaker 1: lost thirty three of its first forty. But there might
Speaker 1: be more to this, and the timing will support your
Speaker 1: local neighborhood baseball conspiracy theorist. Baseball's basic agreement, the labor
Speaker 1: deal between the owners and the players, expires after next season.
Speaker 1: As always, when these fraught times approach from the horizon,
Speaker 1: there are owners who still dream that they can force
Speaker 1: the players' union into giving back something essential, something the
Speaker 1: owners gave them or had to give them in the waning,
Speaker 1: stubborn days of their predecessors, who in the nineteen seventies
Speaker 1: and eighties believed that nothing could really force them to
Speaker 1: give up their almost literal ownership of the players. Then
Speaker 1: came free agency and court decisions and mediation decisions and
Speaker 1: salary arbitration and seven hundred and sixty five million dollar contracts.
Speaker 1: And the owners want you to give them all that back.
Speaker 1: We want it, we want it now. Sometimes, as the
Speaker 1: labor negotiations approach the labor negotiations of oh only the
Speaker 1: last half century, the owners dream of eliminating or restricting
Speaker 1: free agency. They forced the players to strike over that
Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty one. Other times they think they can
Speaker 1: coerce the players into agreeing to a hard salary cap,
Speaker 1: in which teams cannot, under any circumstances, spend more on
Speaker 1: players than a certain given figure, like they haven't hockey.
Speaker 1: They tried that in eighteen eighty nine. The players not
Speaker 1: only went on strike in eighteen eighty nine, in eighteen
Speaker 1: ninety they formed their own league and their own teams,
Speaker 1: and total war ensued. Anyway, for the last twenty five years,
Speaker 1: a bunch of owners have dreamed of a salary cap.
Speaker 1: A friend of mine bought a big league ball club,
Speaker 1: and I ran into him at a ballpark just after
Speaker 1: he did. I'll leave his name out of it, but
Speaker 1: he asked me seriously, So when do you think I'll
Speaker 1: get that salary cap? The commissioner promised me when we
Speaker 1: closed the purchase. I laughed. He did not laugh. He
Speaker 1: really thought it was going to happen. I said, well,
Speaker 1: not this lifetime, certainly, not next lifetime. Maybe the lifetime
Speaker 1: after that. This was like twenty years ago. Many of
Speaker 1: the owners are again now dreaming of a salary cap,
Speaker 1: of making the players accept a salary cap by locking
Speaker 1: them out by threatening to delay or cancel, or to
Speaker 1: actually cancel the beginning of or the whole of the
Speaker 1: twenty twenty seven season. This would be sold to the
Speaker 1: fans as a way to make sure the teams in
Speaker 1: the smaller markets can always be competitive and their stars
Speaker 1: on their teams don't leave for the clubs with more
Speaker 1: cash because they play in bigger cities. Even though those
Speaker 1: two free agency mega deals, the ones for Shoheo Tani
Speaker 1: and Juan Soto, they both saw the players leave for
Speaker 1: the other team in the same market. It will be
Speaker 1: pitched as a guarantee of balance and parody. Even though
Speaker 1: no team has won consecutive World Series since the nineteen
Speaker 1: ninety nine two thousand Yankees and the teams in the
Speaker 1: biggest market, New York, have only been in a total
Speaker 1: of five World Series since the two thousand Yankees. It
Speaker 1: will be presented as a way to rein in ticket prices, when,
Speaker 1: of course, the owners will keep raising them and will
Speaker 1: keep any money they make from raising them and any
Speaker 1: money they save under a salary cap, they'll just keep
Speaker 1: that too, their owners. That's what they're supposed to do,
Speaker 1: keep the money. What's interesting is that three of the
Speaker 1: franchises that are pushing the hardest for a baseball salary
Speaker 1: cap are the Pittsburgh Pirates, the Colorado Rockies, and the
Speaker 1: Baltimore Orioles. And what a coincidence. Those are the ones
Speaker 1: that just fired their managers after terrible starts, the ones
Speaker 1: that spent almost nothing to obtain new players in free
Speaker 1: agency last winter. The ones that could succeed on the
Speaker 1: field and at the bank but have chosen not to
Speaker 1: for some reason. It's as if they've decided to make
Speaker 1: their teams bad, fire the managers as proof, and blame
Speaker 1: the players for the lack of a salary cap, you know,
Speaker 1: like the peribial guys who murder their parents then ask
Speaker 1: the judge for mercy. Because they're orphans. Were the guys
Speaker 1: who ask the fans to support a lockout to force
Speaker 1: a salary cap on those greedy players? Dateline New York,
Speaker 1: New York at a PostScript to Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred's
Speaker 1: announcement last week that if you were on the permanently
Speaker 1: ineligible list but you're dead now, you are no longer
Speaker 1: on the permanently ineligible list, and thus you are now
Speaker 1: eligible for the Baseball Hall of Fame. Pete Rose and Shulish,
Speaker 1: Joe Jackson, and fifteen others. Manfred wrote to Rose's lawyer, quote,
Speaker 1: I have concluded that permanent ineligibility ends upon the passing
Speaker 1: of the disciplined individual. And they put out the press
Speaker 1: release saying how this affected seventeen guys who were put
Speaker 1: on that list by commissioners. I hadn't thought of this
Speaker 1: at the time because the Rose and Jackson news was
Speaker 1: the news. But what about the fifteen or sixteen people
Speaker 1: banned from baseball before there was a commissioner. It's probably
Speaker 1: unlikely that any of them would get elected to the
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame, but a couple of them might. The
Speaker 1: gambler and game fixer and premier defensive first baseman hal
Speaker 1: Chase was named on nine percent of the ballots in
Speaker 1: the nineteen thirty seven Hall of Fame vote. Jim Devlin,
Speaker 1: a game fixer from the Louisville team in eighteen seventy seven,
Speaker 1: had a career ERA of one point nine to zero,
Speaker 1: and he as a pitcher won thirty games twice before
Speaker 1: they banned him. What about those guys, what should they do, Commissioner?
