1 00:00:04,755 --> 00:00:08,995 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of I Heart Radio. 2 00:00:24,115 --> 00:00:28,595 Speaker 1: It is time to arrest Marjorie Taylor Green for her 3 00:00:28,635 --> 00:00:33,195 Speaker 1: two thousand, nineteen violations of eighteen United States Code seven 4 00:00:33,315 --> 00:00:40,955 Speaker 1: one threats against president and successors to the presidency. Stochastic 5 00:00:41,035 --> 00:00:43,475 Speaker 1: terrorists like Marjorie Taylor Green had to be stopped now 6 00:00:43,835 --> 00:00:47,875 Speaker 1: before something they inspired, something they publicly advocated, something they 7 00:00:47,955 --> 00:00:54,915 Speaker 1: asked for happens happens again. The Republicans have spent every 8 00:00:54,915 --> 00:00:57,995 Speaker 1: hour since the assassination attempt at Nancy Pelosi's home Friday, 9 00:00:58,075 --> 00:01:02,995 Speaker 1: gas lighting, truther ring both sides, NG what abouting, conspiracy 10 00:01:03,035 --> 00:01:07,355 Speaker 1: theory mongering and its sploiting the weak minded like Elon Musk. 11 00:01:08,395 --> 00:01:12,915 Speaker 1: Their enormous desperate effort has clearly worked. The New York 12 00:01:12,955 --> 00:01:17,235 Speaker 1: Times has shamed itself by downplaying the attack, and countless 13 00:01:17,275 --> 00:01:19,395 Speaker 1: Democrats have been too weak need to call it what 14 00:01:19,475 --> 00:01:22,795 Speaker 1: it was, an assassination attempt on the person who is 15 00:01:22,915 --> 00:01:26,955 Speaker 1: second in line in the presidential succession that is outlined 16 00:01:27,475 --> 00:01:31,515 Speaker 1: in eighteen US Code eight seven one. An assassination attempt 17 00:01:31,955 --> 00:01:37,635 Speaker 1: inspired and invoked a fused, prepared and lit by Republicans 18 00:01:37,715 --> 00:01:40,795 Speaker 1: running the gamut from the head of the party's congressional 19 00:01:40,875 --> 00:01:45,995 Speaker 1: campaign committee to a dangerous, deranged, fascistic creature who is 20 00:01:46,115 --> 00:01:51,555 Speaker 1: truly the scum of the earth. Marjorie Taylor Green might 21 00:01:51,555 --> 00:01:54,555 Speaker 1: as well have been in Nancy Pelosi's house handing David 22 00:01:54,635 --> 00:01:56,995 Speaker 1: de Pappi the bag full of duct tape and the 23 00:01:57,115 --> 00:02:02,315 Speaker 1: zip ties and the hammer. Marjorie Taylor Green rose to 24 00:02:02,395 --> 00:02:08,355 Speaker 1: prominence by threatening Nancy Pelosi by violating eighteen United States 25 00:02:08,355 --> 00:02:11,635 Speaker 1: Code eight seven one, by telling crowds quote, it's a 26 00:02:11,715 --> 00:02:15,995 Speaker 1: crime punishable by death, is what treason is. Nancy Pelosi 27 00:02:16,155 --> 00:02:20,475 Speaker 1: is guilty of treason, and she is a trader, and 28 00:02:20,955 --> 00:02:25,755 Speaker 1: she's dying in Congress or in one video she posted 29 00:02:25,795 --> 00:02:29,195 Speaker 1: to Facebook in January two tho nineteen and then mysteriously 30 00:02:29,275 --> 00:02:33,835 Speaker 1: deleted later saying all of that all at the same time, 31 00:02:34,715 --> 00:02:38,235 Speaker 1: she's a trader to our country. She's guilty of treason. 32 00:02:39,515 --> 00:02:42,995 Speaker 1: Took a note to protect American citizens and uphold our laws, 33 00:02:43,595 --> 00:02:46,795 Speaker 1: and she gives aid and comfort to our enemies who 34 00:02:46,875 --> 00:02:51,315 Speaker 1: illegally invade our land. That's what treason is. And by 35 00:02:51,355 --> 00:02:55,995 Speaker 1: our law, representatives and senators can be kicked out and 36 00:02:56,075 --> 00:03:00,155 Speaker 1: no longer serve in our government. And it's a It's 37 00:03:00,195 --> 00:03:04,955 Speaker 1: a crime punishable by death, is what treason is. Any 38 00:03:05,035 --> 00:03:11,395 Speaker 1: fuzzy is guilty of treason and we want her. She's 39 00:03:11,435 --> 00:03:17,395 Speaker 1: held hers the of power for thirty two years years old. 40 00:03:17,635 --> 00:03:21,515 Speaker 1: He is dying. In Congress eighteen, United States Code eight 41 00:03:21,595 --> 00:03:24,515 Speaker 1: seven one was written originally about threats made by mail, 42 00:03:25,475 --> 00:03:27,915 Speaker 1: but it has been expanded. It says that whoever makes 43 00:03:27,995 --> 00:03:31,635 Speaker 1: quote any threat to take the life of, to kidnap, 44 00:03:31,795 --> 00:03:33,995 Speaker 1: or to inflict bodily harm upon the President of the 45 00:03:34,035 --> 00:03:38,275 Speaker 1: United States, the President elect, the Vice president, or other 46 00:03:38,475 --> 00:03:41,875 Speaker 1: officer next in the order of succession to the office 47 00:03:41,875 --> 00:03:45,955 Speaker 1: of president, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned 48 00:03:45,995 --> 00:03:50,995 Speaker 1: not more than five years or both. That's Marjorie Taylor Green. 49 00:03:51,475 --> 00:03:55,595 Speaker 1: All that is missing is the imbecilic smile. Arrest her. 50 00:03:56,675 --> 00:03:59,435 Speaker 1: What was that Facebook video if not a strain of 51 00:03:59,475 --> 00:04:02,995 Speaker 1: direct threats? And how much longer do we have to 52 00:04:03,035 --> 00:04:05,435 Speaker 1: indulge people like Green who try to by ore others 53 00:04:05,755 --> 00:04:09,555 Speaker 1: to do the violent work for them. How many Republicans 54 00:04:09,675 --> 00:04:11,995 Speaker 1: are we going to let reach the David Dipappe's of 55 00:04:12,035 --> 00:04:15,355 Speaker 1: this country stochastically so that they go out and hunt 56 00:04:15,555 --> 00:04:20,435 Speaker 1: Nancy Pelosi or Gavin Newsom or me or you, how 57 00:04:20,515 --> 00:04:24,515 Speaker 1: much longer do we have to indulge? Tom Emmer? Five 58 00:04:24,635 --> 00:04:28,915 Speaker 1: days ago, Tom Emmer, the chairman of the nrc C, 59 00:04:29,595 --> 00:04:35,075 Speaker 1: the National Republican Congressional Committee, it's chief campaign body for 60 00:04:35,155 --> 00:04:41,355 Speaker 1: the congressional seats, tweeted video of himself that sounded like this. 61 00:04:46,715 --> 00:04:51,275 Speaker 1: To that accompaniment, tom Emmer wrote, enjoyed exercising my Second 62 00:04:51,315 --> 00:04:59,235 Speaker 1: Amendment rights hashtag fire Pelosi. Tom Emmer has evaded answering 63 00:04:59,235 --> 00:05:02,355 Speaker 1: the obvious question where the gun and the Pelosi hashtag connected. 64 00:05:03,795 --> 00:05:06,395 Speaker 1: He doesn't have to add true it. He doesn't have 65 00:05:06,475 --> 00:05:08,995 Speaker 1: to waste time. Of course they are. If they weren't, 66 00:05:09,115 --> 00:05:12,875 Speaker 1: why would you have her name Pelosi as the last 67 00:05:12,995 --> 00:05:16,275 Speaker 1: word placed directly above the video of you firing a 68 00:05:16,315 --> 00:05:20,595 Speaker 1: gun at a shooting range. Arrest Tom Emmer, There is 69 00:05:20,635 --> 00:05:24,275 Speaker 1: no mystery to this. The Republicans have spent more than 70 00:05:24,315 --> 00:05:28,155 Speaker 1: a decade demonizing Nancy Pelosi. They made a fire Pelosi 71 00:05:28,275 --> 00:05:31,315 Speaker 1: video of her in two thousand ten, her face engulfed 72 00:05:31,355 --> 00:05:36,155 Speaker 1: in flames. Taylor Greene got elected by threatening her life. 73 00:05:36,555 --> 00:05:40,595 Speaker 1: Their brown shirts breached the Capitol channing where's Nancy, just 74 00:05:40,755 --> 00:05:43,435 Speaker 1: as De Pappy chanted it last Friday. They have been 75 00:05:43,515 --> 00:05:46,675 Speaker 1: hunting her, and on Friday one of them nearly caught 76 00:05:46,675 --> 00:05:50,155 Speaker 1: her and instead caught her husband and sent him into 77 00:05:50,155 --> 00:05:54,235 Speaker 1: surgery by changing plans from securing him with zip ties 78 00:05:54,275 --> 00:05:57,435 Speaker 1: and duct tape until Pelosi got home and then doing 79 00:05:57,475 --> 00:06:01,435 Speaker 1: the same to her and worse thereafter. And in the 80 00:06:01,475 --> 00:06:06,395 Speaker 1: wake of the years of irrefutable cause and effect evidence, 81 00:06:06,755 --> 00:06:13,875 Speaker 1: the Republicans play dumb. It comes naturally to them. Tom 82 00:06:13,915 --> 00:06:18,075 Speaker 1: Emer's tweet onson about shooting Nancy, Well, of course not. 83 00:06:18,395 --> 00:06:22,995 Speaker 1: It was about the Second Amendment. And anyway, what about 84 00:06:23,035 --> 