1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:20,875 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. For 2 00:00:20,995 --> 00:00:23,955 Speaker 1: the second time in as many days, one of Trump's 3 00:00:23,955 --> 00:00:26,875 Speaker 1: attorneys has gone on Fox and in the best passive 4 00:00:26,955 --> 00:00:32,035 Speaker 1: aggressive style possible, she has threatened one or more justices 5 00:00:32,155 --> 00:00:35,395 Speaker 1: of the Supreme Court that they had better rule in 6 00:00:35,555 --> 00:00:39,755 Speaker 1: his favor in the Fourteenth Amendment and presidential immunity cases 7 00:00:40,155 --> 00:00:45,275 Speaker 1: because Trump put them there. Alina Habba. She did it 8 00:00:45,315 --> 00:00:50,715 Speaker 1: again Wednesday in the afternoon last night in primetime. The 9 00:00:50,835 --> 00:00:54,275 Speaker 1: message is loud and clear, and God knows, with the 10 00:00:54,555 --> 00:00:58,435 Speaker 1: utter corruption of the Conservatives on this Supreme Court, you 11 00:00:58,555 --> 00:01:03,435 Speaker 1: could never convict anybody of doing anything wrong. But this 12 00:01:03,635 --> 00:01:07,835 Speaker 1: is either an elegal threat against Justice Brett Kavanaugh and 13 00:01:07,875 --> 00:01:10,755 Speaker 1: the others, or it is the back half of an 14 00:01:10,755 --> 00:01:14,835 Speaker 1: illegal quid pro quote by Brett Kavanaugh and the others. 15 00:01:15,155 --> 00:01:17,475 Speaker 2: I think it should be a slam duncan the Supreme Court. 16 00:01:17,515 --> 00:01:21,715 Speaker 2: I have faith in them. You know, people like Kavanaugh, 17 00:01:21,755 --> 00:01:24,755 Speaker 2: who the President fought for, who the President went through 18 00:01:24,795 --> 00:01:27,475 Speaker 2: hell to get into place. He'll step up. Those people 19 00:01:27,475 --> 00:01:28,195 Speaker 2: will step up. 20 00:01:28,355 --> 00:01:34,235 Speaker 1: The corruption, the cynicism, the perversion of justice, the disdain 21 00:01:34,395 --> 00:01:38,435 Speaker 1: for America so great that you don't even try to 22 00:01:38,675 --> 00:01:42,555 Speaker 1: hide the fact that you're expecting a justice of the 23 00:01:42,595 --> 00:01:47,675 Speaker 1: Supreme Court to vote against the Constitution and against the 24 00:01:47,715 --> 00:01:53,875 Speaker 1: democracy because the case involves the corrupt and festering animal 25 00:01:54,155 --> 00:01:58,555 Speaker 1: who appointed him to it. This was so obvious that 26 00:01:58,715 --> 00:02:03,515 Speaker 1: even this idiot, Alena Habbah realized she had better skeer 27 00:02:03,675 --> 00:02:07,755 Speaker 1: out of that skin just in case, and she did 28 00:02:07,795 --> 00:02:09,275 Speaker 1: that immediately. 29 00:02:09,675 --> 00:02:12,395 Speaker 2: He'll step up. Those people will step up not because 30 00:02:12,475 --> 00:02:16,195 Speaker 2: they're pro Trump, but because they're pro law, because their 31 00:02:16,235 --> 00:02:18,315 Speaker 2: pro fairness and the lawness is very clear. 32 00:02:18,795 --> 00:02:23,555 Speaker 1: There is nothing to prosecute here, but there is everything 33 00:02:23,675 --> 00:02:27,835 Speaker 1: to publicize here. This is the fourth time in one 34 00:02:27,915 --> 00:02:31,395 Speaker 1: week that Trump has gotten this message out to the 35 00:02:31,475 --> 00:02:34,995 Speaker 1: three justices whom he appointed to the Supreme Court, and 36 00:02:35,115 --> 00:02:39,035 Speaker 1: to the other three Conservatives who were already there urinating 37 00:02:39,075 --> 00:02:42,515 Speaker 1: on the Constitution the day he got there. The message 38 00:02:42,555 --> 00:02:45,395 Speaker 1: is they had better find in his favor on these 39 00:02:45,435 --> 00:02:49,835 Speaker 1: two critical cases headed their way. A week ago today, 40 00:02:49,955 --> 00:02:54,235 Speaker 1: Maggie Haberman went on CNN and vaguely quoted Trump without 41 00:02:54,315 --> 00:02:58,875 Speaker 1: characterizing her sources as being worried that the justices might 42 00:02:58,915 --> 00:03:02,795 Speaker 1: be too worried about appearing fair that they might rule 43 00:03:02,915 --> 00:03:07,795 Speaker 1: against him just to make themselves look good. And then 44 00:03:07,835 --> 00:03:11,875 Speaker 1: on Tuesday, another Trump attorney, Christina bob when on the 45 00:03:11,915 --> 00:03:15,715 Speaker 1: streaming channel Real America's Voice and said quote, it should 46 00:03:15,795 --> 00:03:20,235 Speaker 1: be the entire nation who determines who they want for president, 47 00:03:20,795 --> 00:03:24,915 Speaker 1: whether they're guilty of insurrection or not. It's up to 48 00:03:24,995 --> 00:03:28,515 Speaker 1: the people. That can be read not just at minimum 49 00:03:28,595 --> 00:03:32,355 Speaker 1: as an admission of Trump's potential guilt as an insurrectionist, 50 00:03:32,555 --> 00:03:35,995 Speaker 1: but more importantly, it is a blatant warning to the 51 00:03:36,035 --> 00:03:39,715 Speaker 1: Supreme Court, to the entire judicial system, to the nation 52 00:03:40,235 --> 00:03:44,435 Speaker 1: that Trump would not recognize any decision to enforce the 53 00:03:44,475 --> 00:03:48,355 Speaker 1: fourteenth Amendment, to declare him an insurrectionist, to remove him 54 00:03:48,395 --> 00:03:51,875 Speaker 1: from the ballot, and under those circumstances, the only way 55 00:03:51,955 --> 00:03:55,755 Speaker 1: Trump would wind up in power would be by armed violence. 56 00:03:56,235 --> 00:03:58,715 Speaker 1: If it's up to the people whether they're guilty of 57 00:03:58,795 --> 00:04:02,995 Speaker 1: insurrection or not, that is no longer in the realm 58 00:04:03,315 --> 00:04:07,955 Speaker 1: of an election. And Wednesday, Alina Haba had continued the 59 00:04:07,955 --> 00:04:12,195 Speaker 1: theme on Fox as I mentioned confirming first last week's 60 00:04:12,235 --> 00:04:15,475 Speaker 1: Haberman report and then adding quote, I can tell you 61 00:04:15,515 --> 00:04:19,835 Speaker 1: that Trump's concern is a valid one. Republicans are conservative, 62 00:04:19,915 --> 00:04:24,635 Speaker 1: They get nervous, They unfortunately sometimes shy away from being 63 00:04:24,795 --> 00:04:27,955 Speaker 1: pro Trump because they feel that even if the laws 64 00:04:28,075 --> 00:04:31,435 Speaker 1: on our side, they might be swayed, much like the 65 00:04:31,475 --> 00:04:35,075 Speaker 1: Democratic side would be right. So they're trying so hard 66 00:04:35,115 --> 00:04:38,635 Speaker 1: to look neutral that sometimes they make the wrong call. 67 00:04:39,275 --> 00:04:42,795 Speaker 1: There's no politics that should be involved in this. It's 68 00:04:42,835 --> 00:04:50,915 Speaker 1: simply American, unquote, even for Trump. This is astounding and alarming, 69 00:04:51,555 --> 00:04:55,035 Speaker 1: and it has now last night been escalated one more 70 00:04:55,155 --> 00:05:01,035 Speaker 1: evil notch, with Haba insisting that Kavanaugh would step up. First, 71 00:05:01,075 --> 00:05:03,915 Speaker 1: she mentions that Trump went through hell to get him 72 00:05:03,955 --> 00:05:06,635 Speaker 1: on the Supreme Court. Then she insists that's not why 73 00:05:06,675 --> 00:05:09,035 Speaker 1: he would rule for Trump. Well, if that's not why 74 00:05:09,075 --> 00:05:12,515 Speaker 1: he would rule for Trump, why did she mention it. 75 00:05:13,475 --> 00:05:19,955 Speaker 1: These are uncoded messages, blatant warnings to the justices that, 76 00:05:20,115 --> 00:05:24,635 Speaker 1: regardless of the law, they are expected to act on 77 00:05:24,675 --> 00:05:30,515 Speaker 1: Trump's behalf. It is putrid, it is vile, it is Trump. 78 00:05:31,395 --> 00:05:35,035 Speaker 1: And if the messages do not come back reassuring Trump, 79 00:05:35,195 --> 00:05:38,395 Speaker 1: or when as assumed, the Court turns him down on 80 00:05:38,475 --> 00:05:42,475 Speaker 1: presidential immunity, to provide itself with cover for vetoing the 81 00:05:42,475 --> 00:05:46,275 Speaker 1: Constitution and not enforcing the fourteenth Amendment, we have to 82 00:05:46,315 --> 00:05:49,515 Speaker 1: be ready for an all out assault on the justices, 83 00:05:49,915 --> 00:05:54,595 Speaker 1: and on their safety and on their existence by Trump himself, 84 00:05:55,115 --> 00:05:57,395 Speaker 1: as he has shown with Judge Engern in the New 85 00:05:57,475 --> 00:06:00,235 Speaker 1: York business fraud case and with Judge Chutkin in the 86 00:06:00,355 --> 00:06:05,195 Speaker 1: Washington election subversion case. Trump has no respect for the court, 87 00:06:05,235 --> 00:06:09,235 Speaker 1: no respect for any court, and certainly no respect for 88 00:06:09,315 --> 00:06:13,235 Speaker 1: the lives or the safety of the justices or the judges. 