1 00:00:04,755 --> 00:00:08,995 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of I Heart Radio. 2 00:00:22,275 --> 00:00:26,835 Speaker 1: A leading expert on Trump, Russia and their election conspiracy 3 00:00:27,155 --> 00:00:30,395 Speaker 1: has pointed to fifteen words in the infamous New York 4 00:00:30,395 --> 00:00:35,035 Speaker 1: Times article from Halloween two thousand sixteen and implied those 5 00:00:35,075 --> 00:00:39,875 Speaker 1: words could constitute a smoking gun from the FBI successful 6 00:00:39,915 --> 00:00:43,155 Speaker 1: attempt to influence the outcome of that presidential election, and 7 00:00:43,315 --> 00:00:49,035 Speaker 1: possibly identifying the man who fired that gun as Charles McGonagall. 8 00:00:49,915 --> 00:00:52,675 Speaker 1: The same expert has also deconstructed the timeline of the 9 00:00:52,715 --> 00:00:55,435 Speaker 1: FBI New York Field office is possession of the Anthony 10 00:00:55,475 --> 00:00:59,435 Speaker 1: Weiner laptop and how rogue agents used it to in 11 00:00:59,555 --> 00:01:03,555 Speaker 1: essence blackmail Bureau Director James Comey to publicly state he 12 00:01:03,715 --> 00:01:06,315 Speaker 1: was in effect real putting the Hillary Clinton email story, 13 00:01:06,515 --> 00:01:09,635 Speaker 1: and that analysis may identify one of the men who 14 00:01:09,675 --> 00:01:15,555 Speaker 1: made that ultimate and ultimately corrupt October surprise happen, Charles McGonagall. 15 00:01:16,195 --> 00:01:19,075 Speaker 1: And the expert has also postulated that when the Department 16 00:01:19,115 --> 00:01:22,155 Speaker 1: of Justice arrested one of its own, a former FBI 17 00:01:22,275 --> 00:01:26,235 Speaker 1: counter intelligence chief, for taking foreign bribes while still at 18 00:01:26,275 --> 00:01:29,035 Speaker 1: the bureau and for then going to work for the 19 00:01:29,115 --> 00:01:33,155 Speaker 1: Russian oligarchy, had previously investigated that these might be merely 20 00:01:33,195 --> 00:01:37,075 Speaker 1: the opening acts to get that x FBI man to 21 00:01:37,315 --> 00:01:40,395 Speaker 1: flip on a much more important conspiracy. He was also 22 00:01:40,515 --> 00:01:45,355 Speaker 1: privy to say Trump and Russia and the FBI and 23 00:01:45,475 --> 00:01:47,595 Speaker 1: the ex agent he thinks they may be trying to 24 00:01:47,595 --> 00:01:55,715 Speaker 1: squeeze is Charles mcgonagal Charles McGonagall, head of counterintelligence at 25 00:01:55,715 --> 00:01:58,795 Speaker 1: the FBI New York Field Office in two thousand sixteen, 26 00:01:59,235 --> 00:02:01,555 Speaker 1: arrested more than a week ago and accused of taking 27 00:02:01,555 --> 00:02:06,035 Speaker 1: money from Putin's pal oleg Deripasca. Derek Posca, himself the 28 00:02:06,075 --> 00:02:11,435 Speaker 1: former employer of Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort. Charles McGonagall 29 00:02:11,675 --> 00:02:15,075 Speaker 1: with a wife in Maryland and a girlfriend in New York, 30 00:02:15,235 --> 00:02:18,475 Speaker 1: who thought the wife was the ex wife, and bags 31 00:02:18,635 --> 00:02:21,955 Speaker 1: of money lying around the apartment, and who, by getting 32 00:02:21,995 --> 00:02:26,275 Speaker 1: himself indicted and pinched, has single handedly re ignited the 33 00:02:26,355 --> 00:02:30,595 Speaker 1: Trump Russia scandal and added impetus to an investigation of 34 00:02:30,635 --> 00:02:33,475 Speaker 1: what Bill Barr and John Durham did to suppress the 35 00:02:33,555 --> 00:02:37,675 Speaker 1: Mueller Report. The three new arguments in the case for 36 00:02:37,875 --> 00:02:41,635 Speaker 1: Charlie McGonagall as the nexus of all this FBI smearing 37 00:02:41,715 --> 00:02:45,715 Speaker 1: of Clinton, FBI strategic leaks on behalf of Trump, The 38 00:02:45,795 --> 00:02:49,315 Speaker 1: real meaning of the Derrick Posca Manafort connection and how 39 00:02:49,395 --> 00:02:53,635 Speaker 1: much the Russians were manipulating or worse, working with the 40 00:02:53,715 --> 00:02:58,035 Speaker 1: FBI New York Field Office. All those details in a moment. First, 41 00:02:58,075 --> 00:03:02,915 Speaker 1: to introduce the expert. He's Greg o'lear, novelist who turned 42 00:03:02,955 --> 00:03:05,355 Speaker 1: his flair for the dramatic and for how to put 43 00:03:05,355 --> 00:03:08,955 Speaker 1: the plot points together for a criminal conspiracy story into 44 00:03:08,955 --> 00:03:13,435 Speaker 1: the two thousand eighteen nonfiction book Dirty Rubles. He has 45 00:03:13,475 --> 00:03:16,235 Speaker 1: now followed up with these new facets to the mcgonagal 46 00:03:16,355 --> 00:03:20,075 Speaker 1: arrest in his sub stack called Prevail, and to his credit, 47 00:03:20,155 --> 00:03:26,955 Speaker 1: his McGonagall story Charlie's Angels, is filled with caveats quoting him. 48 00:03:26,995 --> 00:03:29,755 Speaker 1: At least as far as the indictment is concerned, McGonagall 49 00:03:29,915 --> 00:03:33,635 Speaker 1: was not engaged in wrongdoing during the two thousand sixteen 50 00:03:33,675 --> 00:03:37,715 Speaker 1: election campaign. The temptation is to jump to conclusions here, 51 00:03:38,035 --> 00:03:41,155 Speaker 1: and it is imperative that we not do so. As 52 00:03:41,195 --> 00:03:44,915 Speaker 1: bad as this looks, he writes, we must avoid making assumptions. 53 00:03:45,515 --> 00:03:49,395 Speaker 1: Asking questions, however, is fair game. The big one is 54 00:03:49,435 --> 00:03:53,875 Speaker 1: this mcgonaghal was allegedly working for one of Putin's closest cronies, 55 00:03:54,075 --> 00:03:59,355 Speaker 1: the notorious oligarch oleg Deri Posca. Exactly when did he 56 00:03:59,435 --> 00:04:06,355 Speaker 1: decide this was okay? Few The three of Oleer's questions 57 00:04:06,435 --> 00:04:09,515 Speaker 1: that grabbed me by the short ones are as follows. 58 00:04:09,555 --> 00:04:13,435 Speaker 1: As I've noted here previously, On Halloween morning, October two 59 00:04:13,435 --> 00:04:16,595 Speaker 1: thousand and sixteen, Eric Lichtblow and Stephen Lee Myers wrote 60 00:04:16,595 --> 00:04:19,955 Speaker 1: a piece for The New York Times utterly anonymously sourced 61 00:04:19,995 --> 00:04:26,035 Speaker 1: and ultimately completely wrong, headlined investigating Donald Trump. FBI sees 62 00:04:26,115 --> 00:04:31,235 Speaker 1: no clear link to Russia. The difference between facts and 63 00:04:31,395 --> 00:04:34,715 Speaker 1: truth I've never been more obvious than in that New 64 00:04:34,755 --> 00:04:39,635 Speaker 1: York Times article. It is no doubt, absolute fact that 65 00:04:39,875 --> 00:04:44,475 Speaker 1: unnamed government and intelligence officials said what lick Blaw and 66 00:04:44,595 --> 00:04:48,755 Speaker 1: Myers said they said that don't mean any of it 67 00:04:48,835 --> 00:04:53,435 Speaker 1: was the truth. Remembering that on October second of that year, 68 00:04:53,475 --> 00:04:56,795 Speaker 1: the FBI announced McGonagall was being transferred to the FBI 69 00:04:56,835 --> 00:04:59,595 Speaker 1: New York Field Office to become the special Agent in 70 00:04:59,715 --> 00:05:03,595 Speaker 1: charge of the counter Intelligence Division, Older pulls two quotes 71 00:05:03,635 --> 00:05:05,875 Speaker 1: out of the lick Blow my is whitewashing of Trump 72 00:05:05,875 --> 00:05:09,435 Speaker 1: in the Times. The first stands out kind of obviously, 73 00:05:09,915 --> 00:05:14,435 Speaker 1: Quoting The Times two thousand sixteen, The investigation has treated 74 00:05:14,555 --> 00:05:19,515 Speaker 1: it as a counter intelligence operation as much as a 75 00:05:19,555 --> 00:05:25,555 Speaker 1: criminal one. Lear rights counter intelligence was mcgonagall's Baileywick. Was 76 00:05:25,595 --> 00:05:29,115 Speaker 1: he deliberately planning disinformation to The Times reporters or was 77 00:05:29,155 --> 00:05:34,115 Speaker 1: he not involved with this at all? Huh? Leakers looking 78 00:05:34,155 --> 00:05:37,155 Speaker 1: to alter the narrative to gaslight the Times and the 79 00:05:37,195 --> 00:05:42,075 Speaker 1: Country about Trump and Russia described the Russian interference investigation 80 00:05:42,115 --> 00:05:47,395 Speaker 1: as a counter intelligence operation. Is there any possible reason 81 00:05:47,435 --> 00:05:52,555 Speaker 1: you would suspect the chief of counter intelligence operations as 82 00:05:52,595 --> 00:05:57,235 Speaker 1: the prospective leaker? Then there's old ears recount of the 83 00:05:57,275 --> 00:06:00,835 Speaker 1: timeline of the Anthony Weener laptop. He begins by quoting 84 00:06:00,875 --> 00:06:03,595 Speaker 1: from his book from two thousand eighteen, Dirty Roubles, in 85 00:06:03,635 --> 00:06:06,315 Speaker 1: which he uses the insider nickname for the New York 86 00:06:06,355 --> 00:06:12,275 Speaker 1: FBI office trump Landia, trump Landia. It is worth hearing 87 00:06:12,315 --> 00:06:16,115 Speaker 1: the full quote from the book. On October two, two 88 00:06:16,155 --> 00:06:20,355 Speaker 1: thousand sixteen, as Olier has