1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:22,315 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. December nineteenth, 2 00:00:22,395 --> 00:00:27,435 Speaker 1: twenty twenty Trump puts the January sixth coup into motion 3 00:00:27,635 --> 00:00:33,035 Speaker 1: with the big protest in DC. Tweet be there will 4 00:00:33,155 --> 00:00:38,955 Speaker 1: be Wild. December nineteenth, twenty twenty three, the Colorado State 5 00:00:39,075 --> 00:00:42,635 Speaker 1: Supreme Court throws Trump off the primary and general election 6 00:00:42,755 --> 00:00:48,395 Speaker 1: presidential ballots in its state because he engaged in insurrection 7 00:00:48,835 --> 00:00:54,195 Speaker 1: or rebellion against the United States. Be there will be wild. 8 00:00:55,115 --> 00:00:58,435 Speaker 1: Colorado's decision in defense of the Constitution, in defense of 9 00:00:58,435 --> 00:01:02,075 Speaker 1: the Fourteenth Amendments disqualification clause, and in defense of the 10 00:01:02,115 --> 00:01:06,795 Speaker 1: survivors of the Civil War who wrote it declaring Trump ineligible. 11 00:01:07,115 --> 00:01:11,075 Speaker 1: That decision is obvious and glorious, and it is only 12 00:01:11,115 --> 00:01:14,395 Speaker 1: the opening salvo in a drama that will no matter 13 00:01:14,435 --> 00:01:18,235 Speaker 1: its ultimate end. Gradually reduced Trump and damage Trump and 14 00:01:18,515 --> 00:01:22,955 Speaker 1: war Trump down and where Trump out, And yet it 15 00:01:23,075 --> 00:01:27,995 Speaker 1: almost buries the lead. The lead is the timing. The timing. 16 00:01:28,515 --> 00:01:33,075 Speaker 1: Colorado State law requires that by January fifth, seventeen days 17 00:01:33,115 --> 00:01:37,075 Speaker 1: from right now, the Secretary of State must certify which 18 00:01:37,195 --> 00:01:40,835 Speaker 1: candidates are on the Republican and Democratic presidential primary ballots 19 00:01:41,115 --> 00:01:46,955 Speaker 1: and which are not seventeen days. The Colorado Supreme Court 20 00:01:47,035 --> 00:01:50,075 Speaker 1: included a stay of its own order of ineligibility for 21 00:01:50,155 --> 00:01:54,475 Speaker 1: Trump until January fourth, but the US Supreme Court still 22 00:01:54,515 --> 00:01:59,315 Speaker 1: only has seventeen days to receive, decide to rule on 23 00:01:59,675 --> 00:02:03,315 Speaker 1: and overrule that decision, and among that seventeen day stretch 24 00:02:03,395 --> 00:02:09,315 Speaker 1: two holidays to Saturdays and two holiday Sundays. Still it 25 00:02:09,395 --> 00:02:11,715 Speaker 1: is a long shot that no appeal will be filed, 26 00:02:11,755 --> 00:02:15,555 Speaker 1: and also by Colorado law, if one is filed, no 27 00:02:15,635 --> 00:02:18,515 Speaker 1: matter whether the National Supreme Court has or has not 28 00:02:18,675 --> 00:02:21,715 Speaker 1: ruled by January fifth, Trump would remain on the Colorado 29 00:02:21,795 --> 00:02:25,635 Speaker 1: ballot because the January fifth certification date was not picked 30 00:02:25,635 --> 00:02:28,395 Speaker 1: to satisfy the desires of the framers of the fourteenth 31 00:02:28,435 --> 00:02:32,595 Speaker 1: Amendment or Trump or anybody else. It's done to make 32 00:02:32,635 --> 00:02:38,035 Speaker 1: sure the ballots get printed on time. What happens if 33 00:02:38,115 --> 00:02:42,035 Speaker 1: the National Supreme Court somehow does not overrule the Colorado 34 00:02:42,075 --> 00:02:45,835 Speaker 1: Supreme Court yet waits until after January fifth to make 35 00:02:45,915 --> 00:02:51,795 Speaker 1: that overruling or non overruling clear, then Trump would be 36 00:02:51,915 --> 00:02:55,515 Speaker 1: on the printed ballots, Yet the state court verdict would hold, 37 00:02:55,835 --> 00:02:58,755 Speaker 1: and he would be ineligible to be on the general 38 00:02:58,835 --> 00:03:03,035 Speaker 1: election ballot, which would mean that on March fifth, Colorado 39 00:03:03,075 --> 00:03:06,475 Speaker 1: Republicans would go to the polls with the opportunity to 40 00:03:06,555 --> 00:03:10,235 Speaker 1: vote in the Republican primary for a man forbidden by 41 00:03:10,275 --> 00:03:14,195 Speaker 1: the courts from being elected or from being on the 42 00:03:14,195 --> 00:03:22,915 Speaker 1: Colorado general ballot in November, seventeen days will be wild. 43 00:03:24,075 --> 00:03:26,555 Speaker 1: This is the point at which to clarify why the 44 00:03:26,555 --> 00:03:29,795 Speaker 1: Colorado decision is not the first one to bar Trump. 45 00:03:29,915 --> 00:03:35,555 Speaker 1: After Arizona, Michigan, Minnesota ruled in Trump's favor, Arizona, Michigan, 46 00:03:35,595 --> 00:03:37,715 Speaker 1: and Minnesota judges all ruled that they did not have 47 00:03:37,755 --> 00:03:40,995 Speaker 1: the power to remove Trump from a political party primary. 48 00:03:41,555 --> 00:03:43,595 Speaker 1: They never got around to the question of Trump in 49 00:03:43,675 --> 00:03:47,715 Speaker 1: the actual election, and they still have not. Those issues 50 00:03:47,835 --> 00:03:50,795 Speaker 1: in those states were left open to perhaps be decided 51 00:03:50,835 --> 00:03:54,715 Speaker 1: later if and when Trump won the Republican nomination. What 52 00:03:54,835 --> 00:03:59,035 Speaker 1: Colorado has done is cut to the chase. Right now 53 00:03:59,075 --> 00:04:03,315 Speaker 1: he is off the electoral ballot. You all do what 54 00:04:03,395 --> 00:04:06,355 Speaker 1: ja damn well? Pleas about you're a little Republican primary? 55 00:04:07,195 --> 00:04:10,875 Speaker 1: And how about that? Vivek Ramaswami pledging to withdraw from 56 00:04:10,875 --> 00:04:15,995 Speaker 1: the Colorado primary unless Trump is restored. I am left wondering, Wait, 57 00:04:16,795 --> 00:04:22,035 Speaker 1: he believes that's somehow a reason to restore Trump to 58 00:04:22,075 --> 00:04:26,675 Speaker 1: the primary ballot. God man, you've made us two for two. 59 00:04:27,795 --> 00:04:30,155 Speaker 1: Anybody else in that field want to jump off the 60 00:04:30,155 --> 00:04:34,155 Speaker 1: cliff with Trump or just viv over here? Back to 61 00:04:34,195 --> 00:04:38,355 Speaker 1: the point. What was most impressive about the actual decision 62 00:04:38,395 --> 00:04:41,235 Speaker 1: written by the Colorado Supreme Court was that it attacked 63 00:04:41,235 --> 00:04:45,955 Speaker 1: the issue from the outside inn starting large and going small. 64 00:04:46,315 --> 00:04:49,115 Speaker 1: Denying the state the right to preclude from its election 65 00:04:49,275 --> 00:04:52,595 Speaker 1: a candidate that the Constitution says is ineligible because he 66 00:04:52,675 --> 00:04:56,835 Speaker 1: participated in an insurrection, would also quote mean that the 67 00:04:56,835 --> 00:05:00,435 Speaker 1: state would be powerless to exclude a twenty eight year old, 68 00:05:00,715 --> 00:05:03,675 Speaker 1: a non resident of the United States, or even a 69 00:05:03,715 --> 00:05:09,235 Speaker 1: foreign national the presidential primary ballot in Colorado. Exactly, there 70 00:05:09,275 --> 00:05:18,195 Speaker 1: are aspects to presidential eligibility that are self executing, self activating, automatic, inarguable, 71 00:05:18,595 --> 00:05:20,875 Speaker 1: You damn well can go to court to make it 72 00:05:20,955 --> 00:05:24,275 Speaker 1: clear that the twenty eight year old non resident is 73 00:05:24,395 --> 00:05:27,675 Speaker 1: ineligible to be president and thus ineligible to be on 74 00:05:28,035 --> 00:05:32,075 Speaker 1: the general ballot or the primary ballot. And then the 75 00:05:32,075 --> 00:05:36,635 Speaker 1: Colorado Court, as the kids say, drilled down and revealed 76 00:05:36,635 --> 00:05:40,075 Speaker 1: the crappy little legal trick devised first buy who else? 77 00:05:40,195 --> 00:05:44,075 Speaker 1: Chief Justice John Roberts in an unrelated case in twenty ten. 78 00:05:44,315 --> 00:05:47,235 Speaker 1: The crappy little legal trick that is Trump's only defense 79 00:05:47,275 --> 00:05:50,915 Speaker 1: here that the fourteenth Amendment applies only to those who 80 00:05:50,955 --> 00:05:54,115 Speaker 1: took an oath as an officer of the United States 81 00:05:54,435 --> 00:05:58,035 Speaker 1: to support the constitution. But whoops, the