89 00:06:13,995 --> 00:06:17,955 Speaker 1: And it is essential for the Biden administration and the 90 00:06:17,995 --> 00:06:23,955 Speaker 1: Biden campaign to saturate the advertising platforms with reminders that 91 00:06:24,035 --> 00:06:28,915 Speaker 1: Trump is already right now presenting vivid previews of his 92 00:06:29,195 --> 00:06:33,235 Speaker 1: full throated dictatorship, where the rule of law will be 93 00:06:33,435 --> 00:06:37,875 Speaker 1: erased and replaced by the rule of threat and coercion 94 00:06:38,315 --> 00:06:46,235 Speaker 1: and quid pro quo. There is more to discuss about this, 95 00:06:46,355 --> 00:06:50,675 Speaker 1: Alena Haba. She made an earlier appearance yesterday in which 96 00:06:50,715 --> 00:06:55,075 Speaker 1: she underscored her top tier role in this Trump ideocracy, 97 00:06:55,475 --> 00:06:59,715 Speaker 1: but first to the still low chance but nonetheless intriguing 98 00:06:59,795 --> 00:07:05,275 Speaker 1: possibility that trouble waits for Trump in New Hampshire. In 99 00:07:05,315 --> 00:07:09,275 Speaker 1: the New Hampshire Republican primary eighteen days from now, newest 100 00:07:09,315 --> 00:07:15,035 Speaker 1: poll Trump thirty seven, Haley thirty three, Christy ten so 101 00:07:15,235 --> 00:07:19,835 Speaker 1: Trump up by only four caveats. Last month, the same 102 00:07:19,875 --> 00:07:24,035 Speaker 1: polster had Trump up by four and he has them 103 00:07:24,075 --> 00:07:27,155 Speaker 1: both going up four points since then. More caveats. The 104 00:07:27,195 --> 00:07:31,875 Speaker 1: polster is American Research Group, and American Research Group has 105 00:07:31,915 --> 00:07:35,995 Speaker 1: a really bad track record and a really long, really 106 00:07:36,115 --> 00:07:40,955 Speaker 1: bad track record, even just in New Hampshire. And American 107 00:07:40,995 --> 00:07:44,755 Speaker 1: Research Group is based in New Hampshire. Two days before 108 00:07:44,795 --> 00:07:47,875 Speaker 1: the two thousand Republican primary, it had Bush beating McCain 109 00:07:47,955 --> 00:07:54,315 Speaker 1: by two. McCain won by eighteen. More caveats. The logo 110 00:07:54,515 --> 00:07:57,435 Speaker 1: of American Research Group. I swear they use the printer 111 00:07:57,915 --> 00:08:01,515 Speaker 1: I bought for my first Apple Macintosh in nineteen eighty six, 112 00:08:02,435 --> 00:08:08,235 Speaker 1: and its website glitches it keeps reading still thirty seven 113 00:08:08,355 --> 00:08:10,555 Speaker 1: thirty three. Trump could be wrong by ten points and 114 00:08:10,595 --> 00:08:13,435 Speaker 1: still be only Trump forty two to twenty eight, which 115 00:08:13,475 --> 00:08:16,395 Speaker 1: is roughly where the five thirty eight pole of poles 116 00:08:16,435 --> 00:08:19,435 Speaker 1: has it. Trump forty two, Hailey twenty nine, Christy eleven. 117 00:08:19,715 --> 00:08:23,075 Speaker 1: And the first meaningful part of that is there is 118 00:08:23,475 --> 00:08:28,475 Speaker 1: Trump vulnerability. If Christy dropped out, his voters might scatter 119 00:08:28,515 --> 00:08:31,795 Speaker 1: among DeSantis and Ramaswami and Haley, but they would not 120 00:08:31,995 --> 00:08:35,475 Speaker 1: be going to Trump. The other meaningful part of all 121 00:08:35,515 --> 00:08:39,875 Speaker 1: this is New Hampshire polling is clarifying just who is 122 00:08:40,075 --> 00:08:44,675 Speaker 1: who in this race. Haley, she is the acceptable face 123 00:08:44,715 --> 00:08:48,075 Speaker 1: of fascism, the alternate for Trumpists who are worried that 124 00:08:48,075 --> 00:08:50,995 Speaker 1: their cult leader might be in prison or fully insane 125 00:08:51,035 --> 00:08:53,875 Speaker 1: or I don't know, dead by election day. She has 126 00:08:53,955 --> 00:08:57,435 Speaker 1: already promised to pardon Trump. She has already intentionally or 127 00:08:57,475 --> 00:09:00,075 Speaker 1: not said she was comfortable with the good old Confederate 128 00:09:00,115 --> 00:09:02,755 Speaker 1: States of America, and she won't be bringing up any 129 00:09:02,795 --> 00:09:06,995 Speaker 1: of those pesky issues of ski in color or immigration, 130 00:09:07,235 --> 00:09:15,035 Speaker 1: despite her you know self. She is also obviously the spoiler. 131 00:09:15,155 --> 00:09:18,835 Speaker 1: This arg pull says only sixty three percent of likely 132 00:09:18,875 --> 00:09:23,515 Speaker 1: New Hampshire voters are Republicans. The other thirty seven are undeclared, 133 00:09:23,715 --> 00:09:26,715 Speaker 1: that could be independents, that could be Democrats, and they 134 00:09:26,755 --> 00:09:31,635 Speaker 1: break thirty six twenty nine for Haley. But clearly Haley 135 00:09:31,795 --> 00:09:36,755 Speaker 1: is now the trumpests break glass in event of emergency candidate, 136 00:09:37,075 --> 00:09:40,195 Speaker 1: and New Hampshire Republicans seem to be a lot closer 137 00:09:40,195 --> 00:09:42,355 Speaker 1: to actually pulling that alarm than those in the other 138 00:09:42,395 --> 00:09:46,315 Speaker 1: states do. Christy, he is obviously the choice of conservatives 139 00:09:46,315 --> 00:09:48,995 Speaker 1: with consciences, and you knew that the moment that the 140 00:09:49,075 --> 00:09:53,915 Speaker 1: number ten percent came up, didn't you, DeSantis? He is 141 00:09:53,955 --> 00:09:57,595 Speaker 1: the winner of the Rudy Giuliani Memorial Self Destruction Prize, 142 00:09:57,915 --> 00:10:02,035 Speaker 1: and Ramaswami, who day before yesterday declared Trump was damaged 143 00:10:02,475 --> 00:10:05,595 Speaker 1: and predicted they would make make sure he would never 144 00:10:05,635 --> 00:10:09,115 Speaker 1: be elected again. He has only realized far too late 145 00:10:09,435 --> 00:10:13,315 Speaker 1: that that could have been his lane all along. The 146 00:10:13,315 --> 00:10:16,555 Speaker 1: New Hampshire polling also indicates that the most stunning part 147 00:10:16,635 --> 00:10:22,435 Speaker 1: of the Republican world, this crazed mixture of fantasy, violence, authoritarianism, racism, 148 00:10:22,515 --> 00:10:26,195 Speaker 1: and really stupid people, is that it seems to be 149 00:10:26,275 --> 00:10:28,995 Speaker 1: slightly more worried about the prospect of being chained to 150 00:10:29,035 --> 00:10:32,515 Speaker 1: a metaphorical corpse of a candidate in Trump than it 151 00:10:32,635 --> 00:10:35,515 Speaker 1: is about the prospect of being chained to an ever 152 00:10:35,675 --> 00:10:41,515 Speaker 1: increasingly insane and thus perhaps unelectable candidate in Trump. Haley 153 00:10:41,755 --> 00:10:47,115 Speaker 1: is there in case someone or something removes Trump from 154 00:10:47,115 --> 00:10:49,915 Speaker 1: the election. If that does not happen, Trump can be 155 00:10:50,035 --> 00:10:54,395 Speaker 1: literally speaking in tongues by the time of the Republican 156 00:10:54,435 --> 00:10:58,395 Speaker 1: Convention and they will not abandon him. And every day 157 00:10:59,235 --> 00:11:02,155 Speaker 1: he gets a little bit closer to speaking in tongues. 158 00:11:02,795 --> 00:11:07,115 Speaker 1: At nine thirty yesterday morning, Trump hosted, quote, the invasion 159 00:11:07,195 --> 00:11:11,515 Speaker 1: through our southern border is for purposes of voting in 160 00:11:11,595 --> 00:11:20,115 Speaker 1: the twenty twenty election. Un quote voting in the twenty 161 00:11:20,315 --> 00:11:27,435 Speaker 1: twenty election. You say, even in Maga world, that would 162 00:11:27,435 --> 00:11:32,195 Speaker 1: be a neat trick. Moreover, about six hours later, Trump 163 00:11:32,235 --> 00:11:35,955 Speaker 1: reposted the same damn thing, the invasion through our southern 164 00:11:35,955 --> 00:11:38,955 Speaker 1: border is for purposes of voting in the twenty twenty election. 165 00:11:39,915 --> 00:11:45,275 Speaker 1: No correction, no stupid excuse that the cultists would lap up. 166 00:11:45,955 --> 00:11:48,595 Speaker 1: I meant to write that and they'd say, see, I 167 00:11:48,635 --> 00:11:51,035 Speaker 1: told you the twenty twenty election was fixed. They're still 168 00:11:51,075 --> 00:11:56,715 Speaker 1: counting votes against him once again. Right now, Trump does 169 00:11:56,715 --> 00:12:00,235 Speaker 1: not know where he is, He does not know who 170 00:12:00,555 --> 00:12:06,115 Speaker 1: you are, and increasingly he does not know when it is. 171 00:12:08,315 --> 00:12:11,595 Speaker 1: And by the way, between his two warnings about twenty 172 00:12:11,635 --> 00:12:15,315 Speaker 1: twenty four migrants voting in the twenty twenty election, Trump 173 00:12:15,355 --> 00:12:19,475 Speaker 1: made thirty one posts in one hour, all of them 174 00:12:19,915 --> 00:12:26,595 Speaker 1: insults and or threats against E. Gene Carroll. And he 175 00:12:26,635 --> 00:12:29,275 Speaker 1: says he is going to testify eleven days from now 176 00:12:29,515 --> 00:12:33,155 Speaker 1: in the damage's phase of the lawsuit that she's already 177 00:12:33,195 --> 00:12:36,475 Speaker 1: won against him, as opposed to the second defamation suit 178 00:12:36,555 --> 00:12:38,955 Speaker 1: she has against him. And if it was not obvious 179 00:12:38,995 --> 00:12:42,075 Speaker 1: that what is left of Trump's brains are oozing out 180 00:12:42,075 --> 00:12:45,835 Speaker 1: of his ears, the idea that he should take the 181 00:12:45,915 --> 00:12:50,475 Speaker 1: stand in a rape case he has already lost should 182 00:12:50,515 --> 00:12:57,915 Speaker 1: confirm that. Happily, Trump is surrounded by legal geniuses who 183 00:12:57,955 --> 00:13:00,955 Speaker 1: would never let something like that happen. And when I 184 00:13:01,035 --> 00:13:04,675 Speaker 1: say never, I mean always. And when I say gene, 185 00:13:05,435 --> 00:13:09,275 Speaker 1: I mean Alina Habba, Christina Bob and now har Meat 186 00:13:09,355 --> 00:13:16,115 Speaker 1: Dylan Haba is back with her dumbest moment yet. She 187 00:13:17,035 --> 00:13:19,795 Speaker 1: is the Trump attorney who Wednesday gently threatened the six 188 00:13:19,835 --> 00:13:23,435 Speaker 1: conservative Supreme Court justices that they had better not be 189 00:13:23,715 --> 00:13:27,715 Speaker 1: trying so hard to look neutral in the Fourteenth Amendment 190 00:13:27,755 --> 00:13:32,475 Speaker 1: and presidential immunity cases. She's that lawyer, as opposed to Bob, 191 00:13:32,955 --> 00:13:36,275 Speaker 1: who is the Trump attorney who Tuesday gently threatened the 192 00:13:36,395 --> 00:13:38,555 Speaker 1: justices and everybody else that it doesn't matter if Trump 193 00:13:38,635 --> 00:13:42,075 Speaker 1: is guilty of insurrection and ineligible for the presidency, because 194 00:13:42,075 --> 00:13:45,235 Speaker 1: the American people will have the final word and they 195 00:13:45,275 --> 00:13:51,315 Speaker 1: will install him anyway, presumably by violence. Now this is Haba. 196 00:13:51,755 --> 00:13:56,315 Speaker 1: Haba went on one of the three million pro Trump 197 00:13:56,395 --> 00:14:03,395 Speaker 1: podcasts PbD, and she managed to score a ten out 198 00:14:03,395 --> 00:14:09,875 Speaker 1: of ten on not one, but two different delusions of grandeurw. 