1 00:00:04,835 --> 00:00:15,635 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Here 2 00:00:15,675 --> 00:00:19,195 Speaker 1: are the Monday Countdown headlines, and I got good headlines 3 00:00:19,235 --> 00:00:22,955 Speaker 1: and I got bad headlines. The good headline is Trump 4 00:00:22,995 --> 00:00:26,715 Speaker 1: says if he loses November fifth, he cannot see himself 5 00:00:26,795 --> 00:00:30,755 Speaker 1: running again in twenty twenty eight, when he'll be two 6 00:00:30,875 --> 00:00:35,075 Speaker 1: hundred and six. The bad headline is he lies about 7 00:00:35,075 --> 00:00:37,315 Speaker 1: everything else. I don't see any reason to assume he 8 00:00:37,355 --> 00:00:40,715 Speaker 1: isn't lying about this too. If you're not successful this time, 9 00:00:40,755 --> 00:00:44,115 Speaker 1: do you see yourself running again in four years? No, 10 00:00:44,235 --> 00:00:47,435 Speaker 1: I don't. No, I think that that will be uh, 11 00:00:47,915 --> 00:00:49,475 Speaker 1: that will be it. I don't see that at all. 12 00:00:49,635 --> 00:00:53,555 Speaker 1: I think hopefully we're going to be successful, mister President. 13 00:00:53,595 --> 00:00:56,515 Speaker 1: Thank you for the interview. That's Trump at the end 14 00:00:56,555 --> 00:01:00,675 Speaker 1: of a fluff interview with Cheryl Atkinson on her show 15 00:01:00,755 --> 00:01:03,515 Speaker 1: Full Measure. And I'd love to know what they so 16 00:01:03,755 --> 00:01:06,995 Speaker 1: inartfully edited out there at the end, but I guess 17 00:01:07,035 --> 00:01:09,355 Speaker 1: we'll never know. And to clarify, the name of the 18 00:01:09,395 --> 00:01:12,875 Speaker 1: former journalist with CBS who did the interview is at Kisson, 19 00:01:13,435 --> 00:01:18,835 Speaker 1: not ask Kisson. So, like the election, we're not existential enough. 20 00:01:19,235 --> 00:01:22,635 Speaker 1: We now know what Teddy Roosevelt meant in nineteen twelve 21 00:01:22,635 --> 00:01:26,115 Speaker 1: when he said we stand at Armageddon and we battle 22 00:01:26,195 --> 00:01:30,315 Speaker 1: for the Lord. If Trump is not lying, it's not 23 00:01:30,475 --> 00:01:34,155 Speaker 1: just about preventing him from becoming a constitution destroying dictator 24 00:01:34,195 --> 00:01:39,715 Speaker 1: next January. It's about doing that and also forcing him 25 00:01:39,715 --> 00:01:42,915 Speaker 1: to exit the scene altogether. And before you say, well, obviously, 26 00:01:43,075 --> 00:01:45,435 Speaker 1: if he loses in November, he's not running in twenty 27 00:01:45,475 --> 00:01:47,395 Speaker 1: twenty eight. He's going to be in prison in twenty 28 00:01:47,435 --> 00:01:51,555 Speaker 1: twenty eight. Yeah. Right. There is nothing standing in the 29 00:01:51,595 --> 00:01:56,635 Speaker 1: way of anybody running from prison. And as always, there 30 00:01:56,675 --> 00:01:59,475 Speaker 1: is also nothing standing in the way of any aspect 31 00:01:59,515 --> 00:02:02,675 Speaker 1: of Trump's ego. And of course what would be by 32 00:02:02,715 --> 00:02:05,475 Speaker 1: then his need to get himself out of prison so 33 00:02:05,555 --> 00:02:11,595 Speaker 1: he could pardon himself and then take the oath of office. Impossible. 