WEBVTT - NO, NBC, TRUMP ISN'T JOKING ABOUT A '3RD TERM', YOU IDIOTS - 3.31.25 0:00:04.795 --> 0:00:24.355 Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. I 0:00:24.435 --> 0:00:27.955 don't know what good it does you exactly. While the 0:00:27.995 --> 0:00:30.515 rest of the media and some of the public freaks 0:00:30.515 --> 0:00:34.035 out over that nitwit with the same crazy stare, Cash 0:00:34.075 --> 0:00:38.555 Patel has Kristen Welker on NBC insisting to Trump that 0:00:38.635 --> 0:00:42.955 he's joking about stealing an unconstitutional and illegal third term, 0:00:43.075 --> 0:00:46.395 and the dictator replying, no, I'm not joking. I'm not joking. 0:00:47.195 --> 0:00:51.075 You already knew this because the first time I warned 0:00:51.075 --> 0:00:54.195 here that the fascists were looking to game the twenty 0:00:54.235 --> 0:00:58.435 second Amendment term limits was on Wednesday, November eighth, two 0:00:58.475 --> 0:01:03.355 thousand and twenty three. This has been the plan, like 0:01:03.515 --> 0:01:08.275 all the other plans, take something unconstitutional and illegal and 0:01:08.355 --> 0:01:12.595 do it anyway, and dare somebody to sue, and then 0:01:12.675 --> 0:01:16.075 get his concierge Supreme Court to invent a new law 0:01:16.275 --> 0:01:19.155 and a new country to let him do it anyway, 0:01:19.195 --> 0:01:21.715 and then insist that this is the law, and if 0:01:21.755 --> 0:01:24.875 you oppose him on this, you are breaking the law. 0:01:25.555 --> 0:01:28.155 That's the way they papered over Trump's violation of the 0:01:28.195 --> 0:01:31.715 Insurrection Clause in the Fourteenth Amendment. That's the way they 0:01:31.715 --> 0:01:36.035 are going to try to paper over Trump violating the 0:01:36.115 --> 0:01:41.955 twenty second Amendment term limits. The news in Welker's flatulent 0:01:42.115 --> 0:01:45.635 lap sitting phone interview of Trump yesterday is that the 0:01:45.675 --> 0:01:49.675 insane brain damage dictator gave away one of the ways 0:01:50.035 --> 0:01:55.355 the entire lunatic revolutionary authoritarian mob would scam the twenty 0:01:55.395 --> 0:01:58.555 second Amendment. Trump now seems to think they could do 0:01:58.715 --> 0:02:03.595 a Lurelean Wallace and run Vance as the presidential candidate, 0:02:03.835 --> 0:02:08.115 with Trump as the VP but really in power, or 0:02:08.155 --> 0:02:10.835 Trump not even on the ticket, and then the elected 0:02:10.915 --> 0:02:15.395 VP quits and Vance appoints Trump VP, and then Vance resigns, 0:02:15.435 --> 0:02:20.235 and then Trump is president again. It's still unconstitutional and 0:02:20.355 --> 0:02:24.395 illegal because under the twenty second Amendment, Trump cannot serve 0:02:24.515 --> 0:02:30.555 again after two full or virtually full terms. Oh the constitution, 0:02:30.955 --> 0:02:34.715 like that matters. That is also the problem with the 0:02:34.755 --> 0:02:39.835 first scam, in which someone somehow was to award Trump 0:02:39.875 --> 0:02:42.675 another term because he'd had to spend so much of 0:02:42.675 --> 0:02:47.075 his first term defending himself against his you know, crimes, 0:02:47.675 --> 0:02:50.315 or because he can get enough people to say he 0:02:50.395 --> 0:02:53.675 really did win in twenty twenty, so we owe him 0:02:53.715 --> 0:02:56.235 that one. In fact, that would be the way they'd 0:02:56.235 --> 0:02:59.955 go for a fourth term. The twenty second Amendment is 0:03:00.115 --> 0:03:04.035 explicit two terms or one full term and most of 0:03:04.075 --> 0:03:08.835 a second term, and you are ineligible to again serve 0:03:08.995 --> 0:03:12.355 as president. The question that remains there is whether you 0:03:12.395 --> 0:03:15.915 could even be elected vice president, because you, as vice 0:03:15.995 --> 0:03:18.835 president would be there to assume the presidency in the 0:03:18.835 --> 0:03:22.355 event of the death of the president in any event. 