00:06:25,675 Speaker 1: Steve Scalise and bred Cavanaugh And crime is terrible in 85 00:06:25,715 --> 00:06:28,435 Speaker 1: San Francisco, and that's a Democrats city, and a Democrats say, 86 00:06:28,515 --> 00:06:30,875 Speaker 1: this just proves our point. You know, who's really responsible 87 00:06:30,875 --> 00:06:34,475 Speaker 1: for the attempted assassination of Nancy Pelosi? Nancy Pelosi and 88 00:06:34,515 --> 00:06:40,475 Speaker 1: the soft on crime Democrats. But then they still had 89 00:06:40,555 --> 00:06:43,355 Speaker 1: to come up with something, anything, that could turn the 90 00:06:43,435 --> 00:06:48,515 Speaker 1: hard evidence of the crime into something anything else. And 91 00:06:48,675 --> 00:06:52,435 Speaker 1: in this they were aided by a sloppy, lousy reporter 92 00:06:52,515 --> 00:06:54,395 Speaker 1: in his third year at the Fox station in the 93 00:06:54,395 --> 00:06:57,955 Speaker 1: Bay Area. His name is Evan Surnovski, and Friday, he 94 00:06:58,035 --> 00:07:01,675 Speaker 1: quoted sources as saying that David de Pappi was found 95 00:07:01,675 --> 00:07:06,995 Speaker 1: in the Pelosi home wearing only his underwear. Air. This 96 00:07:07,155 --> 00:07:10,315 Speaker 1: was the only person to report that everybody who repeated 97 00:07:10,355 --> 00:07:14,355 Speaker 1: it was repeating the work of Evans Snowsky. None of 98 00:07:14,395 --> 00:07:19,115 Speaker 1: them are repeating Evan Snowski's retraction quote. I'm now told 99 00:07:19,155 --> 00:07:21,795 Speaker 1: by other sources that the Pappi was not dressed only 100 00:07:21,795 --> 00:07:27,875 Speaker 1: in underwear. Working to clarify, not working hard enough, Mr Sinofsky. 101 00:07:27,915 --> 00:07:30,115 Speaker 1: If you need to reassess your career choice, this is 102 00:07:30,155 --> 00:07:34,755 Speaker 1: too complicated for you. The right wing grabbed the Snowsky 103 00:07:35,035 --> 00:07:39,035 Speaker 1: fake detail and concocted the kind of nonsensical fantasy that 104 00:07:39,075 --> 00:07:41,555 Speaker 1: would satisfy their supporters, who live all the days of 105 00:07:41,595 --> 00:07:45,435 Speaker 1: their lives in a world of nonsensical fantasy. And then 106 00:07:45,475 --> 00:07:49,155 Speaker 1: the coup de gras came from another stupid man with money, 107 00:07:49,355 --> 00:07:52,435 Speaker 1: money that originated in the world of apartheid South Africa, 108 00:07:52,635 --> 00:07:59,235 Speaker 1: and the Zambian Emerald mine E lawn Musk, too stupid 109 00:07:59,795 --> 00:08:03,355 Speaker 1: or too amoral to know what he was doing or both, 110 00:08:04,195 --> 00:08:08,475 Speaker 1: tweet it out the conspiracy theory, adding his own additional 111 00:08:08,515 --> 00:08:12,835 Speaker 1: ounce of personalized idiocy. There's a tiny possibility there may 112 00:08:12,875 --> 00:08:16,315 Speaker 1: be more to this story than meets the eye. Now 113 00:08:16,355 --> 00:08:19,675 Speaker 1: there it was a link to a right wing troll site, 114 00:08:20,235 --> 00:08:24,315 Speaker 1: a fake newspaper so notorious and more importantly, so obvious 115 00:08:25,155 --> 00:08:28,155 Speaker 1: that it once posted that Hillary Clinton had died and 116 00:08:28,275 --> 00:08:30,755 Speaker 1: had been replaced for a debate by a body double, 117 00:08:31,635 --> 00:08:34,315 Speaker 1: once posted the Trump had appointed Kanye West to the 118 00:08:34,315 --> 00:08:38,955 Speaker 1: Department of the Interior, once posted that Bill Gates caused polio, 119 00:08:39,355 --> 00:08:42,275 Speaker 1: once posted that COVID nineteen could be cured with sunlight. 120 00:08:43,435 --> 00:08:48,635 Speaker 1: Good enough freelon Musk. Musk sent this around the world, 121 00:08:49,035 --> 00:08:52,275 Speaker 1: waited seven hours to delete it, said nothing when he 122 00:08:52,355 --> 00:08:56,395 Speaker 1: did delete it, and when called on hit, he mocked 123 00:08:56,435 --> 00:08:59,555 Speaker 1: those who caught him in such an egregious violation of 124 00:08:59,555 --> 00:09:01,635 Speaker 1: the content rules that he says are still in force 125 00:09:01,675 --> 00:09:04,195 Speaker 1: on Twitter, that the tweet by itself should have gotten 126 00:09:04,275 --> 00:09:11,995 Speaker 1: him sus ended by himself. Hidden behind the more obvious 127 00:09:12,035 --> 00:09:15,515 Speaker 1: elements of this nightmare, which is the new Republican Fascist 128 00:09:15,515 --> 00:09:20,595 Speaker 1: Party in microcosm and watched at fast forward speed, violence, threats, denial, 129 00:09:20,635 --> 00:09:24,835 Speaker 1: conspiracy theory, fantasy, all in one weekend, is something almost 130 00:09:24,875 --> 00:09:29,355 Speaker 1: as risky as that Republican Fascist Party in Microcosm. Much 131 00:09:29,475 --> 00:09:33,035 Speaker 1: of the mainstream coverage of the assassination attempt has not 132 00:09:33,155 --> 00:09:36,835 Speaker 1: only not called it, that has not only posited that 133 00:09:36,915 --> 00:09:40,755 Speaker 1: both sides do this and everybody just needs to simmer down, 134 00:09:41,955 --> 00:09:44,995 Speaker 1: but worst of all, suggests that this main streaming of 135 00:09:45,035 --> 00:09:49,675 Speaker 1: political violence or the threat of violence is something new 136 00:09:49,915 --> 00:09:55,035 Speaker 1: or recent. Please note, I am not equating my role 137 00:09:55,075 --> 00:09:57,475 Speaker 1: in this country, nor the downsides of my role, with 138 00:09:57,555 --> 00:10:02,235 Speaker 1: that of any elected official. But my story in this 139 00:10:02,395 --> 00:10:07,075 Speaker 1: area by itself proves that the Republican Party has stood 140 00:10:07,075 --> 00:10:11,755 Speaker 1: for and it has stood for the threat of murder 141 00:10:11,755 --> 00:10:17,075 Speaker 1: and assassination for at least two decades. On September two 142 00:10:17,115 --> 00:10:19,715 Speaker 1: thousand six, at my home, I opened an envelope bearing 143 00:10:19,715 --> 00:10:23,075 Speaker 1: a California postmark and a sticky substance that looked like 144 00:10:23,475 --> 00:10:27,395 Speaker 1: Malcolm powder mixed with drain oh fell out of the envelope. 145 00:10:27,795 --> 00:10:31,955 Speaker 1: There was a note which said it was anthrax. Now 146 00:10:32,035 --> 00:10:34,075 Speaker 1: I and other Liberals would get a taste of our 147 00:10:34,115 --> 00:10:38,955 Speaker 1: own medicine. I knew the odds of it being anthrax 148 00:10:39,035 --> 00:10:43,515 Speaker 1: were extraordinarily small. The guy who sent the actual anthrax 149 00:10:43,635 --> 00:10:46,595 Speaker 1: letters apparently killed himself by mishandling it, and he was 150 00:10:46,635 --> 00:10:49,755 Speaker 1: an expert in the field. On the other hand, what 151 00:10:49,875 --> 00:10:52,955 Speaker 1: if I was wrong? My apartment building was filled with 152 00:10:52,995 --> 00:10:57,195 Speaker 1: elderly residents. So I made a phone call and the 153 00:10:57,235 --> 00:11:00,755 Speaker 1: cops showed up, and the FBI and Homeland Security. They said, 154 00:11:00,755 --> 00:11:02,675 Speaker 1: of course it's not anthrax, but we have to act 155 00:11:02,715 --> 00:11:05,995 Speaker 1: like it is. What if we're wrong? The has Matt 156 00:11:06,075 --> 00:11:08,155 Speaker 1: squad came in, they set up a command post in 157 00:11:08,195 --> 00:11:11,195 Speaker 1: the building. They swept my apartment, they burned my phone, 158 00:11:11,995 --> 00:11:13,235 Speaker 1: and they said, okay, now you have to go to 159 00:11:13,275 --> 00:11:17,955 Speaker 1: the emergency room for tests. It turned out the same 160 00:11:17,995 --> 00:11:20,755 Speaker 1: source had sent other letters with the same fake anthracts 161 00:11:20,755 --> 00:11:24,115 Speaker 1: to people like the chairman of CBS and David Letterman's 162 00:11:24,155 --> 00:11:29,755 Speaker 1: office and the wrong John Stewart and Nancy Pelosi two 163 00:11:29,795 --> 00:11:34,115 Speaker 1: thousand six, and ultimately this same guy sent me three 164 00:11:34,435 --> 00:11:39,755 Speaker 1: more letters and was arrested as FBI agents watched him 165 00:11:39,795 --> 00:11:43,155 Speaker 1: mail the last of these letters, and his online footprint 166 00:11:43,235 --> 00:11:47,235 Speaker 1: showed him to be a Republican Fox News Laura Ingram addict. 