34 00:02:12,555 --> 00:02:16,715 Speaker 1: Have you been asleep since twenty fifteen? His luck will 35 00:02:16,835 --> 00:02:20,235 Speaker 1: run out at some point. It has not yet, it 36 00:02:20,315 --> 00:02:23,635 Speaker 1: is beginning to, perhaps, at least in fundraising. The numbers 37 00:02:23,635 --> 00:02:26,515 Speaker 1: from yesterday. Kamala Harris was here in New York. She 38 00:02:26,715 --> 00:02:32,195 Speaker 1: raised twenty seven million dollars at one fundraiser, and all 39 00:02:32,275 --> 00:02:35,475 Speaker 1: I had to do was navigate heavier than usual Manhattan 40 00:02:35,515 --> 00:02:40,035 Speaker 1: traffic There were two big polls yesterday, big numbers solid 41 00:02:40,275 --> 00:02:43,915 Speaker 1: worth going over, but the interior numbers were way more 42 00:02:43,915 --> 00:02:46,555 Speaker 1: interesting the big numbers. First, NBC, their poll is one 43 00:02:46,595 --> 00:02:49,595 Speaker 1: of the last things they do well. They have Harris 44 00:02:49,595 --> 00:02:52,795 Speaker 1: with a five point lead over Trump among registered voters 45 00:02:52,995 --> 00:02:56,355 Speaker 1: forty nine forty four in July. The last time they 46 00:02:56,355 --> 00:03:00,395 Speaker 1: did this, Trump was up by two over Biden. Throw 47 00:03:00,475 --> 00:03:03,955 Speaker 1: in the sock puppet third party candidates, and NBC has 48 00:03:03,995 --> 00:03:09,075 Speaker 1: Harris by But again this is registered voters, not likely voters, 49 00:03:09,835 --> 00:03:13,115 Speaker 1: not they're not likely, but that they're not. Okay, you 50 00:03:13,195 --> 00:03:16,595 Speaker 1: got it. CBS did polling is Well released yesterday, Harris 51 00:03:16,635 --> 00:03:19,595 Speaker 1: fifty two to forty eight among likelies. They also did 52 00:03:19,715 --> 00:03:23,555 Speaker 1: swing states. As they reported, she has improved her lead 53 00:03:23,635 --> 00:03:28,075 Speaker 1: over Trump in battleground states. The poll conducted by CBS 54 00:03:28,075 --> 00:03:31,795 Speaker 1: News and U Gubb, finding Harris increased her lead after 55 00:03:31,835 --> 00:03:35,115 Speaker 1: the presidential debate and comes out with fifty one percent 56 00:03:35,155 --> 00:03:38,755 Speaker 1: support to Trump's forty nine. That's overall, which is of course, 57 00:03:39,235 --> 00:03:43,875 Speaker 1: of no use whatsoever. Included in the survey Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, 58 00:03:43,955 --> 00:03:49,595 Speaker 1: North Carolina, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. Their estimates of where 59 00:03:49,715 --> 00:03:53,555 Speaker 1: those individual states land right now is Harris by three 60 00:03:53,595 --> 00:03:58,475 Speaker 1: in Nevada, two in Michigan and Wisconsin, four in Nebraska, second, 61 00:03:58,915 --> 00:04:02,915 Speaker 1: one in Arizona and North Carolina, tied in Pennsylvania, and 62 00:04:02,955 --> 00:04:06,155 Speaker 1: Trump had by one in Georgia. Those are all slight 63 00:04:06,275 --> 00:04:10,235 Speaker 1: improvements for Harris in the CBS poll of the swing states, 64 00:04:10,915 --> 00:04:17,355 Speaker 1: but mass Ink polling has her up by five in Pennsylvania. 65 00:04:17,475 --> 00:04:20,835 Speaker 1: Among likelies. I'll refer to what I referred to last week. 66 00:04:21,115 --> 00:04:25,715 Speaker 1: The main difference in polls theoretically asking the same people 67 00:04:25,715 --> 00:04:28,915 Speaker 1: the same questions is how do you define a likely voter? 68 00:04:29,715 --> 00:04:35,635 Speaker 1: Outward intelligence which demands undecided voters who they deem likely 69 00:04:35,755 --> 00:04:41,355 Speaker 1: voters decide already, damn you. They make an undecided voter 70 00:04:41,715 --> 00:04:44,155 Speaker 1: lean one way or the other, or they throw out 71 00:04:44,155 --> 00:04:49,955 Speaker 1: the number that has Harris leading nationally by seven. The 72 00:04:50,075 --> 00:04:54,035 Speaker 1: Nate Silver Metrics driven guess which is what it is, 73 00:04:54,355 --> 00:04:57,195 Speaker 1: went last week from Trump sixty