written, quote, agents of the 89 00:06:20,395 --> 00:06:23,435 Speaker 1: FBI's New York Field Office seized a laptop belonging to 90 00:06:23,475 --> 00:06:27,795 Speaker 1: Anthony Weener, which had previously been confiscated by the NYPD 91 00:06:28,395 --> 00:06:32,515 Speaker 1: in connection with his sexting with miners. Case Comey wanted 92 00:06:32,555 --> 00:06:36,515 Speaker 1: the laptop to be searched immediately for the alleged missing 93 00:06:36,595 --> 00:06:41,835 Speaker 1: Hillary Clinton emails, but his order was ignored. Instead, Trump 94 00:06:41,915 --> 00:06:45,195 Speaker 1: Landia agents sat on the laptop for weeks and did 95 00:06:45,235 --> 00:06:48,035 Speaker 1: nothing with it. The closer it was to the election, 96 00:06:48,075 --> 00:06:51,595 Speaker 1: they knew, the more explosive the laptops contents would be, 97 00:06:51,915 --> 00:06:55,675 Speaker 1: whatever they were. Then, in the waning days of October, 98 00:06:55,835 --> 00:06:58,635 Speaker 1: rogue elements of the bureaus New York Field Office, through 99 00:06:58,675 --> 00:07:02,835 Speaker 1: their mouthpiece at the website True Pundit, threatened to leak 100 00:07:02,955 --> 00:07:07,555 Speaker 1: the missing emails supposedly found on the laptop. On October, 101 00:07:07,955 --> 00:07:12,915 Speaker 1: FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe informed Comey that in his assessment, 102 00:07:13,275 --> 00:07:17,835 Speaker 1: the True Pundit sources were quote heavyweight. Whether the missing 103 00:07:17,875 --> 00:07:20,955 Speaker 1: emails existed, he could not say, but there really were 104 00:07:21,595 --> 00:07:25,395 Speaker 1: rogue FBI agents in the know leaking to True Pundit, 105 00:07:25,595 --> 00:07:28,955 Speaker 1: so it was a possibility. This was a bluff. In 106 00:07:29,035 --> 00:07:31,755 Speaker 1: fact that Trump Landia operators had no more idea of 107 00:07:31,755 --> 00:07:34,635 Speaker 1: what was on the laptop than James Comey did, but 108 00:07:34,715 --> 00:07:37,395 Speaker 1: the director didn't know that. Comy didn't want to take 109 00:07:37,435 --> 00:07:40,675 Speaker 1: the risk and have legit missing emails leak that would 110 00:07:40,715 --> 00:07:43,075 Speaker 1: make it look like he was hiding something about Hillary 111 00:07:43,075 --> 00:07:46,475 Speaker 1: Clinton that the American people needed to know, so he 112 00:07:46,555 --> 00:07:50,595 Speaker 1: decided to get ahead of the story to cover his ass. 113 00:07:51,395 --> 00:07:55,755 Speaker 1: He wrote the letter to Congress that turned the election ending. 114 00:07:55,795 --> 00:07:58,555 Speaker 1: The quote from his book A Leer's account of the 115 00:07:58,595 --> 00:08:01,715 Speaker 1: internal pressure on Comy write the letter or we will 116 00:08:01,835 --> 00:08:05,995 Speaker 1: leak it instead, bro is confirmed in Coomy's own book. 117 00:08:06,635 --> 00:08:10,275 Speaker 1: Nobody needed the laptop to actually have any Clinton emails 118 00:08:10,315 --> 00:08:13,155 Speaker 1: in it, nor anything else. They just needed the FBI 119 00:08:13,315 --> 00:08:17,315 Speaker 1: to announce it was checking to see if there were 120 00:08:17,355 --> 00:08:20,515 Speaker 1: any emails. It's the exact same thing Trump would try 121 00:08:20,515 --> 00:08:24,355 Speaker 1: in July two nineteen to get President Zelenski of Ukraine 122 00:08:24,355 --> 00:08:27,915 Speaker 1: to launch an investigation into Joe Biden, an investigation about 123 00:08:28,635 --> 00:08:33,635 Speaker 1: anything true or false, because nobody reads the story anymore, 124 00:08:33,715 --> 00:08:39,795 Speaker 1: they only read the headline. Finally, to this Wiener laptop timeline. 125 00:08:40,235 --> 00:08:44,515 Speaker 1: October two, two sixteen, FBI New York takes the laptop 126 00:08:44,555 --> 00:08:48,915 Speaker 1: from the NYPD. October four, McGonagall is named head of 127 00:08:48,955 --> 00:08:53,995 Speaker 1: counter Intelligence for the FBI in New York. October McCabe 128 00:08:53,995 --> 00:08:56,555 Speaker 1: warns Comey that the leaks to the True Pundit site 129 00:08:56,635 --> 00:08:58,715 Speaker 1: are not made up out of thin air, but probably 130 00:08:58,755 --> 00:09:01,675 Speaker 1: from rogue FBI agents and their next leaks could be 131 00:09:01,755 --> 00:09:05,315 Speaker 1: actual Clinton emails, even though Comey had said Clinton email 132 00:09:05,355 --> 00:09:08,395 Speaker 1: case have been closed and she had been exonerated. October, 133 00:09:09,475 --> 00:09:12,315 Speaker 1: Comey rights to the Republican heads of eight House and 134 00:09:12,395 --> 00:09:16,115 Speaker 1: Senate committees that there might be new Clinton email evidence. 135 00:09:16,515 --> 00:09:21,435 Speaker 1: November eight, Trump wins the election. May three, two seventeen, 136 00:09:22,075 --> 00:09:25,195 Speaker 1: Nate Silver and Nate Silver has a lot of faults, 137 00:09:25,195 --> 00:09:29,155 Speaker 1: but statistical analysis ain't one of them. Nate Silver rights quote. 138 00:09:29,475 --> 00:09:33,475 Speaker 1: The impact of Comey's letter is comparatively easy to quantify. 139 00:09:33,555 --> 00:09:36,075 Speaker 1: At a maximum, it might have shifted the race by 140 00:09:36,195 --> 00:09:40,795 Speaker 1: three or four percentage points toward Trump. At a minimum, 141 00:09:40,915 --> 00:09:44,315 Speaker 1: its impact might have been only a percentage point or so. Still, 142 00:09:44,475 --> 00:09:48,475 Speaker 1: because Clinton lost Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin by less than 143 00:09:48,515 --> 00:09:52,555 Speaker 1: one point, the letter was probably enough to change the 144 00:09:52,595 --> 00:09:57,755 Speaker 1: outcome of the electoral College. And the letter happens, as 145 00:09:57,795 --> 00:10:03,315 Speaker 1: Greg Olear notes, twenty four days after McGonagall moves into 146 00:10:03,435 --> 00:10:07,235 Speaker 1: management at the FBI in New York, as the warning 147 00:10:07,275 --> 00:10:12,315 Speaker 1: by McCabe tocomy happens twenty days after McGonagall joins the 148 00:10:12,435 --> 00:10:15,995 Speaker 1: rogues in New York. Olier states it simply McGonagall must 149 00:10:16,035 --> 00:10:19,555 Speaker 1: have known about this. What part, if any did McGonagall 150 00:10:19,675 --> 00:10:24,635 Speaker 1: play in this drama? Still, it is the third Olier 151 00:10:24,755 --> 00:10:29,315 Speaker 1: question that is the juiciest. Will there be superseding indictments? 152 00:10:29,555 --> 00:10:32,635 Speaker 1: I'll just read this verbatim from his sub stack quote. 153 00:10:32,635 --> 00:10:37,075 Speaker 1: The FBI searched US properties belonging to Derrick Posco last October. 154 00:10:37,555 --> 00:10:41,995 Speaker 1: In November, they seize mcgonagall's phones. This is presumably how 155 00:10:42,035 --> 00:10:46,355 Speaker 1: investigators learned that McGonagall quote violated sanctions imposed by the 156 00:10:46,435 --> 00:10:50,675 Speaker 1: United States on oleg Deri Posca as the unsealed indictment alleges. 157 00:10:51,315 --> 00:10:56,555 Speaker 1: Is this merely the d o j's initials salvo? Do 158 00:10:56,635 --> 00:11:00,635 Speaker 1: they hope to get McGonagall to cooperate so they can 159 00:11:00,675 --> 00:11:05,715 Speaker 1: go after bigger fish? You do not have to have 160 00:11:05,795 --> 00:11:09,075 Speaker 1: memorized the Mueller report to understand who the bigger fish 161 00:11:09,115 --> 00:11:12,195 Speaker 1: in this equation would be. And if the answer to 162 00:11:12,235 --> 00:11:15,675 Speaker 1: that question is yes, we're going to have to rewrite 163 00:11:15,675 --> 00:11:18,875 Speaker 1: the history of Trump and Russia and Derri Pasca and 164 00:11:18,995 --> 00:11:25,715 Speaker 1: Manafort and now McGonagall all over again. The thing is, 165 00:11:26,315 --> 00:11:28,955 Speaker 1: there is no reason to believe the FBI and or 166 00:11:29,035 --> 00:11:32,635 Speaker 1: the Department of Justice ever stopped interfering on behalf of 167 00:11:32,675 --> 00:11:39,155 Speaker 1: Trump or at least interfering against Democrats and those investigating Trump. Finally, 168 00:11:39,675 --> 00:11:43,795 Speaker 1: the right lightbulbs have gone off. Yesterday, the National Security 169 00:11:43,835 --> 00:11:46,235 Speaker 1: Division of the do o J and the Attorney General 170 00:11:46,275 --> 00:11:50,395 Speaker 1: of Delaware received letters demanding they open investigations into quote 171 00:11:50,875 --> 00:11:55,155 Speaker 1: individuals for whom there is considerable reason to believe violated 172 00:11:55,355 --> 00:12:01,115 Speaker 1: various federal laws in accessing, copying, manipulating, and or disseminating 173 00:12:02,235 --> 00:12:09,275 Speaker 1: the Hunter Biden laptop. Another election, another laptop. The letters 174 00:12:09,315 --> 00:12:15,715 Speaker 1: were written by lawyers for the President's son. Yesterday, Hunter 175 00:12:15,835 --> 00:12:21,275 Speaker 1: Biden switched to playing offense. Letters translated, they are accusing 176 00:12:21,275 --> 00:12:25,235 Speaker 1: Trump's allies of stealing info from his laptop and trafficking 177 00:12:25,395 --> 00:12:29,555 Speaker 1: in it, and they accused Rudy Giuliani by name. Ruddy, 178 00:12:29,635 --> 00:12:32,955 Speaker 1: of course boasted, never realizing that if the laptop or 179 00:12:32,955 --> 00:12:35,915 Speaker 1: any of its contents were stolen. He wasn't just boasting, 180 00:12:35,915 --> 00:12:38,435 Speaker 1: he was also confessing. He boasted that he gave a 181 00:12:38,435 --> 00:12:40,235 Speaker 1: copy of the hard drive to the New York Post. 182 00:12:41,435 --> 00:12:45,595 Speaker 1: And about Hunter Biden's dad. There is still the question 183 00:12:45,635 --> 00:12:49,475 Speaker 1: nobody's looking at, let alone answering, which is who not 184 00:12:49,555 --> 00:12:53,755 Speaker 1: only leaked the Biden self discovery of classified documents to 185 00:12:53,875 --> 00:12:58,275 Speaker 1: an obscure CBS reporter in Chicago, But who leaked only 186 00:12:58,395 --> 00:13:01,595 Speaker 1: that part about the discovery and not the other part 187 00:13:02,195 --> 00:13:04,595 Speaker 1: that the President and his team promptly invited the f 188 00:13:04,715 --> 00:13:07,555 Speaker 1: be id to search the think tank without a warrant? 