1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:21,955 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. At 2 00:00:22,035 --> 00:00:26,675 Speaker 1: twelve thirty three Eastern daylight time this morning, Donald Trump 3 00:00:26,875 --> 00:00:31,435 Speaker 1: snapped his pre trial release must be revoked immediately and 4 00:00:31,515 --> 00:00:35,595 Speaker 1: he must be taken into custody immediately. Warned by Judge 5 00:00:35,635 --> 00:00:40,755 Speaker 1: Tanya Chutkin to temper his public rage, Trump instead descended 6 00:00:41,075 --> 00:00:44,315 Speaker 1: from a weekend of threats by proxy and attacks by 7 00:00:44,355 --> 00:00:50,475 Speaker 1: reposting to what are unequivocal, undeniable, and indefensible direct attacks 8 00:00:50,715 --> 00:00:54,675 Speaker 1: on the judge and the Special Council. Quote how dare 9 00:00:55,075 --> 00:01:00,275 Speaker 1: low life prosecutor deranged Jack Smith break into my former 10 00:01:00,355 --> 00:01:04,475 Speaker 1: Twitter account without informing me and indeed trying to completely 11 00:01:05,115 --> 00:01:11,555 Speaker 1: this atrocity from me twelve thirty three am unquote. Yes, 12 00:01:11,875 --> 00:01:16,755 Speaker 1: Trump actually used the word atrocity, and yes, he apparently 13 00:01:16,795 --> 00:01:19,115 Speaker 1: knew nothing of the court order, even though it was 14 00:01:19,195 --> 00:01:23,195 Speaker 1: last January and it was in all the papers. At 15 00:01:23,235 --> 00:01:27,035 Speaker 1: one fourteen eastern this morning, Trump referred to a quote 16 00:01:27,075 --> 00:01:32,235 Speaker 1: by highly partisan Judge Tanya Chutkin, she obviously wants me 17 00:01:32,395 --> 00:01:38,595 Speaker 1: behind bars unquote. The laws of this country must finally 18 00:01:39,115 --> 00:01:46,075 Speaker 1: today crush Donald Trump. This is exactly what the judge 19 00:01:46,115 --> 00:01:50,195 Speaker 1: warned his attorneys against just last Friday, not even seventy 20 00:01:50,235 --> 00:01:54,435 Speaker 1: two hours earlier. Quote. I caution you and your client 21 00:01:54,515 --> 00:01:57,835 Speaker 1: to take special care in your public statements about this case, 22 00:01:58,275 --> 00:02:02,355 Speaker 1: she said at the Evidentiary Protective Order hearing. Quote. Even 23 00:02:02,635 --> 00:02:06,755 Speaker 1: arguably ambiguous statements from parties or their council can threaten 24 00:02:06,795 --> 00:02:10,515 Speaker 1: the process. Then she threatened him with something far worse 25 00:02:10,555 --> 00:02:13,755 Speaker 1: than just a gag order. Quote. The more a party 26 00:02:13,835 --> 00:02:17,315 Speaker 1: makes inflammatory statements about this case which could taint the 27 00:02:17,395 --> 00:02:20,195 Speaker 1: jury pool, the greater the urgency will be that we 28 00:02:20,275 --> 00:02:25,555 Speaker 1: proceed to trial quickly. Translation every threat you make, the 29 00:02:25,635 --> 00:02:32,235 Speaker 1: trial starts sooner. Response First, Trump had others make his 30 00:02:32,355 --> 00:02:36,395 Speaker 1: threats for him. Six times yesterday and last night. Trump 31 00:02:36,555 --> 00:02:42,035 Speaker 1: reposted inflammatory statements by others, by Stephen Miller, by Greg Jarrett, 32 00:02:42,275 --> 00:02:45,955 Speaker 1: by the Necklace Attorney General of West Virginia Patrick Morrissey, 33 00:02:46,355 --> 00:02:50,275 Speaker 1: and most relevantly, by former Grassy aide Mike Davis, who 34 00:02:50,315 --> 00:02:55,075 Speaker 1: dishonestly posted the Judge Chutkin quote openly admitted she's running 35 00:02:55,195 --> 00:03:00,635 Speaker 1: election interference against Trump. There is no law, no rule, 36 00:03:01,195 --> 00:03:04,675 Speaker 1: no ruling that Trump does not think he can find 37 00:03:04,475 --> 00:03:10,875 Speaker 1: a way around. He by reposting others was taunting Judge Chutkin, 38 00:03:11,275 --> 00:03:15,115 Speaker 1: you say I can't say anything threatening. He was testing. 39 00:03:15,235 --> 00:03:20,835 Speaker 1: Judge Chutkin, let see you punish me for simply amplifying 40 00:03:20,955 --> 00:03:26,115 Speaker 1: threats by others. She did not punish him. Naturally, she 41 00:03:26,235 --> 00:03:28,915 Speaker 1: did not. It was the weekend, and she is not 42 00:03:28,995 --> 00:03:31,915 Speaker 1: a psychopath. She knows the difference between the weekend and 43 00:03:31,995 --> 00:03:35,995 Speaker 1: the week He then decided he no longer needed to 44 00:03:36,035 --> 00:03:38,835 Speaker 1: be cute, at twelve thirty three, accusing the Special counsel 45 00:03:38,835 --> 00:03:41,675 Speaker 1: of committing an atrocity against him, and at one point fourteen, 46 00:03:41,675 --> 00:03:45,715 Speaker 1: accusing the judge of having prejudged the case, and he 47 00:03:45,795 --> 00:03:48,635 Speaker 1: thereby stopped even the pretense of obeying the letter of 48 00:03:48,675 --> 00:03:52,315 Speaker 1: her rulings. This is not to say that before he 49 00:03:52,435 --> 00:03:57,195 Speaker 1: broke Trump had not violated their spirit. It was with 50 00:03:57,315 --> 00:04:01,355 Speaker 1: those reposted insults that he did that. And moreover, as 51 00:04:01,395 --> 00:04:03,755 Speaker 1: he stood at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines 52 00:04:03,955 --> 00:04:07,835 Speaker 1: next to his political prostitute Matt Gates. This time it 53 00:04:07,915 --> 00:04:12,355 Speaker 1: was not Trump summoning his stochastic terrorists vaguely and indirectly. 54 00:04:12,555 --> 00:04:17,755 Speaker 1: It was Gates openly calling for quote force on Trump's behalf, 55 00:04:18,275 --> 00:04:24,115 Speaker 1: with Trump silent alongside him. I'm not say these people 56 00:04:24,235 --> 00:04:28,035 Speaker 1: are destroying our country. They're opening our orders. They're a 57 00:04:28,155 --> 00:04:34,075 Speaker 1: weapon lawforsement state trich Americans who loved this station as 58 00:04:34,195 --> 00:04:38,675 Speaker 1: we should. We are. We love staying with you, but 59 00:04:38,835 --> 00:04:43,755 Speaker 1: we have only doing made any change in a corrupt 60 00:04:43,915 --> 00:04:47,515 Speaker 1: town like Washington, d C. It is quite literally true 61 00:04:47,555 --> 00:04:50,835 Speaker 1: that after Judge Chutkin's order Friday, if that had been 62 00:04:50,915 --> 00:04:54,475 Speaker 1: Trump saying that and not Gates, Trump would have had 63 00:04:54,515 --> 00:04:58,395 Speaker 1: his pre trial release revoked by nightfall, or he would 64 00:04:58,395 --> 00:05:01,595 Speaker 1: be back in front of the judge today, or at minimum, 65 00:05:01,635 --> 00:05:03,835 Speaker 1: he would have seen the trial date advanced a month 66 00:05:04,155 --> 00:05:10,755 Speaker 1: to descend second, not January second. Given Trump's history, given 67 00:05:10,795 --> 00:05:14,075 Speaker 1: Maga's history, given Gates' history, given January sixth, it was 68 00:05:14,195 --> 00:05:18,235 Speaker 1: so bad that even Gates was terrified. He tried to 69 00:05:18,315 --> 00:05:21,075 Speaker 1: back away from it. He tweeted that night, quote, do 70 00:05:21,115 --> 00:05:25,035 Speaker 1: you agree we must force change to a corrupt system? 71 00:05:25,075 --> 00:05:30,555 Speaker 1: Force change in all caps? Force change? As if he 72 00:05:30,635 --> 00:05:34,515 Speaker 1: had not said only through force, as if he had 73 00:05:34,515 --> 00:05:38,795 Speaker 1: not just threatened more violence, more insurrection, more traitorous betrayal. 