1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:18,235 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Trump's 2 00:00:18,475 --> 00:00:22,275 Speaker 1: tariffs are not legal. In a late decision by the 3 00:00:22,395 --> 00:00:26,595 Speaker 1: US Court of International Trade on Wednesday evening, an Obama judge, 4 00:00:26,635 --> 00:00:28,955 Speaker 1: a Reagan judge, and a Trump judge walk into a 5 00:00:28,995 --> 00:00:34,475 Speaker 1: courtroom and overturn all of the tariffs. That's all, as 6 00:00:34,515 --> 00:00:38,595 Speaker 1: in one hundred percent or one hundred and forty five percent, 7 00:00:38,675 --> 00:00:41,075 Speaker 1: if that seems like a more fitting number for this story. 8 00:00:41,755 --> 00:00:45,995 Speaker 1: Trump had used the nineteen seventy seven federal Economic Emergency 9 00:00:46,075 --> 00:00:50,795 Speaker 1: laws to impose these tariffs, and this three judge panel 10 00:00:50,835 --> 00:00:55,515 Speaker 1: the US Court of International Trade said, sorry, tariffs were 11 00:00:55,555 --> 00:00:58,875 Speaker 1: not among the weapons allocated to the president even in 12 00:00:58,915 --> 00:01:02,955 Speaker 1: the event of a federal economic emergency, which they did 13 00:01:02,995 --> 00:01:06,475 Speaker 1: not prove, and no one bothered to prove any indication 14 00:01:06,755 --> 00:01:11,315 Speaker 1: anywhere in any law in the Constitution, anywhere else, any 15 00:01:11,395 --> 00:01:15,995 Speaker 1: statute anywhere, that the president had the right single handedly 16 00:01:16,075 --> 00:01:20,795 Speaker 1: to impose tariffs without the approval of Congress. They have 17 00:01:20,915 --> 00:01:25,795 Speaker 1: given the Trump administration ten days to halt all tariffs. 18 00:01:27,235 --> 00:01:32,035 Speaker 1: The Trump administration has already appealed. What is interesting as 19 00:01:32,075 --> 00:01:36,115 Speaker 1: a sideline to this is the corporations that were affected 20 00:01:36,195 --> 00:01:38,555 Speaker 1: by these tariffs, including the ones that were pushed to 21 00:01:38,595 --> 00:01:42,755 Speaker 1: the brink of true economic peril, did nothing about them. 22 00:01:42,955 --> 00:01:46,635 Speaker 1: They knew these tariffs were illegal, or at minimum illegally 23 00:01:46,675 --> 00:01:50,715 Speaker 1: applied and did not have anything behind it legally, and 24 00:01:50,795 --> 00:01:54,955 Speaker 1: they did nothing. They rolled over rather than challenged Trump 25 00:01:55,035 --> 00:01:58,115 Speaker 1: in court. This is a series of states and other 26 00:01:58,195 --> 00:02:01,915 Speaker 1: groups that sued and got these tariffs at least halted, 27 00:02:02,075 --> 00:02:07,195 Speaker 1: at least halted pending an appeal. In retrospect, perhaps it 28 00:02:07,235 --> 00:02:10,835 Speaker 1: was a mistake by the Department of Justice, under Trump's guidance, 29 00:02:11,155 --> 00:02:14,675 Speaker 1: to tell this US Court of International Trade that it 30 00:02:14,795 --> 00:02:18,515 Speaker 1: had no right to review the president's actions. It said 31 00:02:18,555 --> 00:02:24,075 Speaker 1: this to this court repeatedly throughout this process. He got elected. 32 00:02:24,155 --> 00:02:28,195 Speaker 1: That's the only law now round here. Premise it did 33 00:02:28,235 --> 00:02:30,555 Speaker 1: not go well for Trump in the slightest. No matter 34 00:02:30,555 --> 00:02:35,395 Speaker 1: what happens in terms of the appeal, presumably the halting 35 00:02:35,515 --> 00:02:38,275 Speaker 1: will be itself halted, and the ten days to stop 36 00:02:38,315 --> 00:02:41,995 Speaker 1: the tariffs will not go into effect until the appeal 37 00:02:42,075 --> 00:02:45,435 Speaker 1: is heard. But who knows. Like everything else about this 38 00:02:45,555 --> 00:02:50,875 Speaker 1: misbegotten presidency and this misbegotten man, the details remain left 39 00:02:50,995 --> 00:02:53,995 Speaker 1: to be sorted out by others. He is in charge 40 00:02:53,995 --> 00:02:58,395 Speaker 1: of one thing, and one thing only breaking shit. In 41 00:02:58,435 --> 00:03:02,515 Speaker 1: a totally unrelated bit of timing, Elon Musk has now 42 00:03:02,515 --> 00:03:06,275 Speaker 1: officially bailed out, saying, well, it was scheduled for this 43 00:03:06,355 --> 00:03:08,155 Speaker 1: to be the time for him to bail out of 44 00:03:08,995 --> 00:03:11,515 Speaker 1: douche or whatever that was called again, but he is 45 00:03:11,555 --> 00:03:14,955 Speaker 1: now no longer associated with the government. They had been 46 00:03:15,155 --> 00:03:19,075 Speaker 1: gradually fading him out anyway, to the point where, like 47 00:03:19,115 --> 00:03:22,195 Speaker 1: the cheshire cat in the story, all that was left 48 00:03:22,355 --> 00:03:25,675 Speaker 1: was his stoned grin. And we can now ask the question, 49 00:03:26,355 --> 00:03:32,875 Speaker 1: remember Elon Musk. One final note here, pending obviously days 50 00:03:32,875 --> 00:03:37,235 Speaker 1: of further litigation and bombbast to come, how dare the 51 00:03:37,355 --> 00:03:42,755 Speaker 1: judges never elected make a decision instead of our god Trump, 52 00:03:43,395 --> 00:03:48,075 Speaker 1: who was elected in a minority vote by a minority 53 00:03:48,075 --> 00:03:53,755 Speaker 1: of voters. One last note here Stephen Miller, who is 54 00:03:53,875 --> 00:03:58,395 Speaker 1: nominally has nothing to do with this particular aspect of 55 00:03:58,435 --> 00:04:02,835 Speaker 1: the Trump would be dictatorship. Stephen Miller announced this to 56 00:04:02,995 --> 00:04:08,955 Speaker 1: his waiting world of human scorpions by retweeting the right 57 00:04:08,955 --> 00:04:14,315 Speaker 1: wing nebish Bennie Johnson, and I don't know if I 58 00:04:14,355 --> 00:04:17,835 Speaker 1: can think of anything that says more authoritatively, I am 59 00:04:17,875 --> 00:04:22,155 Speaker 1: a serious and powerful government figure that you should be 60 00:04:22,195 --> 00:04:27,075 Speaker 1: afraid of nothing, says that more resonantly than our team, 61 00:04:27,395 --> 00:04:33,035 Speaker 1: a guy named Benny, and adding to Benny's reporting, the 62 00:04:33,155 --> 00:04:51,915 Speaker 1: judicial coup is out of control. Do you see what happens? 63 00:04:52,275 --> 00:04:57,355 Speaker 1: Gretchen Whitmer? Do you see what happens? Tim Cook? Do 64 00:04:57,475 --> 00:05:02,515 Speaker 1: you see what happens? Jake Tapper, Claire Shipman, Eugene Daniels, 65 00:05:02,515 --> 00:05:06,435 Speaker 1: CBS News, Bob Iger, do you see what happens when 66 00:05:06,475 --> 00:05:10,195 Speaker 1: you let Trump? Well, if you know the movie The 67 00:05:10,195 --> 00:05:13,675 Speaker 1: Big Lebowski, you know the twist on the rest of 68 00:05:13,715 --> 00:05:18,035 Speaker 1: that speech. It's not pretty. It is, however, completely accurate. 69 00:05:18,475 --> 00:05:25,195 Speaker 1: Stop capitulating to Trump, stop negotiating with Trump, stop appeasing Trump, 70 00:05:25,475 --> 00:05:32,235 Speaker 1: stop letting Trump, etc. There is only one way Apple 71 00:05:32,315 --> 00:05:35,395 Speaker 1: is going to survive Trump. Tim Cook, There is only 72 00:05:35,435 --> 00:05:39,235 Speaker 1: one way Columbia is going to survive Trump. Claire, there 73 00:05:39,275 --> 00:05:41,475 Speaker 1: is only one way the White House correspondents are going 74 00:05:41,515 --> 00:05:44,955 Speaker 1: to survive Trump. Eugene Daniels. If you haven't figured it 75 00:05:44,995 --> 00:05:47,955 Speaker 1: out yet, I'll spell it out. Doing what he wants 76 00:05:48,115 --> 00:05:51,755 Speaker 1: only tells him you will do what he wants, so 77 00:05:51,795 --> 00:05:54,195 Speaker 1: he will come back and give you another list of 78 00:05:54,195 --> 00:05:58,235 Speaker 1: what he wants. Now he's a blackmailer. He's a crooked businessman, 79 00:05:58,515 --> 00:06:01,755 Speaker 1: He's a bully. There is only one way to survive Trump, 80 00:06:01,955 --> 00:06:07,675 Speaker 1: and that is to destroy Trump's presidency. In a world 81 00:06:07,995 --> 00:06:12,475 Speaker 1: of Columbia's, be a Harvard, in a world of White 82 00:06:12,515 --> 00:06:16,955 Speaker 1: House correspondents, be the Pentagon correspondence, in a world of apples, 83 00:06:17,075 --> 00:06:21,835 Speaker 1: be Walmart. Put your hands on Trump's shoulders and reassure 84 00:06:21,955 --> 00:06:28,795 Speaker 1: him and knee him in the groin. Instead, Gretchen Whitner 85 00:06:28,915 --> 00:06:32,275 Speaker 1: praises Trump. He tricks her into going to a White 86 00:06:32,275 --> 00:06:34,315 Speaker 1: House photo op. She has to cover her face with 87 00:06:34,355 --> 00:06:40,355 Speaker 1: her notebook like a damn purp walk and yesterday, Trump says, yes, 88 00:06:40,595 --> 00:06:43,635 Speaker 1: he is looking into pardoning the men who were convicted 89 00:06:43,635 --> 00:06:50,595 Speaker 1: of trying to kidnap her. Instead, Tim Cook sucks up 90 00:06:50,595 --> 00:06:55,915 Speaker 1: to Trump, and Trump responds by tariffing iPhones twenty five percent. Instead, 91 00:06:56,475 --> 00:06:59,075 Speaker 1: Claire Shipman and Columbia suck up to Trump, and Trump 92 00:06:59,075 --> 00:07:02,355 Speaker 1: responds by trying to put a judge, a Trump judge, 93 00:07:02,475 --> 00:07:06,075 Speaker 1: in charge of Columbia's entire curriculum and hiring and admissions. 