1 00:00:04,755 --> 00:00:08,995 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of I Heart Radio. 2 00:00:21,795 --> 00:00:25,955 Speaker 1: It is, of course hilarious the twelve days after doing 3 00:00:26,035 --> 00:00:28,755 Speaker 1: his Holier than thou bit about Biden's documents and the 4 00:00:28,795 --> 00:00:34,635 Speaker 1: responsibilities of vice presidents, Mike Pence's attorneys have revealed they 5 00:00:34,675 --> 00:00:38,915 Speaker 1: had found classified documents in his home. It is more 6 00:00:38,955 --> 00:00:43,435 Speaker 1: than hilarious. It is the exact definition of Shakespeare's phrase, 7 00:00:43,635 --> 00:00:48,555 Speaker 1: hoist with his own petard. It is, of course perfection 8 00:00:49,035 --> 00:00:52,275 Speaker 1: that when the President of the United States needed something, anything, 9 00:00:52,715 --> 00:00:56,675 Speaker 1: to short circuit the momentum, slowly turning his trivial document 10 00:00:56,755 --> 00:01:00,595 Speaker 1: case into something the lazy, putting brained American political media 11 00:01:00,675 --> 00:01:03,915 Speaker 1: complex could turn into a both sides its counterpoint to 12 00:01:04,115 --> 00:01:09,875 Speaker 1: Trump's national security and nuclear espionage document case. It was 13 00:01:09,995 --> 00:01:12,595 Speaker 1: handed to Mr Biden on a silver platter by the 14 00:01:12,635 --> 00:01:17,395 Speaker 1: man Trump tried to get hanged on January six, two 15 00:01:17,395 --> 00:01:23,275 Speaker 1: thousand one. It is of course tantalizing to know today 16 00:01:23,275 --> 00:01:26,115 Speaker 1: that the special grand jury sitting at Fulton County, Georgia, 17 00:01:26,595 --> 00:01:31,115 Speaker 1: has recommended multiple indictments in Trump's attempt to fix the 18 00:01:31,795 --> 00:01:34,875 Speaker 1: election results there, and that the district attorney there says 19 00:01:34,915 --> 00:01:39,155 Speaker 1: her decision on whether or not to bring charges is imminent, 20 00:01:40,395 --> 00:01:45,235 Speaker 1: and it is of course great that Scott Rowland has 21 00:01:45,235 --> 00:01:49,155 Speaker 1: been elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. All of 22 00:01:49,195 --> 00:01:52,595 Speaker 1: that is true and juicy, and it is seemingly a 23 00:01:52,635 --> 00:01:54,755 Speaker 1: full meal. And I am going to try to convince 24 00:01:54,755 --> 00:01:58,315 Speaker 1: you now that none of those is the most important 25 00:01:58,355 --> 00:02:03,275 Speaker 1: story today, or this week, or so far this year. 26 00:02:04,435 --> 00:02:06,955 Speaker 1: I want you to forget all of them, and to 27 00:02:07,035 --> 00:02:12,195 Speaker 1: concentrate on three names, three names who seemingly flew past 28 00:02:12,315 --> 00:02:22,315 Speaker 1: us on Monday. Charles McGonagall, Oleg Derri Pasca, and the 29 00:02:22,395 --> 00:02:27,515 Speaker 1: other man, Derrick Posca employed Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort. 30 00:02:27,635 --> 00:02:31,595 Speaker 1: And how at this late day, the three of them, 31 00:02:32,195 --> 00:02:39,035 Speaker 1: especially McGonagall, may yet put Trump in jail forever for 32 00:02:39,195 --> 00:02:43,355 Speaker 1: working with Russian forces to fix the two thousand sixteen 33 00:02:43,395 --> 00:02:46,875 Speaker 1: presidential election. And let us now agree to banish that 34 00:02:46,955 --> 00:02:51,875 Speaker 1: most mealy mouthed of words collusion and use the true 35 00:02:52,035 --> 00:02:59,435 Speaker 1: harsher one conspiracy. To remind you, the Department of Justice 36 00:03:00,035 --> 00:03:06,315 Speaker 1: made arrests Saturday, issued indictments Monday about this extraordinary development 37 00:03:06,435 --> 00:03:10,635 Speaker 1: that Charles McGonagall had gone from investigating Oleg Deri Posca 38 00:03:10,715 --> 00:03:13,435 Speaker 1: for his role in Russian interference in the two thousand 39 00:03:13,435 --> 00:03:17,155 Speaker 1: and sixteen election to secretly and illegally working for OLDG. 40 00:03:17,195 --> 00:03:21,755 Speaker 1: Derrick Posca in two thousand one. These charges could get 41 00:03:21,795 --> 00:03:26,435 Speaker 1: McGonagall seventy five years in prison, yet they barely scratch 42 00:03:26,635 --> 00:03:31,835 Speaker 1: the surface because mcgonagal is at the center of the 43 00:03:31,875 --> 00:03:36,195 Speaker 1: most brazen political criminal act in the history of this nation. 44 00:03:37,475 --> 00:03:42,715 Speaker 1: Charles mcgonaghal is one of the key players, how key 45 00:03:42,915 --> 00:03:46,555 Speaker 1: we do not yet know in the FBI's decision to 46 00:03:46,635 --> 00:03:50,355 Speaker 1: set a match to the Department of Justice. Is pious 47 00:03:50,435 --> 00:03:54,915 Speaker 1: self congratulatory policy still in use, as we know all 48 00:03:54,955 --> 00:03:58,635 Speaker 1: too well today, to never act in any way to 49 00:03:58,835 --> 00:04:05,075 Speaker 1: interfere with an upcoming election. On October four, with two 50 00:04:05,075 --> 00:04:10,875 Speaker 1: thousand sixteen, the FBI issued a press release. FBI Director 51 00:04:10,955 --> 00:04:15,235 Speaker 1: James B. Comey has named Charles mcdonaghal as the Special 52 00:04:15,275 --> 00:04:19,475 Speaker 1: Agent in Charge of the counter Intelligence Division for the 53 00:04:19,555 --> 00:04:24,075 Speaker 1: New York Field Office. Mr mcdonagall entered on duty with 54 00:04:24,155 --> 00:04:27,875 Speaker 1: the FBI in He was first assigned to the New 55 00:04:27,915 --> 00:04:32,555 Speaker 1: York Field Office, where he worked with Russian foreign counter 56 00:04:32,675 --> 00:04:41,235 Speaker 1: intelligence and organized crime matters. On Friday October two thousand sixteen, 57 00:04:41,955 --> 00:04:45,675 Speaker 1: so twenty four days after mcdonagall was appointed and eleven 58 00:04:45,755 --> 00:04:51,475 Speaker 1: days before the presidential election, the FBI interfered with our 59 00:04:51,675 --> 00:04:57,515 Speaker 1: presidential election. Director Comy wrote to four Senators and four Congressmen, 60 00:04:57,555 --> 00:05:01,475 Speaker 1: all committee chairs, all Republicans, that he had now to 61 00:05:01,715 --> 00:05:04,995 Speaker 1: change the conclusion he had testified to that the BI 62 00:05:05,115 --> 00:05:08,795 Speaker 1: had completed its investigation of Hillary Clinton's email server and 63 00:05:08,835 --> 00:05:12,595 Speaker 1: the matter was closed. Quote, the FBI has learned of 64 00:05:12,635 --> 00:05:15,275 Speaker 1: the existence of emails that appear to be pertinent to 65 00:05:15,395 --> 00:05:19,315 Speaker 1: that investigation. I agreed that the FBI should take appropriate 66 00:05:19,355 --> 00:05:24,035 Speaker 1: investigative steps designed to allow investigators to review these emails, 67 00:05:24,355 --> 00:05:28,715 Speaker 1: although the FBI cannot yet assess whether or not this 68 00:05:28,875 --> 00:05:37,795 Speaker 1: material maybe significant, just in case that seeming to reopen 69 