four percent chance of 74 00:04:57,195 --> 00:05:00,195 Speaker 1: winning the electoral college to Harris with a fifty one 75 00:05:00,235 --> 00:05:04,075 Speaker 1: percent chance of winning the electoral college. All right, those 76 00:05:04,115 --> 00:05:07,795 Speaker 1: are just the headline numbers. The interior numbers, as I said, 77 00:05:08,435 --> 00:05:14,995 Speaker 1: are fascinating. They're fascinating because you'll hear. Harris's favorability has 78 00:05:15,115 --> 00:05:20,755 Speaker 1: jumped sixteen points since July, according to NBC, which notes 79 00:05:20,795 --> 00:05:26,195 Speaker 1: that's the largest increase in any politician's number in NBC 80 00:05:26,275 --> 00:05:32,595 Speaker 1: News polling since George W. Bush's favorability surged after nine 81 00:05:32,635 --> 00:05:37,395 Speaker 1: to eleven. This is amazing, and not just because that 82 00:05:37,675 --> 00:05:43,355 Speaker 1: is the weirdest poll framing of all time or what, yes, congratulations, 83 00:05:43,395 --> 00:05:46,795 Speaker 1: madam Vice President, You've had the greatest bounce since nine 84 00:05:46,795 --> 00:05:51,715 Speaker 1: to eleven. It's also amazing because none of the numbers 85 00:05:51,755 --> 00:05:56,235 Speaker 1: that should build that number a growth to a positive, 86 00:05:56,315 --> 00:06:00,075 Speaker 1: a three point positive for her favorability. None of the 87 00:06:00,155 --> 00:06:04,235 Speaker 1: numbers inside the NBC poll add up correctly. Who do 88 00:06:04,275 --> 00:06:07,035 Speaker 1: you try more on securing the border? They still have 89 00:06:07,075 --> 00:06:09,635 Speaker 1: it Trump fifty four to thirty three. Who do you 90 00:06:09,675 --> 00:06:11,795 Speaker 1: trust more on the economy? They still have it Trump 91 00:06:11,955 --> 00:06:15,075 Speaker 1: fifty to forty one. Who do you trust more on crime? 92 00:06:15,155 --> 00:06:17,475 Speaker 1: They still have Trump add forty seven to forty one. 93 00:06:17,475 --> 00:06:20,635 Speaker 1: And of course there's always the possibility that responded saying 94 00:06:20,635 --> 00:06:22,835 Speaker 1: who do you trust more on crime? Trump or Harris? 95 00:06:22,875 --> 00:06:27,555 Speaker 1: Go well, Trump, obviously he's the criminal. But how does 96 00:06:27,595 --> 00:06:30,875 Speaker 1: that add up to a sixteen point surge since July? 97 00:06:31,475 --> 00:06:36,515 Speaker 1: In Harris's favorability. Ironically, it may be because of something 98 00:06:36,835 --> 00:06:42,115 Speaker 1: her advisors told them to do, more is explained by 99 00:06:42,115 --> 00:06:46,275 Speaker 1: something else. In the NBC News poll, it graded the 100 00:06:46,315 --> 00:06:52,435 Speaker 1: favorability of Project twenty twenty five fifty seven percent unfavorable, 101 00:06:52,835 --> 00:06:57,715 Speaker 1: fifty one percent of that is strongly unfavorable. The favorability 102 00:06:57,915 --> 00:07:04,395 Speaker 1: number for Project twenty twenty five four percent, not forty 103 00:07:04,795 --> 00:07:12,955 Speaker 1: not forty four four fo you are four. In June, 104 00:07:13,075 --> 00:07:17,635 Speaker 1: a Democratic pollster named Nick Gerovich revealed yesterday they had 105 00:07:17,715 --> 00:07:21,995 Speaker 1: seen polling in June suggesting that people were able to 106 00:07:22,115 --> 00:07:26,635 Speaker 1: grasp Project twenty twenty five and its headlines quickly. They 107 00:07:26,635 --> 00:07:29,555 Speaker 1: could digest it, and they would immediately hate it. And 108 00:07:29,835 --> 00:07:32,395 Speaker 1: the more you told them about it, the more they 109 00:07:32,435 --> 00:07:34,875 Speaker 1: would hate it. Which I guess is how you produce 110 00:07:34,915 --> 00:07:38,715 Speaker 1: a number in which and a thing begets a fifty 111 00:07:38,795 --> 00:07:43,395 Speaker 1: seven percent unfavorable score to a four percent favorable score. 