1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:17,395 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. This 2 00:00:17,475 --> 00:00:20,835 Speaker 1: is an emergency edition of Countdown. I'm Keith Olverman. Trump 3 00:00:20,915 --> 00:00:25,075 Speaker 1: is having them ask candidates for jobs in his administration's 4 00:00:25,275 --> 00:00:29,995 Speaker 1: FBI field stations away from DC. What is probably the 5 00:00:30,235 --> 00:00:35,115 Speaker 1: most chilling question ever asked by anybody in any government 6 00:00:35,235 --> 00:00:40,075 Speaker 1: of the United States? Quote who is your real boss? 7 00:00:41,555 --> 00:00:43,795 Speaker 1: This is if you do not know. In the Washington 8 00:00:43,835 --> 00:00:50,635 Speaker 1: Posts brief damning almost despite everything unbelievable nightmarish report posted 9 00:00:50,675 --> 00:00:54,555 Speaker 1: Saturday night, the Post is quoting applicants for the FBI 10 00:00:54,675 --> 00:00:57,995 Speaker 1: and other top national security positions, and they hit some 11 00:00:58,075 --> 00:01:01,275 Speaker 1: of these people who were in these organizations were dismissed 12 00:01:01,275 --> 00:01:04,995 Speaker 1: and were being the opportunity to return to work, quoting 13 00:01:05,035 --> 00:01:07,595 Speaker 1: them as saying they had been asked these questions. At 14 00:01:07,675 --> 00:01:11,275 Speaker 1: least two FBI applicants were asked at least two questions 15 00:01:11,275 --> 00:01:14,315 Speaker 1: out of George Orwell or the Soviet Union or Nazi 16 00:01:14,395 --> 00:01:19,035 Speaker 1: jermy one you heard it, who is your real boss? 17 00:01:20,435 --> 00:01:22,795 Speaker 1: If you need more, don't worry, there is more. The 18 00:01:22,875 --> 00:01:27,955 Speaker 1: other question, who were the real patriots? On January sixth? 19 00:01:29,795 --> 00:01:33,355 Speaker 1: You have to answer these questions correctly. From the Trump 20 00:01:33,435 --> 00:01:36,875 Speaker 1: point of view, to get a job at the FBI. 21 00:01:38,555 --> 00:01:41,035 Speaker 1: We know through the post supporting of at least two 22 00:01:41,075 --> 00:01:43,755 Speaker 1: other questions asked of those being interviewed for some kind 23 00:01:43,755 --> 00:01:47,475 Speaker 1: of leadership positions within other aspects of the Trump national 24 00:01:47,475 --> 00:01:51,955 Speaker 1: security apparatus in Washington. They are told to answer yes 25 00:01:52,155 --> 00:01:56,275 Speaker 1: or no to each question. One was January sixth, an 26 00:01:56,515 --> 00:02:03,355 Speaker 1: inside job. Question two was the twenty twenty presidential election. 27 00:02:06,595 --> 00:02:11,835 Speaker 1: Presumably with two l's. At least these two applicants cited 28 00:02:11,875 --> 00:02:14,835 Speaker 1: in the post story told their interviewers no, and neither 29 00:02:16,035 --> 00:02:21,355 Speaker 1: was hired. The asking of these questions, just the asking, 30 00:02:22,555 --> 00:02:25,435 Speaker 1: let alone the answers, let alone the implications that it 31 00:02:25,515 --> 00:02:28,195 Speaker 1: is anything but political science fiction. To conclude that some 32 00:02:28,195 --> 00:02:31,555 Speaker 1: people have already answered yes and are now moving into 33 00:02:31,635 --> 00:02:34,595 Speaker 1: roles at the FBI and other law enforcement at other 34 00:02:34,715 --> 00:02:40,235 Speaker 1: national security organizations. Just asking those questions signals the end 35 00:02:40,355 --> 00:02:43,995 Speaker 1: of democracy. Because if today you can ask candidates for 36 00:02:44,115 --> 00:02:49,155 Speaker 1: federal law enforcement positions to swear personal loyalty to their 37 00:02:49,875 --> 00:02:53,395 Speaker 1: real boss, and if today you can ask candidates for 38 00:02:53,435 --> 00:02:57,275 Speaker 1: these same positions to insist that lies about January sixth, 39 00:02:57,275 --> 00:02:59,675 Speaker 1: then the twenty twenty election are the truth, and that 40 00:02:59,715 --> 00:03:04,035 Speaker 1: the truths are lies, then tomorrow you can make it 41 00:03:04,115 --> 00:03:07,715 Speaker 1: illegal to answer that the twenty twenty election wasn't stolen, 42 00:03:08,475 --> 00:03:10,435 Speaker 1: And then next week you can make it illegal to 43 00:03:10,555 --> 00:03:14,555 Speaker 1: publish or broadcast that the twenty twenty election wasn't stolen, 44 00:03:14,675 --> 00:03:17,275 Speaker 1: and then the week after that you can put anybody 45 00:03:17,315 --> 00:03:23,835 Speaker 1: who does so in prison. The slow, incremental submersion into 46 00:03:23,875 --> 00:03:26,995 Speaker 1: this quicksand is asking the would be leaders of the 47 00:03:27,075 --> 00:03:30,475 Speaker 1: FBI to swear to lies and fiction and fantasy and 48 00:03:30,555 --> 00:03:34,795 Speaker 1: perversion of reality, punishing people for refusing to do any 49 00:03:34,835 --> 00:03:38,395 Speaker 1: of that. That is only the quick, terrible final step 50 00:03:41,595 --> 00:03:43,475 Speaker 1: some of us have been warning we would get here. 51 00:03:44,075 --> 00:03:46,755 Speaker 1: We have been warning that the creature at the head 52 00:03:46,755 --> 00:03:53,155 Speaker 1: of this movement is not just unstable, quirky, populist, selfish, 53 00:03:53,555 --> 00:04:00,915 Speaker 1: self indulgent, not just insane, but criminally insane and homicidally 54 00:04:01,435 --> 00:04:08,875 Speaker 1: insane and ultimately conceivably genocidally insane. Some of us have 55 00:04:08,915 --> 00:04:13,155 Speaker 1: been warning about this for a decade. We have been shunned, mocked, 56 00:04:13,515 --> 00:04:16,195 Speaker 1: and marginalized. We have been told Trump is not a 57 00:04:16,435 --> 00:04:21,035 Speaker 1: subhuman psychotic, not a terrorist, not a mass murderer. He's 58 00:04:21,195 --> 00:04:26,435 Speaker 1: just popular. We were right, and if there was any 59 00:04:26,475 --> 00:04:30,795 Speaker 1: remaining doubt, it ended last night, and those who doubted 60 00:04:31,075 --> 00:04:35,115 Speaker 1: and those who told us otherwise were and are wrong, 61 00:04:36,275 --> 00:04:39,635 Speaker 1: and it will cost all of us our form of government. 