94 00:07:06,755 --> 00:07:10,075 Speaker 1: The White House correspondents don't defend the associated present. Trump 95 00:07:10,115 --> 00:07:14,195 Speaker 1: comes back and takes all their repertorial choices away from them. 96 00:07:14,835 --> 00:07:18,595 Speaker 1: Decides who's going to be on the pool. Eiger gives 97 00:07:18,635 --> 00:07:22,115 Speaker 1: Trump a bribe disguised as a settlement, and Trump threatens 98 00:07:22,155 --> 00:07:28,315 Speaker 1: to take away Iiger's station licenses. Instead, CBS so hoard 99 00:07:28,395 --> 00:07:31,515 Speaker 1: itself out that it's sixty minutes. Chief quit, that it's news. 100 00:07:31,635 --> 00:07:34,635 Speaker 1: Chief quit. Now it is being mocked by The New 101 00:07:34,715 --> 00:07:40,235 Speaker 1: York Post. The New York Post mocking Sherry Redstone and 102 00:07:40,315 --> 00:07:43,675 Speaker 1: reporting that her board is flinching at her bribe settlement 103 00:07:43,715 --> 00:07:47,595 Speaker 1: of Trump because paramount's insurance doesn't cover bribe settlements and 104 00:07:47,635 --> 00:07:51,275 Speaker 1: there may be a congressional investigation of their bribe settlements 105 00:07:51,435 --> 00:07:58,515 Speaker 1: and civil or criminal charges against her. Instead of doing something, 106 00:07:58,595 --> 00:08:01,715 Speaker 1: Jake Tapper tries to throw the Trump Biden debate to 107 00:08:01,795 --> 00:08:06,155 Speaker 1: Trump by refusing to fact check him, destroys his own reputation, 108 00:08:06,275 --> 00:08:10,515 Speaker 1: destroys CNN's reputation, has no space remaining in journalism, so 109 00:08:10,555 --> 00:08:13,315 Speaker 1: he has to put his name on a Biden acuity 110 00:08:13,355 --> 00:08:17,595 Speaker 1: book now bombing so badly that to drum up publicity 111 00:08:17,595 --> 00:08:20,555 Speaker 1: for it, he had to apologize to Lara Effing Trump 112 00:08:21,275 --> 00:08:23,915 Speaker 1: that he had to go on Piers effing Morgan and 113 00:08:24,035 --> 00:08:28,635 Speaker 1: insists and actually say as an adult, as an American 114 00:08:28,915 --> 00:08:32,955 Speaker 1: as a supposed TV newscaster actually say that the Biden 115 00:08:33,075 --> 00:08:36,515 Speaker 1: story was in many ways a scandal worse than Watergate. 116 00:08:38,795 --> 00:08:41,515 Speaker 1: Jake Tapper's colleagues at CNN are now refusing to work 117 00:08:41,675 --> 00:08:45,755 Speaker 1: with him. His career is melting before his eyes. It 118 00:08:45,835 --> 00:08:48,835 Speaker 1: is so bad. Somebody on Twitter wrote that Jake's quote 119 00:08:49,075 --> 00:08:52,955 Speaker 1: book tour is turning into spinal tap, where they started 120 00:08:52,995 --> 00:08:57,155 Speaker 1: out in stadiums and end as openers for a puppet show. 121 00:09:00,315 --> 00:09:05,315 Speaker 1: Is standing up to Trump pain free? Hell no. Harvard 122 00:09:05,355 --> 00:09:08,475 Speaker 1: tells Trump to f off, sues him. He comes back 123 00:09:08,475 --> 00:09:11,675 Speaker 1: and tries to expel all of their sixty five hundred, 124 00:09:11,755 --> 00:09:15,355 Speaker 1: sixty six hundred foreign students, thinking this not only screws 125 00:09:15,395 --> 00:09:18,835 Speaker 1: the foreigners, but it will also bankrupt Harvard or something, 126 00:09:19,155 --> 00:09:22,155 Speaker 1: because of course there aren't sixty five hundred or sixty 127 00:09:22,155 --> 00:09:25,715 Speaker 1: six hundred other students turned down by Harvard who wouldn't 128 00:09:25,715 --> 00:09:30,235 Speaker 1: say yes if they got a new callback. Harvard turned 129 00:09:30,235 --> 00:09:32,195 Speaker 1: me down in April nineteen seventy five, and I might 130 00:09:32,235 --> 00:09:34,315 Speaker 1: still say yes if I got a new callback, and 131 00:09:34,395 --> 00:09:39,355 Speaker 1: I mean a callback today. So Trump then cuts off 132 00:09:39,355 --> 00:09:41,755 Speaker 1: one hundred million in grants to Harvard and threatens to 133 00:09:41,835 --> 00:09:44,915 Speaker 1: vet the social media of all foreign students in this country, 134 00:09:44,955 --> 00:09:52,355 Speaker 1: and he's out of weapons. The classic case of the bully. 135 00:09:52,795 --> 00:09:55,515 Speaker 1: He'll threaten you, he'll hit you, and then he runs 136 00:09:55,555 --> 00:09:59,475 Speaker 1: out because he has no backup plan. Now Harvard can 137 00:09:59,555 --> 00:10:02,155 Speaker 1: keep suing him, and people at Harvard can sleep at night. 138 00:10:02,155 --> 00:10:04,555 Speaker 1: Because the point is Trump would have tried to expel 139 00:10:04,835 --> 00:10:08,235 Speaker 1: foreign students anyway, and would have cut off the one 140 00:10:08,315 --> 00:10:11,395 Speaker 1: hundred million dollars anyway soon or late, because that's what 141 00:10:11,475 --> 00:10:15,635 Speaker 1: he does. That's all he does, that's all he's ever done. 142 00:10:15,715 --> 00:10:18,555 Speaker 1: He just does it faster to you. If it's obvious 143 00:10:18,555 --> 00:10:20,915 Speaker 1: to him, you are going to make it easier for him. 144 00:10:21,115 --> 00:10:23,795 Speaker 1: If you were as crazy and as malicious and as 145 00:10:23,835 --> 00:10:26,475 Speaker 1: non human as Trump is, wouldn't you do it that way? 146 00:10:27,195 --> 00:10:30,315 Speaker 1: If you were Ted Bundy Trump, would you murder the 147 00:10:30,355 --> 00:10:32,995 Speaker 1: companies that put up a fight or murder the ones 148 00:10:33,035 --> 00:10:38,755 Speaker 1: that just sit there? What can Harvard now get away with? 149 00:10:39,115 --> 00:10:42,035 Speaker 1: One of the op ed people on the student newspaper 150 00:10:42,035 --> 00:10:44,755 Speaker 1: writes a column saying she knows how to settle this 151 00:10:44,795 --> 00:10:49,355 Speaker 1: with Trump and his administration. She has challenged Secretary of 152 00:10:49,475 --> 00:10:52,915 Speaker 1: I didn't get any education. Linda McMahon, the ex wife 153 00:10:52,995 --> 00:10:56,755 Speaker 1: of the wrestling jackass. She has challenged Linda McMahon to 154 00:10:56,835 --> 00:11:06,435 Speaker 1: settle this in a wrestling cage match, Rah Voe. One 155 00:11:06,435 --> 00:11:09,795 Speaker 1: can argue that Harvard's moral victory here, and it's actually 156 00:11:09,835 --> 00:11:13,555 Speaker 1: two or three dozen moral victories are the proverbial p 157 00:11:13,795 --> 00:11:16,555 Speaker 1: in the dark suit, a warm feeling nobody notices. But 158 00:11:16,675 --> 00:11:20,355 Speaker 1: there are also material victories. To contrast the filled with 159 00:11:20,475 --> 00:11:26,115 Speaker 1: inertia White House Correspondence Association, there are the fighting Pentagon correspondents. 160 00:11:26,515 --> 00:11:29,755 Speaker 1: The impeccable Oliver Darcy of The Status Newsletter reports that 161 00:11:29,755 --> 00:11:32,955 Speaker 1: Pete Hegseeth tried to strong ar I'm a CNN producer 162 00:11:33,115 --> 00:11:35,515 Speaker 1: who had been chosen by her peers to be part 163 00:11:35,515 --> 00:11:39,395 Speaker 1: of the small pool traveling with the Secretary of Greasy Kids, 164 00:11:39,395 --> 00:11:44,515 Speaker 1: stuff and Scotch to Singapore. They didn't want Haley Britsky 165 00:11:44,595 --> 00:11:50,435 Speaker 1: to go. They didn't like her tweets. Seriously, these are 166 00:11:50,515 --> 00:11:55,275 Speaker 1: alleged grown ups. They didn't make her tweets, so they 167 00:11:55,275 --> 00:11:57,315 Speaker 1: banned her. They said, no, you can't go as part 168 00:11:57,315 --> 00:12:00,395 Speaker 1: of the pool, and her Pentagon media colleagues, unlike the 169 00:12:00,435 --> 00:12:04,355 Speaker 1: White House Correspondence Association, promptly told the Pentagon Press office 170 00:12:04,395 --> 00:12:08,915 Speaker 1: to f off Britsky doesn't go. Nobody goes. Nobody goes. 171 00:12:09,115 --> 00:12:12,235 Speaker 1: Heg Seth doesn't get to be on TV and in articles, 172 00:12:12,595 --> 00:12:15,315 Speaker 1: and to thus gaze longingly at himself. He'd have to 173 00:12:15,355 --> 00:12:18,075 Speaker 1: go back to carrying a dozen mirrors with him at 174 00:12:18,075 --> 00:12:24,235 Speaker 1: all times. The Pentagon folded like one of heg Seth's 175 00:12:24,435 --> 00:12:30,555 Speaker 1: cheap suits. Britsky went a small victory, and presumably if 176 00:12:30,555 --> 00:12:34,355 Speaker 1: Trump understood what it meant, he'd reproach heg Seth. But this, 177 00:12:34,435 --> 00:12:35,955 Speaker 1: of course is way down on the list of things 178 00:12:35,955 --> 00:12:39,155 Speaker 1: Trump will eventually fire Hegseth for, certainly when it looks 179 00:12:39,195 --> 00:12:41,835 Speaker 1: like heg Seth had the Pentagon got the NSA to 180 00:12:41,915 --> 00:12:46,035 Speaker 1: wiretap people in the Pentagon without the slightest authorization, without 181 00:12:46,035 --> 00:12:48,595 Speaker 1: the slightest concern for the laws, because efet, what do 182 00:12:48,635 --> 00:12:52,315 Speaker 1: you expect when you hire the weekend fill in fox 183 00:12:52,395 --> 00:12:58,275 Speaker 1: guy and not some first string fox guy. But it 184 00:12:58,355 --> 00:13:00,595 Speaker 1: underscores the point. The bully is going to hit you. 185 00:13:01,275 --> 00:13:05,835 Speaker 1: Appease him. He will hit you, hit him, he will 186 00:13:05,915 --> 00:13:09,235 Speaker 1: hit you. But guess which way causes him to stop 187 00:13:09,315 --> 00:13:13,395 Speaker 1: hitting you fastest. Guess which way causes him the most pain. 188 00:13:14,915 --> 00:13:17,835 Speaker 1: Tim Cook's response to Trump's threat of a twenty five 189 00:13:17,875 --> 00:13:21,675 Speaker 1: percent tariff on iPhone should be something equally as crazy, 190 00:13:22,075 --> 00:13:25,795 Speaker 1: something like saying, starting September first, Apple will no longer 191 00:13:26,075 --> 00:13:29,475 Speaker 1: sell iPhones in this country, and if you want one, 192 00:13:29,635 --> 00:13:31,995 Speaker 1: you're gonna have to go to the secondary market or 193 00:13:32,035 --> 00:13:38,475 Speaker 1: into Canada. Fight insanity with more insanity. What do you 194 00:13:38,515 --> 00:13:41,555 Speaker 1: think you're obligated to actually stop selling iPhones here just 195 00:13:41,555 --> 00:13:46,875 Speaker 1: because you say you're gonna stop selling iPhones here? This 196 00:13:46,995 --> 00:13:50,595 Speaker 1: is Trump's America. You can lie all you want, You 197 00:13:50,635 --> 00:13:52,435 Speaker 1: can deny you ever said it. They can play the 198 00:13:52,475 --> 00:13:58,515 Speaker 1: tape and you can say, oh, it's Ai. The value 199 00:13:58,515 --> 00:14:00,355 Speaker 1: of all this, of course, is that even if you 200 00:14:00,395 --> 00:14:03,555 Speaker 1: have made the terrible mistake of appeasing Trump, you can renege. 201 00:14:04,115 --> 00:14:08,635 Speaker 1: Even at the late hour. Claire pull the plug on 202 00:14:08,715 --> 00:14:13,155 Speaker 1: the deal Columbia made with him. Iiger tell him you've 203 00:14:13,235 --> 00:14:18,715 Speaker 1: changed your mind and you're now suing him. CBS Paramount 204 00:14:18,715 --> 00:14:23,715 Speaker 1: Board tell Sherry if she wants to settle with Trump, 205 00:14:23,715 --> 00:14:29,075 Speaker 1: it's going to come out of her paycheck. Do something. 