00:05:37,875 --> 00:05:43,075 Speaker 1: the trivial Clinton email stories story because of the trivial 70 00:05:43,115 --> 00:05:47,835 Speaker 1: discovery of more trivial emails, giving birth to a million 71 00:05:47,875 --> 00:05:49,875 Speaker 1: headlines like the one that covered half the New York 72 00:05:49,875 --> 00:05:53,915 Speaker 1: Times front page emails in Anthony Weener inquiry joel Hillary 73 00:05:53,955 --> 00:05:58,355 Speaker 1: Clinton's campaign in case that did not complete the FBI's 74 00:05:58,475 --> 00:06:03,275 Speaker 1: goal of throwing the election to Trump. The following Monday, 75 00:06:03,315 --> 00:06:07,235 Speaker 1: October in sixteen came a headline that might have even 76 00:06:07,315 --> 00:06:10,195 Speaker 1: been more egregious, A top of story that had been 77 00:06:10,275 --> 00:06:16,075 Speaker 1: leaked to the New York Times investigating Donald Trump, FBI 78 00:06:16,275 --> 00:06:21,595 Speaker 1: sees no clear link to Russia. It was a sober 79 00:06:21,635 --> 00:06:26,195 Speaker 1: and serious article which was basically there only to justify 80 00:06:26,315 --> 00:06:30,635 Speaker 1: the use of that headline. In it, there was an 81 00:06:30,675 --> 00:06:35,835 Speaker 1: anonymously sourced conclusion about Trump that quote, no evidence has 82 00:06:35,835 --> 00:06:38,075 Speaker 1: emerged that would link him or anyone else in his 83 00:06:38,115 --> 00:06:42,475 Speaker 1: business or political circle directly to Russia's election operations. At 84 00:06:42,555 --> 00:06:46,595 Speaker 1: least one part of the investigation has involved Paul Manafort, 85 00:06:47,275 --> 00:06:49,635 Speaker 1: but the focus in that case was on Mr Manaforts 86 00:06:49,715 --> 00:06:55,875 Speaker 1: ties with a kleptocratic government in Ukraine. Thus, in the 87 00:06:55,915 --> 00:07:00,355 Speaker 1: span of four days, the FBI smeared Hillary Clinton a 88 00:07:00,475 --> 00:07:04,235 Speaker 1: new because the previous smear had not done the job, 89 00:07:05,195 --> 00:07:10,395 Speaker 1: and then it ostensibly cleared Donald Trump, and it insisted 90 00:07:10,475 --> 00:07:15,955 Speaker 1: Paul Manafort was not involved in the Russian conspiracy. And 91 00:07:16,035 --> 00:07:18,715 Speaker 1: Director Comy acted on the record in one case and 92 00:07:18,755 --> 00:07:23,915 Speaker 1: by anonymous innuendo in the second, because as testimony after 93 00:07:23,915 --> 00:07:27,435 Speaker 1: testimony from witness after witness showed, Comey was afraid if 94 00:07:27,515 --> 00:07:31,595 Speaker 1: he did not act, somebody in the FBI New York 95 00:07:31,715 --> 00:07:36,035 Speaker 1: Field office would leak the same story about Clinton and 96 00:07:36,075 --> 00:07:40,675 Speaker 1: the Wiener laptop. Anyway, and probably an even more garish 97 00:07:40,675 --> 00:07:47,755 Speaker 1: and blood curdling ways. I will spare you the countless 98 00:07:47,875 --> 00:07:50,275 Speaker 1: on the record evidence, all of it lining up, all 99 00:07:50,315 --> 00:07:52,355 Speaker 1: of it running from the most liberal sources to the 100 00:07:52,435 --> 00:07:56,435 Speaker 1: most conservative ones. But on that same day, October two 101 00:07:56,475 --> 00:08:00,955 Speaker 1: thousand and sixteen, after the Time story whitewashing, covering up, 102 00:08:01,995 --> 00:08:06,835 Speaker 1: colluding with Trump's involvement in the Russia conspiracy, Attorney General 103 00:08:06,875 --> 00:08:10,035 Speaker 1: Loretta Lynch met in private with James Comey, and, as 104 00:08:10,115 --> 00:08:13,435 Speaker 1: Lynch later phrased it in her testimony, quote, We've got 105 00:08:13,475 --> 00:08:15,995 Speaker 1: to talk about the New York Office in general. And 106 00:08:16,075 --> 00:08:18,835 Speaker 1: he said yes. And I said, we both worked with them, 107 00:08:19,035 --> 00:08:21,515 Speaker 1: we both know them, we both, you know, think highly 108 00:08:21,555 --> 00:08:24,715 Speaker 1: of them. I said, but this has become a problem. 109 00:08:24,755 --> 00:08:27,715 Speaker 1: And he said, he said to me that had become 110 00:08:27,755 --> 00:08:29,915 Speaker 1: clear to him. He didn't say, over the course of 111 00:08:29,915 --> 00:08:32,435 Speaker 1: what investigation or whatever. He said, it's clear to me 112 00:08:32,475 --> 00:08:35,635 Speaker 1: that there is a cadre of senior people in New 113 00:08:35,715 --> 00:08:40,995 Speaker 1: York who have a deep and visceral hatred of Secretary Clinton. 114 00:08:41,595 --> 00:08:44,675 Speaker 1: And he said, it is, it is deep. It's and 115 00:08:44,715 --> 00:08:47,675 Speaker 1: he said, he said it was surprising to him, or 116 00:08:47,915 --> 00:08:53,315 Speaker 1: or stunning to him, a cadre of senior people in 117 00:08:53,395 --> 00:08:57,075 Speaker 1: New York who have a deep and visceral hatred of 118 00:08:57,155 --> 00:09:02,035 Speaker 1: Secretary Clinton and the senior people in the FBI Field 119 00:09:02,075 --> 00:09:06,715 Speaker 1: Office in New York included work, perhaps led by the 120 00:09:06,755 --> 00:09:09,435 Speaker 1: brand new head of the counter Intelligence Division in the 121 00:09:09,435 --> 00:09:14,595 Speaker 1: New York Field Office, the old hand on Russia, the 122 00:09:14,755 --> 00:09:18,755 Speaker 1: expert running the entireties of the FBI's investigation of Trump 123 00:09:18,755 --> 00:09:25,915 Speaker 1: and Russia, Charles McGonagall, the defendant who within five years 124 00:09:26,355 --> 00:09:29,435 Speaker 1: would be working for one of the Russians at the 125 00:09:29,515 --> 00:09:32,955 Speaker 1: Russian end of the two thousand sixteen presidential election conspiracy, 126 00:09:33,035 --> 00:09:35,275 Speaker 1: who is today facing seventy five years in jail for 127 00:09:35,355 --> 00:09:38,115 Speaker 1: his own conspiracy with the Russian with a Russian oligarch, 128 00:09:38,475 --> 00:09:41,795 Speaker 1: with the Russian oligarch putent ally, with the man who 129 00:09:41,835 --> 00:09:45,275 Speaker 1: paid Trump's campaign manager millions, the one who just happened 130 00:09:45,275 --> 00:09:47,555 Speaker 1: to work for free, who just happened to be so 131 00:09:47,635 --> 00:09:50,515 Speaker 1: convinced of the necessity of a Trump presidency that actor 132 00:09:50,595 --> 00:09:54,515 Speaker 1: Trump lost at the Iowa Republican caucuses. On February first, 133 00:09:54,555 --> 00:09:57,275 Speaker 1: two thousand sixteen, this man went to one of his 134 00:09:57,395 --> 00:09:59,995 Speaker 1: oldest friends, who was also a friend of Trump, and 135 00:10:00,035 --> 00:10:02,955 Speaker 1: shouted at him, I've got to get to Trump. I've 136 00:10:02,995 --> 00:10:11,315 Speaker 1: got to get to him. Paul Manafort. The Trump Russia conspiracy, 137 00:10:11,435 --> 00:10:13,995 Speaker 1: which six and a half years ago we were naively 138 00:10:14,115 --> 00:10:20,315 Speaker 1: minimizing by calling it collusion, was not only true, is 139 00:10:20,395 --> 00:10:23,515 Speaker 1: not only