0:03:22.435 --> 0:03:25.115 This is also the problem with the second scam, which 0:03:25.155 --> 0:03:28.475 they have apparently abandoned now after running with for more 0:03:28.515 --> 0:03:30.955 than a year, that the twenty second Amendment limit of 0:03:30.995 --> 0:03:36.595 two terms means two consecutive terms. So Trump, as the 0:03:36.635 --> 0:03:40.915 first non consecutive electee since Grover Cleveland, could run again, 0:03:41.835 --> 0:03:47.395 but Obama couldn't, and Clinton still couldn't, and Bush still couldn't. 0:03:47.875 --> 0:03:51.755 Just Trump and Grover Cleveland. And there is of course 0:03:51.795 --> 0:03:54.035 reason to wonder which one of them is more mentally 0:03:54.035 --> 0:03:56.195 fit for the job, because while Grover Cleveland died in 0:03:56.235 --> 0:04:01.075 June of nineteen oh eight, Trump is completely insane. The 0:04:01.275 --> 0:04:04.435 vibe I got from this latest interview, apart from the 0:04:04.435 --> 0:04:07.195 fact fact that Trump told this moron Welker that knows 0:04:07.315 --> 0:04:10.675 she was wrong, he wasn't joking, and she never once 0:04:10.755 --> 0:04:14.555 came back with the Constitution limits a president to two terms. 0:04:14.595 --> 0:04:16.715 You know that, right, What makes you think you would 0:04:16.715 --> 0:04:19.275 get away with it? She never said anything like that, 0:04:19.515 --> 0:04:23.835 because she's an idiot. The vibe I got besides that 0:04:24.035 --> 0:04:27.515 is that they may not have enough bullshit even to 0:04:27.555 --> 0:04:31.715 get this legal leisure domain passed his own Supreme Court, 0:04:31.835 --> 0:04:34.195 and they just cut to two versions of the same 0:04:34.355 --> 0:04:37.355 ending of American democracy. One is the simple elimination of 0:04:37.395 --> 0:04:40.515 elections or the declaration of an emergency of some sort, 0:04:40.715 --> 0:04:44.675 with the subsequent violence and suppression and arrest of political opposition, 0:04:45.155 --> 0:04:48.475 a preview of which we could be seeing now in 0:04:48.555 --> 0:04:51.875 the disappearing of those protesters and of course the gay 0:04:51.955 --> 0:04:56.715 barbers with tattoos. The other is a variation on that 0:04:56.835 --> 0:05:00.275 lureline Wallace ploy in which the twenty twenty eight fascist 0:05:00.275 --> 0:05:03.715 ticket is anybody and anybody else, and when it comes 0:05:03.755 --> 0:05:07.355 time for the inaugura address, President anybody says I am 0:05:07.475 --> 0:05:11.795 ceding all power to Donald Trump, and Trump doesn't even 0:05:11.795 --> 0:05:13.955 move out of the Oval office, let alone out of power. 0:05:15.115 --> 0:05:19.115 If that sounds at all familiar somebody who isn't president 0:05:19.235 --> 0:05:22.515 acting as president, they may have taken that out for 0:05:22.595 --> 0:05:26.075 a test run for the first few months of this presidency, 0:05:26.195 --> 0:05:30.475 though it seems to be receding somewhat. That was the 0:05:30.555 --> 0:05:34.115 period of the musk Co presidency. Could you get away 0:05:34.155 --> 0:05:37.755 with somebody actually running the government without being president? Could 0:05:37.955 --> 0:05:43.555 Trump's mental diseases be satisfied by being president in reality 0:05:43.635 --> 0:05:50.315 but not president in name only? Regardless? No, sorry, miss Welker, 0:05:50.675 --> 0:05:55.595 he's not joking. You're wrong. You should resign. I have 0:05:55.795 --> 0:06:00.475 mentioned this on and off for the last five hundred 0:06:00.555 --> 0:06:04.875 and nine days on this podcast. Trump not only as 0:06:04.915 --> 0:06:08.075 a pathological need to remain in power, he has no 0:06:08.275 --> 0:06:10.835 choice but to try to do so, no matter what 0:06:10.955 --> 0:06:14.595 laws he must subvert, nor who he must kill or 0:06:14.675 --> 0:06:19.035 have killed to remain in power. It is more than 0:06:19.035 --> 0:06:22.475 appropriate to yet again quote the Yale historian Tim Snyder, 0:06:22.795 --> 0:06:27.035 reminding us that Trump is in the classic dictatorial position. 