president is not 82 00:05:58,115 --> 00:06:03,635 Speaker 1: an officer of the United States. Because clearly the men 83 00:06:03,675 --> 00:06:07,715 Speaker 1: who paid to keep this constitution alive, with their blood 84 00:06:08,115 --> 00:06:11,155 Speaker 1: and the blood of their sons and brothers and fathers 85 00:06:11,195 --> 00:06:14,435 Speaker 1: and friends, they wanted to make sure that Robert E. 86 00:06:14,555 --> 00:06:18,515 Speaker 1: Lee and Jefferson Davis could become president of the United 87 00:06:18,555 --> 00:06:28,195 Speaker 1: States someday. Just cause it is imbecilic. The Colorado Supreme 88 00:06:28,235 --> 00:06:31,875 Speaker 1: Court did not rely on the obviousness of that imbecility. However, 89 00:06:32,235 --> 00:06:34,675 Speaker 1: there are plenty of authors of the Amendment to bring 90 00:06:34,715 --> 00:06:37,235 Speaker 1: into this debate, even at this late date, and the 91 00:06:37,275 --> 00:06:40,635 Speaker 1: court found a good one. It took co author, Congressman 92 00:06:40,715 --> 00:06:44,635 Speaker 1: Sam McKee of Kentucky, who wrote and spoke of barring 93 00:06:44,635 --> 00:06:48,435 Speaker 1: the insurrectionists of the Civil War quote from all political 94 00:06:48,515 --> 00:06:52,115 Speaker 1: power in the nation. The court added, while nothing in 95 00:06:52,195 --> 00:06:56,355 Speaker 1: Representative McKee's speeches mentions why his express reference to the 96 00:06:56,395 --> 00:07:01,115 Speaker 1: presidency was removed from the Amendment, his public pronouncements leave 97 00:07:01,195 --> 00:07:04,395 Speaker 1: no doubt that his subsequent draft proposal still sought to 98 00:07:04,795 --> 00:07:09,835 Speaker 1: sure that rebels had absolutely no access to political power. 99 00:07:11,075 --> 00:07:14,235 Speaker 1: Colorado did not note the other inarguable part of this. 100 00:07:14,395 --> 00:07:18,075 Speaker 1: But I will once again the fourteenth Amendment, as cobbled 101 00:07:18,075 --> 00:07:22,235 Speaker 1: together by Congressman Samuel McKee and Congressman John Bingham, and 102 00:07:22,275 --> 00:07:25,875 Speaker 1: Senator Lyman Trumbull and Senator Thaddeus Stevens and all the others, 103 00:07:26,235 --> 00:07:31,555 Speaker 1: is clearly automatic. It is the default position. If it 104 00:07:31,595 --> 00:07:35,795 Speaker 1: were not self executing, why would they have attached the 105 00:07:35,875 --> 00:07:40,715 Speaker 1: actual key words to the third clause? Why do those 106 00:07:40,915 --> 00:07:45,035 Speaker 1: fourteen words at the end exist? What do they mean? 107 00:07:45,435 --> 00:07:47,995 Speaker 1: If they do not mean you start out guilty and 108 00:07:48,115 --> 00:07:53,275 Speaker 1: you have to prove your innocence quote, Congress may, by 109 00:07:53,315 --> 00:07:57,955 Speaker 1: a vote of two thirds of each House, remove such disqualification. 110 00:07:59,195 --> 00:08:02,515 Speaker 1: If the fourteenth Amendment was not automatic, why would you 111 00:08:02,555 --> 00:08:07,595 Speaker 1: need a PostScript the House and the Senate to override 112 00:08:07,715 --> 00:08:12,275 Speaker 1: it under special circumstances by a two thirds vote. It 113 00:08:12,355 --> 00:08:15,515 Speaker 1: is not a court's right to overrule it anymore than, 114 00:08:15,555 --> 00:08:18,755 Speaker 1: as Colorado underscored, it is a court's right to say, well, 115 00:08:18,835 --> 00:08:21,955 Speaker 1: we're going to pass on the minimum age for this guy, 116 00:08:22,115 --> 00:08:25,675 Speaker 1: or the US residency for that guy, or the birthplace 117 00:08:25,835 --> 00:08:29,235 Speaker 1: thingy for this guy. The States do not have the 118 00:08:29,315 --> 00:08:31,875 Speaker 1: right to put Donald Trump or any of the other 119 00:08:31,995 --> 00:08:37,635 Speaker 1: January sixth insurrectionists or insurrectionist plotters on the presidential ballot, 120 00:08:37,955 --> 00:08:42,595 Speaker 1: on any ballot. The Constitution is explicit, and there is 121 00:08:42,755 --> 00:08:45,235 Speaker 1: already a mechanism by which Trump or one of the 122 00:08:45,235 --> 00:08:49,355 Speaker 1: others could get on the ballot. But there is only 123 00:08:49,435 --> 00:08:53,115 Speaker 1: one mechanism, and it is not the Supreme Court. There 124 00:08:53,195 --> 00:08:55,675 Speaker 1: is only one action by only one group by which 125 00:08:55,715 --> 00:08:59,795 Speaker 1: Trump can override the fourteenth Amendment. And it's exactly what 126 00:08:59,915 --> 00:09:03,235 Speaker 1: Bingham and McKee and Trumbull and Stevens and the others 127 00:09:03,275 --> 00:09:06,755 Speaker 1: wrote in eighteen sixties while they were still finding and 128 00:09:06,875 --> 00:09:13,155 Speaker 1: burying corpses killed by insurrectionists. Congress may by a vote 129 00:09:13,155 --> 00:09:19,715 Speaker 1: of two thirds of each house. The coming Supreme Court 130 00:09:19,755 --> 00:09:22,635 Speaker 1: review of the ruling is almost automatic, and it is 131 00:09:22,715 --> 00:09:25,795 Speaker 1: hard to believe the Court won't remember who pays for 132 00:09:25,915 --> 00:09:30,475 Speaker 1: its RVs. Someone once described the Supreme Court as that 133 00:09:30,595 --> 00:09:34,435 Speaker 1: group that, depending on the circumstances, either defers to precedent, 134 00:09:34,555 --> 00:09:39,075 Speaker 1: or says precedent is wrong, or demands originalism unless it 135 00:09:39,155 --> 00:09:45,115 Speaker 1: disagrees with originalism, depending on who appointed the lawyers. But 136 00:09:45,235 --> 00:09:48,115 Speaker 1: as I suggested in the bulletin last Night, what happens 137 00:09:48,275 --> 00:09:53,395 Speaker 1: when it's not just Colorado in January but another state 138 00:09:53,635 --> 00:09:59,235 Speaker 1: in February disqualifying Trump, and two in March disqualifying Trump, 139 00:09:59,235 --> 00:10:01,915 Speaker 1: and three in June, and six in October, and two 140 00:10:01,995 --> 00:10:03,995 Speaker 1: the day before the election, and the spring and the 141 00:10:04,035 --> 00:10:07,195 Speaker 1: summer having been spent documenting what the framers of the 142 00:10:07,195 --> 00:10:10,235 Speaker 1: fourteenth Amendment really meant, and how they managed to keep 143 00:10:10,275 --> 00:10:13,915 Speaker 1: the Confederate Vice President Alexander Stevens out of office even 144 00:10:13,915 --> 00:10:16,475 Speaker 1: after he'd been elected to the Senate, and how the 145 00:10:16,515 --> 00:10:19,915 Speaker 1: co author, Congressman Bingham, had helped to prosecute the men 146 00:10:19,995 --> 00:10:22,435 Speaker 1: and the woman who conspired with John Wilkes Booth to 147 00:10:22,435 --> 00:10:26,035 Speaker 1: assassinate Lincoln and hang half of them, including the woman, 148 00:10:26,795 --> 00:10:28,995 Speaker 1: And how if they left a specific reference to the 149 00:10:28,995 --> 00:10:32,075 Speaker 1: President out of the disqualification clause, it was because in 150 00:10:32,115 --> 00:10:34,795 Speaker 1: their time the President was not nearly as important as 151 00:10:34,915 --> 00:10:38,155 Speaker 1: one good congressman or a senator, and that they doubted 152 00:10:38,155 --> 00:10:40,595 Speaker 1: that the nine of them before and after Lincoln would 153 00:10:40,675 --> 00:10:46,515 Speaker 1: even still be remembered by now. What happens if all 154 00:10:46,555 --> 00:10:50,115 Speaker 1: of those cases are overruled by the Supreme Court and 155 00:10:50,195 --> 00:10:55,875 Speaker 1: the States say enough of your bullshit, John Roberts. There 156 00:10:55,915 --> 00:10:59,515 Speaker 1: are lawyers and constitutional experts who openly said last night 157 00:10:59,915 --> 00:11:02,395 Speaker 1: that they expect the ruling to be overturned by this 158 00:11:02,515 --> 00:11:05,995 Speaker 1: Supreme Court, and maybe by nine to nothing, because this 159 00:11:06,035 --> 00:11:09,275 Speaker 1: has never happened before, and there are no precedents, and 160 00:11:10,915 --> 00:11:14,595 Speaker 1: the Supreme Court is on thin enough ice as it is. 161 00:11:14,835 --> 00:11:18,795 Speaker 1: After Alito got the draft of the repeal of Roe v. 162 00:11:18,995 --> 00:11:21,955 Speaker 1: Wade leaked and tried to blame it on everybody else, 163 00:11:22,475 --> 00:11:26,595 Speaker 1: and then he actually got roe v. Wade repealed, and 164 00:11:26,715 --> 00:11:31,315 Speaker 1: after Alito's corruption scandal hit, then after Clarence Thomas's corruption 165 00:11:31,435 --> 00:11:34,395 Speaker 1: scandal hit, and after his second corruption scandal hit, and 166 00:11:34,475 --> 00:11:38,355 Speaker 1: his third on the new one and the next one, 167 00:11:38,515 --> 00:11:44,155 Speaker 1: the Supreme Court is this close to being ignored by 168 00:11:44,195 --> 00:11:48,315 Speaker 1: a state or states, and don't say it can't happen. 