1 00:00:04,835 --> 00:00:23,275 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. I know, 2 00:00:23,515 --> 00:00:28,155 Speaker 1: I know Matt Gates Attorney General. It's appalling, but bluntly, 3 00:00:28,155 --> 00:00:31,755 Speaker 1: I'd rather have somebody stupid like him. And after all, 4 00:00:31,755 --> 00:00:34,595 Speaker 1: there has been an attorney general who went to prison. 5 00:00:35,555 --> 00:00:38,955 Speaker 1: And Trump's plan to adjourn both houses of Congress so 6 00:00:39,035 --> 00:00:43,075 Speaker 1: he can appoint his cabinet without hearings or oversight will 7 00:00:43,115 --> 00:00:45,715 Speaker 1: be a litmus test of whether Republicans are loyal to 8 00:00:45,755 --> 00:00:48,755 Speaker 1: him or the country, and why are we even asking 9 00:00:49,235 --> 00:00:55,395 Speaker 1: that question? They are whores. Every last Republican is a whore. 10 00:00:56,875 --> 00:01:01,835 Speaker 1: Tommy Tuberville announced last night that any Senate Republican who 11 00:01:01,955 --> 00:01:06,915 Speaker 1: votes against Gates stands in Trump's the other Senate Republicans 12 00:01:06,955 --> 00:01:09,795 Speaker 1: will try to get him or her out of the Senate. 13 00:01:10,395 --> 00:01:16,595 Speaker 1: They are whorees. And none of these things was the 14 00:01:16,595 --> 00:01:20,995 Speaker 1: most important event yesterday. By the way, quote I suspect 15 00:01:21,035 --> 00:01:24,595 Speaker 1: I won't be running again, Trump said to his newly 16 00:01:24,635 --> 00:01:30,675 Speaker 1: elected Republican House horror slaves. Unless you say he's good, 17 00:01:30,795 --> 00:01:34,875 Speaker 1: we got to figure something else. And every news organization 18 00:01:35,035 --> 00:01:40,195 Speaker 1: reported Trump was joking and kidding and owning the Libs 19 00:01:40,235 --> 00:01:47,035 Speaker 1: and trolling and spoiler alert he's not he's not kidding. 20 00:01:47,795 --> 00:01:52,955 Speaker 1: He is intending to stay in office indefinitely, and if 21 00:01:52,995 --> 00:01:56,915 Speaker 1: we are nice to him, he will let us elect 22 00:01:57,035 --> 00:02:02,915 Speaker 1: him again. Yesterday, the move to pretend that another amendment 23 00:02:02,955 --> 00:02:06,275 Speaker 1: to the Constitution does not say what it says lurched 24 00:02:06,355 --> 00:02:09,355 Speaker 1: out of the shadows and into the forefront. And now 25 00:02:09,355 --> 00:02:13,195 Speaker 1: Trump is openly inviting his prostitutes to sell this farce 26 00:02:13,275 --> 00:02:15,835 Speaker 1: in public, just as they have been trying to sell 27 00:02:15,835 --> 00:02:18,835 Speaker 1: it in private for two years. And as I've told 28 00:02:18,835 --> 00:02:22,115 Speaker 1: you previously that the two term limit in the twenty 29 00:02:22,155 --> 00:02:27,715 Speaker 1: second Amendment means two consecutive terms, and Trump hasn't had 30 00:02:27,715 --> 00:02:32,555 Speaker 1: two consecutive terms, so he can have a third term. 31 00:02:33,115 --> 00:02:35,995 Speaker 1: Or they make him Speaker of the House and then 32 00:02:36,035 --> 00:02:39,235 Speaker 1: have the elected president and vice president resign and he 33 00:02:39,315 --> 00:02:43,795 Speaker 1: becomes president or or or or in any way, even 34 00:02:43,835 --> 00:02:46,235 Speaker 1: if none of this works, Trump won in a landslide, 35 00:02:46,275 --> 00:02:49,955 Speaker 1: the fiftieth biggest popular vote landslide of all time last week. 36 00:02:50,115 --> 00:02:53,355 Speaker 1: He's the most popular president ever if you look at 37 00:02:53,355 --> 00:02:56,555 Speaker 1: the list from the bottom up. And besides that, what 38 00:02:56,635 --> 00:03:00,115 Speaker 1: about what the great philosopher once said, what can be 39 00:03:00,275 --> 00:03:03,555 Speaker 1: unburdened by what has been? You know, like what has 40 00:03:03,635 --> 00:03:10,675 Speaker 1: been in the Constitution until now, within a span of 41 00:03:10,755 --> 00:03:15,555 Speaker 1: literally fourteen or fifteen hours, the elements necessary for the 42 00:03:15,675 --> 00:03:19,155 Speaker 1: latest Trump coup attempt, the one in which he gets 43 00:03:19,195 --> 00:03:22,755 Speaker 1: to run again in twenty twenty eight, or he's already 44 00:03:22,835 --> 00:03:26,275 Speaker 1: won the twenty twenty eight quote election unquote right now, 45 00:03:26,875 --> 00:03:29,995 Speaker 1: or we just love him so much that we don't 46 00:03:30,195 --> 00:03:33,755 Speaker 1: need another election in twenty twenty eight save the money, 47 00:03:34,515 --> 00:03:38,755 Speaker 1: or maybe, if the timeline gets extra spicy, he uses 48 00:03:38,795 --> 00:03:41,835 Speaker 1: the military to prevent an election in twenty twenty eight. 49 00:03:42,235 --> 00:03:47,155 Speaker 1: All the elements have now come together. This remark about 50 00:03:47,595 --> 00:03:51,955 Speaker 1: I suspect I won't be running again, this seemingly offhand. 51 00:03:52,155 --> 00:03:55,875 Speaker 1: H you know him, he's all he's kidding. He's such 52 00:03:55,915 --> 00:03:58,875 Speaker 1: a kidder. Ask Mike Pence about what a kidder is. 53 00:04:02,195 --> 00:04:07,515 Speaker 1: All that word play follow the betrayal of Ukraine, and 54 00:04:07,635 --> 00:04:11,115 Speaker 1: that had followed the wild card in all this, Secretary 55 00:04:11,155 --> 00:04:17,635 Speaker 1: of Defense designate mister Fox Morning fill In hosts Pete somebody. 56 00:04:18,355 --> 00:04:21,995 Speaker 1: I'll get to him, But first to how many Ukrainians 57 00:04:21,995 --> 00:04:25,715 Speaker 1: did Trump and his cowboy Mike Johnson killed yesterday or 58 00:04:25,755 --> 00:04:30,235 Speaker 1: sentenced to lives as Russian prisoners, all thirty seven million 59 00:04:30,275 --> 00:04:33,435 Speaker 1: of them thirty six million with a million collaborators, the 60 00:04:33,555 --> 00:04:37,675 Speaker 1: Ukrainian equivalents of Maga and Elon Musk. How many more 61 00:04:37,755 --> 00:04:42,075 Speaker 1: polls did Trump just put at risk after Trump's manager 62 00:04:42,115 --> 00:04:46,395 Speaker 1: Putin rolls through Ukraine using troops sent by Trump's boyfriend 63 00:04:46,635 --> 00:04:50,155 Speaker 1: Kim Jong Un? Did he put at risk all thirty 64 00:04:50,155 --> 00:04:53,155 Speaker 1: seven million in Poland? Too? How about the eleven million checks, 65 00:04:53,195 --> 00:04:57,955 Speaker 1: the eighty four million Germans? The insider report from the 66 00:04:58,035 --> 00:05:02,475 Speaker 1: Republican conference before Trump went into see Biden, Quoting the 67 00:05:02,515 --> 00:05:05,875 Speaker 1: New York Times and Annie Karney, speaker Mike Johnson told 68 00:05:05,875 --> 00:05:09,035 Speaker 1: Representative Marjorie Taylor Greeney in the closed door conference meeting 69 00:05:09,035 --> 00:05:12,515 Speaker 1: today that there would be no more money being sent 70 00:05:12,555 --> 00:05:16,155 Speaker 1: to Ukraine. According to two people familiar with the remark, 71 00:05:18,195 --> 00:05:20,675 Speaker 1: I don't know if Mike Johnson is familiar with World 72 00:05:20,755 --> 00:05:24,155 Speaker 1: War Two or the decade which preceded it. He's always 73 00:05:24,155 --> 00:05:27,995 Speaker 1: seemed to me to be an absolute moron. He does 74 00:05:27,995 --> 00:05:30,315 Speaker 1: seem to have no working knowledge of anything that happened 75 00:05:30,315 --> 00:05:34,795 Speaker 1: before Fox News signed on, But Putin figured out as 76 00:05:34,835 --> 00:05:39,315 Speaker 1: Breshnev and Khrushchov and Stalian and Hitler and Napoleon and 77 00:05:39,355 --> 00:05:41,435 Speaker 1: all the other dictators in states that were used