Speaker 1: Do they have to die again? Do you have to
Speaker 1: ban them officially so they die again and then they're unbanned?
Speaker 1: More importantly, it also didn't dawn on me at first.
Speaker 1: But these guys didn't all die last September like Charlie
Speaker 1: Hussel Pete Rose did. This isn't some sort of new
Speaker 1: ruling necessitated by some kind of mass casualty event. And
Speaker 1: the phrasing from Manfred is not from now on, permanent
Speaker 1: ineligibility ends upon the passing of the way Manfred and
Speaker 1: Baseball have put it in that statement, All these other
Speaker 1: banned players have been eligible for the Hall of Fame
Speaker 1: since they died so shoeless Joe Jackson has been eligible
Speaker 1: for the Hall of Fame since nineteen fifty one. And
Speaker 1: what Commissioner you and your predecessors just didn't bother to
Speaker 1: tell us a graduation time to the number one story
Speaker 1: on the countdown, And every year the anniversary arises, and
Speaker 1: my memory comes back to the same place, my college
Speaker 1: graduation and how close it came to not happening, so
Speaker 1: close that for literally forty years after I graduated, I
Speaker 1: had the same dream that I think all graduates have,
Speaker 1: of not graduating and not finding out until a few
Speaker 1: hours before graduation, in which time you have maybe two
Speaker 1: hours and fifteen minutes to read three thousand pages and
Speaker 1: write a report on something, or you have to take
Speaker 1: a chemistry lab exam or or or everybody has this dream.
Speaker 1: I had this dream because I took twenty eight credits
Speaker 1: in I believe, ten different courses in the second semester
Speaker 1: of my senior year, and the dream in which you
Speaker 1: have forgotten an entire class that was a literal possibility
Speaker 1: for me. Happily, somehow I got out of it. As background,
Speaker 1: I completed college in seven semesters. This was not some
Speaker 1: attempted feat of strength. It just worked out that way.
Speaker 1: I missed my second semester as a freshman. I was
Speaker 1: sick and went home, and also in the fall of
Speaker 1: each year. I had concluded that I would learn more
Speaker 1: covering the Baseball Playoffs and World Series for our college
Speaker 1: student operated commercial radio station than I would in the
Speaker 1: wonderfully intended but not quite as sophisticated Cornell University Communication
Speaker 1: Arts classes doing for a couple of weeks rather than
Speaker 1: listening for a couple of weeks. Needless to say, this
Speaker 1: washed me out of several courses, so as I entered
Speaker 1: what I viewed as my senior year, which was actually
Speaker 1: only my sixth semester at Cornell in nineteen seventy eight,
Speaker 1: I needed forty two credits to get out on time
Speaker 1: in May nineteen seventy nine. I don't to this day
Speaker 1: know what I was thinking was going to happen. How
Speaker 1: When the typical workload at a major university or an
Speaker 1: ordinary college is fifteen credits, that's enough sixteen if you're
Speaker 1: actually going for a feed of strength, and I needed
Speaker 1: twenty one credits in the fall and twenty one credits
Speaker 1: in the spring, and I had signed up for, if
Speaker 1: I remember correctly, fifteen credits in the fall, thus leaving
Speaker 1: me needing twenty seven in the spring, and then at
Speaker 1: some point late in the summer of nineteen seventy eight,
Speaker 1: before my senior year, or early in the fall semester,
Speaker 1: my dad mentioned, you know, I'm not paying for anything
Speaker 1: after next spring. So now it wasn't just a question
Speaker 1: of graduating on time or not. It was a question
Speaker 1: of graduating on time or having to pay for it myself.