167 00:11:48,675 --> 00:11:50,435 Speaker 1: And of course, when the FBI asked me to not 168 00:11:50,555 --> 00:11:53,155 Speaker 1: report on what had happened for twenty four hours to 169 00:11:53,195 --> 00:11:55,515 Speaker 1: give them a shot at catching the guy, the New 170 00:11:55,595 --> 00:11:59,195 Speaker 1: York Post broke the embargo and ran a picture of 171 00:11:59,195 --> 00:12:04,515 Speaker 1: me with the headline powder Puff Spooks Keith, making fun 172 00:12:04,555 --> 00:12:07,875 Speaker 1: of my inability to tell the difference between real anthrax 173 00:12:07,915 --> 00:12:12,475 Speaker 1: and fake anthrax, and making sure to identify me as quote, 174 00:12:12,755 --> 00:12:18,515 Speaker 1: a frequent critic of President Bush's policies. There have been 175 00:12:18,595 --> 00:12:21,755 Speaker 1: less dramatic threats. They started in two thousand three, and 176 00:12:21,795 --> 00:12:26,075 Speaker 1: they continued for criticizing Bush, for criticizing Trump, for criticizing 177 00:12:26,155 --> 00:12:30,435 Speaker 1: Joe Rogan. They continued until what time is it now? 178 00:12:33,235 --> 00:12:36,955 Speaker 1: The largest of these threats came on November eighteen. I 179 00:12:36,955 --> 00:12:39,595 Speaker 1: had gone back to ESPN by then twice, in fact, 180 00:12:39,915 --> 00:12:43,675 Speaker 1: than somebody in the network's personnel office emailed me. There 181 00:12:43,755 --> 00:12:46,915 Speaker 1: is nothing to be alarmed at, no threat, he wrote, 182 00:12:46,955 --> 00:12:49,715 Speaker 1: But I just got a call regarding the nut job 183 00:12:49,755 --> 00:12:53,475 Speaker 1: from Florida that was sending pipe bombs to the Obama's Clinton, CNN, etcetera. 184 00:12:53,915 --> 00:12:57,475 Speaker 1: The FBI scrubbed his computer and they found a list 185 00:12:57,515 --> 00:13:00,315 Speaker 1: of other names on his computer. Unfortunately, your name was 186 00:13:00,395 --> 00:13:04,075 Speaker 1: on that list. The FBI wanted to brief me, so 187 00:13:04,195 --> 00:13:07,075 Speaker 1: I got on phone and I spoke to Agent Randy, 188 00:13:07,115 --> 00:13:10,475 Speaker 1: a veteran of the fake anthrax case of two thousand six. 189 00:13:12,715 --> 00:13:14,835 Speaker 1: We joked a little bit about this. I guess I 190 00:13:14,875 --> 00:13:17,315 Speaker 1: felt some solace in that I was not among the 191 00:13:17,315 --> 00:13:20,795 Speaker 1: people that says are Sayak, the so called mega bomber 192 00:13:20,835 --> 00:13:24,235 Speaker 1: who drew on his own hair, actually sent bombs too. 193 00:13:24,275 --> 00:13:27,555 Speaker 1: I was just on his second wave list, the one 194 00:13:27,595 --> 00:13:31,515 Speaker 1: he never got a chance to act against. My point is, 195 00:13:32,355 --> 00:13:35,155 Speaker 1: if that's what they've done to the mostly irrelevant me, 196 00:13:37,115 --> 00:13:43,395 Speaker 1: threatening death and violence is the Republican Party, and we 197 00:13:43,555 --> 00:13:48,395 Speaker 1: must act against it. Arresting Marjorie Taylor Green and Tom 198 00:13:48,395 --> 00:13:51,795 Speaker 1: Emmer under eighteen United States Code eight seven one could 199 00:13:51,835 --> 00:13:54,075 Speaker 1: be a good start, could in fact be the best 200 00:13:54,075 --> 00:13:57,235 Speaker 1: thing to ever happen to them, Because for twenty years now, 201 00:13:57,275 --> 00:14:01,075 Speaker 1: whenever a Republican stochastic call for violence against a Democrat 202 00:14:01,395 --> 00:14:05,635 Speaker 1: has crystallized into reality, as it did last Friday, after 203 00:14:05,675 --> 00:14:08,835 Speaker 1: the shock has worn out, I have always thought the 204 00:14:08,875 --> 00:14:12,755 Speaker 1: same thing, and I thought it again last Friday. Don't 205 00:14:12,955 --> 00:14:16,675 Speaker 1: the Republicans recognize that if you tell the violent people 206 00:14:17,115 --> 00:14:20,835 Speaker 1: on the fringes of sanity and the fringes of reality 207 00:14:20,955 --> 00:14:24,915 Speaker 1: and the fringes of this society that assassination and violence 208 00:14:25,035 --> 00:14:29,035 Speaker 1: is an admissible means of affecting political change, doesn't Marjorie 209 00:14:29,075 --> 00:14:33,435 Speaker 1: Taylor Green ever wonder how in the hell can you 210 00:14:33,515 --> 00:14:37,435 Speaker 1: be sure that everybody you reach will be a Republican 211 00:14:37,995 --> 00:14:42,035 Speaker 1: and every person they victimize will be a Democrat, and 212 00:14:42,115 --> 00:15:01,595 Speaker 1: not the other way round. Still ahead lost behind all this, 213 00:15:01,675 --> 00:15:04,675 Speaker 1: there was a huge development in the Department of Justice 214 00:15:04,795 --> 00:15:09,755 Speaker 1: investigation of Trump's stolen documents. Why would the Justice Department 215 00:15:09,795 --> 00:15:14,315 Speaker 1: have added to its team one of the foremost prosecutors 216 00:15:14,395 --> 00:15:19,675 Speaker 1: of terrorism. Great ad Chris Koback, the one where you 217 00:15:19,755 --> 00:15:24,115 Speaker 1: show Tiger Woods and the words cop killer together. There 218 00:15:24,155 --> 00:15:26,315 Speaker 1: was a perfect game in the World Series over the weekend. 219 00:15:26,395 --> 00:15:29,115 Speaker 1: You may have missed that. And in things I promised 220 00:15:29,115 --> 00:15:33,115 Speaker 1: not to tell, It's Brian Williams day. Brian Williams lied 221 00:15:33,155 --> 00:15:35,675 Speaker 1: about a Chopper interact, but I thought I was the 222 00:15:35,715 --> 00:15:39,395 Speaker 1: one going crazy. And what the then president of NBC 223 00:15:39,435 --> 00:15:41,795 Speaker 1: News told me seven years ago this past weekend about 224 00:15:41,835 --> 00:15:44,755 Speaker 1: why they did not fire Brian Williams for doing that 225 00:15:44,755 --> 00:15:49,635 Speaker 1: when they really, really, really really wanted to fire him. 226 00:15:49,635 --> 00:16:03,435 Speaker 1: That's next this discountdown. This is countdown with Keith Olberman 227 00:16:07,355 --> 00:16:10,555 Speaker 1: still had the World Series perfect game nobody's talking about. 228 00:16:11,235 --> 00:16:14,355 Speaker 1: Plus why you need to really look at your campaign 229 00:16:14,395 --> 00:16:18,355 Speaker 1: ad before you say. I'm Chris Koback and I approved 230 00:16:18,355 --> 00:16:23,755 Speaker 1: this message, implying the Tiger Woods killed a cop. First. 231 00:16:23,755 --> 00:16:25,835 Speaker 1: In each edition of Countdown we feature a dog in 232 00:16:25,915 --> 00:16:28,115 Speaker 1: need him you can help. Every dog has its day. 233 00:16:28,475 --> 00:16:30,635 Speaker 1: Got to help this guy. If only for his name, 234 00:16:31,355 --> 00:16:33,635 Speaker 1: he could die as early as Tuesday in the New 235 00:16:33,675 --> 00:16:36,715 Speaker 1: York Pound. He is a sixty eight pound two year 236 00:16:36,715 --> 00:16:39,475 Speaker 1: old found on the streets of Staten Island. He was 237 00:16:39,675 --> 00:16:42,075 Speaker 1: very calm. He likes people, he doesn't react to dogs. 238 00:16:42,555 --> 00:16:46,195 Speaker 1: He is afraid of mailboxes. And if you adopt him, 239 00:16:46,595 --> 00:16:48,995 Speaker 1: keep him away from any dog named Brutus. Because he 240 00:16:49,115 --> 00:16:55,315 Speaker 1: is named Drulius Caesar, your pledges to help a rescue 241 00:16:55,355 --> 00:16:58,915 Speaker 1: pull him in time will be deeply appreciated. Drulius Caesar 242 00:16:59,355 --> 00:17:01,675 Speaker 1: will be in the pinned tweet on my account for 243 00:17:01,755 --> 00:17:05,955 Speaker 1: dogs in need Tom Jumbo Grumbo. Your pledge, big or 244 00:17:06,035 --> 00:17:10,155 Speaker 1: small will be gratefully welcomed, as you will be your 245 00:17:10,195 --> 00:17:14,795 Speaker 1: retweet of Julius Caesar's story Not on the IDEs of March, 246 00:17:15,515 --> 00:17:32,155 Speaker 1: and thank you very much, Drulius Caesar. Post Scripts to 247 00:17:32,195 --> 00:17:35,195 Speaker 1: the news, some headlines, some insights, some snark. Dateline Rio 248 00:17:35,275 --> 00:17:38,995 Speaker 1: de Janeiro, former president louise E Nacio da Silva Lula 249 00:17:39,355 --> 00:17:43,075 Speaker 1: has apparently on seated Jared Bolsonaro in the Brazilian presidential 250 00:17:43,115 --> 00:17:47,435 Speaker 1: election fifty point eight three to forty nine point seventeen 251 00:17:47,435 --> 00:17:50,155 Speaker 1: and yesterday's runoff. He has tweeted a photo of his 252 00:17:50,235 --> 00:17:54,435 Speaker 1: hand over the Brazilian flag with the caption Democracy Bolsonaro. 