true, but we can now be certain it 140 00:10:23,675 --> 00:10:29,235 Speaker 1: constituted Donald Trump's real first attempted coup against the democratically 141 00:10:29,235 --> 00:10:32,395 Speaker 1: elected government of the United States, and we can also 142 00:10:32,435 --> 00:10:38,675 Speaker 1: conclude it worked. We need to look at these men McGonagall, 143 00:10:38,835 --> 00:10:42,515 Speaker 1: der Pasca, and Manafort, which I will do throughout the 144 00:10:42,555 --> 00:10:46,075 Speaker 1: rest of this edition of Countdown. I've got to get 145 00:10:46,115 --> 00:10:56,195 Speaker 1: to Trump after this of McGonagall, Derrick Fosca, and Manafort, 146 00:10:56,275 --> 00:11:00,475 Speaker 1: Part two. Constant listeners may remember I did two video 147 00:11:00,595 --> 00:11:03,515 Speaker 1: series for GQ magazine in two thousand sixteen and two 148 00:11:03,595 --> 00:11:09,595 Speaker 1: thousand seventeen, The unfortunately and ultimately inaccurately named The Closer 149 00:11:10,315 --> 00:11:14,395 Speaker 1: and The More Close to the Mark The Resistance. These 150 00:11:14,395 --> 00:11:17,115 Speaker 1: two series constituted an effort to fight back in real 151 00:11:17,155 --> 00:11:20,715 Speaker 1: time against what is ever more clear. Much of the 152 00:11:20,715 --> 00:11:23,035 Speaker 1: rest of this podcast will be drawn from things reported 153 00:11:23,075 --> 00:11:26,435 Speaker 1: in those series. They were true then, somehow they seemed truer. 154 00:11:26,555 --> 00:11:29,595 Speaker 1: Now the station was not only the victim of an 155 00:11:29,595 --> 00:11:32,035 Speaker 1: attack on its form of government by a foreign power. 156 00:11:32,915 --> 00:11:35,795 Speaker 1: But the attack was a conspiracy, and it had two axes, 157 00:11:36,395 --> 00:11:39,875 Speaker 1: one in the Kremlin in Moscow and one in the 158 00:11:39,915 --> 00:11:43,875 Speaker 1: other kremlin in Trump Tower in New York City. And 159 00:11:44,075 --> 00:11:47,795 Speaker 1: covering both the attack and the conspiracy was this vast 160 00:11:48,235 --> 00:11:54,235 Speaker 1: shifting billowing poisoned fog, probably the greatest example of gas 161 00:11:54,355 --> 00:11:59,315 Speaker 1: lighting in this nation's history. And Paul Manifort, like the 162 00:11:59,395 --> 00:12:04,155 Speaker 1: just indicted Charles mcdonagall, worked for all derri Posca. Paul 163 00:12:04,235 --> 00:12:10,595 Speaker 1: manifest Rich was at its core. Quote Shortly after Trump 164 00:12:10,635 --> 00:12:13,555 Speaker 1: lost the Iowa Caucuses, the Washington Post wrote about the 165 00:12:13,835 --> 00:12:18,235 Speaker 1: supposed Trump whisperer, billionaire Tom Barrack. He reconnected with his 166 00:12:18,275 --> 00:12:22,195 Speaker 1: old friend Manafort, a longtime Republican consultant. I really need 167 00:12:22,195 --> 00:12:25,835 Speaker 1: to get to Trump, Manafort said. According to Barrack, he 168 00:12:25,915 --> 00:12:29,275 Speaker 1: told Barrack he wanted to work as Trump's convention manager, 169 00:12:29,715 --> 00:12:33,275 Speaker 1: helping him navigate what they expected would be a contentious affair. 170 00:12:34,235 --> 00:12:41,315 Speaker 1: I really need to get to Trump. Whyever would Paul 171 00:12:41,315 --> 00:12:46,115 Speaker 1: Manafort have put it that way? Get to whyever would 172 00:12:46,115 --> 00:12:48,955 Speaker 1: Paul Manafort tell a friend of forty years he knew 173 00:12:48,955 --> 00:12:52,395 Speaker 1: this man Barrack forty years, that he had to get 174 00:12:52,635 --> 00:12:58,115 Speaker 1: to Trump, whatever the reason, it worked. He would convince 175 00:12:58,155 --> 00:13:01,475 Speaker 1: Barrack to send Trump and to send to Ivanka Trump 176 00:13:01,755 --> 00:13:05,635 Speaker 1: emails encouraging them to let Manafort get to Donald Trump. 177 00:13:05,715 --> 00:13:07,435 Speaker 1: And the next thing you knew, Maniport was high in 178 00:13:07,435 --> 00:13:10,875 Speaker 1: the Trump campaign and attending the Trump Junior meeting with 179 00:13:10,955 --> 00:13:14,355 Speaker 1: the Russian lawyer Natalia vessel Neetskaya, and then he was 180 00:13:14,435 --> 00:13:17,515 Speaker 1: chairman of the campaign, and all of it for free. 181 00:13:18,835 --> 00:13:22,475 Speaker 1: Why I think we got the answer in a report 182 00:13:22,555 --> 00:13:27,595 Speaker 1: by NBC News from October fifteenth, two thousand seventeen, quote, 183 00:13:28,755 --> 00:13:32,155 Speaker 1: Paul Manafort has much stronger financial ties to a Russian 184 00:13:32,195 --> 00:13:36,355 Speaker 1: oligarch than have been previously reported. An NBC News investigation 185 00:13:36,435 --> 00:13:39,675 Speaker 1: reveals that twenty six million dollars changed hands in the 186 00:13:39,715 --> 00:13:43,275 Speaker 1: form of a loan between a company linked to Manifort 187 00:13:43,835 --> 00:13:49,395 Speaker 1: and the oligarch oleg Deri Posca oleg Derri Pasca, a 188 00:13:49,435 --> 00:13:53,035 Speaker 1: billionaire with close ties to the Kremlin. The loan brings 189 00:13:53,035 --> 00:13:55,795 Speaker 1: the total of their known business dealings to around sixty 190 00:13:55,835 --> 00:14:00,675 Speaker 1: million over the past decade, according to financial documents filed 191 00:14:00,675 --> 00:14:05,115 Speaker 1: in Cyprus and the Cayman Islands. Why did an afford 192 00:14:05,195 --> 00:14:07,635 Speaker 1: really need to get to Trump? Well, there are sixty 193 00:14:07,675 --> 00:14:13,875 Speaker 1: million reasons right there. It is an old analogy. If 194 00:14:13,915 --> 00:14:16,435 Speaker 1: you are outside in a thunderstorm at night, when the 195 00:14:16,515 --> 00:14:18,795 Speaker 1: lightning flashes for a second or two, you get a 196 00:14:18,835 --> 00:14:22,115 Speaker 1: picture of the landscape so vivid, so illuminated that you 197 00:14:22,155 --> 00:14:25,835 Speaker 1: can almost see everything in too much detail, and then 198 00:14:26,435 --> 00:14:30,155 Speaker 1: until the next thunderstorm, it is pitch black again. The 199 00:14:30,195 --> 00:14:34,155 Speaker 1: Trump Russia conspiracy is a lot like that. Even before 200 00:14:34,275 --> 00:14:38,115 Speaker 1: the two thousand sixteen election, we got flashes of insight 201 00:14:38,595 --> 00:14:42,235 Speaker 1: with never enough exposure to truly see them for what 202 00:14:42,275 --> 00:14:46,075 Speaker 1: they really are, and then for an unpredictable length of 203 00:14:46,115 --> 00:14:49,755 Speaker 1: time there was just darkness. And one of the things 204 00:14:49,795 --> 00:14:52,515 Speaker 1: we have presumably seen but not been able to process, 205 00:14:52,955 --> 00:14:56,435 Speaker 1: is evidence of why the people around Trump allegedly sold 206 00:14:56,475 --> 00:14:59,915 Speaker 1: this country out to the Russians, not why he would 207 00:14:59,955 --> 00:15:02,515 Speaker 1: have done it. You've seen him now for eight years, 208 00:15:02,515 --> 00:15:04,275 Speaker 1: and you and I both know he would do