1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:21,875 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Trump 2 00:00:21,955 --> 00:00:26,395 Speaker 1: has descended into full fledged panic over the possible gag order, 3 00:00:26,435 --> 00:00:29,435 Speaker 1: and either he is exaggerating for effect what a shock 4 00:00:29,515 --> 00:00:33,075 Speaker 1: that would be, or more likely, his lawyers preparing an 5 00:00:33,075 --> 00:00:35,835 Speaker 1: answer to Jack Smith's request to Judge Chutkin that is 6 00:00:35,915 --> 00:00:40,235 Speaker 1: due Monday, told him something that set his hair on fire, 7 00:00:41,115 --> 00:00:43,835 Speaker 1: and you know the dangers of combustion when spray paint 8 00:00:43,915 --> 00:00:47,395 Speaker 1: is mixed with open flames. And that imagery is more 9 00:00:47,435 --> 00:00:50,795 Speaker 1: than just a joke about his bottle blondness. It is 10 00:00:50,835 --> 00:00:53,715 Speaker 1: a forecast of things to come. We are headed to 11 00:00:53,795 --> 00:00:57,875 Speaker 1: a legal crisis over Trump's social media posts and his 12 00:00:57,955 --> 00:01:00,795 Speaker 1: refusal to accede to the rule of law. And I 13 00:01:00,875 --> 00:01:03,315 Speaker 1: don't know where this ends, but at the far end 14 00:01:03,355 --> 00:01:06,155 Speaker 1: of the political science fic where it ends is a 15 00:01:06,195 --> 00:01:11,275 Speaker 1: shootout between United States marshals and United States Secret Service agents. 16 00:01:12,195 --> 00:01:14,395 Speaker 1: Either way, it is enough of a story that I 17 00:01:14,475 --> 00:01:18,195 Speaker 1: think it's bigger than the oh sexual assault accusation against 18 00:01:18,275 --> 00:01:22,115 Speaker 1: Rudy Giuliani by Cassidy Hutchinson, and bigger than Lynn would 19 00:01:22,275 --> 00:01:25,195 Speaker 1: flipping on the entire Trump team, and bigger than a 20 00:01:25,235 --> 00:01:29,075 Speaker 1: tweet from Junior Trump announcing his father had died. He 21 00:01:29,155 --> 00:01:36,195 Speaker 1: was hacked, we think, Trump writes deranged Jack Smith's and parenthetically, 22 00:01:36,315 --> 00:01:40,195 Speaker 1: Jack Smith says, thanks for more evidence, don Deranged Jack 23 00:01:40,235 --> 00:01:43,755 Speaker 1: Smith's gag order request would make it impossible for me 24 00:01:43,875 --> 00:01:48,595 Speaker 1: to speak negatively about Biden and other subjects of incompetence. 25 00:01:48,795 --> 00:01:53,595 Speaker 1: How ridiculous. No more First Amendment, and regardless of whatever 26 00:01:53,675 --> 00:01:59,395 Speaker 1: triggered that. In Trump's forever malfunctioning, perpetually paranoid, mainly martyrdom brain, 27 00:01:59,835 --> 00:02:03,835 Speaker 1: it signals yet again that if Judge Chuckkin actually imposes 28 00:02:03,955 --> 00:02:07,475 Speaker 1: limits on what Trump can and cannot say, or write, 29 00:02:07,595 --> 00:02:12,275 Speaker 1: or both, we are headed for a genuine confrontation. Trump 30 00:02:12,355 --> 00:02:15,475 Speaker 1: is told not to attack or obstruct the prosecution, the judge, 31 00:02:15,475 --> 00:02:18,915 Speaker 1: the witnesses, the jury pool. He agrees under oath. Within 32 00:02:18,995 --> 00:02:22,275 Speaker 1: seventy two hours, he does it anyway. Six weeks later, 33 00:02:22,315 --> 00:02:25,155 Speaker 1: the prosecutor tells the judge he did it anyway and 34 00:02:25,195 --> 00:02:27,715 Speaker 1: has kept on doing it, and she has to do something. 35 00:02:27,835 --> 00:02:30,275 Speaker 1: And he cites, among dozens of other things, the repeated 36 00:02:30,355 --> 00:02:33,955 Speaker 1: use of the adjective deranged in social media posts, and 37 00:02:33,995 --> 00:02:37,435 Speaker 1: Trump responds by using the adjective deranged in a social 38 00:02:37,475 --> 00:02:41,755 Speaker 1: media post and the prosecutor points in particular at Trump's 39 00:02:41,795 --> 00:02:45,475 Speaker 1: lie that he was indicted at the orders of the 40 00:02:45,515 --> 00:02:49,035 Speaker 1: president of the United States. And Trump comes back and 41 00:02:49,075 --> 00:02:52,035 Speaker 1: repeats the lie and expands it into something that would 42 00:02:52,035 --> 00:02:56,875 Speaker 1: be totally delightful and totally illegal, some kind of court 43 00:02:56,995 --> 00:03:01,315 Speaker 1: order in which Trump can never comment about Biden again. 44 00:03:01,915 --> 00:03:06,795 Speaker 1: 'tis a consummation devoutedly to be and as I said, 45 00:03:06,955 --> 00:03:11,435 Speaker 1: it's also illegal. But Trump is clearly neither bowing to 46 00:03:11,475 --> 00:03:14,955 Speaker 1: the instructions of a federal judge nor adhering to his 47 00:03:15,195 --> 00:03:20,355 Speaker 1: own agreement to those instructions. And that is the essence here, 48 00:03:21,035 --> 00:03:24,115 Speaker 1: Because I feel like the announcer in the Timeless Bob 49 00:03:24,155 --> 00:03:27,715 Speaker 1: and Ray sketch about the driving of the Golden Strike. 50 00:03:28,395 --> 00:03:31,675 Speaker 1: That's it, ladies and gentlemen. The Golden Spike is driven. 51 00:03:31,955 --> 00:03:37,715 Speaker 1: The Transcontinental Railroad is complete, and here come the trains, 52 00:03:38,275 --> 00:03:43,315 Speaker 1: one from the east and one from the west. I'm 53 00:03:43,355 --> 00:03:47,395 Speaker 1: standing here seeing this madness unfolding, and I know that 54 00:03:47,435 --> 00:03:52,435 Speaker 1: the next thing is a full on, head on high 55 00:03:52,555 --> 00:03:57,435 Speaker 1: speed train wreck. What happens if Chutkin doesn't opt to 56 00:03:57,555 --> 00:04:01,035 Speaker 1: punish and corral him by just moving up the start 57 00:04:01,115 --> 00:04:04,595 Speaker 1: of the insurrection trial, say one day for every violation, 58 00:04:04,955 --> 00:04:09,035 Speaker 1: or doesn't opt to do only that, but actually institutes 59 00:04:09,035 --> 00:04:11,555 Speaker 1: a gag order of some kind, even a minimal one, 60 00:04:11,915 --> 00:04:16,995 Speaker 1: and Trump ignores it, and Trump calls her deranged, and 61 00:04:17,035 --> 00:04:21,795 Speaker 1: Trump says it's illegal, and Trump continues to defy the court. 