206 00:14:31,755 --> 00:14:34,795 Speaker 1: This entire dynamic now becomes meaningful, not just a test 207 00:14:34,835 --> 00:14:37,115 Speaker 1: of moral clarity. And whether you remember the lesson the 208 00:14:37,155 --> 00:14:39,395 Speaker 1: bully in the schoolyard should have taught you namely the 209 00:14:39,395 --> 00:14:43,995 Speaker 1: moment he touches you stab him. Trump is now trying 210 00:14:44,035 --> 00:14:48,355 Speaker 1: the same bullshit with Putin. Something has happened to him. Putin, 211 00:14:48,555 --> 00:14:51,435 Speaker 1: he's gone absolutely crazy. It will lead to the downfall 212 00:14:51,475 --> 00:14:55,715 Speaker 1: of Russia. When that didn't make Putin cry or run 213 00:14:55,755 --> 00:14:59,795 Speaker 1: home to mommy, Trump escalated. What Vladimir Putin doesn't realize 214 00:14:59,835 --> 00:15:01,635 Speaker 1: is that if it weren't for me, lots of really 215 00:15:01,675 --> 00:15:03,875 Speaker 1: bad things would have already happened to Russia. And I 216 00:15:03,915 --> 00:15:09,955 Speaker 1: mean really bad. He's playing with fire. Firstly, congratulations Trump, 217 00:15:09,955 --> 00:15:12,875 Speaker 1: you just confess that you have been protecting Russia, an 218 00:15:13,035 --> 00:15:16,315 Speaker 1: enemy of this country, a foreign power in opposition to 219 00:15:16,315 --> 00:15:22,235 Speaker 1: the United States of America. You just confessed Russia, Russia, Russia, true, true, true, 220 00:15:22,635 --> 00:15:27,115 Speaker 1: trees and trees and treason. Nobody asked, you just confessed. 221 00:15:27,835 --> 00:15:30,555 Speaker 1: You just confessed you've been covering up for Putin. Good work, 222 00:15:30,715 --> 00:15:37,435 Speaker 1: stable genius as in horse stables. Secondly, this will stop 223 00:15:37,475 --> 00:15:41,235 Speaker 1: Putin in Ukraine. Trump should have just quoted the self 224 00:15:41,315 --> 00:15:44,275 Speaker 1: own that Shakespeare put into the mouth of King Lear, 225 00:15:44,715 --> 00:15:48,435 Speaker 1: the definition of imfidence, the summit of empty threats. I 226 00:15:48,475 --> 00:15:51,155 Speaker 1: will have such revenges on you both that all the 227 00:15:51,195 --> 00:15:56,235 Speaker 1: world shall I will do such things. What they are 228 00:15:56,635 --> 00:15:59,315 Speaker 1: yet I know not, but they shall be the terrors 229 00:15:59,355 --> 00:16:03,435 Speaker 1: of the earth. I shall have such revenge on you Putin. 230 00:16:03,475 --> 00:16:06,435 Speaker 1: I will do such things bad thing, I mean, really bad. 231 00:16:08,715 --> 00:16:11,515 Speaker 1: We have a vested interest in Putin not responding to 232 00:16:11,555 --> 00:16:15,595 Speaker 1: this the way he ordinarily would think Russia's inexhaustible supply 233 00:16:15,755 --> 00:16:20,515 Speaker 1: of open windows. But Putin will probably have a surgical 234 00:16:20,555 --> 00:16:25,635 Speaker 1: response that humiliates and damages Trump alone, because Trump's tantrum 235 00:16:25,635 --> 00:16:28,235 Speaker 1: may cause Putin to think that Trump's usefulness to him 236 00:16:28,395 --> 00:16:29,955 Speaker 1: is about to run out, and he was going to 237 00:16:29,955 --> 00:16:34,435 Speaker 1: switch to somebody else in a few years. Anyway, JB. 238 00:16:34,675 --> 00:16:39,635 Speaker 1: Vance might as well do that. Now, what's the point 239 00:16:39,675 --> 00:16:41,915 Speaker 1: of owning the president of the United States if you 240 00:16:41,955 --> 00:16:48,875 Speaker 1: can't fire the president of the United States. Stop appeasing Trump, 241 00:17:13,915 --> 00:17:16,795 Speaker 1: and among other reasons, to stop appeasing Trump. When you 242 00:17:16,955 --> 00:17:21,075 Speaker 1: thwart him, when you stand up to him, he dissolves 243 00:17:21,155 --> 00:17:26,075 Speaker 1: into a self fitting, soft, stupid child and looks it 244 00:17:26,275 --> 00:17:32,315 Speaker 1: and sounds it. Apparently he did not know about Taco Taco, 245 00:17:32,835 --> 00:17:36,355 Speaker 1: the New Wall Street acronym about tariffs, the acronym for 246 00:17:36,955 --> 00:17:44,835 Speaker 1: Trump always chickens out taco. When CNBC's Megan Cassella asked 247 00:17:44,915 --> 00:17:48,555 Speaker 1: him about taco yesterday, and I've telescoped this so you 248 00:17:48,555 --> 00:17:52,755 Speaker 1: don't have to listen to the whole meltdown. Trump found 249 00:17:52,755 --> 00:17:56,195 Speaker 1: out about taco for the first time. Trump don't like taco, 250 00:17:56,995 --> 00:17:59,155 Speaker 1: and Walster analysts have pointed a new term called the 251 00:17:59,235 --> 00:17:59,995 Speaker 1: taco trade. 252 00:18:00,035 --> 00:18:02,115 Speaker 2: They're saying Trump always chickens out. 253 00:18:02,315 --> 00:18:04,555 Speaker 1: On tear fres and that's why markets are hired his 254 00:18:05,155 --> 00:18:06,155 Speaker 1: what's your results to that? 255 00:18:06,435 --> 00:18:08,155 Speaker 2: I check out? Check it out? 256 00:18:08,995 --> 00:18:10,675 Speaker 1: Oh checking out. 257 00:18:10,715 --> 00:18:13,795 Speaker 2: I've never heard that. You mean because I reduced China 258 00:18:13,835 --> 00:18:15,995 Speaker 2: from one hundred and forty five percent that I said 259 00:18:16,595 --> 00:18:19,395 Speaker 2: down to one hundred and then because of the tariff, 260 00:18:19,395 --> 00:18:22,795 Speaker 2: because it was so high. But I knew that. But 261 00:18:22,915 --> 00:18:26,115 Speaker 2: don't ever say what you said. That's a nasty question. 262 00:18:26,795 --> 00:18:35,075 Speaker 1: Loser taco, loser appo taco. It's a baseball joke. Incidentally, 263 00:18:35,115 --> 00:18:38,035 Speaker 1: as impressive as that CNBC question was, remember you can 264 00:18:38,115 --> 00:18:40,795 Speaker 1: always rely on the legacy media here. They will always 265 00:18:40,835 --> 00:18:45,635 Speaker 1: let you down. Jack Blanchard, the guy who nearly finished 266 00:18:45,635 --> 00:18:49,795 Speaker 1: destroying Politico Playbook after Ryan Lizi started destroying Political Playbook 267 00:18:50,355 --> 00:18:53,355 Speaker 1: before they moved him off, is now a lame duck 268 00:18:53,355 --> 00:18:58,195 Speaker 1: at Politico playbook, and he wrote glowingly yesterday of Trump's 269 00:18:58,195 --> 00:19:02,795 Speaker 1: cooperation with the media. Quote, Aside from the lamentable attempt 270 00:19:02,795 --> 00:19:06,275 Speaker 1: to ban AP, He's basically taken questions from old comas. 271 00:19:06,515 --> 00:19:12,915 Speaker 1: It's impressive stuff. Yeah, impressive, Governor. Aside from that attempt 272 00:19:12,915 --> 00:19:18,755 Speaker 1: to ban the world's most widely distributed wire service. Oh, 273 00:19:18,795 --> 00:19:22,515 Speaker 1: other than that, he's been impressive taking questions from all comers. 274 00:19:22,675 --> 00:19:27,675 Speaker 1: Trying to ban a news organization, second time in a week. 275 00:19:27,835 --> 00:19:30,035 Speaker 1: Just there, he threatened a reporter over a question he 276 00:19:30,075 --> 00:19:34,315 Speaker 1: didn't like. That's impressive, Jack Blanchard of Politico, That's impressive. 277 00:19:34,395 --> 00:19:36,635 Speaker 1: Do you know what happens if he starts getting away 278 00:19:36,715 --> 00:19:39,235 Speaker 1: with banning the Associated Press or running the White House 279 00:19:39,235 --> 00:19:46,395 Speaker 1: Correspondence Association. You know what happens. Politico disappears. Jack Blanchard 280 00:19:46,395 --> 00:19:51,955 Speaker 1: has to go back to London and busk. Meanwhile, on 281 00:19:52,075 --> 00:19:55,995 Speaker 1: the Fascism for Money Front, Axios reports Stephen Miller and 282 00:19:56,035 --> 00:19:59,755 Speaker 1: Garden Nome are angry that their administration of the undead 283 00:20:00,115 --> 00:20:03,875 Speaker 1: deported just seventeen two hundred people last month. That's actually 284 00:20:04,075 --> 00:20:10,755 Speaker 1: below past presidential administration averages. Miller and Noam want three 285 00:20:10,795 --> 00:20:15,395 Speaker 1: thousand a day, not that I'd ever question the motives 286 00:20:15,435 --> 00:20:20,195 Speaker 1: of such upstanding white trash as Christy Nome and Steven Miller. 287 00:20:20,795 --> 00:20:24,035 Speaker 1: But financial disclosures made public last week revealed that besides 288 00:20:24,035 --> 00:20:27,515 Speaker 1: Attorney General Blondie, you know who else did work for 289 00:20:27,555 --> 00:20:30,395 Speaker 1: the GEO Group, the people to call when you need 290 00:20:30,435 --> 00:20:34,755 Speaker 1: a privately owned, privately operated, vermin filled concentration camp for 291 00:20:34,795 --> 00:20:38,115 Speaker 1: immigrants in your neighborhood. You know who else worked for 292 00:20:38,155 --> 00:20:44,195 Speaker 1: Geo ice scum Tom Holman consulted for them for at 293 00:20:44,275 --> 00:20:48,155 Speaker 1: least two years before Trump put him in charge of 294 00:20:49,755 --> 00:20:54,195 Speaker 1: finding people to put in GEO Group brand concentration camps. 