1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:21,995 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. A 2 00:00:22,155 --> 00:00:28,435 Speaker 1: gag order against Donald Trump. His lawyers reportedly expect one 3 00:00:28,715 --> 00:00:32,595 Speaker 1: a gag order to be imposed on him as soon 4 00:00:32,675 --> 00:00:36,315 Speaker 1: as today in the Stormy Daniels case, thirty days in 5 00:00:36,435 --> 00:00:39,275 Speaker 1: jail or a one thousand dollars fine or both if 6 00:00:39,275 --> 00:00:42,555 Speaker 1: he talks about the case in person or on television, 7 00:00:42,875 --> 00:00:45,555 Speaker 1: posts about it on social media. We do not know 8 00:00:45,595 --> 00:00:47,835 Speaker 1: if that would be thirty days and a grand for 9 00:00:47,995 --> 00:00:50,795 Speaker 1: each violation, or if it's a flat fee, or if 10 00:00:50,795 --> 00:00:53,115 Speaker 1: it's like Twitter blue check marks, and you have to guess. 11 00:00:54,155 --> 00:00:57,755 Speaker 1: The source for this story is a fairly dubious one, 12 00:00:57,835 --> 00:01:01,915 Speaker 1: England's Daily Mail tabloid. But they don't get everything wrong, 13 00:01:01,955 --> 00:01:03,875 Speaker 1: and they have a source, and it is speaking in 14 00:01:03,955 --> 00:01:08,155 Speaker 1: American English, not British English, and to quote it. The 15 00:01:08,195 --> 00:01:11,035 Speaker 1: Trump legal team now thinks that the Manhattan judge will 16 00:01:11,075 --> 00:01:15,555 Speaker 1: take the unprecedented step of silencing the presidential frontrunner with 17 00:01:15,675 --> 00:01:20,555 Speaker 1: an unconstitutional gag order, said a source. It's considering adding 18 00:01:20,635 --> 00:01:23,715 Speaker 1: a First Amendment lawyer to the effort to combat this 19 00:01:23,995 --> 00:01:30,195 Speaker 1: and will fight it all the way as inconceivably delicious 20 00:01:30,355 --> 00:01:35,755 Speaker 1: as Trump gagged would seem. I mean, who would have 21 00:01:35,875 --> 00:01:38,635 Speaker 1: to be the one to explain the concept to Trump 22 00:01:38,675 --> 00:01:43,075 Speaker 1: of shutting up? How could he process such a concept? 23 00:01:43,115 --> 00:01:47,555 Speaker 1: If he stops talking, he dies. Trump has already scheduled 24 00:01:47,595 --> 00:01:50,755 Speaker 1: his speech for after the indictment Tuesday night, which he 25 00:01:50,795 --> 00:01:55,035 Speaker 1: expects will be televised from Marilago, and a second British paper, 26 00:01:55,075 --> 00:01:58,275 Speaker 1: The Guardian, reports that after days of genuine shock that 27 00:01:58,355 --> 00:02:01,475 Speaker 1: he is to be indicted, Trump quote vowed to people 28 00:02:01,555 --> 00:02:04,315 Speaker 1: close to him that he wants to go on the offensive. 29 00:02:04,835 --> 00:02:07,395 Speaker 1: In a private moment over the weekend at his Marilago 30 00:02:07,475 --> 00:02:11,955 Speaker 1: resort in Florida that demonstrates his gathering resolve. Yeah, that's 31 00:02:11,955 --> 00:02:16,755 Speaker 1: what you call this resolve, remarked, using more colorful language, 32 00:02:16,795 --> 00:02:20,395 Speaker 1: that it was time to politically quote f them up. 33 00:02:22,115 --> 00:02:25,395 Speaker 1: Even more reason to take the Daily Mail's gag order 34 00:02:25,515 --> 00:02:30,075 Speaker 1: story seriously or somewhat seriously. There has been gurgling about 35 00:02:30,155 --> 00:02:33,035 Speaker 1: such a gag order since the death, end destruction and 36 00:02:33,195 --> 00:02:36,395 Speaker 1: baseball bat social media tweets now a week and a 37 00:02:36,475 --> 00:02:41,035 Speaker 1: half ago. The previous Manhattan Da Si Vants Junior now 38 00:02:41,035 --> 00:02:44,715 Speaker 1: says the judge Juan Marshan would be quote well within 39 00:02:44,755 --> 00:02:48,395 Speaker 1: his rights unquote to issue such a gag order, but 40 00:02:48,635 --> 00:02:52,195 Speaker 1: that Marshaan could not stop other people talking on Trump's behalf. 41 00:02:52,755 --> 00:02:55,035 Speaker 1: Yet no less an authority on breaking the law than 42 00:02:55,155 --> 00:02:58,435 Speaker 1: Roger Stones says no, he could that not only did 43 00:02:58,555 --> 00:03:02,035 Speaker 1: his judge impose a gag order on him Stone for 44 00:03:02,155 --> 00:03:05,915 Speaker 1: sixteen months, but it extended to his family. Quote. Can 45 00:03:05,995 --> 00:03:09,475 Speaker 1: you imagine a situation where Trump was gagged but then 46 00:03:09,635 --> 00:03:13,995 Speaker 1: Don Junior and Eric were also gagged? Actually I can. 47 00:03:14,155 --> 00:03:16,115 Speaker 1: It's happened, but it was when Eric tried to say 48 00:03:16,195 --> 00:03:21,715 Speaker 1: something coherent and Juniors snorted wrong. Apart from the gag order, 49 00:03:22,275 --> 00:03:24,235 Speaker 1: which would take effect no later than the moment the 50 00:03:24,275 --> 00:03:27,075 Speaker 1: indictment hearing ends at mid afternoon tomorrow, there is something 51 00:03:27,115 --> 00:03:30,595 Speaker 1: else breaking. When the photographers at the courthouse at one 52 00:03:30,675 --> 00:03:34,875 Speaker 1: hundred Center Street take Trump's mugshot, they should probably take 53 00:03:35,235 --> 00:03:37,635 Speaker 1: a second set of photos, because it sure looks like 54 00:03:37,675 --> 00:03:41,195 Speaker 1: the Special Council is at least nearing being ready to 55 00:03:41,235 --> 00:03:44,235 Speaker 1: indict Trump on conspiracy to obstruct justice. I went to 56 00:03:44,275 --> 00:03:45,875 Speaker 1: Hollywood made two pictures on don't like this for New 57 00:03:45,915 --> 00:03:49,195 Speaker 1: York and We're like this for the Fence. Back to 58 00:03:49,195 --> 00:03:51,875 Speaker 1: tomorrow's circus in a moment, but on the subject of 59 00:03:51,915 --> 00:03:55,915 Speaker 1: this next indictment, the one by Jack Smith, Molly Michael 60 00:03:56,075 --> 00:04:00,515 Speaker 1: has entered the chat. And Molly Michael maybe the Stormy 61 00:04:00,595 --> 00:04:05,275 Speaker 1: Daniel's equivalent of the Special Council's Documents case. If her 62 00:04:05,395 --> 00:04:08,275 Speaker 1: name not Daniels, but Molly Michael rings a faint and 63 00:04:08,395 --> 00:04:12,155 Speaker 1: distant bell, it's because she was Trump's last White House 64 00:04:12,195 --> 00:04:15,355 Speaker 1: executive assistant, and she used to have to dial his 65 00:04:15,555 --> 00:04:17,355 Speaker 1: calls for him, and she used to have to try 66 00:04:17,395 --> 00:04:18,915 Speaker 1: to tell him when he was supposed to be at 67 00:04:18,915 --> 00:04:21,595 Speaker 1: a meeting, and she had to jot down notes about 68 00:04:21,635 --> 00:04:25,835 Speaker 1: his constant deviations from his schedules and his unplanned conversations, 69 00:04:26,315 --> 00:04:29,435 Speaker 1: and by what appeared to be chance, she was off 70 00:04:29,515 --> 00:04:32,795 Speaker 1: on the morning of January sixth, twenty twenty one, and 71 00:04:32,875 --> 00:04:36,995 Speaker 1: the House January sixth Commission put her on the record 72 00:04:37,435 --> 00:04:40,195 Speaker 1: in a deposition, and the big news out of that 73 00:04:40,435 --> 00:04:43,635 Speaker 1: was she testified that if Trump wanted to send an 74 00:04:43,675 --> 00:04:47,315 Speaker 1: email to almost anybody, he would dictate it to her 75 00:04:47,955 --> 00:04:52,235 Speaker 1: and tell her to send it out from her email account. 76 00:04:53,275 --> 00:04:57,795 Speaker 1: Remember this, So when he leaves Washington, this Molly Michael 77 00:04:57,875 --> 00:05:00,475 Speaker 1: goes with him to Marilago. And now the Washington Post 78 00:05:00,555 --> 00:05:04,515 Speaker 1: is reporting that FBI and DOJ quote have a mask 79 00:05:04,915 --> 00:05:08,795 Speaker 1: fresh evidence pointing to a possible obstruction by Trump in 80 00:05:08,875 --> 00:05:13,955 Speaker 1: the investigation into top secret documents found at his Marilago home. 81 00:05:14,195 --> 00:05:16,475 Speaker 1: And guess what the evidence turns out to be down there? 82 00:05:16,515 --> 00:05:23,915 Speaker 1: In paragraph sixteen, quote YEP emails and texts of Molly Michael. 83 00:05:24,475 --> 00:05:28,515 Speaker 1: Michael's written communications have provided investigators with the detailed understanding 84 00:05:28,555 --> 00:05:32,595 Speaker 1: of the day to day activity at Marilago at critical 85 00:05:32,635 --> 00:05:38,475 Speaker 1: moments unquote. All right, to try to simplify this, and 86 00:05:38,595 --> 00:05:41,275 Speaker 1: it's two or more crimes now, not just the one 87 00:05:41,315 --> 00:05:45,435 Speaker 1: about stealing the documents. The timeline of the classified documents 88 00:05:45,995 --> 00:05:49,035 Speaker 1: Trump stole seems to be this one. He stole them. 89 00:05:49,875 --> 00:05:53,555 Speaker 1: Two the National Archives asked for them back. Three he 90 00:05:53,595 --> 00:05:56,115 Speaker 1: gave some of them back and said they had all 91 00:05:56,155 --> 00:05:59,595 Speaker 1: been in his storage room at Marilago, and that was it. 92 00:06:00,355 --> 00:06:03,755 Speaker 1: Four last May, the Archives got the DOJ to issue 93 00:06:03,795 --> 00:06:07,435 Speaker 1: a subpoena to at all of them back. Five. Trump 94 00:06:07,475 --> 00:06:11,355 Speaker 1: then had boxes of these documents moved from the Marilago 95 00:06:11,435 --> 00:06:14,195 Speaker 1: storage space where he said they all were. And there 96 00:06:14,275 --> 00:06:17,355 Speaker 1: is security video of this happening and the guy carrying 97 00:06:17,395 --> 00:06:21,955 Speaker 1: it for him, Walt Nauta was his name. Six Trump 98 00:06:21,995 --> 00:06:25,715 Speaker 1: went through the contents of the boxes himself and pulled 99 00:06:25,715 --> 00:06:29,795 Speaker 1: out stuff he decided he wanted to keep. Seven Molly 100 00:06:29,875 --> 00:06:33,555 Speaker 1: Michael's emails and texts. The Post does not explain this, 101 00:06:33,675 --> 00:06:37,835 Speaker 1: but there's only one explanation. Molly Michael's emails and texts 102 00:06:37,915 --> 00:06:42,795 Speaker 1: must document Trump's instructions about the illegal moving and illegal 103 00:06:42,915 --> 00:06:46,395 Speaker 1: keeping of the documents he was holding illegally, And maybe 104 00:06:46,435 --> 00:06:50,635 Speaker 1: they document eight his instructions to his attorney, Evan Corker, 105 00:06:50,715 --> 00:06:53,115 Speaker 1: in to write up a legal document and have Christina 106 00:06:53,195 --> 00:06:56,555 Speaker 1: Bob sign it, in which they all lied that Trump 107 00:06:56,675 --> 00:07:00,675 Speaker 1: was giving back everything he had. That's called conspiracy to 108 00:07:00,715 --> 00:07:05,875 Speaker 1: obstruct justice. And there's also a ninth item on this timeline, 109 00:07:05,915 --> 00:07:09,075 Speaker 1: courtesy the Post story, and it's this whole separate kind 110 00:07:09,075 --> 00:07:14,595 Speaker 1: of dilly. Let me just read it. Investigators have also 111 00:07:14,635 --> 00:07:17,755 Speaker 1: asked witnesses if Trump showed a particular interest in material 112 00:07:17,955 --> 00:07:22,475 Speaker 1: relating to General Mark A. Millie, the chairman of the 113 00:07:22,515 --> 00:07:25,555 Speaker 1: Joint Chiefs of Staff. People familiar with those interviews said 114 00:07:26,475 --> 00:07:29,555 Speaker 1: Millie was appointed by Trump, but drew scorn and criticism 115 00:07:29,595 --> 00:07:32,715 Speaker 1: from Trump and his supporters after a series of revelations 116 00:07:32,755 --> 00:07:36,155 Speaker 1: in books about Millie's efforts to reign in Trump toward 117 00:07:36,235 --> 00:07:39,275 Speaker 1: the end of his term in twenty twenty one, Trump 118 00:07:39,315 --> 00:07:43,355 Speaker 1: repeatedly complained publicly about Millie, calling him quote an idiot. 