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Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. I

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Speaker 1: call for the immediate arrest of congress Woman Marjorie Taylor Green,

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Speaker 1: representative of the fourteenth District of Georgia, under terms of

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Speaker 1: eighteen US Code eight seven to one threats against the

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Speaker 1: president and successors to the presidency. Green has posted to

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Speaker 1: social media video of an anti vax threat to harm

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Speaker 1: or kill Joe Biden made by a man, who, when

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Speaker 1: asked about that threat of personal violence, replied, I don't

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Speaker 1: regret nothing I said. I fing mean it. Bro and

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Speaker 1: Green's own ignorance of the federal code dealing with threats

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Speaker 1: against the president is no defense here. Eighteen US Code

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Speaker 1: eight seven to one quite clearly states that the threat

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Speaker 1: does not have to be firsthand. She does not have

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Speaker 1: Though helpfully from my point of view, she began her

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Speaker 1: distribution and promulgation of the threat against Biden with her

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Speaker 1: own statement quote, I agree with this man. Unquote. This man,

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Speaker 1: a self described rapper named Ben Parker, has obviously made

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Speaker 1: a direct threat against Biden and needs to be arrested

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Speaker 1: himself today, But so does Marjorie Taylor Green. She has

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Speaker 1: danced along the cliff edge of political violence in this

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Speaker 1: country for years, and now she has endorsed presidential assassination quote.

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Speaker 1: I agree with this man. I'm hearing this exact sentiment

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Speaker 1: from everyone I know. Marjorie Taylor Green has now fallen

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Speaker 1: off that cliff edge of political violence, and her threats

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Speaker 1: can no longer be tolerated, and she can no longer

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Speaker 1: be tolerated. She must be arrested now. With a warning

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Speaker 1: about the strong, strong language. This is part of the

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Speaker 1: deranged anti vaccination video by the man calling himself Ben Parker,

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Speaker 1: which Marjorie Taylor Green posted on Twitter on her congressional account,

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Speaker 1: not retweeted it, she has posted it under her own name,

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Speaker 1: and which again she has prefaced with the quote, I

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Speaker 1: agree with this man.

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Speaker 2: A Joe Biden literally saying, y'all need to come They

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Speaker 2: need to come up with a new vat scene, and

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Speaker 2: they need to come up with a way that people

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Speaker 2: have to take it.

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Speaker 3: No matter what. I'm gonna explain something very fucking clear

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Speaker 3: to you.

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Speaker 2: If the Democrat Party and the Joe Biden administration, I'm

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Speaker 2: motherfucking serious right now, This ain't no threat.

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Speaker 3: This ain't no nothing. This is a fucking prompt.

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Speaker 2: If you think for one second you're gonna force me

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Speaker 2: to take any fucking thing that you tell me to do,

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Speaker 2: I will fuck you up, homie, You and whatever motherfucking

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Speaker 3: I want you to think you gonna make me take

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Speaker 3: some shit. Joe. Now see other lines you crossed.

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Speaker 2: I ain't say shit, but this the line you cross it, bitch,

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Speaker 2: make me I'm willing to die about.

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Speaker 1: This shit again. Marjorie Taylor Green posted a five minute

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Speaker 1: video version of that slime and wrote, quote, I agree

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Speaker 1: with this man. Eighteen US Code eight seven to one.

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Speaker 1: Threats against the President and successors to the presidency reads,

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Speaker 1: in part, whoever knowingly and willfully deposits for conveyance in

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Speaker 1: or by any letter carrier, any letter, paper, writing, print, missive,

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Speaker 1: or die document containing any threat to take the life of,

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Speaker 1: Vice president elect or knowingly and willfully otherwise makes any

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Speaker 1: such threat against the President, president elect, vice president, or

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Speaker 1: other officer next in the order of succession to the

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Speaker 1: under this title or imprisoned not more than five years,

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Speaker 1: or both unquote. Arrest Marjorie Taylor Green today and this

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Speaker 1: Ben Parka. He has posted a second video which uses

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Speaker 1: the Green tweet as his video background. I don't know

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Speaker 1: that you or I need to hear him again. I

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Speaker 1: don't know that the Secrets needs to hear him again. Quote.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate everywhere my video is going, he says, I

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Speaker 1: appreciate every effing person that's reposting my video because guess what, Joe,

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Speaker 1: I don't know where the f you at and I

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Speaker 1: can't get near you. But I'm not that mother effer.