0:06:27.475 --> 0:06:33.035 He needs to die in bed holding all executive power 0:06:33.355 --> 0:06:36.115 to stay out of prison. This means that he will 0:06:36.155 --> 0:06:39.955 do whatever he can to gain power, and once in power, 0:06:39.995 --> 0:06:43.395 will do all that he can do to never let 0:06:43.835 --> 0:06:48.835 it go. This is a basic incentive structure which underlies 0:06:49.115 --> 0:06:55.995 everything else. It is entirely inconsistent with democracy. Tim Snyder's 0:06:56.075 --> 0:06:59.755 precise somber encapsulation of the reality of what we face 0:06:59.875 --> 0:07:01.835 and what people who are supposed to be a thousand 0:07:01.915 --> 0:07:04.435 times smarter than Kristen Welker still somehow think as a 0:07:04.755 --> 0:07:07.955 oak or is trolling of some kind. This has taken 0:07:07.995 --> 0:07:12.595 on added gravitas in the past week. Few things shock 0:07:12.715 --> 0:07:18.755 me anymore. This shocked me. The Yale Daily News reports 0:07:18.755 --> 0:07:22.595 that three of that university's top professors are leaving to 0:07:22.675 --> 0:07:26.475 go teach somewhere else starting with the fall term this year. 0:07:26.875 --> 0:07:32.075 Philosophy Professor Jason Stanley, history Professor Marcy Shore, and Marcy 0:07:32.155 --> 0:07:39.355 Shore's husband, history Professor Tim Snyder. All three are moving 0:07:39.355 --> 0:07:42.555 to the Monks School of Global Affairs and Public Policy 0:07:42.595 --> 0:07:51.435 at the University of Toronto. Tim Snyder is leaving the country. 0:07:52.075 --> 0:07:55.915 As I said, few things shock me anymore. But for 0:07:55.995 --> 0:07:58.715 an hour after I read the news of Tim Snyder 0:07:59.475 --> 0:08:04.355 bailing out, I was beginning to make preparations to see 0:08:04.715 --> 0:08:08.955 if Professor Snyder of the Monk Schools of Toronto needs 0:08:09.235 --> 0:08:34.635 a teaching assistant. I once was a teaching assistant. It 0:08:34.755 --> 0:08:37.635 was in Communication arts. It was in nineteen seventy nine. 0:08:37.755 --> 0:08:39.635 I was an undergraduate, and I have to say I 0:08:39.675 --> 0:08:45.755 was pretty good at it references available upon request. Happily 0:08:45.795 --> 0:08:48.195 at the moment, I actually think Trump should be less 0:08:48.235 --> 0:08:50.995 worried about getting a third term and more worried about 0:08:50.995 --> 0:08:54.635 finishing his second one. There are forces gathering against him, 0:08:54.995 --> 0:08:57.835 all of them on his side of the political spectrum, 0:08:58.075 --> 0:09:01.075 and I'm not sure that individually any of these forces 0:09:01.115 --> 0:09:04.795 could extract him from office. But if they coalesce, and 0:09:04.835 --> 0:09:08.635 if the Democrats win the midterms, a popular anti Trump 0:09:08.755 --> 0:09:14.595 front could literally drive him from office. The first force 0:09:14.795 --> 0:09:18.315 is the most blatant and least acknowledged sign of his insanity. 0:09:18.355 --> 0:09:22.835 These suicidal tariffs analysis from the Federal Reserve Banks of 0:09:22.875 --> 0:09:26.875 Atlanta and Richmond and Duke University have put out a 0:09:26.995 --> 0:09:32.155 new study. American companies that import heavily from Canada, China, 0:09:32.435 --> 0:09:36.235 Mexico and other victims of trumpanomics. The Lets Party like 0:09:36.275 --> 0:09:40.755 its eighteen ninety nine plan. They expect to raise prices 0:09:40.875 --> 0:09:45.035 this year by more than five percent. The ones who 0:09:45.115 --> 0:09:48.235 won't be strangled by tariffs still plan to raise prices 0:09:48.275 --> 0:09:51.715 this year by nearly three percent. Now, you can blind 0:09:51.795 --> 0:09:55.035 yourself trying to analyze this data, but the headline is 0:09:55.115 --> 0:09:59.315 Trump promised lower prices on day one, and here as 0:09:59.555 --> 0:10:05.155 April looms is now delivering inflation at least three percent more, 0:10:05.595 --> 0:10:09.275 may be well over that five percent more figure. He 0:10:09.355 --> 0:10:13.635 bluntly stated on camera that he wants foreign car prices 0:10:13.675 --> 0:10:19.395 to go up. Is this registering with his mesmerized base. 0:10:20.115 --> 0:10:24.875 You bet your ass. At election time, nearly half of 0:10:24.955 --> 0:10:28.675 all American voters believed they would be economically better off 0:10:28.755 --> 0:10:32.915 under Trump. That was November. That number has already fallen 0:10:32.955 --> 0:10:37.275 to twenty five percent. And it's not just consumers. The 0:10:37.315 --> 0:10:39.475 Wall Street Journal says Trump got on the phone with 0:10:39.555 --> 0:10:42.955 the CEOs of the top auto companies in this country 0:10:43.115 --> 0:10:47.635 and warned them against raising