169 00:11:48,555 --> 00:11:53,395 Speaker 1: Lincoln ignored the Supreme Court on a weekly basis. And 170 00:11:53,475 --> 00:11:57,155 Speaker 1: of course the reason that these decisions and this judicial 171 00:11:57,195 --> 00:12:00,635 Speaker 1: corruption and all the money goes to the Republicans and 172 00:12:00,715 --> 00:12:06,435 Speaker 1: not to the Democrats is because they had David Axelrod 173 00:12:06,555 --> 00:12:11,555 Speaker 1: comment on CNN about the Colorado ruling in its immediate wake, 174 00:12:12,115 --> 00:12:15,755 Speaker 1: and Axelrod said he had mixed emotions because he thinks 175 00:12:15,755 --> 00:12:19,435 Speaker 1: that if it is upheld, the Colorado ruling would quote 176 00:12:19,835 --> 00:12:24,635 Speaker 1: rip the country apart. And you wonder exactly what country 177 00:12:24,675 --> 00:12:27,155 Speaker 1: he was living in from the day that Trump announced 178 00:12:27,155 --> 00:12:31,915 Speaker 1: his campaign by slandering every Hispanic and every immigrant in 179 00:12:31,955 --> 00:12:34,995 Speaker 1: the history of this country through the day Trump almost 180 00:12:35,035 --> 00:12:38,435 Speaker 1: literally ripped the country apart on January sixth. I mean, 181 00:12:38,515 --> 00:12:42,835 Speaker 1: David who would be ripping the country apart over Trump's 182 00:12:42,875 --> 00:12:48,115 Speaker 1: eligibility to be president again, or the other commentators who say, sure, 183 00:12:48,795 --> 00:12:50,955 Speaker 1: I don't want to see Trump in the White House again, 184 00:12:51,235 --> 00:12:55,195 Speaker 1: but not doing it this way. And you flash back 185 00:12:55,235 --> 00:12:59,235 Speaker 1: to John Dickinson at the Continental Congress saying, sure, King 186 00:12:59,275 --> 00:13:03,435 Speaker 1: George the Third has been unpleasant, and he's taxed American 187 00:13:03,475 --> 00:13:07,835 Speaker 1: colonists into bankrupt seeing starvation, and he had a soldier 188 00:13:08,155 --> 00:13:10,155 Speaker 1: shoot a lot of us. But I mean, do we 189 00:13:10,275 --> 00:13:15,395 Speaker 1: have to, you know, insult him and disparage him and 190 00:13:15,875 --> 00:13:19,595 Speaker 1: golly tried to declare independence from him. Somebody could get hurt. 191 00:13:20,715 --> 00:13:22,635 Speaker 1: I've written another petition to the King, and I know 192 00:13:22,715 --> 00:13:24,595 Speaker 1: he hasn't read the last twenty of my petitions. But 193 00:13:24,595 --> 00:13:26,915 Speaker 1: I'm sure he'll read this one if my penmanship is 194 00:13:26,915 --> 00:13:30,035 Speaker 1: good enough. And you wonder if David Axelrod is descended 195 00:13:30,035 --> 00:13:34,955 Speaker 1: from John Dickinson. How many different ways do you think 196 00:13:34,995 --> 00:13:38,715 Speaker 1: we have of preventing an ever more Hitler like self 197 00:13:38,755 --> 00:13:44,395 Speaker 1: proclaimed future dictator from turning this country totalitarian? Dave? I mean, 198 00:13:44,395 --> 00:13:46,635 Speaker 1: you wouldn't want to rip the country apart just to 199 00:13:46,715 --> 00:13:51,115 Speaker 1: save democracy and freedom and to prevent concentration camps and 200 00:13:51,235 --> 00:13:55,715 Speaker 1: mass deportations and ethnic cleansing and the legal indemnification of 201 00:13:55,755 --> 00:13:58,715 Speaker 1: all seven hundred thousand policemen in the country who then 202 00:13:58,795 --> 00:14:02,635 Speaker 1: become loyal to Trump alone. I mean, Dave, can't we 203 00:14:02,755 --> 00:14:08,115 Speaker 1: solve this with a strongly worded letter to the Times? 204 00:14:10,155 --> 00:14:11,955 Speaker 1: I said this last night, and I will say it 205 00:14:11,995 --> 00:14:15,835 Speaker 1: once more. There is one chance in a million Colorado 206 00:14:15,915 --> 00:14:19,795 Speaker 1: will not be overturned by the Supreme Court. But there 207 00:14:19,875 --> 00:14:22,755 Speaker 1: are twenty chances out of fifty that there will now 208 00:14:22,795 --> 00:14:26,755 Speaker 1: be other court rulings like Colorado, and each one will 209 00:14:26,795 --> 00:14:31,235 Speaker 1: be more dangerous, more precipitous of potential violence, for the 210 00:14:31,275 --> 00:14:36,075 Speaker 1: Supreme Court to corruptly overrule them all, because every ruling 211 00:14:36,115 --> 00:14:39,275 Speaker 1: will take another hunk out of Trump, just like the 212 00:14:39,315 --> 00:14:42,595 Speaker 1: New York business fraud trial has clearly diminished his sanity, 213 00:14:43,075 --> 00:14:46,355 Speaker 1: just like the pre trial saber dance with Jack Smith 214 00:14:46,515 --> 00:14:50,715 Speaker 1: is clearly diminishing his coherence. Just like that big brass 215 00:14:50,875 --> 00:14:54,395 Speaker 1: ring over there in the near middle distance, an actual 216 00:14:54,475 --> 00:14:57,515 Speaker 1: conviction of a felony by a jury would per pole 217 00:14:57,635 --> 00:15:01,035 Speaker 1: after poll, eliminate as much as one third of Trump's 218 00:15:01,035 --> 00:15:06,915 Speaker 1: support among Republicans. If we have learned nothing else, it 219 00:15:07,035 --> 00:15:09,515 Speaker 1: is that Trump is not going to be felled by 220 00:15:09,635 --> 00:15:13,515 Speaker 1: one strategic play. He's going to have to be stopped 221 00:15:13,595 --> 00:15:18,155 Speaker 1: like Gulliver in Lilliput. Everybody, with every piece of string 222 00:15:18,595 --> 00:15:21,715 Speaker 1: and every yard of rope they have, is going to 223 00:15:21,755 --> 00:15:25,955 Speaker 1: have to tie him down and keep him tied down forever. 224 00:15:26,755 --> 00:15:31,515 Speaker 1: The civil cases, the federal cases, the state cases, the 225 00:15:31,595 --> 00:15:38,075 Speaker 1: Fourteenth Amendment cases. Hell, even David Axelrod's mean letter to 226 00:15:38,155 --> 00:15:47,195 Speaker 1: the Times, I had already been smiling all day before Colorado. 227 00:15:47,275 --> 00:15:51,315 Speaker 1: Because as obvious as this seems, as obvious as say, 228 00:15:51,355 --> 00:15:56,235 Speaker 1: the fourteenth Amendment is, this also isn't automatic. Trump is 229 00:15:56,475 --> 00:16:02,955 Speaker 1: morphing completely and now rapidly into Hitler, only more like 230 00:16:02,995 --> 00:16:05,595 Speaker 1: the Hitler at the end who was convinced he was 231 00:16:05,635 --> 00:16:08,515 Speaker 1: beating the allies, even though it was just him and 232 00:16:08,595 --> 00:16:11,955 Speaker 1: Ava and all those generals who were counting the steps 233 00:16:11,995 --> 00:16:14,635 Speaker 1: to the bunker escape hatch whenever he wasn't watching them. 234 00:16:15,955 --> 00:16:19,635 Speaker 1: Trump denied the Hitler comparison last night in the way 235 00:16:19,675 --> 00:16:23,515 Speaker 1: a five year old would. At Waterloo, Iowa. He explained 236 00:16:23,515 --> 00:16:26,795 Speaker 1: to the witless, gullible cult members before him and the 237 00:16:26,835 --> 00:16:32,155 Speaker 1: media stenographers quote, I never read mind comp which may 238 00:16:32,155 --> 00:16:36,115 Speaker 1: be for once literally true. Of course, it isn't the 239 00:16:36,195 --> 00:16:39,595 Speaker 1: flex that dementia Jay thinks. It is, as you already 240 00:16:39,595 --> 00:16:42,035 Speaker 1: know from listening here. As long ago as nineteen ninety, 241 00:16:42,035 --> 00:16:45,395 Speaker 1: Trump admitted what Ivanna had said about him was true, 242 00:16:46,075 --> 00:16:48,635 Speaker 1: that he kept a Hitler book near his bed. It 243 00:16:48,715 --> 00:16:51,835 Speaker 1: was not mine, comp It was, according to the guy 244 00:16:51,835 --> 00:16:55,115 Speaker 1: who gave it to him, my New Order, the collection 245 00:16:55,195 --> 00:17:01,395 