1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:21,675 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. As 2 00:00:21,715 --> 00:00:24,275 Speaker 1: he tried to push this country over the edge and 3 00:00:24,395 --> 00:00:28,435 Speaker 1: into violent revolution and dictatorship in November and December of 4 00:00:28,475 --> 00:00:32,315 Speaker 1: twenty twenty and January of twenty twenty one. Donald Trump 5 00:00:32,475 --> 00:00:36,075 Speaker 1: was not responding to what he falsely believed was a 6 00:00:36,155 --> 00:00:40,635 Speaker 1: stolen election. And he was not responding to faulty legal 7 00:00:40,715 --> 00:00:44,435 Speaker 1: advice from faulty lawyers. And he was not responding to 8 00:00:44,635 --> 00:00:48,315 Speaker 1: changing partial vote counts, and he was not responding to 9 00:00:48,555 --> 00:00:54,595 Speaker 1: unexpected outcomes in swing states. It was all a plan, 10 00:00:55,395 --> 00:01:00,755 Speaker 1: an eight year old plan, a well rehearsed eight year 11 00:01:00,795 --> 00:01:04,635 Speaker 1: old plan. Jack Smith has now filed a motion indicator 12 00:01:04,795 --> 00:01:07,355 Speaker 1: he will prosecute Trump for January sixth, at least in part, 13 00:01:07,715 --> 00:01:10,395 Speaker 1: on the premise that all that Trump did in late 14 00:01:10,435 --> 00:01:13,235 Speaker 1: twenty twenty and early twenty twenty one was not some 15 00:01:13,275 --> 00:01:16,515 Speaker 1: sort of organic response to an election that he seriously 16 00:01:16,595 --> 00:01:21,515 Speaker 1: thought was or could have been stolen from him. It 17 00:01:21,675 --> 00:01:25,515 Speaker 1: was just a play from his playbook, one that he 18 00:01:25,555 --> 00:01:29,675 Speaker 1: had been rehearsing and refining and repeating since November of 19 00:01:29,755 --> 00:01:33,915 Speaker 1: twenty twelve, one that he had run in November of 20 00:01:33,955 --> 00:01:37,875 Speaker 1: twenty twenty in Detroit, one that he had run repeatedly 21 00:01:37,955 --> 00:01:40,355 Speaker 1: during the twenty sixteen campaign when he said it was 22 00:01:40,435 --> 00:01:43,115 Speaker 1: rigged against him and he would not confirm he would 23 00:01:43,155 --> 00:01:46,915 Speaker 1: accept the results. One that he had first stitched together 24 00:01:47,355 --> 00:01:52,555 Speaker 1: inside his diseased mind and enacted only as just another 25 00:01:52,715 --> 00:01:57,555 Speaker 1: celebrity nut job on Twitter after the election of twenty twelve. 26 00:01:58,595 --> 00:02:03,875 Speaker 1: Smith has also submitted specific evidence about an unindicted co 27 00:02:03,875 --> 00:02:08,395 Speaker 1: conspirator and witness that the rest of us don't know about, 28 00:02:08,635 --> 00:02:12,915 Speaker 1: a co conspirator tied directly into that Trump rehearsal for 29 00:02:13,035 --> 00:02:15,635 Speaker 1: January sixth, part of the coup plot that most of 30 00:02:15,715 --> 00:02:19,555 Speaker 1: us had forgotten about the stop the count near riot 31 00:02:19,875 --> 00:02:22,955 Speaker 1: during vote counting at the TCF Center in Detroit on 32 00:02:23,035 --> 00:02:27,275 Speaker 1: November fourth, twenty twenty Those details in a moment, but first, 33 00:02:27,395 --> 00:02:30,795 Speaker 1: let's go through the mind bending reality that Trump's bid 34 00:02:30,875 --> 00:02:33,955 Speaker 1: to overthrow the duly elected government of the United States 35 00:02:33,995 --> 00:02:38,635 Speaker 1: on January sixth, twenty twenty one, actually began on November sixth, 36 00:02:39,355 --> 00:02:44,235 Speaker 1: twenty twelve. Smith, in the filing underscores that reality in 37 00:02:44,275 --> 00:02:47,155 Speaker 1: his submission to Judge Chuckkin. It is at the heart 38 00:02:47,315 --> 00:02:51,635 Speaker 1: of the copious evidence that Trump is a serial recidivist 39 00:02:51,715 --> 00:02:55,915 Speaker 1: election denier, starting with his remarkable chain of tweets from 40 00:02:55,955 --> 00:03:00,195 Speaker 1: election night twenty twelve, some of which Trump deleted. More 41 00:03:00,795 --> 00:03:05,355 Speaker 1: he did not remember eleven years ago to mention Jay, 42 00:03:05,395 --> 00:03:12,235 Speaker 1: Trump was politically seen as Scott Adams or Kevin Sorbo, 43 00:03:12,995 --> 00:03:18,835 Speaker 1: a crackpot with some name recognition. So few noticed after 44 00:03:18,955 --> 00:03:23,795 Speaker 1: Barack Obama's re election victory over Mitt Romney when Trump tweeted, quote, 45 00:03:23,835 --> 00:03:26,875 Speaker 1: the phony electoral College made a laughing stock out of 46 00:03:26,915 --> 00:03:31,355 Speaker 1: our nation, the loser one. Few noticed when he tweeted 47 00:03:31,435 --> 00:03:34,155 Speaker 1: the election is a total sham and a travesty. We 48 00:03:34,235 --> 00:03:38,035 Speaker 1: are not a democracy. Few noticed when he tweeted our 49 00:03:38,075 --> 00:03:41,835 Speaker 1: country is now in serious and unprecedented trouble like never before. 50 00:03:42,755 --> 00:03:46,035 Speaker 1: And few noticed when he tweeted the electoral college is 51 00:03:46,075 --> 00:03:51,955 Speaker 1: a disaster for democracy. And those are the milder tweets 52 00:03:52,595 --> 00:03:57,395 Speaker 1: the background. There are four more, which I have included 53 00:03:57,435 --> 00:04:00,195 Speaker 1: in my commentaries as long ago as during the twenty 54 00:04:00,275 --> 00:04:04,355 Speaker 1: sixteen campaign, which presented in this light in the continuity 55 00:04:04,475 --> 00:04:08,595 Speaker 1: in insurrection and anti America violence that is now eleven 56 00:04:08,755 --> 00:04:12,955 Speaker 1: years old, that startled even me to read them again. 57 00:04:13,995 --> 00:04:18,915 Speaker 1: Trump's twenty twenty coup attempt was so non spontaneous, so 58 00:04:19,275 --> 00:04:24,435 Speaker 1: non unrehearsed, non organic, that those last four tweets bemoaning 59 00:04:24,475 --> 00:04:29,995 Speaker 1: Obama's reelection even used the same language that would become 60 00:04:30,035 --> 00:04:31,915 Speaker 1: all too familiar to the rest of us eight years 61 00:04:31,915 --> 00:04:36,035 Speaker 1: and two months later. Quote he lost the popular vote 62 00:04:36,075 --> 00:04:40,515 Speaker 1: by a lot. We should have a revolution in this country. 63 00:04:41,475 --> 00:04:44,555 Speaker 1: And if you missed his point there quote more votes 64 00:04:44,595 --> 00:04:50,075 Speaker 1: equals a loss revolution. Quote we can't let this happen. 65 00:04:50,475 --> 00:04:56,555 Speaker 1: We should march on Washington and stop this travesty. Our 66 00:04:56,715 --> 00:05:02,635 Speaker 1: nation is totally divided unquote. And then, most chillingly of 67 00:05:02,675 --> 00:05:07,275 Speaker 1: all words, he RepA heated almost exactly as he sent 68 00:05:07,355 --> 00:05:10,355 Speaker 1: his minions into the Capitol to actually try to destroy 69 00:05:10,395 --> 00:05:15,395 Speaker 1: democracy on January sixth, twenty twenty one. From November twenty twelve. 70 00:05:15,515 --> 00:05:23,795 Speaker 1: Quote Let's fight like hell. Let's fight like hell. The 71 00:05:23,835 --> 00:05:27,795 Speaker 1: Capitol riot began inside Trump Tower eleven years and one 72 00:05:27,875 --> 00:05:31,835 Speaker 1: month ago, as an impotent old fat man named Donald 73 00:05:31,875 --> 00:05:35,795 Speaker 1: Trump railed against the president who had once humiliated him 74 00:05:35,955 --> 00:05:39,355 Speaker 1: at a White House correspondence dinner. And it is in 75 00:05:39,435 --> 00:05:42,875 Speaker 1: the genius of Jack Smith and his team. Molly Gaston 76 00:05:42,875 --> 00:05:45,555 Speaker 1: appears to have written this new filing to Chutkin that 77 00:05:45,675 --> 00:05:51,955 Speaker 1: we see the otherwise invisible thread all of Trump's defenses. 78 00:05:52,315 --> 00:05:54,715 Speaker 1: I was just doing what a president should do when 79 00:05:54,755 --> 00:05:57,915 Speaker 1: he believes an election has been compromised. I was just 80 00:05:58,035 --> 00:06:01,155 Speaker 1: listening to the advice given me by my lawyers. I 81 00:06:01,315 --> 00:06:06,195 Speaker 1: was just responding to unfolding events. All of that was bullshit. 82 00:06:07,515 --> 00:06:11,915 Speaker 1: All of it, in fact, was backfill bullshit. All of 83 00:06:11,915 --> 00:06:16,955 Speaker 1: it was gaslighting bullshit. The nightmare of twenty twenty one 84 00:06:17,555 --> 00:06:23,235 Speaker 1: began in Donald Trump's mind and on his phone in 85 00:06:23,315 --> 00:06:29,995 Speaker 1: twenty twelve. And now there is a new conspirator. The 86 00:06:30,195 --> 00:06:35,355 Speaker 1: Michigan stopped the count riot. But what now I know? 87 00:06:35,555 --> 00:06:41,435 Speaker 1: I know, I completely memory hold that one myself. Smith 88 00:06:41,555 --> 00:06:44,675 Speaker 1: filed an outline of new evidence with Judge Chuckkin yesterday, 89 00:06:44,675 --> 00:06:47,355 Speaker 1: submitted because it is not charged in the indictment that 90 00:06:47,475 --> 00:06:51,515 Speaker 1: it was and as yet unidentified Trump campaign employee participating 91 00:06:51,515 --> 00:06:54,875 Speaker 1: as a count observer who tried to arrange a riot 92 00:06:55,715 --> 00:06:59,315 Speaker 1: at the main Michigan counting facility. That as soon as 93 00:06:59,315 --> 00:07:02,555 Speaker 1: the trumpests saw that the count was trending towards Biden, 94 00:07:02,835 --> 00:07:07,595 Speaker 1: he texted a Trump lawyer and quote encouraged rioting and 95 00:07:07,795 --> 00:07:12,235 Speaker 1: other methods of obstruction unquote. This was at the same 96 00:07:12,235 --> 00:07:16,115 Speaker 1: time Trump was tweeting, a terrible thing was happening in Michigan, 97 00:07:16,115 --> 00:07:20,795 Speaker 1: and suddenly social media was flooded with calls for volunteers 98 00:07:21,195 --> 00:07:25,675 Speaker 1: to go to the TCF Center in Detroit. Smith's filing 99 00:07:25,755 --> 00:07:29,835 Speaker 1: reads that Trump's agent was