253 00:17:54,595 --> 00:17:57,115 Speaker 1: It would be dictator who had his head of highways 254 00:17:57,235 --> 00:18:01,475 Speaker 1: closed roads in some pro Lula districts so voters couldn't 255 00:18:01,515 --> 00:18:05,115 Speaker 1: get to the polls. Is not likely to take defeat racefully. 256 00:18:05,435 --> 00:18:08,715 Speaker 1: And let's just clarify this. This is Lu Law now 257 00:18:08,875 --> 00:18:12,475 Speaker 1: third term president Brazil, not Lulu who sang the theme 258 00:18:12,515 --> 00:18:16,875 Speaker 1: from the Sydney Potier film to Sir with Love. Dateline Washington. 259 00:18:16,955 --> 00:18:19,835 Speaker 1: It got lost in the Pelosi assassination attempt at News. 260 00:18:20,155 --> 00:18:23,555 Speaker 1: But there's been a major change on the Justice Department 261 00:18:23,595 --> 00:18:28,595 Speaker 1: team investigating Marilago and Trump's nuclear Klemptomania. The Washington Post 262 00:18:28,675 --> 00:18:34,155 Speaker 1: says it has added David Raskin terrorism prosecutor. David Raskin 263 00:18:34,235 --> 00:18:38,355 Speaker 1: helped convict Zicarius Massaui as a nine eleven conspirator, and 264 00:18:38,395 --> 00:18:42,035 Speaker 1: he prosecuted one of the U. S Embassy bombers too. 265 00:18:42,235 --> 00:18:46,315 Speaker 1: He was working on January six, but he's been shifted 266 00:18:46,355 --> 00:18:50,635 Speaker 1: to the documents case. Implying justice is looking now at 267 00:18:51,395 --> 00:18:56,715 Speaker 1: espionage charges against Trump, treason terrorism. All of the above 268 00:18:58,235 --> 00:19:02,675 Speaker 1: dateline Lancaster, Pennsylvania again with the anti Semitism. Doug Mastriano, 269 00:19:02,795 --> 00:19:06,435 Speaker 1: the fascist, anti semit par D candidate for governor from 270 00:19:06,435 --> 00:19:09,555 Speaker 1: Pennsylvania that would be the Republican Party, was quizzed by 271 00:19:09,595 --> 00:19:13,475 Speaker 1: reporter Nathan Gutman of Israel's k a N News about 272 00:19:13,475 --> 00:19:17,955 Speaker 1: his campaign's attacks on Jush Shapiro's Judaism, the Jewish school 273 00:19:17,995 --> 00:19:20,835 Speaker 1: that Josh Shapiro went to, the Mastriano connection to the 274 00:19:20,875 --> 00:19:24,515 Speaker 1: anti Semitic site gab Et cetera. Not only did this 275 00:19:24,675 --> 00:19:27,315 Speaker 1: not go well from Mastriano, but there was a bonus 276 00:19:27,555 --> 00:19:33,235 Speaker 1: when Mastriano's idiot wife took umbrage in your rival's Jewish school, 277 00:19:33,955 --> 00:19:40,435 Speaker 1: previous associations you had with Yeah, I would like to 278 00:19:40,475 --> 00:19:48,715 Speaker 1: make a copiment on that. I'm just gonna say, is 279 00:19:48,755 --> 00:19:51,995 Speaker 1: the family we so much love Israel. In fact, I'm 280 00:19:51,995 --> 00:19:54,595 Speaker 1: gonna say we probably love Israel more than a lot 281 00:19:54,635 --> 00:19:56,995 Speaker 1: of juice to. I have to say that because and 282 00:19:57,035 --> 00:19:59,755 Speaker 1: the reason why I say that is because I'm given 283 00:20:00,155 --> 00:20:03,675 Speaker 1: and Doug, we've given for I would say at least 284 00:20:03,755 --> 00:20:09,195 Speaker 1: ten years to outreach to Israel and Jerusalem. Um we have. 285 00:20:09,675 --> 00:20:12,915 Speaker 1: I have visited um Israel we say for five years. 286 00:20:13,355 --> 00:20:18,155 Speaker 1: Problems there, of course, obviously conflating being Jewish with supporting Israel. 287 00:20:18,675 --> 00:20:21,955 Speaker 1: And while we don't know which groups Mrs Mastriano was 288 00:20:21,995 --> 00:20:25,195 Speaker 1: referring to that she donated to, both Mastriano's have been 289 00:20:25,475 --> 00:20:28,955 Speaker 1: connected to these fundamentalist nut job outfits that believe in 290 00:20:28,955 --> 00:20:32,115 Speaker 1: a rapture that follows only after all the Jews go 291 00:20:32,195 --> 00:20:36,155 Speaker 1: to Jerusalem and either converge or die. And the punch 292 00:20:36,195 --> 00:20:38,875 Speaker 1: line of punch lines. Mastriano's wife is named Rebecca, but 293 00:20:38,955 --> 00:20:44,635 Speaker 1: she answers only to Rebbie different spelling, but in Hasidic 294 00:20:44,715 --> 00:20:48,195 Speaker 1: judaism a Rebbie is the big spiritual leader who's going 295 00:20:48,275 --> 00:20:52,515 Speaker 1: to tell her dateline. San Francisco Musk again a report 296 00:20:52,555 --> 00:20:55,195 Speaker 1: from the site platformer that he's figured out how to 297 00:20:55,235 --> 00:21:00,555 Speaker 1: monetize Twitter and resolve the blue check question. Force verified 298 00:21:00,635 --> 00:21:04,355 Speaker 1: users to join Twitter blue at five bucks a month 299 00:21:04,515 --> 00:21:09,635 Speaker 1: or lose the verified blue check. As Emily Gorzynski notes, quote, 300 00:21:09,835 --> 00:21:13,635 Speaker 1: there are about three thousand verified Twitter accounts. If every 301 00:21:13,675 --> 00:21:16,155 Speaker 1: single account opted to pay this fee, this would bring 302 00:21:16,195 --> 00:21:19,955 Speaker 1: in about eighteen million in revenue, yearly. That's enough to 303 00:21:19,995 --> 00:21:23,515 Speaker 1: pay off the forty billion dollar purchase price in slightly 304 00:21:23,635 --> 00:21:28,715 Speaker 1: less than hundred years plus. It's not like the problem 305 00:21:28,715 --> 00:21:30,995 Speaker 1: of fake accounts isn't already big enough. I mean I 306 00:21:31,115 --> 00:21:35,275 Speaker 1: just checked. There are thirty eight Keith Alderman's on Twitter. 307 00:21:36,195 --> 00:21:39,435 Speaker 1: And if that bad thought disturbs you, think of how 308 00:21:39,555 --> 00:21:56,915 Speaker 1: I feel about it. This is Sports Center. Wait, check that, 309 00:21:58,035 --> 00:22:05,555 Speaker 1: not anymore. This is countdown with Keith in Sports You 310 00:22:05,635 --> 00:22:07,955 Speaker 1: missed it, didn't you? Only the second perfect game in 311 00:22:08,035 --> 00:22:13,035 Speaker 1: World Series history Saturday night in Houston, huh, Astros beat 312 00:22:13,075 --> 00:22:15,395 Speaker 1: the Phillies five two. There was seven pitchers in the game, 313 00:22:15,675 --> 00:22:18,155 Speaker 1: only two of whom even managed to pitch one inning 314 00:22:18,155 --> 00:22:21,075 Speaker 1: of hitless ball. What do you mean perfect game? Now? 315 00:22:21,075 --> 00:22:23,755 Speaker 1: It was a perfect game by the home plate umpire. 316 00:22:24,195 --> 00:22:28,035 Speaker 1: There's a website called ump Scorecards which compares the umpires 317 00:22:28,075 --> 00:22:32,275 Speaker 1: ball and strike calls to what the computers say. Pat 318 00:22:32,435 --> 00:22:36,115 Speaker 1: Hoiberg had one twenty nine ball and strike calls in 319 00:22:36,155 --> 00:22:39,035 Speaker 1: Game two of the World Series, and he got all 320 00:22:39,115 --> 00:22:42,635 Speaker 1: one nine of them right. Eight nine strikes that were 321 00:22:42,795 --> 00:22:46,435 Speaker 1: strikes and forty balls that were balls. This is not 322 00:22:46,515 --> 00:22:49,555 Speaker 1: just the first World Series perfect game by home plate umpire. 323 00:22:49,595 --> 00:22:51,515 Speaker 1: It's the first in any game in the three years 324 00:22:51,515 --> 00:22:54,075 Speaker 1: they have been doing this. A score Cards points out 325 00:22:54,115 --> 00:22:57,755 Speaker 1: that during the regular season, Hoiberg got nineties six percent 326 00:22:57,835 --> 00:23:00,635 Speaker 1: of his calls right. So naturally he'll be behind home 327 00:23:00,675 --> 00:23:03,875 Speaker 1: played again for Game three tonight in Philadelphia. No, he won't. 328 00:23:03,915 --> 00:23:07,155 Speaker 1: They rotate the They used to use the best umpires 329 00:23:07,155 --> 00:23:10,635 Speaker 1: in the best situations a long time ago. Hank O Day, 330 00:23:10,715 --> 00:23:13,275 Speaker 1: who was in the Hall of Fame, umpired the plate 331 00:23:13,355 --> 00:23:16,235 Speaker 1: in six out of the eight games of the nineteen 332 00:23:16,235 --> 00:23:18,315 Speaker 1: o three World Series, and then three out of the 333 00:23:18,395 --> 00:23:20,475 Speaker 1: five games in nineteen o seven, and they only had 334 00:23:20,515 --> 00:23:25,275 Speaker 1: two umpires in those days. Pat Hoiberg the perfect umpire. 