189 00:13:08,995 --> 00:13:14,075 Speaker 1: Oh did I say FBI again and leaks? And there's 190 00:13:14,115 --> 00:13:17,115 Speaker 1: one more threat to pull on. And the new Congressman 191 00:13:17,155 --> 00:13:20,035 Speaker 1: from the New York tenth, formerly the majority council in 192 00:13:20,075 --> 00:13:23,915 Speaker 1: the first Trump impeachment, Dan Goldman, is doing the heavy 193 00:13:23,955 --> 00:13:27,675 Speaker 1: lifting we're pulling here. He's on the Oversight committee, the 194 00:13:27,675 --> 00:13:31,155 Speaker 1: one that new chairman Jamie what's that about my college girlfriend? 195 00:13:31,195 --> 00:13:34,595 Speaker 1: Saying I beat her? Comber intends to turn into one 196 00:13:34,635 --> 00:13:37,835 Speaker 1: long running Biden investigation while the first headline at a 197 00:13:37,955 --> 00:13:42,315 Speaker 1: committee Dan Goldman throwing a little PostScript at the Justice 198 00:13:42,355 --> 00:13:46,435 Speaker 1: Department Inspector General Michael Harrowitz yesterday and encouraging him to 199 00:13:46,475 --> 00:13:51,915 Speaker 1: get cracking on investigating what John Durham and William Barr 200 00:13:51,915 --> 00:13:56,035 Speaker 1: did to bury the Muller report and gaslight the world 201 00:13:56,075 --> 00:14:00,075 Speaker 1: about the criminal conspiracy of Trump and Russia. Mr Harvard's 202 00:14:00,155 --> 00:14:02,715 Speaker 1: last night, Congressman Ted Loo, and I sent you a 203 00:14:02,835 --> 00:14:06,915 Speaker 1: letter requesting that you ducked an investigation into Special Counsel 204 00:14:06,995 --> 00:14:10,715 Speaker 1: Durham's investigation to see if Mr Barr or Mr Durham 205 00:14:10,835 --> 00:14:15,475 Speaker 1: violated any department policies, regulations or law. Have you reviewed 206 00:14:15,475 --> 00:14:18,035 Speaker 1: this letter yet, Um? I was not aware that you 207 00:14:18,115 --> 00:14:20,835 Speaker 1: had sent that until you just showed it to me, UM, 208 00:14:20,875 --> 00:14:24,275 Speaker 1: But I certainly will read it um and review it. 209 00:14:24,995 --> 00:14:27,715 Speaker 1: Mr Chard asked for unanimous consent to offer into the record, 210 00:14:27,755 --> 00:14:30,195 Speaker 1: and could I just with that objection that you know 211 00:14:30,195 --> 00:14:33,555 Speaker 1: when's times expired? Mr Harvets, can you just commit to 212 00:14:33,675 --> 00:14:37,715 Speaker 1: right now when times expired. We appreciate the questions on 213 00:14:37,835 --> 00:14:41,915 Speaker 1: COVID and and appreciate the passion for investigations. We'll get 214 00:14:41,915 --> 00:14:45,315 Speaker 1: to that, uh in the next few weeks, but thank 215 00:14:45,355 --> 00:14:47,475 Speaker 1: you for the questions. By the way, at the end, 216 00:14:47,515 --> 00:14:51,475 Speaker 1: there bat was Chairman Jamie, what's that about my college girlfriend? 217 00:14:51,515 --> 00:14:55,115 Speaker 1: Saying I beat her comber? And that odd tone you 218 00:14:55,195 --> 00:14:57,675 Speaker 1: heard in his voice was the sound of a man 219 00:14:58,555 --> 00:15:16,035 Speaker 1: getting his thunder stolen. Still ahead. You know, there are 220 00:15:16,195 --> 00:15:18,755 Speaker 1: FBI New York agents who are not rogue and don't 221 00:15:18,755 --> 00:15:21,035 Speaker 1: give a damn about politics, And oddly enough I met 222 00:15:21,075 --> 00:15:24,115 Speaker 1: about a dozen of them. First time was two thousand 223 00:15:24,235 --> 00:15:26,755 Speaker 1: six when somebody sent me four letters full of what 224 00:15:26,795 --> 00:15:31,395 Speaker 1: the writer claimed was anthrax. The Bureau men were a 225 00:15:31,475 --> 00:15:34,115 Speaker 1: treat to watch that amazing story ahead and things I 226 00:15:34,155 --> 00:15:40,715 Speaker 1: promised not to tell. Also, Tom Brady retired again, Sure 227 00:15:41,075 --> 00:15:45,595 Speaker 1: he did. And in Worse Persons, another freshman Republican compares 228 00:15:46,035 --> 00:15:51,515 Speaker 1: direct TV refusing to pay to carry Newsmax too, and 229 00:15:51,595 --> 00:15:57,155 Speaker 1: he guesses yes. He compares that to the Holocaust and 230 00:15:57,195 --> 00:16:01,315 Speaker 1: then gets the quotes wrong because d platform ng is 231 00:16:01,355 --> 00:16:05,235 Speaker 1: the same as genocide. It really is too bad that 232 00:16:05,275 --> 00:16:08,995 Speaker 1: all those right wing outlets have been d platformed. Special 233 00:16:09,075 --> 00:16:18,675 Speaker 1: edition of Worse Persons, that's next. This is countdown. This 234 00:16:18,875 --> 00:16:25,995 Speaker 1: is countdown with Keith Alberman still ahead on countdown. The 235 00:16:26,035 --> 00:16:28,715 Speaker 1: FBI New York Office does do good work. I know 236 00:16:28,795 --> 00:16:32,435 Speaker 1: I'm one of its many satisfied customers. Alberman, the Bureau 237 00:16:32,475 --> 00:16:34,995 Speaker 1: and the anthrax letters coming up first. In each edition, 238 00:16:35,315 --> 00:16:37,355 Speaker 1: we feature a dog in need you can help. Every 239 00:16:37,355 --> 00:16:41,795 Speaker 1: dog has its day to Mulberry, Arkansas and Melody and 240 00:16:41,875 --> 00:16:44,355 Speaker 1: this is the truest test of what we can and 241 00:16:44,395 --> 00:16:48,155 Speaker 1: should do for dogs out in the woods in Arkansas. 242 00:16:48,155 --> 00:16:50,475 Speaker 1: Melody is part of a colony of dogs living on 243 00:16:50,515 --> 00:16:54,195 Speaker 1: their own a pack. They can do it. Especially if 244 00:16:54,715 --> 00:16:57,275 Speaker 1: good food is left for them by sympathetic humans. But 245 00:16:57,355 --> 00:17:01,275 Speaker 1: Melody is sick. She has mange. It causes fur to 246 00:17:01,315 --> 00:17:05,315 Speaker 1: fall out and increases the chances of secondary infection. Trapping 247 00:17:05,315 --> 00:17:07,715 Speaker 1: her would be difficult. It could cause her more injury, 248 00:17:07,875 --> 00:17:11,035 Speaker 1: certainly would cause her more stress. So what the Positively 249 00:17:11,195 --> 00:17:14,315 Speaker 1: Canine Rescue Group wants to do is let her stay 250 00:17:14,355 --> 00:17:16,795 Speaker 1: wild at least for now, and get her food with 251 00:17:16,915 --> 00:17:20,995 Speaker 1: anti maine medication and antibiotics in it. It's ingenious, it 252 00:17:21,075 --> 00:17:23,675 Speaker 1: will cost much. If you can donate. You can find 253 00:17:23,715 --> 00:17:26,515 Speaker 1: Melody on Cudley's website or on my Twitter feed, and 254 00:17:26,595 --> 00:17:29,555 Speaker 1: your retweets will also help. I thank you, and though 255 00:17:29,595 --> 00:17:32,395 Speaker 1: if this works, she may never know what happened, Melody, 256 00:17:32,435 --> 00:17:49,795 Speaker 1: thanks you too. Now. The daily roundup of the Miscreants, 257 00:17:49,795 --> 00:17:53,195 Speaker 1: morons and Donning Kirker effects specimens who constitute a special 258 00:17:53,315 --> 00:17:58,275 Speaker 1: edition of two Day's Most Persons in the World. The 259 00:17:58,355 --> 00:18:02,875 Speaker 1: Bronze Football's Tom Brady retiring from the National Football League 260 00:18:02,915 --> 00:18:06,715 Speaker 1: after seven Super Bowls. Wait, we did this story last year. 261 00:18:07,995 --> 00:18:11,595 Speaker 1: Oh no, this is how this started last time, Brady. 262 00:18:11,595 --> 00:18:15,955 Speaker 1: I'm not falling forward again. The runner up the College Board, 263 00:18:15,995 --> 00:18:19,555 Speaker 1: which supervises all those high school Advanced Placement courses, the 264 00:18:19,635 --> 00:18:23,435 Speaker 1: AP courses. Apparently it's executives are all made out of 265 00:18:23,435 --> 00:18:30,635 Speaker 1: petroleum vasseline jelly. Ron DeSantis, Florida's fascist fudgie the whale 266 00:18:31,235 --> 00:18:34,995 Speaker 1: past laws or should we call them proclamations making it 267 00:18:35,035 --> 00:18:39,435 Speaker 1: illegal to teach ap African American studies in Florida. Well, 268 00:18:39,475 --> 00:18:43,355 Speaker 1: a college board has shown what it's made of. It's panicked. 