62 00:04:22,315 --> 00:04:26,875 Speaker 1: His bail, his not being kept in a jail cell 63 00:04:27,235 --> 00:04:30,875 Speaker 1: in the District of Columbia until the trial starts, is 64 00:04:31,035 --> 00:04:36,555 Speaker 1: dependent on him not defying the court. As I said 65 00:04:36,635 --> 00:04:39,955 Speaker 1: last week, at some point, whatever limitations Chruckckin imposes upon 66 00:04:40,035 --> 00:04:43,755 Speaker 1: him when he violates them, whether it is the first 67 00:04:43,755 --> 00:04:46,955 Speaker 1: time he violates them or the fiftieth time he violates them, 68 00:04:47,395 --> 00:04:50,675 Speaker 1: He's not going to surrender. He's not going to let 69 00:04:50,715 --> 00:04:53,555 Speaker 1: them put him in prison. They're going to have to 70 00:04:53,635 --> 00:05:02,035 Speaker 1: go and get him. And what happens then it seems 71 00:05:02,075 --> 00:05:05,795 Speaker 1: madness to risk the lives of marshals or Secret Service 72 00:05:05,915 --> 00:05:10,955 Speaker 1: agents to protect this semi sentient pile of feces. But 73 00:05:11,035 --> 00:05:15,155 Speaker 1: what you're going to have the Secret Service agents protecting 74 00:05:15,235 --> 00:05:19,075 Speaker 1: him turn around and arrest him, or Biden is going 75 00:05:19,075 --> 00:05:20,915 Speaker 1: to order the head of the Secret Service to order 76 00:05:20,955 --> 00:05:24,835 Speaker 1: his men to stand down when the marshals arrive. Trump 77 00:05:24,915 --> 00:05:27,075 Speaker 1: is going to see the photo shoot value in an 78 00:05:27,115 --> 00:05:30,395 Speaker 1: actual purp walk and just say, sure, take me to prison. 79 00:05:31,755 --> 00:05:35,715 Speaker 1: I'm not counting on that last one. Rolling Stone now 80 00:05:35,755 --> 00:05:38,515 Speaker 1: reports that, as you would expect, the I don't think 81 00:05:38,555 --> 00:05:41,515 Speaker 1: about jail crap that he gave to the gullible Kristen 82 00:05:41,555 --> 00:05:46,915 Speaker 1: Welker in last Sunday's stenography class is nonsense. Quoting in 83 00:05:46,955 --> 00:05:49,235 Speaker 1: the past several months, Donald Trump has had a burning 84 00:05:49,315 --> 00:05:52,115 Speaker 1: question for some of his confidants and attorneys. Would the 85 00:05:52,155 --> 00:05:57,115 Speaker 1: authorities make him wear quote one of those jumpsuits unquote 86 00:05:57,195 --> 00:06:00,995 Speaker 1: in prison? Three sources familiar with his comments say he's 87 00:06:00,995 --> 00:06:04,275 Speaker 1: been asking lawyers and other people close to him what 88 00:06:04,475 --> 00:06:08,435 Speaker 1: a prison sentence would look like for a former American president. 89 00:06:08,675 --> 00:06:12,195 Speaker 1: Would he be sent to a club fed style prison 90 00:06:12,315 --> 00:06:14,995 Speaker 1: or a bad prison? Would he serve out a sentence 91 00:06:15,035 --> 00:06:18,515 Speaker 1: in a plush home confinement. Those who've heard him ask 92 00:06:18,595 --> 00:06:22,035 Speaker 1: these questions about a hypothetical sentencing tell Rolling Stone that 93 00:06:22,075 --> 00:06:25,595 Speaker 1: it's clear the gravity of his mounting legal peril is 94 00:06:25,675 --> 00:06:30,555 Speaker 1: getting to Trump unquote. As an aside, I understand jan 95 00:06:30,595 --> 00:06:34,875 Speaker 1: Winner is asking the same questions, but seriously, folks, Trump's 96 00:06:34,915 --> 00:06:38,635 Speaker 1: lawyers have to submit an answer by Monday, so they 97 00:06:38,795 --> 00:06:42,475 Speaker 1: have discussed the Smith gag order motion, and at some 98 00:06:42,635 --> 00:06:46,155 Speaker 1: point they have to have discussed the response or will 99 00:06:46,195 --> 00:06:48,675 Speaker 1: discuss the response with Trump, and that's where the social 100 00:06:48,715 --> 00:06:53,995 Speaker 1: media outburst could have originated. Or somebody read Trump a 101 00:06:54,115 --> 00:06:59,475 Speaker 1: quote article at Wright part quote news that is their 102 00:06:59,515 --> 00:07:02,155 Speaker 1: standard formula, a right wing nut job in this case, 103 00:07:02,195 --> 00:07:06,235 Speaker 1: the former head writer for the former Tucker carl tweets something. 104 00:07:06,995 --> 00:07:09,115 Speaker 1: In this case it was the Trump gag order is 105 00:07:09,155 --> 00:07:13,235 Speaker 1: truly insane. The Washington Post then prints a piece critical 106 00:07:13,275 --> 00:07:16,675 Speaker 1: of the proposed order, written by their hyper conservative guy 107 00:07:16,675 --> 00:07:18,755 Speaker 1: who they gave an opinion job to based on his 108 00:07:18,835 --> 00:07:23,515 Speaker 1: tenure as a Wall Street Journal editorial page editor, and 109 00:07:23,635 --> 00:07:26,835 Speaker 1: before that, a writer for the now bankrupt American Interest 110 00:07:26,955 --> 00:07:31,275 Speaker 1: magazine that had been funded by the Nixon Foundation. Now no, 111 00:07:31,435 --> 00:07:36,235 Speaker 1: seriously that Nixon Nixon, who like Reagan, is still damaging 112 00:07:36,275 --> 00:07:41,635 Speaker 1: this country from hell anyway, Breitbart aggregates these two throwaway 113 00:07:41,635 --> 00:07:45,515 Speaker 1: opinions slaps on the headline quote Smith's gag order would 114 00:07:45,555 --> 00:07:52,555 Speaker 1: essentially ban Trump from criticizing Biden. Critics, say critics, as 115 00:07:52,595 --> 00:07:56,155 Speaker 1: if the critics the Nixon guy and the Tucker Carlson guy, 116 00:07:56,355 --> 00:08:00,715 Speaker 1: As if these critics were H. L. Menkin and Pauline Kale, 117 