74 00:05:40,195 --> 00:05:44,435 Speaker 1: Again as always, as it always will be. This is 75 00:05:44,555 --> 00:05:50,035 Speaker 1: Trump in miniature. He matters, the judge does not. He matters, 76 00:05:50,395 --> 00:05:54,035 Speaker 1: the country does not. He matters the law does not 77 00:05:55,475 --> 00:06:06,755 Speaker 1: the law should crush him today. If that was hard 78 00:06:06,835 --> 00:06:11,115 Speaker 1: to clearly understand, a reporter asked, do you plan to 79 00:06:11,155 --> 00:06:14,915 Speaker 1: comply with the judge's order, etc. And Trump, for a moment, 80 00:06:15,035 --> 00:06:18,595 Speaker 1: falling off script, answered We'll have to take a look 81 00:06:18,675 --> 00:06:23,315 Speaker 1: at the order. Last Friday, before Judge Chucken, his attorney 82 00:06:23,355 --> 00:06:27,475 Speaker 1: said Trump would abide by her order. Within twenty four hours, 83 00:06:27,475 --> 00:06:30,155 Speaker 1: he had broken it. Within twenty four hours, he had 84 00:06:30,155 --> 00:06:34,315 Speaker 1: had a political prostitute threatened violence over it. Within thirty 85 00:06:34,355 --> 00:06:37,875 Speaker 1: six hours, he had begun another online campaign by proxy 86 00:06:38,395 --> 00:06:43,435 Speaker 1: against her and against the prosecutors. Any other defendant would 87 00:06:43,515 --> 00:06:47,395 Speaker 1: already have been crushed by the law. It is Judge 88 00:06:47,435 --> 00:06:52,355 Speaker 1: Chutkin's responsibility to defend the law and defend the nation today, now, 89 00:06:52,555 --> 00:07:00,555 Speaker 1: without further warning, without further delay, without further appeasement. Trump 90 00:07:00,635 --> 00:07:03,035 Speaker 1: spent the rest of his weekend in abject terror over 91 00:07:03,075 --> 00:07:06,315 Speaker 1: what is to come in Georgia, almost certainly to come tomorrow. 92 00:07:07,115 --> 00:07:10,715 Speaker 1: Between reposted attacks on Judge Chutkin, he posted his own 93 00:07:10,755 --> 00:07:15,195 Speaker 1: attacks on District Attorney Willis, and he has good reason 94 00:07:15,235 --> 00:07:20,035 Speaker 1: to be terrified. The Guardian and CNN broke two parts 95 00:07:20,075 --> 00:07:22,875 Speaker 1: of the same story on top of everything else Trump 96 00:07:22,915 --> 00:07:27,755 Speaker 1: did in Georgia by phone by Rudy Giuliani by public pressure. 97 00:07:28,195 --> 00:07:33,115 Speaker 1: That video that showed the GOP chairwoman of Coffee County, Georgia, 98 00:07:33,435 --> 00:07:37,875 Speaker 1: Kathy Latham, holding the door open to the local Board 99 00:07:37,915 --> 00:07:42,675 Speaker 1: of Elections so two techs could illegally download the voting 100 00:07:42,755 --> 00:07:45,395 Speaker 1: data from the rural county onto a portable hard drive. 101 00:07:45,595 --> 00:07:51,435 Speaker 1: The Coffee County breach well prosecutors have text messages and 102 00:07:51,595 --> 00:07:56,675 Speaker 1: emails quote directly connecting members of Trump's legal team, including 103 00:07:56,675 --> 00:08:02,275 Speaker 1: Bernie Carrick, to that breach. In advance. On January one, 104 00:08:02,435 --> 00:08:05,915 Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, CNN reported head of the January seven 105 00:08:05,995 --> 00:08:10,915 Speaker 1: voting Systems breach, Catherine Fries, an attorney working with Rudy Giuliani, 106 00:08:10,955 --> 00:08:15,355 Speaker 1: Sidney Powell, and other Trump allies, shared a written invitation 107 00:08:15,595 --> 00:08:18,595 Speaker 1: to examine voting systems in Coffee County with a group 108 00:08:18,635 --> 00:08:22,995 Speaker 1: of Trump allies. She literally sent a separate version of 109 00:08:23,035 --> 00:08:27,315 Speaker 1: the invitation to Bernard Carrick and to once again underscore 110 00:08:27,355 --> 00:08:31,595 Speaker 1: that democracy survives less by our efforts than by the 111 00:08:31,715 --> 00:08:35,955 Speaker 1: stupidity of those who would destroy it. This idiot titled 112 00:08:35,995 --> 00:08:42,675 Speaker 1: the letter of invitation quote Letter of Invitation, the Guardian's 113 00:08:42,755 --> 00:08:45,835 Speaker 1: Hugo Lowell fleshed it out. The potential charges at issue 114 00:08:45,835 --> 00:08:49,475 Speaker 1: are computer trespass felonies. He adds, this could all be 115 00:08:49,555 --> 00:08:53,915 Speaker 1: the backbone of racketeering charges. The Guardian does not mention Carrick, 116 00:08:54,075 --> 00:08:57,795 Speaker 1: or Giuliani or Sidney Powell, whose name has been connected 117 00:08:57,795 --> 00:09:00,755 Speaker 1: since at least last year, to this hair brain scheme 118 00:09:01,155 --> 00:09:04,195 Speaker 1: to prove voter fraud in a county Trump won with 119 00:09:04,315 --> 00:09:08,475 Speaker 1: seven percent of the vote. We expect the indictments tomorrow 120 00:09:08,915 --> 00:09:11,475 Speaker 1: because now two of the witnesses who testify to Fannie 121 00:09:11,475 --> 00:09:15,475 Speaker 1: Willis's Special Purpose grand Jury, journalist George Cheaty and former 122 00:09:15,515 --> 00:09:18,635 Speaker 1: Lieutenant Governor Jeff duncan confirm on the record that they 123 00:09:18,635 --> 00:09:21,075 Speaker 1: have been subpoenaed to show up before the regular grand 124 00:09:21,115 --> 00:09:24,115 Speaker 1: jury tomorrow and will do so. The regular grand jury 125 00:09:24,155 --> 00:09:29,435 Speaker 1: can indict, the special Purpose grand jury could not. If 126 00:09:29,435 --> 00:09:32,595 Speaker 1: a fourth set of indictments we're not terrifying enough for Trump. 127 00:09:32,635 --> 00:09:36,595 Speaker 1: One particular newspaper headline about them should be quoting it. 128 00:09:37,195 --> 00:09:43,075 Speaker 1: Georgia is ground zero for Trump exhaustion. As another indictment looms. 129 00:09:43,635 --> 00:09:48,195 Speaker 1: The article is about Georgia Republicans suddenly realizing that this 130 00:09:48,355 --> 00:09:52,075 Speaker 1: is not about them or their party, or their state, 131 00:09:52,555 --> 00:09:55,595 Speaker 1: but only about him, and it has been since twenty 132 00:09:55,675 --> 00:09:59,795 Speaker 1: twenty without interruption. This underlines a point I have brought 133 00:09:59,835 --> 00:10:03,315 Speaker 1: up before. There are limits to how much of the 134 00:10:03,395 --> 00:10:07,635 Speaker 1: Trump soap opera even Trump cultists will put up with, 135 00:10:07,995 --> 00:10:12,195 Speaker 1: even if the responses are specific to a city, state, 136 00:10:12,355 --> 00:10:16,475 Speaker 1: or region and are a long time happening. They are 137 00:10:16,475 --> 00:10:20,275 Speaker 1: also showing up in fundraising, which is declining with each 138 00:10:20,395 --> 00:10:25,235 Speaker 1: new indictment. Oh and perhaps most terrifying to Trump might 139 00:10:25,275 --> 00:10:29,275 Speaker 1: be where that particular headline about Trump exhaustion was seen. 140 00:10:30,755 --> 00:10:40,275 Speaker 1: It's in the Wall Street Journal. Two more Trump points 141 00:10:40,315 --> 00:10:42,635 Speaker 1: in a moment, but first through the looking glass people, 142 00:10:42,715 --> 00:10:45,715 Speaker 1: or more correctly, through the funhouse mirror, that is the 143 00:10:45,795 --> 00:10:48,995 Speaker 1: right wing, a place where Robert F. Kennedy Junior is 144 00:10:49,075 --> 00:10:52,875 Speaker 1: gaining on Joe Biden in their quote race unquote for 145 00:10:52,995 --> 00:10:57,675 Speaker 1: the Democratic nomination. I think the RFK Junior thing might 146 00:10:57,755 --> 00:11:01,635 Speaker 1: be over now. Yesterday in Iowa, I presume he was 147 00:11:01,675 --> 00:11:05,395 Speaker 1: there with all the other Republicans, Kennedy announced he's in 148 00:11:05,475 --> 00:11:08,755 Speaker 1: favor of a federal ban on abortion. At fifteen or 149 00:11:08,795 --> 00:11:11,755 Speaker 1: twenty one weeks quote. I believe a decision to abort 150 00:11:11,795 --> 00:11:14,795 Speaker 1: a child should be up to the women during the 151 00:11:14,835 --> 00:11:18,915 Speaker 1: first three months of life. Asked by NBC if he 152 00:11:18,995 --> 00:11:22,755 Speaker 1: meant a ban beyond that time, he said yes, going 153 00:11:22,795 --> 00:11:30,395 Speaker 1: for that vast national abortion ban group of Democratic primary voters. 