prices after tariff flation hits, 0:10:48.155 --> 0:10:51.035 that he will recriminate against them if he does so. 0:10:51.115 --> 0:10:55.075 He has already repaid the media companies that prostituted themselves 0:10:55.155 --> 0:10:58.075 to him by killing tourism to this country, so that 0:10:58.115 --> 0:11:02.275 the Universal theme parks co owned with NBC and the 0:11:02.315 --> 0:11:05.915 Disney theme parks co owned with ABC are going to 0:11:05.995 --> 0:11:09.915 hit crises. His psycho in charge of health is threatening 0:11:09.955 --> 0:11:13.475 to ban prescription drug advertising on television. And if you 0:11:13.555 --> 0:11:18.555 haven't watched linear television lately, that's all the advertising there 0:11:18.755 --> 0:11:23.875 is on linear television anymore. And Friday, his nut job 0:11:23.955 --> 0:11:27.915 at the FCC repaid Bob Eiger cow twing to him 0:11:28.035 --> 0:11:32.795 by opening an investigation of Disney Quote. In particular, I 0:11:32.835 --> 0:11:35.395 want to ensure that Disney and ABC have not been 0:11:35.515 --> 0:11:42.315 violating FCC Equal Employment Opportunity regulations by promotioning invidious forms 0:11:42.315 --> 0:11:46.275 of DEI discrimination. He attached an article by a right 0:11:46.315 --> 0:11:50.435 wing conspiracy theorist which called Disney quote the wokest place 0:11:50.555 --> 0:11:55.155 on Earth. Gee, Bob, It's almost as if trying to 0:11:55.195 --> 0:11:59.795 appease lunatics who threaten you with multimillion dollar bribes just 0:11:59.995 --> 0:12:03.195 makes them conclude you will keep giving them more multimillion 0:12:03.195 --> 0:12:07.395 dollar bribes if they keep threatening you. Not great, Bob. 0:12:09.035 --> 0:12:12.915 The point is the CEOs and the stock market is 0:12:12.955 --> 0:12:16.475 coming to understand that when they thought Trump would cook 0:12:16.515 --> 0:12:19.795 the economy to give a select group of people all 0:12:19.915 --> 0:12:25.995 this nation's wealth, he didn't mean them. He meant him. 0:12:27.275 --> 0:12:31.635 He meant him, and maybe Musk and maybe Bezos. But 0:12:31.795 --> 0:12:34.755 I bet you any amount of money Trump plans to 0:12:34.955 --> 0:12:38.635 cut Bezos's legs out from under him sooner rather than later. 0:12:39.795 --> 0:12:42.755 In any event, every time they turn around, He's cut 0:12:42.795 --> 0:12:46.395 another bunch of them out of the money Club. He's 0:12:46.435 --> 0:12:51.075 tanked the stock market, He's killed overseas markets for American companies. 0:12:51.275 --> 0:12:54.435 Nobody wants to buy anything here right now. We don't 0:12:54.475 --> 0:12:58.755 need a consumer strike. The consumers aren't buying crap. We're 0:12:58.875 --> 0:13:03.515 headed for a depression, a Donald Trump depression, and bluntly, 0:13:04.155 --> 0:13:09.795 copations are designed. They exist to eliminate the human equation 0:13:09.995 --> 0:13:15.035 from business decisions. They eliminate any sense of feeling. They eliminate, 0:13:15.595 --> 0:13:18.475 you know, whether or not people should live or die. 0:13:18.795 --> 0:13:23.235 They are there to make money, guilt free, nothing else, 0:13:23.835 --> 0:13:30.715 and anything in their way will eventually be removed. If 0:13:30.835 --> 0:13:36.675 anybody extracts Trump from office, it will be from the 0:13:36.795 --> 0:13:51.755 far right via a consortium of corporations, unless it's his 0:13:51.835 --> 0:13:56.195 own intelligence community. The Trump Cabinet civil war enters its 0:13:56.195 --> 0:13:59.355 second week, and all evidence leads to the conclusion that 0:13:59.355 --> 0:14:02.475 the National Security Advisor is doing his damndest to get 0:14:02.515 --> 0:14:05.555 the Secretary of Defense fired and hopes that it'll keep 0:14:05.635 --> 0:14:08.715 him from getting fired. And the likeliest outcome is that 0:14:08.755 --> 0:14:11.395 Trump refuses to fire either of them. And the heg 0:14:11.475 --> 0:14:15.755 Seth Security Disaster and the second heg Seth Security disaster, 0:14:16.075 --> 0:14:19.235 and now the third heg Seth Security Disaster and the 0:14:19.275 --> 0:14:22.995 fourth heg Seth security disaster. They continue to sit atop 0:14:23.035 --> 0:14:27.235 Trump's face like the prop monsters from the Aliens movies. 