Speaker 1: of Hitler's best speeches, published long after his death. Trump 246 00:17:01,555 --> 00:17:05,875 Speaker 1: read that. Trump promptly returned to his theme last night 247 00:17:06,155 --> 00:17:09,715 Speaker 1: and to providing evidence that, yeah, he is Hitler, and 248 00:17:09,755 --> 00:17:13,315 Speaker 1: he is quoting Hitler. The immigrants coming across the border, 249 00:17:13,355 --> 00:17:16,475 Speaker 1: he said again last night, are quote destroying the blood 250 00:17:16,555 --> 00:17:19,835 Speaker 1: of our country. They are destroying the fabric of our 251 00:17:19,915 --> 00:17:24,995 Speaker 1: country unquote. If so, they are clearly starting by destroying 252 00:17:24,995 --> 00:17:29,115 Speaker 1: what little is left of Trump's sanity. And that is 253 00:17:29,155 --> 00:17:32,715 Speaker 1: not why I was smiling. This is guess who's mentioning 254 00:17:32,915 --> 00:17:36,715 Speaker 1: all of this quote every time he says it, we're 255 00:17:36,715 --> 00:17:40,915 Speaker 1: gonna call it out unquote. Michael Tyler, communications director of 256 00:17:40,915 --> 00:17:44,555 Speaker 1: the Biden campaign, to Politico, He's going to echo the 257 00:17:44,635 --> 00:17:47,675 Speaker 1: rhetoric of Hitler and Mussolini, and we're going to make 258 00:17:47,715 --> 00:17:51,355 Speaker 1: sure that people understand just how serious that is. Every 259 00:17:51,795 --> 00:17:57,795 Speaker 1: single time since if the anti Nazi pushback is not 260 00:17:57,915 --> 00:18:00,835 Speaker 1: coming from a Biden spokesman, the weary and not the 261 00:18:00,875 --> 00:18:07,035 Speaker 1: sharpest tools political media industrial complex, people will ignore it. Yeah. Yeah, 262 00:18:07,075 --> 00:18:10,395 Speaker 1: he's Hitler. I wrote that last week, So what they 263 00:18:10,475 --> 00:18:15,915 Speaker 1: got Hitler? Eventually, this is essential. And by the way, 264 00:18:16,035 --> 00:18:19,795 Speaker 1: the Biden campaign throwing Mussolini into the mix is a 265 00:18:19,835 --> 00:18:25,115 Speaker 1: superb bonus. It evokes the Mango Mussolini nickname and the 266 00:18:25,115 --> 00:18:28,235 Speaker 1: fact that Trump's childish ego and rancid smirk could have 267 00:18:28,275 --> 00:18:31,795 Speaker 1: been stolen directly from the Italian dictator. And it's always 268 00:18:31,915 --> 00:18:37,075 Speaker 1: useful to remind the world and the malefactors like Trump 269 00:18:37,115 --> 00:18:42,395 Speaker 1: what happens ultimately two dictators, especially Italian dictators. Julius Caesar 270 00:18:42,835 --> 00:18:45,675 Speaker 1: stabbed by his own colleagues as many as thirty five times, 271 00:18:45,715 --> 00:18:49,675 Speaker 1: as many as sixty conspirators, Caligula murdered by his own 272 00:18:49,715 --> 00:18:53,915 Speaker 1: secret service. Mussolini shot near Lake Como, driven in a 273 00:18:53,955 --> 00:18:56,635 Speaker 1: man to Rome, his corpse hung by its feet from 274 00:18:56,715 --> 00:19:04,235 Speaker 1: the roof of an Eso gas station. So far, the 275 00:19:04,235 --> 00:19:08,075 Speaker 1: President himself has distanced himself from the comps in public anyway, 276 00:19:08,115 --> 00:19:11,555 Speaker 1: Mister Biden has not appeared in quotes slamming Trump's vermin 277 00:19:11,675 --> 00:19:16,115 Speaker 1: language or blood poisoning imagery cribbed from Hitler. On the 278 00:19:16,155 --> 00:19:18,515 Speaker 1: other hand, do we really assume the quotes from the 279 00:19:18,555 --> 00:19:21,355 Speaker 1: private Los Angeles fundraiser a month ago in which Biden 280 00:19:21,435 --> 00:19:24,795 Speaker 1: made the link Trump calling people vermin, claiming the blood 281 00:19:24,795 --> 00:19:28,755 Speaker 1: of the nation things, Hitler said, We think those quotes 282 00:19:28,795 --> 00:19:31,875 Speaker 1: got out of the private Los Angeles fundraiser without the 283 00:19:31,955 --> 00:19:36,315 Speaker 1: knowledge of the campaign or the candidate. However, last night, 284 00:19:36,755 --> 00:19:39,715 Speaker 1: Vice President Harris jumped from off the record to on 285 00:19:39,875 --> 00:19:42,915 Speaker 1: the record. It is carefully parsed. It has so many 286 00:19:42,915 --> 00:19:46,035 Speaker 1: conditional phrases, it sounds like something from grammar class, but 287 00:19:46,115 --> 00:19:50,155 Speaker 1: it gets the point across quote. It is language that 288 00:19:50,235 --> 00:19:52,475 Speaker 1: is meant to divide us. It is language that I 289 00:19:52,515 --> 00:19:56,475 Speaker 1: think people have rightly found similar to the language of Hitler. 290 00:19:56,955 --> 00:20:04,115 Speaker 1: Unquote again great, thank you, Vice President Harris. It should 291 00:20:04,155 --> 00:20:06,715 Speaker 1: be the president, and only the president, who goes out 292 00:20:06,795 --> 00:20:09,555 Speaker 1: and makes the first direct statement that Trump is quoting Hitler. 293 00:20:09,715 --> 00:20:12,595 Speaker 1: Trump is validating Hitler. Trump is becoming Hitler. You do 294 00:20:12,675 --> 00:20:14,875 Speaker 1: not leave that to anybody else, and you don't go 295 00:20:15,035 --> 00:20:17,675 Speaker 1: sideways around it. The Vice President, covering herself in the 296 00:20:17,675 --> 00:20:21,595 Speaker 1: cloak of many people are saying is fine. Biden, though, 297 00:20:21,675 --> 00:20:24,835 Speaker 1: is at his best when he is angry but controlled 298 00:20:25,035 --> 00:20:30,755 Speaker 1: and yet utterly honest. Incidentally, the President and the Vice 299 00:20:30,795 --> 00:20:34,155 Speaker 1: President and you and me, we have all gotten the 300 00:20:34,275 --> 00:20:39,155 Speaker 1: all clear to invoke Hitler from Godwin of Godwin's Law 301 00:20:39,315 --> 00:20:41,595 Speaker 1: Michael Godwin, the man who wrote in nineteen ninety that 302 00:20:41,635 --> 00:20:44,475 Speaker 1: the first person to carelessly invoke Hitler or the Nazis 303 00:20:44,755 --> 00:20:49,115 Speaker 1: has lost. Whatever the argument is, Godwin always knows people 304 00:20:49,155 --> 00:20:54,675 Speaker 1: forget that adjective. Carelessly quote. Dehumanizing rhetoric is a hallmark 305 00:20:54,715 --> 00:20:59,595 Speaker 1: of Hitler's rhetoric, Godwin said Sunday. Trump is opening himself 306 00:20:59,635 --> 00:21:03,275 Speaker 1: to the Hitler comparison. Trump knows what he's doing. You 307 00:21:03,355 --> 00:21:06,555 Speaker 1: could say the vermin room or the poisoning the blood remark, 308 00:21:06,635 --> 00:21:09,195 Speaker 1: Maybe one of them would be a coincidence, Godwin continued, 309 00:21:09,715 --> 00:21:11,555 Speaker 1: but both of them pretty much make it clear that 310 00:21:11,835 --> 00:21:15,315 Speaker 1: there's something thematic going on, and I can't believe it's 311 00:21:15,435 --> 00:21:21,395 Speaker 1: accidental unquote. And if mister Godwin still somehow hopes it 312 00:21:21,475 --> 00:21:25,595 Speaker 1: is accidental, if President Biden does, if anybody does, they 313 00:21:25,635 --> 00:21:28,555 Speaker 1: are saved from any further need to doubt or disbelieve, 314 00:21:28,795 --> 00:21:33,555 Speaker 1: courtesy of no less a blithering idiot than Senator Tommy Tuberville. 315 00:21:34,515 --> 00:21:40,275 Speaker 1: Amid the packs of scurrying Republicans trying to get away 316 00:21:40,395 --> 00:21:43,915 Speaker 1: from the Hitler, they have chained themselves too. I mean, 317 00:21:43,955 --> 00:21:48,635 Speaker 1: you heard the Staten Island Congresswoman Nicole Malatacus cover herself 318 00:21:48,715 --> 00:21:53,395 Speaker 1: in excrement explaining that sure Trump said vermin and poisoning quote, 319 00:21:53,395 --> 00:21:58,115 Speaker 1: but he never used the word immigrants. Senator Coach has 320 00:21:58,195 --> 00:22:04,955 Speaker 1: now complained that Trump did not go more hitler ish 321 00:22:05,275 --> 00:22:09,595 Speaker 1: maybe two Hitlers, maybe two Hitlers and a Mussolini at 322 00:22:09,595 --> 00:22:14,515 Speaker 1: an association quote ahm mad. He wasn't tougher than that, 323 00:22:15,435 --> 00:22:19,395 Speaker 1: because if you're seeing what happens at the border where 324 00:22:19,635 --> 00:22:24,595 Speaker 1: being overrun, Tommy Tuberville spent virtually his whole life in 325 00:22:24,715 --> 00:22:27,035 Speaker 1: Arkansas and Alabama. And I know he does not know this, 326 00:22:27,235 --> 00:22:31,035 Speaker 1: but neither of them has a foreign border. And of 327 00:22:31,075 --> 00:22:34,915 Speaker 1: course Tommy has lost too many games without a helmet. 