295 00:20:55,275 --> 00:21:00,755 Speaker 1: What a coincidence? And if you miss this, former nursing 296 00:21:00,795 --> 00:21:06,995 Speaker 1: home scumbag Paul Waalsack Walsack as in Ballsack, pleads guilty 297 00:21:07,035 --> 00:21:09,995 Speaker 1: to tax crimes. The judge gives him eighteen months, says 298 00:21:10,035 --> 00:21:12,395 Speaker 1: their quote is not a get out of jail free 299 00:21:12,435 --> 00:21:16,515 Speaker 1: card for the rich. Then Ballsack's mom a Trump donor 300 00:21:16,595 --> 00:21:26,035 Speaker 1: named Elizabeth Fago Fago, I'm praying it's Fago. Elizabeth Fago 301 00:21:26,155 --> 00:21:28,555 Speaker 1: gets an invitation to a Trump event at Mary Lago 302 00:21:29,435 --> 00:21:32,755 Speaker 1: see if it would never mind. The invite comes either 303 00:21:32,955 --> 00:21:37,515 Speaker 1: just before or just after her son is sentenced. No 304 00:21:37,795 --> 00:21:40,635 Speaker 1: got out of jail free card for the rich. The 305 00:21:40,715 --> 00:21:43,515 Speaker 1: price for admission to the Trump event is one million 306 00:21:43,555 --> 00:21:48,315 Speaker 1: dollars to Trump. Three weeks after the dinner, Ballsack, her 307 00:21:48,395 --> 00:21:51,555 Speaker 1: son gets a pardon because there is a get out 308 00:21:51,595 --> 00:21:56,195 Speaker 1: of jail free card. Of course, it is not free. 309 00:21:56,275 --> 00:22:00,115 Speaker 1: This story got wildly and widely covered, but I don't 310 00:22:00,155 --> 00:22:02,515 Speaker 1: remember seeing it connected to a story from two years ago. 311 00:22:02,635 --> 00:22:07,835 Speaker 1: This month, anybody else remember Rudy Giuliani's reported boasts that 312 00:22:07,915 --> 00:22:11,755 Speaker 1: presidential pardons were available for purchase at popular prices without 313 00:22:11,795 --> 00:22:16,155 Speaker 1: a prescription, two million dollars each, half to him, half 314 00:22:16,195 --> 00:22:21,595 Speaker 1: to uh Trump. That is what a woman named Noel Dunfie, 315 00:22:21,675 --> 00:22:25,715 Speaker 1: who sued Juliani for sexual abuse, says Guliani told her 316 00:22:26,755 --> 00:22:29,635 Speaker 1: in twenty nineteen. And she says she has countless recordings 317 00:22:29,635 --> 00:22:31,795 Speaker 1: of their encounters. And I don't know if she recorded 318 00:22:31,795 --> 00:22:34,115 Speaker 1: on any of the part about the pardons, and I 319 00:22:34,115 --> 00:22:35,635 Speaker 1: don't know if she's telling the truth. And I have 320 00:22:35,715 --> 00:22:38,155 Speaker 1: even less of an idea of whether or not he 321 00:22:38,395 --> 00:22:40,955 Speaker 1: Giuliani was telling the truth about being able to do this. 322 00:22:42,235 --> 00:22:46,395 Speaker 1: But Dunfee's attorney claimed Giuliani quote asked miss Dunfie if 323 00:22:46,435 --> 00:22:49,395 Speaker 1: she knew anyone in need of a pardon, telling her 324 00:22:49,395 --> 00:22:52,195 Speaker 1: that he was selling pardons for two million dollars, which 325 00:22:52,235 --> 00:22:56,315 Speaker 1: he and President Trump would split. He told Miss Dunfie 326 00:22:56,355 --> 00:22:59,435 Speaker 1: that she could refer individuals seeking pardons to him, so 327 00:22:59,555 --> 00:23:02,515 Speaker 1: long as they did not go through the normal channels 328 00:23:02,555 --> 00:23:06,035 Speaker 1: of the Office of the Pardon Attorney, because correspondence going 329 00:23:06,075 --> 00:23:08,835 Speaker 1: to that office would be subject to disclosure under the 330 00:23:08,875 --> 00:23:14,395 Speaker 1: Freedom of Information Act twenty nineteen. Pardons for Sale, Pardons 331 00:23:14,395 --> 00:23:17,795 Speaker 1: for sale, Get your pardons here, hot roasted pardons two 332 00:23:17,835 --> 00:23:23,515 Speaker 1: millions apiece funny dog gun thing, though huh Giuliani allegedly 333 00:23:23,555 --> 00:23:26,755 Speaker 1: boasts of selling pardons for two million, a million for 334 00:23:26,915 --> 00:23:30,635 Speaker 1: him and a million for Trump, and six years later, 335 00:23:31,395 --> 00:23:37,595 Speaker 1: Trump pardons ball Sack after Mommy Ballsack attends a fundraiser 336 00:23:38,755 --> 00:23:42,235 Speaker 1: and buys a ticket to it, which costs a million 337 00:23:42,315 --> 00:23:57,315 Speaker 1: for Trump. Two of Trump's most ridiculous delusions have now merged. Oops. 338 00:23:57,915 --> 00:24:02,075 Speaker 1: Turns out he threatened Canada before he realized he would 339 00:24:02,155 --> 00:24:06,955 Speaker 1: need Canada to participate in this science fiction Golden Dome 340 00:24:07,155 --> 00:24:11,235 Speaker 1: bullshit that Musk must have convinced him to buy from Musk. 341 00:24:12,235 --> 00:24:18,995 Speaker 1: I told Canada you got everybody in Canada just sort 342 00:24:18,995 --> 00:24:22,395 Speaker 1: of sit still while you talk to them. I told Canada, 343 00:24:22,995 --> 00:24:29,835 Speaker 1: I told Mars, I told God, I told Jesus. I 344 00:24:29,995 --> 00:24:36,035 Speaker 1: told my invisible friend Stanley. I told Canada, which very 345 00:24:36,115 --> 00:24:39,035 Speaker 1: much wants to be part of our fabulous Golden Dome system, 346 00:24:39,315 --> 00:24:42,275 Speaker 1: that it will cost sixty one billion dollars if they 347 00:24:42,275 --> 00:24:45,755 Speaker 1: remain a separate but unequal nation, but will cost zero 348 00:24:45,875 --> 00:24:49,075 Speaker 1: dollars if they become our cherished fifty first state. They 349 00:24:49,115 --> 00:24:55,475 Speaker 1: are considering the offer. Couple notes. One, If you don't 350 00:24:55,515 --> 00:25:01,995 Speaker 1: have Canadian outposts in your Golden Dome, your Golden Dome 351 00:25:02,035 --> 00:25:06,435 Speaker 1: would never be aware of missions or flights or missiles 352 00:25:06,475 --> 00:25:09,475 Speaker 1: coming in from the north, the northeast, or the northwest 353 00:25:09,555 --> 00:25:17,115 Speaker 1: until about five ten seconds before they hit. Canada does 354 00:25:17,155 --> 00:25:22,155 Speaker 1: not need the Golden Dome. You trump need Canada. Two. 355 00:25:22,435 --> 00:25:27,835 Speaker 1: Golden Dome is not going to work. The dome idea 356 00:25:28,555 --> 00:25:31,435 Speaker 1: Ronald Reagan star wars under a different name. It barely 357 00:25:31,475 --> 00:25:35,555 Speaker 1: works in Israel. Israel measures eight five hundred and twenty 358 00:25:35,555 --> 00:25:39,115 Speaker 1: two square miles. The United States measures three million, eight 359 00:25:39,195 --> 00:25:43,995 Speaker 1: hundred and nine five hundred and twenty five square miles. Three. 360 00:25:45,035 --> 00:25:51,515 Speaker 1: The Golden Dome is at Notre Dame. Four, The only 361 00:25:51,635 --> 00:25:55,915 Speaker 1: Golden Dome Trump is actually associated with is his hair, 362 00:25:56,955 --> 00:26:01,475 Speaker 1: and five Canada is not, in fact, considering the offer. 363 00:26:07,355 --> 00:26:12,195 Speaker 1: Also off the wire, Wired magazine quotes staffers of Nancy Mace, 364 00:26:12,795 --> 00:26:15,915 Speaker 1: the house whack job who isn't Marjorie Stupid Green or 365 00:26:15,995 --> 00:26:20,155 Speaker 1: Lauren Bobert staffers who say she set up burners on 366 00:26:20,235 --> 00:26:24,115 Speaker 1: social media to boost her rep quoting Wired. Quoting a 367 00:26:24,115 --> 00:26:28,315 Speaker 1: former Mace staffer, we had to make multiple accounts, burner accounts, 368 00:26:28,355 --> 00:26:31,555 Speaker 1: and go and reply to comments saying things that weren't true, 369 00:26:32,075 --> 00:26:35,795 Speaker 1: even on Reddit forums. We were congressional staff and there 370 00:26:35,795 --> 00:26:41,075 Speaker 1: were actual things we could be doing to help the constituents. Wait, 371 00:26:41,155 --> 00:26:45,635 Speaker 1: you're telling me Nancy Mace has burner accounts working to 372 00:26:45,755 --> 00:26:53,875 Speaker 1: help her and her online persona is still that bad man. 373 00:26:55,755 --> 00:27:00,995 Speaker 1: And then there's this, The last surviving grandson of one 374 00:27:00,995 --> 00:27:03,675 Speaker 1: of our former presidents has died at the age of 375 00:27:03,795 --> 00:27:09,355 Speaker 1: ninety six. Sad news, of course, But is it really 376 00:27:09,435 --> 00:27:14,435 Speaker 1: news I mean a grandson, Well, sir, it's news because 377 00:27:14,635 --> 00:27:18,315 Speaker 1: the former president, he was the last surviving grandson of 378 00:27:18,595 --> 00:27:24,115 Speaker 1: that former president, left office on March fourth, eighteen forty five. 379 00:27:25,235 --> 00:27:28,715 Speaker 1: I'll say that again. His grandfather, a US president, left 380 00:27:28,875 --> 00:27:34,795 Speaker 1: office on March fourth, eighteen forty five. His grandson died 381 00:27:34,875 --> 00:27:37,995 Speaker 1: last weekend, one hundred and eighty years and just under 382 00:27:38,035 --> 00:27:43,035 Speaker 1: three months later. He was the tenth US president. He 383 00:27:43,115 --> 00:27:47,235 Speaker 1: was President John Tyler, famous because it was he who 384 00:27:47,275 --> 00:27:50,635 Speaker 1: ascended from the vice presidency went our ninth president. That's 385 00:27:50,875 --> 00:27:56,075 Speaker 1: nine single digits. William Henry Harrison died just thirty one 386 00:27:56,155 --> 00:27:59,875 Speaker 1: days after his inauguration in eighteen forty one. His vice 387 00:27:59,915 --> 00:28:03,915 Speaker 1: president was Tyler. Tyler's grandson just died this past weekend. 388 00:28:04,955 --> 00:28:09,235 Speaker 1: President Tyler fathered a child, not even his last child. 389 00:28:10,115 --> 00:28:14,555 Speaker 1: He wasn't even in the White House yet. His third 390 00:28:14,675 --> 00:28:18,755 Speaker 1: to last child, Lion Gardner Tyler, fathered when the ex 391 00:28:18,755 --> 00:28:23,035 Speaker 1: president was sixty three years old. That was in eighteen 392 00:28:23,115 --> 00:28:31,875 Speaker 1: fifty three. Lion Gardner Tyler fathered a son at seventy five, 393 00:28:33,955 --> 00:28:36,075 Speaker 1: That would have been on November ninth, nineteen twenty eight. 394 00:28:36,075 --> 00:28:38,915 Speaker 1: The son was born, and that son was Harrison Ruffin Tyler, 395 00:28:38,955 --> 00:28:40,795 Speaker 1: and he was the guy who died over the holiday weekend. 396 00:28:42,035 --> 00:28:48,595 Speaker 1: Three generations and you are back to the year President 397 00:28:48,635 --> 00:28:53,075 Speaker 1: Tyler was born. The year President Tyler was born was 398 00:28:53,195 --> 00:29:00,995 Speaker 1: seventeen ninety three generations. The last of them just shuffled off. 399 00:29:02,715 --> 00:29:06,115 Speaker 1: It takes you back to March March twenty ninth, seventeen 400 00:29:06,235 --> 00:29:09,995 Speaker 1: night March twenty ninth, seventeen ninety, or as we called 401 00:29:09,995 --> 00:29:18,475 Speaker 1: it around the house, Grandpa's birthday. Also of interest here, 402 00:29:18,515 --> 00:29:21,555 Speaker 1: By the way, I'm sixty six. It was not a 403 00:29:21,595 --> 00:29:24,075 Speaker 1: top ten priority on my list, but I have in 404 00:29:24,115 --> 00:29:27,235 Speaker 1: the last I don't know, three decades, regretted not having children. 