119 00:07:44,115 --> 00:07:48,875 Speaker 1: Wait what Jack Smith's team was already clearly putting together 120 00:07:48,915 --> 00:07:53,555 Speaker 1: obstruction of justice charges against Trump and conspiracy to obstruct justice, 121 00:07:54,275 --> 00:07:56,995 Speaker 1: let alone whatever they have on him for the handling 122 00:07:57,075 --> 00:08:00,155 Speaker 1: of the documents, the stealing of the documents. But he 123 00:08:00,235 --> 00:08:04,195 Speaker 1: was clearly telling the lawyers how to lie and then 124 00:08:04,275 --> 00:08:06,555 Speaker 1: yet claim he was giving all the documents back to 125 00:08:06,595 --> 00:08:09,115 Speaker 1: the government. Now they have this whole new tranch of 126 00:08:09,275 --> 00:08:13,115 Speaker 1: real time texts and emails from this assistant, this Molly 127 00:08:13,195 --> 00:08:17,395 Speaker 1: Michael via whose email account we know from her testimony 128 00:08:17,755 --> 00:08:19,795 Speaker 1: Trump used to communicate when they were in the White 129 00:08:19,835 --> 00:08:24,075 Speaker 1: House together, And just for spits and giggles, they're also 130 00:08:24,115 --> 00:08:27,955 Speaker 1: asking about material relating to the Chairman of the Joint 131 00:08:27,995 --> 00:08:32,755 Speaker 1: Chiefs of Staff. The conclusion has to be not only 132 00:08:32,795 --> 00:08:36,515 Speaker 1: did Trump steel classified documents, at least one of which 133 00:08:36,595 --> 00:08:40,555 Speaker 1: detailed a foreign nation's nuclear capabilities, and not only did 134 00:08:40,555 --> 00:08:43,755 Speaker 1: he lie about having and keeping them, and lie about 135 00:08:43,795 --> 00:08:46,795 Speaker 1: returning them and launch a conspiracy to get his lawyers 136 00:08:46,795 --> 00:08:49,355 Speaker 1: and god knows who else to lie about having returned them. 137 00:08:49,475 --> 00:08:52,035 Speaker 1: But there is also a paper trail of Trump trying 138 00:08:52,035 --> 00:08:55,075 Speaker 1: to get his grubby little fingers on documents that would 139 00:08:55,115 --> 00:08:59,835 Speaker 1: what smear the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, that he 140 00:08:59,875 --> 00:09:02,395 Speaker 1: could use against the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, that 141 00:09:02,475 --> 00:09:05,075 Speaker 1: he could give to other countries, to you against the 142 00:09:05,115 --> 00:09:07,995 Speaker 1: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, with which he could blackmail 143 00:09:08,075 --> 00:09:12,355 Speaker 1: the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. The mind reels at 144 00:09:12,395 --> 00:09:17,555 Speaker 1: the possibilities. So take an extra set of mugshots Tuesday 145 00:09:17,555 --> 00:09:20,595 Speaker 1: in New York, and back to Tuesday in New York 146 00:09:20,635 --> 00:09:24,115 Speaker 1: and the spit with which Trump apologists are flooding the zone. 147 00:09:25,275 --> 00:09:27,995 Speaker 1: But this case was dropped, but George Soros, But you 148 00:09:28,035 --> 00:09:31,875 Speaker 1: can't indict a presidential candidate. This crap has been enough 149 00:09:31,915 --> 00:09:35,555 Speaker 1: to fool the likes of even the supposedly rational Jeb Bush, 150 00:09:35,595 --> 00:09:38,715 Speaker 1: who tweeted quote Bragg's predecessor didn't take up the case. 151 00:09:39,035 --> 00:09:42,235 Speaker 1: The Justice Department didn't take up the case. Bragg first 152 00:09:42,275 --> 00:09:43,795 Speaker 1: said he would not take up the case. This is 153 00:09:43,875 --> 00:09:47,715 Speaker 1: very political, not a matter of justice. Please clap unquote. 154 00:09:48,915 --> 00:09:50,835 Speaker 1: And all this time we've been thinking George was the 155 00:09:50,915 --> 00:09:55,235 Speaker 1: dumber Bush brother. I added the please clap. He didn't 156 00:09:55,235 --> 00:09:59,155 Speaker 1: tweet that. If you need truth though, with which to 157 00:09:59,235 --> 00:10:03,595 Speaker 1: respond to this Trump stuff, first, just keep thinking gag order. 158 00:10:05,035 --> 00:10:07,435 Speaker 1: We may have gotten a little clarification on the part 159 00:10:07,435 --> 00:10:11,195 Speaker 1: about Bragg's predecessor didn't take up the case nonsense when 160 00:10:11,355 --> 00:10:15,715 Speaker 1: that former Manhattan DA Sivance Junior, spoke out confirming that 161 00:10:15,795 --> 00:10:20,275 Speaker 1: as they investigated Trump over the Stormy Daniel's payoff, federal 162 00:10:20,315 --> 00:10:24,075 Speaker 1: prosecutors said to his Manhattan DA's office, we'll take this one. 163 00:10:24,915 --> 00:10:29,875 Speaker 1: Vance was polite, even respectful, kind of affectionate as he 164 00:10:29,955 --> 00:10:33,435 Speaker 1: said this quote. We learned from the Southern District of 165 00:10:33,475 --> 00:10:36,995 Speaker 1: New York that they asked us to stand down. They 166 00:10:37,075 --> 00:10:41,955 Speaker 1: wished that we would put our efforts on hold. At 167 00:10:41,955 --> 00:10:45,035 Speaker 1: no point in the interview did Vance mention the guy 168 00:10:45,115 --> 00:10:47,795 Speaker 1: who was the boss of the Southern District of New 169 00:10:47,875 --> 00:10:52,595 Speaker 1: York prosecutors at that time, the then Attorney General William 170 00:10:53,035 --> 00:10:58,195 Speaker 1: cover Up Bar. Unfortunately, the interviewer, the inexperienced and rather 171 00:10:58,275 --> 00:11:01,675 Speaker 1: stiff TV rookie Jensaki, did not follow up, did not 172 00:11:01,915 --> 00:11:06,235 Speaker 1: ask about Barr, did not ask about are and if 173 00:11:06,315 --> 00:11:09,515 Speaker 1: Vance heard from Bar or if Vance new Bar was 174 00:11:10,595 --> 00:11:14,635 Speaker 1: talking to him. Soto voce. She did push Vance on 175 00:11:14,675 --> 00:11:16,995 Speaker 1: whether or not he was ready to indict Trump on 176 00:11:17,075 --> 00:11:21,555 Speaker 1: Stormy Daniels. Vance waffled. Vance didn't deny it. Vance said 177 00:11:21,595 --> 00:11:24,395 Speaker 1: if he had been, it would have been knowing that 178 00:11:24,435 --> 00:11:26,835 Speaker 1: the final decision would be passed along to Alvin Bragg. 179 00:11:27,635 --> 00:11:30,915 Speaker 1: He would not answer whether a prosecution memo was promulgated 180 00:11:30,995 --> 00:11:34,475 Speaker 1: under his watch at the Manhattan Day's Office. The apparent 181 00:11:34,595 --> 00:11:38,355 Speaker 1: inference of the entire interview, though, was that Vance was 182 00:11:38,395 --> 00:11:41,835 Speaker 1: ready to indict Trump was held off by bar Or 183 00:11:41,875 --> 00:11:45,355 Speaker 1: his New York office, and by that little detail that 184 00:11:45,355 --> 00:11:48,155 Speaker 1: the Trump cult has refused to acknowledge that it has 185 00:11:48,195 --> 00:11:51,915 Speaker 1: been Department of Justice tradition to not indict a sitting president. 186 00:11:52,075 --> 00:11:55,675 Speaker 1: So there's only been twenty six months and two weeks 187 00:11:55,715 --> 00:11:59,515 Speaker 1: in which Trump could have been indicted, and Vance was 188 00:11:59,595 --> 00:12:01,995 Speaker 1: only in office for a limited period of that time. 189 00:12:02,635 --> 00:12:05,835 Speaker 1: There's also the little question of the Federal Election Commission. 190 00:12:05,835 --> 00:12:08,795 Speaker 1: In May of twenty twenty one, it's two Republican members 191 00:12:09,155 --> 00:12:12,395 Speaker 1: blocked a move to continue its investigation of the Stormy 192 00:12:12,475 --> 00:12:16,635 Speaker 1: Daniel's payoff. Now to the George Soros part, well, let's 193 00:12:16,635 --> 00:12:20,315 Speaker 1: not kid anybody. This is fascist shorthand. For it's the Jews, 194 00:12:20,435 --> 00:12:24,875 Speaker 1: what done it? When Trump calls Alvin Bragg quote handpicked 195 00:12:24,875 --> 00:12:27,515 Speaker 1: and funded by George Soros, it's one of his anti 196 00:12:27,515 --> 00:12:30,555 Speaker 1: Semitic dog whistles, which reminds me to ask if that 197 00:12:30,715 --> 00:12:34,275 Speaker 1: gag order would cover dog whistles. But as to the facts, 198 00:12:34,955 --> 00:12:38,635 Speaker 1: soros spokesman says, the men have never met, never spoken, 199 00:12:38,875 --> 00:12:43,075 Speaker 1: never communicated. That's a lot of nevers. Also, Soros never 200 00:12:43,155 --> 00:12:46,795 Speaker 1: directly contributed to Bragg's campaign, in which he upset a 201 00:12:46,795 --> 00:12:48,995 Speaker 1: Democrat in the primary who had a lot more to spend, 202 00:12:49,315 --> 00:12:51,515 Speaker 1: and then got eighty three percent of the vote in 203 00:12:51,555 --> 00:12:55,595 Speaker 1: the general election. Soros's only connection to Bragg is a 204 00:12:55,635 --> 00:12:58,555 Speaker 1: little remote, and it goes like this. In May twenty 205 00:12:58,555 --> 00:13:01,635 Speaker 1: twenty one, Soros gave a million dollars to the Van 206 00:13:01,875 --> 00:13:06,155 Speaker 1: Jones pack dedicated to criminal justice reformat other racial justice causes. 207 00:13:06,355 --> 00:13:10,155 Speaker 1: It's called Color of Change. Among its many donations to 208 00:13:10,315 --> 00:13:13,915 Speaker 1: progressive candidates for district attorney posts around the country, Color 209 00:13:13,955 --> 00:13:16,515 Speaker 1: of Change donated slightly more than half a million to 210 00:13:16,595 --> 00:13:19,395 Speaker 1: Bragg's campaign. It was going to be more than that, 211 00:13:20,075 --> 00:13:24,155 Speaker 1: but there was an uncorroborated allegation about Bragg during the campaign, 212 00:13:24,515 --> 00:13:29,075 Speaker 1: so Color of Change cut him off. Owen Sarrows's son 213 00:13:29,155 --> 00:13:31,955 Speaker 1: and daughter in law each donated four hundred and fifty 214 00:13:31,955 --> 00:13:34,635 Speaker 1: bucks to Bragg early in twenty twenty one, and then 215 00:13:34,715 --> 00:13:39,235 Speaker 1: ten thousand each during the primary campaign. Now, as to 216 00:13:39,395 --> 00:13:42,435 Speaker 1: the you can't indict a presidential candidate part, that we 217 00:13:42,515 --> 00:13:44,915 Speaker 1: also keep hearing time and time again, in just the 218 00:13:44,995 --> 00:13:48,555 Speaker 1: last seven years, one man has demanded not just the 219 00:13:48,635 --> 00:13:53,515 Speaker 1: investigation of and indictment of four different presidential candidates, but 220 00:13:53,595 --> 00:13:57,035 Speaker 1: he has also accused each of them of treason. The 221 00:13:57,155 --> 00:14:01,875 Speaker 1: candidates were Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and John Kerry. 