328 00:22:36,675 --> 00:22:39,755 Speaker 1: But for a Republican to come out and slam Trump 329 00:22:40,395 --> 00:22:49,715 Speaker 1: for not being enough like Hitler is perfect. And lastly, 330 00:22:49,795 --> 00:22:53,715 Speaker 1: on the dementia scoreboard, Trump continues to descend he has 331 00:22:53,755 --> 00:22:56,755 Speaker 1: already lost his ability to identify who is who, and 332 00:22:56,795 --> 00:23:00,475 Speaker 1: where is where? And which world war is which world war? 333 00:23:00,995 --> 00:23:04,995 Speaker 1: Now he's beginning to blank on when is when? Trump 334 00:23:05,075 --> 00:23:08,155 Speaker 1: is really mad at the Texas Congressman Chip Roy. So 335 00:23:08,315 --> 00:23:12,115 Speaker 1: I'm agnostic here because chip Roy is also nuts. But 336 00:23:12,235 --> 00:23:15,235 Speaker 1: chip Roy endorsed DeSantis, so Trump has now called for 337 00:23:15,315 --> 00:23:18,395 Speaker 1: chip Roy to be primaried. At all bad news, Dementia Jay. 338 00:23:18,435 --> 00:23:22,315 Speaker 1: The deadline to file for the Texas congressional primaries was 339 00:23:23,355 --> 00:23:28,075 Speaker 1: Check's notes a week ago, Monday, December eleventh. And you 340 00:23:28,115 --> 00:23:31,915 Speaker 1: know where this is going, right. At some point soon 341 00:23:32,675 --> 00:23:38,195 Speaker 1: Trump will begin to deny that today's date is today's date. 342 00:23:39,075 --> 00:23:43,075 Speaker 1: This isn't December twentieth, It's still the eleventh. Mighty Oz 343 00:23:43,155 --> 00:23:53,475 Speaker 1: has spoken also of interest here, who's the most important 344 00:23:53,515 --> 00:24:00,155 Speaker 1: baseball player ever? Signed by the Dodgers. Jackie Robinson. Now 345 00:24:00,315 --> 00:24:03,675 Speaker 1: think real hard. I mean, they've been around since eighteen 346 00:24:03,755 --> 00:24:10,915 Speaker 1: eighty four. Jackie Robinson. He broke the color barrier in 347 00:24:11,075 --> 00:24:16,795 Speaker 1: nineteen forty seven. Now think carefully about your answer. Self 348 00:24:16,835 --> 00:24:27,715 Speaker 1: proclaimed baseball hip insider on Fox jack Roosevelt Robinson r Obie. 349 00:24:28,915 --> 00:24:33,475 Speaker 1: Holy crap, the guy didn't say Jackie Robinson. That's next. 350 00:24:33,515 --> 00:25:01,435 Speaker 1: This is countdown. This is countdown with Keith Olberman still 351 00:25:01,435 --> 00:25:04,155 Speaker 1: to come on. Countdown. Well, if we're talking about the 352 00:25:04,195 --> 00:25:09,315 Speaker 1: Condi Supreme Court and the Fourteenth Amendment and the Conservatives 353 00:25:09,355 --> 00:25:11,275 Speaker 1: and how they have had their way with this country 354 00:25:11,275 --> 00:25:14,875 Speaker 1: for a quarter century, lawful or not, especially at the 355 00:25:14,875 --> 00:25:19,795 Speaker 1: Supreme Court, maybe it's time to mention the time that 356 00:25:19,875 --> 00:25:23,275 Speaker 1: I dated a conservative pundit who a confirmed the vast 357 00:25:23,315 --> 00:25:27,035 Speaker 1: right wing conspiracy postulated by Hillary Clinton, denying only that 358 00:25:27,115 --> 00:25:31,035 Speaker 1: it was vast, and b was herself a former clerk 359 00:25:31,155 --> 00:25:34,595 Speaker 1: to a Supreme Court justice, and who c took me 360 00:25:34,715 --> 00:25:38,035 Speaker 1: on our first date out of two dates to the 361 00:25:38,115 --> 00:25:42,235 Speaker 1: Supreme Court where she arranged for me to sit in 362 00:25:42,355 --> 00:25:49,755 Speaker 1: Clarence Thomas's chair. That's right, My ass has been where 363 00:25:49,755 --> 00:25:55,595 Speaker 1: Clarence Thomas's ass always is next things I promised not 364 00:25:55,715 --> 00:25:58,955 Speaker 1: to tell. Put that on my tombstone first time for 365 00:25:58,995 --> 00:26:01,075 Speaker 1: the daily roundup of the miss Grants, morons and Dunning 366 00:26:01,115 --> 00:26:04,515 Speaker 1: Kruger effects specimens who constitute two days worse persons in 367 00:26:04,555 --> 00:26:09,035 Speaker 1: the world, the bronze worse. Ben Verlander of Fox Sports, 368 00:26:09,075 --> 00:26:13,115 Speaker 1: brother of baseball pitcher Justin not quite his brother's equal 369 00:26:13,195 --> 00:26:16,195 Speaker 1: on the field, washed out in the miners, pretty much 370 00:26:16,195 --> 00:26:19,435 Speaker 1: one of those dime a dozen online baseball bros now 371 00:26:19,515 --> 00:26:23,035 Speaker 1: wearing the baseball cap backwards with the hot takes, who 372 00:26:23,075 --> 00:26:25,795 Speaker 1: occasionally turns one of them into something dumb, but has 373 00:26:25,795 --> 00:26:30,875 Speaker 1: now transcended that and said something dumb for the Ages 374 00:26:31,715 --> 00:26:34,995 Speaker 1: Breaking Down show. Hey O'tani joining the Dodgers as a 375 00:26:35,035 --> 00:26:38,595 Speaker 1: free agent, Verlanders saying, and this is the cell line 376 00:26:38,675 --> 00:26:41,595 Speaker 1: in the promotion for his podcast or vidcast or whatever 377 00:26:41,635 --> 00:26:44,915 Speaker 1: it is on Twitter x, on the Fox site elsewhere. 378 00:26:45,275 --> 00:26:49,675 Speaker 1: Ben Verlander saying of Otani, quote, it's the most important 379 00:26:49,755 --> 00:26:56,515 Speaker 1: signing in Dodgers' history. I have no problem saying that unquote, Well, sir, 380 00:26:56,955 --> 00:27:01,235 Speaker 1: you probably should. You would think even Ben Verlander would 381 00:27:01,235 --> 00:27:08,035 Speaker 1: have heard about the Dodgers signing of Jackie Robinson, Remember, 382 00:27:08,515 --> 00:27:12,515 Speaker 1: breaking the color line that had kept dark skinned people 383 00:27:12,555 --> 00:27:17,395 Speaker 1: out of baseball, almost all foreigners since eighteen eighty four. 384 00:27:18,195 --> 00:27:22,995 Speaker 1: But no, that's old timey stuff. Moron the silver the 385 00:27:23,075 --> 00:27:26,635 Speaker 1: worser Trevian Cooty, who apparently does not keep up with 386 00:27:26,675 --> 00:27:30,395 Speaker 1: her Rudy Giuliani news and apparently went on Instagram live 387 00:27:30,475 --> 00:27:32,755 Speaker 1: and threatened to witness in the trial of the Trump 388 00:27:32,835 --> 00:27:37,035 Speaker 1: nineteen in Atlanta. And apparently it was Ruby Freeman. Ruby 389 00:27:37,075 --> 00:27:41,235 Speaker 1: Freeman now co owner and operator of Rudy Giuliani and 390 00:27:41,395 --> 00:27:44,555 Speaker 1: Trevian Cooty was one of the nineteenists herself, and she 391 00:27:44,715 --> 00:27:47,835 Speaker 1: was the publicist for Kanye West and r Kelly. I 392 00:27:47,955 --> 00:27:52,875 Speaker 1: guess because oj Simpson didn't have a publicist anyway. Her 393 00:27:52,955 --> 00:27:56,115 Speaker 1: lawyers representing miss Cooty have dropped her as a client. 394 00:27:56,155 --> 00:27:59,555 Speaker 1: They notified the judge of that yesterday in Atlanta. Several 395 00:27:59,635 --> 00:28:02,635 Speaker 1: analysts are inferring that they got out of dodge because 396 00:28:02,675 --> 00:28:05,675 Speaker 1: this means District Attorney Fani Willis is going to file 397 00:28:05,795 --> 00:28:09,155 Speaker 1: new charges against her, probably for the little business of 398 00:28:09,195 --> 00:28:12,195 Speaker 1: the threat. Also, they may have dropped her because she 399 00:28:12,235 --> 00:28:15,755 Speaker 1: pronounces her name like ooh, she has cooties. But our 400 00:28:15,795 --> 00:28:21,315 Speaker 1: winner the worst Jason Whitlock I was never this guy's 401 00:28:21,515 --> 00:28:24,755 Speaker 1: friend or colleague, really, but I had him on my 402 00:28:25,075 --> 00:28:28,715 Speaker 1: ESPN show right after we premiered a decade ago, and 403 00:28:28,755 --> 00:28:31,675 Speaker 1: I'm beginning to wonder now if he was also this wrong, 404 00:28:31,915 --> 00:28:36,115 Speaker 1: this often about sports. Whitlock has become one of the 405 00:28:36,155 --> 00:28:40,515 Speaker 1: residents self loathers or loathers on the right, sort of 406 00:28:40,555 --> 00:28:43,635 Speaker 1: a loafer and a loather on the right. He's