199 00:14:09,475 --> 00:14:12,755 Speaker 3: I'll tell you something. Somebody said to me, Elina, would 200 00:14:12,795 --> 00:14:16,995 Speaker 3: you rather be? Would you rather be smart? Or pretty? 201 00:14:18,835 --> 00:14:22,715 Speaker 3: And I said, oh, easy, pretty, I can fake being smart. 202 00:14:24,515 --> 00:14:29,875 Speaker 1: Well, no, no, you can't. I don't know. She just 203 00:14:29,955 --> 00:14:32,755 Speaker 1: confessed she isn't smart and she's trying to fake it, 204 00:14:33,555 --> 00:14:37,995 Speaker 1: or if she actually thinks she's smart and also self deprecating. 205 00:14:38,915 --> 00:14:43,115 Speaker 1: But one day, as we have just lionized Robert Oppenheimer 206 00:14:43,155 --> 00:14:47,355 Speaker 1: with his own film, we will also honor professors Dave 207 00:14:47,475 --> 00:14:50,955 Speaker 1: Dunning and Justin Krueger in a combination scientific biography and 208 00:14:51,035 --> 00:14:54,035 Speaker 1: buddy film in which we are shown how they proved 209 00:14:54,635 --> 00:14:58,555 Speaker 1: that stupid people truly think they are smart, and smart 210 00:14:58,555 --> 00:15:01,355 Speaker 1: people truly cannot believe that there aren't lots of people 211 00:15:01,435 --> 00:15:06,835 Speaker 1: as smart or smarter than they are. Either way, somebody 212 00:15:06,875 --> 00:15:09,555 Speaker 1: will have to play Elina Habba in that film, because 213 00:15:09,595 --> 00:15:14,755 Speaker 1: the Dunning Krueger moments explode from her cortex like Trump 214 00:15:14,875 --> 00:15:16,995 Speaker 1: posts about Egene Carroll. 215 00:15:17,395 --> 00:15:20,355 Speaker 3: You have to be honest. It doesn't hurt to be 216 00:15:20,435 --> 00:15:24,035 Speaker 3: good looking in this world, in the pr world on TV, 217 00:15:24,315 --> 00:15:28,155 Speaker 3: it doesn't hurt. And when you're good looking, that's great, 218 00:15:28,195 --> 00:15:30,435 Speaker 3: but it can also mean people think you're stupid, or 219 00:15:30,475 --> 00:15:32,635 Speaker 3: people think that President Trump hired me because I was 220 00:15:32,635 --> 00:15:34,875 Speaker 3: good looking. That is absolutely not the case. 221 00:15:35,355 --> 00:15:40,755 Speaker 1: Finally, she's right, people do think she's stupid, and clearly 222 00:15:41,675 --> 00:15:44,675 Speaker 1: Trump did not hire her because she was good looking. 223 00:15:45,995 --> 00:15:49,115 Speaker 1: He hired her because you just can't have too many 224 00:15:49,355 --> 00:15:54,595 Speaker 1: parking lot law experts at your beck and call. Incidentally, 225 00:15:54,635 --> 00:15:56,755 Speaker 1: as she said these things, miss Haba was dressed in 226 00:15:56,795 --> 00:16:00,515 Speaker 1: a Kuela Deville outfit, only the kind you would find 227 00:16:00,555 --> 00:16:06,355 Speaker 1: at Ross dress for less and no, I know she 228 00:16:06,475 --> 00:16:10,435 Speaker 1: is not as important as, say, the first Biden campaign 229 00:16:10,515 --> 00:16:13,475 Speaker 1: ad that sticks a toe into the waters of the 230 00:16:13,475 --> 00:16:17,115 Speaker 1: real meaning of this election, democracy or dictatorship, or of 231 00:16:17,155 --> 00:16:20,875 Speaker 1: Biden's speech today. And she's also not as important as 232 00:16:20,915 --> 00:16:24,595 Speaker 1: the House Oversight Committee findings about how many millions Trump 233 00:16:24,635 --> 00:16:27,795 Speaker 1: took from foreign governments while president, both of which stories 234 00:16:27,835 --> 00:16:31,955 Speaker 1: I will get to presently. But Alina Habba is invaluable 235 00:16:32,035 --> 00:16:35,955 Speaker 1: in one way as a reminder both of what we 236 00:16:36,035 --> 00:16:39,755 Speaker 1: are up against and more happily, of what Trump is 237 00:16:39,875 --> 00:16:44,555 Speaker 1: up against in twenty first century America. Stupidity will get 238 00:16:44,595 --> 00:16:50,475 Speaker 1: you a long way, but eventually that stupidity. Bill Barr 239 00:16:50,995 --> 00:16:58,155 Speaker 1: trusted Trump, Trump trusted him. Trump knew Brad Raffensberger would 240 00:16:58,195 --> 00:17:03,435 Speaker 1: break the law for him. Eventually, that stupidity will be 241 00:17:03,595 --> 00:17:07,795 Speaker 1: someone's downfall. Because unlike the rest of us, who wonder 242 00:17:07,835 --> 00:17:11,955 Speaker 1: if there is somebody smarter out there, or somebody more evil, 243 00:17:12,955 --> 00:17:19,115 Speaker 1: or just somebody more prepared, these thoughts never cross Trump's mind, 244 00:17:20,035 --> 00:17:23,995 Speaker 1: nor the minds of his various Alena Habbas. Thus, the 245 00:17:24,075 --> 00:17:28,475 Speaker 1: last ten percent of the scheme, whatever it is, is 246 00:17:28,555 --> 00:17:32,595 Speaker 1: left to chance because they cannot conceive of anything they 247 00:17:32,635 --> 00:17:40,515 Speaker 1: do going wrong, because they are them, and none of them, 248 00:17:40,635 --> 00:17:47,075 Speaker 1: not one can answer that first question of mental health correctly. 249 00:17:47,795 --> 00:17:54,275 Speaker 1: Can you approximately accurately say how you are viewed by 250 00:17:54,315 --> 00:17:58,755 Speaker 1: all the people around you? This is what Alena Habba, 251 00:17:59,155 --> 00:18:02,835 Speaker 1: who went pressed, explained that how good looking she thinks 252 00:18:02,835 --> 00:18:05,435 Speaker 1: she is has helped her in her feet, being on 253 00:18:05,515 --> 00:18:08,755 Speaker 1: TV and being in public relations. Not one word about, 254 00:18:08,795 --> 00:18:12,955 Speaker 1: you know, lawyering. This is what Alena Habba, who is 255 00:18:13,075 --> 00:18:18,355 Speaker 1: on television or online every day, every day, working for 256 00:18:18,435 --> 00:18:21,155 Speaker 1: a creature who in one hour can send out thirty 257 00:18:21,155 --> 00:18:25,035 Speaker 1: one posts disparaging a woman he raped, who puts out 258 00:18:25,115 --> 00:18:29,675 Speaker 1: more videos online than I do, This is what Alena 259 00:18:29,755 --> 00:18:34,675 Speaker 1: Habba thinks everybody thinks of her compared to what everybody 260 00:18:34,715 --> 00:18:36,675 Speaker 1: thinks of the Special Council. 261 00:18:37,155 --> 00:18:41,515 Speaker 3: They love having pressers, they love having press conferences, Jack Smith, 262 00:18:41,835 --> 00:18:45,555 Speaker 3: they love having press conferences, getting in front, having their moment. 263 00:18:45,715 --> 00:18:47,955 Speaker 3: It's almost a narcissistic. 264 00:18:47,675 --> 00:18:53,035 Speaker 1: As Special Counsel Jack Smith has had two press events. 265 00:18:54,315 --> 00:19:01,555 Speaker 1: Neither was a press conference a presser. He has read 266 00:19:01,595 --> 00:19:06,875 Speaker 1: two brief statements. He has never answered nor acknowledged any 267 00:19:07,035 --> 00:19:13,355 Speaker 1: reporter's question. Jack Smith has sixteen associates and deputies in 268 00:19:13,395 --> 00:19:16,475 Speaker 1: his office. None of them has ever held a news 269 00:19:16,555 --> 00:19:20,835 Speaker 1: conference nor answered a reporter's question. And bluntly, I don't 270 00:19:20,875 --> 00:19:23,635 Speaker 1: know if that number sixteen is correct because other than 271 00:19:23,715 --> 00:19:27,995 Speaker 1: Thomas Wyndham and Molly Gaston, as I researched that number, 272 00:19:28,035 --> 00:19:31,915 Speaker 1: I didn't recognize any of the other names of Jack 273 00:19:31,955 --> 00:19:37,835 Speaker 1: Smith's deputies. Haba is not just wrong about this press 274 00:19:37,835 --> 00:19:43,275 Speaker 1: conference stuff, not just stupid, but unless she is knowingly 275 00:19:43,315 --> 00:19:50,995 Speaker 1: and deliberately lying, she is actually hallucinating. By the way, 276 00:19:51,795 --> 00:19:54,875 Speaker 1: new fourteenth Amendment lawsuit filed in Illinois yesterday trying to 277 00:19:54,875 --> 00:19:56,995 Speaker 1: get the state Board of Elections there to block him 278 00:19:57,035 --> 00:20:00,795 Speaker 1: from both the Republican primary in March and the general. 279 00:20:01,795 --> 00:20:04,675 Speaker 1: I'm sure Elina will deal with it as soon as 280 00:20:04,875 --> 00:20:07,635 Speaker 1: she finishes her acting exercises. 281 00:20:08,075 --> 00:20:09,555 Speaker 3: I can fake being smart. 