269 00:18:43,595 --> 00:18:47,275 Speaker 1: It's killed them off from the course Black Lives Matter, 270 00:18:47,355 --> 00:18:52,115 Speaker 1: Gone Black Feminism, gone reparations, incarceration stats Crenshaw Coates ferguson 271 00:18:52,315 --> 00:18:57,755 Speaker 1: anything that seems like critical race theory. Weasels college board 272 00:18:57,875 --> 00:19:02,395 Speaker 1: fascist enablers. Here's this solution. Every college and university run 273 00:19:02,435 --> 00:19:06,235 Speaker 1: by anybody who's you know, actually read twenty century history 274 00:19:06,355 --> 00:19:09,715 Speaker 1: should recognize what the college board just did and simply 275 00:19:09,755 --> 00:19:13,235 Speaker 1: say it will no longer accept any of its credits 276 00:19:13,355 --> 00:19:15,955 Speaker 1: or courses or test as part of any high school 277 00:19:15,955 --> 00:19:19,515 Speaker 1: students application. You took a p science, Sorry, we're not 278 00:19:19,555 --> 00:19:21,675 Speaker 1: giving you credit for that. The college board is made 279 00:19:21,715 --> 00:19:24,995 Speaker 1: up of ass wipes. Sorry you wasted your time, kid. 280 00:19:25,995 --> 00:19:30,115 Speaker 1: That will fix it fast. And speaking of uneducated, cowering 281 00:19:30,235 --> 00:19:33,955 Speaker 1: ass wipes, our winner is the brand new Missouri congressmen 282 00:19:34,155 --> 00:19:40,515 Speaker 1: Eric Burlison, Republican investment advisor and ignoramus. Look, I'm not 283 00:19:40,555 --> 00:19:43,035 Speaker 1: one of those people who thinks you can't invoke Hitler 284 00:19:43,195 --> 00:19:46,395 Speaker 1: or the Nazis. I do it all the time. Trumpson Nazi. 285 00:19:46,955 --> 00:19:50,395 Speaker 1: He might be a Hitler. See it's easy, but you 286 00:19:50,475 --> 00:19:53,875 Speaker 1: have to pick your spots. And this fungus in a suit. 287 00:19:54,075 --> 00:19:59,475 Speaker 1: Burlison has decided to compare to private companies haggling over 288 00:19:59,595 --> 00:20:03,355 Speaker 1: money to the Holocaust on the floor of the House. 289 00:20:04,355 --> 00:20:07,675 Speaker 1: If had not heard, Direct TV was running the fascist 290 00:20:07,715 --> 00:20:11,555 Speaker 1: propaganda network news Max for free networks on your cable 291 00:20:11,675 --> 00:20:15,315 Speaker 1: or satellite if you still remember what cable and satellite were. 292 00:20:15,755 --> 00:20:19,435 Speaker 1: They often demand some money for their product, but not 293 00:20:19,515 --> 00:20:22,475 Speaker 1: news Max. Here it is just run it. We won't 294 00:20:22,555 --> 00:20:26,555 Speaker 1: charge anything. Then last month news Max demanded the Direct 295 00:20:26,555 --> 00:20:33,315 Speaker 1: TV pay it money, and Direct TV said thanks, what 296 00:20:33,475 --> 00:20:36,035 Speaker 1: you put out is pretty much crap. And that made 297 00:20:36,115 --> 00:20:41,235 Speaker 1: Direct TV Nazis and turned this bubble headed freshman congressman 298 00:20:41,275 --> 00:20:47,195 Speaker 1: from Missouri into Pastor Martin Niemohler. He actually said this. 299 00:20:47,715 --> 00:20:54,435 Speaker 1: These companies choose to silence conservative speech by first d 300 00:20:54,635 --> 00:21:00,195 Speaker 1: platforming ere eliminating one American news and now they're going 301 00:21:00,235 --> 00:21:05,235 Speaker 1: after news Max. You know, there's a famous quote about 302 00:21:05,275 --> 00:21:09,435 Speaker 1: what happened during the Holocausts when when individuals when the 303 00:21:09,515 --> 00:21:14,115 Speaker 1: when the Nazis first came for some and people said nothing, 304 00:21:15,355 --> 00:21:18,675 Speaker 1: and then eventually they'll come for you. Yeah. Thanks, that's 305 00:21:18,715 --> 00:21:23,195 Speaker 1: not the quote, Missouri freshman Congressman Eric Burlison. He has 306 00:21:23,275 --> 00:21:27,155 Speaker 1: a business degree. Look, goober, if you want to claim 307 00:21:27,235 --> 00:21:30,635 Speaker 1: Direct TV refusing to pay news Max for its crap 308 00:21:30,795 --> 00:21:35,035 Speaker 1: feed is the same as Nazis rounding up Jews and 309 00:21:35,155 --> 00:21:39,955 Speaker 1: sending them to concentration camps. At least read pastor nine olders. 310 00:21:40,035 --> 00:21:42,675 Speaker 1: First they came for And by the way, read the 311 00:21:42,715 --> 00:21:45,315 Speaker 1: first sentence out loud, which is first they came for 312 00:21:45,395 --> 00:21:47,755 Speaker 1: the socialists and I did not speak out because I 313 00:21:47,795 --> 00:21:51,155 Speaker 1: was not a socialist. Don't try to summarize it or 314 00:21:51,195 --> 00:21:54,435 Speaker 1: add libit. You're not any good at, you know, talking 315 00:21:54,475 --> 00:21:58,395 Speaker 1: out loud. Plus, maybe you want to think through this 316 00:21:58,475 --> 00:22:03,155 Speaker 1: whole d platforming thing, because I'm sure if you want to, 317 00:22:03,235 --> 00:22:06,515 Speaker 1: you can now make the rounds of the conservative outlet 318 00:22:06,595 --> 00:22:10,715 Speaker 1: echo chamber and you can complain everywhere about news Max 319 00:22:10,795 --> 00:22:14,635 Speaker 1: being d platformed. Go on the Shawn Hannity TV Show, 320 00:22:14,915 --> 00:22:18,355 Speaker 1: where you can say another conservative outlet has been deep platformed, 321 00:22:18,715 --> 00:22:20,875 Speaker 1: and the Shawn Hannity radio Show where you can say 322 00:22:20,875 --> 00:22:24,155 Speaker 1: another conservative out has been deep platforms, and the Tucker 323 00:22:24,155 --> 00:22:26,755 Speaker 1: Carlson Show where you can say another conservative outlet has 324 00:22:26,755 --> 00:22:29,515 Speaker 1: been deep platformed. The Laura Ingram Show where you can 325 00:22:29,555 --> 00:22:32,835 Speaker 1: say another conservative outlet has been d platformed, The Fox 326 00:22:32,835 --> 00:22:35,475 Speaker 1: and Friends Show where you can say another conservative outlet 327 00:22:35,515 --> 00:22:39,195 Speaker 1: has been deep platformed, The Brian Kilmey radio Show where 328 00:22:39,235 --> 00:22:41,315 Speaker 1: you can go say another conservative outlet has been d 329 00:22:41,435 --> 00:22:44,355 Speaker 1: platform The Brett Bear Show where you could go say 330 00:22:44,515 --> 00:22:47,795 Speaker 1: another conservative outlet has been deep platforms, The Bill Hemmer 331 00:22:47,915 --> 00:22:50,595 Speaker 1: Show where you can say another conservative outlet has been 332 00:22:50,635 --> 00:22:54,155 Speaker 1: deep platformed. Norris Faulkner Show where you can say another 333 00:22:54,195 --> 00:22:58,035 Speaker 1: conservative outlet has been d platformed, The Kaylee mcinahaney Show 334 00:22:58,315 --> 00:23:02,115 Speaker 1: where you could say another conservative outlet has been deep platformed, 335 00:23:02,355 --> 00:23:04,995 Speaker 1: The Great e Van Susteran Show where you can say 336 00:23:05,035 --> 00:23:08,715 Speaker 1: another conservative outlet has been d platformed, The Jesse Waters 337 00:23:08,715 --> 00:23:11,835 Speaker 1: Show where you can say another conservative outlet has been 338 00:23:11,915 --> 00:23:16,395 Speaker 1: d platformed, The Trey Gouty Show where you can say 339 00:23:16,435 --> 00:23:19,315 Speaker 1: another conservative outlet has been deep platformed. In Trey Why 340 00:23:19,395 --> 00:23:23,435 Speaker 1: The Long Face, the Pete he Sith Show where you 341 00:23:23,435 --> 00:23:26,115 Speaker 1: can go say another conservative outlet has been d platform 342 00:23:26,275 --> 00:23:28,995 Speaker 1: The Larry Cudlow Show where you can say another conservative 343 00:23:28,995 --> 00:23:32,355 Speaker 1: outlet has been d platformed. The Charles Paine Show where 344 00:23:32,395 --> 00:23:35,515 Speaker 1: you can say another conservative outlet has been d platformed. 345 00:23:36,435 --> 00:23:39,995 Speaker 1: The Greg gut Failed Show where you can say another 346 00:23:40,035 --> 00:23:44,115 Speaker 1: conservative outlet has been deep platformed. The Greg Kelly Show 347 00:23:44,555 --> 00:23:46,555 Speaker 1: where you can say another conservative outlet has been d 348 00:23:46,715 --> 00:23:49,755 Speaker 1: platform The Alex Jones Show where you can say another 349 00:23:49,795 --> 00:23:54,395 Speaker 1: conservative outlet has been d platformed. The Joe Scarborough Show 350 00:23:54,915 --> 00:23:58,875 Speaker 1: where you can say another conservative outlet has been d platformed. 351 00:24:00,355 --> 00:24:03,195 Speaker 1: The Steve Bennon Show where you can say another conservative 352 00:24:03,235 --> 00:24:06,755 Speaker 1: outlet has been deep platform The Chuck Todd Show where 353 00:24:06,755 --> 00:24:09,435 Speaker 1: you can say another conservative outlet has been d platformed. 