335 00:23:33,555 --> 00:23:36,195 Speaker 1: Thank you, Nancy Faust. The other World Series notes. When 336 00:23:36,195 --> 00:23:38,635 Speaker 1: a Houston player tried to hit with a bat borrowed 337 00:23:38,635 --> 00:23:42,435 Speaker 1: from now retired superstar Albert pooh Holes, it was casually 338 00:23:42,475 --> 00:23:45,515 Speaker 1: revealed that baseball had banned pooh Holes is bad of 339 00:23:45,635 --> 00:23:51,035 Speaker 1: choice in two thousand ten because the wood it used, maple, 340 00:23:51,355 --> 00:23:55,395 Speaker 1: was at high risk of injuring people if it shattered. Shattered? 341 00:23:56,035 --> 00:23:59,235 Speaker 1: Should you be but it let pooh Holes continue to 342 00:23:59,395 --> 00:24:02,755 Speaker 1: use an otherwise illegal bad for the last twelve seasons 343 00:24:02,955 --> 00:24:05,955 Speaker 1: and the last three four home runs of his career, 344 00:24:06,995 --> 00:24:10,195 Speaker 1: and as his sport plays its first championship since nineteen 345 00:24:10,275 --> 00:24:13,875 Speaker 1: fifty with no African American players on the field, Commissioner 346 00:24:13,995 --> 00:24:18,995 Speaker 1: Rob Manfred defended Fox Television for running racist commercials during 347 00:24:18,995 --> 00:24:22,355 Speaker 1: the playoffs, commercials done under the aegis of Steven Miller, 348 00:24:22,395 --> 00:24:25,955 Speaker 1: also known by his stage name n s Faratu. Fox 349 00:24:26,035 --> 00:24:28,955 Speaker 1: is a great partner of ours, Commissioner Manfred said, I 350 00:24:28,995 --> 00:24:31,675 Speaker 1: don't think it's fair to them to get into private 351 00:24:31,715 --> 00:24:34,915 Speaker 1: conversations that we may or may not have had. That 352 00:24:35,075 --> 00:24:38,835 Speaker 1: man is an idiot. And responding to a tweet about 353 00:24:38,955 --> 00:24:42,875 Speaker 1: lgbt Q soccer fans planning to boycott the World Cup 354 00:24:42,915 --> 00:24:47,715 Speaker 1: because of guitars legalized homophobia and Al Jazeera columnists from 355 00:24:47,795 --> 00:24:52,475 Speaker 1: Qatar named Abdullah Alamatti tweeted, quote, what a blessed moment. 356 00:24:52,795 --> 00:24:56,915 Speaker 1: We are not honored to welcome such abnormal ideas and tendencies. 357 00:24:57,195 --> 00:25:00,075 Speaker 1: We're looking forward to have a clean sporting event without 358 00:25:00,155 --> 00:25:05,035 Speaker 1: homosexuals or troublemakers unquote none. If the player is all 359 00:25:05,115 --> 00:25:08,555 Speaker 1: boycott your little World Cup sonny. Two weeks ago, the 360 00:25:08,595 --> 00:25:12,275 Speaker 1: head of FIFA said everyone is welcome at the World 361 00:25:12,315 --> 00:25:15,395 Speaker 1: Cup in Qatar, and what he meant by that, of course, 362 00:25:15,595 --> 00:25:27,675 Speaker 1: was everybody's money is welcome, boycott the World Cup coming up. 363 00:25:27,715 --> 00:25:31,475 Speaker 1: It's Brian Williams Day and things I promised not to tell, 364 00:25:32,195 --> 00:25:35,875 Speaker 1: although frankly he could feed neatly into the daily round 365 00:25:35,915 --> 00:25:38,195 Speaker 1: up of the miscreants, morons and Dunning Kruger effect specimens 366 00:25:38,195 --> 00:25:44,155 Speaker 1: who constitute today's worst persons in the world. The bronze 367 00:25:44,915 --> 00:25:48,075 Speaker 1: Rishi Sunac the winner of the latest London Daily Mail 368 00:25:48,715 --> 00:25:51,915 Speaker 1: Prime Minister for a Week contest, and we like to 369 00:25:51,955 --> 00:25:54,715 Speaker 1: congratulate him on making it to his one week anniversary. 370 00:25:54,795 --> 00:25:59,275 Speaker 1: Let me know when they named Dr Who Prime Minister anyway, 371 00:25:59,275 --> 00:26:01,355 Speaker 1: soon Ach has already violated the first rule of the 372 00:26:01,395 --> 00:26:04,275 Speaker 1: original House of Cards series, the good one, the British one, 373 00:26:04,675 --> 00:26:07,995 Speaker 1: in which Prime Minister Francis Urkett warns a photo opportunity 374 00:26:08,435 --> 00:26:12,155 Speaker 1: at a hospital. Oh dear, he thought he was just 375 00:26:12,275 --> 00:26:15,675 Speaker 1: patting an elderly woman patient on the head. No, he 376 00:26:15,755 --> 00:26:19,555 Speaker 1: got much more than he bargained for, and they nicely, 377 00:26:22,795 --> 00:26:30,435 Speaker 1: we're try I will take that away. Take that away conveniently, 378 00:26:30,515 --> 00:26:32,715 Speaker 1: since she cut him open like that. Soon act was 379 00:26:32,755 --> 00:26:36,795 Speaker 1: already at a hospital. The runner up Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton, 380 00:26:36,835 --> 00:26:38,795 Speaker 1: who it says went to Harvard, but I'm gonna need 381 00:26:38,835 --> 00:26:44,435 Speaker 1: to see his transcript. General Motors GM suspended advertising on 382 00:26:44,475 --> 00:26:49,355 Speaker 1: Twitter in large part because, well, they make cars, and 383 00:26:49,435 --> 00:26:52,155 Speaker 1: the new owner of Twitter also makes cars, but a 384 00:26:52,235 --> 00:26:57,315 Speaker 1: different brand. But that's not what Senator Cotton sees. He 385 00:26:57,435 --> 00:27:00,555 Speaker 1: sees a chance to threaten a private industry with governmental 386 00:27:00,555 --> 00:27:02,875 Speaker 1: recriminations the way they do it in Russia or the 387 00:27:02,915 --> 00:27:07,835 Speaker 1: Middle East. Quote. Corporations should think carefully before throwing in 388 00:27:07,915 --> 00:27:12,275 Speaker 1: their lot with the far left of the Democratic Party. 389 00:27:12,755 --> 00:27:14,675 Speaker 1: It is, of course funny to begin with to think 390 00:27:14,675 --> 00:27:19,115 Speaker 1: of Cotton encouraging anybody to quote think carefully. On the 391 00:27:19,155 --> 00:27:21,515 Speaker 1: other hand, all his Republican colleagues will see as him 392 00:27:21,515 --> 00:27:25,395 Speaker 1: correctly calling it the Democratic Party rather than the Democrat 393 00:27:25,835 --> 00:27:30,155 Speaker 1: He'll be beaten severely for that. But our winner one 394 00:27:30,195 --> 00:27:35,235 Speaker 1: of the greatest underachievers of American politics, Chris Kobak, the 395 00:27:35,435 --> 00:27:40,155 Speaker 1: Trump election fraud guy who couldn't find any election fraud, 396 00:27:40,515 --> 00:27:43,515 Speaker 1: and maybe even worse, he couldn't make up any election fraud. 397 00:27:43,755 --> 00:27:46,955 Speaker 1: Having lost races to be Senator from Kansas and then 398 00:27:47,035 --> 00:27:49,955 Speaker 1: governor of Kansas, he's now the Republican nominee for Attorney 399 00:27:49,955 --> 00:27:53,275 Speaker 1: General of Kansas, and he has a problem today, and 400 00:27:53,355 --> 00:27:57,195 Speaker 1: it's a legal problem. Ironically enough, Kobak's campaign put out 401 00:27:57,195 --> 00:28:01,035 Speaker 1: an ad slamming his opponent for opposing the death penalty. 402 00:28:01,275 --> 00:28:02,955 Speaker 1: Right in the middle of this ad, there's a shot 403 00:28:02,955 --> 00:28:06,355 Speaker 1: of a dark skinned guy let off by two cops. 404 00:28:06,955 --> 00:28:09,075 Speaker 1: At the top of the screen, in red, it says 405 00:28:09,155 --> 00:28:12,235 Speaker 1: no capital punishment, and at the bottom, in blue, it 406 00:28:12,355 --> 00:28:17,115 Speaker 1: says for cop killers. Which is fine, I guess, except 407 00:28:17,115 --> 00:28:21,355 Speaker 1: for one problem. The dark skinned guy and Chris Koback's 408 00:28:21,595 --> 00:28:28,235 Speaker 1: aid is Tiger Woods. Tiger Woods, a spokesman says that 409 00:28:28,315 --> 00:28:30,635 Speaker 1: was an ad agency error. We caught it and fixed 410 00:28:30,635 --> 00:28:33,635 Speaker 1: it within minutes. Well, I am maybe, except don't all 411 00:28:33,675 --> 00:28:38,035 Speaker 1: those political ads end with I'm Chris Koback and I 412 00:28:38,075 --> 00:28:42,115 Speaker 1: approved this message which I showed Tiger Woods and have 413 00:28:42,235 --> 00:28:47,275 Speaker 1: the words cop killers over his picture. No comment yet 414 00:28:47,315 --> 00:28:50,435 Speaker 1: from Tiger nor anything on what his plans are for 415 00:28:50,515 --> 00:28:53,075 Speaker 1: after he sues co Back for eleventy billion dollars and 416 00:28:53,115 --> 00:28:58,275 Speaker 1: then owns Kobak's ass for life. Chris, maybe I should 417 00:28:58,275 --> 00:29:02,795 Speaker 1: have used a picture of lebron ko Back Today's worst 418 00:29:03,475 --> 00:29:10,635 Speaker 1: person in the always look at the ad first world 419 00:29:21,235 --> 00:29:23,195 Speaker 1: now of the number one story on the Countdown and 420 00:29:23,315 --> 00:29:25,915 Speaker 1: my favorite topic, me and the day I tried to 421 00:29:25,995 --> 00:29:29,355 Speaker 1: save Brian Williams, and the anniversary of the day I 422 00:29:29,355 --> 00:29:33,395 Speaker 1: found out why NBC did not fire Brian Williams. The 423 00:29:33,515 --> 00:29:37,475 Speaker 1: seventh anniversary was over the weekend, but first we start. 