gotten 407 00:28:43,715 --> 00:28:46,075 Speaker 1: mixed up with Glenn Beck and he was one of 408 00:28:46,115 --> 00:28:50,315 Speaker 1: the speakers at Turning Point USA's America Fest. And yes, 409 00:28:50,355 --> 00:28:55,195 Speaker 1: all these idiots do is have fests and conferences because 410 00:28:55,195 --> 00:28:57,435 Speaker 1: that's how they all convince each other that this cult 411 00:28:57,475 --> 00:29:02,955 Speaker 1: bullshit is not cult bullshit. Any who. Whitlock got up 412 00:29:02,995 --> 00:29:07,755 Speaker 1: at America Fest and identified the real crisis facing Americans 413 00:29:08,115 --> 00:29:12,395 Speaker 1: at America Fests in America today, the fact that women 414 00:29:12,475 --> 00:29:16,475 Speaker 1: can vote. Whitlock was pining for the good old days 415 00:29:16,515 --> 00:29:19,475 Speaker 1: before the nineteenth Amendment, before women voted, and quoting him, 416 00:29:19,995 --> 00:29:23,035 Speaker 1: when we were a culture that really valued family and 417 00:29:23,115 --> 00:29:27,595 Speaker 1: really understood the natural order that God intended, man serving God, 418 00:29:28,075 --> 00:29:31,915 Speaker 1: woman following man who serves God, man and woman developing 419 00:29:31,995 --> 00:29:36,195 Speaker 1: and nurturing children. You only needed one vote per household 420 00:29:36,595 --> 00:29:39,755 Speaker 1: because that vote was about the entire family, as they 421 00:29:39,755 --> 00:29:42,315 Speaker 1: have destroyed our family structure and made this all an 422 00:29:42,355 --> 00:29:48,675 Speaker 1: individual pursuit. Not everybody has to have a vote, unquote. 423 00:29:48,915 --> 00:29:52,355 Speaker 1: So now we know what Whitlock's role is in the 424 00:29:52,555 --> 00:29:56,115 Speaker 1: deeply stupid state. He's going to be the one who's 425 00:29:56,155 --> 00:29:59,515 Speaker 1: going to advocate for taking the vote away from women 426 00:29:59,595 --> 00:30:03,835 Speaker 1: in this country. As usual with these clowns, Jason Whitlock 427 00:30:03,995 --> 00:30:08,275 Speaker 1: is primarily cherry picking history because it's funny that he 428 00:30:08,355 --> 00:30:11,315 Speaker 1: thinks the founders who said God also told them that 429 00:30:11,395 --> 00:30:14,755 Speaker 1: blacks were slaves or at best should not be allowed 430 00:30:14,755 --> 00:30:17,595 Speaker 1: to vote even if they were casting a vote on 431 00:30:17,675 --> 00:30:20,915 Speaker 1: behalf of a beautifully structured family, or that blacks would 432 00:30:20,955 --> 00:30:23,955 Speaker 1: only be counted in the population as three fifths of 433 00:30:23,995 --> 00:30:27,115 Speaker 1: a human being. But go on, Jason, tell me about 434 00:30:27,115 --> 00:30:31,115 Speaker 1: a culture that really valued family and really understood the 435 00:30:31,235 --> 00:30:36,595 Speaker 1: natural order that God intended. Jason, the Founders were right 436 00:30:36,635 --> 00:30:40,315 Speaker 1: about oppressing women, but not about oppressing African Americans. Whitlock 437 00:30:40,875 --> 00:30:47,595 Speaker 1: two days worse person in the world, although Ben Burlander 438 00:30:47,755 --> 00:31:12,635 Speaker 1: was close to the number one story on the Countdown 439 00:31:12,675 --> 00:31:15,275 Speaker 1: and my favorite topic, me and things I promised not 440 00:31:15,395 --> 00:31:19,235 Speaker 1: to tell my tattered little diary from nineteen ninety seven 441 00:31:19,515 --> 00:31:22,395 Speaker 1: informs me that twenty five years ago, this week, in 442 00:31:22,435 --> 00:31:25,555 Speaker 1: the second month of my news career at MSNBC, one 443 00:31:25,555 --> 00:31:28,675 Speaker 1: of my guests for the first time was one of 444 00:31:28,715 --> 00:31:36,755 Speaker 1: the network's original contributor commentators, original MSNBC talent, Laura Ingram. 445 00:31:38,275 --> 00:31:42,235 Speaker 1: This began a process that ended in us going out 446 00:31:42,315 --> 00:31:45,235 Speaker 1: on two dates, and something she told me on the 447 00:31:45,275 --> 00:31:48,555 Speaker 1: first of these dates has resonated with me literally every 448 00:31:48,595 --> 00:31:56,755 Speaker 1: month since and is relevant to politics today. I did 449 00:31:56,795 --> 00:32:00,915 Speaker 1: not so much date her as survive her. Even then 450 00:32:01,555 --> 00:32:04,875 Speaker 1: before nine to eleven helped to slide her cheese off 451 00:32:04,875 --> 00:32:07,995 Speaker 1: her cracker. I find a diary entry referring to her 452 00:32:08,075 --> 00:32:12,555 Speaker 1: as Hurricane Laura. That was March fifteenth, nineteen ninety eight. 453 00:32:12,715 --> 00:32:21,675 Speaker 1: Beware the odds of March Julius Caesar. I didn't, honestly, 454 00:32:21,715 --> 00:32:23,835 Speaker 1: and God helped me. Nearly forty eight years of dating, 455 00:32:23,875 --> 00:32:25,355 Speaker 1: I have not been a kiss and tell her I 456 00:32:25,395 --> 00:32:28,595 Speaker 1: have dated. I don't know dozens. We're in a couple 457 00:32:28,635 --> 00:32:33,835 Speaker 1: of hundred, actually thirteen, seriously, with maybe three exceptions. You 458 00:32:33,915 --> 00:32:37,195 Speaker 1: don't know any of their names. One of them, now 459 00:32:37,235 --> 00:32:40,675 Speaker 1: a political writer, basically lived with me for three years. 460 00:32:41,115 --> 00:32:44,955 Speaker 1: I keep that confidence. So why am I telling this 461 00:32:45,035 --> 00:32:48,875 Speaker 1: story violating that? Because not three months after that first date, 462 00:32:49,195 --> 00:32:52,315 Speaker 1: when we were still going out, Laura Ingram asked me 463 00:32:52,355 --> 00:32:53,955 Speaker 1: if she could look at a speech I was going 464 00:32:53,995 --> 00:32:58,435 Speaker 1: to give it Corneill's graduation weekend and offer suggestions. This 465 00:32:58,475 --> 00:33:02,035 Speaker 1: is so long ago. I literally faxed it to her. 466 00:33:03,275 --> 00:33:06,035 Speaker 1: Sure enough, a couple of days ys later, I'm watching 467 00:33:06,115 --> 00:33:10,115 Speaker 1: Imus in the morning, which was televised by my network MSNBC, 468 00:33:10,315 --> 00:33:13,835 Speaker 1: and there on his desk in front of him is 469 00:33:13,915 --> 00:33:16,915 Speaker 1: the faxed copy of my speech, and he is reading 470 00:33:17,475 --> 00:33:21,875 Speaker 1: from my facts. I could recognize the exact sequence of 471 00:33:21,915 --> 00:33:26,035 Speaker 1: the vertical stripes. My cheap fax machine used to streak 472 00:33:26,115 --> 00:33:29,835 Speaker 1: all my outgoing pages with Laura used to go on 473 00:33:29,875 --> 00:33:33,075 Speaker 1: his show a lot, so to curry favor with iMOS, 474 00:33:33,635 --> 00:33:37,995 Speaker 1: she sent him the speech without asking me. As I 475 00:33:38,035 --> 00:33:42,435 Speaker 1: told her that day, all bets are now off. So 476 00:33:42,555 --> 00:33:45,555 Speaker 1: I've told parts of this story before, like she had 477 00:33:45,595 --> 00:33:49,155 Speaker 1: been a Supreme Court clerk for Clarence Thomas, and our 478 00:33:49,235 --> 00:33:52,075 Speaker 1: first date consisted of taking me on an insider's tour 479 00:33:52,115 --> 00:33:54,595 Speaker 1: of the court and having me sit in his chair 480 00:33:55,475 --> 00:33:57,395 Speaker 1: in tribute to him. I did not say or do 481 00:33:57,435 --> 00:34:01,435 Speaker 1: anything constructive. She then cooked me the largest steak I 482 00:34:01,475 --> 00:34:04,235 Speaker 1: had ever seen that did not have a rodeo cowboy 483 00:34:04,315 --> 00:34:08,075 Speaker 1: writing on it, and we watched a woman later discredited 484 00:34:08,115 --> 00:34:10,955 Speaker 1: because she could not keep her stories straight, go on 485 00:34:11,035 --> 00:34:14,675 Speaker 1: sixty minutes and make allegations against Bill Clinton. This is 486 00:34:14,715 --> 00:34:19,595 Speaker 1: my perfect date, Laura told me, seared into my memory. 