00:08:00,795 --> 00:08:04,195 Speaker 1: and hours later, coincidentally or not, Trump posts the gag 118 00:08:04,315 --> 00:08:06,835 Speaker 1: order would make it quote impossible for me to speak 119 00:08:06,835 --> 00:08:12,355 Speaker 1: negatively about Biden. It's unlikely Trump just sees that on 120 00:08:12,475 --> 00:08:16,555 Speaker 1: his own. It is brought to him by somebody. If 121 00:08:16,555 --> 00:08:19,395 Speaker 1: you want speculation out of whole cloth, it sounds like 122 00:08:19,835 --> 00:08:23,955 Speaker 1: the question was his tantrum inspired by that or by 123 00:08:23,955 --> 00:08:27,395 Speaker 1: the lawyers might actually be a false choice. It's probably both. 124 00:08:27,755 --> 00:08:30,275 Speaker 1: The lawyers probably told him in the last few days 125 00:08:30,275 --> 00:08:33,595 Speaker 1: how they plan to answer the gag order request next Monday, 126 00:08:33,635 --> 00:08:36,675 Speaker 1: and they were realistic. And maybe that's where the rolling 127 00:08:36,715 --> 00:08:40,355 Speaker 1: stone he's worried about the orange jumpsuit, like, oh now 128 00:08:40,395 --> 00:08:44,475 Speaker 1: he's worried about orange story comes from. And maybe then 129 00:08:44,755 --> 00:08:49,515 Speaker 1: Trump calls his real legal advisor, his non attorney's spokesman, 130 00:08:49,915 --> 00:08:53,835 Speaker 1: Tom Fitten, and says, not in so many words, but says, 131 00:08:54,355 --> 00:08:56,315 Speaker 1: I want you to tell me what I want to hear. 132 00:08:56,915 --> 00:09:00,115 Speaker 1: And that's what Tom Fitton does, and Fitten does it. 133 00:09:00,435 --> 00:09:02,515 Speaker 1: And I'll just mention again that Tom Fitton will never 134 00:09:02,595 --> 00:09:05,875 Speaker 1: know this, but he is one of the leading opponents 135 00:09:05,915 --> 00:09:12,995 Speaker 1: of Trump alived today. So that other stuff I mentioned 136 00:09:13,075 --> 00:09:19,035 Speaker 1: Rudy Giuliani sexually assaulted Cassidy Hutchinson on January sixth in 137 00:09:19,115 --> 00:09:22,475 Speaker 1: the Trump green Room slash tent while Trump was inciting 138 00:09:22,475 --> 00:09:28,195 Speaker 1: the insurrection. What did you do during the insurrection, Rudy, No, 139 00:09:28,355 --> 00:09:31,435 Speaker 1: it's who did I do? This is in her book 140 00:09:32,875 --> 00:09:36,435 Speaker 1: quote by the way, he says, fingering the fabric, I'm 141 00:09:36,555 --> 00:09:40,395 Speaker 1: loving this leather jacket on you. His hand slips under 142 00:09:40,395 --> 00:09:45,235 Speaker 1: my blazer, then my skirt. I feel his frozen fingers 143 00:09:45,755 --> 00:09:51,275 Speaker 1: trail up my thigh. This is the most serious sexual 144 00:09:51,315 --> 00:09:59,675 Speaker 1: misconduct allegation against Rudolph Giuliani. In nearly four months, we 145 00:09:59,755 --> 00:10:02,595 Speaker 1: got a denial from a friend of Rudy's named Ted, 146 00:10:03,715 --> 00:10:06,075 Speaker 1: not from Rudy's lawyer, because of course Rudy's lawyer is 147 00:10:06,115 --> 00:10:09,595 Speaker 1: suing him because Rudy didn't pay, because Rudy was indicted 148 00:10:09,635 --> 00:10:12,715 Speaker 1: in Georgia. And this reminds me to remind you that 149 00:10:12,795 --> 00:10:16,275 Speaker 1: I met Rudy like twenty six, twenty seven years ago. 150 00:10:16,755 --> 00:10:18,515 Speaker 1: And when people who only know him from nine to 151 00:10:18,555 --> 00:10:21,795 Speaker 1: eleven say, what a fall for an American hero or 152 00:10:22,275 --> 00:10:24,835 Speaker 1: what happened to this Giuliani, I always say, I don't 153 00:10:24,875 --> 00:10:28,275 Speaker 1: know what happened, but it happened sometime before nineteen ninety five. 154 00:10:29,275 --> 00:10:31,475 Speaker 1: I'll tell that whole story again later in this edition. 155 00:10:32,195 --> 00:10:34,835 Speaker 1: In any event, Cassidy Hutchinson's story is in her new 156 00:10:34,835 --> 00:10:37,995 Speaker 1: book Enough, which will be published next Tuesday, and the 157 00:10:37,995 --> 00:10:42,195 Speaker 1: Guardian is quoting from it because here's another shock. Somehow 158 00:10:42,675 --> 00:10:47,195 Speaker 1: a copy was accidentally released in advance of publication, and 159 00:10:47,235 --> 00:10:51,715 Speaker 1: it found its way to a newspaper, which makes three 160 00:10:51,795 --> 00:10:55,635 Speaker 1: hundred and eighty seven consecutive controversial books where the same 161 00:10:55,715 --> 00:11:00,395 Speaker 1: thing has happened. I know. And oh, by the way, 162 00:11:00,435 --> 00:11:06,275 Speaker 1: as Juliani groped her during January sixth, mss Hutchinson writes, 163 00:11:06,555 --> 00:11:12,115 Speaker 1: John Eastman watched and leered, and one assumes the loathsome 164 00:11:12,155 --> 00:11:19,155 Speaker 1: Eastman doesn't just have problems with elections. All this Trump 165 00:11:19,275 --> 00:11:23,515 Speaker 1: lawyer talk naturally evokes the name Lynn Wood, who went 166 00:11:23,555 --> 00:11:27,555 Speaker 1: from defending Richard Jewel, who was not the Atlanta Olympic 167 00:11:27,595 --> 00:11:32,755 Speaker 1: bomber and Gary Conditt, who did not kill his congressional intern. 