354 00:24:09,795 --> 00:24:12,515 Speaker 1: The Mark live In Show where you can say another 355 00:24:12,515 --> 00:24:16,275 Speaker 1: conservative outlet has been deep platformed. The Mike Gallagher Show 356 00:24:16,315 --> 00:24:18,515 Speaker 1: where you could say another conservative outlet has been deep 357 00:24:18,515 --> 00:24:20,795 Speaker 1: platform The Dana Last Show where you can say another 358 00:24:20,795 --> 00:24:24,195 Speaker 1: conservative outlet has been d platform The Dana Paurino Show 359 00:24:24,355 --> 00:24:28,715 Speaker 1: where you could say another conservative outlet has been d platformed. 360 00:24:29,195 --> 00:24:32,395 Speaker 1: The Larry Elder Show where you can say another conservative 361 00:24:32,395 --> 00:24:36,075 Speaker 1: outlet has been deep platformed, and the Michael Savage Show 362 00:24:36,235 --> 00:24:40,155 Speaker 1: where you can say another conservative outlet has been d platformed. 363 00:24:41,715 --> 00:24:44,275 Speaker 1: The Bunk Sex Bump Show where you can say another 364 00:24:44,275 --> 00:24:47,355 Speaker 1: conservative outlet has been deep platform The Janine Piro Show 365 00:24:47,355 --> 00:24:50,555 Speaker 1: where you can say another conservati outlaw has been deep platformed, 366 00:24:50,595 --> 00:24:53,035 Speaker 1: and you can have a drink The Maria barter Romo 367 00:24:53,155 --> 00:24:55,235 Speaker 1: Show where you can say another conservative outlet has been 368 00:24:55,315 --> 00:24:58,915 Speaker 1: deep platforms, The Tommy Larin Show where you can say 369 00:24:58,915 --> 00:25:02,675 Speaker 1: another conservative outlet has been deep platformed. The Bob Sellers 370 00:25:02,755 --> 00:25:05,955 Speaker 1: Show where you can say a other conservative outlet has 371 00:25:05,955 --> 00:25:09,995 Speaker 1: been d platformed, but John Backman Show where you can 372 00:25:10,035 --> 00:25:13,595 Speaker 1: say another conservative outlet has been d platformed. The Glenn 373 00:25:13,635 --> 00:25:16,915 Speaker 1: Beck Show where you can say another conservative outlet has 374 00:25:16,915 --> 00:25:20,715 Speaker 1: been d platformed, The Howie Cai Show where you can 375 00:25:20,715 --> 00:25:25,075 Speaker 1: say another conservative outlet has been d platformed, The Dennis 376 00:25:25,115 --> 00:25:27,755 Speaker 1: Prager Show where you can say another conservative outlet has 377 00:25:27,755 --> 00:25:30,675 Speaker 1: been deep platformed, The Hugh Hewitt Show where you can 378 00:25:30,715 --> 00:25:33,675 Speaker 1: say another conservative vote, which has been plutformed, the Eric 379 00:25:33,755 --> 00:25:36,955 Speaker 1: Bowling Show where you can say another conservative outlet has 380 00:25:36,955 --> 00:25:40,835 Speaker 1: been d platform the Chris Salcedo Show where you can 381 00:25:40,835 --> 00:25:44,235 Speaker 1: say another conservative outlet has been deep platformed, The Sean 382 00:25:44,355 --> 00:25:47,635 Speaker 1: Spicer Show where you can say another conservative outlet has 383 00:25:47,635 --> 00:25:51,595 Speaker 1: been d platformed, The Sebastian Gorka Show where you can 384 00:25:51,635 --> 00:25:55,715 Speaker 1: say another conservative outlet has been d platformed, The Grant 385 00:25:55,795 --> 00:25:58,595 Speaker 1: stink Field Show, or you can say another conservative outlet 386 00:25:58,595 --> 00:26:02,995 Speaker 1: has been d platformed, The Christina Bob Show where you 387 00:26:02,995 --> 00:26:05,555 Speaker 1: can say another conservative outlet has been deep platform and 388 00:26:05,555 --> 00:26:08,635 Speaker 1: asked her if she's found any documents lately. The Jen 389 00:26:08,995 --> 00:26:13,155 Speaker 1: Pellegrinos Show where you can say another conservative outlet has 390 00:26:13,155 --> 00:26:16,795 Speaker 1: been deep platform The Dick Morris Show where you can 391 00:26:16,795 --> 00:26:19,395 Speaker 1: say another conservative outlet has been deep platformed, and asked 392 00:26:19,435 --> 00:26:23,195 Speaker 1: him if he still likes toes, The Benny Johnson Show 393 00:26:24,115 --> 00:26:27,435 Speaker 1: where you can say another conservative outlet has been deep platformed, 394 00:26:28,155 --> 00:26:31,115 Speaker 1: and the Lou Dabbs Show where you can say another 395 00:26:31,155 --> 00:26:36,275 Speaker 1: conservative outlet has been d platformed. The Dan Ball Show 396 00:26:36,275 --> 00:26:38,155 Speaker 1: where you could say another conservative outlet has been deep 397 00:26:38,155 --> 00:26:40,195 Speaker 1: platform The Mike Lindell Show where you can say another 398 00:26:40,195 --> 00:26:42,875 Speaker 1: conservative outlet has been from deep platform The Jacks Back 399 00:26:42,875 --> 00:26:44,635 Speaker 1: Show where you can say another conservative outlet has been 400 00:26:44,675 --> 00:26:46,715 Speaker 1: deep platform The Charlie Kirk show where you can say 401 00:26:46,715 --> 00:26:49,315 Speaker 1: another conservative outlet has been deep platform. The Alex Salvy 402 00:26:49,355 --> 00:26:51,235 Speaker 1: Show where you can say another conservative outlet has been 403 00:26:51,275 --> 00:26:54,275 Speaker 1: deep platform. The Dan Bungingo Show where you can say 404 00:26:54,275 --> 00:26:57,395 Speaker 1: another conservative outlet has been deep platform. The Rob Schmidt 405 00:26:57,515 --> 00:27:00,115 Speaker 1: Show where you can say another conservative outlet has been 406 00:27:00,155 --> 00:27:03,715 Speaker 1: deep platform, The Todd Schnitt Show where you can say 407 00:27:03,715 --> 00:27:07,235 Speaker 1: another conservative out it has been deep platformed, and then 408 00:27:07,275 --> 00:27:10,275 Speaker 1: you can go record some interviews on the Ben Shapiro 409 00:27:10,515 --> 00:27:13,835 Speaker 1: podcast where you can say another conservative outlet has been 410 00:27:13,915 --> 00:27:17,435 Speaker 1: d platform, and the Ted Cruz podcast where you can 411 00:27:17,435 --> 00:27:19,755 Speaker 1: say another conservative outlet has been deep platform, and the 412 00:27:19,755 --> 00:27:22,595 Speaker 1: Matt Walsh podcast where you can say another conservative outlet 413 00:27:22,635 --> 00:27:25,235 Speaker 1: has been d platform. And the Bill O'Reilly podcast where 414 00:27:25,235 --> 00:27:27,355 Speaker 1: you can say another conservative outlet has been d platformed, 415 00:27:27,395 --> 00:27:29,755 Speaker 1: and the Candice Owens podcast where you can say another 416 00:27:29,755 --> 00:27:32,675 Speaker 1: conservative outlet has been d platformed, and the Liz Wheeler 417 00:27:32,755 --> 00:27:35,035 Speaker 1: podcast where you can say another conservative aoutlet has been 418 00:27:35,035 --> 00:27:37,755 Speaker 1: deep platform, and the Stephen crowding Or podcast where you 419 00:27:37,755 --> 00:27:40,155 Speaker 1: can say another conservative outlet has been deep platform and 420 00:27:40,195 --> 00:27:42,675 Speaker 1: Asked Him where he gets his financial advice, But Michael 421 00:27:42,755 --> 00:27:45,315 Speaker 1: Nobles podcast where you can say another conservative out what 422 00:27:45,395 --> 00:27:48,635 Speaker 1: has been d platformed? And the Daniel Horowitz podcast where 423 00:27:48,635 --> 00:27:52,675 Speaker 1: you can say another conservative outlet has been d platform. 424 00:27:52,755 --> 00:27:56,475 Speaker 1: And after that, Molly Hemingway will write a column saying 425 00:27:56,555 --> 00:28:00,195 Speaker 1: another conservative outlet has been d platform and Kim Strassell 426 00:28:00,235 --> 00:28:02,635 Speaker 1: will write a column saying another conservative outlet has been 427 00:28:02,635 --> 00:28:05,395 Speaker 1: deep platform and Peggy Noonan will at a column saying 428 00:28:05,395 --> 00:28:08,475 Speaker 1: another conservative outlet has been deep platform and and Culture 429 00:28:08,475 --> 00:28:10,715 Speaker 1: will write a column saying another conservative outlet has been 430 00:28:10,715 --> 00:28:13,275 Speaker 1: deep platform. And John Solomon will write a column saying 431 00:28:13,275 --> 00:28:15,955 Speaker 1: another conservative outlet has been deep platform. And Russ do 432 00:28:16,155 --> 00:28:18,595 Speaker 1: That will write a column saying another conservative outlet has 433 00:28:18,595 --> 00:28:21,235 Speaker 1: been deep platform. And Eric Ericsson will write a column 434 00:28:21,275 --> 00:28:24,435 Speaker 1: saying another conservative outlet has been deep platform And Cassie 435 00:28:24,555 --> 00:28:27,475 Speaker 1: Dylan will write a column saying another conservative outlet has 436 00:28:27,475 --> 00:28:30,075 Speaker 1: been deep platform and Andrew Sullivan will write a column 437 00:28:30,115 --> 00:28:32,915 Speaker 1: saying another conservative outlet has been deep platform and Rich 438 00:28:33,035 --> 00:28:35,675 Speaker 1: Lowry will write a column saying another conservative outlet has 439 00:28:35,715 --> 00:28:40,995 Speaker 1: been deep platform and has twinkling in her eyes. Then 440 00:28:40,995 --> 00:28:43,555 Speaker 1: Michelle Malkin will write a column saying another conservative outlet 441 00:28:43,555 --> 00:28:45,675 Speaker 1: has been deep platform Byron York will write a column 442 00:28:45,675 --> 00:28:48,715 Speaker 1: saying another conservative outlet has been deep platformed. Denista Susa 443 00:28:48,915 --> 00:28:51,195 Speaker 1: will write a column saying another conservative outlet has been 444 00:28:51,235 --> 00:28:54,515 Speaker 1: deep platformed. Brett Bozel will write a column saying another 445 00:28:54,515 --> 00:28:58,195 Speaker 1: conservative outlet has been deep platform Kurt Schleeester will write 446 00:28:58,235 --> 00:29:01,075 Speaker 1: a column saying another conservative outlet has been deep platformed, 447 00:29:01,355 --> 00:29:04,915 Speaker 1: and the Wall Street Journal editorial board will at a 448 00:29:04,915 --> 00:29:09,515 Speaker 1: column saying another conservative outlet has been murdered. And then 449 00:29:10,435 --> 00:29:13,155 Speaker 1: Newt Kingridge will send a tweet that says another conservative 450 00:29:13,155 --> 00:29:15,795 Speaker 1: outlet has been deep platformed. Scott Adams will send a 451 00:29:15,795 --> 00:29:18,515 Speaker 1: tweet that says another conservative outlet has been deep platformed. 