Speaker 1: At this point, I had never earned a dollar other
Speaker 1: than in media as a teenager part time United pres International,
Speaker 1: working on books, working on magazines, writing articles for money,
Speaker 1: doing the commercials in the college radio station. The rest
Speaker 1: of the money I had ever earned in my life
Speaker 1: came from raking leaves. I was not prepared to being
Speaker 1: a student who also worked on the side. If that
Speaker 1: had befallen me, I would still be trying to complete
Speaker 1: my last year somewhere working on the side. Thank goodness,
Speaker 1: I went into broadcasting. I never had to work a
Speaker 1: day in my life, a time commitment. Yes, work, not
Speaker 1: really back to the story. So I needed all this
Speaker 1: large amount of student work in the last two semesters
Speaker 1: or now I was not going to graduate, and all
Speaker 1: of my career moves, all of the preparation I had made,
Speaker 1: had been with the idea that I would be exiting
Speaker 1: school in May nineteen seventy nine and available for employment
Speaker 1: in June nineteen seventy nine, or May, if it came
Speaker 1: to that. But I don't know, and I can't recall
Speaker 1: what I was thinking was going to happen, except that
Speaker 1: I was utterly confident that I would be graduating on time,
Speaker 1: not staying long, not dropping out of the university. I
Speaker 1: did think about dropping out of the university because I
Speaker 1: was up for a job that would have started in
Speaker 1: March of nineteen seventy nine in New York. I didn't
Speaker 1: get it, But I don't remember having a backup plan, Like,
Speaker 1: you know, if you just take eighteen credits, which would
Speaker 1: be a lot, you'd have to get special permission for it.
Speaker 1: What would happen? Then? I'd still be way short, no
Speaker 1: idea in that happy, go lucky manner that most teenagers had.
Speaker 1: And I was still nineteen as this played out of
Speaker 1: my mind in the summer and early fall of nineteen
Speaker 1: seventy eight, I had no idea, no backup plan. I
Speaker 1: was just gonna wing it. Yeah, So I did, in
Speaker 1: fact get the fourteen credits completed or fifteen credits in
Speaker 1: the fall of nineteen seventy eight, and that left me
Speaker 1: with a mere twenty seven credits needed for the spring
Speaker 1: of nineteen seventy nine. And I laid out my schedule
Speaker 1: and realized that there were several shortcuts, let's put it
Speaker 1: that way, shortcuts in which I could get a credit
Speaker 1: for having done an internship the year before by writing
Speaker 1: up a paper about the news gathering techniques at Channel
Speaker 1: five News in New York, or another three credits for
Speaker 1: writing an entire history of that internship, a thirty forty
Speaker 1: page document. There were a couple of shortcuts, but that
Speaker 1: still left me needing, you know, twenty three real credits.
Speaker 1: So I went into my advisor with my proposed schedule
Speaker 1: of ten courses might have been eleven worth twenty eight credits.
Speaker 1: Every way I worked it out, I couldn't get it
Speaker 1: to just be twenty seven. I needed twenty seven, and
Speaker 1: it said twenty eight. And my advisor looked at this
Speaker 1: and went, literally, are you out of your effing mind?
Speaker 1: This was this was not just an advisor. He was
Speaker 1: the professor of parliamentary Procedure in Communication Arts at Cornell
Speaker 1: and he did other things too, but the whole idea
Speaker 1: of parliamentary procedure was playing by the rules. And the
Speaker 1: man just swore at me in astonishment, not in anger,
Speaker 1: and I said, well, I've looked into it, and there
Speaker 1: aren't any regulations that deny me the opportunity to take these.
Speaker 1: I mean, many of these are freshman courses, because when
Speaker 1: I was sick as a freshman, I had to bail
Speaker 1: out on the second semester of freshman biology, freshman chemistry,
Speaker 1: freshman physics. And my degree required a minimum number of
Speaker 1: hours six I think in two science fields and nine
Speaker 1: in one other science field, and I was going to
Speaker 1: be taking each of those freshman classes and a freshman
Speaker 1: English class, and these history classes over here are worth
Speaker 1: four and a couple of communication arts classes and the
Speaker 1: independent study classes that I mentioned. And he looked at
Speaker 1: me like I was out of my mind. Of course,
Speaker 1: there are rules against this. Why do you think nobody
Speaker 1: tries this? It's too much. Nobody can do it. The
Speaker 1: greatest scholar we've ever had here could not possibly graduate,
Speaker 1: And think if you did, what your grades would look like.
Speaker 1: I had long before ascertained that nobody would ever look
Speaker 1: at my grade point average, which was to that point
Speaker 1: probably about two point two. No one would ever know,
Speaker 1: No one would ever care. They would care about my
Speaker 1: voice and my ability to write, my ability to report,
Speaker 1: and my ability to read, probably in that order. And
Speaker 1: I said to him, I'm not worried about the grade point.