anything 209 00:15:04,275 --> 00:15:09,315 Speaker 1: for hour, or for spite or for applause. But why 210 00:15:09,395 --> 00:15:14,115 Speaker 1: would the people around him do it. According to the 211 00:15:14,155 --> 00:15:17,995 Speaker 1: Cyprian financial documents, the twenty six million dollars went from 212 00:15:17,995 --> 00:15:20,955 Speaker 1: a company owned by the Russian oligarch directly to a 213 00:15:21,035 --> 00:15:25,075 Speaker 1: firm connected to Manafort and Derrick Faska's company issued a 214 00:15:25,235 --> 00:15:29,315 Speaker 1: seven million dollar unsecured loan to another Cypress firm connected 215 00:15:29,355 --> 00:15:32,035 Speaker 1: to Manaford, and the two Cypress companies that got the 216 00:15:32,035 --> 00:15:35,475 Speaker 1: total of thirty three million from the Russian They in 217 00:15:35,515 --> 00:15:38,435 Speaker 1: turn loan twenty seven million to a corporation in Delaware 218 00:15:38,955 --> 00:15:42,395 Speaker 1: that NBC also reported was linked to Manafort. It's called 219 00:15:43,155 --> 00:15:48,635 Speaker 1: jess and L l C. Jess And Manafort has two daughters, 220 00:15:48,715 --> 00:15:56,555 Speaker 1: Jessica and Andrea jess And so actually those sixty million 221 00:15:56,555 --> 00:15:59,315 Speaker 1: reasons Paul Manaford had might be more like eighty five 222 00:15:59,435 --> 00:16:03,995 Speaker 1: or eighty six million. The October two thousand seventeen NBC 223 00:16:04,115 --> 00:16:07,515 Speaker 1: pieces full of references to money laundering, and the Special 224 00:16:07,555 --> 00:16:11,435 Speaker 1: Council Mr Muller not only got warrants to search Manafort's home, 225 00:16:11,435 --> 00:16:14,195 Speaker 1: he got no knock warrants that basically permitted the FBI 226 00:16:14,235 --> 00:16:17,515 Speaker 1: to breakdown Manaforts door, because there was reason to believe 227 00:16:17,555 --> 00:16:20,795 Speaker 1: that if they knocked Manafort might try to destroy the evidence. 228 00:16:22,075 --> 00:16:29,875 Speaker 1: I really need to get to Trump. Almost as interesting 229 00:16:29,955 --> 00:16:33,635 Speaker 1: as these dangerously high sums of Russian money, Manafort was 230 00:16:33,715 --> 00:16:41,355 Speaker 1: reportedly receiving handling laundering before. He just had to get 231 00:16:41,355 --> 00:16:46,515 Speaker 1: to Trump and become his campaign chairman for free. Was 232 00:16:46,555 --> 00:16:50,955 Speaker 1: the reaction to the NBC story by manaforts spokesman actually 233 00:16:51,075 --> 00:16:54,235 Speaker 1: make that reac shuns. There were two different reactions to 234 00:16:54,315 --> 00:16:58,115 Speaker 1: the NBC story. Quote Jason Maloney declined to give specific 235 00:16:58,115 --> 00:17:00,875 Speaker 1: answers about the loans, but released a statement to NBC 236 00:17:00,995 --> 00:17:04,035 Speaker 1: News saying, in part, Mr. Manafort is not indebted to 237 00:17:04,115 --> 00:17:06,915 Speaker 1: former class today, nor was he at the time he 238 00:17:06,955 --> 00:17:11,075 Speaker 1: began working for the Trump campaign, a clear and robust denial, 239 00:17:11,275 --> 00:17:17,715 Speaker 1: except again quoting NBC's coverage. Manafort's spokesman, Maloney quote later 240 00:17:17,755 --> 00:17:24,075 Speaker 1: revised that statement, removing that sentence entirely. Maloney's second response 241 00:17:24,155 --> 00:17:27,035 Speaker 1: to the story of the sixty million reasons is not 242 00:17:27,155 --> 00:17:31,435 Speaker 1: about debt or clients or when Manafort began working for Trump. 243 00:17:31,515 --> 00:17:35,995 Speaker 1: It's merely about how poor Manafort was under surveillance and 244 00:17:36,155 --> 00:17:40,235 Speaker 1: wild conspiracy theories, and he never colluded with the Russian government, 245 00:17:40,315 --> 00:17:45,155 Speaker 1: and absolutely nothing questioning any of the reporting, the reporting 246 00:17:45,155 --> 00:17:48,195 Speaker 1: that Manafort was up to his eyeballs in sixty million 247 00:17:48,195 --> 00:17:52,955 Speaker 1: dollars in Russian money and somehow financially obligated to former 248 00:17:53,035 --> 00:17:57,675 Speaker 1: clients when he just had to get to Trump to 249 00:17:57,795 --> 00:18:05,115 Speaker 1: work as his campaign manager. For free can current with 250 00:18:05,155 --> 00:18:08,355 Speaker 1: all that, the House Intelligence Committee was reportedly investigating and 251 00:18:08,395 --> 00:18:12,035 Speaker 1: receiving documents from the company Cambridge Analytica, owned in part 252 00:18:12,075 --> 00:18:15,555 Speaker 1: at times by Steve Bannon and the right wing billionaire 253 00:18:15,555 --> 00:18:19,795 Speaker 1: and Trump supporter Robert Mercer, and the investigation it was 254 00:18:19,835 --> 00:18:22,475 Speaker 1: about the company's possible role in the use of micro 255 00:18:22,595 --> 00:18:27,155 Speaker 1: targeted Facebook ads and propaganda during the campaign, ads paid 256 00:18:27,195 --> 00:18:31,755 Speaker 1: for by branches of the Russian government, and the analysts 257 00:18:31,755 --> 00:18:35,075 Speaker 1: at Oxford University in England reported that they had discovered 258 00:18:35,315 --> 00:18:39,475 Speaker 1: there was a quote entire ecosystem of that pro Trump 259 00:18:39,515 --> 00:18:44,235 Speaker 1: propaganda on Facebook and Twitter which was micro targeted specifically 260 00:18:44,715 --> 00:18:51,195 Speaker 1: at current and former US military personnel. I really need 261 00:18:51,235 --> 00:18:56,395 Speaker 1: to get the Trump. This is I think where a 262 00:18:56,515 --> 00:18:59,715 Speaker 1: timeline of events of two thousand sixteen and two thousand 263 00:18:59,715 --> 00:19:03,515 Speaker 1: seventeen and now beyond might be very, very helpful. We 264 00:19:03,635 --> 00:19:08,315 Speaker 1: all absorbed these things in real time as they happened, 265 00:19:08,315 --> 00:19:11,875 Speaker 1: as one might absorb getting hit by a different car 266 00:19:11,955 --> 00:19:16,235 Speaker 1: every day. In the moment it just hurts. From the distance, 267 00:19:16,595 --> 00:19:18,915 Speaker 1: you can now see that the different cars all had 268 00:19:18,955 --> 00:19:24,355 Speaker 1: the same couple of drivers. Let's begin with Manafort, like McGonagall, 269 00:19:24,635 --> 00:19:29,635 Speaker 1: the Derrick Pasca employee, the other Derrick Pasca employee. Right 270 00:19:29,675 --> 00:19:32,275 Speaker 1: after the Iowa caucus is Trump lost. So this is 271 00:19:32,355 --> 00:19:35,275 Speaker 1: February two or three or four, two thousand sixteen, when 272 00:19:35,315 --> 00:19:38,355 Speaker 1: he tells Tom Barrack, I really need to get to Trump. 273 00:19:38,995 --> 00:19:42,395 Speaker 1: March two thousand sixteen, Trump names a new campaign coordinator 274 00:19:42,395 --> 00:19:46,915 Speaker 1: in charge of getting delegate pledges. His name is Paul Manafort. 