405 00:29:27,795 --> 00:29:31,955 Speaker 1: Harrison Ruffman. Tyler's father was seventy five. His father was 406 00:29:31,995 --> 00:29:36,875 Speaker 1: sixty three, So send tapes and resumes to okay, never mind. 407 00:29:36,995 --> 00:29:39,235 Speaker 1: Also of interest here, in two thousand and one, Rupert 408 00:29:39,355 --> 00:29:43,355 Speaker 1: Murdoch fired me personally for reporting the story he didn't like, 409 00:29:44,035 --> 00:29:47,595 Speaker 1: after I had called my bosses and Rupert's office to 410 00:29:47,595 --> 00:29:51,555 Speaker 1: get the approval to report the story. Now Rupert Murdoch's 411 00:29:51,635 --> 00:29:55,395 Speaker 1: chief minions are firing another reporter from their company for 412 00:29:55,555 --> 00:30:01,035 Speaker 1: reporting another story Trump didn't like. Punchline, the new guy 413 00:30:01,075 --> 00:30:05,235 Speaker 1: getting the Olderman treatment, did a story last year on me. 414 00:30:06,635 --> 00:30:13,155 Speaker 1: That's next. This is Countdown. This is Countdown with Keith 415 00:30:13,235 --> 00:30:36,835 Speaker 1: Oberman still ahead on this edition of Countdown. I've never 416 00:30:36,875 --> 00:30:39,315 Speaker 1: done this before, but the thing I promised not to 417 00:30:39,355 --> 00:30:42,675 Speaker 1: tell is going to be exactly the same thing I 418 00:30:42,755 --> 00:30:46,155 Speaker 1: promised not to tell in the episode of Monday of 419 00:30:46,235 --> 00:30:51,795 Speaker 1: this week, the same recording, because impossibly, between the first 420 00:30:51,875 --> 00:30:55,235 Speaker 1: running and now it has become relevant to another media 421 00:30:55,315 --> 00:30:58,835 Speaker 1: story involving the same company, which you'll hear about in 422 00:30:58,875 --> 00:31:01,795 Speaker 1: a moment that's next in Things I promise not to tell. 423 00:31:01,835 --> 00:31:04,675 Speaker 1: So if you heard Monday's, feel free to skip today. 424 00:31:04,795 --> 00:31:07,035 Speaker 1: In fact, feel free to skip today's anyway, even if 425 00:31:07,035 --> 00:31:10,595 Speaker 1: you didn't hear mondays, what am I your boss? First? 426 00:31:10,595 --> 00:31:12,715 Speaker 1: Believe it or not, there's still more new idiots to 427 00:31:12,755 --> 00:31:14,875 Speaker 1: talk about. The roundup of the miss Grants, Morons and 428 00:31:14,955 --> 00:31:18,995 Speaker 1: Dunning Kruger effects specimens who constitute the latest other worst 429 00:31:19,075 --> 00:31:24,475 Speaker 1: persons in the world the Brons. Homeland Security Secretary Christie 430 00:31:24,555 --> 00:31:27,835 Speaker 1: Nome with eight new action adventure dress up outfits. Ooh, 431 00:31:27,875 --> 00:31:30,635 Speaker 1: there's a new one. Nine new action adventure dress up 432 00:31:30,635 --> 00:31:36,475 Speaker 1: outfits from the associated press photos. US Homeland Security Secretary 433 00:31:36,515 --> 00:31:43,155 Speaker 1: Nome visits Middle East. Homeland Security Secretary Christi Nome rides 434 00:31:43,195 --> 00:31:48,595 Speaker 1: a camel after a tour of cal At al Bahrain fort. 435 00:31:48,955 --> 00:31:51,075 Speaker 1: First of all, I can report she did not shoot 436 00:31:51,115 --> 00:31:54,755 Speaker 1: this animal. So we have slight improvement in the life 437 00:31:54,795 --> 00:32:00,835 Speaker 1: of CHRISTI Nome. Secondly, there she is little Turkey, arms bared, 438 00:32:02,715 --> 00:32:07,595 Speaker 1: wearing the headgear and sunglasses traditional in the Middle East. 439 00:32:08,115 --> 00:32:13,955 Speaker 1: And she's on a camel, simply put, and the camel 440 00:32:14,115 --> 00:32:19,435 Speaker 1: you rode in on. Runner up Jesse Waters of Fox 441 00:32:19,555 --> 00:32:24,675 Speaker 1: Congressman Tim I'm not all here, am I? Burchette Waters 442 00:32:24,835 --> 00:32:27,995 Speaker 1: sent his idiot henchman. That was the role Waters used 443 00:32:27,995 --> 00:32:31,435 Speaker 1: to perform for Bill O'Reilly to ask senators and congressmen 444 00:32:31,595 --> 00:32:36,195 Speaker 1: what they think of waters rules for men. Rule one, 445 00:32:36,315 --> 00:32:42,755 Speaker 1: we're really weird looking hair Burchett responding to the key 446 00:32:42,915 --> 00:32:46,115 Speaker 1: Waters rule, which is men don't drink from straws or 447 00:32:46,235 --> 00:32:49,755 Speaker 1: through straws. And I don't use straws, Burchett, I don't 448 00:32:49,835 --> 00:32:52,275 Speaker 1: drink out of a straw. Brother, That's what the women 449 00:32:52,355 --> 00:32:57,635 Speaker 1: in my house do. Cool Cool, Burchette, Cool Waters. Once again, 450 00:32:57,675 --> 00:32:59,715 Speaker 1: I will point you to idiots to the photo of 451 00:32:59,755 --> 00:33:03,515 Speaker 1: Waters's old boss at Yankee Stadium from about twelve thirteen 452 00:33:03,595 --> 00:33:07,875 Speaker 1: years ago, drinking a milkshake, threw a straw during a 453 00:33:07,915 --> 00:33:11,395 Speaker 1: baseball game while sitting next to another guy drinking a 454 00:33:11,395 --> 00:33:16,755 Speaker 1: milkshake through a straw. A guy named Donald Trump. Congratulations 455 00:33:16,755 --> 00:33:20,355 Speaker 1: Congressman Burchant on calling Donald Trump a woman because he 456 00:33:20,475 --> 00:33:26,155 Speaker 1: used the straw on a milkshake. But the winners the 457 00:33:26,195 --> 00:33:30,075 Speaker 1: scumbag New York Post owned by scumbag Rupert Murdoch and 458 00:33:30,195 --> 00:33:35,315 Speaker 1: its scumbag editor in chief Keith Pool. Once again, Rupert 459 00:33:35,355 --> 00:33:38,395 Speaker 1: Murdoch's real name is Keith. He hired an editor in 460 00:33:38,475 --> 00:33:43,675 Speaker 1: chief for the Post named Keith the doing me dirty. 461 00:33:44,795 --> 00:33:47,835 Speaker 1: And this also, this story hits so close to home. 462 00:33:48,435 --> 00:33:52,275 Speaker 1: Lachland Cartwright's site Breaker, that's Lachland Cartwright, who is not 463 00:33:52,395 --> 00:33:55,435 Speaker 1: named Keith, reports the Post is burying a story that 464 00:33:55,435 --> 00:33:58,115 Speaker 1: would have embarrassed Trump and revealed that his pick to 465 00:33:58,195 --> 00:34:01,955 Speaker 1: run the DEEA had reportedly led two operations that led 466 00:34:01,995 --> 00:34:07,715 Speaker 1: to unnecessary deaths. And then Pool Murdoch on the Post, 467 00:34:07,795 --> 00:34:10,555 Speaker 1: essentially firing the reporter who broke the story after they 468 00:34:10,595 --> 00:34:13,355 Speaker 1: buried his story that they buried that they told him 469 00:34:13,395 --> 00:34:16,755 Speaker 1: to proceed on. A sixteen year veteran of the Post 470 00:34:16,835 --> 00:34:19,915 Speaker 1: no less, let me quote Cartwright's report at some length here. 471 00:34:20,315 --> 00:34:23,915 Speaker 1: It was a pretty amazing scoop, Josh Cosmon explained to 472 00:34:23,915 --> 00:34:27,715 Speaker 1: the Breaker. Cosmon briefed multiple editors at the Post, including 473 00:34:27,715 --> 00:34:30,795 Speaker 1: the business, features and political editors, who all encouraged him 474 00:34:30,795 --> 00:34:33,515 Speaker 1: to pursue the story, but there were early signs of 475 00:34:33,555 --> 00:34:36,195 Speaker 1: external pressure. I was told by a White House press 476 00:34:36,235 --> 00:34:39,515 Speaker 1: person that Caroline Levitt was looking at this real carefully. 477 00:34:39,835 --> 00:34:42,715 Speaker 1: Cosman told Breaker about conversations he was having with the 478 00:34:42,715 --> 00:34:47,555 Speaker 1: White House about Cole that's the DEI guy. After clearing 479 00:34:47,595 --> 00:34:51,315 Speaker 1: several hurdles, including getting two on record sources and speaking 480 00:34:51,315 --> 00:34:53,475 Speaker 1: to more than a dozen former top officials, the story 481 00:34:53,555 --> 00:34:56,715 Speaker 1: was written, edited, and slated to run on Sunday, March 482 00:34:56,755 --> 00:34:59,475 Speaker 1: twenty second, but it continued to be pushed off till 483 00:34:59,555 --> 00:35:03,155 Speaker 1: later in the week. Eventually, Cosmon emailed the post's political 484 00:35:03,235 --> 00:35:06,595 Speaker 1: editor to ask for an update. There's no good way 485 00:35:06,635 --> 00:35:09,475 Speaker 1: to say this, so I'll just say it. Keith Poole 486 00:35:09,635 --> 00:35:13,635 Speaker 1: spiked the story. The Post's political editor emailed Cosmon March 487 00:35:13,675 --> 00:35:16,955 Speaker 1: twenty seven in an email obtained and reviewed by Breaker. 488 00:35:17,675 --> 00:35:20,235 Speaker 1: The bombshell email went on to say I sent him 489 00:35:20,235 --> 00:35:23,235 Speaker 1: the most recent copy. In his response was nope, not 490 00:35:23,475 --> 00:35:26,155 Speaker 1: running this. In a way that made clear there was 491 00:35:26,195 --> 00:35:29,395 Speaker 1: no changing his mind. The editor wrote, I'm very sorry. 492 00:35:29,435 --> 00:35:32,315 Speaker 1: I thought we had the story, but sometimes decisions are 493 00:35:32,355 --> 00:35:36,755 Speaker 1: made above my pay grade. Yeah, that sounds familiar to 494 00:35:37,115 --> 00:35:39,755 Speaker 1: Two weeks later, on April eleventh, Cosmon met with the 495 00:35:39,795 --> 00:35:42,755 Speaker 1: post's business editor and was told that he would either 496 00:35:42,795 --> 00:35:46,355 Speaker 1: have to submit to a performance improvement plan or take 497 00:35:46,435 --> 00:35:50,755 Speaker 1: some time to seek another job. He acknowledged that Keith 498 00:35:50,795 --> 00:35:54,595 Speaker 1: Poole had issues with some recent stories, Cosmon told Breaker. 499 00:35:55,635 --> 00:35:58,275 Speaker 1: On April twenty ninth, CNN published a story about Cole 500 00:35:58,355 --> 00:36:01,755 Speaker 1: under the headline ex agent's question, role of Trump's dea 501 00:36:01,875 --> 00:36:05,475 Speaker 1: pick and violent overseas incidents, detailing many the allegations that 502 00:36:05,515 --> 00:36:08,875 Speaker 1: were in Cosmon's story. For what it's worth, we clearly 503 00:36:08,955 --> 00:36:11,995 Speaker 1: were ahead on the story, Cosmon emailed the political editor. 