168 00:11:33,395 --> 00:11:38,235 Speaker 1: Went from that to something something Jesus slay them, something 169 00:11:38,275 --> 00:11:41,155 Speaker 1: something Trump something something they can kill me. But and 170 00:11:41,195 --> 00:11:45,915 Speaker 1: then poof, early this year, lynn Wood disappeared and now 171 00:11:45,955 --> 00:11:49,715 Speaker 1: we know why. New filing from Fannie Willison, Georgia key 172 00:11:49,795 --> 00:11:54,755 Speaker 1: line in it, quote l lynn Wood is a witness 173 00:11:54,875 --> 00:11:58,875 Speaker 1: for the state in the present case. And now we 174 00:11:58,995 --> 00:12:01,955 Speaker 1: know what a post that Elle lynn Wood made about 175 00:12:01,955 --> 00:12:04,275 Speaker 1: a month ago meant, in which he said he had 176 00:12:04,315 --> 00:12:07,155 Speaker 1: tested to the special grand jury and he wanted to 177 00:12:07,155 --> 00:12:11,915 Speaker 1: thank the District Attorney's office for being so professional and polite, 178 00:12:12,795 --> 00:12:14,755 Speaker 1: and he flipped. He totally flipped. And now he tells 179 00:12:14,795 --> 00:12:18,395 Speaker 1: the Atlanta Journal Constitution that jury's been subpoened and they've 180 00:12:18,395 --> 00:12:20,995 Speaker 1: told him they expect him to testify, but quote, I 181 00:12:21,035 --> 00:12:24,115 Speaker 1: didn't flip on President Trump. That's just pure nonsense. I 182 00:12:24,115 --> 00:12:26,635 Speaker 1: wouldn't have any knowledge to flip on him. And the 183 00:12:26,675 --> 00:12:30,955 Speaker 1: reporter asked him, well, okay, then what did you testify 184 00:12:30,995 --> 00:12:33,115 Speaker 1: to that grand jury about? And his answer was, quote, 185 00:12:33,275 --> 00:12:35,395 Speaker 1: I don't have a copy of my testimony and I 186 00:12:35,395 --> 00:12:37,595 Speaker 1: don't want to go on memory unquote, which means he 187 00:12:37,675 --> 00:12:41,915 Speaker 1: totally flipped on Trump, and he even more totally flipped 188 00:12:42,355 --> 00:12:48,755 Speaker 1: on Sidney Powell and maybe on Juliani An Eastman here's hoping. 189 00:12:50,155 --> 00:12:54,035 Speaker 1: And then there's Junior's Twitter account yesterday morning, quote I'm 190 00:12:54,115 --> 00:12:57,395 Speaker 1: sad to announce my father, Donald Trump, has passed away. 191 00:12:57,835 --> 00:13:00,435 Speaker 1: I will be running for president in twenty twenty four, 192 00:13:01,195 --> 00:13:05,275 Speaker 1: and Ken Klippenstein wrote obviously hacked, but loll and I 193 00:13:05,395 --> 00:13:11,515 Speaker 1: wrote why obviously because the Junior tweet and several dumber 194 00:13:11,555 --> 00:13:15,355 Speaker 1: and more vulgar ones vanished. But there's still no explanation 195 00:13:15,395 --> 00:13:18,315 Speaker 1: from Junior about that or any claim that he was hacked. 196 00:13:19,235 --> 00:13:22,075 Speaker 1: And then a tweet showed up on Eric Trump's feed, reading, 197 00:13:22,435 --> 00:13:24,795 Speaker 1: I don't want my brother to get his account back. 198 00:13:24,915 --> 00:13:28,635 Speaker 1: This is all too entertaining. And then that tweet disappeared, 199 00:13:28,675 --> 00:13:30,915 Speaker 1: but soon in its place there was a new one 200 00:13:30,995 --> 00:13:33,115 Speaker 1: that was still there last time I looked. That reads 201 00:13:33,755 --> 00:13:37,195 Speaker 1: what was my brother's past word Don twenty twenty four. 202 00:13:38,915 --> 00:13:42,395 Speaker 1: So now, not only am I not really sure if 203 00:13:42,475 --> 00:13:47,395 Speaker 1: Junior got hacked or if somebody just tampered with his supply, 204 00:13:48,235 --> 00:13:51,675 Speaker 1: but what I am sure of, I guarantee you this. 205 00:13:51,675 --> 00:13:56,315 Speaker 1: This is a universal with cultist despots the world over. 206 00:13:56,715 --> 00:13:59,635 Speaker 1: Century after century. They used to say this about Sodom 207 00:13:59,715 --> 00:14:03,315 Speaker 1: Hussein all the time, seriously used to say this. I 208 00:14:03,355 --> 00:14:07,835 Speaker 1: am certain that in a matter of weeks tops maybe sooner, 209 00:14:08,155 --> 00:14:11,635 Speaker 1: this will be the basis of an online proclamation somewhere 210 00:14:11,795 --> 00:14:16,915 Speaker 1: that Trump Trump's senior dementia Jay the defendant that Trump 211 00:14:16,955 --> 00:14:21,475 Speaker 1: actually did die on September twentieth, twenty twenty three. Look, 212 00:14:21,475 --> 00:14:23,915 Speaker 1: his son even announced it on Twitter. But he came 213 00:14:24,075 --> 00:14:27,915 Speaker 1: back to life because he is immortal and he was 214 00:14:27,955 --> 00:14:32,435 Speaker 1: sent here by Jesus to make sure America defeats the 215 00:14:32,515 --> 00:14:36,995 Speaker 1: Communists in order to get a handle on those out 216 00:14:37,075 --> 00:14:47,155 Speaker 1: of control bacon prices. Also of interest here. Did you 217 00:14:47,195 --> 00:14:52,515 Speaker 1: hear that question that Representative Sparts of Indiana asked Merrick 218 00:14:52,595 --> 00:14:57,035 Speaker 1: Garland at the Judiciary hearing yesterday. Okay, good, you heard it. 219 00:14:57,795 --> 00:15:02,635 Speaker 1: Now did you understand it? Because I'm not sure anybody 220 00:15:02,795 --> 00:15:07,635 Speaker 1: understood what the hell she was saying. Certainly Merrick Garland didn't. 221 00:15:08,075 --> 00:15:27,115 Speaker 1: That's next this discountdown, Cissus Countdown with Keith Alberman still 222 00:15:27,115 --> 00:15:29,555 Speaker 1: a head on countdown. Well, as I promised the day 223 00:15:29,595 --> 00:15:32,755 Speaker 1: I met Rudy Giuliani, and in retrospect, I guess I'm 224 00:15:32,835 --> 00:15:37,155 Speaker 1: just glad he didn't try to feel me up. Actually, 225 00:15:37,995 --> 00:15:39,475 Speaker 1: that would have been one of the only things he 226 00:15:39,515 --> 00:15:43,595 Speaker 1: could have done that day twenty seven, twenty six years ago. 227 00:15:43,955 --> 00:15:45,955 Speaker 1: That would have lessened my sense that he was some 228 00:15:46,075 --> 00:15:50,755 Speaker 1: kind of replicant or being from another planet. Things I 229 00:15:50,875 --> 00:15:54,515 Speaker 1: promised not to tell about Rudy coming up first time 230 00:15:54,515 --> 00:15:57,235 Speaker 1: for the daily roundup of the misgrants Moron's Undonning Kruger 231 00:15:57,235 --> 00:16:01,355 Speaker 1: effects specimens, who constitute the bees worst persons in the 232 00:16:01,395 --> 00:16:07,475 Speaker 1: world the