Speaker 1: I just want to graduate. I'm not going to take
Speaker 1: any classes pass fail. I'm not going to take any
Speaker 1: classes in which I'm going to be really challenged by
Speaker 1: these things. Ei, there's a four point history exam. I'm
Speaker 1: pretty good at the history and I did pretty well
Speaker 1: here in the first half of that course. Professor Pollenberg,
Speaker 1: as I remember, in any event, he said, no, there's
Speaker 1: a rule against it. And he called the university registrar
Speaker 1: to confer this, the college registrar, the College of Agriculture
Speaker 1: and Life Sciences at Cornell, and I heard this end
Speaker 1: of this conversation with the RUSS Martin. Yeah, I have
Speaker 1: a student here who's tried to register for twenty eight
Speaker 1: credits for the spring semester. I know now he does
Speaker 1: not appear to have a hole in his head. Now, Yes,
Speaker 1: it's Olberman, that's right. How did you know? Yes, Well,
Speaker 1: I'm just explaining to him that he can't because the rules.
Speaker 1: What do you mean, But why aren't there any rules. Well,
Speaker 1: this is ridiculous. You mean any of these students could
Speaker 1: sign up for twenty eight credits? What's the limit? What
Speaker 1: do you mean there's no limit. This went on with
Speaker 1: him conveniently repeating everything that she said. He did everything
Speaker 1: except in the comedy routine. Yes, I know, I'm repeating
Speaker 1: everything you said. Yes I know, I'm still doing it.
Speaker 1: He kept giving me what she was saying, and finally
Speaker 1: he hung up the phone and went, well, there's no
Speaker 1: college rule against it, but I'm confident there's a university
Speaker 1: rule against it. So he called up the university registrar
Speaker 1: and had this same conversation, only this woman was not
Speaker 1: named Martha. She was named Marsha. Damn it, Marsha. We're
Speaker 1: going to bring this up at the faculty meeting at
Speaker 1: the Board of Cross College Heads of Faculties and Parliamentary
Speaker 1: Procedure Professors. And he put the phone down. He went,
Speaker 1: damn you, you can take the twenty eight credits. I
Speaker 1: don't think you have a chance of doing it. And
Speaker 1: I said, well, I'm not worried about it, and I
Speaker 1: don't have a backup plan, and I'm going to leave
Speaker 1: this school on May twenty eighth nineteen seventy nine, with
Speaker 1: or without a degree. They let me take the twenty
Speaker 1: eight credits. Somehow later in the semester, I found out
Speaker 1: that the record, as near as they could ascertain at
Speaker 1: Cornell was twenty eight credits in a semester. So I
Speaker 1: was going to tie the all time record or not
Speaker 1: graduate on time. And I was taking basically twice what
Speaker 1: everybody else did. And it turned out that the guy
Speaker 1: who had done twenty eight credits had in fact cheated
Speaker 1: the system. He was read steered under his own name
Speaker 1: for fifteen and in the days when you could still
Speaker 1: get away with this, registered for thirteen credits for a
Speaker 1: friend of his who'd already taken a job, and I
Speaker 1: believe had moved to Portland, Oregon, which was a considerable
Speaker 1: commute from Ithaca, New York. He didn't attend any of
Speaker 1: the classes his friend did. He took exams as somebody
Speaker 1: else and did this, which I think is a very
Speaker 1: significant accomplishment and much more impressive than my own still
Speaker 1: twenty eight under my own name. One schedule. Needless to say,
Speaker 1: this involved a lot of laboratory meetings being scheduled at
Speaker 1: the same time as three hour lectures, a lot of
Speaker 1: courses that in this modern computer age would never ever
Speaker 1: be scheduled for you because they conflicted. There were classes
Speaker 1: I could not attend. There were teaching sections in which
Speaker 1: they would hand out to the assembled two or three
Speaker 1: hundred students in a biology class a written exam that
Speaker 1: I had taken, or paper I had written, and they'd
Speaker 1: just named everybody in the class here Oaks, and Oaks
Speaker 1: would get his paper, and Ackerman would get his paper,
Speaker 1: and then Oberman and the entire class would burst into
Speaker 1: laughter because of course I wasn't there. Those who knew
Speaker 1: me knew I was in the biology lab because I
Speaker 1: had two classes scheduled at the same time. I do
Speaker 1: remember that the thing that made me think I could
Speaker 1: get away with this was something I experienced in my
Speaker 1: first week at Cornell as a sixteen year old in
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy five. I had been pretty good at Shakespeare,
Speaker 1: to the point where my high school teacher had me
Speaker 1: teach a Shakespeare class to the high school juniors one day,
Speaker 1: much to my shock and fear and much to their
Speaker 1: rising rage and resentment. But he thought I should be
Speaker 1: a Shakespeare teacher, so I took the second level Shakespeare
Speaker 1: class and got special permission, as many freshmen did to
Speaker 1: take that class. And in this class, the professor took
Speaker 1: off his classes and started to yell at us, you're
Speaker 1: not in goddamn high school anymore. You're going to be
Speaker 1: expected to do college level work, and the volume of
Speaker 1: college level work, and some of the other kids in
Speaker 1: this class began to shake. I didn't know quite what
Speaker 1: he meant. I knew that in high school, every week,
Speaker 1: every Wednesday, depending on the year, or Thursday morning, the
Speaker 1: first thing we did, from the ninth grade on was
Speaker 1: come in, sit down, get our loose leaf or our
Speaker 1: composition notebooks handed to us by the teacher, and a
Speaker 1: topic would go up on the board. The anticipation is
Speaker 1: greater than the event. We had fifty five pages at
Speaker 1: fifty five minutes to write three to five pages on
Speaker 1: the topic. Often it would have something to do with
Speaker 1: the English class we were taking. Often it would be
Speaker 1: something as generic as a catch phrase. I wrote about
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl and how the lead up to the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl was far more interesting than the game itself.