504 00:36:12,195 --> 00:36:14,475 Speaker 1: In fact, we still have more info in our spiked 505 00:36:14,515 --> 00:36:17,955 Speaker 1: story than CNN's, though the takes are pretty similar. Yeah, 506 00:36:18,035 --> 00:36:21,595 Speaker 1: I know, Josh, the political editor responded nineteen minutes later. 507 00:36:21,875 --> 00:36:24,635 Speaker 1: I always believed in the story, but sometimes decisions are 508 00:36:24,635 --> 00:36:29,235 Speaker 1: made above my head. Unfortunately, when Keith takes actions like this, 509 00:36:29,555 --> 00:36:32,435 Speaker 1: you are catching and killing the story, Cosmon told Breaker. 510 00:36:32,995 --> 00:36:35,155 Speaker 1: Then two weeks later, you're telling me to get out. 511 00:36:35,755 --> 00:36:39,395 Speaker 1: I certainly interpreted it as retaliation. The timing struck me 512 00:36:39,435 --> 00:36:43,835 Speaker 1: as not coincidental. On Tuesday, afternoon, just hours after Breaker 513 00:36:43,875 --> 00:36:47,475 Speaker 1: approached Pool for comments, Cosman was suspended from the New 514 00:36:47,515 --> 00:36:52,595 Speaker 1: York Post with full pay. So let's recap the reporter. 515 00:36:52,755 --> 00:36:57,115 Speaker 1: Cosman asked what the rules were, told his bosses told 516 00:36:57,155 --> 00:37:01,955 Speaker 1: the story, followed their rules, and then the paper buried 517 00:37:01,955 --> 00:37:06,875 Speaker 1: his story and buried him anyway, as I will late 518 00:37:06,995 --> 00:37:10,115 Speaker 1: after this break. Murdoch himself did this to me in 519 00:37:10,155 --> 00:37:13,075 Speaker 1: two thousand and one, although because he was on vacation 520 00:37:13,435 --> 00:37:16,155 Speaker 1: when I broke the story, he wasn't around to bury it. 521 00:37:16,315 --> 00:37:19,435 Speaker 1: So the story ran and I followed all their rules 522 00:37:19,675 --> 00:37:22,555 Speaker 1: and they fired me anyway. And the punchline to this 523 00:37:23,115 --> 00:37:27,235 Speaker 1: when a New York Post reporter called me last September 524 00:37:27,315 --> 00:37:29,955 Speaker 1: to say they were about to update the RFK Junior 525 00:37:30,395 --> 00:37:34,115 Speaker 1: sexting with a New York Magazine reporter story. They're going 526 00:37:34,155 --> 00:37:36,315 Speaker 1: to update this by claiming that I had lived with 527 00:37:36,395 --> 00:37:42,755 Speaker 1: that reporter, Olivia Newsey. The Post reporter was same guy, Cosmin, 528 00:37:43,075 --> 00:37:44,875 Speaker 1: and I did what you have to do in that situation. 529 00:37:44,955 --> 00:37:47,715 Speaker 1: I put the story on Twitter immediately saying yes, this 530 00:37:47,835 --> 00:37:50,315 Speaker 1: is true. I did not do what the Post did. 531 00:37:50,315 --> 00:37:53,475 Speaker 1: When Cosmin came up with the truth and another great story, 532 00:37:53,795 --> 00:37:57,355 Speaker 1: kill it and off him, so the New York Post 533 00:37:57,675 --> 00:38:03,595 Speaker 1: editor Keith Poole and Rupert Scumbag Murdoch two Days, Worst 534 00:38:04,035 --> 00:38:28,195 Speaker 1: Parsones and the wal Fight to the number one story 535 00:38:28,195 --> 00:38:31,075 Speaker 1: on the Countdown and my favorite topic, me and things 536 00:38:31,115 --> 00:38:35,515 Speaker 1: I promised not to tell. Over the weekend watching hockey, 537 00:38:36,035 --> 00:38:38,755 Speaker 1: I had occasion to invoke my days hosting the Baseball 538 00:38:38,795 --> 00:38:40,835 Speaker 1: Game of the Week and the World Series for Fox, 539 00:38:40,875 --> 00:38:43,235 Speaker 1: and it reminded me of the delightful way that ended 540 00:38:44,315 --> 00:38:46,475 Speaker 1: with me being paid one hundred thousand dollars a month 541 00:38:46,555 --> 00:38:49,595 Speaker 1: not to do anything. I have changed jobs a lot, 542 00:38:49,995 --> 00:38:53,275 Speaker 1: and seldom have the departures included gold watches and going 543 00:38:53,275 --> 00:38:56,875 Speaker 1: away parties, at least not going away parties to which 544 00:38:56,955 --> 00:39:00,875 Speaker 1: I was invited. But in forty three years in radio 545 00:39:00,955 --> 00:39:04,155 Speaker 1: and television, I have only actually been fired in the 546 00:39:04,195 --> 00:39:06,995 Speaker 1: traditional sense of go clean out your desk and get 547 00:39:07,035 --> 00:39:11,875 Speaker 1: out twice. Once the order was from a drunken radio 548 00:39:11,915 --> 00:39:13,875 Speaker 1: executive who did not like the fact that I was 549 00:39:13,915 --> 00:39:17,635 Speaker 1: twenty one years old, and he was overruled, and he 550 00:39:17,755 --> 00:39:20,875 Speaker 1: was sent home with a warning by his bosses hours later, 551 00:39:21,515 --> 00:39:23,755 Speaker 1: and I was back on the job forty eight hours 552 00:39:23,795 --> 00:39:28,475 Speaker 1: after that. The other time, when it actually happened, You're fired, 553 00:39:28,515 --> 00:39:32,115 Speaker 1: clean out your desk. That was, unsurprisingly at the hands 554 00:39:32,115 --> 00:39:36,195 Speaker 1: of Rupert Murdoch and Fox, and I mean Rupert Murdoch personally, 555 00:39:36,755 --> 00:39:42,115 Speaker 1: or so he claims. When I finally convinced NBC News 556 00:39:42,115 --> 00:39:44,795 Speaker 1: that I was serious about no longer hosting its Monica 557 00:39:44,875 --> 00:39:48,675 Speaker 1: Lewinsky Athon in nineteen ninety eight, the head of NBC Sports, 558 00:39:48,755 --> 00:39:52,715 Speaker 1: Dick Eversoll, had an ingenious solution. He knew his friends 559 00:39:52,715 --> 00:39:56,995 Speaker 1: at Fox Sports longed to have me front their version 560 00:39:57,075 --> 00:40:00,755 Speaker 1: of SportsCenter, and so he proposed the following NBC would 561 00:40:00,795 --> 00:40:04,675 Speaker 1: give my agent ten days in which to negotiate two deals. 562 00:40:05,275 --> 00:40:07,915 Speaker 1: A deal for me to go to LA and host 563 00:40:08,035 --> 00:40:12,875 Speaker 1: Fox Sports News and Major League Baseball on Fox, and 564 00:40:12,995 --> 00:40:16,955 Speaker 1: another deal in which Fox would pay NBC one million 565 00:40:17,075 --> 00:40:24,155 Speaker 1: dollars for my contract, like I was a mediocre baseball pitcher. Amazingly, 566 00:40:25,075 --> 00:40:28,275 Speaker 1: it worked. I got what was then a record breaking 567 00:40:28,355 --> 00:40:32,275 Speaker 1: salary for any cable sportscaster. Ever, NBC got its million, 568 00:40:32,675 --> 00:40:35,755 Speaker 1: and maybe most startlingly, NBC then asked me to stay 569 00:40:35,795 --> 00:40:39,435 Speaker 1: on the air as a lane duck at MSNBC for 570 00:40:39,555 --> 00:40:44,995 Speaker 1: like six weeks. Curiously throughout my career, no matter how 571 00:40:45,035 --> 00:40:49,035 Speaker 1: abrasive the exit. My Lane Duck employers have always, for 572 00:40:49,075 --> 00:40:53,475 Speaker 1: some reason trusted me to stay on their air, even 573 00:40:53,515 --> 00:40:57,595 Speaker 1: though I was leaving in local news in Los Angeles once. 574 00:40:57,875 --> 00:41:03,315 Speaker 1: I did this for three months. Anyway. At first, going 575 00:41:03,315 --> 00:41:06,635 Speaker 1: to work at Fox Sports was a delight. Their news guys, 576 00:41:06,715 --> 00:41:09,995 Speaker 1: the evil Roger Ales and his henchman John Moody, pitched 577 00:41:10,035 --> 00:41:12,515 Speaker 1: me on doing stuff for them, maybe co anchoring with 578 00:41:12,555 --> 00:41:18,075 Speaker 1: Bill O'Reilly. I'm serious. I passed sports. We spent money. 579 00:41:18,435 --> 00:41:21,515 Speaker 1: I worked with friends. I didn't have to talk about politics. 580 00:41:21,755 --> 00:41:25,515 Speaker 1: I could narrate highlights. I could do funny voices. Way 581 00:41:25,555 --> 00:41:30,435 Speaker 1: downtown Bang I lived on the beach. I mean, my 582 00:41:30,475 --> 00:41:33,955 Speaker 1: next door neighbor was Hawaii. Every time there was a 583 00:41:33,995 --> 00:41:37,875 Speaker 1: newspaper story about ESPN, even though our ratings were terrible, 584 00:41:38,355 --> 00:41:40,635 Speaker 1: there was also my picture in it with a caption 585 00:41:40,875 --> 00:41:46,835 Speaker 1: like challenging ESPN. It was great. But then two things happened. 586 00:41:47,315 --> 00:41:50,475 Speaker 1: The Fox guy, who knew we needed five years at 587 00:41:50,595 --> 00:41:54,475 Speaker 1: minimum just to tie ESPN in the ratings, took me 588 00:41:54,515 --> 00:41:57,395 Speaker 1: to lunch one day and said, sorry, mate, mo missus 589 00:41:57,435 --> 00:42:00,795 Speaker 1: is moving back to England tomorrow without me, so I'm 590 00:42:00,835 --> 00:42:05,475 Speaker 1: going good luck. He was replaced by guys who replaced 591 00:42:05,475 --> 00:42:09,275 Speaker 1: the five year plan with a five week plan to 592 00:42:09,435 --> 00:42:14,115 Speaker 1: raise the ratings by literally one fifth of one point. 593 00:42:14,915 --> 00:42:17,675 Speaker 1: I left that meeting, in which they explained their suicidal 594 00:42:17,715 --> 00:42:21,635 Speaker 1: plan and revealed that my salary represented an unsustainable twenty 595 00:42:21,795 --> 00:42:25,155 Speaker 1: percent of their entire budget, and I called my real 596 00:42:25,235 --> 00:42:28,355 Speaker 1: estate agent and put my house on the beach up 597 00:42:28,435 --> 00:42:32,715 Speaker 1: for sale. Not long after, my doctor gave me a 598 00:42:32,755 --> 00:42:35,675 Speaker 1: physical and a warning, cut back on work and stress 599 00:42:35,755 --> 00:42:38,515 Speaker 1: and everything else, or you can have a heart attack 600 00:42:38,595 --> 00:42:41,795 Speaker 1: ten years from now. I told my bosses this, and 601 00:42:41,835 --> 00:42:46,035 Speaker 1: their response was to blackmail me. We have a clause 602 00:42:46,035 --> 00:42:48,115 Speaker 1: in your contract which allows us to send you on 603 00:42:48,115 --> 00:42:50,835 Speaker 1: the road once a week while you are still working 604 00:42:50,875 --> 00:42:53,635 Speaker 1: five days in the studio. We're going to enforce that 605 00:42:53,755 --> 00:42:57,315 Speaker 1: unless you kick back two thirds of your salary. They 606 00:42:57,355 --> 00:43:01,035 Speaker 1: put this in a document. There are, as the kids, say, receipts. 