112 00:07:44,675 --> 00:07:46,675 Speaker 1: That's the kind of polling you'd like to see on 113 00:07:46,715 --> 00:07:51,835 Speaker 1: Harrison trumps Harris fifty seven percent Trump four percent. In 114 00:07:51,875 --> 00:07:55,515 Speaker 1: any event, even for this, even just the idea that 115 00:07:55,715 --> 00:07:59,395 Speaker 1: Project twenty twenty five is as unpopular as it should be, 116 00:07:59,675 --> 00:08:01,955 Speaker 1: and that the Democrats picked up on that and ran 117 00:08:02,355 --> 00:08:05,635 Speaker 1: a race against Project twenty twenty five, and it's worked. 118 00:08:05,875 --> 00:08:09,435 Speaker 1: Is one of the rare glimmers of intelligence in the 119 00:08:09,515 --> 00:08:16,795 Speaker 1: increasingly dubious electorate. Meantime, a beautiful burned by Harris to 120 00:08:16,875 --> 00:08:20,715 Speaker 1: accept a CNN debate a month from today, making Trump 121 00:08:20,795 --> 00:08:23,195 Speaker 1: come up with an excuse for running away and not 122 00:08:23,395 --> 00:08:27,155 Speaker 1: doing it. You'd think even he could have done better 123 00:08:27,195 --> 00:08:31,155 Speaker 1: than quote, I'd love to, but it's too late. The 124 00:08:31,195 --> 00:08:35,075 Speaker 1: debate would be October twenty third. The final twenty twenty 125 00:08:35,115 --> 00:08:39,435 Speaker 1: debate was October twenty second. Well, there you have it. 126 00:08:39,795 --> 00:08:42,875 Speaker 1: The cutoff for not being too late is clearly October 127 00:08:42,915 --> 00:08:47,315 Speaker 1: twenty second. Every once in a while Trump is a 128 00:08:47,355 --> 00:08:53,475 Speaker 1: bigger idiot than he believes everybody else is. They might 129 00:08:53,635 --> 00:08:57,715 Speaker 1: do Harris and Trump consecutive sit down interviews with sixty minutes. 130 00:08:57,755 --> 00:09:01,155 Speaker 1: That would be October seventh. There is no reason that 131 00:09:01,195 --> 00:09:03,315 Speaker 1: you could not have a debate on October twenty third, 132 00:09:03,675 --> 00:09:08,315 Speaker 1: or at to October twenty second. It's nice to know 133 00:09:08,395 --> 00:09:10,635 Speaker 1: that every once in a while, even a fascist cannot 134 00:09:10,675 --> 00:09:14,635 Speaker 1: survive a scandal. You heard this right from Mark Nude Africa. 135 00:09:14,795 --> 00:09:19,435 Speaker 1: Robinson's run for governor of North Carolina. The story broke 136 00:09:19,595 --> 00:09:22,675 Speaker 1: so late that he did not have time to drop 137 00:09:22,755 --> 00:09:26,675 Speaker 1: out of the race, or for the Republicans to press 138 00:09:26,755 --> 00:09:30,275 Speaker 1: him to drop out. They are, as I've said before, 139 00:09:30,795 --> 00:09:36,355 Speaker 1: shackled to a corpse. Mark Robinson Campaign announces staff changes. 140 00:09:37,075 --> 00:09:47,675 Speaker 1: It's like saying Titanic announces manifest changes, writers' changes. Mark 141 00:09:47,755 --> 00:09:52,075 Speaker 1: Robinson Campaign announces staff changes Raley North Carolina. Today, the 142 00:09:52,115 --> 00:09:55,955 Speaker 1: Mark Robinson for Governor Campaign announce the following senior staff changes. 