to 78 00:05:41,515 --> 00:05:44,515 Speaker 1: dictatorships figured out that the way to stay in power 79 00:05:44,595 --> 00:05:48,115 Speaker 1: for life is to keep your country forever at war, 80 00:05:49,555 --> 00:05:53,475 Speaker 1: but a specific kind of war, a war for territorial gain. 81 00:05:54,395 --> 00:05:59,555 Speaker 1: Not Vietnam but Poland, not Afghanistan but England, not even 82 00:05:59,635 --> 00:06:04,835 Speaker 1: the wastefulness of Iraq, but Ukraine and Trump and by 83 00:06:04,915 --> 00:06:10,835 Speaker 1: Johnson's gonna help. And then when Trump decides he can't 84 00:06:10,955 --> 00:06:14,795 Speaker 1: leave office because the situation in Europe is just too dire? Now, 85 00:06:15,075 --> 00:06:18,835 Speaker 1: how'd that happen? And he alone can prevent World War three, 86 00:06:18,915 --> 00:06:21,515 Speaker 1: which he and his wimpy little minion Johnson have just 87 00:06:21,595 --> 00:06:26,275 Speaker 1: taken several giant steps toward. Or when the money Trump 88 00:06:26,275 --> 00:06:28,795 Speaker 1: took out of Ukraine and promised to spend on the border, 89 00:06:28,955 --> 00:06:31,515 Speaker 1: and yet amazingly it never winds up being spent there 90 00:06:32,435 --> 00:06:34,755 Speaker 1: when that runs out, Whenever the day comes that Trump 91 00:06:34,795 --> 00:06:37,635 Speaker 1: needs some sort of farcical legislation passed through the House 92 00:06:37,795 --> 00:06:39,875 Speaker 1: to enable him to stay in office with or without 93 00:06:39,915 --> 00:06:43,875 Speaker 1: a toothless shadow election in twenty eight, Johnson will pass it. 94 00:06:44,875 --> 00:06:47,275 Speaker 1: Because Johnson is one of those feeble men who have 95 00:06:47,315 --> 00:06:50,195 Speaker 1: figured out that their route to a little power is 96 00:06:50,235 --> 00:06:54,355 Speaker 1: to perpetually kiss the ass of the nearest monster who 97 00:06:54,395 --> 00:06:57,035 Speaker 1: seeks world power, and as we all know, Trump is 98 00:06:57,075 --> 00:07:00,155 Speaker 1: a unique opportunity for the Mike Johnson's of this world. 99 00:07:00,275 --> 00:07:03,395 Speaker 1: He is not only the biggest ass, but he has 100 00:07:03,475 --> 00:07:08,595 Speaker 1: the biggest ass. And Trump, of course, has figured out 101 00:07:08,675 --> 00:07:11,115 Speaker 1: what many of the dictators in countries not used to 102 00:07:11,195 --> 00:07:14,955 Speaker 1: dictatorships have realized, like net and Yahoo has realized in 103 00:07:14,955 --> 00:07:19,675 Speaker 1: the last few years that in these former democracies like 104 00:07:19,715 --> 00:07:25,595 Speaker 1: the United States, you cannot have aggressive wars because your population, 105 00:07:26,995 --> 00:07:29,315 Speaker 1: or you're part of your population the part you need 106 00:07:29,555 --> 00:07:33,795 Speaker 1: as your power base. They actually will ask why is 107 00:07:33,875 --> 00:07:37,915 Speaker 1: my money going to Ukraine rather than to Jeff Bezos 108 00:07:37,915 --> 00:07:44,155 Speaker 1: and Laurence Sanchez. What you need is something local in 109 00:07:44,195 --> 00:07:47,115 Speaker 1: the way of a war that you can call not 110 00:07:47,235 --> 00:07:50,355 Speaker 1: a war but a defensive operation against attack by terrorists 111 00:07:50,355 --> 00:07:53,795 Speaker 1: and other external threats. One type is, well, you know, 112 00:07:53,835 --> 00:07:56,275 Speaker 1: an actual attack like that Net and Yahoo was given 113 00:07:56,315 --> 00:07:59,395 Speaker 1: his on October seventh. The other type takes a little 114 00:07:59,395 --> 00:08:03,995 Speaker 1: more finesse. You must spend years and even decades manufacturing 115 00:08:03,995 --> 00:08:08,075 Speaker 1: an intern threat by an ethnic group that exists largely 116 00:08:08,635 --> 00:08:14,035 Speaker 1: inside your country but combines potentially with others from their 117 00:08:14,115 --> 00:08:17,555 Speaker 1: original country or countries who are masked or ready to 118 00:08:17,715 --> 00:08:20,715 Speaker 1: mass or might be massing, or who you just lie 119 00:08:20,795 --> 00:08:24,995 Speaker 1: and say are massing at you know, your southern border. 120 00:08:26,915 --> 00:08:29,555 Speaker 1: Either way, if there isn't an actual attack, if there's 121 00:08:29,555 --> 00:08:32,115 Speaker 1: no October seventh or nine to eleven with which you 122 00:08:32,195 --> 00:08:35,875 Speaker 1: can defend your country while always threatening your country that 123 00:08:35,875 --> 00:08:41,595 Speaker 1: there's going to be another one, this invented problem becomes 124 00:08:41,635 --> 00:08:46,835 Speaker 1: your war in everything but name Oh, they are here already, 125 00:08:47,395 --> 00:08:50,555 Speaker 1: and they are why you Trump supporter, you are fat 126 00:08:51,555 --> 00:08:54,515 Speaker 1: and don't make enough money. And they are why there 127 00:08:54,555 --> 00:08:57,715 Speaker 1: is any crime at all anywhere. And they have been 128 00:08:57,715 --> 00:09:01,955 Speaker 1: given all these advantages when all the advantages should be 129 00:09:01,995 --> 00:09:09,035 Speaker 1: going to Elon Musk and Joe Rogan. And if you 130 00:09:09,155 --> 00:09:12,995 Speaker 1: exploit this successfully, it is a Swiss army knife of excuses. 131 00:09:13,195 --> 00:09:15,515 Speaker 1: You can use it as a bludgeon against your internal 132 00:09:15,555 --> 00:09:20,075 Speaker 1: political rivals who insists the threat is negligible or better 133 00:09:20,115 --> 00:09:23,395 Speaker 1: still containable and negotiable and solvable. You can use it 134 00:09:24,715 --> 00:09:27,515 Speaker 1: to satisfy the bloodlust and the cruelty of the farm 135 00:09:27,635 --> 00:09:31,235 Speaker 1: animals with thumbs, who are the base of your trumpy 136 00:09:31,315 --> 00:09:35,715 Speaker 1: and support. And you can make it better or make 137 00:09:35,755 --> 00:09:39,475 Speaker 1: it worse, or speed the threat up or slow it 138 00:09:39,555 --> 00:09:42,915 Speaker 1: down as you need to. And the beautiful thing is 139 00:09:42,955 --> 00:09:46,395 Speaker 1: you never actually have to call it a war, and 140 00:09:46,435 --> 00:09:49,315 Speaker 1: you never ever have to solve it. And if you 141 00:09:49,355 --> 00:09:52,755 Speaker 1: have any doubts about that, remember when Trump came down 142 00:09:52,835 --> 00:09:55,635 Speaker 1: that escalator in his building, the one that usually malfunctions. 143 00:09:55,675 --> 00:09:57,275 Speaker 1: I know, I used to live in a Trump building. 144 00:09:57,755 --> 00:10:00,115 Speaker 1: When he did that, it insisted that all the Mexican 145 00:10:00,155 --> 00:10:03,595 Speaker 1: immigrants were bringing drugs and bringing crime and were rapists, 146 00:10:03,635 --> 00:10:05,755 Speaker 1: and it was a crisis and the country was dying 147 00:10:05,795 --> 00:10:07,715 Speaker 1: and it had to be dealt with immediately. That is 148 00:10:07,755 --> 00:10:12,395 Speaker 1: now three four hundred and forty days ago. And if 149 00:10:12,435 --> 00:10:16,075 Speaker 1: there is anything Trump has ever done better than sharpen 150 00:10:16,195 --> 00:10:18,875 Speaker 1: the knife edge of hatred in this country into his 151 00:10:18,915 --> 00:10:22,515 Speaker 1: own personal shive with which to eventually kill us all. 152 00:10:23,195 --> 00:10:25,955 Speaker 1: If he's ever done anything better than that, it's to 153 00:10:26,035 --> 00:10:30,355 Speaker 1: make sure that nothing could have happened in those three 154 00:10:30,755 --> 00:10:33,595 Speaker 1: four hundred and forty days, to make sure that this 155 00:10:33,675 --> 00:10:43,635 Speaker 1: alleged imminent, overnight existential crisis was resolved. For nine and 156 00:10:43,755 --> 00:10:48,955 Speaker 1: a half years, the immigrants have been ready to destroy 157 00:10:49,075 --> 00:10:54,155 Speaker 1: the country tomorrow for nine and a half years. America 158 00:10:55,355 --> 00:10:59,955 Speaker 1: was going to end tomorrow for nine and a half years. 