quote seeking to cause a 100 00:07:29,955 --> 00:07:35,355 Speaker 1: riot to disrupt the count. Nearly happened too, in what 101 00:07:35,475 --> 00:07:38,995 Speaker 1: looked like a bad stage revival of the Brooks Brothers 102 00:07:39,075 --> 00:07:42,315 Speaker 1: riot in Florida during Bush Gore in two thousand. A 103 00:07:42,315 --> 00:07:45,115 Speaker 1: whole lot of pasty white guys showed up and filled 104 00:07:45,155 --> 00:07:48,675 Speaker 1: the rotunda of the conference center, and they started chatting, 105 00:07:48,915 --> 00:07:52,275 Speaker 1: stopped the count, and banging on the windows that separated 106 00:07:52,355 --> 00:07:56,675 Speaker 1: them from, you know, the actual volunteers, the mostly black 107 00:07:56,795 --> 00:08:02,955 Speaker 1: Michigan election workers. Happily bureaucracy came to the rescue. Building 108 00:08:03,115 --> 00:08:08,395 Speaker 1: management basically the rioters out called the cops, and within 109 00:08:08,435 --> 00:08:11,475 Speaker 1: three hours the place was cleared of trumpst operatives who 110 00:08:11,515 --> 00:08:18,275 Speaker 1: we now know were there to start a riot. Sound familiar, 111 00:08:19,995 --> 00:08:23,595 Speaker 1: but most importantly, Smith's evidence that this was directly manipulated 112 00:08:23,635 --> 00:08:29,635 Speaker 1: by one of Trump's quote agents is new. It is 113 00:08:29,915 --> 00:08:34,955 Speaker 1: as new as Trump's plots to convince others to believe 114 00:08:35,195 --> 00:08:43,915 Speaker 1: all presidential elections are crooked, is not new. Of course, 115 00:08:43,995 --> 00:08:47,155 Speaker 1: those Trump tweets also testify to the validity of a 116 00:08:47,195 --> 00:08:51,355 Speaker 1: point I made yesterday. Speaking of nightmares, we are again 117 00:08:52,035 --> 00:08:54,555 Speaker 1: at the political equivalent of the moment in the movie 118 00:08:54,675 --> 00:08:58,555 Speaker 1: Rosemary's Baby when Mia Farrow shakes off the drugs and 119 00:08:58,595 --> 00:09:01,435 Speaker 1: the anesthetics and the gas lighting and shouts, this is 120 00:09:01,475 --> 00:09:05,395 Speaker 1: no dream, this is really happening. I know there was 121 00:09:05,435 --> 00:09:10,595 Speaker 1: some blowback to my proposal yesterday that President Biden could 122 00:09:10,635 --> 00:09:15,235 Speaker 1: still invoke the Insurrection Act today, detain Trump and the 123 00:09:15,275 --> 00:09:18,595 Speaker 1: rest of the twenty twenty coup conspiracy and the twenty 124 00:09:18,635 --> 00:09:23,595 Speaker 1: twenty five conspiracy in the twenty sixteen conspiracy, and then 125 00:09:23,875 --> 00:09:27,795 Speaker 1: having safely put them away, terminate the Insurrection Act like 126 00:09:28,115 --> 00:09:31,955 Speaker 1: ninety ninety five minutes later. Because if you are like 127 00:09:32,075 --> 00:09:37,595 Speaker 1: me and you know, like democracy, the idea of going 128 00:09:37,635 --> 00:09:46,315 Speaker 1: beyond it to save it seems inconsistent, messy, also QAnon ish, 129 00:09:46,715 --> 00:09:49,795 Speaker 1: even if Abraham Lincoln did do nothing but stuff like 130 00:09:49,875 --> 00:09:54,675 Speaker 1: that for four years without interruption. On the other hand, 131 00:09:54,795 --> 00:09:57,155 Speaker 1: even I did not expect the Speaker of the House 132 00:09:57,195 --> 00:09:59,315 Speaker 1: of Representatives to follow up on the day of my 133 00:09:59,555 --> 00:10:03,835 Speaker 1: modest proposal by publicly announcing he would obstruct justice and 134 00:10:03,915 --> 00:10:06,275 Speaker 1: release the remain of the January sixth video so the 135 00:10:06,275 --> 00:10:10,035 Speaker 1: fascists could build their own phony narrative. But first he 136 00:10:10,075 --> 00:10:14,235 Speaker 1: would blur the faces of insurrectionists who tried to overtake 137 00:10:14,275 --> 00:10:18,195 Speaker 1: the capital during the electoral College certification. Blur their faces 138 00:10:18,795 --> 00:10:21,555 Speaker 1: so that, and he said this, the Department of Justice 139 00:10:21,555 --> 00:10:24,155 Speaker 1: could not use the unreleased video to prosecute them. He 140 00:10:24,235 --> 00:10:28,275 Speaker 1: actually said that. And I will get to Mike Johnson, 141 00:10:28,275 --> 00:10:30,195 Speaker 1: who not only announced he will commit the crime of 142 00:10:30,235 --> 00:10:33,315 Speaker 1: obstruction and hire more people to also commit the crime 143 00:10:33,355 --> 00:10:36,435 Speaker 1: of obstruction, but reminded us in so doing of his 144 00:10:36,555 --> 00:10:39,355 Speaker 1: own role in the Trump coup attempt. I'll get to 145 00:10:39,395 --> 00:10:42,435 Speaker 1: him in a moment. But first, I also did not 146 00:10:42,515 --> 00:10:45,555 Speaker 1: expect that the day I suggested using the Insurrection Act 147 00:10:45,675 --> 00:10:48,995 Speaker 1: now against Trump rather than leaving it in place so 148 00:10:49,075 --> 00:10:52,835 Speaker 1: that Trump can get the chance to use it against America, 149 00:10:53,515 --> 00:10:56,435 Speaker 1: I really did not expect that no less than four 150 00:10:56,515 --> 00:10:59,355 Speaker 1: of the people who I would detain were at my call, 151 00:10:59,555 --> 00:11:01,955 Speaker 1: would come out publicly the same day and more or 152 00:11:02,075 --> 00:11:07,555 Speaker 1: less confirm my thesis. My thesis is as follows, this 153 00:11:08,235 --> 00:11:12,715 Speaker 1: is going to happen in America. It is going to 154 00:11:12,875 --> 00:11:16,315 Speaker 1: happen in the next two years. People are going to 155 00:11:16,395 --> 00:11:22,315 Speaker 1: be detained, political opponents are going to be prosecuted. The 156 00:11:22,355 --> 00:11:27,155 Speaker 1: Insurrection Act is going to be invoked. The only questions 157 00:11:27,235 --> 00:11:32,755 Speaker 1: are are these nauseating and mostly unprecedented events going to 158 00:11:32,795 --> 00:11:37,035 Speaker 1: occur in defenseive democracy? Or are they going to be 159 00:11:37,195 --> 00:11:41,915 Speaker 1: used to destroy democracy? Are we going to detain or 160 00:11:41,995 --> 00:11:46,475 Speaker 1: are we going to be detained. There's going to be 161 00:11:46,515 --> 00:11:53,075 Speaker 1: a big fight with rocks right now. We own all 162 00:11:53,115 --> 00:11:57,755 Speaker 1: the rocks. Are we going to use them or are 163 00:11:57,835 --> 00:12:00,755 Speaker 1: we going to say we are too noble to use 164 00:12:00,795 --> 00:12:04,675 Speaker 1: these rocks. So even though we would use them judicial 165 00:12:05,955 --> 00:12:10,955 Speaker 1: and with the minimum amount of rocks, we'll just leave 166 00:12:11,035 --> 00:12:19,155 Speaker 1: them here so that later the psychopathic fascists can use them. 167 00:12:19,355 --> 00:12:25,115 Speaker 1: Cash Patel went on Steve Bannon's Hitler Cast and Yes, 168 00:12:25,555 --> 00:12:30,075 Speaker 1: Steve Bannon explains Cash Pattel would probably be CIA director 169 00:12:30,595 --> 00:12:31,235 Speaker 1: under Trump. 170 00:12:31,315 --> 00:12:34,355 Speaker 2: Do you feel confident that you will be able to 171 00:12:34,435 --> 00:12:38,355 Speaker 2: deliver the goods that we can have serious prosecutions and accountability? 172 00:12:38,355 --> 00:12:40,555 Speaker 2: And I want the Morning Joe producers that watch us, 173 00:12:40,555 --> 00:12:41,915 Speaker 2: and all the producers to watch us. 174 00:12:42,675 --> 00:12:45,875 Speaker 1: This is just not rhetoric. We're absolutely dead serious. 175 00:12:46,355 --> 00:12:51,635 Speaker 2: You cannot have a constitutional Republic and allow what these 176 00:12:52,035 --> 00:12:54,715 Speaker 2: deep staters have done to the country. The deep state, 177 00:12:54,755 --> 00:12:57,875 Speaker 2: the administration state, the fourth branch of government never mentioned 178 00:12:57,915 --> 00:13:01,075 Speaker 2: in the Constitution, is going to be taken apart brick 179 00:13:01,235 --> 00:13:04,515 Speaker 2: by brick, and the people that did these evil deeds 180 00:13:04,755 --> 00:13:08,075 Speaker 2: will be held accountable and prosecuted criminal prosecutions. 181 00:13:08,795 --> 00:13:09,915 Speaker 1: Cash. 182 00:13:09,955 --> 00:13:11,915 Speaker 2: I know you're probably going to be head of the CIA, 183 00:13:12,435 --> 00:13:14,275 Speaker 2: but do you believe that you can deliver the goods 184 00:13:14,275 --> 00:13:16,275 Speaker 2: on this and pretty short in a pretty short order 185 00:13:16,275 --> 00:13:17,515 Speaker 2: of the first couple of months, so we can get 186 00:13:17,595 --> 00:13:18,755 Speaker 2: rolling on prosecutions. 187 00:13:19,835 --> 00:13:22,555 Speaker 3: Yes, we got the Benchfard Bandon and you know those guys. 188 00:13:22,595 --> 00:13:23,715 Speaker 3: I'm not going to go out there and say their 189 00:13:23,795 --> 00:13:25,675 Speaker 3: names right now, so the radical left wing media can 190 00:13:25,755 --> 00:13:28,675 Speaker 3: terrorize them. But excuse me. The one thing we learned 191 00:13:28,675 --> 00:13:30,835 Speaker 3: in the Trump administration the first go round is we 192 00:13:30,955 --> 00:13:33,755 Speaker 3: got to put in all America patriots top to bottom, 193 00:13:33,995 --> 00:13:36,195 Speaker 3: and we got them for law enforcement, we got them 194 00:13:36,195 --> 00:13:40,275 Speaker 3: for intel collection, we got them for offensive operations, we 195 00:13:40,395 --> 00:13:42,635 Speaker 3: got them for DoD CIA everywhere. 196 00:13:42,715 --> 00:13:43,555 Speaker 1: And the one thing. 197 00:13:43,475 --> 00:13:46,115 Speaker 3: We will do that they never will do is we 198 00:13:46,155 --> 00:13:48,075 Speaker 3: will follow the facts and the law and go to 199 00:13:48,115 --> 00:13:52,275 Speaker 3: courts of law and correct these justices and lawyers who 200 00:13:52,315 --> 00:13:55,835 Speaker 3: have been prosecuting these cases based on politics and actually 201 00:13:55,875 --> 00:13:57,355 Speaker 3: issuing them as lawfare. 