1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:22,195 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. The 2 00:00:22,235 --> 00:00:26,915 Speaker 1: defendant is still free, despite having violated Judge Juan Mershon's 3 00:00:26,955 --> 00:00:30,995 Speaker 1: instructions to refrain from insightful hate speech six hours after 4 00:00:31,075 --> 00:00:34,995 Speaker 1: he received them. If targeting the judge, the judge's daughter, 5 00:00:35,155 --> 00:00:38,315 Speaker 1: the district attorney, and the district attorney's wife for stochastic 6 00:00:38,435 --> 00:00:42,675 Speaker 1: terrorism were somehow not enough, the defendant moved on yesterday 7 00:00:43,115 --> 00:00:48,075 Speaker 1: to calling for defunding law enforcement and the criminal Investigation 8 00:00:48,155 --> 00:00:51,955 Speaker 1: Force in this nation, a nation which has had five 9 00:00:52,275 --> 00:00:58,315 Speaker 1: different lowbrowed television series named after CSI, crime Scene Investigation, 10 00:00:58,795 --> 00:01:03,115 Speaker 1: and seven different lowbrow television series called Law and Order, 11 00:01:03,275 --> 00:01:06,915 Speaker 1: And for some reason, the Republicans not only can't figure 12 00:01:06,915 --> 00:01:10,355 Speaker 1: out why America perceives them as giving a mixed message 13 00:01:10,395 --> 00:01:14,355 Speaker 1: on crime. We're against it, but we're also against prosecuting it, 14 00:01:14,395 --> 00:01:16,995 Speaker 1: and we insist the defendant has the right to commit 15 00:01:17,035 --> 00:01:19,955 Speaker 1: it at any time, day or night. Not only that, 16 00:01:20,035 --> 00:01:23,275 Speaker 1: but the Republicans can't understand how they could have lost 17 00:01:23,355 --> 00:01:27,115 Speaker 1: control of the Wisconsin Supreme Court and not won the 18 00:01:27,155 --> 00:01:30,435 Speaker 1: mayor's race in Chicago the same day Trump was arrested. 19 00:01:31,475 --> 00:01:34,155 Speaker 1: The GOP has been dining out for eight years now 20 00:01:34,235 --> 00:01:38,435 Speaker 1: on its own false beliefs that it is invincible politically 21 00:01:38,475 --> 00:01:42,355 Speaker 1: because it has cornered the market on America's stupid people 22 00:01:42,995 --> 00:01:46,995 Speaker 1: without ever accepting what is for them, the terrifying realization 23 00:01:47,075 --> 00:01:50,795 Speaker 1: that a lot of those folks, out of necessity are 24 00:01:50,835 --> 00:01:54,515 Speaker 1: getting smarter and smarter every day and seeing the Republican 25 00:01:54,595 --> 00:01:59,075 Speaker 1: house of cards con game for what it really is. Quote. 26 00:01:59,755 --> 00:02:04,595 Speaker 1: Republicans in Congress should defund the DOJ and FBI until 27 00:02:04,835 --> 00:02:09,635 Speaker 1: they come to their senses. The Democrats have totally weaponized 28 00:02:09,715 --> 00:02:13,235 Speaker 1: law enforcement in our country and are viciously using this 29 00:02:13,315 --> 00:02:18,235 Speaker 1: abuse of power to interfere with our already under siege elections. 30 00:02:18,235 --> 00:02:23,955 Speaker 1: Wait what, the Democrats have totally weaponized law enforcement. He 31 00:02:24,035 --> 00:02:29,795 Speaker 1: wants to take away law enforcement's weapons. Do what? An idiot? 32 00:02:29,875 --> 00:02:34,475 Speaker 1: The defendant actually is. One of the few things the 33 00:02:34,555 --> 00:02:37,195 Speaker 1: Republicans have made stick to the Democrats in the last 34 00:02:37,195 --> 00:02:42,155 Speaker 1: three years is quote defund the police unquote, And this 35 00:02:42,475 --> 00:02:48,675 Speaker 1: blithering moron says, defund the DOJ and FBI. I mean 36 00:02:48,795 --> 00:02:52,515 Speaker 1: Rona Romney was talking yesterday about how overturning Roe v. 37 00:02:52,755 --> 00:02:58,635 Speaker 1: Wade probably cost them Wisconsin and to protect his own 38 00:02:58,795 --> 00:03:04,035 Speaker 1: useless fat ass, the defendant still went ahead and completely 39 00:03:04,115 --> 00:03:08,915 Speaker 1: muddied the Republicans one functioning fountain of fearmongering, and made 40 00:03:08,915 --> 00:03:10,755 Speaker 1: it look like the Democrats are the ones who are 41 00:03:10,835 --> 00:03:17,995 Speaker 1: tough on crime. Keep talking, defendant. The defendant always does 42 00:03:17,995 --> 00:03:21,155 Speaker 1: self destructive things, even in the context of the world 43 00:03:21,195 --> 00:03:24,475 Speaker 1: of lemmings that is their Republican party. He does them 44 00:03:24,515 --> 00:03:27,515 Speaker 1: when he panics, and he may be panicking now because 45 00:03:27,555 --> 00:03:30,595 Speaker 1: he or somebody near him may have noticed what nine 46 00:03:31,075 --> 00:03:33,755 Speaker 1: percent of the news media not only missed in Alvin 47 00:03:33,795 --> 00:03:37,275 Speaker 1: Bragg's indictment, but which they had boasted was not in 48 00:03:37,435 --> 00:03:42,115 Speaker 1: Alvin Bragg's indictment. I told you there were reliable source 49 00:03:42,155 --> 00:03:45,555 Speaker 1: stories suggesting one of the crimes Bragg would allege was 50 00:03:45,755 --> 00:03:50,675 Speaker 1: tax evasion. What happened Tuesday, The networks and nearly every 51 00:03:50,675 --> 00:03:55,075 Speaker 1: newspaper said in one voice, there's no tax evasion in here, 52 00:03:55,555 --> 00:03:59,435 Speaker 1: even though in his written statement of facts released alongside 53 00:03:59,475 --> 00:04:04,115 Speaker 1: the thirty four counts, Bragg wrote the participants also took 54 00:04:04,155 --> 00:04:10,235 Speaker 1: steps that mischaracterized for tax purposes the true nature of 55 00:04:10,275 --> 00:04:14,675 Speaker 1: the payments made in furtherance of the scheme. Early Savage 56 00:04:14,675 --> 00:04:17,675 Speaker 1: of the New York Times recognized that even if thousands didn't. 57 00:04:18,115 --> 00:04:22,035 Speaker 1: Savage wrote that as shaky as the vague and unspecified 58 00:04:22,115 --> 00:04:25,435 Speaker 1: theories of defrauding voters and interfering in the election might 59 00:04:25,515 --> 00:04:31,235 Speaker 1: be legally, quote, prosecutors claimed Trump falsified business records in 60 00:04:31,355 --> 00:04:38,635 Speaker 1: part for a plan to deceive state tax authorities. Savage 61 00:04:38,635 --> 00:04:41,635 Speaker 1: also got the former New York state prosecutor, Rebecca Roife 62 00:04:41,795 --> 00:04:45,955 Speaker 1: to provide this analysis. It turns out, she said, the 63 00:04:46,035 --> 00:04:49,635 Speaker 1: indictment also includes a claim that Trump falsified records to 64 00:04:49,755 --> 00:04:57,155 Speaker 1: commit a state tax crime. That's much simpler charge that 65 00:04:57,275 --> 00:05:03,715 Speaker 1: avoids the potential pitfalls. She added, at this point, one 66 00:05:03,755 --> 00:05:06,995 Speaker 1: would think somebody in the Republican congressional leadership would be 67 00:05:07,035 --> 00:05:10,635 Speaker 1: looking at the realities of the defendants getting arrested and say, 68 00:05:11,435 --> 00:05:15,275 Speaker 1: sure it increases his martyrdom, Sure it increases his anger. 69 00:05:15,515 --> 00:05:19,515 Speaker 1: Sure the idiots love him when he's angry and paranoid. 70 00:05:20,235 --> 00:05:22,675 Speaker 1: But then that person should be noting that unless it 71 00:05:22,755 --> 00:05:26,635 Speaker 1: is dismissed, the case is going to sit there indefinitely, 72 00:05:27,675 --> 00:05:33,195 Speaker 1: like a pile of rotting meat, all spring, all summer, 73 00:05:33,795 --> 00:05:39,515 Speaker 1: all autumn, all winter, throughout the primary debates, throughout the 74 00:05:39,555 --> 00:05:43,875 Speaker 1: first primaries, throughout lord knows how much of twenty twenty four, 75 00:05:44,395 --> 00:05:48,155 Speaker 1: and the part about tax evasion is not going to 76 00:05:48,195 --> 00:05:52,875 Speaker 1: get dismissed. And it is really easy to understand, even 77 00:05:52,955 --> 00:05:56,875 Speaker 1: for Republicans, and it is really easy for Democrats to exploit. 78 00:05:57,995 --> 00:06:02,115 Speaker 1: Somebody in GOP house leadership should be saying, why again 79 00:06:02,195 --> 00:06:05,475 Speaker 1: do we want to keep people thinking the defendant was arrested, 80 00:06:05,835 --> 00:06:09,995 Speaker 1: the defendant faces thirty four counts, the defendant faces tax evasion. 81 00:06:10,395 --> 00:06:14,555 Speaker 1: Maybe the defendant had a love child. Hey, maybe Kevin, 82 00:06:14,595 --> 00:06:18,115 Speaker 1: we should pass on this one. They would do that 83 00:06:18,155 --> 00:06:22,355 Speaker 1: if they're smart, which they're not. Jim Jordan goes on 84 00:06:22,435 --> 00:06:25,635 Speaker 1: Fox and says he'll be meeting soon with Kevin McCarthy 85 00:06:25,675 --> 00:06:27,795 Speaker 1: and Jamie Comer as to how to go full speed 86 00:06:27,795 --> 00:06:32,995 Speaker 1: ahead on investigating Alban Bragg. Jim Jordan and Kevin McCarthy 87 00:06:33,035 --> 00:06:35,675 Speaker 1: and Jamie Comer are one too many to actually be 88 00:06:36,315 --> 00:06:39,515 Speaker 1: Thelma and Louise going off the cliff, but you get 89 00:06:39,555 --> 00:06:42,675 Speaker 1: the idea. It's such a bad idea for the Republicans. 