159 00:11:00,395 --> 00:11:06,875 Speaker 1: Trump was going to fix it tomorrow. We have always 160 00:11:06,955 --> 00:11:19,795 Speaker 1: been at war with East Asia. The other part about 161 00:11:19,835 --> 00:11:22,355 Speaker 1: this about Trump murdering everybody in Ukraine so we can 162 00:11:22,395 --> 00:11:24,875 Speaker 1: make a big show of sending all the Ukraine money 163 00:11:24,915 --> 00:11:27,555 Speaker 1: to fend off those nasty immigrants who have a lower 164 00:11:27,595 --> 00:11:29,395 Speaker 1: crime rate than the people who were born here and 165 00:11:29,395 --> 00:11:32,275 Speaker 1: who only pay into our social safety net and almost 166 00:11:32,355 --> 00:11:35,395 Speaker 1: never take anything out of it. And there's Mike Johnson 167 00:11:35,395 --> 00:11:37,075 Speaker 1: in the back trying to be seen over the heads 168 00:11:37,115 --> 00:11:42,155 Speaker 1: of the adults, saying, remember, I helped, I helped. The 169 00:11:42,235 --> 00:11:44,275 Speaker 1: other part about this is that if you want to 170 00:11:44,315 --> 00:11:48,275 Speaker 1: dial the Trump crisis machine up to maximum, you can't 171 00:11:48,355 --> 00:11:52,875 Speaker 1: use as your excuse something like Ukraine or Poland or Europe. 172 00:11:53,555 --> 00:11:57,035 Speaker 1: Those places don't exist to the people in the Trump cult. 173 00:11:57,515 --> 00:12:05,075 Speaker 1: Europe what part of Arkansas's Europe? In whyat Europe? But 174 00:12:05,995 --> 00:12:10,075 Speaker 1: you can use Mexico. Even these people pretty much know 175 00:12:10,155 --> 00:12:15,795 Speaker 1: where Mexico is. And you can say Steven Miller, new 176 00:12:15,875 --> 00:12:18,075 Speaker 1: Deputy White House Chief of Staff in charge of stoking 177 00:12:18,155 --> 00:12:20,995 Speaker 1: up fears of a zombie apocalypse, Stephen Miller wants to 178 00:12:20,995 --> 00:12:24,875 Speaker 1: say it at noon on January twentieth. It seems like 179 00:12:24,955 --> 00:12:28,435 Speaker 1: Trump's other monsters will want to wait until it's more 180 00:12:28,755 --> 00:12:32,315 Speaker 1: strategically useful, like if he lives long enough to try 181 00:12:32,315 --> 00:12:37,235 Speaker 1: to subvert the Constitution again and stay in office. Well 182 00:12:37,395 --> 00:12:40,555 Speaker 1: you say, then, Well, now, these dirty brown migrants pose 183 00:12:40,595 --> 00:12:42,995 Speaker 1: an existential threat to the nation, and that's why we 184 00:12:43,035 --> 00:12:45,875 Speaker 1: have an insurrection acted. Guess what. The presidents can do 185 00:12:45,995 --> 00:12:49,275 Speaker 1: anything he wants now, and he wants army tanks running 186 00:12:49,275 --> 00:12:52,395 Speaker 1: down the FDR Drive in New York, an Upper Whacker 187 00:12:52,515 --> 00:12:55,995 Speaker 1: Drive in Chicago, and on every major street in Washington 188 00:12:56,035 --> 00:12:59,795 Speaker 1: to show those Democrats whose boss. And of course he 189 00:12:59,875 --> 00:13:02,355 Speaker 1: has to have somebody at the Pentagon who won't say 190 00:13:02,755 --> 00:13:06,875 Speaker 1: f this, and who will in fact send out those tanks. 191 00:13:08,475 --> 00:13:12,075 Speaker 1: But the real Pentagon leader would be the one who 192 00:13:12,115 --> 00:13:14,995 Speaker 1: would send the tanks to the White House and surround 193 00:13:14,995 --> 00:13:20,275 Speaker 1: it until Trump and the Administration's surrender. The guy who 194 00:13:20,315 --> 00:13:24,875 Speaker 1: will not do that is named Pete heg Seth. In 195 00:13:24,915 --> 00:13:29,995 Speaker 1: his administration, Abraham Lincoln, as Doris Kerns Goodwin memorably wrote, 196 00:13:30,035 --> 00:13:35,035 Speaker 1: assembled a team of rivals in his administration. Trump instead 197 00:13:35,155 --> 00:13:40,715 Speaker 1: is assembling a team of trifles, non entities with no experience, 198 00:13:40,755 --> 00:13:43,195 Speaker 1: no brains, no common sense, nothing in their closets but 199 00:13:43,235 --> 00:13:47,595 Speaker 1: skeleton after skeleton after skeleton, and absolutely no redeeming value 200 00:13:47,595 --> 00:13:53,915 Speaker 1: except loyalty. Loyalty to him. Sometimes to putin depends on 201 00:13:53,915 --> 00:13:57,515 Speaker 1: who we're talking about. I mean, as the former managing 202 00:13:57,635 --> 00:14:00,875 Speaker 1: editor of Stars and Stripes, Earl Stevens wrote, Pete heg 203 00:14:00,955 --> 00:14:04,435 Speaker 1: Seth is on Fox News for hours at a stretch. 204 00:14:05,115 --> 00:14:09,755 Speaker 1: Fox News is on at military basis for hours at 205 00:14:09,795 --> 00:14:14,755 Speaker 1: a stretch, like twenty four to seven. The troops and 206 00:14:14,795 --> 00:14:18,195 Speaker 1: the lower command ranks know him and watch him and 207 00:14:18,275 --> 00:14:20,875 Speaker 1: think he's one of them, even though he has insisted 208 00:14:20,875 --> 00:14:24,155 Speaker 1: it is wrong for military veterans to take all the 209 00:14:24,195 --> 00:14:26,595 Speaker 1: government benefits they are entitled to after we damn near 210 00:14:26,635 --> 00:14:30,115 Speaker 1: got them killed. So we know to whom Pete Hegseth 211 00:14:30,355 --> 00:14:34,635 Speaker 1: is loyal. He is loyal to Pete Hegseth. So when 212 00:14:34,675 --> 00:14:36,915 Speaker 1: the time comes and the order is given to fire 213 00:14:36,995 --> 00:14:41,715 Speaker 1: on I don't know, the next women's march or a 214 00:14:41,755 --> 00:14:46,675 Speaker 1: prayer service somewhere, maybe maybe some of the troops will 215 00:14:46,675 --> 00:14:49,355 Speaker 1: be hesitant to do it. Say nothing of many of 216 00:14:49,395 --> 00:14:53,795 Speaker 1: the commanders. But the ones who are Fox fans, the 217 00:14:53,795 --> 00:14:57,395 Speaker 1: ones who watch Pete Hegseth, who will still be on 218 00:14:57,435 --> 00:14:59,795 Speaker 1: Fox News every week. But now he'd be wearing a 219 00:14:59,795 --> 00:15:02,555 Speaker 1: big hat. It makes him look like a chess piece, 220 00:15:02,875 --> 00:15:05,715 Speaker 1: like one of Kim John UN's general When they hear 221 00:15:05,755 --> 00:15:09,035 Speaker 1: it's Pete telling them to go fire on their neighbors, 222 00:15:09,355 --> 00:15:14,875 Speaker 1: they'll do it. And there's your trifecta. Eliminate or get 223 00:15:14,955 --> 00:15:18,675 Speaker 1: the Supreme Court to reinterpret the twenty second Amendment to 224 00:15:18,875 --> 00:15:21,395 Speaker 1: give Trump a third term or fourth or fifth or 225 00:15:21,395 --> 00:15:25,235 Speaker 1: however long he lives, pull out of Ukraine and showily 226 00:15:25,475 --> 00:15:27,755 Speaker 1: throw the money at the border with no desire or 227 00:15:27,795 --> 00:15:31,155 Speaker 1: even thought of resolving anything at the border if there 228 00:15:31,235 --> 00:15:34,075 Speaker 1: is anything at the border to resolve. And then, finally, 229 00:15:34,075 --> 00:15:37,475 Speaker 1: if anybody objects, Secretary of Defense hag Seth will order 230 00:15:37,515 --> 00:16:10,915 Speaker 1: them shot by troops on American streets because America f Yeah. 231 00:16:11,475 --> 00:16:15,715 Speaker 1: You will notice that the actual support right now anyway 232 00:16:15,875 --> 00:16:19,555 Speaker 1: for turning this country into a military dictatorship run by 233 00:16:19,635 --> 00:16:24,915 Speaker 1: Trump is very loud, but very thin, so thin that 234 00:16:24,955 --> 00:16:28,235 Speaker 1: despite all the military psychos on Fox News who support 235 00:16:28,275 --> 00:16:31,195 Speaker 1: old man bullshit and would like nothing better than to 236 00:16:31,315 --> 00:16:34,875 Speaker 1: strafe their domestic critics, Trump still could not find one 237 00:16:34,955 --> 00:16:38,475 Speaker 1: of the weekday Fox psychos to do it. He had 238 00:16:38,475 --> 00:16:41,795 Speaker 1: to go to the backup green room to get this 239 00:16:41,955 --> 00:16:44,995 Speaker 1: idiot Hegseth, who once boasted that he hadn't washed his 240 00:16:45,075 --> 00:16:51,675 Speaker 1: hands in ten years. Obviously, the less qualified, the less prominent, 241 00:16:51,715 --> 00:16:54,115 Speaker 1: the less intelligent somebody is, the better it is for Trump. 