607 00:43:02,275 --> 00:43:07,355 Speaker 1: So I folded to blackmail because two thirds of three 608 00:43:07,395 --> 00:43:10,995 Speaker 1: million dollars a year is still pretty good. But I 609 00:43:11,075 --> 00:43:13,355 Speaker 1: kept doing the job. In nineteen ninety nine, I broke 610 00:43:13,395 --> 00:43:15,675 Speaker 1: a story that everybody laughed at that Michael Jordan was 611 00:43:15,755 --> 00:43:18,155 Speaker 1: unhappy in retirement and he wanted to come back to 612 00:43:18,195 --> 00:43:20,435 Speaker 1: play in the NBA, but instead of getting a salary, 613 00:43:20,675 --> 00:43:24,635 Speaker 1: he wanted an ownership stake in a team. Two years later, 614 00:43:25,435 --> 00:43:28,715 Speaker 1: he did exactly that. In two thousand, I got to 615 00:43:28,715 --> 00:43:31,755 Speaker 1: host the first Mets Yankees World Series, and hosting baseball 616 00:43:31,795 --> 00:43:34,555 Speaker 1: every Saturday on Fox was a pretty good gig, and 617 00:43:34,595 --> 00:43:36,515 Speaker 1: we were just gearing up for the two thousand and 618 00:43:36,555 --> 00:43:39,435 Speaker 1: one baseball season when I got a tip on April 619 00:43:39,515 --> 00:43:43,275 Speaker 1: twentieth that the owners of the Los Angeles Dodgers had 620 00:43:43,355 --> 00:43:46,475 Speaker 1: unofficially put their team up for sale, and in fact, 621 00:43:46,555 --> 00:43:49,875 Speaker 1: they were talking to the old owners, the O'Malley family, 622 00:43:50,115 --> 00:43:54,275 Speaker 1: about taking the Dodgers off their hands, selling the Dodgers 623 00:43:54,355 --> 00:43:58,155 Speaker 1: back to the son of Walter O'Malley. This was a 624 00:43:58,275 --> 00:44:01,955 Speaker 1: great scoop, but it had great danger because the owners 625 00:44:01,955 --> 00:44:08,555 Speaker 1: of the Dodgers were Fox, my own employers. The next day, 626 00:44:08,595 --> 00:44:11,395 Speaker 1: after getting this scoop, I made about one hundred phone calls, 627 00:44:11,435 --> 00:44:13,075 Speaker 1: and sure enough I got the friend of a friend 628 00:44:13,115 --> 00:44:14,915 Speaker 1: of a friend of my agent to confirm that he 629 00:44:15,035 --> 00:44:19,515 Speaker 1: and his family were in preliminary discussions joining the O'Malleys 630 00:44:19,795 --> 00:44:23,275 Speaker 1: to buy the Dodgers from Fox. Two sources great scoop, 631 00:44:24,355 --> 00:44:26,675 Speaker 1: and that night I reached out to my bosses and said, 632 00:44:26,755 --> 00:44:29,595 Speaker 1: what the hell do we do here? The story is solid, 633 00:44:30,035 --> 00:44:33,835 Speaker 1: The Dodgers are for sale. But look, this is your 634 00:44:33,915 --> 00:44:36,475 Speaker 1: candy store, and I do work for you, and if 635 00:44:36,475 --> 00:44:38,515 Speaker 1: you don't want me to report this, I'm obviously not 636 00:44:38,635 --> 00:44:41,075 Speaker 1: going to report it, and I'm not going to pouch 637 00:44:41,355 --> 00:44:43,195 Speaker 1: and I'm not going to give the story to somebody else. 638 00:44:44,395 --> 00:44:47,355 Speaker 1: My boss has replied, good for you. Why don't we 639 00:44:47,395 --> 00:44:50,275 Speaker 1: all get on the phone with the top rupert. Murdoch 640 00:44:50,315 --> 00:44:54,155 Speaker 1: has his own Personal News Corp Public relations department. Let's 641 00:44:54,195 --> 00:44:58,475 Speaker 1: see what he says. So on Sunday, April twenty second, 642 00:44:58,475 --> 00:45:00,955 Speaker 1: two thousand and one, we got Murdoch's own PR guy 643 00:45:00,995 --> 00:45:03,395 Speaker 1: on the blower and I explained it to him. Now, 644 00:45:03,515 --> 00:45:06,115 Speaker 1: mister Murdoch has a policy about this. He never interferes 645 00:45:06,115 --> 00:45:10,115 Speaker 1: in editorial decisions, not even in sourced business stories, not 646 00:45:10,275 --> 00:45:13,955 Speaker 1: even if they involve him. So long as you make 647 00:45:14,035 --> 00:45:17,115 Speaker 1: it clear your sources are not from within the company, 648 00:45:17,555 --> 00:45:20,395 Speaker 1: and so long as you're confident in your sources, and 649 00:45:20,475 --> 00:45:24,035 Speaker 1: so long as you include our denial, you should proceed 650 00:45:24,115 --> 00:45:26,635 Speaker 1: with this Dodger story. That is what we are paying 651 00:45:26,675 --> 00:45:32,555 Speaker 1: you for. For a brief moment, I thought maybe I 652 00:45:32,715 --> 00:45:36,595 Speaker 1: have misjudged Rupert Murdoch. Well, it turned out to be 653 00:45:36,635 --> 00:45:40,595 Speaker 1: a very brief moment and a very wrong moment. I 654 00:45:40,715 --> 00:45:46,475 Speaker 1: reported the story that night, howls of denials. Five days later, though, 655 00:45:46,515 --> 00:45:49,915 Speaker 1: the Long Beach Press Telegram newspaper had its own story said, 656 00:45:50,595 --> 00:45:54,995 Speaker 1: despite denials, Dodgers are for sale, with far more details 657 00:45:54,995 --> 00:45:57,995 Speaker 1: than I had, And that really was the end of it. 658 00:45:58,355 --> 00:46:01,635 Speaker 1: The team was unofficially for sale. Dodger fans, who hated 659 00:46:01,675 --> 00:46:03,955 Speaker 1: what Fox had done to the team seemed happy, and 660 00:46:04,035 --> 00:46:08,115 Speaker 1: the bast stinking pile of burning excrement that was Fox 661 00:46:08,195 --> 00:46:14,555 Speaker 1: and NewsCorp and Murdoch sailed on unperturbed. But twelve days 662 00:46:14,595 --> 00:46:16,595 Speaker 1: after that, just before I was getting in my car 663 00:46:16,675 --> 00:46:19,515 Speaker 1: to go to the first Fox Baseball meeting for our 664 00:46:19,555 --> 00:46:23,195 Speaker 1: two thousand and one season coverage, the president of Fox Sports, 665 00:46:23,515 --> 00:46:27,155 Speaker 1: yet another Aussie called David Hill, called my agent and 666 00:46:27,275 --> 00:46:30,395 Speaker 1: told her case, not doing any baseball for us this year. 667 00:46:30,675 --> 00:46:37,595 Speaker 1: Business decision click, end of conversation. Nothing else, no firing, 668 00:46:38,075 --> 00:46:40,675 Speaker 1: no get out, no clean out your desk, no announcement. 669 00:46:41,395 --> 00:46:44,435 Speaker 1: But then two days later they turned off my access 670 00:46:44,475 --> 00:46:47,235 Speaker 1: to the Fox computer system, And four days after that 671 00:46:47,275 --> 00:46:51,035 Speaker 1: they called and canceled my cable show, and then that 672 00:46:51,195 --> 00:46:54,355 Speaker 1: night I got two weird calls from Rich Sandomir, who 673 00:46:54,395 --> 00:46:57,515 Speaker 1: was the TV sports critic and TV sports business reporter 674 00:46:57,595 --> 00:47:00,435 Speaker 1: for the New York Times. And Rich asks me, so, 675 00:47:00,675 --> 00:47:03,395 Speaker 1: did you know you got fired by Rupert Murdoch personally? 676 00:47:04,235 --> 00:47:07,635 Speaker 1: And I said, with genuine astonishment that I not only 677 00:47:07,755 --> 00:47:11,555 Speaker 1: didn't know that, but even given my thoughts about Rupert Murdoch, 678 00:47:11,635 --> 00:47:14,555 Speaker 1: I didn't believe that. Well, that's what my sources at 679 00:47:14,595 --> 00:47:17,715 Speaker 1: Fox tell me. Apparently your Dodger story really pissed him off, 680 00:47:17,795 --> 00:47:21,395 Speaker 1: but really, and I said, I had cleared it through 681 00:47:21,435 --> 00:47:24,955 Speaker 1: his personal PR guy. I don't know, Rich Sandomir said, 682 00:47:24,995 --> 00:47:27,475 Speaker 1: apparently he was on vacation and he got back like 683 00:47:27,795 --> 00:47:29,675 Speaker 1: the ninth of this month, and he read all these 684 00:47:29,675 --> 00:47:32,315 Speaker 1: stories about the Dodgers being for sale and how Fox 685 00:47:32,355 --> 00:47:34,035 Speaker 1: Sports was the first to report it, and he called 686 00:47:34,075 --> 00:47:37,035 Speaker 1: up David Hill and he told Hill to fire you immediately. 687 00:47:37,995 --> 00:47:39,835 Speaker 1: So I told Rich, this is the first I have 688 00:47:39,955 --> 00:47:42,955 Speaker 1: heard of this, and I still don't believe it, even 689 00:47:42,995 --> 00:47:45,835 Speaker 1: though the day he mentioned May ninth was the day 690 00:47:45,915 --> 00:47:48,075 Speaker 1: David Hill had called my agent and told her I 691 00:47:48,115 --> 00:47:51,915 Speaker 1: would not be doing baseball for Fox that year. An 692 00:47:51,915 --> 00:47:55,155 Speaker 1: hour later, the phone rings again and it's Rich Sandomir again, 693 00:47:55,195 --> 00:47:58,155 Speaker 1: and he sounds shaken. I got it wrong. I don't 694 00:47:58,155 --> 00:48:00,395 Speaker 1: have any sources at Fox who told me Rupert fired 695 00:48:00,395 --> 00:48:04,635 Speaker 1: you personally. My source said that you were telling people 696 00:48:04,795 --> 00:48:08,715 Speaker 1: Rupert had fired you personally over the Dodger story. And 697 00:48:08,795 --> 00:48:13,275 Speaker 1: I gave Rich a sequence of well, kind of friendly 698 00:48:13,515 --> 00:48:16,835 Speaker 1: uh huhz And I said, no, I didn't, and know 699 00:48:17,395 --> 00:48:19,235 Speaker 1: you've never been dumb enough in your life to make 700 00:48:19,235 --> 00:48:22,035 Speaker 1: the mistake you're saying you just made. And he said, well, 701 00:48:22,075 --> 00:48:25,075 Speaker 1: I never said somebody at Fox said Murdock fired Joe. Ok. Thanks. 702 00:48:25,075 --> 00:48:28,755 Speaker 1: By the next day, they had me come into the 703 00:48:28,795 --> 00:48:32,075 Speaker 1: Fox building on Pico Boulevard and clean out my office 704 00:48:32,075 --> 00:48:35,035 Speaker 1: while a guard watched. And she was a really nice guard. 