62 00:04:42,155 --> 00:04:44,275 Speaker 1: Some of those who told us we were wrong have 63 00:04:44,395 --> 00:04:47,715 Speaker 1: even come to understand this since just January twentieth. Some 64 00:04:47,875 --> 00:04:50,555 Speaker 1: of them have just come to understand this since reading 65 00:04:50,555 --> 00:04:54,475 Speaker 1: the Post article last night. Some of them will not 66 00:04:54,675 --> 00:04:56,835 Speaker 1: understand any of it until they are being led away 67 00:04:56,835 --> 00:05:02,115 Speaker 1: in handcuffs or worse. And so I would like to 68 00:05:02,195 --> 00:05:05,515 Speaker 1: mention here while it is still legal, to mention here, 69 00:05:06,435 --> 00:05:10,035 Speaker 1: that we are here now on the precipice as it 70 00:05:10,115 --> 00:05:14,435 Speaker 1: crumbles beneath us, in large measure, probably in the decisive 71 00:05:14,515 --> 00:05:18,355 Speaker 1: final measure, because of the people who both sides us 72 00:05:18,875 --> 00:05:22,595 Speaker 1: and what abouted us? Who both sides and what abouted 73 00:05:22,635 --> 00:05:30,235 Speaker 1: this country figuratively and probably literally to death? Attorney General 74 00:05:30,275 --> 00:05:35,315 Speaker 1: Merrick Garland and former President Joe Biden, who refused to 75 00:05:35,355 --> 00:05:38,635 Speaker 1: recognize that the danger was not in breaking the ritualistic 76 00:05:38,675 --> 00:05:42,195 Speaker 1: imbecilities of Department of Justice norms. We're not getting back 77 00:05:42,235 --> 00:05:45,115 Speaker 1: to normality as soon as possible. The danger was in 78 00:05:45,155 --> 00:05:49,275 Speaker 1: not vigorously and immediately prosecuting Trump and taking any measures 79 00:05:49,275 --> 00:05:51,915 Speaker 1: available to imprison him for the rest of his life 80 00:05:52,075 --> 00:05:55,755 Speaker 1: and imprison these creatures, who now ask the successors to 81 00:05:55,915 --> 00:06:01,795 Speaker 1: Garland's own employees, who's your real boss? Garland and Biden 82 00:06:01,835 --> 00:06:08,715 Speaker 1: helped kill our country. David Zaslav, head of Warner Brothers Discovery, 83 00:06:08,955 --> 00:06:13,795 Speaker 1: and his minion Chris Licht, who neutered CNN to make money. 84 00:06:15,995 --> 00:06:18,795 Speaker 1: Not decisive by any stretch of the imagination, but neutering 85 00:06:18,955 --> 00:06:24,515 Speaker 1: CNN accelerated the both sides this landslide. David Zaslab and 86 00:06:24,595 --> 00:06:28,555 Speaker 1: Chris Licht helped kill our country. Jake Tapper and Dana 87 00:06:28,635 --> 00:06:34,275 Speaker 1: Bash of CNN, who refused to demand the right to 88 00:06:34,315 --> 00:06:37,635 Speaker 1: fact check Trump in the debate last summer as he 89 00:06:37,755 --> 00:06:42,035 Speaker 1: lied literally without interruption for ninety minutes. Tapper and Bash 90 00:06:42,075 --> 00:06:46,955 Speaker 1: who helped kill our country. Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzhinsky, 91 00:06:47,435 --> 00:06:50,795 Speaker 1: who two weeks after the election went to Florida to 92 00:06:50,995 --> 00:06:55,795 Speaker 1: prostrate and prostitute themselves in front of Trump. Scarborough and 93 00:06:55,795 --> 00:07:02,115 Speaker 1: Brzhinsky helped kill our country. Mark Zuckerberg, the spineless head 94 00:07:02,155 --> 00:07:06,155 Speaker 1: of Facebook and a series of failed related websites, who, 95 00:07:06,195 --> 00:07:09,795 Speaker 1: with terror written across his face, has guaranteed Trump that 96 00:07:09,875 --> 00:07:12,555 Speaker 1: he and his liars could lie all they wanted to 97 00:07:12,715 --> 00:07:16,235 Speaker 1: on all of his platforms. Mark Zuckerberg, who helped kill 98 00:07:16,475 --> 00:07:21,315 Speaker 1: our country, Joe Kahn, executive editor and A g Selzberger, 99 00:07:21,395 --> 00:07:25,635 Speaker 1: publisher of the New York Times, who made sure every cowardly, 100 00:07:26,035 --> 00:07:29,395 Speaker 1: non committal headline slapped above the work of their writers, 101 00:07:29,555 --> 00:07:33,275 Speaker 1: the courageous work and the cringing work alike would never 102 00:07:33,355 --> 00:07:40,155 Speaker 1: convey malice, who would never specified danger, which would never 103 00:07:40,315 --> 00:07:45,955 Speaker 1: warn readers headlines. And two men Kahn and Sealzburger, who 104 00:07:46,035 --> 00:07:52,395 Speaker 1: helped kill our country. Mitt Romney, former US Senator and governor, 105 00:07:52,395 --> 00:07:57,995 Speaker 1: who nine years ago attacked Trump, then appeased him in 106 00:07:58,035 --> 00:08:00,635 Speaker 1: hopes of becoming Secretary of State, who five years ago 107 00:08:00,795 --> 00:08:06,635 Speaker 1: attacked me in print because I called Trump a terrorist 108 00:08:07,075 --> 00:08:10,075 Speaker 1: in the months before the twenty twenty election, who four 109 00:08:10,075 --> 00:08:12,515 Speaker 1: months after he called me a terrorist, found himself pinned 110 00:08:12,515 --> 00:08:17,555 Speaker 1: inside the Capitol by Trump's terrorists, and who still would 111 00:08:17,595 --> 00:08:20,795 Speaker 1: never call Trump what he is, Mitt Romney, who helped 112 00:08:20,875 --> 00:08:27,955 Speaker 1: kill our country. Countless nominal Democrats who since the election, 113 00:08:28,555 --> 00:08:31,795 Speaker 1: or since the inauguration or both, have sought to find 114 00:08:31,875 --> 00:08:37,315 Speaker 1: compromise or move towards bipartisanship with Trump and an evil 115 00:08:37,355 --> 00:08:41,595 Speaker 1: machine that wants you to say only one thing, not bipartisan, 116 00:08:41,675 --> 00:08:45,435 Speaker 1: this compromise that they want just one thing from you. 117 00:08:45,435 --> 00:08:51,075 Speaker 1: You are my real boss. Chuck Schumer, who used the 118 00:08:51,115 --> 00:08:55,755 Speaker 1: phrase stop the steal last week. I guess he thought 119 00:08:55,795 --> 00:09:01,875 Speaker 1: it was funny. John Fetterman, Eric Adams, Mark Kelly Akeem, Jeffries, 120 00:09:02,075 --> 00:09:05,195 Speaker 1: Chris Coons, nearly all of them in that party to 121 00:09:05,315 --> 00:09:09,715 Speaker 1: some degree great or small, briefly or still in progress, 122 00:09:11,275 --> 00:09:14,515 Speaker 1: someone looking to get to a yes on Tulsi Gabbard 123 00:09:14,915 --> 00:09:20,755 Speaker 1: or Cash Patel, all of them who helped kill our country. 