202 00:13:57,715 --> 00:13:58,875 Speaker 4: We will go. 203 00:13:58,755 --> 00:14:01,195 Speaker 3: Out and find the conspiratories, not just in government, but 204 00:14:01,275 --> 00:14:03,795 Speaker 3: in the media. Yes, we're going to come after the 205 00:14:03,835 --> 00:14:06,955 Speaker 3: people in the media who lied about American citizens, who 206 00:14:06,955 --> 00:14:09,435 Speaker 3: helped Joe Biden rig presidential elections. We're going to come 207 00:14:09,475 --> 00:14:12,075 Speaker 3: after you. Whether it's criminal or civilly, we'll figure that out. 208 00:14:12,315 --> 00:14:13,635 Speaker 3: But yeah, we're putting you all on. 209 00:14:13,675 --> 00:14:21,355 Speaker 1: Noticing any questions you want to leave the Insurrection Act 210 00:14:21,635 --> 00:14:26,755 Speaker 1: to those two psychopaths jailing reporters, suing the ones they 211 00:14:26,875 --> 00:14:31,955 Speaker 1: choose not to jail, specifically prosecuting the staff of Mourning 212 00:14:32,155 --> 00:14:35,395 Speaker 1: Joe and No, as much as I want to, I 213 00:14:35,475 --> 00:14:38,555 Speaker 1: won't even make the joke about how appealing that sounds. 214 00:14:38,595 --> 00:14:43,235 Speaker 1: We have to keep Joe Scarborough safe from the fascists 215 00:14:45,355 --> 00:14:50,555 Speaker 1: who he happily mainstreamed in twenty fifteen and sixteen. Whatever 216 00:14:50,675 --> 00:14:55,555 Speaker 1: the reason, the likeliest is. This is not philosophy nor 217 00:14:55,835 --> 00:15:00,035 Speaker 1: cash Patel and Steve Bannon's preferred form of government. This 218 00:15:00,195 --> 00:15:07,155 Speaker 1: is just two losers' chances to rule the world. These 219 00:15:08,155 --> 00:15:13,115 Speaker 1: mad men morons like Patel and Bannon intend to destroy 220 00:15:13,195 --> 00:15:17,795 Speaker 1: this country using the tools built into our system, which 221 00:15:18,035 --> 00:15:23,995 Speaker 1: we could first use to stop them. They intend, they promise. 222 00:15:24,355 --> 00:15:28,555 Speaker 1: You just heard them promise to shut down the free press. 223 00:15:29,115 --> 00:15:32,555 Speaker 1: They intend, they promise. You just heard them promise to 224 00:15:32,715 --> 00:15:35,555 Speaker 1: prosecute anybody who had the nerve to say Donald Trump 225 00:15:36,235 --> 00:15:40,315 Speaker 1: had the nerve to break the law, dragging anybody from 226 00:15:40,315 --> 00:15:45,115 Speaker 1: the Department of Justice or the Democratic Party into stacked courtrooms, 227 00:15:45,315 --> 00:15:47,275 Speaker 1: and in so doing not even having to say to 228 00:15:47,315 --> 00:15:50,155 Speaker 1: the judges, go along with us, or you will be 229 00:15:50,195 --> 00:15:52,995 Speaker 1: the next ones prosecuted, because that message will have already 230 00:15:53,075 --> 00:15:58,595 Speaker 1: been conveyed. See. The reason people compare Bannon and Patel 231 00:15:58,675 --> 00:16:02,715 Speaker 1: to Nazis is this corruption of the justice system upon 232 00:16:02,755 --> 00:16:06,635 Speaker 1: which their ecstatic delusions of your rest. It is the 233 00:16:06,675 --> 00:16:10,995 Speaker 1: same corruption of the justice system upon which Hitler's dictatorship 234 00:16:11,115 --> 00:16:14,995 Speaker 1: was built. Once you have all the courts, you can 235 00:16:14,995 --> 00:16:19,075 Speaker 1: not only do anything, but you can have what seems 236 00:16:19,115 --> 00:16:25,515 Speaker 1: to be an outside authority declare it legal. The other 237 00:16:25,595 --> 00:16:29,075 Speaker 1: component is, of course, institutionalized gas lighting. And that's where 238 00:16:29,115 --> 00:16:32,475 Speaker 1: the other developments are coming that pertained to my modest proposal. 239 00:16:33,235 --> 00:16:36,475 Speaker 1: I mentioned yesterday that over the weekend, Trump had directed 240 00:16:36,475 --> 00:16:42,435 Speaker 1: his primary weapon the accused must accuse the accuser. He 241 00:16:42,475 --> 00:16:44,875 Speaker 1: had directed it against the growing awareness within the Biden 242 00:16:44,915 --> 00:16:49,035 Speaker 1: administration and the Biden campaign that highlighting the genuine Trumpian 243 00:16:49,115 --> 00:16:52,795 Speaker 1: threat to representative government and democracy must be an essential 244 00:16:52,875 --> 00:16:58,435 Speaker 1: component in their campaign. Now it is Trump claiming they've 245 00:16:58,475 --> 00:17:04,315 Speaker 1: made up signs claiming Biden is destroying democracy. Ah, but 246 00:17:04,395 --> 00:17:07,035 Speaker 1: yesterday they took the next step. It was the hapless 247 00:17:07,115 --> 00:17:10,435 Speaker 1: Byron York of the Washington Examiner who gave away more 248 00:17:10,435 --> 00:17:13,795 Speaker 1: than he could possibly understand when he suggested that because 249 00:17:13,875 --> 00:17:16,515 Speaker 1: the Atlantic and the New York Times and the Washington 250 00:17:16,515 --> 00:17:19,555 Speaker 1: Post and some other places all wrote pieces about Trump's 251 00:17:19,555 --> 00:17:22,155 Speaker 1: menace on the same day, that must be some kind 252 00:17:22,155 --> 00:17:26,875 Speaker 1: of coordinated plot. It was then the moronic but still 253 00:17:26,955 --> 00:17:29,235 Speaker 1: dangerous Matt Gates who took it to the next step 254 00:17:29,275 --> 00:17:31,355 Speaker 1: after that and said, sure, it's a plot. It's a 255 00:17:31,395 --> 00:17:38,515 Speaker 1: plot to stochastically encourage violence against Trump. And Gates said 256 00:17:38,515 --> 00:17:43,435 Speaker 1: this on the Sebastian Gorka Show Sebastian Gorka, who on 257 00:17:43,515 --> 00:17:47,355 Speaker 1: the night of Trump's inauguration in twenty seventeen, wore an 258 00:17:47,395 --> 00:17:51,675 Speaker 1: actual badge, an actual tunic, and an actual ring linked 259 00:17:51,715 --> 00:17:57,315 Speaker 1: to Hungarian Nazi sympathizers. I don't know where we get 260 00:17:57,355 --> 00:18:00,355 Speaker 1: the nerve to say they're Nazis. All they're saying is 261 00:18:00,715 --> 00:18:04,435 Speaker 1: Donald Trump Nazi Nazi, Nazi fascism, dictator shape. It looks 262 00:18:04,475 --> 00:18:08,355 Speaker 1: like that is the campaign platform for twenty twenty four. 263 00:18:09,195 --> 00:18:11,355 Speaker 4: I think it's even worse. I think that they are 264 00:18:11,515 --> 00:18:15,115 Speaker 4: green lighting assassination. You know, when you hear people talk 265 00:18:15,155 --> 00:18:21,355 Speaker 4: about Trump as Hitler or as some sort of authoritarian tyrant, 266 00:18:21,835 --> 00:18:25,355 Speaker 4: they're trying to justify violence against him and violence against 267 00:18:25,355 --> 00:18:28,875 Speaker 4: his supporters, and it is sickening and unamerican. I condemn 268 00:18:28,915 --> 00:18:30,955 Speaker 4: it in the strongest possible terms. 269 00:18:31,235 --> 00:18:36,275 Speaker 1: Leaving aside the absurdity of accusing anybody of green lighting 270 00:18:36,275 --> 00:18:43,155 Speaker 1: assassination against Trump. When Trump green lights assassination against a 271 00:18:43,195 --> 00:18:46,275 Speaker 1: dozen judges and prosecutors and critics before he falls out 272 00:18:46,355 --> 00:18:49,435 Speaker 1: of bed in the morning, Gates does not seem to 273 00:18:49,475 --> 00:18:51,715 Speaker 1: know that one of the articles he's claiming is part 274 00:18:51,715 --> 00:18:54,915 Speaker 1: of this plot against Trump. The one from the Washington 275 00:18:54,995 --> 00:18:58,355 Speaker 1: Post with the clever image of Trump's mask being torn 276 00:18:58,395 --> 00:19:02,115 Speaker 1: away to reveal a Roman emperor looks like a cross 277 00:19:02,155 --> 00:19:06,635 Speaker 1: between Julius Caesar and Vespasian. The article titled a Trump 278 00:19:06,715 --> 00:19:10,835 Speaker 1: dictatorship is increasingly inevitable. We should stop pretending that one 279 00:19:12,315 --> 00:19:14,355 Speaker 1: that one that's part of the plot against Trump. Trump 280 00:19:14,355 --> 00:19:16,915 Speaker 1: went on truth Social and posted a link to it, 281 00:19:17,715 --> 00:19:21,155 Speaker 1: just in case anybody missed it, because after all, the 282 00:19:21,195 --> 00:19:25,355 Speaker 1: title a Trump dictatorship is increasingly inevitable is to Trump 283 00:19:25,595 --> 00:19:31,715 Speaker 1: a bigger compliment than no, your hair looks great. By 284 00:19:31,755 --> 00:19:36,835 Speaker 1: the way, Sebastian Gorka's show, it's on Salem Radio, Salem 285 00:19:37,595 --> 00:19:40,915 Speaker 1: NBC's partner on the Republican Debate that it aired last month, 286 00:19:41,115 --> 00:19:46,755 Speaker 1: co moderated by Hugh Hewitt of Salem and Kristin Welker. Well, 287 00:19:47,195 --> 00:19:52,235 Speaker 1: Kristin Welker, congratulations two degrees of Sebastian Gorka, you're a 288 00:19:52,315 --> 00:19:57,075 Speaker 1: Nazi adjacent. Oh and by the way, Thank God's CNN 289 00:19:57,155 --> 00:20:00,875 Speaker 1: is under new non Chris licked paste eating management. They 290 00:20:00,955 --> 00:20:04,475 Speaker 1: will only be hosting two Republican presidential town halls next 291 00:20:04,515 --> 00:20:09,915 Speaker 1: week live ones, an hour live of Ron DeSantis Live 292 00:20:10,035 --> 00:20:12,955 Speaker 1: next Tuesday Live, and then an hour live of v 293 00:20:13,075 --> 00:20:16,795 Speaker 1: Vake Ramaswami Live a week from tonight live. But don't worry, 294 00:20:17,275 --> 00:20:20,795 Speaker 1: they have Abby Philip there to push back the Ramaswami 295 00:20:20,835 --> 00:20:24,875 Speaker 1: tsunami of lies with her bare hands, and that sincere 296 00:20:24,955 --> 00:20:32,875 Speaker 1: look in her eyes. Tonight on CNN A Live Hour 297 00:20:33,035 --> 00:20:39,795 Speaker 1: with the Devil, Charles Barkley and Gail King hosts back 298 00:20:39,835 --> 00:20:43,635 Speaker 1: to the point. Just didn't see the Republicans doubling down 299 00:20:43,675 --> 00:20:47,155 Speaker 1: on the January sixth was a normal tourist visit bullshit 300 00:20:47,235 --> 00:20:49,995 Speaker 1: either same day as my modest proposal, and no, I 301 00:20:50,035 --> 00:20:53,915 Speaker 1: know it was a coincidence. Still, this from Speaker Mike 302 00:20:53,995 --> 00:20:56,995 Speaker 1: Johnson about releasing the January sixth video that shows nothing 303 00:20:57,155 --> 00:20:59,755 Speaker 1: was a shock. Of course, it would have been more 304 00:20:59,795 --> 00:21:03,435 Speaker 1: of a shock if Mike Johnson hadn't been Trump's leading 305 00:21:03,515 --> 00:21:06,035 Speaker 1: agent inside the coop attempts in the House. 