275 00:19:47,875 --> 00:19:52,035 Speaker 1: April two thousand sixteen, the Russian ambassador to this country, 276 00:19:52,035 --> 00:19:57,435 Speaker 1: Sergey kiss Leak, attempts Trump's first major foreign policy speech 277 00:19:57,835 --> 00:20:02,355 Speaker 1: at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington. Trump and kiss Leak meet, 278 00:20:02,395 --> 00:20:06,715 Speaker 1: perhaps briefly, perhaps privately. Jeff Sessions will later say he 279 00:20:06,755 --> 00:20:09,435 Speaker 1: does not recall meeting kiss Leyak at all, but we 280 00:20:09,555 --> 00:20:12,035 Speaker 1: later learned kiss Leach told the Kremlin he in Sessions 281 00:20:12,115 --> 00:20:16,595 Speaker 1: quote discussed campaign related matters, including policy issues important to Moscow. 282 00:20:18,435 --> 00:20:21,795 Speaker 1: June third, two thousand sixteen, per his own email chain, 283 00:20:21,915 --> 00:20:24,275 Speaker 1: Trump Junior is offered a meeting at which he will 284 00:20:24,315 --> 00:20:27,395 Speaker 1: be given quote very high level and sensitive information that 285 00:20:27,395 --> 00:20:30,835 Speaker 1: would incriminate Hillary as part of Russia and its government 286 00:20:30,955 --> 00:20:36,115 Speaker 1: support for Mr. Trump. June seven, thousand sixteen, Trump Junior 287 00:20:36,195 --> 00:20:41,035 Speaker 1: confirms that meeting, and three hours later, Trump himself promises 288 00:20:41,075 --> 00:20:46,955 Speaker 1: a speech the following week about Hillary Clinton's quote corrupt 289 00:20:47,195 --> 00:20:55,675 Speaker 1: dealings with the Russians. June nine, sixteen, Trump Junior and 290 00:20:55,835 --> 00:21:01,195 Speaker 1: Manifort and Kushner meet with the Russians inside Trump Tower, 291 00:21:01,955 --> 00:21:05,675 Speaker 1: and ten to twenty minutes after the meeting end, Trump 292 00:21:05,915 --> 00:21:11,155 Speaker 1: tweets disparagingly about Clinton's emails, and for the first time 293 00:21:11,235 --> 00:21:18,235 Speaker 1: he uses the number thirty three thousand emails. June fifteenth, 294 00:21:18,315 --> 00:21:21,235 Speaker 1: two thousand sixteen, the hacker goose Afer two point oh 295 00:21:21,995 --> 00:21:25,315 Speaker 1: posts documents hacked from the computers of the Democratic National Committee. 296 00:21:25,395 --> 00:21:29,075 Speaker 1: June two thousand sixteen, Trump fires his first campaign manager, 297 00:21:29,235 --> 00:21:34,315 Speaker 1: krey Lewandowski. His replacement is given hiring decisions, advertising decisions, 298 00:21:34,315 --> 00:21:37,115 Speaker 1: control over media strategy, and a budget that was increased 299 00:21:37,155 --> 00:21:40,115 Speaker 1: by twenty million dollars, but none for him because he's 300 00:21:40,155 --> 00:21:46,675 Speaker 1: gonna work for free. Paul Manaford. July seven, two thousand sixteen, 301 00:21:47,195 --> 00:21:50,795 Speaker 1: the Trump national security advisor Carter Page travels to Moscow, 302 00:21:51,155 --> 00:21:53,995 Speaker 1: ostensibly to give a speech to a Russian economics institute 303 00:21:54,315 --> 00:21:58,955 Speaker 1: broadly criticizing US foreign policy. He will later be investigated 304 00:21:58,955 --> 00:22:01,155 Speaker 1: on an accusation of meeting with the Russian leader in 305 00:22:01,235 --> 00:22:07,035 Speaker 1: charge of monitoring and meddling with the American election. July eighteenth, 306 00:22:07,115 --> 00:22:10,755 Speaker 1: two thousand sixteen, during the Republican Convention, Ambassador kiss Leak 307 00:22:10,835 --> 00:22:16,755 Speaker 1: meets with Carter Page and Jeff Sessions, and in a report, 308 00:22:16,835 --> 00:22:20,635 Speaker 1: kiss Leak informed quote his superiors in Moscow who were 309 00:22:20,675 --> 00:22:28,835 Speaker 1: eager for updates about the candidates positions. July two thousand sixteen, 310 00:22:28,995 --> 00:22:31,875 Speaker 1: at what would prove to be the last news conference 311 00:22:31,915 --> 00:22:37,355 Speaker 1: of his campaign, Donald Trump urges Russia to find Clinton's 312 00:22:37,435 --> 00:22:44,195 Speaker 1: emails if you're listening. September eight, two thousand sixteen, Jeff 313 00:22:44,235 --> 00:22:49,595 Speaker 1: Sessions meets with Ambassador kiss Leak in sessions own Senate office. 314 00:22:50,875 --> 00:22:54,395 Speaker 1: Even later, intelligence sources will not reveal what, if anything, 315 00:22:54,395 --> 00:22:56,755 Speaker 1: they have learned of kiss Leak's message to the Kremlin 316 00:22:57,035 --> 00:23:02,235 Speaker 1: about this. His third separate meeting with Sessions October four, 317 00:23:02,275 --> 00:23:04,955 Speaker 1: two thousand sixteen, FBI Director Comy makes it raange in 318 00:23:04,955 --> 00:23:07,515 Speaker 1: the New York FBI office, which he fears might be 319 00:23:07,595 --> 00:23:10,195 Speaker 1: about to go rogue. He names a new head of 320 00:23:10,235 --> 00:23:14,315 Speaker 1: the investigation into Trump and Russia. Man's name is Charles mcdonagall. 321 00:23:16,555 --> 00:23:20,475 Speaker 1: October seven, two thousand sixteen. Having repeatedly boasted of contact 322 00:23:20,475 --> 00:23:24,115 Speaker 1: with Goose, offer two point oh and Julian Assange, and 323 00:23:24,155 --> 00:23:27,355 Speaker 1: then tweeted about Clinton's campaign chairman. It will soon be 324 00:23:27,555 --> 00:23:34,715 Speaker 1: John Podesta's time in the barrel and Assange and payroll coming. 325 00:23:36,675 --> 00:23:40,835 Speaker 1: Roger Stone watches as Wiki Leaks begins to publish twenty 326 00:23:40,995 --> 00:23:47,475 Speaker 1: thousand pages of emails stolen out of Podesta's computer. October 327 00:23:47,515 --> 00:23:50,795 Speaker 1: two thousand sixteen, Comey of the FBI reveals the Anthony 328 00:23:50,835 --> 00:23:56,675 Speaker 1: Weiner laptop laptops again where we heard of laptops recently. 329 00:23:57,595 --> 00:24:01,275 Speaker 1: Republicans immediately announced the FBI has reopened the Hillary Clinton 330 00:24:01,355 --> 00:24:04,555 Speaker 1: emails case, which he actually did not do, but might 331 00:24:04,675 --> 00:24:08,075 Speaker 1: as well have. And he did all this because he 332 00:24:08,155 --> 00:24:10,235 Speaker 1: feared if he did not, senior agents in New York 333 00:24:10,315 --> 00:24:12,555 Speaker 1: would do it. Among the senior agents in the New 334 00:24:12,635 --> 00:24:19,675 Speaker 1: York field offices, Charles McDonald. October two thousand sixteen. Anonymous 335 00:24:20,555 --> 00:24:24,155 Speaker 1: FBI sources tell The New York Times a week in 336 00:24:24,195 --> 00:24:26,155 Speaker 1: two days before the election that they have an essence 337 00:24:26,195 --> 00:24:29,315 Speaker 1: cleared Trump in the Russia case. Oh and cleared Mantifort too. 338 00:24:30,435 --> 00:24:33,635 Speaker 1: December one or second, two thousand sixteen, kiss Yat goes 339 00:24:33,635 --> 00:24:37,435 Speaker 1: to Trump Tower, meets with Kushner and the incoming National 340 00:24:37,475 --> 00:24:41,635 Speaker 1: Security advisor Michael Flynn and Jared Kushner proposes using Russian 341 00:24:41,675 --> 00:24:48,115 Speaker 