282 00:20:14,475 --> 00:20:17,315 Speaker 1: Of more substance, but less novelty. What we all knew 283 00:20:17,355 --> 00:20:20,635 Speaker 1: we knew has now been confirmed. During his presidency, foreign 284 00:20:20,675 --> 00:20:24,195 Speaker 1: government's funneled at least seven million, eight hundred thousand dollars 285 00:20:24,635 --> 00:20:29,875 Speaker 1: through Donald Trump's bribery glory holes, the Trump Washington Hotel, 286 00:20:30,315 --> 00:20:34,675 Speaker 1: the Trump Las Vegas Hotel, and the Trump Towering Inferno 287 00:20:34,755 --> 00:20:37,595 Speaker 1: of Ego around the corner from me here in fun City. 288 00:20:38,355 --> 00:20:42,195 Speaker 1: And five million, six hundred thousand of that came from China. 289 00:20:43,875 --> 00:20:47,795 Speaker 1: China bought its share of Trump's presidency for five million, 290 00:20:47,875 --> 00:20:52,315 Speaker 1: six hundred thousand dollars. The Democrats on the House Oversight 291 00:20:52,395 --> 00:20:55,875 Speaker 1: Committee who have the receipts and who actually show them 292 00:20:56,515 --> 00:21:02,275 Speaker 1: rather than pretend to hide them, they showed them. And 293 00:21:02,355 --> 00:21:06,155 Speaker 1: those are the numbers about just Trump's foreign violations of 294 00:21:06,195 --> 00:21:09,915 Speaker 1: the Emolument's clause, as presented by Jamie Raskin in a 295 00:21:09,995 --> 00:21:13,355 Speaker 1: news conference on Capitol Hill. All of the numbers gleaned 296 00:21:13,395 --> 00:21:17,435 Speaker 1: from the documents from Trump's former accounting firm, documents which 297 00:21:17,475 --> 00:21:20,955 Speaker 1: were subpoened when Democrats still had the majority in twenty nineteen, 298 00:21:20,995 --> 00:21:23,795 Speaker 1: and which even with the success of Trump's henchmen on 299 00:21:23,875 --> 00:21:27,515 Speaker 1: the committee to sabotage that subpoena and the lawsuit to 300 00:21:27,675 --> 00:21:30,475 Speaker 1: enforce it, even despite them, the Democrats have managed to 301 00:21:30,475 --> 00:21:34,835 Speaker 1: get a portion of those documents from the accounting firm, 302 00:21:34,915 --> 00:21:38,915 Speaker 1: So seven point eight million in payoffs to Trump five 303 00:21:38,915 --> 00:21:44,035 Speaker 1: point six million from China alone. Those are floors we 304 00:21:44,115 --> 00:21:49,555 Speaker 1: sometimes forget amid the insanity, the dictatorship, the depravity, the 305 00:21:49,715 --> 00:21:53,355 Speaker 1: disloyalty to this country, and the hot and cold running 306 00:21:53,435 --> 00:21:58,995 Speaker 1: immorality that Donald Trump is also a whore, that his 307 00:21:59,075 --> 00:22:03,235 Speaker 1: administration was a whore house, and that those who worked 308 00:22:03,275 --> 00:22:09,995 Speaker 1: for him there were at best the procurers. NBC News 309 00:22:10,035 --> 00:22:15,475 Speaker 1: provided an unintentional punchline to this sordid if unsurprising story. Quote. 310 00:22:15,755 --> 00:22:19,635 Speaker 1: Trump's twenty twenty four presidential campaign did not immediately reply 311 00:22:19,755 --> 00:22:23,435 Speaker 1: to a request for comment unquote, to which the only 312 00:22:23,515 --> 00:22:28,675 Speaker 1: possible response is did you remember to write it in Chinese? 313 00:22:31,555 --> 00:22:34,155 Speaker 1: And the start of Wabbitt season has been moved up 314 00:22:34,155 --> 00:22:36,555 Speaker 1: to day and President Biden will launch the full frontal 315 00:22:36,595 --> 00:22:40,235 Speaker 1: attack on Trump that would be dictator today at Valley 316 00:22:40,275 --> 00:22:43,555 Speaker 1: Forge because of likely bad weather there over the weekend. 317 00:22:43,595 --> 00:22:46,075 Speaker 1: He was to speak on the third anniversary of the 318 00:22:46,155 --> 00:22:51,275 Speaker 1: January sixth insurrection, which is on January sixth. All indications 319 00:22:51,315 --> 00:22:54,075 Speaker 1: are that the campaign's attitude towards how best to remind 320 00:22:54,115 --> 00:22:56,995 Speaker 1: the voters or explain to the ones not really paying attention, 321 00:22:57,435 --> 00:23:02,075 Speaker 1: of the unprecedented threat of a deranged, amoral, vengeful, not 322 00:23:02,355 --> 00:23:05,715 Speaker 1: quite human animal running for dictation. The best way to 323 00:23:05,755 --> 00:23:08,635 Speaker 1: do that is to roll it out slowly, rather than 324 00:23:08,675 --> 00:23:11,915 Speaker 1: to hit them with it all at once. Thus, the 325 00:23:11,955 --> 00:23:16,635 Speaker 1: president's speech may not even mention his opponent by name, 326 00:23:16,875 --> 00:23:20,275 Speaker 1: either of his names Trump or Baby Hitler. It may 327 00:23:20,315 --> 00:23:21,955 Speaker 1: be more on the lines of what we saw in 328 00:23:21,995 --> 00:23:25,395 Speaker 1: the first Biden ad on the topic, which dropped yesterday 329 00:23:25,875 --> 00:23:29,155 Speaker 1: and which will not knock you out, but which does 330 00:23:29,995 --> 00:23:32,075 Speaker 1: get the point across. 331 00:23:33,315 --> 00:23:35,995 Speaker 4: I've made the preservation of American democray the central issue 332 00:23:35,995 --> 00:23:36,715 Speaker 4: of my presidence. 333 00:23:37,355 --> 00:23:38,675 Speaker 1: I believe in free and fair. 334 00:23:38,515 --> 00:23:41,315 Speaker 4: Elections and the right to vote fairly and. 335 00:23:41,315 --> 00:23:42,555 Speaker 1: Have your vote counted. 336 00:23:43,635 --> 00:23:48,035 Speaker 4: There's something dangerous happening in America. There's an extremist movement 337 00:23:48,315 --> 00:23:51,035 Speaker 4: and does not share the basic police in our democracy. 338 00:23:51,795 --> 00:23:55,035 Speaker 4: All of us are being asked right now, what will 339 00:23:55,075 --> 00:23:59,795 Speaker 4: we do to maintain our democracy? History's watching, the world 340 00:23:59,875 --> 00:24:04,395 Speaker 4: is watching. The most important our children. Congrantiate will hold 341 00:24:04,475 --> 00:24:08,235 Speaker 4: us responsible. Vice President and I I've supported Vote Rise 342 00:24:08,315 --> 00:24:11,715 Speaker 4: since day one of this administration, and I ask every 343 00:24:11,755 --> 00:24:15,515 Speaker 4: American to join me in this cause. America is still 344 00:24:15,515 --> 00:24:19,315 Speaker 4: a place of possibilities, where the power resides with we 345 00:24:19,515 --> 00:24:23,755 Speaker 4: the people. That's our soul. We are the United States 346 00:24:23,795 --> 00:24:27,035 Speaker 4: of America. There is nothing beyond our capacity that we 347 00:24:27,115 --> 00:24:31,395 Speaker 4: act together. I'm Joe Biden, and I approve this message. 348 00:24:31,835 --> 00:24:34,835 Speaker 1: And I'm Keith Olberman and I also approved this message. Again, 349 00:24:34,915 --> 00:24:38,275 Speaker 1: if that was the closing argument add against Trump, guess 350 00:24:38,275 --> 00:24:42,595 Speaker 1: what President Biden loses. But it's not. I fully expect 351 00:24:42,635 --> 00:24:45,315 Speaker 1: the naming of names and the clipping of clips, as 352 00:24:45,315 --> 00:24:48,075 Speaker 1: we've done here in the silly way that I do it. 353 00:24:48,555 --> 00:24:51,355 Speaker 1: The promise to be a dictator, the quotation of Hitler, 354 00:24:51,715 --> 00:24:54,915 Speaker 1: the talk of terminating the Constitution, the threats to the 355 00:24:54,955 --> 00:24:58,675 Speaker 1: Supreme Court justices, the rest of this list a little long. 356 00:24:58,715 --> 00:25:01,075 Speaker 1: It's the Internet. We only have infinity. I can't get 357 00:25:01,075 --> 00:25:05,395 Speaker 1: all five thousand possible. Biden adds about Trump for you here, 358 00:25:05,555 --> 00:25:08,355 Speaker 1: the ultimate goal is to drive Trump and his cult 359 00:25:08,675 --> 00:25:11,595 Speaker 1: back into their sewers, and you do as much as 360 00:25:11,635 --> 00:25:14,595 Speaker 1: you need to do. But in the end, I think 361 00:25:14,595 --> 00:25:19,915 Speaker 1: it is essential to remember that whatever angle works should 362 00:25:19,955 --> 00:25:26,315 Speaker 1: be used. Biden commercials about the resurgent economy, Biden commercials 363 00:25:26,315 --> 00:25:30,955 Speaker 1: about Trump, admiring Hitler, Yes and yes, and buy two 364 00:25:31,155 --> 00:25:34,675 Speaker 1: spot availabilities in the same commercial break. So you hit 365 00:25:34,795 --> 00:25:37,435 Speaker 1: each angle in a span of two and a half minutes. 366 00:25:38,315 --> 00:25:42,675 Speaker 1: Spots about January sixth, spots about the Republicans holding Ukraine hostage, 367 00:25:42,715 --> 00:25:45,795 Speaker 1: spots about Trump using the immigration issue rather than doing 368 00:25:45,835 --> 00:25:48,715 Speaker 1: anything to try to solve it. All of it make 369 00:25:48,755 --> 00:25:54,355 Speaker 1: one hundred and seventy five different spots, just as all 370 00:25:54,395 --> 00:25:57,475 Speaker 1: the methods that can be used to stop and destroy 371 00:25:57,595 --> 00:26:03,115 Speaker 1: Trump must be utilized despite any squeamishness about the long 372 00:26:03,195 --> 00:26:08,115 Speaker 1: term consequences. When I hear got Lucky once, dilettants like 373 00:26:08,235 --> 00:26:12,515 Speaker 1: David Axelrod say that enforcing the fourteenth Amendment would rip 374 00:26:12,595 --> 00:26:16,395 Speaker 1: the country apart. I wonder exactly what he thinks will 375 00:26:16,435 --> 00:26:20,915 Speaker 1: happen to the country if Trump prevails. I guess, David, 376 00:26:20,915 --> 00:26:24,875 Speaker 1: it wouldn't be ripped apart. It would just be torn apart. 