424 00:29:37,515 --> 00:29:42,195 Speaker 1: On Thursday January nine, two fifteen, after I finished my 425 00:29:42,275 --> 00:29:45,875 Speaker 1: late afternoon sportscast on ESPN two, I walked the ten 426 00:29:45,955 --> 00:29:48,235 Speaker 1: blocks to New York's Madison Square Garden to see the 427 00:29:48,275 --> 00:29:51,955 Speaker 1: New York Rangers Montreal Canadians hockey game, and within two hours, 428 00:29:52,475 --> 00:29:55,435 Speaker 1: not only was I convinced I had a profound brain 429 00:29:55,515 --> 00:30:00,075 Speaker 1: injury or illness, but a catastrophe would occur so all 430 00:30:00,195 --> 00:30:03,235 Speaker 1: encompassing in its sweep that it would end the then 431 00:30:03,435 --> 00:30:07,475 Speaker 1: very active negotiate as to what else put Countdown back 432 00:30:07,515 --> 00:30:12,275 Speaker 1: on MSNBC. Also, the Rangers got shut out one nothing. 433 00:30:13,675 --> 00:30:16,035 Speaker 1: I went to the game with Bill Wolf, a former 434 00:30:16,275 --> 00:30:19,435 Speaker 1: ESPN colleague from twenty years earlier, whom I had met 435 00:30:19,435 --> 00:30:21,755 Speaker 1: again at MSNBC and who was in fact the first 436 00:30:21,755 --> 00:30:24,555 Speaker 1: executive producer of the Rachel Meadows show. We had not 437 00:30:24,675 --> 00:30:26,875 Speaker 1: seen each other in a while, and he had just 438 00:30:26,995 --> 00:30:29,635 Speaker 1: left that job, and so as the skilled used of 439 00:30:29,675 --> 00:30:33,595 Speaker 1: many nations avorted below us, threatening each other with sticks 440 00:30:33,635 --> 00:30:36,995 Speaker 1: and razor sharp skates, we caught up on things. And 441 00:30:37,075 --> 00:30:41,395 Speaker 1: that's when it happened. At least once per period in 442 00:30:41,435 --> 00:30:44,355 Speaker 1: a National Hockey League game, an ordinary stoppage of play 443 00:30:44,355 --> 00:30:47,395 Speaker 1: has turned into a lengthy delay during which the television 444 00:30:47,435 --> 00:30:52,115 Speaker 1: broadcasters catch up on any unplayed commercials the TV time out. 445 00:30:52,795 --> 00:30:56,595 Speaker 1: And during one of these TV timeouts, the public address 446 00:30:56,595 --> 00:31:00,035 Speaker 1: announcer at the garden, Joe Tollison, said, ladies and gentlemen, 447 00:31:00,075 --> 00:31:02,395 Speaker 1: please direct your attention to the video screen, et cetera, 448 00:31:02,475 --> 00:31:06,235 Speaker 1: ice where the anchor and managing or of NBC Nightly News, 449 00:31:06,275 --> 00:31:11,035 Speaker 1: Brian Williams will I didn't actually hear the next part. 450 00:31:11,675 --> 00:31:14,795 Speaker 1: At hearing Brian's name, my friend Bill Wolfe shouted f 451 00:31:15,235 --> 00:31:19,955 Speaker 1: me and I let out a low groan. Since n 452 00:31:21,075 --> 00:31:25,835 Speaker 1: I have done my absolute best to like Brian Williams, 453 00:31:26,355 --> 00:31:29,115 Speaker 1: I have stuck my neck out for Brian Williams. I 454 00:31:29,195 --> 00:31:32,955 Speaker 1: have advocated for Brian Williams. I have forgiven Brian Williams, 455 00:31:33,275 --> 00:31:37,595 Speaker 1: and none of it has been enough. No person in 456 00:31:37,635 --> 00:31:40,675 Speaker 1: my forty three years as a full time professional broadcaster 457 00:31:40,755 --> 00:31:44,555 Speaker 1: has been as insecure, nor as mocked behind his back 458 00:31:45,075 --> 00:31:49,155 Speaker 1: as as Brian. It is too bad. He is brilliantly 459 00:31:49,275 --> 00:31:55,275 Speaker 1: talented and this will never be enough for him. He 460 00:31:55,475 --> 00:31:57,835 Speaker 1: is one of those who can only be successful if 461 00:31:57,835 --> 00:32:01,115 Speaker 1: he has convinced himself he has taken away some of 462 00:32:01,155 --> 00:32:04,955 Speaker 1: the success from those around him. I've been accused of many, 463 00:32:04,995 --> 00:32:08,795 Speaker 1: many things, but never that. In the nineties, Brian Williams 464 00:32:08,875 --> 00:32:11,235 Speaker 1: used to appear in the middle of my MSNBC show 465 00:32:11,555 --> 00:32:14,995 Speaker 1: with a promo for his MSNBC show which followed mine. 466 00:32:15,715 --> 00:32:17,755 Speaker 1: One night, I said that in five minutes we'd be 467 00:32:17,995 --> 00:32:24,635 Speaker 1: previewing President Clinton's itinerary in Africa Nairobi, Addis Ababa, Dara Salam, Johannesburg, 468 00:32:24,675 --> 00:32:26,595 Speaker 1: but first with the preview of the news with Brian Williams. 469 00:32:26,595 --> 00:32:30,835 Speaker 1: Here's Brian Williams. Bryan Williams and he said, thanks Keith, 470 00:32:31,235 --> 00:32:36,315 Speaker 1: as someone who's actually been to those places all the time. 471 00:32:36,355 --> 00:32:40,195 Speaker 1: With this anyway, when Wolf and I came out of 472 00:32:40,195 --> 00:32:44,075 Speaker 1: our respective rages, we heard this over the garden p 473 00:32:44,275 --> 00:32:47,835 Speaker 1: A system. During the Iraq invasion, U S Army Commands 474 00:32:47,835 --> 00:32:51,275 Speaker 1: Sergeant Major Tim Turpac was responsible for the safety of 475 00:32:51,315 --> 00:32:54,875 Speaker 1: Brian Williams and whose NBC news team after their Chinook 476 00:32:54,875 --> 00:32:59,355 Speaker 1: helicopter was hit and crippled by enemy fire. I began 477 00:32:59,395 --> 00:33:03,715 Speaker 1: to sweat command. Sergeant Major Turpac was awarded three Bronze 478 00:33:03,715 --> 00:33:07,355 Speaker 1: Stars for About Valor Interact and recently retired after twenty 479 00:33:07,395 --> 00:33:10,115 Speaker 1: three years in the U. S. Army. Both men, both 480 00:33:10,195 --> 00:33:12,875 Speaker 1: Rangers fans, have been reunited for the first time in 481 00:33:12,915 --> 00:33:16,755 Speaker 1: twelve years for tonight's game. Please welcome, come in Sergeant 482 00:33:16,835 --> 00:33:23,235 Speaker 1: Major Tim Turpak and Brian Williams. Bill Wolfe swore again. 483 00:33:24,315 --> 00:33:27,795 Speaker 1: My reaction was different. I started to get lightheaded, and 484 00:33:27,795 --> 00:33:32,755 Speaker 1: then immediately very very worried Bill. I said, in a 485 00:33:32,835 --> 00:33:34,755 Speaker 1: voice so low that Bill had to lean in to 486 00:33:34,835 --> 00:33:39,555 Speaker 1: hear me, do you know a good neurologist? Bill laughed. 487 00:33:39,875 --> 00:33:42,995 Speaker 1: For Brian, it wasn't a pleasant laugh. He won't go 488 00:33:43,035 --> 00:33:46,115 Speaker 1: to a neurologist, good or otherwise unless he can get 489 00:33:46,195 --> 00:33:47,835 Speaker 1: videotape of it and put it on the eff ing 490 00:33:47,915 --> 00:33:53,075 Speaker 1: screen here at Madison Square Garden. And I said, no, No, 491 00:33:53,115 --> 00:33:54,835 Speaker 1: that's that's not what I what I mean, I mean, 492 00:33:54,995 --> 00:33:58,915 Speaker 1: I mean one for me. I I was anchoring on 493 00:33:59,075 --> 00:34:03,155 Speaker 1: MSNBC the night that Brian Williams story about the helicopters 494 00:34:03,195 --> 00:34:06,555 Speaker 1: and the and the art PG in Iraq. I went 495 00:34:06,595 --> 00:34:08,235 Speaker 1: on to tell Bill that that's all I did my 496 00:34:08,275 --> 00:34:10,635 Speaker 1: first month back at MSNBC in two thousand three. They 497 00:34:10,675 --> 00:34:13,955 Speaker 1: rehired me only because they did not have enough anchors 498 00:34:13,995 --> 00:34:16,955 Speaker 1: to cover a war. And I was on that night 499 00:34:17,555 --> 00:34:20,195 Speaker 1: and that story about Brian's chopper getting hit. That's not 500 00:34:20,235 --> 00:34:23,395 Speaker 1: the way I remember it, Bill. My brain is going 501 00:34:23,875 --> 00:34:26,155 Speaker 1: I remember a different story, And I mean, I don't 502 00:34:26,155 --> 00:34:28,435 Speaker 1: even remember leading the show that. My God, if the 503 00:34:28,475 --> 00:34:31,195 Speaker 1: heir apparent as the anchor of NBC Nightly News