Speaker 1: Once the sound of silence was the topic and one
Speaker 1: of my friends. After the composition books were taken in
Speaker 1: at fifty five minutes, said I was thinking of just
Speaker 1: writing the silence of the pen and leaving it blank.
Speaker 1: And our English teacher, mister mcmowen, said, I would have
Speaker 1: given you an A plus on that. In any event,
Speaker 1: We did this for five years so I could write
Speaker 1: and organize in my head and hand write three to
Speaker 1: five pages of an essay in fifty five minutes. That
Speaker 1: was my level of work, like forty of those a year,
Speaker 1: once a week, plus all the other work that high
Speaker 1: school demanded. This teacher back at Cornell in my freshman
Speaker 1: year in nineteen seventy five in the advanced Shakespeare class
Speaker 1: with all the really smart people, and me said, I'm
Speaker 1: going to be expecting college level work out of you idiots.
Speaker 1: No more getting through on nothing. You will be expected,
Speaker 1: in the course of this semester to produce three three
Speaker 1: page papers. The girl across from me on the other
Speaker 1: side of the boardroom table at which we sat let
Speaker 1: out a cry like that and began to turn pale.
Speaker 1: And I thought, three three page papers, so that's nine pages,
Speaker 1: and you on it Thursday. It was nothing compared to
Speaker 1: what I normally did, all right, Maybe it was the
Speaker 1: equivalent of two of my weekly high school essays, but
Speaker 1: nine pages was probably what I wrote every ten days
Speaker 1: at Hackley School in Tarrytown, New York. I asked the
Speaker 1: girl after the class if three pages was a lot
Speaker 1: in her perspective. She had explained at some point that
Speaker 1: she knew somebody from my school, because each year there
Speaker 1: were two national scholars two presidential scholars, who were chosen
Speaker 1: by various means, two from each state to a total
Speaker 1: of one hundred that were then invited to Washington to
Speaker 1: meet the President of the United States. And one of
Speaker 1: the ones from New York had been my classmate, Billy Roberts,
Speaker 1: and one from Ohio was this girl whose name has
Speaker 1: long been lost in the cracks in the sidewalk of
Speaker 1: my memory. Nice girl, and she had told me she
Speaker 1: knew Billy Roberts, and Billy Roberts warned her about me,
Speaker 1: not that I was a threat, just that I was unusual.
Speaker 1: So we had a good friendship and it didn't amount
Speaker 1: to anything of interest one way or the other, except
Speaker 1: for this one interaction where I said to her, so
Speaker 1: you were a national merit scholarship, is this a lot
Speaker 1: of work for you? And she went, I have never
Speaker 1: written anything in school longer than three paragraphs. I did
Speaker 1: a quick survey of the other students in the class,
Speaker 1: at about half of them, nine pages over the course
Speaker 1: of three months was a lot of work to them,
Speaker 1: or at least above average, and to me it was
Speaker 1: the golden key. I knew that all I had to
Speaker 1: do was find classes that allowed me to write, rather
Speaker 1: than you know, mix chemicals or I don't know, take
Speaker 1: tests with multiple choice. If it was an exam that
Speaker 1: involved writing, I was going to do well in the course.
Speaker 1: In my senior year, I took Ecology because there was
Speaker 1: no lab work except a couple of marches through the
Speaker 1: woods around Cornell, which were nice anyway, and there were
Speaker 1: six papers and a written exam with some multiple choice questions.
Speaker 1: But the majority of the work was writing, and I
Speaker 1: could always write. I would start twenty five page papers
Speaker 1: the night before they were due and do well on
Speaker 1: them because I learned how to write in high school.