306 00:21:06,235 --> 00:21:09,275 Speaker 5: We trust House Republicans trust the American people to draw 307 00:21:09,315 --> 00:21:12,315 Speaker 5: their own conclusions. They should not be dictated by some 308 00:21:12,435 --> 00:21:14,555 Speaker 5: narrative and accept that as fact so they can review 309 00:21:14,635 --> 00:21:17,555 Speaker 5: the tapes themselves. We're going through a methodical process of 310 00:21:17,595 --> 00:21:20,115 Speaker 5: releasing them as quickly as we can. As you know, 311 00:21:20,155 --> 00:21:22,595 Speaker 5: we have to blur some of the faces of persons 312 00:21:22,635 --> 00:21:26,635 Speaker 5: who participated in the events of that day because we 313 00:21:26,675 --> 00:21:29,355 Speaker 5: don't want them to be retaliated against and UH and 314 00:21:29,875 --> 00:21:30,875 Speaker 5: to be charged. 315 00:21:30,555 --> 00:21:35,555 Speaker 1: By the DJ See that's obstruction of justice. Moreover, Johnson 316 00:21:35,635 --> 00:21:40,555 Speaker 1: is proudly announcing he's committing obstruction of justice. Now to 317 00:21:40,555 --> 00:21:44,195 Speaker 1: some degree, it's less serious and more performative than that. 318 00:21:44,235 --> 00:21:47,595 Speaker 1: I mean, the FBI has all that video. On the 319 00:21:47,595 --> 00:21:50,915 Speaker 1: other hand, nearly all of the actual prosecutions of the 320 00:21:50,995 --> 00:21:57,635 Speaker 1: January sixth revolutionaries were prompted by well crowd sourcing, so 321 00:21:57,795 --> 00:22:01,795 Speaker 1: blurring the faces might reduce our leading criminal investigation of 322 00:22:01,875 --> 00:22:13,155 Speaker 1: January sixth. Your neighbors and the folks down at the VFW. Also, 323 00:22:13,435 --> 00:22:16,875 Speaker 1: as Adam Kinsinger asked, Mike, I thought you said the 324 00:22:16,955 --> 00:22:21,195 Speaker 1: violent ones were all Antifa and Black Lives Matter, and 325 00:22:21,315 --> 00:22:26,315 Speaker 1: I'll add an FBI plants and probably Hunter Biden. Blur 326 00:22:26,435 --> 00:22:29,835 Speaker 1: the faces, Mike, why you're at it? Probably a good idea. 327 00:22:29,875 --> 00:22:32,275 Speaker 1: If you get all the images of yourself from January sixth, 328 00:22:32,315 --> 00:22:35,835 Speaker 1: then you blur that face too, all in all the 329 00:22:35,875 --> 00:22:40,475 Speaker 1: images from January sixth, the Trump because he's guilty as sin. 330 00:22:41,555 --> 00:22:44,515 Speaker 1: And if our tradition of defending democracy by handling it 331 00:22:44,555 --> 00:22:49,715 Speaker 1: only with archival quality white linen gloves, except for mister 332 00:22:49,755 --> 00:22:52,915 Speaker 1: Lincoln's presidency, of course, if that has to be replaced 333 00:22:53,515 --> 00:22:58,435 Speaker 1: for a little time with soiled work gloves, so be 334 00:22:58,555 --> 00:23:02,755 Speaker 1: it Donald Trump. To circle back to the new Jack 335 00:23:02,755 --> 00:23:08,235 Speaker 1: Smith filing Donald Trump professional election denier established twenty twelve. 336 00:23:08,875 --> 00:23:12,875 Speaker 1: Donald Trump has to be imprisoned before he can destroy 337 00:23:13,275 --> 00:23:17,035 Speaker 1: what's left of this nation. And I say this calmly 338 00:23:17,435 --> 00:23:20,995 Speaker 1: and with no call for violence, but I no longer 339 00:23:21,155 --> 00:23:27,755 Speaker 1: really care too much about exactly how we put him. There. 340 00:23:32,955 --> 00:23:35,155 Speaker 1: Also of interest here, Mike Johnson is not just a 341 00:23:35,195 --> 00:23:38,795 Speaker 1: Trump tool, He's a Russian tool. And so on the 342 00:23:38,835 --> 00:23:41,075 Speaker 1: same topic Ukraine. Just when I thought he might not 343 00:23:41,315 --> 00:23:43,395 Speaker 1: be as much of an ask clown as I'd always 344 00:23:43,395 --> 00:23:47,475 Speaker 1: thought he was, so is Mitt Romney. Plus an admission 345 00:23:47,475 --> 00:23:50,555 Speaker 1: from a Republican congressman. They want to impeach Biden, so 346 00:23:50,915 --> 00:23:54,675 Speaker 1: Trump can say, see, Biden was impeached too. I'm not 347 00:23:54,755 --> 00:23:59,315 Speaker 1: the only one. And I think I know what's going 348 00:23:59,315 --> 00:24:03,595 Speaker 1: on with the show, Hey Otani stuff. Not which team 349 00:24:03,635 --> 00:24:06,675 Speaker 1: he's going to play for next year, but which teams 350 00:24:06,715 --> 00:24:10,435 Speaker 1: he's not gonna play for. That's next. This is Countdown. 351 00:24:12,675 --> 00:24:25,795 Speaker 1: This is Countdown with Keith Oberman host. Scripts to the news, 352 00:24:25,875 --> 00:24:32,595 Speaker 1: some headlines, some updates, some snarks, some predictions. Dateline, Capitol 353 00:24:32,675 --> 00:24:36,075 Speaker 1: Hill speaker Johnson, the smarmy little worm has okay to 354 00:24:36,195 --> 00:24:40,235 Speaker 1: vote on a Biden impeachment inquiry. Apparently the first article 355 00:24:40,315 --> 00:24:44,915 Speaker 1: will be his son bought a Ford truck. The thing 356 00:24:45,035 --> 00:24:48,275 Speaker 1: is such a joke that Congress and Troy Knells of Texas, 357 00:24:48,595 --> 00:24:52,475 Speaker 1: owned and operated by Trump, has given up even pretending 358 00:24:52,875 --> 00:24:56,515 Speaker 1: he has explained this charade to USA Today on the record. 359 00:24:57,115 --> 00:25:01,675 Speaker 1: Impeaching Biden would give Trump quoting nails now, a little 360 00:25:01,675 --> 00:25:05,875 Speaker 1: bit of ammo to fire back unquote another word so 361 00:25:05,915 --> 00:25:09,675 Speaker 1: he can say Biden was impeached too. Because the entire 362 00:25:09,755 --> 00:25:14,395 Speaker 1: country sits at the whim of a mentally imbalanced, rapidly 363 00:25:14,475 --> 00:25:20,035 Speaker 1: deteriorating would be dictator, and at the whim of Congressman 364 00:25:20,155 --> 00:25:24,395 Speaker 1: Jamie Comer, who is not imbalanced and is not deteriorating 365 00:25:24,675 --> 00:25:28,235 Speaker 1: because he's got nothing to deteriorate from. He's just a 366 00:25:28,395 --> 00:25:32,315 Speaker 1: yokel Congressman. Are we supposed to believe that? I mean, 367 00:25:32,355 --> 00:25:34,395 Speaker 1: they think everyone ignorant. 368 00:25:35,035 --> 00:25:37,915 Speaker 2: They assume that the majority of Americans at the end 369 00:25:37,955 --> 00:25:39,675 Speaker 2: of the day are going to be financially iterate. 370 00:25:39,915 --> 00:25:43,275 Speaker 1: Chairman Gomer, the phrase you were going for there was 371 00:25:43,355 --> 00:25:50,115 Speaker 1: financially illiterate. Only you said financially literate, because you are 372 00:25:51,115 --> 00:26:01,515 Speaker 1: completely illiterate dateline Kiev, President Zelenski and Ukraine canceled a 373 00:26:01,675 --> 00:26:04,955 Speaker 1: zoom call scheduled yesterday with Senators in advance of the 374 00:26:04,995 --> 00:26:08,555 Speaker 1: make or break vote on aid to that country. Speaker Johnson, 375 00:26:08,635 --> 00:26:11,315 Speaker 1: Russian stooge, wrote back to the White House Office of 376 00:26:11,355 --> 00:26:14,475 Speaker 1: Management and Budget that aid to Ukraine is quote dependent 377 00:26:14,595 --> 00:26:18,955 Speaker 1: upon enactment of transformative change to our nation's border security laws. 378 00:26:19,475 --> 00:26:22,795 Speaker 1: He was promptly slammed for that by Senate Majority Leader McConnell, 379 00:26:23,155 --> 00:26:25,955 Speaker 1: but not by Senator Mitt Romney, who used to be 380 00:26:26,035 --> 00:26:29,915 Speaker 1: an American but is now just another putent puppet holding 381 00:26:30,035 --> 00:26:33,315 Speaker 1: Ukraine hostage and stating, quote, Dems one one hundred and 382 00:26:33,355 --> 00:26:37,195 Speaker 1: six billion GOP wants a closed border, that's the trade, 383 00:26:37,435 --> 00:26:40,675 Speaker 1: but clueless Dems want to negotiate the border bill not 384 00:26:40,915 --> 00:26:44,195 Speaker 1: going to happen. Is an open border more important to 385 00:26:44,275 --> 00:26:49,075 Speaker 1: Dems than Ukraine and Israel unquote? I always laugh when 386 00:26:49,235 --> 00:26:53,035 Speaker 1: Mitt Romney talks about the border with Mexico. Mitt Romney's 387 00:26:53,035 --> 00:26:56,235 Speaker 1: father was born in Mexico. He was born there because 388 00:26:56,235 --> 00:26:59,715 Speaker 1: his family had fled there because they were polygamists and 389 00:26:59,755 --> 00:27:01,875 Speaker 1: the locals here in the US of A wanted to 390 00:27:02,115 --> 00:27:05,315 Speaker 1: kill them. The only reason they ever returned to this 391 00:27:05,395 --> 00:27:09,515 Speaker 1: country from the Romney family compound in Mexico was that 392 00:27:09,555 --> 00:27:13,155 Speaker 1: the Mexican government had become so unstable that the Romneys 393 00:27:13,155 --> 00:27:20,795 Speaker 1: had to flee for political asylum across the Mexican border. Punchline, 394 00:27:20,875 --> 00:27:25,715 Speaker 1: Mitt Romney is only here because my grandfathers did not 395 00:27:25,915 --> 00:27:32,995 Speaker 1: turn their back on the plight of MIT's grandfather and 396 00:27:33,195 --> 00:27:37,235 Speaker 1: Dateline South Carolina, Washington's conservative paper of the Examiner reports 397 00:27:37,275 --> 00:27:40,915 Speaker 1: that Congresswoman Nancy I skipped morning sex to come to 398 00:27:40,955 --> 00:27:45,395 Speaker 1: this prayer breakfast. Mace has