1: embassies or consulates or other Russian intelligence controlled communications systems 342 00:24:48,395 --> 00:24:52,515 Speaker 1: to allow Michael Flynn of the Trump transition team to 343 00:24:52,755 --> 00:24:57,675 Speaker 1: talk directly to people in Moscow without Americans knowing about it. 344 00:24:59,675 --> 00:25:04,075 Speaker 1: January tenth, two thousand seventeen, at his confirmation hearing, Sessions 345 00:25:04,075 --> 00:25:07,235 Speaker 1: testify under oath before the Senate quote, I didn't have 346 00:25:07,915 --> 00:25:15,075 Speaker 1: did not have communications with the Russians. May two thousand seventeen, 347 00:25:15,075 --> 00:25:19,155 Speaker 1: Trump reveals classified intelligence later reported to be specifics of 348 00:25:19,275 --> 00:25:23,275 Speaker 1: Israel's penetration of ISIS, to the Russian foreigns and Minister 349 00:25:23,435 --> 00:25:27,395 Speaker 1: Lavrov in the Oval Office, with no Americans present, only 350 00:25:27,955 --> 00:25:33,795 Speaker 1: Ambassador kiss Leak and a Russian photographer. June two thousand seventeen, 351 00:25:33,995 --> 00:25:36,795 Speaker 1: Sessions testifies to the Senate and again denies that he 352 00:25:36,835 --> 00:25:39,635 Speaker 1: ever met with kiss Leak at the Mayflower Hotel. Says 353 00:25:39,675 --> 00:25:44,475 Speaker 1: he doesn't even remember any brief interaction with him. July seven, 354 00:25:44,555 --> 00:25:48,675 Speaker 1: two thousand seventeen, Trump meets Vladimir Putin with no other 355 00:25:48,715 --> 00:25:55,835 Speaker 1: Americans present, again for a private meeting, again initially undisclosed 356 00:25:55,875 --> 00:25:59,915 Speaker 1: to anyone. At the G twenty summit in Germany. July 357 00:26:00,435 --> 00:26:03,875 Speaker 1: two thousand seventeen, Trump Junior issues a statement claiming his 358 00:26:04,035 --> 00:26:09,915 Speaker 1: Russian eating at Trump Tower was actually about adoptions. It 359 00:26:10,075 --> 00:26:12,835 Speaker 1: is later reported the statement denying it was about anything 360 00:26:12,875 --> 00:26:15,715 Speaker 1: else was dictated by Trumps Senior while he was a 361 00:26:15,715 --> 00:26:21,035 Speaker 1: board Air Force one, two thousand eighteen, exact date unknown. 362 00:26:21,155 --> 00:26:25,675 Speaker 1: Charles mcdonagall retires from the FBI. February fourteenth, two thousand nineteen, 363 00:26:25,715 --> 00:26:28,555 Speaker 1: Trump names William Barr as his new attorney general. Three 364 00:26:28,595 --> 00:26:32,755 Speaker 1: Democrats vote to confirm Bar, two of them Joe Manson 365 00:26:32,835 --> 00:26:37,595 Speaker 1: and Kirsten Cinema. April eighteenth, two thousand nineteen, Attorney General 366 00:26:37,715 --> 00:26:41,795 Speaker 1: Bar announces the conclusion of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation 367 00:26:41,835 --> 00:26:45,275 Speaker 1: into Russian interference in the two thousand sixteen election. He 368 00:26:45,395 --> 00:26:49,955 Speaker 1: utterly mischaracterizes Muller's findings and says no Americans colluded with 369 00:26:49,995 --> 00:26:53,995 Speaker 1: the Russians. Trump immediately declares he has been utterly cleared 370 00:26:54,115 --> 00:27:00,475 Speaker 1: and found innocence. At an unspecified dating one, Charles mcdonagall 371 00:27:00,515 --> 00:27:05,035 Speaker 1: begins to work surreptitiously and illegally four Oleg derrif osca 372 00:27:05,955 --> 00:27:10,355 Speaker 1: of the sixty million to Paul Manafort. Derrick Posca's at 373 00:27:10,435 --> 00:27:18,675 Speaker 1: least that's what's in the charge sheet. In January, Charles 374 00:27:18,755 --> 00:27:21,715 Speaker 1: mcdonagall is arrested by the very FBI for which he 375 00:27:21,795 --> 00:27:31,075 Speaker 1: once worked for his collusion with Derri Pasca. I'll conclude 376 00:27:31,075 --> 00:27:33,035 Speaker 1: this special edition next with something I wrote the morning 377 00:27:33,075 --> 00:27:43,635 Speaker 1: after Trump's election of McGonagall, Derrick Pasca, and Manafort Part three. 378 00:27:44,155 --> 00:27:46,435 Speaker 1: Forgive me if you've heard this final part before. I 379 00:27:46,475 --> 00:27:49,595 Speaker 1: wrote it as the million threads of grim news gathered 380 00:27:49,635 --> 00:27:51,715 Speaker 1: together in front of all of us on election night, 381 00:27:51,755 --> 00:27:55,875 Speaker 1: November eight, two thousand sixteen, the moment of the proverbial 382 00:27:56,075 --> 00:28:00,715 Speaker 1: sum of all fears. I think, with the arrest of 383 00:28:00,715 --> 00:28:03,475 Speaker 1: a man now linked to the Russian oleg Derri Pasca, 384 00:28:03,955 --> 00:28:06,235 Speaker 1: in an allegation of crime serious enough to send him 385 00:28:06,275 --> 00:28:09,355 Speaker 1: to jail for decades and linked to the FBI, is 386 00:28:09,395 --> 00:28:12,755 Speaker 1: tampering with the election, first by falsely re smearing Hillary 387 00:28:12,755 --> 00:28:15,915 Speaker 1: Clinton eleven days before that election, and then falsely clearing 388 00:28:15,955 --> 00:28:19,115 Speaker 1: Donald Trump three days later. I think this is best 389 00:28:19,115 --> 00:28:25,875 Speaker 1: heard virtually intact, with minor changes only made only for 390 00:28:25,915 --> 00:28:29,555 Speaker 1: the sake of clarity and tents. This is the script 391 00:28:29,595 --> 00:28:33,035 Speaker 1: of the final edition of my first g Q video series, 392 00:28:33,075 --> 00:28:37,635 Speaker 1: The Closer, I recorded it first, literally just after sunrise 393 00:28:38,155 --> 00:28:41,235 Speaker 1: on the grim morning of Wednesday, November nine, two thousand sixteen. 394 00:28:43,315 --> 00:28:45,755 Speaker 1: I'd like to begin by congratulating the FBI on its 395 00:28:45,755 --> 00:28:48,635 Speaker 1: successful coup against the electoral process of the United States 396 00:28:48,675 --> 00:28:50,715 Speaker 1: of America. You've been working on one of these for 397 00:28:50,755 --> 00:28:53,435 Speaker 1: a while, boys, and I know everybody at the bureaus 398 00:28:53,475 --> 00:28:58,515 Speaker 1: just delighted that the F canal also stand for fascist. Also, 399 00:28:58,995 --> 00:29:01,275 Speaker 1: let us acknowledge something a little larger and a little 400 00:29:01,355 --> 00:29:08,635 Speaker 1: less removed from trees and its mouthfeasance. The terrorists have one. This, 401 00:29:08,875 --> 00:29:13,355 Speaker 1: after all, was their goal now twenty one long sad 402 00:29:13,435 --> 00:29:17,515 Speaker 1: years ago, to strip from the world's foremost power, it's 403 00:29:17,595 --> 00:29:22,155 Speaker 1: traditions of relative and growing tolerance, to hamstring the international 404 00:29:22,195 --> 00:29:24,595 Speaker 1: influence of a country that rarely stuck to the double 405 00:29:24,635 --> 00:29:27,395 Speaker 1: white line of the moral road, but came closer than 406 00:29:27,435 --> 00:29:31,555 Speaker 1: any other, to take our energies from trying more or 407 00:29:31,635 --> 00:29:34,995 Speaker 1: less to help the world move forward, and instead to 408 00:29:35,075 --> 00:29:39,715 Speaker 1: make us direct those energies inwards at one another within 409 00:29:39,755 --> 00:29:45,115 Speaker 1: our own borders, to divide us, so to complete the 410 00:29:45,195 --> 00:29:48,875 Speaker 1: rupture of our settled, bizarre culture that had been so 411 00:29:48,955 --> 00:29:52,555 Speaker 1: long Based on the inner monologue of I really can't 412 00:29:52,555 --> 00:29:54,875 Speaker 1: stand those people in the other party, or the other state, 413 00:29:54,995 --> 00:29:57,115 Speaker 1: or of the other color. But my strongest emotion is 414 00:29:57,115 --> 00:29:59,555 Speaker 1: going to remain annoyance rather than hate, because we are 415 00:29:59,595 --> 00:30:04,355 Speaker 1: all Americans, and we are all in this together today. 