124 00:09:22,875 --> 00:09:29,275 Speaker 1: And dozens upon dozens of commentators and reporters and newscasters 125 00:09:29,315 --> 00:09:33,315 Speaker 1: and columnists who I'm sure all wanted to say more, 126 00:09:33,875 --> 00:09:38,635 Speaker 1: but they had mortgages to pay and careers to consider 127 00:09:39,315 --> 00:09:47,235 Speaker 1: in a shrinking medium, and guest bookings they could not jeopardize. 128 00:09:47,435 --> 00:09:54,755 Speaker 1: Bob Iger, Van Jones, Andrew Mitchell, Katie Turr, the other 129 00:09:54,875 --> 00:09:58,915 Speaker 1: executives of ABC News, the executives of sixty Minutes, the 130 00:09:58,955 --> 00:10:03,035 Speaker 1: new head of MSNBC's parent, Mark Lazarus, looking to make 131 00:10:03,155 --> 00:10:09,515 Speaker 1: MSNBC more excessible to Republicans, everybody virtually at Politico, Chris Solissa, 132 00:10:09,835 --> 00:10:16,315 Speaker 1: Chuck Todd, Kristen Welker, and we can pick Kristin Welker 133 00:10:16,355 --> 00:10:21,395 Speaker 1: almost at random to represent the media for when last 134 00:10:21,475 --> 00:10:24,995 Speaker 1: April a video appeared of a Trump pickup truck with 135 00:10:25,075 --> 00:10:29,115 Speaker 1: flags flapping in the highway wind and an illustration a 136 00:10:29,155 --> 00:10:34,435 Speaker 1: sticker or decal on its bumper showing then President Biden 137 00:10:35,035 --> 00:10:38,355 Speaker 1: bound and gagged full size, as if he had been 138 00:10:38,435 --> 00:10:43,435 Speaker 1: kidnapped and beaten or murdered and thrown into that Trump truck. 139 00:10:44,315 --> 00:10:46,715 Speaker 1: Because that, at heart, is what Trump's friends wanted to 140 00:10:46,715 --> 00:10:49,635 Speaker 1: do and wanted you to know they intended to do. 141 00:10:50,155 --> 00:10:52,395 Speaker 1: When that image. We don't like the president, we'll just 142 00:10:52,435 --> 00:10:55,275 Speaker 1: kidnap him. We don't like the election outcome, We'll just 143 00:10:55,355 --> 00:10:57,875 Speaker 1: kidnap the winner. We don't like your answer about who 144 00:10:57,955 --> 00:11:00,555 Speaker 1: really want or who's the boss, We'll just kidnap you. 145 00:11:01,555 --> 00:11:04,195 Speaker 1: When that image appeared in public and it was shared 146 00:11:04,235 --> 00:11:08,915 Speaker 1: by people who were proud of it, Kristin Welker spoke 147 00:11:08,955 --> 00:11:13,275 Speaker 1: for a generation of journalists when she said, it is 148 00:11:13,355 --> 00:11:16,795 Speaker 1: yet another reminder that we are covering this election against 149 00:11:17,115 --> 00:11:22,675 Speaker 1: the backdrop of a deeply divided nation, instead of saying 150 00:11:22,715 --> 00:11:26,515 Speaker 1: the truth, which is that it was yet another reminder 151 00:11:26,555 --> 00:11:29,155 Speaker 1: that we were conducting this election against the backdrop of 152 00:11:29,195 --> 00:11:32,795 Speaker 1: an incredibly dangerous percentage of this nation being willing to 153 00:11:32,955 --> 00:11:37,675 Speaker 1: kill a president to get their way, and an equally 154 00:11:37,755 --> 00:11:41,755 Speaker 1: incredibly dangerous percentage of this nation being gutless people like 155 00:11:41,835 --> 00:11:45,555 Speaker 1: Kristin Welker and Joe Scarborough and Joe Kahn and all 156 00:11:45,595 --> 00:11:51,235 Speaker 1: the rest being unwilling to say what was true, being 157 00:11:51,395 --> 00:11:56,035 Speaker 1: unwilling to say what was happening, being unwilling to warn 158 00:11:56,115 --> 00:12:03,395 Speaker 1: those who doubted that it was coming, but it was coming, 159 00:12:04,955 --> 00:12:11,755 Speaker 1: and now it is here. Who is your real boss? 160 00:12:15,755 --> 00:12:23,075 Speaker 1: Day twenty oh and two more final Championship names on 161 00:12:23,115 --> 00:12:29,355 Speaker 1: this list Jeff Bezos and Will Lewis of The Washington Post, 162 00:12:29,755 --> 00:12:35,755 Speaker 1: whose reporters took this final fatal straw, who published the 163 00:12:35,795 --> 00:12:39,075 Speaker 1: reality that would be FBI officials are being asked as 164 00:12:39,115 --> 00:12:42,835 Speaker 1: a condition of employment, Who's your real boss? Who printed 165 00:12:42,835 --> 00:12:47,075 Speaker 1: this figurative crack of doom for American democracy and representative 166 00:12:47,115 --> 00:12:50,315 Speaker 1: government and freedom of speech? And when they did put 167 00:12:50,355 --> 00:12:54,715 Speaker 1: it out, even in the Washington Post, they placed it 168 00:12:54,835 --> 00:12:58,435 Speaker 1: as scrolling down from the top of their homepage. They 169 00:12:58,515 --> 00:13:04,635 Speaker 1: placed it as their thirty third story from the top, 170 00:13:06,235 --> 00:13:13,795 Speaker 1: thirty third, immediately following three stories about player trades in 171 00:13:13,875 --> 00:13:22,155 Speaker 1: the National Basketball Association democracy dies not in darkness, but 172 00:13:22,275 --> 00:13:25,635 Speaker 1: in lies of commission and lies of omission. And you, 173 00:13:25,755 --> 00:13:28,115 Speaker 1: mister Bezos, and you, mister Lewis, and all the rest 174 00:13:28,115 --> 00:13:33,475 Speaker 1: of you have committed both kinds. And soon it will 175 00:13:33,515 --> 00:13:41,755 Speaker 1: be illegal not to lie. If you're applying for the 176 00:13:41,795 --> 00:13:47,275 Speaker 1: FBI job. We are already here. It is, in essence 177 00:13:47,355 --> 00:13:52,475 Speaker 1: illegal not to lie about the twenty twenty election. It 178 00:13:52,555 --> 00:13:56,075 Speaker 1: is illegal not to lie about where your loyalty lies, 179 00:13:56,475 --> 00:14:04,995 Speaker 1: the Constitution, the law, or this pile of human feces. 