222 00:14:02,395 --> 00:14:04,915 Speaker 1: And the guy doing the thing about presidential candidates that 223 00:14:04,955 --> 00:14:08,875 Speaker 1: Trump apologists now say as forbidden was, of course Trump. 224 00:14:09,715 --> 00:14:12,795 Speaker 1: Former Trump US attorney Jeffrey Burman wrote in his book 225 00:14:12,795 --> 00:14:16,955 Speaker 1: that two days after Trump accused John Kerry of shadow diplomacy, 226 00:14:17,595 --> 00:14:21,235 Speaker 1: his US attorney's office was instructed to look for something 227 00:14:21,635 --> 00:14:26,075 Speaker 1: to charge John Kerry with. So on this particular pearl 228 00:14:26,195 --> 00:14:33,715 Speaker 1: clutching topic, Trump should probably well dag so back to tomorrow. 229 00:14:34,115 --> 00:14:37,835 Speaker 1: Could Trump be under a gag order other than canceling 230 00:14:37,875 --> 00:14:41,235 Speaker 1: his live address from the elbow of the Palm Beaches, Marilago, 231 00:14:41,515 --> 00:14:44,795 Speaker 1: Would it really impact his martyrdom in and out of 232 00:14:44,795 --> 00:14:47,435 Speaker 1: the court hearing tomorrow. Kenny, just do the silent movie 233 00:14:47,555 --> 00:14:51,075 Speaker 1: version of Norma Desmond's Descent down the Sunset Boulevard stairs. 234 00:14:52,155 --> 00:14:54,515 Speaker 1: Is there a chance he still might not show and 235 00:14:54,635 --> 00:14:58,675 Speaker 1: do an oj? Will Marjorie Taylor Green draw the capacity 236 00:14:58,675 --> 00:15:01,955 Speaker 1: crowd of three hundred people to her New York protest 237 00:15:02,315 --> 00:15:04,475 Speaker 1: or will all the tickets have been reserved by other 238 00:15:04,955 --> 00:15:07,355 Speaker 1: who did what they did to Trump at his infamous 239 00:15:07,435 --> 00:15:12,675 Speaker 1: no show rally in Tulsa. So many questions, so many clues? 240 00:15:41,795 --> 00:15:45,955 Speaker 1: What is dewey decimal system? Thank you Nancy Faust and 241 00:15:46,115 --> 00:15:48,635 Speaker 1: as we wait, let us enjoy the comic relief. Jim 242 00:15:48,715 --> 00:15:52,115 Speaker 1: Jordan has now talked about issuing subpoenas to get Alvin 243 00:15:52,155 --> 00:15:54,635 Speaker 1: Bragg to testify to one of the House committees on 244 00:15:54,755 --> 00:15:59,595 Speaker 1: making TV clips for Fox. Again, if you cannot enforce 245 00:15:59,715 --> 00:16:03,915 Speaker 1: contempt of Congress citations, you cannot force Alvin Bragg to 246 00:16:03,955 --> 00:16:06,835 Speaker 1: show up or send you anything other than a high 247 00:16:06,915 --> 00:16:11,835 Speaker 1: Hello postcard. Also, Jim needs to be a little bit 248 00:16:11,875 --> 00:16:15,595 Speaker 1: better prepared when he is exposed to actual journalists and 249 00:16:15,715 --> 00:16:19,115 Speaker 1: not just news Max or Fox sycophants. Listen to this 250 00:16:19,715 --> 00:16:22,795 Speaker 1: on his way into a GOP gathering in Florida. It's 251 00:16:22,875 --> 00:16:26,635 Speaker 1: not new. It's just I hadn't heard this before. And 252 00:16:26,635 --> 00:16:30,755 Speaker 1: it's so wonderfully bad that Jordan wound up resorting to 253 00:16:30,835 --> 00:16:34,795 Speaker 1: every excuse except denying that he speaks English. You don't 254 00:16:34,795 --> 00:16:36,955 Speaker 1: know what the charges up against. No, it was on 255 00:16:36,955 --> 00:16:38,595 Speaker 1: the way you guys have tall us. I mean, that's 256 00:16:38,595 --> 00:16:41,515 Speaker 1: all a jumping to conclusions. I mean, you might have 257 00:16:41,515 --> 00:16:44,115 Speaker 1: broken the law because that concerned you. We don't think. 258 00:16:44,195 --> 00:16:46,755 Speaker 1: We don't think broke the law at all. About. What 259 00:16:46,835 --> 00:16:49,195 Speaker 1: concerned me is what they're going to do based on 260 00:16:49,195 --> 00:16:52,675 Speaker 1: what's been reported. You have any evidence that federal friends 261 00:16:52,995 --> 00:16:55,955 Speaker 1: were used here we're asking about. That's not something that's 262 00:16:55,955 --> 00:17:01,195 Speaker 1: what we're requiring any local investigations. No, this is a 263 00:17:01,195 --> 00:17:04,315 Speaker 1: little different. I think help the guys he's running for president. 264 00:17:08,795 --> 00:17:12,675 Speaker 1: What the president's calls for protests? That is that something 265 00:17:12,715 --> 00:17:16,835 Speaker 1: that you do you think is support? And that's uh, 266 00:17:16,915 --> 00:17:19,995 Speaker 1: that's a that's a that's when Jim vanished. Vanish van vanished, 267 00:17:19,995 --> 00:17:22,355 Speaker 1: no doubt, in search of his jacket missing now for 268 00:17:22,395 --> 00:17:26,515 Speaker 1: these last sixteen years since he succeeded the late Ohio 269 00:17:26,555 --> 00:17:33,515 Speaker 1: Congressman Mike Oxley. Wait, what Mike, and let's circle back 270 00:17:33,515 --> 00:17:35,675 Speaker 1: to where we began. Let's say the Daily Mail is 271 00:17:35,715 --> 00:17:38,115 Speaker 1: on the money and Judge Juan Marshawn is prepared to 272 00:17:38,155 --> 00:17:41,075 Speaker 1: issue a gag order sometime today or tomorrow against Trump. 273 00:17:41,915 --> 00:17:45,795 Speaker 1: What about his family? No, no gag order against this family. 274 00:17:45,915 --> 00:17:50,635 Speaker 1: Keep them talking. A social media thread of Trump supporters 275 00:17:50,755 --> 00:17:54,995 Speaker 1: next to video of Trump Junior has realized the awful truth. 276 00:17:55,675 --> 00:18:02,195 Speaker 1: Junior has been replaced by a body double. Quote looked 277 00:18:02,195 --> 00:18:04,995 Speaker 1: like a mask. He must be in a safe location. Also, 278 00:18:05,115 --> 00:18:09,275 Speaker 1: his teeth are wrong, then sup with his neck? Then 279 00:18:09,915 --> 00:18:13,315 Speaker 1: something crazy up with his eyes. His pupils don't look right, 280 00:18:13,315 --> 00:18:16,355 Speaker 1: and they look very long and not round. Yes, he's 281 00:18:16,395 --> 00:18:19,235 Speaker 1: been replaced by a body double. That's what's wrong with 282 00:18:19,355 --> 00:18:26,675 Speaker 1: his pupils. Nothing simpler, and he's still not the most hilarious. 283 00:18:26,715 --> 00:18:31,115 Speaker 1: Trump brother Eric Trump, Saturday Fox and Friends quote, Guys, 284 00:18:31,475 --> 00:18:33,195 Speaker 1: I have to tell you I was on a plane. 285 00:18:33,395 --> 00:18:36,195 Speaker 1: I was on a commercial flight when this whole indictment broke. 286 00:18:36,435 --> 00:18:40,115 Speaker 1: People were coming up to me giving me hugs. Well, 287 00:18:40,115 --> 00:18:42,835 Speaker 1: of course they were, Eric, given how your father hates you. 288 00:18:42,875 --> 00:18:45,475 Speaker 1: They just assumed that you'd be as happy that he 289 00:18:45,555 --> 00:18:50,075 Speaker 1: got indicted as they were. Same interview, Eric Trump actually 290 00:18:50,115 --> 00:18:55,435 Speaker 1: topped that. He says, the Democrats quote weaponized the legal system. 291 00:18:55,635 --> 00:18:59,035 Speaker 1: They've literally weaponized every institution that we have in this country, 292 00:18:59,155 --> 00:19:01,475 Speaker 1: whether it be the military, whether it be the DOJ, 293 00:19:01,755 --> 00:19:03,995 Speaker 1: whether it be the FBA. Wait wait wait wait wait 294 00:19:03,995 --> 00:19:08,475 Speaker 1: wait wait. They've literally weaponized every institution that we have 295 00:19:08,595 --> 00:19:13,755 Speaker 1: in this country, whether it be the military. Eric Trump 296 00:19:14,155 --> 00:19:21,275 Speaker 1: has accused Democrats of weaponizing the military. For God's sake, 297 00:19:21,835 --> 00:19:40,995 Speaker 1: no gag order for Fredo, please keep him talking. Still 298 00:19:41,035 --> 00:19:43,075 Speaker 1: ahead of us in this edition a countdown. What will 299 00:19:43,155 --> 00:19:47,435 Speaker 1: you remember from the women's college basketball championship game? How 300 00:19:47,435 --> 00:19:51,835 Speaker 1: about a classless gesture made by the MVP towards her 301 00:19:51,875 --> 00:19:55,795 Speaker 1: star opponent, who had herself made a classless gesture two 302 00:19:55,835 --> 00:20:01,955 Speaker 1: games previously. Yea sportsmanship in worse persons. Marjorie Taylor Green 303 00:20:02,115 --> 00:20:05,115 Speaker 1: is given a platform by CBS News and six minutes 304 00:20:05,155 --> 00:20:09,795 Speaker 1: to twice repeat the libel that quote Democrats are pedophiles unquote. 305 00:20:10,395 --> 00:20:13,955 Speaker 1: What does Leslie Stall do when this big, slow moving 306 00:20:14,115 --> 00:20:16,915 Speaker 1: softball floats up before her eyes and she has only 307 00:20:16,955 --> 00:20:20,235 Speaker 1: to connect with it to end Barney Rubble's congressional career. 308 00:20:21,435 --> 00:20:25,675 Speaker 1: She whiffs And then what will happen if there is 309 00:20:25,715 --> 00:20:28,875 Speaker 1: no gag order and Trump gives his speech tomorrow night, 310 00:20:28,875 --> 00:20:32,475 Speaker 1: Will Fox cover it live? How about CNN, NBC, ABC, 311 00:20:33,075 --> 00:20:38,955 Speaker 1: CBS with Marjorie Taylor Green anchoring the nightmares prophesigned by 312 00:20:38,955 --> 00:20:43,275 Speaker 1: a movie from nineteen seventy six continue to unfold now 313 00:20:43,315 --> 00:20:53,755 Speaker 1: for a forty seventh year. That's next. This discountdown. This 314 00:20:53,955 --> 00:21:12,875 Speaker 1: is Countdown with Keith Olberman. This is Sports Center. Wait, 315 00:21:13,075 --> 00:21:20,635 Speaker 1: check that not anymore. This is Countdown with Keith Alberman 316 00:21:20,875 --> 00:21:26,035 Speaker 1: in Sports Angel. Reese and Caitlin Clark are star women's 317 00:21:26,075 --> 00:21:29,955 Speaker 1: college basketball players. In an Elite eight playoff game, Clark 318 00:21:30,035 --> 00:21:33,035 Speaker 1: of Iowa scored forty points and had triple double and 319 00:21:33,075 --> 00:21:36,595 Speaker 1: made a wrestling gesture towards her opponents, meaning you can't 320 00:21:36,675 --> 00:21:40,475 Speaker 1: see me. Last night, Reese and LSU beat Clark and 321 00:21:40,555 --> 00:21:42,595 Speaker 1: Iowa for the national title one hundred and two to 322 00:21:42,595 --> 00:21:45,395 Speaker 1: eighty five, and Reese made the same gesture two Clark 323 00:21:45,755 --> 00:21:50,115 Speaker 1: and added another one indicating she was getting the championship ring. 324 00:21:50,555 --> 00:21:53,355 Speaker 1: Reese was named MVP of the tournament. And I'm not 325 00:21:53,395 --> 00:21:56,195 Speaker 1: sure anybody will remember that, nor the fact that LSU 326 00:21:56,275 --> 00:21:58,795 Speaker 1: won the title, just the fact that women's hoops has 327 00:21:58,835 --> 00:22:02,035 Speaker 1: now achieved parody with the Men It's Stars can also 328 00:22:02,075 --> 