0:14:29.275 --> 0:14:33.155 Somebody is leaking everything they have on Pete Hegseth to 0:14:33.235 --> 0:14:36.595 the media. Oh no, how will we ever figure out 0:14:36.635 --> 0:14:39.755 who's doing this? Who could it be? How could this 0:14:39.835 --> 0:14:43.555 mystery ever be solved? Unless it could possibly be the 0:14:43.675 --> 0:14:46.675 National Security Advisor, the guy who had the number for 0:14:46.715 --> 0:14:49.115 the editor of The Atlantic in his phone and put 0:14:49.195 --> 0:14:51.635 him on the secret chat about exactly when to attack 0:14:51.675 --> 0:14:55.035 the houties and did everything but set an alarm in 0:14:55.075 --> 0:14:58.235 the editor's phone to go off when the bombs went off. 0:14:59.635 --> 0:15:02.955 That all started a week ago today, and it will 0:15:02.995 --> 0:15:08.115 continue to strang the Trump administration if the Democrats just 0:15:08.315 --> 0:15:13.435 lift a finger to poke at the scandal every day. 0:15:13.475 --> 0:15:18.475 You remember the Democrats that used to be the other party, 0:15:19.395 --> 0:15:22.755 led by Chuck Schumer, that apparently decided once another guy 0:15:22.835 --> 0:15:25.315 was elected with a minority of the vote, all the 0:15:25.355 --> 0:15:28.995 Democrats should go on sabbatical or something, or just start 0:15:29.235 --> 0:15:31.835 mailing in their opposition and talking about the price of 0:15:31.835 --> 0:15:38.235 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches or something. Christ back to 0:15:38.275 --> 0:15:43.075 the Hegseth scandal, scandals already in progress. Because it turns 0:15:43.115 --> 0:15:47.555 out for Pete it's always happy hours somewhere Hegseth, it's 0:15:47.635 --> 0:15:51.315 also always bring your wife to work day and bring 0:15:51.315 --> 0:15:55.035 your brother to workday somewhere. And those stories leaked out 0:15:55.075 --> 0:15:57.435 in the last week. And again, who in this equation 0:15:57.675 --> 0:16:01.195 has high level Washington media contacts and would be leaking? 0:16:01.275 --> 0:16:03.995 Oh yeah, I mean besides the National Security Advisor who 0:16:04.035 --> 0:16:07.155 apparently and put his finger about six inches above the 0:16:07.275 --> 0:16:09.835 jay on his phone and boom. Jeffrey Goldberg of The 0:16:09.835 --> 0:16:13.115 Atlantic has suddenly added to the Boa Boma real good 0:16:13.355 --> 0:16:19.155 group chat. First, somebody tipped off the Associated Press that 0:16:19.235 --> 0:16:21.915 one of heg Seth's most promising young staffers at the 0:16:21.955 --> 0:16:26.715 Pentagon is a podcaster named Phil heg Seth. Why that's 0:16:26.755 --> 0:16:33.355 a coincidence. He's Department of Homeland Security liaison and senior advisor, 0:16:33.715 --> 0:16:37.435 which is impressive since he has no qualifications except he 0:16:37.555 --> 0:16:41.715 came out of the same womb as the Secretary of Defense. 0:16:43.035 --> 0:16:45.555 He worked for somebody else's podcast company, and then he 0:16:45.595 --> 0:16:49.995 had his own podcast company. Why that's the entire spectrum 0:16:49.995 --> 0:16:55.675 of experience, isn't it? References available on request the end? 0:16:57.195 --> 0:17:00.995 We don't know what this seeming textbook example of nepotism 0:17:01.315 --> 0:17:04.915 is getting paid by us. But the AP also found 0:17:04.915 --> 0:17:08.115 out that little Phil was previously hired by Pete at 0:17:08.155 --> 0:17:11.075 Concerned Veterans for America for one hundred and eight thousand 0:17:11.155 --> 0:17:15.955 dollars to do media relations. And we know what Concerned 0:17:15.995 --> 0:17:20.035 Veterans for America is concerned with. It's concerned with paying. 