242 00:16:54,915 --> 00:17:00,115 Speaker 1: Heg Seth will get the office in the Pentagon. Yeah, 243 00:17:00,155 --> 00:17:04,035 Speaker 1: they might eat them alive, but probably not because Trump 244 00:17:04,035 --> 00:17:06,715 Speaker 1: will be the defacto Secretary of Defense and will be 245 00:17:06,835 --> 00:17:10,715 Speaker 1: seen as such. He may even get a big hat too. 246 00:17:12,395 --> 00:17:17,395 Speaker 1: The latest of all of these other yeah, you have 247 00:17:17,435 --> 00:17:21,115 Speaker 1: the job, I have the responsibility. The latest of these 248 00:17:21,195 --> 00:17:25,195 Speaker 1: are Attorney General matt The FBI division investigating underage sex 249 00:17:25,275 --> 00:17:29,315 Speaker 1: is hereby disbanded Gates. The apparent would be Director of 250 00:17:29,395 --> 00:17:34,155 Speaker 1: National Intelligence Tulsey Gabbard, which confirms that the term intelligence 251 00:17:34,315 --> 00:17:38,555 Speaker 1: has been reduced to a brand name. There's Christy Nome, 252 00:17:39,115 --> 00:17:42,115 Speaker 1: Director of Homeland Security, who will ensure we are all 253 00:17:42,195 --> 00:17:45,995 Speaker 1: safe from any harmless household pets. She feels like murdering 254 00:17:47,155 --> 00:17:51,315 Speaker 1: Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who was apparently shifted over 255 00:17:51,355 --> 00:17:55,955 Speaker 1: at the last moment from being Secretary of Combovers borders 256 00:17:55,995 --> 00:17:59,635 Speaker 1: are Tom Hoeman, and you have to go no further 257 00:17:59,715 --> 00:18:01,995 Speaker 1: than the first syllable of his last name to understand 258 00:18:01,995 --> 00:18:07,435 Speaker 1: Tom Homan Ambassadors to Israel, Mike Huckabee, who believes there 259 00:18:07,475 --> 00:18:10,395 Speaker 1: is no West Bank. So congrats to anybody who didn't 260 00:18:10,515 --> 00:18:13,435 Speaker 1: vote for Harris to teach the Dems a lesson about 261 00:18:13,515 --> 00:18:18,955 Speaker 1: Gaza EPA administrator Lee Zelden so incompetent he couldn't even 262 00:18:18,995 --> 00:18:22,115 Speaker 1: beat this idiot. Kathy hokel out for Governor New York 263 00:18:22,835 --> 00:18:27,195 Speaker 1: and of course Musk and Ramaswamy as bosses of the 264 00:18:27,235 --> 00:18:31,875 Speaker 1: new Department of Government Efficiency such efficiency, miles and miles 265 00:18:31,915 --> 00:18:35,235 Speaker 1: of efficiency, so efficient that, as has been widely noted, 266 00:18:35,635 --> 00:18:38,915 Speaker 1: this new department cannot get by with one boss. It 267 00:18:39,075 --> 00:18:47,515 Speaker 1: needs two. Then there's Press Secretary Politico Caroline Levitt, Elina Haba, 268 00:18:47,835 --> 00:18:54,555 Speaker 1: Monica Crowley, Sage Steele, Scott Jennings, and Elizabeth Pipcoh are 269 00:18:54,635 --> 00:18:57,195 Speaker 1: possibilities for the White House Press Secretary as the Trump 270 00:18:57,195 --> 00:19:03,675 Speaker 1: team considers credentially more partisan Maga outlets Axios reports. But 271 00:19:03,915 --> 00:19:08,555 Speaker 1: they're all MAGA outwits. I used to work with Monica Crowley, 272 00:19:09,115 --> 00:19:13,675 Speaker 1: she's gone full Nazi too. But my god, Caroline Levitt, 273 00:19:13,715 --> 00:19:21,555 Speaker 1: Alena Haba, Monica Crowley, Sage Steal, Sage fing Steele. My 274 00:19:22,315 --> 00:19:26,675 Speaker 1: briefly SportsCenter co anchor, who would first have to get 275 00:19:26,755 --> 00:19:31,435 Speaker 1: up and criticize her own appointment cause DEI, and then, 276 00:19:31,475 --> 00:19:33,075 Speaker 1: of course she would run the risk of being the 277 00:19:33,115 --> 00:19:37,035 Speaker 1: first Press secretary ever to accidentally electrocute herself while adjusting 278 00:19:37,075 --> 00:19:42,115 Speaker 1: the podium microphone. I mean, the alert hit my phone 279 00:19:42,195 --> 00:19:45,755 Speaker 1: about that Air National guardsman going to prison for fifteen 280 00:19:45,875 --> 00:19:50,715 Speaker 1: years for perloining classified material one day at the office, 281 00:19:50,795 --> 00:19:55,075 Speaker 1: and I read Jack to shera is and I just 282 00:19:55,155 --> 00:19:58,435 Speaker 1: assume the rest of it. Was appointed by Trump as 283 00:19:58,475 --> 00:20:04,555 Speaker 1: his liaison to the National Archives. Media coverage of all this, 284 00:20:06,115 --> 00:20:10,995 Speaker 1: Chuck Todd, quote, these confirmation hearings may just save cable 285 00:20:11,035 --> 00:20:15,315 Speaker 1: TV for the short term. Unquote ps number one, despite 286 00:20:15,355 --> 00:20:19,075 Speaker 1: your best efforts to destroy cable TV, Chuck, PS Number two. 287 00:20:20,035 --> 00:20:23,155 Speaker 1: Trump doesn't want any hearings, numb nuts. That's the point 288 00:20:23,155 --> 00:20:26,155 Speaker 1: of a dictatorship that you still don't see and won't 289 00:20:26,195 --> 00:20:29,515 Speaker 1: see coming, because, frankly, Chuck, you're too stupid to believe 290 00:20:29,555 --> 00:20:34,115 Speaker 1: anything that hasn't happened before might happen now. When the 291 00:20:34,155 --> 00:20:37,155 Speaker 1: president is a treason his criminal who needs to stay 292 00:20:37,195 --> 00:20:40,115 Speaker 1: in power until he dies or he goes to jail. 293 00:20:40,835 --> 00:20:44,675 Speaker 1: What this just in, Chuck, Todd is the new Trump 294 00:20:44,675 --> 00:20:53,835 Speaker 1: White House Director of Communications. I'm making that up. I think, yeah, 295 00:20:53,875 --> 00:20:56,195 Speaker 1: it sounds like they're just trolling us at this point, 296 00:20:56,275 --> 00:20:59,435 Speaker 1: but they're not. There is a through line in all 297 00:20:59,475 --> 00:21:04,355 Speaker 1: of them dates heg Seth, Gabbard, Gnome home Man, rubio 298 00:21:04,555 --> 00:21:09,875 Speaker 1: Z Helden, Huckabee, musk Ramaswami. There's a through line besides 299 00:21:09,915 --> 00:21:11,835 Speaker 1: the fact that they could have just as easily been 300 00:21:11,875 --> 00:21:15,435 Speaker 1: the cast of the next season of Dancing with the Stars. 