Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Here
Speaker 1: are the Monday Countdown headlines, and I got good headlines
Speaker 1: and I got bad headlines. The good headline is Trump
Speaker 1: says if he loses November fifth, he cannot see himself
Speaker 1: running again in twenty twenty eight, when he'll be two
Speaker 1: hundred and six. The bad headline is he lies about
Speaker 1: everything else. I don't see any reason to assume he
Speaker 1: isn't lying about this too. If you're not successful this time,
Speaker 1: do you see yourself running again in four years? No,
Speaker 1: I don't. No, I think that that will be uh,
Speaker 1: that will be it. I don't see that at all.
Speaker 1: I think hopefully we're going to be successful, mister President.
Speaker 1: Thank you for the interview. That's Trump at the end
Speaker 1: of a fluff interview with Cheryl Atkinson on her show
Speaker 1: Full Measure. And I'd love to know what they so
Speaker 1: inartfully edited out there at the end, but I guess
Speaker 1: we'll never know. And to clarify, the name of the
Speaker 1: former journalist with CBS who did the interview is at Kisson,
Speaker 1: not ask Kisson. So, like the election, we're not existential enough.
Speaker 1: We now know what Teddy Roosevelt meant in nineteen twelve
Speaker 1: when he said we stand at Armageddon and we battle
Speaker 1: for the Lord. If Trump is not lying, it's not
Speaker 1: just about preventing him from becoming a constitution destroying dictator
Speaker 1: next January. It's about doing that and also forcing him
Speaker 1: to exit the scene altogether. And before you say, well, obviously,
Speaker 1: if he loses in November, he's not running in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty eight. He's going to be in prison in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty eight. Yeah. Right. There is nothing standing in the
Speaker 1: way of anybody running from prison. And as always, there
Speaker 1: is also nothing standing in the way of any aspect
Speaker 1: of Trump's ego. And of course what would be by
Speaker 1: then his need to get himself out of prison so
Speaker 1: he could pardon himself and then take the oath of office. Impossible.
Speaker 1: Have you been asleep since twenty fifteen? His luck will
Speaker 1: run out at some point. It has not yet, it
Speaker 1: is beginning to, perhaps, at least in fundraising. The numbers
Speaker 1: from yesterday. Kamala Harris was here in New York. She
Speaker 1: raised twenty seven million dollars at one fundraiser, and all
Speaker 1: I had to do was navigate heavier than usual Manhattan
Speaker 1: traffic There were two big polls yesterday, big numbers solid
Speaker 1: worth going over, but the interior numbers were way more
Speaker 1: interesting the big numbers. First, NBC, their poll is one
Speaker 1: of the last things they do well. They have Harris
Speaker 1: with a five point lead over Trump among registered voters
Speaker 1: forty nine forty four in July. The last time they
Speaker 1: did this, Trump was up by two over Biden. Throw
Speaker 1: in the sock puppet third party candidates, and NBC has
Speaker 1: Harris by But again this is registered voters, not likely voters,
Speaker 1: not they're not likely, but that they're not. Okay, you
Speaker 1: got it. CBS did polling is Well released yesterday, Harris
Speaker 1: fifty two to forty eight among likelies. They also did
Speaker 1: swing states. As they reported, she has improved her lead
Speaker 1: over Trump in battleground states. The poll conducted by CBS
Speaker 1: News and U Gubb, finding Harris increased her lead after
Speaker 1: the presidential debate and comes out with fifty one percent
Speaker 1: support to Trump's forty nine. That's overall, which is of course,
Speaker 1: of no use whatsoever. Included in the survey Arizona, Georgia, Michigan,
Speaker 1: North Carolina, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. Their estimates of where
Speaker 1: those individual states land right now is Harris by three
Speaker 1: in Nevada, two in Michigan and Wisconsin, four in Nebraska, second,
Speaker 1: one in Arizona and North Carolina, tied in Pennsylvania, and
Speaker 1: Trump had by one in Georgia. Those are all slight
Speaker 1: improvements for Harris in the CBS poll of the swing states,
Speaker 1: but mass Ink polling has her up by five in Pennsylvania.
Speaker 1: Among likelies. I'll refer to what I referred to last week.
Speaker 1: The main difference in polls theoretically asking the same people
Speaker 1: the same questions is how do you define a likely voter?