was 504 00:34:31,195 --> 00:34:32,915 Speaker 1: shot down over the desert in the middle of the 505 00:34:32,955 --> 00:34:35,515 Speaker 1: Iraq War, we would have left with led with it. 506 00:34:35,755 --> 00:34:38,515 Speaker 1: I don't remember leading with it. I'm only fifty six. 507 00:34:38,515 --> 00:34:40,475 Speaker 1: I'm way too young for dimension. It must be a 508 00:34:40,515 --> 00:34:42,955 Speaker 1: tumor or something. Do you know a good neurologist, Bill, 509 00:34:45,155 --> 00:34:48,435 Speaker 1: Bill Wolfe was, as usual, pretty cool under the circumstances, 510 00:34:48,435 --> 00:34:50,715 Speaker 1: and he said, I think maybe you should relax, because 511 00:34:50,875 --> 00:34:53,995 Speaker 1: I don't think it's you. I think it's him because 512 00:34:54,075 --> 00:34:57,035 Speaker 1: I remember that story too, Bill said, and that's not 513 00:34:57,155 --> 00:34:59,675 Speaker 1: the way he told it in two thousand three. I 514 00:34:59,715 --> 00:35:05,075 Speaker 1: think Brian has changed the story. One I got home 515 00:35:05,115 --> 00:35:08,115 Speaker 1: after the Rangers lost that night, I looked up everything 516 00:35:08,155 --> 00:35:12,195 Speaker 1: I could about March three and the fact that Brian 517 00:35:12,235 --> 00:35:16,795 Speaker 1: Williams was an NBC News field reporter embedded with troops 518 00:35:16,795 --> 00:35:19,555 Speaker 1: in Iraq and in the helicopters with them, and that 519 00:35:19,635 --> 00:35:22,915 Speaker 1: this was not some sort of PR stunt. We had 520 00:35:22,915 --> 00:35:25,995 Speaker 1: another prominent anchor named David Bloom, who hosted the Today 521 00:35:26,035 --> 00:35:29,195 Speaker 1: Show on the weekends and had succeeded Brian as our 522 00:35:29,355 --> 00:35:32,155 Speaker 1: NBC White House correspondent. And David Bloom had died in 523 00:35:32,235 --> 00:35:35,275 Speaker 1: Iraq because after weeks of twisting himself into the shape 524 00:35:35,275 --> 00:35:38,635 Speaker 1: of a pretzel to fit inside a tank, he suffered 525 00:35:38,675 --> 00:35:41,795 Speaker 1: deep vein thrombosis and he was dead because they couldn't 526 00:35:41,835 --> 00:35:44,955 Speaker 1: treat him in time. I even found a video cassette 527 00:35:45,275 --> 00:35:50,075 Speaker 1: with the hours I anchored on MSNBC on March three, 528 00:35:50,315 --> 00:35:54,075 Speaker 1: and I saw Brian's report and I heard him say 529 00:35:54,115 --> 00:35:57,955 Speaker 1: that he and an NBC analyst, retired General Wayne Downing, 530 00:35:57,995 --> 00:36:01,075 Speaker 1: had been on the ground preparing to take off as 531 00:36:01,115 --> 00:36:03,955 Speaker 1: part of the last helicopters in a convoy flying over 532 00:36:03,995 --> 00:36:07,075 Speaker 1: an Iraqi desert when they got word that a chopper 533 00:36:07,155 --> 00:36:09,675 Speaker 1: an hour ahead of them had been threatened by gunfire 534 00:36:09,995 --> 00:36:12,675 Speaker 1: and was then forced to make an emergency landing because 535 00:36:12,675 --> 00:36:18,075 Speaker 1: of a sandstorm. I remember thinking, then in two thousand three, 536 00:36:18,675 --> 00:36:21,875 Speaker 1: then in two thousand fifteen, and now in two thousand 537 00:36:21,915 --> 00:36:25,355 Speaker 1: twenty two, that being in the helicopter when they are 538 00:36:25,395 --> 00:36:29,115 Speaker 1: shooting at the helicopters is an act of sufficient bravery 539 00:36:29,155 --> 00:36:32,115 Speaker 1: that you could brag on yourself forever. I would have 540 00:36:32,155 --> 00:36:35,315 Speaker 1: been bragging thus lee, Hey, I'm a civilian. I went 541 00:36:35,395 --> 00:36:37,675 Speaker 1: up in the chopper anyway, and I did not crap 542 00:36:37,755 --> 00:36:42,115 Speaker 1: my pants. The end, I would have been stopping passers 543 00:36:42,155 --> 00:36:47,435 Speaker 1: by to tell them that. As I continued to research this, 544 00:36:47,555 --> 00:36:50,555 Speaker 1: I realized that in the ensuing dozen years, Brian Williams 545 00:36:50,555 --> 00:36:56,595 Speaker 1: had slowly changed the story, almost imperceptibly, almost every time 546 00:36:56,635 --> 00:37:01,075 Speaker 1: he had retold it. Soon the chopper was hit by 547 00:37:01,115 --> 00:37:05,555 Speaker 1: the RPG that actually missed it. Then the chopper that 548 00:37:05,635 --> 00:37:07,395 Speaker 1: was hit was not an hour ahead of them, it 549 00:37:07,435 --> 00:37:10,395 Speaker 1: was the one right in front of them. Soon they 550 00:37:10,395 --> 00:37:12,955 Speaker 1: were all part of the group that could claim, quote, 551 00:37:13,035 --> 00:37:16,675 Speaker 1: we were the northern most Americans in Iraq, And by 552 00:37:16,675 --> 00:37:19,675 Speaker 1: two thousand thirteen Brian was claiming it was his chopper 553 00:37:19,755 --> 00:37:24,475 Speaker 1: that got hit. In real time. The next day, Friday, 554 00:37:24,555 --> 00:37:27,795 Speaker 1: January fifteen, we found out why Brian had done the 555 00:37:27,835 --> 00:37:30,435 Speaker 1: thing at the hockey game with Command Sergeant Major Turpak. 556 00:37:31,035 --> 00:37:34,875 Speaker 1: He played a clip of it on NBC Nightly News, 557 00:37:35,395 --> 00:37:38,035 Speaker 1: and that is when a lot of Iraq vets began 558 00:37:38,075 --> 00:37:40,475 Speaker 1: to speak up with memories that agreed with Brian on 559 00:37:40,475 --> 00:37:45,555 Speaker 1: one detail only, Yeah, it happened in Iraq. I saw 560 00:37:45,555 --> 00:37:47,995 Speaker 1: the clip from the Rangers game, and I saw the 561 00:37:47,995 --> 00:37:51,035 Speaker 1: train wreck coming up behind it for Brian and FRANBC News, 562 00:37:51,075 --> 00:37:54,475 Speaker 1: and I started emailing my remaining friends at NBC. Get 563 00:37:54,555 --> 00:37:57,915 Speaker 1: him drunk, I wrote to one executive. Then take him 564 00:37:57,915 --> 00:38:01,875 Speaker 1: into his office and scatter empty liquor bottles all around, 565 00:38:01,955 --> 00:38:04,075 Speaker 1: and call in photographers from the New York Post of 566 00:38:04,075 --> 00:38:05,675 Speaker 1: the New York Daily News, and then explain he's going 567 00:38:05,715 --> 00:38:08,875 Speaker 1: to rehab. You don't have to say anything else. Rehab 568 00:38:08,875 --> 00:38:11,115 Speaker 1: as they get out of jail free card he comes 569 00:38:11,155 --> 00:38:13,195 Speaker 1: back in a month and they'll throw a freaking parade 570 00:38:13,395 --> 00:38:17,995 Speaker 1: for him. To a former boss still at NBC, I 571 00:38:18,035 --> 00:38:20,875 Speaker 1: sent this email, put him on tonight and at the 572 00:38:20,875 --> 00:38:23,755 Speaker 1: start of Nightly have him say this, I'm taking a 573 00:38:23,835 --> 00:38:27,715 Speaker 1: voluntary leave of absence for fill in the blank days. 574 00:38:28,315 --> 00:38:30,515 Speaker 1: And during that time the entirety of my salary will 575 00:38:30,555 --> 00:38:34,315 Speaker 1: be donated to fill in the blank with any military charity. 576 00:38:34,395 --> 00:38:37,755 Speaker 1: Because while I did not intend to exaggerate my experience 577 00:38:37,795 --> 00:38:41,235 Speaker 1: interact in two thousand three, being hit by small arms 578 00:38:41,275 --> 00:38:44,235 Speaker 1: fire is bad enough, being behind the helicopter that got 579 00:38:44,275 --> 00:38:48,675 Speaker 1: hit with an RPG is worse. Nevertheless, I did exaggerate it, 580 00:38:48,955 --> 00:38:52,915 Speaker 1: and a newsman cannot make a mistake like that without consequences. 