487 00:34:21,075 --> 00:34:24,755 Speaker 1: But the important Laura Ingram's story sitting there in the 488 00:34:24,795 --> 00:34:27,635 Speaker 1: middle of all the debris. I don't think I've ever 489 00:34:27,675 --> 00:34:31,955 Speaker 1: told this. The first date was only about six weeks 490 00:34:31,995 --> 00:34:34,235 Speaker 1: after the then First Lady Hillary Clinton got on the 491 00:34:34,235 --> 00:34:38,235 Speaker 1: Today Show and blamed the at best exaggerated scandal about 492 00:34:38,235 --> 00:34:41,955 Speaker 1: her husband at Monica Lewinsky on the quote vast right 493 00:34:41,995 --> 00:34:47,435 Speaker 1: wing conspiracy that is sound stumpid. Laura said that night, 494 00:34:47,435 --> 00:34:50,435 Speaker 1: as she showed me her small office upstairs, I expected 495 00:34:50,435 --> 00:34:52,755 Speaker 1: that she was about to decry the idea that Republicans 496 00:34:52,795 --> 00:34:57,155 Speaker 1: would exploit television, talk radio and the brand new Internet 497 00:34:57,355 --> 00:34:59,635 Speaker 1: to try to bring down a president from the other party. 498 00:34:59,675 --> 00:35:02,675 Speaker 1: And I said, so naive little boy, that I was 499 00:35:03,515 --> 00:35:07,195 Speaker 1: no not that the cards were doing that. She was 500 00:35:07,275 --> 00:35:10,915 Speaker 1: kind of offended that I doubted the conspiracy part. I explained, 501 00:35:10,955 --> 00:35:13,955 Speaker 1: I'd only been covering politics for two months. At the 502 00:35:14,075 --> 00:35:17,715 Speaker 1: end of the day, she said, end of the day, constantly, 503 00:35:17,875 --> 00:35:20,635 Speaker 1: at the end of the day, it's that vast part. 504 00:35:20,875 --> 00:35:24,635 Speaker 1: It's not vast, vast right wing conspiracy. Why, I bet 505 00:35:24,675 --> 00:35:29,395 Speaker 1: there's not even thirty of us. Laura Ingram then explained 506 00:35:29,395 --> 00:35:31,635 Speaker 1: that she was essentially the central desk for what she 507 00:35:31,755 --> 00:35:35,315 Speaker 1: called the miniature right wing conspiracy. She showed me a 508 00:35:35,355 --> 00:35:37,835 Speaker 1: printed page that had the facts numbers of about two 509 00:35:37,915 --> 00:35:41,755 Speaker 1: dozen people. There at the top are the sources. She said. 510 00:35:42,035 --> 00:35:44,595 Speaker 1: There was Ted Olsen, the attorney, founder of the so 511 00:35:44,675 --> 00:35:47,715 Speaker 1: called Arkansas Project and the husband of Barbara Olsen, a 512 00:35:47,795 --> 00:35:51,235 Speaker 1: constant presence as a talking head on cable news. She 513 00:35:51,395 --> 00:35:55,435 Speaker 1: later died on nine to eleven. Everybody liked her. There 514 00:35:55,435 --> 00:35:58,435 Speaker 1: were several numbers in the office of Independent Counsel ken Starr. 515 00:35:58,515 --> 00:36:02,555 Speaker 1: One of them read B. Kavanaugh. I said, who's that, 516 00:36:02,715 --> 00:36:06,275 Speaker 1: She said, nobody impartant. The only other name I remember 517 00:36:06,355 --> 00:36:08,995 Speaker 1: was Spencer Abraham, who then was a Senator from Michigan. 518 00:36:09,555 --> 00:36:12,275 Speaker 1: She said, they, including the people in ken Starr's office, 519 00:36:12,315 --> 00:36:16,835 Speaker 1: sent her all the rumors, the ideas, stuff about Clinton, 520 00:36:17,355 --> 00:36:20,395 Speaker 1: stuff they made up, and she distributed them to the 521 00:36:20,435 --> 00:36:23,875 Speaker 1: other parts of the list. That's these numbers. One number 522 00:36:23,955 --> 00:36:30,875 Speaker 1: was marked Hannity Radio, another Hannity TV, O'Reilly Radio, O'Reilly TV. 523 00:36:30,995 --> 00:36:34,475 Speaker 1: There was one for Limbaugh. There was one mark Justice Thomas, 524 00:36:34,475 --> 00:36:38,355 Speaker 1: and I pointed to it. He likes to stay and farmed. Now, 525 00:36:38,395 --> 00:36:40,515 Speaker 1: maybe the most important name is not on that list. 526 00:36:40,555 --> 00:36:45,555 Speaker 1: That's Matt Dradge. She said. Matt Drudge used all her stuff, 527 00:36:46,475 --> 00:36:48,195 Speaker 1: but he didn't want any of it to be traceable, 528 00:36:48,275 --> 00:36:51,755 Speaker 1: very big on not traceable, so I never fax it 529 00:36:51,835 --> 00:36:53,915 Speaker 1: to him. She said, I just give it to my brother. 530 00:36:54,395 --> 00:36:57,835 Speaker 1: This is when she still liked her brother. He sees 531 00:36:57,915 --> 00:37:01,755 Speaker 1: Drudge all the time. He gives the stuff to Drudge. Now, Oliver, 532 00:37:01,795 --> 00:37:06,155 Speaker 1: here is my baseball collection. See, there were reasons to 533 00:37:06,155 --> 00:37:09,995 Speaker 1: go out with her. At the time, I could think 534 00:37:10,035 --> 00:37:12,915 Speaker 1: only of an old cartoon I had once seen. It 535 00:37:12,915 --> 00:37:16,475 Speaker 1: was an octopus working in the post office, using all 536 00:37:16,555 --> 00:37:20,435 Speaker 1: eight of its limbs to sort the mail. But every 537 00:37:20,435 --> 00:37:22,355 Speaker 1: couple of weeks it dawns on me afresh. Then I 538 00:37:22,435 --> 00:37:26,235 Speaker 1: was actually a witness to one of the earliest configurations 539 00:37:26,275 --> 00:37:29,475 Speaker 1: of the machinery. And there is no doubt today whether 540 00:37:29,515 --> 00:37:33,435 Speaker 1: it is vast or miniature. It's beast. The machinery that 541 00:37:33,515 --> 00:37:35,995 Speaker 1: links the right wing politicians and those who are supposed 542 00:37:35,995 --> 00:37:39,035 Speaker 1: to be above the fray, like Supreme Court justices and 543 00:37:39,115 --> 00:37:42,715 Speaker 1: special prosecutors and people like that. There with the right 544 00:37:42,755 --> 00:37:45,995 Speaker 1: wing publicity outlets that pretend to be news organizations like 545 00:37:46,115 --> 00:37:49,555 Speaker 1: Fox and Drudge and Oaan and Newsmax, and the ones 546 00:37:49,555 --> 00:37:52,995 Speaker 1: that don't even pretend, like those who succeeded Limbaugh. This 547 00:37:53,115 --> 00:37:58,835 Speaker 1: machine is, in fact everything that your typical paranoid conservative, 548 00:37:58,995 --> 00:38:04,515 Speaker 1: republican fascist trumpest thinks is being run by George Soros 549 00:38:05,035 --> 00:38:10,795 Speaker 1: or Bill Gates or doctor Fauci or me. You want 550 00:38:10,835 --> 00:38:13,595 Speaker 1: to be able to say, there are reports or accusations 551 00:38:13,635 --> 00:38:16,395 Speaker 1: about some Democrat or a liberal figure or celebrity. Well, 552 00:38:16,435 --> 00:38:19,715 Speaker 1: somebody puts a rumor in at one end of the machinery, 553 00:38:20,435 --> 00:38:22,275 Speaker 1: or somebody makes up a rumor at one end of 554 00:38:22,315 --> 00:38:25,075 Speaker 1: the machinery. It is then sent to dozens of other people. 555 00:38:25,115 --> 00:38:30,715 Speaker 1: They repeat it, voila, Suddenly there are reports. The reports 556 00:38:30,795 --> 00:38:33,635 Speaker 1: then get fed back to Fox News or Breitbart or 557 00:38:33,675 --> 00:38:38,195 Speaker 1: the Wall Street Journal or the Supreme Court, or they're 558 00:38:38,275 --> 00:38:43,035 Speaker 1: just tweeted by a thousand bots simultaneously. You want to 559 00:38:43,115 --> 00:38:47,555 Speaker 1: push this ancient racist, anti semitic paranoia called the Great replacement. 560 00:38:47,635 --> 00:38:50,115 Speaker 1: But you want it to come out washed clean enough 561 00:38:50,715 --> 00:38:54,835 Speaker 1: that soulless opportunists like Eli Stefanic and JD Vance can 562 00:38:54,835 --> 00:38:58,595 Speaker 1: say it aloud on the campaign trail without forfeiting their candidacies. 