00:22:05,115 Speaker 1: beat classless winners who are willing to overshadow their own 329 00:22:05,235 --> 00:22:10,115 Speaker 1: team's ultimate victories. On the morning of Wednesday, November twenty 330 00:22:10,195 --> 00:22:12,835 Speaker 1: twenty two, the Philadelphia Phillies were still celebrating their seven 331 00:22:12,875 --> 00:22:15,275 Speaker 1: nothing win over the Houston Astros to take a two 332 00:22:15,315 --> 00:22:17,955 Speaker 1: games to one lead in the World Series. Two more 333 00:22:18,035 --> 00:22:21,075 Speaker 1: wins and two more games at home and they would 334 00:22:21,155 --> 00:22:25,235 Speaker 1: have the title. That night, they got no hit by 335 00:22:25,275 --> 00:22:29,035 Speaker 1: four Houston pitchers, series was tied. Then they lost Game five, 336 00:22:29,155 --> 00:22:31,995 Speaker 1: three to two, then Game six four to one to 337 00:22:32,195 --> 00:22:36,075 Speaker 1: lose the World Series they had led. The twenty twenty 338 00:22:36,115 --> 00:22:38,995 Speaker 1: three baseball season opened last Thursday, and the Phillies scored 339 00:22:39,035 --> 00:22:42,675 Speaker 1: five runs off the new Texas ace Jacob deGrom, formerly 340 00:22:42,675 --> 00:22:45,315 Speaker 1: of the New York Mets, and lost the game eleven 341 00:22:45,355 --> 00:22:48,475 Speaker 1: to seven. Then they lost their second game to Texas 342 00:22:48,675 --> 00:22:52,395 Speaker 1: sixteen to three. Then last night they lost to Texas 343 00:22:52,435 --> 00:22:56,155 Speaker 1: two to one. As I suggested last November, sometimes teams 344 00:22:56,195 --> 00:22:58,035 Speaker 1: go to sleep on top of the world, but wake 345 00:22:58,115 --> 00:23:01,075 Speaker 1: up ready for Old Timer's Day. It may have happened 346 00:23:01,075 --> 00:23:04,395 Speaker 1: to the Phillies. Then time for the monthly Nightmare story 347 00:23:04,395 --> 00:23:07,195 Speaker 1: about James Dolan, owner of the New York Knicks, New 348 00:23:07,275 --> 00:23:10,675 Speaker 1: York Rangers, Madison Square Garden, Radio City Music Hall, and, 349 00:23:10,715 --> 00:23:14,515 Speaker 1: despite stiff competition over the course of three different centuries, 350 00:23:14,995 --> 00:23:18,995 Speaker 1: the worst owner in the history of New York sports. Latest, 351 00:23:19,355 --> 00:23:23,035 Speaker 1: as New York investigates canceling Dolan's annual forty two million 352 00:23:23,035 --> 00:23:25,755 Speaker 1: dollar tax break on Madison Square Garden or whatever the 353 00:23:25,795 --> 00:23:29,035 Speaker 1: number is, the New York Post is reporting Dolan has 354 00:23:29,075 --> 00:23:33,395 Speaker 1: been sued over allegations that he short changed investors and 355 00:23:33,635 --> 00:23:38,715 Speaker 1: spied on employees. The Post says securities filings indicate Dolan 356 00:23:38,755 --> 00:23:41,995 Speaker 1: made a settlement of eighty five million dollars with shareholders 357 00:23:42,195 --> 00:23:46,435 Speaker 1: of MSG Entertainment when he had that company by MSG 358 00:23:46,755 --> 00:23:51,875 Speaker 1: Television Networks. Now he's still being sued by shareholders of 359 00:23:51,995 --> 00:23:55,675 Speaker 1: the network he allegedly short changed both sides of the 360 00:23:55,715 --> 00:23:59,515 Speaker 1: same deal. Post also says that when employees of the 361 00:23:59,555 --> 00:24:02,475 Speaker 1: arena that Dolan is building in Las Vegas warned that 362 00:24:02,635 --> 00:24:05,275 Speaker 1: costs there were running very high and or over budget 363 00:24:05,315 --> 00:24:08,075 Speaker 1: by at least half a billion dollars, Dolan had other 364 00:24:08,115 --> 00:24:12,795 Speaker 1: employees spy on their emails and secretly record their conversations. 365 00:24:13,395 --> 00:24:17,635 Speaker 1: A reminder for Jim Dolan. New York's first great sports 366 00:24:17,635 --> 00:24:22,115 Speaker 1: owner was named John B. Day, a tobacco millionaire. He 367 00:24:22,155 --> 00:24:25,235 Speaker 1: not only owned the original New York Mets, but founded 368 00:24:25,275 --> 00:24:27,995 Speaker 1: the New York now San Francisco Giants in eighteen eighty 369 00:24:27,995 --> 00:24:32,235 Speaker 1: three and built the famous Polo Grounds for them. By 370 00:24:32,275 --> 00:24:35,435 Speaker 1: eighteen ninety three, a decade later, he was virtually bankrupt 371 00:24:35,475 --> 00:24:38,875 Speaker 1: had to sell the Giants at In nineteen ten, John B. 372 00:24:39,155 --> 00:24:42,835 Speaker 1: Day returned to the Polo Grounds as a ticket taker 373 00:24:43,475 --> 00:24:48,355 Speaker 1: for five dollars a game. Hi, I'm Jim Dolan. Welcome 374 00:24:48,435 --> 00:25:07,875 Speaker 1: Madison Square Garden. You want mustard on your hotdog? Relish 375 00:25:08,115 --> 00:25:12,555 Speaker 1: still ahead. So the movie network came back into my 376 00:25:12,595 --> 00:25:15,715 Speaker 1: head over the weekend because of what happens if there 377 00:25:15,795 --> 00:25:18,315 Speaker 1: is no Trump dag order and he gives that speech 378 00:25:18,355 --> 00:25:21,635 Speaker 1: after being indicted tomorrow. Coming up next on things I 379 00:25:21,675 --> 00:25:24,355 Speaker 1: promised not to tell first time For the daily roundup 380 00:25:24,395 --> 00:25:27,355 Speaker 1: of the misgrants, morons and Dunning Kruger effect specimens who 381 00:25:27,355 --> 00:25:32,675 Speaker 1: constitute today's worst persons in the world Lebronze, we have 382 00:25:32,835 --> 00:25:37,355 Speaker 1: Fox quote News unquote. Britain's version of it is gb News, 383 00:25:37,395 --> 00:25:41,475 Speaker 1: and it's nine PM host is named Dan Ruten Wooten 384 00:25:42,075 --> 00:25:46,115 Speaker 1: and he tweeted. Biden planning to snub the coronation of 385 00:25:46,195 --> 00:25:48,435 Speaker 1: King Charles tells you everything you need to know about 386 00:25:48,435 --> 00:25:51,675 Speaker 1: how one of the worst presidents in modern history feels 387 00:25:51,675 --> 00:25:57,555 Speaker 1: about the United Kingdom. Shame on him. No American president 388 00:25:57,595 --> 00:26:00,315 Speaker 1: has ever attended a British coronation, and there have been 389 00:26:00,435 --> 00:26:05,355 Speaker 1: seven of them since we repudiated the down that they're 390 00:26:05,355 --> 00:26:08,875 Speaker 1: gonna put on Charles's head. This was pointed out to 391 00:26:08,915 --> 00:26:12,595 Speaker 1: this routing fella, and he doubled down, and he retweeted 392 00:26:12,595 --> 00:26:15,115 Speaker 1: somebody else saying it didn't matter, because what it is 393 00:26:15,115 --> 00:26:17,675 Speaker 1: is Biden hates England and traveling is so much easier, 394 00:26:17,675 --> 00:26:20,275 Speaker 1: which is about as dumb as if somebody on Fox said, well, look, 395 00:26:20,315 --> 00:26:22,395 Speaker 1: if King Charles is offended and he really wants Biden 396 00:26:22,395 --> 00:26:25,435 Speaker 1: to be there, he should just hold his coronation in Wilmington, Delaware. 397 00:26:26,795 --> 00:26:30,595 Speaker 1: Runners up Jim Jordan and Maria bartar Romo. Bartar Romo 398 00:26:30,755 --> 00:26:33,955 Speaker 1: turns out has learned nothing from the dominion defamation suit, 399 00:26:33,995 --> 00:26:36,915 Speaker 1: which is not surprising because she's an adult and Jordan 400 00:26:37,035 --> 00:26:41,395 Speaker 1: still has not found his jacket. Actual conversation between them yesterday, 401 00:26:41,875 --> 00:26:45,675 Speaker 1: We're gonna have to look at the appropriations process and 402 00:26:45,715 --> 00:26:48,555 Speaker 1: limit funds going to the some of the these agencies, 403 00:26:48,955 --> 00:26:54,155 Speaker 1: to which bartar Romo says, the DOJ and the FBI, 404 00:26:54,795 --> 00:26:58,235 Speaker 1: and Jordan answers, yeah, and everybody watching the clip says, 405 00:26:58,595 --> 00:27:01,395 Speaker 1: my god, Jim Jordan just called for a defunding law 406 00:27:01,475 --> 00:27:07,315 Speaker 1: enforcement alert the media. But the winners, unfortunately, the great 407 00:27:07,395 --> 00:27:11,075 Speaker 1: Leslie Stall and sixty Minutes and CBS News, not only 408 00:27:11,195 --> 00:27:13,995 Speaker 1: did they give a platform to the dangerous and demented 409 00:27:14,275 --> 00:27:17,715 Speaker 1: Marjorie Barney Rubble, but boy did they treat her as 410 00:27:17,795 --> 00:27:21,115 Speaker 1: if she were just colorful. I mean this pains me 411 00:27:21,195 --> 00:27:23,315 Speaker 1: because Leslie has always been nice to me in sixty 412 00:27:23,315 --> 00:27:27,075 Speaker 1: Minutes once did a very nice profile on me Susan Spencer, 413 00:27:27,115 --> 00:27:30,075 Speaker 1: if I remember correctly, But this was bad. In the 414 00:27:30,155 --> 00:27:34,075 Speaker 1: studio open Stall called Green quote famous and referred to 415 00:27:34,115 --> 00:27:38,115 Speaker 1: Green's quote celebrity some say notoriety, and called her smart 416 00:27:38,275 --> 00:27:43,395 Speaker 1: and fearless. I don't know about the smart. In the interview, 417 00:27:43,515 --> 00:27:46,355 Speaker 1: she never once asked Green about the pipe bombs, and 418 00:27:46,475 --> 00:27:50,035 Speaker 1: she didn't ask her about giving away Pelosi's location during 419 00:27:50,035 --> 00:27:53,235 Speaker 1: the coup attempt, and she didn't ask her about the 420 00:27:53,315 --> 00:27:55,355 Speaker 1: request for a pardon. She didn't ask her at all 421 00:27:55,355 --> 00:27:58,915 Speaker 1: about January sixth, and she let Green twice reiterate that 422 00:27:58,995 --> 00:28:04,195 Speaker 1: quote Democrats are pedophiles unquote. Leslie simply made an absurd 423 00:28:04,315 --> 00:28:07,115 Speaker 1: fate an iroll asking if she could really mean that, 424 00:28:07,235 --> 00:28:10,675 Speaker 1: rather than saying by definition pedophiles or people who have 425 00:28:10,715 --> 00:28:13,355 Speaker 1: sex with children, either you say now that you believe 426 00:28:13,675 --> 00:28:18,075 Speaker 1: all Democrats have sex with children or retract it. She 427 00:28:18,195 --> 00:28:20,755 Speaker 1: didn't do that, and because she didn't do that, the 428 00:28:20,795 --> 00:28:23,155 Speaker 1: far right is now celebrating the fact that Leslie Stall 429 00:28:23,515 --> 00:28:26,875 Speaker 1: let Marjorie Taylor Green say that quote Democrats have sex 430 00:28:26,915 --> 00:28:32,155 Speaker 1: with children on CBS CBS News and Leslie Stall an 431 00:28:32,195 --> 00:28:35,555 Speaker 1: I roll is not enough to stop a lying psychopath 432 00:28:35,675 --> 00:28:39,875 Speaker 1: like Marjorie Taylor Green. Shame on all of you today's 433 00:28:39,915 --> 00:28:56,835 Speaker 1: worst persons in the world. To the number one story 434 00:28:56,875 --> 00:28:58,595 Speaker 1: on the Countdown, and this one is long enough that 435 00:28:58,595 --> 00:29:00,475 Speaker 1: it's going to take up one and a half blocks 436 00:29:00,555 --> 00:29:02,875 Speaker 1: of the show. But it pertains to Trump and what 437 00:29:02,915 --> 00:29:05,435 Speaker 1: we may see Tuesday night if there is no gag 438 00:29:05,555 --> 00:29:09,595 Speaker 1: order against him. And it is sobering. When I did 439 00:29:09,595 --> 00:29:12,555 Speaker 1: elections on MSNBC, and I was the primary anchor from 440 00:29:12,595 --> 00:29:15,595 Speaker 1: two thousand and six or two ten, which between the presidential, 441 00:29:15,635 --> 00:29:18,835 Speaker 1: midterm and primaries. I must have done thirty knights of elections. 