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Speaker 1: It'll be a cold day in hell unquote. So arrest

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Speaker 1: this man on two charges of threatening the life of

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Speaker 1: the President of the United States. After eight years of

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Speaker 1: is not, we must finally say enough. This creature Green

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Speaker 1: is a clear and present danger to the President and

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Speaker 1: indeed all the members of his party, politicians and civilians

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Speaker 1: a New York man was sentenced to three months in

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Speaker 1: jail for leaving multiple threatening voicemails towards Marjorie Taylor Green.

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Speaker 1: And her reaction was not to say I agree with

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Speaker 1: not to waive the free speech flag and the political

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Speaker 1: rights flag in which she so often wraps herself and

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Speaker 1: her fellow insurrectionists, but to complain that that sentence was

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Speaker 1: too lenient, and she was right, and the sentence against

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Speaker 1: Marjorie Taylor Green, the co conspirator handling the publication and

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Speaker 1: promulgation side of the threat to harm or kill the

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Speaker 1: severe as eighteen US Code eight seven one allows five years.

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Speaker 1: With Trump willing to use any means to regain power

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Speaker 1: in this nation, any means the sooner we begin finally

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Speaker 1: to take action against those who use political violence or

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Speaker 1: the threat of it, to try to intimidate and manipulate

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Speaker 1: can only do that with the proverbial short sharp shock

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Speaker 1: and charging this deranged, dangerous, irresponsible, fantasy driven mediocrity would

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Speaker 1: be an excellent start. Arrest Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green today,

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Speaker 1: because surprise, surprise, sometimes the justice system works. The Trumpest

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Speaker 1: insurrectionist Henry Tario, who calls himself Enrique, and on whom

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Speaker 1: judge invoked the terrorism sentencing enhancement. Tario was the head

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Speaker 1: of the Proud Boys, who are looking both for a

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Speaker 1: to a combined sixty four years, probably a new name

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Speaker 1: Not so much a truth leak as a truth explosion

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Speaker 1: from a Washington television studio yesterday when the Secretaries of

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Speaker 1: the Army, the Navy, and the Air Force vivisected Senator

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Speaker 1: Tommy I'm all ears Tubberville over his continuing interference with

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Speaker 1: military defense placing holds on the confirmation of more than

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Speaker 1: three hundred promotions. They had written an op ed accusing

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Speaker 1: him of putting our national security at risk. But that

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Speaker 1: was nothing compared to my new hero, Secretary of the Navy,

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Speaker 1: I would never have imagined that actually one of our

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Speaker 1: Senator Tuberville of aiding and the betting communists, and of

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Speaker 1: course by that he means China aiding and betting communists.

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Speaker 1: A Senator Dumbo, could you hear that it has been

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Speaker 1: noted that Enrique Tarrio's sentenced twenty two years is now

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Speaker 1: hits last Trump. This obviously is separate from the issue

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Speaker 1: I underscored yesterday Trump's sudden, panicky discovery of the fourteenth Amendment.

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Speaker 1: You can hear him, can't you wait? There's a fourteenth Amendment.

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Speaker 1: Trump may have moved on to his next ingenious fantasy

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Speaker 1: that Jack Smith not only destroyed January sixth Committee evidence,

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Speaker 1: but he destroyed the evidence that exonerated Trump. Again. Trump

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Speaker 1: could not have come up with a more ludicrous theory

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Speaker 1: spoiled it by writing at the end of his post

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Speaker 1: quote dismiss suit, which underscores the Trumpian panic. I noted yesterday,

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Speaker 1: Then again, the blooper could have owed to sheer volume.