377 00:26:25,755 --> 00:26:30,035 Speaker 1: That make you feel better, I'm going to invoke the 378 00:26:30,075 --> 00:26:33,915 Speaker 1: movie Oppenheimer again. You have to do it. You have 379 00:26:33,995 --> 00:26:36,635 Speaker 1: to build the bomb, you have to be ready to 380 00:26:36,755 --> 00:26:41,755 Speaker 1: use the bomb. I am as anti nuclear weapons as 381 00:26:41,795 --> 00:26:44,155 Speaker 1: anybody could be. I am also from a time when 382 00:26:44,275 --> 00:26:48,355 Speaker 1: Robert Oppenheimer was still alive, and from when my father 383 00:26:48,435 --> 00:26:51,435 Speaker 1: reminded me that when the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, 384 00:26:51,755 --> 00:26:56,835 Speaker 1: it was eight days after he had turned sixteen years old, 385 00:26:58,675 --> 00:27:01,715 Speaker 1: and that was the first time it dawned on him 386 00:27:02,035 --> 00:27:05,395 Speaker 1: that when he turned eighteen years old he might not 387 00:27:05,555 --> 00:27:08,475 Speaker 1: be drafted to fight in World War Two, because it 388 00:27:08,595 --> 00:27:14,555 Speaker 1: might be over by nineteen forty seven. Later, the English 389 00:27:14,635 --> 00:27:18,915 Speaker 1: teacher who shaped my understanding of literature and writing mentioned 390 00:27:18,955 --> 00:27:22,755 Speaker 1: in passing that when that bomb was dropped, he was 391 00:27:22,835 --> 00:27:26,755 Speaker 1: in the army two years ahead of my dad, eighteen 392 00:27:26,835 --> 00:27:29,835 Speaker 1: years old, and he was in training, and what he 393 00:27:29,875 --> 00:27:34,555 Speaker 1: was in training for was the land invasion of Japan. 394 00:27:37,795 --> 00:27:40,395 Speaker 1: I don't want the consequences of a man removed from 395 00:27:40,435 --> 00:27:43,635 Speaker 1: the ballot by criminal conviction or by the enforcement of 396 00:27:43,635 --> 00:27:47,115 Speaker 1: the fourteenth Amendment, or by anything other than voting. I 397 00:27:47,195 --> 00:27:52,875 Speaker 1: don't want them, but I will take them because cleaning 398 00:27:52,995 --> 00:27:58,355 Speaker 1: up whatever tantrums the Trump cult throws is immeasurably better 399 00:27:59,195 --> 00:28:06,275 Speaker 1: and easier and frankly less disastrous and bloody then the 400 00:28:06,315 --> 00:28:10,635 Speaker 1: revolution that would have to be staged to remove Trump 401 00:28:10,675 --> 00:28:16,435 Speaker 1: and his cult from the dictatorship. They seek and plan. 402 00:28:22,435 --> 00:28:26,675 Speaker 1: Also of interest here so that RFK Junior super packs 403 00:28:26,755 --> 00:28:31,675 Speaker 1: celebration to be headlined by Andrea Bocelli and Dion Warwick 404 00:28:31,755 --> 00:28:35,955 Speaker 1: and Martin Sheen. Well, one out of three ain't bad. 405 00:28:37,075 --> 00:28:40,795 Speaker 1: Actually one out of three is bad. Kennedy's people lied 406 00:28:41,475 --> 00:28:44,835 Speaker 1: two of those three headliners, deny having ever said they 407 00:28:44,875 --> 00:28:49,675 Speaker 1: would do anything of the kind. But you know, actually 408 00:28:49,755 --> 00:28:52,595 Speaker 1: it ain't bad being right thirty three percent of the time. 409 00:28:52,635 --> 00:28:58,395 Speaker 1: That's like RFK Junior's high water mark this century. That's next. 410 00:28:59,035 --> 00:29:04,555 Speaker 1: This is countdown. This is countdown with Keith old Woman 411 00:29:26,355 --> 00:29:29,635 Speaker 1: still to come on. Count down. A century ago, literally 412 00:29:29,875 --> 00:29:35,795 Speaker 1: one century ago, something happened in Columbus, Ohio, and it 413 00:29:35,835 --> 00:29:38,355 Speaker 1: would have fit right next to all the headlines this 414 00:29:38,435 --> 00:29:42,035 Speaker 1: week about the Epstein files because it was something that 415 00:29:42,155 --> 00:29:47,395 Speaker 1: actually didn't happen a century ago in Columbus, Ohio. And 416 00:29:47,435 --> 00:29:50,515 Speaker 1: it proves two things. The writings of James Thurber are 417 00:29:50,555 --> 00:29:53,795 Speaker 1: as topical today as they were when he wrote them, 418 00:29:54,435 --> 00:29:59,115 Speaker 1: and people have always been willing to believe nonsense, and 419 00:29:59,155 --> 00:30:02,475 Speaker 1: the more impossible, the more stupid it is, the more 420 00:30:02,515 --> 00:30:06,035 Speaker 1: nonsensical it is, the more likely they are to believe it. 421 00:30:06,795 --> 00:30:10,315 Speaker 1: The explanation coming up on Fridays with Thurber first time 422 00:30:10,315 --> 00:30:12,475 Speaker 1: for the daily roundup of the mis grants, morons and 423 00:30:12,515 --> 00:30:20,035 Speaker 1: Dunning Kruger effects specimens who constitute two days worse persons 424 00:30:20,075 --> 00:30:27,355 Speaker 1: in the world The bronze worse. Elawn Musk Lannie has 425 00:30:27,395 --> 00:30:30,235 Speaker 1: sued the National Labor Relations Board, trying to end its 426 00:30:30,275 --> 00:30:37,155 Speaker 1: authority to you know, protect workers from you know, slimeballs 427 00:30:37,275 --> 00:30:42,515 Speaker 1: like Elon Musk. I'm assuming the Politico dot com headline 428 00:30:42,555 --> 00:30:46,715 Speaker 1: for this story was unintentionally funny, but who knows. Quote 429 00:30:47,515 --> 00:30:55,835 Speaker 1: Musk's SpaceX seeks to blow up federal labor enforcer Unquote Well, sir, 430 00:30:56,275 --> 00:30:58,755 Speaker 1: if there's anything you can depend on Elon Musk and 431 00:30:58,835 --> 00:31:04,035 Speaker 1: his SpaceX rockets to do, it's blow up Worser with 432 00:31:04,115 --> 00:31:07,595 Speaker 1: the silver her American Values twenty twenty four The Bobby 433 00:31:07,675 --> 00:31:11,595 Speaker 1: Kennedy Junior super Pack it tweeted out a Daily Mail 434 00:31:11,715 --> 00:31:16,035 Speaker 1: article quoting well the American Values twenty twenty four Superpack, 435 00:31:16,355 --> 00:31:20,475 Speaker 1: saying that the singer Andrea Bocelli would be performing at 436 00:31:20,475 --> 00:31:24,715 Speaker 1: a California event on January twenty second to raise funds 437 00:31:24,755 --> 00:31:27,755 Speaker 1: for the Robert F. Kennedy Junior campaign, and he would 438 00:31:27,795 --> 00:31:32,875 Speaker 1: be joined there by what they termed well wisher guests, 439 00:31:32,875 --> 00:31:38,635 Speaker 1: including Martin Sheen and Dion Warwick MS. Warwick was the 440 00:31:38,675 --> 00:31:42,235 Speaker 1: first to call Kennedy's people out for lying about her quote. 441 00:31:42,315 --> 00:31:44,715 Speaker 1: I don't know anything about this event. I did not 442 00:31:44,835 --> 00:31:48,515 Speaker 1: agree to it, and I certainly won't be there. Yesterday, 443 00:31:48,555 --> 00:31:50,955 Speaker 1: my old friend Marty Sheen, who has stationary and a 444 00:31:51,035 --> 00:31:55,475 Speaker 1: fleece bearing a logo reading the acting President of the 445 00:31:55,595 --> 00:32:00,155 Speaker 1: United States, he issued a statement through friends, reading I 446 00:32:00,275 --> 00:32:03,875 Speaker 1: do not endorse RFK Junior, nor will I be attending 447 00:32:03,915 --> 00:32:07,835 Speaker 1: his party. I wholeheartedly support President Joe Biden and the 448 00:32:07,875 --> 00:32:13,275 Speaker 1: Democratic ticket in twenty twenty four. Sincerely, Martin Sheen. So 449 00:32:13,475 --> 00:32:17,355 Speaker 1: two down, one to go, mister Butchelli. Not only does 450 00:32:17,395 --> 00:32:21,315 Speaker 1: this fiasco add to Robert F. Kennedy Junior's reputation for 451 00:32:21,435 --> 00:32:25,235 Speaker 1: being unable to separate his fantasies from reality, but just 452 00:32:25,275 --> 00:32:27,915 Speaker 1: to confuse him a little more. One of the people 453 00:32:27,915 --> 00:32:31,755 Speaker 1: who tweeted out Martin Sheen's denial was the actor Bradley 454 00:32:31,795 --> 00:32:37,155 Speaker 1: Whitford when Sheen played President Bartlett on the West Wing. Whitford, 455 00:32:37,155 --> 00:32:41,315 Speaker 1: of course played President Bartlett's chief of staff, Josh Lyman. 456 00:32:42,315 --> 00:32:50,235 Speaker 1: But the winner the worst. Will Wissert of the Associated Press. Sometimes, 457 00:32:50,315 --> 00:32:53,755 Speaker 1: in our troubled years, the journalistic both sides, ism that 458 00:32:53,835 --> 00:32:58,315 Speaker 1: may yet destroy this country is subtle, or it's self defensive, 459 00:32:58,475 --> 00:33:01,235 Speaker 1: or it's stuck in the middle of so much material 460 00:33:01,315 --> 00:33:04,835 Speaker 1: that is at worst mediocre that it's hard to find 461 00:33:05,315 --> 00:33:09,795 Speaker 1: or hard to fully perceive. And then there is this 462 00:33:09,875 --> 00:33:13,995 Speaker 1: story about tomorrow by the national political reporter of the 463 00:33:14,035 --> 00:33:18,435 Speaker 1: Associated Press, mister Weissert. In the story, there's this quote 464 00:33:19,675 --> 00:33:22,875 Speaker 1: with Biden and Trump now headed toward a potential twenty 465 00:33:22,915 --> 00:33:26,355 Speaker 1: twenty rematch. Both they're talking about the same event in 466 00:33:26,515 --> 00:33:31,075 Speaker 1: very different ways and offering framing they believe gives them 467 00:33:31,155 --> 00:33:35,435 Speaker 1: an advantage. The dueling narratives reflect how an attack that 468 00:33:35,555 --> 00:33:39,395 Speaker 1: disrupted the certification of the election is increasingly viewed differently 469 00:33:39,435 --> 00:33:42,755 Speaker 1: along partisan lines, and how Trump has bet that