154 00:11:31,755 --> 00:11:33,915 Speaker 1: When he realized what had happened, Kennedy fell on the 155 00:11:33,995 --> 00:11:36,795 Speaker 1: Oh it was too loud in their excuse, claiming he 156 00:11:36,795 --> 00:11:39,235 Speaker 1: misheard the question that he does not believe in any 157 00:11:39,275 --> 00:11:42,755 Speaker 1: abortion ban, which doesn't explain why in his first statement 158 00:11:42,795 --> 00:11:44,915 Speaker 1: he limited a woman's right to choose to three months 159 00:11:45,115 --> 00:11:50,035 Speaker 1: or use the phrase three months of life. NBC produced 160 00:11:50,035 --> 00:11:52,395 Speaker 1: a transcript of their interview with Kennedy. It is clear 161 00:11:52,395 --> 00:11:55,955 Speaker 1: he did not misunderstand a thing and is lying. And 162 00:11:56,075 --> 00:11:59,475 Speaker 1: also over here in cloud cuckoo Land, now there's a 163 00:11:59,595 --> 00:12:03,435 Speaker 1: Hunter Biden Special Counsel, and the loudest and most shameless 164 00:12:03,435 --> 00:12:08,435 Speaker 1: of Republicans are angry about it and about who it is, 165 00:12:09,115 --> 00:12:11,915 Speaker 1: even though they've spent a year demanding it and demanding 166 00:12:12,835 --> 00:12:18,195 Speaker 1: that guy Ted Cruz. Last September nineteenth letter to Merrick Garland, 167 00:12:18,435 --> 00:12:22,635 Speaker 1: We the undersigned write to request that David C. Weiss 168 00:12:22,635 --> 00:12:26,355 Speaker 1: be extended special Council protections and authorities to conduct the 169 00:12:26,435 --> 00:12:30,755 Speaker 1: Hunter Biden investigation. Ted Cruz yesterday, Weiss is quote a 170 00:12:30,835 --> 00:12:35,555 Speaker 1: wildly inappropriate person to be a special counsel. Marcia Blackburn 171 00:12:35,875 --> 00:12:39,315 Speaker 1: last September nineteenth signed the same letter as Cruz, and 172 00:12:39,355 --> 00:12:42,955 Speaker 1: I'm caveating this. Lately, the Medusa of the Senate has 173 00:12:42,995 --> 00:12:47,795 Speaker 1: exhibited some cognitive deficits, which is truly serious since she 174 00:12:47,915 --> 00:12:50,475 Speaker 1: didn't start with much in the cognitive bank as it 175 00:12:50,675 --> 00:12:57,035 Speaker 1: was Marshall Blackburn yesterday, Weiss is a quote collaborator. Chuck 176 00:12:57,075 --> 00:13:02,115 Speaker 1: Grassley last September nineteenth, same letter Chuck Grassley on Friday, 177 00:13:02,275 --> 00:13:05,995 Speaker 1: Weiss has been compromised. Chuck adds he may have run 178 00:13:06,035 --> 00:13:10,155 Speaker 1: over another deer. Jamie Comer spent the spring and the 179 00:13:10,235 --> 00:13:15,475 Speaker 1: summer holding hearing after nonsensical hearing, insisting Biden was preventing 180 00:13:15,555 --> 00:13:19,795 Speaker 1: Weiss's appointment as special counsel. Friday. Comer said Weiss's appointment 181 00:13:19,795 --> 00:13:22,475 Speaker 1: a special council is quote part of the Justice Department's 182 00:13:22,475 --> 00:13:27,035 Speaker 1: efforts to attempt a Biden family cover up. Tim Scott 183 00:13:27,475 --> 00:13:31,075 Speaker 1: last September nineteenth, also not a bright bulb, same letter, 184 00:13:31,355 --> 00:13:35,315 Speaker 1: Tim Scott Friday. Weiss's appointment raises further questions about the 185 00:13:35,355 --> 00:13:42,595 Speaker 1: independence of Biden's DOJ. You asked for this guy. And 186 00:13:42,635 --> 00:13:45,515 Speaker 1: then there are two fascists who, even in this uniform 187 00:13:45,595 --> 00:13:50,515 Speaker 1: display of the reality that the Republicans have only one policy. 188 00:13:51,555 --> 00:13:54,075 Speaker 1: As Aaron Sorkin wrote in The American President, they are 189 00:13:54,075 --> 00:13:56,515 Speaker 1: interested in two things, and two things only, making you 190 00:13:56,595 --> 00:13:59,075 Speaker 1: afraid of it and telling you who to blame for it. 191 00:14:00,675 --> 00:14:03,955 Speaker 1: Even against that backdrop, they are particularly a pall and 192 00:14:03,995 --> 00:14:07,715 Speaker 1: good old Jim Jordan wrote to the Attorney General a long, 193 00:14:08,315 --> 00:14:11,795 Speaker 1: angry letter which he summarized on Twitter with quote, why 194 00:14:11,835 --> 00:14:15,315 Speaker 1: hasn't DOJ appointed a special council for the Hunter Biden investigation? 195 00:14:15,715 --> 00:14:19,915 Speaker 1: This he did. On February twenty eighth Friday, A Jordan's 196 00:14:19,915 --> 00:14:22,755 Speaker 1: spokesman announced that DOJ appointing a special council for the 197 00:14:22,835 --> 00:14:25,435 Speaker 1: Hunter Biden investigation quote is just a new way to 198 00:14:25,475 --> 00:14:29,675 Speaker 1: whitewash the Biden family corruption un quote. And yet that 199 00:14:29,755 --> 00:14:33,995 Speaker 1: turnaround five and a half months is nothing compared to 200 00:14:34,035 --> 00:14:37,115 Speaker 1: that which was performed by a creature who wrote an 201 00:14:37,115 --> 00:14:40,275 Speaker 1: op ed on the Fox website saying the failure to 202 00:14:40,555 --> 00:14:45,755 Speaker 1: name Weiss as special counsel confirmed quote political interference from 203 00:14:45,795 --> 00:14:50,555 Speaker 1: the Biden administration unquote interference so bad it quote smells, 204 00:14:50,995 --> 00:14:54,635 Speaker 1: and that it demanded the potential impeachment of Merrick Garland 205 00:14:54,675 --> 00:14:59,595 Speaker 1: and Joe Biden. He wrote that on July twelfth, thirty 206 00:14:59,635 --> 00:15:04,755 Speaker 1: four days ago. Now the same creature says the the 207 00:15:04,755 --> 00:15:08,555 Speaker 1: appointment of Weiss is an attempt to quote obstruct congressional 208 00:15:08,595 --> 00:15:13,515 Speaker 1: investigations or whitewash the Biden family corruption, who went from 209 00:15:13,555 --> 00:15:17,355 Speaker 1: whining and bitching about no to whining and bitching about 210 00:15:17,475 --> 00:15:22,075 Speaker 1: yes in just thirty four days. The Speaker of the House, 211 00:15:22,155 --> 00:15:28,315 Speaker 1: Kevin McCarthy. I would call McCarthy a worm, but worms 212 00:15:28,955 --> 00:15:36,755 Speaker 1: generally only keep digging in one direction, not too you know, 213 00:15:36,835 --> 00:15:41,595 Speaker 1: I truly think Republicans are nearly universally better at politics, 214 00:15:41,795 --> 00:15:47,555 Speaker 1: and especially slimy, chisely politics than our Democrats. But why 215 00:15:47,595 --> 00:15:50,795 Speaker 1: they do not take the win here makes no sense 216 00:15:50,835 --> 00:15:54,435 Speaker 1: to me. They could claim they forced Garland and or 217 00:15:54,595 --> 00:15:58,915 Speaker 1: Biden to appoint the special Council and the one they wanted, 218 00:15:59,475 --> 00:16:02,555 Speaker 1: and then still go ahead and rip his investigation at 219 00:16:02,555 --> 00:16:07,475 Speaker 1: every stage. Instead, they could not break themselves of the 220 00:16:07,555 --> 00:16:13,395 Speaker 1: habit of automatic opposition and gain saying to anything Democrats do. 221 00:16:15,115 --> 00:16:17,515 Speaker 1: This has already taken the steam out of the entire 222 00:16:17,595 --> 00:16:23,795 Speaker 1: Hunter Biden crap and out of them. I suppose it's 223 00:16:23,835 --> 00:16:26,155 Speaker 1: too much to assume that maybe they had heard this 224 00:16:26,395 --> 00:16:30,995 Speaker 1: was coming. Yesterday, Congressman Jamie Raskin said, House Democrats are 225 00:16:31,475 --> 00:16:34,235 Speaker 1: going to release a report about all of the foreign 226 00:16:34,315 --> 00:16:38,915 Speaker 1: government emoluments millions of dollars. We can document that Trump 227 00:16:38,955 --> 00:16:42,995 Speaker 1: pocketed at the hotels, at the golf courses through business 228 00:16:42,995 --> 00:16:49,835 Speaker 1: deals when he was president, and