442 00:29:19,595 --> 00:29:23,715 Speaker 1: Mark lakasowich was the executive producer, had the right feel 443 00:29:23,755 --> 00:29:25,315 Speaker 1: for it, though I could never talk him out of 444 00:29:25,315 --> 00:29:28,075 Speaker 1: the big flowery exit bumps that we ran before the commercials. 445 00:29:28,075 --> 00:29:29,595 Speaker 1: I would ask, why are you giving them more time 446 00:29:29,635 --> 00:29:32,595 Speaker 1: to change channels? Luke? Anyway, he's now the dean of 447 00:29:32,635 --> 00:29:36,275 Speaker 1: the communications school at Hofstra University and they have a 448 00:29:36,275 --> 00:29:39,715 Speaker 1: good one and boy, could NBC use him now? And 449 00:29:39,875 --> 00:29:44,395 Speaker 1: yesterday Luke tweeted this Tuesday's Trump post indictment address is 450 00:29:44,435 --> 00:29:48,555 Speaker 1: a test for TV news orgs organizations. He will lie. 451 00:29:48,995 --> 00:29:52,315 Speaker 1: There is no justification for platforming liars and their lies 452 00:29:52,475 --> 00:29:55,875 Speaker 1: on live television. There are many reasons not to your 453 00:29:56,035 --> 00:30:05,315 Speaker 1: organization's credibility. For one, watch, analyze, then report, unquote exactly. Sadly, 454 00:30:05,355 --> 00:30:08,555 Speaker 1: if the speech happens, I am confident that at least 455 00:30:08,595 --> 00:30:11,435 Speaker 1: Fox and CNN will run it, maybe the broadcast networks too. 456 00:30:11,475 --> 00:30:15,155 Speaker 1: And their argument now, their excuse will be that it's history, 457 00:30:15,315 --> 00:30:18,195 Speaker 1: that it's an ex president getting his sorry ass indicted. 458 00:30:19,035 --> 00:30:23,235 Speaker 1: As Mark Lacasowitz points out, not good enough. But this 459 00:30:23,315 --> 00:30:25,115 Speaker 1: is where we are in television news and this was 460 00:30:25,235 --> 00:30:29,795 Speaker 1: forecast long ago by the greatest movie ever made, Network, 461 00:30:30,435 --> 00:30:34,355 Speaker 1: the Patty Chayevsky film about the network anchorman who announces 462 00:30:34,355 --> 00:30:37,075 Speaker 1: he has been fired for low ratings and thus he 463 00:30:37,115 --> 00:30:40,955 Speaker 1: has decided to kill himself, whereupon his ratings go up, 464 00:30:41,715 --> 00:30:43,955 Speaker 1: and then he begins to give voice to what are 465 00:30:44,715 --> 00:30:49,555 Speaker 1: either extra worldly prophecies and warnings or the pure ravings 466 00:30:49,595 --> 00:30:54,635 Speaker 1: of unadulterated insanity. The movie stars Peter Finch as the newscaster, 467 00:30:54,795 --> 00:30:57,435 Speaker 1: William Holden as his best friend, the network news boss, 468 00:30:57,835 --> 00:31:00,595 Speaker 1: Fade Dunaway as the network programmer who sees in the 469 00:31:00,635 --> 00:31:04,315 Speaker 1: newscast a goldmine, and Robert Duval as the ambitious new 470 00:31:04,355 --> 00:31:07,475 Speaker 1: network workhead who sees in the newscast his ticket to 471 00:31:07,515 --> 00:31:11,475 Speaker 1: the corporate boardroom. When I first saw Network as a 472 00:31:11,555 --> 00:31:15,755 Speaker 1: seventeen year old aspiring TV broadcaster, my jaw dropped and 473 00:31:15,875 --> 00:31:19,195 Speaker 1: it stayed that way, and in the last forty six 474 00:31:19,395 --> 00:31:23,835 Speaker 1: plus years, my jaw has barely moved from that position 475 00:31:24,075 --> 00:31:29,955 Speaker 1: high hills anymore. The world of TV news that Network 476 00:31:30,035 --> 00:31:34,235 Speaker 1: predicted was not unthinkable in nineteen seventy six, but it 477 00:31:34,315 --> 00:31:38,915 Speaker 1: was a nightmare today. Virtually everything Chayavsky saw in the 478 00:31:38,955 --> 00:31:43,875 Speaker 1: future has come true and is accepted as conservative broadcasting. 479 00:31:43,875 --> 00:31:47,515 Speaker 1: The movie was so prophetic, but younger viewers sometimes see 480 00:31:47,555 --> 00:31:50,035 Speaker 1: the quality of the film and its artistry and its genius, 481 00:31:50,115 --> 00:31:52,595 Speaker 1: but they can't imagine what the big deal was about 482 00:31:52,595 --> 00:31:55,595 Speaker 1: its content. It's just showing TV news the way it's 483 00:31:55,635 --> 00:31:59,515 Speaker 1: always been. So a while ago, I sat down and 484 00:31:59,595 --> 00:32:03,635 Speaker 1: watched Network, and I took notes. I counted twenty three 485 00:32:03,875 --> 00:32:07,235 Speaker 1: major things about TV news that we're not true when 486 00:32:07,275 --> 00:32:10,955 Speaker 1: Network came out, but are true now, and they cover 487 00:32:11,595 --> 00:32:15,675 Speaker 1: basically everything in the business. First of these the on 488 00:32:15,915 --> 00:32:19,395 Speaker 1: air breakdown of a newscaster, Peter Finch's Howard Beale announces 489 00:32:19,435 --> 00:32:21,995 Speaker 1: he's going to shoot himself on the air in one week. 490 00:32:22,795 --> 00:32:25,715 Speaker 1: There was a local news anchor named Christine Chubbuck who 491 00:32:25,715 --> 00:32:28,995 Speaker 1: had already shot herself during a newscast in Sarasota in 492 00:32:29,075 --> 00:32:32,355 Speaker 1: nineteen seventy four, but she did not give advance warning 493 00:32:32,395 --> 00:32:36,795 Speaker 1: nor show any indication of emotional distress. Sadly, tragically, she 494 00:32:36,955 --> 00:32:41,435 Speaker 1: just did it. But after Network, things began to come 495 00:32:41,475 --> 00:32:44,355 Speaker 1: apart at the seams in local news and network news. 496 00:32:44,355 --> 00:32:47,195 Speaker 1: In nineteen eighty eight, after reporter Bree Walker of New 497 00:32:47,275 --> 00:32:51,195 Speaker 1: York's Channel two news had concluded a story on birth defects, 498 00:32:51,715 --> 00:32:55,075 Speaker 1: Veteran anchor Jim Jensen questioned her at length about a 499 00:32:55,115 --> 00:32:58,835 Speaker 1: hand and foot deformity which she herself suffered from, and 500 00:32:58,995 --> 00:33:02,435 Speaker 1: whether or not her parents would have aborted her had 501 00:33:02,475 --> 00:33:06,395 Speaker 1: they known in advance she had the condition. Shortly afterwards, Jensen, 502 00:33:06,395 --> 00:33:08,395 Speaker 1: who had been on the air in New York forever, 503 00:33:08,955 --> 00:33:12,275 Speaker 1: entered a rehab center for treatment of alcohol, prescription drug 504 00:33:12,315 --> 00:33:16,715 Speaker 1: and cocaine abuse and depression. Later in two thousand and four, 505 00:33:16,835 --> 00:33:20,235 Speaker 1: Dan Harris had a live panic attack on ABC's Good 506 00:33:20,275 --> 00:33:23,275 Speaker 1: Morning America, losing his breath then cutting his newscast short. 507 00:33:24,915 --> 00:33:28,155 Speaker 1: Second of the Prophecies Network posited that such a breakdown 508 00:33:28,195 --> 00:33:31,115 Speaker 1: would lead not to treatment nor removal from a broadcast, 509 00:33:31,115 --> 00:33:36,395 Speaker 1: but to greater success. Fifteen years ago, Glenn Beck began 510 00:33:36,435 --> 00:33:40,035 Speaker 1: to regularly weep on the air. If that was not 511 00:33:40,115 --> 00:33:42,835 Speaker 1: an indication of emotional trouble, it might have been the 512 00:33:42,875 --> 00:33:47,875 Speaker 1: attempt to convey that feeling legitimate or contrived. Beck was 513 00:33:48,155 --> 00:33:52,035 Speaker 1: rewarded and the ABC newscaster I just mentioned, Dan Harris 514 00:33:52,035 --> 00:33:54,275 Speaker 1: would go on to do a World News Tonight feature 515 00:33:54,395 --> 00:33:59,715 Speaker 1: on his own on air breakdown. Third prophecy, when Howard 516 00:33:59,755 --> 00:34:03,115 Speaker 1: Beale first tells his boss, Max Schumacher played by William Holden, 517 00:34:03,155 --> 00:34:05,595 Speaker 1: that he will kill himself on the air. Schumacher goes 518 00:34:05,595 --> 00:34:08,195 Speaker 1: off on a drunken flight of fancy about a new 519 00:34:08,275 --> 00:34:11,315 Speaker 1: Sunday night news show he called in his mind the 520 00:34:11,475 --> 00:34:17,595 Speaker 1: Death Hour, Suicides, assassinations, mad bombers, mafia hitman, automobile smashups, 521 00:34:17,635 --> 00:34:22,795 Speaker 1: he says, and a terrorist of the Week. Schumacher's utterly 522 00:34:22,915 --> 00:34:27,475 Speaker 1: dystopian forecast has not made air yet, but the terrorism 523 00:34:27,515 --> 00:34:30,595 Speaker 1: of nine to eleven did play out live on all networks, 524 00:34:30,835 --> 00:34:36,115 Speaker 1: and parts of that terrorism are repeated minimally annually. Much 525 00:34:36,195 --> 00:34:39,315 Speaker 1: of a network like True TV consisted of programs that 526 00:34:39,355 --> 00:34:43,395 Speaker 1: were merely edited highlights of disasters, centering, in fact, largely on, 527 00:34:44,075 --> 00:34:48,995 Speaker 1: as Max Schumacher phrased it, automobile smashups. The fourth network 528 00:34:49,075 --> 00:34:54,235 Speaker 1: Prophecy Beal swears repeatedly during his newscasts. In the last 529 00:34:54,275 --> 00:34:57,235 Speaker 1: few years, CNN in particular, has made the decision to 530 00:34:57,315 --> 00:35:00,475 Speaker 1: quote words that would have been bleeped less than a 531 00:35:00,515 --> 00:35:04,075 Speaker 1: decade ago, and at least one broadcast television program, The 532 00:35:04,155 --> 00:35:07,355 Speaker 1: Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson on CBS, produced its 533 00:35:07,355 --> 00:35:10,595 Speaker 1: show live to tape with an audience and in real 534 00:35:10,635 --> 00:35:14,835 Speaker 1: time let the hosts swear copiously and then would bleep 535 00:35:14,955 --> 00:35:18,355 Speaker 1: him just as copiously for the broadcast itself. Maybe the 536 00:35:18,475 --> 00:35:23,235 Speaker 1: scripted swear in the newscast is not far away. Fifth 537 00:35:23,315 --> 00:35:27,515 Speaker 1: of the network prophecies. Newscasts did not do stories about 538 00:35:27,635 --> 00:35:33,235 Speaker 1: other newscasts before network premiered. When Beale announces his intention 539 00:35:33,275 --> 00:35:35,795 Speaker 1: to kill himself, all of New York's local ten and 540 00:35:35,835 --> 00:35:40,635 Speaker 1: eleven PM newscasts made it their lead story at this point, 541 00:35:40,715 --> 00:35:45,435 Speaker 1: and in ensuing years, even monumental retirements such as Chet 542 00:35:45,515 --> 00:35:49,235 Speaker 1: Huntley's retirement in NBC in nineteen seventy or Walter Cronkite's 543 00:35:49,275 --> 00:35:52,675 Speaker 1: retirement from CBS in nineteen eighty one, had only merited 544 00:35:52,715 --> 00:35:56,875 Speaker 1: the briefest of footnotes on rival network programs. But by 545 00:35:56,915 --> 