Bronze J Dvance. Now, you may have heard 233 00:16:07,515 --> 00:16:11,035 Speaker 1: that jd Vance was elected Senator from Ohio last November, 234 00:16:11,075 --> 00:16:13,795 Speaker 1: and you may have wondered to yourself, when does jd 235 00:16:13,995 --> 00:16:17,635 Speaker 1: Vance take office? When does jd Vance start serving the 236 00:16:17,675 --> 00:16:20,635 Speaker 1: people of his state of Ohio. And the answer is 237 00:16:21,595 --> 00:16:25,755 Speaker 1: he doesn't. Jd Vance just keeps on doing what he 238 00:16:25,835 --> 00:16:30,315 Speaker 1: did on the campaign trail, which is mostly tweeting. Now 239 00:16:30,555 --> 00:16:34,715 Speaker 1: it's quote, Ukraine is holding an American journalist hostage. This 240 00:16:34,875 --> 00:16:37,635 Speaker 1: is a disgrace. And why is the Biden administration opening 241 00:16:37,715 --> 00:16:41,555 Speaker 1: up the checkbook without any accountability? Boy, when you can 242 00:16:41,675 --> 00:16:44,195 Speaker 1: push more than one lie per sentence in a tweet, 243 00:16:44,675 --> 00:16:49,475 Speaker 1: you are a pro jd Vance. There's accountability. There's also 244 00:16:49,595 --> 00:16:52,635 Speaker 1: no such thing as quote opening up the checkbook without 245 00:16:52,715 --> 00:16:56,995 Speaker 1: any accountability. That sentence makes no sense, Jdvance. Ukraine. Also, 246 00:16:57,115 --> 00:17:01,555 Speaker 1: Jdvance is not holding the guy hostage. Jdvance. He's under arrest, Jdvance, 247 00:17:02,115 --> 00:17:05,435 Speaker 1: and he's not a journalist. Jdvance. Other than that, you 248 00:17:05,595 --> 00:17:10,835 Speaker 1: have summarized the story precisely. Jdvans. The man's name is 249 00:17:10,875 --> 00:17:15,555 Speaker 1: Gonzalo Lira. He's a YouTuber and he went into Ukraine 250 00:17:15,715 --> 00:17:18,235 Speaker 1: in the middle of an invasion of Ukraine by Russia, 251 00:17:18,355 --> 00:17:20,155 Speaker 1: and he went into the war zone and he began 252 00:17:20,275 --> 00:17:23,955 Speaker 1: asking Ukrainian citizens, you're getting bombed nightly and not in 253 00:17:24,035 --> 00:17:27,835 Speaker 1: a good sense, and Ukrainian military people about what this 254 00:17:28,035 --> 00:17:32,515 Speaker 1: guy calls the false narrative because he says he's in Russia, 255 00:17:32,635 --> 00:17:35,395 Speaker 1: not someplace called Ukraine. And the other false narrative that 256 00:17:35,435 --> 00:17:38,235 Speaker 1: Russia did anything wrong. And guess what, in any country 257 00:17:38,235 --> 00:17:40,595 Speaker 1: in the history of the world under invasion, you can 258 00:17:40,675 --> 00:17:45,075 Speaker 1: be arrested for siding with the you know, invading bombing 259 00:17:45,235 --> 00:17:52,315 Speaker 1: guys holding him hostage. Jdvans, you're holding common sense hostage. Jdvans. 260 00:17:52,835 --> 00:17:58,195 Speaker 1: Also pro tip, the beard makes you look five hundred 261 00:17:58,315 --> 00:18:03,035 Speaker 1: pounds dude. The runner up, Victorious Sparks, the lame duck 262 00:18:03,075 --> 00:18:07,475 Speaker 1: congress person from Indiana, born in Ukraine, but not quite 263 00:18:07,595 --> 00:18:12,835 Speaker 1: as smooth in English as say President Zelenski. Miss Spartz 264 00:18:12,875 --> 00:18:15,555 Speaker 1: apparently got elected. And I say this as the descendant 265 00:18:15,635 --> 00:18:20,115 Speaker 1: of immigrants from everywhere from Krackoff to Asat Lorraine. I 266 00:18:20,195 --> 00:18:22,475 Speaker 1: think she got elected because her constituents did not know 267 00:18:22,555 --> 00:18:24,835 Speaker 1: what the hell she was saying, and they just assumed 268 00:18:24,835 --> 00:18:28,835 Speaker 1: it was good conservative gibberish. The House Judiciary Committee did 269 00:18:28,915 --> 00:18:33,315 Speaker 1: not exactly cover itself in glory in examining Merrick Garland yesterday. 270 00:18:33,435 --> 00:18:37,235 Speaker 1: Mainly the problem was that nobody asked any questions. They 271 00:18:37,395 --> 00:18:39,875 Speaker 1: just made speeches they could play to their audience to 272 00:18:39,955 --> 00:18:42,435 Speaker 1: assure that they wouldn't be primary. I mean, I'm surprised 273 00:18:42,475 --> 00:18:46,355 Speaker 1: none of them said is tape rolling? But Spartz was 274 00:18:46,395 --> 00:18:50,595 Speaker 1: the only one who rendered Merrick Garlands speechless when she asked, quote, 275 00:18:51,235 --> 00:18:53,435 Speaker 1: are you aware that a lot of Americans are now 276 00:18:53,555 --> 00:18:58,275 Speaker 1: afreight of being prosecuted by her department? Are you aware 277 00:18:58,355 --> 00:19:02,115 Speaker 1: about that? Are you aware of that? I'm just saying, 278 00:19:02,275 --> 00:19:06,435 Speaker 1: are you aware or not? Now? I think I know 279 00:19:06,515 --> 00:19:09,955 Speaker 1: what the question actually is there, But I would note that, yes, 280 00:19:10,075 --> 00:19:12,115 Speaker 1: this is the first time anybody in the history of 281 00:19:12,115 --> 00:19:15,355 Speaker 1: the United States was ever discomfited by the thought that 282 00:19:15,475 --> 00:19:20,395 Speaker 1: they might be prosecuted by the Department of Justice. Oh no, 283 00:19:20,875 --> 00:19:23,235 Speaker 1: I'm being investigated by the Department of Joe. Let's have 284 00:19:23,355 --> 00:19:28,475 Speaker 1: a party. Christ, how stupid that woman is. But our winner, 285 00:19:28,635 --> 00:19:32,475 Speaker 1: Little Jimmy O'Keefe, the con man behind Project Veritas. But 286 00:19:32,995 --> 00:19:35,355 Speaker 1: remember he was the con man with a song in 287 00:19:35,435 --> 00:19:39,075 Speaker 1: his heart. He took all of his little propaganda and 288 00:19:39,195 --> 00:19:43,035 Speaker 1: slander outfits money and he invested it in musicals in 289 00:19:43,115 --> 00:19:47,515 Speaker 1: which he could star seriously. Then they kicked him out. 290 00:19:47,795 --> 00:19:51,595 Speaker 1: Then his successor as CEO, Hannah Giles, fired everybody. Now 291 00:19:51,715 --> 00:19:57,355 Speaker 1: she's announced the entire outfit has closed, suspended operations, all 292 00:19:57,555 --> 00:20:02,675 Speaker 1: investigations halted. The reason for the demise of Project Veritas 293 00:20:03,915 --> 00:20:09,395 Speaker 1: quote financial ruin unquote. But they do leave a pristine record. 