that his family got well, okay, Jamie, 229 00:16:49,875 --> 00:16:54,115 Speaker 1: that is great, but it is billions, not millions. And 230 00:16:54,835 --> 00:16:58,435 Speaker 1: if this is a complete report, it's going to require 231 00:16:58,435 --> 00:17:01,635 Speaker 1: about seven people to lift just one copy of it, 232 00:17:01,715 --> 00:17:11,395 Speaker 1: isn't it. And then there's Ivana Trump literally causing her 233 00:17:11,435 --> 00:17:16,715 Speaker 1: ex husband trouble from beyond the grave. It is now 234 00:17:16,755 --> 00:17:20,075 Speaker 1: nearly thirteen months since she died when she fell down 235 00:17:20,075 --> 00:17:22,555 Speaker 1: a staircase in her home. And if she had been 236 00:17:22,555 --> 00:17:25,595 Speaker 1: the ex wife of a Democrat, any Democrat, we would 237 00:17:25,595 --> 00:17:28,195 Speaker 1: be in month thirteen of the twenty four to seven 238 00:17:28,195 --> 00:17:31,315 Speaker 1: accounts of her quote murder unquote and the quote lead 239 00:17:31,435 --> 00:17:36,875 Speaker 1: suspect unquote, namely the X. But instead we had none 240 00:17:36,915 --> 00:17:40,995 Speaker 1: of that. But we have had the enduringly macabre scene 241 00:17:41,635 --> 00:17:45,475 Speaker 1: of her grave being near the first tea at Trump's 242 00:17:45,635 --> 00:17:50,195 Speaker 1: Chinsey golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey. Now made more 243 00:17:50,315 --> 00:17:54,955 Speaker 1: macabre still because, as the British tabloid The Daily Mail reports, 244 00:17:55,955 --> 00:17:59,115 Speaker 1: the temporary memorial plaque, which has now been there a 245 00:17:59,275 --> 00:18:03,555 Speaker 1: year in lieu of the actual headstone they'll get to eventually, 246 00:18:04,515 --> 00:18:09,155 Speaker 1: is well. Their headline says it all quote, Ivana Trump's 247 00:18:09,195 --> 00:18:15,835 Speaker 1: cordoned off grave is barely visible in completely overgrown area 248 00:18:15,995 --> 00:18:19,515 Speaker 1: of Trump's five hundred and six acre Bedminster, New Jersey 249 00:18:19,595 --> 00:18:24,675 Speaker 1: golf course. And there is, as they say, art a 250 00:18:24,795 --> 00:18:30,315 Speaker 1: series of photos of well grass. Some of the grass 251 00:18:30,355 --> 00:18:33,275 Speaker 1: is turning brown, Some of the grass is scarred by 252 00:18:33,355 --> 00:18:37,075 Speaker 1: patches of dirt. Some of the grass is obscuring part 253 00:18:37,755 --> 00:18:41,075 Speaker 1: of Ivana's marker, so that the first four letters of 254 00:18:41,075 --> 00:18:45,235 Speaker 1: her first name really can't be seen anymore, and it 255 00:18:45,275 --> 00:18:53,875 Speaker 1: looks like it reads simply and solely a Trump. On 256 00:18:53,915 --> 00:18:56,155 Speaker 1: the other hand, think of the good news between the 257 00:18:56,195 --> 00:18:59,515 Speaker 1: thick grass near the marker and the total absence of 258 00:18:59,595 --> 00:19:03,115 Speaker 1: grass just inches away. If you are teeing off on 259 00:19:03,115 --> 00:19:08,035 Speaker 1: one and you really slice the damn thing, now be 260 00:19:08,195 --> 00:19:18,315 Speaker 1: much much easier to find your ball. Also of interest, here, 261 00:19:18,355 --> 00:19:20,555 Speaker 1: it's nothing less than a scene out of any nineteen 262 00:19:20,635 --> 00:19:24,715 Speaker 1: twenty Chicago mob movie or at least one Jimmy Stewart Western. 263 00:19:25,035 --> 00:19:27,875 Speaker 1: The newspaper has the goods on their corrupt leader and 264 00:19:28,115 --> 00:19:31,075 Speaker 1: is about to expose him. So the corrupt leader sends 265 00:19:31,115 --> 00:19:33,955 Speaker 1: in his goons to trash the office and kill the publisher. 266 00:19:35,035 --> 00:19:37,875 Speaker 1: Only this is no movie, and this is not eighteen 267 00:19:37,915 --> 00:19:41,675 Speaker 1: eighty eight or nineteen twenty six. It's twenty twenty three 268 00:19:42,275 --> 00:19:46,075 Speaker 1: in a Kansas town halfway between Wichita and Topeka. And 269 00:19:46,195 --> 00:19:50,475 Speaker 1: the bad guys who in fact trashed the newspaper office 270 00:19:50,475 --> 00:19:54,035 Speaker 1: and led to the death of the publisher they are 271 00:19:54,715 --> 00:19:58,635 Speaker 1: the town police. The FBI better get a book of 272 00:19:58,755 --> 00:20:04,435 Speaker 1: arrest warrants. Fascism in Marion, Kansas. That's next. This discountdown, 273 00:20:07,475 --> 00:20:10,875 Speaker 1: you know, this is countdown with you know Keith Alberman. 274 00:20:19,355 --> 00:20:23,115 Speaker 1: Postscripts to the news some headlines, some updates, some snarks, 275 00:20:23,195 --> 00:20:27,915 Speaker 1: some predictions. Dateline Marion, Kansas waiting on the Department of 276 00:20:28,155 --> 00:20:31,755 Speaker 1: Justice to launch an investigation into police Chief Gideon Cody 277 00:20:31,915 --> 00:20:35,995 Speaker 1: of that town and Marion County District Court Magistrate Judge 278 00:20:36,075 --> 00:20:39,715 Speaker 1: Laura Weyer. The judge signed a search warrant that let 279 00:20:39,795 --> 00:20:45,035 Speaker 1: Chief codies fascist stormtroopers of Marion, Kansas literally trash the 280 00:20:45,115 --> 00:20:49,395 Speaker 1: offices of the newspaper, the Marion County Record. They destroyed 281 00:20:49,435 --> 00:20:52,915 Speaker 1: part of it. They seized the rest, including personal cell phones, 282 00:20:53,235 --> 00:20:56,115 Speaker 1: all the computers, and all the devices of the staff, 283 00:20:56,515 --> 00:21:00,235 Speaker 1: including it's ninety eight year old co owner Joan Meyer, 284 00:21:00,355 --> 00:21:04,195 Speaker 1: all of her devices and equipment. Her stress at the 285 00:21:04,275 --> 00:21:07,195 Speaker 1: damage to the paper and the loss of her own computer, 286 00:21:07,515 --> 00:21:11,515 Speaker 1: her router, her Alexa, her ability to stream shows at 287 00:21:11,555 --> 00:21:15,915 Speaker 1: home was such that she collapsed and died the next day. 288 00:21:16,875 --> 00:21:20,275 Speaker 1: What preceded this, and the word is preceded, not provoked, 289 00:21:20,595 --> 00:21:22,835 Speaker 1: because this is still America, and the destruction of a 290 00:21:22,915 --> 00:21:26,435 Speaker 1: newspaper offices by the cops has to be met by 291 00:21:26,435 --> 00:21:30,155 Speaker 1: the stiffest of jail terms. As Marisa Kabas wrote in 292 00:21:30,195 --> 00:21:33,635 Speaker 1: her substack, quoting publisher Eric Meyer of the paper, quote, 293 00:21:33,795 --> 00:21:36,795 Speaker 1: We've been investigating the police chief. When he was named 294 00:21:36,875 --> 00:21:39,315 Speaker 1: chief just two months ago. We got an outpouring of 295 00:21:39,435 --> 00:21:43,275 Speaker 1: calls from his former co workers making a wide array 296 00:21:43,315 --> 00:21:45,675 Speaker 1: of allegations against him, saying that he was about to 297 00:21:45,715 --> 00:21:49,035 Speaker 1: be demoted at his previous job, and that he retired 298 00:21:49,355 --> 00:21:54,435 Speaker 1: to avoid demotion and punishment over sexual misconduct charges and 299 00:21:54,555 --> 00:21:59,075 Speaker 1: other things. Unquote, the FBI needs to be at Chief 300 00:21:59,075 --> 00:22:02,475 Speaker 1: Cody's home and the homes of his officers today. It 301 00:22:02,555 --> 00:22:05,195 Speaker 1: is only unfortunate that they will not be able to 302 00:22:05,275 --> 00:22:09,435 Speaker 1: charge any of them with murder. Dateline White Deer, Texas. 