180 00:14:08,315 --> 00:14:11,675 Speaker 1: Soon it will be illegal for everybody not to lie. 181 00:14:11,835 --> 00:14:16,195 Speaker 1: And that perhaps will be about the time, mister Bezos 182 00:14:16,795 --> 00:14:19,955 Speaker 1: and your friend, my former colleague, Miss Sanchez, when you 183 00:14:20,035 --> 00:14:24,835 Speaker 1: suddenly realize that your own lies to yourselves will have 184 00:14:24,915 --> 00:14:28,675 Speaker 1: to end. That you do not in fact live in 185 00:14:28,715 --> 00:14:34,875 Speaker 1: some other America, walled off from the nightmare that Trump, 186 00:14:35,515 --> 00:14:40,595 Speaker 1: now with Musk, now with a pliant military, now with 187 00:14:40,635 --> 00:14:44,835 Speaker 1: a pre screened FBI, now with law enforcement, not just 188 00:14:44,995 --> 00:14:50,115 Speaker 1: encouraged to lie, but required to you, Jeff and Lauren, 189 00:14:50,395 --> 00:14:53,075 Speaker 1: you do not in fact live walled off from this 190 00:14:53,195 --> 00:14:58,235 Speaker 1: living nightmare. You, sir and madam, are here with the 191 00:14:58,275 --> 00:15:02,515 Speaker 1: rest of us, the damned, and you are just as screwed, 192 00:15:03,235 --> 00:15:08,835 Speaker 1: as if you had actually stood for something. And I 193 00:15:08,875 --> 00:15:11,355 Speaker 1: hope to God you make me eat my own words, 194 00:15:12,275 --> 00:15:14,595 Speaker 1: because I hope to God that you really do stand 195 00:15:14,635 --> 00:15:18,675 Speaker 1: for something, and that you have an idea that you 196 00:15:18,755 --> 00:15:23,555 Speaker 1: have been keeping secret from us. Because as if somehow 197 00:15:23,595 --> 00:15:25,755 Speaker 1: this were not bad enough, if these questions were not 198 00:15:25,875 --> 00:15:28,875 Speaker 1: being asked as a litmus test, will you lie for Trump? 199 00:15:29,195 --> 00:15:32,035 Speaker 1: Will you kill for Trump? Will you be the FBI 200 00:15:32,155 --> 00:15:35,075 Speaker 1: for Trump? Will you make up evidence for Trump? Who's 201 00:15:35,115 --> 00:15:38,355 Speaker 1: your real boss? If this were not bad enough, Trump 202 00:15:38,395 --> 00:15:41,475 Speaker 1: has already gotten around to firing the head of the 203 00:15:41,595 --> 00:15:46,315 Speaker 1: National Archives because the National Archives only asked him to 204 00:15:46,395 --> 00:15:49,715 Speaker 1: give back all the stuff he stole for a year. 205 00:15:52,115 --> 00:15:55,155 Speaker 1: And what that means, Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez and 206 00:15:55,235 --> 00:16:00,515 Speaker 1: all the rest of you, what that means is if 207 00:16:00,515 --> 00:16:31,995 Speaker 1: you and I aren't next soon, I don't know how 208 00:16:32,035 --> 00:16:35,075 Speaker 1: long we have. It is why I did not wait 209 00:16:35,155 --> 00:16:39,675 Speaker 1: till the usual Monday countdown podcast publication hour and put 210 00:16:39,675 --> 00:16:42,315 Speaker 1: this out when I did on Sunday morning. I don't 211 00:16:42,315 --> 00:16:45,115 Speaker 1: know how long we have after this. This to me 212 00:16:45,395 --> 00:16:49,035 Speaker 1: is the first genuine surprise I have had out of 213 00:16:49,155 --> 00:16:56,755 Speaker 1: Trump and his terrorist gang in at least five years. 214 00:16:57,635 --> 00:17:01,555 Speaker 1: If they are already asking would be FBI agents, who's 215 00:17:01,675 --> 00:17:07,315 Speaker 1: your real boss? We may only have wee and yet 216 00:17:07,315 --> 00:17:11,475 Speaker 1: implausibly in those weeks there are more immediate problems still. 217 00:17:11,875 --> 00:17:14,475 Speaker 1: Now we get to find out if Trump and his 218 00:17:14,635 --> 00:17:21,795 Speaker 1: Afrikaner president Musque will obey the courts. Musk yesterday was 219 00:17:21,795 --> 00:17:27,595 Speaker 1: already signaling he might not, insisting the judge is corrupt 220 00:17:29,715 --> 00:17:36,075 Speaker 1: stochastic terrorism at its finest. Trump is already reposting Roger 221 00:17:36,315 --> 00:17:40,395 Speaker 1: Stone's latest slanders against one of the attorneys general who 222 00:17:40,515 --> 00:17:46,875 Speaker 1: sued if Trump and must continue on this path, we're 223 00:17:46,915 --> 00:17:48,795 Speaker 1: going to have to find other ways to make them 224 00:17:48,875 --> 00:17:52,515 Speaker 1: obey the courts. If they do obey with an eye 225 00:17:52,515 --> 00:17:55,555 Speaker 1: towards simply freezing their privatizing of government until they can 226 00:17:55,595 --> 00:17:59,475 Speaker 1: get their theocratic Supreme Court to overrule any lower court 227 00:17:59,595 --> 00:18:05,475 Speaker 1: decisions and you know the constitution, they do it that way, 228 00:18:05,515 --> 00:18:07,035 Speaker 1: then we're going to have to find other ways to 229 00:18:07,155 --> 00:18:14,555 Speaker 1: change governments. As you are aware, Overnight Friday Saturday, a 230 00:18:14,555 --> 00:18:18,235 Speaker 1: federal judge ordered Musk and his teenage mutant Ninja Turtles 231 00:18:18,475 --> 00:18:22,035 Speaker 1: out of the Treasury computer system until at least this Friday. 232 00:18:22,915 --> 00:18:25,755 Speaker 1: Earlier that same day, a different federal judge blocked any 233 00:18:25,755 --> 00:18:29,635 Speaker 1: further destruction of the us AID agency by mister Rubio, 234 00:18:30,195 --> 00:18:35,835 Speaker 1: Secretary of Comovers. Twenty two hundred more employees at USAID 235 00:18:35,875 --> 00:18:38,795 Speaker 1: were to go on leave that was stopped, and five 236 00:18:38,875 --> 00:18:46,835 Speaker 1: hundred were reinstated again. This administration dictatorship is three weeks 237 00:18:46,875 --> 00:18:51,195 Speaker 1: old Monday, and we are already at that Nixonian moment 238 00:18:51,235 --> 00:18:54,235 Speaker 1: when we wait to see if the President and Trump 239 00:18:54,275 --> 00:18:58,155 Speaker 1: for that matter, refuse to comply with the courts. It 240 00:18:58,275 --> 00:19:01,835 Speaker 1: is a very real possibility. The best case scenario is 241 00:19:01,835 --> 00:19:04,435 Speaker 1: that they do and use it to further fuel the 242 00:19:04,435 --> 00:19:08,635 Speaker 1: Trump umbridge at everything and everyone, and just building up 243 00:19:08,635 --> 00:19:11,515 Speaker 1: a further explosion of rage against government, which will itself 244 00:19:11,515 --> 00:19:14,635 Speaker 1: inevitably come into conflicts with the other building explosion of 245 00:19:14,715 --> 00:19:21,315 Speaker 1: rage for government. There is the very slim possibility, of course, 246 00:19:21,315 --> 00:19:24,275 Speaker 1: that somebody Trump hired is not a religious nut too 247 00:19:24,315 --> 00:19:26,795 Speaker 1: stupid to see that the courts, or fate or the 248 00:19:26,875 --> 00:19:30,275 Speaker 1: law actually did them a huge favor. On the us 249 00:19:30,315 --> 00:19:34,355 Speaker 1: AID story, killing off USAID may be hugely popular with 250 00:19:34,475 --> 00:19:38,075 Speaker 1: MAGA and other morons like Ram Emmanuel and David Axelrod, 251 00:19:38,275 --> 00:19:42,995 Speaker 1: but nobody seemed to notice until this was in full swing. 