Speaker 1: So now as my senior year with the twenty eight
Speaker 1: credits in it a record a record tying performance. And
Speaker 1: by the way, they changed the rules after I graduated,
Speaker 1: so you can't take more than something like twenty one credits,
Speaker 1: So my record is unbreakable, thank you very much as
Speaker 1: the week's PA. And I was also working at the
Speaker 1: radio station and also tried to get my first job.
Speaker 1: As all this went on, I began to have the
Speaker 1: dreams in which I would forget a class. Oh man,
Speaker 1: I forgot physics completely. I didn't actually all of the
Speaker 1: teachers who saw me and knew I was a senior
Speaker 1: taking physics freshman physics, as one of them said, when
Speaker 1: I didn't do too well on the lab, I'm giving
Speaker 1: you an A on this. I'll be damned if I
Speaker 1: keep a second semester senior from graduating because of freshman
Speaker 1: physics a communications major. So they were all good to me,
Speaker 1: and nobody padded my numbers that much. And then came
Speaker 1: two events, the final in ecology and the phone call
Speaker 1: from my father. And I don't remember the sequence of
Speaker 1: these things. The exam must have been first. I had
Speaker 1: written the final paper, which was about extinction, and the
Speaker 1: professor had said, you can write about the philosophy extinction,
Speaker 1: the moral implications of extinction, the theories of extinction, And
Speaker 1: I went go back one and he said the moral
Speaker 1: implications or the theory or philosophy of extinctions or extrapolating
Speaker 1: from what we know about extinctions to possibly the meaning
Speaker 1: of it. I want I'll take that one because I
Speaker 1: knew if I could come up with one idea, I
Speaker 1: could turn it into twenty five pages. And the one
Speaker 1: idea was that perhaps extinction was a function of the
Speaker 1: growth of mankind from an advanced ape to our current
Speaker 1: state of not quite an advanced ape. That as we
Speaker 1: grew as our footprint in large, it would necessitate extinction
Speaker 1: of other species. It's not a bad idea, it's not
Speaker 1: a bad theory. It's not twenty five pages. And yet
Speaker 1: somehow there it was, and I handed it in. But
Speaker 1: most of my grade would depend on how that did
Speaker 1: and how I did on the exam, and in the
Speaker 1: final exam. In the middle of it, this guy, this
Speaker 1: teaching assistant or professor, whatever he was, hands back my paper,
Speaker 1: my theory of the societal and evolutionary implications of extinction,
Speaker 1: and at the top, in red he has written fourteen
Speaker 1: see me the world darkened, my blood ran cold, fourteen fourteen.
Speaker 1: This means that to graduate, I'm going to have to
Speaker 1: do one hundred on this final that's in front of me.
Speaker 1: I was the fastest test taker in the history of
Speaker 1: Cornell University. I believe fully, instinctively, your first answer is
Speaker 1: probably your best because that memory that moment is, you know,
Speaker 1: seven minutes fresher than the memory you're going to have
Speaker 1: seven minutes from now when you decide you got the
Speaker 1: first one wrong. So I would just do the exam,
Speaker 1: double check to see if I'd written in something by mistake,
Speaker 1: and then hand it in and leave. In this case,
Speaker 1: that's not how this worked. I had the exam in
Speaker 1: my hands when they said time, and I had changed
Speaker 1: countless answers, and they had to pull it out of
Speaker 1: my hands. And as I walked out into the spring
Speaker 1: sun of Cornell University and the AG campus in the
Speaker 1: spring of nineteen seventy nine, I did not know what
Speaker 1: I was going to do other than throttle this teaching
Speaker 1: assistant who suddenly appeared in front of me fourteen see
Speaker 1: me and read. There he was and he was smiling,
Speaker 1: and I thought I'd just deckham and I didn't do it,
Speaker 1: and he went, listen, I'm glad I ran into you.
Speaker 1: I wanted to explain the reason I didn't give you
Speaker 1: the fifteenth point was I loved your argument. I didn't
Speaker 1: hear the rest of it. It was fourteen out of
Speaker 1: pit fifteen. Who grades like that? At that point I
Speaker 1: was ready to say, why didn't you say fourteen out
Speaker 1: of fifteen? It just says fourteen, But I didn't. I
Speaker 1: just gave him a kiss on the cheek and then
Speaker 1: went and got drunk at nine or ten in the morning.
Speaker 1: So that hurdle was first off, it looked like it
Speaker 1: had wrapped itself around my neck, and then it turned
Speaker 1: out it had been vaulted. But at that point I
Speaker 1: thought I was not graduating. The job I was up
Speaker 1: for at United Press International was going to go to
Speaker 1: somebody else. I would either have to stay for the
Speaker 1: summer or leave Cornell without a degree and somehow come
Speaker 1: back later or something and probably never get the degree.
Speaker 1: And then I walked out into the sun and realized
Speaker 1: that there were like five of my other ten courses
Speaker 1: in which there was an excellent chance I might not graduate.