303 00:22:09,875 --> 00:22:12,435 Speaker 1: And now we have the backstory of the tale of 304 00:22:12,555 --> 00:22:17,195 Speaker 1: Ronnie Jackson has a bad night at the rodeo, the 305 00:22:17,195 --> 00:22:19,635 Speaker 1: one so bad that the first public statement from the 306 00:22:19,675 --> 00:22:23,475 Speaker 1: disgraced Congressoan's office after it occurred was to insist that 307 00:22:23,635 --> 00:22:29,115 Speaker 1: Ronnie Jackson had not been drinking. That's where they started. Firstly, 308 00:22:29,595 --> 00:22:33,475 Speaker 1: one of the deputy sheriffs involved in the incident said, no, 309 00:22:33,915 --> 00:22:37,555 Speaker 1: he'd been drinking. Quote, he was backstage earlier in the 310 00:22:37,595 --> 00:22:41,635 Speaker 1: evening drinking alcohol while I was working security in that area. 311 00:22:42,155 --> 00:22:46,555 Speaker 1: And EMT added he did appear drunk. If you don't 312 00:22:46,595 --> 00:22:49,035 Speaker 1: remember this story, on the twenty ninth of July, a 313 00:22:49,115 --> 00:22:53,115 Speaker 1: teenaged girl had a seizure at a rodeo in White 314 00:22:53,195 --> 00:22:57,595 Speaker 1: Deer outside Amarillo. Jackson formerly the White House position until 315 00:22:57,635 --> 00:23:01,395 Speaker 1: there was a whole thing with no over prescribing pills 316 00:23:01,435 --> 00:23:04,395 Speaker 1: and stuff. Jackson said he rushed to her aid, but 317 00:23:04,515 --> 00:23:09,595 Speaker 1: was man handled and cuffed by over Zealda's deputies, not 318 00:23:09,755 --> 00:23:12,595 Speaker 1: really officers got to the girl first, and they told 319 00:23:12,595 --> 00:23:15,675 Speaker 1: everybody to back away from her, so EMTs who were 320 00:23:15,755 --> 00:23:19,075 Speaker 1: at the rodeo and on their way over could treat her. 321 00:23:19,395 --> 00:23:22,795 Speaker 1: Jackson would not do so, please say. They told him 322 00:23:22,835 --> 00:23:26,155 Speaker 1: four times to back away before they threw him face 323 00:23:26,235 --> 00:23:29,035 Speaker 1: first to the ground. Police say Jackson then threatened to 324 00:23:29,115 --> 00:23:31,915 Speaker 1: quote beat one of the troopers and bury the sheriff 325 00:23:31,995 --> 00:23:34,635 Speaker 1: at the next election. And at one point he bumped 326 00:23:34,675 --> 00:23:37,355 Speaker 1: a trooper with his chest. And he was still threatening 327 00:23:37,395 --> 00:23:40,675 Speaker 1: them and swearing at them even after they removed the 328 00:23:40,715 --> 00:23:43,915 Speaker 1: handcuffs and put him back in his own car without 329 00:23:44,035 --> 00:23:48,875 Speaker 1: charging or detaining him. Oh and guess what, there's bodycam 330 00:23:48,955 --> 00:23:52,955 Speaker 1: footage of all this. They have not released it yet. 331 00:23:54,115 --> 00:24:18,915 Speaker 1: I'll get the popcorn. Thank you, Nancy Faust and Dateline 332 00:24:18,955 --> 00:24:21,955 Speaker 1: New York City near as Kamlanie is out as co 333 00:24:21,995 --> 00:24:25,595 Speaker 1: president of CBS News. This is hours after The New 334 00:24:25,635 --> 00:24:28,555 Speaker 1: York Post reported that he had told colleagues he was 335 00:24:28,595 --> 00:24:32,875 Speaker 1: being removed following clashes with high profile anchors and hr 336 00:24:32,955 --> 00:24:36,995 Speaker 1: complaints about his abusive behavior. Kim Lannie is the guy 337 00:24:37,035 --> 00:24:39,595 Speaker 1: who also tried to appease the right wing by hiring 338 00:24:39,635 --> 00:24:42,875 Speaker 1: former Trump Chief of staff Mick mulvaney as a CBS 339 00:24:42,875 --> 00:24:47,915 Speaker 1: News commentator. Nobody would have noticed. I mean, it's Mick 340 00:24:47,995 --> 00:24:51,515 Speaker 1: mulvaney for crying out loud, except that, in announcing the 341 00:24:51,595 --> 00:24:54,355 Speaker 1: hiring to staff, Kim Lannie explained he had made the 342 00:24:54,395 --> 00:24:56,755 Speaker 1: move in part, quote to make sure that we are 343 00:24:56,755 --> 00:24:59,715 Speaker 1: getting access to both sides of the aisle, which is 344 00:24:59,755 --> 00:25:02,275 Speaker 1: a priority because we know the Republicans are going to 345 00:25:02,315 --> 00:25:05,555 Speaker 1: take over most likely in the midterms. A lot of 346 00:25:05,595 --> 00:25:07,915 Speaker 1: the people that we're bringing in are helping us in 347 00:25:07,995 --> 00:25:13,115 Speaker 1: terms of access to that side of the equation. Unquote. Yeah, 348 00:25:12,635 --> 00:25:16,355 Speaker 1: how did that all work out for you? Niarraje PostScript, 349 00:25:16,395 --> 00:25:19,475 Speaker 1: This podcast continues to burgeon. I have just rented a 350 00:25:19,475 --> 00:25:22,395 Speaker 1: new studio for it, and a video version of it 351 00:25:22,435 --> 00:25:25,475 Speaker 1: is coming at some point soon. But I am only 352 00:25:25,555 --> 00:25:28,155 Speaker 1: nine tenths of a mile away from CBS News World 353 00:25:28,195 --> 00:25:31,715 Speaker 1: headquarters in New York, and provided you'd let me bring 354 00:25:31,715 --> 00:25:34,315 Speaker 1: in one or two of the dogs every day, I 355 00:25:34,315 --> 00:25:36,035 Speaker 1: mean I could hike over and run it for you 356 00:25:36,035 --> 00:25:55,155 Speaker 1: in my spare time. You're welcome. Plus, Norah O'Donnell, the 357 00:25:55,155 --> 00:25:57,435 Speaker 1: anchor of the CBS Evening News, pretty much got her 358 00:25:57,515 --> 00:26:01,955 Speaker 1: first TV break on My old show on MSNBC and 359 00:26:02,035 --> 00:26:05,515 Speaker 1: I can do a fairwea decent impression war Parker Faymale's mayor, 360 00:26:06,315 --> 00:26:11,235 Speaker 1: just saying I don't talk enough about myself on this show. 361 00:26:12,955 --> 00:26:16,475 Speaker 1: I just invoked Aaron Sorkin, so still ahead on countdown. 362 00:26:16,515 --> 00:26:18,955 Speaker 1: I looked at my calendar of stupid stuff that I've 363 00:26:18,995 --> 00:26:20,955 Speaker 1: lived through. What do you know? We just passed the 364 00:26:20,955 --> 00:26:23,115 Speaker 1: anniversary of the day Aaron Sorkin flat out stole a 365 00:26:23,155 --> 00:26:25,915 Speaker 1: line from my father and put it in one of 366 00:26:25,995 --> 00:26:28,995 Speaker 1: his TV series, which was about me things I promised 367 00:26:29,035 --> 00:26:31,395 Speaker 1: not to tell next. I really don't. I don't talk 368 00:26:31,515 --> 00:26:33,955 Speaker 1: enough about myself. We should have like an extra half 369 00:26:33,955 --> 00:26:38,875 Speaker 1: an hour a day, or just talk about myself first 370 00:26:38,875 --> 00:26:40,915 Speaker 1: time for the daily roundup of the miss grants, morons 371 00:26:40,955 --> 00:26:46,635 Speaker 1: un dunning Kruger Effect specimens who constitute today's worst persons 372 00:26:46,715 --> 00:26:51,955 Speaker 1: in the world. The Bronze Bill Hemmer of Fox quote 373 00:26:51,995 --> 00:26:55,675 Speaker 1: News unquote. Hemmer is now co anchoring with the amazingly 374 00:26:55,795 --> 00:27:00,155 Speaker 1: nit witted Dana Perino in an allegedly non commentary news 375 00:27:00,235 --> 00:27:03,435 Speaker 1: hour in which the combined IQ of the anchors might 376 00:27:03,555 --> 00:27:07,515 Speaker 1: not reach triple did. I worked with Himmer briefly at CNN. 377 00:27:07,595 --> 00:27:11,435 Speaker 1: Very affable very pleasant, very stupid, but he has outdone himself. 