00:35:59,675 Speaker 1: the time of Peter Jennings lung cancer announcement in two 546 00:35:59,715 --> 00:36:03,835 Speaker 1: thousand and five, a newscast or newscaster could become the 547 00:36:03,915 --> 00:36:08,155 Speaker 1: lead story on another newscast. Indeed, when I left MSNBC 548 00:36:08,355 --> 00:36:13,475 Speaker 1: in January twenty eleven, announcing it mid show, CNN's Anderson 549 00:36:13,555 --> 00:36:17,795 Speaker 1: Cooper three sixty not only led its live broadcast at 550 00:36:17,835 --> 00:36:22,555 Speaker 1: ten pm ET with it it devoted a dumbfounding twenty 551 00:36:22,555 --> 00:36:25,795 Speaker 1: two minutes to something that would have been ignored even 552 00:36:25,915 --> 00:36:29,555 Speaker 1: a decade before. Understand how long twenty two minutes is 553 00:36:29,715 --> 00:36:34,755 Speaker 1: on CNN. I retired from the broadcast countdown on MSNBC 554 00:36:34,915 --> 00:36:38,555 Speaker 1: and was able to get home before he was done 555 00:36:38,635 --> 00:36:43,435 Speaker 1: covering the story of my retiring from the broadcast sixth 556 00:36:44,155 --> 00:36:48,075 Speaker 1: and this was the key to everything in network And 557 00:36:48,275 --> 00:36:53,795 Speaker 1: since network, Penny Chayevsky and his script forecast a moment 558 00:36:53,835 --> 00:36:57,435 Speaker 1: in which newscasts would be required to make money. It 559 00:36:57,555 --> 00:37:01,435 Speaker 1: had not been that way before news divisions were considered 560 00:37:01,515 --> 00:37:04,475 Speaker 1: public service. The price the networks paid to make billions 561 00:37:04,515 --> 00:37:09,435 Speaker 1: of entertainment shows. Robert Duval as Frank Hackett, the executive, 562 00:37:09,555 --> 00:37:13,635 Speaker 1: attacks UBS's quote credit news division and its annual thirty 563 00:37:13,635 --> 00:37:18,235 Speaker 1: three million dollar deficit. As Hackett later tells UBS stockholders, 564 00:37:18,475 --> 00:37:20,915 Speaker 1: in effect, the news division would be reduced from an 565 00:37:20,915 --> 00:37:26,515 Speaker 1: independent division to a department accountable to network. After CBS 566 00:37:26,635 --> 00:37:28,955 Speaker 1: was sold in nineteen eighty seven, the news budget was 567 00:37:28,955 --> 00:37:32,115 Speaker 1: cut in half, and the moment arrived newscast from there 568 00:37:32,155 --> 00:37:36,075 Speaker 1: on in had to be profitable. In two twelve, NBC 569 00:37:36,275 --> 00:37:38,515 Speaker 1: took it to a new level by appointing a programming 570 00:37:38,555 --> 00:37:43,035 Speaker 1: executive with no news experience to oversee all news on 571 00:37:43,075 --> 00:37:46,515 Speaker 1: all of its networks, stations, and even local cable systems. 572 00:37:47,435 --> 00:37:51,435 Speaker 1: The reason Padaychavsky could see this when others could not 573 00:37:52,035 --> 00:37:54,235 Speaker 1: was that he had worked in live television drama in 574 00:37:54,235 --> 00:37:58,075 Speaker 1: the nineteen fifties, particularly on one show called You Are There, 575 00:37:58,635 --> 00:38:02,075 Speaker 1: in which CBS news reporters and actors re enacted great 576 00:38:02,115 --> 00:38:05,435 Speaker 1: moments from history. The newscasters could make extra cash on 577 00:38:05,475 --> 00:38:09,115 Speaker 1: the side, and the network made huge profits. The host 578 00:38:09,635 --> 00:38:16,075 Speaker 1: of You Are There, half news, half entertainment was Walter Cronkite. 579 00:38:17,035 --> 00:38:21,435 Speaker 1: The seventh network prophecy criminals videotaping their own crimes. A 580 00:38:21,595 --> 00:38:24,915 Speaker 1: series in network is created after a terrorist group called 581 00:38:25,075 --> 00:38:29,115 Speaker 1: the Ecumenical Liberation Army shoots film of its own members 582 00:38:29,195 --> 00:38:34,035 Speaker 1: robbing a bank. This was inconceivable in nineteen seventy six, 583 00:38:34,115 --> 00:38:36,955 Speaker 1: yet is today a facet of every act, from the 584 00:38:36,995 --> 00:38:42,595 Speaker 1: simplest self taped vandalism uploaded to YouTube, to actual terrorist attacks, 585 00:38:42,595 --> 00:38:45,675 Speaker 1: recordings of which are made by and then disseminated to 586 00:38:45,755 --> 00:38:50,275 Speaker 1: news organizations by the perpetrators. The eighth prophecy of network 587 00:38:50,355 --> 00:38:55,475 Speaker 1: television news as rage quote the American people want somebody 588 00:38:55,475 --> 00:38:58,835 Speaker 1: to articulate their rage for them, says Faye Dunaway's character 589 00:38:58,875 --> 00:39:03,595 Speaker 1: Diana Christiansen, relative to cable news in particular, does this 590 00:39:03,755 --> 00:39:08,795 Speaker 1: even require me to elaborate at all? Ninth Christensen, not 591 00:39:09,075 --> 00:39:12,755 Speaker 1: a news executive, is then given control over and permission 592 00:39:12,795 --> 00:39:17,595 Speaker 1: to program Beal's newscast, the UBS Evening News. Although there 593 00:39:17,675 --> 00:39:21,195 Speaker 1: was a history of news personnel being involved in entertainment programming, 594 00:39:21,435 --> 00:39:24,195 Speaker 1: Edward R. Murrow also did an interview show called Person 595 00:39:24,275 --> 00:39:29,075 Speaker 1: to Person Evening newscast were sacrosancd Today the fiction may 596 00:39:29,115 --> 00:39:31,795 Speaker 1: be maintained that they're still sacro sancd, But since the 597 00:39:31,835 --> 00:39:34,635 Speaker 1: advent of the consultant on the local news level in 598 00:39:34,675 --> 00:39:37,635 Speaker 1: the late nineteen seventies and early eighties, more and more 599 00:39:37,715 --> 00:39:40,555 Speaker 1: decisions about not just who does the news, but what 600 00:39:40,715 --> 00:39:44,555 Speaker 1: goes on the news have been made by non news executives. 601 00:39:45,395 --> 00:39:49,795 Speaker 1: The tenth prophecy, Diana Christensen also foretells the various genres 602 00:39:49,795 --> 00:39:53,075 Speaker 1: of five nights a week network programming that didn't happen 603 00:39:53,115 --> 00:39:56,955 Speaker 1: before network. She sees a profit center in a chiefly produced, 604 00:39:56,995 --> 00:39:59,995 Speaker 1: low budget program that can run Monday through Friday, and 605 00:40:00,035 --> 00:40:04,555 Speaker 1: which happens to be about the news. The other networks 606 00:40:04,835 --> 00:40:07,675 Speaker 1: try to find their own outlandish newscasts and run them 607 00:40:07,755 --> 00:40:12,355 Speaker 1: five nights a week. Pandachevsky is now anticipating every genre 608 00:40:12,435 --> 00:40:16,195 Speaker 1: of craze that followed in news, from nightline to Dateline, 609 00:40:16,275 --> 00:40:18,675 Speaker 1: to Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? To American Idol 610 00:40:18,955 --> 00:40:22,075 Speaker 1: to the NBC two thousand and nine experiment in which 611 00:40:22,075 --> 00:40:24,955 Speaker 1: they put Jay Leno on for a comedy show every 612 00:40:25,075 --> 00:40:31,075 Speaker 1: night at ten pm. The eleventh Prophecy network anticipates government 613 00:40:31,155 --> 00:40:35,355 Speaker 1: deregulation and what it would do to TV. When the 614 00:40:35,475 --> 00:40:38,995 Speaker 1: UVS president objects to a pornographic network news show and 615 00:40:39,075 --> 00:40:43,075 Speaker 1: warrens the FCC had kill us Robert duval as Hackett 616 00:40:43,155 --> 00:40:47,595 Speaker 1: dismisses him and the FCC and foretells the declawing of 617 00:40:47,635 --> 00:40:50,515 Speaker 1: the commission. The FCC can't do anything except wrap our 618 00:40:50,595 --> 00:40:55,075 Speaker 1: knuckles again, does anything the FCC has not done in 619 00:40:55,155 --> 00:41:01,155 Speaker 1: post network television? Need any detail from me? Twelfth news 620 00:41:01,235 --> 00:41:06,115 Speaker 1: commentary devolving into rants and takes? Wait? What did I 621 00:41:06,155 --> 00:41:11,475 Speaker 1: write here? News commentary devolves into rants and takes. I've 622 00:41:11,515 --> 00:41:15,075 Speaker 1: never heard any news commentator ranting what the hell is this? 623 00:41:16,355 --> 00:41:18,395 Speaker 1: The rest of this rant about the relevance of the 624 00:41:18,395 --> 00:41:26,915 Speaker 1: Movie Network. Right after this, before the break, I was 625 00:41:26,915 --> 00:41:30,275 Speaker 1: about halfway through my look at the remarkably prescient nineteen 626 00:41:30,315 --> 00:41:34,155 Speaker 1: seventy six Film Network, which foresaw things we thought impossible then, 627 00:41:34,715 --> 00:41:38,635 Speaker 1: ranging from TV news covering TV news as news, to 628 00:41:38,995 --> 00:41:43,075 Speaker 1: terrorists videotaping their own terror and giving it two newscasts, 629 00:41:43,115 --> 00:41:47,395 Speaker 1: to the twelfth thing that network foretold, the evolution or 630 00:41:47,515 --> 00:41:53,195 Speaker 1: devolution of news commentary into takes and rants. What in 631 00:41:53,315 --> 00:41:56,995 Speaker 1: substance are we proposing, new network chief Hackett asks his 632 00:41:57,235 --> 00:42:00,835 Speaker 1: horrified colleagues. Then he answers his own question, merely to 633 00:42:00,915 --> 00:42:05,075 Speaker 1: add editorial comment to our news show. Brinkley SEVERI reasoner 634 00:42:05,115 --> 00:42:07,995 Speaker 1: all have their comments now, Howard Beale will have his. 635 00:42:09,115 --> 00:42:13,235 Speaker 1: Hackett's erasure of a line between nuanced, thoughtful scripts of 636 00:42:13,235 --> 00:42:17,955 Speaker 1: commentary agonized over by commentators, producers, and executives and ad 637 00:42:18,035 --> 00:42:23,275 Speaker 1: libbed madness foresaw the similar real life change. Not merely 638 00:42:23,315 --> 00:42:26,995 Speaker 1: were comments added to newscasts, but the standards for what 639 00:42:27,115 --> 00:42:31,115 Speaker 1: constituted useful public commentary dropped from an age's old tradition 640 00:42:31,155 --> 00:42:37,035 Speaker 1: of newspaper editorials and columnists to verbal graffiti spontaneously letting 641 00:42:37,035 --> 00:42:42,315 Speaker 1: out his anger. The thirteenth Network prophecy, newscasters and commentators 642 00:42:42,795 --> 00:42:46,035 Speaker 1: never used to claim that God told them what to say. 643 00:42:46,835 --> 00:42:49,755 Speaker 1: Though Beale specifically quotes the voice who tells him to 644 00:42:49,875 --> 00:42:52,355 Speaker 1: tell the people the truth as also saying that that 645 00:42:52,435 --> 00:42:56,195 Speaker 1: voice is not God. Beale still says he feels quote 646 00:42:56,275 --> 00:43:01,635 Speaker 1: imbued and connected to all living things. The leap for 647 00:43:01,755 --> 00:43:07,355 Speaker 1: a commentator from hearing your inner voice to hearing somebody 648 00:43:07,395 --> 00:43:11,195 Speaker 1: else's inner voice was preposterous enough as it was, but 649 00:43:11,355 --> 00:43:14,875 Speaker 1: reality took it further. While Glenn Beck may not have 650 00:43:14,915 --> 00:43:19,155 Speaker 1: claimed God was writing his commentaries for him, in April 651 00:43:19,195 --> 00:43:23,035 Speaker 1: twenty twelve, according to the ut San Diego News, he 652 00:43:23,195 --> 00:43:26,515 Speaker 1: told an audience in Rancho, San Diego that God did 653 00:43:26,715 --> 00:43:29,995 Speaker 1: tell him to quit his job at Fox News Channel. 