90 00:06:42,675 --> 00:06:45,515 Speaker 1: You wonder if some Democrats should be saying to Bragg, 91 00:06:46,395 --> 00:06:49,595 Speaker 1: mister district attorney, could you go and testify this will 92 00:06:49,675 --> 00:06:52,675 Speaker 1: let us do a mini trial of Trump on your 93 00:06:52,795 --> 00:06:56,315 Speaker 1: charges against him. Only we can do it during hearings 94 00:06:56,355 --> 00:06:58,875 Speaker 1: of the House Oversight Committee. Come on down to DC 95 00:06:59,035 --> 00:07:01,795 Speaker 1: and we can take on the defendant and blow them up. 96 00:07:02,075 --> 00:07:06,955 Speaker 1: Blow them up good, blow up real good. And oh, 97 00:07:07,035 --> 00:07:09,795 Speaker 1: by the way, the defendants planned to get a change 98 00:07:09,795 --> 00:07:13,235 Speaker 1: of venue, change of prosecutor, change of judge. Get the 99 00:07:13,235 --> 00:07:18,195 Speaker 1: whole thing dismissed. The latest from Joey Tax Joe Takapina, 100 00:07:18,275 --> 00:07:21,835 Speaker 1: the ten billion lawyers have so far after his arrest 101 00:07:21,915 --> 00:07:26,275 Speaker 1: after his indictment, filed one motion, one motion to let 102 00:07:26,275 --> 00:07:30,635 Speaker 1: the defendants skip the next hearing in December. Nothing about dismissal, 103 00:07:30,675 --> 00:07:36,195 Speaker 1: recusal or venue. Meanwhile, back at the Special Council's Ranch, 104 00:07:36,875 --> 00:07:39,755 Speaker 1: unclear which is the bigger news. Just the fact that 105 00:07:39,795 --> 00:07:42,875 Speaker 1: two of the henchmen at the Department of Homeland Security, 106 00:07:42,995 --> 00:07:46,595 Speaker 1: under the defendant, Chad Wolf at his deputy, the infamous 107 00:07:46,675 --> 00:07:51,195 Speaker 1: fascist journeyman Ken Cucinelli, have already testified that Jack Smith's 108 00:07:51,195 --> 00:07:54,275 Speaker 1: grand jury is that the big news, or is the 109 00:07:54,315 --> 00:07:56,555 Speaker 1: fact that they told the grand jurors that they had 110 00:07:56,595 --> 00:07:59,355 Speaker 1: to repeatedly tell Trump in November and December of twenty 111 00:07:59,395 --> 00:08:02,355 Speaker 1: twenty that he did not have the authority and the 112 00:08:02,435 --> 00:08:06,155 Speaker 1: government did not have the authority to sees voting machines, 113 00:08:06,675 --> 00:08:08,555 Speaker 1: and that there was no need to because there was 114 00:08:08,555 --> 00:08:12,515 Speaker 1: nothing wrong with the voting machines. The idea that the 115 00:08:12,595 --> 00:08:15,875 Speaker 1: defendant wanted to that he wanted Homeland Security to do that, 116 00:08:16,035 --> 00:08:18,915 Speaker 1: or the CIA or the FBI, or the military, or 117 00:08:18,995 --> 00:08:23,675 Speaker 1: Rudy Giuliani personally, that's not new. The rumor leaked out beforehand, 118 00:08:23,755 --> 00:08:27,355 Speaker 1: in real time, and right afterwards. But there is something 119 00:08:27,435 --> 00:08:30,835 Speaker 1: manifestly more disturbing about hearing of it on the record 120 00:08:30,915 --> 00:08:34,675 Speaker 1: about the defendant. It underscores the point to which we 121 00:08:34,795 --> 00:08:38,595 Speaker 1: have all adjusted at one time or another since twenty seventeen, 122 00:08:38,795 --> 00:08:42,395 Speaker 1: to which we should never adjust. The defendant is a 123 00:08:42,515 --> 00:08:46,995 Speaker 1: creature dedicated to exploiting the openness, the generosity, and the 124 00:08:47,035 --> 00:08:50,835 Speaker 1: weaknesses of our democratic process in order to let him 125 00:08:50,955 --> 00:08:56,755 Speaker 1: destroy our democratic process. Whenever someone tries to rationalize his candidacy, 126 00:08:56,995 --> 00:09:00,475 Speaker 1: his presidency, his actions, remember that there is only one 127 00:09:00,595 --> 00:09:04,115 Speaker 1: motive and only one thought in his head. If I 128 00:09:04,275 --> 00:09:08,555 Speaker 1: do X, Y or Z, my chances increase of becoming 129 00:09:08,595 --> 00:09:13,395 Speaker 1: president and staying president until I die. I have said 130 00:09:13,395 --> 00:09:16,355 Speaker 1: this before, and I will say it again. The defendant 131 00:09:16,475 --> 00:09:19,555 Speaker 1: is not Hitler nineteen forty, not even close, but he 132 00:09:19,675 --> 00:09:23,155 Speaker 1: is Hitler nineteen thirty three, and just like the actual Hitler, 133 00:09:23,315 --> 00:09:25,395 Speaker 1: he would do anything they'd let him get away with 134 00:09:25,435 --> 00:09:30,995 Speaker 1: in order to become Hitler nineteen forty. Robert O'Brien, the 135 00:09:31,155 --> 00:09:36,435 Speaker 1: former defendant's national security advisor, also talked to federal prosecutors 136 00:09:36,435 --> 00:09:38,915 Speaker 1: earlier this year in what is described as a closed 137 00:09:38,995 --> 00:09:43,715 Speaker 1: door interview same topic seizing voting machines, including the infamous 138 00:09:43,715 --> 00:09:47,275 Speaker 1: December eighteenth, twenty twenty Sydney Powell and Michael Flynn meeting 139 00:09:47,595 --> 00:09:51,115 Speaker 1: in which they proposed declaring martial law and collecting voting 140 00:09:51,115 --> 00:09:53,755 Speaker 1: machines from key states around the country under the pretext 141 00:09:53,955 --> 00:09:57,835 Speaker 1: that a foreign government had tampered with the balloting. CNN 142 00:09:57,915 --> 00:10:02,115 Speaker 1: reports all these men, O'Brien, Wolfe, and Kucinelli may now 143 00:10:02,155 --> 00:10:04,395 Speaker 1: have to go back to the grand jury and testify 144 00:10:04,395 --> 00:10:08,475 Speaker 1: a because the courts have ruled against the defendant's claims 145 00:10:08,515 --> 00:10:12,235 Speaker 1: of executive privilege, and what Smith's prosecutors can now ask 146 00:10:12,315 --> 00:10:15,835 Speaker 1: them about has been broadly expanded. Ku Chanelli, in fact, 147 00:10:15,875 --> 00:10:17,595 Speaker 1: was seen going back to the grand jury room on 148 00:10:17,595 --> 00:10:21,195 Speaker 1: Tuesday of this week, and they are not just there 149 00:10:21,235 --> 00:10:23,675 Speaker 1: to put on the record that the defendant was willing 150 00:10:23,755 --> 00:10:27,435 Speaker 1: to do this. Unfortunately, the defendant cannot be arrested again 151 00:10:27,875 --> 00:10:30,755 Speaker 1: merely for wanting to become a dictator, or for merely 152 00:10:30,835 --> 00:10:35,435 Speaker 1: drafting executive orders to seize stuff, orders that were never 153 00:10:35,475 --> 00:10:39,275 Speaker 1: carried out. What Smith thinks he can do, however, is 154 00:10:39,275 --> 00:10:43,635 Speaker 1: to establish that while the defendant examined options for overturning 155 00:10:43,675 --> 00:10:47,075 Speaker 1: the election, he already knew he had lost, and that 156 00:10:47,195 --> 00:10:51,795 Speaker 1: his continuing claims that he believed otherwise were false. In 157 00:10:51,835 --> 00:10:54,875 Speaker 1: that case, if the rigged election claims and the efforts 158 00:10:54,875 --> 00:10:59,235 Speaker 1: to overthrow the government like January sixth, are reduced slightly 159 00:10:59,315 --> 00:11:04,435 Speaker 1: from attempted coup to something much more easily prosecuted conspiracy 160 00:11:04,435 --> 00:11:07,635 Speaker 1: to defraud the government of the United States, it's time 161 00:11:07,675 --> 00:11:11,955 Speaker 1: for another arrest of palooza. In his interview with prosecutors, 162 00:11:11,955 --> 00:11:15,315 Speaker 1: O'Brien said he told the defendant there was no evidence 163 00:11:15,315 --> 00:11:18,795 Speaker 1: of election fraud nor foreign tampering with voting machines. If 164 00:11:18,795 --> 00:11:22,795 Speaker 1: the defendant acted anyway, his defense that being wrong is 165 00:11:22,835 --> 00:11:28,035 Speaker 1: not a criminal offense is erased. It is a criminal offense. 166 00:11:29,755 --> 00:11:32,435 Speaker 1: It will be intriguing to see whether one of those 167 00:11:32,475 --> 00:11:36,315 Speaker 1: guys or another former prostitute for the defendant happens to 168 00:11:36,355 --> 00:11:39,195 Speaker 1: be there at the right hour to run into Mike 169 00:11:39,315 --> 00:11:44,315 Speaker 1: Pence testifying. This greasiest of Republicans got on Tuesday the 170 00:11:44,435 --> 00:11:47,715 Speaker 1: fig leaf. He needed a federal judge ordering him to 171 00:11:47,755 --> 00:11:51,195 Speaker 1: testify to the Special Counsel's Grand Jury with certain exclusions 172 00:11:51,195 --> 00:11:53,635 Speaker 1: about what he did while performing the role of President 173 00:11:53,675 --> 00:11:56,915 Speaker 1: of the Senate. Yesterday, Pence took the opportunity of the 174 00:11:56,955 --> 00:11:59,915 Speaker 1: giant black hole of news coverage that swallowed everything but 175 00:11:59,995 --> 00:12:03,115 Speaker 1: the defendant's arrest to reveal he would not take the 176 00:12:03,155 --> 00:12:06,675 Speaker 1: matter further in the courts, He would not appeal. Pence 177 00:12:06,755 --> 00:12:10,075 Speaker 1: will testify, he will give the defendant up to the 178 00:12:10,115 --> 00:12:14,995 Speaker 1: grand jurors. What's intriguing is that the same order to 179 00:12:15,035 --> 00:12:19,275 Speaker 1: testify covers aids like Mark Meadows and Dan Scovino, and 180 00:12:19,395 --> 00:12:22,715 Speaker 1: Washington was alive with rumors yesterday that those two scum 181 00:12:22,715 --> 00:12:25,115 Speaker 1: may go to the grand jury and invoke their Fifth 182 00:12:25,115 --> 00:12:29,075 Speaker 1: Amendment rights against self incrimination, which is Mark Meadows and 183 00:12:29,235 --> 00:12:36,115 Speaker 1: Dan Scovino in a