143 00:09:56,315 --> 00:10:01,155 Speaker 1: Conrad Portgerzelski the third General Consultants and senior advisor. Chris 144 00:10:01,235 --> 00:10:04,835 Speaker 1: Rodriguez campaign manager, Heather Willier Finance director, and Jason and 145 00:10:04,915 --> 00:10:08,555 Speaker 1: Risk Deputy campaign manager have stepped down from their roles 146 00:10:08,555 --> 00:10:12,595 Speaker 1: with the campaign. Get off the boat as fast as 147 00:10:12,635 --> 00:10:16,635 Speaker 1: you can. An announcement of new incoming staff members will 148 00:10:16,675 --> 00:10:23,195 Speaker 1: be forthcoming from the campaign soon. I appreciate the efforts 149 00:10:23,235 --> 00:10:25,715 Speaker 1: of these team members who have made the difficult choice 150 00:10:25,755 --> 00:10:28,035 Speaker 1: to step away from the campaign, and I wish them 151 00:10:28,035 --> 00:10:31,475 Speaker 1: well in their further endeavors. I look forward to announcing 152 00:10:31,515 --> 00:10:35,755 Speaker 1: new staff roles in the coming days. Don't use that 153 00:10:35,795 --> 00:10:38,315 Speaker 1: one word. My campaign will continue to focus on the 154 00:10:38,355 --> 00:10:44,515 Speaker 1: substantive issues at stake in this election tranny. What Oh sorry, 155 00:10:44,555 --> 00:10:47,275 Speaker 1: I have misread that building an economy that grows from 156 00:10:47,355 --> 00:10:51,955 Speaker 1: Murphy to Manteo, cutting taxes and eliminating unnecessary red tape, 157 00:10:52,115 --> 00:10:54,995 Speaker 1: removing politics out of our classrooms, and cracking down on 158 00:10:55,075 --> 00:10:59,595 Speaker 1: violent crime and dangerous people like Mark Robinson. Now he 159 00:10:59,635 --> 00:11:04,235 Speaker 1: said dangerous drugs. He left out the other thing about that, 160 00:11:04,795 --> 00:11:08,955 Speaker 1: your kind of entertainment he enjoyed. Of course, it's nonsense. 161 00:11:09,315 --> 00:11:12,315 Speaker 1: His staff walked out on him on Moss in a 162 00:11:12,435 --> 00:11:16,635 Speaker 1: desperate attempt to save their individual skin for some twenty 163 00:11:16,675 --> 00:11:20,875 Speaker 1: twenty six mid term campaign somewhere or something else. Regardless, 164 00:11:20,915 --> 00:11:24,475 Speaker 1: it's a fitting climax to the saga of Mark Robinson, 165 00:11:25,395 --> 00:11:28,315 Speaker 1: who will now be working at the very peorn store 166 00:11:28,395 --> 00:11:31,635 Speaker 1: that he frequented twenty years ago because he ain't doing 167 00:11:31,715 --> 00:11:37,195 Speaker 1: nothing in politics after this, save their skin. Speaking of skin, 168 00:11:37,355 --> 00:11:40,155 Speaker 1: Chris Christy with the final word, oddly enough, on Mark 169 00:11:40,235 --> 00:11:43,275 Speaker 1: Robinson yesterday, this is the problem for US Republicans. As 170 00:11:43,275 --> 00:11:46,635 Speaker 1: long as Donald Trump is your recruiting agent for candidates 171 00:11:46,635 --> 00:11:50,475 Speaker 1: in swing states, we're going to continue to get our 172 00:11:50,715 --> 00:11:55,715 Speaker 1: rear ends handed to us. Hearing that, Lieutenant Governor Mark 173 00:11:55,795 --> 00:12:22,875 Speaker 1: Robinson got very excited once again, from The New York 174 00:12:22,955 --> 00:12:28,315 Speaker 1: Times all the news that's fit to print. Six years later, 175 00:12:29,155 --> 00:12:32,675 Speaker 1: spring of twenty eighteen, the Times now reports Trump furious 176 00:12:32,715 --> 00:12:36,515 Speaker 1: over the investigation into his conspiracy with Russian actors who 177 00:12:36,555 --> 00:12:42,115 Speaker 1: illegally influence the twenty sixteen election. Quote. Trump told startled 178 00:12:42,155 --> 00:12:45,515 Speaker 1: aids that if Attorney General JEFFS. Sessions would not order 179 00:12:45,515 --> 00:12:48,675 Speaker 1: the department to go after Hillary Clinton and James B. Comy, 180 00:12:48,995 --> 00:12:53,595 Speaker 1: the former FBI director, mister Trump would prosecute them himself. 