0:17:20.115 --> 0:17:25.435 Hegseth brothers then came a leak to the Associated Press 0:17:25.995 --> 0:17:29.435 that heg Seth and the Wall Street Journal that Hegseth 0:17:29.515 --> 0:17:32.515 had brought his wife, the new one, the one he 0:17:33.035 --> 0:17:37.315 cheated on with the previous wife, the ex Vice President 0:17:37.355 --> 0:17:40.715 Fox Nation, the new wife. He has brought her to 0:17:40.795 --> 0:17:44.835 a series of sensitive international meetings. There was one on 0:17:44.915 --> 0:17:49.155 March sixth with the UK's Secretary of Defense, even though 0:17:49.195 --> 0:17:52.475 she probably has weaker security clearances than his little brother does. 0:17:53.435 --> 0:17:56.315 Brought the misses in to meet the secretary from the UK. 0:17:57.275 --> 0:18:00.755 The Pentagon even issued official photographs of a meeting with 0:18:00.835 --> 0:18:06.435 Hegseth and foreign leaders and missus Hegseth, who doesn't have 0:18:06.515 --> 0:18:11.155 any clearance? Now, why wasn't she on the Houthie call? 0:18:12.515 --> 0:18:15.595 Hegseth was already in such trouble over the houthie call 0:18:15.795 --> 0:18:19.355 that a right wing group was launched called veteran action, 0:18:20.195 --> 0:18:22.795 and the action they mean is threats. They are there 0:18:22.835 --> 0:18:26.195 to threaten, according to the lead thug quote members of 0:18:26.195 --> 0:18:29.875 Congress that they better have Pete hegseats back. And the 0:18:29.955 --> 0:18:32.515 thing with bring your wife to the secret meeting day 0:18:32.955 --> 0:18:35.475 was responded to by the right with a universal chand 0:18:35.515 --> 0:18:38.075 of ooh, wait, will I tell you about Jill Biden, 0:18:38.595 --> 0:18:41.435 which kind of collapsed once the fascists were reminded that 0:18:41.515 --> 0:18:46.035 unless it's way worse than we know, Jennifer Hegseth is 0:18:46.115 --> 0:18:48.555 not the first Lady of the United States and is 0:18:48.595 --> 0:18:52.955 not sleeping with Trump. It had already gotten to the 0:18:52.995 --> 0:18:58.315 stage when another story leaked on Missus Hegseth Wall Street 0:18:58.355 --> 0:19:02.955 Journal Again. Remember those meetings with senators before his confirmation, 0:19:03.035 --> 0:19:06.395 the ones who were little concerned, earned who were Susan 0:19:06.675 --> 0:19:11.315 Collins ish about heg Seth's anger management issues and the 0:19:11.355 --> 0:19:14.515 history of allegations of abuse of women, his total lack 0:19:14.555 --> 0:19:18.155 of qualifications for a job. The one on one meetings 0:19:18.155 --> 0:19:22.755 between heg Seth and those senators nah two on one meetings. 0:19:23.435 --> 0:19:27.835 Quoting the Journal, some senators were surprised that Pete Hegseth 0:19:27.875 --> 0:19:32.195 invited his wife Jennifer to sit next to him in 0:19:32.235 --> 0:19:36.515 their private meetings, making it awkward to ask questions about 0:19:36.515 --> 0:19:41.555 allegations related to infidelity and sexual misconduct, said people familiar 0:19:41.555 --> 0:19:47.355 with the senators, thinking, not only did heg Seth bring 0:19:47.435 --> 0:19:50.475 his wife to these meetings with US senators seeking their 0:19:50.555 --> 0:19:53.795 votes for his confirmation, but he used his wife as 0:19:53.835 --> 0:20:01.355 a human shield against allegations related to infidelity and sexual misconduct. 0:20:03.315 --> 0:20:07.035 Once again, I just can't imagine where all these stories 0:20:07.075 --> 0:20:16.155 are coming from, other than Mike Waltz, a nepotism story, 0:20:16.355 --> 0:20:20.275 a wife gets to see classified information story, the continuing 0:20:20.315 --> 0:20:24.915 who he chat classified information story, or sensitive information story, 0:20:24.995 --> 0:20:30.115 or simply bombing schedule story. All we're missing is another 0:20:30.155 --> 0:20:33.075 story about Hegseth and that other thing they've mentioned about 0:20:33.155 --> 0:20:37.795 him for years. What's that word again? I think it 0:20:38.195 --> 0:20:45.435 sounds kind of like nepotism. It doesn't rhyme with nepotism exactly, 0:20:45.555 --> 0:21:09.235 but doesn't it end also in ism? Thank you, Nancy Faust. 0:21:09.875 --> 0:21:13.235 We could be headed to that rare simultaneous double knockout 0:21:13.235 --> 0:21:16.635 here because Politico reports that Vance and Susie Wiles and 0:21:16.635 --> 0:21:19.715 one of Trump's personnel flunkyes have urged him to fire 0:21:19.955 --> 0:21:23.595 Mike Waltz, especially after the photo of Mike Waltz with 0:21:23.875 --> 0:21:26.915 jeff Goldberg of The Atlantic popped up on social media. 