nutshell. Lastly, in a sign of 184 00:12:36,315 --> 00:12:42,875 Speaker 1: absolute Republican desperation, it appears p CBS News that Steve 185 00:12:43,035 --> 00:12:46,915 Speaker 1: Bannon has talked a one time big name Democrat into 186 00:12:46,995 --> 00:12:52,675 Speaker 1: launching a primary bid against President Biden. I mean, besides 187 00:12:52,755 --> 00:12:56,755 Speaker 1: Mary Ann Williamson. The filing is in. It is one 188 00:12:56,795 --> 00:12:59,795 Speaker 1: of the saddest things I have ever read. There would 189 00:12:59,795 --> 00:13:04,755 Speaker 1: be upset. Democratic nominee for president is Robert F. Kennet, 190 00:13:04,795 --> 00:13:08,395 Speaker 1: a junior. After the two thousand and four election, when 191 00:13:08,395 --> 00:13:13,115 Speaker 1: I questioned why several Ohio vote counting centers declared terror 192 00:13:13,155 --> 00:13:17,435 Speaker 1: emergencies on election night and expelled the press and the 193 00:13:17,595 --> 00:13:21,475 Speaker 1: multi party onlookers from the actual vote counting, I got 194 00:13:21,475 --> 00:13:24,235 Speaker 1: a call the next day from rfk Jr. He said 195 00:13:25,395 --> 00:13:29,635 Speaker 1: I was his hero. I knew then he was exaggerating, 196 00:13:29,675 --> 00:13:31,155 Speaker 1: but just to know that the son of a man 197 00:13:31,235 --> 00:13:33,155 Speaker 1: who tried to save this country when I was a 198 00:13:33,235 --> 00:13:37,155 Speaker 1: kid from Vietnam and racism and Richard Nixon all in 199 00:13:37,235 --> 00:13:40,475 Speaker 1: nineteen sixty eight, that his son thought of me in 200 00:13:40,515 --> 00:13:44,235 Speaker 1: any terms like that was overwhelming and encouraging. Besides which, 201 00:13:45,235 --> 00:13:48,475 Speaker 1: Kennedy had also fought valiantly for the Hudson River, which 202 00:13:48,475 --> 00:13:51,435 Speaker 1: I grew up along. We met once after that at 203 00:13:51,435 --> 00:13:54,475 Speaker 1: a baseball game. We had a spectacular conversation, and he 204 00:13:54,555 --> 00:13:57,475 Speaker 1: was my entree to meet his uncle Ted, who was 205 00:13:57,515 --> 00:14:00,355 Speaker 1: a regular viewer at whose own son came up to 206 00:14:00,395 --> 00:14:02,875 Speaker 1: me the day before the first Obama inauguration and said 207 00:14:02,875 --> 00:14:05,195 Speaker 1: that his ailing father had hoped to tend to the 208 00:14:05,235 --> 00:14:07,515 Speaker 1: event we were at, but that he needed to save 209 00:14:07,555 --> 00:14:10,715 Speaker 1: his strength, but that he had sent me a message 210 00:14:10,795 --> 00:14:13,875 Speaker 1: along with his son. Dad says to tell you you 211 00:14:13,955 --> 00:14:17,715 Speaker 1: are now his primary news source. He watches you every night, 212 00:14:17,835 --> 00:14:22,675 Speaker 1: at least once. I was speechless. Of course, that means 213 00:14:22,675 --> 00:14:26,115 Speaker 1: there's a downside to this, Ted Junior added with a laugh. 214 00:14:26,435 --> 00:14:29,715 Speaker 1: The second half of Dad's message to you was, so 215 00:14:29,835 --> 00:14:35,435 Speaker 1: tell Keith, don't f it up anyway. Around that time, 216 00:14:35,595 --> 00:14:39,515 Speaker 1: something went wrong and Bobby Junior became a one topic 217 00:14:39,675 --> 00:14:43,955 Speaker 1: nut job. For ten or fifteen years. He has sunk 218 00:14:43,955 --> 00:14:47,915 Speaker 1: further and further into the pit of anti vaccine conspiracy theories, 219 00:14:48,195 --> 00:14:51,875 Speaker 1: culminating in a book he wrote which Slanders doctor Anthony Fauci. 220 00:14:52,195 --> 00:14:55,755 Speaker 1: It was the year before last, and now Steve Bannon 221 00:14:56,435 --> 00:15:01,035 Speaker 1: has positioned Bobby Kennedy Junior as a quote chaos agent 222 00:15:01,235 --> 00:15:04,355 Speaker 1: unquote in the middle of the democratic field. It is 223 00:15:04,435 --> 00:15:07,315 Speaker 1: all most certain that the only one Bobby will actually 224 00:15:07,395 --> 00:15:13,235 Speaker 1: damage is himself. What a sad sad ending to become 225 00:15:13,515 --> 00:15:18,435 Speaker 1: a stalking horse for the defendants pimp in a bid 226 00:15:18,475 --> 00:15:22,915 Speaker 1: to end American democracy. Well, I was going to leave 227 00:15:22,915 --> 00:15:25,275 Speaker 1: it there, but I just can't. I want to offer 228 00:15:25,395 --> 00:15:29,835 Speaker 1: a minor news item containing both hope and despair. Almost 229 00:15:29,835 --> 00:15:31,835 Speaker 1: by chance, since it ran in the middle of the night, 230 00:15:31,875 --> 00:15:35,395 Speaker 1: here I happened to see live the farewell addressed by 231 00:15:35,395 --> 00:15:37,955 Speaker 1: the former Prime Minister of New Zealand, just sind to 232 00:15:37,995 --> 00:15:43,395 Speaker 1: our Dern. It was the happiest political speech I have 233 00:15:43,675 --> 00:15:47,915 Speaker 1: ever heard. On her last day in Parliament before she 234 00:15:48,035 --> 00:15:52,795 Speaker 1: leaves politics, just sind to our Dern basically conducted a 235 00:15:52,915 --> 00:15:58,155 Speaker 1: roast of everybody else in Parliament. She must have had 236 00:15:58,715 --> 00:16:03,035 Speaker 1: sixty laugh lines in thirty minutes. The speech was warm 237 00:16:03,515 --> 00:16:06,755 Speaker 1: and wise and with heart on the sleeve, good humor. 238 00:16:07,875 --> 00:16:11,595 Speaker 1: This was a prime minister who resigned, who ended her 239 00:16:11,595 --> 00:16:17,115 Speaker 1: political career in hopes of turning down rising temperatures in 240 00:16:17,115 --> 00:16:22,675 Speaker 1: her nation's political kitchen. Imagine if we had anybody like 241 00:16:22,875 --> 00:16:27,075 Speaker 1: that here. This was a prime minister whose final words 242 00:16:27,115 --> 00:16:30,635 Speaker 1: were a pitch to the ordinary citizens of her nation 243 00:16:30,675 --> 00:16:34,155 Speaker 1: to try to get elected to parliament. She said, quote, 244 00:16:34,155 --> 00:16:38,035 Speaker 1: you can be anxious, sensitive, kind and wear your heart 245 00:16:38,075 --> 00:16:40,475 Speaker 1: on your sleeve. You can be a mother or not 246 00:16:40,915 --> 00:16:44,995 Speaker 1: an ex Mormon or not a nerd, a crier, a hugger. 247 00:16:45,035 --> 00:16:47,155 Speaker 1: You can be all of these things, and not only 248 00:16:47,235 --> 00:16:51,675 Speaker 1: can you be here, you can lead. Imagine if we 249 00:16:51,715 --> 00:16:55,555 Speaker 1: had anybody like that here. And when she was done, 250 00:16:56,355 --> 00:17:02,155 Speaker 1: she hugged, She hugged every other member of the New 251 00:17:02,235 --> 00:17:07,475 Speaker 1: Zealand Parliament. I mean every last one of them. They 252 00:17:07,675 --> 00:17:12,035 Speaker 1: lined up for it, except for a couple of them 253 00:17:12,035 --> 00:17:16,395 Speaker 1: on the side who were busy singing Native Maori songs 254 00:17:16,475 --> 00:17:20,915 Speaker 1: while doing Native Maori dances. Imagine if we had anybody 255 00:17:20,955 --> 00:17:25,595 Speaker 1: like that here, just send to our Dern's speech took 256 00:17:25,595 --> 00:17:30,115 Speaker 1: place just five hours after that of the defendant, albeit 257 00:17:30,235 --> 00:17:32,795 Speaker 1: on the other side of the world and figuratively in 258 00:17:33,115 --> 00:17:37,995 Speaker 1: another world. Altogether, the contrast cannot be measured by any 259 00:17:38,075 --> 00:17:43,195 Speaker 1: means available to the greatest computer on the earth today. 260 00:17:43,515 --> 00:17:49,195 Speaker 1: Imagine if we had anybody like that here. I don't know, 261 00:17:50,195 --> 00:17:53,875 Speaker 1: I'm confident we'd get a no, but I think we 262 00:17:53,995 --> 00:18:10,515 Speaker 1: should make her an offer. Still ahead on this edition 263 00:18:10,555 --> 00:18:14,035 Speaker 1: of Countdown, I'm willing to take a bullet for Trump 264 00:18:14,075 --> 00:18:18,675 Speaker 1: because he's willing to take a bullet for me. Somebody 265 00:18:18,715 --> 00:18:23,075 Speaker 1: actually said this seriously in a political show. Also said 266 00:18:23,155 --> 00:18:27,595 Speaker 1: he was Christ like no Jesus Christ not some other 267 00:18:27,595 --> 00:18:31,875 Speaker 1: guy named Christ That ten million that the defendant has 268 00:18:31,995 --> 00:18:36,235 Speaker 1: raised since his arrest, here's a shocker. That's not actually 269 00:18:36,275 --> 00:18:41,755 Speaker 1: a lot in GOP presidential fundraising. Details ahead. And this 270 00:18:41,995 --> 00:18:47,515 Speaker 1: was the day Van Jones became an idiot. Yes, CNN's 271 00:18:47,515 --> 00:18:53,595 Speaker 1: official moron has done it again. Worst Person's Next is Countdown. 