294 00:20:09,395 --> 00:20:11,755 Speaker 1: In thirteen years, they did not do one ethical or 295 00:20:11,875 --> 00:20:16,675 Speaker 1: honest thing. But now comes the real question, who will 296 00:20:16,755 --> 00:20:19,555 Speaker 1: think about the revival of Oklahoma? They didn't know they 297 00:20:19,635 --> 00:20:22,635 Speaker 1: were funding that Jimmy O'Keefe was starring in. Won't somebody 298 00:20:22,715 --> 00:20:25,955 Speaker 1: think of Oklahoma? Won't somebody think of Curly? How could 299 00:20:25,995 --> 00:20:27,675 Speaker 1: it be? Oh what a beautiful morning if they have 300 00:20:27,755 --> 00:20:29,675 Speaker 1: to sell the surrey with the fringe on the top, 301 00:20:31,155 --> 00:20:35,235 Speaker 1: Oh keith Homa, where the bankruptcy comes sweeping down the pane, 302 00:20:35,955 --> 00:20:39,195 Speaker 1: and the running feet of those feeling heat when the 303 00:20:39,315 --> 00:20:43,675 Speaker 1: cops come right behind the rain. You're doing fine, Jimmy 304 00:20:43,755 --> 00:20:51,355 Speaker 1: o'keef holma oh Keith Homa oive. I should have called 305 00:20:51,435 --> 00:20:55,675 Speaker 1: Nancy about that, shouldn't I? Jimmy O'Keefe. Also, before they 306 00:20:55,715 --> 00:20:57,355 Speaker 1: go under, they should change the name of the thing 307 00:20:57,395 --> 00:21:03,515 Speaker 1: to project in Vino Veritas two days, worse person in 308 00:21:03,675 --> 00:21:15,515 Speaker 1: the world and through the number one story on the 309 00:21:15,595 --> 00:21:18,675 Speaker 1: countdown and my favorite topic, me and things I promised 310 00:21:18,755 --> 00:21:23,075 Speaker 1: not to tell. I hear this question about Rudy Giuliani 311 00:21:23,635 --> 00:21:28,315 Speaker 1: a lot. When did his life go so horribly horribly wrong? 312 00:21:28,875 --> 00:21:33,715 Speaker 1: Here was America's mayor the rock in the hours of crisis, 313 00:21:33,915 --> 00:21:37,715 Speaker 1: after nine to eleven. What is he now? After literally 314 00:21:37,835 --> 00:21:40,515 Speaker 1: years of trying to sell the Hunter Biden laptop story? 315 00:21:40,555 --> 00:21:45,915 Speaker 1: Who does the Hunter Biden laptop story bite him? Four 316 00:21:46,275 --> 00:21:51,675 Speaker 1: seasons gardening, the mascara running down his face, gashes emissions 317 00:21:51,755 --> 00:21:57,715 Speaker 1: at phony election hearings, the Sasha Baron Cohen film. I mean, 318 00:21:58,235 --> 00:22:01,355 Speaker 1: even back then, I thought it was nuts that people 319 00:22:01,435 --> 00:22:04,115 Speaker 1: actually thought Rudy Giuliani was the front runner for the 320 00:22:04,155 --> 00:22:07,155 Speaker 1: two thousand and eight Republican presidential nomination. What he was 321 00:22:07,355 --> 00:22:10,715 Speaker 1: widely held to be just that in two thousand and six, 322 00:22:10,795 --> 00:22:15,275 Speaker 1: In two thousand and seven, and by the time it happened, 323 00:22:15,515 --> 00:22:17,995 Speaker 1: he was already on his way to spending millions of 324 00:22:18,075 --> 00:22:22,795 Speaker 1: dollars to finish last. But it was the final nail 325 00:22:22,955 --> 00:22:25,715 Speaker 1: in the coffin in which he still lives. At a 326 00:22:25,795 --> 00:22:28,955 Speaker 1: Democratic debate in two thousand and seven, October thirtieth, before 327 00:22:28,995 --> 00:22:32,355 Speaker 1: the field shook out everybody but Obama and Hillary, one 328 00:22:32,395 --> 00:22:35,595 Speaker 1: of the other candidates was excoriating the Republicans and their 329 00:22:35,675 --> 00:22:39,355 Speaker 1: exploitation of terrorism and the al Qaeda attacks, and that 330 00:22:39,475 --> 00:22:43,435 Speaker 1: other candidates said of Giuliani, quote, there's only three things 331 00:22:43,515 --> 00:22:46,955 Speaker 1: he mentions in a sentence, A noun, a verb, and 332 00:22:47,155 --> 00:22:52,795 Speaker 1: nine to eleven. The candidate was Joe Biden. The phrase 333 00:22:52,915 --> 00:22:55,595 Speaker 1: a noun, a verb and nine to eleven ended Rudy 334 00:22:55,595 --> 00:23:00,475 Speaker 1: Giuliani's career, and Giuliani's dislike of Joe Biden, many decades old, 335 00:23:00,595 --> 00:23:04,235 Speaker 1: turned to hatred at that exact moment, which is why 336 00:23:04,315 --> 00:23:07,235 Speaker 1: we got to where we got to in twenty and twenty. 337 00:23:08,675 --> 00:23:10,755 Speaker 1: That was also the exact moment at which any hopes 338 00:23:10,835 --> 00:23:15,515 Speaker 1: Julianni had of being elected anything anywhere ever again vanished. 