the 470 00:33:42,875 --> 00:33:49,155 Speaker 1: riot won't hurt his candidacy. Unquote, uh, here we go. 471 00:33:50,035 --> 00:33:54,915 Speaker 1: January sixth means different things to different people, Like you know, 472 00:33:55,395 --> 00:34:00,715 Speaker 1: mass murder does man's worst inhumanity to man or a 473 00:34:00,795 --> 00:34:05,355 Speaker 1: means of easing metropolitan overcrowding. Or there there's the subject 474 00:34:05,355 --> 00:34:08,675 Speaker 1: of lying the root of all evil or an efficient 475 00:34:08,715 --> 00:34:14,795 Speaker 1: way to avoid uncomfortable silences. Mister Weissert's article veers back 476 00:34:14,835 --> 00:34:18,835 Speaker 1: and forth from paragraph to paragraph between the supposed Biden 477 00:34:18,995 --> 00:34:21,915 Speaker 1: view that the January sixth, twenty twenty one attempt to 478 00:34:21,915 --> 00:34:27,035 Speaker 1: overthrow the government was you know, bad, while the Trump 479 00:34:27,115 --> 00:34:30,235 Speaker 1: view was it was a beautiful day, and the GOP 480 00:34:30,515 --> 00:34:33,635 Speaker 1: views now that the Democrats are overreacting because you know, 481 00:34:33,955 --> 00:34:36,555 Speaker 1: a president goading a mob to attack the US capital 482 00:34:36,635 --> 00:34:39,515 Speaker 1: and kill the speaker of the House. That happens after 483 00:34:39,595 --> 00:34:45,755 Speaker 1: every election. Wow, nearly every election. Wow. Okay, it never 484 00:34:45,795 --> 00:34:49,275 Speaker 1: happened before this, but it's happened one in a row. 485 00:34:51,515 --> 00:34:54,995 Speaker 1: It's possible Will Weisert did not write the headline accompanying 486 00:34:54,995 --> 00:34:57,915 Speaker 1: his piece of crap story. But I also haven't seen 487 00:34:57,995 --> 00:35:01,835 Speaker 1: him quitting in protest over that headline, and bluntly, he should, 488 00:35:02,475 --> 00:35:05,155 Speaker 1: or he should get fired, or he should just go 489 00:35:05,235 --> 00:35:08,395 Speaker 1: to some other line of work, like I don't know, 490 00:35:09,395 --> 00:35:14,475 Speaker 1: packaging bullshit and selling it at some gardening store. Here's 491 00:35:14,515 --> 00:35:19,555 Speaker 1: the headline. Associated press makes me proud to have worked 492 00:35:19,595 --> 00:35:26,315 Speaker 1: for United Press International Associated Press quote one attack, two interpretations. 493 00:35:26,995 --> 00:35:30,395 Speaker 1: Biden and Trump both make the January sixth riot a 494 00:35:30,515 --> 00:35:36,315 Speaker 1: political rallying cry, Will Wissert of the Associated Press. Hey, 495 00:35:36,475 --> 00:35:39,555 Speaker 1: we'll look at it this way. If the democracy dies 496 00:35:39,595 --> 00:35:43,755 Speaker 1: next year, you will have written the epitaph that we 497 00:35:43,795 --> 00:35:48,235 Speaker 1: can put on its tombstone. You, sir, are two days 498 00:35:49,395 --> 00:35:51,395 Speaker 1: worst person. 499 00:35:51,795 --> 00:35:52,675 Speaker 3: In the world. 500 00:35:54,035 --> 00:36:07,995 Speaker 1: Even in the context of something and prest Not every 501 00:36:08,115 --> 00:36:11,875 Speaker 1: James Thurber's story still holds up, but for a surprisingly 502 00:36:12,035 --> 00:36:14,635 Speaker 1: large percentage of them, the point of the story is 503 00:36:14,675 --> 00:36:17,435 Speaker 1: as topical now as it was when he wrote it, 504 00:36:17,755 --> 00:36:20,515 Speaker 1: or when it happened. When it happened, which in this 505 00:36:20,675 --> 00:36:24,595 Speaker 1: case is the year nineteen thirteen. The Day the Dam 506 00:36:24,795 --> 00:36:28,115 Speaker 1: Broke is from his essential masterpiece, My Life in Hard Times, 507 00:36:28,395 --> 00:36:30,555 Speaker 1: And if it is about anything, it is about people 508 00:36:30,635 --> 00:36:35,395 Speaker 1: believing and acting upon nonsense. In the face of science, 509 00:36:35,395 --> 00:36:37,035 Speaker 1: in the face of common sense, in the face of 510 00:36:37,075 --> 00:36:40,675 Speaker 1: you could just ask somebody, they will almost always avoid 511 00:36:40,795 --> 00:36:44,395 Speaker 1: those solutions and choose instead to believe whatever the hell 512 00:36:44,755 --> 00:36:48,635 Speaker 1: they want to believe, which results in things like The 513 00:36:48,715 --> 00:36:53,915 Speaker 1: Day the Dam Broke by James Thurber. My Memories of 514 00:36:53,955 --> 00:36:56,235 Speaker 1: what my family and I went through during the nineteen 515 00:36:56,315 --> 00:37:00,435 Speaker 1: thirteen flood in Ohio, I would gladly forget. And yet 516 00:37:00,475 --> 00:37:04,195 Speaker 1: neither the hardships we endured, nor the turmoil and confusion 517 00:37:04,195 --> 00:37:07,035 Speaker 1: we expel sperienced, can alter my feeling toward my native 518 00:37:07,035 --> 00:37:10,115 Speaker 1: state and city. I am having a fine time now 519 00:37:10,155 --> 00:37:13,395 Speaker 1: and wish Columbus were here. But if anyone ever wished 520 00:37:13,395 --> 00:37:16,555 Speaker 1: a city was in hell, it was during that frightful 521 00:37:16,595 --> 00:37:20,515 Speaker 1: and perilous afternoon in nineteen thirteen when the dam broke, or, 522 00:37:20,995 --> 00:37:24,915 Speaker 1: to be more exact, when everybody in town thought the 523 00:37:25,035 --> 00:37:29,835 Speaker 1: dam broke. We were both ennobled and demoralized by the experience. 524 00:37:30,315 --> 00:37:34,075 Speaker 1: Grandfather especially rose two magnificent heights, which can never lose 525 00:37:34,115 --> 00:37:36,835 Speaker 1: their splendor for me, even though his reactions to the 526 00:37:36,915 --> 00:37:41,075 Speaker 1: flood were based upon a profound misconception, namely that Nathan 527 00:37:41,155 --> 00:37:44,395 Speaker 1: Bedford Forest's cavalry was the menace we were called upon 528 00:37:44,475 --> 00:37:47,835 Speaker 1: to face. The only possible means of escape for us 529 00:37:47,955 --> 00:37:51,915 Speaker 1: was to flee the house, a step which Grandfather sternly forbade, 530 00:37:51,955 --> 00:37:55,835 Speaker 1: brandishing his old army saber in his hand. Let the 531 00:37:55,995 --> 00:38:02,235 Speaker 1: sungevver come, he roared. Meanwhile, hundreds of people were streaming 532 00:38:02,315 --> 00:38:06,115 Speaker 1: by our house in wild panic, screaming go east, Go East. 533 00:38:06,955 --> 00:38:10,435 Speaker 1: We had to stun Grandfather with the ironing board, impeded 534 00:38:10,475 --> 00:38:12,915 Speaker 1: as we were by the inert form of the old gentleman. 535 00:38:13,035 --> 00:38:15,195 Speaker 1: He was taller than six feet and weighed almost one 536 00:38:15,235 --> 00:38:18,915 Speaker 1: hundred and seventy pounds. We were passed in the first 537 00:38:18,955 --> 00:38:23,395 Speaker 1: half mile by practically everybody else in the city. Had 538 00:38:23,435 --> 00:38:26,395 Speaker 1: Grandfather not come too at the corner of Parsons Avenue 539 00:38:26,395 --> 00:38:29,835 Speaker 1: in Town Street, we would unquestionably have been overtaken and 540 00:38:29,915 --> 00:38:34,675 Speaker 1: engulfed by the roaring waters. That is, if there had 541 00:38:34,755 --> 00:38:38,915 Speaker 1: been any roaring waters. Later, when the panic had died 542 00:38:38,955 --> 00:38:41,515 Speaker 1: down and people had gone rather sheepishly back to their 543 00:38:41,555 --> 00:38:44,835 Speaker 1: homes and their offices, minimizing the distances they had run 544 00:38:44,875 --> 00:38:48,635 Speaker 1: and offering various reasons for running, city engineers pointed out 545 00:38:49,075 --> 00:38:52,875 Speaker 1: that even if the dam had broken, the water level 546 00:38:52,915 --> 00:38:56,275 Speaker 1: would not have risen more than two additional inches in 547 00:38:56,315 --> 00:39:00,115 Speaker 1: the west side. The west side was at the time 548 00:39:00,155 --> 00:39:04,515 Speaker 1: of the dam scare under thirty feet of water, as 549 00:39:04,755 --> 00:39:07,675 Speaker 1: indeed were all Ohio River towns during the Great Spring 550 00:39:07,795 --> 00:39:11,715 Speaker 1: floods of twenty years ago. The east side, where we 551 00:39:11,915 --> 00:39:14,755 Speaker 1: lived and where all the running occurred, had never been 552 00:39:14,755 --> 00:39:18,435 Speaker 1: in any danger at all. Only a rise of some 553 00:39:18,675 --> 00:39:22,075 Speaker 1: ninety five feet could have caused the floodwaters to flow 554 00:39:22,155 --> 00:39:25,155 Speaker 1: over High Street, the thoroughfare that divided the east side 555 00:39:25,155 --> 00:39:27,515 Speaker 1: of town from the west and engulfed the east side. 556 00:39:28,355 --> 00:39:30,635 Speaker 1: The fact that we were all as safe as kittens 557 00:39:30,675 --> 00:39:34,915 Speaker 1: under a cookstove did not, however, assuage in the least 558 00:39:34,915 --> 00:39:40,595 Speaker 1: the fine despair and the grotesque desperation which seized upon 559 00:39:40,635 --> 00:39:43,475 Speaker 1: the residents of the east side. When the cry spread 560 00:39:43,555 --> 00:39:47,715 Speaker 1: like a grass fire that the dam had given way. 561 00:39:49,075 --> 00:39:52,355 Speaker 1: Some of the most dignified, staid, cynical, and clear thinking 562 00:39:52,395 --> 00:39:56,115 Speaker 1: men in town abandoned their wives, stenographers, homes, and offices, 563 00:39:56,155 --> 00:39:59,675 Speaker 1: and ran east. There are few alarms in the world 564 00:39:59,715 --> 00:40:03,995 Speaker 1: more terrifying than the dam has broken. There are few 565 00:40:04,035 --> 00:40:07,995 Speaker 1: persons cave stopping to reason when that clarion cry strikes 566 00:40:08,075 --> 00:40:10,555 Speaker 1: upon their ears, even persons who live in towns no 567 00:40:10,635 --> 00:40:15,515 Speaker 1: nearer than five hundred miles to a damn. The Columbus, 568 00:40:15,555 --> 00:40:18,795 Speaker 1: Ohio broken Damn rumor began, as I recalled, about noon 569 00:40:18,875 --> 00:40:22,835 Speaker 1: of March twelfth, nineteen thirteen. High Street, the main canyon 570 00:40:22,875 --> 00:40:26,195 Speaker 1: of trade, was loud, with the placid hum of business 571 00:40:26,195 --> 00:40:32,475 Speaker 1: and the buzzing of placid businessmen arguing, computing, wheedling, offering, refusing, compromising. 