272 00:19:00,515 --> 00:19:16,275 Speaker 1: This is Countdown with Keith Olberman. Time now for the 273 00:19:16,315 --> 00:19:19,155 Speaker 1: daily roundup of the misgrants, morons, and Dunning Kruger effects 274 00:19:19,155 --> 00:19:23,795 Speaker 1: specimens who constitute today's worst persons in the world. And 275 00:19:24,715 --> 00:19:28,435 Speaker 1: it's a theme episode. See if you can spot the 276 00:19:28,435 --> 00:19:33,035 Speaker 1: theme the bronze. Everybody saying that the arrest brought the 277 00:19:33,075 --> 00:19:37,475 Speaker 1: defendant an amazing fundraising windfall, So it was a bad idea. 278 00:19:37,555 --> 00:19:40,195 Speaker 1: The last figure I could find was they're claiming he 279 00:19:40,315 --> 00:19:44,795 Speaker 1: raised ten million dollars from a ten million. But Fox 280 00:19:44,875 --> 00:19:49,235 Speaker 1: quote news unquote reports that Nikki Hailey's presidential campaign, which 281 00:19:49,355 --> 00:19:52,595 Speaker 1: starts with two things Republican voters will never accept in 282 00:19:52,635 --> 00:19:56,955 Speaker 1: their presidential candidate. She's a she and her parents emigrated 283 00:19:56,995 --> 00:20:00,995 Speaker 1: from somewhere else. I don't care. Obviously, the racist, sexist 284 00:20:01,035 --> 00:20:04,715 Speaker 1: Republicans obviously will. Fox reports in the first six we 285 00:20:04,915 --> 00:20:10,395 Speaker 1: of her campaign, Nicky Haley raised eleven million, which is 286 00:20:10,475 --> 00:20:15,515 Speaker 1: more than ten million bronze. Anna Perez, who is a 287 00:20:15,555 --> 00:20:18,995 Speaker 1: spokesmodel who does one of those streaming shows it's called 288 00:20:19,115 --> 00:20:24,115 Speaker 1: wrong Think on yet another Fox knockoff called l FATV, 289 00:20:24,875 --> 00:20:27,035 Speaker 1: which I had never heard of until I wrote this. 290 00:20:27,395 --> 00:20:32,555 Speaker 1: It stands for Live from America Television. Anna Perez has 291 00:20:32,595 --> 00:20:36,075 Speaker 1: now explained that she would take a bullet for Trump. 292 00:20:36,995 --> 00:20:40,435 Speaker 1: Quote why because President Trump would take a bullet from me. 293 00:20:40,955 --> 00:20:44,355 Speaker 1: President Trump is taking a bullet for me. President Trump 294 00:20:44,435 --> 00:20:46,235 Speaker 1: is prepared to take a bullet for all of us. 295 00:20:46,475 --> 00:20:52,595 Speaker 1: What he's doing is actually christ like. Unquote, President Trump 296 00:20:52,715 --> 00:20:55,435 Speaker 1: is taking a bullet from me, she says, Well, as 297 00:20:55,435 --> 00:21:00,715 Speaker 1: the cliche goes video or it didn't happen. Secondly, the 298 00:21:00,755 --> 00:21:03,355 Speaker 1: defendant would not take a bullet for his wife and 299 00:21:03,595 --> 00:21:09,155 Speaker 1: all four of his children bullet bullet. Helly wouldn't take 300 00:21:09,195 --> 00:21:11,195 Speaker 1: a hang nail for his wife and all four of 301 00:21:11,235 --> 00:21:15,955 Speaker 1: his children. Anna Perez of Wrong Think. At least they 302 00:21:16,035 --> 00:21:19,715 Speaker 1: chose an apt name for her show. But our winner 303 00:21:19,795 --> 00:21:22,435 Speaker 1: Van Jones of CNN. He has been there for a 304 00:21:22,475 --> 00:21:26,435 Speaker 1: decade now, starting on Crossfire, which with Van as the 305 00:21:26,515 --> 00:21:31,115 Speaker 1: liberal host in its twenty fifth year was canceled. Within 306 00:21:31,155 --> 00:21:35,755 Speaker 1: the year. Van has defended Tulsey Gabbard. He's famously the 307 00:21:35,755 --> 00:21:38,275 Speaker 1: one who followed the defendant's speech to the House and 308 00:21:38,315 --> 00:21:42,235 Speaker 1: Senate in February twenty seventeen by saying, quote, he became 309 00:21:42,315 --> 00:21:46,035 Speaker 1: president of the United States in that moment. Period. What 310 00:21:46,075 --> 00:21:50,715 Speaker 1: I'm saying is Van just isn't very bright sure enough. 311 00:21:50,955 --> 00:21:55,635 Speaker 1: During the arrest Tuesday, Van Jones says, quote, he looks sad. 312 00:21:56,435 --> 00:21:58,715 Speaker 1: I don't like the prison system, so I don't like 313 00:21:58,875 --> 00:22:02,475 Speaker 1: this process, as if the defendant were within a million 314 00:22:02,515 --> 00:22:06,115 Speaker 1: miles of actually going to prison. And the pista resistance 315 00:22:06,155 --> 00:22:10,555 Speaker 1: from Van Jones quote doesn't mean that accountability is not owed. 316 00:22:10,875 --> 00:22:15,635 Speaker 1: But that is a granddad having a very bad day. 317 00:22:16,915 --> 00:22:21,595 Speaker 1: A granddad, a granddad. Go ask Trump and names of 318 00:22:21,635 --> 00:22:25,235 Speaker 1: his children, not his grandchildren. Ask him the names of 319 00:22:25,275 --> 00:22:30,995 Speaker 1: his children, and he'll say Don Junior, other, Don Junior, girl, 320 00:22:31,115 --> 00:22:37,995 Speaker 1: Don Junior, and uh Marla's kid. Van, this is the 321 00:22:38,075 --> 00:22:44,835 Speaker 1: moment in which Trump became granddad. Period Jones two days 322 00:22:44,835 --> 00:23:01,235 Speaker 1: worst person all right. As you may know, this is 323 00:23:01,315 --> 00:23:04,435 Speaker 1: the fifth Countdown podcast of this week. There were two 324 00:23:04,715 --> 00:23:07,195 Speaker 1: on Tuesday. It was unavoidable given the arrest and I 325 00:23:07,195 --> 00:23:09,915 Speaker 1: appreciate you taking the time to listen to all of them. 326 00:23:10,035 --> 00:23:12,395 Speaker 1: There are consequences, though, to doing two of these in 327 00:23:12,475 --> 00:23:15,235 Speaker 1: a day in three in like twenty six hours, I'm 328 00:23:15,275 --> 00:23:17,835 Speaker 1: about to run out of gas here. One of the 329 00:23:17,915 --> 00:23:20,275 Speaker 1: nice things though about podcasting is you get a very 330 00:23:20,315 --> 00:23:24,875 Speaker 1: precise information lot about how many people listen to podcast A, 331 00:23:25,715 --> 00:23:29,035 Speaker 1: and then how many also listened after listening to podcast 332 00:23:29,075 --> 00:23:33,435 Speaker 1: A to podcast B, etc. What I found is from 333 00:23:33,435 --> 00:23:36,075 Speaker 1: Tuesday's post arrest wrap up, which went out at six 334 00:23:36,235 --> 00:23:39,635 Speaker 1: thirty Eastern, not everybody who listened to that also listened 335 00:23:39,675 --> 00:23:43,595 Speaker 1: to Wednesday's call to have Judge Marshawn jail him for 336 00:23:43,795 --> 00:23:48,435 Speaker 1: violating the tone down the rhetoric request and vice versa. Now, 337 00:23:48,475 --> 00:23:50,715 Speaker 1: if you have listened to both, there is no reason 338 00:23:50,755 --> 00:23:53,435 Speaker 1: to keep listening to this podcast. As I always say, 339 00:23:53,995 --> 00:23:56,475 Speaker 1: I won't take it personally. The rest of it is 340 00:23:56,475 --> 00:23:59,675 Speaker 1: a rerun. Tomorrow I'll be back with a full new episode, 341 00:23:59,675 --> 00:24:02,155 Speaker 1: but for now, I want to replay the Trump segments 342 00:24:02,155 --> 00:24:04,955 Speaker 1: from each of those other two in chronological order. So 343 00:24:05,035 --> 00:24:09,795 Speaker 1: here's what dropped right after the defendant got pinched Tuesday six, 344 00:24:25,035 --> 00:24:28,395 Speaker 1: for an all two brief forty five minutes this afternoon, 345 00:24:28,475 --> 00:24:32,435 Speaker 1: the dark and threatening streets of the American hellscape were 346 00:24:32,475 --> 00:24:36,915 Speaker 1: a little safer, a little brighter. And then they let 347 00:24:36,995 --> 00:24:40,795 Speaker 1: Donald Trump leave the courthouse, perhaps to the eternal regret 348 00:24:40,995 --> 00:24:46,115 Speaker 1: of mankind, on this day of Trump arraignment syndrome, my 349 00:24:46,275 --> 00:24:49,315 Speaker 1: ex landlord has been charged with thirty four counts of 350 00:24:49,435 --> 00:24:53,435 Speaker 1: felony falsification of business records, each one part of a 351 00:24:53,515 --> 00:24:59,075 Speaker 1: conspiracy to unlawfully quote influenced the two sixteen presidential election. 352 00:24:59,475 --> 00:25:03,395 Speaker 1: That is the headline. Trump is being charged not just 353 00:25:03,555 --> 00:25:08,155 Speaker 1: with falsifying business records, but with falsifying business records in 354 00:25:08,315 --> 00:25:14,315 Speaker 1: order to illegally influence the twenty sixteen presidential election. Trump 355 00:25:14,515 --> 00:25:20,275 Speaker 1: is being prosecuted for election interference. Trump, or as we 356 00:25:20,355 --> 00:25:24,555 Speaker 1: may now call him, the defendant, said nothing in New York. 357 00:25:24,675 --> 00:25:27,435 Speaker 1: All we saw was him scowling on the way into 358 00:25:27,435 --> 00:25:32,235 Speaker 1: the courtroom, then peering through bloodshot eyes towards the judge. 359 00:25:32,635 --> 00:25:37,035 Speaker 1: Then the always alarming shot of his hairstyle as seen 360 00:25:37,195 --> 00:25:39,355 Speaker 1: from the vantage point of the back of his head 361 00:25:39,635 --> 00:25:43,435 Speaker 1: as he left for LaGuardia, where alone and without the 362 00:25:43,475 --> 00:25:48,715 Speaker 1: former first Lady the floatus for some reason, oh right, sorry, 363 00:25:49,275 --> 00:25:52,395 Speaker 1: Trump slowly climbed the stairs of the jetway, and for 364 00:25:52,475 --> 00:25:56,555 Speaker 1: a brief moment, his flapping extra extra extra, extra, extra 365 00:25:56,635 --> 00:26:00,355 Speaker 1: extra long red tie teased us with the thought that 366 00:26:00,475 --> 00:26:04,275 Speaker 1: it might finally get caught in his planes rear wing 367 00:26:04,315 --> 00:26:09,475 Speaker 1: horror untle stabilizer. Trump is being charged not for the 368 00:26:09,475 --> 00:26:12,795 Speaker 1: payoff to Stormy Daniels, nor, in a new development, for 369 00:26:12,915 --> 00:26:16,395 Speaker 1: a thirty thousand dollars payoff to a Trump Tower doorman 370 00:26:16,715 --> 00:26:20,675 Speaker 1: who thought he knew something about a child Trump had 371 00:26:20,755 --> 00:26:25,035 Speaker 1: fathered out of wedlock. That's right, The case now has 372 00:26:25,155 --> 00:26:29,595 Speaker 1: a once rumored Trump love child. No, Trump is not 373 00:26:29,715 --> 00:26:33,555 Speaker 1: being charged for love or money. He's being charged for, 374 00:26:33,795 --> 00:26:37,155 Speaker 1: as the DA said, trying to illegally influence the two 375 00:26:37,475 --> 00:26:41,795 Speaker 1: sixteen presidential election, and in doing so, violating New York 376 00:26:41,875 --> 00:26:45,595 Speaker 1: state election law, to conspire to promote a candidate by 377 00:26:45,675 --> 00:26:50,115 Speaker 1: unlawful means, and exceeding the political contribution cap by paying 378 00:26:50,155 --> 00:26:54,315 Speaker 1: to suppress the Stormy Daniel's story to deceive the public. 