lost three senior staffers, all 399 00:27:45,435 --> 00:27:49,395 Speaker 1: of them Trump Practice dictatorship alumni. Three staffers in the 400 00:27:49,435 --> 00:27:55,035 Speaker 1: past week alone. Wow, she's misplaced them. To lose one 401 00:27:55,155 --> 00:27:58,835 Speaker 1: is unfortunate. To lose three looks like carelessness. The paper 402 00:27:58,875 --> 00:28:02,035 Speaker 1: reports Mace fired her chief of staff, then the deputy 403 00:28:02,115 --> 00:28:05,115 Speaker 1: chief of staff quit. Now the legislative director is leaving 404 00:28:05,155 --> 00:28:08,635 Speaker 1: at the end of the month. My sympathies Congresswoman Mace. 405 00:28:09,155 --> 00:28:13,955 Speaker 1: I suppose this makes it much much harder to get 406 00:28:13,995 --> 00:28:31,035 Speaker 1: out of bed in the morning. This is sports Senate wait, 407 00:28:31,235 --> 00:28:38,835 Speaker 1: check that not anymore. This is countdown with Keith Aulberman 408 00:28:39,315 --> 00:28:47,675 Speaker 1: in sports. Dateline Nashville Tennessee Shoe a Otani has signed 409 00:28:49,275 --> 00:28:54,035 Speaker 1: an autograph. Sorry, some very strange things are happening in 410 00:28:54,075 --> 00:28:57,315 Speaker 1: the saga of the baseball free agent pitcher and dh who, 411 00:28:57,355 --> 00:29:00,355 Speaker 1: had he not needed Tommy John surgery on his pitching arm, 412 00:29:00,435 --> 00:29:02,435 Speaker 1: might have gotten a free agent salary of one hundred 413 00:29:02,475 --> 00:29:05,835 Speaker 1: million dollars a year and been wor every penny of it. 414 00:29:06,395 --> 00:29:10,555 Speaker 1: Early on, Otani's camp indicated it would hold it against 415 00:29:10,595 --> 00:29:14,075 Speaker 1: any team that leaked that it had met with him. 416 00:29:14,355 --> 00:29:16,115 Speaker 1: Yet here we go. First, there was the story that 417 00:29:16,155 --> 00:29:18,755 Speaker 1: he met Monday with the Toronto Blue Jays at their 418 00:29:18,795 --> 00:29:22,115 Speaker 1: camp at dun Eden and Florida. And I love Toronto 419 00:29:22,195 --> 00:29:25,035 Speaker 1: and the Jays people are great, but you were trying 420 00:29:25,035 --> 00:29:28,875 Speaker 1: to impress show Hey Otani, so you met him at 421 00:29:28,955 --> 00:29:32,795 Speaker 1: dun Eden, Florida, at your training camp, a facility that 422 00:29:32,795 --> 00:29:38,035 Speaker 1: has been painted like once since nineteen seventy seven. Then 423 00:29:38,595 --> 00:29:42,315 Speaker 1: even weirder, yesterday, Los Angeles Dodgers manager Dave Roberts at 424 00:29:42,355 --> 00:29:45,875 Speaker 1: the Baseball Winter Meetings publicly stated on the record that 425 00:29:45,995 --> 00:29:48,435 Speaker 1: he had met with Otani in the last few days. 426 00:29:48,915 --> 00:29:52,475 Speaker 1: His bosses refused to make any comment on what their 427 00:29:52,515 --> 00:29:55,955 Speaker 1: own manager said on the record. There are also a 428 00:29:55,995 --> 00:29:57,955 Speaker 1: couple of reports out of the Bay Area that the 429 00:29:58,035 --> 00:30:01,235 Speaker 1: Giants also met with Otani. There's a vague story about 430 00:30:01,235 --> 00:30:05,675 Speaker 1: negotiations with the Chicago Cubs too, But remember he's holding 431 00:30:05,715 --> 00:30:08,555 Speaker 1: it against any team that reveals they have met with him. 432 00:30:08,675 --> 00:30:12,275 Speaker 1: Wants this secret until he decides, which would mean the Jays, 433 00:30:12,395 --> 00:30:15,555 Speaker 1: the Dodgers, the Giants, the Cubs, they're all out of 434 00:30:15,555 --> 00:30:18,955 Speaker 1: the bidding, which would mean they all forgot about that rule, 435 00:30:18,995 --> 00:30:22,915 Speaker 1: which would mean they're morons. See here's what I think 436 00:30:22,995 --> 00:30:24,355 Speaker 1: is happening. And for all I know, he could have 437 00:30:24,355 --> 00:30:27,715 Speaker 1: signed with the Dodgers between when I recorded this and 438 00:30:27,755 --> 00:30:31,435 Speaker 1: now when you are hearing it. I think the J's 439 00:30:31,515 --> 00:30:33,755 Speaker 1: and Dodgers and the Giants and the Cubs know he 440 00:30:33,835 --> 00:30:36,595 Speaker 1: is not going to sign with them. So each of 441 00:30:36,635 --> 00:30:39,355 Speaker 1: them leaked that they met with him so that their 442 00:30:39,395 --> 00:30:41,675 Speaker 1: fans will get excited that he might sign with them, 443 00:30:41,715 --> 00:30:45,915 Speaker 1: and when he doesn't, their fans will get mad at him, 444 00:30:45,915 --> 00:30:48,995 Speaker 1: not at the club. The New York Mets, of course, 445 00:30:49,035 --> 00:30:52,595 Speaker 1: did it perfectly. The Mets pretty much said they were 446 00:30:52,595 --> 00:30:55,035 Speaker 1: not interested in Oatani, and now Mets fans are even 447 00:30:55,075 --> 00:30:57,995 Speaker 1: madder than usual at their management. Same thing for the Mariners, 448 00:30:57,995 --> 00:30:59,995 Speaker 1: the Red Sox, and the Rangers. The Rangers who may 449 00:30:59,995 --> 00:31:02,915 Speaker 1: be World champions but don't have a TV contract and 450 00:31:02,955 --> 00:31:06,835 Speaker 1: thus don't have any money. Seems kind of logical that O'tani, 451 00:31:06,875 --> 00:31:09,395 Speaker 1: who is a low key guy who wants total control 452 00:31:09,395 --> 00:31:11,995 Speaker 1: of his life and how much publicity he does or 453 00:31:12,075 --> 00:31:15,755 Speaker 1: does not get every single day, who has already adjusted 454 00:31:15,755 --> 00:31:18,955 Speaker 1: to an American community once and doesn't seem like he 455 00:31:18,995 --> 00:31:22,355 Speaker 1: wants to go through that again. Seems like he's going 456 00:31:22,435 --> 00:31:26,875 Speaker 1: to stay where he's been. The Los Angeles Angels, by 457 00:31:26,915 --> 00:31:31,355 Speaker 1: the way, those Los Angeles, California Angels of Anaheim, Azusa 458 00:31:31,395 --> 00:31:34,755 Speaker 1: and Cuckamonga. In what might be related news, they also 459 00:31:34,875 --> 00:31:43,635 Speaker 1: say they are not trading Mike Trout and Dateline. Tallahassee, 460 00:31:43,635 --> 00:31:46,035 Speaker 1: Florida State's football team was left out of the College 461 00:31:46,075 --> 00:31:49,555 Speaker 1: Football Playoff, and they're all ticked about it. That's the 462 00:31:49,595 --> 00:31:53,315 Speaker 1: college Football Playoff, which was supposed to end people getting 463 00:31:53,355 --> 00:31:57,555 Speaker 1: riled up about this version of professional football. In any event, 464 00:31:57,595 --> 00:32:00,555 Speaker 1: Governor Ron Dessentis of Florida says his state will contribute 465 00:32:00,595 --> 00:32:04,515 Speaker 1: a million dollars for any litigation expenses involved in suing 466 00:32:04,795 --> 00:32:08,755 Speaker 1: to I don't know, get Florida state into the playoffs, 467 00:32:09,195 --> 00:32:13,995 Speaker 1: your tax dollars in action. Now. If you're wondering why 468 00:32:14,075 --> 00:32:19,475 Speaker 1: DeSantis would do anything this dumb, please note this is 469 00:32:19,515 --> 00:32:21,875 Speaker 1: the first time in at least a week that there 470 00:32:21,915 --> 00:32:24,515 Speaker 1: is a story coming out of the Florida government that 471 00:32:24,675 --> 00:32:29,995 Speaker 1: is not about elevator shoes or three ways with Moms 472 00:32:30,035 --> 00:33:28,875 Speaker 1: for Liberty. Thank you, Nancy Faust still ahead of us 473 00:33:28,915 --> 00:33:32,275 Speaker 1: on countdown. I've been thinking a lot lately about Ted Turner, 474 00:33:33,115 --> 00:33:35,395 Speaker 1: and about the day I wanted to sock him and 475 00:33:35,435 --> 00:33:38,155 Speaker 1: he wanted to sock me, and he wanted to fire me. 476 00:33:39,275 --> 00:33:41,355 Speaker 1: And a later day when I got a fan letter 477 00:33:41,355 --> 00:33:44,595 Speaker 1: about a story I did about Ted from well, you 478 00:33:44,635 --> 00:33:47,155 Speaker 1: won't believe who the fan letter was from. Coming up 479 00:33:47,195 --> 00:33:50,915 Speaker 1: been things I promised not to tell. First time for 480 00:33:50,955 --> 00:33:52,995 Speaker 1: the daily round up of the miscreants, morons and Dunning 481 00:33:53,035 --> 00:33:56,795 Speaker 1: Kruger effects specimens who constitute today's worst persons in the world, 482 00:33:57,675 --> 00:34:02,395 Speaker 1: the Bronze worse. Julie Kelly one of these Trump suckers 483 00:34:02,435 --> 00:34:07,915 Speaker 1: from the ironically named American Gitanus Organization. She writes in 484 00:34:07,955 --> 00:34:10,915 Speaker 1: the structure of journalism, but without the facts, the ethics, 485 00:34:10,995 --> 00:34:15,035 Speaker 1: or the knowledge. Kelly clipped something from a Tanya Chutkin 486 00:34:15,155 --> 00:34:18,115 Speaker 1: ruling on a Trump motion which read, quote, the court 487 00:34:18,195 --> 00:34:21,355 Speaker 1: must take the allegations in the indictment as true unquote. 488 00:34:22,155 --> 00:34:26,435 Speaker 1: Kelly captioned this and someone explain innocent until proven gualanty 489 00:34:26,555 --> 00:34:30,755 Speaker 1: to dance firing behind Jadge. Apart from the casual racism 490 00:34:31,395 --> 00:34:34,515 Speaker 1: and the white supremacism, several lawyers pointed out that the 491 00:34:34,555 --> 00:34:39,395 Speaker 1: giant hole in Julie Kelly's inferior education includes one really 492 00:34:39,395 --> 00:34:42,195 Speaker 1: big problem related to this. Let me quote Brad Heath. 493 00:34:42,795 --> 00:34:45,755 Speaker 1: Trump had filed a motion to dismiss the entire January 494 00:34:45,835 --> 00:34:49,315 Speaker 1: sixth case. So, as he writes, when deciding a motion 495 00:34:49,435 --> 00:34:52,995 Speaker 1: to dismiss, a federal judge is required to accept the 496 00:34:53,035 --> 00:34:57,115 Speaker 1: allegations in the indictment as true, regardless of the judge's 497 00:34:57,195 --> 00:35:00,475 Speaker 1: place of birth. Julie Kelly, by the way, as a 498 00:35:00,515 --> 00:35:04,595 Speaker 1: graduate of Eastern Illinois University, and they have my condolences bio. 499 00:35:04,835 --> 00:35:08,075 Speaker 1: Also note she's a frequent guest on Tucker Carlson Tonight. 