301 00:21:17,075 --> 00:21:21,115 Speaker 1: They are all idiots who think they are geniuses. And 302 00:21:21,115 --> 00:21:23,875 Speaker 1: they not only would never think to not do something 303 00:21:23,915 --> 00:21:27,355 Speaker 1: Trump told them to do, they would never think of 304 00:21:27,595 --> 00:21:32,635 Speaker 1: something that Trump didn't tell them first. They are utterly 305 00:21:32,995 --> 00:21:37,795 Speaker 1: empty vessels chosen so Trump can say I think you 306 00:21:37,835 --> 00:21:40,555 Speaker 1: should do this to this guy, and they can say, 307 00:21:40,555 --> 00:21:42,835 Speaker 1: and believe, I just thought of this to do to 308 00:21:42,875 --> 00:21:50,075 Speaker 1: that guy. And when the migrants or Democrats or reporters 309 00:21:50,195 --> 00:21:53,035 Speaker 1: or whichever protesters are bleeding on the streets of an 310 00:21:53,035 --> 00:21:57,475 Speaker 1: American city start bleeding, Trump can say, I had nothing 311 00:21:57,515 --> 00:22:10,195 Speaker 1: to do with this. That was Tulsey's idea. All the 312 00:22:10,275 --> 00:22:15,595 Speaker 1: evidence suggests that the insane Roman emperor Caligula did not 313 00:22:15,795 --> 00:22:22,715 Speaker 1: actually name his beloved racehorse in Catatas as consul, consul 314 00:22:22,795 --> 00:22:24,875 Speaker 1: being one of the two official leaders of the Roman 315 00:22:24,915 --> 00:22:29,915 Speaker 1: state below only the emperor to consuls. So Pete Hegseth 316 00:22:30,035 --> 00:22:32,795 Speaker 1: is safe. He's actually not the worst political appointment since 317 00:22:32,875 --> 00:22:36,875 Speaker 1: a horse. But there's also evidence that Caligula did say 318 00:22:36,915 --> 00:22:43,515 Speaker 1: he intended to name Incatatas a consul to comment on 319 00:22:43,675 --> 00:22:46,995 Speaker 1: and criticize and mock the consuls who were already in office, 320 00:22:47,035 --> 00:22:49,555 Speaker 1: and in fact to mock all the Roman senators, and 321 00:22:49,795 --> 00:22:53,355 Speaker 1: even perhaps to mock other members of his own royal family. 322 00:22:54,115 --> 00:22:56,155 Speaker 1: This would have happened in the year forty or forty 323 00:22:56,195 --> 00:23:00,075 Speaker 1: one AD, and then on January twenty fourth, forty one, 324 00:23:00,755 --> 00:23:04,635 Speaker 1: Caligula was assassinated by a bunch of angry Roman generals 325 00:23:04,715 --> 00:23:10,875 Speaker 1: and government leaders who just had an effing enough of him. So, 326 00:23:11,635 --> 00:23:15,235 Speaker 1: in some having cleared up the Caligular history, if you 327 00:23:15,315 --> 00:23:19,395 Speaker 1: think that Gates hag Seth g Nome, especially that very 328 00:23:19,435 --> 00:23:23,675 Speaker 1: poor advertisement for her own intelligence department, Gabbard. If with 329 00:23:23,755 --> 00:23:28,515 Speaker 1: them you think Trump is just trolling us, remember Caligula's horse, 330 00:23:30,315 --> 00:23:34,195 Speaker 1: because there is no way that caligulous horse in Catatis 331 00:23:35,475 --> 00:23:42,275 Speaker 1: would have opened fire on Roman citizens. Oh, Pete hegseth. 332 00:23:42,355 --> 00:23:55,195 Speaker 1: Will one last thing. Trump went to the White House 333 00:23:55,275 --> 00:23:59,115 Speaker 1: yesterday and in the public photo op, President Biden emphasized 334 00:23:59,155 --> 00:24:03,075 Speaker 1: that there will be a peaceful transfer of power. And 335 00:24:03,155 --> 00:24:07,075 Speaker 1: I have two questions for you to ponder. The first 336 00:24:07,155 --> 00:24:14,195 Speaker 1: question is why did Biden say that? The second question 337 00:24:14,315 --> 00:24:18,995 Speaker 1: is do you think President James Buchanan said something like 338 00:24:19,035 --> 00:24:28,795 Speaker 1: that to President elect Lincoln in eighteen sixty? So good news? 339 00:24:29,315 --> 00:24:33,235 Speaker 1: You want good news? Hang on a second, let's have 340 00:24:33,355 --> 00:24:35,955 Speaker 1: some good news. Here's somewhere. Oh wait a minute, how 341 00:24:35,955 --> 00:24:38,435 Speaker 1: about the continuing signs that the man who may do 342 00:24:38,515 --> 00:24:41,675 Speaker 1: the most to make sure Trump's presidency is a disaster 343 00:24:42,835 --> 00:24:47,915 Speaker 1: and he leaves not late but early, is Putin? Or 344 00:24:47,915 --> 00:24:53,475 Speaker 1: maybe it's Steve Bannon. There is already infighting inside the 345 00:24:53,675 --> 00:25:00,515 Speaker 1: Trump dictatorship. Plus there's Newsy Olivia Newsy News. That's next. 346 00:25:00,595 --> 00:25:05,515 Speaker 1: This is an all new edition of Countdown. This is 347 00:25:05,675 --> 00:25:19,235 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olberman. Postscripts to the news, some headlines, 348 00:25:19,315 --> 00:25:23,395 Speaker 1: some updates, some snark. This is the Countdown podcast. And 349 00:25:23,515 --> 00:25:28,195 Speaker 1: these are the places where there's news. Dateline Washington Special 350 00:25:28,275 --> 00:25:34,715 Speaker 1: counsel Jack Smith. He tried, thousands, didn't will beat Trump, 351 00:25:34,795 --> 00:25:39,235 Speaker 1: at least in small letters Smith will resign and end 352 00:25:39,235 --> 00:25:44,075 Speaker 1: the federal cases against Trump and release a report about 353 00:25:44,115 --> 00:25:48,555 Speaker 1: the insurrection prosecution? What is in the report? To what 354 00:25:48,675 --> 00:25:51,835 Speaker 1: lengths will Trump go to try to stop its publication? 355 00:25:52,715 --> 00:25:58,115 Speaker 1: A reminder to President Biden, just release the effing thing. 356 00:25:58,715 --> 00:26:04,595 Speaker 1: You cannot be prosecuted. You have presidential immunity. As to 357 00:26:04,795 --> 00:26:07,875 Speaker 1: the Florida case, the Biden DOJ may have seeded the 358 00:26:07,875 --> 00:26:12,635 Speaker 1: clouds exactly right. They can continue to appeal Trump Concierge 359 00:26:12,795 --> 00:26:16,875 Speaker 1: Judge Eileen Cannon's decision to throw out the entire you know, 360 00:26:17,435 --> 00:26:22,395 Speaker 1: espionage and stealing classified documents case, because let's think of 361 00:26:22,435 --> 00:26:26,915 Speaker 1: something special prosecutors aren't legal, except if they're going after Democrats. 362 00:26:27,675 --> 00:26:31,075 Speaker 1: They can continue if they drop Trump as a co 363 00:26:31,195 --> 00:26:34,995 Speaker 1: defendant and only continue to appeal her decision and only 364 00:26:35,035 --> 00:26:39,275 Speaker 1: continue to go after his co weaseles Walt Nauda and 365 00:26:39,355 --> 00:26:45,875 Speaker 1: Carlos di OLIVERA dateline moscow boy Putin just continues to 366 00:26:45,995 --> 00:26:48,795 Speaker 1: signal that what Trump thinks he's going to do to America, 367 00:26:48,915 --> 00:26:52,675 Speaker 1: Putin has already done it to Trump yesterday afternoon and 368 00:26:52,795 --> 00:26:57,475 Speaker 1: with ear muffs. Remember the claim that after Putin stiffed 369 00:26:57,555 --> 00:27:00,475 Speaker 1: Trump and did not call him after election night, Remember 370 00:27:00,515 --> 00:27:03,995 Speaker 1: the claim that they finally had talked. The Kremlin is 371 00:27:04,035 --> 00:27:08,955 Speaker 1: denying that. Spokesman Dmitri Peskov told the BBC there has 372 00:27:09,035 --> 00:27:12,595 Speaker 1: been no phone call. Quote. It doesn't correspond at all 373 00:27:12,715 --> 00:27:16,795 Speaker 1: to reality. It's completely made up. Its false information. There 374 00:27:16,915 --> 00:27:22,075 Speaker 1: was no conversation. More interestingly, from tasks the Russian State 375 00:27:22,155 --> 00:27:25,915 Speaker 1: propaganda agency the headline Trump to rely on forces that 376 00:27:25,995 --> 00:27:30,955 Speaker 1: brought him to power. Russian Presidential aid Nikolai Patrushev agreed 377 00:27:30,995 --> 00:27:33,675 Speaker 1: that Trump, when he was still a candidate, made many 378 00:27:33,715 --> 00:27:37,075 Speaker 1: statements critical of the destructive foreign and domestic policies pursued 379 00:27:37,235 --> 00:27:41,235 Speaker 1: by the current administration. In his future policies, including those 380 00:27:41,275 --> 00:27:43,955 Speaker 1: on the Russian track, US president elect Trump will rely 381 00:27:44,035 --> 00:27:48,475 Speaker 1: on