379 00:26:55,195 --> 00:26:59,075 Speaker 1: Trump has been indicted thirty four felonies for trying to 380 00:26:59,155 --> 00:27:03,235 Speaker 1: defraud and to conceal a separate crime when he reimbursed 381 00:27:03,315 --> 00:27:06,635 Speaker 1: his lawyer, Michael Cohen in a deal. Prosecutor's alleged was 382 00:27:06,675 --> 00:27:11,475 Speaker 1: reached inside the Oval office to hide those Daniels payments 383 00:27:11,715 --> 00:27:17,195 Speaker 1: as legitimate business expenses for legal services. And if those 384 00:27:17,315 --> 00:27:22,355 Speaker 1: business expenses are business expenses, America is in a new 385 00:27:22,395 --> 00:27:26,835 Speaker 1: and different world of hiring porn stars so their services 386 00:27:27,275 --> 00:27:32,035 Speaker 1: can help you write off. And at the exact hour 387 00:27:32,115 --> 00:27:34,795 Speaker 1: that Trump was entering the fifteenth floor courthouse at one 388 00:27:34,835 --> 00:27:38,515 Speaker 1: hundred Center Street in Manhattan, his sons were sharing on 389 00:27:38,555 --> 00:27:42,835 Speaker 1: several social media sites a British tabloid story about the 390 00:27:42,955 --> 00:27:45,995 Speaker 1: daughter of the judge in the case, complete with her photo, 391 00:27:46,515 --> 00:27:51,115 Speaker 1: doxing her and launching a phony conspiracy theory that because 392 00:27:51,155 --> 00:27:53,195 Speaker 1: of her work with a digital firm that worked with 393 00:27:53,235 --> 00:27:57,515 Speaker 1: the Kamala Harris and Joe Biden presidential campaigns. This is 394 00:27:58,195 --> 00:28:02,115 Speaker 1: as Donald Trump, in his paranoia and megalomania, believes everything 395 00:28:02,115 --> 00:28:05,595 Speaker 1: else in the history of the world is a plot 396 00:28:05,835 --> 00:28:11,475 Speaker 1: against him. They doxed the judge's daughter while Junior and 397 00:28:11,555 --> 00:28:15,355 Speaker 1: Fredo were posting. The District Attorney's office was handing out 398 00:28:15,515 --> 00:28:19,755 Speaker 1: multiple combies in the courtroom of the various online threats 399 00:28:19,795 --> 00:28:22,555 Speaker 1: of violence and terrorism that Trump has made in the 400 00:28:22,635 --> 00:28:26,235 Speaker 1: days and weeks leading up to today. The baseball bat image, 401 00:28:26,275 --> 00:28:29,715 Speaker 1: the death and destruction warning, calling the district attorney a 402 00:28:29,835 --> 00:28:34,355 Speaker 1: quote animal, and presumably others. Nobody is sure if the 403 00:28:34,435 --> 00:28:37,835 Speaker 1: other posts included the attacks Trump made not four hours 404 00:28:37,875 --> 00:28:42,275 Speaker 1: before the hearing began against Judge Juan Marshaan himself, calling 405 00:28:42,355 --> 00:28:47,075 Speaker 1: him quote highly partisan and quote an unfair disaster belonging 406 00:28:47,115 --> 00:28:50,555 Speaker 1: to a family of quote well known Trump haters, including 407 00:28:50,675 --> 00:28:54,155 Speaker 1: quote his daughter who worked for Kamala and now the 408 00:28:54,235 --> 00:29:00,475 Speaker 1: Biden Harris campaign. Kangaroo Court. Judge Marshan, showing the kind 409 00:29:00,515 --> 00:29:02,475 Speaker 1: of restraint that you and I and most of the 410 00:29:02,515 --> 00:29:06,115 Speaker 1: planets eight twenty five million, eight hundred and fifty three 411 00:29:06,155 --> 00:29:10,835 Speaker 1: thousand other people would not, did not immediately impose a 412 00:29:10,915 --> 00:29:13,955 Speaker 1: gag order nor even a specific set of warnings against 413 00:29:13,995 --> 00:29:17,195 Speaker 1: Trump and what he might say tonight or going forward. 414 00:29:17,475 --> 00:29:20,955 Speaker 1: Marshaun did warn both sides not to make any statement 415 00:29:21,035 --> 00:29:25,275 Speaker 1: that incites violence and to tamp down the rhetoric. As 416 00:29:25,315 --> 00:29:29,395 Speaker 1: to rhetoric, Alvin Bragg promptly gave a measured and quiet 417 00:29:29,475 --> 00:29:34,435 Speaker 1: and even dull news conference. Trump canceled his reported plans 418 00:29:34,475 --> 00:29:36,795 Speaker 1: to talk to the media on the way in and 419 00:29:36,915 --> 00:29:40,035 Speaker 1: again on the way out of the courtroom. His attorneys, 420 00:29:40,035 --> 00:29:43,235 Speaker 1: though gave a bizarre and ill fated news conference in 421 00:29:43,275 --> 00:29:46,675 Speaker 1: the middle of the throng outside the courthouse, as media 422 00:29:46,795 --> 00:29:50,835 Speaker 1: outnumbered protesters and even passers by by perhaps one hundred 423 00:29:50,835 --> 00:29:54,435 Speaker 1: to one. At this press conference, the new guy, Todd 424 00:29:54,475 --> 00:30:01,635 Speaker 1: Blanche had a problem about speaking in public without Um, 425 00:30:01,915 --> 00:30:05,755 Speaker 1: interrupting himself frequently with the um verbal crunch. Um and 426 00:30:05,915 --> 00:30:09,035 Speaker 1: I wondered if this was the best attorney of all 427 00:30:09,075 --> 00:30:12,115 Speaker 1: the guys. They considered what kind of impression the other 428 00:30:12,195 --> 00:30:18,155 Speaker 1: guys UM left. Meanwhile, Joe Tacopina said that this was 429 00:30:18,195 --> 00:30:22,155 Speaker 1: the day quote the rule of law died in this country, 430 00:30:23,515 --> 00:30:27,395 Speaker 1: as a spectator standing behind him held a mannequin's leg 431 00:30:27,555 --> 00:30:31,355 Speaker 1: over Tacopina's head like this was a live revival of 432 00:30:31,395 --> 00:30:34,635 Speaker 1: the movie A Christmas Story, and Trump had just gotten 433 00:30:34,835 --> 00:30:41,075 Speaker 1: a major award. Yet inside the court everything was apparently businesslike, 434 00:30:41,515 --> 00:30:44,155 Speaker 1: and while Trump may have tried to stare daggers at 435 00:30:44,195 --> 00:30:47,275 Speaker 1: Judge Marshawn through what had become his own slit like 436 00:30:47,675 --> 00:30:53,355 Speaker 1: bloodshot eyes, Trump evidently pleaded not guilty time and time again, 437 00:30:53,675 --> 00:31:09,235 Speaker 1: to charge after charge after charge. Thank you, Nancy Faust. 438 00:31:09,915 --> 00:31:12,515 Speaker 1: It is certain, though in what order, no one can 439 00:31:12,595 --> 00:31:15,555 Speaker 1: yet say that Trump's lawyers, and how many of them 440 00:31:15,595 --> 00:31:19,275 Speaker 1: there are. No one can also say, we'll move to 441 00:31:19,315 --> 00:31:23,595 Speaker 1: dismiss the indictment, move to dismiss each charge in the indictment, 442 00:31:23,955 --> 00:31:27,875 Speaker 1: moved to have the judge recuse, move for change of venue. 443 00:31:27,955 --> 00:31:33,315 Speaker 1: Trump himself argued to go voluntarily to Staten Island, which 444 00:31:33,355 --> 00:31:37,515 Speaker 1: indicates just how desperate he really is. If they cannot 445 00:31:37,595 --> 00:31:40,475 Speaker 1: kill this thing before it starts, the trial will unfold 446 00:31:40,875 --> 00:31:43,675 Speaker 1: in the midst of the heart of the presidential campaign. 447 00:31:43,995 --> 00:31:47,355 Speaker 1: The trial would begin, per the court schedule, at the 448 00:31:47,435 --> 00:31:52,275 Speaker 1: earliest next January. The next pre trial hearing isn't scheduled 449 00:31:52,315 --> 00:31:57,155 Speaker 1: until December. The first Republican presidential primary debate will be 450 00:31:57,195 --> 00:32:02,755 Speaker 1: in Milwaukee in August. We learned one other new thing 451 00:32:02,795 --> 00:32:05,515 Speaker 1: at this hearing and with this filing. The star witness 452 00:32:05,555 --> 00:32:08,355 Speaker 1: for the prosecution would not be the former Trump attorney 453 00:32:08,395 --> 00:32:13,355 Speaker 1: Michael Cohen. It would be former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker. 454 00:32:13,835 --> 00:32:16,795 Speaker 1: It is Pecker who set up the process for which 455 00:32:16,835 --> 00:32:20,715 Speaker 1: the prosecution alleges all thirty four crimes were committed, starting 456 00:32:20,715 --> 00:32:24,075 Speaker 1: at a meeting with Trump and Cohen in August twenty fifteen. 