500 00:35:08,435 --> 00:35:13,875 Speaker 1: Not anymore. She ain't meet the runners up worser, Congressman 501 00:35:13,915 --> 00:35:16,835 Speaker 1: Thomas Massey. Now he's got a track record a mile 502 00:35:16,915 --> 00:35:21,915 Speaker 1: long conspiracy. Theorist Q adjacent racist insurrectionist. But even so, 503 00:35:22,035 --> 00:35:25,075 Speaker 1: it was kind of startling to see his social media 504 00:35:25,155 --> 00:35:29,715 Speaker 1: post using the Drake red ski jacket meme with the 505 00:35:29,795 --> 00:35:33,835 Speaker 1: label Congress these Days and Drake holding up his hand 506 00:35:33,875 --> 00:35:37,875 Speaker 1: and making a sour face towards the words American patriotism 507 00:35:38,355 --> 00:35:42,915 Speaker 1: and then smiling towards the words Zionism. If I were 508 00:35:42,955 --> 00:35:45,315 Speaker 1: trying to prove in court the Congressman Massy is an 509 00:35:45,315 --> 00:35:49,435 Speaker 1: anti Semite, that would be exhibit number one. But our 510 00:35:49,475 --> 00:35:54,995 Speaker 1: winner the worst Ronald McDaniel, Republican National Committee Chair. And look, 511 00:35:55,075 --> 00:35:57,875 Speaker 1: I want that party to be run by the dumbest 512 00:35:57,915 --> 00:36:01,715 Speaker 1: people possible, I really do. But even in that context, 513 00:36:01,755 --> 00:36:04,995 Speaker 1: I do not know how she keeps her job. I 514 00:36:05,035 --> 00:36:07,675 Speaker 1: mentioned in the A Bloc the latest Trump the accused 515 00:36:07,755 --> 00:36:10,715 Speaker 1: must accuse the accuser twist, accusing Biden of trying to 516 00:36:10,755 --> 00:36:13,875 Speaker 1: kill democracy. They actually sent Rona out to give an 517 00:36:13,915 --> 00:36:16,635 Speaker 1: example of this on Fox News, and she screwed it 518 00:36:16,715 --> 00:36:20,395 Speaker 1: up completely because the problem is Rona McDaniel is a Romney, 519 00:36:20,555 --> 00:36:25,115 Speaker 1: therefore she's a freaking idiot. Quote. This is a Biden 520 00:36:25,155 --> 00:36:28,435 Speaker 1: White House that was meeting with social media companies dictating 521 00:36:28,475 --> 00:36:31,795 Speaker 1: what they put on their platforms before the twenty twenty election. 522 00:36:32,515 --> 00:36:34,795 Speaker 1: This is a white House that killed the Hunter Biden's 523 00:36:34,795 --> 00:36:37,595 Speaker 1: story that we now know is true, that prevented voters 524 00:36:37,595 --> 00:36:42,035 Speaker 1: from knowing that before the twenty twenty election. Oh, for 525 00:36:42,355 --> 00:36:48,075 Speaker 1: Christ's sake, already, madam, leaving the Hunter Biden story being 526 00:36:48,195 --> 00:36:51,795 Speaker 1: true part because it ain't. You do know who the 527 00:36:51,835 --> 00:37:00,115 Speaker 1: president was in twenty twenty, right any guesses? No, it 528 00:37:00,235 --> 00:37:04,155 Speaker 1: was not Joe Biden. It was your boss, Rona. You 529 00:37:04,395 --> 00:37:07,715 Speaker 1: just accused Trump and his white House of killing your 530 00:37:07,795 --> 00:37:13,075 Speaker 1: Hunter Biden's story. You also revealed you can't count Ronna 531 00:37:13,395 --> 00:37:19,995 Speaker 1: Romney McDaniel higher number of names than IQ points two days, 532 00:37:21,115 --> 00:37:36,795 Speaker 1: worst person in the world, to the number one story 533 00:37:36,835 --> 00:37:39,555 Speaker 1: on the Countdown and my favorite topic, me and things 534 00:37:39,595 --> 00:37:43,195 Speaker 1: I promised not to tell. And before the fortieth anniversary 535 00:37:43,195 --> 00:37:46,515 Speaker 1: of this event recedes into the forgotten past, I have 536 00:37:46,555 --> 00:37:48,755 Speaker 1: one more story to tell you about covering the nineteen 537 00:37:48,835 --> 00:37:52,075 Speaker 1: eighty two National Football League players strike, and this is 538 00:37:52,155 --> 00:37:55,075 Speaker 1: less about the strike itself and more about the man 539 00:37:55,155 --> 00:37:59,715 Speaker 1: for whom I covered it, Ted Turner. Ted Turner had 540 00:37:59,715 --> 00:38:02,395 Speaker 1: put CNN on the air just two years earlier, and 541 00:38:02,475 --> 00:38:04,955 Speaker 1: his sports guy Bill McPhail had interviewed me for a 542 00:38:05,075 --> 00:38:07,675 Speaker 1: job as their New York Sports reporter even earlier than 543 00:38:07,675 --> 00:38:10,915 Speaker 1: that May of nineteen eighty and when I did not 544 00:38:10,955 --> 00:38:13,355 Speaker 1: get it, I was genuinely relieved, because I was convinced 545 00:38:13,395 --> 00:38:15,635 Speaker 1: there was no way they would ever get CNN on 546 00:38:15,675 --> 00:38:20,275 Speaker 1: the air, no chance. Ever. Obviously I did not account 547 00:38:20,275 --> 00:38:24,435 Speaker 1: for Ted Turner's stubbornness. Anyway, I wound up going their 548 00:38:24,475 --> 00:38:26,995 Speaker 1: freelance in nineteen eighty one, as I have related in 549 00:38:27,035 --> 00:38:29,995 Speaker 1: some detail here, when Lou Dobbs and his girlfriend, the 550 00:38:29,995 --> 00:38:32,075 Speaker 1: New York Sports Reporter, had to get out of town 551 00:38:32,195 --> 00:38:36,875 Speaker 1: fast at the existence of missus Lou Dobbs. Eight months later, 552 00:38:36,915 --> 00:38:39,635 Speaker 1: as the nineteen eighty two NFL strike loomed, they had 553 00:38:39,635 --> 00:38:42,195 Speaker 1: made me staff and given me a contract, first, offering 554 00:38:42,275 --> 00:38:44,115 Speaker 1: me one thousand dollars less a year than they were 555 00:38:44,115 --> 00:38:47,795 Speaker 1: paying me freelance. Even CNN of nineteen eighty two acknowledged 556 00:38:47,795 --> 00:38:52,355 Speaker 1: the absurdity of that mathematical proposition. So I was invested 557 00:38:52,475 --> 00:38:55,875 Speaker 1: already whining about Ted Turner, employee of CNN, when the 558 00:38:55,875 --> 00:38:58,955 Speaker 1: football players walked out and strike in September nineteen eighty two, 559 00:38:59,155 --> 00:39:02,795 Speaker 1: and that strike was my beat every day from March 560 00:39:02,835 --> 00:39:06,595 Speaker 1: to November or so. After the strike began, we sent 561 00:39:06,675 --> 00:39:10,235 Speaker 1: up an interview with the president of CBS Sports, Neil Pilson, 562 00:39:10,635 --> 00:39:12,715 Speaker 1: about the effect that the strike would have on TV 563 00:39:12,835 --> 00:39:16,155 Speaker 1: Sports in general and CBS Sports in particular, And as 564 00:39:16,195 --> 00:39:19,075 Speaker 1: the camera crew and I filed into his office, Pilson 565 00:39:19,155 --> 00:39:22,555 Speaker 1: wearily said, nothing against you, guys, but I've done so 566 00:39:22,635 --> 00:39:25,635 Speaker 1: many interviews already about this strike that if you actually 567 00:39:25,675 --> 00:39:27,915 Speaker 1: come up with a question I haven't been asked already, 568 00:39:28,115 --> 00:39:30,955 Speaker 1: I'll give you well. We all leaned in towards him. 569 00:39:30,995 --> 00:39:34,195 Speaker 1: Give us what the job? A job interview? At least 570 00:39:34,875 --> 00:39:40,835 Speaker 1: fifty dollars, I'll give you CBS Sports caps man. Not 571 00:39:40,915 --> 00:39:44,035 Speaker 1: exactly a job, but better than nothing. So we rolled 572 00:39:44,075 --> 00:39:45,915 Speaker 1: tape and I said, so, mister Pilson, in light of 573 00:39:45,955 --> 00:39:48,795 Speaker 1: the strike, do you wish CBS Sports did not have 574 00:39:48,915 --> 00:39:52,155 Speaker 1: the Super Bowl this year? As it does? And he laughed, 575 00:39:52,675 --> 00:39:54,435 Speaker 1: and he took off his mic and he went over 576 00:39:54,435 --> 00:39:57,075 Speaker 1: to his office phone. He buzzed his assistant, bring in 577 00:39:57,155 --> 00:40:00,115 Speaker 1: three caps, will you? And he sat back down. He said, 578 00:40:00,155 --> 00:40:02,875 Speaker 1: you guys, did it. Nobody asked me that yet, and 579 00:40:02,915 --> 00:40:05,795 Speaker 1: it's like the only question that really interests You're still rolling. 580 00:40:07,035 --> 00:40:09,755 Speaker 1: Neil Pilson then proceeded to give a lengthy and thoughtful 581 00:40:09,795 --> 00:40:12,835 Speaker 1: answer about how as long as the season was not canceled, 582 00:40:12,875 --> 00:40:15,795 Speaker 1: it was probably better to have the next Super Bowl 583 00:40:16,235 --> 00:40:19,435 Speaker 1: because people would be so grateful that after the strike 584 00:40:19,475 --> 00:40:23,035 Speaker 1: they wound up playing in any way. So now a 585 00:40:23,075 --> 00:40:25,955 Speaker 1: week goes by after that interview, and the bargaining sessions 586 00:40:25,995 --> 00:40:28,115 Speaker 1: between the players and the owners are taking place in 587 00:40:28,195 --> 00:40:32,275 Speaker 1: a Manhattan hotel, the Lows on Lexington Avenue, a dump 588 00:40:32,355 --> 00:40:35,795 Speaker 1: with a nice lobby. All that matters to me is 589 00:40:35,835 --> 00:40:38,395 Speaker 1: the Lows with the dump and the nice lobby is 590 00:40:38,475 --> 00:40:42,155 Speaker 1: literally three blocks from my apartment. The players and the 591 00:40:42,195 --> 00:40:45,435 Speaker 1: owners just march through a long hallway into private rooms. 592 00:40:45,675 --> 00:40:48,675 Speaker 1: That's all we see of them. It is not heavy lifting. 