181 00:12:54,915 --> 00:12:58,555 Speaker 1: Recognizing the extraordinary dangers of a president seeking not just 182 00:12:58,595 --> 00:13:01,995 Speaker 1: to weaponize the criminal justice system for political ends, but 183 00:13:02,075 --> 00:13:05,435 Speaker 1: trying as well to assume personal control over who should 184 00:13:05,435 --> 00:13:08,675 Speaker 1: be investigated and charged, the White House counsel Donald F. 185 00:13:08,755 --> 00:13:14,155 Speaker 1: Mcgon the second sought to stall. In retrospect, it's clear 186 00:13:14,195 --> 00:13:15,755 Speaker 1: they should have just let him do it, because that 187 00:13:15,755 --> 00:13:19,035 Speaker 1: would have gotten him impeached and removed. There would have 188 00:13:19,075 --> 00:13:21,355 Speaker 1: been no choice. It would have been clear he was 189 00:13:21,435 --> 00:13:25,555 Speaker 1: both insane and attempting to become a dictator who decided 190 00:13:25,715 --> 00:13:29,715 Speaker 1: who lived and who died. To continue, the Times reporting 191 00:13:30,115 --> 00:13:32,875 Speaker 1: this just in six years ago, how about I do this, 192 00:13:32,955 --> 00:13:36,675 Speaker 1: mister mcgaughn, asked mister Trump. According to an account, verified 193 00:13:36,715 --> 00:13:39,555 Speaker 1: by witnesses. I'm going to write you a memo explaining 194 00:13:39,595 --> 00:13:41,555 Speaker 1: to you what the law is and how it works. 195 00:13:41,755 --> 00:13:43,915 Speaker 1: And I'll give that memo to you and you can 196 00:13:43,955 --> 00:13:47,875 Speaker 1: decide what you want to do. Then presumably they gave 197 00:13:47,955 --> 00:13:49,835 Speaker 1: him a marker and let him draw on the walls 198 00:13:49,875 --> 00:13:53,675 Speaker 1: for a while. Meanwhile, the saga of the Trump ally 199 00:13:53,795 --> 00:13:56,515 Speaker 1: Robert F. Kennedy Junior and soon to be former New 200 00:13:56,595 --> 00:14:00,435 Speaker 1: York Magazine reporter Olivia Newzy continues to inflate and now 201 00:14:00,515 --> 00:14:03,555 Speaker 1: takes on its own legal tones. I mean, when I 202 00:14:03,595 --> 00:14:08,475 Speaker 1: saw it tweeted out Sunday morning with the hashtag jobless 203 00:14:09,035 --> 00:14:17,595 Speaker 1: by aa JTV Urdu that's Television network News in Pakistan 204 00:14:18,715 --> 00:14:23,195 Speaker 1: in the Urdu alphabet, with a picture of her covered 205 00:14:23,315 --> 00:14:26,475 Speaker 1: with a bunch of words in Urdu except for the 206 00:14:26,515 --> 00:14:30,955 Speaker 1: hashtags Olivia Newsy and jobless, I thought, okay, easy, easy 207 00:14:31,115 --> 00:14:34,675 Speaker 1: jokes here. Put it in the podcast. Kennedy will just 208 00:14:35,595 --> 00:14:39,715 Speaker 1: bear with this. I mean, he had a whale of 209 00:14:39,755 --> 00:14:42,155 Speaker 1: a time with no no. What I mean is he 210 00:14:42,235 --> 00:14:45,915 Speaker 1: hopes to extend this story, but not by doing anything 211 00:14:45,955 --> 00:14:51,435 Speaker 1: to Newsy. This was simply one of the most extraordinary 212 00:14:51,475 --> 00:14:55,515 Speaker 1: stories of our time from every aspect, including bad puns 213 00:14:55,995 --> 00:14:59,835 Speaker 1: and simply standing back and watching the fireworks go off, 214 00:15:00,035 --> 00:15:04,875 Speaker 1: and then the next depot of fireworks go off. The 215 00:15:04,995 --> 00:15:08,435 Speaker 1: bunker underneath that depot of fireworks going off like a 216 00:15:08,475 --> 00:15:11,075 Speaker 1: real life version of the Naked Gun movie, with Leslie 217 00:15:11,155 --> 00:15:13,715 Speaker 1: Nielsen standing