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Speaker 1: By eight pm last night, Trump had made no less

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Speaker 1: gold and the Terrible truth of Tommy Chong. Trying to

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Speaker 1: identify specific causes for each of Trump's spasms of public

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Speaker 1: irrationality is like trying not only to number each rain drop,

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Speaker 1: I cannot shake this idea that his latest step away

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Speaker 1: to him. Well, god knows, fourteen three is now the

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Speaker 1: notes have administrative agencies in place to assess a candidate's eligibility,

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Speaker 1: and you, the voter at home, can trigger it. In Pennsylvania, you, Joe,

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Speaker 1: though also healthfully quotes Notre Dame law professor Derek Muller

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Speaker 1: disqualifies him. Muller says that decision at a state Supreme

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Speaker 1: While Alito and Thomas are on a plane with Harland

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Speaker 1: Information was supplied by a state roundup put together at

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Speaker 1: Talking Points Memo yesterday, Ohio with a wildly smarmy Trumpist

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Speaker 1: as Secretary of State dismisses fourteen to three as a

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Speaker 1: reviewing the legal theories regarding the fourteenth Amendment that conclude

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Speaker 1: Trump is ineligible to run for president. Any determination about

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Speaker 1: Secretaries of states of multiple states, she says, are having conversations.

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Speaker 1: you without any warning, without any context, and we certainly

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Speaker 1: would not have shown the horror and death and blamed

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Speaker 1: it on the Democrats, or for that matter, blamed it

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Speaker 1: on the Republicans. I said, if we had done such

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Speaker 1: a thing ourselves, there would have been people fired at

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Speaker 1: NBC News. The public program the GOP provided said that

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Speaker 1: was going to be a nine to eleven tribute film,

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Speaker 1: I said, and so did the private conversations with the network,

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Speaker 1: which included the reminder from NBC and MSNBC that we

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Speaker 1: had rules against showing the scenes of the horrible death,

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Speaker 1: the mutilation, and destruction. So I apologized on behalf of

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Speaker 1: whoever trusted the Republicans to live up to their word

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Speaker 1: that MSNBC viewers were forced to see the video our

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Speaker 1: network had long before vowed never to show again. So

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Speaker 1: three nights later, without as much as an email, this

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Speaker 1: Griffin guy had called my agent and told her I

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Speaker 1: was fired Matthews two from our further coverage of the

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Speaker 1: upcoming McGain Obama debates. She related these details to me

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Speaker 1: as I walked down the many ramps in the back

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Speaker 1: of Shaye Stadium towards the subway. I told her to

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Speaker 1: call Griffin back and tell him I had quit on

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Speaker 1: the spot right then, and he could work his way

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Speaker 1: out of the ensuing disaster. Liberal network MSNBC fires liberal

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Speaker 1: host Olberman for criticizing conservatives for sneaking nine to eleven

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Speaker 1: snuff film onto MSNBC. He could figure that out any

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Speaker 1: way he wanted, and he could hear my response on

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Speaker 1: I DON Morning America, CBS, This Morning, the PBS News Hour,

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Speaker 1: and any other news program that bothered to ask me

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Speaker 1: to stop by and talk. I phoned my live in girlfriend,

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Speaker 1: Katie Turr and told her I was on my way home,

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Speaker 1: and I made a few phone calls to friendly voices

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Speaker 1: within the NBC management structure and got from them a

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Speaker 1: clear picture of what had happened. And despite the spotty

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Speaker 1: cell service along the elevated line heading back to Manhattan,

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Speaker 1: I got a message from a newspaper reporter friend who

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Speaker 1: neatly tied together all that I was hearing elsewhere. Tom

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Speaker 1: Brokaw is going around NBC saying he got you fired

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Speaker 1: from the debates because the Republicans told him to. Nine

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Speaker 1: maybe ten months earlier, Phil Griffin had come to me

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Speaker 1: and asked me if I would be okay with this

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Speaker 1: guy who had been kind of disappeared by the network.

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Speaker 1: Tom Brokaw was his name appearing during our weekly coverage

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Speaker 1: of the Democratic and Republican primaries. Just a couple of minutes,

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Speaker 1: like from a prospective desk. That's all he wants to do.

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Speaker 1: He's really Tom's really unhappy Brian has frozen him out

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Speaker 1: of everything. Brian Williams. Of course, I was appalled, but

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Speaker 1: not surprised. The power had gone to Brian's head, and

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Speaker 1: of course there it had not met much resistance. Plus,

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Speaker 1: as I said to Griffin, you're asking me if I'd

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Speaker 1: like to add Tom Brokaw's experience and Tom Brocaw's gravitas

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Speaker 1: to stuff I'm anchoring when I'm not sure I know

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Speaker 1: as much as I really need to know to do

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Speaker 1: this right. You're asking me this. Tom fit in beautifully,

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Speaker 1: and twice after those long Tuesday evenings in the primary season,

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Speaker 1: he sent me brief emails awarding me what he called

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Speaker 1: the game ball because he was so impressed by my

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Speaker 1: ability to balance the roles of political anchor and political commentator,

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Speaker 1: having tried this myself. One of them read, I know

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Speaker 1: what a perilous tight rupeless is. Game Ball to Ko,

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Speaker 1: I'm mocking him now, but these meant so much to me.