593 00:40:49,235 --> 00:40:51,675 Speaker 1: There are nice seats at least in that lobby. But 594 00:40:51,715 --> 00:40:54,555 Speaker 1: it is enlivened one day by news that our boss, 595 00:40:54,595 --> 00:40:57,395 Speaker 1: Ted Turner has asked the union if he can come 596 00:40:57,435 --> 00:41:01,035 Speaker 1: in and meet with their twenty odd player negotiating team 597 00:41:01,235 --> 00:41:04,235 Speaker 1: because he wants to pitch them on something. He was 598 00:41:04,275 --> 00:41:08,835 Speaker 1: in fact do there yesterday but was unavoidably detained. The 599 00:41:08,955 --> 00:41:12,475 Speaker 1: rumor the players told me never confirmed, was that while 600 00:41:12,555 --> 00:41:15,715 Speaker 1: changing planes in Chicago, Turner and an air hostess had 601 00:41:15,795 --> 00:41:20,635 Speaker 1: ensconced themselves in a dumpster or the other version was 602 00:41:20,675 --> 00:41:24,875 Speaker 1: in a janitor's closet for twelve hours of whoopee, and 603 00:41:24,915 --> 00:41:28,835 Speaker 1: that's why he was a day late. Anyway, I walk 604 00:41:28,875 --> 00:41:31,155 Speaker 1: into the Lows that morning, and if somehow I had 605 00:41:31,195 --> 00:41:33,755 Speaker 1: not been able to recognize my camera crew, sure enough 606 00:41:34,115 --> 00:41:35,875 Speaker 1: it is the same two guys who had been with 607 00:41:35,915 --> 00:41:39,155 Speaker 1: me at Neil Pilson's office at CBS when I asked 608 00:41:39,235 --> 00:41:41,235 Speaker 1: him the question he had not been asked before, earning 609 00:41:41,315 --> 00:41:45,275 Speaker 1: us free CBS sports caps, and the cameraman and the 610 00:41:45,315 --> 00:41:48,915 Speaker 1: deck operator are of course wearing their CBS sports caps 611 00:41:48,955 --> 00:41:52,635 Speaker 1: and understand. In nineteen eighty two, CNN was not an upstart. 612 00:41:52,795 --> 00:41:55,395 Speaker 1: It was not the feisty outsider, It was not the 613 00:41:55,435 --> 00:42:00,955 Speaker 1: future of news. We were called pretend TV. It was 614 00:42:00,995 --> 00:42:06,035 Speaker 1: said that CNN stood for Chicken Noodle News. One day, 615 00:42:06,115 --> 00:42:08,315 Speaker 1: I called somebody up and asked for press credentials for 616 00:42:08,395 --> 00:42:11,755 Speaker 1: Cable News Network, and the guy said, Cable News Network 617 00:42:11,795 --> 00:42:15,835 Speaker 1: the ether people own the newsstands downtown. I had no 618 00:42:15,955 --> 00:42:17,715 Speaker 1: idea what he was talking about, so I went to 619 00:42:17,715 --> 00:42:19,475 Speaker 1: one of the newsstands and I asked the guy who 620 00:42:19,515 --> 00:42:21,515 Speaker 1: owns this place, and He pointed to a plaque and 621 00:42:21,515 --> 00:42:27,075 Speaker 1: it said owned by Cabell News Company. The Cabell News Company, 622 00:42:27,155 --> 00:42:30,835 Speaker 1: owner of downtown newsstands, was better known than Cable News Network. 623 00:42:31,675 --> 00:42:36,035 Speaker 1: We got scoffed at in some arenas and venues like 624 00:42:36,075 --> 00:42:39,115 Speaker 1: Madison Square Garden in New York. Our crews were not 625 00:42:39,155 --> 00:42:42,395 Speaker 1: admitted because they were not in the Union. So the 626 00:42:42,395 --> 00:42:46,115 Speaker 1: CBS sports caps were an important, albeit borrowed touch of 627 00:42:46,235 --> 00:42:50,195 Speaker 1: legitimacy and dignity, especially for my cameraman and my deck guy. 628 00:42:51,675 --> 00:42:54,275 Speaker 1: So the three of us position ourselves in that long 629 00:42:54,475 --> 00:42:57,395 Speaker 1: haul in the lobby waiting for my boss, Ted Turner, 630 00:42:57,555 --> 00:42:59,955 Speaker 1: me holding the mic with the big red CNN logo 631 00:42:59,995 --> 00:43:02,235 Speaker 1: on the mic flag, and the crew wearing their gaudy 632 00:43:02,355 --> 00:43:06,555 Speaker 1: CBS sports caps and in Ted walks emerging from the 633 00:43:06,635 --> 00:43:10,635 Speaker 1: brilliant early autumn sunshine, filtering in from behind him from 634 00:43:10,635 --> 00:43:14,035 Speaker 1: the street like this was a perfectly lit movie scene. 635 00:43:14,515 --> 00:43:17,635 Speaker 1: And he sees me and recognized me and smiles and 636 00:43:17,675 --> 00:43:20,555 Speaker 1: comes over and beams hot, damn, it's my CNN crew, 637 00:43:21,115 --> 00:43:23,315 Speaker 1: And he shakes my hand and we roll tape and 638 00:43:23,355 --> 00:43:25,355 Speaker 1: I start to asking my first question, and suddenly the 639 00:43:25,475 --> 00:43:29,515 Speaker 1: joy drains from his face and he stops me. Oh, 640 00:43:29,635 --> 00:43:33,595 Speaker 1: did what they wearing on their heads? He gestures at 641 00:43:33,595 --> 00:43:36,075 Speaker 1: the cameraman and the deck guy, and I explained the Baxter. 642 00:43:36,235 --> 00:43:38,795 Speaker 1: I don't give a damn who gave him them. This 643 00:43:38,875 --> 00:43:41,315 Speaker 1: is the CNN crew. They wearing CBS sports caps. Get 644 00:43:41,355 --> 00:43:43,955 Speaker 1: them off they damn heads. And he pushes me, I 645 00:43:43,955 --> 00:43:49,275 Speaker 1: mean really shoves me and strides past us. Now, even then, 646 00:43:50,595 --> 00:43:53,435 Speaker 1: I'm five six inches taller than Ted Turner and twenty 647 00:43:53,515 --> 00:43:56,715 Speaker 1: five pounds heavier at least, and maybe I can live 648 00:43:56,755 --> 00:43:59,235 Speaker 1: with my employer embarrassing me in public, but I do 649 00:43:59,355 --> 00:44:01,475 Speaker 1: not have to let him shove me in front of 650 00:44:01,515 --> 00:44:04,555 Speaker 1: all the other reporters. So for a second, I think 651 00:44:05,515 --> 00:44:08,075 Speaker 1: I'm just gonna run down the hall and catch him 652 00:44:08,115 --> 00:44:12,155 Speaker 1: and horse collar the bastard from behind. About a year 653 00:44:12,155 --> 00:44:14,675 Speaker 1: into my TV career, I have already accepted that there 654 00:44:14,715 --> 00:44:17,355 Speaker 1: are positives to television, but I've also already learned nearly 655 00:44:17,395 --> 00:44:20,195 Speaker 1: all the negatives. And not three months earlier, I had 656 00:44:20,195 --> 00:44:22,995 Speaker 1: gone over to ABC to interview with them about going 657 00:44:23,035 --> 00:44:26,875 Speaker 1: back to do radio sports. Seems to me, given what 658 00:44:26,915 --> 00:44:29,115 Speaker 1: I know about Ted Turner, dragging him to the ground 659 00:44:29,115 --> 00:44:32,515 Speaker 1: and then quitting TV forever, would be a pretty appropriate farewell, 660 00:44:33,795 --> 00:44:43,635 Speaker 1: and then one word popped in my head. Rent Ah, right, right, Rent, 661 00:44:44,355 --> 00:44:47,075 Speaker 1: So quickly I go to Plan B to be fair 662 00:44:48,035 --> 00:44:50,275 Speaker 1: in thought, if not an action, Ted Turner was right, 663 00:44:50,795 --> 00:44:54,115 Speaker 1: look pretty silly to have the CNN camera crew wearing 664 00:44:54,195 --> 00:44:57,955 Speaker 1: CBS sports caps while interviewing the founder and owner of CNN, who, 665 00:44:57,995 --> 00:45:00,235 Speaker 1: by the way, was in the newspaper constantly because he 666 00:45:00,315 --> 00:45:03,995 Speaker 1: kept saying he was going to buy CBS. Plus, I 667 00:45:03,995 --> 00:45:05,675 Speaker 1: still had a store to do that day, and that 668 00:45:05,755 --> 00:45:07,275 Speaker 1: crew was going to have to go back into the 669 00:45:07,355 --> 00:45:09,835 Speaker 1: room where Turner would be meeting with the players about 670 00:45:09,835 --> 00:45:13,355 Speaker 1: an hour later for the proverbial spray shot that would 671 00:45:13,355 --> 00:45:16,395 Speaker 1: give us some video to use of their meeting, and 672 00:45:16,475 --> 00:45:19,555 Speaker 1: simply having my guys take their caps off was not 673 00:45:19,595 --> 00:45:23,035 Speaker 1: going to suffice. So I ran the three blocks back 674 00:45:23,075 --> 00:45:25,195 Speaker 1: to my apartment to grab the only bit of merch 675 00:45:25,355 --> 00:45:28,475 Speaker 1: or swag produced in the first two years of CNN, 676 00:45:28,595 --> 00:45:34,195 Speaker 1: something they had and apparently inexhaustible supply of CNN bumper stickers. 677 00:45:34,835 --> 00:45:36,355 Speaker 1: I must have had one hundred of them in my 678 00:45:36,395 --> 00:45:39,555 Speaker 1: place alone, and there were boxes and cartons and boxes 679 00:45:39,595 --> 00:45:43,435 Speaker 1: and cartons of them in the New York Bureau, which 680 00:45:43,475 --> 00:45:45,115 Speaker 1: was funny enough as it was, since I don't think 681 00:45:45,115 --> 00:45:47,235 Speaker 1: all the people who worked at CNN in New York 682 00:45:47,275 --> 00:45:51,955 Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty two owned six cars among them. Anyway, 683 00:45:52,195 --> 00:45:54,395 Speaker 1: I trimmed a couple of the stickers down to just 684 00:45:54,475 --> 00:45:58,315 Speaker 1: the CNN logos and raced back to the Crappy Low's Hotel, 685 00:45:58,355 --> 00:46:00,235 Speaker 1: and just as they were calling for the crews to 686 00:46:00,275 --> 00:46:02,875 Speaker 1: come in to get the spray shots of Ted meeting 687 00:46:02,915 --> 00:46:06,835 Speaker 1: with the players, I put those CNN logo stickers over 688 00:46:06,915 --> 00:46:10,355 Speaker 1: the CBS logos on my guy's caps, and to my delight, 689 00:46:10,435 --> 00:46:13,835 Speaker 1: they stuck in place a little large, but it worked. 