654 00:43:30,715 --> 00:43:33,355 Speaker 1: On the day he decided to leave, they wrote, Beck 655 00:43:33,435 --> 00:43:35,595 Speaker 1: said he walked up to a floor to ceiling window 656 00:43:35,595 --> 00:43:37,955 Speaker 1: in his New York apartment and asked his wife, how 657 00:43:37,995 --> 00:43:41,555 Speaker 1: could this possibly be God's plan? As I stood there, 658 00:43:41,555 --> 00:43:44,835 Speaker 1: the Lord whispered to me. If you do not leave now, 659 00:43:45,195 --> 00:43:48,155 Speaker 1: you will lose your soul. Beck said it was the 660 00:43:48,235 --> 00:43:52,955 Speaker 1: easiest decision I've ever made. Beck also later announced that 661 00:43:53,035 --> 00:43:56,115 Speaker 1: God not only wantedmit Romney to be president, but had 662 00:43:56,155 --> 00:43:59,275 Speaker 1: put him behind in the polls so that when Romney won, 663 00:43:59,435 --> 00:44:03,035 Speaker 1: everyone would see a modern miracle. Had that one turn 664 00:44:03,035 --> 00:44:07,235 Speaker 1: out for you, Glenn, the fourteenth Network prophecy, Network accurately 665 00:44:07,275 --> 00:44:09,995 Speaker 1: predicted that journalists would stop throwing themselves in front of 666 00:44:09,995 --> 00:44:14,315 Speaker 1: professional train wrecks. The same year that network was released, 667 00:44:14,995 --> 00:44:18,155 Speaker 1: a House committee wanted correspond at Daniel Shore of CBS 668 00:44:18,235 --> 00:44:21,075 Speaker 1: News to testify about where he got a copy of 669 00:44:21,075 --> 00:44:25,915 Speaker 1: a secret report. He refused. CBS pressured him to testify, 670 00:44:26,235 --> 00:44:31,795 Speaker 1: so he quit. He quit his job, but Network foretold 671 00:44:32,235 --> 00:44:34,635 Speaker 1: that Shore would be among the last to do something 672 00:44:34,715 --> 00:44:38,075 Speaker 1: like that. William Holden's Max Schumacher tries to derail the 673 00:44:38,115 --> 00:44:42,155 Speaker 1: Howard Beal Prophecy and Rage newscast by telling Robert Duval's 674 00:44:42,195 --> 00:44:43,915 Speaker 1: Frank Hackett, you want me out of here, You're gonna 675 00:44:43,955 --> 00:44:46,035 Speaker 1: have to drag me out of here, kicking and screaming 676 00:44:46,035 --> 00:44:48,115 Speaker 1: in the whole news division, kicking and screaming with me. 677 00:44:48,955 --> 00:44:52,075 Speaker 1: Hackett dismisses him. You think they're going to quit their 678 00:44:52,155 --> 00:44:55,555 Speaker 1: jobs for you. Not in this recession, buddy. The premise 679 00:44:56,075 --> 00:44:59,675 Speaker 1: of the integrity of news people was as widely held 680 00:44:59,995 --> 00:45:04,155 Speaker 1: as the integrity and inviolability of a news division, and 681 00:45:04,235 --> 00:45:08,715 Speaker 1: yet in each downsizing, redesigning, and bulbliterization of the old 682 00:45:08,755 --> 00:45:14,635 Speaker 1: standard concept of news. Again, Patty Chayevski foresaw correctly the 683 00:45:14,795 --> 00:45:18,915 Speaker 1: number of public protests, let alone public exits, has been 684 00:45:18,955 --> 00:45:23,035 Speaker 1: negligible in the last thirty years. Dan rather railed against 685 00:45:23,075 --> 00:45:26,275 Speaker 1: the gutting of CBS in nineteen eighty seven. That's been 686 00:45:26,315 --> 00:45:28,955 Speaker 1: about it, And for all the other good things Dan 687 00:45:29,035 --> 00:45:34,395 Speaker 1: has done, he didn't quit his job. Fifteenth Network foresaw 688 00:45:34,595 --> 00:45:38,835 Speaker 1: reality television and the staging of news. When Christiansen meets 689 00:45:38,835 --> 00:45:41,955 Speaker 1: with the activist Lorraine Hobbs and her attorneys to program 690 00:45:42,035 --> 00:45:45,595 Speaker 1: their terrorism show, The Moutsay Tongue Hour, she's not merely 691 00:45:45,595 --> 00:45:50,155 Speaker 1: reflecting the coming amorality of reality television, nor just amplifying 692 00:45:50,155 --> 00:45:53,395 Speaker 1: the already extant if it bleeds it leads mantra of 693 00:45:53,475 --> 00:45:57,395 Speaker 1: local news. Through her, Patty Chayevski is also foretelling a 694 00:45:57,475 --> 00:46:01,555 Speaker 1: time when television would begin not to cover the news, 695 00:46:01,595 --> 00:46:04,795 Speaker 1: but to orchestrate it. If the networks have yet to 696 00:46:04,835 --> 00:46:08,595 Speaker 1: actually be guilty of misprision of a penalty regarding terrorists, 697 00:46:08,595 --> 00:46:11,835 Speaker 1: we hope, surely on a lesser scale than nineteen ninety 698 00:46:11,875 --> 00:46:16,195 Speaker 1: two NBC scandal over faked video of Chevy trucks exploding 699 00:46:16,235 --> 00:46:20,315 Speaker 1: after collisions confirms the basic premise of adding programming helper 700 00:46:20,435 --> 00:46:25,075 Speaker 1: to the actual news. Somewhat more remotely. Event recreations were 701 00:46:25,075 --> 00:46:29,275 Speaker 1: once absolutely impermissible in news, they are now one of 702 00:46:29,315 --> 00:46:33,875 Speaker 1: its staples. There are eight more prophecies, and they all 703 00:46:33,915 --> 00:46:38,395 Speaker 1: fall into one category. Howard Beal's revised newscast, The Network 704 00:46:38,435 --> 00:46:41,315 Speaker 1: News Hour, has components in it, eight of them that 705 00:46:41,435 --> 00:46:45,315 Speaker 1: would have been thought absurd in any newscast anywhere the 706 00:46:45,395 --> 00:46:48,315 Speaker 1: day that the Film Network premiered in nineteen seventy six. 707 00:46:48,795 --> 00:46:55,275 Speaker 1: Number one, it has a studio audience. Countless newscasts, particularly 708 00:46:55,275 --> 00:46:59,995 Speaker 1: on cable, have now used studio audiences. MSNBC's Donahue did 709 00:46:59,995 --> 00:47:03,235 Speaker 1: it nightly in two thousand and two two thousand and three. 710 00:47:03,395 --> 00:47:07,115 Speaker 1: Others like Anders Cooper and Chris Matthews and Chris Hayes 711 00:47:07,515 --> 00:47:13,035 Speaker 1: have experimented with it. Number two, predicting the news on 712 00:47:13,155 --> 00:47:18,315 Speaker 1: the Beal Show, Sybil the Soothsayer actually predicts the news. Well, 713 00:47:18,355 --> 00:47:22,395 Speaker 1: nobody has done that yet, not literally. But what does 714 00:47:22,515 --> 00:47:26,435 Speaker 1: every specialty newscast, especially political ones, do in its last 715 00:47:26,475 --> 00:47:30,235 Speaker 1: broadcast before Monday Almost invariably there is some kind of 716 00:47:30,435 --> 00:47:34,275 Speaker 1: prediction or forecast for the week ahead what to look for, 717 00:47:34,795 --> 00:47:38,275 Speaker 1: and if it is not institutionalized in that distinct manner, 718 00:47:38,555 --> 00:47:42,555 Speaker 1: the show still contains pundits who do nothing but forecast 719 00:47:42,635 --> 00:47:46,075 Speaker 1: tomorrow's news. As long ago as nineteen ninety eight, we 720 00:47:46,115 --> 00:47:50,515 Speaker 1: would try on Thursday Night to guests where the Clinton 721 00:47:50,595 --> 00:47:54,075 Speaker 1: Lewinsky story was going and what we could give them 722 00:47:54,435 --> 00:47:58,555 Speaker 1: to put in the prerecorded promos that would run on Monday, 723 00:47:59,595 --> 00:48:04,795 Speaker 1: three days later. Number three Trial Obsessed TV News. There 724 00:48:04,875 --> 00:48:07,915 Speaker 1: is a Howard Beal segment called Jim Webbing and His 725 00:48:08,275 --> 00:48:12,035 Speaker 1: It's the Emis Truth Department. The script is a little vague. 726 00:48:12,075 --> 00:48:15,195 Speaker 1: We don't know. Is the Emis Truth a series of 727 00:48:15,315 --> 00:48:18,915 Speaker 1: hard to believe news stories. Does the giant logo behind 728 00:48:18,995 --> 00:48:22,395 Speaker 1: Jim Webbing of Justice carrying her scales suggests it's a 729 00:48:22,475 --> 00:48:25,155 Speaker 1: regular report on trials and the law. Or is the 730 00:48:25,195 --> 00:48:29,395 Speaker 1: emphasis on Emis as in, you've been lied to. Here's 731 00:48:29,395 --> 00:48:33,555 Speaker 1: the real truth, not the cover up? Which is it? Well? 732 00:48:33,635 --> 00:48:36,595 Speaker 1: Does it matter? Which? Do we not have all of them? 733 00:48:37,315 --> 00:48:44,515 Speaker 1: Concurrently every hour fourth public sexual Scandal coverage. Another Beal 734 00:48:44,595 --> 00:48:47,795 Speaker 1: segment stars Miss Matta Harry and her skeletons in the 735 00:48:47,835 --> 00:48:50,635 Speaker 1: closet and she stands in front of a giant keyhole. 736 00:48:51,355 --> 00:48:54,115 Speaker 1: This is something beyond just gossip, and it has become 737 00:48:54,155 --> 00:48:58,595 Speaker 1: the sustaining joy of all newscasts, from the cheesiest local 738 00:48:58,595 --> 00:49:04,075 Speaker 1: station to PBS the public sex scandal, Asked Bill Clinton, 739 00:49:04,955 --> 00:49:11,195 Speaker 1: ask Madison Cawthorne. Fifth opinion polls, as news Beale has 740 00:49:11,235 --> 00:49:15,235 Speaker 1: a regular segment called vox populi, the calculation and reporting 741 00:49:15,235 --> 00:49:17,995 Speaker 1: a public opinion. This one is the hardest to explain 742 00:49:18,075 --> 00:49:21,155 Speaker 1: to younger viewers of the film network, But the idea 743 00:49:21,235 --> 00:49:26,755 Speaker 1: of running polls, especially polls conducted by the news organization 744 00:49:26,955 --> 00:49:29,795 Speaker 1: that would then televise the results of those polls, was 745 00:49:30,115 --> 00:49:35,035 Speaker 1: laughable when Chayavsky saw it coming. Now, TV news organizations 746 00:49:35,075 --> 00:49:39,875 Speaker 1: like MSNBC will not only employ somewhat reliable polling morning, noon, 747 00:49:39,955 --> 00:49:43,475 Speaker 1: and night, but they'll also employ text polls in which 748 00:49:43,555 --> 00:49:46,875 Speaker 1: viewers are asked if a particular Republican is a evil 749 00:49:47,315 --> 00:49:52,435 Speaker 1: or be just stupid. Moreover, every newscast believes in relies 750 00:49:52,475 --> 00:49:55,355 Speaker 1: on and most of them commission their own polling for 751 00:49:55,515 --> 00:50:00,755 Speaker 1: everything and treats the results as breaking news. Guilty is 752 00:50:00,875 --> 00:50:03,955 Speaker 1: charged here, I did it, then I do it In 753 00:50:03,955 --> 00:50:09,315 Speaker 1: this podcast. At six the corporate influence. Beal opens the 754 00:50:09,315 --> 00:50:12,035 Speaker 1: first edition of The Network News Hour with the death 755 00:50:12,155 --> 00:50:15,595 Speaker 1: of network president Ed Ruddy and the ascent of Frank 756 00:50:15,675 --> 00:50:18,755 Speaker 1: Hackett and the full control of UBS by the company. 