378 00:27:11,955 --> 00:27:17,075 Speaker 1: Interview about critical race theory or wherever the spinning wheel 379 00:27:17,115 --> 00:27:21,395 Speaker 1: of endless Umbradge stopped that day, and Hemmer was reminiscing 380 00:27:21,435 --> 00:27:24,195 Speaker 1: about his own education and how he thought traveling to 381 00:27:24,235 --> 00:27:28,075 Speaker 1: the place where someone wrote a historically important book would 382 00:27:28,155 --> 00:27:31,235 Speaker 1: help him understand it better. Quote. I remember twenty years 383 00:27:31,275 --> 00:27:34,195 Speaker 1: ago going to Treer, Germany and trying to find the 384 00:27:34,235 --> 00:27:37,475 Speaker 1: home of Karl Marx Cauz. You know, eighteen forty eight 385 00:27:37,555 --> 00:27:45,075 Speaker 1: he wrote Mine COMF. Hemmer was born in November nineteen 386 00:27:45,115 --> 00:27:47,875 Speaker 1: sixty four, meaning that since at least nineteen eighty five 387 00:27:48,395 --> 00:27:52,315 Speaker 1: he has been searching in vain for where Carl Marx 388 00:27:52,435 --> 00:27:56,595 Speaker 1: wrote Hitler's Mind KMFF. When we all know that, in fact, 389 00:27:56,715 --> 00:28:00,915 Speaker 1: Karl Marx wrote the best seller Groucho and Me runner 390 00:28:00,995 --> 00:28:04,155 Speaker 1: up the Baltimore Orioles, and specifically senior vice president Greg 391 00:28:04,235 --> 00:28:09,315 Speaker 1: Baterer and CEO John Angelos, you will recall that they 392 00:28:09,355 --> 00:28:12,355 Speaker 1: suspended team play by play man Kevin Brown for having 393 00:28:12,435 --> 00:28:15,075 Speaker 1: had the nerve to read on the air the team's 394 00:28:15,195 --> 00:28:20,235 Speaker 1: past record against its rivals from Tampa history, supplied by 395 00:28:20,275 --> 00:28:22,875 Speaker 1: the team and given to Brown to read by the 396 00:28:22,915 --> 00:28:27,315 Speaker 1: team run television broadcast. Brown had violated the sacred oath. 397 00:28:27,915 --> 00:28:30,115 Speaker 1: He had revealed that the Orioles had in their past 398 00:28:30,195 --> 00:28:35,035 Speaker 1: actually lost games. Kevin Brown returned to the booth Friday 399 00:28:35,075 --> 00:28:37,995 Speaker 1: after the two week suspension for doing nothing that would 400 00:28:38,195 --> 00:28:41,195 Speaker 1: make any oriol fan think less of the team, and 401 00:28:41,235 --> 00:28:46,315 Speaker 1: then these words were put out in Brown's Twitter account quote. Unfortunately, 402 00:28:46,715 --> 00:28:51,835 Speaker 1: recent media reports have mischaracterized my relationship with my adopted 403 00:28:51,995 --> 00:28:56,155 Speaker 1: hometown Orioles. The fact is I have a wonderful relationship 404 00:28:56,155 --> 00:28:59,995 Speaker 1: with the organization. I asked that everyone disregard the distracting 405 00:29:00,155 --> 00:29:03,155 Speaker 1: noise of the past few days. I have worked closely 406 00:29:03,235 --> 00:29:07,515 Speaker 1: with o's SV Greg Batter for the past four years, 407 00:29:07,715 --> 00:29:11,195 Speaker 1: and John Angelos and I have a solid dialogue based 408 00:29:11,235 --> 00:29:15,355 Speaker 1: on mutual respect. We are all good here in Birdland. 409 00:29:17,155 --> 00:29:19,355 Speaker 1: I have no idea who wrote that, but I would 410 00:29:19,355 --> 00:29:22,475 Speaker 1: bet on it's just a guest here Senior vice president 411 00:29:22,515 --> 00:29:25,275 Speaker 1: Greg Batter and John Angelos. See. I once had to 412 00:29:25,275 --> 00:29:28,315 Speaker 1: write something like that at MSNBC after they tried to 413 00:29:28,355 --> 00:29:32,035 Speaker 1: suspend me and in so doing breached my contract, and 414 00:29:32,075 --> 00:29:34,355 Speaker 1: I realized that if I played ball for another two 415 00:29:34,435 --> 00:29:36,395 Speaker 1: three months with them, they would have to pay me 416 00:29:36,475 --> 00:29:39,875 Speaker 1: like eighteen million dollars, and I could then sign elsewhere 417 00:29:39,875 --> 00:29:42,195 Speaker 1: for a lot more than that, and I did both. 418 00:29:42,795 --> 00:29:47,515 Speaker 1: May the same happen to you, hostage tweet producer Kevin Brown, 419 00:29:48,395 --> 00:29:51,435 Speaker 1: But our winner, General Michael Flynn, And how we permit 420 00:29:51,515 --> 00:29:55,035 Speaker 1: this madman to walk free in this country is inexplicable. 421 00:29:55,555 --> 00:29:58,635 Speaker 1: Flynn has now been condemned by everybody from General Barry 422 00:29:58,715 --> 00:30:03,035 Speaker 1: McCaffrey to the Auschwitz Museum. After a speech in which 423 00:30:03,075 --> 00:30:06,915 Speaker 1: he blamed the Jewish victims Alba Holocaust for not fighting 424 00:30:06,995 --> 00:30:11,155 Speaker 1: back and defeating their Nazi captors. Flynn lied to his 425 00:30:11,195 --> 00:30:14,035 Speaker 1: audience and said that as German Jews were forced onto 426 00:30:14,035 --> 00:30:17,875 Speaker 1: the trains to the concentration camps, there were quote thousands 427 00:30:17,875 --> 00:30:21,555 Speaker 1: of them and not many guards. Flynn added that the 428 00:30:21,635 --> 00:30:24,915 Speaker 1: victims said, Okay, here's my child and God on the 429 00:30:24,955 --> 00:30:30,355 Speaker 1: train unquote. The why didn't the Jews fight back trope 430 00:30:30,475 --> 00:30:33,915 Speaker 1: is one of the more grossly subtle forms of anti Semitism. 431 00:30:34,195 --> 00:30:37,875 Speaker 1: It has been appropriated by worse creatures even than Flynn. 432 00:30:38,675 --> 00:30:41,515 Speaker 1: He seemed to think he was warning his followers about 433 00:30:42,435 --> 00:30:45,795 Speaker 1: who knows, because to equate yourself with the victims of 434 00:30:45,875 --> 00:30:49,155 Speaker 1: Hitler is to obscure the truth. Flynn and his followers 435 00:30:49,275 --> 00:30:52,875 Speaker 1: are the Nazis. But you already know this. You probably 436 00:30:52,915 --> 00:30:56,635 Speaker 1: even heard the audio already of Flynn's deplorable victim blaming. 437 00:30:57,115 --> 00:30:59,355 Speaker 1: What you may not have seen was the detailed and 438 00:30:59,435 --> 00:31:04,435 Speaker 1: surprisingly restrained, six hundred word answer to Flynn from the 439 00:31:04,435 --> 00:31:07,395 Speaker 1: out Schwitz Museum about the facts of the rounding up 440 00:31:07,435 --> 00:31:10,995 Speaker 1: in Germany and the firepower used by the Germans and 441 00:31:11,115 --> 00:31:14,315 Speaker 1: those who fought back against the Nazis. And even more 442 00:31:14,355 --> 00:31:19,555 Speaker 1: important than that, you probably did not see Flynn's astonishing reply, 443 00:31:20,235 --> 00:31:24,955 Speaker 1: in which he doubled down. Flynn tweeted in response, quote 444 00:31:25,195 --> 00:31:29,155 Speaker 1: the fact you need to explain so much shows you 445 00:31:29,315 --> 00:31:36,035 Speaker 1: don't understand the point I'm making unquote Seriously, Michael Flynn 446 00:31:36,595 --> 00:31:42,635 Speaker 1: is explaining the Holocaust to the Auschwitz Museum. General Michael Flynn, 447 00:31:43,315 --> 00:31:46,675 Speaker 1: traitor to the uniform he once wore, and in desperate 448 00:31:46,715 --> 00:31:51,875 Speaker 1: need of immediate institutionalization or a neurological exam or an 449 00:31:51,955 --> 00:31:55,795 Speaker 1: arrest or all of the above, and quite literally two 450 00:31:55,915 --> 00:32:13,275 Speaker 1: days worst person in the world. Finally, our number one 451 00:32:13,315 --> 00:32:15,755 Speaker 1: story in the countdown things I promised not to tell 452 00:32:15,755 --> 00:32:19,635 Speaker 1: And back to my favorite topic me I heard Jeff 453 00:32:19,715 --> 00:32:22,395 Speaker 1: Daniels say the words, and in the next minute my 454 00:32:22,515 --> 00:32:26,075 Speaker 1: cell phone rang. It was an ex girlfriend. While we 455 00:32:26,075 --> 00:32:28,995 Speaker 1: were talking, an email arrived from another ex girlfriend, and 456 00:32:28,995 --> 00:32:31,195 Speaker 1: then in came a text from the current girlfriend at 457 00:32:31,195 --> 00:32:34,515 Speaker 1: her folks house, then two more emails, and before I 458 00:32:34,595 --> 00:32:38,875 Speaker 1: was off the phone to voicemails, and then regular friends 459 00:32:38,915 --> 00:32:41,635 Speaker 1: started to contact me. This is just over ten years 460 00:32:41,635 --> 00:32:45,675 Speaker 1: ago now. It was Sunday, August fifth, twenty twelve. Jeff 461 00:32:45,715 --> 00:32:49,835 Speaker 1: Daniels was playing the controversial newscaster and commentator on Aaron 462 00:32:49,915 --> 00:32:54,515 Speaker 1: Sorkin's HBO series Newsroom, which was based structurally on Me 463 00:32:54,715 --> 00:32:58,515 Speaker 1: and Countdown. And I know this because Aaron Sorkin told 464 00:32:58,555 --> 00:33:01,395 Speaker 1: me so before he filmed any of it. And I 465 00:33:01,475 --> 00:33:03,995 Speaker 1: know this because he asked me if he could base 466 00:33:04,035 --> 00:33:06,275 Speaker 1: the pilot ap episode on what happened to me at 467 00:33:06,395 --> 00:33:10,035 Speaker 1: MSNBC in the spring and summer of twenty ten. And 468 00:33:10,075 --> 00:33:12,355 Speaker 1: I know this because he came in and shadowed the 469 00:33:12,355 --> 00:33:15,275 Speaker 1: staff of Countdown for two days to get the feel 470 00:33:15,355 --> 00:33:17,635 Speaker 1: for the place. And I know this because he wound 471 00:33:17,755 --> 00:33:23,275 Speaker 1: up basing one character, Maggie Jordan, on my assistant Margaret Judson, 472 00:33:23,795 --> 00:33:27,115 Speaker 1: and then hiring Margaret Judson as a consultant and then 473 00:33:27,235 --> 00:33:29,195 Speaker 1: hiring her as an actress to play a part that 474 00:33:29,315 --> 00:33:32,355 Speaker 1: wasn't supposed to be her. And I know this because 475 00:33:32,395 --> 00:33:35,315 Speaker 1: he was furious when I would not fly to Denver. 