the commitments to the forces that brought him to power, 382 00:27:49,275 --> 00:27:53,715 Speaker 1: rather than on election pledges, Russian Presidential aid Nikolai Patrushkaev 383 00:27:53,835 --> 00:27:57,875 Speaker 1: told the Daily Commerceant in an interview. The election campaign 384 00:27:57,995 --> 00:28:01,835 Speaker 1: is over, Patrushev noted, to achieve success in the election, 385 00:28:01,915 --> 00:28:06,475 Speaker 1: Donald Trump relied on certain force to which he has 386 00:28:06,835 --> 00:28:12,395 Speaker 1: corresponding obligations. As a responsible person, he will be obligated 387 00:28:12,875 --> 00:28:17,355 Speaker 1: to fulfill them. Well, you know, we've never actually seen 388 00:28:17,395 --> 00:28:21,355 Speaker 1: a Russian dictator who owns his own American president, telling 389 00:28:21,435 --> 00:28:24,555 Speaker 1: him in slightly veiled language that there are a hell 390 00:28:24,595 --> 00:28:26,835 Speaker 1: of a lot of windows in Washington and that if 391 00:28:26,835 --> 00:28:28,915 Speaker 1: he doesn't do what he's told, he might be pushed 392 00:28:28,955 --> 00:28:31,795 Speaker 1: out one of them. But that sure sounds like that 393 00:28:32,195 --> 00:28:40,835 Speaker 1: relied on certain forces. What forces? Oh, Kremlin forces? Eight 394 00:28:40,955 --> 00:28:43,755 Speaker 1: line Mari Lago. Guess who's already up the creek in 395 00:28:43,835 --> 00:28:49,595 Speaker 1: the Trump Meyer Elon Elmo. It was apparently him who 396 00:28:49,635 --> 00:28:52,835 Speaker 1: told everybody that he was on the call between Trump 397 00:28:52,915 --> 00:28:57,315 Speaker 1: and President Zelenski. Turns out, per Politico, Musk happen to 398 00:28:57,355 --> 00:29:00,795 Speaker 1: be in the room with Trump when the call came through. 399 00:29:01,515 --> 00:29:05,035 Speaker 1: To quote the entirety of the Politico report about Dusk's 400 00:29:05,115 --> 00:29:09,555 Speaker 1: future or non future with Trump, Musk is quote starting 401 00:29:09,595 --> 00:29:12,475 Speaker 1: to wear out his welcome with some in Trump's orbit. 402 00:29:12,875 --> 00:29:16,235 Speaker 1: After initially making a huge splash with his endorsement made 403 00:29:16,275 --> 00:29:19,675 Speaker 1: just moments after the July attempt on Trump's life, some 404 00:29:19,755 --> 00:29:24,155 Speaker 1: insiders now say he's become almost a comical distraction, no 405 00:29:25,595 --> 00:29:29,995 Speaker 1: hanging around marri A Lago, sidling into high level transition meetings, 406 00:29:30,155 --> 00:29:35,915 Speaker 1: and giving unsolicited feedback on Trump's personnel decisions. Quote Elon 407 00:29:36,235 --> 00:29:40,955 Speaker 1: is getting a little big for his breeches. One insider 408 00:29:41,115 --> 00:29:47,835 Speaker 1: tells Playbook what Elon too big for his breeches? Mister Musk, 409 00:29:48,755 --> 00:29:53,395 Speaker 1: time for more ozempic Dateline the wag House. You know 410 00:29:53,435 --> 00:29:57,315 Speaker 1: who else is onto Elon Musk? Steve Bannon is onto him, 411 00:29:57,875 --> 00:30:02,795 Speaker 1: so he Musk tweeted out something, I used to think 412 00:30:02,875 --> 00:30:05,795 Speaker 1: Bannon was smart and evil. Now a think he's evil. 413 00:30:06,155 --> 00:30:10,675 Speaker 1: Steve Bannon retweeted it, this is on what It's the truth, truth, 414 00:30:10,795 --> 00:30:13,555 Speaker 1: whatever the name of Trump's social media platform is. So 415 00:30:14,355 --> 00:30:16,835 Speaker 1: Musk is quoted as saying, I used to think Bannon 416 00:30:16,955 --> 00:30:18,995 Speaker 1: was smart and evil. Now I think he's just or 417 00:30:19,115 --> 00:30:22,915 Speaker 1: now I think he's just evil. And Bannon said, smart 418 00:30:22,995 --> 00:30:25,755 Speaker 1: enough to turn you down to your face every time 419 00:30:25,795 --> 00:30:28,235 Speaker 1: you came to the White House for a taxpayer bailout, 420 00:30:28,515 --> 00:30:31,555 Speaker 1: evil enough to call you out as a running dog 421 00:30:31,715 --> 00:30:37,715 Speaker 1: for your paymasters in Beijing. So the Musk Trump thing 422 00:30:37,755 --> 00:30:41,555 Speaker 1: and the Musk Putin thing are both going. Well, maybe 423 00:30:41,595 --> 00:30:45,435 Speaker 1: there's a way out of this yet, Dateline Brooklyn. Here 424 00:30:45,515 --> 00:30:48,555 Speaker 1: is the rare good point from Nate Silver that isn't 425 00:30:48,595 --> 00:30:53,595 Speaker 1: just numbers. Trump, he notes, starts out unpopular and will 426 00:30:53,675 --> 00:30:57,275 Speaker 1: likely sink from here. According to the National Exit Poll, 427 00:30:57,915 --> 00:31:00,675 Speaker 1: this is silver, writing. Trump was elected with a tepid 428 00:31:00,755 --> 00:31:04,275 Speaker 1: forty eight percent favorability rating. However, he actually won nine 429 00:31:04,315 --> 00:31:07,795 Speaker 1: percent voters who had an unfavorable view of him. These 430 00:31:07,835 --> 00:31:11,115 Speaker 1: people may have seen Trump as a superior alternative to Harris, 431 00:31:11,395 --> 00:31:13,595 Speaker 1: but will be less tolerant now that he has no 432 00:31:13,715 --> 00:31:16,635 Speaker 1: more elections to run in. No, we think in the 433 00:31:16,675 --> 00:31:19,955 Speaker 1: same poll, forty four percent of voters have a very 434 00:31:20,035 --> 00:31:23,755 Speaker 1: unfavorable view of Trump, so the ceiling on his popularity 435 00:31:24,235 --> 00:31:30,235 Speaker 1: is likely to be fairly capped forty eight percent. That's 436 00:31:30,235 --> 00:31:34,235 Speaker 1: not even even. This could be silver, says a Kin. 437 00:31:34,435 --> 00:31:38,435 Speaker 1: In history to two thousand and four, when George Bush 438 00:31:38,515 --> 00:31:41,555 Speaker 1: got elected by a razor thin margin, announced he had 439 00:31:41,595 --> 00:31:44,635 Speaker 1: won a mandate, insisted the world was his and he 440 00:31:44,715 --> 00:31:47,715 Speaker 1: was going to use all his political capital, and while 441 00:31:47,835 --> 00:31:51,355 Speaker 1: new Democratic stars rose in the background to destroy the 442 00:31:51,395 --> 00:31:56,155 Speaker 1: Republicans in the next two elections, actually four elections, Bush 443 00:31:56,235 --> 00:32:00,995 Speaker 1: gradually got eaten alive by an increasingly hostile media led 444 00:32:01,035 --> 00:32:05,995 Speaker 1: by who was that again? All right? Me? And Dateline 445 00:32:06,035 --> 00:32:09,315 Speaker 1: the White House, the CNN headline Milania Trump unlikely to 446 00:32:09,435 --> 00:32:12,515 Speaker 1: move to the White House full time as First Lady 447 00:32:13,035 --> 00:32:17,075 Speaker 1: This time he's different. I'm not anxious because these time 448 00:32:17,115 --> 00:32:21,035 Speaker 1: he's different. I have much more experience and much more knowledge, 449 00:32:21,035 --> 00:32:23,275 Speaker 1: she told CNN. I was in the White House before. 450 00:32:23,395 --> 00:32:25,635 Speaker 1: When you go in, you know exactly what to expect. 451 00:32:25,875 --> 00:32:28,395 Speaker 1: She said in a recent friendly interview with Fox News. 452 00:32:28,795 --> 00:32:31,155 Speaker 1: Milinia Trump is expected to spend a majority of her 453 00:32:31,195 --> 00:32:33,635 Speaker 1: time over the next four years not at the White House, 454 00:32:33,795 --> 00:32:37,115 Speaker 1: but between New York City and Palm Beach, Florida. Sources 455 00:32:37,155 --> 00:32:40,275 Speaker 1: familiar with the thinking told CNN. However, they insisted she 456 00:32:40,315 --> 00:32:42,755 Speaker 1: would still be present for major events and would have 457 00:32:42,795 --> 00:32:47,075 Speaker 1: her own platform and priorities as first Lady, the first 458 00:32:47,155 --> 00:32:50,155 Speaker 1: of them being stay the hell away from her idiot husband. 