0:21:27.395 --> 0:21:30.395 The guy, Waltz says, he's never met I can tell 0:21:30.435 --> 0:21:32.635 you for one hundred percent, I don't know this guy, 0:21:32.955 --> 0:21:35.075 wouldn't know him if I bumped into him, if I 0:21:35.115 --> 0:21:41.315 saw him in a police lineup, police line up. Maybe 0:21:41.315 --> 0:21:45.675 you haven't confused with Hegseth. Anyway, turns out, four years ago, 0:21:45.715 --> 0:21:51.435 the French outeur and TV philosopher Bernard Henrie Levi held 0:21:51.435 --> 0:21:55.195 a book launch in Washington, and there in a photograph 0:21:55.275 --> 0:21:59.635 is Waltz applauding, and right behind him, leaning in on 0:21:59.795 --> 0:22:03.155 Waltz as if whispering to Waltz directly into his ear 0:22:03.475 --> 0:22:08.715 is Jeffrey Goldberg. And Waltz has never met Jeffrey Goldberg, 0:22:09.555 --> 0:22:14.755 which means Jeffrey Goldberg is standing way too close. Leevy 0:22:14.835 --> 0:22:18.355 posted the photo in twenty twenty one and tagged Waltz 0:22:18.635 --> 0:22:25.195 and Goldberg on Twitter. So if the Democrats just pushed 0:22:25.235 --> 0:22:28.915 this a little, maybe Waltz could get Hegseth fired, and 0:22:28.955 --> 0:22:31.955 then vance can get Waltz fired because, to be fair, 0:22:31.995 --> 0:22:35.235 Hegseth is self destructing. And this is just going to 0:22:35.275 --> 0:22:38.435 stay like this because Trump can't afford to fire any 0:22:38.475 --> 0:22:40.675 of them, even if he believes there's a reason to, 0:22:41.035 --> 0:22:44.195 because he has now convinced himself that all criticism of 0:22:44.275 --> 0:22:47.995 him is a hoax. And as I examined last time, 0:22:48.315 --> 0:22:50.995 they around him are all lying to him about his 0:22:51.115 --> 0:22:54.355 poll numbers and his popularity and how well everything's going, 0:22:54.755 --> 0:22:57.235 and even his vote count. They'll be lying to him 0:22:57.235 --> 0:23:00.395 about the inflation numbers soon enough, because they know Trump 0:23:00.475 --> 0:23:03.155 is coming apart at the scenes mentally and they have 0:23:03.275 --> 0:23:06.315 to manage him and give in to what Advance called 0:23:06.635 --> 0:23:13.675 the president's desires or something really bad could happen. Oh 0:23:13.875 --> 0:23:16.755 like what, it's not like he's forgetting easy to remember 0:23:16.875 --> 0:23:24.755 facts like what's a country and what's not a country? Quote. 0:23:24.755 --> 0:23:27.315 If the European Union works with Canada in order to 0:23:27.355 --> 0:23:31.475 do economic harm to the USA, large scale tariffs far 0:23:31.675 --> 0:23:34.635 larger than currently planned, will be placed on them both 0:23:34.915 --> 0:23:37.675 in order to protect the best friend that each of 0:23:37.715 --> 0:23:48.075 those two countries has ever had. So uh uh, he 0:23:48.355 --> 0:23:49.195 U is now a country? 0:23:49.275 --> 0:23:49.555 Trump? 0:23:51.115 --> 0:23:53.595 Nah, He's fine, He's fine. No, reason to assume all 0:23:53.635 --> 0:23:56.555 of this destruction of the economy in these nineteenth century 0:23:56.675 --> 0:23:59.715 terrify ideas, and this move towards assuming the presidency for 0:23:59.835 --> 0:24:05.435 life is actual insanity. No no, no, no, no, he's 0:24:06.435 --> 0:24:19.795 he's fine. He's And on the journalism front, they're fine too. 0:24:20.395 --> 0:24:26.875 Nobody ever learns nobody. The White House Correspondence Association Annual Dinner, 0:24:27.155 --> 0:24:31.075 also known as Community Service for Reporters or a preview 0:24:31.155 --> 0:24:34.075 of Your Time in Hell, will for the second time 0:24:34.115 --> 0:24:37.795 in seven years, not feature a comedian because the Association, 0:24:37.995 --> 0:24:44.395 at its president Eugene Daniels of MSNBC, naturally is afraid 0:24:44.435 --> 0:24:48.275 of Trump and more interested in their own jobs than 0:24:48.315 --> 0:24:51.155 in preserving the free press or the United States of America. 0:24:52.395 --> 0:24:57.875 They have fired Amber Ruffin as the comedian after booking 0:24:57.915 --> 0:25:05.115 her months ago. Quote Politico report or It's that. The 0:25:05.155 --> 0:25:07.795 decision to remove Ruffin came after the White House Deputy 0:25:07.875 --> 0:25:13.715 Chief of Staff Taylor Budowitch criticized the WHCA for hiring 0:25:13.795 --> 0:25:17.555 Ruffin as she has been critical of President Trump. Alongside 0:25:17.555 --> 0:25:20.915 a clip of Ruffin calling the political climate bonkers, boodoo 0:25:20.875 --> 0:25:24.635 Witch wrote, this year's WHCA dinner will be hosted by 0:25:24.635 --> 0:25:27.155 a second rate comedian who is previewing the event by 0:25:27.195 --> 0:25:31.275 calling this administration murderers who want to feel like human beings. 