Speaker 1: Outward intelligence which demands undecided voters who they deem likely
Speaker 1: voters decide already, damn you. They make an undecided voter
Speaker 1: lean one way or the other, or they throw out
Speaker 1: the number that has Harris leading nationally by seven. The
Speaker 1: Nate Silver Metrics driven guess which is what it is,
Speaker 1: went last week from Trump sixty four percent chance of
Speaker 1: winning the electoral college to Harris with a fifty one
Speaker 1: percent chance of winning the electoral college. All right, those
Speaker 1: are just the headline numbers. The interior numbers, as I said,
Speaker 1: are fascinating. They're fascinating because you'll hear. Harris's favorability has
Speaker 1: jumped sixteen points since July, according to NBC, which notes
Speaker 1: that's the largest increase in any politician's number in NBC
Speaker 1: News polling since George W. Bush's favorability surged after nine
Speaker 1: to eleven. This is amazing, and not just because that
Speaker 1: is the weirdest poll framing of all time or what, yes, congratulations,
Speaker 1: madam Vice President, You've had the greatest bounce since nine
Speaker 1: to eleven. It's also amazing because none of the numbers
Speaker 1: that should build that number a growth to a positive,
Speaker 1: a three point positive for her favorability. None of the
Speaker 1: numbers inside the NBC poll add up correctly. Who do
Speaker 1: you try more on securing the border? They still have
Speaker 1: it Trump fifty four to thirty three. Who do you
Speaker 1: trust more on the economy? They still have it Trump
Speaker 1: fifty to forty one. Who do you trust more on crime?
Speaker 1: They still have Trump add forty seven to forty one.
Speaker 1: And of course there's always the possibility that responded saying
Speaker 1: who do you trust more on crime? Trump or Harris?
Speaker 1: Go well, Trump, obviously he's the criminal. But how does
Speaker 1: that add up to a sixteen point surge since July?
Speaker 1: In Harris's favorability. Ironically, it may be because of something
Speaker 1: her advisors told them to do, more is explained by
Speaker 1: something else. In the NBC News poll, it graded the
Speaker 1: favorability of Project twenty twenty five fifty seven percent unfavorable,
Speaker 1: fifty one percent of that is strongly unfavorable. The favorability
Speaker 1: number for Project twenty twenty five four percent, not forty
Speaker 1: not forty four four fo you are four. In June,
Speaker 1: a Democratic pollster named Nick Gerovich revealed yesterday they had
Speaker 1: seen polling in June suggesting that people were able to
Speaker 1: grasp Project twenty twenty five and its headlines quickly. They
Speaker 1: could digest it, and they would immediately hate it. And
Speaker 1: the more you told them about it, the more they
Speaker 1: would hate it. Which I guess is how you produce
Speaker 1: a number in which and a thing begets a fifty
Speaker 1: seven percent unfavorable score to a four percent favorable score.
Speaker 1: That's the kind of polling you'd like to see on
Speaker 1: Harrison trumps Harris fifty seven percent Trump four percent. In
Speaker 1: any event, even for this, even just the idea that
Speaker 1: Project twenty twenty five is as unpopular as it should be,
Speaker 1: and that the Democrats picked up on that and ran
Speaker 1: a race against Project twenty twenty five, and it's worked.
Speaker 1: Is one of the rare glimmers of intelligence in the
Speaker 1: increasingly dubious electorate. Meantime, a beautiful burned by Harris to
Speaker 1: accept a CNN debate a month from today, making Trump
Speaker 1: come up with an excuse for running away and not
Speaker 1: doing it. You'd think even he could have done better
Speaker 1: than quote, I'd love to, but it's too late. The
Speaker 1: debate would be October twenty third. The final twenty twenty
Speaker 1: debate was October twenty second. Well, there you have it.
Speaker 1: The cutoff for not being too late is clearly October
Speaker 1: twenty second. Every once in a while Trump is a
Speaker 1: bigger idiot than he believes everybody else is. They might
Speaker 1: do Harris and Trump consecutive sit down interviews with sixty minutes.
Speaker 1: That would be October seventh. There is no reason that
Speaker 1: you could not have a debate on October twenty third,
Speaker 1: or at to October twenty second. It's nice to know
Speaker 1: that every once in a while, even a fascist cannot
Speaker 1: survive a scandal. You heard this right from Mark Nude Africa.
Speaker 1: Robinson's run for governor of North Carolina. The story broke
Speaker 1: so late that he did not have time to drop
Speaker 1: out of the race, or for the Republicans to press
Speaker 1: him to drop out. They are, as I've said before,
Speaker 1: shackled to a corpse. Mark Robinson Campaign announces staff changes.
Speaker 1: It's like saying Titanic announces manifest changes, writers' changes. Mark
Speaker 1: Robinson Campaign announces staff changes Raley North Carolina. Today, the
Speaker 1: Mark Robinson for Governor Campaign announce the following senior staff changes.