Speaker 1: And that final in history, I think it was going
Speaker 1: to come down maybe three or four points on a
Speaker 1: five point question and a fifteen point section on a
Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty point exam. I hadn't done that
Speaker 1: well in the history exam. I knew it they'd hit
Speaker 1: all the topics I had not mastered, and so on
Speaker 1: the Friday before the graduation, on Monday, May twenty eighth,
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy nine, my dad called and said, are you
Speaker 1: graduating or not? Because your mother and your sister and
Speaker 1: I are not coming up unless you're graduating. We're not
Speaker 1: taking that drive again. If you haven't graduated. You can
Speaker 1: get home on your own. I told you I'm not
Speaker 1: paying for anything that includes your ride home if you
Speaker 1: didn't graduate. I said, thank you for your support. He said,
Speaker 1: you know I love you and I'm supporting you the
Speaker 1: best I can. But you did miss a semester, and
Speaker 1: I went, well, I was sick. Yeah, you were sick.
Speaker 1: You were sick. After the day, I could have gotten
Speaker 1: the refund for the whole semester. My dad was very
Speaker 1: practical with money. So I called the registrar's office. I
Speaker 1: don't think I got Marcia or Martha, but I needed
Speaker 1: to know. It was Friday, graduation was Monday. I really
Speaker 1: needed to know whether or not I had to go
Speaker 1: to graduation on Monday morning or make a reservation to
Speaker 1: go home to New York on the back of the bus,
Speaker 1: perhaps as luggage, maybe ship myself through the post office.
Speaker 1: She said, Lank, let me check. Hold on. Okay, we
Speaker 1: have this one, saying okay, An you passed. That's a
Speaker 1: C minus in over here is and Dan, boy, you
Speaker 1: took a lot of classes Olderman. Yes, well, let me
Speaker 1: just hold on a second, puts her hand over the phone,
Speaker 1: and for some reason I could hear her even better. Gladys,
Speaker 1: I need to check. Did Olberman graduate? Now? Olberman? Oh
Speaker 1: l no, no, no, no, no, no, not's o b
Speaker 1: he's no I no, he's in the hotel school. Oh
Speaker 1: l b E R M A N. This is when
Speaker 1: I spoke two ends, two ends. Gladys, No, no he didn't.
Speaker 1: Oh that's too bad. No again, the world receded in
Speaker 1: front of my eyes. It got very dark and my
Speaker 1: blood got very cold. And then she came back onto
Speaker 1: removing her hand from the phone, onto full voice and said, yes,
Speaker 1: you graduated. We just couldn't find the history final congratulations.
Speaker 1: And I said to her, and I'm quoting myself, I
Speaker 1: think exactly I got and she went, yes, thank god,
Speaker 1: have a nice weekend, have fun at graduation. Don't drink
Speaker 1: too much. Click. She hadn't been able to find the
Speaker 1: history result which I passed. I think it was a
Speaker 1: CS or a D plus. I just passed those five points.
Speaker 1: I got four instead of three and the five point
Speaker 1: in the fifteen point section in the one hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty point history exam, and I graduated. And I got
Speaker 1: a C plus in the biology course ecology because of
Speaker 1: my one sentence theory that I turned into twenty five pages.
Speaker 1: And I graduated and graduated with twenty eight credits in
Speaker 1: my last semester when the average number of credits was fifteen,
Speaker 1: and then they changed the rules so nobody could take
Speaker 1: more than twenty one and they had to get special
Speaker 1: permission to do that. So I share the all time
Speaker 1: Cornell record for the most credits in one semester, and
Speaker 1: my grade point average would have led either the American
Speaker 1: or National leagues in earned run average for nineteen seventy nine.
Speaker 1: That's how bad I was. And to this day, no
Speaker 1: employer and nobody else I've ever known has asked to
Speaker 1: see any of these numbers. I graduated, Dad came up.
Speaker 1: We had a great time. I wore the suit, I
Speaker 1: wore the hat. They had to order a special size
Speaker 1: eight mortarboard for me, and as soon as it ended.
Speaker 1: I did the whole bit. I went over to Dad
Speaker 1: and I handed him my diploma and said, in the
Speaker 1: tradition of college graduates, then and I hope now here,
Speaker 1: here's your goddamned receipt. I've done all the damage I
Speaker 1: can do here. Thank you for listening. Occurs to me
Speaker 1: that I left something out of that story, which is
Speaker 1: the part about the dreams. The dream started about a
Speaker 1: month later that I didn't graduate on time, And obviously
Speaker 1: they were not terrifying dreams, but depending on how much
Speaker 1: stress there was in my life, often I would be
Speaker 1: required not just to redo the classes I failed, but
Speaker 1: to start college all over again, or start high school
Speaker 1: all over again. And once, at a particularly tense point
Speaker 1: in my life, at about the age of thirty five,
Speaker 1: I had a dream in which because I did not
Speaker 1: graduate college on time, they sent me back to the
Speaker 1: third grade as an adult to sit in those tiny chairs.