476 00:33:35,395 --> 00:33:38,075 Speaker 1: I think it was to do a cameo in the pilot. 477 00:33:38,395 --> 00:33:40,435 Speaker 1: And I know this because he said he was hiring 478 00:33:40,435 --> 00:33:42,595 Speaker 1: me as a consultant. And I know this because I 479 00:33:42,675 --> 00:33:46,155 Speaker 1: never saw a dime out of it. This was the 480 00:33:46,235 --> 00:33:48,955 Speaker 1: second time Aaron Sorkin had based one of his TV 481 00:33:49,115 --> 00:33:52,435 Speaker 1: series on one of my TV series. The other was 482 00:33:52,475 --> 00:33:56,035 Speaker 1: called Sports Night, and Esquire magazine once asked me to 483 00:33:56,195 --> 00:33:59,275 Speaker 1: interview Sorkin about Sports Night, and I asked him the 484 00:33:59,315 --> 00:34:02,435 Speaker 1: real tough question, what was the origin of Sports Night? 485 00:34:02,795 --> 00:34:06,995 Speaker 1: And his answer was, quote, you are the origin. So 486 00:34:07,075 --> 00:34:09,635 Speaker 1: when The New York Times had called me about Newsroom, 487 00:34:09,675 --> 00:34:12,275 Speaker 1: I lightheartedly said it was nice to know in advance 488 00:34:12,355 --> 00:34:15,315 Speaker 1: this time that Aaron Sorkin was making a TV series 489 00:34:15,355 --> 00:34:20,195 Speaker 1: about me. Sorkin did not like this at all, and 490 00:34:20,235 --> 00:34:23,035 Speaker 1: he told all his actors to tell all their interviewers 491 00:34:23,035 --> 00:34:25,315 Speaker 1: that this was not true. And I know that because 492 00:34:25,355 --> 00:34:27,515 Speaker 1: Jeff Daniels told me that that was what Sorkin had 493 00:34:27,555 --> 00:34:32,875 Speaker 1: told him. Sorkin is interesting. I had known him for 494 00:34:32,955 --> 00:34:35,115 Speaker 1: about ten or twelve years when he came in to 495 00:34:35,195 --> 00:34:37,835 Speaker 1: countdown to see what it looked and felt like. And 496 00:34:37,915 --> 00:34:41,795 Speaker 1: he was twenty minutes late. And my assistant Margaret, after 497 00:34:41,835 --> 00:34:44,315 Speaker 1: whom he named Maggie Jordan, whom he then hired away 498 00:34:44,355 --> 00:34:46,395 Speaker 1: from me, and whom he finally hired as an actress 499 00:34:46,435 --> 00:34:48,915 Speaker 1: to play Tess Weston, and she was great, by the way. 500 00:34:49,515 --> 00:34:52,355 Speaker 1: Margaret brings him in and he apologizes for being late, 501 00:34:52,395 --> 00:34:54,675 Speaker 1: and he says he's staying in a hotel two blocks away, 502 00:34:54,795 --> 00:34:56,555 Speaker 1: and he should have just walked, but instead he got 503 00:34:56,595 --> 00:34:58,955 Speaker 1: in a car, and the next thing he knew, he 504 00:34:58,995 --> 00:35:02,315 Speaker 1: was six blocks away, caught in traffic caused by the 505 00:35:02,315 --> 00:35:06,355 Speaker 1: complete shutdown of one of the crosstown streets for midday construction. 506 00:35:06,915 --> 00:35:09,955 Speaker 1: And I laughed, and I said, well, like my late father, 507 00:35:10,035 --> 00:35:12,715 Speaker 1: the architect used to say, New York, it'll be a 508 00:35:12,755 --> 00:35:15,915 Speaker 1: great town whenever they finish it. And he laughed, and 509 00:35:15,995 --> 00:35:19,475 Speaker 1: I laughed. And two years later, in the seventh episode 510 00:35:19,515 --> 00:35:23,355 Speaker 1: of the HBO Newsroom series first aired on August fifth, 511 00:35:23,355 --> 00:35:27,195 Speaker 1: twenty twelve, and re aired throughout the week, Jeff Daniels 512 00:35:27,235 --> 00:35:30,635 Speaker 1: as the anchorman, Will McAvoy who wasn't me but actually 513 00:35:30,675 --> 00:35:34,195 Speaker 1: kind of was me, is late to his newsroom because 514 00:35:34,715 --> 00:35:37,595 Speaker 1: he gets caught in Manhattan traffic caused by Sunday night 515 00:35:37,635 --> 00:35:41,515 Speaker 1: street construction, and he says to his exasperated producer, new York, 516 00:35:42,115 --> 00:35:45,795 Speaker 1: it'll be a great town whenever they finish it. That's 517 00:35:46,515 --> 00:35:49,795 Speaker 1: when my phone and email blew up, and the then girlfriend, 518 00:35:49,795 --> 00:35:53,475 Speaker 1: and like forty percent of all of my exes ever, 519 00:35:53,995 --> 00:35:56,915 Speaker 1: all had the same question, New York, it'll be a 520 00:35:56,915 --> 00:35:59,515 Speaker 1: great town whenever they finish it. Isn't that what your 521 00:35:59,595 --> 00:36:02,515 Speaker 1: dad used to say? Even the ones who never met 522 00:36:02,515 --> 00:36:05,915 Speaker 1: my dad knew this because I used to quote him constantly, 523 00:36:06,435 --> 00:36:08,555 Speaker 1: because the real humor in the quote is the fact 524 00:36:08,595 --> 00:36:11,635 Speaker 1: that my dad was an architect and construction was his business. 525 00:36:12,115 --> 00:36:15,435 Speaker 1: New York, It'll be a great town whenever they finish it. 526 00:36:16,195 --> 00:36:19,275 Speaker 1: And then one of the last of the exes reached out. 527 00:36:19,355 --> 00:36:21,835 Speaker 1: She waited until the show was over. Now, I don't 528 00:36:21,875 --> 00:36:24,915 Speaker 1: think any of us is proud of this, but she 529 00:36:25,195 --> 00:36:29,395 Speaker 1: had also dated Sorkin once or twice, and since she 530 00:36:29,475 --> 00:36:32,235 Speaker 1: had written celebrity stories for a New York newspaper, he 531 00:36:32,275 --> 00:36:35,155 Speaker 1: had later asked her by email what the world of 532 00:36:35,195 --> 00:36:38,755 Speaker 1: gossip reporting was like, and she told him by email, 533 00:36:39,075 --> 00:36:42,395 Speaker 1: and what she now told me made Aaron Sorkin's use 534 00:36:42,395 --> 00:36:45,275 Speaker 1: of my dad's quote and other parts of my life 535 00:36:45,315 --> 00:36:49,475 Speaker 1: seem like possible coincidences. She said. She was watching the third, 536 00:36:49,835 --> 00:36:53,675 Speaker 1: maybe fourth episode of Newsroom, and in walked a new character, 537 00:36:53,795 --> 00:36:56,835 Speaker 1: a gossip columnist, a woman, and the first sentence the 538 00:36:56,915 --> 00:37:01,075 Speaker 1: character said was my friend an X said word for 539 00:37:01,195 --> 00:37:04,115 Speaker 1: word something she had sent to Sorkin in one of 540 00:37:04,155 --> 00:37:07,795 Speaker 1: the email about the gossip business. She said, when she 541 00:37:07,915 --> 00:37:10,435 Speaker 1: heard it, her face started to get red and it 542 00:37:10,475 --> 00:37:14,515 Speaker 1: would keep getting reader. The gossip columnist character's second line 543 00:37:14,515 --> 00:37:17,195 Speaker 1: had also been cut and pasted from my ex's email, 544 00:37:17,715 --> 00:37:20,235 Speaker 1: then her long speech, then all of her dialogue. She 545 00:37:20,275 --> 00:37:22,995 Speaker 1: said in her second scene, my ex actually managed to 546 00:37:23,035 --> 00:37:25,875 Speaker 1: record that episode and to find her own email to 547 00:37:25,915 --> 00:37:28,115 Speaker 1: Sorkin and to compare them, and she said, other than 548 00:37:28,195 --> 00:37:32,435 Speaker 1: changing a couple of tenses, he had used her answers verbatim. 