457 00:32:24,475 --> 00:32:27,235 Speaker 1: Moving on to a quote series of discussions among the 458 00:32:27,235 --> 00:32:30,835 Speaker 1: three men in two sixteen to suppress first the Karen 459 00:32:30,915 --> 00:32:34,715 Speaker 1: McDougall's story, and then the Stormy Daniels case. And now 460 00:32:34,755 --> 00:32:38,315 Speaker 1: we know the story of the doorman and the apparently 461 00:32:38,355 --> 00:32:43,915 Speaker 1: apocryphal Trump love child. Then post election was the meeting 462 00:32:43,955 --> 00:32:47,235 Speaker 1: at which Trump personally thanked Pecker, and in the summer 463 00:32:47,275 --> 00:32:51,315 Speaker 1: of two seventeen he took Pecker to dinner to quote 464 00:32:51,315 --> 00:32:55,075 Speaker 1: thank him for his help during the campaign. All of this, 465 00:32:55,755 --> 00:32:59,235 Speaker 1: if it leads to Trump being convicted, invites the future 466 00:32:59,275 --> 00:33:06,155 Speaker 1: headline Pecker screws Trump, leave it or not. All this 467 00:33:06,355 --> 00:33:09,315 Speaker 1: has been the serious part of the day. The rest 468 00:33:09,355 --> 00:33:13,955 Speaker 1: of the day descended quickly into farce upon farce. The protests, 469 00:33:13,995 --> 00:33:17,595 Speaker 1: which Trump presumably envisioned would be a kind of litigation 470 00:33:17,795 --> 00:33:20,915 Speaker 1: version of January sixth, instead turned out to have been 471 00:33:20,955 --> 00:33:24,755 Speaker 1: so poorly planned and so poorly received that the star 472 00:33:24,915 --> 00:33:29,155 Speaker 1: complainer fled without anybody in the crowd really knowing that 473 00:33:29,235 --> 00:33:33,555 Speaker 1: she had been there. This is Marjorie Taylor Greene's speech 474 00:33:33,715 --> 00:33:36,835 Speaker 1: as it would have been heard by the crowd assembled 475 00:33:36,955 --> 00:33:50,555 Speaker 1: by the New York Young Republicans Club. After about fifteen 476 00:33:50,635 --> 00:33:54,195 Speaker 1: minutes of that, Barney Rubble left as quickly as she 477 00:33:54,275 --> 00:33:58,275 Speaker 1: could in a white suv, not a Bronco, and was 478 00:33:58,355 --> 00:34:01,715 Speaker 1: interviewed live from the back seat by a performer from 479 00:34:01,755 --> 00:34:06,995 Speaker 1: the Right Side News RSN named Brian Glenn. And if 480 00:34:07,075 --> 00:34:11,035 Speaker 1: we didn't already know that Brian Glenn and Marjorie Taylor 481 00:34:11,075 --> 00:34:15,635 Speaker 1: Green are dating, we do now because the interview ended 482 00:34:15,675 --> 00:34:18,955 Speaker 1: with him giving her a kiss on the cheek. So 483 00:34:19,195 --> 00:34:24,235 Speaker 1: all right, all right, in response on behalf of a 484 00:34:24,315 --> 00:34:33,035 Speaker 1: mortified world, I say you, there was an unexpected appearance 485 00:34:33,075 --> 00:34:36,275 Speaker 1: at that protest, And again each protester had his own 486 00:34:36,315 --> 00:34:40,395 Speaker 1: supply of maybe ten, maybe one hundred reporters. It was 487 00:34:40,475 --> 00:34:43,715 Speaker 1: by the last person Trump would have presumably asked to attend, 488 00:34:43,795 --> 00:34:47,475 Speaker 1: other than Stormy Daniels and the apocryphal Trump love child. 489 00:34:47,875 --> 00:34:52,955 Speaker 1: It was Congressman George Santos. As he grandstanded for reporters, 490 00:34:53,075 --> 00:34:57,355 Speaker 1: Santos apparently discovered that he is afraid of crowds, and 491 00:34:57,515 --> 00:35:01,755 Speaker 1: after asking everybody to move back, he too quickly left 492 00:35:01,795 --> 00:35:05,355 Speaker 1: the scene. The Trump campaign is now selling what it 493 00:35:05,435 --> 00:35:08,835 Speaker 1: calls official mugshot t shirts, even though it seems evident 494 00:35:09,075 --> 00:35:12,235 Speaker 1: that no mug shot was taken, Certainly, no mug shot 495 00:35:12,315 --> 00:35:15,835 Speaker 1: was released. Certainly Trump's people would not do anything with 496 00:35:15,915 --> 00:35:18,515 Speaker 1: a mug shot in which Trump's eyes looked like he 497 00:35:18,555 --> 00:35:24,275 Speaker 1: hadn't slept in twenty four days, tiny slits rimmed in red. Lastly, 498 00:35:24,755 --> 00:35:27,715 Speaker 1: many observers noted that as Trump entered the courtroom, he 499 00:35:27,755 --> 00:35:32,235 Speaker 1: experienced something he probably has not for years. Nobody opened 500 00:35:32,275 --> 00:35:35,555 Speaker 1: the door open for him, nor held it open for him. 501 00:35:36,235 --> 00:35:38,635 Speaker 1: On the other hand, in conclusion, I think the importance 502 00:35:38,675 --> 00:35:40,795 Speaker 1: of this day, even if these charges were to get 503 00:35:40,795 --> 00:35:44,755 Speaker 1: thrown out tomorrow morning, is that they opened a metaphorical 504 00:35:44,875 --> 00:35:49,715 Speaker 1: door to all the other indictments. Fittingly, in terms of 505 00:35:49,795 --> 00:35:53,835 Speaker 1: real news. In terms of other indictments, the first arraignment 506 00:35:53,915 --> 00:35:57,395 Speaker 1: of a former president of the United States only because 507 00:35:57,435 --> 00:36:00,515 Speaker 1: Ford pardoned the guy who made him President Nixon. The 508 00:36:00,675 --> 00:36:03,715 Speaker 1: first arraignment of a former president of the United States 509 00:36:03,755 --> 00:36:07,715 Speaker 1: was actually over shadowed by the third major story of 510 00:36:07,755 --> 00:36:11,475 Speaker 1: the week from the world of the Special Counsel, Jack Smith, 511 00:36:11,595 --> 00:36:15,755 Speaker 1: and its only Tuesday. A federal appeals court in DC 512 00:36:15,995 --> 00:36:20,035 Speaker 1: has rejected an emergency motion from Trump's lawyers to block 513 00:36:20,275 --> 00:36:24,875 Speaker 1: key Trump aids from testifying to the Special Counsel's grand jury. 514 00:36:24,915 --> 00:36:27,875 Speaker 1: In another series of up all night at the court, 515 00:36:28,155 --> 00:36:31,435 Speaker 1: the lawyers filed late Monday night, and the three judge 516 00:36:31,435 --> 00:36:35,675 Speaker 1: appeals panel ruled early Tuesday morning. It's sealed, so we 517 00:36:35,755 --> 00:36:38,995 Speaker 1: don't know officially who is and isn't now without a 518 00:36:39,035 --> 00:36:41,835 Speaker 1: way to get out of testifying to the Special Council 519 00:36:41,955 --> 00:36:44,955 Speaker 1: Grand Jury. But putting together bits and pieces of the thing, 520 00:36:45,035 --> 00:36:49,635 Speaker 1: it seems to cover Mark Meadows, Dan Scovino, Stephen Miller, 521 00:36:50,035 --> 00:36:54,475 Speaker 1: Robert O'Brien, John Ratcliffe, and Ken Cucinelli. That is a 522 00:36:54,555 --> 00:36:58,115 Speaker 1: lot of testimony, and it all seems to pertain to 523 00:36:58,195 --> 00:37:01,115 Speaker 1: that half of Smith's case, which seems to be lagging 524 00:37:01,155 --> 00:37:05,155 Speaker 1: behind the other. Meadows and Company would be coups, not 525 00:37:05,275 --> 00:37:08,835 Speaker 1: Marilago document witnesses. And we found out only Sunday that 526 00:37:08,875 --> 00:37:12,195 Speaker 1: Smith has a paper trail at Marilago courtesy a Trump 527 00:37:12,235 --> 00:37:15,475 Speaker 1: assistant who used to do his emailing for Trump, and 528 00:37:15,915 --> 00:37:19,795 Speaker 1: video of another assistant actually moving the boxes. And yesterday 529 00:37:19,835 --> 00:37:23,195 Speaker 1: we learned that Smith will get the testimony from Trump's 530 00:37:23,355 --> 00:37:28,155 Speaker 1: Florida's Secret Service detail. That's the real story of Stormy 531 00:37:28,235 --> 00:37:33,195 Speaker 1: Daniel's indictment. Pulloza. It was I think clear even before 532 00:37:33,235 --> 00:37:37,515 Speaker 1: the hearing began, after days and weeks of threats and 533 00:37:37,715 --> 00:37:42,595 Speaker 1: insults and terroristic warnings. Trump inadvertently confessed on his social 534 00:37:42,595 --> 00:37:47,515 Speaker 1: media site just how serious this all is, So serious 535 00:37:47,835 --> 00:37:51,715 Speaker 1: that it is even pierced his own self induced bubble 536 00:37:51,835 --> 00:37:56,195 Speaker 1: of invincibility. At one twenty two pm Eastern daylight time, 537 00:37:56,275 --> 00:38:00,995 Speaker 1: he wrote on his website quote, heading to Lower Manhattan 538 00:38:01,115 --> 00:38:06,435 Speaker 1: the courthouse seems so surreal. Wow, they are going to 539 00:38:06,595 --> 00:38:12,275 Speaker 1: arrest me. Can't believe this is happening in America. To translate, 540 00:38:13,155 --> 00:38:18,715 Speaker 1: Trump admits, and this is ultimately white today mattered. Trump 541 00:38:18,715 --> 00:38:37,875 Speaker 1: admits that he has had the crap scared out of him. 542 00:38:37,915 --> 00:38:41,315 Speaker 1: So that's the bulletin Trump news from Tuesday. The Wednesday 543 00:38:41,395 --> 00:38:55,675 Speaker 1: call for his immediate incarceration. Next, this is countdown, continuing 544 00:38:55,715 --> 00:38:58,635 Speaker 1: the refrise of the Trump arrest coverage, which gives me 545 00:38:58,675 --> 00:39:02,475 Speaker 1: a chance to catch my breath. Literally. Here is the 546 00:39:02,515 --> 00:39:05,715 Speaker 1: Wednesday Morning podcast and the call for Judge Marshaan to 547 00:39:05,795 --> 00:39:24,115 Speaker 1: send him immediately to the big house. Call Trump's lawyers, 548 00:39:24,235 --> 00:39:27,595 Speaker 1: Judge Marshaan, do it now, do it right now, and 549 00:39:27,675 --> 00:39:30,275 Speaker 1: tell them to put their client's fat ass on a 550 00:39:30,355 --> 00:39:33,675 Speaker 1: plane and get it back to New York within six hours, 551 00:39:33,795 --> 00:39:37,275 Speaker 1: or you will jail their client and them for contempt 552 00:39:37,315 --> 00:39:41,395 Speaker 1: of court at roughly two forty five eastern yesterday, you 553 00:39:41,515 --> 00:39:46,595 Speaker 1: told the defendant and the prosecutor please refrain from making 554 00:39:46,675 --> 00:39:50,995 Speaker 1: statements that are likely to incite violence or civil unrest. 