252 00:19:43,275 --> 00:19:47,475 Speaker 1: That USAID didn't just hand money out to them foreign dudes. 253 00:19:48,475 --> 00:19:52,475 Speaker 1: Forty one percent of the food USAID bought for international 254 00:19:52,475 --> 00:19:59,435 Speaker 1: assistance was bought from US farmers two billion, one hundred 255 00:19:59,435 --> 00:20:03,355 Speaker 1: million dollars worth, and that market has suddenly been ripped 256 00:20:03,355 --> 00:20:08,955 Speaker 1: out from under American farms, American farmers, the Americans. Trump 257 00:20:09,075 --> 00:20:11,955 Speaker 1: vowed to protect the ones who voted for him, the 258 00:20:11,955 --> 00:20:16,155 Speaker 1: ones whose tons of wheat are now rotting in Houston, 259 00:20:16,275 --> 00:20:18,515 Speaker 1: of all places, because that's where it was to be 260 00:20:18,555 --> 00:20:23,835 Speaker 1: shipped out of The likely irrevocable waste figure is already 261 00:20:23,995 --> 00:20:27,355 Speaker 1: at three hundred and forty million dollars no matter what 262 00:20:27,435 --> 00:20:34,595 Speaker 1: happens next, And that's just reality. Musk and Trump or 263 00:20:35,075 --> 00:20:39,715 Speaker 1: Tusk and Mump cramped all over the economic vibes too. 264 00:20:39,955 --> 00:20:44,795 Speaker 1: Economists expected consumer sentiment to soar under Musk, because, after all, 265 00:20:44,835 --> 00:20:47,875 Speaker 1: nothing says profits like people who will happily destroy the 266 00:20:47,875 --> 00:20:51,955 Speaker 1: planet and kill suffering millions worldwide to raise the price 267 00:20:51,995 --> 00:20:56,235 Speaker 1: of stock shares by forty nine cents each, But instead, 268 00:20:57,035 --> 00:21:01,035 Speaker 1: er the Wall Street Journal consumer sentiment dropped in January, 269 00:21:01,115 --> 00:21:08,915 Speaker 1: and it has dropped again this month. Bottom line, Ah, 270 00:21:08,995 --> 00:21:12,195 Speaker 1: what a shock. Businessmen don't have the slightest idea what 271 00:21:12,235 --> 00:21:16,955 Speaker 1: they're effing doing, especially the ones whose primary business turns 272 00:21:16,955 --> 00:21:20,315 Speaker 1: out to be trying to convince you that they are successful, 273 00:21:20,875 --> 00:21:24,515 Speaker 1: you know, like Musk and Trump, who, by the way, 274 00:21:24,555 --> 00:21:27,795 Speaker 1: are also embracing immigrants while insisting on removing immigrants and 275 00:21:27,835 --> 00:21:35,835 Speaker 1: reaching out to poor persecuted South African immigrants, like Elon Musk, 276 00:21:36,315 --> 00:21:39,995 Speaker 1: Peter Thiel, and doctor Patrick Soon Shong or as we 277 00:21:40,075 --> 00:21:42,675 Speaker 1: might better call him, as he drives the La Times 278 00:21:42,675 --> 00:21:52,995 Speaker 1: into the ground, doctor Patrick Soon bankrupt one last time 279 00:21:53,115 --> 00:21:59,075 Speaker 1: before I break on one familiar quote, not who's your 280 00:21:59,115 --> 00:22:02,955 Speaker 1: real boss? This is the quote from the Yale historian 281 00:22:02,995 --> 00:22:06,235 Speaker 1: Tim Snyder. The New York Times got him to phrase it. 282 00:22:07,155 --> 00:22:10,795 Speaker 1: Trump is in the classic dictatorial position. He needs to 283 00:22:10,875 --> 00:22:13,435 Speaker 1: die in bed holding all executive power to stay out 284 00:22:13,435 --> 00:22:15,755 Speaker 1: of prison. This means that he will do whatever he 285 00:22:15,835 --> 00:22:18,795 Speaker 1: can to gain power, and once in power, will do 286 00:22:18,835 --> 00:22:21,715 Speaker 1: all that he can to never let it go. This 287 00:22:21,955 --> 00:22:27,795 Speaker 1: is a basic incentive structure which underlies everything else. It 288 00:22:27,875 --> 00:22:43,475 Speaker 1: is entirely inconsistent with democracy. Who's your boss? Next steps? 289 00:22:44,435 --> 00:22:48,195 Speaker 1: There are things democrats can still do before it becomes 290 00:22:48,195 --> 00:22:51,915 Speaker 1: illegal to be a democrat, and everybody has to swear 291 00:22:52,075 --> 00:22:57,195 Speaker 1: everybody has to swear under oath not just loyalty to Trump, 292 00:22:58,475 --> 00:23:00,315 Speaker 1: but they have to swear under oath that Trump had 293 00:23:00,315 --> 00:23:08,595 Speaker 1: the election stolen from him. There are steps things Democrats 294 00:23:08,635 --> 00:23:13,355 Speaker 1: can still do, Americans can still do. Those who need 295 00:23:13,395 --> 00:23:18,595 Speaker 1: to atone right now can still do. That's next. This 296 00:23:18,715 --> 00:23:28,515 Speaker 1: is an emergency edition of Countdown, continuing the emergency edition 297 00:23:28,555 --> 00:23:31,795 Speaker 1: of Countdown for February ninth, twenty twenty five. I hope 298 00:23:31,795 --> 00:23:33,835 Speaker 1: that of the thousand times I have said this, now 299 00:23:35,315 --> 00:23:37,875 Speaker 1: I will prove to have never proved more accurate when 300 00:23:37,875 --> 00:23:40,715 Speaker 1: I say it this time. That the preservation of democracy 301 00:23:40,755 --> 00:23:43,395 Speaker 1: is owed less to our efforts to preserve it than 302 00:23:43,395 --> 00:23:47,915 Speaker 1: it has the stupidity of those trying to destroy it 303 00:23:48,035 --> 00:23:51,715 Speaker 1: is hinted at before the break. These guys literally cannot 304 00:23:51,715 --> 00:23:56,075 Speaker 1: figure out whether they hate immigrants or love immigrants, and 305 00:23:56,875 --> 00:24:01,995 Speaker 1: which ones are the good ones. While we are still 306 00:24:01,995 --> 00:24:04,195 Speaker 1: reviewing the hating of this group today but defending the 307 00:24:04,195 --> 00:24:10,635 Speaker 1: same group tomorrow, how about good old JV. Musk goes 308 00:24:10,675 --> 00:24:13,235 Speaker 1: outside all the laws and all the rules and installs 309 00:24:13,275 --> 00:24:16,235 Speaker 1: a twenty five year old anti Indian racist with what 310 00:24:16,275 --> 00:24:20,995 Speaker 1: amounts to veto power over government spending. And the guy 311 00:24:21,115 --> 00:24:24,195 Speaker 1: turns out to have gotten caught having written I was 312 00:24:24,315 --> 00:24:28,635 Speaker 1: racist before it was cool and quote normalize Indian hate 313 00:24:29,395 --> 00:24:33,715 Speaker 1: and calling for eugenics. And then he resigns because he 314 00:24:33,795 --> 00:24:40,595 Speaker 1: is