757 00:50:18,915 --> 00:50:23,235 Speaker 1: Cca Bal asks, when the twelfth largest company in the 758 00:50:23,235 --> 00:50:26,835 Speaker 1: world controls the most awesome, goddamn propaganda fos in the 759 00:50:26,875 --> 00:50:30,875 Speaker 1: whole godless world, who knows what blank will be pedaled 760 00:50:30,955 --> 00:50:36,155 Speaker 1: for truth on this network? The cross promotion between GE 761 00:50:36,275 --> 00:50:41,155 Speaker 1: and NBC and its various networks and channels, or Universal 762 00:50:41,235 --> 00:50:45,395 Speaker 1: Studios when the former owned the ladder, or between Disney 763 00:50:45,435 --> 00:50:50,635 Speaker 1: Networks and Disney products, ABC, ESPN, the cross quotation of 764 00:50:50,715 --> 00:50:54,595 Speaker 1: one news corp print entity by a news corp broadcast 765 00:50:54,715 --> 00:50:57,835 Speaker 1: entity or Fox News and the like. That was only 766 00:50:57,875 --> 00:51:02,875 Speaker 1: the start. But what is Fox News? What is oa N? 767 00:51:02,995 --> 00:51:06,195 Speaker 1: What is Newsmax? What is a serious coverage of the 768 00:51:06,435 --> 00:51:11,035 Speaker 1: entire big lie about the twenty twenty presidential election? You 769 00:51:11,115 --> 00:51:14,515 Speaker 1: think those are the newscasters thinking all that up? It 770 00:51:14,635 --> 00:51:18,635 Speaker 1: is exactly what Chayevsky had Beale warn of. What if 771 00:51:18,715 --> 00:51:22,755 Speaker 1: the corporations own all the television networks and tell you 772 00:51:23,235 --> 00:51:28,035 Speaker 1: what they the corporations want you to hear seven direct 773 00:51:28,195 --> 00:51:32,795 Speaker 1: involvement of corporate CEOs in news content. Well, I know 774 00:51:32,875 --> 00:51:35,115 Speaker 1: of no meeting in which a real life equivalent to 775 00:51:35,155 --> 00:51:37,755 Speaker 1: the Ned Baity character, one of the great characters in 776 00:51:37,835 --> 00:51:42,355 Speaker 1: motion picture history, Arthur Jensen, preaches fire and brimstone to 777 00:51:42,435 --> 00:51:45,955 Speaker 1: Howard Beale to get him to do what he Jensen wants. 778 00:51:46,675 --> 00:51:51,235 Speaker 1: But I can tell you, without fear of contradiction, as 779 00:51:51,235 --> 00:51:56,755 Speaker 1: a witness to this, that corporate CEOs will tell individual 780 00:51:56,795 --> 00:52:01,075 Speaker 1: newscasters what they want personally, directly and with the threat 781 00:52:01,115 --> 00:52:06,115 Speaker 1: of retribution spoken or otherwise. Just yesterday here I mentioned 782 00:52:06,235 --> 00:52:09,315 Speaker 1: Jeff Immelt, the head of GE in the summer of 783 00:52:09,315 --> 00:52:12,875 Speaker 1: two thousand and nine, during the well publicized GE swoon 784 00:52:13,435 --> 00:52:18,315 Speaker 1: over MSNBC's criticism of Immelt's friends at Fox News. Eventually 785 00:52:18,355 --> 00:52:22,475 Speaker 1: it was all resolved when Immelt had me come up 786 00:52:22,475 --> 00:52:26,555 Speaker 1: to the private GE NBC dining room a top thirty 787 00:52:26,675 --> 00:52:29,475 Speaker 1: Rock in New York City along with NBC President Jeff 788 00:52:29,555 --> 00:52:34,395 Speaker 1: Zucker to hash it all out. This thing lasted two hours. 789 00:52:34,995 --> 00:52:38,115 Speaker 1: When I finally asked Immelt, is this a question of 790 00:52:38,195 --> 00:52:42,035 Speaker 1: never criticizing Fox again? Or how much we criticize Fox? 791 00:52:42,275 --> 00:52:45,715 Speaker 1: He said how much? And I said, well, I can 792 00:52:45,795 --> 00:52:49,595 Speaker 1: do less, and he said, well great, really, then it's resolved. 793 00:52:50,195 --> 00:52:54,395 Speaker 1: Let's eat. And that's when Immelt confirmed that he had 794 00:52:54,435 --> 00:52:57,595 Speaker 1: met on this topic with Rupert Murdoch, the CEO of 795 00:52:57,675 --> 00:53:00,355 Speaker 1: News Corp, and that Jeff Zucker had met with Roger Ales, 796 00:53:00,355 --> 00:53:04,395 Speaker 1: who ran Fox News, to discuss what the Fox Corporation 797 00:53:04,995 --> 00:53:08,515 Speaker 1: and the NBC Corporation would and would not allow their 798 00:53:08,515 --> 00:53:15,595 Speaker 1: television networks to report about each other. Eight Lastly, assassination 799 00:53:17,315 --> 00:53:20,555 Speaker 1: spoiler alert about the movie network. I don't think anybody 800 00:53:20,555 --> 00:53:23,675 Speaker 1: has actually been killed by his own bosses for having 801 00:53:23,755 --> 00:53:28,835 Speaker 1: lousy ratings, but the moral equivalent character assassination of a 802 00:53:28,915 --> 00:53:34,315 Speaker 1: network's own newscasters. That is a regular technique to undermine them, 803 00:53:34,875 --> 00:53:37,795 Speaker 1: to discipline them, to make them more malleable, to get 804 00:53:37,795 --> 00:53:42,395 Speaker 1: away with firing them. In Aaron Sorkin's newsroom, his employers 805 00:53:42,395 --> 00:53:47,555 Speaker 1: were themselves leaking gossip about their newscaster, played by Jeff Daniels, 806 00:53:47,595 --> 00:53:52,075 Speaker 1: to the tabloid newspaper they also owned. But I know 807 00:53:52,155 --> 00:53:54,835 Speaker 1: for a fact that past bosses of mine at NBC 808 00:53:55,355 --> 00:53:57,515 Speaker 1: leaked to The New York Post in hopes of making 809 00:53:57,515 --> 00:54:01,195 Speaker 1: me fear from my job when Current TV tried to 810 00:54:01,195 --> 00:54:03,195 Speaker 1: fire me to get out of having to pay me 811 00:54:03,315 --> 00:54:06,755 Speaker 1: roughly fifteen million dollars. It still owed me. It actually 812 00:54:06,835 --> 00:54:10,675 Speaker 1: hired a former White House spin doctor to make up 813 00:54:10,715 --> 00:54:14,515 Speaker 1: and spread stories with his contacts about me in hopes 814 00:54:14,515 --> 00:54:19,595 Speaker 1: of getting themselves off the financial hook. If you have 815 00:54:19,755 --> 00:54:22,395 Speaker 1: never seen the movie, Network, all that I've been through 816 00:54:22,395 --> 00:54:24,755 Speaker 1: in the last twenty minutes probably makes it sound like 817 00:54:24,795 --> 00:54:29,035 Speaker 1: some sort of drab, almost academic treatise on declining journalistic 818 00:54:29,155 --> 00:54:33,595 Speaker 1: values and personal moral decay. While it's anything but that. 819 00:54:33,675 --> 00:54:38,195 Speaker 1: It is exciting, hilarious, surprising, terrifying, and it's virtually perfect, 820 00:54:38,675 --> 00:54:42,235 Speaker 1: with brilliant acting and a subtle but perceptible sense that 821 00:54:42,355 --> 00:54:45,875 Speaker 1: everybody in the film and everybody watching the film is 822 00:54:46,035 --> 00:54:52,915 Speaker 1: detaching slowly and slowly and more slowly, detaching from reality 823 00:54:52,995 --> 00:54:56,355 Speaker 1: and the reliable world they thought they knew with every 824 00:54:56,395 --> 00:55:00,235 Speaker 1: passing minute of the film. But mostly it's just a 825 00:55:00,275 --> 00:55:04,035 Speaker 1: great flick. If you have not seen it, see it now. 826 00:55:04,795 --> 00:55:07,795 Speaker 1: To paraphries for Finch as be so, turn off this 827 00:55:07,835 --> 00:55:10,875 Speaker 1: podcast and go watch Network. Turn it off now, turn 828 00:55:10,915 --> 00:55:12,955 Speaker 1: it off right now, turn it off and leave it off. 829 00:55:13,075 --> 00:55:14,875 Speaker 1: Turn it off right in the middle of a sentence, 830 00:55:14,875 --> 00:55:31,195 Speaker 1: I'm speaking to you now all right, mus madness, I've 831 00:55:31,195 --> 00:55:33,075 Speaker 1: done all the damage I can do here. Thank you 832 00:55:33,115 --> 00:55:36,635 Speaker 1: for listening, Thank you a lot. Friday's Countdown set a 833 00:55:36,715 --> 00:55:40,955 Speaker 1: record with fifty nine thousand, nine hundred and twenty one downloads. 834 00:55:40,995 --> 00:55:43,915 Speaker 1: We're just under three hundred and seventeen thousand, four hundred 835 00:55:43,915 --> 00:55:47,635 Speaker 1: for the week, and relative to the million a month benchmark, 836 00:55:47,795 --> 00:55:51,235 Speaker 1: March saw this thing downloaded one million, two hundred forty 837 00:55:51,275 --> 00:55:53,715 Speaker 1: six thousand, four hundred and sixty times. And forgive my 838 00:55:53,755 --> 00:55:56,995 Speaker 1: amazement at the numbers. It's nice to have precise, reliable 839 00:55:57,075 --> 00:56:00,195 Speaker 1: numbers rather than the guesswork that is TV ratings. I 840 00:56:00,355 --> 00:56:03,875 Speaker 1: thank you, and my producer me thanks you as well. 841 00:56:04,675 --> 00:56:07,355 Speaker 1: A little more navel gazing. I suspect there will be 842 00:56:07,395 --> 00:56:11,635 Speaker 1: two different editions of this podcast tomorrow, one before and 843 00:56:11,755 --> 00:56:15,515 Speaker 1: one after the indictments. So if you're not subscribed with notifications, 844 00:56:15,555 --> 00:56:19,035 Speaker 1: do that now so you can hear firsthand how badly 845 00:56:19,115 --> 00:56:22,555 Speaker 1: my predictions go. And yes, I will not update the 846 00:56:22,555 --> 00:56:24,835 Speaker 1: whole thing tomorrow, only the first block, but check your 847 00:56:24,835 --> 00:56:28,675 Speaker 1: emails for the update tomorrow. Anyway. Here the credits. Most 848 00:56:28,675 --> 00:56:31,195 Speaker 1: of the music was arranged, produced and performed by Brian 849 00:56:31,275 --> 00:56:34,555 Speaker 1: Ray and John Philip Channel, who are the countdown musical directors. 850 00:56:34,875 --> 00:56:39,195 Speaker 1: All orchestration and keyboards by John Philip Channel, guitars, bass 851 00:56:39,235 --> 00:56:42,755 Speaker 1: and drums by Brian Ray, produced by Tko Brothers. Another 852 00:56:42,795 --> 00:56:46,595 Speaker 1: Beethoven selections have been arranged and performed by No Horns Allowed. 853 00:56:46,955 --> 00:56:50,435 Speaker 1: The sports music is the Olberman theme from ESPN two 854 00:56:50,515 --> 00:56:53,875 Speaker 1: and it was written by Mitch Warren Davis Curtisy, ESPN Inc. 855 00:56:54,315 --> 00:56:57,635 Speaker 1: Musical comments by Nancy Faust. The best baseball stadium organist 856 00:56:57,635 --> 00:57:00,435 Speaker 1: ever our announcer today was Larry David and everything else 857 00:57:00,515 --> 00:57:03,595 Speaker 1: is pretty much my fault. So let's countdown for this, 858 00:57:03,595 --> 00:57:06,635 Speaker 1: the eight hundred and eighteenth day since Donald Trump's first 859 00:57:06,635 --> 00:57:09,955 Speaker 1: attempted coup against the democratically elected government of the United States. 860 00:57:10,395 --> 00:57:15,115 Speaker 1: Arrest him now while we still all right. They are 861 00:57:15,875 --> 00:57:19,355 Speaker 1: arrest him again while we still can. The next scheduled 862 00:57:19,435 --> 00:57:24,475 Speaker 1: countdown is tomorrow, Trump miss day. Till then, I'm Keith Olverman. 863 00:57:24,555 --> 00:57:40,115 Speaker 1: Good morning, good afternoon, good night, and good luck. Countdown 864 00:57:40,155 --> 00:57:43,915 Speaker 1: with Keith Olverman is a production of iHeartRadio. For more 865 00:57:44,035 --> 00:57:48,955 Speaker 1: podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or 866 00:57:48,995 --> 00:57:50,835 Speaker 1: wherever you get your podcasts.