Speaker 1: Conrad Portgerzelski the third General Consultants and senior advisor. Chris
Speaker 1: Rodriguez campaign manager, Heather Willier Finance director, and Jason and
Speaker 1: Risk Deputy campaign manager have stepped down from their roles
Speaker 1: with the campaign. Get off the boat as fast as
Speaker 1: you can. An announcement of new incoming staff members will
Speaker 1: be forthcoming from the campaign soon. I appreciate the efforts
Speaker 1: of these team members who have made the difficult choice
Speaker 1: to step away from the campaign, and I wish them
Speaker 1: well in their further endeavors. I look forward to announcing
Speaker 1: new staff roles in the coming days. Don't use that
Speaker 1: one word. My campaign will continue to focus on the
Speaker 1: substantive issues at stake in this election tranny. What Oh sorry,
Speaker 1: I have misread that building an economy that grows from
Speaker 1: Murphy to Manteo, cutting taxes and eliminating unnecessary red tape,
Speaker 1: removing politics out of our classrooms, and cracking down on
Speaker 1: violent crime and dangerous people like Mark Robinson. Now he
Speaker 1: said dangerous drugs. He left out the other thing about that,
Speaker 1: your kind of entertainment he enjoyed. Of course, it's nonsense.
Speaker 1: His staff walked out on him on Moss in a
Speaker 1: desperate attempt to save their individual skin for some twenty
Speaker 1: twenty six mid term campaign somewhere or something else. Regardless,
Speaker 1: it's a fitting climax to the saga of Mark Robinson,
Speaker 1: who will now be working at the very peorn store
Speaker 1: that he frequented twenty years ago because he ain't doing
Speaker 1: nothing in politics after this, save their skin. Speaking of skin,
Speaker 1: Chris Christy with the final word, oddly enough, on Mark
Speaker 1: Robinson yesterday, this is the problem for US Republicans. As
Speaker 1: long as Donald Trump is your recruiting agent for candidates
Speaker 1: in swing states, we're going to continue to get our
Speaker 1: rear ends handed to us. Hearing that, Lieutenant Governor Mark
Speaker 1: Robinson got very excited once again, from The New York
Speaker 1: Times all the news that's fit to print. Six years later,
Speaker 1: spring of twenty eighteen, the Times now reports Trump furious
Speaker 1: over the investigation into his conspiracy with Russian actors who
Speaker 1: illegally influence the twenty sixteen election. Quote. Trump told startled
Speaker 1: aids that if Attorney General JEFFS. Sessions would not order
Speaker 1: the department to go after Hillary Clinton and James B. Comy,
Speaker 1: the former FBI director, mister Trump would prosecute them himself.
Speaker 1: Recognizing the extraordinary dangers of a president seeking not just
Speaker 1: to weaponize the criminal justice system for political ends, but
Speaker 1: trying as well to assume personal control over who should
Speaker 1: be investigated and charged, the White House counsel Donald F.
Speaker 1: Mcgon the second sought to stall. In retrospect, it's clear
Speaker 1: they should have just let him do it, because that
Speaker 1: would have gotten him impeached and removed. There would have
Speaker 1: been no choice. It would have been clear he was
Speaker 1: both insane and attempting to become a dictator who decided
Speaker 1: who lived and who died. To continue, the Times reporting
Speaker 1: this just in six years ago, how about I do this,
Speaker 1: mister mcgaughn, asked mister Trump. According to an account, verified
Speaker 1: by witnesses. I'm going to write you a memo explaining
Speaker 1: to you what the law is and how it works.