555 00:39:51,435 --> 00:39:55,155 Speaker 1: Do not use rhetoric that could jeopardize the rule of law. 556 00:39:55,395 --> 00:39:58,915 Speaker 1: At roughly eight forty five Eastern time yesterday, the defendant 557 00:39:58,915 --> 00:40:02,475 Speaker 1: incited violence and jeopardize the rule of law. And he 558 00:40:02,515 --> 00:40:06,035 Speaker 1: attacked the district attorney. That he attacked the district Attorney's wife, 559 00:40:06,115 --> 00:40:09,315 Speaker 1: and he attacked you, Judge, Mrchon, and he attacked your family. 560 00:40:10,075 --> 00:40:12,355 Speaker 1: And on behalf of the rule of law, and on 561 00:40:12,395 --> 00:40:14,915 Speaker 1: behalf of civil peace in the United States of America, 562 00:40:15,075 --> 00:40:17,875 Speaker 1: and on behalf of yourself and the DA and the 563 00:40:17,915 --> 00:40:22,515 Speaker 1: inviolability of the courts, drag defended Donald Trump back into 564 00:40:22,595 --> 00:40:25,555 Speaker 1: your court today and hold him in contempt and then 565 00:40:25,595 --> 00:40:29,835 Speaker 1: put him into a cell at Riker's Island. This is 566 00:40:29,875 --> 00:40:33,075 Speaker 1: where we are right now. I have a Trump hating 567 00:40:33,155 --> 00:40:37,955 Speaker 1: judge with a Trump hating wife and family whose daughter 568 00:40:38,035 --> 00:40:42,235 Speaker 1: worked for Kamala Harris and now receives money from the 569 00:40:42,315 --> 00:40:46,275 Speaker 1: Biden Harris campaign, and a lot of it. The criminal 570 00:40:46,355 --> 00:40:49,915 Speaker 1: is the district attorney, because he illegally leaked massive amounts 571 00:40:49,915 --> 00:40:56,275 Speaker 1: of grand jury and from a for which he should 572 00:40:56,275 --> 00:41:02,315 Speaker 1: be prosecuted, or at a minimum, he should resign. And 573 00:41:02,435 --> 00:41:05,955 Speaker 1: Alvin Bragg's wife confirmed a report that claimed her husband 574 00:41:06,035 --> 00:41:12,515 Speaker 1: has Trump nailed on felonies. She has since slocked down 575 00:41:12,595 --> 00:41:17,515 Speaker 1: her Twitter account. What more does the defendant have to do, 576 00:41:17,875 --> 00:41:22,915 Speaker 1: Judge Marchon, He already threatened death and destruction, He already 577 00:41:22,955 --> 00:41:26,035 Speaker 1: reposted an article with a photo of him wielding a 578 00:41:26,115 --> 00:41:29,235 Speaker 1: baseball bat next to a photo of the head of 579 00:41:29,275 --> 00:41:34,195 Speaker 1: the district attorney. And yesterday, as you were warning him, 580 00:41:35,155 --> 00:41:38,875 Speaker 1: but also as you were bending over backwards to protect 581 00:41:39,035 --> 00:41:42,795 Speaker 1: his First Amendment rights, as you were saying those things 582 00:41:42,835 --> 00:41:47,275 Speaker 1: to him, his idiot sons, Junior and Fredo were doxing 583 00:41:47,595 --> 00:41:50,835 Speaker 1: your own daughter on every social media site they could find. 584 00:41:50,995 --> 00:41:53,395 Speaker 1: And if you don't put them under a gag order, 585 00:41:53,595 --> 00:41:57,995 Speaker 1: what exactly does the rule of law mean in this country? 586 00:41:58,075 --> 00:42:01,555 Speaker 1: What exactly is the point of having laws in this country? 587 00:42:01,715 --> 00:42:04,515 Speaker 1: What exactly, your honor, is the point of having judges 588 00:42:04,875 --> 00:42:09,115 Speaker 1: and district attorneys and cops if their words mean nothing, 589 00:42:09,515 --> 00:42:13,955 Speaker 1: and a psychonic, narcissistic piece of shit criminal like Donald 590 00:42:13,995 --> 00:42:17,195 Speaker 1: Trump can leave your courtroom and gun on his private 591 00:42:17,275 --> 00:42:19,475 Speaker 1: jet and go to his private club and pick up 592 00:42:19,555 --> 00:42:22,915 Speaker 1: right where he left off. Not merely endangering you and 593 00:42:23,075 --> 00:42:25,555 Speaker 1: your wife and your daughter, and the DA and his 594 00:42:25,635 --> 00:42:28,555 Speaker 1: wife and everybody connected with law enforcement in New York 595 00:42:28,675 --> 00:42:33,555 Speaker 1: and Washington in America, but endangering, as you yourself phrased it, 596 00:42:33,835 --> 00:42:38,755 Speaker 1: the rule of law, by as you yourself also phrased it, 597 00:42:39,075 --> 00:42:42,915 Speaker 1: making statements that are likely to incite violence or civil unrest. 598 00:42:43,355 --> 00:42:46,915 Speaker 1: What more does Trump have to do pull out a 599 00:42:46,915 --> 00:42:50,435 Speaker 1: gun on Fifth Avenue and shoot you, or say something 600 00:42:50,475 --> 00:42:55,395 Speaker 1: like that again, or inspire one of his brainwashed, gun fetishizing, 601 00:42:55,475 --> 00:42:59,755 Speaker 1: hate filled fascist mob to attack your daughter. Trump is 602 00:42:59,875 --> 00:43:05,955 Speaker 1: in contempt, of course right now, jail him. He is, 603 00:43:05,995 --> 00:43:10,475 Speaker 1: in fact in contempt of America. He is always and 604 00:43:10,595 --> 00:43:15,075 Speaker 1: will forever be in contempt of America. America means nothing 605 00:43:15,115 --> 00:43:18,675 Speaker 1: to him. Your words mean nothing to him. The law 606 00:43:18,755 --> 00:43:27,675 Speaker 1: means nothing to him. He will understand only punishment. Punish him. 607 00:43:27,755 --> 00:43:35,115 Speaker 1: Judge Mershon, as you were warning him, As you were calmly, responsibly, 608 00:43:35,755 --> 00:43:41,715 Speaker 1: even handedly warning the defendant and the district attorney to 609 00:43:41,875 --> 00:43:48,515 Speaker 1: avoid dangerous rhetoric. The defendant's sons were putting out your 610 00:43:48,635 --> 00:43:53,515 Speaker 1: daughter's photo so she can be threatened and attacked and 611 00:43:53,675 --> 00:43:56,755 Speaker 1: added to the list of the hundreds and hundreds of 612 00:43:56,955 --> 00:44:00,995 Speaker 1: upstanding and honest Americans who have become the targets of 613 00:44:00,995 --> 00:44:09,035 Speaker 1: the mob because it's violent, depray despotic leader has made 614 00:44:09,315 --> 00:44:14,715 Speaker 1: them the targets of the mob at the very hour, 615 00:44:15,115 --> 00:44:20,315 Speaker 1: your honor. And then they hid behind the argument that no, 616 00:44:20,795 --> 00:44:24,275 Speaker 1: they weren't doing that. They had simply posted an interesting 617 00:44:24,475 --> 00:44:30,155 Speaker 1: article about your daughter from a British newspaper, and it 618 00:44:30,195 --> 00:44:34,155 Speaker 1: wasn't their fault that the article had her picture on 619 00:44:34,195 --> 00:44:38,235 Speaker 1: the link. And anybody who says they posted her photo 620 00:44:38,555 --> 00:44:46,075 Speaker 1: is lying. And the descendant of nazis literally one of 621 00:44:46,075 --> 00:44:50,595 Speaker 1: the hacks defending Donald Trump Junior doxing your daughter, Judge 622 00:44:51,355 --> 00:44:55,275 Speaker 1: by calling the reporter who called Junior out a quote 623 00:44:55,475 --> 00:44:59,155 Speaker 1: actual descendant of Nazi war criminals and heir to a 624 00:44:59,275 --> 00:45:02,355 Speaker 1: Nazi fortune unquote. That's where we are in this country 625 00:45:02,475 --> 00:45:06,115 Speaker 1: right now, Judge marsh hours after you bent over backwards 626 00:45:06,155 --> 00:45:10,835 Speaker 1: to protect Donald Trump, the defendant, the vile creature who 627 00:45:10,835 --> 00:45:14,675 Speaker 1: has already stochastically threatened your daughter twice since you warned 628 00:45:14,715 --> 00:45:18,355 Speaker 1: him to tamp down the rhetoric, put a gag order 629 00:45:18,355 --> 00:45:21,435 Speaker 1: on Donald Trump Junior. Your honor, put a gag order 630 00:45:21,435 --> 00:45:24,595 Speaker 1: on Eric Trump, your honor, put a gag order on them, 631 00:45:24,635 --> 00:45:28,035 Speaker 1: and put their madman father in jail. Because your gesture 632 00:45:28,075 --> 00:45:32,115 Speaker 1: of fairness and balance and integrity did nothing but to 633 00:45:32,235 --> 00:45:36,715 Speaker 1: embolden these mentally defective bullies and the results who are immediate, 634 00:45:36,915 --> 00:45:39,595 Speaker 1: and they do not just endanger you and your daughter 635 00:45:39,715 --> 00:45:42,675 Speaker 1: and your family and Alvin Bragg and his family, they 636 00:45:42,835 --> 00:45:50,195 Speaker 1: endanger America. Please refrain from making statements that are likely 637 00:45:50,275 --> 00:45:58,235 Speaker 1: to incite violence or civil unrest. Six hours after you 638 00:45:58,315 --> 00:46:03,995 Speaker 1: made those statements, and by the way, your honor, those 639 00:46:04,035 --> 00:46:08,995 Speaker 1: statements were made not in the controlled environment of a courtroom, 640 00:46:10,035 --> 00:46:14,355 Speaker 1: nor even in the one dimensional world of social media. 641 00:46:14,715 --> 00:46:17,715 Speaker 1: They were made live on national television in this country, 642 00:46:17,755 --> 00:46:21,995 Speaker 1: because we have laws about exactly where on the wave frequency, 643 00:46:22,195 --> 00:46:25,715 Speaker 1: Channel thirteen somewhere can put out its signal. But there 644 00:46:25,835 --> 00:46:28,995 Speaker 1: is not a damned thing, not one damned thing, that 645 00:46:29,035 --> 00:46:32,515 Speaker 1: can even begin to influence the billionaires who have just 646 00:46:32,715 --> 00:46:36,595 Speaker 1: bought the nation's original all news cable channel for the 647 00:46:36,595 --> 00:46:40,675 Speaker 1: sole purpose of neutralizing its reality and corrupting it into 648 00:46:40,715 --> 00:46:45,995 Speaker 1: another right wing propaganda machine. CNN, Your honor, CNN carried 649 00:46:46,035 --> 00:46:54,515 Speaker 1: the entire goddamned Trump speech, without warning, without editorial judgment, 650 00:46:56,555 --> 00:47:02,555 Speaker 1: and Trump used them. Trump used the idiots who now 651 00:47:02,635 --> 00:47:07,235 Speaker 1: own and run CNN, the fascists who have balked CNN, 652 00:47:07,595 --> 00:47:11,115 Speaker 1: to amplify the attack on you and on your daughter, 653 00:47:11,235 --> 00:47:14,155 Speaker 1: and on Alvin Bragg, and on his wife and on America. 