0:25:31.355 --> 0:25:33.355 But they shouldn't get to feel that way because you're 0:25:33.355 --> 0:25:39.835 not all right. That's a statement of fact. They are murderers, 0:25:42.915 --> 0:25:48.115 and the political climate certainly is bonkers. Second rate comedian 0:25:50.435 --> 0:25:53.875 Caroline Levitt is a second rate comedian. Wait, there's more 0:25:53.875 --> 0:25:57.115 from this story. Trump is expected to not attend the event. 0:25:57.275 --> 0:25:59.715 In his past administration, he also did not attend any 0:25:59.755 --> 0:26:04.515 of the dinners hosted. So Trump's not going, The fascists 0:26:04.715 --> 0:26:10.915 aren't going. Appeasing Trump doesn't work. After taking money literally 0:26:10.955 --> 0:26:13.915 from the people who run the media and own the media, 0:26:14.235 --> 0:26:18.795 he's now going after those people again. So fire Amber 0:26:18.915 --> 0:26:24.755 Ruffin anyway, when the comedian was the only reason worth 0:26:25.435 --> 0:26:31.835 paying for parking at that event, which is literally less 0:26:31.835 --> 0:26:37.995 impressive than the annual Big to do of the Rotary 0:26:38.035 --> 0:26:41.835 Club in Ithaca, New York in nineteen seventy seven, I've 0:26:41.875 --> 0:26:47.755 attended both, and the White House Correspondence dinner sucks. In 0:26:47.835 --> 0:26:51.635 the old days. It was bad enough in the old days. 0:26:51.915 --> 0:26:55.875 It was torture in the old days. Now it's just 0:26:56.235 --> 0:27:02.515 dinner at Fichies. But to leave you with two happy moments. 0:27:02.635 --> 0:27:08.475 My glass half full report that Christy Nomes sado masochistic 0:27:08.635 --> 0:27:11.515 ilsa she wolf of the SS porn video that she 0:27:11.635 --> 0:27:14.035 put out, filmed in front of the kind of people 0:27:14.115 --> 0:27:17.235 she helped to kidnap off our streets and trundle off 0:27:17.435 --> 0:27:21.555 without due process to an l Salvador slave prison. A 0:27:21.555 --> 0:27:25.395 pro tip here, I have found my ability to process 0:27:25.675 --> 0:27:31.395 that Christy Nomes snuff film improves appreciably if I interpret 0:27:31.475 --> 0:27:36.195 the images backwards. Just tell yourself as you look at 0:27:36.195 --> 0:27:41.315 this that she's the one behind the bars and the 0:27:41.395 --> 0:27:49.155 dozens of shirtless guys are outside of her cage. And 0:27:49.195 --> 0:27:55.435 I have a second half glass full, glass half full. 0:27:56.355 --> 0:27:59.555 Lara Trump on her Fox show, which I believe is 0:27:59.595 --> 0:28:04.515 titled we have to Fill weekends somehow, ask the Secretary 0:28:04.555 --> 0:28:10.115 of the Interior and Commissioner of Eyebrows, Doug Bergham, if 0:28:10.155 --> 0:28:15.755 we'd ever see Trump's face on Mount Rushmore. Now this 0:28:15.915 --> 0:28:19.715 might be a little hannibal lectorish, but my first thought 0:28:19.755 --> 0:28:25.915 was Trump's face, his real face on Mount Rushmore. 0:28:27.835 --> 0:28:29.955 Okay. 0:28:33.515 --> 0:28:36.235 Also of interest here in this all new edition of Countdown, 0:28:36.315 --> 0:28:40.155 Bill maher self destructs again. How many times can you 0:28:40.195 --> 0:28:44.915 do this bill? Only this time he explains to Chris 0:28:44.995 --> 0:28:48.715 Cuomo that he's going to go to talk to Trump 0:28:48.755 --> 0:28:53.915 at the White House so they can save the country. 0:28:54.755 --> 0:28:56.915 Shouldn't go to the White House? Bill to a go 0:28:56.995 --> 0:29:02.155 to an emergency room, get a CT scan. Also, I 0:29:02.235 --> 0:29:06.835 have resumed my television sports career, and this merits both 0:29:06.875 --> 0:29:12.715 an explanation and a plug. That's next. This is countdown. 0:29:14.595 --> 0:29:17.475 This is countdown with Keith Olberman. 0:29:37.915 --> 0:29:40.355 Still ahead. In this all new additional countdown, I have 0:29:40.555 --> 0:29:45.155 resumed my TV sports career. I want to go into 0:29:45.195 --> 0:29:48.835