572 00:40:33,275 --> 00:40:36,995 Speaker 1: Darius Cunningway, one of the foremost corporational lawyers in the 573 00:40:36,995 --> 00:40:39,835 Speaker 1: Middle West, was telling the Public Utilities Commission in the 574 00:40:39,915 --> 00:40:43,355 Speaker 1: language of Julius Caesar, that they might as well try 575 00:40:43,435 --> 00:40:48,475 Speaker 1: to move the Northern Star as to move him. Other 576 00:40:48,515 --> 00:40:51,235 Speaker 1: men were making their little boasts and their little gestures. 577 00:40:51,635 --> 00:40:55,955 Speaker 1: Suddenly somebody began to run. It may be that he 578 00:40:55,995 --> 00:40:58,395 Speaker 1: had simply remembered, all of a moment, an engagement to 579 00:40:58,435 --> 00:41:00,955 Speaker 1: meet his wife, for which he was now frightfully late. 580 00:41:01,675 --> 00:41:05,475 Speaker 1: Whatever it was, he ran east on Broad Street, probably 581 00:41:05,515 --> 00:41:08,035 Speaker 1: toward the Marramour Restaurant, a favorite place for a man 582 00:41:08,035 --> 00:41:11,155 Speaker 1: to meet his wife. Somebody else began to run, perhaps 583 00:41:11,195 --> 00:41:15,275 Speaker 1: a newsboy in high spirits, another man, a portly gentleman 584 00:41:15,355 --> 00:41:18,995 Speaker 1: of affairs, broken to a trot. Inside of ten minutes, 585 00:41:19,075 --> 00:41:21,795 Speaker 1: everybody on High Street, from the Union Depot to the 586 00:41:21,835 --> 00:41:26,035 Speaker 1: courthouse was running a loud mumble gradually crystallized into the 587 00:41:26,155 --> 00:41:32,075 Speaker 1: dread word dam. The dam has broke. The fear was 588 00:41:32,075 --> 00:41:34,195 Speaker 1: put into words by a little old lady in an 589 00:41:34,195 --> 00:41:37,115 Speaker 1: electric or by a traffic cop or by a small boy. 590 00:41:37,275 --> 00:41:42,075 Speaker 1: Nobody knows who, nor does it now really matter. Two 591 00:41:42,355 --> 00:41:46,155 Speaker 1: thousand people were abruptly in full flight. Go east was 592 00:41:46,195 --> 00:41:49,075 Speaker 1: the cry that arosed east away from the river, east 593 00:41:49,155 --> 00:41:54,995 Speaker 1: to safety. Go east, Go east, Go east. Black streams 594 00:41:55,035 --> 00:41:57,755 Speaker 1: of people flowed eastward down all the streets leading in 595 00:41:57,795 --> 00:42:01,235 Speaker 1: that direction. These streams, whose headwaters were in the dry 596 00:42:01,275 --> 00:42:05,515 Speaker 1: goods stores, office buildings, harnessed shops, movie theaters, were fed 597 00:42:05,515 --> 00:42:09,475 Speaker 1: by trickles of housewives, children's cripples, servants, dogs, and cats 598 00:42:09,515 --> 00:42:12,435 Speaker 1: slipping out of the houses, past which the main streams flowed, 599 00:42:12,755 --> 00:42:17,155 Speaker 1: Shouting and screaming. People ran out of homes, leaving fires 600 00:42:17,195 --> 00:42:21,595 Speaker 1: burning and food cooking, and doors wide open. I remember, however, 601 00:42:21,955 --> 00:42:24,915 Speaker 1: that my mother turned out all the fires, and that 602 00:42:24,955 --> 00:42:27,515 Speaker 1: she took with her a dozen eggs and two loaves 603 00:42:27,515 --> 00:42:31,635 Speaker 1: of bread. It was her plan to make memorial haul 604 00:42:31,835 --> 00:42:34,195 Speaker 1: just two blocks away and take refuge somewhere in the 605 00:42:34,195 --> 00:42:36,435 Speaker 1: top of it, in one of the dusty rooms where 606 00:42:36,435 --> 00:42:39,915 Speaker 1: war veterans met and where old battle flags and stage 607 00:42:39,955 --> 00:42:44,355 Speaker 1: scenery were stored. But the seething throngs shouting go East, 608 00:42:44,955 --> 00:42:47,035 Speaker 1: drew her along and the rest of us with her. 609 00:42:47,635 --> 00:42:51,515 Speaker 1: When grandfather regained full consciousness. At Parsons Avenue, he turned 610 00:42:51,595 --> 00:42:55,075 Speaker 1: upon the retreating mob like a vengeful profit, and exhorted 611 00:42:55,115 --> 00:42:58,275 Speaker 1: the men to form ranks and stand off the rebel dogs. 612 00:42:58,915 --> 00:43:00,955 Speaker 1: But at length he too got the idea that the 613 00:43:01,035 --> 00:43:04,995 Speaker 1: dam had broken, and roaring go east in his powerful voice, 614 00:43:05,155 --> 00:43:08,035 Speaker 1: he caught up in one arm a small child and 615 00:43:08,435 --> 00:43:12,435 Speaker 1: in the other a slight clerkish man of perhaps forty two, 616 00:43:12,515 --> 00:43:15,315 Speaker 1: and we slowly began to gain on those ahead of us. 617 00:43:16,235 --> 00:43:19,315 Speaker 1: A scattering of firemen, policemen and army officers in dress 618 00:43:19,395 --> 00:43:21,635 Speaker 1: uniforms there had been a review at Fort Hayes in 619 00:43:21,675 --> 00:43:24,515 Speaker 1: the northern part of town, added color to the surging 620 00:43:24,675 --> 00:43:28,875 Speaker 1: billows of people. Go east, cried a little child in 621 00:43:28,915 --> 00:43:31,635 Speaker 1: a piping voice, as she ran past a porch on 622 00:43:31,675 --> 00:43:35,635 Speaker 1: which drowsed A lieutenant colonel of infantry. Used to quick decisions, 623 00:43:35,755 --> 00:43:38,715 Speaker 1: trained to immediate obedience, the officer bounded off the porch, and, 624 00:43:38,795 --> 00:43:43,035 Speaker 1: running at full tilt, soon past the child, bawling go east. 625 00:43:44,115 --> 00:43:46,515 Speaker 1: The two of them emptied rapidly the houses of the 626 00:43:46,515 --> 00:43:48,715 Speaker 1: little street they were on. What is it? What is it? 627 00:43:48,755 --> 00:43:51,915 Speaker 1: Demanded a fat waddling man who intercepted the colonel The 628 00:43:51,955 --> 00:43:55,435 Speaker 1: officer dropped behind and asked the little child what it was. 629 00:43:56,195 --> 00:44:00,435 Speaker 1: The damn has broke, gasped the girl. The damn has broke, 630 00:44:00,835 --> 00:44:06,315 Speaker 1: roared the colonel. Go east, Go east, Go east. He 631 00:44:06,395 --> 00:44:09,555 Speaker 1: was soon leading, with the exhausted child in his arms, 632 00:44:09,835 --> 00:44:12,915 Speaker 1: a fleeing company of three hundred persons who had gathered 633 00:44:12,955 --> 00:44:16,515 Speaker 1: around him from living rooms, shops, garages, backyards and basements. 634 00:44:18,355 --> 00:44:21,555 Speaker 1: Nobody has ever been able to compute with any exactness 635 00:44:21,595 --> 00:44:24,195 Speaker 1: how many people took part in the Great Route of 636 00:44:24,275 --> 00:44:27,675 Speaker 1: nineteen thirteen. For the panic, which extended from the Winslow 637 00:44:27,755 --> 00:44:32,275 Speaker 1: bottling works in the south end to Clintonville six miles north, 638 00:44:32,955 --> 00:44:36,595 Speaker 1: ended as abruptly as it began, and the bobtail and 639 00:44:36,755 --> 00:44:41,075 Speaker 1: ragtag and velvet gowned groups of refugees melted away and 640 00:44:41,195 --> 00:44:46,635 Speaker 1: slunk home, leaving the streets peaceful and deserted. The shouting, weeping, 641 00:44:46,835 --> 00:44:50,275 Speaker 1: tangled evacuation of the city lasted not more than two hours. 642 00:44:50,275 --> 00:44:53,915 Speaker 1: In all, some few people got as far east as Reynoldsburg, 643 00:44:54,035 --> 00:44:57,715 Speaker 1: twelve miles away. Fifty or more reached the Country Club 644 00:44:57,875 --> 00:45:00,995 Speaker 1: eight miles away. Most of the others gave up, exhausted 645 00:45:01,515 --> 00:45:06,275 Speaker 1: or climbed trees in Franklin Park, four miles out. Order 646 00:45:06,395 --> 00:45:09,315 Speaker 1: was restored and fear dispelled finally by means of militia 647 00:45:09,395 --> 00:45:13,795 Speaker 1: men riding about in motor lorries balling through megaphones. The 648 00:45:13,955 --> 00:45:18,875 Speaker 1: dam has not broken. At first, this tended only to 649 00:45:18,915 --> 00:45:21,235 Speaker 1: add to the confusion and increase the panic from many 650 00:45:21,275 --> 00:45:26,675 Speaker 1: stampeders thought the soldiers were bellowing. The dam has now broken, 651 00:45:27,715 --> 00:45:32,075 Speaker 1: thus setting an official seal of authentication on the calamity. 652 00:45:32,955 --> 00:45:35,755 Speaker 1: All the time, the sun shone quietly, and there was 653 00:45:35,795 --> 00:45:39,275 Speaker 1: nowhere any sign of oncoming waters. A visitor in an 654 00:45:39,315 --> 00:45:42,995 Speaker 1: airplane looking down on the straggling, agitated masses of people 655 00:45:43,035 --> 00:45:45,675 Speaker 1: below would have been hard put to it to divine 656 00:45:45,715 --> 00:45:48,995 Speaker 1: a reason for the phenomenon. It must have inspired in 657 00:45:49,075 --> 00:45:52,395 Speaker 1: such an observer a peculiar kind of terror, like the 658 00:45:52,435 --> 00:45:56,035 Speaker 1: sight of the Marie Celeste abandoned at sea, its galley 659 00:45:56,075 --> 00:45:59,715 Speaker 1: fires peacefully burning, its tranquil decks bright in the sunlight. 