459 00:32:50,235 --> 00:32:52,115 Speaker 1: Now you have to admit what she said there was 460 00:32:52,235 --> 00:32:55,595 Speaker 1: pretty good word salad for somebody for whom English is 461 00:32:55,635 --> 00:32:59,955 Speaker 1: a second language. Role of Milania Trump will be performed 462 00:32:59,955 --> 00:33:04,355 Speaker 1: tonight by Alina Habba and Dateline Washington. So if you 463 00:33:04,395 --> 00:33:07,515 Speaker 1: wonder whether or not the limpdiced coverage of Trump during 464 00:33:07,555 --> 00:33:11,515 Speaker 1: the campaign by CBS News, NBC News, and ABC News 465 00:33:11,515 --> 00:33:13,835 Speaker 1: could not have had anything to do with Trump's win, 466 00:33:14,435 --> 00:33:17,955 Speaker 1: think again. From the invaluable Dan Frumkin of Press Watch, 467 00:33:18,075 --> 00:33:22,475 Speaker 1: distilled from polling by NBC News, Biden supporters more likely 468 00:33:22,515 --> 00:33:25,635 Speaker 1: to get their news by newspapers than Trump supporters. How 469 00:33:25,715 --> 00:33:28,995 Speaker 1: registered voters consume news based on who they voted for. 470 00:33:29,035 --> 00:33:33,035 Speaker 1: In twenty twenty four, in cable news, fifty three percent 471 00:33:33,235 --> 00:33:36,955 Speaker 1: of cable news as your primary source of news voters 472 00:33:37,075 --> 00:33:41,795 Speaker 1: fifty three percent Trump, forty five percent for Well Harris 473 00:33:41,875 --> 00:33:46,395 Speaker 1: not Biden, obviously, and then in newspapers it was seventy 474 00:33:46,435 --> 00:33:49,275 Speaker 1: to twenty one the Democrats over Trump. And then in 475 00:33:49,435 --> 00:33:54,355 Speaker 1: National Network News, where supposedly ABCCBS and NBC had been 476 00:33:54,355 --> 00:33:59,835 Speaker 1: abandoned decades ago by the Republicans, the voters said fifty 477 00:33:59,835 --> 00:34:03,755 Speaker 1: five percent in favor of the Democrat Kamala Harris, thirty 478 00:34:03,795 --> 00:34:07,235 Speaker 1: five percent in favor of Trump. So for one third 479 00:34:07,275 --> 00:34:10,635 Speaker 1: of the audience watching the broadcast network newscasts every night 480 00:34:10,835 --> 00:34:13,075 Speaker 1: and things like Meet the Press and Face the Nation 481 00:34:13,595 --> 00:34:15,635 Speaker 1: and whatever they're calling the one on CBS at the 482 00:34:15,635 --> 00:34:19,395 Speaker 1: moment that nobody watches, yes, one third of them are 483 00:34:19,475 --> 00:34:23,675 Speaker 1: still Trump supporters or became Trump supporters thanks to the 484 00:34:24,035 --> 00:34:27,835 Speaker 1: as I noted before, ld coverage of Trump by the networks, 485 00:34:28,275 --> 00:34:33,555 Speaker 1: and with that this media note, Dennis Murphy, Jarrett Shustrin, 486 00:34:34,035 --> 00:34:39,555 Speaker 1: and Lamar Gerring have joined Newsmax as executive producers for 487 00:34:39,875 --> 00:34:45,555 Speaker 1: American Agenda, Wake Up America, Nazi Line on whatever the 488 00:34:45,555 --> 00:34:48,875 Speaker 1: shows are called Murphy. Most recently was it Fox. Schustron 489 00:34:48,955 --> 00:34:53,035 Speaker 1: Ha said, Gerring is the former EP of wnywtv's Good 490 00:34:53,075 --> 00:34:54,995 Speaker 1: Day New York. That would be the Fox station in 491 00:34:55,035 --> 00:35:02,675 Speaker 1: New York. So Newsmax just hired a producer named Gerring 492 00:35:03,115 --> 00:35:10,915 Speaker 1: ge r i n g Lamar Gerring. Now he might 493 00:35:10,955 --> 00:35:14,675 Speaker 1: pronounce it some other way. Maybe he pronounces it smith. 494 00:35:15,195 --> 00:35:20,955 Speaker 1: Maybe he pronounces it lamar g. Maybe he pronounces it Gerrig. 495 00:35:21,795 --> 00:35:25,875 Speaker 1: I don't know, but it's spelled g o e r 496 00:35:26,115 --> 00:35:31,795 Speaker 1: i n g, which in German is Gerring. Even for 497 00:35:31,995 --> 00:35:36,715 Speaker 1: these dark times, isn't that a little too on point? 498 00:35:38,195 --> 00:35:41,875 Speaker 1: And there's Olivia Newsy News and the most racist Republican 499 00:35:41,955 --> 00:36:08,195 Speaker 1: thing ever in Worst Persons Next, believe it or not, 500 00:36:08,475 --> 00:36:12,235 Speaker 1: there are still more new idiots to talk about. Yes, 501 00:36:12,315 --> 00:36:16,675 Speaker 1: it's the semi weekly roundup of the miss Grants, morons 502 00:36:16,675 --> 00:36:21,195 Speaker 1: and Dunning Kruger effects specimens who constitute today's other worse 503 00:36:21,275 --> 00:36:29,755 Speaker 1: persons in the world. Theron's worse Olivia is back. No, no, no, no, 504 00:36:29,835 --> 00:36:31,475 Speaker 1: that's not what I mean, I'm not going to tell 505 00:36:31,475 --> 00:36:34,635 Speaker 1: you about Olivia's back, I meaning she's back in the news, 506 00:36:35,475 --> 00:36:39,355 Speaker 1: Newsy in the news or NUTSI. I can never remember 507 00:36:39,355 --> 00:36:42,795 Speaker 1: which way she's pronouncing it. This week, remember the restraining 508 00:36:42,915 --> 00:36:45,515 Speaker 1: order and the charges Olivia Newsy made against her ex 509 00:36:45,555 --> 00:36:50,915 Speaker 1: fiance Ryan Lizza before their careers both imploded, and the 510 00:36:50,955 --> 00:36:53,475 Speaker 1: stories about going to the FBI and he hacked her 511 00:36:53,595 --> 00:36:57,995 Speaker 1: phone and revealed all the RFK Junior stuff, and he 512 00:36:58,115 --> 00:37:00,675 Speaker 1: was a stalker, and he blackmailed her into sex and 513 00:37:00,715 --> 00:37:04,315 Speaker 1: staying into their relationship, and most importantly to her, blackmailed 514 00:37:04,355 --> 00:37:09,555 Speaker 1: her to in the book deal. Oh god, pew pew pew, 515 00:37:09,635 --> 00:37:13,275 Speaker 1: what were those bullets? I just missed? She's dropped all 516 00:37:13,315 --> 00:37:18,355 Speaker 1: those charges, The Daily Beast reports Ryan Liza answered those 517 00:37:18,435 --> 00:37:21,315 Speaker 1: charges in court in the last ten days with an 518 00:37:21,315 --> 00:37:24,195 Speaker 1: outline of evidence that he was going to use in 519 00:37:24,235 --> 00:37:32,835 Speaker 1: his defense that suggested Olivia wasn't exactly not lying texts, email's, 520 00:37:32,875 --> 00:37:37,715 Speaker 1: third party witnesses, phone conversations. Her response to seeing this, 521 00:37:38,035 --> 00:37:41,395 Speaker 1: she has withdrawn the restraining order against him. Just dropped it. 522 00:37:42,115 --> 00:37:45,675 Speaker 1: No stalking, no blackmailing, no book deal stuff. So now 523 00:37:46,475 --> 00:37:51,875 Speaker 1: Liza is hinting at suing her his quote, she shamelessly 524 00:37:51,995 --> 00:37:55,315 Speaker 1: used litigation with false and defamatory allegations as a public 525 00:37:55,355 --> 00:37:58,555 Speaker 1: relations strategy. I said I would defend myself against her 526 00:37:58,635 --> 00:38:02,475 Speaker 1: lies vigorously and successfully, and I am fully prepared to 527 00:38:02,595 --> 00:38:07,475 Speaker 1: do so way more or lassits. Oh boy, takes my 528 00:38:07,555 --> 00:38:12,235 Speaker 1: mind off Trumpo. But for now, he concluded, I'm pleased 529 00:38:12,515 --> 00:38:19,795 Speaker 1: this matter is closed. One additional quote she lied, pal 530 00:38:21,115 --> 00:38:25,395 Speaker 1: take a number. As for me, I'm just quietly enjoying 531 00:38:25,435 --> 00:38:29,475 Speaker 1: my garbage dumpster full of popcorn. I mean, I'm gonna 532 00:38:29,475 --> 00:38:30,595 Speaker 1: have to deal with the fact that I'm now eight 533 00:38:30,715 --> 00:38:34,195 Speaker 1: hundred and seventy five pounds. It's all popcorn, and I'll 534 00:38:34,235 --> 00:38:37,115 Speaker 1: just keep enjoying my hot and cold running Shadu and Freud. 