452 00:29:20,115 --> 00:29:22,675 Speaker 1: Marjorie Taylor Green will send a tweet that says another 453 00:29:22,675 --> 00:29:26,115 Speaker 1: conservative outlet has been deep platformed, and she'll misspelled deep platformed. 454 00:29:26,715 --> 00:29:29,715 Speaker 1: Nikki Hayley will send a tweet that says another conservative 455 00:29:29,755 --> 00:29:32,515 Speaker 1: outlet has been deep platformed. James Woods will send a 456 00:29:32,555 --> 00:29:35,755 Speaker 1: tweet that says another conservative outlet has been deep platform crazy. 457 00:29:35,795 --> 00:29:39,395 Speaker 1: Trump's spokeswoman will send a tweet that says another conservative 458 00:29:39,435 --> 00:29:44,315 Speaker 1: outlet has been deep platformed. And Elon Musk will buy 459 00:29:44,475 --> 00:29:50,315 Speaker 1: news Max and say he did it to prevent newsbacks 460 00:29:50,355 --> 00:29:56,515 Speaker 1: from being deep platformed with a tip to the late 461 00:29:56,875 --> 00:30:01,035 Speaker 1: Bart cop Bart Coppage. We did that originally about various 462 00:30:01,075 --> 00:30:06,475 Speaker 1: columns fifteen twenty years ago freshman Congressman Eric Burlison of Missouri. 463 00:30:07,195 --> 00:30:10,915 Speaker 1: Let's make him a one term knitwit or less. Two 464 00:30:10,995 --> 00:30:34,195 Speaker 1: days worst far setting in the deep platform to the 465 00:30:34,275 --> 00:30:36,715 Speaker 1: number one story on the countdown and my favorite topic, 466 00:30:36,835 --> 00:30:39,435 Speaker 1: me and things I promised not to tell. And the 467 00:30:39,475 --> 00:30:42,155 Speaker 1: story of the day of the envelope with the anthrax 468 00:30:42,235 --> 00:30:44,955 Speaker 1: in it that arrived at my apartment. It was sixteen 469 00:30:45,035 --> 00:30:48,315 Speaker 1: years ago this Sunday. Well, the first envelope with the 470 00:30:48,355 --> 00:30:53,155 Speaker 1: anthrax in it, and it wasn't obviously really antrax, though 471 00:30:53,195 --> 00:30:55,755 Speaker 1: the Center said it was. But you would be surprised 472 00:30:55,755 --> 00:30:58,595 Speaker 1: how much the FBI and Homeland Security and other people 473 00:30:58,595 --> 00:31:00,915 Speaker 1: in hazmat suits are not willing to just act on 474 00:31:01,155 --> 00:31:05,755 Speaker 1: what is or is not obvious about fake antrax. But first, 475 00:31:05,795 --> 00:31:10,635 Speaker 1: the Alderman non anthrax anthrax letters story has a backstory. 476 00:31:10,835 --> 00:31:13,795 Speaker 1: We'll start with this reminder. You should never believe any 477 00:31:14,075 --> 00:31:16,595 Speaker 1: source story you read in The New York Post or 478 00:31:16,595 --> 00:31:19,755 Speaker 1: indeed in or on any media outlet owned by the 479 00:31:19,835 --> 00:31:24,435 Speaker 1: Murdochs like Fox News. They occasionally do report real things, 480 00:31:24,595 --> 00:31:27,955 Speaker 1: but just as often they make stuff up, not exaggerate 481 00:31:28,115 --> 00:31:31,395 Speaker 1: or get slightly wrong, or spin for political purposes, but 482 00:31:31,635 --> 00:31:36,875 Speaker 1: utterly fabricate. On April eleventh, two thousand five, the Post 483 00:31:37,035 --> 00:31:39,995 Speaker 1: was to run such a story. Only under the threat 484 00:31:40,115 --> 00:31:43,795 Speaker 1: of multiple lawsuits did the Post spike this story. I've 485 00:31:43,795 --> 00:31:46,395 Speaker 1: never told this thing before, but I was reminded of 486 00:31:46,395 --> 00:31:47,835 Speaker 1: it the other day, and I think going through the 487 00:31:47,835 --> 00:31:51,075 Speaker 1: mechanics of it will illustrate just how evil an organization 488 00:31:51,155 --> 00:31:54,155 Speaker 1: News Corps actually is, Like you didn't know that from 489 00:31:54,155 --> 00:31:58,115 Speaker 1: the existence of Tucker Carlson, but more importantly, how unreliable 490 00:31:58,235 --> 00:32:01,755 Speaker 1: it is as a source of news, even for people 491 00:32:01,755 --> 00:32:05,435 Speaker 1: who agree with it politically. As a New York Post 492 00:32:05,435 --> 00:32:09,995 Speaker 1: page six gossip story, this one had everything. It attacked MSNBC, 493 00:32:10,595 --> 00:32:13,915 Speaker 1: It had quotes from informed sources even at one point, 494 00:32:13,915 --> 00:32:17,275 Speaker 1: it had a witness. It had somebody insulting Peter Jennings 495 00:32:17,315 --> 00:32:20,355 Speaker 1: right after the late ABC anchorman revealed he had lung cancer. 496 00:32:20,835 --> 00:32:22,755 Speaker 1: And it was constructed in such a way that if 497 00:32:22,795 --> 00:32:25,915 Speaker 1: I did not comment on it, they could print the story, 498 00:32:26,275 --> 00:32:29,075 Speaker 1: then come back the next day and rehash it and 499 00:32:29,115 --> 00:32:31,315 Speaker 1: add that I was still refusing to comment on it. 500 00:32:31,795 --> 00:32:36,435 Speaker 1: But there was one overriding problem. It was a complete fabrication. 501 00:32:36,555 --> 00:32:39,675 Speaker 1: It was full of events that did not happen and 502 00:32:39,795 --> 00:32:44,035 Speaker 1: people who did not exist. New York Post Page six 503 00:32:44,155 --> 00:32:48,315 Speaker 1: contacted MSNBC's then media relations guy Jeremy Gaines on Thursday 504 00:32:48,355 --> 00:32:51,155 Speaker 1: April seventh, two thousand five, and this was the story 505 00:32:51,195 --> 00:32:55,195 Speaker 1: they told him me a quote frequent critic of President 506 00:32:55,195 --> 00:32:58,595 Speaker 1: Bush had refused to anchor the coverage of the death 507 00:32:58,635 --> 00:33:01,875 Speaker 1: of Pope John Paul the Second, pretended to be ill 508 00:33:02,275 --> 00:33:06,595 Speaker 1: and called in sick instead. The major problem with their 509 00:33:06,635 --> 00:33:09,275 Speaker 1: story was I had anchored the coverage of the death 510 00:33:09,315 --> 00:33:11,955 Speaker 1: of Pope John Paul the Second. I had been anchoring 511 00:33:11,995 --> 00:33:15,675 Speaker 1: primetime coverage for hours each weeknight leading up to the 512 00:33:15,715 --> 00:33:19,515 Speaker 1: potiffs passing. There were viewers who saw me. Studio staffers 513 00:33:19,675 --> 00:33:23,515 Speaker 1: Carl Bernstein was our in studio Papal Expert remembered seeing 514 00:33:23,555 --> 00:33:27,915 Speaker 1: me there. There were videotapes of me anchoring. This did 515 00:33:27,955 --> 00:33:31,235 Speaker 1: not stop The Post. In the first version of their story, 516 00:33:31,715 --> 00:33:34,675 Speaker 1: Page six told us that their unnamed source had been 517 00:33:34,715 --> 00:33:38,355 Speaker 1: on board the Amtrak Acela train from Washington to New York, 518 00:33:38,635 --> 00:33:41,515 Speaker 1: sitting near my agent as my agent talked to somebody 519 00:33:41,515 --> 00:33:45,155 Speaker 1: on a cell phone. Their witness said, my agent complained 520 00:33:45,435 --> 00:33:48,475 Speaker 1: that I had had a quote meltdown after quote, calling 521 00:33:48,555 --> 00:33:52,035 Speaker 1: in sick rather than anchor the paper coverage, which I anchored. 522 00:33:52,635 --> 00:33:55,915 Speaker 1: But there was more quote. Aulderman, a frequent critic of 523 00:33:55,955 --> 00:33:58,715 Speaker 1: the president's policies, said it was better in sports. They 524 00:33:58,835 --> 00:34:02,515 Speaker 1: quoted my agent quoting me into the phone, she supposedly said, 525 00:34:02,555 --> 00:34:06,435 Speaker 1: I'll be dealing with this all day now. Apart from 526 00:34:06,435 --> 00:34:08,635 Speaker 1: the fact that I had anchored the coverage, the Post 527 00:34:08,675 --> 00:34:11,155 Speaker 1: claimed I had not anchored. There was another major flaw 528 00:34:11,195 --> 00:34:13,955 Speaker 1: on the story. My agent was not on a train 529 00:34:14,035 --> 00:34:16,675 Speaker 1: from Washington to New York on the day in question, 530 00:34:17,475 --> 00:34:21,435 Speaker 1: nor the weekend question, nor in fact the year in question. 