there telling us there's nothing to see here, 218 00:15:13,835 --> 00:15:17,955 Speaker 1: and every three hours it gets three times worse. It 219 00:15:18,035 --> 00:15:23,515 Speaker 1: was like that until late yesterday and Saturday, Kennedy and 220 00:15:23,555 --> 00:15:26,395 Speaker 1: his henchman decided to turn the story on its head 221 00:15:26,955 --> 00:15:30,195 Speaker 1: from two people with no judgment to begin with, somehow 222 00:15:30,235 --> 00:15:34,675 Speaker 1: managing to display even less judgment than that into oh no, 223 00:15:34,915 --> 00:15:41,595 Speaker 1: it's all her fault. Kennedy, a scumbag, got that angle 224 00:15:41,635 --> 00:15:44,155 Speaker 1: into the New York Post on Saturday. She did this 225 00:15:44,235 --> 00:15:48,955 Speaker 1: to me by sending me nude photographs of herself, and 226 00:15:48,995 --> 00:15:52,315 Speaker 1: then yesterday in the Daily Beast it was positioned as 227 00:15:52,315 --> 00:15:55,755 Speaker 1: something he was having one time security whiz Gavin de 228 00:15:55,875 --> 00:16:00,995 Speaker 1: Becker investigate on the record this. De Becker portrayed a 229 00:16:01,075 --> 00:16:05,075 Speaker 1: scenario in which Olivia Newsy kept sending Kennedy nude photos 230 00:16:05,075 --> 00:16:08,115 Speaker 1: of herself, which he, of course would block her, although 231 00:16:08,155 --> 00:16:11,195 Speaker 1: he did apparently take an interest in these photos on 232 00:16:11,275 --> 00:16:14,755 Speaker 1: occasion and then she would contact him from a different phone, 233 00:16:14,875 --> 00:16:18,435 Speaker 1: insisting they needed to discuss a hit job story that 234 00:16:18,555 --> 00:16:21,675 Speaker 1: was about to break about him, and with the new 235 00:16:21,795 --> 00:16:28,755 Speaker 1: phone access sending him more nude photos. De Becker actually 236 00:16:28,835 --> 00:16:37,395 Speaker 1: said Kennedy was quote chased by porn. Yeah, according to 237 00:16:37,475 --> 00:16:40,315 Speaker 1: security expert Gavin de Becker, I am quoting the Daily 238 00:16:40,355 --> 00:16:44,875 Speaker 1: Beast now, who is supposedly investigating the Newsy Kennedy situation. 239 00:16:45,075 --> 00:16:49,395 Speaker 1: For Kennedy, the former presidential candidate is weighing civil litigation 240 00:16:49,555 --> 00:16:54,715 Speaker 1: against the reporter with the potential for future criminal referrals. Yeah, 241 00:16:54,795 --> 00:16:58,555 Speaker 1: of course, because that's how you resolve a situation that's 242 00:16:58,595 --> 00:17:01,715 Speaker 1: been going on since last November. You try to get 243 00:17:01,715 --> 00:17:07,395 Speaker 1: the woman arrested. You don't, you know, call the editor 244 00:17:07,555 --> 00:17:11,835 Speaker 1: or publisher of New York magazine, say around Christmas or 245 00:17:12,795 --> 00:17:17,595 Speaker 1: I don't know, sometime around Groundhog's Day or maybe the 246 00:17:17,715 --> 00:17:21,075 Speaker 1: first day of spring or the opening of the baseball season, 247 00:17:21,235 --> 00:17:23,955 Speaker 1: or Memorial Day weekend or the fourth of July, or 248 00:17:23,995 --> 00:17:27,075 Speaker 1: anything that's happened since last November, any date on the counter. 