339 00:23:16,555 --> 00:23:19,595 Speaker 1: But it was clear to me as far back as 340 00:23:19,635 --> 00:23:22,395 Speaker 1: September two thousand and one that's Sadly, what we saw 341 00:23:22,435 --> 00:23:24,875 Speaker 1: at that time was a bad man having a few 342 00:23:24,955 --> 00:23:28,875 Speaker 1: good days before that month was out. Giuliani's response to 343 00:23:28,955 --> 00:23:33,755 Speaker 1: the attack on democracy was to himself attack democracy, to 344 00:23:33,915 --> 00:23:37,315 Speaker 1: propose that the November election to choose his successor to 345 00:23:37,435 --> 00:23:40,715 Speaker 1: be mayor of New York should be postponed, or that 346 00:23:40,875 --> 00:23:43,315 Speaker 1: at least he should stay on for a few months 347 00:23:43,715 --> 00:23:49,515 Speaker 1: as co mayor because he was irreplaceable. There had always 348 00:23:49,555 --> 00:23:52,875 Speaker 1: been more subtle hints that Giuliani was never a good man, 349 00:23:53,155 --> 00:23:56,555 Speaker 1: just a slightly smarter one, a more devious one. The 350 00:23:56,715 --> 00:24:01,155 Speaker 1: venomous Rudy, the scheming Rudy, the a moral Rudy, the 351 00:24:01,275 --> 00:24:04,595 Speaker 1: Rudy with a bad song in his heart, leaked out 352 00:24:04,915 --> 00:24:07,715 Speaker 1: from time to time, and often inside the world of sports, 353 00:24:07,755 --> 00:24:11,555 Speaker 1: which is where I met him. You will remember, Rudy 354 00:24:11,595 --> 00:24:15,715 Speaker 1: Giuliani was a professional New York Yankees fan. He always 355 00:24:15,755 --> 00:24:19,235 Speaker 1: went to the games for free, mind you, dugout seats 356 00:24:19,275 --> 00:24:23,595 Speaker 1: for himself, his wife, his other wife, his next wife, 357 00:24:24,115 --> 00:24:27,555 Speaker 1: the kids, the friends. When I still had friends at 358 00:24:27,635 --> 00:24:30,795 Speaker 1: Yankee Stadium, they estimated Rudy used to cost them thousands 359 00:24:30,875 --> 00:24:34,675 Speaker 1: of dollars every time he showed up. He always left 360 00:24:34,795 --> 00:24:38,915 Speaker 1: via the clubhouse. He always wore a Yankees cap. He 361 00:24:39,035 --> 00:24:41,835 Speaker 1: billed himself as quote the number one Yankee fan. And 362 00:24:41,915 --> 00:24:44,715 Speaker 1: then when the Boston Red Sox were playing in the 363 00:24:44,755 --> 00:24:47,115 Speaker 1: two thousand and seven World Series, when he was campaigning 364 00:24:47,155 --> 00:24:50,155 Speaker 1: for president in New Hampshire, Rudy Giuliani suddenly announced he 365 00:24:50,275 --> 00:24:53,835 Speaker 1: was rooting for the Red Sox. This is like being 366 00:24:53,915 --> 00:24:57,395 Speaker 1: a Trump fan and announcing you are rooting for democracy. 367 00:24:58,955 --> 00:25:03,555 Speaker 1: But I went back with Rudy Giuliani even longer than that. 368 00:25:04,875 --> 00:25:07,635 Speaker 1: Nineteen ninety five or nineteen ninety six, I was asked 369 00:25:07,675 --> 00:25:10,635 Speaker 1: by the Deputy Mayor of New York City, Fran Writer, 370 00:25:11,115 --> 00:25:13,755 Speaker 1: and the staff of the Baseball Hall of Fame to 371 00:25:13,995 --> 00:25:17,595 Speaker 1: travel from ESPN in Connecticut, literally to the steps of 372 00:25:17,715 --> 00:25:20,795 Speaker 1: New York City Hall to mc an event for what 373 00:25:20,995 --> 00:25:24,435 Speaker 1: must have been thirty five members of the Baseball Hall 374 00:25:24,515 --> 00:25:27,995 Speaker 1: of Fame, maybe the largest group of them ever assembled 375 00:25:28,035 --> 00:25:31,995 Speaker 1: in one place in one moment in time. The Deputy 376 00:25:32,075 --> 00:25:35,275 Speaker 1: Mayor approached me and the Mayor a few steps behind 377 00:25:35,355 --> 00:25:38,515 Speaker 1: her on that gorgeous spring day. As she began to 378 00:25:38,675 --> 00:25:41,435 Speaker 1: introduce us, she realized he had begun to wander off. 379 00:25:42,155 --> 00:25:46,995 Speaker 1: Ruddy Ruddy, She bellowed, he wandered back, Rudy, this is 380 00:25:47,075 --> 00:25:49,555 Speaker 1: Keith Olberman from ESPN. He's going to be the MC. 381 00:25:50,155 --> 00:25:52,995 Speaker 1: You will have to introduce him after you speak. The 382 00:25:53,035 --> 00:25:56,555 Speaker 1: mayor seemed to be having trouble focusing on me or 383 00:25:56,635 --> 00:26:00,155 Speaker 1: anything else. I thought of the old joke, just keep 384 00:26:00,195 --> 00:26:03,875 Speaker 1: your eyes on the Olberman in the middle. He extended 385 00:26:03,875 --> 00:26:08,995 Speaker 1: a hand, missed mine, then recalibrated. As we shook hands, 386 00:26:09,035 --> 00:26:12,835 Speaker 1: he grunted. The Deputy mayor now roared at him, Rody, 387 00:26:12,995 --> 00:26:15,715 Speaker 1: you have to introduce him. His name is Keith Alderman 388 00:26:15,915 --> 00:26:21,475 Speaker 1: from ESPN. He's the MC. Giuliani turned and looked at 389 00:26:21,515 --> 00:26:24,755 Speaker 1: her like he'd never seen her before. He grunted again. 390 00:26:25,715 --> 00:26:30,315 Speaker 1: Deputy Mayor writer now screamed at Rudy Giuliani, repeat it 391 00:26:30,475 --> 00:26:35,275 Speaker 1: to me. He looked at me, then he looked back 392 00:26:35,315 --> 00:26:38,755 Speaker 1: at her, and he said his name is Keith Alderman 393 00:26:38,835 --> 00:26:43,395 Speaker 1: from ESPN. He's the MC. With annoyance. Writer said thank you, 394 00:26:44,435 --> 00:26:49,195 Speaker 1: and Juliani smiled and wandered off again, And I half 395 00:26:49,275 --> 00:26:53,875 Speaker 1: seriously thought, did I just meet a body double? Is 396 00:26:53,915 --> 00:26:57,875 Speaker 1: he a replicant? Is he a well built robot? This 397 00:26:58,075 --> 00:27:02,435 Speaker 1: can't be the actual mayor? Well it was. I took 398 00:27:02,515 --> 00:27:04,275 Speaker 1: my seat in the front row of the stage that 399 00:27:04,355 --> 00:27:06,635 Speaker 1: had been built atop the City Hall steps. As the 400 00:27:06,715 --> 00:27:08,955 Speaker 1: crowd gathered, and it was a good one, maybe three 401 00:27:09,035 --> 00:27:11,995 Speaker 1: or four hundred people. The President of the Hall of 402 00:27:12,075 --> 00:27:16,315 Speaker 1: Fame spoke first. The Mayor sat next to me. Giuliani 403 00:27:16,475 --> 00:27:19,035 Speaker 1: leaned in at one point and whispered to me, your 404 00:27:19,155 --> 00:27:24,995 Speaker 1: name is Keith Alderman from ESPN. You're the MC. I talk, 405 00:27:25,675 --> 00:27:31,035 Speaker 1: I introduce you. I said something encouraging, and he smiled 406 00:27:31,155 --> 00:27:33,675 Speaker 1: broadly like a child who was about to get some candy. 