549 00:37:34,635 --> 00:37:37,355 Speaker 1: I met the actor Josh Charles during the two thousand 550 00:37:37,435 --> 00:37:40,115 Speaker 1: World Series. I was there anchoring it for Fox Sports. 551 00:37:40,555 --> 00:37:44,115 Speaker 1: Josh was there promoting his new show on Fox. Josh 552 00:37:44,155 --> 00:37:47,915 Speaker 1: had played Dan Rydell on Sorkin's Sports Night series and 553 00:37:47,955 --> 00:37:51,275 Speaker 1: even Sorkin, and I agree, Dan Rydell is just me 554 00:37:51,395 --> 00:37:54,875 Speaker 1: with a different haircut. I was walking up Sixth Avenue 555 00:37:54,875 --> 00:37:57,915 Speaker 1: one day in October two thousand and from several blocks away, 556 00:37:58,555 --> 00:38:02,355 Speaker 1: I saw Josh Charles walking towards me, so I had 557 00:38:02,395 --> 00:38:04,675 Speaker 1: several minutes to prepare what I could say to him. 558 00:38:04,995 --> 00:38:09,355 Speaker 1: This was not spontaneous, sadly, but after our eyes met 559 00:38:09,395 --> 00:38:12,155 Speaker 1: and I smiled and he gave me that yes, I'm 560 00:38:12,195 --> 00:38:15,595 Speaker 1: on TV, look that I recognize and have myself deployed. 561 00:38:16,075 --> 00:38:19,315 Speaker 1: He switched suddenly to shock and even a little apprehension, 562 00:38:19,915 --> 00:38:21,915 Speaker 1: and I said the line I had been rehearsing in 563 00:38:21,995 --> 00:38:26,115 Speaker 1: my head for several minutes. Excuse me, you don't get 564 00:38:26,115 --> 00:38:29,155 Speaker 1: to say this often in life, But didn't you use 565 00:38:29,235 --> 00:38:32,715 Speaker 1: to play me on TV? Right there on sixth aven 566 00:38:32,755 --> 00:38:35,035 Speaker 1: You Josh told me about the ordeal of working with 567 00:38:35,155 --> 00:38:37,355 Speaker 1: and for Aaron Sorkin, and I thought he just met 568 00:38:37,475 --> 00:38:41,955 Speaker 1: for actors, but I later found out because New York, 569 00:38:42,035 --> 00:38:45,075 Speaker 1: it'll be a great time whenever they finish it. Josh 570 00:38:45,155 --> 00:38:47,395 Speaker 1: and I are still friends. We've gone to ballgames together, 571 00:38:47,475 --> 00:38:49,755 Speaker 1: we were in a fantasy baseball league together, and one 572 00:38:49,835 --> 00:38:53,275 Speaker 1: night on my ESPN two show. We came back from commercial, 573 00:38:53,275 --> 00:38:56,515 Speaker 1: giving the audience no warning or explanation, and we simply 574 00:38:56,555 --> 00:38:59,435 Speaker 1: started co anchoring the show and calling it Sports Night 575 00:38:59,995 --> 00:39:02,995 Speaker 1: and making references to the program and to Newsroom. And 576 00:39:03,035 --> 00:39:06,315 Speaker 1: then he said, why did we keep reading this? And 577 00:39:06,355 --> 00:39:08,715 Speaker 1: I said, I don't know. I just assumed Sorkin had 578 00:39:08,755 --> 00:39:12,755 Speaker 1: run out of new ideas. The mutual laughter that followed 579 00:39:12,915 --> 00:39:17,355 Speaker 1: was sincere. There is one more punchline to the Newsroom 580 00:39:17,435 --> 00:39:20,995 Speaker 1: Sorkin story, because I was like his seventh guest ever. 581 00:39:21,155 --> 00:39:25,555 Speaker 1: When Stephen Colbert wrapped up the Colbert Report on Comedy Central, 582 00:39:25,875 --> 00:39:28,875 Speaker 1: I was invited to be on the final farewell episode, 583 00:39:29,035 --> 00:39:32,555 Speaker 1: me and like ninety nine other people. There were so 584 00:39:32,675 --> 00:39:36,435 Speaker 1: many of us, ranging from Barry Manilow to Brian Cranston 585 00:39:36,835 --> 00:39:40,515 Speaker 1: to Big Bird, that they had like nine green rooms 586 00:39:40,555 --> 00:39:42,915 Speaker 1: in the Comedy Central building. And I get there and 587 00:39:42,915 --> 00:39:44,595 Speaker 1: they send me to the green room I would be 588 00:39:44,635 --> 00:39:46,715 Speaker 1: sharing with several other people, and I'd trudge up a 589 00:39:46,715 --> 00:39:48,875 Speaker 1: bunch of stairs to the top floor. And in this 590 00:39:48,915 --> 00:39:52,115 Speaker 1: big room there is only one other performer there yet 591 00:39:53,115 --> 00:39:57,315 Speaker 1: it's Jeff Daniels. Without saying hello, he says, now, wait, 592 00:39:57,395 --> 00:40:01,595 Speaker 1: let me explain. Sorkin told me, and I explained, and 593 00:40:01,635 --> 00:40:04,115 Speaker 1: then he explained, and then I explained some more and 594 00:40:04,195 --> 00:40:09,795 Speaker 1: Jeff said, oh a lot, and once he said oops, 595 00:40:10,395 --> 00:40:13,715 Speaker 1: and Sorkin didn't tell me that. And after about three 596 00:40:13,755 --> 00:40:16,395 Speaker 1: minutes he said, so I owe you an apology and 597 00:40:16,435 --> 00:40:18,995 Speaker 1: I said, no, you don't. It's not your fault. And 598 00:40:19,035 --> 00:40:21,195 Speaker 1: he smiled and he said, well great, I'm glad. So 599 00:40:22,795 --> 00:40:25,195 Speaker 1: can we take a picture together that I can put 600 00:40:25,195 --> 00:40:28,675 Speaker 1: out on Twitter? And I said, yeah, absolutely, but only 601 00:40:28,715 --> 00:40:32,075 Speaker 1: if you capture it. New York. It'll be a great 602 00:40:32,155 --> 00:40:47,915 Speaker 1: town whenever they finish it. I've done all the damage 603 00:40:47,955 --> 00:40:51,435 Speaker 1: I can do here. Thank you for listening, New York. 604 00:40:51,475 --> 00:40:53,315 Speaker 1: It'll be great whenever they finish it. Countdown has come 605 00:40:53,355 --> 00:40:55,635 Speaker 1: to you from our studios high atop the Sports Capsule 606 00:40:55,635 --> 00:40:58,475 Speaker 1: Building in New York. There are the credits. Most of 607 00:40:58,475 --> 00:41:02,035 Speaker 1: the music was arranged, produced, and performed by Brian Ray 608 00:41:02,075 --> 00:41:05,275 Speaker 1: and John Philip Chanel. They are the Countdown music directors. 609 00:41:05,515 --> 00:41:09,195 Speaker 1: All orchestration and keyboards by John Phillipshonel, guitars, bass and 610 00:41:09,275 --> 00:41:13,475 Speaker 1: drums by Brian Ray, produced by Tko Brothers. Other Beethoven 611 00:41:13,515 --> 00:41:16,395 Speaker 1: selections have been arranged and performed by No horns allowed 612 00:41:16,875 --> 00:41:19,955 Speaker 1: The sports music is the Olderman theme from ESPN two. 613 00:41:20,355 --> 00:41:23,275 Speaker 1: It was written by Mitch Warren Davis courtesy of ESPN, Inc. 614 00:41:23,795 --> 00:41:27,115 Speaker 1: Musical comments by Nancy Fauss. The best baseball stadium organist ever. 615 00:41:27,435 --> 00:41:29,995 Speaker 1: Our announcer today was my friend Richard Lewis, and everything 616 00:41:29,995 --> 00:41:33,795 Speaker 1: else was pretty much my fault. So that's countdown for this, 617 00:41:33,875 --> 00:41:37,395 Speaker 1: the nine hundred and fiftieth day since Donald Trump's first 618 00:41:37,395 --> 00:41:40,755 Speaker 1: attempted coup against the democratically elected government of the United States. 619 00:41:41,155 --> 00:41:44,995 Speaker 1: Arrest him again while we still can. The next scheduled 620 00:41:44,995 --> 00:41:48,595 Speaker 1: countdown is tomorrow. Bulletins as the news warrants till then, 621 00:41:49,115 --> 00:41:53,195 Speaker 1: I'm Keith Olriman, Good morning, good afternoon, good night, and 622 00:41:53,635 --> 00:42:14,835 Speaker 1: good luck. Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. 623 00:42:15,155 --> 00:42:20,475 Speaker 1: For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, 624 00:42:20,555 --> 00:42:22,515 Speaker 1: or wherever you get your podcasts.