Speaker 1: And I'll give that memo to you and you can
Speaker 1: decide what you want to do. Then presumably they gave
Speaker 1: him a marker and let him draw on the walls
Speaker 1: for a while. Meanwhile, the saga of the Trump ally
Speaker 1: Robert F. Kennedy Junior and soon to be former New
Speaker 1: York Magazine reporter Olivia Newzy continues to inflate and now
Speaker 1: takes on its own legal tones. I mean, when I
Speaker 1: saw it tweeted out Sunday morning with the hashtag jobless
Speaker 1: by aa JTV Urdu that's Television network News in Pakistan
Speaker 1: in the Urdu alphabet, with a picture of her covered
Speaker 1: with a bunch of words in Urdu except for the
Speaker 1: hashtags Olivia Newsy and jobless, I thought, okay, easy, easy
Speaker 1: jokes here. Put it in the podcast. Kennedy will just
Speaker 1: bear with this. I mean, he had a whale of
Speaker 1: a time with no no. What I mean is he
Speaker 1: hopes to extend this story, but not by doing anything
Speaker 1: to Newsy. This was simply one of the most extraordinary
Speaker 1: stories of our time from every aspect, including bad puns
Speaker 1: and simply standing back and watching the fireworks go off,
Speaker 1: and then the next depot of fireworks go off. The
Speaker 1: bunker underneath that depot of fireworks going off like a
Speaker 1: real life version of the Naked Gun movie, with Leslie
Speaker 1: Nielsen standing there telling us there's nothing to see here,
Speaker 1: and every three hours it gets three times worse. It
Speaker 1: was like that until late yesterday and Saturday, Kennedy and
Speaker 1: his henchman decided to turn the story on its head
Speaker 1: from two people with no judgment to begin with, somehow
Speaker 1: managing to display even less judgment than that into oh no,
Speaker 1: it's all her fault. Kennedy, a scumbag, got that angle
Speaker 1: into the New York Post on Saturday. She did this
Speaker 1: to me by sending me nude photographs of herself, and
Speaker 1: then yesterday in the Daily Beast it was positioned as
Speaker 1: something he was having one time security whiz Gavin de
Speaker 1: Becker investigate on the record this. De Becker portrayed a
Speaker 1: scenario in which Olivia Newsy kept sending Kennedy nude photos
Speaker 1: of herself, which he, of course would block her, although
Speaker 1: he did apparently take an interest in these photos on
Speaker 1: occasion and then she would contact him from a different phone,
Speaker 1: insisting they needed to discuss a hit job story that
Speaker 1: was about to break about him, and with the new
Speaker 1: phone access sending him more nude photos. De Becker actually
Speaker 1: said Kennedy was quote chased by porn. Yeah, according to
Speaker 1: security expert Gavin de Becker, I am quoting the Daily
Speaker 1: Beast now, who is supposedly investigating the Newsy Kennedy situation.
Speaker 1: For Kennedy, the former presidential candidate is weighing civil litigation
Speaker 1: against the reporter with the potential for future criminal referrals. Yeah,
Speaker 1: of course, because that's how you resolve a situation that's
Speaker 1: been going on since last November. You try to get
Speaker 1: the woman arrested. You don't, you know, call the editor
Speaker 1: or publisher of New York magazine, say around Christmas or
Speaker 1: I don't know, sometime around Groundhog's Day or maybe the
Speaker 1: first day of spring or the opening of the baseball season,
Speaker 1: or Memorial Day weekend or the fourth of July, or
Speaker 1: anything that's happened since last November, any date on the counter.
Speaker 1: You don't call the guy up and go listen, you
Speaker 1: need to make her stop or we'll go public with this.
Speaker 1: You don't do that. You wait for ten months until
Speaker 1: the story blows up and you look like the perv
Speaker 1: you are, and then you get somebody to print that
Speaker 1: you're going to have her arrested, future criminal referrals. If
Speaker 1: there is more to this that somehow rises to criminal referrals,
Speaker 1: let's see it. If this is the story as we
Speaker 1: know it now, and who wants to hear these details
Speaker 1: any further to Becker needs to retract his statement because
Speaker 1: what he says sounds like slander, and it is making
Speaker 1: now Olivia Newsy into the victim here, and Robert F.
Speaker 1: Kennedy Junior is being made look so bad that you'd
Speaker 1: look at him and say he's acting his behaviorly at
Speaker 1: badly as Robert F. Kennedy Junior. Lastly, the latest fascist
Speaker 1: attack on Kamala Harris that isn't working. Remember her story,
Speaker 1: her interview in which she said, if you break into
Speaker 1: my house, I'll shoot you with the gun I own,
Speaker 1: her repeated references to owning a weapon. James Comer, Yes,
Speaker 1: he's still alive, and he's still in Congress, and he's
Speaker 1: still threatening. He went on Maria Badawomo yesterday and said,
Speaker 1: I don't think anyone believes that Kamala Harris is a
Speaker 1: gun owner. But if she is, she needs to tell
Speaker 1: the American people what type of gun she has now.
Speaker 1: First of all, she doesn't. Secondly, the Vice President ought
Speaker 1: to now issue a statement saying that the type of
Speaker 1: gun she has is the same kind of gun with
Speaker 1: which James Comer keeps shooting himself in the effing foot.
Speaker 1: That's countdown for this the forty fourth day until the
Speaker 1: twenty twenty fourth presidential election. They three hundred and fiftieth
Speaker 1: day since convicted felon dementia j Trump's first attempted coup
Speaker 1: against the democratically elected government of the United States. Use
Speaker 1: the election, use the mental health system, use presidential immunity
Speaker 1: if we have to, to keep him from doing it again
Speaker 1: while we still calm added bonus, he says he won't
Speaker 1: run in twenty twenty eight. The next scheduled countdown a
Speaker 1: full edition is tomorrow bulletins as the news requires till
Speaker 1: the next one. I'm Keith Olberman. Good Morning, good afternoon,
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