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Speaker 1: I printed the emails out and carried them in my wallet.

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Speaker 1: And now he was claiming he had gotten me fired because,

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Speaker 1: as my newspaper friend said, the Republicans told him to.

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Speaker 1: That was not hard to unpack either. Tim Russard had

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Speaker 1: died on June third of that year. I anchored that

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Speaker 1: night until two in the morning. It was still an

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Speaker 1: open wound, there were still tears. We didn't know it then,

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Speaker 1: but the structure of NBC News and the perilous tie

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Speaker 1: group balancing NBC and MSNBC had died with Tim Russard.

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Speaker 1: So did the role of moderator of the second debate

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Speaker 1: between John McCain and Barack Obama, scheduled for about a

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Speaker 1: month after my subway ride on October seventh in Nashville.

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Speaker 1: Tim had not even been buried yet when Brokaw began

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Speaker 1: to angle to get that assignment, along with brushing away

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Speaker 1: the dirt of his penny Ante role on the MSNBC

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Speaker 1: Perspective desk, we never saw him again in order that

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Speaker 1: he could take Tim's spot as Brian Williams sidekick on

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Speaker 1: Big NBC. The month before August. It was a story

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Speaker 1: coming out of the east end of the third floor

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Speaker 1: at thirty Rock, where NBC News management sat around not

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Speaker 1: doing much of anything, that a Republican goon named Ed

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Speaker 1: Gillespie had been in there with Griffin and the NBC

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Speaker 1: News president Steve Cappus trying to get me silenced or

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Speaker 1: fired or off the convention coverage or something, and that

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Speaker 1: somebody prominent within NBC News was in there with Gillespie

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Speaker 1: or was invoked by Gillespie. The rumor mill wasn't certain.

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Speaker 1: As I switched from the elevated seven train to the

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Speaker 1: underground F train. The whole thing came together before my

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Speaker 1: comments about the GOP Convention nine to eleven snuff film.

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Speaker 1: Ed Gillespie had come in and had somehow vaguely threatened

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Speaker 1: Cappus and Griffin about me using as leverage the debate

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Speaker 1: which Tom Brocall was now supposed to moderate, and when

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Speaker 1: I apologized for their video on our air, Gillespie must

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Speaker 1: have turned it into an either or get rid of

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Speaker 1: me or McCain would refuse to participate in any debate

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Speaker 1: moderated by Brokaw or anybody from NBC News, and Brokaw

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Speaker 1: had already come back from the dead once in two

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Speaker 1: thousand and eight, and he would be damned if he

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Speaker 1: would be forced to do it a second time. But

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Speaker 1: as the train took me home to an apartment, I

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Speaker 1: was now going to have to sell since I had

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Speaker 1: just quit MSNBC on the spot for folding to such

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Speaker 1: obvious Republican blackmail, something else now occurred to me. Why

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Speaker 1: would MSNBC or NBC or our parent corporation at the time,

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Speaker 1: ge actually think that they could remove me from the

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Speaker 1: debate coverage on MSNBC, where the Rachil Meadow Show had

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Speaker 1: yet to be born, and the three times a night

535
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Speaker 1: my show ran accounted for something like sixty percent of

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Speaker 1: the entire day's network audience, and do that without getting

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Speaker 1: a really bad reaction from our audience. Plus, if a

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Speaker 1: newspaper man already knew the Brokaw part, how could this

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Speaker 1: story be avoided? MSNBC she announced it had removed its

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Speaker 1: liberal star Keith Alderman from coverage of the McCain Obama

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Speaker 1: presidential debates. Sources confirmed former NBC News anchorman Tom Brokaw,

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Speaker 1: now an MSNBC commentator on Olberman's coverage, had helped the