249 00:17:27,155 --> 00:17:29,275 Speaker 1: You don't call the guy up and go listen, you 250 00:17:29,315 --> 00:17:31,955 Speaker 1: need to make her stop or we'll go public with this. 251 00:17:33,435 --> 00:17:36,675 Speaker 1: You don't do that. You wait for ten months until 252 00:17:36,675 --> 00:17:39,155 Speaker 1: the story blows up and you look like the perv 253 00:17:39,275 --> 00:17:43,995 Speaker 1: you are, and then you get somebody to print that 254 00:17:44,035 --> 00:17:49,755 Speaker 1: you're going to have her arrested, future criminal referrals. If 255 00:17:49,755 --> 00:17:54,795 Speaker 1: there is more to this that somehow rises to criminal referrals, 256 00:17:55,715 --> 00:17:59,875 Speaker 1: let's see it. If this is the story as we 257 00:17:59,995 --> 00:18:03,395 Speaker 1: know it now, and who wants to hear these details 258 00:18:03,435 --> 00:18:06,835 Speaker 1: any further to Becker needs to retract his statement because 259 00:18:06,835 --> 00:18:10,915 Speaker 1: what he says sounds like slander, and it is making 260 00:18:11,155 --> 00:18:14,875 Speaker 1: now Olivia Newsy into the victim here, and Robert F. 261 00:18:14,955 --> 00:18:18,355 Speaker 1: Kennedy Junior is being made look so bad that you'd 262 00:18:18,355 --> 00:18:21,115 Speaker 1: look at him and say he's acting his behaviorly at 263 00:18:21,115 --> 00:18:34,195 Speaker 1: badly as Robert F. Kennedy Junior. Lastly, the latest fascist 264 00:18:34,195 --> 00:18:38,515 Speaker 1: attack on Kamala Harris that isn't working. Remember her story, 265 00:18:38,915 --> 00:18:41,075 Speaker 1: her interview in which she said, if you break into 266 00:18:41,115 --> 00:18:43,635 Speaker 1: my house, I'll shoot you with the gun I own, 267 00:18:44,235 --> 00:18:50,155 Speaker 1: her repeated references to owning a weapon. James Comer, Yes, 268 00:18:50,715 --> 00:18:55,595 Speaker 1: he's still alive, and he's still in Congress, and he's 269 00:18:55,595 --> 00:19:00,835 Speaker 1: still threatening. He went on Maria Badawomo yesterday and said, 270 00:19:00,915 --> 00:19:03,475 Speaker 1: I don't think anyone believes that Kamala Harris is a 271 00:19:03,515 --> 00:19:07,115 Speaker 1: gun owner. But if she is, she needs to tell 272 00:19:07,195 --> 00:19:14,195 Speaker 1: the American people what type of gun she has now. 273 00:19:14,435 --> 00:19:18,955 Speaker 1: First of all, she doesn't. Secondly, the Vice President ought 274 00:19:18,995 --> 00:19:21,595 Speaker 1: to now issue a statement saying that the type of 275 00:19:21,635 --> 00:19:25,595 Speaker 1: gun she has is the same kind of gun with 276 00:19:25,635 --> 00:19:30,515 Speaker 1: which James Comer keeps shooting himself in the effing foot. 277 00:19:47,755 --> 00:19:49,955 Speaker 1: That's countdown for this the forty fourth day until the 278 00:19:49,995 --> 00:19:53,995 Speaker 1: twenty twenty fourth presidential election. They three hundred and fiftieth 279 00:19:54,035 --> 00:19:57,875 Speaker 1: day since convicted felon dementia j Trump's first attempted coup 280 00:19:58,315 --> 00:20:01,635 Speaker 1: against the democratically elected government of the United States. Use 281 00:20:01,675 --> 00:20:04,435 Speaker 1: the election, use the mental health system, use presidential immunity 282 00:20:04,435 --> 00:20:06,915 Speaker 1: if we have to, to keep him from doing it again 283 00:20:07,395 --> 00:20:13,595 Speaker 1: while we still calm added bonus, he says he won't 284 00:20:13,635 --> 00:20:16,955 Speaker 1: run in twenty twenty eight. The next scheduled countdown a 285 00:20:16,995 --> 00:20:20,875 Speaker 1: full edition is tomorrow bulletins as the news requires till 286 00:20:20,915 --> 00:20:23,715 Speaker 1: the next one. I'm Keith Olberman. Good Morning, good afternoon, 287 00:20:23,755 --> 00:20:42,675 Speaker 1: good night, and good luck. Countdown with Keith Olberman is 288 00:20:42,675 --> 00:20:47,515 Speaker 1: a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit 289 00:20:47,555 --> 00:20:52,435 Speaker 1: the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.