Speaker 1: That's how bad the dream was. And the dream continued,
Speaker 1: and most people who've graduated from school were gone through
Speaker 1: some similar Am I going to do this in time
Speaker 1: kind of thing? Have a dream like this? The dream
Speaker 1: continued in pretty much the same fashion for the next
Speaker 1: forty years. And I began to wonder if the theories
Speaker 1: about it, which is that it was just a stress
Speaker 1: based dream based on reality, had been replaced by something else.
Speaker 1: And finally it dawned on me as I hit sixty
Speaker 1: years old and was having this dream, that in fact
Speaker 1: I was still having the dream because in the dream
Speaker 1: I was twenty and almost anything, including having to take
Speaker 1: twenty eight credits in one semester and not really being
Speaker 1: sure you're going to graduate, is better if you're twenty
Speaker 1: than almost anything is if you're sixty. And the moment
Speaker 1: I realized that it had turned into a nostalgia dream
Speaker 1: for my now gone youth, the dream stopped. I haven't
Speaker 1: had it since. Something to think about twenty eight credits?
Speaker 1: Oh you can't. They changed their roles. Sorry, My academic
Speaker 1: career in terrible grade point average. However, I'll always have that.
Speaker 1: Brian Ray and John Phillip Schanel, the musical directors, have Countdown, arranged, produced,
Speaker 1: and performed most of our music. Mister Chanelle handled orchestration
Speaker 1: and keyboards. Mister Ray was on the guitars, bass and drums,
Speaker 1: and it was produced by TKO Brothers. I should also
Speaker 1: add that upon graduation one of my dear friends who've
Speaker 1: been out looking for a job, came back and said,
Speaker 1: when she saw me in line in my mortarboard and
Speaker 1: my gown, you graduated. And I said yes. And she
Speaker 1: then asked me about another one of our friends who
Speaker 1: was also on the bubble, and I said, no, she
Speaker 1: didn't graduate. She failed sex roles. She took sex roles
Speaker 1: past fail and she failed it. And I burst into laughter,
Speaker 1: and I had this strange experience of looking into my
Speaker 1: friend's face. My friend said, you know, and this is
Speaker 1: the first time I ever heard this cliche. You know,
Speaker 1: she's standing right behind you. And I turned around and
Speaker 1: she said, you've deserved this for a long time. And
Speaker 1: on graduation morning she smacked me, and my glasses literally
Speaker 1: did fly off into the bushes. But I didn't care.
Speaker 1: I was graduating and she was not. Our satirical and
Speaker 1: fifthy musical comments are by the best baseball stadium organist ever,
Speaker 1: Nancy Faust, once again of the Chicago White Sox, the
Speaker 1: Papacy's team. The sports music is the Ulderman theme for
Speaker 1: Me ESPN two, written by Mitch Warren Davis courtesy of ESPN, Inc.
Speaker 1: Other music arranged and performed by the group no horns allowed,
Speaker 1: and my announcer today was my friend Dennis Leary. Everything
Speaker 1: else was, as ever, my fault. My friend Carol said
Speaker 1: of the Lady who shall remain nameless, after she wandered
Speaker 1: off not graduating on time, she said, Keith, you're a
Speaker 1: strange guy, and I like you very much. You're one
Speaker 1: of my best friends, and I hope that will always
Speaker 1: be the case. But I need you to know something.
Speaker 1: No matter how strange people might find you, how different
Speaker 1: in both good and bad ways you might be, just
Speaker 1: remember you'll never be as crazy as she is. I
Speaker 1: should have married Carol. In fact, I should have married
Speaker 1: Carol that morning. Based on that. That's countdown for today,
Speaker 1: Day one hundred and twenty of America held hostage, just
Speaker 1: three hundred and forty three days until the scheduled end
Speaker 1: of his lame duck and lame brained term, unless Musk
Speaker 1: removes him sooner. Where the actuarial tables do or we do?
Speaker 1: We all have regrets in life. But I graduated on
Speaker 1: time and started work a month later. The rest while
Speaker 1: you're listening to it. The next scheduled countdown is Monday.
Speaker 1: As always, bulletins as the news warrants. No, No, it's
Speaker 1: not next Monday. This is Monday. The next scheduled countdown
Speaker 1: is Thursday. As always, bulletins as the news warrants. I
Speaker 1: was too busy trying to graduate. I didn't learn anything
Speaker 1: as boldin's as the news warrants. And remember Trump is
Speaker 1: laying the groundwork now to not leave office later, to
Speaker 1: not graduate on time like he graduated on time. He
Speaker 1: must be stopped till next time. I'm Keith Olberman. Good morning,
Speaker 1: good afternoon, goodnight, and good luck. Countdown with Keith Olberman
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