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Speaker 1: Republican Party to blackmail NBC into the decision. Olderman immediately resigned, saying,

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Speaker 1: quote in succumbing to this coercion on behalf of John McCain,

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Speaker 1: NBC has now forfeited any right to further be called

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Speaker 1: a news organization, and I'm sad to say MSNBC, which

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00:35:33,315 --> 00:35:39,275
Speaker 1: I built, is now dead. My god, MSNBC an NBC

548
00:35:39,315 --> 00:35:42,515
Speaker 1: News for that matter, would have committed corporate suicide before

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00:35:42,515 --> 00:35:45,995
Speaker 1: the weekend was over. At that point, it dawned on

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Speaker 1: me that the only thing that could save the credibility

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Speaker 1: of the whole news division and the careers of Griffin

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Speaker 1: and Kappus, an NBC Network president Jeff Zucker, and especially

553
00:35:55,435 --> 00:35:59,915
Speaker 1: the career of Tom Brokaw was for me to publicly

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Speaker 1: state that I had asked to be removed from anchoring

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Speaker 1: the debates because the whatever was just too much blah

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Speaker 1: blah blah for me, and I felt I should stick

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Speaker 1: to the post debate analysis and commentary. NBC would now

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Speaker 1: have a choice. They could fire me from the debates

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Speaker 1: and destroy everything, including the one hundred million dollars a

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Speaker 1: year or so in profit that NBC made off MSNBC,

561
00:36:24,075 --> 00:36:28,395
Speaker 1: or I could you know why and claim it was

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Speaker 1: my idea and save everybody's ass, including my own. I

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00:36:33,995 --> 00:36:36,395
Speaker 1: got out of the subway and raced home. Katie met

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Speaker 1: me at the door with a big hug. She had

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Speaker 1: been crying. Relax, I said, I'm not quitting. In fact,

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Speaker 1: I'm going to get a huge raise. Now, listen carefully.

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Speaker 1: I called my agent and I explained the idea that

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Speaker 1: had lit over my head on the subway like a

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Speaker 1: light bulb to both of them. I said, you call

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Speaker 1: Phil Griffin back and explain to him that I will

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Speaker 1: personally save his job and Steve Campus's and Jeff Sooker's

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Speaker 1: and Tom Brokaw's and everybody else's. I'll take the fall

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Speaker 1: instead of letting them all get fired by the MSNBC audience.

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Speaker 1: I'll say this was my idea, and all it will

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Speaker 1: cost Phil is twelve million dollars. And he has to

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Speaker 1: leak the term so everybody knows it cost him twelve

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Speaker 1: million dollars. And she paused for a second and said,

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Speaker 1: it's genius. It might not quite be twelve million, but

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Speaker 1: I bet I bet they'll pay you at least nine.

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Speaker 1: On Sunday, several news organizations reported I had asked to

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Speaker 1: be taken off the anchor desk two months and one

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Speaker 1: week later, The New York Times wrote, quote, Keith Olberman,

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Speaker 1: the anchor of Countdown on MSNBC, has extended his contract

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Speaker 1: through the next presidential election season. The network announced mister

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Speaker 1: Olberman and MSNBC essentially tore up the four year, four

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Speaker 1: million dollar year contract they signed last year and replaced

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Speaker 1: it with one worth about seven and a half million

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Speaker 1: a year. Oh, that was a three and a half

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00:38:01,635 --> 00:38:09,355
Speaker 1: million dollar raise for four years total of fourteen million dollars.

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Speaker 1: Except the new contract added two years to my old deal,

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00:38:13,035 --> 00:38:18,435
Speaker 1: so the raise was actually twenty two million dollars. All

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Speaker 1: stories have a punchline. This punchline is about Tom Brokaw.