416 00:30:04,515 --> 00:30:11,315 Speaker 1: A officially that's gone. Obviously, the perpetrators of nine eleven 417 00:30:11,355 --> 00:30:13,475 Speaker 1: had other designs that have yet to come to pass, 418 00:30:13,595 --> 00:30:17,035 Speaker 1: the destabilization of all the secular states of the Middle East, 419 00:30:17,075 --> 00:30:20,435 Speaker 1: the rising up of a caliphate, etcetera. But for the moment, 420 00:30:20,515 --> 00:30:23,115 Speaker 1: that's not important to our discussions here, because the premise 421 00:30:23,195 --> 00:30:26,635 Speaker 1: of the two thousand one terrorism here was to take 422 00:30:26,675 --> 00:30:30,075 Speaker 1: those divisions that were already then apparent in American society 423 00:30:30,115 --> 00:30:35,675 Speaker 1: and multiply them by fear. Fear of more attacks, of sedition, 424 00:30:36,075 --> 00:30:41,755 Speaker 1: of disloyalty, of weakness, of difference of immigrants, of minorities, 425 00:30:41,915 --> 00:30:44,715 Speaker 1: of the loss of the playing field that was still 426 00:30:44,755 --> 00:30:48,755 Speaker 1: tilted towards white people but was leveling just a little 427 00:30:48,835 --> 00:30:56,035 Speaker 1: more every year. It took a long time, long time 428 00:30:56,195 --> 00:31:00,275 Speaker 1: for hatred and fear to find some figure here who 429 00:31:00,315 --> 00:31:04,395 Speaker 1: would pander to it, someone whose ego and lust for 430 00:31:04,675 --> 00:31:08,315 Speaker 1: our would be the perfect vessel to exploit our collective 431 00:31:08,715 --> 00:31:14,435 Speaker 1: post traumatic stress disorder, someone who would say anything, do anything, 432 00:31:15,035 --> 00:31:18,235 Speaker 1: have an answer for everything, even if the answer was 433 00:31:18,315 --> 00:31:21,555 Speaker 1: made up out of whole cloth and on the spot. 434 00:31:24,035 --> 00:31:26,195 Speaker 1: The goals of those who attacked us in two thousand 435 00:31:26,275 --> 00:31:29,875 Speaker 1: one finally found an outlet, and last night Americans, certainly 436 00:31:29,915 --> 00:31:31,875 Speaker 1: half of them, with no more sense of the permanence 437 00:31:31,955 --> 00:31:34,315 Speaker 1: or importance of their decision than they brought to their 438 00:31:34,395 --> 00:31:37,875 Speaker 1: votes for American idol, opened the door and put the 439 00:31:37,915 --> 00:31:41,115 Speaker 1: spokesman for hate and fear and bluster, and most of 440 00:31:41,155 --> 00:31:46,675 Speaker 1: all in competence in charge of the nation. Collectively, we 441 00:31:46,795 --> 00:31:51,395 Speaker 1: have slit our own throats and ordered mixed drank, and 442 00:31:51,435 --> 00:31:56,995 Speaker 1: paid the bill for our own poison. So what is next? 443 00:31:58,795 --> 00:32:01,795 Speaker 1: If you look for transformation within the new elected leader, 444 00:32:01,955 --> 00:32:07,115 Speaker 1: fat chance nothing has changed him in seventy years. And 445 00:32:07,195 --> 00:32:10,275 Speaker 1: if there is anything to guarantee that he will not 446 00:32:10,515 --> 00:32:14,235 Speaker 1: temper his hilarian personality, that he will not be restrained 447 00:32:14,275 --> 00:32:17,075 Speaker 1: by any remaining adults among Republican leadership in the House 448 00:32:17,195 --> 00:32:19,395 Speaker 1: or Senate, that he will not reach out to those 449 00:32:19,395 --> 00:32:21,715 Speaker 1: who did not vote for him. If anything could actually 450 00:32:21,755 --> 00:32:26,915 Speaker 1: increase his obstinates and refusal to share or delegate, it 451 00:32:26,955 --> 00:32:31,835 Speaker 1: would be this extraordinary unprecedented development in American history. Right 452 00:32:31,835 --> 00:32:38,995 Speaker 1: now he thinks he is superman, but of course he 453 00:32:39,115 --> 00:32:44,515 Speaker 1: is not. The economy will be a complete shambles. There 454 00:32:44,515 --> 00:32:48,075 Speaker 1: will be no fix available from making great deals, corner 455 00:32:48,075 --> 00:32:52,395 Speaker 1: cutting or bellowing I'm not paying for sloppy work. He 456 00:32:52,475 --> 00:32:54,715 Speaker 1: will of course insist that everything is great, and his 457 00:32:54,835 --> 00:32:57,675 Speaker 1: mere presence will assure we have made America great, and 458 00:32:57,715 --> 00:33:01,235 Speaker 1: anybody who thinks otherwise is disloyal or an isis sympathizer 459 00:33:01,355 --> 00:33:05,995 Speaker 1: or somebody he's going to sue. As the standard of 460 00:33:06,035 --> 00:33:09,515 Speaker 1: living plummets, he will try a diversion, the wall or 461 00:33:09,595 --> 00:33:12,515 Speaker 1: the deportations, but by those things take time, so we'll 462 00:33:12,555 --> 00:33:14,395 Speaker 1: probably do what they all do. When there is no 463 00:33:14,515 --> 00:33:17,035 Speaker 1: fix to the vital day to day issues, a war 464 00:33:18,195 --> 00:33:20,635 Speaker 1: or some bizarre gambit in the Middle East that will 465 00:33:20,675 --> 00:33:24,275 Speaker 1: in fact restore Isis and destabilize the world just a 466 00:33:24,275 --> 00:33:28,595 Speaker 1: little bit more every week. It will be bad. It 467 00:33:28,635 --> 00:33:35,035 Speaker 1: will be very bad. Americans and others will die. But 468 00:33:35,795 --> 00:33:39,635 Speaker 1: necessarily there will be blowback. There always is blowback against 469 00:33:39,635 --> 00:33:42,955 Speaker 1: the good, as this election just showed, but also blowback 470 00:33:42,995 --> 00:33:47,635 Speaker 1: against the bad. Now that some junctures, soon there will 471 00:33:47,715 --> 00:33:52,355 Speaker 1: be a resistance those of us who warned against, and 472 00:33:52,435 --> 00:33:55,395 Speaker 1: pleaded against, and fought against this madness will find avenues 473 00:33:55,435 --> 00:33:58,275 Speaker 1: for dissent, which will have enough support to at least 474 00:33:58,315 --> 00:34:02,115 Speaker 1: impede the monster. Put any title you like in front 475 00:34:02,155 --> 00:34:04,115 Speaker 1: of his name. And this is still an aggressively self 476 00:34:04,155 --> 00:34:06,595 Speaker 1: destructive man, and it will be the goal of the 477 00:34:06,675 --> 00:34:11,875 