705 00:48:35,075 --> 00:48:38,155 Speaker 1: In fact, she brought donuts but a lovely way to 706 00:48:38,195 --> 00:48:41,235 Speaker 1: go out. As I packed, I thought more and more 707 00:48:41,235 --> 00:48:43,275 Speaker 1: of what had happened in the month since I had 708 00:48:43,315 --> 00:48:46,475 Speaker 1: gotten that tip about the Dodgers being for sale. As 709 00:48:46,515 --> 00:48:49,315 Speaker 1: I left the Fox lot for the last time as 710 00:48:49,355 --> 00:48:51,475 Speaker 1: an employee, I went back a couple of times to 711 00:48:51,515 --> 00:48:54,795 Speaker 1: attend table reads for the Simpsons. Table reads for the 712 00:48:54,795 --> 00:48:57,355 Speaker 1: Simpsons were much more fun than being an employee at Fox. 713 00:48:57,915 --> 00:48:59,955 Speaker 1: I called a couple of reporters I knew, and my 714 00:49:00,075 --> 00:49:02,275 Speaker 1: agent and some people in the business, and we tried 715 00:49:02,275 --> 00:49:05,595 Speaker 1: to put together a timeline that made some sort of sense, 716 00:49:06,395 --> 00:49:09,275 Speaker 1: because the slow motion firing thing. May ninth, you're not 717 00:49:09,315 --> 00:49:12,995 Speaker 1: doing baseball. May eleventh, your computer won't work. May fifteenth, 718 00:49:13,035 --> 00:49:16,355 Speaker 1: your cable show is canceled. May sixteenth, clean out your office. 719 00:49:16,995 --> 00:49:22,475 Speaker 1: A week long firing made no sense until one reporter 720 00:49:22,595 --> 00:49:25,555 Speaker 1: friend said, you know, Fox called me and said, call 721 00:49:25,675 --> 00:49:29,075 Speaker 1: Keith up and provoke him, get him to call us names, 722 00:49:29,795 --> 00:49:32,075 Speaker 1: tell him about this story and that paper, calling him 723 00:49:32,195 --> 00:49:35,475 Speaker 1: washed up, get him going, And then it all clicked. 724 00:49:36,115 --> 00:49:38,635 Speaker 1: My contract ran through the end of the year two 725 00:49:38,675 --> 00:49:41,995 Speaker 1: thousand and one because Fox was firing me without any 726 00:49:42,035 --> 00:49:44,515 Speaker 1: cause or even claiming there was a cause, without any 727 00:49:44,595 --> 00:49:47,795 Speaker 1: violation of my contract or their rules. Because I had 728 00:49:47,835 --> 00:49:50,475 Speaker 1: left a trail of good behavior on the Dodger story. 729 00:49:50,835 --> 00:49:53,715 Speaker 1: They were trying to enrage me and get me to 730 00:49:53,875 --> 00:49:58,035 Speaker 1: say something nasty that itself would be a violation of 731 00:49:58,035 --> 00:50:01,195 Speaker 1: my contract so they could outright fire me and keep 732 00:50:01,235 --> 00:50:04,395 Speaker 1: the money. And the money still on the contract was 733 00:50:04,395 --> 00:50:10,155 Speaker 1: about eight hundred thousand dollars. Now, after decades of contemplating this, 734 00:50:10,315 --> 00:50:13,395 Speaker 1: I am confident that I am no crazier than the 735 00:50:13,395 --> 00:50:16,755 Speaker 1: next guy, at least not the next guy in television. 736 00:50:17,115 --> 00:50:21,475 Speaker 1: But on my worst, craziest, least rational day, if you 737 00:50:21,555 --> 00:50:25,075 Speaker 1: said you have two choices, Alderman, you can blow up 738 00:50:25,115 --> 00:50:27,195 Speaker 1: these people who are firing you, and you can make 739 00:50:27,195 --> 00:50:30,515 Speaker 1: them look bad in a newspaper for a day and 740 00:50:30,555 --> 00:50:32,595 Speaker 1: then they'll fire you and keep all the money they 741 00:50:32,595 --> 00:50:37,475 Speaker 1: owe you. Or you can keep your big bazoo shut 742 00:50:37,755 --> 00:50:40,915 Speaker 1: for just seven months. You can keep the eight hundred 743 00:50:40,955 --> 00:50:44,595 Speaker 1: thousand dollars, and you can spend the summer doing whatever 744 00:50:44,595 --> 00:50:46,795 Speaker 1: the hell you want, and you can then spend the 745 00:50:46,835 --> 00:50:50,595 Speaker 1: rest of your natural life blowing these people up. If 746 00:50:50,635 --> 00:50:55,275 Speaker 1: that's the choice, I will always take the scenario that 747 00:50:55,355 --> 00:50:58,675 Speaker 1: gives me the eight hundred thousand dollars for doing nothing. 748 00:50:59,875 --> 00:51:05,315 Speaker 1: Always so. On January first, two thousand to after the 749 00:51:05,395 --> 00:51:09,235 Speaker 1: last Fox check cleared, I began making a professional avocation 750 00:51:09,395 --> 00:51:13,915 Speaker 1: out of attacking Fox News, Fox Sports, Fox Business, Fox Murdoch, 751 00:51:14,235 --> 00:51:18,515 Speaker 1: Fox O'Reilly, Fox, Tucker Carlson, whatever. And I got the 752 00:51:18,555 --> 00:51:22,635 Speaker 1: eight hundred thousand dollars, But they're lingered for years. This 753 00:51:22,795 --> 00:51:26,115 Speaker 1: kind of academic question of whether Rupert Murdoch had actually 754 00:51:26,235 --> 00:51:30,755 Speaker 1: fired me for having followed the rules set out by 755 00:51:30,795 --> 00:51:36,075 Speaker 1: his own personal pr guy. As usual, these things resolve 756 00:51:36,155 --> 00:51:39,835 Speaker 1: themselves when you least expect them to. Murdoch was speaking 757 00:51:39,835 --> 00:51:43,275 Speaker 1: at a Dow Jones conference in Carlsbad, California, on May 758 00:51:43,315 --> 00:51:47,595 Speaker 1: twenty eighth, two thousand and eight, seven years to the 759 00:51:47,675 --> 00:51:49,915 Speaker 1: month they got rid of me and a story came 760 00:51:49,955 --> 00:51:53,155 Speaker 1: across the wire with my name on it. The guy 761 00:51:53,315 --> 00:51:56,875 Speaker 1: interviewing him at this conference talked about whether there should 762 00:51:56,875 --> 00:52:00,515 Speaker 1: be dissenting voices on Fox quote news unquote, like that 763 00:52:00,635 --> 00:52:04,555 Speaker 1: guy who was killing it on MSNBC Keith Olderman. Now 764 00:52:05,035 --> 00:52:09,595 Speaker 1: Murdoch barked if fired him five years ago. He was crizy, 765 00:52:11,195 --> 00:52:15,555 Speaker 1: timing was off. But there was Rupert Murdoch confessing in 766 00:52:15,555 --> 00:52:19,515 Speaker 1: front of a crowd that he fired me personally, the 767 00:52:19,635 --> 00:52:24,195 Speaker 1: red badge of courage in quotes. I wondered if it 768 00:52:24,275 --> 00:52:25,755 Speaker 1: still pissed him off that he had to pay me 769 00:52:25,795 --> 00:52:27,795 Speaker 1: the eight hundred thousand dollars when I didn't take the 770 00:52:27,795 --> 00:52:32,795 Speaker 1: grievance bait. Three years after that, Murdoch said it again, 771 00:52:32,915 --> 00:52:36,115 Speaker 1: like I hadn't heard it. The first time. On February first, 772 00:52:36,155 --> 00:52:40,435 Speaker 1: twenty eleven, Rupert Murdoch was interviewed by his business talking 773 00:52:40,475 --> 00:52:43,675 Speaker 1: had Neil Cavudo, who for some reason asked him if 774 00:52:43,715 --> 00:52:47,275 Speaker 1: he would consider hiring me to put me on Fox News. 775 00:52:47,715 --> 00:52:51,235 Speaker 1: Now we fired him once. We don't believe in firing people. 776 00:52:51,315 --> 00:52:56,315 Speaker 1: Twice Kavodo replied, you called him a nut, lady was 777 00:52:56,355 --> 00:52:56,795 Speaker 1: a nut? 778 00:52:56,835 --> 00:52:56,915 Speaker 2: On? 779 00:52:57,595 --> 00:53:00,715 Speaker 1: Well, we had him on late night Fox Sports. There 780 00:53:00,755 --> 00:53:03,395 Speaker 1: was never any such show called late night Fox Sports. 781 00:53:03,395 --> 00:53:07,235 Speaker 1: But never mind went on. It was impossible. I fired him. 782 00:53:07,315 --> 00:53:13,315 Speaker 1: He was crazy, fired me for following his rules, and 783 00:53:13,515 --> 00:53:18,995 Speaker 1: I was the one who was crazy. Finally, speaking of crazy, 784 00:53:19,595 --> 00:53:22,755 Speaker 1: I have had for sixty three nearly sixty four years 785 00:53:22,795 --> 00:53:27,035 Speaker 1: now a love hate relationship with the name Keith. But 786 00:53:27,155 --> 00:53:30,395 Speaker 1: did you know that Rupert Murdoch's real first name is 787 00:53:30,515 --> 00:53:35,675 Speaker 1: also Keith, but that rather than call himself Keith, he 788 00:53:35,915 --> 00:53:42,955 Speaker 1: voluntarily chooses to call himself Rupert. I mean, sure, my 789 00:53:43,115 --> 00:53:50,555 Speaker 1: name is Keith, but at least my name ain't freaking Rupert. 790 00:54:04,795 --> 00:54:07,075 Speaker 1: All the damage I can do here but not as 791 00:54:07,155 --> 00:54:11,195 Speaker 1: much as Rupert Murdoch has. Welcome to the club, mister Cosman, 792 00:54:12,075 --> 00:54:15,595 Speaker 1: Thank you for listening. Brian Ray and John Phillip Shanelle 793 00:54:15,635 --> 00:54:18,675 Speaker 1: musical directors have countdown, have arranged, produced, and performed most 794 00:54:18,755 --> 00:54:22,715 Speaker 1: of the music. Mister Chanelle on orchestration, keyboards, Mister Ray 795 00:54:22,795 --> 00:54:27,075 Speaker 1: on guitars, bass drums. It was produced by Tko Brothers. 796 00:54:27,835 --> 00:54:31,395 Speaker 1: Our satirical and pithy musical comments sometimes known as pithy 797 00:54:31,435 --> 00:54:35,355 Speaker 1: and satirical, are by the best baseball stadium organist ever, 798 00:54:35,515 --> 00:54:38,635 Speaker 1: Nancy Faust, now back with the Chicago White Sox in 799 00:54:38,675 --> 00:54:41,315 Speaker 1: the Chicago White Sox Nancy Faust Lounge for a limited 800 00:54:41,315 --> 00:54:45,195 Speaker 1: engagement only. The sports music is the Olberman theme from 801 00:54:45,395 --> 00:54:48,355 Speaker 1: ESPN two, which was written by Mitch Warren Davis and 802 00:54:48,435 --> 00:54:52,515 Speaker 1: appears courtesy of ESPN Inc. Other music arranged and performed 803 00:54:52,515 --> 00:54:54,835 Speaker 1: by the group No Horns Aloud. And speaking of music, 804 00:54:54,875 --> 00:54:59,115 Speaker 1: my announcer today was my friend Stevie van Zant. Everything 805 00:54:59,155 --> 00:55:04,435 Speaker 1: else was as ever my fault. Let's countdown for today, 806 00:55:04,475 --> 00:55:06,675 Speaker 1: Day one hundred and thirty of America held hostage just 807 00:55:06,755 --> 00:55:10,195 Speaker 1: one three thirty three days until the scheduled end of 808 00:55:10,235 --> 00:55:13,075 Speaker 1: his lame duck and lame brain term unless Putin removes 809 00:55:13,115 --> 00:55:16,835 Speaker 1: him sooner, or the actuarial tables do, or we do 810 00:55:17,995 --> 00:55:25,475 Speaker 1: stop compromising with Trump. The next scheduled countdown is Monday. 811 00:55:25,915 --> 00:55:29,435 Speaker 1: As always, bulletins as the news warrants. Remember he's laying 812 00:55:29,475 --> 00:55:34,035 Speaker 1: the groundwork now to not leave office later. He must 813 00:55:34,075 --> 00:55:36,795 Speaker 1: stop him until next time. I'm Keith Olderman. 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