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Speaker 1: We would have gotten away with this cleanly. NBC would

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Speaker 1: have gotten its money's worth for the twenty two million

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Speaker 1: in hush money, which is what it was that it

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Speaker 1: had to pay me because I had agreed with them

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Speaker 1: rolling over for the Republican Party blackmail. Except Brokaw could

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Speaker 1: not keep his mouth shut. So proud was he of

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Speaker 1: preserving his role as the moderator of the October seventh

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Speaker 1: NBC debate that he had to explain in explicit detail

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Speaker 1: in public how he went to his bosses at NBC

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Speaker 1: News and threatened them on behalf of the GOP. On

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Speaker 1: September twenty ninth, two thousand and eight, a lengthy and

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Speaker 1: glowing Brokaw profile appeared in The New York Times. Quote

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Speaker 1: mister Brokaw said that over the summer he had quote

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Speaker 1: advocated within the executive suite of NBC News to modify

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Speaker 1: the anchor duties of the MSNBC hosts Keith Alderman and

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Speaker 1: Chris Matthews on election night and on nights when there

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Speaker 1: were presidential debates. Mister Brocass said he had also conducted

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Speaker 1: some shuttle diplomacy in recent weeks between NBC and the

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Speaker 1: McCain campaign. His mission, he said, was to assure the

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Speaker 1: candidate's aids that despite some negative on air commentary by

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Speaker 1: mister Olberman in particular, mister McCain could still get a

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Speaker 1: fair shake from NBC News. Unquote, Oh, that was his mission,

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Speaker 1: the hell it was. Happily, Brocaw just could not resist

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Speaker 1: boasting even further. The next sentence actually reads quote, Mister

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Speaker 1: Brocass said he had been told by a senior McCain

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Speaker 1: aide whom he did not name, that the campaign had

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Speaker 1: been reluctant to accept an NBC representative as one of

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Speaker 1: the moderators of the three president debates until his name

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Speaker 1: was invoked. Quote. One of the things I was told

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Speaker 1: by this person was that they were so irritated. They said,

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Speaker 1: if it's an NBC moderator for any of these debates,

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Speaker 1: we won't go, mister Brokaw said, quoting him again. My

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Speaker 1: name came up and they said, oh, hell, we have

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Speaker 1: to do it, because it's going to be Brokaw. There

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Speaker 1: is a second punchline after all this, when the new

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Speaker 1: format came out and I was sitting there counting my money,

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Speaker 1: MSNBC had David Gregory quote anchor unquote the debate coverage.

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Speaker 1: David was terrific during this. Practically all this meant, anyway,

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Speaker 1: was that I was on the air until literally ninety

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Speaker 1: seconds before each debate began, which is when I said,

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Speaker 1: now here's David Gregory. And he was then on for

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Speaker 1: four or five minutes after the debate ended, which is

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Speaker 1: when he said, now here's Keith Olberman. And on Election

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Speaker 1: Night itself with David again formally anchoring per the Republican

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Speaker 1: blackmail at ten fifty nine pm. To his great credit

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Speaker 1: and to my eternal gratitude, David Gregory said, With the

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Speaker 1: last voting booth closing at eleven PM, NBC News can

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Speaker 1: now project the winner of the two thousand and eight

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Speaker 1: presidential election, Keith Bless him. Plus, I still have all

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Speaker 1: the money, I've done all the damage I can do.

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Speaker 1: Here to my throat, thank you for listening. Countdown has

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Speaker 1: come to you from our studios. Hiats off the Sports

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Speaker 1: Capsule building in New York. Here are the credits. Most

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Speaker 1: of the music arrange produced and performed by Brian Ray

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Speaker 1: and John Phillip Shanel, who are the Countdown musical directors.

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Speaker 1: All orchestration and keyboards by John Phillip Shanel. Guitars based

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Speaker 1: in drums by Brian Ray, produced by Tkobroks. Other Beethoven

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Speaker 1: selections have been arranged and performed by the group No

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Speaker 1: Horns Allowed. Sports music is the Oulderman theme from ESPN two,

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Speaker 1: which was written by Mitch Warren Davis courtesy of ESPN Inc.

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Speaker 1: Musical comments by Nancy Fauss. The best baseball stadium organist ever.

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Speaker 1: Our announcer today was my friend Stevie van zant At.

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Speaker 1: Everything else was pretty much my fault. So that's countdown

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Speaker 1: for this, the nine hundred and seventy fourth day since

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump's first attempted coup against the democratically elected government

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Speaker 1: of the United States. Convict him now while we still can.

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Speaker 1: The next scheduled countdown is tomorrow Bolton's as the news warrants,

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Speaker 1: or as my throat infection permits till then, I'm Keith Olberman.

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Speaker 1: Good morning, good afternoon, good night, good luck, and happy gargling.

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Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. For

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