531 00:34:21,595 --> 00:34:23,635 Speaker 1: She told me she thought she had once been on 532 00:34:23,675 --> 00:34:26,555 Speaker 1: a train from Washington to New York in the year 533 00:34:26,675 --> 00:34:30,795 Speaker 1: nineteen sixty seven. My agent at the time lived a 534 00:34:30,955 --> 00:34:35,315 Speaker 1: top Mount Shasta in California, and so seldom left there 535 00:34:35,315 --> 00:34:37,955 Speaker 1: that when she once drove to town to get the mail, 536 00:34:38,555 --> 00:34:41,275 Speaker 1: I asked her for full details because I jokingly suggested 537 00:34:41,315 --> 00:34:45,355 Speaker 1: we should lead the news with it. So the next day, Friday, 538 00:34:45,395 --> 00:34:47,555 Speaker 1: April eighth, New York Post Page six came back with 539 00:34:47,595 --> 00:34:51,395 Speaker 1: a different version of their story they had misheard their source. 540 00:34:52,195 --> 00:34:54,635 Speaker 1: Of course, it wasn't my agent on the phone from 541 00:34:54,955 --> 00:34:57,195 Speaker 1: the train from DC to New York. It was a 542 00:34:57,235 --> 00:35:00,155 Speaker 1: woman who worked for my agent, a woman named Susan. 543 00:35:00,635 --> 00:35:04,395 Speaker 1: A woman named Susan whom I had, they would report, 544 00:35:04,435 --> 00:35:07,355 Speaker 1: all already phoned three times that morning and was to 545 00:35:07,395 --> 00:35:12,595 Speaker 1: meet urgently at the boat house in Central Park, presumably 546 00:35:12,635 --> 00:35:15,115 Speaker 1: because the middle of Grand Central Station would have been 547 00:35:15,115 --> 00:35:20,035 Speaker 1: a little too public. MSNBC's Jeremy Gaines responded again with 548 00:35:20,075 --> 00:35:24,595 Speaker 1: some irrefutable refutations. Nobody named Susan worked for my agent. 549 00:35:24,635 --> 00:35:28,315 Speaker 1: In fact, sorry Post, nobody at all worked from my agent. 550 00:35:28,395 --> 00:35:31,835 Speaker 1: She was independent. She had a working relationship with a 551 00:35:31,875 --> 00:35:35,875 Speaker 1: small Los Angeles agency which basically covered her phone when 552 00:35:35,915 --> 00:35:39,035 Speaker 1: she was on vacation, which was almost never because she 553 00:35:39,115 --> 00:35:42,395 Speaker 1: never left the top of Mount Shasta. We called that 554 00:35:42,515 --> 00:35:44,915 Speaker 1: a GC, and they confirmed they not only did not 555 00:35:44,995 --> 00:35:48,315 Speaker 1: have anybody working for them named Susan, but nobody from 556 00:35:48,355 --> 00:35:51,315 Speaker 1: their agency was even on the East Coast so far 557 00:35:52,195 --> 00:35:56,435 Speaker 1: that year. At this point I called the television columnist 558 00:35:56,475 --> 00:35:58,115 Speaker 1: of the New York Post, who I knew a little, 559 00:35:58,115 --> 00:35:59,755 Speaker 1: and off the record explained to him that I was 560 00:35:59,795 --> 00:36:02,835 Speaker 1: furious and getting ready to sue, but that NBC was 561 00:36:02,995 --> 00:36:05,195 Speaker 1: far angrier than I was, and that they were going 562 00:36:05,235 --> 00:36:07,755 Speaker 1: to sue as well, and sue the editor of Page 563 00:36:07,755 --> 00:36:10,395 Speaker 1: six personally in an effort to put him out of business. 564 00:36:11,075 --> 00:36:13,915 Speaker 1: I commonly went through the facts of this. This guy, 565 00:36:13,915 --> 00:36:16,635 Speaker 1: who had a conscience side, said he got these kinds 566 00:36:16,635 --> 00:36:18,675 Speaker 1: of calls more often than I would believe, And I said, no, 567 00:36:19,035 --> 00:36:20,995 Speaker 1: I believe it. And he said he would go to 568 00:36:21,035 --> 00:36:23,515 Speaker 1: the editor of page six and explain somebody was lying 569 00:36:23,555 --> 00:36:25,355 Speaker 1: to the editor of page six and he was going 570 00:36:25,435 --> 00:36:28,355 Speaker 1: to get himself sued into bankruptcy over a really obviously 571 00:36:28,435 --> 00:36:32,795 Speaker 1: untrue and completely disproven story. A couple of hours later, 572 00:36:32,835 --> 00:36:36,035 Speaker 1: New York Post Page six called again, demanding a comment 573 00:36:36,115 --> 00:36:39,115 Speaker 1: from me on a third different version of their exclusive 574 00:36:39,195 --> 00:36:43,515 Speaker 1: papal scoop. No, the woman their witness heard, who they 575 00:36:43,515 --> 00:36:46,555 Speaker 1: first said was my agent, then said she'd gotten it wrong. 576 00:36:46,555 --> 00:36:48,115 Speaker 1: It was a woman named Susan who worked for my 577 00:36:48,155 --> 00:36:50,955 Speaker 1: agent had now become a woman who worked for my agent, 578 00:36:50,995 --> 00:36:53,675 Speaker 1: whose name the witness never heard. But she was talking 579 00:36:53,755 --> 00:36:58,435 Speaker 1: to somebody else named Susan. And there was an additional 580 00:36:58,515 --> 00:37:01,315 Speaker 1: quote that appeared out of nowhere. I'll be dealing with 581 00:37:01,355 --> 00:37:05,115 Speaker 1: this all day now was gone. It was replaced with 582 00:37:05,475 --> 00:37:07,995 Speaker 1: I'll be dealing with this all day now. The same 583 00:37:08,035 --> 00:37:10,875 Speaker 1: week Peter Jennings makes his announcement about having lung cancer. 584 00:37:10,955 --> 00:37:14,235 Speaker 1: This idiot, a frequent President and President Bush critic, is 585 00:37:14,275 --> 00:37:19,195 Speaker 1: sitting around in his pajamas calling me about this. Years later, 586 00:37:19,235 --> 00:37:21,955 Speaker 1: a former gossip reporter and Murdoch's employee explained to me 587 00:37:21,995 --> 00:37:25,475 Speaker 1: that his celebrity and gossip people are taught never to 588 00:37:25,555 --> 00:37:28,515 Speaker 1: back down from a confrontation, and that if the subject 589 00:37:28,515 --> 00:37:30,875 Speaker 1: of one of their hit jobs fights back or tries 590 00:37:30,875 --> 00:37:34,875 Speaker 1: to refute, or especially threatens legal action, to keep making 591 00:37:34,875 --> 00:37:37,875 Speaker 1: the story worse and worse for them. And in the 592 00:37:37,915 --> 00:37:40,235 Speaker 1: first decade of this century, you were supposed to try 593 00:37:40,235 --> 00:37:43,835 Speaker 1: to work in a defense of George W. Bush. But 594 00:37:43,915 --> 00:37:47,395 Speaker 1: there's also what they called an emergency exit. If there 595 00:37:47,475 --> 00:37:50,115 Speaker 1: is no question that the story is nonsensible, the basic 596 00:37:50,195 --> 00:37:52,995 Speaker 1: spine of the story does not line up with provable facts. 597 00:37:53,035 --> 00:37:56,395 Speaker 1: Just abandoned it. Don't tell the subject of your attack 598 00:37:56,435 --> 00:37:59,315 Speaker 1: that you are abandoning it. Just don't make any more 599 00:37:59,355 --> 00:38:01,595 Speaker 1: phone calls and don't send any more emails about it. 600 00:38:01,635 --> 00:38:04,995 Speaker 1: Just vanish and then send the name aim of the 601 00:38:05,035 --> 00:38:07,675 Speaker 1: subject around to all the other Murdoch operations to see 602 00:38:07,715 --> 00:38:09,275 Speaker 1: if they can come up with any dirt on the 603 00:38:09,315 --> 00:38:14,915 Speaker 1: subject to punish them for fighting back against the Murdoch lies. Well, 604 00:38:14,955 --> 00:38:16,915 Speaker 1: it took the New York Post a year and a 605 00:38:16,915 --> 00:38:20,475 Speaker 1: half after dropping this story. They never called back about 606 00:38:20,475 --> 00:38:23,755 Speaker 1: Susan or my agent or the boat house in Central 607 00:38:23,755 --> 00:38:28,315 Speaker 1: Park again. But on September twenty, two thousand six, I 608 00:38:28,395 --> 00:38:31,195 Speaker 1: opened an envelope bearing a California post mark at my 609 00:38:31,235 --> 00:38:33,955 Speaker 1: home in New York and a sticky substance it looked 610 00:38:33,995 --> 00:38:37,115 Speaker 1: like drain no mixed with talcum powder fell out. An 611 00:38:37,155 --> 00:38:40,275 Speaker 1: accompanying note said it was antrax, and now I and 612 00:38:40,355 --> 00:38:42,795 Speaker 1: other liberals would get a taste of our own medicine. 613 00:38:43,515 --> 00:38:46,515 Speaker 1: Even reading those chilling words and having covered the actual 614 00:38:46,555 --> 00:38:50,195 Speaker 1: Antrax letters attacks of two thousand one for CNN, I 615 00:38:50,235 --> 00:38:53,155 Speaker 1: knew it wasn't antrax. The guy who supposedly sent the 616 00:38:53,155 --> 00:38:55,555 Speaker 1: actual anthrax was an expert in the field, and even 617 00:38:55,595 --> 00:38:58,675 Speaker 1: he mishandled the stuff so badly that the official report 618 00:38:58,795 --> 00:39:01,875 Speaker 1: was he gave himself anthrax poisoning and died of it. 619 00:39:02,635 --> 00:39:05,995 Speaker 1: On the other hand, why where I was wrong? My 620 00:39:06,075 --> 00:39:08,355 Speaker 1: apartment building was filled with little old ladies who had 621 00:39:08,355 --> 00:39:11,515 Speaker 1: lived there since Roosevelt was president. I only assumed that 622 00:39:11,595 --> 00:39:15,355 Speaker 1: meant Franklin Roosevelt. The odds were about one in a trillion. 