407 00:27:35,715 --> 00:27:37,795 Speaker 1: The President of the Baseball Hall of Fame wrapped up 408 00:27:37,835 --> 00:27:40,395 Speaker 1: introduced Giuliani, who bounced up to the stage and thanked 409 00:27:40,435 --> 00:27:43,995 Speaker 1: him and got his name wrong. He then launched into 410 00:27:44,035 --> 00:27:46,315 Speaker 1: a speech taking credit for the great weather in the 411 00:27:46,435 --> 00:27:48,995 Speaker 1: terrific early season performance of the New York Yankees and 412 00:27:48,995 --> 00:27:52,355 Speaker 1: the New York Mets and the Brooklyn Dodgers and the 413 00:27:52,635 --> 00:27:54,835 Speaker 1: New York Giants who had moved out of New York 414 00:27:54,835 --> 00:27:56,875 Speaker 1: in nineteen fifty seven. But if he had been mayor, 415 00:27:56,915 --> 00:27:58,635 Speaker 1: then they wouldn't have moved out in New York, would 416 00:27:58,635 --> 00:28:00,635 Speaker 1: have the four teams it deserves. And look at all 417 00:28:00,675 --> 00:28:02,475 Speaker 1: these great players. Will let me now turn it over 418 00:28:02,515 --> 00:28:04,555 Speaker 1: to a good friend of mine and a great baseball 419 00:28:05,035 --> 00:28:11,155 Speaker 1: And he looked at me and he forgot everything. Silence, 420 00:28:13,275 --> 00:28:16,635 Speaker 1: titters of laughter from the crowd, And finally he looked 421 00:28:16,675 --> 00:28:19,395 Speaker 1: the other way behind him, where the Deputy Mayor had 422 00:28:19,435 --> 00:28:23,475 Speaker 1: her head in her hands. Rudy Giuliani into a microphone 423 00:28:23,515 --> 00:28:27,795 Speaker 1: that picked up everything. He said, said loudly, what's his name? 424 00:28:28,275 --> 00:28:32,715 Speaker 1: Who is he? And now the titters of laughter in 425 00:28:32,795 --> 00:28:35,555 Speaker 1: the crowd turned to a little bit louder laughter, and 426 00:28:35,715 --> 00:28:38,195 Speaker 1: some of the Hall of Fame players seated behind me 427 00:28:38,395 --> 00:28:42,675 Speaker 1: gave me pats of consolation on my shoulder. Fran Ryder screamed, 428 00:28:43,155 --> 00:28:46,395 Speaker 1: Keith Alderman from me, ESPN the MC you repeated it 429 00:28:46,515 --> 00:28:51,475 Speaker 1: to me. Juliani turned back to the crowd as if 430 00:28:51,515 --> 00:28:53,275 Speaker 1: there had been no way they could have heard or 431 00:28:53,315 --> 00:28:56,275 Speaker 1: seen any of this, and he said, so let me 432 00:28:56,355 --> 00:28:58,155 Speaker 1: turn it over to a good friend of mine and 433 00:28:58,235 --> 00:29:06,635 Speaker 1: a great baseball man, Keith Obolman our NC from ESPM. 434 00:29:09,635 --> 00:29:14,795 Speaker 1: I just sat there, more laughs, more consolations from the 435 00:29:14,875 --> 00:29:16,915 Speaker 1: players behind me. I can still hear the laugh of 436 00:29:17,355 --> 00:29:20,795 Speaker 1: the late Detroit Tigers great al Kayline rising above the others. 437 00:29:21,075 --> 00:29:24,915 Speaker 1: Al later came over to commiserate. As I thought, should 438 00:29:24,955 --> 00:29:28,715 Speaker 1: I get there and say thank you Mayor Dinkins, or 439 00:29:29,075 --> 00:29:34,235 Speaker 1: better yet, thank you Mayor LaGuardia. I then concluded, no, 440 00:29:34,435 --> 00:29:38,075 Speaker 1: I can't do that. I'm representing ESPN. I'm representing the 441 00:29:38,115 --> 00:29:41,035 Speaker 1: Baseball Hall of Fame. As I thought that, he said 442 00:29:41,115 --> 00:29:44,475 Speaker 1: it again. So now I got up and I told 443 00:29:44,515 --> 00:29:49,675 Speaker 1: the crowd sorry, I wasn't sure he meant me. So 444 00:29:49,915 --> 00:29:53,075 Speaker 1: if you are saying to yourself, what on earth happened 445 00:29:53,195 --> 00:29:56,675 Speaker 1: to Rudy Giuliani with that brown schitz pouring down his face, 446 00:29:56,955 --> 00:29:59,755 Speaker 1: I am saying to you he has been this crazy 447 00:29:59,915 --> 00:30:03,635 Speaker 1: for at least thirty years. You were just lucky enough 448 00:30:04,075 --> 00:30:08,795 Speaker 1: to have not previously noticed. It is all true. Or 449 00:30:08,955 --> 00:30:14,195 Speaker 1: my name ain't Keith Obelman, our n C from ESPM. 450 00:30:28,075 --> 00:30:29,875 Speaker 1: I've done all the damage I can do here. Thank 451 00:30:29,915 --> 00:30:31,635 Speaker 1: you for listening. Countdown has come to you from the 452 00:30:31,675 --> 00:30:36,155 Speaker 1: studios of the Alderman Broadcasting Empire in New York. The 453 00:30:36,275 --> 00:30:38,715 Speaker 1: music you've heard was, for the most part, arrange produced 454 00:30:38,755 --> 00:30:41,475 Speaker 1: and performed by Countdown musical directors Brian Ray and John 455 00:30:41,475 --> 00:30:45,315 Speaker 1: Phillip Chanel. Brian Ray handled the guitars, bass and drums. 456 00:30:45,395 --> 00:30:48,395 Speaker 1: John Phillip s Chanel did the orchestration and keyboards was 457 00:30:48,475 --> 00:30:52,595 Speaker 1: produced by Tko Brothers. 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So that's countdown for this, 465 00:31:16,475 --> 00:31:20,115 Speaker 1: the nine and eighty ninth day since Donald Trump's first 466 00:31:20,115 --> 00:31:22,395 Speaker 1: attempt to coop against the democratically elected government of the 467 00:31:22,515 --> 00:31:27,075 Speaker 1: United States. Convict him now while we still can. The 468 00:31:27,155 --> 00:31:30,235 Speaker 1: next scheduled countdown is tomorrow. If my throat permits till then, 469 00:31:30,275 --> 00:31:33,995 Speaker 1: I'm Keith Oldreman. Good morning, good afternoon, good night, and 470 00:31:34,955 --> 00:31:45,475 Speaker 1: good luck. Countdown with Keith Ouldreman is a production of iHeartRadio. 471 00:31:45,755 --> 00:31:50,915 Speaker 1: For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, 472 00:31:51,195 --> 00:31:53,115 Speaker 1: or wherever you get your podcasts.