somehow too sleazy for Elon Musk, and then Vice 315 00:24:40,635 --> 00:24:47,795 Speaker 1: President Vance JV. The VP demands that this pro eugenics 316 00:24:48,035 --> 00:24:57,395 Speaker 1: Musk slave be rehired. Here's my view, genius rights. I 317 00:24:57,675 --> 00:25:02,515 Speaker 1: obviously disagree with some of Ellas's posts, but I don't 318 00:25:02,515 --> 00:25:06,195 Speaker 1: think stupid social media activity should ruin a kid's life. 319 00:25:06,795 --> 00:25:10,155 Speaker 1: We shouldn't reward journalists who try to destroy people ever, 320 00:25:10,435 --> 00:25:14,155 Speaker 1: so I say bring him back. If he's a bad 321 00:25:14,275 --> 00:25:17,475 Speaker 1: dude or a terrible member of the team, fire him 322 00:25:17,515 --> 00:25:23,155 Speaker 1: for that. We shouldn't reward journalists who try to destroy people, ever, 323 00:25:23,675 --> 00:25:27,395 Speaker 1: says a spokesmodel for the website that pushes libs of 324 00:25:27,515 --> 00:25:34,395 Speaker 1: TikTok and other online fascists. And remember Musk claims X 325 00:25:34,435 --> 00:25:37,635 Speaker 1: and all of them they are journalism now they are 326 00:25:37,675 --> 00:25:42,355 Speaker 1: the media. But we should never reward journalists who try 327 00:25:42,355 --> 00:25:46,195 Speaker 1: to destroy people, ever, especially the ones who try to 328 00:25:46,235 --> 00:25:49,075 Speaker 1: destroy seven or eight hundred of them a day. I 329 00:25:49,115 --> 00:25:53,395 Speaker 1: don't think stupid social media activities should ruin a kid's life. 330 00:25:53,515 --> 00:25:58,395 Speaker 1: The kid in question is twenty five years old. When 331 00:25:58,435 --> 00:26:01,915 Speaker 1: Maxwell Frost was elected to Congress at twenty five, he 332 00:26:01,995 --> 00:26:06,635 Speaker 1: was only the thirty first senative sworn into our house 333 00:26:06,955 --> 00:26:11,755 Speaker 1: at that age or younger. William Pitt, the British leader 334 00:26:11,755 --> 00:26:14,795 Speaker 1: who wanted to let the American colonies go rather than 335 00:26:14,835 --> 00:26:18,235 Speaker 1: force us into the revolutionary war that nearly destroyed Great Britain, 336 00:26:18,915 --> 00:26:23,595 Speaker 1: became Prime Minister of that country at twenty four. Napoleon 337 00:26:23,635 --> 00:26:26,315 Speaker 1: was the leading French general at twenty four. This idiot, 338 00:26:26,435 --> 00:26:30,315 Speaker 1: Marco ELS's stupid social media activity as a kid was 339 00:26:31,355 --> 00:26:36,475 Speaker 1: last summer when, depending on when his birthday fell, he 340 00:26:36,595 --> 00:26:40,555 Speaker 1: was twenty four or already twenty five. Of course he 341 00:26:40,595 --> 00:26:43,035 Speaker 1: was a kid. He was several months younger than he 342 00:26:43,155 --> 00:26:47,715 Speaker 1: is now. To air is human, to forgive Divine, wrote 343 00:26:47,835 --> 00:26:54,515 Speaker 1: Musk between doses and rehired him as if Musk has 344 00:26:54,555 --> 00:26:57,595 Speaker 1: ever shown any signs of knowing anything about being human 345 00:26:59,755 --> 00:27:06,755 Speaker 1: And another thing normalize Indian hate. JD. Vance's wife, the 346 00:27:06,955 --> 00:27:10,115 Speaker 1: now second Lady of the United States, Missus Vance, missus 347 00:27:10,915 --> 00:27:17,115 Speaker 1: Usha Balachilikourie Vance first generation American born of Indian immigrants, 348 00:27:17,875 --> 00:27:21,555 Speaker 1: and he sticks up for the Inceell who attacked her 349 00:27:22,995 --> 00:27:28,955 Speaker 1: and her parents and everybody in their native country and 350 00:27:29,035 --> 00:27:35,715 Speaker 1: everybody in their diaspora, and Jdvance doesn't even get angry 351 00:27:35,835 --> 00:27:38,955 Speaker 1: in his wife's defense. Of course I disagree with it, 352 00:27:38,995 --> 00:27:43,635 Speaker 1: but sure, slander my wife, slander my in laws, slander 353 00:27:43,715 --> 00:27:51,275 Speaker 1: everybody in their country, slander them all, doesn't even get angry. 354 00:27:52,075 --> 00:27:54,115 Speaker 1: I'm just gonna say this. It goes back to my 355 00:27:54,195 --> 00:27:56,595 Speaker 1: point about how we must rely on the stupidity of 356 00:27:56,635 --> 00:27:59,635 Speaker 1: those trying to destroy this country. I'm just gonna say this. 357 00:28:00,275 --> 00:28:02,115 Speaker 1: If I had to guess, I would guess that the 358 00:28:02,195 --> 00:28:07,235 Speaker 1: hair that he grew to cover his pudgy, bulging face 359 00:28:08,275 --> 00:28:23,955 Speaker 1: is not JD Vance's only beard. The other cave in 360 00:28:24,275 --> 00:28:27,395 Speaker 1: that I should mention on who's your boss? Your real 361 00:28:27,515 --> 00:28:32,355 Speaker 1: boss day is that co Presidents Mump and Tusk have 362 00:28:32,435 --> 00:28:36,475 Speaker 1: set themselves up for the dawning realization by the magas 363 00:28:36,595 --> 00:28:40,115 Speaker 1: that the two trillion dollars that they say they are 364 00:28:40,155 --> 00:28:42,675 Speaker 1: going to cut may not go to the swamp, and 365 00:28:42,715 --> 00:28:45,515 Speaker 1: it may not go to those stupid starving people in 366 00:28:45,635 --> 00:28:49,755 Speaker 1: wherever Land. But guess what, it also is not going 367 00:28:49,795 --> 00:28:56,195 Speaker 1: to go back to American taxpayers or even Trump sloths. 368 00:28:56,875 --> 00:29:01,715 Speaker 1: This entire government efficiency. Thing has been a scam from 369 00:29:01,755 --> 00:29:05,195 Speaker 1: the beginning. Musk is so transparent and hated that it 370 00:29:05,235 --> 00:29:07,675 Speaker 1: is finally getting through to the morons who supported him 371 00:29:07,795 --> 00:29:09,595 Speaker 1: that it has been a scam from the beginning. The 372 00:29:09,675 --> 00:29:14,475 Speaker 1: money not spent is going to Musk and other billionaires 373 00:29:16,315 --> 00:29:19,835 Speaker 1: in the form of tax breaks, and maybe in other 374 00:29:19,875 --> 00:29:23,435 Speaker 1: forms too, other billionaires, and maybe if they are nice 375 00:29:23,435 --> 00:29:27,275 Speaker 1: to him, like news media executives could be nice to them, 376 00:29:27,755 --> 00:29:30,155 Speaker 1: it might go also to just some plaint old millionaires. 