623 00:39:15,435 --> 00:39:17,555 Speaker 1: This was actually anthrax. But who was I to dismiss 624 00:39:17,635 --> 00:39:22,635 Speaker 1: this on their behalf? So I made a phone call. Well, 625 00:39:22,755 --> 00:39:25,595 Speaker 1: that made it into quite an evening. The cops showed up, 626 00:39:25,635 --> 00:39:28,075 Speaker 1: the FBI showed up. They said, of course it's not anthrax, 627 00:39:28,075 --> 00:39:30,115 Speaker 1: but we have to act like it is. The has 628 00:39:30,155 --> 00:39:32,955 Speaker 1: Matt squad came in. They set up a command post 629 00:39:32,995 --> 00:39:35,275 Speaker 1: in the building. They swept my apartment and they said, okay, 630 00:39:35,315 --> 00:39:37,515 Speaker 1: now you have to go to the emergency room for tests. 631 00:39:37,675 --> 00:39:39,475 Speaker 1: And I said, it's not anthrax. You just said so. 632 00:39:39,515 --> 00:39:41,395 Speaker 1: And they said if we have to do this, you 633 00:39:41,435 --> 00:39:44,475 Speaker 1: have to do this too. I laughed, and if you don't, 634 00:39:44,515 --> 00:39:46,555 Speaker 1: we can arrest you as a threat to public health 635 00:39:46,595 --> 00:39:49,475 Speaker 1: and make you do it. So out I went into 636 00:39:49,475 --> 00:39:54,435 Speaker 1: an ambulance dressed in a hazmat suit one size too 637 00:39:54,475 --> 00:39:57,595 Speaker 1: small that really chafed in the groin. I spent the 638 00:39:57,715 --> 00:40:00,315 Speaker 1: night getting checked out, and the FBI called back and said, 639 00:40:00,635 --> 00:40:04,995 Speaker 1: it's like drain oh with ivory soap flakes. But also 640 00:40:05,075 --> 00:40:07,875 Speaker 1: said there were other letters that had arrived that night 641 00:40:07,915 --> 00:40:09,915 Speaker 1: and the night before and the week before two people 642 00:40:09,955 --> 00:40:13,595 Speaker 1: like the chairman of CBS and David Letterman's office and 643 00:40:13,715 --> 00:40:17,995 Speaker 1: Nancy Pelosi and the wrong John Stewart. And they couldn't 644 00:40:18,075 --> 00:40:19,795 Speaker 1: make me do this, but it would really help if 645 00:40:19,835 --> 00:40:21,995 Speaker 1: I did not report what had happened to me on 646 00:40:22,035 --> 00:40:24,675 Speaker 1: my TV show, just for one day, because they had 647 00:40:24,675 --> 00:40:26,155 Speaker 1: a lead on the guy and they didn't want to 648 00:40:26,155 --> 00:40:31,075 Speaker 1: scare him off. Naturally, I said sure. The next day, 649 00:40:31,155 --> 00:40:33,795 Speaker 1: while we were still observing the embargo on the story, 650 00:40:34,235 --> 00:40:38,235 Speaker 1: my story which actually happened to me, New York Post 651 00:40:38,275 --> 00:40:40,275 Speaker 1: page six ran a picture of me with the headline 652 00:40:40,555 --> 00:40:44,875 Speaker 1: powder Puff spooks Keith and making sure to identify me 653 00:40:44,995 --> 00:40:48,915 Speaker 1: as quote can you guess a frequent critic of President 654 00:40:48,955 --> 00:40:52,355 Speaker 1: Bush's policies. It mocked me for not just assuming it 655 00:40:52,395 --> 00:40:55,395 Speaker 1: was spake antrax and ignoring it, and claimed I insisted 656 00:40:55,395 --> 00:40:57,915 Speaker 1: the cops take me to the hospital. Quote whether they 657 00:40:57,955 --> 00:41:00,755 Speaker 1: gave him a lollipop on the way out isn't known, 658 00:41:02,275 --> 00:41:04,315 Speaker 1: by the way, one of the anthrax letters. In two 659 00:41:04,315 --> 00:41:07,075 Speaker 1: thousand one, the actual anthrax letters had been mailed to 660 00:41:07,195 --> 00:41:09,675 Speaker 1: the New York Post and one of their staffers contracted 661 00:41:09,715 --> 00:41:12,475 Speaker 1: the anthrax poisoning, but that didn't seem to matter anymore 662 00:41:12,475 --> 00:41:15,475 Speaker 1: when it was a chance to take a shot at me. Anyway, 663 00:41:15,515 --> 00:41:17,955 Speaker 1: As it turned out, there was a guy in California 664 00:41:17,995 --> 00:41:21,235 Speaker 1: sending out these threatening letters, each with fake anthrax, to 665 00:41:21,315 --> 00:41:25,035 Speaker 1: about a dozen people. He sent me four of them. 666 00:41:25,075 --> 00:41:28,035 Speaker 1: I soon knew the FBI guys on the case by 667 00:41:28,035 --> 00:41:31,635 Speaker 1: their first names, and one day I pointed out to 668 00:41:31,755 --> 00:41:35,475 Speaker 1: FBI Doug that the last envelope had a barcode on 669 00:41:35,515 --> 00:41:37,755 Speaker 1: it that maybe could track the guy, and he said, oh, 670 00:41:37,795 --> 00:41:39,955 Speaker 1: you're right, And the next thing I knew, the FBI 671 00:41:40,035 --> 00:41:43,275 Speaker 1: had videotaped the suspect mailing yet another letter to me 672 00:41:43,635 --> 00:41:46,235 Speaker 1: from his home in Woodland Hills, California, and I swear 673 00:41:46,275 --> 00:41:50,195 Speaker 1: to God he actually lived in his mother's basement. And 674 00:41:50,315 --> 00:41:52,315 Speaker 1: FBI Doug said, do we have your permission to pull 675 00:41:52,315 --> 00:41:53,715 Speaker 1: the letter out of the mailbox and open it? And 676 00:41:53,755 --> 00:41:56,755 Speaker 1: I said sure, And the guy wound up going to 677 00:41:56,835 --> 00:42:00,835 Speaker 1: prison for like eighteen months, but not before FBI Doug said, 678 00:42:00,915 --> 00:42:04,275 Speaker 1: by the way, the barcode you noticed it was for 679 00:42:04,315 --> 00:42:06,755 Speaker 1: the post office here, and that's where we found his address. 680 00:42:06,835 --> 00:42:09,555 Speaker 1: And the fact that he'd bought all this stuff and 681 00:42:09,635 --> 00:42:12,555 Speaker 1: purchased a postal money order for fifteen dollars made out 682 00:42:12,595 --> 00:42:17,555 Speaker 1: to the Katherine Harris for Florida Senate campaign, and that 683 00:42:17,635 --> 00:42:20,315 Speaker 1: led us to his online history, which is all about 684 00:42:20,355 --> 00:42:23,475 Speaker 1: how she is the most beautiful woman in the world, 685 00:42:23,715 --> 00:42:27,875 Speaker 1: Katherine Harris, except for maybe some gal named Laura something 686 00:42:28,595 --> 00:42:32,155 Speaker 1: the most beautiful woman in history. And I said, Laura, 687 00:42:34,195 --> 00:42:39,595 Speaker 1: Laura Ingram, and FBI Doug said, yeah, that's it, Laura Ingram. 688 00:42:39,635 --> 00:42:41,635 Speaker 1: And if that isn't ten years of my life in 689 00:42:41,635 --> 00:42:57,715 Speaker 1: one sentence, I don't know what it it is. When FBI 690 00:42:57,835 --> 00:43:01,675 Speaker 1: New York does its job right. Countdown has come to 691 00:43:01,715 --> 00:43:04,235 Speaker 1: you from the studios of the Older Woman Broadcasting Empire 692 00:43:04,275 --> 00:43:07,795 Speaker 1: World headquarters in the Sports Capsule Building in New York. 693 00:43:08,755 --> 00:43:11,355 Speaker 1: Thanks for listening. Here are the credits. Most of the music, 694 00:43:11,395 --> 00:43:15,235 Speaker 1: including our theme from Beethoven's Ninth arranged produced performed by 695 00:43:15,235 --> 00:43:18,075 Speaker 1: Brian Ray and John Philip Chanelle. They are the Countdown 696 00:43:18,195 --> 00:43:21,835 Speaker 1: musical directors. Guitars, bassed and drums by Brian Ray, all 697 00:43:21,915 --> 00:43:25,515 Speaker 1: orchestration and keyboards by John Philip Chanelle, produced by T 698 00:43:25,635 --> 00:43:28,475 Speaker 1: k O Brothers. The other Beethoven selections have been arranged 699 00:43:28,475 --> 00:43:31,635 Speaker 1: and performed by the group No Horns Allowed. The sports 700 00:43:31,715 --> 00:43:34,395 Speaker 1: music is the Alderman theme from ESPN two. It was 701 00:43:34,395 --> 00:43:37,875 Speaker 1: written by Mitch Warren Davis Fierce courtesy of ESPN, Inc. 702 00:43:38,355 --> 00:43:41,955 Speaker 1: Musical comments from Nancy Fauss. The best baseball stadium organist ever. 703 00:43:42,315 --> 00:43:45,355 Speaker 1: Our announcer today was Richard Lewis, and everything else was 704 00:43:45,395 --> 00:43:48,515 Speaker 1: pretty much my fault. So let's countdown for this the 705 00:43:48,555 --> 00:43:52,275 Speaker 1: seven and fifty eight day since Donald Trump's first attempted 706 00:43:52,315 --> 00:43:55,115 Speaker 1: coup against the democratically elected government of the United States. 707 00:43:55,555 --> 00:43:59,955 Speaker 1: Arrest him now while we still can. The next scheduled 708 00:43:59,955 --> 00:44:02,835 Speaker 1: countdown is tomorrow. Till then, I'm Keith Olberman. Good morning, 709 00:44:02,835 --> 00:44:22,475 Speaker 1: good afternoon, goodnight, and good luck. Countdown with Keith Alderman 710 00:44:22,635 --> 00:44:26,115 Speaker 1: is a production of I heart Radio. For more podcasts 711 00:44:26,115 --> 00:44:28,795 Speaker 1: from I heart Radio, visit the i heart Radio app, 712 00:44:28,835 --> 00:44:32,235 Speaker 1: Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.