Speaker 1: resistance to help him in that task. At some other junctures, 478 00:34:11,875 --> 00:34:14,315 Speaker 1: soon or late, probably even before the midterms of two 479 00:34:14,395 --> 00:34:18,155 Speaker 1: thousand eighteen, a tipping point will be reached. Whether it's 480 00:34:18,155 --> 00:34:23,155 Speaker 1: war or the economy, or some wild card we can't 481 00:34:23,235 --> 00:34:27,195 Speaker 1: see yet it is bouncing around in that great stash 482 00:34:27,235 --> 00:34:29,755 Speaker 1: of fun house mirrors in his head. It will be 483 00:34:29,835 --> 00:34:32,715 Speaker 1: the Republican governors and the Republican senators and the Republican 484 00:34:32,715 --> 00:34:36,435 Speaker 1: congressman who will see the crowds of Republican voters demanding 485 00:34:36,435 --> 00:34:40,555 Speaker 1: action against the irresponsible and delusional president, and an impeachment 486 00:34:40,555 --> 00:34:44,355 Speaker 1: will begin of what is nominally a Republican president by 487 00:34:44,395 --> 00:34:50,115 Speaker 1: a Republican Congress. None of that is guaranteed, but it 488 00:34:50,115 --> 00:34:52,355 Speaker 1: should be noted that Richard Nixon was not forced from 489 00:34:52,355 --> 00:34:55,995 Speaker 1: office until his Republican colleagues acted in concert with Democrats 490 00:34:56,035 --> 00:34:59,675 Speaker 1: to remove him. Moreover, the political history of this country 491 00:34:59,675 --> 00:35:02,675 Speaker 1: for the last fifty years has been a series of 492 00:35:02,715 --> 00:35:06,555 Speaker 1: wild pendulum swings, from the Civil Rights Acts to Richard 493 00:35:06,635 --> 00:35:09,715 Speaker 1: Nixon in three years, from Bill Clinton to George W. 494 00:35:09,835 --> 00:35:14,195 Speaker 1: Bush in three seconds, from Barack Obama to this creature 495 00:35:14,995 --> 00:35:18,835 Speaker 1: in less than three months. And if this creature is 496 00:35:18,835 --> 00:35:21,395 Speaker 1: still in charge of this government and has not yet 497 00:35:21,435 --> 00:35:24,875 Speaker 1: fled the country, then there are those midterms in two 498 00:35:24,915 --> 00:35:29,595 Speaker 1: thousand eighteen and the attempt to begin a restoration unless 499 00:35:29,635 --> 00:35:32,675 Speaker 1: he acts in the interim against free elections. And I 500 00:35:32,675 --> 00:35:35,875 Speaker 1: would never assume that in a nightmare like this, the 501 00:35:35,915 --> 00:35:41,315 Speaker 1: freddie Krueger in chief suddenly starts obeying the laws about elections. 502 00:35:43,555 --> 00:35:48,235 Speaker 1: In any event, I'll leave you with three quotes. It's 503 00:35:48,435 --> 00:35:51,275 Speaker 1: hl Mankin from n. Six, and the long form of 504 00:35:51,315 --> 00:35:53,795 Speaker 1: it actually is, no one in this world, so far 505 00:35:53,875 --> 00:35:57,355 Speaker 1: as I know, has ever lost money by underestimating the 506 00:35:57,435 --> 00:36:02,915 Speaker 1: intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. The 507 00:36:02,995 --> 00:36:05,395 Speaker 1: other quote here, of course, is as you can fool 508 00:36:05,435 --> 00:36:07,035 Speaker 1: all the people some of the time, and some of 509 00:36:07,075 --> 00:36:08,795 Speaker 1: the people all the time, but you cannot fool all 510 00:36:08,795 --> 00:36:12,235 Speaker 1: the people all the time. This is attributed to Abraham Lincoln, 511 00:36:12,235 --> 00:36:14,035 Speaker 1: and it pretty much sums up that phase of the 512 00:36:14,035 --> 00:36:19,475 Speaker 1: American experiment, which the electorate ended last night, because there's 513 00:36:19,475 --> 00:36:23,195 Speaker 1: no real evidence that Lincoln ever said that. Plus, in short, 514 00:36:23,275 --> 00:36:25,715 Speaker 1: you can fool all the people just long enough to 515 00:36:25,715 --> 00:36:29,035 Speaker 1: become the first anti democracy president of the United States. 516 00:36:31,235 --> 00:36:38,035 Speaker 1: And one more quote conceit probably whistling past graveyards, perhaps 517 00:36:39,195 --> 00:36:45,115 Speaker 1: a little Churchill adjusted to the occasion. Even though large 518 00:36:45,155 --> 00:36:47,795 Speaker 1: tracts of America and many old and famous states have 519 00:36:47,875 --> 00:36:50,355 Speaker 1: fallen or may fall into the grip of Trump and 520 00:36:50,395 --> 00:36:54,075 Speaker 1: all the odious apparatus of Trump rule, we shall not 521 00:36:54,115 --> 00:36:57,395 Speaker 1: flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. 522 00:36:58,195 --> 00:37:01,315 Speaker 1: We shall fight in state legislatures. We shall fight in 523 00:37:01,355 --> 00:37:04,915 Speaker 1: the stores and banks. We shall fight with growing evidence 524 00:37:04,995 --> 00:37:08,955 Speaker 1: and growing strength in the air. We shall defend our America, 525 00:37:09,075 --> 00:37:14,195 Speaker 1: whatever the cost. Maybe we shall fight online. We shall 526 00:37:14,195 --> 00:37:16,915 Speaker 1: fight in the press and on the television. We shall 527 00:37:16,955 --> 00:37:20,355 Speaker 1: fight on the street corners of public opinion. We shall 528 00:37:20,435 --> 00:37:30,635 Speaker 1: never surrender. Wednesday, November nine two, I will add one 529 00:37:30,675 --> 00:37:34,715 Speaker 1: thing more, only in closing with the news of McGonagall 530 00:37:34,835 --> 00:37:38,275 Speaker 1: and Derrick Pasca, and by extension Manifort and Trump and 531 00:37:38,315 --> 00:37:43,475 Speaker 1: Putin and Comey and everybody else. I urge President Biden 532 00:37:44,155 --> 00:37:48,355 Speaker 1: or Majority Leader Schumer, or both of them to impanel 533 00:37:48,595 --> 00:37:53,475 Speaker 1: a commission senatorial or presidential to formally investigate the two 534 00:37:53,515 --> 00:37:58,395 Speaker 1: thousand sixteen presidential election and the roles that McGonagall, Derrick Posca, Manafort, 535 00:37:58,475 --> 00:38:03,595 Speaker 1: and others played in Russia's successful effort to install Donald 536 00:38:03,595 --> 00:38:08,195 Speaker 1: Trump as their but in the White House. And if 537 00:38:08,195 --> 00:38:10,195 Speaker 1: anybody says, well, we can't do that, we can't use 538 00:38:10,195 --> 00:38:13,595 Speaker 1: the investigative or legislative apparatus is of this country to 539 00:38:13,675 --> 00:38:17,555 Speaker 1: act so close to a presidential election and aimed so 540 00:38:17,635 --> 00:38:23,275 Speaker 1: directly at a presidential candidate, my reply is Mr President, Mr. 541 00:38:23,315 --> 00:38:30,835 Speaker 1: Senate Leader, subpoena them too. Good morning, good afternoon, good night, 542 00:38:31,835 --> 00:38:36,035 Speaker 1: and good luck. Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production 543 00:38:36,195 --> 00:38:39,835 Speaker 1: of I heart Radio. For more podcasts from I heart Radio, 544 00:38:39,995 --> 00:38:43,555 Speaker 1: visit the i heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever 545 00:38:43,595 --> 00:38:44,955 Speaker 1: you get your podcasts.