377 00:29:31,635 --> 00:29:36,115 Speaker 1: This was Congressman Mike Flood of Nebraska to Bloomberg News 378 00:29:36,235 --> 00:29:43,875 Speaker 1: about stage two of DOGE simple just run the mill 379 00:29:43,955 --> 00:29:45,995 Speaker 1: comment about how it's going to inflict pain on the 380 00:29:45,995 --> 00:29:49,315 Speaker 1: people who voted for it. Quote, it will be littered 381 00:29:49,315 --> 00:29:51,435 Speaker 1: with a collection of ideas, some of which Americans are 382 00:29:51,475 --> 00:29:55,515 Speaker 1: going to really not before. But hey, if we don't sacrifice, 383 00:29:55,635 --> 00:29:57,275 Speaker 1: if we don't understand that this is going to be 384 00:29:57,315 --> 00:30:00,715 Speaker 1: a painful process, nothing's going to change. My message to 385 00:30:00,715 --> 00:30:03,675 Speaker 1: the American people is we as a nation, as Americans, 386 00:30:03,715 --> 00:30:06,235 Speaker 1: have to recognize that this is such a big problem 387 00:30:06,435 --> 00:30:09,115 Speaker 1: our debt that we're going to have to say no 388 00:30:09,355 --> 00:30:12,955 Speaker 1: to some programs that we like, but we simply can't 389 00:30:12,995 --> 00:30:21,035 Speaker 1: afford you know, programs like Medicaid, food stamps, childcare tax breaks, 390 00:30:22,715 --> 00:30:28,515 Speaker 1: by taking educational scholarships and taxing them. Because there's nothing 391 00:30:28,555 --> 00:30:32,395 Speaker 1: Republicans like better than confusing their idiot base by deliberately 392 00:30:32,435 --> 00:30:37,795 Speaker 1: conflating governmental debt, American savings bonds, and of course the 393 00:30:37,955 --> 00:30:42,995 Speaker 1: multimillion dollar bank equivalents of savings bonds, government programs that 394 00:30:43,035 --> 00:30:45,875 Speaker 1: pay Americans money that they need to, you know, not starve, 395 00:30:46,755 --> 00:30:51,075 Speaker 1: kind of stuff that actually truly fuels the economy. The 396 00:30:51,115 --> 00:30:54,915 Speaker 1: Republicans like conflating that with things like your credit card 397 00:30:55,035 --> 00:30:59,315 Speaker 1: debt and your bankruptcy and the money you spent on 398 00:30:59,435 --> 00:31:06,395 Speaker 1: Oxyconton has suggested earlier, by that consumer confidence note, it 399 00:31:06,475 --> 00:31:09,355 Speaker 1: looks like even the magas are figuring this out. The 400 00:31:09,355 --> 00:31:12,235 Speaker 1: Nebraska congressman who wants you to know this is only 401 00:31:12,275 --> 00:31:14,875 Speaker 1: going to hurt a lot for a long time, and 402 00:31:14,955 --> 00:31:17,715 Speaker 1: we're all going to be in this together, and he 403 00:31:17,755 --> 00:31:19,995 Speaker 1: doesn't really care because he's not going to be as 404 00:31:20,035 --> 00:31:25,355 Speaker 1: together in it as you are. Mike owns fifteen radio 405 00:31:25,355 --> 00:31:33,115 Speaker 1: stations and seven TV stations, and he owns News Channel Nebraska. 406 00:31:33,195 --> 00:31:35,875 Speaker 1: But he's just like you and me, only has enough 407 00:31:35,955 --> 00:31:40,555 Speaker 1: money to never notice any of this, which swings us 408 00:31:40,555 --> 00:31:42,715 Speaker 1: back to money and mump and tusk and the big 409 00:31:42,715 --> 00:31:45,715 Speaker 1: thing that the clapping monkeys enjoyed last week when Time 410 00:31:45,755 --> 00:31:48,955 Speaker 1: magazine put President Musk on the cover and Trump got 411 00:31:48,955 --> 00:31:51,115 Speaker 1: off a brilliant singer that he just thought up and 412 00:31:51,195 --> 00:31:53,555 Speaker 1: nobody has ever used before, ever, in the history of 413 00:31:53,555 --> 00:31:56,635 Speaker 1: the whole world, other than you know, the ten or 414 00:31:56,675 --> 00:31:59,795 Speaker 1: twelve million people who've said this exact same thing before, 415 00:32:00,555 --> 00:32:05,395 Speaker 1: and in the time magazine was still in business. Very witty, 416 00:32:05,995 --> 00:32:09,715 Speaker 1: not just the bond mo but truly the most just 417 00:32:10,035 --> 00:32:14,315 Speaker 1: as usual from our greatest president, not counting the other 418 00:32:14,395 --> 00:32:20,195 Speaker 1: forty four and some of the fictional ones more on 419 00:32:20,435 --> 00:32:25,315 Speaker 1: absolute freaking moron. But you do have to give him 420 00:32:25,315 --> 00:32:27,075 Speaker 1: some credit for this, the fact that he was not 421 00:32:27,795 --> 00:32:30,715 Speaker 1: shot by somebody else's husband in nineteen seventy seven, or 422 00:32:30,795 --> 00:32:33,315 Speaker 1: he hasn't been in jail since nineteen eighty five, or 423 00:32:33,555 --> 00:32:36,195 Speaker 1: something he did in business, or he didn't flee the 424 00:32:36,195 --> 00:32:39,475 Speaker 1: country after one of his bankruptcies. This owes largely to 425 00:32:39,595 --> 00:32:43,155 Speaker 1: this amazing ability. He has to flood the nation or 426 00:32:43,195 --> 00:32:46,315 Speaker 1: his part of the nation with so much bullshit all 427 00:32:46,355 --> 00:32:51,075 Speaker 1: at once that nobody, nobody, would everything to come back 428 00:32:51,115 --> 00:32:53,915 Speaker 1: to him after he said I didn't know Time magazine 429 00:32:53,955 --> 00:33:00,355 Speaker 1: was still in business, and say, wait, sir, two months ago, 430 00:33:01,235 --> 00:33:04,035 Speaker 1: Time Magazine gave you that Person of the Year award 431 00:33:04,435 --> 00:33:08,675 Speaker 1: and said it was a great honor. I may be 432 00:33:08,755 --> 00:33:12,235 Speaker 1: mistaken on this, mister president El presidente, my real boss Trump. 433 00:33:12,275 --> 00:33:16,075 Speaker 1: I thought, I thought you remembered Time Magazine was still 434 00:33:16,115 --> 00:33:27,675 Speaker 1: in business. Then maybe so, as I asked before the break, 435 00:33:27,755 --> 00:33:34,075 Speaker 1: next steps, same as last week. Senate holds on everything. 436 00:33:34,115 --> 00:33:38,235 Speaker 1: Trump wants a Senate hold on everything. Republicans need support on. 437 00:33:39,115 --> 00:33:43,995 Speaker 1: Do a Tubberville, whatever it is, hold it. If nothing else, 438 00:33:44,035 --> 00:33:47,275 Speaker 1: you piss Trump off, You inflict pain. You reminded me 439 00:33:47,275 --> 00:33:52,195 Speaker 1: he is not invincible. I mean Musk. That also applies 440 00:33:52,275 --> 00:33:57,835 Speaker 1: to Trump. And in the House, the overnight symbolic filibusters 441 00:33:57,835 --> 00:34:00,475 Speaker 1: against russ vote. They were great, limited impact, pretty good 442 00:34:00,515 --> 00:34:03,755 Speaker 1: visibility at minimum, showing some Democrats are not in a coma. 443 00:34:04,715 --> 00:34:09,315 Speaker 1: Of course, let's flush this idea like the third it 444 00:34:09,555 --> 00:34:17,035 Speaker 1: is about by partisanship, nothing, not one Democratic vote for anything. 