660 00:46:01,675 --> 00:46:04,275 Speaker 1: An aunt of mine, Aunt Edith Taylor, was in a 661 00:46:04,315 --> 00:46:06,875 Speaker 1: movie theater on High Street, went over and above the 662 00:46:06,875 --> 00:46:09,835 Speaker 1: sound of the piano in the pit, a william S. 663 00:46:09,955 --> 00:46:13,595 Speaker 1: Hart Cowboy picture was being shown, there rose the steadily 664 00:46:13,675 --> 00:46:18,995 Speaker 1: increasing tramp of running feet persistent shouts rose above the tramping. 665 00:46:19,355 --> 00:46:23,035 Speaker 1: An elderly man sitting near my aunt mumbled something, got 666 00:46:23,075 --> 00:46:24,635 Speaker 1: out of his seat and went up the aisle to 667 00:46:24,675 --> 00:46:29,275 Speaker 1: a dog trot. This started everybody in an instant. The 668 00:46:29,315 --> 00:46:32,195 Speaker 1: audience was jamming the aisles. Fire shouted a woman who 669 00:46:32,235 --> 00:46:34,755 Speaker 1: always expected to be burned up in a theater. But 670 00:46:34,835 --> 00:46:38,235 Speaker 1: now the shouts outside were louder and coherent. The damn 671 00:46:38,315 --> 00:46:43,195 Speaker 1: has broke, Prie. Somebody go east, screamed a small woman 672 00:46:43,235 --> 00:46:46,275 Speaker 1: in front of my aunt. And east they went, pushing 673 00:46:46,315 --> 00:46:50,915 Speaker 1: and shoving and clawing, knocking women and children down, emerging 674 00:46:50,995 --> 00:46:55,435 Speaker 1: finally into the street, torn and sprawling. Inside the theater, 675 00:46:55,515 --> 00:46:58,955 Speaker 1: Bill Hart was calmly calling some desperadoes bluff, and the 676 00:46:58,955 --> 00:47:01,955 Speaker 1: brave girl at the piano played Row Row row loudly, 677 00:47:01,995 --> 00:47:06,755 Speaker 1: and then in my harem. Outside, men were streaming across 678 00:47:06,795 --> 00:47:10,635 Speaker 1: the State House yard. Others were climbing trees. A woman 679 00:47:10,715 --> 00:47:14,195 Speaker 1: managed to get up onto These are My Jewels statue, 680 00:47:14,635 --> 00:47:18,315 Speaker 1: whose bronze figures of Sherman, Stanton, Grant and Sheridan watched 681 00:47:18,355 --> 00:47:23,795 Speaker 1: with cold unconcern the going to pieces of the capital City. 682 00:47:24,435 --> 00:47:27,355 Speaker 1: I ran south to State Street, east on State to 683 00:47:27,395 --> 00:47:30,315 Speaker 1: Third south on Third to Town and out east on Town. 684 00:47:30,795 --> 00:47:33,835 Speaker 1: My aunt Edith has written me. A tall, spare woman 685 00:47:33,875 --> 00:47:36,995 Speaker 1: with grim eyes and a determined chin ran past me 686 00:47:37,075 --> 00:47:39,635 Speaker 1: down the middle of the street. I was still uncertain 687 00:47:39,675 --> 00:47:41,395 Speaker 1: as to what was the matter. In spite of all 688 00:47:41,395 --> 00:47:44,675 Speaker 1: the shouting, I drew up alongside the woman with some effort, 689 00:47:44,755 --> 00:47:46,595 Speaker 1: for although she was in her late fifties, she had 690 00:47:46,595 --> 00:47:49,115 Speaker 1: a beautiful easy running for him and seemed to be 691 00:47:49,115 --> 00:47:52,795 Speaker 1: an excellent condition. What is it, I puffed. She gave 692 00:47:52,795 --> 00:47:55,195 Speaker 1: me a quick glance and then looked ahead again, stepping 693 00:47:55,235 --> 00:47:58,995 Speaker 1: up her pace a trifle. Don't ask me, ask God, 694 00:47:59,195 --> 00:48:02,635 Speaker 1: she said. When I reached Grant Avenue, I was so spent. 695 00:48:02,675 --> 00:48:05,875 Speaker 1: The doctor h R. Mallory. You remember doctor Mallory, the 696 00:48:05,875 --> 00:48:08,515 Speaker 1: man with the white beard. It looks like Robert Browning. Well, 697 00:48:08,555 --> 00:48:10,595 Speaker 1: doctor Mallory, whom I had drawn away from at the 698 00:48:10,595 --> 00:48:13,955 Speaker 1: corner of Fifth in Town, passed me. It's got us, 699 00:48:14,075 --> 00:48:16,915 Speaker 1: he shouted, and I felt sure that whatever it was, 700 00:48:17,355 --> 00:48:19,635 Speaker 1: it did have us, For you know what conviction doctor 701 00:48:19,675 --> 00:48:22,475 Speaker 1: Mallory statements always carried. I didn't know at the time 702 00:48:22,515 --> 00:48:24,755 Speaker 1: what he meant, but I found out later. There was 703 00:48:24,755 --> 00:48:27,235 Speaker 1: a boy behind him on roller skates, and doctor Mallory 704 00:48:27,275 --> 00:48:30,115 Speaker 1: mistook the swishing of the skates for the sound of 705 00:48:30,195 --> 00:48:34,995 Speaker 1: rushing water. He eventually reached the Columbus School for Girls 706 00:48:35,035 --> 00:48:37,035 Speaker 1: at the corner of Parsons Avenue in Town Street, where 707 00:48:37,035 --> 00:48:41,595 Speaker 1: he collapsed, expecting the cold, frothing waters of the Sciota 708 00:48:41,675 --> 00:48:45,555 Speaker 1: to sweep him into oblivion. The boy on skates swirled 709 00:48:45,555 --> 00:48:47,995 Speaker 1: past him, and doctor Mallory realized for the first time 710 00:48:48,035 --> 00:48:51,395 Speaker 1: what he had been running from. Looking back up the street, 711 00:48:51,395 --> 00:48:54,075 Speaker 1: he could see no signs of water, but nevertheless, after 712 00:48:54,115 --> 00:48:57,155 Speaker 1: resting a few minutes, he jogged on east again. He 713 00:48:57,235 --> 00:49:00,155 Speaker 1: caught up with me at Ohio Avenue, where we rested together. 714 00:49:00,755 --> 00:49:03,515 Speaker 1: I should say that about seven hundred people passed us. 715 00:49:04,035 --> 00:49:07,515 Speaker 1: A funny thing was that all of them were on foot. 716 00:49:07,955 --> 00:49:10,115 Speaker 1: Nobody seemed to have had the courage to stop and 717 00:49:10,195 --> 00:49:14,435 Speaker 1: start his car, but as I remember it, all cars 718 00:49:14,475 --> 00:49:16,755 Speaker 1: had to be cranked in those days, which is probably 719 00:49:16,835 --> 00:49:20,675 Speaker 1: the reason. The next day the city went about its 720 00:49:20,715 --> 00:49:24,355 Speaker 1: business as if nothing had happened. But there was no joking. 721 00:49:25,075 --> 00:49:28,635 Speaker 1: It was two years or more before you dare to 722 00:49:28,795 --> 00:49:32,555 Speaker 1: treat the breaking of the dam lightly, and even now, 723 00:49:32,595 --> 00:49:36,275 Speaker 1: twenty years after, there are a few persons like doctor Mallory, 724 00:49:36,955 --> 00:49:40,475 Speaker 1: who will shut up like a clam if you mentioned 725 00:49:40,475 --> 00:49:45,795 Speaker 1: the afternoon of the Great Run, the day the dam 726 00:49:45,915 --> 00:50:02,035 Speaker 1: broke by James Thurber. I've done all the damage I 727 00:50:02,035 --> 00:50:04,635 Speaker 1: can do here. Thank you for listening. Countdown musical director 728 00:50:04,795 --> 00:50:07,395 Speaker 1: is Brian Ray and John Phillip Chanel arranged, produced, and 729 00:50:07,435 --> 00:50:10,875 Speaker 1: performed most of our music. Mister Ray was on the guitars, 730 00:50:10,915 --> 00:50:14,755 Speaker 1: the bass, and the drums. Mister Chanelle handled orchestration and keyboards, 731 00:50:14,995 --> 00:50:18,915 Speaker 1: and it was produced by Tko Brothers. Other music, including 732 00:50:18,955 --> 00:50:22,595 Speaker 1: some of the Beethoven compositions, were arranged and performed by 733 00:50:22,635 --> 00:50:25,515 Speaker 1: the group No Horns Allowed. The sports music is the 734 00:50:25,555 --> 00:50:28,915 Speaker 1: Olderman theme from ESPN two, written by Mitch Warren Davis, 735 00:50:29,155 --> 00:50:33,275 Speaker 1: courtesy of ESPN Inc. Our satirical and pithy musical comments 736 00:50:33,315 --> 00:50:36,395 Speaker 1: are by Nancy Faust. The best baseball stadium organist ever. 737 00:50:36,715 --> 00:50:39,315 Speaker 1: Our announcer today is my friend Jonathan Banks from Better 738 00:50:39,355 --> 00:50:43,195 Speaker 1: Call Saul and Breaking Bad and Airplane and everything else 739 00:50:43,275 --> 00:50:47,275 Speaker 1: was pretty much my fault as always. That's countdown for 740 00:50:47,315 --> 00:50:50,355 Speaker 1: this three hundred and two days until the twenty twenty 741 00:50:50,355 --> 00:50:53,915 Speaker 1: four US presidential election and the one thy ninety fifth 742 00:50:54,035 --> 00:50:57,115 Speaker 1: day since dementia. J Trump's first attempted coup against the 743 00:50:57,115 --> 00:51:02,035 Speaker 1: democratically elected government of the United States three years ago. 744 00:51:02,235 --> 00:51:06,595 Speaker 1: Tomorrow use the fourteen Amendment, the Insurrection Act, and the 745 00:51:06,715 --> 00:51:11,155 Speaker 1: justice system to stop him from doing it again while 746 00:51:11,235 --> 00:51:15,435 Speaker 1: we still can. The next scheduled countdown is Monday. Until then, 747 00:51:15,475 --> 00:51:18,955 Speaker 1: I'm Keith Olberman. Good morning, good afternoon, good night, and 748 00:51:19,275 --> 00:51:19,795 Speaker 1: good luck. 749 00:51:25,315 --> 00:51:26,515 Speaker 3: I can fake being smart. 750 00:51:27,835 --> 00:51:31,795 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. For 751 00:51:31,995 --> 00:51:36,875 Speaker 1: more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, 752 00:51:37,155 --> 00:51:39,115 Speaker 1: or wherever you get your podcasts.