654 00:47:14,275 --> 00:47:18,155 Speaker 1: Because having learned nothing from twenty sixteen or twenty twenty, 655 00:47:18,195 --> 00:47:24,555 Speaker 1: CNN televised the entire hate filled, narcissistic, paranoid speech by 656 00:47:24,635 --> 00:47:28,755 Speaker 1: the defendant live, not just the start through the first 657 00:47:28,835 --> 00:47:32,835 Speaker 1: reference to Bragg, and then showing clips of anything relevant, 658 00:47:32,835 --> 00:47:35,435 Speaker 1: but saying we cannot show this live. God knows what 659 00:47:35,475 --> 00:47:37,955 Speaker 1: he will say or what he will tell his idiot 660 00:47:37,995 --> 00:47:41,675 Speaker 1: followers to do. But the whole thing was shown live, 661 00:47:41,795 --> 00:47:46,315 Speaker 1: the entire catalog of Trump repeatedly and unsuccessfully trying to 662 00:47:46,515 --> 00:47:51,315 Speaker 1: hammer in the last nail in self crucifixion after self crucifixion, 663 00:47:51,595 --> 00:47:56,555 Speaker 1: literally going back as far as but her emails, but 664 00:47:56,755 --> 00:48:05,595 Speaker 1: focusing on his newest targets you and Alvin Bragg. It 665 00:48:05,715 --> 00:48:10,795 Speaker 1: was unconscionable, unjournalistic, unforgivable, and as I have suggested here 666 00:48:10,835 --> 00:48:14,315 Speaker 1: four months your honor, part of the quest by the 667 00:48:14,395 --> 00:48:19,115 Speaker 1: new ownership of that channel to show itself to the fascists, 668 00:48:19,155 --> 00:48:22,475 Speaker 1: to tell them that if the fascists regain power in 669 00:48:22,515 --> 00:48:26,675 Speaker 1: this country, they should let CNN live and keep making money. 670 00:48:27,515 --> 00:48:31,035 Speaker 1: And also part of the quest by CNN's desperately failing 671 00:48:31,155 --> 00:48:35,435 Speaker 1: in over his head drowning president, a man named Chris Lickt, 672 00:48:35,875 --> 00:48:39,475 Speaker 1: to show himself to that new ownership and to beg 673 00:48:40,155 --> 00:48:43,235 Speaker 1: that they not fire him and end forever his career 674 00:48:43,275 --> 00:48:47,875 Speaker 1: of remarkably consistent mediocrity, manipulation, and maschination. A man who 675 00:48:47,955 --> 00:48:50,635 Speaker 1: could not tell the moral difference between a fascist and 676 00:48:50,755 --> 00:48:54,955 Speaker 1: an old fashioned And it's only too goddamned bad, your honor, 677 00:48:55,115 --> 00:48:57,675 Speaker 1: that you can't issue a warning to Chris Lickt that 678 00:48:57,715 --> 00:49:01,675 Speaker 1: if a television channel his or anybody else's amplifies the 679 00:49:01,795 --> 00:49:05,875 Speaker 1: hate speech of the defendant as he violates the orders 680 00:49:05,995 --> 00:49:09,595 Speaker 1: of the court, your court, that the network can be 681 00:49:09,675 --> 00:49:12,595 Speaker 1: held liable, that it's president and owners can be held 682 00:49:12,635 --> 00:49:16,275 Speaker 1: liable for the threat, the ever mounting threat against the 683 00:49:16,355 --> 00:49:19,555 Speaker 1: judges and the district attorneys, and the families and the 684 00:49:19,675 --> 00:49:23,715 Speaker 1: friends and the cops and anybody else who tries to 685 00:49:23,755 --> 00:49:26,635 Speaker 1: thwart Donald Trump or tries to get Donald Trump to 686 00:49:26,875 --> 00:49:31,435 Speaker 1: behave like a human, or just tries to get Trump 687 00:49:31,595 --> 00:49:37,315 Speaker 1: to not light this country ablaze. This cannot continue, Judge Marchan. 688 00:49:37,995 --> 00:49:41,035 Speaker 1: This man will destroy this country, and he will not 689 00:49:41,115 --> 00:49:43,475 Speaker 1: have to do as much as try to rise from 690 00:49:43,515 --> 00:49:46,315 Speaker 1: his chair to do so. It will be done for 691 00:49:46,395 --> 00:49:50,355 Speaker 1: him by proxies and servants and worshipers and the scum 692 00:49:50,475 --> 00:49:53,955 Speaker 1: whom he has enabled to hate and pursue and attack. 693 00:49:54,195 --> 00:49:57,275 Speaker 1: They will have destroyed America before any of us can 694 00:49:57,315 --> 00:50:04,355 Speaker 1: do a goddamn thing about it. But you, judge you, 695 00:50:04,715 --> 00:50:10,195 Speaker 1: and do something about it now, maybe enough to stop 696 00:50:10,235 --> 00:50:15,995 Speaker 1: it now. You told Trump what not to do, and 697 00:50:16,115 --> 00:50:22,555 Speaker 1: he immediately did it again, as he always does it, 698 00:50:22,675 --> 00:50:26,915 Speaker 1: again and again and again on national television, in front 699 00:50:26,915 --> 00:50:30,355 Speaker 1: of crowds, in front of mobs, in front of the 700 00:50:30,475 --> 00:50:35,235 Speaker 1: simple minded, in front of those who dream of killing 701 00:50:35,275 --> 00:50:41,115 Speaker 1: other humans because they would think it was fun. Bring 702 00:50:41,275 --> 00:50:44,635 Speaker 1: Trump back into your courtroom and scream at him for 703 00:50:44,715 --> 00:50:47,355 Speaker 1: thirty minutes, and then have the guards drag him to 704 00:50:47,395 --> 00:50:50,715 Speaker 1: a cell for twenty four hours or forty eight hours, 705 00:50:50,795 --> 00:50:53,395 Speaker 1: or the rest of his goddamned life for all I care, 706 00:50:53,555 --> 00:50:57,595 Speaker 1: because that is the only thing he will ever understand, 707 00:50:58,275 --> 00:51:01,675 Speaker 1: and the only thing that the slime that follow him 708 00:51:01,795 --> 00:51:04,515 Speaker 1: and emulate him, and seek to be the sadest he is. 709 00:51:04,835 --> 00:51:08,355 Speaker 1: That is the only thing they will ever understand. And 710 00:51:08,435 --> 00:51:10,835 Speaker 1: if there had been a shadow of a doubt that 711 00:51:10,875 --> 00:51:16,235 Speaker 1: this was true, it was erased. Last night. Your instructions 712 00:51:16,315 --> 00:51:19,755 Speaker 1: went in one ear and out the other in less 713 00:51:19,835 --> 00:51:27,635 Speaker 1: than six hours. Save this country, Judge Mershon. Donald Trump's 714 00:51:27,715 --> 00:51:31,595 Speaker 1: contempt for you and for the rule of law is 715 00:51:31,635 --> 00:51:34,675 Speaker 1: more than just the technical violation of a warning you 716 00:51:34,715 --> 00:51:38,315 Speaker 1: gave him in court yesterday. It is the essence of 717 00:51:38,395 --> 00:51:44,195 Speaker 1: his being. And Donald Trump's being is sick and evil 718 00:51:44,955 --> 00:51:51,475 Speaker 1: and uncontrollable, and left unpunished, it will destroy everyone and 719 00:51:51,675 --> 00:51:58,035 Speaker 1: everything that is good about this country we call home. 720 00:52:11,035 --> 00:52:12,915 Speaker 1: I've done all the damage I can do here. Thank 721 00:52:12,915 --> 00:52:15,115 Speaker 1: you for listening. Here are the credits. Most of the 722 00:52:15,195 --> 00:52:17,795 Speaker 1: music was arranged, produced and performed by Brian Ray and 723 00:52:17,875 --> 00:52:20,995 Speaker 1: John Philip Channel. They are the Countdown musical directors. All 724 00:52:21,115 --> 00:52:24,435 Speaker 1: orchestration and keyboards by John Philip Schanelle guitars based on 725 00:52:24,515 --> 00:52:29,235 Speaker 1: drums by Brian Ray, produced by Tko Brothers. Other Beethoven 726 00:52:29,275 --> 00:52:31,515 Speaker 1: selections have been arranged and performed by the group. No 727 00:52:31,635 --> 00:52:34,195 Speaker 1: horns allowed when we use it The sports music is 728 00:52:34,235 --> 00:52:37,155 Speaker 1: the Olberman theme from ESPN two and it was written 729 00:52:37,155 --> 00:52:40,955 Speaker 1: by Mitch Warren Davis and it appears courtesy of ESPN Incorporated. 730 00:52:41,435 --> 00:52:44,075 Speaker 1: When we have the musical comments are by Nancy Fauss. 731 00:52:44,115 --> 00:52:47,435 Speaker 1: The best baseball stadium organist ever. Our announcer today was 732 00:52:47,555 --> 00:52:50,515 Speaker 1: Tony Kornheiser, and everything else is pretty much my fault. 733 00:52:50,955 --> 00:52:53,195 Speaker 1: Let's countdown for this the eight hundred and twenty first 734 00:52:53,275 --> 00:52:57,075 Speaker 1: day since the defendants first attempted coup against the democratically 735 00:52:57,115 --> 00:53:00,315 Speaker 1: elected government of the United States. Don't forget to keep 736 00:53:00,475 --> 00:53:04,315 Speaker 1: arresting him while we still can. The next scheduled countdown, 737 00:53:04,315 --> 00:53:06,995 Speaker 1: and will be a full one, is tomorrow, and until then, 738 00:53:07,235 --> 00:53:10,355 Speaker 1: I'm Keith Olverman. Good morning, good afternoon, good night, and 739 00:53:10,955 --> 00:53:20,635 Speaker 1: good luck. Countdown with Keith Olberman is a production of iHeartRadio. 740 00:53:20,955 --> 00:53:26,115 Speaker 1: For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, 741 00:53:26,355 --> 00:53:28,355 Speaker 1: or wherever you get your podcasts.