690 00:46:14,595 --> 00:46:17,275 Speaker 1: Minutes later, the boys came out of the meeting room 691 00:46:17,315 --> 00:46:20,675 Speaker 1: and the cameraman was in hysterics. He wound the video 692 00:46:20,755 --> 00:46:22,835 Speaker 1: back and had me watch it through the viewfinder of 693 00:46:22,875 --> 00:46:25,715 Speaker 1: the camera. As soon as they had walked in, Turner 694 00:46:25,755 --> 00:46:27,835 Speaker 1: started to give them dirty looks, and then suddenly one 695 00:46:27,875 --> 00:46:30,915 Speaker 1: of the NFL players said, Hey, Ted, there's your crew. 696 00:46:31,275 --> 00:46:36,315 Speaker 1: There's your CNN crew. Hey CNN over here. Everybody was laughing, 697 00:46:36,355 --> 00:46:39,875 Speaker 1: and now Ted was beaming that them. That's my CNN crew, 698 00:46:39,875 --> 00:46:43,915 Speaker 1: all right, good work boys. When his meeting with the 699 00:46:43,915 --> 00:46:46,115 Speaker 1: players broke up an hour later, I got a message 700 00:46:46,115 --> 00:46:49,555 Speaker 1: from Ted's assistant to wait for him around a corner 701 00:46:49,555 --> 00:46:53,155 Speaker 1: from the main lobby so he could give me give 702 00:46:53,275 --> 00:46:56,355 Speaker 1: CNN exclusive details about what he was trying to sell 703 00:46:56,355 --> 00:46:58,835 Speaker 1: the players on. It was a series of exhibition games 704 00:46:59,155 --> 00:47:01,075 Speaker 1: so the striking players could make a little money on 705 00:47:01,155 --> 00:47:04,315 Speaker 1: the side that he could televise and there would be 706 00:47:04,355 --> 00:47:06,715 Speaker 1: a pitch to the National Labor Relations Board that the 707 00:47:06,755 --> 00:47:09,875 Speaker 1: strike had been forced on the players by the owners, 708 00:47:10,075 --> 00:47:12,835 Speaker 1: which would have meant the players would have all become 709 00:47:12,915 --> 00:47:17,475 Speaker 1: free agents. Ted wanted them, all of them, every player 710 00:47:17,475 --> 00:47:20,315 Speaker 1: in the National Football League to sign instead with him. 711 00:47:20,835 --> 00:47:23,675 Speaker 1: He would create a twenty four team league. He would 712 00:47:23,715 --> 00:47:26,995 Speaker 1: give the Union half ownership of every team, he would 713 00:47:26,995 --> 00:47:29,475 Speaker 1: find backers for the other half, and all he wanted 714 00:47:29,955 --> 00:47:33,715 Speaker 1: was the TV rights. It didn't happen, obviously, but what 715 00:47:33,755 --> 00:47:38,115 Speaker 1: a breathtaking scheme. Anyway. Turner was all smiles when he 716 00:47:38,155 --> 00:47:40,115 Speaker 1: came out of the meeting to tell me before he 717 00:47:40,115 --> 00:47:41,715 Speaker 1: met with the rest of the press, and he said, 718 00:47:41,755 --> 00:47:43,755 Speaker 1: great with the hat, good work, but I have to 719 00:47:43,755 --> 00:47:45,835 Speaker 1: get you guys some real c and ed sports has 720 00:47:45,835 --> 00:47:49,595 Speaker 1: for Christmas. Ted stayed another fifteen or twenty minutes doing 721 00:47:49,635 --> 00:47:53,075 Speaker 1: god knows what with God knows whom. I didn't see 722 00:47:53,075 --> 00:47:55,155 Speaker 1: any dumpsters in the hotel, and then he left by 723 00:47:55,195 --> 00:47:57,315 Speaker 1: the main exit as the rest of the camera crews 724 00:47:57,355 --> 00:48:00,195 Speaker 1: and reporters trailed him. I went along just to see 725 00:48:00,195 --> 00:48:01,795 Speaker 1: if there was anything he hadn't told me. And as 726 00:48:01,795 --> 00:48:03,955 Speaker 1: he went out the doors to his car, he said 727 00:48:04,115 --> 00:48:08,675 Speaker 1: see and I said, don't forget the hats, and Ted 728 00:48:08,715 --> 00:48:11,875 Speaker 1: Turner gave me one of the dirtiest looks I have 729 00:48:11,995 --> 00:48:17,875 Speaker 1: ever gotten in my life. Sure enough, a couple of 730 00:48:17,955 --> 00:48:20,835 Speaker 1: days before Christmas, I get a call from my boss 731 00:48:20,875 --> 00:48:23,035 Speaker 1: in Atlanta, I mean justs got a box of one 732 00:48:23,115 --> 00:48:27,075 Speaker 1: hundred CNN Sports Truckers caps from Ted Turner's office. I 733 00:48:27,115 --> 00:48:28,635 Speaker 1: don't know what the hell this is all about, but 734 00:48:28,675 --> 00:48:31,475 Speaker 1: his assistant says, if we wanted to know, we should 735 00:48:31,555 --> 00:48:34,835 Speaker 1: call you. I was very proud of making the correct 736 00:48:34,875 --> 00:48:38,515 Speaker 1: choice between correcting a mistake and getting us all hats 737 00:48:39,155 --> 00:48:44,715 Speaker 1: and dissaulting him. There is one PostScript. Ted talked the 738 00:48:44,715 --> 00:48:47,835 Speaker 1: players into the exhibition games. I mentioned only two of them, 739 00:48:47,835 --> 00:48:50,635 Speaker 1: one at RFK Stadium in Washington, which I went to 740 00:48:50,835 --> 00:48:56,035 Speaker 1: on assignment. Seated next to Ted Turner. He had two 741 00:48:56,115 --> 00:48:59,955 Speaker 1: flasks with him. Anyway, the crowd was so small at 742 00:49:00,035 --> 00:49:02,595 Speaker 1: RFK Stadium in Washington that at one point they got 743 00:49:02,595 --> 00:49:05,435 Speaker 1: on the PA system and asked all the fans to 744 00:49:05,475 --> 00:49:08,435 Speaker 1: go sit down behind the player benches so the TV 745 00:49:08,555 --> 00:49:11,355 Speaker 1: shots of the game wouldn't show all those empty seats. 746 00:49:12,235 --> 00:49:15,315 Speaker 1: The other game was in the Los Angeles Coliseum. They 747 00:49:15,355 --> 00:49:18,795 Speaker 1: drew even less, maybe one thousand fans, probably more like 748 00:49:18,875 --> 00:49:23,515 Speaker 1: five hundred five hundred fans in the La Colisseum. Five 749 00:49:23,595 --> 00:49:28,075 Speaker 1: hundred fans looks like the raisins and rice pudding. But 750 00:49:28,155 --> 00:49:30,875 Speaker 1: it was the name of his ad hoc league with 751 00:49:30,915 --> 00:49:33,795 Speaker 1: these games in Washington and LA that still sticks with 752 00:49:33,875 --> 00:49:38,155 Speaker 1: me forty years later. Ted named it himself. I'm pretty 753 00:49:38,195 --> 00:49:41,675 Speaker 1: sure he did this deliberately. I know nobody else noticed 754 00:49:41,715 --> 00:49:44,355 Speaker 1: it until I made a big deal about it. Ted 755 00:49:44,395 --> 00:49:48,675 Speaker 1: Turner called his ill fated venture his Erzatz National Football 756 00:49:48,755 --> 00:49:54,995 Speaker 1: League the quote all Star Season, and I said, perfect. 757 00:49:55,435 --> 00:49:59,515 Speaker 1: The acronym you have built for it is a s S. 758 00:50:13,315 --> 00:50:15,155 Speaker 1: I've done all the damage I can do here. Thank 759 00:50:15,195 --> 00:50:17,035 Speaker 1: you for listening. Countdown has come to you from the 760 00:50:17,115 --> 00:50:21,435 Speaker 1: Vin Scully Studios at the Olderman Broadcasting Empire World headquarters 761 00:50:21,715 --> 00:50:25,435 Speaker 1: in New York. Someday I will read you the fan 762 00:50:25,595 --> 00:50:28,955 Speaker 1: letter I got when I did a story about Ted 763 00:50:29,035 --> 00:50:31,635 Speaker 1: Turner and going into the Broadcasting Hall of Fame or 764 00:50:31,635 --> 00:50:38,315 Speaker 1: something on ESPN two twenty fourteen or so. Countdown. Musical 765 00:50:38,315 --> 00:50:40,835 Speaker 1: directors Brian Ray and John Phillip Shanelle arranged, produced, and 766 00:50:40,835 --> 00:50:43,595 Speaker 1: performed most of our music. Mister Chanelle handled the orchestration 767 00:50:43,675 --> 00:50:46,315 Speaker 1: and keyboards. Mister Ray was on the guitars, the bass, 768 00:50:46,315 --> 00:50:48,835 Speaker 1: and the drums. Produced by TKO Brothers. See, it was 769 00:50:48,875 --> 00:50:51,715 Speaker 1: who the letter was from that makes it particularly interesting, 770 00:50:51,915 --> 00:50:53,795 Speaker 1: And it was like keep up the great work, and 771 00:50:53,795 --> 00:50:56,035 Speaker 1: then had this big signature at the bottom and it 772 00:50:56,075 --> 00:51:00,235 Speaker 1: was yeah, other music, including You'd never believe he sent it. 773 00:51:00,435 --> 00:51:04,035 Speaker 1: Other music, including some of the Beethoven compositions, arranged and 774 00:51:04,075 --> 00:51:06,875 Speaker 1: performed by the group No Horns Allowed. The sports music 775 00:51:06,955 --> 00:51:09,715 Speaker 1: is courtesy of ESPN, Inc. And was written by Mitch 776 00:51:09,755 --> 00:51:12,555 Speaker 1: Warren Davis. It's called the Olderman Theme from ESPN two. 777 00:51:12,595 --> 00:51:14,995 Speaker 1: Speaking of the fan letter about the Ted Turner thing, 778 00:51:15,035 --> 00:51:16,915 Speaker 1: I was on ESPN two when I did this long 779 00:51:16,955 --> 00:51:19,395 Speaker 1: commentary about it in the Broadcasting Hall of Fame. He 780 00:51:19,395 --> 00:51:21,675 Speaker 1: should have been in there already, he should be going in twice. 781 00:51:22,035 --> 00:51:23,555 Speaker 1: And the guy wrote me a fan letter saying I 782 00:51:23,635 --> 00:51:26,275 Speaker 1: was exactly right quoted it quoted the whole thing about 783 00:51:26,355 --> 00:51:29,915 Speaker 1: he should have two awards. Our satirical and fifthy music. 784 00:51:29,955 --> 00:51:32,435 Speaker 1: You never believe who sent it. Our satirical and fifthy 785 00:51:32,515 --> 00:51:35,675 Speaker 1: musical comments are by Nancy Faust, the best baseball stadium 786 00:51:35,715 --> 00:51:38,555 Speaker 1: organist ever. Our announcer today was my friend Howard Feineman, 787 00:51:38,635 --> 00:51:41,155 Speaker 1: and everything else was pretty much my fault. So that's 788 00:51:41,195 --> 00:51:44,195 Speaker 1: countdown for this the one thousand and sixty five fifth day. 789 00:51:44,515 --> 00:51:46,395 Speaker 1: I'm so excited about telling you who the letter was 790 00:51:46,435 --> 00:51:49,555 Speaker 1: from that I screwed that up one thousand and sixty 791 00:51:49,635 --> 00:51:52,875 Speaker 1: fifth day since the guy who wrote me the fan 792 00:51:52,995 --> 00:51:57,675 Speaker 1: letter about Ted Turner dementia, Jay Trump made his first 793 00:51:57,675 --> 00:52:00,875 Speaker 1: attempted coup against the democratically elected government of the United States. 794 00:52:03,075 --> 00:52:06,195 Speaker 1: Use the Insurrection Act against him now while we still can. 795 00:52:07,395 --> 00:52:10,675 Speaker 1: I'll even contribute my letter to the display when we 796 00:52:10,795 --> 00:52:13,155 Speaker 1: keep him in that naval brig somewhere for the rest 797 00:52:13,155 --> 00:52:16,075 Speaker 1: of his life. The next scheduled countdown is tomorrow, Bolton 798 00:52:16,075 --> 00:52:18,835 Speaker 1: says the News Warren still then on Keith Olderman, good morning, 799 00:52:18,915 --> 00:52:22,075 Speaker 1: good afternoon, good night, Yes Trump mote road be a 800 00:52:22,115 --> 00:52:31,715 Speaker 1: fan letter and good Luck Countdown with Keith Olderman is 801 00:52:31,715 --> 00:52:36,515 Speaker 1: a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit 802 00:52:36,555 --> 00:52:41,235 Speaker 1: the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.