535 00:38:38,235 --> 00:38:40,035 Speaker 1: But I will mention that as far back as the 536 00:38:40,115 --> 00:38:42,835 Speaker 1: year twenty fourteen, she used to tell me about her 537 00:38:42,915 --> 00:38:46,835 Speaker 1: quote stalker unquote in DC. His name was Ryan Lizza. 538 00:38:48,795 --> 00:38:53,155 Speaker 1: I'm quoting her. You know how to reach me. The 539 00:38:53,235 --> 00:38:57,755 Speaker 1: runner up worser, Tim Poole, one of those fascists, the 540 00:38:57,835 --> 00:39:01,155 Speaker 1: one with the beanie baby outfit, who it turned out, 541 00:39:01,195 --> 00:39:06,075 Speaker 1: was brought to you by a contribution from the Kremlin. 542 00:39:08,715 --> 00:39:13,555 Speaker 1: Make pronouns illegal. He's written, everyone and everything must be 543 00:39:13,595 --> 00:39:18,915 Speaker 1: referred to directly by name. In the replies from at 544 00:39:19,075 --> 00:39:26,035 Speaker 1: duchess Prim, everyone is a pronoun, you pine cone? Try again? 545 00:39:31,435 --> 00:39:34,675 Speaker 1: The best thing all week that is the new insult 546 00:39:35,075 --> 00:39:39,315 Speaker 1: you pine cone. Pool says he was just trolling here. 547 00:39:39,715 --> 00:39:43,955 Speaker 1: He knows, he knows knows everyone and everything are pronouns. 548 00:39:43,995 --> 00:39:46,075 Speaker 1: It was the whole point he wanted to get. Who 549 00:39:46,075 --> 00:39:48,995 Speaker 1: are you writing to, Pool? You're talking to conservatives. If 550 00:39:49,035 --> 00:39:52,635 Speaker 1: you knew that everyone and everything is a pronoun you're 551 00:39:52,675 --> 00:39:54,315 Speaker 1: the only one of the crowd who knows that, because 552 00:39:54,315 --> 00:39:56,155 Speaker 1: the rest of them have a collective IQ of one 553 00:39:56,195 --> 00:39:59,395 Speaker 1: hundred and seven. The best part is the insult you 554 00:39:59,475 --> 00:40:05,675 Speaker 1: pine cone. Hey, f you o your pine cone? Thank you, 555 00:40:05,795 --> 00:40:08,995 Speaker 1: duchess Prim. You have introduced one of the great new 556 00:40:08,995 --> 00:40:13,555 Speaker 1: insults of the century. Dear listener, won't you use it 557 00:40:13,635 --> 00:40:17,715 Speaker 1: today and tell the others of the good news U 558 00:40:17,835 --> 00:40:23,275 Speaker 1: pine Cone? But our winner the worst. Now this is 559 00:40:23,275 --> 00:40:27,475 Speaker 1: a month old. Somehow I missed it. The Independent just 560 00:40:27,515 --> 00:40:30,075 Speaker 1: published it. The guy in it is so Republican he 561 00:40:30,115 --> 00:40:35,755 Speaker 1: should be continued onto the adjacent Republican At a bipartisan 562 00:40:35,875 --> 00:40:39,875 Speaker 1: forum in Idaho, Republican state Senator Dan Foreman got into 563 00:40:39,915 --> 00:40:45,195 Speaker 1: a heated exchange with Democratic House six district candidate Trish 564 00:40:45,395 --> 00:40:49,715 Speaker 1: Carter Goodheart. They were talking about discrimination and somebody said 565 00:40:49,755 --> 00:40:53,195 Speaker 1: there wasn't really any discrimination in Idaho, and Carter Goodheart 566 00:40:53,235 --> 00:40:56,595 Speaker 1: says that. She then said, just because someone hasn't personally 567 00:40:56,635 --> 00:41:00,995 Speaker 1: experienced discrimination doesn't mean it's not happening. And that is 568 00:41:01,035 --> 00:41:05,115 Speaker 1: when Republican Senator Foreman screamed, I'm so sick and tired 569 00:41:05,395 --> 00:41:09,195 Speaker 1: of this liberal bullshit, and looking at Ms Carter Goodheart, 570 00:41:09,235 --> 00:41:12,155 Speaker 1: he added, why don't you go back to where you 571 00:41:12,515 --> 00:41:23,475 Speaker 1: came from? Trish Carter Goodheart is Native American nez Perse. 572 00:41:24,155 --> 00:41:30,795 Speaker 1: Just for the record, Native American in Idaho. She is home, 573 00:41:31,555 --> 00:41:36,515 Speaker 1: She is back where she came from. Senator Foreman denies 574 00:41:36,595 --> 00:41:40,155 Speaker 1: he said this, but attendees, including a state representative, said 575 00:41:40,275 --> 00:41:44,275 Speaker 1: they heard it. And then in real time after he said, 576 00:41:44,275 --> 00:41:46,475 Speaker 1: why don't you go back to where you came from? 577 00:41:46,755 --> 00:41:50,755 Speaker 1: To the Native American, the Native American, Ms Carter Goodheart 578 00:41:50,875 --> 00:41:56,475 Speaker 1: asked the unanswerable rhetorical question, where am I supposed to go? Well, 579 00:41:56,515 --> 00:42:01,075 Speaker 1: we all know where State Senator Foreman is supposed to go. Hell, 580 00:42:01,115 --> 00:42:05,755 Speaker 1: but first he should go into the Trump administration as 581 00:42:05,795 --> 00:42:12,235 Speaker 1: Secretary of Pine Cones, Idaho State Senator Dan why don't 582 00:42:12,275 --> 00:42:15,635 Speaker 1: you Native Americans go back to where you come from? Foreman, 583 00:42:16,435 --> 00:42:35,675 Speaker 1: Today's other worst person in the I've done all the 584 00:42:35,755 --> 00:42:38,235 Speaker 1: damage I can do here. Thank you for listening. Follow 585 00:42:38,275 --> 00:42:42,915 Speaker 1: me for the podcast promos on Blue Sky YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, x, 586 00:42:42,995 --> 00:42:47,715 Speaker 1: Instagram threads, and Graham Face not on TikTok I got 587 00:42:47,715 --> 00:42:51,435 Speaker 1: banned from TikTok I put out an anti Trump meme. 588 00:42:52,075 --> 00:42:55,235 Speaker 1: TikTok is crap. Brian Ray and John Phillip Shaneil, the 589 00:42:55,315 --> 00:42:58,555 Speaker 1: musical directors have Countdown Range, produced and performed most of 590 00:42:58,555 --> 00:43:01,875 Speaker 1: our music. Mister Shaneil handled orchestration and keyboards. Mister Ray 591 00:43:01,955 --> 00:43:04,515 Speaker 1: was on the guitars, bass and drums. 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Let's countdown for today, 599 00:43:29,755 --> 00:43:32,915 Speaker 1: just one five hundred and thirty five days until the 600 00:43:32,955 --> 00:43:36,035 Speaker 1: scheduled end of the term of Lame duc President Trump. 601 00:43:37,155 --> 00:43:41,555 Speaker 1: Maybe the next scheduled countdown is Monday. Still playing this 602 00:43:41,635 --> 00:43:44,915 Speaker 1: by ear on the schedule, I may do some shorter 603 00:43:45,235 --> 00:43:48,715 Speaker 1: eight nine ten minute editions as news warrants. I mean, 604 00:43:49,875 --> 00:43:53,555 Speaker 1: Trump could could appoint a horse to his cabinet, especially 605 00:43:53,595 --> 00:43:57,435 Speaker 1: if he doesn't think. I have a confirmation here Wilbur 606 00:43:57,515 --> 00:44:01,435 Speaker 1: has been named Secretary of Oats. We'll see how the 607 00:44:01,435 --> 00:44:06,675 Speaker 1: schedule works out. Two at least a week schedule Monday 608 00:44:06,715 --> 00:44:10,675 Speaker 1: and Thursday make the most sense for me in any event. 609 00:44:10,755 --> 00:44:13,635 Speaker 1: As always, bulletins as the news warrants, till the next one, 610 00:44:13,675 --> 00:44:16,315 Speaker 1: whenever the hell that is. I'm Keith Alderman. Good morning, 611 00:44:16,355 --> 00:44:37,035 Speaker 1: good afternoon, good night, and good luck. Countdown with Keith 612 00:44:37,075 --> 00:44:42,155 Speaker 1: Alderman is a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, 613 00:44:42,315 --> 00:44:46,315 Speaker 1: visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get 614 00:44:46,355 --> 00:44:47,275 Speaker 1: your podcasts.