563 00:38:58,915 --> 00:39:03,835 Speaker 1: This is the machinery. And I saw the machinery when 564 00:39:03,875 --> 00:39:06,235 Speaker 1: it was just a list of twenty and thirty people, 565 00:39:06,915 --> 00:39:09,595 Speaker 1: And at that moment I barely recognized the importance of 566 00:39:09,595 --> 00:39:14,115 Speaker 1: what I saw. Then again, I was still on that night, 567 00:39:14,195 --> 00:39:18,555 Speaker 1: recovering from not just the Giant's steak, but something far 568 00:39:18,635 --> 00:39:23,075 Speaker 1: more visceral. Earlier that day, as we were leaving the 569 00:39:23,115 --> 00:39:26,755 Speaker 1: Supreme Court, Laura Ingram had boasted about getting even with 570 00:39:26,795 --> 00:39:29,795 Speaker 1: an ex boyfriend by going back into what had been 571 00:39:29,835 --> 00:39:34,635 Speaker 1: their house and putting up exact copies of all the 572 00:39:34,635 --> 00:39:37,475 Speaker 1: photos of the two of them together that he had 573 00:39:37,515 --> 00:39:41,555 Speaker 1: taken down from his walls. And when he got smart 574 00:39:41,995 --> 00:39:45,675 Speaker 1: and changed the locks, she went back again to finish 575 00:39:45,715 --> 00:39:51,115 Speaker 1: the job. Found her key didn't work so naturally as 576 00:39:51,155 --> 00:39:55,155 Speaker 1: you would. She stuffed his garden hose through the mail 577 00:39:55,235 --> 00:39:58,075 Speaker 1: slot of his front door and turned on the outdoor 578 00:39:58,235 --> 00:40:02,555 Speaker 1: spigott ten thousand dollars worth of hire and when Florenes ruined, 579 00:40:02,875 --> 00:40:09,475 Speaker 1: she said proudly, and part of me screamed, flea, flee 580 00:40:09,515 --> 00:40:17,155 Speaker 1: Now I didn't flee. Later, as I tried to sleep, 581 00:40:17,635 --> 00:40:22,115 Speaker 1: two noises kept me awake, snoring, not my own, and 582 00:40:22,195 --> 00:40:26,595 Speaker 1: Laura's dog. Laura's dog kept talking in his sleep, I 583 00:40:26,635 --> 00:40:37,235 Speaker 1: mean almost in syllables, ye like that. It was something 584 00:40:37,355 --> 00:40:39,675 Speaker 1: like twenty five degrees out and I was on the 585 00:40:39,675 --> 00:40:42,675 Speaker 1: second floor. And yet I resolved that if her dog 586 00:40:43,035 --> 00:40:47,355 Speaker 1: really did make that last leap to formulate actual syllables. 587 00:40:47,715 --> 00:40:50,595 Speaker 1: And it turned out her dog was the one telling 588 00:40:50,635 --> 00:40:52,915 Speaker 1: her what to do, I was simply going to leave 589 00:40:52,995 --> 00:40:58,555 Speaker 1: by the window without bothering to open it first. The 590 00:40:58,595 --> 00:41:01,275 Speaker 1: next morning, Laura and I walked her dog. We got 591 00:41:01,315 --> 00:41:03,555 Speaker 1: to an empty field. She threw a tennis ball, He 592 00:41:03,635 --> 00:41:06,715 Speaker 1: went and got it. She cocked her arm back again. 593 00:41:06,755 --> 00:41:11,235 Speaker 1: He took off, loving life as he did. She did 594 00:41:11,275 --> 00:41:13,875 Speaker 1: not throw it. He went forty to fifty sixty feet, 595 00:41:14,075 --> 00:41:19,155 Speaker 1: then stopped and looked back at her with such disappointment 596 00:41:19,275 --> 00:41:24,595 Speaker 1: and even a sense of betrayal, and she said, loudly, 597 00:41:24,675 --> 00:41:27,315 Speaker 1: without a trace of affection for him or anything else, 598 00:41:28,555 --> 00:41:33,275 Speaker 1: wait far at which is when I realized I was 599 00:41:33,355 --> 00:41:40,435 Speaker 1: being courted to be the next dog. A few weeks later, 600 00:41:40,475 --> 00:41:42,555 Speaker 1: back home in New York, I got home from working 601 00:41:42,595 --> 00:41:44,995 Speaker 1: an early morning shift filling in for the commentator Paul 602 00:41:45,035 --> 00:41:47,435 Speaker 1: Harvey at ABC Radio. I was just waking up from 603 00:41:47,435 --> 00:41:51,195 Speaker 1: a tortured nap when the phone rang and it's Lara. I'm downstairs. 604 00:41:51,235 --> 00:41:53,715 Speaker 1: We're going to my old law firms party at the museum. 605 00:41:54,755 --> 00:41:57,675 Speaker 1: I said. I was exhausted. We're going, or I'll just 606 00:41:57,715 --> 00:42:00,195 Speaker 1: stay here at this payphone outside your planes calling you 607 00:42:00,275 --> 00:42:07,235 Speaker 1: all night. We went the next option opportunity probably was 608 00:42:07,275 --> 00:42:09,115 Speaker 1: going to be me on the wrong end of a 609 00:42:09,115 --> 00:42:14,275 Speaker 1: hostage drama. Turned out she was not invited to her party. 610 00:42:14,715 --> 00:42:17,795 Speaker 1: We're crashing it. I'm going to drink heavily. Frankly. It 611 00:42:17,835 --> 00:42:20,395 Speaker 1: was a great party. I got to meet Hillary Clinton's 612 00:42:20,435 --> 00:42:23,715 Speaker 1: mother and her brother. And if you think the fascists 613 00:42:23,715 --> 00:42:28,235 Speaker 1: are completely sincere about everything, even their neuroses and their paranoia, no, 614 00:42:28,795 --> 00:42:32,355 Speaker 1: Laura Ingram hugged Hillary Clinton's mother and Hillary Clinton's brother. 615 00:42:33,275 --> 00:42:38,115 Speaker 1: They seemed to be friends. Later we wound up meeting 616 00:42:38,155 --> 00:42:40,755 Speaker 1: friends of her in the Oak bar at the Plaza Hotel, 617 00:42:40,795 --> 00:42:45,955 Speaker 1: where she kept drinking. I was astonished after about her 618 00:42:46,035 --> 00:42:49,035 Speaker 1: sixth Cosmopolitan on top of everything she'd had at the party. 619 00:42:49,235 --> 00:42:52,715 Speaker 1: She began to droop her head, nodding like a bobblehead doll. 620 00:42:53,115 --> 00:42:56,235 Speaker 1: Her friend said, Okay, that's it. We'll take care of 621 00:42:56,235 --> 00:43:00,235 Speaker 1: the check. You take care of her. She had not 622 00:43:00,315 --> 00:43:03,155 Speaker 1: gotten a hotel room or anything. And if you've ever 623 00:43:03,195 --> 00:43:06,275 Speaker 1: heard of anybody who needed to be poured into a 624 00:43:06,315 --> 00:43:08,755 Speaker 1: cab because they were so drunk, you don't really know 625 00:43:08,795 --> 00:43:11,555 Speaker 1: what that means until you have to pour them into 626 00:43:11,595 --> 00:43:15,755 Speaker 1: a cab. Frankly, I wanted to put her in a 627 00:43:15,795 --> 00:43:20,675 Speaker 1: hotel somewhere, but the spectacle would have made the gossip pages. 628 00:43:21,195 --> 00:43:24,675 Speaker 1: She basically could not stand up, so I took her 629 00:43:24,675 --> 00:43:26,835 Speaker 1: to my apartment, put her into my bed, and I 630 00:43:26,875 --> 00:43:29,395 Speaker 1: went and slept on the couch at the far end 631 00:43:29,475 --> 00:43:32,595 Speaker 1: of the apartment, which is where I was hours later 632 00:43:32,635 --> 00:43:34,835 Speaker 1: in the morning when she woke me up because she 633 00:43:34,875 --> 00:43:38,715 Speaker 1: came parading through using my phone to call my assistant 634 00:43:38,795 --> 00:43:41,315 Speaker 1: to get a car sent to my address to take 635 00:43:41,355 --> 00:43:43,835 Speaker 1: her to the airport, and to make sure that everybody 636 00:43:43,835 --> 00:43:47,195 Speaker 1: in my office knew she had stayed overnight at my apartment. 637 00:43:48,915 --> 00:43:52,115 Speaker 1: And all I kept thinking was why didn't I follow 638 00:43:52,155 --> 00:44:01,995 Speaker 1: my instincts. My instincts said flee. I fleed. Not of course, 639 00:44:02,035 --> 00:44:05,075 Speaker 1: if I had fled, I would have missed seeing the 640 00:44:05,075 --> 00:44:20,915 Speaker 1: telephone tree of the miniature right wing conspiracy, wouldn't I. 641 00:44:20,915 --> 00:44:22,835 Speaker 1: I've done all the damage I can do here. Thank 642 00:44:22,875 --> 00:44:24,635 Speaker 1: you for listening. Countdown has come to you from the 643 00:44:24,715 --> 00:44:28,875 Speaker 1: Vin Scully Studios at the Olderman Broadcasting Empire here in 644 00:44:28,955 --> 00:44:32,875 Speaker 1: New York Countown. Musical directors Brian Ray and John Phillips 645 00:44:32,915 --> 00:44:36,355 Speaker 1: Chanel arranged, produced, and performed most of our music. Mister 646 00:44:36,435 --> 00:44:39,955 Speaker 1: Chanelle handled orchestration and keyboards. 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Our announcer today is my friend Richard Lewis, 654 00:45:07,355 --> 00:45:11,275 Speaker 1: and that means everything else was pretty much my fault. 655 00:45:12,115 --> 00:45:14,315 Speaker 1: So that's countdown for this the one thousand and seventy 656 00:45:14,395 --> 00:45:18,355 Speaker 1: ninth day since dementia j Trump's first attempted coup against 657 00:45:18,355 --> 00:45:21,675 Speaker 1: the democratically elected government of the United States. Use the 658 00:45:21,755 --> 00:45:26,515 Speaker 1: Insurrection Act against him and them and convict him while 659 00:45:26,595 --> 00:45:30,995 Speaker 1: we still can. Also, the fourteenth Amendment is surprisingly useful, 660 00:45:31,035 --> 00:45:34,195 Speaker 1: isn't it. The next scheduled countdown is tomorrow. Bulletins is 661 00:45:34,235 --> 00:45:36,955 Speaker 1: the news warrants till then. I'm Keith Lremman. Good morning, 662 00:45:36,995 --> 00:45:57,035 Speaker 1: good afternoon, good night, and good luck. 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