581 00:38:53,275 --> 00:38:55,715 Speaker 1: Thank you for your forbearance. Now for the rest of 582 00:38:55,755 --> 00:38:59,955 Speaker 1: tonight's newscast, here is filling the name of NBC employee 583 00:39:00,035 --> 00:39:03,835 Speaker 1: number or whatever. I added a PostScript to my old 584 00:39:03,875 --> 00:39:07,275 Speaker 1: boss do this and he could still swerve out of this. 585 00:39:08,435 --> 00:39:13,355 Speaker 1: But everybody in management and NBC News was asleep at 586 00:39:13,435 --> 00:39:17,115 Speaker 1: the switch during this crisis. They're in action by News 587 00:39:17,115 --> 00:39:22,155 Speaker 1: president Deborah Turnus, who now runs a BBC, apparently did 588 00:39:22,155 --> 00:39:24,995 Speaker 1: not bring the Williams catastrophe to the attention of Comcast 589 00:39:25,035 --> 00:39:28,275 Speaker 1: News chief Pat Philly, and that would eventually cost both 590 00:39:28,315 --> 00:39:31,635 Speaker 1: of them their jobs. Since I was at that exact 591 00:39:31,675 --> 00:39:36,275 Speaker 1: moment negotiating directly with Pat Philly to put countdown back 592 00:39:36,315 --> 00:39:43,515 Speaker 1: on MSNBC that also went down over the desert. Philly's 593 00:39:43,515 --> 00:39:48,155 Speaker 1: successor was Andy Lack. He resumed the countdown negotiations with 594 00:39:48,235 --> 00:39:51,835 Speaker 1: me at the Essex House the following fall. That was 595 00:39:51,875 --> 00:39:55,195 Speaker 1: in New York on October twenty nine, two thousand fifteen, 596 00:39:55,755 --> 00:39:59,555 Speaker 1: just pass the anniversary of that. Lack was moaning to 597 00:39:59,595 --> 00:40:01,355 Speaker 1: me about Brian, whom he said he was ready to 598 00:40:01,355 --> 00:40:03,715 Speaker 1: resign outright, was willing to go without much of a 599 00:40:03,755 --> 00:40:05,995 Speaker 1: stink and without to adding much of a settlement. But 600 00:40:06,115 --> 00:40:09,435 Speaker 1: it was Brian's wife, Lack said, who pointed out that 601 00:40:09,435 --> 00:40:12,595 Speaker 1: there was a termination clause which was written by the 602 00:40:12,635 --> 00:40:15,915 Speaker 1: self same Andy Lack. The previous time. Andy Lack ran 603 00:40:16,075 --> 00:40:19,595 Speaker 1: NBC News that meant if Brian were fired for cause, 604 00:40:20,035 --> 00:40:23,195 Speaker 1: he would be owed twice whatever salary was left on 605 00:40:23,235 --> 00:40:27,035 Speaker 1: his contract. His wife, Lack said, here's a goddamn Pat 606 00:40:27,155 --> 00:40:31,235 Speaker 1: Nixon in this. So instead of firing him and owing 607 00:40:31,315 --> 00:40:36,035 Speaker 1: him twice as much money for some reason, nice contract, Lack, 608 00:40:37,035 --> 00:40:40,355 Speaker 1: Lack reassigned Brian to cover any breaking news during the 609 00:40:40,395 --> 00:40:44,115 Speaker 1: Little Watch daytime hours of MSNBC, and then eventually gave 610 00:40:44,155 --> 00:40:48,755 Speaker 1: him his own show there at eleven PM. The punchline, 611 00:40:48,835 --> 00:40:51,595 Speaker 1: of course, is that back in February of two fifteen, 612 00:40:51,595 --> 00:40:55,195 Speaker 1: when it turned out Brian had lied about Iraq and 613 00:40:55,275 --> 00:40:58,235 Speaker 1: also maybe lied about seeing a dead body float past 614 00:40:58,315 --> 00:41:02,315 Speaker 1: him during Hurricane kuldtrain in New Orleans, and about being 615 00:41:02,395 --> 00:41:05,035 Speaker 1: mugged while selling Christmas trees when he was in high school, 616 00:41:05,515 --> 00:41:08,635 Speaker 1: and about saving a puppy when he's a volunteer firefighter. 617 00:41:09,795 --> 00:41:13,995 Speaker 1: I felt dreadful for him. I thought this might be fixable. 618 00:41:14,955 --> 00:41:17,115 Speaker 1: And you know who else felt it might be fixable 619 00:41:17,115 --> 00:41:19,915 Speaker 1: and felt dreadful for him. Our mutual friend David Letterman 620 00:41:20,035 --> 00:41:22,315 Speaker 1: and I was going on Dave's show, and I said 621 00:41:22,355 --> 00:41:25,475 Speaker 1: to Dave, listen, I think Brian's career should not end 622 00:41:25,635 --> 00:41:29,955 Speaker 1: because of this. He just needs help. He's a compulsive exaggerator. 623 00:41:30,875 --> 00:41:32,715 Speaker 1: If you want to give me the opening to say 624 00:41:32,795 --> 00:41:34,555 Speaker 1: that while I'm on with you, just do it. If 625 00:41:34,595 --> 00:41:37,195 Speaker 1: if you don't, don't, I won't bring it up myself. 626 00:41:38,275 --> 00:41:41,835 Speaker 1: Dave is a very loyal man, and Dave gave me 627 00:41:41,875 --> 00:41:45,195 Speaker 1: the opening, and then after I defended Brian, he joined me. 628 00:41:45,955 --> 00:41:48,275 Speaker 1: And at that point we were literally the only two 629 00:41:48,315 --> 00:41:52,155 Speaker 1: people working in television to speak out for Brian. Not 630 00:41:52,355 --> 00:41:55,675 Speaker 1: only was it six weeks before Brian as much as 631 00:41:55,675 --> 00:41:59,035 Speaker 1: sent me an email of thanks, but David told me 632 00:41:59,435 --> 00:42:02,355 Speaker 1: he never heard from Brian, and I haven't heard from 633 00:42:02,355 --> 00:42:08,155 Speaker 1: Brian since two thousand fifteen. And there is another punchline. 634 00:42:08,395 --> 00:42:11,075 Speaker 1: As I came off the Letterman stage that night that 635 00:42:11,155 --> 00:42:14,355 Speaker 1: he and I both defended Brian Williams, a producer took 636 00:42:14,355 --> 00:42:16,395 Speaker 1: me aside and said it was a nice thing to do, 637 00:42:16,475 --> 00:42:18,675 Speaker 1: but was I sure I wanted to get involved in this? 638 00:42:19,315 --> 00:42:21,755 Speaker 1: And I shrugged my shoulders and I said, who knows? 639 00:42:21,955 --> 00:42:24,435 Speaker 1: Why do you ask? And he said, because one night 640 00:42:24,435 --> 00:42:27,315 Speaker 1: when Brian was coming on the Letterman show, it was 641 00:42:27,355 --> 00:42:30,875 Speaker 1: the anniversary of the Iraq helicopter story, and in the 642 00:42:30,915 --> 00:42:34,635 Speaker 1: pre interview, Brian explained to this producer that when they 643 00:42:34,675 --> 00:42:38,315 Speaker 1: got hit by the RPG, which didn't happen, this command 644 00:42:38,395 --> 00:42:42,355 Speaker 1: Sergeant Major Turpac had been injured, which didn't happen. And 645 00:42:42,395 --> 00:42:45,595 Speaker 1: when they landed on the desert floor, which didn't happen, 646 00:42:46,075 --> 00:42:52,755 Speaker 1: Brian treated turr Packs injury and dressed Turr Packs wound himself. 647 00:42:54,035 --> 00:42:57,915 Speaker 1: But then Brian said maybe I should keep that between us. 648 00:42:59,555 --> 00:43:02,035 Speaker 1: I guess we were lucky. Brian Williams never claimed that 649 00:43:02,075 --> 00:43:04,315 Speaker 1: he saved the helicopter crew by catching the missile with 650 00:43:04,355 --> 00:43:20,355 Speaker 1: his tea. I've done all the damage I can do here. 651 00:43:21,275 --> 00:43:23,235 Speaker 1: Since you've listened this far, help me out a bit. 652 00:43:23,275 --> 00:43:25,755 Speaker 1: Spread the word, Tell somebody about this podcast, get them 653 00:43:25,755 --> 00:43:29,635 Speaker 1: to subscribe to it. Here are credits. Most of the music, 654 00:43:29,675 --> 00:43:33,755 Speaker 1: including our theme You're hearing now from Beethoven's Ninth, was arranged, produced, 655 00:43:33,755 --> 00:43:36,435 Speaker 1: and performed by Brian Ray and John Philip Chanelle. They 656 00:43:36,475 --> 00:43:40,435 Speaker 1: are the Countdown musical directors. All the orchestration and keyboards 657 00:43:40,475 --> 00:43:44,155 Speaker 1: by John Philip Chanelle, Guitars, bass and drums by Brian Ray, 658 00:43:44,275 --> 00:43:47,755 Speaker 1: produced by t k O Brothers Mother Beethoven. Selections throughout 659 00:43:47,755 --> 00:43:50,555 Speaker 1: have been arranged and performed by No horns allowed. The 660 00:43:50,595 --> 00:43:54,755 Speaker 1: sports music, the Olderman theme from ESPN two, which played 661 00:43:54,795 --> 00:43:57,995 Speaker 1: the day of the Brian Williams hockey announcement, was written 662 00:43:58,035 --> 00:44:00,515 Speaker 1: by Mitch Warren Davis and it appears here courtesy of 663 00:44:00,515 --> 00:44:03,795 Speaker 1: the ESPN Inc. Musical comments from Nancy Faust The best 664 00:44:03,835 --> 00:44:07,275 Speaker 1: baseball stadium against ever Our announcer today was John Dene. 665 00:44:07,635 --> 00:44:10,835 Speaker 1: Everything else is pretty much my fault. So that's countdown 666 00:44:10,835 --> 00:44:13,515 Speaker 1: for this the six and sixty four day since Donald 667 00:44:13,515 --> 00:44:16,995 Speaker 1: Trump's first attempted coup against the democratically elected government of 668 00:44:17,035 --> 00:44:20,115 Speaker 1: the United States. Arrest him now while we still can 669 00:44:21,275 --> 00:44:24,075 Speaker 1: a new episode tomorrow. Until then on Keith Olverman, good Morning, 670 00:44:24,075 --> 00:44:33,595 Speaker 1: good afternoon, good night, and good Luck. Countdown with Keith 671 00:44:33,595 --> 00:44:36,875 Speaker 1: Olberman is a production of I heart Radio. For more 672 00:44:36,955 --> 00:44:40,355 Speaker 1: podcasts from I heart Radio, visit the i heart Radio app, 673 00:44:40,395 --> 00:44:43,795 Speaker 1: Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.