445 00:34:17,115 --> 00:34:22,115 Speaker 1: Republican support have to crash the system. There are no 446 00:34:22,195 --> 00:34:25,155 Speaker 1: other options. Mike Johnson needs votes for the dead ceiling. 447 00:34:25,435 --> 00:34:29,835 Speaker 1: F him. Call Elon Musk, you need some money, You 448 00:34:29,955 --> 00:34:32,875 Speaker 1: do that, Mike, call Elon, he has your money over there. 449 00:34:34,995 --> 00:34:38,435 Speaker 1: You need the votes on anything else, Mike f you 450 00:34:38,475 --> 00:34:43,955 Speaker 1: call Trump. Mike, you broke it. You bought it. Happily. 451 00:34:44,035 --> 00:34:50,075 Speaker 1: Minority Leader A. Keem Jeffries gets this right right right now. 452 00:34:51,075 --> 00:34:53,515 Speaker 1: There he was again Friday, refusing to pull the emergency 453 00:34:53,555 --> 00:35:01,555 Speaker 1: cord and deny all Democratic support for anything by partisan this. 454 00:35:01,755 --> 00:35:05,395 Speaker 1: He said, consensus that he said, not committing to this. 455 00:35:05,515 --> 00:35:09,675 Speaker 1: He said, there is a possibility all that was a 456 00:35:09,715 --> 00:35:12,115 Speaker 1: feint on his part to not give away his strategy, 457 00:35:12,395 --> 00:35:15,595 Speaker 1: But I'm doubting it. Set it before, say it again. 458 00:35:15,955 --> 00:35:22,075 Speaker 1: No signs yet. Akeem Jeffries is a wartime consulieri. There 459 00:35:22,115 --> 00:35:27,475 Speaker 1: are enough bureaucratic trip wires still in place to make 460 00:35:27,515 --> 00:35:30,955 Speaker 1: the Trump coup reducts at least grind to a halt 461 00:35:31,035 --> 00:35:35,035 Speaker 1: for a while and make the Republicans take all the 462 00:35:35,075 --> 00:35:39,875 Speaker 1: public blame for what happens. You just have to have 463 00:35:39,995 --> 00:35:44,915 Speaker 1: the courage to recognize the stakes and tighten up those 464 00:35:44,995 --> 00:35:52,395 Speaker 1: trip wires so everybody trips on them. Maybe you should 465 00:35:52,395 --> 00:35:55,315 Speaker 1: listen to us. We told you we would eventually get 466 00:35:55,355 --> 00:35:58,955 Speaker 1: to this point where all the police and all the 467 00:35:58,995 --> 00:36:04,915 Speaker 1: FBI and all the prosecutors will literally agree with Jump 468 00:36:04,955 --> 00:36:09,435 Speaker 1: that up is down and down is up. You must 469 00:36:09,435 --> 00:36:13,435 Speaker 1: fight back. But this would require Jeffries to either come 470 00:36:13,475 --> 00:36:16,675 Speaker 1: to Jesus and fast, or it's going to require the 471 00:36:16,755 --> 00:36:20,195 Speaker 1: wartime consolieri that I keep referring to, or if you 472 00:36:20,275 --> 00:36:24,555 Speaker 1: want to update the cultural reference a little bit, and 473 00:36:24,595 --> 00:36:28,835 Speaker 1: never mind the consuliary, we'll call it. We need the 474 00:36:28,995 --> 00:36:39,035 Speaker 1: war doctor. I still think it's aoc to borrow a 475 00:36:39,075 --> 00:36:42,195 Speaker 1: phrase that is in the news just now, Representative Jeffries, 476 00:36:43,355 --> 00:36:51,955 Speaker 1: who's your real boss? I don't know when the next 477 00:36:52,075 --> 00:36:54,035 Speaker 1: edition of Countdown is going to be, As you know, 478 00:36:54,155 --> 00:36:56,955 Speaker 1: the schedule now is Mondays and Thursdays. And this is 479 00:36:56,995 --> 00:37:00,515 Speaker 1: not Monday North Thursday. It's Sunday. As I said earlier, 480 00:37:00,555 --> 00:37:04,835 Speaker 1: I just didn't think this could wait. We are now 481 00:37:04,915 --> 00:37:08,155 Speaker 1: to loyalty tests. Will you lie for Trump? Will you 482 00:37:08,275 --> 00:37:12,395 Speaker 1: swear to lie for Trump? Will you insist on reality? 483 00:37:12,555 --> 00:37:19,035 Speaker 1: Is reality? All of the cliches that we have ever 484 00:37:19,075 --> 00:37:22,915 Speaker 1: been accused of using turned out not to be cliches, 485 00:37:23,115 --> 00:37:28,515 Speaker 1: but in fact Trump using Hitler's favorite speeches, and perhaps 486 00:37:28,635 --> 00:37:35,955 Speaker 1: nineteen eighty four as a kind of guide book. I 487 00:37:35,995 --> 00:37:38,995 Speaker 1: don't want to say I told you so. I know 488 00:37:39,115 --> 00:37:44,395 Speaker 1: you told them so too. So I do not think 489 00:37:44,435 --> 00:37:46,435 Speaker 1: there will be a new edition tomorrow. But hell, I 490 00:37:46,435 --> 00:37:47,835 Speaker 1: didn't think there was going to be a new edition 491 00:37:47,875 --> 00:37:50,235 Speaker 1: today either. And then as I was writing this up, 492 00:37:50,355 --> 00:37:53,035 Speaker 1: I thought, this can't wait. This needs to be said 493 00:37:53,115 --> 00:37:56,795 Speaker 1: right now. So have a nice Sunday if you still can. 494 00:37:57,235 --> 00:37:59,435 Speaker 1: I think there's a football game or something later. I 495 00:37:59,475 --> 00:38:03,555 Speaker 1: won't be watching it. Certainly there will be a new 496 00:38:03,675 --> 00:38:05,635 Speaker 1: edition later in the week. It is probably going to 497 00:38:05,635 --> 00:38:08,435 Speaker 1: be Thursday, but who in the hell knows. I'm not 498 00:38:08,435 --> 00:38:10,955 Speaker 1: going to do any of the cutesy how many days left. 499 00:38:11,355 --> 00:38:14,115 Speaker 1: I'm not going to say thank you for your time 500 00:38:14,155 --> 00:38:16,155 Speaker 1: this time till next time. I'm not going to do 501 00:38:16,235 --> 00:38:19,275 Speaker 1: any of it. I'm just going to simply close by 502 00:38:19,315 --> 00:38:23,555 Speaker 1: saying I'll be back if they let me whenever I 503 00:38:23,595 --> 00:38:28,755 Speaker 1: am back, and until then, good night and good luck. 504 00:39:01,675 --> 00:39:05,275 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of Iehea Heart Radio. 505 00:39:05,555 --> 00:39:10,875 Speaker 1: For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, 506 00:39:10,995 --> 00:39:12,955 Speaker 1: or wherever you get your podcasts.